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ntasmal crime. satan is saturn, set, abrasax, adad, adonis, attis, adam, adonai, etc. the most serious charge against him is that he is the sun in the south. the ancient initiates, 35 dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was the water of the nile or the euphrates, connected the south with life-withering heat, and cursed that quarter where the solar darts were deadliest. even in the legend of hiram, it is at high noon that he is stricken down and slain. capricornus is moreover the sign which the sun enterers when he reaches his extreme southern declination at the winter solstice, the season of the death of vegetation, for the folk of the northern hemisphere. this gave them a second cause for cursing the south. a third; the tyranny of hot, dry, poisonous winds; the menace of deserts or

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d in wedlock h) nwyrp) 348 five; to set in array #mx 350 a sapphire (ex. 28:18) ryps ophir; a young mule; dust of the earth rp( the horn; head; to send out rays, shine nrq vacuum mqyr [conscious] intelligence lk# tooth n# and god saw that it was good bw+ yk myhl )ryw 351 man #n) ishim, flames: the angelic choir of malkuth; burnt or incense offering my) lifted)#n moses the initiator (cf. 346) h#wm hiram-abif (a cunning artificer at the temple of solomon in the legend) pyb) mryx 352 the exalted light hl(m rw) long of nose (i.e. merciful: a title of the supreme god (cf. 362) myp) kr) lightnings, flashings myqrb an approach nbrq 353 five h#mx the secret of hwhy is to his fearers (ps. 25:14) wy)ryl hwhy dws delight, joy hxm# 354 grew fat; anointed n#d a temporary remitting h+m# demons myd# 355

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magick powers appeared; then, by successive degradations, came benevolence, justice, convention. 43 6. now convention is the shadow of loyalty and good will, and so the herald of disorder. yea, even understanding is but a blossom of the tao, and foreshadoweth stupidity((this repeats the doctrine of the danger of binah. the attack on tipereth is to be regarded as a reference to the 'fall, death of hiram at high noon, etc. etc) 7. so then the tao-man holdeth to mass, and avoideth motion; he is attached to the root, not to the flower. he leaveth the one, and cleaveth to the other((that is, if his road be towards the tao. in our language, he adores nuit; but the perfect man, when he needs to manifest, is on the opposite curve. cf. the 'book of lies 'the brothers of the a. a. are women; the asp

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ctest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of him, and all our light and life. his vice-regent and representative in the animal kingdom is his cognate symbol the phallus, representing love and liberty. ra-hoor-khuit, like all true gods, is therefore a solar-phallic deity. but we regard him as he is in truth, eternal; the solar-phallic deities of the old aeon, such as osiris "christ, hiram, adonis, hercules &c, were supposed, through our ignorance of the cosmos, to 'die' and rise again. thus we celebrated rites of 'crucifixion' and so on, which have now become meaningless. ra-hoor-khuit is the crowned and conquering child. this is also a reference to the 'crowned' and conquering 'child' in ourselves, our own personal god. except ye become as little children, said 'christ, ye s

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

em, gave them a house in the vicinity of the site where solomon's temple was built of old. when it was put in repair by hugh de payens and the rest of the first brethren, their digging operations unearthed an iron casket which contained priceless treasures, and chief among all the true process of the great work in alchemy, the secret of transmuting metals, as communicated to solomon by the master hiram abiff. so and so only was it possible to account for the wealth of adornment which characterised the first temple. the discovery explains also the wealth acquired by the templars, but it led in the end to their destruction. traitors who knew of the secret, though they had not themselves attained it, revealed the fact to clement v and philip the fair of france, and the real purpose of the per

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e; divine soul by water and the moon, both standing for the father and mother of pneuma, human soul, or mind, symbolised by the wind or air, for pneuma, means "breath" hence in the smaragdine tablet, disfigured by christian hands "the superior agrees with the inferior; and the inferior with the superior; to effect that one truly wonderful work- which is man. for the secret work of chiram, or king hiram in the kabala "one in essence, but three in aspect" is the universal agent or lapis philosophorum. the culmination of the secret work is spiritual perfect man, at one end of the line; the union of the three elements is the occult solvent in the "soul of the world" the cosmic soul or astral light, at the other; and, on the material plane, it is hydrogen in its relation to the other gases. the

listines (2 samuel, brought thence the name of jehovah. he made zadok high priest, from whom came the zadokites or sadducees. he lived and ruled first at hebron[[hebrew, habir-on or kabeir-town, where the rites of the four (mystery-gods) were celebrated. neither david nor solomon recognized either moses or the law of moses. they aspired to build a temple to[[hebrew, like the structures erected by hiram to hercules and venus, adon and astarte. says furst "the very ancient name of god, yaho, written in the greek law, appears, apart from its derivation, to have been an old mystic name of the supreme deity of the shemites. hence it was told to moses when he was initiated at horeb- the cave- under the direction of jethro, the kenite (or cainite) priest of midian. in an old religion of the chald

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rived from this sidereal cycle, which he symbolised under the form and measurements of the tabernacle, that he is supposed to have constructed in the wilderness. on these data, the later jewish high priests constructed the allegory of solomon's temple- a building which never had a real existence, any more than had king solomon himself, who is simply, and as much a solar myth as is the still later hiram abif, of the masons, as ragon has well demonstrated. thus, if the measurements of this allegorical temple, the symbol of the cycle of[[vol. 1, page] 315 piazza smyth and petrie disagree. initiation, coincide with those of the great pyramid, it is due to the fact that the former were derived from the latter through the tabernacle of moses. that our author has undeniably discovered one and eve

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including mental diseases. apparently based on the teachings of origen (185-224 ad. 1844 bahai religion begins when the bab proclaims his mission in persia. 1846 anna kingsford (annie bonus) born 1847 annie besant (n e wood, author and noted theosophist born 1848 december 17- july 30, 1925 william wynn westcott 1850-1918 jos phin p ladan 1851 gerard de nerval, journey to the orient describing the hiram abiff legend in detail 1854 samuel liddell macgregor mathers born in london 1854-1917 frederick holland utilized a tarot with hebrew lettered trumps and the shemha mephorash attributed to the pips 1855: eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant) publishes "dogma et rituel de la haute magie" 1856 levi's masterpiece le dogme et rituel de la haute magie published 1857 arthur edward waite born in br

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t part of the rituals of stonemasons, as some of their few surviving rule books, the 'gothic constitutions' as they are called, have proved. the penalty for revealing the secrets in those days was to be thrown out of the lodge. it beats having your bowels burnt to ashes, for sure. the freemasonry rituals and oaths are based on a piece of invention in the eighteenth century- the freemason story of hiram abif. according to the freemasonry invention, hiram abif was the architect of solomon's biblical temple. the gothic constitutions of the stonemasons make no reference to such a man, but he became the freemasons' martyr figure. invention has it that hiram refused to betray the secrets to three fellow craft masons armed with masonic tools. they murdered him when he would not reveal his secrets

bif was the architect of solomon's biblical temple. the gothic constitutions of the stonemasons make no reference to such a man, but he became the freemasons' martyr figure. invention has it that hiram refused to betray the secrets to three fellow craft masons armed with masonic tools. they murdered him when he would not reveal his secrets, so the myth goes, and king solomon ordered a search when hiram appeared to be missing. hiram's body was discovered 'indecently interred' and was reburied with 'all respect and reverence. solomon ordered those responsible for the murder to be executed and in some versions of the story, the killers, jubela, jubelo, and jubelum, were so full of remorse that they asked to be put to death. jubela asked for his throat to be cut and his tongue torn out; jubelo

y asked to be put to death. jubela asked for his throat to be cut and his tongue torn out; jubelo chose to have his left breast torn open and his heart fed to the vultures; and jubelum was the one who asked for his bowels to be burned to ashes and scattered before the four winds of heaven. you can see where the freemasons' rituals and oaths come from. their rituals play out the story and death of hiram abif, baring their breast with their trouser legs rolled up to bare their knees.5 the story of hiram abif is a fantasy. the freemasonic thought police have made great play of the ancient links with the building of king solomon's temple in jerusalem. they have turned it into something akin to the vatican- and then some. but the bible from which the figure of hiram was taken, describes a very

er legs rolled up to bare their knees.5 the story of hiram abif is a fantasy. the freemasonic thought police have made great play of the ancient links with the building of king solomon's temple in jerusalem. they have turned it into something akin to the vatican- and then some. but the bible from which the figure of hiram was taken, describes a very different man. first of all his name was simply hiram. the addition of abif came from the pyramid power 185 founders of masonic myth. abif 's a miff, you might say. and what does the bible say about this man? does it say that he was "the most accomplished mason on earth, as the freemasons claim? not quite. it says that he was neither a mason nor an architect, but a worker in brass. according to the book of kings, he arrived from tyre after the

plished mason on earth, as the freemasons claim? not quite. it says that he was neither a mason nor an architect, but a worker in brass. according to the book of kings, he arrived from tyre after the temple was finished. the book of chronicles says he came before the temple was built and was an ornamental metal worker. any stone skills he had were in decoration, not construction. there is another hiram in the bible, the king of tyre, who is not the same man. but he is also held in great esteem by freemasonry because he is supposed to have supplied solomon with lebanese cedarwood for the temple. and that's another thing. the bible says the temple was built mostly of wood and was no bigger than a church hall of today (30 by 90 feet. the last thing they needed was a stonemason architect. but

the king of tyre, who is not the same man. but he is also held in great esteem by freemasonry because he is supposed to have supplied solomon with lebanese cedarwood for the temple. and that's another thing. the bible says the temple was built mostly of wood and was no bigger than a church hall of today (30 by 90 feet. the last thing they needed was a stonemason architect. but while the story of hiram abif is a nonsense, it is possible that its themes originate in ancient egypt when king seqenenre was murdered for refusing to reveal the most secret esoteric knowledge to a rival. if so, this is yet further confirmation that the same stream of knowledge and manipulation stretches from antiquity into modern freemasonry and the world today. my feeling is that the force that emerged as freemas

ced with a freemason in authority? in at least a number of cases, the answer is most certainly "yes. the freemasons have a series of signs and words which allow them to recognise each other, including the funny handshake. these also include the freemasons' sign for "grief and distress (i.e. get me out of trouble, the verbal version of which is "will no-one help the widow's son" the widow's son is hiram abif. these signs and signals come in very handy when you are arrested by freemason police officers or appear in court before a freemason judge. it doesn't always work, of course, but we are kidding ourselves if we think it doesn't happen. the political determination to tackle this dangerous injustice is simply not there, because either the politicians involved- of all parties- are freemason

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dant of charlemagne, the 8th-century emperor.24 these charlemagne links make gore a cousin of george w. bush! the merovingian bloodline charlemagne, in turn, takes us into the merovingian dynasty in france, which founded the city of paris and to whom all the royal families of europe are related. other highly influential figures of their time, like the founders of the mormon religion joseph smith, hiram smith, and brigham young are from this merovingian line. there have been a number of best-selling books written over recent years about the merovingian bloodline and the france-based priory of sion, a secret society through which this bloodline manipulates. these books have presented some interesting and important information, but they claim that the merovingians are the bloodline of jesus a

ians, and the mormon temple in salt lake city, utah, sits atop an underground reptilian base, say military insiders. the mormon church is a front for widespread satanic activity and rituals among its ruling elite, although the vast majority of mormons have no idea that this is going on. they are just the sheep controlled by forces they do not understand. and who started the mormons? joseph smith, hiram smith, and brigham young. they were all highdegree freemasons and from the merovingian (anunnaki) bloodline. this theme of reptilian-human hybrids can be seen in the story of adam and eve in the garden of eden (edin to the earlier sumerians "the abode of the righteous ones) in jewish lore, eve, who was tempted by the serpent, of course, was the ancestral mother of the nefilim and associated

their merovingian, pictish, and scythian (amazon-nordic) ancestry" laurence gardner calls them a "true kingly line of the elven race, a code for reptilian shape-shifters. freemasons are the serpent cult freemasonry is the biggest secret society in the world and a front for the serpent cult, although the vast majority of its members are oblivious to this. the hero of freemasonry is someone called hiram abif. his freemasonic legend says that he was the "grand master and architect of solomon's temple" who was killed for refusing to reveal the masonic secrets. the story has many similarities with the legend of the death of osiris in egypt. hiram i, the king of tyre from 969 to 936bc, is not considered the same person as hiram abif, although he, too, appears in the story of solomon's temple. h

s killed for refusing to reveal the masonic secrets. the story has many similarities with the legend of the death of osiris in egypt. hiram i, the king of tyre from 969 to 936bc, is not considered the same person as hiram abif, although he, too, appears in the story of solomon's temple. hiram abif is also said to have come from tyre (an old knights templar stronghold) and ty is a name for balder. hiram abif is the "widow's son" in freemasonry and he is also known to freemasons as the "tyrian architect. the code "widow" could represent el, the dragon goddess, and the son may well be balder. one of balder's titles was "the illegitimate son of a widow. the code for distress in freemasonry goes "is there no help for the widow's son" one of the tribes named in the edda that fought for the serpe

used in the mystery school "holy place" known as the tabernacle. here we have yet another religion originating from the same source and another perpetuation of the jesus myth. the gold plates, smith said, were written in "reformed egyptian. from this came the book of mormon two years later and his followers became the mormon church in 1830. the pillars of the early church were smith, his brother hiram, and another guy called brigham young. they were all high-degree freemasons and all from the merovingian bloodline- the same as piso, constantine, james 1st, etc, etc. it is no surprise, therefore, to find that the rothschilds, through their kuhn, loeb financial operation in new york, funded the expansion of the mormons. kuhn, 222 children of the matrix loeb also helped to fund the russian r

