Former British Prime Ministers Churchill, Heath and Wilson all became Garter Knights, Lady Thatcher was installed as a Lady Companion and HRH the Prince of Wales and HRH Prince Philip are Royal Knights. Juan Carlos, King of Spain and Carl Gustaf, King of Sweden became extra Knights Companions, as is His Imperial Majesty Emperor Akahito of Japan , who was made a Garter Knight in 1998.

Prince William's new Coat of Arms unveiled on the 9th July 2000 is drawn on the Royal Arms used by HM the Queen and HRH the Princes of Wales, but unusually a small red scallop shell appears four times, in the centre of a three-pointed label which adorns the shield, on the necks of the Lion and Unicorn which supports the shield and on a Lion device above.

The red scallop shells have been incorporated in his mother Diana Princess of Wales Spencer Arms since the 16th century.
St James's Palace confirmed " The final design reflects Prince William's own wishes, particularly in incorporating the Spencer symbol."
Today the ancient Orders of Chivalry still survive with the highest Orders the Most Noble Order of the Garter and the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. The recipients of these high orders of chivalry no longer wear their crests upon their helmet in battle or fly their banner upon the battle field but their crests and banners are today displayed in St Georges Chapel Windsor Castle and Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey.

The Oldest and Highest British Order of Chivalry, founded in 1348 by Edward III.

The Order consists of HM the Queen who is Sovereign of the Order, HRH Prince of Wales and 24 Knights Companions. (1)

The Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III in the 1340s and consists of the sovereign and 25 Knights of the Garter (KGs). Membership in the Order remains the highest honor bestowed by the British monarch. The great prestige of the Order is due in large measure to its exclusiveness; no one may be elected KG unless the death or degradation of an incumbent creates a vacancy. During the period 1569-1604 there were about sixty peers, so the Order of the Garter was far more exclusive than the peerage. In contrast, the French Order of St. Michael was debased in the mid sixteenth century by being awarded to all and sundry, and so in 1578 Henry III created the Order of the Holy Spirit, limited to one hundred knights. Given the much larger population of France in those days, the Holy Spirit was about as exclusive as the Garter. The ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth, and twentieth de Vere Earls of Oxford were Knights of the Garter. (2)

Order of the Garter is the core of the Committee Of 300 (aka Olympians). Queen Elizabeth II is the leader of this organization.

Its members include most if not all of the royal British family along with, many peers of the realm including Lord Rothschild, as well as other European nobility, and a slew of other wealthy individuals scattered across Europe and America.

These elite own businesses on every level, especially the oil and banking industry. George Bush is a recent member who was knighted by the Queen on December 20, 1993, as a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath.

This was for his leadership in the Gulf War, when he sent American solders to die for England's interest of their petroleum in Kuwait. General Colin Powell and General Norman Schwarzkopf were given also lower order of knighthoods. Lord Peter Carrington, who is a member of the satanic Order of Osiris and other demonic groups is a member of the Order of the Garter.

By the way, Prince Charles Coat of Arms has another symbol--The Order of the Garter. The Order of the Garter is the parent organization over Free Masonry, world-wide. When a man becomes a 33rd Degree Mason, he swears allegiance to that organization, and thereby to Prince Charles. The Bible gives us 42 signs of the Antichrist. (3) This is one taken out of the crest above:

In the E.A. ritual, the W.M. gives a lambskin, or white leather apron to the candidate, saying it is more ancient than the Golden Fleece or Roman Eagle, more honorable than the Star and Garter.... What is a Golden Fleece and Star and Garter?

A fleece is a coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal like a sheep. This would explain the link between a fleece and our apron being white leather. Golden fleece appears in the Greek tradition, where Aries (Latin for ram) was the winged ram of the Golden Fleece. There was also a fleece placed by the King of Colchis in a dragon-guarded grove and which was recovered by the Argonauts. It is also interesting to note that the Order of the Golden Fleece, introduced by Philip III (a.k.a. Philip the Good), Duke of Burgundy in 1429, was the highest order of knighthood, especially as wool was an important part of his domain at the time.

