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What role did the Knights Templers play in US?
The esoteric and alternative record treats the Knights Templar not as a dissolved medieval order but as a clandestine lineage that physically relocated its treasury, its initiatic tradition, and its political philosophy to the North American continent — decades before Columbus. The Sinclair family of Scotland emerges as the primary vessel for this transmission, with the Newport Tower in Rhode Island cited as physical evidence. The Freemasonic lodges that dominated the American founding generation are widely identified by researchers like Manly P. Hall and Andrew Collins as direct organizational descendants of Templar esotericism.
Evidence
- Manly P. Hall, in his landmark work on the secret destiny of America, argued that Francis Bacon — identified three times in the Sinclair journals as 'Brother Francis' — encoded the Templar vision of a free spiritual republic directly into the founding mythology of the New World, labeling it the 'New Atlantis.'
- Mann documents that this covenant bound Sinclair bloodline members to visit the western lands twice per lifetime, father to son, for ten successive generations, effectively creating a covert custodial presence in pre-colonial North America.
- Hall contended that the American constitutional architecture, with its separation of powers and emphasis on individual liberty, mirrors Templar anti-monarchical and anti-papal philosophy almost structurally.
- Wolter's forensic geology work dates the tower's mortar to a period inconsistent with colonial construction.