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Table of Contents
BY THE SAME AUTHORS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Preface: - The Master Game
INTRODUCTION - THE GAME OF GAMES
Prologue: - The Sacred Cities
CHAPTER ONE - BEHIND THE VEILS
De-Christianisation
Very Christian Kings beheaded by the Cult of the Supreme Being
The tricolor goddess with the Phrygian cap
The obelisk and the painting
Coincidence, or blueprint?
Was Freemasonry behind the French Revolution?
Franklin, Freemasonry and Revolution
Nine Sisters lodge
Robespierre and the Cult of the Supreme Being
Rousseau and the Contrat Social
Designer Cult
Lalande and Sirius
Monge, Isis and Osiris
Celebrations and iconography
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic …
Part I: - The Secret Fatith
CHAPTER TWO - LOST WORLD
Hesitating at the crossroads
A language in which ‘oc’ means ‘yes’
The mailed fist of Occitania
Weaving the threads of the Great Heresy
The Perfecti and the Credentes
Abolishing superstition and the Fear of Hell
A Renaissance ahead of its time?
Cosmopolitan cities
Cathars and troubadours
Women hold up half the sky
The revolution and the new world order
Fighting back
The ancient enemy
CHAPTER THREE - WHERE GOOD AND EVIL MEET
Close to the sources of power
Papa Nicetas
Social engineering
School of heresy
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
The journey of the soul
Jehovah (aka the Devil) and the Old Testament
The creature of mud and the Hole in Heaven
Christ's Holographic mission to the realm of an alien God
A short excursion to parallel worlds
Ancient legacy or medieval invention?
Listening to heretics and heresy hunters
CHAPTER FOUR - CHAIN OF THE GREAT HERESY
What was smashed?
‘That most wicked sect of obscene men who are called Paulicians …’
The Praying People and the demon in the soul
Mani, Messenger of Light
Meetings with the Twin
Mani and the Magi
The Cosmos according to Mani
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck … then it ...
Connecting the Cathars to the first century AD
CHAPTER FIVE - KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE NATURE OF THINGS
The Nag Hammadi library: time capsule or time bomb?
The Organisation (1): hints of a Gnostic secret society
The public craftsman
The ‘Organisation’ (2): A reawakening in the 10th century?
Gnostics, Bogomils and Cathars: much in common (1)
Gnostics, Bogomils and Cathars: much in common (2)
Gnostics, Bogomils and Cathars: much in common (3)
Pontifex Maximus
The first step on the road to the stake
When coercion was learnt
Longing for power long before Constantine
Massacre of the Innocents
The first Inquisition and the ancient enemy
CHAPTER SIX - THE RIVALS
Seizing control of the tradition
No eyewitnesses we can trust
Somehow this secret religion went on
Christ and Antichrist
‘More evil than Saracens …’
Hell's Army
‘Kill them all’: the Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene and the workings of divine ...
Truth in extremes
CHAPTER SEVEN - THE SWORD AND THE FIRE
The darkest hour before the falsest dawn
The Pope hires the French to finish the job
Pieces of silver
Informer culture
The Dominican flying squad
You never expect the Spanish Inquisition
Paradox
Making hell on earth
Burning the living and the dead
The fall of Montségur
The last Cathars
A quiet natural death?
Renaissance
Part II: - The Sacred Cities
CHAPTER EIGHT - THE OTHER SECRET RELIGION
The body is a tomb
The enraged enforcement of an unearned spiritual monopoly
A philosopher with fire-power
All the learning of Constantinople and a new Platonic Academy
Older than Moses, greater than Plato
Drop Plato, translate Hermes instead
The full corpus
Veiling Hermes in the Church (1)
Veiling Hermes in the Church (2)
Pico della Mirandola, Hermetic magic and the Cabala
The Borgias, orgies in the Vatican, Isis and Osiris on the ceiling
The mystery of the Picatrix and the star-people
Temple of the world
The city of Adocentyn
CHAPTER NINE - TWO PHOENIXES
Preserving the essence
Building the City of the God
Sky and ground
The divided creature
Knowledge, reason, intelligence …
Stars and angels falling to earth
Reproducing eternity in a copy
Hermetic landscapes
The beauty of the archetype
Transforming the world
CHAPTER TEN - CITY OF THE GOD-KING
Dodona, Olympias, Egypt and the Persians
Nectanebo, Osiris, and the ancestry of Alexander
Lightning seed and the star Sirius
Son of Amun
The intellectual parenthood of Alexandria
The founding of the universal city
Helen of Troy, the Egyptian Aphrodite and Isis-Pharia
Brief excursion to Paris
The Canopus Way
Brief excursion on Napoleon and Sirius
Mapping ancient Alexandria
The Gate of the Sun and the Gate of the Moon
The making of a universal god
The labyrinth of Serapis
Alexander's return
A specia
l gnosis
A time of change
Metamorphosis
The three major players
CHAPTER ELEVEN - THE PROPHET OF HERMES
The rise and rise of Catherine de’Medici
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
A Mass for Paris
The Hermetic mission of Giordano Bruno
Bruno's travels
Bruno at the French court
Bruno in London and Oxford
Sidney and Dee
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
As above so below
Bruno's fatal decision
The Field of Flowers
The ‘Organisation’ at work again?
