World-Mysteries.com presents two articles by Dan Green:
Hello there, and greetings from Lincoln, England. As author on two book
concerning the Cathedral Code at the Gothic Cathedral of Lincoln and its
connection with the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau, my ongoing research appears to
have solved the mysterious head worship of the Knights Templar and the puzzling
panel painting at Templecombe which held the clue.
Lincoln, England - the New Jerusalem ?
by Dan Green (Callum Jensen)
No serious catalogue of world mysteries would be complete without the inclusion of the historical
Knights Templar, the Order of warrior monks who may be the guardians of a secret location containing the Holy Grail, a term that has now moved away from being simply a dish from the Last Supper to, instead, a secret that could expose deliberate religious and political cover-ups throughout history...the search for this truth rather like seeking out a needle in a historical haystack..
A Knights Templar
The Knights Templar were formed in 1118 to defend Jerusalem and had a reputation second to none until 1306 when King Phillip of France who had wanted to join this rich and powerful Order, to whom he owed a large sum of money, had been refused . His envious and jealous response to being unable to join and to continue owing the money, was to trump up charges against the Templars claiming they were blasphemous, devil worshippers - especially of worshipping a strange head - and sexual deviants, the Order consequently being persecuted, prosecuted and dissolved. In 1144 The Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, something of an offshoot of Knights Templar, were created to protect Christian pilgrims
traveling to Jerusalem, faring better until they disbanded in 1540.
The enduring attraction of interest in all things Templar is owed to a persistent belief that at some point in their evolution a hidden function of the Templars were given the duty of protecting a great secret which researchers have usually claimed has it roots in France, and more recently, Scotland, but it may now be that the biggest secret of all has been saved to last, and is beginning to unfold at the Gothic Cathedral of Lincoln where Templar Preceptories once where at nearby Temple Bruer, Willoughton near Gainsborough,South Witham and Aslackby near Sleaford.
Lincoln - the New Jerusalem?
Temple Bruer
Discoveries during the Crusades intimate that the Knights Templar were the missing link in a chain of transmission of secret architectural knowledge and that they were greatly instrumental in the specific design and building of certain Europena Gothic Cathedrals to exemplify the principles of Sacred Geometry, a resonance with divine harmony in the numerical construct of design, stone decorations being astrological in nature with hermetical symbology abound.
At Lincoln Cathedral there is even reason to believe that the magnificent Rose Window is actually a 'Star Clock' - an atlas of the Northern constellations, numerous symbology within the Cathedral apparently drawing attention to the Dog Star, Sirius. At the scene of The Last Supper, at the Great East Window, instead of there being a cup or bread upon Christ's platter, we see a dog!
Dog on the platter, Great East Window, Lincoln Cathedral
An aerial view of the Cathedral shows it to be in the shape of the Cross of Lorraine, the original insignia employed by the Templars as a device. A Code in the Cathedral dubbed 'The Lincoln Da Vinci Code' now reveals links with the global mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau, complete with a precise location within the Cathedral grounds that may well contain the famed and historical lost treasure of the Templars, thought to have legendary Grail connections.
Lincoln Cathedral sacred geometry
The Cross of Lorraine
Only a few miles away from this location is the puzzling place name and small village of Jerusalem. Not surprisingly, there is no other place name like it in Britain, and Lincolnshire's local libraries, Council archaeologists and even the Internet are at a loss of information to explain why it should be so named! ( A person tracing their ancestors confirmed its existence at least as far back as 1436). One possible explanation is that it has something to do with Jewish settlers, as Lincoln was in fact home to one of the most important Jewish communities in England, being well established before noted in 1154, until their ignominous expulsion in 1290.
Author Dan Green visits Jerusalem
It is believed that even the Catherdal was at one point in monetary debt to their money lenders, and St Hugh, Patron Saint of the Cathedral, was famed for his defence of the Jews.
