tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937268495144263540.comments2009-05-29T16:46:34.349-07:00Order of the GrailRev. Donnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14932467529208367547noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937268495144263540.post-58337401860883228012009-05-29T16:46:34.349-07:002009-05-29T16:46:34.349-07:00Point well made, gentlemen...Point well made, gentlemen...Bauceanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02776397643449850014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937268495144263540.post-6134480374453779362009-04-27T12:16:00.000-07:002009-04-27T12:16:00.000-07:00In addition, religious authorities can confer knig...In addition, religious authorities can confer knighthoods and be the fons honorum for an order of chivalry - after all, it was the bishop who crowned the royals, and, in the example of the Templars, it was a religious order. Our OTG has both religious and secular roots, although the religious has never gone away, hence certain requirements for knighthood.+++Philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453081411629752333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937268495144263540.post-10281998611545556582009-04-27T10:25:00.000-07:002009-04-27T10:25:00.000-07:00Well, we do have three sources of historical natur...Well, we do have three sources of historical nature which DO mention the existence of the Essenes ... Philo, Josephus, and Pliny, so we ought not to buy into a theory that they didn't exist at all.<br /><br />My own personal take is that there was no unified group that could be identified, just like Gnostic is a generic umbrella term for a whole slew of groups, often with incompatible theologies and cosmologies. Some scholars are also coming to the conclusion that the cache of writings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as the cache from Nag Hammadi were from several different groups, not just one.+++Philliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453081411629752333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937268495144263540.post-38867292991386354232009-03-10T19:19:00.000-07:002009-03-10T19:19:00.000-07:00Fascinating article, thanks!Fascinating article, thanks!Bauceanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02776397643449850014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937268495144263540.post-73785012426451530782009-03-10T17:14:00.000-07:002009-03-10T17:14:00.000-07:00http://mysteriesaroundus.blogspot.com/2008/06/phil...http://mysteriesaroundus.blogspot.com/2008/06/philosophers-stone.htmlRev. Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14932467529208367547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3937268495144263540.post-60200331899094414952009-02-22T09:23:00.000-08:002009-02-22T09:23:00.000-08:00Good article. As I understand it, this would allow...Good article. As I understand it, this would allow an American citizen to obtain an Knighthood from an order, even a national one, provided it did not require an oath of alliegence to a titular head. So an America who gets, for instance, Commander of the British Empire (CBE), would only have it in a symbollic sense since they cannot swear any fealty to Queen Elizabeth. <BR/><BR/>Likewise at countries whose peerages again do have political power, that would be an impediment, not that anyone is going to offer me to be Grand Duke of Luxembourg any time soon.Jonathon Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15535656244608139248noreply@blogger.com