I apologise for not posting recently but I have been visiting my two youngest sons who now live on the Isle of Wight (opposite the naval city of Portsmouth in Hampshire) with their mother. As they are older teenagers, it is nice to get up-to-date with the current zeitgeist. However, they both have their problems, as most young people do these days, so I was there to advise and help them as best I can, particularly as they have not settled well in their new town. Although the Isle of Wight is a beautiful place to visit with a collection of fine beaches and a wonderful coastline, it is another thing to live there as they are finding out. In truth, it is a bit of a backwater, especially where teenagers are concerned.
However, even though I was not posting, I was still researching and have just finished another book by Andrew Collins called Twenty-First Century Grail the Quest for a Legend first published in 2004. I appreciate that Collins is not everybody's cup of tea but he does do some very interesting research, even if his psychic questing methods leave a lot to be desired and exposes him, in my view, to manipulation by those forces we might call the cosmic tricksters. Nevertheless, he had a lot of interesting things to say in his book on the activities of the Knights Templar in medieval England, which in some ways builds on what I said in respect of Ormus le Guidon, a proto-Templar, in my earlier posts on Collins and Graham Phillips' quest for the Green Stone but here he goes much further since it would appear that the crystal skull called Baphomet was for a time based in England (more on this below and in a future post). His research also reinforces my theory that Baphomet is the Grail or the Merkabah/Mother Stone and this also creates a link with one of the mirror image versions of the Nicolas Poussin painting of The Shepherds of Arcadia, as posted earlier on this thread, even if Collins does not realise this himself. In fairness, he is not aware that the C's told Laura that the skull was made of pure crystal. If he knew this, the penny might drop. Instead, he associates Baphomet with a Templar reliquary, which he calls the 'Head of God', and links this with the skull (or parts of the skull) of St John the Baptist who the Templars adopted as their patron along with St John the Evangelist, the two Johns together forming a kind of Janus-like association.
Before continuing with the Templar theme though, I would like to post here something I originally posted on the 24 June 2023 thread concerning the author Lewis Carroll, since I said I would reveal his mysterious connection to the real Alice in Wonderland who was not it seems Alice Liddell as everyone thinks. Hence, for those who may not have read it, I am setting the post out in full below.
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Session 24 June 2023
Posted on July 15, 2023
I have been reviewing the old transcripts recently and found an interesting exchange with the C's that touches upon the subject of hauntings. Some would appear to be psychic imprints whilst others are genuine spirits who, like the bomber crew mentioned above, have not gone into the light yet and are trapped here on Earth for some reason:
Session 7 November 1994:
Q: (L) Do Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard haunt the Tower of London and Hampton Court?
A: Spirit reflection.
Q: (L) Is a ghost or haunting just an image imprinted in space/time?
A: Sometimes.
Q: (L) Are there some cases where the actual spirit of the person hangs around causing phenomena?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Can they do this for untold centuries?
A: Yes because there is no time.
My late father, towards the end of his military service in the late 1940's, had to guard the Tower of London. He told me that it was one of the spookiest places he had ever been in. Although he himself never saw any strange phenomena that was not true of some of his colleagues, who he said were often left shaken and were very reluctant to discuss what they had seen.
Sometimes people encounter poltergeist activity, which can be linked with hauntings. The C's had this to say about the matter:
Session 9 November 1994:
Q: (L) What is that phenomenon we commonly call a poltergeist?
A: Many causes.
Q: (L) Each situation is different?
A: No. The causes are multiple.
Q: (L) Could you list these?
A: No. There are many causes but some are the same as others. One cause is female pubescent children giving off life force aura burst.
Finally, there is one other form of ghostly phenomena that may be worth mentioning and that is images of dead people seen in mirrors. There is a famous case of such an image appearing in a mirror in the old medieval Angel Inn Hotel in Guildford, Surrey near to where I live in England. It is the image of the son of the last Emperor of France, Napoleon III who was exiled to England with his family after his defeat and capture at the hands of the Prussians in 1870 - See: Napoleon III - Wikipedia. Napoleon's son, Louis-Napoléon the Prince Imperial, was an officer in the British Army who died in 1879 fighting against the Zulus in South Africa. His early death caused an international sensation and sent shockwaves throughout Europe, as he was the last serious dynastic hope for the restoration of the House of Bonaparte to the throne of France.
However, Louis-Napoléon's ghostly image has been seen in an old mirror which stands in a bedroom at Guildford's Angel Inn Hotel. Legend has it that he had a a dalliance with a young serving maid whilst staying there before he departed for South Africa - see Halloween: Reported ghostly going-ons in Surrey. The hotel has even had James Bond (aka actor Roger Moore) spooked.
