Publisher's Synopsis
The obelisk of Concord in Paris, the Great Seal of the United States that presides over the dollar bill, and the statue of the Fallen Angel in Madrid. What do they have in common? Secret societies have encoded their mysteries in plain sight in modern cities, leaving a silent testimony to their past and present power. This book will provide you with the key to understand many of its mysteries, its secret handshakes, its symbols and all the mysteries of the Masonic craft. Alberto Leon Cebrian addresses this and other questions in a historical study on the origin of Freemasonry, and its influence on the great revolutions from the 18th century; the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the failed Bavarian Illuminati revolution. Is it true that most of the founding fathers of the United States were Freemasons? Which of its presidents are Freemasons? Was the French Revolution a revolution of enlightened philosophers or of enlightened masons? Did Adam Weishaupt and the Bavarian Illuminati really exist? The work traces a matrix of relationships between Freemasonry and most of the secret societies existing today, and delves into their surprising links with the Catholic Church: the stonemasons who built the great cathedrals, the Jesuits and the Templars. Masonic and Illuminated is also a work that immerses itself in the history of religions and that widely transcends Freemasonry. Pre-Jehovic, Babylonian, Solar, Hellenistic, Gnostic and Luciferian cults. A book that will challenge all the paradigms of the reader.
