by Freddy Silva
1. Guimarães, A Ordem de Christo, 12.
2. da Costa, Migueul Manescal, Definiçôes e estatuto, 16.
3. Thirty thousand years according to Sousa, João Maria, Noticia descriptive, 235–56.
4. Brito, Monarchia Lusytana, vol. II, book VI, 231–5.
5. Barbosa, Ignacio, Monumentos de Portugal, 141.
6. As defined in Jones, Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names.
7. Sousa, João Maria, Noticia descriptiva, 15–27.
8. Ibid., 43.
9. Ibid., 15–27.
10. Brito, Monarchia Lusytana, vol. III, book IX, 111.
11. Barbosa, Ignacio, Monumentos de Portugal, 130.
12. See, for example, Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, 102.
13. Sousa, João Maria, Noticia descriptiva, 175–6.
14. i.e., Zechariah 14:1–11.
15. I Kings 11:5–7.
16. Soural, 177.
17. Vogüé, Les eglises de la Terre Sainte, 322.
18. Barroca, “A Ordem do Templo,” 157.
19. See Silva, Common Wealth, 98; and Titus Livius, “Auspiciis hanc urbem conditam esse, auspiciis bello ac pace domi militiaeque omnia geri, quis est qui ignoret?” History of Rome, 41.
20. Reymond, Mythological Origin, 35; Silva, Common Wealth, 169–87.
21. Silva, Common Wealth, 169–87; Miller and Broadhurst, Sun and the Serpent; and Burke, Seed of Knowledge.
22. For example, Silva, Common Wealth; and Reymond, Mythological Origin.
23. Brito, Monarchia Lusytana, part 1, cap. 2, num. 10, c19; and cited Ferreira, Memorias e Noticias, 727–28.
24. da Costa, Bernardo, Historia da Militar Ordem de Nosso Senhor Jesus Christo, 27, 40.
CHAPTER 35. 68 AD. MOUNT SION. MEN IN WHITE, HIDING SCROLLS AND OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS . . .
1. See Allegro, Dead Sea Scrolls.
2. See Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica; and the writings of Euthychius, Exarch of Ravenna.
3. See Pixner, “Jerusalem’s Essene Gateway.”
4. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 374.
5. See discussion in Knight and Lomas, Hiram Key, 54.
6. Hyppolytus in The Refutation of All Heresies. See Peake, Peake’s Commentary on the Bible; and Knight and Lomas, Hiram Key, 72.
7. Daraul, Secret Societies; and cited Knight and Lomas, Hiram Key, 75.
8. Drower, Mandeans of Iraq and Iran, 264.
9. Knight and Lomas, Hiram Key, 74–75.
10. Schonfield, Essene Odyssey.
11. Ibid.
12. i.e., Burke, Seed of Knowledge; and Silva, Common Wealth.
13. Hooke, Myth, Ritual, and Kingship.
14. Allegro, Treasure of the Copper Scroll, 33–55.
15. Ibid., 58.
16. Ibid., 107.
17. Ibid., 84.
18. Ibid., 55.
19. i.e., Fagan and Beck, Oxford Companion to Archeology, entry on the “Dead Sea Scrolls.”
20. Schonfield, Essene Odyssey, 162–65.
CHAPTER 36. 1159. COIMBRA. THE KING OF PORTUGAL’S DESK, PART I . . .
1. Cited Barber, Trial of the Templars, 144–46.
CHAPTER 37. 1159. COIMBRA. THE KING OF PORTUGAL’S DESK, PART II . . .
1. Ward, Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods, 286.
2. See, for example, Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic.
3. Ibid., 190.
4. i.e., Chatwin, Songlines.
5. Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, 189.
CHAPTER 38. 1159. COIMBRA. THE KING OF PORTUGAL’S DESK, PART III . . .
1. Allegro, Dead Sea Scrolls, 110.
2. See discussion in Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 330–38; also Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, 53–59, 142–45.
