If its strange, it must be true

My Rougemont/Rosamomd family were Orangeman who refused Catholic 
lands and thus rejected the Protestant Ascendancy which resembles 
the aims of the Priory de Sion. Like the Priory de Sion and the 
Knight Templars, the Orange Order was accused of performing Satanic 
rituals. Several strange people have been getting much attention by 
promoting a holy and rosy bloodline that has attracted much 
controversy and provoked strange spiritual and religious history, 
most of it unproven. However, these people are deemed valid, while I 
am labeled a crackpot.

I will now catalogue some of the real history that has surrounded my 
family that resembles this strange history.

1. Two God-men from India estabish ashrams in Ojai Calfifornia. 
Meher Baba claimed he is Jesus incarnate, and the Theosophic Society 
is claiming Khrishnamurti is the second coming of Jesus. There are 
numberous photos of anglo-American women in Indian garb taken in 
Ojai going back to the 30s. Baba claims he is emitting a light and 
awakening that will affect many from a distance.

2. My kin Conrad Wienke builds his home in Ojai. His sister, Mary 
Magdalene Rosamond, becomes a follower of Khrishnanmurti.

3. Mary's husband, Royal Rosamond, is a good friend of Dashiel 
Hammet who wrote 'The Maltese Falcon' that belonged to the Knight 
Templars. Royal and Dashile used to sail to the Anacapa islands that 
can be seen from atop Sulpher Mountain were these God-men made their 
homes in the West.

4. After a near-death experience in 1967, I become a follower of 
Meher Baba. I would hear Khrishnamurti speak in San Francisco.

5. In 1970 I discover the Pre-Raphaelite artists who employ Grail 
legends in their work.

6. I share the philosophy of the Pre-Raphaelites with my sister, 
Christine, it my hope we will become the new Rossetti family.

7. Christine become the highest paid artist in the world, her 
beautiful women resembling the work of the Pre-Raphalites.

8. Christine marries into a famous Masonic families, the Bentons.

9. Christine Rosamond Benton becomes friends with billionaires, she 
close to the Getty family, and the Philip Green family. The Gettys 
own much of the world's art stored in a fabulous museum. 

10. Christine announces her impending death seconds before a rougue 
waves takes her in the ocean.

11. I prove this account is false, and began a fight in a Superior 
Court to keep the Ascendecy of Outsiders from taking over my family 
history and selling it to pay off creditors, and enrich themselves.

12. One of the creditors is a friend of the Bentons, and the Getty 
families righthand man. He is in patnership with Nancy Pelosi and 
Gavin Newsom whom many conclude lost the Presidential election to 
Bush and his evangelico crusader army due to lack of "moral and 
family values".

13. The evangelicos are real religious radicals and nuts. 



Jon


"This elaborate, highly ritualistic, Masonic organisation with all 
its elaborate degrees, rituals and secrets clearly belongs far 
outside the bounds of evangelical Protestantism. The organisation 
becomes a massive barrier to truth for the initiate rather than an 
appropriate channel to reach him. This type of nonsense is contrary 
to the traditional mode of service that Protestants have always 
enjoyed. In no place in Scripture do we see any semblance of 
instruction for believers to behave in such an unseemly manner. As 
evangelicals we must therefore oppose such evil encroachments. God's 
Word says: "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou 
shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it" (Deuteronomy 12:32). 
As we scrutinise the degrading Masonic degrees, rituals and secrets 
we ultimately find an ancient, alien, pagan edifice manufactured by 
men of 'another spirit', who designed it to lure the ignorant away 
from the truth and simplicity of 'the faith' rather than closer to 
it. The Bible says, "For there are certain men crept in unawares, 
who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, 
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the 
only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ?. Woe unto them! for they 
have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of 
Balaam for reward" (Jude v4&11). 

