Famous Freemason Defends the Roman Catholic Church
October 24, 2007
Famous Freemason Defends the Roman Catholic Church

Oct 24, 2007 -- /prbuzz/ --A new book to be published on the seven hundredth anniversary of the first written confession of Jacque de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, reveals the true motive behind his Order’s destruction. It shows how they were victims of the overbearing greed of a bankrupt king who was desperate to accuse them of heresy so he could seize all their assets, the assets of the rich people who banked with them and also wiped out his own indebtedness to them.
For hundreds of years the papacy has been blamed for allowing the Order of the Knights Templar to be destroyed, and rumours have been rife that the knights held secret knowledge which threatened the very existence of the Church. Best-selling author Robert Lomas shows that the real motive behind the Knights’ destruction was pure power politics, provoked by the first recorded case of hyper-inflation. The real battle was between the King and the Roman Catholic Church, with the Knights Templar simply helpless victims of a power struggle over the King of France’s determination to tax the Church.

In a startling reversionary look at the history of the Order, Robert Lomas shows what began as an Order of Martyrs, desperate to die in battle and win a place in paradise, were supported by a group of rich, complacent, elderly bankers, who were unable to defend the Order’s assets when attacked by a desperate King.
The story of the real Order of Templar and the later Masonic revival of the Templar Order are set in a political context and the motives of the players are spelt out, with many urban myths dispelled in the process. Lomas shows the destruction of the Templars could not have been better arranged if it had been planned by a team of Hollywood scriptwriters. It has a villain, an evil, self-centered king who has bankrupted his country and is driven by greed. It has a weak holy man, forced into betraying his own guardians who trust him implicitly. It has noble knights tortured into false confessions, which they later retract at the cost of their lives. What more can you ask for? Well . . . how about trials revealing heresy, devil worship, homo-erotic acts, and curses which bring down the mighty? Not to mention disappearing fleets and small bands of faithful knights escaping to continue their mission in exile. The destruction of the Templars has all this and more. Small wonder, then, that it has acted as a focus for romantics and conspiracy theorists for hundreds of years.
The truth is far stranger and more gripping than any conspiracy thriller. Even the modern Masonic Templars are shown to be rooted in the politics of the Jacobite/Hanoverian unrest of the eighteenth century which culminated in the 1798 Irish Rebellion.
A last the innocent role of the Roman Catholic Church in the destruction of the Order of Knights Templar is made clear, and by an author who has been strongly attacked for his Masonic views by the Catholic Press under headlines “Beware Crumbling Masonry”.

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TURNING THE TEMPLAR KEY
The Secret Legacy of the Knights Templar
and the Origins of Freemasonry
By Robert Lomas
Lewis Masonic, October 2007
£19.99 Hardcover ISBN: 9780853182863
Website: http://www.turningthetemplarkey.com
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new book to be published on the seven hundredth anniversary of the first written confession of Jacque de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, reveals the true motive behind his Order’


 
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