The Alchemy Key.pdf - Veritas File System

quite intriguing. On 10 August 1744, Frederick commenced the terraced
vineyards and crypt on the hill then known as Wüster Berg. 1276 This was
just seven years after Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay’s famous
speech on Scottish Rite Freemasonry.
Frederick constructed the special crypt on the topmost terrace
well before finalization of the plans for Sans Souci Palace in 1745. 1277
The unusual importance of the crypt is reinforced by a beautiful rural
supra porta over the door to the music salon in the palace. It shows the
Havel River and palace together with a classical tomb bearing the
inscription ET IN ARCADIA EGO. The artist has depicted a shepherd,
shepherdesses, a flock of sheep and boatmen alongside the tomb. The
famous inscription is of course the subject of Nicholas Poussin’s two Les
Bergers d’Arcadie paintings of 1630 and 1640. 1278 In 1618, Il Guercino
also named one of his works Et in Arcadia ego. Frederick II gave specific
instructions in several wills for a quiet funeral and burial in the crypt.
Perhaps to this day certain philosophical treasures lay in the classical
tomb or with this great monarch in his extraordinary resting place. 1279
Louis of Bourbon, Prince of the Royal Blood of France assisted
Frederick II promulgate the thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite just
before his death in May 1786. This may well have been Louis de
Bourbon-Condé, Count of Clermont and Abbé of St Germain des Près,
who was Grand Master of French Masonry and died in 1771. 1280
However, if the establishment date of May 1786 is correct then the Louis
Bourbon in question could have been the Count of Clermont’s nephew,
Louis Philippe-Joseph d’Orleans, Duke of Chartres, Prince of the Royal
Blood. He continued as Grand Master until his abdication in 1793. 1281
Another prominent Louis Bourbon was the Count of Provence,
who became King Louis XVIII in 1795. Louis’ ancestry traced back to
the Capetian king Louis IX (Saint Louis, 1214-1270). The line took its
name from the Barons of Bourbon heir, Béatrix (d.1310), who married
Robert de France, the Comte de Clermont and sixth son of Louis IX. The
Count of Clermont, Louis, remained in exile in England during the French
Revolution and Napoleon's rule. Following the death of ten-year-old
Louis XVII, the Count of Clermont became titular king of France. France
crowned him constitutional monarch, Louis XVIII, in 1814, following the
abdication of Napoleon.
Another heir to the throne through Robert de France, Comte de
Clermont, was the Huguenot General, Henry III of Navarre. He provides
317