HOLY GRAIL LORE
Melusine Lusignan Line
The Grail lore was itself denounced as a heresy by the Vatican. The sixth-century writings of Merlin were expressly banned by the Ecumenical Council, and the original Nazarene Church of Jesus became an "underground stream", aided by such notable sponsors as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli.
In those days, the Church policed and controlled most literature in the public domain; and so, in order to avoid outright censorship, the Grail tradition became allegorical and its message was communicated by way of secret watermarks, esoteric writings, Tarot cards and symbolic artwork.
But why should Grail lore and the writings of Merlin have posed such a problem for the High Church? Because, within the context of their adventurous texts, they told the descendant story of the Grail bloodline-a bloodline which had been ousted from its dynastic position by the Popes and Bishops of Rome who had elected to reign supreme by way of a contrived "apostolic succession".
This apostolic succession was said to have been handed down from the first bishop, St Peter (and, indeed, this is still the promoted view). But one only has to study the Church's own Apostolic Constitutions to discover that this is simply not true. Peter was never a Bishop of Rome-nor of anywhere else, for that matter!
The Vatican's Constitutions record that the first Bishop of Rome was Prince Linus of Britain, the son of Caractacus the Pendragon. He was installed by St Paul in AD 58, during Peter's own lifetime.
From the 1100s, the powerful Knights Templars and their cathedrals posed an enormous threat to the 'male-only' Church by bringing the heritage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to the fore in the public domain.
It was at that time that Grail lore was itself denounced as a heresy by the Vatican. The sixth-century writings of Merlin were expressly banned by the Ecumenical Council, and the original Nazarene Church of Jesus became an "underground stream", aided by such notable sponsors as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli.
In those days, the Church policed and controlled most literature in the public domain; and so, in order to avoid outright censorship, the Grail tradition became allegorical and its message was communicated by way of secret watermarks, esoteric writings, Tarot cards and symbolic artwork.
But why should Grail lore and the writings of Merlin have posed such a problem for the High Church? Because, within the context of their adventurous texts, they told the descendant story of the Grail bloodline-a bloodline which had been ousted from its dynastic position by the Popes and Bishops of Rome who had elected to reign supreme by way of a contrived "apostolic succession".
This apostolic succession was said to have been handed down from the first bishop, St Peter (and, indeed, this is still the promoted view). But one only has to study the Church's own Apostolic Constitutions to discover that this is simply not true. Peter was never a Bishop of Rome-nor of anywhere else, for that matter!
The Vatican's Constitutions record that the first Bishop of Rome was Prince Linus of Britain, the son of Caractacus the Pendragon. He was installed by St Paul in AD 58, during Peter's own lifetime.
From the 1100s, the powerful Knights Templars and their cathedrals posed an enormous threat to the 'male-only' Church by bringing the heritage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to the fore in the public domain.
The cardinals knew that their whole establishment would tumble if the Messianic descendants gained the upper hand. They had to be crushed! And so the brutal Inquisition was implemented-a hideous persecution of all who dissented from the rule of the bishops.
It all began in 1208, when Pope Innocent III sent 30,000 soldiers into the Languedoc region of southern France. This was the home of the Cathars ("the Pure Ones") who were said to be the guardians of a great and sacred treasure-a mysterious secret which could overturn orthodox Christianity. The Pope's so-called Albigensian Crusade lasted for 36 years-during which time, tens of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered-but the treasure was never found.
The main thrust of the Inquisition (or "Holy Office") was instituted by Pope Gregory IX during the course of this massacre, in 1231, and it was set against anyone who supported "the Grail heresy". By 1252, the torture of victims was formally authorised, along with execution by burning.
It was at that time that Grail lore was itself denounced as a heresy by the Vatican. The sixth-century writings of Merlin were expressly banned by the Ecumenical Council, and the original Nazarene Church of Jesus became an "underground stream", aided by such notable sponsors as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli.
In those days, the Church policed and controlled most literature in the public domain; and so, in order to avoid outright censorship, the Grail tradition became allegorical and its message was communicated by way of secret watermarks, esoteric writings, Tarot cards and symbolic artwork.
But why should Grail lore and the writings of Merlin have posed such a problem for the High Church? Because, within the context of their adventurous texts, they told the descendant story of the Grail bloodline-a bloodline which had been ousted from its dynastic position by the Popes and Bishops of Rome who had elected to reign supreme by way of a contrived "apostolic succession".
This apostolic succession was said to have been handed down from the first bishop, St Peter (and, indeed, this is still the promoted view). But one only has to study the Church's own Apostolic Constitutions to discover that this is simply not true. Peter was never a Bishop of Rome-nor of anywhere else, for that matter!
The Vatican's Constitutions record that the first Bishop of Rome was Prince Linus of Britain, the son of Caractacus the Pendragon. He was installed by St Paul in AD 58, during Peter's own lifetime.
From the 1100s, the powerful Knights Templars and their cathedrals posed an enormous threat to the 'male-only' Church by bringing the heritage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to the fore in the public domain.
The cardinals knew that their whole establishment would tumble if the Messianic descendants gained the upper hand. They had to be crushed! And so the brutal Inquisition was implemented-a hideous persecution of all who dissented from the rule of the bishops.
It all began in 1208, when Pope Innocent III sent 30,000 soldiers into the Languedoc region of southern France. This was the home of the Cathars ("the Pure Ones") who were said to be the guardians of a great and sacred treasure-a mysterious secret which could overturn orthodox Christianity. The Pope's so-called Albigensian Crusade lasted for 36 years-during which time, tens of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered-but the treasure was never found.
The main thrust of the Inquisition (or "Holy Office") was instituted by Pope Gregory IX during the course of this massacre, in 1231, and it was set against anyone who supported "the Grail heresy". By 1252, the torture of victims was formally authorised, along with execution by burning.
"Heresy" was a wonderful charge to level against captives, because only the Church could define it. The victims were tortured until they confessed, and having confessed they were executed. If they did not confess, then the torture continued until they died anyway. One recorded form of torture was to spread the victim, little by little, with fat (beginning with his feet), and then to roast him alive in sections, limb by limb, over an open fire.
These savage persecutions and punishments were openly waged for more than 400 years, and were also extended against Jews, Muslims and Protestant dissenters. But the Inquisition was never formally terminated. As recently as 1965 it was renamed "the Sacred Congregation", and its powers are theoretically still in force today.
Undaunted by the Inquisition, the Nazarene movement pursued its own course, and the story of the bloodline was perpetuated in literature such as the Grand Saint Grail and the High History of the Holy Grail. These writings were largely sponsored by the Grail courts of France (the courts of Champagne, Anjou and others), and also by the Knights Templars and the Desposyni; and, at that stage, Arthurian Romance became a popular vehicle for the Grail tradition.
In the light of this, the Templars became a specific target of the Inquisition in 1307 when the henchmen of Pope Clement V and King Philip IV of France were set in their direction. The papal armies scoured Europe for the Templar documents and treasure-but, like the Cathar inheritance, nothing was found. However, many Knights were tortured and executed in the process, and their companions escaped to countries outside the papal domain.
But the Templar hoard was not lost, and while the Vatican emissaries were searching, the treasure and documents were locked away in the Chapter House Treasury vaults of Paris. They were under the protection of the Templar Grand Knights of St Anthony-"the Guardian Princes of the Royal Secret"-who loaded the hoard one night onto 18 galleys of the Templar fleet at La Rochelle.
By daybreak, the fleet had sailed for Scotland, and on arrival they were welcomed by King Robert the Bruce who, along with the whole Scottish nation, had been excommunicated by the Pope for challenging the Catholic King Edward of England. In Scotland, the Templars and their treasure remained, and the Knights fought with Bruce at Bannockburn in 1314 to regain Scotland's independence from Plantagenet England.
Subsequent to the Battle of Bannockburn, Bruce and the St Anthony Templars founded the new Order of the Elder Brothers of the Rosy Cross in 1317-from which time the Kings of Scots became hereditary Grand Masters, with each successive Stewart King holding the honoured Grand Priory title of "Prince Saint Germain".
So, why was it that King Arthur, a Celtic commander of the sixth century, was so important to the Knights Templars and the Grail courts of Europe? Quite simply, because Arthur had been unique, with a 'dual' heritage in the Messianic line.
King Arthur was by no means mythical, as many have supposed. Far from it. But he has generally been looked for in the wrong places. Researchers, misguided by the fictional locations of the romances, have searched in vain through the chronicles of Brittany, Wales and the west of England. But the details of Arthur are to be found in the Scots' and Irish annals. He was indeed "the High King of the Celtic Isle", and he was the sovereign commander of the British troops in the late sixth century.
Arthur was born in 559, and he died in battle in 603. His mother was Ygerna del Acqs, the daughter of Queen Viviane of Avallon, in descent from Jesus and Mary Magdalene. His father was High King Aedàn of Dalriada (the Western Highlands of Scotland, now called Argyll)-and Aedàn was the British Pendragon ("Head Dragon" or "King of Kings") in descent from Jesus' brother James. It is for this reason that the stories of Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea are so closely entwined in the Grail romances.
Indeed, the coronation records of Scotland's King Kenneth MacAlpin (a descendant of Aedàn the Pendragon) specifically refer to his own descent from the dynastic Queens of Avallon.
King Aedàn's paternal legacy emerged through the most ancient House of Camulot (England's Royal Court of Colchester) in a line from the first Pendragon, King Cymbeline (who is well-known to students of Shakespeare).
By that time, Messianic descendants had founded Desposynic kingdoms in Wales and across the Strathclyde and Cambrian regions of Britain. Arthur's father, King Aedàn of Scots, was the first British monarch to be installed by priestly ordination, when he was crowned and anointed by Saint Columba of the Celtic Church in 574. This, of course, infuriated the Roman Church bishops because they claimed the sole right to appoint kings who were supposed to be crowned by the Pope!
As a direct result of this coronation, Saint Augustine was eventually sent from Rome in 597 to dismantle the Celtic Church. He proclaimed himself Archbishop of Canterbury three years later, but his overall mission failed and the Nazarene tradition persisted in Scotland, Ireland and Wales and across the breadth of northern England.
An important fact to remember is that the Grail dynasts were never territorial governors of lands. Like Jesus himself, they were designated "Guardians" of the people. The Merovingians of Gaul, for example, were Kings of the Franks-never Kings of France. King Aedàn, Robert the Bruce and their Stewart successors were Kings of the Scots-never Kings of Scotland.
It was this implicitly 'social' concept which the High Church found so difficult to overcome, for the bishops preferred to have dominion over 'territorial kings', while the people's senior lord and master was supposed to be the Pope. Only by maintaining ultimate spiritual control over individuals could the Church reign supreme, and so whenever a Grail dynast came to the fore he was met by the wrath of the papal machine.
