1330 - Knights Templar Begat Masons

The Order of Masonry was instituted by Godfrey de Bouillon, in Palestine, in 1330, after the defeat of the Christian armies, and was communicated only to a few French Masons, some time afterwards, as a reward for the services which they had rendered to the English and Scottish Knights. From these latter true Masonry is derived. Their Mother Lodge is situated on the mountain of Heredom, where the first Lodge in Europe was held, which still exists in all its splendor. The Council General is always held here, and it is the seat of the Sovereign Grand Master for the time being. This mountain is situated between the West and the North of Scotland, sixty miles from Edinburgh.

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Masonry: Born in Jerusalem, and raised in Europe before finally settling in Scotland at Mount Heredom in Kilwinning, Lodge Number Zero.

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But, of course, the hidden story of what happened will not come from 'them', even if they knew themselves.

From left to right; Lord of Douglas - King Robert the Bruce - Kings brother Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick - The Great Marischal

VICTORY FOR SCOTLAND!
By Mark Churms
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On The Last day of the Battle of Bannockburn, the King of Scots Robert Bruce "King of Scots", in his great helm, chain mail and mounted on his galloping warhorse, charges with his heavy knights against the disintegrating English Army of Edward II.

If you saw the movie Braveheart you should have expected to see this scene after the Scots victory at the battle of Bannockburn. But the movie was designed to make you forget by remembering. Yes, the focus was on the hero, but not because he was an important figure beyond his appeal to the masses. Something greater was happening and he was just as much a victim.

Moving along in history....King Edward I represented the Vatican. His power came from the Pope. Before, during and after his defeat the church had infiltrated Scotland via the Knights Templar. The persecution of KT was showmanship creating a dichotomy and allowing them to enter into areas where the Catholic Church could not. But it backfired. the KT threw in their hat with Robert which placed them under the power of the Great Marischal who was commander of the Knights. At Bannockburn they were forced to ride in front of the Great Marischal in the charge against the archers depleting their numbers.

Then came the Crusade.

In 1330 Scottish Templars led by Sir James Douglas set out for the Levant with the heart of Robert Bruce, reaching Spain before falling in battle against the Moslem invaders of Europe.

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What does brave heart mean?

In Spain, the Spanish King asked if they would help him fight the Moors, and in 1330 at Tebas de Ardales, the Scots found themselves completely cut off and surrounded with no hope of escape. Forming up for one last charge, James Douglas threw the silver casket containing the heart of Bruce into the midst of the Moors shouting, "Lead on brave heart as thou was ever want to do. Douglas will follow." The Scots followed their leader's heart.

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But how did the Bruce Heart return to Scotland?

A Norman named Hervey later married the heiress of Marbhachair and received charter for the lands of Keth from King David I in 1150. Hervey's son was made Marischal of the King of Scots in 1176. The Marischal, was custodian of the Royal regalia and was to protect the King at Parliament

Robert the Bruce bestowed Halforest in Aberdeenshire to Robert de Keth in 1308. Here the Keiths built their castle. Sir Robert's nephew was the one to return the Bruce's heart to Melrose abbey after the Douglas's death at the hands of the Moors in Spain. The Bruce also made the office of Marischall herediatry to the Keiths in 1324 in recognition of Sir Robert de Keth, calvalry commander at the Battle of Bannockburn.

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And now the large majority of The Knights Templar are dead, Masonry is Established, the new Monarchy is established. The few who remain are integrated into Scotish Masonry. And the Great Marischal is hereditary King Maker.

But how many of the Keiths died in the crusade?

NONE! Not even the Great Marischal.

And why? Because they killed the Templars, Douglas and all the others.

Sorry, I don't have a link for the family history book. I have requested copies from certain sections and will post them if I can. And if you don't hear from me again please ask questions.

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God = Gad = Catti = Keith

2 Samuel 24 (New American Standard Bible)
10Now (N)David's heart troubled him after he had numbered the people So David said to the LORD, "(O)I have sinned greatly in what I have done But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for (P)I have acted very foolishly."
11When David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to (Q)the prophet Gad, David's (R)seer, saying,
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18So Gad came to David that day and said to him, "(AA)Go up, erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
19David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.
20Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king.
21Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, (AB)that the plague may be held back from the people."
22Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, (AC)the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
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Professor Waddell in his map of Eastern Asia gives western Media as the home of the Guti or Catti, which name we have seen is a derivation of Gadil or Gad, and therefore either men of Gad or Judah or both, as we have seen they formed the backbone of the growing power of Media.
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This was the period of Zoroaster or Zarathustra, who was undoubtedly a Catti ro Israelite and who introduced the Bel-fire worship of the Catti from the Phoenician homeland into Ariana, the Persia of later days. Zoroaster taught the existence of ne God, the cretor of all things, to whom all things belong. Zoroaster ’ s faith was a religion of righteousness or “ Asha, ” from which is derived the word Asia. Like the Phoenicians, he and his followers worshiped God through His visible symbol, the Sun, from which the Parsee religin developed which stillsurvives in India until today.

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THE PHOENICIAN
Origin of Britons
Scots & Anglo-Saxons

Chapter XVI
"CATTI," "KEITH," "GAD" AND "CASSI" TITLES IN OLD ETHNIC AND PLACE-NAMES EVIDENCING PHOENICIAN PENETRATION OF BRITAIN AND ITS ISLES

Confirming Hitto-Phoenician Origin of the "Catti" and "Cassi" Coins of Pre-Roman Britain
"His [the Khaitiya's1] sources of subsistence are Arms and the Protection of the Earth. The Guardianship of the Earth is his special province. . . . By intimidating the bad and cherishing the good, the (Khattiya) ruler who maintains the discipline of the different tribes secures whatever region he desires.-- Vishnu Purana Epic2

HISTORICAL and AUTHENTIC
ACCOUNT OF THE
Ancient and Noble Family
Of
KEITH,
EARLS MARICHAL OF SCOTLAND.

