William Cooper's Mystery Babylon: Part 11 - The Templars and the Assassins (aire

d March 2nd, 1993)

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No matter what country you're in, or what language you speak: welcome, around th
e world, to the Hour of the Time. I'm your host, William Cooper.

(opening music: [i]Long As I Can See The Light[/i], by Creedence Clearwater Revi
val)

Tonight folks, I come to you with a heavy heart. For another one, actually two,
of my predictions...one has come true, one is about to come true. The one that h
as come true involve the loss of life and the injury of over five hundred people
. And of course, I'm talking about the bombing of the World Trade Center in New
York City. As far back as 1989, and ever since, I've been predicting major terro
rist attacks upon the United States. The primary number one target: New York Cit
y. I have said it so many times, and so many people attending my lectures, liste
ning to my broadcasts, and who have read my book, are familiar with it. I never,
[i]never[/i] enjoy being right when it involves the loss of life and human inju
ry.
Nevertheless, it is another chalk mark on the board, and I remain the most accur
ate predictor of future world events in the history of the world. €But the one tha
t is about to come true, and has not yet, is the prediction that I made that the
United States would send troops to Yugoslavia, and it appears that that is goin
g to happen in the very near future. Anyway, we will see, won't we, as we move i
nto the New World Order, and all of these events are planned to take us directly
into one-world totalitarian socialist government. To all those people in New Yo
rk who lost relatives, or who had friends or relatives that were injured, I offe
r you my deepest compassion, sympathy, and I wish that I could tell you that tha
t was the end of it, but I can tell you that it is only the beginning. Unless pe
ople wake up, it will escalate and there will be more.
Don't forget, folks, Monday, March 15th, 8pm, LaFayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Bou
levard in San Diego. I'll be there, I'll be giving a three-hour presentation, en
titled [i]The Sacrificed King: On the Assassination of John F. Kennedy[/i]. In i
t, I will directly connect to the occult worship of Mystery Babylon, the secret
societies, and specifically to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which really is
just the outward form of the old Knights Templar. And I also believe, have reas
on to believe, that the sovereign and military order of the Knights of Malta was
involved, which is just another branch of the old Templar order. So make sure t
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Well, let's continue where we left off and, uh, this is about the society in the
Middle East known as the Assassins, and we've covered quite a bit of their hist
ory already:

[Reading from [i]A History of Secret Societies[/i], written by Arkon Daraul]:

"But this secret society, [the] most successful of secret societies showed that
its strength ultimately depended upon a powerful leader. [Well,] Kia Mohammed wa
s no such leader, and little by little it became obvious that his son, Hasan the
Hated, was the stronger personality."
[William Cooper]: Now remember, Kia Mohammed was the Old Man of the Mountain, an
d the mountain lair was called, "The Eagle's Nest."
"Now Hasan, through some magnetic power, was able to capture the imagination of
the Assassins, soon having it believed that he himself was none other than the P
ower of All Powers, the Hidden Imam, who had been mentioned by the first Grand M
aster; an incarnation of all greatness. So important was [Hasan] that he was the
fountain of power, and others only held a [very small] measure of authority bec
ause he allowed them to have it [William Cooper: for no other reason].
"This final absurdity was lapped up by members who had been conditioned to belie
ve in things which were not, shall we say, exactly self-evident to the ordinary
man. The doctrine of the all-powerful Invisible Imam was a part of Ismailism; an
d Hasan was ready even during his early manhood to assume the role. But, since h
is father was able to assert himself by having some two hundred and fifty of Has
an' followers murdered, he thought it wiser to hold his hand. In 1163 his chance
came. Mohammed died, and Hasan II issued an order to all Ismailis to collect be
low the castle of Alamut.
"Never before had such an assembly of killers, fanatics and dedicated perverters
of the truth been seen. Hasan, probably in a state of megalomania, assured them
 that he had received a message from the Almighty that as from now, all the bond
of religion were loosed: everyone might do as he liked."
[William Cooper]: Later, in the modern age, we would hear that again as, "The wh
ole of the Law shall be: do as thou wilt."

"It was not necessary [he said] to keep up pretences. And, furthermore, he, Hasa
n, was none other than the Hidden Imam. His word was law; and he was a form of t
he divinity, not merely relaying instructions from above [William Cooper: but [i
]the[/i] divinity].
