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the many secrets lost to us due to organized religion's interference and prejudice to promote
it's own beliefs and it's own agenda.
The clergy, in selecting the texts for the
'cannon', deleted text from the gospel of Mark and they forged or mistranslated much more
scriptural work than anyone ever imagined.
The Hebrew Torah susposedly written by Moses was also different than the origional which
was written sometime before 5000 B.C. "Origional"? Yes - found in the
Babyloian Epic of Creation.
It was recovered by Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal
at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), and published by George Smith in 1876.
Written in cuneiform it is estimated to be 4610 years old but may have been taken from much
older copies. Since the Mesopotamian myth is considered to be older than the Hebrew Bible,
the former is assumed to be the original story, which - based on the similarities between the two
- was used as base material by the ancient Hebrews to formulate their own version which the church
accepted and translated into the Christian bible around 426 AD. The range of dates assigned to the Torah
(Pentateuch) is rather broad. It is certain to predate the 2nd century BC, and estimates of its
oldest elements range from the 10th to the 6th centuries BC. The bulk of the Tanakh was likely
complete by the end of the Babylonian captivity (537 BC). This would mean the Torah was written
between 1446 BC and 1406 BC. see
Dating the Bible
After 8,000 years of re-writes, edits and mistranslations, what we are left with is a mis-mash of
this and of that and very little evidence that any of it is true.
During the formation of the early church, apx 300 AD., four
amoung ten of the early church fathers; Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch in Syria, Polycrap
of Symrna in Asia Minor, and
Eusebius of Caesarea, figure prominately in the organization of the early church.
They were viewed as Bishops and disciples of the origional apostles of Jesus. The law at the
time was that all subjects of the empire must worship the Roman gods. Ignatius was thrown
in a public arena to animals and killed when he fell foul of the dictate.
Polycrap was stabbed by
a Roman guard and burnt at the stake. Eusebius died (310) as a martyr in the Diocletian
persecution. What did they believe that got them killed?
Apart from the writings of these men, other texts of the era indicate how the liberal
minstry of Jesus was already being reconstructed to become thoroughly dogmatic and separatist.
From there Judasim was declared 'unholy' and circumcision was the 'work of the devil'.
Most of us are aware of what happened next. People who lived under Roman rule were not
allowed to have their own opinion about religious matters. Only the Pope had complete control
over what anyone was allowed to believe. The Church went on to pronounce that only
Catholic Bishops had the right to speek to God, forgive sins, ect.
When it comes to religion, we believe all of humanity should be allowed to have their
own thoughts and theories and come to their own conclusions with out fear of reprisal from
any religiously controlled body. What we present here is what the church deleted, forged,
mistranslated and simply subdued: how they transformed Jesus to be just like the old Roman gods
who rose from the dead. They also reconstructed his mother Mary to became the 'Mother of God',
ect. This belief is actually thousands of years old and came straight out of Babylon from the
now pronounced pagan evil mother Semiramis and her son.
The more radical Muslim religions are much the same as the Christian church's dogmatic
(characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they
were facts) rules and laws. The clergy can have a man beaten or killed if he does not follow
strictly inforced rules of worship. This may affect all of us some day. All we need is one more
dictator like Iranian president Ahmadinejad, who is a shia Islam. A Nuclear bomb will be all it takes for
him or another (The Tabliban) to take over the world and force their religion on all of us.
Should we, as free men and women be put in chains or burned at the stake for our
differing beliefs? Masonry upholds our 'Freedom' and our right to 'choose' what we believe.
That right is also upheld in the Constitution of the United States of America, which was formed
in 1789 - written and put there by Freemasons. see
The Bill of Rights, Article the third,
[1st Amendment]
These pages are here not to discredit religion, but to expose what they didn't tell us, what they
deleted, what they reworded, what they discarded or subdued and what they refuse to let us see. It's all about
'The search for the Truth'. The truth lies in the forbidden texts and more recent archaeological
digs that the Romans and the church didn't want you to find out about.
The story about Hiram Abiff ( below) is seperate from this, however,
when we go back to what we think might be the beginning of the legend, we find startling
connections and similarities between the old and the new versions of our biblical heroes. They
all had different names according to the country where they emerged, such as Abraham from
UR and Noah also called Adrahasis, Hasisadra, and Xisithrus. In the ancient Akkadian language,
Cain was spelled KA.IN.
Unbiased researchers and scholars who have been searching for the connections for a millennia,
have finally put it together. We offer the archaeological evidence, exerpts from the books they
wrote and the connections from the ancient texts and scrolls here.
Our pages include: The 'Brief History' page and the 'Definations' page which cover the more traditional
aspects of the revised craft. Other than our esoteric work, which number about 90 pages, we also created
five traditional Masonic pages with information on, "What is Masonry?", 'The Legend of Hiram',
'The Masonic code', The Brief History and Definations pages, and our 'Widow's Son' page which discusses
some of the older traditions of the craft and it there states:
"Each man seeks in Masonry for himself, and each man finds for
himself. Each man has an absolute right to interpret Masonry for himself as he sees fit. With
our long tradition of prizing intellectual liberty and individual thought, it could not be otherwise.
No interpretation of Masonry is officially "right," and there are some which are clearly wrong."
We hope at the very least, that you find this site 'enlightening'. Ps 119:130 "The
entrance of Your Words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple."
Yeshúa says: Recognize what is in front of thy face, and what is hidden
from thee shall be revealed to thee. For there is nothing concealed which shall not be manifest,
{and nothing buried that shall not be raised*}. (Mt 10:26; *re 'Gnosticismº';
in his scriptural Traditions the Apostle Matthias [Ac 1:21-26] relates Christ's logion: 'Wonder at what
is in front of you'— quoted by Clement of Alexandria, Stromata II.9)..
and see Sayings of Thomas.
These are the secret sayings of Jesus which Didymos Judas Thomasº inscribed..