3. Thiering, Jesus the Man, 151; and Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, 85.
4. John II: 1–2; and Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 337.
5. i.e., Begg, Cult of the Black Virgin, 103; Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 334–38; and Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, 102.
6. Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, 91.
7. I Samuel 14:27.
8. Proverbs 24:13–14.
9. i.e., Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood Holy Grail.
10. Runciman, History of the Crusades, 286–87.
11. Branco, Ineditos da cronica, 37–38.
12. Figueiredo, Historia da Militaria Ordem de Malta, ii.
13. Brito, Monarchia Lusytana, 214–16; document in the Cistercian abbey of Alcobaça.
14. Luke 8:10.
15. i.e., Knight and Lomas, Hiram Key.
16. See, for example, Pagels, Gnostic Gospels; also Knight and Lomas, Hiram Key.
17. See Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar; and Jacq, Magic and Mystery in Ancient Egypt, 19.
18. Jarman, Geoffrey of Monmouth.
19. Knight and Lomas, Second Messiah, 103–8.
20. Godwin, Holy Grail, 12–20 (Langue d’Oc spelling).
21. d’Albon, Cartulaire général, CXCIV and CXCVI.
22. Knight and Lomas, Second Messiah, 114.
23. Barber, Knight and Chivalry, 126.
24. Anonymous, Perlesvaus, 359.
25. Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival.
26. Gardner, Magdalene Legacy, 142–43.
27. Jenkins and Sofos, Nation and Identity.
28. i.e., Gildas, De exidio et conquestu Britanniae; and Green, Concepts of Arthur.
29. Brito, Primeira parte. The chronicler Brito dates the battle to 1158, equivalent to 1120 AD.
30. Ussama ibn Munqiah, twelfth century, cited in Maalouf, Les Croisades vues par les Arabes.
31. d’Albon, Cartulaire général, CXCIV and CXCVI, July 22 and 25, respectively.
32. Thiering, Jesus the Man, 151; and Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, 85.
CHAPTER 39. 1160. MARCH 1. A DAWN CEREMONY ON THE PROMONTORY ABOVE THAMAR . . .
1. Lawlor, Sacred Geometry, 10.
2. Barroca, “A Ordem do Templo, 179, 196.
3. See also Sousa, João Maria, Noticia descriptiva, 103–6.
4. Convent of Christ. See Barbosa, Ignacio, Monumentos de Portugal, 132.
5. II Samuel 13:1.
6. Thiering, Jesus the Man, 151; and Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 85. See I Kings 9:18.
7. Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, 414–15.
8. Archivo pittoresco, 346.
9. Ibid., 345; and Santos, José António, Monumentos das ordens militares, 141–49.
CHAPTER 40. PRESENT ERA. APRIL. INSIDE THE ROTUNDA OF TOMAR . . .
1. Archivo pittoresco, 345.
2. Bernard de Clairvaux, Apologia.
3. Anonymous, Secret Societies of the Middle Ages, 308.
4. Schottmuller, Der Untergang des Templer-Ordens, 164.
5. Serbanesco, Histoire de l’Ordre des Templiers, 259–66.
6. Danby, Mishnah.
7. Allegro, Dead Sea Scrolls, 113.
8. See Peake, Peake’s Commentary on the Bible.
9. Pinkerfield, Bishvili Omanut Yehudit.
10. Bromiley, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, vol. 2.
11. Markale, Templar Treasure at Gisors, 65.
CHAPTER 41. 1865. THE VATICAN. POPE PIUS IX GETS ALL STEAMED UP . . .
1. Pope Pius IX, “The Allocution against the Freemasons,” cited in Wright, Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry, 137–144; and Pike, “Allocution of Pio Nono,” 817.
2. Pope Pius IX, “The Allocution against Freemasons,” cited in Wright, Roman Catholicism and Freemasonry, 137–144; and Mackenzie, Kenneth, Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia.
3. i.e., Pike, “Allocution of Pio Nono.”
