“My two alcoholic parents fought all the time – over everything – including my name. My father would call me John just to irk my mother.”
A year later I read all of Luke one night, and was in the light. I merged from my trailer parked by the McKenzie River to behold stars and a crescent moon gathered in a pine tree. A year later, my landlady did my astrology. Her five hour recording begins, thus;
“Jon. I have never seen a chart like yours, never knew it was possible. It begins where charts in theory begin, on the cusp of Pisces and Aries. For this reason I had to move up the time of your birth, or in theory, you were not born. As it is, now, you barely escaped being a virtual prisoner in this lifetime, that is, all the information you came here to share.”
She saw my death and affixed the date February 11, 1966 by the stars I described.
“What a beautiful day to die. The crescent moon is just rising from the sea pulling four planets behind her like a string of pearls.”
I have a Grand Cross in my chart. My mid-heaven falls on December 20th. which is today. This cross is like a bow and arrow, I poised to shoot the new information I gather, into the heavens.
I began to study the Bible for over twelve hours a day. I came to believe there was a virus in both books. When I discovered Harry Truman called himself Cyrus, who let the Jews return to Zion, and thus was a Messiah, I understood my mission. I began to post on founding a New Israel in America, because God had come to dwell here, and did not want to dwell in Israel any longer. Of course, everyone thought I was mad. Then, five years ago a man, a Jew, promised me an acre of land in South Carolina where my daughter, my grandson, and I may go to one day. This land may have belonged to my ancestors.
What is truly amazing, that the person who gifted me this land, is a descendant of King David and a Freemason, his ancestors founding the Scottish Rite that Harry Truman belonged to. These are the Zionist Jews that talked Harry into allowing a New Exodus. More astounding, it was Colonel Thomas Hart Benton who saved Albert Pike’s library during the Civil War, and thus Scottish Rite Masonry that contained information the President of the United states would behold. This is to say Truman had the right to say; “Let my people go!” when it came to his fellow Masonic Brothers.
Truman, a Freemason since 1909, had established the Grandview Lodge No. 618 in Missouri and served as its first “Worshipful Master”. In 1940, Brother Truman was elected the ninety-seventh Grand Master of Masons of Missouri. In 1945, President Truman was made a Sovereign Grand Inspector General, 33°, and Honorary Member at the Supreme Council of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite (A.A.S.R.) Southern Jurisdiction Headquarters in Washington D.C.
The Promised Land
“For his first birthday I promised my Grandson, Tyler Hunt, a kingdom. American
Democracy has awoken from the demonic spell put upon it. Let the celebration
begin!”
On June 8, 2012, I got a call from a stranger, Samuel Josefa de Mattos, a
descendant of a famous Sephardic Jewish family. He said he had come across my
study on Rougeknights and said; “You appear to know more about my family then I
do.”
We talked about his ancestor, Francis Salvador who was killed by Indians. Samuel
said his kinfolk left the “Jews land” around the small town of Hodges due to the
hostile natives. The Rosamond family may have done the same, they moving to
Mississippi leaving their plantations behind. Did the de Mattos and the Rosmonds
know one another?
Samuel then informed me he had purchased sixty one acres near Plantation Point
that runs to the shore of Greenwood Lake. He had read about the “Jews land” the
Hodge family has once owned. He deliberately bought this land so it can be owned
by descendants of King David once again. I told Samuel about Samuel and James
Rosamond who fought under Francis Marion in the Revolutionary War. I asked for
permission to take my daughter and grandson to this land against owned by a
family whose genealogy is found in the Bible. Samuel replied;
“Jon, not only do you have my permission, but I am going to give you an acre of
this land!”
I felt faint. I could not believe what Samuel offered me, for it is the end of
my prophetic book, where I promise my grandson a kingdom, where I compare my
rosy story to the Sleeping Beauty Princess, named Rosamond. Here is the Return
of The King, in the Red Branch Knight prophecy to the Promised Land.
Here is what my great, great grandfather, James Rosamond says in his will;
To my three sons, Thomas, Benjamin, and Samuel, I leave the rest of my land; to
be divided equally amongst them and to be given to them as they come of age. I
allow my wife to have use of it while she lives, the tract of land that I now
live on. On her death, this land will be equally divided between Thomas,
Benjamin and Samuel.
