MODERN-DAY KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
IN THE HOLY LAND
PART I
RITUAL KILLING OF THE DIVINE KING The assassination mystery unraveled by Barry Chamish's online book, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, links it to the modern Knights Templar. This is no surprise to those who are aware of the designs which the modern Freemasons have on the Holy Land, i.e., to seize the Temple Mount and recreate Jerusalem as a Masonic city from which to rule the world. To appreciate the enormous political ambition and power of modern Freemasonry, you will want to read Barry's update on the Rabin assassination. It seems that the coroner who presided over Yitzhak Rabin's autopsy also conducted another autopsy on one Alisdair Rosslyn Sinclair -- a blue blood Knight Templar who would have been a front runner in the Merovingian campaign for election as King of Jerusalem.
ALISDAIR SINCLAIR
Alisdair Rosslyn Sinclair, whose surname is derived from Saint-Claire, is a descendant of one of the original Knights Templar who captured the city of Jerusalem during the first Crusade of 1099. According to Masonic authors of The Second Messiah:
"The [original Knights Templar] of whom little is known are believed to have been representatives of the ruling families of Champagne, Anjou, Gisors and Flanders. The leader of the Templars was Hugues de Payen, a middle-ranking noble-man in Champagne who married Catherine St Clair, the niece of his crusading partner Baron Henri St Clair of Roslin, in 1101." [Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, The Second Messiah, Element Books, Inc., 1998, p. 74]
The Sinclairs are recognized as "hereditary grand masters of Scottish Masonry" and rank high among the "sacred" Merovingian families deemed worthy to assume the throne of Jerusalem. These deluded power elites base their fabricated claim on the blasphemy that Jesus Christ sired children, whose descendants intermarried with the bloodlines of the thrones of Europe, infusing them with the holy blood of Christ.
"There are at least a dozen families in Britain and Europe today--with numerous collateral branches who are of Merovingian lineage. These include the houses of Hapsburg-Lorraine (present titular dukes of Lorraine and kings of Jerusalem), Plantard, Luxembourg, Montpezat, Montesquiou, and various others. According to the 'Prieure documents,' the Sinclair family in Britain is also allied to the bloodline as are various branches of the Stuarts. And the Devonshire family, among others, would seem to have been privy to the secret. All of these houses could presumably claim a pedigree from Jesus; and if one man, at some point in the future, is to be put forward as a new priest-king, we do not know who he is." [Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood Holy Grail, pp. 409-410]
The cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1996 -- which Gnostics considered to be the "Molecular Logos" -- occurred at Geron Biomed, the commercial arm of the Roslin Institute in a village in Scotland, which is also the site of a very famous Knights Templar shrine, the Rosslyn Chapel. The village of Roslin, site of the sheep cloning experiment, is also near Rosslyn Castle, which was the home of the St Clairs [Sinclairs] who funded the building of Rosslyn Chapel around 1450. For more information on Rosslyn, please read our report on The First Human Embryo Cloned.
The Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion from 1984 until at least 1988, and probably longer, was Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire. Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire's son, Thomas, is considered the most likely candidate in the Merovingian lineage to ascend the throne of Jerusalem as world ruler. (See: The Merovingian Dynasty: Identity of the False Christ]
The importance of the Sinclair family is evident in The Labyrinth of the Grail, a synopsis of which shows the Sinclair's historic and esoteric leadership of the Merovingian cult. In our view, there is a great probability that the Antichrist will come from this bloodline.
Politically speaking, Alisdair Sinclair may have been eliminated to make way for Thomas Plantard de Saint-Clair as the Merovingian Christ. However, the rationale behind the bizarre removal of the heart of Alisdair would seem to be related to the Templar superstition. Another theory comes from an interesting study in pre-Christian superstition which is being revisited upon civilized society through the most outrageous acts of barbarity:
Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
"Sir James Frazer writing in The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, explains that when the 'divine king' is murdered by one who is himself stronger or craftier, the powers of 'divinity' which were the king's are 'Sympathetically' and 'Contagiously' transferred from the vanquished to the victor."
The highly irregular circumstances surrounding of the demise of one of the Sinclair pedigree bears the earmarks of ritual murder. We will now take flight into the irrational world of the Knights Templar for a precedent which may present clues as to why. . .
ROBERT THE BRUCE
In The Temple and The Lodge, by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, we read of the strange request of Knight Templar and descendant of the Kings of Scotland, Robert the Bruce that, upon his death, his heart be removed and taken to Jerusalem to be buried in the Knights Templar Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Robert the Bruce's heart was transported by none other than Grand Master of the Scottish Templars, Sir William Sinclair, and a few other knights who never made it to Jerusalem. In Spain, Robert the Bruce's heart was thrown into a battle against the Moors and saved the day, but William Sinclair and most of the other knights died.
