The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar: Solving the Oak Island Mystery | 
| Author: Steven Sora
Publisher: Destiny Books
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0892817100
Dewey Decimal Number: 971.623
EAN: 9780892817108
ASIN: 0892817100
Publication Date: February 1, 1999
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When the Order of Knights Templar was destroyed in 1307, the secret society supposedly had vast wealth that was rumored to include the genealogies of David and Jesus and other religious artifacts as well as your run-of-the-mill gold and jewels. Over 200 years ago, the site of an elaborate vault was discovered by three teenagers on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, which was determined to have been built sometime between the 14th and 16th centuries. Author Steven Sora has been investigating both the Order and the vault for over 17 years, and The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar details his fascinating theory of where the Templar's hoard went and what is buried under Oak Island. If you enjoy real-life mystery, the intrigues of secret societies, or thoughtfully researched revisionist history, this one's for you. --P. Randall Cohan
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A compelling argument that connects the lost treasure of the Knights Templar to the mysterious money pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, that has baffled treasure hunters for two centuriesa Fascinating occult detective work linking the Cathars, the Scottish Masons, and Renne-le-Chateau to the elusive treasure pit on Oak Island a Draws on new evidence recently unearthed in Italy, France, and Scotland to provide a compelling solution to one of the world's most enduring mysteries When the Order of Knights Templar was ruthlessly dissolved in 1307 by King Philip the Fair of France it possessed immense wealth and political power, yet none of the treasure the Templars amassed has ever been found. Their treasure is rumored to contain artifacts of spiritual significance retrieved by the order during the Crusades, including the genealogies of David and Jesus and documents that trace these bloodlines into the royal bloodlines of Merovingian France. Placing a Scottish presence in the New World a century before Columbus, Steven Sora paints a credible scenario that has the Sinclair clan of Scotland transporting the wealth of the Templars--entrusted to them as the Masonic heirs of the order--to a remote island off the shores of present-day Nova Scotia. The mysterious money pit there is commonly believed to have been built before 1497 and has guarded its secret contents tenaciously despite two centuries of determined efforts to unearth it. All of these efforts (one even financed by American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt) have failed, thanks to an elaborate system of booby traps, false beaches, hidden drains, and other hazards of remarkable ingenuity and technological complexity.
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 A LETDOWN! Speculative! More of a "Conspiracy Theory" April 28, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a bit of a stretch if you are looking for FACTS.
It is more of a hodge-podge of fact and fiction leaving the reader with a convoluted mess that is hard to pick through. Speculation abounds and creative license is plentiful in this work.
Although an entertaining read, it presents many very interesting opinions, there are not supportive texts, archeological finds or historical proofs.
Please do enjoy if you are looking for fantasy, historical fiction or could-have-been storylines, but this book is NOT FACT as it is advertised.
If taken as a work of FICTION, this is a fairly good read, but as advertised, it is a poor excuse for history.
So, It would be an average read as fiction, but must be marked down a little due to the fact that it is purported to be fact. This is how I arrive at a 2 out of 5.
 Lost Treasure a great find as is Swords at Sunset January 14, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Carefully researched and thought-provoking, The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar offers compelling evidence that the Holy Grail was spirited to North America - more specifically Oak Island in Canada. As such, it should really be read alongside Swords at Sunset by Michael Bradley, as Bradley's book establishes that the Holy Grail was and perhaps still is in Niagara, Ontario and Quebec and Vermont along with much of the Atlantic seaboard. This alone is a compelling reason to read this remarkable book. Also, I've come across a number of reviews suggesting Swords at Sunset be read in tandem with The Da Vinci Code. Now I understand why. I had the pleasure of reading this remarkable book recently and was captivated by Bradley's well framed argument that the Knights Templar brought Holy Grail refugess, descendents of Jesus, to North America long before Columbus ever set foot here. Then I learned that Bradley was a researcher behind the Da Vinci Code movie. The Da Vinci Code book and movie are both highly enjoyable. But what's really fascinating is Bradley's non-fiction book putting the Grail in Canada and the United States centuries ago. I learned a great deal. You should also check out Bradley's great new Grail novel The Magdalene Mandala. All of these books are highly recommended for anyone interested in the Holy Grail.
