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Templars, Rex-Deus and other matters...Tim Wallace Murphy · Gil I Am

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Speaker 1: A small group of us have come into possession of
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Speaker 1: a large collection of Templar artifacts that we have christened
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Speaker 1: the Tomar Board, so called because of where they were
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Speaker 1: originally found. These items were discovered by some grave robbers
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Speaker 1: in the early nineteen sixties and have recently been put
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Speaker 1: together by a close friend and colleague who realizes their
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Speaker 1: importance far outweighs their financial cost. There are twenty eight
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Speaker 1: items in all, and their importance is not just their
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Speaker 1: historical connection with the Order, but the fact that they
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Speaker 1: tend to reinforce the validity of the criticism of Pope
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Speaker 1: Pious the Ninth that the Templars were Gnostick from the
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Speaker 1: very beginning and followers of the Yeoanite heresy. They were
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Speaker 1: not Christian in the sense that any of our viewers
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Speaker 1: would understand the term. To trace the origins of the Templars,
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Speaker 1: you have to trace back the families who founded the Order,
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Speaker 1: and they claim to be descendants of the Mammadot, the
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Speaker 1: twenty four high priestly families of the Temple of Jerusalem
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Speaker 1: at the time of Jesus, and their descendants when Jerusalem
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Speaker 1: was destroyed in aighte seventy scattered throughout the known world,
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Speaker 1: and they passed their teaching down from father to child,
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Speaker 1: down through the generations. And that's how the Templars and
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Speaker 1: the later Freemason came a lot closer to the true
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Speaker 1: teachings of Jesus than you will ever find in any
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Speaker 1: Christian church. Christianity does not arise from the teachings of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: It arises from the distorted visions of a man called
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Speaker 1: Saul of Tarsus that had known to Christians as Saint Paul.
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Speaker 1: He's the man who deified Jesus and declared Jesus was
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Speaker 1: his Lord and savior, and that Jesus had somehow died
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Speaker 1: as a humanized sacrificial goat to redeem us from sin.
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Speaker 1: Jesus was a Jew, a Jewish teacher, a rabbi, teaching
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Speaker 1: other Jews how to follow the law of God. He
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Speaker 1: was not in the business of starting a new religion.
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Speaker 1: He was in the business of simplifying his own religion.
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Speaker 1: And his teachings can still be found in Christianity, but
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Speaker 1: they're so deeply buried amongst a mass of dogma, lies,
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Speaker 1: and distortions that were damnably difficult to find. The Templars
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Speaker 1: rose to fire very very quickly because the foundation of
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Speaker 1: the Order was the fruition of a long standing conspiracy.
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Speaker 1: Bear in mind the early eleven hundreds communications in Europe
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Speaker 1: were incredibly bad, so for things to happen at the
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Speaker 1: speed they did, they had been planned for a very
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Speaker 1: long time. The Templar Order was founded somewhere between ten
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Speaker 1: ninety five and eleven eighteen. They were a body that
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Speaker 1: were founded to be the militant arm of the Hidden Families,
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Speaker 1: the descendants of the Mammadot known as rex Stairs, and
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Speaker 1: they were not fighting for Christianity. They were fighting to
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Speaker 1: regain their own true inheritance, the Holy Land of Israel.
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Speaker 1: They were incredibly astute. They were supported by a network
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Speaker 1: of secret families that range right throughout Europe, and they
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Speaker 1: were given grants of land, towns, farms, mills, quarries, the
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Speaker 1: whole bit, and the profits from this were channeled to
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Speaker 1: the Holy Land to maintain their standing army, which was
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Speaker 1: quite a considerable one. It was the first standing army
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Speaker 1: in Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire. And
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Speaker 1: to maintain it they developed skills in banking and finance
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Speaker 1: and land management which have never been exceeded. They held
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Speaker 1: land from the Baltic in the north to the bally
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Speaker 1: Arics in the south, from Portugal in the west, right
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Speaker 1: through Europe up to and including large slices of the
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Speaker 1: Holy Land. They had business dealings in every climatic zone
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Speaker 1: in Europe. They had their own fleet. They transported people
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Speaker 1: to and from the Holy Land, as well as their
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Speaker 1: own troops and their supplies. It was one hell of
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Speaker 1: a big enterprise. They invented a precursor of today's credit
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Speaker 1: card back in the twelve hundreds, a precursor of our
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Speaker 1: checkbook back in the twelve hundreds. They even took a
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Speaker 1: hand in what we would now call the package tour industry,
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Speaker 1: encouraging pilgrimage and organizing it for people and making a
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Speaker 1: profit from it. They were a truly remarkable order. Because
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Speaker 1: of their commercial activities, they transformed the face of Europe.
