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Lecture, presented at America Lodge No.475, F. & A.M. by Leslie L. Szepesi
Freemasonry has to be divided into two periods: The Prehistoric and Historic. The first is tradi- tional or symbolical; the second is based on facts or evidences. Many of the prehistoric Masonic legends are really founded, as we shall endeavor to shown on a his- torical basis. For example: the legend of King Solomon's Temple. The belief, that Freemasonry as it now exist, was organized at the Temple of Solomon. Although al-most everywhere is accepted by Freemasons, who have not made the subject a historical study. Casting aside the old theory of Freemasonry, having an origin at the Temple of King Solomon and seeking in the records of the past, we can find a closer and more probable connecting link in the chain of evidence. The oldest Masonic document is the Halliwell Manuscript - which was written in 1,390 AD. - it didn't give any references to Masonry before the Flood. It begins with the foundation of Masonry in Babylon. The fact however remains that in this Manuscript the Temple is directly and definitely referred to as a place, where Masons met in great numbers. One more reference to the Temple is in the first Charge, which is: "That you shall be a true man to God and the Holy Church". There is no mention of King Solomon's Temple. The Cook Manuscript -which was written in 1,490 AD.- puts the origin of Masonry at the time of the building of the Tower in Babylon. Nimrod was the first Grand Master, who made a first Charge; frames the first Constitution, that Freemasons ever had. Originally Nimrod was a Sumerian in Babylon, around 3,000 BC. His name was Nib-úr (Nib = panther; úr = hero). The discovery of the original inscriptions of great significance to prove, that Nimrod had actually been a historical personage. He was described as the founder of all the king- doms of Mesopotamia: Uruk, Akkad, Babylon and Assyria, and the royal city of Kish. In 2,800 BC. Sargon I. the Akkadian took over the power in Babylon and the Akkadian language was used. Akkadian is the different dialect of the agglutinative Sumerian language. Nib-úr became "Nimrú" in the Akkadian language. The Hebrews borrowed the name, when they were in "captivity" at Babylon and changed it to "Nimrod" to make it phonetically suitable in their own language. The description of Nimrod in the Bible is: "A mighty hunter before the Lord". The Babylonians and Hebrews called the "Orion" star constellation "Nimrú." Orion is the only star constellation that looks like "a hunter with an arrow." One, who carefully reads the Halliwell and Cook Manuscripts finds unmistakable evidence, that Nimrod organized the first Craft of Masonry. From Babylon Masonry was carried into Persia, Chaldea, Egypt and thence were carried into Greece and Rome. In Egypt, the pyramid-builder's priestly elite called each other "Brother Mason". Their god was "Ptah" and they called Him "Great Architect of the Universe". Their symbols and rituals were passed on to Freemasons by the Tem-plars and Jesuits, without any knowledge of natural science and architecture. The early Freemasons were a secret society. They were the inheritors of an ancient and pre-Chris- tian tradition handed down from ancient times. Their object was magic in the kabalistic sense. This object of Freemasonry was represented under the form of a true Church - as mentioned in the first Charge,- whose cornerstone is Christ. Those early Freemasons have adopted, that Christ is the Grand Master and was put to death while laying the foundation of the mystical Temple of human nature. At that time Masonry was not it became later: It was neither a political institution nor a social club, but a true secret organization.The Jews were excluded from the original lodges of Freemasons as being great enemies of the Grand Master, Jesus. (See Appendix #1) The mentioned facts were the general belief of the Fraternity until about the 17th or the beginning of the 18th century. At this time, members of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and the emancipated Jews moved into the Masonic Lodges, where there sought to get control over Masonic Institutions, schools, churches and even businesses. A very powerful Masonic lodge, the Illuminati -which were founded by a young Jew, Adam Weishaupt- influenced many Masonic lodges in Europe. They accepted the revolutionary ideals of liberty, universal brotherhood, love and the political aims of equality. They became "politi- cal Masonic lodges". The political philosophy of this lodges mapped out the ground plan of the French Revolution and all the leftist revolutions. The