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Interest in the Rosslyn Chapel, featured in the "Da Vinci Code", has reached extraordinary proportions, with hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. This book is responding to that interest by offering the most authentic account of the building of the chapel yet published. John Ritchie, a journalist who was born in the village and whose family has been bound up with the chapel for generations, has teamed up with successful author Alan Butler to produce this definitive account. For the first time, they introduce Sir Gilbert Haye, a 15th century genius and precursor of the Renaissance, Keeper of the Royal Library in France, and family tutor to the Earl, William Sinclair, who built the chapel. They tell the truth about the chapel's relationship with the creation of speculative freemasonry, and the link between this and a very important pan European philosophy, a philosophy which promulgated a form of biblical Christianity, which had always rejected the strangling false dogma of the established Catholic Church. They explain the meanings behind the chapel's fantastic carvings, such as those showing corn cobs which would have been carved two centuries before Europeans apparently visited the Americas and found the plant. The pillar which for 200 years has had its story hidden, until now. It is a journey through a secret library of stone, to the very essence of history itself. Importantly, Butler and Ritchie show that the truth about the chapel is stranger than fiction, and allow the chapel itself, to tell it own story through its carvings.
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No one knows more about the Rosslyn chapel than John Ritchie, whose family have lived locally for over nine generations and who has been researching it all his adult life. A historical researcher and film cameraman, he has joined forces with Alan Butler, an expert on the Cistercian monks and the Knights Templar, author of The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge and The Virgin and the Pentacle, to produce the most complete and authoritative book on the subject. Alan Butler lives in Yorkshire; John Ritchie lives close to the Rosslyn Chapel in Roslin,
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Rosslyn revealed is another in along line of books written on the subject of the Chapel. This book, however, in my oppinion seems to be grounded in factual research unlike many others. I have visited the Chapel myself and read several of the books on offer and to my mind, this is one of the better ones. I also believe that it is one of the best selling books that the Chapel stocks. Everyone is entitled to their oppinion, and mine is that I would reccommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about Rosslyn Chapel and it's influences and connections
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I brought this book thinking that something fundamental would be 'revealed'. I was niave. This book reproduces the same o' same o' with a very weak twist - small red piece of glass shines onto a 'secret' place in Rosslyn Chapel.
Neither of the authors of Rosslyn Revealed are Freemasons and I suspect that they are simply jumping on the bandwagon of the Da Vinci Code.
If you want to read accurate material about Rosslyn Chapel and Freemasonry you do need to buy The Rosslyn Hoax? by the Curator of Scottish Freemasonrt (Robert Cooper) who explains what it is all about.
Amazon sell his book. In fact Robert Cooper has another book sold by Amazon called Cracking the Freemasons Code and you can buy them as a special deal from Amazon - I wish had known that earlier I would have save some money!
Neither of the authors of Rosslyn Revealed are Freemasons and I suspect that they are simply jumping on the bandwagon of the Da Vinci Code.
If you want to read accurate material about Rosslyn Chapel and Freemasonry you do need to buy The Rosslyn Hoax? by the Curator of Scottish Freemasonrt (Robert Cooper) who explains what it is all about.
Amazon sell his book. In fact Robert Cooper has another book sold by Amazon called Cracking the Freemasons Code and you can buy them as a special deal from Amazon - I wish had known that earlier I would have save some money!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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"Once again, the facts about Rosslyn Chapel may well prove to be even more extraordinary than the fiction. In the book, Butler and Ritchie write: "Long after interest in The Da Vinci Code has waned, Freemasons from around the world will still be making their way to Rosslyn Chapel. And that is how it should be, because without this extraordinary building Freemasonry would never have existed. Rosslyn Chapel is without any doubt the oldest and most important of all Freemasonic temples."
A NEW book on Rosslyn Chapel recently published contains claims which will shake both the Christian church and Freemasonry. In the first of a two-part series, CLAIRE SMITH discovers how a tiny window has cast fresh light on the chapel's roots.
This new book goes a long way to explain the carvings in this extraordinary building. It is very readable,and takes you on a very enjoyable medieval journey, a rarity among books of covering this subject.. C Forth
A NEW book on Rosslyn Chapel recently published contains claims which will shake both the Christian church and Freemasonry. In the first of a two-part series, CLAIRE SMITH discovers how a tiny window has cast fresh light on the chapel's roots.
This new book goes a long way to explain the carvings in this extraordinary building. It is very readable,and takes you on a very enjoyable medieval journey, a rarity among books of covering this subject.. C Forth
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