Grand Secretary of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland William J. 
Gwynn said on 4th January 1878 that the Orange Institution 
was "disgraced by members professing to obey its laws, yet 
jesuitically and secretly adding these silly devices." He 
affirmed, "They love darkness rather than light, for did they come 
to the light they would incur the hazard of criminal prosecution by 
the law of the land. Such ignoring of the Orange laws is the 
parallel of Ritualism in our Church, whereby Christ's Gospel is 
ignored, and blind man's invention substituted." 
This degrading ceremony, which was, clearly, so offensive to 
Orangeism in the 1800s is still contaminating the Protestant people 
today. It is of such an extreme and depraved nature that it must be 
viewed as not just an attack upon the Reformed Faith but also upon 
human decency. There is surely no reasonable citizen throughout our 
land, (whether saved or unsaved) who cannot see the destructive 
force of such an initiation. This rite, which not only strips a man 
of his clothes but also of his self-respect, must be rooted out of 
the midst of the Protestant camp lest it remain an obstacle to the 
blessing of God in our land. It would certainly take a depraved mind 
to contend that this degree could in anyway advance the glorious 
cause of Christ. 

Occult author Andre Nataf in his book 'The Occult' reveals the real 
significance of ritual initiation when he states, "To be initiated 
is to set off on the trail of an occult truth, which not all can 
perceive. Initiation is a ritually transmitted process" (p. 81). 
The Masonic Lodge is, in reality, paganism in disguise. Only Satan 
could devise a ceremony, which could so commonly be shared 
throughout the world by Protestant Orangemen, Masons and Witches 
alike. The Bible warns, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your 
adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom 
he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the 
same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the 
world" (1 Peter 5:8-9). 

It is amazing to see the ease and the extent to which the devil has 
infiltrated Protestantism today with this shameful structure. It is 
even more disturbing to see the amount of professing Christians who 
are drawn into such blatant error. Satan, by subtly labelling the 
Order 'Protestant' has craftily lured many unsuspecting men into 
this destructive spiritual bondage. Sadly, many professing believers 
have been so deluded they are found, today, defending such 
heathenism, as if it were somehow an integral part of evangelical 
Protestantism. 
Founder of the Illuminati organisation and former Jesuit Priest Adam 
Weishaupt once boasted, "The most wonderful thing of all is that the 
distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our 
Order [the Illuminati] really believe that they see in it the true 
and genuine sense of the Christian religion. Oh, mortal man, is 
there any thing you cannot be made to believe?" ('The Worlds Last 
Dictator' p. 15). 
The degrading practices of the Masonic are in such stark contrast to 
the life and teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ that one can easily 
discern that the enemy has sown tares. Significantly, no one ever 
treated the individual with more compassion and respect than the 
Lord did. Any man involved in this obscene behaviour must therefore 
follow our Lord's example and the instruction of His Word, and 
separate from such indecency. 
The Bible says, "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the 
Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished 
in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with 
thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and 
vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the 
world, and not after Christ" (Colossians 2:6-8). 
The Protestant Ascendancy is a term officially used in the 1790s, to 
describe the Anglo-Irish throughout the eighteenth century. The term 
Protestant Ascendancy refers specifically to Anglican Protestants. 
However, it does not mean only the landed gentry and aristocracy; 
descendants of the English Plantation. It's membership is defined 
as "...a social elite, professional as well as landed, whose descent 
could be Norman, Old English, Cromwellian or even (in a very few 
cases) ancient Gaelic." The Ascendancy also had lower levels of 
middling landowners, lawyers and clergymen. Students of the Anglican 
Trinity College, were also considered a part of the Ascendancy even 
though their fathers may be shoemakers or butchers. Movement within 
the Ascendancy is easily accomplished, as the upper gentry 
associated with the lower ranks. Essentially, the Protestant 
Ascendancy was a class consciousness, based on religion, not race or 
income, and developed its own culture and style of thought, based on 
being Irish.(6) The Anglo-Irish had been living in Ireland for at 
least 100 years, and identified themselves with the land, but not 
the Catholics whose land they were living on.(7) With the help of 
the penal laws, even the "...lower orders of protestants...had 
become a kind of plebeian aristocracy," believing they belonged to 
the Ascendancy.(8)
http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~speters/orange.html
http://www.nireland.com/evangelicaltruth/orange.html
The Masonic: 
(1)Is an actual religion, 
(2)It has its own god, 
(3) It has its own beliefs and practices. 
The infallible means by which Masonry and its degrees must be tested.
Why Masonry is a counterfeit religion.
Why Masonry is a subtle alternative. 
Wiccan Witchcraft revealed and compared to Freemasonry. 
Lodge Secrecy
Lodge Symbolism 
http://www.perillos.com/info.html
http://www.philipcoppens.com/roadnews01.html
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/conference/speakers/PC05.htm

