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Hey there...

A question I get asked a lot is: "What are you working on?"

People want to know. You want to know.

Well, as a follow-on to my book, The Alchemical Search For The Unified Field, I'm working on a second book. Its working title is Sacred Secrets: A Quest for the Holy Grail. At 300,000 words (a rough draft of over 600 pages) it's quite an intriguing, albeit unfinished, tome.

Here's the deal...

Folks have questions, you have questions, about ancient things for which reasonable or truthful answers are evasive. It's probably why there's been an interest spike in "New Age" topics, magic and fantasy, and secret Orders such as the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, and especially the Knights Templar and their quest for the Holy Grail. Rooted in my childhood, I have the same interests and questions that you do.

Ferreting out answers to my many unconventional questions has been a challenging journey down a rough road. I've been branded as a heretic and assaulted by ruffians, yet I persist undaunted in a quest for the truth. What I’ve found during the course of a lifetime of investigative research, climbing the mountain of knowledge, seeking the flower of wisdom, is that truth is a matter of perception. It’s malleable! People believe what is comfortable within the paradigm of their worldview, excluding what doesn’t conform. Belief has little to do with truth, or right or wrong for that matter. It’s about comfort that often conforms to a narrative supporting an obfuscating agenda. So it is with groups such as the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, the Knights Templar, and quests for the Holy Grail.

Let’s look at the Templars for a moment: Beyond their touted exploits, the general perception of the Templars is mythical, shrouded in mystery. According to legend, the Templars were fierce warriors, devout Christian monks and Masons who invented banking and financed nations. Allegedly they worshipped a head, a deity called Baphomet, and supposedly found Solomon’s treasure and the Holy Grail. At least this is how the Templars are portrayed and are purported to have done in books and movies. Regardless that much of it is unoriginal, coffee-stained and unsubstantiated specious opinion, people accept and believe it because it’s so often regurgitated and they're comfortable with it. They believe it! But is it true? My life-long investigation indicates that these narratives involve considerable spurious fabrication and fantastical literary license in support of institutional agendas. The question is: “Why?”

Interestingly, buried in the discombobulated morass of existential BS are grains of truth involving treasure and the Grail. That’s part of the story of course, but most of the Templar story hinges on two important questions others have avoided and failed to ask: 1. What was the Templar modus operandi, why did they do what they did? 2. Who was Hugues de Payns, the founder of the Templars, really? If we answer these questions we will understand why the Templars sought the treasure of King Solomon and the Holy Grail, and why it appears they came to North America. In a nutshell, this is what my book is about.

Vigorous debate revolves around whether the Templars emerged from the Freemasons, or if the Freemasons emerged from Templars. Without wading into that fray, historical evidence suggests that both have ancient roots and evolved separately. The confusion arises when, during the 12th and 13th centuries, Freemasons built fortresses, castles, cathedrals, abbeys, etc. for the Templars. Operative Freemasons associated with construction of such structures were incorporated as a “category” of Templar but weren’t necessarily Templars. Conversely, associated Templars who applied speculative knowledge and oversaw construction of these structures, weren’t necessarily Freemasons. So, some Freemasons were Templars and some Templars were Freemasons, but not all. Because of the rapport the Templars developed befriending Freemasons on various projects over the course of almost 200 years, Freemasons provided refuge to the Templars during their persecution, most notably in Scotland. As their ideologies were comparable and compatible, their merger was subsequently conflated.

Both the Freemasons and Templars have tendrils stretching back through the mists of time. Many assume this refers to ancient Egypt. It does, but their roots and tendrils extend even further, to ancient Mesopotamia and a Semitic people known as the Sumerians. The point of origin is the very genesis of mankind and the evolution of a primal theology. This primal theology was an idea, a concept, not a religion that embraces dogma, pomp, and ceremony. No. Primal theology is what preceded institutional religion. Nature based, it's elegant in its pristine beauty and simplicity! It percolated down through millennia and was woven into the fabric of what became religion. It’s been altered almost beyond recognition, suppressed, and denied, but remains in the background for those who have a tongue that is silent, eyes that see, ears that hear, and a heart to recognize and appreciate it for what it is. It’s the core of the Templar’s modus operandi, but what is it? What is this primal theology?

R.E.Kretz