St George Cross – Symbolism, sound bytes, mantras and 'iconic' imagery used to target the subconscious, more than we realise.
- neilquester
- Sep 7
- 7 min read
Updated: Sep 8
The St George Cross — a red cross on a white field — has ancient origins as a heraldic and martial emblem. Historically, crosses of various colors were used by medieval armies and crusading orders to identify allies on the battlefield. By the late Middle Ages the red-on-white cross became closely associated with St George, a Christian martyr and soldier-saint whose 'cult' spread widely across Europe. Merchant republics, knightly orders, and monarchs adopted the emblem because it signified virtue, divine protection, and a Christian identity at a time when religious symbolism played a central role in politics and war, the latter being an opertative word.
Some Symbolism
Every symbol behind ‘man-made’ religion, from ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire, can be traced back to prehistoric cults and their worship of the stars, planets, the Sun and Moon. An example of this can be seen in the use of universal symbols, such as the cross within a circle, which correlate to four transitional points of the earth in relation to the stars (zodiac). These 'points' (of the cross) refer to North, South, East, West and are the four markers corresponding with the four main elements, levels of consciousness and world ages. The fifth point, for many indigenous cultures, is the place that binds these four sacred directions within our human world - the fire (light) of the Sun and what gives us life. (see my books for more on these subjects).
The knights Templar and other crusading orders played a role in popularizing cross-symbolism during the 11th and 12th Centuries. While the Templars are more directly associated with a plain red cross on their white mantles (like the one in Fra Anegelico's painting), the broader visual language of crosses helped unify disparate Western forces under an emblem that stood for holy war and spiritual purpose. It's amazing how religion supposedly based on the teachings of the Prince of Peace figure - Jesus, also loved a good battle or imposition. The same applies to Islam, which seemed to like peace unless it was invading Christian and Jewish lands. All these religions seemed to be giving the ancient Roman, Greeks and Persian empires a run for their money in the centuries that followed. All were (some still are) obsessed with war and invasion in the name of God (or the gods).
The association between St George (essentialy a diety originating in Macedonia) and a martyr who never visited England, his reputation for virtue and holiness spread across Europe with his feast day – the 23rd April – celebrated from at least the early 8th century. Orders of the Cross and other military orders strengthened by chroniclers and later national myth-making, positioned the Templars as an 'exemplar of Christian knighthood'. Over time, with the St George Cross absorbed into civic and national insignia, eventually becoming a distinctive marker of English identity. St George was/is venrated in Venice, Genoa, Portugal, Ethiopia and Catalonia among others as their patron saint and many of these places have their own celebrations and ceremonies in his honour.
George and the Dragon
George and the Dragon legends along with the religious stories of Saint Michael battling it out with the devil have also found their way into modern films and books. George and the Dragon legend tells of a Sumerian-Macedonian god-king, ‘Miok’, who was the first king of the Sumer Empire. Throughout the history of art, George and the Dragon legends have probably been one of the most coveted subject connected to opposing forces and duality. John Ruskin, the legendary patron, art buyer and artist, responsible for the elite pre-raphaelite movement, went as far as founding the Guild of Saint George in the 19th Century. Ruskin was connected to Henry Wentworth Monk and William Holman Hunt, both Millenarian 'Christian' Zionists who supported the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine back in the 1890s.
This Guild of Saint George, like all of the others throughout history, was linked to the secret society networks. Both George and the Dragon are Freemasonic symbols and that is why they are 'recurring subjects' for some of the greatest artists, from Leonardo da Vinci, to the 20th Century Expressionist painters of Europe, such as Paul Klee, one of many artists during the Second World War who had to flee Nazi Germany because of his radical artistic tendencies. As creators, our individuality is our sovereignty, yet 'George and the Dragon', 'good-guy, bad-guy archetypes', are tools of the Myth Makers - the Cult behind all division
Wars and 'Orders' Against Humanity
The symbolic use of the St George Cross is entwined with the memory and rhetoric of the 'Crusades', but in truth it's origins go back to Sun symbolism, Rome and the pre-Christian cults of Mithra. On one level, the slaying of dragons or bulls by a 'sun god' (Niok, Micheal or George) represented the Sun's passage from Earth, through the astrological ages. Even though Saint George was officially named England's patron saint, the cross itself became the symbol of the secret society - the Order of the Garter. The Order (image below) was founded by Edward III in the 14th Centuryand remains the oldest and most distinguished of all secret societies. In truth, it is still the Order of the Society of the Dragon under another name and apart from royal membership, it is confined to twenty-four knights chosen by the British monarch. Its members, in recent years, included all heads of the royal houses of Europe and famous people from the world of politics, sport, arts and literature, etc.
