True Knights Templar
DavidJSteel
Henry Lincoln(a self-proclaimed expert on the Templars) cites that
Baphomet
makes a very good cryptogram of the Hebrew for Sophia(Goddess of the
feminine principle and wisdom). Sophia was revered by the gnostics also.
On
that score, all the books that come out about the Templars: "The Temples
of
the Knights of God" "Murdered Magicians, the templars and their myth"
"Proceedings against the Templars in France and England for heresy
AD1307-1311" "The Templars:Knights of God";ISBN 0892812214 All give
varying
pictures. Some books emphasize the Solomon's temple in the masonic
tradition. The reason for that is that they were called "The poor fellow
knights of Jesus Christ and the temple of Solomon". In the 12th
century(1118) the order was founded. The order was founded along
Cistercian
lines hence the white cloak. The red cross is added to the mantle later.
It is also necessary to explain about the Templar's themselves,
constituted
in a very small part of knights. More numerous were the clerics and the
third group of craft workers, cooks, carpenters and stonemasons etc.
Clerics carried out the administration work of all kinds, Knights did
the
fighting, the craft workers did the fortifications etc and the order
held
rites of sanctuary. The order did not contain many knights in relation
to
the other groups. It expanded quite rapidly from its foundation. In the
200
year period from 1118-1310 a great deal in communications and work took
place. Pilgrimmages, travel, banking, organisation of people in
boundaries,
holy wars and crusades entirely occupy this period and all enmesh the
people of Europe. There were great disruptions of material life and
their
are colossal movements of mind and spirit underway. The Arthurian tales
tell us of an age of chivalry promoting the feminine as a symbol of the
human soul. The princess or soul trapped in the tower. The tower being
materialism. Freed by the Knight Errant. The sleeping princess held in a
state of enchantment in a stone castle in the middle of a dense wood is
awakened by a kiss(love conquers all). Vast sufferings and loss of life
during the crusades ultimately lead to failure and to the Saracens
retaining the holy land and the heart of Christianity ie.Jerusalem(the
holy
city). And perhaps a question arose as to how could God allow such a
thing
to happen.(Deliberate aggressive warfare is not really a Christian
ideal,
but defensively okay). But the war was seen as the Holy of holies. Had
evil
triumphed? The problem with the relationship with spirit with matter was
it
was clearly interwoven with how evil entered into this God created
world.
The juxtaposition of matter and energy(spirit) clearly played a part in
the
manifestation of order and chaos(good and evil). The gnostic belief of
salvation though knowledge that is by comprehension of the true nature
of
reality appealed to the artisans, mystics and soldier monks. A new
outlook
was emerging-study of Greek classics, alchemy, Babylonian
mathematics,gnosticism and neo-platonism. These began to reveal a sort
of
western mystery tradition long suppressed by the church and also
heralded
the dawn of the age of chivalry. Chivalry is a teaching system. There
are
many legends of chivalry and man's veiled accounts of man's search for
truth. These beautiful stories are not merely folklore but are part of a
once well organised teaching process that involved an individual on the
quest for something remote and hidden(a treasure beyond price). Perhaps
the
best know of this mystery teaching is the high history of the Sangreal.
Traditions of the Holy Grail and its connections to the Knights Templar
can
be traced in many European authors and Parsifal the perfect
Knight(Wolfram
Von Eschenbach) achieved a great deal of acclaim in the 13th century.
In fact Templesium, the Knighthood of the Grail and the Templar order
are
practically indistinguishable in German mystical lore. The only other
possible contender for the title of Templesium understood to be the
Knights
of San Salvador de Montreal (1120) founded at the same time as the
Templars
and possibly part of that order. They were later known as the order de
San
Salvat. The knights had lent their name to the mysterious Mount Salvat
which stood the legendary castle of the Holy Grail. In the 14th century
a
subsequent order had been founded by Bridget of Sweden known as the
Brigateen order. This order disguises the grail tradition in a Christian
guard. Centres of that order were in Scandanavia, Germany, Scotland,
Netherlands and San Diego de Compostella, Golithia, Spain- the most
popular
and greatest centre of the Brigateen order. The nature of this European
gothic material is perhaps best understood in Eschenbach's epic medieval
poem Parsifal. Eschenbach wished to depict through his work the
Templar's
as a Christian brotherhood seeking to create a kingdom of the faithful
(an
elect of the Lord).