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man crossbreeds and the same, it would appear, as the racefrom mars. thus we have the scandinavian races, which were installed by thephoenicians and other peoples of the same bloodstock and general location. it is alsothe origin of the aryan master race nonsense which obsessed the nazis and the secretsocieties which created them. the hero of the freemason secret society to this day is themythical hiram abif, the so-called builder of king solomons temple. abif is supposedto have been a phoenician. the grandfather of the famous egyptian pharaoh akhenaten,the father of tutankhamen, was a phoenician high priest. the phoenix, the mythicalbird of egypt, was in fact the sun bird of the phoenicians, the emblem of the sun god,bil or bel, and as it has been later symbolised, a peacock or an eagle.29

24:538albert snow, astrology in the dead sea scrolls, the book your church doesnt want you t oread, p 65.39psalms 80:8.40isaiah 5:7.41the occult conspiracy, p 14.42jordan maxwell, the book your church doesnt want you t o read, p29.43luke 2:7.44bloodline of the holy grail, p 37.45ibid, pp 36-37.46the book your church doesnt want you to read, pp 182, 183.47 christopher knight and robert lomas, the hiram key (arrow books, london, 1997, p 310.48john e. remsburg, the book your church doesnt want you to read, p 171.49ibid.50ibid, p 172.103cmapter fiveconquered by the crossthe christian church is a farce founded on a fantasy. if anyone requires confirmationof how easy it is for the few to control the masses, they need look no further than thebillions of people who have worshipped the fairy tales

ettled in israel where some researchers link them with the essenes, the egyptian sectwho produced the dead sea scrolls.26 bacchus-dionysus (two names for the same deity)was a symbol of the sun who was said to have been born to a virgin on december 25th.the foundation of freemasonic legend and history centres on the building of thesymbolic king solomons temple in jerusalem. the freemasonic hero is hiram abiff,the son of the widow in their folklore. this is more symbolism. in egypt, horus(tammuz) was the son of the widow, isis.the creation of freemasonry in the 16th and 17th centuries pulled together many ofthe various themes, agendas and organisations i have highlighted so far. it connectedthe rosicrucians and templars in england, like bacon, with the story of the templarsafter their arriva

of harper collins,london, 1991, p 142. this is a very balanced and first class investigation into the subject and ichallenge anyone to read this and still deny that satanic ritual abuse is a myth.11human sacrifice, p 64.12aleister crowley, magick theory and practice (dover, usa, 1929, pp 94-95.13the templar revelation, p 109.14the occult conspiracy, pp 39-40.15the temple and the lodge, p 53.16the hiram key, p 364.31117the curse of canaan, p 37.18ibid.19ibid.20ibid.21lbid,p38.22blasphemous rumours, p 114.23ibid.24the illuminati formula, p 46.25ibid.26the top 13 llluminati bloodlines.27ibid, p 93.28the illuminati formula, p 213.29ibid.30ibid.31ibid, p 214.32satanic links to belgian murder trial, the sunday times, december 29th 1996.33ibid.34ibid.35lord mcalpine and the paedophile ring, scall

s itwas said that when the sun was most high, he was doing his fathers work in thetemple (more symbolism used in the jesus story. kennedy was shot in the back, thehead, and the throat, and they are the same wounds suffered by the mythical hiramabiff according to freemasonic legend and initiation. bill cooper, a former operativewith us naval intelligence, believes that the mythical freemason hero, hiram abiff, isreally a symbol for jacques de molay, the grand master of the knights templar whenthey were purged in france in 1307. de molay was burnt to death on the ile de la cite,the original paris, in the shadow of notre dame cathedral, which the templars hadbuilt on a former site of worship to the goddess diana. his death was ordered by theroman church inquisition with support from king phil

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the valley, the sinister kings of edom "who ruled ere there was a king in israel, whose kingdoms are unbalanced force" 10. generation by generation we trace the intercourse of the princes of israel with the priest-kings of egypt. abraham and jacob went thither; joseph and moses were mystical qabala page 6 intimately associated with the court of the royal adepts. when we read of solomon sending to hiram, king of tyre, for men materials to aid in the building of the temple we know that the famous tyrian mysteries must have profoundly influenced the hebrew esotericism. when we read of daniel being educated in the palaces of babylon we know that the wisdom of the magi must have been accessible to hebrew illuminati. 11. this ancient mystical tradition of the hebrews possessed three literatures:

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illustration of the history of all. a general similarity of the main features will be found, varied, of course, by local circumstances and surroundings. those in the north felt little or no effects of the great civil war, or, as our brethren in the south prefer to call it, the war between the states. but in their section, the times, to say the least, proved strenuous. i select for my illustration hiram lodge, no, 40, of 120 a typical lodge raleigh, n. c, and am indebted to brother john nichols for the facts which follow this lodge was chartered in january, i8oi, and its connection with the prosperity and progress of the state for more than a century past has been marked. many of the men who became famous not only in the history of the state itself, but in the councils of the nation, were m

o, 40, of 120 a typical lodge raleigh, n. c, and am indebted to brother john nichols for the facts which follow this lodge was chartered in january, i8oi, and its connection with the prosperity and progress of the state for more than a century past has been marked. many of the men who became famous not only in the history of the state itself, but in the councils of the nation, were made masons in hiram lodge, no. 40. a history of the anti-masonic excitement caused by the morgan incident is given elsewhere. at the convention held in washington, in 1842, hon. kenneth rayner was the delegate who represented the grand lodge of north carolina. he was a man of brilliant ability, an eloquent orator and a leading member of congress for many years. he possessed considerable wealth, but all of it wa

public school system of north carolina was established about 1840. the success of the beneficent movement was largely due to the masons of the state. the grand lodge in 1842 appointed a committee to inquire into the expediency of establishing a seminary of learning for the benefit of the poor children of the members of the fraternity and for such others as the means would permit. some time later, hiram lodge, no. 40, pledged itself to contribute fifty dollars annually, in addition to the individual subscriptions for such purpose, the latter amounting to a considerable sum. an interesting fact or two should be noted at this point. down to 1844, nearly all the business of the lodge was transacted on the entered apprentice's degree. members who were neglectful in their attendance were frequen

latter amounting to a considerable sum. an interesting fact or two should be noted at this point. down to 1844, nearly all the business of the lodge was transacted on the entered apprentice's degree. members who were neglectful in their attendance were frequently fined, and it required a pretty good excuse on their part to escape the infliction. among the grand officers who signed the charter of hiram lodge was colonel william polk, one of the bravest soldiers 124 a typical lodge of the revolutionary war. he was an intimate friend of general lafayette, who, when he made a tour of this country in 1825, paid a visit to raleigh. at the conclusion of governor hutchins's speech of welcome to the distinguished french patriot, lafayette and colonel polk rushed into each other's arms and wept the

as popular with everybody, for his peculiarities were never repellent, and he had the kindest of hearts. he was quite advanced in life when the royal arch chapter, which had been dormant for some time, was revived and the chapter officers provided themselves with the gorgeous paraphernalia appropriate to their respective offices. uncle dick was the guard, or tyler, for the chapter, as well as for hiram lodge. when the officers appeared "arrayed in all their glory" he was observed sitting at his station, with bowed head, disconsolate visage, and with no apparent interest in the brilliant assemblage around him. a past grand master walked up to him and inquired the cause of his dejection. with a breaking voice and moist eyes the old man replied in tremulous tones "i have served you all these

sylum was established; the methodists built a fine female school; st. mary's school was greatly improved; goldsboro and charlotte were joined by railway, making connection with other roads on the south and east; still other lines joined the atlantic with the mountains on the west, and the public school system was thoroughly reorganized. masonry kept pace with these advancements. the membership of hiram lodge had doubled and its members were identified with the material and moral progress of their state. all was hopeful and promising when the dark clouds burst and the country was plunged into the greatest war of modern times. to quote brother nichols "states had taken up arms against sister states, citizens against citizens, masons against masons. the southern soldier was captured and carri

never gave the sign of distress nor received the fraternal grasp of a brother's hand. of course, there were many deaths among them, and the masons of raleigh were called at frequent intervals to pay the last tribute of respect to a departed brother" raleigh was a recruiting station, besides containing a number of hospitals. in the latter part of 1863 a mason's relief association was organized by hiram lodge. its object was to look after the sick and wounded masons and to provide, as far as possible, clothing, food and medicine for the needy. it was agreed that the federal soldier who was a mason should receive the same care and attention as the confederate soldier, whenever it was possible to reach him. the existence of this association was known to masons only. the good which it did will

d, were given a bountiful dinner by masons of the guard who stood sentinel over them" brother nichols relates the following personal experience "among the sick and wounded confederate soldiers in the hospital tents on the grounds of peace institute was a young lieutenant, who had been wounded in one of the battles of virginia. at one time he had been a member of my family. he was also a member of hiram lodge. of course i felt a special interest in him and frequently visited him "one day he said to me that among the federal prisoners in a room in the building was a young soldier who was a mason. i at once called to see him, and found that my information was correct. he had evidently been a handsome young man before sickness, although now much emaciated. from that time on he did not suffer f

talked over some of the incidents of hospital experience, each becoming thoroughly satisfied of the other's identity. that night i went with him to his lodge, where, after introduction, i received a most enthusiastic welcome "i will not pursue the story further, but will simply remark that `incidental expenses' during the balance of my stay in new york were not heavy" trying days were at hand for hiram lodge. general sherman entered raleigh on the morning of april 13, 1865, the advance under general kilpatrick being the first to appear. the citizens hoped that the town would be spared, but were in dread lest an overt act by some rash person should draw down the wrath of the federals, who were flushed with the decisive successes that had come to their arms. there was thankfulness, too, that

s of-masons of raleigh. this was done, and not the slightest molestation of masonic prop- erty occurred. on friday night, april 14, 1865, the saddest calamity a typical lodge 129 that ever befell the american people occurred in the city of washington. it was the assassination of abraham lincoln, the president of the united states. the following monday evening, april 17, was the regular meeting of hiram lodge, no. 40. there were present at this meeting quite a number of fedral officers-masons, of course -and among them was the young major who interested himself in giving us a guard for the protection of our property. the news of the assassination had reached raleigh late in the afternoon of that day, and it caused a profound sensation among the federal troops. about dark there was a restles

ops. about dark there was a restlessness and spirit of insubordination manifested among the soldiers, and a riot was feared by the officers in command. in order to prevent such a calamity the guards at every street crossing were doubled, and messengers were sent up and down the streets to every place where the people might have assembled to warn them to disperse at once and repair to their homes. hiram lodge had just opened for business. suddenly we heard the hasty footsteps of some one ascending the stairs to the hall, and the low clanking of the sword of an officer. there was a rapid knock at the door, and i was requested to go to the anteroom. there i met a federal captain (a mason, as i afterward learned, captain w. c. whitten, ninth maine regiment, who hurriedly told me of the excitem

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ilt. he developed a distributorship of astrological literature, the great majority of which came from england. as astrology grew and became the center of renewed controversy, broughton assumed the dual role of astrology s defender from its enemies and protector from incompetent astrologers. he wrote and at times appeared as a witness in court on astrology s behalf. he also attacked people such as hiram butler, eleanor kirk, and c. w. roback, astrologers who, he felt, had insufficient training for their work. at the time of his death in 1898, he left his practice to his daughter, who carried on his work and saw to the publication of his most substantive book, the elements of astrology (1898. sources: broughton, luke d. the elements of astrology. new york: the author, 1898. planetary influen

hat shimei should be put to death: this grated upon david s feelings, at a time when he was filled with exuberant joy at his own restoration; and he rebuked abishai as a satan. again satan is said to have provoked david to number israel, and at the same time, that the lord moved david to number israel; a course strenuously opposed by joab, another of the sons of zeruiah. solomon in his message to hiram, king of tyre, congratulated himself on having no satans and that this peaceful immunity from discord enabled him to build the temple, which had been forbidden to his warlike father, david. this immunity was not, however, lasting; for hadad, the edomite, and regon, of zobah, became satans to solomon, after his profuse luxury had opened the way for corruption and disaffection. in all these ca

of the written line. with other slate-writing mediums the conditions varied. in mrs. harman s case, as reported by j. l. o sullivan (former american minister in portugal, a steady stream of rapid little ticks was audible. in the case of mrs. francis, of san francisco, the direct movement of the pencil on the slate was seen by elliot cowes and e. coleman. charles e. watkins was offered $50,000 by hiram sibley, of rochester, for the secret of his slate-writing trick. he claimed he did not know it himself. e. crowell asked how the writing was effected and received the following answer in a seance with slade: the smaller the pencil the more easily we can write, the larger the pencil the greater the difficulty. we move the point by our willpower entirely, and that enables us to write. very few

nt east and middle east, and both eastern religions (especially hinduism) and western mystical systems such as kabalism assist the process of describing it. the ancient wisdom myth of freemasonry found an origin in the bible, a significantly more acceptable source to a christian establishment than arabia and the muslim countries of rosicrucianism. in 1 kings 7:13.45, the masons found the story of hiram. hiram was employed by king solomon to work on the temple in jerusalem. after his work, he disappeared from both the pages of the bible and from history. freemasons, however, developed his biography that included a murder by his artisan colleagues. hiram, in working on the temple, became aware of the word of god inscribed in the secret parts of the temple. he would not reveal what he had lea

