Well I hope you find this posting a bit more meaty.
You asked me to dig deeper into history and that is certainly what I have been doing these last couple of weeks. As you know, it can take time to dig out material and discern a pattern.
In the session dated 28 June 1997 the subject of
St Albans came up again:
Q: Well, Cecil was the fellow who kidnapped me. And, when he was arrested, the Navy came and took him away saying he was "incompetent to stand trial" because he had "escaped from a Navy hospital." And that essentially ended any hope of finding out where I was taken or why. I just don't see. How does this relate to St. Augustine, the Canaries, to Oak Island - all of this? What are we doing here?
A: St. Albans.
Q: And there is more! My God! We aren't happy with Mary Magdalene and St. Augustine, and St. Anthony! Now we also have St. Albans! Of course I know that it is the place where there was a battle and one of the Percy's was killed there. It was also called Verulamian in the Celtic days, and Francis Bacon was Lord Verulam and some suspect that he was the son of Elizabeth I. But, there are only so many hours in the day, guys! I need some help here! I was hoping that I would be getting some help with the research...
I am going to attempt here to link Sir Francis Bacon with St Albans, Oak Island and the Canary Islands.
In my previous post, I mentioned Bacon’s choice of aristocratic title. Well he was born in Gorhambury, St Albans so that would seem to explain why he chose St Albans. However, is there more to the choice of the name ‘Albans’? Well according to Peter Dawkins, something of an expert on Bacon, there is. This is what he has to say on the subject:
The choice of Gorhambury, St Albans, by Sir Nicholas Bacon, as the place to build his family home and ‘mystery school’ country retreat shortly after Francis Bacon was born, was certainly not by chance. Not only is St Albans an important location on the ancient ‘Bran Route’ from Anglesey to London and home of the British martyr, Saint Alban, the founder of Freemasonry in Britain, but also St Albans lies within Ophiuchus, the Dragon Master or Serpent Bearer. Ophiuchus not only relates to Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, and St George, the Christian Red (or Rosy) Cross Knight, but is known as the 13th Sign of the Zodiac. In the Arthurian myth, this is the 13th Seat of the Round Table, upon which the rightful heir to the throne sits.
I would also point out that Albion is the old British name for Great Britain and the old kingdom of Scotland was called Alban. In addition, Geoffrey of Monmouth in his ‘
The History of the Kings of Britain’ mentions that after the Trojan War, Aeneas fled from the ruined city of Troy with his son Ascanius, he ended up in Italy and took over that kingdom (the Etruscans?). He was succeeded by his son Ascanius who Monmouth tells us founded the town of Alba on the banks of the river Tiber. This town would go on, of course, to become Rome. According to Monmouth, Ascanius’s son was Brutus, the first King of Britain (see my post on the giant Gogmagog in the thread for the session 13 March 2021).
Bacon had read Geoffrey on Monmouth and it is interesting that as Shakespeare (if indeed Bacon was the real Shakespeare or spear shaker) he would write a play that concerned
Macbeth, a King of Alban and then
King Lear a play about one of Brutus’s successors.
I also mentioned in my previous post that I might have an explanation for the C’s reference to ‘Lodestar’ in the session dated
Session 14 August 2016:
Q: When I post material on the website, those people who resonate to the material
believe that this refers to them also. I have been of the opinion that Unified Thought
Form being must mean a very large group as represented in this density. I know that we
are dealing with limiting terms. But, is this applied to people who CHOOSE the
Cassiopaean option?
A: Maybe it is best to say it applies to those who recognize the application.
Q: So, if they recognize it, if they know it is them, they are part of it. (A) But, thinking
in nonlinear terms, it’s up to us to work to make this precise. You are asking this question
which implies that the answer exists. But, exactly what the answer is maybe it is not yet
chosen, and it is up to us to make it this way.
A: Lodestar is a clue for you.
Lodestar is a device that William Shakespeare used a lot in his plays. Take just one example from ‘A
Midsummer Night's Dream’:
Lodestars: guiding stars
"Your eyes are loadstars, and your tongue's sweet air
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear."
