Glass that is green to each beach that traveled the Tides,
what ocean sang to you,
is it the sands once on the beaches that watered the River of your life?
Darkness is a traveling road filled with old Romans and English,
from sorted through to that bank of dead is it the knoll that has mountains you cannot see,
a valley is a bridge,
it is the pitfall of nature that allows us to understand that Mother Earth has had depressions too.
Moreover to that Grand Canyon,
the carve that shows the scar,
a river to call snake!!
The virtue with a maker of ground is rain,
tears on landing cheek to cheek as the Moon is Earth friend,
how wonderful that Mother Earth can show the human being livelihood by example,
the growth,
destruction,
miles to the rounds,
places that roots have reason to show Cliffs the oceans flowed!!
Transfer grace to your flight of your life and be that found,
islands are for the British born,
continent is an American thing,
our land is full to the cup as Men gave to I fact,
buildings that by design compass sewn to an Egyptian tiled,
wow!!
Look to San Francisco City Hall,
the mortar on the outside finds Gods on further to ground,
a common denominator to the chosen in mortar shown inside our City Hall,
why than does the United States of America deny?,
control.
Government shows us everyday through the built what those Senators and Congressman must walk,
sitting in conscience talking religion casts upon the board a staggering rise,
voices that echo in Chambers?,
a Supreme Court Justice cannot demure should the performance of hand to write not consider the left,
shale?,
no granite brings envelope from our Founding Fathers to letters that do mathematics in Works!!
Any that cross the Atlantic to touch the Pacific as the Rockies glare a vice,
poetry gave verse as the Pen signed,
thou art majestic,
songs bridge to our ears as those shoulders that gave Vision!!
As citizens of the United States of America you can note,
the tone of your anger,
the flush of that makes the hand you hold,
gamblers make roulette,
numbers in a circle counted as the ring is a bell.
We the People a role,
signing this with belief is not a question as the public at-large grands that special as a lift,
staging words that the declaration folds like a fork at the campfire of tents,
yet the belief of whom founded our country has made you gather less,
your figures do not add yet cause commercial,
what reach gripped such a nation that water has become whine,
sentences have broken verbs as adjectives intersect Cavemen to show the XXII as a known,
the public at-large has lost the basis for land,
regained the anger,
become English,
and thrown to the dogs the bones,
so skeletal.
Ride the Disturbed until the harp plays your flute to the drums that you as Americans field,
in that bark of staff ask not what your Country can do for you because it did,
on that bank cash Thanks giving as a wild horror,
as Benjamin Marconi had more to do and due to your craps he died?,
no he was murdered right outside his station in San Antonio and you have already forgotten,
how is that possible,
the impossible is the possible waiting to happen and it did,
be sure to Christmas as Merry knew year with what is a gift,
it is the music that never plays for a born American that became more to me than a holiday,
the shooting of Benjamin Marconi a detective in Texas became a sign,
investigations gone,
a life that would never find the prism,
and as it has had it not one person cares,
as I still am tortured by the murderers,
the ones that raped my life with their faces still glaring at me with eyes that never blink,
this country has lost 1965 and advanced the cell phone,
the lavatory is a gossiping room,
and any American that says less is the mathematics of European feathers as the burn of tar gave you decor,
your coats are made with emptiness,
your souls are at the purchase of a brain without connection to the facts,
you lift your day with hatred and blame,
you are the horror,
whores of the world,
so bibical its night hood,
covering and flowers that lay your roads should cobble the next Tower of Babble,
oh wait,
it does everyday with what you text.
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A cross and crown laid upon a cross pattée inscribed with "In Hoc Signo Vinces" resting upon downward pointing swords in saltire is often used to represent the Knights Templar.
(The various symbols used allude to the orders of the body, though the cross and crown is often used alone as well.)
(The various symbols used allude to the orders of the body, though the cross and crown is often used alone as well.)
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- This page is about a Masonic organization. For the medieval Knights Templar, see Knights Templar. See also Knights Templar and popular culture.
Like the Masonic Red Cross of Constantine being inspired by the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George and the Order of Malta being inspired by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the Masonic order of Knights Templar derives its name from the medieval Catholic military order Knights Templar. However, it does not claim any direct lineal descent from the original Templar order.
