02.05.2013 Views

The Alchemy Key.pdf - Veritas File System

The Alchemy Key.pdf - Veritas File System

The Alchemy Key.pdf - Veritas File System

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

majority of Indo-Hittite myths, including the Arthurian romances of the<br />

Holy Grail.<br />

As we have seen, the Roman Catholic Church embraced these<br />

deeper mysteries and enacted them throughout the year with the<br />

involvement of the congregation. This gave rise to the Catholic<br />

description of the mysteries as the living church. Obscure as they may<br />

have been to the general congregation, these mysteries alone would not<br />

have led to the furious indictment of the Knights Templar.<br />

We have already seen that the building associates of the Knights<br />

Templar, the Sons of Solomon, carved Indian tantric kundalini images into<br />

more than six hundred pre-Reformation churches in England, Ireland,<br />

Spain and France.<br />

<strong>The</strong> problems of the Knights Templar involved even more<br />

esoteric aspects of rediscovered wisdom than we have so far discussed.<br />

Necromancy was a traditional path of scientific and philosophical<br />

investigation.<br />

Homer’s Odyssey described how to conjure up the dead with the<br />

same pit Romulus dug when he founded Rome: 1326<br />

When you, hero, land there, as I tell you,<br />

Dig a pit (‘bòthron’) one cubit long and wide,<br />

And around it pour out the libation for all the dead:<br />

Firstly with honeyed milk, then with sweet wine,<br />

Thirdly with water, and sprinkle white flour<br />

…<br />

After invoking the illustrious ranks of the dead with vows,<br />

Sacrifice a ram and a black ewe,<br />

Turning them to the Erebus, but you must turn elsewhere<br />

To the river stream. <strong>The</strong>re many<br />

Of the deads’ souls will come…<br />

In learning about Iranian and Indian mysteries, the Knights<br />

Templar would have had difficulty resisting its appeal. In fact, the<br />

Knights Templar had its own legend of necrophilia: 1327<br />

A great lady of Maraclea was loved by a Templar, a Lord of<br />

Sidon; but she died in her youth, and on the night of her burial<br />

this wicked lover crept to the grave, dug up her body, and<br />

violated it. <strong>The</strong>n a voice from the void bade him to return in nine<br />

months’ time, for he would find a son. He obeyed the injunction,<br />

and at the appointed time he found a head on the leg bones of the<br />

skeleton (a skull and cross-bones). <strong>The</strong> same voice bade him<br />

331

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!