—Helena (1.1.184–85)
In many ways you yourself are a lodestar to this Forum in the sense described by Shakespeare. However, assuming that Shakespeare is Bacon, then he used references to stars for numerous other purposes, as I will now demonstrate below.
In the same session with the C’s in which they referred for the first time to Alton Towers, you got involved in an exchange about new stars:
Q: Supposedly, Christian Rosencruetz was initiated by the 'philosophers of Dancar.' I want to know where this blasted place is! Okay, skip it. One of the Rosicrucian manifestos said: 'God has sent messengers and signs in the heavens, namely the new stars in Serpentarius and Cygnus, to show that a great council of the elect is to take place.' What do they mean by a 'great council of the elect?'
A: Pyrenees.
Q: Okay, the purported enclave of the alchemists... Why was it signified by new stars in Serpentarius and Cygnus? What do they represent?
A: Novae.
This theme also continued in this further exchange:
Q: In reading the Celtic legends, I discovered that Cassiopaea was equated with Danu, or Don, as in Tuatha de Danaan, or the court of the goddess Danu. So, in other words, the supreme goddess of the Aryans was Cassiopaea. And, Cassiopaea is found in the zodiacal area of Aries, the 'lamb,' where Cephus the 'rock' and 'king' is also found, as well as Perseus, 'he who breaks' and serpentarius. {Just noticed that the previous question about the supernova in Serpentarius could be a reference to the supernova in Cassiopeia by this grouping method.} The image is of Perseus overcoming the serpent, and the ancient Celtic engravings of the horned god show him gripping two serpents by the throat. I would like to understand the symbology here...
A: You are on the right track
I have already referred to Peter Dawson’s work and I would direct you to his brilliant website
Sir Francis Bacon – Philosopher | Francis Bacon Research Trust Gateways to Wisdom, Francis Bacon Research Trust. I don’t think this website existed when you did your original research. I am taking the liberty of attaching two pdfs that he has made available on the site, which only date back to 2017. One is called
The British Landscape Zodiac and the other is
The Mystery of Oak Island - Part 3: Swan Secrets. I think what is contained in these articles is very revealing and helps to explain the C’s references.
It is worth also looking at Dawson’s webpage on
Geocosmology FBRT | Geocosmology: the Hermetic Science and Art of Geomancy and Cosmology which he explains as follows:
The word ‘geocosmology’ was invented as a combination of two words, ‘geomancy’ and ‘cosmology’, and refers to the science and art of geomancy and cosmology and their interrelationship or interface.
“Geomancy literarily means ‘earth divination’ but is, fundamentally, a science of natural energy, form and consciousness in respect of the human being as well as of the planet with its landscape and man-made environment—and, by extension, of nature everywhere.
(Divination is the art of sensing, intuiting, perceiving and being inspired, which, when coupled with the rational faculty, culminates in understanding.)
Cosmology is a science concerning the natural or physical cosmos or universe, and the mind or consciousness behind it. At its highest level it is a science of wisdom and metaphysical truths, including that of the spiritual archetypes and intelligencies (angels) of the universe—in other words, a science of spiritual energy, form and consciousness”.
He goes on to say:
It is becoming increasingly clear that Francis Bacon and others associated with him had a good knowledge of the geocosmological energy pattern or zodiac of Britain—a pattern recognised before them by the Celts, Romans and Normans, all of whom utilised this knowledge. The particular siting of Gorhambury, Bacon’s country estate, within the zodiac of Britain, and the geometric or geocosmological pattern laid out and marked by him across its landscape after he had inherited the estate, bear witness to some of this knowledge.
