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To know of a terrible injustice is a tragedy, but to know of a tragedy and not speak of the horrific injustice is, in itself, a crime against humanity.
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Yehuda HaLevi (Sacred Scroll of Seven Seals: Skull & Bones, Freemasons, Knights Templar & the Grail)
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The candle of his life burned out too soon, but it burned so brightly!
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Adriana Girolami (Revenge of the Knights Templar)
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The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a secret society that controls world government, toys with our banking system, and single-handedly keeps the fez industry afloat.
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Stephen Colbert (I Am America (And So Can You!))
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In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.
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Robin Sacredfire
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One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you.
Mark Andrew Ramsay
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Brendan Carroll (The Knight of Death: The Assassin Chronicles (The Red Cross of Gold #1))
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It may surprise you to find that the older one gets the more we appreciate the wisdom of those we did not think possessed it. (Bascot)
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Maureen Ash (The Alehouse Murders (Templar Knight Mystery, #1))
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Every Friday The Thirteenth I celebrate Knights Templar Day. Here at my Duck Farm Gift Shop, I've got THE authentic map that details the location of their hidden treasure, and I'll sell it to you for ONLY $19.95. (Limit one per customer.)
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Jarod Kintz (Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.)
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An offence with words is the worst offence.Word kills
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Jan Guillou (The Road to Jerusalem (The Knight Templar, #1))
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Reading is a foundation o every knowledge an all the pure and the wise thoughts.
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Jan Guillou (The Road to Jerusalem (The Knight Templar, #1))
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Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte (The Seville Communion: A Novel)
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The writing and telling of history is bedevilled by two human neuroses: horror at the desperate shapelessness and seeming lack of pattern in events, and regret for a lost golden age, a moment of happiness when all was well. Put these together and you have an urge to create elaborate patterns to make sense of things and to create a situation where the golden age is just waiting to spring to life again. This is the impulse which makes King Arthur’s knights sleep under certain mountains, ready to bring deliverance, or creates the fascination with the Knights Templar and occult conspiracy which propelled The Da Vinci Code into best-seller lists.
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Diarmaid MacCulloch (A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years)
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It is not the dying that matters, it is how the man lived.
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Michael Jecks (The Oath (Knights Templar, #29))
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When in doubt, follow the truth. The path is often well-illuminated and it usually leads me in the right direction.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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...where wine enters, smartness goes away...
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Jan Guillou (The Road to Jerusalem (The Knight Templar, #1))
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As a Master Mason, he is now at a wiser, more mature age, awaiting the inevitable destiny which binds us all: Death.
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Andreas Economou (Templar Secrets (Religious Crusades-Knights Templar Book 1))
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The Bolsheviks were atheists but they were hardly secular politicians in the conventional sense: they stooped to kill from the smugness of the highest moral eminence. Bolshevism may not have been a religion, but it was close enough. Stalin told Beria the Bolsheviks were “a sort of military-religious order.” When Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka, died, Stalin called him “a devout knight of the proletariat.” Stalin’s “order of sword-bearers” resembled the Knights Templars, or even the theocracy of the Iranian Ayatollahs, more than any traditional secular movement. They would die and kill for their faith in the inevitable progress towards human betterment, making sacrifices of their own families, with a fervour seen only in the religious slaughters and martyrdoms of the Middle Ages—and the Middle East. They
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Simon Sebag Montefiore (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar)
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Even if the devil worshipper is simply ‘worshipping one’s self,’ as their heretical chronicles proclaim, it does nothing to quail my disdain for their kind. The fact that a single evil one whom most of us cannot see or hear in this world, is replaced by an entire army of greedy, heartless and soulless human beings stripped of their conscience and performing human sacrifice, in effigy or otherwise, is indeed far more sinister than the existence of one actual ‘devil.
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Yehuda HaLevi (Sacred Scroll of Seven Seals: Skull & Bones, Freemasons, Knights Templar & the Grail)
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The 'devil' could be a naked, evil man in the bowels of a Scottish castle, laughing madly with horns gorilla-glued to his head. Or an anorexic cat lady in a cluttered and ammonia-laden loft on Fifth Avenue. Either way, I will reveal to you the precise mechanics of her craft, and unmask her historic 'dupes' before you right now.
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Yehuda HaLevi (Sacred Scroll of Seven Seals: Skull & Bones, Freemasons, Knights Templar & the Grail)
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Following the killing of Osama Bin Laden, in a mission coined Operation Neptune Spear (Neptune being synonymous with King Nimrod who built the tower of Babel), there was a US Navy ‘burial at sea.’ We were all led to believe that, for the event, Bin Laden’s body was ‘encased in concrete’ (just as the cadaver of Lincoln had supposedly been) and cast ‘into the sea.’ Also if you will remember, for the assassination mission, carried out by Seal Team 6, Bin Laden had the distinction of having been assigned the code-name, ‘Geronimo!
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Yehuda HaLevi (Sacred Scroll of Seven Seals: Skull & Bones, Freemasons, Knights Templar & the Grail)
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You must know your enemy to beat him at his own game, but be ready as well for the ultimate sacrifice, for nobody comes out of hell without a scratch.
