July 13, 2007
triska-deka, do-dah, do-dah
Posted at July 13, 2007 10:29 AM in
Social/Cultural
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I always pause on a Friday the 13th to remember a very bad "Friday the 13th" from history.
It was Friday, October 13, 1307, when Philip IV of France ordered the arrest of all members of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon in France. Phillipe le Bel ("the fair") enlisted the pope in his scheme, outlawing the order in France and getting the pope to extend that ban to the rest of the christian world. Over the next seven years, Templars were interrogated, tortured, and executed by the Church and the French.
So, my thoughts are with those men and their sacrifice, as I meditate on the 30th Degree of the Scottish Rite...
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