Also significant in the Bacon-Shakespeare-Rosicrucian mystery are the relative locations of Stratford-upon-Avon and Gorhambury, St Albans, within the landscape zodiac of Britain in respect of the celestial phenomena associated with and leading up to 1604—a 3rd-magnitude nova in Cygnus that was first sighted in 1600, unusual planetary conjunctions during 1603-4 and a 1st-magnitude supernova in Ophiuchus in 1604, the latter of which marked the metaphorical opening of the Rosicrucian tomb of Fra CRC and the start of making public the Rosicrucian work that had hitherto been prepared in secret. The “new stars” in Cygnus and Ophiuchus are especially noted in the symbolic illustration depicting the Invisible College of the Rosicrucian Fraternity in Theophilus Schweighardt’s book, Speculum Sophicum Rhodo-stauroticum, published in 1618.
The choice of Gorhambury, St Albans, by Sir Nicholas Bacon, as the place to build his family home and ‘mystery school’ country retreat shortly after Francis Bacon was born, was certainly not by chance. Not only is St Albans an important location on the ancient ‘Bran Route’ from Anglesey to London and home of the British martyr, Saint Alban, the founder of Freemasonry in Britain, but also St Albans lies within Ophiuchus, the Dragon Master or Serpent Bearer. Ophiuchus not only relates to Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, and St George, the Christian Red (or Rosy) Cross Knight, but is known as the 13th Sign of the Zodiac. In the Arthurian myth, this is the 13th Seat of the Round Table, upon which the rightful heir to the throne sits.
Then there is the much bigger scale of geocosmology—the planetary scale used by the Rosicrucian fraternity and Francis Bacon in which Britain lies within Cassiopeia, the Heavenly Virgin Queen, and Cygnus is associated with Nova Scotia and the mystery of Oak Island. Using Rosicrucian terms, Bacon refers specifically to "navigation" (a Rosicrucian is a "navigator") and to the use of the "compass". This refers primarily to navigating the world of thought and creating in the human understanding "a holy temple after the model of the world”, but it also refers to the navigation of the world in which the magnetic compass and compass rose is used.
Hence, we now get an explanation for the importance of
Cassiopeia to the ancient Britons and in particular the Druids and a reference to the supernovae mentioned by the C’s. Now I am no expert on Rosicrucianism but Dawson does use their teachings, literary works and mythology to explain what lay behind their doctrines. It also sheds light on matters addressed in the plays of Shakespeare. If anything I have touched on here is old hat to you and the Forum then I apologise as I have not read all of your works.
For further reading on the subject, Dawson also makes reference to the Shakespeare-Bacon essays of Matthew Walker. See website here
The Shakespeare-Bacon Essays of Mather Walker
Unfortunately, I could only access Part 3 of the Oak Island Mystery paper on the website but it does look very interesting and may appeal especially to those who may have followed your own research and those who have watched the ongoing TV series ‘The Curse of Oak Island’
The Curse of Oak Island - Wikipedia
The article is quite long and rambling but establishes, I believe, a reason why Bacon might have been involved with Oak Island given what the C’s have added about the alchemists alcove in the Pyrenees, which Bacon would almost surely have known about and probably been in contact with, given his high position at court, his seniority in the Rosicrucian Fraternity and his control over England’s spy network. The fact is the article links St. Albans, Oak Island and the Canary Islands together and I have never seen that elsewhere. It would also seem that Deneb is the
lodestar here.
At some stage did Bacon organise an expedition to Oak Island? If so, he seems to have kept it off the books as there appears to be no record of it.
BTW The deliberate laying out of towns and cities in accordance with celestial constellations is something which has been seen also in Central and North America. I have watched Ancient Aliens episodes where they demonstrated the Mayans did this and the Native American Indian tribe, the Anasazi, who built Chaco Canyon and other pueblo towns in the state of New Mexico. And then, of course, there is the Giza Plateau. Was this a knowledge inherited from Atlantis I wonder?
I hope to shed some light by means of a further post on that strange statement the C’s made about ‘
Spawn of the Dragon’, assuming you have not resolved that cryptic statement already. I also have further insights to share on Bacon and his New Atlantis and on the Hyperboreans.
