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Enemy, who would believe him a friend; Philip the Fair, by his part would represent the
ambitious and intolerant tyrant, attempting to draw to himself all the attention of the Enemy:
This would to the role of Clement V. When all was ready in Poitiers, was lifted the
curtain and started the first act of the drama: this one began with the publication of a Crusade
against Andronikos Palaiologos, Emperor of Constantinople, who was accused to maintain the
schism of the Greek Church. Since the fall of Acre, the Order of the Temple had retired to
Cyprus, where they sustained a regular garrison, meanwhile, the Hospitaller Order did their
own in isle of Rhodes. With the finality to establish their participation in the Crusade, Clement
V cited in France the Great Master of the Temple Jacques de Molay. Once in his presence, with
total ingenuity, the Pope manifested his intention to fulfill the old idea of Gregory IX to fuse all
the military Orders: such idea, of course, caused terror on the Templars due to the integration
of with an exoteric Order would unveil their secrets. Without suspecting the ambush, the Great
Master would attempt to persuade the Pope about the inconvenient of such measure: according
to his impression, would not be difficult to deceive a simple-minded as Clement V.
After the demential fall of the Golem Boniface VIII, the Golems were warned about the
offensive of the Domini Canis, and they knew what to expect in regard to the election of
Clement V. Nevertheless, they considered that he was just an instrument of Philip the Fair and
his environment of «sons of darkness»: the impression of the Great Golem Jacques de Molay
confirmed it; the Pope was vulnerable to the affective influence. The Great Master would
dedicate to gain the amity of the Pontiff, without imagining that in Paris, Nogaret y Guillaume
Imbert were preparing his ruin. And in a few months, Clement V would achieve that the Golem
Chief distrusted not of his good faith.
Enguerrand de Marigny and Guillaume de Nogaret were raised to the most important
positions of France: coadjutor of the Kingdom and seal-keeper of the King, respectively.
With this power, they launched a secret operation that had as objective the execution of
a simultaneous and effective action in the whole Kingdom: such action was fulfilled in 13 of
October 1307, when all the Templar Knights of France, including their Great Master,
were arrested under the accusation of heresy. In reality, the accumulated charges of
Nogaret were many and varied, but it was emphasized in the heresy to obtain the intervention
of the inquisitorial tribunal, which in France was chaired by Guillaume Imbert of Paris.
Thereupon, the strategic success of the Domini Canis was seen: while the Great Master
received requests of the Knights to resist the arrest, and he hesitated about the attitude to
assume, Guillaume de Plasian sent him a message where the Pope guaranteed his help and
advised him to renounce in the defense of the Order and the submission to his will. Was in this
way how the Great Master ordered all the Knights to surrender, and he trusted in papal
intervention. Furthermore, according to what the Golems believed, they still had enough
influence into the Order of Dominican Preachers.
Philip the Fair wasted no time: without resistance, his troops occupied all the Templar
properties. The terror was installed in the enemy Order; hundreds of Knights and monks were
incarcerated. By this strong procedure no one doubted about the severity of the accusation and
soon was achieved to gather enough witnesses and proofs as to assure its liquidation. Apart
from the inquisition, Philip the Fair convoked the provincial Councils, to the University of
Paris and the General States to judge the Order. Thereby, when his diabolic fundament was
emerging from the darkness, the whole people of France would assist to the exhibition of the

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