One of my grandfathers was named after Francis Marion ‘The Swamp Fox’ who fought the British in the thick growth of the swamp.
Marion Francis “Frank” Rosamond (1848-1935)
John Fremont named a guerilla unit ‘The Jessie Scout’ after his wife, Jessie Benton, my kindred. The Scouts sent spies against the Confederacy, and fought the same way Marion did. Pan’s Labyrinth raises the Spanish Maquis from the dead to battle the Facists who accpepted help from Hitler who bombed them with dive bombers. Maquis means “a small mountain, covered with weeds”. This is the Rose of the World Mountian protected by thorns.
God has written this story because he wants all the world’s religions to unite under the Rose of the World. This is the story my late sister, Christine Rosamond Benton, would surely put her signature to – if she were alive!
Meher Baba said he would string all the…
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