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Robin Sacredfire
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HIGH STRANGENESS: 2/10. Aside from mind-control rays affecting one out of every thirty Americans, this isn't all that strange.
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Monte Cook (The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies: From the Knights Templar to the JFK Assassination: Uncovering the [Real] Truth Behind the World's Most Controversial Conspiracy Theories)
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Legend is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and legend tells us about a million men,
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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What use do we have from the untruth when we eat together in peace and when each of us has given his word not to harm one another
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Jan Guillou (The Knight Templar (The Crusades Trilogy, #2))
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Do we not give the Lord the greatest promises in the most dire moments?
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Jan Guillou (The Road to Jerusalem (The Knight Templar, #1))
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To forget one’s heritage is to take away the meaning of life,
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Maureen Ash (The Alehouse Murders (Templar Knight Mystery, #1))
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Praise be unto the God-Emperor. From the jaws of defeat, He brings victory. From the driest desert, He shall call forth the purest springs.
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Marc Collins (Helbrecht: Knight of the Throne (Warhammer 40,000))
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The Atonist nobility knew it was impossible to organize and control a worldwide empire from Britain. The British Isles were geographically too far West for effective management. In order to be closer to the “markets,” the Atonist corporate executives coveted Rome. Additionally, by way of their armed Templar branch and incessant murderous “Crusades,” they succeeded making inroads further east. Their double-headed eagle of control reigned over Eastern and Western hemispheres. The seats of Druidic learning once existed in the majority of lands, and so the Atonist or Christian system spread out in similar fashion. Its agents were sent from Britain and Rome to many a region and for many a dark purpose. To this very day, the nobility of Europe and the east are controlled from London and Rome. Nothing has changed when it comes to the dominion of Aton. As Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe have proven, the Culdean monks, of whom we write, had been hired for generations as tutors to elite families throughout Europe. In their book The Knights Templar Revealed, the authors highlight the role played by Culdean adepts tutoring the super-wealthy and influential Catholic dynasties of Burgundy, Champagne and Lorraine, France. Research into the Templars and their affiliated “Salt Line” dynasties reveals that the seven great Crusades were not instigated and participated in for the reasons mentioned in most official history books. As we show here, the Templars were the military wing of British and European Atonists. It was their job to conquer lands, slaughter rivals and rebuild the so-called “Temple of Solomon” or, more correctly, Akhenaton’s New World Order. After its creation, the story of Jesus was transplanted from Britain, where it was invented, to Galilee and Judea. This was done so Christianity would not appear to be conspicuously Druidic in complexion. To conceive Christianity in Britain was one thing; to birth it there was another. The Atonists knew their warped religion was based on ancient Amenism and Druidism. They knew their Jesus, Iesus or Yeshua, was based on Druidic Iesa or Iusa, and that a good many educated people throughout the world knew it also. Their difficulty concerned how to come up with a believable king of light sufficiently appealing to the world’s many pagan nations. Their employees, such as St. Paul (Josephus Piso), were allowed to plunder the archive of the pagans. They were instructed to draw from the canon of stellar gnosis and ancient solar theologies of Egypt, Chaldea and Ireland. The archetypal elements would, like ingredients, simply be tossed about and rearranged and, most importantly, the territory of the new godman would be resituated to suit the meta plan.
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Michael Tsarion (The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume One: The Servants of Truth: Druidic Traditions & Influence Explored)
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here is the stout Baron Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, whose utter abomination is a Jew; and the good Knight Templar, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, whose trade is to slay Saracens—If these are not good marks of Christianity
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Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)
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People's imaginations have continued to work, right up to our own day; hence the incredible crop of fanciful allegations attributing to the Templars every kind of esoteric rite and belief, from the most ancient to the most vulgar, every variety of alchemical or magical knowledge, all kinds of initiation and affiliation rituals, those already in existence at the time and those yet to be conceived—in a word, all the "secrets" devised the slake the thirst for mystery inherent in human nature. This thirst, by a kind of instinctual reaction, seems never to be stronger than in those eras when people appear to reject all mysteries: let us recall that it was in Descartes' own day that trials for witchcraft were most numerous; that it was at the beginning of the rationalistic eighteenth century that Freemasonry was born; that our own scientific twentieth century is equally the century in which sects have proliferated, occultism has undergone a renaissance, and so on.
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Régine Pernoud (Templars: Knights of Christ)
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He had read once that God was like a mirror—the mirror never changed but the people who looked into it all saw something different. Unfortunately most people looked in and viewed their own face, confident it had been created in God’s own image.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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It's not a matter of temptation!" Hirou said. "It's..." he trailed off for a moment. It wasn't that he couldn't find the words. It was that the concepts didn't exist in this world. What he wanted to say was that he had a pretty good idea what sort of behavior got you listed as a villain, in the great TV Tropes wiki of the universe; and he'd had a worried eye on his own character sheet since the day he'd realized what he'd gotten himself into; and he absolutely positively wasn't going to go Dark Messiah, Knight Templar, Well Intentioned Extremist, or for that matter Lawful Stupid.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky (The Sword of Good)
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The de Sudeley mission of 1178 had its roots in the turbulent years of the 1st century CE when Roman legions were advancing on Jerusalem and secret scrolls, maps and artifacts were hidden in the tunnels below the subterranean area of the Temple Mount. As I have recounted, in the early years of the 12th century, these items were found by early members of the Knights Templar.