That my acre will be next door to a descendant of King David whose kingdom the
Zionist Christians and Jews are trying to restore in Israel, is profound! In the
Peerage we read; Esther Montefiore is the daughter of Samuel Montefiore and
Grace de Mattos Mocatta.1 She married Judah Guedalla. This is the family of
Moses Montefiore whom Joaquin Miller built a pyramid monument to, suggesting he
was a moder day Moses! The new address of the New Promised Land is 339 Middleton
Road on the land known as Plantation Point. Was the Rosamond plantation located
here?
I blessed Samuel and his family and when we said goodbye he called me “Brother”.
I then -emailed my good friend Mark Gall, whose Jewish mother always had a
reserved seat for me at her table at the resthome, and she only asked for me to
take her to the Synagogue. She saw something in my eyes when we first met.
On June 7th. I ran into my Jewish friend Ron Freedman. It turned out we knew
Alix whose father is Russian Jews and a neighbor of Mark. These are math
wizards. Mark was the head of the Department of Education at the University of
Oregon.
Here is the proof that God is speaking through me as I have alleged. This is not
my will, but His will. That God has sent another Prophet, is more important then
The Land, for without God, The Land is worthless. This is God’s Message to you!
“These graves are right along a paved road in the woods (I mean, the stones are
right along the road). This cemetery is in bad shape. No one is taking care of
it. It is over grown in weeds, trees and with poison oak and ivy everywhere.
David, Mark and I ventured out into the cemetery a little ways. Couldn’t go to
each stone because the poison oak & ivy is soooo thick. There aren’t many
stones. Some graves are marked with field stones and doesn’t have any writing on
them, and some of the field stones looked as those they had been chiseled on but
you couldn’t read it. ”
Jon
The Resurrected Nazarite
My Dear Friend, Mark; Tuesday, June 8, 2010 4:52 PM
You may never recieve a more inporant e-mail, or letter, then this one. This is
historic and Biblical. Two hours a gentleman called me from South Carilona. He
was looking at the genealogy of his ancient family on my Rougeknight blog. He
told me I am a real scholar, that appears to know more about his family then he
does. His name is Samuel de Mattos. He descends from Sephardic Jews who are kin
to King David. His ancestor, Francis Salvadore found in the Revolutionary War,
and founded Reform Judaism where the return to Zion is abandoned. Francis
declared South Carolina the “land of milk and honey” that God has led His Chosen
People to. His kin taught Vincent Van Gough.
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/jews-land-images-francis-salvador-dying
.html
Yesterday, Samuel bought sixty acres of land that my Rosamond and Hodges kin
called the “Jews land”. It was sold to the Hodge family by his kinfolk. This
acreage is near the town of Hodge. Samuel PROMISED me an acre of thos LAND so my
offspring will forever have a place to go. Mark, this is the Grail and the end
of my Quest, and the end of my Story, that will be a best seller. This is the
REAL DEAL. You will be in my story.
This RETURN of the Jews to their ancestral homes in Europe – and America – will
not happen over night, or by force! The Zionist Experiment with a Secular Nation
– is at an end! The True Zion is in South Carolina as I have stated many time in
my blog, and in e-mails to you. Being a Jew will consist of being a Child of God
without borders – once again. However, you can go on Pilgrimage to the “Jew’s
land” that Samuel said he will keep pristine. Just the deer and other wildlife
will dwell here by Greenwood Lake. I made the same promise.
I will foreward my e-mail to Samuel.
Your friend
Jon
Mark;
I ran into an old freind down by the river, Ron Freeman. He dated Marilyn. We
talked aobut seeing more of each other, and I questioned him about a mutual
activity. I asked him if he fished. He said no, but mentioned a young man who
needs to go fishing. I asked Ron what his name was, getting a clue.
“Alix,” Ron answered.
Ron is friend with your neighbors. Let us get together for Bar-B-Q at your house
where we can discuss some porjects for Alix during the summer. I mentioned model
boat making and sailing them in Alton Baker Park.
Jon
Who sees the future
http://www.growthingod.org.uk/jubilee.htm
http://www.cynet.com/jesus/PROPHECY/jubilee.htm
It looks like Jesus restored the Jubilee, but, Jesus did not come to liberate
and save Jews, he came for the Pagans. It must have been John the Baptist, a
devout Jew, who restored the Jubilee Law after is was done away with by the
Sanhedrin a hundred years before he was born. John freed indentured slaves and
returned their ancestral land to them. The War with Rome began when the Jews
began to burn the debt archives.
