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This is a unique history of Masonry written from the perspective of an educated outsider. The author is sympathetic to Masonic goals, a historian of secret societies and political conspiracies, and an exhaustive researcher. He looks back to the earliest roots of the Craft, and then traces its influence into modern times. From the Bible''s Temple of Solomon through the Knights Templars, to the Rosicrucians and Illuminati, we learn of Masonry''s roots and early history. Enlightenment philosophy and the revolutionary currents of eighteenth-century Europe opened an opportunity for the American experiment. Sacred geometry and architecture combined to create Washington, DC, and the rest, as they say, is history. This second revised and enlarged edition includes a new chapter on Freemasonry in South America-from the revolution of Simón Bolívar to the capture and execution of Che Guevara.

The Secret Temple

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      Publisher Ibis Press
      Published 18 September 2020
      ISBN-13 9780892541881
      978-0892541881
      ISBN-10 0892541881
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      Book Synopsis
      This is a unique history of Masonry written from the perspective of an educated outsider. The author is sympathetic to Masonic goals, a historian of secret societies and political conspiracies, and an exhaustive researcher. He looks back to the earliest roots of the Craft, and then traces its influence into modern times. From the Bible''s Temple of Solomon through the Knights Templars, to the Rosicrucians and Illuminati, we learn of Masonry''s roots and early history. Enlightenment philosophy and the revolutionary currents of eighteenth-century Europe opened an opportunity for the American experiment. Sacred geometry and architecture combined to create Washington, DC, and the rest, as they say, is history. This second revised and enlarged edition includes a new chapter on Freemasonry in South America-from the revolution of Simón Bolívar to the capture and execution of Che Guevara.

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