THE MYSTERIES OF THE TEMPLARS - Louis Charpentier

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The mystery that, even today, surrounds the Templars is as thick as the Eastern Forest. And it is precisely in these sacred woods, home of arcane Celtic divinities, that Louis Charpentier 's journey takes place to discover one of the oldest esoteric traditions of Western civilization. A journey backwards which, starting from the obscure and sporadic historical evidence available to us, leads the French scholar, and with him the reader, to question the real origins of the Order of the Temple. Leaving aside the official history, Charpentier sheds new light on the most significant stages of the birth and diffusion of the Poor Knights of Christ , retraces their exploits and rereads their Rule, with the aim of offering answers to the numerous questions that have always accompany.

First of all, how was such a sudden rise possible? And why were the Templars the protagonists, not even two centuries later, of such a disastrous fall, considered by Jules Michelet "the most serious cataclysm of Western civilization"? What was the origin of the Order's immense wealth and its mysterious, unobtainable treasure? And what is the connection between the Knights' mission in the East and the search for the Grail?

Charpentier moves skillfully in the intricate world of the Templars and, revealing a surprising ability to read between the lines, tells a parallel story, or perhaps the same story seen, however, from another perspective. And if "history is made by those who remain", we can see in his book the attempt to give voice to those who, like the last Grand Master Jacques de Molay, were burned alive at the stake together with his truth.

Author: Louis Charpentier

Publisher: Edizioni L'Età dell'Aquario

280 pages