Rosslyn Chapel

[scarletharlot]

Despite what many people associated with it insist, Rosslyn Chapel is very much possessed of great spiritual power; I know this because I have personally encountered it! And, I have never been to Scotland!

For me, it all started with a curious event: I was spontaneously initiated (Sambhavi initiation) by a tulku lama from a Bhutanese Kaula tradition (left-hand Tantra) who also happened to be the grandson of Aleister Crowley...there is also a whole long involved mystical-type story leading up to this event, but the Rosslyn thing started up just after this, so I will save that tale for another time and start with the events that lead up to the "Rosslyn revelation".

I will say that at the time this took place, I had NO interest in Freemasonry. My father was a Freemason, but I knew absolutely nothing about it other than it was some type of secret "men's club". But after encountering "The Hiram Key" in a local occult bookstore all that changed...

I had just happened to walk by this store when I was in a part of town I did not usually frequent, and as I browsed the shelves, I spotted the Square and Compass on the cover of a paperback that was lying atop a row of books on a shelf. A friend of mine was pursuing some research into Freemasonry so I picked the book up, thinking that she might find it of interest. the book was "The Hiram Key". One often hears stories about 'books that changed one's life"; in my case, this was about to become literally TRUE...(to be continued)

[scarletharlot]

I found myself intrigued by the book so I decided to read it myself. I found myself completely enthralled by the story of the murdered Egyptian pharaoh SeqenenRe Tao and most especially by the fact of the three head injuries and the curious fact of its partial decomposition, all things that exactly matched the legend of Hiram Abif, the disappearance of his body and its subsequent re-discovery later on; again, all events that exactly corresponded with the central Masonic legend...

Also the curious case of the mysterious mummy of am Egyptian temple priest who had been soaked in milk to make him stink, then castrated, then wrapped in mummy bandages and buried alive...I had read of this strange mummy years ago and, given the circumstances, thought that it was certainly a reasonable explanation that a traitor should be dealt with in such a fashion!

But it was the story of Rosslyn Chapel that intrigued me the most. One thing I did find curious was the fact that Knight and Lomas did not discover that it was FREEMASONS who undertook the restoration of Rosslyn back in the mid-1850s.

This fact has never been brought out, nor has it been expanded upon; the guardians of Rosslyn seem to have made a bit of a point to not mention it. I once briefly corresponded with someone on the Templarhistory site, calling himself "Vortex' , who claimed to have the custodian of Rosslyn as his "mentor" and even he made no mention of any of the reasons why Freemasons would have restored the Chapel or even that it was Freemasons who did so!

There seems to be a bit of a "conspiracy of silence" in this regard; no matter how much 'they' may protest that there is not and never has been any connection with the Templars/Freemasonryand "it's all just a bunch of nonsense made up by people who love a mystery", the fact remains that there are a few MAJOR lacunae in their disclaimers, such as: WHY would a bunch of Freemasons go to all the trouble to restore an obscure and falling-down chapel in Scotland "just because"? I would wager that those worn-down steps to the crypt were worn down by those Freemasons and not by "pilgrims way back when", myself!

And, if the St. Clairs have nothing to hide and have "never been associated with the Knights Templar, then what about the "enGRAILed" design on their family coat of arms?

Heraldic designs are not bestowed idly; the crenellated design, f'r instance, was once not allowed to be used by anyone but royalty. If the Sinclairs' coat of arms includes an 'engrailed' design (it's also carved into the ceiling of Rosslyn, BTW) then it is there to indicate an association with "the GRAIL" and all that it implies. It is my opinion that this line of historical inquiry would prove fruitful! But there is still the niggling question of what those Rosslyn-restoring Freemasons were up to in the 1800s! I have an extremely plausible theory about that which I will elucidate in my next post!

[Sammy]

Im tickled with anticipation. I will have to look into the book "the hiram key", sounds like a good read. Im familair with most the stories mentioned but havnt had a complete background into it.

[scarletharlot]

Sorry I've been slack about posting, I was busy, then sick! Will be back shortly to continue the "saga"! Youreally ought to check out "the hiram key"; it is undoubtedly the best book of its genre I have ever read! It was the basis for "the da Vinci Code", remember! But I think THK is BETTER!

[Sammy]

No worries! It will give me time to work on THK

[scarletharlot]

Okay, so here I am again, ready to elucidate what I know/hypothesize to be the "mystery" of Rosslyn Chapel...

