{"title":"Ernesto Frers","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"templar-pirates-book-ernesto-frers-9781594771460","title":"The Templar Pirates","description":"The maritime history of the Knights Templar following the Church's attempt to expunge them in southern France \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Shows that the pirates of legend originated with the Knights Templar's secret navy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Reveals the Templars' secret objective to establish a new universal order based on spirituality, wisdom, and individualism--the New Jerusalem \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Examines the secret history of the Templars' influence in international politics \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the Vatican condemned the Order of the Temple in 1312, many of those who escaped took to the sea. Their immediate objective was to take revenge on the Church. Recent discoveries confirm that ships of the Templar fleet that went missing at La Rochelle later reappeared--first in the Mediterranean and later in the Atlantic and Caribbean--to menace the Church's maritime commerce. These Templar vessels often flew the famed Jolly Roger, which took its name from King Roger I of Sicily, a famed Templar who, during a public spat with the Pope in 1127, was the first to fly this flag. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOpportunistic buccaneers were quick to see that vast wealth could be gained in pursuing the Templars' harassment of the Pope's interests on the high seas, and they spread a reign of terror across the shipping lanes of the New World. Some unaffiliated pirates, in admiration of the Templar egalitarian ideals, even formed their own secret societies, and together with the Templars were part of the ferment that gave rise to independence movements in France and the New World and contributed to the growth of Freemasonry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Templar Pirates\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the birth and actual conduct of piracy on the seas of the New World and of the influence the Templars had on their constituents, and, by their wealth, on the governments of nations old and new.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49557261517073,"sku":"GOR002701082","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50588893348113,"sku":"GOR011191444","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51417492291857,"sku":"CIN1594771464VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52323757130001,"sku":"CIN1594771464G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1594771464.jpg?v=1751426209"},{"product_id":"secret-societies-and-the-hermetic-code-book-ernesto-frers-9781594772085","title":"Secret Societies and the Hermetic Code","description":"A look into secrets hidden in music, painting, sculpture, and architecture \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Ranges from paintings of Byzantine icons to Salvador Dali, music from Mozart to Satanic Rock, and mystery sites from the Pyramids to Andrea Palladio's Villa Cornaro \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Includes more than 100 color and black-and-white images that reveal the mysteries contained in these artistic works \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSecret Societies and the Hermetic Code\u003c\/i\u003e, Ernesto Frers presents a virtual museum of artistic works that contain occult secrets. The scope of his research ranges from the paintings of Byzantine icons to Salvador Dali, from mystery sites such as the Pyramids to the architecture of Andrea Palladio's Villa Cornaro. He also discusses the hermetic influence on music evidenced in the works of Mozart through to the modern era of rock and roll. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrers explains that all cultures encode in their architecture, art, and music the instructions and diagram of their esoteric ritual and faith. He shows how during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Church's severe censure of anything antithetical to its dogma forced artists to conceal mystical references within the religious images or scenes they depicted. By examining works that have not received such scrutiny before, including those of Titian, di Cosimo, Botticelli, and Rembrandt, Frers brings to light the symbols and cryptic messages hidden in these masterworks. 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