The Last Refuge of the Knights Templar

The Ultimate Secret of the Pike Letters

William F. Mann

• Publisher: Destiny Books
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781620559918
• eBook ISBN:
  9781620559925
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Literature

A modern-day thriller centered on authentic historical letters encoded with Templar and Rosicrucian secrets

• Includes the actual text of recently discovered correspondence between two famous 19th-century Masonic leaders, Albert Pike and Colonel J. W. B. MacLeod Moore

• Follows the protagonists, Thomas and Janet, as they seek to protect the Pike letters’ secret from the Vatican and its fanatical Jesuit hitman as well as others who desire to use the letters’ secret for world domination

• Also includes a short biography of controversial Masonic icon Albert Pike

Centered on recently discovered, authenticated correspondence between two famous 19th-century Masonic leaders, Confederate General Albert Pike and British Colonel James Wilson Bury MacLeod Moore, this modern-day thriller follows Thomas, a direct descendant of Col. Moore, and Janet Rose, a direct descendant of the Merovingian Kings and House of David, as they risk their lives to protect the letters and the Templar and Rosicrucian secrets encoded within them. As Thomas and Janet discover, everyone--from the Church to the White House to Confederate sympathizers and the KKK--seeks the ancient knowledge contained within the letters, knowledge that would allow a singular entity to control the world and bring all of the great religions to their knees.

Pitted against a psychotic and sexually perverted Jesuit priest, tasked by the Vatican’s inner circle to retrieve the Pike letters, the couple is aided by two Templar guardians and a modern-day practicing alchemist, Janet’s grandfather. As Thomas and Janet’s love for one another grows, the couple transcends to a higher level of understanding, unaware that they are following the same ancient morals and dogma found within the 33 degrees of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, as defined by none other than Albert Pike himself.

Part fact, part fiction, the novel, with its 33 initiatory chapters, provides a rare glimpse into the inner circles of modern-day Freemasonry, along with revelations of ancient alliances between Native Americans and the Templars. Set in Georgetown, in the heart of Washington, D.C., the story ends with a dramatic unveiling of the ultimate New World secret sought by so many factions: the location of the last Knights Templar refuge in the New World, where the lost treasure of the Templars, including sacred knowledge of the Holy Family--the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene--remains to this day.

Table of contents

• COVER IMAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• EPIGRAPH
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PREFACE. ALBERT PIKE—A TRUE ENIGMA
• PROLOGUE
• CHAPTER I. APPRENTICE
• CHAPTER II. FELLOW-CRAFT
• CHAPTER III. MASTER MASON
• CHAPTER IV. SECRET MASTER
• CHAPTER V. PERFECT MASTER
• CHAPTER VI. INTIMATE SECRETARY
• CHAPTER VII. PROVOST AND JUDGE
• CHAPTER VIII. INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING
• CHAPTER IX. ELU OF THE NINE
• CHAPTER X. ELU OF THE FIFTEEN
• CHAPTER XI. PRINCE AMETH (ELU OF THE TWELVE)
• CHAPTER XII. MASTER ARCHITECT
• CHAPTER XIII. ROYAL ARCH OF SOLOMON
• CHAPTER XIV. PERFECT ELU
• CHAPTER XV. KNIGHT OF THE EAST OR OF THE SWORD
• CHAPTER XVI. PRINCE OF JERUSALEM
• CHAPTER XVII. KNIGHT OF THE EAST AND WEST
• CHAPTER XVIII. KNIGHT ROSE CROIX
• CHAPTER XIX. GRAND PONTIFF
• CHAPTER XX. GRAND MASTER OF ALL SYMBOLIC LODGES
• CHAPTER XXI. NOACHITE OR PRUSSIAN KNIGHT
• CHAPTER XXII. KNIGHT OF THE ROYAL AXE, OR PRINCE OF LIBANUS
• CHAPTER XXIII. CHIEF OF THE TABERNACLE
• CHAPTER XXIV. PRINCE OF THE TABERNACLE
• CHAPTER XXV. KNIGHT OF THE BRAZEN SERPENT
• CHAPTER XXVI. PRINCE OF MERCY
• CHAPTER XXVII. KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE TEMPLE
• CHAPTER XXVIII. KNIGHT OF THE SUN, OR PRINCE ADEPT
• CHAPTER XXIX. GRAND SCOTTISH KNIGHT OF SAINT ANDREW
• CHAPTER XXX. KNIGHT KADOSH
• CHAPTER XXXI. GRAND INSPECTOR INQUISITOR GENERAL
• CHAPTER XXXII. MASTER OF THE ROYAL SECRET
• CHAPTER XXXIII. (HONORARY) INSPECTOR GENERAL
• EPILOGUE
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• ABOUT INNER TRADITIONS • BEAR & COMPANY
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• COPYRIGHT & PERMISSIONS