The Mistery of Belicena Villca Tharsis . But the news were invariably the same : The Templars made no move in that direction . But , though they didn ' t act , now they were there , too close , and their presence was a threat that was perceived in the environment .
Naturally , the Templars were not acting because they were waiting for the Immortals . And Those , finally arrived , one hundred and forty years after the assassination of Lupo de Tharsis in the Fortress of Monzón . A Templar navy ship , from Normandy , landed them in Lisbon in 1268 together with the Abbot of Clairvaux , the Grand Master of the Temple , and a custody of fifteen Knights . The Grand Master explained to Queen Beatriz that the expedition had by destination the Castle of Aracena , where a Provincial was to be appointed , obtaining all her support and the consequent authorization of King Alfonso III ; Bera and Birsha ' s presence was not noticed there because they pretended to be servant brothers and dressed as such . Days later the travelers took the old Roman road that went from Olisipo ( Lisbon ) to Hispalis ( Seville ) and passed through Corticata ( Cortegana ), a few kilometers from Aracena .
Already in Aracena , the Immortals approved everything done by the Templars regarding the construction of the Castle . Inside the church , on the floor of the apse , was the trap door that communicated with the Cave of Odiel : in truth , the Cave was not exactly below the church but it had to be reached by a ramp tunnel , which was accessed by a wooden staircase from the apse . But Bera and Birsha overlooked the details of the construction because their main interest was in the Cave . They explored it inch by inch , for hours , talking to each other in a strange language that their four companions did not dare to interrupt ; These were the Abbot of Clairvaux , the Grand Master of the Templars , both Golen , and two Templar Preceptors " experts in the Hebrew language ”, that is , two Rabbis , representatives of the Chosen People . The inspection appeared to have yielded positive results ; they guessed that by the expressions of the Immortals because they were extremely sparing in everything which referred to the Cave and their presence there . In any case , they only made one request : to adapt to a certain symbolic form , which they described with precision , the mirror of a small subterranean lake , which was nourished by a trickle of water with a very small flow . It should also be interrupted momentarily that tributary , diverting the eroded channel of feeding . And seven Menorah candelabrum had to be distributed in certain places , around the lake .
Twenty-Fifth Day
The Immortals exposed the current situation to the Cistercian , the Templar , and to the Rabbis : the Supreme Lord of the White Fraternity , “ Ruge Guiepo ”, and the High Priest , Melchizedek , had received with disgust the betrayal of Frederick II and his claim to become Universal Emperor . Those acts weakened the power of the papacy and prevented up to the present the plans laid out for centuries by the Golen : victory was still possible but they had to act with a heavy hand ; root out any possibility of opposition . The Crusade against the Cathars had been a success but it was late to prevent the nefarious influence of the Gral . For these reasons , Ruge Guiepo ordered , in the first place , to exterminate the accursed lineage of the Hohenstaufen and evict the House of Swabia from the Sicilian Kingdoms : such directives had already been communicated to Pope Clement IV . Second , the Blessed Lord ordered the immediate execution of the ancient sentence that hung over the House of Tharsis : in the White Brotherhood they did not forget that the Stone of Venus of the Tartessians could not be found until then ; and now it was not possible to risk the surprising appearance of a new Gral . The solution was to eliminate ipso facto its possessors and possible operators .
The Beloved of The One wished this time the mission of the Immortals approached perfection and that is why he entrusted them , in an extraordinary gesture , the Dorché , His Divine Scepter : with it , as the Immortals excitedly explained , everything was possible . That Scepter , made of
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