knowledge called Hassan was also described by the chroniclers of the period as the old man of the mountains. Without him, there would have never been what came to be the Knights Templar, for it is to this stronghold that early founders of the Order, like the Count of Champagne came for an experience that was to shape their lives and their ambitions for the Christian world. The nature of the attraction between these aristocrats of what is now Europe, and Muslim mercenaries, cannot be understood without taking on board that they belonged to the Naziri or Nazarene group. Professor Eisemann made famous by his translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and his expulsion from Israel, said that Nazrim, Nassarene Essenoi and Essenes were all the same thing. This was what fascinated the initial Templars who endeavoured to try and understand what it had to do with Christianity and their Lord Jesus. The connection with Sufism became clear during their sojourns in the palatial fortress whose library was reputed to be among the finest of the known world and particulary of any institution of the western countries immersed in an educational poverty imposed by jealous religious authorities. What was also clearly a surprise was that the Hashishim (probably erroneously associated with Hashish) and more likely scions of the ancient Hashemite tribes of Assirian origins,(from Ham and Shem – of African and Asian origins, were Nazarenes and therefore of the religious sect that Jesus or Issa came from. The alliance therefore from an ideological viewpoint, was not incomprehensible and from those quarters came most of the knowledge and whereabout of guarded caches important to Christianity. Both