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Post by Charlotte on Oct 1, 2008 9:54:41 GMT -5
It must be pretty unnerving these days to sit at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, and the Beehive is buzzing to find a resolution to a big problem. www.whitehousemuseum.org/furnishings/resolute-desk.htmThe fish that is the Washington Mall www.nationalmall.org/nationamall.php(This link doesn't work for me, but google Washinton Mall, it's very interesting, maybe Riley can help ) I read that there used to be a serpent on the plate at the 'twin' desk at the Oval Office signifying the degree 25 of the Scottish Rite of the "Knights of the Brazen Serpent". In NT, Mitch Wilkinson is a descendant of Wilkes Boot, assassin of Lincoln, and the adversary of Benjamin Frankling Gates, descendant of Thomas Gates. Mitch remarks that Albert Pike studied Freemasonry, harkening back to the ancient Egyptian Serpent Tribe, whence, in "Book of Secrets" torches lit in a luminous corner of the Great Pyramid, are carried by men to the Capitol Building in Washington DC. The Brazen Serpent was raised on a Tau Cross by Moses in the Desert, Moses being represented in DC. One might also call the illustrious Manly Palmer Hall a Brazen Serpent of the Scottish Rite, a most humble and gentle of voice serpent. Council of Kadosh "The word "Kadosh" is a Hebrew word word meaning Holy. Although Albert Pike identifies the degrees of the Council of Kadosh as chivalric and philosophical, they are intensely mystical with respect to the lessons conveyed and the symbols given". Ever the symbols of individual and Universal regeneration, the flaming Phoenix, the Seeing Eye, as well as the winged globe entwined by a serpent, and the Brazen Serpent of Albert Pike's "Morals and Dogma". XXV
KNIGHTS OF THE BRAZEN SERPENTS "THIS Degree is both philosophical and moral. While it teaches the necessity of reformation as well as repentance, as a means of optaining mercy and forgiveness, it is also devoted to an explanation of the legend, of which that of Khir-Om Abi is but a variation; the legend which, representing a murder or a death, and a restoration to life, , by a drama in which figure Osiris, Isis and Horus, Atys and Cybele, Adonis and Venus, the Cabiri, Dionusos, and many other representative of the active and passive Powers of Nature, taught the Initiates in the Mysteries that the rule of Evil and Darkness is but temporary, and that that of Light and Good will be eternal". www.phoenixmasonry.org/morals_and_dogma/knight_of_the_brazen_serpent.htmXVIII Knight Rosi Croix "Tis degree emphasizes that life and strenght come from God. The rose signifies the dawn and the cross is a sacred symbol of antiquity in many cultures. One is also taught to be tolerant of others errors and their faults. The apron worn is of white leather or satin, bordered in red, with a skull and cross-bones, a red passion cross, and three red rosettes. The grand jewel is a gold compass open a quarter circle. A rose-cross is beteen the legs of the compass and under it is a pelican, tearing its breast to feed its seven young on the obverse and an eagle with wings extended on the reverse. On the circle are the letters I.N.R.I." This I mention on a personal note, for central on the Altar of the Roman Catholic Basilika of the town I was born, was the self-same pelican, which I often contemplated as a child when alone in church, but couldn't get an answer form either the Priest or the Sisters my teachers,as to the meaning. For such questions I was rewarded with the honor of sweeping the steps up to the church. Neither did I know that the cross over the entrance to my school was a Templar Cross, so from the greater in DC to a small town in Bavaria, so called 'paganism' prevails. "An American Guesser", Ben Franklin's "Rattlesnake as a symbol of America" is derived from the serpent, ancient symbol of wisdom. For me, there is no doubt that the name Benjamin Franklin Gates of NT was carefully chosen to bring to the fore in the mind of the people, in tandem with the current "atmosphere" of change, Benjamin Franklin as THE SAGE WHOM TWO WORLDS CLAIMED AS THEIR OWN "I observed on one of the drums belonging to the marines now raising, there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, "Don't thread on me". "...that it is the rule among the learned of that science "That the worthy properties of the animal , in the crest-born, shall be considered," and, "That the base ones cannot have been intendet;" www.greatseal.com/symbols/rattlesnake.htmA much lesser American guesser Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 2, 2008 9:28:43 GMT -5
Meanwhile, in London The chase had began. Seated in their Merzedes, Ben, Abigail and Riley need to loose Mitch Wilkinson and his two accomlices. Ben shift into reverse and drives almost as good backwards as I drive forward. Chasing them through the streets of London, the descendants of "The Knights of the Golden Circle", bad guys, shot about as if they were in America. Not wanting to risk boring you to death, I won't describe every corner, street and alley they take, buildings they pass by, cars, barrels, traffic lights, people and a dog Ben has to navigate around, but I could if you want me too Worth mention is, that some object flying up and damaging a statue of a horse and rider, is not the one of Francis Bacon. To no avail, Ben tells Mitch that this chase has to end "before somebody gets hurt". Ben thinks of taking a picture of the plaque with Abigail's phone camera, err yes, but "it's broken", she says. No problem for Ben the ingenious, he simply runs a red light and lets its camera take the picture, and asks reluctant Riley, who it is known dislikes authority, to go to the Police Station and "get a copy of the picture from the traffic cam". Riley can do that, he says, but is irritated because Ben assumes what he can or cannot do. In crossing the Themes, Ben flings the plaque into the river, and one of Mitch' sort jumps in to retrieve it. Ben's father, Patrick Gates, welcomes his son and friends back in the States and to his home. Upon examining the old piece of wood, Patrick can't make out everything, but can tell, that "these are definetively pre-colonial, late American marks". In that case, guesses Ben, they would "only be 500 years old". That "easely", answers his dad. Riley zooms in, Ben deems what they see may be "a sacred calendarical...I don't know", but Patrick, in awe recognizes a symbol, "that symbol is Cibola...Cibola..." Ahh, Ben slowly straightens up, and while nodding to himself closes his eyes and sees what he knows of "Cibola...the City of Gold...the City of Gold..." Have a golden day Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 3, 2008 10:43:30 GMT -5
ESTEBAN MIRA CIBOLA Assembled in Patrick's comfortable living room, Ben opens a book: "In 1527, a Spanish ship wrecked on the Florida coast. There were only four survivers. One was a slave named Esteban,who saved a local tribe's dying Chief. As a reward he was taken to their sacred city, a city built from pure gold. Later, when he tried to find the city again, he never could. The legend grew with every explorer that came to the New Worl in search of it. When General Custer's search for gold ended with his last stand at Little Big Horn, it became clear, none would ever find it". Wide eyed and entranced like children hearing a wonderful story, Abigail and Riley hang on Ben's every word. Ben's dad Patrick, who had listened quietly, looks at his son and bids him to "imagine what would have happened if the Confederates got their hands on the City of Gold". Unthinkable to both of them. Told in "Notes on Bacon/Shakespeare", one such explorer was Sir Walter Raleigh, favored of Elizabeth I, who, hearing of a "Golden City" in South America, sailed in 1594 and 1616, to find it. Like all the others he didn't, but published "an exaggerated account of his experiences contributing to the legend of El Dorado". It is probably of the same type of exaggeration as the cargo of worthless mysterious yellow rocks found in Greenland by Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Esteban's MIRA CIBOLA, Mirage or Miracle. To find out what's on the old piece of wood, Ben resolutely declares: "I'm gonna see her". Her being "Emily", Ben's mom, Patrick's ex-wife who fell in love with him years ago on a treasure hunt in Morocco, remember? Hearing Ben's words, Patrick stops dead in his tracks, turns and looks at his son as if his death sentence had just been pronounced. What's more, "you're coming with me", Ben insists. Oh "no" I'm not, Patrick remembers all too well the big fight they had and caused them to divorce, because he didn't pack the toothpaste in the piece of luggage where toothpaste should be when traveling. Emily is German. Patrick tries to leave but Ben stands in his way reminding him that no one else can translate "ancient Native American" better than Emily. Apologetically, Patrick explains to Ben that he cannot see Emily, it's been some 25 years, and in any case they have nothing in common. "Me?" You have me common, and it's been 32 years, replies Ben. Oh "yes of course", we are both proud of you. I think Patrick still loves Emily because Ben has to pull his arm only an inch or so before his dad gives in. They head for the University of Maryland. Wishing you a good weekend Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 6, 2008 18:33:53 GMT -5
Patrick, Ben, Abigail and Riley arrive at the University of Maryland. Patrick is apprehensive and hopes Emily "lost her memory" and won't recognize him. Riley takes himself "out of the line of fire for this one".
"Abigail, Hallo sweetheart" Emily happily greets her with a hug, sees her former husband "oh", she says coldly. Patrick turns to Ben, "you see, one syllable, like a knife in the heart, she can do that", Patrick regrets he came along. Emily is stunned to see Patrick, and to give herself time to recover, she picks up the argument where they left off in Morocco: "Yes, and I can also track the whereabouts of my toothbrush". Sorry, it was her toothbrush, not the toothpaste.
After 32 years, Patrick yet defends himself: "I was not the one that left your toothbrush in Marrakech, I stored them both in the travel case --- as instructed. Moreover, he loaded the luggage in the Taxi, but not the travel case, she insists, but Patrick puts the blame on her, saying that the travel case goes into the luggage and it was she who packed the travel case. Emily fires back: "I couldn't pack the travel case in the luggage because it was full with that stupid rug you bought that you thought had sacred stitching on it". I would have taken the thoothbrushes in my carry on.
Ben can't believe the heated argument over nothing, which his calm voice puts to rest, "Mom, I need you to look at this", handing her paper copies of the old piece of wood from the Resolute Desk at the Queen's Office. It's of great interest to Ben and Patrick, who think "it may be Olmec". Yes, "yes it is" confirms Emily. They were hoping she "could translate it" for them.
It dawns on Emily that it might "involve another treasure hunt?" Ben doesn't answer, assures his Mom that "this is actually very important. Emily looks closer and identifies "bird", another glyph "means Noble Bird", the Olmec capitalized important names and things, I would think.
Patrick gets up to take a look, but Emily stare means "sit down". She continues reading glyphs: "Noble Bird, find the Noble Bird and let him take you by the hand and give you passage to the Sacred Temple". She looks up and is amused, "oh, you think this is a treasure map for Cibola, don't you?" This is so important that Patrick forgot his fear of Emily, asserting "that's exactly what it is". Emily put away her bad temper and almost smiles, "no Patrick, this glyph doesn't mean Cibola, it means the Center of the World", upon which they resume their arguing. Abigail pleads with Emily to "please just figure out what's on the page", but Emily can't because she has "only half a page".