Sayings of Thomas 24. "His Disciples say: "Show us thy place, for it
is compulsory for us to seek it." He says to them: "Whoever has ears, let him hear! Within
a person of light there is light, and he illumines the entire world. When he does not shine, there
is darkness". Mt 5:14-16, Jn 13:36
"History is not about proof; it is about documentary evidence and,
while the shallow criticisms of Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, for instance, amount to
nothing of any substance, the documentery evidences of Jesus and the early Christians arise from
contemporary Jewish, Christian and Roman sources alike." Likewise we have documents from pre-dynastic
times when the Gods lived with men. Written in cuneform, the record speeks for itsself.
The Nag Hammidi Scrolls and The Dead Sea Scrolls are another example of a treasure trove
of the writings of the disciples in the 1st century AD. Dismissed by the church as heresy,
they reveal a great deal of the 'spiritual' insight of the early Christians. We also have
documentation of when rulers like Alexander changed history and tried to preserve everthing
he found in Egypt instead of trying to destroy it like the Romans did. He found what we now
call the 'Emerald Tablets of Thoth'. These are a record of the words of the so-called
mythical 'wisdom' God of Egypt recorded some time before 10,000 BC.
In addition to this, there is a record stating that the Great Pyramid was never meant to be a burial
chamber for any pharoah but current Egyptian Authorities who are Muslim will not concede that the
Egyptian culture is far older that any other culture on Earth except one. There is also a hidden
stone tablet in the Cairo museum that reassures us that Khufu did not built it.
The Babyloian culture is where it all started...over 10,000 years ago.
The Turin Papyrus is a another important record of the half-god, half-men who were kings before
recorded history began. There are many, many more records on stone, scrolls, papyrus'
and paper for us to research and read. This began what we now call archaeology. It could
be called the 'forensic science' of the living. The science
includes everything from stone tablets to tools, dried food, and colorful pictures on cave
walls and the more familar centuries old towns and buildings of cultures long since dead.
These sites provide valuable information as to how the people actually lived. The artifacts are windows
into the past and should be regarded as part of the historical record.
"So, we have a choice: we can accept textually recorded history, we can ignore
it or we can reject it, but we cannot delude ourselves into thinking that our personal rejection
or criticism will in some way invalidate the origional record. The writings of Josephus, Tacitus,
Eusebius, or the contents of the Anglo Saxon Chronicle for that matter, will not go away
just because they do not always suit the philosophies of present-day culture. They are records
of their times and places of origin. For a wider insight, they can be compaired with other
documents from their respective eras - but everything else is just conjecture."
quoted from Laurence Gardner's Book, The Grail Enigma
Although Gardner's Book is about the life of Jesus, the quoted remarks also apply to any and all
historical and archaeological finds especially those that can be equated with other finds,
be it stone or papyrus.
The emphasis of this site is to explore the origins of Masonry.
It has been duly noted that it began, "From time immemorial". Here we will try to trace it's beginnings.
The search is called "The search for Light" or wisdom. "It is compulsory that we seek it."
This is based on the 'operative' guild that no longer exists.
Masonry is not a religion, but it is religious in nature. The scriptures tell us a story. The
'Mysteries' tell us a story behind 'the story' in the bible, things you won't hear from the clergy of
any religion.
The story of Hiram Abiff leads us on a spiritual journey. The Sumerian
texts, the Nag Hammidi scrolls ect., actually show us where we came from and how we can return.
Matthew 13:35, "I will utter things
which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."
It Begins with Knowledge:
Food for thought: Eve ate an apple and gained 'knowledge'. She passed
the apple to Adam. Of cource the 'apple is a 'medifore' so how did mankind really acquire knowledge?
If it weren't for Eve, would you be reading this now? If having knowledge was evil would we still have it?
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.
God gave it to Eve that she might teach Adam. Cain was taught Agriculture and Abel
was taught Animal Husbandry. 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
out 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 demons and the 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.)
Sometime before 1900 BC., many foreignors gathered in Egypt due to famine. When Abraham
moved from UR it seems that he brought a 'foreign god' into the land of Egypt and the native
population rebeled against the god and the people's vile customs. At some point the foreignors
took over the northern area and created their own fortress at Avaris/Memphis. They established
their first dynasty in 1805 BC. They were called 'the Hyksos' by the Egyptians who moved from
their first cultural center of 'ON' or Heliopolis back to the inner parts of upper Egypt....to Thebes.
In dealing with scripture, the KJ Bible doesn't mention this established historical fact at all.
It does not distinguish between the 'King' and the 'pharoah' of Egypt and never gives us a name
but the two were in fact seperate. Joseph's 'pharoah' was not the '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 True King has much to do with Hiram Abiff and we will get to that in a minute,
but first let's talk about the real discoverer of America.
The Legacy of the Templars
Young people can read for themselves information
about Prince Henry Sinclair and his voyage to the New World in 1398, almost 100 years BEFORE Columbus'.
Voyage.
He built Newport Tower
located in Touro Park in Newport, Rhode Island (USA). see Observatory hypothesis. Another stone
picturing the Westford Knight.
Did you know that the Templar cross was on the sails of all 3 ships that
visited the 'New World in 1607? Was Christopher Columbus a 'mason'? We can't find his name on
any 'Famous Mason's List', but several Lodges are named after him.
Did he have 'maps' of the route to the 'New World', given to him by other masons or Knights?
Turns out that Chris was a brother knight in the Portuguese Knights of Christ.
With the aid of funding from the Knights Templar, who had now been banished by the Pope,
Prince Henry gathered a fleet of twelve ships for a voyage to establish a safe haven for the order
of Knights and their treasure. The party was led by Prince Henry under the guidance of Antonio
Zeno, the mapmaker from Venice.
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 is to become part of the mystery
surrounding Prince Henry Sinclair. more on Hiram Intro 5 and The Knights Templar page.
News: October 12, 2007; Knights cleared of hearsy
charges by Pope Clement!! The document, known as the
Chinon parchment, reveals that
the Templars had an initiation ceremony which involved "spitting on the cross", "denying Jesus"
and kissing the lower back, navel and mouth of the man proposing them. The document
apparently cleared them of these charges.
