by vision-master » Fri 06 Mar 2009, 19:43:59
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')lso Vision, the reason the Jews became such rich bankers is because Christian custom and law throughout the Middle Ages and even into the Renaissance, forbid Christians from being money handlers, so the Jews became our bankers, gold and silver smiths.
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KNIGHTS TEMPLAR $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '*')The Knights Templar were organized as a military priesthood in the Catholic church.
*In 1156, under the administration of Bertrand de Blanchfort, the Knights imported to the area of Rennes le Chateau, a contingent of German speaking miners. Their alleged task was to work the gold mines on the slopes of the mountains of Blanchfort, gold mines that had been utterly exhausted by the Romans nearly a thousand years before. But the truth,which was revealed later, was that they were not mining. Instead, they were “smelting, perhaps melting something down, constructing something out of metal, perhaps even excavating a subterranean crypt of some sort and making a species of repository”. (bk-1,93)
*Almost immediately afterwards,
the Templars created and established the institution of modern banking. By lending large sums to destitude Monarchs, they became the bankers for every throne in Europe. With their network of preceptories throughout Europe and the Middle East, they also organized at moderate interest rates, the safe and efficient transfer of money for merchant traders. Money deposited in one city, for example, could be claimed and withdrawn in another by means of a promissory note inscribed in intricate codes. The Templars thus became the primary money changers of the age, and the Paris preceptory became the center of European finance. It is even probable that the “check” as we know and use it today was invented by the order. (bk-1,71)