BOOK: The Templar Meridians

I have just finished reading The Templar Meridians for the second time, and thought I would share a brief summary as it’s what’s on my mind…

Like many inventions we now tend to take for granted, cartography was once occulted knowledge. This was especially true in times and places where any assertion against the popular opinion could provoke the ruling authority. More than a handful lost their lives for insisting the world wasn’t flat, or possessing maps which proclaimed too much of the Truth. And even now, with the public very much aware of the world and its geography, there are still secrets.

Long before the time of Christopher Columbus there were startlingly accurate maps of lands that were supposedly undiscovered at the time, that haven’t been above sea level since the end of the last ice age, and that we can only postulate the details of with the assistance of modern technology. These maps illustrate North and South America with an accuracy we’ve only been able to match for 200 years, show islands which haven’t been above sea level since the end of the last ice age, and clearly display the shores of Antarctica free of its thick cap of ice. At least one such map references maps held by Columbus as its source, while another references maps housed in the library of Alexandria before its demise. Yet regardless of the controversies surrounding the maps and their alluded sources, we do know a few things for certain. These ancient cartographers not only knew without a doubt the world was round, they knew its circumference and used spherical trigonometry and corrected northern points to translate the round earth into accurate flat depictions. Also the archaeological evidence itself is that long before Columbus, transatlantic exploration and settlement occurred on a regular basis in the “New World”.

Step outside the reality of our present day and just imagine how Knowledge of a precise ancient meridian as the starting point of a global navigational grid could offer those in the know great powers in terms of trade, resources, and control. Now imagine if this Knowledge hid a grand secret – the New World – and afforded those who were in on the secret the ability to enjoy a seemingly limitless supply of precious and rare metals (namely gold, copper, and titanium) without accountability or the need of record.

According to William F. Mann, author of The Templar Meridians, this grand secret buried within the long-lived vein of occulted mapping Knowledge was precisely the Hidden Treasure of the Templars. The New World was their “King Solomon’s mines” – their private supply of gold and the source of the titanium used to make their swords especially strong and indestructible. While this could at first seem far fetched, the evidence is abundant and Mann’s use of historical records, exhaustive.

What took this from plausible to probable for me is a personal awareness of the many associations between the New World and the “New Jerusalem” historically made by the various occulted Traditions. This would make it easy to juxtapose – or even combine – Truth and lies when the Templars alluded to a secret wealth discovered in Jerusalem, and lend credence to the Baconian allusion of the land of Ophir (home of King Solomon’s legendary mines) sited on the Atlantic coast!