According to information I have picked up here and there in my quest for information on the history of the Western Esoteric Tradition/the Knights Templar/Rosicrucians/Sufi, there is a general consensus that around and about the 1880s there was to be a BIG PSYCHIC SHIFT in the Etheric: The Archangel Michael was to become "Lord of the Aeon".

Some sources say it was 1881 when this was to happen, others say 1888. Whichever it was (I'm sure an examination of the astrological aspects at the time would give a clue as to when the 'best' time was for this to have happened) it is fairly certain that THIS was the "true" start of the "Aquarian Age" -and I say this because..."Michael" is the "RULING ANGEL" of the LAST decan of AQUARIUS.

As anyone versed in astrology knows, the "Ages" proceed 'backwards"...that is why we are moving from the "Age of Pisces" to the "Age of Aquarius"-and NOT "the Age of Aries! Thus, the assumption of the Rulership of the Aeon by the angel who "just happens' to be the SAME ONE who rules the last Decan of the Sign ruling the upcoming "Age" is a good argument for the period to be the "beginning" of said Age...

In any case, what I am getting at, is that there was a BIG rush on to "prepare" for this event among the Lodges of Europe..however, it was all devastated by infighting, and the 'spiritual revolution' that was to take place fizzled, and the 'waiting ground" received an influx of "furrin'" (i.e Eastern) spiritual tradition (Blavatsky, Theosophy and all that lot) Dion Fortune alludes to this in one of her books (can't remember which one-I think it was "Psychic Self-Defense". That, or "the Mystical Qabalah) and only briefly at that.

But the remark is certainly enough to indicate that there WERE preparations being made in certain quaters to 'avail themselves of the energies of this period, and what with these Freemasons taking it upon themselves to "renovate" Rosslyn Chapel in the way they did (putting that carving of an candidate with a rope around his neck and a "Templar" holding the other end next to the door, f'r instance ; I was assured by "Vortex" that that particular carving was a 'later addition' and not part of the "original fabric" of Rosslyn), no doubt their activities in this regard were being undertaken with an eye to availing themself of the particular energies of this "period!

Plus, it wouldn't surprise me at all if it came out that the Rites that were enacted at this time were of the nature of Crowley's "energized enthusiasm". You will note that this was exactly what was indicated in "The da Vinci Code": Princess Sophie "stumbles in' on such a rite, catching her father and her mother "in flagrante" in front of a crowd of ritual participants.!

The notion of someone being able to "stumble in' in on such a performance is absurd, of course; such Rites would have been strictly "tyled", but then Dan Brown would have had to come up with something else (probably much less titillating) for her to be "estranged from her father over!

It is a fact that I was aware of such a thing as sexual Rites being conducted at Rosslyn LONG BEFORE "The da Vinci Code" came out AND that it was connected with the Black Virgin; nothing I have said her was "based" on TDVC" The DVC was a CONFIRMATION of what I already had "seen' for myself in vision-and NOT an 'inspiration" for it!

Just as my reading Aleister Crowley's accounts of his own experiences CONFIRMED the validity of what I already had done and seen and experienced all on my own, previous to my reading about his very similar experiences!

[Sammy]

Im still going through the post (rereading). It wasnt easy but I was able to find a picture of the carving you are discussing.

[scarletharlot]

Yes, that's the carving..."Vortex' said that this carving was not original to Rosslyn but had been added on later, presumably by the Freemasons who restored Rosslyn in the mid 1800s.

Another thing about Rosslyn is that it is the "last' in a series of seven cathedrals that comprise a complete "pilgrimage": to visit all seven is to complete that pilgrimage. As anyone familiar with occult numerology knows, the number seven is indelibly associated with the PLANETS, i.e the Sun, the Moon (not "planets" of course, but are collectively referred to as such in astrology when discussing "planetary" astrology) Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

This was discussed in a book about the "Holy Grail" and Rosslyn, whose title eludes me at this moment, but which was most interesting. The first cathedral is St John of Compostela , for the moon, Chartres for Venus, Notre Dame for Mars (interestingly it was in front of Notre Dame that Jacques de Molay, the great Grand Master of the holy warriors (Mars rules war and warriors, and also sacrifice) known as the Knights Templar, made the declaration about the innocence of the Templars that resulted in his horrible death at the hands of Philip the Fair) and Rosslyn for Saturn, the planet that is associated with the Qabalistic Sephirah of Binah, the Great Mother, and the archetype known as "the Black Virgin".

