Williamson continues: "It is probable that those with knowledge of Masonic secrets are in a position to estimate, even if they could not divulge, the full meaning of this. But at least it can be seen and said that in all dualist philosophy, and explicitly Manichaeism that North and South have distinct and opposed significations. According to Mani, one of the expressions of two forces of Good and Evil was the two trees the Tree of Life in the North and the Tree of Death in the South. Becket took his stand, deliberately, by the great central pillar in the north transept. This was the place where, according to a member of his household, 'he had long ago beheld himself crucified in a dream.' Whatever his motive for 'turning aside to the northern part of the church', and choosing a pillar rather than an altar for the place of his death, his action led him to die where ritually, the Divine victim might have been expected to die." (End Quote)
I didn't need knowledge of Masonic secrets in order to make an analogy with the JFK assassination. Given that Dealey Plaza was an outdoor Masonic Temple dedicated to Isis and Osiris - the site of the first Masonic lodge in Dallas and that its namesake was a Thirty-third-degree Scottish Rite Mason and Knight Templar - should have been enough. But the fact that the procession should immediately turn to the North following the execution spoke to the same ritual ceremony that had brought down Becket. And thanks to Williamson's in-depth study we also learned that the ceremony centered on the Arthurian Grail mythology rooted in Welsh history and that the origin of that history stretched back in time to the Roman occupation of Britain and the secret religion their soldiers practiced known as Mithraism.
If you asked anyone today about the Holy Grail they'd probably cite the fictional attempt to decipher the secret known as the Da Vinci Code.
But when Hugh Ross Williamson narrowed the source of the mythology of the Holy Grail down to the 12th-century Welsh Court of Pembrokeshire, I knew I was getting to where the mythology and the reality merged and where the Fitzgerald family merged with that reality.
Williamson writes: "Dr. J.L. Weston has established that the original stories which developed into the Arthurian romance those of Percival and Gawain had their rise in precisely those regions where Mithraic remains are known to exist. She has identified the original author, Bleheris, with Bledri, that son of Cadivor who entertained William the Conqueror on his visit to Wales and who died in that year [1087] that William Rufus ascended to the throne. Her contention is that the Grail story is not a product of imagination, but the record of an ancient ritual, having for its ultimate object the initiation into the sources of Life, physical and spiritual."
The last time I'd seen Jesse Weston's book From Ritual To Romance was on Colonel Kurtz's desk in Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now. I'd read it as a student in the 1960s but I didn't understand its importance until now. The ritual of gaining the Grail was an instruction manual for the Hero's Quest - intended to initiate the son of man into a higher spiritual life, grade by grade through the trial and error of war until he ascended to the role of father and was given the crown of Mithra, which made him an equal to the Great Mother - the Magna Mater. To quote from Jesse Weston, "In its esoteric 'Mystery' form it was freely utilized for the imparting of high spiritual teaching concerning the relation of Man to the Divine Source of his being and the possibility of a sensible union between Man and God."(End Quote) A sensible union between Man and God meaning without the interference of a priest.
Williamson explains: "The conflict of the Old Religion with Christianity begun in the last days of the Roman occupation was continued by Druidism in the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions at the beginning of the fifth century and the consolidation of the Anglo-Saxon conquest at the beginning of the sixth. From the various waves of invaders, paganism was reinforced by a version of the old faith, at once more crude and more vital than Druidism. But Mithra, even when the whole land became officially Christian, was not defeated. If in the South, he was traced in the songs of the Troubadours; in the North he hid himself in the legend of the Holy Grail."
So the Grail did have a basis in reality but the underlying reality was pagan and the Fitzgeralds were living in the middle of its transition to Christianity. And as warrior knights with a large measure of autonomy spending most of their time either at war, or waiting for someone to make war on them - they were most likely practicing it as the descendants of their own Great Mother - Princess Nest. As Williamson explains "When the struggle between Mithraism and Christianity ended in the definite triumph of the latter, the higher ritual still survived and was celebrated in sites removed from the centers of population."
So who were the individuals responsible for carrying these Mithraic rituals into the modern era and why was the date of November 22, so important?
I learned from my research into the inner workings of the 19th-century British involvement in Afghanistan that Masonic symbols and numerology had played a foundational role in the art of encrypted messaging. Masonry and British Intelligence in Afghanistan were one and the same. When British military historian John Keegan visited CIA headquarters in Langley Virginia in the 1980s what impressed him most was its resemblance to British India's Political and Secret Service in the days of the Raj. "It has assumed the mantle once worn by Kim's masters as if it were a seamless garment," he wrote.
The foundation of Kipling's Masonic lore and its connection to the Knights Templar rested on a work published in 1840 by Grand Master of Scottish Freemasonry in India and Grand Preceptor in the Order of the Knights Templar James Burnes. James was the brother of legendary British spy, military officer and diplomat Alexander Burnes who was murdered in Kabul in 1841 and one of the models for the Man Who would be King.
During World War II the Office of Strategic Services inherited Burnes' legacy. Its director Wild Bill Donovan encouraged his agents to think of themselves as Knights Templar - guarding the holy Sepulchre in wait for the Resurrection and the arrival of the Kingdom of Heaven. Then as now the CIA saw itself through the lens passed down from that same British intelligence that once used secret masonic messaging and the date November 22nd was the biggest message of all.
As we discovered in over forty years of research into the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, once the approved narrative is established, the gate keepers will use it to serve their purposes no matter what evidence might emerge to contradict it.
We'd gained a personal knowledge of the narrative-making machine at CBS News where we witnessed Muslim extremists being transformed into a vehicle to deliver revenge and retribution to the Soviet Union for America's humiliation in Vietnam. By no lack of coincidence Dan Rather had played a pivotal role in establishing the lone-gunman theory by misreporting the Zapruder film on November 25th 1963. And according to a 1981 Columbia Journalism report Rather provided the same service for the CIA on April 6, 1980, in a 60 minutes report by (quote) consolidating popular misconceptions about the Afghan war into one high impact coast-to-coast broadcast. (End quote)
Giving the Russians their own Vietnam in Afghanistan had been kicking around the CIA for years. The CIA's Chuck Cogan, the man who ran the Afghan operation, boasted to us on camera that Afghanistan was always about getting revenge on Russia for Vietnam. But with the help of Dan Rather the idea of a Crusade to prevent the Evil Empire from seizing the Holy Land and all its oil would take hold until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
As we watched - America fell under the spell of Rudyard Kipling, Alexander Burnes and the 19th-century British Empire. We were surprised that President Carter would abandon Strategic Arms Limitation and De'tente with the Soviets by empowering Islamic extremists. But as we got to know the rules of the game, we came to realize a legacy of the British Empire's involvement in the Crusades and the metaphysical mission of the powerful Catholic military order known as the Knights Templar - played a more lasting role in modern geopolitical decisions than we had ever imagined.
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