MY SOUL IS AT PEACE IN SAINT SULPICE
Robin Crookshank Hilton (c)
 
Feast Day of St John the Baptist, June 24th 2003. 
One of the most exciting, albeit totally unexpected, developments in 
the Fringe community this year is that a sliver of our obscure world 
has suddenly become... yes, Mainstream! Dragged, kicking and 
screaming into the limelight, we finally got our fifteen minutes of 
fame.

As a result of the New York Times' bestseller booklist being roundly 
trounced by Dan Brown's engaging thriller, The Da Vinci Code, I can 
now even speak to people as normal as my own mother about the Priory 
of Sion without having to resort to hours of convoluted explanations.

In a nutshell, Brown (who, in my humble opinion, should be elevated 
to the status of a Fringe Minor Deity) has woven an addictive 
mystery around the existence of a centuries-old Secret Society, said 
to have been formed to protect the earth shattering secret of a 
treasure of great importance to mankind. But, does such an all-
powerful Secret Society, which counts luminaries including Leonardo 
da Vinci, Issac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Jean Cocteau among its 
Grandmasters, really exist, as Dan Brown and others have claimed?

Well, I guess it depends on one's definition of "exist".


 Save Your Money, May 5, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
I found the purpose of this book difficult to comprehend - I still 
have no idea just what it is that Douzet expects readers to come 
away with. Douzet goes to great lengths to persuade readers that a 
topographical model, one of a set of two models showing excavations 
of the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is 
actually a model of the area near the ruined village of Perillos in 
France. The trouble is, it bears no physical resemblance whatsoever 
to the topography around Perillos when compared to IGN maps. Also, 
the mate to the model, long held in the possession of the late 
Biblical archaeologist Monsignor Enrico Galbiati, is known to 
archaeologists, and is unquestionably that of the excavations of the 
Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Douzet fails to explain adequately why 
a matched set of models - before and after views of a well-known 
excavation site - are in fact two separate places on different 
continents. In addition, Douzet's account of the history of the 
Perillos family is sorely lacking in authenticity. A descendant of 
the family, known to Douzet's publisher, tried working with Douzet 
to make some sense out of the theories, but gave up in frustration, 
citing Douzet's inability to comprehend simple historical points and 
unwilling to part with hypotheses that were at odds with historical 
records. Douzet is similarly unclear about what "secrets" Perillos 
holds. He has, at various times, claimed the ghost town as the 
secret burial place of both Jesus Christ and Joseph of Arimathea, 
and most recently of the Order of Malta Grand Master Ramon Perellos 
Roccafull - whose marble sarcophagus, a well-known masterpiece of 
Baroque sculpture, lies in the Cathedral of the Order in Valetta, 
Malta. I found this book poorly researched, poorly footnoted, and 
really difficult to read. I still don't understand the point of it.

http://www.philipcoppens.com/burrowscave_img.html

http://priory-of-sion.com/posd/rch.html

Robin Crookshank Hilton ? Peddling Plantard Today
 
Pierre Plantard has been totally discredited and demystified ? he 
was a proven lifelong confidence trickster with a criminal record - 
his most successful period in France lasted for nearly two decades 
which became terminated by the mid-1980s ? and when Plantard tried 
to make a comeback in 1989 with a different version of his myth he 
was completely ignored in France. He has been regarded as a joke of 
the past in France for a long time. This information alone is 
completely new to many people. 
Despite all of this, there are those who idolise Plantard and who 
really believe that there was something "serious" behind his myth of 
the "Priory of Sion" ? one of the leading promoters of the Plantard 
memory today is one Robin Crookshank Hilton, a quasi-pagan bent on 
researching "esoteric secrets" and who is currently one of the 
editors of Phenomena magazine, a publication devoted to New Age 
Mysticism and Pseudo-History.
 