original leaders of the French revolution were Masons: Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Jean Paul Marat. Likewise, most leaders of the communist revolutions in the world were Masons. (See Appendix #2) The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite was a brainchild of Jesuit Chevalier Ramsay, under instruc- tions of the Jesuit College of Clermont at Paris. His Oration was delivered at the Masonic Lodge of St.Thomas in Paris on March 21, 1737. "Our ancestors, the Crusaders and Knights Templars gath- ered together from all parts of Christendom in the Holy Land, wished to reunite into one sole Fra- ternity embracing the individuals of all nations". In 1743, the "Kadosh" degree was invented by Jesuit Ramsay, and "it represents the revenge of the Templars." The origin of Freemasonry began to be cast aside, and another one in denial of the old Manuscripts was put in its place. Freemasonry was no longer believed to have begun at the Tower of Babylon. From the Old Testament King Solomon's Temple was accepted, as the place of its birth; and Solomon, not Nimrod or Christ was called the first "Grand Master." (See Appendix #3) We must analyze the Hebrew/Jewish and Judeo-Christian religious backgrounds to understand the dramatic changes in the Masonic tradition. In 538 BC. when the Hebrews returned from the Babylonian captivity to their homeland Judea, Nehemiah a Babylonian Hebrew had knowledge of the Sumer-Babylonian religion and made moral and liturgical reforms in rededicating the Hebrews to "Yahweh" (Jehovah). He completely adopted the Sumer-Babylonian religious laws and scriptures, but made necessary changes by substituting all the Sumer-Akkad names by Hebrew ones. For example: let's compare Moses birth as told in the Bible with that of Sargon I, whose birth story is exactly the same, but Sargon I. lived more than 1,500 years before Moses. The original stone-tablet of the story of Sargon's birth was found in Kouyunjik Iraq, and translated by George Smith and published in the "Assyrian Antiquities" book. Nehemiah's reform was carried through systematically by Ezra. The first theological books were written in 100 BC. the "Torah", which contains the oral and written laws, customs and ceremonies; the "Talmud", which contains the scriptural laws and the Hebrew traditions. Rabbi Kaufmann wrote in "The Biblical Era" book, that "The foundations of the Hebrew/Jewish religion such as myth of the Creation, devotional exercise, order of the clergy, prophecies, psalms, code of laws and morals are inherited from the traditions of the Middle East.(See Appendix #4) The New Testament was written in the 4th century AD. in Greek language and translated to Latin in the 6th century AD. They were the "Codex Sinaiticus" and the "Codex Vaticanus". In order to lega- lize the "new religion" and establish the priesthood and church hierarchy, bishop Eusebius of Cae- sarea (260 to 340 AD.), a Church historian made an appropriate selection of parts of the Hebrew Canon of scriptures, known as the "Old Testament" and integrated them into a carefully revised collection of Christian writings, known as the "New Testament". The early Church Fathers accepted them in 325 AD. at the first Council of Nicea (in Turkey - modern name is Iznik) and the combined books became the "Holy Book" of all the Christian Churches. (See Appendix #5) The legend of the King Solomon's Temple is in the adopted Hebrew scriptures, called the "Old Testa- ment". We have to look back into history if we want to find out the truth. Solomon was the son of David, but since David himself was a mythological hero, with no historical proof to the contrary, we are under no obligation to believe he had a son named Solomon. Accord- ing to Chronicles 9:23 "all kings of the earth sought his presence."…If this be so, it is strange none of them mention him. His time, allegedly was just prior to Homer and Hesiod, yet they do not men- tion King Solomon. Herodotus who traveled through-out the entire Middle East does not mention him, or even the Hebrews. The Temple of Jerusalem, which all archeologist have shown to be a structure with nothing like the pretended antiquity of its erection, and incorrectly called after a fictitious monarch, whose name proves his mystical character. (See Appendix #6) The name of Solomon is made up of the three ancient Sun names: The Roman SOL, the Hindu OM, and the Chaldeo-Egyptian ON. The architecture and the inside arrangements of the allegorical Solomon Temple were undoubtedly borrowed from the Egyptians and described it in the Hebrew scriptural book. His "Holy Temple" has gone down in history as one of the greatest of all buildings, yet