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 8, 2008 8:07:58 GMT -5
Is Don Riley? Ben and gang are off to find the missing half of the old piece of wood, called a map. "The inscription on the statue in Paris said 'the twins stand resolute." The twin being in the Oval Office, they need to find a way to get into the White House. It so happens it is Easter, and the annual "Easter Egg Roll" on the White House lawn affords them a perfect opportunity to do so. Ben suggests to Abigail to make a date with her new boyfriend "Conner", a White House insider, and she agrees. Patrick and Riley wait outside the fence, while Ben and Abigail mingle on the lawn with the cowd, where a boy of about ten years accosts Ben: "I know you, your great great grandfather killed President Lincoln". Actually, it was John Wilkes Booth, Ben tells the argumentative boy, who goes into a rant about what he learned in school concerning the event, Ben tells the "impossible child" to run along and voices concern about "the education in America" nowadays. Conner spotted Abigail. Happy that she kept their date, but disappointed she is "with Gates". Oh, she says, "we just ran into each other", that she is glad to see him because she "always wanted to see the Oval Office", but realizes "it's probably too much to ask". Conner, who loves Abigail "can do that". Ben will not be left behind. Being in the Oval Office "is an amazing feeling", Ben admires the empire furnishings and crown molding, and Abigail feels right at home, but no, Conner stops her from sitting on the couch. He points out the "Resolute Desk", tells a bit about its history, and means to surprise them with "many people don't know that this desk has a twin that sits in Buckingham Palace". That's "wonderful", Ben is getting impatient, "didn't you loose an earring?" Ah yes, Abigail plucks one of her ear. They better find it, warns Ben, it wouldn't be good to find an earring that "doesn't belong to the First Lady". Conner becomes anxious because they sholdn't be there in the first place. No time to loose, Abigail turns on her charm to distract Conner, looking under the cushions, stuffed bunnies, under the couch, holding Conner's undivided attention, while Ben searches, finds, and takes a picture of the Presidential Seal, I think. Abigail throws her earring on the couch: "Oh, you found it", she hugs and kisses the befuddled Conner while Ben looks on. He doesn't like it at all. Outside the White House fence, the four look at what Ben took a picture of. "It's a symbol stamed into wood", but are not sure what it is, because "the Eagle is holding a scroll instead of "the Olive Branch". Err, "did none of you read my book - the Eagle clutching the scroll?" No, what does it mean? "It's not something I can can tell you, I have to show you", Riley says. Look at "Chapter Thirteen, The President's Secret Book", which "happens to be a collection of documents for Presidents, by Presidents, and for Presidents eyes only." Riley is "not just talking about JFK, the eighteen and a half minutes missing from the Watergate tapes". He becomes really animated: "Did the Apollo really land on the Moon? Did it? Did it? And the coupe de grace, Area 51". Listening in disbelieve, Ben and Abigail humor him, "come on Riley, it's an urban legend, Abigail quips. "You think it's crazy, ha ha?" Riley is serious. Ben thinks things through, and pays a visit to FBI Agent Sadusky, who surprises Ben by producing Riley's book. "You bought Riley's book?" Sadusky laughs, "if anybody writes about Government Conspiracies you think we don't know about it?" Can anyone still doubt that Riley personifies Don? To Ben's question if "the President really" has "a secret book", Sadusky replies: "Do you like ducks?" Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 10, 2008 9:45:46 GMT -5
In DC, Sadusky invites Ben for a stroll by a fountain in which ducks enjoy their life. "There is a Book", he tells Ben outside "as a friend", which he cannot do inside the FBI Building, where he is "a Federal Agent". Ben would like to know where it is, no chance, says Sadusky, "only a/the current Presidents knows, the book is past from President to President, and each one chooses his own hiding place". As an FBI Agent, wouldn't you be able "to get it for me?" No, "the only way you'll ever see the Book is if you get elected President". That would mean that Obama will see the Book next, a good thing as far as I'm concerned, for he has the natural and necessary intelligence to comprehend World History. Sorry Don Meanwhile, in Patrick's living room, Ben plans out loud of how to "get a few minutes with the President" alone, not "surrounded by his handlers", and muses: "Before the Civil War, the States were all seperate, the people used to say 'The United States are', it wasn't until the war ended people started saying 'the United States is', under Lincoln it became one Nation". True, says his dad, and "he paid for it with his life". Yes, Ben thinks back "so did Thomas Gates - with his life". He means to "kidnap the President of the United States", he says matter-of-factly, which worries his dad, and Abigail and Riley laugh at such an absurd idea. Mount Vernon, Estate of President Washington, would be a good place to realize his plan. The President's Birthday Party is coming up, there is a flurry of activity in "The White House Press Office" , of planning and choosing the appropriate venue. Skillful Riley opens, don't want to say 'hacked', lines to the Press Office, and he and Patrick make up all sorts of stories why the party can't be held in certain locations, every place is booked, including Monticello and Tudor Place, only the Denbe Hotel and Mount Vernon are available, but wait, says Press Office secretary, the Denbe was just booked, I think by Patrick. Mount Vernon is the place. "Happy Birthday to you Mr. President" The Estate is flooded in light and bedeckt with flowers, a Country Band plays catchy tunes, all are happy and celebrating while Ben dives into the Potomac to swim across and join the party. Patrick fishes nearby "in restricted area" to distract Security, who tell him he needs to row upstream now or he wont have a paddle left to do so. Ben peals off his diving suit and is in Gala once more, wondering if he will ever get to wear Tux and Bow to a party he "is actually invited to". The band is playing, all is secure, Ben appears out of nowhere asking an agent if he "happened to see a kind of cute brunette wandering around here", no, he hadn't, and Ben walks up to mingle with the people. Always current on World Events, he greets Dignitaries as if he knew them, and is "delighted" to have the "prime Minister - back in the States". He sees the President, interrupts a conversation the President has with a Lady concerning "campain contributions", and introduces himself: "Good evening Mr. President, Ben Gates, the Templar Treasure?" He is "thrilled to be invited here tonight, Sir". Ah, yes, I know about you, smiles the President, "you must have the Secret Service hoping by now". Why? Ben feigns. "Considering your newly discovered lineage" it should be no surprise to you. Oh, well forget about that, I know Mr. President, that you are "a huge admirer of George Washington, and thought you might take a look at "an old map he shows the Commander in Chief, who recognizes it as a "map of Mount Vernon drawn by George Washington himself". Indeed, affirms Ben, happy the President, who "was an architectual major at Yale", knows about it. Ben and the congenial President are as friends by now. The map, Ben informs the President, "belonged to my great uncle, who got it from a granddaughter of a slave named Charlotte". A distinguished Gentleman in Tux and Bow interrupts, "Good evening Mr. President". Yes, thank you, "it's always nice to see you, Frank", says the President and again pays attention to Ben, who continues: "Charlotte, who lived here and worked here at Mount Vernon". Ah "yeah" the Presidnet muses looking at the map on which Ben points to an "underground tunnel, an escape route that was never found. The President wonders "if it's still there. Well, says Ben, we have the plan and could find out, if "we're allowed to do that". Of course, "you can do that", how silly of me, Ben apologizes, and they pass by Security and enter the tunnel, finding along the way "the marks of George Washington", showing two axes in the form of a V flanked by the letters L and W, maybe 'land of Washington'. On the mark is a triangular stone, which the President turns and an iron gate springs open. Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 11, 2008 9:51:44 GMT -5
My apologies for the many mistakes in my last post, at times I get too excited. The President turns a triangular stone and an iron gate springs open. Following the sound toward the gate, Ben removes cobwebs, which my grandmother Charlotte spun when she worked at Mount Vernon. I come from a long line of acrobatic spiders, E.B. White affirms. Ben shuts the gate and they are locked between it and the exit to the grounds. Their conversation becomes serious. Pres. "Gates, what are you doing?" Ben. "I'm sorry, Mr. President, I need to ask you a question, which I know you can't answer unless we're alone. Mr. President, sometime between 1880 when the Resolute Desk was placed in the Oval Office, and now, one of our Presidents found a secret compartment in the desk. Hidden inside was a plank with Native American writing on it, a treasure map to Cibola, the legendary City of Gold, Sir". Pres. "You did all this just to ask me about a treasure map?" Ben. "That map is a possible key to prove Thomas Gates' innocence. Now I know for a fact the plank is no longer in the Resolute Desk". Pres. "Have you been in my desk too?" Ben. "I believe the whereabouts of this plank is now hidden in the Presidents Book, Sir, the book known only to our Presidents, that contains all our Nations secrets". Pres. "That's the most rediculous thing I ever heard". Ben. "I saw the Seal in the desk, Sir, I know the map exists". Pres. "And you're not going to let me outa here unless you get what you want". Ben turns his head, "the way out in in that direction, I'll show you". The President pauses for a moment, "you don't negotiate very well, do you". Ben stands firm, "no Sir". Why, "I don't get it Gates, you do all this, you're willing to go to prison just to clear your ancestor's name?" Solemnity now prevails between the Men. "Everything I am" says Ben, "is because of my Ancestors, Sir. Thomas Gates gave his last whole measure of devotion to his Country to stop the KGC. (Knights of the Golden Circle) When someone dies for their Country, I belive it should be honored". Touched by Ben's tone of voice, the President repeats "last full measure of devotion". Ben. "Sir, I know the Book exists, my question is, will you agree to let me see it?" Pres. "Even if something like that really did exist, why do you think I would actually give it to you?" Ben. "Because it would probably lead us to the discovery of the greatest Native American treasure of all time, a huge piece of culture lost. You can get that history back, because, you are the President of the United States, Sir, whether by innate character, or the oath you took to defend the Constitution, or the weight of History that falls upon you, I believe you to be an honorable man, Sir". Moved to the core, the President replies: "Gates, the people don't believe this stuff anymore", and Ben, equally so, remarks, "they want to believe it". Indeed, the people want to believe it, are asking daily "what ever happened to...?" I believe it. Humanity is all the poorer for having lost its Idealism. Ben gives a helping hand to the President as they exit the tunnel, excuses himself and starts walking his way. "Gates", the President halts his step, "the following conversation never happened, the Book exists". To Ben's question "where is it", the President answers: "Where else do you keep a book, the Library of Congress, XY234786, and you also need to know 3794". "Thank you, Sir", and Yes, Ben understands that unless he finds what he is looking for, he "will be charged with kidnaping the President". One last thing, "Gates, I want you to something for me". Ben would "would consider it a privilege". It's about page 47. "Have a look - at page 47", the President asks and heads for the highway, where he stops a truck to hitch a ride back to his party. Have a great weekend Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 13, 2008 9:37:23 GMT -5
Ben calls Riley to meet him "at the Library of Congress in 20 minutes". Abigail is waiting in the 'get-away' car and they head for this imposing Bibliothek. Meanwhile, Agent Sadusky was informed that the President has been kidnapped. "Gates", he is not surprised, pulls out all stops, but doesn't know the President is free and having a good time riding in a truck back to his party. In the dark, Ben runs up the Library steps repeating over and over 3794. In a flash it's daytime, the three enter the Library. Abigail knows that "XY is the book classification code", yes, but they need to find the "special collection section", where very, very special books" are kept, and "where are they?" Abigail shows the way upstars to the XY section. An unknown President Seal, though resembling it, on a door gives the clue. Ben pushes 3794 and it opens. The number to the "Secret Book" is 234786, they find it, but the "Book isn't there - maybe somebody checked it out". Funny Riley! Ben knows better, removes four large volumes, sees "a six-dail combination lock" in old symbols, saying that the location of the book itself reveals "the combination" to open the safe. It does, and Ben has a reverend moment. Abigail is elated and takes a deep breath, and smiles with happy Riley. The Seal on the "Secret Book" is the same as in Riley's "Templar Treasure" book, viz., the Eagle with the scroll in his talon instead of the Olive Branch. Ben puts on his glasses and quickly leafs through the precious Book. In it is an old black and white photograph of a black women, and one of President Kennedy and Jackie in the limousine, yet smiling and waving to the people. Riley is most exited and begins to explain the pictures. "Shhh, we don't have time", Ben hears sirens. "Here", Ben reads: "April 1865, Queen Victoria sends Pike two coded missives. The first is received. Contains information regarding New World treasure. The City of Gold "The second missive was thought to contain a playfair cipher suggesting contact with Laboulaye who will hide clues before his death". Ben adds, "that's the cipher that was written into the Booth Diary page Thomas (Gates) tried to burn". As I explained before, it was actually a Templar Treasure booklet Thomas tried to burn to keep the KGC from finding the treasure. Booth was still alive and no diary was yet written about him. Ben continues with the entry: "1880, Resolute Desk arrives in Washington by Queen to President Hayes". He turns the page and there is a picture of the sought after other half of the olden wooden plank they need to find Cibola. And here, says Ben, "is the final entry by President Coolidge: 1924 I found a plank in a secret compartment, plank photographed and then destroyed. Borglum commissioned to destroy landmarks in sacred Black Hills mountains". Calvin Coolidge Abigail thinks, "Borglum? Mt. Rushmore?" Yes, Ben adds: "he carved Mt. Rushmore to erase the map's landmarks in order to protect the City of Gold". Riley is amazed, "Mt. Rushmore was a cover-up?" Sure takes a long time to find it. Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 14, 2008 9:23:25 GMT -5
So what does it all mean? Obviously, the underlaying theme of NT 1 and 2 betokens a long history of "the treasured past" of our Humanity, and Humankind, the much desired goal being to find "Cibola the City of Gold", and "Center of the World". Obviously also, Gold is found and mined on Terra Firma, and diamonds, the perfection of the mineral kingdom, but Cibola, or "the 7 Cities of Cibola", akin to the 7 islands of metals in Plato's Atlantis, or "Book with 7 Seals", and so many other "legends" telling stories around the number 7, are the 7 worlds of our evolution to human status. The Ancients agree that we traversed 4 Worlds and have 3 to go to arrive at our beginning, and the movies raise awareness the World over to whatever measure the individual can apprehend and comprehend of this marvelous conception of our Genesis, purpose, and end. Reminds me also of Aladdin and Jasmin flying on a magic carpet about the Sphinx singing it is "a New World" to the City of Agrabah", beyond which City "lies the Ultimate Treasure", the Gold which doth not rust, found on the bottom of the Crucible, or "Thyself" as the Greeks are wont to say. Before the Trio goes to Mt. Rushmore, I will try a summation of how the "Templar Treasure" came to America, and from here disseminated over the World, the purpose of Sir Francis Bacon, and the movies. Have a great day Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 15, 2008 9:18:03 GMT -5
The Twin Desks and special relationship between the Scepter'd Ilse and America
Recapping some
In the early 1850s, the Ship "HMS RESOLUTE" became lodged in the Arctic ice. The mission was to find the explorer Sir John Franklin, hence it carried no cargo.
