The Templer Jesus Fish
by
John Presco
At the celebration of the appearance of a great grandson of Carl Janke, the Mayor of Belmond presented Janke von Stuttmeister with the key to the city. Janke had dropped the Victor in favor of Janke, that meant ‘John’. Having been born on the Day of Atonement, Janke associated with John the Baptist. Not able to buy much of the accounts of Jesus, Janke saw merit in John the Baptist, who was a real historic person. Stepping off the podium, an old Nun glided up, and a withered hand grasped him arm
“I have something to show you. Follow me!”
The Nun took Janke up several flight of stairs in the Ralston house, and opened a door to the attic. Thirty feet away, sitting in the island of sunlight that came in the lone window, was a large trunk that was damaged. A leather handle had eroded.
“This now belongs to you. Your great grandfather put this trunk in the care of the Notre Dame De Namur, saying “My old enemies have arrived from the Fatherland! I’m not long for this world. I can not trust my sons. Perhaps a grandson in the future will be drawn to the Quest!”
“You are him! Hurry! Open it. My curiosity has corrupted me long enough!”
Janke lifted the lid that resisted his effort to see the contents. The sunlight lit up an old illustration of a knight. Placing him atop some boxes, Janke and the Nun gazed down on the Cote of Arms of the Stuttmeister family. There was a hand holding a fish, that has swallowed a cross.
“Ichthys!” exclaimed the Nun. Janke looked at her, and her eyes were bright.
“What did you say?”
“Please! Continue!
Janke put the cote of arms he aside, and looked at the German writing on a piece of cloth – that he took hold of….and raised it out of the trunk where it had been entombed. The Nun took hold of a corner, and together they unfurled the flag. Janke could read and speak a little German, and struggled to read the words woven into the flag.
“Tempelgesellschaft”
“Temple Society! offered the Nun
The flag was draped over the knight and cote of arms. Together they went for a German mamgazine that featured the German Templers who founded a colony in Israel.
“I think Carl was a Knight of Christ of the Temple Society!”
Look! The horns are the same!”
“What horns?”
“Atop the knight head and cote of arms!”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys
According to tradition, ancient Christians, during their persecution by the Roman Empire in the first few centuries after Christ, used the fish symbol to mark meeting places and tombs, or to distinguish friends from foes:
According to one ancient story, when a Christian met a stranger in the road, the Christian sometimes drew one arc of the simple fish outline in the dirt. If the stranger drew the other arc, both believers knew they were in good company. Current bumper-sticker and business-card uses of the fish hearken back to this practice.
— Christianity Today, Elesha Coffman, “Ask The Expert”[23]
In the 1970s the “Jesus Fish” started to be used as an icon of modern Christianity. In 1973 the symbol and message was taken to the Aquarius Rock Festival in Nimbin, Australia. Today, it can be seen as a decal or emblem on the rear of automobiles or as pendants or necklaces as a sign that the owner is a Christian. Versions of this include an Ichthys with “Jesus” or “ΙΧΘΥΣ” in the centre, or simply the Ichthys outline by itself.[24] According to one writer, while many Christians hang a cross necklace or rosary inside their vehicles, “the fish sticker on the car is a more conscious symbol of a witnessing Christian—significantly, unlike the former, it is on the outside of the car for everyone to see.”[25]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Templer_colonies_in_Palestine
Jacob Schumacher was an architect and engineer who later served as a United States diplomat.
Jacob Friedrich Schumacher was born in Tübingen (April 16, 1825) Württemberg, Germany and emigrated 1848 to the United States where he resided in Wheeling, West Virginia, since 1851 in Zanesville, Ohio. He later emigrated to Palestine as a member of the “Tempelgesellschaft” (The Temple Society), arriving in 1869. He was instrumental in working for the German Templers in the Holy Land and planning the German Colony, Haifa. He was an architect and engineer and served as the U.S consular agent in Haifa from 1872 to 1891.
He died on September 7, 1891.[1][2]
Jacob Schumacher was the father of Gottlieb Schumacher, architect and archaeologist.
