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Hi, I'm Timothy Hogan. I'm the uh 33rd Grandmaster since Jack D. Malay of the Templar Order. And I'm here to share some Templar knowledge with you. Some of our some of our secrets, things that have been secret over the centuries, but we're we're trying to make available to the public now. And our hope is to as we get this information out, it'll help people appreciate better some of the archives that we're sitting on. uh and uh that we hope to release to the public as well. But we want people to have an understanding of of their of the significance of it before we do so.
First, I want to talk about uh you know, we've talked about who the Templar order was before in a previous video. Right now, what we want to talk about is what we were accused of during the the uh Templar persecutions and what we some of what we actually believe. Let's talk about um what we were accused of.
The previous public uh expression of the Templar order ended pretty violently uh back in 1307. Uh for those who don't know that because the Templar order had been uh secretly passing on uh knowledge that was contrary to church doctrine. And because the Templar order was associating with groups around the world that were um that had beliefs different from what the standard Roman Catholic belief system was at the time. And because the Templar Order was promoting freedoms, individual freedoms that were independent from the monarchy at the time, uh the Roman church and the uh and the in particular King Philip the Fair of France entered into a conspiracy, if you will, to suppress the Templar Order. They just couldn't handle the fact that the Templar Order was uh promoting freedoms and promoting ideas that was outside of their system and outside of their control. And so they in 1307 they they uh set up a plan to suppress the Templar Order and accuse them of all kinds of uh heresies uh in order to justify suppressing the order.
To give you a little background on that, uh, by 1307, by September 1307, King Philip the Fair had issued a rest war orders throughout uh, France that by October, Friday, October 13th, 1307, the Templar Order would be rounded up uh, and and brought in on charges. Uh just prior to this, Pope Clement V had tried to get uh Jack de Malay who was the Grandmaster of the Templars at the time to uh basically merge the Templar Order with the Knights Hospital, which was a which was a a rival order at the time. It was a rival crusading order. Um the the crus the the hospitals of St. John was their name and their their symbol was the white cross, the white maltes cross and uh the uh they they were a arm of the church. They were a crusading or arm of the church. Uh they were completely under the control of the church and uh Jack de Malay refused to unite with them. I mean, the Templar Order at the time had already fought and and gained uh a considerable amount of freedom. They didn't have to answer to anybody but the Pope. And even then, they didn't really have to answer to the Pope much. Uh they would just get him information before uh it got out to the world pretty much. Um but they they did they weren't turning things over to the Roman church. uh they were they were trying to set up uh systems independent of the church and independent of the monarchy to ensure that people could gain more freedom uh independent of these two control systems.
Now the Templar order found out about these arrest orders uh if that had been issued by Philip the Fair in in September of 1307. So by uh by October 13, 1307, the Templar order had already what they did in Paris was they uh normally there was about 20,000 Templars uh within within Paris. They reduced their their numbers to just a couple thousand uh Templars to appear as business as usual in Paris. And meanwhile, they got all of their archives, all of their money, everything out of the Paris commander. They loaded them on ships uh at La Rochelle and uh and sailed off with them the night of by October, the night of uh Thursday, October 12th. They had they had sailed everything out of there. Uh Jack De Malay had stayed behind uh to again make it appear as business as usual. Fully knowing that he was going to be arrested and that the other Templars who stayed behind would be arrested. Uh Jack De Malay had hoped that he could negotiate uh and uh get the the Templar order out of the the mess that they were about to be in. Uh but as it turned out, they they were all arrested. They were tortured for seven years. uh they uh were made to confess to all kinds of false accusations. Uh and then by Friday and this was you know Friday October 13th is when they were arrested. This is the origin of the unlucky date of of uh Friday the 13th. Uh by the way uh but uh you know again they were tortured for 7 years. By March of 1314, uh, the leadership of the Templar order was burnt at the stake, including Jack de Balle was burnt at the stake in front of Notraam Cathedral. Jack De Malay did issue a curse. uh he said that King Philip the Fair and Pope Clement V would join him with within a year before before judgment uh before the throne of God within a year and within a within a year both Pope Clement V and uh Philip the Fair both did die uh and uh and that and then the rest has been kind of underground history since that time.
