4/6 Templar Legacy?

[Greg]

To begin, I have to start somewhere in the middle of the story.

The beginnings of the Knights Templar:

"In 1118, nine Knight Crusaders in the East, among whom were
Geoffroi de Saint-Omer and Hughes de Payens, consecrated themselves to
religion, and took an oath between the hands of the Patriach of
Constantinople, a See always secretly or even openly hostile to that
of Rome from the time of Photius. The avowed object of the Templars
was to protect the Christians who came to visit the Holy Places: their
secret objective was the rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon on the
model prophecised by Ezekiel."
-Morals and Dogma

Synchronistically :

From the Ottawa Citizen, May 25, 1998.

"They call him the green patriarch, and he's transforming
Christianity's oldest branch into a modern institution that rides the
World Wide Web, promotes political self-determination and denounces
enviromental destruction.

His holiness Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of 300 million
Orthodox Christians who arrives today for a nine-day visit to Canada,
is no mere guardian of the other-worldly mysticism long associated
with the church of Dostoevsky and Augustine........."

The choosing of patriarch of Orthodox church instead of the Pope is no
small detail. I think it has everything to do with what they were
really about, and their end. Not 20 years later the Crusaders
destroyed Constantinople. (I'm pretty sure the Templars did not take
part)

St.Bernard de Clairvaux (Valley of Light), perhaps best known for his
mystical doctrines, wrote the rules for the new Templars, and a
treatise called "In Praise of the New Knighthood" on their behalf.

St.Bernard is an interesting subject all by himself :

"St. Bernard, the parton of the Templars, played a formative role in
the evolution and dissemination of the Gothic architectural formula
in its early days. He had been at the height of his powers in 1134
when the soaring north tower of Chartres cathedral had been built, and
he had constantly stressed the principals of sacred geometry that had
been put into practise in that tower and throughout the whole
building. When asked What is God?", Bernard replied "He is length,
width, height, and depth." The entire edifice had been carefully and
explicitly designed as a key to the deeper religious mysteries. Thus,
for example, the architects and masons had made use of gematria to
"spell out" obscure litigical phrases in any of the key dimensions of
the great building. Similarily, the sculptors and glaziers working to
the instructions of the higher clergy had carefully concealed complex
messages about human nature, about the past, and about the prophetic
meaning of the scriptures in the thousands of different devices and
designs that they had created."
-Sign and the Seal, Graham Hancock.

If this sounds interesting, you should check out the Church of Hagia
Sophia, the Holy Wisdom of Christ, in Constantinople. It's been the
Cathedral of the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church for over 1000 years.
The Templar connection to the Orthodox Church is no small detail.

Regardless of anything else, the Templars continued the tradition of
"Master Builders", that you find connected to the Temple of Solomon,
Egypt,and the Mayans. But they were far more interesting than this:

"The true version of the history of Jesus and the early Christianity
was imparted to Hugh de Payens, by the Grand-Pontiff of the Order of
the Temple (of the Nazarene or Johannite sect) one name Theocletes,
after which it was learned by some Knights in Palestine, from the
higher and more intellectual members of the St. John sect, where they
were initiated into its mysteries.Freedom of intellectual thoughtand
the restoration of one universal religion was their secret object.
Sworn to the vow of obedience, poverty, and chastity, they were at
first the true Knights of John the Baptist, crying in trhe wilderness
and living on wild honey and locusts. Such is the tradition and true
kabbalistic version"
-Isis Unveiled.

