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Post by Charlotte on Jan 14, 2008 10:12:09 GMT -5
Prompted by uberleet, I thought I start a new thread on the Monument at Shugborough, a sort of geometry of my own a la Don Barone: we hear bells ringing but need to know where the sound is coming from, so give me a chance ya'll. Shugborough - Centre of the World As mentioned before, the actor Shagpur never lest England, but Francis Bacon did, signing papers at the "Hotel" in Rome with "Shfordus". Shugborough sounds much like Shakespeare to me, and the reason Shugborough is called "Centre of the World", is because he, that is Francis Bacon "is the greatest creator of living beings - he created an entire humanity" according to Pushkin. Meaning the humanity of the last 400 centuries belongs to Sir Francis Bacon. It really does , but methinks it goes further back in our history. "Sheemakers", I read, "carved the Shakespeare memorial in Westminister Abbey in 1740 - may have carved the Poussin relief in 1748-50 though there is no documentary evidence of the Shepherds Monument existence before Lady Anson's letter of 1756 or 8". In another paragraph is stated that "Sheemakers carved the relief 'at the instigation of Stuart' in 1759". Let's make it 1759, since there is no documented evidence before 1758. www.shugborough.org.uk/AcadamyThomasAnsonNew-187At first glance, other than families and persons known to have lived in various places, there are more "may have - probably- curiously" etc., than you can shake a spear at, so my conjectures are equally valid. The way the history of Shugborough and the Monument is writt' is a mystery itself to be deciphered, but I think in this history are many clues to find the location of the bell. It is huge and circumnavigates the planet. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Chinese are present, as well as the arts and European composers, and the music of St. Germain. Spain and France are involved, and we find a "M. St George" whom Thomas Anson met in Paris, who "is not to be confused with 'Chevalier St. Georges', the name Bonnie Prince Charlie used when he escaped France. In 1750, confusingly named as 'Chevalier St Georges'," who "moved in the highest societiy - he was a member of the Royal Society, supported by Asnon..." I let this slip stand. This is pure and simple confusion, pardon me, because to those of us out of the box, the "Scarlet Pimpernel", whoever he was, bows with his most charming smile and quips something like "ah those people don't know the last skilled twist of tying a cravatte which distinguishes a man of refinement from the merely ordinary. Have an exeptional day Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Jan 15, 2008 10:39:44 GMT -5
"Thomas Anson (1695-1773) was the man behind Shugsborough. He was a self-effacing figure. The only portrait, which is not definetily of him, is by Vanderbank, from 1739, curiously the same year as Venderbank's portrait of Elizabeth York, later Lady Anson as the Sheperdess." Curiously also, that the later Lady Anson has no first name, but her style of writing sounds familiar. Her "letters to to Thomas tantalizingly refer to his own lost, and obviously amusing, letters to her." Lady Anson writes: "The titles of the chapters which your letters contain, excite our curiosity and impatience very highly, as the promise that your memoirs will be extreemly entertaining. (1- letter wrongly dated 1749)." Lady Anson "refers to Thomas having "spent four days at the magnifque Palais de Versailles." "Only a few days later (June 28th) she is writing to Thomas about Bonnie Prince Charlie, then in France: "I beg my account of the low state of the monarchy here may not tempt you (or your French ministerial friends) to send us over the young Gentleman, whose forlorn and neglected condition we hear from you with so much pleasure." Is this historical account a drawn together story of individuals and events not readily discernable by people living the daily life thereabouts? Curious Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Jan 17, 2008 10:25:47 GMT -5
I'm obsessing again
According to the history given in the link, the father of of our main man, Thomas Anson, was a lawyer, and "another connection in their (he had a brother George) early years was the mathematician Wlliam Jones (c. 1675-1749). Jones was the tutor to the Anson's cousin, George Parker, and lived part of the time in his house, Shirburn Castle. Jones left his library to Parker. A not in a biography of his son, the expert on Indian culture, Sir William Jones, says Jones sailed with Anson and taught him navigation. This is not actually possible according to the dates, but it is possible he was tutor to George and Thomas at the same time as he taught their cousin.
