Knights Templar | Forbidden History and their Secret Quest for Atlantis

This episode of the Y Files is brought. to you by PBS debt. The accepted narrative describes the. Knights Templar as humble warrior monks. protecting Christians on the road to. Jerusalem. The Knights were later. betrayed and ultimately destroyed. But there is another story within that. story. It's a legend filled with murder, mystery, and buried treasure. And it. involves a secret powerful enough to. rewrite history and change the world. Yes, the Templars were in Jerusalem.

protecting Christians, but that was. their cover story. The real reason they. were there was they were looking for. something, ancient technology. So, as. soon as the Knights Templar arrived in. the Holy Land, they started digging. And. then, [Music]. yeah, I know Seymour, but it's only for. a couple of days. Human, I'm not going. to beat around the bush. I need some. cash. Well, hello to you, too. No time.

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officially formed. The real story began. many years earlier in Constantinople, now Istanbul. Istanbul was. Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul. Constantinople. Been a long time gone. Constantinople. What a Constantinople. at the works. That's nobody's business. but the Turks. What? Tell me that sworn didn't pop into. your head the second you said it. No, it. did. But do you mind if I.

[Music]. The Brothers of the East was a secret. order formed in Greece that eventually. set up their headquarters in Istanbul. They practiced alchemy. They studied. sacred geometry. They performed rights. and rituals incorporating astrology, astronomy, music, and mathematics. So. when Huda Paynees, a French nobleman, met the brothers of the East, he was. excited.

The Paynees was technically Catholic as. most of Europe was, but he had family. members who were of the Sufi Islamic. faith, which is the more mystical side. of Islam. The pains had been told of this secret. group that possessed and was protecting. ancient knowledge. He wanted to meet. this group and see for himself. At this. time in history, Europe was in chaos. Various kingdoms were rising and falling. and waring with each other. In the east, Muslims and Christians were clashing. The world was tearing itself apart. Yet,

the brothers of the east possessed a. peaceful wisdom. They weren't concerned. with modern politics. The brothers had a. purpose that was much more important. Once mutual trust was established, the. brothers of the east told the European. visitors their story. Well, not their. story, the story. [Music]. It was the story of an ancient.

civilization that thrived thousands of. years ago. The people were highly. spiritual and highly advanced. It was a. civilization that was free of poverty. Wealth was meaningless. They devised. methods of growing crops so that every. citizen was fed. They could control the. weather. Droughts and famine were. impossible. To Huda Paines, this civilization had. abilities that sounded like miracles or. like sorcery. They could communicate. over long distances instantly. Somehow.

they had a way of levitating objects, no. matter how large or how heavy. They had. medicine that could cure any illness, allowing people to live very long lives. War didn't exist. There was such an. abundance of resources that anyone can. have whatever they wanted. And what. these people wanted most was to pursue. their own spirituality. And then they. were gone. How Depay asked could a civilization. this powerful who seemed to be able to. control nature itself be suddenly wiped.

out. The brothers of the east said in a. single day the ground shook and. volcanoes emerged and erupted. Then a. giant flood swept over the earth and. destroyed everything. I know where this. is going. It was then that Huda Paynees. and his eight knights learned of. Atlantis. Yeti.

Paynees and his fellow knights were. riveted by the story. Depay was a. nobleman, a count in fact. He was the. count of champagne. Champagne. Oh, pardon my French. Depay was an educated man. He knew about. Plato and his stories of the island of. Atlantis. He thought they were just. stories. The brothers said Plato was. mostly correct. But Atlantis wasn't just. a city or even just an island. It was a. civilization that spanned the globe. And.

each city was connected using. transportation technology that again. sounded like magic. The story became. almost overwhelming. Almost. The brothers said that ancient. relics of Atlantis still exist and they. still possess their power. The power to. travel great distances, the power of. communication, the power to heal, perhaps even the secret to immortality. If ever discovered, these artifacts. would be the most powerful and dangerous.

devices on Earth. Depay said that any. kingdom, any country, any religion would. kill to have access to this power. The. brothers of the east agreed. The. technology of Atlantis could not fall. into the wrong hands. So, Hudayes was. offered an assignment. Find the ancient. artifacts and bring them back to Europe. for safekeeping. Hugh and the other eight men immediately. agreed and formed a secret fellowship. But where do they start looking?

