Hiram Abiff, the True King of Egypt, 1554BC

Matthew 13:35, "I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."

It Begins with Knowledge:

So how do we explain how Eve really gained wisdom? In fact, what is wisdom? According to the Lost books of Adam and Eve and other sources, Eve became 'aware' of herself, 'conscious'.

'In The Beginning', knowledge was not evil - it was necessary! Our research concludes that God gave it to Eve that she might teach Adam. Cain was taught Agriculture and Abel was taught Animal Husbandry. This site will reveal who taught them these skills?

Lost Books 4:8 "And Adam said to Eve, "Look at thine eyes, and at mine, which afore beheld angels in heaven, praising; and they, too, without ceasing."

Lost Books 4:9 "But now we do not see as we did: our eyes have become of flesh; they cannot see in like manner as they saw before."

If you can understand this you will understand that 'religion' played no role in the "Beginning".
Infact - what is religion? Religion is the view held by mankind of his or her God and the God's interaction with human kind. A religion is defined as an organized approach to human spirituality, which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power, God or gods, or ultimate truth.

Since the time of Adam and Eve, we have become disconnected with our spiritual insight or "gnosis" - knowledge. "We cannot see in like manner as we saw before." Gnosis is the spiritual knowledge of a saintly or mystically enlightened human being. The term 'gnosis' does not appear to indicate any mystic, esoteric or hidden meaning in the works of Plato but instead expressed a sort of higher intelligence and ability analogous to talent. The term is used throughout Greek philosophy as a technical term for experience knowledge (see gnosiology) in contrast to theoretical knowledge or epistemology. The term is also related to the study of knowledge retention or memory (see also cognition).

In very ancient times all religions were once 'ONE' but as the people multiplied and spread throughout the world, they seemed to take their 'gods' with them as Abraham did when he traveled from UR. Everyone knows that UR was in Babylonia. In one of the Babylonian creation stories, the original beings were Apsu, Mommu, and Tiamat. From them came the mythical demons and gods. The gods were Lakhmu, Lakhame, Ashar, Kishar, Anu, Ea, Enlil and others. Tiamat became a power of evil and Ea (Enki) and followers, a power of good. This is the version in Ashurbaipal's library's Creation Epic from about 650 B.C. There are other versions from Berosus (280 B.C.) and Damiscius (6th century A.D.)

In dealing with scripture, neither the KJ Bible or the Torah mention this established historical fact at all. Neither do the texts distinguish between the 'King' and the 'pharaoh' of Egypt and never give us a name but the two were in fact separate and different. Joseph's 'pharaoh' was not the true 'King of Egypt' and he was therefore not buried in 'The Valley of the Kings' as some have assumed.

Joseph, also known as 'Yuya' was buried at Avaris. His coffin is of particular interest. He was buried at Avaris in an Egyptian style coffin with the wings of 'Maat' covering the lid.

The veracity of the voyage has become a battleground. In the red corner are those who want to hold up a mirror to history and re-write it, and those in the blue corner who demand greater historical accuracy. "There is so much proof that the voyage happened," insists Niven Sinclair, the red corner's biggest hitter. "Unlike Brian Smith, I've walked in the footsteps of Prince Henry. I have seen tonnes of documentation and there is absolutely no doubt at all about it."

The proof for the voyage seems compelling. There is the famous Zeno Narrative, a map which purports to show the journey the brothers took with a man called Zichmni (later identified by writer John Forster as Prince Henry himself). This provided the foundation for a 19th-century book by Richard Major, a well-respected geographer who suggested Prince Henry indeed reached America.

A later book by Frederick Pohl traced the actual landing spot to Guysborough, Nova Scotia. Pohl found confirmation of the voyage by studying Mi'kmaq oral history. And there is an ancient Venetian canon, a strange carving of a knight and the Newport Tower found down the eastern seaboard from Guysborough that offer further proof.

Finally there are the carvings at Rosslyn Chapel, built near Edinburgh by the Sinclair family in 1446 and made popular by the book, The Da Vinci Code, that show maize and aloe vera - plants which at that time were indigenous to North America but carved before Columbus discovered the New World in 1492. Pretty compelling stuff, and certainly enough to convince D'Elayne and Richard Coleman who run the Prince Henry Sinclair Society of North America. They read Pohl's book, met with Niven Sinclair and were converted. Richard Coleman says he is passionate about the story because he is "interested in real history, not phoney history."

The fleet left the Orkneys in 1398 and landed in Nova Scotia,..... The party is said to have built a castle and left a portion of their navy in Nova Scotia. As we shall see, the famous Oak Island just off the mainland of Nova Scotia has become part of the mystery surrounding Prince Henry Sinclair. New evidence has surfaced about the "Rune Stones" at Kensington MN., dated 1362. More on Hiram Intro 5 and The Knights Templar page.

Before the inquisitions, The Templars explained to Pope Clement that the initiation mimicked the humiliation that knights could suffer if they fell into the hands of the Saracens, while the kissing ceremony was a sign of their total obedience.

The Pope concluded that the entrance ritual was not truly blasphemous, as alleged by King Philip when he had the knights arrested. However, he was forced to dissolve the Order to keep peace with France and prevent a schism in the church. Clement was a pawn of King Philip, who at the time threatened Clement with death if he didn't 'go along'.