I wondered if the Rosamond family will be restored to their lands?
One week ago I awoke and heard my Angel. She told me I had found the Shekinah. I
wondered if she was saying I was very close to finding the Light of God. This
was not the case. I had arrived.
“You have found me.”
My heart beating, I went to my computer and picked up the thread of my study
where I had left off. I was looking at the “Jews Land” and the coat of arms of
Doctor Mendes de Costa whose family lived on St. Eustatius. Regrettably they
were heavily involved in the slave trade. I suspect they made the blue glass
beads that Ponce de Leon used to entice Native Americans into making bad deals,
as well as enslaving them. Noble Jews expelled from Granada accompanied de Leon
in his voyage. I believe the Lion in de Costa’s coat of arms represents the
kingdom of Leon. The fleur de leaves I suspect represents Burgundy as you will
later see.
“What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.”
David da Costa owned seven white servants. He bought three of them who were
felons. They were Christians. My ancestor John `The Highwayman’ Rosamond was a
felon sent from England to America and purchased by an un-known person in
Delaware. That the Rosamond family later bought land owned by the da Costa
family suggests the term of the indentured servitude had exspired, and having
served alongside the Jewish hero, Francis Salvador, perhaps the Rosamond family
was being honored and rewarded. Were they given a good deal on this land?
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/rose-and-rock-of-zion-by-jon-presco.htm
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http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/let-there-be-light-here-are-my-post-on.
html
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/visionary-masterpiece-st.html
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/van-gough-and-promised-land-images.html
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/abbeville-ancestral-home-of-rosamond.ht
ml
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/sephardic-jews-owned-european-slaves.ht
ml
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/jews-land-images-francis-salvador-dying
.html
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/taken-by-indians-one-of-leading.html
Jewish genomes published in the prestigious Journal of Genetics. Your Sephardic
friend would be interested. It was in Newsweek June 3.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/03/the-dna-of-abraham-s-children.html
Abbeville – Ancestral Home of the Rosamond FamilyHere is a live-cam of downtown
Abbeville where my Rosamond ancestors used to walk.http://68.115.199.210/The
Walnut Grove Baptist Church is found at the center of the map above. The
Rosamonds were nextdoor neighbors of Francis Salvador who led a Sephardic Exodus
to a city founded by a Huguenot who made an Exodus from France.In the last two
days I found what I have been searching for for twenty years. I found a Jewish
Mayflower and a bloodline that descends from King David. This land was a
Promised Land. It was also the birth and death place of the Confederacy. I have
a book to write, and a kingdom to awaken.
I say, no Jew will go the World to Come until they publicly disown the
Evangelicals and their politicians, then apologize and make amends for their
part in promoting slavery in the New World. The Jews of the World are caught in
a evil duality. It is my hope to free them from this duality, this un-holy
ADVISARY, which is the meaning of the name, Satan.On the Nunez family crest you
find three fleurs-de-lis that are also found on the crest of Doctor Mendes da
Costa. I have traced his lineage to Narbonne France where for a little while a
Judaic Kingdom existed. That my ancestors purchased land from a relative of King
David, is profound, for I have compared my genealogical quest to the awakening
of Sleeping Beauties Kingdom.Van Gough has long been my favorite artist – and
religious person. His failed quest to be a Man of God, is a immortal tale. After
my death, I tried to paint again, but, I had a transcendence. I had overcome
Illusions and Duality and sought to translate the Beautiful Majesty of the
Heavenly Creation, as a Man of God. In 1989 I immersed myself in a river and
declared in writing I was a Nazarite. This is to say, I had converted to
Judaism.I endrose Obama for President of the United States.Jon
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/nunez-family-crest.htm
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/happy-birthday-tyler-my-grandson-is.htm
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The Sephardic Jews Owned European SlavesThe Sephardic Jews of South Carolina
bought European convicts and put them to work alongside the black slaves they
owned. There is a good chance that John ‘The Highwayman’ Rosamond was owned by a
descendant of King David.The ancestor of the da Costa family, whom the Hodges
family bought their land from, was a victim of the Inquistion. Manuel da Costa
was accused of saying Jesus was not the true Messiah, and the real Messiah had
not come. I have proven this was not the case. However the anti-slavery mission
of Jesus the Messiah – was buried alive with the help of Jewish quisling like
Joseph Flavius, who took the name of his Roman slaver-master, Emperor Vespasian
Flavius. Did wealthy Jews like Joseph sell fellow Jews to Romans?One Sephardic
Plantation owner made his home his Synagogue. Was this the inspiration for other
plantation houses built in a Romanesque style?Jon Presco”Lisbon awoke one
sixteenth century morning to find many church doors plastered with placards
blaring out a blasphemous message:”The Messiah has not yet come. Jesus is not
the true Messiah.”A Maranno, Manuel da Costa, was accused of the heinous act. He
was arrested, tortured cruelly until he confessed his guilt. Then, with the
sophisticated methods developed over a century of producing excruciating
torture, Manuel was slowly and methodically agonized to death1.