In my last post I suggested that where the C’s told Ark:
"A: The journal, to start with. One's objectives should be outlined. The scientist usually begins with this for "fine tuning." We see more opportunities coming though. We led you to the garden, and you planted the beanstalk. Now watch it grow, Jack! ",
I thought this might have more than one meaning. I referred to Sir Francis Bacon’s role in establishing the
scientific method as a second possible meaning. This is what Wikipedia has to say on the subject:
“His works are seen as developing the
scientific method and remained influential through the
scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the father of
empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued science could be achieved by use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves.”
This matches up for me with the C’s statement that “
One's objectives should be outlined. The scientist usually begins with this for "fine tuning.”
However, I think there is a third possible meaning to the quote and that is the idea of planting beans or seeds and watching them grow very fast into a giant beanstalk, with the emphasis very much on giant. Hence the C’s statement
“A: The giant is in the meaning”.
It was Bacon who helped to lay the seeds of the British colonies that would go on to grow into the United States of America in a relatively short space of time. Here again I will support this hypothesis by quoting from Bacon’s Wikipedia entry:
Bacon played a leading role in establishing the British colonies in North America, especially in
Virginia,
the Carolinas and
Newfoundland in northeastern Canada. His government report on "The Virginia Colony" was submitted in 1609. In 1610 Bacon and his associates received a charter from the king to form
the Tresurer and the Companye of Adventurers and planter of the Cittye of London and Bristoll for the Collonye or plantacon in Newfoundland, and sent
John Guy to found a colony there. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, wrote: "Bacon, Locke and Newton. I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral Sciences".
In 1910 Newfoundland issued a postage stamp to commemorate Bacon's role in establishing the colony. The stamp describes Bacon as "the guiding spirit in Colonization Schemes in 1610". Moreover, some scholars believe he was largely responsible for the drafting, in 1609 and 1612, of
two charters of government for the Virginia Colony. William Hepworth Dixon considered that Bacon's name could be included in the list of Founders of the United States.
I have deliberately linked this post to my previous post of 22 April in order to draw people’s attention to the two articles by Peter Dawkins so as to link Francis Bacon with St Albans, Oak Island and the Canary Islands through his application of the practice of
geomancy. To understand why I think geomancy is the key to understanding all of this and the C’s various quotes, you really need to read these articles. It is all in there, the whole explanation. Obviously, the C’s intended the explanation to come out at this time for a reason, since this material was not available back in 1997/98. The articles only became available in 2017. However, I intend to refer to the articles as we go in order to explain certain remarks made by the C’s in various sessions over the years.
Just to recap here is what the C’s said on 7th June 1997:
Q: Supposedly, Christian Rosencruetz was initiated by the 'philosophers of Dancar.' I want to know where this blasted place is! Okay, skip it. One of the Rosicrucian manifestos said: 'God has sent messengers and signs in the heavens, namely the new stars in Serpentarius and Cygnus, to show that a great council of the elect is to take place.' What do they mean by a 'great council of the elect?'
A: Pyrenees.
Q: Okay, the purported enclave of the alchemists... Why was it signified by new stars in Serpentarius and Cygnus? What do they represent?
A: Novae.
This theme also continued in this further exchange:
Q: In reading the Celtic legends, I discovered that Cassiopaea was equated with Danu, or Don, as in Tuatha de Danaan, or the court of the goddess Danu. So, in other words, the supreme goddess of the Aryans was Cassiopaea. And, Cassiopaea is found in the zodiacal area of Aries, the 'lamb,' where Cephus the 'rock' and 'king' is also found, as well as Perseus, 'he who breaks' and serpentarius. {Just noticed that the previous question about the supernova in Serpentarius could be a reference to the supernova in Cassiopeia by this grouping method.} The image is of Perseus overcoming the serpent, and the ancient Celtic engravings of the horned god show him gripping two serpents by the throat. I would like to understand the symbology here...
