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700 year curse lifted!

Vatican paper set to clear Knights Templar

By Malcolm Moore in Rome
Last Updated: 2:08am BST 05/10/2007

The mysteries of the Order of the Knights Templar could soon be laid
bare after the Vatican announced the release of a crucial document
which has not been seen for almost 700 years.
# Guardians of the Grail

Knight Templar
Knights Templar are rumoured to guard the Holy Grail

A new book, Processus contra Templarios, will be published by the
Vatican's Secret Archive on Oct 25, and promises to restore the
reputation of the Templars, whose leaders were burned as heretics when
the order was dissolved in 1314.

The Knights Templar were a powerful and secretive group of warrior
monks during the Middle Ages. Their secrecy has given birth to endless
legends, including one that they guard the Holy Grail.

Recently, they have been featured in films including The Da Vinci Code
and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The Order was founded by Hugues de Payns, The high priest, after the
First Crusade of 1099 to protect pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem.
Its headquarters was the captured Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount,
which lent the Templars their name.

But when Jerusalem fell to Mongolian rule in 1244, rumours surfaced
that the knights were heretics who worshipped idols in a secret
initiation ceremony.
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In 1307, King Philip IV "the Fair" of Burgundy, in desperate need of
funds, ordered the arrest and torture of all Templars. After
confessing various sins their leader, Jacques de Molay, was burnt at
the stake.

Pope Clement V then dissolved the order and issued arrest warrants for
all remaining members. Ever since, the Templars have been thought of
as heretics.

The new book is based on a scrap of parchment discovered in the
Vatican's secret archives in 2001 by Professor Barbara Frale. The long-
lost document is a record of the trial of the Templars before Pope
Clement, and ends with a papal absolution from all heresies.

Prof Frale said: "I could not believe it when I found it. The paper
was put in the wrong archive in the 17th century."

The document, known as the Chinon parchment, reveals that the Templars
had an initiation ceremony which involved "spitting on the cross",
"denying Jesus" and kissing the lower back, navel and mouth of the man
proposing them.

The Templars explained to Pope Clement that the initiation mimicked
the humiliation that knights could suffer if they fell into the hands
of the Saracens, while the kissing ceremony was a sign of their total
obedience.

The Pope concluded that the entrance ritual was not truly blasphemous,
as alleged by King Philip when he had the knights arrested. However,
he was forced to dissolve the Order to keep peace with France and
prevent a schism in the church.

"This is proof that the Templars were not heretics," said Prof Frale.
"The Pope was obliged to ask pardon from the knights.

"For 700 years we have believed that the Templars died as cursed men,
and this absolves them."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=ADRZT3IEXTIGJQFIQMGSFFWAVC
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Holy sh*t, it took them 700 years to wake up...  the GREAT SECRET of
the TEMPLARS and their holy Knowledge...

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