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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8751803" data-attributes="member: 1125">Yeah the the arrest of the Templars was pushed by King Philip IV of France who was in debt to the Templars as they had financed his war with England. This was during the era of the French Popes and he was able to find a witness who claimed that the Templars forced recruits to spit on the Cross, worshipped idols in the form of a mummified head (possibly that of John the Baptist) and encouraged homosexual practices - pretty much the same accusations used against Jews, Witches and other heretics during that era. The whole Templar <s>trial</s>torture was political in nature.Relevantly though, the LeVay co-opting of alchemical or Catholic symbols and tying them to the regressive humanism of the Church of Satan should not be misconstrued as a connect to the infernal</blockquote>