A: You are on the right track
Now Laura said to me in her post on 24th April:
“What I have thought about is this: The original question that gave back the response about "struggle out of sequence with pre-ordained activities of Royal Blood Lines" was about a supernova”
And she is quite right. What was it about the supernovae in Cygnus and Serpentarius that had Bacon and his fellow Rosicrucians suddenly rushing around publishing the Rosicrucian Manifestos and visiting Oak Island? Well the answer is what novae represent. In latin “novae” is the plural of the feminine form of “novus” meaning “new” in English. Supernovae, as we know, are caused by the explosion of old stars. However, the death of one star may lead to the birth of new stars with their attendant planets.
Star formation - Wikipedia. It is in effect the Phoenix effect with a new bird arising out of the ashes of the old bird.
So what bird did the Rosicrucians want to resurrect? The answer, I think, is Atlantis or Arcadia. Bacon made it clear in his last work, The New Atlantis, that he wished to see a resurrection of the Golden Age through the creation of a New Atlantis and North America would be its base.
Geomancy is basically the system of superimposing the twelve signs of the Zodiac over a place, country, continent or the whole world. If you refer to Dawkins article on ‘
The British Landscape Zodiac’ you will get the idea. He traces the practice back to the Celts and it is evidently based on the Hermetic maxim “
As above, so below”. What the Rosicrucians did was to take a celestial globe of the heavens with all the constellations of the Zodiac and superimpose it over a terrestrial globe of the world. But you might say they didn’t have a complete globe of the world in the early 17th century since Antartica and other territories hadn’t yet been discovered and mapped. That is where the Piri Reis Map comes in to play.
Piri Reis map - Wikipedia
In a session dated 31 October 1998, the C’s had this to say on the subject:
Q: A pyramid type graph. Okay, anything else about prime numbers? When you said that they were the 'dwellings of the mystics' I had an idea that a prime number could be a dwelling of a mystic because the individual would express in some manner a frequency that related in some way to a prime number. Is that somewhere along the line...? That mystics can traverse all densities because of frequency?
A: Something like that.
Q: My next thought was that it could indicate actual places or locations in space time on the planet that would be represented by coordinates.
A: Zuber.
Q: What does THAT mean?
A: Research.
Q: Okay. Now. This woman with this book "The Horse of God," talks about the shadow of the horse in the Shepherds of Arcadia painting that is evident if you turn it upside down. I know that I dreamed that the painting was a map. In terms of this map, what would be the zero meridian that one would use to place the map?
A: There need not be a zero meridian.
Q: Is there any one thing... I doused the picture, and it seemed that the head of the kneeling man with the beard was the important figure. Where, on a map, would one place this head in order to have the other figures in correct alignment?
A: Best to split the image, head to head. Vertically.
Q: Split the image and put the same guy head to head to his own head?
A: Close.
Q: Now, when you were saying that I needed to get a better 'handl' on it and I found...
A: Have you overlooked North America? Check Atlas indices for names to pique interest.
Q: What names?
A: Oh now, we cannot tell you that!
Q: The reason I have been focusing on Europe is because you said that this thing we were supposed to find was in the Rhineland...
A: But there are always connections, both hither and yon. Tricky those Rosicrucians, tricky. And what of Piri Reis?
The reason why the C’s said there need not be any zero meridian was because the Rosicrucians were using the celestial map of the globe for their navigation rather than a Mercator map or terrestrial globe as we know it today.
I checked for places called Zuber and came up with one in Florida located at
29°16′01″N 82°10′52″WCoordinates:
29°16′01″N 82°10′52″W. I don’t know how far it is from the house where Laura was living at the time but it is obviously in North America and you will note the C’s stress that “
Have you overlooked North America” in the same exchange.
Zuber, Florida - Wikipedia
In the Rosicrucian world, North East America is linked with the Zodiac sign of Cygnus the Swan, which is also known as the Northern Cross. In that earlier post, I mentioned that the star
Deneb, within the constellation of Cygnus, was in effect
the lodestar for navigating us to Oak Island since, according to Dawkins, it is the apex of the
Masonic Celestial Compass.
