{"id":350,"date":"2009-11-13T18:47:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T01:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2010-01-18T22:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T05:33:29","slug":"margaret-starbird-ponders-friday-the-13th-esther-templar-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Starbird ponders Friday the 13th, Esther, Templar Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/christiansecuritynetwork.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/ship.jpg\" alt=\"ship.jpg\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"\/><br \/>Author Margaret Starbird writes:<\/p>\n<p>The infamous arrest of the Knights Templar was carried out on Friday\u00c2\u00a0the 13th of October, 1307. The day lives in the memory of Westerners,\u00c2\u00a0though they may not know why it is so &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;  It actually goes\u00c2\u00a0back to the Hebrew Bible, the book of Esther, when the evil Haman\u00c2\u00a0persuaded Esther&#8217;s husband, the King of Babylon, to arrest and execute her\u00c2\u00a0people, the Jews, en masse.  Ultimately, I think scholars will agree\u00c2\u00a0that the faith of the Templars was based on ancient &#8220;Ebionite&#8221; or\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Judaic-Christian&#8221; roots that included the full humanity of Jesus\u00c2\u00a0(including marriage and parenthood).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just finished reading two very interesting books, following up on\u00c2\u00a0the recent airing of a documentary on the History Channel called &#8220;The\u00c2\u00a0Grail in America.&#8221;  The basic text supporting the film was Scott\u00c2\u00a0Wolter&#8217;s &#8220;The Hooked X,&#8221;  while the novel, <em>Cabal of the Westford\u00c2\u00a0Knight<\/em> by David S. Brody, is a very informative follow up. Both\u00c2\u00a0books fully support the idea that the &#8220;great secret&#8221; described in my\u00c2\u00a0<em>Tarot Trumps and the Holy Grail<\/em> was the survival of descendants of\u00c2\u00a0Mary Magdalene and Jesus.&#8211; It&#8217;s interesting that artifacts on the\u00c2\u00a0east coast of the US (New England) and Canada have surfaced and\u00c2\u00a0support the claims that heirs of Templar traditions (engineering and\u00c2\u00a0sacred geometry, among others) attempted to settle in the &#8220;New World&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0a century before Columbus.  Assertions have been made for decades that\u00c2\u00a0some Templars survived and fled by ship to Scotland (which was under\u00c2\u00a0interdict at the time of their arrest). Perhaps their descendants were\u00c2\u00a0eager to find a place that was beyond reach of the Vatican and the\u00c2\u00a0Inquisition&#8230; why not sail west?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting lore&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>peace and well-being,<br \/>\nMargaret<br \/>\n&#8220;The Woman with the Alabaster Jar&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaretstarbird.net\">www.margaretstarbird.net<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Margaret Starbird writes: The infamous arrest of the Knights Templar was carried out on Friday\u00c2\u00a0the 13th of October, 1307. The day lives in the memory of Westerners,\u00c2\u00a0though they may not know why it is so &#8220;dangerous.&#8221; It actually goes\u00c2\u00a0back to the Hebrew Bible, the book of Esther, when the evil Haman\u00c2\u00a0persuaded Esther&#8217;s husband, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Margaret Starbird ponders Friday the 13th, Esther, Templar Ships<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,1],"tags":[199,200,35,201],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnosticism","category-mary-magdalene","category-misc","tag-esther","tag-friday-13th","tag-margaret-starbird","tag-templar-ships"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}