The barrel-vaulted roof of Roslyn Chapel, from east to west comprises sections of carvings of Daises, Lilies, Flowers, Roses and Stars. - The daisy has many white petals, the backs of which are tipped with pink, its centre has a large yellow (gold) head : white surrounding gold. The white Templar Mantle has a large red Latin cross on the back. - The Lilies : St. Matthew, and why take ye thought for raiment. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Sir William St Clair introduces King Solomon : and Solomon built a Temple. - The Flower panel is left for the moment : we move to the Rose panel. - In the Song of Solomon ... I (Solomon) am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys. It is once again Solomon and a link with the Lilies and a valley : (the valley of the River Sals). - With the 'Stars', there are Angels, the Sun, Moon, a Dove, Jesus himself and what looks like water. In Luke's Gospel ... Now when all the people were baptised, it came to pass that Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heavens was opened and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a Dove upon Him and a voice came from Heaven. Jesus (St. Nazaire), and the river Sals at Rennes les Bains (a Spa). The Daises say, 'Templar and Gold' ... The Lilies and Roses point to Solomon and the 'Temple at Jerusalem'. The Star section tells us of 'Jesus and bathing'. Putting the Daisy, Lilies, Roses and Star panels together the (Key) message may be read as : The Knight's Gold from the Temple of Solomon is in the Church of St. Nazaire Et Celse at Rennes les Bains. The Flower Section is between the 'Roses' and the 'Lilies', both referring to Solomon. The arrow-headed pendant boss suspends from the arch separating the Roses and Flower section. Knight and Lomas describe the centre of the invisible Seal of Solomon as being on the floor of the Chapel immediately below the suspended boss. The Flower section points us to the vaults beneath the Chapel. In Psalm 103 verse 15. : As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. : In St Matthew : wherefore, if God so clothe the grass (flowers) of the field, which to day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven : the fireplace that is in the Sacristy. (The Apprentices Pillar also holds a clue). A John Slezer, writing in 1693, knew of bodies of the barons of Rosslyn found well preserved after four score years in the vaults : the Ark was not mentioned. Sir Walter Scott's epic poem, 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' - 'Seemed all on fire that chapel proud, where Roslyn's chiefs uncoffin'd lie. Each Baron, for a noble shroud, Sheathed in his iron panoply. Seemed all on fire within, around, deep sacristy and altars pale. Shone every pillar foliage bound (Apprentices Pillar), and glimmered all the dead men's mail. Blazed battlement and pinnet high, blazed every rose-carved buttress fair. So still they blaze when fate is nigh, the lordly line of high St. Clair' : And when fate was nigh, the fire was lit in the fireplace in the Sacristy. Sir Walter Scott knew the way down into the vaults below the Chapel was via the fireplace in the Sacristy, he was privy to the innermost secrets of the Templars. 'Nothing is wanting but the key and if thou canst comprehend these things thou knowest enough' : |