I think this now explains the strange quote the C’s made to Laura in the 12th December 1998 session:
A: Your quest is your own. We do not "steer." We supply the mortar, you are the Masoness.
To steer is to navigate and if you are a Freemason you will use the Masonic Celestial Compass to navigate.
Now Dawkins says in ‘The Mystery of Oak Island’ that:
“To project heaven on earth and know what you were navigating to, and what area of the world corresponds to in terms of symbolism (I will return to the subject of symbolism below) associated with the stars, was of key import. And this is where Oak Island and Nova Scotia show up in their importance, as well as helping to explain why Queen Elizabeth I was likened to the Virgin Queen, who in the sky is represented by the constellation of Cassiopeia, the Enthroned Queen (equivalent to Isis, the Egyptian goddess-queen).
A supernova in Cassiopeia appeared dramatically in the sky from 1572 to 1574 and was taken [by the Rosicrucians]
as a sign of the birth of a child to the Virgin Queen, or the appearance of a great light in that part of the world representing the Virgin Queen, Cassiopeia. At that time, the part of the world corresponding to Cassiopeia was the British Isles – England in particular – and an earthly queen always equates in tradition as personifying the land.
The Rosicrucian apologist Michael Maier is alleged to have stated, in a manuscript residing at the University of Leiden (Leipzig), that the Society or Fraternity of the Golden and Rosy Cross had been founded circa 1570 by members of a group whose origins lay in a ‘community founded in 1510 in London by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. The alleged manuscript is now lost (if, indeed, it ever existed) but in support of what it is purported to have said is the fact that Robert Fludd [a future Royal Society member]
wrote, in his Tractis Apoligetica (1617), that the “new star”of 1572 marked the beginning of the Rosicrucian work, which then continued to be prepared in secret until the 1603-04 planetary conjunctions and appearance of the new stars in Cygnus and Ophiuchus [Serpentario]
, which was a sign to the Fraternity for them to emerge from their period of secrecy, expand their membership and begin the restoration of the world.”
Dawkins article on The Mystery of Oak Island explains how if you make a celestial globe (with the signs of the Zodiac) and lay it over a terrestrial globe, with the terrestrial globe showing underneath, you can locate which country is covered by which constellation of the Zodiac. To do this though you need to align the prime meridian of the celestial globe with the prime meridian of the terrestrial globe, which is represented by the island of El Hierro, the smallest and farthest south and west of the Canary Islands (known in antiquity as ‘The Fortunate Islands’). This had been in use as the longitudinal prime meridian since the time of Ptolemy and would continue right up until the 19th century when the Greenwich Prime Meridian was established in 1851.
The resulting image will show Cygnus, the Swan (AKA the Northern Cross), flying over the East coast of America. Nova Scotia lies beneath the tail of the Swan but the star Deneb is offset from Nova Scotia by approximately 6 degrees. The stars of Cassiopeia cover the British Isles and Lyra (the Lyre) is over the heart of North America.
Dawkins points out though that if
Gerardus Mercator’s (1512 – 1594) prime meridian is used instead, then the prime meridian for these purposes will be the island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, then the lodestar Deneb will be positioned over Nova Scotia and close to Oak Island. Note that when Mercator was living in Duisberg, he met and gave a terrestrial globe to Dr. John Dee a fellow Elizabethan courtier with Bacon
You should also note that in response to French colonisation plans in North America, the Virginia Company was set up in 1606 and granted land between latitudes 34˚N and 45˚N by James I for renewed colonisation purposes. This redefined the land and seascape of Virginia as lying north of latitude 34˚N, south of latitude 45˚N and west of longitude 64˚W, with the western border as yet undefined. Two notable factors about this are:
- The coastal landscape of Virginia corresponds to the main body of Cygnus, the Swan;
- The 45˚N latitude and 64˚W longitude meet in the Oak Island area of Nova Scotia that corresponds to the star Deneb and this junction forms the north-east corner of Virginia.
The north-east corner is very important in Freemasonry and sacred architecture, as this is where the
corner-stone is placed when the temple is dedicated.
