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| Christopher Columbus. The Last Templar. Ruggero Marino |
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The untold story of the secret alliance behind the “discovery” of America
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Reveals how a utopian dream of brotherhood among Christians, Muslims,
and Jews fueled a murderous power struggle involving secret societies,
popes, and kings
• Explains why King Ferdinand of Spain supported Columbus’s voyages openly, but, secretly, sought to undermine their purpose
• Shows how Columbus knew, sailing west, he would find the “New World,” not Asia
Was
Columbus a Templar? According to the historic documents and maps
revealed by Ruggero Marino, Columbus shared their dream of Christians,
Muslims, and Jews living in peace in a New Jerusalem, and his voyage
across the Atlantic was both to find a new passage to Asia and to find
the place where the New Jerusalem could be built.
Marino draws
parallels between Marco Polo’s journey east over the Silk Route and
Columbus’s sea voyages and reveals that Columbus studied ancient texts
and maps from the Vatican Library, access to which was granted by Pope
Innocent VIII--who Marino shows to be Columbus’s true father. Innocent
VIII (whose own father was Jewish and grandmother was Muslim) was the
perfect individual to further the Templars’ plan to create a universal
religion combining the spiritual wisdom of the three faiths. Marino
shows that Innocent’s “disappearance” and the story that Columbus merely
stumbled onto the New World were part of a calculated political and
theological cover-up. While King Ferdinand (the model for Machiavelli’s
The Prince) and Queen Isabella of Spain are heralded with funding
Columbus’s “discovery” of America, it was Innocent VIII who was the main
sponsor and master-mind of the expedition. To obscure the purpose of
the voyages, and give Spain the credit for the New World discovery,
Ferdinand and his agent Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), Pope
Innocent VIII’s successor, initiated the disinformation campaign that
has lasted for over 500 years.
