Name:alaskamike •
Title: Templar Relics •
Date posted: 04/16/13 16:03
Q: After closely reading "The Jesus Family Tomb (JFT), "The Jesus Discovery (JD)" and "The Head of God (HOG)", it is clear as to the likely relationship between the Templar Knights and the Jesus Tomb. In 1128 the initial cadre of nine Templar Knights after nine years of searching for relics and treasure in the ruins of the Temple of Solomon discovered the Jesus Family Tomb about two miles south of where they we were housed and had been excavating. They entered the sealed tomb and gathered the relics of the Jesus family from 10 ossuaries and two shelves. Collecting religious relics was an accepted practice for hundreds of years. Shortly thereafter all nine Templar Nights departed rapidly for France amidst rumors they carried treasure. The treasure was in fact Jesus family relics. These relics were subsequently consecrated in each Templar temple and were secretly venerated by members of the Templar Order. One year later in 1129 the Templar Order was officially endorsed by the Catholic Church. The Templar Order quickly became the favored charity throughout Christendom and grew rapidly in membership, wealth and power. How much of this unprecedented growth was due to the Order's possession of the Jesus relics is not known but is believed to have been considerable.
When the Templar Order was destroyed in 1307, the major relics left ahead of the destruction on Templar ships at La Rochelle, France. Little is known where the relics ended up. However, since the relics were widely dispersed to Templar locations throughout Christendom, it is likely that many relics of lesser importance were locally safeguarded and passed to Templar Order successors such as the Freemasons. Should any relics subsequently surface, they can be DNA matched to recorded DNA analyses of bone fragments from the Jesus and Mary Magdalene ossuaries.
1. The Israeli Antiquities Authority has no record of required bone reports of the tomb's ossuaries and nobody who did the excavation remembers any bones (JFT 11, 17) from the ossuaries. The two shelves contained body fragments but no intact bones (JFT 9). The ossuary lids appeared in place when they were loaded for transport at the tomb. This supports the theory there were no bones to be examined and reported on as they had been removed from the tomb in antiquity. Since any bodies on the two shelves were likely placed there after 65 AD it is likely they were Jesus' other sons or unmarried daughters (HOG 138).
2. When the Templar Order was suppressed in 1307 only one Templar relic was found by authorities (HOG 5). It was in a silver reliquary in the form of a head. Inside were two head bones from a small woman wrapped in cloth of white linen, with another red cloth around it. The reliquary was marked "Caput LVIIIM". Caput is Latin for head. The number 58 indicates it was one of a series of relics. M is believed to be the astrological sign for Virgo (the Virgin). Some believe the bones were from Jesus' mother.
3. Soon after the Templar Order was officially recognized in 1129 they changed their burial customs (HOG 178). The new burial ritual had Templar Knights receiving ritual secondary burial exactly as they found the bones of the Jesus family arranged in each ossuary. This involved letting the body decay and then doing a second burial where the long leg bones are crossed on the chest and skull is placed at the top of where the leg bones cross. Such a burial custom was unheard of outside of Israel and only occurred for a one hundred year period before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The skull and crossed bones were also the emblem the Templar Flag. This singular ritual burial practice directly links the Templar Order and the Jesus Tomb. Likely, this ritual was to venerate Jesus and his family by emulating their method of burial.
