Star of the Sea, free-sea lodge in Gdańsk (FB profile), February 18, 2024
Today we present an extraordinary, colorful figure of the Mason, physician, Catholic ezoteric, creator of 1 of the versions of the Renewed Order of Templars – B: Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat.
He was born on May 23, 1773 in Cordes as the boy of a local surgeon. As a young man he entered the seminary at Cahors, but his studies interrupted the large French Revolution. He studied medicine at Montpellier and Caen, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1798.
In Paris he joined the masonry in the lodge des Chevaliers de la Croix. This lodge was subject to the large East of France and was centered around knightly legend. Her Venerable Master, Dr. Jacques-Philippe Ledru, convinced Fabré-Palaprat of a Templar line consisting of twenty-two large Masters of the Temple Order extending from the time of Hugo de Payns.
Here begins an extraordinary story, a fresh of coat and sword, but at the same time very characteristic of the reality of the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Fabré-Palaprat announced that he had found an ancient document, called the Larmenius Card or Carta Transmissionis, written in February 1324 and detailing the transfer of the leadership of the Templars to Larmenius after the death of Jacob de Molay (this paper is presently stored in the Masons' Mark Masons Hall archive in London).
Larmenius was a Palestinian-born Christian who became a associate of the Templar Order at the end of the Crusades. He was then a Templar teacher in Cyprus after Akka fell in 1295. He was yet elevated to the office of Seneshal (second highest rank in the Order).
The Larmenius paper states that...
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