But let's let's talk about what the the Templars were accused of. They were accused of heresy of of associating with with other cultures uh and adopting views contrary to the Roman church at the time. Uh they were accused of homosexuality. Uh they were accused of uh spitting on the cross during initiation ceremonies. Now the Templars did come from a secret Gnostic belief practice which uh did not worship the cross. They saw the the cross as an as an idol. Um and uh as the Ten Commandments says, we should we shouldn't worship idols. Um they but they also didn't believe that Jesus actually died on the cross. And we'll get into that in a minute. Um the other thing that they were accused of was worshiping an idol that was known as the Baffome. Uh and there's been speculations on what this Baffome was. Uh the the image of it that's now popularly used for the Baffome was actually created by Elephice Levi uh who was a Templar uh back during the time of Napoleon. He had uh his real name was Alfonso Constance. He had uh been put in charge of sifting through documents that Napoleon had raided from the Vatican. Uh and uh Napoleon was specifically looking for Templar documents and that's that's a whole another story. But Alfonso Constance or Elephus Levi was one of the people who who he was a priest and he was looking through these documents and he's the one who came up with the image of the Baffome which was included in his book um transcendental mag on transcendental magic but uh from the 1800 early 1800s but uh what what really was the baffay? It was described as a three-headed bust. It was also described as a ram or a goat headed being and uh it was said that the Templars worshiped this idol. Well, the Templars were not worshiping this idol. This idol was a this was a symbol that was used in certain initiations. And the word first of all the three-headed bust or three-faced idol uh it had two illusions. One was it was a uh an illusion to the trinity or the triunity as the template order refers to it as uh which you find within the Christian tradition of where you have father son and holy spirit or three three faces of one divinity uh that was it was a symbol for that as a three-face bust. It was also similar to the three-headed figures that you'll find in um in in the Hindu tradition uh in India uh uh where there's three different natures to to reality that are depicted. The other the other depiction of it is it was related to uh the Kabbalistic was known as the Kabbalistic tree of life. Um which was a three-faced uh diagram that described how the forces of the universe go together. So this is part of what it was alluding to. Anytime it was saying as a three-face bust. Later Rosacrucian writers like um uh Andre Johan Valentine Andrea uh in his Christianopoulos and other books actually depicted this image of a three-faced uh three-faced bust uh because they were part of this this uh Templar tradition but they pictured it on the front piece or the headpiece of their uh their their books but the word itself self baome actually comes from there's a there's a cipher code that the Templars use known as the Atbash cipher uh where you uh different letters of the Hebrew alphabet are paired and when you when you when you use this Atbash cipher the word baffome it actually means sophia which means wisdom uh and sophia was the goddess of wisdom within the within the Gnostic tradition of which the Templars perpetuated. And again, we'll we'll get into that a little bit more in a minute. But the word Baffome also in Arabic could could mean ab which means uh father of wisdom in Arabic. Uh some have looked to it also if you take it into the Greek where it says Bamitus which means uh baptism of wisdom. So anyhow the point we're talking about here is wisdom and it goes back to this Sophia archetype which we will which we'll discuss uh a little bit more in a minute.
The image of the goat headed figure uh is uh what this really goes back to is it goes back to ancient Egypt when the Templars were studying in Egypt. One of the figures that they were looking at was the god Ammoon from which we get the word Amen from. Well, according to the Egyptians, the foundation of Egypt occurred right after the cataclysm, during the age of Leo, 12,500 years ago, right after the Younger Dryas cataclysm. And that the fonic, the time of the pharaohs was during the age of Aries, which was a ram. And uh what what sound does a ram make? A ram goes ba. Well, ba was the name of the the Egyptian the Egyptian name ancient Egyptian name for the soul. So you so you had ba which was the soul. Tha meant from in ancient Egypt and maat in ancient Egyptian was the universal order of things. She was also a goddess like Sophia but she was she was the maat literally meant truth or universal order. In fact, the goddess M would weigh uh your heart against a feather at the end of your life to determine if your you know if your heart was was lighter than the feather then you would you would move on to the heavenly realms. And if your heart was heavy against that feather of truth, the feather of m you know you would be uh you'd be fed to the beast. Um and this is kind of the origin of heaven and hell ideas uh that were later used within Christianity. But uh so ba fa mat literally meant soul from truth or soul from the universal order. And this is the other real secret of bamat. And he was and again uh the Ba was associated with Ammoon who was the uh the he was a ram because that was the during the age of Aries uh when this took place and so this ramheaded being lit literally became the bafamat symbol and the depiction by elephus Levi he's depicted with the one arm up and one arm down representing the as above so below which was the hermetic philosophy that the Templars venerated. So and which was found in all their architecture and everything else. So these were things that uh were this is part of what the Templar order was accused of. This is what the uh one of the one of the great secrets I mean and and this was considered heresy by the by the Roman church because it pointed to a knowledge a sacred knowledge of the mysteries going back pre uh pre- Roman church into antiquity and was really at the true heart of what the foundation of Christianity was started. hurted by and which had been the Roman church and the Roman authorities early on had tried so hard to suppress uh because they wanted religion to be created as a as a control mechanism of the people as opposed to a liberation system of the people. True Christianity from a Templar perspective was all about waking up to who we really are and what we're really about.
