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What evidence is there

that supports the Templars' interactions

with ancient cultures found around the world

and their mission to reestablish the new Atlantis?

I'm Scott Wolter.

And I'm Timothy Hogan.

And this is Mysteries of the Knights Templar.

I think we've already established that the Templar

mission to establish the new Atlantis

was going to be in North America.

Yeah.

So they had to map it.

They traveled the whole site, and they left artifacts

all throughout it.

Possibly one of the most important artifacts

in the world, in my opinion, is the Kensington Runestone.

The world to this day still thinks

that it's a hoax that was perpetrated by the farmer who

found it back in 1898.

But we now know that that's impossible.

And after taking a careful look at it, from my perspective,

I followed the evidence trail from Minnesota

where the artifact was found all the way back to Europe.

And the evidence trail took me right to the Cistercians,

the White monks and the Knights Templar who

were also Cistercian.

Yes, the Templar order really came out

of the Cistercian order.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was the main architect of both.

He was an incredible scholar and leader within the Roman church

at the time.

He was secretly a practicing druid.

He was friends with Rashi of Troyes

who was a very famous kabbalist.

And he took all this information, infused it

into the Cistercian order, which became the scholarly body that

began to translate and catalog all the things that then

the Templar order was finding.

So the Templar order would go out, find this information,

bring it back for the Cistercians

to start to catalog.

Now remember when I was talking about the Templars

finding those ossuaries with the scrolls, the technology,

the gold, and the remains of John the Baptist?

Well, later on in the narrative, we

know that those original Templar Knights with Hugh Dupin

took those scrolls and the devices which

included a cryptex to decode those encrypted documents.

And they gave them to Bernard.

And he was the one that decoded them and learned

about other sites around the world that

had been hidden in those documents

and carefully encrypted to protect them.

But Bernard was a scholar, he was a charismatic leader,

and he was also--

secretly venerated the sacred feminine.

Certainly, Bernard, he was

a defender of the Albigensians.

The Albigensian Cathars, which were, again,

those Gnostic families that most of the Templar Knights

had come out of.

And the Albigensians as Gnostics,

they venerated the feminine.

In fact, the goddess Sophia, which

just meant wisdom, from which the word philosophy comes from

or lover of wisdom, was one of their main goals.

It represented the human soul and its fall to matter.

And then its growth and development and the freedom

to learn.

And ultimately, different goddess figures

became aspects of this Sophia.

And even beyond that, the Gnostic church at the time

had women leaders.

They had women priests, women bishops, which they still

do to this day.

So there was a very equal system,

and it was something that Bernard of Clairvaux

was familiar with, and he suddenly

tried to put that into the Roman Catholic doctrine.

I've read a lot about Bernard.

I've studied him pretty extensively.

And I have to say, in my opinion,

he is one of the most important historical figures

in the history of the world.

And nobody knows who he is.

You say Templars, they raise their hands.

Cistercians, who are they?

But you have to remember when he joined the order with 30 family

members, including two of his uncles, one of them being

the Grand Master, Hugh de Payens, came from this region

that you're talking about, these Burgundian families.

And he joined the order when there was one abbey at Château.

And then he founded two years later in 1115

the first daughter Abbey of the Cistercians

at Clairvaux, hence Bernard de Clairvaux.

But you have to understand by the time

he died in 1153, the Cistercian order had grown from one

Abbey when he joined to 300.

And then by the time the Templars

were put down in 1307, a little under 2 centuries later,

there were over 750 Abbeys across Europe

into the Holy Land, into Scandinavia the British Isles.

I mean, think about that meteoric growth.

It's an amazing success story that nobody knows about.

And here's the other thing a lot of people don't know about,

is that Bernard de Clairvaux was the one who

wrote the charter for the Knights Templar order

that was based on the Cistercian charter of prayer and work.

Not only that, but that original rule

of the Templar order was composed of 72 articles.

And each of these articles, quote,

"was said to correspond" to one of the 72 cabalistic names

of God that he had learned from Rashi of Troyes who

he was friends with.

