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the Ophites and Templars understood the cross [to be a symbol of] the Tree of Life, or that Baphometic character which, in a Gnostic sense, ought to trample underfoot the dragon: that is, the overseer of this world.

Nearly all are gilded with silver (with a very few that are solid), which, as gilded things, served not for money, but as tokens for brothers to recognize one another.

(These were fortitude and prudence, and, being linked together with love (that is, paiderastias, [Greek, pederasty]), made all other things worthless. They though the only virtues to be what would open the way to government, and they supported [these].

They believed that at the right time, the occasion would come in which Gnosis sitting on the throne, the lion slain, and the dragon (or the world) trampled under the heel, [they] would gain control over every spiritual and temporal power. The Templars, therefore, thought the only virtues to be political ones.

Each order, though distinct, wore a white mantle with red insignias (a cross among the Templars, and a sash among the Assassins). They had numerous institutions that were in agreement in an amazing way, especially in that they very zealously practiced revealed religion (which their own arcane doctrine wholly repressed), and very urgently defended it.

in the order of the Assassins, and in that of the Templars, each of which, fortified by the arcane doctrine, sought to conquer the world in nearly the same way. In only this were they different: The Assassins dealt widely with their enemies also with the dagger. However, the Templars used only the sword against the enemy.

That this goal of the moral (or, better, immoral) Gnostic-Ophitic doctrine is precisely the same as what has been placed before true initiates at the ultimate doctrinal grade of the Assassins and of the Ismailis, we see in the words “Nothing is to be believed, and everything is permissible.”

To this depraved wisdom they connect unrestrained conduct, so that they seem to have proposed as the highest expression of wisdom the precepts “Pursue all,” and “All is permitted.”

They substituted in place of that golden sentence, “Know yourself,” the crafty, “know all, but let no one know you.” On this truly Machiavellian principal rests their whole politic, which up to now they try to sustain by the gospel precept, “Be wise as serpents.”

lustrations used not only in the Bacchanalia, but also everywhere in the mysteries of the Good Goddess. These lustrations came under the name of “baptism,” or Baphes, since those initiated were called Baptai.

First, we will investigate briefly the Gnostic cosmogony, and their doctrine about the origin of evil in the most ancient mythologies.

However, since they abandoned what can be subjected to the senses, wishing to penetrate more deeply into the mysteries of the spiritual world and of the origin of evil, they were driven into an abyss of the most ridiculous fables.

Thiscame down to the point where, persuading themselves that [there is] nothing more than the duplex genre of nature, masculine and female, which then resulted in the worship of the sun, moon, stars and elements, to which every mythology can be reduced.

[But] after numerous and vexing labors attempting to discover true knowledge, they found only that they knew nothing. Frustrated in their hope, they nevertheless busied themselves to dig up the true beginning of all, and to explain the primal cause of all phenomena.

The entire doctrine of Gnosis, as we see, revolves around two main points, that is to say, cosmogony & generating, so that it seems not at all granted to mortals to know how this world was generated, and to investigate how through generating it is continually preserved. Cognition of this mystery, and of the origin of evil, was the main focus of philosophy among all peoples, which they tried to attain in various ways

Ophitic [doctrine] of the Templars, we will demonstrate an intimate connection between this and the most ancient doctrines of Persian cosmology and Syriac mythology, so that by [the phrase] “that ancient oriental philosophy” (always in heavy use by recent historiographers), it easily becomes clear that this is to be understood as nothing but Gnosis.

From the number of these apostles, too, was the [well-known Hassan Sabah, founder of the Assassins. He became the leader of this most famous order through sword and dagger. He resided in Persia in the citadel called Alamut, and ruled over two very large priories according to his own whim, one of them belonging to Chorassania, in the East, the other one, the western, in the mountains of Syria.

There were various levels to it, through which the candidate was launched. Ultimately he was taught to “believe nothing and that it is permissible to do anything.”
Apostles of this incredible sect were soon diffused through all of Asia. Everywhere they would seek and adopt followers. Thus this new, impious doctrine, under the name Ismailis, acquired very great fame, and with fame, power.

However, this temple of wisdom (as we learn from Macrisio) is a certain kind of academy in which were handed down precepts of mathematics for the clarification of all philosophies, enhanced by regal wealth, and the numerous crowds of students of every kind and sex. In addition to this public doctrine, there flourished in the same place, also, an arcane discipline.

We believe that “temple of wisdom” (Darol-hikmet, [Arabic writing]), which Hakemus established in Cairo at the end of the eleventh century, to have been the very first Masonic Lodge to which histories attest.

regarding establishment of the first Freemasonic temple, or Solomonic House, from Arab historians, deserve greater attention, since no episode in history is known to us which better explains the establishment of Freemasonry.

We have seen in the bas-reliefs, idols, and bowls found at Templar churches that the Lion, the dragon and the bear represent Jaldabaoth, the one presiding over the world and the author of effeminacy. Also, the lion, bear and tiger were to the Freemasons bitterly hostile animals who disturbed the peace of the “blessed valley.”

according to St. Epiphanius the Ophites taught that the one presiding over this world has the likeness of a dragon. By it souls not having Gnosis are absorbed, and through its tail poured back into this world.

from the Apology of Justin Martyr for Christians we learn that a cup was used in the Mithraic mysteries to point to the mystery of the Eucharist. These cups symbolize the generative power of the Sun which inseminates and produces all.

Two bowls bear the meaning of both of the sexes, one the masculine, meaning sexual relations; the other one, the feminine, meaning childbirth.
Therefore, this bowl references nothing but the female sex as a symbol of “generation”, which also can be seen on the bases of the three idols, with this one difference: that in that place, instead of a phallus, there blazed a fire, which represents “generative power”.

It is well known that bowls and cups were used in all of the mystery schools

This Gnostic baptism was understood to be not a bath of redemption through water, but a spiritual purification through fire

The composite name Baphomet.
Greek expression.
Baphe meteos: “Tincture of Mete” or “Baptism of Mete”