Enter Campanella
CHAPTER TWELVE - ENVISIONING THE HERMETIC CITY
A new sort of republic and a heavenly city
In an insane world only the mad are sane
Beating the awakener
The first European celebrity
France update: murders and plots
The low libido of Louis XIII
Brief excursion to some buried Egyptian treasures
Predicting a Capetian miracle
God sent
A Hermetic signature
Hidden magical springs
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - THE INVISIBLE BROTH ERHOOD
The Rosicrucian Manifestos
Mystery of the Chemical Wedding
A strange story
Bruno, Campanella and the Rosicrucians
The gradual unveiling of the City of the Sun
The union of the Thames and the Rhine
Dee and Christian Rosenkreutz
The Rosicrucian investment in Frederick V
The Battle of White Mountain
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - EMERGENCE OF THE INVISIBLES
Eyes turn to England and the New World
Hermetic Bacon
A Rosicrucian Christmas card in the National Records of Scotland
The New Atlantis
A brief excursion to consider Freemasonry
Isis in Virginia
Antilian intrigues
Before Freemasonry came out
An invisible college in dangerous times
Utopia on hold for the Civil War
The dashing cavalier of the Palatinate
‘I was made a Freemason’
Restoration and the return to the promised land
From Invisible College to Royal Society
Parallel developments in France
The Scottish connection
Blazing star of doom
Christopher Wren's esoteric pedigree
Pausing to deposit Wren in Paris we make an excursion to Rome to study a ...
An English Architect meets his hero at the Court of The Sun King
Rising from the ashes
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - CABAL
Mystery of the Knights Templar
The Rosy Cross and the Octagon
Hubris
The Horns of Hattin
Tonight I will pray in Jerusalem!
The Death Blow to the Templars in the Holy Land
Nemesis
Templar survivals and the long quest for Utopia
Templars and Cathars
Elements of the Templar heresy
Emanations and the Sephirothic Tree
Sephirothic Tree and Temple of Solomon
The paradoxical Kircher
John Greaves, the Pyramids and Gresham College
Many different streams converging
Wren's plan to rebuild the Temple
The ghost in the plan
Evelyn's plan
Solomon's Temple veiled in Saint Paul's Cathedral?
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - FROM SECRET SOCIETY TO SOCIETY WITH SECRETS
Recruiting from the ruling classes
The Knight Ramsay
An ancient order and a dangerous whiff of Republicanism
Excursion to the higher degrees (1) Schisms
Excursion to higher degrees (2) Holy Royal Arch
Excursion to higher degrees (3) Warrior-Masons of Zerubbabel
Excursion to higher degrees (4) Much fuss about Jahbulon
Excursion to higher degrees (5) ancient Egypt and geometry
From Grand Lodge to Grand Orient
Cagliostro and ‘Egyptian’ Freemasonry
Cagliostro reaches France by way of Germany and Russia
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - THE NEW CITY OF ISIS
Flashback (1) 15th – 17th centuries: traditions of Paris as the city of Isis
Flashback (2) 1665: the mystery of the deviated axis (1)
Flashback (2) 1665: the mystery of the deviated axis (2)
Flashback (2) 1665: the mystery of the deviated axis (3)
Flashback (2) 1665: the mystery of the deviated axis (4)
Cagliostro and the affair of the queen's necklace
Prophet of Revolution plays with fire in Rome
The noble traveller
Illuminated by Reason
The eye in the pyramid
The Illuminati and the Duke of Orléans
Out goes the Duke of Orléans, in comes Philippe Égalité
Behind the scenes of the Revolution
When the Third Estate found its voice
Impregnating the national conscience
2/100th of a second
Isis of the Bastille
Closing down the Church
Cybele-Isis
Cult of the Supreme Being veiling Isis again
Notre Dame, Temple of the Goddess
City of Light
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - PARIS UNVEILED
Imaging the Supreme Being
The cry of a dying tiger
Napoleon's goddess
Inspirations for the invasion of Egypt
Trouble with Joséphine
‘We who have destroyed the Pope …’
The savants and the destiny of Napoleon
The Holy ‘French’ Empire
Dates and words
Masonic Emperor Of The French?