And this is what this is why I want to get into now that we understand what some of the accusations were against the Templar Order, including the fact that they were secretly passing on this Gnostic tradition. Let's talk about what that means and who Sophia really was because what and how this relates uh to not only the Gnostic tradition but the you know the Templar tradition but what to really the early the foundations of early Christianity.
So the Templars were all started we need to understand by Gnostic families. These were families that were passing on a Gnostic tradition in southern France. The Gnosticism was an early form of Christianity. The earliest form of Christianity prior to the establishment of the Roman church, prior to the establishment of the Eastern Orthodox Church, prior to anything called Protest of Protestant traditions. There was this Gnostic tradition within early Christianity. This according to Templar belief of which the Templarisms continued to practice. The word Gnosticism comes from the word Gnosis which means divine revelatory knowledge. And when we say knowledge it's not knowledge in the like collecting facts standpoint. It's it's or collecting understanding from general study. When we say Gnosis, we're talking about a revelatory experience. It's it's the word Gnosis in the western tradition is is like enlightenment in the eastern tradition. We're talking about the same thing within the within the western Christian tradition, and and the Jewish Kabbalistic tradition we're talking about a revelation and this revelation is about who we really are, where we really come from and where we're really going. is talking about the the foundations of of of not only our foundations of civilization, but as individuals of of souls that have incarnated here on this planet. I mean, why are we incarnated here? What what are we even doing here on this plane? And where did we come from? And what are we supposed to be doing as we're here? And and where are we going with all of this? that that's the that's the foundations of Gnosticism.
It was the belief that one of the things that separated the Gnostic belief system from standard Christianity was that Jesus did not come here as a savior within the Gnostic tradition. He came here as an exemplar and he came here to remind us of this of of where we really come from and that there is no death really. The Gnosis within Gnosticism there's a belief that we that this planet or this plane of being this dimension is maybe a better way to put it is kind of a prison area where you incarnate here to learn but ultimately you're here to learn to get out of here. You learn to get out of this prison. And this world is set up basically as a prison until we learn to wake up. Until we learn to get along with each other, till we learn to love each other, till we learn to recognize that we're all one consciousness, one mind, and that and that there is a realm beyond. There's a dimension beyond this realm that is our ultimate destiny and it's where we come from and it's where we're going to go back to. And until we figure that out, we're going to continue to reincarnate on this particular plane of being.
According to the Gnostic tradition, the beginning was the Monad was the the one God of light and of love and of fullness. The Monad contained the potential for everything. And out of the Monad came what was known as the Pleroma which was the fullness the the all potent of all potential all frequencies is another way to put it. There were frequencies that were in pairs and they represented attributes. they represented our greatest potentials and they were the it was almost an archetypal realm of of all potential and within this realm there was a p like I said there were different pairs that could be divided according to gender though not gender in the the sex aspect that that we think of today but more of like an active in a passive as aspects or a or a creative and a and a reflective aspect. Would it be another place of putting it? Although they both had creative potential and one of these pairs was actually Sophia and the Christos. The Sophia Sophia means wisdom. This was the feminine aspect. The Christos was the active aspect and this was the collective consciousness. So you have the wisdom on the one hand which was a product of the collective consciousness or the collective consciousness on the other hand helps to establish the wisdom. So they were two pairs of the same thing.
Well, according to the Gnostic cosmology, Sophia out of no, out of just her nature, you know, she decided to try to create something outside of the Pleroma, outside of the fullness, outside of this realm of light and love and fullness. And in so doing, she actually accidentally created what was known as the Demiurge, which was a lesser god being who being outside of the fullness was alone and thought that he was all that was. And so then he began to create and he actually created our realm, our dimension that we that we now exist in our our sphere. In fact, the word that's usually translated as garden in Hebrew for the Garden of Eden is the word gan. And gan actually means sphere. So, it was a sphere of Eden. That's our planet. Our planet is the sphere of Eden. It's not a it's not a garden somewhere in the Tigris Euphrates River Valley like some people say, but it's actually our planet. Our sphere itself is this realm of this dimension in which and we were told to to tend the garden. We were created to tend the garden to tend this sphere this earth and to take care of it. But this earth was also set up as a as a prison planet and and this is why the god of what we believe the god of the Old Testament was a basically the head of the prison and this is why he also behaves in ways that are egocentric. there are no other gods before him and he he's a jealous god and he's you know he he he causes people to to perform acts of genocide against one another and and other terribleness. These aren't these aren't the traits of a a god of love and light. They're the they're the traits of a of something that is consumed with its own protection, its own ego. And that's why it was considered the Demiurge, the the lesser god. And part of waking up is recognizing that we're beyond that. Those those attributes are within us because we're part of this creation.
