THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS
Rising from an original band of nine pious warriors to an army of Christian knights 15,000 strong, these holy warriors wielded power both on the battlefields of Palestine and in the courts of Europe throughout the Middle Ages, until political betrayals forced them underground into a secret society whose global influence, some say, continues in secret in the modern era.
 
THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING
The most famous grimoire of Western civilization, as translated and edited by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the mysterious Key claims to be the text of the studies of Solomon the King, whose angelic tutor imparted to him the wisdom of the ages of man on earth-and arcana of a more otherworldly nature as well.
Together these texts provide insight into many of today's most widely speculated upon conspiracies-and popular literary puzzle thrillers as well.