Oak Island and Sir Francis Bacon Part 2
A Possible Templar Origin for Nolan’s Cross
Q: Okay. The Templars were formed in Jerusalem. They were there for quite a while with no record of doing any of the things that the group supposedly intended to do. There are a lot of rumours... what were they doing in Jerusalem?
A: Templars held the secret of levitation.
Q: Is this something... and I am talking about the 9 guys in Jerusalem... did they discover some document in Jerusalem that gave them this secret?
A: Yes.
Q: And is this how they were able to get so much support from certain royal houses and so forth?
A: It is time for you to study Kaballah* again, but be careful!!
*The C’s described the origins of Kaballah as “Channelled truths given to early pre-Mosaic Jews” who may well have been the group we know today as the Levites. The C’s confirmed that the original form of the Kaballah had been corrupted with the passage of time.
Possible carving of the Tree of Life at Domme
“These astronomical alignments to the Solstices are incredible. As Above, So Below. Someone has taken great care to locate the markers on Oak Island; we all can agree. Nolan’s Cross is like an astronomical calendar of the Solstice's built-in megalithic stone. This phenomenon could only be created over many years of careful observation. So how long may it have taken to construct the Treasure Vault? What treasure is so precious that the depositors would consider these kind of measurements and alignments? Obviously a significant and sacred treasure. This vault design is a very carefully considered plan that encodes layer upon layer of sacred information. But why all this secret encoding, I ask again? This treasure must be extremely sacred.
These alignments and geometry are too perfect to be a fluke. The way that Nolan’s Cross encodes this information is quite amazing.
The Autumn Equinox occurs on September 21. Examining the westerly sky on the Equinoxes, we can see that Cygnus (the Northern Cross) is present. Nolan’s Cross is a reflection on the ground of the Northern Cross in the sky. Cygnus (the Northern Cross) is part of an astronomical asterism known as the Summer Triangle. The Summer Triangle is made up of stars from 3 constellations Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquilla. The brightest stars in these constellations magically join together to form a sacred triangle in the sky. The defining vertices (stars) of this astronomical triangle are Deneb (Cygnus), Vega (Lyra), and Altair (Aquilla), each of which is the brightest star of its own constellation.!
We should at this point keep in mind that the constellation of Cygnus held a special significance for the Rosicrucians and the enclave of alchemists at the end of the 16th century due to the sighting of stellar novae:
Q: Supposedly, Christian Rosencruetz was initiated by the 'philosophers of Dancar.' I want to know where this blasted place is! Okay, skip it. One of the Rosicrucian manifestos said: 'God has sent messengers and signs in the heavens, namely the new stars in Serpentarius and Cygnus, to show that a great council of the elect is to take place.' What do they mean by a 'great council of the elect?'
A: Pyrenees.
Q: Okay, the purported enclave of the alchemists... Why was it signified by new stars in Serpentarius and Cygnus? What do they represent?
A: Novae.
The Oak Island Head Stone
Q: Now, all these Masons are very hot on the Sinclair family and the Rosslyn Chapel. They are certain that their guys came to America, because in this chapel, built supposedly by a Master Mason, there are carvings of corn, as in maize, and aloe vera plants. This is evidence, to them, that Prince Henry the Navigator and all the Templars and all that...
A: Nonsense!
Q: Well, then, what IS the explanation for these carvings in Rosslyn Chapel?
A: Visitors yes, but the Masonic creed is intertwined with ancient order of Essenes, arising out of ancient Egypt, from the secret knowledge stored at the base of the Sphinx, as left there by "Atlantean" survivors.
Q: Does anybody in the Masonic order know anything?
A: Yes.
Q: Well, how high do you have to go to get to know anything?
A: Page 33 [MJF: this could be a page reference to a pamphlet Laura was given on the island of Tenerife, where giant humans were alleged to have lived in the distant past]. Blond and blue-eyed, of course! Before genetic alteration, one branch stood eleven feet tall.
Session dated 7 November 1994:
Q: (L) What are the copper scrolls discovered in Israel?
A: Essenes. The treasure described was real but no longer intact as described.
However, the Head Stone is not the only strange stone with possible Templar connections that has been found on Oak Island for there is also the “HO” Stone. The “HO” Stone was part of a huge boulder found on the Oak Island shore back in 1921 by treasure hunters, which was covered in engraved writing. Without any apparent thought for the important clues it might hold, the treasure hunters blew it up. All that remained was the slab containing the mysterious markings of “H” and “O” and, in between the two letters, a cross surrounded by four dots (see image below).
The cross on a Templar Knight’s shield from a wall painting and, right, on the “HO” stone
Is the Ark of the Covenant Buried on Oak Island
Following the geometric shapes that Poussin had embedded in his paintings, Mol argued that when superimposed beside Nolan’s Cross on the swamp, the paintings appeared to be pointing to a specific spot; they looked like a map and X marked the spot.
A: Connect the Rosicrucians to your favourite island by the "beech." Horticulturally, please, and family.
Q: Oak Island?
A: Yup! Then, connect the Pyrenees to the Canaries.
Dr. Ian Spooner, a Geoscientist who works with the Laginas’ investigative team, has been digging for samples at two sites in the swamp and notes that at the Eye the ground underneath has been disturbed, and he thinks there was a significant excavation done in that area around 1675. Could someone have been looking for the Ark of the Covenant in 1675? A second sample from another part of the swamp has led Dr. Spooner to say, “the swamp was initiated in 1220 AD.” What he meant by this is that the marshy land is human-made and that it was created in the 13th Century. The Geoscientist said, “something super big was going on here.”
A: The Ark of the Covenant is not what you think it is.
Q: You guys said that it was a power cell. I don't have some sort of romantic idea of it. I can accept that. But there are all these stories about it and a lot of people have mythologized it. What do you mean by saying such a thing. What is the Ark?
A: See Oak Island.
{Trans-dimensional Atomic Remolecularizer?}
The Knights of Christ
Q: (L) Now, my thought is, after reading about all the details of the diggings and barriers, and depth of the pit is that, it was beyond human technology to have produced that pit at that point in history?
