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JUNE — JULY 2007 @ REVIEWS bolstered by opportunistic buccaneers from rom the New Kingdom and the Third B oO oO K S the Mediterranean to the Caribbean. Intermediate Period. But not only does his ; Frers traces the influence of the remnant NC offer an historical timeline for the Old Reviewed by Ruth Parnell Templars in the expeditions of Christopher Testament narratives, it places the Heroic THE TEMPLAR PIRATES: The Secret Columbus, Francis Drake and Walter legends in their proper context. Alliance to Build the New Jerusalem Raleigh as well as French Huguenot bucca- The scene begins in the second millennium by Ernesto Frers neers who started their own libertarian BC, following a catastrophe and subsequent Destiny Books, Rochester, VT, USA, 2007 brotherhood. The pirate knights and their amine that destroyed many Middle Eastern brothers also influenced the rise of the revo- _ cities and ended the Early Bronze Age. It's (pub. in Spanish as Piratas y Templarios, lutionary movements in France and America __ the time when Indo-European-speaking Ediciones Robinbook, Barcelona, 2005) . AG. along with the growth of Freemasonry, four _ tribes from the north, who became the Ienlabhe hi Theat Bee ee ks com of whose members—Franklin, Jefferson, Hittites and the later founders of the Greek, » Att: . y " Adams and Paine—helped to write the US Persian and Roman empires, began their iracy has been around for as long as sea- faring and has played its part in the unfolding of history since four millennia ago Declaration of Independence. These are fas- invasions of Mesopotamia and Egypt, thus cinating undercurrents with occult offshoots _ creating a three-way struggle. Starting with aA i" which Frers brings to light, and they present —_ the Hyksos who ruled in Avaris in the Nile when Egyptian and Phoenician cargo ships a different picture from "official" history. Delta, Rohl takes the reader on an epic jour- were first targeted. In the sixth century BC, ney through 2,000 years of history, ending it became an organised method of plunder- THE LORDS OF AVARIS: Uncovering _ with the foundation of Rome by the Trojan es im the Ace eant on Meditercneon ooh the Legendary Origins of Western hero Aeneas. On the way, among other This is the launching point for mediaeval Civilisation events he explains the sudden appearance of historian Ernesto Frers, but his prime inter- | by David Rohl the Etruscans in Hesperia (Italy). Rohl's. est here is in the role of the Knights Century, London, UK, 2007 superbly illustrated book complements his Templar. The Norman Templar king Roger SBN 1-7126-7762-3 (524pp hc) richly detailed text. A tour de force. II of Sicily was the first to fly the so-called Available: see www.randomhouse.co.uk Jolly Roger flag (the skull and crossbones) lhe origins of Western civilisation are tra- in defiance of the pope in 1127, but it was ditionally sourced in Classical Greece not until their excommunication by Pope and Rome, cultures that are traceable to the Clement V in 1307 that the Templars turned — Heroic Age of ancient Minoan Crete, to maritime piracy in a big way. This was Mycenaean Greece and Trojan Anatolia after they received a tip-off ahead of a raid (Turkey). But what if the myths of mino- by French king Philip IV's troops and decid- _taurs and labyrinths, Trojan warriors and ed to flee their port of La Rochelle. Their Cyclopean citadels were not just the stuff of divided fleet headed for disparate destina- Homeric legend but historical narratives? tions: Portugal, Scotland and the New Archaeologist David Rohl (The Lost World, where, later, with Henry Sinclair's Testament, NEXUS 10/02) has managed to backing, they established colonies ina bid to _ bring these myths to life by applying the build a New Jerusalem, free of papist con- same New Chronology (NC) he proposed in trol. Indeed, the Templars' piracy for hun- is 1995 book A Test of Time, which gives a dreds of years was part of their secret war radical down-dating of Egyptian history by against the Holy See, and their efforts were deleting three centuries of "artificial time" NEXUS = 67 www.nexusmagazine.com