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First Templar Nation: How Eleven Knights Created a New Country and a Refuge for the Grail by [Freddy Silva]

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Overturns the long-established historical narrative about the origins and purpose of the Knights Templar

• Explains how and why the Templars created Europe’s first nation-state, Portugal, with one of their own as king

• Reveals the Portuguese roots of key founding members, their relationship with the Order of Sion, the Templars’ devotion to Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist, and the meaning and exact location of the Grail

• Provides evidence of Templar holy sites and hidden chambers throughout Portugal

• Includes over 700 references, many from new and rare sources

Conventional history claims that nine men formed a brotherhood called the Knights Templar in Jerusalem in 1118 to provide protection for pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. Overturning this long-established historical narrative, Freddy Silva shows that the Order of the Temple existed a decade earlier on the opposite side of Europe, that the protection of pilgrims was entrusted to a separate organization, and that, in league with the Cistercian monks and the equally mysterious Order of Sion, the Templars executed one of history’s most daring and covert plans: the creation of Europe’s first nation-state, Portugal, with one of their own as king.

Including over 700 references, many from new and rare sources, Silva reveals Portugal, not Jerusalem, as the first Templar stronghold. He shows how there were eleven founding members and how the first king of Portugal, a secret Templar, was related to Bernard de Clairvaux, head of the Cistercians. The author explains the Templars’ motivation to create a country far from the grasp of Rome, where they could conduct their living resurrection initiation--whose candidates were declared “risen from the dead”--a secret for which the Church silenced millions and which the Templars protected to the death.

Placing the intrepid Knights in a previously unknown time and place, Silva’s historical narrative reveals the Portuguese roots of key founding members, their relationship with the Order of Sion, the Templars’ unshakeable devotion to Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist, and how they protected a holy bloodline in Portugal. He also provides evidence of secret Templar holy sites, initiation chambers, and hidden passageways throughout Portugal, often coinciding with pagan and Neolithic temples, and explains how their most important site forms a perfect triangle with the Abbey of Mont Sion in Jerusalem and the Osirion temple in Egypt. The author also reappraises the meaning of the Grail and reveals its exact location, hidden in plain sight to this very day.

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“In this well-told story, author Freddy Silva has filled a long-standing need for a real understanding of the Templars’ early history, their search for treasure in the Temple of Solomon, and the creation of an independent Portugal with a Templar knight as king. First Templar Nation is a fascinating contribution to the body of knowledge of the Order.” (Steven Sora, author of The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar)

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Freddy Silva is a leading researcher of alternative history, ancient knowledge, sacred sites, and the interaction between temples and consciousness. He has appeared on Discovery Channel, BBC, and Coast to Coast AM radio. He is the author of 5 books, including The Lost Art of Resurrection, and lives in Portland, Maine.

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Freddy Silva is a leading researcher of alternative history, ancient knowledge, sacred sites, and the interaction between temples and consciousness. He has appeared on Discovery Channel, BBC, and Coast to Coast AM radio. He is the author of 5 books, including The Lost Art of Resurrection, and lives in Portland, Maine. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Chapter 39
1160. March 1st.
A Dawn Ceremony on the Promontory above Thamar . . .

Master Gualdino laid the cornerstone of the round church the Templars would spend the next two years erecting. By its very location on a mound atop the hill, the rotunda would be the first element of the surrounding terrain to be bathed by the light of the rising sun. The timing of the ceremony embodied the ancient Egyptian practice of performing the rite of resurrection at dawn.

The event also marked the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the first Cistercian monastery in Portugale, at Tarouca, after the Templar knight Brother Roland and a group of monks from Clairvaux met with a young Afonso Henriques.

The rotunda’s octagonal geometry would be an homage to both the church of the Holy Sepulcher and Arabic sacred architecture; its interior was devoid of all ornament, precisely as Bernard de Clairvaux prescribed: “There must be no decoration, only proportion.”1

During this period the Templars undertook no other project. It was a singular focus, a great work, a total and synergistic enterprise as though integral to their purpose. Only after the rotunda was complete did they focus on Thamar and the attention the town obviously needed.

The town was practically rebuilt from scratch, requiring the import of vast quantities of artists and stonemasons, and in the decade that followed, the Templars devoted their entire efforts to its resurrection.2 It was to become their headquarters in Portugal, the portal of the Order, containing perhaps the most significant Templar monuments in Europe.