In NT 1, the ship Charlotte was frozen in ice in the Arctic. Her cargo was gunpowder, a skeleton pointing to a barrel full of said powder in which was found the "Meerschaum Pipe" in the form of a tower and a Knight riding toward a Lighthouse in New England, at least that's the direction I gave it, because the movie(s) are about a "Grand Scheme" conceived by Sir Francis Bacon, and the "Birth of a New Age" we are witnessing.
Ben and company find the Treasure under the "Trinity Church" in NYC, Shakespeare's Tomb is "in the Holy Trinity Church", Stratford-upon-Avon, Francis Bacon is the "Swan of Avon", and is the Chief among the Good Pens of the Shakespearean Plays.
In NT1, to reach the Treasure, they must break a stone slab on th wall, which reads "ParKINGton Lane". There is a similar Lane in Willi-amsburg. VA. Engraved on the stone is the Masonic Symbol and 33 degree, and Ben says "the 33 degree of a Master Mason of the Blue Lodge".
Wanting the power the Treasure bestows, Ian of the evil empire, and his comrad pulverize the stone wantonly, and a coffin with a skeleton is removed, meaning the way to the Treasure is through Francis Bacon, so to speak. The stem of the "Meerschaum Pipe" then opens the Treasure Room, showing artifacts of Ancient Agypt, and reckoning beyond to a beginning. The actual Treasure is/are the Bacon Manuscripts, still in the darkness of the Earth:
Deeper than ever plumet sound I'll drown my book. Crowns thrown from thrones to tombs Detombed arise, to match thy Muse With a monarchic theme.
"The Tempest", importing the Colonization of America.
In NT1, the Meerschaum Pipe, found a ship lodged in the Arctic ice is the link and "special bond" between England and America, historically, the Twin Resolute Desks made from the timber of the ship RESOLUTE, are the link Queen Victoria established with America. There is another, private link between Queen Victoria and an American Luminary at the turn of the 19th Century, and who could doubt that the British Royal House is aware of the subject under consideration.
This, then, plays out in "Book of Secrets", treating of the Resolute Desks link, i.e., one half of the old piece of wood found at Buckingham Palace, the other in the Oval Office, and combined they lead to Olmec history under Mt. Rushmore, a Cibola on Terra Firma.
The Secred Book Ben and friends just found in the Library of Congress, contains, as we have seen, past and more recent history, and on page 47 are probably things the Government doesn't want us to know, as Riley affirms, and there are some astute Bloggers the world over. I don't know yet what is on page 47, but had a glimpse a few weeks ago.
"President George H.W. Bush had the desk moved to the Treaty Room in the Executive Residence, but Bill Clinton returned the Resolute to the Oval Office", by the way. Each President hides things in different places, says Sadusky.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 16, 2008 9:13:10 GMT -5
More bonds between England and America
Sir Francis Bacon laboring for World Enlightenment= Wilbur towering "hundred and sixteen feet long and ninety-two feet high", presiding over the "County Fair", the world.
The Treasure
Bacon's Remains
"For this unchangable way have I proposed to erect the Academic fabric of this Island's Solomon's House (Masonry) modeled in my "New Atlantis"...in this benevolent, yea magnificent affair my ends are only to make the Wordl my heir, the learned Fathers of Solomon's house the successive and sworn Trustees in this disepensation of this Service to God's glory, my Prince's magnificence, our countrie's general good and the propagation of my own memory; which done, I shall not then doubt the happy issue of my undertakings in this design, whereby concealed Treasure, which now seems utterly lost to mankind, shall be confined to so universal a Piety, and brought into use by the industry of converte petinents whose wretched carcasses the impartial laws have, or shall have dedicated as an untimely feast for the worms of the Earth in whose womb these deserted Riches must ever lie buried as lost abortments, unless those be made the active midwives to deliver them. For my Lords, I humbly consider them the fittest of all men to effect this great work for the ends and causes which I have before expressed."
The "wretched carcasses" are the countless books written by detractors "as an untimely feast for the worms of the Earth", worthless, unless these "Riches" (Bacon's Books) become midwives of the fittest of men to deliver the true meaning of "tis great work for the ends and causes" Lord Bacon had "expressed" in them.
New Atlantis
"But thus you see we maintain a trade , not of gold, silver, or jewels, nor for silks, nor for spices, nor any other commodity of matter; but for God's first creature, which was light; to have light, I say, of the growth of all parts of the world.
"The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and the secret motion of things; and the enlarging of the bonds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible."
This is the New Atlantis of Lord Bacon, not the silly and belittled "Utopia" of the dead lettered carcasses of main scholarship. The "Templar Treasure" brought from England to America, from whence it is promulgated to the Humanity of the World.
"California the Golden" plays a big part in this endeavor, for here is Hollywood where these movies are made, the pictures that speak a thousand words, whereas formerly it could only be told in stories. In any case, we are "the successor" (Arabic Khalifah, then Greek Kala pho nea, then Spanish Califa), and Eureka State, not because gold was mined here, but because Hermes, Athena, and a "Coche" - a common name for pig or shoat - as the Natives were heard to say", are on our Seal.
George Washinton's Vision
"Son of the Republic", said the dark mysterious voice as before, "look and learn." At that moment I beheld a dark, shadowy being, like an angel, standing, or rather floating in mid-air, between Europe and America. Dipping water out of the ocean in the hallow of each hand, he sprinkled some upon America with his right hand, while with his left hand he cast some on Europe."
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 18, 2008 11:06:44 GMT -5
Gold from Morocco to Spain to England to America Some say the legend of the "Seven Cities of Cibola" originated in the 9th centure Old World, others that it started "around 1150 when the Moors conquered Mérida, Spain. According to the legend, seven bishops fled the city, not only to save their own lives but also to prevent the Muslims from obtaining sacred religious relics. Years later, a rumor circulated that in a far away land--a place unknown to the people of the time--the seven bishops had founded the Cities of Cibola and Quivira. "Eventually, the legend behind these cities grew to such an extent that no one spoke solely of Quivira and Cibola, but instead of seven magnificent cities made of gold, one for each bishop who left Mérida", and the myth survived until the time the English explorers were in New England." (wiki) Treating of the Templar Treasure, these seven bishops would be the the Guardians of the Treasure. In the Book for Presidents only, Ben reads that in 1527 a ship wrecked of the coast of Florida, one of the surviving men the slave Esteban, a Moor, probably from Morocco, where is the splendid Serpentine Fountain of the renegade Sultan Ismail, the cities Fez and Meknes, and where Patrick bought the rug he thought had sacred stitching on it. Morocco is an interesting country and so is the slave Esteban, who might be the one on the old photo in the secret Book for Presidents only. The movies have snippets, the history spans a millennia. That far away land unknown to the people ca 1150, where the seven bishops established the seven Cities of Cibola is the continent of America, north and south. In North America 'Cibola' is found in different regions. In the Movie, Cibola is in the Black Hills of South Dakota, home of the Lakota. Mt. Rushmore connects to the Book for Presidents only, in that the last entry of President Coolidge was, that he found a plank in the Resolute Desk, photographed and destroyed it. Gutzon Burglam took it from here , carved the President's faces and began digging a repository for important records of the secret Book. The legend of Cibola originated in the 9th century. In 1066, Grimbaldus, the Patriarch of the Bacon Lineage came to England. In 1082, one William Bacon founded the Abbeyof the Holy Trinity at Ceon and was referred to as "Lord of Molai", Jaques de Moley and his followers being guardians of the Templar Treasure. The Troubadour tradition also began in the 11 hundreds, originating in Al Andalus, Spain, from the Moors, the root of the word Troubadour from the Arabic "tarrab-to sing". The time also when Wolfram is said to have found a manuscript in Toledo, and Parzifal, who was not one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, appeared at his Court. Parzifal's father was a Prince who died in Arabia while the "pure fool" was still in his mothers, Herzeleid (grief, sorrow), womb, meaning the legend died in Arabia and was reborn in England when chivalry flourished. In the New World, coinciental with the shipwreck of the Florida coast in 1527, the Moor Esteban on board, Hernandez Cortez, also in search of Cibola, "found the planets best version of a terrestrial paradise", California, comparing it with the mythical paradise ruled by Amazon warriors." "The first known recordation of the name California appears in the journal of Cabrillo's voyage along the coast in 1542. (Cabrillo Beach is close to where I live.) The only state in the United States of America named sooner is Florida and amazingly enough, California is the only one of fifty states named after a deity, saint, or mystological figure. "The fascinating and forbidding queendom of California was a central part of one of the first tales of chivalry to receive wide circulation in Spain. In 1510 the Spanish Editor Ordonez de Montalvo added his own sequel, starring a galant warrior, to his translation of the popular Amadis de Guala by Portugues writer, Vvasco de Lobeira. This sequal, written in Seville and published in Toledo, was titled Las Serges de Esplandian and its hero Esplanadian sought to be a perfect, noble knight throughout his many crusades and adventures." A street named Esplanade runs along the Pacific close to where I live. This history in in the Book for President's only, the more to it, and all along the Bacon's are involved. It's a gorgeous morning in California, I think I'll wash my car Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 20, 2008 19:28:54 GMT -5
Who was the Moor Esteban? Ben states he was one of the four survivors shipwrecked in 1527 of the Florida coast, saved a tribe's dying Chief and as reward was taken to their sacred city built from pure gold. Esteban, or Estevanico was a slave of Cabeza de Vaca, also one of the four survivor, and the salve of Friar Marcos de Niza on his mysterious journey to Cibola. JSTOR "The four survivors of the ill-faded expedition of Narvarez, which about 1529 was wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico west of the Mississippi delta, found their way to the Mexican Capital after 7 years wandering and untold suffering." From that Capital "Culiacan", some say Mexico City, Friar Marcus went on his mysterious journey to Cibola. Seven years of wandering or sailing seven seas to reach a goal is telling of an inner transformational journey. The legend of Cibola originated in the Old World 9th century with the seven bishops fleeing Spain and established the Seven Cities of Cibola in a faraway land unknown to the people at the time, the New World, America. In the main, in New Mexico, that is why it's called "The Land of Enchantment", and because the Moor Esteban was there, not for the desolate wastelands and hot deserts, in which case it is called "The Land of Entrappment." The seven bishops established the Seven Cities of Cibola in Zuni Country. This would be a transformational journey in the greater, which the "sacred relics", or the Templar Treasure" made, and "eventually the legend grew to such an extent that no one spoke solely of Quivira and Cibola, but instead of of seven magnificent cities made of gold..." Ben reads about the shipwreck of Florida and the slave Esteban surviving, and "the legend grew with each explorer that came to the New World." In the very beginning of NT1, Ben's grandpa tells him that the Treasure had been fought over, each time it changed hands it grew larger, suddenly vanished and didn't reappear for more than a thousand years, when Knights from the First Crusade discovered secret walls beneath the Temple of Solomon." From the origin of the legend in the 9th century to now are thousand years, the legend is obviously alive, didn't die at "the time that the English explorers were in New England" as popular writers would have it, and will be alive as long as needed to find the Treasure. That's how it is with legends. Anyway, the Treasure is in the New World. The "main reservation (Zuni) is also surrounded by the painted Cliffs, the Zuni Mountains and the Cibola National Forest. "Also on the main reservation are the Hawikuh Ruins. The ancient Zuni pueblo of Hawikuh was the largest of the Seven Cities of Cibola. It was established in the 1200s and abandoned in 1680. It was the first pueblo seen by the Spanish explorers. The African scout Estevanico was the first non-Native to reach this area." The bishops left in the 9th century, another account states they left at, or the legend originated in 1150, and the largest of the Seven Cities of Cibola of the Zuni was established in 1200, so it took these men roughly 200 years to travel from Spain to New Mexico. The Dates work. Of course, the seven bishops are symbolic, this or any other legend is told with figures of different attributes and landscape, it's the method of telling legends and myths to keep a truth alive, or mix it with historical events below. The Mysterious Journey of Friar Marcos de Niza "Marcos de Niza was the first explorer to report the Seven Cities of Cibola, and his report launched the Coronado expedition, which left for Mexico in 1540 to seek gold and riches there. "The expedition of Marcos de Niza from Culiacan to Cibola in 1539 consisted of three principal explorers: Marcos de Niza, who was in charge, a second priest named Honorato, and a Moorish servent Estevan Dorantes. Known as Estevan the Black", who "was familiar with native customs." There is already something wrong with this picture: how was Estevan familiar with native customs before the expedition, I'd say they were 3 of the 7 bishops "Most popular writers claim that Marcus reported gold in Cibola, but his original report says nothing about gold. Nonetheless, conquistadors in Mexico city were excited by his news about "good and prosperous lands", and they assumed Cibola would be as wealthy as the conquered Aztec Empire. Marcos led Coronado's army back to Cibola next year, in 1540, but became a scapegoat when Cibola turned out to have no gold, and the soldiers said he was a liar." Sounds like 90% conjecture to me. At any rate, this coincides with the colonization of America, Sir Walter Ralegh sailed in 1549 and 1616 to find Cibola, and the "Sea Venture" with Thomas Gates et all on board shipwrecked of Bermuda in 1609. "The big mystery about Marcus is whether he told the truth." No it's not. "Historians have argued for centuries about whether Marcus - a priest with a good reputation - simply interviwed some natives near the present border, and turned back without seeing Cibola. Also at issue: did he promote the rumors that Cibola was full of gold? Several prominent 20th century historians concluded Marcus did not have time to reach Cibola in 1539. They said he made up a fraudulent report as a part of a conspiracy with Viceroy to encourage the conquest of the north. Other historians have defended him." That's historians and popular writers for you. The legend of the Natives is enchanting. Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 21, 2008 9:45:35 GMT -5