More than fifty years later, after much planning, de Sudeley completed a mission likely first envisioned by his Templar predecessors in Jerusalem. He left a detailed log compiled during the voyage, describing the year he spent in Onteora with the community that guarded the scrolls. He recorded geographic sites he had been to, Native Americans he met, and the community of Welsh and Norse he lived with in the Hunter Mountain area. His account was added to the existing record kept by the Templars at Castrum Sepulchri. Latin was the common language at this time, and the monk who recorded de Sudeley's deposition used it to write the record entitled, "A Year We Remember." This account was then added to the writings from the earlier 12th century Templar excavations in Jerusalem to comprise parts of the Templar Document.
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Zena Halpern (The Templar Mission to Oak Island and Beyond: Search for Ancient Secrets: The Shocking Revelations of a 12th Century Manuscript)
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The Knights Templar have been customarily described as holding large estates that were well-known to the people of their day. Certainly there were many such estates. However it was also true that many of their holdings were much smaller and less well-known. These latter properties also changed hands frequently, making ownership unclear even to their neighbors. Malcolm Barber, a well-respected chronicler of the Templars, noted that: …the Order was not simply a passive recipient of donations, but an active agent in the land market, buying, selling and exchanging property on a considerable scale.[135]
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Sanford Holst (Sworn in Secret: Freemasonry and the Knights Templar)
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No, that’s not the style of these people,’ explained Maxy. ‘You shouldn’t think of these Bolsheviks as modern politicians. They were religious fanatics. Their Marxism was fanatical; their fervour was semi-Islamic; and they saw themselves as members of a secret military-religious order like the medieval Crusaders or the Knights Templar. They were ruthless, amoral and paranoid. They believed that millions would have to die to create their perfect world. Family, love and friendship were nothing compared to the holy grail. People died of gossip at Stalin’s court. For a man like Satinov, secrecy was everything.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore (Sashenka)
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In the end, I think the local legends and traditions tell the true story. Written history reflects the beliefs or opinions or agenda of the writer. Local legends and tradition are more universal, less malleable—as you said, they tell us the beliefs of millions. They are often the most accurate versions of history.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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The Templar and Hospitaller commanders had argued with Calpurnius, the master of the Shield-Brethren company, as to the membership of the team that would lead the upper-floor assault. Calpurnius had listened calmly to both men’s arguments and then asked one question. “There will be no horses on this boat. How will your knights fight?
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Neal Stephenson (The Mongoliad: Book Two (Foreworld, #2))
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To Roland's relief, Jean de Joinville came to his aid. "Sire, this good knight wants only to preserve your life. Let us all ride together against the Egyptians."
"If I ride against them alone, God will protect me," said Louis.
A new figure pushed into the circle. He wore the white surcoat and red cross of a Templar over his mail. With a leap of his heart, Roland recognized Guido Bruchesi.
Guido looked at him but did not acknowledge him. He went directly to the King.
He spoke quietly but firmly. "Sire, what you have just said is presumption."
"I do not see how that could be, brother Templar." But Louis took his foot out of the stirrup as Roland watched with growing hope. You can always catch Louis's attention with a religious argument, Roland thought, even on the battlefield.
"Sire," said Guido, "Satan tempted our Seigneur Jesus, telling Him that if He cast Himself down from the mountaintop, angels would lift him up." Guido cast a sidelong look at Amalric. "You, Sire, are being tempted to ride alone against the whole Egyptian army, expecting God's protection. You are demanding a miracle. That is presumption."
Louis was silent for a moment. "Perhaps you are right."
Roland let out a long breath.
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Robert Shea (All Things Are Lights)
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Lest you think that this pattern has occurred only in connection with Jewish moneylenders and the Knights Templar, let me remind you of Idi Amin’s expulsion of the East Indians from Uganda in 1972, the East Indians were highly represented in the banking business and of the treatment of the ethnic Chinese in Vietnam in the 1970s, including their expulsion. Whenever you have an out-group to whom an in-group owes a lot of money, “Kill the Creditors” remains an available though morally repugnant way of cancelling your debts. Note: you need not resort to murder as such. If you make people run away very fast, they’ll leave all their stuff behind, and then you can grab it. And burn the debt records: that goes without saying.
You’ll notice I got through this part without mentioning the Nazis. The point being that I didn’t have to. For they have not been alone.
