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Subject: Who First Discovered America?
 

  Here is something you might pass on to everyone.  My computer is not working very well.

John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com
 
Subject: Who First Discovered America?  Sept. 13, 2009.
 
  It wasn't who most people think discovered it.  If your are asked on a game show, the answer that you

should use is Columbus.

 
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             America Before Columbus

                  Rixon S-ewart

 
       The Hidden History of the Promised Land
 
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3D139
 
      It may sound a little over the top but it's really no overstatement to say that much in our modern

world is based on falsehood and fabrication.

  We are told, for example, that Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492, yet there is plenty of evidence to

suggest that others had visited America before Columbus: including visitors from ancient Egypt,

Phoenicia and medieval Europe. Despite this modern authorities continue to push the line that "Columbus

discovered America."

 
      In point of fact Columbus himself never even set eyes upon America; the closest he got to the mainland

of North America was Puerto Rica. However in the aftermath of Columbus's voyage John Cabot sailed from

Bristol, England; which in turn opened the way for the first colony in Jamestown, Virginia and thus allowed

the English to claim America as their own. Yet there is considerable evidence that suggests that others from

different cultures preceded Cabot and Columbus. So one is forced to ask: why, when there is much to suggest

that others from different cultures preceded Columbus,don't we hear more about this possibility being

investigated? Could it be that certain powers have a vested interest in keeping our real history under

wraps?

 
     Whatever the answer the fact remains that a great deal has been unearthed which is completely at odds

with conventional notions regarding the origins of what we know today as America. In fact according to some

contemporary authorities, the Native Americans encountered by the early settlers from England were not

what they appeared to be. They were indeed native to the Americas but they were not its original

inhabitants, who according to various tribal legends, had disappeared eons before in a series of cataclysms.

 
      Of course this is so at odds with the dictates of modern science, history and archaeology that one would

expect it to be rejected out of hand, as indeed it has been. This is not so easily done though with a landmark

tower in Newport, Rhode Island. Curiously the tower is built in the style of a medieval look out and has been

dated back to the fourteenth century. As if to emphasize its antiquity Italian navigator Giovanni de

Verrazano recorded the tower whilst mapping the coastline in 1524, marking its location as an existing

"Norman Villa". Similar evidence can be found in Westford, Massachusetts, where a rock engraving can be

found depicting a figure dressed like fourteenth century knight. Intriguingly the figure carries a

shield portraying the emblem of a ship following a single star.

 
      Of course this may simply be dismissed as a modern day hoax but this can't be so easily done with

Scotland's Rosslyn Chapel; where clear depictions of ears of corn or maize and aloe cactus, both unknown in

medieval Scotland, can be found on some of the archways and ceilings. These stone carvings are an integral part

of the Chapel, which was only completed in 1486; that's a full six years before Columbus is said to have

embarked on his voyage of discovery. The standard line is that both maize and aloe cactus were only found

after Columbus had sailed West. Thus, according to authors Knight and Lamar Rosslyn Chapel amounts to

clear . . . "evidence that the men who instructed the masons of Rosslyn Chapel must have visited America at

least a quarter of a century before Columbus."

 
      All of which prompts one to ask: if the actual discovery of the America's could have been concealed

for so long what more could be hidden? The answer to that, as you shall see, is a whole lot more.

 
      These and other finds are given further credence by the very history of the Knights Templar. And it's a

history that adds an even more intriguing twist to the story of discovery of America. The Order of the Knights

Templar was originally founded in Jerusalem in 1118, when nine French Knights asked King Baldwin to be

allowed to protect pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land. Their request was granted and significantly they

were also granted permission to stay in the ruins of Solomon's Temple; for it was here, according to some

researchers, that they made discoveries that would ultimately change the very course of history.

 
      Once established in the ruins they began excavations that yielded untold treasures, both in

terms of material wealth and even more precious knowledge. It was through this knowledge that the

original Templar's obtained an insight that allowed them to question much of orthodox C-ristianity. An

insight through which they recognized that the established Ch-rch had misinterpreted much of the

original Chr-stian teaching: including the Virgin Birth, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and

r-incarnation. According to writer and researcher David Hatcher C-ildress: "To the Templars, the true ch-rch,

one that taught mysticism, re-ncarnation and good works was being suppressed by a dark power that called itself

the one true f-ith."

 
      And just in case you thought that Chr-stianity never taught anything about reinc-rnation, take note:

prior to the Council of Nicaea the idea of reinc-rnation was an integral part of the Chri-tian

fa-th. That ended however with the first Council of Nicaea in A.D.325. Convened by Emperor Constantine of

Rome the Council effectively settled various theological disputes and ratified what was to become

Holy Roman Law, the official version of the word of G-d. In the process the very notion of reincarn-tion as

part of the Chri-tian fa-th was consigned to the waste bin of history.

