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to transport the provisions to the Secret Cavern; and only once a year he established contact
with some of the Lords of Tharsis. But the news were invariably the same: the Templars didn’t
effectuate any movement in such direction. But, even if they not acted now, they were there,
very close, and their presence constituted a threat that was percevied in the atmosphere.
Naturally, the Templars didn't act because they were wating the Immortals. And they,
finallly reached, one hundred and forty years after the murder of Lupo de Tharsis in the
Fortress de Mozón. A ship of the Templar army, coming from Normandy, landed in Lisbonin
1268 with the Abbot of Clairvaux, the Great Master of the Temple, and a custody of fifteen
Knights. The Great Master explained to the Queen Beatriz that the expedition had for destiny
the Castle of Aracena, where would be named a Provincial obtaining all her support and the
subsequent authorization of King Alfonso III; the presence of Bera and Birsha was not noticed
there because they simulated to be servant brothers and were dressed like them. Days after the
travellers took the ancient Roman road which started in Olisipo (Lisbon) and Hispalis (Seville)
and passed through Corticata (Cortegana), a few kilometres from Aracena.
Once in Aracena, the Immortals approved all what the Templar did referring to the
edification of the Castle. In the interior of the Church, the floor of the apse was the trap door
that connected with the Cave of Odiel: in reality, the Cave was not exactly under the Church
but it was necessary to reach to it by a ramp tunnel, which access was in a wood stairway in the
apse. But Bera and Birsha overlooked the details of the construction because their major
interest was focused in the Cave. They explored it inch by inch, for hours, speaking each other
in a strange language that their four accompanists didn't dare to interrupt; they were the Abbot
of Clairvaux, the Great Master of the Temple, both Golems, and two templar Preceptors
«experts in hebrew language», it means, two Rabbis, representatives of the Chosen People.
Apparently, the inspection had positive results; that they divined by the expressions of
the Immortals because they were extremely serious in all what referred to the Cave and their
presence there. In any case, they only made one request: the adaptation to some symbolic form,
which they described with precision, the mirror of a small underground lake, which was fed by a
trickle of minimum volume. Also such affluent had to be momentarily interrupted diverting the
eroded watercourse of alimentation. And in certain places had to be distributed, around the
lake, seven Menorah candelabrums.

Twenty-Fifth Day

The Immortals expossed the actual situation to the Cistercian Order, the Templar, and
the Rabbis: the Supreme Lords of the White Fraternity, «Ruge Guiepo», and the Supreme
Priest, Melchizedek, had received with displeasure the betrayal of Frederick II and his
pretension to become a Universal Emperor. These acts debilitated the power of the Papacy and
avoided until the present to fulfill the plans charted by centuries by the Golem: the triumph
was still possible but it had to be worked with iron fist; eliminate from the root every

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