FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
of Europe.By the end of the 12th century, they had 30,000 members (mostly
French), and they fought in the wars of their own countries. They soon
gained so much power, that their Grand Master Jacques de Molay
became a challenge to the authority of King Philip IV (‘the Fair’).
Between 1303-05, King Philip had Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
kidnapped and killed, and had his successor, Pope Benedict XI (1303-
05) poisoned; then had his own man, Clement V (1305-16), elected to
the vacant papal throne. Pope Clement worked with Philip to begin a
campaign to destroy the power and the influence of the Knights, the
Merovingian bloodline, and to confiscate their treasures.In Germany, Spain, and Cyprus, they were acquitted of any charges;
but not in England, Italy, and France. On October 13, 1307, all the
Templars in France were arrested, amidst charges by a former member
(Esquian de Horian), and an investigation by Pope Clement, who said
that they appeared to serve Christ, but actually worshipped Lucifer.
Accusations included: immorality, heresy, denying Christ and the
Virgin Mary; spitting and stepping on the cross; burning the bodies of
dead Templars and giving the ashes to initiates to mix in with their
food and drink; carrying out rituals with a skull, believed to be that of
founder Hugues de Payen; and worshipping a demon who took on the
form of a cat. When King Philip’s men broke into the Templar castle in
Paris, they discovered a silver bust of a woman’s head, with a hinged
top, which when opened, contained two head bones wrapped in a
white cloth, with a red cloth around that. They were believed to be part
of the skeletal remains of Mary Magdalene.It was revealed, that part of the initiation, required the initiate to deny,
curse, and spit at the cross, as part of a gesture symbolizing St.
Peter’s denial of Christ, thus introducing the candidate to the Order as
a sinner, so they could teach him the ways of Christianity. In actuality,
the Knights had actually become opposed to the Pope, when they
realized the Vatican’s pagan relationship to sun worship; and since the
Catholic Church had become so identified with St. Peter, the Knights
had renounced Peter, and became followers of John.In 1312, Pope Clement ordered that the Knights Templar were to be
suppressed. On March 18, 1314, Jacques de Molay, the 22nd Grand