There is a similar tale of Marilyn Monroe's ghostly image being seen in a mirror of the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles:
"Without a doubt, the most famous ghost said to dwell within the Roosevelt Hotel is that of Marilyn Monroe. Although this seems cliche, it also seems equally appropriate that Hollywood’s most famous starlet should permanently reside in Hollywood’s best-known hotel. In life, Marilyn often frequented the Roosevelt Hotel, so much so that she even had her own room reserved just for her. Since her death, many visitors staying in her old room (1200) have claimed to encounter her spirit. The most common of these interactions with Marilyn are sightings of her apparition. Her ghost will typically appear to visitors in the room’s mirror where she no doubt once spent time gazing upon her own reflection."
Tulpas
So, what is it about ghostly mirrors? The Japanese have a name for these kind of mirror related spectral images and call them Tulpas. A Tulpa is a concept originally deriving from ancient Tibet, which was adopted into Japanese Shinto beliefs. In Japanese tradition, mirrors are revered and are thought to have the power to capture one's essence. Japanese mythology is filled with tales of sorcerers using magic mirrors to create supernatural copies of themselves. Although such Tulpas are tied to the mirrors, they can appear elsewhere in the building in which a mirror hangs. They are also said to act as site guardians, to protect tombs or temples. Japanese Shinto shrines called jinja are believed to house Kami - elemental and ancestral spirits. The most hallowed part of the shrine is the honden, a separate sanctuary containing a scared mirror, a shinkyo, in which kami are said to reside. In Shinto belief, a kami from one shrine can be copied in the form of a bunrei, meaning divided spirit. Shinto priests perform a special ritual known as kanjo where they duplicate the spirit from one shrine by cloning its essence into a second shinkyo mirror so that a copy is made to be housed in a further shrine where the mirror is taken. The ancient Celts had a similar tradition where they believed that mirrors, in their case made from polished bronze, could capture the human essence.
A Tulpa is in essence, therefore, a phantom image manifested by the power of human thought or intense emotion, which may equate with the C's spirit reflections, as mentioned above. Gifted children are sometimes believed to unwittingly create them to act out their fantasies as mischievous spirits (like a psychic clone if you like or a computer copy from an original human template), which may suggest they could be a poltergeist phenomenon too. See also Tulpa - Wikipedia. Quoting from one section of that Wikipedia entry:
"Somer et al. (2021) described the Internet tulpamancer subculture as being used to "overcome loneliness and mental suffering", and noted the close association with reality shifting (RS), a way of deliberately inducing a form of self-hypnosis in order to escape from current reality into a pre-planned desired reality or "wonderland" of chosen fantasy characters."
Alice goes through the Looking Glass at Hickleton Hall
Following on from that last quote, it is interesting to learn, therefore, that it is possible that Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking Glass may have been based on an instance of just such a Tulpa phenomenon in a mirror that once stood in the drawing room of a stately home known as Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire, which exactly matches the illustration of the mirror shown in Carroll's famous book. In the story, Alice clambers on to the mantlepiece of a fireplace in a drawing room before she steps through the mirror. It is known that Carroll was staying at Hickleton Hall in 1851 as a children's in-house tutor where he initially began working on both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in tandem. The mirror now resides in the curiously named 'Alice Room' at the Victorian era Hoar Cross Hall in Staffordshire (a county with more than its fair share of ancient monuments, legends and strange mysteries), which today is a luxury health resort. People have claimed from Victorian times even to this present day to have seen a young blonde girl aged about seven dressed just like Alice in Wonderland both in the mirror and in other rooms of the house. Could this Tulpa like phenomenon explain what the C's said here about duplicities of image in this exchange in the transcripts:
Q: (F) Well, they mentioned twice to be careful about putting in the designated quotes. (L) One of the crop circles you interpreted was an "astronomical twin phenomenon." What is an astronomical twin phenomenon?
A: Many perfectly synchronous meanings.
Q: (L) Synchronicity is involved. Does this have something to do with "image?"
A: Duplicity of, as in "Alice through the looking glass.