"The real task of the 9 knights was to carry out research in the
area in order to obtain certain relics and manuscripts which contained
the essence of the secret traditions of Judaism and ancient Egypt,
some of which probably went back to the days of Moses... There is no
doubt that they fulfilled this particular mission and that the
knowledge obtained from their finds was taught in the oral tradition
of the Order's... secret circles..."
-"The Templar Tradition in the Age of Aquarius"

"By virtue of their contact with Islamic and Jewish cultures, the
Templars had already absorbed a great many ideas alien to orthodox
Roman Christianity. Templar Masters, for example, often employed Arab
secretaries, and many Templars, having learnt Arabic in captivity,
were fluent in the language. A close rapport was also maintained with
Jewish communities, financial interests and scholarship. The Templars
had thus been exposed to many things Rome would not ordinarily
countenance. Through the influx of Cathar recruits, they were now
exposed to Gnostic dualism as well - if, indeed, they had ever really
been strangers to it."
-Holy Blood/Holy Grail.

"I have, of course, been conscious that much curious information
reached the West through Islamic channels and through those who
returned from the Crusades, as well as through the Jewish communities.
A great deal was garbled and misinterpreted, because those whom it
reached had an alien background in matters spiritual, and lacked the
capacity to form a right judgement of what they received. They were
also extremely credulous and gullible. I have alluded in the story to
the Cathars, the Templars, the Freemasons, and Rosicrucians, and to
the legends of the Wandering Jew and Prester John. I do not doubt
that in manuscripts which reached Europe, copies of which are in
particular libraries, as well as some in still inaccessible monastic
collections, there are additional sources to be tapped. Lost
documents which we know about from allusions and quotations may yet
come to light. Not a few have been given back to us in whole or part
during the past century, and this in spite of the efforts of the
ignorant and the hostile to suppress their contents."
-The Essene Odyssey.

In fact, after their founding, they spent the first 7 years in the
Temple in Jerusalem, digging. They re-discovered the stables of
Solomon (or was it herod the great?). There was a legend that before
the looting of the Temple by the Babylonians in 587BC, the Ark had
been hidden and sealed in a secret cavern below.

It seems pretty obvious that they failed to find it. Graham Hancock,
in Sign and the Seal, seems to think the Ark disappeared before the
looting, anyways.

In 1165, Emperor Fredrick Barbarossa received a letter from a ruler
known as "Prester John", describing his powerful Christian kingdom,
unknown to Europe at this time, and warning:

"There are Frenchmen among you, of your lineage and from our
retinue, who hold with the Saracens. You confide in them and trust in
them that they should and will help you, but they are false and
treacherous.. may you be brave and of great courage and, pray, do not
forget to put to death those treacherous Templars."

Prestor John's realm was said to be "Indian". Hancock makes a good
case for India meaning Ethiopia. I don't want to get into it much
right now, but this was most likely written by Harbay, the brother of
the rightful ruler who was exiled and in Jerusalem at the time.

"Harbay, reigning Zagwe monarch of Ethiopia before his brother
Lalibela deposed him, is deduced to have been the mythical Prester
John. "Derived from Jano, a reddish-purple toga worn only by
royalty, the word [Jan] meant 'king' or 'Majesty'..."
- Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal

His name "Lalibela", means "even the bees recognize his authority".
Somehow, he managed to take back the rule of his kingdom in Ethiopia,
but how? Well. The templars were in Jerusalem during the same time,
and Lalibela had a story that would be interesting to the Templars.
The Kebra Nagast. The story of Queen of Sheba, Solomon, and their son
Menelik. Turns out Sheba might have been ethiopian. The historian
Josephus describes her as either Egyptian or Ethiopian. Anyways, the
story goes that Menelik went to visit his father, and returned with
the Ark (where it is said to remain to this day).

