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Talisman is a roller-coaster intellectual journey through the back
streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces in
architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the
world. The story takes us from Heliopolis to Luxor, Alexandria,
Toulouse, Florence, Rome, Paris, London, Washington DC, New York,
and finally to the global pandemonium following 9/11/2001. It is a
tale filled with romance and intrigue, heroism and faith, peopled
by ancient Egyptian astronomer priests, Christian Gnostics,
Hermetic sages, learned Jews, Arab savants, Occitan Counts, Cathar
"perfecti", Knights Templar, Renaissance magi, Rosicrucian
"invisibles", Bavarian Illuminati and Freemasons.
Pivotal historical events and processes, not least the Renaissance,
the birth of scientific rationalism, and the French and American
and Revolutions, are radically re-evaluated in the light of new
investigative evidence presented for the first time in Talisman.
Even the belief that the United States has a "global mission", so
obvious today, may ultimately prove to be less the result of a
short-term reaction to terrorism than the inevitable working out of
a covert plan originally set in motion almost 2000 years ago.
Why was a 200-ton ancient Egyptian obelisk raised in front of the
Vatican in Rome, and a cross placed on its top which, by design or
strange coincidence, created the hieroglyph that denoted the name
of Anu: Heliopolis, the ancient Egyptian "City of the Sun"?
Why did Benjamin Franklin become the "Venerable" of the elitist
Freemasonic lodge of The Nine Sisters in Paris? Who were the other
mysterious 400 members?
Why was Voltaire initiated there? Why was a "glowing pyramid with
an eye" placed on his coffin?
And Why was a similar symbol of a "pyramid and eye" placed on the
frontispiece of the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Why did Napoleon Bonaparte have a similar statue of Isis and also
her "star" added to the coat of arms of Paris?
Why was a huge statue of the Egyptian goddess Isis raised in the
Place de la Bastille to represent the Goddess of Liberty during
the French Revolution?
Why did Francois Mitterand commission a "glass pyramid" modelled on
the Great Pyramid of Giza for the Bicentennial of the French
Revolution?
Why was a 3500-years-old obelisk taken from the ancient Egyptian
sun temple at Luxor and raised in the heart of Paris?
Why did French Freemasons gift America with a giant "Goddess of
Liberty" for New York harbour the famous Statue of Liberty, which
had originally been planned as a statue of the ancient Egyptian
goddess Isis, to stand at the entrance to the Suez Canal?
Why did the American Freemasons commission a giant Egyptian-styled
obelisk as the Washington Monument? Why was the winged solar disc
of the ancient Egyptians placed on its entrance? Why was a "glowing
pyramid with an eye" put on the Great Seal of the United
States?
Why was Franklin Delano Roosevelt a 32nd degree Freemason and why
did he commission a "glowing pyramid with an eye" for the one
dollar bill?
Why was Harry Truman a 33rd degree Freemason and why did he help
create the new State of Israel?
Why did George W. Bush take the presidential oath on the Masonic
Bible of the Grand Lodge of New York?
Why were the Twin Towers targeted by Bin Laden?