According to historians, "Marcos de Niza collected what he called "cow hides" from the Indians in Sonora, Mexico, who acquired them in trade from the seven cities of Cibola. "Cibola" was a word that apparently referred to buffalo products that the Zuni acquired in trade from other Indiands to the East." Now that could be called far-fetched. Getting to know Estevan, Esteban, or Stephen One of the "three principal exploreres", namely the priest Honorato, fell ill", Marcos and Estevan forged on. "In a fateful decision, Marcos sent Estevan a few days ahead to reconnoiter the route, while Marcos waited for a party he had sent west to bring more information about the coast. Estevan had strict orders to send back word and wait for Marcos. Estevan must have been an extremely charismatic and enterprising figure. We know from Cabeza de Vaca account that he had adopted the person of a native shaman, and often preceded the other castaways into villages and enthused the natives. Several later accounts from the Coronado army suggest that he had numerous dalliances with native women along the way north with Marcos. "Marcos proceeded north, describing well-watered river valleys with villages and irrigated fields dotted along each stream. He tryed to catch up with Estevan, but the Moor always remained several days ahead. In each village Marcos added to his information about Cibola and its people. Earlier in his trip he mentioned showing samples of gold and other metals to the natives, in order to learn if metals were used in the area. In that instance he reported that Indians in the inland mountains, to the east, were alleged to have found gold. (Contemporay Spaniards could not confirm this and considered it another of Marcos' lies, but in fact gold was mined in that area in later centuries". It was not the gold Marcus was referring to, and 'this why "... in the case of Cibola, it is curious that Marcus never mentioned gold, or showing his gold samples. He does, however, correctly report that many turquoise were traded from that area, and that turquoise were imbedded in some door frames. This apparently led to a belief by the conquistadors that Cibola/Zuni had door studded with jewels. Once again, Marcos was charged with lying. However, once again, his report was literally correct. As ethnologists confirmed in the 1980s, th Zuni sometimes worked a "good luck" turquoise into the entryway of a home, but Coronado was sadly to learn, they had no great transportable wealth, either turquoise, gold, or any other material precious to the Spanish." A "good luck" turquoise on a door does not "doors studded with jewels" make, and there were on other precious "material" things to be had. In the case of Cibola Marcos "never mentioned gold" because he was yet on his way to Cibola, on which way he showed his samples of gold and other metals to the natives, alchemical speak, not to learn if metals were used in the area, which is so much dead letter explanation to make sense of all the "lies" of Friar Marcos told on his "mysterious journey to Cibola." It is no secret that some such "Priests" lie and make up stories to accomodate their lies, and the reason he could never catch up with Estevan is because he, Estevan "advanced with savage magnificence" adorned himself with "bells, red and white feathers", became an eagle and flew out of sight of the historians. "At any rate, Estevan soon sent back word from a spot about three day ahead, that from native informants he had discovered the existence of a wonderful northern trade center, "the greatest thing in the world. It was named Cibola, and was roughly another 30 days travel ahead. He sent one of the informants back to Marcos, but Estevan himself was so excited by the news that instead of waiting, he moved ahead - against orders." As mentioned above, according to popular writers, the "word Cibola referred to buffalo products the Zuni acquired" from trading with other tribes, in which case "the greatest thing in the world" Estevan discovered would have been buffalo products, and I don't think that would excite the likes of Estevan. I would say "the greatest thing in the world" Estevan discovered, better, was told by "native informants", was the secet knowledge the Zuni and other tribes "traded" of how to get to Cibola. Hearing of the excitement of Estevan, the natives became very excited as well and "organized a party of "Chiefs" from various villages to accompany Marcos to Cibola", where they expected to meet up with Estevan "in the wondrous City of Cibola." Apparently Friar Marcos told that he had to "bushwhack himself through unknown territory", finding gold is always through unknown territory, whether material gold below or mercurial gold above, but since "the enthused natives were his guides", showing him a road, he was charged with lying again. "In a dramatic turn of events, Marcos' party met a handful of bloodied refugees a few days south of Cibola. Impetuous Estevan, they reported, had ignored orders from the governor of Cibola not to approach the city. Apparently the governor was apprehensive about Estevan, who appeared as a strange, dark-skinned shaman, traveling with two Castillian greyhounds. Estevan, full of confidence from his experiences five years earlier, had laughed off the governors orders and approached anyway where he was held for at least one night in a building outside the city. A skirmish ensued. Some of the southern Arizona natives of the entourage were killed or injured, and Estevan, too, was reported killed. (The death of Estevan in this way was confirmed a year later by Coronado's army.)" I believe only a few words they're saying Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 22, 2008 11:21:28 GMT -5
A slightly different spin to Cibola, by Charles Morris of The Baldwin Project Yesterday' s Classics for Today's Children "In 1538 Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was appointed govenor of New Galiacia, as the country laying north of Mexico was named, and sent out a certain Fray Marcos, a monk who had been in Pizarro in Peru, on a journey of exploration to the north. With him were some Indian guides and a negro named Estevanico, or Stephen, who had been one of the survivors of the Narvaez expedition to Florida and had traveled for years among the Indians of the north. He was expected to be of great assistance." I'm pretty sure by now that this negro Estevanizo was depicted on the black and white photo Ben found in the Book for Presidents only, whereas at first I thought it was my great great grandmother Charlotte the slave who worked at Mount Vernon Stephen was sent ahead, and was to send back a cross, "the size which would indicate the importance of what he had learned", and Stephen sent back "a great cross the hight of a man, significant of great and important discoveries". Moreover, the Indian messengers, who had brought back the cross, told "the worthy Fray Marcus", that "further on they had been told were other provinces, each of them greater than that of the seven cities." Fray Marcos followed "the track" of Stephen, and "as he went on he heard more of the seven cities and the distant kingdom - but nothing was seen of Stephen, though shelter and provisions were found which he had left as points along the route. As for the dusky pioneer, Fray Marcus was never to set eyes on him again." Along the way also, the Fray "heard again of the negro, who was crossing the wilderness to the northeast, escorted like a prince by some three hundred natives", his Castillian greyhounds, "and a number of of handsome Indian women , whom he had taken up on the way, attended him - a story that might have fitted the Orient." Marcos feared "the warlike people of Cibola", but ventured to "a hill summit", from where "he looked looked down on a broad plain on which he saw the first of the famous seven cities. To his excited fancy it was greater than the City of Mexico, the houses of stone in many stories and with a flat roof. This was all he could tell from his distant view, in which the mountain hazes seem to have greatly magnified his power of vision. He went back with the "disappointing story", that he saw neither "gold, silver, or precious stones, the nearest approach to treasure being the greenish turquoise." The wording is telling of Charles Morris being a learned story teller, viz., "the nearest approach to treasure being the greenish turquoise", coupled with seeing the "first" of the seven cities , suggesting a seven-fold journey to "the center of the world", which, according to Ben's mom Emily, who can read old Hier-o-glyphs, Cibola means. Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 23, 2008 11:08:59 GMT -5
"Do you think you're the center of the Universe?" The understanding being two-fold. 1, a person "full of him/herself", and/or arrogantly self-centered. 2, it is true, as each individual lives in their own universe, shared only by words, body language and actions. My last post ended with Cibola meaning "the center of the world", so translated by Emily, Ben's mother, but there are seven cities to be found, which are the seven dimensions to our objective and subjective life and living. All growth and development happens simultaneously in these seven dimensions, including the body and spirit of the Earth. If one aspect outgrows this orderly process, it either "waits" patiently and peacefully and helps the remaining six catch up, or it forges wantonly ahead in utter disregard for the rest, like the 'material' aspect has as of late, causing the whole system to collapse , must, because it is against Universal Law, which cares as much about our willy-nilly chaos as we care about it's order, proportionally. The Law accepts what belongs to it and is oblivious to what does not, "the holy indifference" of the philosophers. Very simple analogy, we too reject what disturbs our harmonious existence. Barack will fix all that The seven cities of Cibola exist, but our compound nature has consciously and collectively traveled only to the fourth city, the "Wordl Complete" of the Hopi, on the Tree of Life the lowest Sephiroth, Malkuth, "der vollkommene Mann" = man complete, the three remaining cities are high upon a hill, shrouded in psychological fog. The "scientific seven-fold classification" of a learned Brahman "has seven distinct principles, which correspond to the seven distinct states of Pragna or consciousness. It bridges the gap between the objective and subjective, and indicates the mysterious circuit through which ideation passes. The seven principles are allied to seven states of matter, and to seven forms of force. These principles are harmoniously arranged between two poles, which define the limits of human consciousness." This is consistent with the Pillars of Joachim and Boaz, and with Hermes' "as above so below", which "mingle". Fry Marcos mysterious journey to Cibola is called a "psychological/anthropological drama", and as long as our historians will not to interpret according to Hermeneutics, they can argue and write till they're blue in the face, never finding the City of Gold. Our hero Stephen, "the vain-glorious negro went on", laughing in the face of danger and at the Governors orders, and so did Fry Marcos, and Coronado's army, and "at lenght the gallant little army was before Hawaikuh, the city on which Fry Marcos had gazed with such magnificent eyes, but which now was seen to be a village of some two hundred houses - about fifteen miles southwest of present Zuni, and instead of gold and silver they found "much corn and beans and chickens - and salt, the best and whitest they had ever seen in their lives". Fry Marcus "saw with magnificent eyes", and the salt they found was "the salt of the earth." Methinks. Fry Marcos died in 1558, "the actual personality of the man is very unclear", some say "he was a complete fraud", probably Michel Shermer et all, while others said "he did complete his journey", but his report "is very sketchy about geography." However, "when I remarked to the chiefs how beautiful this city was, they replied that this was the last of the seven cities. Furthermore, Totonteac, the still more distant kingdom, is even better than these seven. They say it has so many houses and people that it has no end." The Tree Worlds to go. Estevan, who on his journey "advanced with savage magnificence - escorted like a prince by the Natives - attended by a number of handsome Indian women", and two Castillian Greyhounds", also called Galgo "Perfectly adopted to the Iberian geography, to the airidity of our fields and our changeable and unruly climate, the straight-haired Galgo has become the ideal and best adapted variety over the course of the years. Nature has taken charge of configuring a breed which resists perfectly the aggression of wild animals and the scraping against thorns and rocks. The Galgo still reminds us of those remote dogs of the Pharaohs which are found in the tombs in ancient Egypt. "Without too much fear of being mistaken we can assure you that the Spanish Galgo is a descendent of the Vertades Romano, which arrived in Spain with the Romans. This Roman breed is itself descended from the Egyptian Lebrel, and for this reason we should not be surprised that the Spanish Galgo resembles the Pharaohnic breed. The only discernable difference is the placement of the ears, since the Egyptian dogs have upright ears, the Galgo has drooping ears. "Another hypothesis affirms that the Celts were the ones who brought the Galga to the Peninsula when they installed themselves in Galiacia, (Fry Marcos was sent to Galicia, a country north of Mexico, my note) and that it where we get the name of the Galga in Latin, Cannis Callicus. What is not in doubt is that the Galga comes from the ancient Egyptian dogs. "There is still one more hypothesis, which doesn't seem very logical, according to which the greyhound is descended from the Sloughi, and arrived in Spain with the Arabs abouth the 9th century". www.scoobymedina.com/ancient_history_en.htmSo we come full circle to the 9th century and the Moor Esteban, the origin of the legend of Cibola, the City of Gold, and the two Castillian dogs traveling with Esteban were Anubis and his brother showing him the way on his perilous journey. No one knows for sure what happened to the surviving slave mentioned in the Book for Presidents only, first explorer of America, the prince Estevan, and if he hasn't died he is still alive today. Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 24, 2008 11:56:02 GMT -5