In Parzival, "a member of the Grail Company...spoke, amongst other
things, of riding 'deep into Africa...past the Rohas'. ...Rohas was
the old name for a town in the remotest highlands of Ethiopia - a
town now called Lalibela in honor of the great king who was born there
and who made it his capital when he returned to it in triumph in the
year of our Lord 1185...Lalibela had spent the previous quarter of a
century in Jerusalem rubbing shoulder with the knights of a
military-religious order whose headquarters stood on the site of
the
Temple of Solomon - knights who would have had a special interest
in
any contender to the throne of a country which claimed to possess
the lost Ark that the Temple had originally been built to house."
- Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal

In the city of Lalibela you can find rock-hewn churches, that display
the croix patte. Local legends say that the churchs were built in 24
year, by "white men":

"By a considerable margin, the eleven rock-hewn churches of
Lalibela were the most architecturally advanced building that Ethiopia
had ever known (indeed, in the considered opinion of UNESCO, they
deserved to be ranked amongst the wonders of the world.)....Towering
edifices, the churches remain places of living worship eight hundred
years after they were built. It is important to stress, however that
they were not built at all in the conventional sense, but instead were
excavated and hewn directly out of the solid red volcanic tuff on
which they stand.In consequence, they seem superhuman - not only in
scale, but also in orkmanship and in conception."

"...Considerable efforts have been made to cloak their real natures:
some lie almost completely concealed within deep trenches, whole
others hide in the open mouths of huge quarried caves. Connecting them
all is a complex and bewildering labyrinth of tunnels and narrow
passageways with offset crypts, grottoes and galleries - a cool,
lichen-enshrouded, subterranean world, shaded and damp, silent but for
the faint echoes of distant footfalls and priests and deacons go about
their timeless business."

On the arch "of the ceiling of the rock-hewn church of Saint
Mary's...can be seen a stylized croix pattée contained within a Star
of David - a most unusual symbol in a Christian place of worship, but
one to which it is known that the Knights Templar were particularly
attached. Behind the arch...[is]a cloth-wrapped column said by the
priests to have been engraved by King Lalibela himself with the
secrets of how the rock-hewn churches were made." Another croix pattée
is carved on a boulder on the outskirts of Axum, and several more can
be found "in the ruins of King Kaleb's palace - a structure that could
well have been still standing and inhabited in the thirteenth
century."
- Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal

Another persistant rumour surrounding the Knights Templar is that of
the true meaning of the Holy Grail. Some think it is the Davidic
bloodline, through Jesus Christ:

I have along with others only a mild interest in religion
but I am curious about new ways of thinking about culture Thus it
was that at the beginning of the 1980s I found myself absorbed in a
book entitled 'Holy Blood Holy Grail.' The authors Michael Baigent,
Richard Leigh and Harry Lincoln present in this book some ideas
that, to start with, seem very peculiar. Ideas concerning, amongst
others, Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the Cathars, the Knights Templar and
the myth of the Holy Grail which we find in the medieval tales
about King Arthur. In these tales, the Grail is described as a
chalice, or as a stone, that can present unlimited amounts of food,
light and power to the person who asks the right questions.
In 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' we find the following thoughts and
assumptions: The Holy Grail in French 'san greal', might well be,
if we move the 'g', 'sang real', which means 'royal blood', and
indicate a bloodline which originated from Jesus. The assumption is
made that he was married to Mary Magdalene, who gave birth to his
son. When Magdalene fled to France after the crucifixion, the child
was with her. From this child a family would have emanated that
brought the bloodline through the French royal family 'the
Merovingians' and other families to our time. Presumably a purpose
of these descendants would have been to reinstate a one of their
number on the royal throne of Jerusalem, a position that Jesus
himself by right should have had. This was successful in 1099 as we
will see later.

Behind all this there is a secret order, most commonly known as
Prieuré de Sion'. Their all encompassing purpose is to reinstate
the dynasty of the Merovingians, decending from Jesus, onto the
thrones of France and of Europe. This secret order, still active
today, founded the Knights Templar and has been behind all the
attempts through the centuries to bring the bloodline of Jesus to
royal power in Europe. Attempts that, to a certain extent, have
succeded as in the case with the royal house of Hapsburg. Through
time, we find as leaders in this secret order personalities such as
Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Isaac Newton and Victor Hugo,
to mention the most renowned. These people are not claimed to have
been part of the family of Jesus. But they are said to have
participated in the alternative cultural movement that had to go
underground in the 13th and 14th century after the obliteration of
the Cathars and the Knights Templar. As a result of this we could
state that a not insignificant part of the sources of inspiration
in the West would be derived from underground movements. In France
during the Second World War it would form the core of the anti nazi
resistance movement.
To be able to understand this alternative view of history, we
need to go back to the time of the origin of Christianity and try
to see with new eyes on what actually happened.
[snip]