"New evidence about Thomas Anson's life and connections has appeared since 2000 and each new clue builds up a picture of Thomas as a fascinating figure, with important influence in the arts and sciences."
Aha, just as I suspected, they are building up a picture by clues. More clues:
"The most important influence in the fortunes of the Anson's was the family connection of their mother, Isabella Carrier and her sister Janet. The Carriers were a Derbyshire land-owner family. The Anson's mother had married into a minor Staffordshire family, of lawyers, but her sister married a future Lord Chancellor, Thomas Parker Earl of Macclesfield", who was the "uncle" of the Anson brothers, "whith close ties to Isaac Newton and the world of science and new thought."
Now the mathematician William Jones, tutored the cousin of our man Thomas Anson, George Parker, and "possibly" Thomas Anson himself. "It was Jones who introduced the letter 'pi' into mathematics." Not if you asked Don Barone. "William Jones was a member of the Royal Society, and proposed Thomas Anson (his maybe pupil) for membership in 1730."
'Tis a built up picture from new evidence of 2000 together with some old information, I would think, I may spin some cobwebs of my own, initially, but I'm out of time for today.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Jan 23, 2008 10:41:42 GMT -5
Hello, "On an Emblematical Base relievo after the famous picture of Nocholas Paussin Representing Shepherds pointing to the following inscription on a Monument in Arcadia:'The silent Monk, in lonely cell immured, From every folly, vice, and care secured, Should inward turn calm Meditations Eye, And Life employ in studying how to die.' "The very dull poem is a meditation on death and has no particular connection with Poussin's picture." Dull for Goodman Dull, who adds "Lady Anson writes that the performance must be", and answers Dull at the same time "greatly inferior to its subject, as that requires a much more masterly hand to do it justice."I really like Lady Anson, but "In fact there is no mention in any of the sources of Thomas Anson's marital status", and, says Morchard Bishop "Thomas Anson was not a widower." Moreover, "there is no record anywhere of the date of Mrs Anson's death." I'm not quite sure yet whether meant is Lady Anson, or the mother of Thomas Anson, because things are "misquoted", and Bishop "invented" things. "The monument has a historical place in the Greek Revival with its air of poetic mystery, regardless of its private meaning." "But the real story begins in 1624 when William Anson, a successful lawyer, purchased Shugborough manor house then standing in only 80 acres of land." www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/stately%20homes/shugborough.htmI thought so, beginning to read, I saw a boar crossing the grounds of Shugborough. It seems to me to be but a natural progression of the tremendous impress Francis Bacon/Shakespeare and Nicholas Poussin, contemporaries at the time of the Englisg Renaissance, made on the minds of their successors. Look what Poussin did to Don Barone in our days. The landscape was beautiful and the 80 acres "arable", again, that's why I put the "Arable" farm in the center of England. The history gets stranger by the paragraph and all sorts of connections are hanging over my head, and the notion that if we can figure and straighten out the history and personages of Shugborough, we could discover what the Letters below the monument say, but Let not the muse inquisitive presume With rash interpretation to disclose The mystic ciphers that conceal her name. Beautiful! Have a great day/evening Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Jan 25, 2008 13:16:46 GMT -5
Due to its nature and persons involved, poetry and philosophical language cannot be kept out of the history. On the memorial at Westminster Abbey, carved by Scheemakers?, (thought to have carved the Poussin relief also), Shakespeare stands with legs crossed, his elbow resting on books, or perhaps 1 book divided, pointing to a parchment: The Gorgeous Palace The Solemn Temple The Great Globe itself Depicted on the pedestal is a handsome Knight, the center of his crown a Fleur de Lis. www.sirbacon.org/gallery/shakestat.htmlI see Larry has added a radiant eye and the American Flag to the Masonic symbol. For a better view of the Knight see www.sirbacon.org/doddsublimeprince.htmThe Inner Temple The man behind Schugborough, Thomas Anson, "entered St. John's College Oxford at the age of 15 in 1711 and then studied law at the Inner Temple, going to the bar in 1719. He is described as a 'practicing lawyer'(9) like his father, but in his will in 1771 he claimed not to understand legal formalities." 