During the 1980s Robin Crookshank Hilton was reportedly a High 
Priestess Gardinarian witch as well as promoting herself as the 
incarnation of the Egyptian Goddess Isis ? she later developed a 
technique for practising "Remote Viewing" where she allegedly 
communicated with the spirit of dead alchemist Nicolas Flamel ? and 
much more recently she has convinced herself that the character 
of `Sophie Neveu' in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code was based 
upon her. She has also been active presenting bogus letters alleging 
that Plantard is still alive (with her routine disclaimers) and she 
is also active in selling the 1960s Dossiers Secrets version of 
Plantard's myth on her website.
Robin Crookshank Hilton was at one time a supporter of the impostor 
Michael Lafosse, a Belgian believing himself to be "Prince Michael 
of Albany" the direct descendant of Bonnie Prince Charlie and 
legitimate claimant to the Throne of the House of Stuart ? her 
messages (written under the pseudonym of "Stella Maris") from the 
now-defunct Entropic Forum (called "Brainstorming Sessions") can be 
read here. 
Robin Crookshank Hilton does not operate alone ? her activities 
include an association with one Timothy Carmain ? a working class 
American Citizen who promotes himself as a descendant of a Noble 
French Family ? except that the Carmain family that he pretends to 
be descended from has been extinct for centuries. Carmain's 
behaviour does not differ much from Plantard's ? his inability to 
provide genealogical proof to substantiate his "bloodline" claims 
does not deter him from continuing to convince others of his 
fantasy ? a universal feature found amongst all impostors who claim 
having royal ancestries in their blood. Carmain's attempts to 
convince others on the Internet have failed abysmally and he simply 
gets sizzled by the intellectual heavyweights who require proof from 
him ? Carmain can only operate on Internet "discussion lists" that 
are moderated by like-minded people that are mystery-buffs looking 
for "esoteric secrets". Carmain has never visited France and does 
not understand the French Language. He is, like Plantard before him, 
someone who seeks justification through being of Noble Descent and 
shares the same platform as Michael Lafosse and Nicolas De Vere in 
this respect (Carmain naturally anathematises Plantard, Lafosse and 
De Vere). Like Crookshank Hilton, Carmain is a quasi-pagan who 
seriously believes that he has an association with the Gods of 
Ancient Greece and believes that Christianity is based upon the 
Greek myth of Iason or Esus.
Both Robin Crookshank Hilton and Timothy Carmain claim to be Priory 
of Sion "critics" ? except that their scepticism does not 
incorporate Pierre Plantard's anti-semitism, confidence trickery and 
criminal convictions ? and Carmain even believes in portions of the 
Priory of Sion myths (eg, the fantasy that the Abbé Pichon 
manufactured Merovingian genealogies for Napoleon Bonaparte ? 
despite the lack of evidence and that this was made-up by Plantard 
in the first place, who could not justify anything about this during 
his lifetime).
Robin Crookshank Hilton is most forthright in her rejection of 
Plantard's anti-semitism and criminal convictions ? despite the 
evidence obtained from the Prefectures of Police in Paris and St 
Julien-en-Genevois about these things. Anyone who does not share her 
rejections of this evidence is simply labelled a "nutcase" by her. 
In the recent past, Crookshank Hilton has simply rejected the 
evidence from the Prefectures of Police as "forgeries". And as 
recently as 10 February Crookshank Hilton has repeated her 
nonsensical allegation that "nobody has independently verified 
Plantard's criminal convictions".
Likewise, Carmain has never acknowledged Plantard's anti-semitism 
and has never accepted the reality of Plantard's criminal 
convictions (and what Carmain prepares to accept about Plantard's 
convictions does not in any way correspond with the real facts at 
all ? Plantard was imprisoned twice ? in 1953 and in 1956).
 