The French had made a counterclaim in 1603 on the coastal land between latitudes 40˚N and 46˚N, calling this land La Cadie or Acadie (i.e.
Acadia or
Arcadia). However, they were only able to make their own territorial claim effective by colonisation over the parts stretching between latitudes 45˚N and 46˚N (now New Brunswick, the northern part of Maine and the northern half of Nova Scotia).
Acadia - Wikipedia
So the coastal landscape of Virginia corresponds to the main body of Cygnus the Swan or as
Acardia, the Land of the Rosicrucians. As Dawkins states, in Baconian terms, this ‘virginal’ Arcadian land is the earthly part of what could be the beginning of the
New Atlantis – the old Atlantis of North America ‘instaurated’ into a new shining ‘golden’ form, blessing itself and the world with a new
Golden Age. A New Golden Age to rival the earlier Golden Age of Atlantis.
Arcadia
Allegorically, Acardia is known as
the Land of the Rosicrucians – a land inhabited by shepherd-knights and poets, and famous for its harmonious landscapes and oak tree woods in which wild boar rummage for acorns. Sometime around 1618 a famous motto appeared for the first time on a painting created in northern Italy by the
Italian Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino). The motto is ‘
Et in Arcadia Ego’ (And in Arcadia I) an elliptical sentence lacking a verb. A slightly later painting by
Nicolas Possin, ‘
Les bergers d’Arcadie’ (The Arcadian Shepherds, 1637-38) also incorporates the same motto. There has been a lot of discussion about this painting on the Forum and in the Wave series in connection with the mystery of the Priory of Sion and the treasure of
Bérenger Saunière.
Hence, both Guercino and Poussin were clearly linking their works with the Rosicrucians and their ideology.
I found a further quote concerning Arcadia in the session of 5th December 1998:
Q: The chief thing I noticed about Arcadia was, the Arcadians were the enemies of the Trojans, they were the creators of the Trojan Horse - a huge deception... and the Celts are supposed to be the descendants of the refugees from Troy. And, when Hitler came along, one of his ideals was to resurrect Arcadia, and that Germany was going to be the new Arcadia and destroy the 'old corrupt civilization,' which was Troy. Troy is 'three' and is connected to 'Ilium,' and I guess what my question is here is: just who's on first?
A: Who is on second?
The reference to who is on second is a reference in baseball terms to who is on second base. Clearly the C’s were indicating that the Arcadians of the siege of Troy story were not the first Arcadians, since the Atlantians were on first base. Alternatively, it could also be a reference to the American settlers in the New World who would, thanks to Francis Bacon and his Rosicrucian colleagues, become the New Atlantians and therefore stand on second base.
The Trent
Dawkins states that Nova Scotia, lying at the latitude of 45˚N, could be seen – and certainly seems to have been seen in esoteric circles – as the gateway to North America or Atlantis, as it was esoterically known. Gateways are important especially when they are the middle path as represented by 45 degrees. He then states that it is noteworthy the 45˚ latitude is specifically associated with a new Atlantis in ‘
The Anatomy of Melancholy’ (1621). Francis Bacon may have been the inspirer, co-author or author of this work. Dawkins then quotes a passage from the book referring to the Rosie-Cross Fraternity but then points out that this passage is placed a few lines after an extraordinary and seemingly out of place navigational reference to “
old Verulamium”, which as we know from the C’s particularly relates to Francis Bacon, whose family estate at Gorhambury lies in part on the site of the Roman City of Verulamium in what is St Albans today. Bacon’s title was Baron Verulam of Verulam (later Viscount St Albans). The passage in question is:
“B.Atwater of old, or as some will Henry I., made a channel from Trent to Lincoln navigable; which now, saith Mr Camden, is decayed and much mention is made of anchors, and such like monuments found about old Verulamium, good ships have formerly come to Exeter, and many such places, whose channels, havens, ports, are now barred and rejected”.
