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There are two "schools of thought" when it comes to the Templar Baphomet

Guénon maintains that Templars retained the communication between East & West through the Templars presence at the Dome of the Rock and thus communication between Islamic mystical schools like that of Sufism and the like and thus 'initiation'. Guénon writes:
>'If the Templars 'were not initiates' simply because it is unlikely they had received initiation from the Ismailis, as if they could not have had their own initiation, especially if it is admitted that they were 'Johannites'? It is also said that they had 'a profound knowledge of the symbolism of Near-Eastern and Mediterranean esoterism', which scarcely accords with an absence of initiation'

The truth about what the templar's found under the dome of the rock the families behind the initial templar presence in palestine may have had much more 'sinister' aspect to it as the Serpentine cults and certain Ophite considerations and Mithraic Mysteries (that are also connected to the Mediterranean esoterism and which templar symbolism quite prominently features)

Some of the Yazidi peacock symbolism features similar cross that of the Templars and this also contains certain Ahrimanic connections. Namely those initiatic centres connected with the Seven Towers of Shaytan and the Big Dipper