4. Serbanesco, Histoire de l’Ordre des Templiers, 259–66.
5. See Bembo, Letters and Comments on Pope Leo X; and Bale, Acta romanorum pontificum, where the phrase was published as a satire. And yet, far from being a satirical quot
e, Pope Leo X’s phrase was witnessed and recorded by Cardinal Pietro Bembo and Cardinal Paolo Giovio (De vita leonis decimi). The records of Cardinal Caesar Baronius—a former Vatican librarian and the church’s most outstanding historian—provide information of falsification in Christianity. Concerning Pope Leo’s declaration, he wrote, “The Pontiff has been accused of atheism, for he denied God and called Christ, in front of cardinals Pietro Bembo, Jovius and Iacopo Sadoleto and other intimates, ‘a fable,’ it must be corrected” (Annales Ecclesiastici, tomes viii and xi). As noted in the Catholic Encyclopedia (Pecci ed., iii, 312–14, passim), the church nullified this destructive quote by arguing that what Leo had meant by “profitable” was “gainful,” and by “fable” was “tradition.” Hence, it was restated as, “How well Christians have gained from this wonderful tradition of Christ.” However, Cardinal Bembo, the pope’s secretary for seven years, added that Leo “was known to disbelieve Christianity itself. He advanced contrary to the faith and that in condemning the Gospel, therefore he must be a heretic.”
6. Pagels, Gnostic Gospels, 23, 100.
7. Ibid., 19.
8. Barber, Trial of the Templars, 62; and Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 76–82.
9. Broadhurst, Green Man.
10. In Gordon, Prehistoric London.
11. Vermes, Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, 86.
12. Haskins, Mary Magdalene, 35–37.
13. See also Knight and Lomas, Hiram Key, 269.
14. See for example, Drower, Mandeans of Iraq and Iran.
15. i.e., Roberts, Journey of the Magi, 282
16. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Messianic Legacy, 92.
17. Roberts, Journey of the Magi, 278.
18. Silva, Lost Art of Resurrection.
19. Michael, Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland, 61.
20. i.e., Scarre and Lawson, Archaeoacoustics; Ostrander, Psychic Discoveries, 1070; Silva, Common Wealth; Merz, Points of Cosmic Energy; and Jahn, “Acoustical Resonances of Assorted Ancient Structures.”
CHAPTER 42. PRESENT ERA. APRIL. BY THE ROTUNDA, AMID THE SECRETS OF THE BEEHIVE . . .
1. Santos, José António, Monumentos das ordens militares, 142; and Archivo pittoresco, 345.
2. Santos, José António, Monumentos das ordens militares, 142.
3. Sousa, João Maria, Noticia descriptiva, 50; and Archivo pittoresco, 345.
4. Sousa, João Maria, Noticia descriptiva, 180–81.
5. Guinguand, L’Or des Templiers, 67.
6. Cited Paraschi, Portugal magico dos Templarios, 44–45.
7. Ibid.
8. Ricardo Branco, cethomar.blogspot.com/2007/02/o-tesouro-dos-templrios -em-tomar_09.html.
9. Wilson, Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem.
10. Silva, Common Wealth, 219–27, op. cit.
11. For example, Bauval, Heaven’s Mirror; and Charpentier, Secrets of Chartres Cathedral.
12. Silva, Common Wealth; and Lubicz, Temple of Man.
13. Silva, Common Wealth.
14. Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.
15. Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, 261.
16. Markale, Templar Treasure at Gisors, 66.
17. See Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 122.
18. Ibid.
19. Oliver, Historical Landmarks, 5.
20. IN: E: M: CL: VIII, era of Caesar 1198 or 1160 AD. José Hermano Saraiva, cited in Ricardo Branco, “Descobertas em Tomar,” cethomar.blogspot .com/2008/08/descobertas-em-tomar.html, August 13, 2008.
