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The Last Templar
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The Last Templar: Book 1

The Last Templar (2005) (edit title/settings)

by Raymond Khoury (Author) (edit contributors)

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In present-day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights stage a bloody raid on the Metropolitan Museum of Art during an exhibit of Vatican treasures. Emerging with a strange geared device, they disappear into the night. What follows is an investigation that will draw an... read more

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  • “I don't want to lose you in this circus”
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  • “Veritas vos liberabit.” The truth will set you free.
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  • Gnosticism—which, like Cathar, is derived from a Greek word, gnosis, meaning higher knowledge or insight—is the belief that man can come into direct and intimate contact with God without the need for a priest or a church. Believing in direct personal contact with God freed the Cathars of all moral prohibition or religious obligations.
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  • the message they conveyed was that to know oneself, at the deepest level, was also to know God—that is, by looking within oneself to find the sources of joy, sorrow, love, and hate, one would find God.”
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  • The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, wasn’t anything like the divine being in the New Testament: in Jefferson’s Bible, there was no virgin birth, no miracles, and no resurrection. Just a man.”
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  • The uncomfortable truth is that none of it appeared until dozens, even hundreds of years after the Crucifixion, and it only became official Church policy at the Council of Nicaea in the year 325. It was like…,” she wavered, “they needed something special, a great hook. And in a time when the supernatural was something most people accepted, then what better than to suggest that the religion you were selling wasn’t named for a humble carpenter but for a divine being who could give you the promise of an immortal afterlife?”
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  • Their doctrine was straightforward: there could be no salvation outside the true Church; its members should be orthodox, which meant “straight thinking”; and the Church should be catholic, which meant “universal.”
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  • these writings—commonly referred to as the Gnostic Gospels—refer to sayings and beliefs of Jesus that are at odds with those of the New Testament.”
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  • Abraham’s wife, Sarah, couldn’t have children, so he took on a second wife, his Arab maidservant Hagar, who gave him a son they called Ishmael. Thirteen years later, Sarah manages to have a son, Isaac. Abraham dies, Sarah banishes Hagar and Ishmael, and the Semitic race is split between Arab and Jew.”
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  • “Faith is easy when you’re standing in front of a miracle. The real test of any faith is when there aren’t any signs.”
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  • “Veritas vos liberabit, remember? It also happens to be a marking on a castle in the Languedoc in the south of France.” He paused. “A Templar castle.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

At first, no one noticed the four horsemen as they emergend out of the darkness of Central Park.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 3 in The Last Templar. (standard series)

Followed by The Templar Salvation.

This book is in New York Times Bestseller. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Raymond Khoury (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Ziji Publishing
Country: England
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0715634410
Page Count: 388

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Books That Influenced This Book edit see section history

   
  • The Knights Templar
  • Rain Fall
  • The Thomas Jefferson Bible
  • Hard Rain

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