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witnessed genuine spirit manifestations with the bangs sisters. after the reverend f. w. monck was accused of fraud in 1876, archdeacon thomas colley offered a thousand pounds to j. n. maskelyne if he could duplicate monck s materialization performance. maskelyne accepted the challenge. his performance was declared unsatisfactory. he sued for the money and lost his reputation when colley won. sir hiram maxim, the great inventor, later challenged maskelyne to produce a psychic effect he had seen in the united states under the same conditions, but maskelyne refused. the challenge and its result were described by the inventor in a pamphlet, maxim versus maskelyne (1910. the descendants of j. n. maskelyne followed in his footsteps. capt. clive maskelyne issued a challenge in february 1925, whe

cult stemming from the teachings of william miller (1782.1849, formerly a baptist convert, whose simplistic interpretation of scripture led him to asssert that christ would return to earth march 21, 1843. he built up a considerable following, but lost support when the return did not take place, even for a revised calculation of october 22, 1844. his teachings were later modified by the millerite hiram edson in new york state, who claimed that he had a vision which confirmed that miller was right about the time of redemption but wrong about the place, which should have been the heavenly sanctuary and not the earth. edson s doctrine was further developed by father bates (former sea captain, elder james white of the s.d.a. church which had been organized in 1860 and his wife ellen g. white

story covering the period between the building of the temple in jerusalem and his own fall from grace. it tells the story of a vampirelike jinn and the magic ring of solomon and details the various spirits and the magical means of controlling them. the ring of solomon is also the subject of stories in the arabian nights. in the seventeenth century, freemasons began to trace their work backward to hiram, the architect of solomon s kingdom. this indirect reference to solomon has possibly been the single reference that has kept solomon associated with the occult world. sources: conybeare, f. c, ed. the key of truth. london, 1898. mathers, f. l. macgregor, ed. the key of solomon the king. london: george redway, 1908. reprint, london: routledge and kegan paul, 1972. shah, sayed idires. the secr

ed by imperator and sunbeam, the spirit of a child. in the publications of the boston society for psychic research, an interesting record of seances narrates the experiences of lydia w. allison, with supplementary material by walter franklin prince, under the title leonard and soule experiments in psychical research (1929. an earlier work, spirit messages (rochester, 1914, dedicated to the medium hiram corson of cornell university, recorded unique communications received through soule, apparently from robert and elizabeth barrett browning, alfred lord tennyson, henry wadsworth longfellow, and many other eminent minds. sources: allison, lydia w. leonard and soule experiments in psychical research. boston: boston society for psychic research, 1929. thomas, john f. beyond normal cognition. bo

iritism. london, n.d. hornung, d. neue geheimnisse des tages durch geistes magnetismus. leipzig, 1857. kerner, justinus. die somnambulen tische: zur geschichte und erklarungen dieser erscheinungen. stuttgart, 1853. lang, andrew. cock lane and common-sense. london: longmans, green, 1894. reprint, new york: ams press, 1970. mahan, asa. modern mysteries explained and exposed. boston, 1855. mattison, hiram. spirit rapping unveiled! derby, n.y, 1853. maxwell, joseph. metaphysical phenomena: methods and observations. london: duckworth, 1905. morgan, r. c. an inquiry into table miracles. bath and london, 1853. page, charles g. psychomancy; spirit rappings and tippings exposed. new york, 1853. perty, maximilien. die mystischen erscheinungen der menschlichen natur. 2nd ed, leipzig and heidelberg, 1

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arge of the duties of your office* look well to the west. the senior warijen is conducted to the west by the marshal, and the following words may be sung: o warden, with thy level poised, what maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (44 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] lesson dost thou give? are all men equal? shall the worm on king and peasant live? o warden, where king hiram stood,like him, seek strength above; sustain the east, pay all their dues, protect the weak in love. junior warden. my brother:you have been elected junior warden of this lodge, and i now invest you with this jewel and the implement of your office. the plumb admonishes us to walk uprightly in our several stations, to hold the scale of justice in equal poise, to observe the just medium betwee

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ive function to the purpose of propagation is eminently good, noble and productive of great soul-growth, but that unmarried aspirant should live an absolutely celibate life if they wish to attain the highest. part viii the path of initiation in an earlier chapter we noted that the transition of the adept from the dominion of death to the realm of immortality was foreshadowed in the daring leap of hiram abiff, the grand master-workman of solomon's temple, into the seething sea of molten metal and his passage through the nine arch-like strata of the earth which form the path of initiation. we also remember that at the end of that journey hiram abiff, the son of cain, received from his ancestor a new hammer and a new word for use in the new age. according to the gospels we also find that jesu

or mason, a son of god, the grand archetekton. at the age of thirty-three, when he had taken the three-times-three (9) degrees of mystic masonry, he descended to the center of the earth. so does every other tekton, mason or phree messen (child of light) as the egyptian called such, descend through the nine arch-like strata of the earth. we shall find at the time of the first advent of christ both hiram abiff, the son of cain, and solomon, the son of seth, reborn to take from him the next great initiation into the christian mysteries. in the last chapter we saw while considering "the philosopher's stone" that the spinal cord is the principal laboratory for the alchemist, and that the spinal spirit fire, generated by turning the creative force upward through the spinal canal, passing it betw

masonic legend, was born from this union with eve. it is also stated that the lucifer spirit then left eve, who thus became a widow, and cain was thus the son of the lucifer spirit, the serpent of wisdom, and eve, the widow. every initiate to this day has the serpent symbol on his brow and is known to his fellows by that token as a son of the widow and the lucifer spirit. therefore we shall trace hiram abiff to his next embodiment by that mark, and as evidence given by a party against his own interest is particularly valuable according to law, we call special attention to the following points gained from the catholic latin testament: in 1st samuel 19, king james version, naioth is spoken of as a place where a school of prophets and seers dwelt, samuel among others. naioth is the feminine p

and further because the lodge of phree messen (children of light) of ancient egypt are now transferred to the various branches of the anglo-saxon race, where the sound nain means "nine" the original word has been corrupted to mislead all not entitled to the knowledge. but all things change on this terrestrial sphere, and this applies also to the methods of initiation and the requirements thereof. hiram abiff failed in his great effort to make the molten sea at the time when he was building solomon's temple, because he, the son of the fiery lucifer spirits, did not know how to blend the element fire with the water poured into his mold by the sons of seth, the creatures of the water god, jehovah. at that time he was given a new hammer and a new word. the hammer was in the form of a cross. th

ided into two sexes, male and female, and placed under the dual rulership of a king having dominion over their temporal affairs and aiming to advance them by industry and statecraft, and a priest, head of the priestcraft, exercising a spiritual authority, in such a manner as they considered for the eternal good of their charges. the statecraft employed by the sons of cain holds up the male ideal, hiram abiff, the master craftsman, the son of fire, while the sons of seth as priestcraft uphold the female ideal in the virgin mary, the lady of the sea. thus fire and water, male and female, church and state, are opposed to each other, with the inevitable result that a great war has been waged ever since the separation, that sin, sorrow and death are rampant, and that humanity is praying for the

and begat a child, human like themselves, whose name was abel. jehovah, being the lunar god, is associated with the water, hence there was enmity between cain, the son of fire, and abel, the son of water. so cain slew abel and abel was replaced by seth. in time and through generations, the sons of cain became the craftsmen of the world, skilled in the use of fire and metal. their ideal was male, hiram abiff, the master workman. the sons of seth, on the other hand, became the churchmen, upholding the feminine ideal, the virgin mary, and ruling their people by the magic water placed at their temple doors. various attempts have been made to unite the two streams of humanity and emancipate them from their progenitors, jehovah and the lucifer spirits. with this end in view the symbolical templ

g the feminine ideal, the virgin mary, and ruling their people by the magic water placed at their temple doors. various attempts have been made to unite the two streams of humanity and emancipate them from their progenitors, jehovah and the lucifer spirits. with this end in view the symbolical temple was built according to the instruction of solomon, the son of seth and the molten sea was cast by hiram abiff, the son of cain; but the main object was frustrated as we have seen, and the attempt at unification proved abortive. moses, the divinely appointed leader of the old dispensation, afterward reborn as elijah, guided humanity through its ages of infancy, and was finally embodied as john the baptist, the herald of the new dispensation, the christian era. at the same point in time the othe

ve. moses, the divinely appointed leader of the old dispensation, afterward reborn as elijah, guided humanity through its ages of infancy, and was finally embodied as john the baptist, the herald of the new dispensation, the christian era. at the same point in time the other actors in the world drama were also brought to birth that they might serve their brothers. at the casting of the molten sea hiram abiff had been given the baptism of fire by cain, which freed him from the lucifer spirits; he was also given a new hammer and a new word. when the new era dawned, he was born as lazarus, the widow's son of nain, and raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw to the rank of immortals as christian rosenkreuz. solomon, the son of seth, was reborn as jesus. the baptism of water administered by

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build a house for his name, the sublime spirituality of a long line of divinely guided ancestors flowered into the conception of the magnificent temple called solomon's temple, though solomon has only the instrument to carry out the divine plan revealed by jehovah to david. but solomon was unable to execute the divine design in concrete form. therefore it became necessary for him to apply to king hiram of tyre, the descendent of cain, who selected hiram abiff, the son of a widow (as all free masons are called because of the relation of their divine progenitor with eve) hiram abiff then became grand master of the army of construction. in him the arts and crafts of all the sons of cain who had gone before had flowered. he was skilled beyond all others in the work of the world, without which

e them, and had that been accomplished the world history from then on would have been altered in a very material manner. the sons of cain, descended from the fiery lucifer spirits, were naturally proficient in the use of fire. by it the metals hoarded by solomon and his ancestors were melted into altars, lavers and vessels of various kinds. pillars were fashioned by workmen under the direction of hiram abiff, and arches to rest upon them. the great edifice was nearing completion when he made ready to cast the "molten sea" which was to be the crowning effort, his masterpiece. it was in the construction of this great work that the treachery of the sons of seth became manifest and frustrated the divine plan of reconciliation. they tried to quench the fire used by hiram abiff with their natura

n of sheba the masonic legend is voluminous, circumstantial, even trivial, and seemingly far-fetched and fantastic to the uninitiated who fail to see the important hidden meaning underlying every word; but we will give only such fragments as have a bearing upon our main subject and the explanation necessary to link them together. the events which led up to the conspiracy against the grand master, hiram abiff, mentioned in our last chapter, and which culminated in his murder, commenced with the arrival of the queen of sheba who had been attracted to the court of solomon by tales of his wonderful wisdom and of the splendor of the temple he was engaged in building. she is said to have come laden with gorgeous gifts and it is stated that at first she was much impressed with the wisdom of solom

ierarchies, hints that she saw at the court of solomon one that was fairer than he, and there the bible narrative leaves her. her marriage with solomon was never consummated or the name of mason would have faded from memory long ere the present day and humanity at large would now be docile children of the dominant church, without free will, choice or prerogative. nor could she be permitted to wed hiram, who represented the temporal power, or religion would have been stamped out; she must wait for the bridegroom who shall embody within himself the combined good qualities of solomon and hiram, but who is purified from their weaknesses. for the queen of sheba is the composite soul of humanity, and at the consummation of the work of our evolutionary era she will be the bride, while christ, who

or state but waiting, whether they realize it or not, for the day of emancipation, symbolically represented as the millennium, when there will be a wonderful city, a new jerusalem, a city of peace. and the earlier this amalgamation can be brought about, the better for humanity. therefore, an attempt was made at the time and is the place which is said in the legend to be the scene of solomon's and hiram's love episode. there the two initiatory orders met for the consummation of a definite work of amalgamation symbolically called the molten sea, a work which was then attempted for the first time. it could not have been wrought at any earlier period, for man was not sufficiently advanced. at that time, however, it seemed as if the united efforts of the two schools might accomplish the task, a

hat have gone aloft" it is such a temple that the mystic mason is building. he endeavors to work on the temple of humanity at large, but since "when the rose adorns itself, it adorns the garden" he aims also to cultivate his own spiritual powers, as foreshadowed in the molten sea. solomon had already sued for the hand of the queen of sheba, and had been accepted, so, feeling that the meeting with hiram abiff might change her affections, he endeavored to consummate their marriage before granting her wish to meet the grand master. but the queen was obstinate, she sensed the grandeur of the master workman whose skill had wrought the marvelous temple and she felt intuitively drawn towards this man of action, as she had never been moved by the wisdom of solomon, which only found verbal expressi

the queen was obstinate, she sensed the grandeur of the master workman whose skill had wrought the marvelous temple and she felt intuitively drawn towards this man of action, as she had never been moved by the wisdom of solomon, which only found verbal expression in flowery speeches and high ideals which he was unable to carry into realization. therefore the reluctance of solomon to let her meet hiram abiff made the queen all the more anxious and importunate, so that at last solomon was forced to accede to her request, and he grudgingly sent for the grand master. when hiram abiff appeared, and solomon saw the love light kindle in the eyes of the queen of sheba, jealousy and hatred took root in his heart; he was, however, too wise to betray his feelings. but from that moment the plan of re

ba, jealousy and hatred took root in his heart; he was, however, too wise to betray his feelings. but from that moment the plan of reconciliation and amalgamation of the sons of seth and the sons of cain which had been mapped out by the divine hierarchies was doomed to failure, wrecked upon the rocks of jealousy and self-seeking. the queen of sheba, according to the masonic legend, then requested hiram abiff to show her the workmen on the temple. the grand master struck a nearby rock with his hammer so that the fire sparks flew, and at the sign of fire coupled with the work of power, the toilers of the temple flocked around their master in a great multitude, which no one could count, all ready and anxious to do his bidding. and this spectacle so impressed the queen of sheba with the wonder

arby rock with his hammer so that the fire sparks flew, and at the sign of fire coupled with the work of power, the toilers of the temple flocked around their master in a great multitude, which no one could count, all ready and anxious to do his bidding. and this spectacle so impressed the queen of sheba with the wonderful power of this man that she determined to jilt solomon and win the heart of hiram abiff. in other words, humanity, when its eyes are opened to the impotence of the churchmen, the sons of seth, who are themselves dependent upon divine favor, and when it sees the power and potency of the rulers of temporal fame is then ready to rush to them, and leave the spiritual for the material. this from the microcosmic angle of matter. from the cosmic angle or view point we note again

