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Destiny Books, 1990. Revised Ediiton 5th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD c. 1990-3 Destiny Books trade paperback, revised edition, 5th printing. Very light lift to front cover fore edge. B&W photo section. CONTENT: Bound by religious vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the Knights Templar were a Military Crusading Order engaged in religious war in the Holy Land. At the end of the thirteenth century, after their withdrawal from Syria, they became the apparently innocent victims of a campaign of slander and persecution mounted against them by the French government. The ruthless dissolution of the Knights Templar was only the beginning of a new and strange chapter in their history. They soon became the focus of numerous beliefs about their presumed occult powers, and by the eighteenth century their history had undergone a mythical metamorphosis--they figured highly in occult fantasies of magical practices and hidden knowledge as… Read More