The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ

In a remarkable achievement of historical detective work that is destined to become a classic, authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince delve into the mysterious world of the Freemasons, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, and the occult to discover the truth behind an underground religion with roots in the first century that survives even today. Chronicling their fascinating quest for truth through time and space, the authors reveal an astonishing new view of the real motives and character of the founder of Christianity, as well as the actual historical -- and revelatory -- roles of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene. Painstakingly researched and thoroughly documented, The Templar Revelation presents a secret history, preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe, whose final chapter could shatter the foundation of the Christian Church.

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New World Order or Occult Secret Destiny?, 2008-07-22
New World Order or Occult Secret Destiny?

The New Age Movement and Service to the Plan organized by the Rockefeller's and the Club of Rome.The connection between Jewish Kabala /the Zohar and the religion practiced in ancient Babylon is the worship of the Baphomet.This is also the religion of the Masons i e skull and bones.
The New World Order as envisioned by the Elite is hardly a recent undertaking. Their's is a
philosophy rooted in ancient occult traditions. Success is near, and the infiltration of society by
New Age occultism is the reason for this success. The New World Order has never been solely
about world government, rather, from the beginning its proponents have been privy to secret
doctrines and it is a spiritual plan more than anything.
If one failed to take into account the occult nature of the New World Order, they would be
remiss. The UN and the New Age have been bed-fellows since the beginning. America's secret
destiny is the product of Rosicrucian and Freemason forefathers. The New Atlantis as proposed in
Francis Bacon's work is almost at hand. The Ancient Mysteries are being studied for illumination
and enlightenment by the New World Order's elite. Not to mention the New Age gurus -- dutifully
recruiting on behalf of the Secret Brotherhood.
In 1980, Marylin Ferguson compiled and espoused a synthesis involving the theories of
transformation and the secret plan of the Aquarian Age. In her studies of the scientific
advancements of this age involving entropy and syntropy, holism, holographs, paradigm shifts,
the uncertainty principle and evolution, she discovered that, "for the first time an American
renaissance is taking place in all disciplines, breaking the boundaries between them, transforming
them at their farthest reaches--where they all converge." (The Aquarian Conspiracy p.12)BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION This is how mind control is done.This is how public opinion is created from the top down.Get some goofy professor and pay for what you want..

