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  • "Ah," sighed the Templar, "but what a beautiful spacecraft you left behind."†   (source)
  • The Templar thought that this energy imp would be his secret weapon when he faced the Lord of Pain.†   (source)
  • Consider the dynamic between the Church and the Knights Templar.†   (source)
  • The church built in London by the Priory's military arm—the Knights Templar themselves!†   (source)
  • Introductions completed, the Consul cleared his throat and turned toward the Templar.†   (source)
  • A headstone praised by Templars is the key.†   (source)
  • The Templar's oddly accented voice was calm.†   (source)
  • Was either one tall enough to be a Templar or strong enough to be a Lusian?†   (source)
  • We must find this headstone praised by Templars.†   (source)
  • A forgotten Templar church in this neighborhood?†   (source)
  • They went somewhere private to talk, the bar, and something the Templar said surprised Johnny.†   (source)
  • The idea of protection of pilgrims was the guise under which the Templars ran their mission.†   (source)
  • My father had taken me on the Templar Excursion when I was three.†   (source)
  • This church was built by Templars, the military arm of the Priory.†   (source)
  • Kassad moved his basilisk stare from the Templar to the Consul.†   (source)
  • The Templars invented the concept of modern banking.†   (source)
  • What would a Templar be doing in a Renaissance V bar?†   (source)
  • 'A headstone praised by Templars is the key.'†   (source)
  • Kassad looked at the Templar a moment and then shook his head.†   (source)
  • I thought the Templars were created to protect the Holy Land.†   (source)
  • I've spent time with Templar Voices of the Tree.†   (source)
  • "When it is my turn to speak," said the Templar.†   (source)
  • "Leigh," Langdon said, "you're the Templar specialist.†   (source)
  • Do you think Het Masteen was the Templar who had spoken to Johnny?†   (source)
  • The Pope used the head of Baphomet as the linchpin in his case against the Templars.†   (source)
  • I thought fraternities of Templars still exist today?†   (source)
  • The Templars are sending their treeship Yggdrasil!†   (source)
  • "The password," Sophie said, "appears to have something to do with the Templars."†   (source)
  • You said the Templar did most of the talking at first.†   (source)
  • The Templars honored Baphomet by encircling a stone replica of his head and chanting prayers.†   (source)
  • Your guy and the Templar guy came in first.†   (source)
  • The Templar headstone—I figured it out.†   (source)
  • The tall Templar did not take the glasses.†   (source)
  • But that's a Templar treeship," said Johnny.†   (source)
  • I cursed and climbed the gate, ignoring shouts from a Templar guide behind me.†   (source)
  • Then she said, "He plans to go with the Templar ship on the pilgrimage then."†   (source)
  • No, I don't think so… I think it's… a Templar by the looks of the robe.†   (source)
  • 's decades of dealing with the Templars that one of them had shown even a nascent sense of humour.†   (source)
  • The windwagon held no further sign of Templar Voice of the Tree Het Masteen.†   (source)
  • I saw Queue shove a Templar guide aside and throw himself through the glowing portal.†   (source)
  • Martin Silenus lifted the field glasses and searched the darkening moors for the Templar.†   (source)
  • He mentioned his observation to the Templar.†   (source)
  • There was enough light from the dying sky to show a slight smile on the Templar's thin lips.†   (source)
  • The Ancient Mysteries are the foundation for countless legends that have survived in history—stories about powerful wisdom protected by secret guardians like the Templars, the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, the Alumbrados—the list goes on and on.†   (source)
  • Above the foyer, nine different levels bear names like the Grotto, the Crypt Room, and the Knights Templar Chapel.†   (source)
  • The church had made some deadly enemies through the years-the Hassassin, the Knights Templar, armies that had been either hunted by the Vatican or betrayed by them.†   (source)
  • A good journalist ought to possess these qualities, and I read your book The Knights Templar with great interest.†   (source)
  • Lisbeth Salander spent Christmas morning reading Mikael Blomkvist's controversial book about financial journalism, The Knights Templar: A Cautionary Tale for Financial Reporters.†   (source)
  • "This poem," Teabing gushed, "references not only the Grail, but the Knights Templar and the scattered family of Mary Magdalene!†   (source)
  • The Knights Templar were obliterated?†   (source)
  • "Leigh," Langdon said, turning, "during the Inquisition, the Church accused the Knights Templar of all kinds of heresies, right?"†   (source)
  • Everyone had seen the paintings of Knights Templar wearing white tunics emblazoned with red equal-armed crosses.†   (source)