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Speaker 1: By protecting the pilgrimage roots, they enabled overland trade to
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Speaker 1: be conducted safely, and so a new class of people
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Speaker 1: began to emerge, called the mercantile classes, who started to
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Speaker 1: accumulate capital for the first time. It was the foundation
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Speaker 1: of capitalism, and their banking skills were such that they
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Speaker 1: lent money to priests and princes, to bishops, to emperors,
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Speaker 1: to kings and even to popes. They were immensely powerful
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Speaker 1: and seemingly invulnerable. And then, due to the greed of
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Speaker 1: an evil French king, King Philip le Belle, there was
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Speaker 1: a mass arrest on Friday the thirteenth in thirteen oh seven,
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Speaker 1: when nearly all the templars in France were arrested, handed
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Speaker 1: over to the tender Mercies of the Inquisition for torture
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Speaker 1: and charged with heresy. It was never actually convicted as
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Speaker 1: an order of any crime. Its leaders were based on
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Speaker 1: conflans extracted under torture, but his grand master, Jack de
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Speaker 1: Molay publicly renounced his confession and said he would not
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Speaker 1: live a lie and that the order was innocent. He
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Speaker 1: was cooked over a slow fire for his pads, so
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Speaker 1: that his agony would be as prolonged as possible, and
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Speaker 1: his bones could be ground to dust so there would
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Speaker 1: be no relics for people to follow. A hell of
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Speaker 1: a lot of them were burnt at the stake, lots
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Speaker 1: more died under torture, and the few survivors were disbanded
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Speaker 1: as an order by order of the pope. In thirteen fourteen,
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Speaker 1: everybody in Europe became very, very careful you didn't upset
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Speaker 1: the inquisition at any price, or you'd been invited along
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Speaker 1: to the next church barbecue and you were going to
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Speaker 1: be on the menu. Two years after the Night's Templar
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Speaker 1: was suppressed, a new order was founded in Portugal by
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Speaker 1: a Portuguese king who came from a templar family, and
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Speaker 1: the order was called the Knights of Christ. They were
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Speaker 1: given all the templar lands in Portugal. Many of the
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Speaker 1: old Portuguese Templars joined the order and it was effectively
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Speaker 1: the Knights Templar Order come again, just under a different name.
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Speaker 1: But there were two rule changes. First of all, to
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Speaker 1: join the new order, you had to be a Knight
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Speaker 1: who was born in Portugal. Foreigners were not admitted. And secondly,
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Speaker 1: you owed your allegiance not to the Pope, but now
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Speaker 1: you owed your allegiance through the grand Master, to the
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Speaker 1: Portuguese king. So it was a purely national order under
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Speaker 1: the tight knit control of the royal family, and within
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Speaker 1: a couple of centuries the junior members of the royal
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Speaker 1: family became the hereditary grand Masters of the new order.
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Speaker 1: They carried on the same belief system as the Templars.
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Speaker 1: They were still heretics. They were still following the teachings
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Speaker 1: of Jesus that he had learned from John the Baptist,
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Speaker 1: and they still had their own secret initiation rituals about
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Speaker 1: which we know very little apart from the fact that
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Speaker 1: they existed, and these rituals were conducted in underground chapels
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Speaker 1: beneath templar properties, as they had been throughout Europe when
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Speaker 1: the main Order was alive. The Inquisition didn't exist in
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Speaker 1: Portugal until the early fifteen hundreds, and there was a
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Speaker 1: wave of immigration into the country from Spain of Jewish
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Speaker 1: people fleeing from the Inquisition. They were closely followed by
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Speaker 1: the Inquisition themselves, and it was at that point that
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Speaker 1: somebody and the Order panicked, took all the possibly incriminating
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Speaker 1: artifacts they had and hid them for safe keeping so
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Speaker 1: that the Order could not be accused of heresy again.
