The Copper Scroll Part 2
The Damascus Connection
Many scholars believe the Essenes may have had several communities occupying different sites in Judea. There are others who believe the Qumran site was unique and the Essenes main or only settlement. Benz and Riesner fall into the former camp and mention other Essene sites associated with Qumran at places like En et-Turabe, En el-Juwer and En Fasha. I don’t know if any of these sites are located near modern-day Haifa where the C’s suggested in the transcripts that an Essene monastic community had been established. The Qumran site itself seems to have been occupied from the second half of the 2nd Century BC up to its destruction in 68 A.D. by the Romans during the Jewish Revolt with a short gap in occupation during the reign of King Herod the Great (37 B.C. – 4 A.D.) who was responsible for redeveloping the Second Temple in Jerusalem. However, we have had references made to the Damascus Document and the Damascus Rule, so was there a connection between the Essenes and the Syrian city of Damascus?
Benz and Riesner point out that scholars have been increasingly assuming, with full justification, that the ‘land of Damascus’ which the Damascus Rule speaks of is not a code for Babylon or Qumran but in fact refers to the ancient city in southern Syria. It seems the Essene community had been in exile in the ‘land of Damascus’ for a while at the beginning of its foundation and after that some of its members evidently remained in the neighbourhood of Damascus. This is an important point for us since if a group of Essenes had remained behind in Damascus, this suggests they may have survived the Roman inspired second Jewish diaspora and continued to have a presence in the vicinity of that city perhaps even after the Arab conquests of Syria (A.D. 634–638). If so, it might explain the following excerpt from the transcripts:
Q: Okay, what is this P-S related to that appears on the stone slab from the Rennes le Chateau churchyard? Everybody is talking about the "Priory of Sion." But, what does this P-S mean? Is that it?
A: Look into ancient tongues...
Q: Ancient tongues? Get me a little closer to it!
A: Swords, daggers pierce...
Q: Is this P-S something about "Percy?" Swords, daggers, pierce... Damascus? Damascus steel?
A: Search for learning.
The reference to swords here may be an oblique reference to the Knights Templar and daggers may in turn be an oblique reference to the medieval secret order of the Assassins, whose preferred weapon of assassination was the dagger. The Assassins certainly had a presence in Damascus during the era of the Crusades and the name “Damascus” is also associated with a finely made steel from which swords and daggers were fashioned (see:
Damascus steel - Wikipedia). Although, as I have explained in an earlier article, the Assassins looked to the Fatimid Ismaili teachers at the university mosque of Al Azharin in Cairo for their philosophy and doctrines as a secret religious order, they may have had a much older pedigree and could originally have been founded by surviving Jewish Sicarii (“dagger men”) who may have sought refuge in Syria with their Essene kinsmen after the Roman victories in the Roman-Jewish Wars of the 1st and 2nd Centuries A.D., eventually converting to Islam for reasons of self-preservation. Consider how many Jewish families in Spain remained secret Jews even after outwardly converting to Catholicism during the 16th Century. The Ismailis had become an identifiable sect in the 9th century A.D. based primarily in Syria. In 969 A.D., a Fatimid army conquered Egypt, which now became the centre of a kingdom stretching the length of the north African coast. A new capital city was founded called Al Kahira ('the victorious'), now known in its western form as Cairo, which became the capital of an empire which would at its height include Sicily, the western part of the Arabian Peninsula (with the holy places of Mecca and Medina) and the Mediterranean coast up to Syria.
In 970 A.D., the Fatimids established in Cairo the university mosque of Al Azhar which has remained ever since a centre of Islamic learning. However, the authority of the Fatimid Ismaili caliphs would crumble in the 12th century A.D., when
Saladin, the famous Saracen commander, subsequently became leader of the Islamic world deposing the last of the Fatimid line. The collapse of the Fatimid caliphate did not mean the end of the political influence of the Ismailis though. There had been a dispute in 1094 A.D. over who should be caliph. The Fatimids in Egypt selected one of two brothers. However, the Ismailis in Persia and Syria preferred the other brother, by the name of
Nizar. The followers of Nizar became
the Nizari who, from the late 11th century A.D., began seizing territory in northern Persia. They made a religious virtue of terrorism and murder in pursuit of their ends. It is this group who became the feared Assassins of the medieval Middle East.
The split between what today we refer to as Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims began with the question of the line of imams in succession to Muhammad. However, the Ismaili sect also broke away from the main body of Shi’as (the 'party of Ali') for the same reason. The dispute between the Shi'as and Ismailis in the later years of the 8th century concerned the seventh imam. The Shi'as gave this position to Musa whereas the Ismailis supported his elder brother, Ismail (a derivative of the name Ishmael). Thus, the Ismailis are today known as the 'Seveners' because they follow the seventh imam, Ismail.
This begs the question whether the C’s in the except from the transcripts set out below were referring to the
Ishmaelis (i.e., the descendants of Ishmael the son of Hagar and Abraham) or the
Ismailis, the members of the Shia sect described above who counted among their number the Assassins. I have previously suggested that a young Ishmael fled with his mother Hagar/Meritaten to the British Isles, as depicted in the Greek myth of Helle and Phrixus and their flight on the Golden Ram, which would therefore take Ishmael well away from the Middle East and undermine his mythical role as progenitor of the Arab race.
Q: What is the meaning of 'The Widow's Son?' The implication?
A: Stalks path of wisdom incarnate.
Q: Why is this described as a Widow's son? This was the appellation of Perceval...
A: Perceval was knighted in the court of seven.
Q: The court of seven what?
A: Swords points signify crystal transmitter of truth beholden.
Q: What is the relationship between Perceval, Paran Sikarios, the Assassini, and Ishmael, the son of Hagar, at the well of the mirror?
A: Spear of Destiny.
Q: Are the Ishmaelis the carriers of the true bloodline, and the line of Isaac and Jacob, the Supplanter, the carriers of the monothiestic covenant, are the false line?
A: Close.
Q: Are the Ishmaelis also the carriers of the knowledge of levitation, the cult of the head or the skull...
A: Try to connect to the Templars.