The brothers said they'll find artifacts. under the location of what used to be. King Solomon's Temple, the Temple Mount. in Jerusalem. The Knights would have to act quickly. The Holy Land was a dangerous place. Jerusalem was taken by Christian. crusaders in 1099, but who knows how. long they can hold it. And there was. another problem. It wasn't just the knights that knew. about the artifacts. Groups of. Christians, Jews, Muslims, they were. searching, too. So, when the knights.

arrived in the Holy Land in 1120, they. set up their headquarters where. Solomon's temple once stood. They. officially became known as poor fellow. soldiers of Christ and the Temple of. Solomon, the Knights Templar. And the Knights played the role of. courageous warrior monks protecting. Christians making the long pilgrimage to. the Holy Land. But while some Knights. Templar guarded Jerusalem, other knights. were digging beneath it. Day and night. they dug until one day they struck gold,

literally. The brothers of the East were. right. They promised the Knights Templar. that if they dug under the Temple Mount, they would find artifacts that once. belonged to the great civilization of. Atlantis. The Knights found a large box made of. acacia wood and gold. There was no. question they had found the legendary. Ark of the Covenant. And then they found. five more. [Music].

Year after year, the Knights Templar. pulled treasures from beneath Jerusalem. They found the Spear of Destiny, the. Holy Grail, the Emerald Tablet, and. pages and pages of ancient esoteric. wisdom. They learned there were 10 arcs, though they only found six. The arcs. were used in conjunction with pyramids. around the world to create limitless. energy. This was similar to what Nicola. Tesla attempted at Warden Cliff Tower. If you want to learn how this technology. worked, we have an episode that explains.

scientifically how the Great Pyramid of. Giza could have been a power generator. Pyramid link below. Within the King's Chamber of the Great. Pyramid is a stone box. Mainstream. Egyptology says this box is a. sarcophagus to store a mummy. But no. mummy was ever found there. And the. dimensions of the box are kind of small. for a human body. But the box is the. perfect size to store one of the arks. The Knights Templar discovered that the. pyramids were built for one specific.

purpose, to store the arks. And the. arcs, they were built to store mana. In the Bible, mana was a food source. that appeared to the Israelites in the. desert. It's described as fine flakes. that look like frost on the ground. But. according to Templar tradition, the. Israelites and the Atlanteanss before. them extracted mana from plant and. animal matter and turned it into a. monatomic white powder. This white. powder provides energy. A white powder.

that provides energy. Ah, New York in. the 80s was wild, huh? Uh, you're. thinking about something else. Ah. The mana acted as an electrical. superconductor and powered the arcs. inside the pyramids. The arcs generated. unlimited energy for the thriving. civilization. They learned these. alchemical secrets from none other than. the emerald tablet. Emerald Tablet link. below. The Emerald Tablet gave detailed. instructions on extracting mana from. animal bones. The mana could then be.

used for energy or even for healing. illness. Hey, didn't the Emerald Tablet. also tell you how to become immortal by. making the philosopher stone? Yep. From. eating pee? Yes. Eating lots of pee? Yes. Immortality sounds gross. It does. But if you want to be immortal, ain't no. such thing as a free lunch. Nope. Even. if lunch is pee, that's enough. Some of these ancient texts even talked. about creating mana from gold. When mana. was extracted from gold, it could be.

used to make objects lighter for. levitation. Now, think about it. The ark. is a box almost 4 ft long and 3 ft wide. It's made of gold. Gold is heavy. The. Ark of the Covenant also contain the Ten. Commandments, which were carved into. stone tablets. Stone is heavy. Just the. gold would have weighed almost a,000 lb. That doesn't include the weight of the. stone or the acacia wood. Yet, it only. took four men to carry it. By the way, the men who carried the ark were.

Levites. Levite levitation. I get a. covenant link below. The Knights Templar also found very old. texts that even predated the. civilization of Atlantis. These. documents spoke of a nonhuman race that. enslaved humanity thousands of years ago. to mine gold. Anunnaki. yatsi. The Anunnaki come up a lot on this.

channel, and I promise I'll do a full. episode on them, but here's the short. version. The Anunnaki were gods. worshiped by the ancient Samrians, but. they were actually aliens from a planet. beyond Neptune called Nibiru. The. Anunnaki arrived on Earth about 450,000. years ago, searching for resources, specifically gold. They were trying to. solve an atmospheric crisis on their. planet. Now finding gold in abundance, they settled on Earth and established. mining operations. Eventually, the Anunnaki created a labor.

force by genetically modifying early. human ancestors, accelerating the. evolution of Homo sapiens. We need this. episode, Chief. I know. We'll do it. I. promise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your promises. and 60 bucks are worth about one night's. worth of mana. Okay. So, the Templars knew about the Anunnaki. and how they converted gold into a. powder used for healing, levitation, and. generating electricity. And it wasn't. just the Atlanteanss and Israelites that.

knew about mana. Samrian texts spoke of an alchemical. science called graal, which you can't. help but notice is similar to the word. grail. The Samrians use a substance. called shimana that was used to help the. Anunnaki gods power their flying craft. In Vic, Hindu and Jane texts, this. substance was called the mana, which. again was used to power flying crafts. Polynesian cultures believe mana is a. force of nature anyone can extract. Buddhists call it mani. Though the words.