A: Beyond known technology.
Q: (L) And yet humans may have been involved in that activity?
A: Bingo.
Q: (J) Think back to when we were talking about it and you mentioned the lights.
A: Some humans have always communed with “higher” powers. We are speaking of conscious communion in this and other instances.
Q: (L) Okay, there was conscious communion between humans and other powers in the building of this pit. What group of humans was this?
A: It’s fun to learn.
Q: (J) How about pirates? (L) Well, who was in this area? Eskimos?
A: No.
Q: (L) Indians?
A: Keep going, network.
Q: (L) There were the French and the English. How about the Vikings? (F) No, the Vikings were 600 years before that. (T) Well, we don’t know how long ago the pit was dug. (J) I’m still… yeah, good question. (L) When was the pit itself dug?
A: 1500s. Nationality is not issue.
[Laura: Note that they are speaking of the digging of the pit and NOT the original placing of the object. Clearly someone was instructed to dig there to access this thing at some later point in “time.”]
Q: (T) Well, this pit was dug sometime in the middle of the 1500s. (J) And it was discovered in the 1700s.
A: Access sect information.
Q: (L) So, it could have been a religious group?
A: Now, who claimed communion, Laura has in memory banks from absorption of mass reading practice.
[Laura: That may have been true, but I was sure drawing a big blank at the time of these questions!]
Q: (F) Was there a sect from that era that claimed communion with higher powers?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) I think that this may have had something to do with the people that later became known as the Cajuns, they called the area Arcadia; it was a French religious sect that was living there…
A: Maybe.
[Laura: And here we have a significant clue: Arcadia. This was to prove to be a link to MANY things, as we shall see.]
Q: (L) When they drilled into the pit, it was claimed that some bits of gold came up and a piece of parchment and maybe some other odds and ends depending on which story you read. What were these?
A: Alchemy.
[Laura: Notice that they did not confirm the story about the gold and parchment but merely gave an additional “clue” to go with “Arcadia.”]
Q: (T) The remolecularizer made it. (L) Why not? If these people were involved in doing this, why did they do it?
A: Instructed to do it.
Q: (L) They were instructed by the higher powers they were in contact with, to dig down there and access a remolecularizer that had been buried ages ago, correct?
A: Yes.
A Possible Templar Origin for Nolan’s Cross
Evidence has also come to light, suggesting that the island's peculiar stone structures, particularly the six marker stones which form Nolan's Cross, were built in the 1200’s to coincide with the sun, moon, and stars (see diagram below). Each of the cone-shaped stones is about 8 feet wide at the base and 9 feet tall. It is extremely unlikely that any of these stones were deposited where they were found by natural processes such as glaciation. Italian archaeoastronomer Adriano Gaspani has managed to identify six stars that aligned perfectly with Oak Island’s Nolan’s Cross in the year 1200. The Laginas’ team believe that only the Knights Templar had the skills and knowledge to do this in the 13th century. Indeed, they were masters of the art of geomancy when laying out patterns on the ground that matched star formations in the sky (MJF: Indeed, some researchers believe that the location of all the ‘Notre Dame’ named cathedrals and major churches built by the Templars in medieval France trace out the pattern of the constellation of Virgo on the ground, a constellation linked with the Blessed Virgin Mary). The implications of Gaspani’s findings were not lost on Doug Crowell, a member of the Laginas research team, as he pointed out that the paved area of the part of the island known as “the swamp” had been carbon-dated to 1200 AD. Indeed, another Oak Island researcher, John Edwards, believes that the swamp was man-made, and argues that the Templars were responsible for its construction.
Rick Lagina also appreciated that this finding tied in with the late Zena Halpern’s theory that Templar knights had made multiple journeys to Oak Island for two centuries, beginning with their first trip in 1179 AD led by the English Templar knight Sir Ralph de Sudely, who English author Graham Phillips thinks may have found the Ark of the Covenant whilst he was stationed in the Holy Land (see my earlier article Jeremiah, the Knights Templar and the Ark of the Covenant). Halpern based her claims on a 12th century Templar manuscript recovered in the 1970’s from a medieval church in Cremona, Italy and thus called the “Cremona Document”, This manuscript or document is purportedly a series of journals by members of the Templar order. Within it she found the following passage “We make landfall on an island of oaks”. Supposedly, this manuscript contained an account of how the Templars found the fabled Temple treasure under Temple Mount. It also contained Ralph de Sudely’s account of how he undertook a journey to North America with the help of the King of Denmark in 1178. There he encountered a Welsh goddess worshipping tribe who initiated him into their cult, whereafter a Celtic priestess gave him a clay cylinder in which was stored some 1st century Christian documents one of which led him to return to Europe and the Holy Land where he discovered the Ark of the Covenant and other treasure hidden under the City of Petra in modern day Jordan. However, experts believe that the Cremona Document is a hoax given that some of de Sudely’s narrative contains modern English words and there are also anachronistic references to things that did not exist in the late 12th century,
I have no idea whether Phillips was aware of Halpern’s theory (or she was aware of his) prior to making his own claim that De Sudely discovered the Ark of the Covenant at Petra. However, there are many researchers who believe it is entirely feasible that the Templars buried treasure on Oak Island, including British researcher Tony McMahon who thinks they may even have buried the Holy Grail there.
However, the Laginas have also been advised that Nolan’s Cross could have been constructed as a large scale lay out of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, something which the Templars seem to have been aware of from their years spent in the Middle East (N.B. it is interesting to note here that French Martinist (Rosicrucian) priest, Abbé Bérenger Saunière, constructed a rock Tree of Life in his garden at Rennes-le-Château). An etching on one of the walls at Domme Castle, where French Templar knights were kept as prisoners in the early 14th century (see above), shows a mysterious looking network of lines with crosses branching off a main stem. This engraving (see the left-side image below) may have been inspired by the Kabbalistic tree of life. Curiously, the C’s made an implied connection between the Templars and Kabballah in the following extract from the transcripts:
Session 26 July 1997:I have no idea whether Phillips was aware of Halpern’s theory (or she was aware of his) prior to making his own claim that De Sudely discovered the Ark of the Covenant at Petra. However, there are many researchers who believe it is entirely feasible that the Templars buried treasure on Oak Island, including British researcher Tony McMahon who thinks they may even have buried the Holy Grail there.
