Further to my last post, for completeness sake, I am showing here two different mirror images of Nicolas Poussin's painting of
The Shepherds of Arcadia, which the C's had suggested Laura should examine:
Note the chalice appearing between the feet of the bearded figure. If you look at the painting from a distance, you will also see that the tombstone forms a skull, with the heads of the bearded figure forming the eye sockets of the skull, rather like skull figures seen in Mayan or Aztec art imagery. Please note that this skull imagery was not proposed by me but by another more observant Forum member. Then there is this alternative mirror image of the painting:
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This alternative mirror image posted by Akopirnas in 2013 also produces a chalice plus the double-headed figure in the middle which reminds one of the Roman god Janus who looks both ways at once, one towards the past and the other towards the future, which may in itself be a veiled reference to the Baphomet skull that some have speculated could be double-headed, based on medieval rumoured accounts relating to Baphomet.
The Roman god Janus is associated with doors, gates (of time?), beginnings, and transitions, both in literal and abstract ways. He was also responsible for motion, changes, and time. He was the gatekeeper; his symbols were a porter's staff or virga and a set of keys. To illustrate his importance to the Romans, his name was even mentioned before Jupiter in prayers. Later, during the Renaissance (N.B. Poussin being a late Renaissance painter), this image of two faces would represent not only the past and future but also wisdom - Sophia or Metis, which may provide a link to the name Baphomet, as used by the Knights Templar for the pure crystal skull they possessed.
This idea of Janus being a "gatekeeper" also makes me think of the 'Sword Keepers of the Lock' (linked according to the C's with the Illuminati) who burned down the Library of Alexandria in order to protect important secrets from being discovered. Moreover, the notion of a "gatekeeper" also links in some ways with Poussin’s own personal motto of ‘tenet confidentiam’ or ‘keeper of secrets’. Just how important those secrets might have been may be gleaned from the following account.
In 1656 while living in Rome, Poussin received a visit from Abbé Louis Fouquet, the brother of Nicolas Fouquet, Superintendent of Finances to King Louis XIV of France. From here he sent a letter to his brother describing his meeting with Poussin. In his letter he makes the following statement:
“He [Poussin] and I discussed certain things, which I shall with ease be able to explain to you in detail – things which will give you, through Monsieur Poussin, advantages which even kings would have great pains to draw from him, and which, according to him, it is possible that nobody else will ever rediscover in the centuries to come. And what is more, these are things so difficult that nothing now on this Earth can prove of better fortune nor be their equal.”
This letter would subsequently lead to Fouquet's arrest in 1661 and his eventual downfall. The charges against Fouquet were extremely general and nebulous. There were vague accusations of misappropriation of funds, and others, even more vague, of sedition. On the basis of these accusations, all Fouquet’s goods and property were placed under royal sequestration. Oddly, however, the King forbade his officers to touch Fouquet’s papers or correspondence. Instead, he insisted on sifting through them personally and by himself. This seems most bizarre behaviour for a king. Although the King (not normally a bloodthirsty man) demanded the death penalty, the court eventually imposed a sentence of perpetual imprisonment on Fouquet in 1665. On the king’s direct orders, Fouquet was kept in strict isolation and he was forbidden writing implements and all means by which he could communicate with anyone. Even more draconian, any soldiers or guards who conversed with him were allegedly confined to prison ships or, in some cases, hanged. Louis XIV persistently endeavoured through his agents to buy ‘The Shepherds of Arcadia’. In 1685 Louis finally managed to do so. However, the painting was never put on display or even hung in a royal residence. Instead, it was confined to the king’s private royal apartments, where no one could view it without the king’s personal authority.
Given such strange behaviour by the great Sun King of France, the painting must have contained a great secret, even more important I think than that of perpetual lamps relating to phosphorescence, as proposed by Laura. I think Louis XIV’s behaviour can be taken to indicate that the painting held a secret of such a devastating nature that the king used all of his considerable power and influence to make sure it remained hidden. I would suggest that the secret was not simply the angle of obliquity of the Earth, as suggested by Gary Osborn (significant though that may have been in the 18th Century), but it had something more to do with royal bloodlines or even perhaps something of such power that its knowledge or possession could decide the fate of nations - i.e., the Holy Grail. It is not for nothing that Adolf Hitler was desperate to get his hands on the Grail - even costing Otto Rahn, the German Grail researcher his life. This point is demonstrated in the session dated 6 June 1998:
Q: Should I just drop the whole bloodline thing?
