Conrad Bauer - Secret Societies Box Set 8 Books in 1: Hidden History and Treasure of the Knights Templar - Origins and Last 100 Years of Freemasons - Illuminati - Skull and Bones - Priory of Sion - Opus Dei

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The Knights Templar existed officially for less than 200 years. Founded to protect pilgrims who were traveling through the Holy Lands, their rise to power was sudden. They became some of the most feared warriors in the region, they had a mandate from God, they controlled perhaps the worlds first real banking system, and they waged war against anyone who tried to wrestle Christianitys holiest grounds from the control of the Catholic Church. Within their short lifespan, they quickly became one of the most powerful societies in Europe, if not the world.

But, just as they rose to power with relative speed, they fell from grace just as fast. Forged in the crucible of Middle Eastern conflict, their power was soon resented and feared. Before they could become even more powerful, the greatest nations in Europe and the Church turned on them. The once powerful Templars were hunted, caught, tortured, and eventually burned at the stake. According to their prosecutors, they were a devil-worshipping secret society who spat on the cross and plotted against the Pope. They were officially disbanded and their members treated with extreme contempt and prejudice.

Or so goes the official story. In this book, we will not only look into the official history of the Knights Templar, but will examine the various ways their influence and ideas have tunneled their way into the modern world. A group this powerful does not vanish overnight. Instead, their history has been linked to the Freemasons, to vicious curses, to the butchery of the Crusades, and even to Christian relics such as the Holy Grail. For many people, the Templars did not vanish and they did not relinquish their tight grip on the power structures of medieval Europe. Instead, they went underground. Read on to discover the dark and twisted secret history of the Knights Templar.

It is important to understand the context in which the Knights Templar were founded. Their formation was not as simple as a group of knights agreeing to gather together under one banner. Instead, their order was forged in the midst of the violence, conflict, and religious turmoil that was the medieval Holy Land. Much like our world today, the Near East of the turn of the first century was not a calm place. For centuries, it had been the area from which many of the worlds major religions had been formed. The three huge Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were all born in the same area. Indeed, they share many of the same principles, historical figures, and even religious texts. With all three religions deriving from the same geographical location, the fight for supremacy in the region led to constant conflict.

To Western readers, this conflict is most familiar through the Crusades. From the Christian perspective, the Crusades were a series of military campaigns waged in the Near East and divinely sanctioned by the Catholic Church. At the time, Islam controlled much of the region and Christian pilgrims were struggling to find safe passage to the holy sites they wished to visit. Christianity was facing a major schism, as the collapse of the Roman Empire had led to divisions forming between the Western head of the Church in the Vatican in Rome and his Eastern equivalent in Byzantine (the city later known as Constantinople and eventually Istanbul.) According to historian Paul Everett Pierson, Pope Urban II not only saw the first campaign as a chance to protect Christians in the Holy Land, but as a chance to reunite the disparate branches of the Church back under his control.

The first Crusade was prompted by a letter sent from the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I in 1095. Alexios begged the Pope for assistance, knowing that the head of the Church might be able to rally an army in order to protect the citizens from around the world who were attempting to make the journey to holy sites in cities such as Jerusalem as these citizens were often finding themselves in trouble. Though the Muslim rulers in Palestine and throughout the Holy Land nominally allowed for Catholic pilgrims to journey through their lands without an issue, this was not always the reality. The crimes supposedly committed by the Muslim rulers in the Holy Land were violent, vicious, and offensive to Christian sensibilities. These included suggestions that the Turks who controlled the area had ravaged the churches belonging to Christians in the region, that they had captured the city of Christ (Jerusalem) and had blasphemed against it by selling the Christian institutions (government offices, shops, merchants, tax offices, etc.) into abominable slavery, and that they had been harassing, bullying, and even committing acts of violence against the good Christians who simply wished to journey to the land of their savior.