Richard Leigh

This text presents a full history of the inquisition, beginning with St Dominic crossing the Pyrenees into Spain and the persecution of the villagers of South-West France that followed, right through to the holy index of forbidden books in the 20th century.

Coauthors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh recount the events that led to the strange and sudden disappearance of the Knights Templar in the fourteenth century and their reappearance in the court of excommunicate Scottish king Robert the Bruce. Following the survival of certain unexpected Templar traditions, the authors document the evolution of a world-changing order through the birth of the Masonic lodge. They chart the history of Freemasonry through its medieval roots and into the modern era. The book posits that the orders contribution to the fostering of tolerance, progressive values, and cohesion in English society aided in preempting a French-style revolution in England; that Freemasonry was an essential keystone in the formation of the United States; and that America itself is an embodiment of the ideal Masonic Republic. This groundbreaking thread of analysis challenges the accepted traditions of Western history as it is currently taught. What is the true source of our most valued traditions? Twenty years since its original publication, The Temple and the Lodge remains a trenchant and essential edition to any collection of Western history.

Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? Is it possible that Christ did not die on the cross? Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets in Christendom? Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail?According to the authors of this extraordinary provocative, meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible - they are probably true! So revolutionary, so original, so convincing, that most faithful Christians will be moved; here is the book that has sparked worldwide controversy and promises to be the most talked about book of the decade.The author demonstrates the link between mysticism, occultism and the Freemasons and shows how they are cooperating, and have been for years, to produce the New World Order and its man, Antichrist.

Since the seventeenth century, science has been contending with philosophy, organised religion and the arts for domination over Western civilisation and society. By the middle of the twentieth century, the battle appeared to be won; scientific rationalism and scepticism were triumphant. Yet in the last few decades a strong and potent counter-current has emerged. One manifestation of this has been the so-called occult revival. In the Elixir and the Stone, Baigent and Leigh argue that this occult revival - and indeed the entire revolution in attitudes which has taken place recently - owes a profound debt to Hermeticism, a body of esoteric teaching which flourished in Alexandria two thousand years ago and which then went underground. The authors trace the history of this intriguing and all-encompassing philosophy - which has much in common with contemporary holistic thought - charting its origin in the Egyptian mysteries, and demonstrating how it continued to exercise enormous influence through the magicians and magi of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Many remarkable characters feature in the narrative, including the Franciscan friar Roger Bacon and the Elizabethan magus John Dee; prototype of Shakespeares Prospero in The Tempest, but he central figure that emerges is that of Faust himself - one of the defining myths of Western civilisation. The Elixir and the Stone is a remarkably rich and ambitious book that adds up to a little short of an alternative history of the intellectual world. Perhaps for the first time it puts into their true context those shadowy alchemists and magicians who have haunted the imaginations of people for centuries. Moreover it offers a way of looking at the world that is in one sense alternative, but, in another, deeply historical.

After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk - later canonized as St Dominic - took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy - thus began the infamous Inquisition. Baigent and Leigh tell the whole extraordinary story, taking it on into the nineteenth century and showing how after the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility in 1870 the Vatican attempted to establish new authorities that were an intellectual equivalent of the Inquisition. The Inquisition offers a fascinating narrative account of one of the most influential and horrifying movements in the history of western Europe.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem in 1947 and 1956. Now Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, co-authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, have succeeded in uncovering what has been described as the academic scandal par excellence of the twentieth century: the story of how and why up to 75 per cent of the eight hundred ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, hidden for some nineteen centuries, have, until very recently, remained concealed from the rest of the world. Through interviews, historical analysis and a close study of both published and unpublished scroll material, the authors are able to reveal the true cause of the bitter struggle between scholars, for these documents disclose nothing less than a new account of the origins of Christianity and an alternative and highly significant version of the New Testament.

