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Digitization

 * 1) Knights Templar
 * 2) Prosperity = loss of austerity
 * 3) Excommed men/criminals accepted
 * 4) "Obscene kiss" (osculum infame) and Baphomet (Satan) worship rumored
 * 5) Rivalry w/Hospitaliers -- arrogance
 * 6) Philip the Fair
 * 7) accuses heresy
 * 8) 1304 French arrest w/Clement V
 * 9) Interrogations for sodomy, apostasy, devil worship
 * 10) Confessions went on record
 * 11) Repenters spared fires, recanters (relapsi) were burned
 * 12) 1311 apostolic decree dissolves the order -- (SEE 2)
 * 13) "The Templar knigths were once subject to no king or law; but in the end, they were swallowed by history ."
 * 14) Part of a larger plan? Accidental?
 * 15) Couldn't be so easy
 * 16) Mysterious hay wain?
 * 17) Protecting Holy Grail / Transmutation
 * 18) Swiss banks!
 * 19) The Doctrine of the Mighty, The Majestic Council of the Twelve (Adept 34501, Order of the Night Sky, 3rd Rank)
 * 20) 4th secret?
 * 21) XII -- MJ12, but why act like the Knights Templar?
 * 22) "If all of human history is a single lesson, it is that the individual may be remembered, but the organization persists and thrives . A single artist, a solitary general, a single hero or villain may all die, but it is impossible to kill a people, a notion, an idea ; except when that idea has grown weak and is overpowered by one that is stronger ."

Analysis
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 * 1) Knights Templar is one of the oldest and best-known conspiracy organizations in history -- control over modern banking, knowledge of the inner catholic church...anything with money and power is controlled by either the Knights Templar or Illuminati.
 * 2) Payens envisioned assassins, the Templar Knights was an army unrivalled throughout Europe.
 * 3) The Templar needed men and the church needed converts (as always, though the reformation wouldn't be for another two centuries), so almost any able-bodied man was accepted.
 * 4) Devil-worship. "Obscene kiss" is to kiss the anus of the devil; apparently very seductive for women.
 * 5) The Hospitaliers adopted a shoot-first-ask-questions-later approach that afforded them the capture of Jerusalem. The Templars, however, were too concerned with imperialist tactics such as pillaging and looting everything west of Greece.
 * 6) This guy decided to be an asshole to the church, died at 46, and took the Templars with him.
 * 7) Simultaneous investigation into the Templars and witchunts begin.
 * 8) Clement V, a French pope in league with Philip IV, allows the arrest and interrogation of all Knights Templar in France.
 * 9) All the good stuff.
 * 10) 50 men relapsed against these confessions and were promptly burned at the stake.
 * 11) Friday the 13th; men burned at the stake, order is dissolved.
 * 12) Nothing stands the test of time, given enough of it.
 * 13) Perhaps it was the plan of the Templars to go into hiding and rule the world in secret -- as the Illuminati, perhaps? "Accidental" just doesn't sound right.
 * 14) Bringing down thousands and thousands of well-armed men all across Europe just doesn't seem likely without some kind of fight.
 * 15) Horse and cart, carrying hay. Holy Grail may have been smuggled out of Paris to parts unknown on orders of the Templar just before their dissolution.
 * 16) Swiss banks are the most secure and lucrative in the world -- it makes perfect sense that the Templar knights founded them. Perhaps that's where they ended up -- as the Illuminati of the European banking system. Quite a leap from running and gunning and crusading and pillaging and defending Catholocism.
 * 17) Page built the Majestic 12 as a secular Illuminati -- numbers, ranks, orders, organizations.
 * 18) What is the fourth secret? The first three are just keys to 9-digit pads. Nothing special. "Those who rule in Majesty, the Twelve" -- Apostles? Certain people in an Illuminati-like setup with a paramil front?
 * 19) Ruman Numerals are typically used by more religious orgs -- Knights Templar and Illuminati types.
 * 20) Remniscient of V for Vendetta, but is entirely relevant both in the game and in the present day.