yes are opened to the impotence of the churchmen, the sons of seth, who are themselves dependent upon divine favor, and when it sees the power and potency of the rulers of temporal fame is then ready to rush to them, and leave the spiritual for the material. this from the microcosmic angle of matter. from the cosmic angle or view point we note again that solomon's temple is the solar universe and hiram abiff, the grand master, is the sun which travels around the twelve signs of the zodiac, enacting there the mystic drama of the masonic legend. at the vernal equinox the sun leaves the watery sign of pisces, which is also feminine and docile, for the belligerent, martial, energetic, fiery sign aries, the ram or lamb, where it is exalted in power. it fills the universe with a creative fire wh

ld the temple of the coming year in forest and fen. the forces of fecundation applied to the countless seeds slumbering in the ground causes them to germinate and fill the earth with luxuriant vegetation while the group spirit mate the beasts and birds in their charge so that they may bring forth and increase sufficiently to keep the fauna of our planet at normal. according to the masonic legend, hiram abiff, the grand master, used a hammer to call his workmen, and it is significant that the symbol of the sign aries, where this wonderful creative activity commences, is shaped like a double ram's horn, which also resembles a hammer. it is also worthy of notice that in the ancient norse mythology, the vanir or water deities are said to have been conquered by the assir, or fire gods. the hamm

ign aries, where this wonderful creative activity commences, is shaped like a double ram's horn, which also resembles a hammer. it is also worthy of notice that in the ancient norse mythology, the vanir or water deities are said to have been conquered by the assir, or fire gods. the hammer wherewith the norse god thor struck fire from the sky finds its counterpart in the thunderbolt of jove; like hiram, the assir belong to the hierarchy of fire, the lucifer spirits, the sons of cain, striving for positive mastership through individual effort, and therefore upholding the male ideal, which is diametrically opposite to that of the hierarchy which works in the plastic element water. in the present day temples of the latter order, magic water stands at the door, and all who enter are required t

he attitude of unquestioning childlike obedience being cultivated. it is different in the temple of the other order; when the candidate enters there "poor "naked" and "blind" he is asked at once what he is seeking, and when he answers "light" it is the duty of the master to give what he asks and make him a phree messen--a child of light. it is his duty also to teach him to work, and a male ideal, hiram abiff, the master workman, is presented for emulation. he is taught to be always ready to give a reason for his faith. as he qualifies in the work, he rises step by step, and at each degree more light is given. there are 3x3 degrees in the lesser mysteries; when the candidate has passed the 9th arch, he is in the holy of holies, which forms the gate to greater fields beyond the scope of maso

and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded. initiation is merely like pulling the trigger, and consists in showing the candidate how to use the power latent within himself. there were some among the workmen on the temple who thought they ought to be promoted to a higher degree, but who had not the power within; therefore hiram abiff could not initiate them, and as they were unable to see that the lack was in themselves, they felt provoked at hiram, as over-ambitious candidates of today feel slighted and stamp a spiritual teacher a fraud who is unable to give them immediate illumination and induction into the invisible, while they are still eating of the "flesh-pots of egypt" and unwilling to sacrifice themselves u

unable to see that the lack was in themselves, they felt provoked at hiram, as over-ambitious candidates of today feel slighted and stamp a spiritual teacher a fraud who is unable to give them immediate illumination and induction into the invisible, while they are still eating of the "flesh-pots of egypt" and unwilling to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of self-denial. the dissatisfied among hiram's men entered into a conspiracy to spoil his great masterpiece, the molten sea. part iv casting the molten sea as the spiritual gifts of the sons of seth flowered in solomon, the wisest of men, and enabled him to conceive and design a marvelous temple, according to the plan of his creator, jehovah, so hiram, the clever craftsman, embodied within himself the consummate skill of a long line of

rious edifice was the chef d'oeurve of both lines, an embodiment of the sublime spirituality of the churchmen, the sons of seth, combined with the superlative skill of the craftsmen, the sons of cain. so far, the honors were even, the achievement equal. solomon was contented; he had carried out the design transmitted to him, he had a place of worship worthy of the lord he revered; but the soul of hiram was not satisfied. armed with the art of ages, he had constructed an incomparable masterpiece in architecture. but the design had not been his own; he had been merely the tool of an unseen architect, jehovah, working through an intermediary solomon. this rankled in his heart, for it was as necessary for him to originate as to breathe. in that ancient age when cain and abel first found themse

first found themselves upon earth, abel contentedly cared for the flocks created like himself and his parents, adam and eve, by jehovah; but in cain, semi-divine progeny of the lucifer spirit, samael, and eve, the creature of jehovah, divine incentive to original effort burned; he tilled the field and made two blades of grass grow where one grew before; the creative instinct must have expression. hiram, being the focus of and having inherited all the crafts of cain, was also invested with the spirit of samael intensified in commensurate ratio; therefore he was consumed by an overpowering urge to add something to the temple that would eclipse the rest of the structure in beauty and importance. out of the travail of his spirit was born the conception of the molten sea, and this great ideal h

would eclipse the rest of the structure in beauty and importance. out of the travail of his spirit was born the conception of the molten sea, and this great ideal he proceeded to carry into execution, though heaven and earth held their breath in awe at the audacity of his purpose. the bible gives very little information about the molten sea. in second chronicles, the fourth chapter, we learn that hiram made such a vessel, that it was of considerable size, that it stood upon 12 oxen arranged so that their heads were at the periphery of this circular basin and their hind parts were towards its center. it was intended solely for use by the priests. much is said of a nature to bewilder the reader, but the above salient points prove the signal importance of this instrument, as we shall see when

re at the periphery of this circular basin and their hind parts were towards its center. it was intended solely for use by the priests. much is said of a nature to bewilder the reader, but the above salient points prove the signal importance of this instrument, as we shall see when we study and compare the masonic account with this veiled word of the bible. the masonic story runs as follows: when hiram had about completed the temple, he commenced to cast the various vessels required in the service according to designs made by solomon as agent of jehovah. chief among these was the great laver, intended to hold the bath of purification, through which all priests must pass to enter the service of the lord. this, and all the lesser vessels were successfully cast by hiram, as recorded in the bi

ording to designs made by solomon as agent of jehovah. chief among these was the great laver, intended to hold the bath of purification, through which all priests must pass to enter the service of the lord. this, and all the lesser vessels were successfully cast by hiram, as recorded in the bible. but there is an important distinction between the vessel and the molten sea which it was designed by hiram to contain, and until that had been successfully poured, the vessel was without virtue, so far as purifying properties were concerned; until then it could no more cleanse the sin-stained soul than could a dry basin be utilized to cleanse the body. nor could solomon speak the word, the formula for this wonderful work. none but hiram knew it. this work was to be his masterpiece, and if he succ

of knowledge. for ages his ancestors had wrought in the world; through the accumulated skill of the sons of cain, an edifice had been reared, wherein jehovah hid himself "behind the veil" and communed only with his chosen priests, the sons of seth. the sons of cain were thrust out of the temple which they had built, as their father, cain, had been driven from the garden which he had tilled. this hiram felt to be an outrage and an injustice; so he applied himself to prepare the means whereby the sons of cain might "rend the veil" and open the way to god for "whosoever will" to this end he sent messengers over the world to collect all the metals with which the sons of cain had ever wrought. with his hammer he pulverized them and placed them in a fiery furnace to extract by alchemistry, from

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arned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands, and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. he must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, tubal-cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare [manly p. hall, 33rd degree, k.t, the lost keys of freemasonry or the secret of hiram abiff, forward by reynold e. blight, 33rd degree, k.t, illustrations by j. augustus knapp, 32nd degree, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, inc, richmond, virginia, p. 48; emphasis added] once the mason learns to control his emotion and to apply the "dynamo of living power" the mason can be assured of being able to control the "seething energies of lucifer" in his hands. he makes th

former witch, william schnoebelen, in his book, satan's door revisited, p. 4 "the phoenix, of bunnu is believed to be a divine bird going back to egypt. this phoenix destroys itself in flames and then rises from the ashes. most occultists believe that the phoenix is a symbol of lucifer who was cast down in flames and who. will one day rise triumphant. this [belief] also relates to the raising of hiram abiff, the masonic 'christ" to prevent most people from associating the masonic eagle with the ancient phoenix, freemasons changed the phoenix to an eagle, and began to refer to it as an eagle. however, two masonic authors blow the lid off that change in symbolism. manly p. hall, in his book, the lost keys of freemasonry, states "these were the immortals to whom the term 'phoenix' was applie

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on forwards or backwards and its token is this: nothing excels gno= ong= pleasure) in good, and nothing excels ogn= ngo= plague) in evil. 8 in man good and evil represent the pillars of mercy and severity (or justice, whilst free will represents the central pillar of mildness. this mystery of good, will, and evil is the foundation of the symbolical temple of solomon. myer writes: the widow's son, hiram abiff of tyre, cast for the qabalistic temple of king solomon two high pillars or pylons of bronze; their capitals were pomegranates and lily work. the lily, most likely the lotus, an emblem of life, white or male, on the right side, the pomegranate, the emblem of fecundity and plasticity, red or female, on the left side. the first was called yakheen, the latter boaz. these columns represent

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solstice; and the great mysteries of osiris at the autumnal equinox. in this latter ceremonial the drama of the murder of osiris was performed, the reconstruc255 tion of his body by isis his queen, and the punishment of typhon or set the murderer, the wicked brother of osiris. from this ceremonial some students have derived the tradition of the masonic third degree, alleging that the reference to hiram of tyre was of secondary introduction. astothe requirements needed to obtain reception into the greater mysteries of egypt, we have no definite information,butit has been suggested that the candidate must have shown some spiritual development, or special aptitude for prescience,an essay on the ancient mysteries 275divination, will power, or magical attributes. it is probable that the lesser

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s the nature of this philosophy. why did the templars abandon christianity and become a heretical order? what led them to this? why did they undergo such a change in jerusalem? through the agency of masonry, what has been the effect on the world of this philosophy adopted by the templars? the templars and the kabbalah a book written by two masons, christopher knight and robert lomas, entitled the hiram key reveals some important facts about the roots of freemasonry. according to these authors, it is evident that masonry is a continuation of the templars. though, in addition to this, the authors also examined the origins of the templars. dl the magazine mimar sinan, a private turkish masonic publication intended for its own members. from the templars to ancient egypt global freemasonry ec a

e built in the near-by village of roslin and a lodge was opened the plan and decoration of the chapel is unique. there is no other such example in ed from the templars to ancient egypt scotland or even europe. it captured the atmosphere of herod's temple very well and every part of it was decorated with masonic symbols. among the symbols were reliefs on the walls and arches depicting the heads of hiram and his murderer, a relief of an initiation ceremony, the keystones of the arches, and compasses. apart from the fact that the chapel was constructed in a marked pagan style with egyptian, hebrew, gothic, norman, celtic, scandinavian, templar and masonic architectural elements, and that it contains very rich examples of stone work, one of the most interesting aspects of it is that the tops o

used their purported role as protectors of christian pilgrims visiting palestine as a pretense, but that their real aim was quite different: there is no evidence that these founding templars ever gave protection to pilgrims, but on the other hand we were soon to find that there is conclusive proof that they did conduct extensive excavations under the ruins of herod's temple 12 the authors of the hiram key were not the only ones who found evidences of this. french historian gaetan delaforge makes this similar contention: the real task of the nine knights was to carry out research in the area in order to obtain certain relics and manuscripts which contain the essence of the secret traditions of judaism and ancient egypt.13 at the end of the nineteenth century, charles wilson of the royal en

logical research in jerusalem. he arrived at the opinion that the templars had gone to jerusalem to study the ruins of the temple. wilson found traces of digging and excavation under the foundations of the temple, and concluded that these were done by tools that belonged to the templars. these items are still in the collection of robert brydon, who possesses an extensive global freemasonry ee the hiram key: pharaohs, freemasons, and the discovery of the secret scrolls of jesus archive of information concerning the templars.14 the writers of the hiram key argue that these excavations of the templars were not without result; that the order discovered in jerusalem certain relics that changed the way they saw the world. in addition, many researchers are of the same opinion. there must have bee

egypt and present-day freemasons? ancient egypt a classic example in the qur'an of a godless political system disappeared thousands of years ago. can it have any influence today? to find the answer to these questions, we must look at the ancient egyptian priests' beliefs with regards to the origin of the universe and of life. the ancient egyptian belief in materialist evolution in their book the hiram key, the english masonic authors christopher knight and robert lomas argue that ancient egypt has a very important place in regards to the origins of masonry. according to these authors, the most important idea that has transpired to modern masonry, from ancient egypt, is that of a universe existing by and of itself, and evolving by chance. they explain this interesting notion in these words

ry. jl humanism revisited kc -ivmaterialism revisited n the first chapter of this book, we looked at the regime of pharaoh in ancient egypt and came to some important conclusions about its philosophical underpinnings. the most interesting feature of ancient egyptian thought, as we said, is that it was materialist, that is, posited the belief that matter is eternal and uncreated. in their book the hiram key, christopher knight and robert lomas have some important things to say on this matter that are worth repeating: the egyptians believed that matter had always existed; to them it was illogical to think of a god making something out of absolutely nothing. their view was that the world began when order came out of chaos, and that ever since there has been a battle between the forces of orga

bes; the other was in the north in heliopolis. in the entrance to the amenta temple dedicated to ptah, the chief god of egypt, there were two columns as in the temple of solomon. in the oldest myths associated with the sun, two columns are mentioned, named intelligence and power, erected in front of the gate of the entrance to eternity. 72 the egyptian terminology of the lodges in their book, the hiram key, two british masonic authors, christopher knight and robert lomas, drew attention to the ancient egyptian roots of masonry. one interesting point they reveal is that the words used in the ceremony in which a mason is made to rise to the degree of master mason are: ma'at-neb-men-aa, ma'at-ba-aa'.73 knight and lomas explain that these words are used most of the time without any thought to

f the hereafter. in spite of this, masonic writings sometimes say of the dead that they "passed over into eternity" or other such spiritual expressions. this may appear contradictory, but it is not, actually, because all of masonry's references to the immortality of the spirit are symbolic. mimar sinan deals with this topic in an article entitled "after death in freemasonry: in the myth of master hiram, masons accept resurrection after death in a symbolic manner. this resurrection shows that truth always prevails over dcj materialism revisited death and darkness. masonry does not give any importance to the existence of a spirit apart from the body. in masonry, resurrection after death is to leave some spiritual or material work as a legacy to human beings. these make a human being immortal

s stated below: when their brother hud said to them "will you not do your duty? i am a faithful messenger to you, so heed god and obey me. i do not ask you for any wage for it. my wage is the responsibility of no dcl materialism revisited masons believe in materialism and reject the idea of life after death. sometimes the concept of life after death appears in masonic texts, but, as inthe myth of hiram depicted here(left, what is meant by it is the continuation of the memory of a person's name in this world. one but the lord of all the worlds. do you build a tower on every hilltop, just to amuse yourselves, and construct fine buildings, hoping to live for ever, and when you attack, attack as tyrants do? so heed god and obey me (qur'an, 26: 124-131) the mistake these godless people committe