  • "The Knights Templar were warriors," Teabing reminded, the sound of his aluminum crutches echoing in this reverberant space.†   (source)
  • And these four chests of documents were the treasure that the Knights Templar found under Solomon's Temple?†   (source)
  • You're saying the Knights Templar were founded by the Priory of Sion to retrieve a collection of secret documents?†   (source)
  • Volumes had been written about the ties between the Masons and the Knights Templar, the Priory of Sion, and the Holy Grail.†   (source)
  • The documents gave the Knights Templar so much power because the pages revealed the true nature of the Grail.†   (source)
  • Built by the Knights Templar in 1446, the chapel is engraved with a mind-boggling array of symbols from the Jewish, Christian, Egyptian, Masonic, and pagan traditions.†   (source)
  • "The other pilgrims have agreed to ferry down in your ship if the FORCE authorities give permission," added the Templar.†   (source)
  • Langdon thought of the notorious Templar round-up in 1307—unlucky Friday the thirteenth—when Pope Clement killed and interred hundreds of Knights Templar.†   (source)
  • I saw immediately that the trail had led to one of the few free motile isles which the Templars had saved from Hegemony domestication.†   (source)
  • With their new carte blanche from the Vatican, the Knights Templar expanded at a staggering rate, both in numbers and political force, amassing vast estates in over a dozen countries.†   (source)
  • Earlier, while telling Sophie about the Knights Templar, Langdon had realized that this key, in addition to having the Priory seal embossed on it, possessed a more subtle tie to the Priory of Sion.†   (source)
  • Templars must plant at least a hundred offspring of the Eternal Tree on whatever. world they visit," explained the Consul.†   (source)
  • Scenario so far: Johnny had met the Templar or been approached by him, either in the library or outside when he arrived in midmorning.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, Langdon hesitated even to mention the Knights Templar while lecturing because it invariably led to a barrage of convoluted inquiries into assorted conspiracy theories.†   (source)
  • "I am the seventh," said Het Masteen, captain of the Templar treeship ggdrasill and the True Voice of the Tree.†   (source)
  • The Knights Templar had been master stonemasons, erecting Templar churches all over Europe, but Rosslyn was considered their most sublime labor of love and veneration.†   (source)
  • Martin Silenus stared at the small crate. l thought ergs were those forcefield critters that Templars use on their treeships.†   (source)
  • Clement's letter claimed that God had visited him in a vision and warned him that the Knights Templar were heretics guilty of devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy, and other blasphemous behavior.†   (source)
  • He noted that the walkways, pods, and platforms were conspicuously empty except for a few Templars and their diminutive crew clone counterparts.†   (source)
  • Once the epicenter of all Templar/Priory activities in the United Kingdom, the Temple Church had been so named in honor of Solomon's Temple, from which the Knights Templar had extracted their own title, as well as the Sangreal documents that gave them all their influence in Rome.†   (source)
  • A Templar treeship normally carried between two and five thousand passengers; it was easily the most desirable way to travel between the stars.†   (source)
  • Langdon quickly gave Sophie the standard academic sketch of the accepted Knights Templar history, explaining how the Knights were in the Holy Land during the Second Crusade and told King Baldwin II that they were there to protect Christian pilgrims on the roadways.†   (source)
  • And why did your bodyguard try to kill you after you talked to the Shrike Church and the Templar captain?†   (source)
  • Sophie quickly outlined what Langdon had explained earlier—the Priory of Sion, the Knights Templar, the Sangreal documents, and the Holy Grail, which many claimed was not a cup… but rather something far more powerful.†   (source)
  • "The same man," Langdon said, "who ordered the Knights Templar to recover the Sangreal documents from beneath Solomon's Temple and thus provide the Merovingians proof of their hereditary ties to Jesus Christ."†   (source)
  • From there he jumped to the main terminex on Nordholm and then "cast to the Templar world of God's Grove.†   (source)
  • Closing his eyes, he tried to recall his memories of rendezvous just before the Templar ship went quantum.†   (source)
  • Nobody was certain whether the Knights had blackmailed the Vatican or whether the Church simply tried to buy the Knights' silence, but Pope Innocent II immediately issued an unprecedented papal bull that afforded the Knights Templar limitless power and declared them "a law unto themselves"—an autonomous army independent of all interference from kings and prelates, both religious and political.†   (source)
