Cooper finishes the Assassins and draws the line to the knights
Cooper finishes the Assassins and draws the line to the knights. Hassan II claims the Hidden Imam and looses the law: do as thou wilt. Sinan in Syria claims godhood.
Hulagu breaks Alamut and the faith goes under. Then the bridge. Von Hammer asked if the Templars learned from the Assassins. Cooper's answer is yes. The Ismailis were the original. The order was the copy. Two on one horse meant poverty on the seal. He reads them as the first international bankers. Stonehenge, he says, was already a Babylonian sun temple. The Scottish Rite, he says, is just the outward form of the old Templars.
Print the claims. Do not preach the lineage. A man who says he is the divinity, and a law that says do as you please, is not the gospel.
John 14:6. There is one door. Not a secret order.
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