But according to the Gnostic tradition because Sophia accidentally created that Demiurge, there's a there's a spark of Sophia which comes from the Monad, the original god of love and light that has continued to exist within us. Even though it's buried, it is it's deep within us and we because of our conditioning and our fear of survival and everything else on in this realm it gets buried and it gets lost. But this is truly what our soul is. Our soul is a spark of Sophia which is a part of this Pleroma the fullness the oneness which is a part of the Monad the original source and so getting back in touch with that that's what leads to Gnosis and Templar set up initiation ceremonies that were designed to help people get back to that source and it was believed that early Christianity was set up originally to help people with this memory. And that Jesus the the person we call the master Jesus who is Templars we we call Templ Jesus our brother right because he was a he was a brother in this process of awakening. But the master Jesus was he represented the Christos when he spoke as the Christ. He was speaking as that collective consciousness as that Christos and Mary Magdalene who was his wife represented the Sophia. She represented that goddess Sophia. And this is why when Christ removed seven demons from her, this represented the seven blockages of her seven chakra or her seven psychic centers. And the fact that all seven were removed represented she had those seven things opened which then allows one to experience Gnosis which was according to the Gnostic and the Templar belief was the realm of the Agawad the eighth sphere. In fact, the name Jesus in Greek, if you were to use Greek Gematria in which every letter corresponds to a number, the name Jesus, if you replace each letter for its number equivalent, the name Jesus actually adds up to 888 or 888, which was it was pointing to that number eight, which was the Agawad, the eighth sphere, the the realm of Gnosis, the realm of awakening. And according to the mythos the the the early Gnostic myths the goddess Sophia incarnated into into the realm of matter that she created. She got lost in it. She had to kind of work her way out of it. Some say some myths say she even she copulated with everything, right? Because she was she became almost like a prostitute because she was having to figure everything out. But eventually she married the Christos and she was able to go back to the realm of the Pleroma, the realm of the fullness and she became the enthroned Sophia at that point. the the goddess of wisdom within the realm of light within the realm of the Pleroma. And from that moment forward, she helped the rest of her creation to wake up. And we're part of that creation because we have a spark of her within us. And that's our soul. And so that's what our soul does. We incarnate into this world. We we we learn to work it all out. At first it seems all separate and divided but eventually it comes back together into the oneness and that's when we experience Gnosis and we enter back into that higher dimension into the realm of light the realm of the Pleroma.
This same mythos is what you find in the ancient Egyptian myths. And this is why Isis whose name by the way means throne or seat. She's the seat of power. She goes and she collects all the different pieces of Osiris who all seem separate and distinct and she brings them back together into the oneness. And then Osiris is re-raised into the oneness of perception, into that Pleroma, the realm of light and and and oneness. Again, that's also a metaphor by the way for what happened with Atlantis. Atlantis was a civilization that was very advanced. It collapsed through cataclysm we believe during the Younger Dryas cataclysm. and it and it separated to different parts of the world after that collapse. All the different territories of Atlantis became separated. And part of what the Templar Order's job has been is to go recollect the knowledge from those those different survival areas and bring them back together into the oneness so that we can create the new Atlantis, the new civilization that's based on these same principles.
