Alton Towers, Sir Francis Bacon and the Rosicrucians

Please feel free to do so. There is no harm in reaching different conclusions to others. I would never pretend to have all the answers as this is a quest for all to participate in.
ok. Our planet is a learning school with appropriate balance of input between light and dark assistance from above. The guardian set the curriculum and the federation actors act upon the arch lessons. Thus being a member of a hidden hand is exclusive, you have to be born into the Luciferic bloodline/sphere, can't just built your own, or get married into it. The harvest of this planet has been extremely low during the past 2 cycles so the guardian assign dark lesson to increase frictions for greater harvest during grand harvest. Secret society in ancient time revolve around spirituality and ethics, during dark age (Akhenaton up to renaissance) revolve around spirituality and power (Pharaoh/caesar as ruler and spiritual leader), in modern era revolve around brotherhood and power. You see groups clustered around their interest but unaware being manipulated from higher level of secret society (be it economic, science, religion, culture, social/charity, etc). Yes, the higher level of illuminati/ Jesuit usually give order/call a day or so to our leaders explaining what will happen as event unfold. The matrix of programming chosen is based on their spiritual playbook as event unfold based on the current level of social memory complex. Basically, their job is to make it harder to achieve light. Spread fear, separation, chaos etc so it is harder to reach unity/ positive goal. Example, harder to love obnoxious people than kind souls but you need to learn unconditional love as we are all one. The one who learn to be in sto balance will experience good time and bad time equally graceful and loving. It isn't a trade, if you love me I will love you back, only certain elite group deserve my love, or having hidden motive to loving (gold-digger vs trophy wife, charity for appearance, etc).
Remember, all the strategic position in our society is already infiltrated by secret society. We get bad leaders enacting bad decisions because the general spiritual level of our population is quite dark. Lesson base trigger.

Our last discussion was up to linking Egypt and Rome. The turning point of the arch story revolve around Cleopatra and Arsinoe as the last of the Ptolemy line. if you read history, you will know that Cleopatra was the traitor to her own people by colluding with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony while Arsinoe at age 16 bravely led a small group of conscript and defeated veteran Caesar legionnaire. She is portrait as Mary Magdalene the prostitute in the bible but the follower of light generally view her as the leader of religious resistance. As she fled to Asia minor then France inciting widespread religious uprising everywhere in the empire. Nero was forced to commit suicide by the senate as a result of these rebellions ending the Claudius line and starting the coup by the Justinian line. Titus uniting all the 4 major religions in the territory creating Christianity as a political maneuver to appease all side. The empire was split into East and West due to inheritance. Byzantine progress with the traditional Roman hierarchy with their orthodox religion. The West did a major structural change. The Goth and frank were promised power over Europe mainland if they converted/stop rebelling. Clovis I converted to Catholicism and persuade others to join but he was poisoned by the pope Clement agent and giving his throne to his other family (burgundy). It is noted that Mary/arsinoe was married to one of the royal family. The Merovingian/ priori of scion was their knight that promise to restore the throne of Europe to their rightful ruler as promised by the church. (The main reason they have to rewrite history and delete 4 century). Templar usually associated with restoring British throne while Priory to French (which originated in Languedoc France)

Ps: Just overview from last time, I will do some reading and write in greater details from Templar onward when I have free time
 
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Tuthmose IV and the Dream Stele Part 2

Tuthmose, Akhenaten and The Korahites


Apart from liberating the Sphinx, Thutmose IV's rule is also significant because he established peaceful relations with Mitanni, a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia (in today’s Turkey). While the Mitanni kings and other members of royalty bore names of Indo-Aryan origin, and invoked Indo-Aryan deities, they probably used the language of the local people, which was at that time a non-Indo-European language, Hurrian. With the rapid ascent of the Hittite Empire, Mitanni and Egypt struck this alliance to protect their mutual interests from the threat of Hittite domination. Tuthmose subsequently married a Mitannian princess to seal the new alliance. Thutmose’s role in initiating contact with Egypt's former rival, Mitanni, is documented by Amarna letter EA 29 composed decades later by Tushratta, a Mittanian king who ruled during the reign of Akhenaten. Hence, the alliance with the Mitanni can be seen to continue into the reigns of Thutmose IV’s son and grandson. But that would not be the only royal union between the House of Pharaoh and the kingdom of Mittani. Quoting from Wikipedia:

Tushratta (Mitanni Aryan: Tvaiṣáratha; Akkadian: Tušratta and Tuišeratta was a king of Mitanni at the end of the reign of Amenhotep III and throughout the reign of Akhenaten in approximately the late 14th century BC. He was the son of Shuttarna II. His sister Gilukhipa and his daughter Tadukhipa were married to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III; Tadukhipa later married Akhenaten who took over his father's royal harem. He had been placed on the throne after the murder of his brother Artashumara. Thus, we see Tadukhipa becoming the wife of Akhenaten after the death of his father, Amenhotep III. Why is this important?

Well, some scholars tentatively identify Tadukhipa with Kiya, a known wife of Akhenaten. It has been suggested that the story of Kiya may be the source for the New Kingdom story called the "Tale of Two Brothers." This fable tells the story of how the pharaoh fell in love with a beautiful foreign woman after smelling her hair. If Tadukhipa was later known as Kiya, then she would have lived at Amarna where she had her own sunshade and was depicted with the pharaoh and at least one daughter. However, others such as Petrie, Drioton and Vandier have suggested that Tadukhipa was given a new name after becoming the consort of Akhenaten and is to be identified the famous Queen Nefertiti. This theory suggests that Nefertiti's name "the beautiful one has come" refers to her foreign origin, such as Tadukhipa's Mitanni origin. It is only fair to point out though that some believe Nefertiti was the daughter of Ay, a royal advisor, who would assume the throne after the death of Tutankhamun. Could the Tale of Two Brothers be a reflection perhaps of the story of Akhenaten and Prince Tuthmose (Abraham/Moses)?

This foreign, non-Egyptian, blood theme also continues with Akhenaten’s mother, Queen Tiye, the Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III, Tuthmose IV’s son. Tiye's father, Yuya, was a non-royal, wealthy landowner from the Upper Egyptian town of Akhmim, where he served as a priest and superintendent of oxen or commander of the chariotry. Tiye's mother, Thuya, was involved in many religious cults, as her different titles attested (Singer of Hathor, Chief of the Entertainers of both Amun and Min), which suggests that she was a member of the royal family. However, Egyptologists have suggested that Tiye's father, Yuya, was of foreign origin due to the features of his mummy and the many different spellings of his name, which might imply it was a non-Egyptian name in origin. Some suggest that the queen's strong political and unconventional religious views might have been due not just to a strong character, but to her foreign descent. Tiye was married to Amenhotep III by the second year of his reign. He had been born of a secondary wife of his father, Tuthmose IV, and needed a stronger tie to the royal lineage.

Hence, this reveals to us that Akhenaten (a Perseid descendant) had a grandmother who was not an Egyptian but who may have been a Hurrian, and a mother whose father may have been a foreigner. The Hurrians (or Khurrites – which may have an etymological link with “Kore” and the biblical Korahites?) were a people who entered northern Mesopotamia (primarily modern Iraq) around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC. It is generally believed that the speakers of this language originally came from the Armenian Highlands and spread over southeast Anatolia (Turkey) and northern Mesopotamia at the beginning of the 2nd millennium. This would suggest that the Hurrians were Indo-Europeans and therefore Aryans. If so, this means that Princess Meritaten (Hagar/Kore), Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s daughter, was primarily of Aryan stock – a point that should be born in mind when we come back to considering the C’s statement: “Arcadia is a crossroads for the one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent”.​

The Korahites

The Korahites (Hebrew: קרחי Qārəḥî also בני קרח bənê Qōraḥ, "Sons of Korah") in the Bible were that portion of the Kohathites that descended from the Sons of Korah. They were an important branch of the singers of the Kohathite division (2 Chronicles 20:19). The Sons of Korah were the sons of Moses' cousin Korah.

Korah (Hebrew: קֹרַח‎ Qōraḥ; Arabic: قارون Qārūn), son of Izhar, is an individual who appears in the Book of Numbers of the Hebrew Bible, known for leading a rebellion against Moses. Some older English translations, as well as the Douay-Rheims Bible, spell the name “Core”, and many Eastern European translations have Korak. The name Korah is also used for at least one other individual in the Hebrew Bible: Korah (son of Esau). [MJF: This makes me wonder whether Korah or Core is really the “Kore” the C’s have spoken of who I have surmised is Meritaten/Hagar and Esau is Akhenaten – Abraham/Prince Tuthmose’s brother?]. If she led a revolt against Abraham/Moses, it might have been over his use of the Holy Grail and would better explain why he abandoned her and her son, Ishmael, in the Desert of Paran. Numbers 16:1–40 indicates that Korah rebelled against Moses along with 249 co-conspirators and were punished for their rebellion when God sent fire from heaven to consume all 250 of them [MJF: Or were they taken up in a Golden Ram and flown to Britain/Ireland?] The rabbis of the Talmudic era explained the name "Korah" as meaning "baldness" [MJF: It is quite intriguing that the bust of Meritaten held in the Belin Museum shows her as being bald.] It was given to Korah on account of the gap or blank which he made in Israel by his revolt. Korah is represented as the possessor of extraordinary wealth, having discovered one of the treasures which Joseph had hidden in Egypt [MJF: Could this treasure have been the Holy Grail and was Meritaten its appointed guardian?].​

The Tribe of Benjamin, Belili and Arcadia

Could the 250 Kohathite conspirators have been disguised in the Bible as the Tribe of Benjamin who in the biblical account fought the other tribes of Israel in the Battle of Gibeah? The Book of Judges recounts that the rape of the concubine of a member of the Tribe of Levi, by worshippers of Belial, which triggered the Battle of Gibeah when the Benjamites, for reasons not made clear in the Bible, took the side of the ‘Sons of Belial’ and in the process were nearly exterminated, including all their women and children. Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln in The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail took the same view as Robert Graves in linking Belial to a variant of the Mother Goddess known as Ishtar to the Babylonians and Astarte to the Phoenicians, often associated with images of a bull or a calf, Indeed, the three authors conjectured that the Benjamites may have worshipped the same deity and it was possible that the worship of the Golden Calf in Exodus may have been a specifically Benjamite ritual. The authors also noted that besides ‘The Shepherds of Arcadia’, one of Nicolas Poussin’s most famous paintings was that of the ‘Adoration of the Golden Calf’ (see image below and note the white garbed figure of Aaron the High Priest – could he have been a member of the White Sect or an Essene I wonder?).

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Adoration of the Golden Calf by Nicolas Poussin

Could the concubine who was raped (metaphorically!) have really been Meritaten/Hagar/Kore and could the Benjamites themselves have been the Sons of Belial, worshippers of the triple goddess, which, in reality, is a trinity that represented the Holy Grail?

In the biblical account six hundred of the men from the tribe of Benjamin apparently survived by hiding in a cave for four months. Subsequently, the victorious Israelites had a change of heart and forgave the Benjamites. However, because the other Israelite tribes had taken a vow that none of their daughters should be given in marriage to a Benjamite, the surviving Benjamites were instructed to go to Shiloh in northern Israel to wait in ambush and pounce on the women of the town, taking wives from among them. Despite the devastation of the war, the Benjamites seemed to recover quickly their prestige, if not numbers, so much so that that they eventually furnished Israel with its first king, Saul. Nevertheless, it seems that in the wake of this conflict many, if not most, Benjamites went into exile. But where did they go?

According to certain ‘Prieuré documents’ in the Dossier secrets passed over to Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, the Merovingians had traced their pedigree back not only to ancient Troy (in England remember) but also to the Old Testament and specifically to the Tribe of Benjamin. According to the Prieuré (Priory of Sion) account, most of the Benjamites did go into exile. Their exile supposedly took them to the central Peloponnese in Greece – to Arcadia, in short, where they became aligned with the Arcadian royal line. Towards the advent of the Christian era, they are then said to have migrated up the Danube and the Rhine and eventually engendered the Sicambrian Franks, who were the immediate forebears of the Merovingians.

Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln took the logical view that Benjamites fleeing into exile would, of necessity, have had to flee westwards, towards the Phoenician coast. The Phoenicians, the great mariners of the ancient world possessed ships capable of transporting large numbers of refugees. Moreover, as worshippers of the Mother Goddess in the form of Astarte, Queen of Heaven, they would have been obvious allies to the fugitive Benjamites. The authors then speculated that if there was an exodus of Benjamites from Palestine, could one find some vestigial record of it? They pointed out that in Greek myth one does.

In the legend of King Belus’s son, Danäus, arrived in Greece, with his daughters, by ship. I would speculate here whether the name “Danaus” relates directly to that of the goddess Danu. However, continuing with the classical narrative, his daughters are supposed to have introduced the cult of the Mother Goddess, which became the established cult of the Arcadians. The authors then quote Robert Graves (author of ‘The White Goddess’) who proposed that the Danäus myth records the arrival in the Peloponnese of ‘colonists from Palestine’. Graves states that King Belus is in fact Baal or Bel – or perhaps Belial from the Old Testament [MJF: One should recall in this regard that Belus, Belin or Bel was the chief god of the British Celts]. The three authors also pointed out that it was worthy of note that one of the clans of the Tribe of Benjamin was the clan of ‘Bela’. Is this just coincidence?

However, the three authors failed to mention that Graves would go much further than this when he suggested that Baal/Bel was a male orientated corruption of the original name of the White or Mother Goddess, Belili. Graves pointed out that Belus, the father of Danäus can be identified with Bel, the Babylonian Earth god, one of a male trinity, who succeeded to the titles of the far more ancient Mesopotamian deity, the mother of Danaë as opposed to the father of Danäus. And, of course, Danaë was the mother of Andromeda in the story of Perseus, which we have learned is another variation of the quest for the Golden Fleece/ Holy Grail meme. This far more ancient Mesopotamian deity, the mother of Danaë, was Belili, the Sumerian White Goddess, Ishtar’s predecessor, who was a goddess of trees as well as a Moon-goddess, Love-Goddess and Underworld goddess. She was sister and lover to Du’uzu, or Tammuz, the Corn-God and Pomegranate-God. From her name derives the Biblical expression ‘Sons of Belial’ – the Jews having characteristically altered the non-Semitic name Belili into the Semitic Beliy ya’al (‘from which one not comes up again’ – i.e., the Underworld of Hades) – meaning ‘Sons of Destruction’. We should also consider the relationship of Osiris, Lord of the Egyptian Underworld, and his consort Isis here as well because they reflect a similar relationship to that of Ishtar and Du’uzu or Tammuz, which may betray a Mesopotamian influence on the Egyptians. This point will assume more importance when I come to look at the role of Isis in the story of the Grail in a later post.

Graves goes on to point out that the Slavonic word beli meaning ‘white’ and the Latin bellus meaning beautiful derive from the White Goddess and are ultimately connected with her name. Originally every tree was hers, and the Goidelic bile, ‘sacred tree’, the medieval Latin billa and billus, ‘branch, trunk of tree’ and the English billet are all also recollections of her name. Above all she was a Willow-Goddess and a god of wells and springs. We should recall here that the Tuatha de Danann goddess Brigid, or Brigit, Brig and Bride to the British Celts and Scottish Gaels, was also connected to sacred wells and springs. As to the connection of the Goddess to the medieval Latin billa and billus, meaning a ‘branch, trunk of tree’, this makes me recall Laura’s musings on the meaning of Nicolas Poussin’s painting of ‘The Shepherds of Arcadia’:

But, interestingly, the "art experts" also say that the Shepherdess is the continuation of the "vertical axis" of the tree while the shepherd on the left, with his resting arm, provides the horizontal axis, and that every gesture and line follows this initial "cross," with "all the cool logic of a geometrical theorem." Well, I wonder if art critics REALLY see all this sort of thing in a painting, or if they just want to sound clever. I do notice that the shepherdess' head is right in the middle of a tree branch, almost as if it were a halo. But, I don't know what kind of tree it is.

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Nicolas Poussin’s ‘Les Bergers d'Arcadie’ or The Shepherds of Arcadia
Well, I am no expert on trees, but I wonder if it is meant to be a Willow tree the shepherdess is standing in front of?

Robert Graves followed Greek and Roman classical writers in placing Arcadia in the Greek Peloponnese. However, we have learned that the C’s favour Iman Wilkens’ theory that the Trojan War took place in England, where Troy or Ilium was located in what are today the outskirts of the City of Cambridge. As we have previously discovered, this means that all the Achaean or Greek kingdoms were at that time located in northern Europe not the Mediterranean, including therefore the kingdom of Arcadia. Does the link between the Benjamites (‘Sons of Belial’?) and the Merovingian kings of France suggest that Arcadia was originally located in France until the name moved with its migrating Celtic former inhabitants to modern Greece? If so, the question then is which part of France was it found in? My guess is that it was part of southern France (northern France being Argos), and it may well have extended into the Spanish Pyrenees.

Returning to Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln again, they noted that in Arcadia the cult of the Mother Goddess not only prospered but survived longer than in any other part of Greece. Is the same true of France as well? As I said in a previous post, it has been observed that the area surrounding Rennes-le-Chateau in southern France is saturated with references to Isis - a Mother Goddess. The authors point out that the worship of the Mother Goddess in time became associated with the worship of Demeter, then of Diana or Artemis. Known regionally as Arduina, the goddess Artemis became the tutelary deity of the Ardennes; and it was supposedly from the Ardennes that the Sicambrian Franks, the forebears of the Merovingians, first issued into what is now France. The totem of Artemis was the she-bear – Kallisto, transported to the heavens by Artemis to become the constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear.

Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln then went on to make an interesting link between the Arcadians and the Spartans. It transpires that in classical Greek times (long after the age of Abraham/ Moses) the region then known as Arcadia in Greece was ruled by the powerful militaristic state of Sparta. It seems the Spartans absorbed much of the older Arcadian culture [MJF: or, alternatively, does this suggest that the Arcadians eventually became the Spartans?]. Indeed, the legendary Arcadian Lycaeus (which is also the name of a mountain in Arcadia where Zeus and Pan were worshipped) may in fact be identified with Lycurgus, who codified Spartan law. He established the military-oriented reformation of Spartan society in accordance with the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. All his reforms promoted the three Spartan virtues: equality (among citizens), military fitness, and austerity. On reaching manhood, the Spartans, like the Merovingians ascribed a special, magical significance to their hair – which, like the Merovingians, they wore long. According to one authority, ‘the length of their hair denoted their physical vigour and became a sacred symbol’. Moreover, the Books of Maccabees in the Bible stress the links between the Spartans and the Jews. For example, the Second Book of Maccabees speaks of certain Jews ‘having embarked to go to the Lacedaemonians, in hope of finding protection there because of their kinship’. The First Book of Maccabees even states explicitly ‘It has been found in writing concerning the Spartans and the Jews that they are of the family of Abraham’. However, did this link really go back all the way to the Benjamite exodus from Palestine after the Battle of Gibeah?
The three authors go on to show the strong Semitic influence on Frankish culture with Phoenician and Semitic trade routes traversing the whole of southern France, from Bordeaux to Marseilles and Narbonne (which would later formed a part of the unofficial Jewish principality of Septimania in the 6th and 7th centuries AD) and Phoenician settlements were also formed inland at Carcassonne and Toulouse. The Romans sack of Jerusalem in AD 70 prompted a massive exodus of Jews from the Holy Land, some of whom ended up in France, although Jews as slaves or merchants had been settling throughout the Roman Empire long before this. In consequence, there are many specifically Semitic place names scattered about France today. Indeed, one such example is the village of Baalon only a few kilometres from Stenay in the Old Merovingian heartlands, no doubt named after the Phoenician god Baal. It should be remembered that Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln (and Dan Brown too) sought to connect the Merovingians with what they perceived as being the sacred bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, the “Sang Real”, whose supposed descendants included the Merovingian kings.

St. Mary Magadalene

The Benjamites also figure in the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau through the claim that many of them settled in southern France where centuries later Mary Magdalene, reputedly a Benjamite herself, would flee when escaping from Judea, along with her sister Martha, her brother Lazurus, the Apostle Phillip and Joseph of Aramathea. If she was of the Tribe of Benjamin, it would make sense that she should seek refuge with members of her own tribe or kinsmen if you will. It should also be recalled that Abbé Saunière, the Curé of Rennes-le-Chateau, had a deep devotion to St. Mary Magdalene (think of his ‘Tour Magdala’ for example), as did many other people in that area of France, including the medieval Knights Templar. Could Mary Magdalene have been co-opted as a modern counterpart to Meritaten/Hagar/Kore I wonder or as a mask or cover for the continued worship of the Mother Goddess?
The Rabbinical View of the Kohathite Revolt

Going back to the Bible narrative, according to the Rabbis, the main cause of Korah's revolt was the nomination of Elizaphan, son of Uzziel, as prince over the Kohathites, Korah arguing thus: "Kohath had four sons. The two sons of Amram, Kohath's eldest son, took for themselves the kingdom and the priesthood. Now, as I am the son of Kohath's second son, I should be made prince over the Kohathites”. However, Moses gave that office to Elizaphan, the son of Kohath's youngest son". [MJF: Is this really a disguised rendition though of the dispute between Meritaten/Hagar and Nefertiti/Sarah over whose son should have precedence in the succession to Abraham?]

Modern Jewish reform and secular interpretations of the Korah revolt supply new causes for the revolt to reflect new agendas and concerns of the authors. Hence, it is proposed that Korah incited all the people against Moses, arguing that it was impossible to endure the laws Moses had instituted. Now this interpretation better reflects I think what the C’s have said about Moses becoming tyrannical and eventually being deposed. This tyranny may be reflected in the following passage:

Korah consulted also his wife, who encouraged him in the revolt, saying: "See what Moses has done. He has proclaimed himself king; he has made his brother high priest, and his brother's sons priests; moreover, he has made you shave all your hair in order to disfigure you."

The Two Sphinxes

Finally, I would draw your attention to the Historian and Egyptologist Antoine Gigal who cites the Dream Stele of Thutmose IV - which clearly shows two sphinxes - and the Inventory Stele which seems to indicate a second sphinx destroyed by a storm, as proof that there were originally two Sphinxes. This second sphinx would have been located across the River Nile from the one at Giza. Two sphinxes would have certainly been in keeping with Egyptian art and architecture in that the ancient Egyptians greatly valued balance and observed the concept in all aspects of their civilization, often doubling municipal buildings and monuments (such as the practice of always raising two obelisks). Gigal also asserts that there were tunnels beneath these sphinxes which may have connected them. Tunnels have, in fact, been located beneath the Great Sphinx although it has been determined that they do not go anywhere

Or do these tunnels lead to the three main Pyramids of Giza? Here are the C’s again commenting on this matter:

Q: They say that there is a subterranean chamber under the sphinx that leads to all the other pyramids. Is this correct?

A: Yes. But more importantly, there is a buried capsule of sorts.


For more on this see: Second sphinx discovered in Luxor - Egypt Independent.


I stumbled across this from a discussion with two people channelling very different stories about The Galactic Federation being a scam.

"Those of us that escaped the Lemurian Holocaust fled to Argatha, inner Earth, where we regrouped and planned a rebellion against the Draconians, which was successful and occurred 200,000 years ago. We then built the pyramids which connected to the Sirian templates, and harnessed energy, free energy, and gave the people back their freedom. We also were the ones whom built the sphinxes. There were 2, both with the heads of lions, one male, one female, which represented the divine feminine and the divine masculine as equals.
It wasn't until 5,000 years ago, when the Draconians Allied with the Annunaki, attacked our people once again, and they only won because they had the technology to destroy this entire planet, just like the did to Maldek, whose remains are seen as the rings of Saturn, and they threatened to destroy Gaia and ALL of her inhabitants. They then once again enslaved our people and erased all of our true history and then completely destroyed the sphinx that represented the Divine Feminine, and defaced the Divine Masculine and replaced his face with their god Anu. These were the days of the Sumerians."
 
Its very interesting to see the many puzzle pieces and how they are linked together. When people that are initiated into a Martinist lodge have a meeting, they wear a white tunic as well as a rope on their hips. A lot of their material is esoteric Judeo-Christian teachings and symbols with a cabalistic twist. Reading this information, it just occurred to me how this could have been influenced by the teaching of the Essenes. Martinism is very secret and the people initiated into the order are told not to tell people about it. Its much like a little community much like the Essenes and in order to become a member of a Martinist lodge, one has to be a member of a Rosicrucian lodge because the teachings are very similar. There could be a good connection between the Essenes and esoteric/spiritual orders that tie into the grail! ( Just thought I would share this as it just dawned on me.)

