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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
Crusader organization Jiang presents as the first multinational bank and a precursor to Freemasonry after suppression.
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Glossary
A crusader military order Jiang treats as a multinational bank and cosmopolitan free-thinking network.
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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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"...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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"So what the Knights Templars are doing is they're absorbing all this diverse religious belief. And as such, they become essentially free thinkers, okay?..."
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"...bureaucracy. It only cares about maintaining orthodoxy over Europe. But the Knights Templars, they are bankers, they're traders. Also, once they take over Jerusalem..."
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"...the Catholic Church, okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay, so Knights Templars, I want you guys to remember, we'll be discussing them later..."
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"...time you may have heard of certain secret societies like the knights templars rosicrucians the illuminati the freemasons okay they're all very powerful they're..."
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"...military orders of the crusaders, okay? You've probably heard of the Knights Templar, okay? They're the most famous. But you also have a group..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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