vary slightly in all these cultures, the. definition and use are the same. Mana is. a potent substance that allows humanity. to tap into something very powerful in. nature. And by the way, the Templar. cross, you can find that carved. everywhere. and every time civilization. existed. The cross is all over ancient. Egypt. And you can even see the cross. carved on the ancient Samrian depictions. of the Anunnaki. Templar legend says. this was actually the symbol of Atlantis.

after Atlantis was destroyed in the. great flood. Love the young. Yep. The Templar legend of Atlantis and. the great flood is exactly like every. other flood myth we find in every. culture around the world. After the. flood, a few survivors restarted. civilization with knowledge from. Atlantis. The cross was carved in their. honor. But not everything the knights. found was Atlantean. Some artifacts were. from just a thousand years before during. the time of Jesus. There were ancient.

texts that confirmed a lot of what was. said in the Bible. But some texts. contradicted the Bible. There was no way. the Knights could let the church find. out what they discovered. The Catholic. Church was growing more powerful every. year. If the truth came out, it could. shake the very foundation of the faith. and the Knight's Templar would be. destroyed. Besides, much of the Knight's. funding came from the church. But no. historical document compared to the. shock of what they discovered next, an. ouary, which is a collection of bones.

This ocuary held the bones of a very. famous religious family, all buried. together. The knights found the bones of. Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist, and. Jesus himself. But they also found the bones of the. children Mary had with both of them. [Music]. To call what the Knights Templar. discovered blasphemous would be a huge. understatement. They discovered. documents and artifacts that would. literally destroy the church. They.

needed to keep these treasures safe from. being destroyed. They needed to keep. them from falling into the wrong hands, specifically the Pope's hands. The. Templars knew that the existence of the. bones of John, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene. and their children would mean the end of. the Catholic Church. But to rub salt in. an already gaping wound, the Templars. found something potentially even more. threatening to the church. An alternate. belief system. The Templars were Christian, but not in.

the strictest sense as most of Europe. was, and more importantly, as their king. and employers were. Spreading. information contrary to the teachings of. the Catholic Church was not only heresy, it was a death sentence. Remember, this. was all happening at the time of the. Crusades. Religions were at war. The Templars couldn't speak about their. findings, but couldn't ignore them. either. So instead, they hid them. They.

protected them and studied them. Some. ancient wisdom included blasphemous. ideas like the divine feminine, reincarnation, heaven as a state of. mind, and an innate connection to the. creator. The Knights maintained their. appearance as devout Catholics. They had. to. Their biggest patron was the. Catholic Church. You don't bite the hand. that feeds you, especially the most. powerful hand on earth. But in secret, the Knights Templar were Christian. gnostics.

Gnosticism comes from the Greek word. nosis, meaning divine knowledge. Other. cultures call this enlightenment. The. basic premise is that spirituality can. be found within without needing an. outside institution. So no reason to. have priests, monks, saviors, or. churches at all. You didn't need them to. find God. He's already within you. One. of the earliest Templar documents. mentions God-given rights. Now, Americans use this phrase or something. close to it in the Declaration of.

Independence, but that was in the 18th. century. The idea of God-given rights. during the time of the Templars meant. excommunication or worse. Only the Roman church could give someone. rights. Any alternative was bad for. business. And instead of worshiping. Jesus, many Knights Templar idolized. John the Baptist who they believe. initiated Jesus intonosticism in the. Great Pyramid. To the Templars, Jesus. represented a Christos, a universal.

consciousness anyone could access. Similar to the Buddha, they learned that. being born again didn't refer to. baptism. It referred to reincarnation. when someone would literally be born. again. with the bones of Jesus. sacred. documents and artifacts from an ancient. civilization. The Templars had plenty of. evidence to back up their beliefs. They. wanted to share this knowledge, but it. wasn't the right time. The church was. too powerful. They would have to wait. They would wait until this knowledge.

could be shared with the entire world. and not seized by one pope or one king. So, after years of digging, these early. knights returned to Europe with the. treasures and knowledge and hid it. And. then they built an empire. For 200 years, the Knights Templar grew. and thrived. Their numbers increased. from a handful of soldiers to tens of. thousands of men and women. The Catholic.

