Opening the Ark of the Covenant: The Secret Power of the Ancients, the Knights Templar Connection, and the Search for the Holy Grail

by Frank Joseph, Laura Beaudoin

Through his worldwide research into its disappearance, author Frank Joseph has learned that the Ark was not a mere legend; nor was it just an elaborate box used to store the original Ten Commandments. It was, he asserts, purpose-built to harness the powers of the Earth for humanity's continued physical existence and spiritual evolutions.

288 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2007

About the author

Frank Joseph is the pen name of Francis Joseph Collin, a former activist with the American Nazi Party/National Socialist White People's Party and the founder of the National Socialist Party of America. In 1979, Collin was convicted of child molestation and sentenced to seven years in prison, and he lost his position in the party.

Upon his release from prison, Collin reinvented himself under the pseudonym of Frank Joseph, a New Age writer and a pagan worshiper. In 1987, he had his first New Age book published, The Destruction of Atlantis: Compelling Evidence of the Sudden Fall of the Legendary Civilization.

He wrote articles for the magazine Fate, and between 1993 and 2007 he was also an editor of Ancient American. This magazine focuses on what it considers to be evidence of ancient, pre-Columbian transoceanic contact between the Old World and North America, with the implication that all complex aspects of North America's indigenous cultures must have originated on other continents.

Reviews

[Barry Schoenfeld · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've researched and taught this subject. This is so fanciful it should be fictional.
There is NO research to substantiate most of the authors facts, and many have been contradicted.
DO NOT BOTHER

[Laura Weakley · Rating 4 out of 5]

The research which went into this book is impressive! While I don't agree with the thesis itself, it raises some very good points. I certainly learned a lot!

[Cynthia · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved this book!