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Medieval times seen a huge dependence on the church and one form to keep knights from ransacking every village and doing unspeakable deeds were monks and people of the clergy gathering many bones, more notably skulls, of deceased clergymen and forcing them to heed their teachings of peace and righteousness...

The Knights Templar were an order created by the Pope to serve as body guards of many traveling monks and Christian pilgrims from which they'd formed there own sort of order that stemmed into a sort of mercantile type fortuitous virtue...The Knights Templar formed the backbone of what eventually became the banking system in medieval Europe...

Since the monks themselves were sworn to poverty, but had the strength of a large and trusted international infrastructure behind them, nobles would occasionally use them as a kind of bank or power of attorney. If a noble wished to join the Crusades, this might entail an absence of years from their home. So some nobles would place all of their wealth and businesses under the control of Templars, to safeguard it for them until their return. The Order's financial power became substantial, and the majority of the Order's infrastructure was devoted not to combat, but to economic pursuits.

By 1150, the Order's original mission of guarding pilgrims had changed into a mission of guarding their valuables through an innovative way of issuing letters of credit, an early precursor of modern banking. Pilgrims would visit a Templar house in their home country, depositing their deeds and valuables. The Templars would then give them a letter which would describe their holdings. Modern scholars have stated that the letters were encrypted with a cipher alphabet based on a Maltese Cross; however there is some disagreement on this, and it is possible that the code system was introduced later, and not something used by the medieval Templars themselves. While traveling, the pilgrims could present the letter to other Templars along the way, to "withdraw" funds from their account. This kept the pilgrims safe since they were not carrying valuables, and further increased the power of the Templars. wiki

You'd like to read "The Da Vinci Code"...

I've seen the movie and have not yet read the book but from what I hear the book is way better than the movie...

The Da Vinci Code is a controversial mystery/detective novel by US author Dan Brown, published in 2003 by Doubleday. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon as he investigates a murder in the Louvre, and discovers a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to and fathering children with Mary Magdalene. Wiki

Good read and subject jimbo. Thanks. This thread deserves 5 stars at the least.:):):)

Jimbo, when I was 6 I had my own business. A Kool Ade stand on the corner of 29th & Hampshire. Its all about location in the food service industry and brother let me tell you I had location.

I had it all. Construction workers, the fire dept., babysitters.

The world was my oyster.

Listen I have a project so let me get back to you on this. I really think you're going to love my point here.

It was King Phillip IV who accused the Knights Templar of being blasphemes upon his developing a debt with the Knights Templar...It's widely accepted that King Phillip IV brought about these charges because of this debt as well as to heighten his support to go to war with the Flemish among others...His intentions being to disband them...He succeeded...From what I've read there's alot of controversy related to the Knights Templar...

Sorry sometimes I confuse the Knights Templar with the Teutonic Order and other mercenary Knights...

jimbo;969820 wrote: thanks for the reply k.snyder



the programme i watched on tv made the knights templar look almost like saints ,who were tortured and forced to confess to being heritics by the french king as he owed them loads of cash and the pope went along with it



the last few things i have read are most disturbing i wont post them on fg as they will start the mother of all holy wars here





i will keep reading then IF anyone talks about the free masons and the knights templar i will be able to join in a well balanced meaningfull discussion as always


Certainly the overthrow of the KT was a put up job and nothing to do with heresy. They were the bankers of Europe and both the French king and the Pope own them loads (IIRC this was at the time of the Avignon Popes and the two were closely related).

It was rumoured, however, that the KT top brass were tipped off and escaped with much of the cash.

There is a KT meeting place in the town next to our old house and the layout and style appear very Mithraic - maybe they incorporated the Mysteries into their rites although their beliefs do appear to have been straight Christian.

top post jimbo

jimbo;969854 wrote: thanks hoppy



the tv programme was riviting ,or at least i thought so ,suzy and the kids were not so rivited to put it mildly :wah:



but the deeper you dig the more facts you can find about everything ,what a mind warping subject :-3


Wait until you get into the Jesus and Mary Magdalene bit more extensively...It'll give you a whole new perspective...

el guapo;969856 wrote: top post jimbo


Hi Jess - long time no see.

