Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon

Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon

The chief suspects in this crime against humanity has been the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templars.

Most conspiracies involving the Knights Templars argue that they were an instrument of Evil. This is a gross error. They were in fact a tool of very different forces that wished to forge the emerging European civilisation according to the Christ Impulse released by the event at Golgotha.

The Templars were the means by which a new code of conduct between men, between the sexes and between the nations was to be introduced throughout Europe.

This band of brother knights was formed during the early years of the kingdom of Jerusalem, when the Crusaders controlled only a few strongholds in the Holy Land, ostensibly to protect pilgrims from marauding Muslim bands. At this time, the First Crusades had ended nineteen years previously, Godefroi de Bouillon had been enthroned as king of Jerusalem, and yet safety within the Holy Land was precarious due to the incessant predatory Muslim warbands.

Pitying the plight of pilgrims, nine French gentilshommes, led by Hugues de Payens and Godefroi de Saint-Omer, vowed in 1119 to devote themselves to their protection and thus created an Order for the protection of pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre. Baldwin II, the recently installed king of Jerusalem, gave them quarters in a wing of the royal palace near the site of the Temple of Solomon.

It was from this apparently fortuitous accommodation address that the Order derived their famous name of Knights Templar. The Templars were essentially a group of secular knights who banded together and took monastic vows. Ostensibly, they were a monastic military order created to protect Christian pilgrims on route to the Holy Land, and in this sense, they were the first of the Warrior Monks. Emblazoned on the Order’s banner was the motto:

 “Non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.”

The Order had a hierarchy of four classes: knights, sergeants, chaplains and servants. The Templars’ distinctive regalia, a white surcoat marked with a red cross could only be worn by the Knights. A Grand Master headed the Order, and a commander who owed obedience to the grand master ruled each auxiliary branch, or temple. The original purpose for the Order’s existence was served well by the founding member knights who performed courageous service in the Holy Land.

The celebrity of the Order was assured by the propaganda writing of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who in 1128 also wrote their rule of life under which the Knights Templar were bound by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Although the Templars had originally vowed obedience to the patriarch of Jerusalem, Pope Innocent II in 1139 placed the Templars directly under the pope’s authority.

This meant that the Templars were a privileged Order under Rome and exempted from the jurisdiction of any bishop in whose diocese they might hold property. It also ensured that they were immune from the temporal ambitions of kings. The conditions for the Order’s meteoric rise to fame, wealth and power were put in place, as well as the design for the Order’s ultimate destruction.

Although the Templars distinguished themselves by many deeds of valour and integrity, the regulation that they were to live solely on alms caused donations of immense wealth to be given to the Order by a grateful and admiring Christendom. Lordships, castles, seigniories and estates were given to the Order by the kings and great nobles of Spain, France and England.

The copious donations coupled to the freedom granted to them by the Pope allowed the Templars to rapidly diversify their activities throughout Europe and the Levant. At its height, the Order numbered about 20,000 Templars Knights that formed an integral part of the defence strategy of Christendom in its defence of the Christian crusader states of the Holy Land.

The military strength of the Order guaranteed the safety of almost anything placed in its care. Consequently, anyone who desired the safe transportation of valuables across turbulent lands sought the services of the trusted knights. Similarly their network of treasure storehouses were used as safe depositories by canny noblemen in a troubled times.

The Templars expanded into banking and were primarily concerned with loaning money in Europe for delivery in Jerusalem, and financing kings and noblemen. They also held the valuables of other knights and executed their wills. Soon the temples of the Order were offering a complete range of banking services to which great noblemen; kings and even popes came to avail themselves of the financial services of the Templars.

The Order of Templar Knights quickly became known as the moneylenders to the monarchs.

 

The Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon created the basis of banking, of international banking, vis-à-vis secure depositories, loan arrangements and an efficient transport organisation.

The Templars had become the “international financiers” and “international capitalists” of their day and were acquainted with letters of change, and orders payable at sight. The Templars also instituted dividends and annuities on deposited capital, advanced funds, lent on credit, controlled private accounts and undertook to raise taxes for the lay and ecclesiastical seigneurs.

