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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Touchstone Catalog: Book Release date: 1998-11-12 Media: Paperback Format: Bargain Price Number of pages: 432  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthors:
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| While investigating Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin shroud the authors found clues to the existence of a secret underground religion. This secret history, encoded in works of art, follows the foundations of Christianity and the beliefs of the first century AD through to the Knights Templar and Freemasonry. First published in 1997 by Bantam Press. |
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 Written on November 20, 2007 Summary: These authors need a crash course in discerning speculation from fact Claiming on the front cover to be an expose about the "true identity of Christ," the book comes to this conclusion on page 352-3: "Jesus was not the Son of God, and neither was he of the Jewish religion--although he may have been ethnically a Jew...John did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. He may well have baptized him, because Jesus was one of *his* disciples, perhaps even rising through the ranks to become his second-in-command. Something went wrong, however: John changed his mind and nominated Simon Magus as his successor. Shortly afterwards John was killed. Mary Magdalene was a priestess who was Jesus' partner in a sacred marriage..." After reaching this point in the book, I put it down in disgust, something I am not wont to do (particularly after I've spent hour after hour plowing through a text), and decided to write this review. This book is offensive, not necessarily because of its radical and unsubstantiated claims about Jesus, but because it, like so many others of its ilk, confuses a constellation of conjecture, speculation, supposition, and allegation with EVIDENCE as it seeks to support a very unconventional hypothesis. From its first chapter, in which authors Picknett and Prince discuss the secret symbolism of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings (symbolism that most professional art historians consider spurious, by the way), the following pattern is established: - Explain away the fact that reputable and knowledgeable parties don't agree with your observations by linking these parties with the "conspiracy" you're attempting to expose. - Ask a question like, "what other possible explanation could there be?" and then refuse to seek explanations different from your own pet theory. - Use qualifiers like "perhaps," "could," "suppose," "might," or "conjecture" when establishing a speculative data point, and then forget about that qualifier when you bring up that same data point, as an established fact, in the next chapter to bolster the next data point. - Connect all your dots and claim that the picture you've just drawn is the REAL DEAL, all the while ignoring the fact that the dots you connected were all of your own design. I can't honestly say that the book was worthless; it was occasionally a fun read and the authors' ruminations contain lots of interesting, if unsupported, speculations about varied topics. The first half of the book does a fair job of showing possible connections between various esoteric and occult groups in Western history, such as the Knights Templar, the Hermeticists, and the Freemasons. As well, the second half of the book, which focuses on the "true identity of Christ," is also interesting, if only because it offers a challenge to those whose knowledge of Christian origins and history is sorely wanting. (Didn't know that the New Testament was put together by a committee of bishops and their representatives? Well now you do.) And the chapter on the Mandaeans of Iraq was also very interesting and made me want to read more about this vanishing remnant of Gnostic religion. Having said that, the authors' tendency to conflate speculation with fact and their lack of hesitancy in passing the former off as the latter ruined this book for me as anything other than a work of fiction. Read it if you must, enjoy it if you can, but please remember that speculation and fact are two different animals. Just because Picknett and Prince have written it, doesn't make it so.  Written on October 30, 2007 Summary: Entertaining & informative The notion that the traditional jesus,as presented in the gospels,and as merchandised by the various christian religions,may be false sticks painfully in the crawls of true believers...Books like this one expand upon this notion wonderfully,even if thier"proofs" are sometimes a bit thin...but,at the very least,there ARE some proofs to support thier view that Jesus was not the personality that the christian religion claims,which,of course,is more than can be said for what the religions themselves present,i.e."faith"...Imagine what a mess this world would be if everything was not backed up with any proofs whatsoever,but were instead belived on faith alone...A world like that would be a haven for liars and confidence tricksters of all sorts..Which,as the evidence argues,is exactly what the original church fathers were,when they transformed an old egyptian religious myth into the jesus story of today...That they MAY have been motivated by something other than selfishness is beside the point.Further,the fact that they had to edit out so many real facts in order to create thier fantasies says much about why,today,almost two thousand years after they began constructing thier jesus fable,it is so difficult to present the sort of evidence that would refute thier myth once and for all.. History clearly shows the early church as being intolerant of all doctrines that were in competition with thier own and,further,history clearly shows the brutal lengths to which the church would go to stamp out such competition..Why then would it be in any way viewed as"crackpot"that the church would likewise make every effort to destroy any evidence that would in any way shatter the image it has constructed around it's version of who and what jesus may have been? That the church did not succeed in destroying all of the evidence relating to this massive fraud is fortunate..Books such as this one,while in many ways speculative,at least rely upon some of that leftover evidence and,unlike the church itself,does not expect the reader just to belive it blindly...  Written on February 14, 2007 Summary: Interesting read I enjoyed it. I have a fascination with religion, especially Christianity and how it developed - in contrast to the form it has taken today. I've lent my copy out to a few people and still haven't got it back yet! So if you want a copy, get it on Amazon! Written on February 12, 2007 Summary: Another Templar Tale? Intriguing exploration. However, the Magdalene legend and Priory story are more likely to be Masonic fabrications. Those searching for something closer to the truth might consider: 'Christ Conspiracy' (Acharya) and 'That Old Time Religion' (Maxwell). Written on January 14, 2007 Summary: A must read After reading "The Goddess in the Gospels" I went to my Jesuit university's library. Under the subject category of "heretics" I found "The Templar Revelation." The book proposes that there was a unique relationship among Jesus, John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene. The authors also claim that the Roman Catholic Church suppressed this information by suppressing the people who they considered heretics and suppressing their texts. The authors claim that Jesus was a disciple of John the Baptist, and that John's teachings were similar to the Egyptian myths of Isis and Osiris. To support this claim, the authors point out how many stories in the New Testament are adaptations of those found in other religious traditions. In addition, Jesus is one in a line of many dying-and-rising gods. Another claim is that Mary Magdalene had a sacred sexual relationship with Jesus, in keeping with their religious beliefs, and as his "initiator" into the sacred mysteries had an equal relationship to Jesus. |
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| Release date | 1998-11-12 | 1983-01-15 | 2006-01-03 | 1993-06-01 | 2006-03-28 | 1989-05-01 |
| Media | Paperback | Mass Market Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover | Mass Market Paperback |
| Format | Bargain Price | - | - | - | Bargain Price | - |
| Number of pages | 432 | 496 | 528 | 240 | 336 | 448 |
| Ean | - | 9780440136484 | 9780743263030 | 9781879181038 | - | 9780440203193 |
| Book Isbn | - | 0440136482 | 0743263030 | 1879181037 | - | 0440203198 |
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