That is all I can remember about what that book had to say about this sequence of planetary associations with earthly cathedrals. But, again: I already KNEW about Rosslyn's connection with the Black Virgin before I found out about this association with Saturn, which confirmed the information I had already seen in vision.

[Sammy]

HAHA wow quite the connection going on there SH! Very cool about the chapels, are the other six as intricate in thier design? I think the story about the "pillar" in ross. chapel is one of my more favorites, i love the old designs.

[scarletharlot]

The fact of Rosslyn being carved from sandstone is part of the reason for the intricate designs; to a stonecarver, sandstone is the equivalent of 'wood"; easy-peasy to carve; thus it would have been no trouble for a skilled stonecarver to swiftly execute intricate designs in DAYS that would have taken vastly more time(weeks and months) had they been carved in ,say, limestone.

Also, Rosslyn appears to have been carved and then assembled like a puzzle; this is the way it is done in India. Here in Toronto, a Hindu temple was carved THERE, and then shipped over HERE, finish-polished by the congregation, and then assembled... I remember coming into Toronto by bus; the bus was forced to divert its route due to the fact of a blizzard and the highway being blocked.

Progress was slow and I eventually dozed off. I was abruptly awakened at one point, and sleepily peered out the window into the swirling whiteness to see if I could see where we were-and was completely startled to see that we were passing by this temple; it was quite a shock to wake up to the sight of an elaborately carved Hindu temple, a pure glowing white showing through the storm!

[scarletharlot]

I can honestly say that there are any number of books that I consider pivotal to having been connected with my "Rosicrucian/Sufi Adventure but the two most pivotal of all were and are relatively obscure texts in the West, without which I could not have understood all the rest that came along:

The Mystical Qabalah.

The Bhagavad-Gita.

And, the first is in fact connected with the second; in late 2001 I was brooding over the matter of the symbolism of the"twin towers" (You will recall that Robert Lomas and Chris Knight in the "The Hiram Key" et al harps on rather at length about the "two pillars") and was in rather a distraught state of mind. For no particular reason my eye lighted on a copy of the Bhagavad Gita.

I knew that this was a particularly sacred text of the Hindu/Vedic religion, yet it was and is not in fact part of any scripture as such, but in fact eighteen chapters out of a few thousand, of a great Hindu saga known as the "Maha-Bharata", short for "The Great Epic Poem of India "

The Mahabharata stands in relation to India in the same way the Iliad and the Odyssey stand in relation to Greece. but where worldly heroism and glory (and sodomy) played a leading role in Grecian myth, the pursuit of Dharma and the idea that everything is a "Play of God" takes centre stage in the Mahabharata.

First , a lengthy digression:The "Bhagavad Gita ("Song of God") is the part of the story where the hero, Arjuna, has grave doubts about what is about to take place: a bloody war between blood kindred, because the "bad guy", Dhritarashtra, refuses to honour his promise to return the kingdom to its rightful rulers (Arjuna and his four brothers).

The divine Krishna (yes, THAT Krishna) is Arjuna's charioteer.he is literally "holding Arjuna's horses for him".

As Arjuna's bow falls from his hands and he declares himself unable to proceed, Krishna turns to Arjuna and urges Arjuna to action.

But Arjuna has the very best of reasons for being reluctant and this dialogue goes on for some time. Krishna first reassures Arjuna that he need not fear death, but Arjuna is not afraid of death.

next, Krishna urges Arjuna to action , reminding him of his kingdom, but Arjuna is not fighting merely to regain his earthly inheritance/material benefits.

Finally it comes out that Arjuna is reluctant because the war is pitting kin against kin and disciples against gurus [Arjuna's fighting master/guru is in the ranks of his opponents, because to take Arjuna's side would mean betraying Dhritarashtra's father (i.e "the King") who was still living, and whom he had served for many years as weapons master.

He cries out his despair to Krishna, and his logic is irrefutable: if he is wrong about any of this, he will have launched a bloodbath that would wipe out a whole bloodline, a whole generation would be lost. Kin was set against kin, and cousins against cousins. The cost of a judgement in error on his part would be devastating.


