The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of HeavenSimon and Schuster, 1 abr 2001 - 320 páginas • An examination of the interactions of the Christian Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins, and of the profound changes in Western society that resulted. • Restores the reputation of the secret Muslim order of the Assassins, disparaged as the world's first terrorist group. • Dispels many myths about the Knights Templar and provides the most incisive portrait of them to date. A thousand years ago Christian battled Muslim for possession of a strip of land upon which both their religions were founded. These Crusades changed the course of Western history, but less known is the fact that they also were the meeting ground for two legendary secret societies: The Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins. In The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven, occult scholar and secret society member James Wasserman provides compelling evidence that the interaction of the Knights Templar and the Assassins in the Holy Land transformed the Templars from the Pope's private army into a true occult society, from which they would sow the seeds of the Renaissance and the Western Mystery Tradition. Both orders were destroyed as heretical some seven hundred years ago, but Templar survivors are believed to have carried the secret teachings of the East into an occult underground, from which sprang both Rosicrucianism and Masonry. Assassin survivors, known as Nizari Ismailis, flourish to this day under the spiritual leadership of the Aga Khan. Wasserman strips the myths from both groups and penetrates to the heart of their enlightened beliefs and rigorous practices, delivering the most probing picture yet of these holy warriors. |
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THE ORDER OF ASSASSINS | |
chapter fiveTEACHINGS OF ISMAILISM | |
chapter sevenAN OVERVIEW OF HASANS ASSASSINS | |
chapter eightAFTER HASAN | |
chapter nineTHE SYRIAN ASSASSINS | |
chapter tenTHE NIZARI ISMAILIS TODAY | |
chapter thirteenAN OVERVIEW OF THE ORDER | |
The Early Years | |
chapter sixteenSALADIN AND THE BATTLE OF HATTIN | |
chapter nineteenTHE CATHARS AND THE ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE | |
chapter twentyoneTHE SIXTH CRUSADE AND THE BATTLE OF LA FORBIE | |
chapter twentyfiveTHE END OF THE ORDER | |
chapter twentysixREFLECTIONS ON THE TEMPLAR ORDER | |
THE PATH OF THE MYSTERIES | |
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The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven James Wasserman No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2001 |
The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven James Wasserman No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2001 |
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