Monastic organizations found medieval culture

“Many of these monks knew the history of Nut and Horus, the history of Devaki and Krishna.

They knew the list of gods born of a virgin: Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Indra for Asia; for the Middle East: Zoroaster, Adonis, Attis, Mithra born of a virgin in a stable on December 25 around 600 BC and whose resurrection was celebrated at Easter. Even the Roman Empire had one of its primitive saviors, Quirinus, born of a virgin.

Juda de Gamala

Many monks had to smile when they compared the introduction of this legend in Christianity around 150 and 180 and the ancient texts of the Roman, Jewish, Essenian, Greek and Aramaic authors telling the story of Judah of Gamala, the man of Galilee, hero of God who called Israel to insurrection, had coins bearing the word Republic minted, organized his territory of Israel on this organization and elaborated a doctrine in which God alone was the king of the people elected as in the time of Moses.

This Judah of Gamala had with Mary sons who were named by order of birth: Jesus and Thomas the twins, Simon Peter and James, children raised by Zebedee at the death of Judah of Gamala killed by the Romans and at Mary’s remarriage with him in order to safeguard the royal lineage of David.

They knew that Jesus was not the first to institute the rite of the Last Supper and to bring to life the mystery of the transsubstantiation of bread and wine into the body of Christ, that Moses and the high Egyptian priests were celebrating the same rite. They knew the human history of Jesus and had read Roman chroniclers such as Flavius Joseph before other ecclesiastics in Rome expelled from these manuscripts all these details compromising for the holy history, a holy history which was to serve as a legitimacy for the expansion of papal power.

Irénée, bishop of Lyon, wants to ban individual initiations

These monks had in their hands the ancient texts saved by Benedict of Nursia, they had been able to read the manuscripts saved by others of the autodafes.

They knew that Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon around the year 2000, was already calling for the prohibition of individual initiations, celebrations like those of Eleusis, because these practices prevented the development of a system of religious power from the bishops and capable of controlling the spiritual knowledge of each Christian community. The priests of Denderah had never asked for such measures in their network organization.

These monks, too, sought to trace the Hebrew branch back to the Law of Numbers, the Golden Circle of Upper Egypt built in Denderah, the oldest Egyptian temple restored for the first time by Cheops, in front of which Pacoma had founded their Cenobite rules and they clung to one of the last representatives among the Jews of this Pharaonic kingdom: Solomon.

Like the ancient priests, they sought to rediscover the knowledge lost during the assassination by the Hyksos of a king of Thebes guardian of the initiatory rites for the intromission of the pharaohs, King Sekenenre Taâ II assassinated by the one who had the Egyptian name of Apophis.

Thebes is the closest town to Denderah and in fact, the military power guardian of this original sacred place. In this lost knowledge, it was a question of bringing to the divine life the one who would then have the human charge of pharaoh, that is to say of representing God to serve as a bond between the Creator and humanity.”

Source of this passage: Jesus or the secret mortal of the Templars, Robert Ambelain, Robert Laffont, collection les Énigmes de l’Universe, 1970.

The entire Celtic, behind its Druids, rushed towards Christianity. But quickly disillusioned as soon as Christianity, in the hands of the German kings and their bishops, became an instrument of serfdom. Ireland, which had escaped the Roman conquest and then the barbaric conquests, remained Christian but, so to speak, “Druidically”. …/… Little wonder, then, that the “Druidic” conception of Christianity has returned from Ireland. It was brought to the Gauls mainly by Saint Colomban and with the – sensitive – support of a Benedictine pope: Gregory I, Saint Gregory the Great. …/… In Gaul, Colomban founded around the year 600, Anegay, Luxueil, Fontaine.

…/… In Gauls, the place is clear. Everything was destroyed. No surviving tradition has enough strength to even try to assert itself. We are quite far from Rome and its disputes over influence for clerical power. Finally, the unity of power is far from assured and one can indulge in hide-and-seek between kingdoms, duchies, counties.

Western civilization is based on three foundations: the revelation of Christ, classical intelligence and Celtic matter.

And the “head” of the Benedictine Order will play hide and seek for five hundred years. In 590, a Benedictine became pope. Gregory I the Great, Saint Gregory, established the first Gregorian ritual. And Gregory will play the instrument that St. Benedict forged. And also, in part, what Colomban brought him. …/… Already, the three foundations on which Western civilization will be built stand out: the revelation of Christ, classical intelligence and Celtic matter.

The Christian revelation brings with it an enormous contribution of Hebrew tradition, which will, moreover, diminish, from the early Judeo-Christian Church which still demanded that not a letter of the Judaic law be changed, including circumcision, to the Church of the Middle Ages which will retain only the Gospels and Saint Paul, and again..

