BOUCICAUT MASTER - KNIGHTS TEMPLAR BURNED IN THE PRESENCE OF PHILIP THE FAIR

Artist: Boucicaut Master - Illuminated manuscript. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1413-1415

- The Knights Templar Burned in the Presence of Philip the Fair and His Courtiers.
- Boucicaut Master, an anonymous French or Flemish miniaturist and illuminator.
- Parchment with ink, organic dyes and gold leaf.
- He was active between 1400 and 1430 in Paris and worked in the International Gothic style.

French Thistle

- The persecution of the Knights Templar, began on Friday, October 13, 1307, when the medieval organization was unjustly attacked and driven underground.
-  King Philip IV (1268-1314) of France ordered the mass arrest of the Templars with a powerful military order.
- This event, during which many Templars were tortured and executed on false charges of heresy was significant.
- Origin of the superstition surrounding Friday the 13th in Western culture began with this event.

Poor fellows

- Tbe Order was formed in 1119 and initially headquartered at Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- They were called the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Jesus Christ (Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon) with the goal of defending Jerusalem.
- At that time they were independent from the Catholic church.

Elected master

- In 1120, some 20 years after the First Crusade, Hugues de Payens was elected their master and they were charged them with the duty of keeping the roads safe from thieves and others who were routinely robbing and killing pilgrims en route to Jerusalem, a duty they fulfilled for 9 years.
- During the Council of Troyes in 1129, the Knights Templar became a military order sanctioned by the Church encouraged substantially by the patronage of Bernard of Clairvaux, a leading church leader of the time.

Roots

- Incidently, between the years 1120 through 1128 the Templers excavated underneath the Temple Mount and they located many treasures.
- They knew exactly what they were looking for and where to find it.
- There were hidden libraries filled with scrolls and codices of ancient mystical mathematical knowledge; manuals that described practical applications of sophisticated advanced mathematic principles.
- The most amazing discovery was a collection of documents recognized as treatises on what we call the Fibonacci sequence which were written 1,000 years before Leonardo of Pisa supposedly discovered the sequence in the 13th-century.

The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting with 0 and 1 (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...). Discovered by Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) in the 13th century, the sequence appears frequently in nature, such as in the arrangement of petals on flowers and the spirals of pinecones, due to its connection to the Golden Ratio, a mathematical constant approximately equal to 1.618. (Assistant)

Sequence of creation

- These ancient texts went far beyond simple numerical patterns, they described what their authors called the architecture of creation, geometrical and numerical relationships that structured everything, from atomic interactions to galactic formations.
- The documents revealed that the builders of Solomon's temple had mathematical knowledge that enabled them to build structures that functioned as more than mere buildings and they used what we now call Fibonacci ratios.
- The ancients had constructed architectural forms that could amplify consciousness, focus spiritual energy, and create resonance fields that enhanced human awareness and perception.

Consciousness

- They weren't just concepts, they were detailed instructions for using Fibonacci proportions in architecture, art and even human activities like meditation and healing.
- More remarkably, the text show that ancient scientists knew things that modern scientists have only recently begun to recognize.
- They knew that consciousness itself operated according to mathematical laws and that human awareness could be enhanced through exposure to specific numerical relationships.
- Also that the boundary between mind and mathematics was far less distinct than conventional thinking assumed.

Encryption technologies

- The Templar's also knew that this knowledge was known before the temple was built and inherited from even more ancient sources that stretched back to the earliest civilizations.
- This knowledge had been passed down across millennia by initiated scholars who recognized their cosmic significance.
- Among the most important findings were encryption techniques that used Fibonacci mathematics to create virtually unbreakable codes.
- These cipher systems weren't based on simple letter substitution, but on mathematical relationships that created multiple layers of meaning within single texts.

Hidden in plain sight

- The practical encoding techniques of these systems became immediately apparent to the Templars because it allowed them to conduct sensitive communications without fear of interception and coordinate complex operations across vast distances.
- Also to preserve dangerous knowledge in forms that would appear meaningless to unauthorized observers which would have provided them huge advantages in the political and military environments of medieval Europe.
- The discovery of these mathematical systems may have been what gave the Templars such success in developing the sophisticated banking and credit systems that made them the wealthiest organization in Europe.

Comet

- Additionally, the documents revealed astronomical applications that anticipated modern discoveries about cosmic structures and cycles.
- It was shown how numerical sequences could be used to predict celestial events, calculate planetary positions, and understand the mathematical relationships governing the behavior of celestial bodies.
- This knowledge provided the Templars the capabilities for long-term planning and strategic positioning that their contemporaries couldn't match.
- The ancients described techniques for consciousness mathematics using Fibonacci principles to enhance human awareness, memory and intuitive abilities.