"There was one further obstacle [folks]. According to Ismaili doctrine, the Hidd
en Imam was to be of the Family of Hashim, the blood of Mohammed the Prophet. Su
ch descendants were known and revered: and it was common knowledge that Hasan II
was not one of them. He overcame this difficulty by stating that he was not in
fact the true son of Kia Mohammed the Persian, but an adopted child of the Calip
hial family of Egypt. This pretence was carried on for four years, during which
the crazed Hasan showed that he was not as mad as he might have been, by consoli
dating quite efficiently the power of the cult. Eventually, he was assassinated
by his brother-in-law, Namwar ('The Famous'). Now the father-to-son succession s
eemed to be established. Mohammed II, son of Hasan II, began the cultivation of
letters and sciences which was to distinguish successive Grand Masters of the Or
der. It was a conceit of his, in the time of the greatest flowering of Persian l
iterature, that he was supreme among poets and philosophers. He used his assassi
ns [also] to drive this point well home. The Imam Razi, one of the greatest thin
kers of the time, refused to acknowledge the Assassins as the most advanced theo
logians: so Mohammed II sent an envoy to him, promising either a swift death by
dagger or a pension of several thousand gold pieces a year. Suddenly [William Co
oper: Oh yes, suddenly!] the learned Imam's discourses seemed to lose their bite
. One day, soon afterwards, he was asked why he did not attack the Assassins as
of old. 'Because,' said the old man, with a nervous glance around the assembly w
here a murderer might lurk, 'their arguments are so sharp, and pointed [William
Cooper: and indeed, they were].'
"For thirty-five years Mohammed II ruled the Ismailis with a rod of iron; the on
ly law was that of obedience to the Assassin will. The observances of ritual Isl
am were abolished. A new star had arisen [William Cooper: Remember that star?]:
a power to stiffen resistance to Crusader penetration; Saladin, who was to becom
e an implacable foe of the Assassins.
"The Syrian branch of the cult grew in power, while the activities of the Easter
n Assassins were carried out much more quietly, with missionaries being sent to
India, Afghanistan, even the remote Pamir mountains which straddle China and Rus
sia, where even today adherents of the sect are to be found. Saladin had overcom
e the other Ismaili branch and original home of Assassinism - Egypt - and restor
ed the true faith to the people of the Nile. He now had enough booty for ten yea
rs' war against the Crusaders in Palestine, and troops to spare. His first task
was to unify the forces of Islam; and this he determined to do by force, if nece
ssary. Sinan, Ancient of the Assassin cult in Syria, decided to oppose this terr
ible enemy of the Fatimites. Three assassins fell upon Saladin and nearly killed
him. This made the sect a priority target for the Saracen chief. The Old Man of
the Mountain, for his part [William Cooper: Who was now Mohammed II], now unlea
shed a succession of fanatics, in every kind of disguise, upon Saladin. By 1176,
Saladin decided that an end must be put to the cult. He invaded their territory
and started to lay it waste, when the Assassin chief offered him freedom of act
ion to fight the Crusaders, and no, [i]no[/i] further attempt upon his life, if
the cult were spared. These terms were agreed to, and henceforth no Assassin eve
r again attempted to molest Sultan Saladin.
"This period introduces Sinan as yet another strange and terrible Assassin leade
r. [For] he had decided that he was the incarnation of all power and deity, and
that he would live the part. Sinan was never seen to eat or drink, sleep, or eve
n to spit."
[William Cooper]: Now can you imagine this? A living, human being never seen to
eat or drink, sleep, or even to spit.
"Between sunrise and sunset he stood on a pinnacle of rock, dressed in a hair-sh
irt, and preached his own power and glory to delighted Assassins."
[William Cooper]: Have you ever worn a hair shirt? Have you ever stood on a pinn
acle of rock between sunrise and sunset? I mean, every sunrise and sunset, and w
earing a hair shirt every sunrise and sunset? Well, folks, this is historic fact
. This is not something that someone made up.
"Thus, at one and the same time, there were two chiefs of the Order, each busily
telling his own followers that he, and he alone, was God [was God!]. Hasan in P
ersia, Sinan in Syria, each commanded legions of devoted killers, all committed
by oath to follow his path.
