Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry

Title Page\r......Page 2
TOC\r......Page 5
Acknowledgments\r......Page 7
Introduction: In Search of the Great Society\r......Page 9
Part 1: The Knights Templar\r......Page 18
Ch. 1: The Urge to Kill\r......Page 19
Ch. 2: \"For Now is Tyme to Be War\"\r......Page 33
Ch. 3: \"Whether Justly or Out of Hate\"\r......Page 53
Ch. 4: \"First, and Above All... The Destruction of the Hospitallers\"\r......Page 62
Ch. 5: The Knights of the Temple\r......Page 79
Ch. 6: The Last Grand Master\r......Page 95
Ch. 7: \"The Hammer of the Scots\"\r......Page 115
Ch. 8: Four Vicars of Christ\r......Page 132
Ch. 9: \"Spare No Known Means of Torture\"\r......Page 143
Ch. 10: \"No Violent Effusions of Blood\"\r......Page 160
Ch. 11: Men on the Run\r......Page 175
Part 2: The Freemasons\r......Page 187
Prologue\r......Page 188
Ch. 12: The Birth of the Grand Lodge\r......Page 190
Ch. 13: In Search of the Medieval Guilds\r......Page 203
Ch. 14: \"To Have My Throat Cut Across\"\r......Page 216
Ch. 15: \"My Breast Torn Open, My Heart Plucked Out\"\r......Page 225
Ch. 16: The Master Mason\r......Page 230
Ch. 17: Mystery in Language\r......Page 239
Ch. 18: Mystery in Allegory and Symbols\r......Page 250
Ch. 19: Mystery in Bloody Oaths\r......Page 261
Ch. 20: Mystery in Religious Convictions\r......Page 270
Ch. 21: Evidence in the Legend of Hiram Abiff\r......Page 284
Ch. 22: Monks Into Masons\r......Page 292
Ch. 23: The Protestant Pendulum\r......Page 306
Ch. 24: The Manufactured Mysteries\r......Page 320
Ch. 25: The Unfinished Temple of Solomon\r......Page 340
Appendix: \"Humanum Genus\"\r......Page 360
Bibliography\r......Page 375
Index\r......Page 381