The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasonry, and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus / Christopher Knight ; Robert Lomas (2001)

Book Details
Subject Freemasonry-Popular; Pseudo-History; Templars
Pub Date 8/1/2001
Nr of Pages 400
Format (size) Paperback
Publisher Fair Winds Press

Maine Masonic College Notes
A 'classic' insofar as it started a whole genre of progressively more wildly speculative books on Freemasonry's roots. Masonic scholars scoff at this work and note that the authors will theorize something on one page and then just a few pages later use that theory as if it were fact in order to reach to some further conclusion. Listed as Masonic fiction since most of its conclusions are simply that. ELK.

Summary
The Hiram Key is a book that will shake the Christian world to its very roots. When Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, both Masons, set out to find the origins of Freemasonry they had no idea that they would find themselves unraveling the true story of Jesus and the original Jerusalem Church. As a radically new picture of Jesus started to emerge, the authors came to the startling conclusion that the key rituals of modern Freemasonry were practiced by the early followers of Jesus as a means of initiation into their community.

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