Mary Magdalene is a very celebrated patron Saint in France. In
many places there are relics and shrines dedicated to her. The first
tales about her appear with the Archbishop of Mainz, Rabanus
(776-856). He recounts mass landings by the whole cast of the
Passsion drama around Marseille during the first century A.D.
According to later stories, written in the 13th century, Mary
Magdalene was a so called 'noble woman'. Her father Cyrus was rich
and her mother was Eucharis. Lazarus was her brother and Martha her
sister. In the year 42, a boat without rudder is said to have
landed in Marseillle, or more precisely in Ratis, later renamed
'Les Saintes Maries de la Mer'. Passengers on this boat were Mary
Magdalene, Lazarus, Martha, Joseph of Arimathea, (in the Bible
described as a secret follower to Jesus and the one who took care
of the body of Jesus, collecting his blood in a chalice), a man
called Maximin and a girl by the name of Sarah. In the boat were
also a skull and some bones.
[snip]
The Merovingians were a royal family of Franks that reigned in
France for 300 years after the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th
century A.D. It is peculiar that even by their contemporaries they
were considered to be a royal family, that in a self-evident way
had the right to the throne in a priest king tradition that had
been kept alive through time.
[snip]
There are many signs that suggest a connection between the
Merovingians and the Jewish Benjamitic family branch. One is that
several of the Merovingian Princes are named Simon. Southern France
became a refuge for many Jewish and Christian families that opposed
Rome. The Merovingians seem to have interbred with these. As this
family of kings considered themselves direct descendants from Jesus
it seems likely that they would not just let go of that kingship.
[snip rest]
From: http://www.alphaomega.se/crusades.html

When the Templars were arrested in 1307, there were a list of charges
drawn up against them, mentioning everything from demon-worship to
homosexuality.

(if you want to know the in-between, do a web search. There is a ton
of information about the templars. just stay away from the loonies'
sites)

> On Friday, October 13, 1307, following a lengthy series of events, the
> bailiffs of King Philip IV, the Fair, of France, entered the Templar
> Commanderies and captured, without a hint of struggle or protest,
> "all" of the Knights of the Temple. They were imprisoned, tortured,
> forced to confess to a variety of heresies and perversions and were
> offered the choice of recantation or death. Jacques de Molay, their
> Grand Master, chose to burn at the stake and died in 1312, ending the
> tumultuous, 200 year existence of the Knights Templars.
>
> It is believed by some that a conspiracy between the French crown
> (particularly Philip and his chancellor, Guillaume de Nogaret) and the
> Vatican, who feared and envied the power and wealth of the Templars,
> was responsible for their demise. Perhaps this is so, but there has
> been no adequate explanation of why the Templars went into captivity
> so meekly. The only possible clue, an ambiguous one at that, lies in
> the story of a wagon, believed to be loaded with Templar treasure,
> that was seen leaving the Paris Commanderie, a week before the mass
> arrest. Some believe that the ones who were left behind to face
> torture and death, did so willingly, to protect whatever was carried
> off in that wagon. Of course that story doesn't really answer any
> questions, it merely raises more.The wagon must have contained
> something of inestimable value, though, as it is hard for us to
> imagine anyone being willing to die horribly by fire and sword to
> protect a wagon load of gold, that someone else will enjoy. As the
> flames were doing their worst, Grand Master de Molay is said to have
> prophesied the imminent deaths of Philip IV and his co-conspirator,
> Pope Clement V. That prophecy came true as both men died within a year
> of de Molay.
>
> 1. http://www.britannia.com/history/time1.html