Speaking of the networks and web of influence, Ferguson proclaimed: "There are legions of
conspirators... in corporations, universities, hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in
factories, in doctors' offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils and the White House
staff, in state organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country
[U.S.]...[including] at the cabinet level of the United States Government." (ibid. p.24) However,
other New Age proponents said that this is inaccurate, in that she had understated the influence
of the New Age worldwide, especially in the UN and the EEC.
It is no coincidence that America has become the center of New Age and New World Order
conspiracies. The Theosophical and Rosicrucian traditions hold that every nation has a spiritual
destiny guided by a hierarchy of beings using all ethical (or un-ethical) means of manifesting the
"divine plan" through the will of the nation's leaders.
A proponent of the New Age and the Secret Brotherhood's plan for a New World Order is Robert
Hieronimus. In his book America's Secret Destiny, he traced the spiritual vision of America's
founding fathers and the plan's eventual fruition in what we call the New World Order and the
New Age Movement (both of which are synonymous). He stresses that the founding fathers of
America had the equivalent of "Masters" and were pupils in a sense, much like today's powerful
Elite have Masters and Gurus, following the teachings of the Great Plan.
According to the Rosicrucians and Theosophists, supporting the divine plan are great beings
referred to as masters of the physical and spiritual planes. The evolution of America owes much
to the seed thoughts of four masters--Kuthumi, El Morya, Rogoczy, and Djwhal Khul. Some of
the founders of America may have been consciously or unconsciously students of these teachers,
just as some contemporary Americans are pupils of these masters. In fact, the motto of the
hierarchy of world teachers is identical with America's destiny--the brotherhood of man and the
Fatherhood of God. (p. 95)
Another writer, from the opposite camp, confirms the assertions of Heironimus. Willy Peterson
writes:
In order to reach their aims of world unity and thus engage the whole world in service to the
Plan, "enlightened" Freemasons and New Agers have been pushing for collectivist motifs that
promote monistic pantheism and unity. This is why the chief instigators to the globalist League of
Nations and the United Nations have been Theosophists, trying to work out the plan. This is why
the verbiage and aims at the U.N. is for world peace and brotherhood. It is a spiritual
undertaking in a secular world. Lucis Trust has had three think-tanks located at the U.N. Plaza in
New York for around fifty years. No wonder the former Assistant Secretary General to the U.N.,
Robert Muller, is a devoted disciple of Alice Bailey, whose book, A Treatise on White Magic, forms
the basis for the Robert Muller schools. (The Leavening)
These people are called the torchbearers or lightbearers of the New World Order. A spiritual plan
that has been traced to the time of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel, up through to the Illuminati
and onwards. "A loosely-knit world conspiracy," David Allen Lewis writes, "a so called Network of
Illuminists." "Whether the Illuminati has one special organization that is its orginal descendant...
we can be very sure that its philosophical torchbearers are represented by literally hundreds of
organizations and individuals in many diverse realms." (Dark Angels of Light)
A Blueprint For Destiny
Robert Heironomus says that "America's Great Seal may be seen as a blueprint for the elevation
of consciousness. It says, in part, that we must transform ourselves before we can change the
world, and that it is during the process of self-transformation that we can catch a glimpse of
what part we are to play in national and global transformation."
The mandala of the New World Order and Illuminati control. "Annuit Coeptis--He has Blessed our
Beginning", "Novus Ordo Seclorum--New Order of the Ages". The All-Seeing Eye of Horus, the
resurrected Egyptian Sun God, biblically refered to as Lucifer, the angel of light.
In occult doctrine it is thought that "from the union of spirit and matter (the pyramid is made of
stone, rock, and earth--and represents the unconscious. The capstone is made of an immaterial
substance--light or spirit--and is conscious), a new being--a transformed being--is created. The
seal's reverse depicts a separation state in the separation of the eye the triangle."
"The pyramid exemplifies the initiation stage,... it is the house of initiation, in which the
candidate confronts the world of darkness and enters the world of spirit. By passing the tests of
the elements, the candidate is initiated into the realm of higher consciousness." (Heironimus
ibid., p.92) After succesfully completing the initiation process, the candidate is reborn, and joins
the single eye in the pyramid.
The New World Order, or rather the philosophy its deliverers hold to be true, is one and the same
as the New Age ideal of man's divinity and self-transformation. In order to partake in this gnostic
fufillment of "The Great Plan" one must awaken to the original sin of Lucifer, as proposed to Eve
in the Garden of Eden, that "we can be as Gods." (Gen. 3:5) So it is not suprising to find that
Christians, specifically, are cited as the main obstacle hindering the success of this New Age-New
World Order.
The reason for this, is the New Age belief in many "saviors" and "enlightened teachers", masters
and gurus--its all good and fine when the goal is the false teaching of man's divinity. The New
Agers see many ways to salvation; Christians proclaim that there is only one Way - Jesus Christ.
"For the gate is small, and narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it." (Matt. 7:14)
The Bible states that this is in reality the "broad way that leads to destruction, and many are
those who enter it." (Matt. 7:13) Therefore, the only religion not compatible with The New Age,
and hence the coming New World Order, is the belief and strict adherence in the Word God -
with traditional Christianity being looked upon as particularly pernicious.
In Dark Secrets of the New Age, Texe Marrs wrote:
The New Age is a universal open-arms religion that excludes from its ranks only those who
believe in Jesus Christ and a Personal God. Buddhists, Shintoist, Satanists, Secular Humanists,
witches, witch doctors and shamans -- All who reject Christianity are invited to become trusted
members of the New Age family. Worshippers of separate faiths and denominations are to be
unified in a common purpose: THE GLORIFICATION OF MAN.
The Guardians of the Mysteries
Freemasonry, by its own accord, practices the ancient mysteries of Egypt, and has as a primary
goal, the re-instatement of this mystery religion for the coming World Order.
The magical mystery religion of Ancient Egypt exercised a great fascination over Renaissance
man, which was incorporated into--the newly formed--Lodges at that time. The mysterious
heiroglyphs were considered to be symbols of hidden knowledge. Symbols and gestures became
a means of conveying secrets and "truths". The cosmos was seen as an organic unity. It was
peopled by a hierarchy of spirits which exercised all kinds of influences and sympathies. The
practice of magic became a holy quest.
Back in 1927, Freemason W.L. Wilmhurst saw the dawning of the Aquarian Age as the fufillment
of the "Plan". In The Meaning of Masonry, p.4, he writes:
In this new Aquarian age, when many individuals and groups are working in various ways for the
eventual restoration of the mysteries, an increasing number of aspirants are beginning to
recognize that Freemasonry may well be the vehicle for this achievement
He would be well proud, I'm sure, of today's mainstream acceptance of those very same occult
mysteries. Another passage on page 46-47, proves the teaching of Freemasonry is the same as
New Age beliefs:
He begins his Masonic career as the natural man; he ends it by becoming through its discipline, a
regenerated man... This the evolution of man into superman--was always the purpose of the
ancient Mysteries, and the real purpose of modern Masonry is, not the social and charitable
purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the expediting of the spiritual evolution of those
who aspire to perfect their own nature and transform it into a more god-like quality.
Freemasonry, through its mysteries, will soon usher in a New World Religion for the New World
Order. A modern day Tower of Babel and the ultimate unification of the world's religions. The
New Age welcomes these goals and looks to the "light" of Masonry as its esoteric basis for occult
initiation into the New World Order. Benjamin Creme writes:
The New Religion will manifest, for instance,through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry
is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number,
metaphor and symbol...
(The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom p.87)
Freemason and co-founder of Lucifer Publishing Company (now called Lucis Trust), Foster Bailey,
concurs, "Is it not possible from a contemplation of this side of Masonic teaching that it may
provide all that is necessary for the formulation of a universal religion?"(The Spirit of Masonry
p.113) Foster Bailey states that Masonry "is the descendant of, or is founded upon, a divinely
imparted religion..." This religion he explains, "...was the first United World Religion. Then came
the era of separation of many religions and sectarianism. Today we are working again towards a
World Universal Religion." (ibid p.31)
To biblical students these are shocking admissions and it adds fuel to the charge of a Masonic
Antichrist in our midst. "It is these Mysteries which Christ will restore upon His reapearance,"
Alice Bailey reveals, "thus reviving the churches in a new form, and restoring the hidden
Mystery." (The Reappearance of the Christ, p. 122) Bailey is giving these "revelations" by her
channeled Master Djwhal Khul -- a disembodied "Ascended Master". Her "Christ" is indeed the
Antichrist in the strictest sense of the word. Antichrist means substitute for or in place of Christ.
She goes on to say that "These ancient Mysteries were originally given to humanity by the
Hierarchy [of which Djwhal Khul is a part of] and contain the entire clue to the evolutionary
process, hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words and in symbology; these veil the secret of man's
origin and destiny, picturing to him in rite and ritual, the long, long path which he must tread,
back into the light." (ibid, p.121-22)
So what do we have here:
The New Age tells its disciples that they are working for the Hierarchy.
The teachings of the New Age are giving by the Hierarchy.
The movement for the installment of the Antichrist is giving the go-ahead by the Hierarchy --
Djwhal Khul's number one message for New Age disciples is "prepare men for the reappearance
of the Christ. This is your first duty." (The Externalization of the Hierarchy, p.614)
The Ancient Mysteries, being practiced by both Freemasonry and the New Age, were giving to
humanity by the Hierarchy.
The real purpose of Masonry -- taught to man, from the Hierarchy -- is the expediting of the
spiritual evolution, to transform their nature into a god-like superman.
The Serpent caused the Fall in the Garden of Eden by giving Eve this very same message.
"Man is a god in the making. And as the mystic myths of Egypt, on the potter's wheel, he is being
molded. When his light shines out to lift and preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of
godhood." (Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, p. 92)
"European mysticism was not dead at the time the United States of America was founded. The
hand of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government for the signature of
the mysteries may still be seen on the Great Seal of the United states of America. Careful analysis
of the seal discloses a mass of occult and masonic symbols chief among them, the so-called
American Eagle. ... the American eagle upon the Great Seal is but a conventionalised phoenix..."
"Not only were many of the founders of the United States government Masons, but they received
aid from a secret and august body existing in Europe which helped them to establish this country
for A PECULIAR AND PARTICULAR PURPOSE known only to the intiated few." (Manly P. Hall, The
Secret Teachings of All Ages, pp. XC and XCI)