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History
Knightly symbolism in Freemasonry
The earliest documented link between Freemasonry and the Crusades is the 1737 oration of the Chevalier Ramsay. This claimed that European Freemasonry came about from an interaction between crusader masons and the Knights Hospitaller.[2] This is repeated in the earliest known "Moderns" ritual, the Berne manuscript, written in French between 1740 and 1744.[3]In 1751 Baron Karl Gotthelf von Hund und Altengrotkau began the Order of Strict Observance, which ritual he claimed to have received from the reconstituted Templar Order in 1743 in Paris. He also claimed to have met two of the "unknown superiors" who directed all of masonry, one of whom was Prince Charles Edward Stuart. The order went into decline when he failed to produce any evidence to support his claims, and was wound up shortly after his death.[4][5]
In 1779 the High Knights Templar of Ireland Lodge, Kilwinning, obtained a charter from Lodge Mother Kilwinning in Scotland. This lodge now began to grant dispensations to other lodges to confer the Knights Templar Degree. Some time around 1790 the Early Grand Encampment of Ireland was formed, which began to warrant Templar Lodges, and evolved into the Supreme Grand Encampment in 1836.[6] The Early Grand Encampment chartered several Scottish "encampments" one of which, having been chartered in 1805 as the "Edinburgh Encampment No. 31", then became the"Grand Assembly of Knights Templar in Edinburgh". who then sought a charter from the Duke of Kent, Grand Master of the Order in England.[7] It seems that the Templar degree had filtered into the lodges of the Antients from Ireland about 1780, and was recorded at York about the same time.[8] In the five degree system developed by the York Masons, the Knights Templar degree sat between the Master Mason and the Sublime Degree of Royal Arch.[9]
Grand Conclave of England
Templar masonry in England entered a new era in 1791, with the formation of its first Grand Conclave, with Thomas Dunckerley as Grand Master. At that time, there were eight known Templar encampments in England, the most senior being the Encampment of Redemption at York, and the Baldwyn encampment at Bristol, at whose request Dunckerley began his mission. Under his leadership, the number of encampments steadily grew until his death in 1795. Stasis then followed, until in 1805 their Royal Patron, Duke of Kent, became Grand Master himself, re-energising the society and launching it into an era of growth and development. Dunckerley laid the foundation for this not only by promoting the order, but by standardising the ritual and insisting on proper record keeping.[10] The Grand Conclave went into a period of decline between 1872 and 1895, when it was re-founded as the present day Great Priory of England and Wales.[11]Administration
The position of the United Masonic Orders of the Temple and of Malta among the appendant bodies in England and Wales
Outside the York Rite, membership is by invitation only. Candidates are required to be Master Masons, and Royal Arch Masons, and to sign a declaration that they profess the Doctrine of the Holy and Undivided Trinity. In some Australian States, the requirement of being a Royal Arch Mason no longer applies.
Local bodies of Knights Templar are known as Preceptories; local bodies of Knights of St Paul are known as Chapters; local bodies of Knights of Malta are known as Priories; all operate under a Grand or Great Priory, often with an intermediate level of Provincial Priories. Although some jurisdictions maintain a separate Great Priory of the Temple and Great Priory of Malta (as, for example, in England), the Grand Master and other officers of both Great Priories hold simultaneous equal office in both bodies. Three degrees are administered in this system:
- The Degree of Knight Templar (Order of the Temple)
- The Degree of Knight of St. Paul (incorporating the Mediterranean Pass)
- The Degree of Knight of Malta (Order of Malta)
The Degrees or Orders
The Illustrious Order of the Red Cross (Order of the Red Cross)
Teachings
The Cross pattée, symbol of the Order of the Temple in the independent body.
The ritual places the candidate in the role of Zerubbabel and follows him through his journey to King Darius in Persia and his role in the Immemorial Discussion, as found in the apocryphal book, 1 Esdras. The purpose is to bridge the gap between Royal Arch Masonry and the Chivalric Orders as well as between the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Illustrious Order of the Red Cross teaches the lessons of the triumph of truth.
The Degree of Knight of St Paul (or Mediterranean Pass)
Two downward pointing swords in saltire, symbol of the Order of St Paul.
This degree is close to being a true 'side degree', in that a small group (usually three) of members of the degree take the candidate "to one side" (i.e. apart on his own) and simply communicate the secrets of the degree to him, without actually working the ceremonial ritual of the degree. The only respect in which the degree fails to meet the definition of a true 'side degree' is that a Chapter of the Order is formally opened and closed by the presiding officer, on either side of the secrets being communicated.
The Degree of Knight of Malta (Order of Malta)
The Maltese Cross, symbol of the Order of Malta.
The ceremony for conferring the degree (which is always worked in full) contains a mixture of masonic tradition, historical accounts of the Order of St John, moral teaching, and the communication of modes of recognition between members. A series of banners is employed in the ceremony, each representing one of the great battles of the historic medieval Order of St John, whose story is the basis of the moral teachings of the degree.
The Cross and Crown, symbol of the Order of the Temple as found in the York Rite.
The Degree of Knight of the Temple (Order of the Temple)
The original medieval Order of Knights Templar was established after the First Crusade, and existed from approximately 1118 to 1312. There is no known historical evidence to link the medieval Knights Templar and Masonic Templarism, nor do the Masonic Knights Templar organizations claim any such direct link to the original medieval Templar organization.[13] Though it has been said that its affiliation with Masonry is based on texts that indicate persecuted Templars found refuge within the safety of Freemasonry, the order itself states that "there is no proof of direct connection between the ancient order and the modern order known today as the Knights Templar."[14] The official motto of the Knights Templar is In Hoc Signo Vinces, the rendition in Latin of the Greek phrase "εν τούτῳ νίκα", en toutōi nika, meaning "in this [sign] you will conquer".The Knight Templar degree is associated with elaborate regalia (costume) the precise detail of which varies between nations. The ritual draws upon the traditions of medieval Knights Templar, using them to impart moral instruction consistent with the biblical teachings of the Christian tradition.
