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and full of promise. In the permanence of their order they continue,
within the scale of our world and according to its receptivity and needs,
the immense but interrupted undertaking of the cathedral builders for
both the unity of civilization and that universal nature imagined by the
Templars: a peaceful establishment of welcoming and fecund ties with
all religions and traditions—the common patrimony of humanity.