I just don’t know where to get started today! All my favorite topics – are at bat! What a line up! Let’s start with a Family Feud over Art! What can I say? My daughter, Heather Hanson, was a tenacious and cunning contestant for the Rose of the World Art, and did come away with some Rosamond prints – and no father! Hurrah for Team Hanson! And, where is our Fair Muse, Rena of the Isles? In a tower in Bozeman reciting a thousand poems that could save England, if she only knew. She sounded the pipers to muffle my Bohemian cry as I was led to the gallows.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-3-billion-family-art-feud-1467326777?mod=e2fb
What would Princess Di have to say about Brexit, the Great Divorce and Break-up that has dwarfed her divorce from the Royal House of Wiudsor – and Britain! Then there is the sale of the lighthouse at Noss Head, that was the Dark Tower of my rival, Ian Sinclair, who got me evicted, thrown out, of a knight templar yahoogroup we belonged to. Now, we are both gone with the wind, as thousands march – to be let back in!
“How the mighty have fallen!”
“He who laughs last – laughs best!”
Ian Sinclair hated my Denis de Rougemont posts that connected me to the a co-founder of the European Union. He hated that I am named after John the Baptist ‘The Nazarite for Life’. Ian knew nothing about the Nazarites, nor did Pinkham, who I accused of selling Titles with his other dimension tours. I was defamed – and banned!
“Off with his head!”
Then, here come some ‘Prankster’ with his Nazi Golf Balls, giving Casey Farrell a run for his money with his ‘Green Swastika’ Nordic Speel.
“Is there no rest for the wicked?”
Nay! Nay! We have all be cast out, but, Fair Rosamond in her Labyrinth – wearing ear muffs while the Old Empire knocks on the door of her bower.
Jon Presco
http://www.gnostictemplars.org/lineage.html
For half a century starting in the 1950s, Greek shipping mogul Basil Goulandris and his wife, Elise, lived in a manner worthy of a sun-soaked, Patricia Highsmith novel. They palled around with European aristocracy and flitted among their seven homes in places like Paris, New York’s Southampton and Switzerland’s Gstaad—when they weren’t sailing around the world on their yacht, “Paloma.”
The couple never had children. Instead, relatives say they devoted their energies to amassing one of the world’s best private art collections, valued at as much as $3 billion by one estimate. The trove of several hundred pieces included 11 Picassos, six van Goghs, five Cezannes and a rare pair of Monet’s 1894 views of the Rouen Cathedral, one bathed in blue hues and the other one in pink. The couple also had a bronze ballerina by Degas, a Pollock and a Balthus. When Balthus’s biographer, Nicholas Fox Weber, visited the couple in Switzerland, he said the paintings rimming their walls “made my knees go wobbly.”
The Goulandris collection is now at the center of one of the biggest and most complex legal disputes over art in Europe—including a bombshell revelation in the Panama Papers. The saga involves a collection of treasures that have largely been hidden for the past two decades, a secret seller using an offshore company to put up paintings for auction and a fight that boils down to one nonexistent will and one cryptic one.
The chief protagonist in this 16-year family feud is a niece of the Goulandris’s who claims she and her cousins should have inherited much of the couple’s art after their aunt Elise died in 2000. The niece, Aspasia Zaimis, a feisty shipbuilder’s wife who is in her 70s and lives in Athens, says her aunt owned the trove when she died and intended for it to go to her relatives. Another set of cousins on her uncle’s side—and the couple’s namesake foundation—say otherwise. “People who say the collection wasn’t hers anymore are being unfair and degrading to my aunt,” Ms. Zaimis said. “I’m fighting for her.”
This Friday marked what would have been Princess Diana’s 55th birthday. The famously down-to-earth royal brought a breath of fresh air to the House of Windsor. When she married Prince Charles at St. Paul’s Cathedral in the summer of 1981, 17 million viewers from around the world tuned in to watch the ceremony. Princess Diana stayed in the public eye for the whole of her life—everything from her clothes to her haircut became an international fad—and nearly two decades after her tragic death, people are still bewitched with the Princess of Wales. In honor of her birthday, here, five things you may not have known about the People’s Princess.
1. Prince Charles was dating Diana’s older sister, Sarah, when he first met Diana, but their relationship hit a rough patch after she boldly stated in print, “I am not in love with Prince Charles.” Diana, however, was more emphatic about her affection for the royal, and even had a picture of Charles tacked up above her bed at boarding school. “I would love to be a dancer—or Princess of Wales,” she oncetold a classmate. Diana was just 16 years old when she met Charles (who was then 28) on a pheasant hunt in Norfolk. “I can remember the weekend she came back after she met him because she couldn’t talk about anything else,” Penny Walker, Diana’s former music teacher, would recall. “[She said]: I’ve met him! At last, I’ve met him.” When Diana and Charles officially began courting two years later, Sarahproudly proclaimed: “I introduced them. I’m Cupid.”
Tens of thousands of protesters angered by Britain’s historic vote last week to leave the European Union marched down London’s up-market Park Lane Saturday, many of them hoping that divorce from the bloc will never actually happen.
LONDON — A day after staging a political ambush that reshaped the race to be Britain’s next prime minister, Michael Gove said Friday he acted out of “conviction, not ambition” to open yet another head-spinning drama amid the fallout from Britain’s snub of the European Union.
The justice minister spoke at length for the first time about his vision for the country he intends to lead, a week after Britain was plunged into chaos by a vote to exit the E.U. that Gove had championed.
The referendum result prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to announce plans to resign by September. Gove initially signaled he would back a former London mayor, Boris Johnson, as Cameron’s replacement.