Some say that the New Wordl itself is Cibola, glittering with the allure of Freedom, the American dream to strike it rich, and where anything is possible. Err, that was a good century ago.
America was conceived by Idealism, and the first exploreres cannot be blamed for the current mess. Timely however, 500 years is a minor Phoenix cycle.
A few quotes from Mr. Hall come to mind,
"The rich want to stay rich without working, the poor want to become rich without working, and those who are working want to quit."
"The legitimacy of wealth is its dedication to the needs of humanity".
Socialism? No we can't have that, even if we don't know what it means.
My favorite is by Sir Bulwer Lytton
"In proportion, O Genius, to thy contempt for riches will be thy performance on they violin".
The stories of El Dorado "grew in wonder and magnitude through pure love of the marvelous or wild expansion of the fancyful tales of the Indians".
That the Indians meant something other than what the Spanish and English thought, is told in this most unusual tale:
"Far inland, built on a lofty hill, so the fable ran, was a mighty city, whose very streets watering-troughs were made of solid gold and silver, while billets of gold lay about in heaps, as if they were logs of wood marked out to burn.
"In this imperial city dwelt in marvelous magnificence a mighty king. The legend went that it was a habit of his to cover his body in turpentine and then roll in gold-dust till he gleamed like a varitable golden image. Then, entering his barge of state, with a retinue of nobles whose dresses glittered with gems, they would sail around a beautiful lake, ending their tour by a bath in the cooling waters.
"Where was this city? Who had seen its gold-emblazened king" Certainly none of those who went in search of it and its monarch."
Turpentine is a volitile oil or spirits distilled from resin, from cone bearing trees.
Sir Walter Raleigh also met with an old Indian chief, named Topiawara, who told him that they "had many fertile plains and valleys and mines of gold and silver, but the gold-dust king he knew nothing about.
In turn, Raleigh told the chief "about his own country and its great queen, and one day shoed him a portrait of Queen Elizabeth, before which the simple natives bowed themselves as if a were a figure of a goddess they saw".
Sir Walter sent Jakob Whiddon to explore "the mouth of the river Orinoco, which was deemed to be the gateway to the golden realm". Whiddon never made it to the the mouth of the Orinoco, but Raleigh made it to Roanoke, being involved in the colonization of Virginia.
Raleigh thought the country was beautiful, " and every stone we stooped stooped to pick up promising either gold or silver by its complexion. Here in the rocks at least, were the riches of which they had heard so much. If El Dorado did not exist, here was the native wealth that might well bring it into existence".
One could say that the native wealth was the Wisdom of the Indians who never claimed to have a great treasure, it being invented a thousand years ago for the same purpose Gutzon Borglum "carved Mt. Rushmore to erase the map's landmarks in order to protect the City of Gold", says Ben Gates.
Looks like all is burning to ashes and the New Atlantis of Francis Bacon can come into existence.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 25, 2008 12:25:29 GMT -5
Don Quixote of La Mancha
Rumor has it that Francis Bacon either wrote or translated the novel.
"In a place at La Mancha, which name I do not want to remember, not very long ago lived in a country hidalgo, one of those gentlemen or hidalgos who kept a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny horse, and a fast greyhound."
As with our hero Estevan, Don Quixote's was also a Castillian greyhound.
"A hidalgo or fidalgo was a member of the Spanish and Portuguese nobility. Hidalgos were exempt from paying taxes, but did not necessarily own real property.
"Since the 7th century, the words fijodalgo and fidalgo were used in Spain, especially Castile, to refer to a low-ranking landed gentry. Both were corruptions of the term "hijo de algo" (son of something). In the Middle Ages pronunciation changed to hijodalgo and hidalgo. According to another theory, hidalgo in fact means literally "a son of a Visigoth" (hijo del Godo).
"To qualify as an hildalgo solariego (Ancestral hidalgo), one had to prove that all four of one's grandparents were hidalgos. One could also receive the title as a reward for meritorious acts, or by joining a fraternity. The natives of Biscay were all born hidalgos...", so we can say they all were Masons.
"The hidalgos as sons of Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East German tribe, the Ostrogoths being the other. - The Visigoths first emerge as a distinct people during the fourth century, initially in the Balkans, where they particpated in several wars with Rome. A Visigothic army under Alaric I eventually moved into Italy and famously sacked Rome in 410."
"... the original homeland of the Goths was probably Götaland south of Sweden."
Broadly speaking, then, the home of the East German tribe of "Goths, Gothic, or "Gutans", the good ones as Visi, wissen, wise, vision, was Götterland = land of the gods, remembering that what I quoted comes from historians, and I thank them for information which I can project to the Above, because the man from La Mancha is stated to be a "Psychological novel" as
"Don Quixote, the deluded Spanish gentleman of La Mancha Alonso Quijano (or Quesada, or Quijada), who believes himself and acts as a knight-errant as described in various medieval books of chivalry, riding his horse Rocinante."
Actually, Don Quixote thought it not fitting that his horse should be called a skinny nag, "as he told himself -- it was not seemly that the horse of so famous a knight, a steed so intrinsically excellent, should not have a worthy name; he was looking for the precise name that would declare what the horse had been before its master became a knight errant, and what was now; for he was determined that if the master was changing his condition the horse too would change to one that would win the fame and recognition its new position and profession deserved; and so, after many names that he shaped and discarded, subtracted from and added to, unmade and remade in his memory and imagination, he finally decided to call the horse Rocinante, a name in his opinion, that was noble, sonorous, and reflective of what it had been when it was a nag, before it was what it is now, which was the foremost nag in the world."
A nag "means a work-horse - but also illiterate or rough man", but when Don Quixote became a knight errant, he named the work-horse and rough man "Rocinante".
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 26, 2008 11:25:32 GMT -5
Concerning the authorship of Don Quixote Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626 "It is but a golden slumber that dreameth of any human felicity, which is not sauced with some contingent misery. Dolor et voluptas invincem cedunt. Grief and pleasure are the cross sails of the worlds ever-turning windmill. Let no man therefore be over wise to cast beyond the moon and to multiply needless doubts and questions . . . occasion is precious but when it is occasion." It is presumed that Don Quixote was written in 1607 by Miguel de Cervantes. The Virginia Company was formed in 1606, and in 1609 the "Sea Venture" with Thomas Gates, an important person in NT, on board, shipwrecked of the coast of Bermuda. "In July of 1604 Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (known as as Don Quixote, Part I) to the publisher book-seller Francisco de Robles for an unknown sum. License to publish was granted in September, the printing was finished in December, and the book came out in January 1605. "The novel was an immediate success. Most of the 400 copies of the first addition were sent to the New World, with the publishers hoping to make a better price in the Americas. Although a lot of them disappeared in a shipwreck near La Havana, approximately 70 copies reached Lima, from where they were sent to Cuzco in the heart of the defunct Inca Empire." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_QuixoteIf 70 copies reached Cuzco, most assuredly they weren't shipped there in the hope of getting a better price, for there is purposeful cadence in this tale, which the nobleman, "one of those which has an lance and ancient shield on the shelf", read books of chivlary that he forgot nearly everything else, and "thought none was as fine as those composed by the worthy Feliciano de Silva, because the clarity of his prose and the complexity of his language seemed to him more valuable than pearls, in particular when he read the declarations and missives of love, where he would often find written: The reason for unreason to which my reason turns so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of thy beauty. And also when he read: . . . the heavens on high divinely heighten thy divinity with the stars and make thee deserving of the deserts thy greatness deserves." The last quote in italics could easily pertain to Francis Bacon. I remember, methinks, Ben Jonson mentioning Francis not getting his deserts, and Francis himself lamenting that his labours might be "in vaine, for now to late I see the shales be mine, the kernels others are." The avid Baconian Francis Carr, who for 40 years bussied himself with the authorship of the Shakespeare Plays, said the following in an interview: "I've been researching the years in which Don Quixote first cam out in Madrid (1605) and then later in London (1612). I have finished a book that solves the Shakespeare question in one fell swoop, in a series of arguments that the author of Don Quixote is the author of the Shakespeare plays. Although it sounds to many people as preposterous, it is a fact that I have found many quotations, 162, which I have found in the Shakespeare plays and the works of Francis Bacon--or both. "I am very pleased that a special issue of Baconiana published by the Bacon Society, which gives an analytical approach and study of my book, Who wrote Don Quixote? shows that there are many strands in the book which add up to the conclusion that Francis Bacon is the author. I can give you an example. It is brought to our attention that the name of "the real author" of Don Quixote de La Mancha is Cid Hamet Benengeli, an Arab historian. This is completely fictitious, no author by that name ever existed. Not only does the author put forth this name as the real author but it's mentioned thirty-three times. Why should someone keep on repeating and repeating a name if he does not want you to take the name seriously? It's a very odd name, Cid Hamet Benengeli. Cid translates as Lord, Hamet - Hamlet, Benengely--Ben means son, engeli can mean England. So we get Lord Hamlet, son of England--Francis Bacon." Question: "You have written that Don Quixote which can mean the man who hides himself, Don qui sote, was a novel to bring reconciliation between Spain and England. Was this the hidden agenda?" Carr: "Yes, I've written a brief summery of it for my website. No English, American, or Spanish writer has taken the trouble to investigate the subtext of Don Quixote so it's presented to the world as a fantastic adventure story. It's NOT a fantastic adventure story. The actual adventures of the character, Don Quixote, only occupy a tenth of the whole book. The rest of it is philosophy and an examination of vice and virtue. It is a world class classic comparable to the world class English plays which both came out at the same time. Don Quixote has 160 quotations in it, statements made over and again, which appear in both Shakespeare Plays and the works of Francis Bacon." I find the novel comely and most telling of another story, but then I would according to my disposition. That copies were sent to the Americas at the time of the colonization of Virginia is no less interesting and telling. Quotes are from the Spanish to English translation by Edith Grossman. www.archipelago.org/vol6-2/cervantes.htmHave a great Sunday Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 27, 2008 9:06:00 GMT -5
Book of Secrets
Having found further clues in the secret Book for Presidents only, Ben, Abigail, and Riley tear out of the underground parking lot of the Library of Congress. Unable to stop them, a guard alerts FBI agent Sadusky et all to be on the lookout for a white Merzedes SUV. Ben must have been friends with Dr. Z. to give him these cars to wreck. Abigail "guns it", the barricades are activated, but her adrenalin is rushing and fearlessly "I don't think so" she resolutely heads for the concrete poles coming out of the ground, and the SUV practically flies over them, whereas the police car after them bounces off and breaks up, so they're good to go.