POR TU, O GRAL. “Through you, the Grail.” The same phrase inscribed beside the image of the Ark of the Covenant on the Doorway of Initiates at Chartres Cathedral. Could the castle on the hill above Thamar be the same “castle of the wild mount” described in the Graal legend? Whether by coincidence or design, just as Gualdino’s ceremony is taking place in Thamar, Cretien of Troyes is settling down to write his Graal story in Champagne.

The origin behind the naming of Thamar is as intriguing as the reason why the Templars should have chosen a spot so far removed from their original homeland to give birth to their golden age. Thamara or Tamarmah was the name given by its Arab habitants around the ninth century,4 and its choice shines some light on why the location was important beyond the site of a former Benedictine monastery where a divine virgin was martyred.

Tamar or Tamara was the name of King David’s daughter,5 just as it was the daughter of the union between Jesus and Mary Magdalene.6 The name means “palm tree,” and to anyone acquainted with esoteric symbolism this has a profound connection with the cult of raising the dead.
It has already been noted just how many of the Templar’s pursuits have decidedly esoteric or ancient Egyptian overtones. One of the central pillars of the Egyptian Mysteries schools is the resurrection myth featuring Osiris and his consort Isis. Osiris ruled the kingdom until his jealous brother Set cut him into little pieces and unceremoniously dispersed them into the Nile. Because Osiris produced no heir, Isis was left with no son to dispose of the evil Set. In effect she was the divine virgin presiding over a kingdom gone to ruin. Resourceful to the end, Isis sets off to gather up her husband’s body parts, magically reassembles them, and after fashioning him a new phallus made of solid gold she uses the sound of her voice, whereupon Osiris is resurrected and Isis impregnated.

After his ordeal Osiris shines forever as a bright star and returns to restore life to a barren land. The myth essentially outlines the ritual of living resurrection, and the symbol of Osiris’s experience is the palm tree. Osiris himself is depicted with green skin, making him the oldest expression of the cult of the Green Man, the tutelary deity of fertility who revitalizes the land and raises it from the dead.

It seems Osiris was a dab hand at magic, perhaps because the priest-god who assists him in the ritual is the ibis-headed Djehuti (the Greek Thoth-Hermes), who is credited “as the author of every branch of knowledge, both human and divine.”7 Djehuti is nothing less than the personification of the mind of God, a skin-and-bones representation of the stone tablets written by God. Djehuti’s knowledge descended from heaven from the god Amun, whose image is depicted on temple walls wearing a crown of two tablets, suspiciously identical in shape to those handed to Moses.

After the Templars recovered the knowledge secreted beneath the Temple Mount, they swore to “rebuild the temple,” physically and symbolically. This they did by specifically selecting Thamar, in the land of Ceras, a lifeless piece of land they held out for after a lengthy controversy with the Bishop of Lisbon. And now we know why.

The crowning of the hill with a round church gave it the appearance of Mount Sion and its curved basilica, the location where the Essenes once performed their secret ministries. If the Templars aimed to re-create the essence of Mount Sion, did they also re-create the rites of resurrection? For one thing, the unusual structure above Tomar was never a church to begin with; it never contained an altar inside or adjacent to it.8 And why should the Templars require a second place of worship when they already had the nearby church of Santa Maria do Olival, where their prayers and sacred offices were conducted on a daily basis?

Even more curious, during sieges, the people of Thamar were never permitted inside the rotunda, arguably the safest, most secure building inside the citadel. And had they been allowed, getting inside would have proved awkward, for this rotunda had no door.9 --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Freddy Silva is a bestselling author, and a leading researcher of ancient civilizations, restricted history, sacred sites and their interaction with consciousness.  

He has published eight books in six languages, and produced thirteen documentaries.

Described by one CEO as "perhaps the best metaphysical speaker in the world right now,” for two decades he has been an international keynote speaker, with notable appearances at the International Science and Consciousness Conference, the International Society For The Study Of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine, and the Association for Research and Enlightenment, in addition to History Channel, BBC, GAIA TV, numerous podcasts and radio shows such as Fade To Black and Coast To Coast.   