The real issue:The final fall of the Templars may have started over the matter of a loan. The young Philip IV, King of France (also known as "Philip the Fair") had needed cash for his war with the English and asked the Templars for more money. They refused.

The Templars were 'outlawed' because they believed something different than the Pope or the church of England wanted them to believe. But they had a very good reason. They were descendents of the high priests of the Jerusalem Temple before Rome took control over their religion. These priests were from a holy family that had Jesus as a 'Son'. From that time until now, what they wanted was 'freedom'. Freedom to believe based on their own understanding of what the scriptures taught and the life of Jesus which they say the church tainted.

The 'Lack of Knowledge', or should we say the suppression of it, is the reason for the fall into the dark ages. The Christians under St. Augustine (5th century) were told that learning and education was against God's laws. Pythagoras, Hipparchus and Galileo were condemned by church decree for teaching beliefs 'outside church doctrine'. The church burned every record that they thought was connected to what they called 'sin' and called it 'witchcraft'.

Operative Masonry

Masonry attributes the 'Grand Architect of the Universe' with all creation. At the same time God gave man 'knowledge' so he could take care of himself and his family. The Cooke Manuscript dedicates all the sciences that were given to mankind by God. First dictated to Enoch, every known science was passed down to future generations. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947, and dated to the 1st century AD., were copies of Enoch's secret Books. Left out of the official cannon of the church, Enoch's books reveal great wonders and secret things that man is just now rediscovering.

The scrolls also contain "Apocryphal" or "Pseudepigraphical" manuscripts (known documents from the Second Temple Period like Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher, Tobit, Sirach, non-canonical psalms, etc.) These are dramatically different in both language and content.

The first recorded use of the word "Lodge" was in 1278 during the building of a Cistercian Monastery at Vale Royal near Chester. By 1352 there were elaborate rules governing the behavior of the mason connected with the lodge at York Minster. These regulations are described as the "ancient customs of the masons".

A pen drawing by Matthew Paris, circa 1250, purports to show Henry II in conference with his masons. The men building a wall are shown using a level. The mason actually being addressed by the King is holding a large square and compass almost as if to demonstrate his importance, the implication being that he is the Master Mason. There is a similar carving in Worcester Cathedral, circa 1224, which shows the architect clutching a pair of dividers and, apparently, discussing the plans with a monk. These may suggest the beginnings of the ceremonial significance, which is now given to the square and compass.see.. Freemasonry

By the Sixteen Hundreds....

Reportedly, a man named Elias Ashmole was the last Freemason to actually know a secret formula (Alchemy) that probably dates back to the early days of Egypt. He was an English antiquarian, historian, alchemist, astrologer and Freemason, founder of the what is now the Ashmolean Collection of the British Museum at Oxford, founding member of the Royal Society, and author of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652) and The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (1672). Some historians believe that Ashmole was the actual founder of Speculative Freemasonry, and that he based the fraternity on ideas from Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis." Originally published in Red Flame No. 2 -- Mystery of Mystery: A Primer of Thelemic Ecclesiastical Gnosticism by Tau Apiryon and Helena Berkeley, CA 1995 e.v.

A formal Royal Charter of incorporation passed the Great Seal on 15 July 1662, creating "The Royal Society of London", with Lord Brouncker as the first President, and Robert Hooke was appointed as Curator of Experiments in November 1662. A second Royal Charter was sealed on 23 April 1663, naming the King as Founder and changing the name to "The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge". Her Majesty The Queen is the current patron, and the reigning monarch has always been the patron of the Royal Society since its foundation.

The Art of Building and Architecture

The great artists of the Middle Ages did not work in oils, or pastels. They worked in marble, stone, and mortar. Their canvasses were not made of parchment, but of hillsides and valleys. The beauty of, and in, their work stands to this day as testimony to their skill, their genius and their knowledge of the arts and sciences, particularly Architecture, Mechanics and Geometry. They did not come by this expertise easily, or quickly.

When a building was finally completed, most workers had to find other employment, or another building to build within the community. They were not permitted to move about. Freemasons were free to relocate, and would set up a new Lodge to facilitate building a new building.

This was Operative Masonry, and it existed for generations until Euclid's Geometry was rediscovered and published, thereby revealing many of the Freemasons' secret methods. The Reformation came, the Gothic style of Architecture went, laws changed, society underwent upheaval, and the Craft dwindled in number. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Craft had shrunk so, that only a few, widely scattered, lightly populated, Lodges remained. This was due to the suppression of free thought and free conscience by the church that the Masons held dear. However distinguished scientists, physicians, artists and philosophers began to meet in secret again to 'brain storm', if you will and to tackle the days problems that they might be of service to their fellow man.

"Ask, and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be open unto you"

"In Plato's Timaeus, there appears the earliest known equation of the Creator with the 'Architect of the Universe'. The Creator, in the Timaeus, is called 'tekton', meaning 'craftsman' or 'builder'. 'Arche-tekton' thus denoted 'master craftsman' or 'master builder'. For Plato, the 'arche-tekton' crafted the cosmos by means of geometry."
- Baigent & Leigh, The Temple and the Lodge

"Although Freemasonry require each of its Candidates to confirm his belief in God, it does not expand on the subject but leaves religion and its practice to the individual Mason. As a result, men of all religious persuasions have been able to join in the study of Freemasonry's moral and philosophical principles."
- W. Kirk MacNulty, Freemasonry - A Journey through Ritual and Symbol

The trestle board is that drawing board, supported upon a trestle, on which, anciently, the Master Builder drew his designs. The Terms Trestle Board and Tracing Board seem to have been used interchangeably through the ages, and although they appear to have a common origin, today they should be given two separate meanings. The term 'Tracing Board' has come to mean the small boards or canvases, sometimes replaced by slide projections, on which the symbols peculiar to each degree are displayed for the purpose of explanation to the Candidate.