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.
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.
Modern-day Shriners trace their origins to the Knights Hospitaller, and much like their
original organization, they continue to build hospitals, do charity, help and ameliorate the health
of stricken individuals, especially children. Their emblem is Middle Eastern based, with a curved
scimitar and similary curved moon. They wear Moroccan styled hats with the same emblem.
They greet each other Salam Aleykum, yet they are not Muslim. They have little enemies and
are welcomed by many groups, instutitions, and governments. Reportedly, they received about
$10 billion from the US government for their operations. They focus on fun. The pic is a link
to Shriners Hospitals where the treatment is absolutely free.
Free Masonry
Why is it called "Free"? Because men were "Free" to choose what they wanted
to believe. In fact "heretic" means free! From Late Latin haereticus, from Greek hairetikos,
'able to choose'.
"A professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those
accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church."
2. Roman Catholic Church; "a baptized Roman Catholic who willfully and persistently rejects
any article of faith."
3. "anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle."
"A person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from
the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church."
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.
The 'Lack of Knowledge',
or should we say the supression 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 condemed by church
decree for teaching beliefs 'outside church doctrine'. They burned every record
that they thought was connected to what they called 'sin' and called it 'witchcraft'.
The Masonic
The Cooke Manuscript, 1410 reads;
"THANKED be God, our glorious Father, the founder and creator of heaven and earth, and of all things
that therein are, for that he has vouchsafed, of his glorious Godhead, to make so many things
of manifold virtue for the use of mankind. For he made all things to be subject and obedient
to man. All things eatable of a wholesome nature he ordained for man’s sustenance. And
moreover, he hath given to man wit and the knowledge of divers things and handicrafts,
by the which we may labour in this world, in order to therewith get our livelihood and fashion
many objects, pleasant in the sight of God, to our own ease and profit."
"And many others say that Masonry is the chief part of Geometry and so me thinks it may
well be said, for it was the first founded, as is stated in the Bible, in the first book of Genesis
and the fourth chapter. And moreover all the learned authors above cited agree thereto. And
some of them affirm it more openly and plainly, precisely as in Genesis in the Bible
(Jabel, Jubal, Tubal and Lamech)."
When the
Regis Manuscript; 1390
or York Legend, 1390
was written, what existed was Operative Masonry. Our ancient
Brethren worked with stone and mortar, building great buildings. They were called "Masons", and
those who were most proficient in their craft were called "Freemasons", being free to work their
craft withersoever they might travel. These "Freemasons" designed, coordinated and built the
great Cathedrals and other stately edifices throughout Europe. The early masons described in
the Egyption Book of the Dead had a hand in building the great monuments, obilisks and temples,
some of which still stand in Egypt today.
The Regius Manuscript mentions
King Athelstan
and the significant role he played in establishing a formal organization for operative
stonemasons. The story contained in the Regius Manuscript has come to be known as
"The York Legend".
Although the document is much too long to include here, there are several phrases of importance
to present-day Freemasons. see
York
( scroll down to it.)
"The City of York, in the North of England, is celebrated for its traditional connection
with Freemasonry in that kingdom. No topic in the history of Freemasonry has so much
engaged the attention of modern Masonic Scholars, or given occasion to more discussion,
than the alleged facts of the existence of Freemasonry in the tenth century at the City
of York as a prominent point, of the calling of a Congregation of the Craft there in the
year 926, of the organization of a General Assembly and the adoption of a Constitution."
(King Athelstan's brother Edwin) "He loved Masons more than his father; he greatly study'd
Geometry, and sent into many lands for men expert in the science."
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. Amoung 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 offical cannon
of the church, Enoch's books reveal great wounders 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 behaviour 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, apparantly,
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.
Another Freemason, Robert Boyle refers to the "Invisible College" as early as 1646. A founding
meeting was held at the premises of Gresham College in Bishopsgate on 28 November 1660,
immediately after a lecture by Sir Christopher Wren, who was at that time Gresham Professor
of Astronomy. The founding group of 12 natural philosophers, including Robert Boyle, John Wilkins
and Wren, decided to form a 'College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall
Learning', which would meet weekly to view experiments and discuss science. At a second
meeting a week later, Sir Robert Moray, an influential Freemason who had helped organise the
public emergence of the group, reported that the King approved of the meetings.
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
These massive undertakings often required years to complete, and the Freemasons that
were employed in the construction organized Lodges to facilitate the every-day business
necessary to allow them to do their Great Work. These Lodges normally met in rooms
within the building. Each Lodge was governed by a Master and his Wardens, a Secretary
maintained the books and records, a Treasurer oversaw the funds, a charity fund assisted
the members provided relief for Freemasons and their families when in need. The Lodge met
regularly, initiated members, and conducted its business.
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.
From as early as the age of ten, young boys were selected for their physical,
mental and moral attributes, and Apprenticed to a Master of the Work. They would
begin learning the skills and philosophies of the Craft, and if they showed sufficient promise,
their names were entered in the records of the Lodge, making them Entered Apprentices.
For seven years or more, the Master was Teacher, Mentor, Father, Taskmaster, Supporter,
Guide and Friend to the young apprentice. The apprentice learned, at the hands of the
Master, how to select stones for form and beauty, work the stone into an Ashler and
place it strategically in the edifice to become wall, arch, pillar, column, floor, roof,
window, sculpture or decoration. At the end of their apprenticeship, once the skills
had been mastered, the youth would be tested. His proficiency would be proven by
presenting a "Master's piece" to other Masters. If judged worthy, he would be accepted
as a Fellow of the Craft.
Ritual then is the tool which speaks directly
to the spirit, it is the three distinct knocks upon the portals of the spirit which cause the doors
to open and spiritual eye to open and see more than the material world. By this awakening,
we use the spiritual eye (reflected in our lodges as the “All Seeing Eye”) to behold Jacob’s Ladder,
which rises from the material plane to the spiritual plane, and upon which we place our first
foot, symbolically, in the Entered Apprentice Degree.
