The Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus and the Secret Key to the Life of Jesus Hardcover – January 1, 2004

This Book Inspired Me to Join the Fraternity of Freemasons. The Book Introduced Me to So Many New Ideas. Critics caution it contains more speculation than historic facts. However theTopics Led me to many New & Intriguing subjects. Masonry Learns Us to Search & Explore for Facts, Not relying On Others feeding Us their possible Misinformation. I’ve read now all the Hiram Series. The Books keep getting better, refined, and essential for those who look past the superficial and towards excellence.

I got this book for its information on cycles of Venus. These cycles meaning for ancient cultures and their calendars and religious ceremonies.The book does not disappoint. It covers this area well across many cultures. Then it ties Venus into rituals of Masonry in an informative way If you want to understand the role Venus plays in human history and human development, this is a good book to read.

You want to learn something crazy... read this book. Absolutely fasinating! It is a very difficault book to read, you might have to read it over a few times, but it is full of great facts and interesting parallels!

Even though I have not quite finished the book yet, it takes you into so many different aspects of the life of a Mason. The rituals concerning ancient men of old such as Enoch, Noah, and even Jesus. How from the beginning they relied on the stars, and the planets Venus, Mercury, and something called the Shekinah light. It may answer lots of peoples questions about certain things that have come about during their study of the Bible.

Well researched and documented. It is a good history of religion and how it evolved over time. It is full of archaeological facts in biblical times. After reading the book I could almost hear Paul Harvey say, "And now you know the rest of the story." There is more to Freemasonry than I thought.

So many historical details in this book I've never heard. It really fills in all the gaps and makes sense of many things that to my mind always seemed incomplete or incomprehensible. The whole series they wrote is simply fascinating.

The BOOK of HIRAM is a sequel to the bestselling THE HIRAM KEY by Knight and Lomas. I point out that fact right away because in the interim the dynamic duo of authors have published several other titles such as THE SECOND MESSIAH, URIEL'S MACHINE, etc. Some of their works were more directly follow-up to THE HIRAM KEY than others, but fact is the whole reason for preambling my review with a pseudo-bibliography is to state I anxiously awaited a sequel to the HIRAM KEY. I loved that book, learning about freemasonry, ties to early Christianity and other fascinating topics. I eagerly bought THE BOOK OF HIRAM. These were after all authors I had in the past year and a half become very familiar with their writing style and research results, i.e. musings and theories put forth in their tomes as they tangentially thought about one mystery or another.Therefore it saddens me to baldly state I did not enjoy this title nearly as much as I thought I would.The authors continue with their religious/ritualistics questions and theories. Searching for further ancient ties to freemasonry in forgotten realms of antiquity. However by this time much of their writing is almost repetitive. In fact I counted too many footnotes that were self-referential. Apparantly most of the source material for this book was earlier titles written by the authors:O. Which led me to wonder if maybe their earlier success in the sales department spoiled them. Instead of searching for answers were they just milking previous success? Were their numerous footnotes subtle ads hinting at readers' to pick up any previously un-read titles put out by them? It was a little distracting and disappointing to have these thoughts as I tried to read what was as well written a book technically as any other Lomas/Knight book, even if their revelations and chapters were not nearly as interesting as in previous titles.I finished this book not regreting reading it, only hoping it isn't quite a bestseller to spawn further sequels that further deteriotes the pleasure I had in reading THE HIRAM KEY.

One of the best books I ever read! The authors put words to and expounded upon a theory I have had for many years. They use logical reasoning and solid evidence to make their case.

The authors work on a theme and it's evident they're very good at joining the dots. Very well researched and when taken as part of the series, they provide a lot of insight.

Horrible and babbles, this book is short on facts and tries to connect far too much to masonry. I wish the authors could have stayed within context (say of Pansophia and fludd) instead of looking for ties to stonehenge. Awful book.

Great read for those who may be interested in the subject.

Haven't read it yet

I found many interesting ideas about who we really are and who our teachers are. This book helps me on my long path to understand ancient sacred geometry and mathematics .The more we all search, the nearer to our God we become in our personal thoughts.Thoth