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WE ARE THE MEMES MAKERS THE WEAVERS OF DREAMS

Often these embellishments were con-

cealed in obscure places, but scarcely a medieval structure has survived which does not include the symbols and signa-tures of the Secret Societies. The conspiracy extended through the entire world of the arts. This broad dissemina-tion was only possible because the separate guilds and

unions were aware of the high purpose for which the guild system had been established.

The guilds formed a link between the Troubadours and the trade unions. The trade unions were societies of artisans nourished by the apprentice system. The secrets of various arts and crafts were jealously guarded by the guild Masters, whose arms and crests dangled from hooks

around the great Guild Cup in the midst of their Lodge. This Guild Cup was again the Chalice of Bacchus, the Holy Grail, and the symbolical Cup of the Mysteries.

ORDERS OF THE {Q}UEST

The long shadow of the Manichaean doctrine reached into the guildhalls and even into the somber cloisters of the cathedrals. The guilds were champions of the human cause, institutions of fair play and honest practice. They were co-operatives, protecting their members from society

in general, and protecting society from shoddy goods and unreasonable exploitation. In a quiet way, the guild masters legislated the life of the times, and these solid, good-hearted citizens endeavored in all things to judge

righteous judgment. What better place could be found in which to plant the seeds of the democratic dream? From these small centers of self-government might flow the con-cept of the World Guild, the World Commonwealth, indeed

the Philosophic Empire.

Q FRON 1500 A.D.!

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Historians advance the belief that Hugh de Payens had been initiated into a strange sect of Christian Johannites then flourishing in the East.

The members of this group claimed that they alone were in possession of the inner mysteries of Christ. The supreme pontiffs of the Johannites assumed the title of "Christ" and claimed an uninterrupted transmission of power from the days of St. John.

To understand the forces operating behind the Knights Templars, it is necessary to examine the doctrines of the Johannite Order of Oriental Christians. They seemed to have derived inspiration from the Nazarenes and certain Gnostic sects that denied the divinity of Christ, but acknowl-edged Jesus to be a great and holy prophet. They rejected utterly the Immaculate Conception and other cardinal tenets of the Western Church. The Johannites claimed to

possess ancient records to the effect that when Jesus was a small child he was adopted by a Rabbi named Joseph, who carried him into Egypt where he was initiated into the occult sciences. The priests of Osiris, regarding him as the long-promised incarnation of Horus expected by the

adepts, finally consecrated him Sovereign-Pontiff of the universal religion.

At the time of Hugh de Payen, Theocletes was the living "Christ" of the J ohannites. He communicated to the founders of the Temple the ideas of a sovereign priesthood of dedicated and initiated men united for the purpose of overthrowing the bishops of Rome and the establishment of universal civil liberty. The secret object of the johan-nites was the restoration of the esoteric tradition and the gathering of mankind under the one eternal religion of

the world.

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These men, to obtain their own liberation,

resolved to accuse the Templars of monstrous offenses against the Church and State.According to their charges, the Order denied Christ, the Virgin, and the saints; prac-ticed idolatry, cannibalism, witchcraft, debaucheries, and abominations.The two miserable men were released from prison as a reward for their lies, but they gained little from

their liberty. One was afterward hanged, and the other, beheaded. It was upon such perjured testimony that the most magnificent Order of Chivalry was reduced to ashes. De Molay must have realized from the beginning of the elaborate series of trials that justice had no place in the

procedures. The Order was doomed from the beginning, and on the 18th of March 1314, he stood before the cardinal of Alba and heard the sentence of perpetual im-prisonment. When the cardinal began a detailed account of the guilt of the Templars based upon confessions obtained by torture, the Grand Master interrupted him with a sweep-ing denial: "I know the punishments which have been inflicted on all the knights who had the courage to revoke

a similar confession; but the dreadful spectacle which is presented to me is not able to make me confirm one lie by another. The life offered to me on such infamous terms I abandon without regret."

Charlemagne with his twelve peers is Odin, the Grand Master of the Dratts, seated in council with the twelve Ases in the high and secret palace of Asgard. The brave Lord Roland is Tammuz, Dionysus, Sigurd, Balder, Sir Galahad, and Robin Hood. All these gallant champions of the human cause, these defenders of the weak, these princes of the Philosophic Empire, thesesoldiers of spiritual democracypersonify the initiates of the Mystery Schools.The ∆dept is the eternal "hero of the world."

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