1958. Prepared for the Committee on Templar History of the Grand Encampment, Knights Templar, USA. An attempt to publish an authentic and official statement covering many of the phases of the history of ancient Templars and their spiritual heirs, the Masonic Knights of Templar. This text is not a complete history, but contains the following: place of Templary in the Masonic system; religious and military orders; Monastic military orders; theories connecting chivalric Freemasonry with the Medieval Order of Knights Templar; theories of Monastic Templar origins; Templar rituals. Including unfilled certificate for presenting to a Knight.