They spent nine years tunnelling through solid rock, and then a series of radiating tunnels underneath. What they discovered down there has been a matter of intense speculation ever since. Dr Tim Wallace-Murphy
When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered amongst them was one called the Copper Scroll, and it listed a series of sites throughout what we would now call the Holy Land where Temple treasures had been buried for safe keeping prior to the Roman destruction of the Temple. Dr Tim Wallace-Murphy, co-author Custodians of Truth
The Templars were in Jerusalem somewhere around 1118, 1119, and then for 8 or 9 years they completely disappeared from the scene. They were not heard of during this time. George Smart, author The Knights Templar Chronology
He [Philip IV] owed the Templars an enormous amount of money for a variety of failed military operations. George Smart
They presented themselves to King Baldwin the II, the King of Jerusalem at the time. And they were given what we might call today five-star accommodation. The south-eastern platform of the Temple Mount. Dr Karen Ralls, author The Templars and the Grail
There have been some researchers who say they had nothing to do with assisting pilgrims. Dr Karen Ralls, author The Templars and the Grail
The Order had been quietly formed in Jerusalem in 1119, twenty years after the Christians took the City. A French knight founded the Order to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land. So how did they end up with fortresses and churches all over Europe with a massive power-base to rival the European monarchs? Trial of the Knights Templar, Channel 5 2008
There were originally only nine Templars. ibid.
The Chinon Parchment adds up to a litany of heresies: the Templars had admitted to homosexuality, denouncing Christ and defiling the Cross. The Templar’s first confession after arrest had been tortured out of them by Philip IV, but had the Pope’s men done the same? Were the Chinon confessions reliable? The Chinon Parchment contains one further revelation: despite people believing for centuries that the Pope had condemned the Templars, in fact he had saved them. He absolved [Jacques] de Molay and the leaders unconditionally. ibid.
But the old warrior had left behind one last Parisian mystery. As the Templars were swept away, their biggest Bank, the Paris Temple, was raided by the King’s men. It was empty. Templar assets in Normandy alone amounted to more than the wealth of England yet nothing was found. Philip IV’s destruction of the Knights Templar had all been for nothing. ibid.
The Knights Templar were the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages. Formed to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land, they participated in the Crusades and rapidly gained wealth, lands and influence and were answerable to none save the Pope himself. In addition to having a fearful military reputation, they were also Christendom's first bankers, and invented the modern banking system that is still in use today. ibid.
Twenty years after Jerusalem was taken, the Dome of the Rock was seized by a group of warrior monks calling themselves the Knights of the Temple of Solomon, or more simply the Knights Templars. In Jerusalem the Templars began to deviate further away from the practices of Christianity. They learnt the secret arts of the Kabbalah, an ancient form of Jewish magic with its dark rights and rituals. Shadows in Motion
We know that the Templars are Illuminati because the Freemasons absorbed and protected those that escaped persecution of the church and France, just as the Freemasons would absorb and protect Weishaupt’s Illuminati centuries later. The Knights Templar exist today as a high degree of Freemasonry within the Templar Order. In fact, the Knights Templar is a branch of the Order of the Quest. The de Molay Society is a branch of the Freemasons that consecrates the memory of the persecution of the Knights Templar and in particular, their leader Jacques de Molay. I know, because I was a member of the de Molay Society as a young adult. I loved the mystery and ritual. I became separated from the Society when my family moved to a location out of reach of any Lodge. I believe to this day that my association with the de Molay Society may have been the reason for my selection for Naval Security and Intelligence. Bill Cooper, Secret Societies/New World Order
In times to follow, however, the once revered knowledge of the Templars caused their persecution by the popes of other Orders, and by the savage Dominican friars of the Inquisition. It was at that point in the history of Christianity that the last vestige of free thinking disappeared. Neither special knowledge nor access to truths counted for anything against the hard new party line from Rome. Laurence Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail p219
The collection of texts called the Kabbalah were eventually transcribed by Rabbi Isaac the Blind, in Provence, in the south of France, during the Twelfth Century. For the first time in its six-thousand year history, the ancient magical techniques of invoking fallen demonic angels and killing someone using the evil eye were put down on paper. The Kabbalistic writings of Isaac the Blind fell into the hands of a group of nine French noblemen. These noblemen became known as the Knights Templar. Chris Everard, The Illuminati II
The Knights Templar arrived in Palestine with one main goal: to stop the Muslims from gaining any knowledge about the Kabbalah. Historical Islamic oral accounts from the twelfth century testify to a sickening crusade of plunder, torture, murder and sexual depravity. The Knights Templar once they had discovered the magical teachings of the Kabbalah were dedicated utterly to destroying its origin so that they might hold its secrets exclusively. ibid.