At thirty-seven, Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, Chief of Staff of the Reich Reserve Army, was a charismatic figure destined for supreme command. The group of conspirators with whom he conceived the plot to kill Hitler in July 1944 was called Secret Germany. That was also the name of the esoteric circle in which Stauffenberg as a young man had been a disciple of the mystic anti-Nazi magus and poet Stefan George. What was it that motivated this extraordinary aristocratic soldier, with the looks of a Hollywood idol, who was said to be the only man to stare the Fuhrer down until he averted his eyes? For Stauffenberg, the bomb plot was not a political move but a moral and spiritual necessity. After forty-two serious attempts on Hitlers life in the previous twenty years, why did he too fail? Had he succeeded, some say he would have become the de Gaulle of Germany, saviour of the nation soul. Even in failure, there can be no doubt of Stauffenbergs heroism. He stands as atonement for the Third Reich and a resolution of the conflicting myths of German culture. In this remarkable investigation, his whole life explains a troubled past to the present generation of Europeans as few have done in recent history.

In this enthralling historical detective story, the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail trace the flight after 1309 of the Knights Templar from Europe to Scotland, where the Templar heritage was to take root, and would be perpetuated by a network of noble families. That heritage, and the Freemasonry that arose from it, became inseparable from the Stuart cause. The Temple and the Lodge charts the birth of Freemasonry through the survival of Templar traditions, through currents of European thought, through the mystery surrounding Rosslyn chapel, and through an elite cadre of aristocrats attached as personal bodyguards to the French king. Pursuing Freemasonry through the 17th and 18th Centuries, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh reveal its contribution to the fostering of tolerance, progressive values, and cohesion in English society, which helped to pre-empt a French-style revolution. Even more dramatically, the influence of Freemasonry emerges as key facto in the formation of the United States of America as an embodiment of the ideal Masonic Republic.

Bestseller internacional que desvela secretos sobre el santo grial, la orden de Sión, los templarios, los cátaros, los francmasones y JesucristoJesús no murió en la cruz, se casó con Magdalena y su descendencia perdura hasta nuestros dias. Estas sorprendentes revelaciones y muchas otras relacionadas con temas como el Evangelio, los templarios y el Grial son algunas de las revolucionarias conclusiones de esta polemica obra. En sus paginas, los investigadores Lincoln, Baigent y Leigh plasman los resultados de años de ardua labor de investigacion. Pergaminos cifrados, sociedades secretas, caballeros templarios e historias sobre herejes cataros y un antiguo linaje real frances, dibujan una nueva version del origen del cristianismo y la identidad tanto del propio Jesucristo como de sus descendientes. El enigma sagrado es un destacado bestseller internacional y, como bien dice el investigador Juan G. Atienza en el prologo a esta edicion, abre "la puerta para que pisemos sin miedo las losas de un secreto de siglos, el Secreto por excelencia de esa que llamamos la civilizacion occidental".

La esperada continuación del bestseller El enigma sagradoEl legado mesiánicoácontinúa la polemica abierta con la sorprendente tesis del bestseller El enigma sagrado: Jesús no murió en la cruz, estaba casado y su viuda, Magdalena, huyo con sus hijos a Francia, donde sus descendientes se casaron con descendientes de la familia real de los francos, dando origen a un linaje que se ha conservado hasta hoyTras varios años de investigacion, los mismos autores se cuestionan los origenes y la expansion del pensamiento cristiano primitivo para dibujar una imagen del Mesias totalmente opuesta a la que nos ha llegado filtrada a traves de los siglos por la tradicion cristiana. ¿Hubo mas de un Cristo? ¿Fueron sus discipulos realmente tan pacificos como se ha creido tradicionalmente?Esta obra analiza tambien la escurridiza sociedad secreta de los "guardianes del Santo Grial" o Priorato de Sion. ¿Que hace actualmente el Priorato? ¿Cual es su poder? ¿Que recursos maneja? ¿Quienes son sus miembros? ¿Que extrañas conexiones existen entre esta sociedad y Juan Pablo II?Una insolita investigacion detectivesca de nuestro pasado mezclada con una narracion periodistica del presente que nos hara plantearnos si existe una conspiracion

