KNIGHT/LOMAS: THE BOOK OF HIRAM * 1ST PRINTING HC w/ DJ * MASONIC * FREEMASONRY

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CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT & ROBERT LOMAS.
THE BOOK OF HIRAM: FREEMASONRY, VENUS AND THE SECRET KEY TO THE LIFE OF JESUS.
London: Century.
FIRST EDITION, first printing.
2003.
482 pages with Index.
VIGNETTE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Large octavo (9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inch) hardcover with d/j, brown boards, gilt titling to spine.
Light bump to head of spine, o/w
FINE CONDITION IN NEAR FINE D/J.
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION.
PART ONE:
1.) THE DEATH OF THE BUILDERS. • 2.) THE GROOVED WARE PEOPLE. • 3.) THE LIGHT OF SECRET KNOWLEDGE. • 4.) THE NORSE CONNECTION. • 5.) THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON. • 6.) THE MARITIME CONNECTIONS. • 7.) THE TWIN CULTS OF JUDAISM. •  8.) REAL KINGS, HUMAN SACRIFICE AND RAINMAKING. • 9.) THE SONS OF DAWN. • 10.) THE HOLY SHEKINAH. • 11.) THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH. • 12.) THE RETURN OF THE SHEKINAH. • 13.) NEITHER HARMLESS NOR FUN. • 14.) THE STAR ACHIEVERS.
PART TWO – THE MASONIC TESTAMENT:
1.) GOD MAKES MANKIND. • 2.) ENOCH MEETS GOD AND ENGRAVES HIS TRUE NAME. • 3.) NOAH BUILDS THE ARK TO SURVIVE THE FLOOD. • 4.) THE TOWER OF BABEL DESTROYED BY GOD. • 5.) MELCHIZEDEK, KING OF SALEM, MAKES ABRAM A GRAND HIGH PRIEST. • 6.) THE SECRETS OF MOSES. • 7.) THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE. •  8.) THE ASSASSINATION OF HIRAM ABIF. • 9.) THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM. • 10.) THE RETURN FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVIEY. • 11.) THE REDISCOVERED SECRETS OF KING SOLOMON’S TEMPLE. • 12.) THE HONOURING OF ZERUBBABEL. • 13.) THE GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE CHURCH. • 14.) EARLY CHRISTIAN DEGREES. • 15.) THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR AND THE KNIGHTS OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM. • 16.) EVOLVED FREEMASONRY.
TIME-LINE. • APPENDICES. • BIBLIOGRAPHY. • INDEX.
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