These weren't just meditaion practices, but practical technologies for consciousness development that could provide measurable improvements in intellectual and spiritual capabilities. The text described specific breathing patterns based on Fibonacci rhythms, visualization exercises that used golden ratio proportions, and mental techiques that incorporated numerical sequences to enhance concentration and insight. (Templar Shadows)

Fibonacci plans

- These practices weren't just spiritual exercises, but applied mathematics designed to optimize human cognitive function through mathematical harmony. 
- They also discovered architectural plans that showed how buildings could be constructed to amplify these consciousness enhancement effects.
- By using Fibonacci proportions they created structures that resonated with the mathematical principles governing human awareness, hence, creating environments that naturally enhanced consciousness and spiritual development.
- The Templars began implementing these technologies immediately in their churches, castles and other buildings.
- Visitors to their buildings often report enhanced clarity of thought and improved emotional balance and increased spiritual awareness.

The mathematical codes discovered beneath the Temple Mount also revealed temporal applications that allowed the Templars to understand and predict historical cycles. The texts described how Fibonacci sequences appeared in the timing of major historical events, the rise and fall of civilizations and the development of cultural and technological innovations. (Templar Shadows)

Fibonacci patterns

- Understanding these patterns created capabilities for strategic planning using temporal applications that extended across generations.
- This temporal dimension of Fibonacci mathematics became particularily important for long-term preservation of knowledge.
- The ancient texts described how mathematical codes could be embedded in artistic and architectural works in ways that would preserve essential information across centuries of political and social upheaval.
- This allowed the Templars to create permanamt repositories for dangerous knowledge that could survive any future persecution.

Solomon's stables

- The story goes that the church gave the Templars the former stables at Solomon's Temple for their headquarters.
- This explains how they were able to excavate underneath the Temple Mount, but isn't it also eerily reminiscent of Christ's first home in a manger.
- Truth is, they had been around for a long time before any of this ever happened and were staffed with 72 Sanhedrin high priests by Jesus Christ.

O tremble, for you hear the lion roar. (Shakespeare, King John)

Rich and famous valuables

- Because the Knights Templar were first 'officially' organized to guard pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem who were often robbed on the way there, the Order also protected their valuables and had acted as bankers to many European monarchs and nobles throughout the years.
- Instead of traveling with gold, the travelers were given a viable alternative in the form of a Cheque or Deposit slip to carry with them and would allow the traveler to withdraw funds at his destination.

Tree of Knowledge

- The Knights Templar received massive donations of money, manors, churches, even villages and the revenues thereof, from kings and European nobles interested in helping with the fight for the Holy Land.
- Possibly there were some Templars who weren't the most moral of men that caused some of the rumors about them and there are some written accounts.

Knights Hospitallers

- The Knights Hospitallers, formally the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller, were a medieval Christian military and religious order that cared for the sick and poor and then became military protectors of the Holy Land.
- They had technically been around longer than the Templars, but they were primarily in charge of running hospitals and only became a militant order after the Templars were formed.

Pope pets

- The Templars, by order of the Pope, were exempt from all taxes, tolls and tithes, their houses and churches were given the right to asylum and were exempt from feudal obligations and they were answerable only to the Pope.
- They were extremely powerful and wealthy and faced increasing scrutiny and pressure from different sectors of medieval society.
- While the Templars had started off well and were at times considered the model of Christian knighthood, it was not long before resentment of their privileges, of their being 'rich as kings,' and criticism of some of their actions in war began to surface.
- Then there is also the question about how moral and just it is to have priests who become soldiers and that was a huge controversy at that time.

Holy Land

- The Knights Templar fought in the Crusades to protect Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land and defend the Christian states in the Middle East.
- During the 12th-century, Christian states existed in the form of the Crusader states, also known as the Outremer, which included the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Principality of Antioch, County of Tripoli, and County of Edessa.
- These states were created by Western European crusaders after the First Crusade in the Muslim lands and were feudal territories and were central to the conflicts and events of the age.
- They were often in a state of political and military tension with surrounding Muslim powers.

Head force

- The Templers were a major force in the Second Crusade.
- This was to uphold the ideals of Christendom, a mission that combined the roles of knight and monk into a single, dedicated military order with a permanent commitment to their cause.
-- Some blamed the Templars for the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, and as a result, they were left with almost no discernible military purpose in the Holy Land.

