{"id":195,"date":"2014-10-13T01:36:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T01:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=195"},"modified":"2014-10-13T01:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T01:36:11","slug":"knightstemplarfriday13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/knightstemplarfriday13th\/","title":{"rendered":"Templar Remembrance Day &#8211; Knights Templar Arrested Friday the 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day &#8212; October the 13th &#8212; in 1307 the Knights Templar members were declared heretics and rounded up en masse to be burned at the stake. It happened on a Friday the 13th and is the origin of that day&#8217;s unluckiness, say historians.<\/p>\n<p>Our New Order of the Knights Templar has observed this day for a couple of decades now by wearing black and fasting. In this way\u00a0we honor our Templars of the past and connect with them in the present.<\/p>\n<p>Light fasting is okay for those of you whose health conditions prevent full fasting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/templarbattlespiritualplane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/templarbattlespiritualplane-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Knights Templar battle today on spiritual plane warfare become a knight\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/templarbattlespiritualplane-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/templarbattlespiritualplane.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Knights Templar still battle today on the spiritual plane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The original mission of our Templar brothers and sisters of the past was to protect\u00a0Christian pilgrims from Muslim attack as they traveled to worship at sacred sites. \u00a0Millions of Muslims travel to Mecca each year, but about a thousand years ago, tens of thousands of Christian devotees would make pilgrimages to visit Jerusalem and other sites holy to their religion. The muslims in charge didn&#8217;t want them coming, so they gave their soldiers standing orders to murder Christian visitors on site &#8212; after robbing them and sometimes worse. \u00a0The Templars were founded approximately a thousand years ago to stop these attacks and protect the Christian devotee pilgrims. They ended up in many a pitched battle with Muslim armies.<\/p>\n<p>If a Templar were caught he would be automatically beheaded rather than offered the option to convert to Islam. Templars were not given the &#8220;traditional&#8221; option to convert to Islam because the Muslims knew they would never\u00a0renounce their faith, even to avoid beheading. \u00a0Every year since 1999 I post to our Templar members on YahooGroups about Templar Remembrance Day, how we observe it with fasting and wearing black, \u00a0and mention this beheading thing. \u00a0I looked at last year&#8217;s post. My words are almost identical. \u00a0Last year I mentioned forced conversions of Christians in Syria and Egypt. I had no idea that this year we would ALL know what beheading was like. \u00a0Who knew that vile practice would be revived again by the dark side of Islam? \u00a0Of course they behead their own &#8220;criminals&#8221; in Saudi Arabia in a regular gruesome way (Saudi citizens are so oppressed), but this Muslims vs. the West beheading crap has not been seen for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I also said this: The enemy is on the rise, so let us not forget today, our special Templar-Veterans Day. \u00a0It is believed that those Templar &#8220;veterans&#8221; of the past rise up whenever religious minorities of the West (especially Christians and Jews) are under attack.<\/p>\n<p>Join with your fellow Templars of the present in wearing black and fasting today. Renew your vow to protect religious minorities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KnightsTemplarCrossprime-number-seq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KnightsTemplarCrossprime-number-seq-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"Become a Knight, Templar initiation\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KnightsTemplarCrossprime-number-seq-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/KnightsTemplarCrossprime-number-seq.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Prime numbers magically stack up on the points of the famous Templar splayed cross. This is used in our Templar initiations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day &#8212; October the 13th &#8212; in 1307 the Knights Templar members were declared heretics and rounded up en masse to be burned at the stake. It happened on a Friday the 13th and is the origin of that day&#8217;s unluckiness, say historians. 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