02-11-2009, 11:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2009, 11:51 PM by David Guyatt.)
I've tried a little snopping around to find out more on the "Masters of the Black Stone" and it seems to be a fictional construct masquerading as a fact that probably originated HERE, that in turn derives from a French website.
However, the quoted name does have a certain resonance and the apparent French origin may be a key. There is French a game site that features a game entitled: "Maître de guerre Rochenoire" or Battle Master of the Black Rock (http://fr.wowhead.com/?npc=7029).
Not-with-standing this "Roche Noire" (and "Roche Blanc") featured quite prominently in the Rennes le Chateau puzzle - more accurately described as the Priory of Sion fiction (but a fiction with great meaning and purpose I warrant) --- which includes the even more cloaked alegorical mystery of Le Serpent Rouge (and not too dissimilar, I imagine, to the warring Welsh Red Dragon and White Dragon, or the colours of battling Tudor roses or the principal colours highlighted in the story of the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz.
In other words the Rubedo or reddening and the Albedo or whitening of the Alchemical process.
It therefore strikes me that the statement that the Thule Gesellschaft derived from the Rosicrucian order is probably correct and, if that is the case, the title "Masters of the Black Stone" is very likely an initiated grade of the Rosicrucians.
However, the quoted name does have a certain resonance and the apparent French origin may be a key. There is French a game site that features a game entitled: "Maître de guerre Rochenoire" or Battle Master of the Black Rock (http://fr.wowhead.com/?npc=7029).
Not-with-standing this "Roche Noire" (and "Roche Blanc") featured quite prominently in the Rennes le Chateau puzzle - more accurately described as the Priory of Sion fiction (but a fiction with great meaning and purpose I warrant) --- which includes the even more cloaked alegorical mystery of Le Serpent Rouge (and not too dissimilar, I imagine, to the warring Welsh Red Dragon and White Dragon, or the colours of battling Tudor roses or the principal colours highlighted in the story of the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz.
In other words the Rubedo or reddening and the Albedo or whitening of the Alchemical process.
It therefore strikes me that the statement that the Thule Gesellschaft derived from the Rosicrucian order is probably correct and, if that is the case, the title "Masters of the Black Stone" is very likely an initiated grade of the Rosicrucians.
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