However, the Laginas have also been advised that Nolan’s Cross could have been constructed as a large scale lay out of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, something which the Templars seem to have been aware of from their years spent in the Middle East (N.B. it is interesting to note here that French Martinist (Rosicrucian) priest, Abbé Bérenger Saunière, constructed a rock Tree of Life in his garden at Rennes-le-Château). An etching on one of the walls at Domme Castle, where French Templar knights were kept as prisoners in the early 14th century (see above), shows a mysterious looking network of lines with crosses branching off a main stem. This engraving (see the left-side image below) may have been inspired by the Kabbalistic tree of life. Curiously, the C’s made an implied connection between the Templars and Kabballah in the following extract from the transcripts:
Q: Okay. The Templars were formed in Jerusalem. They were there for quite a while with no record of doing any of the things that the group supposedly intended to do. There are a lot of rumours... what were they doing in Jerusalem?
A: Templars held the secret of levitation.
Q: Is this something... and I am talking about the 9 guys in Jerusalem... did they discover some document in Jerusalem that gave them this secret?
A: Yes.
Q: And is this how they were able to get so much support from certain royal houses and so forth?
A: It is time for you to study Kaballah* again, but be careful!!
*The C’s described the origins of Kaballah as “Channelled truths given to early pre-Mosaic Jews” who may well have been the group we know today as the Levites. The C’s confirmed that the original form of the Kaballah had been corrupted with the passage of time.
Possible carving of the Tree of Life at Domme
Another Oak Island Researcher, Brian Pharoah, who has appeared on “The Curse of Oak Island”, contends that when you combine all of Nolan's Cross's secrets, one soon sees that this layout cannot be simply a random act of nature as some people have argued. For Pharoah. human beings must have had a hand in its design, layout, and execution, as he believes that Nolan's Cross demonstrates a deep understanding of Sacred Geometry and the Cosmos. This Sacred Geometry expresses numbers that describe measurement, music, time, and the Universe itself. He points out that Nolan’s Cross, regardless of the units of measurement used, illustrates proportions and ratios and sacred geometry hidden inside. For example, Pharoah holds that Nolan's Cross long axis is astrologically aligned with both the Spring Equinox and the Winter Solstice. For more on this see: Guest Post by Brian Pharoah: As Above, So Below - Nolan's Cross - Part 1 (theoakislandcompendium.com) and Guest Post by Brian Pharoah: As Above, So Below - Nolan's Cross - Part 2 (theoakislandcompendium.com). Quoting Pharaoh:
“These astronomical alignments to the Solstices are incredible. As Above, So Below. Someone has taken great care to locate the markers on Oak Island; we all can agree. Nolan’s Cross is like an astronomical calendar of the Solstice's built-in megalithic stone. This phenomenon could only be created over many years of careful observation. So how long may it have taken to construct the Treasure Vault? What treasure is so precious that the depositors would consider these kind of measurements and alignments? Obviously a significant and sacred treasure. This vault design is a very carefully considered plan that encodes layer upon layer of sacred information. But why all this secret encoding, I ask again? This treasure must be extremely sacred.
These alignments and geometry are too perfect to be a fluke. The way that Nolan’s Cross encodes this information is quite amazing.
The Autumn Equinox occurs on September 21. Examining the westerly sky on the Equinoxes, we can see that Cygnus (the Northern Cross) is present. Nolan’s Cross is a reflection on the ground of the Northern Cross in the sky. Cygnus (the Northern Cross) is part of an astronomical asterism known as the Summer Triangle. The Summer Triangle is made up of stars from 3 constellations Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquilla. The brightest stars in these constellations magically join together to form a sacred triangle in the sky. The defining vertices (stars) of this astronomical triangle are Deneb (Cygnus), Vega (Lyra), and Altair (Aquilla), each of which is the brightest star of its own constellation.!
We should at this point keep in mind that the constellation of Cygnus held a special significance for the Rosicrucians and the enclave of alchemists at the end of the 16th century due to the sighting of stellar novae:
Q: Supposedly, Christian Rosencruetz was initiated by the 'philosophers of Dancar.' I want to know where this blasted place is! Okay, skip it. One of the Rosicrucian manifestos said: 'God has sent messengers and signs in the heavens, namely the new stars in Serpentarius and Cygnus, to show that a great council of the elect is to take place.' What do they mean by a 'great council of the elect?'
A: Pyrenees.
Q: Okay, the purported enclave of the alchemists... Why was it signified by new stars in Serpentarius and Cygnus? What do they represent?
A: Novae.
Is it possible, therefore, that Nolan’s Cross was constructed by agents of the enclave of alchemists, i.e., the sect that the C’s have referred to, bearing in mind that I have reason to believe that the enclave of alchemists may have contained Templar knights within its ranks?
Curiously, another boulder was found at the centre of Nolan’s Cross with a human face and sword image – traits synonymous with Templar tombs.
Curiously, another boulder was found at the centre of Nolan’s Cross with a human face and sword image – traits synonymous with Templar tombs.
The Oak Island Head Stone
Curiously, strange rock carvings with possible Templar connections are not unique to Oak Island, since local researcher Terry Devaux was able to show the Laginas other examples of rock carvings found near to the town of Overton some 144 miles west of Oak Island, including what clearly looks like a Templar Cross – see Bing Videos and image below. See also the following link to a short documentary featuring Terry Devaux’s findings, which in turn link with the theory that the Portuguese Knights of Christ may have visited the Overton area and been responsible for the carving of the aforementioned Templar (Knights of Christ) Cross that could have been representative of a peace pact with the local Native American tribe called the Mi’kmaq, since the carvings also contain representations of eagle feathers and a crescent moon, symbols known to have been used by the Mi’kmaq – see: Bing Videos. I shall have more to say about the Knights of Christ below.