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a very strong motive for doing so. whatever the reason had been, the choice of such a remote location had at least one beneficial side-effect: machu picchu was never found by the conquistadores and friars during their days of destructive zeal. indeed, it was not until 1911, when the fabulous heritage of older races was beginning to be treated with greater respect, that a young american explorer, hiram bingham, revealed machu picchu to the world. it was realized at once that this incredible site opened a unique window on pre- 7 the ancient civilizations of peru, p. 237. 8 juan de batanzos 'suma y narracion de los incas, in south american mythology, p. 79. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 64 colombian civilization; in consequence the ruins were protected from looters and souvenir hun

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heh. heh, heh, heh" the old man was getting hysterical, and i began to shiver with a nameless alarm. he laid a gnarled claw on my shoulder, and it seemed to me that its shaking was not altogether that of mirth "s'pose one night ye seed somethin' heavy heaved offen obed's dory beyond the reef' and then learned next day a young feller was missin' from home. hey! did anybody ever see hide or hair o' hiram gilman agin. did they? an' nick pierce, an' luelly waite, an' adoniram saouthwick, an' henry garrison hey? heh, heh, heh, heh. shapes talkin' sign language with their hands. them as had reel hands "wal, sir, that was the time obed begun to git on his feet agin. folks see his three darters a-wearin' gold-like things as nobody'd never see on 'em afore, an' smoke stared comin' aout o' the refin

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h. heh, heh, heh" the old man was getting hysterical, and i began to shiver with a nameless allarm. he laid a gnarled claw on my shoul-der, and it seemed to me that its shaking was not altogether that of mirth "s'pose one night ye seed somethin' heavy heaved offen obed's dory beyond the reef' and then learned next day a young feller was missin' from home. hey! did anybody ever see hide or hair o' hiram gilman agin. did they? an' nick pierce, an' luelly waite, an' adoniram saouthwick, an' henry garrison hey? heh, heh, heh, heh. shapes talkin' sign language with their hands. them as had reel hands "wal, sir, that was the time obed begun to git on his feet agin. folks see his three darters a-wearin' gold-like things as nobody'd never see on 'em afore, an' smoke stared comin' aout o' the refin

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interior. against these assertions i have no tangible proof to offer, since my key to the padlock was lost in the struggle on that night of horrors. the strange things of the past which i have learned during those nocturnal meetings with the dead he dismisses as the fruits of my lifelong and omnivorous browsing amongst the ancient volumes of the family library. had it not been for my old servant hiram, i should have by this time become quite convinced of my madness. but hiram, loyal to the last, has held faith in me, and has done that which impels me to make public at least part of my story. a week ago he burst open the lock which chains the door of the tomb perpetually ajar, and descended with a lantern into the murky depths. on a slab in an alcove he found an old but empty coffin whose

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hich "they [the priests] made at night exhibitions of his life and sufferings* in the mithraic sacrifices, during the initiation, a pre- liminary scene of death was simulated by the neophyte, and it pre- ceded the scene showing him himself "being bom agiun by the rite of bapti m" a portion of this ceremony is still enacted at the pres- ent day by the masons, when the neophyte, as the grand master hiram abiff, ues dead, and is raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw. the priests were circumcised. the neophyte could not be initiated without having beea present at the solemn mysteries of the lake. the nazarenes were baptized in the jordan; and could not be baptised elsewhere; they were also circumcised, and had to fast before as well as after the purification by baptism. jesus is said to

d b; the ethnologists to be the land of shem, and egypt called that of ham. shem, in the tenth chapter of gmeaia is made the father of all the children of eber, of elam (oulam or eilam, and ash- ur (assur or assyria. the nephilim, or fallen men, gebers, mighty men spoken of in genesis (vi, 4, come from oijam 'men of shem' even ophir, which is evidently to be sought for in the india of the days of hiram, is made a descendant of shem. the records are purposely mixed up to make them st into the frame of the mosaic bible. but genesis, from its first verse down to the last, has naught to do with the 'chosen people; it belongs to the world's history. its appropriation by the jew- ish authors in the days of the so-called restoration of the destroyed books of the israelites by ezra proves nothing

former may be inferred from the fact that many of the brfthmanical pagodas are designed and built on this figure, called the sri-aniara* and yet we find the highest honors paid to it by the jewish and medieval kabalists, who call it 'solomon's seal' it will be quite an easy matter to trace it to its origin, once we are reminded of the history of the king-kabalist and his transac- tions with king hiram and ophir the country of peacocks, gold, and ivory for which land we have to search in old india. 6s3. sm journal <4 tlu royai atialie soeiety, xiii, p. 79. digitizecoy google isis onveiled explananon of the two diagrams pbou the esoteuc bsahhanic. buddhistic and chaldaban standpoints, which &gbbe in every respect with the xvoumonary theory of modern science tut hihdo doctmnb tk* vpptr triaa

and philistines (j8 samuet, brought thence the name of jehovah. he made zadok high-priest, from whom came the zadokites or sadducees. he kved and ruled first at hebron iton 'habir-on or kabir-town, where the rites mystery-gods) were celebrated. neither david dor solomon recognised either moses or the law of moses. they aspired to build a temple to nin, like the structures erected by hiram to hercules and venus, adon and astarte. says furst "the very ancient name of god, yaho, written in the greek jaa, appears, apart from ii derwation, to have been an old mystic name of the supreme deity of the shemites [hence it was told to moses when initiated at hor-eb the cave, under the direction of jethro, the kenite or cainite priest of midian] in an old religion of the chal- daeans, wh

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ts, all miners know thisl ref. to ohio incident miners see these things each year, many or most speak little english "it ain't coal& its in the way so get it out of there. some miners save parts or all of these above curiositys& they may be found in their homes. they are used to seeing them. in the london times of december 24, 1851, it is stated that a citizen of springfield, massachusetts, a mr. hiram de witt, had returned from california bringing a chunk of auriferous quartz about as big as a man's fist. it was accidentally dropped and broke upon. it had a nail in it. a cut iron nail, about the size of an ordinary six-penny nail, a bit corroded "straight and with a perfect head" discarded force-crystal according to the reports of the british association, 1845-51, sir david brewster astou

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ptian interpretation of them. chapter vii the second degree the questions. the preparation. the inner preparation. the opening. the e.a.'s last work. the five stages. the five steps. the o. the working tools. closing the lodge. chapter viii the third degree the opening of the lodge. the c c the preparation. the internal preparation. entering the lodge. the seven steps. the o c the etheric forces. hiram abiff. death and resurrection. the star. the raising of humanity. fire, sun and moon. the villains. the inscription (second edition: our master h. a. instead of hiram abiff) chapter ix the higher degrees the masonic plane. the ceremony of installation. the mark degree. the holy royal arch. still higher. the rose croix. black masonry. white masonry. how to use the powers. our relation with an

sluggishness he makes no attempt to utilize the new powers bestowed upon him, they remain dormant; if he uses them intelligently they steadily increase in effectiveness as he becomes more familiar with them. as bro. ward remarks: gthe spiritual benefit a man receives from freemasonry is in exact proportion to his desire and ability to comprehend its inner meaning. h(*the m.m. fs book, p. 3) 688. hiram abiff 689. it is only after the candidate has received this wonderful outpouring of spiritual strength that he is subjected to gthe greater trial of his fortitude and fidelity h which is involved in the symbolical part of the degree. a most remarkable drama now unfolds itself before him, and he finds himself quite unexpectedly enacting the part of its hero. the setting of the piece is well-a

asonic scheme. 690. the name commonly given to this extraordinary narrative is perhaps somewhat inappropriate, for a little consideration soon shows us that it cannot seriously be considered as historical in the ordinary sense of the word; but if we accept it as a legend, and invest it with a moral significance, we shall find that it has much to teach us. we need not doubt that its central figure hiram abiff really lived, nor that he was sent by his namesake, hiram, king of tyre, to work for king solomon in connection with the decoration of the temple. he is described in jewish scripture as a clever worker in metals, and those of us who investigated the making of the pillars fully confirm that statement, though they do not find him suffering the sanguinary death which the legend asserts. a

ts interest round the temple which he had built, winning popularity at the same time by bringing his ritual into accordance with that of surrounding peoples, who were mostly worshippers of the phoenician deity tammuz, afterwards called by the greeks adonis. 691. although he recast the legend, and made it wholly jewish, it was not he who imported into it the name which we know so well, for we find hiram abiff acting as what we should now call w.j.w. at a great private ceremony of consecration and dedication at which solomon fs new ritual was performed for the first time. on the same occasion hiram, king of tyre, took the part of w.s.w, though for some obscure reason his visit was kept secret, and he returned home almost immediately, his place being taken for the public ceremonies by adonira

ceremony of consecration and dedication at which solomon fs new ritual was performed for the first time. on the same occasion hiram, king of tyre, took the part of w.s.w, though for some obscure reason his visit was kept secret, and he returned home almost immediately, his place being taken for the public ceremonies by adoniram. rehoboam, solomon fs son, seems to have taken an intense dislike to hiram abiff, who had more than once reproved him for arrogance and unworthy conduct; so when after solomon fs death he came to the throne, he took a curious, perverted revenge upon hiram by decreeing that the victim of the 3 should bear his name for ever. exactly why this should have afforded satisfaction to rehoboam it is difficult to see; but perhaps we should hardly hold him responsible for his

e took a curious, perverted revenge upon hiram by decreeing that the victim of the 3 should bear his name for ever. exactly why this should have afforded satisfaction to rehoboam it is difficult to see; but perhaps we should hardly hold him responsible for his actions, as he was obviously a decadent, a degenerate of the worst type. his enmity may possibly have shown itself in other ways also, for hiram abiff presently found it desirable to return to his own country, where he died full of age and honour. 692. i am told that only a few years ago a javanese prince imitated solomon fs procedure, for much the same reasons as actuated the jewish monarch. he and his people were at least nominally muhammadans; but he said to them: gwhy should you turn towards mecca for your devotions? i have a ver

people were at least nominally muhammadans; but he said to them: gwhy should you turn towards mecca for your devotions? i have a very fine temple here; turn to it and not to arabia when you recite your prayers. h they seem to have accepted the suggestion, and in this way arose a variation- in the cult which may well puzzle the historians a century later. 693. bro. ward, in his recent book who was hiram abiff? argues that the whole legend is nothing but an adaptation of the myth of tammuz, that hiram abiff was one of a group of priest-kings, and was slain by the others as a voluntary sacrifice at the dedication of the temple, in order to bring good fortune upon the building. he adduces much evidence in support of this theory, and displays a vast amount of erudition and research, gathering t

rmed with a small ivory hammer or gavel, goes up to the dead man and lightly taps him once on each temple and once on the centre of the forehead. after each knock he calls on him to arise, and only when the third summons has been made in vain does he officially proclaim the sad news that the pope is dead, and therefore a successor must be elected(*op. cit, p. 74) 695. bro. ward further identifies hiram abiff with abibaal, the father of hiram, king of tyre, and even suggests that hiram was not a personal name at all, but a title of the kings of tyre, just as pharaoh was of those of egypt. 696. from another source comes the somewhat fantastic suggestion that solomon also was not a personal name, but is capable of the subdivision sol-om-on; sol meaning the sun, om being the sacred word of the

hindus (a substituted word, because the real word is a name of power, the name of the logos, to pronounce which would shake the world and destroy the speaker) and on, from the greek to on, the absolute existence. this interpretation may be fanciful; but it seems true that the king fs compatriots called him solomon, pronouncing his name as an amphibrach, not as a dactyl, as we do. 697. the name of hiram abiff is somewhat altered in higher degrees, and even in the bible it sometimes appears as huram. a further modification is khairum or khurum. khur by itself means white or noble. there is a variant khri, which under certain circumstances becomes khris. this would suggest some possible connection with krishna and christ. there are certain passages in the book of job where he speaks of the or

bible it sometimes appears as huram. a further modification is khairum or khurum. khur by itself means white or noble. there is a variant khri, which under certain circumstances becomes khris. this would suggest some possible connection with krishna and christ. there are certain passages in the book of job where he speaks of the orb of the sun, and the word he uses is khris. it is on record that hiram, king of tyre, was the first man who offered the sacrifice of fire to the khur, who afterwards became herakles. plutarch tells us that the persians of his day called the sun kuros, and he connects it with the greek word kurios, which means lord, which we find in the church service as gkyrie eleison h. khur is also connected with the egyptian name horus, who was also her-ra and haroeris, name

kuros, and he connects it with the greek word kurios, which means lord, which we find in the church service as gkyrie eleison h. khur is also connected with the egyptian name horus, who was also her-ra and haroeris, names of the sun-god. the hebrew word aoor also means light or fire or the sun, and from that we get khurom, which is equal to the greek hermes. bro. wilmshurst also regards the name hiram as identical with hermes, and thinks that a connection can he traced between the form huram and the sanskrit word guru, which means gspiritual teacher h. he therefore takes hiram abiff to signify the father-teacher, or the teacher from the father(*the masonic initiation, p. 100) that hiram was a widow fs son is also a significant fact. horus as the child of isis was the reincarnation of his