"When Mohammed II died, he was succeeded by his son Jalaludin, who completely re
versed the orders that the Assassins were to have no outward religious observanc
es. [You see] he felt that he could do a great deal by adopting the cloak of ort
hodox piety, and sent ambassadors far and wide to announce his maintenance of th
e true faith. He went so far as to curse his predecessors publicly, in order to
convince the incredulous that such a people as the Assassins could turn over a n
ew leaf. As a result of what would today be called a long-term and comprehensive
propaganda plan, he was acknowledged as a religious leader by half the orthodox
monarchs of Islam, and (the first Assassin to be so styled) came to be termed P
rince Jalaludin.
"Jalaludin died in 1203, after twelve years of leadership of the cult, handing o
ver to Alaeddin ([or] Aladdin [William Cooper: And you guys thought that it was
just a storybook tale, didn't you? Aladdin), a child of nine years of age. Weak,
inefficient, stupid, Alaeddin made little mark upon history."
[William Cooper]: Except in the classic tales of Arabia, the [i]1001 Arabbian Ni
ghts[/i], for Aladdin in the [i]1001 Arabian Nights[/i] is Aladdin, the leader o
f the Assassins.
"It is said that his main activity was tending sheep, to which he was passionate
ly attached, and he even had a small hut built in a sheepfold, where he spent mo
st of his time. [Aladdin] was extraordinarily cruel, in spite of the contact wit
h the sheep, and continued to terrorize in time-honored fashion any person, grea
t or small, who did not pay tribute or otherwise co-operate with the organizatio
n.
[William Cooper]: And even today, those in power who are in contact with sheep m
ost of the time (laughs) ultimately turn out to be same. And we all know who the
sheeple are, don't we?
"The Assassins' hands, ears and eyes were everywhere. Once fully initiated, a ma
n might be sent to a place a thousand miles away...to take up residence and live
: waiting for the moment when orders came to him from Alamut to fulfill his fata
l destiny [William Cooper: and all the while in-between, furnishing intelligence
to the central headquarters of the Assassins]. A story is told of the court of
the Shah of Khwarism, thus: 'The Ismaili ambassador spent some time with the Viz
ier. One day, after a splendid banquet when the wine which they had been drinkin
g in violation of the law had mounted into their heads, the ambassador told the
Vizier by way of confidence that there were several Ismailis among the pages, gr
ooms, guards and other persons who were immediately about the Sultan. The Vizier
, dismayed and at the same time curious to know who these dangerous attendants w
ere, besought the ambassador to point them out to him, giving him his napkin as
a pledge that nothing evil should happen to them. Instantly, at a sign from the
envoy, five of the persons who were attendants in the chamber stepped forth, avo
wing themselves to be concealed Assassins, "On such a day and at such an hour,"
said one of them, an Indian, to the Vizier, "I might have slain thee without bei
ng seen or punished; and if I did not do so it was only because I had no orders
from my superiors."'
"The Vizier [of course] begged for his life. But word got the Sultan, who ordere
d the Assassins to be apprehended and burned alive, and 'the five chamberlains w
ere cast on the flaming pyre, where they died exulting at being found worthy to
suffer in the service of the great Sheikh of the Mountain [William Cooper: so po
werful was their devotion to the cult].' The Assassins had the last laugh, for a
n order arrived immediately afterwards from Alamut, that the Shah must pay ten t
housand pieces of gold as compensation for each man killed - which he did [Willi
am Cooper: or be killed himself].
"Another subsidiary activity which the Assassins delighted in was holding captiv
e in Alamut of useful, rare and distinguished personages who could be of value t
o them in educational, military or other spheres. One was a physician, another a
famous astronomer, a third the greatest painter in Persia, who worked to the or
der of the chief alone.
"The end of a chapter was near, for the Mongol hordes under Halaku, lieutenant o
f Chinghiz, were steadily destroying all the civilization of Islam which lay in
their inexorable path westwards. Rukneddin, son of Alaeddin, succeeded him and t
ried at first to turn the Mongol tide. After a series of encounters, pitched bat
tles, intrigues and counter-intrigues, Rukneddin was taken. He played for time a
s long as he could, but was eventually murdered in his own turn by the victoriou
s Mongol chief's men. Assassin power in Persia was broken, and what remained of
the members were ordered - none knows by whom - to conceal their faith and await
a signal that the cult was in full operation again. Alamut was silenced, and th
e Syrian headquarters alone remained."
