Statement of Claims and Non-Claims

This chancery register documents the specific eyewitness acts, historical dates, and jurisdictional boundaries governing the Knights of the Ziggurat. We trade in no paper empires and trade in no fabricated pedigrees.

1. Documented Forensic Facts

• 13 October 2000: Jeremy Crow received the accolade of knighthood in the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem during a private solemn vigil at the residence of Patriarch Ronald V. Cappello (Tau Mikaël I) in Yonkers, New York. Cappello stated that the accolade operated in both American and Portuguese successions. Exactly twelve candidates were knighted, making thirteen people in the chapter. Faculty to dub in that order was conveyed.
• 25 September 2026: Episcopal certificate issued for Tau Cerinthus III, Gnostic Temple of the Morning Star. That autocephalous See supplies the fons honorum used to charter a new sovereign order.
• 4 November 2026: Charter of the Knights of the Ziggurat issued under that episcopal authority. Commemorating the 222nd anniversary of Fabré-Palaprat's 1804 sitting, this establishes a new rule, a new name, and a new Order focused on healing and cosmic repair rather than historical vengeance.

2. External Historical Chronicles

• 29 December 2001: The public chronology of SMOTH MIT states that a Grand Priory of the United States was founded that day under Ronald Cappello, alongside a Priory of Florida under Orlando Hipólito Lima. While this external chronicle corroborates Cappello operating actively in that international field, it postdates the Yonkers vigil by thirteen months and is not cited as the legal source of the 2000 dubbing.

3. What Is Not Claimed

• No membership in OSMTH after 2000, and no office currently exercised inside OSMTH, SMOTJ, OSMTHU, or SMOTH MIT.
• No corporate identity with Palaprat's 1804 Ordre du Temple, or with any other living body utilizing that name.
• No British state patents, and no membership in the Order of the Thistle.
• No claim that the Larmenius Charter is a valid 1324 instrument.
• No claim that school membership in the Novus Ordo Luciferi automatically confers knighthood.
• No endorsement of unrelated external orders mentioned in historical reference notes.

4. Open Historical Questions

• Whether the physical Larmenius manuscript was written prior to 1804.
• Whether a Thistle current passed as sword-tactus through the Jacobite, Kadosh, and Cossé-Brissac networks into early French chivalric circles.

Tactus Versus Membership

An accolade confers contact with a living current. It does not confer a seat in the conferring chapter. The Knights of the Ziggurat operates from the 2000 tactus and the 2026 charter, maintaining total sovereignty without petitioning old bureaucratic administrations for recognition.

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