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Knights of Malta
Where each worldview places it
An esoteric secret society, "the same force as the Templars". With the Jesuits and top Freemasonry it controls the Vatican, and it is "part of the Brotherhood"[1]. Its Catholic wing is headed by the Pope and its Protestant wing by the monarch[2]. In And the Truth a Brotherhood offshoot from the Crusades, "the Knights Hospitallers of St. John", now "an ultra-extreme authoritarian organisation which connects with the highest levels of the Elite web", a 'state within a state' that coordinates with Illuminised Freemasonry, is close to the Black Nobility and the CIA, and with other Elite elements controls the Vatican[3]. Its official head is the Pope[4].
- Aliases
- Knights HospitallerKnights Hospitaller of St John of JerusalemKnights of St JohnKnights of St John of JerusalemOrder of St John of JerusalemOrder of St JohnKnights of Rhodes
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- 1312 (receive Templar lands)
- 1610 (established in Poland by the Radziwills)[5]
- 1798 (removed from Malta by Napoleon)
- 1834 (new headquarters in Rome under Pope Leo XII)
- 1948 (award to Reinhard Gehlen)[6]
- Places
- Key events
- 1798: Napoleon removes the Order from Malta[6]
- 1834: Pope Leo XII establishes its new headquarters in Rome[6]
- 1948: gives one of its most prestigious awards to General Reinhard Gehlen[6]
- "almost certainly involved" in the guns-for-drugs Iran-Contra affair[6]
- Members / notable people
- Alexander HaigJoseph Kennedy (Order of St John)Lord Vestey (Lord Prior) (BS-18-1, BS-23-1, BS-24-1)in And the Truth: Pope John Paul II (official head)J. Peter Grace (one-time American head)John J. Raskob (one of thirteen US founders, behind the 1930s coup attempt against the White House)CIA directors John McCone and William CaseyAlexander HaigRonald Reagan (some believe)Valery Giscard d'EstaingGeorge RoccaEdward Bennett WilliamsWilliam F. BuckleyFrank ShakespeareLicio Gelli (AT-13-2, AT-15-2, AT-16-4, AT-19)
- Author's claims · 12
- 01It merged with the Templars into a joint order for more than 200 years and is involved in banking[7].
- 02It is the "official secret society below the inner circles", a connection route into the network[8].
- 03In Illuminati symbolism its 'John' means Nimrod, and its lodges took St John's name from the Templars[9].
- 04Its initiates killed JFK, and its hospice movement is a front to legalise euthanasia of "useless eaters"[10].
- 05It is aligned with the East India Company[11].
- 06The Maltese cross is its symbol[12].
- 07"They worship a very different version of 'god', the Luciferic Consciousness", symbolised by the pyramid and all-seeing eye; they are "not really Catholic"[6].
- 08It "coordinates its covert activities with Illuminised Freemasonry"[13].
- 09Membership gave Licio Gelli "an 'in' to the highest levels of the Vatican"[6].
- 10The East India Company was "aligned with the Knights of St John of Jerusalem and the Society of Jesus"[14].
- 11Skull and Bones "knights" follow its tradition, and the Maltese Cross links it with the Templars and the Ku Klux Klan[15].
- 12In the later books it is a strand of the web connected to the Church of Rome, controlled by Sabbatian-Frankism, whose inner circle is high in the satanic hierarchy[16]. Opus Dei is described in the same terms[16].