La Orden de los Pobres Compañeros de Cristo del Templo de Salomón, también llamada la Orden del Templo, cuyos miembros son conocidos como caballeros templarios, fue una de las órdenes monásticas militares católicas más poderosas de la Edad Media.Se mantuvo activa durante algo menos de dos siglos.
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00:00The Templar Knights, legendary soldiers of the Middle Ages, warriors of God, holy men and devilish fighters, with a vote of poverty, but richer than the kings.
00:22Legend has it that they guarded the most valuable relic of Christianity, the Holy Grail, a treasure so precious that it granted them unparalleled power.
00:35Despite this condition, the Templars are destroyed and their fortune disappears.
00:42Who were the Templar Knights? And can the authentic secret of their power be revealed today?
00:51March 18, 1314 AD. One of the most powerful men in Europe, Jacques de Molay, is about to be executed. The charges against him are worship of the devil, sodomy and economic blackmail.
01:07De Molay is one of the 69 men burned alive by order of King Philip IV of France.
01:17The condemned belong to one of the most mysterious brotherhoods in history, the Templar Knights.
01:26In the Middle Ages, these warriors are feared, rich and powerful.
01:38But in 1307, that reign comes to an end.
01:48The Templars are accused of heresy.
01:55Subjected to intense interrogations, they collapse and confess.
02:05From dusk till dawn, two centuries of wealth and power disappear without a trace.
02:13The Templar Knights disappear from history, but leave a fascinating mystery behind.
02:22The Templars were called the Poor Knights of Christ. However, they became one of the richest orders in Europe.
02:33It is said that the source of their wealth is an ancient relic found in the ruins of the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem.
02:44And their fate has been an enigma.
02:49To discover the secret of the Templars, we must go back in time.
02:53Back to their origins, to the clash of civilizations called the Crusades.
03:03In 1096 AD, an army of European knights march for thousands of kilometers to the region known as the Holy Land.
03:13The Muslim states dominate the Middle East and a region that extends from Persia to Spain.
03:19The Pope Urban II calls for the Holy War to free the most sacred city of Christianity, Jerusalem.
03:28The Crusaders take almost three years to reach the Holy City.
03:34Along the way, battles, diseases and hunger come to an end.
03:40More than 4,000 knights leave for Jerusalem and a little more than 1,000 arrive.
03:47July 1099. After a siege of five weeks, the Crusaders take the city.
04:13When the Crusaders took Jerusalem, the first thing that happened was a bloodbath of scandalous proportions.
04:22They slaughtered everyone, Christians, Jews and Muslims alike. It was terrible.
04:29A French witness describes the carnage.
04:35Piles of heads, hands and feet were seen through the streets of the city.
04:40In the Temple of Solomon, men rode with blood to their knees and knees.
04:45In fact, God already predicted that this place would be filled with the blood of the disbelievers,
04:50since they had suffered their blasphemies for a long time.
04:54The Crusaders elect the rulers of the new Kingdom of Jerusalem from among their own ranks.
05:06The Crusader kings will fight one battle after another to preserve this sacred ground.
05:11In 1118, they elect their third leader and name him King Baldwin II.
05:17King Baldwin receives an offer of aid from a Crusader knight, the noble Frenchman Hugo de Payens.
05:31Rise.
05:32I have had a magnificent vision, my lord.
05:35Hugo de Payens suggested and proposed the idea of a contingent of warrior monks
05:40whose responsibility would be to protect the Holy Land,
05:43safeguard the path of the pilgrims who were heading from Europe to the Holy Land
05:47and defend the Holy City of Jerusalem.
05:50King Baldwin likes the idea and the Temple Order is born.
05:53I name you Knight of the Temple Order.
06:02Now you are a warrior of God.
06:05Starting from a group of nine knights, the Templars will become an army of thousands.
06:11They are called the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon.
06:19Over time, they will be known simply as the Templar Knights.
06:27They are not only warriors, they are also monks.
