August 8, 2025 • 57 mins
In this eye-opening episode of Beyond the Paradigm, we journey deep into the shadowy legacy of the Knights Templar—not as crusading warriors, but as the forerunners of modern banking and engineers of financial control.Far from the romanticized tales of valor and piety, the Templars built a vast, secretive financial empire that spanned continents, developed early forms of credit, and laid the foundation for centralized wealth and debt-based economies. But where did their power really come from? Were they guardians of holy relics… or something far more sinister?Linksemail:beyondtheparadigm@yahoo.comBeyond the Paradigm - YouTubeinstagram.com/paradigm1979twitter.com/paradigm_79(1) FacebookSupport The Show patreon.com/BeyondTheParadigm buymeacoffee.com/beyondthep5Guest Link
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and some of the things that I'm going to mention
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in here has sort of.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Come up briefly in other episodes, But.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I wanted to do sort of a standalone episode on
this topic. So, as you can see from the title,
we are going to be looking at the Knights template
and then looking into sort of their involvement or banking.
And what I wanted to say is that when I
try to do an episode, I always try to do
a topic that's relevant for today. And you might be
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thinking talking about the Knights templates, it might be interesting,
but is it relevant. Well, I think there is some
relevance for us today, and you'll see that as we
go on in this episode. So the Knights template or
the poor fellow soldiers of Christ and of the Temple
of Solomon. That was the sort of full title. Now,
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to many there were holy warriors, crusaders in shining armor,
sworn to protect Christian pilgrims on their journey to the
Holy Land. To others, there were shadowy financiers, occultist and
manipulators of power whose legacy laid the foundation for the
modern banking system and perhaps the hidden rulers of the world.
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So how did this order founded in piety and service
become one of the most powerful and feared institutions of
the medieval world. What role did they play in early banking.
And why were they accused of heresy, devil worship and
corruption by the church they were sworn to defend. Were
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these knights Templars merely escapegoats in a political takedown or
worthy indeed the architects of a secret global network, one
that may still persist to this day. So let's have
a little love at the origins and the rise of
these knights Templars. So basically, the story of the Knights
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Templar doesn't start with conspiracy or wealth. It starts with blood, fear,
and religious zeal. So in the early twelfth century, the
years eleven nineteen, Jerusalem has been captured by European crusaders
following the First Crusade, which had been called by Pope
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Urban the second two decades earlier, and the brutal campaigns
spilled rivers of blood across the Holy Land in the
name of Christ. Now I'm just going to pause here.
They weren't Christian crusades. I want to make that absolutely clear.
They were Roman Catholic crusades. And as you guys who
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listen all the time, you know there's a big difference
between that and a Christian So they were Roman Catholic crusades,
and yeah, they might have been naming the name of Christ,
but these aren't followers of Christ. Now, despite this Catholic
control of Jerusalem, the journey there remained extremely dangerous. Muslim warlords,
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bandits and desert raiders still patrolled the routes that pilgrims used,
and thousands of men, women and children, poor and devout,
were murdered or enslaved on the road to the Holy City.
Now into this chaos stepped a small group of Knights,
nine men led by a French nobleman named Hugues de Payennes.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
They weren't looking for glory.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
They took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and they
called themselves, like I said, the poor fellow soldiers of
Christ of the Temple of Solomon eventually shortened to the
Knights Templar. And their mission was simple but bold, to
protect these pilgrims traveling to and from Jerusalem. But it
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wasn't just their mission that caught attention, it was their headquarters.
They were granted a base on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem,
which is the holiest of all sites for Jews. I say,
quote unquote Christians and Muslims alike. It's not a holy site.
It's just a site. There's nothing holly about it. The
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Temple Mount was believed to be the location of the
original Temple of Solomon, destroyed centuries earlier, and in Jewish tradition,
this was the place where the ark of the Covenant arrested.
In Christian eschatology, it was tied to prophecy, and in
Islamic belief it was the site where Mohammad ascended to heaven.
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So you can sort of see why it's an important
location because of what people believe about this place. Now,
by planting themselves in the heart of the ancient world,
the templars weren't just establishing the headquarters. They were tapping
into a power center believed to be both spiritually and symbolically,
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a power center now is where the deeper narrative begins.
The early templars spent years excavating beneath the Temple Mount,
and officially they were fortifying their base. Unofficially, they may
have been searching for something.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now. Some claim they were looking for the Holy Grail.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Others say they found ancient scrolls, pre Mosic wisdom, even
relics of Egypt and Babylon. But whether before fact, their
sudden rise to power after this period is striking and
it didn't go unnoticed. Now regarding the Knights Templar and
the study of them, this is where you could go
off in a direction and look into this business with
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a Templar, Solomon, Holy Grail, all these types of things.
There's a story there, But this episode today we're not
gonna sort of go off on that. I just wanted
to briefly mention it because it's relevant to building up
to who the Templars are and then going where we're
going with this episode. So the early Templars. In eleven
twenty nine, just a decade after they founding, the Templars
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were officially endorsed by the Catholic Church at the Council
of Trees.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And it's a big deal. So think about it.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
There were this small military order, barely a generation old,
but they had already won the support of Bernard of Clavore,
the most powerful abbot of the time and a man
considered the spiritual architect of the Second Crusade.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And it was.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Bernard who wrote the Founding Rule, a strict code of
conduct that fused the austerity of monasticism with the discipline
of knightly warfare. And this created a new archetype, a
monk warrior, humble yet deadly, poor in possession, but rich
in power. And here's where the tide turned. The templars
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were now answerable only to the pope. No king, no bishop,
no local ruler could interfere in their operations. They were
granted papal bulls that gave them sweeping privileges, the right
to collect tithes, the right to build their own churches,
the rights to cross borders unhindered. And that's the sort
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of power back then, because the world was in darkness
because there wasn't at that time, there hadn't been a Reformation.
People were bound up with popery. So the pope was
like the ultimate authority in the so called Christian world.
So that immunity, you know, building them out, being able
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to build their own churches, cross borders and all these
things on indan, that immunity made them incredibly useful and
incredibly dangerous. Now, donations began to pour in. Nobles donated
the land, castles, vineyards, even entire towns. Knights joined the
order with their armored horses and retainers. The Templars expanded rapidly,
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from Jerusalem to Spain, from Portugal to England, from Hungary
to Armenia. Within a century they had established a network
of preseptories or commanderers, essentially templar embassies across all Christendom.
They built fortresses that were state of the art for
the time. In fact, some of their fortifications in Syria
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and Palestine still stand today. And unlike most monastic orders,
which remained cloistered and poor, the Templars were mobile, armed,
and international. They were one of the first truly global
institutions in a fragmented feudal world. In nearly every major crusade,
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they built roads, ports and supply chains. They transported armies, horses,
and grain. They had their own fleet of ships, independent
of any kingdom or merchant class. But, perhaps most importantly,
and the least understood about them, the Templars became trusted
stewards of wealth. Nobles and monarchs who went on a
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crusade often deposited their estates with the Templars. The order
would manage the land, collect rents, pay taxes, and even
invest the proceeds, all while the original owner was away.
Over time, they began offering loans, collecting debts, and handling
international transfers. If you were a king planning a war
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and you didn't want your enemies to know, you could
use the Templars as your bankers and your arms dealers.
And this wasn't just military mite anymore. This was economic warfare.
Now here's the twist. They were doing all of this
without breaking canon law, well at least on the surface anyway.
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The Church forbade its followers from engaging in usury, which
is obviously charging interest on loans. Yet the Templars had
developed clever legal fictions to get around it. They charged
fees for safeguarding deposits or penalties for late repayment. In reality,
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they were doing everything a modern bank does, but without
calling it by name. And so within a century and
a half of their humble beginnings, the Templars were no
longer just warrior monks. They were landowners, diplomats, financiers, and
power brokers. By the mid thirteenth century, they held vast
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estates in nearly every European kingdom. They had treasuries rivaling
that of the pope, and they were exclusive bankers to
monarchs such as King Lewis the nine of France and
King Henry the third of England. But with power came suspicion,
because now the poor Knights of Christ were no longer poor.