In 751 the bishops managed to depose the Merovingian succession in Gaul, and they established a new tradition whereby kings of the Carolingian succession (that of Charlemagne) had to be approved and crowned by the Pope. But the Church could never topple the Desposynic lines in Scotland, even though the old Celtic kingdoms of England had been dismantled by Germanic Anglo-Saxons from the sixth century.
Even into the Middle Ages-long after the Norman Conquest of England-the Nazarene Church and the long-prevailing cult of Mary Magdalene were prominent in Europe. Women's rights of equality were upheld throughout the Celtic structure-and this was an enormous problem for the male-only priesthood of orthodox Christianity.
In those days, the Church policed and controlled most literature in the public domain; and so, in order to avoid outright censorship, the Grail tradition became allegorical and its message was communicated by way of secret watermarks, esoteric writings, Tarot cards and symbolic artwork.
But why should Grail lore and the writings of Merlin have posed such a problem for the High Church? Because, within the context of their adventurous texts, they told the descendant story of the Grail bloodline-a bloodline which had been ousted from its dynastic position by the Popes and Bishops of Rome who had elected to reign supreme by way of a contrived "apostolic succession".
This apostolic succession was said to have been handed down from the first bishop, St Peter (and, indeed, this is still the promoted view). But one only has to study the Church's own Apostolic Constitutions to discover that this is simply not true. Peter was never a Bishop of Rome-nor of anywhere else, for that matter!
The Vatican's Constitutions record that the first Bishop of Rome was Prince Linus of Britain, the son of Caractacus the Pendragon. He was installed by St Paul in AD 58, during Peter's own lifetime.
From the 1100s, the powerful Knights Templars and their cathedrals posed an enormous threat to the 'male-only' Church by bringing the heritage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to the fore in the public domain.
It was at that time that Grail lore was itself denounced as a heresy by the Vatican. The sixth-century writings of Merlin were expressly banned by the Ecumenical Council, and the original Nazarene Church of Jesus became an "underground stream", aided by such notable sponsors as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli.
In those days, the Church policed and controlled most literature in the public domain; and so, in order to avoid outright censorship, the Grail tradition became allegorical and its message was communicated by way of secret watermarks, esoteric writings, Tarot cards and symbolic artwork.
But why should Grail lore and the writings of Merlin have posed such a problem for the High Church? Because, within the context of their adventurous texts, they told the descendant story of the Grail bloodline-a bloodline which had been ousted from its dynastic position by the Popes and Bishops of Rome who had elected to reign supreme by way of a contrived "apostolic succession".
This apostolic succession was said to have been handed down from the first bishop, St Peter (and, indeed, this is still the promoted view). But one only has to study the Church's own Apostolic Constitutions to discover that this is simply not true. Peter was never a Bishop of Rome-nor of anywhere else, for that matter!
The Vatican's Constitutions record that the first Bishop of Rome was Prince Linus of Britain, the son of Caractacus the Pendragon. He was installed by St Paul in AD 58, during Peter's own lifetime.
From the 1100s, the powerful Knights Templars and their cathedrals posed an enormous threat to the 'male-only' Church by bringing the heritage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to the fore in the public domain.
The cardinals knew that their whole establishment would tumble if the Messianic descendants gained the upper hand. They had to be crushed! And so the brutal Inquisition was implemented-a hideous persecution of all who dissented from the rule of the bishops.
It all began in 1208, when Pope Innocent III sent 30,000 soldiers into the Languedoc region of southern France. This was the home of the Cathars ("the Pure Ones") who were said to be the guardians of a great and sacred treasure-a mysterious secret which could overturn orthodox Christianity. The Pope's so-called Albigensian Crusade lasted for 36 years-during which time, tens of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered-but the treasure was never found.
The main thrust of the Inquisition (or "Holy Office") was instituted by Pope Gregory IX during the course of this massacre, in 1231, and it was set against anyone who supported "the Grail heresy". By 1252, the torture of victims was formally authorised, along with execution by burning.
It was at that time that Grail lore was itself denounced as a heresy by the Vatican. The sixth-century writings of Merlin were expressly banned by the Ecumenical Council, and the original Nazarene Church of Jesus became an "underground stream", aided by such notable sponsors as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli.
In those days, the Church policed and controlled most literature in the public domain; and so, in order to avoid outright censorship, the Grail tradition became allegorical and its message was communicated by way of secret watermarks, esoteric writings, Tarot cards and symbolic artwork.
But why should Grail lore and the writings of Merlin have posed such a problem for the High Church? Because, within the context of their adventurous texts, they told the descendant story of the Grail bloodline-a bloodline which had been ousted from its dynastic position by the Popes and Bishops of Rome who had elected to reign supreme by way of a contrived "apostolic succession".
This apostolic succession was said to have been handed down from the first bishop, St Peter (and, indeed, this is still the promoted view). But one only has to study the Church's own Apostolic Constitutions to discover that this is simply not true. Peter was never a Bishop of Rome-nor of anywhere else, for that matter!
The Vatican's Constitutions record that the first Bishop of Rome was Prince Linus of Britain, the son of Caractacus the Pendragon. He was installed by St Paul in AD 58, during Peter's own lifetime.
From the 1100s, the powerful Knights Templars and their cathedrals posed an enormous threat to the 'male-only' Church by bringing the heritage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene to the fore in the public domain.
The cardinals knew that their whole establishment would tumble if the Messianic descendants gained the upper hand. They had to be crushed! And so the brutal Inquisition was implemented-a hideous persecution of all who dissented from the rule of the bishops.
It all began in 1208, when Pope Innocent III sent 30,000 soldiers into the Languedoc region of southern France. This was the home of the Cathars ("the Pure Ones") who were said to be the guardians of a great and sacred treasure-a mysterious secret which could overturn orthodox Christianity. The Pope's so-called Albigensian Crusade lasted for 36 years-during which time, tens of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered-but the treasure was never found.
The main thrust of the Inquisition (or "Holy Office") was instituted by Pope Gregory IX during the course of this massacre, in 1231, and it was set against anyone who supported "the Grail heresy". By 1252, the torture of victims was formally authorised, along with execution by burning.
"Heresy" was a wonderful charge to level against captives, because only the Church could define it. The victims were tortured until they confessed, and having confessed they were executed. If they did not confess, then the torture continued until they died anyway. One recorded form of torture was to spread the victim, little by little, with fat (beginning with his feet), and then to roast him alive in sections, limb by limb, over an open fire.
These savage persecutions and punishments were openly waged for more than 400 years, and were also extended against Jews, Muslims and Protestant dissenters. But the Inquisition was never formally terminated. As recently as 1965 it was renamed "the Sacred Congregation", and its powers are theoretically still in force today.
Undaunted by the Inquisition, the Nazarene movement pursued its own course, and the story of the bloodline was perpetuated in literature such as the Grand Saint Grail and the High History of the Holy Grail. These writings were largely sponsored by the Grail courts of France (the courts of Champagne, Anjou and others), and also by the Knights Templars and the Desposyni; and, at that stage, Arthurian Romance became a popular vehicle for the Grail tradition.
In the light of this, the Templars became a specific target of the Inquisition in 1307 when the henchmen of Pope Clement V and King Philip IV of France were set in their direction. The papal armies scoured Europe for the Templar documents and treasure-but, like the Cathar inheritance, nothing was found. However, many Knights were tortured and executed in the process, and their companions escaped to countries outside the papal domain.
But the Templar hoard was not lost, and while the Vatican emissaries were searching, the treasure and documents were locked away in the Chapter House Treasury vaults of Paris. They were under the protection of the Templar Grand Knights of St Anthony-"the Guardian Princes of the Royal Secret"-who loaded the hoard one night onto 18 galleys of the Templar fleet at La Rochelle.
By daybreak, the fleet had sailed for Scotland, and on arrival they were welcomed by King Robert the Bruce who, along with the whole Scottish nation, had been excommunicated by the Pope for challenging the Catholic King Edward of England. In Scotland, the Templars and their treasure remained, and the Knights fought with Bruce at Bannockburn in 1314 to regain Scotland's independence from Plantagenet England.
Subsequent to the Battle of Bannockburn, Bruce and the St Anthony Templars founded the new Order of the Elder Brothers of the Rosy Cross in 1317-from which time the Kings of Scots became hereditary Grand Masters, with each successive Stewart King holding the honoured Grand Priory title of "Prince Saint Germain".
So, why was it that King Arthur, a Celtic commander of the sixth century, was so important to the Knights Templars and the Grail courts of Europe? Quite simply, because Arthur had been unique, with a 'dual' heritage in the Messianic line.
King Arthur was by no means mythical, as many have supposed. Far from it. But he has generally been looked for in the wrong places. Researchers, misguided by the fictional locations of the romances, have searched in vain through the chronicles of Brittany, Wales and the west of England. But the details of Arthur are to be found in the Scots' and Irish annals. He was indeed "the High King of the Celtic Isle", and he was the sovereign commander of the British troops in the late sixth century.
Arthur was born in 559, and he died in battle in 603. His mother was Ygerna del Acqs, the daughter of Queen Viviane of Avallon, in descent from Jesus and Mary Magdalene. His father was High King Aedàn of Dalriada (the Western Highlands of Scotland, now called Argyll)-and Aedàn was the British Pendragon ("Head Dragon" or "King of Kings") in descent from Jesus' brother James. It is for this reason that the stories of Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea are so closely entwined in the Grail romances.
Indeed, the coronation records of Scotland's King Kenneth MacAlpin (a descendant of Aedàn the Pendragon) specifically refer to his own descent from the dynastic Queens of Avallon.
King Aedàn's paternal legacy emerged through the most ancient House of Camulot (England's Royal Court of Colchester) in a line from the first Pendragon, King Cymbeline (who is well-known to students of Shakespeare).
By that time, Messianic descendants had founded Desposynic kingdoms in Wales and across the Strathclyde and Cambrian regions of Britain. Arthur's father, King Aedàn of Scots, was the first British monarch to be installed by priestly ordination, when he was crowned and anointed by Saint Columba of the Celtic Church in 574. This, of course, infuriated the Roman Church bishops because they claimed the sole right to appoint kings who were supposed to be crowned by the Pope!
As a direct result of this coronation, Saint Augustine was eventually sent from Rome in 597 to dismantle the Celtic Church. He proclaimed himself Archbishop of Canterbury three years later, but his overall mission failed and the Nazarene tradition persisted in Scotland, Ireland and Wales and across the breadth of northern England.
An important fact to remember is that the Grail dynasts were never territorial governors of lands. Like Jesus himself, they were designated "Guardians" of the people. The Merovingians of Gaul, for example, were Kings of the Franks-never Kings of France. King Aedàn, Robert the Bruce and their Stewart successors were Kings of the Scots-never Kings of Scotland.