So who was the young girl in the mirror who may have inspired Lewis Carroll long before Alice Liddell (who most people think was the model for Alice in Wonderland) was born? The answer to the girl's identity is that she was not Emily Wood* the eleven year old daughter of wealthy landowner Sir Charles Wood, the owner of Hickleton Hall in 1851, who was tutored by Lewis Carroll whilst he was a young student at Oxford University on sabbatical, but rather a seven year old, blonde Mary Heath who had accompanied her father Robert Heath and mother on a visit to Hickleton Hall in August 1851, when her father, an industrialist, had gone there to discuss mining rights with Sir Charles. Carroll was known to have made preparatory notes and drawings for his two Alice stories whilst staying at Hickelton Hall. Mary Heath lived with her parents at nearby Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, which has one of the most remarkable and strange gardens in the whole of England - and thereby hangs a tale.
*Emily Wood married in 1864 and went to live with her husband at Hoar Cross Hall, which is how the mirror got there.
However, is there anything else to support the theory that a young Mary Heath was the real life model for Alice in Wonderland rather than Alice Liddell (whose father was Carroll's boss as the Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford)? Well, yes there is. In Alice in Wonderland, when the White Rabbit, who Alice had followed into Wonderland, first speaks to Alice, he calls her "Mary Ann" four times yet no character of that name appears in the story and to this day it goes unexplained why the rabbit addressed Alice by that name. However, it so happens that Mary Heath's full name was Mary Ann Heath and she would go on to have her own very interesting life story, which in some ways may have been every bit as bizarre as that of Alice in Wonderland. Indeed, she would go on to become a major player in esoteric circles in the same way that Carroll himself would (ref. his alleged membership of the 'Orphic Circle'). But that requires a whole other post.
As a final point, this concept of Tulpas may also link with things the C's said in the previous session on 13th May 2023:
Q: (L) .... Well, then that leads to the next question: Did Alexandra David-Néel create a thought being of her own?
A: No.
Q: (L) What was that?
A: She added energy to an elemental being, something like a nature creature.
Q: (L) And this leads obviously to the next question: When we're doing spirit release, we come across all kinds of really bizarre things. I mean, just like thought forms that come and attach and even thought forms that are created by the individual. Are these thought forms like discrete beings that have intelligence, autonomy, and persistence?
A: Some are. And some "die" after being disconnected from the source of energy.
Q: (L) Okay. If we encounter a thought form-type critter that has come and attached to an individual, is that thought form-type critter something that has been created by some other individual in the same way that some of the ones that we have encountered are created by that individual person?
(Andromeda) Right. Like created by a thought loop or strong emotion and/or a split-off part of their personality?
A: Some yes. Others are gathered energies of place or object.
Q: (L) Place or object. So you're saying that objects can... What kind of objects?
A: Trees, for one.
Q: (L) So natural objects?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So natural objects can concentrate energy such that it forms a thought form?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Okay. And places also?
A: Yes. And some places respond to activities of humans and 2D creatures.
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The name Robert Heath will crop up again in my forthcoming post on the Templars and their connections to Springwood Priory, Biddulph Grange and the strange group of Gypsies or Saracens who settled on Biddulph Moor in the Middle Ages. Moreover, if time permits, I will try to write a post on Mary Heath who seems to have been the leader of an esoteric group based at Biddulph Grange called either Meonia or the Fire Phoenix Group, whose links would encompass all manner of other esoteric groups in Victorian times including, inter alia, the Victorian Rosicrucians, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Sphere Group and the artistic group known to history as the Pre-Raphaelites, who specialised in Arthurian themed works. Indeed, Meonia creates a link to a whole spider's web of esoteric connections, which makes me think of the C's statement "What a tangled web we spin, when we must not let you in".
However, through Andrew Collins I have recently learned of another interesting connection that Lewis Carroll worked into his book Alice in Wonderland, one that may have an indirect link with the triple goddess and by extension the Grail.
Alice in Wonderland and the Treacle Well
The Treacle Well, which appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, is modelled on the ancient well or spring known as St Margaret's Well that is located at the village of Binsey in Oxfordshire (just on the outskirts of the city of Oxford). As an Anglican clergyman and Oxford don, Lewis Carroll would no doubt have been aware of the sacred well at Binsey, which was restored by the Rev. T.J. Prout in Victorian times . Apparently, Carroll chose the name 'Treacle Well' because in medieval times the word 'treacle' meant an antidote to poison, thus it might be said that a treacle well was indeed a healing well. The Treacle Well features in a conversation between Alice and the Dormouse during the Mad Hatter's Tea Party:
'Once upon a time there were three little sisters, ' the Dormouse began ...
'their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well.'
'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions
of eating and drinking .
'They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a moment or two.
'They couldn't have done that, you know,' Alice gently remarked; 'they'd have been ill.'
'So they were,' said the Dormouse; very ill.'