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They were rich beyond imagination and almost untouchable. And any
institution that becomes too powerful, especially one that claims to
acting God's name, eventually attracts enemies. So the question wasn't
if they would fall, it was when. So briefly just
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going to look at the fall. It's not something we're
going to focus on. You can go and do your
own research regarding this, but this is just a brief
outline about sort of why and how they felt.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
So because they were growing in power and wealth.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
By the thirteenth century, the Templars owned vast estates across Europe,
and they operated a banking system and even lent money
to monarchs, including King Philip fourth of France. Their independence,
the secrecy and immense resources called suspicion and envy.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
They had a loss of purpose after the Crusades.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
With the fall of Acra in twelve ninety one, the
last Crusader a stronghold in the Holy Land, the Templars
had no more military role. Critics then began to question
why the orders still existed. King Philippe the Fourth's financial troubles.
He was deeply in debt to the templars after the
wars with England. Now rather than repay them, he chose
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to eliminate them and seize their wealth. And there was
a mass arrest. On Friday the thirteenth October thirteen oh seven,
Philip ordered the sudden arrest of all templars in France
on charges of heresy, idolatry, corruption and sexual misconduct. And
this is where the superstition around this Friday the thirteenth originates.
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And obviously they're being charged with heresy, and that's anything
in their wrong. Catholic Church doesn't teach corruption. Now sexual misconduct,
they was said to be sodomizing each other and all
these things. And under torture, many of these templars confessed
to bizarre charges like spitting on the cross, worship in
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this mysterious head. Sometimes they called buffomeit and like I said,
engaged in ritualized or homoerotic acts. Now, Pope Clement the Fifth,
under pressure from Philippe, ordered all Christian monarchs Catholic monarchs,
to arrest Templars and seize their assets, and the Pope
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dissolved the order in thirteen twelve, citing scandal rather than
proven guilt. Now, the last grand Master was a guy
called Jacques de la Molaire, and he was burned at
the stake in thirteen fourteen after retracting his confession, and
according to legend, he curse both Philip the fourth and
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Clement the fifth, who both died within a year. And
obviously that's just a legend. I don't know whether there's
any truth in it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
What happened to the Templar wealth, Well, apparently much of
it was seized by the French crown and some Templar
assets were transferred to the Knights of Saint John. But
legends obviously persist of hidden Templar treasures, which is something
you can look into, and obviously these fuel conspiracy theories
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regarding these hidden treasures. So let's have a look at
the birth of templar banking. So we'll take a closer
look at our Knights. Templar went from holy warriors to
the world's first international bankers. So we often think of
the Middle Ages as a time of swords, Saint Serfdom
and while that's true in part, the templars were already
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thinking in terms.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Of global infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
The Crusades began drawing tens of thousands of pilgrims and
soldiers to the Holy Land. A logistical nightmare unfolded. How
could a knight, a noble, or even a peasant pilgrim
travel with large sums of gold, silver, or voluables across
thousands of miles of dangerous bandit ridden terrain well enter
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the templars. Their solution was nothing short of revolutionary. A
pilgrim could deposit funds at a temple preceptory, let's say,
for example, in Paris, and they received a corded letter
of credit known in Latin as credentia when they arrived
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in Jerusalem or Acre, and they could present this document
to another templar house and withdraw funds in local currency, minus,
of course, a small handling fee.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Now does that.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Sound familiar, Well, obviously it should do, because this was
the prototype of modern banking centuries before the invention of
checks or cash machines.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
But it went further.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
The templars didn't just move money. They stored wealth, They
managed the states, and they offered loans entire noble families
trusted the Templars more than their own kings. And because
the Templars had fortresses, garrisons, and networks throughout Europe and
the Levant, their banking services were protected by force and fear.
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Now that's in reality what a bank is, isn't it.
Well it was originally it was somewhere where your wealth
could be stored safely. So they would have been stored
like this. They said, you know, they were in fortresses
and garrisons. No one's going to rob them because they
were protected by the Templars. And that's why people trusted them.
And that's why people trust banks, don't they because they
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think the money's safe in a bank. And like I've
said on the ear before, your money, if it's in
a bank, it actually doesn't belong to you. Now imagine this.
A king loses his war chest in a failed campaign,
he doesn't trust his nobles, the local church is broke,
but the Templars, with their iron vaults and international reach,
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offer him alone. In time, many European monarchs were deeply
indebted to the order, and like modern banks, the Templars
learned that debt was leverage. It bought them land influence protection. Now,
one little known fact about the Templars is that they
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lightly invented a form of fractional reserve banking, just as
modern banks lend out more money than they actually hold.
So for example, you deposit one thousand pounds, the bank
only has to hold ten percent of reserve. So that's
why if eleven percent of the people in a particular
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country want their physical cash out of the bank, the
bank would crash because they only hold ten percent in reserve,
so eleven percent. Obviously the one percent who go after
the ten percent of people have already been they can't
get the money along with the other eighty nine percent
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after them, So ninety percent of people will never be
able to get the money out of the bank if
there's a run on the bank. And this is what
the Templars did. They began to issue notes and lawns
far exceeding their physical holding. So obviously it was back
by gold, wasn't it that originally currencies.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Were backed by gold. So they gave.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
These notes to these pilgrims or whoever stored the gold
silver there, and it was in direct relation to how
much gold silver they adding the vaults. But obviously like
modern banks. They then started to issue these notes for
more than what they physically held in the vaults because
they knew most depositors would never demand all of the
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money at once, so they knew people weren't just going
to rock up all at once and say I want
all my money out now. And this is actually crucial
because they weren't just storing wealth, they were creating liquidity.
They understood money as trust, not just sort of metal.
And this is where the story starts to cross over
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into territory. The church, the Roman Catholic Church wasn't ready
to accept because of the heart of all of it,
the fees that notes the loans was the thing forbidden
by canon law. Usury in medieval Europe, usury wasn't just
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frowned upon, it was considered a mortal sin. So quickly,
let's look at why. So we're gonna go to the Bible, obviously,
so Exodus twenty two, verse twenty five says, if thou
lend money to any of my people that is poored
by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer.
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Neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Due Geronomy chapter
twenty three verse nineteen, Thou shalt not lend upon usury
to thy brother, usury of money, usury of victuals, usually
of anything that is lent upon usury. And this one
from Psalm fifteen, verse five, which shows you the positive
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of not life ending upon usury. So it says he
that puts th not out his money to usually no
take of reward against the innocent. He that doeth these
things shall never be moved. So the Catholic Church at
the time taught that Chargian interest on a loan was
unnatural and exploitative. And why well, because money, in the
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Catholic Church's eyes was a sterile object. It didn't breed,
it didn't multiply on its own. Earning profit from time
was seen as stealing from God, who alone governs time.
Thomas Aquinas one of the greatest theologians of the age.
He wrote that usually was a sin against justice. Even
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the Council of Nicia all the way back to thirteen
twenty five AD, had condemned the practice. So how did
the templars get away with it? Well, they didn't call
it interest, or usually they called it fees, handing, fees, penalties,
exchange rates, or transportation costs, but in practice these fees
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often amounted to the same thing as interest.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
So let's be clear.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
The templars weren't the only ones engaging in this behavior,
but they were the most visible, the most powerful, and
the most protected. And what I would say is that
during my research, most articles that are read and were
saying that the templars did practice us of it. But
there was one article that came across that said that
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they didn't. So obviously I've gone with the majority because
that's what seems to be the sort of general consensus.
Now that doesn't mean it's true, but I'm just using
this research and the majority of saying that the Templars
lean on userate. And I've even had a guest on
here who's well versed in sort of this type of
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thing and the Roman Catholic Church, and he said the
same thing that they were lending, you know, interest. So
the close relationship with the paperses shielded them from scruting it,
and in many cases popes even granted them exemptions from
local laws. They were even considered soldiers of Christ, which
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gave them this special dispensation legally and spiritually. Now as
they amassed more wealth and power. Criticism began to grow.
