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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 Wolter, a forensic geologist

and a Knights Templar, and this is Mysteries of the Knights

Templar.

So the question is, who were the medieval Knights Templar,

and who are the Templars today.

But more importantly than that, what

is the connection between the Templars and Atlantis,

and who better to ask that question than the grandmaster

himself.

Tim, who were the Knights Templar?

History has suggested that it was an order founded in 1118,

specifically, to defend pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land.

This was during the Crusades, and pilgrims needed protection

in order to go there.

But we know, in fact, this was actually a cover.

The Templar order was founded because there

was a belief there was a knowledge that there had been

a prediluvian civilization.

The Bible referred to it as the time of Noah

and that it had collapsed during a massive cataclysm.

Flood is how it's described in the Bible.

Ultimately, these Templars, they needed

to track down the pockets of survival

of the knowledge, the technology, the philosophies

that had been preserved from this prediluvian civilization.

So what I'm hearing you say is that Atlantis was not

necessarily a place that sunk into the ocean.

It was a high culture.

Yeah, it was more like a worldwide network

of information that was being preserved at different parts

of the world.

And when this cataclysm occurred,

everything fell apart.

It fell into disarray, and we went into a very dark period

in humanity.

But the Templars understood that if they were ever

going to bring Europe out of the Dark Ages,

they needed to find the remnants of this lost

civilization, the technology, the philosophy,

and use it to spur people into a new high culture.

OK, let me ask you this.

Is this a fair way to couch this that the Crusades

and the Templars involvement in Crusades

of capturing the Holy Land and establishing really

which was a base of operations so that they could

go throughout the region to round up

some of this ancient knowledge, this ancient information,

is that pretty much the story?

Yeah, while Crusaders were busy trying to fight

for the Holy Land and taking over territory,

the Templars were more concerned with digging for artifacts.

So what it sounds like to me is the Templars had a mission

even before the Crusades.

They knew this stuff was there.

How did they get that information?

Did it trickle down all the way from the time of Atlantis.

Well, it did.

You have to remember that the Templars largely came out

of Albigensian families in Southern France, which

were a Gnostic sect.

So they already had ideas that were

contrary to the popular establishments of the time.

You mean of the Roman Catholic Church?

Roman Catholic Church and the monarchies.

They were very Democratic, and they

were open to spiritual ideas in which the individual was

empowered.

This allowed them to go out and try

to seek out other communities that had these views.

In particular, there was a tradition

that caused the Templars to travel to Constantinople

to meet with a group there that was known

as the Brothers of the East.

This particular group in Constantinople

had originally come from Greece, had been established in 1057,

and they set themselves up in an area that

was known as the Church of Saint Sergius and Bacchus, which

was a building designed by an alchemist in which Pythagorean

and other ideas were incorporated

into it, Gnostic ideas.

Sacred geometry.

Sacred geometry, absolutely.

So Tim, there's a pervasive rumor within the Templar

tradition that I've heard for years,

and I would like to get confirmation from you.

The equilateral, equal armed cross

that adorned the Templars white tunics

and that they're famous for, that's a very old symbol.

Is it true that it goes back to the time of the Atlanteans?

Yeah, in fact, it's a symbol that is found all throughout

the ancient world, in particular, ancient Sumer.

It was something that was utilized

by what were known as the Anunnaki

or the gods of ancient Sumer, but you also find it

in Egypt and other places.

And it related, specifically, in ancient Sumer

to an alchemical science that was known as gra.al.

That sounds familiar.

Yes.

This came to be partially associated

with what was later to be known as the Holy Grail right, which

the Templars were said to be guarded.

So they adopted this symbol.

So a lot of people are going to ask a question,

how did these different traditions recognize each

other, how do they know who's on their side and who's not.

And I think that breaks down to signs of recognition

just like we have in our modern Templar order

and within Freemasonry.

Correct?

Correct.

Yeah, there were certain signs.

There were certain handshakes that

had been passed down from early times

that these different Gnostic families and traditions had

been holding on to.

So when Hugues de Payens and Godfrey de Saint-Omer

had inherited these things, they went to Constantinople.

They were able to exchange them with the Brothers of the East.