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Margaret Atwood (Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (The CBC Massey Lectures))
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The whitewash of Kingdom of Heaven Kingdom of Heaven is a classic cowboys-and-Indians story in which the Muslims are noble and heroic and the Christians are venal and violent. The script is heavy on modern-day PC clichés and fantasies of Islamic tolerance; brushing aside dhimmi laws and attitudes (of which Ridley Scott has most likely never heard), it invents a peace-and-tolerance group called the “Brotherhood of Muslims, Jews and Christians.” But of course, the Christians spoiled everything. A publicist for the film explained, “They were working together. It was a strong bond until the Knights Templar caused friction between them.” Ah yes, those nasty “Christian extremists.” Kingdom of Heaven was made for those who believe that all the trouble between the Islamic world and the West has been caused by Western imperialism, racism, and colonialism, and that the glorious paradigm of Islamic tolerance, which was once a beacon to the world, could be reestablished if only the wicked white men of America and Europe would be more tolerant. Ridley Scott and his team arranged advance screenings for groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, making sure that sensitive Muslim feelings were not hurt. It is a dream movie for the PC establishment in every way except one: It isn’t true. Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith, author of A Short History of the Crusades and one of the world’s leading historians of the period, called the movie “rubbish,” explaining that “it’s not historically accurate at all” as it “depicts the Muslims as sophisticated and civilised, and the Crusaders are all brutes and barbarians. It has nothing to do with reality.” Oh, and “there was never a confraternity of Muslims, Jews and Christians. That is utter nonsense.
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Robert Spencer (The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades))
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The banking system we have today is a direct descendent of banking from the Middle Ages. The Medici family in Florence, Italy, arguably created the formal structure of the bank that we still retain today, after many developments. The paper currency we have today is an iteration on coins used before the first century. Today’s payments networks are iterations on the 12th century European network of the Knights Templar, who used to securely move money around for banks, royalty and wealthy aristocrats of the period. The debit cards we have today are iterations on the bank passbook that you might have owned if you had had a bank account in the year 1850. Apple Pay is itself an iteration on the debit card—effectively a tokenised version of the plastic artifact reproduced inside an iPhone. And bank branches? Well, they haven’t materially changed since the oldest bank in the world, Monte Dei Paschi de Sienna, opened their doors to the public 750 years ago.
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Brett King (Bank 4.0: Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank)
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The flag that Templar knights carried into battle was called the Beauceant, and consisted of two panels, one black and one white. As we have seen, the Templars were also known for collecting relics—primarily bones—of Christian saints while they were in the Holy Land. One of their most treasured relics was said to be the skull of St. Euphemia, which was displayed in ceremonies with her two crossed leg bones. Some have argued that the bones were not those of St. Euphemia, but it is now widely accepted that the Templars revered the skull and crossed bones of some deceased donor during their private ceremonies.
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Sanford Holst (Sworn in Secret: Freemasonry and the Knights Templar)
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The multinational is in the position of the bank robber in the old West; all he has to do is ride straight and hard to be safe, because the posse can’t cross the border. We have taken over the roles that nations recently held; we wage war, collect taxes through debt service, protect our areas of property and the worker/citizens within those areas, and we distribute power as we see fit.”
Think of it this way. I am the baron. Templar international and Margrave Corporation and Avalon State Bank and so on are the castles I have built in different parts of my territory, for defense and expansion. The subsidiary companies we’ve bought or merged with owe their allegiance not to America but to Margrave. We reward loyalty and punish disloyalty. When necessary, we can protect our most important people from the laws of the state, just as the earlier barons could protect their most important vassal knights from the laws of the Catholic Church. The work force is tied to us by profit-sharing and pension plans. I don’t expect national governments to disappear, any more than the British or Dutch royal families have disappeared, but they will become increasingly irrelevant pageants. More and more, actors will play the parts of politicians and statesmen, while the real work goes on elsewhere.
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Donald E. Westlake (Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6))
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However, if the moneylenders are not some other country but are situated within your own kingdom, and you’ve borrowed what you feel is too much money from them, you can play a very dirty trick. This dirty trick has indeed been played, and quite often. It’s called “Kill the Creditors.” (Please don’t try this at your local bank.)
Consider, for instance, the sad fate of the Knights Templar. They were a religious order of fighting knights who’d amassed a great store of capital through gifts given to them by the pious, as well as through various treasures they’d acquired during the Crusades, and they acted as Europe’s major moneylenders to kings as well as to others for more than two centuries. It was unlawful for Christians to charge for the use of money, but it wasn’t unlawful for them to charge “rent” for the use of land, so the Templars charged so-called “rent” for the use of money, which you paid at the same time you got the loan, rather than after you’d used it. But you still had to pay the principal amount back at the stipulated time. This could be a problem for those who’d borrowed the money, as it still is today.
In 1307, Philip the Fourth of France found he owed a cumbersome lot of money to the Templars. With the aid of the Pope and of torture, he accused them falsely of heretical and sacrilegious activities and had them rounded up and burned at the stake. As if by magic, his debts disappeared. (So did the vast wealth of the Templars, which has never been adequately accounted for since.)