06:31They make vows of poverty, obedience and chastity.
06:37Europe has never seen such a force.
06:42The sole idea of a warrior order, a military order, was a shocking idea,
06:48even revolutionary for the Church.
06:57How do you combine these two things? Do you pray while holding a weapon?
07:02The answer is yes, they did. They saw their call as a divine call.
07:08The Templar Knights decided to create what we could consider today
07:12the Special Forces of Christ.
07:16As medieval monks, the Templars pray seven times a day.
07:21But what makes these monks different is that they prepare to fight.
07:26Your main defense is your sword.
07:29I assure you that if you lose it, you will lose your life.
07:32When we come out, we come out. We keep going, we don't stop.
07:35Are you all ready?
07:38He is to order an army of the most effective,
07:42with an iron discipline and magnificently equipped,
07:46of reduced dimensions but with overwhelming strength.
07:51The Templars crush the Muslims in the siege of Ascalon in 1153,
07:57the battle of Montgisard in 1177,
08:03and the battle of Arsuf in 1191.
08:09They seem invincible.
08:16The Templars fight following strict rules.
08:21They are forbidden to retreat unless they are ordered to,
08:25and only if they are in numerical inferiority of more than 3 to 1.
08:30The Templars were different from other sections of the Crusader army.
08:35It was known that they never broke ranks,
08:41they never heard, they never deserted.
08:46The red cross of the Templars represents martyrdom.
08:50Death in combat is glorious.
08:58The key tactical maneuver is the squadron charge.
09:02A small group of knights attacks head-on in a very tight wedge shape.
09:06Their goal is to break the enemy's line and spread it to the left and right.
09:12The charge is fearful, terrifying, colossal.
09:24They famously won spectacularly many battles,
09:27so they were very respected, they had a certain mysticism,
09:30a certain aura of power.
09:33Part of their mysticism comes from their headquarters.
09:37King Baldwin gives the knights a part of the old Jewish temple,
09:41one of the most sacred places of Christianity.
09:44Jesus himself preached there once.
09:47We have found something, take us.
09:50But it is what the Templars discover here that could determine their fate.
09:57Under the old temple,
09:59there is a tradition that the Knights make one of the most extraordinary discoveries of all time.
10:09Nine centuries ago, in one of the most sacred places on earth,
10:13one of the most primitive archaeological excavations begins.
10:19It is the location of the old Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
10:24During the First Crusade,
10:26it becomes the headquarters of the Templar Knights.
10:32The temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century BC.
10:36Four centuries later, the Babylonians destroyed it,
10:40and the Jews rebuilt it.
10:43The temple once housed the sacred Ark of the Covenant,
10:47in a secret chamber, the most holy among the saints.
10:52It is said that God himself lived here.
10:55Seventy years after Christ, the war destroys the house of God.
11:01A Roman army crushes a Jewish rebellion.
11:04The Romans burn the city and demolish the temple.
11:09In the Crusades,
11:11the Muslims built a mosque on the ruins of the Jewish temple,
11:15which is still standing today.
11:17The Rock Cupola.
11:20A small group of warrior monks
11:22occupy part of one of the holiest properties in the holiest city on earth.
11:29They were housed in the complex of the temple in Jerusalem.
11:35And that was a very important fact
11:37in terms of the importance they gave to that new order,
11:41that new ideal.
11:43Not all scholars agree.
11:46Frankly, I think the reason is pure coincidence.
11:50I don't think it had any kind of meaning,
11:53but it was simply a place that was available.
11:57Scholars also question the original mission of the Templars,
12:01to protect the pilgrims who went to the Holy Land.
12:05There have been some researchers who say
12:07that they had nothing to do with helping the pilgrims.
12:10And the question that remains unanswered, of course,
12:13is what were they doing?
12:18Maybe they were plotting something.
12:22They spent nine years excavating tunnels in the rock,
12:25and then a network of underground tunnels.
12:36What they discovered down there
12:38has been a matter of intense speculation since then.
