Knights Templar/Talk

I'd really like to see some information about the alleged homosexual activities of the Knights Templar. From what I've read, they were probably just allegations made to discredit the order and not true, but it's still a fascinating story. I'd like to see the evidence. --Dmerrill

yep, it was basically a slander, and no, there's not much 'evidence' to show other than the testimony under torture about kissing the nether regions (which new agers like to think of as 'awakening the Kundalini serpent', which seems a little much for Palestine in the 14th century - they tend to blame it all on 'contact' with Muslim mystical movements). It's worth sending you to look at their seal, which is often strangely interpreted (I don't think I recommend the Jungian interpretation of the url I'm sending you to, but it has a picture of the seal and a fairly sound de-mystification of the homosexuality): http://www.templarhistory.com/seal.html Enjoy. --MichaelTinkler

Just to dog you on every /talk article on the Encyclopedia, Dr. (?) Tinkler, don't you mean the Freudian interpretation? --Alex Kennedy

Considering that [Karl Jung]? is actually mentioned on the page in question, I'd say he meant Jung --Anders Törlind