Musterisriddarar
Les « Templiers » étaient un ordre militaire et religieux fondé en 1118, qui servit vaillamment pendant les croisades. Lorsqu'ils n'étaient pas sur le champ de bataille, cette « milice du Christ », comme on les appelait, menait une vie monastique disciplinée et prononçait les vœux de pauvreté, de chasteté et d'obéissance, les mêmes vœux que ceux prononcés par le bien-aimé Saint François.
On Friday, October 13, 1307, without warning, all the Knights Templar in France were arrested and their goods confiscated at the order of King Philip IV of France, who was jealous of their influence, independence, and wealth (which they held in common). He charged them with heresy, blasphemy, and homosexuality. When the knights would not confess to the trumped-up charges against them, they were imprisoned and subjected to such brutal tortures as having sharp splinters driven under their fingernails and flames held under their bare feet. Their grand master and the preceptor of Normandy were slowly roasted to death over a charcoal fire.
Some writers believe the Templars were initiates of a secret, mystery teaching. Helena Blavatsky calls them “the last European secret organization which, as a body, had in its possession some of the mysteries of the East.”[1]
In 1312, the Pope, at the insistence of King Philip, officially dissolved the Knights Templars by papal order.
Saint Germain has said:
I AM your Knight Commander. I come even as I sponsored the fraternity of the Masons, the Knights Templar and those who were of old knights of the cross. Yes, beloved, I have sponsored holy orders to keep alive the flame of initiation.[2]
Sources
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, July 12, 1987.