Meanwhile, at the University of Maryland, Ben's mom Emily puts her papers away and calls it a day. Without knocking, Mitch Wilkinson walks in and apologizes "for the lateness of the hour", and shows Emily a picture on his cell of the half of the plank found in the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. "You're a Treasure Hunter" she says irritated. "No, I'm not", Mitch assures her, he is just "a man trying to make his mark in history". Emily looks at the picture but can't help him because she doesn't "know that language". Mitch gets a call informing him that Patrick is on his way to see her for to translate the symbols, and Mitch threatens to kill him if she doesn't tell him the truth of the meaning while he hides and listenes in.
Patrick knocks and calls out to Emily while walking in. Ben sent him, he says, he needs her help translating that language. "Of course, for Ben" she will do so. Patrick sits down beside her and remarks, "you know it leads to Mt. Rushmore". Emily reads: "Islands of stone--sea of grass, that's what the Lacota used to call the Black Hills in South Dakota. Find where the Moon touches the Earth and release the Hummingbird". Patrick seems disappointed, "that's it?" Surprisingly, she puts the cell rather gently back into Patrick's hand as if to let him know there is more to it, but Patrick doesn't get it. He heads for the door, but turns and makes an attempt to reconcile with Emily, "did it ever occur to you...", and they argue some more of what was in the past, which Emily blames on "lousy Tequila".
Mitch comes out of hiding and shows her "a letter from Queen Victoria to the Confederate General Albert Pike", who "was partial to the Confederate Cause". The letter, Mitch says, "has been handed down by my family for 140 years, it contains a vital piece of information, the final clues as it were. Of course, this piece of information is worthless without your translation of the plank. It's ironic, isn't it, it all began with the burning of pages (by Thomas Gates) and it ends with the burning of this, the final clues, making me the only one who can find Cibola". Emily covers her eyes as he sets fire to the letter, and orders her to get her coat. They're off to Mt. Rushmore.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 28, 2008 10:28:01 GMT -5
Mt. Rushmore Mitch has abducted Emily to Mt. Rushmore and they are walking up to the Visitors Information Center, I presume. Mitch looks at the complete plank of Olmec hieroglyps and says: "We need to find an island of stone". Ha, replies defiant Emily, "Benjamin would have found it by now", but he doesn't think so. Actually, the island of stone is right before their eyes, viz., Mt. Rushmore. They meet up with Ben, Patrick, Abigail and Riley. Ben is surprised and none to happy to see Mitch, and really upset when the latter holds a pistol to his mother's waist. "Let her go", he demands, but Mitch takes not orders from Ben since he has "the fire power". Ben has more in saying that he had kidnaped the President, that "the FBI is on the way here right now to arrest me", and they will be happy to see him, "arrest us both, and that path doesn't lead to the City of Gold". Nice wording "the path." Yes, Patrick had given Emily's message of the Hummingbird to Ben, the "Hummingbird was good" he acknowledges. Emily eagerly informs her son that Mitch has "Information you need, he's got a letter..." I know, interrupts Ben, "sent by Queen Victoria to General Albert Pike". Mitch is irritated that Ben seems to know everything and is always several steps ahead of him, "how do you know?" Ben read it somewhere, he says. No problem that Mitch burned the letter, they came so far, "you tell me what you know, I'll find the City of Gold to prove Thomas Gates' innocence and you can have all the treasure". Mitch insists on going with Ben, "if anyone is credited with finding the City of Gold it's gonna be me". Ben agrees, but all his partners and guns have to stay. "Why would I agree to that?" Because, says Ben, looking him square in the eye and with a significant tone in his voice, "you need that Treasure, believe me, I know". Ben, of course, means the real Treasure, but Mitch, like the smart critics of the movies, doesn't get it. "All right, Gates, we'll do it your way". Ben turns and walks away. On the screen is the island in the rocky terraine, depicting President Washington, Roosevelt, Jefferson, and on a seperate rock Lincoln with his chiseled face, and said to have a certain presence about him by people who knew him. All of them climb and walk about the great mountain, and after a while Abigail remarks, "I still don't see anything that looks like a Noble Bird". Ok, "Mitch what did the letter say, what's the clue from Queen Victoria's letter?" Yhe clue is, "the entrance shall only be revealed under a cloudless rain". Riley suggests they come back when it's raining. Ben muses that "cloudless can simply mean the sun, we need a sunny day". Strange words from Ben because it is a brilliantly sunny day. "We need water", he says, and everybody pours their drinking water on the rocks "because water makes the rock look darker. Ben throws a bottle to Abigail, and this is important because it is she who finds the Noble Bird "over here, I found it, over here" she shouts utterly elated, and all run to see it. "Look at this, it's an eagle - a Noble Bird - who will give you passage..." and Emily's voice fades out. Mitch gives the next clue from Queen Victoria's letter: "Surrender your hand to the heart of the warrior", to which Emily adds "and the eagle is the symbol of the warrier". This is true, but if you look closer, the Hummingbird or Noble Bird is actually a Phoenix, and that would mean that the "cloudless rain" is "Aqua Celestis" or Grace granting passage to the "Treasure beyond all imaginings", as Ben was told by his grandpa. "He said, "the Phoenix is emblematic of the expiring Liberty of Britain, revived by her Descendants, in America." 'Earlier there had been a mythical phoenix on South Carolina's five-shilling note (left) issued in April 1778. www.greatseal.com/committees/thirdcomm/index.htmlCharlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 30, 2008 11:32:29 GMT -5
There is a small opening in the rock below the Noble Bird. Ben is ready to reach in to feel what may be hidden, but his mom and dad warn him "it's probably a terrible trap". Ben hesitates for a moment, but seconds Mitch, "it would be a pity to have come this far and not even try". Riley offers to do it, Ben declines and looks reassuringly at worried Abigail, "it's ok". Great suspense grips everyone as he reaches in and screams from the top of his lungs as if some thing was grabbing his hand. Riley screams even louder and Emily covers her face in distress. Before Patrick can react, Ben starts laughing with glee, just kidding, "I am sorry, I couldn't resist". Abigail doesn't think it was funny and punches his shoulder, lovingly I might add, whereas his dad thought it was brilliant.
Ben reaches in again, "it feels like a latch", he says, pulls it toward him and on the bottom of the rocks in a lake a sort of geyser erupts, indicating the entrance to the City of Gold. They rush down and enter the mysterious cave shrouded in darkness. Of course, they brought flashlights and lanterns even, Emily espies the first glyph, something like a golden pendulum, and exclaimes "oh, look at this, it's beautiful". Ben sees a door and what "appears to be a counterweight" to hold the door open. He touches a small glyph, and as it happens in such movies everything in the cave begins to cave in barring the entrance to it. Mitch looks around and concludes, "the only way is forward". In philosophical terms, once at a certain point on the journey perilous there is no turning back, lest "the furies will attend you".
The first treasures they see, in the pronous of the Temple are "many relics and beautifully preserved", remarks Emily, Riley and Abigail admire "a little golden man", such as the Olmec had. The cave is rocking again, things fall all around them as they advance to a platform, seemingly itself a glyph. It either gleams by the reflection of the flashlights and lanterns, or is gilded with gold. It titter-tatters according to where they stand and their weight, so they need achieve balance by moving, "one step at a time" toward the center. Above, that could be humanity moving one step at a time toward Cibola, the center of the World Soul.
Of the four, Ben, Abigail, Riley, and Mitch, the latter is the first to go to the edge, because he needs to get to his center the most, jumps on a latter to climb up, the rest follow and make leaps of faith and survive. They need to cross over a cleft and Patrick becomes a hero swinging Tarzan like over it with a rope, can't get his footing on the other side, swings back and grabs Emily by the waist, and they both hit the ground on the other side. They are laughing and if you can believe it, Emily gives Patrick a kiss and they're having a reconciling moment. Affectionately he calls her "Em", they forgot all about the tooth brushes in Morocco and are happy to be together again. Aaaahhhh...
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 31, 2008 9:11:00 GMT -5
Inside Mt. Rushmore
They enter a huge cavern. Water gushes from two waterfalls flowing over the stones, in which water they walk "forward", and under which Ben sees a what appears to be a golden sun glyph. "It's not forward", he reasons, "it's down, the water has to go out somewhere, otherwise it (the cavern) be filled up". One of the waterfalls forms a cross, the other gushes forth between two stone pillars.
Some times before, Ben felt oil contained in channels, and as in the first movie where it was powder, he ignites the oil shedding light. Additionally, he holds a torch, the others flashlights and lanterns, and with all this light they see a golden wheel of four directions, which they turn and thereby shutting off the waterfalls.
All is lighted and still, and there they stand in awe and reverence in the City of Gold, beholding the Treasures of the Olmec Civilization, golden Temples and Pyramids to scale, statues, masks, works of art and relics. "We found it!" shouts joyful Ben, "you were right" he credits delighted Emily, and you can imagine how happy everyone is. Compelled by the splendour about him, Mitch confesses to Ben: "I'm sorry I smeared your grand grand grand daddies good name, it seemed like the only way to get you in on the hunt. This was a chance for the Wilkinson Family to make its mark on history, to find the City of Gold, and be remembered". Ben swallows hard and walks away.
There is a gurgling and the waters begin to flow again to remind them it's time to leave the City. When Patrick did his Tarzan move, he and Emily were seperated from the rest, hence came from a different direction to the City. "Coming through", Ben asks his dad, "did you happen to see branches that lead out of here?" No son, "it's all blocked, you can't even get back to the big round stone door", and looking about "where is your mother?"
