Secret rite on the coin of the Templars. Templar rituals. How the secret was made clear

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Trying to make yourself rich is like trying to break through a closed door. as the experience of the most successful people on Earth testifies, the shortest path to success is to open money channels through which wealth will flow to you as if by itself. Of course, access to these energy channels is a secret, but secret does not mean inaccessible. As one ritual formula says, to be one - ask one. It can be translated as "Ask who you want to be". For the secrets of wealth, let's turn to the rich.

Masons have long been considered the recognized masters of financial flows - there are legends about their wealth and power. For more than a hundred years, the founders of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, served as faithful defenders of the Holy Sepulcher, recaptured by the crusaders during the first campaign.

In 1291, ships heavily laden with oriental gold landed in European ports. But countless treasures are not the main thing that the templars brought from distant Judea. Jerusalem is the main magical place of the ecumene. It is here, in Jerusalem, that worlds, religions and cultures have always converged. Hellas and Egypt, Islam and Christianity, East and West converged on this crossroads of the universe, settling with knowledge enclosed in papyrus and parchment. Ancient magic, Egyptian occultism, ancient wisdom and oriental cunning, multiplied by knightly military power - this is the main wealth that the Templars brought to Europe.

Due to political intrigues, the Templar Masons were forced to go underground, but despite this (but rather thanks to) the organization not only retained its power, but also multiplied it. In any major political phenomenon in history, a closer look reveals the trace of freemasons. After all, behind the Masonic lodges there is a huge layer of accumulated ancient knowledge that allows you to achieve power, wealth and success. Real success, not a place of a puppet on the stage of the world theater. To see this, just look at the denomination of the world's main currency - the dollar. The green banknote bears Masonic magical signs that ensure the inviolability of the dollar financial system.

Many wanted to touch the magic of the Freemasons-Templars, however, the brothers-masons steadfastly guarded their secrets. But now you also have the opportunity to join the ancient power.

How to get the power of the Templars

Preparing this material, we managed to meet a man of unique destiny. - a well-known esoteric, white magician, for a long time occupied a prominent place in one of the Masonic lodges. Quite by chance, Viktor Nikolaevich bought a chest with old books at a sale in Paris. While sorting out the purchase, he noticed an interesting symbol on one of the volumes. The cover was decorated with a rose and a cross - the coat of arms of the Rosicrucian house, one of the most powerful Masonic orders.

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MYSTERY OF THE TEMPLE*

In the Czech Republic, not far from Prague, there is a small town Jihlava. There is a river with the same name. An ordinary rural province, but the land under this place has been keeping strange, mysterious phenomena for many centuries.

Not far from the city there are entrances to the underground labyrinths of the local catacombs. Legends and tales common among the inhabitants of Jihlava inhabit these dungeons, created in the Middle Ages, with ghosts and mysterious invisible creatures. Anyone who gets there involuntarily shares this opinion - exactly at midnight, in one of the corridors of the catacombs, the sounds of an organ are heard, as if someone begins a sacred mass with solemn music.

ITAR-TASS message dated November 4, 1996: in the Czech Republic in the town of Jihlava, an expedition of archaeologists explored ancient catacombs and confirmed the incredible stories of local residents. The music played on the organ could be heard quite clearly in the stone dungeon at a depth of ten meters. The space around this "organ hall" was examined and it was found that somewhere nearby, behind its walls, there could not be a room anywhere in which such a musical instrument would be located. Even psychologists were brought in to unravel this phenomenon. After examining eyewitnesses, they stated that this was not a hallucination.

But the main surprise for archaeologists was the discovery of an underground passage, which even the local old-timers did not know about. A stone staircase was found in it, glowing in the dark with a bright red-orange light. Chemical analysis of its substance showed that there is no phosphorus in it, moreover, its light is constant and does not decrease with time. What kind of light this is and how an ordinary stone was made luminous remained unknown.

Someone was able to put music and light into the simple stone of the catacombs, and this man-made magic has been living for a thousand years.

The phenomenon of Jihlava resurrects from the river of oblivion the legends about the knightly orders of the Middle Ages, who owned the truth of genuine alchemy and held their meetings and initiation rites in secret underground temples.

These facts belong already to the history of the secret societies of the Initiates.

It is not in encyclopedias, but it links individual historical events into a single consistent historical process. It fills in the gaps on the general map of political and social upheavals, in the annals of the rise and fall of civilizations. It spiritualizes the general, chaotic, at first glance, picture of the existence of mankind and endows it with a sublime and at the same time tragic meaning, the logic of the collision of the most powerful opposing forces, the forces of good and evil, Light and darkness.

Indeed, isn't it strange that "our" era, the Christian era, begins, several centuries pass, and no trace of the ancient traditions of Initiation is already visible? Are they really interrupted? Did the knowledge that created Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt not give strength to the Brotherhood of Initiates to survive, to withstand the onslaught of aggressive, self-satisfied and fanatical ignorance and create their impregnable strongholds of Enlightenment?

Sometimes what looks like a disappearance is actually a transition into a new form of existence. Conditions are changing, and new means of transmitting to people the old as the world Truth are being created.

What can be the most powerful means of impregnability?

The order was founded in Palestine in 1118 by two Frenchmen - knights Hugo de Payen and Geoffroy de Saint Adhemar. They were initiated into the teachings of the brotherhood of Nazarenes, philosophers and ascetics, who preserved the memory of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and the true history of early Christianity. These were the followers of John the Baptist. Their spiritual ideal was the preservation and revival of a single ancient religion.

In accordance with the traditions of Initiation, such a revival of true religion among mankind was symbolically called the building of the Temple of Truth, and its builders were called Masons, free Masons. Hence the name of the brotherhood of the Nazarenes - the Order of the Temple. Hugo de Payen and Geoffroy da Saint Ademar considered the order they created to be its spiritual brainchild, an offshoot, and therefore called their knightly brotherhood the Order of the John Templars, Templars (from the Latin templum, as well as from the French temple - temple).

The emblem of the order was a red cross on a white cloak, a symbol of the universe. The order was supposed to unite in its ranks the best people of the era and create, build the kingdom of Truth in Christian Europe. To serve as protection and assistance to the best aspirations of mankind, developing the idea of ​​a noble, truly Christian chivalry. So that the church could not interfere with this, the Templars, according to the type of the Mysteries and according to the method of teaching of Christ himself, divided their teaching into two parts - internal and external, and into several degrees of initiation. The outer teaching was conventional Christianity itself at its best, without worshiping the dead letter of the Jehovahic Old Testament. The internal doctrine, for which the Templars would immediately have been torched if they had announced it openly, was the secret of the order. For this teaching, at the dawn of the Christian era, the Neoplatonists were persecuted and their libraries destroyed, Hypatia was killed for it, and now it could only be secret.

For open worship, the Templars had their own temples and chapels; for secret meetings and mysteries, they retired to secret caves and remote forest farms.

The official task entrusted by the church to the Knights Templar was to ensure the safety of Christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. The charter of the order was extremely severe. When joining, its members took three monastic vows - obedience, poverty and chastity. Not a single coin in the hands of a Templar was his property, no matter who he was - a simple novice or Master of the Order. Everything was owned by the order, a large commune with a strict hierarchical structure. And this was not news in history. One and a half thousand years earlier, the communities were founded by Buddha and Pythagoras. The Essenes, the Near Eastern followers of the Buddha, and the apostles of Christ had the same communal way of life. The Cistercian monastic order that existed at that time lived on the same principles, strengthened and developed by the efforts of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), a Christian ascetic who denounced the “Babylon” of church theology and preached life “not for himself, but for everyone”, like the life of Christ.

In his essay "For the Glory of the New Host" Bernard compared the Templars with Christ himself, who drove the merchants out of the Temple. All those who came to the order entered it voluntarily, serving in it was a test in which a knight could show himself to mentors for many years and gain admission to higher degrees of initiation. Their rituals and teachings were an absolute secret, and there were several stories among the people about how the Templars accepted newcomers into their brotherhood. These confessions of outcast candidates then became one of the main points of accusation of the church against the templars.

Several such cases are described in Henry Charles Lee's History of the Inquisition.

Jean d "Aumont sought admission to the illustrious order of chivalry, the trials of which were shrouded in mystery. Jean really wanted to be accepted, but did not know what he had to do to get into it. During the ceremonial reception, the mentor removed all other brothers from the chapel "and after some difficulty he made him spit on the cross; and after all the preceptor said to him: "Go, you fool, confess!"

The candidate showed that for him "the end justifies the means" and was rejected. Since the Jesuit order had not yet been created at that time, Jean remained out of work and harbored a grudge against the knights.

"Another brother, the minister Pierre de Cherru, testified that when he was forced to renounce God, his mentor looked at him with a scornful smile, as if wishing to express his contempt for the low renegade"

The Order did not need careerists who were ready to change their beliefs for their own benefit. And the knights of the order with their lives proved loyalty to the lofty ideals of Christianity. In times of disaster and famine, the Templar monasteries were a refuge for the destitute and hungry. The Knights Templar, as a powerful just force, were entrusted with the duty to preserve the safety of animals, tools and seeds important in agriculture during the internecine wars of nobles and church feudal lords.

The Knights Templar languished for years in the prisons of the Muslims, with whom Christendom was at war at the time, and could gain freedom by changing their faith, but none of them did so. Henry Lee describes how the Sultan of Egypt, having learned about the persecution launched by the church against the order, ordered forty knights, taken prisoner by him ten years before, to be brought to him. He offered them wealth and freedom in exchange for renunciation of the faith. "Amazed and angered by their refusal, he again locked them in prison and deprived them of food and drink; and they all, thus, preferred martyrdom to apostasy".

And this is not a fantasy from ballads about chivalry, but the true story of the most mysterious of all knight brotherhoods. Modern encyclopedias, explaining this mystery, write about the order as follows: "The accusations fabricated by French lawyers became the source of the later mythologization of the Templars, which was greatly facilitated by the closeness of the order and the custom of keeping its internal structure in the strictest confidence." Obviously, the knights had a reason to keep this strictest secret. Otherwise, why would just and noble warriors keep a secret from their inner life? Hide some secret sins?

This is exactly what the church "lawyers" claimed when they made their strange accusations against the Templars:

"They do not recognize Christ, the Blessed Virgin and the Saints"; "they spit on the cross, trample it with their feet and pour urine over it"; "worship in a dark cave to Baphomet, covered with human skin, smear it with the fat of fried babies born from the girls seduced by them"; "worship their devil in the form of a cat, which they kiss under the tail"; "kiss each other in all eight holes"; "sodomize"... - Etc.

Could these accusations of the masters of theology contribute to the "later mythologization of the Templars"?

The "myths" connect the order with the later secret societies of the Rosicrucians and Freemasons, but not with satanic rituals. Unless, of course, we do not take into account the traditional church view of the common tradition of these secret brotherhoods as organized insidious followers of Satan. From this point of view, they are really anti-Christian, because by their existence they undermined the authority of the church on earth. Only for some reason, none of these brotherhoods has ever tortured anyone in torture chambers and burned them at the stake.

The incredible spiritual height and moral purity of the knights of the order forced centuries later historians to puzzle over the secret of its origin and tragic fate. Henry Lee called the destruction of the Knights Templar the biggest crime that tarnished the Middle Ages.

As soon as the command "Face!" sounded from the Vatican and the King of France Philip the Handsome, a real hunt began for the Templars throughout Europe. For too long and too frankly, they set off with their righteousness the daring life of feudal bishops and popes, who robbed their own flock to the bone. Is it possible to claim greater holiness than that possessed by the Church herself?

The conveyor of the Inquisition had already been debugged by that time, and its entire machine was now aimed at grinding the bones of the knights, squeezing confessions of all mortal sins from them under torture.

"Brother Robert Vigier...denied the allegations, after having recognized them as just in Paris before Bishop Nevers under the influence of cruel torture from which...three of his comrades died...Priest Bernard de Vadot was tortured by fire; he was so the soles of his feet burned so badly that after a few days his heel bones fell out ... "

Someone could not stand the torture, someone endured unthinkable suffering and humiliation.

"The executioners were not content with torturing the accused who had not yet been tortured; in their blind zeal to increase the number of testimonies, they dragged out of the dungeons those who had already been tortured, and again tortured them with redoubled cruelty in order to get from them new, even more ridiculous consciousness".

Pope Clement V himself led the "investigation", gave instructions to the inquisitors who and how many more times should be tortured in order to obtain a sufficient number of confessions.

The English King Edward II, having arrested the English Templars at the direction of the Vatican, at first forbade the use of torture against them. But Clement demanded that he repeal this prohibition, promising him remission of sins in return. The Pope reproached Philip the Handsome for his too active participation in the trial of the Knights of the Temple, explaining that this was exclusively the lot of the church.

Those knights who renounced their confessions made under torture were burned as "recidivists", that is, those who re-entered the path of heresy.

Formally, within the framework of the law, the church was unable to prove the guilt of the Templars, but, nevertheless, the order was destroyed, not so much as a result of the investigation, but during it.

The papal bull, issued on May 2, 1310, stated that, although the clerical work did not allow the order to be legally dealt with, it was still abolished by decree of the pope and indulged in eternal prohibition. Anyone who wants to join him or accept his clothes will immediately be excommunicated from the Church.

When in 1310 the burning of the Templars, who withstood all the torture and denied all accusations, took place, the people who gathered at the place of execution saw that the fire did not touch the crosses on their cloaks. The common people sympathized with the knights and saw them as martyrs rather than heretics. All sorts of signs appeared in the sky and they were attributed to the formidable signs of God's wrath for the tortured templars. "Eclipses of the sun and moon, false suns, false moons, fiery tongues rising from earth to sky, thunderclaps in a clear sky. Near Padua, one mare foaled with a foal with nine legs; unknown birds flew to Lombards; throughout the Padua region for a rainy winter a dry summer came with hail storms, so that all the grains perished.... Not a single Roman augur could have wished for clearer omens; it seemed as if you were reading a page from Titus Livy..."

The punishing hand of providence was also seen behind the death of King Philip and Pope Clement, who came for them shortly after the execution of the head of the Templars, Grand Master of the Order of Jacques de Molay.

When the order ceased its official existence, most of its knights continued to lead the same pure, noble life as before. Many of them became holy hermits, having retired to the mountains. Even their bodies after death did not succumb to decay.

Only there was no one to canonize them. The Church, which usually assumes this responsibility, set about dividing the property of the chivalric brotherhood that it had destroyed. The picture was reminiscent of the gospel execution of Christ, when the executioners cast lots, dividing his clothes among themselves.

Church dignitaries started litigation with each other and just fought for such free money. "The monastic orders did not lag behind and seized their share of the booty; Dominicans, Carthusians, Augustines, Celestines - all figure among the heirs of the looted property".

Most of the property of the Templars was transferred to another knightly order, traditionally Catholic, the Joannites, also called the Hospitallers, and later the Order of Malta.

But this was not all the property, later it turned out that much is still in the hands of the old owners. In 1318, the Hospitallers complained about this to Pope John XXII and asked to understand this injustice.

And there was something to figure out.

The Secret Order was extremely successful in financial affairs, and all of Europe made up legends about its countless treasures. The Knights Stonemasons left behind many majestic Gothic cathedrals. In less than a hundred years, they managed to find funds for the construction of one hundred and fifty temples in France - masterpieces of architecture. Even the state itself could not have the money spent on this.

The Templars invented the banking system that the whole world now uses. Economics was one of the secret sciences, and the knights used it to create their own viable community - not even a state within a state, but a state over states. The network of order houses stretched from the British Isles in the West to the lands of the Golden Horde in the East. The military power of the organization provided depositors with guarantees for the safety of storing their valuables, and the bank notes of the Order of the Templars became a reliable currency throughout this vast economic space.

In addition, the Templars minted their own silver coin, which received the same wide circulation. It was produced by them in large quantities, and it was with this money that cathedrals were built. And it was this silver coin of the Templars that flooded Europe that became a mystery to many historians. She just had nowhere to go. At that time, there was practically no mining of precious metals in Europe. Their deposits will open much later. And yet, the Templars took silver from somewhere in huge quantities to issue their money.

This financial independence and the success of the knights explained the participation in their persecution of the King of France, Philip the Handsome. Both the church and the secular authorities were eager to get their hands on the secret archives of the knights and chests with their treasures. But the high-ranking robbers got absolutely nothing, neither the secrets of the origin of the wealth of the order, nor its rich storerooms. In all the castles of the order, only stone walls and empty shelves awaited the bloodhounds of Philip and Clement. Everything flowed away in an unknown direction.

Recently, the French historian Jacques de Maillet, taking up the investigation of the secrets of this order, drew attention to the painting of the pediment of one of the temples of the Templars. On it, among the people surrounding Christ, a man, a woman and a child with disproportionately large ears are depicted. The man is dressed in feathers, like the North American Indians, and on his head is a Viking helmet. The woman is bare-chested and in a long skirt. The Incas, according to their ancient custom, pulled back their ears, inserting heavy rings of gold or stone into the lobes, the Vikings visited America in the Middle Ages, and all together these details formed a collective image of the inhabitants of the American continent.

Jacques de Maillet in his book "The Secret Campaign of the Templars" writes that in the National Archives of France there are seals of the order, captured in 1307 by the people of Philip the Handsome. On one of them, next to the inscription "Secret of the Temple", a man in a headdress of feathers and with a bow in his hand is depicted. Now such a picture is understandable for us, since we are aware of what the American Indians looked like, but such an outfit of a man, hinting at one of the main secrets of the templars, did not say anything to Philip or Pope Clement.