This is a very interesting thread and your research is very much appreciated MJF!

The information you have brought to the table here is very interesting indeed. Do you have any more information on this connection between the Martinists and the Rosicrucians, which you could perhaps share with the Forum?

I attach a link to the Traditionalist Martinist Order's website for those who are interested in exploring the Martinists further. See The Traditional Martinist Order

The following topics are included in Martinist study: Alchemy, Angelogy, Cycles of Humanity,
Dreams and Visions, Kabbalah, Mystical Symbols and Numerology.

You will note that these are all subjects that have been addressed on this Forum at one time or other. It is also interesting to see on the site that a former Sovereign Grand Master, Christian Bernard, taking a mystical look at the number 8, “the esoteric number of cosmic harmony,” which is also a symbol for the Rose Cross. Hence, we see here a link with Roscirucian philosophy and the importance placed on the number 8. I also wonder whether if you dig deep enough, will you find a link with the Cathar Parfait as well:

The Parfait
Perfect (also known as a Parfait in French or Perfectus in Latin) was the name given by Bernard of Clairvaux to the leaders of the mediaeval Christian religious movement in southern France and northern Italy commonly referred to as the Cathars. The Perfecti were not clerics in any way, but merely members who had become 'adepts' in the teaching, and whose role was that of aiding other ordinary members achieve the rewards of belief and practice. They were healers and worked with the sick, sometimes using medicinal remedies, sometimes with laying on of hands [MJF: Sounds like Reiki perhaps]. Following the instructions described in the Bible, they walked from place to place and stayed in the houses of Credentes. Services and sacraments were held in people's homes or in places such as fields, forests or caves [MJF: shades of the Druids here].
I attach a further link to an article on the Cathars by Anaiya Sophia, which mentions the prophecy of the last Cathar, Guilhem Belibaste. Pierre has recently referred to this prophecy. See

"There is a Cathar Prophecy that was spoken by the last known Parfait, Guilhem Belibaste, moments before he was interrogated and burnt at the stake in the Occitan region of Southern France, on August 24th at 8 am,1321. This prophecy spoke of how 'we shall return in 700 years when the laurel turns green again'. That was 699 years ago, marking 2021 as the year that fulfils this prophecy."
According to her:

"The local people say it was Mary Magdalene who brought this 'spirit' to Gaul (France) all those years ago, along with John the Beloved. The two of them transmitted a heavenly message of Love, Grace and Truth that continues to linger today.

Many say the Cathars were the spiritual descendants of Mary Magdalene, who came to France soon after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Throughout Occitania, the region once known as the Languedoc, it is known that Mary's reach and impact upon the local people were as far and wide as Jesus's within the holy land.
Their Church was not a building, but a place. Instead, they would gather in meadows, woodlands and beside springs in the natural world [MJF: Again this reminds me of the Druids] - this is where they found their Holy Spirit. .... However, the local people today still swear that the Book of Love and the Holy Grail has never been found and are still hidden in these valleys today.

Once a parfait, they would leave their local community and go out to spread the word, heal the sick and bring the spirit to all those who quenched. They always did this with another parfait, walking the old pathways in their navy blue robe, simple rope belt and book of love (they had transcribed in their own hand
[MJF: Interestingly, the Druids used a hand alphabet for signalling to the cognoscenti]) clutched under their arm. As for the Holy Grail, it always remained in one place - the Bethelem cave."

I suspect Mary Magdalene may just be a cover for something else, which I think is likely to be the Holy Grail. However, Anaiya Sophia does draw our attention to the idea that the Grail is hidden somewhere in the Pyrenees in a place called the 'Bethlehem Cave'. This notion in fact accords with Wolfram von Eschenbach's story of Parzival, since Wolfram also makes reference in his story to a certain cave that was the home of a hermit. I intend to develop this point in a subsequent post.

The Martinists and the Great White Brotherhood

It is intriguing that the Martinists should wear a white tunic and a cord on their hips (representing balance). The Druids, Essenes and Carmelite hermits also wore a white tunic as well. This wearing of white habits or tunics makes me think of the Great White Brotherhood the C's spoke of in this exchange with Laura:​

Session 31May 1995:

Q: (L) I have read a number of things recently purportedly channelled by the "Great White Brotherhood." I would like to know if there is such a thing?

A: No.

Q: (L) There is no "Great White Brotherhood?" (SV) How come Edgar Cayce talked about it?

A: Not as such.

Q: (L) What is it that they have been calling the "Great White Brotherhood?"

A: ?

Q: (L) What is the Great White Brotherhood that Cayce was referring to?

A: Various STO.

Q: (L) Do they identify themselves as the Great White Brotherhood?

A: Sometimes.

Q: (L) If they are not the "Great White Brotherhood," what are they?

A: Fourth density STO.

Q: (L) What is their purpose or work?

A: Complex, suggest you wait and see.

Q: (L) Are we going to be contacted by the Great White Brotherhood?

A: Maybe.

[…]


Q: (SV) I have a book on the Brotherhood... I get all kinds of things in the mail... one is from a guy who is supposed to be an extraterrestrial... I'll have to bring it... (L) What could we use to represent 7th density as a mathematical symbol?

A: Try this: [draws figure eight on side in ellipse]


Could there be a connection here I wonder? As for the figure 8, we saw above that the Martinists hold a mystical view of the number 8, “the esoteric number of cosmic harmony,” which is also, as we learn, a symbol for the Rose Cross.​

The Carmelites, the Rosicrucians, the Essenes and the Therapeutae

Remember also that AMORC article I posted last year on the strange connection between the Rosicrucians and the Carmelite Friars when members of both orders participated in a Spanish voyage to California in the 17th Century, where they established respectively the first Rosicrucian lodge and the Carmel (monastery) respectively on the west coast of America. On paper you would have thought the two orders would have been mutually antagonistic towards each other but here they were sharing a voyage together to the New World. The Carmelites (named after their original hermit monastic community founded on Mount Carmel in Palestine) could be considered as the Christian successors to the monastic, Jewish Essenes (who also dressed in white tunics), who in turn would seem to have developed from the Egyptian/Greek Therapeutae.
Therapeutae (plural) is Latin, from Philo's Greek plural Therapeutai (Θεραπευταί). The term therapeutes means one who is attendant to the gods although the term, and the related adjective therapeutikos carry in later texts the meaning of attending to heal, or treating in a spiritual or medical sense.

This connection to healing or treating in a spiritual or medical sense (an STO service if ever there was one) was also a notable function of both the the Essenes and the later Christian Monks/Friars, as well as the Druids. For any members who have read the Cadfael Chronicles written by Ellis Peters or watched the TV series based on the books, starring the brilliant British actor Sir Derek Jacobi as the medieval detective and title character, Brother Cadfael - see: Cadfael (TV series) - Wikipedia, then they will know what an important role the medieval monks and nuns played in providing medical treatment to the people of that age. Medical treatment was also one of the principal functions of the the Knights Hospitaller who can be seen as the medieval precursors of the modern international St John Ambulance Service overseen by the international Order of St John.

However, I have recently discovered that the Essenes and the Therapeutae may have been successors of an even older group, whose origins would seem to lie in ancient Egypt. I aim to deal with this group in an upcoming post since they have a very curious link with a god who was a divinity associated with blacksmiths and metal workers (which may in turn track back to the original chief of the Egyptian pantheon, Ptah). This group may also provide a link to Meritaten/Hagar/Brigid.

You also state: "Its very interesting to see the many puzzle pieces and how they are linked together. "

I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. I will share with you an experience that I endured last night to show how the most obscure links can be forged when you start looking behind things.

I visited my family home in Hertfordshire (north of London) yesterday since my ex-wife and I are in the process of selling it. The journey there was unremarkable but the journey back last night was an absolute nightmare. I thought it would never end. A journey that should take 90 minutes took 4 and a half hours, meaning I arrived back at my home in Surrey in the early hours of the morning. However, the day started well and I got to meet up and bond with my three sons who are all young men now (ages 16-22). I call them my Trojans as they were all born at the Rosie Maternity Hospital Cambridge (see: Rosie Hospital - Wikipedia) which shares the Addenbrooke's Hospital Site (see below).

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You might say what is remarkable about this. In truth nothing. However, if you will notice, the hospital which is based in the Cambridge suburb of Cherry Hinton, sits on a flat plain. That my friends is, according to Iman Wilkens, Homer's Plain of Ilum, where thousands of years ago the Siege of Troy played out.

Hence, I find it curious that the maternity hospital should be named 'The Rosie' (an excellent maternity unit by the way). It takes its name from local philanthropist David Robinson who named it after his mother - 'Rosemary' ('Rosie' being an abbreviated form of the name). The name 'Rosemary' or 'Rosemarie' combines too female names, which have cropped up time and again in this quest, i.e., "Rose" and "Mary".

According to Wikipedia: "Rosemary" is a feminine given name, a combination of the names Rose and Mary. It can also be used in reference to the herb named rosemary.

If I am right and the Siege of Troy was really about regaining Baphomet, the Holy Grail, Matriarch Stone or the Rose of Sharon and St Mary Magdalene or the Madonna/Notre Dame was just a cover or cipher for the Grail (see my upcoming post on Abbe Sauniere that will make this connection more real), then I find it most curious that the universe should tie these connections together by the naming of a maternity unit as "Rosie". Perhaps it is all just mere coincidence though!

Returning to my horrendous journey home, I found myself time and again being forced off my route through a series of unexpected road closures. I normally use the M25 orbital Motorway around London (the biggest car park in Europe for those who know it!) to get home. However, sections of it were closed for road maintenance last night forcing me to take several long detours. Eventually I found myself driving through the wilds of the county of Kent, the county of my birth with my stress levels going through the roof. I am very fond of Kent. I still follow its county cricket team, whose headquarters are at Canterbury. I appreciate most people outside of Britain and the British Commonwealth find the game unfathomable - my Baseball loving American brother-in-law calls it 'chess on grass'. However, there is a theory that cricket's origins lie in France of all places, where it was a game played by monastic shepherds. They would use a fence post for a wicket to defend against the ball - which represented the devil. In time, the wicket became three wooden stumps, representing the Holy Trinity. Who knows?

However, it is the name of 'Kent' that interests me here. When I first heard the name 'Kantek', I thought that it sounded etymologically similar to Kent. Here is Wikipedia on the origins of the name:

The name Kent is believed to be of British Celtic origin. The meaning has been explained as 'coastal district,' 'corner-land' or 'land on the edge' (compare Welsh cant 'bordering of a circle, tire, edge;' Breton cant 'circle;' Dutch kant 'side, edge'). In Latin sources the area is called Cantia or Canticum, while the Anglo-Saxons referred to it as Cent, Cent lond or Centrice.
Could the name Kantek possibly have come down through the Celtic peoples in the tribal name Kant or Cant?

This also makes me wonder if the name is connected with the American state of Kentucky:

"In 1776 the counties of Virginia beyond the Appalachian Mountains became known to European Americans as Kentucky County, named for the Kentucky River. The precise etymology of the name is uncertain,[14] but likely based on an Iroquoian name meaning "(on) the meadow" or "(on) the prairie" (cf. Mohawk kenhtà:ke, Seneca gëdá'geh (phonemic /kɛ̃taʔkɛh/), "at the field").[17]

Others have suggested the term Kenta Aki, which could have come from an Algonquian language and were possibly derived from Shawnee. Folk etymology translates this as "Land of Our Fathers". The closest approximation in another Algonquian language, Ojibwe, translates as "Land of Our In-Laws", thus making a fairer English translation "The Land of Those Who Became Our Fathers". In any case, the word aki means "land" in most Algonquian languages. Some also theorize that the name Kentucky may be a corruption of the word Catawba, in reference to the Catawba people who inhabited Kentucky.


So although, "Kent" is incorporated in the name "Kentucky", it seems to be derived from a completely different language root. Or is it? Having read Professor Barry Fell's book inciteful book America BC, there may in fact be very strong links between some Native American languages and Celtic tongues. Fell was a self taught expert in epigraphy and had seen what he clearly thought was Ogham script in numerous Neolithic stone inscriptions found throughout North and South America. He postulated in the 1976 that Celts and Phoenicians had reached America at least as early as 800 BC from the Iberian Peninsula and Ireland, where they created trading settlements and intermixed with the Native American tribes they came into contact with. They also erected numerous stone structures, including circles and dolmens similar to those found in Iberia and north-western Europe. However, Fell's epigraphic work was not well received by academia. Critics of Fell's work routinely dismissed him as an amateur, pointing out his lack of formal training in ancient scripts and languages. His treatment may be compared in some ways to another pseudoarchaeologist, Erich von Daniken, one of the fathers of the Ancient Aliens school.

Nevertheless, Fell has received support from other academics such as David H. Kelley, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary. Kelley has gone on record and said: "Fell's work [contains] major academic sins, the three worst being distortion of data, inadequate acknowledgment of predecessors, and lack of presentation of alternative views."

In the same essay, however, Kelley went on to state that "I have no personal doubts that some of the inscriptions which have been reported are genuine Celtic ogham." Kelley concluded: "Despite my occasional harsh criticism of Fell's treatment of individual inscriptions, it should be recognized that without Fell's work there would be no [North American] ogham problem to perplex us. We need to ask not only what Fell has done wrong in his epigraphy, but also where we have gone wrong as archaeologists in not recognizing such an extensive European presence in the New World."

Academics, including historians and archaeologists, who are attached to established theories find it very hard to accept anything new which calls into question those theories and their agreed timelines. Hence, it would be quite natural for them to dismiss anyone who comes along seeking to undermine these theories. But as Kelley points out, you still have to deal with the evidence. Once the genie is out of the bottle, it is out. Having read Fell's book and seen the evidence presented in it, I think it is very hard to ignore.

The Algonquian people were one of the tribal groupings whose language Fell felt was most heavily influenced by the Celtiberians (a mixture of Basques, Celts and Phoenicians from the Iberian Peninsula). If this was true of their language, it is almost certainly true of their religious beliefs and practices too. Given intermarriage between Celtiberians and Native Americans over many generations, the idea of a Native American people referring to 'Kentucky' as 'the Land of Those Who Became Our Fathers', meaning the Celts, is not so far fetched as one might at first think. Hence, does the name 'Kentucky' like 'Kent' in England possibly preserve a genetic memory of the Celts' original home world of Kentak? Were the Kentuckians really Kentakkians? Quoting from Wikipedia:

"It is not known exactly when the first humans arrived in what is now Kentucky. Based on the evidence in other regions, humans were likely living in Kentucky prior to 10,000 BCE, but "archaeological evidence of their occupation has yet to be documented". Around 1800 BCE, a gradual transition began from a hunter-gatherer economy to agriculturalism. Around 900 CE, a Mississippian culture took root in western and central Kentucky; by contrast, a Fort Ancient culture appeared in eastern Kentucky. While the two had many similarities, the distinctive ceremonial earthwork mounds constructed in the former's centers were not part of the culture of the latter."

It should be noted here that the the Fort Ancient Culture were most likely the builders of the Great Serpent Mound of Ohio. We should also recall that the C's had this to say about the ancient Rock Lake structures in Wisconsin:​

Q: Where did the people come from who built the structures in Rock Lake?
A: Have come from many places.
Q: (T) Is the "M" mound a natural formation?
A: No.
Q: (L) Who made it?
A: F 353535
Q: Is it worthwhile to keep studying these clues?
A: Yes.
Q: What group mined the copper in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, like in Isle Royale?
A: Aryans.
Q: What did they want the copper for?
A: Weapons.
Q: Wouldn't iron make better weapons?
A: Not in 4th density.


And later in the same session they added this:

(T) You said that many groups built Rock Lake. Who were some of the many groups?
A: Aryans.
Q: In conjunction with who?
A: Lizards.


This would seem to support Fell's arguments for a much earlier discovery of North America by Europeans. We also get a link being made between these Aryans and the 'F 353535' genetic coding, which represented according to the C's, a "race underpinning tribal code structure". Does the fact that there have been reports over hundreds of years of Native American giants being buried in large earth mounds (think of Newgrange in Ireland here) in the American East (particularly in Ohio) support the idea of giant Celts breeding with the indigenous population to produce a royal lineage with the F353535 genetic coding? Hence, although mainstream archaeologists and epigraphers still tend to dismiss Fell's ideas, the fact that the C's appear to back him, suggests we should take his ground breaking work seriously.
The Carmelites of Aylesford

Kent also contains what essentially is the Carmelite order's mother house at Aylesford Priory, or "The Friars" as it is known locally. It was founded in 1242 when members of the Carmelite order arrived in England from Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. The Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel had their origins as a Christian hermit community in Palestine but with the enfeebling and fall of the Crusader Kingdoms and the resumption of Muslim rule, in the early 13th century the members moved to Europe. Richard de Grey, a crusader, sponsored them, and conveyed to the order a parcel of land located on his manor in Aylesford in Kent. Richard of Wendover (the Bishop of Kent) recognised the Carmelite foundation at Aylesford and the first General Chapter outside of the Holy Land was held there. The Chapter changed the lifestyle of the Carmelites from hermits to mendicant friars.

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As a result of the English Reformation, the Carmelites had to leave the property in 1538. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1536, ownership of the site was transferred in 1538 to Sir Thomas Wyatt of nearby Allington Castle. Over the next four centuries, the buildings were repurposed, including their use as an "opulent, stately home". However, in 1949, the property was offered for sale. This gave the Carmelites the opportunity to purchase their motherhouse back and use it for its original purpose, as a place of worship. As a delicious irony of history, the Friars also bought Allington Castle, thereby reversing the tables on Sir Thomas Wyatt.

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I met the Friars myself, when I visited the Priory many years ago with my brother. My Irish aunt was the niece of the then prior. I can vouch that it is a very peaceful place and is located in a beautiful setting (the Friars allow people who have had breakdowns or other psychological issues to stay there to recuperate). The Priory is also a shrine to Saint Simon Stock where the head of the saint is retained as a relic and object of devotion (the rest of him is retained in St Andrews Cathedral in Bordeaux, France). Simon Stock lived in the 13th century and was an early prior of the Carmelite order. Little is known about his life with any historical certainty. The Blessed Virgin Mary is traditionally said to have appeared to him and given him the Carmelite habit, the Brown Scapular. Thus, popular devotion to Simon Stock is usually associated with devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

The first Carmelite hermits who lived on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land in the 12th century are thought to have worn a belted tunic and striped mantle typical of pilgrims; when the Carmelites moved to Europe in the mid 13th century and became a mendicant order of friars they adopted a new habit that included a brown belted tunic, brown scapular, a hood called a capuche, and white mantle (a cloak).

The scapular vision to St. Simon Stock

The first mention of the vision appears in the late 14th century, almost 150 years after the date in 1251 when it is sometimes stated to have occurred, and is not noted in the earliest accounts of St. Simon Stock's life and miracles. The history of the Carmelite habit and legislation and discussion relating to it within the Order during that time span, do not mention nor seem to imply a tradition about the Blessed Virgin giving the Scapular to the Carmelites, nor do the notable Carmelite writers of the 14th century, such as John Baconthorpe, mention the scapular. History even records an instance in 1375 when an English Carmelite named Nicholas Hornby engaged in a public debate with a Dominican friar in which Hornby ridiculed Dominican claims to have received their habit from the Blessed Virgin — this was a claim common to several different orders in the Middle Ages. Hornby showed no sign of being aware of any similar claim that had been made by a fellow English Carmelite in the preceding century.

Amidst confusing evidence, it has been suggested that some other Carmelite than Saint Simon Stock had a mystical vision, the story of which was later associated with him. A Dominican history compiled by Gerard of Frachet in 1259–1260 tells of the 1237 drowning death of a holy Dominican, Blessed Jordan of Saxony, off the coast of Acre, Israel (near Mount Carmel), and mentions "a certain brother of the Order of Carmel" who was tempted to abandon his vocation because God had permitted this to happen to so holy a man; Bl. Jordan was said to have appeared then to the brother in a vision, reassuring him that "all who serve the Lord Jesus Christ to the end will be saved." Gerard concludes: "the brother himself, and the prior of the same Order, brother Simon, a religious and truthful man, have related these things to our friars." This story which bears a notable similarity to the traditional story of the scapular vision and promise of salvation, with obvious differences, is one of very few known references.

However, for our purposes, the scapular vision was meant to have occurred somewhere else. Bringing matters full circle, it was by tradition meant to have occurred in Cambridge - yes Troy again! Quoting Wikipedia:

"According to traditional accounts, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared at Cambridge to St. Simon Stock, who was Prior General of the Carmelite Order in the middle of the 13th century. The earliest reference to this tradition, dating from the late 14th century, states that "St. Simon was an Englishman, a man of great holiness and devotion, who always in his prayers asked the Virgin to favour his Order with some singular privilege. The Virgin appeared to him holding the Scapular in her hand saying, 'This is for you and yours a privilege; the one who dies in it will be saved.'"

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The scaled down brown scapula worn by Third Order members (lay associates) of the Carmelite Order

When my brother discussed the issue of whether or not the scapula vision had taken place at Aylesford or Cambridge with the Friars, they also took the view that it had been at Cambridge.

Devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel is bound to the history and spiritual values of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and is expressed through the scapular. Thus, whoever receives the scapular becomes a member of the order and pledges him/herself to live according to its spirituality in accordance with the characteristics of his/her state in life."

Thus, we can see here I think a certain similarity with the Martinists, who also promote a spiritual path in their 'Prayer of the Heart':
Prayer is for our soul what breathing is for our body.”
– Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

So as Ghazi 18 said: "It's very interesting to see the many puzzle pieces and how they are linked together."

 
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The Korahites

The Korahites (Hebrew: קרחי Qārəḥî also בני קרח bənê Qōraḥ, "Sons of Korah") in the Bible were that portion of the Kohathites that descended from the Sons of Korah. They were an important branch of the singers of the Kohathite division (2 Chronicles 20:19). The Sons of Korah were the sons of Moses' cousin Korah.

Korah (Hebrew: קֹרַח‎ Qōraḥ; Arabic: قارون Qārūn), son of Izhar, is an individual who appears in the Book of Numbers of the Hebrew Bible, known for leading a rebellion against Moses. Some older English translations, as well as the Douay-Rheims Bible, spell the name “Core”, and many Eastern European translations have Korak. The name Korah is also used for at least one other individual in the Hebrew Bible: Korah (son of Esau). [MJF: This makes me wonder whether Korah or Core is really the “Kore” the C’s have spoken of who I have surmised is Meritaten/Hagar and Esau is Akhenaten – Abraham/Prince Tuthmose’s brother?]. If she led a revolt against Abraham/Moses, it might have been over his use of the Holy Grail and would better explain why he abandoned her and her son, Ishmael, in the Desert of Paran. Numbers 16:1–40 indicates that Korah rebelled against Moses along with 249 co-conspirators and were punished for their rebellion when God sent fire from heaven to consume all 250 of them [MJF: Or were they taken up in a Golden Ram and flown to Britain/Ireland?] The rabbis of the Talmudic era explained the name "Korah" as meaning "baldness" [MJF: It is quite intriguing that the bust of Meritaten held in the Belin Museum shows her as being bald.] It was given to Korah on account of the gap or blank which he made in Israel by his revolt. Korah is represented as the possessor of extraordinary wealth, having discovered one of the treasures which Joseph had hidden in Egypt [MJF: Could this treasure have been the Holy Grail and was Meritaten its appointed guardian?].​
It is possible that Meritaten/Hagar was made to look like a man called Korah, from the clues of Korah meaning baldness and the hairless headed bust of Meritaten. Another major clue I've found from the Cs transcript is that the "blessing" that Jacob returned to Esau, referred to as Kore by the Cs, is also used in the bible to describe Joseph. In short, Korah is Joseph.

Here is the Cs transcript
Q: I noticed in Genesis Chapter 33, verse 11, it says that Jacob, who wrestled with the angel the previous night and was on his way to see his brother Esau, who he had tricked into giving up his blessing years before, “gave Esau the blessing”. What was this? The birthright from his father or the blessing Jacob received from the angel?

A: Trampled leaves of wrath.

Q: This is what Jacob gave to Esau?

A: Yes, and what is the "core" meaning there?

Q: I don't know. What is the core meaning?

A: Leaves are of the Tree of Apples, from whence we get the proverbial "grapes of wrath," the Blue Apples incarnate!

Here is what the bible says:

Genesis 32

Jacob Wrestles With God​

22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”

“Jacob,” he answered.