Some monks and feologians warned that the templars had become
money changes in the temple. Literally, the irony wasn't lost
on the observers. The templars were headquartered on the Temple Mount,
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where Jesus himself was said to have overturned the tables
of corrupt merchants. Now think of the symbolism. A group
named after Solomon's Temple, founded in poverty, was now acting
as an elite financial order, trading favors and for across Christendom,
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charging fees, collecting debts, and controlling kings. And remember this,
unlike the modern age were central banks issue fiat currency.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, gold and silver were
actually money, so there was the money at the time.
These notes that the issue. These were just to tell
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you know, if you deposited in the Temple in London
and then when you reach Jerusalem you had this note
from the Temple in London. It said you add sixty
gold coins, and you said, can I take out twenty
gold coins?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
They would give you.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
That, because that's what's said to be held back in London. Now,
if you held gold, you controlled the world, and Templars
held a lot of gold because there's intrinsic value in
gold and silver. There's no intrinsic value in these notes
that we all get now, which we call money, none
at all. Basically, if it's just accepted as being currency
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in your country, fine, But if I go abroad with
my pounds, I have to exchange them. There's an exchange rate.
But one ounce of gold or one ounce of silver
is one ounce of gold or silver in any country
on earth. Fact simple as that. So now let's ask
some hard questions. Was their banking practice a necessary innovation.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Or was it a spiritual betrayal?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Was it, you know, against the Bible and the teachings
of the Roman Catholic Church, which basically they go against
the Bible, don't they anyway? Now, some contemporary critics, especially
monastics orders like the Cistercians, accused the Templars.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Of materialism and greed.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
They lived in fortified monasteries, dine well will fine tunics
under their armor. The poor knights were now banking arts
in chain mail. Others claimed that the secret initiation rights,
an internal code of silence, masked the corruption and the heresy,
and that the banking was just a front for something darker.
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And the conspiracy theory here is that the Templars had
unlocked a code, not just financial, but spiritual, one that
allowed them to manipulate the world without wielding armies. Now
think about it, the true power of a banker is
not to own the crown, but to own the debt
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of the crown. So the Templars didn't need to conquer Europe,
they just needed to lend to it. And the elite
of today they've learned that lesson as well. The sin
of usury was once a capital crime, and it's now
the foundation of modern economy. It's what keeps you in debt.
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It's why your house costs three times its value over
thirty years. It's why your government borrows from private banks
instead of minting its own currency. And if we trace
it back, the fingerprints lead us to the Knights Templar,
because they understood the game before anybody else. So we
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talked a little bit about the fall of the Templars,
just going to sort of look at this persecution and
how it didn't come out of norword.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
It was calculated.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
King Philip of France was nearly bankrupt after fighting wars
and lavish spending, and his biggest creditor, obviously was the
Knights Templar. And in a bold move that would forever
change the course of history, Philip collaborated with port Clement
the Fifth, like I said, whom he controlled. Philip controlled
this paupe apparently according to sources, and obviously it was
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all toed destroyed the order. They collaborated together to destroy
this order, and on Friday the thirteenth, October thirteen oh seven,
Friday the thirteenth, Remember that that's where the superstition regarding
Friday the thirteenth comes from. This secret warrant was executed.
Hundreds of Templars were arrested simultaneously across France, charged with
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all kinds of things that were really shocking and deeply symbolic,
heresied devil worships, sodomy, idolatry, but most intriguing of all,
and this is where we're going with this segment, the
worship of a mysterious idol name before it now the
name before It appears in the confessions of several Nights,
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though it's unclear that it was a real entity or
a mistranslation or an actual invention. Of the inquisitors. Some
scholars suggest before it was a corruption of muhammet an
attempt to associate the Templars with Islam. Others believe it
was coded reference to a gnostic or alchemical secret. But
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in the nineteenth century, a cultist Eliaphas Levi gave before
it its now infamous visual form, a goat headed figure,
part human, part beast with wings, a torch between its horns,
and a caduceus on its lap. One arm pointed up,
the other pointed down, symbolizing as above so below. This
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became the archetype of duality masculine, feminine, good, evil, matter, spirit.
And it's important to understand that a life as Levi
didn't invent before it as a devil. He presented it
as a symbol of esoteric balance, the reconciliation of opposites.
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But over time the image was adopted by Satanic group
like the Church of Satan and became conflated with the
devil himself. Now, how does this tie in with the Templars.
Some researchers argue that the Templars had inherited pre Christian
gnostic wisdom, perhaps even remnants of Babylonian or Egyptian mystery religions.
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The Temple mount where they were headquartered, had layers of
ancient history, and they may have uncovered artifacts or scriptures
that revealed alternate spiritual truths, truths that challenged the Church's
monopoly on salvation. Obviously, these are theories. This is word
before it as a symbol of hidden or suppressed knowledge,
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becomes so potent it represents the arcane the things that
the Church wanted to bury. Quite literally, could the Templars
have revered before it not as a deity, but as
a soonification of enlightenment accord, perhaps alchemical or financial knowledge
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that granted them power over kings. Perhaps now he is
a bit of a wild theory. The Templars weren't heretics
in the way that the Roman Catholic Church claimed them
to be, but they were actually threats, threats because they
had broken free from the Church's spiritual and economic control,
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which brings us to a modern twist. But from its
image duality, secrecy hidden power has been absorbed into an
occult elite symbolism that many conspiracy researchers argue is woven
into global finance and governance. And you see it, don't
yet in law, goals, the rituals, even the architecture of
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certain institutions, the goat of Mendes, the eye in the pyramid,
the checkerboard floors. These aren't just esthetic choices to the initiated,
or so it's claimed, they represent hidden dominion over the
material world and worries that dominion most clearly expressed. Well,
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it's through the control of money. So what happened to
the Templars after the arrest and the trials and the
burning of Grandmaster Jacques de Malay. Well, officially, the order
was dissolved in thirteen twelve by Porte Clement the fifth
under immense pressure from King Philip the Fourth of France,
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the very man who owned them money, and he orchestrated
their downfall, and many Templar leaders were tortured and executed,
and their assets were supposedly transferred, while some of it
anyway to the Knights of Saint John. But as with
so many official stories, that's obviously only part of the truth.
The Templar network didn't vanish overnight. The fortresses across Europe
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were not easily dismantled. There are archives lightly containing banking records,
esoteric texts, and intelligence. They were never found, and perhaps
the most curious is that their ships disappeared from lar Rochelle,
the key templar port on the western coast of France,
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never to be seen again. Now, I didn't know when
I was in lar Rochale that it was linked to
Key Templar. It was like a key templar port. I
was there a couple of years ago, So it was
only during this research that this came up. So I've
actually been to lar Rochelle, this apparently key templar port.
So these ships they disappeared from there, never to be
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seen again, and we've got to ask ourselves, word did
they actually go? Now, some of these Templars were said
to flee to Portugal, were King Dennis Simple rebranded the
Order under a new name, the Order of Christ, preserving
their infrastructure and wealth under a different banner. Others say
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that they took refuge in Switzerland, helping them to form
the foundation of what would become the Swiss banking system,
complete with neutral status and secrecy laws. But the most
persistent and perhaps the most provocative legend is that they
fled to Scotland, and at the time Scotland was excommunicated
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by the Catholic Church. Robert the Bruce had murdered his
rival in a church and seized the Scottish throne. And
he had no allegiance to Roam whatsoever. And he was
obviously enemies with France and England, and he had every
reason to welcome hard unwarrior monks with experience, money and
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grudge against the Pope. According to Scottish legend, the Templars
were not just given refuse huge they actually fought alongside
Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannetburn in thirteen fourteen,
and the Battle of Bannetburn is a famous Scottish victory
over England. Obviously, ultimately Scotland was subjugated by England, like
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the rest of the island was the rest of the
UK was subjugated by England. But this was a great
victory for the Scottish over the English in this particular battle,
and some accounts claimed that the mysterious cavalry charge in
the final moments of the battle, one that actually turned
the tide of this battle in Scotland's favor, was actually
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led by knights Templars and their red crosses still emblazoned
on their white coats, which is interesting because the actual
flag of England, for those of you that think that
the flag of England is the Union Jack, that's not
the flag of England, that's the United Kingdom's Union flag.
