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prince of the royal house of Assaracus, who bought the sacred porpoiseivory
Palladium of the porpoise cult to Rome where the Vestal Virgins’
guarded it. 1158 The legendary Palladium was a legless object, three cubits
high, made by Athene in memory of her dead playmate Pallas. 1159 Athene
originally set the Palladium beside Zeus’ throne on Mount Olympus.
However, when Electra violated it with her touch, Athene violently cast it
to earth.
Aeneas was the son of the Goddess Aphrodite and Anchises,
King of the Dardanians and grandson of Ilus. 1160 The Arcadians and
Trojans built shrines to Anchises as the god Adonis who was born from a
myrrh-tree. 1161 As we saw with Tamar’s Palm in the Valley of Oddy in
Chapter 15, the drops of gum shed by the myrrh tree were the tears shed
for Adonis who was born from the tree. 1162
Ovid tells the same story of a father incestuously copulating with
his daughter, Myrrah, albeit unbeknownst to him. 1163 There are many
stories of father-daughter incest to prolong the dynasty. In the Israelite
context, the daughters of Lot lay with him at Zoar. 1164 Similarly, Judah
lay with his daughter Tamar. 1165 A Midrashim suggests that God assisted
their incest. 1166
Like Horus, Aeneas was the Son of God. Both Julius Caesar and
Caesar Augustus claimed descent from him. 1167 The myth of Aeneas
became very important to the Rosicrucians in the seventeenth century. As
previously mentioned, he is one of the nine noble warriors. Frederick II
decorated his bedchamber at Sans Souci with esoteric reliefs of Julius
Caesar and Augustus.
Diocletian, Emperor from 284 to 305CE, endeavored to suppress
Christianity, yet was lenient on the Roman Collegia despite many
members being Christians. 1168 Nevertheless, he martyred four aristocratic
patrons of architecture, called the Quatuor Coronati, together with four
sculptor masons and an apprentice. Their emblems were the saw,
hammer-mallet, compasses and square, cube, plummet, circle and level.
These were the same emblems revered by the Roman Collegia and the
mysterious Magistri Comacini. A member of the Roman Collegia called
Vitruvius noted that those who wore the leather apron of the craft
reserved the inner mysteries. 1169
The fall of the Roman Empire was to lead to a dramatic loss of
Collegia skills. Vitruvius described how the Romans had made extensive
use of cement and even hydraulic lime and silicate mortars that could set
underwater. 1170 The magnificent dome of the Pantheon built in 110CE
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