And this brings us back into this universality

of what the Templar order was trying to do,

what Bernard of Clairvaux recognized,

and this importance of the sacred feminine.

So when the Templars who recognize the divine

spark within everybody, that everybody

was connected to that divine source,

and that there was a feminine aspect to this.

As they traveled into the new world

and began to encounter Indigenous tribes,

the Indigenous tribes had their own version of this same idea.

So they were able to connect very easily.

Well, they're all matriarchal,

the Indigenous cultures of North America.

And I've had a little bit of experience

with the Algonquin nation, specifically

the Ojibwe tribe and some of their spiritual teachings

and some of their rituals that they

practice their own form of Freemasonry that's

called the Midewiwin.

And several years ago, I was invited

to participate in a Midewiwin sweat.

And it took time for me to earn the right from the medicine man

to ask my questions.

And when my time came and he said,

Scott, ask your questions.

And I said, well, I would like to talk

to you a little bit about the medieval Knights Templar.

And he looked at me and he said, Oh, you

mean our blood brothers?

But basically, what it boiled down to

is that when the Vikings came over here starting

in the ninth century, the late 1800s up

until the very beginning of the 11th century,

they didn't get along with the natives very well.

They just sort of did what they wanted.

And if you don't like what we're doing,

then screw you essentially.

But when the Templars came over shortly after that,

they were completely different.

And they respected the Indigenous people

because this was their home.

And they understood that.

And they bonded through ritual because the Freemasonry

that the natives practiced is the same as the Templars

practice.

So this is how they were able to achieve a deep spiritual bond,

and through intermarriage.

And this is what allowed the Templars to operate and pretty

much go wherever they wanted for 400 years

before Columbus "discovered" America.

Yeah, the Templars protected the sacred in all traditions.

And it made it very easy for them

to associate with other groups.

One of the other groups in North America that the Templars

encountered was the Mayans.

So I'm really glad you brought that up,

because in this Cremona document material,

not only do we have maps and letters and encrypted messages,

but we do have artifacts.

One of those artifacts is a brass seal that's

actually a navigation device.

Inside of it, there are some metal inserts.

One of those metal inserts is a small nail about this big.

And what's inscribed on it is the word Quetzalcoatl.

Oh, Yeah.

You know something about that?

Yeah, Quetzalcoatl was

the deity, one of the main deities of the Mayans.

I mean, he was the Osiris figure, if you will.

He was the one who had died and was raised.

He had set up civilization.

The Templars recognized in this myth something

that they were familiar with themselves.

And not only that, but the Mayans and other Nahuatl

cultures, the Nahuatls included the Aztecs, the Mayans,

the Olmec, others in there, they all

had a myth that they had come from a previous civilization

that had been destroyed by cataclysm.

You've heard this before.

They escaped--

Something vaguely familiar.

Yeah.

They escaped in boats and came to this area.

In fact, this civilization, according to them

was known as Atzlan.

Well, it's not too much of a stretch

to connect Atzlan with Atlantis.

Yes.

And the Nahuatl word for Itzel really

meant like water wizards.

So there was this connection there.

Between these connections and then

there were certain hand grips that

were being exchanged that the Templars knew about, that they

had exchanged with the druids.

These were recognized by the Mayans

who had similar grips, similar initiation ceremonies.

So they recognized each other as brothers.

So this is a really important point,

because you're talking about people previously

that as far as even they knew, there

was no connection, at least in memory or anything that

had been written down.

But yet when they get together, they

have the same hand gestures, same signs of recognition

that must go back to pre-Younger Dryas.

That's exactly right.

Atlantis again.

And you could try to say, Oh, maybe

a collective consciousness.

But there's too many exact similarities.

Specific things.

Which suggests that the same tradition

was being passed down on both sides of the Atlantic.

No question.

The Templars had inherited this.

They recognized right away, hey, we're all

passing on the same tradition.

In fact, the Hopis talked about before the last shaking

of the Earth that the great spirit

had given them a hand grip that they

could recognize each other by.

And as they were separated, they knew

that if they gave this hand grip,

they would recognize each other again.

