BOOK TWO Prophesy and References
Notes:
1. Merlin is essential
to the story, since he is mentioned in many prophecies. I gave him the name,
Merlin, not from what you might think, the Merlin of the Knights of the Round
Table, but because of the prophet, Merlin in the twelfth century, who's writings
prompted my research.
2. Research into the
life of King Charles von Habsburg found that he and his family were exiled on
the
Before World War I,
Francis Palacky, in his letter of refusal to the Frankfort National Assembly in
1848, stated that the existence of the multinational Habsburg monarchy was
justified, even indispensable, in the interests of
I believe he was right,
for since the fall of the Monarchy, we have had two world wars, and half of
3. Starting the war in
4. Many of the words and
letters by the Holy Father were from "
5. The famous sword of
Joseph of Armethia is the same sword used by Perceval in ''The True Story of
the Holy Grail". It is also mentioned by Blessed Anne
6. The Holy Crown of
Saint Steven was the possession of Charles von Habsburg, but is now lost. I have reason to believe it is being guarded
by good people and is safe.
7. The destruction of
St. Peter's in
8. The genealogy of
Philip from David is the result of hundreds of hours of research. Some of the
missing links came from prophets like Blessed
9. References to King
Arthur and the Fisher King should not be taken lightly, since they are the
result of agonizing research with a computer on the apocalyptic language of
“The True Story of the Holy Grail”. I have concluded that the stories of the
Fisher King and the Holy Grail are true, but written in apocalyptic language so
that only a few selected people would understand the meanings. The story is
like a code. For an example, look at the
chapters. Instead of calling them chapters, they are called branches,
"Branch One, Branch Two, etc." Perhaps like the branches of a family
tree?
10. The part of Godfroi
de Bouillon is true. He started the Templars, captured
11. The story of King
Philip and the Templars came from several books on the Templars. Any Templar
book will give you the whole story. I recommend that you read all about them,
especially about the deaths of the Templar Grand Master, Jacques de Moley, Hugh
de Pairaud, Geoffrey de Gonneville, and Geoffrey de Charney. All were the
leaders of the Templars. They were all burned alive on an island in the Seine
river right in the center of
12. References to the Treasure of Solomon and the Holy Grail come from Blessed
Anne
13. The description and
history of the Holy Grail also come from the revelations of Blessed Anne
14. The methods of
fighting the wars are made up. Actually I think they will be quite different
but a little unbelievable. I believe that they will be a little like the wars
of the Machabees, where the angels were actually seen fighting with them. It is
also probable that it will be a lot like the overthrow of the Marcos'
government of the
To have real people in
my story like Dona Francisca, who in a wheelchair pushed by a nurse, stood in
the center of the street to block the oncoming tanks of Marcos, would be to
unbelievable for my story. To have real people like the little Ting Ting of the
15. Ending in the three
dark days is most probable based on the prophets. The destruction of the cities
all over the world by the comet is well established in most prophesies.
16. Seven years to bury
the dead is in the bible.
17. The seven to one
ratio of women to men is also prophesied.
18. The part about the
Anti-Christ's birth and mother is exactly as revealed by the prophets.
19. One last note regarding this fiction story.
There are some things in this story that I do not believe myself, but I put
them in for particular reasons. I do not believe that the Ark of Moses will he
found during the time of "Philip",
however, I needed to use the
20. History of Knights
Templar
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ
and of the
The Templars were an unusual order in that they were both monks
and soldiers, making them in effect some of the
earliest "warrior monks"
in the Western world.
Members of the Order played a key part in many battles of the Crusades, and the Order's infrastructure
innovated many financial techniques that could be considered the foundation of
modern banking. The Order grew in membership and
power throughout Europe, until it ran afoul of King Philip IV of France
(Philip the Fair), who caused many of the order's members in France to be
tortured into confessions and burned at the stake. Under influence from King
Philip, Pope Clement V
then forcibly disbanded the order in 1314.
The high Templars were
organized as a monastic order,
following a rule created for them by their patron, Saint Bernard of
Clairvaux, a member of the Cistercian Order. Each country had a Master
of the Order for the Templars in that region, and all of them were subject to
the Grand Master,
appointed for life, who oversaw both the Order's military efforts in the East,
and their financial holdings in the West.