In particular, there was a Johannite tradition under a guy

by the name of Theoclite and another man

by the name of Michael Psellos, who

was a very famous French philosopher.

And they had been at Constantinople.

And they had the blueprints for what

Hugues de Payens and Godfrey de Saint-Omer

needed to do to form the Templar order

and, specifically, to go to Jerusalem for the next stage

of their mission.

There's documentation that has come to me over the last 15

years.

It's called the Cremona document.

And one part of it is a specific narrative

that talks about Hughes de Payens, the first grandmaster

of the Knights Templar and five other knights who

entered under the south wall and followed a tunnel system

and found an ancient ritual chamber.

How old it is unknown, but inside that chamber

they found--

or I should probably say recovered, not

discovered artifacts that they knew were there.

This included ancient scrolls, ancient knowledge,

as you mentioned, technologies in the form of instrumentation,

gold, wealth, and the remains of a very important person

in templarism going all the way back to the first century, John

the Baptist.

Is there a connection between John the Baptist

in the Johannite tradition?

There is, in fact, the entire Johannite tradition got its

name specifically from John the Baptist,

who is deemed to be the initiator of Jesus.

And according to the Johannite tradition,

he was meant to be the leader of this spiritual tradition.

Unfortunately, he was taken out early,

but the Johns of the Bible were all part of this tradition.

And it's believed that there was a succession,

a line of succession going all the way up to the Theoclite

in Constantinople, who then in turned entrusted Hugh de

Payens with this same mission.

OK, so what you're saying is there's a tradition that starts

with John the Baptist comes forward all the way

to Theoclite, right.

Correct.

How about going the other way?

Does this go all the way back to Atlantis?

It does.

And this is where we go back to some of the Babylonian

traditions that talk about the God Oannes, who

came from the sea and baptized priests kings

and gave them the keys to rebuild civilization.

It was deemed that these myths were probably

alluding to the Atlanteans, who had survived this cataclysm

and had preserved pockets of information and technology.

And it's worth pointing out that the word Oannes, the name

Oannes, whose feast day in the ancient world was June 24,

just happened to become John the Baptist day.

- That's exactly right.

And John in Greek is Ioannis.

So coincidence?

It was a tradition.

Exactly.

It was information being passed down.

The Templars recovered this.

They began their archaeological digging.

For the first nine years that they were in Jerusalem,

that's all they did was dig under the Temple Mount.

And information that they got from there

led them to other locations like Egypt, Lebanon,

and other places, ultimately, to The New World of what

was to become known as America.

Right.

Well, the evidence that we see is

in the form of Templar graffiti carved all

over the Middle East region.

That's correct.

They met with people like the Sabeans

in Northern Turkey, who were preserving

a whole tradition in the area that we now

refer to as Gobekli Tepe, which had the seeds of civilization

being preserved there, all the way down into Egypt in places

like Abydos, where they were meeting

with Coptic Christians, which was a different tradition.

And then within Jerusalem itself as they

were digging into the Temple Mount and other places, one

of the things that came across--

and this is from traditional Jewish sources--

is they came across certain jars.

And as they opened up these jars much

like we find with the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Nag Hammadi

library, they discovered these new texts, which

what we now know is, were the Zohar, the text known

as the fundamental aspects of the Zohar.

So this would have been the Genesis of Jewish mysticism,

the Zohar?

Absolutely.

Not only was it the Genesis of Jewish mysticism,

but there was information in the Zohar

that pointed to land on the other side of the ocean.

In fact, they talked about other continents and the Earth

being round and where people lived.

And this was fundamental to the Templars

in their discoveries of what there was to follow thereafter,

including going to the New World.

OK.

Just recently some images were shared

with me and some drone footage of a site that's

2 and 1/2 miles away from Gobekli Tepe.

And we've now coined the phrase for this site Templar Tepe

because there are a couple of walls with Templar graffiti

carvings that are undeniable, unmistakable, which tells us

the tradition was there.

The question is, what were they doing.

Was it somehow connected to Gobekli Tepe?