In 1329, Bruce died, to be succeeded, as he had arranged, by his grandson, Robert II, the first of the Stuart dynasty. Before his death, he had expressed the wish that his heart be removed, placed in a casket, taken to Jerusalem and buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1330, therefore, Sir James Douglas, Sir William Sinclair, Sir William Keith and at least two other knights embarked for the Holy Land. . . [Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, The Temple & The Lodge, Arcade Pub., 1989, p. 39]
We find in The Hiram Key an explanation for removing Bruce's heart to Jerusalem:
"Before dying [Robert the Bruce] had taken a vow to go to Jerusalem and fight the Saracen and as a mark of respect his embalmed heart was taken by Sir William St Clair and Sir James Douglas on a last crusade to Jerusalem, but unfortunately they were killed in battle in Andalusia en route. Bruce's heart never reached the Holy City and was returned to be buried in Melrose Abbey whilst Sir William was buried at Rosslyn." [Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, The Hiram Key, Element Books, 1996, pp. 300-01]
The Knights Templars had occupied Jerusalem until 1291, when the Holy Land fell to the Saracens. Following the dissolution of the Knights Templar in 1312 and death of their Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, in 1314, many fugitive 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 restoration of the Celtic religion. According to The Temple and The Lodge and other Masonic literature, Robert the Bruce was well-connected to the sacred Merovingian bloodline:
". . . Scotland, under the aegis of the Dalraida king, Kenneth MacAlpin, became a unified Celtic kingdom. Around 850, Kenneth was installed at Scone, as monarch of all Scotland. . .Under Kenneth MacAlpin's descendant, David I, the feudal Kingdom of Scotland finally emerged in 1124. . .David himself was thoroughly Celtic, the son of the Celtic king, Malcolm III. . .Among King David's entourage was a Norman knight, Robert de Brus. . .Although the Robert de Brus of King David's time was of Norman (and possibly Flemish) descent, his great grandson married David's great-granddaughter, the niece of the Celtic kings Malcolm IV and William I. The Robert Bruce who was later to figure so prominently in Scottish history could thus claim blood descent from the ancient Celtic royal house, and eventually back to Kenneth MacAlpin of the Dalraida." [The Temple & The Lodge, pp. 18-20]
It seems that by 1300, the Scots could not agree on a ruler and so King Edward I of England was invited to arbitrate among the warring claimants to the throne. Edward appointed John Balliol, the grandfather of Robert Bruce, also known as 'the Competitor,' and then annexed Scotland to Great Britain. The Scots rebelled but were defeated by Edward who exiled Balliol and proceeded to dismantle the Celtic institutions.
". . .Edward embarked on a systematic campaign to eradicate all vestiges of political and religious, of the old Celtic kingdom. The Stone of Scone, most archaic and sacred of Celtic talismans, was accorded special attention. At Edward's behest, the inscription on it was erased and the stone itself removed from Scone and brought to London. The great seal of Scotland was smashed and coffers of royal records were confiscated. Edward appointed himself, in effect, an ad hoc defender of the faith -- the archetypal Christian king, promulgating the rule of Rome. To bolster this image, it was profitable to emphasise the pagan aspects of the old Celtic kingdom, which were portrayed as heretical, if not pagan and satanic. By disseminating rumours of sorcery and necromancy, Edward was able to show moral and theological justification for his crusade to annex Scotland." [The Temple & The Lodge, p. 26]
Just a few pages earlier, Baigent and Leigh sheepishly admitted that the Celtic religion which Robert the Bruce sought to restore "may even have included ritual human sacrifice." [p. 19] The Scottish rebellion against England was led by William Wallace, hero of the contemporary movie Braveheart. The Temple and The Lodge describes the ascent of Robert the Bruce to power via ritual human sacrifice:
"It was against this turbulent background that the figure of Robert Bruce suddenly emerged, fomenting rebellion in the south. . .Wallace was knighted by a prominent Scottish earl - possibly Bruce himself - and in 1298 was elected sole Guardian of the country. . . Following his defeat at Falkirk, Wallace was forced to resign as Guardian, but this did not terminate the revolt. In the autumn of 1298, the rebels appointed John Comyn and Robert Bruce to preside as joint Guardians and continue the struggle. They, however, soon fell to squabbling among themselves, and the friction between them . . . deflected them from concerted action against the British. . .
". . . Wallace was dead, and Comyn firmly under the English thumb. 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, in June, he had concluded a secret agreement with the Bishop of Lamberton . . . It is now generally accepted that the agreement involved plans for an independent Celtic Scotland, over which Bruce, supported by Lamberton, would preside as monarch. Before any such project could be implemented, however, something had to be done about John Comyn.
"The Comyn family, which included the earldoms of Buchan and Monteith, was an old one, and could match the Bruces in power and prestige. . . On 10 February 1306, at the church of the Grey Friars in Dumfries, Bruce, with his own hand, murdered his adversary. Comyn was stabbed with a dagger and left to bleed to death on the church's stone floor. According to several accounts, he did not die immediately and was carried to safety by the monks, who sought to minister to his wounds. Bruce, hearing of this, returned to the church, dragged him back to the altar, and there slaughtered him. . .
