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The Templars' Secret Island: The Knights, The Priest And The Treasure (Hardcover)

by Erling Haagensen (Author), Henry Lincoln (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (14 Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1900624370
  • ISBN-13: 978-1900624374
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 593,788 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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For 20 years the shadow of Rennes-le-Chateau and its dubious treasure has brooded over the whole field of 'alternative history', encouraging lunatic theories and stifling rational criticism. But the resultant books were at least entertaining and - almost - believable. The Templars' Secret Island, alas, is neither. The authors claim, and seek to prove, that a group of ancient churches on the tiny, Danish island of Bornholm are set in a geometrical pattern that provides a key to secret knowledge of vast antiquity. And it must be admitted that they present impressive evidence that complex geometric patterns can be overlaid on the sites of these churches. But what does this prove? For the authors the amazing accuracy of these patterns demonstrates the reality of underlying sacred measures and proves a connection with the treasure of the Templars, of Jerusalem, and, of course, of Rennes-le-Chateau. As to the nature of this 'treasure' they are evasive. But how could they be anything else? All that they offer is vague speculation built upon very shaky historical foundations, buttressed all too often by the word 'if'. Much of what they claim about the past, whether it be the early Church, the Knights Templar, medieval learning, religious institutions or Freemasonry, is not undisputed fact but highly contentious opinion. And a wealth of plans, diagrams and colour plates is no substitute for historical proof - nore are 40 pages of detailed calculations relating to their geometrical analysis. All that these pages succeed in doing is to make a mercifully short book far too long, and to convert the mildly dull into the utterly boring. (Kirkus UK)

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The Templars' Secret Island will show many extraordinary links between Bornholm, France and Jerusalem.

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Well researched and inspirational read, 9 May 2001
Having visited Bornholm and met one of the authors just before the book was published whilst researching wider Templar influence in Scandinavia, I can say the book was well worth the wait. The exceptional work done by Haagensen on the sacred geometry and layout of the Bornholm churches is an good example of the way such theories should be presented, backed up with hard academic facts.

There are some ascertains made that I feel are not accurate but then this is still an emerging area of history and takes nothing from the 'story' and exciting discoveries made. All of which add another piece to the most intriguing of all puzzles.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Assured of another great read!, 12 April 2000
By steve@templartreasure.com (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
As a longtime fan of the work of Henry Lincoln (Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Key to the Pattern, Holy Place) I look forward to another great read. Henry Lincoln has for many changed the concept of the past and even the expectations of the future. By unearthing the medieval secrets of the Knights Templar, he has opened a Pandora's Box to a trove of knowlege. The Templars somehow broke the monopoly that the Church and certain secret brotherhoods held over the secrets of the ancients. They too kept the secrets but in a tradition of an ancient elite added new clues, often hidden in plain sight. Now Lincoln and Haagensen break the hold that even these elite sacred groups had. Templar churches in England, in Scotland, in Bornholm, in Portugal are just part of the clues. It is my own theory that the so-called Viking Tower (aka the "Norman Villa") in Rhode Island too may be linked. I eagerly await The Templars Secret Island.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, it truly was a great read, 1 Feb 2001
By Hrorvendel (Copenhagen, DK) - See all my reviews
...even more convincing, less intricate and mysterious than the Rennes-le-Chateau story outlined in the author's (Lincoln) "Key to the Sacred Pattern". Most of these facts, including the two most important, The Templars in Denmark and the Baltic and the incredible accurateness of the placing of the four round churches on the isle of Bornholm, have, of course, been known to historians as well as land surveyers all along, but deliberately put down as romanticism and coincidence bad for the public's mental health. There is an obvious german link to the baltic crusades not gone into in this work, which has found a kind of norwegian counterpart in Harald Sommerstedt Boehlke's: The Norwegian Pentagram, published by Eutopia, Norway.
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