Note 200 — Chapter VI · SOME FAMOUS PROSECUTIONS
Arthur Edward Waite translation
In the year 1844 Jacques Matter made a special study of the accusations against Knights Templar in his Histoire Critique du Gnosticisme, vol. iii. p. 315 et seq. He states that the alleged preference of the Templars for St. John’s Gospel is nowhere attested by the history of the Order. They were not therefore tinctured by remanents of Paulician Gnosticism, as it is not likely that they would be.