  • The Knights Templar had designed Rosslyn Chapel as an exact architectural blueprint of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem—complete with a west wall, a narrow rectangular sanctuary, and a subterranean vault like the Holy of Holies, in which the original nine knights had first unearthed their priceless treasure.†   (source)
  • In deference to the gravity, this was the shortest of the Templar Excursion trails, curving back after only two hundred or so meters.†   (source)
  • Templars control these things?†   (source)
  • The Templars ignored the traditional Christian cruciform layout and built a perfectly circular church in honor of the sun.†   (source)
  • For the treeship to make the trip to Hyperion and back, accumulating six years of Web time with no paying passengers would mean a staggering financial loss to the Templars.†   (source)
  • This headstone praised by Templars.†   (source)
  • The Templar shook his head slowly.†   (source)
  • Specifically, the Church accused the Templars of secretly performing rituals in which they prayed to a carved stone head… the pagan god—†   (source)
  • Still, the Consul knew, to bring a ship as beautiful and vulnerable as the Yggdrasill-one of only five of its kind-into a war zone was a terrible risk for the Templar Brotherhood.†   (source)
  • Granted, the arms of the Templar cross were slightly flared at the ends, but they were still of equal length.†   (source)
  • Sometime after that, Johnny farcast to TC2 and then farcast from there with one other person-possibly Queue or the Templar-to Madhya where someone tried to kill him.†   (source)
  • "Okay," Sophie said, "but if Baphomet is the headstone praised by Templars, then we have a new dilemma."†   (source)
  • I couldn't remember for sure, but I thought the paths were loop trails with the portals relatively close together for easy transit by Templar guides and maintenance people.†   (source)
  • As the Vatican closed in, the Priory smuggled their documents from a Paris preceptory by night onto Templar ships in La Rochelle.†   (source)
  • Then, on a cool morning with my sleeping room rocking slightly in the upper branches of my tree on the Templar world, I awoke to a gray sky and the realization that my muse had fled.†   (source)
  • Beneath the cross were the words: DEPOSITORY BANK OF ZURICH Langdon was thankful not to have shared his Templar church hopes with Sophie.†   (source)
  • Sophie sensed from the grim look on Langdon's face that finding the Templar headstone would be no small feat.†   (source)
  • The Templar nodded and pointed.†   (source)
  • We have reason to believe that this may be the last Church-sponsored pilgrimage and we have chartered the Templar craft to allow as many of the faithful as possible to make the trip.†   (source)
  • Langdon had to admit, there existed an intriguing symmetry in the idea of the Templars building a modern Grail repository that echoed the Grail's original hiding place.†   (source)
  • While many Templars believe that the Shrike is the Avatar of punishment for those who do not feed from the root, I must consider this a heresy not founded in the Covenant or the writings of the Muir.†   (source)
  • A headstone praised by Templars!†   (source)
  • Langdon thought of the notorious Templar round-up in 1307—unlucky Friday the thirteenth—when Pope Clement killed and interred hundreds of Knights Templar.†   (source)
  • Sol Draconi Septem-the northern reaches where Templar lobbying of the All Thing had stopped the colonial heating project in order to save the arctic wraiths.†   (source)
  • The Templars had rigged a gangway from a work pier on the interior of the sphere to the ship's top-tier balcony, and the Consul led the way into the lounge as crew clones stowed luggage and departed.†   (source)
  • "You know," Teabing whispered to Sophie, "the Holy Grail is said to once have been stored in this church overnight while the Templars moved it from one hiding place to another.†   (source)
  • A headstone praised by Templars.†   (source)
  • The Templar's hood moved slightly.†   (source)
  • "The Tree is two light-minutes and five hours of travel from Hyperion," said the Templar, and the Consul realized that he was being addressed by Het Masteen, captain of the Templar treeship and True Voice of the Tree.†   (source)
  • For academics, the Templars' history was a precarious world where fact, lore, and misinformation had become so intertwined that extracting a pristine truth was almost impossible.†   (source)
  • A headstone praised by Templars.†   (source)
  • A hooded figure stood in the doorway and for a second the Consul thought it was Het Masteen, but then he realized that this man was much shorter, his voice not accented with the stilted Templar consonants.†   (source)
