The tradition of initiatory regality ceased to have contacts with historical reality and with the representatives of any European temporal power. It continued to exist only underground, in secret currents such as hermeticism and rosicrucianism, which increasingly withdrew inward as the modern world was taking form - when the organizations that they animated did not themselves undergo a process of involution and inversion. As a myth, medieval civilization left its testament in two legends. According to the first legend, every year on the night of the anniversary of the suppression of the Knights Templar, an armed shadow wearing a red cross on its white mantle allegedly appears in the crypt of the Templars to inquire who wants to free the Holy Sepulcher: "No one," is the reply, "since the temple has been destroyed." According to the 2nd legend, Frederick I still lives with his knights although asleep, in the Kifhauser heights inside a symbolic mountain. He awaits the appointed time when he will descend to the valleys below at the head of his faithful in order to fight the last battle, whose successful outcome will cause the Dry Tree to bloom again and a new age to begin.
-Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World, 310-11
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