The German Templer Society emerged in Germany during the mid-nineteenth century, with its roots in the Pietist movement of the Lutheran Church, and in its history a legacy of preceding centuries during which various Christian groups undertook to establish what they saw as the perfect Christian religion in preparation for Christ’s promised return.[1] The movement was founded by Christoph Hoffmann [1815-1885], who believed that humanity’s salvation lay in the gathering of God’s people in a Christian community. He also believed that the second coming of Christ was imminent, and that according to Biblical prophecy it would take place in Jerusalem, where God’s people were to gather as a symbol of the rebuilding of the temple. He established a number of German Templer colonies in Palestine.
Hoffmann’s thinking was inspired by the 1st century Christian community and based on Matthew’s Gospel in regard to Old Testament prophecies and their relevance to the coming of Jesus Christ. Hoffmann also believed that these “prophecies concerned mainly the founding of the Kingdom of God on earth.”[2]
The word Templer is derived from the concept of the Christian Community as described in the New Testament, see 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 1 Peter 2:5, where every person and the community are seen as temples in which God’s spirit dwells.[3] There is no connection to the Medieval Knights Templar (who derived their name from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem).
1874 schism of the Temple Society, with a third of the members seceding and founding the Temple Association (Tempelverein) in 1878, later joining the Evangelical State Church of Prussia’s older Provinces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Temple
Prussian Evangelical Templers in Carmel
Posted on April 28, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
Rosemary told her sons the Stuttmeisters were Teutonic Knights. Our mother may have confused them with the Templers, a movement that was banned by the Evangelical Church, that they were in good standing with. This is why their tomb is at the entrance of the Berlin cemetary that may have been created to accept the parishioners of this Lutheran Union. A schism would explain why there is no history to be found on this family. The Templers became associated with the Nazis and their records were stored in East Germany. The Templers lived in the Holy Land and were intent on rebuilding the Temple – while wearing the Swastika!
I suspect Rudolph was an envoy who set out in ships to bring the Templers back into the fold – that beheld Kaiser Wilhelm as a Prussian Messiah? The Stuttmeisters may have been court preachers for the royal Prussians, and thus they gave their children their names.
Wilhelm Hoffmann served as one of the royal Prussian court preachers at the Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church in Berlin and was a co-founder and first president of the Jerusalem Association. Americans joined the Templers in the Holy Land.
Envoys of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia’s older Provinces successfully proselytised among the schismatics, gaining most of them.[6] Thus some colonies became places of partisans of two different Christian denominations and their respective congregations (Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Sarona).
How could the Stuttmeisters tell their children and grandchildren what they have been up to – around the world. They would talk to their playmates, who would tell their Christian parents, the Germans were Calvinists who believed in a coming Doomsday, and thus the Temple in Jerusalem had to be rebuilt. When my sixteen year old daughter came into my life in 2000, I told her such wild tales, her and her mother called me mad, and ditched me in order to be with Victoria. Dan Brown’s book came out two years later.
Empress Augustus Victoria looks like my kin. Here I am slipping a coin in the crack made by the earthquake of 1989.
Jon Presco
Hoffmann and Hardegg purchased land at the foot of Mount Carmel and established a colony there in 1868. At the time, Haifa had a population of 4,000. The Templers are credited today with promoting the development of the city. The colonists built an attractive main street that was much admired by the locals.
After the 1898 visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, one of the Kaiser’s traveling companions, Colonel Joseph Freiherr von Ellrichshausen, initiated the formation of a society for the advancement of the German settlements in Palestine, inStuttgart. It enabled the settlers to acquire land for new settlements by offering them low interest loans. A second wave of pioneer settlers founded Wilhelma (now Bnei Atarot) in 1902 near Lod, Valhalla (1903) near the original Jaffa colony, followed by Bethlehem of Galilee (1906) and Waldheim (now Alonei Abba) in 1907. At its height, the Templer community in Palestine numbered 2,200.[dubious – discuss]
http://www.israelidecorations.net/Foreign/Foreign_VisitKaiserWilhelm1898.htm
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