Patrick is not too concerned with a way out, he clucks over Emily now, won't let her out of his sight, and she calls to him "sweetheart, sweetheart, come and look at this" as she runs her finger along a row of glyphs, "this is going to give us incredible insight into pre-Columbian history". Her cheerfulness gladens his heart, "Em, are you happy?" Oh "yeah", she is very happy, and calls to Ben to see what she found, but he is more interested in a certain stone "where they slit the throat and cut the heart out". He contemplates it for a while, and probably thinks it's a metaphor, like me. Maybe later generations did, at a time when symbolic language began to be interpreted in the dead letter called tombstones.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 2, 2008 16:38:32 GMT -5
Inside Mt. Rushmore
Riley finds some golden objects to take home with him, but there is a crushing sound and water shoots out beside him, making him and the rest very afraid. "Listen", says Abigail ominously. Looking around they listen with their eyes and hear water shooting out from many holes threatening their very survival. Without success Mitch has tried to find a way out, Ben reiterates that "all this water goes somewhere", not to worry, "we'll find it". Patrick throws a piece of paper, maybe a One Dollar Bill, down to see which way the currency flows in the City of Gold, which is collapsing all around them.
They descend and in waist high water make their way to a door, which they try to open in a fashion similar to Hercules on the grindstone, round and round they go. "The door is not gonna stay open by itself, we both know what has to happen, Ben", threatens Mitch. I know, Ben replies, "one of us has to keep the door open and stay behind". Riley at once votes for Mitch to drown, but "this isn't a democracy" Mitch remarks while grabbing Abigail as a hostage and holding a knife to her throat. Naturally, Ben steps forward and climbs up to the door, "see I'm right here, I'll stay, you have my word, just let her go". Mitch does. Emily is not about to leave without her son, but Ben ignores her and makes Abigail promise to "make my parents leave - you make my parents leave". She reaches to her core and musters all her courage and love for him to bear the thought of him dying, and touches his face tenderly giving her word with this gesture.
Forcefully, Abigail pushes Patrick, Emily, and Riley toward the door, as they are on the verge of drowning. Ben opens it partially, but the force of the water throws him back to the others. Mitch tries with all his physical strenght to open it and is wedged in, Ben goes to help him but his arm gets stuck between a rock and a hard place too. "Open the door and I'll get you out", Ben promises, and now, Mitch has the most valiant moment of his life, "no, the current is too strong , if I open the door you all will be washed out". Ben repeats his promise "I'll get you out", but Mitch, ready to sacrifice himself, declares: "I found the City of Gold, I found it, and no one will ever know". We can escape, "we can figure it out", Ben tries to persuade him. "It's not a puzzle, no more puzzles, Ben, we're all gonna die, tell them I found it", which doesn't make sense, but with these, his last words, he opens the door and drowns in the process.
The torrential waters subside, and the grateful survivors lean against a wall, totally exhausted from the ordeal. Ben holds on to Riley and Abigail, then turns to his love and they whisper something to each other intimately and inaudibly. There is light at the end of a tunnel they see, in which water flows tranquil toward the lighted exit, and which they follow to join their kin in the mundane world, having been to Cibola.
Of course, Agent Sadusky is waiting for Ben, they were just talking about him, and is he ready to turn himself in? "I have my proof, I found the City of Gold", Ben says. "It doesn't matter, you still committed a federal crime". Serious looking agents and Park Rangers escort them to a room where the President himself is waiting to get Ben out of this pickle. He greets Ben and asks the agents to step aside for a minute. Ben addresses the Commander in Chief respectfully: "Mr. President!" An agent interrupts: "Sir, this is the man that kidnapped you", but the President says otherwise: "As I recall we were exploring a hidden tunnel and the door closed accidentally and this man saved my life. Gates, for the record, after centuries of exploration, on this day you have brought honor to this Country and your Family". Ben looks steady in the President's eyes, he knows this, and now looks the Knight he is.
Smiling at Abigail and Riley, the President thanks them for "the great service" they have done "for this Country". Abigail returns the "thank you" politely, but Riley, ever adverse to authority, only makes a cynical sound. The President wants Ben to see "tomorrows headlines", and calls to a Greg to bring "The Washington Post", methinks, and the headline reads:
"Thomas Gates proved a Civil War Hero"
Closing his eyes and guarding his emotions, he looks at the President with a "thank you, Mr. President", who then turns to Patrick, Emily, Riley, and Abigail with the assurance that all "will be credited for this discovery". Ben appreciates these words and turns slightly to look at Abigail out of the corner of his eyes and she nods and smiles back adoringly. All is well, they have nothing to fear.
The President and Ben have become allies, they understand each other. "Ben, I am curious about the favor I asked you, any report regarding what's on page 47?" Ben: " believe I can help you, Sir, it's life altering, Sir". The President motions Ben aside, but Riley is curious too, "what's on page 47, are you talking about The Book?" The President turn and looks at Riley "what book?"
In a museum, Emily has all workers in a tizzy about cataloging the Olmec Treasure shown in the background for move reasons. She hasn't changed. "You should have been there when we picked out our first couch", Patrick tries to cheer up a confused cataloger.
Outside, Riley walks along minding his own business, when a pretty brunette stops him. "Excuse me, hey, you're that guy, that treasure hunter guy". No, "actually the guy you're thinking of is somewhere over there". Wrong, "you're him, Riley Poole, I recognize you from your book". She brings out his book, "will you sign it?" Riley can't resist her smile, he drops everything, it almost looked like he fell in love with the girl, but I saw he was alone again at the end of the movie.
Somewhere outside also, Ben and Abigail are finally alone. "So, the tea tables", she reminds him. "Yes" he nods, "I'm going to have the Newbury's bring them to you next week". She doesn't really want the tables, "actually, I would have said you can keep them, and maybe - you could - come and move in with me" she woos him sweetly. "No, when you say 'so' it means we're angry" he smiles. "So, sometimes it doesn't, it's sort of a puzzle, and you're so good with puzzles and I'm sure you can figure it out" she almost whispers. Ben can't stop looking at her shining eyes, and again she whispers "so" and he can't resist any longer and embraces her with a kiss, and fireworks go off about Mt. Rushmore to mark this wonderful moment.
Riley almost walks by his red Ferrari parked on the street. In an envelope are the keys, and a note "From the Desk of the President", with TAX FREE written on it, proving the President is an honorable man. "I love this car", he says, jumps in and is so excited that he puts it in reverse and hits the car behind him. This probably would not have happened, had he asked the pretty brunette to keep him company.
The End
Of National Treasure: Book of Secrets, which, like National Treasure, began with a bright star over Disney's Castle of Enchantment, and a barren tree transformed by a lightining strike to a living one, full of green leafs.
"It's a Multi Level Treasure Hunt", the Disney people say.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 6, 2008 10:26:57 GMT -5
Book of Secrets, page 47 I hope this will be the 3rd movie affording the world a glimpse into the Book by and for Presidents only, which content is "life altering" according to Ben. Timely, for 2 days ago, inspired and energized by our President to be, Barack Obama, the mind stuff of collective Humanity was re-solved in a heart beat jumping to the next higher octave. Everybody heard it, even the somewhat deaf, and the stone-deaf felt the vibration. I am convinced that on page 47 is writ the history of the founding of America and events since, and a greater history prior, for "Neither the births nor the abortions of Time have been registered". Sir Francis Bacon The movies are about our "treasured past", and the search for Cibola, to which passage is given by the "Noble Bird", the Phoenix, re-birth of our collective Humanity on a world scale. Again timely, for Barack Obama is called a "transformational figure" by those who see, among them Colin Powell. Our history proceeds above and below in tandem. When Ben reaches into the openening under the Noble Bird and pulls on a stone a geyser erupts at the bottom of Mt. Rushmore indicating the entrance to the metaphorical City of Gold. It also calls attention to the "Hall of Records" located "behind the heads" of the four Presidents "near a cliff". The Hall is closed to the public because of "safety concerns". The sculptor of Mt. Rushmore, "Gutzon Borglum, had an incredibly elaborate vision for the mountain hat included much more than the four presidential heads we see today. He had wanted to carve the shape of the Louisiana Purchase into the mountain, and inside the shape, carve descriptions of the most significant events in American history. Logistically that plan wasn't going to work out, so he created a new plan for the Hall of Records, with the goal of creating a repository for the store of our country for future civilizations. (My emphasis) "Documents in this repository would include our nation's charter documents. Borglum had even started blasting and drilling out a cavity in the mountain for this chamber. Funding for the project was coming from the government, and they had asked that Borglum focus his efforts toward completing the faces before any more work was done on the Hall of Records. In 1941, Borglum died, and work on the project effectively came to a halt. "The idea of having a vault didn't die though. Borglum's original plan was revised a bit, but the intent remained, and in 1998, tablets with the story of our nation were sealed in a vault in the unfinished Hall of Records. Sixteen porcelain enamel panels containing the text from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, along with the biography of Borglum, and the story of the presidents, were sealed in a teakwood box, then placed in a titanium vault, and finally sealed shut under the weight of a 1,200 pound granite capstone (I did it) inside the unfinished hall. "This is not a time capsule. These documents are to remain buried for thousands of years. Borglum literally had it in mind to send the message of our country to future civilizations. He said, "you might as well drop a letter into the world's postal service without an address or signature, as to send that carved mountain into history without identification". Our next President Barack Obama: "And all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared". Sounds very philosophical, do you not agree? "Give me your huddled masses..." I love this Man and I am inspired to Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 7, 2008 10:19:49 GMT -5
Ok. I went overboard again The entrance to the Hall of Records at Mt. Rushmore www.rosyinn.com/more003.htmlGutzon Borglum had in mind to send the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, charter documents, and it's not far fetched to say, pages of Masonic significance from the secret Book of Presidents to future civilizations. Borglum: "Into this room the records of what our people aspired to and what they have accomplished should be collected and preserved, and on the walls of this room should be cut the literal records of the conception of our republic, its successful creation, the record of its westward movement to the Pacific, its presidents, how the memorial was built and, frankly, Why." Giving the "Why" importance, Borglum, originally, wanted to carve "the nine most significant events in American History" on the rock where Lincoln now is. He had planned "a grand staircase of 800 granite steps beginning by his studio and gradually climbing up to the canyon behind Lincoln's face leading to the Halls entrance." Later, Borglum "wanted words of important documents carved on the sides of the wall in different languages and multiple rooms." The purpose of different languages is obvious. The "capstone" over the titanium vault is actually a granite slab, which reads: "Let us place there, carved high as close to heaven as we can the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breather a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wash them away." Gutzon Borglum Sculptor Mt. Rushmore, then, could be considered the Great Pyramid of America the Unique, the 800 granite steps the Grand Gallery, the Kings Chamber the Hall of Records. Borglum's brother's name was Solon. In 1941, Gutzon's "son Lincoln took over the carving. - The Borglum family, wanting to finish their father's dream, tried over the years to revive an interest in this portion of the carvings." National Treasure did, but it went right over the heads of our dense, self-serving and flipped critics, hence the general public is denied this information. "Finally in 1998, the National Park System along with the Borglum family put the finishing touches on the Hall of Records." Two years befor the millennia, in which celebration, in a top half circle, Pharaoh in a laying position on the right rose to meet with an astronaut rising from the left to merge into one figure in the middle. The Hall of Records was not a "dream" of Borglum, it