There are numbers of these mystic Brotherhoods which have naught to do with “civilized” countries, and it is in their unknown communities that are concealed the skeletons of the past. These “adepts” could, if they chose, lay claim to strange ancestry – H. P. Blavatsky

People establish and join secret societies because they seek power. Once they’ve achieved great power as well as wealth, they sometimes want to brag about it and let others know about their special status. To further this desire, members of secret societies – from Jesuits to Satanists – make use of the media. Highly financed movies are made to communicate to us on a non-verbal level. These movies are often ostensibly based on the books of commissioned writers, themselves lower-level agents of powerful secret societies.

Hollywood movies occasionally provide us with keyhole visions into what’s going on behind the scenes; although not enough for laymen and symbolically illiterate people to decipher and understand. That’s why so many people remain ignorant about secret societies and their ways. However if we do a little serious research, it becomes easier to see what is going on. This process is occasionally helped by whistle-blowing movies from Hollywood and other media orgs, movies such as Brotherhood of the Bell, To the Devil a Daughter, The Devil Rides Out, The Omen, Bladerunner, Freejack, Judge Dread, Fifth Element, Tombraider, The Formula, James Bond, The Da Vinci Code, National Treasure, Skulls, Eyes Wide Shut, Ninth Gate, and so on. As I said, perhaps we are deliberately BEING TOLD what is going on by the elites themselves. It’s an intriguing thought.

Of course the serious researcher does not simply base his work on media extravaganzas. My own work on secret societies is based on sources, and I strengthen my ideas with numerous statements and quotes from insiders and those who have made a deep study of secret society symbolism. In other words, the existence of secret fraternities is documented fact. Happily, if paradoxically, secret societies publish their own works which provide us with key insights into their origins and agendas.

After studying material of this kind I eventually gained greater knowledge about the workings of the world’s major secret societies – the Freemasons, Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, Knights of Malta, Jesuits, Illuminati, etc. Additionally, the artwork I decipher is that which hangs in their own clubs and lodges, and in famous shrines such as the House of the Temple in Washington DC. Interesting artwork is to be found in plenty throughout the world’s many Masonic halls that stand in almost every major town and city casually passed and ignored by most people as they go about their business. A study of the friezes and reliefs outside Masonic structures also furnished me with insight into the subtle manner in which insiders non-verbally communicate with us. I learned to go even further, and observed the many clock towers, statues, fountains, murals, floors and obelisks, etc, which exist in major towns and cities. I discovered that most cities are ritually laid out and have a more esoteric purpose than one might guess. (See my book The Trees of Life: Exposing the Art of Holy Deception, for more on this subject.)

As to the power of secret societies, we must accept that it is considerable. After doing nearly thirty years of research into these matters, I realized the extent of their sociopolitical power. I also realized that most of their operations would not receive public approval. This is partly why they prefer anonymity. Although their identities may not be secret, their rites, behavior and designs for world control are kept in the dark and out of sight to ordinary men and women. They make good use of hierarchies and fixed degree ceremonies to ensure that only the “right” kind of person gets to be an insider. Their recruiting fraternities are found in every major university and college. Their lower and higher members surround us in every school, university, corporation, livery company and charity.

To uncover their existence you must not wait for them to come out into the open. You must go into your streets with open eyes and ask yourself – Who built Bath? Who built London? Who built Washington DC, Cologne and Paris? You might not understand completely all the secrets of these fraternities, but you can eventually realize that something strange has been going from the year dot. You’ll realize the tremendous financial power that exists, out of reach of the common man. And you’ll realize the time it took to attain such power. In the end you’ll be more aware of the presence and prestige of the equestrian and chivalric orders that infest our world. You’ll understand how their many lower-level branches and fraternities work to filter out moral men and promote immoral and amoral ones.

Ask questions such as: how did a small country like England, since the 16th century, get its predatory talons into so many far off lands, conquering, colonizing and “ruling the waves?” How did a predatory exploitative organization like the Vatican (which is more than the center of the Roman Catholic religion) gain so much power? Why does it still exist after the heinous historical crimes of which it is guilty – more than 500 years of the persecution of so called “witches,” who were just ordinary women doing their thing – healing, learning about nature’s ways, knowing the secrets of herbalism and agriculture, etc. We are talking about nearly nine million victims of total deliberate slaughter. And that series of atrocities is just a single instance of the pestilence of this Roman branch of the ancient Setian-Atonist “Black Lodge” exposed throughout my works. To get away with it, and remain above the law, takes considerable power doesn’t it? Right! So what’s different when it comes to the existence of even more elusive and sinister orders?

The Vatican is allied with numerous secret orders, such as the Jesuits, Knights of Malta, Knights of Columbus, Order of Christ, Scottish Rite, Grand Orient, Opus Dei, and of course the Knights Templar – one of the most powerful organizations in the world. Some of the top degrees of what we know to be Freemasonry are Templar degrees. This is because members and agents of the Templars, within the College of Cardinals and other shadowy sects, have long infiltrated most Freemasonic societies throughout the western world. They achieved this takeover primarily through the Rosicrucians, Illuminati and other secret societies operated by their agents. Below You Can Listen To Expert Dr Erik Karlstrom On How These Groups Destroy Innocent People’s Lives Everyday Right Under Our Noses.

Warnings about this surreptitious takeover went out from men in the know during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Observant insiders, such as Nicolas de Bonneville, Samuel Pritchard, Gérard Encausse, Eliphas Levi, Augustin Barruel, John Robinson and others, believed that ostensibly Protestant orders of Masonry had been completely undermined by the Templars. There is no doubt in my mind that the same is the case for the ostensibly Protestant Rosicrucian Order that arose in the seventeenth century.

Suggestively, chief Rosicrucian symbols, such as the cross and rose, are to be found in plenty on earlier Templar graves and architecture, and in their traditions. Moreover, in Catholic dominated lodges, such as those of Grand Orient Masonry, degrees known as “Rose Cross” exist, clearly an impossibility if the Rosicrucians were truly a Protestant breakaway sect.

Around 1530, more than eighty years before the publication of the first manifesto, the association of cross and rose already existed in Portugal in the Convent of the Order of Christ, home of the Knights Templar, later renamed Order of Christ. Three bocetes were, and still are, on the vault of the initiation room. The rose can clearly be seen at the center of the cross – Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia (Entry on Roscicrucianism)

Documents available in France today contend that an Order of the Rosy Cross was founded in 1188 by a pre-Masonic Templar named Jean de Gisors, vassal of English King Henry II and the first independent grand master of the Order of Sion – Jim Marrs (Rule by Secrecy)

The Order of the Illuminati appears as an accessory to Freemasonry. It is in the Lodges of Freemasons that the Minervals are found, and there they are prepared for Illumination. They must have previously obtained the three English degrees. The founder says more. He says that his doctrines are the only true Freemasonry. He was the chief promoter of the Eclectic System. This he urged as the best method of getting information of all the explanations which have been given of the Masonic Mysteries. He was also a Strict Observance and an adept Rosicrucian – John Robinson (Born in Blood)

The Rosy Cross derived from the Red Cross of the Templars. Mirabeau, who

as a Freemason and an Illuminatus, was in a position to discover many facts

about the secret societies of Germany during his stay in the country, definitely asserts that “the Rose Croix Masons of the seventeenth century were only the ancient Order of the Templars secretly perpetuated” – Nesta Webster (quoting from Count Mirabeau’s Histoire de la Monarchie Prussienne)

In France the Knights [Templar] who left the Order, henceforth hidden, and

so to speak unknown, formed the Order of the Flaming Star and of the Rose-

Croix, which in the fifteenth century spread itself in Bohemia and

Silesia – Lecouteulx de Canteleu

Templar graves have been found in several sites in Palestine which contain a carved effigy of a warrior’s sword, which itself is a cruciform shape, around which are entwined roses – Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe (The Warriors and the Bankers)

Many writers on the Order of the Rosy Cross have alleged that the fraternity was founded by ex-members of the Templar Order after their suppression by Pope Clement – Michael Howard (Occult Conspiracy)

The insignia of a knight of the Order of the Garter consists of a jewelled collar composed of gold and red roses with five petals contained within tiny garters…Hanging from the collar is a representation of St. George, the patron saint of England, killing the dragon – ibid

Clearly the Rosicrucians served as yet one more cover society behind which cunning, far-seeing Templars managed to conceal themselves, this time under a Protestant disguise. This was an essential strategy for their subversion of Prussian and British Masonry to succeed.

In 1663 a great Masonic Congress was held, at which the famous three degrees were created and a strong Rosicrucian element was introduced into the craft. Around this same time a book appeared, written by a French priest named Depuis, which called upon the Masons to vindicate the Knights Templars, who had been dispersed and suppressed by Philippe Le Bel in the Fourteenth Century. Depuis argued that the Templars were a religious order and that the French monarchy, which had destroyed them, must be made to pay for what it had done – Father Clarence Kelly (Conspiracy Against God and Man)

Although the symbol of the red cross was bestowed on the Templars by Pope Eugenius III, it is a symbol that long predates modern times. It was originally employed by the ancient Arya, and is a goddess symbol par excellence. In Greek mythology the god of beauty, Adonis, was transformed into a rose by Venus. The red color of the flower was thereby caused by his blood. Venus is the tutelary deity of the Sisterhood. In this instance the rose symbolizes the power of the female goddess over the male acolyte who sacrificially offers his phallus (and sometimes his life) to her. It was in the twelfth century, during the reign of King Stephen, that the Templar red cross first appeared as the chief heraldic emblem of England.

St. George was venerated by the Templars who modeled themselves after him. Of course a great deal of esoteric symbolism is involved in the story of St. George and his adventures with females and dragons. Wherever the red cross is found, either on Templar emblems or images of St. George, the reference is to blood. More particularly, in the case of Masonry and Templarism it represents emasculation, the removal (ritually or physically) of the phallus. Note the proximity of the princess (with red dress) and St. George’s foot on the troublesome dragon. The dragon represents the sexual urges that allegedly bar the way to service and enlightenment. Monks shaved their heads into a tonsure to represent their own celibacy, and Jews took to wearing the yarmulke to symbolize theirs. This physical or symbolic celibacy makes sense only in regards worship of the Mother Goddess. When we see images of the god Mithras slaying the bull, the underlying implication is, as in the case of St. George and his dragon, castration.

