The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

FREEMASONRY AND KNIGHTS TEMPLARevents, Darius is said to have instituted a newOrder and called it the Knights of the East. Theyafterwards assumed theigf present name from thered cross borne in their banners."Knights Templar.In the early centuries of our era the Semitic racesent forth to the nations two great streams of religionand out of this contribution sprang the rival;systems of Christianity and Mohammedanism.Each would be all or nothing. Each entered intocombination with the political structure of states,and sought by means of the temporal power, oropen proclamation of its own right, to control thethe destinies of the world.institutions and swayIn the struggle which ensued, the powers of primitivecivilization were arrayed against each otherunder the Cross and the Crescent. In the issueEurope fell to Christ; Asia and Africa, to Mohammed.