The ceremony in which a brother is elevated is taken from the VSL and symbolizes wisdom, strength and beauty, which are relevant not only in the construction of the ark but also for their moral significations to the candidate as an individual. The tracing board of the degree is unusual in that it contains symbols of many of the other orders in Masonry.

It is believed that the name tracing board is a corruption of the old Tressel or Tracel Board used in lodges in the late eighteenth century to display the Masonic hieroglyphics, and in many lodges displayed on a trestle in the center of the lodge. The lectures further compare the use of the tracing board by the Master in the instruction of his lodge, with the Volume of the Sacred Law as a means by which God may perform a similar function to mankind. It is regarded as the spiritual tracing board of God . . .

The term Trestle Board, used in the context of a drawing board or drafting table, is in itself a Masonic symbol of moral law. This symbol is displayed in many lodges as a small board, often a chalkboard, with various lines and designs depicted, on an easel-like frame in the East, near the Master. Whether it is called Trestle Board or Tracing Board, it is this symbol which is one of the jewels of Freemasonry.
see Trestle Board and Trestle board

"Death is the opener, the one giving vision; death is the greatest and loveliest change that the heart of nature has in store for us." - G. de Purucker, Golden Precepts of Esotericism

Love itself is the evidence of our spiritual survival -- true love, which is unselfish and undemanding, pure, forgiving, and indestructible. Can we ever cease to love, though we may at least cease continually to mourn, those who have preceded us into the Land of Light? Our love, just because it is indestructible, must spring from something in us which is also undying, for how can a quality be greater than the source from which it springs? from Death

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The Egyptian Connection

"Tracing the ritual back to Egypt 3500 years ago and actually finding the real 'King that was Lost' amazingly fit our Hiram Abiff perfectly."
quote taken from The Hiram Key by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas.

With this information we ask you to keep in mind that there is always 'another side to any story'. In this instance it is the Hebrew point of view versus the Egyptian. The major points of the untold story are by the Egyptian historian Manetho, who was an Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) who lived during the Ptolemaic era, ca. 3rd century BC. Manetho wrote the Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt). His work is of great interest to Egyptologists, and is often used as evidence for the chronology of the reigns of pharaohs. In his work Manetho tells us what really happened during the Hyksos dynasties.

A contemporary of Philadelphus was Manetho, a High Priest at Heliopolis, and a learned man, also a prominent scribe of the Great White Brotherhood, who had access to the secret teachings of the Order. Manetho was also master of the ancient Egyptian writing, or Hieroglyphics, which, in the Third Century B.C., was becoming archaic and could not be generally read. The Egyptians were at that time reading a modern version of the ancient writings, the Demotic, and Greek was becoming still more popular. Philadelphus commissioned Manetho to compile a history of Egypt, and particularly a text of the mystic philosophy of the Secret Schools of the Great White Brotherhood and Rosicrucian’s.

This knowledge, we are told, was mainly contained in the Hieroglyphic inscriptions in the library of the priesthood at Ra. It will be recalled that Amenhotep IV (Akhnaton) declared Ra, the sun, to be a physical manifestation or symbol of the great sole God. This library, therefore, must have contained the great truths of his monotheistic religion, and the truths which the thinkers with which he surrounded himself at Tell el-Amarna. Much that we know of the outer or profane history of Egypt came about through this compilation by Manetho. In fact, it is generally conceded that Plutarch acquired much of his information from this source. In a book of Manetho's, called Sothis, of which fragments only are to be found in the writings of others, appears the following letter to Philadelphus, from Manetho, telling of his efforts to compile the ancient wisdom....

"We must make calculations concerning all the points which you may wish us to examine into, to answer your questions concerning what will happen to the world. According to your commands, the sacred books, written by our forefather, Thrice-greatest Hermes, which I study, shall be shown to you. My Lord and King, farewell."

Manetho's greatest work was his Egyptian history, which was done in three books, and in the Greek language. It is famous because it is the only work in Greek based upon a full knowledge of the Egyptian sources. Fragments of these works come to us today in the writings of Fiavius Josephus and Julius Africanus. The former is a more reliable authority and refers to Manetho in his treatise, Against Apion. In the History of Egypt by Manetho, there is an interesting reference to Moses, which shows him also to have been an initiate of the Great White Brotherhood of Egypt, and to have transmitted their knowledge in a veiled manner to his people. The excerpt reads:

It is entirely possible for Moses to have been born in the period right before Ahmoses became King of Egypt. That would mean he grew up in the Seqenenre Tao household with a woman named "Thutmose" as his adoptive mother. The "mose" in her name and her other son's names was also given to him as was the custom.
The cronology of the "New Kingdom" shows Amenhotep 1 just after Ahmoses.