The Star and Garter was more difficult to research. There is an order, called the Order of the Garter, which is the most illustrious order of British knighthood. It was instituted by King Edward III in 1348. The order consists of the sovereign, and 25 companions, of which the Prince of Wales is always a member. It therefore signifies how important the order is, and also, more interestingly perhaps, the period from which our ritual possibly originated (12th century).

LONDON, Dec. 6, 2001, (AP)--American evangelist Billy Graham will receive an honorary knighthood for his ``truly international'' contribution to religious life, Britain's Foreign Office announced Thursday. Graham, 83, was to be knighted Thursday evening in Washington by the British ambassador to the United States, Sir Christopher Meyer, on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II. The rare honor was being given for Billy Graham's ``huge and truly international contribution to civic and religious life over 60 years,'' a Foreign Office spokeswoman said with customary anonymity. Graham has preached to millions of people in more than 185 countries in his long career as an evangelist, and has acted as confidant to U.S. presidents. Now suffering from Parkinson's disease, he spends most of his time at his mountain retreat in North Carolina. The award, Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, is made to foreign nationals. Holders are not called Sir, but are entitled to have the letters KBE after their name. Past recipients of honorary knighthoods include Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, Steven Spielberg, Colin Powell and Andre Previn. (4)

 

Billy Graham was knighted Thursday evening December 07, 2001 (4)

by Sam Lister

 

 

BILLY GRAHAM, the American evangelist, is to be made an honorary knight today. Dr Graham, one of the most prominent and often controversial spiritual leaders in recent US history, will be knighted in Washington by Sir Christopher Meyer, the British Ambassador, on behalf of the Queen. The Foreign Office confirmed last night that Dr Graham would be honoured "for his huge and international contribution to civic and religious life over 60 years". In six decades as a Christian minister, Dr Graham, 83, has preached to television viewers in their hundreds of millions, as well as to live stadium audiences of up to 100,000. He has officiated at several White House inaugurations and has acted as confidant to every US President since Harry Truman in 1945. The Queen, said to be enchanted by his preaching, has met the evangelist on each of his ten British tours, when they have taken lunch or tea together. Dr Graham first visited Windsor in 1955. In 1984 he preached at Sandringham before the Queen. He suffers from Parkinson's disease and now spends most of his time at his home in the mountains of Montreat, North Carolina.(5)

Rev 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? . . . 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 9 If any man have an ear, let him hear..

Private Diary & Catalog Of Dee's Library Of Manuscripts

Dr. John Dee

 

The Mathematical Dr. Dee - Hieroglyphic Monad: The Monad, Hieroglyphically, Mathematically, Magically, Qabalistically & Anagogically Explained - Mathmatical Preface To Euclid's Elements Of Geometry

1564, 76p.; 1570 64p.; 1583 90p. This Collection Contains Four Very Interesting And Important Selections Of The Great Magus, Cosmologist, & Astrologer Of Queen Elisabeth. Baumring's Regularly Referred To Dee's Monus Hieroglyphica, Considering It One Of The Most Important Cosmological Works Ever Written.

We Have Added Dee's Excellent Preface To The 1570 First English Edition Of Euclid's Elements Giving Of The Best Overviews Of The Esoteric-Scientific Doctrine Stemming From The Pythagoreans. We Have Also Included Dee's Private Diary & Catalog Of Manuscripts In His Library For A Deeper Insight Into This Enigmatic Character.

Part I: This Work Written In 13 Days In 1564 Explains Dee's Discovery Of The Key To The Universe, The Monas, Or Unity Underlying The Cosmos, As Expressed In A Hieroglyph, Or Symbol. The Monad Represents The Alchemical Process & Goal Of The Magus, Who In Partaking Of The Divine, Achieves That Gnostic Regenerative Experience Of Becoming God. Everything Is Dependant Upon The Circle & Straight Line Which Are Formed From The Point. (7)

Devout Queen Elizabeth 1 during her reign was money-minded. The traffic in slaves had much significance for Queen Elizabeth.When John Hawkins took 300 African slaves to America in three ships and returned to England with five ships filled with hides, ginger, sugar and pearls in 1563, Queen Elizabeth knighted him Sir John Hawkins and took a share in his next slave trading expedition through the loan of a ship called Jesus.

