Do you know who was behind the Knights Templar? The Joos.  The Zion/Templar/Rose Croix/Mason Connection  In 1099, the secret Jewish Order of Zion was established at mount Zion, just south of Jerusalem by Godfroi de Bouillon, duke of Lorraine - a descendant of Guillem de Gellone, who was allegedly of the seed and tribe of David. The first Grand Master of the Order was Hugues de Payens.  In 1118, Hugues de Payens established the Order of the Knights Templar. The Templars practiced Babylonian magic (Jewish sorcery).  The Templars were able to gain special favor with the Pope early on, which they used to quickly gain vast wealth and power.  The Templars set up the first international banks and intelligence networks.  The Templars worked as the military arm of the Order of Zion until the two separated in 1188, at which time the Order of Zion changed its name to the Prieure de Sion. They were recognized by a red cross on a white background.  The Templars were forced to go underground in 1307 when their satanic activities were discovered, but reformed ten years later as the Knights of Christ, continuing to use the red cross on a white background as their emblem.  According to Rosicrucian texts that surfaced in the 1600s, the Order of the Rose Croix was founded in 1407 as a sect of hermetical philosophers who first began to be noticed in Germany in the early 1300s (about the same time that the Templars disbanded). The Order’s main function was the study of occult knowledge for the purpose of bringing all of mankind to its fullest spiritual development, based on Hermetic science.  Like the Templars before them, the Order of the Rose Croix used a red cross as one of its emblems.  The Templars rejoined forces with the Prieure de Sion in 1616.  A year later, in 1617, the Order of the Rose Croix came to a resolution to go underground for one hundred years, during which time they would only operate under the strictest secrecy. The resolution decreed that the Order would reappear in the year 1717 to carry on its agenda as open propaganda.  Robert Fludd was the Grand Master of the Prieure de Sion in 1617. At the time, he was being helped by Francis Bacon in founding the Rose Croix in England.  Isaac Newton was the Grand Master of the Prieure de Sion between 1691 and 1727.  The English Grand Lodge of Freemasonry was founded in 1717 by seven Magi of the English Order of the Rose Croix. This was the same year the Rose Croix had resolved one hundred years earlier to resurface.