The only other probability is that the village had some Templar connection, especially when we bear in mind the full title of the offshoot Hospitallers. Most lately, concerning the Rennes-le-Chateau mystery, much fuss has been made with the announcement of a maquette, a model map showing two locations,and which was allegedly commissioned by key figure, the priest Berenger Sauniere, two years before his death in 1917. French researchers have been quick to claim that the maquette shows landscape around the region of Rennnes-le-Chateau, but have turned a blind eye to the title of the model....it is 'Jerusalem'. Clearly, it does not show the Holy city in the Middle East that the Templars were created to defend. What if the reference is to the mysteriously named Jerusalem in Lincoln? Ancient maps of Lincolnshire are now being investigated to overlay the maquette to see if indeed it will lead to the 'Lincoln Da Vinci Code' suspected Templars treasure location. It is also interesting to note, that in Roman times, like Jerusalem, Lincoln was an actual walled 'city'.'
Copyright by Callum Jensen ('Dan Green').
Presented with permission of the author.
Lincoln Cathedral, Starry Guardian of the Chateau at
Rennes
by Dan Green (Callum Jensen)
Rennes-le-Chateau
As a long term researcher into the enduring global mystery that
began at Rennes-le-Chateau , in an attempt to try solve at least a
part of whatever is the conclusion of the enigma, I have tried to
explore every possible aspect, my starting point being somewhat
original, having drawn attention to parallels between the famous
village and the Gothic Cathedral of Lincoln in England, on the
ground and finally leading up into the starry heavens.
Lincoln Cathedral
Having had what on reflection appears to have been something of a
puzzling destined visit to RLC in 1986 involved some interesting
adventures there, including the discovery of a rock crop tomb sealed
at two points of entry not too far away from Les Labadous, home of
the authoress Elizabeth Van Buren who also had stumbled across this
tomb, visiting it to sprinkle holy water and call it her special
place. Contemporary Godfather of Sacred Geometry, David Wood also
knew of this tomb, and apart from our young French guide Daniel who
still lives in the Rennes environs, I wonder who else knew at the
time or even now of this location which has a stone marker nearby
and a babbling stream that you swear you can almost hear whisper.
Leonardo Da Vinci in his version of Virgin of the Rocks (Mary
without halo) paints it as an incidental inclusion at the top of his
work.
My visit to Rennes left me musing my original major comparisons –
how here was a church dedicated to Mary Magdalene at the top of a
high hill, and containing a demon guardian statue.
Asmodeus - Rennes Guardian demon
Back in Lincoln, at the Gothic Cathedral, high up a hill until
60AD there stood a church dedicated to Mary Magdalene, shamefully
knocked down to make way for the Minster in 1097 which would in the
13thc introduce its own Demon Guardian, the notorious ‘Lincoln Imp’.
The Lincoln Imp - Demon Guardian
Three quite unique similarities there, I thought. Then, in 2005
it was discovered that at the scene of the Last Supper at the Great
East Window of the cathedral , having gone unnoticed since the
windows were placed, there sits a dog on Christ’s platter, rather
than a loaf of bread or glass of wine! Deciding to collect up any
other anomalies within the Cathedral, I soon found out our canine
friend reappears a total of three times, and when my collection was
complete the ‘Lincoln cathedral code’ was born, synchronizing
perfectly with the many clues associated with the Rennes mystery in
France. We had a pregnant shepherdess, clues relating to painters
Poussin and Teniers, the enigmatic ‘681’, the ‘horse and cross of
God’ , our demon guardian friend, and the phenomenon of ‘blue
apples’ whereby the sun striking through a pane glass on a specific
time-date causes the dancing, dappling effect upon a key area.
Blue Apples at Rennes
Blue Apples at Lincoln Cathedral
Assembling all these clues into a sequential paper chase led to a
precise spot at the burial grounds of the shepherdess St Margaret,
opposite the SE corner of the Cathedral where once stood Margaret’s
church demolished in 1781 to parallel the same year of the death of
Marie de Negre who almost certainly knew the Rennes secret. Attempts
to GPR scan under this location where a tomb belonging to the Rayner
family stands were initially granted by cathedral authorities only
for them to later renege and go silent without any believable
explanation.
Another parallel aspect between RLC and Lincoln cathedral is
almost as puzzling as the entire mystery itself! Readers of the best
selling ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail’ will be well aware of a what is
held to be a spurious document ‘The Dossier Secrets’, deposited in
the Bibliotheque nationale de France in 1967 - purporting to be part
of the history of the Priory of Sion - and it turns out that the
Lincoln Cathedral Code has its own!
