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Date Posted: 17:23:50 06/09/04 Wed
In reply to:
exa
's message, "Re: The Christopher Columbus thread" on 00:08:09 06/09/04 Wed
Hope you don't mind me jumping in here. Here is a site that mught interset you about the Maltese Cross
It's some book isn't it.
I read it when it first came out and I am rereading it now.
I love many of the quotes for each chapter.
>I found a complete etext of Pendulum and searched for
>more Columbus references. There is one more, in
>chapter 67:
>
>If I could have invented a Templar castle, it would
>have been Tomar. You reach it by ascending a fortified
>road that flanks the outer bastions, which have
>cruciform slits, and you breathe Crusader air from the
>first moment. The Knights of Christ prospered for
>centuries in that place. Tradition has it that both
>Henry the Navigator and Christopher Columbus belonged
>to that order, and in fact it devoted itself to the
>conquest of the seas — making the fortune of Portugal.
>The knights' long and happy existence there had caused
>the castle to be rebuilt and extended through the
>centuries, so to its medieval part were joined
>Renaissance and Baroque wings. I was moved as I
>entered the church of the Templars, which had an
>octagonal rotunda reproducing that of the Holy
>Sepulcher, and I was surprised to see that the
>Templars' crosses had different forms, depending on
>their location. It was a problem I had encountered
>before, when I went through the confused iconography
>on the subject. Whereas the cross of the Knights of
>Malta had remained more or less the same, the Templar
>cross had been influenced by periods and local
>traditions. That's why Templar-hunters, finding any
>kind of cross in a place, immediately think they've
>discovered a trace of the knights.
>
>---
>
>"I say they located the silver mines in the New World,
>caused eruptions of silver there, and then,
>controlling the Gulf Stream, shifted that precious
>metal to the Portuguese coast. Tomar was the
>distribution center; the Foret d’Orient, the chief
>storehouse. This was the origin of their wealth. But
>this was peanuts. They realized that to exploit their
>secret fully they would have to wait for a
>technological advance that would take at least six
>hundred years."
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