Esta obra propone una visiÃ3n diferente en torno a la relaciÃ3n entre benedictinos, templarios y masones. Esplica cÃ3mo y por quÃ(c) Las Cruzadas fueron parte de un plan delineado por los lÃ-deres benedictinos de la Orden de Cluny para establecer un Nuevo Orden en el mundo medieval. Un Nuevo Orden que necesitaba de un ejÃ(c)rcito de combatientes que lo impusiese con la espada y un ejÃ(c)rcito de masones que lo construyese con la escuadra y el compàs.
About the Author: Ana LÃ-a à lvarez is currently the International Director for the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) for the Spanish-speaking world. A long-time member of the IONS, she has served as Coordinator, Stewardship Council Member, and Ex-Officio Board Member for the IONS Community Groups Network. She has also organized conferences and work groups in Argentina for the leaders of Institute of Noetic Sciences, including Edgar Mitchell (the founder), Peter Russell, Lynne Twist and Sharif Abdullah. She actively participates in IONS conferences and even coordinated the first Spanish-speaking workshops in the Spirit Rising conference in Palm Spring, California. She was also responsible for organizing two historic IONS meetings in Sao Paulo, Brasil and Buenos Aires, Argentina and in which the Support Council for the Community Groups Network met outside of its home country for the first time. In the 1990s, she co-created the TV program HOLOGRAMA, which discussed cutting edge intellectual trends in the fields of arts, sciences, and spirituality. Eduardo R. Callaey was born in Buenos Aires in 1958. He was inducted into the Masonic Order in 1989 and has presided over various Lodges. As a historian he has dedicated the past 20 years to studying the origins and history of Francmasonry. His research has produced valuable contributions in the field of Masonology, particularly with regards to linking primitive Francomasonry with the religious and military orders of the Middle Ages. His position on the religious origins of the Masonic Order has created great controversy as he is one of the key scholars on Christian Masonry in Latin America.He is the author of various books and over a hundred articles on Francmasonry. His most important works include Monjes y Canteros (Buenos Aires, 2001), Ordo Laicorum ab Monacorum Ordine (Academy of Masonic Studies, Buenos Aires, 2004), Los orÃ-genes Cristianos de la FrancmasonerÃ-a (Buenos Aires, Kier, 2006), El otro Imperio Cristiano (The Other Christian Empire, Nowtilus, Madrid, 2005), and El Mito de la RevoluciÃ3n MasÃ3nica (The Myth of the Masonic Revolution, Nowtilus, Madrid, 2007). These last two works have been translated into Italian (Marco Tropea Publishing) and Bulgarian (Ciela Publishing House). He has served as Editor-in-Chief for the Masonic journals SÃ-mbolo and Magister. Currently he is Editorial Director for the collection Masonry in the 21st Century from Kier Publishing. He is a founding member and former secretary of the Academy of Masonic Studies of Buenos Aires (Academia de Estudios MasÃ3nicos de Buenos Aires) and is a member of the Research Center on Historic Studies of Spanish Masonry (Centro de Estudios HistÃ3ricos de la MasonerÃ-a Española).