12:42According to a theory,
12:44the Templars discovered the map of a treasure.
12:48The map is actually a parchment,
12:50engraved in copper,
12:52detailing the exact location
12:54where the treasures of the Jewish temple are hidden.
13:00The year is 70 AD.
13:02While the Roman army conquers Jerusalem,
13:06the Jewish rebels hide the treasures of the temple
13:09in the Holy Land.
13:12To recover them, they leave instructions,
13:14engraved in copper, so that they last forever.
13:20For centuries, the mere existence of the parchment is a mystery.
13:25Already in 1947, a Bedouin pastor
13:27who was looking for a lost sheep,
13:29made an incredible discovery.
13:31Ancient parchment, almost 2,000 years old.
13:34One of the oldest Jewish texts ever found.
13:40The Dead Sea Parchments
13:43When the Dead Sea Parchments were discovered,
13:45one of them was called the Copper Parchment,
13:47and it listed a series of places
13:49throughout the area that we now call the Holy Land,
13:52where the treasures of the Templars had been hidden
13:55to safeguard them before the Romans destroyed the temple.
13:59In the 1950s, an English archaeologist
14:01follows the clues engraved in the Copper Parchment.
14:04He does not find any Jewish treasure,
14:06but discovers that a previous expedition
14:08has discovered something equally fascinating.
14:12He suspects that someone may have stolen it from him.
14:15Medieval spurs, fragments of swords,
14:18and a Templar cross.
14:20Objects related to the Templar Knights.
14:31It was found that the Templar Knights of the 12th century
14:35had been there,
14:36but there is no evidence to prove exactly what they were doing.
14:40Nor what they found.
14:43Here.
14:45Here it is.
14:46Here.
14:47Here.
14:52Legend has it that among the ruins of the temple,
14:55the Copper Parchment led them to one of the most sought-after treasures of Christianity.
15:02The Holy Grail.
15:06The Holy Grail.
15:13In the Middle Ages, the Holy Grail is the subject of countless stories,
15:16legends and songs.
15:21In some versions, the Holy Grail is a cup or plate
15:24used by Christ at the Last Supper.
15:26But with so few clues, it could be anything.
15:31The Grail is a medieval concept.
15:34In these stories, it has many different forms.
15:40Maybe they're searching for a cup.
15:43Others believe it was a special stone that fell from heaven.
15:48Other stories relate the Grail to the death of Jesus Christ.
15:52The Roman spear that pierced Christ's side.
15:57The other option for the treasure, so to speak,
16:00that the Templars were supposedly looking for by making tunnels,
16:03was the head of St. John the Baptist,
16:06who was also supposed to have been buried there.
16:18The most controversial theory suggests that the treasure found by the Templars
16:22could be a set of data from the descendants of Christ.
16:26Some people have said that somehow they secreted out
16:30a member of the family of Jesus,
16:33some relative of the marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
16:45According to this theory, the words that in Latin mean
16:48Santo Grial, San Grial,
16:50are actually a translation of the Latin word,
16:53Sang Real, or Sangre Real.
17:01According to this theory, Jesus married and had children.
17:04And those ruffians were the secret of the Grail.
17:11There are conspiracy theories that surround the Grail,
17:14and that surround Christ as well.
17:17The story that Jesus and Mary Magdalene got married,
17:21I happen to think it's false, but it's perfectly reasonable.
17:27But the theory of Sangre Real makes more sense
17:30than the one that a relic was the source of the Templar power.
17:33Demonstrating that Jesus had married and had children
17:36would shake the foundations of Christianity
17:39and threaten the entire structure of power in medieval Europe.
17:51Would the Church pay the price for hiding this information?
17:54Or is that what the theory says?
17:57Nobody knows what the Templars were able to find,
18:00but there is little doubt about what happened next.
18:05Hugo de Payen, the founder of the Templars,
18:08left the Holy Land to attend the Council of Troyes in France.