Sir Henry SinclairSome Oak Island researchers believe that Sir Henry Sinclair of the famous Sinclair family who are associated with the building of the enigmatic Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland journeyed to Nova Scotia in the late 14th century and deposited Templar relics and treasure there. Erroneously called Prince Henry the Navigator, Earl of Orkney, the C’s appeared to give some credence to the claim that he and a party of men may have ventured to North America a century before Columbus:
Q: Now, all these Masons are very hot on the Sinclair family and the Rosslyn Chapel. They are certain that their guys came to America, because in this chapel, built supposedly by a Master Mason, there are carvings of corn, as in maize, and aloe vera plants. This is evidence, to them, that Prince Henry the Navigator and all the Templars and all that...
A: Nonsense!
Q: Well, then, what IS the explanation for these carvings in Rosslyn Chapel?
A: Visitors yes, but the Masonic creed is intertwined with ancient order of Essenes, arising out of ancient Egypt, from the secret knowledge stored at the base of the Sphinx, as left there by "Atlantean" survivors.
Q: Does anybody in the Masonic order know anything?
A: Yes.
Q: Well, how high do you have to go to get to know anything?
A: Page 33 [MJF: this could be a page reference to a pamphlet Laura was given on the island of Tenerife, where giant humans were alleged to have lived in the distant past]. Blond and blue-eyed, of course! Before genetic alteration, one branch stood eleven feet tall.
We also know from the C’s that Freemasonry began over 7,500 years ago with a group called the Osirians, whose form of masonry was equivalent to that practised at the 33rd (highest) degree today. The Sinclair family have themselves long been linked to Freemasonry, and it is rumoured that the Sinclairs may have given refuge to Knights Templar fleeing from France, who could have brought with them some of the Templar’s treasure and records. However, it is interesting to note here that the C’s linked Freemasonry to the ancient order of the Essenes, suggesting a much older pedigree for the Essenes than the one usually attributed to them by modern historians, one that commenced in ancient Egypt and may have been linked to the mysterious group called the Osirians. Perhaps the Templars discovered some ancient Essene scrolls/writings in Jerusalem during their searches, long before the Essene literature re-emerged in modern times with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran in Israel in 1952, including the famous Copper Scroll (MJF: see my earlier article on The Copper Scroll). The C’s had this to say about the Copper Scroll:
Session dated 7 November 1994:
Q: (L) What are the copper scrolls discovered in Israel?
A: Essenes. The treasure described was real but no longer intact as described.
Is it possible that the Templars found this lost treasure of the Jerusalem Temple after discovering an equivalent of the Copper Scroll and using it to track down the treasure? If so, did they arrange for any of this treasure to be secreted away on Oak Island? Researchers like Tony Mc Mahon certainly think so.
To add weight to the likelihood of a Templar presence on the island, the Laginas have also discovered a coin near the Money Pit, embedded with a Templar cross on it. A crossbow bolt was also found in lot 26, on the southwest shore of the island. After close examination, the team identified it as medieval, dating it as far back to the 13th century with possible Templar origins.
The HO Stone
To add weight to the likelihood of a Templar presence on the island, the Laginas have also discovered a coin near the Money Pit, embedded with a Templar cross on it. A crossbow bolt was also found in lot 26, on the southwest shore of the island. After close examination, the team identified it as medieval, dating it as far back to the 13th century with possible Templar origins.
The HO Stone
However, the Head Stone is not the only strange stone with possible Templar connections that has been found on Oak Island for there is also the “HO” Stone. The “HO” Stone was part of a huge boulder found on the Oak Island shore back in 1921 by treasure hunters, which was covered in engraved writing. Without any apparent thought for the important clues it might hold, the treasure hunters blew it up. All that remained was the slab containing the mysterious markings of “H” and “O” and, in between the two letters, a cross surrounded by four dots (see image below).
The cross on a Templar Knight’s shield from a wall painting and, right, on the “HO” stone
Nichola Luis, a French researcher hired by the team, showed Rick Lagina and his investigators how similar that cross was to one found on a depiction of a Knights Templar shield she had found in a Templar chapel. Similar crosses were also found carved into the walls at the Templar prison at Domme Castle. The cross is based on the Jerusalem crucifix, which used to have four small crosses around it representing the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. When the Knights Templar adopted it, they are said to have changed the four crosses to four coins to represent the banking system they had established. As Rick Lagina has observed, all this information suggests that whoever carved the symbols on the HO Stone probably hadn’t just done it “on a lark” — they must have known what they were doing.
Nichola Luis also shed some light on the possible meanings of the H and the O saying that the H could stand for the Greek letter Eta, while the O was likely actually an Θ, the Greek letter Theta. She also said that the Theta, which is the first letter of Theos, the Greek word for God, could be a Christogram, commonly used to represent Jesus Christ in Byzantine and medieval eras. One of the oldest Christograms was the “Chi Rho” cross, which was later adopted by the Knights Templar.
However, the letters RC (Chi Rho reversed) are also connected with the 17th century Rosicrucians and thus by extension with Sir Francis Bacon, since they form the initials of Christian Rosencreutz, the fabled founder of the Rosicrucian movement. As Laura has noted, the bearded shepherd in Nicholas Poussin’s celebrated painting of The Shepherds of Arcadia is kneeling and pointing to the letters RC on the tomb depicted in the painting. When Poussin painted this work, Nova Scotia, the region in which Oak Island is located today, was then known as Arcadie, the French name for Arcadia. Poussin was a very exacting artist and everything in his paintings held a meaning. It is unlikely to be mere chance, therefore, that the bearded shepherd was pointing to the letters RC. For me, this is highly suggestive that Poussin was deliberately revealing his secret Rosicrucian affiliations to those in the know.
