Reviews for Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars

The average rating for Mysteries and Secrets of the Templars based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-24 00:00:00 Marvin Washington Almost entirely free of content, this book is mostly a list of speculative, rambling questions with never any sort of answer. In other words, there are lots of mysteries, but no secrets. A couple of quick paraphrases will summarize 90% of the text. A and B both lived in the south of France in the 12th century. Therefore, it is almost certain that they met and shared all their secrets. So and so went to Egypt. Is it possible that while there he learned all of Eqypt's ancient mysteries? Many times I had to re-read a paragraph to try and discover how a discussion of one thing became a conclusion or speculation about something else. There would never be a connection, just a giant preposterous leap. The authors try to mine the premise that the Templars are just one link in a chain of guardians and list other links as being almost everyone throughout history who is famous, Alexander the great, Charlemagne, etc. Much cherry-picking goes on to support this view: Alexander's great successes are mentioned, his early death and immediate reversals are not. There are genuine mysteries in the world, like the Oak Island "money pit", yet this book adds nothing to the discussion. Too bad. I usually enjoy books like this one; perhaps I have read too many of them.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-11-10 00:00:00 Ann Rose On the whole an interesting read.