The da Costas were among the Jews who fled from Spain into Portugal, and from
both Spain and Portugal into the Diaspora. The provenance of the da Costa family
is evident from the addition of “de León” to the surname of Abram da Costa de
León. Abram was instrumental in lifting the ban against Jewish residence in
Genoa in 1659, and for arranging for a group of Jews from Tuscany to settle in
Genoa.2
The Emcancipation of Indentured Alien Slaves
byJon Presco
Copyright 2006
Deuteronomy 24:20 “When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the
branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the
widow.Deuteronomy 24:19 “When you are harvesting in your field and you over look
a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and
the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your
hands.”Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your
plowmen and your vinedressers.””The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because
the LORD has anointed me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to
heal the broken hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of
the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,
And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn.” (Isaiah 61:1-2)
Joseph D’Acosta came to New Amsterdam in 1655. He was a leading merchant in
Amsterdam and was a principal shareholder of the slave-dealing Dutch West India
Company.On April 9th. I posted on the Sinclair Sleeping Beauty who I have longed
compared to the Shekinah.
On April 5th. I reposted my post on moving the Axis Mundi and the Shekinah to
Santa Rosa island. When I made these posts I said I was following the
instructions of my angel who speaks to me with a female voice. Is she the Queen
of Heaven, the Shekinah? Then there are my posts calling for a Exodus from
Israel to Texas to form a New Zion. Of course I wondered if I was mad when I
made these posts.
What has risen from the ground where my Rosamond ancestors are buried in South
Carolina was the Lost Truth, being, the Sephardic Jews had founded a New Zion in
America. And after doing this they founded Reformed Judaism. The Sephardic
rabbis of Charleston taught that the Jews had ceased to be in exile, and there
was no cause to feel they were in a strange land. The Reform Jews in South
Carolina taught their children that to prey for a return to a Jewish homeland,
was incompatible with the desire to be a citizen of a nation outside Zion, and
this would create a dual loyalty. They were Anti-Zionists until 1947, when the
secular nation of Israel were founded by the Jewish Freethinkers of Europe.
Today, in America, many Jews struggle with the notion they own dual citizenship,
and thus, divided loyalties.The Reformed Jews taught their children that the
dispersion was a necessary experience, and the temple in Jerusalem should never
be rebuilt. Instead the Jews would spread all over the world a Messianic truth
and morality. This is contrary to the teaching of the evangelical leaders who
prey the Jews go to war with their old enemies and rebuild the temple. Only when
they do this, will God take this temple from the Jews and give it to the
evangelical Christians so it can be used like a lifeboat, taking them up to
heaven to escaped the Great Tribulation. To this end the evangelicals claim they
are doing the will of God. They have ran for, and hold many offices in our
Government claiming they are upholding traditional American moral and religious
values. But, this is far from the truth.
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/let-there-be-light-here-are-my-post-on.
html
Let there be light
(Images: Devil’s Tower. Devil’s Tower. Jews gathering at base of Mt. Sinai.
Scene from Close Encounter. Meher Baba.)
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/search?q=nassau
Here are my post on the House of Orange and Nassau and Margarita de Castro de
Souza kin to the Sephardic Jews and Exilarchs. Scroll down to see older posts.
