The Knights Templar

[scarletharlot]

Iit was in early 1995 that I read "Foucault's Pendulum". I know this for certain because I came across my journal of that period, and it mentions my reading it for the first time. At the time I had next-to-no knowledge of the Knights Templar, nor was I at all interested in them in any way. However I was developing a relationship with Hindu Gods which would culminate in me being admitted to the OTO (the closest thing to "Tantra" that we have in the West).

This, combined with Left Hand practices of my own devising, and with Qabalah, which would prove a potent combination indeed! It would then culminate in my Scarlet Woman Initiation at the Starwood Festival in the year 2000.

It would be just after that that I encountered "The Hiram Key" and it would throw open the doors to what was undoubtedly my most remarkable "Rosicrucian Adventure" to date: helping to establish an Order of reincarnated Knights Templar on the earthly plane!

[scarletharlot]

There was one line in "Foucault's Pendulum" that struck me powerfully at the time (though I could not have said why.) : "The Templars have something to do with everything.".

And now, much later, I have reflected on the history of the Knights Templar and found it to be literally true: we, nearly all of us, are where we are today, quite literably, would not be where we are today if it had not been for the Knights Templar.

Of course, one could say that was true of almost anything. But when one considers the role "credit cards" play in people's lives these days, and when you consider that it was the Knights Templar who invented the concepts of banking and credit so that funds could be readily available between commanderies in Europe and commanderies in the Holy Land; can you not see that the coded passwords that opened coffers back in medieval times are echoed in the passwords encrypted into the security systems of the vaults of banks all across the world...

The world's banking system is close to the verge of collapse, I understand; could that rustling sound I hear be that of Templars spinning in their graves?


If I had to say which theory I preferred, i wouldm say 'The Knights Templar were assimilated into Freemasonry and not the other way around"

Freemasonry has existed for centuries; it is the ancient everyman's worship of Osiris, the slain and deified Man-Made Perfect.

The stonework of Egypt was legendary; they didn't have "Dremels" in those days, but the stonework of Egypt would challenge even a master wielder of a "Dremel"! When I look at the work of these ancient artisans it is easy to believe the stories of stones being moved by magickal power.

There must have been many stone carvers in and since they carved divine images they would have had their own rites and traditions.

Those who built the initiation chambers would have been a special elite.

[scarletharlot]

However, one must apply logic here as anywhere else; one cannot "defend" a Temple that does not yet exist. Thus the Builders precede the "Defenders". In ancient Egypt, they were all fairly isolated, down along the Nile, separated from the more warlike Sumerians by a vast stretch of desert.

Thus there were long periods of peace in Egypt We know this because it is attested to by the fact of the existence of the great temples of egyptian antiquity, with their astonishng carved stonework.

A very great deal of peacetime would have been needed to acquire such skill as the Egyptians had with stone- and this is before the age of Dremels and diamond bits.

[scarletharlot]

Weaving was also said to have been a favoured pastime among Egyptian men; in fact , I seem to recall reading some Greek historian describing with derision the fact of Egyptian men staying home to weave while their women went out and about freely in public.

Egyptian linens were famed throughout the world, however for their fineness and their durability. It would be interesting to know if the linen shrouds found in the Templar commanderies were woven from Egyptian linen...I shall have to re-read my book that one that gave the British Museum's results investigation into the Shroud of Turin.

Speaking of the Shroud, it was the results of those tests by the British Museum (I mean, it doesn't get any better than that; the British Museum sets the standard for that sort of thing, right?) that convinced me, absolutely, that there was definitely something to Robert Lomas and Chris Knight's theory that the image on the Shroud was that of Jacques de Molay!

When it was revealed that the Shroud had first appeared among the last effects of a scion of the de Charney family (Geoffroi de Charney, was the Templar Grand Master's second-in-command and was burned at the stake in his turn the next day. it was very common for linens to pass from household to household, and if there had been a piece of linen that had served as the shroud [in a re-enactment of the Crucifixion upon the person of the Templar Grand Master], it would have escaped destruction when the de Charney family was called in to minister to the maimed wreck that was left. that did it for me: it was them that I had thm realization of the significance of that strange, near-uncontrollable and completely inexplicable emotional reaction I had experienced as a young girl upon encountering the combination of the stench of burning flesh and fine linen tablecloths!

I think I now understand why it had to happen when it did; as in 'back in the days when tablecloths were still being made of linen..." ; if I had caught the stench of burning POLYESTER tablecloths, it would have had no effect on me!



I will never forget that moment when it all came together; the shock was so great upon reading those words and simultaneously coming to that realization that I was receiving a 'confirmation' of sorts that I actually felt faint; had I not been reading in bed I might well have had a nasty fall. I actually could not move my legs for some minutes, my lower back was timgling with cold fire, and I felt distinctly light-headed. I realized later that these were symptoms of Kundalini awakening.

It was just like the moment in Foucault's Pendulum, when Casaubon and Belbo start to realize that "the Plan" had taken on a life of its own. Except for me it was a good experience ; after all, I had been "taking proper precautions".

I had 'gotten in good' with the Black Virgin, by choosing to commence my Qabalistic meditations on the Tree of Life with Binah and Geburah, and my Left-Hand Tantric studies with the invocation of Smashan Kali (Kali of the Burning Ground). I had also begun to worship Ganesha and the Shiva Lingam.

Thus the doors of the Temple Adytum were thrown open to me; I did not need to swear oaths (though I did so for appearance's sake; after all , nobody is allowed to perform in the central Rite who has not sworn the oath in the presence of witnesses!)

I was also told I would be a "breaker in pieces", like Lilith le Fay Morgan in "Moon Magic", and lo, it has come about; I could write my own actual account- and it would sound like I was plagiarizing Dion Fortune, right down to the physical description of the meeting with the doctor character and his relationship to the world and to women!

With one exception: my doctor is in fact a Knight Templar.