28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[a] because you have struggled with God (elohim) and with humans and have overcome.”
29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”

But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.

Genesis 49
Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine near a spring,
whose branches climb over a wall.[k]
23 With bitterness archers attacked him;
they shot at him with hostility.
24 But his bow remained steady,
his strong arms stayed[l] limber,
because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob,
because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
25 because of your father’s God, who helps you,
because of the Almighty,[m] who blesses you
with blessings of the skies above,
blessings of the deep springs below,
blessings of the breast and womb.
26 Your father’s blessings are greater
than the blessings of the ancient mountains,
than[n] the bounty of the age-old hills.
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of the prince among[o] his brothers.

August 16, 1997
Q: After wrestling with the 'angel,' Jacob was renamed 'Israel,' which means 'he will rule as a god.' This tends to make me think that this angel whom Jacob seems to have conjured, did something. What was this being that Jacob wrestled with?
A: Elohim provides the conventional response.

Q: And you have told us about the Elohim. Okay. I will look it up. What did it mean when it said that the 'angel touched him in the hollow of the thigh,' which did something to him. What was meant by the 'hollow of the thigh?'
A: Branch.

Q: You mean genetic? His gonads?
A: No.


Q: What do you mean?
A: Ponder. If you ponder this, lightbulbs will illuminate.
I know the examples seem quite convoluted and I'll try my best to explain.

People like Abram and Sarai are renamed to Abraham and Sarah after a child is conceived. In the case of Jacob wrestling with the "angel/elohim", Jacob is renamed to Israel after this incident, a hint that Jacob has a new child, a "bless[ing]" from the "angel/elohim".

The "angel" touched Jacob's hollow (or socket in some bibles) of the thigh. Cs said the hollow is not the gonads. It is likely the hollow refers to a womb, a "socket" to a phallus. So, suppose the hollow refers to the womb, is there anything else in the bible to back it up? Yes, there is. When Joseph met his brothers, all of them bullied him except Reuben, likely because Reuben is the father of Joseph. Reuben has on several occasions been shown to meddle in procreative activities, such as giving a mandrake to Rachel when she is barren (A mandrake is an aphrodisiac, according to biblehub.com), and sleeping with Jacob's handmaidens, resulting in a reprimand from Jacob. So, the clues point to Reuben as the angel touching the hollow.

The hollow/womb either belongs to Rachel or to Jacob. The hollow/womb could belong to Rachel because she received a mandrake from Reuben. However, one could argue that Jacob may be a woman since 1) his alias, Israel, is cognate with Sarai 2) Jacob is the one limping after the wrestling incident with Reuben the "angel" 3) Rachel is not present in this wrestling incident.

In any case, the "angel" gave Jacob a blessing. Joseph is called a blessing several times in Jacob's speech about his sons in Genesis 49. Joseph is the only child described as a blessing.

It also seems like Joseph the cupbearer is also Joseph the stepfather of Jesus based on their similar genealogy. The bible Matthew states that Joseph's parent is Jacob, whereas Luke says his parent is Heli, which is similar to elohim. This is similar to Joseph the cupbearer whose parents are the elohim angel and either Rachel or Jacob/Israel.

Moreover, both Persephone/Kore and Joseph the stepfather fostered a child - Adonis for Persephone, Jesus for Joseph. These two children have similar stories. Adonis is known as Dumuzi in Sumerian. Dumuzi's death is similar to Jesus in that three women were present when Dumuzi disappeared into the underworld while three Marys were present at Jesus' tomb. In short, Persephone/Kore is likely to to be Joseph.

When Joseph is missing, Israel becomes very upset just like how when Persephone is gone, Demeter becomes so upset that she neglects the earth and causes nothing to grow.

It's not surprising that "Korah discovered one of the treasures which Joseph had hidden in Egypt" because they are likely to be the same person.
 
In my article on Abbe Sauniere and the Rosicrucians, I mentioned that the great French science fiction writer Jules Verne had a keen interest in the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery. I have since come across the following article on Jules Verne titled Jules Verne Templars and the Virgin by Jacques Mazieres. It seems that Verne was a spokesman for a secret society (perhaps the Martinists/Rosicrucians?) that infiltrated much of the literary and artistic world of the nineteenth century. It would appear that Jules Verne hid behind the text of his novels a message that only insiders could discover (in the same way that Nicolas Poussin hid a secret within his painting of 'the Shepherds of Arcadia'). Apparently, behind the wonderful adventures and inventions described in Verne's books lie the mysteries of Freemasonry and the Rosicrucians, which are only revealed to those who can decode his work. The book that is supposed to deal specifically with Rennes-le-Chateau and hold the key to the mystery is Clovis Dardentor. Hence, if anyone reading this post has read that work, please feel free to comment here on its contents.

In the meantime, Jacques Mazieres draws attention in his article to the Knights Templar's role in building Gothic cathedrals and churches across northern France under the protection of Notre Dame. These were primarily Cistercian establishments and, as we know from earlier posts, the Templars enjoyed a very close relationship with the Cistercians, which commenced with the Cistercian Abbot and leader St Bernard of Clairvaux who wrote the Templars' rule book.

Mazieres points out that eight of these Notre Dame cathedrals/churches were set up in such a way as to draw the constellation of Virgo on the ground but turned upside down, as if the earth were a mirror image of the sky.​

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I attach a link to the article for you to read (the original is in French). Lignes Templières en France

I would not endorse all he has to say but his article does support the notion that people in past ages used geomancy principles when erecting major monuments (the Egyptians did it at Giza and we know Sir Francis Bacon seems to have practiced it too - think also of Nolan's Cross on Oak Island).

Mazieres points, inter alia, out that The Coat of Arms of Paris (Per-Isis) is a solar boat, which links the city to the solar barques, the boat of a million years (a time machine according to the C's) and to Ra, Osiris and Isis. Paris is also known as the 'City of Light', which seems appropriate for a city associated with the sun. In Jupiter, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and the Return of the Mongols, Laura noted the connection between Isis and the solar boat too.​

"According to some scholars, the name Paris is connected with sun worship, as dolmens have been found with images of a sun ship strikingly similar to the Egyptian sun ships. It seems there were indeed certain links between the Druids and the cult of the Egyptian goddess Isis. The sun ship, which is still found in the Paris coat of arms, gave its name to to the city, via Barsis ("Barque of Isis" or "boat of Isis"). There can be little doubt that Paris owes its name to Isis ..."



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Coat of Arms of Paris

I intend posting an article soon that develops this link between Isis and the 'Boat of a Million Years' or the Barque of Isis.

Mazieres then states:

The capital of Normandy represents the helm of a ship and the design of the Norman Region (made by the Romans, it is the Lyonnaise second) is a SHIP with a woman at the bow (the tip of the Contantin), it is a UNICORN. The Normandy region is therefore related to the solar boat and the mysteries of Rennes-le-Château, a highly Templar region.

In the story of Jason and the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece, an image of the goddess Hera was placed at the bow of the ship.

The Goddess is an avatar of SELKIS, HATHOR-ISIS, ATHENA, and so many others. Normandy touches circumpolar stars, it is Arcadia and an important region in the network, it is here that the mystery seems to begin a very long time ago long before Celtic Gaul and the Romans. The whole construction of France is esoteric, the Champs-Elysées is a copy of the axis of Versaille, they are not only the most beautiful
avenue in the world, in Greek mythology, it is a region of the underworld where heroes and virtuous people could meet after death.

As Laura noted, in Homer's time, the region that became today's Paris was known as "Elysee" - "broad Helice". In Greek mythology the Elysian Fields (Champs-Elysées) were a region of the underworld where heroes and virtuous people could meet after death. Again the name "Helice" contains the name "Hel" or "Helle", who is a Norse goddess associated with death and may be linked with Helen of Troy, whose kidnap led to the Trojan War. Are we this seeing a reference to the Grail again in this name?

Thus, Mazieres recognises that the mystery (of the Grail?) began long before Celtic Gaul and the Romans and he places Arcadia in Normandy. If he applied Iman Wilkens ideas that the Iliad and the Siege of Troy took place in Britain and involved Northern European Celtic kingdoms, he would appreciate that the territory corresponding to today's department of the Seine-Maritime (which includes part of the old province of Normandy) was Bronze Age Egypt at that time. According to Wilkens, todays town of Dieppe in Normandy, which now forms part of the department of the Seine-Maritime, was Thebes during the Trojan War. This would seem to call into question his claim that Arcadia was in Normandy. In turn, the kingdom of Argos, whose capital was Mycenae and whose king, Agamemnon, was the commander of the Achaean forces, corresponded roughly to the northern half of France today. It extended as far west as the Gironde, northwards to Brittany and eastward to the far side of the River Rhine. Mycenae today is the town of Troyes some 160 Km East of Paris. Moreover, it was in Troyes that the Knights Templar (who would find and hide the Holy Grail) were created in 1128 as an official order of the Catholic Church under the guidance of St Bernard of Clairvaux.

Mazieres also states that:

"The VIRGIN holding a boat is also the seal of the Norman painter N[icolas] Poussin, his famous alchemical painting "The Shepherds of Arcadia" is painted in Port-Mort in the EURE, not far from GISORS. On the right bank of the Seine, the tomb was a kind of dolmen, a horizontal crude stone made of limestone bearing on four small very low supports. After 1870, this monument disappeared and was replaced by a carved stone table."

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Using the Greco-Roman zodiac of Denderah found in Egypt, it is the decan of the VIRGIN AND CHILD that takes place on France, GREAT BRITAIN is then the constellation of VIRGO, the TRIANGLE of fish is located in the Pacific with the Cetus Whale. This decan of VIRGO has been replaced by the CENTAUR in fusion with another sign, in this constellation removed from the sky is normally the SOUTHERN CROSS.

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Projection of the Zodiac of Denderah on Earth

Thus, we see Mazieres using similar geomancy or geocosmology techniques above to those Peter Dawkins used in relation to Oak Island (see my earlier article The Curse of Oak Island).

However, Mazieres identifies Great Britain with the constellation of Virgo. This is curious because Dawkins believes that Britain corresponds to the constellation of Cassiopeia:​

"Then there is the much bigger scale of geocosmology—the planetary scale used by the Rosicrucian fraternity and Francis Bacon in which Britain lies within Cassiopeia, the Heavenly Virgin Queen, and Cygnus is associated with Nova Scotia and the mystery of Oak Island."

Since we have been considering whether Isis, Hathor, Astarte, Ishtar, Inanna, Athena, Cassiopeia, Demeter, Persephone etc, can all be viewed as personifications of the Mother Goddess or White Goddess, then both men can be seen to be correct and the constellation of Virgo can therefore be identified with the Grail.

Continuing on:
"We also find the magic square with the Alphabet in the plan of the dungeon of Chambord, it is the same as that of the Cathedrals of Reims and Beauvais.
An observation of its square shape reveals a rationalized grid of 25 boxes with one letter per box, except the J because in ancient texts the letters I and J are represented by the same character.
The N (the one Napoleon later) is in its center, it represents the center of the Zodiac and the constellations of bears, the rotating cross.

By decoding it we get the word NAVIREZ from the old verb "ship", as for the plural of "Ship" the link with a ship is obvious. The interpretation is confirmed by the letters NAVEZ which occupy like a seal the middle and corners of the square. The word "nave", here in a plural form, referred to a "ship, a boat".

There is also the word NAUF, synonymous with "nave, vessel" which was invented at the same time that architects were beginning to work on the Chambord project. The word "nauf" is also written in symmetry on the dungeon. Researchers in esotericism make the link with visitors to space, we discover in symmetry the strange word that we thought very new: Extra-Terrestrial certainly in the sense "is not on Earth", that is to say the stars and constellations, the ancient solar boat of the Egyptians in front of SIRIUS removed from the sky and then replaced by ARGO NAVI now in three constellations."
So again we see a reference to the ancient solar boat of the Egyptians but this time in connection with something 'not of this Earth'. Well if it was the ship that brought escaping Kantekkians to Earth through time and space this makes sense.

The reference to the French word "nave" being a ship or a boat makes me think of the old French term "Nautonnier", which translates in to English as "Navigator" or "Helmsman". This was the title supposedly given to the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion. Is there a connection I wonder?

I find Mazieres take on special ley lines interesting but not very convincing. The trouble is you can take a reputed ley line and then find means of connecting anything you want along its route if you try hard enough. That is not to say this practice of erecting sacred monuments along ley lines did not go on in ancient times (including the Megalithic and Neolithic periods) but I find it less compelling when you start introducing modern structures. Anyway, I leave it to you to decide what you think about it.

 

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It is possible that Meritaten/Hagar was made to look like a man called Korah, from the clues of Korah meaning baldness and the hairless headed bust of Meritaten. Another major clue I've found from the Cs transcript is that the "blessing" that Jacob returned to Esau, referred to as Kore by the Cs, is also used in the bible to describe Joseph. In short, Korah is Joseph.

Here is the Cs transcript


Here is what the bible says:

Genesis 32


Genesis 49



I know the examples seem quite convoluted and I'll try my best to explain.

People like Abram and Sarai are renamed to Abraham and Sarah after a child is conceived. In the case of Jacob wrestling with the "angel/elohim", Jacob is renamed to Israel after this incident, a hint that Jacob has a new child, a "bless[ing]" from the "angel/elohim".

The "angel" touched Jacob's hollow (or socket in some bibles) of the thigh. Cs said the hollow is not the gonads. It is likely the hollow refers to a womb, a "socket" to a phallus. So, suppose the hollow refers to the womb, is there anything else in the bible to back it up? Yes, there is. When Joseph met his brothers, all of them bullied him except Reuben, likely because Reuben is the father of Joseph. Reuben has on several occasions been shown to meddle in procreative activities, such as giving a mandrake to Rachel when she is barren (A mandrake is an aphrodisiac, according to biblehub.com), and sleeping with Jacob's handmaidens, resulting in a reprimand from Jacob. So, the clues point to Reuben as the angel touching the hollow.

The hollow/womb either belongs to Rachel or to Jacob. The hollow/womb could belong to Rachel because she received a mandrake from Reuben. However, one could argue that Jacob may be a woman since 1) his alias, Israel, is cognate with Sarai 2) Jacob is the one limping after the wrestling incident with Reuben the "angel" 3) Rachel is not present in this wrestling incident.

In any case, the "angel" gave Jacob a blessing. Joseph is called a blessing several times in Jacob's speech about his sons in Genesis 49. Joseph is the only child described as a blessing.

It also seems like Joseph the cupbearer is also Joseph the stepfather of Jesus based on their similar genealogy. The bible Matthew states that Joseph's parent is Jacob, whereas Luke says his parent is Heli, which is similar to elohim. This is similar to Joseph the cupbearer whose parents are the elohim angel and either Rachel or Jacob/Israel.

Moreover, both Persephone/Kore and Joseph the stepfather fostered a child - Adonis for Persephone, Jesus for Joseph. These two children have similar stories. Adonis is known as Dumuzi in Sumerian. Dumuzi's death is similar to Jesus in that three women were present when Dumuzi disappeared into the underworld while three Marys were present at Jesus' tomb. In short, Persephone/Kore is likely to to be Joseph.

When Joseph is missing, Israel becomes very upset just like how when Persephone is gone, Demeter becomes so upset that she neglects the earth and causes nothing to grow.

It's not surprising that "Korah discovered one of the treasures which Joseph had hidden in Egypt" because they are likely to be the same person.

"It is possible that Meritaten/Hagar was made to look like a man called Korah, from the clues of Korah meaning baldness and the hairless headed bust of Meritaten? Another major clue I've found from the Cs transcript is that the "blessing" that Jacob returned to Esau, referred to as Kore by the Cs, is also used in the bible to describe Joseph. In short, Korah is Joseph."

Yes, I think it is possible she was turned into a male character called Korah. Hagar gets a bad press in the biblical account so why not make her into a man. However, is Korah also Joseph? You make a very good argument but I will need more convincing. Joseph is, of course, a fictitious person since if Abraham was really Moses, he did not have 12 sons (including Joseph), through who the Twelve Tribes of Israel would emerge. In reality, there were perhaps only ever two tribes as such, Judah and Benjamin, plus the Levites who were the Israelite priesthood. The later Israelites in King David's time were most probably just a confederation of peoples dwelling in Canna/Palestine, including the Judahites and Benjamites, who eventually forged a mutual identity together. Moreover, the C's seem to agree that Joseph is linked with the Scorpion King of Egypt who pre-dated Akhenaten and therefore Abraham/Moses.

Wikipedia adds that in the Rabbinical literature, Korah is also represented as a wise man, chief of his family and as one of the Kohathites who carried the Ark of the Covenant on their shoulders. This would seem to associate him/her with the Levite priesthood. Indeed, this is correct since the Kohathites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times, the other three being the Gershonites, the Merarites, and the Aaronites (more commonly known as Kohen or Cohen). The Bible claims that the Kohathites were all descended from the eponymous Kohath, a son of Levi (who in his turn was supposed to have been a son of Jacob/Israel). The name "Merarites" particularly interests me here though since it seems close to "Meritaten", Hagar's real name, which may betray their true origins.

Alternatively, the name Korah is also associated with Esau, Jacob's brother, where he is said to be Esau's son. If Esau is Jacob/Abraham's brother then this suggests that Korah is really Akhenaten's child - a female called Meritaten/Hagar.

If Korah is really Hagar/Meritaten, this suggests that as a Kohathite, she was a priestess connected to the Ark/Grail, which supports my thoughts that she may have been an Egyptian Temple priestess - an Essene. I want to develop this idea in a future post that I wish to do on the Essenes.

Further, we must remember that any stories about Jacob must be read in the light of Jacob being just another identity for Abraham/Moses. Rachel's stealing of her father's (Laban) treasures which she then gave to Jacob is, for example, a recounting of Nefertiti/Sarah stealing the Ark of the Covenant and Grail for Abraham/Moses/Paris. The story of Korah discovering one of the treasures which Joseph had hidden in Egypt could be just another allegory for Jacob having acquired the Ark of the Covenant and Grail from Akhenaten through Nefertiti's/Rachel's treachery. Alternatively, it could mean that Korah/Kore/Hagar/Meritaten discovered her mother, Nefertiti, had stolen the Grail from her father and was furious at her, leading a rebellion against Abraham/Moses that may have involved the group that subsequently became known as the Benjamites taking her side. The rabbis of the Talmudic era explained the name "Korah" as meaning "baldness" given on account of the gap or blank which he made in Israel by his revolt. This gap in Israel's ranks seems to mirror to me the loss of most of the Benjamites to Israel after the internecine Battle of Gibeah, which supposedly occurred after the rape and murder of the Levite's concubine. Was this concubine a cypher for the Grail or Kore I wonder?

However, I would still go with the Rabbis who perceived the main cause of Korah's revolt as the nomination of Elizaphan, son of Uzziel, as prince over the Kohathites. This smacks to me of Kore/Hagar resenting her mother Nefertiti's son Isaac taking precedence over her son Ishmael who was the older son of Abraham and should have had seniority (primogeniture). Note also that Korahin the Bible story was supposed to have had 250 followers, which given that the C's said Abraham/Moses took 623 followers into the Exodus with him, would seem to be a reasonable number in the context.

On the subject of "the blessing" you quoted the following extract:
Q: I noticed in Genesis Chapter 33, verse 11, it says that Jacob, who wrestled with the angel the previous night and was on his way to see his brother Esau, who he had tricked into giving up his blessing years before, “gave Esau the blessing”. What was this? The birthright from his father or the blessing Jacob received from the angel?

A: Trampled leaves of wrath.

Q: This is what Jacob gave to Esau?

A: Yes, and what is the "core" meaning there?

Q: I don't know. What is the core meaning?

A: Leaves are of the Tree of Apples, from whence we get the proverbial "grapes of wrath," the Blue Apples incarnate!


I think the blessing here may be viewed as both Kore/Hagar and the Ark/Grail. The passage you quoted was followed in a subsequent Session dated 2 February 2003 :

Q: (L) One aspect of the variation on the story was that Jacob gave his brother, Esau, the 'blessing' and some 'gift.' Does this reflect an accurate part of the story that Moses, in his form as Jacob, passed something on to someone else’s - something that was important?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Was it Moses/Abraham who was doing this?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Who did he pass it on to?

A: It was finally understood by "Moses" that the danger of the object was greater than the ability of descendants to resist corruption. He handed it over to those who had created it.

Q: (Galahad) Was it STS or STO forces that created it?

A: STS.

Q: (Galahad) So, the Ark was an object created by STS. Did this amount to some sort of realization on Moses' part? Did he start to wake up?

A: Yes. The story of the "contending with the angel" was the significant turning point as well as the moment of return.

Q: (L) What was the blessing he gave to quote Esau, if giving the object to the "angel" was the event of returning the ark? What was the story there?

A: Two separate events.

Q: (L) So, he returned the ark to the so-called angel. And then, he gave something to someone else. Previously, when I asked about this, you said that what he gave to Esau was "trampled leaves of wrath, the blue apples incarnate," and remarked that I should inquire into the "core meaning."

A: And who was "Kore?"

Q: (L) Was this Abraham's daughter?

A: It was the last living member of the Perseid family.

Q: (L) Was it a male or female?

A: Female.

Q: (L) And how did Abraham come to be in possession of this female?

A: Search the text and you will see.

Q: (Galahad) If this person was the last member of the Perseid family, does that mean that Paris was a member of this family?

A: No.

Q: (L) Was this person someone who was part of Abraham's group because he kidnapped her?

A: That is going in the right direction, though not quite that simple.

Q: (Galahad) They are saying that this was a female who was kidnapped? Could it be Helen?

A: No!

Q: (L) Previously we were told that Helen was a genetically tweaked Hittite. Were her parents anybody who would be familiar to us outside of mythology?

A: No.

Q: (L) So her parentage was strictly mythical. Was she a member of any esteemed family or royal family along that line as has been claimed?

A: Here also you will make a discovery.

Q: (L) Going back to this person - the last living member of the Perseid family - who was handed over by Abraham in his Jacob persona to someone else, who was this person handed over to and why?

A: For protection from the fury of "Helen."

Q: (L) So, there is a reflection of that in the story of Hagar the Egyptian. Who was she handed over to?

A: The "Dragon Slayers."

[.....]

Q: (L) Was Helen from Argo?

A: No.

Q: (L) Was someone from Argo?

A: Yes.

Q: [Laughter.] (L) Well, I mean involved in this particular story.

A: Oh, indeed, and that may be an important clue!

[....]

Q: (Galahad) Is the importance of Argos related to the myth of Jason and the Argonauts?

A: Yup.

Q: (Galahad) Does it have something to do with the individuals who flew away on the Ram?
[MJF: This is Helle, the sister of Phrixus]

A: Mmmmm .... And did she really drown?

Q: (Galahad) Is it a significant fact that this girl's name was similar to Helen of Troy?

A: Could be a clue. All those stories of escape from confinement and flying and cataclysm...? Who was imprisoned? Why? Good night.

You really need to take these two extracts together to get the full story. The two blessings are said to involve two different events. One is evidently the handing over of the Ark of the Covenant after Abraham/Jacob's contending with the angel. The second involved Kore or Hagar, who Abraham abandons or forces into exile in the Desert of Paran where she and her son are rescued at the well by an angel (an STO being?). She had run away before the birth of her son Ishmael after experiencing harsh treatment from Sarah. At a spring en route, an angel appears to Hagar, who instructs her to return to Sarai, so that she may bear a child who "shall be a wild ass of a man: his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren. Laura and some biblical scholars believe that many of the episodes in the Bible are in reality stories based on Greek tales and mythology. There may be an example of this to be found in the Greek demigod Heracles or Hercules who is often described as a wild ass of a man - think of the tale of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides where he acts very badly. I suspect that the Story of Samson in Judges is also based on the character of Heracles - Samson's fight with the lion mimicking that of Heracles in his fight with the Nemean lion.

The C's suggest that Hagar/Kore was handed over to save her from the fury of Helen/Sarah/Nefertiti. Was it just because she wanted her son to take precedence over Isaac per the Bible story or is there more involved here? You will note that the C's put the name "Helen" in quotes, which they always do for a good reason. Could it be that she took the Grail with her in the persona of Helle who Greek myth describes as flying away on a Golden Ram (Chrysomallos) sent by Zeus with her brother Phrixus to escape their stepmother Ino, who had devised a plan to kill them. Homer makes it clear that this story was a prelude to the Trojan War and also set the scene for Jason with his Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Ram, which had by then been converted into the Golden Fleece of Colchis.

