The fear of number 13 and Friday the 13th - A Masonic explanation by Tore Akesson



The following, historical events, 700 years back in time, are related to peoples fear for the number 13 and Friday the 13th. It arrived to America and was spread all over the world by French emigrants, who heard of the tragedy in France and especially in Paris, below shortly describedprophecy, (compare the First Epistle of the Corinthian, 14:1): one year from today at the Court of God in order to receive your legitimatedpenalty! - curse, curse, be all of you cursed until your 13th generation" The tragedy concerns the banishment, arresting and outlawing of all Knights Templar, Friday the 13th of October, the year 1307 against their declaration of innocence. The last known Grand Master of the spiritual Order of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, was burned to death on a slow fire on the stake outside the Notre Dame Church in Paris together with his successor, on Friday the 13th of March , the year 1314 after long time in prison and of unsuccessful trials to get an admittance of guilt, where even hard torture was involved. When the flames from the stake, where he was tied up, reached him and it started burning in his dress, he proclaimed in front of the assembled Parisians:


"Here you see innocent people die!"
Then he turned toward his three present executioners with the following cry of
"I am calling you, King Philip IV of France!"
"I am calling you, Pope Clemence V"

"I am calling you, Prime Minister Guillaume de Nogaret, to appear within"

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