The Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons RevealedWeiser Books, 31/03/2007 - 408 من الصفحات What ancient mystery lies behind the creation of Freemasonry- a lost secret so powerful that the Brotherhood itself has been on a quest to find it for three hundred years? For those of us lacking the resources to excavate occult secrets hidden beneath the Louvre or the Rosslyn Chapel, or within CIA Headquarters, The Shadow of Solomon is the next best thing. These pages reveal the true secrets of Solomon, from masonry to magic. Laurence Gardner's personal experience as both a Templar and a mason makes this fascinating journey through the history of the Bible, Knights Templar, Freemasons, and everything that followed all the more striking and immediate. Is it an accident that the world's attention should be turned to these men and their strange lexicon of symbols and secrets RIGHT NOW? What will happen when we understand that there is something we all have in common that is greater than nation or religion? Freemasons are often said to be the world's most influential secret society, yet the story of this enigmatic fraternity is wrapped in mystery and intrigue. Their involvement in shaping political world events has stretched over centuries, even to the extent that masonic principles lie beneath the establishment of the United States and its Constitution. The Shadow of Solomon is the definitive insider's account of the startling truth behind masonic history and the centuries-long search that the fraternity has undertaken to find its own lost secrets. |
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Ancient Secrets | xxi |
The Riddle of the Lost Archive | xxiii |
The Revolution | 4 |
Religion and the Great Lights | 9 |
Masonic Origins | 13 |
The Old Charges | 14 |
Antients and Moderns | 20 |
Old Masters | 24 |
A Golden Philosophy | 176 |
Noah and the Ark | 178 |
Seeds of Life | 184 |
The Temple of Light | 186 |
Moses of Egypt | 191 |
The Power of Tchãm | 192 |
House of Gold | 196 |
The Lost Word | 205 |
The Key | 26 |
Royal Society | 29 |
Heresy | 32 |
The Invisible College | 34 |
A Royal Charter | 42 |
Legacy of Invention | 45 |
The Gresham Days | 47 |
Fraternal Disputes | 51 |
Fire and Pestilence | 54 |
Gravity on a Plate | 57 |
Genius of the Few | 59 |
Power and Politics | 61 |
The New Foundation | 65 |
Divided Loyalties | 67 |
The Dunkerley Episode | 71 |
Legal Exemption | 72 |
The Sussex Years | 74 |
Imperial Conquest The Celtic Realms | 78 |
Edict of Rome | 82 |
Missing Documents | 85 |
The Great Divide | 89 |
The Latter Years | 92 |
Part 2 | 95 |
Knights of the Temple | 97 |
The Scottish Connection | 99 |
A Sovereign Order | 103 |
The Royal Secret | 105 |
Persecution | 107 |
The Rosy Cross | 110 |
The Cathedral Builders | 113 |
Hiramic Legend | 116 |
The Widows Son | 118 |
The Death of the Builder | 121 |
Time and the Virgin | 123 |
The Master Craftsman | 126 |
Tracing Boards | 129 |
The Transition | 134 |
Outlaws of the Privy Seal | 135 |
The Riches of Salomon | 139 |
Statutes and Charters | 143 |
The Art of Memory | 147 |
Rosslyn | 153 |
The Mystery of the Chapel | 157 |
Truth and the Temple | 161 |
Sinclair in America | 166 |
Mysterious Science | 170 |
The Kirkwall Scroll | 173 |
Behind Closed Doors | 207 |
The Secret of the Stone | 211 |
The Light Bearer | 215 |
Divine Food | 218 |
Part 3 | 223 |
AntiMasonry | 225 |
The Biblical Satan | 228 |
Horns and Hooves | 230 |
The Demons of Taxil | 234 |
The Tudor Stage | 240 |
Shakespearean Masonry | 244 |
The Bohemian Connection | 247 |
Fine Devices | 251 |
The House of Salomon | 253 |
Guilds and Traditions | 256 |
The Soul of the City | 259 |
A Parcel of Rogues | 262 |
The Jacobite Scene | 264 |
Stuart Masonry | 267 |
France and the Feminine | 271 |
Into America | 274 |
The Franklin Foundation | 278 |
Oglethorpes Georgia | 282 |
Washington and Revere | 283 |
Scots and the New World | 285 |
The Masonic Tea Party | 287 |
The Crown of America | 290 |
Debates and Monuments | 292 |
The Great Seal | 294 |
The Illuminati | 299 |
Masonic Memorials | 304 |
The Royal Art | 309 |
A Masonic Code | 310 |
The Powder of Projection | 317 |
The Ark of the Covenant | 320 |
Discovering the Secret | 325 |
The Magic of Ormus | 328 |
Elements of Construction | 332 |
The Lord of Light | 334 |
Ark of Gold | 337 |
The Levitical Solution | 338 |
Notes and References | 343 |
Masonic and Monarchical Timeline | 368 |
Bibliography | 380 |
Picture Credits | 390 |
Index | 391 |
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