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.

Ok, so everyone has their favorite things, and so do I! And when it comes to movies, I consider the 1968 cinematic adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" by Franco Zeffirelli as an all time best. I mean, the two main characters of the film, namely, Romeo (portrayed by Leonard Whiting) and Juliet (portrayed by Olivia Hussey), are so appropriately beautiful and gorgeous, one would think they are the inspiration behind Shakespeare's masterpiece!

This superb production of Shakespeare's most famous play comes but once, not in a lifetime or century, but simply once for all time, period. And this is why I am so disappointed by the 1996 modern remake of this film classic, yeah, the one which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, and one forgettable actress who portrayed Juliet.

As for Olivia Hussey, I find it difficult to imagine a more beautiful face than hers. Well, this is just my opinion. How about you, what and who are your favorite movie, actor, or actress?

Welcome to my blogs! When a person has so much information to share, one simply has to have an effective medium to disseminate them with. This is the reason why I developed this website.

As I already mentioned in the About me section,  I am very knowledgeable with everything to do with the Knights Templar. And although this website was dedicated to share my solution to the Shugborough code and the location of the Holy Grail, I actually still have so much more to tell you.

In my succeeding blogs, I will be discussing in detail the origin of the Holy Grail, and all the people who were fortunate enough to possess it. I will be discussing the legends of King Arthur and how these legends relate to the Knights Templar. I will be discussing the secret societies and other mysteries  associated with the Templars as well, like Freemasonry and the much dreaded Baphomet.

I am also very knowledgeable with the Bible, having special interest on its sacred mysteries and prophecies. I read the entire Bible from cover to cover for the first time when I was still in grade school. Since then, I read it countless number of times. I have done the same thing with the prophecies of Nostradamus. And I will be discussing all these topics and more in my succeeding blogs, so watch out for them!

For the meantime, I want you to share your special knowledge with me and the visitors of this website. Much as I enjoy blogging, I actually enjoy reading other people's blogs even more. So what are you waiting for? You are free to discuss anything you want, so blog on!