When a building was finally completed, most Masons 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 surpression of free thought and free conscience by the church that the
Masons held dear. However distinguished scientists, physicans, 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.
While there probably are some actual stone-workers who are Masons, Masonry does
not teach it's membership the literal techniques of stonework. Rather, it takes the actual
'operative' work of Medieval Masons and uses it as an allegory for moral development.
Thus, the symbols of Masonry are the common tools that were used by medieval
stonemasons: the gavel, the rule, the compass, the square, the level, etc. Each of
these has a symbolic meaning in Masonry. For example, Masons are said to meet
'on the level', meaning that all Masons are brothers, regardless of social status, personal
wealth, or office within the Lodge or in the world at large. Similar symbolism exists for other tools."
- Andrew Fabbro, Freemasonry FAQ Version 1.2
The new rituals of modern Masonry have been revised and are
subject to the approval of the Grand Lodge of England. The Scottish rituals, first written in
the 900's before Henry Sinclair became
Grand Master in Scotland, were more in line with Gnostic thought. However
Albert Pike ..
rewrote the rituals
taking away any coded secret knowledge there might have been calling them worthless.
Pike believed that without knowing the history of a concept, one couldn't grasp the
concept itself - and thus his lengthy explanations of various religious beliefs,
were consistent with the knowledge of those beliefs in the mid-1800s. These were
construed to be his own beliefs by uninformed outsiders. (see our Pit of Serpents" page.)
"There is Nothing Buried That Will Not be Raised Up"
Hiram Abiff: His death and the so-called secret word
of a Master Mason
The History Channel has recently released ("finally"), an accurate
story about the masons and "Secrets of the Founding Fathers" who were a group of Freemasons..
How did the trademarks of the highly secretive Masons become integrated into the Great Seal,
and on the dollar bill containing the All-Seeing Eye?
Did the grid design of the nation's capital--
commissioned by George Washington and completed by Pierre L'Enfant--contain occult symbols embraced by
the Illuminati in 1776?
Did Benjamin Franklin and George Washington deliberately enlist 33
Freemason generals from France to grow the fraternal brotherhood among Masonic nations?
Explore the secret sides of the men responsible for laying the foundation of the United States.
see Mysteries of
the Free Masons Check your local listings for times.
It is a known fact that Freemasonry represents almost
all religions. That's because Masonry is not a religion, but masonry is religious in
nature. Many have questioned that reasoning. Others say Masonry is strictly Christian.
That isn't true either.
Religion became a world wide phenomenon in the thousands BC. But Why? Why did men worship Gods?
And infact - who were they? We know Greek gods like Zeus/Jupiter, Hermes/Mercury, Poseidon/Neptune, ect., but
did we know that Vulcan/Greek (Hephaestus) was the God of Fire, Blacksmiths and Craftsmanship? His forge is located
beneath Mount Etna. It is here that he, together with his helpers, forges weapons for Gods and heroes.
Closely associated with Bona Dea with whom he shared the Volcanalia, observed on August 23.
Roman gods: Not all of the gods that the ancient Romans worshiped were originally Roman gods.
The Romans did a lot of traveling as they expanded their empire. Each time the Romans heard a
myth about a god or goddess or spirit or deity from the people they met (and conquered), if they
liked it, they adopted it and made it their own. Apollo and Herculeas were infact widely recognised
and written about. Goddesses like Isis, Athena, Venus and Demeter. They were; Fertility Goddessses,
Moon Goddesses, Huntress Goddesses. Triple Goddess- Lunar Virgin, Mother of Creatures, the
Huntress or Destroyer. Goddess of nature, fertility, childbirth, ect.
Goddess of the hunt: In Roman art Diana usually appears as a huntress with bow and arrow,
along with a hunting dog or a stag. Both a virgin goddess and an earth goddess, she was identified
with the Greek Artemis. She is praised for her strength, athletic grace, beauty and her hunting
skills. With two other deities she made up a trinity.
There were impressive temples all over the Roman Empire, Babylon, Greece, ect. Every day,
the ancient Romans, Greeks and Babyloians brought offerings of meat and other items to at least one nearby
temple, and usually more than one temple. There were also temples in Egypt, Mexico and South America.
Here we present historical and archaeological evidence of what we have
found to be true regarding some of the Mysteries of God and their source. They all started in
the same place when men all believed in a surpreme being.
Words are spoken by the Worshipful Master:
"Death has no terror equal to that of the stain of falsehood and dishonor. Of this grand
truth, the annals of Freemasonry afford a glorious example of the unshaken fidelity and
untimely death of our Grand Master, Hiram Abif, who lost his life just before the completion
of King Solomon’s Temple, at the construction of which he was the principle architect."
Who is Hiram Abiff?
Hiram Abiff is a character who figures prominently in an allegorical play that is presented
during the third degree of Craft Freemasonry. In this play, Hiram is presented as being
the chief architect of King Solomon's Temple. Numerous scholars, both Masonic and non-Masonic,
have speculated that the character may have been based upon one or more Hirams that appear
in the Bible. For example, in the Masonic ritual Hiram is referred to as 'the Widow's Son', which
is similar to a biblical reference to a Hiram found in 1 Kings 7:13–14. This biblical Hiram is clearly
not the inspiration for the Masonic Hiram Abiff, as the Masonic drama has a separate character
named "Hiram, King of Tyre".
Hiram lived or at least temporarily worked in clay banks (1 Kings 7:46-47) in the plain of the
Jordan between Succoth and Zarthan.
Hiram (often spelled Huram), a craftsman of great skill sent from Tyre. 2 Chronicles 2:13-14
relates a formal request from King Solomon of Jerusalem to King Hiram I of Tyre, for workers
and for materials to build a new temple; King Hiram responds "And now I have sent a skillful
man, endowed with understanding, Huram my master craftsman (the son of a woman of
the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver,
bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any
engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men
and with the skillful men of my lord David your father." In the original Hebrew version
of 2 Chronicles 2:13, the phrase translated above as "Huram my master craftsman"
is Hiram Abi.
