Chivalry! - why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection - the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant - Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword".
- Wilfred, in Ivanhoe,
by Sir Walter Scott
"Some say that the age of Chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of Chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left undressed on earth"
- Charles Kingsley
"Chivalry has delivered the world by protecting it... We have seen... to what depths [society] can descend... lose all moral sense, all honor of existence, all social vitality. Without Chivalry, the West [would be] vanquished"
- Emile Leon Gautier
"I am not afraid. I was born to do this."
- Joan of Arc
"Respect all weaknesses, and constitute thyself the Defender of them; Be everywhere and always the champion of the Right and Good against injustice and evil."
- The Code of Chivalry (III, X)
"Every man gives his life for what he believes ... Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing... To live without belief is more terrible than dying"
- Joan of Arc, 1430 AD
"Seek studious purification as lovers of Truth... by refined and studious hearts... that you forego the deceiving world and despise it"
- The Temple Rule (1, 6, 9)
"The word is mightier than the sword"
- Assyrian Magi
Teachings of Ahikar
"We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against... rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places"
(Ephesians 6:12)
"Thou has only permitted ... the sword to curb the malice of the wicked and to Defend the Right ... that Thy new Knight may use it always in Defense of all that is Just and Right!"
- Benedicto Novi Militis
The direct continuation of the Ancient Order of Knights of the Temple, the original historical institution of the founding Knights Templar from 1118 AD, restored with the full depth and substance of its ancient and medieval heritage, practicing and promoting Templar Chivalry as a modern way of life.
“The Greatest Adventure in the History of History” ™
This Official Site of the Templar Order is not simply a “website”. It features a complete online university level textbook, as a “Topical Encyclopedia”, organized by larger topics for deeper understanding.
The Encyclopedia on this site is over 620 pages (if printed), including over 1,540 numbered source references, plus hundreds of inline Bible references.
(Begin with the Cover & Preface of the Encyclopedia)
The separate Official Membership Platform, for Joining and Member interactions, as a central connection to the Templar Order, is the secondary “Website”, found at the following link:
The original and modern Templar Order, founded in 1118 AD, a Sovereign Principality in 1120 AD confirmed in 1139 AD, restored as a non-territorial (international) State in 2013 AD, with an official Government in diplomatic relations, representing the nation-state of cultural Templarism.
(Start with the Introduction to the restored Order)
Suggested Reports for the most popular Topics about the Order
Since the beginning of the written historical record in the earliest languages ca. 3,500 BC, probably the most dramatic adventure, of such legendary impact that it inspired centuries of generations to preserve sacred knowledge and traditional values, is that of the Knights Templar.
Accordingly, the Templar Order can reasonably be described as literally:
“The Greatest Adventure in the History of History” ™.
The restored Templar Order does not present merely some “version” of history, does not rely on any “secrets” of some “oral tradition” of history, and does not ask people to “believe” in its statements by its own authority.
All facts which could be questioned as “unknown” or “controversial”, are solidly backed by evidence and quotes from primary sources, with source references.
Therefore, here all “lost history” is restored and provided as “found”, all “unsolved mysteries” are fully revealed as “solved”, and all “secrets” are made public as the collective heritage of humanity, all for the original Templar mission of promoting Chivalry for upholding the pillars of civilization.
Join us on this Great Adventure, by rediscovering the Templar way of life of Chivalry applied in the modern world, as the key to unlock time-tested historical solutions to modern problems.
As the philosopher David Hume said in 1748 AD, adopted by the physicist Pierre LaPlace in 1812 AD, paraphrased by the astronomer Carl Sagan ca. 1980:
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”
In that scholarly spirit of Factual Truth, this Official Information Site was developed to entirely skip the modernist practice of making “claims”, and directly proceed to deliver volumes of evidence.
The required “extraordinary evidence” is provided as verifiable academic source references, directly from primary sources of the historical record and authoritative scholarship, in hundreds of numbered footnotes, consisting of conclusive evidence, such that all facts in these materials are proven publicly.
These materials feature extensive quotes, directly from historical documents, allowing the founding ancestors of the original Templar Order to tell us the Truth, as they lived it, in their own words, as written by their own hand.
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