And so later on when the Conquistadors

came across the plains, they met the Hopi.

The Hopi went to give the grip.

And they didn't have it.

And they got nothing.

And they knew there would be problems.

But when they encountered groups like the Templars, they had it.

OK.

So based on all of this, let's just stick with the Maya,

and let's just talk about cultures around the world that

build these amazing temples that seemingly were

impossible to be built in the distant past,

but yet here they are.

And what we're finding archeologists saying

more and more is that they're pushing the origin

dates back farther and farther.

Now in North America, we have the Earth mounds.

And we actually have a pyramid, an earthen pyramid in Cahokia

that has a larger base footprint than the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Yeah, Collinsville, Illinois.

Yes.

Along with many other different types

of mounds at that amazing city that

was believed to have over 50,000 people living there

around 1,400 AD, which would have been

about the same size or even smaller

than London at the same time.

But the prediction that I want to make

is that there has been some scientific work done at Monks

Mound, it's called, in Cahokia.

That there's actually stone work in the center of it.

They've been able to use certain GPR to document that.

These structures are going to be older and older.

And they're going to go back, and I

believe they're going to predate the Younger

Dryas at about 13,000 years ago, and maybe even older.

It's looking more and more

like a lot of the dates that archeologists have put for when

these things were built was actually the date in which they

were restored.

According to the cultures, this is what they say they did.

We just haven't necessarily listened to that.

But the Templars listened to it.

They recognized, Oh, Yeah, we know that to be true from back

in Europe as well.

And then the Templars began to set up their own artifacts

around North America to document,

not only create land claims, which

we think is what the Kensington Runestone was.

That's what it says, acquisition business/taking up

land from Vinland, which is the Northeast

coast far to the west.

So tell me about some of these other sites that

are established around North America?

Well, first of all, you're

talking about what I believe are Templar artifacts,

the Kensington Runestone being one, dated 1362,

which is 130 years before Chris who never set foot

on the land we now call the United States of America that

already had millions of people living here.

The whole premise of his discovery of America

is ridiculous.

But this is why it was dismissed,

because this narrative was so entrenched.

But we also have things like the Spirit Pond Runestones

which are three more Templar artifacts that

are dated 1401 and 1402.

We have the Narragansett Runestone,

we have the Newark Holy stones, which actually are Hebrew.

We have the Bat Creek stone, which

was found in a Cherokee Burial Mound that

has possibly first century Paleo-Hebrew

that the Smithsonian Institute didn't recognize right away.

And so they published it, but it wasn't

realized that it was actually Paleo-Hebrew

almost 100 years later.

And of course, what was their immediate reaction?

Oh, no, no, no, that's a fake.

I mean, there's something going on here.

But this is just the beginning.

Obviously, I'm known for the Kensington Runestone,

and I called it a land claim.

It was found on the North South Continental

Divide of North America.

And that's where you would put it at that time

if you were placing a land claim.

But perhaps the most interesting and fascinating artifacts,

at least in my opinion, were found

near Tucson, Arizona called the Tucson-led artifacts.

And those things are self-dated to the 8th, 9th,

and 10th centuries.

And they are filled with Latin.

They have Hebrew.

They have all kinds of interesting imagery

that suggests that there was an ancient Hebrew culture that

came from Europe at that time probably under persecution

to a place where they knew that they

would be accepted and treated well

just like the Templars did as long as you

gave the proper handshake.

So I think what this means, at least the way I interpret this,

is that the Americas were really a sanctuary for the people that

were living in other parts of the world

when they suffered persecution for their ideological beliefs,

they knew there was a place where they could go,

and they would be respected by people that had like ideology

and welcome them.

Well, and we find this also suggested

on the Overton Stone, where you actually have a Templar cross--

In Nova Scotia.

In Nova Scotia next to native iconography.

Yeah.

Well, there's a feather, right?

There's cross tobacco leaves, and then there's

a crescent moon.

So I'm sure an Indigenous person could help us understand

exactly what that message says.

Of course, right next to it is a Knights of Christ style

Portuguese temple cross.

