Comments on: Scotland's Mysterious Rosslyn Chapel

By: Raymond E.O.Ella

Raymond E.O.Ella — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:17:13 +0000

Regarding our previous posting Jan 24th:

The typing error "and" should read "an", i.e., "an Englishman",!.

Kind regards,
Ray & Marie Ella, (Mr.& Mrs.).

By: Raymond E.O.Ella

Raymond E.O.Ella — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:10:43 +0000

For a mention of a certain Preceptor-Master of the Knights Templar in Scotland, c.1304, although and Englishman,!, named John de-Husflete (Usflete and other early scribe-forms), type Raymond E.O.Ella in a http://www.google.co.uk searchbox and click, then scroll-down to "Reedness & Ousefleet" and click, etc.

Kind regards,
Raymond & Marie Ella, (Mr.& Mrs.).
Aelle-Aella.

By: kailasa108

kailasa108 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:11:15 +0000

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.

By: Templar Mason

Templar Mason — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:28:27 +0000

There is a very interesting website dealing with this topic of the Apprentice Pillar and Rosslyn Chapel at http://www.grailcode.net