He is also a documentary filmmaker with 14 published titles. and leads private tours to sacred sites worldwide

Main website www.invisibletemple.com

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HRSquire17

Wanted to rate this higher - now this has become my Graal

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2021

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I have read a lot of books on the Templars. I have also read lots of alternative history books so I'm not biased against them. The book has an engaging style, and the intrigue and interconnection between the main players in this drama of the formation of Portugal as a country through the Templar lens is very interesting. I'd like to thank the author for getting me intrigued with geomancy and tellanic lines. I was not very familiar with this and I'd like to read more. I'd also like to thank the author for introducing me to the history of Portugal and the influence of the Templars upon it. Portugal has now made my list of countries I want to visit. Lastly, I'd like to thank the author for giving me something to mentally engage me during the pandemic. As I read it I can never tell what is fact, fiction or unknown and trying to figure it out has become very engaging. Having said that, that should not be part of the enjoyment of a seriously researched book, which is how this book is represented.

Let me explain. the author make it seem like there were a dozen Templars all with some Portuguese connection that ran the Order, when there were hundreds of Templars in the Middle East fighting well documented battles, holding castles, etc... I understand the book is about Portugal, but the author makes it seem like the Templar Order consisted of 12 cousins with a dream of setting up their own country. He also implies Portugal was the primary seat of the Order, which is patently untrue. That the Templars had a intimate connection to Portugal is clear and that this continued after the persecution I also believe is clear, but it was not the center of gravity for the Order according to pretty much every history other than the author's. Which becomes a theme - the author against the world.

My primary issue, at least on Amazon from the vast number of reviews and in the summary, is the portrayal of this book as a highly researched and frankly authoritative account of the subject. Having read it, I can't agree with these conclusions.

I first got the inkling something was off when the author quotes a verse from Exodus that didn't sound right. It had been a while since I last read Exodus so out came the Bible. The verse the author cited did not say what he was claiming in the book. I looked at 2 more translations, but came up the same. The author 100% adds verbiage and changed the verse to fit his argument. He misrepresents other easily checked bible quotes as well.

Then I started looking at the copious notes. Nearly every other sentence has an endnote. So the impression you get is this is thoroughly and seriously researched. This led me to the bibliography. A significant number of the books he uses as his sources are at best pseudo-histories, at worst debunked works even by most alternative history "experts" - such as Holy Blood Holy Grail and obscure documents he says he uncovered and translated himself or he references other books he himself has written. Normally I would be inclined to give an author the benefit of the doubt but when he already has been caught doctoring verses of the bible then frankly every other endnote becomes a question mark.

He also likes to throw out his interpretation of the origin of words or place names, which seem to support his argument, but upon actual checking are completely false. As an example, he says the word "Sorcerer" is a corruption of a "Sourcerer" or someone who is sensitive to the earth's geomagnetic flows. Sounds maybe reasonable, until you check etymological sources/dictionaries - and none (as in not even one) agrees with the author's stated origin story. Sorcerer comes from the Latin for lots, as in casting lots, as in fortune telling. The word Source does derive from beginning, usually of a flow of water, but Sorcerer has zero historical connection to that word. Google it yourself. Another example is Jerusalem. The author says the name comes from Gar-esa-shalem which he translates as the perfect rock of Isis or something, again sounds interesting, but there is zero actual reference in any of the myriad of dictionaries and etymology sites that mention this interpretation. Neither of these definitions by the author are end noted, unlike nearly everything else in his book. The author has in effect become the Gnostic Master he claims the Templars are. He alone truly understands the true origin of these words.

I learned from this book (I think), and honestly I am eager to continue to read it as I look for what will be his next claim to hidden knowledge the author alone is privy to, but at the end of the day I come away feeling like the author is doing an Ancient Aliens on me - "Could it be true, as the author believes, that...." Well I guess it could be, but likely not. Very disappointing.

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First Templar Nation: Portugal

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The Templar Knights were warrior monks, they were very secretive because they had to be. They were strong Christians, but they were also syncretic in their beliefs, meaning they had to be careful in sharing such views. The members of their order (Knights, etc.) were sworn to protect & never reveal the most sacred of their secrets to outsiders; these secrets were only passed on to those members who believed and proved to be trustworthy, even on pain of torture/death. For many reasons, from then to today, there are questions as to what their true goals/aims were.

I have ready many books on the Templar Knights. It was not until I read Freddy Silva's book, "First Templar nation", that I could see how much these particular knights were able to positively affect the whole of Western Europe & the Holy Lands from the earliest days of the Crusades until after the official end of their order in 1312 (arrest in 1307, execution of the last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay in 1314), by having established a strong Templar nation in Portugal (under the Burgundian Portuguese ruling dynasty), most notably by keeping the Moors from taking over the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal & Spain) and the rest of Western Europe for many decades.

