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To understand the profound shock that hit the Templars, one has to think of their strong
faith.
The God that the Church taught as “Father of Christ” was, in Jesus’ own words, the
devil whom to fight he had come to Earth! A study of the Bible soon revealed to the
common sense of the simple Templars that the teachings of Jesus and the Old Testament
were diametrically opposed and therefore could never belong together. Furthermore, the
Jews never called their god “Father” but “JAHVEH” and “EL SHADDAI”. El Shaddai, though,
was Sheitan, i.e., the fallen angel! (Sheddeim = depravity, el = archangel. EL is often
wrongly translated with God.
“GOD” however is IL in the old oriental tongues).
[H: Come one, readers, this is all historical fact and has NOTHING to do with my translation
of meaning.
We present as it is presented. Furthermore, however, we are in the LAND
where El Shaddai is the biggest breakoff from the ROMAN Catholic sect and must be noted
–
in the form of “charismatic leader” Brother Mike Velarde, in the Philippines and now
gaining great attention in the United States and other places of note. You have to now
understand that the confrontations are between LEADERS and again, as throughout history,
the masses of citizens are totally without knowing and are manipulated by the power
brokers.]
When, in the year 1128, the formal founding of the order took place, where Bernard de
Clairvaux – later St. Bernard – acted in a sense as patron, the small gathering already had a
secret: It was their determination to penetrate the truth of the Christ.
Up to then there was
only uncertainty – soon one would know for sure. But one has to understand this
determination as that of a group of almost naively pious knights who just wanted to serve
their Lord Jesus Christ and to rediscover His true teachings.
There was nothing aggressive
in this, for they were not insinuating any evil wrongdoing. It was Bernard who told them that
their ambitions would be frowned upon and that it would be wise not to lay their thoughts
open.
In the following years, no further indications of the original teaching of Christ were found.
The Order of the Templars now took on military tasks.
The “secret” soon only lived on in the
memories of a few, mainly Provencal brothers.
The practical requirements in the Orient left
little time or space to care about the secret.
The closer contact with Islam was giving new impulses. Some letters attributed to Ali Ibn
Abu Thalib (Iman Ali) fell into the hands of a Templar unit during an advance on Damascus.
In these, Ali told of a later falsification of the Koran which he likened to the adulteration in
the Gospels of Christ.
These papers got to the Provence where the old thought resurfaced
to search of the truth of the Christ.
Now things happened in quick succession: A document was passed on to the Provencal
commandery which most probably came from Cathar circles. No wonder then that later the
Templars refused to take part in the “crusade” against the Cathars.
It was a piece of the
original Gospel of John, written by the heretic Marcion in 94 A.D. A letter was enclosed that
gave a brief history of Marcion’s life. Here we should state that Marcion succeeded in
founding an important, purely Christian movement between 90 and 130 A.D. that only
started to decline after he was murdered. Marcion, who had actually met the apostle John,
taught that Jesus Christ was God incarnate, that there was no “father-god Jahveh”, but that
this Hebrew god was Satan himself. He further said that Jesus promised the people “self-
healing”, so only the goodwill of an individual was required, but no temples and hence no
Church organization.
From then on an “Order within the Order” established itself, a proper sworn Marcionite
group.
This special formation within the Order of the Templars was mainly made up of
Provencals and Germans. The majority of the Knights Templar at that time certainly never
knew why the cross of the Order was changed from the simple equal-armed on to the
“Knights’ Cross”.
In the beginning the “Knights’ Crosses” known today did not exist.
The
Templars wore a simple red cross in their white cloaks. Only the surreptitious influence of
