*The Knights Templar and their secretive undertakings.*The sect of Assassins (Hashashin) clashing with the Templars.*The conflict between Guelphs (papal supporters) and Ghibellines (imperial supporters).*The Cathar heresy and the Albigensian Crusade.*The legend of Iram of the Pillars and its divine destruction.*The Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres, the Pharaoh's magicians.in the bible*The medieval pursuit of the Philosopher's Stone through alchemy.*Re-living the The Plagues of Egypt as a form of divine retribution.*Formation of the Secretum Templi, a secret society within the Templars.*The Danse Macabre motif symbolizing the universality of death.*Political machinations and alliances among European nobility.*The struggle between spiritual (papal) and temporal (imperial) powers.*The consequences of hubris and defiance against divine will.

*Influence of apocryphal and non-canonical texts in medieval thought.