18:15Nobody knows what happened next,
18:19but there is little doubt about what happened next.
18:23Pope Honorius II granted the Templars his blessing.
18:27His successor, Pope Innocent, granted them unprecedented power.
18:34The order of the Temple now enjoys immunity from the laws,
18:37norms and taxes of all nations.
18:44The Templars become a force in themselves.
18:48The new and mysterious power of the Knights
18:51gives rise to numerous theories of conspiracy.
18:59Books such as the Da Vinci Code suggest that the Templars
19:02blackmailed the Vatican, demanding special privileges
19:05in exchange for hiding the descendants of Jesus.
19:09But most scholars simply attribute their sudden success
19:12to their relationship with the Templars.
19:15The evidence of their economic influence can still be seen today.
19:29The Templars were openly involved in the financing and construction
19:32of most of the Gothic cathedrals of the 12th and 13th centuries.
19:39It is almost certain that they financed the entire building
19:42of the Cathedral of Chartres.
19:47Economically, it would have been the equivalent
19:50of the trip to the North American moon in the late 1960s.
19:54One of the most beautiful churches of the order
19:57is located in the heart of London.
20:00It is called the Church of the Temple and exhibits the Templar seal,
20:03two men mounted on a single horse.
20:06Unlike most medieval churches, this one is round.
20:10Such a church was designed to recreate the sanctity
20:13of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem,
20:16the destination of all pilgrims, the most sacred place on earth.
20:20And the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is round.
20:27That was not a simple church. It was a treasury.
20:33The King of England came to the Church of the Temple
20:36and took 50,000 pounds of sterling.
20:40In 1307, it was like going into a forno and taking the gold.
20:46The Templars managed and administered,
20:49apparently honestly and effectively, great resources.
20:57All over Europe, the wealthy Templar nobles
21:00began to lend money to the nobles in economic trouble.
21:07The Order of the Temple had an advantage
21:10over other Christian lenders.
21:13It could charge interests.
21:16In Europe in the Middle Ages, very few people
21:19were allowed to trade with money, because supposedly it was a sin.
21:22Lending money to an interest was simony and usury.
21:26It is possible that the Templars created the idea of the check
21:29and the line of credit.
21:32The pilgrims who traveled to the Holy Land
21:35were given a local Templar treasury.
21:38In return, they were given a receipt that showed the amount deposited.
21:43If you finally made it to your destination,
21:46you exchanged the equivalent of a travel check in the medieval era.
21:50It was like a letter of credit.
21:56Practical, but expensive.
21:59The Order charged up to 10% interest for this service.
22:05The Templars observed poverty,
22:08but that did not seem to affect their foundations.
22:13How did these nobles reconcile their worldly wealth with their beliefs?
22:18Each nobleman made a vote of poverty,
22:21so they themselves had nothing of their own.
22:24They were not rich individually,
22:27but the Order was allowed to have that money to manage their own businesses.
22:30At the end of the year 1200,
22:33the Templars are one of the richest and most powerful orders in Europe.
22:38But envy and anger chase them,
22:41and a ruthless plot sets in motion.
22:52The Templar Knights are one of the most powerful orders in Europe,
22:57but problems arise.
23:01The Crusades created the Templars,
23:04and now the Crusades are about to destroy the Order of the Temple.
23:14The Muslim armies converge on the Holy Land.
23:22After two centuries of war,
23:25the Muslims are once again united under the Egyptian sultans.
23:30Support for the Crusades is lacking in Europe.
23:37The Crusades, over a period of time,
23:40became more expensive,
23:43both in life and resources, for Europe.
23:48And it was increasingly doubtful that they could work in the long term.
24:01The Muslims crush the Crusaders
24:04in the battles of Jaffa,
24:07Al-Mansura,
24:10and the siege of Safed.
24:20In the year 1290,
24:23the Templars have only one castle left on the Holy Land.
24:26In the siege of Acre they also lose it.
24:31The Holy Land is again occupied by the Muslims.
