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Chapter 1
Archangel Michael, Perillos and the Meridian
Long warned of many terrors more severe
To scorch him than hell’s engines could awaken
He scanned again, too far to be so near
The fearful seat no man had ever taken.
From the Siege Perilous
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
In Arthurian legend the Siege Perilous was an especially reserved seat at the Round
Table which was kept vacant by Merlin for the knight who was destined to quest
for the Sangreal and only he who was of the purest heart would return with it and
not suffer instant death if he sat upon the Siege Perilous. Sir Galahad was the
purest and the most honourable of all the Knights of the Round Table and he alone
completed the quest and “achieved” the Sangreal. Galahad was led to his seat in
Camelot on Whitsunday precisely 454 years after the death of Jesus. The account
of this is recorded in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Mort d’Arthur and also in Alfred Lord
Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. Three knights quested for the Sangreal, Sir Bors, Sir
Perceval and Sir Galahad but only the latter was found worthy to sit on the Siege
Perilous and did not suffer instant death. This was largely because of his chastity,
chastity reminiscent of the ‘Parfaits’ of the Cathars who had taken
Consolamentum.
Le Siège de la Mort is a specific area close to an abandoned village east of Rennes
le Chateau called Perillos which is in the Roussillon district of south western
France. The site of le Siège de la Mort is a ruined building and has a prominent
location and its masonry is of the higher quality than any other buildings within the
area even that of a nearby castle. It has intricate arches and finely built walls and
seems to have originated between the 11th and 14th century. The building sits at
the crossroads of an ancient road that leads from the abandoned village of Perillos
and the plateau of Salvaterra meaning ‘The Land of our Saviour’. It sits in a valley
the side of which is called “Coume de la Mortre” - the Valley of the Dead.
The abandoned village of Perillos
is located close to Perpignan and
the name may have derived from
the word Peyrios or stony ground
which is a very apt description of
the area. The area is parched and
suffers
from
having
a
Mediterranean climate but without
the mountainous regions being
available for adequate water
supply. Records show that it must
have been a struggle eking out a
living there and the village
population remained between 70
and 80 from the 12th century
until after World War II when the
last inhabitant, Antonin Pujol
moved away from the village. He
is now buried in a spot near to
the former tomb at Les Pontils in
a grave that is deliberately
orientated towards the mountain
of Cardou and more than an
hour’s drive from Perillos. The
tomb appears to be placed upon
a new meridian line that has
been marked as recently as the year 2000 at a point close to the Roman Baths
outside Rennes les Bains. Ordinarily Perillos would not be any more unusual than
any other place in France sporting a fine ruined chateau with some history;
however apart from its obvious link to the Arthurian legends and its association
with Raimon de Pereille there are several other things that make this place very
significant. The village itself has a ruin (shown above) and boasts an association of
Raimon de Pereille with Loch Derg in Ireland and to Saint Patrick, the patron saint
of Ireland.
The whole surrounding area was never greatly populated and yet has three
churches. There is a chapel just outside the village along the road in the valley and
this church is dedicated to St Barbara whose statue appears in the church. She was
likely a pagan goddess from the 3rd or 4th century, one many that were induced
into the Catholic Church as a ruse to get people to move over into the Christian
church. Significantly St Barbara is depicted as a virgin and has been shown in some
paintings as carrying a chalice and a palm branch and standing by a tower.
However she is the patron saint of the Greek Orthodox Church and is thought to
have come from the Anatolian city of Heliopolis. Legend says that she was
beheaded and here one is reminded of the severed head of a woman revered by
the Knights Templar.
