Sion, Mount

Some legends say the Rosicrucians originated with one of the elm s branches at Gisors, known as Ormus. The priory of St Samson d Orleans, so they say, protected the members in the priory of Mount Sion at St Jean Le Blanc. The emblem of Ormus was a red cross in a white rose. Since 1188 and to this day, a Supreme Master, called the Nautonnier or Navigator, has led thirteen members in their worship of Notre Dame. 

At the beginning of the twelfth century, after her father Alexios I had refurbished the Orphanotropheion, Anna described the complex as a city -within a city. Several decades later, Theodore Prodromos hailed the Orphanage as Mount Sion, the citadel of the New Jerusalem. Byzantine rhetoricians firequently employed such biblical allusions, but in this speech Prodromos composed such a long and detailed metaphor that it is difficult to believe that he did not conceive of the Orphanotropheion as the premier symbol of the empire s spiritual superiority. "... 

Cavalry does not seem to have performed such an important part among the Greeks and Romans as it dia among the more Eastern nations, as the Parthi ans, whose mounted archers, on more than one occa> sion, defeated and almost annihilated the l ons of Rome. 

Obviously the Judah s Rabbi were not ignorant of Dan s prophesies. Neither were they eomfortable with the prophecy of Jeremiah, whieh separates the ehildren Israel from those of Judah. Jeremiah says the Danite Messiah will judge of the sins of Judah. He adds that this Messiah will reign from the territory of Moimt Hermon (Sion) in Dan rather than Mount Zion in Jerusalem ... 

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