Ancient Charts Part III

COLUMBUS'S CHART ROOM

According to Charles Berlitz Columbus was a Museum of Navigational knowledge. He was a student of the voyages that preceded him. Analyzing every detail from sailor’s myths to the logs of ships from various countries upon their return from

voyages.

Tales of him sailing off into the unknown are nonsense! His Admirals chart was a very detailed and precise and was said to have been drawn in Venice of the 1424 chart. It now resides in the Library at the University of Minnesota.

Columbus was born and grew up in Majorca, a center of smuggling piracy, and map making. Columbus’s brother Bartholomew was a map maker of Majorca. Norwegian Kare

Prytz stated in reference to America’s rediscovery. The name Vinland was written Binini or Isla Bini Which was well known long before Columbus. On these charts were the Islands of the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Cuba, Puertoo Rico. The chart makers didn’t know

the Latitudes of the islands so they placed the islands west of Ireland.

Columbus gave orders to his Captains to sail 2800 miles to the west then they would encounter some islands and a continent, they were instructed not to sail at night because of the islands undetermined latitude, and they would be approaching Vinland.

In the legend of the Piri Re’is chart it states that it was redrawn from other charts including charts once used by Columbus. This chart is in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, and it testifies that the Atlantic was being Navigated long before the European Dark

Ages. Dating from 1513 the Piri Re’is chart shows the entire east coast of both North and South America and also Antarctica.

Columbus had a book called Kitab Bahriye authored by Admiral Piri Rei's with descriptions of these distant lands full of minerals and riches. Columbus used this book to try and convince Portugal and Genoese that expeditions to these lands would be very worth while.

Columbus after several attempts finally convinced the Spanish Royalty to fund his voyages but represented to the courts that they would be to India

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Ancient Charts Part II

ZENO CHART OF THE NORTH

When the Templar’s set sail for Nova Scotia in 1398 they apparently had a chart of very precise detail. It was assembled by Antonio Zeno the Venetian Navigator, after a voyage that Antonio and his brother Niccolo took to Iceland, Greenland, and by some accounts to Nova Scotia in 1380. They drew a chart of the North Atlantic which was lost for two centuries before being discovered by a descendant in 1550.

This chart was studied by Professor Hapgood in great detail who stated that it was copied from a highly accurate chart that was drawn with a conic projection. Antonio was not familiar with this projection because it was not invented until three hundred years after his death. He also made improvements to the chart based on his own knowledge where he could.

It detailed with precision and accurate latitude and longitude of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Baltic Sea and her coastline. An interesting detail on the chart is the legendary land of Thor so prominently detailed in Roman and Greek mythology. It was

thought to be in northern waters about six days sail from the Orkney Islands.

It was said to be north of the lost kingdom of Atlantis. The land of Thor was said to be covered with forests,and had several civilizations some very indigenous tribes and some more advanced civilization. When you take into account that the sea level then was 300 feet lower than today, so there were probably several sunken islands today that once supported civilizations.

Baffin Islands seems to meet many of these requirements laying in the arctic circle between Greenland and Labrador. It is covered today in a petrified forest and would have had a land bridge to Labrador a thousand years ago. Today Greenland is covered by glaciers but under, these glaciers are mountains and rivers flowing to the sea and farmlands below.

There was a time When the Mythological land of Atlantis existed before the Ice age brought glaciers to cover vast areas of Canada and Michigan and Wisconsin. It is where the ten thousand lakes of Minnesota come from. The Red River Valley of North Dakota

is a glacier lake bed with some of the most fertile farm land in the world. It has a river called the Red River of the North. It flows north to Canada and empty’s into Lake Winnipeg, which in turn flows north and empties into Hudson Bay.

It is interesting to note that of the thirty four rivers that flow north, in the world, only eight of them are in southerly areas, the rest are in areas where glaciers once existed.

MAGELLAN'S CHART

The Knights of Christ and the Royalty of Portugal through their association with the Knight Templar’s, had very accurate and detailed charts, that showed areas of discovery before the ships set sail.

Henry the Navigator had charts of Brazil and the Amazon basin before he set sail. The mouth of the amazon is 250 miles wide today. I hate to think how wide it was when the sea level was two hundred and fifty feet lower.

In 1519 when Magellan set sail, his navigator Pigafetta commented on a mysterious chart in Magellan’s possession, which was copied from the King of Portugal’s Master chart. With this chart Magellan was able to seek a passage through a difficult and unknown strait which had never been used before.