According to Robert Charles Hope's 1893 book The Legendary Lore of the Holy Wells of England, the well at Binsey was dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch, whose cult reached England following the Norman conquest of the country in 1066 AD. In legend, she was the daughter of a pagan priest who lived during the reign of Diocletian, Emperor of Rome (284-313 AD), who led one of the last great persecutions of Christians within the Roman Empire. According to legend, Margaret was forced to flee after she received unwelcome advances from the Roman Prefect Olybrius, who afterwards denounced her as a Christian. Consequently, she underwent various tortures before she was finally beheaded. However, the only explanation for the well coming under the patronage of St Margaret was because the nearby church was already dedicated to St Margaret. However, as Collins astutely points out, which came first in a chicken and egg way, the well or the church?
As Collins had previously pointed out in his book The Seventh Sword, many holy wells and sacred springs in Britain were dedicated to St Helen, the princess daughter of Old King Cole of nursery rhythm fame, who was the legendary ruler of Colchester (Colchis?), an ancient seat of kingship in North Essex rather than St Helen, the mother of the Emperor Constantine, the finder of the True Cross, the nails of Christ's passion and the crowned heads of the three Magi, which were carried back to Europe and pesented to the cathedral at Cologne in Germany. As I pointed out in my article on The Megalithic Builders and the Order of Meonia, St Helen may well be a Christian stand in for the Celtic goddess Elen, the original patroness of many of these wells and springs. In turn, Elen may have been Helen/Kore/Brigid and Meritaten in my view and could also have been connected to the goddess Car, Cer or the Welsh goddess Ceridwen (who possessed a sacred cauldron – a cypher for the Grail). In the folklore tale of the British St Helen, the princess obtains assistance from a hermit who guides her to a sacred well from which three heads of three kings emerge (cf. with the Roman St Helen and the crowned heads of the three Magi above) who then proceed to help her after she showed much kindness to them. The point of the story was that it clearly speaks of the well being an oracular site where the fate of the princess and the country were decided. Collins was aware that there were other similar stories of heads emerging from wells in an oracular fashion in other parts of the country, whilst other tales are associated with triple-aspected female goddesses or guardian spirits. This led Collins to wonder whether the guardian of Binsey's holy well was a triple-aspected female goddess (like the Irish Brigid), even Helen or Elen herself. However, I take the view that the triple-aspected female goddess, as well as the three heads imagery, may in fact be an allusion to Baphomet and to the triple aspect that may be inherent in the Grail in the form of time, i.e., the past, present and future, which in reality are all one.
Collins also refers to the story of 'Elen of the Hosts' or the Legions, who was a beautiful woman featured in The Dream of Maxen Wledig (thought to be based on the Roman general Magnus Maximus who served in Britain and was proclaimed Emperor by his legionaries in 383 AD), a story found in the collection of medieval Welsh texts known as The Mabinogion, although many of the stories in this collection were clearly of a much older provenance. After dreaming of Elen, Maxen Wledig makes every effort to find her. With his authority, she is said to have ordered the building of roads from one end of Britain to the other. However, as a goddess of water and the fecundity of the land, Elen had her own representation which was local to Binsey in the form of a so-called Sheela-na-gig statue, a crude carving of a naked woman pulling open her genitalia, which is located in St, Michael's church, Oxford. Hence, it is possible that the sacred well at Binsey may once have been dedicated to Elen in Celtic pagan times. Collins adds that Such carvings may be an archaic form of the goddess of sex and love, the precursor of Venus and Babalon. Curiously, Collins tells us that another example of such a Sheela-na-gig is to be found in Colchester Museum in Essex, the legendary home of Old King Cole and his daughter Helen. Running up the carving's right leg is the word 'Elui', which comes from the root word El, which means "light", "god" or "angel" in various Indo-European languages (including Hebrew) and from which the name Elen almost certainly derives.
To complicate matters still further and to maintain the triple goddess theme, Collins points out that St, Margaret, as guardian of the holy well, has stiff competition in the form of a Saxon saint and princess called St Frideswide (680-735 AD), who is the patroness of Oxford and whose story, unlike that of Helen, is indelibly linked with that of Binsey.
