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Gran Commenda dei Cavalieri Templari d'Italia Chartered April 30, 1993 Officers Charter[pdf] Degrees KT Links York Rite Rito di York

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KNIGHTS TEMPLARI Of the YORK RITUAL
the Templari Knights are members of the ancient Institution of the Masonry, of whose inner structure makes part the Ritual of York, Sistema composed from three independent Rituali Bodies and at the same time joined:
- the Large one Understood it of the Free Masons of the Real Arc of the Ritual of York d'Italy, that it constitutes the First Degree of Entrance for Master Libero Mason, than therefore become Similar in order sgrossare the own stone.
- the Large one I conciliate of the Massoni Criptici d' Italy, that it constitutes According to Degree, than dedication mainly to the esoteric introspection, and with it to the esoteric frmation of the Companions.
- the Great Commenda of the Knights Templari d' Italy, that it constitutes the third party and last Degree of the Ritual of York, and is deputy to the defense broadly speaking and general, from that one moral and to its values, to that more terrena comprised the relief to the weak people and indigent It detaches itself from the massonica Tradition based on the construction of the Tempio in order riproporre the historical values of the monaci-guerrieri in Terrasanta. For this the members do not call more Companions but Knights. The Commende of the Middle Ages was of the entities that had to the center a defended Benedictine convent from the monaci uerrieri, where was prayed, it was worked and above all they came received and rifocillati the viandanti. The city centers were born or prospered around or close to they, also for porsi under their protection. The Commenda today for analogy does not reveal hidden secrets and the watertight language does not speak about the simbologia, but it lives again made and historical situations, carrying out the own jobs in the Asylum of the Commenda. Such jobs are presided from the Eminent Knight, assisted from Dignitaries and Officials, all recalling the military service:Generalissimo, General Captain, Secretary, Treasurer, Prelato, Old Caretaker, Young Caretaker, Portastendardo, Portaspada, Guardiano, Lookout. All the Commende Italian are under the jurisdiction of the Great Commenda of the Knights Templari d' Italy of the Ritual of York, than to own time it is subordinated to the "Great USA Encampment of the Templari Knights", the highest world-wide Organism of the masonry to templare. The Templarismo differs from all the other massonici Bodies for its religious connotation, being based on the principles and the values of the Christian virtues. The Order of the Knights of the Tempio has three steps, calls "Orders to you":
The Order of the Red Cross
The Order of the Priorato of the Knights of Malta
The Order of the Templari Knights


The ORDER of the Red Cross
the legend us door in the period that followed the dead women of Cyrus ing of Persia, monarch man of wide views that granted to all the religious freedom. Between the other in year 539 a.c. it allowed the Hebrew to make return their Native land and to reconstitute the Tempio to you di Gerusalemme. But to the dead women of Cyrus he was its son Cambise II to succedergli, than being contrary to the reconstruction of the Tempio, left the Samaritani free who considered the Hebrew of the traitors, to cause continuous interruptions to the construction of the Tempio. After seven years of reign, Cambise II died and succeeded Dario I. Concilio of the Hebrew of Gerusalemme sended Zorobabele to Babylon in order to ask the new king to take part and to give back it is gone sacred who Nabucodonosor had trafugato after the destruction of the Tempio. At first Zorobabele comes imprisoned, but it then succeeds to remember to Dario their ancient friendship. Consequently the Hebrew obtain a truce with the Samaritani, and the reconstruction of the Tempio di Jerusalemme finally was finished in the 516 a.c. The historical legend makes from background the ceremony of initiation of the Order, whose fulcrum is the "Eternal argument" between King and Dignitaries of Palace, in which Zorobabele demonstrates as the force of the Truth is pre-eminent to all. Every simbologia of the Order of the Red Cross standard to living always asserting and only the Truth, and to strike itself in order to search it incessantly, because by means of It the Man will only be able to rejoin itself with the Eternal one. The Banner of the Order, to green bottom, brings to the center a star to seven tips with within the Red Cross to arms and equal angles, that they are to indicate the Divinity, the Truth, the Justice and the Freedom. The star is encircled from the maxim: "Large she is the Truth and it will always prevail". To the neo Knight it comes also offered a green scarf with over the Red Cross to equal arms, than, recalling the Banner, the inborn one to follow of incessantly the principles indicates to you, and the compimendo of just the Duty.