 
      Armed with this new knowledge the power and influence of Order of the Knights Templar rapidly

increased. By the mid thirteenth century the Order owned about nine thousand castles and manors across

Europe. Along with material acquisition came a reputation that left many in Medieval Europe in awe.

The Templar's distinctive w-ite surcoat, emblazoned with a red cross, was always seen in the thick of

battle; indeed they quickly established a reputation comparable to modern fighting elites such as Britain's

SAS, the U.S. M-rines and Airborne or Russia's Spetnaz.

 
      More than simply being a p-litical and m-litary power though they also became a force to be reckoned

with in the fields of cultural and m-taphysical endeavour too. For it was the Templar's who instigated

the first stone masons guilds and introduced new building methods with skills inspired, in part, by what

they had learned in J-rusalem. Prior to these European buildings had been built for practicality and defence;

generally plain structures with little in the way of inspirational design but that too were about to change.

  In the space of a few decades, Europe saw the appearance of a string of new ch-rches and ca-hedrals

with high vaulted ceilings, flying buttresses and dazzling stained glass windows. All of which was to lay

much of the groundwork for the future Renaissance and the Templar's were very much the driving force behind

it.

 
      Yet by then the Templar's power and influence had increased to such an extent that they were seen by

Rome as a danger to itself, a challenge to the official word of Go-. So on Friday, October 13th, 1307 the

Chu-ch of Rome made its move and at the same time bestowed on Friday 13th the sinister connotations which

have remained ever since. With the blessing of P-pe Clement V, King Philip of France drew up a list of

charges against the Order; falsely accusing them of everything from h-mosexuality, abortion, necromancy and

use of the b-ack arts. On the dawn of Friday 13th his forces seized, interrogated, tortured and burned the

captured Templars. Many escaped though, including the Templar Fleet, which sailed to safe haven in Scotland.

At the time Scotland was ruled by Robert the Bruce and at odds with England so the Scots readily accepted help

from anyone who was willing to offer it. In return the Knights Templar would play a critical role in the

Battle of Bannockburn. Just as the Battle hung in balance the Scots, outnumbered two to one by the

English, were suddenly reinforced by a contingent of mounted Knights; with long flowing beards and a bold

red cross emblazoned on their white tunics the newcomers helped swing the battle in the Scot's favour..

 
      The Templar ships were not anchored for long in Scotland though; a large part of the fleet, consisting

of 12 ships and over 300 men, sailed on across the Atlantic to take refuge in America.

 
      America? You may ask, how did they know about America?
 
      Well according to Knight and Lomas, the M-sonic authors of The Hiram Key, the original Knights Templar

may well have acquired key manuscripts whilst resident in Solomen's Temple in Jerusalem. Amongst them

manuscripts from the Mandaean sect which believed that John the B-ptist was the true M-ssiah and that the

s-uls of the good went to a land far across the sea, a wonderful land, a promised land marked by a star called

. . . "Merica."  Which calls to mind the rock engraving of a medieval knight in Westford, Massachusetts; the

engraved knight carries a shield portraying the emblem of a ship following a single shining star.

 
Part 1.
 
John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com

Subject: Who Discovered American?               Part 2.

Sept. 15, 2009.

 
  This talks about Quetzalcoatl.
 
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      An engraved stone from the Burrows Cave find.

Note the man's beard, a feature unknown among native Americans, and the sailing ship to his right.

 
      It is therefore quite possible that while resident in Solomen's Temple the first Templar's found

reference to new lands across the sea as well as the name "le Merica." Which in turn led their descendents

to its fabled shores. As if to emphasize this recently discovered ruins in Patagonia revealed an ancient pier

and docks dressed with stone slabs bearing the Templar cross. Which in turn has prompted some investigators to

speculate that the Templar's may have journeyed further south from North America.

 
      Yet even if this was the case, then the Knight's Templar were not the first, not even the first from

Christian Europe, to visit America. Long before Columbus is supposed to have discovered the Americas

Vikings and early Celtic Christians may well have trod the shores of North America, and before them others

even more ancient. The discovery of various Roman coins around the U.S has led some researchers to conclude

that America was the final destination for a wave of  people who came not as colonists but as refugees.

  The coins, which have been found largely around the Mississippi- Arkansas- Ohio-Missouri river systems,

cover the later periods of Rome and particularly the reigns of Antoninus Pius, Gallienus and Emperor

Tetricus. A period of Roman rule that Gibbon describes as a time of "uninterrupted confusion and calamity." So

it's quite possible that these coins were left by what were in effect boat people seeking refuge from a

disintegrating Empire.

