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Index
Turning the Templar Key
The True Origin of Freemasonry
Robert Lomas
Preface to the eBook Edition
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
Mysterious Beginnings
Developing a Theology of Aggression
The Abbot of Clairvaux
Bernard’s Brigade of Martyrs
A Good Life and an Even Better Afterlife
The Political Balance: Trading Skill and Royal Support
God’s Bankers
The Templar Fleet
How to Become Immortal: Guard the Holy Grail
King Arthur and the Trail to the Grail
Conclusions
Chapter 3 - Friday the Thirteenth and its Aftermath
The Strategic Advantage of a Sudden Death
A Family of Saints and Bankrupts
Philip’s Puppet Pope
Accusation, Torture and Royal Larceny
The Many Confessions Jacques de Molay
Conclusions
Chapter 4 - Did the Knights Templar Become Freemasons?
My Introduction to Templar Masonry
Seditious Secret Societies?
Signs, Seals, and Self-Promotion
The Royal Order of Scotland
The Rites of the Royal Order
A Ritual in Eight Parts
Ritual of the Rosy Cross
Rosy Cross to Templar Cross
Conclusions
Chapter 5 - Survival or Revival?
How Templar Lore Might Have Passed to the Freemasons
Templars as Masons, Masons as Templars
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
The Kilwinning Hoax?
Enter Chevalier Ramsay
Conclusions
Chapter 6 - Rosslyn Chapel and the Genesis of Freemasonry
What’s in a Name?
Evidence in Stone
The Numbers Can’t Lie
Plaques, Council Minutes, and Church Builders
Conclusions
Chapter 7 - The Templar Escape to Scotland
That Missing Templar Fleet Again
Over the Sea to Mull
Aberdeen—The Oldest Lodge in the World
Conclusions
Chapter 8 - The Legend of Prince Henry St Clair
The Flight of the Templar Fleet
The Legendary “Prince” Henry of Orkney
The Viking Order: Thralls, Churls and Jarls
Enter the Longships
The Lure of the Unsailed Western Seas
Viking America
Decline and Fall in Greenland
A New Look at “Prince” Henry of Orkney
Henry: The Last Viking Jarl
“’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 Rise of William St Clair
The Second St Clair Charter
Conclusions
Chapter 10 - The Grand Birth Pangs
The St Clair Hereditary Grand Masters
Stabling, Sacking and Abandonment: The Saga of Roslin Chapel
A Spreading of Grand Lodges
The Return of the Masonic St Clairs
Canongate Kilwinning’s Grand-Master Stroke
Conclusions
Chapter 11 - Why Build Roslin Chapel?
A Far-Sighted Building Plan
Going to the Chapel
Turbulent Times
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
The Importance of a Good Burial Ground
The Pros and Cons of Portable Relics
The Effectiveness of Political Relics
Roslin—The New Relic
William St Clair, Political Pragmatist
The Hidden Political Life of the Real William St Clair
How to Become a Norse Saint
A Crown, A Crown, My Earldom for a Crown!
The Final Battle
Conclusions
Chapter 13 - The Temple and the Spin Doctor
A Medieval Solomon
Machiavelli’s Apprentice
Unraveling the Myth and Symbolism of Roslin
The Stories in the Stones
Just Seven Simple Stories
Manipulation by Symbol
Conclusions
Chapter 14 - How Freemasonry Developed and Spread to London
The Landmarks of the First Freemasonic Lodge
A Grand Lodge for London
The Impact of the Hanoverians
Anderson's Constitutions
Conclusions
Chapter 15 - The Trinity, The Hidden Mysteries of Physics, and a Tolerant Templarism
From Knight Templar to Masonic Templar
The King of Scots: Grand Master of Templar Masons
Roslin Chapel and the Grand Lodge of Scotland
A Defense of Intellectual High Treason
Reconciling God and Science
What Is Man?
A Question of Soul
Behold the Unspeakable Glory of Planck’s Constant
The Old and the New
TIMELINES
Timeline 1: Titles and Dates of St Clair/Sinclair Barons of Roslin
Timeline 2: William the Chapel-builder
Timeline 3: The Original and Masonic Templars
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Journals
Websites
Acknowledgments
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