Grand Master

Whitfield, J. F. Chakravarthy, B. Calcium The Grand-Master Signaler NRC Research Press Ottawa, 2002. 

This condescension was fed by the luster of his new Parisian disciples. The titled nobility flocked to him, including the prince de Montmorency, who accepted the title of Parisian patron of the Egyptian movement and the due d Orleans, Royal Prince and Grand Master of French Masonry since... 

The reader is supposed to be present at experiments conducted in the laboratory of a Grand Master of the Sacred Art in the 5th or 6th century. 

Marcel Duchamp Conversations with the Grand Master. Ed. L. Graham. 

Framed in the doorway was the portrait from the museum come to life. The Russian princess had stepped out of her canvas, in her shimmering blue silks, bringing with her more radiance and vitality than any Grand Master could have hoped to capture. Everything Trix had felt about that portrait, even in the photos, was standing in front of her, magnified a hundredfold by the woman s physical presence. 

The grand master of watercolor was Sesshu, who painted Autumn Landscape, a beautiful, simple arrangement of trees, mountains, and a pagoda. 

Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Villiers de I lsle-Adam entering Malta in 1530... 

In Smallwood s autobiography (New American Library, 1973), he identified himself "In 1967 (I) enjoyed immensely the distinction of being installed in office (as Master Mason) by the Grand Master Mason (Scottish Constitution) Lord Bruce, who came from Scotland especially for the purpose. So I met the direct descendant of King Robert the Bruce. Proud Oh, yes."... 

Apparently not. The Maestro frowned at having to admit ignorance. His fate is a mystery. There has been speculation that he bought his way out by revealing certain secrets that even Grand Master Jacques de Molay did not know. ... 

In all the stories about Hasan s ability to instil blind loyalty in his followers, the one common element is the promise of entering Paradise in return for serving the grand master. Only in Marco Polo s account is there any mention of a drag. 

R. Pool, Science, 250, 510 (1990). Chemistry Grand Master Garners a Nobel Prize. 

Amen Hetep Son of Hapu is an early archetype for the Freemason s legendary Grand Master, Hiram Abiff. The king Amenhotep III is correspondingly an archetype for Solomon, as is the temple of A1 Kamak for the Temple of Solomon. 

Freemasonry eventually adopted this advice. Earlier on, this same advice would have been wise counsel for the Knights Templar. We shall soon see why they were condemned as heretics and their Grand Master burnt at the stake. We will look at the processes of traditional wet and dry alchemy before turning to these events. 

The Knights Templar and Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion shared the same Grand Master until 1188. In this year, the Orders separated to allow the Order of Sion to focus on the restoration of the Merovingian lineage in France. This separation occurred at Gisors as the Splitting of the Elm. The Elm is the tree that supports the young vine. " ... 

At least three Grand Masters of the Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion were well-known practitioners and publishers of alchemy Nicholas Flamel (1398-1418), Robert Boyle (1654-1691) and Sir Isaac Newton (1691-1727). Although these Grand Masters were familiar with Jewish alchemy and Gnostic philosophy, they probably were not accomplished adepts of practical alchemy. Isaac Newton seemed very frustrated. Perhaps the Grand Masters suffered a similar vacuum of knowledge as the Rabbis who supposedly lost the secret at the destruction of the Temple. Nor were these Grand Masters of the Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion privy to the secret philosophy of the Sharon s Rose. 

The Rite of Memphis always held that the real principles of masonry were Chaldean. " Their Rosicrucian ancestors had supposedly preserved this knowledge in the Temple of the Rose Cross at Damascus. The knowledge was preserved at an unknown convent of the Maronites, on Mount Liban. This probably refers to either the Assaasins and their Grand Master, the Old Man of the Mountain in a cave of Mount Lebanon. ... 

Sir Christopher Wren was a founding member of the Royal Society and frequented the Invisible College. There are scant records of Freemasonry at this time but Anderson s New Book of Constitutions of 1738 notes Wren, the Master of the London Operative Masons Company was a Grand Master of Freemasonry in 1685." Similarly, John Aubrey, an antiquary and fellow of the Royal Society, recorded that an order initiated Wren in 1691 at St Paul s Cathedral." ... 

Louis of Bourbon, Prince of the Royal Blood of France assisted Frederick II promulgate the thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite just before his death in May 1786. This may well have been Louis de Bourbon-Conde, Count of Clermont and Abbe of St Germain des Pres, who was Grand Master of French Masonry and died in 1771. ° However, if the establishment date of May 1786 is correct then the Louis Bourbon in question could have been the Count of Clermont s nephew, Louis Philippe-Joseph d Orleans, Duke of Chartres, Prince of the Royal Blood. He continued as Grand Master until his abdication in 1793. ... 

However, records show that the Pope would not intercede on behalf of the Knights Templar. The Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, declared to the Dominican Inquisition on November 26, 1308 ... 

The crest of Earl St Clair of Orkney and the documents in the St Clair libraries prominently show the Shamir. Earl St Clair was the Scottish ruler who sheltered fugitive Knights Templar and their fleet, when it escaped Philippe JV s suppression order. His family subsequently became hereditary Grand Masters of Freemasonry. The knowledge of the Shamir has no doubt remained sealed with other... 

Nicholas Flamel who lived from about 1330 to 1418 was a Grand Master of the Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion and a well-known... 

Both the Bourbon and its cadet d Orleans dynasties were closely associated with Knights Templar succession. Philippe II, Due d Orleans (1674-1723) signed the famous Larmenius Charter of Transmission in 1705 as Grand Master. " Louis Bourbon of Maine succeeded him in 1724, followed by Louis de Bourbon-Conde in 1737 and Louis Francois Bourbon-Conty in 1741. 

Louis de Bourbon-Conde was also Grand Master of French Freemasonry. He was succeeded as Grand Master of French Freemasonry by Louis Philippe-Joseph d Orleans (1747-1793), father of the Louis Philippe who supported Delacroix. 

St Sulpice benefited from one hundred years of sponsorship by the Princes of the Sanctuary, the Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon-Conde, Knights Templar Grand Masters and French Freemasonry Grand Masters. 

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