So what does this all add up to?
Just that both Carmain and Crookshank Hilton are two mystery buffs 
holding strong beliefs in "esoteric secrets and hidden mysteries" 
hoping to become themselves an integral part of the fantasy world 
which they seriously believe exists ? and just how they see 
themselves in this respect ? whether they pursue their activities 
for real or for fun - only they know: but the myth of the Priory of 
Sion continues to attract a whole manner of various people who for 
various reasons want to exploit what Plantard began ? and the 
temptation to form a New Age version of the Plantard myth 
(called "MemoryMap") ? being sanitised of Plantard's anti-semitism, 
confidence trickeries and criminal convictions (these facts 
naturally act as an obstacle) is just too tempting for those with 
weak powers of common sense reasoning?..
Subject: RE: Dynatic ambitions of House of Stuart?
From: Stella Maris
Date: 08/12/97

I don't think the element of timing should be overlooked in this 
discussion.

On September 11th, Scotland will be voting in a referendum to decide 
whether or not it will have its own Parliament with tax-raising 
powers. If the Scottish people vote 'Yes', by January 1, 2000, 
Scotland will have its own independent Parliament for the first time 
since 1707. Whilst this is not exactly independence, it is an 
extremely interesting step, and is bound to trigger an enormous 
shift in the national consciousness.

The time would therefore appear to be ripe for a well-placed 
charismatic prince to emerge to claim his 'rightful' throne 
alongside the newly independent political structure...
 


Subject: RE: Dynatic ambitions of House of Stuart?
From: Stella Maris
Date: 08/12/97

It's interesting listening to some of the television commentary in 
the run-up to the Scottish Referendum...
all the Scottish commentators refer to Britain's present Queen 
Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth II of England and Elizabeth I of 
Scotland. Sounds like a mouthful, but it definitely makes the point 
that, hundreds of years later, the Scottish people STILL haven't 
recognised Mary Stuart's rival, Elizabeth I of England, as their 
queen.

I think Prince Michael may have a pretty good chance...
 


Subject: RE: As above so below - in heavens so earth
From: Stella Maris
Date: 07/23/97

And the conjunction of the intersecting tetra light cones (the 
colour of which is resonating as green in the light spectrum) and 
the intersecting penta light spirals enables energy to be 
transformed into matter, or, directed thought into reality.

The conjunction of the 'male' light hexagram and the 'female' light 
pentagram (the shape of which somewhat resembles a rose when viewed 
in full from above) is the Sacred Marriage, giving Birth to Matter, 
or as I call it, Reality.

The Grail serves the servants of Creation.
 
 
 
Subject: RE: As above so below - in heavens so earth
From: Stella Maris
Date: 07/23/97

p.s. It is this 'formula' that is 'built' into the 'sacred' sites 
such as Stonehenge, the cathedrals, etc, even the mandalas. And 
these structures are 'entrained' to the 'frequency' of the earth and 
the universe.

p.p.s. And when the brainwaves and the heartbeat and the breathing 
are all entrained to these 'frequencies' this directed alignment 
enables 'prayers' to be 'answered', in other words, it enables 
directed thought to manifest into reality...
 
 


Subject: RE: As above so below - in heavens so earth
From: Stella Maris
Date: 07/27/97

Quick update on above, information is a bit vague, but it looks like 
the timing of Sirius rising back into visibility coincided with the 
rising of the sun on July 10th in Egyptian times, this was taken as 
the signal for the innundation of the Nile, the rising of the waters.

The conjunction of Sirius with the sun now takes place on July 23rd, 
the day after Mary Magdalene's feast day...

And speaking of conjunctions, I solved one little mystery that has 
been bugging me... When I visited the Observatory in Paris (which 
was built by Louis XIV under the auspices of Newton, the Helmsman) I 
noted that the painting on the ceiling of the main meeting room 
depicted the 'meeting' of Venus and Jupiter in their chariots, which 
I interpreted as the conjunction of the two planets.

At the time I thought it was an alchemical symbol, but yesterday as 
I was surfing around looking for Sirius, I came across an 
astronomer's website about the Star of Bethlehem... it seems that on 
June 17th, 2 BC, there was a spectacular conjunction of Venus and 
Jupiter in Leo, which could account for the Star of Bethlehem story.

So could it be possible that the painting on the ceiling of the 
Observatory was actually depicting Jesus' true birthday?