Church and Christian Lords throughout. Europe gave the Knights Templar money, land, and power to help their cause. The. Templars created cathedrals, power. structures, and systems of democracy. They created the first banking system, a. system we still use today. During the. dark ages, the journey from Europe to. Jerusalem was dangerous. Road agents. were robbing the pilgrims of everything. they had. So, the Knights Templar set up. locations along the way called. commandaries. At any one of these. locations, you could deposit your gold.

in exchange for a note. You then take. this note to another commandry and. exchange it for gold. And for every. transaction, the Knights Templar charged. a small fee. It was an ingenious system. used by thousands of people for hundreds. of years. Over time, those little fees. added up. Now, individually, the knights were. poor. When joining, you gave all your. wealth to the order. The order then took. care of you and all its members. The. treasures and knowledge passed from. generation to generation with each.

grandmaster responsible for their. safekeeping. And for those few hundred years, the. Knights Templar were extremely. successful at distracting the church. from their true purpose. A little too. successful. Eventually, the Knights Templar had. their own armies, their own fleets of. ships. They had their own merchants, masons, and farmers. They were. independent and self- sustaining. The. Knights Templar became the first. multinational corporation. They had no.

need for a king or country. In fact, the. opposite happened. The Knights Templar. was so wealthy that King Philip of. France was borrowing money from them. In. the fall of 1307, King Philip IV needed. financing for another war. He wasn't. going to borrow any more money from the. Knights. Instead, he would take it from. them. The Templars had gone from humble. defenders of Christianity to a serious. threat to the entire power structure of. Europe. the king and the church. And.

like many powerful rulers, King Philip. didn't tolerate threats. So, Philip and. Pope Clement Vis. Pope Clement, by the way, was born. Raymond Bertrand and was a childhood. friend of the king. When the previous. pope died in 1304, King Philip made sure. his friend was elected to what was one. of the most powerful seats of power on. earth. In short, the Pope owed him one. On Friday the 13th of October 1307, 100.

Templars, including the Grandmaster. Jacqu de Mole, were arrested. For seven. years, they were threatened and tortured. to try to gain access to their knowledge. and wealth. After making false. confessions, they were found guilty of. heresy and sentenced to death. But now. there's a plot twist. For centuries, history claimed the church had condemned. the Knights Templar as heretics and. eventually had them executed. But in. 2001, a document was found in the.

Vatican secret archives. It's called the. Shenown Parchment. The Shannon parchment. documented the inquiry led by three. cardinals appointed by Pope Clement V. It details the investigation and the. charges against the Templar leaders. including the Grandmaster Jacqu de. Malay. The Chanel parchment reveals that. the Pope absolved the Templar leaders of. heresy. They were allowed to reconcile. with the church. the Pope would allow. the order of the Knights Templar to. continue their work. King Philip didn't.

like this result. He applied pressure to. the Pope. Remember, the Pope owed him. one. So, in 1312, Pope Clement. officially disbanded the Knights. Templar. The leaders of the order, including Jacqu de Mole, were later. burned at the stake on charges of. heresy, even though they were forgiven. of these crimes. But Grandmaster Jacqu de Mole would. enact a small token of revenge for this. betrayal of justice. As he slowly burned. to death, Malay issued a curse to the.

Pope and the King of France. He promised. them that they would be dead within a. year. This was March of 1314. A few weeks later, Pope Clement was. dead. According to one account, while. lying in state, he was struck by. lightning. The fire was so intense that. his body was unrecognizable. And if you. read up on this pope, you'll agree that. this was divine justice. In November, King Philip had a stroke and died. He. was 46 years old. The Templar curse was.

fulfilled. France had now lost its king and its. pope, and Europe had lost their beloved. knights, or so it seemed. When the arrest order was given on. October 13th, the Knights Templar knew. it was coming. They had spies. everywhere. they had known for weeks and. they used those weeks to plan. On. October 12th, the night before the. arrest order was given, the Templar's. entire fleet of ships disappeared into. the darkness. And aboard those ships.

were all the ancient Atlantan artifacts, the holy treasures and forbidden. documents. Jaca and about 100 knights. stayed behind. They hoped they could. reason with the king and the pope. They. failed in that mission, but succeeded in. another. dispanded but not destroyed in. hiding but not in prison. The Templars. formed into smaller groups. They. assimilated into other orders. Some. assumed new identities and disappeared. altogether. The Knights Templar in name. ended in 1312. But their mission.

continued. In fact, it continues today. The evidence is everywhere. Evidence of the Knights Templar can be. found all over the world. After they. disbanded, they were determined to keep. their knowledge and traditions alive, so. they created alias groups to avoid. detection. In Scotland, they became. Freemasons. Portugal, they were known as. the Knights of Christ. In Germany, they.

created Rosacruianism. There's also evidence of them in the. early Americas. Nova Scotia has the. legendary Oak Island with buried Templar. treasure and deadly curses. An. indigenous tribe in Panama known as the. White Indians of Darian have pale skin. and Caucasian features. Some believe. they're descendants of the first. Templars in the Americas. When asked. about the Knights Templar, the natives. called them our brothers. In early. Europe, Templars were the first Vikings.

The first pirates were Knights Templar. The famous skull and crossbone symbol, the Jolly Roger. That flag was first. flown by the Templar Navy to frighten. their enemies before battle. One of the. most famous Templar symbols is the Red. Cross with a white background. Another. is the depiction of several knights on a. horse like this statue in London. Both. of these are found in cathedrals and. chapels all across Europe. If you read or saw the Da Vinci Code, you may remember Rosland Chapel in.

