Forbidden Religion

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One • Christianity: The Truth Behind the Orthodox Veil

1. The Mystery of the Christ:
Is There More to this Story than Even Hollywood Imagines?
• J. Douglas Kenyon
2. The Osiris Connection:
Hints of Christian Imagery in Ancient Egyptian Artifacts
• Richard Russell Cassaro
3. East of Qumran:
Searching for the Roots of Western Faith
• David Lewis
4. New Light on Christian Origins:
A Closer Look at the Role of James, the Brother of Jesus
• Cynthia Logan
5. Spreading the Goddess Gospel:
Thanks to The Da Vinci Code Margaret Starbird
Finds Herself with a Worldwide Audience
• Cynthia Logan
6. Searching for the Real Star of Bethlehem:
Who Were the “Wise Men” and What Were They Up To?
• Peter Novak

Part Two • Follow the Golden Thread: Templars and Freemasonry

7. Hidden History:
What Are Movies Like Braveheart Not Telling Us?
• David Lewis
8. The Templars and the Vatican:
The Forbidden Johannite Heresy
• Mark Amaru Pinkham
9. The Lost Templar Fleet and the Jolly Roger:
Did the Pirates of the Caribbean Have a Covert Vendetta?
• David H. Childress
10. The Mystery of the Battle of Bannockburn:
Is it Revealed in the Ancient Maxim, “As Above, So Below”?
• Jeff Nisbet
11. The Pyramids of Scotland:
An Orion Ground Plan Discovered in Fair Caldeonia
• Jeff Nisbet
12. The Enigma of the Great Lost Sailor’s Map:
How Did Its Makers Know What They Knew?
• David Childress

Part Three • The Pivotal Role of the Scotland Sinclairs

13. The Vanished Colony of Arcadia:
Did the Knights Templar Establish Outposts in North America?
• Steven Sora
14. The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar:
Is it About to be Found in North America?
• Steven Sora
15. The Mysteries of Rosslyn Chapel:
Were They Revealed to Mary of Guise?
• Jeff Nisbet
16. Further Anomalies of Rosslyn Chapel Unveiled:
A Painstaking Investigation Puts the Ancient Enigma in a Dramatic New Light.
• Jeff Nisbet
17. A Crack in The Da Vinci Code:
Is Dan Brown’s Rosslyn Chapel Where He Says it is?
• Jeff Nisbet
18. The Real Secret Society Behind The Da Vinci Code:
Those Surprising Rosicrucians
• Mark Amaru Pinkham

Part Four • The Power and Reach of High-Ranking Freemasons

19. “The Star-Spangled Banner” and America’s Origins:
Were the Founders of the United States Guided by an Ancient Mandate?
• Jeff Nisbet
20. America’s Ancient Architect:
Were America’s Founders Pursuing a Hidden Agenda?
• Steven Sora
21. National Secrets:
The Truth Might Be Stranger Than Any Fiction.
• Steven Sora
22. Bacon, Shakespeare, and the Spear of Athena:
Occult Origins of England’s Role in the New World
• Steven Sora
23. Unlocking the Shakespeare Riddle:
New Light on a Perennial Mystery--Was the Bard Really
the Drunken Actor from Stratford-on-Avon or Someone Else?
• Virginia Fellows
24. Francis Bacon and the Sign of the Double A:
Did the Great Scholar and Statesman Leave Cryptic Clues
for Future Generations to Uncover?
• William Henry

Part Five • Visionaries and Alchemists

25. The Nostradamus Perspective:
Did a French Mystic From the Fifteenth Century
Have Something to Tell the People of Today?
• J. Douglas Kenyon
26. Giordano Bruno:
Why Was He Burned at the Stake?
• John Chambers
27. Joan of Arc Revealed:
What Has History Left Out of her Strange Saga?
• Jeff Nisbet
28. The Alchemist’s Resurrection:
Did the Ancient Arts of Transmutation Die with the Middle Ages
or Do They Still Survive in Different Disguises?
• Mark Stavish
29. Fulcanelli and the Mystery of the Cathedrals:
What is the Connection Between the Cross at Hendaye
and One of the Most Enigmatic Figures of the Twentieth Century?
• Vincent Bridges
30. Isaac Newton and the Occult:
How Important Was the Great Scientist’s Hidden Side?
• John Chambers
31. Newton, Alchemy, and the Rise of the British Empire:
The Mystical Foundation of Empirical Science
• Peter Bros
32. Newton and the Bible:
What Did the Great Scientist Foresee for the Year 2060?
• John Chambers
33. The Remarkable Life of G. I. Gurdjieff:
Though His Saga Remains One of Mystery,
His Influence is Difficult to Overstate
• John Chambers

Part Six • The Spirit and the Soul

34. The Casting Out of Evil Spirits:
A Pioneering Psychotherapist Points Her Profession Back to Its Roots.
• Cynthia Logan
35. The Paranormal Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini:
Did Cosmic Forces Rescue the Great Renaissance Goldsmith?
• John Chambers
36. Dostoyevsky and Spiritualism:
Did the Author of Crime and Punishment Have
Personal Knowledge of Another World?
• John Chambers
37. Victor Hugo and the Spirits:
Did the Author of Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Draw Inspiration from Different Dimensions?
• John Chambers
38. Sound and Pictures from the Other Side:
Pioneering the New Science of Instrumental Transcommunication.
• Bill Eigles
39. Understanding the Near-Death Experience:
Why Hasn’t Science Gotten It Right?
• P.M.H. Atwater
40. The Case for Reincarnation:
Is Religion the Only Reason to Believe, Or Is There
Evidence of a More Scientific Nature?
• Ian Lawton

Recommended Reading: Selected Bibliography

Contributors