ORDER Of PRIORATO Of KNIGHTS OF MALTA
Sovereign Order Military of Knights of Malta had beginning around to 1080 like Order religious of obedience Benedictine, when it came instituted to Jerusalemme a hospital, entitled to Saint Giovanni Batiste, for the cure of the pilgrims who oed in visit to the Saint City, still in hand Muslem. For this reason the monaci also they were known like "Ospitalieri". In the 1113 they came recognized from the Pope like a religious Order dedicated to the cure of the poor ones and the sick ones. Finally after 1128, on the wake and example of the Templari Knights, they were transformed in military order, also conserving the functions and the name of Ospitalieri di San Giovanni. In this garment they the entire time carried out an important role in defense of the Christian possedimenti in Palestine and Syria of the Crusades. On the example of the Templari they established a driven in net of Commen de in all Christian Europe, from which they drew the human and economic resources for the operations in Saint Earth. With the fall of the reign of Jerusalemme in 1291, the Hospitals worker transferred theirs quartier general to Rodi, that they governed as to be able sovereign. For this reason the Order is known also with the name of Knights of Rodi. In the 1522 Turks they conquered the island, and the Knights moved to Malta, assuming therefore the name of Knights of Malta with which they are known today. Napoleone Bonaparte taken the island in 1798, and that moment the military functions of the Order stopped, and their only task remained that original one of Hospitals worker. In the 1834 Order it established just the General Quartier to Rome,where it is still found. It is still today recognized like Sovereign Order from many states, comprised that Italian, than it it recognizes the extra-territorialità right. Already in this short cronistoria prominence the passage from the Jewish legend of the Tempio di Salomone to one vision of the Christian principles. The ceremony has two times: in the first one to the Neophyte it comes made to then live again a relative episode to the disembarkation of Paul in the island of Melita (Malta), that it finishes with a agape mystical with which receives the symbolic Mediterranean Pass, that it remembers lasciapassare that came given to the pilgrims who oed in Terrasanta. One of the more important duties than a Knight of Malta is in fact that one to make to respect the symbolic Mediterranean Pass and its purposes. In the second one it leave the Candidate covers various symbolic travels in means to colors and equally symbolic words of step, that they go from the white man of the Purity and the Birth, to the Yellow of the sublimata physical life in Ascension. To the term the Priore delivery to the neo Knight the cross to eight tips of the Order, rammentandogli that they are to indicate the eight Beatitudes. The uniform of the Knight of Malta is a black cape, symbol of Humility, that cross has on the left part of the chest one white woman to eight tips.


The ORDER Of toria KNIGHTS TEMPLARI
tells us that with the second Crusade the armies of Goffredo di Buglione, Boemondo of Taranto and numerous others, in the 1099 conquered Jerusalemme, but the dead women after a year of King Goffredo removed to the Cristianità the force and the organization necessary to maintain to a hostile territory for mentality and religion. The new King of Gerusalemme Baldovino II scarcely succeeded to conserve territories the occupied, having to face diatribe inner and large problems with the Patriarchy of Costantinopoli. The roads and the pilgrims were therefore easy subject to attacks and ambushes, until when their defense came assumed from a new type of military service constituted from monaci combatant, the Ospitalieri, the Templari and others. Nacque therefore the Epic of the Cavalry, of which the modern students are still trying to separate the historical truth from the legend. In the 1118 noble knights Ugo de Payns and Goffredo di Saint-Omer with to others seven knights, they oed in Saint Earth, receiving from king Baldovino II the authorization to fix their residence in a building that had something of historian and leggendario together: there is who supports that it was constructed on the ruins of the Tempio di Erode,who on those of the Tempio of king Salomone, who on those of the Tempio di Erode in its turn constructed on the ruins of that one of king Salomone. The only sure thing is that it was be a matter of a
thought place sacred, place on the smoothed one of the Tempio, and from here nacque their first name "Knights of the Tempio" or "Templari", therefore like subsequently that building divenne the Arabic Mosque of To the Aqsa. In short time those nine became much numerous, recall from the Faith or something more land to you. An other certainty is that between 1125 and 1127 Abbot Bernardo di Clairvaux it writes up the "Rule of the Knights of the Tempio", that it comes approved of from Concilio di Troyes, with the consequent Pope who promote them to the rank of Sacred Order to its directed dependencies, which official Organ of the Church in Saint Earth, with all the honors, prebende and exemptions. Based on the Rule the Templari made ballot of castità, obedience and poverty, they dressed cappa a white woman with the Red Cross on the chest, and were organizes to you in nearly militaresco way, from the Knights, to the Petty officers first class, adjuvant theirs and serving, to Militi, all hierarchically under a Great Master and Concilio that only answered to the Pope. After least decades of battles and other asset, this religious military Order succeeded in to count more than ventimila Knights distributed