In 1507, René II, Duke of Lorenzo published a map that Christopher Columbus had seen in the treasury of the Portuguese king before embarking on his decisive expeditions to America (since 1492). Magellan was guided by a copy of this map when planning the first ever trip around the world (1519-1521). It shows the contours of North and South America and the strait between South America and Tierra del Fuego. This map was kept in the treasury of the Portuguese king, where it ended up along with some other secret documents of the Templars.

Portugal was the only country in Western Europe that came to the defense of the persecuted knights. In Portugal, there was the most powerful branch of the order after France, and the brothers who fled from arrest in 1307 found refuge there. Therefore, the king of Portugal got from the Templars such secrets of the planet Earth, which he did not even suspect. Portugal defended the order and, in gratitude for this, forever went down in history as a state from the shores of which two of the greatest sea voyages began.

To La Rochelle, the impregnable fort of the Order on the Atlantic coast of France, "seven roads of the Templars" converged. There, in a deep bay, was their port, from which they set off on regular expeditions to the shores of the New World. Those of their ships with the most important valuables and archives, which in October 1307 sailed from La Rochelle and did not appear anywhere else in Europe, could go to the same shores.

The Incas built a whole system of paved roads leading to the ocean coast. On the seashore, where these roads converged, archaeologists have found molds for casting silver, which were of pre-Columbian origin. Silver was mined in the mountains and, using llamas as beasts of burden, delivered to the shore, where it was melted down into ingots for easy transportation across the ocean to Europe. Local legends tell of such regular caravans carrying large amounts of metal.

In the same place, among the Incas, the Templars could also mine gold. Moreover, these economic contacts between the civilizations of the Old and New Worlds did not at all resemble the invasion of America by conquistadors and Catholic missionaries after its "discovery" by Columbus. Ancient cultures were not affected in any way by business dealings with Christian templars. It can even be assumed that the Templars, who settled in the New World, had common secrets with its natives from the European conquerors who came later.

The Knights Templar were led by Initiates. For them, all the religions of the world are manifestations of a single world religion, and hence the respect of the knights for the traditions of the natives. For the Initiates, it was no secret that there was a continent beyond the Atlantic Ocean; old maps circulated around Europe - Piri Reis, Buache, Mercator, copied from ancient papyri. Some of them even marked the channels of rivers that flowed through Antarctica millions of years ago, before the ice sheet covered it. But how much could these strange cards say to those who were not part of the Brotherhood? No more than for Pope Clement the feathers that adorned the head of a man on the seal of the order.

The secrets of the Initiates could only be used by those who were initiated into them.

Such disciples of the Brotherhood of Initiates were the Knights Templar, the true followers of Christ, the builders of the Temple. Free Stonemasons. They built beautiful cathedrals, encrypting their knowledge in their architecture. They, following the example of the Teacher, imprinted with their lives the truth of the greatness of the human spirit in the memory of the peoples of Europe.

Officially, the order was destroyed by the clergy, but it would be strange if the surviving knights, which were the majority, would suddenly cease to consider each other brothers due to the mere prohibition of the pope. Through many years of common work, they were united into a powerful secret society, and it was the secret organization, secret meeting places, secret passwords, secret degrees of initiation, secret teachings that were the essence of the Knights Templar. Their outer order vestments were only a concession to the conventions of the church way of life. When they were forced to cast off their external forms, they only turned into an even more secret and henceforth invisible brotherhood.

The free builders of the Temple became even more independent, even more free Masons, and later the world will hear this name in a different pronunciation - Frank-Masons. But before the time when the secret became clear, when the whole world started talking about Freemasons, when it became as easy to join the ranks of Freemasons as buying a plane ticket, whole centuries will pass before that time, and during this time many strange and wonderful events will happen in behind the scenes of world political and public life. There will be many interesting transformations, some will put on other people's masks, while others will take them off.

ALCHEMY OF THE ELOHIM

By the grace of God, which is given to me as a wise master builder, I laid the foundation.

Apostle Paul (I Corinthians, III, 10)

"Tsiolkovsky Konstantin Eduardovich, Russian scientist and inventor, founder of modern cosmonautics... For the first time he substantiated the possibility of using rockets for interplanetary communications, indicated rational ways for the development of cosmonautics and rocket science ..."

All concepts related to space, to the achievements of astronautics are associated with the name of Tsiolkovsky. Jet engines, rockets, orbits, satellites, astronauts, weightlessness, interplanetary flights, the space age - all this is Tsiolkovsky, a modest teacher from Kaluga. On his simple notebooks, written in a neat, even handwriting, humanity stood as if on an evolutionary step to step into space.

But it turns out that Tsiolkovsky himself had a distant predecessor, whose thoughts and discoveries he developed in his research. In 1959 his diary was published. In it, the father of astronautics writes that he borrowed most of his ideas from the work of Roger Boskovic, an 18th-century Serbian scientist. In his writings, he found a lot of things that scientists in the 20th century were just beginning to argue about.

In his time, Boskovich (1711-1787) was recognized by the most famous scientists as a brilliant reformer of science. He published his observations of sunspots, built an observatory, supervised the draining of swamps, measured the meridians, and conducted archaeological excavations where Schliemann later found Troy.

Since 1760 he has been a member of the English Royal Society and has an extensive correspondence with many European scientists. Since 1763, he has been in charge of the French Department of Optical Instruments of the Royal Navy. But most of his ideas and discoveries were so far ahead of their time that they frightened eminent contemporaries, such as, for example, Laplace.

For a long time, this was how his legacy was treated, and only much later, in the age of quantum physics, did they begin to understand the strange theories of Boskovich and draw conclusions that he - "twentieth century thinker forced to live and work in the eighteenth".

The transmission of malaria by mosquitoes. Application of rubber. The idea of ​​declaring an international geophysical year. The inability to localize the psyche in any one point of the body. Preservation of the "grain of quantity" of movement in the world. Statistical mechanics developed by the American scientist Willard Gibbs in the 19th century and adopted only in the 20th century. Description of future discoveries concerning the nature of light, electricity and magnetism. - All this is in the works of Boskovich.

And much more:

The structure of the atom, the principles of quantum mechanics, light quanta.

An explanation of radioactivity, which in his, Boskovich's, century, as if no one suspected. Moreover, an explanation at the level of the most modern quantum physics, which scientists now call "statistical penetration through potential barriers."

Planck's constant is a constant that determines the relationship between the energy and frequency of a wave, discovered by Max Planck at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The theory of space and time, consisting of indivisible points-grains, as in the modern works of Heisenberg.

And even Einstein's dream is a single universal theory of the universe, a general, single equation that controls mechanics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology.

All this collection of theories is absolutely incredible for the era in which Boskovic lived. They are more suitable for our time. Or even not our time, but the time in which our descendants will live. Now his concepts cannot be fully understood by modern scientists. The views of this amazing visionary, as they themselves admit, can only be assimilated when science achieves a unification of the theory of relativity and quantum physics. When scientists, from formula to formula, from theorem to theorem, will themselves deduce a unified field theory.

And this will only happen in the future. In our, now the twenty-first century, or even later. It is more correct to say about Roger Boskovich that he was a thinker of the twenty-first (or twenty-second?) century, forced to live and work in the eighteenth.

The example of his concepts and the 20th century shows that we are not able to perceive the revelation of the past if we have not already experienced it ourselves or if we are not initiated into it step by step. If this is not the case, then the truth spoken or written by someone, no matter how great and fundamental it may be, does not evoke in us a reciprocal feeling of trust and consent, but only a skeptical shrug of the shoulders - you never know who wrote what? Such was Laplace's reaction to Boscovich's revelations, such is the reaction of our enlightened cosmic age to the alchemists' statements about the philosopher's stone, about the universal solvent, about controlling the forces of gravity, about cooperation with the invisible spirits of natural elements, about the great Teachers of Wisdom, the Initiates.

Boskovic's discoveries amaze historians of science. But, in turn, Boskovich, who gave Tsiolkovsky a starting point in the development of his cosmic ideas, himself relied on the works of other scientists, his predecessors. He read the books of the alchemists, tried to penetrate the veil of their secret symbolic language, and left behind accurate scientific translations of this alchemical symbolism. For example, as he explains, the four elements of alchemists - Earth, Water, Fire and Air - are four combinations of the mutual arrangement of certain particles that have neither mass nor weight, which make up these elements. There was a moment when modern physicists, observing the transformations of particles into each other, discovered four quarks - the four foundations, of which, as expected, elementary particles could consist. But then, as a result of experiments, the number of quarks reached twelve, and in general they noticed strange elements, which began to be given such paradoxical names as "color" and "smell". And it turned out that the time had not yet come for the unification of ancient symbolism and modern knowledge. It didn't come.

There was still the same as Boskovich, a genius unrecognized by the history of science - Nikolai Krebs (1401-1464), Nikolai of Cusa or Nikolai de Cuza, as he was called by his place of birth, the village of Cuza-on-Moselle in Italy.

Giordano Bruno called him "the divine Kuzan". A hundred years before Copernicus, Nicholas of Cusa anticipated all his discoveries about the rotation of the Earth, the orbits of the planets. A century and a half before Giordano Bruno, he wrote about the habitability of worlds in the universe. According to his ideas, the Highest Beginning of the world, God, containing everything that exists, is present in any, the most insignificant thing. He is at the same time the center of the cosmic sphere, located everywhere, at every point in space, and he is also its circumference. The world is revealed by this One from itself through the successive intermediate stages of the Beginnings and will return to His bosom at the end of all the great cosmic cycles of evolution. Man, on the other hand, is a creature that combines the earthly and the cosmic, the divine, he is the intersection of the microcosm and the macrocosm. This truth is given to all people through the great Founders and Reformers of religions such as Orpheus, Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermes, Moses, Christ and other heroes. All religions are branches of one tree, one Religion of Wisdom. And all nations must therefore live in mutual trust and respect for each other's religions.

For Nicholas of Cusa, as for Boscovich, the Neoplatonist doctrines were the starting point of their thinking. His expression "The world is like a vast machine, the center of which is everywhere and the circumference nowhere" later borrow Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, mathematician and philosopher.

But even the form of expression of this idea is not new, it is in the Zohar, the sacred book of the Jews. In the same place, even before Copernicus and before Nikolai Krebs, one could read about the rotation of the spherical Earth, about the inhabitants of the northern and southern hemispheres, about the change of day and night, about the polar day and polar night:

"... The earth revolves around itself, forming a circle: so that some are above, others are below ... there are some countries on the earth that are illuminated, while others are in darkness: the former have a day when night falls for others ; there are also countries where it is always day or where the night lasts only a few moments".

There was still in the Middle Ages Herbert de Aurillac (940-1003), a mathematician, philosopher, an extraordinary mechanic who created not only the first kettlebell tower clock, but also a mysterious "magic" talking head. Made of bronze, this head with the words "yes" and "no" answered the questions of anyone who addressed it.

Herbert de Aurillac brought his knowledge, which surprised his contemporaries, from India, where he once made a long journey. After that, he became famous as a great mage-sorcerer.

Later, a similar head was made by Albert the Great, Albert Magnus (1193-1280), a German alchemist, theologian and philosopher. This head was broken by another theologian and philosopher, a student of Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas (1226-1274), because the elemental spirit, attached by magical power to this mechanism, with its constant verbosity prevented Thomas from doing complex mathematical calculations.

And if, instead of modern encyclopedic history, which sifts everything through a sieve of prejudice and does not even leave a mention of these facts, we turn to the evidence of the Middle Ages itself, then it becomes clear how wide the scope of magic and alchemy were in those days. There was not a single royal court, where they would not resort to the services of court astrologers and sorcerers, not a single church parish, not a single monastery, where certain magical rituals would not be practiced. Decisively, it would seem, having put an end to paganism and pagan sciences, Christianity even more persistently than "paganism" itself turned for help to the secret sciences, to the spirits of invisible spheres, to alchemy, striving to find not in heaven, but here, on earth, the secrets of the earthly power, earthly power.

Later, a new religion will appear, which will be called science, it will also decisively crack down on the superstitions and prejudices of the past, with everything that the eyes of its adherents will not see, with everything that their mind cannot grasp. But this religion itself, with the same zeal and perseverance, will take up the same ancient witchcraft and sorcery, only under other names - pharmacology, hypnosis, neurolinguistic programming, and will come up with a thousand other names and names for the magical arts revived by it.

There is knowledge and it gives power, no matter what word - outdated or modern - it is called. There is knowledge, there is superstition - faith in vain, empty faith, not based on knowledge and understanding. Superstition, unlike knowledge, cannot give power, it cannot influence the course of history, it can only be used as a blind unconscious force by those who know, who understand. And where we see someone's influence on history, we can assume the presence of a certain knowledge.

It is interesting to think about the simultaneous events that took place at that time.

Crusades, Inquisition. Across Europe, bonfires are burning, in which people are burned, accused of practicing magic and witchcraft. They destroy the Knights Templar for its secret teaching, in fact, for the same neoplatonism that they were forced to hide. Burning Giordano Bruno. For the same heresy, for engaging in forbidden sciences, for Freemasonry, Cagliostro is sentenced to death. Although centuries pass between these events, they stand in the same row and are performed by the same historical character - the Church. And between these high-profile, well-known executions and sentences - thousands and thousands of other victims of the fight against witchcraft, uniting several centuries into one process of the work of the Inquisition. On a grand scale and methodically, everyone suspected of paganism and magic was not just persecuted, but destroyed.

"They did not even bother to write down the names of the accused, but designated them as the accused No. 1, 2, 3, etc. The Jesuits confessed them secretly"

And at the same time, Herbert de Aurillac, Albert Magnus are experimenting with spiritualized talking mechanisms, Nicholas de Cuza writes works in which he sets out purely Platonic views of the world, Boskovich deciphers the books of alchemists and derives from them such theories that even science perceived as insane. How could these freethinkers have survived the thorough cleaning of the minds that the Inquisition carried out? Freethinkers known to all.

By chance?

The solution is given by the position that these great scientists occupied in society.

Albert Magnus is a monk of the Catholic Dominican order, the one that created the Inquisition. The Dominicans called themselves "dogs of the Lord", their emblem was a dog running with a torch in its mouth. Magnus rose through the ranks of the church to the position of bishop.

Nicholas of Cusa is Cardinal de Cuza, bishop, closest adviser to Pope Pius II.

Herbert de Aurillac - a monk of the Benedictine Catholic order, then the Archbishop of Reims and Ravenna, and even later Pope Sylvester II himself.

Roger Boscovich, at the age of 14, enrolled as a volunteer in the Rome Jesuit College. He studied mathematics, astronomy and theology there. Having completed the test of novitiate, in 1728 he joined the Jesuit order, a member of which he was until his death.

That is, in the history of science in black and white it could be written: "Roger Boskovich, a member of the Order of the Jesuits, the immediate predecessor in the science of astronautics Tsiolkovsky, who developed in his writings the ideas of this talented scientist of the 18th century ..."

The Benedictine monk Herbert de Aurillac became pope under the patronage of Emperor Otto III, Nicholas of Cusa could become a church figure in order to use the cover of a spiritual dignity. But what made Boscovich join the Jesuit order? Would a man of such extraordinary intelligence join this organization if it were only a bunch of bigoted, ignorant fools? He probably found her worthy of her level of knowledge and ability. Probably, the commandments of this order did not bother his conscience at all, and the main thing for him was the opportunity to use the secret sciences of the Jesuits and their richest collection of ancient literature, brought from all over the world from the destroyed and burned storehouses of the "pagans". And he successfully used these opportunities.

These are the facts.

And now the question is: did ignorance guide the actions of the Church? Is it superstition? Is it stupidity?

Among the huge mass of devout monks, church hierarchs and members of the secret order of the Jesuits stand out, who in no way look ignorant. Rather, they are a community of selected adepts, initiates who keep secret knowledge to themselves and do not allow their naive subordinates to reach it.

Where are they, church ignorance and superstition? And do they exist?

If they exist, it is only in the outer, exoteric circle of church organization.

Among the representatives of the inner circle of the church, we see such minds, such intellects that even the science of the 20th century did not know.

And then another question: do we know about all such minds who worked on the secrets of nature in the laboratories and libraries of the Vatican?

Who are these great geniuses who constituted the soul and spirit of the Church, its secret, esoteric core?

This mystery can be looked into from the opposite pole. By the enemies of the church, with whom she waged an uncompromising struggle, one can get an idea of ​​the spiritual qualities, the intellectual level of the adherents of Catholicism, the knowledge and powers that they possessed.

Such a comparison on opposites can already be made on the example of the Order of the Templars, who were dealt with with the help of torture instruments and a fire.

It turns out that if you had to resort to the help of King Philip, to the state military and police power, it means that the church could not defeat the Templars in other ways, it had no power. To have such power, later, two centuries later, the Jesuit Order was created, a secret order organized specifically to fight secret societies.

The Templar Brotherhood was not destroyed by the execution of its leaders and the prohibition of Pope Clement alone. This was well understood by the cardinals - the hierarchs of the Vatican. But what was left for them to do when the obvious became secret, and there was no one to fight, although it is known that the enemy lives and prospers further? The answer to this question was searched for for two centuries, and during this time Europe was enveloped in a mysterious, mystically enchanting smoke rising from the crucibles and retorts of alchemists.

It had freedom, the expanse of distant lands, other customs, other ideas. It smelled of the incense of the distant fabulous East, in it the imagination evoked visions of ancient Egypt. In its flowing curls, pre-Flood legends about the amazing flying ships of Atlantis came to life.

Somewhere in distant lands, beyond the highest mountains, the spirits of nature served as apprentices to magicians in their cave-laboratories. Somewhere out there, in the thickness of centuries, in oases in the middle of the red-hot Egyptian desert, huge stone slabs floated through the air like a sparrow's feather, and the builders, under the supervision of a wise priest, piled them into huge crystals of pyramids stretching to the sky. There were giants of spirit and will, kings of knowledge and power. There, chariots of fire carried wanderers to the stars. And the key to all this was here, in the hands - in the old, yellowed, burnt by time books, miraculously survived from the time of hoary antiquity.

