About the book: 2006 / Knowledge, once acquired by people, does not die even in the most critical periods of their existence, being passed on from generation to generation along with myths, legends and ceremonies. After the publication of the sensational book “The Key of Hiram,” its authors, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, gained access to a large number of texts of secret Masonic rituals of initiation into the levels of the Craft. Having brought together fragments of the ancient historical knowledge of the “brothers-masons”, which are related to biblical events and personalities, but are not found in the Bible itself, the authors compiled on their basis the “Masonic Testament” - an addition to the two canonical testaments. It allows you to take a fresh look at the text set out in Scripture, which is sometimes unnecessarily confusing and contradictory, and helps you understand the meaning originally inherent in the holy book, distorted by thousands of interpreters and scribes. Based on the “Masonic Testament”, the authors conducted a large-scale historical study about the origins of world civilization . By deciphering the ancient knowledge preserved in the Masonic oral tradition, Knight and Lomas were able to understand what motivated the Old Testament prophets, Jesus Christ and the Knights Templar, and also why the greatest events of human history occurred at intervals of 480 years - under the light of the divine Shekinah…