And I think the prevailing wisdom now

is pretty much universal that Gobekli Tepe was

an ancient observatory dating back

to the time of the Atlanteans because you mentioned

this catastrophic event that didn't completely

destroy the culture, significantly

reduced it almost down to nothing.

And what we see at Gobekli Tepe is this incredible observatory

was intentionally buried.

Archaeologists are saying it was intentionally

buried at the very same time of this catastrophic event that

has now been labeled the Younger Dryas impact event.

That's right.

Well, and it just so happens that this Younger Dryas impact

event, as it's being called now, falls exactly in line

with the time frame of when Plato specifically

said Atlantis collapsed.

And not only that, but we find remnants

of that same story being preserved at Edfu in Egypt

talking about this great cataclysm

and how long ago it was, and it falls in

with that exact same time period.

What we understand now as Templars

was that as that civilization collapsed,

the technology had to go into hiding.

It had to be preserved in different areas.

And certainly, places like Lebanon and Egypt and Jerusalem

became fertile places to preserve this stuff

at that time.

And one of the things that was found by the Templars

was a series of arks, which are now associated

with arks of the Covenant.

Wait a minute a series of arks?

I thought the ark was just the ark, the one ark.

No, there were multiple arks.

In fact, some traditions say that there

may be as many as 100.

The Templar order has found evidence of at least 10,

but they recovered 6, and they knew

that these things couldn't fall into the hands of the power

structures of the day.

So they had to go into hiding.

So there was a great effort on the part of the Templar order

to take these arks and try to understand them,

how they worked, and it turns out these arks what they really

were was giant capacitors.

They could generate electricity, and they

were filled with a superconductive substance,

which the Bible refers to as--

Manna.

Manna, that's right.

And manna in Hebrew just means "what is it?"

And we know now it was probably named this

because when you test this substance,

it doesn't show up as anything.

Like, most tests are done with spectroscopic analysis or--

Infrared spectrometer, X-ray diffraction.

Right.

Back then they would do a burn test

to see what color the flame was, but this

didn't show up as anything.

But it had these unusual properties.

And since they couldn't tell what it was, what is it.

OK, here's the big question though.

You said the manna was the power source, right,

and that these were capacitors, batteries.

What did they run?

Thing that we think is it was probably broadcasted

electricity throughout the planet from the old Atlantean

tradition.

They probably was a world grid network, electricity being

broadcasted around the world.

And when this cataclysm happened,

it just shut that all off.

So they were able to preserve the capacitors,

and that's about it.

But the grid was shut down.

The grid was shut down.

And the Templars were wise enough

to recognize, OK, this happened in antiquity.

It could happen again.

They had the mission of trying to rebuild civilization

to where Atlantis was before recognizing that civilization

is fragile, and it could fall apart.

So they had to preserve the keys to rebuild civilization

again and again.

When civilization collapsed, there

was an attempt to try to preserve what they could.

Some of this not only included these arks,

but they also included instructions

for government, Democratic ideas, power of the individual,

the connection of the individual to God,

and that the source of who we really are

is connected to the creator and that everybody

through their own efforts could connect with that.

This was the basis of what empowered democracy originally.

So really what you're talking about is something that

we've all heard that resonates with all humans,

that we are all born with inalienable rights--

That's right.

- as humans when we come into this world,

that we all have a basic list of things that we are entitled

to just being here, right.

That's exactly right.

And so the Templars tried to preserve that and establish

that.

There were maps of the old world.

In fact, many of these maps that the Templars were creating

and that the Templars also inherited

were later to become known as what

Admiral Piri Reis of Turkey or the Ottoman Empire at the time

was cataloging.

And he even said, hey, he got these maps from earlier maps.

Well, these were Templar maps that had been being preserved.

One of the things that's always fascinated me is

the Piri Reis map.

And there are things on that map that shouldn't be there.

Yeah, he had cataloged things prior to Columbus,

including Antarctica without ice,

and also the entire South American area.

And this seems to suggest information

that had been preserved from a previous civilization.

If you're talking about Antarctica being mapped without

ice, you're talking a long time ago.

Probably what happened was there was even a tradition from

before Atlantis that was preserving this information.

These are part of the cache of things

that the Templars discovered.

Let me guess.

