Monday, September 29, 2008

The Baphomet and the Fleur-de Lis

http://troyspace2.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/the-baphomet-of-mendes-the-fleur-de-lis/
 
 
 
 

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FLEUR DE LIS: Energy White Paper: Revisiting The Limits to Growth: Could The Club of Rome Have Been Correct, After All?, by Matthew Simmons; CEO - Simmons&Co.Intnl:
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THE BAPHOMET OF MENDES & THE FLEUR-DE-LIS

The two symbols of the goat-headed so-called Baphomet of Mendes & the fleur-de-lis have striking parallels of imagery & history.

Both have an ancestry that can be traced from ancient Sumer & ancient Egypt through to France in the Middle Ages & on to their global use in the present day in such places as the logos & shields of the Jesuit (Society of Jesus) universities shown below.

The fleur-de-lis is a stylised symbolic representation of the Lilium Candidum lily - the “Madonna lily”, which has been described as “a royal flower of the ancient world without equal”.

This flower once grew close to Sumer on the nearby slopes of the southern Zagros Mountains. In summarising his analysis on the Sumerian connection of the lily symbol with Egyptian royalty, archaeologist & author David Rohl writes in his book “Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation“: “The heraldic plant motif of Upper Egypt is a lily which grows only in temperate mountain zones. This royal symbol is clear evidence of the foreign origins of the first pharoahs” (P.383) He follows up this research in his subsequent tome “From Eden to Exile: The Epic History of the People of the Bible“.

The deity of the Sumerian city of Eridu was Enki, symbolised by the goat & associated with the zodiac sign of Capricorn, while the deity of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes was actually the ram-headed Banebdjedet.

19th century French occult author and magician Eliphas Lévi created what became an iconic image that he called the Baphomet of Mendes that is unmistakably ancient in its symbolism, as we can see from the photos of reliefs from Egypt & Sumer below.

The Jesuits’ Saint Louis University logo is especially illustrative of this horns & flame evocation in what is ostensibly a fleur-de-lis.

Food for thought.

- Troy

The fleur-de-lys (or fleur-de-lis, plural: fleurs-de-lis; pronounced /ˌfləː(r)dəˈliː/ (pronounced [ˌfləː(r)dəˈlɪs] in Quebec), translated from French as “lily flower”) is a stylized design of either an iris or a lily that is now used purely decoratively as well as symbolically, or it may be “at one and the same time political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic and symbolic”,[1] especially in heraldry. While the fleur-de-lis has appeared on countless European coats of arms and flags over the centuries, it is particularly associated with the French monarchy on a historical context, and nowadays with the Spanish monarchy and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as the only remaining monarchs of the House of Bourbon. It is an enduring symbol of France that appears on French postage stamps but has not been adopted officially by any of the French republics. By contrast, as Spain is a constitutional monarchy, the fleur-de-lis is associated with the Spanish King Juan Carlos I (of Bourbon descent) and the Kingdom of Spain. In North America, the fleur-de-lis is often associated with areas formerly settled by France, such as Quebec and Louisiana and with the Francophones in other Canadian provinces. It is also the emblem of the Italian Province of Florence, having been added to the Medici palle in the fifteenth century, and of the Swiss Municipality of Schlieren, Zurich. The flag of Bosnia-Hercegovina from 1992-1998 contained several fleurs-de-lis.

Fleurs-de-lis appear on military insignia and the logos of many different organizations, and during the 20th century it was adopted by various Scouting organizations worldwide for their badges. Architects and designers may use it alone or as a repeated motif in a wide range of contexts, from ironwork to bookbinding, especially where a French context is being implied. As a religious symbol it may represent the Trinity, or be an iconographic attribute of the archangel Gabriel, notably in representations of the Annunciation.[2] In such contexts, it is associated with the Virgin Mary.

The symbol is also often used on a compass rose to mark the north direction, a tradition started by Flavio Gioja.

It is represented in Unicode at U+269C FLEUR-DE-LIS (⚜).

Sources: Timothy TruthSeekers Anti-NWO Corner and Troy's Reality Research Resource and Tiger Lily's Serge.