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Speaker 1: They were hidden near the Knights of Christ headquarters the
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Speaker 1: Convent of Tomar, which is where they were discovered in
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Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties, and they'd been underground for the best
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Speaker 1: part of five hundred years. The Inquisition came to Portugal
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Speaker 1: somewhere in the early fifteen hundreds, so the dates fit
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Speaker 1: with the conditions of the artifacts as they were removed
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Speaker 1: from the earth and as we have them today, and
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Speaker 1: the nature of the artifacts as such that in a
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Speaker 1: lot of cases there are links to what the Church
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Speaker 1: would call heresy are plainly obvious. What is heresy The
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Speaker 1: Church defines it as any distortion of divinely revealed truth
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Speaker 1: that the Church claims to be true, whether that distortion
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Speaker 1: is by a believer or an unbeliever. I keep it simple.
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Speaker 1: It's the use of your God's gift of free will
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Speaker 1: in matters of faith and belief that constitutes heresy, because
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Speaker 1: the Church selects its own agenda and persecutes anybody who
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Speaker 1: doesn't subscribe to it. It's as simple as that. The items,
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Speaker 1: item by item are are just artifacts. The chalices. There's
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Speaker 1: a processional cross, there's a templar sword, there's some interesting dishes,
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Speaker 1: there's a carved crystal. It's the decoration on them that's
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Speaker 1: heretical in most cases, and the rituals in which they
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Speaker 1: were used, which would have infuriated the church authorities at
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Speaker 1: the time. We can point out heretical symbolism. What we
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Speaker 1: can't do is give you precise details of how these
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Speaker 1: items were used because if the templars had records of
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Speaker 1: their initiation rituals, then they were suppressed either by the
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Speaker 1: templars themselves or by the inquisition, and it may well
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Speaker 1: have been, and it's quite likely, Sir, that the initiation
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Speaker 1: rituals were handed down orally rather than being written, because
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Speaker 1: oral tradition in this world of spirituality is the most
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Speaker 1: common form of transmission. Traditions have passed down through ritual
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Speaker 1: and storytelling, as they still are in modern days freemasonry.
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Speaker 1: So it's the symbolism that is the key issue on
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Speaker 1: several of these items. And I rather suspect from the
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Speaker 1: nature of the items that we have in this collection
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Speaker 1: that some of them were distinctly heretical and the rest
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Speaker 1: were just hidden because they were used in ritual purposes
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Speaker 1: and nobody wanted to take any chances whatsoever with their freedom.
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Speaker 1: The ivory figures in our collection are repetitive in a sense.
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Speaker 1: They're all superbly carved. The workmanship is incredible, and ivory
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Speaker 1: was a very rare commodity. Their age range could be
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Speaker 1: for anything from eight hundred to twelve hundred years old.
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Speaker 1: Some of them were very definitely carved in the Eastern
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Speaker 1: Empire in Byzantium and others in the West, they all
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Speaker 1: depict the same person, Saint John the Baptist. Saint John
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Speaker 1: the Baptist was a close cousin of Jesus of approximately
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Speaker 1: the same age, and the Church has always denied the
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Speaker 1: traditional role ascribed to him in the spiritual tradition, which
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Speaker 1: is as the teacher of Jesus. Now, according to the
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Speaker 1: Rextaeus Hidden Tradition, John the Baptist was indeed a cousin
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, but from the Ethiopian branch of the line
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Speaker 1: of David, being a descendant of Menelect, the child of
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Speaker 1: Solomon and Sheba, and that he had left Ethiopia to
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Speaker 1: go to the Jewish temple at Heliopolis, found it was polluted,
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Speaker 1: moved from there to Jerusalem, found that temple too had
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Speaker 1: been polluted, and he joined the other hereditary priestly families
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Speaker 1: at Comrade and joined the Essenes, where he became the
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Speaker 1: teacher of a sect known as the Nazarenes. Now the
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Speaker 1: Nazarenes are an important issue here because the New Testament
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Speaker 1: calls it Jesus of Nazareth, which is a bit odd.
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Speaker 1: Nazareth was just a crossroads and a couple of hovels.