The flag of England is just a red cross on
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a white background, which is what the Templars basically had,
didn't They They had white tunics with a red cross.
So apparently you had these templars charging it the English
with these red crosses emblazoned on their white tunics. Now,
whether that's a historical fact or a nationalist myth in Scotland,
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the stories fueled the idea that the Templars didn't die out,
that they actually went underground, they adapted, they were hiding,
and eventually they resurfaced in a new form. And this
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now brings us on to Freemasonry. So let's jump forward
to the late sixteen hundreds and early seventeen hundreds, the
Enlightenment era. All across Europe, secret societies began to emerge,
and the most prominent among them was Freemasonry, which claimed
to descend not from Crusaders but from Stonemasons, the builders
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of cathedrals and temples, particularly Solomon's Temple. But if you
scratch the surface, you'll find the fingerprints of the Knight's
Templar everywhere. Freemasonry is steeped in rituals, degrees, and symbols
that many researchers argue were inherited or they were at
least inspired by templar traditions. High degrees, such as those
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in the Scottish Rite or the York Right, specifically referenced
the Knight's Templar, often portraying initiates as spiritual successors to
the order they having. Fact, one of the highest Masonic
degrees is literally called knight templar degree. So let's have
a look at a few parallels. Templars were elite, hierarchical
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brotherhood with secret rituals, so were the Freemasons. Templars built
fortresses and chapels aligned with sacred geometry. Mason's emphasized architecture,
geometric knowledge, and mystical proportions. Templars were accused of worshiping befomit,
a symbol of esoteric dualism. Freemasonry teaches balance between opposites
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light and dark, male, female, Spiritual and material Templars were
financially independent of kings and popes. So were the modern
FEMA sonic lodges, many of which maintain financial and political autonomy.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
So is this a coincidence, Well, it might be both.
There's actually more.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
The free Masonic compass and square, the all C and I,
the G in the center of these symbols carried laid
meanings geometry, yes, but also no sis.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
God the great architects of the universe.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
Now, their God is not the God of the Bible,
the true God. But you understand that many different religions
or whatever groups refer to God, and it's not necessarily
the God of the Bible who has revealed himself.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
So this great sort of architect of the.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
Universe, it's an idea that bypasses traditional religious structures and
points towards a universal spirituality not bound by Church or crown.
So in that sense, freemasonry may represent the spiritual revenge
of the Templars, a way of preserving their ideas, rituals,
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and hidden knowledge outside the control of the Vatican. Some
researchers go even further, suggesting that freemasonry was a vehicle
through which Templar descendants reasserted control, not just over religious ideas,
but over political and financial systems.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
So consider this.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Many of the founding fathers of the United States, for example,
were Freemasons, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Paul Revere.
The layouts of Washington d c. Is filled with esoteric geometry,
including pentagrams and compass shapes, and the Great Seal of
the United States with the eye in the pyramid closer
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mirrors that imagery found in Masonic tracing boards and is
now printed on the back of the United States dollar bill.
So what are we looking at? Are we looking at
it and influenced ritual symbolism, or is it simply the
mark of a secret priesthood guiding civilizations from behind the scenes.
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Some claim the Freemasons, particularly those in the high degrees,
are part of a templar continuum, that they preserve the
banking knowledge, the rituals, and even the revenge motive of
the original order. If that's true, then the modern world order,
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from finance to government, from religion to revolution, may be
shaped by forces that date back to the Crusades and
by men who believe that they are the custodians of
ancient power. And let's not forget the Jesuits mentioned them
a lot on ear. The Rosa Crucions is another one,
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and other mysterious societies that intersect or overlap with Masonic tradition,
each with their own myths of templar influence and secret continuity.
And it's not hard to imagine that these groups, perhaps
rival factions of the same esoteric legacy, have been fighting
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ideological and financial wars behind the veil for centuries. So
where are the templars now? Did they dye in fire
and dust or did this shape shift into something far
more enduring? Did this simply vanish? Are they still pulling
the strings? Obviously not with swords and shields, but with
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credit rating, central banks and symbolic rituals whispered in the
halls of power. The sword became the pen, the cross
became the compass. The war for the soul of the
world it's not ending. So let's bring this full circle.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Today.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
We live in a world ruled not by kings or crusaders,
but by financial institutions. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank,
the Federal Reserve, the Bank of International Settlements, which is
actually called the Bank of Central Banks. These are unelected
entities and they operate with little or no public oversight,
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and yet their policies decide the fate of nations. Now
here's the question. Could the Templar banking system have been
the prototype, sort of a trial run for this global
network of control.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
Well, let's have a look at a few parallels.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
So the Templars created non physical money promissory notes or
early checks, and today we use digital currencies, wire transfers.
You know we've got these promissory notes, really, haven't we?
What we call money or cash and debt instruments. The
Templars were above national law, answeruble only to the pope.
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Today's global banks are protected by diplomatic immunity and legal shields.
The Templars operated a vast secretive network of vaults, fortresses,
and financial offices across continents. Does that sound familiar, Well,
(50:30):
let's dig a little bit into symbolic connections, sort of
ones hiding in plain sight. So take the architecture of
modern financial institutions. Many central banks feature columns, domes, triangular pediments,
and these are all reminiscent of Solomonic temples. Infremationary which
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claims spiritual lineags from the Templars Solomon's Temple is a
central motif. Then there's the use of esoteric symbols. The
eye in the triangle on the United States dollar bill.
It's not a templar symbol per se, but one associated
with secret societies like Freemasonry, which draw from templar law.
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There's the double headed eagle, adopted by thirty three degree Masons,
traces its lineages to the Byzantine and possibly Templar iconography.
And even the logo of the Bank of England, which
is actually the world's ald just central bank, features Britannia,
a goddess like figure with a shield and trident, reminiscent
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of syncretic deity worship. But beyond the aesthetics lies something
more insidious, the very mechanism of debt. Just as the
Templars provided credit to kings in exchange for collateral, usually
land or influence, modern banks provide loans to governments.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
That are backed by labor of the people.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
You are the collateral, now, your future taxes, your productivity,
your freedom, and it all lies back to the principle
of usury, the monetization of time. And I've talked about
time on here is the most precious commodity that you have,
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and they have monetized it because in exchange for your time,
they're paying your money. Now, what once was considered a
sin punishable by damnation is now actually the engine of
global capitalism.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (52:42):
Is the kicker on this The Catholic Church, which once
burned heretics for lending interest, now runs the Institute for
Works of Religion, better known as the Vatta Gun Bank,
and it's one of the most secretive banks in the world.
And many researchers argue that powerful banking families like the
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Rothschilds and the Rockefellers and others inherited or adopted financial
strategies once pioneered by the Templars, whether through free Masonic
connections or more clandestine networks, the legacy persists. In fact,
the Rothschild's coat of arms features five arrows representing the
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five Sons who establish banking houses across Europe, echoing the
Templar idea of distributed financial empire.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
So is it.
Speaker 3 (53:37):
Still worshiped well, certainly as a symbol of control over
opposites debt and credit, light and dark, visible and invisible.
It's very much alive. Modern banking, some argue, is befom it,
a god of balance and bondage, enlightenment and enslavement. The
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duality lives on in the promise of prosperity and the
chains of debt.
Speaker 2 (54:05):
So there we go, guys.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
Hopefully that has been interesting for you, and I would
encourage more research into these nights Templars. There were so
many facets to this. I wanted to go down this route,
obviously regarding more to do with the monetary side of things,
which is little known about the Templars, you know, because obviously.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
They are writ They were warriors.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
And obviously that's one of the things that people focus on,
how good they were at fighting, and they were good
at fighting, but they were also financiers, and obviously the
evidence seems to point that, you know, modern banking system
sort of comes from the Templars. So for next week,
I do have a guest book, So hopefully next week's episode.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
Will be an interview. That's what I do have planned.
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Obviously, sometimes things come up, whether and it's happened in
the past, my guest might have had to cancel, or
something's come up on my end, and it is difficult, guys,
to juggle this podcast with working and family life, and
you guys know the situation, so hopefully the interview next
week will be very interesting for you, and it'll be
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with a new guest who's never been on here before.