There is yet another church in the nearby hamlet of Bel Auriole and this church is
on private property, this church is dedicated to St Teresa. St Teresa is more recent
and is almost local being born in Avila, Old Castile in 1515. The Ecstasy of St
Teresa is a famous sculpture by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini that can be found in the
Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome and is an example of High
Roman Baroque, it was Bernini who declared to King Louis XIV that Nicolas Poussin
was the only French artist that really mattered and called him “il grande
favoleggiatore” -the great storyteller. It was also Bernini who had designed the
sundial circle around the obelisk in St Peter’s square that had been copied by
Saunière in his garden along with the phrase CHRISTUS AOMPS DEFENDIT. Bernini’s
sculpture shows St Teresa in what only can be described as an orgasm and indeed
in her own description from her autobiography she describes a divine vision where
she saw an angel standing beside her and what follows looks to all intents and
purposes as similar experience to that of a climactic moment even describing the
thrusting of a spear into her, yet the excessive pain was so sweet that she didn’t
want to be rid of it. Bel Auriole is the only occupied area in the whole Perillos area
and at one point had as many 60 inhabitants. St Teresa was a Carmelite mystic and
reformed a part of the Carmelite Order, an Order that is pivotal to this mystery.
There is perhaps nothing really surprising in what has been described concerning
the three churches in the Perillos area but they all share a common feature that is
highly unusual - they were all orientated North/South when they were first built,
most churches are of course orientated East/West. The main church in Perillos has
been changed to the normal East/West recently however indications are that it
was previously orientated North/South, the other two churches are still orientated
North/South. The village of Perillos has a chapel associated with this church both
being separated by only a few yards of what is the church’s forecourt, on this
chapel is the Coat of Arms of Raimon de Pereille. These churches form a straight
line and this line is 33º from due north.
The church in Perillos itself is dedicated to Saint Michael and the word saint means
holy and Saint Michael here is referring only to the Archangel Michael. Michael is
one of the four archangels that have become associated with the four royal stars;
Archangel Michael being associated by Cornelius Agrippa with the star Aldebaran.
This story is leading us to
that place of grail legends
situated in England and the
Tower of St Michael on
Glastonbury
Tor
in
England,
for
this
monument sits on the Saint
Michael’s Ley Line. What
we have is a definite link
between Saint Michael, the
Cromleck of Rennes le
Chateau and Glastonbury
for we have a repeat
bearing of a line that is
approximately 72º and the
link also seems to include
the three churches at
Perillos. On the left we can
also seen how this has a
relationship
with
the
famous
monument
at
Stonehenge and two other
prominent places of worship Glastonbury and Silbury Hill. If the star Aldebaran
marking the Saint Michael’s Ley line can be observed and its bearing marked from
the high point of Glastonbury Tor and at the same time can be observed from
Silbury Hill and marked, this St Michael Ley Line can be fixed. We have the
Archangel Michael, Aldebaran appearing over these hills at fixed times.
Some more research into the lore surrounding this Archangel reveals some startling
coincidences. Christian tradition gives St Michael specific duties to perform for
God. His first is the fight against Lucifer, the second is to rescue souls of the
faithful from the power of Satan at the hour of death, a third was to bring the soul
to judgement in order to see if the soul was righteous enough to enter heaven.
Michael was the champion of God’s people and is typified by both the Jews of the
Old Testament and the New Testament Christians; he is no less than the patron of
the whole Judeo/Christian Church. In the Judeo/Christian mind they need Saint
Michael, not Jesus, for their passage into heaven.
Cornelius Agrippa and several others have pointed out to us, that the Archangel
Michael is in fact the star Aldebaran which is in Taurus. Couple this with St Michael
taking over the role of Watcher of the East from the fallen angel Lucifer and we
can postulate the theory that the spectacle of angels falling from Taurus is some
ancient memory of the remnants of the comet falling to earth which still manifests
itself as the Taurids meteor shower. Observation of records seem to show that this
phenomenon peaks every 3000 years and it is estimated that the next peak will be
the year 3000 and so therefore the last peak was around the birth of Jesus. This is
Michael doing battle with Satan and throwing him down to earth as described in
Revelation 12:7-10 and describes a red dragon standing in front of a woman about
to give birth to a male child who will rule over nations with an iron sceptre, this
would be the comet, which of course moves rapidly across the sky when compared
to the other stars, also being seen in the constellation of Virgo for a short period.