It was about this time that the Prince of the Chatti, whose name was Gilly Chattan Moir, having married the daughter of Brudus, king of the Picts, began to be suspected of favouring his father-in-law, against Alpinus, who was then the Scots king: But when his son Kennethus the 2nd , came to the throne, he being desirous to revenge his father’s death, who had been defeated and slain by the Picts[3], declared war against them; and among the rest of the nobility, he likewise summoned old Gilly Chattan Moir, prince of the Chatti, to attend his standard. He being loath to appear in arms against his father-in-law, and yet willing to show his allegiance to his own king, stayed at home himself, but sent his eldest son with a body of men to king Kennethus, which was so glorious to the Scots, and proved the utter extirpation of the Picts. The youngest son of this Gilly Chattan Moir[4] succeeded his father as prince, or head of the clan, and it was in his time that the Chatti were driven to the wilds of Lochaber, and the neighbouring mountainous shires, where they spread into the famous families of Mc.Intoshes, Mc. Phersons, &c. all acknowledging for their head, or chief, the lineal descendant of that surviving son of Gilly Chattan Moir’s; who, at this day, is the representative of the family of Keith.[5]
The Chatti, having for a long time continued a distinct people from the Scots, being governed by their own prince and laws, living in the highlands, till the Scots observed them to be a just and industrious people, made a peace, and settled a friendship with them: Yet they continued under their prince and laws, not being permitted to marry, or form any relation with the Scots, till the reign of Malcolm the 2nd, king of Scotland, about the year 1005.
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Gad told King David what God said. Zarathustra was Catti. Along with the Highlanders of ancient northern Scotland. The King of Scotlands Marischal. And today their chief is the head of the Keith Clan.

Exiled Jacobite James Keith, second son of the Great Marischal, after his afair with Queen Beatrix of France faltered, moved on to Spain and later to Russia where he eventually became commander of the military, governor of the Ukraine, and the founder of Freemsonry in Russia.

But, putting this account aside for the moment, there is better agreement that Freemasonry in Russia began with the flamboyant Lord James Keith (1696 - 1758), a descendent from Scottish nobility, banished in 1715 for his support of the Stuart Pretender. He served in the Spanish Army, before moving to Russia in 1728 with the recommendation of Phillip V, and by the early 1740's was a leading Russian (sic) Army General. The Russian Empress Anna appointed him as the military governor of the Ukraine. But, importantly for our story, Keith was made Provincial Grand Master of Russian Freemasonry in 1740 by the Grand Master of England who also happened to be Keith's Cousin.

The minutes of the premier Grand Lodge of England for 24 June 1731 record:

"Then the Grand Master and his General Officers signed a Deputation for our Rt. Worshipful Brother John Phillips Esqr. to be Grand Master of free and accepted Masons within the Empires of Russia and Germany and Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging, and his health was drank wishing Prosperity to the Craft in those parts" (Batham, Transactions, p.34).

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After the death of Peter the great the Empress was intent on making him Emporer of the largest Empire on Earth. But he was already Master Mason of both Russia and Germany. So he left with his young bride [marriage not endorsed by the Church] to Germany where he became Governor of Berlin and Commander of the German military.

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Although I believe in a Templar origin of Masonry and many of my Masonic Brothers here would and have argued the point with me a time or 2 any connection has been lost in the proverbial " Mists of Time"

Read Born in Blood by John J. Robinson.

King Arminius of the Catti/Chatti, Known to Rome as Hermann.

9 AD: Battle of Teutonberg Forest: King Arminius of the Chatti kills a Roman general and escapes into the Teutonberg forest. Rome sends an army, calvary, and ships over German lakes and discover bleached bones of dead Roman soldiers in forest groves. The Roman army moves toward Gaule, where they think Arminius is, and are killed by quicksand and drowning. Surviving soldiers are paid off, sent home, and honored with a feast of bravery. The losing Roman general is poisoned.

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He laid his plans with the chiefs of the Catti, Bructeri, and other tribes that lived between the Rhine and the Albis (Elbe), some of which broke out into insurrection. Hermann then offered Varus his assistance in reducing them to subjection, and thus led him to advance some distance from the Rhine into the interior. Varus began his march with three legions, six cohorts, and a body of cavalry, and Hermann served him as a guide through the wilds. The Romans were thus drawn into an ambuscade in the Teutoburg forest, and found themselves all at once surrounded by numerous bodies of Germans, who were directed by Her- [41] mann himself. The Romans fought desperately; but being unacquainted with the localities, and unable to form their ranks owing to the thickness of the forests and the marshy nature of the ground, they were defeated after a three days' battle, by the Germans, who destroyed them in detail. At last, Varus, being wounded and seeing no chance of escape, fell upon his sword, and the other chief officers followed his example.

The legions were entirely destroyed, and the cavalry alone cut their way through the enemy and regained the banks of the Rhine. By this defeat the Romans lost all their conquests beyond that river; and although Germanicus some years after again carried their arms to the Weser, they never established anything like a solid dominion over those regions. The defeat of Varus occurred, according to various chronologists, in the year 763 of Rome (A. D. 9). The scene of the defeat is conjectured to have been in the country of the Bructeri, near the sources of the Ems and the Lippe. The news of this calamity, the greatest that had befallen the Roman arms since the defeat of Crassus, was received with universal amazement and terror. The despairing cry of Augustus, "Varus, Varus, give me back my legions!"

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