It was this implicitly 'social' concept which the High Church found so difficult to overcome, for the bishops preferred to have dominion over 'territorial kings', while the people's senior lord and master was supposed to be the Pope. Only by maintaining ultimate spiritual control over individuals could the Church reign supreme, and so whenever a Grail dynast came to the fore he was met by the wrath of the papal machine.
In 751 the bishops managed to depose the Merovingian succession in Gaul, and they established a new tradition whereby kings of the Carolingian succession (that of Charlemagne) had to be approved and crowned by the Pope. But the Church could never topple the Desposynic lines in Scotland, even though the old Celtic kingdoms of England had been dismantled by Germanic Anglo-Saxons from the sixth century.
Even into the Middle Ages-long after the Norman Conquest of England-the Nazarene Church and the long-prevailing cult of Mary Magdalene were prominent in Europe. Women's rights of equality were upheld throughout the Celtic structure-and this was an enormous problem for the male-only priesthood of orthodox Christianity.
Montsegur
HOLY GRAIL
Like the sapphire Schethiyâ, the Lapis Exilis, crown jewel of the
Archangel Lucifer, fell from heaven. Michael, archangel of the sun and
the Hidden God of Israel, at the head of the angelic hosts swooped down
upon Lucifer and his legions of rebellious spirits.
During the conflict, Michael with his flaming sword struck the flashing Lapis Exilis from the coronet of his adversary, and the green stone fell through all the celestial rings into the dark and immeasurable Abyss. Out of Lucifer’s radiant gem was fashioned the Sangreal, or Holy Grail, from which Christ is said to have drunk at the Last Supper.
Though some controversy exists as to whether the Grail was a cup or a platter, it is generally depicted in art as a chalice of considerable size and unusual beauty. According to the legend, Joseph of Arimathea brought the Grail Cup to the place of the crucifixion and in it caught the blood pouring from the wounds of the dying Nazarene. Later Joseph, who had become custodian of the sacred relics–the Sangreal and the Spear of Longinus–carried them into a distant country.
According to one version, his descendants finally placed these relics in Glastonbury Abbey in England; according to another, in a wonderful castle on Mount Salvat, Spain, built by angels in a single night. Under the name of Preston John, Parsifal, the last of the Grail Kings, carried the Holy Cup with him into India, and it disappeared forever from the Western World. Subsequent search for the Sangreal was the motif for much of the knight errantry of the Arthurian legends and the ceremonials of the Round Table. (See the Morte d’Arthur.)
No adequate interpretation has ever been given to the Grail Mysteries. Some believe the Knights of the Holy Grail to have been a powerful organization of Christian mystics perpetuating the Ancient Wisdom under the rituals and sacraments of the oracular Cup. The quest for the Holy Grail is the eternal search for truth, and Albert G. Mackey sees in it a variation of the Masonic legend of the Lost Word so long sought by the brethren of the Craft. There is also evidence to support the claim that the story of the Grail is an elaboration of an early pagan Nature myth which has been preserved by reason of the subtle manner in which it was engrafted upon the cult of Christianity. From this particular viewpoint, the Holy Grail is undoubtedly a type of the ark or vessel in which the life of the world is preserved and therefore is significant of the body of the Great Mother–Nature. Its green color relates it to Venus and to the mystery of generation; also to the Islamic faith, whose sacred color is green and whose Sabbath is Friday, the day of Venus.
The Holy Grail is a symbol both of the lower (or irrational) world and of the bodily nature of man, because both are receptacles for the living essences of the superior worlds. Such is the mystery of the redeeming blood which, descending into the condition of death, overcomes the last enemy by ensouling all substance with its own immortality. To the Christian, whose mystic faith especially emphasizes the love element, the Holy Grail typifies the heart in which continually swirls the living water of eternal life. Moreover, to the Christian, the search for the Holy Grail is the search for the real Self which, when found, is the consummation of the magnum opus.
The Holy Cup can be discovered only by those who have raised themselves above the limitations of sensuous existence. In his mystic poem, The Vision of Sir Launfal, James Russell Lowell discloses the true nature of the Holy Grail by showing that it is visible only to a certain state of spiritual consciousness. Only upon returning from the vain pursuit of haughty ambition did the aged and broken knight see in the transformed leper’s cup the glowing chalice of his lifelong dream. Some writers trace a similarity between the Grail legend and the stories of the martyred Sun Gods whose blood, descending from heaven into the earth, was caught in the cup of matter and liberated therefrom by the initiatory rites. The Holy Grail may also be the seed pod so frequently employed in the ancient Mysteries as an emblem of germination and resurrection; and if the cuplike shape of the Grail be derived from the flower, it signifies the regeneration and spiritualization of the generative forces in man.
There are many accounts of stone images which, because of the substances entering into their composition and the ceremonials attendant upon their construction, were ensouled by the divinities whom they were created to resemble. To such images were ascribed various human faculties and powers, such as speech, thought, and even motion. While renegade priests doubtless resorted to trickery–an instance of which is related in a curious apocryphal fragment entitled Bel and the Dragon and supposedly deleted from the end of the Book of Daniel–many of the phenomena recorded in connection with sanctified statues and relics can hardly be explained unless the work of supernatural agencies be admitted.
History records the existence of stones which, when struck, threw all who heard the sound into a state of ecstasy. There were also echoing images which whispered for hours after the room itself had become silent, and musical stones productive of the sweetest harmonies. In recognition of the sanctity which the Greeks and Latins ascribed to stones, they placed their hands upon certain consecrated pillars when taking an oath. In ancient times stones played a part in determining the fate of accused persons, for it was customary for juries to reach their verdicts by dropping pebbles into a bag.
Divination by stones was often resorted to by the Greeks, and Helena is said to have foretold by lithomancy the destruction of Troy. Many popular superstitions about stones survive the so-called Dark Ages. Chief among these is the one concerning the famous black stone in the seat of the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey, which is declared to be the actual rock used by Jacob as a pillow. The black stone also appears several times in religious symbolism. It was called Heliogabalus, a word presumably derived from Elagabal, the Syro-Phœnician sun god. This stone was sacred to the sun and declared to possess great and diversified properties. The black stone in the Caaba at Mecca is still revered throughout the Mohammedan world. It is said to have been white originally and of such brilliancy that it could be seen many days’ journey from Mecca, but as ages passed it became blackened by the tears of pilgrims and the sins of the world. http://www.thelivingprophecy.com/tag/quotes/
During the conflict, Michael with his flaming sword struck the flashing Lapis Exilis from the coronet of his adversary, and the green stone fell through all the celestial rings into the dark and immeasurable Abyss. Out of Lucifer’s radiant gem was fashioned the Sangreal, or Holy Grail, from which Christ is said to have drunk at the Last Supper.
Though some controversy exists as to whether the Grail was a cup or a platter, it is generally depicted in art as a chalice of considerable size and unusual beauty. According to the legend, Joseph of Arimathea brought the Grail Cup to the place of the crucifixion and in it caught the blood pouring from the wounds of the dying Nazarene. Later Joseph, who had become custodian of the sacred relics–the Sangreal and the Spear of Longinus–carried them into a distant country.
According to one version, his descendants finally placed these relics in Glastonbury Abbey in England; according to another, in a wonderful castle on Mount Salvat, Spain, built by angels in a single night. Under the name of Preston John, Parsifal, the last of the Grail Kings, carried the Holy Cup with him into India, and it disappeared forever from the Western World. Subsequent search for the Sangreal was the motif for much of the knight errantry of the Arthurian legends and the ceremonials of the Round Table. (See the Morte d’Arthur.)
No adequate interpretation has ever been given to the Grail Mysteries. Some believe the Knights of the Holy Grail to have been a powerful organization of Christian mystics perpetuating the Ancient Wisdom under the rituals and sacraments of the oracular Cup. The quest for the Holy Grail is the eternal search for truth, and Albert G. Mackey sees in it a variation of the Masonic legend of the Lost Word so long sought by the brethren of the Craft. There is also evidence to support the claim that the story of the Grail is an elaboration of an early pagan Nature myth which has been preserved by reason of the subtle manner in which it was engrafted upon the cult of Christianity. From this particular viewpoint, the Holy Grail is undoubtedly a type of the ark or vessel in which the life of the world is preserved and therefore is significant of the body of the Great Mother–Nature. Its green color relates it to Venus and to the mystery of generation; also to the Islamic faith, whose sacred color is green and whose Sabbath is Friday, the day of Venus.
The Holy Grail is a symbol both of the lower (or irrational) world and of the bodily nature of man, because both are receptacles for the living essences of the superior worlds. Such is the mystery of the redeeming blood which, descending into the condition of death, overcomes the last enemy by ensouling all substance with its own immortality. To the Christian, whose mystic faith especially emphasizes the love element, the Holy Grail typifies the heart in which continually swirls the living water of eternal life. Moreover, to the Christian, the search for the Holy Grail is the search for the real Self which, when found, is the consummation of the magnum opus.
The Holy Cup can be discovered only by those who have raised themselves above the limitations of sensuous existence. In his mystic poem, The Vision of Sir Launfal, James Russell Lowell discloses the true nature of the Holy Grail by showing that it is visible only to a certain state of spiritual consciousness. Only upon returning from the vain pursuit of haughty ambition did the aged and broken knight see in the transformed leper’s cup the glowing chalice of his lifelong dream. Some writers trace a similarity between the Grail legend and the stories of the martyred Sun Gods whose blood, descending from heaven into the earth, was caught in the cup of matter and liberated therefrom by the initiatory rites. The Holy Grail may also be the seed pod so frequently employed in the ancient Mysteries as an emblem of germination and resurrection; and if the cuplike shape of the Grail be derived from the flower, it signifies the regeneration and spiritualization of the generative forces in man.
There are many accounts of stone images which, because of the substances entering into their composition and the ceremonials attendant upon their construction, were ensouled by the divinities whom they were created to resemble. To such images were ascribed various human faculties and powers, such as speech, thought, and even motion. While renegade priests doubtless resorted to trickery–an instance of which is related in a curious apocryphal fragment entitled Bel and the Dragon and supposedly deleted from the end of the Book of Daniel–many of the phenomena recorded in connection with sanctified statues and relics can hardly be explained unless the work of supernatural agencies be admitted.
History records the existence of stones which, when struck, threw all who heard the sound into a state of ecstasy. There were also echoing images which whispered for hours after the room itself had become silent, and musical stones productive of the sweetest harmonies. In recognition of the sanctity which the Greeks and Latins ascribed to stones, they placed their hands upon certain consecrated pillars when taking an oath. In ancient times stones played a part in determining the fate of accused persons, for it was customary for juries to reach their verdicts by dropping pebbles into a bag.
