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associated with St George when Emperor Constantine used it to
commemorate the beheading of his friend the martyr St George of Lydda
on 23 April. 882
From the legend of St George and the Gnostic depiction of Jesus
on the Cross as a Serpent, we can more readily understand the arcane
significance of the Spear of Longinus. Longinus used this spear to pierce
the side of Jesus. The legend of Longinus corresponds to that of Pelops,
who killed the old king Oenomaus with his spear. 883 Pelops was
Tantalus’ lucky eighth son.
Legend holds that Joseph of Arimathea also gave the Red Cross
device to Prince Caradoc in his capacity of Defender of the Faith in
Britain. From this, the Red or Rose Cross then became the device of the
Christian flag of the British Church. It now dominates a St Andrew’s
Cross on the Union Jack.
In about 1195CE Richard I the Lionheart adopted St George as
the patron saint of Britain, thereby displacing King Edward the Confessor
as Britain’s patron saint. 884 He simultaneously elevated the Rose Cross to
the emblem of Britain and instituted the new British battle cry For St
George. Any knight who successfully scaled the walls of Jerusalem in
the Crusades earned the reward of elevation to Companion of St
George. 885
During a truce in the Third Crusade, Richard I initiated Saladin
into the Order of Chivalry. 886 This seems to be a fact. In return, Saladin
initiated Richard I into the lower degrees of Dervish mysticism. The
Dervish tradition records that Richard I then initiated a number of knights
including several Knights Templar into the same mysteries. The
Dervishes, however, claim that Richard I never received the higher
degrees of their system of thirty-three degrees and therefore Knights
Templar and Freemasons only have the lower degrees.
Richard II required that every British soldier wear a St George
Cross over his armour. His decree remained in force until the sixteenth
century. 887 The unequivocal meaning was that a Rose Cross Knight
should serve his King as a Defender of the Faith.
Richard I died before he could implement his dream to recreate
King Arthur’s Order or Society of St George and the Round Table. King
Edward III achieved Richard I’s aim by instituting The Most Noble Order
of St George and the Garter in 1344. He consecrated the Royal Chapel of
St Edward the Confessor, in Windsor Castle, to the new Order in 1348. 888
It was a society, fellowship and college of knights and their ladies, formed
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