A reader of my initial book ‘The Lincoln Da Vinci Code’, who was
living in Grantham and who was a student of Victor Hugo – allegedly
the second last Grand Master of the Priory of Sion – told me I
should be getting myself to the Library in Grantham, for there they
held a most curious 30 page document deposited in file that had been
in their safe keeping since 1917, interestingly enough the same year
that Parish priest Berenger Sauniere , curator at Rennes and who was
singularly responsible for the birth of the RLC mystery, died.
Entitled ‘The Quest’, handwritten and illustrated, it claims to be
the handiwork of France’s most famous novelist, although having
compared the calligraphy, it clearly isn’t! Hugo was exiled from
France in 1855 –the very year that the window at the Great East
Window at the Cathedral was installed - and lived in Guernsey until
1870. There is no official record that he ever frequented England.
This encounter of a Quest also surfaced in a magazine the
‘Lincolnshire Highlights’ in 1983, the first five pages presenting
itself as a search for a ‘lost cathedral and city of Wyville’, as
opposed to the small actual hamlet of Wyville where the quest
starts, and which is situated SW of Grantham on the
Lincolnshire/Leicestershire border not too far from a Knights
Templar preceptory that once existed at South Witham and where in
2008 I found a hidden 14thC coffin slab relating to the panel
painting Head at Templecombe.
This fantastic if spurious account ends at the top of a hill with
a spring head, five houses and the word ‘thalassa’ which is rather
intriguing as the Lincoln Cathedral Code quest also ends at the top
of a hill that once had five houses and a (lost) spring head. The
word ‘thalassa’ is actually one of the meanings assigned to the name
Mary in Martianay’s edition of St Jerome’s works 1699. ‘Pikra
thalassa’ means ‘bitter sea’ based on the assumption that the name
‘Miryam’ is composed of the Hebrew words ‘mar’ (bitter) and ‘yam’
(sea) The translated inscription upon the headstone of Rene
d’Anjou’s ‘La Fountaine’, that some researchers involve in the RLC
mystery, mentions bitter water. Amidst the cryptic 30 pages are
numerous passing references including ‘a stone coffin at present
lying in the small churchyard, its date not later than the 12th
century’...’the hidden story written in the stones’...’and what
kings sat throned upon that hill’. Two poems are also in the library
file, one entitled ‘The Quest’ also, from 1917 initialled H.P., and
another ‘To Wyville’, this search starting as far away as in
Scotland, no less! ‘The Quest’ allegedly written by Hugo appears to
be a search for a lost cathedral, and I wonder is this the ‘lost’
Cathedral of the Magdalene given that Lincoln Cathedral may have
been secretly known to be dedicated to her and not the Virgin Mary.
Is the stone coffin and the churchyard references hinting at the
actual St Margaret’s burial grounds where until, 1781 it stood,
where ‘For Dagobert II King and for Sion is this treasure and it is
death’ as reads one of the RLC parchments? Is the story written in
the stones referring to the many anomalies of the architecture of
Lincoln Cathedral that parallel with RLC, and does ‘what kings sat
upon that hill’ mean lost Rose-Line descendants? Apart from ‘The
Professor, who first heard of Wyville, a man who digs for earth’s
treasures’, the most interesting figure mentioned throughout the
account is referred simply to simply as ‘The Padre’..very Sauniere-like!
I suspect that this lost ‘Wyville is a Masonic play-on word for
‘Wife Hill’, the hill upon which something belonging to Jesus’ wife
Mary Magdalene belongs. The word ‘Wye’ almost certainly originates
from the Old English ‘weoh’ meaning ‘idol shrine’. Strange stuff
indeed. Interested readers can see the file for themselves at the
Grantham library even though the puzzled library themselves cannot
offer any information as to who donated the items or exactly when.
To conclude this strange parallel with RLC and the ‘Secret Dossier’,
Grantham Library resides inside the Isaac Newton Shopping Centre
with his statue facing it outside, Isaac himself an alleged Grand
Master of the Priory of Sion from 1691.