However, the letters RC (Chi Rho reversed) are also connected with the 17th century Rosicrucians and thus by extension with Sir Francis Bacon, since they form the initials of Christian Rosencreutz, the fabled founder of the Rosicrucian movement. As Laura has noted, the bearded shepherd in Nicholas Poussin’s celebrated painting of The Shepherds of Arcadia is kneeling and pointing to the letters RC on the tomb depicted in the painting. When Poussin painted this work, Nova Scotia, the region in which Oak Island is located today, was then known as Arcadie, the French name for Arcadia. Poussin was a very exacting artist and everything in his paintings held a meaning. It is unlikely to be mere chance, therefore, that the bearded shepherd was pointing to the letters RC. For me, this is highly suggestive that Poussin was deliberately revealing his secret Rosicrucian affiliations to those in the know.
Is the Ark of the Covenant Buried on Oak Island
The Lagina brothers have also heard from another scholar who believes the Templars hid the Ark of the Covenant on the island. This particular scholar claimed to have uncovered a hidden code indicating the Ark's presence on Oak Island saying he can mark the area with an X. He also highlighted a phrase from a book that said, "This shall be the sacred mark, Which shall guide us to the skies, Bearing, like a holy ark."
However, another theorist by the name of Corjan Mol has been studying the paintings of Nicolas Poussin (1594 -1665) and has discovered that three of Poussin’s paintings made what he thought were references to Oak Island and buried treasure. Unsurprisingly, one of these paintings is The Shepherds of Arcadia. Well, the C’s did once say:
A: Just look. Now folks, remember: Rennes-le-Chateau is a means, not an end. Sort of like unlocking the trunk, expecting to find the gold, and merely finding a map.
However, another theorist by the name of Corjan Mol has been studying the paintings of Nicolas Poussin (1594 -1665) and has discovered that three of Poussin’s paintings made what he thought were references to Oak Island and buried treasure. Unsurprisingly, one of these paintings is The Shepherds of Arcadia. Well, the C’s did once say:
A: Just look. Now folks, remember: Rennes-le-Chateau is a means, not an end. Sort of like unlocking the trunk, expecting to find the gold, and merely finding a map.
Following the geometric shapes that Poussin had embedded in his paintings, Mol argued that when superimposed beside Nolan’s Cross on the swamp, the paintings appeared to be pointing to a specific spot; they looked like a map and X marked the spot.
Mol was joined by fellow theorist Chris Morford and the pair claim to have discovered another painting that revealed the “all-seeing eye” A symbol that is universally known today to represent the Illuminati and their predecessors, the Knights Templar.
This new discovery seems to correlate with their theory that Poussin was privy to secret information about hidden treasure on Oak Island. He embedded clues in his paintings that all pointed to the loot being buried at the Eye of the Swamp, exactly where the team previously discovered some kind of buried structure.
What Mol and Morford may not be aware of is the Rosicrucian connections of Poussin, which in turn create a possible link with Sir Francis Bacon who was his contemporary and the person the C’s implicated in the burying of the treasure on Oak Island:
This new discovery seems to correlate with their theory that Poussin was privy to secret information about hidden treasure on Oak Island. He embedded clues in his paintings that all pointed to the loot being buried at the Eye of the Swamp, exactly where the team previously discovered some kind of buried structure.
What Mol and Morford may not be aware of is the Rosicrucian connections of Poussin, which in turn create a possible link with Sir Francis Bacon who was his contemporary and the person the C’s implicated in the burying of the treasure on Oak Island:
A: Connect the Rosicrucians to your favourite island by the "beech." Horticulturally, please, and family.
Q: Oak Island?
A: Yup! Then, connect the Pyrenees to the Canaries.
I am rather sceptical as to whether Mol and Morford’s discovery will lead to an “X marks the spot” location where the TDARM has been buried on Oak Island. However, I think it quite possible that Poussin was aware that something of great value and significance had been buried on Oak Island at some point during the 16th century.
Mol and Morford’s basic theory is that the Knights Templar discovered the Ark of the Covenant along with other treasures sometime after 1095 (MJF: which you will note fits in with Graham Phillips’ and Zena Halpern’s theories). Mol believes that at some point, they left Europe for the new world, perhaps fleeing persecution. He thinks they took the treasure with them and buried it on Oak Island. The swamp was created to hide it all.
Mol and Morford’s basic theory is that the Knights Templar discovered the Ark of the Covenant along with other treasures sometime after 1095 (MJF: which you will note fits in with Graham Phillips’ and Zena Halpern’s theories). Mol believes that at some point, they left Europe for the new world, perhaps fleeing persecution. He thinks they took the treasure with them and buried it on Oak Island. The swamp was created to hide it all.
Dr. Ian Spooner, a Geoscientist who works with the Laginas’ investigative team, has been digging for samples at two sites in the swamp and notes that at the Eye the ground underneath has been disturbed, and he thinks there was a significant excavation done in that area around 1675. Could someone have been looking for the Ark of the Covenant in 1675? A second sample from another part of the swamp has led Dr. Spooner to say, “the swamp was initiated in 1220 AD.” What he meant by this is that the marshy land is human-made and that it was created in the 13th Century. The Geoscientist said, “something super big was going on here.”
So, is the Ark of the Covenant on Oak Island? Even if it isn’t, what is buried on Oak Island would seem to be its equivalent judging from what the C’s said here:
A: The Ark of the Covenant is not what you think it is.
Q: You guys said that it was a power cell. I don't have some sort of romantic idea of it. I can accept that. But there are all these stories about it and a lot of people have mythologized it. What do you mean by saying such a thing. What is the Ark?
A: See Oak Island.
{Trans-dimensional Atomic Remolecularizer?}
The Knights of Christ
One thing the Lagina brothers are now convinced about is that the various construction operations they have so far discovered on Oak Island were clearly the result of a multigenerational enterprise. Hence, what may have started with a group of Knights Templar in the 12th century was continued by their religious successors the Portuguese Knights of Christ, with subsequent construction activities on the island (which were probably connected more with searching for treasure than depositing it) being carried out by various groups or individuals who appeared to have had Freemasonic affiliations or associations. We have already looked at the possible involvement of the Knights Templar with the island but before looking at the activities of their successors, the Knights of Christ, we need to look at what the C’s had to say about the group responsible for depositing the TDARM at the bottom of the Money Pit in the session dated 22 April 1995:
Q: (L) Now, my thought is, after reading about all the details of the diggings and barriers, and depth of the pit is that, it was beyond human technology to have produced that pit at that point in history?