Q: Did the Templars discover the secrets of the Ishmaelis, the Assassini, and is this what they carried into Europe, and then underground?
A: Buried in Galle.
In my view, the connection between the Ismailis and the Templars is much easier to establish than that between the Ishmaelis and the Templars by virtue of the contacts that clearly took place during the Crusades between the Templars and the Assassins (who were Ismailis). Although on the surface they would seem to have been natural enemies, in practice they often appeared to act as close allies. As secret orders, they no doubt shared esoteric information with each other as well. If, as I have argued above, the Assassins’ roots in Syria lay with surviving members of the Jewish Sicarii and the Essenes, then these medieval Essenes now disguised as Assassins, as descendants themselves of Levitical priests, may have recognised in the Rex Deus descended Knights Templar fellow Levites (Cohanim). This is pure conjecture on my part, but it would explain much about the Templar’s strange, non-Christian rites and their overt friendliness towards the Assassins, who on paper should have been their deadly religious enemies.
Mandaeism and the Nasoraeans (Nazarenes)
In my earlier articles on the Knights Templar, I touched upon the theory that their high regard for, and veneration of, John the Baptist may have stemmed from the links they made with the Mandaeans or Nazarenes (an early Jewish-Christian sect) in the Middle East. However, there are those who argue that the Mandaeans/Nazarenes were originally Essenes. Quoting from Wikipedia:
The
Haran Gawaita uses the name
Nasoraeans for the
Mandaeans arriving from Jerusalem meaning
guardians or possessors of secret rites and knowledge. Scholars such as
Kurt Rudolph,
Rudolf Macúch,
Mark Lidzbarski and
Ethel S. Drower connect the Mandaeans with the
Nasaraeans described by
Epiphanius,
a group within the Essenes according to
Joseph Lightfoot. Epiphanius says (29:6) that they existed before Jesus. That is questioned by some, but others accept the pre-Christian origin of the Nasaraeans.
Early religious concepts and terminologies recur in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and
Yardena (Jordan) has been the name of every baptismal water in Mandaeism. One of the names for the Mandaean God
Hayyi Rabbi,
Mara d-Rabuta (Lord of Greatness) is found in the
Genesis Apocryphon II, 4. Another early self-appellation is
bhiri zidqa meaning 'elect of righteousness' or 'the chosen righteous', a term found in the
Book of Enoch and
Genesis Apocryphon II, 4. As Nasoraeans, Mandaeans believe that they constitute the true congregation of
bnai nhura meaning
'Sons of Light', a term used by the Essenes. Mandaean scripture affirms that the Mandaeans descend directly from John the Baptist’s original Nasoraean Mandaean disciples in Jerusalem. Similar to the Essenes, it was forbidden for a Mandaean to reveal the names of the angels to a gentile. Essene graves are oriented north–south and a Mandaean's grave must also be in the north–south direction so that if the dead Mandaean were stood upright, they would face north. Mandaeans have an oral tradition that some were originally vegetarian and also similar to the Essenes, they were pacifists (MJF: as, of course, were the original Levites).
The
beit manda (
beth manda) is described as
biniana rab ḏ-srara ("the Great building of Truth") and
bit tušlima ("house of Perfection") in
Mandaean texts such as the
Qolasta,
Ginza Rabba, and the
Mandaean Book of John. The only known literary parallels are in Essene texts from
Qumran such as the
Community Rule, which has similar phrases such as the "house of Perfection and Truth in Israel" (
Community Rule 1QS VIII 9) and "house of Truth in Israel."
So, did some of the Essenes, descended from the Levites, morph into the Mandaeans or Nazarenes, who would later affect the Knights Templar in their beliefs? However, there may also be a putative link between the Assassins and the Mandaeans.
The
Haran Gawaita (“Inner
Harran" or "Inner
Hauran") also known as the
Scroll of Great Revelation, is a Mandaean text which recounts the history of the Mandaeans and their arrival in Media as Nasoraeans from Jerusalem. For those with good memories, you may recall that the ancient city of Harran was the home of the mysterious
Sabian star gazers and was the city named in the Bible from which Abraham set off to go to Egypt. Media is a region of north-western Iran today and is best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Medes
. Curiously, the a Mandaeans/Nazareans are also known as
Mandaean Sabians or simply Sabians. Did they simply assume the name Sabians or could this group have had a more ancient connection to the mysterious Sabians of old (who strangely had a colony based at Giza), who seem to have no origin story?
According to the Haran Gawaita,
John the Baptist was baptized, initiated, and educated by the patron of the
Nasirutha (secret knowledge),
Enosh (
Anush or Anush-ʼuthra), the
hierophant of the sect. This research was conducted by the Oxford scholar and specialist on the Nasoraeans,
Lady Ethel S. Drower. According to
Jorunn J. Buckley, the Mandaeans see themselves to be former Judeans based in Jerusalem that loved Adonai until the birth of Jesus.: These
Nasoraean disciples of John the Baptist were aware of the
destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD, but they did not leave because of this. They fled before 70 A.D. due to persecution by a faction of more normative or Orthodox Jews. With the help of the Parthian King
Artabanus II (Ardban II; previously known as Ardban III), who ruled from 11-38 A.D., the Mandaeans settled in the Median Hills (Mandaic:
Ṭura ḏ-Madaii ), and later moved to southern Babylonia (today’s Iraq).
You will note that the Mandaeans/Nazarenes/Sabians settled in Media or today’s northern Iran, where the Nizari, better known today as the Assassins, from the late 11th century A.D. onwards, began seizing territory in northern Persia. Is this just a coincidence or did the Assassins roots really lie with the Jewish Essenes and the Sicarii dagger men?
Ruth the Moabite
As to the appellation the “Widow's son” mentioned above, this title has a mysterious significance for the Freemasons, who may well be the latter-day successors of the Knights Templar.
Freemasons learn of Hiram Abiff, “The Widow’s Son”, in their induction into Freemasonry. However, they appreciate that there are others who are also referred to as “The Widow’s Son”. It seems this is a title to which more than one can be named. Curiously, one school of Masonic thought believes that the use of the title can actually be traced back to the Grail lore traditions which speak of a descended blood line and specifically reference the biblical character of Ruth.