In the Greek myth, Helle was the daughter of Athamas, king of Boeotia, and Nephele, a cloud nymph. Well Nephele could be a Greek styling of the Egyptian name Nefertiti and describing here as a nymph may be suggestive of her hybrid origins. Since Nefertiti was both Meritaten's natural mother and, through her marriage or union with Abraham, she may also have been viewed through the eyes of myth as her stepmother, this could make Nephele and Ino one and the same person - Nefertiti. This would make Athamas the Pharaoh Akhenaten. Phrixus could then be Ishmael who escaped with her. It might also be worth recalling that the Norse mythology concerning Hel or Helle links her with Niflheim or Niflheimr (Old Norse: [ˈnivlˌhɛimz̠]; "World of Mist", literally "Home of Mist" ) is a location which sometimes overlaps with the notions of Niflhel and Hel, a realm of primordial ice and cold. As I have said before, "Niflheim" reminds me etymologically of "Nephilim", the Old Testament giants, who may equate here with the Norse Frost Giants - who the more commonly known Norse gods (such as Odin, Thor) are meant to be direct or indirect descendants of.

The C's then tell us that Hagar was handed over to the "Dragon Slayers". This suggests to me that she was handed over to the Argonauts who came from Argos - which we learned in my last post were Celts from Northern France. The Argonauts are led by Jason and also include Heracles/Hercules in their ranks. In the traditional story of the Golden Fleece, Jason was able to retrieve the Fleece guarded by the dragon, with the help of Medea the sorceress who put a spell on the dragon so that Jason could get the Golden Fleece from the tree were it was hanging without being attacked. However, the story of Hercules parallels that of Jason but here we see a dragon slayer in action.
HERACLES
JASON
  • Performs a labor at the behest of a king (Eurystheus).
  • Travels to the farthest limits of the river Ocean, northward.
  • Engages in many incidental adventures en route.
  • En route, Heracles kills a king who forces travelers to wrestle.
  • Traveled to the Caucasus and rescued Prometheus.
  • Traveled across the Ocean in the golden goblet of the Sun.
  • Followed the route the sun takes at night.
  • Sought a golden treasure on a tree guarded by a giant snake.
  • Used trickery and magical aid (Atlas) to obtain the treasure.
  • In other versions, he killed the snake to seize the gold apples.
  • Performs a task at the behest of a king (Pelias).
  • Travels to the farthest limites of the river Ocean, eastward.
  • Engages in many incidental adventures en route.
  • En route, Polydeuces kills a king who forces travelers to box.
  • Passed the Caucasus en route to Colchis.
  • Traveled across the Ocean in the divinely-constructed Argo.
  • Came to the land where the sun rests his rays at night.
  • Sought a golden treasure on a tree guarded by a giant snake.
  • Used trickery and magical aid (Medea) to obtain the treasure.
  • Subdued or killed the snake to seize the Golden Fleece.

As I have recounted before, in one version of the story of Heracles and the Argonauts, Heracles kills Ladon the serpent or dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides and then steals the golden apples. The Argonauts during their journey, came to the Hesperian plain the next day. The band of heroes asked for the mercy of the Hesperides to guide them to a source of water in order to replenish their thirst. The goddesses pitying the young men, directed them to a spring created by Heracles who likewise longing for a draught while wandering the land, smote a rock near Lake Triton after which the water gushed out. This mention of water gushing out of a rock after Heracles smote it reminds one of the account of Moses striking the rock with his rod and water gushing forth out from it. I suggest this is no coincidence.

In passing, I would also observe that Perseus, who was a member of the Danaan family, in slaying the gorgon Medusa can also be viewed as a kind of dragon slayer since the Medusa's head writhed with serpents.

So as noted before, the golden apples may be equated to the Golden Fleece and by extension to the Holy Grail. This point is reflected, I believe, in the C's statement where they say that the 'Trampled Leaves' are "Leaves [are] of the Tree of Apples, from whence we get the proverbial "grapes of wrath," the Blue Apples incarnate."

If it helps, I am aiming to write an article on the theme of the 'Blue Apples Incarnate' since I have discovered a book whose author has set out a very persuasive case as to the true meaning of the blue apples, which equate to the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides and the grapes of wrath. He also links these themes with Egyptian mythology, including the goddess Isis, and ties it in with the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery, where bunches of grapes form part of the decoration within Sauniere's church.

Finally, the C's mention in the transcript above that someone was from Argo and this was not Helen/Nefertiti. I think this means it can only really be Abraham. In the Bible Abraham was supposed to come from Ur of the Chaldeans taken to be in southern Iraq. Other sites traditionally thought to be Abraham's birthplace are in the vicinity of the city of Edessa (Şanlıurfa in modern south eastern Turkey). Traditional Jewish and Muslim authorities, such as Maimonides and Josephus, placed Ur Kaśdim at various Upper Mesopotamian or at other southeast Anatolian sites such as Urkesh, Urartu, Urfa, or Kutha.

However, as Wikipedia states: Most historians view the patriarchal age, along with the Exodus and the period of the biblical judges, as a late literary construct that does not relate to any particular historical era; and after a century of exhaustive archaeological investigation, no evidence has been found for an historical Abraham. Well if Abraham was Moses, a foreign prince raised within the Egyptian royal household, this would make perfect sense. Many modern researchers like the writer Graham Phillips have linked Moses to Prince Thutmose, the eldest son of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye and brother of Akhenaten. This might suggest he was an Egyptian but there has always been a tradition of royal households welcoming into their ranks princes from other kingdoms and raising or recognising them as their own. Could this have happened with Moses? Could he have been Paris, a young Trojan prince who fell out with his own family and then moved first to Argos, across the water in France, and then to Egypt perhaps via Hittite Turkey. There may be some anecdotal support for this in Greek myth - indeed Jason as a prince may himself be viewed as an archetype, especially as with Abraham/Moses he ended up with the Grail.

If Abraham in his persona of Paris was not of the Trojan royal family of Britain, could he have been of the royal family of Argos? As Laura notes:

"The royal family of Argos at the time of the Trojan War were known as the Atreidae after Agamemnon's father, Atreus who had usurped the throne from the Perseid dynasty, the legitimate heirs. Agamemnon was a grandson of Pelops. Pelops was the central figure in a rather bizarre story.

"As for the royal house of Argos, we know from ancient Greek literature, which must have drawn on Druidic tradition comes from the north, that Agamemnon's family, the house of the Atreidae, had known a series of bloody battles.


Laura then relates the bizarre story of Pelops, which involves him being offered by his father Tantalus as a meal for the Olympian gods and having his shoulder munched by Demeter who replaced it with an ivory shoulder. However, she points out that Pindar rejected the story, saying that Pelops was driven from his kingdom of Lydia by Ilus, king of Troy and went with his followers to Greece (but not the Greece of Homer's age). He subsequently annexed many other lands to his kingdom including Arcadia.

Pelops two sons, Atreus and Thyestes, would later kill their half brother to satisfy their mother, which resulted in Pelops cursing and banishing them. They went to the king of Mycenae, the son of Perseus and Andromeda, for aid and were put to work as governors in the city of Midea.

The story continues with more skulduggery on the part of Atreus (he must have been a chip off of his father Pelop's shoulder - excuse the pun) involving yes a golden fleece again but this time kept in a chest (an Ark anyone?) and a falling out with his brother Thyestes over who should rule the kingdom. After switch arounds on the part of both brothers, Atreus finally obtains the throne and exiles his brother only to find out later that Thyestes had absconded with his golden fleece.

Recalling that Homer was writing about events that occurred many centuries before his time and in northern Europe, not the Greek city states of the classical age, can we discern in this myth the story of two princes, one of whom becomes the king and the other who stole his fellow prince's sacred treasure - the Holy Grail? Was Atreus really Abraham and Thyestes Akhenaten, a scion of the Perseid dynasty? Did Abraham's father Pelops banish his son Atreus/Abraham not to Mycenae but to today's Egypt, where he was put to work as a governor or possibly a general by Amenhotep III and treated as a member of the royal household - recalling that in the Bible Abraham lived at the court of Pharaoh and Moses was raised as a prince of Egypt.

Irish and Scottish Accounts
A story of a a foreign born prince who married Pharaoh's daughter is also recalled in Irish and Scottish myths and legends:

One recent source, quoting Victorian professor William Skene, gives details from a late medieval Scottish historian: "Hector Boece wrote the Scotorum Historiae in 1537, in which Gaythelus, a Greek, the son either of the Athenian Cecrops or the Argive Neolus, went to Egypt at the time of the Exodus, where he married Scota, the daughter of Pharao, and after the destruction of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea, fled with her by the Mediterranean till he arrived in Portingall [Portugal], where he landed, and founded a kingdom at Brigantium, now Compostella [which is actually on the northwest coast of Spain, some miles north of modern Portugal]. Here he reigned in the marble chair [i.e., calcareous stone seat], which was the lapis fatalis cathedrae instar, ' or fatal stone like a chair [i.e., the stone of fate as the seat of a throne], and wherever it was found portended kingdom to the Scots . . . Simon Breck, a descendant of Gathelus, brought the chair from Spain to Ireland, and was crowned in it as King of Ireland" (Pat Gerber, Stone of Destiny, 1997, p. 31).

Irish historian Geoffrey Keating mentions a Miledh of Scythia as ancestor of the Milesians -Scythia here apparently denoting lands colonized by Greeks of Miletus - who came and settled in Egypt with the permission of a Pharaoh Nectonibus. This Miledh, who is also apparently referred to as Gaedal (evidently the Gathelus mentioned by Boece), is said to have fought battles for Egypt against the Ethiopians: "In these he was so successful that his fame and renown spread through all nations, whereupon Pharaoh gave him one of his own daughters to wife. This lady was called Scota . . . She bore her husband two sons in Egypt" (History of Ireland from the Earliest Period to the English Invasion, 1857, pp. 176-177).

Boece has Gathelus winning "a great victory for Pharo against the Moris," that is, the Moors of North Africa (The Chronicles of Scotland, 1537, Vol. 1, translated by John Bellenden, 1551).

Another version of the story goes like this: "One of the most memorable chapters in the history of the Celtic race deals with Niul, youngest son of Fenius Farsa, King of Scythia. Niul was reputed to have mastered all of the languages of the then-known world. The fame of his learning and wisdom spread worldwide, and King Forond [probably a corruption of Pharaoh], the first-styled ˜Pharaoh Cingris' of Egypt, invited him to Egypt to instruct Egyptian youth in the sciences. The King gave Niul a large fiefdom on the Red Sea, and gave him, also, his daughter, Scota, in marriage" (The MacGeoghegan Family Society Newsletter, May 3, 1990).

I would note here that 'Cingris' is the Greek version of Akhenaten's name. Moreover, if Moses and Abraham are one and the same person, this removes any issues over dating as raised by some commentators on these myths. In this case, Scota can clearly be likened to Meritaten/Hagar. If Gaythelus was a Greek from Athens or Argos, which can now be identified with modern day Northern France, this allows us to see him as Abraham, who seemingly built a reputation in the Egypt of the Pharaohs as a warrior general and a man of science.

 
We are going through difficult times we feel that something seems to be coming to an end that a new world is going to emerge and before that we feel the weight of the energies and the interrupted combat in the soul, I truly believe what the Cassiopeians say, but I believe even more in what love, the cosmic consciousness is guiding us in these processes, peace, liberation and love.
You are quite correct - our current world is coming to an end as the realm border approaches. As it says in the New Testament, "there will be a new heaven and a new earth". The last book of the Bible is St John's Apocalypse. The word "Apocalypse" derives from the Greek word "apocalupsis", which means to reveal or disclose - a revelation.

To some extent this thread and others on the Forum serve this purpose I think. I believe the C's intended this when they said in the Session dated 6 June 1998:

Q: Should I just drop the whole bloodline thing?

A: Why?

Q: Well, because you are saying I would approach it in an improper manner, and I am getting roadblocks and frustration, and I certainly don't want that!

A: So, find the proper manner.

Q: I don't know what you mean by proper manner. What's the proper manner?

A: Gradual passage of phases.

Q: Is that the proper manner?

A: Yes.

Q: (T) Which phases are passing gradually?

A: The answer to that is the clue you need most.

Q: (T) Phases of what?

A: It is the discovery that fosters the learning.

Q: So, I will discover these as I go along, I guess. One dot leads to the next dot. The only way to learn is to do it. (A) The original questions was whether we should follow this bloodline research... to what purpose?

A: Bloodlines reveal destiny. Why do you think they have been covered up so thoroughly?

Q: What is it in this bloodline that makes it so important to cover it up?

A: It would lead directly to verity on a scale never before seen on earth while at 3rd density STS.

Q: And what would be the result of this verity?

A: The truth shall set you free... as you are imprisoned!


At the moment we are the 'Fisher Kings'.

Please note that much of the material I have brought to this thread just didn't exist in 1998 when Laura was asking about phases passing. Although the Illuminati certainly wish to control the internet (which was still in its infancy in 1998), its creation is a double-edged sword for them because it is a fantastic medium for getting the truth out to the world. Let's take advantage of it whilst we still can.
 
ok. Our planet is a learning school with appropriate balance of input between light and dark assistance from above. The guardian set the curriculum and the federation actors act upon the arch lessons. Thus being a member of a hidden hand is exclusive, you have to be born into the Luciferic bloodline/sphere, can't just built your own, or get married into it. The harvest of this planet has been extremely low during the past 2 cycles so the guardian assign dark lesson to increase frictions for greater harvest during grand harvest. Secret society in ancient time revolve around spirituality and ethics, during dark age (Akhenaton up to renaissance) revolve around spirituality and power (Pharaoh/caesar as ruler and spiritual leader), in modern era revolve around brotherhood and power. You see groups clustered around their interest but unaware being manipulated from higher level of secret society (be it economic, science, religion, culture, social/charity, etc). Yes, the higher level of illuminati/ Jesuit usually give order/call a day or so to our leaders explaining what will happen as event unfold. The matrix of programming chosen is based on their spiritual playbook as event unfold based on the current level of social memory complex. Basically, their job is to make it harder to achieve light. Spread fear, separation, chaos etc so it is harder to reach unity/ positive goal. Example, harder to love obnoxious people than kind souls but you need to learn unconditional love as we are all one. The one who learn to be in sto balance will experience good time and bad time equally graceful and loving. It isn't a trade, if you love me I will love you back, only certain elite group deserve my love, or having hidden motive to loving (gold-digger vs trophy wife, charity for appearance, etc).
Remember, all the strategic position in our society is already infiltrated by secret society. We get bad leaders enacting bad decisions because the general spiritual level of our population is quite dark. Lesson base trigger.

Our last discussion was up to linking Egypt and Rome. The turning point of the arch story revolve around Cleopatra and Arsinoe as the last of the Ptolemy line. if you read history, you will know that Cleopatra was the traitor to her own people by colluding with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony while Arsinoe at age 16 bravely led a small group of conscript and defeated veteran Caesar legionnaire. She is portrait as Mary Magdalene the prostitute in the bible but the follower of light generally view her as the leader of religious resistance. As she fled to Asia minor then France inciting widespread religious uprising everywhere in the empire. Nero was forced to commit suicide by the senate as a result of these rebellions ending the Claudius line and starting the coup by the Justinian line. Titus uniting all the 4 major religions in the territory creating Christianity as a political maneuver to appease all side. The empire was split into East and West due to inheritance. Byzantine progress with the traditional Roman hierarchy with their orthodox religion. The West did a major structural change. The Goth and frank were promised power over Europe mainland if they converted/stop rebelling. Clovis I converted to Catholicism and persuade others to join but he was poisoned by the pope Clement agent and giving his throne to his other family (burgundy). It is noted that Mary/arsinoe was married to one of the royal family. The Merovingian/ priori of scion was their knight that promise to restore the throne of Europe to their rightful ruler as promised by the church. (The main reason they have to rewrite history and delete 4 century). Templar usually associated with restoring British throne while Priory to French (which originated in Languedoc France)

Ps: Just overview from last time, I will do some reading and write in greater details from Templar onward when I have free time
You make a lot of good points especially about the dark forces currently at work. However, I am not so convinced about the proposition that Cleopatra was Mary Magdalene. Cleopatra was the last of the Ptolemaic dynasty Although she was born in Egypt, Cleopatra was not Egyptian for her heritage can be traced to Macedonian Greece. Mary Magdalene by comparison is taken to be Jewish and of the tribe of Benjamin. Cleopatra was regarded as highly intelligent and well educated. Medieval Arab texts praise Cleopatra for her accomplishments as a mathematician, chemist and philosopher and she was said to have written scientific books - so she clearly had the mental faculties required to enable her to manipulate political events. However, her reign is given as from 51-30 BC, which is two generations before Mary Magdalene's time in the Gospels. How do you explain this time discrepancy?

You say the Templars are usually associated with restoring the British throne while the Priory [of Sion] (which originated in Languedoc France) the French throne. You may be on to something where the British throne is concerned but you should note that the Templars were at their strongest in France, particularly in the Languedoc region.

If the Templars spawned Freemasonry, then their links to the British throne, particularly during the Stuart dynasty were indeed very strong. However, this didn't seem to to stop them toppling James Stuart (King James II) in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and putting a Dutch prince on the throne.

Richard I (the Lionheart) was certainly a great fan of the Templars, even wearing their tunic in battle and allegedly making the Cross of St George the English flag, which it still is today. This makes me wonder about his role in the famous incident known to history as the the 'Cutting of the Elm'. This was a diplomatic altercation between the kings of France and England in 1188, during which an elm tree near Gisors in Normandy was felled. It has been discussed before on this thread. At Gisors, Henry II of England and his advisers stood under an Elm tree while Philip and his entourage suffered in the full heat of the sun. After the meeting, Philip ordered the tree cut down and hacked to pieces, sending the message that he would offer no quarter to the English.​

Quoting from Wikipedia: A quite different account is given by the Minstrel of Rheims (c. 1260), a thirteenth-century historical fiction:

King Richard sent a message to the counts of Sancerre and of Barre, telling them that they took the king's bread and gave him nothing in return but if they were brave enough to come to the elm tree at Gisors, he would consider them truly courageous. The French nobles sent the message back that they would come the next day, at the third hour, to cut the tree down, in spite of him. When the English king heard that they were coming to cut down the tree, he had the trunk reinforced with bands of iron, that were wrapped five times around it. The next morning the French nobles armed themselves, and assembled five squadrons of their men, one of which was led by the count of Sancerre, another by the count of Chartres, the third by the count of Vendôme, the fourth by the count of Nevers, and the fifth by Sir William of Barre and Sir Alain of Roucy. They rode up to the elm tree at Gisors, with the crossbowmen and carpenters out front, and they had in their hands sharp axes and good pointed hammers, with which to cut the bands that were fastened around the tree. They stopped at the elm tree, tore off the bands, and cut it down, in spite of all resistance.
The event has been used in the history proposed by Pierre Plantard and other pseudo-historical theories. In this context, the Cutting of the Elm was portrayed as marking the split between the Knights Templar and the Priory of Sion.

Pierre Plantard, who manipulated the authors of 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail', Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, through his invention of the Priory of Sion, was subsequently outed as a fraudster. However, having read Plantard's history in Guy Patton and Robin Mackness' book ‘Web of Gold’, I think there is far more to this story than meets the eye. Plantard may well have been a Martinist and a member of the secretive institution, the Heiron du Val d’Or. If so, this would establish a Rosicrucian link to him and might explain why he made so much of the Cutting of the Elm incident via Gerard de Sede's Dossier Secrets. Patton and Mackness showed that Plantard mixed with a lot of right-wing, monarchist types during and after the war and was a writer for apologist publications, which operated during the Vichy France regime of Marshal Petain. Hence, Plantard may have been a front man for something else and the Priory of Sion was just a smokescreen for that something else.

Hence, the Cutting of the Elm at Gisors may well have represented a dispute between the Templar faction and the Priory of Sion (the Rosicrucians?) faction and a parting of the ways. If so, what was the dispute over? Was it really just about a king getting annoyed that his rival was under the shade of an Elm tree on a hot day whilst he was out in the open? Or could it have been about possession of the Holy Grail, which the Templars had discovered in the Holy Land but would not hand over to the Priory? Perhaps part of the key to this lies in the date of the incident. The previous year had seen the Templars lose the pivotal battle of Hattin to Muslim forces on 4th July 1887, which then led to the fall of Jerusalem on 2nd October 1187. It is probable that the Priory did not forgive the Templars for their poor performance in losing the battle and blamed them for the loss of Jerusalem and with it their Priory headquarters at the Abbey of Notre Dame de Sion in Jerusalem. For Plantard, it also ended Merovingian rule over the Holy City of Sion, a predestined role for the Merovingians from his perspective.

 
Before continuing with Abbe Sauniere and the real mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau, I thought I would share the contents of an article I found on the website of an English Rennes-le-Chateau researcher Andrew Gough. He is due to appear later this month at a symposium with the likes of Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Erich Von Däniken, Hugh Newman and Andrew Collins, which is being held at Blackpool, England. I would love to attend the symposium and speak with Gough but sadly this won't be possible. The article I am speaking of, called 'Oak Island Treasure Trails', can be found here on the following link: OAK ISLAND TREASURE TALES

The article concerns the story of Will, an informant who in 2006 disclosed his alleged involvement in a covert, state of the art treasure quest off the coast of Oak Island, Nova Scotia. You will note that this is a few years prior to the commencement of the Lagina brothers Oak Island treasure hunt.

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Will began to report that the research team he was involved with had made a spectacular discovery in the waters off Oak Island. Allegedly, they had discovered the body of a biblical patriarch buried in a peculiar capsule along with ancient, possibly Knights Templar related relics. Apparently, the discovery had effectively broken the mystery wide open, and the finds, which Gough was told exceeded any and all expectations, would ultimately lead the exploration team to the jungles of Panama and Costa Rica, lands not previously associated with sacred relics and treasure.

Gough published Will’s story on his Oak Island Discussion Forum and News Feed and controversy quickly ensued. Most readers were sceptical – and rightly so. Will’s story unfolded over several months and what first appeared as peculiar soon morphed to sensational and implausible. Gough was informed that Will had gone underground, having fallen out with the research team over a variety of issues, including having supposedly violated their confidentiality agreements.

A team of nearly two dozen interdisciplinary specialists ranging from historians and scientists to botanists and geologists were funded by a powerful London billionaire with Masonic affiliations to search for a treasure off the shores of Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Will’s participation in the research team stemmed from his family’s relationship with the project head and funder – the London billionaire, and as it turns out both families are household names – old money. Although Will’s role did not appear central to the quest, he appeared to get on well with the rest of the team, at least at the start. Together, Will and the research team worked undercover and were said to have persuaded local authorities to look the other way as they deployed high-tech underwater navigation and excavation equipment off the shore of the island.
Apparently, the research team had enlisted the support of the Oak Island locals well in advance of their expedition:

We paid two fishermen to utilize some basic sonar / GPS equipment to locate our tube approx. 7 months before recovery. The tube was on the sea bed until about 175 yards from the shoreline of both Isles.”​
Before long the team discovered a tubular capsule imprinted with what appeared to be a Knights Templar seal. The capsule, which was made of extremely hard balsa wood and secured with hardened tar, contained 14 crest-wraps each emblazoned with a family crest; one of which appeared to be that of the biblical patriarch King David. Curiously, shortly after this disclosure, Will encouraged my Forum bloggers to study the significance of King David’s wife, but did not say why.
After digesting Will’s latest update, Gough proceeded to publish a news item on the auspicious date of 17 January 2007. It read:
Reports indicate that the capsule contains the bones of ‘someone extremely important, wrapped in muslin and cloth, coated with amber and tar.’ Additionally, the team is said to have discovered a ring and gem within the capsule, with unusual markings.
Further still, it has been reported that members of the research team who have come in contact with the capsule have encountered peculiar near death experiences, only to have inexplicably survived
.”​
The capsule, body and other relics were then flown to a secret location in New Zealand and then on to London where they were x-rayed and studied under high security by the team’s specialists. Will comments on the security:
ALL cellphones with photo capabilities, all digital cameras, and pretty much anything electronic was removed from everyone’s persons within 500 feet of the find. They were dead serious about absolute privacy. 6 of the 8 guards were hired hands from Europe and Israel. Retired mercs, I presume. They were dead serious about their security briefings and such. Very militant in their activities and details. Borderline scary people til you got to chatting with them.”​
Around this time Will became disenchanted with certain senior members of the research team. Clearly he was upset, and was keen to set the record straight:

“I just finished reading one thread. Mr. Ranville’s ‘water gates’ theory is correct. But I am not sure he even understands what water gates referred to. I know this for FACT: The capsule was pushed back and forth (it was water-sealed with heavy tar) between two islands, via an awesome and elaborate tube system. Based on pressure, waves, the tide, etc, the capsule would pass through ‘gates’ (kinda like a switch-rail switching a train from one track to another).