It also should be said that it was the Archangel Michael, “prince and leader of the
Lord’s army” who came to Joshua to help the Israelites conquer the Promised Land
and you will remember that the Children of Israel followed Moses and a pillar of
fire to this Promised Land. Could this pillar of fire been a particular strong display
of the Taurids meteor shower emanating from around the constant star Aldebaran;
the follower of the Pleiades and Alcyone, the seat of God? Aldebaran remains
bright in the sky and follows the Pleiades, and as we have seen some believe that
God lives in the star Alcyone. However every year meteors fan out in a quadrant
from the constellation of Taurus as the earth’s orbit takes it through the debris
and these are in fact the remnants of the Bronze Age break-up of the Comet Encke
whose tail was torn off by magnetic field disturbances caused by a Coronal Mass
Ejection from our sun. According to Chinese records we have a total of seven peaks
of fireball activity in the past 2000 years and all indicate Taurid/Encke activity,
the last two centuries have been relatively quiet however this may not last. There
is strong evidence of dramatic climate change in Ireland around 2300BCE and this
corresponds to evidence of an air-burst in Northern Syria around 2350BCE. This
spectacle seems likely to have been noticed and recorded and lodged firmly into
memory of the builders of Stonehenge and Avebury Ring. The hill that accompanies
Avebury Ring is Silbury Hill and is the largest shaped man-made earth mound, and
here too there seems to be an old tradition with St Michael and conical shaped
hills.
On the left
is
the
conical
shaped hill
on
Glastonbury Tor with St Michael’s Tower on the summit. Several conical shaped
hills in Germany formerly dedicated to the pagan God Wotan have been
rededicated to St Michael and hence the number of churches and chapels in
Germany dedicated to St Michael are many and the vast majority are on top of
hills. Probably the most thought provoking connection regarding St Michael can be
found in the Epistle of St Jude where a variation on the theme of St Michael’s
battle with Satan can be found. This time St Michael’s battle with Satan is in
regard to the protection of a sacred tomb and involves the tomb of Moses. St
Michael supposedly concealed the tomb of Moses but Satan revealed its
whereabouts to the Jewish people and tried to trick them into hero-worship.
However according to the Revelation of Moses, St Michael also guards the body of
Eve and this gives an intriguing link to the name Ave-bury, overlooked by the
conical shaped Silbury Hill positioned on the St Michaels Ley Line.
Does Silbury Hill overlook what some have believed to be the buriel place of Eve?
This possibility will be explored as the subject of another book by this author.
However the significance of Glastonbury will become more obvious when we begin
to discuss the Celtic Quarter Days for the photograph on the left shows a view of
the sunset through the tower on one of these quarter days – Samhain.
Moving on to the implications regarding the fixing of a meridian. One chooses to
avoid the indiscriminate use of the word Atlantis but remember we are looking for
what people believed to be the truth; we are not required to believe these myths
ourselves. It does seem that Ptolemy at least choose to place the meridian beyond
the pillars of Hercules which are the Straights of Gibraltar precisely where the
Egyptian priest Solon had placed the lost city of Atlantis.
Around the 17th century countries were waking up to making accurate maps for
strategic and military purposes. In one notable incident in 1707 Britain lost several
ships and over 2000 men because of a dispute in the differences in longitude
readings. These ships were further east than they thought they were. Without star
sightings and the accurate clock that was essential these ships were wrecked and
this one incident resulted in a zero standard by which all clocks were fixed and this
was solved in 1784 by carpenter turned clockmaker John Harrison. The Royal
observatory at Greenwich was established in 1675 by Charles II and he appointed
the astronomer John Flamstead as Astronomer Royal in March of that year. The
Greenwich observatory was built to improve navigation at sea and “find the somuch desired longitude of places”.
In 1884 forty one delegates from 25 nations agreed the international standard for
Greenwich Meridian by a vote of twenty two for and one against (El Salvadore).
However France and Brazil abstained, the United States had already been using
Greenwich for some time and didn’t wish to change and therefore voted for
Greenwich. The decision on Greenwich was made because it was thought at the
time it would inconvenience the least number of people, with the absence of
France this was probably not an accurate assessment.
The issue was taken seriously; on February 15th 1894 an attempt was made to blow
up the Greenwich observatory by a 26 year old Frenchman called Martial Bourdin.
The bomb he was carrying exploded prematurely in the Greenwich Park outside
and instantly blew off his hand and Bourdin died of his injuries 30 minutes later.