Scotland. Pagan and Templar symbols are. on every inch of it. Some, like this. carving of a knight on horseback, are. obvious. This is the gravestone for. William Sinclair. It's in the lower part. of Rosland Chapel. It specifically says. Knight Templar. William Sinclair had no love for the. church and provided help to any Knights. Templar who asked for it. But it's not. just crosses and horses that the Knights. engraved on their architecture. There. are more subtle clues relating to some.

of their gnostic and sometimes pagan. beliefs. Sculptures of angels in strange. positions are common in Rosland Chapel. and are an important right in. Freemasonry, but Freemasonry wasn't. supposed to have started until 1717. Rosland Chapel was built in 1446. Over 100 of these little green men are. scattered around Rosland Chapel. They're. pagan symbols and thought to originate. from ancient Celtics. Paganism simply. refers to anything that isn't Christian,

Muslim, or Jewish. Why would there be. hundreds of non-Christian symbols in a. Catholic church? Templar legend says. they were placed there as a message. Some of the more interesting carvings. are of plants that Europeans never. should have known about. This is a picture of corn over one of. the windows in Rosland Chapel. And. here's one of Trillium. But corn and. trillium are native to North America. Rosland Chapel was built almost 50 years. before Columbus sailed to the New World.

How would Templars know what these. plants look like? Well, isn't it. obvious? They were there first. [Music]. Templar legend says Sir Henry Sinclair, grandfather of the builder of Rosland. Chapel, was not only a Templar, but was. among the first Europeans to visit the. new world. Not only that, but. Christopher Columbus himself was. associated with the Knights. He was a. distant relative of the Sinclair's.

Columbus's daughter was married to the. Grandmaster of the Order. He had access, as all Grandmasters do, to ancient. knowledge of the Knights Templar, including their maps. Columbus knew. there was something on the other side of. the Atlantic. He didn't know what, but. he knew there was land and treasure. He. knew this because the Knights Templar. had maps of the New World for centuries. One of these was the Piri Reese map. And. you know this famous map. It shows the. new world and Antarctica hundreds of.

years before they were rediscovered. Py. Reese, by the way, was a cgrapher from. Istanbul, which in his time was. Constantinople, birthplace of the. Knights Templar. Was Pir? Maybe. Coincidence? Maybe. But when. Columbus wanted to sail to the new. world, he first approached King John of. Portugal for financing. King Jon. refused. So Columbus went to Portugal's. enemies, Spain and England. Queen. Isabella of Spain came up with the money. first and the rest is history. But.

Templar history tells a different story. They say Portugal refused to finance. Columbus because they already knew about. the new world. Knights Templar had been. sailing there for years. Portugal was. populated by so many knights that it was. considered a Templar nation. In fact, the word Portugal means port of the. Gauls, but Templars say it really means. port of the Grail. Knights Templar history says they were. trading with Native American tribes for. years. That's where they got a lot of.

their gold. And the Templars had a very. good relationship with the people of the. New World. Columbus knew this. How do we. know? Well, when Columbus sailed the. ocean blue in 1492, the Ninia, the. Pinta, and the Santa Maria all flew. flags with the Templar cross. He knew the natives would recognize this. symbol and be peaceful, and they were at. first. Sadly, the Europeans didn't. return the favor. The Knights Templars. say they were the first Europeans to. visit the Americas. Fine. But can they.

prove it? They can. In 1898, Olaf Omen was clearing land on. his farm in Minnesota when he stumbled. upon a strange looking rock. It was a tablet about 30 in tall and 16. in wide. Carved in it were symbols that. Omen didn't recognize. This tablet. became known as the Kensington runstone. Omen had it analyzed and translated. The.

inscription said it was left by Viking. travelers in 1362. And this isn't a stone found on the. coast. These Vikings were in the middle. of the continent. Vikings in the New. World, a century before Columbus. Now. remember, according to Templar. tradition, the first Vikings were. Knights Templar. Then there's the. Naraganset runstone found in Rhode. Island in 1939, also with Viking runes. Only 14 miles from where this runstone. was discovered is Newport Tower. This is.

a mysterious eight column structure. It's rumored to have been built by. Vikings in the 1500s to track the. solstesses. The local museum says it's. just the base of a lighthouse, but most. locals disagree. As far back as the. early 1800s, records and legends have. given credit to Vikings. But why eight. columns? Why not just build it as one. solid cylinder? Well, the answer leads. us back to Gnosticism. The number eight. is highly significant to gnostics. It. represents completeness, a divine.