Divination by stones was often resorted to by the Greeks, and Helena is said to have foretold by lithomancy the destruction of Troy. Many popular superstitions about stones survive the so-called Dark Ages. Chief among these is the one concerning the famous black stone in the seat of the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey, which is declared to be the actual rock used by Jacob as a pillow. The black stone also appears several times in religious symbolism. It was called Heliogabalus, a word presumably derived from Elagabal, the Syro-Phœnician sun god. This stone was sacred to the sun and declared to possess great and diversified properties. The black stone in the Caaba at Mecca is still revered throughout the Mohammedan world. It is said to have been white originally and of such brilliancy that it could be seen many days’ journey from Mecca, but as ages passed it became blackened by the tears of pilgrims and the sins of the world. http://www.thelivingprophecy.com/tag/quotes/
Hierogamy or enthea between the Dragon Prince and the
Swan Maiden
resulted in the creation of an extended mind, the development of an
interaction where the bounds of individual consciousness were broken
and two people joined together with an intensity that created a
being greater than the sum of its parts. In alchemy this was called
the breath of Ravens from which resulted the birth of the
red-gold
Phoenix, conceived in the death of Dragons and born in the ascent of
the white star. The way these two individuals treated each other was
called True or Courtly Love.
If this phenomena happened on a wider scale within the genome, then it, along with other universal phenomena, was a part of the Web of Wyrd and its child was True Love manifest collectively, which was called the Grail Code. Jesus called it "the Law of God written on the hearts of men in tongues of fire". Genetic righteousness.
The Grail Code was the behavioral manifestation of an attuned group of empathic individuals working towards the common good of that group. This required a 'Hive Mind' - a collective consciousness - or at least a heightened capacity towards sensitivity and the anticipation of the needs of all within the genome, that transcended common consciousness, being therefore a manifestation of the outworking of the Siddhis within the web of interrelated and interconnected points of consciousness that are manifest throughout all levels of life.
The Grail Code therefore, was a set of behavioral patterns that arose from within as a response to a particular endocrinologically mediated, psychological condition that has detachment as its hallmark. It was not imposed from without by people with vested interests who were attempting to manipulate circumstance by manipulating other peoples appetites or consciences for their own ends or for the ends of any other disassociated group of individuals' co-operative self interests.
Without the 'Hive Mind' (symbolized in the Dragon Dynasty by the Merovingian Bee, the Phoenician 'House of the Gods' and the hexagonal figure of the Tree of Life of the Kabala) the Grail Code is a meaningless set of unattainable social aspirations which can only serve nowadays to fill the gaping chasm left by people's apathy towards more traditional forms of judicial, spiritual or moral flannel.
In the hands of New Age style authors and their wannabee audiences the Grail Code becomes just another form of legalism. Without the brain physiology required to understand its implications, those who cannot share in the collective consciousness of the group (whose very being was founded on co-operation and whose mental condition created the Grail Code as a naturally occurring phenomenon) make a mockery of all the Code stands for.
To these - the people left outside the group who don't have the wiring or chemistry to participate and understand the collective mind - the Grail Code is just another mishmash of rules which, however prettily and romantically packaged, will inevitably be broken and which therefore are no better or worse than any other meaningless set of regulations.
The universe has features which are prime constants, the behavior of materials is one example, which we call the ' laws of physics'. These we can term truths, because they don't vary under a given range of circumstances, even down at the sub atomic level, the weirdness is still a constant, inasmuch as it is constantly weird. Without these prime constants the universe would cease to exist.
The Grail Code, as a worthy set of regulations or aspirations for the governance of people's behavior in relationship to each other is, quite frankly, an idealistic load of nonsense. It isn't that the Grail Code is a fantasy or a lie, it is simply a fact that it was and still is misapplied to the wrong people.
Relatively and contextually speaking the Grail Code is not a truth, because it is not a constant, and it cannot be applied to regulate human behavior in human societies and we know this because it caused, in part, the manifestation of a set of social conditions which were required in order to allow to occur the 1000 year genocide which is referred to in the Family as the Elven Holocaust, which resulted ultimately in the abandonment of the Grail Code itself.
What was the big mistake the Family made? They did unto others as they would have done unto themselves. In other words they used the transcendently inspired Grail Code they anciently applied to their own mystical race to order societies that were founded not upon transcendent perception, but upon animal instincts, where irredeemably materialistic individuals co-operated merely for personal gain and in constantly shifting temporary alliances that had no notion of a collective mind or group cohesion at the profound level which would have been needed to make the Grail Code manifest outside the genome and prove successful.
The Grail Code was applicable only to the Grail Blood. Elsewhere the only thing that worked was the law of the jungle and terrorism. The Family were seen as a soft touch because their empathy was extended to peoples who had no empathy themselves, only the desire to satisfy their own greed and assuage their own fears.
These peoples' selfish, individualistic motivations stood in direct opposition to the Grail Code of 'royal communism' and community service. Desire is a great motivator in any society and the Elves' desires were motivated by their transcendent consciousness, which could only operate in an environment of truth and empathy.
The more one sees the less one desires for oneself and the less attached one becomes. If one desires truth and sees only truth and gives instinctively for the common good because one can feel the common need, one becomes the target for opportunists and deceivers.
Faced with the violence and hostility of a group of myopic animals hell bent on their pursuing their own own interests and unable to see the bigger picture, the Elves had no chance of survival anyway, whatever the other circumstances might have been.
This alone was enough to destroy them. In a sense then, the Grail Code was a death sentence to the Dragon Families. This, perhaps, is how the Mayors of the Palace took over, through exploiting what they perceived as the innate trust, complacency and weakness of the Merovingian kings.
One can appear dark or harsh in one's attitudes towards human beings and human behavior and one may make people wonder how one could possibly spout about the Grail on one hand and despise humans so much on the other. After all, isn't the Grail Code all to do with being nice to each other? Isn't it about being fair to one's fellow man? Doesn't it fit in with the overall ethos of the New Age? The answer to all these rhetorical questions is an absolute No. It isn't and it doesn't.
The Grail Code is the perfect example of an ill-advisedly applied series of innate laws arising from the profound depths of the genetic constitution of one species, applied to and completely misunderstood and abused by another, to the detriment of their originators and ultimately to the detriment of the abusers themselves, who thought to gain by killing their nautonniers, not realizing that they, the usurpers, were too thick to organize society themselves. In this statement wrong?
Look around you and judge for yourself. After a thousand years of tyrannical misrule, European society is finally beginning to throw off the shackles of merchant class stupidity and disintegrate. Unfortunately this new found dissent and 'freedom' has no direction either and the path society is treading will inevitably become littered with the corpses of the fallen.
People aren't naturally ' nice' to each other, they are simply conditioned to fear the consequences of not appearing to be nice to each other. Even so, this barrier is now breaking down and at the grassroots level society is becoming more violent as individuals embrace 'Aquarian Individualism' (aka selfish opportunism) and disregard their conditioning.
There is a stark difference between the two concepts and conditions of natural empathy and social fear. One comes from within, the other is applied from without. If people were naturally co-operative and naturally empathic, the Grail Code would be a universal behavioral constant in an ordered world of ecological sensitivity and social harmony. This, plainly and manifestly is not, and never has been the case, certainly not since the Church came to power. The Grail Code arises naturally from, and is pertinent solely to, the Grail Blood.
The Grail Code is the behavioral benchmark by which those of the Grail or Dragon Blood might be recognized, but it is not the code that efficiently orders the behavior of the Dragon Families in their dealings with those not of the Grail Blood.
In ' Genesis of the Grail Kings' Gardner commented on the love that the Anunnaki had for social order, which was echoed in Transylvania where vampires were said to have a reputation for pathological meticulousness and where nearby, Dracula ran his kingdom with the precision of a well oiled machine.
In the earlier days of the Anunnaki it is quite feasible to think that the collective empathic consciousness was particularly strong and we might see here the foundation of the Grail Code within the family of the Gods. Nevertheless, later there were still incidents of internecine strife.
However, where outsiders were concerned the Grail Code was only applied inasmuch as it related to maintaining order for the benefit of the Overlords. Was there any question of the Gods being 'Nice' to man or applying the Grail Code solely for man's benefit? There was a difference between the Grail Code for the Grail Blood and the Grail Code as it applied to man. One has to say that Enlil was right.
As the Blood devolved the capacity to apply empathy and co-operation appropriately weakened and this resulted formerly in family wars, and latterly in the kind of mental weakness, confusion and cultural misapplication which ended in the genocide of the race by Catholic opportunists.
These are pertinent lessons that the Bloodline would do well to learn if it is to rebuild itself again. It doesn't necessarily mean, because the Bloodline is at the end of the seventh millennium of its recorded history, that it is too late to turn back the clock. However, if the Dragon is to survive at all, it must learn the lessons of history, redefine its identity and strive to enrich its Blood once more. If it doesn't, it will die completely and the world will die with it.
An old saying from British folklore asserts that if the land loses its Elves, the land dies. In two thousand years the face of the countryside in Britain and Ireland in particular has changed completely and there is now nowhere that man hasn't manipulated, exploited or raped. Compared to what it was, the land is indeed dead. Its spirit has almost gone.
The spirit of the land, its innate magic and mystery, has died because the Elves have all but died as well. The land consequently has no real voice anymore, no champions and no orators. Without the Dragon Queens and the Elven Overlords to interpret the will of the Earth (and without Brehon Law to protect it from fools) man himself fails to hear the deeper message the land gives him.
The ancient forests of giantOak and Beech are no more and the sacred places have been either built on in acts of blasphemy by greedy religion or torn up by the mindless merchant-class ancestors of today's mindless, middle-class consumer population.
In the theory of critical mass, sometimes called the "99th Monkey Effect" - based on Jung's theory of Collective Consciousness working through Rupert Sheldrake's 'Field of Morphic Resonance' - the collective mind of a race creates a spiritual and cultural Archetype whose field of resonance can be felt in the material world. In the case of the Elves that Archetype was manifest in the Age of Magic. Simply put, when the Elves lived they created a field of magic around them whose power arose from the very sovereignty of the earth itself. However, when the Church killed the Elves, the Earth was silenced and the magic largely died.
Having assisted the Church to kill off the Elves man now stands alone against a being he uses with contempt for his own gain, but whose power against him is limitless and whose patience with him is not. The highest so-called authorities on Earth have finally realized what they have done and even they, the United Nations Organization, say that the clock is ticking and time is running out.
The spirit of True Romance and Magic is all but dead. It diminished when the Church enslaved the spirit of mankind to a material, hateful god. Through scientific means, however, the Sundered Tribes can be reborn, the dragon blood can be restored and enriched, and the Dragon Queens and Elven Lords can rise once more to restore to people a sense of wonder, a sense of hope and an Age of Magic. - NDV
If this phenomena happened on a wider scale within the genome, then it, along with other universal phenomena, was a part of the Web of Wyrd and its child was True Love manifest collectively, which was called the Grail Code. Jesus called it "the Law of God written on the hearts of men in tongues of fire". Genetic righteousness.
