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oth which. This damask rose doth well unfolde,
as honest hart, which faith and love doth houlde.
There is an important parallel between the stories of Arcadia in
the Aegean Peloponnese and Damascus. The renowned alchemist
Michael Maier writes that the Temple of the Rosy Cross is located by the
spring Helicon on the double peaked mountain of Parnassus. 1068 This
corresponds with the Greeks who originally worshiped the Muses at
Mount Pieria in Thessaly but transferred to Helicon. 1069 Later they
relocated to Delphi on the slopes of Mt Parnassus. 1070
The legendary winged-horse Pegasus sprung the well called
Hippocrene at the sacred spring of Helicon, by striking his moon-shaped
hooves on the ground. 1071 He was the native European pony. Because of
his moon-shaped hooves, he was sacred to Demeter, the mare-headed
Moon Goddess. She gave him the power to bring rain and install
kings. 1072
Because of his abilities, Pegasus’ spring was sacred to the Triple
Goddess and her Muses as a source of poetic inspiration. 1073 The dialogue
between Moth and Adriano de Armado (initials AA) in Shakespeare’s
Love’s Labours Lost refers to it: 1074
Moth …the dancing horse will tell you.
Adriano de Armado A most fine Figure!
Moth: To prove you a cipher.
A huge painting of the winged horse Pegasus was the principal
feature of the Hall of the Inner Temple, an ancient mansion of the Knights
Templar in London. 1075 It hung there for many centuries. The college of
lawyers of Inner Temple in London adopted Pegasus as their arms. They
erected a stained glass window with these arms in Temple Church, which
was replaced the original circular church after 1160CE. In 1185CE,
Heraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, consecrated the new, characteristically
round church to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the presence of King Henry
II. It served the London headquarters of the Knights Templar until 1307.
The gushing spring of Helicon is equivalent to the source of the
Jordan River at Paneas, sixty-three kilometers south of Damascus and
twenty kilometers from the triple peaked Mount Hermon. As previously
mentioned, Mount Hermon has more than twenty ancient temples, which
is unusual for a Phoenician coastal site. However, many regard another
mountain, the triple-peaked Mount Lebanon, as the legendary Mount
Hermon.
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