Columbus also had a copy of the same chart from the King of Portugal, which clearly showed the coast of the America’s and did not confuse the continent with that of Asia. Professor Hapgood stated that Columbus probably didn't know how to interpret the conical projection of many of the Ancient Charts, but would have recognized the Mediterranean and European coastal area to the point where he would be able to work out

distances.

The thought is that the Royalty of Portugal and the Sinclair’s of Scotland obtained these charts from the Templar’s after the Templar Fleet went missing and they reorganized into the fleet of the Knights of Christ and the Sinclair Masonic Fleet of Scotland.

Running behind

I have been busy on another site called UFO in the USA, if anybodies interested in my work on extraterrestrials that is a good place to join on Facebook, nice people lot's of accurate information from around the world.

I will be publishing some of my posts over here on this blog in the future. I would like to finish my work on Freemasonry, republish my work on the Masonic Pirates and the early history of colonial America up to around the  Revolutionary war, perhaps to around the year 1800. This information will be included in my fourth book in the Capt EJ's Exploration series.

Prince Henry Sinclair Part V

According to the owners, they felt based on family legends Europeans were settled on the hilltop before the time of Christ. They were prospecting gold which they used to finance Stuart dynasty military operations and other dynasty ventures during the middle ages.

The Norse came to the same hilltop years later. The Norse were related to the Stuarts of Scotland and built a village over the earlier site. They built what she believes is the lost city of Norumbega. The Norse site was built after Columbus but well before any European occupation. This was essentially a safe house for Royal members of the Stuart dynasty.

When a area is deemed historic in Nova Scotia, it becomes under government control. Which means people can be forced to move and loose their properties, real estate values take a nose dive and in general tension is running high in this village. This property has come to be known as the castle at the cross.

The island in the bay is of course the infamous Oak Island. I will be presenting this in a separate post within the next few days. There are two Oak islands at the end of the rivers . These are landmarks. The significant thing about Oak Island as it relates to this story is that the “Money Pit” is essentially a sinkhole 250' deep with a cavern at the bottom.

 Mining companies have entered it with fiber optic cameras and located a body. They believed they have discovered two wooden chests with metal in them and a small piece of parchment has been retrieved.

 Everybody suspects this is a location of the Holy Grail and also pirate treasure specifically Captain Kids lost Treasure. But there is significant possibility that it goes back to Ancient times.

 The original wooden beams are spruce timbers dating to 800 BC. If there was oak on the island these also would date to that time era. I will also be presenting this in a separate post within the next few days.

 There are two Oak islands at the ends of the rivers . These are landmarks. The significant thing about Oak Island as it relates to this story is that the “Money Pit” is essentially a sinkhole 250' deep with a cavern at the bottom. It takes 200 years for oak to mature. It is felt if there was oak on the island when Prince Henry was there he would have used it.

 The oak platforms are dating to the 1600's, the time area of piracy. If Prince Henry planted oak tree's in the early 1400's, as markers for the river entrance, they would have been matured by the age of Piracy in the 1600's. 

 Also as you might imagine, there would be quite a significant reason, for Henry to go through this much work, if the Oak Island location wasn't extremely significant.

 Also on this subject if you haven't ever approached a island with out charts, trying to locate landmarks, separating small coves and bays from streams and rivers in the foggiest spot on the earth, well you just haven't lived!

 The warm gulf stream comes up from the gulf of Mexico, its warm full of fish and birds flying around sailors know when they are in it. This is why Florida has such warm waters full of fish and corals. As it moves north at four knots, its like a river in the middle of a ocean. If you get a stiff breeze going against this current, well just review some of the stories of the Bermuda Triangle, like I said, you haven't lived until you've messed around with the gulf stream.

 As the gulf stream flows north at 4 kts, which is fast, most sail boaters wished they averaged 4 kts on a voyage. The cold Labrador current is coming south from Canada, across the grand banks, and down the Jersey coast.

 This is why the waters of New England, Long Island, Atlantic City and the Maryland beaches have frigid waters. Also on this subject if you haven't ever approached a island with out charts, trying to locate landmarks, separating small coves and bays from streams and rivers in the foggiest spot on the earth, well you just haven't lived!

 The warm gulf stream comes up from the gulf of Mexico, its warm full of fish and birds flying around sailors know when they are in it. This is why Florida has such warm waters full of fish and corals.

