Templars Confessed to Protect the Ark

Sir Winston Churchill famously described Russia as a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. He was wrong about Russia – there is nothing enigmatic or mysterious about Russian civilization if you spend the necessary time (not much, actually) thoroughly studying it.

However, this quote describes the Knights Templar to a ‘t’ – there are still lots of Templar mysteries and until I completed this book, there were far more questions than answers.

One of the biggest mysteries was why on Earth Templars confessed to the absolutely ridiculous and deeply insulting charges. Charges invented by French inquisitors and (with the exception of rampant homosexual activities and – for only 12 of Templars of heresy) having nothing to do with reality?

Even the heresy charges – the foundation of the case against individual Templars and the order as a whole – had nothing to do with real “heresy of The Twelve”. In reality, they were practicing Ark Templar – the Unitarian (Arian) Christian heresy built around the Ark of the Covenant… but the charges were nothing of that sort.

Templars were charged with denying Christ (true for only The Twelve – and even for them not explicitly); spitting on the Cross (not true at all); homosexual relationships (true) ordered by their superiors (not true) and… wearing a small belt which had been consecrated by touching a strange idol, which looked like a human head with a long beard (not true at all).

On August 12, 1308, inquisitors added more heresy charges: they alleged that the Templars worshipped idols, specifically made of a cat and a head, the latter having three faces. No traces of these idols have ever been found despite lightning-fast and comprehensive arrests and very, very thorough charges.

Still, at the very first trial held from October 19 to November 24, 1307 in Paris, a total of 138 prisoners gave a full testimony and almost all (!!) admitted guilt to one or more charges – even the most ridiculous. Ditto at subsequent trials in France.

True, torture was involved (where there was no torture, there were no confessions) … but all Templars were conditioned to withstand much more horrific tortures in the hands of Muslims – and still confessed.

The only logical explanation is that The Twelve were afraid that under torture they might inadvertently disclose the location of the Ark of the Covenant which for them was unacceptable. So, they chose to confess to avoid torture – and thus started the “chain reaction of confessions”. In short, they lied to protect the Ark.