Miguel Conner on The Assassins: Gnostic Theology & Templar Connection

Summary

Miguel Conner explores the medieval Nizari Ismailis, better known as the Assassins, and argues they carried forward a hidden Gnostic and Persian Mithraic tradition rather than being simply a Muslim sect. Drawing on Jason Reza Jorjani's 'Iranian Leviathan' and Tracy Twyman and Alex Rivera's 'Baphomet: The Templar Mystery Unveiled,' he traces a lineage from the Carpocratian Gnostics through the Mazdakite movement to Hassan-i Sabbah's fortress of Alamut. He reinterprets the famous maxim 'Nothing is true, everything is permitted' as a Gnostic statement of spiritual liberation, and he previews a connection between the Assassins and the Knights Templar.

Key takeaways

• 1Main sources are Jason Reza Jorjani's 'Iranian Leviathan: A Monumental History of Mithra's Abode' and Tracy Twyman and Alex Rivera's 'Baphomet: The Templar Mystery Unveiled.'
• 2Jorjani claims Salman the Persian was a Mithraic magus who helped engineer Islam as an 'inoculant' against religious totalitarianism, and that Nizaris revered him as the true first imam.
• 3Persian Mithraic noble houses allegedly withheld support from the Sasanian emperor during the Arab conquest as revenge for the crushing of the Mazdakites, after Khosrow I reportedly had about 100,000 Mazdakites executed.
• 4Hassan II proclaimed the Qiyamat (Great Resurrection) at Alamut on August 8, 1164, abolishing Sharia, breaking the Ramadan fast, and serving wine and pork.
• 5The 8th-century Shiite text 'Mother of Books' is said to cast Muhammad's family as a divine pentad of aeons and Azazel as the Demiurge.
• 6Conner, citing Chris Knowles, suggests the Statue of Liberty is a Freemason-erected icon of the Persian god Mithras; Twyman links the Assassins' maxim to the Ophite serpent-worshipping doctrine allegedly practiced by the Templars.

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