In the Bible, Ruth was a woman of the Moabite tribe who was married to Boaz. The Moabites were a Semitic people who lived east of the Jordan River in the geographical area known as Moab, which is located today in modern day Jordan and Israel. In the Bible, the Moabites are said to have descended from Lot, the nephew of Abraham, by his eldest daughter, which would make them the Semitic kinsmen of the Abrahamic Hebrews/Levites or Israelites. Ruth became one of the great heroines of the Old Testament.
However, she is also meant to be the Great Grandmother of King David. All the descendants of Ruth were known simply by the title “Sons of the Widow”. A genealogy can be traced within the Bible since Ruth gives birth to the first “Son of the Widow”, Obed, who grows up and bears his son Jesse, who bears his son David, the first King of Israel who in the Bible begats Solomon and Nathan etc. But nowhere in the lineage mentioned in the Bible does it refer anywhere to Hiram Abiff. Knowing this, it seems the trail grows cold for Freemasons in the search for Hiram Abiff’s title of “The Widow’s Son”. It is curious though that the title “The Widow’s Son” is also borne by Perceval the eponymous hero of many of the Grail tales. The Grail legends were written in a way that lends itself to allegory and therefore, the story cannot be just assumed to mean that Hiram was literally just a son of a woman who lost her husband. These legends early on establish this title and what it means, which is a descendant of Ruth or more aptly a descendant of Boaz (who shares the name of one of the twin pillars of the Temple, as used in Masonic rituals). Determining that the term “Widow’s Son,” a flip flop of the term “Sons of the Widow” was not actually meant to refer to a man whose father had passed on, but rather the epithet given to the offspring and lineage of Ruth, heroine of “The Book of Ruth” presented in the Old Testament. I would go one step further here and query whether the title “Sons of the Widow” is, in reality, a euphemism for the “Children of the Grail”, since the Levites, for example, who we have now learned were a special bloodline, were at one stage the custodians of both the Ark of the Covenant and the Grail. Are we looking therefore at a special Grail bloodline here?
So, again we encounter a special bloodline, this time one descended from the Moabite Ruth (a non-Jewish heroine of the Bible). Did Ruth really exist or is she just a fictitious character created to convey a hidden truth rather like the figure of Rachel, the biblical mother of Jacob, who the C’s have said was really Nefertiti/Sarah? Is it significant here that Ruth is supposed to have been the great grandmother of King David, an historic character who certainly did exist? King David in the Bible is supposed to have been descended from the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which the C’s have suggested is a false line of transmission:
Q: (L) We have the brother issue to deal with. We have Abraham and his nephew, Lot. Then we have Moses and Aaron, Jacob and Esau, Isaac and Ishmael. Were all of these sets of brothers just different aspects or views on the same stories, a set of singular individuals, whether brothers or not?
A: Pretty much though with added elements from other stories blended in.
Q: (L) Was it a brother/brother relationship as in actual brothers?
A: No. The "brother" relationship was created to legitimize a "false" line of transmission.
Q: (L) So there wasn't a brother, or Aaronic relationship present, assuming any part of that story was true. Is that it?
A: Yes.
In the same session, the C's then mentioned another bloodline, which ran through the Perseid family, who were named after the mythical hero Perseus who slew the Gorgon Medusa (in my view a cypher for the Grail):
Q: (Galahad) So, the Ark was an object created by STS. Did this amount to some sort of realization on Moses' part? Did he start to wake up?
A: Yes. The story of the "contending with the angel" was the significant turning point as well as the moment of return.
Q: (L) What was the blessing he gave to quote Esau, if giving the object to the "angel" was the event of returning the ark? What was the story there?
A: Two separate events.
Q: (L) So, he returned the ark to the so-called angel. And then, he gave something to someone else. Previously, when I asked about this, you said that what he gave to Esau was "trampled leaves of wrath, the blue apples incarnate," and remarked that I should inquire into the "core meaning."
A: And who was "Kore?"
Q: (L) Was this Abraham's daughter?
A: It was the last living member of the Perseid family.
Q: (L) Was it a male or female?
A: Female.
Q: (L) And how did Abraham come to be in possession of this female?
A: Search the text and you will see.
Q: (Galahad) If this person was the last member of the Perseid family, does that mean that Paris was a member of this family? [MJF: Paris = Abraham/Moses]
A: No.
As I have argued elsewhere, if Princess Meritaten was the Egyptian maid servant Hagar of the Bible and thus also Kore, we know that she was also the mother of Ishmael, Abraham/Moses’s son, who was in turn the son of a widow, given that Meritaten’s husband Smenkhare had died by the time she fled into the desert and joined Abraham/Moses and her mother Nefertiti/Sarah. It is my view that Meritaten, as a Perseid, had a close relationship to the Grail that had been possessed by her father Akhenaten until it was stolen from him by her mother Nefertiti. She may even have even been one of its guardians as a temple priestess (hence her bald pate as depicted in surviving busts of her). Although the C’s say that she was at one stage the last living member of the Perseid family, with the birth of Ishmael this ceased to be the case. If the Perseid family were a special Grail bloodline (the “blue apples incarnate”), then Ishmael was destined to continue it. Where the C’s are saying that Abraham and Aaron’s line were a “false line of transmission” does this mean then that the true line of succession was that through Ishmael? If so, we must query where that line of succession (branch) took root. Was it in the Middle East with the Ishmaelies or was it in the British Isles where Meritaten appears to have taken refuge, assuming she was the mythic figure of Helle who fled to safety with her brother Phrixus on the Golden Ram (MJF: another cypher for the Grail perhaps?) across the Hellespont (the English Channel or La Manche)?
The Midianites
If we stay with the Middle East proposal, some corroboration for this hypothesis can be found in the Middle Eastern people known as the Midianites. Some scholars have suggested that the name "Midian" does not refer to geographic places or to a specific tribe, but to a confederation or "league" of tribes brought together as a collective for worship purposes (MJF: the same might well be true of the Hebrews or Israelites since the C’s once said in response to a question about their origins: “No. Hebrews do not stem from [a] single grouping”).
