The most effective antidotes for that stress and panic is a plan and some assistance from fellow human beings. The fugitive with no plan and no objective, all alone, is in constant danger of betraying himself.

Those who have escaped by grasping a sudden opportunity, finding themselves outside with no idea of what to do or where to go, have almost always been recaptured quickly.

In England the Templar’s were fortunate in having almost three months’ warning of their impending arrests, which gave them time to plan both individually and in concert with their comrades. They also had funds and means of transportation.

The Freemasons have been since there inception extremely controversial figures of history and lore. It’s a well known fact that many Freemasons played prominent rolls in the revolution and the founding of the United Stats. In addition to there is strong evidence to the same in the French revolution. It should be mentioned that after the King of France head was cut from his body during the beginning of the French revolution. An unknown man, jumped up and grabbed the severed Kings head and raised high above and exclaimed Jacques de Molay you are avenged.

What does that mean?

Jacques de Molay you are avenged?

Picture of Jacques de Molay

Jacques de Molay was the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar when King Phillip the far of France and Pope Clement V conspired against the order of the temple on Friday the 13^th 1307. And yes that is why Friday the 13 is unlucky. That’s what started that whole legend.

Was this man who exclaimed Jacques de Molay you are avenged a Freemason? Was he a Knights Templar, Unknown! But the event was recorded for posterity and the fact is, is this that the Knights Templar was attacked by the Pope and the King of France on Friday the 13^th 1307 and the French revolution took place at the beginning on 14th of July 1789.

That’s 482 years apart from one another. And there was a prominent group at the time that was a secret society and was known for revolutions and that group was the Free and Accepted Masons of the Accent and Accepted Scottish Rite, other wise known as the Freemasons. Now there is 32 degree’s in the Scottish Rite and 1 that is an honorary degree which is the 33 degree. Each degree is about the Knights Templar in one way or another. Also in the York Rite of Freemasonry accumulates in the order of the Temple where the Freemason is knighted as a Knights Templar. Each of these to branches of Freemasonry comes out of the basic Master Mason lodge. After you have been raised as a Master mason you can joined ether the Scottish Rite, or the York Rite, or Both!

Now why would one group of men be so involved with the history and knowledge of the Knights Templar’s? When they where attacked by the Catholic Church and persecuted by that same church so many years later. I will finish this in the next post this week with some very interesting facts.

So let’s get on with it. Freemasons [or Masons] sought out the craft [or the fraternity] because they where looking for something different. Something better. A place to go with like minded individuals that they can converse with and be themselves. Sounds good huh?

Well, let’s look at it a little closer. You see, we are different than most men. We don’t understand how so many people can say something is wrong today, but then say, “Oh, it’s fine”, tomorrow. There are very few gray areas with us. What’s wrong is wrong and what’s right is right.

We don’t do drugs. We don’t come home to crack open a beer or wait all week long just to party on the weekends. The vast majority of us are CEO’s of corporations, Police Officers, Computer Programmers, Entrepreneur’s, Writers’, Film Makers, Politicians and the like.

We are, for the most part, very learned men. And we have more interest in other things than who won ‘Dancing With the Stars’ or what pro sports player overdosed on drugs and what a shame that is because he was such a hero and the kids looked up to him. We are movers and shakers. We are men who get things done for ourselves and our families. We make things happen instead of standing back and watching those thing’s happen.

As far as our meetings are concerned, I can and will only say this: If you are so interested in what we do in are Temples, then why don’t you fill out an application [like each and every Mason has] and find out for yourself? Our meetings are secret. That’s why we have a man outside the door with a sword!

But, in 1307, the French king Philip le Bel decided to arrest the
Members of the order of the temple. A quantity of of them managed to flee but a large amount of them were Captured in France. Pope Clement V furthermore joined the purge. Following a long period of interrogation, torture and trial, many of the Templars admitted to unorthodox beliefs, that they had rejected the Christian faith and insulted Jesus in their masses. Finally, the leaders of the Templars, who were called “grand masters,” Starting with the most significant of them, Jacques de Molay, were executed in 1314 by order of the Church and the King. The majority of them were put into prison, and the order dispersed and officially disappeared.

The trial of the Templars ended with the termination of the
Order. But, although the order “officially” ceased to exist, it did not in fact disappear. During the swift arrest in 1307, some Templar’s escaped, managing to cover their tracks. Many historians   believe to some point the Templar’s were tipped off in relation to the arrest’s that where soon to take place. None of their money’s or weapon’s where seized and that many of the younger Knights of the temple escaped along with the whole Templar fleet that was docked at La Rochelle, and the fleet was never found.

According to various historical papers, a sizeable quantity of them took refuge in the only kingdom in Europe that did not recognize the authority of the Catholic Church in the fourteenth century, Scotland. There, they restructured under the protection of the Scottish King, Robert the Bruce. Some moment in time later, they found a suitable method of disguise by which to carry on their clandestine existence: They infiltrated the most significant guild in the medieval British Isles, the wall builders’ lodge, and eventually, they fully controlled these lodges.