Esquin de Floyrac: The End of the Temple (Vol. 3)

After the success of Johaben: Diary of a Temple Builder and Zerubbabel: Rebuilding the Temple, the first and second volumes of the Temple Trilogy, he returns to continue the adventures of the series about the Temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem, whose construction became the essential symbol of all Western esotericism. The third and final volume of the saga, Esquin de Floyrac: The End of the Temple maintains the symbolic language of its predecessors and concludes the series with a controversial subject: the connection between the Templars and Freemasonry. Drawing from one of the most terrible moments in human history—the destruction of the Order of the Temple by the Kingdom of France and the Church of Rome—Z. Rodrix introduces the main character of this volume. The violent conflict is only made possible by a traitor within the Order: Esquin de Floyrac, who allied himself with the Machiavellian and ruined King of France, Philip IV "the Fair," engaged in a campaign to destroy the Templars and thus seize their riches. This book tells the story of this man. Here, he tells us how he became a shoemaker, a bricklayer, a Knight of the Temple, a spy, a beggar, and finally a traitor to his Brothers, revealing the true motives behind his actions. Set between the 13th and 14th centuries, this novel explores the close ties between the Knights Templar and Freemasonry, revealing the historical truth about the Templars, thus refuting much of the recent and abundant literature devoted to the subject. The Temple Trilogy also constitutes a landmark in Brazilian literature, a unique work in Brazil that can, without exaggeration, be compared to the great epic novels of world literature.