[William Cooper]: And if it had not been for the refusal of the Christian kings
in Europe to send ambassadors to make a treaty, or a new Crusade, with the Mongo
l horde, then all of Islam would have been decimated. But it was not, for the Ch
ristian kings, even though they would have liked to regain their foothold in the
Middle East, had problems of their own and ignored the Mongol emissaries.
"It was a long time until the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt was able to overcome the Mo
ngol thrust. In 1260, however, he carried the banners of Islam victoriously agai
nst them, and restored the fortress of Alamut and other properties to the Assass
ins, who were strongly surviving underground. They soon found that they had exch
anged one master for another, for the Egyptians were now employing them for thei
r own purposes [William Cooper: and required them to undergo a new initiation, t
hat of the ancient Egyptian Mysteries of Babylon]. Ibn Batuta, the great travele
r of the fourteenth century, found them well entrenched in their former strong p
laces, being used as the 'arrows of the Sultan of Egypt with which he reaches hi
s enemies.'
"The supposed suppression of the creed which followed the Mongol destruction did
not in fact take place. Copying each other, historians (laughs) have asserted t
hat Assassinism died six hundred years ago [William Cooper: nothing could be fur
ther from the truth]. Now and again, however, fresh facts of their continued exi
stence still come to light. In the eighteenth century an Englishman, the British
Consul at Aleppo in Syria, was at pains to make this better known: 'Some author
s assert,' he writes, 'that these people were entirely extirpated in the thirtee
nth century by the Tartars... but I, who have lived so long in this infernal pla
ce, will venture to affirm that some of their spawn still exists in the mountain
s that surround us; for nothing is so cruel, barbarous and execrable that is not
acted, and even gloried in, by these cursed [Assassins].'
"The Assassins were widely dispersed throughout Asia. The rise of the Thugs, the
secret society of assassination of India, followed the Mongol invasion of Persi
a. indeed, at least one of the Thug recognition-signals (Ali bhai Salam!) indica
tes salutations to Ali, the descendant of the Prophet most greatly revered by th
e Assassins. Ismailis, not all of them recognizing the one chief, reside in plac
es as far apart as Malaya, East Africa and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). They would not ne
cessarily feel that they are Assassins in the same sense as the extremists who f
ollowed the old Sheikhs of the Mountains; but at least some of them revere the d
escendants of the Lords of Alamut to the extent of deification.
"The modern phase of Ismailism dates from 1810, when the French consul at Aleppo
found that the Assassins in Persia recognized as their divinely-inspired chief
a reputed descendant of the Fourth Grand Master of Alamut, who then lived at Keh
k, a small village between Isfahan and Tehran. This Shah Khalilullah 'was revere
d almost like a god and credited with the power of working miracles... the follo
wers of Khalilullah would, when he pared his nails, fight for the clippings; the
water in which he washed became holy water.'
"The sect next appear to the public gaze through an odd happening. In 1866, a la
w case was decided in Bombay. There is in that city a large community of commerc
ial men known as Khojas: 'A Persian,' the record tells us, 'Aga Khan Mehalati (i
.e., a native of Mehelat, a place situated near Khek) had sent an agent to Bomba
y to claim from the Khojas the annual tribute due from them to him, and amountin
g to about £ 10,000. The claim was resisted, and the British court was appealed to
by Aga Khan. Sir Joseph Arnold investigated his claim. The Aga proves his pedig
ree, showing that he descended in a direct line from the fourth Grand Master of
Alamut, and Sir Joseph declared it proved; and it was further demonstrated by th
e trial that the Khojas were members of the ancient sect of the Assassins, to wh
ich sect they had been converted four hundred years before by an Ishmaelite miss
ionary, who composed a work which has remained the sacred book of the Khojas.'
"In the First Afghan War, the then Aga Khan contributed a force of light cavalry
to the British forces. For this he was awarded a pension. Hitti, in his History
of the Arabs, notes (p. 448, 1951 edition) that the Assassin sect, known as Kho
jas and Malwas, gave over a tenth of their revenues to the Aga Khan, who 'spends
most of his time as a sportsman between Paris and London.'
