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CHAPTER ONE. KNIGHTS, OUTLAWS, AND TREASURE MAPS

1. Campbell, “Knights of the Golden Circle.”

2. Campbell, “Knights of the Golden Circle.”

3. Dawsey and Dawsey, eds., The Confederados.

4. Duke, The Truth about Jesse James, As Told by His Great-Granddaughter Betty Dorsett Duke, 335.

5. Creavens, “In Local Hospital, ‘Jesse James’ Scoffs at Treasure Hunters.”

6. Duke, The Truth, 336.

7. Duke, The Truth, 336.

CHAPTER TWO. SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD

1. Weiser, “Victorio Peak.”

2. Abcarian, “Treasure or Treachery?”

3. Taylor, American Colonies, vol. 1, 63.

4. Hudnall and Wang, Spirits of the Border, 183.

5. Yates, “Cibola.”

6. Johnson, “Following 1937 Story of Buried Gold, Family Searches New Mexico’s Sands.”

7. McCartney, “Victorio Peak’s Gold May Never Pan Out but the Saga’s One to Treasure.”

CHAPTER THREE. BRUTON PARISH CHURCH

1. “Bruton Parish Church,” Colonial Williamsburg website.

2. Dawkins, “The Oak Island Mystery, Part 2: The Navigators.”

3. Harold V. B. Voorhis, foreword to Bauer, Foundations Unearthed.

4. Voorhis, foreword to Bauer, Foundations Unearthed.

5. Rivera, Mystery at Colonial Williamsburg, 6.

6. Rivera, Mystery at Colonial Williamsburg, 9.

7. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 542.

8. Haywood, “The Study Club: Chapters of Masonic History.”

9. “Wren Building,” Colonial Williamsburg website.

10. “Wren Building,” Colonial Williamsburg website.

11. Bullock, “Bruton Parish Church (A Restoration).”

CHAPTER FIVE. SIGNATURES IN NUMBERS

1. Pike, Morals and Dogma, 96.

2. Pike, Morals and Dogma, 625.

3. Pike, Morals and Dogma, 235.

4. Ginsburgh, “Introduction to Gematria.”

5. Pike, Morals and Dogma, 205.

6. Peters, Masonic Writings, 2nd ed., 106.

7. Big Bytes, “A Symbol for Contemplation and Meditation” (site discontinued).

8. Ginsburgh, “The Hebrew Letters: Hei.”

9. Ginsburgh, “The Hebrew Letters: Zayin.”

10. Ginsburgh, “The Number 18.”

11. Clark, “Introduction.”

CHAPTER SIX. THE THREE VEILS

1. Luria, “Elul.”

2. Mack, “Botticelli’s Venus.”

3. Clutterbuck, “History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford,” 154.

4. Big Bytes, “Washington DC Monumental Core” (site discontinued).

5. Fulcanelli, Le mystère des cathédrales, 149.

6. Big Bytes, “Washington DC Monumental Core” (site discontinued).

CHAPTER SEVEN. GATES OF LIGHT

1. “Paolo Riccio,” Wikipedia, updated March 18, 2018.

2. Kritzler, Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, 29.

3. “Dome of the Rock,” Wikipedia, updated Feb. 3, 2017.

CHAPTER EIGHT. LINE OF SUCCESSION

1. “History and Traditions,” College of William & Mary website.

2. Hogan, Novo Clavis Esoterika, 25.

3. De Vise, “William and Mary May Be Home to Oldest Standing Schoolhouse for Black Children.”

4. “The Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis,” Rosicrucian Order website.

5. Woodward, Prospero’s America, 33.

6. Mackey, The History of Freemasonry, vol. 5, 1136.

7. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 66.

8. Deutsch and Mannheimer, “Samson ben Abraham of Sens (RaSHBa or HaRaSH of שאנץ).”

9. Ralls, The Templars and the Grail, 38.

10. Hogan, The Way of the Templar, 18.

CHAPTER NINE. ARCADIAN SHEPHERDS

1. “About Us: Peter Dawkins.” Francis Bacon Research Trust website.

2. Dawkins, “The Oak Island Mystery, Part 2: The Navigators.”

3. Dawkins, “The Oak Island Mystery, Part 3: Swan Secrets.”

4. Cassini, Celestial Globe. Cassini’s globe can also be viewed in 3D detail at Neikirk, “A Sneak Preview of 3D Imaging,” Osher Map Library website.

5. Hamblett, “Nicolas Poussin.”

6. Ashland, Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos, or Quadripartite, 29.

7. “The Summer Triangle, Vega/Lyra,” Souled Out website.

8. Pike, Morals and Dogma, 818–19.

CHAPTER TEN. INTO THE SHADOWS

1. Hogan, The Alchemical Keys to Masonic Ritual, 9.

2. Hogan, Novo Clavis Esoterika, 82.

3. Galley and Verseegen, Templars’ Lost Treasure.

4. Stone, “Knights Templar, Freemasonry, and Bloodlines of Spiritual Power.”

5. Moore, “Vatican Paper Set to Clear Knights Templar.”

6. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 75.

7. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 76.

8. Galley and Verseegen, Templars’ Lost Treasure.

9. Falconer, The Square and Compasses.

10. Falconer, The Square and Compasses.

11. Falconer, The Square and Compasses.

CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE STONE OF FOUNDATION

1. Wince, Lapis Exillis.

2. Anonymous, “Railway Excursions,” 274.

3. Wince, Lapis Exillis.

4. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry, 291.

CHAPTER TWELVE. LOOKING BEHIND THE VEIL

1. “On Symbols and Symbolism,” Freemason’s Quarterly Magazine, 282.

2. Gould, The History of Freemasonry, vol. 2, 75–76.

3. Lyndsay, “Rosslyn Chapel.”

4. Fletcher, “The Osiris Legend and the Tree of Life: Ancient Egyptians and the Constellations, Part 6.”

5. Fulcanelli, Le mystère des cathédrales, 149.

6. “Vesica Pisces [sic],” SymbolDictionary.net.

7. “Vesica Pisces [sic],” SymbolDictionary.net.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. RE-VEILING THE MAPS

1. Mogg, “Passing the Veils.”

2. Panther-Yates, Los Lunas Decalogue Stone.

3. Fulcanelli, Le mystère des cathédrales, 149.