fullness. Remember earlier when I. mentioned Jesus was initiated in the. Great Pyramid? Well, there's a reason. for that. If you watch the episode that. we had about the pyramids, link below, you'll remember that the Great Pyramid. has eight sides, not four. To this day, templars are initiated in the Great. Pyramid. And they believe that Egypt was. one of the main sources of wisdom for. the original knights. And if you look, the number eight is everywhere in. Templar symbolism and architecture. The. Maltese cross has eight points and was.

worn by a medieval order of knights that. were attacked by fire. Today, it's the. symbol of many firefighters. Shout out. to NYFD, New York's bravest. Eh, you're. here. Buildings like Temple Church and. Elely Cathedral in England have. octagonal features and the number eight. scattered all over the place. You only. have to look at a few pictures of. Rosland Chapel to start seeing the. number showing up again and again. Evidence of the Knights Templar is. everywhere. Now, we can't cover the.

Knights without mentioning the. Freemasons. Countless rights, symbols, and beliefs connect the two groups. almost seamlessly. Masons trace their. origins back to the Temple of Solomon. Just like the Templars on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a money pit was discovered. in 1795 along with a Templar engraving. Since then, the Freemasons have been. involved in almost every search for the. lost treasure. Both Masonic symbols and. Templar crosses are scattered across the. island. The connection between the. groups is so deep that they still see.

each other as brothers to this day. Another Templar connection is with rose. accretionism which heavily emphasizes. the rose and the cross both Templar. symbols. But why? Why did the Templars. spend so much time and money hiding. their legacy? Well, the Knights Templar had a higher. purpose. Their ultimate goal was to. change the world for the better. They. knew the ancient artifacts and knowledge. would be a shock to society. But this. knowledge was never meant to stay. hidden. Eventually, the knights will.

share the truth, and the truth might. come out sooner than you think. Timothy Hogan is the current Grandmaster. of one of the Templar orders. He's on a. mission to prepare the world to embrace. their secrets. He insists that this. knowledge is powerful enough to. drastically alter our society as we know. it in a positive way. Currently, all the. Templar treasures are hidden in vaults. around the world, seven of which are. here in the United States. And according.

to Hogan, the world is just about ready. for their release. He says they'll do it. in a way where no one government, no one. religion will have complete access to. the information. The release of. information will be controlled to ensure. everyone benefits because really that's. the Templar's entire purpose. It has. been since the beginning. They wanted. freedom for the people, physical freedom. from the king, and spiritual freedom. from the pope. Unfortunately, it wasn't. possible in the 14th century. But today,

it could very well succeed. We're at a. pivotal point in history where many feel. like something is about to happen. They. just don't know what. And I feel it, too. Now, that might be nothing more. than humanity's obsession with death and. the end of the world. But maybe it's. more than that. I think we all know that. we can't go on living this way. Constant. wars around the world, the hatred within. our countries, the dishonesty of our. leaders, the corruption of our. institutions. It has to stop. Imagine. how different our lives would be if we.

had access to ancient wisdom and. technology. It would be a revolution. We. could finally do what Nicola Tesla. almost did, create free energy for the. entire planet. It would take a while, but eventually everyone on Earth could. access healthy food, clean water, and. live long, healthy lives free of illness. and pain. It would be a revolution. Crime, poverty, and war wouldn't be. necessary in a world of abundance. All. due to the artifacts being held in. secret vaults around the world. It would.

be a revolution. That is, if they're real. [Music]. Today's story of the Knights Templar. comes from one man, Timothy Hogan. He's. the Grandmaster of the Order of the. Temple of Secret Initiates, the OTSI. He. tells the story of ancient wisdom, alchemy, holy relics, and Atlantean. artifacts. It's a fascinating story, but is it.

true? Well, there's nothing to debunk. about his story, but there's also no. physical evidence to prove it. So, it. really comes down to Mr. Hogan. Do you. believe him? Now, you know what? I'm. going to call him Tim because I know. he's watching. Hi, Tim. This is the part. of the episode where I tell you all the. positive and negative things I can about. the author of the story. But today, we. have to do things a little differently. Recently on live streams, I've been cold. reading rough drafts of scripts for this. channel. You probably assume this, but I. have a team of writers, researchers, and.

contributors because, well, I I need to. My cute 12-minute videos about weird. animals have now become 40inute. documentaries. I'm just a guy who talks. to a fish. I need help. Anyway, when I. read the scripts live, I'm literally. reading them for the first time along. with you. Obviously, they're never final. scripts. I rewrite everything I'm given. I also research and fact check as much. as I can. Oh, yeah. Then this one has to. put in his jokes. Nah, you'd be nothing. without me. Well, nothing.