Hope things are well with you? :-6

jimbo;969863 wrote: that was one of the things i read that i thought was a good idea not to post about but now you have started carry on my friend :sneaky::sneaky::-6


The board's not ready to know what I think...:sneaky::sneaky:...:wah:

jimbo;969883 wrote: brilliant :wah::wah: who will dig the dirt buddy you just know someone will ,then run for cover :wah:


*Peaks head out of hole*...Did you say something?...

jimbo;969783 wrote: i watched a tv programme about them



what ar your thoughts on them what was the treasure they found at the holy city



did they really worship john the baptists head



did the pope pay them to keep quite about the blood line of jesus



what was the holy grail





i want answers now get to it people





stop the fluff i want facts damn it



jimbo slams hand on table



jimbo winces and cleans up spilled coffee :-5


Well I've had a look round roslin chapel and didn't find anything. As tio the rumours of strange initiations and rituals torture anyone and they will tell you what they wat to hear.The Knights Hospitaller- are worth a look as well even if they did back the english in the scots/english wars of independence. They stuck around to save europe from the dastardly turks

It is to early in the morning for me to get serious. I must point out the size of Mary's hands. This women had some very large hands.

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this is a very interesting thread JImbo..i read alot of this when the davinci code came out..i cant remember where..in the bible this is written and in no way paraphrasing..its out of a shotty memory..i am pretty sure Ted would know.in one part of the bible Jesus arrives in a town..and Mary magdalene greets him publically..in that time frame from what i have read only a man's wife had the privelege of doing that..

jimbo;970652 wrote: was the saint aka simon templar a secret free mason








Don't know about that but did you ever make sense of twin peaks?

Then there's pan's people dancing to the good the bad and the ugly.

Curse you jimbo your tangential asides are very distracting. I've just spent the last half hour exploring all the themes.

The bible as we know it is basically an edited version of the original chosen by a bunch of power seeking misogynist churchmen. I've always thought the real story was potentially more gripping than the fantasy. Course that viewpoint gets me in a lot of trouble and not so long ago burned for being a heretic.

Looks like you had one of their preceptories close to where you live.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7050713.stm

[QUOTE]This is a story. In the Middle Ages there was a secretive organisation called the Knights Templar. They were disbanded with many killed on the orders of the Pope because they knew the secret that Jesus had had a child with Mary Magdalene. Despite the killing of the order's members, societies carry on its legacy of hidden knowledge today.

There's a problem with this version of events, part-inspired by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and other earlier authors.

It's cobblers. [/QUOTE]

jimbo;971552 wrote: i felt the simon templar point was relevant to the knight templar thread and considering he was called the saint



now i wonder if roger moore was a free mason :wah::wah:


no

he was fetched up as a orphan where he was named after a saint

he called him self simon templer

did i say its jims bday on the 4th of sep

In 500 years it may very well be people will be trying to decipher our mysteries....

Nomad;971579 wrote: In 500 years it may very well be people will be trying to decipher our mysteries....






whats that got to do with jims b-day

I've always been interested in this subject Jimbo. I've read loads of books and watched numerous documentaries and seen most of the films....fictional....



Everyone has a different opinion depending on their 'leaning' .....political, religious, scientitific, historical.. I find it all interesting but have never been desperate to come to any conclusions.



On the Mary Magdalene thing.....very interesting too. Been several documentaries about her recently.....so much speculation. GOOD THREAD....



xxxx

el guapo;971582 wrote: whats that got to do with jims b-day


Whats Jimbos b day got to do with Knights Templar ?

Nomad;971605 wrote: Whats Jimbos b day got to do with Knights Templar ?


so ya say there IS a link to jims b day