21. Recounted by Scaliburis and posted in http://cethomar.blogspot.com/2009/07/porta-do-hades.html, March 7, 2009.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
CHAPTER 43. PRESENT ERA. APRIL. MUSING OUTSIDE THE BEEHIVE . . .
1. Stevenson, Origins of Freemasonry, 83.
2. Ferris, Coming of Age, 85.
3. Ibid., 79.
4. Christianson, In the Presence of the Creator, 362.
5. Ibid., 256–62
6. In Newton, Principia.
7. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 131.
8. Keynes, “Newton, the Man,” 27–29.
9. Yates, Giordani Bruno, 115.
10. Hourani, History of the Arab Peoples.
11. See Bauval, Heaven’s Mirror.
12. Murray, Handbook for Travellers in Portugal, 84.
CHAPTER 44. 1165. MONSANTO. PECULIAR BEHAVIOR ON AN UNUSUAL HILL . . .
1. i.e., Lubicz, Temple of Man; Bauval, Heaven’s Mirror.
2. Reid, Egyptian Sonics, 16.
3. Jahn, Devereux, and Ibison, “Acoustical Resonances of Assorted Ancient Structures”; Cook, Pajot, and Leuchter, “Ancient Architectural Acoustic Resonance Patterns and Regional Brain Activity,” 95–104.
4. Ibid.
CHAPTER 45. PRESENT ERA. MONSANTO. AND OTHER PLACES FOR MUSING . . .
1. Migne, “Exhortatorius sermo,” in Patrologia Latina tomus, 185, 320; and Migne, in Upton-Ward, Rule of the Templars, 166, 853–76.
2. Cited Barber, Trial of the Templars, 8.
3. Also observed by Olsen, Templar Papers, 108.
4. See Mackenzie, Donald Alexander, Wonder Tales.
5. Sousa, Manuel de Faria e, Europa Portugueza, 44.
6. Almeida, Fernando, “Templo de Venus em Idanha-a-Velha,” 133–39.
7. Ibid.
8. Boletim da D.G.E.M.N., 25.
9. For example, Burke, Seed of Knowledge.
10. i.e., Miller and Broadhurst, Dance of the Dragon; Cowan and Arnold, Ley Lines and Earth Energies; and Pierre Mereaux, Des pierres pour les vivants; and Brooker, “Magnetism and Standing Stones.”
11. Howells, Heathens.
12. Phillips, Tony, “Magnetic Portals.”
13. Reymond, Mythological Origin, 35.
14. For example, Silva, Common Wealth; and Miller and Broadhurst, Sun and the Serpent.
15. Wilhelm, I Ching, 39.
16. Brooker, “Magnetism and Standing Stones.”
17. Merz, Points of Cosmic Energy, 32–33.
18. Ibid., 31.
19. Burke, Seed of Knowledge, 129.
20. Pierre Mereaux, Des pierres pour les vivants, 138.
21. Devereux, Earth Memory, 168; and Burke, Seed of Knowledge, 126–29.
22. Burke, Seed of Knowledge, 126.
23. Persinger, Ruttan, and Koren, “Enhancement of Temporal Lobe–Related Experiences,” 33–45; and cited Silva, Common Wealth, 192.
24. Roney-Dougal, Faery Faith, Green Magic, 10–40; and May, “Review of the Psychoenergetic Research.”
25. Serviço Meteorológico de Portugal, 1962.
26. Murray, Handbook for Travellers in Portugal, xxxiiii.
27. Strabo, “Lapides multis in locis ternos.”
CHAPTER 46. 1147. SINTRA. A FUNNY THING HAPPENS ON THE WAY TO THE CASTLE . . .
1. Juromenha, Cintra pinturesca, 134.
2. al-Qazwini, ‘Ajā’ ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā’ ib al-mawjūdāt.
3. Account of Abilio Duarte, cited in Adrião, Sintra, serra sagrada.
4. O Domingo Ilustrado 2, no. 57.
5. Juromenha, Cintra pinturesca, 134.
6. Ibid.
7. da Costa, Miguel Manescal, Definiçôes e estatuto.