24:35The Templars retreat to the island of Cyprus.
24:40After the fall of Acre in 1291,
24:43there is a general disillusion with the idea of the Crusades.
24:46Seeing the resources of Europe and the resources of the army
24:49reduced in these Holy Wars, which seem useless,
24:52the people see the role of the Templars
24:55to be less tenable.
25:00The fate of the order lies in a new master,
25:03the French nobleman Jacques de Molay.
25:07He presses to start a new Crusade from Cyprus,
25:10but without results.
25:16In 1307,
25:19de Molay arrives at the Parisian headquarters of the Order of the Temple.
25:23The order of the Temple,
25:26de Molay arrives at the Parisian headquarters of the Order of the Temple.
25:33Pope Clement V asked him to go to France
25:36to re-evaluate his finances
25:39and to talk about future businesses.
25:42It was a coincidence that he appeared in France
25:45when Philip IV, Philip the Beautiful,
25:48was going through a terrible economic moment.
25:52Philip is known as the Beautiful for his beauty,
25:55but he was accumulating huge debts.
25:59His wars against England have plagued France.
26:02His greatest creditor is none other than the Order of the Temple.
26:07And?
26:09Philip decides to end his debts with a single blow.
26:14Yes, my lord.
26:16He arrests the Templars and makes them pay.
26:19Lock them up in the dungeons.
26:22The king invented a lot of charges
26:25and accused the Templars of the most vile forms of heresy
26:28known to the medieval mind.
26:33Friday, October 13, 1307.
26:37Some believe that the modern superstition of Friday the 13th
26:40comes from this date.
26:43In just one day, Jacques de Molay and hundreds of French Templars
26:46are cornered.
26:50Jacques de Molay, by order of the king, you are under arrest.
26:53For what charges?
26:55For heresy.
26:57Arrests shock Europe.
27:00Today, it might be as though we all wake up one morning,
27:03turn on the TV or buy the newspaper,
27:06and find out that all the executives of all the banks or companies
27:09have suddenly been arrested at dawn.
27:12I mean, it was that magnitude.
27:15The investigation of the accused begins as usual.
27:20I beg your mercy.
27:22Confess.
27:24Torture is not the punishment for a crime.
27:27It is a tool to extract a confession.
27:30The most common form of torture was the potro.
27:35A potro consisted of a wooden frame with a rope tied to a lathe.
27:38The idea was to dislocate the wrists and ankles.
27:41It was a very difficult task.
27:44It was a very difficult task.
27:47In Paris alone, about 100 Templars are tortured.
27:50Among them, their great master, Jacques de Molay.
27:53I confess.
27:56I confess my sin of heresy.
27:59There were 127 accusations against the Templar knights.
28:02They included everything.
28:05Things like denying Christ, spitting on the crucifix,
28:08defecating on the host,
28:11teaching them how to pray,
28:14kissing on the back during their initiation rites.
28:17Hundreds of Templars confess,
28:20including the great master.
28:23But the confessions go beyond the original charges
28:26and go from strange to ridiculous.
28:29One knight after another
28:32confesses his sin of heresy.
28:35He confesses his sin of heresy.
28:38He confesses his sin of heresy.
28:41One knight after another
28:44confesses strange religious practices.
28:47Among them, the worship of an unusual object.
28:50There are a lot of suggestions that this was
28:53actually the skull of St. John the Baptist.
28:56Others have suggested that the head cut in the silver tray
28:59is the Holy Grail.
29:02The stories become more and more strange
29:05while the Templars tell stories independently,
29:08Several Templars confess to worship the Baphomet or Baphomet.
29:14The Baphomet is probably one of the most extraordinary
29:17aspects of the accusations against the Templars.
29:20Some have suggested that it was a stone idol of the devil,
29:23one of the most sensationalist aspects of their trial,
29:26which tries to somehow relate them to the worship of the devil.
29:29There are many more theories.