Right.

That's exactly right.

Well, Tim, I think it's important

that we make the point that there's

an ancient tradition that goes back

to the Atlanteans of respect of other people,

of those inalienable rights that everybody is born with.

Signs of recognition.

So you know who your friends are.

And more importantly, who your enemies are.

And that's what we had in North America.

The Indigenous people embraced that.

The more you learn about Indigenous people,

the more you realize they've had it figured out all along,

how to live in balance, how to live with nature.

And this has to go back to the Atlanteans.

And not only that, but if you recall,

the Templars were trying to establish a new Atlantis.

And in Francis Bacon's book later on, The New Atlantis,

he talks about this land where there's these people that live,

just as you're describing, and they know the world,

but the world doesn't know about them.

And this is the sanctuary for them

to preserve the knowledge and the tradition.

So the Templars, finding that they themselves

are being persecuted throughout Europe,

except for in a few small places, including Portugal

and Scotland, they found refuge themselves in this area

that they could then work with the natives

to build a new system.

Well, they knew all about North America.

They knew about the Indigenous people.

And they had already begun to set the table

before the put down in 1307.

So they had an escape route already set to go.

And this to me, is part of the brilliance of all this.

And it really just goes all the way back

like everything does to this Atlantean culture

that they had rediscovered.

And by the time of the put down, they

understood what that tradition was all about.

It was their heritage.

And it was something that they wanted to continue.

And it wasn't going to be in Europe,

it wasn't going to be in the Middle East,

it was going to be far to the West

to that sanctuary, that new Atlantis.

Tell me about the Newport Tower

and its association with how does it

connect with these other monuments and the Kensington

Runestone and the Templars?

Well--

I think, I mean, I think

if anybody could talk about it, it's you.

Well, getting back to the Cremona document,

the Newport tower is all through it.

It's documented on the maps.

It talks about when the astronomical alignments

were laid out prior to its construction.

There's also discussion in the Cremona document

about an agreement with the Indigenous people

that they would be allowed to build this structure here.

It was all about mutual respect.

You just didn't come over here and do as you please.

You sat down with your brothers and you made an agreement.

But this tower is absolutely incredible.

It's two stories tall.

It's about 26 fit in diameter.

It's around stone and mortar structure that

sits on eight round heavy pillars that

have round Romanesque arches, and the eight archways that

have capstone ledges that were designed for structural support

for a first story wooden ambulatory that went around it.

Now, the current narrative is this thing is--

I have a hard time saying this because it's so ridiculous,

a windmill, right?

No.

I mean, even my son, Grant,

who is a structural engineer in his early 30s, I asked him.

I said, could this stone and mortar structure

serve as a windmill?

And he chuckled a little bit and said, no, dad.

I mean, the lateral forces would tear it apart.

There's no steel reinforcement.

Forget it.

It couldn't have been a Windmill,

but yet that's what the world is being told today.

This was built by the Templars.

And it was used as that first stake in the ground.

And we know it started in the latter part

of the 14th century.

The Runestone is also dated 1362, the latter part

of the 14th century.

And they're absolutely connected.

And I have to tell you how they're connected,

literally connected.

And that is there are two keystones in that tower.

One is egg-shaped, which is not a coincidence.

The other is a mark master masons keystone,

a notched keystone.

And they are back to back in the West Northwest archway.

But they are not centered in the archway.

No self-respecting medieval stonemason would do that.

So what does logic tell you?

They did it for a reason.

And when I first went there and discovered this illumination

event that happens on the winter solstice-- at 9 o'clock

in the morning, a light box from the South window

creates a light box that goes down and frames out

that egg at exactly 9 o'clock.

Now this shadow play or light play

as it were, is something that the Templars were known to do

and ancient traditions were known

to do with standing stone sites found all around the world

again.

Even in the cathedrals themselves.

Absolutely.

That's right.

A place called Saint-Sulpice.

Oh, Yes.

Saint-Sulpice, I've seen it at Chart cathedral.

Charts, Yep.