But as usual, guys, please do your own research. Don't
just take what I say or what anyone else says
that you hear online or wherever you hear it. Please
do your own research and I'll be back next week,
God willing, I'm Paul, and this is beyond the paradigm
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in here has sort of.
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Come up briefly in other episodes, But.
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I wanted to do sort of a standalone episode on
this topic. So, as you can see from the title,
we are going to be looking at the Knights template
and then looking into sort of their involvement or banking.
And what I wanted to say is that when I
try to do an episode, I always try to do
a topic that's relevant for today. And you might be
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thinking talking about the Knights templates, it might be interesting,
but is it relevant. Well, I think there is some
relevance for us today, and you'll see that as we
go on in this episode. So the Knights template or
the poor fellow soldiers of Christ and of the Temple
of Solomon. That was the sort of full title. Now,
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to many there were holy warriors, crusaders in shining armor,
sworn to protect Christian pilgrims on their journey to the
Holy Land. To others, there were shadowy financiers, occultist and
manipulators of power whose legacy laid the foundation for the
modern banking system and perhaps the hidden rulers of the world.
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So how did this order founded in piety and service
become one of the most powerful and feared institutions of
the medieval world. What role did they play in early banking.
And why were they accused of heresy, devil worship and
corruption by the church they were sworn to defend. Were
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these knights Templars merely escapegoats in a political takedown or
worthy indeed the architects of a secret global network, one
that may still persist to this day. So let's have
a little love at the origins and the rise of
these knights Templars. So basically, the story of the Knights
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Templar doesn't start with conspiracy or wealth. It starts with blood, fear,
and religious zeal. So in the early twelfth century, the
years eleven nineteen, Jerusalem has been captured by European crusaders
following the First Crusade, which had been called by Pope
(08:27):
Urban the second two decades earlier, and the brutal campaigns
spilled rivers of blood across the Holy Land in the
name of Christ. Now I'm just going to pause here.
They weren't Christian crusades. I want to make that absolutely clear.
They were Roman Catholic crusades. And as you guys who
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listen all the time, you know there's a big difference
between that and a Christian So they were Roman Catholic crusades,
and yeah, they might have been naming the name of Christ,
but these aren't followers of Christ. Now, despite this Catholic
control of Jerusalem, the journey there remained extremely dangerous. Muslim warlords,
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bandits and desert raiders still patrolled the routes that pilgrims used,
and thousands of men, women and children, poor and devout,
were murdered or enslaved on the road to the Holy City.
Now into this chaos stepped a small group of Knights,
nine men led by a French nobleman named Hugues de Payennes.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
They weren't looking for glory.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
They took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and they
called themselves, like I said, the poor fellow soldiers of
Christ of the Temple of Solomon eventually shortened to the
Knights Templar. And their mission was simple but bold, to
protect these pilgrims traveling to and from Jerusalem. But it
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wasn't just their mission that caught attention, it was their headquarters.
They were granted a base on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem,
which is the holiest of all sites for Jews. I say,
quote unquote Christians and Muslims alike. It's not a holy site.
It's just a site. There's nothing holly about it. The
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Temple Mount was believed to be the location of the
original Temple of Solomon, destroyed centuries earlier, and in Jewish tradition,
this was the place where the ark of the Covenant arrested.
In Christian eschatology, it was tied to prophecy, and in
Islamic belief it was the site where Mohammad ascended to heaven.
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So you can sort of see why it's an important
location because of what people believe about this place. Now,
by planting themselves in the heart of the ancient world,
the templars weren't just establishing the headquarters. They were tapping
into a power center believed to be both spiritually and symbolically,
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a power center now is where the deeper narrative begins.
The early templars spent years excavating beneath the Temple Mount,
and officially they were fortifying their base. Unofficially, they may
have been searching for something.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now. Some claim they were looking for the Holy Grail.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Others say they found ancient scrolls, pre Mosic wisdom, even
relics of Egypt and Babylon. But whether before fact, their
sudden rise to power after this period is striking and
it didn't go unnoticed. Now regarding the Knights Templar and
the study of them, this is where you could go
off in a direction and look into this business with
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a Templar, Solomon, Holy Grail, all these types of things.
There's a story there, But this episode today we're not
gonna sort of go off on that. I just wanted
to briefly mention it because it's relevant to building up
to who the Templars are and then going where we're
going with this episode. So the early Templars. In eleven
twenty nine, just a decade after they founding, the Templars
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were officially endorsed by the Catholic Church at the Council
of Trees.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And it's a big deal. So think about it.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
There were this small military order, barely a generation old,
but they had already won the support of Bernard of Clavore,
the most powerful abbot of the time and a man
considered the spiritual architect of the Second Crusade.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And it was.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Bernard who wrote the Founding Rule, a strict code of
conduct that fused the austerity of monasticism with the discipline
of knightly warfare. And this created a new archetype, a
monk warrior, humble yet deadly, poor in possession, but rich
in power. And here's where the tide turned. The templars
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were now answerable only to the pope. No king, no bishop,
no local ruler could interfere in their operations. They were
granted papal bulls that gave them sweeping privileges, the right
to collect tithes, the right to build their own churches,
the rights to cross borders unhindered. And that's the sort
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of power back then, because the world was in darkness
because there wasn't at that time, there hadn't been a Reformation.
People were bound up with popery. So the pope was
like the ultimate authority in the so called Christian world.
So that immunity, you know, building them out, being able
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to build their own churches, cross borders and all these
things on indan, that immunity made them incredibly useful and
incredibly dangerous. Now, donations began to pour in. Nobles donated
the land, castles, vineyards, even entire towns. Knights joined the
order with their armored horses and retainers. The Templars expanded rapidly,
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from Jerusalem to Spain, from Portugal to England, from Hungary
to Armenia. Within a century they had established a network
of preseptories or commanderers, essentially templar embassies across all Christendom.
They built fortresses that were state of the art for
the time. In fact, some of their fortifications in Syria
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and Palestine still stand today. And unlike most monastic orders,
which remained cloistered and poor, the Templars were mobile, armed,
and international. They were one of the first truly global
institutions in a fragmented feudal world. In nearly every major crusade,
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they built roads, ports and supply chains. They transported armies, horses,
and grain. They had their own fleet of ships, independent
of any kingdom or merchant class. But, perhaps most importantly,
and the least understood about them, the Templars became trusted
stewards of wealth. Nobles and monarchs who went on a
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crusade often deposited their estates with the Templars. The order
would manage the land, collect rents, pay taxes, and even
invest the proceeds, all while the original owner was away.
Over time, they began offering loans, collecting debts, and handling
international transfers. If you were a king planning a war
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and you didn't want your enemies to know, you could
use the Templars as your bankers and your arms dealers.
And this wasn't just military mite anymore. This was economic warfare.
Now here's the twist. They were doing all of this
without breaking canon law, well at least on the surface anyway.
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The Church forbade its followers from engaging in usury, which
is obviously charging interest on loans. Yet the Templars had
developed clever legal fictions to get around it. They charged
fees for safeguarding deposits or penalties for late repayment. In reality,
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they were doing everything a modern bank does, but without
calling it by name. And so within a century and
a half of their humble beginnings, the Templars were no
longer just warrior monks. They were landowners, diplomats, financiers, and
power brokers. By the mid thirteenth century, they held vast
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estates in nearly every European kingdom. They had treasuries rivaling
that of the pope, and they were exclusive bankers to
monarchs such as King Lewis the nine of France and
King Henry the third of England. But with power came suspicion,
because now the poor Knights of Christ were no longer poor.
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They were rich beyond imagination and almost untouchable. And any
institution that becomes too powerful, especially one that claims to
acting God's name, eventually attracts enemies. So the question wasn't
if they would fall, it was when. So briefly just
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going to look at the fall. It's not something we're
going to focus on. You can go and do your
own research regarding this, but this is just a brief
outline about sort of why and how they felt.
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So because they were growing in power and wealth.
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By the thirteenth century, the Templars owned vast estates across Europe,
and they operated a banking system and even lent money
to monarchs, including King Philip fourth of France. Their independence,
the secrecy and immense resources called suspicion and envy.