This article by Josephus in his "Antiquities of the Jews" confirms Moses led an army against Ethopia. His stepmothers name was Thermuthis, which we've been told is the same as 'Thutmose'. She also ruled along side her son as co-regent for several years as he was only 16 years old at the time. She later took the kingly name of 'Ahmoses' also. see Moses makes war against the Ethopians

When Moses wrote the Torah it is very likely he did not know the names of the Hyksos (Northern Lands) pharoahs. It is also likely that as the bible says, "A new king came to power in Egypt that did not know Joseph or Abraham". Exodus 1:8. This would be Kamose, first born son of Seqenenre Tao II in the 17th dynasty of Egypt.

As quoted from Exodus 1:15, a pharaoh orders the killing of all the newborn Hebrew babies. This pharaoh wasn't Kamose or anyone in his royal court at Thebes. The 'pharaoh' in question was the evil Apophis, the pharaoh who ruled from the Hyksos capitol at Memphis/Avaris. This seems to be a hidden factor in the KJB, but it leads to many more 'secrets' recently uncovered by various archaeologists.

Most Masons who come to this site know that our title page, 'Hiram Abiff - King of Egypt' - is just a play on words which connects Hiram with the real King, Seqenenre Tao.. This was taken from the book The Hiram Key, by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, published in 1997. Knight and Lomas were heavily criticized for not providing the sources for their work.
In tribute to them, because it was their book that inspired this web site, it is our great honor to provide the sources and alot more.

Several Masons even wrote us and said the story wasn't really true!
"Among the traditions of the Order there is a legend referring to the tablets used by Hiram Abiff as a Trestle-Board on which to lay down his designs. This legend, of course, can lay no claim to authenticity, but is intended simply as a symbol inculcating the duty of every man to work in the daily labor of life after a design that will construct in his body a spiritual temple."

Although this is a valuable allegorical lesson, it doesn't explain the 'death' at all! But the murder of Seqenenre does. Even more evidence comes from the 22nd and 23rd Masonic degrees, which takes place in the Sinai, in Egypt, which you will see on Hiram Forward 1. We actually find Moses and Aaron in attendance at a funeral.

’Ma’at-neb-men-aa, Ma’at-ba-aa’ (This is not correct)

These words are pure ancient Egyptian meaning:

’Great is the established Master of Freemasonry, Great is the spirit of Freemasonry’.

This site that uses these words translated as ‘Ma’at’ for ‘Freemasonry’ is incorrect, but they say because there is no other modern single word that comes close to the original complex concept that conveyed a whole bundle of ideas around ‘truth, justice, fairness, harmony and moral rectitude as symbolized by the regular purity of the perfectly upright and square foundations of a temple’. Ma’at was an attitude to life that blended the three most important values that mankind possesses, namely the knowledge of science, the beauty of art and the spirituality of theology.That is the craft of Masonry.

Ma'at, Spelled [muh-aht, mey-uht] simply means 'Justice' which was symbolized by Isis or in Egyptian Religion; the goddess personifying law and righteousness..

The few correct words have survived intact over such a vast period of time. They have been viewed as the ‘magic words’, the incantation which made the resurrection of the new candidate something more than symbolic.

Kamose (1551 B.C.) was raised as the first candidate following the murder of his father, but he only lived 3 more years at which time, evidence shows us that Moses took over as the young Ahmose was not ready to lead an army. This is when Thutmose (the queen - Ahmose who ruled as co-regent) pleads with the young king to let Moses to lead the attack. (see Josephus above.)

On January 12 (approximately), 1538 B. C., Thutmose I was crowned succeeding Amenhotep I. He owed his position to his wife, Ahmose, who was the first woman to become a member of the class on equal terms with the men. The discussion regarding her admittance (preserved in the Rosicrucian Archives) forms an interesting story and reveals the origin of some of the doctrines of the equality of the sexes. THE Rosicrucian Order had its traditional conception and birth in Egypt in the activities of the Great White Lodge. {p. 42} In a translation from the original hieroglyphic inscriptions in The Book of the Dead, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, we find these admonishments, "to allow no one to see it," nor was it to be recited to even a close friend, for further we find: "never let the ignorant person, or anyone whatsoever look upon it"; also "the things which are done secretly in the hall of the tomb are the mysteries ..." from Rosicrucian

Hiram Legend; "After the death of Hiram Abiff, the two kings resolved not to visit the Vault, nor communicate the ineffable Name, until they found a successor. But Adoniram, Joabert, and Stolkin had discovered Enoch's cube of agate, so these three Masters were initiated into this sublime degree in the Sacred Vault, and taught the true pronunciation of the Word. see The Three Grand Masters.

THE THREE RUFFIANS

There are many symbolic explanations for the appearance of the three ruffians in the ritualistic work. Their attempt to obtain the secrets not rightfully theirs, and the dire consequences of their actions, are symbolic of many things. Trying to obtain knowledge of Divine Truth by some means other than a reward for faithfulness, makes the culprit both a thief and a murderer. Each of us is reminded that rewards must be earned, rather than obtained by violence or devious means. The Ruffians are also symbolic of the enemies we have within us: our own ignorance, passions and attitudes, which we have “come here to control and subdue”.

According to Masonic legend, just before the completion of the temple, three ruffians conspired to extract the secrets of a Master Mason from Abiff. They were unable to extract the secrets by force and ended up killing Abiff.