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er binding pledges as are communicated to us in the craft and high grades in modern europe and america. 14. among pioneers in this field we should mention bro. albert churchward, the author of several interesting books on the egyptian origin of masonry, although it may be that he is not always quite sufficiently critical; bro. j. s. m. ward, the author of freemasonry and the ancient gods, who was hiram abiff? and a number of other works, who looks to syria as the source of masonry, though he has compiled a mass of valuable information from many other lands; and mr. bernard h. springett, author of secret sects of syria and lebanon, who has collected much material bearing upon masonic rites among the arabs. 15. to the work of the anthropological school is due a clear revelation of the immens

l place among the nations around. to that end he built the temple in jerusalem to be the centre of the religious worship of his people and a symbol of their national unity; it was perhaps not quite so magnificent as tradition relates, but the king was nevertheless extremely proud of it and considered it to be one of the great achievements of the age. 275. in this work he was assisted by his ally, hiram king of tyre, who supplied a quantity of material for the building, and lent many clever craftsmen to aid in the work; for the phoenicians were more skilled in building than the jews, who were chiefly a pastoral people. also about fifty years before some of the wandering bands of masons who called themselves the dionysian artificers had settled in phoenicia, so king hiram was able to supply

some of the wandering bands of masons who called themselves the dionysian artificers had settled in phoenicia, so king hiram was able to supply many expert workmen. this alliance is a matter of secular history, for josephus tells us that even in his day copies of the letters which passed between the two kings existed in the tyrian archives and might be consulted by students(*josephus. ant, viii) hiram abiff was also a real personage, though he did not meet his death in the manner recorded in masonic tradition. he was a decorator rather than the actual architect of the temple, as the biblical records clearly tell us. he was filled with wisdom and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass(*i kings, vii, 14) he was skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in sto

the son of a widow of naphtali, and his father was a man of tyre, a worker in brass before him. since so much responsibility rested in his hands, and he was so skilful an artist, he appears to have been in the close confidence of king solomon, and a member of his council. he was evidently treated as an equal by the two kings, and that is one of the reasons which influenced bro. ward to translate hiram abiff as hiram his father, and to represent the king of tyre as sending his abdicated father to superintend the decoration of the temple. 277. the recasting of the rituals 278. but king solomon s plans for the consolidation of his people were not yet complete; by the building of his temple he had formed an outer centre of national worship, and he now desired that the mysteries, the heart of

egyptian, and the initiates of the mysteries were yet symbolically engaged in building the great pyramid, the house of light, and in celebrating the death and resurrection of osiris. even though it had no corresponding halls of initiation, king solomon desired that for the future his temple should take the place of the house of light, and become the spiritual centre of the jewish mysteries. king hiram of tyre warmly supported this idea; he himself had inherited initiatory rites which had been derived from the mysteries of chaldaea, a very ancient line of tradition running parallel with the mysteries of egypt from atlantean days, and having its own chief halls of initiation in babylon. he, too, felt that a centre nearer home and in friendly hands was eminently desirable, and he therefore c

tory of the marriage of king solomon to pharaoh s daughter, as is related in the bible; indeed, this union is now generally rejected by the critics as impossible, for according to the tell el-amarna tablets, an egyptian princess might not marry a foreigner(*peake s commentary on the bible, p. 296) 280. the mingling of traditions 281. on the return of their embassy from egypt king solomon and king hiram called together the council at jerusalem, and it was decided that they should proceed immediately with the work of recasting the rituals into the jewish form. it is an interesting fact that three distinct lines of tradition were represented in the persons of the three chief members of the council, and of each of these we can find traces in our modern workings. king solomon himself had inheri

cided that they should proceed immediately with the work of recasting the rituals into the jewish form. it is an interesting fact that three distinct lines of tradition were represented in the persons of the three chief members of the council, and of each of these we can find traces in our modern workings. king solomon himself had inherited the egyptian line of succession derived from moses; king hiram of tyre preserved the chaldaean descent; while hiram abiff brought with him another line of tradition, not derived from either of these sources. 282. this last line was strange and terrible- a line probably perpetuated through savage and primitive tribes who had bloodthirsty customs of mutilation and human sacrifice. i think it must be to this line that bro. ward refers in his remarkable wor

yre preserved the chaldaean descent; while hiram abiff brought with him another line of tradition, not derived from either of these sources. 282. this last line was strange and terrible- a line probably perpetuated through savage and primitive tribes who had bloodthirsty customs of mutilation and human sacrifice. i think it must be to this line that bro. ward refers in his remarkable work who was hiram abiff? in which he adduces a vast amount of evidence to show that our traditional history is based upon the myth of the death and resurrection of tammuz, and is in reality an account of the ritual murder of one of the priest-kings of that religion. he points out that most primitive races enact a drama in which some one, usually a priest or king, represents a god who is slain and comes to lif

nd that the knights templars brought back from syria a story very similar to that of the 3. the tale of jonah, he remarks, has always been understood as a myth of death and resurrection, and he also was sacrificed to appease a deity, and obtain salvation for others, just as was the priest-king of old. he quotes many instances of foundation and consecration sacrifices; and, holding as he does that hiram abiff was the father of that other hiram who was king of tyre, he writes: 284. the phoenician and jewish followers of the old tammuz cult no doubt felt that the great goddess had been cheated of her just dues when hiram abiff was not slain, according to ancient custom, on the accession of his son, and were confident that if he were not sacrificed when the temple was completed, its future and

lt that the great goddess had been cheated of her just dues when hiram abiff was not slain, according to ancient custom, on the accession of his son, and were confident that if he were not sacrificed when the temple was completed, its future and stability would be endangered. so i consider that the phoenician workmen, with or without the consent of solomon, killed the old king of tyre, abibaal or hiram abiff, as a consecration sacrifice(*who was hiram abiff? by j.s.m. ward, p. 191) 285. while we can hardly accept the suggestion that the ancestry of our modern rite is wholly syrian, we cannot doubt that the influence of the third line of tradition especially contributed by hiram abiff was very considerable. we note also that it seems to have been especially concerned with the working of met

ence of the third line of tradition especially contributed by hiram abiff was very considerable. we note also that it seems to have been especially concerned with the working of metals. 286. all that is found in our modern rituals about lamech and his sons, about jubal, the founder of the art of music, and tubal cain, the first artificer in metals, appears to belong to the line of tradition which hiram abiff introduced. 287. this council was the originator of the greater part of our modern masonic working; the main outline of the egyptian ritual was carefully preserved (although king solomon on more than one occasion referred to his brother of tyre on points of detail) together with the s s, and although the w s were given in hebrew, for the most part their meaning remained the same. king

in outline of the egyptian ritual was carefully preserved (although king solomon on more than one occasion referred to his brother of tyre on points of detail) together with the s s, and although the w s were given in hebrew, for the most part their meaning remained the same. king solomon himself seems to have been largely responsible for our ceremony of raising; he it was who, at the instance of hiram abiff, changed the legend of osiris into that of the master builder who attempted to escape by the s, n, and e. g s and was s n because he would not divulge the s s of a m.m. the name of the original master builder was not of course given as now, for he himself assisted in the construction of the legend; neither was there any fatality connected with the actual building of the holy temple. th

builder was not of course given as now, for he himself assisted in the construction of the legend; neither was there any fatality connected with the actual building of the holy temple. the insertion of the present name was the work of rehoboam, when he succeeded to the throne of solomon his father, as i have said in the hidden life in freemasonry; so the story came to be applied to the person of hiram, the widow s son. 288. a very curious tradition still exists in the 3 of the rite of mizraim. in that rite the central figure of the legend is not h.a, who is said to have returned to his family after the completion of the temple; but the story is carried back to the days of lamech, whose son jubal, under the name of harrio-jubal-abi, is reported to have been slain by three traitors, hagava

by three traitors, hagava, hakina, and heremda (mackey s encyclopaedia, art. mizraim) the rite of mizraim, as we shall see later, is extremely old, and may well have incorporated another tradition than that handed down in europe; for it appears to have been introduced from the east towards the end of the eighteenth century. it may be that we have here another echo of that line of tradition which hiram abiff represented on the council of king solomon. 289. such was the important work undertaken by the second or sacred lodge. the succession of i.m.s was handed down into the new dispensation, and thenceforward masters of lodges deriving their succession from the mysteries of the hebrews have always sat in the chair of king solomon, while the two wardens occupy those of hiram king of tyre and

iram abiff represented on the council of king solomon. 289. such was the important work undertaken by the second or sacred lodge. the succession of i.m.s was handed down into the new dispensation, and thenceforward masters of lodges deriving their succession from the mysteries of the hebrews have always sat in the chair of king solomon, while the two wardens occupy those of hiram king of tyre and hiram abiff. thus there is a very real truth behind our masonic tradition. 290. the original traditional history as adapted by king solomon contained much more of the legend of osiris, and was altogether more coherent and reasonable than it is to-day; for there was a resurrection of the master-builder as well as a death, and the search of isis for the body of osiris was reflected in the search of

important towns of france; and travelling journeymen had the right to lodging and assistance in finding work in the houses belonging to their fraternity. 525. the three sections of the compagnonnage preserved legends concerning king solomon and his temple. little is known of the form of the legend current among the sons of solomon, but there are curious indications that the story of the death of hiram (which is not contained in the bible) was known to them. perdiguier tells us little, but he gives certain hints: 526. an ancient fable has obtained currency amongst them (the sons of solomon) relating, according to some, to hiram, according to others, to adonhiram; wherein are represented crimes and punishments. again he tells us that the joiners of maitre jacques wear white gloves, because

. perdiguier tells us little, but he gives certain hints: 526. an ancient fable has obtained currency amongst them (the sons of solomon) relating, according to some, to hiram, according to others, to adonhiram; wherein are represented crimes and punishments. again he tells us that the joiners of maitre jacques wear white gloves, because, as they say, they did not steep their hands in the blood of hiram. 527. furthermore with regard to the use of the word chien bestowed upon all the compagnons du devoir, he says: 528. it is believed by some to be derived from the fact that it was a dog which discovered the place where the body of hiram, architect of the temple, lay under the rubbish, after which all the companions who separated from the murderers of hiram were called chiens or dogs. 529. so

m; but what it was is not known(*concise history, gould, p. 22) 533. at daberan in mecklenburg there is a carving of the last supper, wherein the apostles are depicted in well-known masonic attitudes(*an outline history of freemasonry, j. s. m. ward, p. 35) while according to the bulletin of the supreme council of the ancient and accepted scottish rite (southern jurisdiction, u.s.a) the legend of hiram abiff is carved in stone at strasburg(*op, cit, vii, 200) in the cathedral at wurzburg two pillars, inscribed jachin and boaz, originally stood at the porchway or entrance, but they have now been moved within the building. stieglitz in his early german architecture says that they were intended to bear a symbolic reference to the fraternity(*gould, concise hist, p. 24) a bas-relief in a conve

ain pains and penalties not unknown to masons today, that no trace of the ritual can be found in any document prior to 1717; and it is because of this lack of all records that many masonic scholars believe that it was compiled only at the beginning of the eighteenth century. even in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when the old charges were written down, no mention is made of the legend of hiram; for this formed part of the secret ritual and therefore might not be divulged. a figure representing god the son in the porch of peterborough cathedral is depicted as making the f.c.h.s(*j. s. m. ward, op. cit, p. 116) showing that this s at least was known to our old operative brethren. 537. the rise of gothic architecture 538. the climax of mediaeval operative building was reached in the

etion(*a. q. c, xvi, p. 38) there is in this same year a mention of three degrees in the working of the grand lodge of all england at york, when a speech was delivered by dr. francis drake, junior grand warden, in which he mentions e.a, f.c, and m.m.r.f. gould holds that the apprentice part consisted of what we now know as the 1 and 2 and that the master s part was our 3, containing the legend of hiram(*a. q. c, xvi, p. 36) 606. he considers it settled beyond dispute: 607. not only that what we now call the third degree existed before the era of grand lodges, but that, having passed through a long decline, its symbols had become corrupted, and their meaning (to a great extent) forgotten, when the step itself- then known as the master s part- is first heard of (i.e, unequivocally referred t