The Grail Code was the behavioral manifestation of an attuned group of empathic individuals working towards the common good of that group. This required a 'Hive Mind' - a collective consciousness - or at least a heightened capacity towards sensitivity and the anticipation of the needs of all within the genome, that transcended common consciousness, being therefore a manifestation of the outworking of the Siddhis within the web of interrelated and interconnected points of consciousness that are manifest throughout all levels of life.
The Grail Code therefore, was a set of behavioral patterns that arose from within as a response to a particular endocrinologically mediated, psychological condition that has detachment as its hallmark. It was not imposed from without by people with vested interests who were attempting to manipulate circumstance by manipulating other peoples appetites or consciences for their own ends or for the ends of any other disassociated group of individuals' co-operative self interests.
Without the 'Hive Mind' (symbolized in the Dragon Dynasty by the Merovingian Bee, the Phoenician 'House of the Gods' and the hexagonal figure of the Tree of Life of the Kabala) the Grail Code is a meaningless set of unattainable social aspirations which can only serve nowadays to fill the gaping chasm left by people's apathy towards more traditional forms of judicial, spiritual or moral flannel.
In the hands of New Age style authors and their wannabee audiences the Grail Code becomes just another form of legalism. Without the brain physiology required to understand its implications, those who cannot share in the collective consciousness of the group (whose very being was founded on co-operation and whose mental condition created the Grail Code as a naturally occurring phenomenon) make a mockery of all the Code stands for.
To these - the people left outside the group who don't have the wiring or chemistry to participate and understand the collective mind - the Grail Code is just another mishmash of rules which, however prettily and romantically packaged, will inevitably be broken and which therefore are no better or worse than any other meaningless set of regulations.
The universe has features which are prime constants, the behavior of materials is one example, which we call the ' laws of physics'. These we can term truths, because they don't vary under a given range of circumstances, even down at the sub atomic level, the weirdness is still a constant, inasmuch as it is constantly weird. Without these prime constants the universe would cease to exist.
The Grail Code, as a worthy set of regulations or aspirations for the governance of people's behavior in relationship to each other is, quite frankly, an idealistic load of nonsense. It isn't that the Grail Code is a fantasy or a lie, it is simply a fact that it was and still is misapplied to the wrong people.
Relatively and contextually speaking the Grail Code is not a truth, because it is not a constant, and it cannot be applied to regulate human behavior in human societies and we know this because it caused, in part, the manifestation of a set of social conditions which were required in order to allow to occur the 1000 year genocide which is referred to in the Family as the Elven Holocaust, which resulted ultimately in the abandonment of the Grail Code itself.
What was the big mistake the Family made? They did unto others as they would have done unto themselves. In other words they used the transcendently inspired Grail Code they anciently applied to their own mystical race to order societies that were founded not upon transcendent perception, but upon animal instincts, where irredeemably materialistic individuals co-operated merely for personal gain and in constantly shifting temporary alliances that had no notion of a collective mind or group cohesion at the profound level which would have been needed to make the Grail Code manifest outside the genome and prove successful.
The Grail Code was applicable only to the Grail Blood. Elsewhere the only thing that worked was the law of the jungle and terrorism. The Family were seen as a soft touch because their empathy was extended to peoples who had no empathy themselves, only the desire to satisfy their own greed and assuage their own fears.
These peoples' selfish, individualistic motivations stood in direct opposition to the Grail Code of 'royal communism' and community service. Desire is a great motivator in any society and the Elves' desires were motivated by their transcendent consciousness, which could only operate in an environment of truth and empathy.
The more one sees the less one desires for oneself and the less attached one becomes. If one desires truth and sees only truth and gives instinctively for the common good because one can feel the common need, one becomes the target for opportunists and deceivers.
Faced with the violence and hostility of a group of myopic animals hell bent on their pursuing their own own interests and unable to see the bigger picture, the Elves had no chance of survival anyway, whatever the other circumstances might have been.
This alone was enough to destroy them. In a sense then, the Grail Code was a death sentence to the Dragon Families. This, perhaps, is how the Mayors of the Palace took over, through exploiting what they perceived as the innate trust, complacency and weakness of the Merovingian kings.
One can appear dark or harsh in one's attitudes towards human beings and human behavior and one may make people wonder how one could possibly spout about the Grail on one hand and despise humans so much on the other. After all, isn't the Grail Code all to do with being nice to each other? Isn't it about being fair to one's fellow man? Doesn't it fit in with the overall ethos of the New Age? The answer to all these rhetorical questions is an absolute No. It isn't and it doesn't.
The Grail Code is the perfect example of an ill-advisedly applied series of innate laws arising from the profound depths of the genetic constitution of one species, applied to and completely misunderstood and abused by another, to the detriment of their originators and ultimately to the detriment of the abusers themselves, who thought to gain by killing their nautonniers, not realizing that they, the usurpers, were too thick to organize society themselves. In this statement wrong?
Look around you and judge for yourself. After a thousand years of tyrannical misrule, European society is finally beginning to throw off the shackles of merchant class stupidity and disintegrate. Unfortunately this new found dissent and 'freedom' has no direction either and the path society is treading will inevitably become littered with the corpses of the fallen.
People aren't naturally ' nice' to each other, they are simply conditioned to fear the consequences of not appearing to be nice to each other. Even so, this barrier is now breaking down and at the grassroots level society is becoming more violent as individuals embrace 'Aquarian Individualism' (aka selfish opportunism) and disregard their conditioning.
There is a stark difference between the two concepts and conditions of natural empathy and social fear. One comes from within, the other is applied from without. If people were naturally co-operative and naturally empathic, the Grail Code would be a universal behavioral constant in an ordered world of ecological sensitivity and social harmony. This, plainly and manifestly is not, and never has been the case, certainly not since the Church came to power. The Grail Code arises naturally from, and is pertinent solely to, the Grail Blood.
The Grail Code is the behavioral benchmark by which those of the Grail or Dragon Blood might be recognized, but it is not the code that efficiently orders the behavior of the Dragon Families in their dealings with those not of the Grail Blood.
In ' Genesis of the Grail Kings' Gardner commented on the love that the Anunnaki had for social order, which was echoed in Transylvania where vampires were said to have a reputation for pathological meticulousness and where nearby, Dracula ran his kingdom with the precision of a well oiled machine.
In the earlier days of the Anunnaki it is quite feasible to think that the collective empathic consciousness was particularly strong and we might see here the foundation of the Grail Code within the family of the Gods. Nevertheless, later there were still incidents of internecine strife.
However, where outsiders were concerned the Grail Code was only applied inasmuch as it related to maintaining order for the benefit of the Overlords. Was there any question of the Gods being 'Nice' to man or applying the Grail Code solely for man's benefit? There was a difference between the Grail Code for the Grail Blood and the Grail Code as it applied to man. One has to say that Enlil was right.
As the Blood devolved the capacity to apply empathy and co-operation appropriately weakened and this resulted formerly in family wars, and latterly in the kind of mental weakness, confusion and cultural misapplication which ended in the genocide of the race by Catholic opportunists.
These are pertinent lessons that the Bloodline would do well to learn if it is to rebuild itself again. It doesn't necessarily mean, because the Bloodline is at the end of the seventh millennium of its recorded history, that it is too late to turn back the clock. However, if the Dragon is to survive at all, it must learn the lessons of history, redefine its identity and strive to enrich its Blood once more. If it doesn't, it will die completely and the world will die with it.
An old saying from British folklore asserts that if the land loses its Elves, the land dies. In two thousand years the face of the countryside in Britain and Ireland in particular has changed completely and there is now nowhere that man hasn't manipulated, exploited or raped. Compared to what it was, the land is indeed dead. Its spirit has almost gone.
The spirit of the land, its innate magic and mystery, has died because the Elves have all but died as well. The land consequently has no real voice anymore, no champions and no orators. Without the Dragon Queens and the Elven Overlords to interpret the will of the Earth (and without Brehon Law to protect it from fools) man himself fails to hear the deeper message the land gives him.
The ancient forests of giantOak and Beech are no more and the sacred places have been either built on in acts of blasphemy by greedy religion or torn up by the mindless merchant-class ancestors of today's mindless, middle-class consumer population.
In the theory of critical mass, sometimes called the "99th Monkey Effect" - based on Jung's theory of Collective Consciousness working through Rupert Sheldrake's 'Field of Morphic Resonance' - the collective mind of a race creates a spiritual and cultural Archetype whose field of resonance can be felt in the material world. In the case of the Elves that Archetype was manifest in the Age of Magic. Simply put, when the Elves lived they created a field of magic around them whose power arose from the very sovereignty of the earth itself. However, when the Church killed the Elves, the Earth was silenced and the magic largely died.
Having assisted the Church to kill off the Elves man now stands alone against a being he uses with contempt for his own gain, but whose power against him is limitless and whose patience with him is not. The highest so-called authorities on Earth have finally realized what they have done and even they, the United Nations Organization, say that the clock is ticking and time is running out.
The spirit of True Romance and Magic is all but dead. It diminished when the Church enslaved the spirit of mankind to a material, hateful god. Through scientific means, however, the Sundered Tribes can be reborn, the dragon blood can be restored and enriched, and the Dragon Queens and Elven Lords can rise once more to restore to people a sense of wonder, a sense of hope and an Age of Magic. - NDV
CARCASSONE
First signs of settlement in this region have been dated to about 3500 BC, but the hill site of Carsac – a Celtic that has been retained at other sites in the south – became an important trading place in the 6th century BC. The Volcae Tectosages fortified the oppidum.
Carcassonne became strategically identified when Romans fortified the hilltop around 100 BC and eventually made it the colonia of Julia Carsaco, later Carcasum (the process of swapping consonant is a metathesis). The main part of the lower courses of the northern ramparts dates from Gallo-Roman times. In 462 the Romans officially ceded Septimania to the Visigothic king Theodoric II who had held Carcassonne since 453; he built more fortifications at Carcassonne, which was a frontier post on the northern marches: traces of them still stand. Theodoric is thought to have begun the predecessor of the basilica that is now dedicated to Saint Nazaire. In 508 the Visigoths successfully foiled attacks by the Frankish king Clovis. Saracens from Barcelona took Carcassonne in 725, but King Pepin the Short (Pépin le Bref) drove them away in 759-60; though he took most of the south of France, he was unable to penetrate the impregnable fortress of Carcassonne.