St Frideswide
St. Frideswide was a princess, the daughter of King Didan (or Dydda), who ruled the kingdom of Wessex from his seat in Oxford some time during the mid-7th Century AD. He may well have been a sub-king of the kingdom of Mercia (which straddled the Midlands of England and included the modern county of Staffordshire), which lost and gained control of this region on various occasions. It is said that Frideswide was asked to become the wife of a prince of Mercia named Aelfgar, no doubt to seal an alliance between Wessex and Mercia. However, because she had already taken the vows of a nun, and lived in a nunnery founded by her father in Oxford, she refused Aelfgar's advances. Knowing that she might be forced to submit to her suitor, she and two female companions escaped by boat and came eventually to a place called Bentona or Thornbury, accepted by many scholars as being Binsey, although contested by others. Here Frideswide founded a chapel and begged God to send her water. He obliged by causing a spring to gush forth from the ground. For three years the three women lived off the land, drinking the well water, and dedicating their lives to the service of God. There is another story connected to Frideswide describing how on her arrival at Binsey with her two companions, she came across a pigsty, which she decided to make into a chapel. She accomplished this by luring the pigs away with a trail of acorns, whereafter the pigsty was converted by the women into a chapel.
Eventually, Aelfgar learned where she had retreated to and sought her out. However, as he approached her encampment he was struck blind. Frideswide took pity on the prince and said she would cure him if he left her alone. Aelfgar accepted her offer whereupon she took some holy water into her hands and placed it on his eyes curing him instantly. Frideswide later returned to the nunnery at Oxford, which eventually became St Frideswide's Priory, although this subsequently ceased to exist and has been replaced by Christchurch Cathedral where her remains rest beneath a floor slab marking her grave. There is also nearby a reconstructed shrine in her honour. It is also interesting to note that when Collins visited St Margaret's church at Binsey he discovered a wooden pulpit, which depicted St Margaret emerging from the mouth of Satan in the form of a dragon. This is an interesting symbology, since it may suggest that Binsey is connected with a centre of power, the dragon representing telluric energy. Collins believes that Binsey (Oxford) lies at the literal and sacred centre of England in the way that the town of Bourges in France does, a town which lies smack on the famous St Michael - Apollo ley line (or dragon line) which runs from Skellig Michael in Ireland, through St Michael's Mount in Cornwall and Mont Saint Michel in Brittany, Borges, the monastery of Sagra dei Michele at Piedmont in northwest Italy before continuing on to Mount Carmel in northern Israel. It also aligns with various key sanctuaries and oracle sites in Greece including Delphi, Athens, Delos and Lindos. This reference to Delos reminds me of the practice of the Hyperboreans in Britain who sent cryptic coded messages in leaves to the people of Delos, the supposed birthplace of Phoebus Apollo:
Session 19 February 2000:
Q: So, from very ancient times, there was this practice of the Hyperboreans sending sacred offerings to the Island of Delos. Now, the Island of Delos is supposedly the birthplace of Phoebus Apollo, whose mother was Leto. Supposedly he was born on Mt. Cynthus. This is a very curious thing. This is contrary to the old view that the cultural flow was from the Mediterranean to the North, that civilization began in the Near East. It implies a cultural flow from the North to the South. What were these ancient Hyperboreans sending to the Island of Delos?
A: Leaves bearing cryptic codes.
Q: What was the connection between the Hyperboreans, including the Celts of Britain, I believe, and the people of Delos?
A: Northern peoples were responsible for civilising the Mediterranean/Adriatic peoples with the encoded secrets contained within their superior extra-terrestrially based genetic arrangement. Practice of which you speak was multi-trans-generational habit.
No doubt the Hyperboreans of Britain were well aware of the St Michael-Apollo ley line or dragon line.
Finally, Collins discovered in St Margaret's Church an heraldic shield on which there were three female heads above an oxen crossing a field, the symbol of Oxford. Although no explanation was given Collins assumed this was the personal coat of arms of Frideswide, especially as she is the patroness of Oxford. Although the three female heads could obviously stand for Frideswide and her two companions, the heads could just as easily relate to a triple goddess, such as Brigid or Elen (Helen), and thus by extension to the Grail. Indeed, the three wavy lines shown in the Oxford flag below may represent the goddess:
Reverting back to Lewis Carroll and his Treacle Well, its seems likely that he was well aware of the story of St Frideswide, the patroness of Oxford, and called
Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie after Frideswide and her two companions who fled to Binsey and lived beside its sacred well (Carroll's Treacle Well) that had renowned curative powers. Curiously, the name
Elsie comes from the Scottish name
Elspeth, which is a form of
Elizabeth meaning "
God is my oath" and was a popular name in the 19th Century. The name in turn is a version of the Hebrew name
Elisheva' and combines the Hebrew words
‘El (meaning “God”) and
shava' (meaning “oath”). As a Scottish version of Elisabeth, the Gaelic interpretation of the name means “
pledged to God.” This name seems quite appropriate, therefore, for a woman who took sacred vows as a nun.