The Greek tradition will, on the contrary, be strengthened as it becomes better known, especially under the influence of the Islamic schools of Cordoba and Toledo. (Which will bring vestiges of the knowledge coming directly from the temples of the banks of the Nile and the Euphrates, just as the Greek temples kept that of the banks of the Nile. The remains of the knowledge of the temple of Denderah, the divine laws and the celestial mathematics, the mystery of the Apocalypse and the Atlantean origins of the followers of Horus, were transmitted by John, Anthony, Pacome and collected by Bernard of Nurcia in the year 500 in his abbey of Mount Cassin, ed.

The Celtic tradition, on the other hand, flourished from all sides, brought back, from the first contacts with matter, by, it seems, the ancestral memory. The stone people will find a certain lapidary magic of the ancestors.

Gregory I, Saint Gregory

In any case, Gregory I, who is beginning this synthesis, seems to have had an extraordinary intelligence and an extraordinary foresight. Its importance in the flowering of medieval civilization is considerable. He is too learned to ignore that the gap between Druidism and the Christianity of his Benedictines is only formal. It is almost enough to juxtapose one to the other, by inflecting the form, without it being necessary to inflect the mind.

To achieve this fusion, he created the Gregorian ritual whose magical action is profound on men. And he has at his disposal the whole body of learned monks formed by St. Benedict. It will be his missionaries near the barbarian chiefs, the bishops who are no less, and the people almost reduced to the wild. It is on the Gauls that he leaves his civilizers.

One of his greatest merits was to understand that strength, in some areas, is of no value. He thus took the foot of Martin, this Pannonian operating in the Gauls, who destroyed the temples and sacred Druidic stones.

Destroy idols but not temples

I decided, said Gregory, that it was not about destroying the temples of the gods, but only their idols.

But the Druids, no more than the Celts, had no idols, and Gregory did not ignore it. The only idols were Roman. And their destruction certainly did the Gallic people no harm.

Religiously, the Gauls had only sacred places marked by trees or stones not cut to any human appearance. To admit their places was to openly admit the basis of Druidism in the Catholic Church. And the monks settled in the holy places of the Gauls.

The Benedictine convents have taken over the place of Druid colleges

They settled there as missionaries to civilize the rulers, to make the clergy religious, to educate the people. In fact, why not see things as they are: the benedictine convents have taken over the place of druidic colleges, guardians of the ritual, advisers to the great, instructors of the peoples.

Monks defend themselves against bishops, kings and lords to remain independent.

The affair was conducted for several hundred years with a constant will and an address worthy of admiration. The monks had to defend themselves against the bishops who intended to rule them and have them under their control. They had to defend themselves against kings and lords who wanted to appoint abbots to reserve the “profits.” They were able to capitulate here, to stand still there, even if it meant letting the abbeys put in “order” perish

The process of “development” of an abbey is always the same: to cultivate land, to build, to teach. Each “house” becomes a nursery for farmers, masons, carpenters, various craftsmen and clerics, those clerics who will lead the seigneurial administration and will be the first “teachers” of the people.

The movements of the “learned head” of the Benedictine Order.

It is curious to follow, in history, in correlation with political or military events, the movements of the “learned head” of the Order. Always – always – beyond the reach of royal power. The scholars of the Order intend to work in peace, with their own abbots, and not those imposed by the power.

Summary of these trips:

After the Lateran with Grégoire I, the “learned head” passes to Fleury-sur-Loire, at the junction of France, Burgundy and Aquitaine. After having saved the precious manuscripts which were then the most complete classical treasure at the time, from the fire of Fleury and while the Frankish kings conquered Aquitaine, the “head” passes to Saint-Seine in Burgundy, the sovereigns being no doubt more understanding towards the Benedictine Order.

Saint Benedict of Aniane

To escape the Carolingian hold, Abbé Witizza travels to Catalonia, near Montpellier, to Aniane where he takes the name of Benedict. He will be Saint Benedict of Aniane. It is there that he definitively joins the orders of Saint Benedict and Saint Colomban, already very close, into a common rule, of which one leaves, very intelligently, any power of application to the abbots, according to the regions. (This is the practice of subsidiarity and the alliance of opposites, organizational principles already taught in the temples on the banks of the Nile and in Greece.)

The next steps were Glanfeuil, Saint Savin sur Gartempe, Saint Martin d’Autun (880). From there, Bernon, who carried with him more than nine hundred learned manuscripts, carried this “learned head” to Gigny in the Jura from where he was soon to return, with twelve monks on a land given to Cluny by Charles III of Burgundy. Cluny remained the “learned head” of the Order until the Crusades.