Main article: County of Carcassonne A medieval fiefdom, the county of Carcassonne, controlled the city and its environs. It was often united with the County of Razès. The origins of Carcassonne as a county probably lie in local representatives of the Visigoths, but the first count known by name is Bello of the time of Charlemagne. Bello founded a dynasty, the Bellonids, which would rule many honores in Septimania and Catalonia for three centuries.
In 1067 Carcassonne became the property of Raimond Bernard Trencavel, viscount of Albi and Nîmes, through his marriage with Ermengard, sister of the last count of Carcassonne. In the following centuries the Trencavel family allied in succession either with the counts of Barcelona or of Toulouse. They built the Château Comtal and the Basilica of Saint-Nazaire. In 1096 Pope Urban II blessed the foundation stones of the new cathedral, a Catholic bastion against the Cathars.
Carcassonne became famous in its role in the Albigensian Crusades, when the city was a stronghold of Occitan Cathars. In August 1209 the crusading army of Simon de Montfort forced its citizens to surrender. After capturing Raymond-Roger de Trencavel, imprisoning him and allowing him to die, Montfort made himself the new viscount. He added to the fortifications. Carcassonne became a border citadel between France and the kingdom of Aragon (Spain).
In 1240 Trencavel's son tried to reconquer his old domain but in vain. The city submitted to the rule of the kingdom of France in 1247, and King Louis IX founded the new part of the town across the river. He and his successor Philip III built the outer ramparts. Contemporary opinion still considered the fortress impregnable. During the Hundred Years' War, Edward the Black Prince failed to take the city in 1355, although his troops destroyed the Lower Town.
In 1659, the Treaty of the Pyrenees transferred the border province of Roussillon to France, and Carcassonne's military significance was reduced. Fortifications were abandoned, and the city became mainly an economic center that concentrated on the woollen textile industry, for which a 1723 source quoted by Fernand Braudel found it “the manufacturing center of Languedoc”[2]
First signs of settlement in this region have been dated to about 3500 BC, but the hill site of Carsac – a Celtic that has been retained at other sites in the south – became an important trading place in the 6th century BC. The Volcae Tectosages fortified the oppidum.
Carcassonne became strategically identified when Romans fortified the hilltop around 100 BC and eventually made it the colonia of Julia Carsaco, later Carcasum (the process of swapping consonant is a metathesis). The main part of the lower courses of the northern ramparts dates from Gallo-Roman times. In 462 the Romans officially ceded Septimania to the Visigothic king Theodoric II who had held Carcassonne since 453; he built more fortifications at Carcassonne, which was a frontier post on the northern marches: traces of them still stand. Theodoric is thought to have begun the predecessor of the basilica that is now dedicated to Saint Nazaire. In 508 the Visigoths successfully foiled attacks by the Frankish king Clovis. Saracens from Barcelona took Carcassonne in 725, but King Pepin the Short (Pépin le Bref) drove them away in 759-60; though he took most of the south of France, he was unable to penetrate the impregnable fortress of Carcassonne.
Main article: County of Carcassonne A medieval fiefdom, the county of Carcassonne, controlled the city and its environs. It was often united with the County of Razès. The origins of Carcassonne as a county probably lie in local representatives of the Visigoths, but the first count known by name is Bello of the time of Charlemagne. Bello founded a dynasty, the Bellonids, which would rule many honores in Septimania and Catalonia for three centuries.
In 1067 Carcassonne became the property of Raimond Bernard Trencavel, viscount of Albi and Nîmes, through his marriage with Ermengard, sister of the last count of Carcassonne. In the following centuries the Trencavel family allied in succession either with the counts of Barcelona or of Toulouse. They built the Château Comtal and the Basilica of Saint-Nazaire. In 1096 Pope Urban II blessed the foundation stones of the new cathedral, a Catholic bastion against the Cathars.
Carcassonne became famous in its role in the Albigensian Crusades, when the city was a stronghold of Occitan Cathars. In August 1209 the crusading army of Simon de Montfort forced its citizens to surrender. After capturing Raymond-Roger de Trencavel, imprisoning him and allowing him to die, Montfort made himself the new viscount. He added to the fortifications. Carcassonne became a border citadel between France and the kingdom of Aragon (Spain).
In 1240 Trencavel's son tried to reconquer his old domain but in vain. The city submitted to the rule of the kingdom of France in 1247, and King Louis IX founded the new part of the town across the river. He and his successor Philip III built the outer ramparts. Contemporary opinion still considered the fortress impregnable. During the Hundred Years' War, Edward the Black Prince failed to take the city in 1355, although his troops destroyed the Lower Town.
In 1659, the Treaty of the Pyrenees transferred the border province of Roussillon to France, and Carcassonne's military significance was reduced. Fortifications were abandoned, and the city became mainly an economic center that concentrated on the woollen textile industry, for which a 1723 source quoted by Fernand Braudel found it “the manufacturing center of Languedoc”[2]
Cross of Lorraine: Emblem of the Royal Secret
The Cross of Lorraine, a symbol linked to the Templars, the Angevins, and French nationalism, also had its
genesis as a Sumerian ideogram. It was a symbol denoting kingship, and stood for "Kad", a title given to the
kings of Phoenicia and Akkadia. Another title for kings was "Shepherd", and the ideogram for this designation
was very similar: it was a Cross of Lorraine with an extended lower portion, curved so as to suggest a
shepherd's staff.
When various members of the House of Anjou plotted to topple the Valois dynasty of France, the symbol of the conspirators was the Cross of Lorraine, the heraldic emblem of Rene d'Anjou, said by Charles Peguy to represent the "arms of Christ", "the arms of Satan", and, strangely, the blood of both. Ren� was the Angevin monarch who, at the time of the renaissance, single-handedly spearheaded a Hermetic revival in Europe. It was he who personally convinced Cosimo de Medici to translate many ancient texts such as the Corpus Hermeticum into various European tongues for the first time ever.
And when Corpus Hermeticum was first published in France, the dedication it bore was to Marie de Guise, wife of James Stuart V, mother of Mary Queen of Scots, and a descendant of Ren who also adopted the Cross of Lorraine as a personal symbol. That the Cross of Lorraine is a symbol embodying the Hermetic ideal is fairly obvious. The Angevins were primarily advocates of the Regia, or Royal Art, of hermeticism; a tradition which according to legend was passed down to man by a race of fallen angels. This isn't at all inconsistent with the perennially Luciferian overtones associated with the entire Angevin saga.
Interestingly, the Cross of Lorraine bears an uncanny resemblance to the sigil of Baphomet employed by British Magus Aleister Crowley, and the meaning of the two symbols would appear to be virtually synonymous. Baphomet is, after all, the penultimate hermetic symbol, whether depicted by Crowley in the form of a cross, or by Eliphas Levi as a goat-headed hermaphrodite. And the sigil used by Crowley was also employed by ancient alchemists as a device whose meaning was literally "very poisonous." In fact, the symbol was commonly affixed to containers of toxic substances in Europe as recently as the mid-twentieth century.
To the alchemists, of course, the symbol and its very meaning had far more esoteric connotations. To them, poison represented an agent of transformation, a vehicle for the reconciliation of opposites. And there is an alchemical myth about a poison which for most men is extremely deadly, while for the elect it confers mastership and absolute power. Echoes of this idea recur as a motif in various aspects of the Grail lore. It would seem that the alchemists accorded this symbol very much the same meaning attributed it by Crowley, which in turn echoes what the Cross of Lorraine embodied for Rene d'Anjou. It is little known, but the Cross of Lorraine was also the official emblem of the Knights Templar.
Though they are more frequently associated with the symbol of the red equilateral cross, their true symbol first and foremost was the Cross of Lorraine, and many Templars awaiting death at the stake pursuant to the Friday the 13th persecutions drew the emblem on the walls of their cells. There is still a degree in certain rites of Freemasonry called the Knights Templar, whose symbol is the Cross of Lorraine. It is interesting to note that even the less esoteric-looking equilateral cross used by the Templars had essentially the same meaning: that of the union of opposites, the intersection of creative force and destructive force, or the union of male and female principles. It was a fundamental occult symbol, and it was in deference to the idea which it embodied that medieval occult rituals were often held at crossroads.
The Cross of Lorraine is far more explicit in it's iconography: the bar above mirroring the bar below, both of which are symmetrically affixed to a central pillar that provides balance and equilibrium. As above, so below is, after all, a Hermetic maxim. And the three bars of which the cross is composed echo Eliphas Levi's concept of the true trinity. Levi posited that the world is governed by two primordial forces, one creative, the other destructive. The equilibrium between these two forces constitutes a third force, and the union of the three constitutes what some might refer to as... God.
The central role of the principle of equilibrium in various occult arts cannot be overstressed. For Master Mason Albert Pike, equilibrium represented the Royal Secret, the pivotal principle upon which the universe is ordered. And Pike's specific designation of equilibrium as a royal secret is of particular significance because, as previously mentioned, Hermeticism has traditionally been known as the Royal Art, and its central tenet is essentially that of equilibrium. And too, when Pike calls it a Royal secret, he isn't speaking figuratively, but strictly in literal terms.
Hermes, according to legend, was the sole receptacle of the secret doctrine of the antediluvian world, which he revived after the flood and passed down to the Kings. As you'll recall, this secret knowledge was thought to have been taught to man by a race of Gods or fallen angels. This knowledge was kept secret because it was probably recognized that for all but an elect few, such thought would no doubt bring about their ruin. This brings to mind the concept of the alchemical poison. Kings and aristocrats would understand how to wield and apply the secret doctrine because it was believed that they were in fact flesh and blood descendants of the Forgotten Race which had come down to take the wives of men.
References to this Forgotten Race occur repeatedly in numerous religions and mythologies throughout the world, and should most likely be known to readers of this magazine. Their doctrines have been enshrined in myth, legend, and many religious symbols, in which they are looked upon by many, and recognized by but a few. They are, and shall remain, the Royal Secret. The Cross of Lorraine is a sigil of that Royal Secret, the doctrine of the Forgotten Ones. (Boyd Rice)
When various members of the House of Anjou plotted to topple the Valois dynasty of France, the symbol of the conspirators was the Cross of Lorraine, the heraldic emblem of Rene d'Anjou, said by Charles Peguy to represent the "arms of Christ", "the arms of Satan", and, strangely, the blood of both. Ren� was the Angevin monarch who, at the time of the renaissance, single-handedly spearheaded a Hermetic revival in Europe. It was he who personally convinced Cosimo de Medici to translate many ancient texts such as the Corpus Hermeticum into various European tongues for the first time ever.
And when Corpus Hermeticum was first published in France, the dedication it bore was to Marie de Guise, wife of James Stuart V, mother of Mary Queen of Scots, and a descendant of Ren who also adopted the Cross of Lorraine as a personal symbol. That the Cross of Lorraine is a symbol embodying the Hermetic ideal is fairly obvious. The Angevins were primarily advocates of the Regia, or Royal Art, of hermeticism; a tradition which according to legend was passed down to man by a race of fallen angels. This isn't at all inconsistent with the perennially Luciferian overtones associated with the entire Angevin saga.
