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To: thackney

It is thought that the Freemasons (one of whose subsidiary organizations is the Shrine) derive from the Templars.


11 posted on 06/17/2011 7:08:51 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: BelegStrongbow
subsidiary organizations is the Shrine

My understanding (and very limited) is that the Shriners broke off from the Masons who they considered too uptight. They wanted a group with more fun.

To my thinking that disassociates them as they wanted their own group away from the traditions of the first. But I may have that understanding distorted. I see them as a new group, not a continuation of the old.

15 posted on 06/17/2011 7:17:47 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: BelegStrongbow

That is science fiction, according to a real history of the Templars:

http://www.amazon.com/Templars-Piers-Paul-Read/dp/030681496X

The Templars by Piers Paul Read


23 posted on 06/17/2011 7:35:03 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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