"There are aspects of Comyn's murder that cannot be explained entirely by the betrayal of a pact, or by the long-standing antipathy between Bruce and himself. . . .it appears to have been carefully premeditated, perhaps even rehearsed . . . Nor is it possible to ignore the setting of the murder. Churches, after all, were deemed to be sacred ground. . . it bears the unmistakable stamp of ritual killing -- an almost ceremonial killing of one candidate for a throne by another, on consecrated ground, in accordance with archaic pagan tradition. Nobody at the time could have been unaware of the powerful symbolism inherent in Bruce's act -- a symbolism so powerful, indeed, as to transcend the act itself." [The Temple & The Lodge, pp. 26, 28-30]
In 1314, the Battle of Bannockburn was won when a Templar force led by Sir William St Clair came to Bruce's aid and this victory settled the issue of Scottish independence. Scotland remained an independent kingdom for the next 289 years, when King James VI acceded to the throne of England and united the two kingdoms in 1603. In 1320 the Declaration of Arbroath proclaimed the independence of Scotland, insinuating that the Scots were descended from the Israelites previously in bondage in Egypt.
On 6 April 1320, an extraordinary document -- the so-called Declaration of Arbroath -- was issued. It took the form of a letter commissioned and signed by eight earls and thirty-one other nobles, including representatives of the Seton, Sinclair and Graham families. This letter adumbrated the legendary history of the Scots from their alleged origins in Scythia and their conversion there by St Andrew. It described Robert Bruce as their deliverer and hailed him (with biblical comparisons traditionally dear to the Templars) as 'a second Maccabaeus or Joshua'. . . [p. 38]
Other Scottish nobility and signatories of the Declaration of Arbroath include Clans Leslie, Stewart, Monteith, Robertson and Bruce. Please read our report on The British-Israel Conspiracy for information on modern descendants of the "sacred" families who currently promote the British-Israel deception.
In 1322, Edward II launched his last, rather half-hearted, expedition against Scotland. It came to nothing, and Bruce retaliated with incursions into Yorkshire. In 1323, the two countries concluded what was supposed to be a thirteen-year truce, which lasted only for four. In the mean time, Bruce had become embroiled in a new squabble with the Papacy, then in the throes of its own schism, the so-called 'Avignon Captivity'. For some time, Edward of England had longed to rid the Scottish Church of its powerful nationalist bishops -- prelates such as Lamberton of St Andrews, Wishart of Glasgow and William Sinclair of Dunkeld (brother of Sir Henry Sinclair of Rosslin, signatory of the Arbroath Declaration). To this end, the English king had badgered successive popes not to consecrate any new native-born bishops into the Scottish Church. In the Avignon-based Pope John XXII he found a sympathetic ear. Bruce, however, aligned himself with his own bishops in defying the Pontiff's wishes and in 1318 he was again excommunicated, along with James Douglas and the Earl of Moray. A year later, the Pope demanded that the bishops of St Andrews, Dunkeld, Aberdeen and Moray appear before him to explain themselves. They ignored him and, in June 1320, were also excommunicated. Throughout the course of this row, the Pope had persisted in refusing to recognise Bruce as king, pointedly referring to him only as 'ruler of the Kingdom of Scotland'. It was not until 1324 that Pope John XXII relented and Bruce was finally acknowledged monarch in the Church's eyes.
It is noteworthy that Pope John XXIII was the Roman pontiff who, on June 24, 1961 would lift the ban of the Catholic Church on Freemasonry. June 24 is the feast of St John the Baptist whom Masons consider to be the messiah rather than Jesus Christ. Knight and Lomas state regarding this feast and the liberation of Scotland cum Masonic religion: "A point of Masonic interest concerning the Battle of Bannockburn is that it was fought on the day with the longest daylight in the year -- a day still celebrated by all Freemasons as the Feast of St John the Baptist." [The Hiram Key, p. 299]
The Temple & The Lodge describes the transport of Robert the Bruce's heart to Jerusalem for burial in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. [Note: Baigent et al do err in stating that Stewart = Stuart. See: The Merovingian Dynasty: Michael the Counterfeit Archangel]
In 1329, Bruce died, to be succeeded, as he had arranged, by his grandson, Robert II, the first of the Stuart dynasty. Before his death, he had expressed the wish that his heart be removed, placed in a casket, taken to Jerusalem and buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1330, therefore, 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, riding in the vanguard, were surrounded. According to the fourteenth-century chronicle, Douglas removed from his neck the casket containing Bruce's heart 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!
Whether Douglas, in the heat of battle, had either time or inclination to compose his thoughts into verse is, one suspects, questionable. Having hurled Bruce's heart at the foe, however, he and his fellow Scots did proceed to follow it, charging headlong into their adversaries. 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 in it. He is said to have retrieved the heart from the field, miraculously intact in its casket, and to have brought it back with him to Scotland. It was buried in Melrose Abbey, under the east window of the chancel. Early in the nineteenth century, Bruce's grave at Dunfermline Abbey was opened. According to popular traditions prevalent in the age of Sir Walter Scott, he was found with his leg-bones carefully crossed immediately under his skull. In fact, this was not so; there was, apparently, nothing unusual about the corpse. But the traditions are indicative. It is clear that someone had a vested interest in linking Bruce with the Masonic skull-and-crossbones.
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