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still stands testament to their great achievement in building technology.
In contrast, the great cathedrals and public buildings of Cologne, Milan,
Bologna and Seville used porous sandstone. Time has proven this
material inadequate and these cathedrals now require extensive
waterproofing and repair. It is surprising to most architects and engineers
that the Roman’s knowledge of cement and admixes was lost until the
invention of Portland cement in England in the eighteenth century CE.
The same catastrophic loss of skills occurred in glazes and glass
making. Vitruvius tells us of the chemically complex color, Egyptian
Blue, invented by the Egyptians before two thousand five hundred
BCE. 1171 The Greeks, Romans and citizens of Pompeii enjoyed it.
Rabbis once died the tassels of their tallith this blue. To this day, their
tassels remain white because of its loss.
Egyptian Blue was lost to civilization at the time of the barbarian
invasions of Rome in 410CE, only to be rediscovered in the nineteenth
century. It joined another rediscovered color, the royal Purple of Cassius,
found again in 1685. Andreas Cassius precipitated gold, stannous and
stannic chlorides with an alkali to obtain the famous glass colorant called
the Purple of Cassius. Heating a mixture of antimony trisulphide, iron,
mercury (Hg) and copper produced the violet Purple of Cassia.
The skills and functions of the Magistri Comacini appear to
derive from Brotherhoods, such as the Sarmoung Brotherhood, that we
might call Mages of Commagene. 1172 Their involvement in the building
of the great cathedrals of France seems to have had its genesis in the visit
of Louis VII to Palestine during the Second Crusade in 1147CE. Shortly
after his visit, the King adopted the Fleur-de-Lys as both his personal
heraldic device and the Royal Coat of Arms of France. 1173
The Fleur-de-Lys derives its name from the flower Fleur-de-
Luce. It is the sacred narcissus or leirion used in the ancient wreaths of
Demeter and Persephone. 1174 It is the same flower that Gabriel gives to
Mary signifying that a new king would emerge from her womb.
The Fleur-de-Luce is the striking Nazareth Iris or death flower of
the group Oncocyclus. 1175 St Bernard originally translated the word
Nazarene as branch of the vine. Traditionally it means any lilac colored
flower such as the lilac, iris, crocus or even a rose. It is the ultimate lilac
or purple color that symbolizes Horus and the Philosophers’ Stone.
A further intrigue in the mystery of the French cathedrals is that
the Fleur-de-Lys astrologically corresponds to the sheaf of wheat in the
constellation of Virgo. The constellation of Virgo provides an uncanny
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