So and this belief that that that this Gnostic tradition which within Gnostic Christianity is you know is based around these stories of Jesus and and Mary Magdalene or the Christos and the Sophia. But this same story was being propagated in Egypt with Isis and Osiris. And they were they were talking about the same ideas, but it was a a philosophy, a religious philosophy that we believe went all the way back to Atlantis or what the Egyptians referred to as Utlant or or what the the Mayan and and Noatal cultures and the Americas referred to as as Atlan. They're all talking about the same thing. And by the way, the god of light, the the god of the the fullness, the Pleroma, the the Monad was also referred to as I Io Io. And this is why in in Latin letters would be I AO. The I represents a point becoming a line. A represents a line full forming into a trinity, right? The one point becoming three points. And then the O represented the fullness of it all coming back together again. And this is really the the the secret name behind the name John in within the Christian traditions because John comes from the Greek comes from the German Joannis which comes from the in the Latin Joannis which comes from the Greek Ianis. I AOS ionis the name for secret name for John and by the way John's feast day of June 23rd was also the feast day of the god Owanis within the Babylonian myths and of course was depicted as one of the beings that came from the cataclysm that helped to reset up civilization. he was depicted as wearing animal skins or fish skins and anointing priest kings through initiation to set up civil reset up civilization. Well, this is exactly what John the Baptist was doing. He was depicted as the same thing. He wasn't depicted with fish skins. He was said he was wearing animal skins, but it was the same idea. And by the way also that word I IO or IA in Sanskrit means Gnosis. So it means it means the same thing. So it it's all talking about the same sciences going back into and this is why also within the Noatal cultures in like the Americas the the chief god you know the the Mayan the Mayan cosmology depicts they said that the universe is created with by a tree a sibala tree with 22 branches that correspond to their 22 lesser deities or or attributes. But they all go back to a root god, a Monad, a a god source that was known as I waddle. So it's I ao tl. So it's the same it's the same thing. It's the same tradition. And this is this was the secret tradition of Atlantis. Anytime you have TL Yeah. like TL at the end of a word in in the Noatal cultures represented energy or expression. For example, the the beings that came from Autan in the in the Noatal myths were the ita you know and it's that same that same TL emphasis but anyhow these are all these are all aspects of the tradition that goes back to Atlantic. or what the Egyptians called Utlant or what and by the way I also learned recently that there's a Norwegian term there's an ancient Norwegian term or that you also find within between Sweden and Norway and and some of those Finland some of those areas up there and the ancient language up there the words the word Utlant actually means foreigner which is kind of interesting so the ancient Egyptian word that that represented the foreigners from this from the root civilization from the zeppy the first times the the the the primordial island that sunk that same word was you find all the way up into the the Nordic traditions meaning foreigner. So that that's pretty interesting. But of course and then the the cultures of the Americas referred to it as the the Atlan. So Atlan, Utlant, Atlantis, all the same thing as this root civilization. And this is part of what the Templars were tracking down. They were trying to track down the root the root tradition and the and and that expression and how it survived in different ways.
So Sophia you know, represented this goddess that that Isis also represented. The Christos of the or the the the collective consciousness, the reunited collective consciousness through love is also the same expression as Osiris within the Osiris myths. And this is why there are initiation ceremonies that the the pharaoh in ancient Egypt would have to go through where he would be symbolically killed and then raised from the dead. And this is part of what just like Osiris was. And this is what made him a son of God in the Egyptian tradition. This is what made him Pharaoh. This same initiation ceremony is done within the Templar tradition. And in fact the word sir as in sir knight comes from sar which was the the masculine aspect of the god Osiris. His his name in fact Osiris comes the Egyptian was Assar and the o part of it was Isis. That was again, she was the throne. She was the power. But then the Sar was the actual masculine aspect. And this is why to this day those Templars who have been initiated in the great pyramid, they're given the the title of Sar that they can use before their name. Because that's the Osiris part of it. But sar is where we also get the word sir and that's where the words like sir knight comes from within the knighthood tradition. So these are all tied into the Templar mysteries.
And by the way, these same initiation rights were being were being conducted on the in the Americas by not only the Mayans but other Indian tribes in North America where they had to go through the same symbolic death and then raising where they presented them with an apron which covered their their genitals and it represented turning your your creative Uh instead of wasting your your your creative mojo on on just just frivolous sex turning that into energy to build civilization and to build work and good things in your life. It's just one of the symbols of it. But this is why you you also find usually within these mystery traditions that the Templars are a part of, you'll find the apron being used. And you certainly see this within Freemasonry and within Rosacrucian traditions, both of which were created by the Templar Order. So these are these are all part of the the Temp, you know, the they're part of the Atlantean mysteries that had been preserved all over the world. The Templar order also inherited these mysteries. And so part of what the Templar tradition has done has been to try to go out and refine these mysteries, re-rs where individual freedoms are protected and where these these mysteries can be celebrated. where our our collective humanity could be celebrated and we can build this new Atlantis.