Piri Reis probably a Templar?

Well, he, certainly, came out of that tradition.

You got to remember he was in Constantinople right

where the Brothers of the East were, right where the Templar

order was secretly founded.

And this was the center of commerce at the time.

It was the center of the world.

And this is where information was being brought back to.

The other thing that's really interesting about the Templars,

something I've paid a lot of attention to and studied myself

are these round churches that were used for--

well I should call them chapels, right.

Observatory chapels.

Yeah.

Laboratory astronomical chapels that actually

were observatories that were mapping the heavens.

And what we now know is that there's

a system of churches on the island of Bornholm in Denmark

in Europe that they have now figured out by using long range

alignments in the heavens to be able to calculate

the circumference of the Earth.

Now this may not seem like a big deal.

But when you are a Maritime culture

and you're traveling on the ocean,

one of the most important things you need to know

is how far is it to my destination.

That'll allow you to plan accordingly with food and water

and people, and it's going to give you a tremendous advantage

over anyone else if you know how big the Earth is

and how far away things are.

They also began to encounter a number of different cultures

that most people in Europe at the time had never encountered.

And these included groups like the Druze, the...

There were Islamic sects that were mystical in nature.

Now we would refer to them as Sufi.

There were Druid traditions, and there

were traditions within Lebanon that were really

inheritors of Phoenician traditions

and Canaanite traditions.

And in their associations with these groups

and in their travels in Egypt, there was one thing

that they found amongst them all that was secretly

being passed down, and it was this science that we now

refer to as alchemy.

Alchemy.

Yeah, and we know now, especially you find this

in Egypt at places like Abydos, where the Templars set up

headquarters.

They also set up commanderies at Philae,

at Dendera, at Edfu and a number of different places in Egypt.

But particularly, at Abydos and even at Luxor

itself and Karnak, there are depictions

of alchemical processes.

And in particular, there's depictions of these arks,

and there's depictions of the manna.

That manna putting in there was the catalyst

for the ark to work, and this manna

had to be made alchemically.

When it was produced--

How do you make manna?

What does it come from?

Well, it comes from just about everything,

but you have to be able to calcinate it down and then

extract it out of the ashes.

We're going to pour that ashy lye into this to filter.

Make sure the pH is nice and high.

I'm going to add an acid to it, taking something from above 12,

and we're dropping it down.

You can see there's stuff starting to form.

We're going to do this eight times just to clean it.

So it becomes this self-contained atom

that it becomes completely captured,

and it doesn't bind with anything.

And this was the moment.

You could also convert certain platinum metals

into manna, which we believe this is really

what Moses was doing when he burned

the Golden calf into a white powder and to feed

to the wandering Hebrews.

But it was an allegorical reference to the alchemical

science that he was performing, but it had to be veiled.

Absolutely.

And we see this depiction on the Egyptian temple walls

as well of where the pharaoh was being

fed these cakes that looked like they were cone shapes.

And they're usually depicted right next to these ark boxes,

and they're being fed to the pharaoh as this special food

that kept him healthy and that they

were being stored in these arks, which

generated the electricity.

But let's go back for a second.

I want to understand exactly how does manna work inside the ark

to create this power cell.

So what this manna is, it's platinum metals

that are in a monoatomic state.

So what that means is each atom doesn't

bind with the other atoms, and it does this

because it's in a high spin state, what's

known as a high spin state, the two

outer electrons and the atom enter into what's

known as a Cooper pair.

And when they do that, they go into this high spin state.

They're completely captured by the nucleus of the atom,

and they don't bind with the other atoms,

like, they normally would.

When this happens, they enter into a superconductive state,

and it just so happens that when you

have a container full of manna, these monoatomic atoms

if you subjected to a very weak electrostatic

or electromagnetic field--

The spark if you will.

The spark, it ends up causing the container filled with manna

to weigh less than the same container filled with nothing.

So there's an anti-gravity effect that's--

A levitation effect.

Levitation effect.

And this is the reason why the ark in the Bible

is guarded by the Levites from which we get the word

levitation later on and that two Levites could carry these arks

with rods even though the amount of gold and acacia wood

that was put into building these arks

would have caused the ark to weigh several tons.

