The Templar Revelation - secret guardians of the true identity of Christ

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By Lyn Picknett & Clive Prince

Published by Corgi Books, 1998, paperback

In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince were struck by the clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. Guided by hints about that religion's continued existence, they found further clues in a twentieth-century London church.

These were the beginnings of a quest through time and space that led the authors into the heartland of European occultism and the dark histories of such mysterious bodies as the Freemasons, the Knights Templar and the Cathars. As they dug beyond whnat was already known, the trail led them to the ideas and beliefs of the first century AD and a devastating new view of the real character and motives of the supposed founder of Christianity and the roles of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene.

They reveal nothing less than a secret history, preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals, whose revelation could shake the foundations of the Chruch.