A great word containing the secrets of the world. It contains the name of the Architect of the Universe. In it, in its numerical values, the top of the pyramid of cosmic Beginnings, Numbers and Forms is designated. The one who masters the Numbers and Forms, their transformations into each other and combinations, the one who comprehends the correspondence of their Hierarchy in the hierarchy of matter, in the systematics of planets, elements, psychologies, chemicals, will not only be able to turn mercury and tin into gold, but even to transmute one's inner nature by approaching the gods. He will become an Alchemist.

Not only religions create myths. Myths are born and science. One such myth is that alchemy was either a clever deception or a futile attempt to bring about the transmutation of the elements. Now scientists are trying to achieve the same transformation, calling it cold thermonuclear fusion. We know from biology that it is possible. A marine mollusk, for example, if placed in water that does not contain calcium, is able to obtain it to build its shell from any other metals dissolved in this water. And his shell will be built in the same way as usual, on the basis of calcium. So the possibility of obtaining some elements from others, which the alchemists declared, is proved by nature itself.

The foundations of chemistry were laid by the alchemists. Albert Magnus, Raymond Lully, Thomas Vaughan, Paracelsus, Jean-Baptiste van Helmont, Vasily Valentin, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Johann Friedrich Betger, Blaise Vigenère and many other eminent discoverers of acids, substances, compounds, elements were alchemists. They left behind more than a hundred thousand books and manuscripts on this science, which they considered the sacred heritage of the Egyptian priests. After all, the word "chemistry" comes from the ancient name of Egypt - Hemi. And it is incredible that these thousands of books written by the pioneers of science have always been considered by scientists as a worthless collection of delusions. As if those who spent years writing them, summarizing their experience in them, were ignorant fools or deceivers.

Louis Povel and Jacques Bergier, in their book "The Morning of the Magi", dedicated to facts that have not received the attention of history and science, express their bewilderment about this in this way:

"This vast literature, to which great minds, extraordinary and honest people have devoted themselves, and which solemnly declares its adherence to facts, experiments, has never been subjected to scientific research. The dominant thought, dogmatic in the past, rationalistic today, has invariably supported around these texts a conspiracy of ignorance and contempt"

"Princes, kings and republics have ventured on countless expeditions to distant lands, funding various scientific researches. But never has a group of paleographers, historians, physicists, linguists, chemists, mathematicians and biologists gathered in a complete library of alchemy in order to see what is in these ancient treatises right and can be used. That's what's unfathomable!"

In books about the preparation of water for the universal Elixir, alchemists talk about the need for its thousandfold distillation. This was considered complete nonsense before they began to obtain heavy water, a substance from the category of radioactive isotopes, by the same method. Boscovich was not burdened by scientific squeamishness and already two hundred years ago he had extracted from alchemical works the most up-to-date explanations of radioactivity.

A similar processing principle, applied to the smelting of metals, was also considered absurd until modern chemistry rediscovered it to produce ultrapure germanium and silicon, which are now used in the manufacture of microcircuits. This is now called zone melting.

On the winter morning of December 27, 1667, an unknown, modestly dressed man came to Schweitzer and asked him if he believed in the existence of the philosopher's stone, to which Schweitzer replied in the negative. Then the guest opened before him a small ivory box, in which were three pieces of a substance resembling glass or opal. The alchemist said that this was the same philosopher's stone, and that with the smallest amount of it, twenty tons of gold could be obtained. When asked to borrow some of this substance, he flatly refused and added that even for the entire state of Schweitzer, he could not part with even the smallest particle of this substance for reasons that he was not allowed to disclose. Then the skeptic invited the guest to prove by deed the veracity of his statements, and the alchemist promised to return in three weeks and do it.

On the appointed day, the stranger appeared again at the door and said that he could give a grain of this "mineral", but not more than a mustard seed, adding: "Even this will be enough for you." Then the skeptic admitted that even during the last visit of the alchemist, he hid several such grains for himself. They really were able to produce the transformation of lead, but not into gold, but into glass. "You were supposed to protect your prey with yellow wax," replied the alchemist, "that would help to penetrate the lead and turn it into gold." He promised to return the next day and make such a transformation, but he never came. Then Schweitzer's wife persuaded him to try this reaction himself, in accordance with the instructions of a stranger. The scientist did this:

"He melted three drachmas of lead, covered the stone with wax and threw it into liquid metal. And it turned into gold:" We immediately took it to the jeweler, who declared that this was the purest gold he had ever seen, and offered 50 florins per ounce"

Schweitzer kept the ingot of gold for himself as proof of the unusual transformation. After this incident, he constantly remembered the unknown alchemist and repeated: "Let the holy angels of God watch over him as over a source of blessing for Christianity."

Of course, if the alchemists had given the world at least one of this secret of turning base metals into gold, the secret that they considered the ABC of alchemy, then this would not be a blessing, but a disaster for the economy of Christendom. In the competition for the possession of mountains of gold, everything that comes to hand would be turned into it, and in such a gold rush the noble metal would suffer the fate of a depreciated currency. Europe would become all, in the literal sense, gilded and impoverished at the same time.

In addition, alchemists knew about the secret properties of the yellow metal, about its connection with the invisible world of spirits, about the adverse effect on the psyche of a selfish person, and would not plunge millions of people into an even wilder state of greed. Perhaps this explains the Templars' choice of silver for their universal pan-Euro-Asiatic coin.

Revealing only a small part of the secret science can turn into a disaster for millions of people. Hence the caution of alchemists in giving away their secrets. Hence the reproaches of alchemists from chemists for their secrecy, and, in the end, their declaration as charlatans.

Schweitzer's skepticism was dispelled by a visiting alchemist. But really, in order for the alchemists to cease to be considered charlatans, they really had to appear in the same way to every skeptic? Then they would no longer have time to do their research and would have to become lecturers-propagandists or, simply put, jesters. And to amuse the armchair audience with unusual tricks so that it condescends to their recognition. The alchemists did not stoop to such an absurdity, and, moreover, they considered the common opinion about them as conjurers the best condition for keeping alchemical knowledge secret.

They laughed at the alchemist Roger Bacon (1214-1292), the inventor of gunpowder, telescope, glasses and much more, as a charlatan. Some spoke of him as an unsurpassed sorcerer, others rolled with laughter at the mere mention of his name. These conflicting rumors reached the highest places, and one day the modest monk Roger Bacon was invited to the king and queen to show something of his art. Many nobles gathered for the performance.

Without much preparation, Bacon waved his hand. Immediately, beautiful unfamiliar music sounded, audible to everyone. The music got louder and louder, and then four semi-material beings appeared, circling and dancing to it until they vanished into thin air. Bacon waved his hand again, and the room was filled with a wonderful aroma that seemed to absorb all the best aromas in the world.

“Then Roger Bacon, who had promised a gentleman to show his beloved before, drew aside one of the curtains of the royal room, and everyone in the room saw the cook with a ladle in her hands. The proud gentleman, although he recognized the girl who disappeared in the same way quickly, as it appeared, was furious at the humiliating sight for him and began to threaten the monk with his revenge. How did the magician? He simply replied: "Do not threaten, otherwise I will shame you even more; and beware of another time trying to catch a scientist in a lie!

"This may serve as an illustration of the category of manifestations which are probably the result of an excellent knowledge of the natural sciences".

The organ music and the luminous stone staircase in the dungeons of Jihlava are the same illustration of this excellent knowledge. Anyone can see and hear this illustration in our time.

And now let's ask a few questions about alchemists and alchemy.

What distinguished, divided the alchemists, and what was common for them? What was more in their life and work - differences or similar details? Seemingly pointless questions, but they can give hints to something else, more important.

The alchemists did not unite themselves by any one particular name. Unless the society began to call them by a common name according to the science that they idolized and which they considered the greatest gift of the highest Egyptian Initiate Hermes Trismegistus. There was no common vestment or other outward sign. An alchemist could be a lawyer like Cornelius Agrippa, a physician like Paracelsus, a monk-scientist like Roger Bacon. They lived in different places and did their own thing.

But this is where their differences end - those differences that distinguish even the most ordinary people.

Now let's bring to light that subtle thing that united them.

First, of course, is the science of alchemy itself. Transmutation of elements, mastery of the hidden energies of nature, the search for the philosopher's stone, the universal solvent, the derivation of the general formula of the universe.

What a strange constancy with which the same ideas dominated the minds of these researchers who lived at different times?

Ideas, traces of which can be found in the surviving Egyptian papyri devoted to the occult, magical arts. Ideas that were studied and revived by the philosophers of ancient Greece, and later by the Neoplatonists, the theurgists of the first centuries.

What a strange constancy with which all alchemists revered as their Teacher the ancient Egyptian Initiate?

Egypt was cursed by church ideology. The emblems of his science were declared diabolical symbols, and his religion was the worship of hellish monsters. And the appeal of the alchemists to the wisdom of Egypt was the greatest audacity of that time. It was enough to declare one's respect for Hermes Trismegistus, the mentor of the "diabolical" doctrines, to secure the shameful cap of a heretic and be burned alive. Unless, of course, you are a member of the church with the rank of some cardinal or archbishop. The alchemists had to keep their beliefs secret. And this dense veil of secrecy thrown over their activities is another circumstance that unites them.

So we already have a common science and a common secret, holding together a community of these enigmatic scientists.

There are other general conditions as well. For example, celibacy, the same as that of the Templars, who took a vow of chastity upon joining the order. All alchemists were removed from the rest of society, lived their own closed incomprehensible life, which served as a source of legends about their secret connections with the devil. In these myths, the same logic as in accusing the Templars - if you hide something, then there are some indecent connections and serious sins.

The impenetrable veil of secrecy has not been opened by any alchemist. Not one of the alchemists was willing to exchange honor for the mercy of the monarchs, and not a single king took possession of their secret of obtaining gold.

Did you keep secrets for yourself, for your own needs?

But no alchemist ever became a wealthy baron or feudal lord, although they all had the possibility of unlimited enrichment. They went through life as lonely wanderers, and often all their possessions consisted of a modest set of the most common chemical tools. As if all of them, embarking on the path of Alchemy, took a vow of poverty. Again, like the Templars.

They were absolutely indifferent to worldly temptations and even to glory. Most of them remained unknown, like the cautious scientist who visited Schweitzer. They left behind tens of thousands of treatises on their science, but they wrote them either anonymously or under false names. As if they did not claim the authorship of the ideas and discoveries that they presented. And indeed, one who has great Teachers, heroes of spirit and knowledge in the past as his predecessors, will not shout at the first crossroads about ingenious "discoveries", but will devote his modest work to the same great cause that they devoted themselves to - serving for the good and enlightenment of all people.

In rare stories about alchemists, one characteristic detail is noticed: each of them has a mysterious mentor or mentors, whose word is an indisputable law. And if we also take into account that not a single alchemist has ever violated the strict instructions of the mentors, that none of them used the knowledge gained for personal enrichment, none of them gave the world anything from the secret teaching, then it turns out that there must have been a certain system spiritual test, which allowed only proven students to enter the holy of holies of Alchemy. The same as in the Mysteries.

All this, taken together, gives a hint of a clear, well-oiled organization, which, in order to finally look like that, lacked only some external attributes. Such as, for example, white cloaks with red crosses worn by the Templars. But if the alchemists with such outward attributes declared themselves as a single brotherhood of initiates, then they would not have to remain at large for long and engage in their scientific experiments. The Church would immediately have sensed where the secret paths of the Templars led and who turned out to be their spiritual heirs.

The Templars went into the shadows from the eyes of society and no longer annoyed anyone with their search for Truth and serving the common good. Freemasons did their work imperceptibly. They continued, as before, to study the secret sciences, denoting this field of knowledge, leading from the transformation of material nature to the transformation of the soul, with the word "Alchemy". They no longer called themselves Templars, and in general - no formal names, because they are not needed where there is a unity of ideas and aspirations, a common science, common mentors, a common cause. For society, as a brotherhood, they should no longer exist, and how they call themselves there among themselves - who cares?

So the Brothers, who were once Templars, received the name of alchemists, without even striving for this name. Society itself began to call them that.

For three centuries, the secret remained a secret, it seemed to everyone that the brotherhood of the builders of the Temple, free masons, no longer exists. The alchemists were thought and talked about as naive eccentrics not of this world, but there was one event that disturbed the public peace.

In 1610, the German notary Gazelmeier appeared before the Jesuit court, who told the judges about the manuscript "Glory of the Brotherhood", which set out the history and charter of the secret Order of the Rosicrucians. It turned out that a long time ago in Europe there was the same order as the Templars, only even more secret. That its members do not give themselves outwardly, but have secret signs and passwords to identify each other, and most importantly, some kind of general teaching that differs from the generally accepted Christian religion.

The news of this spread with lightning speed. What is a secret order? How could he exist without informing the morality police, the Church, about it? Why is this order secret? What are these Rosicrucians hiding? Any diabolical ideas and rituals?

The public was agitated by these questions, but there was no answer to them. Based on the book alone and on the testimony of one random person, it was impossible to build an accurate idea of ​​​​an attack on the authority of the church that had been prepared for centuries. There were, of course, speculations circulating in society that certain individuals were members of some mysterious organization. These rumors were in the air, the Jesuit Order was investigating them, but they all remained only rumors and it was impossible, using only them, to catch and rear up even one living Rosicrucian.

Action was taken immediately by the church. From afar, they spread revealing manifestos, damning and eternal contempt of the conspirators. They hinted that the Rosicrucians were preparing the coming of the Antichrist himself and that the apocalyptic Beast "666" was their order.

The manifestoes described the history and essence of the conspiracy in the most impressive detail: 36 Rosicrucians gathered in Lyon for a secret meeting, at which they "divided the globe, united in six squads of six members each"; the mission of these "disciples of the devil" was to convey their "terrible thoughts" and "dirty deeds" to all the major capitals of the world; two hours later, when all the instructions were drawn up, the apostates held a great sabbath, at which he himself appeared to them "the prince of the infernal legions of the devil in luxurious attire, radiating the inner heat of fiery hell"; The Rosicrucian brothers fell on their faces before their master and swore to renounce all the rites and sacraments of the Christian Church.

The clergy appealed to all citizens who love their church and their God with a call to be vigilant and report those who support ideas that are at odds with the official church teaching, and then everyone who is found to be associated with the Rosicrucians will be quickly finished, just like with the rest of the devil worshipers.

But so no one denounced anyone, and the secret order of the Rosicrucians remained secret.

Let the compilers of modern encyclopedias not be offended by us, but let us look again at one of them, at the page dedicated to the Order of the Rosicrucians.

There you can read:

"Rosicrucianism is close to Freemasonry. Organizational design and the most widespread ... received in the second half of the 18th century. In the teachings and activities of the Rosicrucians, the ideas of moral self-improvement and the occult sciences - black magic, cabalism, alchemy occupied a large place ..."

In teaching and activity - moral self-improvement and black magic. No more, no less.

Question one: how could black magic in the practice of the Rosicrucians be combined with moral self-improvement?

If this was indeed the case, then the Rosicrucians were indeed rogues who covered up black magic with ideas of morality and spiritual perfection. And then the encyclopedia confirms the harsh revelations of the church about "terrible thoughts" and "dirty deeds."

The second question: how are the 18th century of the "greatest spread" of Rosicrucianism and 1610, when the church's revealing manifestos came out against the conspirators who had already divided the whole world?

Even more interesting is the continuation of the article about the Rosicrucians:

"The most famous were the Berlin Rosicrucians, grouped around the heir to the Prussian throne, and then King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern."

That is, of the Rosicrucians known to everyone at that time - well-known - the most famous were those who rallied around the Prussian king.

One may ask: are these all, all, all known Rosicrucians of the 18th century - a secret society? Or someone's parody of a secret society? What can be common between secret and common knowledge?

One excludes the other. If the society is really secret, then it cannot be public knowledge. If it is well known, then this is no longer a secret society, but the most common organization, hiding behind an intriguing sign.

The orthodox Catholic Friedrich Wilhelm II (1744-1797), King of Prussia since 1786, entered into a military alliance with Austria to fight against revolutionary France, the revolution in which, as everyone said, was organized by the "servants of the devil" Freemasons, employees of the Rosicrucians. And this Catholic Friedrich Wilhelm II, faithful to his church, is a Rosicrucian.

The Rosicrucian, loyal to the Church, which had anathematized all Rosicrucians along with the Freemasons, fought against the Freemason revolutionaries associated with the Rosicrucians.

Is your head spinning from this nonsense?

It is so difficult to sort out such a mess that the compilers of encyclopedias do not bother themselves with this: morality, so morality, black magic, so black magic, Rosicrucian, so Rosicrucian - let it be as the legend says.

Meanwhile, we will see the one who started this historical mess. Such a mess that no one who got into it could wash themselves off from the ridiculous and contradictory biographical "details".

So from the 16th and 17th centuries we stepped into the 18th century, and we already had two Rosicrucian Orders in front of us. One is a secret society, about which it is known only that no one knows anything about it. Who is in its ranks, how many members it has, and what their activities are. That is a real secret society. A true secret society. Not a single Rosicrucian was burned at the stake, not a single one was able to extract a confession of all mortal sins, as was the case with the Templars before. Therefore, I had to invent details - about the division of the world, about six detachments and about the fire-breathing prince of the infernal legions. They didn’t talk about kissing the cat under the tail, because it already happened.

And, as it turned out, another, another Order of the Rosicrucians appeared from somewhere, which "organizationally took shape" two centuries later than the first. It, as everyone knew, consisted of influential high-ranking persons who led the political struggle against all sorts of freemasons and revolutionaries - heretics and satanists, as Pope Clement XII would call them in his public speech of 1738. This second Order of the Rosicrucians is an order that faithfully served the Church. The encyclopedia adds black magic to their activities. Believe the encyclopedia? If we recall the magic of the Catholic priests themselves, then there is nothing incredible in such activities of their followers - the newly-minted Rosicrucians.

