Based on this, which is the inside story on the FAR+C hoax, revealed a
few years back by the grandson of one of its spurious 'grand masters',
this would seem to be an exceptionally low hill of disappointingly
small beans.

I smelt a rat when this shaggy dog story first emerged on the Priory
of Sion list, and I wasn't disappointed.

Cheers

Ben

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The sad truth about the Freres-Aines so-called 'interesting
documentation'. This is from a PoS researcher called Tim Foix-
Carmain.

This odd mix of documents was taken to an occult convention at Liege
in
1973, and it was there that FAR+C really got under way, using a
reception ritual that Caro had written the previous year :

"Thanks for your insights, and your username, "templeofajunta", is a
pretty clear indication of the fact that your familiarity with the
matter, or at least the key players and organziations, is not
incidental. As I'm sure you are already aware, "Jean Deleuvre" and
"Kamala Jnana" were pseudonyms used by the creator and "Imperator" of
the Freres-Aines de la Rose+Croix, the late Roger Caro. He also
penned
the foreword to his own book, "The Great Work Photographed", writing
as
"the late" Bishop Jacques d'Ossa, Imperator of the Temple of Ajunta -
an actual person who was very much alive at the time, though not
named
d'Ossa and not a bishop. Killing him off in far-off Biafra was an
effective way of disguising any connection to the real "d'Ossa".

In the year and five months since I wrote that message, the missing
papers have indeed been located in a private collection of a Templar
enthusiast in Europe, and I will have the opportunity to view them
myself when I visit the owner next Spring. As you rightly surmised,
they have not turned out to be what I recalled from seeing them as a
nine-year-old boy. There are some old, fragile pieces, though not as
old as the 14th century (the oldest among them being 17th century).
These contain rather general historical details about the family's
early holdings from the time they became landowners (1316) and were
compiled as what were called "preuves de noblesse", which families
had
to furnish to authorities every few generations to preserve their tax
exemptions and other legal privileges. These documents served as
summaries listing older documents or notary's copies of documents
submitted as back-up. They are not uncommon as families were
required
to keep them, bearing the seal and signature of the King's reporter,
to
be passed down from generation to generation until called upon to
furnish them again. What has apparently not survived are the
supporting documents referenced in these letters, some of which, when
they existed, went back to the early 14th century and referenced Pope
John XXII and the gift of former Templar houses in Languedoc and
Provence to his brother Pierre, my ancestor, and to several nephews.
They are mentioned in the summaries, but the originals no longer
exist
- and thus there is nothing "esoteric" to be gleaned from them.
This,
perhaps, is why my grandfather and his associate, the late Forest
Barber, decided to fabricate replacements, complete with esoteric
hints
and clues that Barber's associate Roger Caro would incorporate into
his
"legenda" of the Freres-Aines de la Rose+Croix in 1970. Ergo, the
old
"Templar" parchments I remember seeing as a kid were in fact very
well-executed forgeries, not nearly as old as I was at the time.
These
were what was being passed around as provenance for Caro's
"Freres-Aines". Names of historical persons from whom land and usage
rights were acquired were turned into "Templar hermeticists" like
"Gaston de la Pierre Phoebus", who was in fact Count Gaston II of
Foix,
father of Gaston III "Phoebus" - hence "Gaston, le pere de Phoebus".
Even "Johannes Marcus Larmenius" makes an appearance under his real
name, Count Jean de l'Armagnac, along with later "Imperators", his
grandson and great-grandson Jean and Bernard "Arminiacus".

So, there you have it, your insights and caution were well placed.
Caro's
"Freres-Aines de la Rose+Croix" is a hoax based on forged documents,
and I'm sorry to say my own grandfather was part of the scheme.

The surname of Pope John XXII and his brother Pierre, from whom I
descend, was "Duese". In Latin, this is transcribed as "d'Ossa". My
grandfather's name was Jack, rather than Jacques, and he was a
Protestant pastor rather than a Gnostic bishop. And while my
ancestor
did benefit from the demise of the Templars (who were arrested 697
years ago today, in fact) thanks to his brother the Pope, who in turn
while still Cardinal Duese was one of the two Papal legates who
drafted
the opinion condemning the Templars, I'm assured by the collector who
has the documents that the few authentic papers contain nothing even
slightly esoteric. He keeps and values the forgeries for the
oddities
that they are."