Re: Gates and my conspiracy theory
smooth guy as I said earlier, I have more detailed and intimate knowledge of this than you can get from any book. You are wrong.
while templars hid among freemasons later, they were not a group within free and accepted masons before that, it was after teh crusades.. actually until way after the crusades when the templars were being hunted by the pope. were there templars that were masons, sure, but them as an organized rite i.e. the scottish rite did not happen until much later.