was his vision of the future. "With dramatic flair, Borglum had made arrangements for an airplane to fly over the monument during the dedication ceremony on July 3, 1929. During the sculptures unveiling, the plane scattered roses across the field as a salute to those North Carolinians who fought and died at Gettysburg." Considering all here said, what does the battle of Gettysburg have to do with it. Rather, John Gutzon (gutson, gut in German= good in English) de la Mothe Borglum was a Freemason, as was his son Lincoln, therefor the Roses were meant to celebrate Sir Francis Bacon, the Founder of America, as any true Mason of the likes of Gutzon knows. "Borglum was an active member of the Ancient Free and accepted Mason (the Freemasons), raised in Howard Lodge #35, New York City, on June 10, 1904, and serving as its Worshipful Master 1910-11. In 1915, he was appointed Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Denmark near the Grand Lodge of New York. He received his Scottish Rite Degrees in the New York City Concistory on October 25, 1907. "Borglum was a prominent Life Member of the Ku Klax Klan. He sat on the Imperial Koncilium in 1923, which transferred leadership of the Ku Klax Klan from the Imperial Wizard Colonel Simmons to Imperial Wizard Hiram Evens. Later, while under intense pressure and scrutiny, both public and media, he superficially repudiated The Ku Klax Klan." I wrote this only so nobody accuses me of being biased in favor of Masons, which I am exceedingly, but as with Albert Pike, mainstream writers understand not Borglums "Why". Reminds me of Hitler's perversion of the Swastika. "In 1938 Borglum also sculptured the Memorial to the "Star Westward of the United States", which is located in Marietta, Ohio. He also built the staute of Daniel Butterfield in Sakura Park, Manhatten." Huh, something just flashed. He "sculptured a Thomas Paine memorial in Paris", and one of his "more unusual pieces is the "Aviator", completed in 1919 as a memorial for James R. McConnel, who was killed in World War I while flying over the Lafayette Escadrille. It is located on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia." Could there be anyome doubt that he was in tune with Francis Bacon? The Scottish Rite Creed "Human progress is our cause, liberty of thought our supreme wish, freedom of conscience our mission, and the guarantee of equal rites to all people everywhere our ultimate goal." Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 9, 2008 13:58:25 GMT -5
Maybe I should also mention that the descendants of Vulcan hold their annual motorcycle rally at Sturgis, South Dakota. This wild and wily crowd numbers half a million+. The least beautiful of gods was a blacksmith and worker in metals usually depicted, also in Washington DC, as as a unkempt hulky guy swinging the hammer over his anvil. The Hermetic and Masonic origins of America are shown in NT: men lighting torches in the GP and briging it via France and England to the Capitol in DC, and are well known by now. The problems young America had and has maturing as a "trail and error" Democracy are necessary to find out what works and can be kept, and what doesn't and must be changed, like now. It is the Idea and Ideal of Democracy that is the Beautiful, which the thinking, self-governing individual can bring about against all odds by simply living it. It is unfortune for the progress of Humanity that Masonry has been deliberately perverted to where it is 'satanic' or near so in the eyes of the average person. Everyone who was anyone in the fashioning of the Unted States of America was a Mason, that it was guided by Providence as asserted by the Founding Fathers doesn't mean diddle to dry minds. www.greatseal.com/mottoes/coeptis.htmlGenerally, one gets the same reaction when mentioning Philosophy or Philosophers, considered superstitious pagans, even from many educated people. Destruction is avoided and the world is kept turning by Wisdom, for it mediates and negotiates peace, and masterfully administrates things unknown, the Divine Poet told. The sublime journey of mankind is guided by Philosophy and Philosophers. smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=66community-2.webtv.net/westernmind/WASHINGTONDCThere is a story of a black man who said that nobody would ever know who he is in Jehovah'a House, or where he came from, and who had the need of to go to California to seek a certain 'stone', and if he found it, it "would bring about instant cure of all chronic diseases". The same is said of the vine of Dionysius. Somewhat unrelated I found this note on the light of the Saints, the photon of science. "Isadore of Seville compiled a volume of etymologies to illuminate the triumph of religion. Each saint's legend in Jacob de Voragine's Legenda Aurea begins with an etymological riff on the sait's name: "Lucy is said of light, and light is beauty in beholding, after that St. Ambrose saith: The nature of of light is such, she is gracious in beholding, she spreadeth over all without lying down, she passeth in going right without crooking by right long line; and it is without delation of tarrying, and therefore it is showed the blessed Lucy hath beauty of virginity without any corruption; essence of charity without disordinate love; rightful going and devotion to God, without squaring out of the way; right long line by continual work without negligence of slothful tarrying. In Lucy is said, the way of light." Max Planck would agree with that. End of rant Charlotte
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Post by ariston on Nov 9, 2008 16:36:00 GMT -5
Greetings Charlotte,
That was sublime!
The 1st and 28th street Capitol Pyramid, With the Cap-itol as the Capstone.
So the street system is consistent with the design, ight down to the train station and the river bank, which is the primeval mound.Named Kingman Lake, kingmen or Godmen, the resurrecting ones, like Osiris and Dionysius and the proverbial Capstone.
The Shakespeare folger library lies somewhere in between the top two squares/(chambers?)
Light Latona
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Post by ariston on Nov 9, 2008 18:50:55 GMT -5
Greetings Charlotte,
Ever been to Washington?
This is the flipped 1st and 28th street Capitol Pyramid, the rail and street system seem to follow the gradients, The Jefferson Mem, is on tangent with said gradient and the design mimic's a tap/faucet like formation? The 28th st is again on the river side and seem to intersect the Pentagon. The Environs of the Whitehouse are decidedly Tableted in design, Tablets as in arched pieces of stone.
The reversed flipped upper representation has a clear BEN BEN feel about it, hose crafty sons of.... or the FALCON/Hawk of Horus/Osiris.
This is telling m the Mid had something to do with water, and the ARk= Moses=out of water, Joshua Ben Nun, the waters of Nun. Water of out the spiritual rock.
Water coming up from the Queens Chamber/Lincoln Mem, and pumped out via the Jefferson Memorial, the faucet. Powered by the Energy in the ARK. Water is the life, The face of the waters in Genesis, the House of the Far waters/Abzu, the waters of Nun , the agitation of the waters, etc, etc.
The ellipse is the sarcophagus and the tablet represents the Ark, the corrugated building above the ellipse is the entrance to the kings chamber, with its slotted grooves that look like 3 great gates that slammed down.
Does that resonate or have I completely lost my marbles.
Water, why? From Sirius? I have lost it. That's why The Stargate's have a portal of water, How 'bout Atlantis,perhaps the city under water is a reference to this, Space shuttle Atlantis, Plato pointing up,intriguing given all the Platonic mathematical permutations resonating with Giza.
Forget Stargate's, How about Ben Ben Gates, (chuckle,chuckle)
Where's that straightjacket.
Light Latona
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 11, 2008 11:11:58 GMT -5
Greetings Latona, Thank you, yes, I have been to DC but had not yet eyes to somewhat see, and it seems to me straight jackets are way to restrictive above and below. I like the arrayed Capitol in the upper triangle as the Cap stone. "The philosopher Jefferson, a classical educated man like many of the founders", saw in its design a "Temple to the Sun", and "Jefferson, Washington, and the commitee thought that the new capitol building(s) should symbolize a Temple to Liberty in a secular sense". Either way, where the spiritual sun shines there is Liberty and where is Liberty the sun shines. "The liberty monument in the United States is a child of European Enlightenment", the author of these words confirms. Charles Bulfinsh, "charmed by the French" and influenced by Christopher Wren, "planed and designed over a seven year period" and won the contest with his design of the Capitol. Bulfinsh was born in Boston, "and one of the USA's first native born professional architects. His work tended to combine Colonial Georgian and Adam styles in a frugal Neo-Classicism, prompted by his tour of Europe (1785-87). He designed the old State House, Hartford, CT 1793-6), followed by the Massachusetts State House, Boston (1795-7), clearly influenced by Chamber's Somerset House, London 1776-86)." This ties in nicely, as you would say, because the Somerset House was used by Princess Lizzy before she was crowned Elizabeth I, in 1558. I read about it recently. The shapes of building between Independence and Constitution Ave are interseting, I even see the "rib" of Adam below 7th street, which actually looks like a bone geometrically, maybe the "bone O Horus". I remember the Falcon Horus you posted for my appreciation, so it was. Water coming up from the old Abraham, Lincoln Memorial and powered by the Ark=Moses=out of the water and flowing flowing from the "faucet" shaped Jefferson Memorial resonates in terms of the goddess of Liberty pointing to Thomas Jefferson who made Liberty to flow. It is hard to sort out as you reach from Giza to Plato to the space shuttle Atlantis, plus the "City Atlantis" under water in two sentences, huuuh! Street 1 to 28 can be the Grand Gallery with 28 courses of RC significance. "Rudolf Evans was commissioned to sculpt the statue of Thomas Jefferson", which "looks out from the interior of the Memorial toward the White House" to keep an eye on the Presidents. "It was intended to represent the Age of Enlightenment and Jefferson as a philosopher and statesman." DC is called "The City Beautiful", and "it seemed entirely appropriate to L 'Enfant that the capital of a new democratic republic shouls have been created "out of the wilderness (which Moses out of the water, led the children of Israel but never reached the Promised Land, but we are closer now) rather than established in one of the cities born during the colonial period. A 1996 federal report on the District of Columbia stated that Washington's "broad avenues and expansive public spaces are reminders of America's democratic values," symbols of "a government that is accessible to its people and a nation with room to grow." Well.. Two telling paintings in the 'westernmind' link are worth klicking on: "Minerva dictating the Constitution", and Minerva as "Science". Minerva or Athena are the embodyment of Wisdom., hence it was Wisdom dictating the Constitution. Neptune, the brother of Athena "welcomes you to the Library of Congress", appropriate, because history is sunken unseen in books until opened. Neptune also stands for 'waters' of memory, riding his chariot over the surface, as it takes 165 earth years for him to orbit the sun and nobody lives that long. Apollo and the Muses are also in the Library as "The Nine Muses Sarcophagus" - "Polyhymnia, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Erato, Athena, Colliope, Terpsichore, and Urania." There is an image of the sarcophagus at Hearst Castle, recently in the news, on the famed Pacific Coast Highway up to Carmel by the Sea and onward to the mysterious Redwood Forest, the oldest trees on Earth. Pierre L 'Efant and Bulfinsh were Masons. 'Tis a relevant article from an anti-Mason site freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/washington_dc/ovason.html"Ovason's premise, if not belief, is that Pierre Charles L 'Efant (b.1754/08/02, d. 1825/06/14) and Major Ellicott (b.1754/01/24, d. 1820) intended Pennsylvania Avenue to provide a view of the setting sun from the Capitol bulding annually on August 10th. The reason for this was because on that day the sun is in 17 degrees of Leo and the star Regalus sets over the White House just over half an hour after sunset, leaving the stars "Spica, in Virgo, and Arcturus in Bootes." "The are the three stars which masons such as Pike and Brunet recognized as enclosing the constellation of Virgo." [p.364] This, he asserts, proves "the city was intended to celebrate the mystery of Virgo - of the Egyptian Isis, the Grecian Ceres and the Christian Virgin." [p. 349]" What more can I say but repeat the new agers axiom "it's all out of Egypt, man" As for Ben Ben Gates, everybody who read the National Treasure's knows that there is only one Ben Gates, descendant of a real Thomas Gates, and that I identify with the German immigrant Abigail who loves him. These 2 movies so close to my thinking and heart actually made me love Nicholas Cage. So, that's about 'it' for the "City Beautiful", for today anyway. Oh, one more thing concerning current events in the greater. In the "American Junior Red Cross" poster, please go to "National Treasure", reply 8, April 27, 2007 Represented is Francis Bacon as the Founder of the Republic, who reads a document to young white America, Russia close to the teenager, Fern with the unopened book. You can see that at that time Obama was just a child looking into the future which is now. In fact all persons represented look into the future, save Francis Bacon who looks directly at young America, his New Atlantis. Did I say thank you for directions, before? Yes, and say it again. Charlotte
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