Here is evidence of True Prophecy. ‘The New Magi, Reformation, and the
Restoration of the House of Baux’ was posted June 6 2007. In this light it
appears God did bless America. Did He make it His new home? Meher Baba claimed
he was God and came to live in South Carolina.
Jon
The Visionary
While in New York, Francken also communicated the degrees to Moses Michael Hays, a Jewish businessman, and appointed him a Deputy Inspector General. In 1781, Hays made eight Deputy Inspectors General, four of whom were later important in the establishment of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in South Carolina: Isaac Da Costa Sr., D.I.G. for South Carolina; Abraham Forst, D.I.G. for Virginia; Joseph M. Myers, D.I.G. for Maryland; and Barend M. Spitzer, D.I.G. for Georgia. Da Costa returned to Charleston, S.C., and established the “Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection” in February 1783. After Da Costa’s death in November 1783, Hays appointed Myers as Da Costa’s successor. Joined by Forst and Spitzer, Myers created additional high degree bodies in Charleston and, by 1801, the Charleston bodies were the only extant bodies of the Rite in North America.[17]
[edit] Birth of the Scottish Rite
Although most of the thirty-three degrees of the Scottish Rite existed in parts of previous degree systems,[18] the Scottish Rite did not come into being until the formation of the Mother Supreme Council at Charleston, South Carolina, in May 1801.They were known as The Eleven Gentlemen of Charleston, the Founding Fathers of the Scottish Rite .
John Mitchell – Received a patent April 2, 1795, from Barend Moses Spitzer granting him authority as Deputy Inspector General to create a Lodge of Perfection and several Councils and Chapters wherever such Lodges or Chapters were needed. Born in Ireland in l741, he came to America at an early age, was Deputy Quartermaster General in the Continental Army, and the first Grand Commander of the Supreme Council.
Frederick Dalcho – A physician. He served in the Army and for a while was stationed at Fort Johnson. He formed a partnership with Dr. Isaac Auld, another of the original members, in 1801. He was an outstanding orator and author. In 1807 he published the 1st Edition of Ahiman Rezon. He became an editor of the Charleston Courier, was a lay reader and deacon in the Episcopal Church and in 1818 was ordained a Priest.
Alexander Francois Auguste de Grasse Tilly – A son of a French Admiral, and perhaps the most famously connected of all the original eleven. He was the youngest of the members and was named to become the Grand Commander of the West Indian Islands. He later moved to France and established the Supreme Council of France.
Jean Baptiste Marie deLaHogue – He was a native of Paris and was a member of La Candeur Lodge in Charleston.
Thomas Bartholemew Bowen- Was the first Grand Master of Ceremonies of the new Supreme Council. He was a Major in the Continental Army and a printer by trade.
Abraham Alexander – Was one of the first Sovereign Grand Inspectors General. He was born in London in 1743, immigrated to Charleston in 1771. He was a very prominent Jew and had been described as “a Calligraphist of the first order”, which may account for his election as the first Grand Secretary General.
Emanuel de la Matta- A Sovereign Grand Inspector General. He was by trade a merchant and auctioneer. He was a member of Friendship Lodge and was reported to be quite devoted to the study of Jewish Literature and Masonic Study.
Isaac Auld – An eminent physician, associated in medical practice with Dr. Dalcho. He was a rigid Congregationalist.
Israel de Lieben – A Sovereign Grand Inspector General and the first Grand Treasurer General. He was born in Prague and emigrated to America upon reaching Majority age. He was known as “the liberal-headed Jew”, who was “tolerant in his religious opinions and was considered to be intelligent, enterprising, liberal and generous.
Moses Clava Levy – Was born in Krakow, Poland. He was a prosperous merchant, was generous and helpful to the unfortunate and devoted to his adopted city and country.
James Moultrie – Was the only native South Carolinian among the original members. He was a Doctor of Medicine, and according to Albert Pike, “was one of the foremost Citizens of South Carolina”.
Isaac De Costa, one of the deputies commissioned to establish Morin’s Rite of the Royal Secret in other countries, formed constituent bodies of the Rite in South Carolina in 1783, which eventually became, in 1801, The Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction. All regular Scottish Rite bodies today derive their heritage from this body.