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They had a loss of purpose after the Crusades.
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With the fall of Acra in twelve ninety one, the
last Crusader a stronghold in the Holy Land, the Templars
had no more military role. Critics then began to question
why the orders still existed. King Philippe the Fourth's financial troubles.
He was deeply in debt to the templars after the
wars with England. Now rather than repay them, he chose
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to eliminate them and seize their wealth. And there was
a mass arrest. On Friday the thirteenth October thirteen oh seven,
Philip ordered the sudden arrest of all templars in France
on charges of heresy, idolatry, corruption and sexual misconduct. And
this is where the superstition around this Friday the thirteenth originates.
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And obviously they're being charged with heresy, and that's anything
in their wrong. Catholic Church doesn't teach corruption. Now sexual misconduct,
they was said to be sodomizing each other and all
these things. And under torture, many of these templars confessed
to bizarre charges like spitting on the cross, worship in
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this mysterious head. Sometimes they called buffomeit and like I said,
engaged in ritualized or homoerotic acts. Now, Pope Clement the Fifth,
under pressure from Philippe, ordered all Christian monarchs Catholic monarchs,
to arrest Templars and seize their assets, and the Pope
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dissolved the order in thirteen twelve, citing scandal rather than
proven guilt. Now, the last grand Master was a guy
called Jacques de la Molaire, and he was burned at
the stake in thirteen fourteen after retracting his confession, and
according to legend, he curse both Philip the fourth and
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Clement the fifth, who both died within a year. And
obviously that's just a legend. I don't know whether there's
any truth in it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Now.
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What happened to the Templar wealth, Well, apparently much of
it was seized by the French crown and some Templar
assets were transferred to the Knights of Saint John. But
legends obviously persist of hidden Templar treasures, which is something
you can look into, and obviously these fuel conspiracy theories
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regarding these hidden treasures. So let's have a look at
the birth of templar banking. So we'll take a closer
look at our Knights. Templar went from holy warriors to
the world's first international bankers. So we often think of
the Middle Ages as a time of swords, Saint Serfdom
and while that's true in part, the templars were already
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thinking in terms.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Of global infrastructure.
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The Crusades began drawing tens of thousands of pilgrims and
soldiers to the Holy Land. A logistical nightmare unfolded. How
could a knight, a noble, or even a peasant pilgrim
travel with large sums of gold, silver, or voluables across
thousands of miles of dangerous bandit ridden terrain well enter
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the templars. Their solution was nothing short of revolutionary. A
pilgrim could deposit funds at a temple preceptory, let's say,
for example, in Paris, and they received a corded letter
of credit known in Latin as credentia when they arrived
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in Jerusalem or Acre, and they could present this document
to another templar house and withdraw funds in local currency, minus,
of course, a small handling fee.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Now does that.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Sound familiar, Well, obviously it should do, because this was
the prototype of modern banking centuries before the invention of
checks or cash machines.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
But it went further.
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The templars didn't just move money. They stored wealth, They
managed the states, and they offered loans entire noble families
trusted the Templars more than their own kings. And because
the Templars had fortresses, garrisons, and networks throughout Europe and
the Levant, their banking services were protected by force and fear.
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Now that's in reality what a bank is, isn't it.
Well it was originally it was somewhere where your wealth
could be stored safely. So they would have been stored
like this. They said, you know, they were in fortresses
and garrisons. No one's going to rob them because they
were protected by the Templars. And that's why people trusted them.
And that's why people trust banks, don't they because they
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think the money's safe in a bank. And like I've
said on the ear before, your money, if it's in
a bank, it actually doesn't belong to you. Now imagine this.
A king loses his war chest in a failed campaign,
he doesn't trust his nobles, the local church is broke,
but the Templars, with their iron vaults and international reach,
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offer him alone. In time, many European monarchs were deeply
indebted to the order, and like modern banks, the Templars
learned that debt was leverage. It bought them land influence protection. Now,
one little known fact about the Templars is that they
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lightly invented a form of fractional reserve banking, just as
modern banks lend out more money than they actually hold.
So for example, you deposit one thousand pounds, the bank
only has to hold ten percent of reserve. So that's
why if eleven percent of the people in a particular
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country want their physical cash out of the bank, the
bank would crash because they only hold ten percent in reserve,
so eleven percent. Obviously the one percent who go after
the ten percent of people have already been they can't
get the money along with the other eighty nine percent
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after them, So ninety percent of people will never be
able to get the money out of the bank if
there's a run on the bank. And this is what
the Templars did. They began to issue notes and lawns
far exceeding their physical holding. So obviously it was back
by gold, wasn't it that originally currencies.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Were backed by gold. So they gave.
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These notes to these pilgrims or whoever stored the gold
silver there, and it was in direct relation to how
much gold silver they adding the vaults. But obviously like
modern banks. They then started to issue these notes for
more than what they physically held in the vaults because
they knew most depositors would never demand all of the
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money at once, so they knew people weren't just going
to rock up all at once and say I want
all my money out now. And this is actually crucial
because they weren't just storing wealth, they were creating liquidity.
They understood money as trust, not just sort of metal.
And this is where the story starts to cross over
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into territory. The church, the Roman Catholic Church wasn't ready
to accept because of the heart of all of it,
the fees that notes the loans was the thing forbidden
by canon law. Usury in medieval Europe, usury wasn't just
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frowned upon, it was considered a mortal sin. So quickly,
let's look at why. So we're gonna go to the Bible, obviously,
so Exodus twenty two, verse twenty five says, if thou
lend money to any of my people that is poored
by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer.
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Neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Due Geronomy chapter
twenty three verse nineteen, Thou shalt not lend upon usury
to thy brother, usury of money, usury of victuals, usually
of anything that is lent upon usury. And this one
from Psalm fifteen, verse five, which shows you the positive
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of not life ending upon usury. So it says he
that puts th not out his money to usually no
take of reward against the innocent. He that doeth these
things shall never be moved. So the Catholic Church at
the time taught that Chargian interest on a loan was
unnatural and exploitative. And why well, because money, in the
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Catholic Church's eyes was a sterile object. It didn't breed,
it didn't multiply on its own. Earning profit from time
was seen as stealing from God, who alone governs time.
Thomas Aquinas one of the greatest theologians of the age.
He wrote that usually was a sin against justice. Even
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the Council of Nicia all the way back to thirteen
twenty five AD, had condemned the practice. So how did
the templars get away with it? Well, they didn't call
it interest, or usually they called it fees, handing, fees, penalties,
exchange rates, or transportation costs, but in practice these fees
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often amounted to the same thing as interest.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
So let's be clear.
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The templars weren't the only ones engaging in this behavior,
but they were the most visible, the most powerful, and
the most protected. And what I would say is that
during my research, most articles that are read and were
saying that the templars did practice us of it. But
there was one article that came across that said that
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they didn't. So obviously I've gone with the majority because
that's what seems to be the sort of general consensus.
Now that doesn't mean it's true, but I'm just using
this research and the majority of saying that the Templars
lean on userate. And I've even had a guest on
here who's well versed in sort of this type of
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thing and the Roman Catholic Church, and he said the
same thing that they were lending, you know, interest. So
the close relationship with the paperses shielded them from scruting it,
and in many cases popes even granted them exemptions from
local laws. They were even considered soldiers of Christ, which
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gave them this special dispensation legally and spiritually. Now as
they amassed more wealth and power. Criticism began to grow.
Some monks and feologians warned that the templars had become
money changes in the temple. Literally, the irony wasn't lost
on the observers. The templars were headquartered on the Temple Mount,
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where Jesus himself was said to have overturned the tables
of corrupt merchants. Now think of the symbolism. A group
named after Solomon's Temple, founded in poverty, was now acting
as an elite financial order, trading favors and for across Christendom,
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charging fees, collecting debts, and controlling kings. And remember this,
unlike the modern age were central banks issue fiat currency.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, gold and silver were
actually money, so there was the money at the time.
These notes that the issue. These were just to tell
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you know, if you deposited in the Temple in London
and then when you reach Jerusalem you had this note
from the Temple in London. It said you add sixty
gold coins, and you said, can I take out twenty
gold coins?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
They would give you.
