Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00479)

Nos: "Bloodline of the Holy Grail - Sir Laurence Gardener Jesus had 
children "

This is what nos wrote in his last posting, and he also asked me per 
private mail if I would write something about Gardner and "Prince" 
Michael on the list.
 
Since nos has been "killfiled" (I don't know what it is but it sounds 
awfull) I worked on it for the last three days, and am therefore only 
able to post it today, of course it is probably not what nos expected.

I don't know if he Laurence Gardener read Terrence Mc Kenna's books 
and uses drugs also , but he did spun this whole trilogy, or is it 4 
or 5 by now, out of whole cloth.

That is he constructed it (You see Steve it can be done, maybe also 
in that case by specially gifted drifters) from various bits and 
pieces of occult lore, borderland history, and his own immagination.

Reminds me of Foucould's pendulum, except here a life person/would be 
King, (the Krishnamurti of schottish politics ? ) supposed to be 
lounched on the world stage. And I say "world" becouse nos I'm shure 
will be able to tell us about Garders activity's, and with that of 
the "prince", down under, not only Schotland and the UK.

In fact his books now also come out in German.
 
I wrote to Gardner and my letter is printed in the August-September 
1998 issue of Nexus, p.5 with Gardners response, you'l see my name 
there. (nos you have that ?)

And so I will not repeat what is in the letters wich are printed, but 
will here present additional research. I am also indepted to Clive 
Chessman for this help in correcting this text .

Prince Michael of Albany, an individual of Belgian birth who believes 
he is the legitimate heir of Bonnie Prince Charlie (the Young 
Pretender) and thus the current Stuart claimant to the thrones of 
England and Scotland. In fact he is interested in regaining only that 
of Scotland.
His claims are entirely traditional in their content. In a weighty 
tome entitled "The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland", which was 
published in 1998, the prince' (born in 1958) states that his mother 
is descended in the male line from a son and heir born to the Young 
Pretender in 1786, by a second marriage contracted in Rome in 1785. 
Both the son and the marriage were previously unknown to history, as 
indeed was the papal annulment by which the Pretender's first, 
unhappy marriage was necessarily brought to an end: this is revealed 
to have taken place in April 1784 and to have been recorded in the 
Vatican archives all along (though many have sought it there). Prince 
Edward James Stuart, the long-awaited heir, was brought up in secrecy 
and fathered a line of Princes and Counts of Albany living in exile. 

The sixth count of the line left only a daughter, and on his death 
his titles and the representation of the family passed to her son - 
the author of the book - who, judging the time propitious, has cast 
off the veil of secrecy and returned from exile to Scotland, his 
ancestral realm. (M.Linklater, The Times,7 May ,1998.)

That is the substance of his claims and, indeed, of the book. None of 
the sparse evidence presented in support of any of it is remotely 
convincing, which is perhaps unsurprising when it is considered that 
an earlier book (written not by the `prince' but on his behal~ argued 
that he was descended, through the Stuarts and King Arthur, from 
Jesus Christ himself. (1996,and obviously inspired by "The Holy Blood 
and the Holy Grail" from Baighent, Leigh, and Lincoln 1982.) 
The rest of The Forgotten Monarchy is taken up by a highly nuanced 
retelling of Scottish political history before and after the Union, 
and a lively statement of the case for Scotland's independence. The 
author offers himself as a truly democratic monarch for the 
independent nation, humbly submitting - in what he sees as the true 
and ancient manner of the Scots monarchy, before it was subverted by 
the tyrannical ways of the Hanoverians - to the will of the people. 
In recounting all this, Prince Michael makes further historical 
revelations. The most entertaining must be the full transcript of an 
interview in 1782 between the Young Pretender and representatives of 
the government of the newly independent colonies of North America, in 
which they offered him the Crown of America.

Unfortunately. not only is the language and content of this 
interview anachronistic and superficial; the writer and recipient of 
the letter in which it supposedly survives - the Hon. Charles Hervey-
Townshend and "Lady Molly Carteron, Countess of Manorwater" -never 
existed. There must be grave doubts about the "Manorwater Papers" in 
which the letter is said to be preserved.