"The influence of the new form of organization and training, as well as initiato
ry techniques, of the Assassins upon later societies has been remarked by a numb
er of students [William Cooper: and I have found in my research that it's absolu
tely true]. That the Crusaders knew a good deal about the Ismailis is shown from
the detailed descriptions of them which survive. S. Ameer Ali, an Orientalist o
f considerable repute, goes further in his assessment: 'From the Ismailis the Cr
usaders borrowed the conception which led to the formation of all the secret soc
ieties, religious and secular, of Europe. The institutions of Templars and Hospi
tallers; the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola, composed by a body of
men whose devotion to their cause can hardly be surpassed in our time; the fero
cious Dominicans, the milder Franciscans - may all be traced either to Cairo or
to Alamut. The Knights Templar especially, with their system of grand masters, g
rand priors and religious devotees, and their degrees of initiation, bear the st
rongest analogy to the Eastern Ismailis.'"
[William Cooper]: We've got to take a break, folks. I'll be right back, right af
ter those short pause.
(break music: [i]Moonglow[/i], words by Eddie De Lange, music by Will Hudson and
Irving Mills, made famous by Benny Goodman)

[William Cooper]: In the year 1110, a mysterious order called the Prieuré de Sion
appeared upon the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This mysterious secret order, the P
rieuré de Sion, was eventually to crown the first king, the first Christian king o
f Jerusalem. When they appeared in the Temple Mount in 1110, they recruited nine
knights to comb, to scour the Temple Mount, the passages and caverns and tunnel
s beneath for the ancient remains of the relics of their religion.

[continuing reading from [i]A History of Secret Societies[/i], by Arkon Daraul,

"Later in A.D. 1118, nine knights, [supposedly] concerned for the welfare of pil
grims to the Holy Land, bound themselves together in the creation of a knightly
Order."
[William Cooper]: This order, again existing of nine knights, just like the orig
inal nine knights, were commissioned by the Prieuré de Sion.
"In under two hundred years [folks] this organization had become one of the most
powerful single entities - if not the greatest - [William Cooper: power ever to
exist] in Europe."
[William Cooper]: They were the first international bankers. The first that ever
existed in the world.
"A few years later it was utterly destroyed."
[William Cooper]: They say, however, as you're going to find out, they were not
destroyed at all, but merely driven underground.
"The zeal of religion, the conditioning which made men support a dedicated cause
with all of their might, was likewise the instrument of their destruction. Noth
ing less than religious fervor could have smashed the Order: as nothing less cou
ld have created it."
[William Cooper]: And folks, you're going to find it difficult to believe, but t
he rise of this order and destruction, at least publically, of this order has su
ch a great bearing on events today that you could say that everything that has h
appened since has been brought about by this one series of acts.
"Were the Knights Templar devil-worshippers, secret Saracens indulging in obscen
e orgies? Did they adore a head, spit on the Cross, use the word, 'Yallah' [Will
iam Cooper: which means literally in Arabic, 'Oh, Allah,'] in their rituals? Did
they learn their ways from the terrible sect of the Assassins?"
[William Cooper]: Well, yes folks, they did. And they are the link -- at least,
in that day, would have been considered the modern link -- between the ancient M
ystery Religion of Babylon and Europe. For the religion had come to Europe long,
long before the Templars ever emerged, and made their appearance in the ancient
worship of the sun by the druids and the Celts, and the tribes, the Germanic tr
ibes who had made their way thousands of years ago from the Middle East up throu
gh Asia, and across Russia and into Europe. They brought Mystery Babylon with th
em, and practiced it as what we now know of today is the pagan religion. And Sto
nehenge is actually an ancient Babylonian temple of the sun. And you will find h
ow all this connects later.
[William Cooper]: But the origin of this was lost, and the ability to control la
rge numbers of people, by the use of the hidden knowledge of the ages, was lost.