according to specifications it was small indeed, only about 40 x 120 feet. Compared to other ancient Temples, this one was insignificant. Consider Nagkon-Wat in Cambodia, for instance. It is 769 x 588 x 250 feet, elaborately carved and columned. In the stonework there are approximately 100,000 figures, one picture occupying 240 feet. King Solomon's Temple was a poor imitation of the Great Sandstone Temple of "Horus", near Edfu in Upper Egypt. According to the Old Testament, Solomon's Temple was surrounded with spacious courts. In the court of the priests was an altar. From this court 12 steps ascended to the Temple, which was divid- ed into three parts: the Porch; the Sanctuary and the Holy of Holies. The Temple of Edfu has the same arrangement. King Solomon's Temple was 120 ft. long and 40 ft. wide and it was completed in 957 BC.(?) Temple of Edfu is 450 ft. long and 150 ft. wide and it was built around 1,300 BC. It has two tall obelisks at the Porch. King Solomon's Temple had two pillars at the Porch. The right pillar was "Jachin", which means: "to establish" and the left one was "Boaz", which means: "in strength". The Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of "Osiris" in Abydos, Upper Egypt has two pillars at the en- trance. The right pillar is "Tattu", which means: "to establish", and the left one is "Tat", which means: "in strength". The Temple and the Hall were built around 2,500 BC. The Ark of the Covenant in King Solomon's Temple had exactly the same dimensions as the baptis- mal font in the King's chamber of Khufu or Cheops pyramid at Gizeh, near Cairo. The pyramid was built between 3,733 and 3,700 BC. (See Appendix #7) According to the Old Testament, King Solomon's Temple originally was built on very hard rock on Mt. Moriah. Its foundation were laid very deep. The Temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II. of Babylonia in 586 BC. The archeologist dug out cities and ruins of the ancient civilizations, but they didn't find the ruins of King Solomon's Temple in spite of fact, that they knew that the Temple loca- tion was on Mt. Moriah, and that it was built on very hard rock, and that the foundations were very deep in the ground. The historical facts are: 1.) The founders of Jerusalem were the Turanian Hurrians. The Bible calls them Jebusites. Manetho the Egyptian priest (300 BC.) called them Royal Shepherds, he also called them Royal Scythians and Phoenices (See Appendix #8). The city which they founded was called Solyma. Alexander the Great put the world "Iero" or "Hiero" (Holy) in front of the city's name and pronounced it "Hiero-solyma". The city was called Solyma or Hierosolyma for many years. Josephus Flavius the Hebrew historian (37-100 AD.) in his writings always uses the name Solyma instead of Jerusalem. In 70 AD. when the Roman Titus destroyed the Temple and demolishing the city, the soldiers were shouting "Hierosolyma est perdita!" meaning "Hierosolyma (Jerusalem) is destroyed!" This name:"Templum Hiero-Solyma" carved onto the "Triple Tau" column of the Knights Templar's shrine at Rosslyn, Scotland. The chapel construction and stone work completed in 1480 AD. The Hebrews written down the name of Solyma like this: SLM (no vowels). We can pronounce it S(o)L(y)M(a), or S(a)L(e)M. Later the city called "Uru-Salem". The word "Iero" or "Hiero in front of the city's name remained and pronounced it "Iero Uru-Salem", "Ierusalem", finally "Jerusalem." 2.) In 1,015 BC. the alleged David purchased a small part of the city of Uru-Salem from Urukhi or Uriah, king of the Jebusites. The Bible says: "and the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day" (Judges 1:21). So, the Jebusites still dwelled Jerusalem in the 7th century AD. in the period when the Masoretic Bible was constructed. The Jebusites shared their Sun-God Temple with the Hebrews, who were worshipped Tammuz Moloch and other gods.This Temple was built on Mt .Moriah to the Jebusites' Sun-God "Nib-Utu" (Shamash). It was built by the pattern of the Egyptian Temples of Osiris and the Egyptian sacred number "3" governed the exterior proportion of the building (width x 3 = length), and its interior design (porch, sanctuary and the Holy of Holies). In 1130 AD. the Scotch Templars were excavated a place at Mt. Moriah (Temple Mount) on the spot where the alleged temple of Solomon had stood. During their work they found two stones which were the cornerstones of the Jebusites Temple. In the foundation stones of the Temple had Phoenician cuneiform epigraph and a Crux Gammata (swastika), the symbol of the Sun-God. The Scotch Knights took the stones with them, and used one of the stone as a cornerstone of the first temple at Edinburg. The second stone was preserved at the Rosslyn Chapel at South Scotland. Dome of the Rock at the Temple Mount was built upon the other two cornerstones. 