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Another Time and an Inner Place Pt 4
by Peter Farley In constructing a new Camelot and a new King Arthur here in the United States, it would also not be unreasonable to suggest that those who worshipped Clovis and his Merovingian bloodline and sought to create a new empire for "the Once and Future King," it would also use the name once given to the area ?Armorica?America. Keep in mind that the first principles of Egyptian Magic were based upon an elaborate system of correspondences depending on the formula that the evolution of what is material follows the type and symbol of the emanation of the spiritual; that spirit and matter are opposite faces of the self-same mystery. Hence the need to align the key power points in certain astrological designs representing particular constellations and star systems. The ?New Jerusalem' is constructed very much the same as the ?templ-ate' of the physical Solomon's temple, as are all ?secret society' buildings. While many think Andrew Carnegie was a philanthropist for donating libraries to so many cities across the country, when one looks at their design one finds they are constructed exactly along this templ-ate of a Freemasonic temple. Speaking of this very same region in their book, Rosslyn : Guardians of The Secrets of the Holy Grail, Tim Wallace-Murphy & Marilyn Hopkins describe its advanced state of culture (described in most history books as ?pagan'), and the subsequent effect on the thinking to come which grew out of that region?through the Templar/Freemasonic support of the Merovingian ideas as detailed in my Volume Four. "Medieval feudal Europe was imperfect, unjust and elitist, yet it was a system founded on the conception that in order to survive it must serve all men whatever their rank, while each individual served almighty God and the Church who was God's representative on Earth. Tensions between the Church and the Gnostics punctuated the calm of this apparently stable society with episodes of brutality and violence, of which the crusade against the Cathars in the Languedoc was the worst. However, the brief flowering of the Cathar society showed that change was not only possible but also highly desirable. According to C. S. Lewis, had it not been for the persecution of the Cathars, the culture of the Languedoc would have spawned a Renaissance nearly two centuries before that in Italy. "The hidden streams of spirituality did, however, exert an enormous influence on those who brought about the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant reformation (*The Duke of Anjou is still credited with influencing the Medicis). The relatively small group of intellectual and spiritual giants created an intellectual climate within which science, democracy and intellectual freedom could flourish. "Nearly all the major intellectual figures of the period?including many of the founding fathers of modern science down to Newton's day? were deeply invested in?esoteric traditions, as if they believed there might lay hidden in these buried sources, secrets of human nature and the universe that were nowhere else be found. (Theodore Roszack, The Unfinished Animal) "The seminal thinkers, artists and philosophers of this period were all members of one or another of the spiritual (?) organizations which were the heirs of the Knights Templar (*and still are today ? those supported by the Masonic establishment). Throughout the Middle Ages, the hidden streams of Gnosticism had continued to secretly irrigate the spiritual desert of the times. From where in particular did all this seminal information stem, information that was slowly leaked under controlled circumstances to those who then filled the historical role of ?discovering' or ?inventing' certain aspects with the information? As explained in volume 4, the Bible tells us that Moses brought down two sets of tablets from Mt. Sinai. The first set was made of transparent sapphire (crystal) and were "inscribed by the finger of God." These are the ones he is said to have destroyed after seeing the Israelites worshipping the golden calf. When Moses returned with the second set of tablets, he was unbearable to look at with beams coming from his forehead. Later translations indicate these beams to be beams of light although earlier translations say that Moses had horns projecting from his head, as portrayed by Michelangelo in his famous sculpture. Of the tablets brought down from the mountain, it was only those on which were written the Ten Commandments that were placed in the Ark itself. Known as the Tablets Of Testimony, the other three tablets were uniquely important for they bore the Tables of Testimony?the Cosmic Equation: the divine law of number, measure and weight. The mystical art of reading the inscriptions was achieved by the cryptic system of the Kabbalah. These were the tablets Solomon and Hiram Abiff used to build the Temple of Solomon, for in their wisdom lay the secrets of temple technology and the divine order of the Universe. To find and open the capacious store-room of Solomon's Stables was the original secret-mission of the Knights Templars, for it was thought to contain the Ark of the Covenant. Instead what they found was the greatest of all treasures? these Tables of Testimony, the Keys to the Universe. By 1127, the Templars had retrieved, not the Ark of the Covenant as some say, but an untold wealth of gold bullion and hidden treasure, as well as the Tablets of Testimony. It was St. Bernard who translated the ?sacred geometry of King Solomon's masons'?using the school of Kabbalah located in Troyes. In 1128, Hugues de Payens received a summons from St. Bernard to attend the Council of Troyes, and it was in that year that international status as a sovereign order was conferred upon the Templars. As Wallace-Murphy suggests, the seminal thinkers, artists and philosophers of the period were all members of one or another of the organizations which were the heirs of the Knights Templar, all deriving their information