It wasn't until the Knights Templar [bought] and brought the Mystery Religion o
f Babylon to Europe, that the ancient, ancient worship of the sun again took hol
d. Amongst the Christian countries, in the guise of Christianity, which was itse
lf at that time -- I'm not talking about the teachings of Christ now, I'm talkin
g about the perversion of the teachings of Christ -- the melding of the teaching
s of Christ with the ancient worship of the sun, the Mystery Religion of Babylon
which became the Catholic church was indeed another branch of the ancient Myste
ry Religion of Babylon. And some of you out there may be confused from all of th
is.
[William Cooper]: If you've been listening from the beginning of this series, th
en you're right on target; you're not confused, you know exactly what I'm talkin
g about. If you picked up this series somewhere in the middle, then you need to
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zona, 86322.
"[Now, folks,] the original objective of the Order [of the Temple Knights Templa
r], which immediately because the subject of applause throughout Christendom, wa
s to combine the two functions of monk and knight, to live chastely and fight th
e Saracents with the sword and spirit. The Sweet Mother of God [William Cooper:
(clears throat) at least outwardly they say] was chosen as their patroness; and
they bound themselves to live in accordance with the rules of St. Augustine, ele
cting as the their first leader Hugh de Payens. King Baldwin II granted him a pa
rt of his palace to live in and gave them a grant toward its upkeep."
[William Cooper]: Now the part of the palace they lived in was an ancient mosque
, which was built upon the actual location of the old Temple of Solomon, on the
Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
"[The Knights Templar] vowed to consecrate their swords, arms, strength and live
s to the defense of the mysteries of the Christian faith; to pay complete and ut
ter obedience to the orders of the Grand Master; to fight whenever commanded, re
gardless of perils, for the faith of Christ as they understood it. Among the vow
s taken which were forbade their yielding even a foot of land to the enemy [whoe
ver the enemy was] and not to retreat, even if attacked in the proportion of thr
ee to one. They choose the name [i]militia templi[/i] - Soldiers of the Temple -
after the temple supposedly built by Solomon in Jerusalem, near which they had
been assigned quarters by the King."
[William Cooper]: ...but in reality had nothing to do with the Temple of Solomon
.
"Some say that the Templars derived their idea of their Order from that of the H
ospitallars, who looked after Catholic pilgrims to Palestine; for there was litt
le hospitality to be had from the native Orthodox Christians of those parts. Oth
ers hold that there was an even older Order from which they received their inspi
ration. No reliable evidence is, at this point however, available..."
[William Cooper]: ...according to the "establishment" historians, although for t
hose who really, really research the true history of the secret orders, and spec
ifically the Knights Templars, there's a direct connection to the Assassins and
the Roshaniya.
"Although the Templars were so poor than two men had to share a horse [William C
ooper: they say, but that is not true at all] (and their Seal commemorated this
decades after they became one of the richest communities of their time), they so
on attracted favorable notice and support."
[William Cooper]: Now, the two knights riding a horse was a symbol of sacrifice.
It denoted their vows of poverty. In truth, each knight now only had a horse, b
ut he had what they called a yeoman. He had a spare horse, he had a pack horse,
and he had several horses in reserve, and a whole train of servants. But the Kni
ghts Templar were the first true -as we know it in modern times, in modern times
there were others before, but they were the first true in modern times - and by
modern, I'd say, from the time that Europe escaped from the tribe of paganism.
In other words, I consider 1110...I consider that to be beginning of the modern
age. Although historians may disagree with me, it's the beginning of everything
that has happened since, and everything that's happening today can be traced rig
ht to the door of the Knights Templar, and that's why I say that. They were the
first modern order to practice what we now know as true Communism. They were the
ones who brought international Socialism into Europe, which has always been the
tenet and the creed of the Mystery Religion of Babylon.
"Only after one year of their establishment, Fulk, Count of Anjou, who had come
to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage, joined as a married member and gave them an annual
grant of thirty pounds of silver. This example was soon followed by other devou
t Western princes.
"For the first nine years of their existence, the knights continued to live a li
fe of chastity and poverty in accordance with their vows. They adopted a striped
black and white banner, called the [i]Beauseant[/i], after their original pieba
ld horse; and this word also became their battle-cry. Special raiment they had n
one, and they wore whatever clothes were given to them by the pious. But little
by little, as one writer puts it, they were to become 'haughty and insolent.'"