Interestingly, the Cross of Lorraine bears an uncanny resemblance to the sigil of Baphomet employed by British Magus Aleister Crowley, and the meaning of the two symbols would appear to be virtually synonymous. Baphomet is, after all, the penultimate hermetic symbol, whether depicted by Crowley in the form of a cross, or by Eliphas Levi as a goat-headed hermaphrodite. And the sigil used by Crowley was also employed by ancient alchemists as a device whose meaning was literally "very poisonous." In fact, the symbol was commonly affixed to containers of toxic substances in Europe as recently as the mid-twentieth century.
To the alchemists, of course, the symbol and its very meaning had far more esoteric connotations. To them, poison represented an agent of transformation, a vehicle for the reconciliation of opposites. And there is an alchemical myth about a poison which for most men is extremely deadly, while for the elect it confers mastership and absolute power. Echoes of this idea recur as a motif in various aspects of the Grail lore. It would seem that the alchemists accorded this symbol very much the same meaning attributed it by Crowley, which in turn echoes what the Cross of Lorraine embodied for Rene d'Anjou. It is little known, but the Cross of Lorraine was also the official emblem of the Knights Templar.
Though they are more frequently associated with the symbol of the red equilateral cross, their true symbol first and foremost was the Cross of Lorraine, and many Templars awaiting death at the stake pursuant to the Friday the 13th persecutions drew the emblem on the walls of their cells. There is still a degree in certain rites of Freemasonry called the Knights Templar, whose symbol is the Cross of Lorraine. It is interesting to note that even the less esoteric-looking equilateral cross used by the Templars had essentially the same meaning: that of the union of opposites, the intersection of creative force and destructive force, or the union of male and female principles. It was a fundamental occult symbol, and it was in deference to the idea which it embodied that medieval occult rituals were often held at crossroads.
The Cross of Lorraine is far more explicit in it's iconography: the bar above mirroring the bar below, both of which are symmetrically affixed to a central pillar that provides balance and equilibrium. As above, so below is, after all, a Hermetic maxim. And the three bars of which the cross is composed echo Eliphas Levi's concept of the true trinity. Levi posited that the world is governed by two primordial forces, one creative, the other destructive. The equilibrium between these two forces constitutes a third force, and the union of the three constitutes what some might refer to as... God.
The central role of the principle of equilibrium in various occult arts cannot be overstressed. For Master Mason Albert Pike, equilibrium represented the Royal Secret, the pivotal principle upon which the universe is ordered. And Pike's specific designation of equilibrium as a royal secret is of particular significance because, as previously mentioned, Hermeticism has traditionally been known as the Royal Art, and its central tenet is essentially that of equilibrium. And too, when Pike calls it a Royal secret, he isn't speaking figuratively, but strictly in literal terms.
Hermes, according to legend, was the sole receptacle of the secret doctrine of the antediluvian world, which he revived after the flood and passed down to the Kings. As you'll recall, this secret knowledge was thought to have been taught to man by a race of Gods or fallen angels. This knowledge was kept secret because it was probably recognized that for all but an elect few, such thought would no doubt bring about their ruin. This brings to mind the concept of the alchemical poison. Kings and aristocrats would understand how to wield and apply the secret doctrine because it was believed that they were in fact flesh and blood descendants of the Forgotten Race which had come down to take the wives of men.
References to this Forgotten Race occur repeatedly in numerous religions and mythologies throughout the world, and should most likely be known to readers of this magazine. Their doctrines have been enshrined in myth, legend, and many religious symbols, in which they are looked upon by many, and recognized by but a few. They are, and shall remain, the Royal Secret. The Cross of Lorraine is a sigil of that Royal Secret, the doctrine of the Forgotten Ones. (Boyd Rice)
The Cross of Lorraine:
The Fingerprint of God or the Mark of Cain?
The most prominent symbol associated with the Grail bloodline, aside from the pentagram and the rose-cross, is the Cross of Lorraine. As has been said elsewhere, this cross was the heraldic device of both the Angevins and the Knights Templar. The symbol can be dated back to the early deified kings of Sumeria, where it had the title of "Kad", a term denoting both king and lord. Over the years, this symbol has been presented in many variations, perhaps the most well-known being the one used by the French Free Forces in WWII, patterned after a configuration favored in medieval alchemical/Hermetic texts (See illustration.) This particular representation of the cross seems to embody specific geometric relationships between the component parts of the configuration - and indeed it does. It, like the pentagram, is a symbolic representation of the golden division principle, with its dimensions defined by the famous Fibonacci spiral. The Cross of Lorraine, then, like the spiral that characterizes it, is another configuration of "the fingerprint of God." Not only can the Fibonacci spiral be super-imposed over it, the bars from which it is composed bear a golden division relationship to one another; the top horizontal bar is to the bottom as the bottom bar is to the vertical bar. And too, the elements which comprise the cross define two irregular pentagrams, both of which are central to the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau.
As if to emphasize the hermetic nature of the Cross of Lorraine, an image of the sun (the eternal male principle) crowns it, and an image of the moon (the eternal female principle) is to be seen beneath it. In alchemy, the cross represents a crucible, a place in which opposites are dissolved and combined, and matter transformed. We see a christianized equivalent of this idea in the crucifix, emblematic of Christ’s suffering on the cross, and his subsequent death, resurrection, and transformation(1). Upon the middle pillar of the cross is inscribed (in Latin): "The blessed stone contains everything within itself." The "blessed stone", then, would appear to be the legendary Philosopher’s Stone, a melding of the eternal male and female essence, as forged within the crucible of the Cross of Lorraine. Could this same blessed stone bear some relation to, or in fact be synonymous with, the Rock of Sion?
Further examinations of this medieval etching indicated that a code of some sort might be hidden within the Latin inscriptions that cover the cross. For instance, on the endpoints of the cross were six letters, three of them vowels, a seemingly perfect selection for generating any number of words. Yet the odds of discovering words bearing any relationship to the Grail mystery would be astronomical, unless someone purposely put them there!
Almost immediately upon examination of this picture, we began to discover a series of words encoded in the cross. The first, HOSANI, would appear to be a Latinized version of the more common Hebrew word, Hosanna. The second, IANOSH, was obviously a Latinized version of Enoch, a figure whose name recurs incessantly in regards to our research. We had encountered many variations in the name Enoch (Enosh, Enos, etc.), so to find yet another wasn’t at all unusual, especially given the fact that it was discovered within the context of a Latin text. This alternate spelling was also interesting in that it was highly suggestive of the connection between Enoch and Oannes, two figures who were often said to equate with one another. Both were said to have taught writing, etc. to mankind. One is intimately associated with water, the other with the Flood.
The first two words, Hosani and Ianosh, were found by connecting the letters at the six points at the ends of the crossed bars by means of an irregular (albeit symmetrical) zig-zagging line. The first line starts at the top and ends at the bottom. The second line mirrors the first and originates instead at the bottom. A third word can be found by connecting just the five letters on the cross’ lower section. The line that co-joins them forms a kind of irregular (yet again very symmetrical) "M" shape. And the five points thus defined are pentagonal in nature. The word thus created is ASION. Obviously, the name Sion is of central importance to all those who adopted the Cross of Lorraine as their sacred symbol. Yet we had never encountered the term Asion. There are a number of names that turn up in various mythologies that seem to bear some sort of relation to Sion. In esoteric Judaism, there is a fallen angel named Sihon. There are figures connected to the Flood named Saon, and Iasion. Scion, a word still in common usage, has a pronunciation identical to Sion, and its most well-known definition is "descendant , son or heir." And it’s most often used in regards to powerful or well-known families (those perceived as dynasties.) A less well-known meaning of scion pertains to the grafting of vines, particularly in relation to grape vines and the production of wine - a recurring symbolic theme for the Grail bloodline, as it alludes to the intermarriage of sacred and royal pedigrees.
The word Asion, however, is very likely what is known as a patronym. The patronym is simply a name indicating an individual’s descent, or patrimony. They were very common in ancient times, and in numerous cultures. For instance, "Ailu" means simply, "son of Ilu"; "Amuru", means "son of Muru", and so on. Patronyms were most often used by kings and the aristocracy. Assuming Asion to be such a word, the three words encoded in the cross would produce the sentence: "Praise be to Enoch, son of Sion."
Of course, we know that Enoch was the son of Cain. Could it be that Cain is the true esoteric meaning of "Sion"? If so, it would make sense. After all, Cain would have been the figure from which the Grail bloodline descended. (See this author’s article, Lucifer’s Children: The Descendants of Cain in Dagobert‘s Revenge Vol. 4#1.) The pronunciation of many ancient words varied widely from time to time and place to place. The goddess Kybele, for instance, was later known as Cybele. The "C" in Cain can be pronounced with a hard "K" sound , or a soft "S" sound. And in fact, the word that served as the basis of "scion" was originally spelled cian, but was pronounced with the "S" sound. In another culture it was spelled cihan and also pronounced the same.
Sion could very well be an esoteric title for Cain, and the phrase we’ve decoded - "Praise be to Enoch, son of Cain" - seems to have a sense of internal logic to it. Cain would necessarily have been an important figure to his descendants, who, due to his less-than-auspicious depiction in the Old Testament, may have been preserved in their tradition, camouflaged beneath a code name. Sion constitutes the axis about which the Grail mystery revolves, yet remains the tradition’s most sub rosa aspect. If Cain is Sion, the oft referred-to "Rock of Sion" could merely represent the seed of Cain; the stone which had fallen from Heaven, and the rock upon which the bloodline had been founded. How often have we heard the enigmatic assertion that the rock which the builder of the Temple rejected "shall be the cornerstone"? Certainly, the figure most rejected by God (Lucifer excepted) in the Old Testament was Cain. And certainly Cain was the cornerstone of a dynasty of deified kings, his name even serving as the very root word from which our modern word "king" derives. In an alternate reading of the tale of "the stone which the builder rejected", it is said that it shall serve as the capstone. Given the very real traditions of Cain’s purported Luciferian heritage from fallen angels, this would put a whole new spin on the well-known symbol of the illuminated eye atop the pyramid.
Lastly, there is yet another bizarre pattern to emerge from the sentence "Praise be to Ianosh, son of Sion." The Oannes connection to Ianosh/Enoch is of interest in that Oannes is the basis of Johannes, from whence we derive the name John (yet another name that recurs incessantly in regard to the Grail mythos, the life of Christ, and particularly, the Priory of Sion. ) And strangely, we have come across more than a few instances in which the name John has shown up as an anglicized equivalent of the word Sion(2).
