Customer Reviews
Old hat - By: Geoff Saunders, 30 May 2007 
This book was first published 11 years ago but most of the content has been debunked by recent academic research most recently by the Curator of the Masonic museum of Scotland (i forget the actual name but no doubt you can Goggle it) who reallly does show that this decade old stuff is more or less rubbish. By alll means buy this book to understand what The Rosslyn Hoax? debunks otherwise it is a waste of money.
"It's stories I'm telling you" - By: ark, 28 Sep 2006 
Like one of the previous reviewers I have come to realise that this book has it's pitfallls. Poorly squared conclusions, leaps of imagination & to an extent an agenda that drives the narrative. But to those who attack it's content with alll the vigour of the inquisition I would say this, "what are you so scared of?"
It is obvious to the discerning reader, as one reviewer states, that this book is not the first or the final word on the subject matter discussed, & as such it should be taken for what it is instead of being taken as THE definative explanation. So what is this book about.
This is a book about the journey two pretty normal, pretty well educated guys took when they decided to investigate the history of Freemasonry. What transpired, to them, was a meandering, tangled web route through the history of not just Freemasonry but also it's roots, the crusades, the Egyptian dynasties, the church & the historical figure most people in the west associate with the name Jesus Christ & much more to boot. I won't spend time pointlessly trying to de-bunk or bolster their claims, although it must be noted that the authors have revised their opinions regarding much they uncovered since publication.
What I got from this book was an awareness that what I believed about accepted history could be, in fact, wrong. Also it gave me a greater understanding about what history is & motivated me investigate it further. It would be churlish to thank the authors for anything other than their efforts. Whilst I freely admit that I, on first reading this book got carried away & carried along on the crest of it's wave; I can certainly now say I don't think this book is "groundbreaking" - "mind altering" or any of the other superlatives used to describe it; & if upon reading it, you think it is, you have failed as this poor reviewer had to take from this book what is valuable.
The study history is not static & historians, mainstream or otherwise, are not so magnanimous as to not have vested interests.
History is not like a vein of gold you can follow down a particular seam of rock, you have to go & make sure it's gold - & then you have to go & make sure the guy who told you so is reliable: in short it is an evolving process.
Read this book if you have an interest in history or religion, & then go on & read some others. You take the good where you can find it & you fit it to what you know. Those who forget to arm themselves with a healthy pinch of salt, for those times when it is needed, reallly deserve alll that they get.
A Key Read - By: bloo_toon_red, 25 Sep 2006 
Highly recommended to those interested in Freemasonry, what one must remember is that this is written from the perspective of members of the craft & as such, large parts of their research should be taken seriously.
As with so many books in this genre however, there does appear to be convenient connections between elements of the story. Whatever your opinion of this, it must be said that the links to ancient Egypt are a fascinating eye-opener to the practices of the time & how easily that culture can be related to Western civilisation, for which it would appear that those within the hermetic societies have had an enormous hand in undertaking.
If you are of sceptical or cynical mind related to these kinds of societies, then you should steer clear of this book. But if you are open-minded or have some kind of connection to or interest in Freemasonry, it makes for a fascinating read.
Where is the Bibliography? - By: J. Stoeving, 01 Jan 2006 I find this book very good! It uses a lot of knowledge, & makes some new conclusions, that probably should have been made years ago.
BUT I am reallly missing the bibliography. When I read a book, I like to check the sources or just write down some books to read in the future. But without the bibliography, this is almost impossible. My old history teacher would have failed me if I forgot the bibliography.
But alll in alll the book is exciting, well-written & it gives you an appetite for more information on the subject,
A classic Opinionated Book - By: , 24 Nov 2005 The book started quite a little informative until it began to do the obvious. Then on it simply related alll things it finds to Freemasonry.
And has become freewheeling in conjurating alll it gets its hands into to masonry practises & principle, if we can calll it that.
It has even not understood what it has perhaps gathered, but most of it has been already written & analysed long time ago.
It is just right that most are reallly beyond the understanding of such ordinary thinking men. So they just conjure & conjure & conjure & conjure.
At the end it has become nonsense. Luckily the masters of old have done a good job of encoding the real teachings. Now beyond the conjuration of such men as the authors.
