A Templar Secret Almost Betrayed
A TEMPLAR SECRET ALMOST BETRAYED.
I will never forgive myself for my carelessness. There it was, translated, it would appear, from ancient French and I let it go. The problem was, that being a particularly high official of the much criticized modern order of the Temple and a journalist at that, I had often interpreted things like these as hysterical nonsense.
The members who kept me well supplied with researched and family documentation came from ancient Templar families and they were not certain of what I had inherited from the Order itself since knowledge of any value it would seem, was only handed down through people whose special initiation, depended on trust and conviction. I suspect that it was intended to provoke a reaction and was bait, based on truth. It was written in English, clear English and well before any of the Indiana Jones charades were projected which could have made me think that their creators had something to do with it.
It has remained ingrained in my mind even before I embarked on what was probably the most exhaustive study of the nature of Templar philosophy and hidden knowledge, ever undertaken by members. To understand that, one has to tell the so called academics on the subject that their studies and false conclusions are based on a very limited superficial analysis of public, sanitized documents coupled with a prejudice that the subject produces in them. Additonally, that without a proper evaluaton of the behaviour of the knights and the reason for their symbols there is no key to go further into their cryptic and often badly disguised understandings. Understandings that produced mistaken beliefs contrary to that put forward by the ecclesiastical authorities. It was the gradual realization of things that took years to piece together in my mind that enabled me to find a way into an evaluation of the documents that the modern order had inherited. The detractors of the Order and certain simpleton modern writers taken in by spurious masonic claims, had completely ignored the nature of the curious documents attributing a contrivance that would have required the minds of Einstein and Nostradamus to invent, in an attempt to bend the so called past. The modern documents in fact are proof of the survival of the Order even if the present so called Templars have lost their way through the mediocrity and low level of culture of its so called leaders. It was this conviction that led me to rifle through every nook and cranny to find that curious document which I had thought was a load of unrelated nonsense because of its lack of provenance. It formed part of a large collection of french essays written by an eminent templar of the post second world war Order by the name of Norberto Castro of Costa Rica. He was the country’s representative to UNESCO and knew that the Order had not only survived but that the hidden knowledge had been handed down. Members of that quality were in a mayority in those days and long before the mediocrity that has riddled all sections of society allowed to lower the quality of our lives. It did not form part of that collection, but whoever handed it to me included this text in English which read like a film review. I can only surmise that like some other ones which were translations from other languages, that it had been sent on old fashioned fax machines with thermal paper and that these had darkened beyond recognition of characters. I have several of these including one that gave detailed information about the membership of a modern Scandinavian King to the Order and who had, in writing, refused to become head of the apprentices, which he called “boy scouts”. His membership, incidentally, had nothing to do with Masonic platforms, even if he was a member of that organisation also as was often the case.
The text had two key statements that stuck in my mind and I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would have included it in the dossier without intent to provoke a reaction or why the text was written in fragments, if it was merely a Mickey Mouse piece of idiocy. I now know, having discussed the subject with members of ancient templar families that it was probably taken from a letter written by a highly educated Templar of the 12th.century to State, Church or family connections on his return from the Holy Land, maybe the legendary and enigmatic Hugh de Payen himself.
The first statement, said approximately “…..when it was lifted from the ground, the air became fetid and difficult to breathe and it returned to normal when it was put back after some time..”
The second one ” at one particular point of the day, the sun rays came through and the whole area was flooded with light as it came directly into the chambers enabling us to see everything around for some distance…..”
My own prejudice and strict, sufi, objective training dismissed it all at the time as stuff and nonsense of the type that the Order has been smeared with throughout the ages, but taking into account the early seventies and long before any of the glossy writers like Baigent and Co.came into the scene (whose ideas had been taken from Gerard de Sede), I naturally went through the writings of the earlier one to find out whether I had taken it from that source.
In the early part of last century, the Order had been divided into two halves to fit the needs of some very misguided executives who thought that without the support of the Church it could not survive. This highly sceptical attitude was adopted by mainly Latin members who despite the fact that it was the Church which spent most of it time past and present trying to destroy all vestiges of the Order. The establishment attitude can be well understood in the context of some of the potentially dangerous information that the Early Templars and St. Bernard himself appaered to have found out in their calculated searches throughout the Middle East. This knowledge is not too difficult to extract and which the modern order and many other splinter groups have inherited at top level. The result of this schizoprenic behaviour on the part of the super catholics within the Order of those early, post war days, was the creation of a non Catholic, Christian version under the authority of one called The Chef Mondial. He was in that instance based in Switzerland and under him, the non Catholic branch grew rapidly, without religious prejudice, to overshadow the version based in Oporto and which had lost most of its higher level members, almost intantly. The truth of the matter was that a French Prince of the House of Chimay had already, some hundred years earlier told the Church to keep away and forever safeguarded the privacy and independence of the Order. In the transition period brought about by the Ecumenical movement, the return to normality and one indivisable Order created justifiable and important splinter movements and the loss of a great deal of documentation among which I am fairly certain was the original letter from which the translation handed to me came from. I have copies on file, taken from the French National Archives, of the correspondence for example of high level 19th, century members like the Duke of Brabant on Templar letter headings complimenting Priors on their choice of new entries. I mention this to show just how backward, academic investigations are with respect to matters which are looked down by the power establishments and on which these so called independent scholars depend for with respect to high office. I often swam against a tide of academic prejudice when sourcing out material and even from within the Order as a result of the hatred formented by the irregular divisions created by bad leadership. Much could be accounted for by the loss on the part of the continental aristocracy of control of the movement as a result of the French Revolution. All future, non aristocratic leaders were to recoil or act unwisely when confronted with material for which they were ideologically unprepared in contrast to the relative ease of absorption, as a result of the strict family training, of the aristocratic, natural guardians.
The attempt on the part of a member of the well known PD2 group associated with the murdered Calvi to absorb the identity and legitimacy of the Order and his aggressive correspondence with the Grand Master and myself, put a full stop on any attempts to file back much of the material that inevitably stayed behind in war torn and nazi dominated Europe. The last Belgian Grandmaster Van den Berg was involved in the Resistance movement and his peculiar accidental death has been attributed to a curiously reluctant execution.
implications of the curious text and subject of this exercise, are more than obvious to those who may know what it may refer to, but as time would prove, some of the contents of potentially more disturbing understandings could be gleaned from an objective analysis of much of which the Order’s members take for granted.