In the list of charges drawn up by the Inquisition against the
Templars on 12 August 1308, there appears the following:

"Item, that in each province the order had idols, namely heads, of
which some had three races and some one, and others had a human
skull.
Item, that they adored these idols or that idol, and especially n
their great chapters and assemblies.
Item, that they venerated (them).
Item, that (they venerated them) as God.
Item, that (they venerated them) as their Savior....
Item, that they said that the head could save them.
Item, that [it could] make riches.
Item, that it made the trees flower.
Item, that [it made] the land germinate.
Item, that they surrounded or touched each head of the aforesaid
idols with small cords, which they wore around themselves next to
the shirt or the flesh.
Item, that in his reception, the aforesaid small cords or some
lengths of them were given to each of the brethren.
Item, that they did this in veneration of an idol.
Item, that they (the receptors) enjoined them (the postulants) on
oath not to reveal the aforesaid to anyone."
- The Articles of the Accusations

Coincidentally, I'm sure, in 1306 the Pope had received 30 envoys from
the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia.

"It is known that this emperor [Wedem Ara'ad of Ethiopia] in
the...year of our salvation 1306 sent thirty envoys
[who]...presented themselves reverentially before Pope Clement V
at Avignon."
- Giovanni da Carignano (a Genoese cartographer active during the
years 1291-1329)

I wonder if the Roman Church heard what the Templars were really
doing? This is the same kingdom responsible for the Prester John
letters, warning that the Templars were at least on speaking terms
with Muslims. The charges against them say nothing about it, however.
Proof of traitorous acts would have went a long way in speeding up the
process of putting those ringleaders to death. The Church obviously
had something to hide.

Among the main charges against the Templars was that they were said to
worship a decapitated "head".

~Caput LVIII M, "Head 58m" remains a baffling enigma. But it is
worth noting that the M may be the symbol for Virgo"
-Holy Blood, Holy Grail

"The number 58 is less puzzling if one remembers that five (5) is
the number of the pentagram and eight (8) is indicative of Isis.
We may now complete the simple equation which exposes her secret
number:
5 X 8 = 40 = 58 - 18 ISIS
"The numbers 5 and 8 are also exhibited in the beliefs of the
'Brothers of the Rose Cross', where the rose is constructed with a
centre of five petals, surrounded by eight petals."
- David Wood, GENISIS (1986)

"Dr. Hugh Schonfield in the Essene Odyssey had discovered a system
of cryptography, - he called it the "Atbash Cipher" - which had been
used to onceal certain names in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarene texts."

"From the Templar's use of the Atbash Cipher, it is probable that
some form of Nazarean or neo-Nazarean sect had continued to survive in
the middle east as late as the 12th century, and had made its
teachings available to the west."
- messianic legacy

"In France the arrested Templars were tried and many subjected to
torture. Strange confessions were extracted and even stranger
accusations made. Grim rumours began to circulate about the country.
The Templars supposedly worshipped a devil called Baphomet. At their
secret ceremonies they supposedly worshipped a devil called Baphomet.
At their secret ceremonies they supposedly prostrated themselves
before a bearded male head, which spoke to them and invested them with
occult powers. Unauthorised witnesses were never seen again."
-Holy Blood/Holy Grail

It's amazing what people will say under torture, especially if the
torturers don't really want the truth, but other excuses to achieve
the goals they wish to attain. Remember, we are basically dealing
with the Romans here. Roman laws, Roman ways. Rome always tolerated
other religions as long as it did not interfere with their authority,
or the social structure. Was there a threat to their authority? Why
exactly is it that almost all other early christian churches, usually
founded directly or indirectly by the Apostles of Christ, have always
had problems with Rome?

For an idea what these "confessions" might actually be "allegorically"
talking about, see the end bit about "stupa symbolism".

