About the book: 2005 / Many architectural monuments, buildings and even entire cities, located in different parts of the world, are built in accordance with the canons, traditions and sacred symbolism of a secret religion, originating in Ancient Egypt and for many centuries existing in parallel with Christianity, with which it constantly entered into irreconcilable bloody conflicts. Gnostics, Hermetics, Cathars, Bogomils, Manichaeans, Templars, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, Freemasons - all these religious orders and secret organizations at different times professed and supported the traditions of the same sacred esoteric teaching, which largely determined the development of modern Western civilization. The authors of this book came to these conclusions after studying many unique architectural and written monuments of antiquity. Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval managed to discover traces of a secret religious organization that for many centuries carried out large-scale occult urban planning projects hidden from public attention: it built on Earth the so-called “Talismans”, which, in her opinion, are an exact copy of the structures located in the “heavenly cities” and “abodes of the gods”. Famous researchers of the past have also found convincing evidence of the existence of a “secret world conspiracy” and a plan for a religious struggle for world domination, drawn up more than 2000 years ago.…