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The Hiram Key

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‘Nothing is hidden that will not be made known, or secret that will not come to light.’

Yehoshua ben Joseph, also known as Jesus Christ

One of the most fascinating books published in recent years – ‘The Hiram Key’ is a classic. Does a unique medieval structure (Rosslyn Chapel) in Midlothian, Scotland hold the secrets to the most sacred mysteries of Western civilisation?

Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas masterfully lead us on a journey from ancient Egypt to the present day. Their conclusions are truly fascinating as they address the development of Christianity, the shadowy Order of the Knights Templar and the origins of contemporary Freemasonry. They offer a refreshing analysis of the past two millennia which even the most conservative of scholars would be foolish to ignore.

Judge for yourself… Why was this mysterious edifice erected in Scotland? And can we accept wholesale the interpretation of history taught to us by the establishment? ‘The Hiram Key‘ is a sensational read, and will be enjoyed by inquisitive minds whose interest may have been piqued by modern scholars, as well as by Graham Hancock and the ‘Da Vinci Code‘.

Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin, Scotland – illustration by David Fox

Other notable books by these authors include: ‘Uriel’s Machine’, ‘The Second Messiah’, ‘Who Built the Moon’ and ‘The Book of Hiram’.

David Fox is a professional entertainer, artist and freelance writer based in the UK.

Visit his website at: www.magician-midlands.co.uk

Nostradamus – Napoleon, Hitler and the Third World War

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Widely celebrated as Europe’s most successful prophet, Nostradamus (1503 – 1566) continues to astound. This mythical figure’s formidable reputation looms large, despite it being almost five hundred years since the publication of his sensational predictions.

A physician by trade, Michel de Nostradame of St Remy, Provence was an exceptional talent. He successfully treated and cured plague victims in the early sixteenth century, refusing to accept conventional medieval medical practices such as ‘bleeding’ in order to do so. Indeed, his curative techniques were just as revolutionary as his theories of the cosmos. Almost a century prior to Galileo, Nostradamus understood that the Earth orbited the sun – anathema to the sixteenth century Church and establishment.

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The Black Death ravaged Europe during Nostradamus’s life. But he was remarkably successful at treating victims.

However, Nostradamus was best known as an exceptional clairvoyant. His mode of divination involved focusing upon a bowl of water which was carefully positioned upon a brass tripod. From 1555 onwards, he published the ‘Centuries’ – a series of ten volumes of predictions. The Frenchman chose to compose his visions in the form of poetic quatrains in order to avoid being accused of witchcraft by the Inquisition. It is for this reason that many of his predictions remain obscure and have only been conclusively deciphered with the benefit of hindsight.

Nonetheless, during Nostradamus’s lifetime incredible evidence of his talents emerged. Whilst travelling in Italy, he predicted that an obscure monk he met by chance on a dusty country path named Felice Peretti would one day become Pope. This wild prophecy did indeed come to pass when in 1585 he became Pope Sixtus V.

Whilst staying with a member of the French aristocracy, Nostradamus was asked to predict which pig from two they would eat for dinner – the back or the white. The Frenchman proclaimed that a wolf would eat the white one, whilst the guests would feast upon the black beast that evening. Seeking to disprove Nostradamus, the nobleman instructed his chef to prepare the white pig for the meal. Later that evening the host was stunned to discover that a wolf had strayed into the kitchen and had consumed the carcass of the white pig. This calamity had resulted in the black one being used as a substitute for the meal. Thus, Nostradamus’s prediction was proven correct!

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The First Antichrist. Nostradamus predicted the coming of Napoleon.

But perhaps Nostradamus’s most incredible and disturbing prophecies involve the coming of the first, second and third Antichrists: Napoleon, Hitler and the mysterious ‘man of blood’ from the East (who is yet to appear). He successfully predicted that an ‘Emperor will be born near Italy (Corsica) who will cost the Empire (France) dearly’. Napoleon did indeed cost France much loss of life, and plunged Europe into chaos.

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The Second Antichrist. Hitler’s atrocities were foreseen by the French clairvoyant.

In the twentieth century Nostradamus ominously foresaw: ‘Beast wild with hunger will cross the rivers, the greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.’ This statement is astonishing, not only because of the accuracy of the name (very close to Hitler), but because when the Nazi leader attacked the USSR, his forces did indeed cross many of the major rivers in Eastern Europe and Russia – turning the tide of war against the Third Reich.

