[Music] during the Templar trials members of the order described how initiates were required to perform bizarre sexual rights bestowing obscene kisses on the bodies of senior members they confess to spitting and trampling on the cross and denying the Divinity of Jesus the acquisition have been leveled at the Templars are extremely lured and I've always attracted for that reason a great deal of attention but they are there in black and white in the trial deposition so we have to address them and assess them but most shocking of all was the testimony that the Templars worshiped a
Sinister bearded head in the trials the head was described in various different ways sometimes they said it had two heads sometimes Brothers described it as having four feet some said it was made of silver some said it was made of gold it was rumored to be the preserved head of the first Templar Grandmaster Hugh de payen it was also described as a two-faced skull or the head of an animal some mentioned a weird Idol known as baffet it's possible the word baffet was a corrupted pronunciation of Muhammad if so some have suggested this is evidence
that the Templars were secret converts to Islam in the 12th century the Muslim culture the Muslim civilization was very ahead of the Western European civilization when the Knights Templar went to the holy lands they were confronted with a culture that was very Superior to their own so some influences began to settle in the general ideology of the Templars [Music]