Born in blood: the lost secrets of freemasonry

Part 1: The Knights Templar

The urge to kill

"For now is tyme to be war"

"Whether justly or out of hate"

"First, and above all ... the destruction of the Hospitallers"

The Knights of the Temple

The last Grand Master

"The Hammer of the Scots"

Four vicars of Christ

"Spare no known means of torture"

"No violent effusions of blood"

Men on the run

Part 2: The Freemasons

The birth of the Grand Lodge

In search of the Medieval Guilds

"To have my throat cut across"

"My breast torn open, my heart plucked out"

The master Mason

Mystery in language

Mystery in allegory and symbols

Mystery in bloody oaths

Mystery in religious convictions

Evidence in the Legend of Hiram Abiff

Monks into Masons

The Protestant pendulum

The manufactured mysteries

The unfinished Temple of Solomon

Appendix: "Humanum Genus."