It seems clear that the Grail family understood the significance of their descent from the figures known to history as Cain, Enoch and Oannes. It seems equally clear that they enshrined these figures in names at once both innocent-seeming and mysterious. Like so many other aspects of the Grail mystery, they contrived to secret them from public view by hiding them in plain sight. This particular depiction of the Cross of Lorraine, it seems, serves a multi-faceted function. It is at one and the same time an iconic depiction of both the fingerprint of God and the Mark of Cain; a repository of sacred knowledge, and a secret genealogy.
Addendum: The foregoing theory represents one possible interpretation of what we’ve found. As with most things Grail-related, there are often many possible interpretations, and more often still, multiple layers of meaning existing simultaneously. For instance, both the names Ianosh and Asion seem to be compounded from two words, each of which appear to be derived etymologically from the same sources. The "ian" and "ion" portions of the name contain "An" and "On", both Mesopotamian names of God. The "as" and "osh" portions of the name relate to Ash, a word meaning "Lord." Therefore, Ianosh and Asion may be titles in addition to being proper names, both meaning either "the Lord God", or "God the Lord."
Returning briefly to the hypothesis that Asion is a patronym, indicating linear descent, another intriguing possibility exists. Asion could be a metronym, a name indicative of matrilineal descent. Since Jews placed great emphasis on matrilineal descent, this possibility cannot be ruled out. And the figure of Iasion remains both fascinating and mysterious for a number of reasons. Not only does it encompass the word Sion, but also Ia, the first deified king of Sumeria. Iasion was one of the many names of Meraton (or Metatron), a figure equated with the Demiurge, and with "little IAO", and with El Shaddai, the Lord of the Mountain who is synonymous with Jehovah/God throughout much of the Old Testament. El Shaddai is also sometimes known as El Shaittan, with means simply "Lord Satan." And it is said that when the most ancient prophet Enoch died and ascended to heaven, he became Meraton (Metatraon.)
http://www.thevesselofgod.com/crosslorraine2.html
The Fingerprint of God or the Mark of Cain?
The most prominent symbol associated with the Grail bloodline, aside from the pentagram and the rose-cross, is the Cross of Lorraine. As has been said elsewhere, this cross was the heraldic device of both the Angevins and the Knights Templar. The symbol can be dated back to the early deified kings of Sumeria, where it had the title of "Kad", a term denoting both king and lord. Over the years, this symbol has been presented in many variations, perhaps the most well-known being the one used by the French Free Forces in WWII, patterned after a configuration favored in medieval alchemical/Hermetic texts (See illustration.) This particular representation of the cross seems to embody specific geometric relationships between the component parts of the configuration - and indeed it does. It, like the pentagram, is a symbolic representation of the golden division principle, with its dimensions defined by the famous Fibonacci spiral. The Cross of Lorraine, then, like the spiral that characterizes it, is another configuration of "the fingerprint of God." Not only can the Fibonacci spiral be super-imposed over it, the bars from which it is composed bear a golden division relationship to one another; the top horizontal bar is to the bottom as the bottom bar is to the vertical bar. And too, the elements which comprise the cross define two irregular pentagrams, both of which are central to the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau.
As if to emphasize the hermetic nature of the Cross of Lorraine, an image of the sun (the eternal male principle) crowns it, and an image of the moon (the eternal female principle) is to be seen beneath it. In alchemy, the cross represents a crucible, a place in which opposites are dissolved and combined, and matter transformed. We see a christianized equivalent of this idea in the crucifix, emblematic of Christ’s suffering on the cross, and his subsequent death, resurrection, and transformation(1). Upon the middle pillar of the cross is inscribed (in Latin): "The blessed stone contains everything within itself." The "blessed stone", then, would appear to be the legendary Philosopher’s Stone, a melding of the eternal male and female essence, as forged within the crucible of the Cross of Lorraine. Could this same blessed stone bear some relation to, or in fact be synonymous with, the Rock of Sion?
Further examinations of this medieval etching indicated that a code of some sort might be hidden within the Latin inscriptions that cover the cross. For instance, on the endpoints of the cross were six letters, three of them vowels, a seemingly perfect selection for generating any number of words. Yet the odds of discovering words bearing any relationship to the Grail mystery would be astronomical, unless someone purposely put them there!
Almost immediately upon examination of this picture, we began to discover a series of words encoded in the cross. The first, HOSANI, would appear to be a Latinized version of the more common Hebrew word, Hosanna. The second, IANOSH, was obviously a Latinized version of Enoch, a figure whose name recurs incessantly in regards to our research. We had encountered many variations in the name Enoch (Enosh, Enos, etc.), so to find yet another wasn’t at all unusual, especially given the fact that it was discovered within the context of a Latin text. This alternate spelling was also interesting in that it was highly suggestive of the connection between Enoch and Oannes, two figures who were often said to equate with one another. Both were said to have taught writing, etc. to mankind. One is intimately associated with water, the other with the Flood.
The first two words, Hosani and Ianosh, were found by connecting the letters at the six points at the ends of the crossed bars by means of an irregular (albeit symmetrical) zig-zagging line. The first line starts at the top and ends at the bottom. The second line mirrors the first and originates instead at the bottom. A third word can be found by connecting just the five letters on the cross’ lower section. The line that co-joins them forms a kind of irregular (yet again very symmetrical) "M" shape. And the five points thus defined are pentagonal in nature. The word thus created is ASION. Obviously, the name Sion is of central importance to all those who adopted the Cross of Lorraine as their sacred symbol. Yet we had never encountered the term Asion. There are a number of names that turn up in various mythologies that seem to bear some sort of relation to Sion. In esoteric Judaism, there is a fallen angel named Sihon. There are figures connected to the Flood named Saon, and Iasion. Scion, a word still in common usage, has a pronunciation identical to Sion, and its most well-known definition is "descendant , son or heir." And it’s most often used in regards to powerful or well-known families (those perceived as dynasties.) A less well-known meaning of scion pertains to the grafting of vines, particularly in relation to grape vines and the production of wine - a recurring symbolic theme for the Grail bloodline, as it alludes to the intermarriage of sacred and royal pedigrees.
The word Asion, however, is very likely what is known as a patronym. The patronym is simply a name indicating an individual’s descent, or patrimony. They were very common in ancient times, and in numerous cultures. For instance, "Ailu" means simply, "son of Ilu"; "Amuru", means "son of Muru", and so on. Patronyms were most often used by kings and the aristocracy. Assuming Asion to be such a word, the three words encoded in the cross would produce the sentence: "Praise be to Enoch, son of Sion."
Of course, we know that Enoch was the son of Cain. Could it be that Cain is the true esoteric meaning of "Sion"? If so, it would make sense. After all, Cain would have been the figure from which the Grail bloodline descended. (See this author’s article, Lucifer’s Children: The Descendants of Cain in Dagobert‘s Revenge Vol. 4#1.) The pronunciation of many ancient words varied widely from time to time and place to place. The goddess Kybele, for instance, was later known as Cybele. The "C" in Cain can be pronounced with a hard "K" sound , or a soft "S" sound. And in fact, the word that served as the basis of "scion" was originally spelled cian, but was pronounced with the "S" sound. In another culture it was spelled cihan and also pronounced the same.
Sion could very well be an esoteric title for Cain, and the phrase we’ve decoded - "Praise be to Enoch, son of Cain" - seems to have a sense of internal logic to it. Cain would necessarily have been an important figure to his descendants, who, due to his less-than-auspicious depiction in the Old Testament, may have been preserved in their tradition, camouflaged beneath a code name. Sion constitutes the axis about which the Grail mystery revolves, yet remains the tradition’s most sub rosa aspect. If Cain is Sion, the oft referred-to "Rock of Sion" could merely represent the seed of Cain; the stone which had fallen from Heaven, and the rock upon which the bloodline had been founded. How often have we heard the enigmatic assertion that the rock which the builder of the Temple rejected "shall be the cornerstone"? Certainly, the figure most rejected by God (Lucifer excepted) in the Old Testament was Cain. And certainly Cain was the cornerstone of a dynasty of deified kings, his name even serving as the very root word from which our modern word "king" derives. In an alternate reading of the tale of "the stone which the builder rejected", it is said that it shall serve as the capstone. Given the very real traditions of Cain’s purported Luciferian heritage from fallen angels, this would put a whole new spin on the well-known symbol of the illuminated eye atop the pyramid.
Lastly, there is yet another bizarre pattern to emerge from the sentence "Praise be to Ianosh, son of Sion." The Oannes connection to Ianosh/Enoch is of interest in that Oannes is the basis of Johannes, from whence we derive the name John (yet another name that recurs incessantly in regard to the Grail mythos, the life of Christ, and particularly, the Priory of Sion. ) And strangely, we have come across more than a few instances in which the name John has shown up as an anglicized equivalent of the word Sion(2).
It seems clear that the Grail family understood the significance of their descent from the figures known to history as Cain, Enoch and Oannes. It seems equally clear that they enshrined these figures in names at once both innocent-seeming and mysterious. Like so many other aspects of the Grail mystery, they contrived to secret them from public view by hiding them in plain sight. This particular depiction of the Cross of Lorraine, it seems, serves a multi-faceted function. It is at one and the same time an iconic depiction of both the fingerprint of God and the Mark of Cain; a repository of sacred knowledge, and a secret genealogy.
Addendum: The foregoing theory represents one possible interpretation of what we’ve found. As with most things Grail-related, there are often many possible interpretations, and more often still, multiple layers of meaning existing simultaneously. For instance, both the names Ianosh and Asion seem to be compounded from two words, each of which appear to be derived etymologically from the same sources. The "ian" and "ion" portions of the name contain "An" and "On", both Mesopotamian names of God. The "as" and "osh" portions of the name relate to Ash, a word meaning "Lord." Therefore, Ianosh and Asion may be titles in addition to being proper names, both meaning either "the Lord God", or "God the Lord."
Returning briefly to the hypothesis that Asion is a patronym, indicating linear descent, another intriguing possibility exists. Asion could be a metronym, a name indicative of matrilineal descent. Since Jews placed great emphasis on matrilineal descent, this possibility cannot be ruled out. And the figure of Iasion remains both fascinating and mysterious for a number of reasons. Not only does it encompass the word Sion, but also Ia, the first deified king of Sumeria. Iasion was one of the many names of Meraton (or Metatron), a figure equated with the Demiurge, and with "little IAO", and with El Shaddai, the Lord of the Mountain who is synonymous with Jehovah/God throughout much of the Old Testament. El Shaddai is also sometimes known as El Shaittan, with means simply "Lord Satan." And it is said that when the most ancient prophet Enoch died and ascended to heaven, he became Meraton (Metatraon.)
http://www.thevesselofgod.com/crosslorraine2.html
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