 
      What's significant here though is the fact that these finds have not strictly been confined to the

Mississippi- Arkansas- Ohio-Missouri river systems. Although largely confined to the vicinity of these

river systems Roman coins have been found across North America: from Arkansas to Alabama, from Missouri to

Oklahoma. Maybe, indicating a wave of refugees? Or, a series of exploratory ventures? Or maybe even both?

 
      An engraved stone from Burrows Cave. Note the Roman style battering ram at the ship's prow.
 
      True to form modern academia and its various experts have largely ignored these finds or simply

brushed them aside as hoaxed. Thus dismissing such tantalising glimpses of the past as an Egyptian-minted

Gallenius coin, found in a stream bed by Geology students near Black Mountain, North Carolina. Or the

even more fascinating "Rio Grande Tablet." Written in a style current in the Roman colony of Libya around

300AD, the tablet proffers a poignant insight into the past. Inscribed on it is a prayer to the Roman deity

Mithras, dated the 6th year of an unnamed Emperor's reign, a prayer that asks for aid and relief for a sick

and lost party. Whether deserters or early explorers some researchers have concluded that the Rio Grande

Tablet is the work of a lost Libyan detail of the Mithras worshipping Roman army.

 
      The notion that elements from Rome's Carthaginian colony in Libya may have visited America has been

further underlined by the Burrow's Cave find. Amongst the thousands of artefacts in the collection is the

depiction of a Negroid face carved on a stone tablet in a distinctly Roman style. Predictably it has been

virtually ignored by the various authorities. After all the idea that North African's were visiting North

America over a thousand years before Columbus challenges much of written history.

 
      So Burrows cave has either been dismissed as a hoax or ignored by modern academia, yet in the words of

Ancient American magazine it is the archaeological "discovery of the century." The story of Burrows cave

began in 1982 when Russell Burrows was out searching for American civil war artefacts in southern Illinois.

Using a common metal-detector he claims to have discovered an underground chamber full of ancient

artefacts. Numbering more than seven thousand the artefacts largely consist of stones inscribed with the

portraits of ancient Egyptians, Carthaginians, Romans and Hebrews; many of which were inscribed with script

resembling Phoenician or ancient Semitic writing.

 
Although many of the relics found in Burrows Cave have been examined Burrows himself has not as yet revealed

the exact location of his find, partly because of the derision that greeted his claims. However he has

promised to reveal the exact location of the find in the near future and when he does we will update you.

 
      In the meantime though it must be said that if you thought the idea of Knights Templar or even Romans

in America was outlandish then we suggest that you take a deep breath. For as we researched this article the

evidence emerged which is even more at odds with the conventional notions of American history. For while the

ancient Americas may well have played host to many visitors from many different lands there is one in

particular who stands out. An individual whose presence in America, if in fact he were there, is likely to

shatter many beliefs: historical, cultural, metaphysical and religious.

 
      Across the Americas, north and south, there are oral traditions and stories that are remarkably similar

in overall theme. They tell of the coming of a pale man, some even say a white man; known variously as the

Dawn God, the Peacemaker, the Pale One and the East Star Man: he was given this latter name because

according to some stories he had come across the sea from the east. In other words he had come across what

we know today as the Atlantic from either Europe or North Africa.

 
      Whatever he was called though his arrival left a deep impression on those peoples and cultures he

visited. Prior to his appearance some tribes in the America's, more particularly in south or Central

America, had practised blood sacrifice. The arrival of the Pale One, or Quetzalcoatl, as the Maya knew him,

changed that. He taught new rituals and ceremonies some of which remain to this day; such as the smoking of

sacred pipes, which for some tribes replaced blood sacrifice.

 
      Apart from having pale skin he was also distinguished from the indigenous Americans by the fact

that he was bearded, a facial feature that is unknown amongst Native Americans. Moreover he is said to have

dressed completely differently from indigenous Americans, in long flowing robes and sandals.

 
      Some tribes called him the Son of the Great S-irit whilst others refer to him as the son of

Yod-hey-vah. Sound familiar? Well this latter name was a phonetic pronunciation he taught as was the name he

taught the Algonkin of the Great Lakes when they asked his name. He replied that names meant nothing to him;

so they then asked what he was named in childhood when he had lived across the waters. That name, which even

today they struggle to pronounce was, he told them: Chee-Zoos, G-d of the Dawn Light.

 
      The parallels between what is written in the B-ble and the stories told by various Native American

peoples are uncannily similar. For example, the tribes of Oklahoma tell of a man they call the Healer, who

chose from amongst the native people twelve disciples. He told them that he was born across the ocean, in a

land where all men were bearded. In this land he was born of a v-rgin on a night when a bright star shone in

the h-avens. And, as if to celebrate his birth the he-vens opened and down came winged beings of great

beauty chanting in praise of Chee Zoos, Go- of the DawnLight.