The Midianites were mentioned in the transcripts in connection with the Ishmaelies:
Q: Were the Midianites and the Ishmaelies the same?
A: Partly.
Q: Were they the Danaans?
A: No.
The biblical Midian was supposedly in the northwest Arabian Peninsula on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea. According to the Book of Genesis, the Midianites were the descendants of Midian, a son of Abraham and his wife Keturah: "Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah". Given that the C’s have confirmed that Abraham and Moses were one and the same person, it is far more likely that Keturah was Kore alias Hagar/Meritaten who Abraham took as a concubine. The Bible makes us aware that this coupling produced only one child and that child was Ishmael, Hagar and Ishmael later being banished to the desert of Paran by Abraham as a result of Sarah’s jealousy. However, the figures of Hagar and Ishmael may also find an echo in Exodus 2 where, after Moses had run away to Midian from Egypt after killing an Egyptian overseer, he married Reuel's daughter Zipporah, a Midianite. Just to confuse things further, he was also supposed to have married a Cushite woman, a union which displeased Aaron and Moses’s sister Miriam (MJF: both fictitious characters according to the C’s) where according to Numbers 12 they complained to Moses about her:
“
Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman).”
For speaking against the Cushite woman God apparently punished Miriam with
tzaraath, which is often glossed as being leprosy. We know that the plague which swept Egypt and most of the Middle East at the end of the reign of Akhenaten involved a form of leprosy:
Q: The story about the plague that is told in Manetho, was this a plague as in leprosy, a disease, or something else?
A: It was multiple elements including leprosy.
Hence, this element of the story certainly has a ring of truth about it. Interestingly, the Jewish historian Josephus named this Cushite woman as Tharbis, saying that she was a Cushite princess whom Moses had married after a successful military campaign against the Ethiopians whilst he was still a prince of Egypt and a military commander. Cush in the Bible is linked with the Sudan and Ethiopia region clearly making the woman an African. It could be that Zipporah and the woman from Ethiopia are in fact one and the same person and that person is Princess Meritaten, who through her father did seem to have more of a darker African appearance than her non-Egyptian mother Nefertiti.
Further evidence that Zipporah may be Hagar/Kore/Keturah/Meritaten can be found in the Bible where it provides that after Moses succeeded in leading the Israelites out of Egypt, and winning a battle against Amalek, Reuel (Moses’s father-in-law aka Jethro a prince of Midian) came to the Hebrew camp in the wilderness of Sinai, bringing with him Zipporah and their two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. The Bible does not say when Zipporah and her sons rejoined Reuel/Jethro, only that after he heard of what God did for the Israelites, he brought Moses' family to him. The most common translation though is that Moses sent her away. If this interpretation is correct, this may be a reflection of the fact that Moses in his Abraham persona exiled Hagar (Zipporah) with her son Ishmael in the desert of Paran at the behest of Sarah/Nefertiti. Moreover, Abraham did, of course, have two sons, the second being Isaac by his wife Sarah/Nefertiti.
Could the story of Zipporah being brought to Moses’s camp in Sinai also reflect the fact that Meritaten only joined Moses after the demise of her husband the Pharoah Smenkhare, whereafter her younger brother Tutankhamun succeeded to the throne, which coincided with the Egyptian priesthood reasserting the worship of the old gods of Egypt in opposition to the monotheistic worship of the Aten, which had been imposed on Egypt by her late father Pharoah Akhenaten?
However, if Keturah is also Hagar/Meritaten, then this connects Ishmael directly to Abraham’s son Midian and thus to the Midianites who the C’s said were in part the same as the Ishmaelies. It is, of course, from Arabia (Midian) that Islam would emerge in the late 6th century and where the long-held tradition that Ishmael was the father of the Arabian race is to be found.
King David
As to King David, the C’s told us that he was a Levite but not of the line of Abraham:
Q: (L) Well, I still have to deal with this King David issue. He was like a Robin Hood. Now, in another direction, what's this deal about Abraham talking to God. Is this where the whole monotheism came in?
A: Close.
Q: (L) So, it started out with Abraham and his tribe. Did he have reinforcements of his Levite brothers who came and joined his tribe from Hittite land? [
MJF: Modern day Turkey and Northern Iraq]
A: Close.
Q: (L) Are there any details of this story that I haven't covered that I ought to?
A: David was a Levite.
Q: (L) Was he of the line of Abraham?
A: No.
Q: (L) Did he come from "Hittite land?"
A: Close.
Q: (L) How many generations before he was born did his family come to the area of Palestine?
A: 5.
Q: (L) Were they relatives of Abraham?
A: Somewhat.
Q: (L) Distantly related. So, what did David do? Came along and gathered the people together?
A: Yes.
If we take a generation to be 25-30 years, then we could be speaking of 100-150 years between David’s birth and the original entry of his family into Palestine. Although David was a Levite, if his great grandmother really was a Moabite, this suggests that there was already extensive intermarriage between the biblical Hebrews and the other Semitic tribal groupings within Palestine such as the Moabites, whose progeniture was supposedly Abraham’s nephew Lot according to the Bible. David would seem to have united these various Semitic tribal groups into one people we know today as the Israelites, becoming their king and making Jerusalem the capital of Israel. We do not know the actual date of David’s birth, although many place it as being around 1000 BC. It could, of course, have been much earlier. We know from the Bible that Abraham/Moses and his Levite followers spent around 40 years wandering in the desert (as confirmed by the C’s) after the Exodus from Akhenaten’s Egypt before entering Palestine, then known as the Land of Cannan. This suggests that David’s Levite forefathers may have entered Canaan nearly 200 years before he was born. Alternatively, David’s Levite ancestors may have journeyed westwards from Turkey/Iraq to join up with their Levite kinsmen who were already in Canaan, much of which had by that time been conquered by the Children of Israel under the leadership of Moses’s successor Joshua.
