"Salt Line" Plot To Defeat Rome

Update: Sun May 25 16:44:34 CDT 2008
Corrects "founder" to "early leader" for Bernard of Clairvaux

(Conspiracy Nation, 05/25/08) – An intriguing theory connects ancient “salt lines” with a plot to defeat Roman power. Roman power has existed since the times of the Caesars. Some, such as Philip K. Dick, insisted, “the [Roman] empire never ended.” (Background: “Rulers Of Evil”, http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Rulers.htm)

“Salt lines,” described by Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe in their thought-provoking book, “The Knights Templar Revealed” (New York: Barnes and Noble, 2006. Reprint of 1999, Templar Books edition, published as “The Templar Continuum”), may be equivalent to so-called “ley lines.” Ley lines involve alignment of ancient structures such as megaliths. Butler and Dafoe go further, detecting an ancient system of longitude and latitude based upon a Bronze Age geometry in which there were 366 degrees to a circle.

The theorized Bronze Age measurement system became clear to Alan Butler upon pondering the Phaistos Disc, discovered in Crete and dated to about 1800 B.C. Butler deciphered therefrom a calendar system with a “ritual year” of 366 days together with a second calendar of 123 days. When four of the 123-day periods had passed, a day would be subtracted from the 366-day ritual year. With this observation as a starting point, Butler deduced a measurement system different from what is used today. Butler explained his findings in an earlier book, “The Bronze Age Computer Disc.”

In 1894, J. Ralston Skinner also explored an earlier system of measurement. In “Key To The Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery In The Source Of Measures” (commonly called “Source Of Measures”, republished by Kessinger.net), an explanation of John A. Parker's alleged discovery of the quadrature value of the circle is included. This is also known as “squaring the circle,” which is a controversial subject. Skinner believes “squaring the circle” had already been solved centuries earlier by Peter Metius.

“Let it be understood,” writes Skinner in his Introduction, “that the question of value of the quadrature, whether by Mr. Parker, or by Metius, as to whether it is the expression of exactitude of relation, does not arise.” Therefore, notwithstanding the problem of “squaring the circle” may not have a solution, Skinner's book “is thus relieved of any necessity of examination into the question of the possibility of what is called 'the quadrature' or 'the squaring of the circle'...”

John A. Parker set “forth the integral relation of diameter to circumference of a circle as 6561 to 20612, derived from area computations...” For example, given:

There are 12 edges to a cube. Distribution of the 20612 value along the cube edges yields a quotient (20612 / 12) of 1717.66+. A special numerical value, 171766+, is from there obtained. The value of the ancient “cubit” just “happens” to be equal to 1.71766+ multiplied by the British “foot” measurement.

The volcanic eruption of Thera (a.k.a. Santorini) circa 1650 – 1450 B.C. marked the end of the Bronze Age civilization. This volcanic eruption was “at least ten times more powerful” than the 19th-century Krakatoa eruption. The Thera eruption may be memorialized in the Hebrew “Jehovah”, a volcano “god” prone to violent outbursts. Weather patterns “changed markedly around the time of the Thera eruption,” write Butler and Dafoe (op. cit.) It may have been another version of the “global warming.”

But if Butler and Dafoe are correct, a special bloodline of survivors of Bronze Age catastrophe may have passed down unique information to their descendants. These descendants would have secret knowledge, for example, of the beginnings of Christianity. Butler and Dafoe concur with a previous report by Conspiracy Nation that a significant split between Pauline Christianity and “James the Just” Christianity may have occurred early on. (“Christianity Is Unconstitutional,” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/ChrUncon.html)

In the Champagne region of France, “Salt Line families” working to subvert Roman authority may have instigated the First Crusade. Their purpose would have been to supplant Rome-based Christianity with a version having greater authority by being headquartered in Jerusalem. Salt Line (longitudinal) positions correlate with French cities such as Rouen, Caen, Nantes, and (especially noteworthy) Dijon, capital of Burgundy, and Troyes, capital of Champagne. Odo of Chatillon-sur-Marne (Pope Urban II) was a native of Champagne. Godfroi de Bouillon, descended from Charlemagne, also was from a Salt Line city. Hugh de Payens controlled a fiefdom in the vicinity of Troyes. Related to Hugh de Payens was Andre de Montbard, himself uncle of Bernard of Clairvaux, early leader of the Cistercian order of monks from which sprang the Knights Templar. This group, congregated in the Champagne region of France, “were planning to destroy once and for all the power of the established Church and to replace it with something far older...” (Butler & Dafoe, op. cit.)

The above scenario helps explain the later mass-arrests of the Knights Templar: After Jerusalem had been again lost subsequent to its previous recapture by the Crusaders, hopes for a Jerusalem-based Church diminished. The struggle between the Salt Line families and the Pauline Church based in Rome could also have precipitated the Templar round-up.

In light of the above, it is worth considering whether British Zionism represents another attempt to undermine Rome's authority by creating a Jerusalem-based Church faithful not to St. Paul but to James the Just.

Conspiracy Nation

http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html