Subject: RE: Knights in shining Armour
From: Stella Maris
Date: 10/10/97

Europe is a big place, and not all the Gothic Cathedrals are aligned 
to the same constellation... I know this because I have been to many 
of them... how many have you visited?

And how does the alignment of the Pyramids vs the alignment of the 
Cathedrals 'prove' the path of the dissemination of information? 
This is a broad, sweeping statement without much substantiation...


Subject: RE: Alchemy/Nicola Tesla/Plasma Physics
From: Stella Maris
Date: 10/08/97

Hmmm... this is extremely difficult to explain in one posting, but 
I'll try... please don't take this literally because it's hard to 
explain...

The Nine are a consciousness-mechanism which mediate the 
dissemination of information... It it said that they operate from 
the coordinates of Arcturus (Arthur is a derivation of this 
consciousness, well almost, he didn't work out...)

Hmmm... here is a description from JJ Hurtak's book, but I don't 
agree with it:

"Tribunal of Teachers governing our immediate super-galactic and 
galactic region, subject to change in evolving 'new programs' of the 
Father's Kingdom."

Also, here is a website that Cookie found... Ignore the Uri Geller 
references. Puharich did some work with Uri in the early days, but 
it didn't work out either...

www.tcom.co.uk/hpnet/uri4.htm

Did you read the earlier website, Merk? I get nervous talking about 
this stuff because it's easily misinterpreted...
 


Subject: RE: Alchemy/Nicola Tesla/Plasma Physics
From: Stella Maris
Date: 10/12/97

p.s. Since you don't have much access to information, I've scrabbled 
through my stuff and found a partial description of The Nine to get 
you started. If I had the time, I'd dig up more, but I'm rushed at 
the moment...

"We are Nine Principles and Forces, personalities if you will, 
working in complete mutual implication. We are forces, and the 
nature of our work is to accentuate the positive, the evolutional, 
and the teleological aspects of existence.

CH is a principle which is the revealing principle of knowledge and 
law. CH is the principle of timeless knowledge as revealed through 
the time process.

R is the principle of art and rhythm.

M is the principle of the human and intimate."

This information was channeled in 1952 by Dr DG Vinod, a Hindu 
scholar, together with Dr Puharich. Normally I don't trust channeled 
material because it is inevitably coloured by the channel's filters, 
but references to The Nine have surfaced in so many unexpected and 
unlikely places (as you yourself have found), that there seems to be 
some degree of a possibility that this concept exists, at least in 
the human subconscious...
 


Subject: Initiation of the Heart
From: Stella Maris
Date: 07/19/97

Cookie (and whomever else), I know you'll read this eventually...

I've connected to the Modem. Am transmitting information back to 
Myself. I am Here. I am There. We are One. The Temple of SoloMan.

The Grail serves the servants of Creation...


Subject: RE: Safe Haven
From: Stella Maris
Date: 09/25/97

Hmm... it's funny, I thought of the earth... I also had an odd 
experience with the earth yesterday, which I had told Cookie about...

When I was a very young child, I used to have strange dreams 
about 'training sessions' and in one of these sessions I was taken 
up above the surface of the earth and shown a satellite map of the 
planet and given a lecture about the ocean's currents and how 
important they were to the well-being of the planet. This was in the 
late 50s, before satellites were launched, so I didn't know that I 
had seen a satellite picture until much later...

Anyway, yesterday I opened my morning newspaper to a half page 
colour photograph of the same satellite map I had seen in my trainng 
session all those years ago. As I read the text underneath, I 
freaked... because the article was about a satellite study of the 
ocean currents... and when I read the name of the study, which was 
named after the satellite, I double-freaked...

Because it was called SeaStar...

Subject: RE: Safe Haven
From: Stella Maris
Date: 09/25/97

SeaStar is Dumnorix's nickname for me, it is an Americanisation of 
Stella Maris, which normally translates to Star of the Sea...

p.s. I haven't taken the antibiotics yet... the good news is that 
the Universe has brought me a new doctor, the bad news is that he 
wants to chuck me into the hospital again for even more gruesome 
tests...
 