And yet the book offered for sale by most reputable bookshops in 
their `history' section and its author have had a not inconsiderable 
amount of success, with the prince' being interviewed regularly both 
on radio and in the press. In order to explain the great support 
gained by one of the false Neros, Tacitus, it will be recalled, 
stated that people were always hungry for nova et mira (new things 
and sensational things). 

This explanation is not applicable in this case, and not merely 
because one cannot today be quite so dismissive of a popular 
reaction. Prince Michael's success has not been in the tabloid 
sphere, the rapid acquisition of enthusiastic support. It has been in 
not encountering opposition. This is rather odd, because if his 
claims were true, it would indeed be a sensation: not only the 
existence of a legitimate descendant of the disinherited Stuarts, but 
the continued and conscious suppression of the truth by the 
Hanoverians and the house of Windsor to this day.

The interviewers must sense this, and yet the true enormity of his 
tale remains unemphasized - and thus unexamined. Those journalists 
who do try to convey the essential unreliability of the prince's 
story are those inclined to treat the whole subject of hereditary 
monarchy with a degree of scorn; ignoring the fact that even in a 
system that apportions power by eccentric and possibly indefensible 
criteria, it is important that people are not deceived into thinking 
that the criteria have been met when they have not.(Interview in The 
Guardian, 24 March 1999)

And so Prince Michael has not been "outed" and can continue to 
associate himself with the cause of promoting Scotland's democratic 
freedom from the cloying, unhealthy effects of England's hierarchical 
and conservative society. Is he free to do so because of a growing 
contemporary lack of interest in the authority of the monarchy, as 
opposed to its soap-operatic aspects? This might well be the case; 
knowledge of and sympathy with the traditional aspects of the 
sovereign's role and position are generally held to be declining. If 
this is so, the authenticity of the Oueen's title to reign might 
indeed be of no interest whatsoever; her role is now merely that of a 
media star, for which the intricacies of the rules of inheritance are 
meaningless.

Here, however, a knowledge of history suggests otherwise. Prince 
Michael' is not the first (and will probably not be the last) to 
claim royal rights by virtue of legitimate descent from the Young 
Pretender. Others have done so with more erudition and indeed 
panache, gaining support at higher levels of society, attaching 
themselves to, indeed in some degree providing the impetus for, a 
change in artistic, literary and social fashion, without provoking 
the remotest hint of a crisis in the state.

The story of the Allen brothers, who in the early decades of the 
nineteenth century turned themselves bit by bit into the Princes 
Sobieski Stuart, claiming to be the Young Pretender's great-
grandsons, has been delightfully retold by Hugh Trevor-Roper and does 
not need a full rehearsal here. (H.R.Trevor-Roper. "The invntion of 
tradition: the Highland tradition of Scotland'. In Hobsdawm and 
Ranger, 1983, 15-41.)

It suffices to note, first, that there was no truth in their claims 
whatsoever: they were from respectable middle-class stock, and though 
their family may have nursed certain beliefs about noble Scottish 
origins, the idea of the descent from Bonnie Prince Charlie was all 
the brothers' own. Second, though their claims were startling like 
Michael of Albany' they stated that the Young Pretender had fathered 
a son who was brought up in secrecy and left a line of legitimate 
descendants, known to but ignored by the house of Hanover they did 
not create the great constitutional or historical scandal that might 
have been expected. 
Third, instead of this, and belying the suggestion that the absence 
of this reaction was simply because no one believed in them, they 
were received with tolerance, hospitality and even warmth into the 
bosom of a certain section of Scottish high society.

Here they continued to behave in accordance with what they saw as 
their station, maintaining a mini court at their beautiful house on 
Eilean Aigas, an island in the River Eskadale, to which they were 
rowed in a barque flying the royal standard, dressing in revived' 
Highland garb adorned with orders and decorations, being referred to 
and addressed as princes even by the distinguished peers and gentry 
with whom they associated.