Bourdin had left his home in Fitzroy Street and took a tram from Westminster that
took him all the way to Greenwich. What happened next is unclear but he seems to
have been observed carrying a parcel and as a result made his way to Greenwich
Park where the bomb exploded. Graphic reports from the time said that pieces of
his flesh were spread over an area of sixty yards. Bourdin had a considerable
amount of money on him and this led police investigators to believe that he was
planning to return to France after the attack. A day after the attempted bombing
police raided the Club Autonomie in London and arrested all those inside and
discovered that Bourdin had been a member of this club. It appears that this club
attracted many foreign anarchists (agent provocateur). Many were deported and
no charges were pressed. Interestingly Bourdin’s funeral became a rallying point
for anarchist sympathizers and it attracted huge crowds who were described as
‘Quasi-Utopian anarchists’. At this time terrorist attacks were happening all over
France mostly in crowded places where maximum injury would result. The attack
on the Greenwich Observatory so late in the day seems to be an odd choice of
target as Bourdin’s bomb is likely to have caused little damage to such a
substantial building even if he had managed to plant it. What was in effect
Britain’s first suicide bombing was the only anarchist inspired attack in Britain
during this period that had been so troublesome in France and it really became
famous because of a 1907 Joseph Conrad book ‘The Secret Agent’. This seemingly
senseless act by Bourdin is best summed up by Conrad himself:
“The attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory: a blood stained inanity of so
fatuous a kind that it is impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even
unreasonable process of thought. For perverse unreason has its own logical
processes. But that outrage could not be laid hold of mentally any sort of way, so
that one remained faced by the fact of a man blown to pieces for nothing even
the most remotely resembling an idea, anarchistic or other. As to the outer wall
of the Observatory, it did not show as much as the faintest crack.”
So why did this young Frenchman feel the need to risk his own life or freedom in
order to blow up something that would have been at best only symbolic in another
country from his own, bearing in mind that France had ignored the 1884 ruling
anyway and still clung onto the Paris meridian during this period up until 1911 for
timekeeping and until 1914 for navigation? The old Paris meridian is still shown to
this day on most French maps. If this incident shows nothing it shows the national
importance carried in marking of a meridian of their own.
The story of the Paris meridian is an interesting one. In the year 1601 the young
French prince who was destined to become Louis XIII was born and took over the
French throne at the age of 9. The young king’s first minister was Cardinal Armand
Jean du Plessis de Richelieu and ruled France until the king came of age. In the
year 1634 Cardinal Richelieu had decided that the Ferro’s meridian should be used
by France in all reference maps, until then no meridian had been used. Ferro was
better known as the island of El Hierro and was the western most islands of the
Canaries, since this island was the western most position of the Old World. It was
also thought at this time (incorrectly) that this island was exactly 20 degrees west
of Paris. After the French astronomer Abbé Jean Picard measured the length of a
degree and the size of the earth in between 1669 and 1670 he found that the
actual position of El Hierro was found to be 20º 23’ 9” west of Paris.
El Hierro is also known by the
nickname Isla Del Meridiano
and it is situated precisely 18º
west of Greenwich.
Hierro
takes its name from the
Gaunche Language for Hero
but has been changed through
folk etymology to Hierro which
means ‘iron’ in Spanish and
thus the word Ferro became
the nickname used by Cardinal
Richelieu. A tower is situated
at the western most point of
El Hierro, and subsequently
the western most point of
Europe, which bears the name
Meridiano,
there
is
unidentified writing nearby,
perhaps Knights Templar.
There is a myth associated with the Irish Monk St Brendan of an island called the
‘Eighth Canary Island’ that has been spoken about since time immemorial and
known by both the Portuguese and Spanish as San Borondon (after Saint Brendan).
