An alternative history of the intellectual world 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...
An alternative history of the intellectual world Since the seventeenth century, science has been contending with philosophy, organised religion and th...
A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not...
A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a f...
Institutions as austere as the Vatican and the CIA, and men such as Churchill and De Gaulle are implicated in this polemical work that links the Holy Grail and Jesus Christ to modern conspiracy theories.
Institutions as austere as the Vatican and the CIA, and men such as Churchill and De Gaulle are implicated in this polemical work that links the Holy ...