Nostradamus is not dissimilar to many prophets when he speaks of the coming of the apocalypse at the end of the twentieth century: ‘In the year 1999 and seven months from the sky will come the great King of Terror, before and afterwards war reigns happily…’ He speaks of the ‘man of blood’ from the East who is apparently the third Antichrist. This sinister figure will trigger the Third World War, or Apocalypse, which will result in the complete destruction of civilisation as we know it! To date, this has yet to happen and scholars widely agree that Nostradamus appears to suggest that the final Antichrist will come from China. Thankfully, at the time of writing, China is a peaceful nation that is very keen to sustain, establish and build friendly relationships with other states – so hopefully this is one prediction the great Frenchman has gotten wrong.

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The ‘man of blood’ or Third Anti-Christ will come from the East. Will we see the Apocalypse soon?

Bizarrely, Nostradamus predicted the date of his own death, and also ordered a metal plaque to be inscribed and placed inside his coffin with him. When his body was exhumed in 1700 to be taken to another site, onlookers were astonished to discover that the plaque bore the same date on which they had opened his casket…

David Fox is a professional entertainer and freelance writer. Visit his website at: www.magician-midlands.co.uk or phone him on: 07946686258.

Abraham Lincoln, JFK and The World Trade Centre – Premonitions of Doom

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Is it possible to predict the future? And how much control do we truly have over our destinies? We have all experienced the often unsettling phenomenon of deja-vu at some point in our lives. Could the hand of fate intervene at critical moments to warn us of impending danger?

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Lord Dufferin, British Ambassador to France, late 19th Century

The 19th century statesman Lord Dufferin was well respected in Victorian high society. Nonetheless, he frequently recounted a chilling brush with death. Whilst staying with a friend in Ireland one stormy evening, Dufferin was alarmed to see the ghost of a hideous demonic figure carrying a coffin outside his bedroom window. The ghoulish face would return to haunt him in his dreams for many years to come.

In the 1890s, whilst acting as British Ambassador, Dufferin was about to step into a lift in a luxurious Parisian hotel. Suddenly, to his horror, he noticed that the lift operator was the very man he had seen all those years ago on that sinister evening in Ireland. He promptly stepped back and refused to enter. A few moments later the cable snapped and the lift plunged several floors – killing everyone inside!

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Who was the strange man Lord Dufferin saw in Ireland and Paris?

A shocked Dufferin made inquiries about the identity of the lift operator. All that was known was that he had started working there that day – but his identity was a mystery. Whoever he was, his sudden appearance had clearly saved the ambassador from certain death.

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President Abraham Lincoln appeared to have dreamed about his own fate.

Unfortunately some are not so fortunate – despite being granted a warning of impending danger. President Abraham Lincoln spoke of a vivid nightmare he had several days prior to his assassination in 1865. In his dream he encountered a group of mourners gathered in The White House. When he asked them who had died, they told him it was the President.

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President Kennedy seemed to have sensed impending danger on the eve of his fateful trip to Dallas.

President John F Kennedy, who would succumb to the same fate as his predecessor, also made an ominous statement which came to pass. Before his fateful trip to Texas in 1963, JFK is reported to have said: ‘if someone wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it?’

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Miraculously, Barrett Taylor avoided attacks on the World Trade Centre in both 1993 and 2001.

The most defining moment of our modern era is arguably the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre, New York, in 2001. Since the atrocity, many people around the world have claimed to have experienced premonitions before the tragedy occurred. However, perhaps the experiences of financial executive Barrett Taylor, who was employed at the Twin Towers, are the most startling.

Taylor twice evaded disaster. In 1993 (the year the World Trade Centre was bombed) he felt a mysterious urge to return home just before the explosion. The same eerie sensation would return to grip him on the morning of September 11th 2001 forcing him again to avoid the Trade Centre! He is not the type of person who believes in the supernatural and fails to comprehend the mysterious ‘force’ which spared him from both atrocities.

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Albert Einstein appreciated the complexities of time itself. Foreseeing the future, as well as time travel, are concepts we must consider.

To date, science can offer no sufficient explanation as to why we experience such premonitions and indications of future threats. Albert Einstein appreciated that time itself is something much more profound and mysterious than we care to imagine. Time is not merely the seconds, minutes and hours which appear on the face of a clock… Could it be that our destiny is in some way pre-arranged and decided before we live our lives?