There were four divisions
of brothers in the Templars:
·
the knights, equipped as heavy cavalry (wore a white habit with red
cross);
·
the sergeants (serjens), equipped as light cavalry
and drawn from a lower social class
than the knights (wore a brown mantle);
·
the serving brothers - the
rural brothers (frères casaliers),
who
·
the chaplains, who were ordained priests and
saw to the spiritual needs of the Order.
With the high demand for
knights, there were also knights who signed up to the Order for a set period of
time before returning to secular life, as well as the Fratres conjugati, who were married brothers. Both of these wore
a black or brown mantle with a red cross to delineate them from the celibate
lifetime members, and were not considered to be of the same status as the
celibate brothers. It also appears that the serving brothers (frères casaliers
and frères de métiers) were not separate from the sergeants, but rather that a
sergeant who was a skilled tradesman or was unable to fight due to age or
infirmity would perform these other functions. The majority of the Templars,
including the knights and the Grand Masters, were both uneducated and
illiterate (as were most knights of the day), having come not from the upper
nobility but from more obscure families.
At any time, each knight
had some ten people in support positions. Some brothers were devoted solely to banking (typically those with an
education), as the Order was often trusted with the safekeeping of precious
goods by participants in the Crusades; but the
primary mission of the Knights Templar was warfare.
The Templars used their
wealth to construct numerous fortifications throughout the Holy Land and were probably one of the best
trained and disciplined fighting units of their day. They were also famous and
easily recognized, with a white surcoat with distinct
red cross emblazoned above the heart or on the chest, as seen in many
portrayals of crusading knights.
Initiation into the Order was a profound
commitment, and involved a secret ceremony. Few details of the rituals were
known at the time, fueling the suspicions of medieval inquisitors, but initiates, at least in the
early days of the Order, had to be of noble birth, of legitimate heritage, and
had to be willing to sign over all of their wealth and goods to the Order.
Further, joining the Order required vows of poverty, chastity, piety, and obedience.
For the warriors of the Order, there was a cardinal rule of never surrendering.
This fearless uncompromising nature of the Templars, along with excellent
training and heavy armament, made them a feared and elite fighting force in
medieval times
The order was founded
around 1118 by French knights Hughes de Payens, a veteran of the First Crusade, and Godfrey de St Omer for
the protection of pilgrims on the road from
The Order grew rapidly
because of support from key church leaders such as Bernard de
Clairvaux, and was exempt from all authority except that of the
Pope. Because of this official sanction, the order received massive donations
of money, land, and noble-born sons from families across Europe, who were
encouraged to donate support as their way of assisting with the fight in the
Though the primary mission
of the Order was a military one, only a small percentage of its members were
actually at the front lines, while many others were involved in developing a
financial infrastructure to support the warrior branch. The Order also
innovated ways of generating letters of credit for
pilgrims who were journeying to the Holy Land, which involved pilgrims
depositing their valuables with the Order before setting off on the journey.
This may have been the first form of checking put into use. From this mixture of donations
and shrewd business dealing during the 12th and 13th centuries the Order
acquired large tracts of land both in Europe and the Middle East, built
churches and castles, bought farms and vineyards, was involved in manufacturing,
import and export, had its own fleet of ships, and for a time even owned the
entire island of Cyprus.
After
Remaining Templars around
Europe, having been arrested and tried under the Papal investigation (with
virtually none convicted), were either absorbed into other military orders such
as the Order of
Christ and the Knights Hospitaller
or contemplative Benedictine or Augustinian orders; returned to the secular
life with pension; and in some cases possibly fled to other territories outside
of Papal control such as England and excommunicated Scotland. But questions still remain as to
what happened to the few hundreds of Templars across Europe, or to the fleet of
Templar ships which, according to some novels, and historical nonfiction, like
'Holy Blood and
Holy Grail',vanished from La Rochelle on October 13, 1307.
Also, the extensive archive of the Templars, with detailed records of all of
their business holdings and financial transactions, was never found, though it
is unknown whether it was destroyed, or moved to another location, or ever
existed in the first place.
In modern times, it is the Roman Catholic
Church's position that the persecution was unjust; that there was
nothing inherently wrong with the Order or its Rule; and that the Pope at the
time was severely pressured into suppressing them by the magnitude of the
public scandal and the dominating influence of
King Philip IV. In 2002, a copy of the Chinon Parchment was discovered by Dr.
