19-10-2018, 03:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-10-2018, 03:49 PM by David Guyatt.)
[FONT=&]The Name of the Rose[/FONT]
[FONT=&]One of the intriguing stories written by the late Umberto Eco was his book the Name of the Rose, which became a major film production featuring Sean Connery. The story was set in a medieval castle and Connery played the part of Brother William of Bakerville. In the book William;s protagonist was the Dominican friar and Inquisitor, Bernard of Gui. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]Gui was an actual person and was appointed to the Inquisition in 1307 and is known for persecuting the Cathar's for their heresy and they were hunted down and killed. Their last stand was at fortress atop Montsegur, which was besieged by troops operating on behalf of the Bishop of Narbonne. Trapped and starving all committed suicide apart from, apparently four members who escaped with the Cathar secrets.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Montsegur was one of the sites investigated by the Nazi SS before WWII via the SS Annerherbe officer Otto Rahn (http://www.thefullwiki.org/Montségur#Th...3.A9gur.3F). There are reports that on the 700th anniversary of the fall of Montsegur, 16th march 1944, Nazi aircraft flew in a Swastika formation over the top of Montsegur (it is worth mentioning here in passing that the Cathars deeply connect to the story of Rennes le Chateau).[/FONT]
[FONT=&]There is another curiosity in regard to Montsegur. There is a legend that 700 years after the destruction of the Cathar religion in March 1244, the Holy Grail would be returned to its rightful holders. This has been adopted, adapted to mean the SS or the DHvSS, the "Lords of the Black Stone" where the black stone' is said to be the Grail. It's not, but this doesn't stop legends being lifted and adopted or adapted for other agendas ( http://black.greyfalcon.us/thule.html ). [/FONT]
[FONT=&]However, it is noted that 700 year on from March 1244 take us to March 1944, thus the Nazi flypast over Montsegur.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]In this connection the following:
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On the left are the ruins of Montsegur. On the right the "teehaus"
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[TD]It may be of interest to note in this connection that the Tea House designed by Hitler and built atop the Mooslahnerkopf at Obersalzberg, the stone pavillion still standing today, bears a striking resemblance to Montsegur when viewed at certain angles from the foot of the great rocky outcrop. Whether this was a coincidence remains in the mind of the beholder.Iy outcrop. Whether this was a coincidence remains in the mind of the beholder.[/TD]
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[FONT=&]There is additionally, another old legend that concerns the revelation of Isais, the daughter of the goddess Isis. She is said to have appeared to the Templar Knight Komtur Herbetus Koch as he returned from the Crusades. Isais told the Templar to withdraw to the Untersberg mountain where he was to build a house and away her next apparition. Thereafter other apparitions occurred and a series of prophesies given. As a consequence the Templars formed the secret sect Knights of the Black Stone based on the belief that the Grail was a crystal of a black-violet hue ( https://armanen.blogspot.com/2007/05/isa...sberg.html ).[/FONT]
[FONT=&]The principal point in connection with this is, of course the Untersberg which is the northernmost massif of Berchtesgaden where Martin Bormann built Hitler's favourite dwelling the Berghof which had a clear view of Unterberg. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]The Knights Templar also had a very telling 700 year anniversary. Three years before the 700th anniversary, the Knights Templar of Hertford in England, announced that the Vatican should announce their innocence on their 700th anniversary due in 2007. This followed the banishment of the Order on the 13th October 1307. The Templar announcement was accompanied by a veiled threat to Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, the nature of which has never been made public. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]Benedict was known as the Panzer Pope due to his dalliance with the Hitler Youth which he joined in 1941 ( https://www.thoughtco.com/was-pope-bened...azi-248621 ). He was elected Pope. Earlier, in his career he had been appointed as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - formerly known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition that was founded to defend against heresy. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]Thirteen days before the 700th anniversary of the Templar persecution, on 4th October 2007, the Vatican Information Service announced that the Templar Order were absolved and belatedly found innocent ( http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=2623 ).[/FONT]
[FONT=&]I note here that Himmler formed the senior echelons of his SS on the basis of Teutonic Knights and the twelve most senior SS officers met in a chamber in Himmler's private castle at Wewelsburg - where it is said, occult rituals were practised.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Another book by Umberto Eco that is of interest to us is Foucault's Pendulum that was set about the "lost treasure" of the Knights Templar ( https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...s-aged-84/ ). It remains my conviction that this treasure was not related to wealth or worldly treasure but rather was of another treasure as detailed by Robert Richardson in his above essay The Secret of Rennes le Chateau. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]Meanwhile, we know that Umberto Eco himself was fascinated by the Knights Templar order ( https://thetemplarknight.com/2017/09/29/...s-templar/ ), so much so, in fact, that he wrote a glowing forward to Barbara Fale's book The Templars The Secret History Revealed. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]Interestingly, during my lurking years in the private forum I mentioned earlier, Umberto Eco came up for discussion multiple times and he was said to not only be an academic specialising in the Knights Templar but to also be a member of the Knights Templar himself, as was the key man in that private forum who's identity I wished to establish. But I've been unable to establish if this is fact. Then again, it is almost impossible to access any sort of membership roster for modern day Knights Templars who remain a very secretive order. But it would make sense, I think, that a talent of his order would be a member.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]An intriguing quote attributed to Umberto Eco is this:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]"The [Da Vinci Code] author Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinationsthe world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist. [/FONT]