"The mysteries here referred to have never been explained. But the
evidences of links with Essene lore suggested to me that these
reports might have a foundation in fact. I decided to treat the
obviously artificial name Baphomet as another case of the use of the
Hebrew Atbash cipher for purposes of concealment. Setting down
Baphomet in Hebrew characters produced [hebrew], which by Atbash
converted immediately into [Sophia], the Greek word for Wisdom. So
this centuries old secret was for the first time revealed!

But what the bearded male head? In the cosmic figure of the Adam
Kadmon (Sky Man) the bearded male head is denominated in Hebrew as
[hebrew] (Chokmah), i.e. Wisdom. The greek Sophia represents a female
rather than a male, and we are not surprised to find in Templar
hands, according to Inquistion records, a casket surmounted by "a
great head of gilded silver, most beautiful, and constituting the
image of a woman.""
-Essene Odyssey (Hugh Schonfield)

"A great head of gilded silver, most beautiful, and constituting the
image of a woman. Inside were two head bones, wrapped in a cloth of
white linen, with another red cloth around it. A label was attached,
on which was written the legend Caput LVIIIm. The bones inside were
those of a rather small woman."
-Oursel, Les Proces des Templiers

The long and the short of it is that when you apply the Atbash cipher
to "Baphomet", you get "sophia", wisdom.

Regarding certain Grail legends, which are allegorical stories
regarding the knowledge that the templars had:

"One chronicler cites the name of the woman in the story -Yse, which
would seem to clearly derive from Isis."
-Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

"Isis' magic was allied to the Egyptian god, Thoth. His wife or
consort, Nehamaut (Ma'at), was known to the Gnostics as Sophia."
-Sign and the Seal.

"That it had a feminine origin is shown by Gerald Massey who writes
"Mete" was the Baphomet or mother of all breath. According to Von
Hammer, the formula of faith inscribed on a chalice belonging to the
Templars is as follows: "Let Mete be exalted who causes all things to
bud and blossom. It is our root; it is 1 and 7; it is octinmous, the 8
fold name."
-"Night Side of Eden"

"The ankh which Isis carries as supreme initatrix may account for
sme of the oddly-shaped sceptres carried by the Black Virgins, who,
like Isis, often favor the color green. Their greeness and blackness
points to the beginning of the opus, whose secret, according to
alchemists, is tobe found in "the sex of Isis".
-"the Cult of the Black Virgin"

"The Templars, imprisoned and awaiting death in the Castle
of Chinon...composed a prayer to Our Lady acknowledging Bernard to be
the founder of her religion. In addition to the numerous hymns and
sermons he addressed to her, he wrote about 280 sermons on the theme
of the Song of Songs, the epithalamion of Solomon and the Queen of
Sheba, whose versicle 'I am black, but I am beautiful, O ye daughters
of Jerusalem' is the recurring refrain of the Black Virgin cult."
-Ean Begg, The Cult of the Black Virgin

"The Black Virgin is Isis and her name is Notre Dame de Lumiere"
-Pierre de Plantard.

From the Gospel of Phillip:

The apostles said to the disciples:May our offering obtain
saltThey called Sophia salt. Without it no offering is acceptable.But
Sophia is without child. For this reason she is called a traceof salt
. But where they will be in their own way, the Holy Spiritwill also
be, and her children are many.

"We may note, however, that the pagan side of the Gnostic mysth is
that the Simonians worshipped Helen as Athena (Goddess of Wisdom), who
in turn was identified in Egypt with Isis. Plutarch states that Isis
was sometimes called Sophia, and in a papyrus from Oxyrhynchus Isis is
identified with Syrian Astarte. We can, indeed, go much further back
to "the old Babylonian goddess Inanna, the one who descended to the
lower world and was mistreated at its seven gates."