Special Bloodlines
At the start of this thread, Laura suggested that I should look closely into bloodlines. Well, I have identified in this article that the Hittite/Levite bloodline that Abraham/Moses was a member of was a special, if not unique, bloodline that has continued through to the present day in the Cohanim Levitical bloodline that all Jewish High Priests have descended from since the commencement of the Mosaic covenant. However, from what the C’s have said, this was not so much a Jewish or Hebrew bloodline but an Aryan one instead:
Q: At the making of the Covenant at Mt. Sinai, there was a bunch of sacrificed animals, and Moses took the blood, dividing it in half, he cast one half on the altar. Taking the book of the covenant, he read it to the people, and they said 'we will observe all that Yahweh has decreed. We will obey.' And then Moses took the blood and cast it on the people saying 'this is the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you containing all these rules.' What is this blood of the covenant?
A: Has to do with bloodline.
Q: So this symbolized the bloodline of the Jews?
A: No.
Q: What bloodline are we talking about here?
A: Aramaic/Aryan.
Q: Are you saying that the Jews are Aramaic/Aryan?
A: No. Jews are not bloodline categorizable, per se.
This means that Isaac, Abraham’s son by Nefertiti/Sarah (who was herself a Hittite/Levite according to the C’s), was also a member of this same bloodline. However, the C’s have confirmed that Abraham/Moses really did have a son Ishmael by Hagar. I have speculated above that the Perseid bloodline may be connected to a special Grail bloodline to which he would have belonged, which in turn may be distantly connected with that group of Kantekkians who the C’s said used the Grail to escape from the planet Kantek before it was destroyed. The fact that Ishmael was of the Perseid bloodline through his mother Meritaten but also of the Hittite/Levite bloodline through his father Abraham and his grandmother Nefertiti (who may both have been Nephilim hybrids) suggests that Ishmael may have been the convergence point the C’s were speaking of in the transcript excerpt set out immediately below:
Q: Then, that makes me think that the significant thing that we are looking for is a convergence of the blood lines... These lines are symbolized by the god figures, the children of Odin, and what we are looking for is a place where these lines converge?
A: Yes.
Q: Well, what characteristics might an individual have who is a product of this convergence?
A: Fair skinned and cleft chin.
The children of Odin (like the children of his Greek equivalent Zeus) would no doubt have been alien/human hybrids. The reference to “fair skinned” seemingly connects us with the Celts, since they are just about the fairest skinned people on the planet (leaving aside albinos). Indeed, I am one myself and, yes, I am fair skinned and do have a cleft chin too, but then so do lots of people. If this is the case, it may connect us with what the C’s said here:
Session 19 April 1997:
Q: Am I correct in my assessment that the origin of the Grail stories was the story of the Head of Bran?
A: But what was the "origin" of Brahna? [
MJF: Which suggests a link to Abraham – there is even a persuasive theory that the Brahmin caste of India was originally Jewish.]
Q: Well, from the way I am interpreting what I have found, I have two possibilities: One is the Celts from Kantek, and two: a Nephilim hybrid.
A: Could be one and the same.
Q: Well, from what you have said in prior sessions, these bloodlines can be of positive or negative orientation, a duality, and that they lead to super-secret power sources. Is that correct?
A: Well, the duality is existent concommitantly through all bloodlines, but in the so-called Celts, it is more pronounced, therefore, there are more vivid power cells and centres.
If I am correct about Ishmael being the convergence point that we are seeking, we need to ask again where did Ishmael finally end up? Was it the Middle East as suggested by the Bible and Islamic tradition or was it the British Isles, as suggested by the Greek myth of Helle and Phrixus? I favour the latter, which leads me to wonder how Ishmael’s bloodline was subsequently dispersed since the C’s have confirmed that the Percy family, a major Norman noble family from whom Laura is descended, are members of this convergent bloodline and the Normans supposedly originated in Norway/Denmark before moving to France, where they mixed with the Merovingian nobility, and finally on to England via the Norman conquest of 1066. The Percy surname apparently derives from the Manor of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy, the home of the Percy family at the time of the Norman Conquest.
The Percys and the Grail
For me, the name “Percy” is very interesting since it may well have a distant etymological link with the name “Perseid”, which itself is derived from the name of the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty, the hero Perseus, who in slaying the Gorgon Medusa and cutting off her head would seem to have come into possession of the Grail, for which the Medusa is, I believe, a metaphor. Is there potentially a link between the Medusa’s head, the legendary Head of Bran and the crystal skull the Templars called Baphomet? We know that Pharoah Akhenaten was both a Perseid and the possessor of the Grail, which Nefertiti and Abraham stole from him. Presumably, the Grail had been passed down through the Perseid line over many generations until it finally ended up with Akhenaten.
It is also interesting to note, as I have mentioned before, that the Percys used the symbol of a gold diamond as their family emblem long before the advent of medieval heraldry and the use of heraldic devices and coats of arms by the aristocracy became commonplace. But why choose a diamond emblem?
The Arms of Percy
ancient:
Azure, five fusils conjoined in fesse or
Can this use of a diamond emblem in the Percy coat of arms be linked in some way with the diamond suit in a modern pack of playing cards, which we know (see my earlier posts) has a connection with the four treasures of the Tuatha de Danaan as does the Tarot Deck? Could the diamond device be linked in some mysterious way with the Grail?
Moreover, the two-dimensional representation of a diamond, as shown above, is also uncannily reminiscent of the basic kite shape, which the C’s discussed with Laura in the session dated 20 June 1998:
Q: Then, that makes me think that the significant thing that we are looking for is a convergence of the blood lines... These lines are symbolized by the god figures, the children of Odin, and what we are looking for is a place where these lines converge?
A: Yes.
Q: Well, what characteristics might an individual have who is a product of this convergence?
A: Fair skinned and cleft chin.
Q: Well, Ark and Frank both have cleft chins, but C___ and I don't! Does this mean...
A: We aren't saying that all with these features are of that blood line!
Q: So, you can have the bloodline and look quite different?
A: Yes.
Q: How many persons on the planet contain these 'convergant' bloodlines?
A: 7367. Kites were used for cross communication between bloodline members.
Q: Kites?! What do kites have to do with it? What the heck... you guys are driving me NUTS! Do you mean kites as in paper and string or kites as in the bird?
A: Yes, paper wood and string.
