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The Secret Doctrine Of The Templars.
THE SECRET DOCTRINE OF THE TEMPLARS .
BY THE EDITOR . WE have had our attention lately called to a work published in 1872 by M . L'Oiseleur ( A . Durand et Pedone Lauriel , Paris ) , which is termed " La Doctrine Secrete des Templiers , " and which professes to give us the true explanation of their secret teaching , and the real cause of their suppression by Pope Clement V . It is a work somewhat difficult now to obtain—onltAvo
y hundred copies have been printed . We had never seen it before , though we had taken a reference to it from a foreign writer , and having—thanks to our bookseller—obtained , after some research , a copy of it from Paris , we think it well to make known its contents to our readers . The main point of interest connected with it is the publication ia : extenso for the first time , though Dnpuy had alluded to the MS . of an account of certain proceedingsprofessedlin
, y 1310 , at Florence , by the order of Clement V ., before the Archbishop of Pisa ancl the Bishop of Florence , taken from a MS . in the Vatican Library , Rome ( Vaticanus , 4011 ) . We may observe , " en passant , " that M . L'Oiseleur says nothing of the actual age of the MS ., but he seems to assume all through its contemporaneity with 1310 . This , however , is a most important point , and requires looking intoasif it is the original document of 1310 it has a
, , , very great value " per se ; " if a later transcript , it becomes at once of much less importance as evidence . The fact of its being written on " paper " seems to point to a " transcript" rather than to an original . All M . L'Oiseleur tells us is that , transcribed for him ( he does not seem to haA r e seen it himself ) by an able "paleographist , " it was " collated" for him Avith the original b y the well-known Chevalier Rossi . No doubt his name is a sure guarantee of the
fidelity of the " collation , " but we should have liked his opinion as to the exact age of the MS . Beyond this , despite the able treatise ancl special suggestions of M . L'Oiseleur , there is no new light thrown on a most difficult ancl " vexata qucestio . " EA en to this hour , it is all but impossible to decide what is the real truth , or even what are the exact facts of the case .
Were the Templars merely a secret association , obnoxious to the Pope ancl Philippe le Bel by their immense riches , their pride , their military power , their exclusive privileges , their interference Avith matters of State , and . their corrupt morals ? Or had they , in consequence of their contact with the East , imbibed alike Oriental vice ancl Oriental heresies ? This is what we want to know to-day . The Abbe Vertot saicl , years ago , this problem , " the despair of historians , is the most impenetrable enigma which history has left to pos-G
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The Secret Doctrine Of The Templars.
THE SECRET DOCTRINE OF THE TEMPLARS .
BY THE EDITOR . WE have had our attention lately called to a work published in 1872 by M . L'Oiseleur ( A . Durand et Pedone Lauriel , Paris ) , which is termed " La Doctrine Secrete des Templiers , " and which professes to give us the true explanation of their secret teaching , and the real cause of their suppression by Pope Clement V . It is a work somewhat difficult now to obtain—onltAvo
y hundred copies have been printed . We had never seen it before , though we had taken a reference to it from a foreign writer , and having—thanks to our bookseller—obtained , after some research , a copy of it from Paris , we think it well to make known its contents to our readers . The main point of interest connected with it is the publication ia : extenso for the first time , though Dnpuy had alluded to the MS . of an account of certain proceedingsprofessedlin
, y 1310 , at Florence , by the order of Clement V ., before the Archbishop of Pisa ancl the Bishop of Florence , taken from a MS . in the Vatican Library , Rome ( Vaticanus , 4011 ) . We may observe , " en passant , " that M . L'Oiseleur says nothing of the actual age of the MS ., but he seems to assume all through its contemporaneity with 1310 . This , however , is a most important point , and requires looking intoasif it is the original document of 1310 it has a
, , , very great value " per se ; " if a later transcript , it becomes at once of much less importance as evidence . The fact of its being written on " paper " seems to point to a " transcript" rather than to an original . All M . L'Oiseleur tells us is that , transcribed for him ( he does not seem to haA r e seen it himself ) by an able "paleographist , " it was " collated" for him Avith the original b y the well-known Chevalier Rossi . No doubt his name is a sure guarantee of the
fidelity of the " collation , " but we should have liked his opinion as to the exact age of the MS . Beyond this , despite the able treatise ancl special suggestions of M . L'Oiseleur , there is no new light thrown on a most difficult ancl " vexata qucestio . " EA en to this hour , it is all but impossible to decide what is the real truth , or even what are the exact facts of the case .
Were the Templars merely a secret association , obnoxious to the Pope ancl Philippe le Bel by their immense riches , their pride , their military power , their exclusive privileges , their interference Avith matters of State , and . their corrupt morals ? Or had they , in consequence of their contact with the East , imbibed alike Oriental vice ancl Oriental heresies ? This is what we want to know to-day . The Abbe Vertot saicl , years ago , this problem , " the despair of historians , is the most impenetrable enigma which history has left to pos-G