CENTURIA VII · QUATRAIN III
The Golden Bough
Apres de France la victoire navale,
Les Barchinons, Saillinons, les Phocens,
Lierre d'or, l'enclume serre dedans la basle,
Ceux de Ptolon aufraud seront consens.
After the naval victory of France,
The Barcelonans, the Salinians, the Phocians,
Ivy of gold, the anvil shut within the sphere,
Those of Ptolemy shall consent to the fraud.
THE MASTER SAYS…
Brenda said: “He says that this quatrain relates to events that occurred during World War II. He says that this symbolizes secret weapons research conducted on both sides of the war. The anvil enclosed in a sphere symbolizes atomic energy, but also the secrecy of the research being conducted. They were hidden from the rest of the world. The anvil is that on which one builds, what is used to create things. Correct. That is exactly how it symbolizes the secrecy of their research, by analogy. This refers to Hitler and the Nazis, to how they plundered all the captured countries, taking works of art, gold and money from them. And also how they removed gold fillings from corpses, jewelry and the like. He says that the last line refers to people in various countries who worked for the Nazis. The first line, ‘The inhabitants of Barcelona and Saillinons, etc.,’ represents free partisan groups both in some occupied countries and in some neutral territories that helped in the underground. He says that this word was used in their organization to designate themselves. Since they were very secretive, most of this information never became publicly known in our time. He said that it represents people in countries who will work for the Nazis against their own people. This is taken from Greek history. He says that he used this as an abstraction of the Ptolemaic family, who ruled Egypt during the Roman Empire. But in fact they were Greeks and worked for the Romans. They governed various parts of the remote regions of the empire. Since they worked for someone else, and not for their own country, he used this as a representation of people in various countries who worked for the Nazis. He says that at least they were on the right track.”