 | The Rules of Courtly Love 1/26/06 This video was made for a midterm exam project for Mrs. Robbins CP English 4 class at Oakcrest High School. What better students to do this project then Sam Wasserman and Dom Colleluori? This video goes through 4 out of the 31 rules of Courtly Love, which was a code of love that knights followed in medieval times. (scroll down for list of rules) From The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas Capellanus 1. Marriage is no real excuse for not loving. 2. He who is not jealous cannot love. 3. No one can be bound by a double love. 4. It is well known that love is always increasing or decreasing. 5. That which a lover takes against the will of his beloved has no relish. 6. Boys do not love until they reach the age of maturity. 7. When one lover dies, a widowhood of two years is required of the survivor. 8. No one should be deprived of love without the very best of reasons. 9. No one can love unless he is propelled by the persuasion of love. 10. Love is always a stranger in the home of avarice. 11. It is not proper to love any woman whom one would be ashamed to seek to marry. 12. A true lover does not desire to embrace in love anyone except his beloved. 13. When made public love rarely endures. 14. The easy attainment of love makes it of little value: difficulty of attainment makes it prized. 15. Every lover regularly turns pale in the presence of his beloved. 16. When a lover suddenly catches sight of his beloved his heart palpitates. 17. A new love puts an old one to flight. 18. Good character alone makes any man worthy of love. 19. If love diminishes, it quickly fails and rarely revives. 20. A man in love is always apprehensive. 21. Real jealousy always increases the feeling of love. 22. Jealousy increases when one suspects his beloved. 23. He whom the thought of love vexes eats and sleeps very little. 24. Every act of a lover ends in the thought of his beloved. 25. A true lover considers nothing good except what he thinks will please his beloved. 26. Love can deny nothing to love. 27. A lover can never have enough of the solaces of his beloved. 28. A slight presumption causes a lover to suspect his beloved. 29. A man who is vexed by too much passion usually does not love. 30. A true lover is constantly and without intermission possessed by the thought of his beloved. 31. Nothing forbids one woman being loved by two men or one man by two women. |
 | Gonna see daddy - In October of 1996 Sir Laurence Gardner, the Histographer Royal to the house of Stewart and a prominent sovereign and chivalric genealogist, produced a powerful and sometimes persuasive volume tracing the lineage of Stewarts back to the alleged children of Jesus. In Bloodline of the Holy Grail, he had claimed that Christ married Mary Magdeline and argued that their children carried the royal blood of the House of David; therefore, anyone descending from these people had the blessing of divine powers to rule. A year ago, he continued his quest for the ultimate origins of Jesus, and he made controversial claims that stretch the power of imagination and slip into the dangerous realm of extraterrestrial visitation. In Genesis of the Grail Kings, Gardner claims evidence that the royal bloodline descends ultimately from the Biblical Cain, whose sons were of extraterrestrial persuasion. Gardner spoke about them in a speech: "They were the true Sons of the Gods, who were fed firstly on Anunnaki Star Fire from about 3800 BC and, subsequently, on 'high-spin' metal supplements from about 2000 BC. In short, they were bred to be leaders of humankind, and they were both mentally and physically maintained in the 'highward' state: the ultimate dimension of the missing 44 per cent -- the dimension of the Orbit of Light, or the Plane of Sharon." THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE The meaning of those enigmatic statements will become plain soon enough. Gardner develops his thesis with almost encyclopedic detail. Gardner's treatise runs 316 pages, but the argument is available as an on-line lecture, and it is from this that we shall quote Gardner in his own words. He informs the audience that "Genesis of the Grail Kings concentrates on Old Testament times, particularly on the early stories from the books of Genesis and Exodus." Already we have a problem because Gardner is taking the Biblical stories to be something more than fable and something less than truth. He seems to see them as a conspiracy designed to obscure the truth with a quasi-religious message superimposed over an ancient record of alien visits: "the Old Testament scriptures were designed to uphold the emergent Hebrew faith, rather than to represent historical fact." He says that the Old Testament does not accurately portray the ancient past, yet paradoxically, he claims to know what that hidden past is. Gardner begins with an excellent description of the origins of the Hebrew faith as a mixture of heretical Egyptian sun-worshippers and remnants of the ancient Sumerian belief-system: "the definitions God and Lord are used and intermixed throughout as if they referred to the same Jehovah character, but originally they did not. One was a vengeful god (a people suppressor [sic]), and the other was a social god (a people supporter)." It is perhaps the most infuriating part of Gardner's scholarship, that he mixes what would otherwise be genuinely revolutionary theories on the origin of Judaism with less than scientific beliefs. His summary of the fusion of the Sumerian gods Enki and Enlil to form the composite known as Jehovah (YHWH) is first-rate, if speculative. Then he goes on to argue that "the first King of the Messianic succession was the biblical Cain(Kain), head of the Sumerian House of Kish." From him, everyone from David to Jesus to today Duke of Albany descend. Cain, of course, was the son of Adam and Eve, who "were purpose-bred for kingship by Enki and his sister-wife Nîn-khursag. This took place at a 'creation chamber' which the Sumerian annals refer to as the House of Shimtî." There, Gardner says, Adam and Eve "were created from human ova fertilized by Lord Enki." Needless to say, there is no evidence to support the idea that Enki was in any way real, nor is there evidence that Adam and Eve, if they existed at all, were genetically engineered by Enki. By linking the Bibilical God to the Sumerian pantheon, Gardner can then equate the Elohim to the signature assembly of the Sumerians, the Annunaki. These deities gained prominence in the 1970s when Robert Temple equated them to the orbital period of the stars of the binary Sirius system and Zecharia Sitchin claimed that they were aliens from a trans-Plutonian planet and created man as a slave race to mine gold. For Gardner, the Anunnaki provide the crucial link between the mythological gods of Sumeria and the Old Testament narrative: "In fact, the Grand Assembly of the Anunnaki (later called the Court of the Elohim) is actually mentioned in the Old Testament's Psalm No. 82, wherein Jehovah makes his bid for supreme power over the other gods." For the record, that Psalm states "God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment. (Revised Standard Version)" He then berates the council for unjust actions and threatens them with death... |
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