BILLY GRAHAM KNIGHTED. Friday Church News Notes, January 4, 2002 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org) On December 6, Billy Graham became the first "clergyman" outside of Britain to receive the insignia of Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. The honor was bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II but was presented by a subordinate in the U.S.A. This is only the latest in a long line of honors which have been bestowed upon Graham by Catholic, modernistic, and secular entities. The Bible warns, "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets" (Luke 6:26). Jesus told his disciples, "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you" (John 15:19). In light of Christ's words, is strange that the world suddenly loves an evangelist in these end times. Could this be because this particular evangelist has compromised the truth and watered down the preaching of the Word of God to such an extent that even the devil's crowd is pleased? (8)

Sir John Templeton on prayer, forgiveness, and smart investing: "The more we give away," Sir John Templeton once wrote in The New York Times, "the more we have left." By that formulation — indeed, no matter how you calculate it — Sir John has a lot left. In 1992 he sold the Templeton Funds, worth roughly $80 billion, to the Franklin Group in a deal that netted him more than $900 million. At age 86 he is working 60-hour weeks from the same three-story office building he built in the Bahamas when he was running the Templeton Funds. But his work has taken on a different aim—Templeton has created three foundations and is now giving away ten dollars for every dollar he spends on himself.

Born in Tennessee in 1912, Templeton worked his way through Yale during the Great Depression before taking a job on Wall Street. Before long, he had opened his own firm, and in 1954, he started Templeton Growth Fund. He went on to found such successful investment funds as Templeton World Fund, pioneering, in the process, the field of individual investing in emerging markets.

Knighted Sir John in 1987 by Queen Elizabeth II, Templeton is a British subject and not one to take tax planning lightly. While best known for the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pennsylvania (assets $235 million), his two offshore trusts bring the total dedicated to philanthropy to about $800 million. Philanthropy spoke with him at his office in Lyford Cay, the Bahamas. (9)

Sir John Templeton Foundation - The first Prize was given to the late Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Since then the Templeton Prize has been awarded each year recognizing a living individual who has shown extraordinary originality in advancing humanity's understanding of God/or spirituality. Other past recipients include the Reverend Billy Graham, author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and theoretical physicist, author Paul Davies...

Since then, he has authored and edited over a dozen books. One of his most recent, World Wide Laws of Life, is a collection of 200 eternal spiritual principles drawn from the works of essayists and philosophers ranging from Socrates to Benjamin Franklin. (10)

This historic Gavel, its head made of the same Maryland marble used in the interior of the original Unites States Capitol building and its handle of a dark, native American cherry of unique grain, was made by one John Duffy who also made the other Masonic implements used by Worshipful Brother George Washington, the charter Master of Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22, in laying the cornerstone of the Capitol building, September 18, 1793. John Duffy, reputedly a member of Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4 of Virginia and George Washington's mother Lodge, was a silversmith by trade and was married to a daughter of President Washington's gardener.

At the conclusion of the cornerstone laying ceremonies, President Washington gave the silver trowel he used to his own Lodge and presented the Gavel to the Master of Lodge No. 9 of Maryland, Valentine Reitzel, a Town Councilman and Merchant of Georgetown whose members were present and participating in the ceremony. Most Worshipful Brother Reitzel was the first Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia and he retained personal possession of the Gavel until his death in 1817 when his family returned it to Potomac Lodge. This Lodge was originally chartered on April 21, 1789 and its Master, Peter Cassanave, and members laid the cornerstone of the White House on October 13, 1792.

