Revelation 2:12 and to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword: 13 I know where thou dwellest, [even] where Satan's throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth.

Revelation 13:1 And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, ... 2  And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority. 3 I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast ;

Why did Christ refer to Pergamum, or modern day Bergama, Turkey as the place where Satan's throne is to be found, and where the Antichrist will be resurrected, and where the Antichrist will establish his capital after receiving it from Satan?

In my previous blog titled "The Merovingians and the Sacred Bloodline", I mentioned that Joseph of Arimathea inherited the cursed DNA of Melchizedek from Joseph, his father, and the foster father of Jesus Christ. Likewise, he also received Christ' DNA after partaking the bread and wine which was miraculously transformed from Christ' own blood and water fluids by the Holy Grail. Because of this, Joseph of Arimathea had two immortal DNAs residing in his body, one cursed, the other uncursed.

It is my belief that the last recipient of the uncursed DNA of Christ is the Great Catholic Monarch while the last recipient of the cursed DNA of Melchizedek is the Antichrist. Anyone who received the immortal DNA of either Christ or Melchizedek will remain immortal for as long as they do not pass this sacred DNA to one of their offprings, in which case they will immediately lose their immortality.

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

This blog is actually part II of my previous blog titled "1490: Christian Kabbalah and the Illuminati".

The all-embracing theology which predates Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is  the priesthood and spiritual laws of Melchizedek, King of Salem.

This is what the apostle Paul has to say about Melchizedek and his priesthood:

Hebrews 7:1 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him, 2 and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, his name means "king of righteousness"; then also, "king of Salem" means "king of peace." 3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God he remains a priest forever. 4 Just think how great he was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder! 5 Now the law requires the descendants of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people--that is, their brothers--even though their brothers are descended from Abraham. 6 This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi, yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 7 And without doubt the lesser person is blessed by the greater. 8 In the one case, the tenth is collected by men who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living. 9 One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, 10 because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.

Paul is saying that Melchizedek is greater than Abraham and predates him, and that his priesthood is also greater than the Levitical priesthood and predates it as well.

Could perfection of the soul and of our faith  be achieved by observing the spiritual laws of Melchizedek? Remember that the perfection of the Soul is the ultimate goal of the Kabbalists and the Alumbrados, and apostle Paul is implying that this is

"I have found it written that all that has been decreed Above forbidding open involvement in the Wisdom of Truth [Kabbalah] was [only meant for] the limited time period until the year 5,250 (1490 C.E.). From then on after is called the "Last Generation", and what was forbidden is [now] allowed. And permission is granted to occupy ourselves in the [study of] Zohar. And from the year 5,300 (1540 C.E.) it is most desirable that the masses both those great and small [in Torah], should occupy themselves [in the study of Kabbalah], as it says in the Raya M'hemna [a section of the Zohar]. And because in this merit King Mashiach will come in the future—and not in any other merit—it is not proper to be discouraged [from the study of Kabbalah]". - Rabbi Avraham Azulai

The Illuminati (or the Alumbrados), which I believe to be the third faction of Freemasonry, was created around 1490 to introduce the study of Kabbalah to the elite of society through Christian Kabbalah, and open involvement by aristocrats, scholars, and high ranking churchmen in this ancient wisdom was the result.

The year 1540 was another milestone in Kabbalah; it was the year when its practice and beliefs should be promulgated to the masses, or the general public. And in order to organize and administer the expected influx of people who will be initiated to this sacred mystery, a fourth (and I also believe, final) faction of Freemasonry was created. This faction was the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits.

The Jesuits are the largest male religious order in the Catholic Church, who are engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents. They are best known in the fields of education (schools, colleges, universities, seminaries, theological faculties), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits. They are also known in missionary work, giving retreats, hospital and parish ministry, promoting justice and ecumenical dialogue.

The Jesuit movement was founded in August 1534 by St. Ignatius de Loyola, a Spanish knight turned hermit and priest. The first Jesuits--Ignatius and six of his students--took vows of poverty and chastity and made plans to offer themselves to the Pope for apostolic work. They went to Rome to meet with the Pope and request permission to form a new religious order. In September 1540, Pope Paul III approved Ignatius' outline of the Society of Jesus, and the Jesuit order was born.

In my latest blog about Freemasonry, I mentioned my belief that this fraternity started after 1307 as an alliance between two factions, namely, the families of the original Knights Templar and the families of Kabbalah practicing Exilarchs who were expelled from France in 1306, and who later converted to Christianity. Because of persecution, this group commenced as a secret and very exclusive organization. However, from 1490 onwards, when according to Rabbi Avraham Azulai open involvement in the study of Kabbalah became permissible for the "Last Generation", membership to Freemasonry became accessible to everyone. But even then, the organization's existence remained a well guarded secret among its select members.

Question from Scott:

Who do you think hid the parchments at Rennes-le-Château in the first place and how would Berenger Sauniere have figured this out in the 1900's if he did?

Different authors about the subject of Sauniere's parchments have different theories on where he found them.

One theory claims they were hidden inside a hollow compartment of one of the visigothic pillars of the main altar. They were believed to be discovered in 1887 when workmen tasked to replace the main altar removed the stone table on top of the pillars.  The dimensions of the small hollow compartment is about 8 centimetres in depth, with square sides of 12 centimetres each. This is clearly too small to contain the two parchments. 

