Templars In America: From The Crusades To The New World, By Tim Wallace-murphy & Marilyn Hopkins

Excerpted with permission from
Templars in America:
From the Crusades to the New World,
by Tim Wallace-Murphy & Marilyn Hopkins,
Red Wheel Weiser Book Publishers 2004.

The complex and fascinating story of European exploration
of the Americas in the time of ancient Egypt and classical Rome
is based on hard archaeological evidence, archival records,
and, surprisingly, modern scientific, forensic evidence.

The ship-building and navigational skills
that enabled the Viking people to cross the Atlantic
as often as they did are well documented,
as are many of their voyages.

The age-old traditions that link both the Irish
and the Welsh to medieval exploration of the New World,
while still classed as myth and legend
as no verifiable evidence has yet been found
to substantiate them, are fascinating nonetheless.

Equally legendary is the tradition
that the medieval warrior monks of the Knights Templar
had trading links with the Americas.

Unlike some legends, however,
this one does have a solid factual basis.

One hundred years after the suppression
of the heretical Order of the Knights Templar,
and nearly a century before Columbus,
two leading European Templar families
combined forces in an attempt
to create a new commonwealth in America
far beyond the repressive reach
of Holy Mother the Church
and the long arm of the Inquisition.

In 1396, Henry St. Clair, Earl of Orkney
and Lord of Roslin, placed his feet
under the command of two of the sons
of the renowned Zeno family of Venice
and sailed with them to explore the North Atlantic
and visit America--not once, but at least twice.

Steeped in Templar tradition and spirituality,
they sailed across the North Atlantic
in the manner of Earl Henry's Viking ancestors.

They left proof, carved in stone,
on both sides of the Atlantic,
as well as documentary evidence
that is accepted by the majority of academics
and borne out by a strong oral tradition
that has withstood the test of time.

Perhaps the most enduring legacy
is not the round Templar church built
on the North American continent,
but the enduring friendship
and amity that has lasted for over 600 years
between the worldwide Clan Sinclair
and the Mi'qmaq people of northeastern Canada.

This friendship was based from the beginning
on shared spiritual values and the principles
of truth and justice, values that ensured
that these voyages would be of enduring peace,
respect, and tolerance, completely free
from the lasting legacy of distrust, hatred,
and genocide that marred almost every other contact
between the white invader and the Native American peoples.

Although the voyages had little immediate political
or commercial impact, they acted as beacons
to a centuries-long process of spiritually inspired
actions that affect us all today.

Earl Henry's grandson, Earl William St. Clair,
was instrumental in transforming the craft guilds
of Scotland, of which he was a hereditary Grand Master,
into the fraternity of Freemasonry,
whose beliefs and traditions molded the thinking
of the founding fathers of the United States.

Thus this spiritually inspired brotherhood
gave the world an enduring and vitally important political legacy
--the American Constitution.

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