1720s - EARLY TRAVELS Thomas's father died in 1720. There is a May 1722 document in which Thomas Anson 'of the Inner Temple' sells South Sea stock." ( Thomas Gates? but the dates are wrong) "Presumably from this time Thomas Anson abandoned a legal career and began his travels. "On the day Thomas Anson died (30th March 1773) Sir John Eardley Wilmot, a judge, who worked on the Midland Circuit and turned down the offer to replace Hardwicke as Lord Chancellor (10), wrote that: "In the former part of his life" Thomas Anson had "lived many years abroad, he was a very ingenious, polite, well-bred man and dignified...his accomplishments by his universal benevolence." (8) "Ingamell's 'dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800' gives a few clues to Thomas's travels. "In July 1723 he is said to have been in Spa (in?) with William Mytton and Simon Degge. In fact checking the entry for William Mytton shows that the source gives only the surname 'Mytten' "The Myttons were from Halston, Shropshire. William was a wine merchant but there are many references to a 'J Mytton' in the Ansons papers. References in Lady Anson's letters to Mr Mytton's dealings with aunts' almhouses (Houblon Almshouses) in Richmond in 1758 seem to prove that he was James Mytton, then living in Richmond. Mytton looked after Thomas's business while he was in the east 1740/1, visiting Paris with him in 1748 and, from comments in another lady Anson letter was staying at Shugborough in 1756. He seems to have been Thomas's longest lasting close friend. Thomas Pennant, a later friend of Thomas's was Mytton's nephew. "Simon Degge, of Blithfield, was a Staffordshire friend, and a contemporay of Thomas in the Inner Temple. He joyned the Royal Society with Thomas in 1730. Curiously his brother William joined the Dilettanti Society with Thomas. "In September 1724 he was in Padua with Alan Brodrick, also of the Inner Temple. "In April 1725 he went from Rome to Naples with Simon Degge and Thomas Kemp (unidentified) and in May went to Florence with Degge (16)" From all these clues the history of Shugborough, apparently written by a student, is made up. It's all very confusing and somehow this history doesn't work. The Gentlemen of the "Inner Temple" seemed to have traveled extensively. Sure looks to me like a continuation of the Great Conspiracy. Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Jan 29, 2008 10:51:14 GMT -5
A Comdy of Errors
Theirs or mine?
In the Archives of Staffordshire "there is a letter in Armenian script - from an Armenian named Babjanian of Izmir, Turkey, - dated 25th September 1734," partially "translated - in 1983 - by Revd Dr. V Nersessian of the British Library".
The letter was part Persian and part Armenian Language, hence "difficult" to translate. The letter was to a wealthy and influential merchant of Livorno, Italy, named Sharimaniants, whose sons name was Petros Bartolo. The letter (of the Armenian Izmir living in Turkey) describes Thomas Anson as the kindest man he has met in England", and he asks the wealthy Italian merchant "to grant a letter of recommendation" to Thomas, or perhaps his unnamed friend, should they need it, as they may be in trouble or even jailed. "It may be that Thomas Anson was in Italy in 1734, and that he took this letter with him as an introduction" to the wealthy and influential merchant of Livorno.
Now why does this and many other things in this history sound so familier?
"Curiously, in the 1760s the Ansons were friends and supporters of Josef Emin, an Armenian revolutionary, who, James Stuart told Thomas in a letter, later became a bishop rather than a king."
Strange statement, I have to look for the autobiography Emin published later.
"From 1731 Thomas began to absorb property in the village. Most of the surrounding land was owned by Thomas before George Anson's voyage and immense wealth. The village was gradually removed, though there is no sign that people were forced out, and Thomas seems to have built new cottages near the present farm as late as 1770."
1732 THE SOCIETY OF THE DILETTANTI
"The Society of the Dellitanti was founded by Sir Francis Dashwood and a group of friends in Italy, on a Grand Tour, in 1732. (6)
Horace Walpole said that official qualifications for membership of the Dilettante was that you had been in Italy, but the real qualification was that you were drunk. The register of the society was kept in a box called "Bacchus' Tomb".