A: Why?
Q: Well, because you are saying I would approach it in an improper manner, and I am getting roadblocks and frustration, and I certainly don't want that!
A: So, find the proper manner.
Q: I don't know what you mean by proper manner. What's the proper manner?
A: Gradual passage of phases.
Q: Is that the proper manner?
A: Yes.
Q: (T) Which phases are passing gradually?
A: The answer to that is the clue you need most.
Q: (T) Phases of what?
A: It is the discovery that fosters the learning.
Q: So, I will discover these as I go along, I guess. One dot leads to the next dot. The only way to learn is to do it. (A) The original questions was whether we should follow this bloodline research... to what purpose?
A: Bloodlines reveal destiny. Why do you think they have been covered up so thoroughly?
[…]
Q: {Question lost because of tape malfunction.} [Probably related to the Holy Grail]
A: It was der Fuhrer who tried hardest. But not nearly enough.
Q: {Question lost because of tape malfunction.}
A: Find it in order to supercede the very power structure that created him.
Q: What power structure was this?
A: The "Third Reich."
Q: And who created the Third Reich?
A: Illuminati.
Q: So Hitler thought he could find something that would enable him to take complete control...
A: Sort of like a termite trying to vanquish "Orkin."
Q: {Question lost because of tape malfunction.}
A: Not tried succeeded!
[…]
Q: What is it in this bloodline that makes it so important to cover it up?
A: It would lead directly to verity on a scale never before seen on earth while at 3rd density STS.
Q: And what would be the result of this verity?
A: The truth shall set you free... as you are imprisoned
A: The "main danger" is when on reveals too much before one has enough stature or notoriety, on web pages, for example. [Discussion of repercussions of 'Diana' material on web pages after Diana's death]
[…]
Q: Alright, I will. Where did these bloodlines originate?
A: Orion region.
Q: For how long were they maintained with any semblance of purity?
A: Indefinite.
Q: Are you saying that they are still maintaining them and manipulating them from other densities?
A: That is for you to discover.
Q: Are these bloodlines carrying a specific codon that is designed to activate at a certain period of time or in response to a certain frequency?
A: Possibly, but why should not that apply to everyone?
Q: Okay, so we have got ticking time bombs in our DNA, all of us!
A: Maybe.
Q: Alright, bizarro... (A) It is not necessarily time bombs, these are bombs which could be ignited by something else, like knowledge. (L) Is that the case, that knowledge could unlock these codons?
A: Yes.
Q: Certain activities such as meditating?
A: Yes. Or... channelling.
Returning to the alternative mirror image posted by
Akopirnas, he added the following comments that are of interest here (with my own comments added in parenthesis in red):
Yes, Muxel, here is the picture (clickable images) from that time probably after correct splitting - excuse me my answer after 1,5 year..:
Now we have:
1)
Low place between stones
2)
Two faces of Janus, which associates with trading (once again - german Handl?), rocks, caverns, covered passages, doors and underpassages...
3)
Big shadow of some invisible cup...
[
The chalice or cup of Christ being the standard concept of the Grail in the Christian Europe of the 18th Century.]
4)
Pyramid in dark circle
[
Rosicrucianism always linked itself to the traditions and mysteries of Ancient Egypt (including those linked to the Great Pyramid) where we know from the C's that the Grail was based during Akhenaten's reign.]
6)
Something shining under pyramid in the form of a crystal.
[It is curious to me that the crystal he refers to looks heart shaped (see blown-up image below) since the Knights Templar apparently used the heart as a code sign for the Holy Grail - it is scratched, for example, all over the walls of the Royston Caves in Hertfordshire, known to have been frequented by the English Knights Templar. The image of a crystal linked closely to the Pyramid may also bear out the notion that the Grail was once to be found either inside or under the Great Pyramid at Giza - a place Poussin had a great interest in.]
7)
Place where two rivers merged or now merge (receded and dry/dried stream channels?)
