The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

The Order of the Knights Templar expanded massively and became
very powerful in southern Europe. The organization owned land in
France, England, Scotland (16 properties), Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Flanders, Hungary, and elsewhere. They could do as they pleased.
They were experts in medicine and the use of herbs. They invented
banking and were the first to use cheques. The Knights Templar were
effective usurers. They became extremely proficient bankers for large
parts of Europe. The Knights Templar lent huge sums to poor
monarchs against high interest and organized the transfer of money
to travelling salesmen through their connections around Europe. The
kings of many countries owed them enormous sums of money. All
this paved the way for capitalism and the banking system. They had
also taken care of the French King Philip IV's business interests. He
became king in 1285 when he was 17 years old, and immediately
understood that he could not pay interest to the Knights Templar for
the loans his father and grandfather had taken.
The poor knights became extremely wealthy. They were also
exempt from taxes, built a mighty fleet and were permitted to build
their own churches, which were wonders of geometric design, for
example Iglesia de la Vera Cruz in Segovia, which was built in 1208.
The interiors of the prevalent octagonal structure of the Templars'
buildings, were based upon a six-pointed star (the seal of Solomon or
the Star of David), and a pyramid.
The Star of David is a cabbalistic symbol. Professor Gershom
Scholem proves in his book "The Messianic Idea in Judaism" that
hexagrams (the six-pointed star) were used by those Jews who were
involved with black magic.
As early as the 13 th century, there were seven thousand knights,
squires, servants and priests in nearly all the countries of Europe
(Malcolm Barber, "The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the
Temple", Cambridge University Press, 1994). In the 13 th and 14 th
centuries, the order built 870 castles and chapter houses.
A grand master headed this order with strict hierarchy. Beneath
him, there was a grand prior. Ordinary mercenaries wore a brown or
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