MOON PHASE: AUGUST 15, 1969 (APOLLO 11) WAXING CRESCENT 100 YEARS NAPOLEON BORN - Secreto Masonico

“The Holy Grail ‘neath ancient Rosslyn waits
The blade and chalice watch o’er her gates
Adorned by masters loving art she lies
As she rests beneath the starry skies.”

A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years — which could shake the foundations of Christianity. Dan Brown in his thriller “The Da Vinci Code” has Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) a cryptographer and a symbolist, set off on a trail to unravel a mystery about the secret of the Holy Grail. The conspiracy in the book is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children, leaving living descendents behind. The Catholic Church covered up this fact, according to the novel, while a secret society called The Priory of Sion works to keep Jesus’ descendents safe. In the final scene, Robert Langdon decipher the last message that Holy Grail i.e. Mary Magdalene is buried beneath the small pyramid which is directly below the inverted pyramid in Louvre. It was this curiosity to see the locales in the movie and especially the inverted pyramid that brought me to the Louvre.

The story unfolds with the opening scenes at the location of the crime which is inside the Louvre, hence we will start out journey from understanding the the locale. I present to you the magnificient Louvre.

Combined together to create a great experience, The Louvre Pyramid, along with the museum, is the heart of Paris. The contemporary pyramid architecture forms a baroque contrast with the old museum’s outline. In 1981, French president Francois Mitterrand proposed a much needed expansion and modernisation of the museum in what was dubbed the Grand Louvre Project. The objective was also to solve the much confusing layout of the entrances and exits which had remained a maze to many. A relocation of the Ministry of Finance from the Richelieu wing was made to enable the Louvre Museum to occupy the entire U-shaped building. I.M. Pei, a Chinese-American architect, was contracted to restructure the design and merge all wings with a common access point.

The architect coined the idea to construct a subterranean entrance to the museum in the central Napoleon courtyard with access to the three different arms. In a bid to craft a distinctive structure and yet avoid taking away from the Louvre fortress, Pei settled for a glass pyramid. The pyramid outline would form a beacon in the middle of the square, allowing sufficient space for entrance and other activities without masking the palace behind it. This is the main entrance to the Louvre and have ever running long queue. Thanks to the a complimentary access from my office (they sponsor and support), I could just talk in straight from the VIP access.

The main Louvre Pyramid is complemented by three smaller pyramids as well as sparkly pools with beautiful fountains. Day or night, the glass cladding gives a vivid view of the outside. The diamond and triangular glass panes of the pyramid were specially made to be as transparent as possible. Furthermore, the steel girders that clamp the panes in place are slender and non-obstructive.

Like Robert Langdon, my trail begins in the Hall Napoléon, which is located under the Pyramid. At the beginning of The Da Vinci Code, Robert Langdon, enters the Louvre through the Pyramid. Entering the the pyramid descends one into the spacious lobby then re-ascend into the main Louvre buildings. So here I was on the quest of the holy grail but I had more mysteries to learn and wonder about.

One of the other exciting one, from the many conspiracy is about the figure of 666 panes of glass in the Pyramid – 666 being “the number of the beast” in the Book of Revelation and often associated with Satan. The story of 666 originated in the mid 1980s, when the official brochure published during construction did indeed cite this number (even twice, though a few pages earlier the total number of panes was given as 672 instead). The number 666 was also mentioned in various newspapers and is believed to be by people opposed to its construction.

In reality, the Pyramid is made up of 673 diamond-shaped and triangular panes of glass, excluding the doors. The Louvre museum however states that the finished pyramid contains 673 glass panes (603 rhombi and 70 triangles). The myth resurfaced when Dan Brown brings it in The Da Vinci Code, when Robert Langdon reflects that “this pyramid, at President Mitterrand’s explicit demand, had been constructed of exactly 666 panes of glass — a bizarre request.

In 1993, When the Carrousel du Louvre shopping mall was opened in the underpass adjoining the Hall Napoléon, an inverted glass pyramid was constructed. The Pyramide Inversée mirrors (The Inverted Pyramid) Pei’s pyramid and is suspended above a small stone pyramid that illuminates the mall with skylight.

