From: "Terry Blanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT Re: July 4
> > From: "Mike Carrell" > > > ------------------------- > > Not *that* again! No doubt people conspire, it is endemic in *us* vs *them*. > > Look to the origins of money, banking, and control. Otherwise, considering your well-reasoned responses, you would do well to avoid even listening to me. > > Besides, I was addressing the dripping feather. -------------------------------------- Curious: what is the allusion to the "dripping feather"? I'm well out of the loop on that one. As for the Templars, there are many legends woven about them, some interesting parts of that story can be found in "The Hiram Key", a history of Freemasonry which traces roots of its elements back to ancient Egypt and includes the Templars. An argument is made that the image on the Shroud of Turin is that of Jacques DeMolay, Grand Master of the Templars, [tortured by the Inquisition before a show trial] when they were pulled down by the conspiracy of Philip the Poor of France and the Pope [after a pogrom when Jews were chased out of France and their wealth confiscated] Both died a month after DeMolay cursed them as he was burned at the stake. As for the "origins" of money. banking and control, that started in the Mediterranean basin when the Phoenicians invented money, and probably before that in China when they invented paper money. There is nothing new at all about any of this, one group rises and another falls as they are swept by the tides of events well beyond their control In the early 1400s China was *the* great power and an immense fleet was built and launched to map the world and bring it under the Chinese tribute system. The world was mapped, and America discovered in 1421. Philip the Navigator of Portugal and Columbus had seen copies of the Chinese maps. When the great fleets returned to China, the emperor had been deposed, the Mandarin bureaucrats were in control and the records of the great exploration almost tonally destroyed. Only now is China re-emerging as a great power. Sic transit gloria mundi. Mike Carrell > > > >
