'Contrary to the popular notion, the only time of outright war during the Crusades was in the tine of Saladin (1174-1193), Sultan of Syria, who determinedly fought the Crusaders. Even in his time there were periods of truce with one order-the more civilized Knights Templar Order-and at times there was even fraternizing with the enemy Arabs. Many of the Templars of higher rank were initiated in the then very secret Arabian Order, the Sufis. They thus became initiated members of the sanctum of Sex Magick. Here is the beginning of real Western Sex Magick. From the days of the crusading Templars to this day, these secrets have been kept inviolate, even though the Church Inquisition and the State persecuted the Templars to the point near complete extinction.
The Holy Roman Christian Church had instigated an unchristian was against the Arabs of Jerusalem, unless it is considered Christian when in the "First Crusade," on Friday, July 15, 1099, thirty thousand Moslems were massacred n Jerusalem before the blood lust was satiated. It is deemed necessary to recount this unsavory mess in order to explain various incidents between the Church and one of the crusading orders, the Order of Knights Templars.
After the Crusades, the Templars in France became the r i c h e s t a n d m o s t p o w e r f u l international banking establishment of the Middle Ages. But their doom was sealed.
King Phillipe le Be coveted their wealth. Pope Clement was easily persuaded to cooperate by sanctioning a charge against the Templars for heresy, sacrilege, blasphemy, and sexual perversion. On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Phillipe issued the orders for the arrest of all known Templars. These were turned over to the Inquisitors of the Holy Roman Apostalic Catholic Church for interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor by the Grand Inquisitor General of France. Anyone who knows anything about the ways of the Inquisition certainly need to be surprised to read that soon fifteen thousand Templars were either unmercifully tortured, starved to death, or burned at the stake.
Grand Master Jaques de Molay was one of several thousand who got the most merciful treatment-burning at the stake. Then came what I call a good example of the "valueless compensation". De Molay had said, "I cite you two before the Tribunal of God." Within one month, Pope Clement died in the torment with the dread disease Lupus. Within eight months, King Phillipe was killed in a hunting accident. However, this may well have been a tremendous, persisting inspiration to the few remaining Knights Templars who turned to secrecy and took their movement underground.'
Louis T. Culling, Sex Magick, publisher: Llewellyn Publications