I believe the tubing structure was much MUCH longer than 300 yards. And yes, it did connect between two isles. The tubes were approximately 145 ft. below the isles. The capsule moved back and forth with all the elements in place to keep it hidden, forever. If a hole was opened somewhere, gravity and physics would pressurize the capsule to push along the tubes to an opposite location. Whoever created the system was a universal genius for sure.

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Will emailed to say that 72 straight hours of extremely delicate work had resulted in the top layer of the intricate tube structure being removed. The research team was now reporting that there was a capsule within a capsule, covered in silver or tin-like metal and brushed to a high sheen. And one of the scientists believed it to be silver paint on muslin, hardened by an ancient process.

Intriguingly, Will reported that Zygophyllum Dumosum petals, pollen traces the likes of which were discovered on the Turin Shroud, had been discovered in near perfect condition at the head of the tomb, leading the team’s botanist to comment:​

It’s like they were just put in the capsule. Uncanny.”​

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Zygophyllum Dumosum:
Found on the Turin Shroud, and allegedly on the Oak Island Capsule


Will’s emails became less frequent and his tone less jovial. Furthermore, his status in the research team appeared precarious. If he had ever been part of the inner circle, then he certainly was not any longer. He appeared distant from the team’s nucleus, having commented for instance, that:​
Solomon’s name was brought up several times, but I am not sure in what context.”
Will continued to request that I post his messages ‘as is’ on my Forum, but few of the Oak Island bloggers were buying it, despite the fact that some of the discussion threads had tens of thousands of hits. Will indicated that the Forum bloggers should stop bickering and unite their efforts; a theme he felt strongly about and which he would reinforce on several occasions. Once such message was particularly interesting, and hinted at his growing impatience:

“Post this EXACTLY to all your threaders:

Dear Oak Isle threaders:

When you have 4 billion dollars – papers, standards, rules of Government, and regulated protocol goes out the window. Trust me. It’s not difficult to pay off a Canadian mounted who makes less than 40K a year. The man I used to work for bought a blind eye, everywhere we landed or showed up.

When the capsule was removed t was just a large, hunking piece of tar (literally). Imagine the capsule that Spock was placed in and shot into space in Star Trek III(?). Identical, yet more hideous. It was just a lump of “something.” Not a body. Not bones. No proof of nothing.

I am believing more and more that the bones rumoured to be inside the capsule is not of Christ, but that of KING DAVID – but his remains lead to Christ.

I personally saw the seals (about 4 ft away). I personally saw the Templar’s crest (which looks NOTHING like that crappy Da Vinci Code movie or any junk you see in books; revisionists love creating their own fantasy), the emblazoned / branded wax inset into the wood that said KING DAVID in a language that could only be translated by the highest-ranked Mason I have ever met (the billionaire, himself). I believe he was a Rosicrucian of the highest order. I mean TOP of the chart, or one level into the next step up from Grand Master. He donned rings with symbols I have never seen. He wore inter-twining bracelets with key codes, metallic latches that revealed other symbols, etc etc etc. Too much to describe here.

I understand your doubt, but frankly – I don’t care. I am here. You are there. Instead of fighting amongst yourselves – starting busting your rump to investigate King David, his inner sanctum of friends, his closest female companion, and his direct link to Jesus Christ, King of the Jews.

Also, the Nolan cross is valid, and the large map with the pentagram has truth to it. Not much, but some truth. The penta is MUCH larger, but oddly the same as something I have seen before. Also, Jo Atherton isn’t as far off as you think in her theories and quips. Not accurate, but not dead wrong, either.

Also, there is much to be found on Oak Isle. The “treasure trove” is still waiting to be found. Whomever posted a whining little gripe about Canada’s rights to these items is ludicrous. Stop thinking like a damn Canadian, and start thinking like a historian. Canada has rights to the bones of King David and his items? THE WORLD DOES.

Also, I can’t read your threads anymore cause all you do is fight among yourselves – instead of solving issues and discovering truths. You’re all wrong. You’re all right. Now stop fighting, and start digging.

My name is Will. Andy, keep my last name – private. (Thank you.)”


And so Will’s messages became progressively more agitated in tone. He was frustrated, and in one instance he requested that Gough post the following reply to a Forum blogger who had questioned how the research team could have excavated in the small and private Oak Island community without being detected:

“Mr. Hennigar

My name is Will. You wouldn’t have seen anyone digging or excavating on Oak Isle. Or, any Isle for that matter. We were 300 yards from the shores, using a submersible – to tweak the tubing system that harboured a tar-capsule that has moved back and forth between islands since (at least) 200 A.D.

This is the first (and last) time I will mention how our efforts truly went about near those islands (cause otherwise I’ll be sued into the Stone Age by a very powerful group of individuals that some compare to the supposedly non-existent Illuminata).

The capsule settled in the lowest part of this thatch and tar tubing system, and we retrieved the item of interest. Basic physics. The key was not digging on any islands, which caused a reverse vacuum of sorts for this sliding capsule.

Is there additional traditional treasure on this island? Most likely. Not in the manner of the Pharaohs (who died with all their treasures), but definitely some very valuable things.

Good day.

– Will

PS

The Spanish shoe was a decoy to throw off the hunt in 1755 or so.

The engraved rock was not.

The pentagram map has validity to it, but I don’t know its relevancy in relation to other treasure, etc.

There is something on Birch Isle that could retire most men, but I am not sure exactly what it is – but I am 100% positive it exists. The staff of King David or some sort of sceptre? There were no plans to return to search for it. The capsule was found, and that was the only goal.”

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Just when it seemed the story could not get any weirder, Will contacted Gough to report that the team had travelled to the jungles of Panama City and Costa Rica in order to complete their quest, and that they were led there by the information uncovered off Oak Island. Will’s email read:​

“They arrived in Panama this morning.
I shall keep you informed. It is strongly believed this could be the wild goose chase part of this adventure. Only two of the original crew believe the capsule information was intending to lead to THIS jungle.
The rest (including a world-class cryptologist) believes the discovery will be made off the coast of Costa Rica, just west of Liberia……….not Panama.”
Gough reported the story on his news feed on the 12th of March 2007:

“Oak Island Expedition Heads to the Jungle.
The alleged discovery in Oak Island of a capsule containing bones and relics of an ancient patriarch has taken a dramatic new twist. The expedition, which started in Oak Island before moving to Auckland, New Zealand and finally London (where the discovery was analysed) is now headed to Panama City where a dig is planned in the ancient jungles nearby.”
I proceeded to summarise the story to date, adding a quote from Will that was especially intriguing:

A dive will take place there (in a hole in the jungle), and I am NOT sure of what or whom they are searching for. I believe it might be THE Mary or someone named Mary.”​

While Will continued to update the story he was also busy defending further assaults in Gough's Forum:

“Andy
I wish to respond directly and openly with the individual who said I was trying to embarrass you in any way. I am not upset, because it’s ludicrous from where I am standing (and knowing what I DO know……and some of the things that still remain a mystery to me)…..
Let me know how to do this or proceed.
Between you and I ……..the capsule is a FACT. It is REAL. It’s borderline eerie. I am 1-million percent convinced that an ultra-major discovery was made the night we went out on the boat.
I tried to convey what I saw (from afar) to you (days later, of course) without losing focus….plus convey what chatter I heard, which was sketchy at best. I NEVER was allowed to handle the capsule, the artifacts, the seals, the heart-shield, NOTHING. Very few were.
Whether the pollen was during Christ or not is entirely irrelevant. I HEARD them speaking about it many, MANY times. That is all. But I never looked through the scope.
The ONLY reason you were contacted first was your forum appeared to be an open-minded myth/legend/mixed-with-facts site that could possibly understand what might be deliberately hidden from the rest of the world, for all time.”
And then Will went silent, stressing in his final correspondence that he had revealed too much and that legal proceedings had been initiated due to his perceived breach of confidence. Not surprisingly, no further update on the nature of the Panama / Costa Rica excavation was forthcoming.

After approximately nine months of silence I was contacted on Christmas day, 2007, by one John Falshire, who claimed to be part of Will’s team.​

I published John’s update on my Forum as instructed:

This comes from Will, himself. We just spoke. Let your forum know this comes from me, John Falshire, a direct member of this team, writing from Panama on a blackberry on behalf of WILL.
Dear Andy…
The story of what I have shared is true…
So far, in relation to my access to everything on a need to know basis, I now have crystal clear information on the following:
• What was discovered 300 yards offshore from Oak Island.
• How it was accomplished, start to finish.
• How the items connect directly to a biblical figure.
• The Birch Isle connection and is there something left behind.
The tree and branch and prism connection.
• How Panama and Costa Rica fit in the larger picture.
• How Canadian Officials cooperated with travel on water.
• This will all be verified via pictures in 2 months.

Your blog was used by me to make sure someone, anyone, had record of my part of this process in case I ended up missing…
My sister Tracy in Phoenix, Az. was reading from afar and documenting everything in case FBI would need to be called. Sorry for using your site as a protection site.
For all the Naysayers, be patient; the mystery of oak island is about to be put to rest, forever.
Will
”​
John’s next email followed within a day of his first and contained Will’s most detailed personal correspondence yet. Gough published it on his Forum but withheld certain names, as Gough had done on another occasion when Will had identified public figures allegedly associated with the treasure quest. The correspondence read as follows:​

“Once again Andy, I write this in the middle of nowhere on a 1st gen blackberry.

Dear Gough bloggers:

My name is Will Deleon Dubois. I am the adopted son of a recognized London-based Scientist and a quiet yet brilliant forensic archaeologist whom has been well funded by a petroleum tycoon for the past 12 yrs to find a particular religious, possibly fabled, item. Dubois is my real father’s name whom I recently reached out to – 4 yrs ago – and in honour took his name.

Everyone on this site acts and appears to be an expert on Oak Isle. Even the property owners of the x10 site and surroundings areas act like they ‘know’ something about what is buried beneath their heels, yet not a single shred of evidence of anything substantial has ever been found minus a few pathetic artifacts that any donation store or standard flea market could provide. I can say that you are all right and all wrong. This is why:

Wrong…
Instead of putting your unquestionably formidable minds to use to discover the truths about one of the worlds greatest mysteries you slander and quibble over who is right and who is wrong – who said what or how. Try concentrating on your constants….your variables, then see what remains.


Right…
Many of your theories are eerily accurate but others have lambasted your ideas…which decimated the correct path that took years to theorize. Are you people afraid of knowing the truth – the real truth? Or are you just afraid YOUR theory is not right. What is it? Ask yourself who benefits the most via tours / books / websites etc……and there is your problem.

I can’t say much about our previous operations until 2 months from now – when pictures will be available and more info will be provided directly to me so I don’t get it wrong. Heaven forbid, I’d never hear the end of it, would I?

What I Can Say Right Now…
Anything on land was / is a semi-red herring. The
water bell theory by Cerris is reasonably accurate for how another device was set into literal motion; a resin coated thatch system created by minds far greater than I can describe here in words.

There is much truth to the pond swamp but it was clearly not the focus of our group. Treasure was not the focus, whatsoever. A basic scuba team with proper equipment and lights should reveal odd markings near or on the tree stump, or round plate of some sort below it that will lead to greater things. It’s just a very good guess though. Our team knew of a tree with markings or plate with markings that marked the roof of some chamber.

The pick marks are irrelevant and not from the same time. It’s probably an anomaly of science caused by something current and explainable.

The general center of the pond must be the key considering how water over time works…..and how a bathtub works: fill and drain and fill and drain. This is exactly what the original architects intended I think? We knew that a bell chamber of some sort holds something of value below a spot that is probably below that pond. The direction and distance almost adds up based on what I heard (not saw). I would bet the bell chamber finally broke its integrity and a seep hole from the chamber rose to the surface to form a man made lake/pond? Good luck to those locals who control the pond. May they find their answers.

I will soon have copied documents from the Royalty of Spain and Portugal circa 1590 that demands at least 16 decoys and obstructions to be set in multiple areas up and down the coast all the way to Bermuda, before the ‘beloved is carried to his place of rest.’ Those that carried this ‘beloved’ across the Atlantic in a boat (named either ‘Pura Vida’ OR ‘Pura Viesta’) numbered 12. Is this Representative of apostles? Who knows… It is absolute truth that 10 of these 12 willingly took their own lives before a Royal Court in Portugal or Morocco (not sure) in 1598 on behalf of eternal silence. The fate of the other 2 is unknown entirely. They are believed to become priests or apart of the same Royal Court in some manner. It’s not known but simply a best guess.

Sir Isaac Newton had something to do with the construction of the amber coated capsule this beloved lied within. That is an accepted truth among the entire project leaders, based on solid info from documents discovered at his winter residence in the late 1800s or so or given to a notable scientist in London by the great great, great, nephew of a dear friend of Isaac himself; held in confidence by a London family until 1982 and purchased by our oil tycoon which stirred his imagination into action…and here we are.

Stop fighting with words. Start working together to discover the other things left behind by those far smarter than thee.

W.D.D.”


This is Will’s story – for now, subject to further reports.

Gough adds finally:

"I would like to underscore the fact that I neither condone nor condemn Will’s story. If it is proven to be a hoax, then so be it. If it can beat the odds and receive confirmation by impartial sources, then we have quite a story. However, history does not bode well for the stories authenticity; one needs look no further than the fraud, deceit and misdirection of the Rennes-le-Château mystery to conclude that. Yet we are told that pictures are about to be produced that will confirm Will’s story. And I for one hope he delivers, as promised. Time will tell, however, and all I know for certain is we have not heard the last from Will."

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Well what should would make of all this? What could be in the strange capsule that was allegedly recovered from the sea floor? Did they discover the body of a biblical patriarch buried in the peculiar capsule along with ancient, possibly Knights Templar related relics? Is it all just a hoax?

Strangely, I don't think so. There are statements made by Will, which have a certain correspondence with things the C's have said about the mystery of Oak Island. Could this strange group, a team of nearly two dozen interdisciplinary specialists, ranging from historians and scientists to botanists and geologists, headed and funded by a powerful London billionaire with Masonic affiliations have been searching for the Grail? Perhaps there is a clue to this in the opening statements Gough makes in his article concerning the circumstances surrounding his original contact with Will:​

"Will first contacted me during the height of the Rennes-le-Château genre’s fascination with Mary Magdalene; did she travel to the South of France and had her body just been discovered in a nearby tomb? That was the debate De Jour at the time, and Will was part of a research team who were studying clues that appeared connected to Rennes-le-Château. However their interest soon faded, and as quickly as Will had surfaced, he disappeared. Several months passed before Will resumed contact. Based on our brief exchange it was apparent that his team had moved on from Rennes-le-Château and were focused elsewhere. "

As I have conjectured in recent posts, is Mary Magdalene really a cypher for the Grail? Think back also to the interest shown in Rennes-le-Château by elements of British intelligence as described in my article on 'The Chateau of Arginy in France'. Recall the role of the strange sounding 'League of Antiquarian Booksellers' (sounds like a front company for intelligence operations doesn't it) in acquiring three of Sauniere's parchments from France. Think also of the role of Lord Selbourne, former head of Britain's wartime Special Operations Executive (SOE), a man who like holidaying in the Pyrenees, who played the central role in coordinating the parchments' export to England. Patton and Mackness in 'Web of Gold' went on to mention that several members of the British-based Rennes-le-Chateau Research Group had been in contact with former members of British Intelligence, each of whom had an interest in, and a wide knowledge of, the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery. These agents confirmed that many of their colleagues had been members of various occult, masonic or chivalric societies. No doubt these societies included the Freemasons, Rosicrucians and neo-Templar orders.

Hence when Will says:

"I believe he was a Rosicrucian of the highest order. I mean TOP of the chart, or one level into the next step up from Grand Master. He donned rings with symbols I have never seen. He wore inter-twining bracelets with key codes, metallic latches that revealed other symbols, etc etc etc. Too much to describe here.",

I can believe him and again when he says:

"This is the first (and last) time I will mention how our efforts truly went about near those islands (cause otherwise I’ll be sued into the Stone Age by a very powerful group of individuals that some compare to the supposedly non-existent Illuminata)."

Remember also that the C's said this about the Freemasons:
Q: (L) How do the Masons relate to the Illuminati?
A: Masons are low level branch.


Moreover, where Will speaks of:

I believe the tubing structure was much MUCH longer than 300 yards. And yes, it did connect between two isles. The tubes were approximately 145 ft. below the isles. The capsule moved back and forth with all the elements in place to keep it hidden, forever. If a hole was opened somewhere, gravity and physics would pressurize the capsule to push along the tubes to an opposite location. Whoever created the system was a universal genius for sure.”,

this makes me think of what the C's said about the
Q: (L) Okay, the thing that was noticed when the kid who discovered this mystery arrived on the Island was that a limb was sawed off of a tree over the depression and there were marks of a rope on the limb as though ropes and perhaps pulleys had been used. (T) If someone more advanced than humans at the time dug the pit, they wouldn’t have used chain hoists and pullys. (L) That is what I am getting at. So, if there was evidence of this kind of stuff on the tree, it would seem to indicate that somebody had been doing something there who was a little more human or limited in their technology, is that correct?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Now, my thought is, after reading about all the details of the diggings and barriers, and depth of the pit is that, it was beyond human technology to have produced that pit at that point in history?

A: Beyond known technology.
Q: (L) And yet humans may have been involved in that activity?
A: Bingo.


From this can we conclude that the 'universal genius' was in fact an alien or a higher dimensional being? Then there is the possible involvement of Sir Francis Bacon, as discussed in my article the 'Curse of Oak Island'. where Peter Dawkins made out a strong case for Bacon concealing his involvement in the construction of the flood defences at Oak Island in his last published work. Was Bacon, a Rosicrucian and alchemist, one of those who had received knowledge from higher powers to help in the construction of these sophisticated defences I wonder?
Q: (J) Think back to when we were talking about it and you mentioned the lights.
A: Some humans have always communed with “higher” powers. We are speaking of conscious communion in this and other and instances.
Q: (L) Okay, there was conscious communion between humans and other powers in the building of this pit. What group of humans was this?
A: It’s fun to learn.
Q: (J) How about pirates? (L) Well, who was in this area? Eskimos?
A: No.
Q: (L) Indians?
A: Keep going, network.
Q: (L) There were the French and the English. How about the Vikings? (F) No, the Vikings were 600 years before that. (T) Well, we don’t know how long ago the pit was dug. (J) I’m still… yeah, good question. (L) When was the pit itself dug?
A: 1500s. Nationality is not issue.
[Note that they are speaking of the digging of the pit and NOT the original placing of the object. Clearly someone was instructed to dig there to access this thing at some later point in “time.”]
Q: (T) Well, this pit was dug sometime in the middle of the 1500s. (J) And it was discovered in the 1700s.
A: Access sect information.
Q: (L) So, it could have been a religious group?
A: Now, who claimed communion, Laura has in memory banks from absorption of mass reading practice.
[That may have been true, but I was sure drawing a big blank at the time of these questions!]
Q: (F) Was there a sect from that era that claimed communion with higher powers?
A: Yes.


We have looked at the sect issue before in previous posts and have discussed the possibility of it being the Huguenots or the Puritans, two protestant groups who had broken away from the Catholic and Anglican Communions respectively. However, I want to concentrate here on the date when the Money Pit was dug. The C's say it was the 1500's and Laura assumes here that this means the middle of the 1500's. Given the C's have dropped hints that Francis Bacon may have been involved ("your favourite island by the beech"), I don't think it could have been the middle of the 15th Century since Bacon* was not born until 1561. My feeling is that it was more towards the end of that century, since Nova Scotia would not be settled by the French until 1605, when French colonists established the first permanent European settlement in the future Canada (and the first north of Florida) at Port Royal, founding what would become known as Acadia. However, Nova Scotia had been explored earlier by the Portugese explorer João Álvares Fagundes (1520), as he searched south of his fishing settlements in Newfoundland. N.B. This early 16th Century Portuguese exploration of Nova Scotia's coastline will take on more significance later.

*Will and senior members of the scientific team by contrast seems to think Sir Isaac Newton may have had an involvement in the construction of the amber capsule and presumably the flood defences they found, but I think this unlikely since Newton was not born until 4 January 1643, well after the end of the 16th Century and some 17 years after Sir Francis Bacon's death.

"Sir Isaac Newton had something to do with the construction of the amber coated capsule this beloved lied within. That is an accepted truth among the entire project leaders, based on solid info from documents discovered at his winter residence in the late 1800s ..."

That is not to say that he did not have some involvement with Oak Island in the late 17th Century and the first quarter of the 18th Century, since as I said in my article on the 'Curse of Oak Island', the Lagina Brothers' team has found considerable evidence in the form of British artefacts which date to that period, which suggests an industrial scale operation on the island, which would probably have needed official government sanction given the likely involvement of the English and subsequently British Royal Navy at a time when England and France where in conflict over Nova Scotia. However, the Laginas have also recently discovered evidence of a tar pit, which dates to the late 16th Century, leaving one to wonder whether this was where the tar used to waterproof the capsule was made and the tar for the 'thatched and tar tube' defence system.

What particularly interests me here though is what Will says about a small group of 12 men who carry someone called the "beloved" across the Atlantic Ocean to his place of rest. What is more, 10 of these men supposedly take their lives willingly before a Royal Court in Portugal or Morocco in 1598 in order to maintain absolute silence over their voyage whilst the surviving two apparently become priests or a part of the same Royal Court :
"I will soon have copied documents from the Royalty of Spain and Portugal circa 1590 that demands at least 16 decoys and obstructions to be set in multiple areas up and down the coast all the way to Bermuda, before the ‘beloved is carried to his place of rest.’ Those that carried this ‘beloved’ across the Atlantic in a boat (named either ‘Pura Vida’ OR ‘Pura Viesta’) numbered 12. Is this Representative of apostles? Who knows… It is absolute truth that 10 of these 12 willingly took their own lives before a Royal Court in Portugal or Morocco (not sure) in 1598 on behalf of eternal silence. The fate of the other 2 is unknown entirely. They are believed to become priests or a part of the same Royal Court in some manner. It’s not known but simply a best guess."

Recall, however, that the C's said that "Nationality is not issue", which suggests to me that this group may have been multinational in composition. It is also intriguing that the group numbers 12, since this immediately puts one in mind of the 12 Apostles or even the 12 Knights of the Round Table. However, 13 persons also make a coven and Christ and King Arthur could be taken to be the 13th person in their groups. Could the 'beloved' have been the 13th person, albeit he may have been dead? I also have strong reason to suspect that this group may have had something to do with the enclave of alchemists based in the Pyrenees - the 'Grand Council of the Elect'. Did ten of these men really take their own lives before a royal court or did they disappear within the enclave never to be seen again? It should also be borne in mind that St John the Evangelist was known as the "beloved apostle" and his was the only Christian gospel that the Cathars (the Parfait) recognised and followed. Along with St John the Baptist, he was also held in very high esteem by the Knights Templar. The other possibility is that the "beloved" might even refer to Mary Magdalene since she was revered in France, particularly in the Languedoc region. Moreover, Will also revealed:

A dive will take place there (in a hole in the jungle), and I am NOT sure of what or whom they are searching for. I believe it might be THE Mary or someone named Mary.

The name of the group's ship also intrigues me, since "Pura Vida" means "pure life" in English, which may suggest a possible link with the Cathars and especially their priests the "Parfait" or "Perfect" in English. Curiously, the expression "pura vida" is Costa Rica's unofficial national slogan: See the article by Karl Kahler: The Meaning of Pura Vida in Simple English and Real Life
"Perhaps no other country has a motto so charming, so universally quoted and so life-affirming as pura vida. It’s Costa Rica’s unofficial national slogan, and you hear it everywhere. The meaning of pura vida, of course, is “pure life,” and it’s come to symbolize the simple, cheerful outlook and lifestyle of what is often called the happiest country in the world. You can say pura vida to mean “thank you,” “you’re welcome,” “that’s great” or “life is good.” The versatility of the phrase is part of its appeal, and it’s a 100% positive expression of pleasure in life lived to its fullest."