Within two centuries, the Order had become so powerful in Christendom that they could defy all authority but the Papal throne.

The spectacular rise of the Templars caused others to view them with envy. The riches and power of the Order attracted not only admiration for their charity, integrity and fiscal efficiency but also the hostility of other forces that observed them with enmity. The Dark Forces opposed the spiritual inspiration of Templars and the designs that it had for the evolution of European civilisation using the Order as its tool.

The Evil forces worked to extinguish the impulse that was moulding the social architecture of the emerging European nation states.

Medieval Europe was gripped by Evil to a degree that threatened the emergence of Western civilisation founded not only upon Christianity but the true Christ Impulse released from the Cross at Cavalry.

The nobility of Europe, using the feudal system of governance, were abusing the inherently oppressive system such that they were bleeding the peasantry dry. All natural resources, the land, animals, plants and trees, belonged to the King and the peasants were denied the unfettered right to hunt, gather food or build shelter to provide the immediate and long-term sustenance for themselves or their family.

With the nobility controlling all property, the peasant could only survive by the largesse and whim of their nobles. This massive social injustice to the common man was one of the reasons a benevolent group of minor royalty and clergy instituted the original Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templars.

To foster the social conditions to bring about the subtle changes in the souls of men and initiate the founding of modern civilisation on the Christ Impulse and all it entrails. The pious men who created the original and true order of Knights Templars did so to protect the common man from the machinations of Evil acting through the excesses of wicked or ignorant nobility.

The original Templar Charter established the precept of basic human rights (using the term in its proper sense) for all people including the peasantry based on God-given rights granted to each and every human being by virtue of their birth on Earth. This precept of basic human rights read:

“Each living being possesses basic divine rights. The most basic right is the right of self-determination. Each and every being upon Earth is divinely given the right to control his own life. Other inalienable divinely granted rights include food, shelter, clothing and fair compensation for work well done.”

 

 

The warrior monk-knights, all of noble birth, humbled themselves before God, before Christ and before the Pope, and dedicated their Order to the service of Christ and to the Church of Rome. They became known as “The Protectors of Christ” because in essence they worked to protect the Christ Impulse and all it entrails from being extinguished in the souls of men in medieval Europe.

The Popes of Rome and most of the nobility were humbled by the Templars service and their humility, whilst the poor, the dispossessed and the weak welcomed their protection. The Knights Templars were a great power in medieval Europe and benevolently controlled the lands for almost 300 years during which time Europe advanced from the “Dark Ages” into the Renaissance.

It is not exaggeration therefore to say this on the matter. Modern civilisation was in large measure a product of the beneficent rule and lordship by the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, better known to history as the Knights Templars.

The fall to the Muslims in 1291 of Acre, the last remaining Crusader stronghold in the Holy Land, removed the apparent raison d’être of the Templars. There were also the visible deterioration of certain members of the Order that gave themselves up to pride and ostentation.

Compounding the temporal reverses were the rumours circulating that the secret meetings and rituals of the knights contained elements at odds with the professed ethos of the Order.

The venal Philip the Fair, King of France, who was inspired by the Dark Forces to betray the Templars, carried out the great act of treachery against the Order. Believing that he acted in the best interests of France, the demonically inspired Philip, on October 13th, 1307, had all the Templars arrested on the grounds of “vehement suspicion” of heresy: this was the only charge that would allow him to seize the entire wealth of the Order in France.

 

He charged the Templars with immorality, irreligious practices and blasphemies committed during their secret rites of initiation and worship. Torture of some knights soon provided Philip with the moral ammunition to condemn the Order. His charges against the Templars included trampling and spitting on the cross; homosexuality and sodomy; and the worshipping of the demon Baphomet.

The pope at this time was Clement V, himself a Frenchman, who Philip eventually cowed into suppressing the Order throughout the rest of Christendom. In March 1312, the Holy See issued the bull Vox in excelso ordering the sequestration of all Templar property in Europe and its transfer to either the knights of the “Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem,” commonly known as the Hospitallers, or to the state.

