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Under
the Eye
A wee bitty less than 25 years ago
Rosslyn Chapel entered popular culture as
being in some way connected with
Freemasonry. Since then there has
been a huge amount of material written about
Rosslyn Chapel and associated
subjects such as the
Knights Templar and the St. Clair family. The novel The Da Vinci Code is
the fictional culmination, in popular culture at least, of that
process. The book: The Rosslyn Hoax? re-visits the origins of
these modern interpretations of
Rosslyn Chapel,
Freemasonry and the
Knights Templar etc. in an effort to understand the phenomenon
that reached its zenith with the release of The Da Vinci
Code the movie on 19th May 2006. The release of the DVD (16th
October in UK) will certainly rekindle interest.
Nearly all these books, movies and articles discuss and advance
theories, speculate on 'meanings' (often described as 'hidden') and
make suggestions as to what
'the' treasure actually is and where it might be found.
Almost without exception all these musings accept without question that
Freemasonry is a single 'entity' and which takes exactly the
same throughout the world. However, this is not the case and certainly is not in respect
of Scotland. The Rosslyn Hoax? examines all of these theories, the
physical sites
(particularly
Rosslyn Chapel
and the Kirkwall Scroll) which are mentioned in these
publications but does so from an entirely new and unique perspective - from the point
of view of
Scottish Freemasonry.
This has never been done before.
Written by the Curator of
the
Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum and Library,
Robert L D Cooper,
the insights he is able to provide are unparalleled. He has
previously written
on various aspects of
Freemasonry and in this book he discusses
Masonic material and documents not generally available except in
a few Masonic specialist libraries.
For an image of
The Rosslyn Hoax? book cover and publication details
click here or the previous link.
For a discussion
about the contents of the book
click here or on the previous link.
To read some information about the the author,
Robert Cooper,
on the previous link or
click here.
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