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Chivalet,
M . Hammer , ' when stones serve as witnesses . ' The mighty crime with which this modern assailant charges the Order was the worship of an idol of bafbmet form . He labours hard and expends much erudition to prove this charge by certain figures upon medals of the time , the chief of which are the truncated cross , the cnx cmsata , and the Tau of the Gnostics . * The whole matter is well examined
Order , five hundred years had passed away , when accusations , evidences , and judgments , were again submitted to the revision of history , but the renown of the Order and the memory of the Knights are again re-established in the opinion of impartial persons . A new adversary of the Templars presented himself , andv setting aside the accusations which contemporary persecutors had imagined , revealed other crimes . In spite of the interval of time , he boasted being able to produce material proofs : / There is no need of words , ' says
by M . Eaynouard , and the accusation successfully refuted . He concludes his observations thus : — " This distinguished savant will some day acknowledge that he ought not to have yielded to the desire of putting forth a new system
of denunciation against the Order of the Knights of the Temple . Their terrible and celebrated catastrophe imposes the obligation of being very circumspect and very severe in the choice of the means by which we may allow ourselves to endeavour to deprive them of the just pity which posterity has not refused to their fate . "
The proscription and persecution against the Templars in the fourteenth century , did not annihilate the Order . The succession has been perfect m France , and there has been an unbroken series of Grand Masters down to the present time , amongst whom are to be found some of the most illustrious names . Bertrand du
Gkiesclin was Grand Master for a number of years ; the dignity was sustained by several of the Montmorencis ; and during . the last century the heads of the society were princes of the house of Bourbon . The register of the Order contains also the names of Massillon and Fenelon , of Frederick the Great and Napoleon . "We must now conclude our brief narrative of the career of this noble association , bidding them farewell in the words of Shakspere : — " Adieu , and take thy praise with thee to heaven ! Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave , But not remembered in thy epitaph ! "
n ? RTEN"DSHlP . ;—Get not yctir friends by bare compliments , but by giving them sensible tokens of your love . It is well worth while to learn how to win the heart of a man the right way . Force is of no use to make or preserve a friend , who is an animal that is never caught nor tamed but by kindness and pleasure . Excite them by your civilities , and show them that you desire nothing more than their satisfaction ; oblige with all your soul that friend who has made you a present of his own . —/ Socrates . t * . * All symbolic emblems of eternal life .
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Chivalet,
M . Hammer , ' when stones serve as witnesses . ' The mighty crime with which this modern assailant charges the Order was the worship of an idol of bafbmet form . He labours hard and expends much erudition to prove this charge by certain figures upon medals of the time , the chief of which are the truncated cross , the cnx cmsata , and the Tau of the Gnostics . * The whole matter is well examined
Order , five hundred years had passed away , when accusations , evidences , and judgments , were again submitted to the revision of history , but the renown of the Order and the memory of the Knights are again re-established in the opinion of impartial persons . A new adversary of the Templars presented himself , andv setting aside the accusations which contemporary persecutors had imagined , revealed other crimes . In spite of the interval of time , he boasted being able to produce material proofs : / There is no need of words , ' says
by M . Eaynouard , and the accusation successfully refuted . He concludes his observations thus : — " This distinguished savant will some day acknowledge that he ought not to have yielded to the desire of putting forth a new system
of denunciation against the Order of the Knights of the Temple . Their terrible and celebrated catastrophe imposes the obligation of being very circumspect and very severe in the choice of the means by which we may allow ourselves to endeavour to deprive them of the just pity which posterity has not refused to their fate . "
The proscription and persecution against the Templars in the fourteenth century , did not annihilate the Order . The succession has been perfect m France , and there has been an unbroken series of Grand Masters down to the present time , amongst whom are to be found some of the most illustrious names . Bertrand du
Gkiesclin was Grand Master for a number of years ; the dignity was sustained by several of the Montmorencis ; and during . the last century the heads of the society were princes of the house of Bourbon . The register of the Order contains also the names of Massillon and Fenelon , of Frederick the Great and Napoleon . "We must now conclude our brief narrative of the career of this noble association , bidding them farewell in the words of Shakspere : — " Adieu , and take thy praise with thee to heaven ! Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave , But not remembered in thy epitaph ! "
n ? RTEN"DSHlP . ;—Get not yctir friends by bare compliments , but by giving them sensible tokens of your love . It is well worth while to learn how to win the heart of a man the right way . Force is of no use to make or preserve a friend , who is an animal that is never caught nor tamed but by kindness and pleasure . Excite them by your civilities , and show them that you desire nothing more than their satisfaction ; oblige with all your soul that friend who has made you a present of his own . —/ Socrates . t * . * All symbolic emblems of eternal life .