04 October 2007
The Merovingian Next Door
The unseasonable warmth of the last few days is colliding with something cold and dank coming from the northwest. The collision of the air masses has created thick fog this morning, and the cars are piling up on the Beltway. I have to head out that way to work on a big project, so I was detoured away from the important news about Burma, since the Junta pulled the plug on the internet, or the stunning developments from Korea. The South Korean President is doing the Rocky Balboa raised hands with the Dear Leader, who is wearing a leisure suit and platform shoes.
Kim Chong Il has really taken the Elvis thing to a new level. What a suit! Before leaving Big Pink, I got a note from a pal over the weekend, saying he had met his new neighbors. They are a nice young couple, and the wife may be in line to be the next Queen of Jerusalem, once we get that Armageddon thing out of the way. Her maiden name is St. Clair, and she has done her homework.
Naturally I was interested, since any time I run across one of the House of Merovingia puts me within a couple degrees of separation to Mary and Jesus. We all know that, since it was in a book that was made into a real movie starring Tom Hanks.
It was a little disconcerting having the history of the West all turned upside down, but I think I have it figured out now. The most recent of the events linking the Saint Clairs of Scotland to the Holy Land happened not very long ago, even before Dale Brown's book was written. That means it cannot be a hoax, or copied from somebody else.
On April 14, 1998, 47-year-old Alisdair Sinclair was stopped by customs officials at Ben Gurion Airport on his way out of Israel. He had only been there six days, which is longer than some wars. The authorities found 9,000 crisp Deutschemarks concealed in the false bottom of his handbag, and of course he was detained, pending determination of what crimes he might have committed. The police thought the false bottom suggested something illegal, though of course it is possible it was just to keep the cash safe from thieves.
At the airport police station, Sinclair was found strangling on his shoelaces. He was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead. From there his body was transferred to the Abu Kabir Institute For Forensic Medicine and straight into the paws of Dr. Yehuda Hiss, who is a more notorious coroner than even the legendary Thomas Naguchi of LA. County. Hiss conducted an official autopsy, which concluded that Sinclair killed himself.
People are always doing that at the airports these days, like Carol Ann Gotbaum. Police said she must have accidentally strangled herself while trying to get out of her handcuffs when she missed her plane in Phoenix last week. I don't know how you do that with handcuffs, but it was an official press release so it must be true.
There was a problem with the body that tripped him up. Sinclair was unmarried, his parents weren't alive and he had been living in Amsterdam dealing in vintage guitars and strumming them at local pubs. It took three days to track down his next of kin in Scotland, and the police helpfully offered to bury him in Israel.
The family refused and paid about $5000 to fly the corpse home.
On May 13, another autopsy was conducted at the University of Glasgow, and the doctors there found something curious. The hyoid bone at the base of the tongue was missing, and so was the heart, both removed by Dr. Hiss. It is clear why the hyoid bone was gone; it's condition would have revealed that Sinclair did not hang himself, but rather was strangled by other means. That opens up a question in my mind about the Phoenix incident, but they did not take her heart, or mention anything about Deutsche marks.
But the missing heart is the key to the thing.
The family name “Sinclair” is, of course, derived from Saint-Claire. That means he is a descendant of one of the original Knights Templar who captured the city of Jerusalem during the first Crusade of 1099.
The Knights occupied Jerusalem until 1291, when the Holy Land was lost to the Saracens. The Knights Templar were smashed in 1307 by Philip the Fair and the Pope, who ultimately had the order's Grand Master Jacques de Molay roasted alive. I have read quite a convincing argument that it is de Molay's image on the Shroud of Turin, not that of Christ. That clears up a lot, I think.
Some fugitive Templar knights fled to Scotland, which was not under Papal control and where they were welcomed by the St Clair family. It was during this period that Robert the Bruce rose to prominence as the central figure in Scotland's struggle for independence from England's domination and the restoration of the Celtic religion.
The Sinclairs are recognized as "hereditary grand masters of Scottish Masonry" and rank high among the Merovingian families who are in line to take the throne in Jerusalem, just as soon as Christian rule is re-established. I am a little hazy on how that this going to happen, but the whole thing is based on the fact that Mary and Jesus are now known to have been married, and their descendants later intermarried with the bloodlines of the thrones of Europe.
That was kind of surprising, but I looked it up on the internet, and found it there right away. There is some other stuff from the Catholic Church that denies it, but who are you going to believe? The Pope or Tom Hanks?
There are at least a dozen families in Britain and Europe today- not to mention my pal's neighbor- of Merovingian lineage and they are ready for the challenge.
The Sinclairs had their family seat- and castle, too- in a village called Rosslyn in the Highlands of Scotland. It is important to note that the cloning of Dolly the sheep occurred at the Geron Biomed company, the commercial arm of the Roslin Institute. It is located in the same village where the Sinclairs erected the Rosslyn Chapel, a shrine to the Templars which was in the movie, too. Rossyln, the Virginia city, is just across the Potomac from Georgetown, literally in the shadow of my home at Big Pink.
The Capital was laid out by known Freemasons.
Coincidence? Ah!.