"Freemasonry, in the form we would recognise today, started at the building of Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh." - Robert Lomas 

Rosslyn Chapel, properly named the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew, was founded on a small hill above Roslin Glen as a Roman Catholic collegiate church (with between 4 and 6 ordained canons and two boy choristers) in the mid-15th century.

The chapel was founded by William Sinclair,1st Earl of Caithness (also spelled Sainteclaire / Saintclair / Sinclair / St. Clair) of the Sinclair family, a noble family descended from Norman knights, using the standard designs the medieval architects made available to him.

Carvings within this chapel were used by some as proofs of the chapel's and its owner's connection to Freemasonry and the Knights Templar.

This question asked by Petros, a reader of this website, is really difficult to answer since there is not even an agreement as to when Freemasonry started and who started it.

Unlike Freemasonry however, the Order of the Temple, or the Knights Templar has very clear origins:

After the First Crusade captured Jerusalem in 1099, many Christian pilgrims traveled to visit what they referred to as the Holy Places. However, though the city of Jerusalem was under relatively secure control, the rest of the Outremer was not. Bandits abounded, and pilgrims were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to make the journey from the coastline at Jaffa into the Holy Land.

Around 1119, two veterans of the First Crusade, the French knight Hugues de Payens and his relative Godfrey de Saint-Omer, proposed the creation of a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims. King Baldwin II of Jerusalem agreed to their request, and gave them space for a headquarters on the Temple Mount, in the captured Al Aqsa Mosque. The Temple Mount had a mystique, because it was located above what was believed to be the ruins of the Temple of Solomon. The Crusaders therefore referred to the Al Aqsa Mosque as Solomon's Temple, and it was from this location that the Order took the name of Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, or "Templar" knights. The Order, with about nine knights, had few financial resources and relied on donations to survive. Their emblem was of two knights riding on a single horse, emphasizing the Order's poverty.

In my previous blog titled "The Pole Shift - will it be December 2012 or October 2013?" , I discussed and interpreted the Revelation 12:1-4 prophecy which was given to us in terms of astronomical signs.

I mentioned that the "Woman" is represented by the constellation Virgo, while the "Dragon" is represented by the constellation Draco.

There are two more symbols which I need to discuss with you to complete my  interpretation of this Biblical prophecy, and these are:

- The "male child" which the Woman gave birth to

- The "crown of twelve stars" seen on the Woman's head

These two symbols also represent astronomical objects just like the "Woman" and the "Dragon".

"A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.  She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.... The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne." (Revelation 12:1-2, 4-5)

The story of a pregnant woman who is about to give birth, and who is being stalked by an evil enemy who is hell-bent on killing her child, clearly reminds us of Christ' nativity scene where Satan tried in vain to murder Mary's new born baby Christ with the help of King Herod. The  astronomical events that will take place on October 5, 2013 will be a celestial reenactment of that momentous event which took place in Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago.

But how is the "male child", or Christ, represented in astronomy? Christ himself gives us the answer to this important question:

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony

The Kuiper belt (pronounced /ˈkaɪpər/, rhyming with "viper"), sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 55 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies, or remnants from the Solar System's formation. While the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water.

According to scientists, comets are leftover debris from the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, when the solar nebula condensed, and are thought to consist mostly of ice, dust and rock. This means that these leftover debris are as old as our solar system.

Short period comets are comets with orbital periods less than 200 years. They are believed to originate in a region of our solar system known as the Kuiper Belt, which lies just beyond the orbit of Neptune.

The leftover debris residing in the Kuiper Belt are thrown (or nudged) from these outer reaches of the Solar System towards the Sun by gravitational perturbations from the outer planets (i.e., Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) or as a result of collisions between objects within this region. Unless the leftover debris are nudged, they remain in suspended animation in the Kuiper Belt, being preserved there in cold storage for billions of years. Only those leftover debris that were nudged from their postions in the Kuiper Belt are the ones which eventually become short period comets.

Each time a comet, which is akin to a dirty snowball, passes near the sun it loses tons of material to vaporization. Thus, the number of orbits such a comet can make before being reduced to a swarm of gravel is limited. To give you an idea just how long these short period comets can exist, let me point out that the projected life span of one average sized short-period comet, that of Halley's comet, is only 40,000 years. Some scientists, including David C. Jewitt, estimates the sublimation and dynamical lifetimes of short period comets to be between a minimum of only 10,000 years to a maximum of 450,000 years.

Now consider this. Comets are supposed to have been formed 4.6 billion years ago. During this looong period of time, any leftover debris residing in the Kuiper Belt which could be nudged  towards the Sun by gravitational perturbations from the outer planets (i.e., Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) or as a result of collisions between objects within this region should have been nudged by now. And, once these leftover debris are nudged to become short period comets, they are expected to last only around 10,000 - 450,000 years. In other words, by now, we should not be seeing any of these short period comets anymore, nada. And yet we still do.

According to the movie 2012, and supposedly the Mayan calendar, December 12, 2012 will be the day Earth's pole (or axis of rotation) will shift, causing unimaginable natural disasters and calamities all over the world.

But December will not be the month when this apocalyptic doomsday event will take place, at least not according to Nostradamus. According to one of his epistles, October is the month we all should watch for:

Epistle to Henry II:

" and there shall be in the month of October some great movement and transference and it will be such that one will think that the Earth has lost its natural movement, and that it will be plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness"

The Bible seems to agree with Nostradamus on this.