The banking procedures they initiated were controlled & kept safe due to their exceptional coding system. And their distinctive engineering skills were seen in the fortresses, buildings, and churches they built.

The author, Freddy Silva, researched for 10 years, and was able to find documents/info unknown before, in Portugal, etc. He was born in Portugal.

The Templar Knights were the richest & most powerful warrior monk order in Western Europe & the Holy Lands, for 200 years; this would never have happened, if they were just simple, peaceful monks living in the Holy Lands, during the Crusader period of wars/violence. Just because they were secretive & kept their archives hidden, one has to consider their prowess & presence, during the Crusader period & afterward, as stated above.

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M. Goodman

A well-researched and fabulous story!

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I have read several of Freddy Silva's books and this is my favorite! He details the creation of the Templars and WHY they were created. This book exposes that so much you think you know about the Templars is probably wrong. His story is carefully referenced (who knew so many documents from the 11th and 12th centuries can still be located?) and provides the answers to the questions of WHY the Templars went to the Holy Land, WHAT did they find there that caused this non-profit organization to become one of the richest in Europe, and WHERE is their richest treasure hidden? For anyone interested in the real story of the Templar Knights, this is a must-read!

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Polk8dot

Same as with any Freddy Silva book - if you love knowledge, you'll love this book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2021

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These books are based on solid research, and are overflowing with information. In contrast to many other 'alternative-history' authors, Silva's books are all SUBSTANCE and no fluff. Every sentence carries some knowledges, no flowery rhetoric and empty, contrarian theories. If you watch his videos, you'll see what I mean, as they are the same way - just profoundly educational, very well done, and wonderfully presented. Just beware, sometimes it does feel like they were written in Portuguese and translated into English maybe not too skillfully, but if you take a moment, you'll get the meaning. Highly recommend.

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Empiricism Please

Lot's of food for consideration

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Silva injects intelligent, questioning enthusiasm that makes the history come alive. This was most enjoyable and informative, even at times when it came close to stretching credulity. He takes the reader to the edge then draws back as if to invite the reader to exercise her own perspective and conclusions. This book will accompany me on my trek to Portugal as I trace it's history, interactions with other parts of the ancient (and not so ancient )world, and influences on the national gestalt. Obrigada, O Professor Silva! Apreciei o mundo que você revelou.

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Lambert

This book is the nearest to the truth.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 18, 2018

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There is so much of the Templar history, according to the historians, which did not ring true with me. This book throws all of it up in the air and comes to conclusions that actually make sense! The real reasoning behind the original formation of The Order explained, not the usual run of the mill... protecting the roads, treasure hunting, the original Illuminati. Freddy Silva has pieced together so much that other books take no notice of because they are simply reorganizing other peoples work. Rituals such as The Raising of the Dead Ceremony, so maligned by others, is explained here. If you want a truer view of these knights, read this, I can't recommend this book enough.

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Andrew Man

Continuing the story of the Da Vinci code

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 17, 2021

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Certainly the best historical story of the Templars and the blood line since the “Holy Blood and the Grail.”
Recommended to all seeking the truth about the Grail quest.

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Jason mccafferty

Leaves you wanting more

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 19, 2021

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Fantastic read , full of information that would help anyone with any Interest in the subject explore more or less depending on where and what your looking for .
Couldn't put it down , also leads onto more of freddys books .

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MDFS

Do not bother. This is pseudo science

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 21, 2021

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I bought the book because I wanted to inquire further into the links of Henry the Navigator, the Knights of Christ and the Templars. It turns out that this books is full of suppositions presented as facts. It's just another of these works that claims merovingians are privvy to certain knowledge about Christ's bloodline.
The sad thing is that the subject, that is, Portugal's link to the Templars and how the latter influenced the Age of Discoveries, either by sheer economic or heraldic force, is a massive and yet poorly research topic. Maybe serious historians have not found a reason to add the Templars to the already well-know narratives of the Portuguese ouverture to the Atlantic. Was Henry the Navigator mainly reliant on the resources of the Order of Christ to finance not only his discovery voyages but also all the logistics and inteligence gathering necessary to keep on exploring the Africa coast in search for an alternate route to Asia? Who knows, but this is not the book for that.

Inthegreen

A very different take on history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 18, 2021

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This book is a very different take on the history we’re told. Well researched and very interesting. I couldn’t put it down and am waiting for two more books from mr silva. Highly recommend reading his work and watching his presentations on YouTube. Fantadtywork

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