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Saint George is the patron saint of England and his “red cross” forms the national flag of England and is central to the Union Jack Flag of the United Kingdom (61k), which looks just like the Templar flag. The Red Cross started to be used as early as the 12th century AD, when the Knights Templars adopted it as their Crest in their war against the Arabs during the crusades. (61k) St. George Flag of England The Duke of Kent remarked in 1992: “The St. George's flag, a red cross on a white field, was adopted by England and the City of London in 1190 for their ships entering the Mediterranean to benefit from the protection of the Genoese (A providence of Rome) fleet. The English Monarch paid an annual tribute to the Doge of Genoa for this privilege.” We also see this same cross, but inverted, in the flag of Switzerland (61q).  (61q) Flag of Switzerland According to Aldo Ziggioto, in “Genova,” the author writes “A vexillum beati Georgii is mentioned in the Genovese annals for the year 1198, referring to a red flag with a depiction of St George and the dragon. The Genoese flag with the red cross was used alongside this “George’s flag,” from at least 1218, and was known as the insignia cruxata comunis Janue (“cross ensign of the commune of Janua.”) The flag showing the saint himself was the city's principal war flag, but the flag showing the plain cross was used alongside it in the 1240s.” (46) According to Kathryn Hinds (2001), in Medieval England: “By the 14th century, the saint had been declared both the patron saint and the protector of the royal family.” (47) The fact that this “Red Cross” was both a symbol for the ‘”Knights of Christ” or Knights Templars, as they are more commonly called, and also a symbol for the Genoese flag, a providence of Rome is an interesting point to observe. The Red Cross was the symbol for the mushroom and likely represented the healing ability back then, since currently today, we have the medical association of the Red Cross. |
Interestingly, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a movement to save human life and health, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and created in 1863. Several of their goals are as follows: To monitor compliance of warring parties with the Geneva Conventions. To supervise the treatment of prisoners of war and treat them. To make peace between groups in war. Now, this is obviously a Masonic organization, and these are obviously noble goals, but wouldn’t it be easier to “make peace between groups in war” and accomplish these other goals, if they didn’t start wars in the first place? St George Slays the Mushroom The dragon-slayer was the “hero,” going back to Indra, the original dragon-slayer, and Vrtra, the dragon. Marduk and Tiamat being another version of the same myth. In all the old mythos, the thunder god was the slayer of the dragons. In more modern times this has been translated into Christianity as St. Michael, the head of a band of angels that defeated the dragon and St. George, the British dragon-slayer. Many of the old Christian churches dedicated to St. Michael and St. George are built along ley-lines that run from Cornwall through Glastonbury and Avebury and throughout England which also happen to be called for thousands of years by the Chinese, “dragon Lines.” (48) In the original story of St George, there is human sacrifice and some very interesting details which we now read from: “St. George was a knight and born in Cappadocia. On a time, he came in to the province of Libya, to a city which is said Silene. And by this city was a stagne or a pond like a sea, wherein was a dragon which envenomed all the country. And on a time, the people were assembled for to slay him, and when they saw him, they fled. And when he came nigh the city, he venomed the people with his breath, and therefore the people of the city gave to him every day two sheep for to feed him, because he should do no harm to the people, and when the sheep failed there was taken a man and a sheep. Then was an ordinance made in the town that there should be taken the children and young people of them of the town by lot, and every each one as it fell, were he gentle or poor, should be delivered when the lot fell on him or her. So, it happened that many of them of the town were then delivered, insomuch that the lot fell upon the king's daughter, whereof the king was sorry, and said unto the people: For the love of the gods take gold and silver and all that I have and let me have my daughter. They said: How sir! ye have made and ordained the law, and our children be now dead, and ye would do the contrary. Your daughter shall be given, or else we shall burn you and your house. (46) Aldo Ziggioto, "Genova", in Vexilla Italica 1, XX (1993); Aldo Ziggioto, "Le Bandiere degli Stati Italiani", in Armi Antiche 1994, cited after Pier Paolo Lugli, 18 July 2000 on Flags of the World (47) Hinds, Kathryn (2001), Medieval England, Marshall Cavendish, p. 44 |
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