from that passed along by these undercover ?mystery schools' from ancient texts held in their possession. This is information used by these secret societies and organizations for their own benefit, and only peripherally, as they saw fit, that of the human race in general. "The Italian renaissance was not merely a highly productive period of artistic creativity but the tangible consequence of a watershed in the evolution of consciousness that Trevor Ravenscroft believed had been foreseen by Earl William St. Clair. This sudden flow of changed perceptions, thought and action, in religion, science, politics and man's basic conception of himself, turned into a flood of intellectual endeavor which burst upon the world like a tidal wave, sweeping aside old ideas and fertilizing the mind of the "new scientific man' with conceptions that have affected the evolving world from that time to the present. "Very many of the advances in European culture derived largely from the Gnostics who operated at horrendous risk because of the repressive attitude of the Church. Wider literacy, the concepts of freedom, democracy, philosophical and political advance and the very birth of modern science all spring mainly from the Gnostic tradition (*the Merovingian/Templar tradition). "It is not difficult to see why this period marks a critical turning point in the history of Western thought. Suddenly a flat, unmoving earth, supposedly the very centre of the universe, became merely one planet among others, all revolving around the Sun in accordance with natural laws. Galileo's invention of the thermometer instigated the ?pointer reading age', and the conviction that mathematical concepts could be applied to natural events swept theology from its central position in European thought. The new world conception of Copernicus with its dynamic and heliocentric description of the solar system, together with Kepplar's laws, created both a pathway and a foundation for Newtonian physics. "The mediaeval outlook changed radically in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The notion of an organic, living, and spiritual universe was replaced by that of the world as a machine, and the world-machine became the dominant metaphor of the modern era. This development was brought about by revolutionary changes in physics and astronomy, culminating in the achievements of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. The science of the seventeenth century was based on a new method of inquiry, advocated forcefully by Francis Bacon, which involved the mathematical description of nature and the analytic method of reasoning conceived by the genius of Descartes. Acknowledging the crucial role of science in bringing about these far-reaching changes, historians have called the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Age of the Scientific Revolution. (Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point) They could even learn to manifest the energy of Lucifer with all this hidden knowledge: "Builded He then, within it, great chambers, filled them from forms called forth from the Ether, filled them with wisdom called forth by His mind . . . Formless was He within his Temple, yet was He formed in the image of man. Dwelling among them yet not of them, strange and far different was He from the children of men." --The Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Age of Discovery was about to commence and the new world would soon make its mark on European consciousness and trade. Later the Royal Society would be founded in England and Francis Bacon lead the way in distracting mankind's attention away from the metaphysical knowledge the secret societies controlled by proclaiming that the world of the senses alone could provide us with realities?the realities of the empirical method. "Prior to and throughout this formative era the hidden streams propelled by the secret societies for whom the underground stream is a key symbol of their presence and influence) exerted their influence upon individuals who, at first glance, seem unlikely prospects for their attention. Luther, the prime mover of the reformation, acknowledged that the mystics, especially the heretic Meister Eckhart, had influenced him profoundly. Sandro Philpepi, better known today as Botticelli, was a hermeticist and a pupil of Veruccio, a Master who also instructed Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo's historical reputation as an esotericist is well attested; he is described by some as a Rosicrucian, and by contemporary Catholics as "of an heretical cast of mind'. Robert Fludd of England, the author of one of the most comprehensive compilations of ancient hermetic philosophy ever written, was reputedly a Rosicrucian, although this seems unlikely. He was, nonetheless, fulsome in his praise of them, and yet was one of the principal scholars responsible for the translation of what was later called The Authorized Version of the Bible. The priest, alchemist and author Johann Valentin Andrea was indeed a Rosicrucian of note and was, almost certainly, the author of the Rosicrucian manifestos which gained wide circulation in Europe in the mid-seventeenth century. "The reaction of the Church to this explosion of creativity and scientific curiosity was predictable; a brutal but ultimately ineffective wave of censorship and torture was instigated in a vain attempt to put a stop to all advances in knowledge and freedom. (*Equating scientific knowledge with freedom?) "One important question remains: how did the gnostics achieve enlightenment in the medieval era of repression? For attain it they did, and in significant numbers if contemporaneous accounts of their influence are to be believed. The hidden heirs to the Knights templar devised a method to pass on their sacred knowledge; a system that eventually developed into Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism and the Invisible College, which later transmuted itself into the Royal Society in England: the pilgrimage of initiation." 2006-10-01 |