The Second Messiah - Templars, the Turin Shroud & the great secret of Freemasonry

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By Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas
Published by Arrow 1998
Paperback in great reading condition

The Second Messiah - revelas that the Turin shroufh, far from being an icon of the established church, provides scientific evidence of an alternative, hidden history of Western civilization and the secret societies that have controlled it 

For almost seven and a half centuries a piece of cloth was venerated because it bore the image of the crucified Christ, but in 1988 results of carbon dating showed that the fabric could not pre-date 1260. 

Now new evidence conclusively proves that it is not a fake... yet neither is it the image of Jesus Christ.

Insolving the riddle of the shroud this book unravels a far deeper mystery: how this medieval artefact links directly both to Jesus and the man believed to be Jesus' successor. 

The guardians of this great secret tried hard to hide it from the world and even their own members. But they failed to destroy the evidence .. hidden in abandoned rituals of Freemasonry