Medieval Roots of the New World Order

Written by John Carroll

Happy Friday the 13th! People across the world are exercising caution today, but for once I actually agree with Vox that there’s no reason to be afraid. There are many myths about why today is considered unlucky. A common theory attributes the origin of paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th) to surprise raids against the Knights Templar on this day in 1307. The official narrative of the Templars’ demise would support that theory, but a closer examination of the events leading up to the raids may lead researchers to believe bad luck wasn’t a factor. They may have had it coming.

The Knights Templar was first and foremost a religious order, so like all monks, Templars took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. It was also a paramilitary force, and its members became known as “Warrior Monks.” The order was formed after the First Crusade to protect European pilgrims from marauding gangs along the travel routes to the Holy Land. The Templars’ reputation for being fearless in battle, along with an endorsement from a prominent French abbot, helped with initial funding and recruitment. About 20 years after its founding, a Vatican endorsement catapulted the order into a major geopolitical player. According to a 2017 history.com article, “In 1139, Pope Innocent II issued a Papal Bull that allowed the Knights Templar special rights. Among them, the Templars were exempt from paying taxes, permitted to build their own oratories and were held to no one’s authority except the Pope’s.”

The Papal Bull was likely due more to the Templars’ economic, rather than military prowess. Making the long journey from Europe was as expensive as it was dangerous, but pilgrims risked increasing the danger by carrying large sums of money. In finding a solution to that problem, the Knights Templar invented a system that can fairly be described as the world’s first private bank. A 2017 BBC article explained, “A pilgrim could leave his cash at Temple Church in London, and withdraw it in Jerusalem. Instead of carrying money, he would carry a letter of credit. The Knights Templar were the Western Union of the crusades.”

Temple Church, London

Despite their individual vows of poverty, managing this scheme made the Templars enormously wealthy as a group. So wealthy, in fact, they became the premier financial institution in all of Europe. That wealth also translated into power. On its face, the Templar banking operation might just seem like a sophisticated ledger system which cataloged transactions. In reality, “By turning personal obligations into internationally tradable debts, these medieval bankers were creating their own private money, outside the control of Europe's kings.” Many of those same kings also found themselves indebted to the Templars, and that’s what history books blame for the order’s downfall.

After the loss of the last Christian city in the Holy Land, the Knights Templar headquarters was relocated to Paris, then under the reign of King Philip IV. A 2017 SOFREP post chronicled what happened next:

“Philip’s kingdom was deeply in debt to the Templars and he feared their power. After the Templar banks denied Philip another loan he moved against them. On the morning of Friday, October 13, 1307, Philip had scores of the Templars arrested in France including the order’s Grand Master Jacques de Molay. Many were sent to the Tower of Chinon where they were brutally tortured until they confessed to false charges, which included heresy, homosexuality, financial corruption, devil worshipping, fraud, spitting on the cross and more.

Despite the absence of any evidence other than what was coerced by torture by Philip, the Pope, Clement V issued an edict dissolving the order under enormous pressure by Philip. Jacques de Molay was executed in 1314.

Philip never believed any of the charges were true, he moved against them mainly out of jealousy and greed. He was deeply indebted to the Templars and although their money was supposed to have been given to a rival order, the Knights Hospitallers, it is believed that Philip and King Edward II of England made off with most of the money.”

That’s the official story.

Maybe it’s true. Maybe it really was just a case of “French King Bad” like we learned as kids. Or maybe, considering what we now know about the global power structure, the mainstream media has lied about this story too.

We spend a lot of time on Quite Frankly exploring the modern conspiracy of a cabal bent on world domination. The cabal’s most powerful weapon is usury, which forces the populace to live within tight, and ever shrinking boundaries, while exponentially enriching the central bankers who create the money. One of the organizations that is constantly attacked for supposedly enabling this plot is Freemasonry.

Though no official documents prove a connection, there are theories that Masons can trace their roots to the Knights Templar. These theories mostly stem from the fact that the Templars outside France avoided persecution, and speculate they fled to Scotland and Switzerland. Scotland, not London, is thought by some to be the true birthplace of Masonry, and Switzerland is well known for being an international banking black hole.

Then there’s the question about the true origin story of the Knights Templar. The order, founded in Jerusalem, became known by that name because its first headquarters was located at the Temple Mount, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon. Research from a 2015 Ancient Origins post claims, “The Templars literally disappeared there for nine years and what they did in their time there remains mostly unknown.” Further, there were only nine original Templars, so the theory that their mission was to find something seems more realistic than protecting thousands of pilgrims. Tunnels have been found at the site, and “Templars spurs and various pieces of armaments were found as proof that the tunnels had been used by them.”

If the Templars found something there, it may have been something very dark. At the time of the temple’s destruction in 70 A.D., it was controlled by the Pharisees, who Jesus accused of turning it into a “den of thieves” as he “overturned the tables of the money changers” (Matthew 21:12-13). St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was executed by the Pharisees after accusing them of having taken up the “tabernacle of Moloch” (Acts 7:43). Is this where the Templars learned how to exercise control through money? If so, did they give themselves over to the god of the Pharisees in exchange? Whether they found something or not, they accumulated immense power after they excavated this site.

Given what we know today, it’s fair to ask the question, what really happened on that Friday the 13th all those years ago? Was King Philip really just jealous and greedy? Or was he actually in the right, and dare I say, based? What exactly did he accuse the Knights Templar of being? A militant banking cartel guilty of committing financial and sex crimes, and performing secret satanic rituals? Who controls the world today? It’s probably all just a coincidence.