Members were conferred with knightly titles such as:
- Chevalier Bienfaisant (Knight Beneficent)
- Eques a Rosa Mystica (Knight of the Mystic Rose)
- Knight of the East and West
- Knight of the Red Cross
- Knight Kadosh (“Holy Knight”)
Initiates swore vows of secrecy, virtue, and service reminiscent of medieval knightly codes:
- To defend the light against the darkness
- To serve the divine feminine (Sophia/Mary) and the Holy City
- To live a life of purification, discipline, and silent beneficence
- They reenacted symbolic quests: entering tombs, facing guardians, passing trials, beholding sacred emblems—all modeled after Grail quests and Templar lore.
Strict Observance explicitly claimed descent from the Knights Templar.
- Their Grand Master, Baron von Hund, taught that hidden Unknown Superiors had preserved the Templar lineage.
- The goal: to restore the Order of the Temple in secret, spiritually.
- The Rectified Scottish Rite taught that the Templars had survived as an inner spiritual order, preserving the mysteries of Christ, alchemy, and initiation.
- Ritual regalia included Templar mantles, swords, crosses, and references to Jerusalem, the Temple, and the Grail Castle.
coats of arms, seals, and rosy cross sigils with knightly mottos, such as:
- “Jesus mihi omnia” (Jesus is everything to me)
- “Non sibi sed omnibus” (Not for oneself, but for all)
- “In silentio et spe fortitudo” (In silence and hope is strength)
- Service, humility, moral purity, and sacred charity were emphasized over occult power.
- The Knights Beneficent were to be anonymous healers, hidden protectors, and builders of the Holy City on earth.
To be a knight is not merely a title, but a mode of being The battlefield is life and within the soul The dragon to slay is ignorance, ego, and entropy. The goal is the Grail: divine union, gnosis, rebirth….