The Templars: Behold a Pale Horse...pp. 80-82

I find it impressive that I have yet to make a real deep dive into the Knights of the Temple. Robison mentioned them in passing as one of the swindles that occurred when Baron Knigge began "mystifying" the Masons, but that was about it. The reason he mentions this is that once esotericism was introduced into the Masons, a lot of gullibility came with it. People tried to sell these particular Masons magical relics held by the Templars. Allen's book would have no need of mentioning them. If someone reading the "None Dare Call it Conspiracy" came across a line that claimed David Rockefeller was the last guardian of the Templar secrets they would have thrown the book away. While the John Birch Society saw COMMUNISTS in every shadow, opposed the civil rights movement, and believes today that Trump is their president: they seem to draw the line at this kind of magical thinking. 

Which, to repeat from last week, is what makes Cooper's book kind of refreshing. Yes, it's bonkers--but it's an honest bonkers. Let it all in, because it all leads to the same place. The powers that people like Allen attribute to the COMMUNISTS is really not that different from what Cooper is doing here--it's only different in name. While a god of the gaps/deus ex machina is a fallacious way of making an argument; at least Cooper is providing us with the machina instead of forcing us to fill in the gaps ourselves. 

Last week, Cooper introduced us to an Afghani mystical cult called the "Roshaniya" which he is also claiming is the Illuminati. This type of explanation isn't really necessary, because if a secret society controls the world--does the name really matter? At a certain point, while reading these books, my mind just reads the different names as one thing whether it is CFR, Tri-Lateral Commission, Bilderberg, Freemason, Illuminati, International Zionists, and now Roshaniya. It's all the same to me, but there's a special place in my heart for the conspiracy theorist work that mentions the Templars. This is because the theorist is no longer trying to push, say, a racist tirade like the JBS against the Civil Rights movement. This conspiracy theorist is trying to explain the world by digging back into the parts of history where even historians of the period get confused. I have no illusions that Cooper is sitting down highlighting passages of "Le Morte d'Arthur" in the olde English, reading through a dog-eared copy of Chaucer, or that he has a copy of an early manuscript of William of Tyre. I know Cooper is tossing them in with the same motive that weak writers make every other character in their show a recovering alcoholic: it provides the illusion of depth. The Templars carry the same weight that "Atlantis" does, but no one reading Cooper's book (aside from us) has read the Platonic dialogue the myth comes from "The Timaeus." Cooper is getting his information from other conspiracy sources meaning that these Templars might as well be the Jedi. 

"I believe that it is the breaking of this rule that resulted in Adam Weishaupt's downfall."

The rule that Cooper is referring to is that a person should never refer to the Illuminati/Roshaniya by name. Who, enforces this rule on Weishaupt? He was the founder and the leader of the group, so Cooper has to invent another group to be in charge. If the Illuminati were the top level, then Weishaupt's downfall can only be explained through incompetence (which is close to the truth) but that is impossible for this shadow society that controls everything. 

"One of the greatest secrets of the ages is the true story of the Holy Grail, the robe of Jesus, the remains of the Cross of Crucifixion, and whether Jesus actually died or if he survived and produced a child. Many myths surround the Knights Templar concerning these relics, and most myths throughout history always have at least some basis in fact." 

The last sentence is bunk, sometimes a myth is just a story. What's the truth of the story of the Minotaur? What's the truth in the birth story of Isis? It's a silly gamble that conspiracy theorists make because their worldview is so intermeshed with fiction and anything which argues their point. Most of us do not have a comprehensive knowledge of world myths so the gamble works, because Troy really existed-ish. 

The relics of Christian mythology are an interesting read, and I spent way too much time reading about them in 2004 to just let Cooper slide on this bullshit. All of the relics mentioned are a case of post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning. First off, these relics don't appear anywhere until the medieval period. The quest for the Holy Grail first appears in the story of Perceval in the 12th century. Before that, nothing. The stories of these relics were another way to fold Pagan stories into Christianity. Since the grail is allegedly the cup Jesus used during the Last Supper this means that the servant in the room they rented kept it? Or an attendee kept it? The Romans who executed him, wouldn't have safeguarded his things because he was the highest form of criminal to them. Even if we grant these items exist, what purpose does hiding them serve? People believe in Christianity without these items, and if presented to me, I'd have questions about provenance, but a cup from a preacher in 33 CE doesn't make a god. 

Cooper claims a lineage here because he was a member of the DeMolay society, which is merely a Masonic version of the Boy Scouts named after the last master of the Templars. The claim is weird because he brings it up and like a lot of his weird asides, he just drops it. Maybe he thinks knowledge of the DeMolay society is commonplace? I don't know. 

The import of all of this is that the relics, once the New World Order solidifies will be reunited with the Spear of Destiny. The spear, also known as "the Spear of Longinus," is the spear used to pierce Jesus's side according to John 19:34. The myth is that whoever holds the spear will never lose a battle, because Jesus's claim to fame was also a flawless war record. 

The problem with this section is that everything is so disjointed. Cooper is name-dropping at a rate that makes it impossible to move past page 80 without spending three thousand words addressing every sentence...which is the point. He's using a technique I call the "Bewilder Gambit." There's so much here that it is impossible to debunk it all and because of that density, Cooper will claim victory. 

"Oh, you aren't familiar with the apocryphal Christian mythology in the 4th century, I guess we should just assume I am correct then." 

He claims four simultaneous events of 1776 are all related and tied to the Order of the Quest and the Brotherhood of the Snake. These events are the founding of the Illuminati, the publication of the Declaration of Independence, and the publication of Adam Weishaupt's "Wealth of Nations." 

Firstly, Cooper is confusing Adam Weishaupt with Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith. Secondly, all of these events did occur in 1776 but that is their only relationship. It's sad too, because the writers of the Declaration were Freemasons, Weishaupt was a Mason, but Smith was not. However, he was Scottish, and when the Templars were crushed by the French King Philip the Fair and his puppet Pope Clement V, the Scottish Templars just shrugged and went on with their lives. It would be easy for someone like Cooper to just claim that Smith was with them, but he can't because admitting that a sect of Templars just ignored the persecution of the rest of their order would be another admission that the all-powerful masters of the world can't touch you if you don't play their game. 

There are too many secret societies and Cooper can't juggle them all into a coherent story. In the ancient world, this is a larger problem. Luckily as we move forward in history, things get streamlined and in 1826, a swindler and conman is going to get the American obsession with this kind of thing going, but that is for next week.