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Pursuing Freemasonry through the 17th and 18th Centuries, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh reveal its contribution to the fostering of tolerance, progressive values, and cohesion in English society, which helped to pre-empt a French-style revolution. Even more dramatically, the influence of Freemasonry emerges as key facto in the formation of the United States of America as an embodiment of the ideal 'Masonic Republic'.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222844649845,"sku":"9780099257042","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099257042_69cb177b-caa7-4b8c-885d-fd0dbd2fa76a.jpg?v=1786011243"},{"product_id":"9780099503095","title":"The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn international bestseller - the secret history and shocking legacy of the Holy Grail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than... the Holy Grail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223023628661,"sku":"9780099503095","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099503095_d2ddf7be-49fc-48b0-ac87-6d01f8edd838.jpg?v=1786011513"},{"product_id":"9780099664215","title":"The Messianic Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe startling, frighteningly convincing sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Blood and the Holy Grail\u003c\/i\u003e that reveals the very nature of the Messianic Legacy.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the shocking revelations of \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Blood and the Holy Grail\u003c\/i\u003e the authors, in their quest to determine the discrepancies between early and modern 'Christian' thought, found that they were forced to ask such questions as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Was there more than one Christ?\u003cbr\u003e*Was Christ the founder of Christianity?\u003cbr\u003e*Were the disciples as peace-loving as it is traditionally assumed?\u003cbr\u003e*What links the Vatican, the CIA, the KGB, the Mafia, Freemasonry, P2, Opus Dei and the Knights Templar\u003cbr\u003e*What mysterious modern crusade implicates British industry, Churchill and de Gaulle, the EEC and Solidarity?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Messianic Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e offers enthralling new investigations into the shadowy society of the 'Prieure de Sion' - 'The Guardians of the Holy Grail' - as the authors discover the murky world of politics, finance, freemasonry, and religion that exists beneath the most solid and conservative seeming of European institutions: the Church. The ominous global conspiracy of disinformations they uncovered ensures that \u003ci\u003eThe Messianic Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e us an up-to-the-minute thriller and a work of biblical detection that is even more significant than \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56223789121909,"sku":"9780099664215","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780099664215_ca0bb5c6-4a7e-401d-a84c-66a145b966d1.jpg?v=1786011781"},{"product_id":"9780140274660","title":"The Inquisition","description":"After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk - later canonized as St Dominic - took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy - thus began the infamous Inquisition. Baigent and Leigh tell the whole extraordinary story, taking it on into the nineteenth century and showing how after the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility in 1870 the Vatican attempted to establish new authorities that were an intellectual equivalent of the Inquisition. The Inquisition offers a fascinating narrative account of one of the most influential and horrifying movements in the history of western Europe.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224242499957,"sku":"9780140274660","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140274660_80b5b2bb-48d2-40de-b210-31d25d8ad3e2.jpg?v=1786011155"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-michael-baigent.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}