Rosicrucian America by Steven Sora

Author:Steven Sora
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Occult/Secret Societies
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2019-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

WEST TO AVALON

Could a sea captain have crossed the treacherous Atlantic? The answer is yes. Celts and the Norse had the ability to sail the Atlantic from very early times. What is referred to as the Nydam boat was found in Denmark and dated to the fourth century. It was capable of ocean travel, which coincided with the fact that in the historical record evidence exists of deep-sea fishing having been practiced for hundreds of years. A seventeenth-century Norse ship was seventy-five feet long and capable of carrying more men than accompanied the voyage of Christopher Columbus eight hundred years later.

One tantalizing clue of very early contact between the continents is found in the Celtic sea god Manannan, who may have been known as such on both sides of the Atlantic. Manannan, Manu, and the Vedic Noah share certain aspects, pointing to much wider contact than has been previously acknowledged.

The Irish Saint Brendan also made his trip to the Americas in 510 CE. And at least one Welshman, Prince Madoc, is on record as having made the crossing before Columbus as well.

In 1604, Pierre Dugua commanded an expedition that entered the Bay of Fundy with seventy-nine settlers and founded a settlement on St. Croix Island. This would later mark the border between Canada and the United States. The settlement didn’t last more than a year as the waters of the bay froze, leading to great hardship. Exploring in the area, he landed on June 24 on what he named the St. Johns River of the future New Brunswick. Samuel de Champlain was his second in command. History remembers Champlain, but Dugua receives little attention.

Champlain is sometimes described as an ardent Catholic, but the real Champlain was much more complicated. He was born just outside La Rochelle, France, once a Templar stronghold and, after the demise of the Templar order, a stronghold of the Huguenots. The Catholic mass had not been said there for years. His mother was a Huguenot. His boss, the prominent Rosicrucian Pierre Dugua, had been born a Huguenot but married a Catholic by the name of Judith Chesnel. In modern times a mixed marriage such as this would receive no undue attention. During Dugua’s and Champlain’s lifetime it was another story. Catholics massacred Huguenots, and such genocide was celebrated by pope and king alike.

Remarkably the Pierre Dugua/Champlain voyage carried with it priests of Catholicism and Protestantism. Champlain’s policy was one of peace and tolerance. This extended not only to Europeans but also to Native Americans, with whom he worked to maintain positive relations as well.

In 1601, Champlain married Hélène Boulée. He was forty, and she was twelve. She quickly learned the Algonquin language and impressed the Algonquin and helped facilitate friendly relations.

Among other early English and French explorers to the New World was Martin Pring. He was a protégé of Sir Walter Raleigh and loved the sea. On April 10, 1603, he left England for New England. Pring would land on the small island of Manana, off the coast of Maine.

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