Most importantly perhaps, and in partial explanation of this friendly 
reception, they played a central part in the early and mid-nineteenth 
century's attempts to resuscitate Scots traditions in literary, 
artistic and fashionable matters. Their role in this sphere was of 
course no less deceptive and fraudulent than in matters of genealogy. 
Their great publication, the Vestiarium Scoticurn, a lavish folio 
volume that purported to be an edition of a sixteenth-century 
manuscript on the tartans of the Highland clans, was an extremely 
expensive hoax: no such manuscript existed, nor could have done, 
since the system of clan-specific tartans was an invention of the 
nineteenth, not the sixteenth century.

Their excuses and prevarications to those who wished to examine the 
original stood squarely in the age old tradition of the literary 
fraudster. But despite this, and despite the blistering review of the 
book in the 1847 Quarterly Review, which punctured not only their 
literary pretensions but also their genealogical pretences, the work, 
packed with true and false erudition, systematic and inspiring at the 
same time, beautiful to look at but respectful to scholarship, 
continued to inform works on the history of the Highland traditions 
until the end of the century and beyond. The great upsurge in 
interest in the Highlands in the midisoos was a European phenomenon, 
and the Sobieski Stuarts were able to give some apparent substance to 
what would otherwise have been an entirely vapid mist of romantic 
visions, the haze rising from the false epics of "Ossian" and the 
chivalric nonsense of the Eglington tournament. Unfortunately this 
substance turned out to be as illusory as the rest.

The piece in the Quarterly Review was, in effect, a merciless and 
detailed exposure of the Sobieski Stuarts, and it had a devastating 
effect on their career. They retired abroad for many years, venturing 
back to London only at the end of the 1860's, where they became 
familiar, studious figures in the Round Reading Room of the British 
Museum, still decked with stars and medals, but much lower in profile 
and in visibly straitened circumstances.

Gardner writes: "Melatonin enhances and boosts the body's immune 
system, and those with high pineal secretion are less likely to 
develop cancerous diseases. High melatonin production heightens 
energy, stamina and physical tolerance levels and it is directly 
related to sleep patterns, keeping the body temperately regulated 
with properties that operate through the cardiovascular system. It 
is, in fact, the body's most potent and effective antioxidant and it 
has positive mental and physical anti-ageing properties. It is 
manufactured by the pineal gland through the activation of a chemical 
messenger called serotonin. This transmits nerve impulses across 
chromosome pairs at a point when the cell nuclei are divided and the 
chromosomes are halved (a process called meiosis), eventually to be 
combined with other half-sets upon fertilisation.

Pine resin was long identified with pineal secretion and was used to 
make frankincense (the incense of priesthood). Gold, on the other 
hand, was a traditional symbol of kingship. Hence, gold and 
frankincense were the traditional substances of the Priest-Kings of 
the Messianic Bloodline, along with myrrh (a gum resin used as a 
medical sedative) which was symbolic of death.

In the ancient world, higher knowledge was identified as daäth (from 
which comes our word, "death". In fact, as we know very well, the New 
Testament describes that these three substances (gold, frankincense 
and myrrh) were presented to Jesus by the Magi, thereby identifying 
him beyond doubt as an hereditary Priest-King of the Dragon 
succession."

I wonder actually when Michael's next book supposedly about the 
Strict Observance and related orders will come out. (do you know 
nos ?) And of course he is running about half a dosen orders 
himself , all verry expensive . And now that I think of it I wonder 
if "Sir" Laurence also had to pay ?

As a matter of fact it moved riples trough British high society when 
they heard that Sean Connery (a Scott) bought actually one 
of "Prince Michael's" titles, so quickle the Queen of England 
invited Sean and knighted him herself.
Brigitte

PS. I should definetly not forget to mention that " Sir" Laurence 
Gardner, Kt St Gm., KCD, KT St A., holds the position of Prior of the 
Celtic Church of the Sacred Kindred of Saint Columba, and is 
distinguished as Le Chevalier Labhràn de Saint Germain and Preceptor 
of the Knights Templars of Saint Anthony. Sir Laurence is also 
Presidential Attaché to the European Council of Princes (a 
constitutional advisory body established in 1946), and Chancellor of 
the Imperial and Royal Court of the Dragon Sovereignty. He is 
formally attached to the Noble Household Guard of the Royal House of 
Stewart, founded at St Germain-en-Laye in 1692, and is the Jacobite 
Historiographer Royal by Appointment.

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