Knight Templar's Part XlV

  Grand Master Jacques Molay felt that the Vatican would come to their rescue not the other way around. The Temple felt that the Pope would threaten the King with excommunication and the entire state of France also. If this were to be the case, then the warrior monks could have gone for their weapons, because the Army of France wouldn't have been considered christen.  This was a fatal mistake that Jacques de Molay had made and dealt a fatal blow to the order.

 The vile Pope Clement V betrayed the warrior monks based on self-interest, greed, and political gain. Pope Clement V gave the properties of the Order to his mistress, his son, and to his nephews before the abolition of the order.

 When the Flemish Knight gave the word, there was an automatic tightening of security throughout the Temple; every monk knew not to speak of any of the Temple's business.

 In navy speak we would say they went to “General Quarters”.  They went to battle stations from the island of Cyprus and throughout Europe.  They were instructed to destroy all records of Temple doctrine, daily routine, and documents pertaining to finances that weren't forwarded to the Paris Preceptory.

The warrior monks were bankers not misers.  Therefore their money and assets were kept in motion, and not kept in one place.  They were not hoarding monetary assets in their castles, it doesn't make money there.  A significant amount of their assets were lent out to the Nobel families and to the crown of both England and France to build villages, infrastructure, Gothic Cathedrals, castles, and the financing of battles, wars and crusades.

Under torture a knight confessed to an inquisitor, he described an orderly departure of knights associated with the orders treasury.  There wasn't a panicked evacuation at the last moment.  The same knight under torture testified that the Master of the Paris Preceptory departed by sea with fifty horses.

The Temple, with the exception of the Vatican, was the central pillar of western Christendom. The Temple was the most powerful, most important, most prestigious, most unshakable institution of its time.

I think you could make the same analogy of the United States.  I think it is important to take a look at this to understand what was about to happen to the Temple Treasury.

Imagine that in today's world during a time of peace a government official, a middle manager so to speak, not a cabinet secretary, perhaps a glorified clerk in the agriculture department.  The clerk gives an order for all the cash reserves in the National Bank, all the important documents used in running the country, to be collected and turned over to him.

He then asks that all the money, the Fort Knox gold, priceless art pieces from the White House and the Smithsonian to be turned over to him so he can hide them in a secret location that only he knows of, without question this happens.  It happens without the knowledge of the Executive branch or any of the cabinet secretaries.  But with their approval!  He was obeyed on the spot! 

No one would believe that this could ever happen, but that's exactly what happened at the Temple.  In this case the glorified clerk in the Department of Agriculture was the Flemish Knight of the Knight Templar's.

When information came to the Flemish Knight of the plans of King Philippe and Pope Clement V, while the Grand Master and the upper echelon of the order were in denial the Flemish knight took action.

Just like in a modern office building, or a large corporation, General quarters on a Navy ship, the order to scramble a squadron of fighter interceptors with a signal from NORAD.  The Flemish Knight gave the signal!

He gave the signal and certain knights in the Temple took action without question, without discussion and without letting other brother monks know what was happening.

The Flemish Knight departed for the Abbey of Cambron at Wodecq in Flanders immediately after receiving the information of King Philippe's intentions.  At the monastery he met with a relative who happened to be the Abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Cambron and a brother monk. 

Abbot Jacques de Plusquit, after a short discussion with the Flemish knight, summoned an elderly monk from the abbey's farm and by doing so interrupted his writings of the day. He was a well-known scientist and intellectual who joined the Cistercian monastery late in life.

                             To be continued