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Rosslyn Chapel, just outside Edinburgh, has been a holy place for centuries. Its name means either "point of a
waterfall" or "ancient knowledge down the line" depending on who you ask. -- What is the chapel's link with
Freemasons? Apparently Sir William St Clair claimed patronage of the masons - a link passed and strengthened
through the generations and evidenced in two seventeenth century charters. In 1736, Sir William Sinclair became the
first Scottish Grand Master at the Grand Lodge of Scotland in Edinburgh. By the 1690s, the bond between the
Sinclairs and the masons was commented in a celebrated letter. ... Who is the leering green man engraved more than
120 times in the chapel? Carvings of a bearded green man appear in many religious settings in much of the world,
but few have as many as Rosslyn. There are many theories about who the green man was. Some say it was either
John the Baptist or Hercules. He is depicted as a Robin Hood-type figure, sometimes alternatively named Jack-inthe-green
or Jack-in-the-Tree. He also may have been Celtic fertility god or a tree spirit. ... Who is the man with the
gash on his head? Rumour suggests that he might be the smited apprentice of pillar fame. However, he could also
be Freemasonry's legendary figure, Hiram Abiff, the martyred architect of King Solomon's Temple. Academic
symbologists say it could just as easily express a classic archetype of sacrifice and rebirth. ... What do the 213
mysterious cube carvings mean? The mystical symbols carved into the stone ceiling of the chapel have confused
historians for generations. But recently music scientists who believe they are part of a musical notation system are
making efforts to decode the signs. The series of lines and dots are thought to represent shapes created by sand on a
musical instrument during the vibrations caused by sound.
Wikipedia: Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 7 March 1274), also Thomas of
Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic
Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the
tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor
Communis, or Doctor Universalis - "Aquinas" is not a surname
(hereditary surnames were not then in common use in Europe), but is a
Latin adjective meaning "of Aquino", his place of birth - He was the
foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of
Thomism - His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much
of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an
agreement with his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural
law, metaphysics, and political theory
Thomas is held in the Catholic Church to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood. The works for
which he is best-known are the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. As one of the 33 Doctors of
the Church, he is considered the Church's greatest theologian and philosopher. Pope Benedict XV declared: "This
(Dominican) Order ... acquired new luster when the Church declared the teaching of Thomas to be her own and that
Doctor, honored with the special praises of the Pontiffs, the master and patron of Catholic schools."
Wikipedia: Chapters and verses of the Bible - The Bible is a compilation
of many shorter books written at different times and later assembled
into the Biblical canon - By the time of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD,
the New Testament had been divided into paragraphs, although the
divisions were different from the modern Bible - All but the shortest of
these books have been divided into chapters, generally a page or so in
length, since the early 13th century - Since the mid-16th century, each
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