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Go and look behind the Ranges-something lost behind the
Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! "
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Rudyard Kipling
"The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal." - -- Mark Twain
A Great New Book
Alternative authors Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval have launched the official website for their upcoming book TALISMAN. The eagerly anticipated book, subtitled "Sacred Cities, Secret Faith" is due out on May 27th, which is - as the website countdown clock shows - some 83 days from now.
TALISMAN sees Hancock and Bauval exploring esoteric history, and how the architecture of some of the world's most famous cities has been based on a secret tradition. The website hosts a bulletin board where the authors will contribute short pieces, as well as a more detailed section devoted to full articles and reviews of material.
The front-page of the website has a teaser for the upcoming book, which provides the following information:
TALISMAN is a roller-coaster intellectual journey through the back streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces in architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the world. The story takes us from Heliopolis to Luxor, Alexandria, Toulouse, Florence, Rome, Paris, London, Washington DC, New York, and finally to the global pandemonium following 9/11/2001. It is a tale filled with romance and intrigue, heroism and faith, peopled by ancient Egyptian astronomer priests, Christian Gnostics, Hermetic sages, learned Jews, Arab savants, Occitan Counts, Cathar "perfecti", Knights Templar, Renaissance magi, Rosicrucian "invisibles", Bavarian Illuminati and Freemasons.Pivotal historical events and processes, not least the Renaissance, the birth of scientific rationalism, and the French and American and Revolutions, are radically re-evaluated in the light of new investigative evidence presented for the first time in Talisman. Even the belief that the United States has a "global mission", so obvious today, may ultimately prove to be less the result of a short-term reaction to terrorism than the inevitable working out of a covert plan originally set in motion almost 2000 years ago.
Additionally, the website poses questions which the book will attempt to answer such as:
- Why did Benjamin Franklin become the "Venerable" of the elitist Freemasonic lodge of The Nine Sisters in Paris? Who were the other mysterious 400 members?
- Why was the symbol of a "pyramid and eye" placed on the frontispiece of the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
- Why did the American Freemasons commission a giant Egyptian-styled obelisk as the Washington Monument? Why was the winged solar disc of the ancient Egyptians placed on its entrance? Why was a "glowing pyramid with an eye" put on the Great Seal of the United States?
- Why was Harry Truman a 33rd degree Freemason and why did he help create the new State of Israel?
The website is sure to be updated frequently in the lead-up to the UK book release, so keep an eye on it.