Re: Knights Templar (KT) reference in Kate Bush FAQ

[ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei)]

Lets see, what's being reccomended for references to the Knights Templar?

Holy Blood, Holy Grail
	This is the sort of book which make serious historians puke. Again and
	again, they speculate on something in one chapter, and in the next say
	'as we have previously proved', and go on the the next level of castles
	in the air. They quote "sources" which, days after they see them, are
	'stolen' or 'lost'. Do you take their central thesis seriously, which
	proposes that Christ survived crucifixion, and shacked up with Mary
	Magdalen in the south of France, with His bloodline surviving to this
	day? Get real.

Born In Blood.
	Robinson was sincere, but very much an amateur. He totally ignores
	counter-evidence to his notion that the KT went underground for 300
	years and turned into the Freemasons, another idea which serious
	historians regard on a par with UFOs.

Foucault's Pendulum.
	This is a really neat book, but it was written as fiction, and never
	intended to be anything else. Ecco has no problem in inventing history
	when it suits his purpose, and there's no shame in that, so long as
	it's clearly labeled.

     If you want a good ,academically sound history of the KT, try
Peter Partner's "The murdered Magicians: the Knights Templar and their
myth".
						Peter Trei
                                                ptrei@mitre.org
                                                Master of Wilder Lodge, 
                                                Ancient Free & Accepted Masons
                                                Leominster, MA
                                                Editor of Masonic Digest 
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