Chapter  •  Council  •  Commandery

 

FROM COMMANDERY No. 2

 

Sir Knights:

​

As the summer comes to an end. I pray, that the fires and pandemics also find an end to their hold on the world.  

 

Sacramento is so beautiful in the fall.  With leaves behind to change indicating the beginning of fall is to come very soon.  

 

Meeting for breakfast with fellow York Rite knights reminds me of a passage we often hear: "How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the dew of Hermon that descended upon the mountains of Zion." 

 

Lastly, we have been talking about Sacramento Commandery No. 2 having a Drill Team. If you are still interested, please contact Sir Knight Joseph Dongo and let him know prior to our next meeting on 10/16/2021.  We want to start meeting for drill practices and make a plan for the team in the future. 

 

These are exciting times in our Commandery and every knight is needed for our noble order.  And every little bit helps.  Thank you in advance for all your hard work and dedication.   

 

Humbly yours,

​

Luis J. Montero

Commander

​

​

 

 

Book of the Month

​

First Templar Nation: How Eleven Knights Created a New Country and a Refuge for the Grail

by Freddy Silva

​

Conventional history claims that nine men formed a brotherhood called the Knights Templar in Jerusalem in 1118 to provide protection for pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land.

 

Overturning this long-established historical narrative, Freddy Silva shows that the Order of the Temple existed a decade earlier on the opposite side of Europe, that the protection of pilgrims was entrusted to a separate organization, and that, in league with the Cistercian monks and the equally mysterious Order of Sion, the Templars executed one of history’s most daring and covert plans: the creation of Europe’s first nation-state, Portugal, with one of their own as king.

Including over 700 references, many from new and rare sources, Silva reveals Portugal, not Jerusalem, as the first Templar stronghold. He shows how there were eleven founding members and how the first king of Portugal, a secret Templar, was related to Bernard de Clairvaux, head of the Cistercians.

 

The author explains the Templars’ motivation to create a country far from the grasp of Rome, where they could conduct their living resurrection initiation--whose candidates were declared “risen from the dead”--a secret for which the Church silenced millions and which the Templars protected to the death.

Placing the intrepid Knights in a previously unknown time and place, Silva’s historical narrative reveals the Portuguese roots of key founding members, their relationship with the Order of Sion, the Templars’ unshakeable devotion to Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist, and how they protected a holy bloodline in Portugal.

 

Silva also provides evidence of secret Templar holy sites, initiation chambers, and hidden passageways throughout Portugal, often coinciding with pagan and Neolithic temples, and explains how their most important site forms a perfect triangle with the Abbey of Mont Sion in Jerusalem and the Osirion temple in Egypt. The author also reappraises the meaning of the Grail and reveals its exact location, hidden in plain sight to this very day.

​

About the Author

 

Freddy Silva is a best-selling author, and a leading researcher of ancient civilizations, restricted history, sacred sites and their interaction with consciousness.

​

He has published six books in six languages: The Missing Lands: Uncovering Earth's Pre-flood Civilization; The Divine Blueprint: Temples, Power Places, and the Global Plan to Shape the Human Soul; First Templar Nation: How the Knights Templar Created Europe's First Nation-state; The Lost Art of Resurrection: Initiation, secret chambers and the quest for the Otherworld; Chartres Cathedral: The missing of heretic guide; and Secrets In The Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles.

​

He has also produced the documentaries Portals; Otherworld; Sacred Space and the Healing Power of Resonance; Secrets of the Andean Temples; Stairways To Heaven; In The Footsteps of Isis; and Templemaking.

Described by one CEO as "perhaps the best metaphysical speaker in the world right now,” for two decades he has been an international keynote speaker, with notable appearances at the International Science and Consciousness Conference, the International Society For The Study Of Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine, and the Association for Research and Enlightenment, in addition to History Channel, BBC, GAIA TV, and radio shows such as Coast To Coast. 

​

He is also a documentary filmmaker, art photographer, and leads private tours to sacred sites in England, France, Egypt, Portugal, Yucatan, Malta, Peru/Bolivia, and Scotland.

​

ISBN-10 : 1620556545

ISBN-13 : 978-1620556542

​

Purchase Book

​

​