The ruffians hid the body in the temple, then carted it away and buried it. When King Solomon was informed that Abiff was missing, he was furious and took a role call of the craft, and found three were missing. These were the three ruffians. The king blocked the harbors and roads and sent out search parties. Finally, the three ruffians were found and brought before King Solomon, to whom they confessed. Solomon ordered each of them to be executed in vile, horrific ways, with terrible torture and severing of body parts.

So what became of Jubelum?
There is actual, physical evidence that suggests that he was eventually captured by the Thebans, and taken before Seqenenre Tao's son Kamose, where he was tortured by bathing him in rancid milk and leaving him under the harsh Egyptian sun for a few days, making him smell evil, and easily recognizable to the forces of darkness which he served. He was then castrated and mummified alive. He was then wrapped in sheeps cloth and put in a plain white painted wooden coffin, the sign of a priest. This seems to be borne out because Seqenenre Tao's mummy was, surprisingly, included in a cache of royal mummies found by the Egyptologist Emil Brugsch in 1881 at Deir el Bahri, exhibiting very strange wounds that attest that he had suffered a violent death, probably from a heavy blow to his forehead that cracked his skull and broke his neck; this being the only royal mummy ever found to show marks of violence.... more on Widow's Son 3 and Abraham 2.

Egyptian "priests" were not permitted to wear wool, since wool came from animals, and animals obviously were unclean. They wore only fine linen, stored in special rooms of the temples and cared for by other priests whose function it was to assure their cleanliness."
- Bob Brier, Ancient Egyptian Magic

The forensic view by Brugsch: "Alongside Sequenenre Tao's mummy was an unidentified mummy whose genitals were missing, and which, apparently, had not undergone a proper mummification as the internal organs and other parts normally removed in the process were still present. It also was covered with a cheese-like residue of rancid milk. (not white paint as a recent televised documentary suggests) The mummy also did not have the serene features and posture of most proper mummies, but on the contrary seems to be hunched backwards with the mouth open as if emitting a silent scream; all the signs that the person was actually mummified alive."

This odd corpse had been dated to the end of the Second Intermediate Period, just as with the body of Sequenenre Tao, but had not attracted much interest among Egyptologists, who tend to concentrate on the mummies of the famous. But to Knight and Lomas, this corpse would probably be that of Jubelum, one of the conspirators who murdered Seqenenre Tao and brought about the loss of the Egyptian royal secrets. If that is so, the curse on Jubelum seems to have persisted to this very day: he is still doomed to be linked to the man he murdered, for in the Cairo Museum, Sequenenre Tao is Catalogue No. 61051 while Jubelum is Catalogue No. 61023...

The Screaming Mummy. This site has great pictures but ignores Brugsch's report and fails to relate that the mummy was in a white unmarked cedar coffin suggesting he was a priest. Leaving the coffin unmarked (no name) prohibited the soul from reaching the 'afterlife' and was the ultimate punishment for betrayal. This report also suggests he is Rameses III's son, which we disagree with due to the timing of the Exodus which has been moved to 1550 BC., 400 years before Ramses III which was 1186–1155 BC., and Brugsch's report indicates the mummy was wrapped exactly as Sequenenre and his wife suggesting the same person did the work. See the Brugsch report on Abraham 2 .

The History of The Secret Word

...The Masonic Word was first instituted to serve a strictly "operative" aim. That was to distinguish masons who were members of their trade organization, and to enable them to claim, at need, benefits in the way of employment and relief.

The Masonic Word served to protect trained masons (and their families) against claims and competition from untrained stoneworkers, or "cowans," and from entered apprentices, who had not yet completed their training. In modern times, the secret work of the Masonic lodge is less important as a literal safeguard, but the symbolic protection remains.

The mysterious Ineffable Name of the divinity which is invoked seems to be the center of moat of the ancient and even modern Magic. By knowing that Name, which is assumed to be the name by means of which the world was created, the man or exerciser in Egypt pretended to constrain the god to obey his wishes and to give effect to his invocation if called by his true name; whilst in Chaldea the mysterious Name was considered a real and divine being, who had a personal existence, and therefore exclusive power over the other gods of a less elevated rank, over nature, and the world of spirits.

Solomon continued to use this power over spirits and had demons work for him. All he had to do was 'invoke' them by their name.

The legend has it that Hiram Abi 'initiated' Solomon into the 'secret knowledge' (the word) after 3 workers found a golden stone in the lower deeps of the foundation of the temple. This stone had the name of the true God engraved on it. Of course that name was 'secret' and was at the time only known by the men who discovered it besides King Hiram, Hiram Abiff, and Solomon. The other men were Adoniram, Joabert, and Stolkin.

In Egyptian magic, even if the exercisers did not understand the language from which the Name was borrowed, they considered it necessary to retain it in its primitive form, as another word would not have the same virtue. The author of the treatise on the Egyptian mysteries attributed to Jamblichus maintains that the barbarous names taken from the dialects of Egypt and Assyria have a mysterious and ineffable virtue on account of the great antiquity of these languages. The use of such unintelligible words can be traced in Egypt to a very great antiquity. Around the world, the Creator's name is spelled and pronounced differently. Freemasonry is non-sectarian.