 The Knights Templar November 23, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I put off reading about the KT's involvement with the Oak Island mystery simply because it is a path whose foot steps are difficult to verify never mind follow. Historically steep. So how does Sora do it? I found it to be an enjoyable read, fact filled and well written. How would anyone verify what he is saying or rather the facts he presents? To take his books contents on face value would be to say whats buried on Oak Island is KT related. I reccommend it to any Oak Island enthusiast as its an important angle to the Oak Island mystery needed to be understood. If you're a skeptic I would buy it so you can have something else to poo poo about..Oh what a minute one of the skeptics already has written a review poo poing the book...good for you!
Scottish Masons Hid Templar Treasures at Oak Island in Pre-Columbian Times July 18, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
That about sums up the author's thesis; the rest of the book is a poorly edited, rehashing of the tired Holy Blood, Holy Grail myth. The author clearly possesses a strong belief in the Priory of Sion, the bloodline of Jesus Christ, and other such nonsense, and uses this venue to air his enthusiasms. Unfortunately, only about 100 pages of this 250+ page book is actually about the Oak Island mystery. To his credit, the author does present a valid theory of the origins of the treasure but unforunately stops there. Just as he gets the story rolling and the reader's excitement bubbling he charts another course and veers away from his thesis. In the end, the reader is left to try and assemble for himself a puzzle that spans about four continents, 3,000 years, and countless secret societies.
Get this one at your local library if you're really interested.
A mystery not really solved July 13, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not a reader of history, meaning I don't read history books cover to cover. This was an exception--if it is in fact history. But it was a tough read, and not because of my reading predilections. Hooked by the topical subject matter in the wake of Da Vinci Code, I figured I'd sit down for the afternoon to read the 250 pages. But the afternoon turned into several days. It wasn't just the scores of grammatical errors or repetitive explanations and descriptions or sentence run-ons that caused me to spend so much time with this book although those things tend to lose a reader. It wasn't even the weird syntax that had me re-reading and re-reading just to grasp what the author intended. Astoundingly, for such an overwritten book, what I found missing was information, pertinent, corroborating and clarifying information throughout. The author covers 2000 plus years of history and weaves in and out of centuries on a dime, and there are numerous occassions when important dates or approximate dates would have helped me keep my bearings. The author also spins off names and places by the pound, some explained some not. I found myself laying the book down to turn on my computer to check for facts. An example is the name Samuel Elliot Morrison. Now pardon me for being so ignorant of American 20th century historians, but I had no idea who this detractor of the Sinclair-Zeno expedition was or whether he was alive now or if he'd been speared by Eskimos 300 years ago. Thank God for Google. Putting the negatives aside, "The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar" contains some interesting alternative/possible histories and hypotheses, and author Steven Sora definitely got me to chomp on some of these. In parts, the book is provocative, and it does cover a lot of ground: Norse explorers, dastardly French Kings, the wars of England and Scotland, the Merovingian dynasty and so on. But ultimately this book fails to prove that Templar treasure exists on Oak Island. The author borrows much from Michael Baigent's "Holy Blood Holy Grail," a book most historians would classify as fiction. Fiction or not, I tried to substantiate some of the claimed history in both of these books, checking into, for example, the organization Prieure de Sion and its supposed former name Ordre de Sion. There are dozens of resources, books, articles, blogs, mentioning these organizations, but I found nothing written pre 1970. Most of the articles debunk the Priory of Sion and Pierre Plantard the Frenchman credited with the hoax. Of course it could be argued that the organization was so secret that nothing was written, or perhaps certain arcane documents existed but were confiscated or burned by the Church. But Steven Sora doesn't seem to care about the veracity of Pierre Plantard or the Order/priory of Sion. In this book, the Priory of Sion is real and Mr. Sora runs with it. Discerning readers and researchers are unlikely to be so easily persuaded. If you can wade through the author's bulbous style, the book is worth picking up. Review by David Marsh.
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