And now the third question: what do these two orders with the same name have to do with each other?

Obviously none. And it is even clear that they are in spirit, in essence, opposite. The first is a brotherhood of heretics, "devil's disciples", the second is an organization of devout Catholics united against these heretics. But why did the faithful need to put on the masks of such terrible sinners as the original Rosicrucians were portrayed? Why this masquerade?

We will come to an understanding of this from the history of the first, original Order of the Rosicrucians, the present. It will lead us in a circle, in a chain of historical events, to the birth of the second, later, Catholic order of the Rosicrucians. Later, there will be a third, and a fourth, and a fifth, and a tenth order, but these two are more important for us now.

The book "The Glory of the Brotherhood", one of the earliest documents about this brotherhood, places the birthplace of its founder, Christian Rosencreutz, in Germany. Time of birth - in 1378, death - 1484. It is said that the knowledge and abilities of this unusual person attracted everyone's attention to him. He became especially famous for the art of healing, and the sick flocked in droves to the doors of his house.

In addition to the contempt of professors of science, Rosenkreutz felt the suspicious eyes of professors of theology and vigilant ministers of the church, and he had every reason to fear accusations of heresy. The fate of being on the rack, and then on the fire, could befall not only himself, but also his students. Thus the science of this adept became a secret teaching for a select few of the faithful followers. So the brotherhood of disciples of ancient wisdom, associated with the Brotherhood of Initiates of the East, became a secret society - the Order of the Rosicrucians.

At different times and in different places, the disciples of the Initiates, forming secret societies, created a network of such brotherhoods and secret centers of initiation, which received their names from the place of foundation or from the name of the leading Adept. The Order of the Temple, the Templars, the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, the Brotherhood of Luxor, the Druses of the Mount of Lebanon... They all had a common leadership from the Teachers of the East, a system of secret signs and passwords for interacting with each other, all of them, the Builders of the Temple of Truth, were united by common high human qualities and a common goal.

All of them, as soon as something about them became known to society, was declared evil conspirators and servants of the devil. Scientists, philosophers, healers, educators, reformers after church "revelations" turned in the eyes of people into fiends, enemies of the human race.

For us now, when we think about the torture chambers and the fires of the Inquisition, about the demonstrative executions of heretics, all this looks like a matter of course, "ordinary" attributes of the Middle Ages. They say that people were still illiterate, stupid and fanatically, to fanaticism, believed in a deity, and the church was just as imperfect, and its cruelty, inhumanity was also normal and natural. But these fanaticisms did not seem so natural to the real scientists of that time, who, for their attempts at enlightenment, were persecuted by fanatical crowds of monks and laity, incited by other scientists - enlightened Catholic hierarchs. What would be the fate of civilization if there were not this stifling of free scientific thought, if there were not these methodical efforts to destroy all free thought, all efforts for enlightenment?

One of the Brothers, Paracelsus (1493-1541), the great alchemist, magician and healer, insulted, persecuted, persecuted by church scientists and clergy, wrote:

"O you, from Paris, Padua, Montpellier, Salerno, Vienna and Leipzig! You are not teachers of the truth, but confessors of lies. Your philosophy is a lie ... Since you yourself cannot prove your teachings according to the "Bible" and "Revelation" then stop your farce. John, no less than Moses, Elijah, Enoch, David, Solomon, Daniel, Jeremiah and the rest of the prophets, was a magician, a cabalist and a soothsayer. And if now all or even any of those whom I have named were If they were still alive, I have no doubt that, as a warning to others, you would kill them in miserable slaughterhouses and destroy them on the spot, and, if it were possible, the creator of all things too!

Paracelsus also brought his knowledge from the East, as did Christian Rosenkreutz. This was recorded by his follower, the alchemist Van Helmont (1579-1644). Paracelsus spent a long time in one of the Trans-Himalayan scientific centers of the Brotherhood of Initiates. There, his advanced knowledge of chemistry and medicine was replenished and finally formed, knowledge that outstripped not only his century, but also our time.

Thomas Vaughan, an alchemist, scientist of the 17th century, who wrote his works under the pseudonym Eugene Philaletes, speaks of the Brotherhood of the Initiates and of the Brothers themselves, who sometimes come into the world of people:

“The Sophist values ​​them little, because they do not reveal themselves in the world, from which he concludes that such a Society does not exist at all, because he himself is not a member of it. If there is such a reader who will be so fair as to admit reasons , through which they hide and do not show themselves openly, then the madmen immediately shout: “Come out!” No one cares about them because of their worldly interests ... How many people explore nature in order to know God?

Alchemist Isaac Newton (1643-1727) - one of the founders of modern physics, mechanics, acoustics, optics, developer of differential and integral calculus, creator of the mirror telescope, president of the Royal Society of London, etc., etc. - said: "If I managed to rise so high, it is only because I stood on the shoulders of giants".

For him, the secret science of the Brotherhood of Initiates, the Masters, was the key to knowing the deepest laws of nature and its most powerful forces. In his writings there are cautious, restrained statements about this:

"The method of turning mercury into gold is kept secret by those who knew it, and was probably the door to something nobler - something that, if communicated to people, could expose the world to incredible danger, if only the scriptures Hermes speak the truth...

There are other great secrets besides the transformation of metals, according to the Great Teachers. They alone knew this secret information".

Mystery, mystery and more mystery. However, some of the Brothers revealed themselves to the world. And for this they received not very flattering recognition from society:

"CALIOSTRO Alexander, Count di (real name Giuseppe Balsamo) (1743-95), an adventurer of Italian origin. In his youth he wandered around the East (Greece, Egypt, Persia, etc.), where he received some knowledge of alchemy, became a skilled illusionist. .. He declared himself a high-level Freemason ... convicted by the Inquisition for heresy, witchcraft, Freemasonry ... "

This quote from the encyclopedia is in solidarity with the accusation of the Inquisition.

The name of Count Cagliostro, as the name of an honest, outstanding person who surprised his contemporaries with his knowledge and abilities, died for posterity. It no longer exists. Cagliostro is now nothing more than an illusionist and adventurer.

Despite the fact that many of the circumstances of his life and death are not fully known even to his executioners - the Catholic clergy, the encyclopedia is categorical in its verdict. To die twice - such was the retribution for revealing his involvement in the Brotherhood of Initiates.

Should Count Cagliostro reveal himself?

But this was required by the conditions of the assignment that was entrusted to him. It was necessary to wake up society, gradually freed from the nooses of church power. Science was torn from under the tyranny of a selfish, jealous deity, from under the supervision of the Church to the creativity of free knowledge. And it was necessary to keep science from an insane jump to the other extreme - from raising blind matter into an absolute deity, from the irresponsibility of soulless materialism. To do this, it was necessary to openly declare that the knowledge acquired by scientists is only the beginning of the path of knowledge, that there are such laws and such phenomena, in comparison with which biblical miracles will seem like child's play. Cagliostro really showed such phenomena, said who he was and who his mentors were, confirmed clearly the existence of the greatest ancient knowledge. But who heard it? Are there many? Most listeners and spectators believed the rumor started by the Jesuits that he was a member of their order, and therefore a deceiver, and after that his miracles of knowledge of the laws of nature began to be considered tricks and deceit.

About the Teacher of Alexander Cagliostro, Count Saint-Germain, the encyclopedia says this:

"SAINT-GERMAINE, Count (c. 1710-84?), a fictitious name by which one of the most mysterious adventurers in Europe became known. Around 1748 appeared at the court of Louis XV, where he created a reputation for himself as a skilled alchemist and soothsayer ... he was seen allegedly during the French Revolution of 1789. According to more reliable sources, he died in 1784 in the Duchy of Schleswig (Germany), where he was engaged in alchemy. Cagliostro in his memoirs calls Saint-Germain one of the founders of Freemasonry ".

If we take the essence of this message, its logic, then it means: nothing is known for sure about Saint-Germain, but it is known that he is an adventurer. Why adventurer? Because nothing is known about him.

It turns out that another adventurer confused the minds of Europe with his tricks and predictions.

Now, if he provided certificates of the place and date of birth and baptism, a report on all his connections, with whom and when he met, where he left and where he came from, a death certificate, permission to allocate a place for burial, a receipt for paying for permission, a list people who were present at the funeral, an invoice from the funeral home for the funeral services rendered, and something else like that, then he would no longer be "mysterious" and would not be an "adventurer". Everything would be as it should be, like all normal people. So no, he didn’t report and didn’t ask for leave, he said whatever he wanted, and didn’t even take care of his posthumous reputation. It's my own fault...

Society does not forgive secrets. Society needs to know everything. If you have revealed yourself as a great adept, then put all your secrets on the table. Nothing that they will be made into delicacies, delicacies that will be cut out of them, tasted, discussed their perfection and imperfection, nothing that someone quietly, on the sly, will use them to further strengthen their spiritual power over careless tasters, the main thing is that society should not be offended by the attitude towards him down.

Saint Germain also had a mission of open work in society. Like Apollonius of Tyana, he met with the mighty of this world, with those on whom the life and death of millions of people depend. He was a wise adviser, a mediator in resolving diplomatic conflicts, in reconciling the warring parties. But for many, he became a troublemaker and a shaker of centuries-old foundations. Because someone had to stand up for ordinary people, tell the truth in the face of the monarchs, "prophesy."

About the fact that it is impossible to humiliate a person either by a frightening religion or by economic robbery, that for centuries the oppressed energy of mankind, once breaking free through revolutions, will begin to destroy and sweep away everything in its path, and then you will have to make incredible efforts to direct it to peaceful work, for the common good, for the creation of a harmonious, free, responsible society. In these warnings, Saint Germain is the quintessence of the history of the 18th and 20th centuries. But who believed him? None. So the warning became a prediction.

At the last meeting, Saint-Germain said to one of his students, Franz Graefer:

"I'm leaving you. Don't try to see me... I'll leave tomorrow evening... I'll disappear from Europe and reappear in the Himalayan kingdom. I need rest. I'll be seen again in eighty-five years - definitely".

This was said in 1790.

Exactly 85 years after that, a Society for the study of ancient wisdom was founded by a man who openly declared his cooperation with the Brotherhood of Initiates of the East.

The plan was to show the scientists phenomena that would convince them of the reality of the invisible spiritual worlds. To publish the works of philosophers and scientists of the past, translations of the sacred literature of India and Egypt, apocryphal writings of the first centuries of Christianity. To publish a journal in order to arrange open scientific discussions on its pages in all areas of scientific knowledge. It was planned to enlighten without any boundaries of religious, scientific, national, class affiliation. It was planned to accept into the Society for this educational work everyone who wanted to, regardless of any accessories. Because the Truth is one and each person has his own way to it, and each person is the Way.

For the name of the Society was taken the term used for centuries by philosophers, alchemists, hermetists, magicians - "Theosophy", from the Greek theos - God and sophia - wisdom. Theosophical Society. The one who founded it, who, like Cagliostro and Saint Germain, announced his connection with the Brotherhood of Teachers of the East, drank a full cup of slander for this.

It was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

HOW THE SECRET WERE MADE EXPLICIT

Our journalists swear by the name Romantic, as old women scold the rake as Freemasons and Voltaires - having no idea either about Voltaire or about Freemasonry.

A. S. Pushkin

Everything is known by comparison. In order to look into the secrets of the church hierarchy, into its very depths, we decided to go through comparison from the opposite pole, from those whom the clergy considered their sworn enemies. In the bulls of the Roman popes, in the revealing church manifestos, the secret societies of Freemasons, alchemists, Rosicrucians were defined as the army of Satan, as organizations of low, vile, depraved people who united in order to undermine the authority of the Church and destroy the Christian morality of society.

The fight against them was uncompromising. Even at the end of the 18th century, people were sentenced to death for belonging to the Masonic brotherhood, as was seen in the example of Cagliostro.

The court of the Inquisition accused the count of being a freemason and a sorcerer engaged in forbidden research; in that he ridiculed the holy faith of the Roman Catholic Church; in that he possessed large sums of money obtained by unknown means.

Death for being a freemason. Death for studying what the church was forbidden to study. Death for owning money, the origin of which was not clear. According to the church, such a person should not have lived, he certainly had to be killed. And they were sentenced to death, despite the fact that the gloomy Middle Ages were already in the distant past.

After the verdict was read, all the documents of the count, diplomas from foreign courts and societies, Masonic regalia, family heirlooms, tools, books, including his own books on the history of Freemasonry, were burned with great solemnity by the executioners in Piazza della Minerva with a large crowd of people.

Everything, absolutely everything that could at least to some extent justify the count in the eyes of posterity, was destroyed.

Is this how the real investigation works? If it judges fairly, then why is it necessary to destroy all the evidence?

The same thing happened with the documents of the trial in the case of the Templars. Henry Charles Lee wrote that most of the minutes of court hearings, as well as the church council that decided the fate of the templars, disappeared without a trace, "lost."

If one of the leaders of the Masons, "devil-worshippers", Count Cagliostro was justly condemned, then why not make his documents, books, regalia open evidence against him? Why not put them on public display so that everyone can see with their own eyes what terrible, immoral ideas were proclaimed by these conspirators in their secret papers? - That they plan to seize and divide the whole world, that they want to turn everyone away from the Christian faith, that they hide under their noble mask of enlighteners insidious and greedy intentions, satanic rituals and crimes.

But all the evidence, all papers and documents, everything that connected Cagliostro with the world of people and with the Brotherhood, was destroyed. And now historians, compiling encyclopedias, can write that he is a rogue and an adventurer hiding behind a veil of secrecy.

The question is, why did the church need to destroy the evidence?

Obviously, there was something to hide, to hide from contemporaries and descendants. Those are the true motives, goals, principles on which the original genuine Masonic brotherhood was built. Those principles which since ancient times have been the basis of Adeptship, the basis of the secret societies led by the Brotherhood of Initiates of the East.

After much of the history and practice of the Brotherhood had been published by Madame Blavatsky, it became possible to get an idea of ​​it. We may consider the simplest of the conditions which are required of a man to enter upon the path of the study of the secret Science, and compare them with the moral principles of the Jesuits, in order to indicate the width of the abyss separating these two brotherhoods of adepts.

If a person wants to study under the guidance of one of the Masters the Science of the practical occultism of the East, he must first go through a special preparatory stage. A few rules will be put forward to him, and all of them should be his daily guide:

The place of preparation for training and the training itself should be free from negative spatial layers of someone's thoughts, feelings and actions. It will be pure, new, and must never be defiled by any selfish or sensual thought.

A complete removal from all worldly fuss is prescribed.

Before the disciple comes face to face with the Master, he must acquire some preliminary knowledge in association with a few other disciples like himself.

The student must completely free his mind from any negative thoughts whatsoever, from all thoughts and feelings that oppose him to anyone else in the world.

A complete liberation from the feeling of difference between oneself and comrades, from any impulses of competition is necessary. "I am the wisest", "I am more free", "I am more successful, spiritual, useful to the Teacher" - these and similar thoughts should forever remain in the past as one of the most destructive illusions and delusions.

Studying together with other students, the candidate for Initiation must become a brother for them, and not outwardly, formally, but with all sincerity and sincerity. Sorrows and joys, successes and failures from now on should be common for them, and together they should be like fingers on one hand - inextricably linked in harmonious spiritual consonance.

Together, a group of disciples, through such harmonization, achieves a state similar to a finely tuned musical instrument. This will be required for the practical work of the Teacher with them.

The student should be afraid only of external contact with someone, the influence of magnetic emanations of other people's bodies, things, household items. He has his own dishes, his own household items. This is necessary for the best possible manifestation of the student's individual energy.

Merging and harmony with comrades in spirit, but physical detachment.

To achieve this purity, a diet that completely excludes animal food also serves. The emanations of slaughtered animals must not be mixed with the magnetism of the disciple. And of course, there should be no effects on the body and psyche, like alcohol or opium poisoning.

These conditions, absolute chastity, purity of body and soul, observed daily for long months, and more often years, will give the student a chance to embark on the path of the practical secret Teachings of the East. And in comparison with his dangers and difficulties, all these preliminary rules will seem to him an easy entertainment.

What in the West is considered the very holiness, in the East, in the science of Yogis, is only the first step on the path of perfection, a preliminary condition before embarking on the ocean of Science.

If from these preparatory rules of apprenticeship, from the heights of the East, we now descend into the world of European civilization to the Templars, alchemists, Rosicrucians, then we can understand where, in what was the example that inspired these knights and scientists. They fearlessly went to the fire, not revealing to the executioners a single secret of their mentors. They knew that there, in the East, there are giants of spirit and will, keepers of ancient wisdom. They knew that the life and science of the Teachers is immeasurably higher and more difficult than the statutes and vows of their knightly orders and secret brotherhoods.

There is evidence of a visit to one of the Himalayan centers of the Masters by an associate of Blavatsky's Hindu Damodar, a young man who proved his devotion to the Brotherhood by deed.

Eyewitnesses, members of the Theosophical Society, recalled how one day he disappeared without a trace from the place where he lived, and appeared before his comrades only after three days, but so changed that they did not immediately recognize him. It was like a different person. He left as a pale, fragile, thinly built young man, timid and shy, and when he returned, he already looked like an energetic, strong and courageous person who had found a calm, unbreakable will and self-confidence. Even the bronze of his face, as his friends noticed, had become a few shades darker. Damodar said:

"I had the good fortune to be called and given permission to visit the holy Ashram, where I spent several days in the blessed company of several Himavat Mahatmas and Their disciples. ... Unfortunately, the highly personal nature of my visit to these thrice-blessed places does not allow me to tell about it it is enough that the place I was allowed to visit is in the Himalayas and not in some fantastic Land of Eternal Summer, and that I contemplated my Master while in my physical body, and He was exactly the same, as I saw Him in the first days of my apprenticeship..."