Josephus Flavius in his Antiquities of the Jews (Chapter 3:76) refers to Hiram as an Artificer.
"Now Solomon sent for an artificer out of Tyre, whose name was Hiram: he was by birth of the
tribe of Naphtali, on his mother's side (for she was of that tribe); but his father was Ur, of the
stock of the Israelites."
Because Hiram, King of Tyre provided the labor and the cedar, some have connected
the two, but there is no possible link apart from the fact that they share a name. Hiram
meant ‘noble’ or ‘kingly’ in Hebrew, while Abif has been identified as old French for ‘lost
one’, giving a literal description of ‘the king that was lost.’
"Some of the masonic seventeenth-century manuscripts [preserving the 'Old Charges']
do not refer to Hiram Abif, which has led some to believe that the character was an
invention of this relatively recent period. However, the name Hiram Abif was only one
designation for this central figure; he is also referred to as Aymon, Aymen, Amnon,
A Man or Amen and sometimes Bennaim. It is said that Amen is said to be the
Hebrew word for 'the trusted one' or 'the faithful one', which fits the role of Hiram
Abif perfectly. But we also know that Amon or Amen is the name of the ancient
creator god of Thebes, the city of Sequenere Tao II. Could there be an ancient linkage here?"
- Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas, The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the
Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus
Every Mason knows that it is Solomon's Temple
where Hiram Abiff, known as 'the Widow's Son', was a Master Craftsman. He crafted
the bronze pillars, a bronze tank, and many other gold and bronze items (kings 7:13 - 46).
His name is Huram in this verse. According to the Ritual tradition he is killed
before the completion of his work. The Bible and the ritual place him in Jerusalem.
But the 23rd through the 24th focus of the Masonic Scottish Rite degrees describes a temple in
the Sinai. Moses is in attendence and Aaron conducts a ceremony, perhaps a funeral. This unusual
story does not coincide with the building of the Jerusalem Temple or the biblical story. It does
however indicate that at the time everyone was in Egypt. It also indicates that someone was killed
and Moses and Aaron are somehow part of the story.
We know that the KJ Bible doesn't mention Hiram's death however there is one skeleton and 3 skulls
in the focus of the 22nd degree. The 'Focus' of the degrees are not secret and have been published.
They are all on a seperate page for all to read and study. (Degrees of the AASRF)
The three Grand Masters mentioned often in the rituals concerning
the building of the Temple are: Solomon, King of Israel; Hiram, King of Tyre; and Hiram Abiff.
In early times, some religions regarded Deity in three aspects. The secrets (mysteries) known
only to these Three Grand Masters typify Divine Truth, which was known only to Deity, and was not to be
communicated to man until he had completed his own spiritual temple. Once these
secrets were attained, a man could reap the rewards of a well-spent life, and travel to
the unknown country toward which all of us are traveling. Tyre, by the way, means stone or rock.
From The legend of Hiram. Hiram
is described as a great allegory and is called "The Master of the Works".
Hiram Abiff is, in part, a composite of three biblical figures; Betzalel, Adoniram and Hiram Abi.
Thus the figure of Hiram Abiff combines the wisdom of Betzalel and the supervising skills of Adoniram with
the metal working skills of Hiram Abi, and adds those of a Master Mason. The question remains,
who is he really? He is a symbolic character whose meaning we must discover if we are to understand
the Legend.
"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
From the KJB; In Kings 5:3-6, Hiram (meaning Father), the King of Tyre and
Solomon apparently did not worship the same god. This is because of the wars they had when David
was King. In Kings 5:3....and Solomon calls him, 'MY God' in verse 5. Does this indicate Hiram had
a different God? Irregardless, they formed an alligence that would benefit both parties in spite
of their religious differences.
In the legend, Hiram Abiff, the skilled artificer, was the Son of a Widow of the
Tribe of Naphtali. (known as Huram Abi) The earlier accounts of Hiram are recorded in the
1st Book of Kings, 7:13 & 14. Hiram Abiff is the Master Mason in charge of the days
assignments in the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. He writes these
assignments on a "Trestle Board".
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
symbolises 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 tressel in the
centre 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
Freemason Symbols....Learn the ancient symbolism of Freemasonry.
In the bible Hiram is skilled in work on gold, silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood. He is experienced
in engraving and can execute any design given to him. Chronicles 2:13 - 4:22. The goal of our
ancient operative brethren was to become masters, so they might posses those secrets which
would enable them to practice the art of the builder, no matter where they traveled, even
in foreign countries. Their skill included Geometry. As we progress further into this site, we see
that the Great Pyramid of Egypt was built using Geometry as were the great cathedals of
Europe built by the Templars.
"One who would walk in the Way of the Craftsman must
do one thing more. He must remember, always, that he is building a temple to God. He is building
an edifice in conciousness in which he, himself, is an individual stone. In time, each human being
will square his stone and place it in that temple, and when that temple is complete, God will behold
God in the Mirror of Existence and there will be then, as there was at the beginning, only God."
- W. Kirk MacNulty, The Way of the Craftsman
Most Masons also know that Hiram is a symbol of man's journey
through this life and the symbolism used refers to man finding a better life beyond this one. The
ritualistic 'raising' of the dead 'Master' is also purely symbolic. However it resembles
an ancient Egyptian ritual wherein the dead King is 'raised' to a position of immortality
in the afterlife. This now symbolizes a 'spiritual awakening'. An awakening that shows
us conclusively that there is 'life after death'. This is a Mystery and most Masons don't get
this without more study and research. Often the symbolism is vague and not
understood immediately and it is left up to the initiate to understand it in his own way.
"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
"O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy victory?" We are all familiar with these
beautiful words of Paul, but alas, how little real consolation have they given to bereaved hearts!
