Guardians of the Grail ....and the men who plan to rule the world! Paperback – September, 1989

I found "Guardians.." to be very fascinating and a must read for anyone who wants to protect their freedom. It is a stepping stone to understanding policies/procedures that affect our health, wealth and very lives today. These people are real and they are very busy behind the scenes and only a few committed crusaders are bold enough to give us the truth. It is well written, the research is sound and I couldn't put it down. I couldn't sleep either. Read it.

Rating System:
1 star = abysmal; some books deserve to be forgotten
2 star = poor; a total waste of time
3 star = good; worth the effort
4 star = very good; what writing should be
5 star = fantastic; must own it and share it with others
SYNOPSIS: From back cover..."Guardians of the Grail tells of secret political combines, intrigues, and wars preparing mankind for the antichrist.
MY FEEDBACK:
1) The historical information presented here is just mind-blowing. I'm an avid reader of sci-fi and fantasy but this has taken the cake. Life is truly stranger than fiction! For this reason alone I couldn't put the book down. It was all just too fantastic to think that "grown adults" could believe and propagate those beliefs in others for centuries.
2) At several points I got lost. With the truck load of historical facts presented, there was some jumping around. This lost me and I had to work extra hard at figuring out what and when the author was talking about.
3) At several points I felt the author was rehashing what he had already explained. I was asking myself, "Why are we covering this again? Just to fill pages?"
OVERALL: Even though this book is dated (copyright 1989), the information provided within is just staggering especially in what we've seen in world events since that time. Just phenomenal. Read it.

the background and research alone are worth reading this book for. i learned so much about history that i never knew. it was a fantastic book for that alone. he untangels some of the greatest cults of all time, and then traces them back to their roots. then ties it all together in the end. more like a great detective after the truth than a writer of theology. and in the end he's both. great stuff!

One of my many favorite eschatological resources is found in Prophecy in the News led by J. R. Church and Gary Stearman. This book has become one of the addendums I utilize as a complimentary reference for the last days. Consequently, I gained awareness on the particular historical origins to present issues and conflicts and now understand how they have and will come in to play for prophecy fulfillment.

Merovingian bloodline, great book to read I am glad to have this have added this book to my collection.

This book is very interesting with it's peculiar views on a myriad of "prophetic" subjects.
The author does state that some things are "merely conjecture" but then procedes to write about them as if they were factual.

Like I said, interesting and fascinating.
Especially these days...

Although I feel the author borrowed too heavily from "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," it is still a good book on the subject. I am a Christian and especially liked that it was written from a Christian perspective. It is written in a flowing style that is easy to follow. I would recommend it for someone who is new to the subject. However, if you've already read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," I would skip it because the information won't be new to you.

Most of the chapters in this book footnote back to a source book by Michael Baigent called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.This book was later found to be a complete fraud, which was used by Dan Brown for the thriller "the DaVinci Code" which pulls a lot of the same stuff from it. In this book unlike Dan Brown's DaVinci Code the so called bloodline that was "guarded" by the Knights Templar is the bloodline of the Anti Christ.

Both books reference the "Priory of Sion" which is another related fraud. Pierre Plantard managed to pull that one off in France in 1956.

Quoting from Wikipedia's current posting on that fraudulent secret society "Evidence presented in support of its historical existence and activities before 1956 was discovered to have been forged and then planted in various locations around France by Plantard and his accomplices. Nevertheless, many conspiracy theorists still persist in believing that the Priory of Sion is an age-old cabal that conceals a subversive secret.[5]

The Priory of Sion myth has been exhaustively debunked by journalists and scholars as one of the great hoaxes of the 20th century.[6] Some skeptics have expressed concern that the proliferation and popularity of books, websites and films inspired by this hoax have contributed to the problem of conspiracy theories, pseudohistory and other confusions becoming more mainstream.[7] Others are troubled by the romantic reactionary ideology unwittingly promoted in these works.[8]"

This book is one of the ones that took that fraud and swallowed it whole.

There are things to concern Christians, but this is not one of them. It puts doubt on everything else this man wrote, if this author was so careless in his research.

As a fun read into the tin foil hat crowd, it isn't really that good either. Dan Brown's later book was much more fun to read in the breathless conspiracy genre.