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Margaret Atwood (Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (The CBC Massey Lectures))
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Michał Grynberg, ed., Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, trans. Philip Boehm (London: Granta Books, 2003), p. 46. At one point Himmler invited Werner Heisenberg to establish an institute to study icy stars because, according to the cosmology of Welteislehre, based on the observations of the Austrian Hanns Hörbiger (author of Glazial-Kosmogonie[1913]), most bodies in the solar system, our moon included, are giant icebergs. A refrigeration engineer, Hörbiger was persuaded by how shiny the moon and planets appeared at night, and also by Norse mythology, in which the solar system emerged from a gigantic collision between fire and ice, with ice winning. Hörbiger died in 1931, but his theory became popular among Nazi scientists and Hitler swore that the unusually cold winters in the 1940s proved the reality of Welteislehre. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's The Occult Roots of Nazism explores the influence of such magnetic lunatics as Karl Maria Wiligut, "the Private Magus of Heinrich Himmler," whose doctrines influenced SS ideology, logos, ceremonies, and the image of its members as latter-day Knights Templars and future breeding stock for the coming Aryan utopia. To this end, Himmler founded Ahnenerbe, an institute for the study of German prehistory, archaeology, and race, whose staff wore SS uniforms. Himmler also acquired Wewelsburg Castle in Westphalia to use immediately for SS education and pseudoreligious ceremonies, and remodel into a future site altogether more ambitious, "creating an SS vati-can on an enormous scale at the center of the millenarian greater Germanic Reich." "In
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Diane Ackerman (The Zookeeper's Wife)
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The only time one could have seen two Templar knights on a single horse would have been when they were returning from the battlefield. If one knight’s horse died in battle, and the man faced imminent death on foot with the enemy on every side, no other knight was allowed to leave the field of battle. The nearest knight was obliged by stubborn honor to fly to the aid of his brother, no matter the cost. I believe it is that loyal knight, having rescued his brother, whom we see returning after battle with his fellow knight seated behind. That was the symbol of the Templars. To them, it embodied their pride, their honor, and lifelong bonds of brotherhood. The Templar Rule and culture seems to have so strongly permeated every aspect of their life that it imbued each white knight, green cleric, and brown-clad servingman with this indelible sense of brotherhood. Among the Templars. the punishment for failing to live up to those standards was swift and clear. Suffice it to say that the average person of that day seemed unable
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Sanford Holst (Sworn in Secret: Freemasonry and the Knights Templar)
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Life within a Templar house was designed where possible to resemble that of a Cistercian monastery. Meals were communal and to be eaten in near silence, while a reading was given from the Bible. The rule accepted that the elaborate sign language monks used to ask for necessities while eating might not be known to Templar recruits, in which case "quietly and privately you should ask for what you need at table, with all humility and submission." Equal rations of food and wine were to be given to each brother and leftovers would be distributed to the poor. The numerous fast days of the Church calendar were to be observed, but allowances would be made for the needs of fighting men: meat was to be served three times a week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Should the schedule of annual fast days interrupt this rhythm, rations would be increased to make up for lost sustenance as soon as the fasting period was over.
It was recognized that the Templars were killers. "This armed company of knights may kill the enemies of the cross without stated the rule, neatly summing up the conclusion of centuries of experimental Christian philosophy, which had concluded that slaying humans who happened to be "unbelieving pagans" and "the enemies of the son of the Virgin Mary" was an act worthy of divine praise and not damnation. Otherwise, the Templars were expected to live in pious self-denial.
Three horses were permitted to each knight, along with one squire whom "the brother shall not beat." Hunting with hawks—a favorite pastime of warriors throughout Christendom—was forbidden, as was hunting with dogs. only beasts Templars were permitted to kill were the mountain lions of the Holy Land. They were forbidden even to be in the company of hunting men, for the reason that "it is fitting for every religious man to go simply and humbly without laughing or talking too much." Banned, too, was the company of women, which the rule scorned as "a dangerous thing, for by it the old devil has led man from the straight path to paradise the flower of chastity is always [to be] maintained among you.... For this reason none Of you may presume to kiss a woman' be it widow, young girl, mother, sister, aunt or any other.... The Knighthood of Christ should avoid at all costs the embraces of women, by which men have perished many times." Although married men were permitted to join the order, they were not allowed to wear the white cloak and wives were not supposed to join their husbands in Templar houses.
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Dan Jones (The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors)
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order: • 1065: Jerusalem falls to the Turks, instigating the circumstances that will create the Crusades, which in turn are the circumstances (allegedly!) that will lead to the creation of the military-religious orders of the Knights Templars and Knights Hospitallers. • 1099: Jerusalem is recaptured for the Western Church by Godfroi de Bouillion, one of the original Templar Knights.
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Joseph Farrell (Thrice Great Hermetica and the Janus Age: Hermetic Cosmology, Finance, Politics and Culture in the Middle Ages through the Late Renaissance)
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The rocks don’t lie: He was here, and he came because God and Nature are One.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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In ancient times the solstice was the most important day of the year, the day when the sun reversed its pattern of descent in the southern sky and offered the first promise of spring, of rebirth, of life renewing after a time of death and darkness.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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Knowledge was the most valuable of all treasures. No wonder
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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even a pawn must not be sacrificed to no purpose.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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no such thing as the truth. There are only shades of lies.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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your enemy when he’s making a mistake.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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You don’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been?
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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History is not truth — it records not what occurred but what is remembered.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar.
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Dan Jones (Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages)
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Instead of hiding bodies in mass graves, corpses were triumphantly displayed, as when the Jalisco New Generation (while still part of El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel) dumped the thirty-five bodies on an avenue in Veracruz in September 2011. In reply, the Zetas scattered twenty-six corpses in Jalisco and a dozen in Sinaloa. On closer inspection, the bodies were those of ordinary citizens, not criminals: they were workers and students who had been abducted and murdered and displayed in order to strike fear in the heart of anyone who doubted the murderous resolve of the Zetas...