The whole thing is just now coming together. The Priory of Sion is the key to the Templars, as became clear in the fourth or fifth hour of the movie. Everyone knows that the Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion from 1984 until at least 1988, and probably longer, was Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire. His son Thomas is considered the most likely candidate in the Merovingian lineage to ascend the throne of Jerusalem as world ruler, alhotough my pal's neighbor is also a contender.
Heck, you might be too. But politically speaking, Alisdair Sinclair may have been eliminated by the Israeli Government to make way for Thomas de Saint-Clair as the Merovingian King of the world. Having a Christian king in Jersualem would be awkward for the Israelis
That is why Alisdar's missing heart is so important to a complete understanding of the real story. It is a quotation, related to Templar superstition regarding Robert the Bruce.
The Bruce was a Knight Templar and descendant of the Kings of Scotland. On his deathbed, he requested his heart be removed and taken to Jerusalem to be buried in the Knights Templar Church of the Holy Sepulchre. I'll get to that in a second.
Robert Bruce suddenly emerged as a national figure in Scotland when he provoked rebellion in the Lowland south. William Wallace was knighted, possibly by The Bruce, and was elected sole Guardian of Scotland by in 1298. After his defeat at Falkirk, Wallace was forced to resign but the rebellion continued. Late that year, the rebels appointed John Comyn and Robert Bruce to preside as joint Guardians and continue the struggle against the British.
Wallace was played by Mel Gibson in the movie Braveheart, and Gibson is a noted anti-Semite. More coincidence?
King Edward I was invited to arbitrate among the warring claimants to the Scottish throne in 1300. Edward appointed John Balliol, grandfather of Robert Bruce as Guardian, and then annexed Scotland. Naturally, the Scots were irked and rose in revolt again. They were handily defeated by Edward, who then exiled Balliol and then went on to destroy the Celtic institutions of Scotland.
The Stone of Scone, most sacred of Celtic relics, had its inscription erased and the stone itself was brought to London. I saw it there in 1972, and it remained until Tony Blair sent it back. I do not have to remind you that the former Prime Minister is rumored to have converted to Catholicism. He may also be a Mason, so you see how this all comes together.
After Wallace's capture and execution, which was the best part of the movie, Comyn fell firmly under the English. But in March 1302, a year before Wallace's capture, Bruce's father had died, leaving Bruce with a direct claim to the throne. Three months later, he concluded a secret agreement with the Bishop of Lamberton that would make The Bruce King of Scotland.
Before the could happen, something had to be done about John Comyn.
On 10 February 1306, at the church of the Grey Friars in Dumfries, Bruce stabbed Comyn with a dagger and left him to bleed to death. According to several accounts, which I have not actually seen, he did not die. Instead, Monks found him and took him to safety. When The Bruce heard about it he was pretty upset. He returned to the church and dragged Comyn back to the altar, and slaughtered him right there.
In 1314, the Battle of Bannockburn was won when a Templar force led by Sir William St Clair came to Bruce's aid. This victory settled the issue of Scottish independence, and the nation was independent for the next 289 years.
In 1322, Edward II launched his last half-hearted expedition against Scotland, which only provoked The Bruce to retaliate with incursions into Yorkshire, where he burned outbuildings and frightened the sheep.
Only seven years later, The Bruce lay dying. He directed his grandson succeed him, establishing the Stuart dynasty. He also expressed a desire to have his heart be removed, after he died, of course, and taken to Jerusalem and buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
In 1330, Sir James Douglas, Sir William Sinclair, Sir William Keith and at least two other knights embarked for the Holy Land, Douglas carrying Bruce's heart in a silver casket hung around his neck. Their itinerary took them through Spain, where they made the acquaintance of King Alfonso XI of Castile and Leon, and accompanied him on his campaign against the Moors of Granada.
On 25 March 1330, at the battle of Tebas de Ardales, the Scots were riding in the vanguard and suddenly were surrounded by howling Moslems. Douglas removed the casket from his neck and hurled it into the attacking host, crying:
“Brave heart, that ever foremost led,
Forward! as thou wast wont.
And I Shall follow thee, or else shall die!”
The title of Mel Gibson's movie was Braveheart, and that referred not to William Wallace, but to the Bruce himself! The whole thing is as plain as day when you think about it.
Douglas and his fellow Scots followed the heart, charging headlong into the Moslems. All of them died, with the exception of Sir William Keith, who had broken his arm prior to the battle and so did not participate. He retrieved the heart from the field, miraculously intact, and brought it back to Scotland. It was buried with great reverence under the east window of the chancel at Melrose Abbey.
Early in the nineteenth century, the grave containing the rest of The Bruce's body at Dunfermline Abbey was opened. According to popular tradition, he was found with his leg-bones carefully crossed immediately under his skull.
Others say it is not so, but it is clear that someone had a vested interest in linking The Bruce with the Masonic skull-and-crossbones, and hence directly to the line of the Templars and the Merovingian Kings.
It can surely be no coincidence that it was Pope John XXIII who, on June 24, 1961, lifted the ban of the Catholic Church on Freemasonry.
I think it is now conclusive. The only question in my mind is what the King of Jerusalem is going to do about the Palestinians, you know?
They don't speak English, much less Scotch.
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