What I'll say is that that the hope is that because that divine spark is within everybody, right? This is why everybody is born with God-given rights, right? Because this is part of our birthright and it's what it's the only thing that will allow us to reconnect with each other to to our collective consciousness of who we really are as the the great seal of the United States says e pluribus unum out of many one and though it was referring to how many states can come together into one government on a more metaphysical level or spiritual level, symbolic level. What it really means is out of many individuals, we all come together back into the oneness, the one consciousness. And this is the this is the the secret strain of Gnosticism. And because it empowers the individuals and because anybody through their own efforts and their own exploration and their own study and through initiation into these mysteries can come to this re revelation can come to this this Gnosis this divine knowledge. You don't need a priest to get you there. You don't need a church authority to get you there. And this is why the Templar tradition and the expressions that have come out of the Templar order have been suppressed so so vigorously by the Roman church going all the way back into early Christianity. Christianity itself was an expression of this which is why it was being suppressed. the Roman authorities tried to suppress it as the new church was formed. They got rid of all the gospels that even hinted at these Gnostic connections because again they empowered the individual. And if you're trying to create a new system to enslave people, you know, you needed to you need to hide and get rid of all the gospels that that taught the truth. And this is really why all these these oar gospels, these earliest gospels were were the fragments were put in these clay jars in hidden caves at in Nagamundi in in Egypt. Nagamundi is like maybe 10-minute drive from the valley of the kings in Egypt. And this is where they were they were taken to be hidden to be preserved. That area according to Templar tradition was originally the survival bunkers, the the survival shelters from the cataclysm. That's where the Feronic family lines came out of after the cataclysm. All of those what what most people think of as tombs in the Valley of the Kings that are individual, they think of them as individual in the hills are actually all connected by caves by tunnel networks that go deep down into the earth. And it's because th those were the original survival bunkers of the last cataclysm. And so when the pharaohs wanted to be buried, they had themselves buried back where their ancestors had originally came out of. And they they had themselves buried in ways in which their organs and such were preserved with the hope that someday once the technology got back to where it was said to have been in antiquity, the the genes could be collected from all that material. so that they could be reassembled like Osiris and and brought back again. Not only their soul could be called back into their original their original body. So this is really this is really the origin of these resurrection practices, but it goes back to a technology that we believe went back to Atlantis.
As the Templars came to understand these things, it became very dangerous to the to the political structures of the day. That's why the Templar order was suppressed. But we haven't we've survived and we've continued to pass on this this tradition and we're hoping to bring it forward now to the world because technologically we can do so instantly to people all around the world without fear of being burnt at the stake again for expressing such ideas.
Let's so let's talk about the symbolism of the rose within the Templar tradition in particular the rose cross. The rose finds expression in different different forms within the the Templar tradition but but the earliest was in the symbol the rose cross. When the Templars went into Egypt, one of the things that they discovered is that there was a vast underground network of preservation from the pre-cataclysmic times. And this could be found under the Giza plateau. Well, from the Giza plateau all the way to Sakara, which was about 20 miles away from Giza, there are vast underground networks where there is preserve the evidence of the lost technologies of of the Atlantean tradition. This underworld in the ancient Egyptian language was known as Rostow. So the Templars learned of this underground area by the Coptic Christians in the area who had been preserving knowledge and aspects of not only the Gnostic tradition but the the Egyptian mysteries associated with it. Not only the Gnostic and and hermetic by the way hermetic traditions as well. They had they were preserving aspects of this. So, so the Templars learned of this through the Coptic Christians. They learned of this area of Rostow. Well, Rostow didn't mean anything to them in Egyptian, even though we know it now. It means underworld in ancient Egyptian. But to the Templars when they heard the word Rostow, they transliterated it into the Latin that they are familiar with. And Ross came to mean rose and Tao meant cross. So they adopted the symbol of the rose cross to symbolically represent this secret underworld and in the tradition under there. So they they put a a rose in the center of a cross. This symbol also came to represent the symbol of consciousness as it evolves out of matter. The rose represented the consciousness that that blooms as it grows out of matter. It's a similar symbol to the lotus growing out of the slime or the mud of the pond, right? There's matter. There's the mud of the pond and then this beautiful lotus grows out of it. Well, in the same way, the rose grows out of the cross of matter. And and the cross always represented matter because it had four directions represented the four directions. It represented the four elements. And and so it it represented binding us to this this particular dimension, this plane of being. But as we we grow and we learn and as our soul begins to awaken again and as we we get in touch with that spark within us, that spark of Sophia, that spark of the Monad which which is within us from the true realm of light, the true god of light that begins to bloom and it begins to open up and awaken like a rose does. And in