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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Templars fleeing the Church were given refuge by the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce .

disappear. During the sudden arrest in 1307, some Templars escaped,
managing to cover their tracks. According to a thesis based on various his-
torical documents, a significant number of them took refuge in the only
kingdom in Europe that did not recognize the authority of the Catholic

Church in the fourteenth century, Scotland. There, they reorganized
under the protection of the Scottish King, Robert the Bruce. Some time
later, they found a convenient method of disguise by which to continue
their clandestine existence: they infiltrated the most important guild in the
medieval British Isles—the wall builders' lodge, and eventually, they fully
seized control of these lodges. 7
The wall-builders' lodge changed its name, at the beginning of the
modern era, calling itself the "Masonic lodge." The Scottish Rite is the oldest

branch of Masonry, and dates back to the beginning of the fourteenth cen-
tury, to those Templars who took refuge in Scotland. And, the names given
to the highest degrees in Scottish Rite are titles attributed centuries earlier to

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