A: Beyond known technology.
Q: (L) And yet humans may have been involved in that activity?
A: Bingo.
Q: (J) Think back to when we were talking about it and you mentioned the lights.
A: Some humans have always communed with “higher” powers. We are speaking of conscious communion in this and other instances.
Q: (L) Okay, there was conscious communion between humans and other powers in the building of this pit. What group of humans was this?
A: It’s fun to learn.
Q: (J) How about pirates? (L) Well, who was in this area? Eskimos?
A: No.
Q: (L) Indians?
A: Keep going, network.
Q: (L) There were the French and the English. How about the Vikings? (F) No, the Vikings were 600 years before that. (T) Well, we don’t know how long ago the pit was dug. (J) I’m still… yeah, good question. (L) When was the pit itself dug?
A: 1500s. Nationality is not issue.
[Laura: Note that they are speaking of the digging of the pit and NOT the original placing of the object. Clearly someone was instructed to dig there to access this thing at some later point in “time.”]
Q: (T) Well, this pit was dug sometime in the middle of the 1500s. (J) And it was discovered in the 1700s.
A: Access sect information.
Q: (L) So, it could have been a religious group?
A: Now, who claimed communion, Laura has in memory banks from absorption of mass reading practice.
[Laura: That may have been true, but I was sure drawing a big blank at the time of these questions!]
Q: (F) Was there a sect from that era that claimed communion with higher powers?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) I think that this may have had something to do with the people that later became known as the Cajuns, they called the area Arcadia; it was a French religious sect that was living there…
A: Maybe.
[Laura: And here we have a significant clue: Arcadia. This was to prove to be a link to MANY things, as we shall see.]
Q: (L) When they drilled into the pit, it was claimed that some bits of gold came up and a piece of parchment and maybe some other odds and ends depending on which story you read. What were these?
A: Alchemy.
[Laura: Notice that they did not confirm the story about the gold and parchment but merely gave an additional “clue” to go with “Arcadia.”]
Q: (T) The remolecularizer made it. (L) Why not? If these people were involved in doing this, why did they do it?
A: Instructed to do it.
Q: (L) They were instructed by the higher powers they were in contact with, to dig down there and access a remolecularizer that had been buried ages ago, correct?
A: Yes.
So, we have a human sect that claimed communion with higher powers that were most likely 4th density STS and quite probably the Lizard beings, since it was they who had first buried the TDARM on the island 10,000 years ago. According to the C’s, the Money Pit was dug during the 1500’s (the 16th century) by humans who had been instructed by these higher powers. The humans concerned represented different nationalities rather than one particular national group. It also looks as though they may have been accessing the TDARM in order to rebury it in a more secure hideaway or vault.
Where the identity of the sect was concerned, Laura’s first thought was that they were the Cajuns, which is a name associated with the French/Native American mixed race group of people who had been evicted by the British from the French province or territory of Acadia (Acadie in French) which comprised what is now New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island and what is today part of the US State of Maine. They came to be known by the generic name “Cajuns” (which is a corruption of “Acadian”) only after they were resettled in what was the former French province of Louisiana during the latter part of the 18th century. However, I believe Laura’s proposal that the sect responsible for the burial of the TDARM on Oak Island was the Cajuns fails on three counts.
First, there was no permanent French presence in Nova Scotia (Acadia) during the 16th century. The first permanent French settlement in Acadia was only established in 1605 at the town known as Port-Royal. Indeed, it was the first successful attempt by Europeans to establish a permanent settlement in what is today Canada. Hence, as there were no Acadians (Cajuns) around during the 16th century, they could not have been the group the C’s had in mind.
Secondly, the French Arcadians were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic and did not form a sect as such since they continued throughout their history to remain faithful and in communion with the Church of Rome. This remains true even to this day since a few years ago I met a Catholic priest from Nova Scotia, whose family was descended from Acadians who had managed to remain in Acadia/Nova Scotia after the mass expulsions of their fellow Acadians by the British during the 18th century. His family had always been Catholic.
The definition of the term ‘sect’ is taken to mean a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong. They can thus be viewed as a group that has separated from an established Church. I do not think this definition can be regarded as applicable to the Cajuns since they have remained within the mainstream of the Catholic Church and do not promote a separate body of belief. The word “sect” is at the root of other words such as “sector” or “section”, which denotes a division and would thus be applicable to a distinct group within a larger body of people or things.
Third, the Acadians (Cajuns) were a distinctive, cultural group whose nationality (at least originally) was French. It is true that some of the French Acadian settlers intermarried with local Native American women from the various tribes forming the Algonquian nations. However, the Acadians cannot really be said to have been a multi-national group, bearing in mind that the C’s said “Nationality is not issue” where the TDARM depositors were concerned.
One group that in my view would have met the C’s criteria are the Knights Templar. They were a multinational organisation with knights drawn from all over Europe. They could also be viewed as a sect since although they claimed communion with the Roman Catholic Church, they held beliefs that would eventually be ruled as heretical by the Church. Did they commune with “higher powers” though? The answer is a tentative yes. One way of communing with higher powers is to enter into an altered state of consciousness. This can be achieved in different ways, but one well known method used from time immemorial is to take mind altering drugs or concoctions. Shaman have been doing so for eons. Is there any evidence that the Knights Templar may have used such substances?
I watched last year an excellent series of programs called Lost Relics of the Knights Templar, which concerned the Templar relics possessed by two middle-aged Englishmen, Hamilton White and Carl Cookson, who are collectors of rare antiques (see: Lost Relics of the Knights Templar: A review - The Archaeology and Metal Detecting Magazine (archmdmag.com)). The two men have a special interest in the Templars and bought a hoard of Templar artefacts known as the Tomar Hoard that had been unearthed in Portugal I believe in 1960. The hoard included a Templar Grand Master’s sword, a helmet, an Obsidian chalice and a libation cup. The programs dealt with Templar history and had experts determining whether the artefacts were genuine Templar relics. The artefact I will particularly focus on here is the Templar libation cup (see image below).
