"The Temple House was founded
in 1586 in England during the reign of Elizabeth I as an
off-shoot of Sir Francis Walsingham’s recently created intelligence service, inaugurated
to investigate the growing popularity of esoteric learning that was occupying
the interests of the Elizabethan intelligentsia. For this he recruited the
descendants of the Knights Templar who had remained in England following the
destruction of their Order. The
Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of
the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici), or more commonly known as the Knights Templar, were formed in 1118 and ‘destroyed’ in 1307 by royal decree when King
Philip of France moved to have all Templars arrested and their assets
seized.
The
Order has remained surrounded by myth and legend ever since - from
searching and reputedly finding the Holy Grail; the Ark of the Covenant; sacred
Gnostic texts even more dangerous than those found by the Dead Sea, or at Nag
Hammadi in Egypt; to the timely disappearance of their naval fleet from La
Rochelle and their treasure from the Paris Temple. Drawing on this veritable
mine of esoteric knowledge and experience of international intrigue, the Temple
House was established to combat ‘evil forces’ of a human or supernatural
agency, and those who would use occult power for destructive purposes.
The
current members of the Temple House, or ‘the Nine’ as they are referred to in memory
of the original nine founder members of the Order, are all specialists and
magical practitioners in the diverse fields of occultism and its relevant
histories. When journalist Michael Gilmour discovered
a small filler in a tabloid newspaper about the ‘witch busters’ of Temple
House, he believed they were the right people to help him discover the reason
behind his father’s disappearance back in the 1970's following an investigation
into the desecration of a rural church.
What he discovered was even stranger than anything he could ever have
imagined in his wildest flights of imagination, which almost results in his own
death in an act of premature burial from which he is rescued in the nick of
time."
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