  • The farcaster portals were permanently open; it took about three hours to walk all the guided tours on the thirty worlds where the Templar ecologists had preserved some bit of nature which they thought would please the Muir.†   (source)
  • The Knights Templar had been master stonemasons, erecting Templar churches all over Europe, but Rosslyn was considered their most sublime labor of love and veneration.†   (source)
  • The documents had long since been entrusted to the Templars' shadowy architects, the Priory of Sion, whose veil of secrecy had kept them safely out of range of the Vatican's onslaught.†   (source)
  • The huge sleeping room Helenda and I share rocks gently in the boughs of a three-hundred-meter Worldtree on the Templar world of God's Grove and connects to a solarium which sits alone on the arid saltflats of Hebron.†   (source)
  • The Templar stayed behind?†   (source)
  • The Templars' potent treasure trove of documents, which had apparently been their source of power, was Clement's true objective, but it slipped through his fingers.†   (source)
  • It's possible the poem is referencing a gravestone the Templars praised at the tomb of Magdalene, but that doesn't help us much because we have no idea where her tomb is.†   (source)
  • It was only here, halfway along the Templar Excursion trail, that they allowed human structures to shelter weary hikers while they purchased refreshments or souvenirs to benefit the Templar Brotherhood.†   (source)
  • The Templar gazed thoughtfully at the weirwood rafters while the Consul dressed in semiformal evening wear of loose black trousers, polished ship boots, a white silk blouse which ballooned at waist and elbows, topaz collar cinch, black demi-coat complete with slashes of Hegemony crimson on the epaulets, and a soft gold tricorne.†   (source)
  • An ancient word of wisdom frees this scroll… and helps us keep her scatter'd family whole… a headstone praised by templars is the key… and atbash will reveal the truth to thee.†   (source)
  • For European nobility, traveling with gold was perilous, so the Templars allowed nobles to deposit gold in their nearest Temple Church and then draw it from any other Temple Church across Europe.†   (source)
  • Templar guy did at first.†   (source)
  • The Grail was believed to be somewhere in England, buried in a hidden chamber beneath one of the many Templar churches, where it had been hidden since at least 1500.†   (source)
  • A Templar?†   (source)
  • A headstone praised by Templars.†   (source)
  • The tour of the Worldtree is always fun-Dad first took me there when I was only three standard-but this time as the skimmer moved above branches the size of freeways and circled higher around a trunk the width of Olympus Mons, I found myself reacting to the glimpses of hooded Templars with something approaching anxiety.†   (source)
  • Langdon had already explained to her about the Templars' powerful historic ties to the modern Masonic secret societies, whose primary degrees—Apprentice Freemason, Fellowcraft Freemason, and Master Mason—harked back to early Templar days.†   (source)
  • It was a class-three field, designed to keep out the elements and anything as huge as an arctic wraith, while allowing the occasional errant tourist or errand-bent Templar reentry to the path, but in my cold-weakened condition I found myself batting against it for a moment like a fly against plastic, my feet slipping on snow and ice.†   (source)
  • Nah, Templar.†   (source)
  • Once the epicenter of all Templar/Priory activities in the United Kingdom, the Temple Church had been so named in honor of Solomon's Temple, from which the Knights Templar had extracted their own title, as well as the Sangreal documents that gave them all their influence in Rome.†   (source)
  • Every surface in the chapel had been carved with symbols—Christian cruciforms, Jewish stars, Masonic seals, Templar crosses, cornucopias, pyramids, astrological signs, plants, vegetables, pentacles, and roses.†   (source)
  • A Templar?†   (source)
  • Working in concert with France's King Philippe IV, the Pope devised an ingeniously planned sting operation to quash the Templars and seize their treasure, thus taking control of the secrets held over the Vatican.†   (source)
  • Templar.†   (source)
  • Langdon had already explained to her about the Templars' powerful historic ties to the modern Masonic secret societies, whose primary degrees—Apprentice Freemason, Fellowcraft Freemason, and Master Mason—harked back to early Templar days.†   (source)
  • Sophie tilted her head and scanned the list of titles: THE TEMPLAR REVELATION: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ THE WOMAN WITH THE ALABASTER JAR: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail THE GODDESS IN THE GOSPELS Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine "Here is perhaps the best-known tome," Teabing said, pulling a tattered hardcover from the stack and handing it to her.†   (source)