Una investigación sobre la historia de la masonería que analiza la desaparición de los templarios. A la venta el 14 de Abril.¿Existió realmente algún vínculo entre las ceremonias de iniciación de templarios y masones? ¿Hasta que punto estos ultimos heredaron del Temple sus secretos mejor guardados? ¿Es mera casualidad que ambas organizaciones hayan sido duramente perseguidas por la Iglesia de Roma? Michael Baigent y Richard Leigh, coautores del bestseller internacional El enigma sagrado y de su continuacion El legado mesianico, muestran por primera vez en Masones y templarios los estrechos lazos que emparentan a ambas instituciones y la enorme influencia que tuvo en ello el rey escoces Roberto I.Los autores demuestran que la masoneria moderna, ademas de ser un pilar clave en la fundacion de los Estados Unidos de America, ha preservado hasta nuestros dias pistas fundamentales para entender que hizo tan poderosos a los caballeros del Temple en la Edad Media y por que el rey de Francia y el papa pusieron tanto empeño en borrarlos de la faz de la Historia.Una profunda investigacion sobre la historia de la masoneria que analiza la desaparicion de los templarios.

El estudio de los manuscritos del mar Muerto estuvo rodeado por un escándalo sin precedentes: la Iglesia católica se sirvió de todos los métodos a su alcance para mantenerlos ocultos. Estos textos arrojan luz sobre el crucial y convulso periodo historico que envolvio la vida de Jesus y el nacimiento del cristianismo. ¿Esconden estos ochocientos rollos en hebreo y arameo historias capaces de hacer temblar los cimientos de la ortodoxia catolica?

De los autores de los bestsellers El enigma sagrado y El legado mesiánico. ¿Existió algún nexo entre las ceremonias de iniciación de templarios y masones? ¿Heredaron los masones los secretos mejor guardados del Temple? ¿Por que la Iglesia de Roma ha perseguido a ambas organizaciones? Una apasionante obra que demuestra el estrecho vinculo entre estas dos instituciones.

De los autores de El enigma sagrado y El legado mesiánico. El estudio de los manuscritos del mar Muerto estuvo rodeado por un escándalo sin precedentes: la Iglesia católica se srivió de todos los métodos a su alcance para mantenerlos ocultos. ¿Esconden estos ochocientos rollos escritos en arameo y hebreo historias capaces de hacer temblar los cimientos de la ortodoxia catolica?

Stauffenberg y la verdadera historia de la Operación Valquiria.Tras el bestseller de El enigma sagrado, Baigent y Leigh proponen el estudio del Secret Germany, complot liderado por Claus von Stauffenberg para matar a Hitler. Claus von Stauffenberg, un joven aristocrata aleman con aspecto de estrella de Hollywood, encabezara el complot mas importante para acabar con la vida del Fuhrer. A su grupo de conspiradores les dara el nombre de Secret Germany, el mismo nombre con que el controvertido poeta aleman Stefan George denominaba a su grupo esoterico de seguidores. ¿Cuales eran los motivos de este soldado aristocratico para actuar del modo en que lo hizo? Segun los autores, Stauffenberg consid eraba que la conspiracion contra Hitler estaba motivada por mas razones que la meramente politica; era una necesidad espiritual y moral. Pero ¿por que fallaron? Este trabajo de Baigent y Leigh no es una simple obra de incalculable valor historico, sino tambien insustituible y necesaria.Una interesante y exhaustiva investigacion sobre el atentado que intento acabar con la vida de Hitler de la mano de Michael Baigent y Richard Leigh, dos historiadores de prestigio con un gran numero de bestsellers a sus espaldas, como El enigma sagrado, La conspiracion del mar Muerto o El legado mesianico.