1738. Frederick, Crown Prince of Prussia, initiated into Masonry at Brunswick. 1740. Voltaire pays his first visit to Frederick, now King. 1741. Baron von Marschall arrives in Paris with a plan for reviving the Templar Order. Templar degrees first heard of in France under name of "Scots Masonry." 1743. Arrival in France of Baron von Hundt with fresh plans for reviving the Templar Order. Degree of Knight Kadosch celebrating vengeance of Templars said to have been instituted at Lyons. 1750. Voltaire goes to spend three years with Frederick. 1751. Templar Order of the Stricte Observance founded by von Hundt. 1754. Rite of Perfection (early form of Scottish Rite) founded in France. 1761. Frederick acknowledged head of Scottish Rite. " Morin sent to found Rite of Perfection in America. 1762. Grand Masonic Constitutions ratified in Berlin.[409] It will be seen then that what Mr. Gould describes as "the flood of Templarism," which both he and Mr. Tuckett attribute to the so-called Scots Masons,[410] corresponds precisely with the decline of Jacobite and the rise of German influence. Would it not therefore appear probable that, except in the case of the Rose-Croix degree, the authors of the upper degrees were not Scotsmen nor Jacobites, that Scots Masonry was a term used to cover not merely Templarism but more especially German Templarism, and that the real author and inspirer of the movement was Frederick the Great? No, it is significant to find that in the history of the _Ordre du Temple_, published at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Frederick the Great is cited as one of the most distinguished members of this Order in the past,[411] and the Abbé Grégoire adds that he was "consecrated" at Remersberg (Rheinsberg?) in 1738, that is to say in the same year that he was initiated into Masonry at Brunswick.[412] There is therefore a definite reason for connecting Frederick with Templarism at this date. I would suggest, then, that the truth about the Templar succession may be found in one of the two following theories: 1. That the documents produced by the _Ordre du Temple_ in the nineteenth century, including the Charter of Larmenius, were genuine; that the Order had never ceased to exist since the days of the Crusades; that the Templar heresy was Johannism, but that this was not held by the Templars who escaped to Scotland; that the Rose-Croix degree in its purely Christian form was introduced by the Scottish Templars to Scotland and four hundred years later brought by Ramsay to France; that the Master of the Temple at this date was the Regent, Philippe Duc d'Orléans, as stated in the Charter of Larmenius. Finally, that after this, fresh Templar degrees were introduced from Germany by von Hundt, acting on behalf of Frederick the Great.