3.) In the early 6th century BC. the Jebusites' city Uru-Salem and the Sun-God Temple were des- stroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II., King of Babylon, and the captivity of the Hebrews began. 4.) In 538 BC. Cyrus II. of Babylonia let the Hebrews return to their homeland. For the adopted new religion and the glory of "Yahweh" (Jehovah), in 515 BC. Nehemiah and his companions built the first Hebrew Temple, over the foundation of the Jebusites' Sun-God Temple on Mt. Moriah. In 333 BC. Alexander the Great destroyed the walls around it, but not the Temple. In 54 BC. this Temple was plundered and destroyed by the Roman Crassus. 5.) The second Hebrew Temple was built by Herod, King of Judea over the remains of Nehemiah's Temple. This Temple was larger than the previous Temples, and to accommodate its expanded foundations and the greatly increased size of the Temple Mount, a massive retaining wall was built on the southwest side of the Temple Mount. Herod was of Edomite descent, though of Hebrew (Judaic) face. In 40 BC. he was appointed as King of Judea and governor of Galilee by the Roman Senate. When the Roman Titus crushed the Hebrew Revolt and destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. they razed the temple to the ground. While nothing remains of the temple itself, large portions of the enclosure (re- taining) walls still remains. The most famous remnants are the lower portions of the Western Wall, known as the Wailing Wall. Modern archeological research confirms that the alleged Solomon Temple, as it described in the Old Testament, bears unmistakable resemblance to the actual Temple in Uru-Salem (Jerusalem) built by the Phoenicians for the Jebusites' Sun God. 6.) In 638 AD. the Muslim caliph Omar I. entered Jerusalem and during the period from 685 to 691 the 10th Caliph Abd-el-Malik ibn Marwan built the Dome of the Rock right over the foun- dation of the ancient Jebusites' Temple. Other Islamic shrine on the Temple Mount is the al-Aqsa Mosque (one of Islam's largest and holiest mosques) was built 715 AD. on the southwest side of the Temple Mount. The Great Constantine (306 to 337 AD.) and his mother built a few churches there. A few churches remained intact, also a few ruins can be found there. The present Western Wall or Wailing Wall formed no part any of the previous temples. All that remains of the elaborate structure is part of the retaining wall. Then as now, it was merely a retaining structure for Temple Mount. Where are the ruins of King Solomon's Temple? APPENDIX. #1…The early Freemasons: They accepted the early Christian teachings (Essenes, Gnostic), based on the Great Oriental, Chal-dean Kabalah (not Hebrew) and Magic….This was occult wisdom, transmitted from the beginning of the world and matured by Christ….St.Paul uses the "building" and "laying the foundations" imagery, describes his community as "God's building", and he as the "architect" and Jesus Christ as the "cornerstone". These are the terms used by Jesus and all of the Nazarenes that have been passed down to the early Christians, the Knights Templars, Rosicrucians and Freemasons. God's building of early Freemasonry was represented under the form of the Temple of the Knights Tem- plars…Not King Solomon's Temple, but this mystical Temple which to be built of men, or living stones. Christ was the Grand Master, the Light from the East". It recognizes man as the living Temple of God, that Temple which was built without "sound and hammer, or noise whatever". St.Augustine (founder of the Christian Theology) made this statement: "What is now called the Christian religion, existed among the ancient". Eusebius of Caesarea -the church historian- had this to say: "That the religion by Jesus Christ of all nations is neither new nor strange. The ancient Essenes (Therapeutae) were Christians and their writings are our Gospel and Epistles." #2…Political Masonic Lodges: The Illuminati were founded 1776 in Bavaria, Germany. Within a short period of time had lodges all over Germany, Austria, and branches founded in France, Switzerland, Hungary and Italy. The Bavarian mother lodge conducted a secret operation to infiltrate Masonic lodges and established power base within Continental Freemasonry as part of her long-term plan to use the secret soci- eties for political change in Europe. By 1788 nearly every lodge in the Grand Orient had been in- filtrated by supporters of Illuminist. The Comte de Mirabeau confessed that the ground plan for the French Revolution was