August 13, 2009
Warning: Dangerously eclectic material ahead
Welcome to this new companion blog to our forthcoming book Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries. Serious blogging will begin in the first half of September, after the Feast of the Beheading of St John the Baptist. To whet your appetite for the posts to come, we note below our book’s table of contents–which gives some sense of the rich variety of subjects we’ll be covering, uncovering, updating, and, in some cases, exploding.
For now, we hope the topics below give you something to look forward to:
Chapter 1: MYSTERIOUS HERITAGE
Investigating (and, where necessary, debunking) the “Usual Suspects”
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Rosslyn Chapel, Midlothian, Scotland
Rennes-le-Château, France: Wholly Bunk, Hoary Tale
Villa Tevere: The Headquarters of Opus Dei in Rome
The Hotel de Bilderberg and the Bilderberg Group, The Netherlands
Vauxhall Cross: London’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Headquarters
Rosicrucian Park, San José, and Club 33, Anaheim, California
Chapter 2: SHRINES AND SANCTUARIES, ANCIENT AND MODERN
Places of primordial spiritual impulses and folklore—and a psychedelic West Coast enclave
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Ise Shrine, Japan
Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo
Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, Tibet
The Shrine of the Oracle at Delphi, Greece
The Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California
Chapter 3: THE TEMPLE, THE ARK, AND THE GRAIL
Undeniable surprises on the sober trail of Knights Templars, Freemasons, Holy Grail hunters, and Gnostics
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The Bååtska Palace, Stockholm
The Chapel of the Ark, Aksum, Ethiopia
The Chapel of the Holy Grail, Valencia Cathedral, Spain
Significant Masonic Temples from Rome and Paris to Washington and Pushkin (Russia)
Gnosticism Today
Chapter 4: GOTHIC NIGHTMARE
Himmler’s “Black Camelot” and Nazi spiritual center, with side trips to other Germanic esoteric sites
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Wewelsburg Castle, Westphalia, Germany
The Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland
Bollingen Tower, Lake Zurich, Switzerland
Chapter 5: CITADELS OF CHIVALRY
Remaining outposts of ancient noble and charitable brotherhoods at the service of humanity
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The Knights of Malta, Rome
The Tuscan Order of St. Stephen Pope and Martyr, Pisa
The Teutonic Order
Chapter 6: GROTTOES AND GROTESQUES
Strange and historic passageways, caverns, and hiding places
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The Passetto di Borgo, Rome
The Magic Door, Rome
The Grotto of the Beati Paoli, Palermo, Sicily
Priest Holes in England
Chapter 7: MODERN-DAY BOLT-HOLES
Secret government installations, well-oiled for use in time of war or crisis
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Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, Bluemont, Virginia
The Federal Relocation Arc
Area 51: The Facility That Does Not Exist, Nevada
RAF Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, England
Chapter 8: ISLANDS OF MYSTERY
Five special island sanctuaries with their unique treasure hoards, inaccessibility, or spiritual significance
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Montecristo: The Forbidden Island, Off the Italian Coast
Easter Island: Mysterious Graven Images
Isle of Lewis, Scottish Hebrides
Iona: St. Columba’s Scottish Island Sanctuary
Svalbard: Norway’s Arctic Eden
Chapter 9: HOLIES OF HOLIES
Places on the trail of a higher reality, ultimate human destiny—and according to some, Apocalypse
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Sancta Sanctorum, Rome’s Lateran Palace
The Pauline Chapel, The Vatican’s Apostolic Palace (including the “Prophecies” of St. Malachy)
The Monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai, Egypt
The Autonomous Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos, Greece
The Abbey of Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux, France
The Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal of the Mohawks, Ontario, Canada
Chapter 10: HIDDEN TOTEMS
Treasured objects or talismans of great antiquity
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The Stone of Destiny
The Holy Crown of St. Stephen of Hungary
The British and Polish Crown Jewels in Canada
The Holy Ampoule of the Kings of France
Joyeuse, the Sword of Charlemagne
The Holy Lance of St. Longinus: The “Spear of Destiny”
Oliver Cromwell’s Head
Chapter 11: (VERY) PRIVATE BANKING
A discreet tour through the great temples of high finance and private wealth management
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Rothschilds, London
Banks That Are No More
The Great Survivors: Goldman Sachs and the House of Lazard
The Wealth Managers, including Coutts & Co.—the Queen’s Bankers
The Swiss Banks: Models of Discretion
The German Private Banks: Oppenheim, Warburg, and Others
A Well-Connected American House: Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
The Enduring Allure of Gold
Chapter 12: UNIVERSITY SECRET SOCIETIES AND DUELING CORPS
Inside the closely guarded doors of fraternities and societies for the future elite
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The Apostles of Cambridge and the Bullingdon Club of Oxford
Princeton’s Eating Clubs
Harvard’s Final Clubs
Yale’s Senior Societies: Skull and Bones and Its Rivals
The German University “Corps”
Chapter 13: JOLLY GOOD FELLOWSHIP
The lore, elegance, humor, and eccentricities of the great private clubs of London and the world
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London’s Private Clubs
White’s: The Oldest Club
Boodle’s, Brooks’s, and Others of Distinction
Clubs Outside London and in Europe
America’s Private Clubs
Sanctuaries: The Enduring Tradition
fascinating book with lots of new and difficult to obtain information. I liked the crisp style of writing and will be curious to see the pictures.