It is then, when Arjuna has failed to rise to any urging, that Krishna 'draws aside the veil of his mundane personality, and reveals the face of the Divine Purusha engaged in the "Play of God" in the next few chapters which comprise the middle chapters of the Bhagavad-Gita. The powerful and stirring words of these three chapters are unquestionably the "climax" of the whole of the Mahabharata, as God shines forth through these words and speaks directly to Man in a revelation equally as extrao rdinary as that found in "Revelations" (and a whole lot clearer and easier to understand) Okay, digression over

I picked the book up, and idly leafed through it, looking for the text of the chapters that I had heard were the most significant, and read them through. The experience was very powerful; I was in a meditative state of mind, tinged with despair at the events of 9-11; (in fact, I recall it was about a month or so later) and so the words seemed to reverberate in my soul; so much so that to this day, whenever I feel the need of a spiritual "booster shot" I read those chapters and everything in my life is set to rights


As I finished reading, I had the growing conviction I had exactly the answers I needed and the inner strength to continue on the warrior path. Then, I felt some doubts about this sudden "change of heart": was I simply "making it all up"? I received at that moment, a sort of psychic impression of calm conviction, and reassurance that I was not 'imagining things": "No you are not making it up"- and that an unmistakable sign would be given me.

I returned from this curious inner dialogue to find that some time had in fact passed; the music I was listening to had changed. But I had not been asleep; I still had firm hold of the text and my head had not slumped forward.

As I was about to put the book down, I decided to note down the numbers of the chapters I had just read so I could re-locate them:



9-11

[Sammy]

My hair stood up on end HAHA.

[scarletharlot]

Yes, I know how you felt; I was thankful to have been lying in bed when I discovered it! I have had many such encounters , equally eerie,("eerie" is not quite the word I want; I must find a better one!) and they never really lose their impact on the psyche..in fact, in the early days, once or twice I almost FAINTED upon having similar realizations!

[scarletharlot]

There is another curious thing about Rosslyn: the number of corbels on the front wall, that appear to be there to hold statues; my question is: were these installed originally "back when"- or by the nineteenth-century Freemasons? And , if so, why? I received the impression that they were indeed there to hold statues...of the Black Virgin.

Though it is not explicitly mentioned anywhere, the Black Virgin is the living dynamic that is 'resident" in Rosslyn; She is also the "power" behind Freemasonry.

I have already said elsewhere that during meditation, my attetion was drawn to the Square and Compass adorning the cover of my copy of "The Hiram Key"and the Inner Voice said 'You will find Me under the aegis of this symbol". And it's TRUE; I have done so! The Square and Compass is as powerful a symbol as the Cross!, being the stylized symbols of the crossed scepters of Osiris, the Divine archetype of the "murdered King of Egypt". behind him stands the Widow Isis and her shadow-sister Nepthys.

I was also given a "Masonic mudra" to use (a mudra is a hand gesture of power; the hands of the statues of the Buddha are always held in the form of a mudra, f'r instance) and this too, immediately gives one access to the Masonic "current"

Freemasonry may not be "a religion" but the fact that it is associated with 'integrity" "righteousness" and truth makes it as POWERFUL as a "religion". After all:" GOD IS TRUTH".

The great Freemason Shri Ramakrishna said : "Even an atheist may attain to [all the benefits associated with "belief in] God" that is to say, "liberation from the cycle of birth and death" if he holds fast to "Truth", that is to say, if he "adheres to Dharma" as the Buddhists so aptly phrase it.

[scarletharlot]

Here is another circumstance that came to me and which made me certain that I was in contact with the true dynamic: I "asked' this curious dynamic that claimed Rosslyn Chapel as its origin and "base' in the Western world and its symbol as the Square and Compass to "send me a sign" to show me that what I was being told was the truth and not some elaborate fantasy plot: I would accept no less a sign than a pebble direct from the grounds of Rosslyn, from the hand of a Freemason.

- and within two weeks "Deo, non fortuna" set me up with established communication with a Royal Arch Mason... who mentioned as a joking aside (though apropos of the conversation we were having about Rosslyn and" The Hiram Key") was that he was on his way to Edinburgh within two weeks, and went on to say that he had been planning to visit Rosslyn-and would I like it if he were to bring me back a souvenir of Rosslyn?

The thing is, he and I had never met before in the flesh; this was a random dating site communication, and all he knew of me was that I was single and looking to meet single men who were Freemasons.

So stunned was I by the timeliness of the offer, that I actually agreed to the offer and when I realized what I had done, I said to myself: a lot of things can go wrong between now and then, and I would take it as an infallible sign that the communication between he and I was not an accident and had been engineered by the 'egregore" of Rosslyn if I actually did receive that pebble on my hand....

Long story short, I did. And I still have it to this day.