Talisman : sacred cities, secret faith / Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hancock, Graham.

Contributor:

Bauval, Robert, 1948-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and civilization.

Architecture and religion.

Monuments.

Freemasonry.

Conspiracies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 562 pages 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Element, 2004.

Summary:

A talisman is an object with meaning. It is a potent symbol or icon that can fire the imagination and emotions of men and women anywhere, anytime. It can be a small amulet, a ring, a flag, a statue, a monument, and even a whole city. Think of a wedding ring. Think of the Statue of Liberty or the collapsing Twin Towers of New York, or the toppling statue of Saddam Hussein. Think of the Wailing Wall. Think of Jerusalem ... Talisman is a roller-coaster intellectual journey through the back streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces in architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the world. The story takes us from Heliopolis to Luxor, Alexandria, Toulouse, Florence, Rome, Paris, London, Washington DC, New York, and finally, to the global pandemonium following 9/11/2001.

It is a tale filled with romance and intrigue, heroism and faith, peopled by Ancient Egyptian astronomer priests, Christian Gnostics, Hermetic sages, Arab savants, Occitan Counts, Cathar perfecti, Knights Templar, Renaissance magi, Rosicrucian invisibles, Bavarian Illuminati, and Freemasons. Pivotal historical events and processes, not least the Renaissance, the birth of scientific rationalism, and the French and American Revolutions, are radically re-evaluated in the light of new investigative evidence presented for the first time in Talisman. Even the belief that the United States has a global mission, so obvious today, may ultimately prove to be less the result of a short-term reaction to terrorism than the inevitable working out of a covert plan originally set in motion almost 2000 years ago.

Contents:

Behind the Veils

The Secret Faith

Lost World

Where Good and Evil Meet

Chain of the Great Heresy

Knowledge of the True Nature of Things

The Rivals

The Sword and the Fire

The Sacred Cities

The Other Secret Religion

Two Phoenixes

City of the God King

The Prophet of Hermes

Envisioning the Hermetic City

The Invisible Brotherhood

Emergence of the Invisibles

Cabal

From Secret Society to Society With Secrets

The New City of Isis

Paris Unveiled

The Cornerstone

The Day that Shook the World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0007190360

9780007190362

OCLC:

56619212