Medieval Graffiti: Messages Hidden in Plain View
“Pay attention to details. The most important things are often overlooked in the search for things greater than the obvious.”
This is true when it comes to one of my working fields; esoteric architecture. These are a really important part of the messages hidden in plain view. While there has been considerable research done on mason marks throughout the centuries, this area is relatively new with Violet Pritchard's work, English Medieval Graffiti (Cambridge, 1967) being the first real relevant study on this and one of my favourites, later followed by Matthew Champion, Wayne Perkins and a few more although it is still relatively unexplored.
I've been working in this area for decades and have a little book in the making simultaneously to my 2 books on the Knights Templar, which ties in with my research on the Knights Templar as they also left us many messages and clues which I have been discovering as medieval graffiti, not just carvings or mason marks. I go beyond describing what these marks / scribbles are, or evern when they are found, but dive deep into their mystical origins and trace them back in time and space.
Today I'd like to share a few photos I took from Furness Abbey in Cumbria, near the Lake District in Northern England and one of my favorite areas to escape to. It was also an area with quite a high concentration of Knight Templars and relevant, as per research carried out by historian Gretchen Cornwall, whose work I also really respect.
These marks below are specifically related to the Knights Templar, the Pentalpha for very specific reasons and something that has not yet been talked about by any historian in connection with the Knights of the Temple. We see it often with them, not just as medieval graffiti like here, or carvings like the Templar grave-slabs of the Convent of Christ in Tomar, Portugal but also with regards to sacred geometry and geography. I will reveal this in my first of the upcoming books on the Knights Templar, "The Way of the Rose". DETAILS...MATTER.
“Another thing all writers have in common is we’re all observers. We pay attention to detail.”- Judy Blume
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