We see that the concept of the Holy Blood does not have much to do with the Christian Jesus. That is just a convenient cover. The Templars have recently reminded us of this through Dan Brown’s extravaganza The Da Vinci Code, where it is Mary and protagonist Sophie who take center stage in the drama. In the movie’s ending scene we are left in no doubt who is of central importance for all concerned. Just before the hero arrives above the subterranean crypt of Mary Magdalene, he cuts himself “shaving,” and is then shown following a blood trail (the Rose Line) to her resting place below an Egyptian-style pyramid at the Louvre. We then see him kneel exactly as knights do to signify his chivalric dedication to her name. Clearly Mary not Jesus is the way, the truth and the light.

These largely Templaresque chivalric or equestrian orders own immense wealth and command titanic power. They are the Alpha Lodges that don’t accept you and I or any common man. They are headed by extremely privileged individuals such as King Juan Carlos of Spain, the Duke of Kent, Queen Beatrix of Holland, and Queen Elizabeth of England, as well as those she appoints to her so-called Privy Council, Order of St. Michael and St. George and Knights of the Garter. Men from these illustrious bodies commission other important societies around the world, both secret and open, for the recruitment of loyal members whose job it is to interface with the “unwashed” masses. These recruits come from the Catholic world as much as from the Protestant, which should have alerted interested parties long ago.

The various British, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese elite counsels serve even higher, more elusive concerns which I refer to as the “Black Lodge.” This term refers to the superior council of Setian-Atonists whose origins trace back to the time of Pharaoh Akhenaton, the Biblical Moses. The all-powerful Black Lodge in turn authorizes the various societies and councils mentioned above to vet and select the many other less-informed lieutenants who get to run the governments, institutes and think-tanks of countries throughout the world. These lower-level pawns are the common duplicitous politicians and functionaries we are all too familiar with. These “opposames” certainly do not serve you or I. Nowadays, because of the unceasing work of researchers such as myself, many intelligent people realize this fact.

Indeed, the main reason why we tend to doubt the existence and power of secret societies is simply because we are not members of the club. It all goes on in the shadows and periphery of vision. You have to make a detailed lifelong study to uncover the roots of this pestilence. You must learn to endure the ridicule of almost everyone you attempt to awaken on these controversial matters. You must also be able to keep track of the seismic changes and dynastic rivalries that have occurred within the world of secret societies. Some of these feuds and purges are known to the public while others have been kept secret for centuries.

The role of women in regards the world’s most powerful secret societies is one area neglected by mainstream historians, and for good reason. The Female Illuminati is second to none in authority, and their senior members have seen to it that knowledge of their existence does not leak out. Most people are inclined to believe that women play no part whatsoever in Masonry or Templarism. As I explain in the Female Illuminati program, Nothing could be further from the truth. Not only did women birth, raise and marry male demagogues the world over – those who apparently established infamous secret societies – but women were in many cases top members of these societies.

Dudley Wright said in his book Women and Freemasonry, that “there is evidence in days gone by that women were admitted into the Order of the Knights Templar,” substantiated by the recent discovery of Templar gravestones for women – Tony Bushby (Secret in the Bible)

Rene de Anjou’s daughter, Margarite de Anjou married the last Lancastrian king before the War of the Roses, Henry VI of England, in 1445, and played a prominent part in the Wars of the Roses which began in 1455. It was Margarite’s daughter Iolande who became Grand Master of the Priory de Sion in 1430 ​– Nicholas Hagger

As to the origin of the Illuminati, you can look to two interesting men to gain understanding. One is Ignatius Loyola of Spain and the other is Adam Weishaupt of Germany. Ignatius Loyola was the founder of the infamous Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuit Order. He was their first “General” or “Black Pope.”

Curiously, the Jesuit Order (the only Catholic order ever to be officially suppressed and penalized by the Papacy) was abolished in the year 1773. Pope Clement XIV finally, with some reluctance, issued a Papal Brief (order) completely abolishing the Jesuit Order, supposedly for all time. Now we ask, are we to accept it as a coincidence that the Illuminati (under Weishaupt) come online, as it were, in the year 1776?

The Jesuits had been in trouble with numerous powerful monarchs in Europe and South America for over ten years before the ban was issued. So they were well and truly aware of what was in store for them and their nefarious order. Before the hammer came down in 1773, the Jesuits anticipated their dire predicament and fomented plans for a clandestine resurgence. In fact the Jesuits were already experienced at creating satellite orders throughout the world for their members to conceal themselves behind during times when local suppression occurred. So it was easy for them to resurface under a new guise when the situation demanded it. After their worldwide ban, their new organ of concealment, infiltration and destruction was in my opinion the Bavarian Illuminati.

But what further proof do we have other than the coinciding dates? Well, the name “Illuminati” itself takes us straight to the door of Ignatius Loyola. As a young man in Spain he had been arrested and charged with membership and support of the notorious sect known as the Alumbrados, which may have originated in the 1490s. Loyola was arrested, charged with heresy and imprisoned due to his affiliation with the sect. He lost his university position and was under strict surveillance for some time because of his open affiliation with the secretive illegal society. Suggestively, the Alumbrados were also known as “The Illuminati.” They referred to themselves as the Brothers of Light or Shining Ones. So do we take it as a coincidence that the later Bavarian Illuminists just happened to adopt this title from the selfsame order favored by the founder and head of the Jesuits?

The rhetoric and propaganda released by the Illuminati and their agents, concocted to distance themselves from the Jesuits – and to give the appearance of being anti-monarchist – does not change the facts. Adam Weishaupt was himself a Jesuit and in our opinion he remained so until the end. He was not anti-monarchy because some of his closest compatriots, such as Baron von Knigge, were nobles related to illustrious dynasties such as Stuart, Hesse, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Hapsburg, Bourbon, Lorraine, and others. Moreover, Weishaupt languished in the homes of the nobility for the last forty years of his life, even receiving a lifelong pension from Ernest II, the Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, himself an Illuminati member.

Apparently the Lutheran Duke did not mind working alongside Catholic members such as the Count de Mirabeau and Duc d’Orleans, etc. Another confederate and co-creator of the Bavarian Illuminati was Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, from the family which employed the Rothschilds as treasurers and investors. Prince William’s brother Karl was both an elite Mason and an Illuminist. The merger of the Illuminati and the Masons occurred at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad, in 1777, at a cozy retreat owned by Prince William.

The Weishaupt documents are incontestably authentic; the Bavarian government unwittingly forestalled any attempt to cry “Forgery” (in the manner made familiar in our century) by inviting any who were interested to inspect the original documents in the archives at Munich ­– Douglas Reed (Controversy of Zion)

The Duke of Brunswick (Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand), himself a senior Mason, sounded a worldwide warning about the subversive agenda of the Templar-Jesuit-Illuminists. His address of 1794 informed the world as to the danger of the Illuminist infiltration of Masonry. During his speech, the Duke warned: A great sect arose, which taking for its motto the good and the happiness of man, worked in the darkness of the conspiracy to make the happiness of humanity a prey for itself. This sect is known to everyone; its brothers are known no less than its name. He continued saying:

They deluged the world with a multitude of publications; they recruited apprentices of every rank and in every position; they deluded the most perspicacious men by falsely alleging different intentions. They sowed in the hearts of youth the seed of covetousness, and they excited it with the bait of the most insatiable passions. Indomitable pride, thirst of power, such were the only motives of this sect: their masters had nothing less in view than the thrones of the earth, and the government of the nations was to be directed by their nocturnal clubs – Duke of Brunswick (Manifesto of 1794)

The Duke referred to the infiltrators and corrupters as a “Sun Order.” In our opinion this intriguing reference describes and leads us to the door of the ancient Atonist Order of Zadok or Melchizedek, that is of Pharaoh Akhenaton and his ideological descendants, i.e., the Knights Templar, Strict Observance, Grand Orient, Jesuits, and other clandestine orders.

Weishaupt’s order was partly financed by the Jewish Rothschild dynasty, but all is revealed when we remember that the Rothschilds were, and still are, Papal Knights. The Swiss branch of the Rothschilds, in particular, have long been loyal servants of the Catholic Hapsburg dynasty, the College of Cardinals, and families that make up Italy’s oligarchy – the infamous “Black Nobility.”

Many members of the Hofjuden or “Court Jews,” are Knights of Malta – a super-wealthy order directly related to the Templars and Knight Hospitallers (or Knights of St. John). Indeed the Templars and Jesuits indulged in banking and tax-collecting before the Jews. The Rothschilds began banking enterprises in the eighteenth century, whereas the Templars were involved in banking in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries. (See Article II for how the Jews became entangled with the Atonist Black Lodge)

The Templars eventually became so rich that the monarchs of some of the kingdoms within which they operated were wholly dependent on their support. Several kings of England actually lodged the treasury of the realm at the Templar headquarters in London, as surety against the massive debts they ran up with the order. This gave the Templars great power to influence decision-making, and they regularly acted as arbiters for warring monarchs – Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe (The Knights Templar Revealed)

…the Templars became bankers to every throne in Europe. They lent money to hard-up monarchs at low interest rates and transferred money for merchant bankers. Through a system of promissory notes they allowed money deposited in one city to be drawn in another. They became money-changers and powerful capitalists who conducted diplomacy between monarchs. In England the Master of the Temple was soon given precedence over all other priors and abbots – Nicholas Hagger (Secret History of the West)

By the beginning of the thirteenth century the Templars had become the international bankers of Europe and were appointed treasurers to the French royal family and the Vatican – Michael Howard (Occult Conspiracy)

The Rothschilds, for all their colossal power and wealth, were and are servants of the more secretive and illustrious Gaonim or Order of Melchizedek that merely expanded its ancient order into what we know as Masonry, the Templars and Bavarian Illuminati, etc. Once this is understood a lot of missing pieces of the puzzle fall into place.

