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Templars developed a pagan
faith in Christian guise.

Societies and Subversive Movements. According to Webster, the tendency to

absolve the Templars of the heresies they confessed to during the trial pe-
riod is unjustified. First, during the interrogations, despite the standard
claim, not all the Templars were tortured;
Moreover, do the confessions of the Knights appear to be the outcome of
pure imagination such as men under the influence of torture might devise?
It is certainly difficult to believe that the accounts of the ceremony of initia-
tion given in detail by men in different countries, all closely resembling
each other, yet related in different phraseology, could be pure inventions.
Had the victims been driven to invent they would surely have contradicted
each other, have cried out in their agony that all kinds of wild and fantastic
rites had taken place in order to satisfy the demands of their interlocutors.
But no, each appears to be describing the same ceremony more or less com-
pletely, with characteristic touches that indicate the personality of the
speaker, and in the main all the stories tally. 6

Anyhow, the trial of the Templars ended with the termination of the
order. But, although the order "officially" ceased to exist, it did not actually

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