Many Templars were executed or imprisoned and on March 19th, 1314 the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake.

The Dark Gods that had feared the growth of the Christ Impulse within the emerging European civilisation acted to extinguish it and thus a powerful tool of this impulse; the Knights Templars were damned to destruction.

The forces of Evil that have existed since before Man inspired people and events that eventually destroyed the carefully crafted organisation that sought to provide the Christ Impulse with a more propitious Christendom.

Apologists for the Order argue that it was a victim of the greed of the ingrate King Philip who coveted their wealth. Others suggest that the king was more fearful of their power rather than envious of their wealth. Other apologists put forward a theory of a double doctrine.

Here it is argued the majority of the Templars were ignorant of the activities and motivations of the inner core of the Order that was anti-monarchical and anti-religious; and who carried out:

 “unspeakable apostasy against God, detestable idolatry, execrable vice, and many [other] heresies.”

It is well known that the property of the Templars was not appropriated by Philip, but was given by him to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, commonly known as the Hospitallers.

This being the case, then greed and envy were not the primary motives that spurred Philip to action. Other impulses were operating to cause the king to act against the Order. The King was inspired to act against the Knights Templars by forces antithetical to the social and spiritual aims of the Order.

It should be evident that the Knights Templars were not the conscious conduit between the murderous Islamic cults and the Illuminati. On the contrary, the Knights Templars were a vehicle for the forces of Creation that the Overlords of Chaos seek to destroy. The Dark Gods that work to usurp Creation were the spiritual enemies of the Knights Templars and so they actively worked to destroy them.

Although the evil Nizari Isma’ilite cult inspired murderous secret societies in Europe, the spiritual link between them was not the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon per se, but Crusading knights who worshipped the Dark Gods.

The secret stream of consciousness, bubbling beneath the thin crust of observable history has two tributaries: the “Good” and the “Bad.”

The Good that is the working of the creative impulse of God, and the Bad which is the corrosive influences of the Dark Gods working to thwart the Divine Plan.

This dual aspect to reality brings forth two very different disciples: those who worship God, the Creator of all things, and those who worship the Dark Gods of Chaos.

The initiatory Knights Templars, guardians of the Christ Impulse, were the disciples of the former: the later Crusader knights who absorbed the creed of the Assassins were disciples of the latter.

The Evil template of organised political murder forged in the crucible of evil that was the Dar ul Hikmat, the terrible Grand Lodge of Cairo, was brought into Europe by knights who may or may not have been members of the Order of the Temple.

The secret advocates of the Assassins were disciples of Evil, and did not wish to reveal themselves to the scrutiny of history. They remained in the shadows worshipping the Dark Gods, Ahriman and Lucifer and working diligently behind the tableau of historical events to destroy the social experiment that was the Knights Templars.

They were members of the Brotherhood of Darkness, the Black Adepts in the Cult of Evil, the ancient Luciferian Priesthood, which has worked to bring the Kingdom of Evil to fruition on Earth since at least 4000 BC.

The fraternity of Evil has been an active agent in the secret history of this planet and is responsible for some of the most heinous crimes against God and against mankind: the destruction of the Knights Templars was just one of the many atrocities.

It is the disciples of the Dark Gods, the Overlords of Chaos called Satan and Lucifer, who have ceaselessly acted to destroy the Christ Impulse since its inception. They are the standard-bearers of the Luciferian Conspiracy for World Government and are the human agents of the Overlords of Chaos.

The baton of Evil was passed to the Illuminati by this ancient Brotherhood of Darkness that both created it and bequeathed it the tenets of Organised Evil formed by Abdullah ibn Maymn and refined by the sect of Hasan-e Sabbah. The structure and ethos of the Assassins became the ultimate model on which all systems of organised murder working through fanaticism, such as the Carbonari and the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Whilst the signs, symbols, and initiations, of the Grand Lodge of Cairo formed the basis for the great secret societies of Europe.