So, the next time you experience a vivid dream, curious hunch or strange sensation, pay very close attention to it. The hand of fate may be delivering an important message for you…

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The author of the article is David Fox, a professional entertainer and freelance writer based in the UK. For more details about David, please visit: www.davidfoxmagician.co.uk

Do you have any strange stories or experiences you would like to share with us? We would be delighted to hear from you. Please email these to: email@magician-midlands.co.uk

Superstition and Football – Bizarre Beliefs of the Beautiful Game

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Zidane is well-known for his curious pre-match rituals

The great Bill Shankly famously stated that football is ‘much more serious’ than a matter of life and death. Perhaps this is the reason why superstition abounds within the realms of the beautiful game. From Zidane and Maradona’s much publicised pre-match rituals, to Johan Cruyff’s charmed chewing gum, footballers the world over are well known for embracing the weird and the wonderful in the hope it will ensure good fortune once the white line is traversed.

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Elland Road was said to be cursed.

Leeds United’s legendary manager Don Revie was renowned for his lucky blue suit and superstitious nature. However, on receiving a letter from a gypsy in 1971, Revie decided to take things a stage further. The author insisted that Elland Road (Leeds’ stadium) was cursed as a group of gypsies had been forced off the land prior to its construction. Suffering from an unexpected loss of form at the time and dropping points, the manager duly invited a gypsy to the stadium in order to remove the curse. ‘Now you’ll start winning things’ she said after conducting a peculiar ritual on the pitch. Leeds would subsequently go on to produce some of the finest displays of Revie’s tenure and secure three more major trophies. Did the gypsy work her magic, or was it merely coincidental?

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Bela Gutman. Did he curse Benfica?

Perhaps Portuguese giants Benfica should take note of Revie’s faith in the supernatural. In the early 1960s the club was a major superpower and won the European Cup twice under the management of the mythical Bela Guttman. However, after achieving such incredible success, the Hungarian impresario was incandescent when the board denied him a pay rise. On leaving the club, he angrily proclaimed that Benfica would not win another European trophy for one hundred years. To date, the Portuguese side have been losers in eight major finals. Many Benfica fans now firmly believe that their club has been cursed.

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The great Pelé insisted his lucky shirt be found and returned

Even items of clothing take on mystical properties in the high pressure world of professional football. The sensational Pelé’s dramatic decline in form over several matches during the mid 1960s was attributed to the loss of his ‘lucky shirt’. The Brazilian master had kindly presented this to an adoring Santos supporter after a match. A close friend was hastily called upon to track down the special jersey. On its return, Pelé felt rejuvenated and his genius swiftly reappeared. Little did he know that his concerned companion had committed an act of chicanery by procuring another used shirt and pretending it was the lucky one!

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England Captain Bobby Moore

England’s World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore always insisted on being the last player in the changing room to put on his shorts, whilst striker Gary Lineker requested a shirt change at half time if he had yet to find the net. Both players boast a combined total of 188 international caps between them, so perhaps there really is a mysterious link between superstition and success?

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Raymond Domenech openly declared his belief in astrology.

Nonetheless, no matter how much footballers may be willing to embrace the irrational to win matches, they clearly do have their boundaries, as French international manager Raymond Domenech discovered. His reliance on astrology when selecting which players to include in his squad frequently attracted ridicule. The dramatic fall out between Domenech and his team at the 2010 World Cup finals ultimately lost him his job. Another international manager who would fall foul to sceptics was Glenn Hoddle. His policy of calling upon the services of faith-healer Eileen Drewery (who had assisted him with a knee injury as a young player) left him open to scathing criticism.

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Kolo Touré insisted on being the last man out.

Touching wood, putting a right boot on first and sporting a lucky charm are all common-place superstitions. Indeed, the same habits will be repeated in dressing rooms across the land throughout the highs and lows of the footballing season. One such belief, strangely held by many players, is that they will have a good game if they are the last man out of the dressing room. Arsenal defender Kolo Touré took this to the extreme during his side’s 2009 Champions League clash with Roma. Team-mate William Gallas was receiving treatment at half time and Touré insisted on waiting until this was finished. His obstinance resulted in Arsenal starting the second half with nine men and him receiving a yellow card for entering the field of play late without the referee’s permission. Fortunately for Touré, Arsenal finished 1 – 0 winners.

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