The 13th Century Holy, Celibate, Christian, Order known wisely today (Thank You "Dan Brown" and all the success of your "Masonic Templar Conspiracy" Thrillers !!)as The Knights Templar, were the first Global Power _Evar_ to establish a solid International Banking Consortium.
Having established their Temples and Buildings in almost every "Civilized" known country on Medieval Earth, having the largest force of Experienced (Due to the "Holy Crusade" wars in the Middle East at the time)Armed Soldiers available for hire (to protect travellers with their wealth) who were otherwise uncommitted to _Any_ Ruler/King/Power on Earth (Besides the Pope, initially). The Templars were the only force on earth capable of protecting large amounts of valuables (usually gold, silver, jewels, etc)in transit; Protecting it from Pirates, Brigands, etc.
The Templars-turned-International-Bankers figured out fairly quickly that they did not actually _need_ to "escort" things like _Gold_ around at all! Having wealthy established places everywhere; All a person who was moving needed to do was go to a Templar Bank and "Deposit" an Amount of Gold. The Templar Banker would "Translate/Cypher/Encode" the _Amount" of Gold into a One-Time-Pad-Like-System. The Depositor then takes this "Sigil (often these codes looked like elaborate Magickal Sigils, learned from the Arabic Muslim "Word Art" of the Middle East Cultures)" to _Any_ other Templar Bank, who would then be able to "Decode" it and Give the person however much the _C0de_ indicated the Client had originally deposited. These "Paper Slips Worth Gold" were the First "Paper Currency."
Now is where the real Tricks (and High Crimes!) Begin! These First, "Pioneer Bankers" learned the basic Economic Law which what all Bankers today still use: Once International Banking has been firmly established - people _Stop_ coming to the bank to get their Gold and just start trading the pieces of paper with each other!!<> Can you see what this means yet? Don't feel bad, _Most_ people didn't see it then, nor do they even see it now (though it is firmly in the realm of "Economic Facts of Banking," now)...
...What this means is this: If people are Not collecting their Gold any more, then who actually /knows how much gold is even in the bank at all?! Thus, they slowly began issuing more "Currency Notes" than there was actual _Gold_ in their Bank. This is the central (and /ONLY/, really)cause of "Inflation," the "phenomenon" where the Paper Currency in your Pocket is quite suddenly (and for no apparent or clear reason to the vast numbers of "Teh Public")/WORTH LESS/ than it did just yesterday? Why is this? How could this possibly make any sense?? That's why. Because a Bank issued more money than it actually had; that's why. Essentially _Counterfeiting_, but because _They_ are the "Money Authority" - there is/was no one to prosecute/investigate them! Hah! What a fucking /BRILLIANT/ racket, eh?
Today the Racket has gotten so complicated (the better to /F00L/ a more Edumacated Public, with greater access to Information) that there are silly rules like "Banks may issue exactly 90% more Currency than they actually have." Because _Now_, with Credit, Debit, Interwebs, and Yadda; People often don't even come for Teh _Money_ any more!
Back to History: So things are going *GREAT* for the Knights Templar Holy Warrior Bankers for a time... Meanwhile England and France are fighting a terribly expensive war, plunging _BOTH_ their Economies into terrible _Debt_, as Governments just *LOVE* to do, and to continue to Fuel their wars, /BOTH/ Countries begin to borrow a _Lot_ of Money from the Templar Bankers, who being True Illuminati, reveled in having their hands up the Butt of two waring Governments. As Proud as any modern Arms Dealer, I'm sure.
What they had not planned or counted on was that King Phillip of France and King Stephen of England would come to a _Secret_ Agreement: "Since they both owed the Templar Bankers Money, and since the Templars were so rich anyways, and didn't pay taxes... why not manipulate to get a Pope into position to have them all declared "Satanists" or "Homosexuals" or whatever? That way, both countries debts are /CANCELLED/ and on top of _That_, both Governments get to "Confiscate" all the Templar _Goodies_ in their Boundaries (meaning *lots* of gold, loot, property, Yadda)?!"
And so they did. Pope Urban declared them every Evil thing in the book (though they were, in point of Historical Fact, the /ONLY/ truely "Good" and "Holy" Knights - such as those so often portrayed in the Cinema today. The vast majority of "Knights" during the Midevil ages were Raping, Pillaging, _MONSTERS_, of men. The Knights Templar were not only _SERIOUSLY_ Christian Monks, but... (to be continued...)
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