About Helen Petrovna Blavatsky herself, the founder of the Theosophical Society, we will not give any biographical data, any evidence of her relatives, friends, acquaintances, so as not to create the illusion of awareness of the life of this incredible person in the reader. You must either bring them all, or not take them at all. Her fate could serve as the basis for writing an exciting multi-volume novel, but a real writer is needed who is able to undertake such a work. An honest, sincere and unbiased writer, who is not afraid to put his reputation, his name at stake, because writing about it in our time means joining the pantheon of "adventurers", which includes such people as Cagliostro, Saint-Germain and Colonel Olcott, Blavatsky's closest associate. Such "canonization" will inevitably affect anyone who undertakes to restore the honest name of this great woman.

On this occasion, as the author, I will ask the reader for forgiveness in advance and once I will write a few lines on my own behalf, tearing the story out of the general sequential flow of events and moving to our time, from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century.

Sometimes everyday incidents, even the smallest ones, convey to us the essence of something large-scale, wide that is happening at the moment. Something that, perhaps, is already laying down some global events for the future. On that day, April 16, 2002, I was amazed at my ignorance of the ongoing changes and movements in the spiritual life of society.

I met an old acquaintance whom I had not seen for maybe two years. He teaches biology in one of the higher educational institutions. We started talking about little things, about changes in each other's lives, and then he shared with me one fresh impression:

Recently on the channel "Culture" they showed a program about Blavatsky. At all!

What is "in general"? - I ask, - What did they show?

This has been shown! It had to be seen!

And what did they show?

She was shown. Pictures about her. Shots of how she raged. About her obsession...

Frankly, I was thrown into a fever from such discoveries. I did not know how to approach the interlocutor with the following questions. He began to remember when Blavatsky died (1891), and when the first film in history made by the Lumiere brothers (1895) appeared. I tell him about this inconsistency in time of the "facts" shown on television.

She lived and died before there was a movie. How could they take it off?

Well, anyway, even if this is not a real shooting, I can give you a hundred proofs that she was possessed!

Bring.

Do you go to church? Now in the Orthodox Church they sell a lot of useful literature. There are good books. Such, for example. Everything is written there in detail about Blavatsky, about the Roerichs.

What is written?

How all these Masonic conspiracies against Russia were prepared. All this is a drug for the Russian people - Blavatsky, the Roerichs...

I realized that further conversation could only be conducted in detail, with these books in hand, otherwise it would have been a dispute of emotions, not arguments, and we said goodbye, agreeing to meet someday for serious communication.

It would seem, what's the difference? Well, someone portrayed someone in an indecent light and passed it off as pure truth, you never know in our time they pour mud on each other. But everything boiled in me. It was mind-blowing - a lie on such a scale.

Why, for what, who needed to so carefully, professionally and on a grand scale, trample into the dirt the name of a man who lived more than a century ago and who even during his lifetime took a sip of slander in his address? Someone funded the director's production, paid the actors, dressed up as Blavatsky, promoted the play on television, all just to give the viewer the impression of her as a possessed demonic person. Although, if you think about it, this impression was created by millions of people who watched this program. And if they did not read a single real testimony about it, then this impression became the only true idea for them.

If we quote biographers, Blavatsky's friends, cite episodes from her life and even her entire biography, this will not refute the slander that has accumulated around her name. Because slander is based on adding some "spicy" or wild details to a person's biography. These details are presented to the reader or viewer as details of life, about which the biographers seem to keep silent out of good intentions.

Surely the reader has heard that the creator of the Theosophical Society - "Madame Blavatsky" - is an adventurer, magician and medium, who gathered around her many deceived admirers. Perhaps the reader has heard that she is a "chronic drug addict". Perhaps the reader is even aware that she is "the mother of many illegitimate hunchbacked children." This is written about her in serious publications, such as, for example, the book by English authors "The Wisdom of the Ancients and Secret Societies", dedicated to the history of occultism and secret brotherhoods.

The meaning of the reasoning about the slandered man turned into a scarecrow is simple:

If this is "Madame Blavatsky" herself, a fiend, then what kind of children can she have? Only illegitimate and only humpbacked. Why illegitimate? Because it is generally unknown about any of her children. Why humpbacked? Because it's more interesting.

In order to impress society even more, such "details of life" are invented again and again, sometimes reaching in its apogee to complete insanity, then again returning to the invention of sophisticated thought-out "versions".

This is one of the signs of our time. People who have declared themselves in history are beginning to be dismantled and washed away. If it is not possible to find spiritual flaws, then bodily flaws are sought out. That terrible anatomy begins, from which, according to Gogol, one throws one into a cold sweat.

There are scientific studies devoted, for example, to physiological abnormalities in the body of Jeanne d "Arc. The features of her menstruation and the structure of her vagina are carefully considered. Conclusions are drawn that all great people were not without flaws, that genius is the reverse side of some genetic deviations.And it is argued that through such a search for truth, humanity will come to a better understanding of itself.It goes without saying that the author in his writings is modest and does not pretend to be a genius, because you don’t want to be a genetic mutant?

The same author in one of the articles awarded the American Colonel Olcott with the epithet "the most gloomy personality of the 19th century", doing this in passing, by chance, without substantiating it in any way. Why justify, the main thing is that the reader knows the "truth": even Jack the Ripper was much more harmless to society than the good-natured merry fellow and romantic Henry Olcott.

Only at least one such "researcher" would explain with the help of facts and logic what these people, heroes, are guilty of before him.

Henry Olcott tells how his first face-to-face meeting with the Master took place. The American was honored with a meeting with one of those whom India thinks and speaks of with reverent reverence:

“I turned my head, and in amazement the book fell out of my hands: towering over me was a stately figure of an Oriental, in a white robe and an amber-yellow striped headscarf or turban embroidered with silk. Long, pitch-black hair fell from under the turban to his shoulders; his black beard, parted at the chin according to the custom of the Rajputs, curled around the edges and reached the ears; the fire of the spirit burned in his eyes: eyes, whose gaze was both friendly and piercing, the eyes of a mentor and a judge, but with the love of a father looking at so majestic, so imbued with moral strength, so radiantly spiritual, and so superior to the common man, that I felt myself embarrassed in His presence, and I bowed my head and knelt down as one does before God or a being like God. His hand lightly touched my head, a soft but strong voice told me to sit down, and when I looked up, the Visitor was already sitting on a table. on the other side of the table. He said He came to me at a critical moment when I needed Him; that my actions led me to this; that it depends only on myself whether we shall meet often in this life as co-workers for the common good; that a great work must be done for the sake of mankind, and that I have the right to participate in it if I wish; that a mysterious connection, which now is not the time to explain to me, brought me and my like-minded person together - and this connection cannot be broken, no matter how tense it may be at times. He told me about some things about H. P. B. [Blavatsky] - which I am not at liberty to repeat - and also about myself, which has nothing to do with others. I cannot say how long he remained: perhaps half an hour, perhaps an hour—it seemed to me one minute, so little did I notice the passage of time. Finally He got up. I was amazed at His tall stature and the strange radiance that emanated from His face - it was not an external brilliance, but a soft glow, so to speak, the radiance of an inner light - the light of the spirit. Suddenly a thought came to my mind:

"But what if it's all just a hallucination? What if it was H.P.B. who hypnotized me? Now, if I had some material object left that would confirm that He really was here; something that can be I would like to hold it in my hands after He leaves!" With a kind smile, the Teacher, as if reading my thoughts, unwound the "fencing" from his head, greeted me kindly at parting and - disappeared: his chair was empty; I was alone in my emotional excitement! And yet not completely alone, for on the table lay an embroidered headscarf - material and lasting proof that I had not been bewitched or jinxed physically, but that I was face to face with one of the Elder Brothers of humanity, with one of the Teachers of our negligent immature race".

We met one of the messengers of the Brotherhood already at the beginning of the second chapter [book: S.A. Maltsev, “INVISIBLE BATTLE. The Hidden History of Civilization]. Not even one, but two. From this meeting began our journey into the world of antiquity and, at the same time, into a fairy tale of an unrecognized, hidden history.

The mysterious truce came to Pope Leo XIII, head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, giving him a word. Their meeting took place, and the fate of Cagliostro was decided.

He, who was a hated enemy of the church, a freemason, was ordered to be pardoned and sent to be kept in a special castle, from where he disappeared without a trace, forcing the executioners to come up with various vague versions about his death.

It was one of the episodes of the struggle, the confrontation between the hierarchs of the Vatican and the Brotherhood of the Initiates.

Cagliostro, one of the Brothers, was taken prisoner. In order not to look like a manifestation of a real war, everything was framed as a trial of a dangerous heretic. We had to reckon with the conventions of the state system, with the laws invented by the Freemasons, freethinkers-reformers. After all, it was impossible to simply seize and execute a person in enlightened Europe. It was impossible to say to society: "In war as in war, we want to destroy an adept from the opposite camp, see how it's done." At least some pretext was needed, and then, just like hundreds of years ago in the denunciations of the Templars, Rosicrucians and other "pagans", accusations were made that were as empty as a rotten egg, but hurt a person's feeling of hatred and fear of the unknown. Eyewitnesses of the process were announced: Count Cagliostro is a freemason, this belongs to secret heretics, evil spirits, this is very scary; he was engaged in forbidden science, this is doubly terrible, because no one knows what evil, what monster will come out of the flask of this science and attack poor humanity; he ridiculed our faith, and therefore your faith, mocked all of you; he owned the money that came from nowhere, and what if, with the help of his sciences, he makes so much money that he buys power in the whole world and subjugates everyone?

The cover for the real reasons - confrontation, struggle - was created, and no one was interested in the fact that many and many at the same time could engage in the same sciences without fear of any punishment and persecution for this.

As it happened many times, it was possible, having prepared public opinion, formed it, directed it in the right direction, to destroy one more soldier from the enemy's army. But suddenly a mysterious truce appeared, and a mysterious word sounded that forced the head of the hierarchy of magicians to recognize the strength of the opposite side.

And yet the victory of the church was evident. Who now knows anything good about Cagliostro? In addition to rumors and versions, suspicions and slander, nothing remained of him. Only "adventurer".

How then to believe that he was involved in the Brotherhood of Initiates? After that, how can one not believe in another version - that the Brotherhood of Initiates is actually a bunch of deceivers and rogues, hiding behind mystery and cheap tricks? After this, how can one not believe that Freemasonry is one continuous swindle of honest people, which justly deserved condemnation by the Church? How then not to believe in all these versions at once?

A similar thing happened later, with another messenger of the Brotherhood.

Even before openly declaring her connections with the Brotherhood of Initiates, Blavatsky received one very lucrative offer. At that time, she was already known for her phenomenal abilities, and one day a man from the Vatican came to her to convey the request of the pope: using powerful hypnotic abilities to convert a high-ranking person in Egypt to the Catholic faith. In return, she would receive the appreciation of the pope and lifelong patronage from the Church.

The pope's intermediary was shoved out the door with a bang. It took a long time to calm down after such news. But this was a declaration of strength from one of the largest communities of magicians. However, a confession that did not promise her anything good.

From now on, she came out of the shadows and became an open target for rumors, "versions" and "revelations".

This process was launched by our old acquaintances - the Jesuits. A secret order created specifically for such "special operations". The intelligence services and special services, the knights of the cloak and dagger, will then take an example from him, mastering the tools of intrigue and conspiracies. The secret services will have the idea of ​​serving their state, or their government, or themselves, but the "warriors of Jesus," as the Jesuits called themselves, had a different idea, different motives. Their rules said that no "faith in Jesus Christ, in all the articles of faith and the ten commandments" is needed. The main thing is serving a powerful invisible patron, with whom you can get in touch through magical rituals and the invocation of the Seven.

The most powerful means of intrigue are those that look innocent, clumsy and do not attract much attention. It used to be invented poisons that could kill applied in negligible amounts on clothes. The progress of civilization brought improvement in this area, it was only important to study the laws of collective psychology and use them correctly. The Scottish Jesuit Paterson bribed Blavatsky's housekeeper and her husband, a carpenter. In the absence of the hostess, they began to build a system of secret drawers, double-bottomed shelves and movable screens in her house. While all this activity was not disclosed, the conspirators hurried to declare it as loudly as possible. Helped spread the news "Christian Collegium" - a missionary press organ in Madras. It was nothing that the shelves and drawers had not even had time to finish, that the mechanism of the screen was so swollen from the damp Indian climate that it could not move. The main thing was done: it was now true that in the house of Blavatsky, where she had recently performed phenomena before the scientists of the London Society for Psychical Research, there were secret devices for showing tricks.

"Revelations" rained down one after another. None of the scientists-witnesses of the phenomena any longer wanted to remember that living roses fell from the ceiling, which would not have been helped by any secret boxes and screens. Scientists were initially hostile and repeated to themselves as a saving prayer: "This cannot be, because it can never be." Now their skepticism was fully satisfied. Moreover, a righteous feeling of indignation made them loudly declare Blavatsky's tricks throughout the scientific world. Letters from the Himalayan Mahatmas, Teachers, who appeared in the house of the "Russian adventurer", have also now turned into fakes, and with them the Teachers themselves.

All the numerous statements and appeals to scientists by Blavatsky's employees and simply honest witnesses turned out to be useless. Advocates of the "adventurer" were now kept out of print publications that valued their reputation, and had to confine themselves to the magazine of the Theosophical Society. The signatures of seventy pundits, the most respected experts in Sanskrit and sacred Indian literature in India, did not help, who wrote: "... we declare that the existence of mahatmas is in no way invented. Our great-great-grandfathers, long before Madame Blavatsky, were convinced of their psychic strength, because they knew and communicated with them ... We have many evidence of the existence and activity of these" higher beings "..." All this did not stop the rampage of slander launched by the Jesuits. The rumor spread, and the deed was done. Scientists could continue to quietly write articles about the impossibility of the impossible, and journalists could ridicule the belief of the Indians in the Mahatmas.

The attempt of the Brotherhood to tear scientists away from the executions of frogs and draw their attention to the reality of the spiritual world failed.

It was one small private moment in the tireless, selfless activity of the Jesuit Order. Science and society will not encroach on the knowledge of spiritual phenomena and laws that the Church possessed for a long time to come. And the fewer competitors, the more power.

The work of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order) was very broad in scope, as the order faced a powerful enemy. Blavatsky was only one of the employees of the Brotherhood, the other Brothers had other tasks and did not announce themselves. Therefore, the secret network of the society of Freemasons-Educators was a constant headache for the secret police of the Vatican. It was impossible to penetrate the secret of the Masons, introduce their agents to them, influence the policy of the Masonic brotherhood from within, since the connections and leadership of the society stretched far to the East. And then the leaders of the Jesuits used one ingenious tactical move.

Let's remember what they did with Cagliostro - they started a rumor that he was a member of their order, and after that everyone doubted the reliability of his statements, his knowledge, titles, information. If you look at it from a psychological point of view, what can we say about the way of thinking, about the internal state, about the motives of the Jesuits?

Let us imagine a meeting of "warriors of Jesus" discussing how to deal with Count Cagliostro.

He declared himself a collaborator of the secret Brotherhood of Initiates and already found many influential followers in Europe. He performs amazing phenomena, proving the existence of the Science of the Initiates. By this, he sows everywhere doubts that the Church is the only owner of the highest spiritual truth. What will happen if Cagliostro continues to be just as successful, and some new ideological current emerges, a movement that captures the minds of Europe and knocks out the support from the spiritual and economic power of the Vatican? In addition, this power is already pretty staggering, undermined by other freethinkers of the same type. And is it really possible to continue to endure the antics of Cagliostro and his open challenge to church authority?

Such considerations could excite the minds of the hierarchs of the Vatican - the pope and the cardinals. But that's not it. The method itself, which was chosen to solve this problem, nevertheless speaks of other questions that were asked by those who invented it. More profound questions, related to the very essence of human psychology, the very essence of the soul.

What follows from this?

The fact that they perfectly understood and were aware that they are liars. This is first.

Secondly, that they were clearly aware of themselves as an organization of individuals who opposed themselves to all human ideas about spiritual purity and loftiness, about morality, about something noble and good. They had no illusions about themselves, their spiritual state.

They are those who consider all sorts of "ten commandments", the concepts of goodness, love, compassion, humanity, justice, honor, honesty, decency, to be complete nonsense.

Society has long known about this, and for them there is nothing wrong with that. Their conscience is not disturbed at all.

They reason like this:

Everyone knows that we have nothing to do with decency and honesty. Everyone knows that we are on the other - the opposite - side (only few people are fully aware of this, in all depth, and this is good.) We use this public perception of us, this truth, for our purposes. Since Cagliostro, like his Masonic counterparts, speaks of justice, wisdom, Truth, since he is so good, we will very simply make him bad. Let's start a rumor - and this is easy - that he is a member of our order. And then no one will envy him. From now on, he will know what contempt, disgust and chivalry of society are. He wanted to make them all happy? Now he will see the betrayal of his followers. They will instantly forget about all his merits and great deeds, about what he did for them, and they will remember him fairly and shed a tear only when he lies in a coffin.

And it happened exactly as they reasoned, knowing full well the laws of collective psychology.

This example of Cagliostro will now help to move on to the transformation that the Jesuits made with Freemasonry. It was also based on knowledge of psychology, but only individual psychology.

In order to effectively resist the entire Brotherhood of Freemasons and the Brotherhood itself, the Jesuits came up with a virtuoso historical move: they created their Freemasons brotherhoods - Masonic, Rosicrucian organizations, and even a new Knights Templar.

