The IOGT and the Goddess Tradition

The International Order of Gnostic Templars is descended from the ancient Goddess Tradition. The Templars essentially married into the Goddess Tradition when their first Grand Master, Hughes de Payen, became Grand Master of a Holy Grail lineage of Grand Masters that had anciently emerged out of the Goddess Tradition on Sri Lanka. Then, for many hundreds of years following Hughes initiation, the Knights Templar were aligned to the Goddess Tradition by virtue of being caretakers of this very ancient lineage. It was not until the mid 1800s that the Holy Grail Mysteries were officially expunged from Templarism and the Order became more of a military and charitable organization. According to the esoteric wisdom of Theosophy and other movements which have emerged from the East, many lineages of Grand Masters were founded by the Kumaras, the Sons of God, during a time when Sri Lanka and India were part of a very large continent that stretched across the Pacific. Known as Lemuria, Mu, Kumari Nadu, Hiva, and Hawaii-ti-Hawaii by the pan-Pacific peaples who remember it in their records, this entire continent was the true Garden of Eden, even though today only a portion of it, Sri Lanka, is given that distinction. It was on the Pacific continent that the Siddha Marga, the path to enlightenment, was first taught by the Sons of God. The path of the Siddha Marga is part of the ancient Goddess Tradition because it culminates in the awakening of the Goddess as the coiled up serpentine Kundalini at the base of the spine. The leader of the Sons of God, Sanat Kumara, is today recognized as the founder of the Great White Brotherhood because more than the other Kumaras, it was he who founded the various lineages of Grand Masters and the secret wisdom taken around the globe by these Masters became the foundation of the teachings of the Great White Brotherhood. Sanat Kumara is the original Son of the Goddess who was worshipped in ancient cultures as Tammuz and Dionysus. One of the lineages of Grand Masters founded by Sanat Kumara went west from Sri Lanka and eventually became assimilated into the Egyptian, Sumerian, Persian and finally Jewish Essene culture. This is the Holy Grail or Johannite Lineage of Grand Masters. The Masters of this lineage were known as the Nasurai and part of the Mandean tribe, which today still exists along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Iraq. When they merged with the Essene culture of the Jews the Nasurai evolved into the Nazarenes, a sect of the Essenes. It was within this sect that two

Mandean Nasurai were born, John the Baptist and Jesus Christ. John the Baptist became a Grand Master of the Holy Grail lineage and later passed on the office to Jesus, who in turn passed it to John the Apostle and Mary Magdalene. After John the Apostle the Holy Grail Lineage passed down a lineage of Masters all of who assumed the title of John, which was not a name but a title meaning He of Gnostic Power and Wisdom. When the Knights Templars were formed in the Holy Land the ruling John was the Grand Master Theoclete. The Templars became part of this lineage when Theoclete eventually made Hughes de Payen, the first Templar Grand Master, the Grand Master of the Holy Grail Lineage. After that, the power and wisdom of the lineage was passed down among the Grand Master Templars.