The Jews have historically been used as a hidden order of the Catholic Church. They do the things that the Catholic Church does not like to be seen doing. Jews are perfect for the job…As long as people rail at the Jews, and as long as they rail back at their attackers, no one will look beyond the Jews – and that is where the body is buried – Richard Kelley Hoskins (In the Beginning: The Story of the International Trade Cartel)

The Jews appear as abject servants of the Catholic Church…To the ‘Alpha Jews’ the door of the Church corporation stands wide open. There are countless Jewish priests, scores of Jewish cardinals and bishops, and some like Anaclet II, Gregory VI and Gregory VII became Popes – ibid

…you hear of the Rothschilds in the world of finance. They are not the originators of the control over finance and the practices therein. But they have been given a franchise to control the money aspect of the people of the world. In return for their exercising this control and keeping their mouth shut they are given handsome privileges of money manipulation and of course increase their money wealth by leaps and bounds – Norman Dodd (Reese Commission Research Director)

As early as 1791 allegations concerning the role of the Masons and the Illuminati were already beginning to circulate. They were largely based on the confession of Cagliostro who had been arrested by the Inquisition in 1789. In an attempt to save his life, Cagliostro told his accusers about the international conspiracy by the Illuminati, the neo-Templars and the Freemasons to start revolutions all over France…He even claimed that the House of Rothschild…had supplied funds to finance the French Revolution and that they were acting as agents for the Illuminati – Michael Howard (Occult Conspiracy)

The stories which assert that the Rothschilds built their fortune on funds entrusted to them by the Prince of Hesse and from the profits they netted from the false rumor they spread that the English had lost at Waterloo do not appear to account for their vast wealth. They may have come into the great wealth because Jewish bankers had accumulated it from the times of the de Medicis and even earlier – C. J. Bjerknes (The Jewish Genocide of the Armenians)

This obviously has the ring of truth. Jews as a tribe and tiny demographic have been in the world for millennia. They’ve craved their homeland Israel for almost as long, from the period of their alleged “Exiles” in Babylon and Persia long before the birth of Christ. If they were as powerful and wealthy as many believe, they’d have secured Israel for themselves long before 1948. Yet this they strangely found impossible for centuries until western Gentiles finally conspired and gave Israel to them. These western potentates and ministers achieved overnight what all the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, and kings of Russia, Spain, Portugal, Iran, Persia, Babylon, and elsewhere never managed to do – what the richest Jews in the east and west were themselves unable to achieve.

The Sabbatean-Frankist-Illuminists not only included members of the infamous Rothschild family – agents of the Templar-Luciferians – but also Moses Mendelssohn, one of the five original members of the Illuminati.

The story of how “Jews” came to be involved with the Templars is explained further down.

Loyola, Francis Xavier, and other early Jesuits wrote that they were intentionally organizing their fledgling society along the lines of the Knights Templar, the renegade once Catholic order suppressed by the Church in the fourteen century. So why would the situation have been different in the eighteenth century when the curtain was temporarily brought down on the Jesuits by higher authority? I do not think it was different. I think the Jesuits simply adopted the structure of their parent order – the Templars. I also believe it was Templar agents within the Vatican who, during the reign of Pope Pius VII, worked to overturn Pope Clement’s ban and restore the Jesuits legally to their original prominent station.

Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) and Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830). Both men were Jesuits and “Illuminists.” Loyola and his order were obsessively dedicated to the Virgin Mary while the members of the Illuminati referred to themselves as “Minervals,” after the goddess Minerva. One of Minerva’s mascots was the owl, the bird that hunts at night and sees what is invisible to those who dwell in the light of day. Mary and Minerva are both “virginal” icons. This is a reference not to sex but to the female Dragon Court behind the more conspicuous male orders. Minerva is a “rebel” goddess who assisted Prometheus to steal the heavenly fire. Her origin lies with the most ancient Egyptian goddess Neith, the “Red Queen.” The red shield and arrows that appear on the Rothschild family crest allude to Neith, who was transmogrified into Pallas-Athena or Minerva. The single eye is also a prime goddess symbol. The Frankfurt branch of the Illuminati was entitled the “All Seeing Eye Lodge,” once headed by the notorious Jacob Frank, head of the Setian-Luciferian order of Frankists.

It is interesting and suggestive that both Loyola and Weishaupt were Jesuits. They may also have had Jewish ancestry. In any case, it is significant that they were Roman Catholics before they founded their secretive cabals. This tells us that, after becoming Masons in their younger days, they were later recruited and indoctrinated by Templar agents.

As never before since our alienation, this battle for freedom can now be fought by all Germans, and virtuously ended in the clear perception of our enemies: Jews, Freemasons, Jesuits and the Roman Pope – General Erich Ludendorff (Destruction of Freemasonry)

Not only does the fraternity (Freemasonry) owe its existence to Templarism, the fraternity seems to loudly proclaim it in a number of ways – Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe

I have shown from authentic documents that, from its introduction into France by monks until the advent of the reign of James I of England, British Masonry was purely Roman Catholic, and that its Grand Masters, of whom I have provided the official list, were drawn exclusively from the Court, the Nobility or the Prelacy…Despite the birth of the distinctive Masonry of William of Orange in 1694, the ancient British Masonry preserved its ancient statutes under the Protestant King and remained Roman Catholic: proof of this is to be found in the precious Masonic documents which I propose to publish, and which escaped the mad orgy of destruction at the hands of the innovators of modern Masonry in 1747 – Brother Teder (L’irregularite du Grand Orient de France, 1909)

It is claimed that before his execution the last Grand Master of the Templars, Jacques de Molay, assigned Hugo von Salm, a canon of Mainz, the mission of smuggling important Templar documents into Scotland. De Molay’s hope was that the Templars could be reactivated there under another name. That name, according to the tradition, is Freemasonry. Strict Observance Masonry incorporated references to the Templars into its rites and degrees – Glenn Magee (Hegel & the Hermetic Tradition)

As your study continues you’ll find that there are many lies told about these men and their orgs. Adam Weishaupt’s group is erroneously considered to have been anti-royalist. This assertion is blatantly false. Adam Weishaupt received additional support and funding from various nobles and royals, such as Baron von Knigge, and more significantly from Charles de Lorraine and the Duke de Orleans, that is by members of the Stuart, Hapsburg, Bourbon, Lorraine, Capet, and other powerful European dynasties. Members of these royal families were seniors within other powerful secret societies such as the Rosicrucians, Strict Observance and Scottish Rite, etc. Some sources believe it was Charles de Lorraine (working under the pseudonym Kolmer) who divulged esoteric secrets to Weishaupt and commissioned him to establish the Illuminati. And the elusive Charles was no commoner. He was a true blue blood. So the idea that the Illuminati were against monarchy is laughable. The only monarchs and nobles they were against were those not under their control and not members of their perfidious Brotherhood. Interestingly the highest grade attainable within the Illuminati bore the title REX meaning “King.” A strange title to bestow upon the highest initiate of a supposedly anti-royalist cabal, right? It makes sense if your order is based on the Templar tradition, in which case the “King” in question is Lucifer, Lord of Light.

The man who is good for nothing better remains a Scottish Knight. If he is, however, a particularly industrious coordinator, observer, worker, he becomes a Priest…If there are among these (Priests) high speculative intellects, they become Magi. These collect and put in order the higher philosophical system and work at the People’s Religion, which the Order will next give to the world. Should these high geniuses also be able to rule the world, they will become regents – Adam Weishaupt

Yes, by Weishaupt’s own words we see that it is a matter of “ruling” the world, not “helping” the world. Nice of him to be so explicit.

The Templar-Illuminists merely adopted an anti-royalist stance because it was an expedient ruse. It got them where they wanted to go. Societies of this kind are very chameleon-like. They know their enemies and how to subvert them. They know how to lure and win favor. They know how to create and sustain faux rival groups to prevent authentic rival groups from moving against them. This tactic has served the powers-that-be no end. The propaganda they dished out in the eighteenth century was cunningly designed to attract rebellious young men of wealth and intelligence from all over the world. After all, you don’t want your secret society full of idiots. The idea was to attract such men in order to prevent them forming or joining authentic opposition movements which were sprouting up throughout Europe and the Middle East. In order to seduce the young idealistic freedom-loving sons of wealthy royals and nobles, the Illuminati cunningly professed to be politically progressive and morally libertine. New recruits inevitably fell under the control of their puppeteers. Susceptible types were successfully indoctrinated, whereas overly suspicious radicals who sensed they were being misled were professionally or even physically assassinated. After generations of Machiavellian scheming, the Illuminati’s agents ensconced themselves in every religious, political and corporate organization and institution, intent on changing the direction of world events to suit their sinister agendas. It is only in relatively recent times that humanity has been made aware of these machinations, and there’s still a ways to go before we can successfully subvert these blood-soaked crime lords and architects of control.

One of the biggest lies told about the Jesuits is that they are indelibly liberal. Nothing could be further from the truth. They adopted a liberal facade in the twentieth century to fool moderns. A study of their vile history shows how ultra-conservative or ultramontanist they are beneath the surface. One reason for the facade has to do with their intention of moving the governments of Europe and America toward the creation of multinational organizations such as the United Nations, an impossible task until they adopted a more humanitarian and benign guise.

In any case, regardless of the Templar-Jesuit connection, it is not right to think that the perfidious Order of the Illuminati began in the 1700s. Nor is it correct to think of Masonry starting in the 17th and 18th centuries. As we said, the Alumbrados date from the fifteenth century, and there are other orders that preceded them, such as the Templars, Hospitallers and Rosicrucians, etc. Churches and monuments in France dating to the 5th century display Masonic emblems, and scholars have found Masonic symbols in the artwork and architecture of ancient Egypt. Masonic-style aprons were certainly worn by early pharaohs and Phoenicians. Templar-like crosses can be seen on the regalia of Sumerian and Babylonian kings. Moreover, there are many eminent Masonic writers who have emphasized their society’s antiquity. More importantly, the multifaceted symbolism employed by these societies – the coffin, triangle, pyramid, pentagram, hexagram, twin pillars, checked floor, compass, letter G, etc – is undoubtedly ancient. This idiosyncratic symbolism conceals the “mysteries” to be uncovered and understood, mysteries that lead back to ancient Egypt and beyond.