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ith demeter, achiochersus with pluto, achiochersa with persephone, and cashmala with hermes. alexander wilder notes that in the samothracian ritual "cadmillus is made to include the theban serpent-god, cadmus, the thoth of egypt, the hermes of the greeks, and the emeph or sculapius of the alexandrians and phoenicians" here again is a repetition of the story of osiris, bacchus, adonis, balder, and hiram abiff. the worship of atys and cybele was also involved in the samothracian mysteries. in the rituals of the cabiri is to be traced a form of pine-tree worship, for this tree, sacred to atys, was first trimmed into the form of a cross and then cut down in honor of the murdered god whose body was discovered at its foot "if you wish to inspect the orgies of the corybantes" writes clement "then

e egyptian sun myth finally centered around the person of a mysterious deity called serapis. the two central american deities, tezcatlipoca and quetzalcoatl, while often associated with the winds, were also undoubtedly solar gods. in masonry the sun has many symbols. one expression of the solar energy is solomon, whose name sol-om-on is the name for the supreme light in three different languages. hiram abiff, the chiram (hiram) of the chaldees, is also a solar deity, and the story of his attack and murder by the ruffians, with its solar interpretation, will be found in the chapter the hiramic legend. a striking example of the important part which the sun plays in the symbols and rituals of freemasonry is given by george oliver, d.d, in his dictionary of symbolical masonry, as follows "the

permanence of its divine source. next: the hiramic legend sacred texts esoteric index previous next the hiramic legend p. 77 when solomon--the beloved of god, builder of the everlasting house, and grand master of the lodge of jerusalem--ascended the throne of his father david he consecrated his life to the erection of a temple to god and a palace for the kings of israel. david's faithful friend, hiram, king of tyre, hearing that a son of david sat upon the throne of israel, sent messages of congratulation and offers of assistance to the new ruler. in his history of the jews, josephus mentions that copies of the letters passing between the two kings were then to be seen both at jerusalem and at tyre. despite hiram's lack of appreciation for the twenty cities of galilee which solomon presen

seen both at jerusalem and at tyre. despite hiram's lack of appreciation for the twenty cities of galilee which solomon presented to him upon the completion of the temple, the two monarchs remained the best of friends. both were famous for their wit and wisdom, and when they exchanged letters each devised puzzling questions to test the mental ingenuity of the other. solomon made an agreement with hiram of tyre promising vast amounts of barley, wheat, corn, wine, and oil as wages for the masons and carpenters from tyre who were to assist the jews in the erection of the temple. hiram also supplied cedars and other fine trees, which were made into rafts and floated down the sea to joppa, whence they were taken inland by solomon's workmen to the temple site. because of his great love for solom

m of tyre promising vast amounts of barley, wheat, corn, wine, and oil as wages for the masons and carpenters from tyre who were to assist the jews in the erection of the temple. hiram also supplied cedars and other fine trees, which were made into rafts and floated down the sea to joppa, whence they were taken inland by solomon's workmen to the temple site. because of his great love for solomon, hiram of tyre sent also the grand master of the dionysiac architects, chiram abiff, a widow's son, who had no equal among the craftsmen of the earth. chiram is described as being "a tyrian by birch, but of israelitish descent" and "a second bezaleel, honored by his king with the title of father" the freemason's pocket companion (published in 1771) describes chiram as "the most cunning, skilful and

igns, and under his direction, all the rich and splendid furniture of the temple and its several appendages were begun, carried on, and finished. solomon appointed him, in his absence, to fill the chair, as deputy grand-master; and in his presence, senior grand-warden, master of work, and general overseer of all artists, as well those whom david had formerly procured from tyre and sidon, as those hiram should now send (modem masonic writers differ as to the accuracy of the last sentence) although an immense amount of labor was involved in its construction, solomon's temple--in the words of george oliver-"was only a small building and very inferior in point of size to some of our churches" the number of buildings contiguous to it and the vast treasure of gold and precious stones used in its

vehicle which conveys and collects the light into numberless foci, wherein the solar rays of light are agitated by a circular motion and manifested in heat and burning fire (3, or mem, signifies majim, water, humidity, but rather the mother of water, i. e. radical humidity or a particular kind of condensed air. these three constitute the universal agent or fire of nature in one word, chiram, not hiram" albert pike mentions several forms of the name chiram: khirm, khurm, and khur-om, the latter ending in the sacred hindu monosyllable om, which may also be extracted from the names of the three murderers. pike further relates the three ruffians to a triad of stars in the constellation of libra and also calls attention to the fact that the chaldean god bal--metamorphosed into a demon by the j

quite ignorant of their origin; but, by tradition, they suppose themselves descendants of the ancient egyptians, chaldeans, magi, and gymnosophists (the last was a name given by the followers of alexander the great to a caste of naked wise men whom they found meditating along the river banks in india) the consensus among these factions is that the story of father c.r.c, like the masonic legend of hiram abiff, is an allegory and should not be considered literally. a similar problem has confronted students of the bible, who have found not only difficult, but in the majority of cases impossible, their efforts to substantiate the historical interpretation of the scriptures. admitting the existence of the rosicrucians as a secret society with both philosophic and political ends, it is remarkabl

orld to understand the secret order of the rose cross. those professing this theory regard the comte de st.-germain as their highest adept and assert that he and christian rosencreutz were one and the same individual. they accept fire as their universal symbol because it was the one element by means of which they could control the metals. they declared themselves the descendants of tubal-cain and hiram abiff, and that the purpose of their existence was to preserve the spiritual nature of man through ages of materiality "the gnostic sects, the arabs, alchemists, templars, rosicrucians, and lastly the freemasons, form the western chain in the transmission of occult science (see the tarot of the bohemians translated by a. e. waite from the french of papus) max heindel, the christian mystic, d

ing the relationship existing between the three substances, salt, sulphur, and mercury, and certain symbols with which masons are familiar. this table also has an alternative rendering, based on the interblending of philosophic principles, which are difficult--if not impossible--to separate into chronological order. 1. the three lights stellar fire solar fire lunar fire 2. the three grand masters hiram solomon hiram of tyre 3. the geometric solids sphere pyramid cube 4. alchemical substances mercury sulphur salt the alternative rendering of no. 2 is: 2. the three grand masters solomon hiram hiram of tyre in alchemy is found again the perpetuation of the universal mystery; for as surely as jesus died upon the cross, hiram (chiram) at the west gate of the temple, orpheus on the banks of the

st revered of all the alchemical formul is the sacred emerald tablet of hermes. authorities do not agree as to the genuineness of this table, some declaring it to be a post-christian fraud, but there is much evidence that, regardless of its author, the table is of great antiquity. while the symbol of the emerald table is of special masonic import--relating as it does to the personality of chiram (hiram--it is first and fundamentally an alchemical formula, relating both to the alchemy of the base metals and the divine alchemy of human regeneration. in dr. sigismund bacstrom's collection of alchemical manuscripts is a section devoted to the translations and interpretations of this remarkable tablet, which was known to the ancients as the tabula smaragdina. dr. bacstrom was initiated into the

n adepts who at that time called himself comte de chazal. dr. bacstrom's translations and notes on the emerald tablet are, in part, as follows, the actual text being reproduced in capital letters "the emerald table, the most ancient monument of the chaldeans concerning the lapis philosophorum (the stone of the philosophers "the emerald table furnishes the origin of the allegorical history of king hiram (rather chiram. the chaldeans, egyptians, and hebrews in what concerns chiram have taken their knowledge from one and the same fountain; homerus, who relates this history in a different manner, followed that original, and virgil followed click to enlarge the key to alchemy according to the egyptians. from kircher's oedipus gyptiacus. the priests of egypt not only used the scarab as a symbol

, they maintained, was a threefold structure and had its analogy in the triune constitution of man, for as man consists of spirit, mind, and body, so society is made up of the church, the state, and the populace. the bigotry of the church, the tyranny of the state, and the fury of the mob are the three murderous agencies of society which seek to destroy truth as recounted in the masonic legend of hiram abiff. the first six days of the chemical marriage set forth the processes of philosophical "creation" through which every organism must pass. the three kings are the threefold spirit of man and their consorts the corresponding vehicles of their expression in the lower world. the executioner is the mind, the higher part of which--symbolized by the head--is necessary to the achievement of the

ether by special ties only known to themselves. the richer of this fraternity were bound to provide for their poorer brethren. they were divided into communities, governed by a master and wardens, and called gunoikiai (connected houses. they held a grand festival annually, and were held in high esteem. their ceremonials were regarded as sacred. it has been claimed that solomon, at the instance of hiram, king of tyre, employed them at his temple and palaces. they were also employed at the construction of the temple of diana at ephesus. they had means of intercommunication all over the then known world, and from them, doubtless, sprang the guilds of the traveling masons known in the middle ages (see the obelisk and freemasonry) the fraternity of the dionysiac architects spread throughout all

o its original constituents if the true meaning of christianity is to be rediscovered. in the gospel narratives the christos represents the perfect man who, having passed through the various stages of the "world mystery" symbolized by the thirty-three years, ascends to the heaven sphere where he is reunited with his eternal father. the story of jesus as now preserved is--like the masonic story of hiram abiff--part of a secret initiatory ritualism belonging to the early christian and pagan mysteries. during the centuries just prior to the christian era, the secrets of the pagan mysteries had gradually fallen into the hands of the profane. to the student of comparative religion it is evident that these secrets, gathered by a small group of faithful philosophers and mystics, were reclothed in

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econciliation and at-one-ment. in all the schools of the mysteries, as well as in all the great religions of the world, the attainment of the spiritual goal just described is enacted or taught under the veil of a tragic episode analogous to that of our third degree; and in each there is a master whose death the aspirant is instructed he must imitate in his own person. in masonry that prototype is hiram abiff: but it must be made clear that there is no historical basis whatever for the legendary account of hiram's death. the entire story is symbolical and was purposely invented for the symbolical purposes of our teaching. if you examine it closely you will perceive how obvious the correspondence is between this story and the story of the death of the christian master related in the gospels;

death, that we are made worthy of certain" points of fellowship" with him: for they" five points of fellowship" of the third degree are the five wounds of christ the three years' ministry of the christian master ended with his death and, these refer to the three degrees of the craft which also end in the mystical death of the masonic candidate and his subsequent raising or resurrection. the name hiram abiff signifies in hebrew" the teacher (guru, or enlightened one) from the father: a fact which may help you still further to recognize the concealed purpose of the teaching. under the name of hiram, then, and beneath a veil of allegory, we see an allusion to another master; and it is this master, this elder brother who is alluded to in our lectures, whose" character we preserve, whether abs

the incorporation of the central legend and traditional history comprised in our third degree. obviously that legend can have had no relation to, or practical bearing upon, the operative builders' trade. i will ask you to reflect that no building of stone, no temple or other edifice capable of being built with hands, has remained unfinished through the death of any professional architect such as hiram abiff is popularly supposed to have been. the principles of architecture, the genuine secrets of the building trade, are not and never have been lost; they are thoroughly well known, and the absurdity is manifest of supposing that masons of any kind are waiting for time or circumstances to restore any lost knowledge as to the manner in which temporal buildings ought to be constructed. we kno

is day. now i will ask you to observe that this legend cannot refer to any historical building built in the old metropolis of palestine. if we refer to the bible as an authority you will find that temple was completed; it was afterwards destroyed, rebuilt and destroyed again on more than one occasion. moreover, the biblical accounts make no reference whatever to the conspiracy, or to the death of hiram. on the other hand they state expressly that hiram" made an end of building" the temple; that it was finished and completed in every particular. it is very clear then that we must keep the two subjects entirely separate in our minds; and recognize that the masonic story deals with something quite distinct from the biblical story. what temple then is referred to? the temple, brethren, that is

reat initiate st. paul said" know ye not that ye are the temple of god" a perfect humanity was the great temple which, in the counsels of the most high, was intended to be reared in the mystical holy city, of which the local jerusalem was the type. the three great master-builders, solomon and the two hirams, are a triad corresponding after a manner with the holy trinity of the christian religion; hiram abiff being the chief architect, he" by whom all things were made" and" in whom (as st. paul said, using masonic language) the whole building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the lord" the material of this mystical temple was the souls of men, at once the living stones, the fellow craftsmen and collaborators with the divine purpose. but in the course of the construction of

ecame nullified by their disobedience to certain conditions imposed upon them. i will ask you to observe that their offence was precisely that committed by our masonic conspirators. they had been forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge; or, in masonic language, they were under obligation" not to attempt to extort the secrets of a superior degree" which they had not attained. now the hebrew word hiram means guru, teacher of" supreme knowledge" divine light and wisdom, and the liberty that comes therewith. but this knowledge is only for the perfected man. it is that knowledge that hiram said was" kno wn to but three in the world" i.e, known only in the counsels of the divine trinity, but it is knowledge that with patience and perseverance every mason, every child of the creator" may in due

f the creator" may in due time become entitled to a participation in" but just as adam and eve's attempt to obtain illicit knowledge caused their expulsion from eden and defeated the divine purpose until they and their posterity should regain the paradise they had lost, so also the completion of the great mystical temple was prevented for the time being by the conspirators' attempt to extort from hiram the master's secrets, and its construction is delayed until time and circumstances- god's time, and the circumstances we create for ourselves--restore to us the lost and genuine secrets of our nature and of the divine purpose in us. the tragedy of hiram abiff, then, is not the record of any vulgar, brutal murder of an individual man. it is a parable of cosmic and universal loss; an allegory

crets of our nature and of the divine purpose in us. the tragedy of hiram abiff, then, is not the record of any vulgar, brutal murder of an individual man. it is a parable of cosmic and universal loss; an allegory of the breakdown of a divine scheme. we are dealing with no calamity that occurred during the erection of a building in an eastern city, but with a moral disaster to universal humanity. hiram is slain; in other words, the faculty of enlightened wisdom has been cut off from us. owing to that disaster mankind is here to-day in this world of imperfect knowledge, of limited faculties, of chequered happiness, of perpetual toil, of death and frequent bitterness and pain; our life here is (to use a poet's words" an ever-moaning battle in the mist, death in all life and lying in all love

