Templar Antiquities

Mind Body & Soul Ezine Book Review: Temple Antiquities – The Templar Papers II By Oddvar Olsen Published by O Books Paperback 260 pages

This is book II and follows ‘Templar Papers: Ancient Mysteries, Secret Societies and the Holy Grail’ and is compiled by Oddvar Olsen as a collection of essays by a number of writers, some very well-known in their field and with a love of research into the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon (known as the Knights Templar). This was a Mediaeval Western Christian military and religious order (1129-1312) that guarded pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. They were the most important figures of the Crusades and began a banking system so that pilgrims could deposit money in one place and collect it in another. Philip IV of France borrowed large sums of money from them and the Pope of the day declared the Order was heretical and many were tortured and put to death, and it is said some escaped.

Sean Martin writes the Foreword entitled: The Call of the Past

Chapter 1: Perceval’s Grail Quest as Redemption of the Sacred Feminine is by Forrest D Lamb

Chapter 2: The Righteous Teachers by Oddvar Olsen; The Sons of Brychan and Sinclair - The Mystery of the Name by Yuri Leitch, and The King Arthur Code by Philip Gardiner

Chapter 3: The Templar Beauceant by Oddvar Olsen; The Knights Templar Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral, France, by Terence Dick; Royston Cave – Exactly What is It? by Sylvia P Beamon; The Green Man, St George and the Templars by Paul Broadhurst;  The Camley Head – An Enigma and An Update by Juliet Faith; Templar Hunting in the Czech Republic, Royston Cave, Herts, and Sloup, Ceska Lipa Cz by Stephen Andrews; The Templars and Cistercians in England by Evelyn Lord; Did the Templars Survive in Scotland? An Update by Hugh Montgomery; The Origins of Head Worship by Oddvar Olsen.

Chapter 4: Shakespeare and Hermetic Magic by Atasha Fyfe; The Lincoln Cathedral Code – Solution to the Mystery of Rennes-Le-Chateau? An Update by Callum Jensen; A Letter from Rieux, Minervois by Stephen Andrews; Pousin and the Sacred Angle and The Shepherds of Arcadia and The Golden Ratio by Jim Beck.

Chapter 5: Tracking Sirius by Nicholas R Mann; Gwynn and the Landscape Phenomena of Glastonbury and Yuri Leitch.

The book contains several photos to accompany the essays. Some level of knowledge about the subject matter is required for some of the essays. Excellent material. Reviewer: Wendy Stokes https:wendystokes.co.uk