[William Cooper]: And the black and white banner, the translation of the meaning
of which was for the, again, exoteric, for the real meaning of the black and wh
ite banner was the meaning of the androgynous god, the positive and the negative
, the black and the white, the yin and the yang, the male and the female combine
d into one, and that was the real meaning of the black and white banner. And it'
s carried forth today on the floor of many of the temples of Freemasonry where t
he black and white checkered pattern exists, and in one famous cathedral in Euro
pe built by the Knights Templar. They disguised their esoteric religion in an ex
oteric manner that would be accepted by Christianity.
"Baldwin of Jerusalem, who had been a prisoner in the hands of the Saracens and
knew of their disunity, realized at about this time that Islam must eventually u
nite against the Christian invasion, and the decided that the Templars who prove
ideal allies in the battles which were to come. In 1127, therefore, he sent two
Templars with his strong recommendation to the Pope, applying for official reco
gnition of the Order by the Holy See."
[William Cooper]: And this is the first time that the Templars even were conside
red to be close to the center of religion, the Christian religion in that day, t
he Catholic church, the Pope. For they were not commissioned as a Christian orde
r; they were not commissioned by the Pope or by the church, and this is a big my
th that the Knights Templar started out to protect the church and to protect the
pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. They were established first, primarily, and
foremost as a branch of the ancient order of the Religion of Mystery Babylon. A
nd it's indicative of the strategies that they've used since to endear themselve
s to whatever the established power, or the beliefs of the majority of the peopl
e might be.
"[When they went to see the Pope, they had an] introduction to St. Bernard himse
lf, the Abbot of Clairvaux, who was known to be admirer of theirs, and who was a
nephew of one of their envoys. Then the Grand Master himself arrived in Europe,
and received the eulogistic opinion of the Abbot: 'They go not headlong into ba
ttle, but with care and foresight, peacefully, as true children of Israel. But a
s soon as the fight had begun, they rush without delay upon the foe...and know n
o fear...one has often put to flight a thousand; two, ten thousand...gentler tha
n lambs and grimmer than lions; theirs is the mildness of monks and the valor of
the knight.'"
[William Cooper]: Now folks, this was a strong recommendation, and this testimon
ial was part of the campaign of the Templars in their efforts at recognition of
the Pope. All of you who have thought that they began as a religious order in th
e first place are so way off base that's it's pathetic. And neither were the Jes
uits a religious order in the first place, but we'll get that together in anothe
r broadcast.

"[But on] the 31st [of] January [in the year] 1128, the Master appeared before t
he Council of Troyes. This formidable body consisted of the Archbishops of Rheim
s and Sens, ten bishops and a number of abbots - including St. Bernard himself -
presided over by the Cardinal of Albano, the Papal legate. They were approved;
and Pope Honorius chose for them a white mantle, completely plain. The red cross
was added by order of Pope Eugenius III in 1146."
[William Cooper]: And see, you thought the Templars thought of this...nope, not
at all. This was mandated by two Popes: first, the white mantle, completely plai
n; and then later the red cross was added by Pope Eugenius III in 1146.
"Hugh de Payens now took his delegation through France and England, and collecte
d a number of recruits. Gifts and grants were showered upon the Order; lands, re
nts and arms were forthcoming from all quarters. Richard I of England was enthus
iastic about them. By 1133, King Alfonso of Aragon and Naverre, who had fought t
he Spanish Moors in twenty-nine battles, had willed his country to them; althoug
h when the Moors finally laid him low his nobles prevented the Templars from cla
iming their rights."
[William Cooper]: Nevertheless, this was of great honor. In fact, to my knowledg
e and the knowledge and research of the history that it never had before been do
ne.
"In 1129 the Master, accompanied by three hundred knights, recruited from the no
blest houses of Europe, led a huge train of pilgrims to the Holy Land. It was at
this time that the Templars formed part of the Christian contingent which, alli
ed with the Assassins, tried to take Damascus."
[William Cooper]: And it wasn't the first time nor the last that the Christian K
nights Templar, or supposedly Christian Knights Templar (they really weren't Chr
istian at all) were allied with the Assassins.
