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Aquitaine was utilized to convince him about the convenience of founding the monastery of
Cluny. In the year 910 the own Berno took the guidance of the monastery and gives birth to the
Concentration of the Knowledge: there are collected the main books and manuscripts that the
Order had in different monasteries and is constituted a Golem Elite dedicated to the copy of
documents and the study of the «Sacred Architecture». Of course, the Golem Elite, internally
denominated «cleric monks», would have to be occupied with exclusiveness of their works and
to abandon the traditional Benedictine norm of sharing the works of maintenance of the
monastery and the production of food: in this sense, was reformed the Benedictine Rule and
was created the institution of the «laic monks» to perform the honorable function to maintain
the Golems. During the command of the second abbot, Saint Odo, the first fruits of the reform
were at sight: first was diffused the fame about the asceticism and the perfection reached by
the cluniac reform, what attracted the curiosity of other monasteries and caused the
admiration of the people; then groups of monks are sent specially trained to the monasteries
that demand it, to initiate them in the reform: the members of the population were carefully
selected to include them in the Elite of cleric monks or to put them in charge of the own works
of the laical monks; then were inaugurated monasteries submitted to the jurisdiction of Cluny,
to those who were extended the rights of autonomy and independence. In that point, Cluny
was a Congregation by own right. And who more enthusiastically supported Saint Odo with a
papal bull in the year 932 in the Benedictine was Pope John XI, bastard son of the Pope Sergius
III and of Mariozza of Theodora, famous assassin of that Age.
After one hundred and fifty years of activity, the Congregation of Cluny counted with
two thousand monasteries distributed mainly in France, Germany and Italy, but also in Spain,
England, Poland, etc.; without including the other thousands of Benedictine monasteries that
have adopted the cluniac reform but that not depend of the Abbot of Cluny. In the middle of
the XI century the Order had achieved to transform effectively the European Culture: under the
intellectual mantle of the Benedictines of Cluny have been formed the operative mason guilds
that demonstrated their proficiency in the «Romanic» art of construction and that they are
ready to begin the «Gaelic» revolution, misnamed gothic; behind that movement, naturally, is
the Secret College of Temple Constructors. But also has been achieved to plant in the heart of
the feudal lords the seed of the sentimentalism, the repentance and the Christian pietism: the
«sins» increase more and more in the Soul of the knight and he requires of the alleviation of the
sacerdotal confession; is accepted to disturb the warrior behavior by means of the «peace of
God» and the «truce of God», determined by the Priests; the German warriors were moralized
with the Jewish principles of the Law of God, the Fear to the Justice of God, etc. As a result of
this emerges a special class of Nobles and Knights that, without losing their courage and
audacity, but respectful of God and his representatives, are conditioned to outbreak blindly to
any adventure that the Church demanded.
The plans of the White Fraternity are being accomplished in all their parts. In the year
1000, after they had awestruck Europe with the «proximity of the Final Judgment», the Golems
advanced a huge step when exposing to the German Emperor their project of reconstruction of
the Western Roman Empire with capital in Rome and achieving that his acceptance to displace
the capital of the Empire from its German base: although that project would not be
accomplished, the idea was already proposed and would influence for two hundred and fifty
years in the imperial objectives of the German Kingdom. The details of that plan were agreed

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