Templar Heresy: A Story of Gnostic Illumination
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (669 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1620556588 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Impressed by his courage and intelligence, Sinan selects him for initiation into the Nizari tradition. Years later, after Sinan has become a wise and respected leader, he encounters Roland de Provence, a young member of the Knights Templar. As we follow Roland to southern France, we witness how he blends the Cathar and Nizari traditions to form the core of the “heresy” for which the Templars were later arrested and condemned. Now an outlaw, hunted by his Templar brethren, Roland is forced to choose between the beliefs with which he was raised and the realizations of his own personal truths.Bringing to life the historical truths of his expertly researched bestseller The Templars and the Assassins, James Wasserman artfully traces the evolution of the Western Esoteric Tradition during the fertile cultural interactions of the Crusades. Roland braves hashish journeys, mystical rituals, and divine epiphanies, as well as sexual awakening at the hands of Sinan’s beautiful consort Aisha. However, he is met with strong opposition from his Templar commander, and factions within the Order quickly arise. A tale of initiation, adventure, and romance set within the medieval Crusades• Shares in novel form the mystical rituals and techniques of the Nizari Ismailis (the legendary Assassins) communicated to selected Knights Templar during the Crusades• Shows how
Keith Stump is a religious scholar and documentary screenwriter who spent many years in the Middle East studying the beliefs, history, and culture of the world’s great monotheistic faiths. James Wasserman is the author of several books, including The Templars and the Assassins and The Temple of Solomon. . Harvey Rochman is an international financier and film producer who envisions global media advancing human consciousness. A longtime student of the occult and a mem
Wasserman has located the spiritual Gnosis in relations between a few remarkable Templars and the survivals of the antique Gnosis in Syria and Languedoc. Templar Heresy is a dramatic tour de force not to be missed.” (J. Wasserman tells the story of the Templars in a fictional way but also with a sense of the context of the times--there are both real and invented characters, both real and invented events. He reminds me of classical French authors like Alexandre Dumas the younger. The tale explains much about the cultural cataclysm that marks every aspect of our contemporary world.” (Peter Seals (Frater Puck), host of Thelema Now!) . Templar Heresy is a story of personal illumina