Born in Blood: Lost Secrets of Freemasonry

by JohnJ.Robinson (Author)

• Used

  Mass Market Paperback
  1993

  $15.48

  There are three million freemasons in the United Kingdom alone. A suspicion has always lingered that the Knights Templar, rather than the medieval craftsmen, were the true founders of the masons, but no one has been able to establish the connection. Offering a re-evaluation of the history of this secret society, and of certain key movements in the history of Britain and America, this book examines the real meaning of masonic language, symbols and myths, and traces the conspiracy, counter-consipiracy and hideous campaign of torture out of which freemasonry sprang.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $4.50

  Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted kings, emperors and statesmen to take its sacred oaths. It also attracted great revolutionaries such as George Washington in America, Garibaldi in Italy and Bolivar in South America. It was outlawed over the centuries by Hitler, Mussolini and the Ayatollah Khomeini. John Robinson sets out to discover where this powerful organization came from; what it was doing in the centuries before it rose from the underground more than 270 years ago; and why Freemasonry was attacked with such intense hatred by the Roman Catholic church. The story proves that the Knights Templars in Britain, fleeing arrest and torture by pope and king, formed a secret society of mutual protection that came to be called Freemasonry.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $21.59

  Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted kings, emperors, and statesmen to take its sacred oaths. It also attracted great revolutionaries such as George Washington and Sam Houston in America, Juarez in Mexico, Garibaldi in Italy, and Bolivar in South America. It was outlawed over the centuries by Hitler, Mussolini, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. But where had this powerful organization come from? What was it doing in those secret centuries before it rose from underground more than 270 years ago? And why was Freemasonry attacked with such intense hatred by the Roman Catholic church? This amazing detective story answers those questions and proves that the Knights Templar in Britain, fleeing arrest and torture by pope and king, formed a secret society of mutual protection that came to be called Freemasonry. Based on years of meticulous research, this book solves the last remaining mysteries of the Masons-their secret words, symbols, and allegories whose true meanings had been lost in antiquity. With a richly drawn background of the bloody battles, the opportunistic kings and scheming popes, the tortures and religious persecution throughout the Middle Ages, it is an important book that may require that we take a new look at the history of events leading to the Protestant Reformation.