in beyond 1.500 Commende, that they were been born like acceptance centers and cure of the pilgrims, with a often fortified convent, around to the which nacquero very soon centers inhabits that you to you gravitavano for the same reason. With of these truths, beyond to more profane activities, it made yes that in short time the power of the enormous Order divenne, under all the profiles, military, spiritual and financial, succeeding in in the time to become a true and own independent supernational national power, to King and Emperors which even addressed in order to finance their enterprises. In those far lands the Templari was to contact with people of other faith, character and race, and is easy to assume that, also in buio the Middle Ages, they could stretch to the unit of the monoteistici people under the independent fidelity the Pope, but respecting the other religious freedoms, guaranteed from They. This in order to only think in positive, because where East and the West were only a convention, could easy grow dangerous melting points of thought, philosophy or other. With that apparently increasing the own power, than instead it contributed to the beginning of fine theirs. The fall of S. Giovanni d' Acri in 1291 marked the end of the Crusades and the Templare adventure in Terrasanta. I re-enter in Europe of the Knights caused a true one just and trauma to the inside of the Order, whose main activity divenne land financial institution and: they introduced in Europe changes it them, the personal check and the letter of credit, and in all the Continent they built up more than novemila castles, churches and buildings. The trauma of reigning and the papacy still more it was perceived: neither uni neither the other sovereign, rich sopranazionale power could be allowed to accommodate one financially and morally. Therefore Pope Clemente V, also being the protecting one of the Order, left that in the 1307 King of Filippo France the Beautiful one arrested the greater part of the Templari, than, also thanks to the work of the Inquisizione Saint, store clerks never confessed colpe, and therefore condemned to the rogo. Those that instead succeeded not to confess the false one died under the tortures. In Concilio di Vienna of a 1312 papal bubble presses the Order, and the riches escaped to the pillage of Filippo the Beautiful one, came assigned to the Ospitalieri. Three later years the last Great Master of the Templari Jacques de Molay was put to the rogo. The Knights who escaped to this slaughter dispersed for Europe their Epic, particularly in England, Spain, Portugal and Germany, giving origin or feeding local truths similar They. E' common opinion that they have been very received from the massoniche organizations in Scozia, giving origin to the Tradition Templare Massonica. Nacque also the job of the Templare of the time, than in a hand had the sword and in the other the cazzuola, strengthening the already existing phenomenon of the templari constructions, that the more famous cathedral and more charges go from than simbolismo, to those simpler and less famous ones, but equally loaded with history and misticismo.The Order of the Templari Knights is the last degree of the Cavalleresco Order of the Tempio, in which it is returned to the ritualità of the Tempio di Salomone, and with it it is concluded, along iniziatico travel in the Time and the Tradition, that it begins with the Initiation to Massone Apprentice, but that in just the Inner Tempio it will not have never fine. The Jerusalemme, than the Templari they defended effectively, it represents on the plan of the simbolismo the Sancta-Sanctorum of the Tempio di Salomone, that is the new sacred space within which the believer finds all the spiritualità of the own religious faith, that it will have to complete and to sacralizzare with the own daily actions in the world land. Here because second the Templare Tradition the Knights consider the Guardiani of the Tempio, meaning like such the memory of a Iniziatica Cavalry that, to the insaputa of the great part of the humanity dipped in the profane world, renews itself of century in century in the Tradition. Also this could be one of the possible explanations of the fact that the Templare Spirit has arrived until we. All these concepts and instructions have lived in the Ceremony of Initiation, during which to the Candidate preliminarily they come made to live again the symbols and the instructions receipts in the previous passages from the beginning of just covered the massonico one, and must give symbolic test to have assimilate them to you.Exceeded it, it comes sent to ramble in pilgrimage for seven symbolic years in order to learn the main duties of every Templare Knight:
Humility, the Charity and the Hospitality. To the return it comes to it entrusted the sword so that it continues its pilgrimage for other four years, to diffuse and to defend for the world those principles, if necessary also guerreggiando. Finally the Pilgrim returns Neophyte,and comes particularly elevated to Templare Knight with a last touching ceremony. To the term to Neo-Cavaliere he comes delivered:
- the Baldric, a scarf white woman with the symbols that recall the Christian values, to perennial memory to cover definitively the Way Iniziatica in order to reach the Redenzione of just the Spirit.
- the Sword, in order to fight against the Ingiustizia, without never to consider like enemy the defeated adversary, but having the force to exercise the Misericordia.
- the cape white man, with a Cross of the red Passion on the left chest, to symbolize the purity that they must always have the actions of the Templare Knight, with the aid of the
iniziatico Christianity