Finally,
Elsie is a modern spelling of the Old English name
Ælfsige (an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “elf victory”), which makes one think of Frideswide and her Mercian suitor prince, Aelfgar. Again the name is composed of two elements: “ælf” (elf, supernatural being) plus “gêr” (a spear, spear with iron head). In turn, the name means “skilled as an elf in the use of the spear”. Hence, Carroll's choice of the name
Elsie seems to unite in one name the legendary story of Frideswide and Aelfgar.
The Mysterious Key
Collins quest for the Grail ended in finding an old metal key buried below one of the walls of St Margaret's Church at Binsey whilst inside the church a mysterious group of twelve hooded and robed men chanted away in Latin (Collins' later researches found they were definitely not an authorised church choir). I will not relate all the bizarre circumstances in which he found it, which involved apparitions of both St Frideswide and Aleister Crowley who competed for the attention of Collins, his wife and their clairvoyant friend. Like Neo in the Matrix who had to choose between a red pill and a blue pill, they had to make a choice between Frideswide and Crowley. Unfortunately, they chose Crowley, which was a mistake in my view. Hence they found a different version of the key from that which they would have found if they had instead gone with Frideswide's spiritual guidance. The key they discovered was a very strange object. Here is Collins' description of it:
It was around 95mm (3.75 inches) in length with a large kidney-shaped bow, a ribbed shaft and an ornate box of wards incorporating an anchor design [
MJF: the anchor is a favourite symbol of the Rosicrucians]. It was made of well worn caste iron and appeared to be of a design much used in Georgian and Victorian times and probably fitted the lock to an interior door. However, it was the symbols on the key that most intrigued Collins. Those on one side of the key had been completely erased, most likely chiselled out a long time ago. Their clairvoyant friend Richard had thought there were in fact two forms of the same key with opposite sides erased. If they had chosen to follow Frideswide's path, rather than Crowley's, they would most likely have found the opposite version of the key displaying different sigils or symbols. Reading from left to right, Collins saw first a small circle with a point in the centre, which for him is the symbol for the sun. However, according to the Freemason and author
Laurence Gardner it may symbolise a lot more than this
*. After this first symbol was the sign for Taurus, which has a line trailing from its right-hand corner to an inverted triangle, representing the element of water, possible alluding to the well at Binsey. In addition to this, where the oxidised patina had peeled away from the area around the end of the barrel, a triangular shape had been added to the wavy line formed by its removal to signify what may have been a dragon or serpent [
MJF: Curiously, “Orm” (in Old Norse and in modern Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (bokmål and nynorsk) was the word for "snake", "worm" or "dragon") and became an Anglo-Saxon personal name during period of the Danelaw and seems to have been preserved in the name of the Norman crusader knight and Templar called Ormus le Guidon]. The final symbol appeared halfway along the shaft and was a ringlike line that embraced its entire circumference and ended in an oval shape reminiscent of an eye. As to the erased symbols on the other side, the first one may have been another triangle, the second and third symbols were completely erased, while the fourth was possibly a circle representing the sun.
*In my earlier article Hiram Abiff - The Widow's Son, I described how the Freemason and author Laurence Gardner had pointed out that the symbol of the small circle with a point in the centre ʘ represented the "annum". Quoting from that article:
"The determination of the earthly calendar was said to be the prerogative of the great Anu. The annum (as used later by the Romans to denote a year) related to the earth’s solar orbit and was denoted by a point within a circle ʘ. It was called a sha – an ideogram of 360˚, which stemmed from sha-at-am, literally meaning a passing as in a 360˚ passing defining an orbit. Even in 3000 BC (prior to the Greco/Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy) the Mesopotamians knew that the earth revolved around the sun. The orbit of light was deemed to be the realm of the sun god (think of Ra riding in his celestial ship or Apollo riding his fiery chariot) and was thus defined as the sha-ra-on (Sharon).
The transmitter of light (the light bearer or Lucifer in Latin) was the Rose of Sharon: the carrier of the Rosi Crucis. Rosi represented the ritu (the redness of truth from which we derive the word ‘ritual’) and crucis related to a cup as in ‘crucible’. Gardner then makes the comparison between the Rosi Crucis and the sacred Vessel of Light in the Kabbalah and is the reason he argues that the mystical technology of the light in The Zohar (meaning radiance of light; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoha) has been likened to the Holy Grail. The light bearer has been variously identified in different cultures from Nin-kharsag to Venus and in that guise was the queen in the Old Testament Song of Solomon 2:1: “I am the Rose of Sharon …” (in other words - I am the Truth of the Orbit of Light).
