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of power that wins is the wisdom that bends power and in the

spirit of the values witnessed the value of which masonry is the
bearer is not that a society linked to a path of materiality but

to something different. Only by applying the spiritual and

initiatory principle that of philanthropy would shift the

paradigm and the response to the great migration: Those men

should be welcomed but let us not forget that before they come to

us they travel in the desert between violence and humiliation,

not in search of the "Belpaese" but in search of two essential
goods: freedom and water. If we grasp the term philanthropy:

freeing man from need in the place where he lives, the civilized

Europe instead of building new refugee camps in the Maghreb must

build new wells so that there is the possibility of rediscovering

the vital element, so that it can continue to produce, build and
live in those territories. Countries should be prevented from

becoming owners of the glacial sources of Africa. We know what

migration is, our grandparents have left in many countries in

Europe, America, and they brought a handful of land into their

pockets because they wanted to go back to the place where they

were born. We also know that we can welcome them but not

integrate them, France teaches, and even here the culture of
Freemasonry responds to the difference through the value of

tolerance and the richness that the cultural difference creates

in the knowledge of the Men and in the capacities for development

that dialogue can create. This is a project that we must develop

in our journey in which Masonry returns to be an Institution that
dialogues with others, a project in which Masonry does not pursue

but is pursued because it represents a high point of political

and economic social planning witnessed through a that method of

dialogue, of comparison, of the willingness to create the new

respect to the current positions that are barriers, barriers,

divisions. It is the function of Freemasonry to preserve the
state and its integrity.

GB-
What is the difference and what links are there between Freemasonry and Templarism?

TB-

An initiatory path is an initiatory path, there are no

differences except in the search for symbolic elements within
which to find an identity that accompanies us towards the path of

the past and that somehow shows us that this present is a present

that can live through a re-reading of what has been the great

wisdom. There are no tears in the evolution of Man, there are no

moments in which culture jumps, Masonry and Templarism are two
sides of the same coin. The identity with which man looks upwards

is a process that encompasses the great communities and the great

communions of thought, of knowledge. The way that Bernard da

Clairvaux testified by founding the Order of the Temple. But do

you really think it was wrong to make two? On the same day, in

the same way but with contrasting functions, he also founded the