in the same way the rose itself grows out of manure, right? Anyone knows who who grows roses that the that you have to use manure, you know, to to fertilize the roses enough to to get them to get to the point where they bloom. So just as the rose grows out of that crap, excuse my language, in the same way our soul grows out of this realm, this dimension and it opens up and it blooms. So the rose growing out of the cross of matter and this and because of this the Templars would also plant roses in places that the rose became a symbol of this process and they would plant roses in places where the mysteries were preserved. And in fact even the the tomb where the Templar order was said to have found the bones of the holy family of Jesus and John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene, Jesus's brother James and then John and and Mary's children and Jesus and Mary's children, the family tomb which is now known as the Talpia tomb in East Jerusalem. When they found that even though they removed the bones and and hid them they preserved the tomb and above the tomb was planted roses because and this is really where the term sub rosa comes from or under the rose which represented secrecy or to hide the mysteries. And so anytime you find a rose showing up it's alluding this. It's the same reason why on the Gothic cathedrals that the Templars helped to fund and and build with with Pythagorean knowledge that they were bringing back from Egypt and from other areas. The church itself, if you view it from the air, it's in the shape of a cross, but then they put the rose windows which were made alchemically, you know, using different metallic oxides and such to to create those colors. So that this ended up make turning the temple itself into a rose cross, right? Where these secret mysteries could be preserved in them. And this is why in the the the the Gothic cathedrals, even though they do have depictions of the Bible all around them, they also have depicted within them the sacred sciences. Not only the sacred geometry that went into to the creation of the structure and the sacred architecture of it but also there are there's symbolism that that describes the alchemical processes. For example, all the stages of alchemy are depicted and some of this alchemy went into creating the again the stained glass and the cathedrals to create those colors. This was all sacred knowledge that had been preserved and inherited from Egypt. Egypt had inherited it originally from Atlantis. But that rose became a symbol. And not only do we find that in the Gothic cathedrals, but we also find that within Islam. The word for rose in Islam in in Arabic is ward which is also similar to the word word which in Islam means meditation. So the rose became a symbol for meditation. The same symbolism is applying right of the awakening of consciousness with with the symbolism of the rose. The word ward and the word ward are are very similar in pronunciation in Arabic and they allude to meditation and also to rose and the word rose and so a rose was depicted for meditation and this is why you see the rose depicted on the moss in the same way that the rose windows are depicted on the cathedrals and it both came from the same idea, the same sacred knowledge going back to Rostow the the area of of Egypt, the underworld where where the mysteries were being preserved of again pointing to where we came from, who we are, and where we're going both both as a civilization and spirit. spiritually, individually within ourselves.
And and by the way, this is this is really where the the the origin of the word Rosicrucian comes from. Is related to the rose and the cross. And this was set up by the Templar Order. The Templar Order in Germany in the underground in the late 1500s referred to itself as the militia crucifera evangelica. Frederick the Duke of Wutenberg was the grandmaster of the order at that time. He commissioned a guy by the name of Simon Studian to to publish a book known as the Naometria. It's a,200page book that describes all of the the Gnostic Kabbalistic and alchemical knowledge that's associated with the symbolic dimensions of King Solomon's temple. And he published this book dedicated it to the militia crucifera evangelica. People like Johan Valentina Andrea were parts of this study and this movement and so they created a new public expression of it known as Rosacrucian and they described a tale of a figure known as Christian Rosenroots whose whose tomb had been discovered and that he he they described him as a as a person who had gone and studied all the mysteries of of Europe and and the Middle East and gone to places like like Egypt and and to Damascus and other places like that. And he was described as a figure who had a red equal armed cross on his tunic. And of course this was the symbol of the Templars. And he he discovered these mysteries. He he died and took them with him and they were all buried in his tomb with him. And that his tomb had been rediscovered and opened up and that and that this new order was founded known as the Rosacrucian order. And really what this was was it was the expression of Germany. Certain Templars within Germany working with other Templars in England. Queen Elizabeth I was a member of the militia crucifera evangelica. Her her son who had been hidden at birth. Francis Bacon was a member of this tradition. and between Francis Bacon and Johan Valentine Andrea they put together the and wrote these what were known as the fam the confessio and the chemical wedding of Christian Rosenroots which were the doctrines that ended up forming what was known as the Rosacrucian tradition and ever since then there have been orders calling themselves Rosacrucian orders but really what they're doing is they're just perpetuating the knowledge that had been collected by the Templars in Egypt and in other places all the places that Christian Rosen was said to have gone and they're they're bringing that that knowledge together and perpetuating it. So that's all part of that that Templar tradition from a western standpoint. It was about the the understanding of Gnosticism of Kabbalah of the the Hebrew Kabbalah and alchemy that had been being preserved and perpetuated by the Islamic some of the Islamic cultures and traditions like the Sufi who we consider our brothers and sisters.