discussed at the Grand Masonic Congress in 1785 at Wilhemsbad, Germany, which he attended as a delegate of the French Masonic lodges. When the Bastille was stormed (1789), Comte de Mirabeau said: "The idolatry of the monarchy has received a death blow from the sons and daughters of the Order of Knights Templars"…Jacques de Molay (the last Grand Master of the Templars) had been imprisoned in the Bastille. It is said that when the French King was executed a voice cried out from the crowd "de Molay is avanged!" Comte Cagliostro confessed, that the House of Rothschild, the international banking family had supplied founds to finance the French Revolution, and that they were acting as agent for the Masonic-Illuminist. The representatives of the Illuminati had been placed a large sums of money in Holland, Italy, France and England. Cagliostro was a Freemason, Illuminati and the creator of the Egyptian Freemasonry. After the French Revolution the Masonic-Illuminist didn't alter their purpose for a major political reforms in Europe. They already had overthrown Louis XVI, completely ruined the dynasty of the Bourbon. Their next aim was to destroy the dynasty of Hohenzollerns in Prussia and Germany, the Habsburgs in Austria-Hungary (dual monarchy), and the Romanovs in Russia. In 1794 the Illuminist attempted to overthrow the Habsburgs in Austria. In 1820 was the Carbonari (secret society) revolution in Italy. They had connections with both the Freemasons and the Illuminati. In 1825 at St.Petersburg with help of the Illuminist French Freemasonry, the Russian Decembrist rebelled against Czar Nicholas I. The Masonic Convention in 1842 (Strassbourg,France) planted the seeds of the 2nd French Revolu- tion in 1848 which spread like wildfire across many European countries. Behind the assassination attempt against Kaiser Franz Josef von Habsburg in 1882 and the assas- sination of his wife Empress Elizabeth von Habsburg in 1898 were Masonic-Illuminati lodges. The two assassins (William Oberdank and Lucheni) were themselves Masons. Crown Prince Rudolf von Habsburg allegedly shot dead his mistress, baroness Maria Vetsera and then committed suicide in the hunting lodge at Mayerling in 1889. After the tragic deaths rumors have circulated that Freemasons had murdered the Crown Prince. There is no evidence of this accusation, but this raises a legitimate question: why were the two alleged eye-witnesses mur- dered? The two alleged eyewitnesses were the armour-bearer of the Crown Prince, and forester Wolf of Mayerling. In 1914, Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophia were assassinated in Sara- jevo, Bosnia. Their assassins were Cabrinovits, Grabec, major Tankosits and dr.Kasimirovits. The four principal assassins were Freemasons. Before of the Grand Duke and his wife assassi- nation, the four assassins and several other persons from Serbia had met with members of the French Masonic-Illuminati lodges at the Hotel Jerome in Toulouse France in January 1914. Deed of Sarajevo and its international repercussions were to cause not only the downfall of the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, but also that of the Romanov dynasty which was swept away by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. In Russia in November 7, 1917 the Bolsheviks came to power. The leaders of the Revolution were Lenin (Uljanov / Berg), Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Zinovjev (Apfelbaum), Kamenev (Rosenfeld), Sverdloff (Sobelsohn) were all Freemasons, and 40% of the commissars also were Freemasons or belonged to some secret society. It is no secret that the German Freemasons by the German military had aided Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the Russian revolution. In 132 AD. during the Hebrew revolt in Judea, the revolt leader Bar-Kochba and his followers were wearing the self- same insignia (the red five-pointed star) on their hat, which 1800 years later Trotsky's terror gangs were wearing in Russia. On April, 1917 armed with an American passport (authorized by President Wilson, who was a Freemason), Leon Trotsky left the United States with $40 million funds, pro-vided by Wall Street bankers ( Schiffs, Warburgs, Kuhn & Loeb Co., Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, and Harrimans) to help Lenin overthrow the Provisional Government in Russia (Congres- sional Records of September 2, 1919). The French Grand Orient was behind the 1918 socialist revolution in Austria, the communist upris- ing in defeated Germany and the communist terror in dismembered Hungary. In 1918 after the World War I the representatives of nations who participated in the formation of the League of Nations