Sean R Martin

The Gnostic 5: A Journal of Gnosticism, Western Esotericism and Spirituality

The fifth issue of The Gnostic. Interviews with Gary Lachman on Hermes Trismegistus, Patrick Harpur on the soul, and Nicholas Baker-Brian on the Manichaeans. Sean Martin on David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, Jeffrey Kupperman on the Neoplatonic roots of Hermeticism, Dean Wilson on the links betwe...

Andrei Tarkovsky

A concise study of the work of the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 1970sConsidering the whole of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, this book covers everything from the classic student film The Steamroller and the Viol...

The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages

Without lifting a sword, the Cathars posed a threat to Catholicism greater than the Muslims or Jews—or so the Church believed. The Cathars believed that matter was essentially evil—especially the human body—and that the material world had to be transcended through a simple life of prayer, work, fast...

The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics (Pocket Essential series)

Gnosticism is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ, nearly becoming the dominant form of Christianity, but was eventually branded as heretical by the emerging Christian church. The long and diverse history of Gnosticism is recounted here, ...

The Knights Templar: The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order

This book is an essential exploration into the history of a legendary group of Crusaders, which are prominently featured in Dan Brown's recent best seller, The Da Vinci Code. The Knights Templar rose from humble beginnings to become the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages. Form...

Pittsburgh, The Greatest City in the World

This work explores 20 criteria that make a city truly great. The writers combine research and personal experience in a fun and down-to-earth book that supports their claim that Pittsburgh is the greatest city in the world.

Black Death

The author looks at the origins of the disease and traces its terrible march through Europe from the Italian cities to Scandinavia.

Los Caballeros Templarios (Spanish Edition)

Sean Martin (writer and director)

Sean Martin (b. in Weston-super-Mare, England in 1966) is an Anglo-Irish writer and film director. He has written popular books on the Knights Templar and the...

The Seducer : It's Hard to Die in Dieppe

Building Our Own Home: Ethnic Identity Among the Jews of Krakow, 1918-1939

Building Our Own Home: Ethnic Identity Among the Jews of Krakow, 1918-1939

Knights Templar: The History And Myths of the Legendary Military Order

The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages

Alchemy and Alchemists

The Black Death

Building Our Own Home