In To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War, John Gibler writes about a related series of bizarre and violent episodes that took place in Torreón, in Coahuila state, bordering Texas: “Who would believe, for example, that the warden of a state prison would let convicted killers out at night and loan them official vehicles, automatic assault rifles, and bulletproof vests, so that they could gun down scores of innocent people in a neighboring state and then quickly hop back over the state line and into prison, behind bars, a perfect alibi. Who would believe that a paramilitary drug-trafficking organization formed by ex−Special Forces of the Mexican Army would kidnap a local cop and torture him into confessing all of the above details about the prisoners’ death squad, videotape the confession, execute the cop on camera with a shot to the heart, and then post the video on YouTube? Who could fathom that the federal attorney general would, within hours of the video-taped confession and execution being posted online, arrest the warden, and then a few days later hold a press conference fully acknowledging that the prisoners’ death squad had operated for months, killing ten people in a bar in January 2010, eight people in a bar in May 2010, and seventeen people at a birthday party in July?” Yet all of this actually happened.
During April 2012, when El Chapo was at war with the Zetas, fourteen torsos — armless and legless bodies — were found in a car by the side of the road in Nuevo Laredo. Dead Zetas. Some of the torsos were in the trunk, for which there is a specific narco term: encajuelado (“trunked”; therefore, trunks trunked).
Soon after, in Michoacán state, the Zetas met their match in the person of Nazario Moreno (called El Más Loco, the Craziest One), leader of the ruthless Templarios, the Knights Templar cartel, whose recruits were required to eat human flesh—their victims’— as part of their initiation rites. When Moreno was gunned down by the Mexican army in 2014, the Zetas flourished, and remain dominant. But there was a posthumous bonus for the Craziest One: he was promoted to sainthood. In and around his birthplace in Apatzingán, shrines and altars were erected to Saint Nazario, the dead capo represented as a holy figure in robes, venerated by credulous Michoacanos.
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Paul Theroux
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Meanwhile, the people of Solomon split their kingdom in two during the reign of his son, with the remnants taking the name of Israel in the north and Judah in the south. Israel fell to foreign occupation first, with Judah following in 609 BC when the Babylonians swept in. Twelve years later King Jeconiah, grandfather to the legendary Zerubbabel, was taken from Judah along with many others in the first wave of the Babylonian captivity. In 586 BC the second deportation completed this task of taking the Hebrew people into exile, and the Temple of Solomon, having been sacked many times by others, was now utterly destroyed and left in ruins.
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Sanford Holst (Sworn in Secret: Freemasonry and the Knights Templar)
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Of course. I’ve been known to fancy a few bangers myself.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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His Narragansett cousins who protested the Thanksgiving holiday were being silly. Christopher Columbus and the Europeans did not slaughter natives because Europeans were evil — they did so because they were mighty, just as Native Americans had attacked and conquered one another for centuries.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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Getting back to this map stone, I thought they found archeological evidence that Vinland was up in Newfoundland, not near Cape Cod.” In the 1970s amateur archeologists, ignoring the skepticism of the professionals, uncovered a Viking settlement in L’Anse aux Meadows. “There’s just one problem with that site — there are no grapes growing that far north.” “No grapes, no Vinland. I get it.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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In all likelihood the diabetes accounted for Cam still being single at 37. Most unmarried men at his age either had commitment issues, were ninnies or were queer. Cam’s only issue seemed to be his diabetes.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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The specter of sexual intimacy made it rare for women to participate in this male bonding.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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A third discussed a 1990s plot by the Rex Deus leaders to marry Princess Diana to Bill Clinton (after killing off Hillary) in an effort to control the Western world.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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Cam ended the call and joined Amanda inside the Tower. “So, do we have a fertilized egg?
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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It says here that Judge Sewall believed the American Indians were the lost tribe of Israel. He lists a number of similarities between the Jews and your Indians — the women move to a separate tent during menstruation, they don’t eat pork and they practice circumcision.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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When people tossed around $100,000 like a Frisbee, there was usually a good reason.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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He had read once that God was like a mirror — the mirror never changed but the people who looked into it all saw something different. Unfortunately most people looked in and viewed their own face, confident it had been created in God’s own image.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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Cam smiled wryly. “Priests and lawyers. Not exactly the most popular members of society right now, are we?” “And to think, mothers used to dream of their children becoming lawyers or clergymen.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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Well, if Mr. McLovick didn’t plant the bomb, then someone else did.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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You’ve asked for my opinion and I’ve given it. There is absolutely no credible evidence, in Massachusetts or elsewhere, of any pre-Columbus exploration of America other than the Viking settlement in Newfoundland.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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I know, I look hideous,” she sighed. “I’m allergic to the sun, like a werewolf or something — soon I’ll be fancying Piña Coladas at Trader Vic’s.