Where the identity of the sect was concerned, Laura’s first thought was that they were the Cajuns, which is a name associated with the French/Native American mixed race group of people who had been evicted by the British from the French province or territory of Acadia (Acadie in French) which comprised what is now New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands, Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island and what is today part of the US State of Maine. They came to be known by the generic name “Cajuns” (which is a corruption of “Acadian”) only after they were resettled in what was the former French province of Louisiana during the latter part of the 18th century. However, I believe Laura’s proposal that the sect responsible for the burial of the TDARM on Oak Island was the Cajuns fails on three counts.
First, there was no permanent French presence in Nova Scotia (Acadia) during the 16th century. The first permanent French settlement in Acadia was only established in 1605 at the town known as Port-Royal. Indeed, it was the first successful attempt by Europeans to establish a permanent settlement in what is today Canada. Hence, as there were no Acadians (Cajuns) around during the 16th century, they could not have been the group the C’s had in mind.
Secondly, the French Arcadians were overwhelmingly Roman Catholic and did not form a sect as such since they continued throughout their history to remain faithful and in communion with the Church of Rome. This remains true even to this day since a few years ago I met a Catholic priest from Nova Scotia, whose family was descended from Acadians who had managed to remain in Acadia/Nova Scotia after the mass expulsions of their fellow Acadians by the British during the 18th century. His family had always been Catholic.
The definition of the term ‘sect’ is taken to mean a group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger group to which they belong. They can thus be viewed as a group that has separated from an established Church. I do not think this definition can be regarded as applicable to the Cajuns since they have remained within the mainstream of the Catholic Church and do not promote a separate body of belief. The word “sect” is at the root of other words such as “sector” or “section”, which denotes a division and would thus be applicable to a distinct group within a larger body of people or things.
Third, the Acadians (Cajuns) were a distinctive, cultural group whose nationality (at least originally) was French. It is true that some of the French Acadian settlers intermarried with local Native American women from the various tribes forming the Algonquian nations. However, the Acadians cannot really be said to have been a multi-national group, bearing in mind that the C’s said “Nationality is not issue” where the TDARM depositors were concerned.
One group that in my view would have met the C’s criteria are the Knights Templar. They were a multinational organisation with knights drawn from all over Europe. They could also be viewed as a sect since although they claimed communion with the Roman Catholic Church, they held beliefs that would eventually be ruled as heretical by the Church. Did they commune with “higher powers” though? The answer is a tentative yes. One way of communing with higher powers is to enter into an altered state of consciousness. This can be achieved in different ways, but one well known method used from time immemorial is to take mind altering drugs or concoctions. Shaman have been doing so for eons. Is there any evidence that the Knights Templar may have used such substances?
I watched last year an excellent series of programs called Lost Relics of the Knights Templar, which concerned the Templar relics possessed by two middle-aged Englishmen, Hamilton White and Carl Cookson, who are collectors of rare antiques (see: Lost Relics of the Knights Templar: A review - The Archaeology and Metal Detecting Magazine (archmdmag.com)). The two men have a special interest in the Templars and bought a hoard of Templar artefacts known as the Tomar Hoard that had been unearthed in Portugal I believe in 1960. The hoard included a Templar Grand Master’s sword, a helmet, an Obsidian chalice and a libation cup. The programs dealt with Templar history and had experts determining whether the artefacts were genuine Templar relics. The artefact I will particularly focus on here is the Templar libation cup (see image below).
A libation cup is a cup that was used to offer a drink to a deity. This is definitely not a chalice as used by Catholic priests to offer the communion wine during the Mass. Although the Templars were a Catholic monastic order and had priests who would say Mass on a daily basis for the knights, a libation cup is not an item you would expect to find within a Catholic monastery such as the Templar’s Convento de Cristo at Tomar in Portugal. It is something which one would more readily associate with the rituals conducted during the Greco-Roman Dionysian Mysteries, where the participants seem to have used intoxicants (wine) and trance-inducing substances.
Unfortunately, White and Cookson are not prepared to say how they came to acquire the Tomar Hoard, and the provenance of the Hoard is also in doubt. Even if the artefacts are genuine medieval items, it cannot be proven that they were owned by the Templars. However, Tomar was a purpose-built Templar town created within the walls of the late 12th century monastery so if the relics were unearthed there, it is more likely that they were associated with the Templars. Why would they have been hidden though? The answer to this lies in the fact that on 25 March 1581, King Philip II of Spain was crowned King of Portugal in Tomar as Philip I. This cleared the way for Philip to create an Iberian Union spanning all of Iberia under the Spanish crown.
A Spanish king reigning on the Portuguese throne had serious ramifications for the Portuguese Military Order of Christ, the successors of the Knights Templar in Portugal, since the king brought with him the feared Spanish Inquisition, the ultra-hard protectors of Catholic orthodoxy, who had long had the Knights of Christ in their sights. The Knights of Christ, who had established their headquarters at Tomar upon their foundation in 1318, may have had good reason to fear the investigations of the Spanish Inquisition since they had already come under the scrutiny of the Portuguese Inquisition, established in 1536, and seemingly with just cause.
More than eighty years before the publication of the first Rosicrucian manifesto, around 1530, a short time before the reform of the Order under the Spanish born Fra António (also known as Antonius of Lisbon) and the expulsion of several friars, the cross and the rose were associated in the Convent of the Order of Christ. Three bocetes are on the abóboda (vault) of the interior chamber (which is thought to have been the initiation room because of its initial seven steps), seven carved rose-crosses, and a rosette depicting a circular sun on the vault, and its own underground small chamber or tomb of initiation at the end. In some of them, the rose flower can clearly be seen at the centre of the cross, which remains to this day as a well-known Rosicrucian emblem.