The Renaissance has itself been likened to an underground stream and Poussin's original painting of the Shepherds of Arcadia contains a figure of what would appear to be the god Alpheus, the river god and lord of underground streams (see painting below). Poussin's themes of the underground stream of Alpheus, Arcadia and Arcadian shepherds, all featured in ideas promoted by the Medieval nobleman René d’Anjou, one of the best connected men of the 15th Century. Indeed, it was probably René who helped to introduce the themes of Arcadia, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail into Renaissance art. It can be shown that René d’Anjou had connections with Joan of Arc, Christopher Columbus (who he employed), Michel Nostradamus’ grandfather (who he retained as a court astrologer) and the Medici family of Florence. His daughter, Marguerite, married Henry VI of England. His works frequently denoted a fountain or a tomb, both of which were associated with an underground stream. This point picks up on something the C's mentioned in the Session dated 2 May 1998:
Q: Why was the 12th century the focal point for the propagation of the grail legends, the troubadours, the whole thing?
A: Beginning of "Renaissance."
This underground stream is usually associated with the river Alpheus, which is a coastal river located in the actual geographical Arcadia in Greece, which flows underground and is said to surface again at the Fountain of Arethusa in Sicily. The river has always been deemed sacred from antiquity and its very name derives in Greek from ‘first’ or ‘source’ (perhaps a bit like "Zep Tepi" or the "First Time" did to the Ancient Egyptians). The motif of an underground stream seems to have been extremely rich in symbolic and allegorical meaning. Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail stated that "... Among other things, it would appear to connote the ‘underground’ esoteric tradition of Pythagorean, Gnostic, Cabalistic and Hermetic thought. But it might also connote something more than a general body of teachings, perhaps some very specific, factual information; a secret of some sort, transmitted in clandestine fashion from generation to generation and it might connote an unacknowledged and thus ‘subterranean’ bloodline.”
Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln had in mind here the subterranean bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene but I would suggest that it might have more to do with the special Grail bloodline that Laura has referred to in the transcripts, which she also mentioned to me at the outset of the Alton Towers thread. This idea of a special bloodline may link up here with something Laura said about the artistic representation of knees again in the session dated 16 August 1997 (which coincidentally was the session that contained references to the 'Sword Keepers of the Lock', the 'Trampled Leaves of Wrath' (Kore/Hagar) and the 'Blue Apples Incarnate'):
Q: One thing that has been driving me nuts is the repeated representation of knees. I mean, they are everywhere. In the zodiac of Dendara, there is even a leg with the knee joint as a constellation. And in the Bacchus and Ariadne painting, someone is brandishing a leg. What is it with this knee? I know that the word is related to genes, and that the word 'patella' is related to the root of platter, and thus 'grail,' all of these funny ideas are connected to the knee. Even my name [Knight]!
A: Yes, so leave it until you have more pieces.”
Q: You mean, I will get more pieces and this will make sense?
A: Yes.
Q: Well, I am lost in a sea of puzzle pieces and I have not even begun to try to assemble them!
A: Step by step.
I would point out here that the bearded kneeling figure in Poussin's painting (who may represent Heracles/Hercules a prominent member of the Argonauts) is down on one knee in between which is a chalice and the skull and, in the other mirror image, the young shepherd is also brandishing his knee, between which can be seen a chalice and the double-headed figure of Janus, which seems to bear out Laura's point. If Poussin's painting is subtly hiding a reference to the Grail and the Grail bloodline, which King Louis XVI was no doubt a member of, it might explain why he was desperate to get his hands on it and had Nicolas Fouquet locked up for life (which perhaps provided the inspiration for Alexander Dumas' famous story The Man in the Iron Mask).
8)
A compass or letter A on a pyramid (
the compass being a Masonic symbol.)
9)
Over compass - swagger stick with vegetative or water motive. Or little skull over a horizontal line dividing a pyramid...
Before anyone mentions pareidolia and seeing Micky Mouse in these images if you really want to (N.B. it has all been said before), these images have been produced on the basis of the mirror image perspective suggested by the C's not me. What is more, it is known that other Renaissance artists used these and other similar techniques to hide encoded information inside their works including: Raphael, Da Vinci, the David Tenniers, Heironymous Bosch and also Albrecht Dürer – and the list goes on right up to the present day. Moreover, Poussin was known to be a very precise painter who knew how to use perspective to its full. Hence, there is little chance these images are merely coincidental.
Given the reference to the Great Pyramid and it secrets, which the author Gary Osborn has shown Poussin took a great interest in, I set out below an extract again from the Session dated 16 August 1997 , which picks up on a possible clue in Poussin's painting that may link it to the Grail:
Q: What was the function of the King's chamber?
A: Balancer to Queen's chamber.
Q: What was the niche in the Queen's Chamber that resembles the crack in the stone in the Arcadian Shepherd's painting [
i.e., Poussin's]
, as well as the window in the St. Anthony painting. What was this for?