For there has been no teaching or experience to bear out their promise of divine assurance. And
yet the truth has been close beside us all the time, whispering to our hearts in the very voice
of our own love for our departed:" Spiritual man is eternal: there are no dead.
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
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.
Egypt had to come into existence thousands of years ago in the age
of the gods and the distinction between the 'two lands' had been created through the murder
of Osiris by his brother Set(h). Set(h) tricked his brother Osiris into getting into a coffin. He then
quickly sealed it up and
threw it into the Nile. Isis found the coffin and released Osiris. Set(h) found Osiris again and cut
him up into 14 pieces and scattered them all over Egypt. Isis gathered all the pieces but one.
The missing piece was the phallas. After reviving Osiris again, and with the help of Thoth, she magically
fashioned a new phallas and sat on it conceiving Horus. Horus became known as the 'Widow's Son'.
After Horus is concieved, Osiris becomes 'the King of The Dead' and is transported to
the 'afterlife'. The afterlife (also referred to
as life after death, the hereafter, or the great unknown) is the belief that the consciousness and/or mind
of a being continues after biological death occurs. The term reincarnation refers to an afterlife
in which only the "essence" or ego of the being is preserved, and the "afterlife" is another life on
Earth or possibly within the standard universe. Freed from all material attachments, he or she may
dwell there eternally as a matured human spirit.
Passing now to the consideration of the original charcterteristics and attributes of Osiris
we find that the oldest religious texts known to us refer to him as the great god of the dead, and
throughout them it is tacitly assumed that the reader will understand that he once possessed
human form and lived upon earth, and that by means of some unusual power or powers he was
able to bestow upon himself after the death a new life which he lived in a region over which he
ruled as king, and into which he was believed to be willing to admit all such as had lived a good
and correct life upon earth, and had been buried with the appropriate ceremonies under the
protection of certain amulets, and with proper recital of certain "divine words" and words
of power. The worship of Osiris is, however, very much older than these views, which is
clear, could only belong to a people who had advanced to a comparatively high state of
civilization and mental/spiritual development.
Horus was himself a real boy who grew to manhood and fought the evil Set(h) in a mighty battle
in which Horus lost an eye and Set(h) lost his testicles.
People viewed the battle and the gods; Isis, Horus, Set(h) and Osiris to be mythical but physical
evidence started turning up all over Egypt that proves these gods were in fact real. Mummies,
Tombs, literature, ect., all point to these mythical gods as being real people. see
Osiris Found
and see this private site by Richard Hogland.
Enterprise Mission.
This site talks about the secret mission the Egyptians are conducting to look behind the "door" that
Rudolph Gantenbrink's robot found in 1993. More on the next page about the 'secret rooms' in the pyramid.
The reason for the murder of our 'lost' King is tied to the split in the 'two lands' of Egypt
and the two brothers Set(h) and Osiris. A new king emerged that restored the two lands together as one.
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.
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,
Sequenenre 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.
As quoted from Exodus 1:15, a pharoah orders the killing of all the
newborn Hebrew babies. This pharoah wasn't Kamose or anyone in his royal court at Thebes.
The 'pharoah' in question was the evil Apophis, the pharoah 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.
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, son of Seqenenre Tao II in the 17th dynasty
of Egypt.
As we shall see, the view from the 'other side' will expose more Mysteries, which account
for only one of many of God's secrets we shall explore on this web site.
The real evidence to establish the validity of The Hiram Key comes from Josephus...
see
Moses attacks Ethiopia.
Is it possible that Moses was sent on another mission as well? We have to conclude that this text has been
altered to hide the fact that Moses actually fought against the Hebrews/Hyksos and subdued them.
Our Hiram Forward 1 page also presents the facts that Simcha Jacobovici found and uses in
his documentary "Exodus Decoded" which is only a small portion of the supporting evidence
not used by Knight and Lomas in The Hiram Key.
The new Hebrew faith, or as they call it, Judisam was not established until
Joshua got to Canaan.
Joshua was a lieutenant under Moses. He is credited with the first 'editing of the bible' after Moses
was gone. He may have even served in the Egyptian army as an officer. This clue also points
to Josephus' story about Moses as the Egyptian Military leader under Thutmose, (see Moses attacks above).
This is actually Kamose's mother. Military rolls of the Egyptians show the officers frequently included
multiple nationalities.
Why does the bible not mention the death of Hiram?
It is a fact that the scriptures mention nothing about Hiram's death but the
Masonic Degrees say Hiram died before Solomons temple was completed. As we read
the scriptures we realised that the story wasn't really true but had an allegorical lesson in it.
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 Sequenenre 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 attendence at a funeral.
Eventually, this tradition about the murder of the king filtered down in garbled form
into the secret traditions of the Jews, who had originated from Egypt proper and eventually
assimilated much Egyptian cultural tradition. The secret tradition had been passed down over
thousands of years to the Essenes in Qumran, who had left some of their most important
and sacred writings in secret passages beneath the Temple of Jerusalem, shortly before the
sack of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD.
The secret words used in the Third Degree ceremony which is
the Master Mason raising ceremony are spoken in a whisper and are never spoken out loud.
’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 translated ‘Ma’at’ as ‘Freemasonry’ and 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.
These few 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 was raised as the first candidate following the murder of his
father, but he only lived 3 more years at which time Moses took over as the young Ahmose
was not ready to lead an army.
Some say that in the 12th century, the Knights Templar dug
up sacred scrolls and substantial quantities of treasure in secret passages under Herod's Temple, and
began to practice the rites mentioned in the ancient scrolls, which they believed to be the
purest form of Christianity before it was contaminated by Roman mystery religions. Among
these was the tale of Hiram Abiff, which would be a garbled echo of the story of Seqenenre
Tao. After the Templars were suppressed in the early 14th century, their traditions spread
in secret in proto-Masonic societies that are the forebears of modern Freemasonry.
