As published on my Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/HelenaBScott/posts/745169607607629
Sharing a song that tastes like Christmas, full of history but also tragedy, sung here by the controversial Irish Sinead O'Connor. The son which speaks about the Sinclairs in Northern Ireland. Curiously, and though I did not know it when I moved to my current little cottage, I am writing to you all from land in Ireland's Ancient East that once also belonged to Norman Templars and later the Sinclairs. Did I not say that everything in my life always leads me back to the Knights Templar?
But like yesterday's song, pay attention to the lyrics, as poetry and music are the languages of the soul like myths that contain the archetypes that live in the sea of the collective unconscious and also provide us with much unwritten information and clues. See some of the lyrics here and notice the numerology, the masonic number 7 (which is also the number of man, 4 representing the body in this case and God as it is the number of Earth and God and we are created like God, and 3 representing the spirit but also the trinity and the triple gnostic goddess and the rose/flame or shekinah). Seven is one of the most spiritual numbers and also key for understanding the Knights Templars and is connected to the Grail. Specifically, notice the fragment of the lyrics of this song below:
Perhaps your soldier lad is lost,
Sailing over the sea of main (Maine).
Or perhaps he is gone with some other one,
You may never see him again,
"Well, if my Irish lad is lost,
He's the one I do adore,
And seven years I will wait for him
By the banks of the Moorlough Shore"
Farewell to the Sinclair's castle ground (grand)
Farewell to foggy hill (Holy Hill)
Where the linen webs lie (waves like) bleaching silk
And the bawdeen (falling, purling) stream runs still,
Near there I spent my youthful days,
But alas they are no more,
For cruelty has banished me,
Far away from the Morlough Shore.
As a little side project relevant to my research, I've actually been studying the roots of Scottish Clan families who are connected to the Templars or known to be Templars and who descend from the Norse in the Icelandic Sagas (the ancestors of the Sinclairs can actually be found there and others) so this is very relevant. See what the Sinclair family has to say here:
https://sinclairgenealogy.info/ireland/the-moorlough-shore/
This traditional Irish ballad links a number of places referred to in the lyrics to Holyhill, a Sinclair estate in the parish of Leckpatrick where there is also a Morlough Road. The Holyhill Sinclairs established themselves in Tyrone and Donegal in the 17th century and by the 1770s had a thriving business there.
I was fortunate enough to be shown Rosslyn Chapel through a private tour, with a Freemason from St. Mary's Chapel (Lodge no. 1 Edinburgh, whose records date back to 1599, much earlier than any English masonic lodges) but also a 33 degree Freemason and expert on the chapel, who works there. This wonderful magic encounter which lasted over four hours (that's right people, 4 hours of talking architecture) brought tears to my eyes and confirmed what my heart already knew when my eyes finally saw it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EwUehRrC5c
While I am not affiliated with any Templar or Masonic order, I cannot deny the links between them and the historic Knights Templar nor the kindness shown to me by the Scottish Freemasons of the Mother Lodge of Scotland at Kilwinning (Lodge 0), St. Mary's Chapel in Edinburgh (Lodge No.1) and Rosslyn Chapel, seat of the Sinclair Clan as well as other Templars and Freemasons worldwide I have met along the way who are supportive of my work and whose help and friendship I truly appreciate.
Wishing you all a great boxing day! With best wishes and love from the Emerald Isle, a land which for the past few years I have called home.
May you always follow...the seven stars