Art History is littered with the Templar Cross of St. George, not least the Italian early Renaissance and many 'elite' artists belonged to the 'Order' (or the Brotherhood of Our Lady), not least Hieronymus Bosch (1450 - 1516) and Hans Holbein.
In recent times, Tony Blair, who was given the title of 'Knight Companion' of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (the highest possible ranking) has been advocating digital ID (called the vaccine passports during the 2020-21 Covid lockdowns); and of course the illegal 'invasion' (war/crusade) of lraq (2003). We have to be so, so careful as to what rhetoric we are buying into, especially under the current poltical climate in the UK, with 'manufatured division' spreading across society. We have 'flag wavers' on both sides of the religious/political spectrum and both are being played by Cult ideaology. Whether extreme left, or right, or Christian, or Islam, the 'intolerance trap' being prepared to bring about that New [digital/Ai] Order. The immigration crisis in Britain seems to be focusing the public on a 'problem' (manufactured chaos) that would justify the[ir] 'solution' (pushed by the likes of Blair) to create a 'digital papers please' reality.
It's all about Mind Control
Religious justification and intolerance have repeatedly shaped how the St George Cross has been read and deployed. I am not sure how a red cross on a white background with its historic roots and more regal heritage (see above) can be 'translated' as 'racist'. Yet, subconsciously, for those that have not seen through the polarity of 'religious ideaology on every side of the spectrum, such symbolism belongs to religious ideas or mind-sets. On the historic Christian side, such a symbol appeals to holy war (defence against Islamic invasion across Christian lands running up to the first and second Crusades), and martyrdom used as a symbol to mobilize support for conquests that mixed piety with political and economic motives. You could say that an invasions (both ways) have been underway since East went West and vice versa. Conversely, Islamic polities and communities who faced or remembered those campaigns developed their own counter-narratives of defense against incursions, which in turn fueled cycles of antagonism and extermeism fulled by doctrine. Variations of the 'cross' was used by armies to slaughter hundreds of thousands from Jerusalem to the Occitaine (Southern France) over the periods that became known as the Crusades. Not forgetting other lesser known church-sanctioned campaigns (crusades) against Christians not obeying papal rulings and branded as heretics such as the Cathars.
It is said by some that the cross has been reclaimed in multiple ways — as a national emblem, a symbol of heritage, and sometimes, 'worryingly', as a sign in xenophobic or exclusionary movements. Yet, it is a religious symbol to its core and is no more xenophobic than any other religious symbol. Understanding its history requires recognizing both its role as a powerful identity marker and the harm that arises when 'religious symbolism' is used to justify intolerance, invasion or resurgent conflict.
Flags and their symbolism, like 'religion' are all a construct of 'mind control', perception and how we see reality. I have no interest in Islam, or the likes of Tommy Robinson, etc; or any position that holds the mind in servitude to a 'set of beliefs' that foster intolerance and racism. True evolution of the soul into spirit (true freedom) is not 'bound' to symbols, doctrines, or 'ideaologies'. Neither are we in need of saviours, saints (Islamic or Christian), or patrons (patriotism) where one relgion believes itself to be 'chosen', or 'above' all humanity. The true human being, our spirit doesn't want conflict or division. It desires peace. Yes, Stand up for truth and against injustice, fly a flag, march if you must; but don't play into the hands of the inventors of religion (the cult of Cults), that has used such symbolism to create division and control over the masses since ancient Rome.
As the fictional Character, Kevin Flynn (from the movie Tron) once said, "The only way to win the game [any game] is not to play."