Templar Absolution: Fide Defensor Absolvo Peccatis tuis in Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti

The Knights Templar, those warrior monks who fought in the Holy Lands and managed finance to the point of creating traveler's checks, are the subject of legend, scandal, and even Satanism. When trying to tell the story of the Templar Knights, it become difficult, because most people respond, "aren't they freemason, you know the secret society Satanists?" Actually, the Knights Templar had nothing to do with the Free Masons. The Templars were the Poor Soldiers of Jesus Christ of the Temple of Solomon, who were founded in 1101 A.D. by seven knights, one Hugh de Payens, with approval of King Baldwin II, and later ratification as bonified Monastic Military Order by Pope Honorious II (). The Knights Templar became the most fearsome military order in Levant, they were Navy Seals of Outremer, the Crusader Kings, leading the charge of every battle with unfettered zeal and devotion. They were deciated to protecting pilgrims from bandits on the roads to Jerusalem, they did this with spear and sword, but later they invented traveler's checks and banks that acted as surety for pelegrins (pilgrims). These Knights of Christ were praised by the most famous holy man in Europe, St. Benard of Clairvaux (same man who made Crucifix or Crucified Christ the focus of Christendom) who gave acclaim to the Knights in White Mantels in His "In Praise of the New Knighthood". St. Bernard preached The Second Crusade and knew that the vanguard and lifeblood of keeping the crusading kingdoms safe was the Templars.

The Templar Knights had many offices, there was the Knights who wore white tunics and surcoats with a white cape and red crosses. There were the black clade Sergeants who bore red crosses, who did not have to abide the strict Rule of the Templars of Chasity, and Poverty. Many Sergeants were married, and even nobles from Europe who wanted to serve in prestigious Templar Order, but not indefinitely as the Templar Knights did. There was Commander of Arms, charged with the care and protection of Templar weaponry and armor. The Banneret, was a special office for Templar who was the Standard Bearer, he held the tall flag of the Temple, the flag with white and black, perhaps a red cross that all Tempalrs rallied to in battle, he could never retreat unless orders came from Grand Master. The Grand Master was the Bishop and King of the Order, he was senior Templar Knight who lead His men and appointed them to different offices and chapters. There were three, Grand Master of Outremer (Palestine), England, and France. There were Nurses and Servants of the Templars, they washed and tended to the Knights and soldiers of the Order in times of peace and war. The entire Order ran like a monastery, with each Knight and Sargent expected to say 350 Pater Nosters (Our Father Prayers) a day, but prayer could be interrupted by the call to pitch battle. The Templars fought a duo-war, one against demons and the other against Saracens.

The Templar Order met its demise because of avarice, greed, and a lack of purpose after the fall of Crusader Kingdoms to the Mamelukes. Phillip IV of France, known as "The Fair" was for a time friendly to the Templar Order, in fact he owed them major debts because the Templars became the main bankers for Europe, especially France and England. Unfortunately for the Templars, Phillip planned a 14th Century version bailout, which whipped out his own debts and those of his own puppets and nobles. To achieve this, Phillip aroused a antichrist, named William of Nogent, who with a posse rounded up Templar Knights and their confederates on Friday 13th, 1307. The massive undertaking lead to Knights confessing falsely under torture, and being burned at the stake. The whole illegal and terrible tragedy ended in 1312, when the last Grand Master of the Templars, Jocques de Molay was burned at the stake. Before perishing, Molay cursed both Phillip IV "The Fair" and Pope Clement V (who was suppose to protect the Templars, they were obligated under law, ecclesiastical law, to only answer to the Pope, like the citizen appeal in St. Paul's day, where you could have hearing with Cesar), both men died as the Grand Master Molay said, within the year the Templar Master had proclaimed as prophesy.