Smith, in his chapter on the antiquity of Masonry in Britain, says that “notwithstanding the obscurity which envelopes Masonic history in that country, various circumstances contribute to prove that Freemasonry was introduced into Britain about 1030 years before Christ” – Thomas Paine (The Origins of Freemasonry)

A statue of Aion (Phanes), unearthed from a Roman villa of the first century CE and now preserved in the Vatican, depicts him winged and naked except for a Masonic-type apron – Michael Howard (Occult Conspiracy)

…it is seen that Freemasonry also existed in the 1300s, as shown by documents that are still in existence. These include the Regius and Cooke documents – Sanford Holst (Sworn in Secret)

The symbols of Freemasonry reflect much of its heritage, and reach back far into antiquity – ibid

…any person who has looked at the issues carefully must first come to the conclusions that not only did the Knights Templar, in one form or another, very definitely survive beyond 1307, but that Freemasonry, on one form or another, significantly predates the 18th century – Butler and Dafoe (The Knights Templar Revealed)

It is also important to realize that the Illuminati is not an exclusively western phenomenon. Some researchers believe the Templars were heavily influenced by Middle-Eastern and Oriental occult societies and traditions, so much so that they willingly, if secretly, renounced Christianity. According to some sources this accounts for why their parent order, the Priory de Sion, excommunicated the Templars in the year 1188. It is also the reason the Templars were officially suppressed in 1314 by the reigning Pope and King of France. I prefer to believe that it was after their coffers were seized and their leaders arrested and tortured that the Templars became apostates.

The Eastern Illuminati include societies such as the Druze, Ishmalis, Assassins, Sabbateans and Seveners, themselves branches of the super-secret Order of Melchizedek or Atonist Black Lodge that goes back to ancient Egypt. Although the Sabbateans and Seveners (like later Frankists) were officially founded by Jewish and crypto-Jewish occultists, their true origins lie in ancient times with the elusive Gaonim. Significantly, the Gaonim – themselves high-degree Setian-Atonists – referred to themselves as Exilarchs or Princes of Light. They and their many agents constitute the male family tree of the all too real Illumined Ones or Illuminati.

The famous letter “G” seen on Masonic emblems (and several corporate logos) signifies not only this illustrious patriarchal cadre, but the even more elusive and peculiar quorum they serve, those I refer to as the Serpent or Dragon Sisterhood, or Female Illuminati. (The lower case “g” signifies the serpent or dragon.) The emanating light often seen around the G is not the light of the sun, but of the planet Venus, sacred to the Sisterhood and known in esoteric circles as the Shekinah.

There must be something not only secretive but prestigious about Masonry and its kindred societies for men of eminence and intelligence to want to join and participate. The Gaonate were made up of elite Pharisees and Sadducees who went underground after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70. These elites were already part of the Egyptian Order of Melchizedek (Akhenaton) that had many devotees and agents in Judea, Palestine and Rome. Although ordinary orthodox Jews worship Jehovah, the male god, the higher echelons within or behind Judaism (the Gaonim and later Sabbateans and Frankists) worship the Goddess Asherah (Venus, Lucifer), also known as the Shekinah. The checkerboard on which Washington stands represents the two phases of the planet Venus – the rising and setting, or morning and evening phases. Note the also the crescent and comet above Washington’s head. The reason for these celestial motifs is explained in the program. (Here for more…)

Note George Washington’s lambskin apron or abnet. Aprons are female symbols, originally worn in Egypt by semi-naked pubescent girls in order to conceal their genitalia during periods of menstruation. Masons wear them to symbolically feminize themselves and present themselves as ritually (and maybe even physically) castrated eunuchs in service to their Goddess. Masonic aprons are loaded with female symbolism, as I show in the program. There can be little doubt that Weishaupt, Loyola, and men of their abnormal kind, were desexed eunuchs expertly hiding their pathological tendencies behind the veneer of patriarchal edifices such as the Catholic Church and Templarist secret societies; the Templars themselves being ardent disciples of the ancient Dragon Sisterhood. The genital “wounding” also serves as a ritual imitation of the wound of Lucifer who fell into the depths of the underworld, deprived of his virility and authority.

These Atonist-Judites must not necessarily be confused with those referred to as Jews. Common Judaism of the religious kind, as well as political Zionism, are merely two of many branches that have grown from this rotten family tree of sorcerers. In fact, Christianity is itself also the creation of this faustian Solar Cult, being yet one more corrupted theology of light. St. Paul (the cover name of Josephus Flavius Arrius Piso) was commissioned to write his works on Jesus by his shadowy Atonist masters within the Gaonate. (The reasons for this are detailed in my book The Irish Origins of Civilization.)

Another important branch of the Atonist (Setian) Gaonate hides itself behind the ostensibly Catholic College of Cardinals. Agents of this prestigious Luciferian quorum in turn direct the operations of other functioning secret societies throughout the world, such as the Knights of Malta, Grand Orient, Opus Dei, Knights of Columbus, Order of Christ, Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Order of the Thistle, Order of St. Patrick, United Irishmen, Ancient Order of Hibernians, and so on. They even control ostensibly Protestant societies such as the Rosicrucians, Order of St. John, Orange Lodge, Black Perceptory, etc. This is obvious when one studies the symbolism employed by these societies. For the most part it is purely Templar symbolism. What does this mean? Simply that men from such societies, after being seduced into reversing their allegiances, become willing agents for their one-time enemies. This is the case for every secret society throughout the world. It means that behind lodge doors, and for those of higher degree, the obvious political allegiances dividing common men mean little.

But what are we told when we ask about the origin of this little known illustrious society – the Gaonim? Well, ordinary religious Jews are wont to repeat the fallacies they’ve swallowed. They tell us that they probably originated after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 AD and split between Pharisees and Sadducees. They sometimes say they originated when Moses transmitted the secret Oral Law or Torah to the 70 elders of Israel on Mount Sinai; or that they were founded after the Israelites were released from their captivity in Babylon, or from the time of the secretive thirteenth tribe of Levites. This is true to a point, as long as we realize that the Levites themselves have an ancestry that goes even further back to the time of Akhenaton (known in occult circles as Melchizedek), and the powerful Hyksos nobility that mainstream historians are reluctant to coherently comment on. This is chiefly because they know what ordinary folks are never meant to know – that the Hyksos nobility (and Levites) were originally high-born Scythians from Ireland, England and Scandinavia. Yes, many are the false leads and dead ends. It takes many years of arduous study to see behind the carefully crafted tall tales and smoke screens.

Eventually, with the assistance of the Hyksos-Atonist descended Merovingian kings and Knights Templar, the Gaonim (or Order of Melchizedek) surfaced bearing a new title – that of “Freemasons.” (One translation of this term is “Brothers of the Sun.”) Under a Jewish veneer, lodges such as the infamous Lodge Theodore were formed to preserve the Gaonim’s hoary traditions and allow “brothers” to meet and plot in secrecy.

This explains why so many Masonic tropes and ritual leitmotifs appear to be “Jewish” in origin. Exoteric researchers falsely believe this is all there is to the symbolism of Masonry. It’s what they are meant to believe. In fact the origin of Masonic symbolism far predates the rise of Judaism in all its configurations and permutations. As I show, esoteric Judaism, like Masonry, is nothing less than corrupted Irish Druidism in the form of Egyptian Atonism – the Jewish Jehovah being none other than Aton, Lord of Light. (For more on this great story visit my Irish Origins of Civilization website).

The reason for the many lies regarding Masonry’s deliberately obscured origins is explained in my Female Illuminati program. I show how many cunning lies have been spun about Masonry’s origins, and why. I reveal what Masonic symbolism really means, and who rules from the highest echelons. Controversially, I show that Masonry is not the predominately male institution we have been led to believe. On the contrary, Masonry’s male-dominated parent orders (mentioned throughout this article) were originally founded and controlled by an enclave of supremely powerful females whose existence has been kept secret for centuries. It is the existence and history of this medusan or stygian Serpentine Sisterhood (or Female Dragon Court) which intrigues me personally, and which has never before been exposed to the world. I believe this group’s history is traceable not only to ancient Egypt but to the prediluvian world – to Atlantis.

The full participation of women in the central Mysteries of antiquity went far deeper than was hitherto conceded, and many high profile women were full initiates into the innermost secrets of the Egyptian temples – Tony Bushby (Secret in the Bible)

These shadowy cabals are predators of a kind. They can be countered and even destroyed once we are in possession of the facts about the true nature of evil. Sadly most of us are woefully ignorant about the workings of evil, especially that emanating from higher up the socioeconomic power-pyramid. In our modern age we are extremely backward in subjects of this kind. We may be very humanitarian and caring about what goes on in the world around us, and may care deeply about the plight of our brothers and sisters. Yes, but what good is all that humanitarianism if we fail to have sophisticated knowledge about the predatory tiger in the long grass that works to subvert our good work? What do we know about its origin, mentality and habits? That predator knows a great deal about us, which is why until now it has been winning the GREAT GAME. This situation must change, and soon!

The Female Illuminati program is the result of the painstaking effort of decades. It is a slow piecing together of a controversial world picture in which we are all involved. Like an archaeologist at a dig, you don’t know what the final old parchment or vase will look like. You gradually piece it together until it’s finally assembled, and then stand back to see what it has to tell you about the world of the past. This is what I’ve done over the years, and it’s been a very worthwhile and rewarding commitment.

It’s a great study because it exposes the sick crime-families that have plagued our world for so long, and overcomes the WAR ON CONSCIOUSNESS which has been going on for millennia and which must be brought to an end, come what may.

Truth Against the World

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Power of the Templars





All revolutionaries and murderers since then had been part of a single ‘Templar’ society – including Cromwell, the murderer of Henry IV of France, conspirators in Portugal, Brazil and Sweden, and of course Robespierre and Danton – Edward Burman (The Assassins: Holy Killers of Islam)

In my program The Female Illuminati I prove that the Knights Templar served as one of the main tentacles of the Sisterhood of Death. I show how the order is tied in with the Egyptian Atonists and Gaonim, and how via the Culdean monks of Ireland they gained access to the troves of wisdom confiscated from the Druids and Bards of the prehistoric west. Their peculiar appearance, long hair, bizarre traditions and suggestive symbolism leads us to the door of the more sinister orders operating behind them, ensconced in Britain a thousand years before the rise of the Templars.