Hildegard's Floor 
By Robin Crookshank Hilton
[click any image to view larger version] 
 
I think of my friend Hildegard as my grandmother, probably because I 
didn't know either of my grandmothers very well. Born in Berlin, she 
emigrated to Los Angeles after the atrocities of the War, but I met 
her here in London when she came to visit her daughter, and we soon 
began to experiment together.
Then, during a business trip to Los Angeles with Andy, who is now my 
ex-husband, Hildegard invited us to visit her at her home. Andy was 
extremely dubious about some of my friends, especially the 
experimental ones, so he brought along a book to read in the garden 
and Hildegard fed him some homemade apfel strudle to pacify him.
It was to be a short visit because we had to get back to the hotel 
for a business dinner so, as soon as Andy was settled, Hildegard and 
I went into the room where she meditates. But instead of sitting on 
the sofa, I decided to sit on a particular spot on the floor and 
Hildegard laughed because I had instinctively chosen the exact place 
where Peggy, our psychic friend, normally sits during their visits.
When we got comfortable Hildegard handed me her magic wand, which 
was constructed of small rose quartz chips bound together by bronze 
wire with a large clear quartz crystal attached to one end. The 
whole contraption looked a bit like a flashlight and I felt 
extremely foolish holding it, so I made a joke by waving it around 
and closing my eyes, pretending to be lost in the darkness.
Except, when my eyes were closed, I was flying high above a mountain 
range... and when I opened my eyes, I was sitting on Hildegard's 
floor.
Wow.
I tried it again. Eyes closed, mountains. Eyes open, Hildegard's 
floor. 
 
I asked Hildegard if she had ever noticed anything strange about 
this cosmic flashlight and she replied that no, it didn't seem 
strange to her at all, but that sometimes Peggy liked to use it. I 
explained that when I held it and closed my eyes, I found myself 
flying above a mountain range, so Hildegard suggested that I should 
perhaps try to land on the mountain and have a look around. Germans 
are so utterly practical! 
So I relaxed, closed my eyes, and watched the movie...
I hate flying at the best of times, even in my dreams, so I landed 
as quickly as possible. By now I recognised the mountains as the 
Himalayas, but other than that I had no idea where I was except that 
I was halfway up a mountain on a narrow dirt track surrounded by 
thinning pine trees. Exploring, I wandered up the path, scrambling 
around boulders. After a short climb, a monk emerged from the trees 
and, without a word, beckoned me to follow him. Within a few moments 
we came to a roughly built hut in a small clearing in the woods.
Following the monk into the hut, we sat down on some cushions on the 
floor, with a small, carved wooden table between us. By the side of 
the table, against the wall, was a low altar adorned with a very 
ancient, beautifully carved wooden chest, like a reliquary. And as 
the monk began to prepare tea I watched his movements, gradually 
becoming aware that he was performing some kind of ritual.
When at last the tea was made we sipped it slowly together, 
scrutinising each other. Then he began to gesture expectantly, as if 
I should already know what to do next. As he wordlessly motioned 
towards the altar, I tried to look respectful, not comprehending at 
all what he was trying to communicate. Finally, after what seemed 
like an excruciatingly long pause, the monk shrugged and opened the 
cupboard for me, himself.
Inside, on a carved wooden pedestal, was an egg, made of some kind 
of luminous white stone I didn't recognise. The monk carefully 
removed the egg and its stand from the chest and placed it gently on 
the table between us. This egg was the most entrancing object I had 
ever seen. I gazed at it for a very long time, losing myself in the 
milky translucence of the stone.
 
