Umbrae said:
Please cite these historical documents...please just a shred of proof...since Tarot does not surface until after the Templars were kaput...there's a gap of just a few years - before Tarot shows up on the scene. Please kind sir...a scrap of proof?
Otherwise - it's simply speculation.
I can't post links because what I have read have been in books, not the internet. Some of us still read non-fiction and do not source our facts from the internet (where most is speculation)
Books written by authors that researched paper documents in archives for multiples years prior to writing.
You can start with any of the books by Chris Knight and then move on to any of the Templar books written by Stephen Dafoe.
You should also look harder. The Templars were not "kaput" in 1308. They just ceased to exist officially in France and Italy. They survived and thrived intact in Spain and Portugal with the blessing of the monarchs of those countries. Not to mention their travels to Scotland.
Did you know there are masonic degrees that give all of the historical accounts of the Templars? And these degrees pre-date ANY archaeological research done by hundreds of years? These degrees discuss in depth the Templars excavating below Herod's Temple long before the British went in to the crypts and found evidence that they were there.
Get off the internet and pick up a book. There are many on the subject. The information is in the public domain.
So excuse me if I choose not to use geeky internet links for "proof"