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Speaker 1: There was no village there. He was Jesus the Nazarene,
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Speaker 1: and the whole idea of the Essenes was to create
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Speaker 1: a spiritually elect within the elect who would sanctify the
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Speaker 1: people of Israel and lead the forces of good and
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Speaker 1: righteousness against the forces of evil in the final battle
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Speaker 1: of the world. And the Nazarenes with the spearhead of
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Speaker 1: this movement, and Jesus was a teacher within the Nazarenes.
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Speaker 1: He was the star pupil of John the Baptist, and
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Speaker 1: Jesus's star pupil was John the Divine. And the reasons
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Speaker 1: that the Knights, Templar and the later Freemasons venerate the
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Speaker 1: two Johns and do not mention the name of Jesus
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Speaker 1: is first of all, by adopting the second John, John
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Speaker 1: the Divine, they took the heat off the John the
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Speaker 1: Baptist connection, which the Church would have freaked over. And secondly,
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Speaker 1: they're celebrating a process of transmission of teaching John the
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Speaker 1: Baptist to Jesus Jesus to John the Divine, an initiatory
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Speaker 1: process which was four or five thousand years old at
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Speaker 1: the time they started It and which still goes on
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Speaker 1: to this day. It's an incredibly effective way of passing
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Speaker 1: down oral tradition in an unbroken chain and in a
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Speaker 1: reasonably pure and unadulterated manner. The figure of John the
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Speaker 1: Baptist is vitally important, and wherever you look in temporar
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Speaker 1: history in Europe you find references to him. The reliquy
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Speaker 1: supposedly contained the head of John the Baptist is kept
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Speaker 1: at a cathedral that the temple is financed in twelve
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Speaker 1: oh four at Amya in northern France. If you hear
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Speaker 1: in England, if you go to templecom there is a
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Speaker 1: painting that the locals think is of Jesus, for in
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Speaker 1: actual fact, if you examine it, you'll find it is
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Speaker 1: a bloodless severed head, and it's John the Baptist again,
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Speaker 1: and carvings of John the Baptist abound in templar churches.
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Speaker 1: In sharp Cathedral there is a very precise hole drilled
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Speaker 1: in one of the windows, and at noon on the
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Speaker 1: feast of John the Baptist, the light that comes through
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Speaker 1: that hole. The beam of light hits a well worn
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Speaker 1: brass stud set into one of the paving stones of
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Speaker 1: the floor. At the Church of Trigant's there is an
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Speaker 1: aperture built into the wall which, at dawn on the
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Speaker 1: feast of John the Baptist cast the golden, warm glow
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Speaker 1: of rising sunlight all over the altar. Phenomena like that
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Speaker 1: are common throughout template properties in Europe. John the Baptist
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Speaker 1: was a figure who was revered by the entire order,
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Speaker 1: and to a certain extent feared by the Church, so
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Speaker 1: the church always trying to diminish his role. The importance
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Speaker 1: of these finds can hardly be misunderstood. The chalices, in
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Speaker 1: most minds, will evoke thoughts of the Holy Grail the
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Speaker 1: Obsidian chalices. Both of them could be anything from seven
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Speaker 1: hundred to thirteen hundred years old. The style of workmanship
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Speaker 1: indicates an Eastern European origin. The nature of the substance
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Speaker 1: obsidian would again tend to reinforce that it would be
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Speaker 1: either Turkish or possibly Egyptian in origin. Its use as
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Speaker 1: a chalice as part of a ritual, is it a grail? No,
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Speaker 1: a grail is not a thing. It's a process. But
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Speaker 1: this is an essential step along the pathway to that process,
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Speaker 1: the pathway to enlightenment. But a chalice like that plays
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Speaker 1: an important part in the ritual that can lead you
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Speaker 1: to spiritual transformation. We can't be precise about what part
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Speaker 1: it plays because we don't know what was drunk from.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter which of those two obsidian chalices you're
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Speaker 1: looking at, you're looking at a rarity. Obsidian is a
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Speaker 1: natural form of volcanic glass, which is incredibly difficult to work,
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Speaker 1: particularly to the high standard of craftsmanship shown in those
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Speaker 1: two chalices. And also it has both energetic and symbolic
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Speaker 1: significant of its own right. Anybody with any degree of
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Speaker 1: sensitivity who comes near those chalices can actually feel the