The first recorded use of the Gavel after the laying of the cornerstone of the Capitol was August 22, 1824 when it was used to lay the cornerstone of the City Hall of the District of Columbia. Since then it has been used to lay the cornerstone of many public buildings throughout the eastern part of the United States and for other public and Masonic ceremonies of an historical nature. The following Presidents of the United States, all Master Masons but two, have either used or been present at the using of the Gavel on the occasions cited below:

James K. Polk in the laying of the cornerstone of the Smithsonian Building, May 1, 1847.
Millard Fillmore in the laying of the cornerstone of the extension of the U. S. Capitol, July 4, 1851.
James Buchanan at the dedication of the Equestrian Statue of George Washington, February 22, 1860.
William McKinley at the George Washington Centennial Observance at Mt. Vernon, December 14, 1899.
Theodore Roosevelt at the celebration of the sesquicentennial date on which General Washington received the Master Mason's degree, November 2, 1902; in laying the cornerstone of the House Office Building, April 14, 1906; and again, in laying the cornerstone of the Masonic Temple, 801 13th Street, N.W., June 8, 1907.
William H. Taft in laying the cornerstone of the All Souls Unitarian Church, February 13, 1913.
Warren G. Harding in laying the cornerstone of the Washington Victory Memorial, November 14, 1921.
Herbert Hoover in laying the cornerstone of the Department of Commerce, June 10, 1929 and the Department of Labor, December 15, 1932.
Harry S. Truman in the Centennial Observance of the cornerstone laying of the Washington Monument, July 1, 1948, this being a repeat engagement for the Gavel as it was used to lay the original cornerstone of the Monument, Jul 1, 1848.
Dwight D. Eisenhower when it was used to lay the cornerstone of the new extension of the U. S. Capitol building, July 4, 1959.
Potomac Lodge was singularly honored by having Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II personally use the Gavel in laying the cornerstone of the addition to the British Embassy, October 19, 1957.
The George Washing Gavel has been present on numerous historic occasions in recent years including the reenactment of the placing of the original boundary marker of the District of Columbia located at Jones Point near the Potomac River shoreline of Alexandria, Virginia. This ceremony was one of the Masonic events conducted by the Grand Lodge, F.A.A.M., of the District of Columbia, as a salute to our country's B-Centennial Celebration on October 9, 1976.

The ceremonial usage of the Gavel was most evident in 1982, when it was present for several special programs commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Illustrious Brother George Washington. The events were held no only in Potomac Lodge No. 5, but in several other locations including Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he was initiated and Entered Apprentice Mason on November 4, 1752, and became a Master Mason on August 4, 1753, and in Alexandria Washington Lodge No. 22, in Alexandria, Virginia. Washington was installed as that Lodge's first Worshipful Master on November 22, 1788, when the warrant was issued by the Grand Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of Virginia, less than six months prior to his inauguration as the First President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789.

For many years the Gavel was stored in the Lodge Hall, officers' homes or a bank vault, but in 1922, due to the long and friendly association between the Lodge and the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank, now a branch of the Riggs National Bank, the Bank officials suggested that it be placed in a specially constructed box of their deposit vault for safe keeping. This arrangement was most fortunate as the Lodge building at 1210 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., burned to the ground on July 7, 1963 and everything therein was totally destroyed.

The Gavel is removed from the vault only upon presentation of a resolution of the Lodge, under seal, and accompanied by three members appointed by the Master for its safe keeping. They are required to make a full report to the Lodge of its use, the date is was removed from the vault and the date of its return. In accordance with the By Laws of the Lodge, the Gavel is always used to install the incoming Master and his officers on the 3rd Monday of December each year.

The close association between this band and Potomac Lodge dates back to July 26, 1827 when William Wilson Corcoran, then a prosperous Georgetown merchant and later a co-founder of Riggs and Company, now Riggs National Bank, was raised a Master Mason in Potomac Lodge. He endowed the Art Gallery which bears his name at 17th and New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C.

Of interest to Georgetowners is the fact that John Suter, Jr., proprietor of historic Suter's Fountain Inn, was Senior Warden of Maryland Lodge No. 9 in 1795; he never attained the station of Worshipful Master for reasons unknown.

