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Many believe this place was the island of Iona, known also as Hy,
Icolmkill and Innes nan Druidhreah (Island of the Druids). 1253 The Celts
worshipped on Iona from ancient times. In 717CE, the Culdees of Ireland
inhabited the island.
In 1784, some French Freemasons wrote to their English brethren
enquiring whether the Hebredian island, where the Culdees practised their
rites, was the same as the Island of Mull where Pierre d'Aumont and
seven other Knights Templar had landed. They asked: It concerns us to
know if there really exists in the island of Mull, formerly Melrose ... in the
North of Scotland, a Mount Heredom, or if it does not exist. In reply
General Rainsford, referred them to the words Har Adonai, which means
the Mount of God. 1254 The Mount of God is a place of ritual testing.
However, other French masons record that the secret place of
hiding was the concealed valley of Glenbeag, opposite the Isle of Skye,
about one and a half miles south of Glenelg where there are two
exceptionally well preserved Iron Age brochs called Dun Telve and Dun
Troddan: 1255
Here were two old castles, built in a remarkable manner, of
stone, with neither lime nor mortar, and which appeared to have
served as places of refuge in the wars of earlier times. It was in
these castles that the masters assembled in council, and
consequently they received the name of Masters of the Valley, or
Scottish Masters.
These masons of the hidden valley survived and established a
philosophical athenaeum called the Masons of the Orient or Brethren of
the Rosy Cross of the Orient. 1256 They held their first Chapter of the
Scottish Rite degree in a castle of the Knights of the Rose Croix in
Edinburgh. The Superior Sovereign Grand Chapter traditionally met
there until a schism in 1322. 1257
Marconis (de Negre) claims the group followed Manes’
Manichean heresy. Manes propagated his sect of Magi in 304CE. 1258 A
Mohammedan legend says Manes was born in the year five hundred and
twenty-seven of the Astronomers of Babylon, which is 215 or 216CE. 1259
A more accurate date may be 257CE.
Many of the Rose Croix Masons of the Orient fought in the
crusades, adopting the name Knights of Palestine. 1260 Marconis notes that
the Knights Templar followed this group and incorporated their ritual of
the symbolic death of Hiram Abiff. 1261 The Rose Croix initiates within
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