Obviously, Karl Kahler was not aware of the good ship Pura Vida. Curiously, the research group Will joined headed from Nova Scotia down to Panama City and then on to Costa Rica in order to complete their quest, and that they were led there by the information uncovered off Oak Island.​

"I shall keep you informed. It is strongly believed this could be the wild goose chase part of this adventure. Only two of the original crew believe the capsule information was intending to lead to THIS jungle.

The rest (including a world-class cryptologist) believes the discovery will be made off the coast of Costa Rica, just west of Liberia……….not Panama.


If, however, the boat's name was "Pura Viesta" then this takes on a completely meaning. As far as I am aware, "Viesta" is not a Spanish word and may be a derivative of "Hiesta" or "Vesta".

Vesta is the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in the Roman Religion. She was rarely depicted in human form, and was more often represented by the fire of her temple in the Roman Forum. Entry to her temple was permitted only to her priestesses, the Vestal Virgins. Vesta was among the Dii Consentes, twelve of the most honoured gods in the Roman pantheon. She was the daughter of Saturn and Ops, and sister of Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Juno, and Ceres. According to tradition, worship of Vesta in Italy began in Lavinium, the mother-city of Alba Longa and the first settlement by the Trojan refugees, after their flight from Troy's destruction, led there by Aeneas and guided by Venus.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus had this to say: "And they regard the fire as consecrated to Vesta, because that goddess, being the Earth and occupying the central position in the universe, kindles the celestial fires from herself." Ovid agreed, saying: "Vesta is the same as the earth, both have the perennial fire: the Earth and the sacred Fire are both symbolic of home." The sacred flames of the hearth were believed to be indispensable for the preservation and continuity of the Roman State: Cicero states it explicitly. The purity of the flames symbolised the vital force that is the root of the life of the community. It was also because the virgins' ritual concern extended to the agricultural cycle and ensured a good harvest that Vesta enjoyed the title of Mater ("Mother").

Hence, to the Romans she was a mother and corn/harvest goddess like Demeter and all the other similar mother goddess figures of the ancient world - which in my view ties her in with the Matriarch Stone or Grail. She was also associated with fire and the sacred flame like the goddess Brigid in Ireland but Vesta, unlike Brigid, was seen as the flame itself. The temple of Vesta held not only the ignes aeternum ("sacred fire"), but the Palladium of Pallas Athena (who Sir Francis Bacon especially venerated) and the di Penates as well. Both of these items are said to have been brought into Italy by Aeneas after escaping the destruction of Troy.

Vesta's Greek equivalent is Hestia. In Ancient Greek religion and myth, Hestia (/ˈhɛstiə, ˈhɛstʃə/; Greek: Ἑστία, "hearth" or "fireside") is the virgin goddess of the hearth, the right ordering of domesticity, the family, the home, and the state. In myth, she is the firstborn child of the Titans Cronus (Saturn to the Romans and Bran to the British Celts) and Rhea and sister to Demeter, Hades, Hera, Poseidon, and Zeus. As with her Roman equivalent Vesta, Hestia was associated with fire and was viewed as the goddess of sacrificial fire. Whenever a new colony was established, a flame from Hestia's public hearth in the mother city would be carried to the new settlement. If the boat was therefore named "pura hestia", this connection with fire might explain a lot. Moreover, we should bear in mind that the Greek word for "fire" is "pyr", which makes me think of this exchange with the C's in the session dated 14 September 2002:
Q: (Ark) Another question related to prime numbers, you said in prime numbers you will find resonance and I was kind of surprised about that...

A: There is your clue.

Q: (Ark) It was supposed to be related to sound, but I have a problem with sound because sound frequency depends on the medium in which sound propagates. The medium can be air, can be stone, can be everything; frequency spectrum will depend on the medium. Now we are talking about pyramid and sound related to pyramid. Was this...

A: Yes...Pyramid, Pyrenees, Pyr...

Q: (V) There must be something about the Pyr. How does Pyr relate to prime numbers? (Ark) Where is pyramid, where are they coming from, where's the name coming from, what's this? Pyro, fire, no? (L) Yeah, fire.

A:
Frequency of light...

There has been a lot of discussion about the Great Pyramid on the 23 April 2022 thread and I have suggested on there that the Great Pyramid has encoded into its dimensions many of the secrets of modern physics such as Plank's Constant. Other researchers claim it also embodies speed of light too - see: The Great Pyramid & Light Speed.
However, you will note that the C's are connecting the Pyramid, the Pyrenees and fire together here. We have now tied "pyr" and the Pyramid together through the frequency of light but what of the Pyrenees? Could the reference to the Pyrenees somehow tie in with the enclave of alchemists in the Pyrenees and the goddess Hestia/Vesta who is represented by means of fire and the sacred flame? Is the good ship Pura Vida’ or ‘Pura Viesta' the missing clue I wonder?

There is so much to mull over in Gough's article. For example, his references to King Solomon (who is of special importance to the Freemasons) and his father, King David - the ancestor of Christ. I may follow this post up with my further musings - but I am happy for others to come in with their comments on this too, as Kings Solomon and David have come up in recent posts.

However, it is another possible connection I want to finish this post with and that is whether Sir Walter Raleigh - the instigator of the Roanoke Colony, later to be known as the "Lost Colony" (which was abducted by the grey aliens according to the C's) - and the English colonisation of the island of Bermuda have any relevance to Will's story.

In 1609, the English Virginia Company, which had established Jamestown in Virginia two years earlier, permanently settled Bermuda in the aftermath of a hurricane, when the crew and passengers of Sea Venture steered the ship onto the surrounding reef to prevent it from sinking, then landed ashore. Bermuda's first capital, St. George's, was established in 1612. Will had said that

"I will soon have copied documents from the Royalty of Spain and Portugal circa 1590 that demands at least 16 decoys and obstructions to be set in multiple areas up and down the coast all the way to Bermuda, before the beloved is carried to his place of rest."

Could there possibly have been another, ulterior motive for colonising Bermuda and Roanoke, one connected with 'the beloved'? I only raise this because Sir Walter Raleigh was involved in the leading of expeditions in 1595 and 1617 to the Orinoco river basin in South America in search of the golden city of El Dorado. Could he have been searching for something else though - the "Beloved" perhaps? It should be remembered here that Raleigh had an interest in Templar treasure as well. In my article 'The Knights Templar, Jeremiah and the Ark of the Covenant', I recounted how:

"According to the Warwickshire historian William Dugdale, who wrote in 1656, the Elizabethan explorer Sir Walter Raleigh visited Herdewyke in 1600 and was told a story about the Templars hiding treasure in the area. For some reason or other, Raleigh took it seriously and spent months looking for treasure. He persuaded his wealthy wife (Elizabeth Throckmorton, Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth I) to buy the Herdewyke estate and had a gang of men excavate the ruins of the Templar preceptory. Apparently, nothing was found. Nevertheless, could this legendary treasure have been the same relics that had once been housed in the Herdewyke chapel in Ralph de Sudeley’s time?"

I have suggested, based on the researches of Graham Phillips, that the English Knight Templar Ralph de Sudeley may have been involved in finding the Holy Grail in the ancient city of Petra. Perhaps Raleigh, an explorer and active supporter of the French Huguenots who he had fought for in France, had found out about the voyage of the Pura Vida and the precious cargo it was carrying. This is just speculation on my part but the money and effort he expended in excavating the Herdewyke estate in 1600 suggests that he knew something about the Templars and what they may have found in the Holy Land centuries before. We should also remember that Raleigh was the half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who like Raleigh was an Elizabethan explorer himself but also the close associate of Doctor John Dee - a man who had a large network of informants on the Continent of Europe during the 16th Century and who was one of Europe's leading alchemists - indeed he was probably one of the 'Philosophers of Dancar' the C's referred to, if not a member of the Grand Council of the Elect.

However, there was another Englishman who surprisingly took a great interest in the subject of alchemy and this man was the most powerful statesman in England in his day. That man was William Cecil, Lord Burghley. If I can find time, I may do a post on his alchemical ambitions since I have found a very good book, which goes into great detail as to how important alchemy was in the political machinations of 16/17th Century Europe.
 
Following on from my last post, I decided to do a search under the name "pura vida" to try and find a possible connection to Tenerife, which led me to think of an exchange with the C's that coincidentally linked with the subject matter of my last post:

Session dated 3 May 1997:

Q: Okay. I have the idea. Now, let me ask about the really strange things that I have been discovering. I am sure that I am not even halfway through it. But, let me ask this: am I correct in my thinking that following the genetic clues is part of the key...

A: Connect the dots and when you have finished, you will have a "Gaugin."

Q: Hmmm... (A) In other words, a masterpiece... (L) Okay, we know that the bloodline is important by virtue of being of the Nordic or Celtic heritage. In going through the transcripts, I came across numerous instances where a "sect" was mysteriously mentioned over and over again. I am thinking that this sect, as you call it, is this organization that we refer to as the "Quorum."

A: What is "sect" the root word of?

Q: Sector, section, (T) sectarian... (A) A branch... (L) Anything else you want to add to that?

A: Ask away.

Q: Does this other group that you have mentioned, the Nation of the Third Eye, are they one and the same?

A: The Third Eye expands vision into the unseen.

Q: Seeing the unseen. You mentioned once before that the "Rosicrucians act as a thief in the night." You also mentioned that I ought to dig into the Rosicrucians, and I went to the University library, and it was essentially missing...

A: Connect the Rosicrucians to your favourite island by the "beech." Horticulturally, please, and family.

Q: Oak Island?

A: Yup! Then, connect the Pyrenees to the Canaries.

Q: Okay, a "thief in the night." The destruction of the Templars...

A: Research the history of the Canary Islands for clue.

Q: Is there any connection to the fact that those guys at the University of Tenerife were communicating back in February and March? Might there be more to this connection?

A: Maybe, but do you know the history of this place?

Q: Well, no I don't. That one slipped by. I will follow that one... You also once before said that when a certain 7 people assembled into a perpendicular reality, that the learning would be exponential. I am sure we are not there yet, but I am wondering if this information I have discovered about bloodlines and potential activation of DNA has any connection to that idea?

A:
Build your staircase one step at a time.

So in the above extract we have references to the Nation of the Third Eye, a strange sect, the Rosicrucians, Sir Francis Bacon (whose name in old French meant Beech tree), Oak Island, the Pyrenees and the Canary Islands.

In Will's story, we find links with Oak Island, the Freemasons and/or Rosicrucians and by extension Sir Francis Bacon* who may have been their Grand Master at the time, a strange group of 12 men on a ship called the Vida Pura embarked on a voyage to Oak Island. Did they sail via Tenerife I wonder and, if so, could this event have been marked in any way.​

*The C's reference to "Build your staircase one step at a time" is also a possible reference to Francis Bacon since he promoted a seven step programme for the scientific method. They are: state the problem, research the problem. state your hypothesis, do an experiment, analyze data, conclude the results, and form a conclusion.

At the moment, the only possible connection I can find to the Vida Pura's voyage and the "Beloved" is the name of a mountain in Tenerife called "Montana de Izana". Apparently, the name Izana is of Arabic origin and means "Powerful woman". However, what strikes me about the name is its closeness etymologically speaking to Innana - the Mesopotamian Mother Goddess who became Ishtar, Astarte, Isis etc., a very powerful female deity of the ancient world. As the archetypal mother goddess, she can also be linked to the Roman Vesta and her Greek equivalent Hestia. The closest African country to Tenerife is Morocco. This makes me think of Will's statement:

"It is absolute truth that 10 of these 12 willingly took their own lives before a Royal Court in Portugal or Morocco (not sure) in 1598 on behalf of eternal silence."

Tenerife was finally conquered by the Spanish in 1496, over a hundred years before the date Will speaks of. Could the name "Izana" suggest a Moroccan (Arab) influence on Tenerife and the Guanches that pre-dated the Spanish invasion of the early 15th Century, which betrays a link to the Mother or White Goddess? The C's had also mentioned Morocco in the previous session:
Session dated 2 May 1998:

Q: Okay. Did somebody travel to France carrying some sort of object, or a person who was this 'object,' so to speak, as the 'holy bloodline,' or whatever?

A: Maybe it was carried by those most capable.

Q: And who would be those most capable?

A: Check the geographic link.

Q: I am getting completely confused. I don't have a single clue about what is going on here or even what we are talking about now!

A: Where are the Pyrenees?

Q: On the border between France and Spain.

A: Who lives there?

Q: The Basques, among others. Is that who we are getting at? Or the Alchemists? These beings....

A: Close. [MJF: Arab/Moor/Jews and Europeans in the form of Basques, Celts, Romans, Franks and Visigoths - a very mixed race.]

Q: The Rosicrucians? So, what does that have to do with this bloodline and Holy Grail business, and Joseph of Arimathea and Mary Magdalene... I mean, did Mary Magdalene exist as a person?

A: Yes.

Q: Was she the wife of Jesus?

A: No.

Q: So, all these stories being made up about all these people and dramatic scenarios...

A: It is not the people but the message, the artifacts hold the key.

Q: What artifacts? Where are these artifacts?

A:
France, Spain, Canary Islands and Morocco.

Q: What kind of artifacts are they? Things that still exist?

A: Yes.

Q: Is there any possibility that I am going to be able to find out about, or even actually FIND these artifacts?

A: Of course!!

Q: Does anyone else know about these artefacts?

A: Others are "on the trail."

Q: Is one of these artefacts the 'Virgin of Candelaria' that appeared in the Canary Islands?

A: Related.

Q: Okay, well, I haven’t learned anything about Morocco yet...

A: Best to get "on the trail of..."

So we see here a connection being made between France and Spain (which border the Pyrenees), the Canary Islands and Morocco and the common point is artefacts.

This was followed-up in a later session with this exchange:

Q: (L) […] Now, when I asked previously about the carriers of this significant bloodline that I am supposed to be tracking, you said to follow the trail from Morocco to Spain to France and included the Canary Islands. Also, that the bloodline was carried by those most capable. Now, I have thought that this might be the Arab connection via the Moors to the noble houses of Spain and then into France. Is this, in fact, the case?

A: Yes.


Again a further connection was made between these countries and alfalfa:

Q: (L) Yes, they are circles. The next thing we come to is that I discovered that alfalfa, in fact, a very particular type of alfalfa, does, indeed, grow in the German highlands. And, in fact, this alfalfa was brought via a route that you described... as France, Spain, Canary Islands, Morocco. I was asking about this story of the purported travels of Mary Magdalene, and you said that the people were not important, that the message was. You then said that the ‘artifacts hold the key’ and listed this sequence of places. I found a paper on the subject of alfalfa which described this exact route of the spread of alfalfa and its value in farming because it literally replenishes the ground it is grown in. So, it seems that you were describing the route of the alfalfa plant. Can you comment on this?

A: Now that you have found this out, perhaps you should research the properties of this mineral rich alfalfa and what it does for the body of homo sapiens?!?


The alfalfa clue has already been followed but I would like to return to the issue surrounding these artefacts, to which the statue of the Virgin of Candelaria is meant to be related. Was the object or thing contained in the wood, amber and tar capsule called the "Beloved" a human body or an artefact - say perhaps a TDARM, thus linking it with the functions of the Grail? And was this group of 12 men linked with the sect the C's referred to in the Session dated 3 May 1997? If so, was this group part of or associated with the enclave of alchemists based in the Pyrenees, making the alchemists in turn part of or a branch of the sect in question?

As a postscript, the C's reference to the French post-impressionist painter Paul Gaugin is interesting since Gaugin is renowned for his use of bold colours, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts in his paintings, which set him apart from his contemporaries, helping to pave the way for the Primitivism art movement.

For our purposes, Gauguin created one of his most famous paintings in 1888 called "Vision of the Sermon." The boldly coloured work showed the Biblical tale of Jacob wrestling with the angel.

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In 1891, Gauguin sought to escape the constructions of European society, and he thought that Tahiti might offer him some type of personal and creative freedom. Upon moving to Tahiti, Gauguin was disappointed to find that French colonial authorities had westernised much of the island, so he chose to settle among the native peoples, and away from the Europeans living in the capital. Around this time, Gauguin borrowed from the native culture, as well as his own, to create new, innovative works. In "La Orana Maria," he transformed the Christian figures of the Virgin Mary and Jesus into a Tahitian mother and child.

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Gauguin also made many other works during this time, including a carved sculpture called "Oviri" — a word that originated from the Tahitian word for "savage," although, according to Gauguin, the sculpted female figure was actually a portrayal of a goddess.

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Oviri has long blonde or grey hair reaching to her knees. Her head and eyes are disproportionately large, while the aperture at the back of her head resembles a vaginal orifice. She holds a wolf cub to her hip, a symbol of her indifference and wild power. It is not clear whether Oviri is smothering or hugging the cub, but her pose invokes ideas of sacrifice, infanticide and the archetype of the vengeful mother, influenced by Eugène Delacroix's 1838 painting, Medea About to Kill Her Children. In Greek mythology, Medea is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts.

Medea, a priestess of the goddess Hecate and sorceress, plays the archetypal role of helper-maiden, aiding Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece by using her magic to save his life out of love. Once he finished his quest, she abandons her native home of Colchis, and flees westwards with Jason, where they eventually settle in Corinth and get married. Euripides' 5th century BC tragedy Medea, depicts the ending of said union with Jason, when after ten years of marriage, Jason abandons her to wed king Creon's daughter Creusa. Medea and her sons by Jason are to be banished from Corinth. In revenge, she murders Creusa with poisoned gifts. Later, she murders her own sons by Jason before fleeing for Athens, where she eventually marries king Aegeus.

What happens afterwards varies according to several accounts. Herodotus in his Histories mentions that she ended up leaving Athens (MJF: was this in Bronze Age France and not Classical Greece?) and settling in the Iranian plateau among the Aryans, who subsequently changed their name to the Medes. [MJF: Could Medea be an archetype of Nefertiti furious at her daughter Meritaten and, if so, could she have subsequently migrated to Iran after the assumption of Abraham/Moses?]

Could the fact that Gaugin's works included Jacob wrestling with the angel, the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child and the sorceress Medea, who is connected with Jason's Grail quest, be the reason why the C's specifically referred to Gaugin, when they could have mentioned any other famous painter, including Nicolas Poussin for example?​
 
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and the Harran Colony

In my previous article, Abbé Saunière and the Rosicrucians, I looked at Abbé Berenger Saunière’s links with the Martinists, a pseudo-Masonic organisation with Monarchist and Catholic leanings, and his possible links to the Heiron du Val d’Or, a strange cult that sought to erect a Catholic hermetic freemasonry, which worked to prepare the way for the social and political reign of Christ the King in the year 2000. The Heiron also attempted to demonstrate that the origins of Christianity lay in the mystical Atlantis. However, the Heiron’s aims would seem to have something in common with another group, whose origins lie far back in history and who were responsible for one of the most controversial documents in modern history – one whose contents are currently being implemented before our eyes.​

The Heiron du Val d’Or

Quoting from Tracy R Twyman’s article on the Hieron of Val d'Or:

Furthermore, there was during this period in time a secret society with stated goals very similar to those enumerated in The Protocols of Zion, and they were in fact, apparently, an auxiliary order of the Priory of Sion. They were called “The Hieron du Val d’Or…”

As I pointed out, Jean-Luc Chaumeil in his 1979 book Le Tresor du Triangle d’Or (The Treasure of the Golden Triangle), states that the Hieron practiced a version of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, and the upper degrees of this order constituted the lower degrees of the Priory of Sion itself.

According to authors Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, writing in the ‘The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail’, the Hieron’s mystic teachings contained:​

“a characteristic emphasis on sacred geometry and various sacred sites... an insistence on a mystical or Gnostic truth underlying mythological motifs”, and “a preoccupation with the origins of men, races, languages, and symbols... .

An emphasis on sacred geometry suggests a similar philosophy to the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians of Sir Francis Bacon who saw in geometry something sacred. Moreover, the reference to the Hieron having a preoccupation with the origins of men, races, languages, and symbols reminds me of another group that placed great emphasis on these things and that was the Theosophists of Madam Blavatsky.​

Continuing with Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh’s description, the Hieron was:

Simultaneously Christian and ‘trans-Christian.’ It stressed the importance of the Sacred Heart... sought to recognise Christian and pagan mysteries”, and “Ascribed special significance to Druidic thought - which it... regarded as partially Pythagorean.”

As Tracy Twyman tells us, the Hieron was also unabashedly pro-monarchist and sought a restoration of the Holy Roman Empire. The new empire would have been a reflection of Heaven on Earth, that specifically of the Hermetic Arcadian ideal. This last point will become more relevant below.​

Jean-Luc Chaumeil described the Hieron’s ideals as:

“...a theocracy wherein nations would be no more than provinces, their leaders but proconsuls in the service of a world occult government consisting of an elite. For Europe, this regime of the Great King implied a double hegemony of the Papacy and the Empire, of the Vatican and of the Habsburgs, who would have been the Vatican’s right arm.”

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

The idea of a world occult government consisting of an elite does sound suspiciously familiar. After all, did not the late David Rockefeller, the long-time Chairman of the Bilderberg Group, say “You will have World Government whether you like it or not”. So, if the Heiron du Val d’Or were an offshoot of the Priory of Sion (forming the lower degrees of the latter), what does this say about the Priory? Remember, Pierre Plantard only registered the Priory of Sion in the 1950’s or early 1960’s, whereas the Heiron du Val d’Or dates back to 1873 and the Martinists even earlier to the mid-18th Century. It would suggest that the real Priory of Sion continued to survive after its departure from the Holy Land with the end of Christian Outremer and the Crusader states but in a different form. Did it become the Rosicrucians who “moved like a thief in the night” against the Templars?

Tracy Twyman commenced her article on the Heiron du Val d’Or by referring to the notorious Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. She made the following comments about the Protocols:​

Although at times a bit over-dramatic, there is something inherently believable about the Protocols.

They lay out in straightforward rhetoric the Machiavellian steps which an international conspiracy would go through to take control of the world’s governments and institutions, and to maintain power, largely through the manipulation of the masses, as well as those already in power.

It recommends the proliferation of dangerous creeds, philosophies, religious and political ideas such as Marxism, Anarchism, Atheism, and Darwinism, all to sow discord and cause the breakdown of traditional institutions, clearing the way for the new hierarchy of which the Protocols speak.

It is bone-chilling to read such a document as this, written in the nineteenth century, which predicts perfectly the results of a conspiracy that in every way resemble the world in which we currently live.

But what the Protocols outline is much more than your typical paranoid New World Order scenario. They speak of a global monarch, the “King of the blood of Sion”, of “the dynastic roots of King David”, who as ruler of a new “Masonic kingdom” will be both the “King of the Jews” and “the real Pope”, acting as “the patriarch of an international church.”

Of him, The Protocols state,

Certain members of the seed of David will prepare the Kings and their heirs... Only the King and the three who stood sponsor for him will know what is coming.”

Finally, the Protocols end with a curious postscript: “Signed by the representatives of Sion of the 33rd Degree.


The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail presented a theory regarding The Protocols with which I overwhelmingly concur. They proposed that the “Learned Elders of Zion” were in fact the Priory of Sion, and that this document had been, originally, the minutes of one of their meetings, which fell into the wrong hands and was subsequently transformed into a weapon for anti-Semites.

It certainly bears all of the earmarks and catch phrases for a “Priory document”, and over all the goals that are set forth within, as well as the methods proposed for achieving them, fit my conception of the Priory’s own objectives, although I imagine that in certain sections of the document the original version might have been phrased more delicately.

Furthermore, there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that this was indeed the case. The earliest known version of The Protocols was actually written in French, and most scholars believe it to have been partially based on a political satire written by Maurice Joly against Napoleon II which was published in Geneva in 1864. Maurice Joly was also a member of the Rose-Croix order, and good friends with Victor Hugo.

But perhaps it was the other way around. Perhaps the “Protocols of Sion” and the anti-Napoleon satire were themselves based on the same Priory of Sion document, which Joly, as a potential member of the Priory, could possibly have had access to.


We cannot know for sure, but it is known that in 1884, copies of The Protocols of Zion were found circulating amongst the members of a Masonic lodge to which Papus himself belonged - the lodge where the aforementioned legend of the wise Egyptian sage named Ormus (whom the Priory of Sion called themselves after) first surfaced.