[FONT=&] interview with the Paris Review in 2008"[/FONT]
[FONT=&]The Paris Review article is locked behind a paywall and is therefore impossible to access without buying a subscription. However, the full article and quote can be found at ( https://issuu.com/pmajorins/docs/paris_r...7__umberto ). Is Eco saying that he was the originator of Dan Brown? [/FONT]
[FONT=&]An article by the occult researcher and writer Philip Coppens titled The Dan Brown Phenomenon - Foucault's Pendulum reveals that Umberto Eco was familiar with the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail ( https://www.eyeofthepsychic.com/foucault/ ). An interesting facet of Coppens article is the Knights Templar plan to take over the world via their discovery of the Grail location and thereafter take over the world. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]The character Colonel Ardenti in Eco's Foucault's Pendulum states that Chevalier Ingolf found a coded Templar document - much like the priest Berenger Sauniere is said to have done in Holy Blood, Holy Grail. Later in his article Coppens states:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]"But according to Ardenti's calculations, the Templars should have taken over the world in 1944. As that did not take place, evidently the plan had been interrupted."[/FONT]
[FONT=&]But the real question is who actually was on the verge of taking over the world in 1944?[/FONT]
[FONT=&]In any event, Coppens goes on in his article:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]"The final version involves the Knights Templar's discovering secret energy flows telluric currents during the Crusades. "[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Can Telluric currents really be the great Templar secret? Well no, it can't. But anyone who researches the Rennes le Chateau mystery will certainly find many discussions regarding telluric currents which are said to be particularly strong where there are standing stones, menhirs, cromlechs, stone circles etc. In this regard one might mention the very curious book by Abbe Henri Boudet titled The True Celtic Language and the Stone Cromlech of Rennes-les-Bains as discussed by Robert Richardson in his above article The Secret of Rennes le Chateau.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]It is here that we enter deep occult lore because in times past, occult candidates and initiates seeking to access what was known then as the astral regions (these days this is better known as the Collective Unconscious), were assisted in their so called scrying (a directed form of meditation) due to proximity to these telluric currents. In other words they received a kick in the right direction. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]Today, occult school and orders still make use of these portals to aid and focus meditative journeys to certain areas of the Collective Unconscious, but they are imagined - following a physical inspection and familiarity of the one to be used (of which there are a great many). [/FONT]
[FONT=&]The same would, I think, be true of walking the Labyrinth in Cathedrals such as Chartres in France. First the candidate would walk the physical labyrinth but later on, once familiarity and attunement has been reached, it would be sufficient to use the focused power of imagination to walk the labyrinth to achieve the same result. But it should be noted that each person should - indeed must - be trained to become spiritually receptive as Richardson says above, otherwise there are great dangers involved. Each persons must firstly confront and transform as the fearsome Minotaur that resides in the Labyrinth as recounted in the tale of Ariadne's thread that Richardson relates. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]This is no easy process; it is terrible and normally takes several years of personal agonising as the tension of opposites takes hold and carries one to almost the breaking point. It should always be conducted under the guidance of someone who has been through the same process and is skilled. Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist terms this the Shadow confrontation and regards it as a heroic deed. It takes years to fully absorb and achieve. Hence:[/FONT]
[FONT=&]This Place is Terrible[/FONT]
[FONT=&]The words Terribilis eat Locus Iste have been inscribed in the stone lintel above the doorway of Berenger Sauniere's church in Rennes le Chateau and tell us what awaits us should we take on the journey therein.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]In the final analysis, the work of consciousness represents the contest between the two great opposing forces of this planet's history. There are those who seek to gain this deep knowledge and understanding for the reasons of advancing their consciousness as well as a wider consciousness amongst their fellow men and women in order to bring a greater civilising effect to their world.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Then there are the others who seek this knowledge for no better reason than to gain access to great power. These seek the darker side of the equation and the raw power associated with it. The Thule Gesellschaft and other occult orders tread this path. In the case of Thule, they sought access to knowledge of the underworld - called by the Nazis Agartha - in order to develop weapons of great destructive power so they could take control of the world. [/FONT]
[FONT=&]That battle is ongoing and far from over.[/FONT]
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14