"There would seem to be little doubt that the beautiful woman's head
of the Templars represents Sophia in her female and Isis aspect, and
she was linked with Mary Magdalene in the Christian interpretation.
The mythological and cosmic origins would seem to have been known to
an appreciable extent by the Templars. HBHG, among its illustrations,
depicts the seal of the British branch of the Order in 1303A.D. The
symbolism is disguised cosmic and inter-faith. At the top the star
and crescent of Islam has been adapted by depicting the crescent moon
of the Mother Goddess as a boat with the cross pattee on a pole
serving as the mast. Underneath is a lion, ostensibly of England, but
actually the Lion of the Sun and of Judah (the king from the sun). On
either side are single five-pointed stars, conceivably representing
the twin Messianic functions, Priestly and Regal, like the two olive
trees of Zech.iv.11-14. The symbolism is very close to the Messianic
Mystery as/ conceived by the Essenes."
-The Essene Odyssey.

"By this analysis, therefore, when the Templars worshipped Baphomet
what they were really doing was worshipping the principle of
Wisdom."
- Graham Hancock, The Sign and the Seal

There is more to this "head" and the "practises" of the Templars. The
most nteresting one being that they worshipped an "Egregori":

"An egregori is a magical entity that is artificially created by the
focused thoughts and desires of a medium (analogous in many ways to
Tibetan tulpas. Supposedly a medium or statue could then serve as a
tenant for the egregore, nourished by the sexual life-powers of the
members"

This is all nonsense. The Egregori, in legend, are a race similar to,
but different from, Angelos, the Angels. They are the Watchers
mentioned in the book of Enoch, those who watch humankind (they are
from God, but don't always seem to be "good"). I have some ideas
about this whole thing, but I'm saving it for now. The Mayans seem to
have memories of these beings, as well. I can only speak on what I
know, but I have a feeling when I look into it further I will find it
all around the world.

Egregori is also the root of the name Gregory, which figured into this
during the discussion of Century 10, Quatrain 72, by Nostradamus.

Eliphas Levi seems to have fun with this name in History of Magic, as
well. Makes a couple of puns on the name and the meaning, devotes
(strangely) some time to Gregory the Great, makes a tongue in cheek
about Egregores, etc.

"The egregori does exist in the so-called "astral plane" and it is a
demon, that is to say, an illusory entity. It is not a true
Microcosm, but a gestalt of vitalized shells, a focus for everything
that is negative, defeatist, maudlin, bigoted, introverted in
human-nature,- a morass completely hostile to progress and to the
spiritual evolution of mankind"

The knowledge the templars brought back to Europe CAUSED the
Renaissance. You find a lot of it in Gnosticism. The templars were FAR
more spiritually mature than the Roman See.

"The representation of the egregori as bust recalls the ancient
literary tradition of animated statues or Salome, who wanted the
head of John the Baptist, probably to master his visionary powers...
the classic prototype of such an egregori is Baphomet, the alleged
egregori of the Templars, Baphomet was besought with the introduction
of the Koran and dismissed with the 24th chapter of the book of
sirach"
-From P.R. Koenig

The templars have been referred to as "Warrior Monks". It is said that
early christianity, when it was still almost exclusively practised
behind closed doors, was "mystical". That Jesus taught of a
transcendant God that each person could experience in their own minds,
that there was no need for "high priests" as such. I'll explore this
later.

Could it be that the Templars knew something about the real teachings,
or at least, meaning of the teachings, of Jesus Christ? Did they keep
a secret about the bloodline of Jesus Christ? Was this the end of it
all?
"On the evening before the raid, Thursday October 12th 1307, I
myself saw three carts loaded with straw, which left the Paris
Temple shortly before nightfall, also Gèrard de Villiers and Hugo
de Chalons, at the head of 50 horse[men]. There were chests
hidden on the carts, which contained the entire treasure of the
Visitator Hugo de Pairaud. They took the road for the coast, where
they were to be taken abroad in eighteen of the Order's ships."
- Jean de Chalons

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The wise man rests in the fear of the true God, but the fool is
overwhelmed by the terror of a false god made in his own image.