The Templar Papers -

Ancient Mysteries, Secret Societies, and the Holy Grail

Compiled and Edited by Oddvar Olsen. Foreword by Dr Karen Ralls.

With Contributions by Lynn Picknett, Robert Lomas, Stephen Dafoe, Sandy Hamblett, Yuri Leitch, Vincent Zubras, and others.

Publisher: New Page Books, US, ISBN: 1-56414-863-7
256 pages, 6 x 9, Paper, Illustrated

“A broad range of key issues by various contributors relating to the Knights Templar today, a valuable compendium…both historical and speculative.”

-   Dr Karen Ralls, Oxford based medieval historian and author of the best-selling The Templars and the Grail. 

Much has been written about the group of 14^th-century warrior monks known as the Knights Templar. Some authors, such as Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code, portray them as folk heroes wrongly accused. Others disagree, saying the Templar story is ultimately one of greed, deception, and idolatry.

 Just who were the Knights Templar? And what is their legacy? In The Templar Papers, author and historian Oddvar Olsen has assembled a veritable Who’s Who of experts to unravel the mystery, You’ll hear answers to some intriguing questions. 

·   Were the Templars devil worshippers who venerated a mysterious head, supposedly that of John the Baptist?

·   What exactly did they find in Solomon’s Temple?

·   Did they keep, and later hide, the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant?

 You’ll also learn about the Templar link to Mary Magdalene and the Freemasons. And others mysteries of the ages.

 The Templar Papers offers the inquisitive reader lifetimes of research and insight. This is a distinctive and truly unique compilation. 

Oddvar Olsen has studies mystery traditions and mythology since the late 1980’s, when he decided to specilalize in the knights Templar. In 2002, Olsen started The Temple, a successful periodical on the Knights Templar and related subjects. He lives in Somerset, England. 

Lynn Picknett wrote Mary Magdalene- Christianity’s Hidden Goddess and co-wrote the International bestseller, The Templar Revelation. Robert Lomas is the co-author of the first four books in the Hiram Key series and author of Turning the Hiram Key. Stephen Dafoe, the Canadian authority on the Templars and Freemasonry, co-wrote The Templar Continuum. Sandy Hamblett edits and publishes The Journal of the Rennes Alchemist. Vincent Zubras is the Grand Master of OPCCTS, a group claiming direct lineage from the Knights Templar.

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