were Freemasons. The delegates of the 1919-1920 peace conference in Paris were under pressure of the Freemasons majority: President Wilson (USA), M.Clemenceau (France), Lloyd George (Britain), Signor Orlan- do (Italy). Behind the curtains were Masaryk and Benes (Czeh-Bohemian). The Austro-Hungarian Empire was broken up altogether. A little Austria was left, and clipped, and a mutilated Hungary. Germany was crippled. France (represented by the Grand Lodge of France) declared itself the win- ner, and sole arbiter of a new Europe. The French fury (Clemenceau), unjust treaties, and punitive treatment of Paris-Versailles-Trianon were the motive of the World War II. British foreign secretary Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, another delegate, said he felt the treaty only set the stage for more war and even predicted the date. "This is no piece; this is only a truce for twenty years," he stated at the 1919 Versailles conference. Word War II. indeed began in 1939, exactly twenty years later. In 1920 a new Illuminist's front organization arose from the Paris meeting. In Britain this organi- zation was called the Institute for International Affairs (IIA), while in New York it operated as the Council for Foreign Relations (CFR). The finances for the group came from wealthy international bankers. In the 1920s Nesta Webster exposing the so-called Masonic-Illuminist world domination plan. She claimed that the international banking system working through the Masonic lodges, and they were behind the revolutionary movements of the 18th and 19th centuries. Webster's theories were widely accepted all over Europe, and by the British politicians, including Sir Winston Churchill. In 1945, after the 2nd World War, the United Nations Organization was founded by Masonic-Illumi- nist (President Franklin Roosevelt), UK (Round Table-Illuminist) and the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union. At the UN the policy making body was staffed by CFR, IIA and Bolshevik agents. In 1947 another Illuminist front organization was created, called the United World Feder- alists (UWF). In 1954 the Bilderberg Group was founded, and in 1970 the Tri-lateral Commission. Both power groups associated with the CFR and the international bankers. All these Illuminist organizations act as a shadow government, promoting internationalist policies and world government. They are the followers of Adam Weishaupt and his Illuminist doctrine. #3…Changes of the Rituals: Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the major banking family, and supporter of Freemasons and the French Revolution was Jewish. The Blue Lodge and Scottish Rite degrees used in the lodges were Christian in nature. This created problems for all the leading bankers, including the Rothschilds, and the other emancipated Jews who may have wanted to participate. To solve the dilemma, effort were made to change the rituals in order to make Freemasonry acceptable to Jews. From the Old Testament King Solomon's Temple was accepted as the birthplace of Free- masonry. The accepted change created three Grand Masters, based upon a literal interpretation of an allegory, which is central to the initiation ritual of a Master Mason. The three Grand Masters of the Masonic Order: the mythical King Solomon, Hiram, King of Tyre, and a mythical Hiram, called "Hiram Abiff." This changes created two more problems; 1./ In Masonic ritual the master builder, Hiram Abiff is murdered and the Temple of Solomon is never finished, while the biblical account says that the temple was indeed finished and Hiram the metalworker went home, alive and well. 2./ In the ritual, Hiram Abiff murdered because he didn't divulge the "Master's World" (secret of the Master Mason) to the three Fellow Crafts. In the Blue Lodge, where the Master representing King Solomon, agrees with King Hiram (Senior Warden) that "Mah-Hah-Bone" shall be used as a substitute for the "lost Master's World" until wiser ages shall discover the true one. Freemasons has never possessed the "lost world". The adepts of various countries, a limited num- ber among the chiefs of the Templars, some Rosicrucians and Arabian alchemist could really had possession of the Secret World. The substitute for the "lost world" is a modern invention. "Maha" in Sanskrit signifies "great", what the mysterious Eastern Brothers used in their initiation and ceremonies. "Bone" came from the French "bon" (good). The two words had combined together; it is meaningless! Hiram Abiff was a symbolic representative of Osiris, the Egyptian god of death and rebirth. The Mysteries of Osiris formed the third degree or summit of the Egyptian Initiation. In the