Q: (C) Like smoke signals? (L) Well, how is flying a kite... (C) Well, if it has a certain symbol on it...
A: And shape.
Q: What shape is that?
A: No, not now.
Q: (C) Well, maybe the shape of a cleft chin? [Laughter] (L) Fair skin, cleft chin... (C) Yeah, and how did they communicate when it was raining? (L) Yeah, and at night? Did they set them on fire? Kites. This is obviously something that... (C) This is implying that such people know they have the bloodline and keep in touch with each other? (L) Or, is this something for the future when those of the bloodline wake up?
A: Yes.
Q: All of the above? Or just the last part?
A: Latter.
Curiously, in this same session there were also references to the Nephilim, Baphomet and the secrets of the Knights Templar being hidden in caves. Given that the diamond card suit may be linked with the treasures of the Tuatha de Danaan, and by extension specifically to the Grail, which had originally been in the possession of Pharaoh Akhenaten (a member of the Perseid/ Grail family before Abraham/Moses got his hands on it by nefarious means, and my belief that the pure crystal skull the Knights Templar called Baphomet is also the Grail, then it makes sense to me that the members of the convergent bloodlines would use diamond shaped kites to communicate with each other as a kind of bloodline calling card. Afterall, diamonds are crystals (hard carbon) just like quartz, the crystalline substance from which most, if not all, of the well-known crystal skulls such as the Mitchell-Hedges Skull are formed.
Finally, the diamond shape also represents a double tetrahedron (i.e., two identical pyramids with their bases joined) expressed in two-dimensions with all that the tetrahedron as a Platonic solid conveys in terms of ancient esoteric symbolism. Indeed, the tetrahedron in its two-dimensional form of the tetractys was sacred as a mystical symbol both to the Druids and the Greeks, symbolising for the latter the
four classical elements of air, fire, water and earth. A prayer of the Pythagoreans shows the great importance of the Tetractys (the "Mystic Tetrad"), as the prayer was actually addressed to it:
“
Bless us, divine number, thou who generated gods and men! O holy, holy Tetractys, thou that containest the root and source of the eternally flowing creation! For the divine number begins with the profound, pure unity until it comes to the holy four; then it begets the mother of all, the all-comprising, all-bounding, the first-born, the never-swerving, the never-tiring holy ten, the keyholder of all.”
It is interesting that we should find a reference in this prayer to keys via the term “keyholder” given that the C’s had said to Laura that if she visited Alnwick Castle (the main seat of the Percy family in England) she should not ask for the key in response to her remarks about the alleged 62 alchemical texts held at the castle.
The tetractys also leads us back to cards and alchemy again since in a Tarot reading the various positions of the tetractys provide a representation for forecasting future events by signifying according to various occult disciplines, such as Alchemy.
Moreover, a double triangle when interlinked creates the familiar Star of David, a device which also possessed a deep esoteric meaning long before the Zionist movement adopted it in modern times.
I would thus ask whether this is all mere coincidence or was the diamond device deliberately chosen and displayed by the Percys in order to make a statement to those in the know concerning the family’s status as members perhaps of a special Grail bloodline?
The Celts and the Essenes
In the age of Princess Meritaten, Britain was still dominated by the Brythonic Celts - the Goidelic Celts or Gaels would not arrive in Ireland until nearly a thousand years later. Here we must also consider the connection between Princess Meritaten and the group the C’s described as the ‘Dragon Slayers’*, who I think are the Tuatha de Danaan of Irish folklore, who may also have been the Israelite tribe known in the Bible as the Tribe of Dan or the Danites, who in turn might be linked to Homer’s Danaans ("the tribe of Danaus" - Danaus being a mythical king of Libya), who are described in the Iliad as the opponents of the Trojans. According to the author Iman Wilkens, the Danaans and the Trojans were in fact Celtic tribes and thus were Aryans who somehow ended up in the Middle East. Did they subsequently become the Danites and Hittites/Levites respectively post the Trojan War? If so, were the Levites originally a Trojan priesthood connected to the Grail in some way, which I suggest formed the real objective of the Trojan War rather than the rescue of the mythical Helen of Troy? If that is the case, it may explain why Nefertiti/Sarah and Abraham/Moses (both of whom were Hittites according to the C’s) wanted the Grail back in Trojan/Hittite possession after it had ended up in the hands of the Perseids (as depicted in the legend of Perseus – the mythical founder of the Perseid dynasty who slew the Gorgon Medusa) with the help of the Danaans/Danites and their fellow Achaeans. To their minds, the Grail would have rightly belonged to the Trojans. This makes me wonder aloud whether Nefertiti’s mission as an undergrounder was to embed herself within the Egyptian royal family and then use her royal position as a means to seize possession of the Grail, which we know is what happened in her Biblical guise as Rachel?
*The term “dragon slayers” may not relate, as one might think, to people who battle physical dragons (think here of the Alpha Draconians or Lizzies for example) as depicted historically by figures such as the Christian St. George and St Michael the Archangel who battled the dragon Lucifer during the War in Heaven, but instead to people who were skilled in bringing under control the powerful “dragon” energies found at key sites lying along the routes of ley lines, which the Chinese refer to, perhaps more accurately, as “dragon” lines. It may be the case that the Tuatha de Danaan had within their ranks people skilled in controlling such energies so they might be used for beneficial purposes.
It may also be highly relevant here, as mentioned above, that the C’s revealed in the session dated 19 April 1997 how the Essenes had shared a common origin with the Aryan Celts:
Q: Okay, I will keep digging. How can I find if there is going to be a connection between the Aryan/Jewish bloodline of Jesus and the Merovingian/Plantagenet bloodline? Does it exist?
A: Only to the extent of the shared origins of the Essenes and the Celts.
The Plantagenet line, which ruled medieval England, was, of course, originally a Norman French bloodline. This last transcript excerpt leads us full circle back to the Jewish Essenes and Egypt once more, bearing in mind that the C’s have told us that the Essenes were an ancient order that had arisen out of ancient Egypt from the secret knowledge stored at the base of the Sphinx. As I said earlier, where the Essenes are concerned, all roads lead back to Egypt, which is also the alleged home of western Hermetic esotericism.