"The Society of Dilletanti (probably errors in spelling) became a serious force in the arts in the 1740s when they supported Stuart and Revett's expedition to Greece to record, for the first time, genuine Greek architecture.
"Very few English travelers had ventured further East than Italy. Thomas Anson is listed as one of the earliest members, joining before 1736 when the list was compiled. He joyned at the same time as William Degge, presumably brother of Simon Degge with whom he had traveled in Italy (and had?) been elected to the Royal Society. Another early member was Lord Harcourt, who was a lifelong friend and attended Thomas's funeral in 1773.
"As with the Royal Society there are no records of his later involvement but his long association with James "Athenian Stuart" suggests that Thomas Anson's interest in ancient architecture was deep and long lasting and that he was a key figure in the spread of the Greek Revival."
1730 ROYAL SOCIETY
Thomas Anson was proposed for membership in th Royal Society in 1730, by William Jones (the mathematician) and Rev. Zachary Pearce, the rector of St. Martin's in the Fields. Pearce was supported, as patron, by Lord Hardwicke, and he was also an associated ? of Sir Isaac Newton, helping him with his biblical chronology. Pearce visited Newton shortly before his death in 1727 and found him sitting in the depths of his room, far from the window, without spectacles revising his chronology. (5) There was a copy of the chronology, published in 1727, as well as Newton's Principia, in the library of Shugborough.
"Thomas did not sign the register of the Royal Society or pay his fees, though Simon Degge, of Blithfield, who had entered the Inner Temple the same year as Thomas and was proposed with him, did. (4)
"There is no evidence that Thomas Anson knew Newton, but the links with Jones, Pearce, and both Thomas and George Parker, Earls of Macclesfield, place the Ansons very close to the "Newton Circle".
"The Royal Society was dominated by supporters of Lord Hardwicke, and his son Philip Yorke. Thomas may have joyned just because of his family interest. (4)"
A short history of the Royal Society
"The invisible College of Scientists emerged into the light as the Gresham College. And then it came before the public boldly as the Academie in 1660. Thwo years later Charles II raised it to its present status of the Royal Society." (Alfred Dodd)
Sir Francis Bacon was the founder.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 20, 2008 9:02:52 GMT -5
Searching for connections It seemed to me that there was more to the extensive traveling of the "Gentlemen of the Inner Temple" than is given in the meager history of Shugborough, but histories are generally written "cut and dry". I looked to learn more about the Armenian revolutionary Josef Emin, who described Thomas Anson "the kindest man he has met in England", but found no clear answers in the two convoluted files I read. Instead, I found the much more interesting Count Benyowsky, who traveled much and frequented the courts of Europe, and who changed his name frequently. In a previous post I remarked that the story of Shugborough was a continuation of the "Great Conspiracy" of Francis Bacon and Friends to reform the whole World, because "the real story" of Shugbourough "begins in 1624 when William Anson, a successful lawer, purchased Shugborough manor", as stated in the official history. Bacon was born in 1561, so for the time being I make Sir Nicholas Bacon, his stepfather, this successful lawer, because so many other things of that time also fit very well. I don't see all clearly because their names and dates are vague, and "unknown", but there is a much greater story behind their official one, bringing us up to date to America and "National Treasure". I have not seen "National Treasure 2". The Conspiracy of Count Benyowsky In Augsburg, of all cities, where Bernhard lives, there was performed in 1792 a tragedy in five acts, viz, that conspiracy, "by the celebrated American ex-patriot Benjamin Thompson. It was at a performance of his version in Baltimore in October 1814 that the first publicly-advertised rendition of the American national anthem, «The Star Spangled Banner», was presented (see: Marks, Lilian Bayly, Count de Benyowszky and «The Star-Spangled Banner» // Maryland Magazine. Vol. LXX. No. 1. Spring 1975. P. 90.). www.historia.ru/2002/04/griffiths.htmNow we're getting somewhere, there is an extra z in the Baron's name, and this baron is mentioned in the official history of Shugborough, though under an other name. "Throughout the first half of the year 2001 the European Room of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. held an exhibit dedicated to Benyowsky's life and activities. It presented him as an advocate of national liberation, although liberation from what or whom was not made clear." It's a secret conspiracy In all, there are 6 telling points made in the link given, which tell part of the tail. Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 25, 2008 8:47:53 GMT -5
It didn't take me but a click to confirm by general scholarship what I have been taught, and my thoughts about Shugborough and the continuation of the Great Conspiracy and make connections to "The Star Spangled Banner" of one Count Benyowsky, whom I will call "Ben" henceforth, since Ben Gates, a Knight in "National Treasure" personifies this man.
