Category: Books

James Joyce drank. So did Raymond Chandler, John Cheever, Dylan Thomas, and Dorothy Parker. Legend says Ernest Hemingway loved his Mojitos, and Jack Kerouac dug the Margarita. Edgar Allan Poe heard cognac and brandy eggnogs rapping, rapping at his chamber door long before he wrote his famous poem. Despite writing …

There are many lessons of vast importance contained in the Entered Apprentice Degree of Freemasonry. These lessons are so important to the author of this book that he has been so bold as to title the book, Everything I needed to know about Freemasonry; I …

“Esoteric Odyssey” was first published by Thomas Marryat in 1790 under the title “The Philosophy of Masons in Several Epistles from Egypt to a Nobleman” and has been a lost treasure for two centuries. This truly unique book, a work of fiction, provides a fascinating …

This richly illustrated book recounts the entire history of the Knights Hospitaller, from their beginnings nine centuries ago to the present day. Founded during the medieval crusades—their full name is the Knights of the Order of St John of Jerusalem—to run hospices. They grew in …

For more than a century, Freemasons have held fast to the belief that Masons did not murder William Morgan; rather they deported him to Canada. In “Morgan: The Scandal That Shook Freemasonry”, author, journalist and Freemason Stephen Dafoe takes apart that myth while reassembling the …

In the Compasses and the Cross, Stephen Dafoe, the author of Nobly Born: An Illustrated History of the Knights Templar, traces the origins and evolution of the Masonic Knights Templar from their beginnings in the middle of the eighteenth century to its present form. Through …

The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ and the Templar of Solomon, popularly known as the Knights Templar, was the most famous and infamous of the crusading military orders. Created in the aftermath of the First Crusade,(1096-1099) the Templars were established to ensure the safety of …

The true genesis of the Knights Templar belongs far back in time, long before Christianity even developed. The Templars were an offshoot of a little-understood monastic brotherhood, the Cistercians, who themselves danced to the tune of an extremely powerful group of individuals inhabiting Burgundy and …

In The Warriors and the Bankers, the research and writing team of Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe bring their combined experiences to bear on the question asked for hundreds of years, What became of the Knights Templar? Arrested in 1307, dissolved in 1312 and executed …

Below are some of the books I have written, co-written or been a part of since 1997. Most of these are now out of print but a couple of them are still available.   Unholy Worship – 1997  – author  The Knights Templar were a …