This island also called Aprositus Nesos has never been positively identified and
legends say it appears and disappears with regularity and is usually associated with
mists or low cloud. There are literally hundreds of testimonies from people
throughout the ages who have claimed to have seen this island and it even
appeared on maps carried by Christopher Columbus. St Brendan is thought to have
landed on this mysterious island in 512 together with 14 monks and then held mass
on the island. They apparently stayed there for 15 days; however ships expecting
their return complained that they had been gone for a year. The monk Barino later
mentioned that he too had been on this island which he described as Paradise in
the Atlantic. He went on to describe it as a thickly wooded and mountainous island
where the sun never sets and is always daylight. Flowers are in abundance and the
trees bore rich fruit, rivers ran with fresh water and birds sang sweetly in the
trees, one does wonder why he ever left. Even Islamic texts from Al-Bekri and El
Edvisi describe this island. There are simply too many eyewitness testimonies to
dismiss this and what is true is that belief in the existence of this island increased
during the 16th century and one story relates how in 1484 the king of Portugal
asked for a Caravel to go from the Island of Gomera to investigate this island that
appeared every year to the west and always in the same direction and in the Peace
of Elvira signed on 4th June 1519 the Count of Castille claimed the rights to La Isla
Non-Trabada o Encubierta The Inconsistent or Mysterious Island. Another story
claims that a French adventurer set foot on the island but left when a storm broke
and made it safely back to La Palma within a day. In another report Alonso de
Espinosa, governor of El Hierro described sighting San Borondon island ‘northwest
of El Hierro and leeward of La Palma’ and lists 100 another witnesses. In 1958 D.M
Rodriguez Quintero of La Palma allegedly obtained a photograph of the island.
Spanish and Portuguese sources say that the astronomer, mathematician and
geographer Ptolemy when speaking of the Canary Islands described this island in
his Geografia Book IV-6-34 and is known as the Islands of the Blessed Ptolemy and
used this for his measurement of Longitude, they are sometimes known as the
Fortune Islands. The Canary Islands and Madeira are collectively known as
Macaronesia. It is also claimed is that St Brendan arrived in the Americas first in
the 6th century. In 1976 Tim Severin undertook St Brendan’s voyage using a leather
Currach and managed to reach Newfoundland. But significantly there is an area on
La Gomera called La Merica and probably takes its name from a star.
One of course is reminded that we are constantly dealing, not with the truth but
people perception of the truth from the Middle Ages and in the context of trying to
get to the bottom of a mystery we are required to take these stories seriously and
try to understand them in the psyche of the period. These stories do have some
importance for instance there is no common consensus as from why they were
called the Canary Islands, the name literally means ‘Dog Islands’ (Canariae
Insulae). One’s attention is drawn here to the facts that one island was the
meridian of Europe and that the whole islands are named after a Dog Star. The
origin is the Latin converted from the French borrowing the sound of the word
kynosoura which is the Greek for Dog tail and which is the Greek name for Ursa
Minor, a constellation that includes Polaris the North Star. Indeed the English word
Cynosure is another name for the North Star or something that attracts attention.
This same Greek word became Canis in the Latin text and Canis Major and here it
became the Dog Star Sirius, which is the brightest star in the sky and in the right
conditions can even sometimes be observed in daylight. Along with Betelgeuse and
Alpha Canis Minoris Procyon (pro-cyon meaning ‘before the Dog’ as it precedes
Sirius or perhaps before cyon as it also precedes Alcyone in the Pleiades), these
three stars are amongst the ten brightest stars in the sky form the three vertices of
what is known as the Winter Triangle.
This brings us to the principle star in the Pleiades, Alcyone also called ‘The central
One’ and the Greek for this is Αλκυόνη and it can be immediately seen that this
word and Canis have the same origin.
The Pleiades were 33 degrees from the First Point of Aries at a time known by the
Egyptians as Zep Tepi – The First Time. They are now at 47 degrees due to
precession and although this point is still called ‘The First point of Aries’ the point
where the elliptic and equatorial meet is now in Pisces. When the star Spica, the
star of Beth Lehem (House of Bread) rises and the House of the Fishes (Pisces) is
setting, then Alcyone is due west on a date that will be for some very significant.