After this Twyman makes the connection to the Hieron du Val d’Or already mentioned:

“Furthermore, there was during this period in time a secret society with stated goals very similar to those enumerated in The Protocols of Zion, and they were in fact, apparently, an auxiliary order of the Priory of Sion. They were called “The Hieron du Val d’Or…”

However, as mentioned above, we know that Pierre Plantard only established the ‘’Priory of Sion’ (whose ‘Dossiers Secrets’ Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln were loaned) as a society under French law in the 1950’s or early 1960’s. So, unless we are looking here at the survival of the original medieval Priory of Sion, we need to look at its modern front, which I have suggested is the Rosicrucians. It is therefore noticeable that we see the Protocols circulating amongst the members of a Masonic lodge to which Papus belonged. You may recall that Papus was the brilliant young Parisian doctor, Gerard Encausse, who although born in Spain was brought up in Paris and went on to establish the Mystical Order called the ‘Ordre Martiniste’. After being initiated into Martinism, Papus started to reorganise it, setting up a network of lodges. He also assisted Joseph Péladon in founding the cabbalistic Rosicrucian order and became a central figure in the distribution of occult ideas, even ending up at the Russian Court of Czar Nicholas II. But if the Priory of Sion became or morphed into the Rosicrucians and the Martinists, where did its roots ultimately lie?​

The Colony at Giza

Although the Protocols are generally held to be a Czarist secret police hoax, the Cassiopaeans have confirmed that they were genuine but not Zionist in origin, having been composed in Turkey. They did not confirm though which group had written them until the session dated 22 August 1998:​

Q: One of the things I noticed in this book was that they said that there was a colony from the city of Harran in what is nowadays Turkey, and that this colony formerly resided on the Giza plateau. Is there any connection between this colony they mention and the fact that you said that the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ were composed in Turkey by an ‘Aryan’ source?

A: Yes.

Q: What relationship is there?


A: One and the same.

Harran and Arcadia

Hence, we learn that this group formerly occupied the Giza Plateau but subsequently moved to the City of Harran in today’s Turkey. The City of Harran has an ancient history dating back to circa 6200 BC. During the Early Bronze Age (3000-2500 BC), Harran grew into a walled city. The city-state of Harran was part of a network of city-states, called the Kish civilisation, centred in the Syrian Levant and upper Mesopotamia. Its life as a sovereign city-state came to an end when it was annexed into the Akkadian Empire (founded by Sargon the Great) and its successors, the Neo-Sumerian Empire and Old Assyrian Empire. After this it was again independent for a time, until it was abandoned in the Amorite expansion in 1800 BC. It was later rebuilt as the Assyrian city of Harrānu, meaning 'cross-roads' in the Akkadian language.

For at least one Forum member who has followed the Alton Towers thread, this last reference would certainly support his proposal that Akkadia may have been Arcadia, where the Aryan one of Trent traversed their crossroads:​

A: Arcadia is a crossroads for the one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent.

Please note that I am not unsympathetic to this view since, as I have said before, Arcadia can mean different things to different people depending on the age in question. To the Greeks of the Classical Age, for example, Arcadia was in the Peloponnese. Moreover, I appreciate that the C’s like puns and the fact that Harran means “crossroads” would certainly fit this pattern.​

In the Session dated 28 November 1998, Laura also took the view that Arcadia was in Turkey:

A: Well, quite simply we would say, where is Arcadia?

Q: (L) Arcadia was Turkey. You have made many references to Turkey, to Troy, which was located in what is now Turkey. A lot of funny stuff tracks back there. And, Troy means ‘three.’ Interesting.
[MJF: Compare “Troy” to “Trent” here, which can also mean three.]

A: Tis a clue for you, not a destination!

Why did the C’s use “Tis” here instead of “this is”? Did they intend to point us towards England and specifically Yorkshire and the Trent River? I say this because “Tis” is old English expression, which is not used much today. However, the one place in the country where it is still commonly used is Yorkshire along with other old expressions such as “Thee” and “Thou”. Could this have been a clue to who the one true Essene is? If so, it would seem to suggest a connection between that person and Britain.

However, Laura subsequently drew a connection in a later session between the Arcadians and the Trojans, who were the enemies of the Arcadians in Homer’s Iliad. This would seem to place Arcadia in western Europe, most probably France, where the Achaeans (Celtic tribes) dwelt at that time. Please note that this was before Laura had read Iman Wilkens’ book ‘Where Troy Once Stood’, which would change her view of Troy being located in Turkey as Heinrich Schliemann had proposed when he found what he thought was the ancient city of Troy in Anatolia.​

Session dated 5 December 1998:

Q: Then, you also said: 'quite simply we would say, where is Arcadia?' Arcadia ...

A: You need to work on that one. The answers to these mysteries are not easily solved, but well worth it!

Q: The chief thing I noticed about Arcadia was, the Arcadians were the enemies of the Trojans, they were the creators of the Trojan Horse - a huge deception... and the Celts are supposed to be the descendants of the refugees from Troy. And, when Hitler came along, one of his ideals was to resurrect Arcadia, and that Germany was going to be the new Arcadia and destroy the 'old corrupt civilization,' which was Troy. Troy is 'three' and is connected to 'Ilium,' and I guess what my question is here is: just who's on first?

A: Who is on second?


I think the major clue for us here is the C’s statement “Who is on second?” For those not aware, “who’s on first” is a Baseball reference meaning who is on first base. In my view, the fact that the C’s response was to ask: “Who is on second?”, suggests that Arcadia could have previously been in Akkadia but by the time of the Siege of Troy in the late Bronze Age, it was now located in Europe – i.e., second base.

If this view is correct, then this points to the Biblical character of Abraham being the “one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent [Troy?]”. This is supported by the C’s when they confirmed that Abraham/Moses could also be viewed as Paris, the Trojan Prince who instigated the Siege of Troy by kidnapping Helen:​

Q: (Galahad) Well, we got that part right. (L) Once before we discussed Nefertiti and Sarah being one and the same person. We have now been discussing the idea, based on some significant clues in ancient documents, that this individual was also Helen of Troy. Is this, in fact, a useful idea to follow? Is it a correct assessment of the clues?

A: Indeed!

Q: (L) That would mean that, according to the story, that Paris/Alexander would be the same individual as Abraham and that Herodotus' story of Paris and Helen sojourning in Egypt was true?


Harran in the Bible

So, was Harran a crossroads for Abraham? Even though Haran is no more than a ruin next to a small village today [MJF: and is largely unexcavated – which in itself may be suspicious], during the time of Abraham, it was a city positioned on a major road intersection connecting a number of large cities. In the Bible, Harran first appears in the Book of Genesis as the home of Abraham’s father Terah along with his son Abraham (at that time called Abram), his nephew Lot and Abram's wife Sarah (at that time known as Sarai) prior to their planned journey from Ur Kaśdim (Ur of the Chaldees) to the Land of Canaan in response to God’s command. Moreover, in Genesis 28:10–19, Abraham's grandson Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. Along the way he had his dream of Jacob’s Ladder. Of course, the C’s view Jacob and Abraham as one and the same person. Hence, it would appear from the Biblical story of Abraham that Harran was a crossroads both literally and metaphorically for him.
[MJF: In passing I would just note how etymologically similar Beersheba a town in Canaan is to Bathsheba, the wife of King David. I would briefly refer back here to Andrew Gough’s blog and his informant Will’s account of the high-tech treasure hunt he participated in:

“Before long the team discovered a tubular capsule imprinted with what appeared to be a Knights Templar seal. The capsule, which was made of extremely hard balsa wood and secured with hardened tar, contained 14 crest-wraps each emblazoned with a family crest; one of which appeared to be that of the biblical patriarch King David. Curiously, shortly after this disclosure, Will encouraged my Forum bloggers to study the significance of King David’s wife, but did not say why.”

Is there a link here between Beersheba the town and Bathsheba, King David’s seventh wife and the mother of King Solomon?

Bathsheba (/bæθˈʃiːbə/ or /ˈbæθʃɪbə/; Hebrew: בַּת שֶׁבַע, Baṯ-šeḇa‘, Bat-Sheva or Batsheva, means "daughter of Sheba" or "daughter of the oath”.

Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er Sheva which is the 'Well of the Oath/the Seven'. In Modern Hebrew, be'er means a well or pit, and sheva is the number seven. It is believed by some, however, that the second part of the name was originally shvu'a, which means “oath”.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Beersheba was founded when Abraham and Abimelech settled their differences over a well of water and made a covenant (see Genesis 21:22–34). Abimelech's men had taken the well from Abraham after he had previously dug it so Abraham brought sheep and cattle to Abimelech to get the well back. He set aside seven lambs to swear that it was he that had dug the well and no one else. Abimelech conceded that the well belonged to Abraham and, in the Bible, Beersheba means "Well of Seven" or "Well of the Oath". Beersheba is further mentioned in following Bible passages: Isaac built an altar in Beersheba (Genesis 26:23–33). Jacob had his dream about a stairway to heaven after leaving Beersheba. (Genesis 28:10–15 and 46:1–7).

So, it is curious that Bathsheba’ was David’s seventh wife and her name means “daughter of the oath”, whilst Beersheba is associated with the number seven, as in "Well of Seven", and with an oath too, as in “Well of the Oath". Moreover, Jacob had his dream about the stairway or ladder to heaven, which involved the contending with the angel, after leaving Beersheba. Thus, given what the C’s have told us, there is more going on here than the Bible narrative relates. We also know from the C’s that Solomon was an Egyptian Pharaoh, which means Bathsheba is unlikely to have been his mother – so is she just a fiction disguising something else, something perhaps connected to Abraham/Moses’ return of the Ark of the Covenant to the STS forces that had originally created it?
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However, the question we need to ask ourselves is whether Abraham was originally from Troy (Cambridge in England) or was he descended from Trojan migrants who had settled in that part of the Middle East? Remember, from a Biblical perspective Abraham was supposedly a Semite, which for our purposes would be a Scythian-Celt like Sargon. So, apart from Abraham and his family, who else was based at Harran at that time? Well one group who lived there were amongst the best-known astronomers or star gazers of the ancient World, the Sabians.​

The Sabians of Harran

Who were the Sabians of Harran? Wikipedia tells us:

“The Sabians, sometimes also spelled Sabaeans, are a mysterious religious group mentioned three times in the Quran as a 'people of the book’ (ahl al-kitāb), along with the Jews, the Christians and the Zoroastrians. Their original identity seems to have been forgotten at an early date. Modern scholars have variously identified them as Mandaeans, Manichaeans, Sabaeans, Elchasaites, Archontics, ḥunafāʾ (either as a type of Gnostics or as "sectarians"), or as adherents of the astral religion of Harran.

At least from the ninth century on, the Quranic epithet 'Sabian' was claimed by various religious groups who sought recognition by the Muslim authorities as a people of the book deserving of legal protection. Among those are the Sabians of Harran, adherents of a poorly understood pagan religion centred in the upper Mesopotamian city of Harran, who were described by Syriac Christian heresiographers as star worshippers. These Harranian Sabians practiced an old Semitic form of polytheism, combined with a significant amount of Hellenistic elements
. Apart from the fact that it contains traces of Babylonian and Hellenistic religion, and that an important place was taken by planets (to whom ritual sacrifices were made), little is known about Harranian Sabianism. They have been variously described by scholars as (neo)-Platonists, Hermeticists, or Gnostics, but there is no firm evidence for any of these identifications.

Hence, the Harrian Sabians, as star worshippers, can be seen to share something in common with the Persian Magi who also placed great relevance on the stars (think of the Magi who attended on Christ’s birth after being drawn there by the appearance of the Star of Bethlehem).

Star or astral worship, also known as Astrotheology, astral mysticism, astral religion, astral or stellar theology, is the worship of the stars (either individually or together as the night sky), the planets, and other heavenly bodies as deities, or the association of deities with heavenly bodies.

The most common instances of this are sun gods and moon gods in polytheistic systems worldwide. Also notable is the association of the planets with deities in Babylonian, and hence in Greco-Roman religion, viz. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Gods, goddesses, and demons may also be considered personifications of astronomical phenomena such as lunar eclipses, planetary alignments, and apparent interactions of planetary bodies with stars. Archibald Sayce (1913) argues for a parallelism of the "stellar theology" of Babylon and Egypt, both countries absorbing popular star-worship into the official pantheon of their respective state religions by identification of gods with stars or planets.

The term astro-theology was first used in the context of 18th-19th century scholarship aiming at the discovery of the original religion, particularly primitive monotheism. Astro-theology is any "religious system founded upon the observation of the heavens," and in particular may be monotheistic. More recently, the term astrotheology is used by Jan Irvin, Jordan Maxwell and Andrew Rutajit (2006) in reference to "the earliest known forms of religion and nature worship," advocating the entheogen theory of the origin of religion.​

The Sabians and Hermeticism

According to Seyyed Hossein Nasr,

"the Harranians who were the principal inheritors in the Middle East of what has been called "Oriental Pythagoreanism" and who were the guardians and propagators of Hermeticism in the Islamic world" practiced "the religion of the heirs of the prophet Idris [i.e. Enoch]." [MJF: recall here that the C’s said that the Book of Enoch, an apocryphal work excluded from the Bible, was based on Sanskrit writings from India and might therefore have had an Aryan source.]

However, Kevin van Bladel has extensively argued that the Sabians of Harran cannot be associated with Hermeticism in any meaningful way. Although they did regard Hermes Trismegistus as a prophet and may even have thought of him as the founder of their sect, there is no evidence that they had knowledge of any Hermetic text or were involved in the writing of such texts in any way (see more below on this).

Recall here though that according to the C’s, Hermes Trismegistus was a traitor to the Court of Pharaoh Rana (the Egyptian leader of a spiritual covenant), having broken a covenant of spiritual unity between all the peoples in the area now known as the Middle East by inspiring divisions within the ranks of the Egyptians, Essenes, Aryans, and Persians etc. You will note that the C’s refer to the Essenes here as if they were a separate people or racial group rather than the monastic body they later became in Judea and Palestine.

So, we learn that the Sabians may have regarded Hermes as the founder of their sect. However, the C’s have pointed out that the real founders of their sect may ultimately have been another group, a Brotherhood who today we would refer to as the Illuminati.

From the Session dated 16 October 1994:

Q: (L) Who did Hermes betray?

A: Himself; was power hungry.

Q: (L) What acts did he do?

Q: (L) What was his purpose in doing this?

A: Divide and conquer as inspired by those referred to as Brotherhood in Bramley book you have read.

Q: (L) Is this the Brotherhood of the snake Hermes formed in rejection of unity?

A: Hermes did not form it; it was long since in existence.

Q: (L) Who was the originator of the Brotherhood of the Serpent as described in the Bramley book?

A: Lizard Beings.


For those who have not read William Bramley’s book ‘The Gods of Eden’, he describes in it a group or brotherhood who throughout known history have acted as power brokers and have been a hidden influence on major political and economic events, acting from behind the scenes. He identified them with the ‘Brotherhood of the Serpent’, the oldest known secret society in history.

The Sabians had a long history and were not destroyed until 1032-33 when the temple of the Sabians was destroyed and the urban community extinguished by an uprising of the rural 'Alid-Shiite population and impoverished Muslim militias. However, during the 9th and 10th centuries AD, there were many different religions operating in Harran during this period. Apart from the Sabians, there were also Muslims, Christians, Jews, Samaritans, Zoroastrians, Manicheans and many other religious groups. No doubt this led to a cross fertilisation of ideas and philosophies (including Hermeticism) that may eventually have been carried over into Europe through the Crusaders. Indeed, the Knights Templar and other Crusader groups may have been a major conduit for this process. During this period, there were two prominent Sabian families from Harran who worked at the Abbasid and Buyid courts in Baghdad as court physicians and astronomers, among them the famous astronomer and mathematician Thabit ibn Qurra (c. 830–901). This suggests the Sabians may have had a significant influence on the transmission of scientific ideas like the Druids before them or the Rosicrucians after them, at a time when Baghdad was one of the most important commercial and cultural centres in the Middle East.

Finally, it should be noted that the decisive battle commonly known as the Battle of Harran, which saw a disastrous defeat for the Templars from which the Crusaders never recovered, was fought in the Balikh River valley on May 7, 1104, near to the city of Harran.

Curiously, Harran is also famous for its beehive houses, which makes one wonder whether there could be a connection here to the Freemasons and Merovingians, who also paid homage to the humble bee, often using it as a sacred emblem in their iconography or decoration.

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Beehive houses at Harran

Can we link the Harrian Sabians, this mysterious religious group whose original identity seem to have been forgotten, with the colony from Harran the C’s spoke of that formerly resided on the Giza plateau, who subsequently wrote the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’? Yes, I think we can. The answer for me came in an article written by Donald H. Frew, from which I set out extracts below.​

Harran: Last Refuge of Classical Paganism

See: Harran: Last Refuge of Classical Paganism – part I | Wiccan Rede

In his article, Drew tells us that as early as the middle of the second millennium BC (which places it in the late Bronze Age, 1600-1200 BC), the Harranians established a pilgrimage site at the Giza Plateau in Egypt (Hassan 1946: 34). In later centuries, they would say that the Pyramids were the tombs of their gods, Idris (Hermes) and Seth (Agathodaimon) (Green 1992: 110, 174, 212).​

Drew goes on to state that as:

An etymological aside … The very early connection between Harran and Egypt mentioned above, while noted by Egyptologists, has been largely ignored by those studying Harran. As a result, a possible source for the name “Sabian” has also been ignored. Most have focused either on the Arabic verb saba’a to “convert”, the Hebrew word saba, meaning “troops”, the Ethiopic word sbh, meaning “dispensing alms”, or the Syriac verb sb’, meaning “to baptize”. I lean towards the Egyptian root sba, meaning “star”, “star-god”, and “teacher”. As both followers of what has been called “astral” religion and renowned teachers and scholars, this would seem to be appropriate and fitting.”

Drew therefore notes that a group of Harrians in the Late Bronze Age established a pilgrimage centre at Giza. This would comfortably place it at the time of Abraham/Moses and Akhenaten. Moreover, we know that Abraham in the Bible was supposed to have come from Harran to Egypt. Does this mean that Abraham and the group he travelled with were Sabians?​

Drew set out his premise for writing his article at the beginning by saying:

For many years, I have been researching and writing a book on the subject of the origins of the modern Witchcraft movement. I now believe that a direct line of transmission can be traced from the Hermetic and Neoplatonic theurgy of late antiquity to the beginnings of the modern Craft movement in the 1930s. Of course, any such transmission must be embedded within the wider context of the transmission of Hermeticism in general from the Classical world to the European Renaissance and the beginnings of the Enlightenment.

Anyone looking into this history cannot help but be struck by a glaring gap. At the end of the Pagan world in the latter days of the Roman Empire, so the sources tell us, several Hermetic and Neoplatonic scholars left the Empire to go “to the East”. At the beginning of the revival and rediscovery of Classical knowledge in Europe, Classical texts in Arabic translations, including the Hermetica (the revealed teachings of Hermes Trismegistus), came back to Europe “from the East”. What happened during the 500 or so years in-between? And where “in the East” did classical Graeco-Roman knowledge (and possibly classical Greco-Roman Paganism) survive?

One name comes up over and over again: Harran. Even so, there is relatively little information about this ancient city in Western sources. As more and more of my sources pointed to Harran, and in the face of an almost total lack (in the 1990s) of available information about the city and its people, I resolved to go and see for myself, talk to the local authorities and scholars, and find what I could. Anna Korn and I visited the area in January of 1998. This article incorporates many of our findings.


He goes on:

The city of Harran was founded c. 2000 BCE as a merchant outpost of Ur, situated on the major trade route across northern Mesopotamia (Green 1992: 19). The name comes from the Sumerian and Akkadian “Harran-U”, meaning “journey”, “caravan”, or “crossroad” (Kurkcuoglu 1996: 11). For centuries it was a prominent Assyrian city, known for its Temple of “Sin”, the Moon God.

In this baking, desolate landscape, the Sun was an enemy and the Night a comforter. The Moon, the ruler of the Night, must therefore be the supreme deity and therefore, to a patriarchal culture, male. Sin was the giver of fertility and of oracles. In this latter capacity, he also served as kingmaker.

In the Bible, Abraham’s father Terah was meant to have been an idol maker. Could he have been making idols for the Temple of Sin?

This complex history of Harran is important in order to understand the city’s eventual fate. For much of its history, Harran welcomed any would-be conqueror that came along, switching allegiances at the drop of a hat, and so went peacefully on about its own business.

Drew then goes on to discuss the Neo-Platonists:

…The Neoplatonists were polytheistic monists, understanding and relating to the many Gods & Goddesses as multiple faces or manifestations of a singular, all-encompassing Divine – the One. [MJF: This approach would also seem to reflect the Druids’ beliefs as well, whose chief god was Bel.]

Neoplatonic theurgy used techniques that we would recognize as “natural magick” in rituals designed to facilitate union with the One. Its source material consisted of the writings of Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus (as well as earlier Platonists), the Egyptian writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus (the Hermetica), the texts collected as the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) and collected teachings (the Chaldean Oracles) “channelled” from Hekate and other deities by two 2nd century Roman theurgists (the Julianii). With these texts as guides, Neoplatonic theurgy focused on two forms of “god-making”: deity possession and the creation of animated statues. The former was very similar, if not identical, to the practice modern Witches know as “Drawing Down the Moon”, and indeed this phrase was used in antiquity to describe this practice. The latter involved techniques that we have all but lost, but vestiges of which remain in certain contemporary Craft traditions.

Neo-Pythagoreanism was a 1st century CE revival of the number mysticism of Pythagoras. Incorporating elements of astrology and Eastern magical lore, it was very popular with Iamblichus and was eventually subsumed into Neoplatonism.

Proclus of Athens (b. 412 CE) was the last major Neoplatonic writer before the closing of the School at Athens and the flight of the surviving Neoplatonic theurgists to safety in the Persian Empire.


The Neoplatonists sought to incorporate and synthesize the practices of all Pagans known to them, believing that all were divinely inspired. In this, they were in tune with the syncretic nature of their age, in which composite, cross-cultural deities such as Serapis and Jupiter-Ammon came to predominate. Accordingly, most Neoplatonists not only continued to practice traditional popular Paganism, but were also initiates of the Mysteries of Mithras, Isis, and others. The 4th century Neoplatonist, Macrobius (writing in Saturnalia), reconciled the mythologies of the many Pagan traditions by asserting that all Gods were actually aspects of a single Sun God, and all Goddesses aspects of a single Moon Goddess, and that really there was just the God and the Goddess – and beyond them, of course, the One.

Harran under Islam

In 717 CE, the Muslim caliph Umar II founded the first Muslim university in the world at Harran. To give this university a good start, Umar brought many of the last remaining scholars (including Hermeticists) from Alexandria and installed them at Harran. A later Harranian author, Ibn Wahshiya, would write about these Hermeticists in the mid-9th century CE:

The Hermesians let nobody into the secrets of their knowledge but their disciples, lest the arts and sciences should be debased by being common amongst the vulgar. They hid therefore their secrets and treasures from them by the means of this alphabet, and by inscriptions, which could be read by nobody except the sons of wisdom and learning.

These initiated scholars were divided into four classes. The first Class comprehended the sect Hara’misah Alhawmiyah, who were all descendants of Hermes the Great. … No man in the world was acquainted with any of their secrets: they alone possessed them. They were the authors of the books commonly called the books of Edris (Enoch) [Hermes – DHF]. They constructed temples dedicated to spirits, and buildings of magical wisdom. …


The second class of the Hermesians, called Hara’misah Alpina’walu’ziyah, the sons of the brother of Hermes, whose name was Asclibianos. … They never communicated their secrets, and Hermetic treasures to anybody, but they preserved them from generation to generation, till our days. …

The third class was called Ashra’kiyu’n (Eastern) or children of the sister of Hermes, who is known amongst the Greek by the name of Trismegistos Thoosdios. … Their sciences and knowledge are come down to us.

The fourth class, denominated Masha’wun (walkers, or peripatetic philosophers), was formed by the strangers, who found means to mingle with the children and family of Hermes. They were the first who introduced the worship of the stars and constellations, … From hence came their divisions, and everything that has been handed down to us, proceeds originally from these two sects, the Ashra’kiyu’n, eastern, and Masha’wun, peripatetic philosophers (Hammer-Purgstall 1806: pp 23-30). In the mid-8th century, the Caliph Marwan made Harran his home and temporarily moved the capital of the Umayyad Empire from Damascus to Harran.


Later in the 8th century, Harun al-Rashid (the Caliph of Arabian Nights fame) founded the Bayt al-Hikmah (“House of Wisdom”) at Baghdad to be a centre for the translation of Greek and Latin texts into Arabic. Scholars from Harran would later be brought there.

