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Dagobert was given to the care of Desiderius, Bishop of Poitiers, where there was a cathedral school. The boy was sent on to a monastery in Ireland, sometimes identified as Slane, to be further trained as a page at an Anglo-Saxon court in England. An old tradition relates that he married Mechthilde, an Anglo-Saxon princess, during his exile, but the tradition that among his daughters was Saint Hermine, abbess of Oëren, and Saint Adula, abbess of Pfalzel, are fabrications, perhaps designed to link the saintly foundresses of these abbeys with the revered Merovingian line.
The Carolingians gladly accepted the Roman Catholic rite and remained within that church. Dagobert and his honey bees remained undisturbed in the grave until the scheduled coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of France. Napoleon had the honey bees removed from Dagobert's tomb and placed on his cape for the coronation. It will be recalled that Napoleon also saw fit to remove the crown from the Bishop's hands and place it on his own head, thus showing that he, like the Merovingians, did not need the recognition of the Roman Catholic Church. I told this tale to a person of Irish descent who found it most illuminating as her family is also Jewish. She's quite secular, but she recalled that when she got married, her Jewish grandmother came from Ireland and embroidered honey bees around the hem of her wedding dress. At the time she just thought it was grandmother's touch of decoration. After I told her about the Tuatha de Danna and the honey bees, she asked her mother about it. All her mother could say was that the honey bee was part of an old family crest.
An ancient chapel has revealed a new mystery with the discovery of a 600-year-old hive built into the stones.
Builders renovating Rosslyn Chapel, which was made famous in The Da Vinci Code, found the "unprecedented" hive while dismantling a rooftop pinnacle.
The bees entered the hive through a hole in a carved flower crafted by the chapel's master stone masons.
Originally posted by inforeal
BTW here is a very interesting point regarding “John’s Gesture”
Now in the Islamic religion all Muslims recite something called the Kalema-tut-Shahadat known as the Muslim declaration of faith.
When they do that they form their right index finger in John’s gesture.
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They recite this while doing what amounts to John's Gesture:
There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his prophet
I haven’t ever seen John’s Gesture done with the left hand, and Muslims ALWAYS do the Kalema-tut- Shahadat recitation in prayer doing John’s Gesture with their right index finger!
Of course they don’t know it as John Gesture
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by Onboard2
Dagobert II lived in the 7th century and the Roslyn Chapel wasn't built until the mid-15th century.
Originally posted by Onboard2
I think that's very interesting, Beastmaster. I think Dagobert was more hidden and protected than exiled and waiting for the right time. It's too bad he was murdered. I was recently reading that the original Jews were red-headed and called the 'Red Jews". I don't have the link, but there is a link to the ten tribes supposedly. Since Dagobert came from a long line of red-headed kings, maybe there is a connection.
Originally posted by ThePeopleParty
Nice find. I think im going to start doing the john pose in every pic taken of me from now..peace sign is getting a bit dated.
Originally posted by ShadowScholar
reply to post by BeastMaster2012
Hi Beastmaster2012,
You have found something incredibly interesting regarding freemasonry and possibly the world here. There is a whole story to this which makes sense if you look into it. It's really amazing.
There is a lot more to the John story and the freemasons connection to it, it would blow a lot of freemasons minds I think to know it.
The interesting thing is that nearly all links and proof of this story have disappeared as it is being wiped away, thankfully you can see though that at some time, in the past, the stories were held true and understood!
Originally posted by ShadowScholar
In regards to John, I remember reading somewhere that the black and white tiled floor is supposed to have some link to him. There are lots of references to him in masonry for a reason
Originally posted by ShadowScholar
What specifically does your version of the rite say about John the baptist?
Originally posted by ShadowScholar
You will understand then that John the baptist was the spiritual successor to Solomon in many ways, in that the mysteries of the craft were passed down to him.