Of course nothing remains static for long in the world of ordinary populations or of secret societies. There have been minor and major disputes, feuds and upheavals on all levels, not to mention short and long-term rivalries between individual members and entire branches of certain shadowy orders. Some internecine squabbles and conflicts become known publicly, while others occur unseen by ordinary people going about their business. Some investigators have written exceptional books on these events to show how the activities of secret societies impact and shape world history. I provide a short list below of suggested titles on the history and rivalries of the Knights Templar, the most malignant and powerful secret society of modern history.

Let’s take a brief look at the affluence, influence and control of the Machiavellian Knights Templar, courtesy of authors past and present:



…the Templars became the servants and companions of kings and princes: from the beginning they were trusted familiars in royal courts...The financial dealings of the Templars led them straight to the royal treasuries, of which they were frequently keepers. From the early thirteenth century onwards the Temple in Paris was in effect the French Royal Treasury – Peter Partner (The Murdered Magicians)



Templars came from that section of the lower nobility which supplied the kings with the households servants and officials who did their familiar business. As a result the kings were influential in the affairs of the Temple: both Richard I of England and Saint Louis of France nominated their own candidate to the office of Grand Master of the Temple – ibid



Alexander III was the most lavish of all popes in privileges for the Templar Order, perhaps because he borrowed money from them. From this time onwards the Templars were papal chamberlains and almoners: they were also involved in the collection of crusading taxes…Knights of the Order were often among the pope’s bodyguards and intimates – ibid



Both orders (Templars and Hospitallers) controlled not only the large sums and subventions in kind which came from the west, but also substantial estates in the east which were given them by the governments of the crusading states – ibid



…for a century and a half no important decision was taken in the Holy Land without consulting the Grand Masters of the Military Orders – ibid



The estates of the Templars had been conferred after the dissolution to the Order upon the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, whose successors, the Knights of Malta, still enjoyed some of the remaining incomes – ibid



They were deeply involved in building a supply network throughout Europe for practical survival and were involved in farming, ship building, horse raising, castle construction, weapons manufacture, and accounting. They eventually developed their own clergy and were rewarded with papal privileges that extended far into the realm of politics and warfare. They became a force of their own right, the pope’s private army, free of external allegiance to European kings and the Palestinian baronage – James Wasserman (The Temple of Solomon)



The Order grew extremely wealthy as well, functioning ultimately as bankers for those who traveled the dangerous route from Europe to the Holy Land and sought to protect their wealth by depositing it in trust in European Templar strongholds. The Templars thus developed the modern practice of checking checking accounts. A pilgrim would place funds in Europe and receive a signed certificate of deposit. As he traveled and when he arrived in the Holy Land, he could draw cash from Templar strongholds to meet his needs – ibid



…the Templar order accumulated vast holdings of land in Europe donated by wealthy aristocrats who sought the spiritual benefits of charitable giving – ibid



By the beginning of the thirteenth century the Templars had become the international bankers of Europe and were appointed treasurers to the French royal family and the Vatican – Michael Howard (Occult Conspiracy)



Almost at once the Templars became bankers to every throne in Europe. They lent money to hard-up monarchs at low interest rates and transferred money for merchant bankers…They became money-changers and powerful capitalists who conducted diplomacy between monarchs. In England the Master of the Temple was soon given precedence over all other priors and abbots – Nicholas Hagger (Secret History of the West)



…the Templars held over nine thousand manors all over Europe, plus mills and markets. In addition to these income-producing properties, the Templars had other sources of revenue. Loot taken or shared in by any brother went to the order. During its two hundred years of existence, over twenty thousand initiates brought land or money dowries to the order – John J. Robinson (Born in Blood)



The Knights Templar came to own estates of varying size scattered throughout Europe from Denmark, Scotland and the Orkney Islands in the north, to France, Italy and Spain in the south. In England and Wales alone they had over 5,000 properties. They also extended their interests into Africa, establishing a major presence in Ethiopia, where the Essene Book of Enoch was eventually rediscovered many centuries later – Christopher Knight and Alan Butler (The Hiram Key Revisited)



…the Templars were firmly established in England by 1154 and had already obtained lands, privileges and exemptions of importance. This was the foundation on which the Templars were to build their great edifice of power, wealth and influence – Thomas Parker (The Knights Templar in England)



In their capacity as financial agents of the crown…they became for a time a direct part of the king’s administration…In economic affairs, the Templars played their most important role. Wealthy from their own lands and goods which they managed efficiently, constantly active in trade and commerce which they profited from, and deeply concerned with matters of finance in which they engaged effectively and creatively, the Templars became expert accountants, outstanding administrators, and active promoters of credit…In a very real sense, during the late twelfth and all of the thirteenth centuries, they were the greatest bankers in England, easily overshadowing the Jews, but, but being eventually themselves overshadowed by the Italian merchants – ibid



…the English Templars consistently and quite rapidly expanded their property until they became numbered along the great landlords of the realm – ibid



Besides agriculture, which was practiced throughout England and was their major economic concern, the Templars engaged in trade and commerce and in financial operations. Wool, and to a lesser degree,grain sent to Flanders and France, were the chief import. More important than trade and commerce, but less important than agriculture, were the numerous financial activities of the Templars. The exchange of money, the acceptance of cash and valuables for deposit, the transfer of funds, the issuance of cash and credit instruments, the execution of trusts, and the grant of loans were systematically and widely engaged in. Indeed, until superseded by the Italian merchants in the last half of the thirteenth century, the Templars were the foremost bankers in western Europe. In England, their chief clients were the kings – ibid



The close relationship of the Templars to the English crown is also to be seen in the grant of privileges to them and in their use as officials and advisers to the kings in matters political and administrative as well as economic. To their religious privileges and exemption from ecclesiastical taxation of all kinds and independence from all ecclesiastical authority save that of the pope, must be added their political privileges – granted to them and repeatedly confirmed by all the kings from Stephan to Edward I – and of exemption from secular taxation and ordinary feudal burdens and of jurisdiction over their lands and persons and over those of their vassals and tenants as well. These privileges made the Templars independent of local ecclesiastical and lay authorities and responsible only to the pope and the king. The kings found the Templars reliable and effective as envoys and advisers and as collectors and keepers of royal revenues – ibid



The Templars eventually became so rich that the monarchs of some of the kingdoms within which they operated were wholly dependent on their support. Several kings of England actually lodged the treasury of the realm at the Templar headquarters in London, as surety against the massive debts they ran up with the order. This gave the Templars great power to influence decision-making, and they regularly acted as arbiters for warring monarchs – Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe (The Knights Templar Revealed)



We are entitled to ask: “From where did the financial impetus to even commence the Templar empire come?” The nine knights who attended the Troyes gathering of 1128 were, according to orthodox accounts, “poor.” In fact, this as reflected in the name chosen for the order because they were the “Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon.” Nothing could be further from the truth, for even if the founder knights themselves were not of middle-ranking aristocratic stock…they had extremely rich backers, not the least of whom was the fabulously rich Hugh Count of Champagne. But all the money in Champagne could not have financed the exploits of the Templars on the field of battle alone – ibid



The Templars were far from being a bunch of holy soldiers. They became involved on a massive scale in international banking and running the biggest fleet of merchant ships seen up to that time. The Templars owned and controlled entire towns and, even more importantly, because of their money-lending schemes, they also controlled the crowned heads of many states, who became deeply indebted to them – Alan Butler (City of the Goddess)



They had entered the scene as “Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ,” but no description could have been less accurate. Among their ranks were to be found the wealthiest people of Europe: leading bankers from London and Paris, among whose customers were Blanche of Castile, Alphonso de Poitiers, and Robert of Artois. The finance ministers of James I of Aragon, and Charles I of Naples and the chief advisor of Louis VII of France were all Templars – Harun Yahya (The Knights Templar)



…the Templars possessed nine thousand manors or lordships in Christendom, besides a large revenue and immense riches arising from the constant charitable bequests and donations of sums of money from pious persons. “They were also endowed,” says James of Vitry, bishop of Acre, “with farms, towns, and villages, to an immense extent both in the East and in the West, out of the revenues of which they send yearly a certain sum of money for the defense of the Holy Land to their head Master at the chief house of their order in Jerusalem” – Charles G. Addison (History of the Knights Templar, 1842)



We have previously given an account of the royal donations of King Henry the First, of King Stephen and his queen, to the order of the Temple. These were far surpassed by the pious benefactions of King Henry the Second. That monarch, for the good of his soul and the welfare of his kingdom, granted the Templars a place situate on the river Fleet, near Bainard’s Castle, with the whole current of that river at London, for erecting a mill; also a messuage near Fleet-street; the church of St. Clement – ibid



The Templars, in addition to their amazing wealth, enjoyed vast privileges and immunities within this realm. In the reign of King John they were freed from all amerciaments in the Exchequer, and obtained the privilege of not being compelled to plead except before the king or his chief justice. King Henry the Third granted them free warren in all their demesne lands; and by his famous charter, dated the 9th of February, in the eleventh year of his reign, he confirmed to them all the donations of his predecessors and of their other benefactors – ibid



In addition to these particular privileges, the Templars enjoyed, under the authority of the Papal bulls, various immunities and advantages…They were freed…from the obligation of paying tithes, and might, with the consent of the bishop, receive them. No brother of the Temple could be excommunicated by any bishop or priest, nor could any of the churches of the order be laid under interdict except by virtue of a special mandate from the holy see – ibid



When any brother of the Temple, appointed to make charitable collections for the succor of the Holy Land, should arrive at a city, castle, or village, which had been laid under interdict, the churches, on their welcome coming, were to be thrown open, (once within the year,) and divine service was to be performed in honor of the Temple, and in reverence for the holy soldiers thereof. The privilege of sanctuary was thrown around their dwellings; and by various papal bulls it is solemnly enjoined that no person shall lay violent hands either upon the persons or the property of those flying for refuge to the Temple houses – ibid