  As it moves north at four knots, its like a river in the middle of a ocean. If you get a stiff breeze going against this current, well just review some of the stories of the Bermuda Triangle, like I said, you haven't lived until you've messed around with the gulf stream.

 As the gulf stream flows north at 4 kts, which is fast, most sail boaters wished they averaged 4kts on a voyage, the cold Labrador current is coming south from Canada, across the grand banks, and down the Jersey coast, which is why the waters of New England, Long Island, Atlantic City and the Maryland beaches have frigid waters.

 These two ocean rivers bump into each other off of the outer banks of North Carolina the 21 mile stretch of area that Cape Lookout serves is known as Horrible Headlands.

 The cold and warm waters mix, the fog is as thick as pea soup, the large ocean waves have been coming from Europe non stop. They are driven by strong currents with 50 kt storm gales running against them, yep you haven't lived until you've messed with North Carolina.

 Meantime the gulf stream is running north about 70 miles off the coast of Maryland, that’s where the charter skippers take you fishing. Heading for the grand banks where these streams once again converge and the fogs that occur in the gulf of Maine and the Grand Banks, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland are legendary.

 However the explorers in the age of discovery didn't have weather satellites, NOAA, buoys and maritime radio's. They frequently send half a dozen ships on voyages and don't expect them to all make it. 

 Nova Scotia is not sailor friendly waters, when you run aground, and your not considered a sailor until you have run aground, it's granite. Mud, sand, coral you can plow through and mess up your paint job, the coasts of Canada, Maine and New England, well that's ugly.

  When your approaching a coastline and your looking for a river entrance, it doesn't look like a river it looks like the shore line has taken a curve, or it looks like a bay, the river may be ½ mile wide inland but becomes extremely wide at the entrance.

 I believe the Amazon is 200 miles wide, and the float-some that comes out of that river fifty miles out to sea is incredible. Even the color of the water can be brown after heavy rain storms and flooding.

  You frequently have not one river entrance, but several, which all look the same, especially in my home waters of the Chesapeake bay, and Bay of Fundy is an absolute challenge, it separates the sailors from the wanna be sailors.

 This is why Oak Island has oaks on it. They are the only islands within hundreds of miles that have oak on them. Next question for you, Why two Oak Islands , brush up on Trig, next lesson is celestial navigation before time pieces were invented.

Damn, I digressed again, OK, class is out!

 When the French arrived in the early 1600's they were the first to report this form of communication that the Micmac were using. It was quite unique for a group of people living at the level of cave men, actually frequently they did live in caves.

  It wasn't until relatively recently that Professor Barry Fell of Harvard University performed a comparison to Egyptian script and also North African ancient script's and he concluded that they were Egyptian and more specifically North African in nature.

 An interesting observation is that there were symbols for silver and gold, however the Micmac were at the level of the stone age people's and didn't have any metals at all in their culture. 

 They hadn't any tools or weapons that were metal. However when Champlain surveyed the area that the Micmac were prominent in, specifically Nova Scotia and especially around the headwaters of the Bay of Fundy, there were so many gold mines silver mines and copper mines even the small bay off the head of Fundy was called the golden bay, because it has a golden hue. It was appropriately named Minas Basin, or Bay of Mines.

Copper had been imported to Europe primarily Great Britain during the Bronze Age between 3300 and 1200 BC. Copper was smelted with tin to make Bronze. This was most commonly done by Jewish tin miners in Cornwall and Devon areas in Briton.

 The Bronze Age is placed between the stone age and the Iron Age, 3300 BC to 1200 BC. Its the 2nd phase of a three tier system of classification and studying of ancient societies. A region could be in the Bronze Age either by smelting their own tin and copper or by trading with those production areas that did.

Knight Templar's Part XVI

The Cambronchaux a very large Cistercian farm outside of Wodecq had an extremely large barn. This was an ideal site for the destination of the Treasure.  No one would question monks going about normal farming activities.  Warrior monks escorting carts of hay, wool, livestock, and other agricultural items also would not have attracted attention.  This also would be a common sight because of frequent thefts and pillaging from soldiers in the area from the frequent battles with France over the last several years.

The Flemish Knight and brother Yves had their work cut out for them.  In the back of a distillery on the grounds of the Paris preceptoy they had acquired 21 large barrels and had transferred the gold, silver, jewels, precious stones, and documents to the barrels and covered them with a thick coat of grease.