Organization
In England and Wales, the teachings of the Order of the Red Cross feature in the Red Cross of Babylon which forms part of the Allied Masonic Degrees.The Order of the Red Cross is often considered a compressed version of the Red Cross Degrees or Green Degrees which make up the Order of Knight Masons.
The Order of the Red Cross should not be confused with the Red Cross of Constantine.
Other Rites
Degrees of the York Rite in the United States
An American freemason in 2009.
While a chapter bestows the Royal Arch degrees, and a council bestows the Cryptic degrees, a Knights Templar commandery bestows three orders and one preparatory degree onto its members. This is opposed to the standard degree system found elsewhere in Freemasonry, and they are the only ones not to deal with the Hiramic Legend.[15] The York Rite orders are:
- The Illustrious Order of the Red Cross
- The Degree of Saint Paul (or the Mediterranean Pass)
- The Order of the Knights of Malta (or simply Order of Malta)
- The Order of the Temple
Templar degrees in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
History and legend concerning the historical Knights Templar also play an important role in the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, notably in the Rite's 30th Degree, Knight Kadosh. Other Scottish Rite degrees sometimes styled "Templar Degrees" include the 28th Degree (Knight Commander of the Temple, formerly denominated the 27th Degree in the Southern Jurisdiction of United States), the 29th Degree (Scottish Knight of Saint Andrew), the 32nd Degree (Master of the Royal Secret), and the 33rd Degree (Inspector General).[16]Templar themes in wider Freemasonry
Despite Freemasonry's general disclaimer that no one Masonic organization claims a direct heritage to the medieval Knights Templar, certain degrees and orders are obviously patterned after the medieval Order. These are best described as "commemorative orders" or degrees. Nevertheless, in spite of the fraternity's official disclaimers, some Masons, non-Masons and even anti-Masons insist that certain Masonic rites or degrees originally had direct Templar influence.- American Masonic youth organizations such as the Order of DeMolay for young men are named after the last Grand Master Templar Jacques de Molay who was executed in the final suppression of the Templar order in the early 14th century.
- The Knight of Rose-Croix Degree in the "Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite", and honorary Orders like the Royal Order of Scotland are interpreted as evidence of a historical Templar-Masonic connection, though there is no factual basis for this belief.
- Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh has been suggested to be strong link between the Knights Templar and Freemasons due to reliefs combining Templar and Freemason symbolism. Historian Dr. Louise Yeoman, along with other mediaeval scholars, says the Knights Templar connection is false, and points out that Rosslyn Chapel was built by William Sinclair so that Mass could be said for the souls of his family.[17] In addition, Rosslyn Chapel's connection to Freemasonry, as well as to the Templars, has been vigorously disputed by Robert L. D. Cooper, the Curator of the Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum and Library.[18][19][20] It is postulated that any existing Masonic imagery was likely added at a later date, probably in the 1860s when James St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn instructed Edinburgh architect David Bryce, a known Freemason, to undertake restoration work on areas of the church including many of the carvings.[21]
- Legends in certain degrees recount that Knights under the command of Sir John De Bermingham, first and last Earl of Louth, aided Scottish King Robert the Bruce, who had been excommunicated, at the Battle of Bannockburn;[22] but this account is based on an 18th-century romance and is not supported by any evidence. This story is the basis for the degrees in the Royal Order of Scotland, an invitational Masonic honorary organization.
- Templar connections have also been suggested through the Earls of Rosslyn (St. Clair, or Sinclair) a family with well documented connections with Scottish Freemasonry, one being a Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.
- Many other old and new organizations are called "Knights Templar". However, organizations like the Order of the Solar Temple, Militi Templi Scotia, Ordo Templi Orientis, or the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem are in no way related to Masonic Knights Templar, and share little or no relationship with it in history, hierarchy, or ritual.
See also
Original chivalric orders
References
Bibliography
- The History Channel, Decoding the Past: The Templar Code, 2005, video documentary
- The History Channel, Mysteries of the Freemasons, 2006 video documentary
- Stephen Dafoe, The Compasses and the Cross, 2008. ISBN 0-85318-298-1
- Gordon, Franck (2012). The Templar Code: French title: Le Code Templier. Paris, France: Yvelinedition. ISBN 978-2-84668-253-4.
- Christopher L. Hodapp and Alice Von Kannon, The Templar Code For Dummies, 2007. ISBN 0-470-12765-1
- Sean Martin, The Knights Templar: History & Myths, 2005. ISBN 1-56025-645-1
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7050713.stm
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Masonic Knights Templar organizations
- Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America
- Sovereign Great Priory of the Knights Templar of Canada
- Order of the Temple - Great Priory of Scotland
- Order of the Temple - Great Priory of Ireland
- Knights Templar Eye Foundation
- The Web of Hiram Section on The Royal Exalted Religious and Military Order of Masonic Knights Templar of England and Wales at Bradford University
| Preceded by Holy Royal Arch |
Knights Templar | Succeeded by Knights Templar Priest, Order of St. Thomas of Acon or Order of Knights Beneficent of the Holy City |
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