But here's where things took a turn. First, after reading the draft, I was. contacted by a viewer. Hi, Stan. Stan. knows Timothy Hogan. He felt that the. script was unfair to him, that it. attacked him too personally. And you. know what? I think Stan was right. You. can still see the live read on the. channel under the live tab. But here's. the short version. The script brought up. Tim's divorce and a situation he had. with a woman who was suffering from. addiction and mental illness. She took. over his Facebook page and posted wild. stuff as him, like she was the.

reincarnation of Mary Magdalene, so that. makes him Jesus and things like that. And look, those things happened and it's. not a good look. But are they relevant. to his story about the Knights Templar? Absolutely not. Just like my exes aren't. relevant to the work I do now. Yeah, you. got some real pieces of work in your. past. I know. Some real pieces of work, I tell you. I know. I went through some. rough patches. Your wife is a saint. I. can't deny that. But that's the point. Tim's personal life is just that,

personal, and I don't really like. gossip. Okay. I like gossip, but I don't. do it on the channel. No, you do it on. the live streams. Okay, that's fine. Let. me get through this. So, Tim's personal. life is irrelevant, but his professional. life regarding his work with and as a. Knights Templar is relevant. Tim has. detractors. People that don't like him, people that don't believe him. I asked. the researcher where she found these. people. They're on Reddit, aren't they? They're on Reddit. Oh, they hate you on. Reddit, too. Oh, they don't love you.

either. Fair enough. Tim's detractors are what seem to be. members of different orders of the. Knights Templar or other fraternal. organizations. It's actually hard to. follow if you're not in that world. Now, people often ask me if I'm a Mason or in. groups like that, and I'm not. And I. joke that I'm not a joiner. I don't play. well with others because that's true. So. when people talk about grand masters and. seventh degrees and secret handshake. grips and all that stuff, I don't get. it. I don't impute it, but I really.

don't get it. But the people that are in. those groups do get it and they take it. very seriously. [Music]. There's been infighting with these. various orders for thousand years and. it's still happening. This board voted. Tim off or that group wanted him out. He. didn't like what another group was doing. so he left. that kind of thing. Are the. internal politics of these fraternal. groups relevant to his story of the. Knights Templar? To me, no. There are.

people who call Tim a fraud, that he. makes claims that aren't true. Well, I'm. going to read you a few of his claims, and these are Tim's words in an email to. me. Laugh it up. It's going to happen to. you, too. It was also suggested that I. say I'm a descendant of a Revolutionary. War Templar, which is actually true. My. great-grandfather seven generations back. was General Joseph Warren of the. Revolutionary War. True. He initiated. Paul Rivere and he helped plan the. Boston Tea Party. He was an alchemist.

and a doctor, a Templar grand commander. for the region and his relationship with. Paul Rivere was largely based on. studying alchemy. Paul Rivere was a. silver smith. That's true. My. grandfather, Hugh Warren, also taught. metallurgy at Denver University. My. great-grandfather James Bren also knew. Metallurgy and he was the grand lecturer. for the Masonic Grand Lodge of. Pennsylvania and he was a grand. commander of the Knights Templar. True. My father was Steven De Hogan, mayor of. Aurora, Colorado and had been active in.

politics my entire life. He was also a. Templar. There are highways and. convention centers named after him in. Colorado. True. We continue covering. Colorado first at 5 and we travel to. Aurora where the city hosted a. groundbreaking event for the Steven. Hogan Parkway. Project closed about a. two-mile gap between existing six. parkway on the west and E470 on the. east. But even though he always had. politics going on, uh he always tried to. make time for us individually and to to.

make us feel special. I ran for mayor after he passed away in. a special election and lost by two. votes. Anyhow, my family on both sides. had been Templars and I was first kned. into the tradition at 8 years old as a. page. Now, I've seen these claims. challenged online, but everything I. could find says that Tim is telling the. truth about his family. There are a few. other criticisms of him online that he. addressed in his emails to me. I don't. find a lot of it relevant. It's mostly. personal, but Google him and decide for.

yourself. Here's where I stand. I've. watched and listened to interviews with. Tim that go back about 10 years. I've. read two of his books. Well, skimmed. I. watched his entire series on Gaia, which. is fascinating. By the way, Tim Hogan. has an encyclopedic knowledge of the. history of the Knights Templar. Names, dates, meanings of words, ancient. rituals, everything connecting the. Knights to ancient Egypt, various. pharaohs and kings and popes. Tim knows. it all. And if you're into this subject,

listen to one of his interviews. He's. knowledgeable and riveting. And when we. finally get the studio finished here, Tim agreed to come in and talk to me and. have his claims challenged. But what. about his claims? Well, from what I. gather, and this is only my opinion, Tim. will lean into information depending on. the situation. Meaning, if he's being. interviewed by an historian or someone. focused on hard facts, Tim sticks to the. facts. He'll bring up the theories and. label them as such. legend says or. people say, that sort of thing. If he's.