 One at a time they were loaded onto a cargo vessel in the Seine River and they made their way to the Atlantic.  At a property close to the mouth of the Seine river they were transferred with other cargo to ships from the seaport at le Rochelle which in turn delivered their cargo without a lot of pomp and splendor to Luys Flanders where they were again met by brother warrior monks who assumed they were just transferring agricultural products to the barn at Cambronchaux.

They were escorted in company of knight Templar's in full battle dress, to protect them from the highway robbers, unemployed soldiers, laying around waiting for another war, pillaging the local fields and farmers to survive.

  With a large frame in the barn other young monks were waiting to unload the barrels and set them along the side of the interior of the barn one at a time, under the supervision of brother Yves.  The young monks thought it strange that such a man of intellect was doing mundane chores around the barn, but the old monk just smiled and said he had writers block from time to time.

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Fteemasons Part VI ( The Grand Lodge)

Under William and Mary Protestantism replaced Catholism in England; by an act of Parliament all Catholics were forbidden to ascend to the throne, as was anyone married to a Catholic and this is true to this day.

 Queen Ann was the youngest daughter of James II, sister in law of William of Orange. She succeeded him upon his death in 1702 to the Throne of England. She was succeeded in 1714 by George I, grandson of Elizabeth Stuart and Friedrich Count of Palatine of the Rhine.

 When George died in 1727 the Throne passed to his son George II who reigned until 1760. For sixty years after Williams’s ascension to the Throne the Stuart dynasty held on to a desire to regain their royal prominence and return to the Throne.

 While in exile, the Stuart dynasty remained as a Neo-Government without an empire. James II died in 1701 being replaced by his son James III, known as the ‘Old Pretender’.

 James III was replaced by his son the ‘Young Pretender’ otherwise known as ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’. Under these three Monarch’s in exile there existed a center of political intrique.

  In 1708 a Stuart invasion of Scotland took place supported by French Armies and their Navy. England meanwhile had its resources focused on the War of Spanish Succession.

  Even unprepared as England was to deal with the French threat they were able to counter the offensive; not by military ingenuity but by being able to take advantage of disorganization amongst the leadership of the invasion.

 France wasn’t energetically motivated towards the cause, there was poor decision making and just general bad luck. England was able to thwart the invasion but seven years later in 1715, a very well organized revolt, under the Earl of Man, who had replaced the Viscount of Dundee as Grand Master, of the latter day Knight Templars and Freemasonic Lodge’s.

  The Earl of Winton, Lord George Seton also joined the Earl of Man in this revolt. He however was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London where he was condemned to death and his title of Earl was revoked. He was able to escape to France where he remained active in the Jacobite causes for the remainder of his life. In 1736 he became Master of the Jacobite Masonic Lodge in Rome.

 The revolt wasn’t successful and the Stuarts remained a threat to the British Empire for the next 30 years. With the revolt of 1688 started many much needed reforms, the most important of which would be the Bill of Rights.

  Even though changes were taken place there was much confusion amongst the British society. Although the Stuarts were in exile they had many supporters, many of which were civil servants. Because of this Stuart interests were well represented, but not all of the Stuart supporters were willing to oppose Parliament with the use of force or by other means.

 William, Mary and Ann were well liked Monarchs, but the German Hanoverians were a much different case. Many opposed the German sovereigns and desired the return of the Stuarts, who they regarded as rightful heirs to the Throne.

  It was from the Stuart sympathizers that the modern day Tories evolved. Most were active Anglican or Anglo-Catholic out of the cavalier class of society.

  Most were land owners, noble men from the upper classes, who preferred patronage to the crown versus the Parliament, and insisted on the Stuarts recovery of the Throne.

  The Whigs were primarily the professional classes and merchantmen. They were active in industry, banking, commerce, and members of the military. They were composed of free thinkers, religious diversity and dissenters from society.

 They preferred the Parliament over the crown. They were made up of what we would call today the middle class. They subscribed to the Puritan work ethic, the leadership of the commerce and industrial revolution and a change in British history where money would become the main arbitrator. They were willing to tolerate their German Sovereigns as a means to their successes in commerce.

 The differences in British society were evident in Freemasonry itself. After the revolution of 1688 the lodges continued to meet and proliferate.

 It is likely the membership of the established lodges and the senior members of the newer lodges were pro Stuart or Tory. But there isn’t evidence to support that the lodges were part of a Jacobite propaganda effort. The lodges apparently tried to remain apolitical.