The Egyptian Connection
Having looked at Levitical bloodlines and the history, philosophy and theology of the Qumran Essenes I would like now to explore in more detail the potential links the Qumran Essenes may have had with ancient Egypt.
I would start by looking at the claims of Qumran researcher John Marco Allegro (1923-1988) as discussed by Joseph Farrell in his book Thrice Great Hermetica and the Janus Age. Allegro was one of the seven original members of an international team of scholars under the leadership of Old Testament scholar and archaeologist Father Roland de Vaux (a Catholic Jesuit priest) who were tasked with research into, and publication of, the Dead Sea Scrolls. Englishman John Allegro was the odd one out in this team as he was the only atheist amongst them. He also proved to be a maverick when he broke ranks with his Jerusalem based team of editors. It was on Allegro's recommendation in 1955 that the Copper Scroll was sent by the Jordanian government to Manchester University in order for it to be cut into sections, thus allowing the text to be read. He was present during the cutting process in 1956 and later made a preliminary transcription of the text, which he soon translated, sending copies of his work back to Gerald Lankester Harding in Jordan. Harding, a British archaeologist, was the Director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities from 1936 to 1956. Although Allegro had been the first to translate the Copper Scroll, the text was assigned for editing to J.T. Milik by Roland de Vaux, the editor in chief of the Scrolls. However, without prior approval from de Vaux, Allegro proceeded to publish the unauthorised text of the Copper Scroll in his book, The Treasure of the Copper Scroll, which was released in 1960 two years before the publication of the official edition. Allegro subsequently organised an archaeological campaign, which was both unauthorised and unscientific, to find the treasure listed in the Copper Scroll. The treasure hunt proved singularly unsuccessful.
Despite all this, Joseph Farrell points out that it was Allegro who first pointed out a connection between the Qumran Essenes and Egypt. As the Qumran caves were being investigated several ancient jars of pottery were discovered. However, the pottery was of a kind that was not found anywhere else in Palestine/Judea at that time. The puzzle was solved when archaeologists discovered in the ruins of the Qumran settlement a pottery kiln, which revealed as in so many other things that the Qumran Essenes tried to be as independent of the outside world as possible. Intriguingly, the Qumran Essenes chose to work with Egyptian patterns, which they adapted to their own use. Moreover, this was not the only instance of an Egyptian influence at Qumran since they also made their scroll covers to an Egyptian pattern. Having referred to the use of Egyptian style pottery and scroll covers, Farrell then asked the question whether the Hermetic-Egyptian connection can be tightened still further. To answer his question, Farrell cites the work again of the engineer Robert Feather who delved into a reconstruction of the origins of the Copper Scroll.
We have already looked at Feather's discoveries and conclusions regarding the peculiar genealogy of the Jewish priesthood (see above). Now we will take a look at Feather’s research into one of the most pressing mysteries surrounding the Copper Scroll and that is the enormous amounts of gold and other precious items mentioned in the Scroll, which appear to be impossibly large.
As Feather observed:
"many scholars have pointed out that there is no indication within the Copper Scroll itself of who wrote it, where it was written, or even why it was written. Academics have assumed that the Scroll refers to the treasure of the Temple in Jerusalem that had been secreted away prior to the Roman invasion of Palestine. There are in fact five basic theories concerning the Copper Scroll and the treasure referred to within it:
- It was hidden by the Qumran Essenes and came from the Second Temple in Jerusalem just prior to its destruction by the Romans in 70 A.D.
- It was hidden by the predecessors of the Qumran Essenes and came from the First Temple in Jerusalem at the time of its destruction by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar.
- It was hidden by the Qumran Essenes before 68AD and belonged to them.
- It was not real, and the Scroll was a hoax perpetrated by the Qumran Essenes.
- The treasure was from the Second Temple but was hidden by priests or others coming out of Jerusalem and the Qumran Essenes did not write the Dead Sea Scrolls."
But as Farrell points out, there are significant problems with each of these theories, as recognised by Feather. Feather made the following observations on each of the theories in turn:
- The testimony of the Jewish historian Josephus on the antipathy between the Qumran Essenes and the Sadducee Priesthood in Jerusalem conflicts with this possibility. The Qumran Essenes viewed the Priests of the Temple as contemptible, hence it is extremely unlikely that the Priests would have entrusted the Qumran Essenes with any treasure as the relationship between the two groups was so toxic.
- The intervening period is far too long as the Qumran Essenes would not be established at Qumran for another 400 years after the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem.
- An impoverished community like the Qumran Essenes would not have been able to acquire such priceless treasure.
- Engraving on copper was an expensive and difficult business and it is evident the Scroll was intended to have some permanency. Moreover, the ‘realism’ in the style and content of writing, which is so unlike any other ancient legends, and the lack of any sensible explanation as to why the Qumran Essenes would invent such information tends to refute the idea of a hoax. Feather rightly asks who they would be trying to fool. The Qumran Essenes were renowned as people of righteousness and truth, hence why would they wish to perpetrate an elaborate and expensive fraud. [MJF: recall also that the C’s said the treasure was real but no longer intact as described]
- Feather cites the close connection between the Copper Scroll and the Qumran Essenes and the difficulty of imagining how or why the vast Temple treasures were hidden prior to 68 A.D, before the Temple came under direct threat (it would in fact be destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.).
However, one principal problem remained and that was that despite the best efforts of researchers like John Allegro in following the directions given in the Scroll, the attempts to find any treasure in the any of the locations identified in Palestine were completely unsuccessful.