Today in the Masonic Ritual, this word is still lost so a substitute word was formed to be used until the real one could be rediscovered. From The Hiram Key; The words of Kamose reflect the invention of this substitute word after his father Sequenenre Tao II was murdered in 1554 BC.
"The elders prepared new substituted 'secret words and rituals'. Then Kamose stuck a finger in the air at Aphophis by changing his name to 'Wadj-kheper-re', meaning, 'Flourishing is the Manifestation of Re', meaning "you Failed".
Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas,The Hiram Key, page 141.

"The Second or 'Fellowcraft' Degree of Freemasonry gives very little knowledge to the candidate but it does introduce the idea of 'hidden mysteries of nature and science' and makes a clear reference to what is called the 'Galilean Heresy'."
- Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas, The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus

York Rite Masonic Ritual: A. "That it was the book of the law in which it was written, I am the Lord, I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac and Jacob by the name of God Almighty, but by my great and sacred name was I not know unto them."

We find that Moses got the 'word' given to him by God himself. In the book of Jubilees (1:27 and 2:1), the angel who is said to have instructed Moses on Mount Sinai and to have delivered to him the tables of the Law is most probably Michael. In scripture his name is, "I AM THAT I AM". Masonic legend says Enoch is the King that engraved the 'word' on the stone and hid it.

After Enoch, as far as we know, Moses was the first man to know the Heavenly Father’s or Elohim’s (God’s) name some 2,513 years after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Before that time the Hebrews referred to the creator as El Shaddi or Almighty Provider (Exo. 6:3). This proves that if anyone had written anything prior to Moses they would not have used the true names, but El Shaddi. The creator’s name was revealed to Moses in a vision by an angel appearing in a burning bush to him. Since we know that Moses was fully instructed in Egyptian magic and wisdom, invoking God's name could produce miracles and catastrophes on a massive scale...like the 10 plagues and even the eruption of the Santorini volcano.

On Hiram Index 1, from the Book of Jasher we have a story about Moses and "The magical Sapphire rod of Elohim." So the 'staff' of Aaron was even more powerful than the bible admits. And this proves that magic was used by Elohim (God).

Most of the ancient texts are now available to anyone who takes the time and diligently searches. The ancient texts contain material that most people have never even heard of - little lone read. Stories about the deluge, Enoch, Noah, Moses, Cain and Abel, the Ark of the Covenant, Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham, Adam and Eve, and others are found in these texts, the only difference being; the names of the patriarchs are in the language of the area in which they were found. Scholars have translated most of the material and it's connection to the biblical stories cannot be disputed. We also use the Nag Hammidi Scrolls, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Enuma Elish, The Torah in it's original form, and even the Koran. More secrets still come from the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Jasher which were left out of the cannon by the Roman compilers of the first bible, which wasn't put together until 425 AD.

We have tried to include as much of this information as we could find to help our brothers and anyone else interested in finding out what the church wanted kept secret or actually suppressed. Apparently the Vatican went to great lengths to steal and hide texts that contradicted their teachings.

When we get to the Knights Templar Page we find a messenger and three other people were killed when the messenger tried to smuggle a secret book called Le Serpent rouge from the castle at Rennes-le-Chateau out of France to Germany.

The three people were Fakhar ul Islam, Louis Saint-Maxent and Piere Feugere. All found dead between February 20 and March 7, 1967. The book in question contained poems. But it also contained references to the Blanchefort family, to the decorations in the church at Rennes-le-Chateau, to some of Sauniere's inscriptions there, to Nicolas Poussin and the painting of Les Bergers d'Arcadie, and to a motto on a tomb, " Et in Arcadia Ego"

When we began our quest, we were already interested in Egyptian culture and we had already read Graham Hancock's book Fingerprints of the Gods, which left us wanting more information. So we read his The Sign and the Seal. Then we read Message of the Sphinx co-authored by Robert Buval. After that everything began to make sense. Masons of the 16th and 17th century had the same idea and they already knew what we were about to find out. Egypt has everything to do with Masonic secrets, the "Initiates" and the "Mystery Schools" of ancient societies.

The Masonic so-called secrets are not only complicated and cover a wide range of subjects but also contain facts that are revealed in ancient texts that were written up to 5000 years before any bible or Koran appeared on the scene. Church fathers will say these stories are myth but with all the new information available to us, we can now say they are actually history lessons.

Myth once replaced truth because the truth for the church is too dangerous. The texts contain dates and places and the same people as verified by scripture only they are written in cuneiform, hieroglyphs or the language of the country in which they were found..

As we know, there are two lines of descent mentioned in the KJ bible; One from Cain, One from Seth since Abel never married. Each of these lines has Enoch as a son. From Enoch comes the arts and sciences which he was instructed by God to pass on to mankind. But we don't see this in the Bible. Another text says, Eve only had one son with Adam and that son was Seth. Did Cain really have a great great grandson named Enoch?

The following is from Temple Legend or "The Mystery Known to Rosicrucians."... which again exposes another side of the story.
"There was a time when one of the Elohim (Gods - plural) created a human being whom he called Eve. That Elohim united himself with Eve and she gave birth to Cain. After this, another Elohim, named Yahveh, created Adam. The Elohm Yahveh also united himself with Eve and from this union came Abel."

Enki allowed Adam and Eve the ability to pro-create, thus Seth was conceived and became the first 'born of man' human.

