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Excerpt from The Eclectic Review, Vol. 2: July-December, 1857 Templars obtained sufficient influence to render themselves independent of the Hospitallers, as the military monks of the Hospital of St. John were called; for at first they were not regularly enrolled, nor did they receive any definite organi zation: they simply bound themselves by vow, before the Patriarch of Jerusalem, to the ordinary monastic rules of chastity and obedience, and the renouncing of their individual right of action into the hands of their master, in order the more effectually to advance the security and prosperity of the Chris tian kingdom in Palestine. About 1128, Hugo de Paganis, who had been sent into Europe to revive the declining ardour of the Crusaders, obtained from Pope Honorius and the Council of Troyes an official recognition of the new order; and St. Bernard of Clairvaux was appointed by the Pope to draw up its statutes, which he did in a manner singularly characteristic of the ignorance, and the fierce, yet sincere, devotion of the period, and in accordance with the ambitious views of the Court of Rome, always anxious to have under its immediate control its own military force in countries under its spiritual sway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.