To the Greeks the Pleiades were the seven daughters of Atlas (Titan) and Pleione
(the sea nymph) and were the companions of Artemis. They were also the halfsisters through Atlas of Calypso, Hyas, Hyades and Hesperides. The Pleiades are
nymphs in the train of Artemis and together with the seven Hyades were
collectively called Atlantides, Dodonides or Nysiades and were nursemaids to the
infant Bacchus. However to the French they provided the foundations of French
classicism. There was a post-renaissance movement called La Pléiade which
referred to seven poets of the Alexandrian period (the reign of Ptolemy II) and the
name had been used before at the beginning of the 14th century. The Pleiades
were fundamental in Inca religion and they associated them with the prosperity of
the flocks of Andean Llama. In India the group of stars are called KARTTIKEYA,
KUMARA or SUBRAHMANYA the Hindu God of war and the first born son of Shiva.
The Pleiades are visible in the Mediterranean at night during the summer from May
until November, which coincided with the peak sailing periods of the time.
A poem from Hesiod from around 700BCE says:
“And if longing seizes you for sailing the stormy seas
when the Pleiades flee the mighty Orion and plunge into
the misty deep and all the gusty winds are raging then do
not keep your ship on the wine-dark sea but as I bid you,
remember to work the land.”
After Atlas was forced to carry the world on his shoulders, Orion then pursued the
seven daughters of Atlas, Zeus (Jupiter) transformed them into doves, and indeed
the word Peleiades means Flock of Doves although it probably stems from the IndoEuropean word pel[e] “to fill” and the Greek word for sail is ‘plein’, because they
are the sailor’s stars where they could usually expect ‘plain sailing’ whilst they can
be seen. Their mythological mother Pleione was the first wife of Atlas. However
the ‘pel’ in Peleiades may well refer specifically to a black dove.
The image of Christ and seven doves is a common theme, not least in the Jesse
window of Chartres cathedral which depicts the bloodline from Jesse through Mary
to Jesus, who is surrounded by seven doves in the stained glass window. This is
from Isaiah 11 regarding a branch out of the roots of Jesse and the doves
representing the seven spirits of the Lord – wisdom, understanding, and spirit of
council, might, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord and collectively known as
Spiriti Sancti. In Greek mythology the seven doves traditionally carried ambrosia to
the infant Zeus. Perhaps it is worth noting too that the door to Rennes le Chateau
Church has doves either side of the entrance. The Japanese car maker Subaru uses
the Pleiades as their logo and Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades.
Of the Pleiades ‘The Central One’ is called Alcyone and it is from that the phrase
Halcyon Days originated from because of the calm weather that usually occurs
during the rising of the Pleiades. In Latin they are called Butrum or Brutrum which
means Bunch of Grapes and Bacchus (god of wine) and Venus (goddess of love) are
‘born into their kindly light’. In Arabic they are Al Najm the constellation of
excellence or Al Thurayya - ‘The many little ones’. The Halcyon is the ‘Kingfisher’,
not to be confused with the Fisher King although why the bird should be called a
King Fisher is somewhat thought provoking.
Many believe that the pyramids themselves were built in honour of the Pleiades.
Around 4000 years ago and the Pleiades rose a good four hours earlier than they do
today and were overhead at nightfall during the winter solstice and thus
symbolised the laying to rest of the old year and the beginning of the New Year.
Kate Spence a PhD researcher from Cambridge University published in the
magazine Nature that the accurate dating of the building of the Great Pyramid of
Giza is modelled by the transit of the two stars Kochab in Ursa Minor and Mizar in
Ursa Major in the North Meridian sky. She puts the date at 2467BCE
According to a book by Joseph Seiss the pyramids are God’s Stone Witnesses. On
August 15th 1925 J.F. Rutherford stated in The Golden Age that the City of Zion in
heaven was associated with Alcyone in the Pleiades. Rotherford was the second
leader of the Jehovah’s Witness movement and the founder, Charles Taze Russel is
buried under a pyramid on the private grounds owned by freemasons.
