Ark Templar Was a Unitarian Christian Religion

We do not know – and most likely will never know – how the Ark Templar religion looked like.  We do not even know how Hugh of Champagne and his followers called it – I came up with the name Ark Templar for two reasons.

First (obviously), their religion was centered around and based on Ark of the Covenant – more specifically, based on possession of the Ark. Second, Hugh and his followers most definitely perceived themselves as passengers on board Hugh’s Ark… or Ark Templar. Ark that makes it possible to achieve the ultimate objective of just about any religion – be in this world but not of it.

True, Hugh and his followers were Christian heretics… but not quite. Not quite because they were not hostile to official Christian Church – they were fully supportive of it.

They sincerely believed that Jesus Christ, Christian dogmas, Christian Church and Christian practices (Mass, confession, Holy Communion, etc.) were absolutely necessary for salvation in the afterlife (job #1 for every human being). They just did not need any of that… because they had the Ark.

Possession of the Ark of the Covenant automatically returned Hugh and his followers to Old Testament – which no less automatically did away with Christian dogma of Holy Trinity.

Inevitably, in Ark Templar there was only one God – God the Heavenly Father. True, Jesus Christ was the Son of God and Savior of Mankind… but He was not God – and thus not our Lord. Holy Spirit was not God either – it was the vital, salvific energy (Divine Grace) that emanated from God the Father (via Ark of the Covenant).

Which automatically made Hugh and his followers Unitarian Christians and Ark Templar – Unitarian Christian religion… 400 years before Unitarianism emerged as a movement within Reformation in Eastern Europe (initially).

Unitarians preach the unitary nature of God as the singular and unique creator of the universe. They believe that Jesus Christ was inspired by God in his teachings and that he is the Savior of humankind, but He is not equal to God.

From another perspective, Ark Templar can (and probably should) be viewed as a descendant of Aryanism – which rejects the traditional notion of the Trinity and considers Jesus to be a creation of God, and therefore distinct from God.

Although Aryanism was all by wiped out by VIII century, it was well known to Bernard of Clairvaux… and from him became known to Hugh of Champagne.