Thus we see in this myth that Cain is a direct descendant of the gods, but Seth is a descendant of Adam and Eve who are divinely created humans. Now the myth proceeds:

"The sacrifices which Abel made to Yahveh were pleasing to him, but the sacrifices brought by Cain did not please him because the birth of Cain was not ordained by him. The result was that Cain committed fratricide. He killed Abel and for this he was excluded from communion with Yahveh. He went away into distant lands and founded his own race there." This race has no facial hair.

"Among the descentants of Cain are all those who have been creators of art and science, as, for instance, Methuselah, the inventor of the Tau script, and Tubal-Cain, who taught the use and working of metal ores and iron. In this line of descent, stemming from the Elohim, were all those who trained themselves in the arts and sciences."

Even Carl Sagan, the well-known and respected astronomer, knew that Cro-magnon man could not have evolved from the Neanderthals without outside assistance in genetics. The change is way to dramatic and quick. Also, Cro-magnon man was living at the same time as the Neanderthals. Egyptian, Indonesian, Chinese, South American and Native American cultures; Each one was founded or damaged by the involvement with the Annunaki and have based their religions and myths on their culture and activities. Some Annuna were favorable toward mankind, like Enki, while others were destroyers of cities, like Adad (also known as Yahweh and Jehovah).

Ask any mason and they will tell you there are NO SECRETS ANYMORE because in the age of the internet you can research any subject! We found that to be true.

A Word to the Wise

Those who become Freemasons only for the sake of finding out the secret of the order, run a very great risk of growing old under the trowel without ever realizing their purpose. Yet there is a secret, but it is so inviolable that it has never been confided or whispered to anyone. Those who stop at the outward crust of things imagine that the secret consists in words, in signs, or that the main point of it is to be found only in reaching the highest degree. This is a mistaken view: the man who guesses the secret of Freemasonry, and to know it you must guess it, reaches that point only through long attendance in the lodges, through deep thinking, comparison, and deduction.

He would not trust that secret to his best friend in Freemasonry, because he is aware that if his friend has not found it out, he could not make any use of it after it had been whispered in his ear. No, he keeps his peace, and the secret remains a secret.

Properly speaking, what is transmitted by initiation is not the secret itself, since this is incommunicable, but the spiritual influence that the rites vehicle and that makes possible the interior work by means of which, with the symbols as base and support, each one will attain that secret and penetrate it more or less completely, more or less profoundly, according to the measure of his own possibilities of comprehension and realization.

The initiates secret is a method of spiritual improvement, which stems from a hard inner work aimed to transform the initiate, that is to make him go beyond his present form in order to achieve a new one: it refuses religious dogmas and pushes initiates toward a perfection’s status, which, even if unattained, nevertheless will be considered a rule for their actions.

Initiation, undertaken in the proper mindset, with a man properly prepared, both in his mind and in his heart, will set a man on the first step of a spiritual awakening. This spiritual awakening is different from the one proffered by religion, which is about the rightful worship of the deity from the creature to his creator, while the initiates process is about improving the inner man, that he might seek an awakening of the spirit, and thus become a balanced creature, at once mortal and spiritual.

This spiritual awakening is, after all, what the initiates experience is all about. We are told in the ritual, ask and it shall be given, seek and you will find, knock, and the door will be opened to you. This is as plain and open as initiatory rites get for a man.

Yet, it is up to the man to seek. The degrees only prepare a man, open his eyes so he can see the door. It is up to the candidate to walk the path. Since the secrets of freemasonry cannot be communicated, the man must undertake the search and do the work. Nothing worth having comes easily.

A further consequence is that such a secret cannot be betrayed, because profanes are outside the initiatory world so void of any means – rites and symbols – to do any inner work.

Freemasonry is not a secret society, even if it has a “closed” character. This does not hinge upon a reason of prudence – even if in the past times persecutions justified it – but rather to avoid the danger of degeneration, by admitting profanes who are not fully qualified to grasp the secret. These men will remain profanes with the apron, and sooner or later they will “waste the chain”, because they are reluctant to walk the inner path. From Beacon of Masonic light Blog spot

Every person has not only the right, but also the obligation to seek after and find the mysteries of heaven!

"The ultimate success of Masonry depends on the intelligence of her disciples." - Albert Mackey

Masonic tradition: Our version

Since the dawning of time men have searched for immortality. Why, because at one time the gods bestowed this as a gift on certain 'chosen' mortals. There are only three in the Christian faith that we know of who were given this gift. But what we forget is, these men were NOT Christians, Muslims or Jews, ect., in that time and place. There was Enoch, Noah and Jesus. However the Christian 'faith' doesn't mention this proclaiming Jesus to be the only one admitted.

The raising of Hiram symbolizes how a man can be raised to a perfection and understanding of one's self that is only available in this life. This comes from an ancient Egyptian ritual wherein a dead king was raised to an area beyond the Earthbound plane of consciousness and into a life of immortality. In fact Philip tells us in the Nag Hammidi scrolls;
"Those who say that the Lord died first and (then) rose up are in error, for he rose up first and (then) died. If one does not first attain the resurrection, he will not die. As God lives, he would [live...]. "Those who say they will die first and then rise are in error. If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live, when they die they will receive nothing.
So also when speaking about baptism they say, "Baptism is a great thing, " because if people receive it they will live."
Therefore it is a spiritual awakening. This has nothing to do with Jesus' 'physical' resurrection as some have been misled to believe.
see The Gospel of Philip

Masons all believe in 'life after death', however some of us just have a different way to approach the subject. It doesn't suggest any religion nor does it support any one in particular. We do not worship any devil and our 'Pit of Serpents' page explains where this false accusation originated. It is called The Taxil Hoax.