[Meet Michael Gove, the man who just turned British politics into an episode of ‘House of Cards’]
But just hours before Johnson was to announce his bid for the job, Gove on Thursday launched his own campaign. Johnson withdrew less than three hours later to add another word to Britain’s increasingly dark political lexicon: “Brexecution.”
Gove insisted on Friday that he did not want to be prime minister but felt he had no choice after concluding that Johnson — as bombastic as Gove is wonkish — was not up to the job. The 48-year-old Gove also acknowledged his own shortcomings, saying that “whatever charisma is, I don’t have it.”
A HOME with panoramic views out to sea and a historic clifftop stronghold in east Caithness has gone on the market.
The three-bedroom A listed cottage which was occupied by the lighthouse keeper at Noss Head is being sold by the Clan Sinclair Trust. It is described as being “the beautiful epitome of Stevenson lighthouse engineering”.
Joint sellers Bidwells and Drever & Heddle say it is one of the most unusual properties they have marketed.
The lighthouse on the headland, just north of Wick, which was automated in 1987, is set behind a drystone wall and flanked to the south by the remains of Castle Sinclair Girnigoe – the ancestral seats of the Earl of Caithness.
The lighthouse tower remains the property of the Northern Lighthouse Board with the sale comprising the Lighthouse Keeper’s Cottage together with the Superintendent’s Cottage, the former engine room, a seven-bay former stable and a storehouse as well as 13 hectares of ground, including a walled garden.
The Keeper’s Cottage which is accessed via a private road from Staxigoe, is constructed in the Egyptian style and painted in the traditional white with ochre trim. A later addition, the four-bedroom Superintendent’s Cottage, is not listed. Offers over £275,000 are being sought for the two cottages, outbuildings and land.
Alastair Campbell, of Bidwells, said: “The history of Noss Head itself and the surrounding area makes this property quite unique and will no doubt be of great interest to a variety of prospective purchasers.
“Although unusual, Noss Head would lend itself to a range of uses and the new owners will certainly not tire of the views.”
He said it presented a private, unique, adaptable property with impressive and romantic vistas in all directions.
Mr Campbell added: “The dramatic cliffs of Noss Head project into the North Sea affording inspiring views and a short clifftop walk from the property is a rewarding experience – looking across to the sandy beach of Sinclair’s Bay you can see both Castle Sinclair Girnigoe and Ackergill Tower.
“Following the north coast of the headland a short distance from the property, you will discover Sandy Geo, a small sandy beach overlooked by a towering sea stack.”
The Trust acquired the estate in 2006 and is going ahead with the current sale to raise funds in aid of the ongoing drive to preserve Castle Sinclair Girnigoe.
The castle is a scheduled monument and rated by the World Monuments Fund as one of the world’s 100 most endangered sites.
The Gnostic Knight Templar lineage of the IOGT originated two thousand years ago with John the Baptist, founder of the Johannite lineage of Gnostic Grand Masters in the West. The Grand Masters of this gnostic line were all given the title of John, which denoted “He of Gnostic Power and Wisdom.”
John the Baptist passed the lineage to Jeshua ben Joseph (Jesus Christ), who as John II passed it to his two closest disciples, Mary Magdalene and John the Divine, who subsequently assumed the title of John III. Following John the Divine the lineage of Johannite Grand Masters passed down a centuries-long lineage of Johns until the time of the First Crusade, when the presiding Grand Master became Theoclete, John LXX. In 1118 CE Theoclete passed the Grand Mastership of the Johannites to the first Grand Master of the Knights Templars, Hughes de Payen, who then became known as John LXXI in the gnostic line. From that time onwards the Knights Templars were the official representatives of the Johannite tradition and all their Grand Masters were simultaneously Grand Masters of the Johannite lineage.
Leading up to their arrest on Friday, October 13, 1307 in France, many Knights Templars sailed to Scotland, where they were able to preserve their ancient secrets of gnosticism, alchemy, yoga, & their unbroken lineage of Johannite Gnostic Grand Masters from the East. In Scotland, King Robert the Bruce founded the Royal Order of Scotland, a Freemasonic organization designed to preserve the gnostic and alchemical secrets of the Knights Templar. King Robert then placed himself, along with the future monarchs of Scotland and members of Clan Sinclair, as the Grand Masters of the new organization. The two initial degrees of the Royal Order, that of the Knight of the Rose Cross and Knight of Heredom, eventually expanded to become the 25 degrees of the Rite of Heredom, and, finally, the 33 degrees of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.
During their early years, when the Templars left Palestine after nine years of excavating under Solomon’s Temple, the Knights brought to Scotland four trunks full of Jewish temple treasures they had excavated and a cache of Johannite scrolls that authenticated their Johannite heritage. These four trunks were subsequently given over to Clan Sinclair and then stored in the crypt under Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh. Many of the Johannite secrets they contained came to life by Earl William Sinclair, who was himself a distinguished gnostic, as hundreds of images attached to the interior and exterior walls of the chapel. Rosslyn Chapel thus became an official headquarters of the Johannite tradition.
When Freemasonry was gradually infiltrated with Christians and their patriarchal ideology, much of the ancient gnostic and alchemical wisdom once possessed by the Knights Templar was lost although the Craft continued to retain John the Baptist and John the Divine, two ancient Grand Masters of the Johannite line, as its patron saints.
Our Knight Templar lineage was passed to Grand Prior Mark Amaru Pinkham and Grand Prioress Andrea Mikana-Pinkham by the late International Grand Prior Sir Ian Sinclair, who was both a distinguished member of Clan Sinclair and a ranking member of the Royal Order of Scotland.
The goal of the IOGT Grand Priors is to resurrect the Johannite Gnostic Lineage and Tradition which has been lost or misunderstood for hundreds of years.
Rosamond Press 
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