third de- gree of Freemasonry the candidate impersonates Hiram Abiff. A very limited knowledge of the history is necessery to enable any person to recognize in the Grand Master Hiram Abiff, the Osi- ris of the Egyptians, the Mithras of the Persians, the Christ of the Greeks, the Dionysus of the Fraternity of the Artificers and the Atys of the Phrygians. Hiram Abiff was the son of the priest King of Astarte/Adonis - Hiram, king of Tyre. Abiff means "of" or "from" my Father. He was a member of the Dionysian Architects, who first appeared around 1,000 BC. when the Jebusites' Temple at Uru Salem was being erected. Not King Solomon's Temple! He was a wor- shipper of the Goddess Astarte and was responsible for designing her Temples in Tyre, Phoenicia. The Roman architect and master builder Vitrivius (1st century AD.) was the last initiated member of the Dionysian Architects. Hiram, King of Tyre have been a priest king of the cult of Astarte. He was the Grand Master of the Dionysian Architects. The name Hiram was understood by the early Freemasons as an anagram. It meant: Homo Iesus Redemptor AnimaruM (Jesus a man, redeemer of souls). Others explained the name: Homo Iesus Rex Altissimus Mundi (Jesus a man, king of the highest world) #4…The Adopted Religion (Old Testament): The Bible's creators were plagiarists and they got their knowledge from older races. The religion of the Masters -Egyptians and Babylonians- was transferred almost bodily into the re- vealed scriptures of the Hebrews and from there into Christianity. The source of the Biblical myths are Phoenician, Chaldean and mostly Indian, and the original of it may be found in the Mahâbhârata .Most of the Biblical myths borrowed from the Vedic-Brahman- ical literature, latter borrowed from the Chaldeans and Persians, shaped them into a history of the Hebrew nation, in which their spirit of philosophy was buried beyond the recognition. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth chapters of Genesis taken word for word from the secret Book of Numbers of the Great Oriental (Chaldean) Kabalah. Many texts of Old Canaanite mythology discovered at Ugarit. These texts not only constitute a liter- ature of high standing and great originality, but also have an important bearing on Old Testament studies. It is now evident that the patriarchal stories in the Old Testament were based on written documents of Canaanite origin. There is no real history in the Old Testament, and the little historical information one can glean is only found in the indiscreet revelations of the prophets. The book as a whole, must have been written at various times, or rather invented as an authorization of some subsequent worship. Out of the 149 Biblical Psalms (the 14th is identical with the 53rd), 47 were copied from Yasna, the second part of the Persian Zend Avesta. Authors of the Bible were borrowed 15 more Psalms from Yasna, but they put their own ideas into them also. They composed 87 new Psalms. Pure Psalms which are borrowed from the Zend Avesta: the 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, and the 119th. The 104th Psalm is a prayer. It has written by Pharaoh Amenhotep (Akhenaton) to the Egyptian Sun-God Aton. The "Ecclesiastes" is an imitation of the Persian Holy Writ. "Song of Solomon" is very similar to the love poems of the Sumerian King Shu-sin, which are in the museum of Istanbul (Turkey) under the number 2461. "The book of Job" was written by a Persian priest in dialogue and it is a narration of the moral pre- cepts of the Zend religion. The contents of the "Proverbs" reveals where it was written; the condi- tions of the state, social life and the country's climate lead us back to the Zend Avesta and Persia. The Psalms are poetry, but strip them of poetry and what is left? Flattery, selfishness, greed and cow- ardice. They are cry for help, a bargaining with God. This is not a "heroic faith"; it is spiritual deg- radation and ignorance. #5…The New Testament: The New Testament was of the same nature, age and race as the Old. We should therefore expect to find in it the same theology, methodology and formula. The New is not different from the Old. Moses is the Savior of the Old Testament, and such is Jesus of the New. The New Testament in many places a greatly altered version of the original accounts on which it is based. In addition, probably 5% of all that Jesus and his original followers taught is found in the Bible. In 125 AD. St. Irenaeus said, "There was a multitude of Gospels" in his day. Those that came down to us are but the ones the priesthood needed for its purpose, the rest is destroyed. Many of the changes and deletions to the New Testament were made