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Speaker 1: power coming off them. Obsidian was known as dragon stone,
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Speaker 1: and the winged dragon or the winged serpent is one
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Speaker 1: of the symbols of sacred knowledge, gnosis, gnosticism, hidden wisdom,
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Speaker 1: call it what you will. So it's significant in that way,
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Speaker 1: and the use of obsidian for chalice for a drinking
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Speaker 1: vessel is incredibly rare. Usually, obsidian was used to make
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Speaker 1: jewelry or small sharp cutting tools for precision work, or
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Speaker 1: more importantly, a clairvoyance crystal ball that was made of obsidian,
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Speaker 1: or a scrying glass for reading astrological signs from the
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Speaker 1: heavens that would be made from obsidian, so the actual
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Speaker 1: material has a powerful impact on the object itself. But
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Speaker 1: precisely what was drunk from that chalice is a matter
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Speaker 1: of speculation, and the nature of the ritual during which
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Speaker 1: somebody would drink from it is not known yet. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: with the announcement of these fines we may get some
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Speaker 1: indication if there are any people who know them. But
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Speaker 1: the use of rare, powerful material like that is very
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Speaker 1: common in the initiationy ritual, and while we don't know
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Speaker 1: the precise nature of the templary initiationy ritual, we do
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Speaker 1: know enough about initiation rituals in general to speculate as
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Speaker 1: to where these items may have been used. For example,
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Speaker 1: there is a beautiful marble libation cup now that would
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Speaker 1: have been used to mix something that would later be drunk,
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Speaker 1: so one suspects a wine base, and in seventy or
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Speaker 1: eighty percent of shamanistic practice worldwide some form of mood
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Speaker 1: altering plant extract. Other aspects of the initiatori ritual would
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Speaker 1: have been chanting or drumming, which might explain why so
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Speaker 1: many of these rituals were conducted in very resonant underground
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Speaker 1: chambers where the echo faculty would be enhanced. The processional
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Speaker 1: cross we can guess that from a variety of religious
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Speaker 1: sources that would have led the procession into the chamber
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Speaker 1: or into the chapel that was being used. The precise
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Speaker 1: use of the sword we can only guess at because
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Speaker 1: it wasn't for knighting people, you were already a night
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Speaker 1: before you joined the templars, or you weren't allowed in.
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Speaker 1: There's a certain amount of speculation here, but the insistence
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Speaker 1: in the repeating symbols of wisdom. There's one particular cross
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Speaker 1: called the Quasileste, which appears on several of our artifacts,
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Speaker 1: which signifies hidden wisdom, which in the Church's eyes as
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Speaker 1: a heresy. Immediately there's the teaching aspect of the figures
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Speaker 1: of John. There's the carving on the little vows which
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Speaker 1: could well be Sapphire, the goddess of wisdom. And there's
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Speaker 1: a mandola at the bottom of that vessel which is
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Speaker 1: worth looking at, which implies the same thing. It's constant
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Speaker 1: repetition of a particular trend of belief, gnosticism, veneration of
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Speaker 1: sacred wisdom, and this type of belief predates Christianity and
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Speaker 1: Judaism by many thousands of years. The search for the
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Speaker 1: Holy Grail predates Christianity by many years. Has got absolutely
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with Christianity. There is a Christianized version
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Speaker 1: of it. The ancient Celts had it the caldron of Plenty.
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Speaker 1: The Hebrew people had it. The Grail for them was
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Speaker 1: the stone that fell from heaven. The Christianized version talks
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Speaker 1: about the cup that heals that gives everlasting life. Now
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Speaker 1: people have gone to enormous lengths to try and track
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Speaker 1: down one version or another of these, and the most
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Speaker 1: popular Christian story supposedly is the cup that Jesus used
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Speaker 1: at the Last Supper that Joseph of Arimathea used to
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Speaker 1: collect his blood after the crucifixion. Now I have very
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Speaker 1: considerable tents about both of those stories. First of all,
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Speaker 1: the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper would
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Speaker 1: have been no different from the cup anybody else used
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Speaker 1: at the Last Supper. And secondly, you didn't collect blood
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Speaker 1: from corpses. In Jewish tradition, it's the last thing you did.
