Friday, August 12, 2005
SOVEREIGN ORDER OF THE TEMPLE OF CHRIST
Are the Templars a figment of imagination or a reality?
An article from the Malaysian Financial News, July 2003, claims they are real.
The Templars today as in the Middle Ages, dominate the international finances using discrete and not too notorious companies for the mass media. It is supposed that they participate in some important percentages in banking and insurance companies (their traditional business). It is truly know that they are behind almost all the worldwide insurance groups as in largest mutual funds, nevertheless its members, followers to their votes of poverty, purity and obedience, and to their specific priesthood of Melkisedek, live in an austere way and all the benefits are invested in the Temple Order's companies and social work and charity, they never have more than 30 or 40 percent of a corporation and always when it has a legal business purpose and according their spiritual and religious ideals.
From a good source is known that their 'main ship' is an important banking and insurance corporation where their executives are obligated to keep the secret about where the capital comes from, in a web of physical and juridical persons where the silence and discretion are the rules of the house.
Whether the article is accurate or not, there is a Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ on the web where you can read:
"Let us give thanks to the Virgin Mary, Our Lady., since she is the chief of our Order, because Our Lady was the beginning of our Order, and for her and for her honor it has been the return of our Order, and it will be the end of our lives and the end of our Order, whenever God wants to be in that way". Amen
The Order is dedicated to an Alliance between Christianity and Islam. They teach the ecumenical way of "union of the two complementary branches of the abrahamic tree, Christianity and Islam" and use a Templar Service of Essenian origin. The website calls the Christians the "spiritual Jews of the New Alliance" and seems to present alchemy as the union of Islam and Christianity. They speak of "the Way" and the "coming of the Paraclitus." Joint prayer held reciprocally in both Christian and Muslim temples is to be the result, and "Love is the key" to bring this about.
The Templar Religious Service includes a Templar Officiant and his wife as deaconess, suggesting that "This is the way where we can find the only answer to the dramatical problem of the priest vocations in the Roman Church." They speak of La Salette and Fatima, of Jacques de Molay, and of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit.
In the Introduction to the Templar Religious Service, we are told that "There's not Temple Order without templar religious service, without templar priesthood, without templar sacrament." According to the website,
The Templar service remembers to the catholic, to the protestant, to the orthodoxian, to the muslim that they have the bases of a common piety and a faith for the returning to the origin of the real religion as it was manifested, in particular, in the essenian times, before a during the ministry of Jesus. In the present times as in the middle ages or in the eighth century in times of the round table, the templar knights were and are from this essenian filiation and the express themselves by this two levels in matters of sacramental life.
Externally (exoterically): The temple Order has a sacerdotal rite the Eucharist Mass tied to the celibate catholic priest.
Innerlly (esoterically): The temple order is united to essenian rite, reserved to the inner church, rite practiced by the templar officiant, lay, chosen from the knights and generally married.
Are they practicing sexual rites? It's hard to determine from this passage:
When an Officiant is not married or his wife is absent, he calls to one of his brothers to help him. The templar communion that in the temple has all the value of the communion doesn't demand from who participate a previous confession to a priest or an officiant, but they are hermetical confidant of all of these, templar or not, who want to tell them their own problems. To understand the templar communion, you have to know that the single or married officiant can't ask to other sister to help him as a deaconess, that will be deeply denaturalize the significance of the sacerdotal couple in its physical, animical and spiritual complementary polarities. Because the sacerdotal couple prefigures the restitution of the original adam-eve in its dignity before the fall, in the restored dignity of the final adam-eve.
They claim that "The templar religious service is truly the sacrament that gets its origin in the mother" and add that "the templar religious service is neither a replacement nor an imitation of the Mass. When the bread wet with wine, is consecrated by the officiant as he has the power, we participate in the exaltation of the Glorious Christ, the risen Christ, the Christ of the last times, the "Christus Victor" different to the suffering and crucified Christ that the priest officiating the Eucharist Mass sacrifice, identify himself to the sacrificed Christ, offering with him."
Defining their seal, they tell us that "Here it is what beautifullly illustrate the old templar seal, where two knights ride over the same mount. The time is near when nothing that singularize each church will subsist."
Since Vatican II we have focused on the resurrection at Mass as much as on the sacrifice. I wonder how it was decided to make this change? Did this Essenian theology influence Catholicism? Was there such as thing as Essenian theology at the time of Vatican II?
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
