The Knights of the Holy Grail: The Secret History of the Knights Templar

Great bedtime reading and a great reference for the more conspiratorial views of the Templars which Wallace-Murphy always tells so well.

Tim Wallace-Murphy has written an excellent history that shows how Christians,Jews and Muslims,who all believe in the same God ,have had such great difficulties in dealing with one another in the areas of Brotherhood,Tolerance,Justice and Peace. Throughout the ages, there have been an unbelievable number of organizations emerge,disappear and endure,which make it near to impossible to sort it all out;especially in one short book,;but this author has made a pretty good attempt at it. There have been literally thousands of books on the subjects covered in this book;but if one is looking for a well organized overview ,you would be hard pressed to find one any better. However;don't think that when you finally finish this book ;that you will be able to sort all the truth from fiction,legend and outright error;forget it.It is all so involved,and complicated that it has been studied and investigated by many thousands of researchers for many hundreds of years. I have read many books on the Middle Ages,and the Knights Templar in particular ;as well as the origins of organizations of today;and this book adds a lot to my understanding of it all.

This is a better history than most because you get the details on who did what; interesting to see that so many involved claimed by action descent from the jesus family archetype; with this author's detail you begin to see why so many were so quickly encouraged to do what they did at that time; the info also jives completely with the research that is coming out of the Holy Land by James Tabor; just a great history if you want to know why Jesus and family taught the ideas they did, and where those ideas came from. But I can't tell you any more; you must read the details and see how they all fit beautifully together. . . this is also the type of info that is coming down the pike with the latest Oprah Winfrey read: The New Earth by Eckhard Tolle about how this enlightened mindset will set us free into the way life should/could have been a long time ago if more people here could begin to understand their vast inner potentials for connections of peace with one another instead of war; and an earth that is primed (almost) to advance to the next dimension. . . check it out; this stuff is not wooey-fooey; there is really something to it and it is not conspiratorial theory in any negative way. This is a correction to a history that has been severely misrepresented by mainline religion. And it is sad to think that our emporer Constantine was mainly responsible for that. So, importantly, you begin to see how the mindsets of the old Greeks and Israelites did not perceive universal things the same; check it out. . .