Here, too, it is worth stopping, sitting and thinking about the genius of this plan.

Everyone has long known that history is made by people who are members of secret Masonic organizations. This fact was known, but its details, details were unknown. In those days, the word "mason" exuded spiritual freedom and the romance of a fair struggle, exploits, high ideals of faithful brotherhood. In America, the Freemasons Washington, Lafayette, Knox, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton fought against the tyranny of England and created the great independent state of the United States. In Europe, the Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge, Giuseppe Garibaldi, unified Italy; freemasons Mozart, Liszt, Haydn, Goethe, Schiller created immortal works of art. In Russia, the freemasons Suvorov and Kutuzov showed examples of military prowess, honest and heroic life. The Decembrist Freemasons tried to rid the people of slavery, worked on the development and enlightenment of Siberia. They were all driven by high human qualities and feelings, the desire to renew life, to search for something new. They worked, they served, they acted, they made mistakes and learned from their mistakes. They made mistakes, because only those who do nothing do not make mistakes.

These "heretics" and "devil worshipers" set the world in motion, forced to think, feel, act, create. Seek truth and justice not in the kingdom of heaven, but on earth. And, unlike those who branded them and cursed them, no one was tortured in the torture chambers, no one was burned at the stake.

Enlightened Europe lived on Masonic ideas of transformation. Becoming a Freemason, joining Freemasonry was the dream of many energetic young people. The Jesuits took advantage of this:

Do you want to be Masons? Do you want to enter such a prestigious community? Want to indulge in membership in secret societies? Do you want to be closer to kings and chancellors, do you want to be intermediaries in the system of secret levers of power? - Please, here's a secret society of Masons, here's the Order of the Rosicrucians, and even the Order of the Templars. Welcome!

Only, of course, they did not tell the new converts where, to whom, the threads of leadership of these secret societies stretched. To whom, upon entering and pronouncing the oath of allegiance, they become devoted servants. The true leaders of this new Freemasonry - the Jesuits - remained in the shadows. And it was very convenient. With the help of such Freemasons, it was possible to realize some kind of intrigue, and then convincingly declare that these are the intrigues of the Freemasons.

Thus, in Europe, the secret societies of Freemasons and Rosicrucians, opposing Masons and Rosicrucians, received "organizational formalization and the greatest distribution." Thus, that unimaginable mess was brewed, in which - under one name - the freemasonry of Pushkin, Goethe and Garibaldi and the freemasonry of the Jesuit Baron Handt, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm II and Grandmaster 33 Benito Mussolini were mixed. Thus, "ideas of moral self-improvement and ... black magic" fell into one historical cauldron. It was that incredible "alchemy" that the Jesuits managed to accomplish with history.

The French historian Jules Michelet put it this way: "For fifteen centuries, the Christian world was in the spiritual yoke of the Church ... But this yoke seemed to them not enough; they wanted the whole world to bow under the hand of one master"

"Clones", grown under the careful supervision of the Order of the Jesuits, the societies of Knights of Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Templars began to reproduce themselves and their many side branches, rituals, degrees of initiation and titles. "Ritual of Avignon", "Ancient and Recognized Scottish Ritual", "Rite of the Order of the Temple", "Fesler Ritual", "Supreme Council of Emperors East and West - Sovereign Prince Masons", etc. etc.

The Jesuit Baron Gotthelf von Handt claimed to be in possession of secret Templar documents proving that his order, which he called the Order of Strict Obedience, was the rightful heir to the Templar cause.

The Jesuit Count Ramsey put forward the idea of ​​uniting the newborn Templars with the Johnites, the Knights of Malta. Indeed, this had its own logic. After the defeat of the Templars, the Maltese got the lion's share of their property, and now it was possible to declare themselves Templars themselves. Count Ramsay declared: "Our ancestors, the crusaders, gathered in the Holy Land from all Christian countries and wanted to unite in a single brotherhood, embracing all peoples, so that, united together in hearts and souls for mutual improvement, they could eventually form a single intellectual people".

The historian Riebold, in his book A General History of Freemasonry, summarizes this process as follows:

"The Jesuits ... denaturalized and defamed Freemasonry. When they succeeded, as they thought, in destroying it in one form, they decided to use it in another. Having made this decision, they created a systematized work called "Secrets of the Templars" - a mixture of various narratives, events, the characteristics of the Crusades, mixed with the dreams of the alchemists. In this hodgepodge, Catholicism ruled over everything, and all this false building rolled like clockwork, representing the great purpose for which the Society of Jesus [the Order of the Jesuits] was organized"...

P.S. To appreciate the incredible success of the Jesuits’ plan, it’s enough to travel back to our time and look into the secrets of the “new” Freemasonry they created, in particular, the Order of the Illuminati:

1) RITUALS AND LIFESTYLES OF THE ILLUMINATI

2) DRUGS, ELECTRIC SHOCK AND DEMONS. Peculiarities of Psychocoding Adepts of the New World Order

Sergey MALTSEV

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*This article is a fragment of the book “INVISIBLE BATTLE. The Hidden History of Civilization”, 2003, n-bitva.narod.ru

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Quoted in Isis Unveiled by Blavatsky, vol. 2.

The Knights Templar defended the Tomb of Christ, but worshiped the Devil...
Is the version of the French crown and the Holy Inquisition correct?

Early in the morning on Friday, October 13, 1307, a detachment of armed guards, commanded by the royal adviser Guillaume de Nogaret, burst into the Temple Castle - the Parisian residence of the Order of the Templars (templars). Taken by surprise, the knights, led by Grand Master Jacques de Molay, were arrested, chained and imprisoned in their own castle.
On the same day, all the knights of the Order of the Temple who were in France were captured in the French provinces. Order castles and houses were under the supervision of royal officials, and the treasury appropriated all the property of the Templars.
On October 14, the royal balls read in the city squares accusations of heresy and apostasy from the faith, which the French king Philip IV the Handsome put forward against the templars ...

Trial of the Templars

A long trial of the Templars began. For seven years, the inquisitors of Philip the Handsome, with torture and threats, forced confessions from the arrested templars in the most terrible sins: Satanism, desecration of the cross and holy gifts, sodomy. The venerable Archbishop of Narbonne, who was the keeper of the royal seal, refused to participate in this shameful farce. Then the king appointed his most corrupt and deceitful slander, the "knight" Guillaume de Nogaret, who was ready for any abominations and crimes in order to earn the favor of the monarch, as the keeper of the seal. He was matched by assistants - the personal confessor of the king, Guillaume Amber (Guillaume of Paris), who became the Grand Inquisitor of France, and the brother of the royal first minister, Jean de Marigny, who received the title of Bishop of Sansky.
The appointment of these notorious bastards as leaders of the process over the Templars justified Philip's expectations. "There is no such meanness, no such crime, which the judges would not have resorted to during this process ...", wrote Maurice Druon, the author of the famous chronicles from the "Cursed Kings" series.
The main witnesses for the prosecution were several former templars expelled from the Order for criminal and sexual offenses. Among these renegades, a certain Esken de Floyran, the former prior of Montfaucon, who was once sentenced to life imprisonment by the Grand Master for the murder of one of the knights, stood out with particular meanness. He willingly confirmed the inconceivable accusations of the inquisitors and, trying to please the royal chancellor, he himself invented even more terrible sins. Royal officials also acted as "witnesses" for the prosecution. For example, Rudolf de Prelly, the Legist adviser, entertained the court with a touching story about a certain Templar named Gervais, who, "sobbing", allegedly told him about the "terrible secrets and sins" of the Order.
But in addition to the slander of traitors and bureaucratic gossip, the court needed the confessions of the accused themselves. The vast majority of the arrested knights, despite the long imprisonment and the threats of the judges, indignantly rejected the ridiculous fabrications of the accusers. Then the judges decided to resort to torture.
Here is the transcript of the interrogation of the knight Enguerrand de Milla. The Grand Inquisitor Guillaume Ember demanded that the defendant admit that the Templars, upon entering the Order, had to renounce Christ, that they committed acts of sodomy, worshiped devilish idols, rejected mass and holy gifts. When the knight refused to answer provocative questions, on the orders of Amber, the executioners crushed both his legs, crushed his fingers, burned his body with a red-hot iron, and pulled him up on the rack...
Many defendants could not stand the torture.
- Is it I confessed to your interrogation? - said one of the Templars to the judges. "Did I take on my soul the monstrous and absurd fruit of your imagination?" No, gentlemen! This torture asks, and the pain answers!
Torture asked, and pain answered - so the chancellor, the inquisitor and the bishop collected accusatory evidence against the templars.
With terrible torture, the royal inquisitors wrested "confessions" from 136 Templars. However, at open trials, almost half of the defendants refused self-incrimination. Only in 1310, and only in Paris, on a field near the monastery of St. Anthony, 54 knights were burned alive, who renounced the testimony that was forcibly torn out. In Reims, Rouen, Carcassonne, throughout France, hundreds of "second-fallen sin" Templars who dared to protest against the torture of the Inquisition were burned.

Pope's betrayal

Caught in the clutches of the executioners of Philip the Handsome, the templars at first hoped for the intercession of the Pope - after all, the Order of the Temple faithfully served the Holy See for several centuries, defending the faith of Christ and the interests of the papal curia in Palestine and the Middle East.
But these hopes were in vain! The insignificant and cowardly Pope Clement V was afraid to revive the powerful king of France - he remembered too well the fate of his two predecessors, Boniface VIII and Benedict XI, who were killed on the orders of the "most Christian monarch". An active participant in the conspiracy against the pontiffs was the same ubiquitous Guillaume de Nogaret, who received knightly spurs and the title from the king for the murder of Boniface VIII ...
On August 12, 1308, Clement V, with a special bull, hypocritically called "Working Mercy ...", approved post factum the repression of the French crown against the Templars.
The king demanded to dissolve the Order of the Temple, but the XV Ecumenical Council, convened by the pope in October 1311 in Vienna, refused to destroy the most glorious and powerful union of crusader knights: only four cardinals out of 140 voted for the abolition of the order! The cardinals demanded an impartial investigation. Then Philip appeared at the cathedral at the head of the army and forced the cowardly pope to single-handedly dissolve the order.
On May 2, 1312, Clement V signed the bull "To the providence of Christ's vicar ...", according to which the Order of the Temple was dissolved, and its property was transferred to the Order of the Hospitallers.
So the Holy See betrayed the Templars...

Accusation and execution

By the spring of 1314, the guilty verdict against the Templars was ready. On March 17, judges led by Guillaume de Nogaret and the Bishop of Sansk gathered at the Notre Dame Cathedral.
As the main defendants, the former leaders of the Order of the Temple were brought to the cathedral: Grand Master Jacques de Molay, General Visitor Hugues de Payrando, Prior of Normandy Geoffroy de Charnay and Commander of Aquitaine Geoffroy de Gonville.
Four old men in dirty rags, exhausted by seven years of imprisonment, starvation, torture and humiliation, stood before the royal tribunal, shining with bright clothes and jewels.
"The sun's rays played on gilded mitres, on episcopal staffs, on the purple cardinal robes, on the crimson-red cassocks of bishops, ran through short velvet robes trimmed with ermine, gilded naked blades. This luxurious play of colors, these bright glare even more sharply emphasized the contrast between a group of the accused and a magnificent court ..., between the judges and four old, ragged Templars, who stood huddled together, indistinguishably gray, as if sculpted from the ashes.
M. Druon. Iron King. Chapter IV.
Under the dictation of Nogare, the royal court accused the Knights of the Temple of idol worship, blasphemy and heresy. The indictment included all the wildest and most incredible inventions that occurred to the inquisitors and their voluntary assistants - the so-called "witnesses". The Templars were accused of renouncing Christ, spitting on the cross, indulging in debauchery, worshiping the demon Baphomet and certain "Talking Heads" that they used in their witchcraft rituals, that they also worshiped a black cat - the personification of Satan - and that black cats participated in the meetings of the chapter of the Order, that they roasted babies and smeared diabolical idols with their fat ...
The solemn voice of the papal legate, Cardinal Albano, who read out the delusional sentence, floated majestically under the huge dome of the cathedral. The Templars seemed to be crushed by the weight of the accusations leveled against them...

And suddenly a thunderous voice boomed from the top of the stairs:
- I protest!
And so powerful were its peals that at first no one believed that this cry escaped from the chest of the Grand Master.
- I protest against the unjust verdict and affirm that all the crimes attributed to us are fictitious from beginning to end! shouted Jacques de Molay.
The entire crowd seemed to take a deep breath. The judges were worried, not knowing what to do. The cardinals looked at each other in bewilderment...
- I am guilty of only one thing: that I could not resist your promises, threats and torture. I affirm before the face of the Lord God, who listens to us, that the Order, of which I am the Grand Master, is not guilty of anything ...
M. Druon. Iron King. Chapter IV.

Together with Jacques de Molay, the Prior of Normandy, Geoffroy de Charnay, spoke out against the verdict of the royal court.
We are knights of Christ! he shouted as the guards dragged the defendants back to the dungeon. - Our charter is holy, just and Christian ...
Philip the Handsome was furious. Seven years he and his assistants spent destroying the Order of the Temple and appropriated the wealth of the Templars, and two old men, completely at the mercy of the Inquisition, dared to protest against the royal verdict. At the request of the vengeful king, the Grand Master and Prior of Normandy were sentenced to be burned in a slow fire.
On March 18, 1314, Jacques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charnay were burned alive in Paris, on the Jewish Island - just opposite the royal palace. Philip and his retinue admired the execution of old people from the windows of the palace gallery.
At the last moment, when the flames had already engulfed the body, the Grand Master pointed towards the palace and shouted:
- Papa Clement! King Philip! Guillaume de Nogaret! In less than a year, I will call you to the Judgment of God! I curse you! A curse on your family to the thirteenth generation! ..

A CURSE
Grand Master

The dying prediction of Jacques de Molay came true quite soon: a month after the auto-da-fe on the Jewish island, on April 20, 1314, the traitor pope died from a sudden attack of disinteria - Clement V was brought to the grave with bloody diarrhea and bouts of vomiting. A month later, the executioner-chancellor Nogare died in terrible agony. And at the end of the same year, on November 29, 1314, King Philip died unexpectedly, always distinguished by enviable health.
Was the curse of the Grand Master the cause of the sudden death of the three main culprits of the death of the Order of the Temple, or, as some historians believe, secret agents of the Templars, who are very knowledgeable in oriental poisons, had a hand in killing them? Everyone is free to choose the answer to their liking...
Legend has it that the curse of Jacques de Male fell on the offspring of the king. Indeed, within a few years, all the heirs of Philip the Handsome died: his three sons and grandson. The direct branch of the Capetians was cut short in 1328, when the youngest son of Philip, King Charles the Handsome, who ruled for only 6 years, died. And soon the whole of France was involved in bloody wars, unrest and civil strife that shook the country for more than a hundred years.
True, some historians explain the troubles that befell the French royal house in the XIV-XV centuries by incestuous marriages, which eventually led to the degeneration of the Capetians. Dr. Auguste Blanchet, author of the study "The Pathology of the Kings of France", calculated that almost all French monarchs married their cousins, aunts, nieces. And as a result, obviously unhealthy monarchs appeared on the throne, such as the feeble-minded king Louis X, his wife Margaret of Burgundy, convicted of debauchery, her sister Queen Jeanne the Lame-footed woman, a harlot and a sadist, her grandson the warlock king Charles V, his wife Queen Jeanne of Bourbon, suffering from bouts of violent insanity, and, finally, their son, the mad King Charles VI and his wife, the debauched Isabella of Bavaria, who openly lived with the king's brother and the officers of her retinue.
However, the pathology of the Capetians cannot explain some of the facts.
... In 1793, almost five centuries after the death of Jacques de Molay, in Paris, by the verdict of the revolutionary Convention, "citizen Louis Capet" - the deposed King of France Louis XVI - was executed. It is said that when the guillotine knife fell and the king's head fell into the basket, an unknown person jumped out of the crowd onto the scaffold and, irrigating his hand with blood gushing from the decapitated body, exclaimed triumphantly:
- Jacques de Molay, you are avenged!

Denial of Christ
Slander or secret rite?

