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Sounds like Rove and the "lost" 5,000 RNC-server emails to me, and other Bushite bullshit.
The Vatican archivist sounds glib and vague--full of words that say nothing. She says that the catalog entry was “too Spartan, too vague," "an error in how the document was described,” then--just like Alberto Gonzales, expanding like a hot air balloon, she adds, “More than an error, it was a little sketchy.” Notice how uninformative this is. Could be MSNBC's fault (dumbed down news), but I don't think so. I was raised on Vatican lies and have been struck, before this, by the similarity between Bushite and Vatican verbiage and secrecy.
So-o-o-o-o, what could be this rightwing Pope's purpose in rehabilitating the Knights Templar? The original purpose of the Knights Templars was to guard the lives and treasure of Crusader-pilgrims (i.e., occupiers) in the Middle East. They were a sort of ancient Blackwater--guards, escorts, mercenaries, who made up their own laws (rules of engagement--who they would or wouldn't kill, who they would or wouldn't protect), their own banking system, and their own transportation system (later turned rogue--the pirates' "skull and crossbones" derives from the Knights Templar and their later pirate ships) and were answerable to no one.
Bear in mind that the fascists who were in charge in Italy, just prior to the current leftist government, had very high-placed officials--such as the chief of intelligence--with close ties to the most rogue Neo-Cons, and other operatives--such as the notorious Iran-Contra arms dealer, Manucher Ghorbanifar--who are suspected of cooking up the Niger-Iraq nuke forgeries and other skulduggery for the Bushites, preparatory to the Iraq War. It's possible that these same fascisti now have considerable interests to protect in Iraq and the Middle East, or further interests that they want to acquire. The Vatican may be trying to create some religious coloration (myth, storytelling) as cover for rich Catholics' involvement in Blackwater/Halliburton-type crime--looting, war profiteering, torture, murder. In order to guard their own financial interests, the Vatican often provides religious mythology especially to rich Catholic men, to ease their consciences as to acts of atrocity against leftists, union organizers, the poor, liberal priests, atheists, Protestants, Pagans, Jews, Arabs, Persians, Muslims, communists, "witches," various European "heretics," and the leftist revolutionaries in Spain and in Latin America--for the acquisition and protection of property, and crushing of any political forces that could disturb or disempower big Church donors.
This is what I suspect in the curious "discovery" of this manuscript--that the Vatican wants to resurrect the Knights Templar for financial reasons (and not just the $8,377/each price on this limited edition manuscript). Rich American and European Catholics may be feeling more than a little disturbed, in their consciences, over Iraq, and South American Catholics may be feeling similar pangs of conscience over atrocities by rightwing paramilitaries in Colombia and Guatemala, in particular, and in Bushite/fascist plots throughout South America--all property and profit-related. The Vatican could be trying to keep the booty flowing into their collection plates by mythologizing these actions as the actions of "knights" (good guys) and holy warriors (a la St. Michael slaying the dragon).
I would very much like to know what the Knights Templar "heresy" was, and their "immorality." I am very interested in the Church's grossly unbalanced view of God, as a man and as a man who gave birth, in some mysterious way, to his own son. The Church's hostility to women is notorious, and their battle against Goddess worshipers is infamous and very bloody. Something went very wrong with Christianity starting (or consolidating itself) in the 5th century AD, when the male powermongers prevailed, with a policy of "baptism by the sword," the cementing of religious and state power, and the enforcement of one doctrine, dictated from Rome. This outrageously un-Christ-like institution that was created--the Roman Catholic Church--has, ever since, been sick with secrecy, with voodoo religious ceremony, with material wealth and with hatred of women, and with a desire to imprison both the human mind and human sexuality. This wrongful Christianity has led to wars and many other atrocities--including today's war on the Middle East and its atrocities--AND to the destruction of Mother Earth by global corporate predators who use Christianity as a weapon in their war profiteering arsenal.
It may be that there was nothing to the Knights Templars' so-called "heresy," and that it was simply a property grab by Phillip IV of Spain and by the Vatican (or by the Vatican, which is now blaming it on Phillip IV of Spain). But there also may well be a connection between the Templars and the Holy Grail story--the grail as Woman, bearer of the Blood, Goddess, Mary Magdalen. Prior to the Inquisition, Goddess worship was regarded as "immorality" (largely because Goddess temples were places of free sexuality and healing). During and after the Inquisition, it became a "heresy," because of the Christian Albigensians in France, who interpreted Christ's message differently than Rome, and much more in line with what Jesus actually preached. The Albigensians were egalitarian, well-educated, liberal and peaceful--and at least 200,000 of them were slaughtered in a Crusade instigated by Pope Innocent III (--what an ironic name!).
Several writers and anthropologists have connected the Templars to the Albigensian(or Cathar) movement, and to the origins (or development) of the Arthurian legends--which were most developed by French writers and troubadours--as containing a secret or several secrets, having to do with knowledge in general (astronomy, chemistry, medicine, architecture and engineering, the arts, etc.)--which the Church actively suppressed throughout most of its history--and with Mary Magdalen in particular, as a Goddess figure, and even as the bearer of Christ's child. Worship of Mary Magdalen was biggest in the Cathar (western) regions of France. One legend has it that Mary Magdalen fled to France, after the crucifixion and gave birth to Christ's child there (the legend used in "The Da Vinci Code"). Mary Magdalen--the literal bearer of the blood, the cup of the Holy Grail. The impact of these legends and ideas on knighthood was to imbue knighthood with worship of the ideal woman, and with very high ideals of protecting the weak and the poor, and cultivating the arts and learning. It was a civilizing influence.
The Templars were around for several centuries, and would have had time to become civilized men--not just mercenaries. Another legend is that they discovered something in the ruins of the Temple of Jerusalem--which was built not by the Jews, but by the Goddess-worshiping and very knowledgeable Phoenicians--which changed them. A secret. A treasure. The earliest Jewish Temples included Goddess worship and priestesses (sexual healers). Perhaps it was knowledge of the more balanced world of God and Goddess--and possibly also actual practical knowledge, like how to build the cathedrals in Europe--almost all of them built on Goddess sites, and named after one of the Mary's--knowledge that was passed down through the Masonic order, the builders' and craftmen's SECRET society, a trait--secrecy--that they may have picked up from the Phoenicians, who were very secretive about their maps and knowledge of astronomy, mathematics and navigation, and/or from the Templars themselves, who may well have been keeping secrets from Rome.
Secrecy. Throughout the Dark Ages--with the patriarchal, all-powerful, militant Church dominating human minds, sexuality, and property--it was very dangerous to know anything. Knowledge concerning the Church's greatest sin--its hatred of women and of the Goddess--would be the most dangerous knowledge of all.
Why would the Church revive the Templars? To co-opt the legend, impose a patriarchal veneer upon it, and put it to mercenary uses.
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