If you study very carefully you will see that most all of our corporate logo's,money and car emblems have occult symbols on them.Simplist to see are the ram on Dodge trucks, and the rams head on the Toyota emblem are the head of the Baphomet.You have rappers giving masonic handshakes and the one eyed masonic signs. The MTV awards are all masonic rituals.If you can't see that you haven't done your homework.The backwards masking on Albums is a way of casting spell to make them more powerful according to Alister Crowley......
Go to Google video's and see Tex Marrs video on it.

so you new agers do some research


1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Excellent Research, 2008-02-12
I recently re-read this book, after seeing the authors sitting in Tom Hank's bus in the Da Vinci Code movie. It really is a superb piece of historical investigation. Shame the public didn't catch on to this one instead of Dan Brown's rip off. The key point of the book is that the real indentity of Christ, as far as the Knights Templar and other heretical groups were concerned, was not Jesus, but John the Baptist. The implication being that they could not have been as interested in protecting the so-called bloodline of Jesus as the Holy Blood, Holy Grail writers have suggested. The only down side to the book is that they get lost in Isis-Osiris speculation half way through it, and are at a loss to explain the significance of Mary Magdalene to the heretical tradition.


0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Doesn't attempt to "sensationalize" a preconceived contrary position, 2007-12-02
I read The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ expecting another Holy Blood Holy Grail. Yawn! But I must say that I was pleasantly surprised. This book doesn't attempt to "sensationalize" a preconceived contrary position. Instead it provides cogent discussions regarding the actual status, position and lineage of Mary Magdalene. I also read The Rozabal Line which provides a completely different "contrary position" to the one provided by Picknett. Honestly, I would say that the topic is such that there will be several books and alternative theories/positions. In the end, one should read as many of them as possible and then decide which "story" feels "right" inside one's heart because you will realize after reading this book that there really is no way to either prove or disprove the material.


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These authors need a crash course in discerning speculation from fact, 2007-11-20
Claiming on the front cover to be an expose about the "true identity of Christ," the book comes to this conclusion on page 352-3: "Jesus was not the Son of God, and neither was he of the Jewish religion--although he may have been ethnically a Jew...John did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. He may well have baptized him, because Jesus was one of *his* disciples, perhaps even rising through the ranks to become his second-in-command. Something went wrong, however: John changed his mind and nominated Simon Magus as his successor. Shortly afterwards John was killed. Mary Magdalene was a priestess who was Jesus' partner in a sacred marriage..."

After reaching this point in the book, I put it down in disgust, something I am not wont to do (particularly after I've spent hour after hour plowing through a text), and decided to write this review.

This book is offensive, not necessarily because of its radical and unsubstantiated claims about Jesus, but because it, like so many others of its ilk, confuses a constellation of conjecture, speculation, supposition, and allegation with EVIDENCE as it seeks to support a very unconventional hypothesis.

From its first chapter, in which authors Picknett and Prince discuss the secret symbolism of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings (symbolism that most professional art historians consider spurious, by the way), the following pattern is established:

- Explain away the fact that reputable and knowledgeable parties don't agree with your observations by linking these parties with the "conspiracy" you're attempting to expose.

- Ask a question like, "what other possible explanation could there be?" and then refuse to seek explanations different from your own pet theory.

- Use qualifiers like "perhaps," "could," "suppose," "might," or "conjecture" when establishing a speculative data point, and then forget about that qualifier when you bring up that same data point, as an established fact, in the next chapter to bolster the next data point.

- Connect all your dots and claim that the picture you've just drawn is the REAL DEAL, all the while ignoring the fact that the dots you connected were all of your own design.

I can't honestly say that the book was worthless; it was occasionally a fun read and the authors' ruminations contain lots of interesting, if unsupported, speculations about varied topics. The first half of the book does a fair job of showing possible connections between various esoteric and occult groups in Western history, such as the Knights Templar, the Hermeticists, and the Freemasons. As well, the second half of the book, which focuses on the "true identity of Christ," is also interesting, if only because it offers a challenge to those whose knowledge of Christian origins and history is sorely wanting. (Didn't know that the New Testament was put together by a committee of bishops and their representatives? Well now you do.) And the chapter on the Mandaeans of Iraq was also very interesting and made me want to read more about this vanishing remnant of Gnostic religion. Having said that, the authors' tendency to conflate speculation with fact and their lack of hesitancy in passing the former off as the latter ruined this book for me as anything other than a work of fiction.

Read it if you must, enjoy it if you can, but please remember that speculation and fact are two different animals. Just because Picknett and Prince have written it, doesn't make it so.


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Entertaining & informative, 2007-10-30
The notion that the traditional jesus,as presented in the gospels,and as merchandised by the various christian religions,may be false sticks painfully in the crawls of true believers...Books like this one expand upon this notion wonderfully,even if thier"proofs" are sometimes a bit thin...but,at the very least,there ARE some proofs to support thier view that Jesus was not the personality that the christian religion claims,which,of course,is more than can be said for what the religions themselves present,i.e."faith"...Imagine what a mess this world would be if everything was not backed up with any proofs whatsoever,but were instead belived on faith alone...A world like that would be a haven for liars and confidence tricksters of all sorts..Which,as the evidence argues,is exactly what the original church fathers were,when they transformed an old egyptian religious myth into the jesus story of today...That they MAY have been motivated by something other than selfishness is beside the point.Further,the fact that they had to edit out so many real facts in order to create thier fantasies says much about why,today,almost two thousand years after they began constructing thier jesus fable,it is so difficult to present the sort of evidence that would refute thier myth once and for all..
History clearly shows the early church as being intolerant of all doctrines that were in competition with thier own and,further,history clearly shows the brutal lengths to which the church would go to stamp out such competition..Why then would it be in any way viewed as"crackpot"that the church would likewise make every effort to destroy any evidence that would in any way shatter the image it has constructed around it's version of who and what jesus may have been?
That the church did not succeed in destroying all of the evidence relating to this massive fraud is fortunate..Books such as this one,while in many ways speculative,at least rely upon some of that leftover evidence and,unlike the church itself,does not expect the reader just to belive it blindly...

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