The Da Vinci Code ends at the Inverted Pyramid, whose glass belly can be seen through the windows, in the middle of the Rond-Point. Robert Langdon, reads esoteric symbolism into the two pyramids: The Inverted Pyramid is perceived as a Chalice, a feminine symbol, whereas the stone pyramid below is interpreted as a Blade, a masculine symbol: the whole structure could thus express the union of the genders. Moreover, Brown’s protagonist concludes that the tiny stone pyramid is actually only the apex of a larger pyramid (possibly the same size as the inverted pyramid above), embedded in the floor as a secret chamber. This chamber is said to enclose the body of Mary Magdalene

The sarcophagus show below the point in the movie is fictional but 1.2 kilometers from the Inverted Pyramid in the church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (the Madeleine) there is a reliquary containing the left thighbone of a woman aged around fifty who died nearly twenty centuries ago. The woman is said to be of the Mediterranean origin. Believe it or not !

Brown was not the first writer to offer esoteric interpretations of the Inverted Pyramid. In Raphaël Aurillac’s work Le guide du Paris maçonnique the author declares that the Louvre used to be a Masonic temple. To Aurillac, the various glass pyramids constructed in recent decades include Masonic symbolism. Aurillac sees the downward-pointing pyramid as expressing the Rosicrucian motto V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (Visita Interiorem Terrae Rectificandoque / Invenies Occultum Lapidem translated to mean “Visit the interior of the earth and… you will find the secret stone“). Another writer on Masonic architecture, Dominique Setzepfandt, sees the two pyramids as suggesting “the compass and square that together form the Seal of Solomon” as quoted in Da Vinci code again. For me the quest was only till here and the rest to be unfolded in the requests or as they say it “and the story continues….”

Statutory Warning : Day time visitors might return to the pyramids in the evening to view the pyramids illuminated. In such cases, do follow your instincts

Want the ultimate Leo style tips? Read on. The French revolutionary Napoleon Bonaparte was, depending on who you’re talking to, either a military genius or a dangerous megalomaniac. He was also a triple Leo and evidently extremely attractive, although his vanity was legendary.

Born with the Sun, Mercury, and Midheaven in Leo, his self-care rituals – even under ridiculous duress – were metaphysically uplifting and part of his brand. If you’re a Leo or aspiring to overthrow an oppressive regime whilst also becoming an enduring fashion icon, these tips could help. Actually, their timeless nature makes them inspirational for anyone seeking to bust a style rut.

(1) Shun the cold. While perfectly capable of waging military campaigns in freezing weather, Napoleon insisted every room in any house he was in was bright, warm, and well-lit. Additionally, he always kept his neck warm and the back of his neck covered – suggesting a Traditional Chinese Medicine influence. In T.C.M, some winds can be pathogens and the back of the neck is particularly vulnerable.

(2) Create your own cologne and use it liberally. Napoleon loathed bad smells and went through liters of cologne a week. The two most associated with him were called Aqua Mirabilis (Miracle Water) and St Helena’s Cologne. They were both aromatics with loads of therapeutic and vitality-boosting herbal essences: lemon, thyme, and rosemary in particular. He splashed them on continuously and claimed they helped him think – rosemary is apparently brilliant for the brain. He was said to have smelled sensational.*

Napoleon Used Litres Of Cologne A Week

(3) Avoid dark clothes. Napoleon’s aversion to them went so far that he did not like to spend too much time with people wearing black or blue. For someone as Leo as he was this sort of makes sense – he identified with the Sun and with daylight. Or, in an era when people in mourning would don somber clothes for months to signal bereavement, he may have been superstitious.

(4) Consider Cat Naps. This apparently is not good for you because you never get REM sleep but Napoleon slept approximately six to seven hours of every 24 hours but in increments – an hour here, three hours there.

(5) Power-bathing. Napoleon took many meetings in his bath – usually with rose water and almond milk to soften his skin – and considered the ideas he hatched there to be among his best.

Take All Meetings In The Bath

(6) Diligent Dry-Brushing. Centuries before it was a fashionable, standard detox recommendation, Napoleon was dry skin brushing with some form of loofah every single morning.

(7) See positivity as self-discipline. He thought it was poor form to talk about fatigue, particularly when you were the boss of everything, and was obsessive about maintaining a cheerful demeanor.

(8) Adopt a talismanic personal symbol. Napoleon’s was the Bee and he had it embroidered or emblazoned onto practically everything he wore. You can see his groovy occult Bee and Serpent belt buckle below.

*Napoleon wore SO much cologne that some historians suspected that it might have killed him. But the winning theory seems to be that his enemies poisoned him with arsenic when he was in exile on the island of St Helena.