It is often said, with the definite purpose of demonising them, that the Knights Templars were the spiritual heirs of the occult conspiracy against God. On the contrary, they were diametrically opposed to the aims of the Black Adepts of the Black Adepts, the Brotherhood of Darkness, and worked to bring a modern European civilisation into existence predicated on the Christ Impulse that was released from the Cross at Calgary.

In short, the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon worked to thwart the five thousand year old Luciferian Conspiracy for World Government and therefore they were enemies of those who served the Overlords of Chaos, those  who worked to subvert Christendom and, thus, the Templars were the spiritual enemies of Dark Gods.

The secret advocates of the Assassins were disciples of Evil, and did not wish to reveal themselves to the scrutiny of history. They remained in the shadows worshipping the Dark Gods and working diligently behind the tableau of historical events to destroy the social experiment that was the Knights Templars.

They were members of the Brotherhood of Darkness, an Evil cabal of Black Adepts that has worked to bring the Kingdom of Evil to fruition on Earth since at least 4000 BC.

The Brotherhood of Evil has been an active agent in the secret history of this planet and is responsible for some of the most heinous crimes against God and against mankind: the destruction of the Knights Templars was just one of the many atrocities. It is the disciples of Satan (Ahriman) and Lucifer, the Dark Gods, who have ceaselessly acted to destroy the Christ Impulse since its inception. They are the standard-bearers of the Evil Agenda and are the human agents of the Dark Gods.

Dark Masters within the Brotherhood of Darkness, have used Black Magic throughout time and across continents to corrupt and ensnare leaders of nations in their Evil web of intrigue.

From ancient times in Babylon, Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome, and up to the present time, wherever this dark Cabal of Evil, the Dark Masters, the Brotherhood of Darkness, the Occult Hierarchy, established itself wickedness, depravity, death and destruction soon followed.

Once the leaders are controlled, the Black Adepts of Ahriman, the Dark Masters could proceed to enslave the people and abuse the land without opposition. Temporal power invariably arises from possession of wealth and money and thus the evil cabal of Black Adepts masquerade as moneylenders and international bankers to garner both, yet in a grotesque parody of the enterprise instituted by the Knights Templars.

The evil usurers have insinuated themselves into the confidences of people, the leaders of society, who have then been corrupted by the temporal treasures offered by their allegiance to the Evil cabal of Black Adepts. The evil usurers, the international financiers and bankers, owe no allegiance to anyone or any country and will and do betray anyone and any country because they believe that they serve a higher purpose, which is the Great Conspiracy against God.

the evil men, the rootless and venal usurers, have a long history of using wars not only to make money and to consolidate their power, but also to destroy the bloodlines of families and races that are an obstacle to the Evil Agenda. This is why Baron Amschel Rothschild who, like the rest of his clan, was up to his neck in the Evil Agenda for the establishment of World Government could tell us without irony that:

 “The best time to make money is when blood is running in the streets.”

To the evil cabal of Black Adepts, the Brotherhood of Darkness, who masqueraded as international businessmen and bankers, wars are not merely means to make vast fortunes, by lending at exorbitant interest to both sides and by marketing the instruments of war, but also to consolidate power by eliminating historic spiritual enemies.

The dark cabal of Evil, the Dark Masters, the Brotherhood of Darkness, are occult adepts who use Black Magic to control leaders and people of any influence.

They do this by corrupting them in the secret societies they control and to which the vast majority of society’s “great and good” belong. Like the Cult of Freemasonry, for instance, and making its brethren their puppets, wittingly or unwittingly, in their quest for world domination.

The Black Adepts have used their dark magic throughout history to wrest control of the world from forces they despise and hold in great contempt and thus wars, and rumours of wars, is the great mechanism to do this. Modern wars, since at least the French Revolution, are fought not to defeat an enemy but to bring about the crises and chaos whereby the Dark Masters can change society.

Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, John F Kennedy, Saddam Hussein and numerous others are the pawns in the Great Game who are moved by sinister hidden forces to bring about the conditions for wars and rumours of wars.