The Templars worked with as they went down into the Middle East they encountered a number of cultures. the Sabians of Harran who were Hermeticists who who who who worshiped Hermes as their great prophet. In fact, when Muhammad peace be upon him went and and encountered the the Sabians he said okay well look you can be people of the book as well. The Quran says there are four four cultures that were considered people of the book or or people that were considered holy in God's eyes. And these were the Jews, the Christians, the Muslims, and the Sabians. Now, everybody knows who the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims are. Most people don't know who the Sabians were. The Sabians were these people that were hermeticists, and they studied the doctrines of Hermes.
And so, uh, the Muslims said, "Well, look, he just changed his name to Idris instead of, uh, Hermes, and we're all good." They said, "Okay, that's fine."
So, from that point forward, if you usually encounter a Muslim, uh, under the name of Idris, or, uh, someone from the Middle East under the name of Idris, there's a good probability they're part of that Hermetic tradition. That secret alchemical tradition that was being passed on by, uh, by the Seabans.
So, uh, the Seabans were a culture. The Drews were another culture. The Drews were a Gnostic tradition, or are a Gnostic tradition. Um, they viewed Jesus and Muhammad as prophets, but they also looked to Plato, Hermes, and Pythagoras as prophets within their tradition.
Um, the Templars got some of their initiation ceremonies that we currently still perform are almost identical to some of the ones the Drews perform. Uh, and, uh, we got some of our forms of recognition, actually our secret forms of recognition, from the Drews. Um, some of these things were passed on into Freemasonry.
Uh, anybody who becomes a Master Mason within Freemasonry goes through a ritual where they're given, uh, what's known as a, uh, a certain hand grip, which comes from the Templar tradition, and they're given a certain word, which is also used within the Drews tradition. That's where it comes from. Um, uh, and it's a way of recognition. It's a Templar form of recognition. Um, and the Templars still use this grip, this hand grip.
Uh, it's something that we find amongst other cultures in the Americas, uh, groups like the Hopi Indians, the Mandan, the, the, um, the Mikmaq, uh, the, the, uh, uh, some of the Lakota traditions, the, uh, uh, the Blackfoot, uh, and, uh, and then the Mayans and, and others, uh, have continued to perpetuate some of the symbols, initiation rites, and secret hand grips, uh, that the Templars also use, that we inherited through other channels. And these things are believed to all go back to Atlantis.
The Hopi say that before the last great shaking of the earth, before the last cataclysm, the Great Spirit assembled all of the high priests and gave them this hand grip, and then sent them off in different directions prior to the great shaking of the earth. Uh, and then right before the great shaking of the earth, people were brought down into caves, that the ant people came and brought them down into caves, into tunnels, and there was this great shaking of the earth, this great cataclysm, and then they came out of it and ended up forming their nation. Um, and that they had this grip so that eventually, in the future, all these people would be able to find each other again through this grip.
So the Templar Order certainly inherited this, and so when they went and met with the Mayans, the Mayans immediately recognized it and started trading silver with them long before, before Columbus. Uh, when they met with the Mikmaq, they recognized it. Uh, when they, they, they met with the Blackfoot, they recognized it. Uh, and, and this is something that was also being passed down in Egypt and other places.
So, uh, there are Qabalistic traditions that use these same signs. There are Sufi traditions that use these same signs of recognition. And it's because they've all inherited it from the same, the same source, the same primordial tradition. And, uh, the Templar Order is just was founded to seek out these things and bring them back together again, to try to bring them back into the oneness, to recreate the New Atlantis, uh, to work with our brothers and sisters of these other cultures, to bring humanity back in alignment with nature, with, with, um, with our animal friends on this planet, and with each other, uh, so that we can move forward, forward into a new collective consciousness, uh, into greater realms and to higher dimensions of consciousness, that is our destiny.
That's a lot to, that's a lot to process. It's a heavy idea. But the mysteries of Christianity and the other mysteries, the Egyptian mysteries, uh, and the other mysteries that you find in other, other cultures were all set up. They're all aspects of this Atlantean tradition, and they're designed to get us, bring us back together, uh, in harmony, to rebuild and to, uh, to set up this New Atlantis that is our destiny.