An institution outwith the Roman hierarchy free from the pope,
privileged
priesthood and without the inquisition. A new body of honourable
mankind.
Living without fear and where God himself would allow revelation of the
Grail and be King and judge of such a people. Eschenbach considered the
real and natural priesthood to belong to those individuals who struggled
towards a true affinity with God and not an exclusive class of persons
merely following the vocation of priests. Finally he proclaimed for the
templar's the idea of a perfect constitutional brotherhood something
which
was heretical. It suggest something distinct from both church and
paganism.
It also implied that the quest for the grail kingdom alone led to
salvation. Honour and glory to the vanquisher of death. To the source of
life eternal went the phrase for the Grail. Just as the Knights of the
Temple fought for the Holy Sepulchre. So would the knighthood of the
Grail
fight their way through death's dark veil to Mount Salvat (the Mount
Royale
in the Grail Kingdom). If this mystic dream of such brotherhood could
become a practical reality then the political and religious institutions
of
Europe would almost certainly undergo change.
But in 1307 such dreams became a nightmare of the repression due to
torture, death and arrest of the Templar order. The legends of the
Sangreal
bore a message not of the usual Christian form but veiled in the guise
of
chivalry. The true knight is not to seek war but the kingdom spiritual.
The
temple is not made with human hands, but is eternal in the heavens. The
communion between God and man is complete. Legends personify seekers of
the
grail as Ticheval the seeker of the grail. He is a poor knight having
war'd
against the saracens(it is an allegory against all godless materialism)
gives his last to the poor and needy. His courage and humility is marked
with his piety and humility. The perfect knight while one day walking in
the wood comes face to face with an angel who informs him that he is to
be
the guardian of the mysterious chalice known as the holy grail. This he
will find on Mount Salvat. The knight is warned by the angel that he may
speak of his quest to no-one. Ticheval then ponders which direction he
should take and where Mount Salvat should be. Nobody to this day has
found
this mystical place. The trials of Ticheval who possesses nothing, but
his
sword and armour(and largely also allegorical) he passes through vast
solitudes of impenetrable woods, climbs jagged peaks, overcoming
obstacles,
overcoming all barriers of faith and fortitude. Trusting all the while
in
nothing but a small intangible cloudy light. This mystically leads him
onwards and finally clinging to the black rocks and gazing straight
ahead
and scales the last possible height of Mount Salvat and there he
behold's a
beam of radiant light. The Sangreal bourne in the air by invisible
hands.
He raises his heart in passionate prayer so that he may be found worthy
enough to take up his charge as guardian. In a state of rapture he then
hears the spirits of a welcoming host of veteran knights in shining
armour.
The Sangreal as it seems so effervescent as it is beautiful soon
allegorically fades. The mystery tradition tells us that the Grail
vanishes
from earthly view. Only when mankind becomes too materialistic and too
gross to obtain the wonder in its midsts. Because the grail could no
longer
visibly sustain itself on the Earth. Ticheval conceived the plan of
building a worldy temple of great purity suitable for its reception in a
future and more spiritualized Earth. 'Legends of the Middle Ages'
pg.246-The knights who help build this mystic temple are called templars
as
the legend tells us. There is an obvious similarity between Ticheval's
temple and King Solomon's temple can hardly be overlooked. It has long
been
said that there exists a secret doctrine for those who undertake and
devote
their lives for the search for the grail. In this respect the Teutonic
grail sagas of Germany are also mirrored in the Celtic Arthurian cycle
and
in Spanish and French myths. The grail is seen as the chalice of
Christ's
blood or the Celtic vessel of resurrection. Allegorically it could be
viewed as a secret gospel or secret doctrine or a tradition of a
spiritualized knighthood only giving allegiance to divine kingship as
embodied in the spirit of Ticheval and his sacred mission. Through these
teaching stories such knighthoods were answerable only to God and not
the
man made institutions.
The chief function of the grail kingdom seems conceived to supply a
constant type of spiritualized person who can obviously govern worldly
society. Ideal and perfect knights trained and destined to become a
practical incorruptible civilizing power. Such knights not seen as a
passive spiritual force in humanity but also accurate and powerful in
the
banishment of evil from this earth. The acquisition of high conscience
and
natural personal nobility could not be reached other than by the
conquest
of one's lower nature gained in this earthly field of struggling and
suffering where gross and godless materialism was the tyrant giant the
impossible barrier that the solitary knight must overcome before the
vision
of the grail kingdom can become manifestly visible. To sustain the poor
fellow soldiers still fighting their way if you like to self-realization
in
the ever the shadowy vision of the mystical guardians led by the mystic
king to whom is entrusted charge the holy relic and teaching.