In 1139, a papal bull was issued by Pope Innocent II – a former Cistercian monk at Clairvaux and protégé of Saint Bernard. According to this bull the Templars would owe allegiance to no secular or ecclesiastical power other than the Pope himself. In other words, they were rendered totally independent of all kings, princes, and prelates, and of all interference from both political and religious authorities. They had become, in effect, a law unto themselves, an autonomous international empire – Baigent, Lincoln & Leigh (Holy Blood, Holy Grail)



In England…the master of the Temple was regularly called to the king’s Parliament and was regarded as head of all religious orders, taking precedence over all priors and abbots in the land. Maintaining close ties with both Henry II and Thomas a Becket, the Templars were instrumental in trying to reconcile the sovereign and his estranged archbishop. Successive English kings, including King John, often resided in the Temple’s London preceptory, and the master of the order stood by the monarch’s side at the signing of the Magna Carta – ibid



All religious orders were used by lay people as a safe deposit for valuables, and were asked to lend money when lay people needed cash. The Templars in particular became well known for providing these sorts of financial services for the same reason that they were used by kings as almoners, treasurers, and money carriers: the Order had developed systems for collection, safe storage and transport of large sums of cash and other valuables in the West for carrying to the East. The New Temples in London and in Paris were both much used by merchants for depositing valuables…There are remarkably few accounts complaining about the Templars mishandling money deposited with them – Helen Nicholson (The Knights Templar)



…the Templars would collectively become the richest order in Europe, surpassing even the incalculable coffers of the church – Freddy Silva (First Templar Nation)



…the Templars remained absolutely central to everything that was happening in Europe, and what is more they were partly instrumental in the formation of the Western World as we know it today– Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe (The Warriors and the Bankers)



These accounts do not include the holdings of closely related orders such as the Cistercians, Hospitallers, Order of Sion, Order of Christ, Order of Montessa, Knights of Columbus, Opus Dei, etc. At the height of their power it is possible the Templars were worth over 1.1 trillion dollars, making them richer than the papacy or any other organization.

Many misinformed and duplicitous writers state that the Templars eventually lost their awesome wealth and faded from the stage of history. This is absolutely false. The public and private records giving this impression were composed and doctored by their own agents, the legion of appointed clerics (the squires, marshals, sergeants, seneschals, stewards, chaplains, etc) who served their masters loyally throughout the centuries until the present. The largely anonymous bureaucratic clerics, who ran the Templar empire, constitute a universal suborder of immense wealth, power, knowledge and influence. They and their hirelings operate above the law. Altering a few historical documents was a walk in the park for them. After the great purge and dispersion of the order, in the early fourteenth century, it was their duty to conceal the identities and whereabouts of their employers, the senior Templars, as well as the evidence of their considerable world holdings.

As we learned from the previous article, there is no mystery about where the original Templars found their wealth. It was not only from treasure found in Solomon’s Stables beneath Temple Mount, which was considerable, or from donations from nobles throughout Europe. It primarily came from the elusive descendants of the even more ancient Atonists (or Setians), probably via the Gaonim who required a cover as they relocated their headquarters and theater of operation to Europe, Britain and America. Recent evidence from the Essene “Copper Scroll” uncovered under the sands of Qumran corroborates this contention:



Feather’s argument very adequately describes why and how this migration of Israelites from Egypt during the Exodus happened to be carrying with them treasure and a treasure map. The possibility exists that part of this treasure was the actual wealth of Moses himself as the prince of Egypt, probably also the wealth of the monotheistic priest caste that still existed at the time of Moses and with which he identified – Prof. Ellens (Introduction to Robert Feather’s The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran: The Essene Record of the Treasure of Akhenaten)



The Copper Scroll alone provides details showing that the Essenes possessed colossal wealth traced to the Atonists of Egypt. Professor Feather estimates the amount of gold and silver, in modern currency, amounts to over 1.5 billion dollars. This wealth, allegedly secreted in several locations in Israel after the Roman destruction of the second temple of Jerusalem, in AD 70, has never been located. Of course it could have been discovered and appropriated by the Templars.

The stupendous wealth of the Templars also came from their secret business dealings with the Silesian Pirates (of Persian extraction), and wealthy Italian merchants who supplied them during their stay in the Holy Land during the First Crusade. Many Italian merchants and men of great wealth made up the Order of Knights Hospitallers, a group closely associated with the Templars. The former order still exists under the name Knights of Malta. Their headquarters is in Rome, near Vatican City. They also operate under a Protestant guise – The Order of St. John of Jerusalem – with their head and patron, Queen Elizabeth II, being blood-related to Andrew Bertie, deceased head of the Knights of Malta.

The Templar’s wealth also came from another source – money-lending. It was adopted from Italian bankers who preceded the rise of the Templars. Although as Christians the Templars were not able to openly lend money at interest, they overcame this problem by secretly conscripting certain French, Spanish and Portuguese Jews who profited from usury. The vast wealth accumulated by Jewish bankers is not, therefore, their own. Jewish oligarchs have long been in a “tassel to purse” relationship with their Templar superiors, a fact still to be widely acknowledged. Their acts of money-lending and banking offers clear proof that the Templars are Christian in name only. The religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism have long served as useful fronts for secret societies of this elite level.

It is likely that the Gaonim – who had long been goddess worshipers hiding behind a front of religious Judaism – later emerged as Freemasons, and also as the Sabbateans, fronted by Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank, one of the co-founders of the Illuminati. Many elusive secret societies hide behind the veil of orthodox Judaism and Christianity. Indeed, Emperor Constantine, the founder of orthodox Christianity, was himself a lifelong member of shadowy Sol Invictus, an Atonist-Mithraist sect. The members of these perverse societies have nothing but contempt for ordinary Jews and Christians. They are the bizarre “mystic brotherhoods” Helena Blavatsky warned about.

The Merovingian dynasty of France was apparently partly descended from the Sicambrian Franks, a Germanic tribe. They were not only efficient warriors but were mainly farmers. They later became goldsmiths and gold merchants. and not surprisingly nobles and regents. Their expertize with gold and precious metals accounts for a great deal of the Templar’s wealth. As we see from the quotes above, the Merovingian-Templars subsequently became Europe’s premier money-lenders and bankers. Historians recognize that from early on the reputation of the Merovingians was less than wholesome. Historian Hutton Webster tells us:

The descendants of Clovis are called Merovingians. They occupied the throne of the Franks for nearly two hundred and fifty years. The annals of their reigns form an unpleasant catalogue of bloody wars, horrible murders, and deeds of treachery without number. Nevertheless, the earlier Merovingians were strong men, under whose direction the Frankish territory continued to expand, until it included nearly all of what is now France, Belgium, and Holland, besides a considerable part of Germany – (Early European History)



A few scholars have noted similarities between the Templars and the ancient Essenes, and there can be little doubt that both the Templars and Cistercians borrowed some customs and beliefs from this obscure Jewish sect apparently descended from the priestly Israelite Order of Zadok (or Melchizedek).

Moreover, in the 12th century, writer John of Salisbury compared the Templar Knights to the Judite warriors who followed and fought with the heroic and messianic Judas (Judah) Maccabeus against his Seleucid enemies in the second century BC. The Maccabean family was allegedly descended from prominent Levite priests (or Kohens) of old. More likely, they were a branch of the Setian-Atonist nobility or Order of Melchizedek (Akhenaton).

The alleged connection between the Templars and ancient Judites isn’t fictitious or fanciful. If the Templars were descended from the Essenes or a related group, they would regard themselves as legitimate recipients of the colossal wealth mentioned in the Copper Scroll. This explains their peculiar antics in the Holy Land during the Crusades, digging like moles for years in Solomon’s Stables, and elsewhere.

Delving into their origins we find that these Frankish (German) Merovingians may have descended from, or at least related to, the infamous Tribe of Benjamin. Their history directly bears on the existence of the Templars. Like the Templars, the Benjaminites, descended from the eponymous son of the patriarch Jacob, were a warrior class. Curiously and suggestively, Freemasons often refer to themselves as Benjaminites. Even more crucially, it was the Benjaminite tribe whose members were the first rulers of the holy city of Jerusalem, after the erection of the first temple. Indeed, the Benjaminites think of Jerusalem as their personal property. Interesting that the later Templar leaders founded their order there, on the site of the Benjaminite’s coveted Temple of Solomon. Allegedly, Mary Magdalene herself – icon of the Templars – was a Benjaminite. I find this to be of central importance.

The dark side of the Tribe of Benjamin is well recorded. They are, in fact, a renegade tribe, and Judite women were once forbidden to marry men of the tribe, in an attempt by other tribes to obliterate the Benjaminites. Their crime involved rape and murder. Members of the tribe assaulted and gang-raped the concubine of a Levite priest as he and his entourage passed through Benjamite lands. After the concubine died from her wounds, battles broke out, and the number of Benjaminites was drastically reduced. The remainder were thereafter officially and rightly vilified and expelled from the region. According to legend they made their way west to Greece. One of their kings there was known as Danus. They may have had a settlement in Troy, Turkey, which is why they named their later Burgundian city Troyes. Interestingly, before their crime, punishment and exile, their first king was Saul. Despite the priestly mythmongering, we see that Saul is nothing less than Sol the sun. In other words, the name Saul (like Danus) is a pseudonym for Akhenaton, king of the sun (Aton). As far as I am concerned, this reveals the Benjaminite-Setian-Atonist-Merovingian connection. (Here for more…)

Because they were rejected and exile by the other Israelite tribes, the Benjaminites were the first to marry in with non-Israelite families. I think we can guess what this implies. It is also possible that after their arrival in Arcadia (Greece), the Benjaminites returned to polytheistic worship. This is logical because the Sicambrian Franks were themselves matriarchal. The change may have occurred due to intermarriage with obscure families in the west. It may also be due to the fact that the Benjaminites, after being made renegades, willingly aligned themselves with the Dragon Court or Sisterhood – the Female Illuminati.