I don't remember how I got back to Hildegard's floor. It seemed like 
I had been gone for hours, but it must have only been ten minutes or 
so. By this time Andy was already restless and anxious to get back 
to our hotel. So, as we walked back out to the garden, I told 
Hildegard about the monk and the egg, and as I spoke I knew I had to 
find this egg. We tried to guess at its meaning, whether it was 
symbolic or real, and Hildegard decided that, because the monk I had 
described sounded Tibetan to her, she should give me a piece of 
white cloth a friend had given to her, which had been blessed by the 
Dalai Lama. Months later I found out that the Dalai Lama gives this 
white cloth to those he has a personal audience with, it is a 
Tibetan Buddhist way of saying "we will meet again".
I became obsessed with this egg. I read books, myths, I became an 
expert on egg symbolism. But, what did it mean? Life, spiritual 
rebirth, the Philosopher's Stone of the alchemists? None of the 
obvious meanings felt right.
Two months later, we went to Australia on vacation with Andy's 
cricket team. As the main objective in life for Andy's cricket team 
was to play as much cricket as possible, I ended up spending a lot 
of time on my own. To amuse myself, I searched for the egg, visiting 
every crystal shop in Sydney, and for some reason I felt like I was 
getting closer to the egg.
I enquired about the egg everywhere I went, describing the stone in 
case anyone might know what is was. Someone speculated that it could 
be a special opal, that sometimes they would carve them into eggs, 
but it would be incredibly expensive even if I could ever find a 
pure opal of this size. I wasn't sure if the egg really was an opal 
but, nevertheless, I searched all the opal shops and even the 
museums and art galleries, but nobody had ever heard of this ancient 
egg. 
Finally I gave up, and when we left Australia I felt empty, as if I 
had forgotten something.
We had arranged to stopover in Hong Kong for three days on the way 
back to London, as we wanted to see Hong Kong before it was given 
back to China and this would perhaps be our only chance.
As soon as we arrived Andy announced that he didn't like the feel of 
the place and had no desire to see anything in particular, so he 
would go along with whatever I chose to do. I didn't want to go 
shopping and I didn't want to see any tourist attractions, but I 
wanted to see as many Buddhist temples as possible. Normally this 
would be torture for Andy, but he was in the middle of a 
particularly good book at that moment, so he was quite happy to 
navigate me to the temples, an invaluable offer as my sense of 
direction is appalling, and he would read his book outside in the 
sunshine while I meditated in the temples.
So, we decided to go to the Buddhist monastery on the island of 
Lantau on the first morning, figuring that because it would take all 
day to get there on the ferry, spend time, and then return, we would 
get it out of the way first.
Lantau monastery is famous for having the largest statue of the 
Buddha in the world. The statue was a bit Disneyland-ish, like a 
Buddhist version of the Statue of Liberty, but the monastery itself 
had an interesting atmosphere. I spent hours wandering around, 
meditating in the different temples and at lunchtime we sat at 
enormous round tables with some other pilgrims and a few monks, 
eating large quantities of vegetarian monks food. Everyone made us 
feel welcome.
http://www.memorymap.com/duat/hildegard.htm

Rosslyn News
Rosslyn in Plaster
Esoteric London - A plaster replica of Rosslyn Chapel goes on display
________________________________________Dateline: Wednesday, October 
27, 2004

By: ROBIN CROOKSHANK HILTON
By: 
Source: Source: V&A Museum London

For those who are planning a vacation or business trip to London but 
won't have the opportunity to venture outside the capital due to 
time constraints, it might be useful to know that a full-sized 
replica of part of Rosslyn Chapel is on display at the Victoria and 
Albert Museum. 
Sections of Rosslyn's Lady Chapel, including the world-famous 
Apprentice Pillar and "coded" stone cubes, as featured in THE DA 
VINCI CODE, were diligently molded, recast, and reassembled among 
other world-famous curiosities in the V&A's Cast Courts. The facade 
of Santiago de Compostela and even copies of the effigies of the 
knights in the Temple Church have been reproduced by enthusiastic 
Victorian craftsmen who aspired to create a juxtaposition of the 
highlights of an eccentric Grand Tour of Europe within the confined 
space of two overwhelming museum exhibition halls. 
Rosslyn Chapel experts have commented that the replica of the 
carvings on display in the V&A, which were cast during the Victorian 
renovation of this unique chapel, are actually more finely detailed 
than the original existing carvings in the chapel, which have 
deteriorated over the intervening years since the plastercasts were 
made. 
For more information, visit:- 
The Victoria and Albert Museum 
Cromwell Road 
London SW7 2RL 
England 





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