But probably the most amazing thing,

the next day I went outside and I

was looking up at that keystone on the outside

back to back with the egg.

The only two keystones in that tower.

And then I turned and I looked to the west,

and it hit me just like that.

And then I went home, I went on my computer.

And if you draw a line from the center of the tower

through the only two keystones and extend that line

into space, it goes to Kensington, Minnesota.

Now you can't make that up, right?

Correct.

Now here's the thing.

I published that in 2009.

And you know and I both know there

are a lot of people in this world that

don't like this research, they don't like Templars,

they don't want any of it.

And don't you think if those skeptics could

have proven that alignment wrong that I wouldn't

have heard about it by now?

You know what I've heard?

Nothing.

Crickets.

That is amazing.

That's right.

So let's talk now about--

we mentioned Christopher Columbus earlier.

And there's something really important about him

that I feel like we need to put out.

Christopher Columbus, he had his own ambitions.

He began to figure out that there was probably

something going on, on the other side of the Atlantic.

There had been whispers that the Templars had secured artifacts

and had taken them somewhere else.

So the church had a vested interest

in trying to find where these treasures were.

They didn't know that the Templars had already

made pacts with the tribes on the other side of the Atlantic

and were securing these things away and putting them

in secret vaults, actually, at the time.

But what Columbus did was he figured out

that the Templars had something to do with all this.

So he went to the Grand master's daughter who

was in a convent at the time, he pulled her out of the convent,

he married her to secure certain maps

that her father had given her.

Columbus got hold of these maps, figured out

that there was something across the water,

and he went to Portugal, the King of Portugal and said,

hey, fund to go across the ocean.

King of Portugal was like, we're not going to fund you.

We already know there's something on the other.

You're not telling us something we don't know.

Yeah, Portugal or Port of the Grail

had been founded by the Templars as a Templar state initially.

Templars were using Portugal as a place

to travel back and forth to the New World from there.

So they said no, we're not going to help you,

Christopher Columbus.

And so Christopher Columbus said fine,

and he went to Portugal's enemy, which was Spain.

Spain was a very Catholic country.

They had already kicked the Jews and the Muslims

and other what they believed were undesirables out

of the country in 1492.

And he went to Queen Isabella and said fund

to go across the ocean.

I will find your treasure.

I'll find the artifacts.

You will be the hero of the Roman church.

It'll secure your faith and secure your country.

So they funded him.

When Christopher Columbus started to go across the ocean

then, he knew that there were going

to be people there who had already

associated with the Templars.

So he had to create a ruse to be accepted.

So what did he do?

He put giant Templar crosses on his sails as an announcement

that when he came across, they would think--

I'm back.

"I'm one of you guys!"

So they would think he was a Templar.

And of course, then he tricked them.

And then from there on, it was unfortunately

genocide for a lot of Indigenous people

as they were trying to find these treasures that had been

brought over by the Templars.

And thank God, the Native people,

the Indigenous people who had established these pacts

with the Templars worked to preserve these artifacts

that the Templars had brought over,

and that the Templars still had association with.

Once they discovered that there was, in fact, this territory

on the other side of the Atlantic,

and that the Jerusalem treasures probably were hidden there,

that became the main focus of the Roman church

to bring in Conquistadors and Inquisition

to try to secure them.

Well, Tim, I think we've established and made

it very clear that the Templars had deep spiritual bonds

and connections with cultures worldwide.

And that their ultimate mission was in North America

to establish the new Atlantis.

But it was also called the New Jerusalem.

Yeah, the Templars recognized

the divine spark, the divine flame within everybody.

It allowed them to associate with these different cultures,

get along with them, work with them

to establish these new ideas.

And you're right.

They decided they needed to establish

a new heavenly Jerusalem or a new Atlantis

in the area of North America.

They began this task of doing it.

They worked with the other cultures

to try to establish it.

And their success in that is still yet

to be determined because we're still working at it.

Oh, that's a whole other story.

But we'll get to that.

I'm Scott Wolter.

And I'm Timothy Hogan.

And thank you for watching this episode of Mysteries

of the Knights Templar.