 
      Engraving from the Burrows Cave find.
 
      Likewise the Dacootah recall the coming of the pale faced Healer. According to them his name remains

sacred and during his time with them he taught rites ofpurification and . . . b-ptism.

 
      In the same way the Tribes around the Great Lakes speak of the coming of the Prophet; a pale,

bearded man who was, according to their tribal elders, the son of the Great Sp-rit. A Prophet who appeared to

them as a w-ite man and who could heal the lame and sick with his touch.

 
      Their medicine men say that: "all that he touched was enchanted with His g-d-like power of healing."And

that . . . "He came alone. He organized the c-urches, changed the temples, taught the priesthood."

 
      Elsewhere, across the America's there are similar tales and they all tell the same story: of a -od-like

wh-te man who travelled across the America's teaching and healing. At the time of his arrival legend has it

that there was a great city situated where the Missouri and the Mississippi run to the Southern sea. One

morning it is said that the Prophet came there in a long boat, used by the traders. "The streets," the old

legends say, "were covered with flowers strewn in homage on the path before Him as He walked toward the

Temple."

 
      All of which is reminiscent C-rist's entry into J-rusalem on Palm Sunday, the week before he was

cr-cified, when adoring crowds spread palm leaves before his approaching steps. The Native stories

continue:

 
      "Greatly beloved now was the Pale -od, known as the L-rd of the Wind and the Water. His every move

bespoke his kindness: His very touch revealed His Di-inity; and before Him all the people bowed down.

Through the rows of wo-shippers He moved in quiet solemnity, holding up His hand in blessing - that hand

with the strange palm marking, for through it was engraved the True C-oss which He had taken as His

Symbol".

 
Part 2.
 
John Winston.   johnfw@mlode.com

Subject: Who Discovered America:           Part 3 of 3.

 
  This mentions the Mound Builders.
 
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      He stayed for some time, say the legends: "though often he rode away with the merchants, or more often

walked to distant villages, holding in His hand His great staff, and stopping to speak with all the people,

from the aged to the little children."

 
      Of course you may object that these are only stories, the legends and tales of a simple and

unsophisticated people. And of course you are right, but it doesn't end there because these stories have

been partly substantiated by artefacts found within or in the vicinity of mounds built by the ancestors of

modern Native Americans.

 
      The so-called Mound Builders flourished in North America between 200 B.C. and 500 AD. Little is known

about them except that they built earthen mounds, often in the shape of birds and animals. With the arrival of

settlers from Europe many of these mounds were levelled to make way for new farmland. In the process the mounds

and their contents were scattered or ploughed under; then in the early 19th century strange relics were

unearthed as new roads were built and forests cleared, and this occurred largely around Michigan, Illinois and

Minnesota, areas of much previous mound building.

 
      Amongst the relics recovered have been engraved depictions of the c-ucifixion and other bi-lical

motifs. Yet despite the fact that many of these discoveries were accompanied by sworn affidavits and

written testimony the archaeological authorities of the day largely dismissed them as "fakes." A response that

continues to this day.

 
      We honestly don't know whether C-rist was physically located in the Americas or simply made an

appearance, so to speak, s-iritually and thereby inspired the stories, artefacts and inscriptions. Or

indeed whether they were inspired by the tales of long forgotten C-ristian missionaries. Certainly Rudolph

Steiner spoke of initiates and mystics around the planet being aware of the events in Palestine at the

time of the cr-cifixion. So this proposition is certainly a possibility but whatever the real

explanation it offers a fascinating alternative view of history and Chri-tianity itself.

 
      What's more, as individuals, we may soon be able to explore this possibility for ourselves. According to

various tribes, before his departure, the East Star Man said that one day he would return, not in body but in

sp-rit. At this time, he said, the world would be a dark place where evil would reign, however, the pure in

heart would perceive his return. In other words what he is said to have told Native Americans is exactly what

modern Chr-stians would understand as the "s-cond coming." So if you can lift your head up from the

feeding trough of consumer society, or the conveyor belt called work, you may just notice something in the

air.

 
      Sources include:

www.wolflodge.org

, Rule By S-crecy by Jim Marrs, publ: Harper Collins.

The Hiram Key by C. Knight and R. Lomas, publ: Barnes

and Noble Books, New York. He walked the Americas,

Taylor Hansen, publ: Legend Press, Amherst, Wisconsin.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon.

  Ancient American magazine no. 26 & 33.

 
Part 3 of 3.
 
John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com