The baton of Evil was passed to the Illuminati by the ancient Brotherhood of Darkness that both created it and bequeathed it the tenets of Organised Evil formed by Abdullah ibn Maymn and refined by the sect of Hasan-e Sabbah. The structure and ethos of the Assassins became the ultimate model on which all systems of organised murder working through fanaticism, such as the Carbonari, the Mafia and the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

Whilst the signs, symbols, and initiations, of the Grand Lodge of Cairo formed the basis for the great secret societies of Europe. It is often said, with the definite purpose of demonising them, that the Knights Templars were the spiritual heirs of the Occult Conspiracy against God.

On the contrary, they were diametrically opposed to the aims of the Brotherhood of Darkness and worked to bring a modern European civilisation into existence predicated on the Christ Impulse that was released from the Cross at Calvary.

The Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon worked to thwart  the five thousand year old Luciferian Conspiracy for World Government and therefore they were enemies of those who worked for the Overlords of Chaos seeking to subvert Christendom.

In short, Knights Templars were the spiritual enemies of the Dark Gods.

The Knights Templars are therefore the spiritual enemies of the Black Adepts of the Cult of Evil and the subsequent calumnies heaped on the Order’s reputation, and its successful demonisation of it, is proof-positive of the temporal power that the Cult of Evil has in this world.

The function of occult groups since their inception in very early times is twofold: esoteric and political.

The character of the secret society and hence its activities is dependant upon which aspect it promotes. If it concerns itself with the esoteric then its influence on society is by necessity limited. When the political is promoted above the esoteric then the group’s influence upon society can be disproportionate to its size.

When the occult group is Satanic or Luciferian its influence can be terrible.

The common thread running through most of these groups is the existence of Evil Principalities that orchestrate these human agents, directing them to ends using whatever means are available. This is the Great Conspiracy.

Gentle reader, understand, the Great Conspiracy is not merely an attempt to create a tyrannical New World Order (Novus Ordo Seclorum) it is very much more ambitious than that. It is nothing less than a conspiracy against God and Nature.

It is a spiritual battle to wrest control of Creation from its maker and take it into realms of unimagined iniquity. Humanity is the field of conflict on which this spiritual battle is being fought, which is manifest in the spiritual, cultural, political, and economic spheres.

The contest on Earth is about the CONTROL of humanity from the cradle to the grave and beyond. The Dark Gods desire to cut mankind off from the source of his being and to blind him to the spiritual hierarchies that are the origin of life on Earth. Then, spiritually blind, mankind would be trapped in the physical realm oblivious to the spirit within, and when he died would enter the higher realms blinded and ignorant of his true spiritual inheritance. He would also be ignorant of God.

Modern cults that covertly pursued political ambitions were the medieval Muslim cults; the later Ismailis, the Fatimites, the Karmathites and their occident spawn the Illuminati. Linking the two expressions of Evil is the stream of consciousness that was orchestrated by the Dark Gods called Satan and Lucifer.

Satanic cults and occult groups infiltrated by the agents of Evil have sprung up and in their various ways have worked to bring the Ahrimanic deception to fruition. European history is replete with evidence of the activities of these groups and certain notorious individuals that revealed themselves for what they were. A subtle stratagem used by the Overlords of Chaos is to convince the world that they do not exist.

This is done by acts of deception and illusion that confuse normal intelligence. That is why they have tried to control the human conception and comprehension of the Truth.

This is why the agents of Evil have seized control of History by seizing knowledge of it and, consequently, have smothered Objective Reality in a cloak of deceit and obscured it behind a smokescreen of half-truths and lies. This perversion of Objective Reality by vested interests moved Voltaire to assert that:

 “All our ancient history… is no more than accepted fiction.”

“Accepted” that is by the unwitting masses not the Power Elite who know the truth of the matter.

John Ruskin (1819-1900), the Oxford professor and mentor to Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) described it thus:

 “That treacherous phantom which men call history.”

Henry Ford (1863-1947), a parvenu member of the elite, put the case in more prosaic terms when he declared that:

 “History is more or less bunk.”