The Harrian Religion travels to Spain

In the 11th century, after the Muslim conquest of North Africa and Spain, the Ghayat al-Hakim (“Aim of the Sage”), a book known in Latin as the Picatrix, was written in Spain by “al Majriti” (Pingree 1980; 1986). Considered the basis of the grimoire tradition of Europe (including material that survives down into the Books of Shadows of certain modern Craft traditions), the Picatrix includes significant material about the religion and rites of the Harranians. This same “al Majriti” is also our source for the Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa (“Epistles of the Brethren of Purity*”), a mystical Muslim order incorporating teachings from Neoplatonic, Hermetic, and even Buddhist sources (Netton 1991). Both books contain material from each other and have a Harranian source (Nasr 1993: 25-104). Whether “al Majriti” was himself a Harranian Sabian is unknown.

David Pingree has pointed out that many of the Greco-Roman magical texts evident in the Picatrix passed into Arabic by way of Sanskrit, picking up Indian magical terms and Sanskrit names for the Gods along the way (Pingree 1980). Truly, Harran deserved the name “crossroad”.
*Could this work be connected to the Cathar ‘Parfait’ (the Perfect Ones) who emerged in the Langedoc and the Pyrenees area during the 12th century?

The Last Days of Harran and the Return of Paganism to Europe

Later in the 11th century, 1081 CE, the Temple of the Moon God was finally destroyed by al-Shattir, an ally of the Seljuk Turks, contemporaneous with the rise of Ash’arism (Green 1992: 98-100). At this point, the “con-job” story became the “official” Muslim view. Also late in the 11th century, c. 1050 CE, the Christian writer Michael Psellus, studying in Constantinople, received an annotated copy of the Hermetica from a scholar from Harran. It is quite possible that these were sacred texts that had escaped the decline and ultimate destruction of the temples (Scott 1982: 25-27, 108-109; Copenhaver 1992: xl; Faivre 1995: 182). Copies of the Hermetica eventually made their way to Western Europe, igniting the interest of Cosimo de’Medici who, in 1462, set a young Marsilio Ficino to the task of their translation. Thus began Europe’s fascination with the Hermetica (Copenhaver 1992: xlvii-l; Faivre 1995: 30, 38-40, 98), a fascination that would help fuel the Renaissance.

During the First Crusade, Harran was often contrasted with its neighbour to the north, Edessa (known today as Urfa). Edessa was the birthplace of the prophet Abraham and the first city to convert to Christianity (Segal 1970: 60-81). Edessa converted after its king, Abgar, wrote to Jesus requesting healing. The apostle Thaddeus came with a cloth bearing the image of Jesus’ face. Abgar was healed and his kingdom converted. The cloth, known as the Mandylion, was an important relic during the Crusades (Segal 1970: 215; Wilson 1998: 161-175). (Recently discovered documents have led some to believe that it is the same cloth that later came to be called the Shroud of Turin.)

In the 12th century, Edessa was the capital of the short-lived Crusader County of Edessa. The Crusaders occupying the city were described as “roaming about the countryside at will”. Their presence might explain an unusual architectural feature that survives at Harran.

In Harran’s Citadel, there is a Christian chapel of Crusader architecture (Lloyd & Brice 1951: 102-103). There is no record of any Crusaders ever conquering the city (Segal 1970: 230-251; Green 1992: 98; Gunduz 1994: 133). The presence of the chapel would appear to indicate a peaceful Crusader presence. The fact that the chapel is side-by-side with the Citadel’s mosque, even sharing an entry hall, is even more striking. It was far more common for chapels and mosques of that time to be built on top of each other or to be co-opted one from the other. Is this another example of the city’s remarkable religious tolerance
*?

* Recall here that one of the aims of the Knights Templar was to promote a union between Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Does this suggest that Harran could have been one of the places where the Templars imbibed the Hermetic philosophy and wisdom, which they then took back to Europe with them?

Drew goes on to add that:

"Harran was a thriving Mesopotamian and later Hellenistic city of some 10 to 20,000 people for nearly 3000 years. Towards the end, for about 500 years, Harran would appear to have been a kind of intellectual refugee camp for educated members of the mystery cults of late antiquity, eventually becoming the font from which Hermetic and Neoplatonic learning returned to Europe.

Many of the Pagans of Harran had fled the triumph of Christianity in the West. All of them, including the practitioners of the indigenous Moon cult, were surrounded by an ever-expanding Islam. The Pagan community of Harran must have lived with a constant awareness of being the last refuge of the old Pagan religions. These “Pagan refugees” would have had every reason to preserve their traditions for future generations. Some were Mithraists, well aware of the concept of turning cycles of ages. Others would have known that their own sacred texts, the Hermetica, predicted the fall of Paganism, and its eventual return."

So, was the colony at Harran which Laura and the C’s spoke of the same group as the party of Harrians who Drew tells us established a pilgrimage centre at Giza in the Late Bronze Age and, if so, were they Sabian star worshippers? If the answer is yes, as I think it is, can we take it that it was their descendants or successors who drew up the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in Turkey? This then begs the question - just how old is this document, which serves as a blueprint for world domination?

Can we also see a line of succession here starting with the evil magicians of Atlantis, running through the Brotherhood of the Serpent in Mesopotamia, then into Giza and the Egypt of the Pharaohs and Osirians and then back to Harran in modern Turkey, to the mystery schools of the ancient world including the Pythagoreans, where with help later from Alexandria, the Harrian Sabians spread Hermeticism to Europe at the Renaissance and through the Arabs/Moors into Spain and France, where it emerges as the Priory of Sion and later, via the Templars, as Freemasonry and then the Rosicrucians, with subsequent spin-off groups such as the Martinists and the Heiron du Val d’Or emerging afterwards, bringing us down to the present day with groups like the Illuminati, the Round Table Group, the Bilderbergers, the Committee of 300 and a myriad assortment of other front groups who are currently creating the New World Order?
Abraham the Essene

So, where the C’s tell us that “Arcadia is a crossroads for the one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent”, does this suggest that Abraham was a Harrian Sabian and, if so, does this mean that the Sabians, whose origins seem to have been lost in the mist of time, were Essenes? As I said above, where the C’s tell us about Arcadia saying that “Tis a clue for you, not a destination!”, this suggests to me that the C’s are pointing us back to Britain as the place of origin of “the one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent”, as Arcadia is not the destination but is a crossroads. Since Laura also makes the observation that “Troy means three” as can “Trent”, this again would suggest a link between this one Essene and the city of Troy in Cambridge, England. In turn, does this establish a link between the Trojans and the Essenes?

We learned above that the Harrian Sabians were star worshippers or astrotheologians. Can we establish a link between the Sabians and Britain through any group who could also be viewed as astrotheologians? I think we can for that group is the Hyperborians and their Druid priesthood. Here is what the C’s said about Stonehenge:​

Session 3 October 1998:

Q: So, it is was an unfriendly 4th density dude. Now, he quotes from John Keel’s book ‘Our Haunted Planet’. It says: “The para-human Serpent People of the past are still among us. They were probably worshipped by the builders of Stonehenge and the forgotten ridge-making culture of South America”. Were the Serpent People worshipped by the builders of Stonehenge?

A: No

Q: Who was worshipped by the people who built Stonehenge?

A: Complicated.

Q: Give me some key words to work it out.

A: Spirits, stars, energy.


Thus, the Druid builders of Stonehenge in England can also be viewed as star worshippers and astrotheologians. Does this then forge a link between the Essenes and the Druids of Britain? I think it does.​

William Henry in his intriguing book ‘Blue Apples - A Search for the Lost Stargate Technology and Spiritual Teachings of Jesus and Mary Magdalene’ states that:

Long before the Greeks, and hundreds of years before Jesus, the tau* was adopted by the Druids, the ‘men of the Oak Trees’, who came from Hyperboria, the Greek name for Heaven”.

*The Tau, as we know, was also a symbol commonly used in ancient Egypt.

"The Druids were well known as wise men to the Roman philosophers. As we have noted, scholars have long debated the origin of the word ‘Druid’. Larousse’s World Mythology says it came from daru-vid, meaning ’skilled.

One art in which the Druids were highly skilled was the manufacture of Tau crosses made of oak trees -- the symbolic Tree of Life --stripped of their branches. Upon the right branch they cut in the bark the word Hesus, upon the middle or upright stem the word Taramis, and on the right Belenus. Over this, above the going off arms, they cut the name of God, Thau or Tau. This configuration matches that of the Crucifixion with Jesus accompanied by two thieves and God above. However, it was in use hundreds of years before Jesus’s time.

In northern Israel the Druid name Hesus or Jesus was the same as Ieud or Jeud, the “only begotten son” who was dressed in a royal robe and sacrificed. Greek versions of this name were Jason and Iasus, signfiying a healer or therapeutae, a physician of the soul."


So, we encounter in the above quote a link between the Druids and the Egyptian ‘Therapeutae’ and by extension to the later Jewish Essenes, who seemed to have derived from the Egyptian Therapeutae. However, there may also be a link to the Persian Magi too, as Henry states:

"Third century classical scholar, Diogenes Laertius, also tells us that the Druids were the cult of the Magi, the same sect as that of the ‘Three Wise Men’ who sought out the Christ child. It was Druid prophecy, therefore, that seems to have predicted the arrival of Jesus."

The Kibeiri

Let us not forget that Abraham’s destination was not Arcadia (Akkadia) but Egypt, where I believe he may have become a priest in the Temple of Heliopolis or On (N.B. I aim to cover this point in a future post since it may explain a lot about the Exodus). However, it is the Temple of Thebes that provides us with another clue as to the origins of the Therapeutae and the Jewish Essenes. In 1888, excavations at the Temple of Thebes revealed a statue of the god Kabeiros with a hammer in his hand (who may in turn be linked with the Egyptian god Ptah) attended by a boy cupbearer. Many esoteric scholars believe that Kabeiros was worshipped by the ancient Egyptian-Hebraic sect of the Kibeiri, who were the precursors of the Therapeutae and the Essenes. The Cabiri (or Cabeiri) were also a group of minor deities supposedly of Greek origin. However, the name appears to be of Semitic origin, signifying the "great gods," and the Cabiri seem to have been connected in some manner with the sea, protecting sailors and vessels. The Egyptian link is further strengthened by the fact that a temple of Memphis in Egypt was found consecrated to them as well. The Cabiri also belonged also to the Phoenician theology too. This connection between the Essenes and the Kibeiri produces a load of amazing links, which includes the Greek god Hermes connected to Hermeticism. There is also a potential link to Troy and therefore to Abraham/Paris, since there are traditions that the worship of the Cabiri originally came from the Troad (i.e., territory surrounding the ancient city of Troy), which we now know was in Britain and not Turkey.

I will explore these links in a future post. Suffice to say for now that as with Ptah (see my earlier post of 27th May), these links lead us to a dwarfish figure with a hammer and short apron, and sometimes a radiated head. Does that sound like an alien Grey to you? Given that Abraham was, according to the C’s, deceived by Lizard (Alpha Draconian) projections, and the cyber-genetic 4D Greys serve the Lizards, should this really come as a surprise to us (see images below). As we say in England – the plot thickens. But for now, I will leave this fascinating subject to another day.

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Abbé Saunière

Which brings us back to Abbé Saunière again and the strange goings on at Rennes-le-Chateȃu. Although Saunière was an ordained Roman Catholic priest, he was a local man in an area which was steeped in Cathar and Templar history and tradition. Indeed, the authors Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh tell us in ‘The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail’ that the Cathar church still survives today even in Rennes-le-Chateȃu. It would be surprising, therefore, if some of this had not seeped through into his philosophical make-up. Hence in my next article, given what we have learned above about the role the Sabians of Harran played in the dissemination of Hermeticism to Europe, I want to take a closer look at Abbé Saunière and his belief system and his links over the border in Spain with another secret group.​
 
The Merovingian dynasty of Franks has been traditionally considered the first race of kings in what is now France. France was named for their first ruler, Francio, whose lineage was said to be a descendant of Noah. Francio’s race migrated from the legendary city of Troy in northwest Turkey, bringing their royal bloodline to Gaul. They named their settlement Troyes after their hometown. Paris was named for the Greek hero whose elopement with Helen to Troy precipitated the Trojan War. The name Merovingian refers to Meroveus, the father of Childeric I, ruler of the Salian Franks. According to genealogist, Meroveus traced his lineage through his father, Clodion, back through Joseph of Arimathea to Jesus. A number of French historians wrote that this royal line, as well as all humans, were descendants of an extraterrestrial super race. Meroveus’s grandson, Clovis I, took control in about A.D. 482 and eventually extended his rule to include most of Gaul. Paris was his capital, a status which the city retained when Hugh Capet became king of France in 987.

According to the Priory of Sion’s Dossiers secret, the Merovingians were the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene , living in southern France, intermarried with the Franks and founded the royal bloodlines. During that time Christianity was in trouble from various competing religions. When Clovis was baptized into Catholicism, nearly half of his troops followed his example. A great wave of conversions followed, and the Roman church was effectively saved from almost inevitable collapse. The Roman church had proclaimed him their ruler and pledged allegiance to both him and his descendants, a pledge they soon repudiated. Upon the death of Clovis in 511, his realm was shared by his four sons—Theuderic, Chodomir, Childebert, and Lothar. These brothers and their descendants fought against each other causing weakness within the kingdom which was quickly exploited by other competing interest. Papal authorities deliberately obscured the history of the Merovingians to secure their own power and prominence. Dagobert in 679 while hunting was murdered by a retainer of Pepin the Fat, one of his own officials with close ties to the Roman church. Following the death of Dagobert there was again division in the land. The surviving Merovingians were forced to yield power to court officials known as "Mayors of the Palace," known to be under the control of the Catholic church. In 750 the last Merovingian king, Childeric III, was deposed by one of these mayors—Pepin III the Short—who established the Carolingian dynasty so named for his father, Carolus or Charles Martel. The Merovingian monarchy had been strictly dynastic, but that tradition was destined to be overturned when Rome grasped the opportunity to create kings by papal authority. The Church’s long-awaited ideal had come to fruition and from that time onwards kings were endorsed and crowned only by self-styled Roman prerogative. But church authorities, fearful and jealous of this dynasty born of both priestly and political bloodlines, fomented the assassination of Dagobert and the usurpation of Childeric III to gain complete control over what was to become the nation of France. By the twelfth century, these families, knowing full well their heritage, mounted the expedition to Jerusalem—if not the entire First Crusade—to recover family genealogies from beneath Solomon’s Temple. They also created the secret Priory of Sion, and the Knights Templar as a front organization, to achieve this purpose. At this point restoration of the Merovingian monarchy may indeed have been a primary goal.

Until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Roman church stood as the ultimate authority in the Western world. Through the lending of both its money and blessings, the Vatican dominated kings and queens and controlled the lives of ordinary citizens through fear of excommunication and its infamous Inquisition. Europe’s best and brightest men were exhorted by the clergy to battle for God and country, and Christian Europe launched Crusade after Crusade against the Muslims holding the Holy Land of the Middle East. The power of the church became further centralized and all powerful. Some of these men, particularly in southern France with its association to certain legends concerning Mary Magdalene, had knowledge of secret traditions which ran counter to the teachings of the church. The Crusades presented a convenient excuse to lake the Holy Land and search for verification of these traditions. Once in the Holy Land, the Crusaders apparently found some verification of heretical ideas which supported elder traditions, principally those circulating in southern France, and differed from the teachings of the church. It was this conflict that led to the creation of societies which used secrecy as protection from the Roman church, which, in turn, began to guard its established theology with increasingly violent means.
These Crusaders over time became known as heretics and blasphemers and an attempt was made by the church to exterminate them. They were the Knights Templar, whose traditions live on today within Freemasonry.

The Middle East at the time was in turmoil. In 1099 the knights of the First Crusade, under Godfrey de Bouillon, had captured the Holy City of Jerusalem from the Muslims and created a Christian kingdom under that name. But the countryside was far from pacified and the journey from the eastern Mediterranean ports to the Holy City was perilous. So nine knights petitioned Jerusalem’s King Baldwin II to be allowed to form a military order and to be quartered in the east wing of his palace which was adjacent to the recently captured Al-Aqsa Mosque, former site of King Solomon’s Temple. Baldwin agreed and even paid the knights a small stipend. During the first nine years of their existence, this unofficial order recruited no new members, an odd circumstance for a small group claiming to protect Jerusalem’s roadways. The idea that a mere nine knights could effectively patrol the roads leading to Jerusalem is preposterous. It is obvious that the Templars had another reason altogether for journeying to the Holy Land. They made little effort to guard the roads, leaving such protection to the Hospitallers. Instead, the Templars kept close to their quarters and excavated for treasure deep under the ruins of the first permanent Hebrew Temple (Solomon). It was during their excavations that the Templars acquired scrolls of hidden knowledge, again most probably dealing with the life of Jesus and his associations with the Essenes and Gnostics. They also reportedly acquired the legendary Tables of Testimony given to Moses as well as other holy relics which could have been used to validate their claims as an alternative religious authority to the Roman church. Such reports were well supported by the discovery of a document etched on copper among the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in 1947. Their newfound wealth as well as their possession of lost documents also could explain the rapid acceptance of the Templars by awestruck church leaders. Having accepted no new members for almost a decade and claiming to be poor even though most of them were members of or connected to royal families the order’s fortunes suddenly soared. Their leaders began traveling, recruiting members and gaining acceptance from both the church and European royalty.

On January 31, 1128, Templar grand masters traveled to Troyes about seventy-five miles southeast of Paris to plead the case for official recognition by the church before a specially convened council. This Council of Troyes was made up of Catholic archbishops, bishops, and abbots. With the added endorsement of King Baldwin, the council approved the Templars as an official military and religious order. This resulted in Pope Honorius II approving a "Rule" or constitution for the Knights Templar which sanctioned contributions to the order. To support the religious side of the order, the Rule, among other things, ordered all new Templars to make a vow of chastity and of poverty, which included turning over all their property to the order. On the military side, Templars were forbidden to retreat in combat unless their opponents outnumbered them more than three to one and their commander approved a withdrawal. The structure of the order was a forerunner of Freemasonry. Each local branch was called a "Temple" and its ruling commander reported to and pledged obedience to the grand master. The power and prestige of the order increased rapidly, and at the zenith of its popularity counted a membership of about twenty thousand knights. Contributions from royalty and the nobles were not just in coin or land. Members received lordships, baronies, landlord status, and castles.

In 1139 Pope Innocent II proclaimed that the Templars would henceforth answer to no other authority but the papacy. This license to operate outside any local control meant an exemption from taxes, which considerably increased the wealth of the order. The pope also granted the Templars the most unusual right to build their own churches. The knights were a law unto themselves. They offered right of sanctuary, like any church. They convened their own courts to try cases of local crime. They ran their own markets and fairs. They were exempt from tolls on roads, bridges and rivers. Pilgrims, merchants, officials, and the clergy faced many hazards and obstacles traveling in Europe and the Holy Land. They were prey for ferrymen, toll collectors, innkeepers, and even church authorities demanding alms, not to mention highway robbers and thieves. To protect against such misfortunes, the Templars developed a system whereby the traveler could deposit funds to cover travel expenses with the commander of the local Temple and receive a specially coded receipt. This receipt was issued in the form of a letter of credit, redeemable from any Temple. At the end of his journey, the traveler would receive either a cash refund of his account balance or a bill to cover any overdraft. It was a system which closely resembled both a bank check and the modern credit card. Along with banking practices, the Templars brought to Europe their acquired knowledge of architecture, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and medical techniques. In less than one hundred years after formation of the order, the Knights Templar had evolved into the medieval equivalent of today’s multinational corporation. The Templars thrived, thanks to the technologies and philosophies discovered in Jerusalem, while the church became more and more antagonistic, gradually realizing the threat posed by their knowledge. The Templars, in their turn, grew antagonistic toward the church.

To be continued.....
 
Abraham the Essene

So, where the C’s tell us that “Arcadia is a crossroads for the one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent”, does this suggest that Abraham was a Harrian Sabian and, if so, does this mean that the Sabians, whose origins seem to have been lost in the mist of time, were Essenes? As I said above, where the C’s tell us about Arcadia saying that “Tis a clue for you, not a destination!”, this suggests to me that the C’s are pointing us back to Britain as the place of origin of “the one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent”, as Arcadia is not the destination but is a crossroads. Since Laura also makes the observation that “Troy means three” as can “Trent”, this again would suggest a link between this one Essene and the city of Troy in Cambridge, England. In turn, does this establish a link between the Trojans and the Essenes?
I think this from Laura also relates:


mkrnhr said:
I don't have the Amarna letters. The excepts of the Amarna letters translation I quoted are from two books where they are cited en passant. The only reference to a boy and a girl I found on the net is here:

from Tushratta said:
Behold, one chariot, two horses, one male servant, one female servant, out of the booty from the land of Hatti I have sent you. And as a gift for my brother, five chariots (and) five teams of horses I have sent you. And as a gift for Kelu-Heba, my sister, one set of gold pins, one set of gold earrings, one gold idol, and one container of "sweet oil." I have sent her.
Not sure if it relates.

Well, that sounds like it only in my translation it describes the two as a "boy and girl". What strikes me as curious is that this was a gift of "war booty", so to say, and thus, one wonders what was so extraordinary about a boy and girl, or even "two servants", that would make them a worthy gift to a king that Tushratta was trying to butter up so that he would help him out in his military adventures??? After all, usually, war booty included a lot of captives who were made slaves so what was so special about these two that they became gifts to a king of Egypt?


mkrnhr said:
It's funny because I've thought of Ay and Nefertiti being brother and sister, both appearing out of nowhere, and probably having given birth to Tutankhaten and Smenkhkare?

Well, Ay and Nefertiti really look like brother and sister if you look at their busts. But I don't think they gave birth to Tut and Smenk...

Both Harran and Mitanni (under Tushratta) were under Hittite control and "Land of Hatti" was used to refer to the whole Hittite state so this also fits with Abraham/Ay being a Hittite moon worshiper as the Cs said and Sarah/Nefertiti passing along this religion to Akhenaten. Laura is also suggesting the genetic tweak of their heads perhaps made them desirable gifts for a King of Egypt. The Cs confirmed this Nefertiti to Akhenaten religion relates back to Zoroaster and Zoroaster was trying to fix a much older religion which seems to relate back to Lascaux cave paintings via a Zoroastrian creation story so tracing back to Druid areas is possible via Zoroaster as well as via "Where Troy Once Stood". The Luwian "new" Troy kind of intermixed with the neighboring Hittites hence a Helen of Troy/Paris trip to Egypt story to match with Nefertiti/Ay appeared perhaps.
 
Harran in the Bible

So, was Harran a crossroads for Abraham? Even though Haran is no more than a ruin next to a small village today [MJF: and is largely unexcavated – which in itself may be suspicious], during the time of Abraham, it was a city positioned on a major road intersection connecting a number of large cities. In the Bible, Harran first appears in the Book of Genesis as the home of Abraham’s father Terah along with his son Abraham (at that time called Abram), his nephew Lot and Abram's wife Sarah (at that time known as Sarai) prior to their planned journey from Ur Kaśdim (Ur of the Chaldees) to the Land of Canaan in response to God’s command. Moreover, in Genesis 28:10–19, Abraham's grandson Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. Along the way he had his dream of Jacob’s Ladder. Of course, the C’s view Jacob and Abraham as one and the same person. Hence, it would appear from the Biblical story of Abraham that Harran was a crossroads both literally and metaphorically for him.​
Very interesting. I would like to point out that the sons of Terah are Abram, Nahor and Haran. Could it be that Haran is the Arcadian crossroad instead of Abram?

In the bible, Moses' siblings (Abraham according to Cs) are said to be Miriam and Aaron, which sounds like Haran.
 
Very interesting. I would like to point out that the sons of Terah are Abram, Nahor and Haran. Could it be that Haran is the Arcadian crossroad instead of Abram?

In the bible, Moses' siblings (Abraham according to Cs) are said to be Miriam and Aaron, which sounds like Haran.
Yes, that is quite interesting. However, are all of these fictitious people, given that the C's have confirmed that Abraham and Moses are one and the same person? The name "Haran" may well be a name derived from the city of Harran and could then have formed the basis of the name "Aaron". As Laura has pointed out: "Keep in mind that they [the Old Testament writers] used characters rather freely, giving them lives and adventures modelled on Greek stories for the most part". Hence, they may have played fast and loose with these names drawing them from wide sources.​
 
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