Below is a video that I mentioned in the interview with Freeman Fly that will air on The Free Zone this Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 8 PM EST, promoting my new book written with Alexander Rivera, Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled, which is set to go to press this weekend. The video features Barbara Frale, discoverer of the controversial Chinon Parchment, offering what seems like propaganda and apologia on behalf of both the Church and the Templar Knighthood they chartered. In the Freeman interview, I question the way the Parchment was allegedly found: suddenly after 700 years of being lost in the Vatican Secret Archives. I also question the way that the media has chosen to portray the contents of the Parchment: as being exculpatory of the Templars on the issues of heresy, blasphemy, and sexual immorality (as those terms were defined at the time). As part of this discussion, I mentioned a National Geographic documentary I saw on YouTube featuring Ms. Frale. The show presents the entire Church leadership as hapless pawns in the hands of the king of France, and the Templars as innocent casualties of politics and greed. Frale, a paleographist who’s worked at the Vatican [...]
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