With regard to the subject of Satanism, the love of Evil for the sake of Evil or Black Magic, the object of the Evil Agenda is to ridicule the idea of it by encouraging claims of amazing extravagance. By promoting the Humanist and Liberal Agendas predicated on the materialistic tenets of the Enlightenment, the Dark Gods desire to hide their activities by cultivating the faculty of scepticism and the arrogance of intellect within modern consciousness.

By this means, modern man has been inculcated with the idea that the celestial hierarchy is a chimera, an atavistic relic from our superstitious ancestors. The notion of Black Magic has been so subverted that modern sensibilities regard it as product of medieval superstition, and those who condemn it are deemed as deceived as those who practice it.

This is a view not held by the elite that controls the world. They are very aware of the existence of the spirit realms for they worship the Evil gods that inhabit them. The cabal of power that control society, the human power-brokers of the world, are disciples of the Dark Gods.

At the beginning of the fourteenth century, as western civilisation entered a new phase of its evolution, called materialism, a new menace appeared within the occult milieu of Europe: the Cult of Satanism. The phenomenon was not a product of hysterical imagination but a reality. For, as man sunk ever deeper into materialism and his spiritual myopia increased another Dark God moved to corrupt humanity still further.

The great demon often referred to in the Bible as Satan. A spirit of immense power who was known to all men and all cultures by different names and who the ancient Aryans called Angra Mainyu. The ancient initiates. of whom Zarathustra was the most revered, perceived him as the great god of darkness, the eternal destroyer of good, personification and creator of evil, bringer of death and disease.

He is also known as Ahriman, a name that means “fiendish spirit.” He is, of course, the “great adversary” of God.

 

 

Satanism

In the Luciferian and Satanist worldview the existence of the One True God is a sine qua non: Without the Creator God their raison d’être would be made void.

In short, God could exist without the Luciferians and Satanists, but the Luciferian and Satanist could not exist without God. The idea of the Devil is rendered obsolete if the concept of God is denied, for the Devil is the Arch-rebel against Creation.

What is the point of spitting at the cross if it offends no one? Renegades need a target: one cannot commit an outrage if there is no one to outrage. In the case of evil and wicked people, it is the presence of God alone that makes their mischief valid.

It is because the “Devil” is not God that Black Magic exists.

Satanists are sad people. They are filled with bile and bitterness, who have tasted wormwood and gall, who in their desperation turn to the Devil for solace. They ask for vengeance against the world that has rejected them and against their perceived enemies. They beseech him to overturn the natural order of things and give them satisfaction at last.

Whatever price is asked, it will seem a bargain to the sad and bitter wretches. People who have lapsed from their religion will turn to their God in times of crises: those who suffered unjustly while believers will often turn against their God and try and betray him.

On a mundane level, Devil worshippers are akin to naughty boys spitting at their mothers and scribbling across their father’s crossword puzzle! They are pathetic and petty vandals seeking vengeance for their powerlessness and social impoverishment. The immaturity of the individuals that call themselves Satanists is evident.

They have a childlike attachment to unwholesome heroes and instead of maturing onto more salubrious heroes they are stuck on power obsessed idols.

Wicked people stumble through life but the worst of them have lost touch with reality, for, it has slipped through their fingers. They cling to juvenile dreams of power and think they can reduce Creation to chaos again. Like the Mafia, practitioners of Black Magic yearn for power but hate to serve it.

Satanism is at best a nuisance and a vexation but ultimately an immature calling. It is a pastime for losers and louts. Satanism only becomes dangerous to the rest of humanity to an infinite degree when it is mixed with POLITICS… as, unfortunately, it very often is.

The Cult of Evil has existed since very early times. Evil and wicked people have invoked the powers of darkness since the earliest days of the human race hoping to bring about the revolt against Heaven from Earth. It is a demonically incited conspiracy that transcends time and generations and is possessed of a genius that only true Evil can inspire.

The Great Conspiracy that is the revolt against God and Nature.

It is intergenerational, with the diabolic agenda passed from one generation to another who then attempt to further the aims of the Great Conspiracy fashioned by the Dark Gods, the Overlords of Chaos. The essence of Satanism is desecration. The Satanist empowers himself by profaning the ceremonies of the religion he formerly belonged to and by trampling its holiest symbols under foot.

