Description:

The Knights Templar have captured the popular imagination for centuries, now on the 700th year anniversary of their demise this book unveils some never before revealed secrets of the order and outlines a new occult perspective on this most mysterious of medieval institutions. Drawing on his own original research, published sources and the newly released Chinon Document the author, himself a descendant of Templar Knights, steers a middle path between scholarship and intuition. The final result, rooted in years of research and a lifetime of occult study, unearths a secret history that begins decades before the Templars, with a fateful assassination in the New Forest, and continues long after them into the shadowy world of Elizabethan and Jacobean Occultism and on into Modernity, with the Templars themselves a pivotal and formative influence on what the author calls the English Covenant. A story of family tradition, dual faith religion and witchcraft, Sufism, Hermetic secrets and political intrigue!