29:32There are some scholars who have suggested that the Baphomet
29:36is an erroneous translation of Mohammed,
29:39which the Templars actually combined several religious traditions
29:42in their particular practice.
29:48Thousands of Templars served for many years in the Holy Land.
29:51Some may have secretly absorbed religious beliefs
29:54of the Muslims, such as the respect for the prophet Mohammed
29:57or Baphomet.
30:00The curious term still confuses historians.
30:04At the beginning of the 1980s,
30:07a scholar named Hugh Schoenfeld made an amazing statement.
30:12Baphomet is a key message.
30:15Dr. Hugh Schoenfeld, a famous heretic of the Dead Sea parchment,
30:18has worked on this issue of the word Baphomet
30:21using the Atbash code of biblical studies.
30:27The Atbash code is an ancient decoding technique
30:30in use since at least 500 BC.
30:36When the Atbash code is applied to Baphomet,
30:39a new word emerges.
30:42Sophia, wisdom in Greek.
30:48Worshiping wisdom is not heresy,
30:51unless wisdom itself is.
30:55Sophia is the ancient Greek name of a goddess
30:58worshipped by one of the first Christian sects,
31:01the Gnostics.
31:04Sophia appears in various Gnostic Gospels
31:07as the creator of the world,
31:10a figure more important than Jesus Christ.
31:13But Gnostic beliefs are considered heretical
31:16and their Gospels are forbidden by the Church.
31:22Some scholars suggest that the Templars
31:25discovered these Gnostic Gospels
31:28and resuscitated a lost form of Christianity.
31:32Was Baphomet the key word for worshipping the goddess?
31:37Two theories converge here.
31:40Some Gnostic Gospels say that the goddess Sophia
31:43came to Earth in the body of Mary Magdalene.
31:48According to the theory of royal blood,
31:51Mary Magdalene led the caste of Jesus.
31:54She became the recipient of the Holy Blood,
31:57the very Grail.
32:01In their statutes, the Templars do not consecrate Jesus Christ,
32:04but Mary.
32:07The question that often arises is,
32:10who is the Mary?
32:13Was it the Holy Virgin Mary, in the sense of the Mother of God,
32:16or was it that, Mary Magdalene?
32:20If the Templars worshipped Mary Magdalene
32:23equating her to Christ,
32:26that is one of the worst types of heresy.
32:29The question is still in the air.
32:32The statutes of the order of the Temple consecrate Mary,
32:35but they do not say which one,
32:38or if she was worshipped as a goddess.
32:41Again, there are unanswered questions,
32:44but there isn't yet any documented evidence
32:47that the Templars worshipped Mary Magdalene.
32:50It's just not there.
32:57Subjected to torture, the Templars could have confessed
33:00to practicing a heretic religion of a goddess,
33:03worshipping an idol,
33:06or even worshipping a human head.
33:09Most likely, the Templars were
33:12the innocent expiatory chiefs of a king
33:15who owed them a lot of money.
33:18King Philip demanded that the heretics
33:21face justice.
33:24I have here numerous testimonies of eyewitnesses,
33:27of acts of heresy, with names and acts.
33:30The Pope agreed with the reproach.
33:33In 1314, the order of the Temple was officially dissolved.
33:37On March 18, 1314,
33:40after seven years of imprisonment and torture,
33:43the great master Jax de Molay
33:46was executed as an unrepentant heretic.
33:49With his last breath,
33:52it is said that de Molay
33:55cast a curse on the Pope and the King.
33:58In a year from now,
34:01I will see you both in a court before God.
34:04In a year from now,
34:07you will both be dead.
34:10After 200 years,
34:13the order of the Temple no longer exists.
34:16Its castles are expropriated
34:19and its great wealth mysteriously disappears.
34:22The Templar treasure that King Philip
34:25the Beautiful had seen with his own eyes
34:28when his men arrived there
34:31to take possession of it,
34:34had disappeared.
34:37Nobody knows what happened to the wealth of the Templars
34:40after their dissolution.
