The Stone of Blood by Tony Nalley Read Free Book Online Page A

littlest of events that make up who we are and who we are to become.
     
    What had been gained from this small and seemingly unremarkable event, I may never know.
     
    Maybe nothin’; but maybe it was an important somethin’, that God wanted me to remember.
     
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    July 1793
     
    T wo fractions of the Order followed Louis Philippe d’Orléans as he journeyed through the valley of Tornio River at the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia, and as he traversed across Europe a nd to the Americas, never staying in one place for more than forty-eight hours at a time.
     
    One sect sought only to protect the carrier of the ‘Sang Pierre’ (Blood Stone) and to shift control of it from the Aristocracy to the Church of Rome; making opportunity for him to meet with the Sulpicians as he sojourned to Havana, and giving him juncture to make the transition of the stone by his own accord.
     
    The remaining sect sought only the death of the young royal and to take control of the ‘Sang Pierre ’ for themselves.
     
    As the eldest son of the reigning House of Bourbon,Louis Philippe d’Orléans was the ‘Prince du Sang’ (Prince of Blood), the keeper of the Stone of Blood (Sang Pierre) that was passed unto his family from the town of Valais . For the legend foretold that as long as it was kept safely within his bloodline, his kin would continue to sit upon the thrown.
     
    The town of Valais lay in the Duchy of Savoy in southeastern France and Switzerland . Un der the reign of Charles
VII
in the fifteenth century, Witch trials were conducted by Church and Crown; trials of witchcraft that included lycanthropy; the act of humans changing themselves into unnatural beasts, embracing the call of the ‘werewolf'.
    Legends spoke of an innocence lost; of the most beautiful young maiden a Royal’s eye had ever seen, with flowing locks of auburn hair and eyes of emerald green. She was a commoner girl born into the world barely sixteen summers old. He had spoken to her as she had passed him in the fields and he had thanked her as she had drawn water for him from his well.
    Her speech was as soft as a whisper, and as delicate to him as an orchid flower; just as he imagined her skin to be.
    Lust consumed him for the want of her flesh as he followed her with his eyes.
    The Royal’s wife however, was consumed all the more with jealousy and rage! For as you see; she was in secret, a practitioner herself in the darkened arts of witchcraft; and with brewed potion, by darkened night and stolen lock of hair, she cast unto the girl this spell.
    “ Des flames et le feu Oh bête vorace brûlera sur son site. Oh l'esprit du toucher liésessence qui marche au milieu de la nuit. En Lieue Tarifaire et de pied du roi par quatre-vingts chaînes Gunter , à la poussière de retour si l’automne l'ombre sans lui de s'abstenir . De peur que sera le retour du sang ou le nom de libérer tes os innocents, qui se trouvait entre un enfer inconnu, au sein de la pierre en martyr . ”
    “Of flame and fire oh ravenous beast shall burn upon her site. Oh spirit bound of essence touch that walks amidst the night. In lieue tarifaire and pied du roi by eighty Gunter’s chain, to dust return if shadow fall without her to refrain. Lest Will return of blood or name to free thy innocent bones, that lay betwixt an unknown hell, within a Martyr’s stone.”
    And so the curse was spoken and the beautiful young maiden was accused of witchcraft and was cast into the fires! And all who witnessed her death by flame became the ravenous beast! From the ashes came the Martyr’s stone, the blood of the innocent; the ‘Sang Pierre ’; a blood curse that would be handed down throughout the line of Kings.
     
    A blood curse is the strongest and most difficult of all to be broken. Such was the curse Man brought upon himself in the Garden of Eden. It was a curse that would be passed from Father to son throughout the generations, but not through ‘the iniquity of the mothers’.