One Supreme Architect To All – How Come?
Written by Bro. Michael Oshrat
Several months ago
brother
Thanking Danny, RW
Bro. Yerry Rahav from
the Jacob Caspi Lodge #56 questioned the
meaning of “Fraternity” in other distant cultures. These comments inspired me
to delve into the perception of the concept of Supreme Architect in these
cultures.
In the opening of every working, the Junior
Warden says that he marks the sun in its meridian. This issue is also presented
to an Entered Apprentice before his Passing. After having answered a test
question, claiming he was Initiated when the sun was
in its meridian, we deliberate on the mid-day line, the meridian, paradox. How
can we declare that we Initiate candidates when the sun is in its meridian even
though our ceremonies take place in the evening hours? We resolve this apparent
paradox by saying that Freemasonry is universal and is spread all over the
earth. Since Earth is constantly rotating on its axis around the sun, so must
Freemasonry always be at high noon somewhere on the surface of our globe.
How come? – Let us embark
on a virtual journey in quest of the source of human culture universality.
In our ritual we direct
our thoughts to the ultimate ancient mason, King Solomon, and to the
inspiration he received from the Supreme Architect, the creator of the world.
Numerous designs in the
Masonic literature depict Pyramids and Obelisks. We tend to refer these
structures to the ancient Egyptian culture, but archeological excavations
performed in the last two centuries found astonishingly similar structures in
remote ancient civilizations in South America as well as
Clearly these local traditions,
with their both physical (practical) and moral (ideological) concepts,
developed in times when no means of communication between distant civilizations
existed.
What is, then the supreme
intelligence which guided our ancestors, wherever they may have dwelled on this
planet?
Who are the universe
creators, the all-mighty Gods to whom different religions refer in such similar
manner, Gods who are the source of knowledge, the fountain of moral principles.
A clue may lie in the
fact that all Gods, in all religions, came from heaven, where they are believed
to reside, and chart from there the right path for mankind. Most cultures also
record affairs of these Gods with human females and the gifted off-springs of
such encounters.
But who are these universal
Gods? Where did they come from? Where did they go? Will they ever return and
when?
These questions bear
special significance to the contemporary 'practical masons', those who build
rockets, station satellites in orbit and use them to gaze into the endless
universe through powerful telescopes.
- The universe where one hundred billion
galaxies roam;
- Galaxies containing one hundred billion
solar systems each,
- Solar systems just like ours, in which there
is a reasonable chance to find a planet at just the right distance from its sun
to enable, theoretically the development of life as we know it on planet earth!
According to space
scientists, there is a 99.99% probability for the existence of other
intelligent communities somewhere in the universe.
NASA just celebrated 10
years of project SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), analyzing
radio signals from outer space, hoping to intercept some broadcast of
intelligent species.
Several months ago NASA
launched the KEPLER spacecraft with the mission to search for solar systems
which have ‘earth like’ planets.
These are two massive and
ambitious missions, unthinkable with the technology we mastered 100 years ago,
surely not 1000 or 10,000 years ago.
Until today there are no results!
Yet if we ever do find
such an ex-terrestrial species, it is most unlikely that they will be in exactly
the same evolutionary phase as ourselves. We will probably meet a civilization
either retarded or advanced by tens or hundreds of thousands of years compared to
ours.
It is fairly easy to
imagine how a civilization 10,000 years “younger” than ours might look.
Archeological findings from our own pre-history can give us some clues.
Figuring out how a
civilization 10,000 years 'ahead of us' will look is far more difficult.
Considering progress of technology in the last century, it takes some vivid
imagination to forecast the way our planet will look in 1000 or 10,000 years…
It is however most
probable that space travel with control of the time-dimension and mass-energy
transitions will be part of reality in such an advanced culture.
Would it therefore be
unthinkable that such an advanced civilization visited us several thousands
years ago?
And if so, how did our
forefathers view the landing of a space craft in their vicinity? Somewhere on
the Nile, Mesopotamia, the banks of the
Submissively? With adoration? Attempted imitation? With unconditioned
acceptance: ‘Do and obey...’?
- Are these our GODS?
- Have these visits been told in numerous
legends from generation to generation?
- Is their future return, what so many
believers await?
- Is it they who endowed us, wherever they
landed, with technical knowledge as well as with moral and social values, to
guarantee harmony among humans for generations to come?
Many of these queries
were raised by scientists and philosophers in the last decades. The most famous
is probably Erich von Daniken, who claimed
that Homo-Sapience was created by a cross bread
between pre-historic women and ex-terrestrial visitors, who keep visiting us
occasionally to monitor this 'genetic experiment'.
These difficult questions
will probably remain un-resolved for some time.
Until we find the Temple
of the Supreme Intergalactic
As for us, Freemasons, the
sun is always at mid-day.
I would like to thank
Worshipful Master of 'Reuven' Lodge, Bro.