Turning The Templar Key
Table of Contents
Foreword
Prologue
Chapter 1
Are the Knights Templar Alive and Well?
Did They Survive?
Templar Fact, Templar Fiction
My Path to Templarism
Modern-Day Templars
Carlile the Radical
Carlile's Early Masonic Templar Ritual
The Early Grand Rite of Templar Masonry
The Rite of "The Pilgrim"
Passing the Templar Veils
The Mystery of the Sacred Delta
Conclusions
Chapter 2
Will the Real Knights Templar Please Stand Up!
The Invention of Holy Violence
The Abbot of Clairvaux
The Political Balance: Trading Skill and Royal Support
How to Become Immortal: Guard the Holy Grail
Conclusions
Chapter 3
Friday the Thirteenth and its Aftermath
The Strategic Advantage of a Sudden Death
A Family of Saints and Bankrupts
Accusation, Torture and Royal Larceny
Conclusions
Chapter 4
Did the Knights Templar Become Freemasons?
My Introduction to Templar Masonry
Seditious Secret Societies?
The Royal Order of Scotland
Conclusions
Chapter 5
Survival or Revival?
How Templar Lore Might Have Passed to the Freemasons
The Kilwinning Hoax?
Enter Chevalier Ramsay
Conclusions
Chapter 6
Rosslyn Chapel and the Genesis of Freemasonry
What's in a Name?
Evidence in Stone
Plaques, Council Minutes, and Church Builders
Conclusions
Chapter 7
The Templar Escape to Scotland
That Missing Templar Fleet Again
Aberdeen-The Oldest Lodge in the World
Conclusions
Chapter 8
The Legend of Prince Henry St Clair
The Flight of the Templar Fleet
The Viking Order: Thralls, Churls and Jarls
Enter the Longships
Viking America
A New Look at "Prince" Henry of Orkney
"'Tis a Noble Thing to be a Pirate King?"
Conclusions
Chapter 9
The St Clair Grand Masters
Ancient Knowledge Passed Down the Generations
The First St Clair Charter
William Schaw-The Architect of the Craft
Mother Kilwinning Makes a Stand
The Mason Who Was King
The Second St Clair Charter
Conclusions
Chapter 10
The Grand Birth Pangs
The St Clair Hereditary Grand Masters
A Spreading of Grand Lodges
Canongate Kilwinning's Grand-Master Stroke
Conclusions
Chapter 11
Why Build Roslin Chapel?
A Far-Sighted Building Plan
Two Williams but One True Cross
The Rise of the St Clairs
Conclusions
Chapter 12
Relics, Shrines and Crowns
William St Clair's Cathedral of Codes
William St Clair, Political Pragmatist
Conclusions
Chapter 13
The Temple and the Spin Doctor
A Medieval Solomon
Unraveling the Myth and Symbolism of Roslin
Conclusions
Chapter 14
Eden Was a City
Secret Symbols of the Dead
The Rise of Farming
Hunting for Early Cities
Conclusions
Chapter 15
A History of Irrational Acts
Caught Wearing Your Mother's Genes!
Farmer's Wives or the Midwives of Farming?
Conclusions
Chapter 16
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Read Me a Sacred Tablet
The Story of Gilgamesh
The Masonic Myth of Initiation
Gilgamesh Comes to Roslin
Conclusions
Chapter 17
Freemasonry, Physics, and the Triumph of Templarism
The Last Great Adventure
From Knight Templar to Masonic Templar
A Defense of Intellectual High Treason
The Old and the New
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Journals
Websites
NOTES
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