Fall of Jerusalem

- Following the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187, the Templars were forced to retreat from their Jerusalem headquarters to Acre and then Cyprus.
- Their final defeat was the fall of Acre in 1291, which ended the Crusader presence in the Holy Land, leading to a crisis of purpose and ultimately contributing to their downfall orchestrated by King Philip IV of France.

Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137-1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant. At the height of his power, the Ayyubid realm spanned Egypt, Syria, Upper Mesopotamia, the Hejaz, Yemen, and Nubia. (Wikipedia)

Conquering the Holy Land

- The Battle of Hattin took place on July 4, 1187, between the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of the Ayyubid sultan Saladin.
- It is also known as the Battle of the Horns of Hattin, due to the shape of the nearby extinct volcano of that name.
- In the battles prior to the Third Crusade, most Templars in the Holy Lands were killed or captured by Saladin’s forces, with the majority of the Templar forces in Jerusalem being lost at Hattin.
- There were only about 1,000 Templars and Hospitallers remaining to fight in this Crusade.

Pope's wars

- There was an obvious drift in their original intention as a secular order of simply guarding the pilgrims on the way to Jerusalem, to working for the Pope and fighting his wars.
- The Crusades were begun mainly against the Muslims who still believed they owned the land in the Levant and the Inquisitions they created later were against Protestant Christians and many other religions including Muslims.
- After the Templars took up banking and lending, the criticism only increased.

Not chivalry

- When they got involved in the Crusades that was not necessarily a good thing and certainly went against the beliefs of the Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ.
- While there may have been a need to protect the Holy Land from some unfriendly nations, certainly the so-called 'heretic' Christians were not part of that.
- And there is that constant ancient battle between priests and kings or in this case, kings and monks.

Chivalry

-We have to keep in mind that this was a time where everything was sorted through war and battle, the Kings would send in their men to fight their cause.
- Some of these campaigns would last years, however, when the general populace began emerging out of the Middle Ages, new ideas started to emerge.
- This was the time of romanticism, where Knights chivalry and valor ranked high and they became heroic champions to the public.

King Philip IV of France

- Philip IV of France, like his predecessors, employed Templars in his royal treasury in Paris to oversee a variety of financial functions of the French kingdom and there is no indication that he didn't trust them fully.
- However the king became their chief nemesis, Philip the Fair owed a substantial debt to the Knights Templar, and this was cited for years as one of his reasons for going against them.
- His debt was due to his lavish policies and military endeavors.
- Because of his debt, he had an intense desire to seize the Order's vast wealth and at the same time eliminate a powerful rival.
- Philip had a history of seizing property and persons when it suited his needs, such as from the Lombards in 1291 and the Jews in 1306.

In 1299, the Order loaned Philip the substantial sum of 500,000 livres for the dowry of his sister as well as his need of funds to fight the Flemish War, at which time he imposed taxes until his subjects were in revolt. When he debased the coinage, it led to an insurrection in Paris. The Knight Templar defended and gave the king refuge during the incident. (Wikipedia)

Before

After

- At the same time, Philip had been embroiled in a bitter conflict with Pope Boniface VIII over the question of the division of power between the Church and the Crown.
- After Pope Boniface's death in 1303 and the election of the French Pope Clement V, Philip saw his opportunity to further extend his control over ecclesiastical affairs.
- Newly installed Pope Clement V, lived in terror of King Philip IV, who had deposed his predecessor with accusations almost identical to those leveled against the Templars.

Freezing

- About a week before a planned formal investigation Clement V received a surprising message that members of the Order had been arrested, imprisoned and charged with heresy by an inquisition that he had not convened.
- As the Templars became unable to secure their holdings there, support for the Order faded.
- In 1307, King Philip had many of the Order's members in France arrested, and tortured into giving false confessions.

Agents of the King

- On the morning of Friday, October 13th, hundreds of Templars, including the Grand Master Jacques de Molay, were simultaneously arrested in France by agents of the King.
- The arrests came as a surprise.
- By having the Templars arrested and convicted, Philip could seize their vast estates, which were exempt from taxes, thereby eliminating his debts and bringing the valuable property into the Crown's possession.
- So we see this constant struggle between church and state but both sides always seem to be taking advantage of us.

  
 

Templar warrior

- The Templars were accused of heresy, blasphemy and other crimes, often based on dubious or fabricated evidence, and financial corruption and political intrigue.
- Additionally, the Order was also accused of denying Christ, spitting on the cross, and other sacrilegious acts during their initiation. and worshipng idols like Baphomet.
- These charges were largely fabricated through politically motivated trials and the use of torture to secure false confessions.