But two people could carry it as long as it had a charge

and as long as these monoatomic atoms,

this manna was inside of it.

OK, so what you're saying is they basically had the ability

with manna when it was super charged to cause things

to levitate.

Could this be the secret to the massive megalithic blocks

that we find all over the world that have been cut and placed.

And seemingly it is impossible that any humans

with the technology that we thought

they had in the distant past actually

could have been moved this way.

Yeah, we think so.

In fact, it's even possible that they may have just taken

one of these arks, bound it to the stone,

and then that helped to cause the weightlessness of the stone

itself.

So at that point, then they could move the stones

any way they needed to.

As the Templars started discovering these things

and figuring how it worked, they realized this was a technology

that it was godlike power.

So they knew if these fell into the wrong hands,

they could be abused.

And so at this point the Templars

had a strong mission to move these arks

and these other artifacts out of the areas of Jerusalem,

of Egypt, and other areas, move them

through Lebanon into places like Portugal, France, ultimately,

Scotland and then from there move it on

over to the Americas, which they had,

of course, by this point had already been mapping

and knew about.

They knew all about it.

Well, let's just talk about the elephant

in the room to this whole plan that the Templars had,

and that's the Roman Catholic Church, right.

And it brings to mind their strategy was

something analogous to keep your friends close.

Keep your enemies closer.

And I think really that's exactly what

was going on at least for the Templar leadership.

And by aligning with the church and giving them

the impression that they were on their side

was what allowed them to have the freedom that they

did to round this stuff up with the ultimate plan of bringing

it to North America.

And I agree with you.

I think that's exactly what was going on.

And the Templars would throw the church a bone.

Every once in a while, the Templars

were responsible for starting to build

the cathedrals for the church.

But even on the cathedrals, they tried to carve and preserve

this information much like the Egyptians had

done in earlier times.

So even to this day, there's Pythagorean concepts,

Gnostic concepts, alchemical information.

You go to the front doors of Notre Dame Cathedral,

for example, there's a series of plate medallions

that show all the stages of the alchemical process.

Well, this is part of what the Templars were

trying to preserve.

They also brought over iconography.

For example, the Templar headquarters at Philae in Egypt

was the Temple of Isis.

And in this Temple of Isis not only on the temple walls

but also on the altars, there were these black basalt statues

of the goddess Isis nursing the young child Horus.

Which is identical to images of Mother Mary nursing Jesus.

That's exactly, right.

So the Templars brought that iconography over.

They gave it a new facelift.

And to preserve the memory of it,

they carved what were to become known as the Black

Madonnas, which were this same iconography but painted black,

so they looked like the statues in Egypt,

and placed them in the crypts under the cathedrals

that they were building.

So Tim, here's what I think we have.

We go back to the time of the Younger Dryas period.

Prior to that, we had a high culture

that exists that preserved ancient knowledge just

in case something happened.

And I don't think it was just in case.

I think they knew something catastrophic was coming.

I think Gobekli Tepe being covered up

is a powerful piece of evidence to support that.

And so they preserve this information.

And the survivors of that catastrophe lived on.

And eventually, the tradition, the Templar tradition

starting around the year 1000 or just after acquired

this knowledge, knew that they had

to form a Templar order that would go in and align

with the Roman church, go into Jerusalem,

round up the stuff that they needed,

find that old hidden knowledge and information, technology

that was left by the Atlanteans, take that knowledge,

use it to acquire the strength, the power to eventually bring

it over to North America.

Is that a decent synopsis?

Not only that, but they wanted to re-establish

the Atlantean tradition in order to recreate what had once been.

It had been lost but now had been found.

So really Francis Bacon was the one who wrote the new

Atlantis.

He was a Templar, and that whole book that he wrote was,

specifically, an outline to rebuild these technologies that

had been discovered by the Templars.

So Francis Bacon, he was in on the secret, wasn't he?

He was yeah.

And so what that means is the United States of America is

the new Atlantis.

Absolutely.

I'm Scott Wolter.

And I'm Timothy Hogan.

And Thanks for watching this episode of Mysteries

of the Knights Templar.