In my opinion this was certainly the case. I believe this accounts for the Jewish bloodline to be found in those we know as the Merovingians. We might speculate that the Merovingians have been in their service since their arrival in France and probably from before. King Clovis adopted Christianity in 481 AD, merely as a convenient cover to further territorial and military ambitions. This expedient strategy of adopting a socially accepted persona was most probably taught to the Merovingians by their Benjaminite ancestors who, after secretly abandoning the patristic traditions of the Israelites, officially hid behind a mask of orthodox Judaism.

This accounts for why the insignia of the great Merovingian leader, William de Gellone, was a pentagram on a blue field, symbolizing Mary Magdalene. The Merovingians were ancestors of the German and Dutch Royal House of Orange. The color orange not only signifies Mary, but Aton – the revealed, solarized face of the hidden deity Set.

It is possible that Set was androgynous, and was therefore worshiped in both male and a female forms. (Set has been linked with the serpentine Apophis or Apep, a female underworld deity). Since, in my opinion, the Atonists and Sisterhood were (and still are) covert Set worshipers, we see that the fantastical story of King Merovech’s birth, from a queen and sea-monster makes skin-crawling sense. (Here and Here for more…)

In any case, it is these ancient cabals whose agents later emerge into the half light of history as the Gaonim, Merovingians, Rosicrucians, Templars, Masons, Martinists and Illuminists – Atonist-Setian societies one and all.

The correspondence of the Illuminati in fact contains several references to an inner ring under the name of ‘the secret chapter of the Lodge of St. Theodore,’ which, after his initiation into Masonry, Weishaupt indicated the necessity of bringing entirely under the control of Illuminism. It is probable,” says one historian, “that Weishaupt was in touch with this secret chapter before his formal admission to the lodge” – E. Cahill (Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement)



That such an “inner ring” existed, and that Weishaupt had some connection

with it, is further indicated by a certain document that was found at Mirabeau’s house describing a new Order to be grafted on Freemasonry…This plan, found among Mirabeau’s manuscripts after his death, was devised in 1776, the same year the Order of the Illuminati was founded – Father Clarence Kelly (Conspiracy Against God and Man)

The fantastical story of King Merovech’s birth, from a bathing queen and amorous sea-monsteris most revealing. The conflation of a female and sea-serpent subtextually connotes Apophis. As the Egyptian god of the underworld, Apophis (or Apep) was actually female, and has been associated with Set. This is the likely origin of the so-called Mermaid – a sea-creature half fish, half female. It is no accident that we see this deity used today by the world’s top corporations. It is also suggestive that the symbol for Christianity is the fish. The fish or sea-monster is simply a colorful metaphor for the sinister Dragon Court or Serpentine Sisterhood, understood by initiates. (Here and Here for more…)



The Virgin Mary, Our Lady, Mother of God – the preeminent female icon of Christianity. The trouble is she’s one hundred percent pagan in origin. She stands upon the serpent, but is she really crushing it as we have been led to believe? She might be arising from it, or be a manifestation of it. Is it her foundation and talisman as the symbolism subtextually denotes? To the cultists behind Christianity and Judaism, Apophis is the original great mother. The apple in the serpent’s mouth connotes Eve, the earlier Old Testament Lady of the Serpent. In the Female Illuminati program I show how many goddesses of the ancient world, on whom Eve and Mary are based, were associated with serpents. Mary is often seen with 12 stars around her head and a crescent at her feet, the crescent of Venus. She is Mary Lucifera. (Here for more…)

The symbolism reveals all. Officially, the lion represents England and the unicorn Scotland. However, esoterically the golden lion represents the illustrious and ancient Atonists (the Judites or Order of Melchizedek/Akhenaton), the descendants of which direct the world’s more obvious secret societies, be they Catholic or Protestant in complexion. The white unicorn represents their loyal, efficient lieutenants, the Judites, Gaonim, Templars, Masons, College of Cardinals, Illuminati, etc. Note the chain around the neck of the unicorn. It’s a reminder of the pecking order, the status quo, and the punishment expected for disloyalty and disobedience. The unicorn represents the passive moon which reflects the light of the sun, or more correctly of the Sun Lords, the Princes of Light.



Occasionally, the lion is stylized to appear dragon-like. In this instance the animal represents the female Dragon Court. (Here for more…)



The Templars adopted the symbol of the beehive after their tiresome work of digging in the stables of Temple Mount came to an end. Prior to this time the bee was revered by the Merovingian nobility and the ancient Judites (Benjaminites). It is also employed as a key symbol of hierarchy and order by Templars and Freemasons. Suggestively, at the center of the beehive lives the Queen Bee. Again, the symbolism speaks volumes. The bee, therefore, in this context, represented the sect of priestesses presiding over higher grade initiations partaken by Templars, kings, acolytes and adepts who thereafter (as warrior-monks and priest-kings) serve them and the “hive.”



According to historians on the Templars, Merovingian King Baldwin IV and his cousin Philip of Flanders (Philip I) were visited by a mysterious band of monks (from Orval, Lorraine) led by a strange character known as Ursus. The group were received and protected by Philip and his wife Mathilde, Duchess of Lorraine – also known as Infanta Theresa of Portugal – aunt of head Templar Godfrey de Bouillon. By the year 1108 the elusive group had vanished from the area and scene. One known member of the company was Peter the Hermit, who along with Philip is believed by some commenters to be the chief architect of the First Crusade which encouraged western knights to travel east, seize Jerusalem and destroy the Saracens. Interestingly and suggestively, the term Ursus connotes a bear, a seminal symbol of the goddess from time immemorial. Suggestively, the infamous Order of Sion was established on Mount Sion, by Godfroi de Bouillon, almost immediately after the strange band of monks left Mathilde’s court in France and vanished into smoke.



For the Sicambrian Franks, from whom the Merovingians issued, the bear enjoyed a similar exalted status…they worshiped the bear in the form of Artemis – or…Arduina, patron goddess of the Ardennes…Given the magical, mythic, and totemic status of the bear in the Merovingian heartland of the Ardennes, it is not surprising that the name “Ursus” – Latin for “bear” – should be associated in the “Prieuré documents” and the Merovingian royal line – Baigent, Leigh, Lincoln (Holy Blood, Holy Grail)

Mathilde of Flanders (1157-1218) was also known as Theresa of Portugal. She was the daughter of King Afonso, one of the most ardent and loyal Templar patrons. She became the Duchess of Lorraine and Flanders after her first marriage to the super-wealthy Count Philip of Flanders (modern Belgium). She later became the Duchess of Burgundy after her second marriage to Otto, Duke of Burgundy. According to legend, she was the first noblewomen in the west to lay eyes on the Holy Grail. Suggestively, the Order of Sion was created on Mount Sion, outside Jerusalem, in her name by her powerful nephew Godfroi de Bouillon, based on instructions from his tutor Peter the Hermit and his elusive monks of Orval. The full name of the temple site was the Abbey of Notre Dame de Sion. Godfroi’s original group was named the Knights of the Notre Dame de Sion (Knights of Our Lady of Sion). The site was also referred to as the “Mother of all Churches.” One chamber within the abbey was called the “Chamber of the Mysteries.” Mathilde – of Italy, Lorraine and Portugal – was most probably the Order of Sion’s first female chief and patron, the male knights, monks and nobles acting as her agents. Note her red hair. Before Mathilde, the proto Order of Sion (the Cult of Venus) was probably led by the famous Eleanor of Aquitaine. Later, during the fifteenth century, the probable head was either Margaret of Anjou or her sister Yolande of Lorraine. From them leadership may have passed to the House of Tudor in England, although in the seventeenth century the likely head was Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, ancestor of the present queen of England, Elizabeth II. The Order of Sion was known as the Priory de Sion after 1188.



Suggestively, it was at the behest of Mathilde that the first “Holy Grail” epic was composed by Chretian de Troyes, who received his commission from the Duchess. The Grail was brought from Jerusalem to France by Hugh de Payens who, after allegedly finding it beneath Temple Mount, gave it and other treasures into her keeping. Of course the Grail is simply a clever metaphor for the Cult of Venus, or Female Illuminati, and the transmission of their power from east to west. (Here for more…)

The most detailed Grail legend comes from Parzifal, by medieval writer Wolfram von Eschenbach. According to Eschenbach, the details of the story came originally from a Spanish Jew called Flegetanis. This character was more than likely a descendant of the Benjaminite branch of the Merovingian dynasty, and as such was almost certainly an acolyte of the Female Dragon Court.

The cauldron, cup, chalice, gaal or grail is a seminal female symbol representing the sacerdotal priestess cults of antiquity. It turns up in the form of a flat salver or plate in the Biblical account of Salome and John the Baptist. That story subtextually reveals the supremacy of female priestesses over male subordinates, be they kings, dukes or princes. We cannot pause to further extrapolate the story’s symbolism here.

The word grail comes from gradus, meaning “by degrees,” “stages” or “steps.” This alludes to the grades of a Masonic-type society. This is the society headed by Mathilde and many others before and after the era of Chretian de Troyes. A secondary meaning of the word is Sang Rael or “Holy Blood,” again a reference to the Sisterhood. The word gradus was later wrongly rendered cratis meaning basket or container, hence the connection with a cup. Suggestively, on the architecture of the north porch of Chartres Cathedral (dedicated to the female), we see the figure of the Old Testament demigod Melchizedek holding a chalice. Melchizedek is a cryptic reference to Akhenaton and the order descended from his progeny. We see then that the true significance of the so-called Holy Grail is to be primarily understood in terms of a hierarchical secret society, and secondarily as a container of blood. We also see the significance of the Templars as supposed keepers of the “Grail.” It doesn’t pertain to Jesus, as so many falsely believe. It is simply the vessel containing the severed “head” or castrated penis of the son-lover-knight-champion in his mother-goddess’s service.

