Cathars? Templars??? I didn't know there was any valid extant data available on the actual workings and specific gnostic beliefs of either group (outside of, maybe, the Vatican archives)...or are the new agers just using those names to cover up the fact that they're making up most of what they write?
Whatever animates and agitates a bunch of yahoos in, say, Arkansas to imagine that they are still locked in an ongoing cosmic battle with Pope Clement V, Phillippe Capet, and Torquemada...to the point of dressing up in battle costumes and RingWraith robes, mumbling Kabballistic anagrams is anyone's guess.
A couple of puzzles left from "the great work":
Jesus was a mushroom/Jesus married Mary Magdalen and settled in France.
The crusades were horrible crimes by the Catholic Church/We're proud to be descended from the Knights Templar warriors.
If Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Dan Brown, Aunt Bee, and Opie Taylor from Mayberry are keepers of the arcane secrets of Templar-Essene-Cathar-Albigensian-Tantric-MagicMushroom-Alchemical-Bogomil-Kabballistic-Pythagorian-Neo-Gnostic geomantic gymnosophy twister, I would tend to imagine there must be something rather amusing at the center of all of this spiritual confusion.
There may be a clue in HELP!:
'Why were the high priests of the terrible goddess of Kaili interested in the Beatles?'
Jesus isn't divine, supernatural, or magical...but his bloodline with Mary Magdalen is!
Hah! (They don't like Aristotle because the church picked him up so they chucked logic, so it seems)