The theory goes that the true Egyptian kings like Sequenenre Tao and
his predecessors possessed knowledge of a secret ritual that was supposed to create a king by allowing the
king-to-be to commune with the gods and gain from them his right to rule. Apophis and the
previous Hyksos pharoahs never had knowledge of this king-making rite, and as Apophis could
feel his authority slipping, he wanted it desperately. So he enlisted his new Grand Vizier to
come up with a plan that would allow him to obtain these secrets. He turns to Joseph,
who was vizier around 1600 - 1598 B.C.E. Did Joseph send his brothers, Simeon and Levi to
do the deed? The writers of the Hiram Key think so.
Remember how Jacob says in Genesis 49:5 "Simeon and Levi ..their swords are
weapons of violence." 49:6 "Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly,
for they have killed men in their anger ...7: Cursed be their anger, so fierce and their fury so
cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob (Israel) and disperse them in Israel." There is much, much
more to this story.
Sometime before the completion of Solomon's temple, the legend
has Hiram being brutally attacked and struck three times with 3 different objects by 3 ruffians
who's names are Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum, who demand that Hiram reveal to them the secret
'Master's Word'. Confronted at each of the Temple's exits, each time he refuses. The last blow to his
head with a heavy stone maul killed him. The moral of the story is that Hiram would rather die than break
his oath to his fellow Masters not to reveal 'the word'.
The newly revised ritual says the wounds Hiram receives--to the head, throat, and
heart--are said to represent the spiritual death imposed on humanity by the forces of tyranny
and superstition: the head wound represents the death of thought, the throat wound signifies
the suppression of free speech, and the wound to the heart implies that human feelings disappear
when they are denied free thought and free speech.
Widow's Son 2
has the origional ritual.
As the legend continues; The body laid unattended to for several
days. Men from Soloman's
Temple found it and symbolically 'raised' the 'Master' from the dead. This ritual is thousands of
years old and goes back to Horus, son of Osiris being born of a widow after Osiris was murdered.
The 'Masters Word' at that time was used by Isis to revive Osiris....In this instance, and according
to The Hiram Key by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas,.... after Sequenenre
was murdered the 'Word' was lost. Only 3 people had it, the two High Priests and the King. The
two priests are murdered after they also refuse to divulge the 'word'.
In the final degree or third degree Hiram is 'raised' from his grave by the Master
in a special way. This does not represent the resurrection of Jesus in any way shape or form.
This is a 'spiritual awakening', a realization, if you will, of the reality of Life After Death.
We know the Egyptians used magical incantations and ritual in much the same way to insure
their King reached the 'Afterlife'. These rituals were never written down, but were passed
on by word of mouth only and the initiate or candidate took an oath never to reveal what
he was taught, least he die a terrible death.
"And the Spirit came to him in haste when it raised him.
Having given its hand to the one lying prone on the ground, it placed him firmly on his feet, for he had not yet stood up.
He gave them the means of knowing the knowledge of the Father and the revelation of his son.
For when they saw it and listened to it, he permitted them to take a taste of and to smell and
to grasp the beloved son". Sound familiar?..
from The Gospel of Truth
in the Nag Hammidi scrolls.
It just so happens that the mummy of Sequenenre Tao II, 17th
dynasty of Egypt, has three different and very distinctive wounds to it's skull. Forensic
science has not only identified the objects that killed him but the position he was in when
he was killed and it was not on the battle field. The wounds on Sequenenre's head match
exactly those described in the legend of Hiram Abiff. The mummy, the forensic evidence
and an overview of the Royal line of Egyptians are on Widow's Son 2 and 3.
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 these
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 harbours
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 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 the mummy was wrapped exactly as
Sequenenre and his wife suggesting the same person did the work.
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 exorciser 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 cource 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, involking 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 origional 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 surpressed.
Apparently the Vatican went to great lengths to steal and hide texts that contridict their teachings.
When we get to the Knights Templar Page we find a messenger and three other people were killed
when he 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-authered by Robert Buval. After that everything
began to make sence. 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..
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.
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 initiatic 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 initiatic 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 initiatic 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 two
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 in that time and place. There was Enoch 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 enity. 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 malicoius 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 contridictions 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 scholerly 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
The first clues that there might be more "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 baptised 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 Giza?
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.
The river in which the reborn shaman god-king is being baptised. His baptism also
symbolising his rebirth as regards his initiation into the mysteries is possibly the River
Nile, which flows east of, and right next to the three pyramids. Again, if true, then the
disk containing the dove is the star Sirius in the south sky, associated with the
world mother Isis. Again this baptism is associated with the thalamus and the glands
in the brain. The Triad also represented by the three angels or three wise kings.
see Book of Thoth
and see Masonic articles
from ..The Bank of Wisdom Presents the Origin of Freemasonry (Reprint of 1919 Pamphlet)
Plato, 400 B. C., said that the object was to reestablish the soul in its primitive purity; the
Roman philosopher, 500 years later, Epictetus, to uphold the "instruction of man and the
correction of morals."
Aristotle said the Mysteries were the most valuable of all religious institutions; Socrates,
that they brought to the dying the most glorious hopes for eternity.
The Mysteries were practised in Rome until 400 A.D.; in Athens, until 700 A.D.; in Wales
and Scotland, until 1100 A.D. They contained conceptions that have deeply affected the religious
history of the world. In Greece they were given in four stages:
Preliminary purification;
Communication of mystic knowledge;
Revelation of holy things;
Crowning of the mystic as a privileged person.
A flash of Insight, by which one sees the connections between things.
The ultimate capture, and if one can sustain it, is experienced as enlightenment. As said, this
experience can awaken and alter and change, quite drastically, the pattern of ones life, ones
perceptions and beliefs.
Tell-Tale words
The word "US" appears in Genesis 3:22, 1:26
and Genesis 11:7. "Let US go down".... US? Who is "US?"
We also find the word "OUR" as in 'our likeness', 'our image' in Genesis.
Have you seen this and ignored it? Did you think it was a typo? Think again!