In history, among these occult societies, physical rites of castration were commenced at special astrological times, particularly in the month of August. Astro-Theologically, the Grail symbolizes the movement of the sun, moon and planet venus into Virgo – sign of the Virgin. A constellation known as Crater (Chalice) is found in the sign of Virgo, which was and is ritually significant to the Sisterhood and related orders. Therefore when the sun passed into Virgo, auspicious and bizarre rituals and layings were performed. The marriage of Cana refers to this astrological period, and many of the imposing structures in Washington DC and Philadelphia were laid during this period. Documents such as the Declaration of Independence were also either commissioned, signed or made public when the sun or venus moved into Virgo, thereby signifying them as being under the auspices of the goddess.



The keepers of the Grail were female, for good reason. As I show in the Female Illuminati program, in ancient Egypt and other lands, women were initiated into, and commanded, the highest levels of the most illustrious secret societies, not men. To rise within the female order, a male acolyte had to offer up his phallus, hence the symbolism of a cup containing “blood.”



Although there is little written about the women behind and beside the great thrones of Europe and Britain, and even less said to be believed, it is time to pay greater attention to the role of the mothers, wives, daughters, sisters and female patrons who helped shape history as much as the men they bore, nurtured and inspired. On a symbolic level we’ve been told loudly enough that Queen Helena was the true founder of Christianity. Her Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem stood on the site of a temple of Venus. It was Margaret of Scotland who took a shine to William St. Clair and gave his family the land on which Rosslyn Chapel was built. It was Mathilde of Saxony who patronized the Cistercians. Eleanor of Aquitaine and her daughter Marie de Champagne patronized the Templars and grail author Chretien de Troyes. Mathilde of Portugal allegedly lay eyes on the Grail. On and on it goes. The Templars venerated Mary Magdalene and St. Euphemia. The patron saint of the Knights Hospitaller was the Lady Philermos. Bernard de Clairvaux was devoted to the Virgin Mary and bore the personal title ”Knight of the Virgin.” The skull worshiped by the Templars was that of an unknown female not a male. Even the long hair of the Templars connotes the female. Godfrey de Bouillon was crowned monarch of Jerusalem in the oldest Templar abbey in Jerusalem, known as the Mother of all Churches. The full name of the Order of Sion was “Order of Our Lady of the Mount of Sion.” Old paintings of King Fulk of Jerusalem show him at his crowning and marriage holding the Fleur-di-lis, the symbol of the female Dragon Court.



Not including Mathilde herself, there were six queens of Jerusalem during the period of the crusades. They include Morphia of Edessa (wife of Baldwin II), Sibyllia (mother of Baldwin II), Isabella (daughter of Sibyllia), Maria of Montferrat (daughter of Isabella) and Melisende de Anjou (eldest daughter of Baldwin II). At least three of these reigning queens were Aleramici Franks or Merovingians. Isabella I was a scion of the Ibelin dynasty, which like the related Anjou family, were blood-related to the Houses of Lorraine, Hapsburg, Valois, Savoy, Bourbon, Saluzzo and Guelf, etc. The Anjou dynasty, like the House of Ibelin, were major patrons of the Templars. (Here and Here for more…)



Two other important female patrons were Eleanor of Aquitaine and Marie de Champagne. There have been many others. (Here for more…)



…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…The bones inside were those of a rather small woman – (Inquisition Records describing the Templar’s chief icon)



Brother William of Arreblay…testified that he had often seen on the altar in the Temple of Paris a silver head, and the leading officials of the Order worshiping it – Helen Nicholson (The Knights Templar)



…grants of land, both royal and private, were made to the Templars in England during the reign of King Stephen…being made by his wife Matilda…Stephen of England was a member of the distinguished crusading family, being the son of Stephen of Blois, his wife was a member of the Boulogne family closely associated with the crusading movement…Hugh de Payens was from Champagne, an area controlled by Stephen’s family…and Godfrey of St. Omer, another of the original founders of the Templars was a vassal of the Boulogne family – Thomas Parker (The Knights Templar in England)

Count Fulk of Anjou was King of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1143. Here he is seen marrying Melisende (daughter of Baldwin II) who ruled Jerusalem alongside him. Note how she wears the crown and how the pope’s head is toward her, not the king, indicating her bloodline or occult supremacy. Her mother Morphia was wife of Templar Baldwin II, the previous King of Jerusalem. Morphia ruled beside him as queen. Melisende’s son was Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem. (Here for more…)



Matilda of Boulogne, wife of British King Stephen I, grandson of William the Conqueror. Both Mathilda and Stephen were French and possessed lands in France as well as in England. The leading Templars, such as Hugh de Payens and Godfrey St. Olmer, were their vassals. Hugh himself was born in Champagne, a district owned by Stephen’s family, the Blois, while St. Olmer was a vassal of the Count of Boulogne. Stephen and Mathilda donated large sums of money and acres of land to the Templars. Matilda was probably their first officially known royal female patron. Most writers on Templar history never mention any of the high-born, super-wealthy females who supported their cause. (Here for more…)



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What Do the Symbols Tell?





Even common sense dictates that the story of nine knights patrolling 33 miles of road between Jaffa and Jerusalem to protect thousands of pilgrims from brigands, thieves, Saracens, and mountain lions is a preposterous idea – Freddy Silva (First Templar Nation)

The chicanery concerning the Templars begins with their full name: The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. It would be comical if it were not so despicable. The only things the knights were poor in was humanity and morality. Their seal depicts two knights riding a single horse. The word “horse” doubles as the pun “Whores,” an insider reference to the Sisterhood of Death (probably adopted due to the false legend in which Mary Magdalen is purported to have been a prostitute).

The reason for the two knights on a single steed probably hearkens back to the time when the Knights Templar and Order of Sion (Sisterhood) were united comrades in arms serving the same causes. Their break in the 12th century, and subsequent alleged rivalry, changed the history of the world. The continued rise of what we know as Protestantism possibly being one outcome of the rivalry. The Order of Sion is not, as many allege, a mythical group. Disinformationalists and the media have gone to great lengths to make it appear that way, although a careful study of the symbolism employed by the order confirms their authenticity, antiquity and true identity. It is crucial when we study secret societies that we distinguish between the way they are presented to us in the media and the way they actually are. The first way is certainly to be regarded as largely fraudulent.

Some disinformationalists attempted to deny any legitimate historical connection between Freemasonry and Templarism, preferring to have people believe that the connection was made in the eighteenth century by conservative mythmakers (such as Chevalier Ramsay, Charles Radcliffe, Samuel Rosa, Karl von Hund and others) who supposedly wished to attract upper classes to Masonry by creating the impression that the fraternity was historically linked with noble romantic crusading knights. Some believe Masonry was linked with the Templars in order to attract Catholic members. Others believe Templar imagery was incorporated into the higher “mysterious” degrees of Masonry to lure those of an esoteric bent. More astute observers and insiders (such as Nicolas de Bonneville, Samuel Pritchard, Augustine de Barruel, Christoph Bode, Marquis de Luchet, Louis de Gassicourt, Joseph Hammer, Eliphas Levi, and others) correctly knew and warned that Masonry had been gradually but systematically infiltrated by Templars whose ancestors had been forced underground during the fourteenth century. This fact was cleverly obscured by mythmakers whose writings made it possible for later commenters to present the connections between Templars and Masons as falsities espoused by incorrigible romantics or cunning self-serving pranksters and mythomaniacs.

Another clue that the symbol proudly displayed by the Templars did not denote poverty was that the Templars were one of the richest societies that ever existed. Their wealth and properties extended from the Middle East to Western Europe. Individual knights could not own personal property of any value…But as members of their Order they had castles, armor, horses and the like in great profusion, and wanted for nothing. Poverty was not what made them special – Sanford Holst



William, archbishop of Tyre, had regarded the Templars and Hospitallers as a force for disintegration and lawlessness in the kingdom…he saw that by his day they had become too rich and proud, refusing to do obey the authorities over them by God: the patriarch of Jerusalem and the king – Helen Nicholson (The Knights Templar: A New History)



The title “Poor Knights of Christ” is probably a reference to the original Christians – followers of Jesus who went by the titles Jesseans, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Nazoreans and Naassenes. The Ebionites referred to themselves as the “Poor Men,” a reference to their intellectual simplicity as well as their low social status. The Templars adopted the term because of its less recognized meaning, hearkening to the fact that the Ebionites considered the teachings of Jesus an extension of Old Testament Judaism. For them there was no essential difference between Paul’s Christ and the Messiah of the Jews. We see that Paul’s attempt to exalt these original Christian sects was somewhat disingenuous. They were not as radical as he wanted to make them appear. The term “Poor Knights” is therefore a cryptic concession to Judaism, or more correctly to the Essenes to whom they were undoubtedly connected either biologically or ideologically.

Deeper research into these ancient sects and their beliefs reveals that the Templars may have been secretly and heretically adhering to the teachings of John the Baptist rather than of Jesus Christ. Many events in the Templar world correspond with the date July 24, feast day of John the Baptist.



Godfrey de Bouillon, the Duke of Lorraine and Monarch of Jerusalem (1060-1100). His orange-colored robes and orange fruited coronet allude to Mary Magdalene and the cult in her service. Queen Beatrix of the Dutch House of Orange is a direct descendant of his bloodline. She and the latter-day royals of this prestigious dynasty are ostensibly Protestant, for all it means.

The actual origin of the Templars is shrouded in mystery. The order’s early biographers were not eye-witnesses and lived after the order was established. It was probably Godfrey de Bouillon who, after the first crusade, formed his Templars as an extension of his smaller group, the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. He probably patterned his order on the earlier established Knights Hospitallers headquartered nearby (at Amalfi). Godfrey’s new order seemed to have some difficulty deciding whether they were a military or monastic society. Originally there were nine knights: Hugh de Payens, Geoffrey de Saint-Omer, Rossal, Gondamer, Geoffrey Bisol, Payen de Montdidier, Archambaud de St. Agnat, Andre de Montbard, and the Hugh Count de Champagne. Hugh was an incredibly wealthy nobleman. His fellow knight Hugh de Payens (Paganus or Pagan) led the order after de Bouillon died. He and Bernard de Clairvaux helped increase the recognition and reputation of the Templars in the early years.

We have romantic ideas about knights and their chivalry and valor. However, Bernard de Clairvaux himself remarked openly on the perfidy of most of the crusading knights s