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72 * NEXUS & REVIEWS THE HUNT FOR ZERO POINT wonder whether the rumours are true: that overseas and underground by the time of by Nick Cook the US really does have a vehicle that can their excommunication in 1311, even though Century, UK, 2001 get to the Moon and back on one tank of they'd discovered the secrets of Solomon ISBN 0-7126-69531 (285pp hc); 0-0994- fuel. 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This a ey - Unlimited, tel (815) 253 6300; Canada— could have been a much bigger book, but its ure Recher wea oO OS eats ang mura ka i imagination to realise that the scientists je Wasserman has assembled here a authority that comes from a life steeped in smuggled out of Germany via the ratlines in vital history from the point of view of the _¢soterica and a commitment to communica- Operation Paperclip had a whole new future "Vanquished" rather than the "victorious". tion and, ultimately, transformation. ahead of them in America, not just in rocket His focus is on those two great, but opposed, science. Or to understand why the Nazis religious orders: the Knights Templars of were so keen to apply Viktor Schauberger's the Christian world, and the Assassins of the vortex discoveries. Or why T. Townsend Islamic. It seems hard to believe that two Brown's antigravity propulsion patents were Such great occult warrior orders could be of so much interest to the US military. destroyed and declared heretical, but 700- Cook has pulled some captivating details odd years ago and more it happened—yet out of the quagmire of American, German their flames have been kept burning. and Russian secret history, and draws on his Both groups are still alive and well, considerable resources in the military avia- Wasserman insists, if not somewhat under- tion field. The light he sheds on the devel- stated; the latter, better known as the Nizari opment of the "Stealth" aircraft, announced _Ismailis, continue to flourish under the lead- as it was 20-odd years after its development, _ ership of the Aga Khan, though they met and other more recent ultra-high-tech their official demise at the hands of the "black" craft which we sometimes see as Mongolians in 1256 and the Mamelukes in they traverse the sky in a blink, makes you 1273. The Knights Templars had to go wonder whether the rumours are true: that the US really does have a vehicle that can get to the Moon and back on one tank of fuel. Cook didn't intend to get caught up in UFOs along the way, but for this exposé he's necessarily had to enter this zone. overseas and underground by the time of their excommunication in 1311, even though they'd discovered the secrets of Solomon and acted as the Pope's private guards. Wasserman fills in some of the details of the background to the ongoing Western eso- teric tradition, taking in all eight crusades including the role of the Cathars. These mediaeval battles still reverberate today in the Middle/Near East. The same sects instrumental in persecuting these orders are alive and well today. How the worm turns! In the final part of The Templars and The Assassins, Wasserman (a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis) traces the path of the mysteries to today, taking in the Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Grail mythology, Renaissance Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Crowleyism, the infamous Temple of Set in just two sentences, and much more. This could have been a much bigger book, but its import is enormous as it is, written with an authority that comes from a life steeped in esoterica and a commitment to communica- tion and, ultimately, transformation. www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER —- NOVEMBER 2001