In the 13th century, the Order of the Temple is a financial and commercial multinational companyGo to L'or du Temple which lends money to the kings whose coffers are empty.

In two centuries, it became a central bank that helps the monarchs to finance the Crusades , or to pay their ransoms when they are captured. His headquarters are a huge fortress that stretches across a whole district of Paris, the Temple district. There are no more of it than street names: rue du Temple, rue Vieille du Temple, or rue des Blancs-Manteaux. The originality of the Order looks beyond its military and financial power. Those who enter the Order especially expect benefits inside their body.

In the Order itself, there are very different degrees of initiation. Some monks never get a knighthood. Some knights are never initiated to the higher grades. Even inside the Order, very few leaders know all its secrets. It is said that the official and visible Grand Master was secretly double-crossed by a real Grand Master, unknown to almost everyone and who did not therefore run the risk to be taken. This cult of secrecy and this military hierarchy are found, although much faded, among the Freemasons or the Rosicrucians, who are the heirs.

The highest initiation conferred by the Temple forms a spiritual and temporal elite,  holding the secrets of this world and of the other world.Go to Le voyage en alpha This particular elite formed the sacred heart of Christendom, as the SoufismGo to L'enseignement soufi remains the sacred heart of Islam. Unhappily Christendom lost its own. The Knights Insiders were very important in the destiny of Europe. They control all the sea routes, the known and even the unknown ones. In ancient portolansName formerly given to the sea maps. Go to The Templars' Gold they found the route to America and its treasures.

Thus a few of them settled there and opened counters and mines. Vast fortunes in precious metals and gemsGo to Treize crânes de cristal swell the profits of their banking system, which covers all of Europe and the Near East. During the reign of Philip the Fair, the Temple was a state within a state, which carved the currency, emited promissory notes, inherited many fortunes, makes gold mines, traded precious metals and gems, sold remedies, lands, jewelry, indulgences and spices.

The Poor Knights acted as bankers, soldiers, road police, customs, surgeons, doctors, pharmacists, hotel-keepers and transporters. They were keeping leper colonies where the most infectious patients received care and food, and could even attend mass and receive communion through a window. The ships were sailing the western seas, snapping their pennants to the winds of all worlds. This unashamed success bugs the King of France, Philippe, the most powerful man in Europe ... after the Knights Templar!

If Philip the Fair wants the end of the Temple, Pope Clement V protects the Poor Knights. Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Temple, learns that a plot is brewing against the Order. In a final reaction before his arrest, he ordered a brigade to escort six heavy trucks which left Paris at dusk, through the western road. These wagons bring to an unknown destination the colossal treasure of the Templars. In the morning, Jacques de Molay and the leading dignitaries of the Knights Templar are arrested and jailed.

After a mere mockery of a trial which lasted seven years, when they were accused of the worst calumnies, when confessions were extracted under torture, the most powerful Order in the world was finally dissolved. its property was confiscated, its leaders found guilty of heresy and burned alive at the stake. It is reported that "the Grand Master having nothing free except the tongue and almost suffocated with smoke, said aloud: " Clement, iniquitous judge and cruel executioner, I adjourn you to appear, within forty days,

before the court of the Supreme Judge. " (source)François Mézeray (1610-1683)

And Clement V died within those days! Over the centuries this popular legend became a real tradition, reviewed by Maurice Druon in The Damned Kings, where the curse became: "Pope Clement! ... Sir William! ... King Philip! ... Within a year, I summon you to appear before the tribunal of God to receive your fair trial! Damn! Damn! Damn! Curse you until the thirteenth generation of your race." This is a good account. Thirteen generations later, for the Bourbons, it is Louis XVI. The stake is replaced by the scaffold. It is said that during the execution of Louis XVI, a man in the crowd would have shouted: "Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!"

Even if Druon exaggerated the curse -which is not established-As any clairvoyant or artist, Druon found inspiration into page Molay would have left, besides his imprecations, detailed instructions for future times so that the Temple survives its dissolution. They had to recover the treasure. Where are the wagons filled with gold? Shooting ahead, seizing horses in all of the command posts, they reached La Rochelle. Arrived safely, the contents of the trucks was transshipped to La Destinée, a ship of 300 tons, bound for distant lands from overseas. A month later, La Destinée moored in Mexico.

The gold was unloaded and handed over to the local potentate. The Indians attaching no particular value to gold, they looked at this treasure without covetousness. Conveyed through the Pacific Ocean to the AndesWhich was undoubtedly a tough task, as evidenced by the odyssey of Aguirre, during the Conquest, two centuries later with the help of some Templars, the treasure was melted down to form a huge solid gold chain, each link weighing four hundred pounds. To move it, it took no less than 500 men doped with ayahuasca.Go to Ayahuasca The chain was placed around the temple of Viracocha at Tihuanaco.Go to Les cités des cimes

After the dissolution of the order, the Knights Templars found refuge in Portugal. While the journeymen craftsmen and image-makers took refuge in Italy, where they invented the Renaissance a century beforeUnder the name of Quattrocento, Italian Renaissance started in the 15th century, when the rest of Europe was ablaze in the convulsions of the Hundred Years War. It was not until the 16th century that started the French Renaissance ... which imported craftsmen and artists from Italy in large numbers! the rest of Europe. In the late 15th century, when Christopher ColombusGo to Un nouveau monde thought he discovered the transatlantic route in search of the Indies, he was sponsored by the Templars in Portugal. On the sails of his three ships, the logo of his sponsors was spread in large, beautifully red on white: the Dotted Cross of an Order

prohibited for a hundred and fifty years.

Before embarking on the great journey, Chritopher Colombus stopped at La Rochelle. His route is not so odd considering the fact La Rochelle was the first Templar port to America. Colombus went there to take Templar cards and -by chance- a descendant of the last pilot who knew the Atlantic route.
Colombus' mission was clear: go to Mexico and trace the gold of the Temple ; if possible, recover ; if not, hide the gold. As we know, he failed in this mission. A few decades later, another Templar expedition was sent to Mexico. The conquistador Hernan Cortes reached the land of the Aztecs.

He defeated Montezuma, plundered its capital Teotihuacan, but did not find the Golden Temple. A few years passed, and another expedition was mounted by the Templars, the last that could finance their means. Led by Pizarro,Go to Le retour du Serpent  its goal was the route to the Andes, the Peruvian Altiplano, Lake Titicaca and the giant gold necklace. More fortunate than Cortes,Go to Le retour du Serpent Pizarro was on the verge of success. Alas, a few hours before his arrival, the last Inca troops dragged out the heavy chain to the lake

where it sank in an instant.

Lake Titicaca is very deep and dark. Captain Jean-Yves Cousteau has dipped and tried to recover the treasure of the Incas. Others have tried the same adventure. In vain. From three meters deep, despite the waterproof projectors, divers cannot see their hands as the mud is too thick. Today the Templars' gold sinks deeper into the thick mud that lines the bottom of the largest lake in the Andes, 3,000 meters above the sea level. Not far away lie the docks Tihuanaco, where the Atlantis' survivors started a new world.

The sacred construction of the pre-flood people, thanks to the Temple, has flourished again in the land of Europe. Secrets forgotten for millennia have resurfaced through him. The Templars have not only invented the modern era, banking, health care, travel tours, they have not only built these wonderful halls of heaven with their towers, their foothills and arrows, they have not only reopened the route to the Americas, they were able to cross the door of time. That is why they are called, in the language of birds,

the Knights of the Folded Time.A joke was lost in translation. In French, Temps plié = Templiers.