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The Knights Templar were a religious order of knighthood established at the time of the Crusades that grew in wealth and power through banking and military conquest. Eventually destroyed by King Philip IV of France, the order allegedly introduced esoteric knowledge from the Middle East into Europe considered blasphemous by the Church. During the Renaissance, these guarded alchemical secrets were symbolically encoded into various forms of literature by certain occult secret societies. Occult Revelations Bloodlines of the Chosen