We have previously considered the meaning of the C’s reference to the “
Holder of the Trent” and I wondered if it might be linked to one of the Earls of Shrewsbury. However, I came across another reference to ‘Trent’ in a session dated 12 December 1998:
Q: Now, in reference to your question to me: 'where is Arcadia,' that I need to look at this some more ........
“A: Arcadia is a crossroads for the one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent.”
The reference to Arcadia as a crossroads now appears to refer to the constellation of Cygnus the Swan since it is also known as the Northern Cross and therefore applies under the practice of geomancy to North East America and perhaps Nova Scotia (New Scotland) in particular, which takes its name from the legendary ‘Scotia’, who was either the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh contemporary with Moses or the daughter of King Zedekiah, the last King of Judah but what of the rest of the quote?
Then I thought of something Outsky posted in this thread about ‘
Trent’ being perhaps a contraction of ‘
tros’.
However, say if ‘
Trent’ is actually a contraction of the word
Trident? Why is this relevant? Well Poseidon (Neptune to the Romans) was the Greek god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses and according to legend and myth, the founder of the fabled island kingdom of Atlantis.
Poseidon - Wikipedia. He is also famous for wielding or holding a trident.
He also had the cult title "earth shaker". In the myths of isolated
Arcadia he is related with
Demeter and
Persephone . In Plato’s
Timaeus and
Critias, the legendary island of
Atlantis was Poseidon's domain. In
Homer's
Iliad, Poseidon supports the Greeks against the Trojans during the
Trojan War and in the
Odyssey, during the sea-voyage from Troy back home to
Ithaca, the Greek hero
Odysseus provokes Poseidon's fury by blinding his son, the
Cyclops Polyphemus, resulting in Poseidon punishing him with storms, the complete loss of his ship and companions, and a ten-year delay. It seems that the Arcadian myth is related with the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the Bronze Age. We have been speculating whether these were northern European Celts.
Note that Arcadia is also one of the regions described in the "
Catalogue of Ships" in the
Iliad.
Agamemnon himself gave Arcadia the ships for the Trojan war because Arcadia did not have a navy.
If Poseidon was the god and guardian of Atlantis, which figure is intended to be the protector of the New Atlantis? Here symbolism steps in again for there is one famous figure in British history that is renowned for carrying a trident and that is
Britannia, whose navy was destined to rule the seas for several hundred years.
Britannia - Wikipedia
Britannia (
/brɪˈtæniə/) is the national personification of Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield. An image first used in classical antiquity, the Latin
Britannia was the name variously applied to the British Isles, Great Britain and the Roman province of Britain during the Roman Empire. Typically depicted reclining or seated with spear and shield since appearing as such on Roman coins of the 2nd century AD, the classical national allegory was revived in the early modern period (from circa 1400-1800).
It was during the
reign of Elizabeth I that "Britannia" again came to be used as a personification of Britain. In his 1576 "General and rare memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation",
John Dee used a frontispiece figure of Britannia kneeling by the shore beseeching Elizabeth I, to protect her empire by strengthening her navy. This is also very much the period of Francis Bacon who was present at queen Elizabeth’s court as her legal counsel.
Could Britannia really have been a mask for Cassiopeia, who the Rosicrucians viewed as the celestial personification of Britain by virtue of their practice of geomancy?
If so, the British Rosicrucians obviously intended Cassiopeia, in the form of Britannia, to be the figurehead of the New Atlantis.
Conclusion
I am not pretending that I have solved all the clues the C’s have given on this particular subject but I hope I have made enough connections to join at least some of the dots. In particular, my research has not addressed all the bloodline issues but then the quote
“A: Arcadia is a crossroads for the one Essene, the Aryan one of Trent.” may possibly open up new lines of enquiry. So many of the C’s clues have double, if not triple, meanings, there may still be rich pickings awaiting discovery.
. Sorry anyway. I suggest to inspect it again but for this present look for next formation instead: “Be careful of the quote marks, they bring you to the crossroads.” I’m sure now will be easier to find out the Cassiopaeans’ golden and transcendental lay.
