Joseph Smith, Mormons, Knights Templar

Much mystery surrounds the Knights Templar. After the First Crusade in 1099, in which Jerusalem was captured, many Christian pilgrims began to travel to the “Holy Place,” as Jerusalem had been referred to. Located in the Holy Land was the Temple Mount, which was believed to have been built directly over King Solomon’s Temple. Jerusalem was under tight control and therefore relatively safe, yet much of the land that was at rest was not. Bandits abounded and pilgrims were routinely captured, robbed and massacred on their journey from Jaffa to the Holy Land.

Around 1119, two veterans of the First Crusade, Hugues de Payens, and a relative, Godfrey de Saint-Omer, formed a monastic order for the protection of these loyal travelers.

The crusaders thus took the name “Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon”, or Knights Templar. True to their name, the nine knights had very few financial resources, relying on donations to survive. Emphasizing his poverty, his emblem became that of two knights mounted on a single horse.

Suddenly, after their first stay on the Temple Mount and returning to Europe, the Templars began to gain wealth and prestige. In a very short time, the Knights Templar had become the richest group in Europe, if not the world. Legend has it that in the basement of King Solomon’s Temple they found something, some secret or treasure through which they acquired knowledge that allowed them to acquire this tremendous fortune.

They soon became richer than most governments and attracted the envy and wrath of the French Pope, who had been their ally and supporter ever since. The church, having gone through difficult times, needed money. Therefore, the Pope began to plan a way to acquire the fortunes of the knights.

False moral and ethical charges were soon leveled against the Templars, so most were arrested and executed on Friday the 13th, 1307. Therefore, Friday the 13th has been designated an unlucky day ever since.

Some were able to escape to Scotland and points beyond. Legend has it that some may have even made it to North America and settled in what is now New York state, with some possibly traveling as far west as Minnesota.

This is entirely possible, since they had a knowledge of the world that the common man cannot access and they would have been able to make the crossing through the Atlantic Ocean. Suppose the most knowledgeable settled in upstate New York and buried their “treasure” somewhere in the woods.

Fast-forwarding 500 years, a spiritual young man seeking enlightenment enters. Following the instructions of his God, this young man, after much prayer and meditation, was found worthy, and hence discovers some gold plates near Palmyra in the New York woods. Following the instructions of God and Jesus, Joseph Smith founds the Mormon Church, joins the Masonic Lodge, and becomes one of the great spiritual leaders of modern times.

The gold plates contained the Book of Mormon, which Joseph Smith says was written in “reformed Egyptian.” Along with the Book of Mormon were two stones that allowed Smith to decipher the plates. Locals believed that the treasure had been buried by Indians who thought they were one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.

Perhaps the Knights Templar actually found this treasure on the Temple Mount, used the knowledge to gain their fame and wealth, and in subsequent years headed to uptown New York and thus buried the plates to be discovered somewhere. future generation by one. who would be able to continue the work. The Templars would have actually migrated from Jerusalem, so there might be some credibility to the legend.

Many believe that the United States is the “City on a Hill”, the “New Jerusalem” That “Bourne” from which no traveler returns. In the same general area, a Jewish rabbi once attempted to establish a Jewish state in upstate New York near Niagara Falls.

Who knows, maybe it’s all related. There are no coincidences in life.

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