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Lodge", London, 1998, p. 200). In 1603, he was named James I of
England. Thus the Merovingians came to power in England through
the Stuart family. Their coat of arms depicted, among other things, a
trowel and a sword, which symbolize freemasonry and the Order of
the Knights Templar. He was the first English head of state to be a
freemason.
The Knights Templar that remained in France pretending to be
Christians. The Knights Hospitaller of St. John (now known as the
Knights of Malta) accepted the remnants of the abolished, like-
minded and pseudo-Christian Knights Templar in 1312.
Bearing in mind the plans of the Knights Templar to take control
of the craft guilds, the members of the Order of Hospitaller St. John
impudently enough began to call themselves 'freemasons' in 1440.
The Knights of Malta grew out of this section of the Order of the
Knights Templar.
On 9 January 1599, some Knights Templar founded the lodge
Atkinson Have in Scotland. On July 31 of the same year, another
lodge was founded in Edinburgh. The fact, that a large number of
Knights Templar fled to Scotland is confirmed by James Steven Curl
in his book "The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry" (London,
1991, p. 46). It is also evident (pp. 48-50) that these Templars in
1714 erected obelisks at Mount Stuart, Leven and Tongue, in Suther-
land in the northernmost part of Scotland.
The infiltration of the lodges of the operative freemasons thus
began relatively early. In the beginning of the 1540s, English craft
guilds began for economic reasons to accept "passive" members that
lacked a builder's background, such as bankers, merchants, land-
owners, magicians and scientists. These people greatly desired to
belong to a masonic lodge despite the fact that they lacked a work-
man's background. They wished to exploit some of the freemasons'
secrets. In this manner, an excellent opportunity presented itself to
certain dark political forces that wished to utilise a well-functioning
international network. The first documented evidence of this un-
natural expansion of the lodges stems from 1598.
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