"Were they (as the Orientalist von Hammer alleges) connected in some secret way
with the Assassins? [William Cooper: Yes, our research shows that it is a histor
ical fact. And it is also a historical fact that the Assassins were prepared to
adopt Christianity if they could gain greater power thereby (Christianity, that
is, on the surface, just as the Knights Templar had done)]. Hammer points to the
similarities of the two organizations. the followers of Hasan Ibn Sabah were in
contact with the Templars, and had a similar method of organization. They were
in existence before the Templars were formed: 'The Ismailians (Assassins) was th
e original, and the Order of the Templars, the copy.'"
[William Cooper]: And folks, the order of the Templars was the copy.
"The balance of Western opinion is against this contention; more particularly be
cause, one feels from wide reading of historians, great sympathy is felt for the
cruelly treated and a arbitrarily dispossessed Templars. Thus Keightley, who ma
de a close study of the Order those who would claim that the Templars were an As
sassin branch..."
[William Cooper]: ...but, when you do research into the (laughs) associations an
d memberships of Keightley, you'll find that Keightley was himself a Knight Temp
lar. And he said:
"'When, nearly thirty years after their institution, the Pope gave them permissi
on to wear a cross on their mantle, like the rival Hospitaller Order, no color c
ould present itself to well suited to those who daily and hourly exposed themsel
ves to martyrdom as that of blood, in which there was so much of what was symbol
ical. With respect to internal organization it will, we apprehend, be always fou
nd that this is for the most part of the growth of time and the product of circu
mstances; and it always nearly the same where these last are similar.'"
[William Cooper]: And you find this kind of rhetoric, semantics, all throughout
the writings of those who wish to cover the true origin and the true meaning of
Mystery Babylon.
"The famous question of the three thousand gold pieces paid by the Syrian branch
of the Assassins to the Templars is another matter which has never been settled
. One Opinion holds that this money was given as a tribute to the Christians; th
e other, that it was a secret allowance from the larger to the small organizatio
n..."
[William Cooper]: ...which it really was, as the Assassins wished to expand thei
r control and remember, their original goal was to take over the entire world by
the systematic infiltration and control of each individual country.
"Those who think that the Assassins were fanatical Moslems, and therefore would
not form any alliance with those who to them were infidels, should be reminded t
hat to the followers of the Old Man of the Mountains only he was right, and the
Saracens who were fighting the Holy War for Allah against the Crusaders were as
bad as anyone else who did not accept the Assassin doctrine."
[William Cooper]: And it is true today: "If you are not one of us, you are nothi
ng." "The ends justify the means." "The strength of our Order exists in the fact
that we manifest ourselves under many different names and many different occupa
tions, and sometimes even seem to oppose ourselves. But at the highest level, we
are of one mind." And I could go on, and on (laughs), and on, and you all know
that I could go on and on and on. For I have studied this for so many years that
I eat, drink and sleep it. Oh yes.
"[Well, eventually] grave charges against the Templars during the Crusades inclu
ded the allegation that they were fighting for themselves alone. More than one h
istorical incident bears this out. The Christians had besieged the town of Ascal
on in 1153, and were engaged upon burning down the walls with large piles of inf
lammable materials. Part of the wall fell after a whole night of this burning. T
he Christian army was about to enter, when the Master of the Temple (Bernard de
Tremelai) claimed the right to take the town himself. This was because the first
contingent into a conquered town had the whole spoil. As it happened, the garri
son rallied and killed the Templars, closing the breach. There seem good grounds
 for believing that the power which they had gained caused the Templars to devot
e their efforts as much to their own Order's welfare as to the cause of the Cros
s, in spite of their tremendous sacrifices for that cause. Having no loyalty to
any territorial chief, they obeyed their Master alone, and hence no softening po
litical pressure could be put upon them. [Well,] this might well have led to an
idea that they were an invisible super-state [and that is exactly the fact]; and
this does show some similarity with the invisible empire of the Assassins. If n
one can deny their bravery, their high-handedness and exclusivity, in less than
a hundred and fifty years after their founding gave them the reputation of consi
dering themselves almost a law unto themselves."

[William Cooper]: And now, dear listeners, we get into the meat, the direct conn
ection between the historical events and the events that are happening today. Do
n't miss even one episode of this series.
Good night, and may God bless each and every one of you.

(Closing music: [i]Stardust[/i], music by Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics by Mitchell P