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ORMUS the word
http://observations.org/Spirit/KnightsTemplar.html
According to the Prieure's own documents, its history is long and convoluted. Its earliest roots are in some sort of Hermetic or Gnostic society led by a man named Ormus. This individual is said to have reconciled paganism and Christianity[10]
Petrarch's Preface to his First Collection of Letters To his Friend "Socrates"
[p.130] What now, brother? We have tried almost everything, and nowhere have we found peace. When may we hope for that, and where shall we seek it? Time, as the saying is, has slipped between our fingers. Our early hopes are buried with our friends. The year 1348 has left us solitary and bereaved; and has taken from us what all the wealth of Ormus and of Ind could never replace.
Paradise Lost-John Milton
"High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence."
He gave us this eternal Spring,
Which here enamells every thing;
And sends the Fowl's to us in care,
On daily Visits through the Air,
He hangs in shades the Orange bright,
Like golden Lamps in a green Night.
And does in the Pomgranates close,
Jewels more rich than Ormus show's.
He makes the Figs our mouths to meet;
And throws the Melons at our feet.
But Apples plants of such a price,
No Tree could ever bear them twice.
With Cedars, chosen by his hand,
From Lebanon, he stores the Land.
(Andrew Marvell, ‘Bermudas’)
Ormus and Ind - presumably Ormus was a Persian country perhaps related to the strait of Hormuz
The First Englishmen in Bombay
Account of the Voyage of Ralph Fitch, Merchant of London. This part of the account pertains to the year 1583.
The first city of India that we arrived at upon the 5th of November, after we had passed the coast of Zindi, is called Diu, which standeth in an Island in the Kingdom of Cambaia and is the strongest town that the Portugals have in those parts. It is but little, but well stored with merchandise, for here they lade many great ships with divers commodities for the Straits of Mecca, for Ormus, and other places, and these be ships of the Moors and of Christians. But the Moors cannot pass except they have a passport from the Portugals.
Hormuz, Strait of, strategic waterway, 30 to 50 mi (48 to 80 km) wide, between the PERSIAN GULF and the Gulf of Oman, controlling ocean traffic to and from the oil-rich Persian Gulf area. Located in the strait are Qishm Island (Iran) and three other islands—Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, and Abu Musa—seized by Iran (1971) but also claimed by the United Arab Emirates.
http://www.dataxinfo.com/hormuz/illustrations.htm
View of Hormuz from Braun-Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum
A plate in Braun-Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne 1577, gives a stylised view of Hormuz. The town and the wind towers are prominent but there does not appear to be any indication of the fort.
A 17th century map of the Strait of Hormuz
The 17th Century map clearly indicates the bell shaped island of Hormuz (‘Ormus’) at the Strait of Hormuz, the islands of ‘Larequa, Queixome’ and ‘Anga’ with sketches of the various fortifications including ‘Feitoriados Igrezes’ and ‘Comoram’ on the Persian mainland. To the left of the map, with north lying to the right, is a rugged brown depiction of the Musandam Peninsula with six outlying islands, one named ‘Ascalimas’ and the other ‘Cabodemo·Nsandam’.
Latin for elm - ormus
French for elm - orme
http://www.aloha.net/~watusi/
Make what you like of this webpage, it is merely here to entertain, guide, and possibly teach. Watusi is a nom de guerre for Ormus, a mysterious person, about whom little has been said. Ormus is a kind of anagram or acrostic which combines a number of key words and symbols. References are to bears, elms and gold. It figures in Zoroastrian and Gnostic texts, where it is synonymous with the principle of light. According to Masonic teachings, Ormus was the name of an Egyptian sage and mystic, a Gnostic "adept" of Alexandria. In A.D. 46 Ormus is said to have conferred on his newly constituted "order of initiates" a specific identifying symbol-a rose or red cross.
http://www.mindspring.com/~jcrow/171/eccdoc.html
The legend of Ormus, the Egyptian Priest converted in apostolic times to Christianity, and transforming Egyptian Rites into a mode suitable to the Aeon of Osiris is, at least allegorically, a fair hint of the orderly continuity between ancient Near Eastern religions and the Christian Succession in the Eastern Churches, making it a suitable vehicle for continuity in the Aeon of Horus.
Am I right that you choose to name these materials ORMUS elements? How did you get this name? For this last question I am just curious, because I am a member of group named ORMUS, consisting of volunteers that gather, select and transport clothes, food, medical supplies, beds, bicycles, sewing machines etc. to support the lives of many in Romania.
Ormus - http://www.execulink.com/~idris/ormus.html
According to Masonic teachings, Ormus was the name of an Egyptian sage and mystic, a Gnostic 'adept' of Alexandria who may have lived during the early years of the Christian epoch. In A.D. 46 he and six of his followers were supposedly converted to a form of Christianity by one of Jesus' disciples, Mark in most accounts. From this conversion a new sect or order is said to have been born, which fused the tenets of early Christianity with the teachings of other, even older mystery schools.
This story is plausible enough. During the first century A.D. Alexandria was a veritable hotbed of mystical activity, a crucible in which Judaic, Mithraic, Zoroastrian, Pythagorean, Hermetic and Neo-Platonic doctrines suffused the air and combined with innumerable others. It would hardly be surprising if one of the teachers adopted a name implying the principle of light.
In A.D. 46 Ormus is said to have conferred on his newly constituted 'order of initiates' a specific identifying symbol - a red or a rose cross. We may see in Ormus the origins of the so-called Rose-Croix, or Rosicrucians.
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