The Templars were difficult to control by secular authorities due to their international networks and their special rights, which placed them directly under the Church, which Philip perceived as a threat. (Wikipedia)

 

Bully - Under the guise of the French Inquisition, many Templars were subjected to extreme torture to force them to confess to these false charges. - The Templars were later tortured into admitting heresy to the Order. Burned at the stake - Across Europe, many Templar leaders were executed and burned at the stakes of the Inquisition, while others were imprisoned or forced into exile. Jacques de Molay - Soon after, in 1307, the Pope sent two cardinals to interview Jacques de Molay and Hugues de Pairaud. - At that time they recanted their confessions and told the other Templars to do the same   The King forcing support - Pope Clement V was initially reluctant to take action against the Templars, as they were directly subordinate to the Church and had been loyal for centuries. - The Templars supposedly only had to answer to the Pope, but Philip used his influence over Clement, who was largely his pawn, to dissolve the organization. - In November 1307, he issued the papal bull Pastoralis praeeminentiae, which ordered the arrest of the Templars throughout Europe. - The order went out to England, Iberia, Germany, Italy and Cyprus.   Clement V, initially incensed at this flagrant disregard for his authority, nonetheless relented, and on 22 November 1307, issued the papal bull Pastoralis praeeminentiae, which ordered all monarchs of the Christian faith to arrest all Templars and confiscate their lands in the name of the Pope and the Church. (Wikipedia)   French bully - During the years that followed, ecclesiastical and royal investigations took place in various countries to examine the accusations against the Order. - While some countries, such as England and Portugal, treated the Templars less harshly, the procedure in France was particularly rigorous, as Philip had control over the trials there.   French judge - Of course the kings banded together and had to change the laws so that the inquisitorial procedure began to dominate criminal trial. - None of the 'idols' the Templars were accused of worshiping were ever produced. - Of the various trials held in France, the first, and one of the larger trials, ran from October to November 1307, and was held in Paris. - A total of 138 prisoners gave a full testimony and almost all admitted guilt to one or more charges.   Torturing - Because torture was used to provoke these confessions, the reliability of their testimony before this and other inquisitional tribunals remains an open question. - These earlier confessions contradicted later testimony before the 1310 papal commissions in Paris. - The trials were a mess and witnesses were even conversing and exchanging information with each other. Head judge - In May 1310, the Archbishop Philippe de Marigny, took over the trial of the Templars from the original commission. - Pope Clement V interceded and directed that actual trials take place; however, Philip sought to thwart this effort, and in 1310 he had 54 Templars burned at the stake as heretics to prevent their participation in the trials. - De Marigny conducted the proceedings against the Templars until his death in 1316.   Half mast - A decision was made at the Council of Vienna where the accusations against the Templars were discussed, although many of the allegations could not be proven and an order was issued to dissolve the group. - Under pressure, and to end the conflict with Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Order in 1312. - The Templars' enormous fortune was officially transferred to the Order of St. John, but much of it ended up in the hands of secular rulers, particularly in France.   Snowed under - Eventually King Philip's Inquisitors succeeded in making Jacques de Molay confess to the charges. - However, on March 18, 1314, de Molay and de Charney, who initially confessed to charges of heresy recanted their confession after years of imprisonment, claiming they made a false confession to end the torture. - Both stated they were innocent of the charges, and they were only guilty of betraying their Order by confessing under duress to something they had not done. - They were immediately found guilty of being relapsed heretics, for which the punishment was death. Burned - Later that same day on March 18, 1314, at sunset, on a small island in the Seine, Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Temple, and Geoffroi de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy, were slowly burned to death in the presence of King Philip. Pope Clement V - De Molay reportedly cursed King Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V, foretelling their deaths within a year and the end of Philip's royal dynasty. - Just over a month later, Pope Clement V died of illness in March 1314.   From the flames, he is said to have cried out a curse on Philip, Clement, and their descendants, demanding that God avenge the Order's wrongful condemnation. (Assistant)   King died - Eight months after Pope Clement died, Philip IV, aged 46, died of a stroke while hunting in November 1314. - Philip's three sons, Louis X, Philip V, and Charles IV, died young within 14 years, leading to the end of the Capetian dynasty, which supporters of the curse attribute to the prophecy. French woods - This gave rise to the legend that de Molay had placed a curse on them both, which became popular among the French population.   When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. (Shakespeare, King John)   Martyred - The story we've all heard focuses only on the tragedy and martyrdom of the Knights Templar and typically blames the fate of the Order totally on the Vatican. - This narrow view only hides the most important body of historical facts, thereby ignoring the real perpetrators of such crimes against humanity.   