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Crusader organization Jiang presents as the first multinational bank and a precursor to Freemasonry after suppression.
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Knights Templar
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...make sure you are clear. Okay, so we start with the Knights Templars. Knights Templars is probably the most successful secret society in the..."
Key Notes
Glossary
A crusader military order Jiang treats as a multinational bank and cosmopolitan free-thinking network.
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Jiang presents the popular conspiracy story as a template in which the Knights Templars survive as Scottish Rite Freemasons and become the hidden driver of modern revolutions, wars, banking, and the coming AI surveillance state.
diagnosis
Jiang says Pike rewrites history so the Freemasons become the endpoint of the Knights Templars and uses prior persecution by the French crown and Catholic Church to justify secrecy, legitimacy, and authority for the later order.
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The Knights Templar become a multinational bank by solving pilgrim money-transfer problems, then grow wealthy and heterodox enough that the Church bans them in 1307.
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Jiang claims secret societies preserved Templar-exposed religious teachings underground and later treated Newton as a prophet or chosen revealer of divine secrets.
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The Knights Templar became influential because they functioned as a multinational banking and trade organization, not only as pilgrim protectors.
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Jiang argues that governing Jerusalem forced the Templars to work with Jews and Muslims, learn from them, and become more tolerant, rational, and cosmopolitan than the church bureaucracy.
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Persecuting and disbanding the Templars is said to drive their beliefs underground, incubating the Protestant Reformation and influencing the American Revolution.
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Jiang says Freemasonry, Rosicrucian, and Templar-coded formations align with the same Kabbalistic core and that newer national-security actors should be read through that continuity.
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"...make sure you are clear. Okay, so we start with the Knights Templars. Knights Templars is probably the most successful secret society in the..."
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"well, where you could deposit your gold with the Knights Templars, and they would give you a receipt. And when you went to Jerusalem,..."
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"...what happened was that people speculate that rather than disappear, the Knights Templars reemerged as the Scottish Rite Freemasons. And why they're important is..."
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"...a crusade, and we go back to the time of the Knights Templars. And we were the ones who brought about the Revolution and..."
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"...this is why people believe that the Freemasons come from the Knights Templars. What this is really doing is it's trying to bring legitimacy..."
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"that's why they're talking about you know ground invasion that's why they're talking about you know expanding this war talk about a draft because..."
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"...um nowadays people don't actually use Freemasons they use Rosicrucians or Templars okay so Peter Hexup the second of war he is he is..."
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"...them. One organization that developed during the crusades is called the Knights Templars, okay? This is very important. We'll be discussing the Knights Templars..."
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"So they're a bank, basically. And then they can use this money to start investing throughout Europe, and so they become a very wealthy..."
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"...to discuss religious matters. They also had their origins from the Knights Templars. The Knights Templars during the Crusades were in Jerusalem. And because..."
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"And because the world was not ready for these teachings, then they would make it their mission to keep it secret and wait for..."
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"...and that's why there are five different military orders, okay? The Knights Templars are the most famous and they become, over time, extremely influential..."
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