Look at the book of Daniel (4:13,17,23 an older copy) and see the word "Watcher"
(messenger). Enoch also speeks about the "Watchers" in his secret books which were also left
out of the bible. The answers to the many questions raised by these words were also found in
the 5000 year old Enuma Elish or Sumerian Tablets, in the book of Jasher and the book of Jubilees.
More clues to the rebel god (Watcher) story are found in
Psalms 82:1, "God presides in the great assembly; he gives judgement amoung the "gods". (plural)
82;6, "I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.'
"But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler."
All 200 of them!
These are the gods of Genesis 6:2 and in 6:4 we find the
sons of the gods called the 'Nephilim'. The fallen angels are called
'Watchers' in the book of Daniel and Enoch's Books. The 'Nephilim' are
'the giants' that roamed the earth in the time of Noah. They are not really 'fallen angels', but
giant rebel half-man, half-gods!
Genesis 6: "For owing to these three things came the flood upon the earth, namely, owing
to the fornication wherein the Watchers against the law of their ordinances went a whoring after
the daughters of men, and took themselves wives of all which they chose." As we can see this is
another version of Genesis 6 which lends evidence that there were many versions of the same story
throughout history and time. It also supports the theory that there are two gods.
see
God takes over the 'rulership'
of the world. see footnotes Psalm 82. It plainly says "Israel's god". (Meaning Jacob's god.)
('Israel' means 'deceiver!')
AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, WHAT IS THY NAME? AND HE SAID, JACOB. Jacob confessed
his name, which means "supplanter" or "deceiver." We may say, he admitted he was a sinner.
Jacob’s name was changed from "deceiver" to "Israel," which means, "God rules; or strives with
God; or a prince of God; or overcomes and prevails; or God’s fighter." (which god?)
God - Judge of the earth: according to Deut 32:8-9, Israel's God had originally assigned
jurisdiction over the foreign nations to the subordinate deities, keeping Israel as a personal
possession. Now this God will directly take over the rulership of the whole world.
Did the church hide the archaeological evidence of the "Watchers" and the offspring 'giants' from
mankind? We found the proof and it is displayed on
Hiram Index 5,
but there is much, much more to the story before the "Watchers".
There is also overwhelming evidence that Nimrod was not an evil man
and as we shall see, was not against the true God. He was against a god that wanted men as
slaves and nothing more.
Every person has within his or her reach, the knowledge of God if
they will but seek, knock, open and obey, if their heads are not like Hemlock knots if they will
" not fly to pieces like glass as soon as anything comes that is contrary to their traditions."
Quoted from The Best Kept Secrets of the Gospel of Jesus Christ by Lawrence D.
Gardner
We are not all scientists but at the same time we do not listen to
dogmas that restrict our natural curiosity or our search for knowledge. On this web site,
we are using the King James Bible and other books, scrolls and tablets to look for
more facts that support the story but go into much more detail - like, where did Cain and Abel's
wives come from? And who was the Pharoah of the Exodus?
Details about the
Nephilim.
If we are to understand why one god wanted to destroy mankind, and why
there are many different religions, maybe we should investigate this material more thoroughly.
Man's knowledge began with building skills and the art of metallurgy. Metallurgy was Nimrod's skill,
while Tubal-Cain "made all kinds of tools out of iron and bronze" and Jubal made musical instruments.
The early church used Nimrod to condemn science and force man into the 'dark ages'. However
the Books of Enoch indicate God wanted men to know the skills and He instructed Enoch to pass
them on to his sons so that only righteous men would know them. This is the origin of 'the
Craft'....This is how Masonry began.
With this in mind, we woundered how the
God of the Jews and the God of Abraham who is also important in Islam, could also be the Christian's
or Buddist's God too. Under the 'FEAR and OBEY' tags he is indeed the Jews, Muslims and the Christians god.
That means there is indeed a secret that Jesus wished to be revealed to mankind in an
Age of Reason and Understanding that wasn't present in the 30's AD..
This is the Age of REASON, Understanding and Logic.
What we discovered makes perfect sence and it distinguishes the difference between
the TWO GODS we found in Genesis.
Be advised that this web site is not like any other Masonic web site on
the net. We present Esoteric knowledge. Esoteric knowledge is that which is specialised or
advanced in nature, available only to a narrow circle of "enlightened", "initiated", or highly
educated people. The term esoteric first appeared in English in the 1701 History of Philosophy
by Thomas Stanley, in his description of the "Auditors of Pythagoras." The Pythagoreans
were divided into "exoteric," which were under review, and "esoteric," which had
performed well enough to be admitted into the "inner" circle. The
Essenes studied
Pythagoras. The Essenes have everything to do with Jesus.
A variety of past traditions could be classified as forms of "esotericism" due to
their similar "inner" focus as well as their "selective" and "secretive" nature.
Please keep in mind that most of the esoteric information we present here is not found
in lodge work, except for the curious words found in the 'focus' of the degrees. But why the
words are there in the first place leaves many unanswered questions. We present the 'Focus'
of the Degrees on a seperate page. The publishing of these degrees was first committed
to being open to the public in 1955 at the Library of the University of Deleware, permitted
by the Supreme Council, 33' ( Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, USA ) These are from a Manual
for Officers of Subordinate Bodies of the A.A.S.R.F.
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We are taught from childhood that Faith is a positive trait, but it is not.
Faith inherently assumes that we should accept something that may or may not
be true. Then, it will become "true" through Faith. It will not. We may be lucky
(or make a fortuitous guess) but Verification, not Faith, is what deserves
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The Gospel of Thomas; 1. And he said, "Whoever
discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
2. Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed.
When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
5. "There is nothing buried that will not be raised up!"
The Initiation into the 'Light' continues on the next page.
This picture holds the Key. The rituals have been
changed and the story behind them is somewhat different, but the Word,
the real Word and the WAY to the 'Light' has not. God's rays of
LIGHT are available to everyone who will seek them.
Now enter by Way of the 'Light' (click on it) and
go back in time to 1554 BC.
Matthew 13:35, "I will utter things
which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."
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