The Ross Story

01-10-10

Part glorification,
Part intervention,
Part prophecy,
Part hypocrisy,
THE ROSS STORY
(16 pages)
was inked in spring 1977
by J.B.P. a la J.T.C.

The Story Untold!

This Month In Ross History

November 1976

Dawn Of The Desert Mule Deer

Ross quoted MULEY in John Ford's 1940 film THE GRAPES OF WRATH:

The rest of my fambly set out for the west - there wasn't nothin' to eat - but I couldn't leave. Somepin' wouldn't let me. So now I just wander around. Sleep wherever I am. I used to tell myself I was lookin' out for things, so when they come back ever'thing would be all right. But I knowed that wan't true. There ain't nothin' to look out for. And ain't nobody comin' back. They're gone - and me, I'm just an 'ol graveyard ghost - that's all in the world I am.

This Day In Ross History

MICHAEL ROSS MCCONNELL
B. THURSDAY 10 JULY 1952

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CODEX ROSSAE CRUCIS
(Excerpts)


ISAIAH 28:16
Behold, I lay in Zion
For a Foundation
A Stone
A tried Stone
A precious corner Stone
A sure Foundation
He that believeth
Shall not make haste


PSALM 118:22
The Stone
Which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner
Stone


TABULA SMARAGDINA HERMETIS
It is true, certain and without falsehood
That whatever is above is like that which is below
To accomplish the one wonderful work


THE CHYMICAL WEDDING OF
CHRISTIAN ROSSENKREUTZ -
THE FIRST DAY
On an evening before Easter Day, I sat at a table, and having (as my custom was) in my humble prayer sufficiently conversed with my Creator, and considered many great mysteries (whereof the Father of Lights his Majesty had shewn me not a few) and being now ready to prepare in my heart, together with my dear Paschal Lamb, a small, unleavened, undefiled cake. All of a sudden arose so horrible a tempest, that I imagined no other but that through its mighty force, the hill on which my little house was founded would fly into pieces.


THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, A ROSSICRUCIAN ALLEGORY
BY THOMAS VAUGHAN
Every man naturally desires a superiority, to have treasures of gold and silver, and to seem great in the eyes of the world. God indeed created all things for the use of man, that he might rule over them, and acknowledge therein the singular goodness and omnipotence of God, give Him thanks for His benefits, honor Him and praise Him. But there is no man who looks after these things, otherwise than by spending his days idly. They would enjoy them without any previous labor and danger; neither do they look for them in that place where God hath treasured them up.

This Day In Ross History

Michael Ross McConnell
b. Thursday 10 July 1952
d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008

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Seasons they change
But with gaze unchanging
I have been waiting
Beyond the years
Now over the skyline
I see you're traveling
Brothers from all time
Gathering here
Come let us build
The ship of the future
In an ancient pattern
That journeys far
Come let us set sail
For the Always Island
Through seas of leaving
To the summer stars
~ 'The Circle Is Unbroken'
The Incredible String Band

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Remembering Ross McConnell
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Georgian TV On Ross McConnell's Death
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This Day In Ross History

Ross Films
Antioch College
Thursday March 14, 1974

Shewing Myne Eye

Ross Song
I Wish We'd All Been Ready
(We've Been Left Behind)

10:10:08

10:10:08
11:00 AM
Memorial Service
Spring Hill Cemetery
Lynchburg, Virginia

Michael Ross McConnell
b. Thursday 10 July 1952
d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008

This Month In Ross History

September 1975

Re-admitted to Harvard University, Ross was full of energy, enthusiasm, curiosity and humor. I stayed in the off campus apartment he shared with three very tolerant graduate students.

We ran rampant. Widener Library. Andover-Harvard Theological Library. The Harvard COOP. Occult bookstores. Harvard Square. Pennypacker Hall. An Ingmar Bergman film festival. Oven baked grinder sub sandwiches.

I learned that Ross' freshman class at Harvard had included Dave Duxbury ("Dux")
whom I had known in Colorado in 1969.

Ross vanished for hours, returning with tales of world-class scholars and incredible research opportunities. During one consultation Maya expert Tatiana Proskouriakoff of Harvard's Peabody Museum expressed interest in a Native American Astronomy symposium.

So on Monday 22 September 1975 Ross and I hitchhiked to Colgate University in the Village of Hamilton, NY. The distance: 291 miles. One of our rides informed us that Sara Jane Moore had attempted to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford. We rode with an elderly drunk gentleman who cried as he told us about his wife and daughter. When police detained the driver, we paused to enjoy the blazing fall foliage that graced the rolling hills of upstate New York.

Arriving in Hamilton at 1:47 AM, we established a residence under the golden dome in the upper balcony of Colgate Memorial Chapel. I heard Marty Balin of the Jefferson Starship:
If only you believed in Miracles baby - So would I.

We stashed our packs behind couches in the lower level of Case Library and sat through numerous droning highly technical presentations. Our favorite speaker was the heavily accented University Of Guadalajara professor of pre-Colombian architecture Horst Hartung (Ancient Maya Architecture And Planning: Possibilities And Limitations For Astronomical Studies). During a break "someone" scrawled COLGATE TOO STRAIGHT - GET HIGH on a bathroom stall. Ross convinced a female Colgate student to let us stay at her apartment. Her roommate blasted Cat Stevens' Tea For The Tillerman.

Eventually we found ourselves drenched, penniless and stranded on the NY Thruway. But Ross entered the Howard Johnson's restaurant, eyed three young people and charmed them into giving us a ride to our door.

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Edited versions of papers presented at the symposium held at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 23 - 26 September 1975:
Native American Astronomy. Anthony F. Aveni, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. xvii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-292-75511-2