Source of this passage: Les Mystères Templiers, Louis Charpentier, at Robert Laffont, collection les Énigmes de l’Universe, 1967, chapter La lignée, pages 74-80

The young shepherd becomes Pope Sylvester II

“The first idea of the crusade, it seems, belongs to Sylvester II, the pope of the year thousand…and Sylvester II had been the Benedictine monk Gerbert. As a young shepherd, he had become a novice at Saint-Géraud-d’Aurillac and had demonstrated highly developed skills as a mathematician and physicist. The Prince of Aragon, at the request of the prior, agreed to take him to his suite in Spain. He had therefore been a teacher in Spanish universities, which at the time could only be Arab or Jewish, either in Toledo or in Cordoba. He was responsible for the introduction, in the West, of Arabic numerals and, probably, algebra. He was an excellent astronomer, inventor of an astrolabe and whose armillary spheres to explain the movement of the stars were admired by his students.

Sylvester II wants to find the Tables of Law in Jerusalem

Sylvester II was unlikely to have wanted to fight with the Muslims, and if he had done so, the Muslims in Spain would have been closer to spear than those in Palestine. What interested him was the Holy Land; And he saw, no doubt, in Jerusalem something other than a Holy Place, the center of the World. A man of vast science and intelligence, he could not have failed to understand the nature of the Tables of Law to which Muslim civilization is perhaps indebted to many.

In any case, as early as Sylvester II, in the year one thousand, Jerusalem is already a Benedictine goal. But that goal will not be explicitly stated until everything is ready.

It is to this preparation that Cluny will devote himself… But the timeline is full of wonderful lessons.

The Benedictine order, under whatever rule it was, had always taken the greatest care to keep its nervous centers away from the grip of the Frankish kings, entrusting itself more readily to the Aquitans, the Catalans, the Burgundians than to the heirs of Clovis. Did they consider them impervious to civilization? This cannot be excluded; it is obvious that these kings will never shine with their intelligence or their moral qualities.

But around the time of Cluny’s creation, a fact is going to change a lot.

Rollon and the Vikings became Christians and conquered Sicily.

For more than a hundred years, the Normans had been ravaging the western lands – and beyond, sometimes. Now, in 913, Charles III, king of France, delivered a part of Neustria to a certain Ganger Rolf, Rollon, Norwegian, so enormous that he went only on foot, in the inability where he was to have a horse that did not collapse under his weight. Rollon, a Norwegian, was not a germain from the plains of overseas Ukraine; those germans had not gone up to Norway. Rollon and his crews were Celts, like the ancient Scandinavians (and descendants of Thule, like the Goths and the Vikings).

When they became Christians, it was not in the same way as Clovis to “enjoy” them. They had destroyed abbeys, they built others. Among them: Bec Hellouin, who taught all the Norman youth including the sons of Tancrède de Hauteville, lord of Cotentin.

And now look at the timeline.

Le Bec Hellouin was founded in 1034.

In 1042, Guillaume de Hauteville, son of Tancrède, occupied Apulia.

In 1059, Robert Guiscard de Hauteville was Duke of Apulia and Calabria.

In 1060, he took Messina.

In 1082, he expelled Byzantium from Italy by Durazzo’s victory over Alexis Komnenos.

In 1085 he was in Syracuse.

In Malta in 1090. And Pope Gregory VII, the scholar who will make the calendar, the Pope of Canossa, who had been the Benedictine monk Hidebrand, promotes, as far as he can, the Norman domination over Lower Italy

And in 1096, the Benedictine Pope Urban II, launched the first crusade.

We must admit that this “illumination” of the road to Jerusalem and the occupation of the “departure bases” by the Normans are really welcome! Meanwhile, the Benedictine monk Lanfranc, a professor at the Bec Hellouin, mounted from scratch the conquest of England by these same Normans in 1066; as if it were a matter of securing the West’s rear against the Saxons who are as mistrustful as the Franks. And, perhaps not without reason after the butchery of monks in Kerleon.

The First Reconnaissance to Palestine

And it is again a Norman – coincidence – who will make the first ” recognition.

A Norman adventurer, Roussel de Bailleul, came from the Two Sicilies and served the Byzantines with his company and conquered Lycaonie and Galatia in 1073. Byzantium, who was suddenly afraid of it, appealed to the Seljucidal Muslims against him, and he was crushed at Mount Sophron. (It is understandable that the crusaders had some mistrust of the Emperors of Constantinople.) At this time, too, the monks “work” Christian Armenia, as if they were trying to manage intelligences there. Let them get it.

…/… After the capture of Jerusalem on 14 and 15 July 1099 …/…

Meanwhile, Etienne Harding, abbot of Cîteaux, prepared his Order for the understanding of a sacred “document” that was to come. …/… And what matters to the Christian civilization was prepared for Cluny, the result of a long labor, is prepared for Cîteaux, will be implemented in Clairvaux and will be implemented by the Temple Organization of Christian Europe (organized in networks of life and not in a system of power, NDLR).