MAURICE AUGUST BENYOWSKY: A MILITARY ADVENTURER IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
Not exactly!
"There is no shortage of literature on Count Maurice August Benyowsky (to render his name in English fashion)."
First clue.
"Within little more than a century of his death his Memoirs and Travels appeared in German (eight editions), English (at least five), Dutch (also five), the original in French (at least three), Polish (three), Swedish (two), Hungarian (two), and Slovac. The literature about Benyowsky is just as voluminous. In addition to the predictable novels, it includes plays, operas, and Baronic poems, not to mention biographies too numerous to list. The great interest extends down to the present day. Portrayed in this literature are at least three distinct Benyowskys: 1) the skilled colonial administrator undone by jealous competitors and incompetend supervisors, the fighter for national emancipation and three) the intrepid explorer whose boldness led him and his colleagues to the very shores of Alaska."
As stated in the last post, Ben was presented as an advocate of national liberation, or here "national emancipation", at the exhibition dedicated to this gentleman at the "European Room at the Library of Congress" (2001), but "from what or whom was not made clear."
"In some measure Benyowsky fits all three rubrics; but not adequately describes the totality of his activities. Nor do his Memoirs offer any assistance, for they conclude at the end of 1776, with his exodus from Madagascar."
Ben's memoirs conclude in 1776, big clue, and it takes years of listening to the learned and learning, and earning an understanding of the totality of his activities, who this inegmatic figure in history was, and who, unlike many other personages of Europe, "falls into a somewhat different category: that of (a) purposeful traveler."
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 27, 2008 9:07:23 GMT -5
In the English Renaissance, an unbroken continuance of the Italien Renaissance, there was an incredible flourish of activity and travel in Europe of men, not only those of "The Inner Temple" of Shugborough, but also of "random adventurers", so called. Thing is, they all traveled in the same time frame, events and meetings are curious, and nobody is really sure who is who, generally speaking.
It was the time when Europe was pregnant with child and in need of a Godfather.
The Memoirs of Count Benyowsky offer no assistance of who "the skilled colonial administrator, fighter for national emancipation", and "the intrepid explorer" was.
In the historical article of Shugborough, Lady Anson's "letters to Thomas (her husband) tantalizingly refer to his own lost, and obviously amusing, letters to her." Lady Anson writes back:
"The titles of the chapters which your letters contain, excite our curiosity and impatience very highly, as the promise that your memoirs will be extreemly entertaining."
By Lady Anson's reply, we can tell that the tantalizing letters of Thomas, her husband, do not refer to his own letters, lost and amuzing, because she writes "the titles of the chapters" in her husbands letters promise to be extreemly entertaining when he writes his memoirs, of people he met and places he was.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 28, 2008 9:10:20 GMT -5
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Count 'August' Benyowsky meets our man Ben Franklin in Paris in 1781.
Who are those "random travelers", and the one traveling with "purpose"? And what is the purpose "not made clear" at the exhibition at the Library of Congress in 2001, but only termed "national liberaten"? The purpose being to "create a new humanity" here in the melting and smelting pot America, Bacon's "New Atlantis", out of all races of the world.
"In 1772, in the same letter in which he records the arrival of news in St. Petersburg of the Beyowsky rebellion, the celebrated Russian civil servant and dramatist D.I. Fonvizin (von wissen?) goes on to observe that «...the history of our century will prove interesting to posterity. How many great upheavals! How many strange adventures». He might have added «How many strange adventurers», for the eighteent century was replete with such figures. Literary historian Aleksandr Stroev has written a delightful work chronicling the escapades of some of these random «adventurers» («avantiuristy» is his term). His adventurers are all Continental European by birth. And, whatever their intentions, they never leave the cozy confines of the continent. They undertake their journeys to Petersburg, usually from Paris, often via Berlin and Vienna. They arrive by themselves, without family encumbrances. Once there, they seldom venture far from the Emperial court, the site of the patronage they hope to exploit. However fascinating they may be as people, they are parasites on the court and its members. They produce nothing, except perhaps witty conversation and, occasionally, scandalous memoirs."
