Le Tombeau de Jacques Molai : ou histoire secrète et abrégée des initiés, anciens et modernes, des templiers franc-maçons, illuminés, etc. et Recherches sur leur influence dans la Révolution française ; suivie de la Clef des Loges

made numerous proselytes, and enriched themselves at the expense of all the states. In 1312, they possessed nine thousand lordships in Europe. Such great wealth excited envy and made many enemies for them. Philip the Fair, seconded by Pope Clement V, whose authority they refused to recognize, resolved to have them perish. Their history is written by M. Dupuy; but what this writer did not know is that these knights, who had sworn fraternity to one another, had agreed upon signs and words to recognize each other throughout the earth; it is that they