The Satanist also raises power by desecrating the memory of the dead, of sacred memories and observances, and the sodomising of boys and deflowering young virgins. The most potent means of raising demonic power is the blood sacrifice of humans. That is why the Occult Hierarchy, the Secret Masters of the dark Empire of Secret Societies who are the true Lords of Power on Earth are also the Spiritual Dark Lords of Blood and Sexual Sacrifice.

In the early modern period a man emerged to reveal himself as one possessed of Evil and whose biography illustrates the incursion of an ancient Evil into the modern world. He was Gilles de Rais (1404-40) a Breton baron, marshal of France, and man of wealth whose distinguished career ended in a celebrated trial for Satanism, abduction, and child murder.

His name is now associated with the story of Bluebeard, the monster of Charles Perrault’s tale of Barbe Bleue, who murdered his wives and hid their bodies in a locked room.

Rais’s early life was glorious. He was the companion and guide of Jeanne d’Arc; he became a marshal of France and distinguished himself by many deeds of valour. After frittering his immense inherited wealth he was led to study alchemy, partly by curiosity and partly as a means for restoring his ravaged fortunes.

The eventual corruption of this medieval personality, from Christian mystic to devout Satanist, is a salient example that illustrates the rise of the influence of Ahriman upon modern man. Following the death of the Maid of Orleans, Rais slipped into depravity and eventually offering himself to the Powers of Darkness.

The reason for his spiritual corruption appears to be an insatiable desire to gain knowledge, power and riches and to do so by invoking the Devil. Soon, Satanists flocked to him offering their services and the quick fix that would restore his fortunes. The desired results were not forthcoming so the increasingly desperate noble sunk ever deeper into the moral and spiritual corruption that would eventually procure for him the infamy for which his name has remained synonymous.

The satanic rituals he orchestrated became increasingly more horrific as he and his cohorts became evermore possessed of the spirit of Ahriman. Perverted vice in every form, wicked debaucheries and human sacrifices held sway in the demonic rituals.

Hundreds of children disappeared from the hinterland surrounding his castle as Rais and his agents kidnapped these unfortunates for use in grotesque tortures and blood sacrifices to the Dark Gods. Eventually he was accused of having abducted, tortured, and murdered more than 140 children and was condemned for heresy by the ecclesiastical court and sentenced to death for murder by the civil court. In 1440 the satanically possessed nobleman was hanged and then burnt.

 

Criminality per se is not the reason for the behaviour of Rais. He acted in unison with a coterie of kindred souls that also worshipped the Dark Gods. It was only after his invocation of the Evil One that he developed the terrible sadistic personality that sneered at normal society and spat in the face of God.

 

The youthful Rais was not the mature Rais. Something had happened to sour the soul of this once devout Christian warrior: he allowed himself to be possessed of demons that guided him to his moral and spiritual ruin. Rais was also a spectacular example of the contemporary occult scene in Europe. He was a keen student of the Jewish Kabbalah (also spelled Kabala, Cabala, Cabbala, Cabbalah Qabala, Qabbala, Qabalah or Qabbalah), an occult system sweeping through the Secret Societies of Western Europe and vying with alchemy for occult ascendancy.

By the fifteenth century the Jews had become a power in many parts of Europe. They had penetrated into the intellectual circles and many royal and noble courts of Spain, Portugal, Provence and Italy. Some brought with them a peculiar esoteric mysticism, the Kabbalah that laid claim to a secret knowledge of the unwritten Torah (Divine Revelation) that was allegedly communicated by God to Moses and Adam.

The Kabbalah claimed to provide a means of directly approaching God. The mystical system tended to detract from the monotheism of Orthodox Judaism by introducing dangerously pantheistic and heretical elements.

Amongst devout Jews the Kabbalah was considered dangerous material. It also contained occult wisdom that dealt with baleful subject matter that caused some to call the Kabbalah “that science of demoniacal arts.”