Napoleon researches Isis
The Place of the Star
How France had a second revolution
The second revolution
Lafayette seizes the day
Champollion
‘If you go to Thebes do send me a little obelisk …’
Mitterrand's ‘Great Works’
Mysteries of the axis
Robert Bauval's Eureka afternoon (1)
Robert Bauval's Eureka afternoon (2)
Robert Bauval's Eureka afternoon (3)
Architecture fulfilling prophecy
CHAPTER NINETEEN - THE CORNERSTONE
The ‘Raising’ of Washington
Isis of the Suez Canal
Isis of New York, a Talisman to ‘Liberty’
Garibaldi, ‘Hero of the Two Worlds’
An ‘admirable spot’ for a global talisman
A short diversion: In God We Trust
Another ancient Egyptian goddess lends her seven-pointed star
An obelisk for New York
Philadelphia, the ‘City of Brotherly Love’
By the Rivers of Babylon
A Brief Deviation: Kilbourne Plat
The candle-maker's son
Thomas Paine
Franklin in France
‘Why not?’
The House of the Temple
The Blazing Star
Thomas Paine's Supreme Being
Engineer, artist, soldier
Networking with the Cincinnati
‘Templar’ Octagons again, and the Tree of Life
Echoes
The Cornerstone of St. Paul's
The Virgin and the Star
Hidden in the sky
An obelisk for Washington
The Pentagon and Sirius
The True ‘New Jerusalem’ in Israel?
From the 30th to the 33rd degree
Epilogue - The Master Game
CHAPTER TWEN
TY - THE DAY THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
Accusations
The Lie that would not die
The Semblance of a ‘Masonic-Zionist Conspiracy’
The letter that stunned the world
An Insider's Account
Flash forward to 1978: Jerusalem Day
Flash forward to 2001: Masonic Oath?
‘Jihad’ or ‘Crusade’?
From the Crusades to Al Qaeda
APPENDIX - THE GREAT PYRAMID AND FREEMASONRY
ENDNOTES
INDEX
BY THE SAME AUTHORS
BY GRAHAM HANCOCK
The Sign and the Seal
Fingerprints of the Gods
Heaven's Mirror (WITH SANTHA FAIIA)
Underworld
Supernatural
BY ROBERT BAUVAL
Secret Chamber
The Orion Mystery (WITH ADRIAN GILBERT)
The Egypt Code
Black Genesis (WITH THOMAS BROPHY)
BY GRAHAM HANCOCK AND ROBERT BAUVAL
The Message of the Sphinx
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To my mother, Yvonne Bauval.
Robert Bauval
For my father. Your warmth and wise advice are sorely missed.
Graham Hancock
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The making of this book has a long and chequered history. It began in 1992 and was finally brought to a close in 2011. The time-span reflects not only the complex nature of the subject matter but also the strong and enduring working relationship and friendship that I have with my co-author, Graham Hancock, a master of the trade par excellence. It also highlights, yet again, the power of teamwork and the old but true axiom that ‘two heads are better than one.’
I would like to thank the many colleagues and friends who, through the many years, have helped me directly or indirectly with this book. My foremost thanks go to my wife, Michele, who always gave me unflinching support. It is not easy to live with someone whose mind is often engrossed in solving historical puzzles. I also would like to pay special tribute to Mary Bruck of Edinburgh who sadly passed away recently. She was a very dear friend and she will be sorely missed. Much thanks also go to my friends all over the world, not least Hoda Hakim (Cairo), Chafik and Racha Kotry (Alexandria), John and Josette Orphanidis (Athens), Gouda Fayed (Giza, Nazlet El Salman), Javier and Eva Sierra (Malaga), Adriano Forgione (Rome), Sandro Mainardi (Florence), Linda and Max Bauval (Hawaii), Christopher and Caroline Knight (UK), Alan Butler (UK), Juliano Fernadez (Uruguay), Jean-Paul and Valentina Tarud-Kuborn (Chile), Jeanne Ribeiro (Brazil), Ryan Gilmore (Canada), Gary Evans (UK), Hillary Raimo (USA) and Sherif el Sebai (Cairo). My gratitude to my literary agent and friend Bill Hamilton of A. M. Heath & Co. Ltd., who is always there to encourage and advise me, and to listen to my over-enthusiastic oratory. The same gratitude also goes to my editor and friend Gary Baddeley of The Disinformation Company in New York for his patience, dedication, support and invaluable help. Much appreciation to Ralph Bernardo for his diligence and dedication in putting this book together. As always I give thanks to all my readers, old and new, and hope that they will find The Master Game as enjoyable as it was for me to co-write.