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Knights Templar
Where each worldview places it
The military wing of the Order of Sion, "the centre" of the 12th-century web[1]. "Knowledge of the reptilian Agenda was the great secret of the leading Templars"[1]. They founded modern interest-based banking and owned monarchs through debt and blackmail. "The Freemasons are the Templars under another name"[2]. In And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995) the Templars are "among the first bankers in the Western world" who, after the purge, "went underground and their influence has continued up to the present day", working within other secret societies that are "part of the same overall organisation", the Brotherhood[3]. "The force that emerged as Freemasonry was, and is, the Knights Templar"[4].
- Aliases
- TemplarsOrder of the TempleSoldiers of Christ
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Lineage
- Formed in 1118 (possibly 1114) and formally established at the Council of Troyes on 31 January 1128, sponsored by St Bernard and the St Clairs[1]. They split from Sion at Gisors in 1188 and were purged on Friday 13 October 1307[5]. They escaped to Scotland, Portugal (the Knights of Christ), Lorraine, the Knights of Malta, the Teutonic Order and probably the Americas[6]. They re-emerged as the victors of Bannockburn (1314), the Order of the Garter (1348), the Scots Guard (1445), the Scottish and York Rites, and Freemasonry[7].
- Dates
- 1118
- 1124 (de Payens first Grand Master)
- 1128-01-31
- 1130–1250 (Gothic cathedrals)
- 1161 (Temple Bar)
- 1187 (Jerusalem lost, possibly on purpose)
- 1188
- 1215 (Magna Carta)
- 1291
- 1307-10-13
- 1307-11-22
- 1312
- 1314[8]
- Places
- JerusalemTroyesParisLondon (Temple Bar, Fleet Street, the Inns of Court)La RochelleBristolCounty KildareLanguedocScotlandPortugalthe AmericasCyprus (BS-12-1, BS-12-2, BS-14-1, BS-18-1, BS-24-2)Portugal (as the Knights of Christ)ScotlandParis and London temples[9]
- Key events
- 1128-01-31: formally established at Troyes[1]
- 1130–1250: finance the Gothic cathedrals full of Isis/Semiramis symbolism[1]
- 1215: engineer Magna Carta toward 'democracy', "imprisonment disguised as freedom"[1]
- 1307-10-13: the dawn arrests by Philippe the Fair, "Friday the 13th unlucky ever since"[5]
- 1307-11-22: Clement V's bull orders torture by the Dominican Inquisition[10]
- 1312: the Pope gives their property to the Hospitallers[7]
- 1314-06-24: 'unknown horsemen' win Bannockburn for Bruce[7]
- 1963-11-22: JFK killed on the anniversary of the 1307 bull, per Bill Cooper as Templar revenge[10]
- after the papal purge: survive in Portugal by renaming themselves the Knights of Christ[11]
- King Philip IV of France, in league with Pope Clement V, destroys the Order and steals its fortune[12]
- survivors re-form in Scotland "under the pseudonym, the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry"[13]
- Members / notable people
- Hugues de PayensAndre de MontbardFulk, Count d'Anjouthe Count of ChampagneAymeric de St Maur (English master)Jacques de MolayDanteSquin de Flexian (exposer)allies: Richard the Lionheart, the Blanchefort family, Edward II, Robert the Bruce, the Dukes of Lorraine, the Shrinersthe American Order of the Knights Templar (sunrise ceremonies at Arlington) (BS-12-1, BS-12-2, BS-14-1, BS-20-1, BS-22, BS-24-1)in And the Truth: Dante (initiate)Francis Bacon (in its underground traditions)Jacques de Molay ("the martyred Knights Templar leader")the Johannites were influenced by its doctrines[14]
- Author's claims · 16
- 01They worked with the Assassins while appearing to oppose them, "the Brotherhood's method of controlling both sides"[1].
- 02Their Mother of God is Isis to initiates[1].
- 03They charged 60% interest on late debt and collected the Pope's taxes[1].
- 04They aimed at a centrally controlled United States of Europe, achieved today "via the Freemasons, the Bilderberg Group, and others"[15].
- 05Their inner core practised black magic and was accused of Baphomet worship, child-killing and abortion; they helped expand the network that controls today's Satanic structure[16].
- 06The skull and crossbones flew on their fleet, and their skull ceremonies inspired Skull and Bones[17].
- 07They chose gargoyles to decorate buildings and built Notre Dame on a Diana site[18].
- 08The OSS, the CIA's predecessor, was "peopled entirely by Knights Templar" (per Bill Cooper)[7].
- 09Their temples in Paris and London were financial centres; they were the richest organisation in every country and the first Western bankers, the start of the lineage that runs to the House of Rothschild ("Among the first bankers in the Western world were the Knights Templar")[12].
- 10The Priory of Sion is "the inner, controlling, core of the Knights Templars"[19].
- 11A United States of Europe under centralised control "was one of the goals of the Knights Templar"[13].
- 12Their creed "formed the basis of the Scottish Rite"; Speculative Freemasonry was "the Knights Templar/Illuminati manifesting on the public stage"[20].
- 13The Red Cross symbol, the cross of England and the red cross under which Columbus sailed are the Templar red cross; the Maltese Cross links them to the Knights of Malta and the Ku Klux Klan emblem[21].
- 14SS rituals were taken from the Jesuits and the Knights Templar[22].
- 15In Portugal as the Knights of Christ they served Prince Henry the Navigator: the explorer Vasco de Gama was a Knight of Christ, and Columbus's father-in-law, a Knight of Christ and one of Prince Henry's captains, left the maps Columbus used[23].
- 16In Everything You Need to Know its inner circle is high in the satanic hierarchy; it still controls the Temple legal district and the City of London financial district, where it built its church in the late 12th century[24].