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The Knight Templars, and The Rosicrucians

The surviving Knights Templars founded (or merged) with an existing secret Order in the early 1300s, later referred to as the The Rosicrucians (Order of the Rose-Croix). Very few details are known about its actual beginnings due to this order’s ability to cover its activities.

Albert Pike in Morals and Dogma however, establishes a definite link between the Rosicrucians and the Templar Order, “….The successors of the Ancient Adepts Rose-Croix, abandoning by degrees the austere and hierarchal Science of their Ancestors in initiation, became a Mystic Sect, uniting with many of the Templars, the dogmas of the two intermingling….. ”