The so-called Holy Grail is actually a set of higher magical teachings; it is not an object, but a piece of information. Utterly Kabbalistic in its origin, the Holy Grail is the highest Kabbalistic secret. That is that physical matter can be transformed molecule by molecule by the use of incantations of ancient Hebrew letters and numbers. And that the nature of reality is really an illusion. ibid.
After two-hundred years of Kabbalistic magic, and bloodthirsty crusades, wantonly murdering children, women, and engaging in ritualised sodomy, the French Knights Templar were rounded up, tortured and executed. ibid.
Many Knights Templar bribed their way out of prison and escaped to Scotland and the Mediterranean Island of Malta. They first renamed themselves the Sovereign Knights of Malta. And then after establishing trade routes to North America long before Christopher Columbus they re-emerged in Scotland calling themselves Freemasons. All versions of freemasonry – Rosacrucianism, the Skull & Bones, the Palladian Right of freemasonry, Co-Masonry, Scottish Rite Masonry, the Ku Klux Klan, and Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis – are derived from the original Kabbalistic rituals of the Knights Templar. ibid.
The so-called Crusades were perpetrated with the assistance of the Knights Templar. Thousands of Islamic men, women and children were tortured and butchered whilst the Knights Templar ransacked holy places, and slaughtered in the name of Christ. They were searching for ancient Kabbalistic texts, whilst practising a form of black magic, invoking spirits according to the teachings of King Solomon. Chris Everard, The Illuminati III
After two-hundred years of Kabbalistic magic, and bloodthirsty crusades, wantonly murdering children, women, and engaging in ritualised sodomy, the French Knights Templar were rounded up, tortured and executed. Chris Everard
There’s other evidence that this mission of protecting the pilgrimage route was actually a cover story ... There’s evidence they excavated beneath the temple mounts ... They certainly had their secrets. Clive Prince, co-author The Templar Revolution
Knights Templar were accused of spitting and trampling on the Cross in secret ceremonies. And of worshipping a bearded severed head. Lynn Picknett, interview Illuminating Angels & Demons
On Friday the 13th of October 1307 a real-life nightmare began for the elite Knights Templar: on that Black Friday hundreds were summoned to Paris; six hundred and twenty were arrested without warning and thrown into prison. The charges against them added up to the most heinous of crimes ... Heresy! Knights Templar on Trial
The Templars were expert financiers, using trading techniques quite unknown in the Europe of the day. They had clearly learned many of these skills from Jewish sources, but would have much more freedom to extend their financial empire in a way that any Jewish financier of the period would have envied greatly. Alan Butler & Stephen Dafoe, The Templar Continuum
No matter how much they still maintained the external appearance of warrior Christian monks, among themselves they had secretly adopted the Kabbalist philosophy and way of life. The Knights Templar and Freemasonry
It emerged from these confessions that the Templars entirely rejected God and the theistic religions. And that they were devoted to the perversion of devil-worship, these days known as Satanism. They worshipped the goat-headed figure by the name of Baphomet, regarded as the source of evil in black magic. The Order had continued its devil-worshipping ceremonies in the greatest secrecy for hundreds of years. ibid.
As well as freemasonry the Templars also established the Rose Croix organisation. The main focus of this organisation was alchemy and magic ... One of the most famous members of the Rose Croix was the English statesman and thinker Sir Francis Bacon, who was also a Grand Master of the English Templars. Bacon set out the state structure of which the Templars dreamed in his book the New Atlantis. The main aim of their work was to rule the world by using the mystical powers in Templar teaching. ibid.
The throne of England was seriously indebted to the order. King John had emptied the coffers of the treasury between 1260 and 1266 in order to finance his military operations; and Henry III likewise borrowed heavily from the Knights Templar. Eleanor Ferris, The Financial Relations of the Knights Templar to the English Crown
There are so many pagan decorative elements inside the chapel that in his memoirs about the baptism he performed on the Baron of Rosslyn in 1589 a priest complained, ‘Because the chapel is filled with pagan idols there is no place appropriate to administer the sacrament.’ In August 31 1592 as a result of pressure exerted on Baron Oliver St Clair of Rosslyn, the chapel’s pagan-style altar was destroyed. Tamer Ayan, The Oldest Known Masonic Institution – The Scottish Royal Order