Interestingly, as Gardner observes, the direct Greek equivalent of the Rose of Sharon or Latin Lux-fer (Lucifer) meaning light-bearer was phos phoros from which the English word phosphorous derives. The term also relates to the day or morning star, which we think of as the planet Venus."
In my view, the 'Rose of Sharon' of the Bible and the 'Rosy Cross' of the Rosicrucians are symbols of the Grail, which may once have been kept at Stonehenge. The C's have also told us that human race are collectively Lucifer, the fallen archangel and, as such, humans are naturally light bearers. Interestingly, according to science, we all emit photons the intensity of which can vary depending on our state of mind. Thus, humans truly are beings of light where biophotons are constantly emitted by the human body. Biophotons, also known as ultraweak photon emissions (UPE), have a visibility 1,000 times lower than the sensitivity of our naked eye. These can be released through mental intention, and may modulate fundamental processes within cell-to-cell communication and DNA. Biophotons are generally believed to be produced as a result of energy metabolism within our cells, or more formally as a “… by-product of biochemical reactions in which excited molecules are produced from bioenergetic processes that involves active oxygen species.” DNA can thus be identified to be a source of biophoton emissions in humans. We should also link this fact with the C's confirmation that DNA is a superconductor. For more on this see: Body Emits Light | Biophotons | Body Communicates with LIGHt BiontologyArizona. Apparently, biophotons are used by the cells of many living organisms to communicate, which facilitates energy/information transfer that is several orders of magnitude faster than chemical diffusion. Curiously, I have only just read today that scientists are currently working on the means to store information within synthetically produced DNA. It is even possible that DNA can be used to transfer information backwards and forwards in time, which may explain a lot of things the C's have told us.
This brings us back to Abbe Berenger Sauniere and the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau again (which I think is intimately tied up with the Grail, as does Andrew Collins) and comments the C's made in the Session dated 7 June 1997:
Q: Okay! I can accept that! What was Berenger Sauniere collecting all those rocks for?
A: What about conductor?
Q: What do you mean?
A: What conducts?
Q: Was he building a little Stonehenge?
A: Have you researched the power of Stonehenge, and how it relates... where it fits in?
Q: Yes, we are bit by bit collecting things...
A: Well? And crop circles? Amazing connections... And what of "The Rosy Cross?"
Q: Well, this is what we are looking at! I have even discovered that Sir Francis Bacon's name is even derived from "beech," and that his Latin signature has the gematria number of 17 - and January 17 is the feast day of St. Anthony, who replaced St. Augustine in this affair somewhat... and I have connected the Rosicrucians all over the blasted planet, for crying out loud! And, who is who here? Just who are the good guys?
A: Airports are used by both. [MJF: As mentioned in a recent post, this could be a pun on the term "apport", which involves a magical manifestation of an object that could be produced by using a TDARM (see below)]
Q: Well, what is THAT supposed to mean?
A: Transdimensional Atomic Remolecularizer. [MJF: which seems to be a function of the Grail]
However, as Gardner also recognises, the symbol of the small circle with a point in the centre ʘ may also represent the white powdered mono-atomic gold of David Hudson, which for many medieval alchemists was the Philosophers’ Stone and by extension the Holy Grail. The C's commented on this matter in the Session dated 7 June 1997:
A: What about iron as an element?
Q: Okay, let's see: {consults dictionary} Iron –derived from early Celt 'iserno,' via Illyrian 'eisarno' from the IndoEuropean base 'eis,' which means to 'move vigorously; strong, holy.' It is a white, malleable, ductile, metallic chemical element that can be readily magnetized, rusts rapidly in moist or salty air, and is vital to plant and animal life; it is the most common and important of all metals, and its alloys, as steel, are extensively used. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight:55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86; melting point: 1535 degrees Centigrade; boiling point 3,000 degrees C. The electron shells are thus: 2,14,8,2. Iron is an element of blood, hemoglobin, and is easily magnetized... there is some new work about iron and magnetite in the brains of people who are psychic or have 'abduction' experiences... is it the magnetism?
A: Yes....
Q: Is it something that holds one more firmly in 3rd density, and the elimination of it enables one to switch densities... or...
A: Tis magnetite that acts as a conduit, and perhaps, just perhaps, allows for transference back and forth at will?!? And what about the legend about the alchemists? Is not the key term there really transformation?!? And has not the "smoke screen" really been delivered so effectively by all the concentration upon the substance?!? And does not this remind one indeed of all the misguided concentration upon substance rather than meaning that one finds so regularly on 3rd density??
