Re: KRS - Possible news to come

From: Doug Weller (dweller_at_ramtops.thisremove.co.uk)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:47:24 +0100

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:26:49 GMT, Inger E Johansson wrote:

> Kenney,
> your respected contact told the truth as it's officially accepted but he
> didn't tell the whole truth. You have been given two vital pieces of
> information by him. You have from our past discussion the connection to the
> Grey Friars and the Knights Templar. If you go via Roslyn Chapel's 1360's
> history you will find that the information your contact told you will lead
> you on via Orkney. When you found two important documents still existing
> among the diplomas you will be half way home on this one. Just follow your
> friend's two clues up via Roslyn's history you will find information which
> you probably haven't heard of before.

Here is the offical Rosyln history site:

http://www.rosslynchapel.org.uk/history/history-pt1.htm#1446

I have no idea why Inger connects 1360 to Roslyn Chapel, another tease?

http://www.stbryde.co.uk/articles/Freemasonry%20In%20Scotland%20-%20pre%201736.htm
Masonry in Scotland before the formation of Grand Lodge in 1736.

A paper presented by PM Bro James Jack at Unity Lodge No. 146 in Virginia,
USA during October 2003

Freemasonry in Scotland as we know it today is purely speculative, this
speculative organisation, became regulated by the formation of The Grand
Lodge of Scotland in 1736. Before 1736 there existed in Scotland a highly
organised operative structure which supported Lodges in every part of the
country. Many of these Lodges evolved over a period of time from being
purely operative to being purely speculative. In many cases this evolution
is documented in Lodge minute books, for example, The Lodge of Edinburgh
(Mary`s Chapel) No.1 has an unbroken minute which dates from 1599.

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ahamilton/sinclair.htm
Earl Henry Sinclair's fictitious trip to America
Brian Smith

This article appears in the New Orkney Antiquarian Journal, vol. 2, 2002.
It appears here with a few amendments.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521396549/002-4389028-8308002?v=glance

The Origins of Freemasonry : Scotland's Century, 1590-1710
by David Stevenson
Freemasonry has always been a highly controversial movement. Yet in spite
of the vast literature that has been produced on the subject, its origins
have remained obscure. David Stevenson demonstrates that the real origins
of the essentials of modern freemasonry lie in Scotland around 1600, when
the system of lodges was created by Stonemasons. With rituals and secrets
blending medieval mythology with a number of late Renaissance intellectual
influences, a movement was created that was to spread through England,
across Europe, and then around the world.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684129043/002-4389028-8308002?v=glance

Mythology of the Secret Societies
by J Roberts
Reviewer: Trevor A. McKeown (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
John M. Roberts, Fellow and Tutur of Magdalen College, Oxford and editor of
Purnell's "History of the 20th Century," has given us a valuable insight
into the "spectre that haunted European politics in the 18th and early 19th
centuries."

This is not an history of secret societies, real and imagined. This is an
history of the mythology that grew out of a belief that everything had a
cause--therefore behind everything that happened in the world, there was
someone causing it. John M. Roberts clearly demonstrates that much of the
direction of 19th century politics was influenced, not by secret societies,
but by a belief on the part of rulers in their existence and power.

Doug

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