http://www.historynet.com/scotlands-mysterious-rosslyn-chapel.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:31:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.historynet.com/scotlands-mysterious-rosslyn-chapel.htm/comment-page-1#comment-54086 kailasa108 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:11:15 +0000 #comment-54086 Dr. Graeme Davis, a medieval researcher and scholar wrote an extremely interesting paper on the "mistake" of the sins and virtues carvings. You can find it here: http://www.shakespeare.uk.net/journal/2_2/davis.html. My thought about this is that since the builder of Rosslyn Chapel, William St. Clair, is thought to be a descendant of the Knights Templar, the "mistake" was intentional - meant to be a comment on the demise of the Templars in France by a king and pope who coveted the wealth and power (an alternative meaning to avarice (Latin avaricia)) of the Templars who to a large degree was a charity organization, or perhaps on the meaning of charity itself as lenient judgment or benevolence toward humanity. Dr. Graeme Davis, a medieval researcher and scholar wrote an extremely interesting paper on the “mistake” of the sins and virtues carvings. You can find it here: http://www.shakespeare.uk.net/journal/2_2/davis.html.
My thought about this is that since the builder of Rosslyn Chapel, William St. Clair, is thought to be a descendant of the Knights Templar, the “mistake” was intentional – meant to be a comment on the demise of the Templars in France by a king and pope who coveted the wealth and power (an alternative meaning to avarice (Latin avaricia)) of the Templars who to a large degree was a charity organization, or perhaps on the meaning of charity itself as lenient judgment or benevolence toward humanity.

]]> http://www.historynet.com/scotlands-mysterious-rosslyn-chapel.htm/comment-page-1#comment-9092 Templar Mason Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:28:27 +0000 #comment-9092 There is a very interesting website dealing with this topic of the Apprentice Pillar and Rosslyn Chapel at http://www.grailcode.net There is a very interesting website dealing with this topic of the Apprentice Pillar and Rosslyn Chapel at http://www.grailcode.net

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