The Pleiades appear to be moving across the sky in unison and occasionally can
take on a bluish tint. This is thought to be caused by the cloud of hydrogen gas
that the stars are currently colliding with which is scattering the light. When
observed through a telescope some of the stars in the Pleiades appear to have
intricate blue filaments of light around them. But for some Christians the Pleiades
have taken on a significant role. For as I touched upon earlier we have this from
the Journal of the Jehovah’s Witnesses from 1927-28 and the name of this journal
was:
Zion's Watchtower
As far back as 1891, Zion’s Watchtower expressed the belief that the universe
revolves around the Pleiades, the highest heaven, the throne of God. This doctrine
of the Pleiades was discarded by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1953 having expressed
concern that it could lead to star worship but they have not rescinded what was
said in the 1920s. Most Jehovah’s Witnesses today are totally unaware that their
organisation once taught such a thing. So the Jehovah was witnessed in the same
manner as to concur with Jacob ascending the ladder to a place where God resides
and the three pyramids, built when the Pleiades marked the winter solstice, are
‘God’s Stone Witnesses’. Jehovah’s Witnesses also believe that Jesus and the
Archangel Michael are one and the same if we extrapolate this to a star
explanation then this will mean that Aldebaran, which follows the Pleiades, is in
fact Jesus. As we shall see later this concept may supply an explanation for the
Transfiguration of Jesus.
Later we shall be discussing something that has been already mentioned called
‘The Language of the Birds’ and it seems that a book was written describing this
called ‘The history and his Methods’ which was part of the prestigious series given
the curious name of ‘the Encyclopaedias of the Pleiades’.
At the beginning of this book we learned that Nostradamus had once lived in Alet
les Bains this is however not confirmed but is very likely correct. A French writer
makes the connection through his grandparents who lived in the City of Aleth and
we find them established at Notre Dame in Alet. Having been Jews for the tribe of
Issakhar they converted to Christianity and changed their name to include their
place of residence. Michel de Nostredame was born on December 14 1503 in Saint
Rémy-de-Provence and was the son of Jaume de Nostredame and Renee de Saint
Rémy who was the daughter of Jean de Saint Rémy the personal doctor of Rene
d’Anjou - Good King Rene a one time king of Jerusalem and supposedly a Grand
Master in the Prieure de Sion. Jean de Saint Rémy was well versed in the study of
the astrology and medicine and tutors his grandson Michel until 1518 when he is
sent to a school at Avignon and astounds his masters with his “almost divine”
memory. Michel achieves his Bachelor in Medicine in 1524 and is sent to the plague
ridden areas of the Languedoc in Narbonne, Toulouse and Bordeaux where he
astounds everyone with his effective treatment of his patients.
With the coming of the New Age many researchers have cited Nostradamus’
Century X Quatrain 72 which says:
“L’an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois
Du ciel viendra un grand Roi d’effrayeur
Rescuciter le Roi d’Angoulmois
Avant après Mars regner par bon heur”
This is not a prediction but an astrological plan for the world. Grand Roi
d’effrayeur is the Grand King of the destroyers Abaddon, the angel of the
bottomless pit who comes from the heavens. The writer David Ovason says that Roi
d’Angoulmois found by using the Language of the Birds is in fact the Archangel
Michael, King of the Archangels (Literally: King of the Angel months) and one
remembers that Michael coming from the heavens has this destroyer from the
bottomless pit in chains. The start of the Jewish seventh month is in fact
September 11th or when the Sun enters the Third Decal of Virgo. L’an mil neuf cens
nonante neuf is of course the year 1999 and is the year predicted for the rise of
the destroyer Abaddon just prior to the start of the new millennium. There was in
fact a solar eclipse in August 1999 that Nostradamus may have calculated, an
eclipse that was unusual inasmuch as its visibility so far north. Not only this but
the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter and Mars had an unusual alignment just prior to this in
what was called a Grand Cross that corresponded exactly to the four Royal stars. A
man with the obvious abilities and knowledge of Nostradamus would have been
able to calculate this to a degree of accuracy typical of 500 years ago. An
astrological chart drawn for August 1999 in France will find the planet Mars near
the First House near its Ascendant and as the ruling planet of Aries, Mars will
indeed “reign happily before and after” over this unusual event that occurs
remarkably close to the end of the millennium. However the true bi-millennium for
the appearance of the star of Bethlehem (conjunction of Jupiter, Mars and Venus)
is in fact July 1st 1999 or 17 Tammuz 5759 in the Hebrew calendar and July is of
course the seventh month.
Perhaps it was this that Nostradamus, former resident of Alet les Bains, had
calculated.