by special church councils. The editing process began as early as 325 AD. (First Council of Nicea), and continued well into the 12th century. Many passages were originally written using code words whose meanings were lost over time, causing misinterpretations. In other instance there was just plain tampering to advance some then current dogma or political agenda. The Bible scholars agreed; that "One of the most important purposes of this tampering was to support the aims of those who sought to make Christianity more attractive to potential Hebrew/ Jewish converts by proving that the events of Jesus' life fulfill prophecy from the Old Testament". Mythic methodology used throughout the entire Bible. # 6…The Temple of Jerusalem: Contradictions of the Biblical narrator prove, that King Solomon did not build a Temple in Jerusalem. According to Kings 1 chapter 5:1-6, Solomon ask help and support from "Hiram, King of Tyre", to build a Temple. He agreed to support Solomon and in addition he sent him a brassmaker, whose name was "Hiram" too (7:13-14). However, the Chronicles 2 chapter 2:3,11 said, that "Huram, King of Tyre" and "Huram", the Brassmaker, so, the Chronicles 2 called them "Huram" instead of "Hiram". The Kings 1 chapter 5:13 stated: "and King Solomon raised a levy out of Israel; and the levy was 30,000 men". In chapter 5:15 the Biblical narrator raised this number, saying "the hewers in the mountains were 80,000 men" and those who "bare burdens were 70,000 men". In Chronicles 2. Chapter 2:17 said "Solomon numbered all the men and they were found 150,000"; therefore not 30,000 men……In Kings 1. chapter 5:16 mentioned 3,300 overseers, which is 3,600 in the Chronicles 2. chapter 2:18. From the perplexing descriptions we understand as much, that altogether 150,000 men cut down trees in the mountains and carried them to the construction side of the Temple. If anybody analyses this given numbers logically, would find out that these numbers are irrational. In Biblical times, in Palestine there could have not lived so many able-bodied men. For the construction of a 40'-0" x 120'-0" (12.19 meter x 36,50 meter) based temple it was not necessary to employ 150,000 workmen and the duration of 7 years. But those 150,000 could have cleared the jungle of Brazil, and could have built up a city which would have had more than several millions inhabitants. According to Kings 1. chapter 6:2,"the Temple height thereof 30 cubits" (45'-0" - 13.71 meter) and in chapter 7:15, "the 2-pillars of brass of 18 cubits high apiece" (27'-0" - 8.23 meter). However in the Chronicles 2. chapter 3:4, "and the height of the Temple was 120 cubits" (180'-0" - 54.86 meter), and in chapter 3:13, "the 2-pillars of 35 cubits high" (52'-6" - 16.00 meter). #7…Ark of the Covenant: The Hebrew Ark of the Covenant was an adaptation of the Egyptian Ark and bears a close resem- blance to the sacred Ark of the Egyptians, even to the kneeling figures upon its lid. The relief on the Temple of Philae shows Egyptian priests carrying their Ark upon their shoulders. The Tabernacle of the Hebrews was merely a temple patterned after the Temples of Egypt, and transportable to meet the needs of that roving disposition for which the Hebrews were famous. Every ancient race had its Ark. The Ark represents the Holy of Holies and it was one of the most im- portant symbols in the religious ceremonies of the ancients. The Covenants were not rare in the Near Eastern religions. Similar to Abraham's covenant the Hittite king Hattusilis III made such a cove- nant with Ishtar. #8…Founders of Jerusalem: Manetho the Egyptian priest says in his Sacred Books: "The
nation called Hyksos (Shepherds) were Pâli shepherds of
the Indus Valley, who emigrated from India and conquered Egypt.
After 200 years of ruling they were driven out of Egypt. They
journeyed through the wilderness and built a city in Judea,
which they called Solyma" (Jerusalem). The founders of Solyma
called their city of Scythian's holy Sólyom -gyrfalcon
or the Solyma(sz)- falconer. Manetho called them Royal Shepherds.
He also called them Royal Scythians and Phoenices. Marcus Julianus
Justinus the Roman historian (3rd century AD.) states in
his book (Historiae Philippiace et totius mundi origines et
terrae situs) that the Phoenicians were Shepherds (Hyksos),
who came from the east and settled down first near the north
side of the Assyrian Lake, which is the Persian Gulf. Later
migrated north west from this land and built a city on
the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, which they called Túr.
In 332 BC. Alexander the Great conquered this city and changed
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