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Why Friday the 13th Spelled Doom for the Knights Templar

Founded around 1118 as a monastic military order devoted to the protection of pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land following the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, the Knights Te…

Levant Preceptory in Detroit Last Weekend

Many thanks to the members and guests of Detroit Commandery No. 1 last Saturday for their kind hospitality as Levant Preceptory traveled to Michigan to portray the Order of the Temple in period costu…

Grand Encampment Sues Grand Masters

Earlier this year, the imbroglio over the establishment of the new Grand Priory of the Reformed and Rectified Rite of the United States of America (CBCS) , body by the Grand Encampment of Knights Tem…

Levant Preceptory in Knight Templar Magazine

My article about Levant Preceptory , Indiana's Masonic Knight Templar medieval period recreation ritual group at Raper Commandery No. 1, appears in the August 2011 issue of the Knight Templar Mag…

Indiana's Levant Preceptory in August Knight Templar Magazine

My article about Levant Preceptory , Indiana's Masonic Knight Templar medieval period recreation group, appears in the August 2011 issue of the Knight Templar Magazine , which arrived at Hodappha…

Jacques de Molay

This Friday, March 18th is the 697th Anniversary of death of Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ, the Knights Templar. (Some accounts say March 11th. Even the tw…

2011 Newby-Avery Dinner, Knights Templar of Indiana

At podium, SK Duane Vaught, GCT, Grand Generalissimo of the Grand Encampment, PGC and MWPGM, begins the ceremony to elevate four Hoosier Sir Knights to the rank and honor of Knight Commander of the T…

On The Road Again!

Heading out tonight for the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, where I'll be speaking at the Pennsylvania Grand Commandery's meeting on Saturday . Then I'll have a day or tw…

Speaking at PA Grand Commandery Seminar in Elizabethtown 2/5

I will have the honor of speaking to the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Pennsylvania's Division Commander's Seminar, on the Patton Campus of the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, PA,…

What really happened to the Knights Templar?

In the mythic sense, the Templars are with us today, if only because many people wish it to be so. Such people include the Freemasons, some branches of which claim descent from the Templars who are…

The Templar Code For Dummies

Still available everywhere!

64th Knights Templar Triennial Conclave

The 64th Knights Templar Triennial Conclave has been going on in Roanoke, Virginia this week. Almost 400 Sir Knights gathered at the Hotel Roanoke for drill team competitions, elections and general b…

Levant Preceptory Confers Templar Order

I was in Canada for the Alberta Masonic Spring Workshop, and I was unable to participate in Levant Preceptory's first opportunity to confer the Templar Order in full medieval garb. I understand …
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