The earthly sights from which this invisible help operated was enshrined
in
secrecy. Legend has it that so carefully secluded was the spot that it
could not by discovered other than by the aid of a higher power. And
that
the Grail King still has communion with the gross material world
despatching the occasional faithful champion in cases of relentless
need.
The belief in such occult intervention in the affairs of base man was
frowned upon by both the Vatican and state. Faiths and concepts which
lay
beyond political and religious control were being accused of being
heresy
and treason or both. The challenge to the Temple and the religious
authorities inherent in the idealized grail kingdom and psychic
inheritance
seems very clear. But allied to the far flung Templar institutions of
the
13th century was the involvement of the age of chivalry. The concept of
sacrifice and emphases on honour, courtesy, care of the poor and the
weak.
and the idealization of the feminine. This new amalgam didn't fit in
well
with the totalitarian aims of European history with its ethics of the
jungle and wars of universal homicide and the quest for political power.
In
1307 the slaughter of the Templar order suddenly eradicated the problem
or
did it?
The whole question of what happened after the Templar suppression is one
which I suppose occupied many scholars and those interested in the
occult.
There is no question that some books teach that the Templars fought at
Bannockburn. It is a fact of life that the Templar suppression was
ordered
everywhere in Europe except for the sole exception of Portugal and
Scotland
where no order for suppression was ever issued. A verdict of not proven
was
issued by the papal authorities in Scotland headed by Bishop William
Lamberton of St. Andrews. But the order in Scotland lost its cloak, its
insignia, its construction and property. Its property consisted of 625
properties administered by clerics and workers. The knights were a very
small body. But only the knights were charged with heresy. No charge is
brought against clerics or fellow craft but the disruption caused huge
upheavals. Although you could suggest perhaps that this underground
movement did not die but continued on. Rosycross (Rosicrucians) The
individual founder member of this order wandered the roads of Europe and
founded the knowledge of alchemy. Its symbols are similar to the templar
symbols. However the templar order in Scotland was demolished and handed
over to the order of St John. Mystic teachings of the Grail ie.Veil of
Veronica and where Adam is buried were of great interest to Madame
Blavatsky. One of these were the occultic paintings of the Scottish
painter
John Duncan(one in Dundee art gallery) another was the 1810 revival in
Germany. A document 'Templars in Cyprus' produced in Germany revealed
the
subject of matter and energy. The key which opens the futures iron door
and
all the hidden caverns of the past and natures most occult laboratory.
Blavatsky stated that she believed the templars were about:
* Restoration of true Christianity
* Freedom of thought and restoration of one universal religion
* Sworn to a vow of obedience, poverty and chastity
The templars were the first true knights. The cross pointed to the four
corners of the compass and was recognized in all countries. In order to
avoid the persecution the Templars performed rituals in the greatest
secrecy. Ecclesiatical worship was carried out in chapels belonging to
the
order. The main charges brought against the order were correct from the
standpoint of the Vatican of what the pope and his council believed to
be
correct. The superior form of Christianity which the Templars possessed
could be described as a amalgamated from of free thought and Theosophic
Calvanism. Other Templar groups in Europe have developed strange
horrendous
untruths. But the Scottish order remains true to most of the original
aims
and purposes.
Tribulus
a time of horrendous usury from banks and kings. During this time, it is
said that the Templars were to be murdered to capture their large supply of
silver and gold to replenish the supply that usury banks had horded. It also
is said that a jealousy between "vows of poverty" priests and the rich
Templars got to a point where the Roman religion escalated the killings far
more extensively. It is said to have gotten so bad that "tallys" (or wooden
money created by gold and silver deficient governments throughout Europe)
were issued. Unfortunately each country had there own tallys and were not
accepted by other trade countries. Hence the attempted annihilation. How
many could have survived with the largest governments in the world, the
largest financial sector and the largest religion against them?
DavidJSteel <david...@cs.com> wrote in message
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subsequent order had been founded by Bridget of Sweden known as the
Brigateen order.
I am interested in finding out more about this order. Where they
decendants of the Templars in Scandinavia?
Does anyone know where I could find out more information?
Simon
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