Unfortunately, the Lodge minutes from April 21, 1789 to 1795 were burned in a previous Lodge fire but it has been well authenticated that President Washington, President Thomas Jefferson, Marquis de LaFayette and Major Pierre L'Enfant have visited this Lodge which met at Suter's Fountain Inn for sever years after is was chartered.(11)

Paul McCartney, Sir Cliff, The Beatles, Sir Richards, now Greenspan Received

Their Reward for 'Job Well Done' and were knighted by the Queen of England

In January the Queen of England knighted Paul McCartney. In September Amy Grant, the former queen of contemporary-Christian music, will release her latest pop album. What most Americans don't realize is that, to Cliff Richard, royal honors and the challenge of living one's faith in the pop-music mainstream are nothing new.

"Sir Cliff" to his fans (he was knighted two years before the former Beatle), Mr. Richard has been among the world's most successful performers for the past 40 years. In England, his 118 hits (five more than Elvis Presley's UK total) are outnumbered only by his public professions of faith in Christ, the first of which he made in 1966 at a Billy Graham rally in Earl's Court. Yet, like Amy Grant, he has sometimes confused believers by recording almost nothing but pop songs.

To those who've heard his albums, especially I'm No Hero ('80), Wired for Sound ('81), Now You See Me, Now You Don't ('82), and Always Guaranteed ('87), his failure to succeed in the States is puzzling.

On these, the producers Alan Tarney and Craig Pruess provided for Mr. Richard a slick yet rich pop-rock sound that has proved to be the most sympathetic setting to date for his agile, age-defying tenor. But, although he has placed nine songs on the American top 40-with "Devil Woman" ('76), "We Don't Talk Anymore" ('79), and "Dreamin'" ('80) hitting the top 10-his albums have sold poorly in the United States.

Now, however, thanks mainly to the Sir Cliff Richard Home Page (www.starnet. com.au/sheppard/2cliff.html) and mail-order catalogs that have begun to carry the singer's albums, making stateside reparation is easier than ever.

Two recent titles-one studio, one live-come from Heathcliff, the Tim Rice/John Farrar musical based on Wuthering Heights in which Mr. Richard has starred for the past two years. While not without merit, they are atypical in the context of his career. The same goes for At the Movies: 1959-1974, a two-disc set of songs he recorded during his rather Elvis-like movie years.

The Cliff Richard Collection: 1976-1994, on the other hand, a one-disc U.S. compilation released in 1994, presents a fuller picture. Although it excludes "Miss You Nights" (a gorgeous ballad that Mr. Richard once told CCM was his favorite performance) and "Whenever God Shines His Light" (a duet with Van Morrison that promises healing "in Jesus' name"), it does include his other recent hits and abundant reasons for considering him one of the finest pop singers to emerge during the rock era.

The priciest package is EMI's imported Cliff Richard Collection, a five-disc set first released in 1991. Although its music suffers from chronological gaps, it includes a revealing, 70-minute interview. "If I have had any sanity," Mr. Richard says at one point, "I put it down to the fact that I am a Christian, that Jesus is a restraining factor in everything that I ever do. I've always thought, 'What would I have felt like if really all I had was the music I played?'" (12)

Notes:
(1) http://www.everreader.com/garter.htm

(2) http://hardtruth.topcities.com/orderofgarter.htm

(3) http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~jafarr/The%20Golden%20Fleece%20and%20

The%20Star%20and%20Garter.htm

(4) http://www.beliefnet.com/story/94/story_9478_1.html

(5) http://www.decisiontoday.org/genram.asp?n=decisiontoday/bgea_120601.ra

(6) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001563414,00.html

(7) http://www.sacredscience.com/store/commerce.cgi?product=SYMB

(8) http://www.wayoflife.org

(9) http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/1999/january/interview.html

(10) http://www.sourcesofwisdom.org/jt_bio.html

(11) http://www.potomac5.org/washington_gavel.htm

(12) http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/09-06-97/cultural_1.asp