Is there a connection between the Knights Templar and the Free Masons and the Bilterburgers?
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the templar knights were the ones that protected and found holy relics.  i know somewhere a few of the disbanded templars' familys later formed the free masons, but ive never heard of the bilterburgers.
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Just to be clear from the outset, it has nothing to do with the da Vinci Code.\n\nIt is a Masonic symbol. The Founding Fathers were big on Freemasonry.
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I really doubt you are going to find your answers here.  There really WAS a Kinghts Templar, but answers about the Vatical's 30 miles of secret shelves will not be disclosed on the pages of yahoo answers.  If that could happen, it would be general knowledge, and you wouldn't be asking the question.\n\nAs for the Freemasons, if you want to learn about our history, read the book "American Freemasons".  It deals mostly with Masonry in America, but explains a bit about our history, as well as the history of other fraternal organizations.
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I doubt it, but it does make a great story.\n\nThe true freemasons rose during the time of the cathedral building era (perhaps 1150 to 1300) in Europe.  They were professionals with the ability to not only erect, but to design and engineer very tall structures, many of which still exist today.  Most of their “secrets” were based upon how to work with stone.\n\nThe fraternal order “Freemasons” is a much newer organization (perhaps the early 1700’s) and attempted to gain status by promoting a “secret society” status.  Much of what the members do is more “mumbo jumbo” than any hidden knowledge.  Their rituals are often borrowed from organizations like the “Golden Dawn” and the “Rosicrucians.”\n\nThe Knights Templar were basically a group of Crusaders who gained great wealth and power in the Middle East and then retired back to Europe.  The official demise of this organization was on Friday, October 13, 1307 when the church hunted down the members and destroyed the organization for their wealth.
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I have an ebook of their entire history. 550 pages all about them and their practices. There's a lot more on them than people think, far too much to go into here.\n\nI also know a small collection of Freemasons, and wheni identified one he has actually takenme into his confidence, which is how i got the eBook. \n\nLife can be great when you know the right people!!
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Not sure about the reason for priory of scion.  But the masons were started by the same family the gave land to the knights templar.  The masons adopted the knight templars symbols after the templar disapeared.  No one realy knows what realy happened to the knights.
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More than that...\nSophie is the distant relative of Christ. Sophie's grandfather wasn't really her grandfather... he was some guy posing to protect her and in time show her what the Priory was and what it was protecting(her).
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Time will tell... If there's any truth to the rumor of the 3rd letter of Fatima, then maybe the countdown is around the corner. More on this later.\n\nBut in answer to your follow up questions: Yes; yes; maybe; yes; and finally, a BIG YES!\n\nThere are huge vaults in several levels of undergound basement containing actual and original manuscripts, hermetically sealed to preserve their antiquities, that have been gathered eons ago --well, since they gained power as the Official State Religion of Rome, circa 325 AD or thereabouts. These vaults are called the 'Archives' of the Vatican.\n\nThe Knights Templar followed the victorious First Crusade and were sanctioned by the reigning King of France, under the auspices of the then pope, in early 12th century AD. Their military mission was to  protect and provide safe passage to Christian pilgrims en route to Jerusalem and back home. They started out with humble beginnings and the original nine knights took vows of Chastity, Poverty and Obedience. Their rule of conduct was based on the Cistercian monks' manuals.\n\nTheir Order grew rapidly and gained favor with the pope who ordered all monarchies to support them and their cause. In the process they became very wealthy and started to build their temples [mostly round floor plans] along the route and in their travels. They are credited to have started retail banking as we know it today: deposit your gold/cash in one temple at home and withdraw it anywhere along the way to Jerusalem or back by presenting your receipt.\n\nTwo centuries later, the Order had gained so much substantial power that King Phillip and Pope Clement decided to have them all eliminated by execution on trumped up charges of heresy, spitting on the cross, homosexuality, sodomy, idolatry, etc. and were burned at stake. Their Grand Master at that time was Jacque de Molay, who cursed the King and the Pope to die with him while he sizzled at the stake. Within months, both the Pope and King died too.\n\nJacque de Molay is CREDITED to have founded the Freemasons... Fascinating stuff, isn't it??\n\nSeek and you shall find.\n\nPeace be with you!
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I think they are more important than people realize.  The freemasons made up about 20% of the population of the US before the Antimasonic party was formed.  There are many smaller very influential groups like the Skulls and Bones.  I think it is pretty scary that such a high level of cronyism runs our country.  I know that I probably sound like a conspiracy theorist but I am not.
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The Knight's Templar were the first to have a system that was the closest to how current banks work. I'm unsure as to whether there was any interest...
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Im assuming your talking about the organization commonly known as the "Builderbergers."  Little is know of them because members (if you want to call them that) are sworn to secrecy.  Actually, they dont even have a name that we know of.  This name is one the people who werent part of the organization gave it.  Most assume this secrecy society is up to no good.  Im inclined to agree with those people.  Sorry I couldnt give you much information.  But being a secret society, there is little information available on them.
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the masons are a part of the knights templar.\n\nthey formed to protect the 8th gospel which was bannished from the christian bible, the book was seperated and sent to all corners of the globe, it described that jesus christ was married to mary madaline, they had children, and also jesus had mistresses. that it why it had to go , or the god book would not have been so good. \nthe davinchi code is all about this fact.\n\njesus will have ancestors all over the globe , yes and even in good old god fearing yank land.....most of the answers on this thread are in fact correct, they wee the first bank.
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All of our founding fathers were....Free Masons, Templars, etc etc.\n\nThat's actually why, when you look at the birdseye map of the White House and the surrounding streets, there's a definitive pentagram shape w/ the White House at the "mouth of the beast" if you will.\n\nI reccomend looking through Google Earth.
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There is no specificate year but it is known that the Knights Templar were a group of fighting knights that were used in the Crusades to allow Christians to safely enter the Jerusealm.
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http://www.templarhistory.com/\n\nhttp://www.knightstemplar.org/\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar\n\nhttp://www.tylwythteg.com/templar.html\n\nhttp://www.crystalinks.com/templars1.html
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The masonic lodge hos been around for years.The first masonic lodge was established in England on june 24 in the year of 1717.The information on masons is no secret.Information can be found right here online .You can search free mason online and find whatever you need to know.Below is a link you can can find info for leonardo da vinci
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No, they are not.  Many Freemasons are Semites, both Jews and Muslims.  Yes some Muslims are Semites.\n\nFreemasonry requires a belief in God, and it doesn't matter which religion one follows.  Even other religions than Judeo-Christian-Islam are welcomed into Masonry.\n\n\nNamaste.