34:43It has been insinuated that two large carriages
34:46loaded with the treasure were taken from Paris
34:49just before the final arrest on Friday the 13th.
34:53The Templars are no longer known.
34:59We know that the Templars survived,
35:02or at least some Templars survived.
35:05They had adequate warning in every place
35:08except in France.
35:11And even in France we know that some Templars escaped.
35:15A theory affirms that several knights
35:18escaped from Paris with their treasure.
35:21To date, its whereabouts are still unknown.
35:24But there is a clue.
35:33This is the Roslin Chapel,
35:36near Edinburgh, Scotland.
35:39In the thriller The Da Vinci Code,
35:42the chapel is presented as one of the key clues
35:45to find the hiding place of the Holy Grail.
35:49A medieval church and a lost treasure
35:52can be related by a man.
35:55The Roslin Chapel is a magnificent building.
35:58It was built by William Sinclair in 1446.
36:01Being William Sinclair is an enigmatic figure.
36:04Although he built the chapel almost 150 years
36:07after the Templars were officially dissolved,
36:10it has a lot of Templar symbolism.
36:14Two riders on a single horse is a symbol of the Templars.
36:17It appears in Roslin
36:20as the seal of the order.
36:23The Lamb of God holding a cross.
36:30Throughout the chapel, mysterious engravings,
36:33symbols, signs, faces.
36:37Coded skillfully between his work,
36:40there are small details that say,
36:43look more carefully, here are hidden messages.
36:46The predominant plant in medieval churches
36:49was the shape of the cross.
36:52But the design of Roslin seems to be remodeled
36:55to the image of another famous structure.
36:58The layout of the chapel and its architecture
37:01give a clue to its inspiration.
37:04With 14 pillars, including two majestic columns
37:07in the front,
37:10it resembles the ancient Jewish temple described in the Bible.
37:17Apparently, William Sinclair built the chapel
37:20in the image of the original Temple of Jerusalem.
37:23The ruins of this ancient structure
37:26were the location of the first headquarters
37:29of the Templar Knights.
37:32If this ship is the Temple of Herod,
37:35you have to go a little further
37:38and say that there are three floors below this.
37:41There is no proof of this, it has not been shown,
37:44there is no evidence.
37:47But if so far you have been able to believe the story,
37:50it is not very difficult to take that extra step.
37:53More proofs relate the chapel to the Templars.
37:56Some have insinuated that there could be sealed cameras
37:59under the chapel of Roslyn.
38:02They could hide one of the great mysteries of the world,
38:05the treasure of the Templars,
38:08the Holy Grail,
38:11or perhaps nothing at all.
38:14Everything has been speculated,
38:17from the mummified head of Christ
38:20to the Ark of the Covenant,
38:23passing through the parchment of the Temple of Jerusalem.
38:26There is no evidence to prove anything like that.
38:29And the excavations have not finished.
38:32But the exploratory excavation has been stopped
38:35for fear of a possible collapse of the chapel.
38:38The cameras could simply be tombs
38:41or could house a hidden treasure.
38:44The chapel could simply be an eccentric church
38:47or a replica of the Temple of Jerusalem.
38:51Roslyn is still a mystery to be solved,
38:54as is much of the legacy of the Templars.
38:57However, the evidence suggests that someone knows.
39:01A mysterious international order with its own secrets.
39:21Some say that the fabulous treasure of the Order of the Temple
39:24is waiting to be unearthed.
39:29Some say that luck does not exist.
39:33Others say that the treasure is kept with jealousy by modern Templars.
39:38The Templar knights have always existed.
39:41It is easy to realize that they never ceased to exist,
39:44only that they went to clandestinity.
39:48Some believe that they have persisted for centuries
39:51in a brotherhood as powerful as their secret.
39:55The clues to their identity are in plain sight
39:58in the Roslyn Chapel.
40:01In the chapel behind me,
40:03we have carvings on the pedestals of the statues.
