good book,
I read it with much interest!
So many secrets!
Jan.

I was led to believe that this would be an intellectual, academic and honest work on the topic. Instead, I suffered through wild and unfounded religious assumptions, the poorest linguistic analysis I have ever seen (save perhaps in the Da Vinci Code), endless historical inaccuracies and downright dishonesty. The sources for this are shaky at best and the whole thing lacks any kind of credible academic seriousness.

There are a few facts in the book and the psychological analysis of why people join secret societies is interesting, however these things are tied together with inaccurate historical information, mistranslations and sources of such dubious quality that it begins to rival the Da Vinci Code in its outlandishness.

As a serious scholar, I am very disappointed. This book should be sold as fiction.