Let us return, however, to the XIV century. Although Pope Clement confirmed the accusations against the Order of the Temple in 1312 by a special bull, the Templars were condemned only in France. Even in England, where King Richard II, under pressure from his father-in-law, the French king, banned the Order, the templars were released after a short arrest. In other countries - in Germany, Lorraine, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Cyprus - the Templars were generally completely justified.
Thus, it was clear even to contemporaries that the accusations made by the French Crown and the Holy Inquisition against the Order of the Temple were absurd and false.
However, now, almost 700 years after the process, not everything seems so unambiguous. Many serious researchers believe that there were secret rites in the ritual of the Order, which a biased investigation could consider blasphemous and heretical.
In particular, the French historian Robert Ambelain, who studied the protocols of the indictment against the Templars, cited very interesting statistics. According to him, from April 11, 1309 to May 26, 1311, the inquisitors interrogated 225 members of the Order. Almost all of the defendants denied the ridiculous accusations of worshiping devilish idols or the participation of cats in the meeting of the order chapter. However, 107 templars - almost half of the accused - admitted without any torture that when they entered the Order, according to the rite, they had to renounce Jesus Christ and spit in the direction of the crucifixion.
Even the top leaders of the Templars recognized the existence of the rite of renunciation in the order's tradition.
So, already on October 24, 1307, that is, a week and two days after his arrest, Grand Master Jacques de Molay, at one of the first interrogations, testified that when he joined the Order, he renounced Christ and spat, but not on the cross, but towards him. Jacques de Molay later stated that renunciation was the custom of the Templars.
Commander of Normandy Geoffroy de Charnay was accepted into the Order by the knight Amaury de La Roche, a famous participant in the Crusades and a close friend of King Louis IX. “After accepting me into the order and putting a cloak on me, they brought me a crucifix,” de Charnay told the investigators. “Brother Amaury ordered me not to believe in the one whose image I see, for this is a false prophet, not God.”
The Cypriot commander Baudouin de Ardant, accepting Gerard de Pasagio into the order, gave him a wooden crucifix and asked:
- Do you believe that this is God?
He replied that he saw before him the image of Christ. To this the commander replied:
- Do not believe! It's just a piece of wood... Our Lord is in heaven.
The fact that during the initiation ceremony the knights were forced to renounce Christ and spit on the cross was reported by the general visitor of the Order in France Hugues de Payrando, the prosecutor general of the Order at the papal court Pierre de Bonia, the commander of Normandy Geoffroy de Charne, the commander of Aquitaine and Poitou Geoffroy de Gonville, the quartermaster in Champagne Rudolf de Gisy and other high-ranking templars. In his testimony, Hugues de Payrando noted that renunciation was an integral part of the order's Charter, and Rudolf de Gisy admitted that all Templars had to renounce Christ.
Judging by the documents, it was difficult to avoid the test of renunciation: when Brother Jean Bertaldi renounced sacrilege during his admission to the Order, Brother Menardi, who led the ceremony, threatened him with imprisonment. At the same time, the chaplain of the Order, Gilles de Rotangy, testified on January 28, 1310, that the denial of Christ was not necessarily part of the rite of passage and in some cases was not required.
The Templars themselves explained such a blasphemous custom by the fact that in this way the leaders of the Order test the firmness of the faith of the new brother. However, others believed that this was a test of a vow of blind obedience to elders. Robert Ambelain concludes that "in reality, both explanations were, apparently, fair, and the rite itself allowed the leaders of the order to immediately 'classify' the neophyte."
Other researchers believe that the rite of renunciation symbolized the depth of the fall of the sinner, who must be corrected by the brotherhood. Charles William Heckerthorne was convinced that during the adoption of a new brother, the templars played out the gospel story associated with the three-time denial of the Apostle Peter from Christ. "Such a rite," says Heckerthorn, "should not surprise us in an age when churches were turned into theaters, when sacred objects were desecrated by ridiculous performances, when ancient sacraments were reproduced to honor Christ and the saints."
However, not all historians believe that the rite of renunciation had only a symbolic meaning. The same Robert Ambelain suggests that the Templars, who during their stay in the Holy Land were in active contact with representatives of various Christian, Muslim and Jewish sects, could perceive the idea of ​​adoptionism, the essence of which was that Jesus was the "adopted son" of God, a man whom chosen by God for a specific mission and led by the Holy Spirit. This version is interesting, but not confirmed by any specific fact.
Michael Baigent, Richard Ley and Henry Lincoln went even further. In their works, the Templars appear as adherents of a gloomy anti-Catholic sect, warriors of some even more secret society that, through the centuries, has been organizing conspiracies against the French royal house. True, the mysterious story told by these three authors has a very remote relation to the facts and belongs more to the genre of adventure literature.

Albigensian Wars.

Apparently, the question of the secret rites of the Templars could have been closed at this point, if not for one strange circumstance: almost all the versions put forward by various researchers connect the templars with the Cathar (Albigensian) heresy.
From the beginning of the 11th century, the entire South of France or the Languedoc was embraced by a new doctrine, which was preached by wanderers in simple black robes girded with coarse ropes. Followers called them "perfect" or "cathars", which in Greek means "pure". They were also called Albigensians - since the city of Albi became one of the main centers of the Cathars.
The world, the Cathars taught, is an arena of struggle between two irreconcilable principles: Good and Evil. The spirit is a creation of Good, and the matter that defiled and bound the spirit was created by Evil. In order for Good to win, one must overcome impure matter, renounce everything earthly and vain, become poor and chaste, and thus perceive the idea of ​​Love.
The Cathars believed that in order to achieve perfection, a person needs personal experience, direct communication with God. The new teaching cast aside the entire church hierarchy; his followers called the papal church, steeped in heresy and depravity, "the servant of the Devil." Everything that comes from her is false and pernicious, and her sacraments have no value.
The peaceful preaching of the "perfect" who denied all violence and strictly followed the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" quickly won hundreds of thousands of supporters. Cathar temples and cathedrals were built in Albi, Toulouse, Narbonne, Carcassonne, Perpignan, Foix, in almost all cities and villages of Languedoc. Count Raymond VI of Toulouse himself, who was called the "King of Languedoc", supported the new doctrine. Cathar dualism became the official creed of the South of France, decisively replacing the Catholic Church. From Languedoc, Cathar sermons spread to the cities of Champagne, Germany, and Flanders.
What could Rome oppose to the teaching that was gaining strength? Pope Innocent III sent one of the most fanatical and eloquent preachers of the Catholic Church, the Spanish monk Dominic Guzman, to Toulouse. But the Cathars simply ridiculed the theatrical pathos and ostentatious asceticism of a gloomy fanatic. People no longer believed either the pope or his messengers. - By all means, it is necessary to put an end to the vile heresy, - repeated the pope and his advisers. - It is necessary to burn out the stubborn Cathars with fire!
Rome's ally in the fight against the "heretics" was the King of France, Philip II Augustus, who had long dreamed of seizing the rich and independent county of Toulouse and annexing Languedoc to the royal possessions. Although the king was excommunicated by the same Innocent III, however, the pope needed the French army and Philip Augustus was immediately declared "defender of the Christian faith."
It did not take long to wait - an opportunity turned up in 1209, when a papal legate was killed in Toulouse. The Cathars were immediately accused of the murder, and the pope declared a crusade against the heretics. The following year, a huge army moved from Lyon to Languedoc and Provence, led by the vassal of the French king, Simon de Montfort; The "ideological" leader of the crusaders, the pope appointed abbot Arnold, abbot of the monastery of Citeaux.
"Defenders of the faith" devastated the cities and villages of Languedoc, exterminating all the inhabitants indiscriminately. In the city of Beziers, 20,000 men, women and children were herded into the square in front of the Church of St. Nazarius. Many begged for mercy, swore that they were faithful Catholics. The knights turned to Abbot Arnold with a question:
- What should we do, father? Can't we tell the good from the bad?
“And so the abbot,” writes the chronicler, “being afraid that those heretics, out of fear of death, would not pretend to be true believers ..., he said, as they say: “Beat them all, the Lord will know his own!” And a great multitude were killed ... "
Beziers burned for three days...
Following Beziers, Perpignan, Narbonne, Carcassonne fell... The inhabitants of Languedoc put up stubborn resistance to the crusading murderers. The campaigns of the French troops against the Cathars, called the Albigensian Wars, continued for more than 30 years. During this time, the rich and prosperous lands of southern France turned into a scorched, deserted desert. In March 1244, the last stronghold of the Cathars fell - the fortress of Montsegur, and a few days later 257 of its defenders were burned.

Mysterious Neutrality

For more than 30 years, popes and French kings waged a bitter struggle against the Cathar "heresy". But, a strange thing: the most powerful and militant organization of the crusader knights - the Order of the Temple, during all these years remained aloof from campaigns in Languedoc. In response to the pope's call to take part in the war against the Cathars, the leaders of the Templars bluntly stated that they did not consider the invasion of French troops in the County of Toulouse a "real" crusade and did not intend to participate in it.
The order during the Albigensian wars formally remained neutral, but its commanderships in Languedoc often provided refuge to the Cathars and even protected them from the crusaders. Moreover, the Templars with weapons in their hands participated in the Battle of Mur in 1213 on the side of the Qatari army.

The obvious patronage that the soldiers of Christ provided to the persecuted "heretics" surprised both contemporaries and researchers. Until now, historians are at a loss, expressing the most incredible versions - up to the hypothesis that the Order of the Temple was founded by secret Cathars to undermine the Catholic Church.
However, it seems to us that the mysterious silence of the templars during the Albigensian wars can be explained much more simply.
It is known that the Order of the Temple was founded in 1118 in Jerusalem by the knight Hugh de Payen, who was a vassal of the Count of Champagne, one of the most powerful rulers of Southern France. Count Hugh of Champagne became one of the first patrons of the knightly organization, and in 1124 he himself joined the Order. The counts of Champagne, Toulouse, Anjou and other southern French feudal lords generously gave the Templars castles and lands in their possessions; The ranks of the Order were constantly replenished by people from the aristocratic families of Provence and Languedoc. Soon, entire Templar dynasties arose in the South of France, whose representatives, by right of blood, inherited the titles of knights and commanders of the Temple.
Therefore, when in 1291 the last crusader fortresses in the Holy Land fell under the blows of the Muslims, the templars settled in the South of France, where the Order owned vast lands and had the support of the local nobility.
Very soon, the Templars established the closest relationship with the court of the Count of Toulouse and the Cathar aristocracy of Languedoc. The well-born Cathars not only occupied command posts in the southern French order communities, but also entered the top leadership of the Order. So, the 6th Grand Master of the Templars, Bertrand de Blanchefort, who led the templars in 1156-1170, was a Qatar: in his youth, the seigneur de Blanchefort even fought against the French crusaders in the army of the famous Qatari commander Raymond-Roger de Trancavel.
The Albigensian campaigns and the succession of the Cathars, oddly enough, increased the Cathar influence among the Templars. The fact is that back in 1139, Pope Innocent II, who patronized the crusaders, granted the Order of the Temple numerous freedoms and privileges, including the right to accept into the brotherhood knights excommunicated for sacrilege, heresy, blasphemy and murder. This right allowed the Templars to save excommunicated heretic knights from persecution by accepting them into their ranks. Especially many Cathars entered the Order after 1244, when the Albigensians suffered a final defeat and spies of the Holy Inquisition and the French crown roamed all over southern France in search of heretics.
It was at this time that Cathar rites appeared in the Catholic order ...

Qatari rites

The massive influx of Cathars into the Order of the Temple dates back to the middle of the 13th century. And after a few decades, strange and at first glance, difficult to explain rituals appear in the Templar rituals.
Documents of the investigation into the case of the Templars, organized by Philip the Handsome, testify that the rite of renunciation of Christ appeared in the Order from about the second half of the 13th century. During the interrogation, Commander Geoffroy de Gonville told the judges that "this was one of the vile and corrupt innovations of Master Roncelin."

Grand Master Roncelin de Faux is one of the most enigmatic figures of the Order of the Temple. According to legend, he came from Marseille, and his possessions were not far from the city of Beziers, whose population was brutally destroyed by the crusaders of Simon de Montfort. Although the name of Ronselin is not mentioned in the official list of Grand Masters, he appears in various documents and memoirs of the Templars dating back to the period between 1267 and 1281.

Robert Ambelain believes that the absence of Ronselin in the list of Grand Masters proves the existence of a parallel hierarchy and a secret Rite among the Templars. However, it is possible that the name of Roncelin de Faux was simply deleted from the official history of the Order by his successors, who feared (quite rightly) that the heretic Grand Master would compromise the Catholic brotherhood, whose main goal was proclaimed to protect the interests of the Christian Church.
One way or another, the appearance of the rite of renunciation not only coincides with the entry of a large number of Cathars into the Order of the Temple, but was also directly associated by the Templars themselves with the name of the Grand Master - the Cathar.
Recall that when joining the Order, the neophytes, according to the documents of the inquisition investigation, had to renounce Jesus Christ and spit on the cross (or in its direction). Moreover, many knights specified that their Templar mentors denied only the divine essence of Christ, but recognized him as a divinely inspired prophet; they condemned the worship of icons and statues as idolatry, and they said about the cross that it was not a holy symbol, but an instrument of execution.
The testimonies of the Templars surprisingly coincide with the information that has come down to us about the dogma of the Cathars. Although all the sacred books and theoretical works of the "perfect" were burned by the Inquisition, according to fragmentary and indirect data, the researchers restored the main Qatari dogmas. In particular, one of the cornerstones of this creed was the denial of the divine nature of Christ. According to the Cathars, God could not be embodied in impure matter, which, according to their ideas, was created by Satan. Therefore, Jesus for the Cathars could not be the Son of God, but was a prophet, who was led by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus the prophet preached the divine teaching of Love, but at the instigation of Satan, he was seized and crucified on a cross. "The cross of Christ," the Cathars taught, "should not serve as an object of worship, since no one will worship the gallows on which his father, relative or friend was hanged." Also, the "perfect" resolutely rejected the veneration of the images of God and the Saints, for they believed that the incarnation of sacred images in cursed matter offends the Spirit.
Thus, comparing the secret rites of the Knights of the Temple and the main tenets of the Cathar teachings, it can be argued with a considerable degree of certainty that the so-called rite of renunciation, which included the denial of the divine nature of Jesus and the condemnation of the worship of the cross and icons, was introduced into the Order of the Temple in the second half of the 13th century by the Cathars. who escaped the persecution of the Inquisition.

Grafitti - an inscription scratched on the wall of the dungeon in which the Grand Master Jacques de Molay was imprisoned. Under the image of the cruciform gallows the inscription: "I pray the Lord for forgiveness"

Already half a century after the introduction of the rite of renunciation, this ritual, apparently, lost its former sacred meaning for the templars and became, as Jacques de Molay told the inquisitors, "the custom of the Templars." Despite the desire of the investigators of the French king to prove the "heretics" and "blasphemy" of the rites of the Order, the protocols of interrogation of the arrested knights indicate that most of them, including the leaders, did not know the origin and true meaning of the secret order rituals.

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Of course, it was not the Cathar rites, which over time turned into a formal ritual, that became the true cause of the death of the Knights Templar. The main organizer of the process, King Philip the Handsome, did not give a damn about all the rituals and oaths. Himself a repeated perjurer, this great monarch craved only unlimited power, not stopping in the struggle for it before the most blasphemous crimes: he not only ordered the robbery of Christian churches and monasteries to replenish his treasury, but also personally organized the murders of two vicars of the Throne of Christ.
The most powerful and illustrious brotherhood of crusader knights was destroyed by the greed and treachery of the French king Philip IV, the cowardice and meanness of Pope Clement V, as well as the gullibility and carelessness of Grand Master Jacques de Molay and other leaders of the Order.
The death of the Order of the Temple ended one of the most glorious and romantic pages of European history - the time of knightly tournaments and crusades, noble heroes and their beautiful ladies, golden spurs and disinterested swords...

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As a rule, the rite of renunciation of Christ took place after the official ceremony, when the brother was dressed in the cloak of the order; few brothers participated in it - a neophyte and several brothers who received it (which could be either sergeants or ordinary knights, or high-ranking Templars). In addition, the neophyte had to kiss the recipient on the mouth, stomach and lower part of the spine.

In the historical environment there is no consensus on this point of accusation: Jonathan Riley-Smith believes that such a custom could take place, in view of the state in which the order was at the beginning of the 14th century: It is difficult to find the reasons for the penetration of such strange behavior into a great and powerful monastic order, but it must be admitted that the interrogations of the Templars showed how badly they were in and how they needed reforms and reorganization. .

Malcolm Barber refutes the accusations, referring to the materials of the trial, which recorded multiple cases of violence against defendants who confessed to heresy: Now it would be difficult to prove, as some historians of the 19th century did, that the Templars really committed the crimes that were accused of them by the regime of Philip the Handsome, or that their confessions testify to something other than a person’s weakness before spiritual and spiritual torture. physical, because only exceptionally strong personalities can withstand torture .

The disagreements of historians are due to two reasons: firstly, we do not know of any evidence of the heresy of the Templars before the process, and secondly, the process itself was carried out with numerous violations. All this makes it possible to build endless conjectures and reasoning, but does not allow to put an end to this matter.

In addition, we have very little information about the possible reasons for the emergence of such a rite in the order. The most complete explanation was given by Geoffroy de Gonville during interrogations dated November 15, 1307: It is said that he was once introduced into our order by a master who was a prisoner of the Sultan, as I have already said. Some argue that this is one of the nasty and perverted additions to the rule made by Master Roncelin; there are those who believe that this is a consequence of the sinful institutions and doctrines of Master Tom Bero; and finally, still others think that this is done following the example and in memory of St. Peter, who denied Christ three times .

Brother Bosco de Mazualier also said that, allegedly, in response to his question about the meaning of this ritual, Prior Bourgea stated that "it's about the prophet" And "It's too long to explain" .

If Bosco's testimony can be understood, taking into account the sixth and seventh articles of the list of accusations of August 12, which dealt with the fact that the Templars allegedly considered Christ a false prophet, then Gonville's testimony seems to be of real interest for analysis. In his explanation of the initiation rite, the legends about some masters of the order of the Temple, recorded by the chroniclers, were developed. So, the master who was captured was Gerard de Ridfort - a Templar, because of whom, according to the chronicler Heraclius, the Battle of Hatti was lost. The master was one of the few Templars whom Saladin did not execute in captivity, which brought him some suspicion of his contemporaries. Thomas Bero was considered a failure and a bad master, because during his tenure as Grand Master, the order lost the largest castles in the Holy Land - Safet and Beaufort. This is probably why Brother Geoffroy included him in the list of suspected founders of heresy. The personality of Master Ronselin is most interesting. He appears in the Chinon letter of the cardinals as the commander of Provence, this brother also dealt with the settlement of relations between the English king and Simon de Montfort the younger. Some believe that Ronselin was Master of England, but we have no evidence of this. In any case, the only document confirming Ronselin's participation in the introduction of the heretical rite is the "Book of Fiery Baptism" - a document fabricated by the Masons to prove the existence of the secret teachings of the Templars.

Thus, Gonville's explanation, unfortunately, does not shed any light on the rite of initiation into the order.

The accusation of obscene kissing was based on the Templar custom of kissing the neophyte on the mouth. According to the statute, And whoever accepts him as a brother must raise him from his knees and kiss him on the mouth, and usually the brother chaplain also kisses him..