Yea right! These derelicts of the time decided one day to go to St. Petersburg and hang around the Imperial Palace hoping to be invited to exploit or use the members of the court for fame and fortune? Or what? Produce scandalous memoirs because it gave them something to do while loitering about, or maybe to entertain and lift the spirits of the troubled Europeans?
It's like me going to London and hanging around Buckingham Palace, hoping to shake the Queens hand and a ray from the Lady's crown's jewel falling on me for all the world to see. Then and now, nobody who is nobody is admitted to a court simply because "they're there."
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 29, 2008 9:12:25 GMT -5
The hobos of the 18th century are
"Entirely cosmopolitan in culture, they lack even a vestige of national identity. Yet while they may not know their mother tongue, they all speak French."
How can anyone not know their mother tongue? Maybe they were brought to France as infants.
"The absence of family, home, homeland, and mother tongue is compensated for to some degree by membership in an international fraternity to which they all belong: the Republic of Letters. If they happen to be freemasons, their acceptance into society is even swifter. "
I don't think they were accepted into high society 'because' they were freemasons, but because a certain high society was made up of freemasons, and they knew each other, of course, and this is why they had access to the courts of Europe. Members of the elusive "international fraternity" having no identity is self-explanatory. They sought them here, they sought them there, they sought them in heaven and hell and couldn't find and kill them.
"Often dandies, sometimes sexually ambiguous, homosexual, or bisexual, they arouse society's curiosity, but not it's loyalty."
They were a "gay", highly intelligent and sophisticated bunch and not interested in society's loyalty.
"Because of their ambiguity, they are, like the celebrated Chevalier d'Eon, occasionally employed as secret agents."
They were agents of the Great Fraternal Conspiracy working for humanity to take the next step out of darkness.
"Yet, with just cause, they are trusted nowhere. As a result, Stroev informs us, they are «received by everyone, chased from everywhere». They keep moving on from royal court to royal court, usually aimlessly."
How can such a thing be said? They drift aimlessly, are trusted nowhere, received and chased, but keep company with European royalty who couldn't tell the difference between a charlatan and a like-minded brethren.
"They are products or, better, by-products, of the Enlightenment."
No, they partake of producing light.
"Some, like Mesmer and Cagliostro, are charlatans, seeking to gull the unsuspecting public by claiming access to higher truths. Others, such as Bernadin de St. Pierre, have utopian projects or get rich-quick schemes to propose to the authorities."
The utopian project began with Sir Francis Bacon and has nothing to do with a get rich-quick scheme, and "the authorities" of the time, depending which, weren't exactly stupid. Pardon me.
"Still others, like Casanova, are simply traveling for the sake of adventure, because they have nothing better to do, or because they have outlived their welcome elsewhere. Although marginalized, they serve as a mirror that «reflects society's secret wishes and hopes, fears and fantasies», to quote Stroev."