in a forum where the wild claims are. expected, he'll lean into those. Now, look, I love Gaia. I'm a paid. subscriber. But everybody on that. channel believes everything. And a lot. of it is bunk. A lot of it. But Gaia. viewers want the wild stuff. What was Atlantis? Was it a place, a culture, and what. happened to it? I'm Timothy Hogan, Grandmaster of the Knights Templar. And. I'm Scott Walter, a forensic geologist.

and a Knights Templar. And this is. Mysteries of the Knights Templar. I don't think Tim believes every theory. he discusses. I think he's intelligent. and entertaining, and I think he caters. to the audience. Now, at first, that. might sound dishonest, but it's exactly. what I do here. I tell the story, the. legend, the myth as it's meant to be. told. Then we break it down together. I'm not trying to lie to you. I'm trying. to entertain you. I'm not a journalist. I talk to a fish. We do this for fun.

Now, there are some bold claims that Tim. sticks by. Like the vaults containing. the arcs and oaries of remains. He says. these are real. He's seen them and the. information is coming out. The purpose. of the show on Gaia is to, in Tim's. words, bring people up to speed. Okay, that's fair. But that's not evidence. And bold claims need hard evidence. I'm. going to be very honest. One of my most. loyal patrons was upset about the Mary. Magdalene, Jesus, John part of the.

story. That's the oaryuary, the bones. He felt it was insulting to Christianity. and I should leave it out. But it's such. an explosive claim, I needed to tell you. about it. If I left it out, I'd feel. like a liar and a coward. That said, I. did check with other people of faith in. my community. They said, "It's part of. the story. Leave it in." And if you. followed this channel for a while, you. know that I greatly respect religion and. people of faith. Well, so uh I mentioned. the arcs. Uh accordingly, we also have.

uh also with the bones of certain holy. figures that we're hanging on to. By the. way, I've only seen Tim discuss that. story about the bones once, and he was. reluctant to do so. He knows it's. touchy. Well, okay. Well, you just can't. get away with Without. naming names, assawaries of whom? Uh, well, what would we would be referred to. as the holy families. So, it would be,

you know, John the Baptist, Jesus, Mary. Magdalene, and their kids. He said he'll. allow DNA testing, but he was also very. clear that he had no intention of. insulting anyone's faith. One of the. biggest hurdles that we're trying to get. over with all of this is that. uh. [Music]. we're not trying to invalidate anybody's. beliefs. Uh we're just trying to say that there. might be a little bit more to the story.

And I believe him on that point. Tim's. been accused of doing so many interviews. and giving so many lectures because he. wants to sell books and get people to. watch his show. Does that mean he's. lying? No, he's promoting. Graham. Hancock is everywhere when he has a book. out. He wants people to buy it and read. it. So what? I'm a huge fan. I buy all. of Graham's books and watch all of his. shows and interviews. I've seen every. minute of him on Rogan. I don't have to. believe everything Graham says, but I. enjoy the material. Same with Tim Hogan. You don't have to believe his story to.

enjoy it. Stories of Atlantean treasure, free energy, and ancient documents. That's nothing new. Those legends have. been around forever now. They may be. true, but until we have physical. evidence, they are still legends. So, is. Tim just jumping on the Atlantis. bandwagon, or is the link between the. Knights Templar and Atlantis real? Are. there really underground vaults hidden. around the world with ancient technology. that could rid us of poverty and war? The arcs, the artifacts, the emerald. tablet, the mana, the bones. Are they.

real? Well, I need to see them. But if you. choose to believe the story without. physical proof, that's okay, too. I'm. not trying to persuade you one way or. another. Tim insists that the Templars. will reveal these artifacts very soon. If there are no artifacts, why make that. promise? When he talks about the divine. in each of us, he seems to believe it. But that could be my own bias because I. also believe that the divine God, the. universal energy, the whatever you call. it, I believe that is in each of us. And.

I don't think that belief has to. contradict anyone's faith. That's why. it's called faith. If Tim Hogan is. telling the truth, humanity's future. might not be as doomed as we think. And. maybe the catalyst, the change, the. evidence we need is hiding in a vault. right now, right beneath our feet. I. don't know if it is, but I truly hope. so. [Music].

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aware. Did Stanley Cubri fake the moon landing. alone on a film set of shadow people. there? The Roswell aliens just fought the. smiling man. I'm told. and his name was cold. I can't. I'm dancing with the fishes and your. fish on Thursday night. and.

all through the night. All I ever wanted was to be the truth. One more through the night. [Music]. The M sightings and the solar storm.

still come to gather this young city. underground. Mysterious number stations, planet. circle to project star gave and what the. dark watchers found. We're in a simulation. Don't you worry. though. The black nights that a lot of. me so I can't believe I'm dancing with. the fish.

on Thursday night when they chase you. and my all through the night. I ever wanted to hear the truth. So my. all through the night. that's when they change you. all through the night.

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