THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
By Alex Ness
January 15, 2022
This edition was assisted by and proofed by friend
Jonathan Cal’dorem. Thank you sir.
There have been stories told about the Knights Templar, and if they are not accurate they are often intriguing and moving. There are and have been hundreds of misconceptions of their origins, works, worth and end. They began over time as a group dedicated to studying the bible, living an honorable and devout life, and to defending the travelers to the Holy Lands of the Levant. The typical knight of the temple was not highly literate, often depending upon the sermons and little reading they were able to spend hours every day devoting time and prayer to their particular form of faith. There is a concept regarding the Templars that they spent their days fighting or searching for holy relics. But the greatest portion of their time was spent in prayer, and in lessons taught by those with more education.
Due to the mysteries of their practices, numerous outsiders held the Templar Knights as being more like a cult. While their faith was held by many in question, it was Christian. It used symbolism and lessons to explore the concepts of their faith that were idiosyncratic, and mysterious to others. While the Catholic church had its own symbolism, and eventually the Protestants had their own, there was possibly a fear of armed knights holding secretive ideas, and with loyalty to the order rather than any state or statesman.
The Templars were not writers or theorists regarding the bible and teachings, but they did use ritual and ideology to enhance their ideals of the order. One of these aspects was their use of symbolism, and the figures they created to avoid idolatry of any fashion, so in their teaching they would not use the name of, the term for, or a direct image of God, nor the enemy, Satan. They created a terminology that would allow them to speak freely, without violating their beliefs, including using the false symbol of Satan called Baphomet, whom, contrary to many accounts, was not worshiped by the knights, but rejected, spat upon, denied. The order of knights were taught to expect trials by others, whether Christian groups or secular, and had realized at some point that they'd be forced to choose. To live but betray their oath and life's work, or to die,while keeping their faith. Baphomet was the symbol of the deceiver, Christ was their redeemer.
And in a sense, they did have to choose. Due to the French king at the time, with support of the Pope, the order was declared to be a renegade faith, and lost its facilities and right to practice. But despite being forced to recant his faith and declare his apostasy, the grandmaster of the faith and his second in command were to be burned upon the stake, and both recanted their earlier words as being tortured out of them, and re-embraced the Order upon their the fire born death.
As the world of that time did not allow Christians to charge interest, banking was difficult to practice. Except the Templar order being an order and not a bank, was able to hold money during one's travel, and charge a reasonable fee for doing so. This caused great envy among the Christian world's leaders, and so you might consider the possibility, it wasn't anything the order said or did that caused its dissolution but the piles of money they compiled. You might well assume that rather than offense towards the Templar's faith and practice, it was pure greed.
IN HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS
The best books regarding the Knights Templar are shown below. Especially readable and wonderfully clear was Sean Martin's The Knight's Templar. All of the other books shown were great, but his tells every detail needed, as well as doing so without attaching extraneous data or superfluous theories.
IN COMIC BOOK FICTION
The Mice Templar is a wonderful story that uses a clever pun, but deep insight into the world of a group of knights who have standards, misunderstood by others, or worse, hated, and details the depth of a group who are devout, and how that alone makes them stand out for questioning and dealing with the distinctly ignorant accusations of others, or war. Bryan JL Glass, Mike Oeming and Victor Santos created a masterpiece.
IN FILM
While some films about the Templars are worth watching, many are flatulent crap. Kingdom of Heaven is historical, and if dark, worthy of the subject. Some documentaries add to our knowledge, but are not necessarily important. There are technically good movies such as the DaVinci Code that focus upon the Templars role in guardianship over secrets about Jesus Christ, and his blood lineage. This movie and other works are based, in part, upon the works by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL. The theory surrounding that work is that Christ married Mary Mary Magdalene and had children who were formed the line of kings known as the Merovingians. While certainly entertaining, the work has foundations in literal untruths, and where it isn't creating a fabric of lies it fills in the blanks with speculative idiocy and false data and facts.
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