Subsequently, other Supreme Councils were formed in Saint-Domingue in 1802, in France in 1804, in Italy in 1805, and in Spain in 1811.[19]
On May 1, 1813, an officer from the Supreme Council at Charleston initiated several New York Masons into the Thirty-third Degree and organized a Supreme Council for the “Northern Masonic District and Jurisdiction”. On May 21, 1814 this Supreme Council reopened and proceeded to “nominate, elect, appoint, install and proclaim in due, legal and ample form” the elected officers “as forming the second Grand and Supreme Council…”. Finally, the charter of this organization (written January 7, 1815) added, “We think the Ratification ought to be dated 21st day May 5815.”[20]
Officially, the Supreme Council, 33°, N.M.J. dates itself from May 15, 1867. This was the date of the “Union of 1867”, when it merged with the competing Cerneau “Supreme Council” in New York. The current Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, was thus formed.[21]
[edit] Albert Pike
The double-headed eagle on the cover of Morals and Dogma.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 29, 1809, Albert Pike is asserted within the Southern Jurisdiction as the man most responsible for the growth and success of the Scottish Rite from an obscure Masonic Rite in the mid-19th century to the international fraternity that it became. Pike received the 4th through the 32nd Degrees in March 1853 from Dr. Albert G. Mackey, in Charleston, S.C., and was appointed Deputy Inspector for Arkansas that same year.
At this point, the degrees were in a rudimentary form, and often only included a brief history and legend of each degree as well as other brief details which usually lacked a workable ritual for their conferral. In 1855, the Supreme Council appointed a committee to prepare and compile rituals for the 4th through the 32nd Degrees. That committee was composed of Albert G. Mackey, John H. Honour, William S. Rockwell, Claude P. Samory, and Albert Pike. Of these five committee members, Pike did all the work of the committee.
In 1857 Pike completed his first revision of the 4°-32° ritual, and printed 100 copies. This revision, which Mackey dubbed the “Magnum Opus” was never adopted by the Supreme Council. According to Arturo de Hoyos, 33°, the Scottish Rite’s Grand Historian, the Magnum Opus became the basis for future ritual revisions.[22]
Legend of Jacobite Origins
The seed of the myth of Stuart Jacobite influence on the higher degrees may have been a careless and unsubstantiated remark made by John Noorthouk in the 1784 Book of Constitutions of the Premier Grand Lodge of London. It was stated, without support, that King Charles II (older brother and predecessor to James II) was made a Freemason in the Netherlands during the years of his exile (1649–60). However, there were no documented lodges of Freemasons on the continent during those years. The statement may have been made to flatter the fraternity by claiming membership for a previous monarch. This folly was then embellished upon by John Robison (1739–1805), a professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, in an anti-Masonic work published in 1797. The lack of scholarship exhibited by him in that work caused the Encyclopædia Britannica to denounce it.[4]
A German bookseller and Freemason, living in Paris, working under the assumed name of C. Lenning, embellished the story further in a manuscript titled “Encyclopedia of Freemasonry” probably written between 1822 and 1828 at Leipzig. This manuscript was later revised and published by another German Freemason named Friedrich Mossdorf (1757–1830).[5] Lenning stated that King James II of England, after his flight to France in 1688, resided at the Jesuit College of Clermont, where his followers fabricated certain degrees for the purpose of carrying out their political ends.[6]
By the mid-19th century, the story had gained currency. The well-known English Masonic writer, Dr. George Oliver (1782–1867), in his “Historical Landmarks”, 1846, carried the story forward and even claimed that King Charles II was active in his attendance at meetings—an obvious invention, for if it had been true, it would not have escaped the notice of the historians of the time. The story was then repeated by the French writers Jean-Baptiste Ragon (1771–1862) and Emmanuel Rebold, in their Masonic histories. Rebold’s claim that the high degrees were created and practiced in Lodge Canongate Kilwinning[7] at Edinburgh are entirely false.[8]
James II died in 1701 at the Palace of St. Germain en Laye, and was succeeded in his claims to the British throne by his son, James Francis Edward Stuart (1699–1766), the Chevalier St. George, better known as “the Old Pretender”, but recognized as James III by the French King Louis XIV. He was succeeded in his claim by Charles Edward Stuart (“Bonnie Prince Charles”), also known as “the Young Pretender”, whose ultimate defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 effectively put an end to any serious hopes of the Stuarts regaining the British crowns.
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