  • Like the Knights Templar.†   (source)
  • He said the Templars brought the Angelus back from the Crusades, and it is really an adaptation of a Moslem custom.†   (source)
  • There had been roasting heretics on the one hand—forty-five Templars had been burned in one day—and the heads of captives being thrown into besieged castles from catapults on the other.†   (source)
  • — Blest leaf! whose aromatic gales dispense To Templars modesty, to Parsons sense.†   (source)
  • You confess to having adored the heads of Bophomet, those abominable idols of the Templars?†   (source)
  • "Hear the truth, then," said the Templar; "I care not for your blue-eyed beauty.†   (source)
  • —The war-cry of the Templar and of the Free Companions rises high over the conflict!†   (source)
  • "It is indeed," said the Templar; "for, proud as thou art, thou hast in me found thy match.†   (source)
  • "My master," replied Gurth, "will take nought from the Templar save his life's-blood.†   (source)
  • "Well," answered the Templar, "an thou wilt tarry there, remember I have redeemed word and glove.†   (source)
  • "Well, I will resume my resolution," replied the haughty Templar.†   (source)
  • But I will proclaim thy villainy, Templar, from one end of Europe to the other.†   (source)
  • The Templars horse had bled much, and gave way under the shock of the Disinherited Knight's charge.†   (source)
  • "Psha," replied the Templar, "what hast thou to fear?†   (source)
  • "And what has made thee change thy plan, De Bracy?" replied the Knight Templar.†   (source)
  • "Farewell, then," said the Templar, and left the apartment.†   (source)
  • "Say not so, maiden," answered the Templar; "revenge is a feast for the gods!†   (source)
  • "Much," replied the Templar; "for thou must learn to look at thy fate on every side."†   (source)
  • "Nor to the Jew Isaac's daughter," said the Templar, who had now joined them.†   (source)
  • "I will not fight with thee at present," said the Templar, in a changed and hollow voice.†   (source)
  • "To be a guest in the house where I should command?" said the Templar; "never!†   (source)
  • "I impeach not their fame," said the Templar; "nevertheless—"†   (source)
  • It was to the leaders of this motley army that the letter of the Templar was now delivered.†   (source)
  • "It is well thought upon," said De Bracy; "I will play my part—Templar, thou wilt not fail me?"†   (source)
  • "It were so, indeed," replied the Templar, laughing; "wed with a Jewess?†   (source)
  • "I can admire both," answered the Templar; "besides, the old Jew is but half-prize.†   (source)
  • "Spare thy vow," said the Templar, "and mark me.†   (source)
  • "A dog Jew," echoed the Templar, "to approach a defender of the Holy Sepulchre?"†   (source)
  • "Silence, maiden," answered the Templar; "such discourse now avails but little.†   (source)
  • —Tell the Templar to come hither—he is a priest, and may do something—But no!†   (source)
  • "No, Sir Knight," said the Templar, haughtily.†   (source)
  • "But you maintained your post?" said the Templar.†   (source)
  • "A goodly security!" said the Knight Templar; "and what do you proffer as a pledge?"†   (source)
  • "Rebecca," said the Templar, "dost thou hear me?"†   (source)
  • "For shame, Sir Knight!" said the Templar.†   (source)
  • "Thy patience, maiden," replied the Templar.†   (source)
  • "The power of vengeance, Rebecca," replied the Templar, "and the prospects of ambition."†   (source)
  • "Thou dost me injustice," said the Templar; "by earth, sea, and sky, thou dost me injustice!†   (source)
  • "Care not thou for such reports," said the Templar; "but let us think of making good the castle.†   (source)
  • "The Templar is fled," said De Bracy; "Front-de-Boeuf you will never see more.†   (source)
  • Templars love the glitter of silver shekels as well as the sparkle of black eyes.†   (source)
  • De Bracy, being attached to the Templars, would have replied, but was prevented by Prince John.†   (source)
  • "Has your suit, then, been unsuccessfully paid to the Saxon heiress?" said the Templar.†   (source)
  • —Better the tomb of her fathers than the dishonourable couch of the licentious and savage Templar.†   (source)
  • The armour and horse of the Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert, at what ransom were they held?†   (source)
  • "Never, Rebecca!" said the Templar, fiercely.†   (source)
  • "For my vow," said the Templar, "our Grand Master hath granted me a dispensation.†   (source)
  • "By St Luke, it is so set down," answered the Templar.†   (source)
  • "Then trust him not with thy purpose in words," answered the Templar.†   (source)
  • "Ay," answered the Templar, "as well as the wretch who is doomed to die within an hour.†   (source)
  • Thrice a-week are Templars permitted the use of flesh; but do thou keep fast for all the seven days.†   (source)
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