The Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonry - Softcover

Knight, Christopher; Lomas, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862046476 ISBN 13: 9781862046474

Publisher: Element Books Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Is the Shroud of Turin genuine? For almost seven and a half centuries a piece of cloth was venerated because it bore the image of the crucified Christ, but in 1988 results of carbon dating showed that the fabric could not pre-date 1260. Now new evidence conclusively proves that it is not a fake...yet neither is it the image of Jesus Christ. Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas have been able to identify precisely where and when the shroud came into existence and to name the people involved. Using the latest scientific techniques they explain the strange molecular chemistry that created this unique artefact. In solving the riddle of the shroud this book unravels a far deeper mystery: how this medieval artefact links directly to Jesus.

About this title

From the Author:

Correction to one review
Its really exciting to read other people's opinions on work that has taken Robert Lomas and myself a joint 18 years. It feels good to hear that we have had an impact on people and some points of critisism are helpful. I would like to correct one comment which suggests that our central thesis rests on the verbal evidence of an unknown Frenchman. This is not true. We finally found documentary evidence in the original versions of old Masonic rituals. They are about as solid as any historical evidence gets.

About the Author:

Christopher Knight has a degree in advertising and graphic design and is the managing director of a marketing and advertising agency. In 1976 he became a Freemason.Robert Lomas is the co-author of The Hiram Key, The Second Messiah, and Uriel's Machine. A Freemason, he lectures at Bradford University in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Element Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1862046476
• ISBN 13: 9781862046474
• Binding: Paperback