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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Thus the Order of the Knights of the Temple was at its very origin devoted to the cause of opposition to the tiara of Rome and the crowns of Kings, and the Apostolate of Kabalistic Gnosticism was vested in its chiefs. For Saint John himself was the Father of the Gnostics, and the current translation of his polemic against the heretical of his Sect and the pagans who denied that Christ was the Word, is throughout a misrepresentation, or misunderstanding, at least, of the whole Spirit of that Evangel. The tendencies and tenets of the Order were enveloped in profound mystery, and it externally professed the most perfect orthodoxy. The Chiefs alone knew the aim of the Order: the Subalterns followed them without distrust.
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Albert Pike (Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry 1)
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This was what they had told the students when they’d tried to persuade them to stay home: Templar Knights Commander, David Zahler: “Don’t worry. I’ll protect Aiko. I promise you, I won’t let even a hair on her head be harmed. After all, she’s my ang— Er, my everything.” Templar Knights Vice Commander, Chase Domino: “I’m prepared to give my all for Aiko-san. Hell, I’d even throw away my faith for her if I had to. So don’t worry, we’ll keep her safe.” Imperial Guard Joshua Augus: “Meeting Aiko-chan must have been fate. How could I possibly let my fated partner die?” Imperial Guard Jade Hatto: “I swear on my life that I will keep her safe. Not as a member of the Imperial Guard, but as a man.
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Ryo Shirakome (Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Volume 3)
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True North is the compass deep within that guides me! It defines who I am as a warrior and as a human being! It’s my fixed point in a spinning world! It anchors me!
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Preston W. Child (The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar (The Last Templars , #1))
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Cults and outlaw terrorists generally follow the above procedures by further rewiring of the fourth, socio-sexual circuit. (Governments usually leave that circuit alone, since government agents are largely puritanical-authoritarian and afraid to get involved at all with raw Eros.) It is no secret that the most powerful secret society of the middle ages, the Knights Templar, forced recruits to participate in both blasphemy and sodomy. Just as the deliberate nonsense of all cultish third-circuit semantics isolates the group from the rest of society, this initiation separated the Templars from the rest of Christendom; the alienation could easily be conditioned into a sense of superiority. The Mau-Maus in Kenya also insisted on one act of homosexuality to break the new member’s previous conditioning toward heterosexuality and monogamy. Other cults, some quite well known, attempt to repress sexuality entirely — another way of breaking the statistically normal imprinting of the fourth circuit.
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Robert Anton Wilson (Prometheus Rising)
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You’ve got to be kidding. A criminal is easy to spot.” Reuben spoke to Alex
as he tied up his grieves, Alex tried to ignore his comment, but by the king
was she tired of his boasting.
“Enlighten me.” She rolled her eyes but he didn’t notice, he almost cut her off
with how quickly he answered.
“My uncle, he’s a Templar, he taught me: The tip of the tail for one, Alex.
Those are the blasphemers. The petty thieves get a finger removed for each
offence. The hand for smuggling and an ear for petty disrespect of the divine.
Then, well, indefinite jail time or execution, so you’ll never have to run into
any of those breeds on the street.” He straightened his belt rather confidently
before taking a comb to his greasy mane.
“And the ones who don’t get caught?” Alex replied.
Reuben snapped back, “hah! We always catch them in the end.” Punctuating
the conversation with his exit from the barracks.
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Griffin Nichols
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She was a good cradle Catholic who had been confirmed and received a certain amount of instruction, but she had never been forced to argue her case out with a confirmed and determined pagan. Atheists were often easier to deal with since for most of them the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Inquisition and the Knights Templar
Barnes, Alexander. The Man who Stole Stonehenge (Kindle Locations 970-972). Unknown. Kindle Edition.
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Alexander Barnes (The Man who Stole Stonehenge)
Conrad Bauer (The Knights Templar: The Hidden History of the Knights Templar: The Church’s Oldest Conspiracy (History of the Knights and the Crusades Book 1))
Charles G. Addison (The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple)
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As with most of the legends surrounding the Templars, some of the conjecture about the fate of individuals seems logical, while other suggestions appear to be rather implausible and fabricated for an audience hungry for mysteries and conspiracy theories.
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Susie Hodge (Secrets of the Knights Templar: A Chronicle 1129-1312)
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Chapter One Chapter
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Michael Jecks (The Templar, the Queen and Her Lover (Knights Templar, #24))
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The Templars were the most powerful and richest organization that the world has ever known. They started out as a small order of knights during the Crusades whose actual purpose was to protect pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem.
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Oliver Pötzsch (The Dark Monk (The Hangman's Daughter, #2))
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Nothing is True, All is Permitted
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James Jackson (The World's Most Dangerous Secret Societies: The Illuminati, Freemasons, Bilderberg Group, Knights Templar, The Jesuits, Skull And Bones And Others)
James P. Pollock (Secret Societies: Notorious Secret Societies, The Illuminati, Bilderberg Group, Freemasons, Scientology Church,Skull and Bones, Knights Templar and More.)
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Besides, you and I both know that more people learn history, or what looks like it, from novels rather than textbooks. I mean, look at Catholic Paranoid novels—I’ve never seen so many people believe so much crap: the Knights of Malta, Knights Templar, the Church suppressing the truth about … well, everything that happened before the Enlightenment—as if we were ever that organized.
