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THE TEMPLARS NEVER DIED. THEY CHANGED THEIR NAME. 1312: Pope Clement V dissolves the Knights Templar under pressure from the King of France. Two years later their Grand Master burns alive in Paris. But in Portugal, King Dinis refuses to hand them over. 1319: a "new" order appears. The Order of Christ. Many of the same knights, the same estates, a red cross. It even moves into the old Templar fortress at Tomar. 1420: Henry the Navigator takes command of the order. Its wealth funds the voyages. Its cross goes onto the sails of every caravel heading into the unknown. 1456: the Pope grants this order spiritual authority over every land it discovers. Now watch. 1522: a wounded Spanish knight, Ignatius of Loyola, keeps an all-night vigil of arms before the Black Madonna of Montserrat. He lays down his sword at her altar and walks out a "soldier of God." 1540: he founds the Society of Jesus. Its founding bull is titled "Regimini militantis Ecclesiae": the government of the Church MILITANT. Its members are to serve "as soldiers of God beneath the banner of the cross." Its leader is called the General. The Templars called themselves the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ. And which king is the first in Europe to welcome the Jesuits? João III of Portugal. Master of the Order of Christ. He sends them out on ships sailing under the Order's cross. Goa, 1542. Brazil, 1549. The Jesuits spread across the planet carried by the Templars' heirs. Then history repeats itself: 1312: a Pope named Clement and the King of France destroy the Templars. 1773: a Pope named Clement and the Bourbon kings destroy the Jesuits. The Templars found refuge at the western edge of Europe, in Portugal. The Jesuits found refuge at the eastern edge: Catherine the Great refused to publish the ban in Russia. The order survived, and in 1814 the Pope brought it back. And in between? German Freemasonry suddenly fills with "Templar" knights. The Rite of Strict Observance, 1751, ruled by mysterious "Unknown Superiors," the S.I. Masons of that era claimed S.I. didn't mean Superiores Incogniti. It meant Societas Jesu. J.J.C. Bode, one of the best-read Masons of his century and later a member of the Illuminati, believed the Jesuits had built Templar Freemasonry as their own disguise. A military order of monks. A red cross. A fleet. A Pope named Clement. A King of France. A refuge at the edge of Europe. A resurrection. Historians call it coincidence. I call it a pattern.

The Vatican was built on top of a temple to the Ancient Great Mother. This isn't a theory. In 1609, workers digging for the new façade of St. Peter's pulled up altar after altar dedicated to Cybele, the Magna Mater, and her consort Attis. This was the Phrygianum, her sanctuary on Vatican Hill. Here initiates went down into a pit while a bull was slaughtered on a grate above them, and they were drenched in its blood. One altar says the initiate was "reborn for eternity." The altars date from 305 to 390 AD. That means for most of the 4th century, the bull-blood rebirth and Christian baptism were happening side by side on the same hill. Attis dies in late March. On March 25, his followers celebrated his return. Attis's sacred tree was the pine. Today a giant bronze pine cone stands in the Vatican courtyard. The Mother never left the hill. They built over her altar. Coincidence, or continuity?