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From Egyptian mythology to Jewish mysticism, Rome and Greece to the druids and the gnostics, Tim WallaceMurphy exposes a fascinating lineage of hidden mysteries and secret societies, continuing through the Templars, Rosicrucians, and Freemasons to our modern visionaries. This hidden stream of spirituality and that of sacred knowledge are inseparably entwined to form the single most important continuous strand in the entire Western esoteric tradition.
This tradition exerted a seminal influence on the thinking of the builders of the great cathedrals/ leading teachers in ecclesiastical schools/ philosophers/ playwrights/ poets such as Shakespeare, Goethe, Blake, and W. B. Yeats/ and on artists and Renaissance giants such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. It is also the root from which sprang alchemy and modern science.
Now, as more people are looking to find information on the alternatives to dominant religions and dogmas that have told us what to think and how to behave, as faith has been questioned by religious scandals, economic meltdowns, and an increasingly sick planet Earth, WallaceMurphy reveals the secrets of the masters, including invaluable spiritual insights into everyday life that have been hidden throughout the ages. He shows us who kept this spiritual tradition alive despite appalling persecution, so that we in the twentyfirst century might benefit from its accumulated fruits and ennoble our lives.
Hidden Wisdom will be of immense interest to readers of the number one bestseller The Lost Symbol as it explains much of Dan Browns focus on the ancient mysteries.
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This book is respectfully dedicated to my first literary collaborator,
Trevor Ravenscroft. A warm, rumbustious, humanly flawed genius
who knew how to turn his soul into a magic mirror to reflect his
love of God on all who knew him.
The Mark of the Beast, in collaboration with Trevor Ravenscroft
An Illustrated Guidebook to Rosslyn Chapel
The Templar Legacy and the Masonic Inheritance within Rosslyn Chapel
Rosslyn: Guardian of the Secrets of the Holy Grail,
in collaboration with Marilyn Hopkins
Rex Deus: the True Mystery of Rennes-le-Chteau,
in collaboration with Marilyn Hopkins and Graham Simmans
Templars in America: The St. Clair/Zeno Voyages 13901400,
in collaboration with Marilyn Hopkins
Custodians of Truth: The Continuing Story of Rex Deus,
in collaboration with Marilyn Hopkins
Cracking the Symbol Code
The Enigma of the Freemasons
What Islam Did For Us
The Knights of the Holy Grail
No work such as this is ever produced without the help, encouragement and support of a large number of people. And while responsibility for this book rests solely with the author, I gratefully acknowledge the assistance received from: Paul Amorus of the Moulin de Soleils, Provence; Stuart Beattie of the Rosslyn Chapel Trust; Richard Beaumont of Staverton, Devon; Laurence Bloom of London; Robert Brydon of Edinburgh; Richard Buades of Marseilles; Mike Cooke of Nice; Nicole Dawe of Okehampton; Baroness Edni di Pauli of London; David Fayle of Taunton; Jean-Michel Garnier of Chartres; Thierry Garnier of Marseilles; Antonia Goodland-Clark of Cannes: Michael Halsey of Auchterarder; Marilyn Hopkins of Harberton; the late Guy Jourdan of Bargemon, Provence; Georges Keiss of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Templire, Campagne-sur-Aude; the late Michael Monkton of Buckingham; James Mackay Munro of Edinburgh; the late Andrew Pattison of Edinburgh; Alan Pearson of Rennes-les-Bains; David Pykett of Burton-on-Trent; Amy Ralston of Staverton, Devon; Victor Rosati of Totnes; Pat Sibille of Aberdeen; Niven Sinclair of London; Prince Michael of Albany; that ever-patient and wise lady Dawn Bramadat of Montreal and, last but not least, Gary Baddeley and the staff at The Disinformation Company of New York.
CHAPTER 1
From A State Of Grace? Prehistoric Man and the Dawn of Civilization
CHAPTER 2
Mute Testimony to Neolithic Spirituality
CHAPTER 3
Egypt Land of Magic and Mystery
CHAPTER 4
The Covenant and the People of Israel
CHAPTER 5
The Glory Of Ancient Greece And The Power Of Rome
CHAPTER 6
The Initiates of Celtic Culture
CHAPTER 7
The Messiah And Different Accounts Of His Teaching; The Conflict Between Fact And Faith
CHAPTER 8
Patrem Omnipotentem: The Rise Of A Repressive Society
CHAPTER 9
Buried Treasure: The Underground Streams Of Spirituality
CHAPTER 10
The Search For The Holy Grail
CHAPTER 11
The Crusade Against Fellow Christians; And The Founding Of The Holy Inquisition
CHAPTER 12
Holy Mother the Church Eats Her Own Young!
CHAPTER 13
The Sons Of The Widow: Freemasonry And Rosicrucianism
CHAPTER 14
The Floodgates Open: The Rising Tide Of Ideas
CHAPTER 15
The Age Of Exploration: The Destruction Of Native Cultures And Peoples
CHAPTER 16
Two Revolutions That Changed The World
CHAPTER 17
Nationalism, Imperialism And The Esoteric Revival
CHAPTER 18
The War To End All War; And Some Of The Wars That Followed It
CHAPTER 19
The Modern Wellsprings Of Spirituality
CHAPTER 20
Standing At The Threshold Of The Spiritual World
Detail from Secret Figures of the Rosicrucians of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Altona, Hamburg, Germany, 1785.
T he mystery surrounding the Knights Templar and the controversies that have perpetually surrounded the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians and the other heirs to Templar traditions, have tended to disguise the fact that their common knowledge and insight predates the foundation of the Templar Order by several thousand years. This hidden stream of spirituality and that of sacred knowledge are inseparably entwined to form the single most important, continuous strand in the entire Western esoteric tradition. This tradition which, despite its hidden nature, was described by Theodore Roszak of California State University as probably the single, most profoundly imaginative and influential spiritual tradition of European culture, exerted a seminal influence on the thinking of the builders of the great cathedrals; leading teachers in ecclesiastical schools; philosophers, playwrights and poets such as Shakespeare, Goethe, Blake and Yeats; artists and Renaissance giants such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo; and indirectly on all generations of European Christendom. It is also the root from which sprang alchemy and modern science. While there has been enough continuity to use the term tradition accurately, it should, nonetheless, be understood as one that is dynamic, pervasive, loose and constantly re-synthesising, disappearing from plain sight for most of the time only to be intermittently and indirectly perceived by its fruits, the achievements of its many, multi-talented and spiritually perceptive initiates and disciples.
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