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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Templars, Atlantis, and the Ark of the Covenant | Basement: Tim Hogan

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files

Documentary, Science Fiction, Life Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Fiction

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

Timothy Hogan is an author, lecturer, and esoteric researcher specializing in the Knights Templar, alchemy, Gnosticism, and Hermetic traditions. Introduced to the Templar tradition in childhood, he later pursued Rosicrucian and Masonic studies, attaining high degrees across several rites. He is the Grand Master of the Order of the Temple of the Secret Initiates and founded the Templar Collegia to teach Templar philosophy and symbolism.  Hogan has written seven books exploring history, symbolism, and ancient wisdom traditions. He lectures internationally on cross-cultural symbolism and spiritual philosophy, and leads historical study tours through Egypt, Europe, and Mesoamerica. His work focuses on the transmission of esoteric knowledge, initiation traditions, and the deeper symbolism behind the Holy Grail and alchemy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr-zETVa8mY&t=3s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today we are sitting down with Tim Hogan, Knights Templar Grand Master, 32nd-degree Mason,

0:06.8

and a guy who was initiated into the order at age 8.

0:09.7

32nd degree, that's like getting a DLC for Secret Society Simulator.

0:14.9

Is that a real game?

0:16.1

Yeah, not yet. Copyright me, patent-pending, all rights reserved.

0:20.9

Tim's family line runs deep in this stuff. His great-grandfather, seven generations back, was General Joseph Warren, the man who initiated Paul Revere and helped organize the Boston Tea Party.

0:31.5

His own father, the mayor of Aurora, Colorado, was involved in developing Denver International Airport.

0:37.3

Yeah, that airport.

0:38.5

The horse of death, the Nazi bunker, the illicit people murals.

0:42.7

Finally someone who knows what's under that runway.

0:45.8

Tim's written seven books in alchemy and ancient mysteries.

0:48.4

He leads expeditions into Egypt where his group has private access to places tourists never see.

0:55.5

The Sphinx enclosure, sealed chambers at Dendera, even the Great Pyramid itself, where he conducts actual Templar

1:01.2

initiations. Wow, that sounds like my Pesci family initiation when I became a maidfish. What happened

1:07.6

during your initiation? I can't tell you that, human. I took you no better.

1:12.3

Fair enough.

1:13.6

Today we're going deep.

1:14.8

We'll cover the standard Templar history, but then Tim's going to take us into the secret history.

1:19.5

The archaeological digs under the Temple Mount.

1:22.1

Six ancient arcs his order claims to have recovered.

1:24.9

A connection between ancient Egypt and the Mayans.

1:28.4

Mono-automic gold as a superconductive power source, and yes, he says the Templars possess the bones of Jesus.

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