| Does TV-,
radio channels and newspapers really inform "everything"
what happens on our Earth? Could it be so that there is some few
key persons who deside what is going to come to cognizance for the
general publics "good"?
Did you "knew"
anything of all the information on this site? Of course I don't
stand for cramming (reading for remembering a lot of information
which already exist in the reference books, but a part of the information
which is on this homepage don't exist in reference books as in the
now completed Swedish Nationalencyclopedian about the Bilderberg
Group), but for the curiousity of why the society is as it is today.
Must politics, religion, culture and all else, which influence our
existence, be as it is today? Is there any possibility to alternation
bearing in mind that allmost everything, for instance in politics,
are repeating?
The answers to this kind
of questions could only you reply to after that you begin to take
your responsibility for your thoughts, emotions and actions. Together
we could do something valuable. As the life seems to be today have
most people handed over their responsibility to some authorities
as parents, foremen, governments, politician and/ or even/ "simply"
God to solve our problems!
We can gradually change our
life if we "just" first begin to observe ourselves how
we are thinking, feeling and acting towards our selves and others.
Unfortunately we forget our selves and thus our responsibility.
It demands simply a new way to see/ perceive oneself.
The Masonery
An Order founded in 1118
by 9 knights to protect the pelgrims. The Templars
disapeared in 1314 when the last Grandmaster was burned said the
ofiicial sources, but we all know that the masons didn't disepepair,
they just split into more secret orders... Masonery, Freemasonery
... later: Rose Croce, Malta's Ridders, Iluminatti, Skulls &
Bones, etc.
Grand masters on that
period of time:
1. Hugues de Payens 1118 -
1136
2. Robert de Craon 1136 -
1146
3. Everard des Barres 1146
- 1149
4. Bernard de Tremalai 1149-1153
5. Andrew de Montbard 1153
- 1156
6. Bertrand de Blanchefort
1156 - 1169
7. Philip de Milly 1169 -
1170
8. Odo de St. Amand 1170 -
1179
9. Arnold de Torroge 1179
- 1185
10. Gerard de Ridefort 1185
- 1189
11. Robert de Sable 1190-
1193
12. Gilbert Erail 1193 - 1201
13. Philip de le Plaissez
1201 - 1208
14. William de Chartres 1208
- 1218
15. Peter de Montaigue 1218
- 1230
16. Armand de Perigord 1230
-1245
17. William de Sonnac 1245
- 1250
18. Reynald de Vichiers 1250
- 1256
19. Thomas Berard 1256 - 1272
20. William de Beaujeau 1272
- 1291
21. Tibald Gaudin 1291 - 1295
22. Jacques de Molay 1295
- 1314
Their name alludes to their historical headquarters in the Mosque
of Omar (a.k.a. "Dome of the Rock") on the Temple Mount
in Jerusalem, which they renamed Templum Domini. Represented on
one of their seals, the structure was believed to be a remnant of
the Temple of Jerusalem, and was the model for many Templar churches
in Europe, such as the Temple Church in London.
The Knights' involvement
in banking grew over time into a new basis for money, as Templars
became increasingly involved in banking activities. One indication
of their powerful political connections is that the Templars' involvement
in usury did not lead to more controversy within the Order and the
church at large. The charge was typically sidestepped, by a stipulation
that the Templars retained the rights to the production of mortgaged
property.
The Templars' political connections and awareness
of the essentially urban and commercial nature of the Outremer communities
naturally led the Order to a position of significant power, both
in Europe and the Holy Land. Their success attracted the concern
of many other orders and eventually that of the nobility and monarchs
of Europe as well, who were at this time seeking to monopolize control
of money and banking after a long chaotic period in which civil
society, especially the Church and its lay orders, had dominated
financial activities. The Templars' holdings were extensive both
in Europe and the Middle East, including for a time the entire island
of Cyprus.
The first recorded use of the word lodge
in a Masonic context was in 1278 during the building of a Cistercian
Monastery at Vale Royal near Chester. Initially the lodge was no
more than a rude hut in which the masons worked and possibly took
their midday meal. At other sites they may also have slept in the
lodge. By 1352 there were elaborate rules governing the behaviour
of the mason connected with the lodge at York Minster. These regulations
are described as the "ancient customs of the masons" (consuetudines
antiquae quibus cementarii). The Master and Deputy Master were required
to swear an oath that the ancient customs would be adhered to. Fifty
years later all masons were required to swear the same oath. We
are not aware of anything esoteric about these customs; they mainly
concerned rates of pay, hours of work, holidays etc. However, given
the medieval obsession with mysticism it is unlikely that their
customs were wholly mundane.
To be continued ...
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