40:06And the positions of the hands are quite significant.
40:09The hand on the chest or the disposition of the feet,
40:12the hands on the knees.
40:15All symbols of the Freemasons.
40:18One of the largest and oldest brotherhoods in the world.
40:23Fourteen North American presidents have been Freemasons.
40:26Many of the founding fathers, including George Washington, were Freemasons.
40:32The Freemasons keep their rituals secret.
40:35But over the years,
40:37illustrations and descriptions have been leaked.
40:40They show a curious resemblance to the Templar knights.
40:44The place where this relationship is clearly seen
40:47is on the walls of the Roslyn Chapel.
40:50A figure wearing the distinctive cross of a Templar
40:53holds a rope tied around the neck of a man with blindfolded eyes.
41:01Almost identical to the initiation ritual of the Freemasons.
41:07There are more similarities.
41:10A Freemason ritual describes the excavation
41:13of an ancient Jewish temple,
41:15the first headquarters of the Templar Knights.
41:18Templars and Freemasons are even related by blood.
41:23Before voting for chastity,
41:25the founder of the Order of the Temple, Hugo de Payen,
41:28had married a member of the Sinclair family of Scotland.
41:31300 years later,
41:33William Sinclair built the Roslyn Chapel.
41:36And in the 18th century,
41:38the Sinclairs were recognized as hereditary masters of Scottish Freemasonry.
41:42Some groups of Freemasons
41:44use key words and Templar symbols.
41:47One of the highest ranks in the Masonic hierarchy
41:50is the Templar Knight.
41:52The youth Masonic group is called Demolai,
41:55the name of the last great master of the Templar Knights.
42:00It may be that the Freemasons are modern Templars,
42:03or it may all be a coincidence.
42:06There's all kinds of people
42:08who pattern their spiritual, social,
42:11and structural activities of their groups
42:14on these Templar ideals.
42:16Thou art a warrior of God.
42:21The walls of the Roslyn Chapel
42:23suggest that the Templars were here 150 years
42:26since their alleged disappearance.
42:30The same walls suggest that the Freemasons were here
42:33250 years before their official foundation.
42:37Legend has it that the mysterious engravings of Roslyn
42:40hide a great secret.
42:43The key to the famous treasure of the Templars,
42:46the Holy Grail.
42:48I think Roslyn is an enigma.
42:50I think the most probable thing is that it was designed to be an enigma.
42:55No one has managed to decipher the code of Roslyn.
42:58No one has found the hidden treasure.
43:00And no one can prove that the Templars were here.
43:09700 years after their disappearance,
43:11the order of the Temple is still a mystery.
43:15Their secrets are still hidden.
43:17Their codes are not deciphered.
43:20There are those who say that there is nothing to find.
43:23There has been no great secret in the Temple Mount.
43:26There has been no great secret to the Freemasons.
43:29The Templars were monks who were knights.
43:32But that's where their mystery ends.
43:36What we know is that the Templar Knights
43:38were the most holy warriors of Christianity.
43:41However, they were punished by heresy.
43:45They were prospective and innovative entrepreneurs.
43:48But their methods were worth powerful enemies.
43:51They were immensely rich, but their fortune disappeared with them.
43:56It was rumored that they had an explosive secret.
44:00And there is a whole industry of theorists,
44:02conspiracies and successful novels
44:04that questions whether that secret is still hidden today.
44:11The answer is that we simply don't know.
44:14No matter what they tell you, we simply don't know.
44:19There is always going to be the secret of the Templars,
44:22because little is known about their fate
44:24and while that past is still surrounded by mystery,
44:27there will always be secrets to discover.
44:31The Templar Knights had a secret.
44:33We know so far, but would it still be so shocking today?
44:37We may never know.
44:39700 years after the disappearance of the Order of the Temple,
44:42its secret still remains just as fascinating.
44:45And it is that mystery that will allow the legend of the Templar Knights to survive.
44:54The Templar Knights