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time that had not accepted the authority of the Pope. In Scotland, they in-
filtrated the wall-builders' guild and, in time, took it over. The guilds
adopted the traditions of the Templars, and thus, the Masonic seed was
planted in Scotland. Still, to this day, the mainline of Masonry is the "An-
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite."
As we investigated in detail in The New Masonic Order, from the be-
ginnings of the fourteenth century it is possible to detect traces of the

Templars—and some Jews associated with them—at various stages of Eu-
ropean history. Without going into detail, here are some of the headings
under which we examined this topic:
• In Provence, in France, there was an important Templar refuge.
During the arrests, very many hid here. Another important feature of the
area is that it is the most well known center of Kabbalism in Europe.
Provence is the place where the oral tradition of the Kabbalah was made
into a book.
• The Peasants Revolt in England, in 1381, was, according to some

historians, fanned to flame by a secret organization. Those experts who
study the history of Masonry agree that this secret organization was the
Templars. It was more than a mere civil uprising, it was a planned assault
on the Catholic Church. 31
• Half a century after this revolt, a clergyman in Bohemia by the
name of John Huss started an uprising in opposition to the Catholic
Church. Behind the scenes of this uprising were again the Templars.

Moreover, Huss was very interested in the Kabbalah. Avigdor B en Isaac
Kara was one of the most important names that he was influenced by in
the development of his doctrines. Kara was a rabbi of the Jewish commu-
nity in Prague and a Kabbalist. 32
Examples such as these are signs that the alliance between the Tem-
plars and the Kabbalists was directed at a change in the social order of Eu-
rope. This change involved an alteration in the basic Christian culture of

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