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the Great, Julius Caesar, Joshua, Judas Maccabeus, David, King Arthur
and Charlemagne. In Crathes Castle, between Balmoral and Aberdeen in
Scotland, the 1602 owner asks (see Appendix 12):
Gude reder tell me or thou pass
Whilk of thir nyn maist Valliant was?
The nine nobles theme was popular amongst surviving Knights
Templar groups in Scotland. A number of castles depict the same theme
in their ceilings, including at Glamis in the Vale of Strathmore. The
theme derives from the beliefs of the Ishmaelite Assassins and the Druses,
the old followers of Tammuz. 596 The Druses are not orthodox
Mohammedans. Their heretical belief is that God constantly reincarnated
in a series of semi-divine prophets and warrior-kings, called Imam, and of
whom Christ was one but Mahomed was not. Only seventy
reincarnations occurred. The Druses believe that final reincarnation was
Hakim, the sixth Fatimate Caliph, after whom there can be no others. In
his second coming, Hakim, the Druze Messiah, will conquer the world.
The Assassins’ beliefs were similar except that the Assassins considered
their founder, Hassan, the Shiek-al-Jabul or Old Man of the Mountain in
Lebanon, to be one of the reincarnations. In Chapter 12 and Chapter 17,
we will see the importance of Mount Hermon in Lebanon. It is worth
adding that at Crathes, the room of the nine nobles leads directly into the
Green Lady’s room where the first image on the painted ceiling is that of
the Triple Goddess. The floor of this room contained a skeleton and this
led to legends that the ghost of girl carrying a baby haunts the room. At
Glamis, a Grey Lady haunts the strikingly unconventional chapel, which
has a magnificent window of St George and the Dragon.
On his father's side, Godefroi descended from the Merovingians
and on that of his mother and grandmother, the Carolingian. His
Carolingian grandparents bequeathed Godefroi the title of Duke of Lower
Lorraine. Storming the wall of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099, Godefroi de
Bouillon was to shout the famous phrase expressing the Zaddoki belief
that they were the only legitimate High Priests of Jerusalem Deus
Meumque Jus, meaning God and my Right. 597
The thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite adopted Godefroi’s
motto. A gold ring worn by each member of the degree has the motto
engraved within it. 598 It is also the Latin version of the motto of the royal
arms of England Dieu et mon droit, adopted by Richard I the Lionheart at
the siege of Gisors in 1198.
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