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Declan Finn (A Pius Legacy: A Political Thriller (The Pius Trilogy Book 2))
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An uncivilized race is always at war. A system of mutual fear, hatred and injury seems to be the normal condition of savage man, in all ages and in every part of the world. As
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Frederick Charles Woodhouse (The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages: The Hospitallers, The Templars, The Teutonic Knights and Others)
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Most people tend to excuse themselves with the opportunities they have in life, with how many years of school they have, with the people around them. And in doing so, they fail in realizing many other things, such as the fact that not many are lucky enough to give birth to a world bestseller on spirituality, wealth and success in life. Yes, your child may be a little reincarnation of an awesome buddhist monk, of an alchemist or a famous knight templar. Why most people can’t see these things, and keep looking at the past for answers, is something that still puzzles me.
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Robin Sacredfire
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Ralph Grandison Templar knight Reginald Ausel Master of St Giles lazar hospital Edmund Datchet Templar knight Master Crowthorne Leech at St Giles lazar hospital Walter Burghesh Templar captain Roger Stapleton Templar knight Sir Peter Mausley Leper knight Richard Puddlicot Master felon
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Paul Doherty (Dark Serpent (Hugh Corbett, #18))
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There are [r]epeated references in the confessions of some of the poor Templar Knights once they were captured and tortured concerning certain doctrinal statements which do sound as if they had a relationship to the esoteric tradition. One of them being that Jesus is not the only redeemer. And the other one that there is a higher god than the god of the Bible in the Old Testament.
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Hans Hoeller
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Back in 1415, Prince Henry and his brothers had convinced their father, King John of Portugal, to capture the principal Muslim trading depot in the western Mediterranean: Ceuta, on the northeastern tip of Morocco. These brothers were envious of Muslim riches, and they sought to eliminate the Islamic middleman so that they could find the southern source of gold and Black captives. After the battle, Moorish prisoners left Prince Henry spellbound as they detailed trans-Saharan trade routes down into the disintegrating Mali Empire. Since Muslims still controlled these desert routes, Prince Henry decided to “seek the lands by the way of the sea.” He sought out those African lands until his death in 1460, using his position as the Grand Master of Portugal’s wealthy Military Order of Christ (successor of the Knights Templar) to draw venture capital and loyal men for his African expeditions. In 1452, Prince Henry’s nephew, King Afonso V, commissioned Gomes Eanes de Zurara to write a biography of the life and slave-trading work of his “beloved uncle.” Zurara was a learned and obedient commander in Prince Henry’s Military Order of Christ. In recording and celebrating Prince Henry’s life, Zurara was also implicitly obscuring his Grand Master’s monetary decision to exclusively trade in African slaves. In 1453, Zurara finished the inaugural defense of African slave-trading, the first European book on Africans in the modern era. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea begins the recorded history of anti-Black racist ideas. Zurara’s inaugural racist ideas, in other words, were a product of, not a producer of, Prince Henry’s racist policies concerning African slave-trading.1
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Ibram X. Kendi (Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America)
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The first commercial banks appeared in the late 13th century in Italian towns like Siena. The word comes from banco – Italian for bench – since at first banking services were provided on benches at the town’s centre. But banking does not begin with the Italian merchants – its origins lie with the Knights Templar, an order of warrior monks founded in 1096 to ensure the safe passage of European pilgrims heading to Jerusalem in the aftermath of the First Crusade.
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Dan Cryan (Introducing Capitalism: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides))
Monte Cook (The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies: From the Knights Templar to the JFK Assassination: Uncovering the [Real] Truth Behind the World's Most Controversial Conspiracy Theories)
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The Rite of Larmenius is an appendant body of the Freemasons, an organisation apparently formed by a combination of fleeing Knights Templar and members of the ancient rite of Stonemasonry. When the Templars were outlawed they collaborated with the Stonemasons as it allowed them to travel easily across borders. The modern day Rite of Larmenius is a society for the immensely rich. Businessmen, politicians, academics, even royalty are tempted
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John Paul Davis (The Templar Agenda)
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Whitley Strieber, who wrote about his own abduction in the book Communion.
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Monte Cook (The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies: From the Knights Templar to the JFK Assassination: Uncovering the [Real] Truth Behind the World's Most Controversial Conspiracy Theories)
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On November 10, 2001, Bush specifically denounced “outrageous conspiracy theories” dealing with the attacks. He couldn't have fanned the flames of the conspiracy theorists more if he had then given a Masonic hand signal and ended his statement with“Hail Satan.” That's the way this works.
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Monte Cook (The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies: From the Knights Templar to the JFK Assassination: Uncovering the [Real] Truth Behind the World's Most Controversial Conspiracy Theories)
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in 1522 the Templars’ Prussian progeny, the Teutonic Knights, secularized themselves, repudiated their allegiance to Rome, and threw their support behind an upstart rebel and heretic named Martin Luther.
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Michael Baigent (Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Christ. The Shocking Legacy of the Grail)
Michael Jecks (Squire Throwleigh's Heir (Knights Templar, #7))
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The truth is their enemy,
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David S. Brody (Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower (Templars in America, #1))
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Hermetic principle often associated with the Knights Templar: As above, so below.
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James Rollins (Blood Infernal (The Order of the Sanguines, #3))