There where my fortune lives, there my life dies. (Shakespeare, King John)   Magna Carta - The Templars were persecuted, most of all, for the Templar Magna Carta in 1215 enforcing the Rule of Law over arbitrary abuses of State power by secular Kings. - To establish Magna Carta rights, making Kings subject to the Rule of Law, the Knights Templar fought the military Barons’ War of 1215-1217.   The biblical narrative and theological consensus indicate that Jesus established a spiritual kingdom, often referred to as a spiritual government, but also, crucially, founded a church, or a community of believers. While his teachings contained principles for a just society that would influence civil government, the immediate focus of his ministry was on establishing the church as the body of believers who would embody his kingdom. (Assistant)   Rule of Law - The Inquisition was invented, and controlled, by corrupt imperialist Kings imposing secular State power. - Persecution of the Templars was driven by a larger war against the Vatican itself, to remove religion as an obstacle to absolute tyrannical State power, and remove the Templars as the key obstacle to usurping and overthrowing the Vatican. - However, Jesus Christ's idea of 'church' was not a gold gilded palace, it was a gathering. - Just the same as his idea of 'government' was basic civil law and the universe's natural law, not some heavy handed state controlled dictatorship where the commoner's have their wealth removed by thugs.     Splits - You have to admit, it must have been traumatic for the Catholics to see the Protestants split from what they considered Jesus Christ's church. - A church which actually came about 400 years after Jesus Christ passed on, whereas the Protestant beliefs came from Gnostic (knowledge) and where Christ was born. - The Protestant's had many good reasons for their actions, such as the Catholic's selling 'indulgences' to free someone from sin for money. - But also, the Catholic's were still pushing the Old Testament and 10 commandments and ignoring the New Testament even through they professed belief in Christ. - So they push a fake Christ instead, a warrior, not a revealer and savior.   Isis-ed over - They've got Jesus Christ's wife, Mary Magdalene, on her knees repenting to them and they're demons; they've spent centuries attempting to steal her energy and move her out of the way by throwing curses and spells with their mouths to defile her. - We see it everyday in pornography and the evil that comes out of Hollywood as example, all over the place. - It's even in their retranslated version of the Bible. - Attempting to defame and totally remove the divine feminine and we see the result in a broken down world we are living in that is pure hell now. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hosea 4:6)   Casting voodoo spells - Performing voodoo spells as well, that's all they have, Sstan and his demonic mouth (and pen), and he's a loud-mouthed wimp. - There are a lot of good people who unfortunately are ignorant and have no clue what's really going on. - Stop voting for the demonic leeches, stop sitting in their demonic pews; drop their 10 commandments (hell) and restore Christ's GREATEST commandment.   Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:36-40)   Sticks - This came off more like control issues than true belief to the Protestants, but it is so much deeper as we've discussed having to do with the work of the scribes. - Along with the work of the Tribe of Dan in the Goths who named everything after themselves and inserted lower Aaronic Judeo beliefs into the middle of pure Christianity which came out of the Melchizedek (Christ's higher priesthood). - It's also interesting to see individuals such as Bernard de Clairvaux, a Catholic who was more aligned with the Protestants, which must have been common at that confusing time, he was caught in the middle. - Unfortunately, there are still many stuck in that place and they need to come out of her pews.   Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "’Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues." (Revelation 18:4)     Sovereign - It's been proven that the Templar Order possessed officially recognized sovereign and independent statehood causing many to wonder why they did not use diplomatic immunities to defend themselves against the French king. - It appears that they had so much confidence in the strength of the protection and generousity they received from the Vatican they were complacent. - At that point, all King Philip had to do was wage war against the Vatican and forced their support. - In 2007, the Vatican officially declared the Templars’ innocent based on the evidence still in the Papal archives.   Accordingly, despite their absolute independence, the Templars preferred to operate mostly under the Catholic Church in humility, showing respect and deference to the Vatican’s authorities, as part of giving “Glory to God”.(knightstemplarorder.org)   Apple - The Knights Templar were neither simply 'good' nor 'bad,' but a complex medieval order with both admirable and controversial aspects, viewed differently depending on the perspective of the era and individuals involved. - They are known for their initial role in protecting Christian pilgrims and establishing a powerful banking system, but also for their military actions during the Crusades and their eventual dramatic downfall due to heresy charges, which were likely fabricated for political and financial motives. - Only to find that the very group they were fighting for, deeply betrayed them. Who dares not stir by day must walk by night. (Shakespeare, King John) Boucicaut Master Knights Templar Burned in the Presence of Philip the Fair - Page 2

All our yesterdays have lighted the way to dusty death.

Shakespeare, MacBeth