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That, because that's what's said to be held back in London. Now,
if you held gold, you controlled the world, and Templars
held a lot of gold because there's intrinsic value in
gold and silver. There's no intrinsic value in these notes
that we all get now, which we call money, none
at all. Basically, if it's just accepted as being currency
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in your country, fine, But if I go abroad with
my pounds, I have to exchange them. There's an exchange rate.
But one ounce of gold or one ounce of silver
is one ounce of gold or silver in any country
on earth. Fact simple as that. So now let's ask
some hard questions. Was their banking practice a necessary innovation.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Or was it a spiritual betrayal?
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Was it, you know, against the Bible and the teachings
of the Roman Catholic Church, which basically they go against
the Bible, don't they anyway? Now, some contemporary critics, especially
monastics orders like the Cistercians, accused the Templars.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Of materialism and greed.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
They lived in fortified monasteries, dine well will fine tunics
under their armor. The poor knights were now banking arts
in chain mail. Others claimed that the secret initiation rights,
an internal code of silence, masked the corruption and the heresy,
and that the banking was just a front for something darker.
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And the conspiracy theory here is that the Templars had
unlocked a code, not just financial, but spiritual, one that
allowed them to manipulate the world without wielding armies. Now
think about it, the true power of a banker is
not to own the crown, but to own the debt
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of the crown. So the Templars didn't need to conquer Europe,
they just needed to lend to it. And the elite
of today they've learned that lesson as well. The sin
of usury was once a capital crime, and it's now
the foundation of modern economy. It's what keeps you in debt.
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It's why your house costs three times its value over
thirty years. It's why your government borrows from private banks
instead of minting its own currency. And if we trace
it back, the fingerprints lead us to the Knights Templar,
because they understood the game before anybody else. So we
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talked a little bit about the fall of the Templars,
just going to sort of look at this persecution and
how it didn't come out of norword.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
It was calculated.
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King Philip of France was nearly bankrupt after fighting wars
and lavish spending, and his biggest creditor, obviously was the
Knights Templar. And in a bold move that would forever
change the course of history, Philip collaborated with port Clement
the Fifth, like I said, whom he controlled. Philip controlled
this paupe apparently according to sources, and obviously it was
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all toed destroyed the order. They collaborated together to destroy
this order, and on Friday the thirteenth, October thirteen oh seven,
Friday the thirteenth, Remember that that's where the superstition regarding
Friday the thirteenth comes from. This secret warrant was executed.
Hundreds of Templars were arrested simultaneously across France, charged with
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all kinds of things that were really shocking and deeply symbolic,
heresied devil worships, sodomy, idolatry, but most intriguing of all,
and this is where we're going with this segment, the
worship of a mysterious idol name before it now the
name before It appears in the confessions of several Nights,
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though it's unclear that it was a real entity or
a mistranslation or an actual invention. Of the inquisitors. Some
scholars suggest before it was a corruption of muhammet an
attempt to associate the Templars with Islam. Others believe it
was coded reference to a gnostic or alchemical secret. But
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in the nineteenth century, a cultist Eliaphas Levi gave before
it its now infamous visual form, a goat headed figure,
part human, part beast with wings, a torch between its horns,
and a caduceus on its lap. One arm pointed up,
the other pointed down, symbolizing as above so below. This
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became the archetype of duality masculine, feminine, good, evil, matter, spirit.
And it's important to understand that a life as Levi
didn't invent before it as a devil. He presented it
as a symbol of esoteric balance, the reconciliation of opposites.
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But over time the image was adopted by Satanic group
like the Church of Satan and became conflated with the
devil himself. Now, how does this tie in with the Templars.
Some researchers argue that the Templars had inherited pre Christian
gnostic wisdom, perhaps even remnants of Babylonian or Egyptian mystery religions.
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The Temple mount where they were headquartered, had layers of
ancient history, and they may have uncovered artifacts or scriptures
that revealed alternate spiritual truths, truths that challenged the Church's
monopoly on salvation. Obviously, these are theories. This is word
before it as a symbol of hidden or suppressed knowledge,
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becomes so potent it represents the arcane the things that
the Church wanted to bury. Quite literally, could the Templars
have revered before it not as a deity, but as
a soonification of enlightenment accord, perhaps alchemical or financial knowledge
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that granted them power over kings. Perhaps now he is
a bit of a wild theory. The Templars weren't heretics
in the way that the Roman Catholic Church claimed them
to be, but they were actually threats, threats because they
had broken free from the Church's spiritual and economic control,
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which brings us to a modern twist. But from its
image duality, secrecy hidden power has been absorbed into an
occult elite symbolism that many conspiracy researchers argue is woven
into global finance and governance. And you see it, don't
yet in law, goals, the rituals, even the architecture of
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certain institutions, the goat of Mendes, the eye in the pyramid,
the checkerboard floors. These aren't just esthetic choices to the initiated,
or so it's claimed, they represent hidden dominion over the
material world and worries that dominion most clearly expressed. Well,
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it's through the control of money. So what happened to
the Templars after the arrest and the trials and the
burning of Grandmaster Jacques de Malay. Well, officially, the order
was dissolved in thirteen twelve by Porte Clement the fifth
under immense pressure from King Philip the Fourth of France,
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the very man who owned them money, and he orchestrated
their downfall, and many Templar leaders were tortured and executed,
and their assets were supposedly transferred, while some of it
anyway to the Knights of Saint John. But as with
so many official stories, that's obviously only part of the truth.
The Templar network didn't vanish overnight. The fortresses across Europe
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were not easily dismantled. There are archives lightly containing banking records,
esoteric texts, and intelligence. They were never found, and perhaps
the most curious is that their ships disappeared from lar Rochelle,
the key templar port on the western coast of France,
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never to be seen again. Now, I didn't know when
I was in lar Rochale that it was linked to
Key Templar. It was like a key templar port. I
was there a couple of years ago, So it was
only during this research that this came up. So I've
actually been to lar Rochelle, this apparently key templar port.
So these ships they disappeared from there, never to be
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seen again, and we've got to ask ourselves, word did
they actually go? Now, some of these Templars were said
to flee to Portugal, were King Dennis Simple rebranded the
Order under a new name, the Order of Christ, preserving
their infrastructure and wealth under a different banner. Others say
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that they took refuge in Switzerland, helping them to form
the foundation of what would become the Swiss banking system,
complete with neutral status and secrecy laws. But the most
persistent and perhaps the most provocative legend is that they
fled to Scotland, and at the time Scotland was excommunicated
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by the Catholic Church. Robert the Bruce had murdered his
rival in a church and seized the Scottish throne. And
he had no allegiance to Roam whatsoever. And he was
obviously enemies with France and England, and he had every
reason to welcome hard unwarrior monks with experience, money and
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grudge against the Pope. According to Scottish legend, the Templars
were not just given refuse huge they actually fought alongside
Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannetburn in thirteen fourteen,
and the Battle of Bannetburn is a famous Scottish victory
over England. Obviously, ultimately Scotland was subjugated by England, like
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the rest of the island was the rest of the
UK was subjugated by England. But this was a great
victory for the Scottish over the English in this particular battle,
and some accounts claimed that the mysterious cavalry charge in
the final moments of the battle, one that actually turned
the tide of this battle in Scotland's favor, was actually
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led by knights Templars and their red crosses still emblazoned
on their white coats, which is interesting because the actual
flag of England, for those of you that think that
the flag of England is the Union Jack, that's not
the flag of England, that's the United Kingdom's Union flag.
The flag of England is just a red cross on
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a white background, which is what the Templars basically had,
didn't They They had white tunics with a red cross.
