The Temple and the Lodge by Michael Baigent -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Prelude ONE - Robert Bruce: Heir to Celtic Scotland

1 - Bruce and his Struggle for Power

The Celtic Kingdom of Scotland The Emergence of Bruce The Murder of John Comyn Bannockburn and the Templars

2 - Military Monks: the Knights Templar

The Rise of the Templars The Financial Influence of the Templars

3 - Arrests and Torture

The Inquisition Escape from Persecution

4 - The Disappearance of the Templar Fleet

Templar Refugees The Templar Fleet and its Escape Routes Legends of Templar Survival

5 - Celtic Scotland and the Grail Legends

TWO - Scotland and a Hidden Tradition

6 - The Templar Legacy in Scotland

Exploitation of the Templar Myth The Templar Lands The Elusive Knight — David Seton

7 - The Scots Guard 8 - Rosslyn

Sir William Sinclair and Rosslyn Chapel, Rosslyn and the Gypsies

9 - Freemasonry: Geometry of the Sacred

The Architect as Magus The Hidden Knowledge The Hidden Knowledge in France and England

THREE - The Origins of Freemasonry

10 - The Earliest Freemasons

The Restoration of the Stuarts and Freemasonry

11 - Viscount Dundee

Master of the Scottish Templars?

12 - The Development of Grand Lodge

The Centralisation of English Freemasonry The Influence of English Freemasonry

13 - The Masonic Jacobite Cause

The Earliest Lodges

14 - Freemasons and Knights Templar

The Identity of Hund’s Hidden Master

FOUR - Freemasonry and American Independence

15 - The First American Freemasons

Military Lodges The French and Indian War

16 - The Emergence of Masonic Leaders

The Influence of Field Lodges

17 - The Resistance to Britain

St Andrew’s Lodge of Boston The Continental Army

18 - The War for Independence

The British Spy Network The Declaration The Débâcle of Saratoga

INTERLUDE - Masonic Loyalties 19 - The Republic

Masonic Influence on the Constitution The Masonic Leadership of Washington

Postscript APPENDIX 1 - Masonic Field Lodges in Line Regiments under Major General Amherst: America, 17581 APPENDIX 2 - Masonic Field Lodges in Regiments in America, 1775—7 (excluding Canada)1 Notes and References Bibliography Index