”I think it only right that at so solemn a moment when my life has so little time to run I should reveal the deception which has been practiced and speak up for the truth. Before heaven and earth and with all of you here as my witnesses, I admit that I am guilty of the grossest iniquity. But the iniquity is that I have lied in admitting the disgusting charges laid against the Order. I declare, and I must declare, that the Order is innocent. Its purity and saintliness is beyond question. I have indeed confessed that the Order is guilty, but I have done so only to save myself from terrible tortures by saying what my enemies wished me to say. Other knights who have retracted their confessions have been led to the stake; yet the thought of dying is not so awful that I shall confess to foul crimes which have never been committed. Life is offered to me but at the price of infamy. At such a price, life is not worth having. I do not grieve that I must die if life can be bought only by piling one lie upon another.” Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon, in March, 1314. He was burned alive over a slow charcoal fire. There are many legends about what happened during those days.
I have taken the quote from Desmond Seward’s The Monks of War.
A detail from Rembrandt’s painting, I mean, a heretic remake of the old masterpiece (by the undersieged in 2013).
“When the Russian Tsar and Tsarina used the inner experiences of Rasputin for the purposes of government, the people had a right to be afraid of that, because revelations from the spiritual world should only have a role in spiritual life, not in the political field. In this field only what has become our sound reason by way of the spiritual revelations should intrude. Rasputin had not developed sound reasoning, although he had revelations”. Rudolf Steiner, 14th February, 1920 Dornach
“Rasputin worked directly on the will. That should not be. But people want that. He really is an unrestrained man, the ‘Rasputin’ (Russian: one without a path). Everything said about him is true, but he is nevertheless a God-Seer, which is an occult term for a grade of initiation. It is only through him that the spiritual world, the Russian Folk-Spirit, can now take effect in Russia, through nobody else.” Rudolf Steiner, according to Assya Turgeneva (in the early years of the first World War, recorded in her book Erinnerugen an Rudolf Steiner)
”Thus with the death of Grigory Rasputin Russia was finally ’prepared’ for its cross-like destiny.” Quoted from The Spiritual Origins of Eastern Europe and the Future Mysteries of the Holy Grail by Sergei O. Prokofieff
”And however paradoxical it may seem today, the ’Grail mood’ is in the fullest sense to be found in Russia. And the future role that Russia will play in the sixth post-Atlantean epoch, a task of which I have so often had to speak, rests firmly upon this unconquerable ’Grail mood’ in the Russian people.” Rudolf Steiner (3.11.1918)
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