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human form , but who did not possess a human soul . The effect of Swedenborg upon Mysticism is strongly marked , and if Ave are correctly informed , not less upon Swedish Freemasonry , and that school , which may be called the successor of Ramsay , Hunde , and Cagliostro .

The Knights Templars.

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .

By ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE . ( Continued from page 167 . ) BOOK IV . —CHAPTER XY .

Death of the Archbishop of Sens—The Pope retains the nomination—The King orders him to appoint Philip de Harigny to the vacant seat—The new Archbishop resolves to destroy the Templars—Alarm of the Procurators—Demand the protection of the Commissioners and the Pope —They are sent bach to their prisons in the provinces—The Archbishop passes sentence—A . D , 1310 ,

The Commissioners were examining the thirteenth witness , when the most terrible and cruel event in the history of this infamous persecution occurred—an event concerted by the Ministers of the . Altar and of the Crown . The scruples of the

Pope had now vanished . The Church and State went hand and hand ; and Clement longed to grasp the riches of the Templars , Avhile Imbert and his fellow-priests panted for the abolition of an Order Avhich absorbed so much wealth . The

King , too , desired the end of the process , that he might also share in the plunder . The Papal Commission was looked upon by all as a mere farce , and only meant to serve as an appearance of justice to the illegal process . Even the Council

at Yienne was viewed in the light of a formality . The Order was , in the people ' s eyes , condemned ; that Council had simply to record the sentence , The King could not brook the delays which took place , not only in the proceedings of the Papal

Commission , but in those of the Provincial 'Councils , although these Avere presided over by men devoted to his interests . He manifested by ¦ a terrible act—by an act alike barbarous and illegal—his intention of annihilating the Templars

without further delay . The Archbishop of Sens , of whom the Bishop of Paris was suffragan , died about Easter , 1309 , and the Pope wrote from Avignon to the Chapter , -on the 9 th of the Kalends of May , prohibiting the

• members from electing a successor , and , for important reasons , reserved to himself the nomination . Philip had , however , fixed upon a person

to fill the vacant seat ; and he wrote to the Pops demanding that he should nominate Philip de Marigny , Bishop of Cambray , the brother of his minister , Enquerrand . The Pope was not pleased at such a nomination , De Marigny being but a

young man , and unfitted for such an important charge ; but the King wrote : — " When I desire that you should nominate a successor to the Archbishop of Sens , it is because the Provincial Council ' s proceedings are retarded . In this

Council will be passed many things to the glory of God , the stability of the Faith , and of the Holy Church . Let not the youth of the prelate make you think that he lacks capacity . He is of a suitable age , and , with the help of God , his actions

will prove to you how much he is in advance of his years , " We will subsequently learn how the King's prognostication was fulfilled . The Pope reluctantly yielded ; and , in April 1310 , Marigny was installed Archbishop of Sens . Scarcely had

he been installed than he signalised his succession by entirely devoting himself to the King ' s service . On Sunday the 10 th of May , the Defenders of the Order learned , to their amazement and fear , that the Provincial Council of Sens was convoked at

Paris , when the Templars were to be proceeded against individually . They took alarm , and demanded an audience of the Papal Commissioners . Although the Commission did not sit on Sunday , the Fathers , on account of the emergency ,

assembled , and the Defenders Avere introduced , when De Boulogne spoke in these terms : — - " You are commissioned by the Pope to examine the Order of the Temple . One citation that you have published , in the name of the Pope , has .

invited the Templars who desire to defend the Order to appear before you . You have had before you a great number of Templars , and they not only have offered themselves , but have sworn to devote themselves , to the defence of the Order .

After proceedings have been commenced before you , Ave now have reason to fear that the Archbishop of Sens and his suffragans , in a Council Avhich is summoned for to-morrow , intend to proceed against those Templars who have undertaken the defence , and by this means to compel them to desist from their courageous resolution . "

The Commissioners replied , that they could not occupy themselves Avith such an appeal , which did not come Avithin their jurisdiction , nor concern the discharge of their proper functions . If the defenders had ought to propose relative to the