The Templars and the Assassins by James Wasserman - 9780892818594

The Templars and the AssassinsThe Militia of Heaven\nAuthor(s): James Wasserman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company, United States\nImprint: Destiny Books,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780892818594, 978-0892818594\nSynopsis\nA thousand years ago Christian battled Muslim for possession of a strip of land upon which both their religions were founded. These Crusades changed the course of Western history, but less known is the fact that they also were the meeting ground for two legendary secret societies: The Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins. In The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven, occult scholar and secret society member James Wasserman provides compelling evidence that the interaction of the Knights Templar and the Assassins in the Holy Land transformed the Templars from the Pope's private army into a true occult society, from which they would sow the seeds of the Renaissance and the Western Mystery Tradition. Both orders wer.