>>7769440 (pb)
><knights templar
>Triple Cross
>Double Cross
>Cross
>>7769755 (pb)
>Templars are as crazy as the rest.
All baseless nonsense...
We are the Cyber Warriors of the NEW KNIGHTHOOD
What I find amusing is how modern NEW AGE authors writing on the subject of the Knights Templar always make the fanciful case that the Templars must have discovered some hidden Treasure or secret buried under Solomon’s Temple which ultimately led to their great wealth and power. But in truth, the actual history shows that the Templar’s real appeal came from the spiritual power found in a letter written by Bernard of Clairvaux’s titled ‘In Praise of the New Knighthood’.
Most people today, including those posting nonsense about the Templars, on this board have no idea who they actually were and how epoch-defining Bernard’s letter would turn out to be. It began to circulate widely, much like we see our memes go viral today, copied repeatedly by scribes as it passed from hand to hand across Christendom. In no time, Bernard’s letter became the Order’s official press release and public mission statement.
As more and more people read Bernard’s thundering words, the Templars’ lives, and the Crusades, were changed forever.
‘IN PRAISE OF THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD’
Bernard used his letter as an opportunity to crack European military society wide open, describing how the originary knights of Europe were vain, arrogant, and godless. He came from a French knightly family himself, so knew the gory details all too well and he did not hold back. He humiliated the ordinary knights of Christendom:
“Therefore what error, knights, so immense, what frenzy so unbearable draws you to military actions at such expense and effort, all for nothing but death or crime? You cover your horses in silks and drape your armour with swatches of flowing cloths; you paint your lances, shields and saddles; you bling up your bridles and spurs with gold and silver and jewels; and with this pomp you rush only towards death, in shameful fury and shameless madness. Are these military insignia, or the trappings of women?”
When Bernard had finished slamming the narcissistic self-serving thugs of the nobility, he declared that the Templars were the antidote: the perfect incarnation of a new, true chivalry, who fought for God and not their own devilish petty squabbles [think PAYtriots].
The Templars were, he declared, what Christian knights should be. They embodied virtue and rejected the vices of the age, fighting a war that was more spiritual than physical. They were the model of humble, professional, lethal warriors:
“They are careful to avoid all excess in food and dress, being concerned only with what is necessary. … They never sit about idly or wander aimlessly, but always when (rarely) not riding out, they do not hang about eating bread, but mend and refurbish their clothes and weapons and get their kit straight … . They accept people of every rank, and defer to skill not noble blood. They vie with each other for honor; they bear each other’s burdens … . They detest dice and gaming and take no pleasure in the ridiculous and cruel custom of falconry. They abominate jesters, magicians, story-tellers, singers of scurrilous songs and jousts as so many vanities and mad deceptions. They shave their hair, knowing from the Apostle that it is shameful for a man to have flowing locks. They rarely wash and seldom tidy their hair, content to be disheveled and dusty, unkempt, covered in dust and blackened by the marks of the sun and their armour.
Cited from here
http://www.dominicselwood.com/the-knights-templar-4-st-bernard-of-clairvaux/
---------------------------------------------
Does this theme sound familiar? Remember when General Flynn called us "an army of digital soldiers" engaged in "an insurgency, an irregular warfare at it's finest in politics?" Our spiritual struggle is bringing forth the light of Truth to the whole world.
We are the Cyber Warriors of the NEW KNIGHTHOOD.
WWG1WGA