Part of this project is one of discovery. I’m making an effort towards a restoration of the Templar warrior ethos in our current context. I have a few different projects in mind to guide efforts.

One avenue is covering a few figures from relatively recent history and the lessons to be gleaned from them a few I have directly in mind:

-Nathan Bedford Forest

-Ernst Junger

and a few even more recent figures that can perhaps emit a somewhat strange light in the study of heroism.

The Rule of the Templars also comes to us relatively intact in the form of the French rule of the Templars, which can be readily purchased. There have been several attempts to co-opt the Templars by a variety of soi-disant esoteric and masonic groups as the ancestor for their counter traditional groups.  They take many of the sensationalized aspects during the trials and persecution of the Templars at face value and more or less run with them. However, the exoteric cannot contradict the esoteric but act as gateways to further depth. With this mind, I hope to study the original rule, engage with its teachings and see how it can serve as an inspiration and model for a new order.

I wish to delve further and flesh out the disciplines that I have called the hebdomad. Each discipline will feature systems addressing the aspects of the human person as body, mind, and spirit and the interplay of the interior world of the self with the exterior world. In my cursory studies, reading, and experience I’ve seen that it is the discipline of asceticism that forms a foundation for other accomplishments. In trying to achieve something in any field one must to a certain degree battle with his animal nature and practice a form of asceticism. With that in mind, I hope to provide an exposition on the practice of asceticism and its practice with some help from western and eastern sources. The primary areas for engagement are broadly physical training, diet, work, the practice of silence, the use of ritual and sexuality.