It is only ignorance of the purpose of these men traveling alone and incognito, or changing their names, carefully holding up the mirror of what can and will be, and frequenting the courts of Europe, which marginalize them, and as Mr. Griffiths himself writes, the stories "are so grossly embellished" and "must be employed with caution." He says this pertaining to Count 'Ben', but I say it pertains to all of the 'hobos' - my apology for the term.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Mar 31, 2008 10:20:57 GMT -5
Here is an interesting rendering of the "celbrated" Chevalier D'Eon De Beaumont, one of the men of the "cosmopolitian culture" of Europe of the 18th century, "without even a vestige of national identity." They were citizens of the 'polis' of the cosmos. freemasonry.bcy.ca/boigraphy/deon_c/deon_c.htmlI read a great deal yesterday apropos these "by=products of the Enlightenment". I suppose the writers consider "the Enlightenment" was the result of science, in my eyes the by-product of the spiritual journey of mankind, as above so below in the true sense. Cosmo de Medici had the means, and Marcilio Fecino facilitated the Enlightenment. Francis Bacon took it from there, and here we are in the New Atlantis with our "National Treasure" exporting it around the globe on the silver screen. According to historians, Catherine II was overly concerned about the travels and activities of Count 'Ben'. She ordered "a sharp eye" be kept on him, to "strengthen the defenses on Kamchatka", because there were "rumors" that he "is sailing somewhere with a ship full of troops." What is a ship full of troops to an army on land? "Some think he might be headed to Britain's North American Colonies, presumably to fan the fires of rebellion there. The Empress finds the report ludicrous." I don't think so, because all of these strange travelers had "something - in common - they all pass through St. Petersburg in the course of their travel, and the all fanned the fires of rebellion, more or less. "The Prince, she suspects, has confused the East Indies with the West Indies." Being Count 'Ben', somehow become a Prince, I don't think so, because he never was confused about his purpose. "Finally in 1779 the governor of Irkutsk reports that panic had ensued when two ships of unknown provenance appeared off the coast of Kamchatka. Had Benyowsky perhaps made good on his threat to return?" To remove her from power? "The Empress fears this possibility." All this is interpretative guessing, the real reason was: she didn't want him hanging around the court with the rest of the bumbs, even if he had a purpose. Sorry, can't help it. "She has her director of foreign affairs, Count Nikita Panin, order Bariatinskii to approach the American minister to Versailles Benjamin Franklin in order to enquire cautiously of him if they were American ships. If not, they might be Benyowsky's. Franklin's reply is comforting: the sightings are undoubtedly those of Captain James Cook's third expedition or of Japanese ships. He proves correct: they do indeed belong to the Cook expedition." Franklin would have never said "or of Japanese ships", for he knew who was who and their whereabouts. "If such sightings of Benyowsky prove erroneous, where is he?" He was probably in Versailles raising a glass of cherry with his close frien Benjamin Franklin to the success of the American Revolution, served by the attractive ladies of the court. Perhaps our man from Shugborough, Thomas Anson, joined them, as he was also in France, and "spent four days at the magnifque Palais de Versailles", according to Lady Anson, and in connection with his stay in Versailles, she mentions "the titles and chapter" of his extemely interesting memoirs. Or, he was in Madagascar, where in 1776 local kings elected him as their Ampansacabe (Emperor). Among other things he introduced Latin script for the Madagascar language." Hello! One has to read more between the lines, re-interpret, and "rutsch" all this together in the big picture. Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Apr 1, 2008 8:46:33 GMT -5
I threw Thomas Anson into the mix yesterday, having a glass of cherry with Count 'Ben" and Benjamin Franklin at Versailles, because they were contemporaies. Anson was born in 1695, Franklin in 1706, Count 'Ben' in 1741, Franklin and 'Ben' met in Paris 1781. The important thing for me is to show that Francis Bacon gave the impulse with his writings and quietly directing the British Empire while writing the Sonnets and Plays, creating an entire humanity, the receptive, above the ordinary life, proof of it being in the libraries of the World, the Plays shown over the World, discussed in Israel's prisons, phrases we use in daily life, and the German's translated the collective works of Shakespeare into "klingon" That Shugborough, and the "cosmopolitan travelers" or "secret agents" of Europe partook to whatever degree of the "fraternal conspiracy" to reform the whole World, implimented in the New World. It is no secret how instrumental Benjamin Franklin was in this endeavor, and the Founding Fathers. About a week ago, I listened on NPR to a man who apparently wrote a new biography of "the rebel" Thomas Jefferson. It was wonderful how the man saw him with "my eyes". Jefferson was born in 1743, Count 'Ben" in 1741 or 1746, and while Jefferson, who called Francis Bacon one of the greatest man the world has ever produced, the same being said of the "celestial genius" Shakespeare, educated himself at "William and Mary College", Franklin and Count 'Ben' traveled with "purpose" for the "cause." In the movie, Ben Gates went to great lenght to find Franklin's papers and the "dogood" letters. And here we are with our "National Treasure", shown world-wide. Charlotte
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