8. Livro dos mastrados, fl. 66, Order of Christ, cod. no. 233, fl. CXXXIII, and cod. no. 235, fl. 68, v., now in National Archives of Torre do Tombo.
9. ANTT, gaveta 1, maço. 2, no. 18, Torre do Tombo.
10. Ibid. Undated, but linked to the reign of Afonso II circa 1220. Nearby Freixal was also granted to the Hospitallers in 1195. See Sintra e Seu Concelho, vol. 1, 39.
11. Chancelaria de D. Fernando, 70.
CHAPTER 47. PRESENT ERA. SINTRA. IN THE FOREST OF ANGELS . . .
1. Serbanesco, Histoire de l’Ordre des Templiers, 300–307.
2. Attributed to Roncelin de Fos, but it was already in circulation by 1240.
3. See also article
29, “Rule of the Elected Brothers,” in Serbanesco, Histoire de l’Ordre des Templiers, 259–66.
4. Cited Upton-Ward, Rule of the Templars, 92.
5. Ibid.
6. Serbanesco, Histoire de l’Ordre des Templiers, article 18, 302.
7. Ibid., article 5, 300.
8. See Cyntrão, no. 6, 1912.
9. i.e., Silva, Common Wealth; Mereaux, Carnac: Des Pierres Pour Les Vivants; Miller and Broadhurst, Dance of the Dragon; Burke, Seed of Knowledge.
10. Gandra, O eterno feminino.
11. See, for example, the survey conducted in 1962 by the Serviço Meteorológico de Portugal.
12. Leal, Portugal antigo e moderno, 301.
13. Osbernus, account in David, Charles Wendell, De expugnatione Lyxbonensi.
14. See Juromenha, Cintra pinturesca, 10–12.
15. Strabo, “Lapides multis in locis ternos.”
16. Royal charter of August 18, 1281, chancellory of D. Dinis, 1. 1. °, fl. 35.
17. Morgado, Augusto, Epoca, August 12, 1972.
18. Associação Portuguesa Para a Investigação, www.gigi.pt (accessed June 9, 2017).
19. Cited David, Charles Wendell, De expugnatione Lyxbonensi, 93.
20. Mackenzie, Kenneth, Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia, 325, 593–94, 719–22; Tucket, Origin of the Additional Degrees, 10; Thory, Acta latomorum ou chronologie de l’histoire de la Franche-maconnerie Francaise et etrangere, 52; and Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Temple and the Lodge, 194.
21. Pereira, Pereira, and Anes, Quinta da Regaleira, 82.
CHAPTER 48. PRESENT ERA. APRIL. IN THE SHADOW OF A STATUE IN TOMAR . . .
1. Brito, Primeira parte, 214–16.
2. Matthews, Grail, 12.
3. See study in Pagani, “Ethiopian Genetic Diversity.”
4. See Hancock, Sign and the Seal.
5. Quadros, Memorias das origens, 326–39.
CHAPTER 49. 1153. GOSSIP IN THE ALLEYWAYS OF JERUSALEM . . .
1. Otto of Friesing, Historia de duabus civitatibus, vol. VII.
2. Encyclopedia Britannica, 306.
3. FromLegatio Dauid Aethiopia Regis; and Góis, Fides, religio, moresque Aethiopum.
4. See discussion in Hancock, Sign and the Seal, 80–83
5. Pirenne, “Des Grecs à l’aurore de la culture monumentale Sabéenne,” AP 257, in Fahd, L’Arabie preislamique.
6. Jewish Encyclopedia, 497.
7. Hancock, Sign and the Seal, 115.
8. Sergew, Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History, 265.
9. Daehnhardt, Paginas secretas da historia de Portugal, 54.
CHAPTER 50. 1312. SOUTHERN PORTUGAL. THE TEMPLARS ENJOY A SIX-YEAR VACATION . . .