 As more and more Whig members rose to economic and political prominence they also found their way into the lodges, thus placing their pro-Hanoverian thoughts onto Freemasonry.

  Freemasons historically were pro-Stuart, and had to pledge loyalty to the King and rout out conspirators, thus becoming part of the Stuart covert network.

 It should not be surprising that the main emphasis of Freemasonry would have followed the Stuarts into exile, and from exile work to further its interests in English affairs.

 During the beginning of the 18^th century lodges could be either Tory or Whig, Hanoverian or Jacobite; it was the Tories of England and the Jacobite’s abroad who possessed much of the heritage of Freemasonry, they were the mainstream.

  “There is no question but that the Jacobites had a crucial impact on the development of Freemasonry—to such an extent that later witnesses considered Freemasonry to be a Jacobite conspiracy.”

 The Grand Lodge was formed in 1717 at least in part by the Whigs to break the impression that Jacobite’s were the sole benefactors and had a stranglehold on Freemasonry.

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Freemason Part IV { Elias Ashmore}

  

 Elias Ashmole was born in Litchfield in 1617. He had the same interests as Robert Moray and also the same influence. During the civil war Elias was aligned with the royalists and in 1644 retired to his hometown.

 King Charles I had appointed him Commissioner of Excise, part of his responsibilities brought him frequently to Oxford. It was in Oxford where he made the acquaintance of Captain Sir George Wharton, who was an alchemist and astrologer.

 Elias Ashmore was part of the ‘Invisible College’ but was also very interested in astrology. In 1648 the Invisible College began meeting in Oxford. The Invisible College had in its membership such notable figures as Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren and Dr. John Wilkins.

  Elias Ashmore had in his possession five manuscripts from John Dee. In 1650 Elias began publishing some of these manuscripts under a pseudonym of James Hasolle. The most notable of these manuscripts was “treatise on alchemy”.

  Other alchemical works were soon published which were influential on both Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton. Elias Ashmore was known to have frequented Rosicrucian events, in 1646 a German Rosicrucian document was published which stated  ‘To…the only philosopher in the present age:….Elias Ashmore.’

  King Charles II was also keenly interested in alchemy and was very impressed with Elias Ashmores work. When King Charles II returned to the Throne Elias Ashmore was appointed to the post of Windsor Herald.

 Windsor Herald was the first of many offices that Elias Ashore was to hold for the new Monarch. It was during this time, in 1672, that he published his work ‘Order of the Garter’. This text is still recognized as a model for the chivalric portrayal of Rosicrucian’s, not only in England but internationally as well.

 In 1677 Elias Ashmore bestowed upon Oxford University twelve wagon loads of his personal library which became known as ‘Antiquarian Museum’. Five years after Sir Robert Molay was inducted into the Temple of the Masons, Elias Ashmore was also inducted as a Freemason in 1646:

  1646 Oct 16, 4H  30’ pm I was made a Freemason at Warrington in Lancashire with Col: Henry Mainwaring of Karincham in Cheshire. The names of those who were then of the lodge Mr. Rich Penket, Warden: Mr. James Collier, Mr. Rich Sankey, Henry Littler, John Ellam, Rich Ellam and Hugh Brewer.        

  The above paragraph is an excerpt from Elias Ashmore’s diary. In 1682 Elias Ashmore diary records another lodge meeting in London, at the Masons Hall the list of those in attendance was especially distinguished. This diary attests to the spread of Freemasonry across England, also to his allegiance to Freemasonry for over thirty six years and also the quality of members of the lodge.

 

 Francis Yates mentions that these two Freemasons were the first Freemasons known to history and were both founding members, of the Royal Society.

  All throughout the civil war both Sir Robert Moray and Elias Ashmore were loyal and dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart Dynasty. Elias Ashmore was always loyal to the chivralic orders.  

  Elias Ashmore was the first person since the suppression of the Templars to speak favorably of them. If one were to observe Elias Ashmore, a noted antiquarian, expert on the chivalric orders, prominent Freemason, co-founder of the Royal Society one can visualize the prevailing attitude toward the Templar’s in seventeenth century Freemasonic and Rosicrucian thought.

  With Elias Ashmore the rehabilitation of the Templar’s began in the eyes of the public. It was at this time in 1651 that a translation of Agrippas work from 1533 was published in England.

  The Occult Philosophy was a landmark of esoteric literature. The Occult Philosophy ensured Agrippas reputation as the supreme magician of his age.