What about the free mason allegations? Did the Templars really urinate on sacred Christian sybmols, pray to Bahomet, and do other defiling acts in private? While some of the European Tempalrs did confess to these acts, torture is not very telling, and the Templars of the Middle East never did such things, rather than confess lies, they allowed their heads to be cut by Saladin at the Horns of Hattin. How could those men of conviction who let the Saracen cut their necks confess to the allegation of William of Nogent and his men? Well some historians argue that many of French and English Templars were not as hardy or battle ready as the Templars of the Holy Land, who had to endure threats of recant or be rent asunder by a Saracen blade. But the idea that Free Masons are the inheritors and descendants of the Templars is debunked by historians and Free Masons, "The story of the persecution and sudden dissolution of the secretive yet powerful medieval Templars has drawn many other groups to use alleged connections with the Templars as a way of enhancing their own image and mystery.There is no clear historical connection between the Knights Templar, which were dismantled in the Rolls of the Catholic Church in 1309 with the martyrdom of Jacques de Molay, and any of the modern organizations, of which, except for the Scottish order, the earliest emerged publicly in the 18th century. Since at least the 18th century,Freemasonry has incorporated the symbols and rituals of several medieval military orders in a number of Masonic bodies, most notably, in the "Red Cross of Constantine," derived from the Military Constantinian Order, the "Order of Malta," derived from the Knights Hospitaller, and the "Order of the Temple", derived from the Knights Templar, the latter two featuring prominently in the York Rite. One theory on the origins of Freemasonry claims direct descent from the historical Knights Templar through its final fourteenth-century members, who took refuge in Scotland and aided Robert the Bruce in his victory at Bannockburn. This theory is usually deprecated on grounds of lack of evidence, by both Masonic authorities and historians." (Wikipedia). There it is, the Templars are not Free Masons, proved by Free Masons ("Freemasonry Today periodical (Issue January 2002)". Grand Lodge Publications Ltd. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-28. I want to let my readers know I condemn the Freemasons, have never been involved with them, discourage any connection to them, I shared this link from Wikipedia to prove that Free Masons denounce any authentic historical connection to the Templars). They were Medieval Christian men who fought to protect Christian pilgrims, and fought against the advance of Islam, which had foraged and fought its way into Spain, Southern Italy, border of France, and more long before the First Crusade (1095-1099 A.D.) in the 5th and 6th centuries.

The Templars are absolved. They were not Freemasons or Satanists. But rather they were serious minded and pious followers of Jesus Christ who wanted to protect pilgrims both financially and physically. They were the Navy Seals of the Crusader States, and the Wells Fargo. Their legacy is shrouded in myth, legend, and fantasy because their appeal has never ceased. Even now, the Assassin's Creed series demonizes the Templars as monolithic, malevolent, and masonic; claiming they killed Jesus Christ to gain a shard of Eden, then aligning with the Church. The goal to demonize these disciples of Christ, these Christian Knights and Soldiers is no surprise. It happens to the best. Had the Church not risen to world wide fame via Constantine the Great in 323 A.D., Jesus Christ would only be known by us Christians as God (Colossians 2:9, Christianity was small sect of Judaism and would have stayed so had it not been for missionaries like St. Peter and Paul and had Church been continued to be eradicated by Caesars) , while the Jews and Romans calling him a prophet, and their writings against Him pervading in public instead of the Gospels. The Templars were demonized, and turned into a villain, when the reality they were devout Christians.

The Templars followed in Christ's footsteps by being condemned of crimes they did not commit (Matthew 26:57-67, Matthew 27:12, Matthew 27:11-65). As Christ was crucified, so the Templars were fasten to a wooden stake and burned; for those who seek to serve Christ without compromise and in defiance of the wordily institutions, find themselves demonized by the world and destroyed by it (John 15:19, John 15:18, Matthew 24:9). And yet it does not end with death, for Jesus Christ rose from dead on the Third Day, so will the Templars rise from dead when Christ Returns, "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first." (1 Thessalonians 4:16). I imagine that our Redeemer will even Return with some Templars in His retinue, "Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God (this is Jesus Christ, John 1:1-15, and his eyes flames of fire Revelation 1:14, 18). And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From His mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords." (Revelation 19:11-16). Notice it says the armies have white (Revelation 19:14), that is exact description of the Templars who wore white and red crosses.