A: Mind accelerator.
If Baphomet, the "
seer of the passage" was, and is, the Grail, then it may also function as a mind accelerator.
In passing, I also wonder if the two standalone hands revealed in the image above might just be a sneaky reference to the mummified hands found with the Sword in the Stone of San Galgano mentioned in my earlier post. Just a thought. Poussin lived in Italy most of his adult life, so he could certainly have known about the Galgano Sword and its significance to the Grail legends.
I must admit that I still don't know which of the two mirror images the C's had in mind here. However, the revealed images are certainly intriguing in both versions. See also the close-up image below:
Note the skull on top of the tomb, which is not included in his second version of the painting except in the mirror image perspective. Note also the laurel crown wearing figure of the god in the foreground is pouring water (knowledge?) out of the casket.
So we have skulls and chalices connected to a work that would appear to be connected to the Holy Grail. I would speculate that with his inbuilt references to mythic figures in the painting like Heracles, Ariadne (or a counterpart) and his fellow argonauts, the twins Castor and Pollux, who are all connected in turn to star constellations, Poussin's painting may even be a star map to assist in locating the Grail.
For those who might want to know more about Poussin and his codes, I attach an article on them by the author and researcher Gary Osborn, which can also be found on line. I would just pick out one quote though from Osborn's article, which might be of current significance in relation to imminent celestial events such as a possible supernovae:
“Well after some months I discovered that aside from the additional symbolism it contains – notably esoteric in origin and association – this painting also contains a direct reference to the Orion star constellation and the Precessional Cycle of roughly 26,000 years [the cycle is in fact 25,772 years].
The two extreme positions on the Giza Meridian of the Orion star constellation, which historians say was used by the ancients as a ‘gauge-marker’ for this cycle, appeared to be present in the painting . . . how Orion appeared 13,000 years ago - i.e., 11,000 BC, and how Orion would appear in 2000 AD. (See presentation The Arcadian Shepherds Version II).”
We know from the C's that II,000 BC is around about the time of the Deluge (10,662 BC according to the C's - with the Great Pyramid being built in built 8,649 BC) and the destruction of Atlantis. We are now, of course, in 2022 and the supernova (Rigel perhaps?) the C's spoke of may just be around the corner. If Osborn is right, were the Pyramid's builders aware of the imminent supernova and was Poussin, as a Rosicrucian, aware of this too? Here is what the C's had to say about the matter in the session dated 22 August 1998, which seems to support Osborn's ideas, i.e., if he is right in his assertion that Poussin incorporated these gauge markers into his painting:
Q: So, there are some that have not been found yet. Now, according to this book, the ‘Message of the Sphinx,’ they are saying that the orientation of the pyramid complex which includes the Sphinx, designates or denotes a time, or replicates on the ground the pattern of Orion related to the constellation of Leo exactly 10,500 years ago. What is the significance of this date 10,500 years ago?
A: Complex, but what about Orion?!?
Q: What about Orion?
A: For you to surmise.
Q: Was this a date when the ships from Orion arrived to go into orbit around the Earth?
A: No. Now you should study all you can about supernovae.
Q: Okay, there was a mention of a supernovae in this book. Was there a supernova at that particular time?
A: Maybe, but the real question should be: Will there be one again, and soon?
Q: They have said that this designates the lowest point of Orion in the precessional cycle, the nadir of the cycle, and that the midheaven would be 2400 AD. If you have the representation of this precessional nadir, what is the next ‘notch’ on the clock? Is it going to be the midheaven of the cycle 400 years or so from now?
A: Best not to assume without adequate date. [
Did Poussin know it?]
[...]
Q: Were the Egyptians using the Pyramids to travel in time?
A: Maybe in a crude sense, more like an oracle.
[....]
Q: (A) I have one question about the pyramids. There is a complex of pyramids at Giza, and they are now trying to find out if this complex points to some special place, a vanishing point. Is it really so that the three pyramids point to some important place as a complex?
A: Orion.
Q: (A) Not some place on the earth or under the earth?
A: No, no need.
[…]
Q: (L) Is there anything we ought to be doing in terms of employment at the present time? Is there any other direction we should be looking at the present time?
A: Not until you reach the crossroads. [
A reference perhaps to the imminent transition from 3rd density to 4th density?]
Q: (L) What crossroads? I don’t like that!
A: Wait and see. Now study supernovae!