The
Chapter 3b
They went over to the
reference librarian.
“We’re looking for the
genealogy of Charlemagne.”
“That would be in the occult
section.”
“No, we’re not looking for
hocus pocus. We just want the history.”
“You won’t find much of that
for the Dark Ages, but there is a genealogy in the book Bloodline of the
Holy Grail.” It seemed only polite
to go look at the book. The genealogy
was in an appendix.
Jesus, Joseph, Josue, Aminadab, Catheloys, Manael, Titurel, Boaz, Frotmund, Faramund, Clodion of Tournai, Sigimer, Ferreolus, Ansbert, Arnoald, Arnulf, Ansegis, Pepin the fat, Charles Martel, Pepin the Short, Charlemagne.
“So
Charlemagne comes twenty generations after Christ, Ivan.”
“Was he actually descended
from Christ?”
“Remember what the librarian
said. These are murky times. But somebody lived then. It’s the number of generations we are looking
for. Not exactly the linkup. Let’s see.
That puts our friend … holy … no ….”
“What’s wrong Jon?”
“
“Nice round number.”
“No, THE
number.”
“And who was just thumbing
his nose at the occult?”
“Around here you can’t get
away from it. Anyway the number, the
real number, is three hundred sixty. It was taken as the bases of all numbering by
the Babylonians and the Sumerians and all of the
ancient Near East. The Muslims still
keep a three hundred sixty day year, even though it means that dates drift
around the seasons, since the solar year is about three hundred sixty five and
a quarter days.
“They, the Babylonian
astronomers, divided the sky into twelve houses of the zodiac. We still have a twelve month year. We still measure circles in three hundred
sixty degrees. So a house of the zodiac is
thirty degrees exactly. And we are
exactly two houses after
“Astrology is a way supposedly
of telling the future by looking at the planets, or where the planets were when
somebody was born. It works sort of like
this: Two planets – and that of course includes the sun and moon which means
seven visible ones, where we get our week from – the planets work together for
good if they are in the same house. They
fight each other if they are in opposite houses, that is
at one hundred eighty degrees apart. If
they are next to each other, that’s all right.
But if they are at right angles to each other then you’re ‘star crossed.’
The planets don’t just fight, they subvert and betray
each other. Whatever forces in your life
those planets represent will give you more problems than if they were only in
conflict.”
“So what has this to do with
being sixty generations, or degrees if you must, from Christ?”
“I don’t know. It doesn’t mean anything. But they are exactly two houses apart. It’s an amazing coincidence. If you believed in that sort of thing, and I
don’t of course, it would mean that
“By the way, if two planets
are four houses apart, or one hundred twenty degrees, that is the best of
all. It’s called trine. The influences help and sustain each other in
the most constructive possible way.
That’s probably why the Jewish star is two equilateral triangles. It’s celebrating the perfection of the
universe if everything is in trine.”
“I’m not getting anything out
of this, Ivan.”
“
“I suppose we could look at
the genealogy of Jesus, but there doesn’t seem much point. I could just about quote you from the Book
of Mathew. He lists them all and
says, ‘So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations;
and from David until the carrying away into
They consulted the King
James Version.
Ivan said, “Count them. There should be forty two.”
Jon counted forty three. “I don’t think he counted Abraham as a
generation. It was Isaac who was the
first generation after Abraham.”
“But why start there?” Ivan asked.
“As long as you are bent on this, take it back to the start. And another thing. Why do you keep drawing circles? He didn’t say ‘miles,’ he said
‘degrees.’ If you go ninety degrees west
along the equator, you are going to travel a lot farther than if you go ninety
degrees west along the
“All right, good then,” said
It took the greater part of an hour, but at last Jon had listed it all: Adam,
Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem,
Arphaxad, Salah,
Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor,
Terah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judas. Phares,
Josias, Jechonias, Salathiel, Zorobabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Sadoc, Achim,
Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joseph and Jesus
“Well at least we know. Ivan, lets get an
atlas and look up the exact coordinates of
They did. Then
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