We try to respect all religions, but we are not a religious entity. As in the time of Jesus, our minority of 'the Gospel of Truth' is growing. Many people who are 'burnt out' with some of the malicious lies of church leaders who teach people to 'hate' and condemn other beliefs and the people connected to them, are seeing it our way. We invite you to join us.

"They have told us for wrong, that we are not gods. Every being is part of god, because of this, spiritual things have no location and no time; god is not an idea, it is a consciousness, not grasped by the mind."

If you can accept that the God we refer to as the true God is the God of all people, then you will be able to find the answers to many questions here. Some of those questions pertain to the contradictions we find in many religious writings.

That is what makes Masonry unique. Since Masonry is not a religion, as individuals we can look in many places to seek answers. As individuals, (And since this is a private non lodge connected site) we have tried to show no prejudice against anyone for what they believe. Religious Tolerance is the key to finding and understanding many hidden secrets.

So, to be blunt: The archaeological evidence does not agree with KJ biblical text in several instances. So you have to ask yourself; Are you willing to read religious history from a different viewpoint - An archaeological viewpoint that is literally 'written in stone'? These are backed up by offsite links connected to the text or the unbiased scholarly review of the finds.

"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in." — Arlo Guthrie.
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." — John 1:5.
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." — Plato

More clues that there might be "Secrets".

Ancient Symbolism

On page 125 of The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Manly P. Hall writes:

"Frank C Higgins, a well-known Masonic symbolist, has astutely noted that the ornate headgears of certain gods and Pharaohs are inclined backwards at the same angle as the earth's axis."

Indeed before Philip had sent me this quote, I had already noticed that depictions of Osiris showed the Atef crown was angled at 23 to 23.5 degrees. There's more to this than many of us know. Again, there are numerous references that indicate the ancients had knowledge of the obliquity of the earth's Axis - even precession - and that this was made important to them - and again, its something that has been largely overlooked.

The ancient Egyptian god Osiris was not only associated with the eye (inner eye) as his name Aus-ir implies, but in his depictions as the Djed Column, he was also associated with the human spinal column associated with the internal processes of the enlightenment experience (Kundalini) which centre on the spine and the seven chakras relating to the seven endocrine glands. He was also known as the God of the Staircase - a staircase having seven steps. The "seven steps" also refer to The Seven Liberal Arts of Masonry.

H.P.H. Bromwell (1823 -1903) wrote in his massive tome Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry that: "Although the number of recognized sciences far exceeds seven, yet, giving to that number the benefit of its symbolic meaning, it stands for the whole circle of sciences, whether specifically named among the seven or not." The seven signs of the zodiac, from the vernal equinox to the first point of Scorpio, 'winding' in a glittering curve about the heavens, may in a like manner be said to be emblematic of seven winding steps. "In the most general terms the Winding Staircase defines seven 'levels of consciousness', from consciousness of the physical body at the bottom to consciousness of the Spirit and Divinity at the top.

The idea of chakras as understood in Eastern philosophy does not exist in Western medical science. In Eastern thought, the chakras are thought to be levels of consciousness, and states of the soul, and 'proving' the existence of chakras is akin to 'proving' the existence of a soul. A mystic deals with these metaphysical concepts on the metaphysical plane, as a model for their own internal experience, and when talking about 'energy centres', they are generally talking about subtle, spiritual forces, which work on the psyche and spirit, not about physical electrical or magnetic fields.

Among the many titles ascribed to Osiris, one frequently used is the god of the staircase. In Chapter XXII of the Ritual the deceased prays that he may have a portion with him who is on the top of the staircase, and there are any number of illustrations of a stairway of seven steps.

As the authors of Hamlets Mill (1969) have demonstrated, myths were indeed used to transmit complex truths and its possible that to preserve knowledge, an intelligent and scientifically-advanced people had decided to intervene in the cultures of people around the world; shaping their cultures and loading certain information which would be absorbed in their art, their clothing, their rituals and their folk tales.

In other words, they depended on uneducated people to accurately and directly transmit the information across millennia and to the scientists of the future. What they didn't reckon on was that a great deal of this information i.e., the more mystical knowledge would be subject to discrimination; in that what wasn't understood would be misinterpreted and become corrupted, and what would be understood, would either be ignored, kept secret, covered-up by mundane explanations and suppressed.

Those who have heard various theologians speak on different passages of the bible, or who have read books on theology, perhaps better understand the complexity that might exist in a religion that lasted for well over 3,000 years, but which has no live theologists that might explain its mysteries.

Another example: This Byzantine painting shows Jesus being anointed by God at the same time he is being baptized by John.

Both anointment and baptism are metaphors to the same experience of enlightenment.

Note the three attendants on the right. Are these the three Magi as referenced by the three pyramids of Gaza?

The head of Jesus is between two mountain peaks - the open legs of the world mother. His feet (two fishes) are swimming in the astral womb waters of the flowing river. The Dove disk is the star Sirius the Underworld and world mother from which he has been reborn.