AD 1000 to 1500

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“What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.” 

“What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.” 

Augustine of Hippo 354 -430 AD  was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.

1118 - 1170
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Battle of Baunockburn  in Scotland, June 24 1314 and after having been created by Bruce, Knights of the Rosy Cross and Knights Grand Crosses of St. Andrew of Scotland , they created the Order of Knights of Kadosh to be composed of themselves and those they say proper to admit to their fellowship.
St john the Baptist day 1314 Battle of Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce restored Knights of St Andrew In honor of this victory was the order of the Rosy Cross

Pedro Rodriguez Campomanes  treatise on the Templars of 1747,

Around 1119, two veterans of the First Crusade, the French knight Hugues de Payens and his relative Godfrey de Saint-Omer, proposed the creation of a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims

History Cannel The Knights Templar (2006)

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The Knights Hospitaller, also known as the Order of Hospitallers or simply Hospitallers, were a group of men attached to a hospital in Jerusalem that was founded by Blessed Gerard around 1023 out of which two major Orders of Chivalry evolved, the Order of the Knights of St. Lazarus and the Order of the Knights of St. John, later to be known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Most concise description of what the Zohar is 

Daniel C. Matt,

(Moshe Cordovero)The main intemntion of Rabbi Ben Yohi, was knowing the femine dimension of God, Shahina is in excile from it own devine life an knowing the shehia is in such poor condition, such destitution, the expelled woman, the expelled wife , they were there to provide, they were ther to provide her with support and help so she could be re unified with her husband. This is what the cared abou the reunification of the Devine realm.        

http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/zdm/index.htm

The purpose of birth is learning  The purpose of learning is to grasp the divine. - The purpose of apprihending the divine is to maintain the endurance of one that apprehends the joy of apprihending

Abraham Abulafia   Zohar: Annotated & Explained

The Zohar is a book incomparably erotic; the Lurianic writings are unmatched for their technical sexuality. The Sabbatian Kabbalah has the quality of pornography. —Yehuda Liebes

(1090 – August 20, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order. After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d'Absinthe, about 15 km southeast of Bar-sur-Aube. According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux. There Bernard would preach an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary. In the year 1128, Bernard assisted at the Council of Troyes, at which he traced the outlines of the Rule of the Knights Templar, who soon became the ideal of Christian nobility." "Bernard wanted to excel in literature in order to take up the study of the Bible. He had a special devotion to the Virgin Mary, and he would later write several works about the Queen of Heaven."

Aware that the Crusaders were on the way, Raymond-Roger reconsidered his position and joined them en route to offer his submission too, but it was rejected. (If he joined them as well, his lands would be protected and there would be no-where for the Crusaders to destroy and pillage - which is why Arnaud Amaury rejected the offer.) Raymond-Roger returned to Carcassonne, ordering Béziers to prepare for action on his way. He sent all Jews away to safety, knowing that the Catholic army would kill them if they ever got hold of them. This was a precaution as no-one expected Béziers to fall, and certainly not for a long time. Everyone had known that the Jews would have been slaughtered if the town fell, but not that the Crusaders would massacre everybody they found, Catholics included, if they took the town, as they did on 22nd of July 1208. Still under the command of their leader Arnaud Amaury Abbot of Cîteaux, appointed by Pope Innocent III, the Crusaders now turned towards Carcassonne.