In the early Middle Ages, a kiss on the mouth meant a greeting. However, later, in the Gothic era, something happened that one of the prominent representatives of the Annales school, Jacques Le Goff calls general desacralization, i.e. a new view of the world, which now lingered on the visible, on the world given in sensations, instead of being just a simple symbol of a hidden reality.

Over time, the Templar kiss became associated with something obscene. All this allowed the royal legalists to fabricate such a heinous accusation.

The accusations leveled against the Templars would be difficult to explain without taking into account other well-known political scandals of the early fourteenth century. As Helen Nicholson writes: The original accusations of 1307 were compiled by a certain Askue de Florian of Béziers, prior of Montfaucauld.<...>Askew's accusations were similar to those brought against leading political figures of the time, such as Pope Boniface VIII and Walter Langton.<...>Philip IV's new adviser, Guillaume de Nogaret, fabricated the following accusations against Pope Boniface: he was a heretic, he practiced simony and sodomy, he was dishonestly elected, his adviser was the devil, and he believed the French had no soul .

As can be seen from the above citations, all these accusations were united not only by the main point - falling into heresy and renunciation of Christ, but also by participation in the case of the King of France, Philip the Handsome. One can argue for a long time about the role of this monarch in these processes, only one thing remains indisputable - it was during the era of Philip IV in France that the position of the crown was extremely strengthened, and the Pope not only renounced political influence on France, but actually became a prisoner of the French king.
Thus, the accusations brought against the Templars were essentially no different from the traditional accusations of their era, but were so skillfully fabricated that, as Nicholson writes, "the weaknesses of the order were evident, and protection was not possible" .

Also, the Templars were accused of holding their chapters with extreme secrecy. This accusation has a documentary justification: according to paragraph 387 of the "French Rule" of the Templars, the brothers gathered at the chapter "should take care that not a single person from the brothers of the Temple could eavesdrop when they lead their chapter." This requirement is very easily explained by looking at the further paragraphs of the Rite (pp. 386 to 415) concerning the conduct of ordinary chapters: When the one who heads the chapter has finished his service, every brother who thinks he has sinned should rise and do with the cap and cap what is said above, and should stand before the one who heads the chapter and kneel once or twice , or more, and must be humble, like one who confesses, and must say the following: "Good sir, I ask for mercy from the Lord and the Mother of God, from you and from the brothers, for I have sinned," and must tell about his guilt full and true, as it was, and he must not lie, neither out of the shame of the flesh, nor out of fear of the justice of the House; for if he lies, it will not be a confession, and let it be known that it has been established for our chapter so that the brethren may confess their sins and correct them .
After that, the head of the chapter was to tell the rest of the brothers about his sin and discuss the punishment for him.

So, here we are dealing with the practice of general confession, which meant confession of sins at a general meeting in front of all those present. Such confession was practiced in the West until the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), at which it was established that every Catholic must confess to a priest at least once a year.
As Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu writes in her Medieval France: The Fourth Lateran Council, which laid the foundation for Western Christianity, by its 21st canon, decreed that every believer must secretly and personally confess at least once a year (oral confession) to the parish priest (before Easter communion). The new demand for confession of their own sins forced the believers to reveal the whole truth of their lives before the shepherd... The establishment of personal relationships between the clergy and the flock contributed to the onset of a new stage in the development of Christianity and the transition from external rituals to taking possession of the inner life of believers .

The Templars adhered to the old rule, apparently appearing more often before the chapter than before the priest (chaplain) of the order. But they cannot be accused of apostasy. The greatest specialist of the 19th century on the history of the Inquisition, Henry Charles Lee, notes: The order was founded before repentance was recognized as a sacrament and entrusted to the priests; at the same time, confession to another person was not yet made compulsory. The Templars were a monastic order, and all monastic orders used to have daily or weekly chapters at which the brethren repented of their sins; here a penance was imposed on them (usually they were scourged on the spot), and they received absolution from the hands of the presiding officer of the chapter, regardless of whether he was ordained or not. In the era of St. Thomas Aquinas, this absolution was considered significant even when it was given by a lay person. .

Thus, it is quite understandable that the Templars, as well as other monastic orders, did not allow outsiders to their chapters. This also explains the “mysteriousness” of the ceremony of admission to the order: at the ceremony, the neophyte had to confess his sins, which outsiders had no right to know about.

2. Worship an idol. Baphomet.
The legend that the Templars allegedly worshiped a certain idol or sacred head is especially popular with various myth-makers. According to the list of accusations, And also that in each province they had their idols, namely heads, and some (of these heads) had three faces, and some one, and some had a human skull inside.<...>And also that they worshiped these idols or this idol, especially at the general meetings of the brotherhood.<...>And also that they (them) revered .

Already in the list itself, we see contradictions - the idol was not just one, or there were several of them, he had either three faces, or one. Such a variety in the description of the idol can be considered evidence of the implausibility of the testimony: the list of accusations dated August 12 was compiled based on the work of the Inquisition commissions of late 1307 - early 1308. Let's turn to these materials.

The accusation of the Templars in the worship of idols appears in the secret instructions of Philip the Handsome to his officials, dated September 14, 1307. At the trial, the idol first appears in the protocols of the interrogation of the Templar Rainier de Lechamp, who testified in the first days of imprisonment (October 20, 1307).

Chapter nine. Secret rites of passage

The most serious accusations leveled by King Philip against the Templars (and still attracting the attention of the general public) concern the secret rituals that accompanied entry into the order. All arrested brothers were asked what happened during their admission to the membership of the order. The responses fell into two categories. According to the first, the reception took place according to the rite described in charter.

Since the reception ceremony is described in the French (Old French) version of the charter, it was quite accessible for acquaintance: those who knew how to read could do it personally, as well as read aloud to those who were not taught to read. Therefore, the reception ceremony was not secret in the sense that no one could see what it consisted of - neither family members nor friends were invited to this ceremony.

Here are the main points of the procedure for joining the order.

Those who wish to become a Templar are first of all brought to a room adjoining the hall where members of the order usually hold their weekly meetings. There are a few questions for the newbie.

The first question concerns his desire to join the order: “Brother, do you ask for the company of our house?” If he answers in the affirmative, the newcomer should be told of the great hardships and great sufferings that he will have to endure, and then asked if he is ready to become a servant and slave of the house forever and for the rest of his life. The hardships of the life of a Templar are spoken of several times, and such questions are not something special - any person entering a spiritual order is warned that he will have to unquestioningly obey his superiors. This applies to the Benedictines, Cistercians, Franciscans, Dominicans and other orders. However, it was assumed that men who received the upbringing and training of knights were not as inclined to obedience as most ordinary monks.

If this information about the plight of the templar does not scare off the candidate, then he will be asked questions regarding the reasons why he will not be able to become a member of the order. Is he married? Is he a member of any other order? Does he have debts that he is unable to repay? Is he suffering from a contagious disease?

If the answers to these questions are satisfactory, then one of the brothers who conducted the survey enters the assembly hall and says to the master: “Sir, we spoke to this worthy man who is waiting outside, and described to him the hardships of the house to the best of our ability and knowledge. And he says that he wants to be a servant and a slave of the house ... "

Then the candidate is brought into the hall. He kneels before the master, joins his palms and says: “Lord, here I am before God and you, and before the brothers, and I ask you in the name of the Lord and the Virgin Mary to introduce me into your society and under the protection of the house as a person who wants to be a servant and a servant of the house forever."

After that, the master once again tries to dissuade him. “Good brother,” he says, “you are asking for great things, because in our order you see only the outer side. You see that we have good horses and weapons, glorious food and drink, and beautiful clothes, and it seems to you that it will be easy for you with us, but all this is an appearance. You do not know about the harsh commandments that underlie our lives, and it will be hard for you, who is now your own master, to become a servant for others. For hardly ever again will you do what you want: if you want to stay in the lands on this side of the sea, they will send you across the sea; and if you want to be in Acre, they will send you to the lands of Tripoli, or Antioch, or Armenia ... and if you wish to sleep, they will wake you up, and if you wish to stay awake, they will order you to go to bed.

If the candidate does not belong to the nobility, then he is told that he will be a sergeant. This means an even more difficult test, for he will have to do work that he may consider unworthy for himself. The master does not soften his words. He lists all the tiresome jobs that the new brother will be ordered to do. As for me, I would have changed my plans when the master in this listing got to the care of pigs and camels. But many men remained firm in their desire to join the order.

The candidate is then asked to come out and wait for the decision of the meeting. If this decision is favorable, he is again brought into the hall and once again asked if he is ready to endure all the hardships that he was previously told about.

When he confirms his readiness, the master rises from his seat and asks everyone to stand up and offer a prayer "To our Lord and to the Virgin Mary, that he may succeed in this." Each reads the Lord's Prayer, after which the brother chaplain reads a prayer to the Holy Spirit. Then the one who is preparing to become a brother lays his hands on the gospel, and he is asked for the last time if there are any reasons that may prevent him from entering the order.

After that, an oath is taken from the candidate. It happens in the following way. The master asks him: “Do you swear to the Lord and the Mother of God that from now on all the days of your life you will obey the master of the Temple and any orders that you will be given? Do you swear to the Lord and the Holy Virgin Mary that you will remain chaste for the rest of your life? Do you swear to the Lord and the Virgin Mary that for the rest of your days you will live without any property? Do you swear to the Lord and the Holy Virgin Mary that all the rest of your days you will live according to the customs of our house? Do you swear to the Lord and the Holy Virgin Mary that all the remaining days of your life you will help with all the strength and power given to you by God in protecting the holy land of Jerusalem, and also to protect and save all Christians who need it? Do you swear to the Lord and the Holy Virgin Mary that you will never leave the order unless you have the master's permission?

To each of these questions, the candidate answers, "Yes, if it pleases God."

Finally, the master says: “We, in the name of the Lord and the Holy Virgin Mary, and in the name of our master, St. Peter of Rome, and in the name of our holy father, the Pope, and all the brothers of the Temple, introduce you to all the blessings of the house that were from the beginning and will remain until the end. … and you also lead us into all the good deeds that you have done and will do. And we promise you bread, and water, and poor clothes at home, and much pain and suffering.”

The new Templar is then given his vestment - a white cloak for noble knights, black or brown for sergeants. The chaplain reads Psalm 132 “How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together!”. The brothers again read "Our Father", and the master raises the newcomer from his knees and kisses him on the lips.

Such a kiss was considered a traditional way of securing an oath. This custom was adopted in religious communities, and when signing treaties by monarchs, and with official greetings. I see in such a kiss a purely ceremonial act, devoid of sexuality. I am sure that languages ​​did not participate in this matter.

Thus, at least according to the charter, the admission of new members to the order was very pious. There was nothing in the ceremony worth keeping secret. It's just that the Templars preferred not to invite outsiders.

Such a craving for closeness was bound to lead them to disaster. In the minds of many people, any secrecy is suspicious. Indeed, if they are not doing anything wrong, why shouldn't someone come and have a look? Therefore, some kind of blasphemy took place during the reception, or some second, additional ritual was performed after the reception.

This alleged second ritual was described in the accusations brought against the Templars: after the usual reception procedure, the recruit was allegedly taken to a secluded place and told to declare his denial of Christ and spit on the crucifix. Then either he kissed the master below the waist and on the navel, or they kissed him. Written evidence on this point differs. This ritual was usually described by those Templars who were tortured or promised to be tortured if they did not give the desired answer to the inquisitors.

The problem with interrogation protocols is that they are all written in the third person and do not convey what the defendants said verbatim. Each templar was asked if he took part in the crimes imputed to the order. The accusations were read point by point, and the inquisitor wrote down the gist of the answer.

The first testimony of the Grand Master Jacques de Molay, in fact, became a model for all the protocols on secret rituals for admission to the order. Nine days after his arrest, on October 24, 1307, Jacques told the inquisitors that after he received the white cloak of the Templar, he was shown a bronze cross with the image of Christ and ordered to deny the Lord. And he did so, albeit with deep disgust (licet invictus). He was then ordered to spit on this cross, but instead he spat on the ground. Finally, he was asked if he had sworn an oath to remain celibate. "Yes," was his reply. “Then they said that I could copulate with other brothers, but I swear I never did that.”

The confessions of other Templars followed this pattern. Pierre La Verna's brother, a sergeant, testified that after he received the cloak, he was ordered to kiss his receiving brother between the shoulder blades, and he did so. Then he was told to deny the Lord, for that was the custom. He carried out this order "in words, but not in heart" (ore, non corde). Brother Stefan was forced to kiss the receiving Templar on the navel, and over his clothes. In addition, he also denied Christ "ore, non corde" and spat next to the crucifix.

These two confessions were made in Paris. In the Auvergne, brother Jean Dalma d'Arthon, a knight, reported that in 1299 he was accepted into the Templars by the head of the commandery Embard Blanc, who told him that the denial of Christ was one of the rules. Jacques said what was required, again "ore, non corde", and spat next to the cross.

At the beginning of the trials, it was only about the demands to renounce Christ and spit on the cross, as well as from time to time about permission to copulate with other brothers. As the months passed, the prisoners began to be asked questions about idolatry. We will deal with this accusation separately in the chapter on Baphomet.

So, many Templars claimed that they were accepted into the order in full accordance with the charter, but those who confessed otherwise, testified according to the same template. The first two acts (denying Christ and spitting on the crucifix) are described identically in all confessions. The place of the "obscene kiss" could change, but preference was given to the navel and the point below the waist. None of the Templars admitted to doing these acts willingly. All the brothers in their hearts remained believing Christians - so they claimed.

What, according to the accusers, was the purpose of these secret initiation rites? Did they really believe that all newly accepted Templars were immediately informed, to their greatest amazement, that they were not joining a Christian order at all, but a society of people who denied Christ and insulted the crucifixion? It seems absurd that a recruit who is ready to give his life with delight, fighting for Christ, learns on the first day that the order does not exist at all for this. And isn’t it strange that, having allegedly already denied Christ, they had to worship a certain idol, which many call Baphomet? Isn't it too much for the first day of being in a new service?

According to the testimony of the Templars, after the described ritual, the life of the order proceeded as before. The brothers continued to attend regular church services with prayers and psalms, although some testified during interrogation that the priests omitted the words of the blessing of the Body of Christ during the sacrament. And the warriors of the order continued to fight and die in the Holy Land.

Why, then, did they fight and die? If they did not come to the Holy Land to protect the pilgrims and fight the pagans and thereby earn the forgiveness of their sins and gain the hope of going to heaven, then what, one wonders, did they do there? There are many theories on this subject, but during the trials, none of the Templars who admitted their guilt could explain what beliefs they replaced the Christian faith with. They did not claim to have converted to Islam. They did not say that they belonged to any heretical sect of Christianity. They did not consider themselves Cathars. And in any case, none of them told the judges that they were an atheist - such a thing did not exist at all in those days. The absence of any belief system was without precedent in the history of heretical movements. And yet, if the Templars were not Christians, then they did not admit to belonging to any other faith.

It seems that the accusers of the order stumbled on this. Perhaps they thought that people themselves would fill this gap with their fantasies of the most terrible forms of heresy. But we see in this another reason to believe that all the heretical rituals that accompany the admission of new brothers to the order existed only in the imagination of the inquisitors.

According to Alan Demurger, some unorthodox elements to test a newcomer could still be included in the admission ceremony. However, it seems to me illogical to demand that a person admitted to the order renounce what just prompts him to join this order, even if this renunciation is a hoax. Of course, I cannot completely exclude Demurger's assumption, since I have heard about very strange customs of the initiation of young men in our days, but still I am inclined to think that there were no such rituals in the Templar Order. After all, not a single templar who testified without the threat of torture confirmed the existence of these heretical rites.

One of the heaviest accusations concerned the disgusting demand to deny Christ and spit or even urinate on the cross. Following Demurger, some historians believe that such a requirement could have taken place, and interpret this as a test of the newcomer's readiness for unquestioning obedience. In my opinion, this is sheer nonsense. All this does not go beyond the assumptions about this or that form of heretical teaching.

By keeping their reception ceremonies secret, the Templars created the conditions for the darkest suspicions. Why did they do it?

The best answer to this question was given by Embard Blanc, head of the commandery at Auvergne, who was arrested and interrogated in England. Contrary to the testimony of Jean Dalma, which was discussed above, Embard argued that there was not a word of truth in all the accusations. When asked why the Templars kept the ceremony of admission to the order a secret, he replied: "Foolishly!" And he added that there was nothing in this ceremony "that could not be told to the whole world."

Embar preferred death in an English prison to confessing to something he had never done. This man's explanation seems to me the most reasonable.

For many centuries people have been trying to unravel the meaning of the "secret rites" of the Templars. In the chapter “The Templars and Saint Louis IX, King of France”, I wrote about a certain story connected with Louis IX, the grandfather of Philip the Handsome. When Louis was a Muslim prisoner, they took an oath from him that if the king did not deliver the required ransom, he would become an apostate who denies Christ and spits on the cross. Another example. In the annals of 1147, describing the capture of Lisbon by the Crusaders, it is said that the Muslim soldiers defending the city “showed us the image of the cross and subjected it to ridicule, they spat on it, and wiped their bottoms with it, and urinated on it.”

Many people tried to imagine what kind of religion corresponds to the testimony given by the templars under torture. At no time during the trial was there any description of any belief system that would include these supposedly performed rituals. A rather strange kind of heresy that is not built into any creed. Based on the information at our disposal, I am forced to conclude that the secret procedure for admission to the order, apparently, did not exist, and in any case there was no heretical alternative faith that the Templars professed.

The order of the Knights of the Temple was created to serve the Lord and protect Christians, and the brothers of the order lived and died in the belief that this is what they do.

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