About this title: In this historical detective story the authors trace the evolution of Freemasonry, beginning with the flight after 1309 of the Knights Templar from Europe to the protection of the excommunicate Scottish king Robert the Bruce. In Scotland the Templar heritage was to take root and to be perpetuated by a network of noble families. The authors show ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Us ed. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781559701266ISBN:1559701269
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Stated first printing soft cover. Crease on back wrap, owner's info on first fep. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 306 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners. Spine has wear at edges. Dust jacket has some wear. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Arcade Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781559701266ISBN:1559701269
Description: Very Good Condition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Owners name and date are on first page and text edge. Otherwise this is an excellent copy. Clean, unmarked and tightly bound. read more
Edition: First U. S. Edition/7th Printing.
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Arcade Publishing, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9781559701266ISBN:1559701269
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Few pages have hi-lighting. l 306 pages. Cover has some wear. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Corgi Book
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780552135962ISBN:0552135968
Description: Good. Ex-Library Sticker on front cover, moderate edgewear, moderate shelf wear to corners, pages are yellowing, creases on spine and front and back covers, ex lib remainders. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Corgi Books [1990], [London]
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780552135962ISBN:0552135968
Description: Good. First edition thus. Printed wrappers, 414+ pages, illustrated, postscript, appendices, notes and references, bibliography, index. Good copy [spine creased and cocked, front cover cresaing, a few light impression marks to the rear cover, thin remainder-like line to the top edgee, cheap text paper tanning]. read more
Edition: (19th printing)
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Arcade, NY
Date Published: 1989 copyright
ISBN-13:9781559701266ISBN:1559701269
Description: NEAR FINE. As new except for tiny corner bump. "the most illuminating investigation yet published into the evolution of Freemasonry...the survival of the Templar traditions through the birth of the Masonic Lodge..."" read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9781559701266ISBN:1559701269
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 306 pages. Illustrated throughout. Stated First U.S. Edition. Synopsis Dispelling myth and reevaluating European and American history, The Temple and the Lodge is the most illuminating investigation yet published into the evolution of Freemasonry. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh recount the events that led to the strange and sudden disappearance of the ... read more
"The holy templars were the forebears of the masonic lodge. Using some fact with some embellishment this author builds on that to try and paint a picture of history. According to this book George Washington wasn't really a hero. The Revolutionary War was planned out for who would win. How does this author come to this conclusion? George Washington was a mason and the British had a lot of masons on their side, too.
It isn't the only leap of faith the author asks us to take with him. It's got some interesting notations, but as in most of the work this guy has written (along with Richard Leigh), it's based on conspiracies that other historians are trying to obfuscate facts. It's ludicrous to think any scholar would try to do that. Primary sources are always the major component of history. Following that with other historians you can piece together what was. When authors try to say both the primary sources and the later historians are wrong nothing becomes reliable; not even their own research can be accepted if this is so.
It's one of the main problems with post-modern and revisionist thought and it's a problem with this book."
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