The Copper Scroll itself is, as its name indicates, a scroll made from copper, engraved and rolled up. It is about eight feet long, a foot wide and 0.9 mm in depth and was found in three pieces. It consists of a catalogue of sixty-four locations spread over a wide geographical area where enormous amounts of gold and silver bullion, precious stones and jewellery, various ritual items and vestments, and other scrolls were secreted. All of this is laid out in twelve columns in a curious blend of Hebrew and Greek. An example of the kind of clue laid out in the Copper Scroll may be found in an English translation of the first column of the Scroll, which shows the basic structure of each of the entries. The structure is 1) general location, 2) specific location, often with distance to dig, and 3) what to find, for example:
1:1 In the ruin that is in the valley of Acor, under
1:2 the steps, with the entrance at the East,
1:3 a distance of forty cubits: a strongbox of silver and its vessels
1:4 with a weight of seventeen talents. KεN
As Farrell states, it is only when one totals all twelve columns and their separate lists of treasure together, one gets an astonishing result, an inventory of treasure that is truly incredible:
Gold: 1285 Talents
Silver: 666 Talents
Gold and silver: 17 Talents
Gold and silver vessels: 600 Talents
Mixed precious metals: 2,088 Talents
Gold Ingots 165 (no weight specified)
Silver Bars 7
Gold and silver vessels 609
One Biblical Talent is estimated to have weighed about 76Ib or 34.47 Kg. In total, the Copper Scroll seems to be referring to precious metals that are worth around $1.5 billion (at 2014 prices), but whose intrinsic historic value would be many times this figure. However, even more incredibly, Feather cited a 1993 NATO conference on prehistoric gold that according to best estimates suggests that the treasure of the Copper Scroll would have accounted for more than 25% of the world’s entire supply of gold at that time and the 65 tonnes of silver would have accounted for the stock of the entire world. It was for this reason that many researchers maintained that the treasure referred to in the Copper Scroll was an elaborate hoax for the amounts involved seem nearly impossible.
However, Feather using his metallurgical and scientific experience hypothesised that with the relatively primitive refining techniques that were available over 2,000 years ago, the [Hebrew] units of weight in use for precious metals would have been many orders of magnitude less than assumed by modern translators. This led Feather to construct a complex hypothesis in which he connected the Copper Scroll, and the Qumran community itself, to Egypt.
He began by noting that while engraving on copper was virtually unknown in the Middle East in ancient times, there was one significant exception and that was Egypt where texts were engraved on copper. In addition, Feather noted that copper engraving was unknown in Judea during the time frame of the Qumran community’s existence and copper itself was difficult to obtain there. This fact plus the engraving skills exhibited on the Scroll, which was riveted together, again pointed to Egypt where such skills, including riveting, were known and where texts were engraved on copper. However, it was the evidence of riveting that Feather really homed in on as it proved to be a key to when and where the Scroll was created.
Feather noted that the style and type of riveting in the Copper Scrolls was identical to the type of riveting in use at the time of the Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty. Farrell observes that this is highly significant for the Eighteenth Dynasty (circa 1550 – 1290 BC) was that of Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. In addition to all this, the copper in the Copper Scroll is itself similar and indeed, almost identical in chemical composition to the copper being produced in Egypt in the Eighteenth Dynasty. Feather concluded that, given its chemical composition, its weight, and the evident Egyptian engraving and riveting skills manifest in it, that the copper of the Scroll came from a piece of ancient Egyptian copper. This then led him to conclude that the metrology evident in the Copper Scroll probably referred to Egyptian units of measure, which weighed significantly less than the Hebrew units and which contained units of measure specific to weighing metals.
These considerations led Feather to the conclusion that the Qumran Essene community had a deeply Egyptian root or connection and that it was the guardian of some sort of Egyptian secret [MJF: Was that secret the discovery of an ancient treasure trove of knowledge buried under the base of the Sphinx?]. Farrell notes that Feather further reinforced his argument by pointing out that the Essenes, for strict pious Jews, maintained yet another particularly “Egyptian” practice in that they abstained from the animal sacrifices of the Jerusalem Temple, which was in keeping with the Akhenaten revolution that had banned animal sacrifice throughout Egypt.
All this led Feather to come to his main conclusion which was that the treasure referred to in the Copper Scroll was not the treasure of the Jerusalem Temple but rather the treasure of Akhenaten’s temple and the references in the Scroll are to be found in Egypt and not in Palestine (N.B. others claim the locations have matched areas around Jericho or Qumran itself). Moreover, by tying the Hebrew Yahwist revelation to Akhenaten’s monotheistic revolution, this treasure represented the “Gold of the Egyptians” that Moses and the Hebrews carried with them out of Egypt. This is an amazing deduction since neither Farrell nor Feather would have been aware of what the C’s have said about the reign of Akhenaten and his queen, Nefertiti, and the monotheist revolution that Akhenaten inspired in Egypt. They would not have appreciated that Abraham and Moses were, according to Laura and the C’s, one and the same person who was responsible, with the help of Queen Nefertiti (who became the biblical figures of Sarah and Rachel), for stealing Akhenaten’s Ark of the Covenant and the Grail and no doubt, as Feather proposes, much of the Pharaoh’s state treasure as well.
My only concern with Feather’s theory is that compelling as it is, how does one explain the appearance of Greek in the Scroll if it supposedly dates back to the Egyptian 18th Dynasty and specifically the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten (who reigned in the middle of the 14th Century BC)? The Greek alphabet (which admittedly evolved from the earlier Phoenician alphabet which dates back to the 15th Century BC) did not emerge until the 8th or 9th Century BC, long after Akhenaten’s reign. This issue does not argue against an Egyptian provenance for the metal of the Scroll, but it does call into question Feather’s dating of the Scroll (although the raw metal sheet itself could have dated back to Akhenaten’s time even if the engraving does not). I have only read the extracts from the works of Feather quoted in Farrell’s book, so it is possible he may have dealt with the Hebrew/Greek script issue in his books. I would only add that in the age of the Jewish Essenes of Qumran, Hebrew had by then become the religious language of the Jews and would have been read and spoken primarily by the Priesthood, whereas the everyday language the people used was by then Aramaic. Some scholars identify the Hebrew used in the Scroll as Mishnaic Hebrew dating to the middle of the 2nd Century AD, although others view the Scroll as more likely dating to the 1st Century AD, prior to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. However, the lingua franca for the intelligentsia of the Middle East in that period was Greek and had been so ever since Alexander the Great’s conquest of the region a few centuries before. There is little doubt though that the highly educated priests among the Qumran Essenes would have been well versed in both Hebrew and Greek.
Continued in Part 3