Q: I get it! So, it is the magnetite in the body, that collects and holds the charge, and it has absolutely nothing to do with an external substance at all! Is that it?
A: You are getting "warmer."
Q: Am I right, we need more iron for magnetite, or am I completely off base here?
A: You are right, but, do not underestimate the significance of that just delivered! What better deception than to divert the meaning of alchemy, by focusing upon substance, then addicting those souls bound to 3rd density to the substance?
Q: Okay, it is the magnetite that acts as a conduit. And the concentration is upon the substance, that is, the magnetite. Let me conjecture that the thing that is believed to be distilled out of the alchemical operations is magnetite, is that correct?
A: No, because no need, if not deceived by other efforts.
Q: Were these other efforts involved with sexual function?
A: More like the results of same.
Q: Okay, they were concentrating on...
A: Today's version of the deception could be your favourite and mine, "monoatomic gold."
Q: Oh, the David Hudson fiasco...
A: There too, one is lead astray by substance... Remember our little dissertation about all the really big bangs?
Q: Yes.... I remember... and I got a lot of flack from that... The three days of darkness, et cetera... the implications... let's back up...
A: Oh my, oh my, we can turn this powder into gold!! And if you eat enough of it, you will have orgasms forever as a light being... Oh my, oh my!!
Finally, Collins finding of a key with mysterious symbols on it in pursuit of the Grail, that in his view may be tied-in with the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau, makes me think of something the C's said once in reference to the alchemist documents supposedly held at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, the main seat of the Percy Family who are the Dukes of Northumberland, in the Session dated 26 July 1997:
Q: Okay, discovered that one of the Percy estates was called 'Alnwick,' which startled me a bit after tracking wicks all over the place. But, what is the meaning of 'Alnwick?'
A: Discover. Invert. Allan. Check Hebrew root of Allan.
Q: The Counts of Flanders and Champagne were the sponsors of Chretien de Troyes who wrote the original Grail stories in which Perceval figures so prominently. These guys were also connected with the Templars. Well, it seems that the Templars were not the only ones getting picked on during certain periods. The Percy family has had much MORE than its share! Why?
A: You will be "picked on" too, if you learn too many secrets!!
Q: So, the Percys DID know something. I understand that the Percy family has a collection of 62 alchemical manuscripts... which is actually how I found out about Alnwick - I was tracking these alchemical texts....
A: But if you go there, do not ask for the key! [MJF: In Collins's case, it seems he was actually given one!]
Q: Does the current head of the family know the secret?
A: Getting "warmer." [MJF: an expression you will note the C's also used in the Session dated 7 June 1997 referred to above]
Q: Has this person also been pursuing the secret?
A: Pour suivant.
We have looked at the term "Pour suivant" before, which literally means "for following" or "pursuing". It can also mean a state or royal messenger or a follower or attendant.
Well Andrew Collins has certainly been pursuing the secret judging from his book, even if some of his assumptions may be wrong. However, he does make some interesting observations in his book about the mountain scenery depicted in Nicolas Poussin's painting of The Shepherds of Arcadia, which fits in with my own views on which mountain Poussin was depicting (more on this in a future post).
Throughout the quest Collins recounts in his book, he frequently relied on the psychic visions and internal intimations that his friend Richard Ward experienced, just as he did with the young psychic Debbie when he was hunting for the Seven Swords of Meonia. I will just mention one such psychic vision, which occurs at the end of the book, since it relates to what I have being speaking of above. This arose from the use of psychometry, which involved holding the key and focusing on it. This is what Collins describes and I will leave the reader to decide whether or not there is any merit in the account he gives below:
"Only flashes of the future and the past came - seven churches in Rome, underground catacombs, a castle aligned to the sun, the Chateau of Arques, and a horse and cart departing from a large medieval citadel in the heart of the French Languedoc. In the front seat were two monks dressed in simple brown hoods. Once they were out of range of prying eyes and the king's guard, one of them reached behind and pulled away a sackcloth covering to reveal the presence of the Head of God*, the two-faced head reliquary previously in the hands of the Knights Templar and smuggled out of England with the help of the White Cannons.** Realising that their dangerous mission was almost over, and that the priceless relic was now safe, the two men turned to each other and smiled knowingly, as they continued their journey unhindered towards their final destination."
*The Head of God would appear to be Baphomet.
**The White Cannons are known as the Premonstratensian Order. In England, they are more commonly referred to as the Norbertines.
