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that the maintenance of the Holy War had no other purpose than to strengthen the Order of
the Temple and the Church: the next Crusades, indeed, allowed the Popes to demonstrate their
power above the Kings and Nobles, and to the Order of the Temple to increase their riches. In
this way, the papacy reached its highest grade of prestige and could summon the Kings of
France, England or Germany, to «cross» with Christ , Our Lord, and, with luck, even achieved to
eliminate some potential enemy of their plans for the European hegemony, as the Emperor
Frederick Barbarossa for example, who never returned from the Third Crusade. And, while the
war continued and the army of the East was professionally improving and turned indispensable
in all its operations, the Order was constructing a formidable economic and financial
infrastructure: it was said that such power served to sustain the Crusade of the Templar
Knights, but, in reality, it was assisting to the foundation of the financial Synarchy. The order
soon developed, over the base of their countless properties in France, Spain, Italy, Flanders,
etc., a banking network which operated with the newest system of the «promissory note»,
invented by the Jewish bankers of Venice, and their central seat was in the House of the
Temple of Paris, real Bank, provided of Treasure and Strong chamber. Naturally, they practiced
the loan with interests to Noble and Kings, which «owed amount», and other very advanced
documents for the Period, were kept in coffers of the Order. Among other responsibilities, they
had entrusted the administration of the funds of the Church and the tax collection for the
crown of France.
The Templars occupied in Spain many sites, within them was Monzón Castle, which after
the death of Alfonso I, the Battler, was given to them in property: from there, they «fought
against the unfaithful», according to the Rule of the Order. Such fortress was located in Huesca,
on the shores of river Cinca, in that time Kingdom of Aragon: and Bera and Birsha went
thither, after the Council of Troyes, accompanied by an important entourage of Cistercian
monks. The immortals, were going to realize a «Secret Golem Council» in which would remain
established the directives for the next hundred years, date in which they would ask for accounts
again about the fact. In that Council, apart from the details of the Golem plan that I have
described, the Immortals proposed, in the name of the White Fraternity, two issues had to be
resolved as soon as possible; it was about two Extermination Sentences: one, against the House
of Tharsis, was still pending since long time ago; the other, against the Cathars and
Albiginenses of the Languedoc, was recent and had to be executed immediately.
About the House of Tharsis, the Immortals admitted that it was a difficult Case because
it was not possible to fulfill the extermination without finding before the Stone of Venus that
they had occulted in a Secret Cave. With the purpose to achieve the confession of the Key to
find the secret entrance, Bera and Birsha decided to attack this time to the members of family
that were inhabiting the neighboring city of Zaragoza; they were three persons: the Bishop of
Zaragoza, Lupo of Tharsis; his widow sister, old now, who lived with him in the Bishopric and
was in charge of the home issues, Lamia of Tharsis; and her son, a young novice of fifteen years
called Rabaz. The three of them were kidnaped and taken to Monzon, where they were locked
in a dungeon while the torture instruments were prepared. They started with the old man
Lupo, to whom they wildly tormented without obtaining a single word about the Secret Cave;
finally, and even if he had the majority of his bones broken, Lupo of Tharsis died as the Lord he
was: smiling with irony in front of the impotence of his assassins. With the woman and his son,
the Golems employed another tactic: considering that they would be quite frightened by the

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