According to the table of contents there is little about Islam and Mecca, could you
not penetrate into the Kaaba?
Very fine work which should see wide distribution.
I am disappointed that you didn’t cover the hidden stocks of Element 115 which the U. S. Federal Government has hidden at Area 51.
Element 115 is the fuel for flying saucers: Basically, it creates an anti-matter annihilation which creates vast energy for space travel.
The U. S. Government obtained some 500 pounds of Element 115 from transactions with aliens from another solar system. Element 115 is found in thie solar system.
The Government’s stocks of Element 115 need to be covered as much as the Government’s stocks of gold at Ft. Knox.
Element 115 is stored at a site known as S-4 at Area 51. This is located some 15 miles from the main Area 51 headquarters.
The uses of Element 115 are noted at http://www.boblazar.com/closed/index.html
The chemical properties of Element 115 are analysed at http://www.boblazar.com/closed/element.htm This element is reddish-orange in colour and is very dense and extremely heavy.
The most unusual property of Element 115 is its gravity A wave: See http://www.boblazar.com/closed/gravab.htm
The highest use of Element 115 is for use in a reactor for long-distance stellar flights: For technical details on the engineering uses of Element 115 in space flight see http://www.boblazar.com/closed/reactor.htm
The atomic properties of Element 115 facilitate space/time distortion for long-distance space travel: See http://www.boblazar.com/closed/space.htm
Travelling between solar systems at speeds exceeding the speed of light is made possible by using gravity to ‘bend’ the position where the traveller desires to go and to pull that location in space and in time to the traveller: See http://www.boblazar.com/closed/download.htm#DISCFLIGHT.MPG
The matter-anti-matter annihilation process employed in the reactor using Element 115 is evaluated at http://www.boblazar.com/closed/MPGdownload/reactor.mpg
While your otherwise excellent book references Area 51, you do not really give details upon the full extent of the Government’s various secret activities being conducted at Area 51. Although the Government does work on experimental aircraft at Area 51, far more exists than meets the eye:
The Government’s ‘official party-line’ is that there are no alien space craft at Area 51. However, the Government has lied so much to its Citizens that its denials are not believable Rather like ‘The Boy who cried, “Wolf, Wolf!”‘
A recent case in point is the Bush Administration’s claim of ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction” as a pretext for waging an aggressive war of conquest upon Iraq. After the conquest, no “Weapons of Mass Destruction” were ever found…..
At a certain point the Government’s repeated lies to its citizens becomes so great that the Government’s denial — repeated like a broken record — does not deserved to be believed.
This is particularly true with the Government’s denial of the existence of alien space craft at Area 51.
Your otherwise excellent book takes, unfortunately, an ‘Establishment’ point of view on these matters. In my opinion your book all too readily accepts the ‘Establishment’ official ‘explanation’: More credence needs to be given to ‘whistleblowers’ such as Bob Lazar re Site S-4 at Area 51.
¿By failing to challenge adequately ‘Establishment’ party-line on these matters, one almost wonders if one or both of the authors is seeking admission into the elite circles of Bilderbergers, Council of Foreign Relations, or the Trilateral Commission?
An interesting question….
This looks great! when is the date Amazon is actually shipping it?
¿What lies BEYOND the 33º of Free Masonry?
Each of the various degrees leading up to the 33º is an order of pagan priesthood.
I have heard rumours that BEYOND the 33º various advanced forms of Masonry may be found. My understanding is that these degrees BEYOND the 33º practice ceremonial magic. That is to say the various orders of pagan priesthoods are actually practiced in strange rites and rituals in secret Masonic fraternities.
Among the most secret of these various advanced Masonic Orders BEYOND the 33º is the Germanic Fraternitas Saturn. This is said to consist of an ADDITIONAL thirty-three degrees, the most advanced of which is ‘Gradus Ordinis Templi Orientis Saturni’. To achieve this highly advanced Masonic degree one must know and practice what is called ‘sacramental magic’.
They worship a diety called ‘Master Gothos’
In addition they are said to possess a most secret ritual for the physical incarnation of “moonchild”. This is said to consist of a priest and a priestess having ritual sex under the astrological sign of a particular disincarnated Masonic deity from the abyss. The theory is that if a child is conceived through this ritual coitus, that the resulting child will be possessed by that Masonic deity from the moment of conception. The resulting conceptus is called a ‘moonchild’.
The more powerful the astrological sign, the greater the disincarnated Masonic deity from the abyss.
Theoretically, the Anti-Christ could be raised by a priest and a priestess celebrating ritual sex under the astrological sign of Satan. This is said to be a conjuncture of all the major planets together with an eclipse of the sun by the moon. This astrological sign occurs only once every 5000 years. I understand that this particular astrological sign last occurred on 7th February 1962.
¿Does anyone know ANYTHING about this?
If this is correct, the Anti-Christ might well be in the world right now: He would be about 47 years old.
Any information about secret magical Masonic orders BEYOND the 33º attempting to incarnate a ‘Moonchild’ through ritual Masonic ceremonial magic will be most appreciated — particularly if the ‘Moonchild’-in-question is likely to be the Anti-Christ.
Such would be powerful Masonry, indeed.
¿SURELY, SOMEONE MUST KNOW?