Le Ordre du Temple, also known as Le Templaire Croix de Rose, and the Military Order of Knights of the Temple of Solomon, has been revived as a Johannine ecclesiastical order of chivalry by the Metropolitan Catholicos of The Oriental Apostolic Church of Damcar, functioning through the Office of the Maphrian of the Order of the Temple, EGJ.
The authority for the revival of Le Ordre du Temple derives from several sources: The Charter(s) of Recognition from the Apostolic Johannite Church ( the modern continuation of Le Eglise Chretiens Primitifs), the Apostolic Lineages of Le Eglise Chretiens Primitifs, La Iglesia Gnostica Catolica Apostolica, Primacia de Colombia et America, and the Synodial Charter of Ecclesia Gnostica Joanita.
Le Ordre du Temple shall be , as was its’ previous incarnation, irrevocably bound to an interior Johannine Christian Church, known as the Templar Maphrianate, and derives its’ ecclesiastical authority there from, in harmony with the functioning of the Order as described in the Manual of the Knights of the Order of the Temple, under the leadership of Saint Bernard Raymand Fabre’-Palaprat, of Blessed Memory.
The dissemination of the Templar Teachings of the Nineteenth Century, the Chivalric Teachings of the Broadstone of Honor and study of the teachings of various Alchemical, Gnostic, Hermetic and Rosicrucian Luminaries, as well as the support of humanitarian efforts, both at home and abroad, are its goals.
Members of the Order will be instructed in and intitated into the Templar Mysteries as depicted in the Manual of the Knigths of the Order of the Temple, and the Levitikon, as well as the chivalric teachings of the Broadstone of Honor and those of the Blessed Ramon Lull.
The Office of The Maphrian Templeisen is recognized as being the Episcopal Fons Honorum, The Embodiment of the Order, and as the Sovereign Ecclesiastical Authority of this Order of Johannine/Johannite Templars, and the Spiritual Patrons of this Order shall be the Isapostle, Saint Mary Magdalene, Holy Templar Martyr, Blessed Jacques De Molay and Holy Cathar Martyr, Blessed Esclarmonde du Foix.