So apparently you had these templars charging it the English
with these red crosses emblazoned on their white tunics. Now,
whether that's a historical fact or a nationalist myth in Scotland,
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the stories fueled the idea that the Templars didn't die out,
that they actually went underground, they adapted, they were hiding,
and eventually they resurfaced in a new form. And this
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now brings us on to Freemasonry. So let's jump forward
to the late sixteen hundreds and early seventeen hundreds, the
Enlightenment era. All across Europe, secret societies began to emerge,
and the most prominent among them was Freemasonry, which claimed
to descend not from Crusaders but from Stonemasons, the builders
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of cathedrals and temples, particularly Solomon's Temple. But if you
scratch the surface, you'll find the fingerprints of the Knight's
Templar everywhere. Freemasonry is steeped in rituals, degrees, and symbols
that many researchers argue were inherited or they were at
least inspired by templar traditions. High degrees, such as those
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in the Scottish Rite or the York Right, specifically referenced
the Knight's Templar, often portraying initiates as spiritual successors to
the order they having. Fact, one of the highest Masonic
degrees is literally called knight templar degree. So let's have
a look at a few parallels. Templars were elite, hierarchical
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brotherhood with secret rituals, so were the Freemasons. Templars built
fortresses and chapels aligned with sacred geometry. Mason's emphasized architecture,
geometric knowledge, and mystical proportions. Templars were accused of worshiping befomit,
a symbol of esoteric dualism. Freemasonry teaches balance between opposites
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light and dark, male, female, Spiritual and material Templars were
financially independent of kings and popes. So were the modern
FEMA sonic lodges, many of which maintain financial and political autonomy.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
So is this a coincidence, Well, it might be both.
There's actually more.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
The free Masonic compass and square, the all C and I,
the G in the center of these symbols carried laid
meanings geometry, yes, but also no sis.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
God the great architects of the universe.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
Now, their God is not the God of the Bible,
the true God. But you understand that many different religions
or whatever groups refer to God, and it's not necessarily
the God of the Bible who has revealed himself.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
So this great sort of architect of the.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
Universe, it's an idea that bypasses traditional religious structures and
points towards a universal spirituality not bound by Church or crown.
So in that sense, freemasonry may represent the spiritual revenge
of the Templars, a way of preserving their ideas, rituals,
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and hidden knowledge outside the control of the Vatican. Some
researchers go even further, suggesting that freemasonry was a vehicle
through which Templar descendants reasserted control, not just over religious ideas,
but over political and financial systems.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
So consider this.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Many of the founding fathers of the United States, for example,
were Freemasons, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Paul Revere.
The layouts of Washington d c. Is filled with esoteric geometry,
including pentagrams and compass shapes, and the Great Seal of
the United States with the eye in the pyramid closer
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mirrors that imagery found in Masonic tracing boards and is
now printed on the back of the United States dollar bill.
So what are we looking at? Are we looking at
it and influenced ritual symbolism, or is it simply the
mark of a secret priesthood guiding civilizations from behind the scenes.
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Some claim the Freemasons, particularly those in the high degrees,
are part of a templar continuum, that they preserve the
banking knowledge, the rituals, and even the revenge motive of
the original order. If that's true, then the modern world order,
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from finance to government, from religion to revolution, may be
shaped by forces that date back to the Crusades and
by men who believe that they are the custodians of
ancient power. And let's not forget the Jesuits mentioned them
a lot on ear. The Rosa Crucions is another one,
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and other mysterious societies that intersect or overlap with Masonic tradition,
each with their own myths of templar influence and secret continuity.
And it's not hard to imagine that these groups, perhaps
rival factions of the same esoteric legacy, have been fighting
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ideological and financial wars behind the veil for centuries. So
where are the templars now? Did they dye in fire
and dust or did this shape shift into something far
more enduring? Did this simply vanish? Are they still pulling
the strings? Obviously not with swords and shields, but with
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credit rating, central banks and symbolic rituals whispered in the
halls of power. The sword became the pen, the cross
became the compass. The war for the soul of the
world it's not ending. So let's bring this full circle.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Today.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
We live in a world ruled not by kings or crusaders,
but by financial institutions. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank,
the Federal Reserve, the Bank of International Settlements, which is
actually called the Bank of Central Banks. These are unelected
entities and they operate with little or no public oversight,
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and yet their policies decide the fate of nations. Now
here's the question. Could the Templar banking system have been
the prototype, sort of a trial run for this global
network of control.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
Well, let's have a look at a few parallels.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
So the Templars created non physical money promissory notes or
early checks, and today we use digital currencies, wire transfers.
You know we've got these promissory notes, really, haven't we?
What we call money or cash and debt instruments. The
Templars were above national law, answeruble only to the pope.
(50:09):
Today's global banks are protected by diplomatic immunity and legal shields.
The Templars operated a vast secretive network of vaults, fortresses,
and financial offices across continents. Does that sound familiar, Well,
(50:30):
let's dig a little bit into symbolic connections, sort of
ones hiding in plain sight. So take the architecture of
modern financial institutions. Many central banks feature columns, domes, triangular pediments,
and these are all reminiscent of Solomonic temples. Infremationary which
(50:52):
claims spiritual lineags from the Templars Solomon's Temple is a
central motif. Then there's the use of esoteric symbols. The
eye in the triangle on the United States dollar bill.
It's not a templar symbol per se, but one associated
with secret societies like Freemasonry, which draw from templar law.
(51:18):
There's the double headed eagle, adopted by thirty three degree Masons,
traces its lineages to the Byzantine and possibly Templar iconography.
And even the logo of the Bank of England, which
is actually the world's ald just central bank, features Britannia,
a goddess like figure with a shield and trident, reminiscent
(51:41):
of syncretic deity worship. But beyond the aesthetics lies something
more insidious, the very mechanism of debt. Just as the
Templars provided credit to kings in exchange for collateral, usually
land or influence, modern banks provide loans to governments.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
That are backed by labor of the people.
Speaker 3 (52:05):
You are the collateral, now, your future taxes, your productivity,
your freedom, and it all lies back to the principle
of usury, the monetization of time. And I've talked about
time on here is the most precious commodity that you have,
(52:26):
and they have monetized it because in exchange for your time,
they're paying your money. Now, what once was considered a
sin punishable by damnation is now actually the engine of
global capitalism.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (52:42):
Is the kicker on this The Catholic Church, which once
burned heretics for lending interest, now runs the Institute for
Works of Religion, better known as the Vatta Gun Bank,
and it's one of the most secretive banks in the world.
And many researchers argue that powerful banking families like the
(53:04):
Rothschilds and the Rockefellers and others inherited or adopted financial
strategies once pioneered by the Templars, whether through free Masonic
connections or more clandestine networks, the legacy persists. In fact,
the Rothschild's coat of arms features five arrows representing the
(53:26):
five Sons who establish banking houses across Europe, echoing the
Templar idea of distributed financial empire.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
So is it.
Speaker 3 (53:37):
Still worshiped well, certainly as a symbol of control over
opposites debt and credit, light and dark, visible and invisible.
It's very much alive. Modern banking, some argue, is befom it,
a god of balance and bondage, enlightenment and enslavement. The
(53:58):
duality lives on in the promise of prosperity and the
chains of debt.
Speaker 2 (54:05):
So there we go, guys.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
Hopefully that has been interesting for you, and I would
encourage more research into these nights Templars. There were so
many facets to this. I wanted to go down this route,
obviously regarding more to do with the monetary side of things,
which is little known about the Templars, you know, because obviously.
Speaker 2 (54:23):
They are writ They were warriors.
Speaker 3 (54:25):
And obviously that's one of the things that people focus on,
how good they were at fighting, and they were good
at fighting, but they were also financiers, and obviously the
evidence seems to point that, you know, modern banking system
sort of comes from the Templars. So for next week,
I do have a guest book, So hopefully next week's episode.
Speaker 2 (54:49):
Will be an interview. That's what I do have planned.
Speaker 3 (54:52):
Obviously, sometimes things come up, whether and it's happened in
the past, my guest might have had to cancel, or
something's come up on my end, and it is difficult, guys,
to juggle this podcast with working and family life, and
you guys know the situation, so hopefully the interview next
week will be very interesting for you, and it'll be
(55:14):
with a new guest who's never been on here before.
But as usual, guys, please do your own research. Don't
just take what I say or what anyone else says
that you hear online or wherever you hear it. Please
do your own research and I'll be back next week,
God willing, I'm Paul, and this is beyond the paradigm
(55:37):
my crazy.
Speaker 2 (55:39):
We don't use that word in here.
Speaker 3 (56:18):
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