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On Symbols And Symbolism.
to intimate an exoteric institution in the Order , on the second and secret initiation into Avhich the raised brethren received a linen girdle , which they were required to Avear always over the shirt , Avhich Avas to be a token and remembrance to them of a new and hidden mystery , and keep them continually in mind of what they had vowed in this second reception . Some of
the knights questioned at Beaucaire admit this expressly in the following words of the proces verbal : — " Que certain cordeau ou ceinture etoit leur est donnee en leur reception qu'ils ceignent sur leur chemise et sont tenus de porter toute la vie : en signe qu'ils sont inviolablement astraints aux choses par eux promises a leur entree . "—Du Puy . p . 220 .
This examination bears in no respect proof of a secret or second initiation , but may serve to explain the interrogatories drawn up by the Dominicans , " et Inquisitores heretics ? pravitatis , " against the unfortunate Templars whom the pope and Philip le Bel got into their power . This section of the inquiry begins at the 57 th paragraph : —
" 57 . Item quod ahquod caput dictorum ydolorurn cmgebant seu tangebant cordulis quibus se ipsos eingebant circa camisiam vel carnem . 58 . Item quod in sua receptione singulis fratribus predicta cordula tradebantur vel alias longitudinis eorum . 59 . Item quod in veneratione ydole hoe faciebant . 60 . Item quod injungebatur eis tit dietis cordulis ut premittitur se cingerent et continuo po . rtarent . 61 . Item quod hoc faciebant etiam de nocte . "
Those who admit the presence of an idol , the worship of a Baphomet in the secret conclaves of the Templars , bring their explanation of the conjunction of girdle and head from the confession of Bro . Gauceraud de Montepesato , Avho said that the superior Avho initiated him took the linen girdle from the same box in which this head was kept : in " Dupuy ' s" old French , p . 216 : — " Et lui fut "bailie une ceinture qu'il tira de la caisse ont etait cet idole et lui commanda de la garder et de la porter perpetuellement . "
The same Dupuy , p . 522 , tells of an English Avitness who says that he had heard , that some one Avho had lain hidden had seen something of the rites of the secret conclaves of the Templars , and had observed that all had deposited their girdles on a certain spot . But besides that Ave have here only the mere hearsay of the Avitness , his testimony is suspicious
on other grounds ; and even supposing it true , Avhy need these girdles to have been other than those they had received openly and at their first initiation ? In truth , the girdle Avas too general a symbol to have given rise to the slightest suspicion in its use in any unprejudiced mind . The institution of the Templar Order in the East has given cause to many to look for all
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On Symbols And Symbolism.
to intimate an exoteric institution in the Order , on the second and secret initiation into Avhich the raised brethren received a linen girdle , which they were required to Avear always over the shirt , Avhich Avas to be a token and remembrance to them of a new and hidden mystery , and keep them continually in mind of what they had vowed in this second reception . Some of
the knights questioned at Beaucaire admit this expressly in the following words of the proces verbal : — " Que certain cordeau ou ceinture etoit leur est donnee en leur reception qu'ils ceignent sur leur chemise et sont tenus de porter toute la vie : en signe qu'ils sont inviolablement astraints aux choses par eux promises a leur entree . "—Du Puy . p . 220 .
This examination bears in no respect proof of a secret or second initiation , but may serve to explain the interrogatories drawn up by the Dominicans , " et Inquisitores heretics ? pravitatis , " against the unfortunate Templars whom the pope and Philip le Bel got into their power . This section of the inquiry begins at the 57 th paragraph : —
" 57 . Item quod ahquod caput dictorum ydolorurn cmgebant seu tangebant cordulis quibus se ipsos eingebant circa camisiam vel carnem . 58 . Item quod in sua receptione singulis fratribus predicta cordula tradebantur vel alias longitudinis eorum . 59 . Item quod in veneratione ydole hoe faciebant . 60 . Item quod injungebatur eis tit dietis cordulis ut premittitur se cingerent et continuo po . rtarent . 61 . Item quod hoc faciebant etiam de nocte . "
Those who admit the presence of an idol , the worship of a Baphomet in the secret conclaves of the Templars , bring their explanation of the conjunction of girdle and head from the confession of Bro . Gauceraud de Montepesato , Avho said that the superior Avho initiated him took the linen girdle from the same box in which this head was kept : in " Dupuy ' s" old French , p . 216 : — " Et lui fut "bailie une ceinture qu'il tira de la caisse ont etait cet idole et lui commanda de la garder et de la porter perpetuellement . "
The same Dupuy , p . 522 , tells of an English Avitness who says that he had heard , that some one Avho had lain hidden had seen something of the rites of the secret conclaves of the Templars , and had observed that all had deposited their girdles on a certain spot . But besides that Ave have here only the mere hearsay of the Avitness , his testimony is suspicious
on other grounds ; and even supposing it true , Avhy need these girdles to have been other than those they had received openly and at their first initiation ? In truth , the girdle Avas too general a symbol to have given rise to the slightest suspicion in its use in any unprejudiced mind . The institution of the Templar Order in the East has given cause to many to look for all