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Speaker 1: The corpse had to be buried whole and entire. And
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Speaker 1: that wonderful American professor Joseph Campbell, when asked about the Grail,
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Speaker 1: said why should any medieval night go out and search
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Speaker 1: for a relic? However holy when if he wanted a miracle,
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Speaker 1: all he had to do was go to church and
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Speaker 1: take communion, and he partook directly of the body of
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Speaker 1: blood of Jesus. He said, no, the Grail is a
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Speaker 1: coded allegorical description of the pathway to enlightenment. And to
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Speaker 1: back up his argument, he cited a passage from the
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Speaker 1: Gospel of Thomas, he who drinks from my mouth, I
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Speaker 1: shall become he, and he shall become me. And that,
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Speaker 1: according to Campbell, is the whole point of the Grail.
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Speaker 1: It's a transformative process. It's not an object, it's an
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Speaker 1: intellectual and spiritual change. And the whole principle of alchemy
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Speaker 1: was the same. Alchemy wasn't about transmuting base lead into gold.
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Speaker 1: It was about transforming the base leaden raw humanity into
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Speaker 1: the pure gold of spiritual knowledge and enlightenment. Though are
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Speaker 1: all stories weaving around the same team, which they couldn't
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Speaker 1: be told in the open because the Church would have
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Speaker 1: come down like a ton of bricks and persecuted you
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Speaker 1: for it. The Church wanted a monopoly on everything that
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Speaker 1: was vaguely religious, and they got it by brute force.
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Speaker 1: So people had to learn to hide, tell allegorical stories,
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Speaker 1: encode their messages in church art in a different way
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Speaker 1: to get their message across. There is no organization in
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Speaker 1: the world today, despite the claim some make that is
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Speaker 1: direct continuity with the ancient Templar order. None. The same
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Speaker 1: teaching in one form or another can be found in
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Speaker 1: different branches of Freemasonry, because Freemasonry was founded by the
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Speaker 1: same families who founded the original Knights Templar, so the
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Speaker 1: teaching went down. There's not a direct connection, but there's
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Speaker 1: an indirect one. Everybody listening to this well later on
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Speaker 1: to the news channels and they will see graphic illustrations
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Speaker 1: of man's inhumanity to man, of man made poverty, of famine,
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Speaker 1: of disaster, of war. That's today's reality. Then think do
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Speaker 1: they need the principles enshrined in temporarism and in freemasonry,
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Speaker 1: the worldwide brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God,
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Speaker 1: where everybody irrespective of race, color, and creed is treated
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Speaker 1: with understanding and respect. Which world would you of her
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Speaker 1: to live in? These are actually the choices we have
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Speaker 1: and the Templar tradition the Masonic tradition are not the
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Speaker 1: only sole vehicles for this type of teaching. Every valid
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Speaker 1: spiritual tradition in the world carries the same message, carries
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Speaker 1: the same message that Jesus himself gave. And when Jesus
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Speaker 1: said love thy neighbor as thyself, he was not saying
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Speaker 1: something original. He was actually quoting from the Book of Leviticus,
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Speaker 1: which was over six hundred years old as he spoke.
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Speaker 1: And it's a teaching that is central to the spiritual
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Speaker 1: traditions of the Jewish people, of the Muslim people, of
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Speaker 1: the Eightfold Path of Buddhism, and of every valid spiritual path.
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Speaker 1: You will find traces of it in all the main religions,
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Speaker 1: but they're obscured and they're hidden by a lot of
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Speaker 1: unnecessary waffle and dogma and bullying and guilt tripping. But ultimately,
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Speaker 1: love thy neighbor as thyself. Do naught to others that
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Speaker 1: have done to thee would be harmful the whole apex
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Speaker 1: and objective of every spiritual tradition in this world. But
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite spiritual teachers was Jalulidin Rumi, who said,
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Speaker 1: there is a pathway that is the foundation for all
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Speaker 1: the great faiths, that pervades each one of them and
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Speaker 1: then rises above them all. And that is the pathway
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Speaker 1: of love. That is the pathway taught by Jesus, that
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Speaker 1: is the pathway taught by the Kabbalah, that is the
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Speaker 1: pathway taught by the Sufi traditions, and that is the
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Speaker 1: pathway taught by the Buddhist tradition. And we need more
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Speaker 1: of that today above all times, not less