Having had enough of stuff on or under the ground that seem to
indicate resonance between Rennes and Lincoln, I felt it was high
time to investigate any possible links involving the starry heavens.
As this was way above my head (pun intended) and beyond my abilities, I
sought the aid of a far more capable individual by way of a
mathematician by the name of Greg Rigby who had already contributed
to the Rennes saga by way of having discovered pentagonal geometry
in Poussin’s ‘Shepherds of Arcadia’ masterpiece – key to the RLC
mystery, and in 1996 having written a book entitled ‘On earth as in
heaven – Revelation of French cathedrals’, in which Greg announced
that the ancient Celts established holy sites in Northern France
reflecting on the ground the constellation Ursa Major with its
handle pointing to Rennes-le-Chateau as Polaris, the Pole Star. As
our starting point, Greg came over from Florida to precisely
orientate and align Lincoln Cathedral for me and with the aid of his
computer software, astronomical star maps , co-ordinates and
alignments, set about to discover what secrets the Cathedral may
have been hiding and if we could correlate it with what was known
over at Rennes. All Gothic Cathedrals have their Rose Windows at the
West – not at Lincoln though! Here we find it placed at the North,
disguised as a Northern ‘Star Clock’ whereby if the glass were
removed and one were to stand in a certain position within the
Cathedral at night one would see the revolving northern
constellations including Ursa Major.
'Star Clock', Lincoln cathedral Copyright crichtonmiller.com
Not surprisingly to me at least, there was something of a
significant discovery. The star that is reflected on the ground by
Lincoln cathedral is Arcturus, found in the constellation of Bootes
and the third most brightest in the night sky. Arcturus is the
‘Guardian of the Bear’ that is Ursa.
Arcturus, Guardian of the Great Bear
January 17th is a most celebrated date in the RLC Mystery. Not
only is it a date when it is alleged certain key figures including
Sauniere died, it is also the date when at mid-day the phenomenon of
the ‘blue apples’ occur in the small church and confirm a part of a
coded cipher, the sun striking through a small pane to create the
impression of blue apples joining red ones – red and blue circles –
that slowly moves along to settle upon the altar and later a statue
of Saint Anthony the Hermit. Lincoln Cathedral is a veritable
orchard of blue apples all year round courtesy of its decorative
Southern windows, this phenomenon, by contrast with Rennes, falling
upon a crucial location relevant to the Cathedral code at mid-day on
22nd July, Feast of the Magdalene, dancing alongside the tomb of
Queen Eleanor of Castille who stands high up the SE corner of the
Cathedral in direct line, pregnant, and staring over at the Lincoln
Cathedral Code location at the burial grounds of the shepherdess
Margaret. What is most important, however, is that at mid-day at the
Cathedral on 17th, Not only is the constellation of Ursa Major
overhead, but the Cathedral altar faces directly at Arcturus and
resonates with St Anthony at the Chateau when we learn that
Kabbalists associate the star with the 9th Tarot Trump, the Hermit.
The Cathedral initially drew my attention with it’s dog symbology to
ponder if it may be a concealed Temple to the dog star Sirius, but
Greg and I struggled to find any confirmation and it may possibly
just be drawing reference to the blazing star known to be Sirius
that is found in Masonic Lodges given that the structure was laid
out to Templar influence, as was the very structure of Masonry.
However, according to ancient China the stars of the Great Bear
associated with the celestial Palace of the Lord on High, Star God
of Longevity, the Heavenly Mountain, Paradise of the immortals, and
Sirius the Heavenly Wolf guarded this celestial Palace. Utterance
302 of the Pyramid texts found on the Northern face of Unas’ pyramid
also provides a link that may exist between the heliacal rising of
Sirius and Ursa Major.
With Arcturus the Guardian of the Ursa bear of which the Chateau
is the Pole star of the constellation, I wonder that I may be right
that the Gothic Cathedral reflecting it on the ground is indicative
of also being its guardian, and therefore would also be guardian of
the ‘treasure’ that Rennes announced to the world via the priest
Sauniere.
Copyright by Callum Jensen ('Dan Green').
Presented with permission of the author.
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Callum Jensen (Dan Green - author of 'The Lincoln Da Vinci Code'
and 'The Lincoln Da Vinci Code and the Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau')
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