If some members of the Order of Christ were Rosicrucians in the 16th century who took part in secret initiation ceremonies, the entry of the Spanish Inquisition into Portugal in 1581 would readily explain why somebody had chosen to bury a libation cup rather than risk its discovery by the inquisitors. However, there is reason to suspect that other members of the Order elected instead to take ship and transfer their treasure and documents abroad with the Portuguese Azores their first port of call. Is it possible that from there some of this treasure (including possibly original Knight Templar treasure) may have been taken to Oak Island off Nova Scotia? I will have more to say on this issue below.
We should also remember here that Phillip II of Spain was the same monarch who would send the Spanish Armada against Elizabeth I’s Protestant England in 1588. Hence, Portugal’s enemy was also England’s enemy. Although Portugal was a deeply Catholic country like Spain, it had been England’s ally since 1373. Indeed, the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance is the world’s oldest alliance still in force by political bilateral agreement, as established by the Treaty of Windsor in 1386. When Portugal was subsumed under the Iberian Union, rebellious Portuguese factions and the Portuguese government in exile sought refuge and help in England. England then spearheaded the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) on the side of the deposed Portuguese royal house.
Let us recall here that a young Sir Francis Bacon (possibly the author of the Rosicrucian Manifestos) had spent three years on the continent from 1576 on government service as part of the diplomatic team of Sir Amias Paulet, the new English ambassador to Paris and visited in that time Blois, Poitiers, Tours, Italy, and Spain. During his travels, Bacon studied language, statecraft, and civil law while performing routine diplomatic tasks. On at least one occasion he delivered diplomatic letters to England for Sir Francis Walsingham (the head of the English secret service), Lord Burghley, the Earl of Leicester, and for the Queen herself. It is not out of the question that during this time he may have made clandestine contact with the Rosicrucians of Tomar and possibly with the Enclave of Alchemists in the Pyrenees, given that he himself was known to be a practicing alchemist. I hope to have more to say about Bacon’s activities on the continent in a follow-up post, especially in relation to his sowing the seeds of the secret society that would become the 17th century Rosicrucians with Bacon serving as their Grand Master.
Continued in Part 3.
Unfortunately, White and Cookson are not prepared to say how they came to acquire the Tomar Hoard, and the provenance of the Hoard is also in doubt. Even if the artefacts are genuine medieval items, it cannot be proven that they were owned by the Templars. However, Tomar was a purpose-built Templar town created within the walls of the late 12th century monastery so if the relics were unearthed there, it is more likely that they were associated with the Templars. Why would they have been hidden though? The answer to this lies in the fact that on 25 March 1581, King Philip II of Spain was crowned King of Portugal in Tomar as Philip I. This cleared the way for Philip to create an Iberian Union spanning all of Iberia under the Spanish crown.
A Spanish king reigning on the Portuguese throne had serious ramifications for the Portuguese Military Order of Christ, the successors of the Knights Templar in Portugal, since the king brought with him the feared Spanish Inquisition, the ultra-hard protectors of Catholic orthodoxy, who had long had the Knights of Christ in their sights. The Knights of Christ, who had established their headquarters at Tomar upon their foundation in 1318, may have had good reason to fear the investigations of the Spanish Inquisition since they had already come under the scrutiny of the Portuguese Inquisition, established in 1536, and seemingly with just cause.
More than eighty years before the publication of the first Rosicrucian manifesto, around 1530, a short time before the reform of the Order under the Spanish born Fra António (also known as Antonius of Lisbon) and the expulsion of several friars, the cross and the rose were associated in the Convent of the Order of Christ. Three bocetes are on the abóboda (vault) of the interior chamber (which is thought to have been the initiation room because of its initial seven steps), seven carved rose-crosses, and a rosette depicting a circular sun on the vault, and its own underground small chamber or tomb of initiation at the end. In some of them, the rose flower can clearly be seen at the centre of the cross, which remains to this day as a well-known Rosicrucian emblem.
If some members of the Order of Christ were Rosicrucians in the 16th century who took part in secret initiation ceremonies, the entry of the Spanish Inquisition into Portugal in 1581 would readily explain why somebody had chosen to bury a libation cup rather than risk its discovery by the inquisitors. However, there is reason to suspect that other members of the Order elected instead to take ship and transfer their treasure and documents abroad with the Portuguese Azores their first port of call. Is it possible that from there some of this treasure (including possibly original Knight Templar treasure) may have been taken to Oak Island off Nova Scotia? I will have more to say on this issue below.
We should also remember here that Phillip II of Spain was the same monarch who would send the Spanish Armada against Elizabeth I’s Protestant England in 1588. Hence, Portugal’s enemy was also England’s enemy. Although Portugal was a deeply Catholic country like Spain, it had been England’s ally since 1373. Indeed, the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance is the world’s oldest alliance still in force by political bilateral agreement, as established by the Treaty of Windsor in 1386. When Portugal was subsumed under the Iberian Union, rebellious Portuguese factions and the Portuguese government in exile sought refuge and help in England. England then spearheaded the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) on the side of the deposed Portuguese royal house.
Let us recall here that a young Sir Francis Bacon (possibly the author of the Rosicrucian Manifestos) had spent three years on the continent from 1576 on government service as part of the diplomatic team of Sir Amias Paulet, the new English ambassador to Paris and visited in that time Blois, Poitiers, Tours, Italy, and Spain. During his travels, Bacon studied language, statecraft, and civil law while performing routine diplomatic tasks. On at least one occasion he delivered diplomatic letters to England for Sir Francis Walsingham (the head of the English secret service), Lord Burghley, the Earl of Leicester, and for the Queen herself. It is not out of the question that during this time he may have made clandestine contact with the Rosicrucians of Tomar and possibly with the Enclave of Alchemists in the Pyrenees, given that he himself was known to be a practicing alchemist. I hope to have more to say about Bacon’s activities on the continent in a follow-up post, especially in relation to his sowing the seeds of the secret society that would become the 17th century Rosicrucians with Bacon serving as their Grand Master.
Continued in Part 3.
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