Frale in the Vatican Secret
Archives. The parchment gave direct documented evidence and a new
perspective on the Knights Templar and overturned some of the centuries-old
myths and misconceptions that have grown around the Order.
Starting with founder Hughes de Payens in 1118, the Order's
highest office was that of Grand Master, a position which was held for life,
though considering the warrior nature of the Order, this could be a very short
period of time. The Grand Master oversaw all of the operations of the Order,
including both the military operations in the Holy Land and eastern Europe, and
the financial and business dealings in the Order's infrastructure of
·
Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock in
·
Akko (City of Acre) - contains a tunnel
leading to a 13th century Templar stronghold
·
Arwad,
·
The port city and fortress
of Tartous (called Tortosa by Crusaders), Syria
·
Sainte-Vaubourg,
76/Seine-Maritime,
·
Neuilly-sous-Clermont,
60/Oise,
·
Mont-de-Soissons,
02/Aisne,
·
Acquebouille,
45/Loiret,
·
La
Villedieu-Les-Maurepas, 78/Yvelines, Ile de France -
Thirteenth-century Gothic chapel with octagonal tower, and various buildings
with a surrounding wall largely restored. Departmental cultural center.
·
Coulommiers,
·
Avalleur,
·
Chinon,
·
Cressac-Blanzac,
·
La Rochelle,
·
Sergeac,
·
Domme,
·
Sainte-Eulalie-du-Cernon,
·
Richerenches,
·
La Couvertoirade,
·
Rosslyn Chapel,
·
Temple Church, Middle Temple and Inner Temple, London,
·
Temple Dinsley,
Hertfordshire,
·
Hertford,
·
Royston Cave, Royston,
·
Garway Church,
·
·
Templecombe, Somerset,
·
Temple Balsall,
·
Temple Bruer, Lincolnshire,
·
Temple Cowton, North Yorkshire,
·
Temple Ewell, Kent,
·
Temple Newsam, West Yorkshire,
·
Temple Meads, Bristol,
·
Lundy
·
Westerdale, North Yorkshire,
·
Great
Wilbraham Preceptory, Cambridgeshire,
·
Helmsley, North Yorkshire,
·
Holy Sepulchre (Round Church), Cambridgeshire,
·
Bisham Abbey, Berkshire,
·
St. Mary's, Sompting, West Sussex,
·
Tintagel Castle (Kastell Dintagell),
·
Convento de Cristo
in the Castle of Tomar
[5]
·
Church
of Santa Maria do Olival in Tomar
·
Castles of Almourol,
Idanha, Monsanto, Pombal and Zêzere
·
·
Irrigation system in Aragon, Spain [7]
·
Iglesia Veracruz
in Segovia, Spain
[8]
Other
·
Kolossi Castle in Cyprus
·
Tempelhof in Berlin, Germany
The Knights Templar have become surrounded by legends concerning secrets and mysteries handed down to the
select from ancient times. Most of these legends are connected with the long
occupation by the order of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and speculation about what
relics the Templars may have found there, such as the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant,
or fragments of the True Cross from
the Crucifixion. And still more stories were
started by fictional embellishments upon the Templar history, such as a
treasure long hidden by the Templars. This idea has been used in two recent Hollywood movies, The Da Vinci Code
and National
Treasure. The idea has also been used in the graphic novel Rex Mundi
(Dark Horse Comics) by Arvid Nelson,
and in novels by Steve Berry, The Templar Legacy, and Raymond Khoury,
The Last Templar.
Other legends have grown around the suspected associations of the Templars.
Many organizations claim traditions from the original Order (the Freemasons, for instance, began
incorporating Templar symbols and rituals in the 1700s) especially in relation
to anonymous charity and good deeds. Some of these organizations which claim
(spuriously) to be associated with the Templars are still active within
communities across the globe supporting humanistic causes such as hospitals and
medical treatment centers for the less fortunate. Additionally, while not
claiming any direct descent from Templar Jacques de Molay, the Order of DeMolay, a youth fraternity
associated with the Freemasons, cite de Molay's loyalty to his fellow Templars
in the face of execution as a bedrock moral imperative.
The dissolution of the Templar order is well documented, and its remaining
members after the destruction of the order in 1314 were absorbed into the
Knights of the
Another legend originates around Switzerland, and associates the Knights
Templar with the founding of the Swiss country.