emple of human nature is unfinished and we know not how to complete it. the want of plans and designs to regulate the disorders of individual and social life indicates to us all that some heavy calamity has befallen us as a race. the absence of a clear and guiding principle in the world's life reminds us of the utter confusion into which the absence of that supreme wisdom, which is personified as hiram, has thrown us all, and causes every reflective mind to attribute to some fatal catastrophe his mysterious disappearance. we all long for that light and wisdom which have become lost to us. like the craftsmen in search of the body, we go our different ways in search of what is lost. many of us make no discovery of importance throughout the length of our days. we seek it in pleasure, in work

k, in all the varied occupations and diversions of our lives; we seek it in intellectual pursuits, in religion, in masonry, and those who search farthest and deepest are those who become most conscious of the loss and who are compelled to cry" machabone! macbenah! the master is smitten" or, as the christian scriptures word it" they have taken away my lord, and i know not where they have laid him" hiram abiff is slain. the high light and wisdom ordained to guide and enlighten humanity are wanting to us. the full blaze of light and perfect knowledge that were to be ours are vanished from the race, but in the divine providence there still remains to us a glimmering light in the east. in a dark world, from which as it were the sun has disappeared, we have still our five senses and our rational

knowledge that were to be ours are vanished from the race, but in the divine providence there still remains to us a glimmering light in the east. in a dark world, from which as it were the sun has disappeared, we have still our five senses and our rational faculties to work with, and these provide us with the substituted secrets that must distinguish us before we regain the genuine ones. where is hiram buried? we are taught that the wisdom of the most high- personified as king solomon ordered him to be interred in a fitting masonry sepulchre outside the holy city" in a grave from the centre 3 feet between n. and s, 3 feet between e. and w, and 5 feet or more perpendicular" where, brethren, do you imagine that grave to be? can you locate it by following these minute details of its situation

re outside the holy city" in a grave from the centre 3 feet between n. and s, 3 feet between e. and w, and 5 feet or more perpendicular" where, brethren, do you imagine that grave to be? can you locate it by following these minute details of its situation? probably you have never thought of the matter as other than an ordinary burial outside the walls of a geographical jerusalem. but the grave of hiram is ourselves. each of us is the sepulchre in which the smitten master is interred. if we know it not it is a further sign of our benightedness. at the centre of ourselves, deeper than any dissecting-knife can reach or than any physical investigation can fathom, lies buried the" vital and immortal principle" the" glimmering ray" that affiliates us to the divine centre of all life, and that is

iding light is buried at the centre of ourselves. high as your hand may reach upwards or downwards from the centre of your own body--i.e, 3 feet between n. and s- far as it can reach to right or left of the middle of your person--i.e, 3 feet between w. and e--and 5 feet or more perpendicular--the height of the human body -these are the indications by which our cryptic ritual describes the tomb of hiram abiff at the centre of ourselves. he is buried" outside the holy city" in the same sense that the posterity of adam have all been placed outside the walls of paradise, for" nothing unclean can enter into the holy place" which elsewhere in our scriptures is called the kingdom of heaven. what then is this" centre" by reviving and using which we may hope to regain the secrets of our lost nature

o enforce a spiritual principle. in egypt the prototype was osiris, who was slain by his malignant brother typhon, but whose mangled limbs were collected in a coffer from which he emerged reintegrated and divinized. in greece the prototype was bacchus, wh o was torn to pieces by the titans. baldur in scandinavia and mithra in greco-roman europe were similar prototypes. in masonry the prototype is hiram abiff, who met his death as the result of a conspiracy by a crowd of workmen of whom there were three principal ruffians. in the christian and chief of all systems, since it comprehends and re-expresses all the others, the greatest of the exemplars died at the hands of the mob, headed also by three chief ruffians, judas, caiaphas and pilate. if in masonry the mystical death is dramatized mor

ed" at the place called golgotha in the hebrew tongue; that is, the place of a skull; that is to say it terminated in the head or seat of intelligence and in a mystery of the spiritual consciousness. the same truth is also testified to, though again under veils of symbolic phrasing, in the reference to the sprig of acacia planted at the head of the grave of the masonic grand master and prototype, hiram abiff. the grave is the candidate's soul; the sprig of acacia typifies the latent akasa (to use an eastern term) or divine germ planted in that soil and waiting to become quickened into activity in his intelligence, the" head" of that plane. when that sprig of acacia blooms at the head of his soul's sepulchre, he will understand at one and the same moment the mystery of golgotha, the mystery

grave is the candidate's soul; the sprig of acacia typifies the latent akasa (to use an eastern term) or divine germ planted in that soil and waiting to become quickened into activity in his intelligence, the" head" of that plane. when that sprig of acacia blooms at the head of his soul's sepulchre, he will understand at one and the same moment the mystery of golgotha, the mystery of the death of hiram, and the meaning of the royal arch ceremony of exaltation. it is a mystery of spiritual consciousness, the efflorescence of the mind in god, the opening up of the human intelligence in conscious association with the universal and omniscient mind. it is for this reason that the cranium or skull is given prominence in the master mason's deg ree. with this premised we proceed to considering the

ed. by this great myth, therefore, instruction was imparted as to the history of the soul, its destiny and prospects, and the doctrine of reincarnation* was emphasized. how masonry follows this traditional method of instruction by myths. its canon of teaching in the craft degrees contains two myths. one is that of the building of king solomon's temple. the other is that of the death and burial of hiram abiff narrated in the traditional history. the royal arch contains a third myth in the story of the return from captivity after the destruction of the first temple, the commencement to build the second, and the discovery then made. this third myth has already been expounded in our paper on the royal arch degree, so that we need now speak only of the craft myths. to the literal-minded the bui

ly the fabricative intellectual principle or logos binding these two together and constituting the whole an intelligent and functionally effective instrument (beauty. of these three principles, or upon these three pillars, was the human soul originally and divinely built in the heaven-world, and our lectures, therefore, rightly say that those three pillars" also allude to solomon, king of israel; hiram, king of tyre; and hiram abiff" because those names personify the indissociable triadic constituents of the divine unity (they are also shown inscribed upon the central symbolic altar in the royal arch degree as further evidence of this divine construction of the human soul. the temple of the soul has, however, now been destroyed and thrown down from its primitive eminence and grandeur. huma

transcend and over-rule whatever is inferior to itself, and as" king of israel" because" israel" itself means" co-operating or ruling with god" as distinct from being associated with beings or affairs of a sub-divine order. to conjoin this transcendental life-essence to a vehicle which should give it fixity and form required the assistance of another dominant or" kingly" principle, personified as hiram, king of tyre, who supplied the" building material" now inasmuch as we are dealing with purely metaph ysical ideas, it will be obvious that the tyre in question has no relation to the levantine sea-port of that name. the name tyre in hebrew means" rock" and the strength, compactness and durability which we associate with rock, whilst the same word recurs in greek as turos and in latin as ter

rability which we associate with rock, whilst the same word recurs in greek as turos and in latin as terra, earth, and as durus, implying form, hardness, consistency and durability" king of tyre" therefore, is interpretable as the cosmic principle which gives solidity and form to the spiritual fluidic and formless life-essence, and which is comparable to a cup intended to hold liquid. solomon and hiram of tyre therefore contribute their respective properties of life-essence and durable form and" building material" as the groundwork of the soul, which then is made functionally effective by the addition of the third principle described as hiram abiff, the widow's son, and personifying the active intellectual principle or logos. in a word, hiram abiff is the christ principle immanent in every

ive by the addition of the third principle described as hiram abiff, the widow's son, and personifying the active intellectual principle or logos. in a word, hiram abiff is the christ principle immanent in every soul; crucif ied, dead and buried in all who are not alive to its presence, but resident in all as a saving force" christ in you, the hope of glory" consistently with christlike humility, hiram abiff (literally "the teacher from the father) is not described as a" king" as are solomon and hiram of tyre, but as one" of no reputation" a" widow's son; a beautiful touch of gnostic symbolism referable to the derelict or widowed nature of the divine motherhood or sophia owing to the errancy and defection from wisdom of her frail children. such of those children as have rejoined, or are st

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ecorded history that in caesars time the ships of the atlantic were larger than those ofthe mediterranean. and in the days of solomon, about 1,000 b.c, the ships of tarshish were consid-ered as large as ocean going vessels (p. 41)you shall understand that about 3000 years ago, or somewhat more, the navigation of the world (especially for remote voyages) was greater than at this day (francis bacon)hiram of tyresolomon launched his fleets from elath, this built by hiram. they sailed together to sack and loot,bringing back fortunes. such were not voyages of discovery but of commerce (see p. 31)book of jobplaced in arabia, the tale is one of a believer in the solar cult being contested by satan, the representa-tive of the serpent cult (see p. 33.)levitesservants of the els, later of the temple

y built by king solomon in the 10th century b.c. anancient water system, dating from the 9th century b.c, is well preserved. it is a phenomenal piece ofengineering which has a big shaft, sunk 120 feet through rock, meeting a tunnel cut more than 200feet to a spring outside the city. the spring was hidden by a wall and camouflaged by a covering ofearth. 5.1025- 945 b.c. tyre, lebanon: home of king hiram and the mythological hiram abiff, the terri-ble twosome of masonic legend. tyre is less than 20 miles north of the 33rd parallel. hiram was theking of tyre in the reigns of david and solomon. he was on friendly terms with both of them. kinghiram is first mentioned in the holy bible at 2 samuel 5:11, almost at the start of his reign, when hesent messengers to david with cedar trees, carpenter

rallel. hiram was theking of tyre in the reigns of david and solomon. he was on friendly terms with both of them. kinghiram is first mentioned in the holy bible at 2 samuel 5:11, almost at the start of his reign, when hesent messengers to david with cedar trees, carpenters and masons who built david a house. thewood was floated in rafts down the coast to joppa, then brought overland to jerusalem. hiram, whoadmired david, sent an embassy to solomon after david's death, as recorded in 1 kings 5:1.solomon took advantage of hiram and arranged for hiram to send him timber of cedar and fir fromlebanon. hiram's stone-squarers (1 kings 5:18) were men of gebal (modern jebail) north ofbeirut.both solomon and hiram were semites. solomon supplied hiram with large quantities of wheat andolive oil annua

, as recorded in 1 kings 5:1.solomon took advantage of hiram and arranged for hiram to send him timber of cedar and fir fromlebanon. hiram's stone-squarers (1 kings 5:18) were men of gebal (modern jebail) north ofbeirut.both solomon and hiram were semites. solomon supplied hiram with large quantities of wheat andolive oil annually for food (1 kings 5:11, and he surrendered 20 cities of galilee to hiram (1kings 9:10-13. when solomon had finished building the temple (seven years) and his palace (13years, hiram came to galilee. hiram was greatly dissatisfied when he saw the cities, and he nick-named them cabul, a term of uncertain origin which joseph in his antiquities (8:5:3) says meansnot pleasing in the phoenician tongue.hiram and solomon built a navy and equipped it with sailors on the re

oenician tongue.hiram and solomon built a navy and equipped it with sailors on the red sea. they made expeditionsfrom ezion-geber at the head of the gulf of aqabah south to ophir, where they purchased gold (1kings 9:28. they also had a navy of tarshish on the mediterranean which brought to them fromafar gold and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks (1 kings 10:22. no definite record has been foundof hiram's death. hiram had a daughter who became one of solomon's seven hundred wives (1kings 11:1, 3. a century later ethbaal, who was hiram's great grandson, was called king of sidon in 1 kings16:31. ethbaal's daughter, jezebel, became ahab's notorious queen (1 kings 16:31. renewed trou-bles after ethbaal's death led to the emigration of elissa, the dido of virgil's aeneid iv, and to thefoundation

ame one of solomon's seven hundred wives (1kings 11:1, 3. a century later ethbaal, who was hiram's great grandson, was called king of sidon in 1 kings16:31. ethbaal's daughter, jezebel, became ahab's notorious queen (1 kings 16:31. renewed trou-bles after ethbaal's death led to the emigration of elissa, the dido of virgil's aeneid iv, and to thefoundation of carthage. the holy bible does record a hiram, a worker in brass. king solomon brought this hiram from tyreto help build the temple (1 kings 7:13, 14, 40-45; 2 chronicles 2:13, 14; 4:11-16. this hiram'smother was a woman of the tribe of dan who had married first into the tribe of naphtali, then later aman of tyre. however, the name hiram abiff is nowhere in the holy bible. his name, and themyth surrounding his death and resurrection, ar

the united states, isonly 15 miles south of the 33rd parallel. 13.1826 masons murdered masonic whistle blower captain william morgan. captain morgan was anamerican freemason who wrote a book revealing masonic secrets, illustrations of freemasonry.one revealed secret was that the last mystery at the top of the masonic pyramid is the worship oflucifer, that is, satan. in the legend of the murder of hiram abiff, abiff represents intelligence, lib-erty and truth, and was struck down by a blow to the neck with a rule, representing the suppressionof speech by the church. then a square struck him in the heart. this represented the state's suppres-sion of belief. last, a maul struck him on the head. this represented the suppression of intellect bythe masses. so, freemasonry equates the church, the

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time, as such are needed, to reveal to men the truths that are wanted, and the amount of truth than can be borne. he so arranges, that nature and the course of events shall send men into the world, endowed with that higher mental and moral organization, in which grand truths, and sublime gleams of spiritual light will spontaneously and inevitably arise. these speak to men by inspiration. whatever hiram really was, he is the type, perhaps an imaginary type, to us, of humanity in its highest phase; an exemplar of what man may and should become, in the course of ages, in his progress toward the realization of his destiny; an individual gifted with a glorious intellect, a noble soul, a fine organization, and a perfectly balanced moral being; an earnest of what humanity may be, and what we beli

d unshaken as at first visible monuments of the remotest ages. the ph nician cosmogony, like all others in asia, was the word of god, written in astral characters, by the planetary divinities, and communicated by the demi-gods, as a profound mystery, to the brighter intelligences of humanity, to be propagated by them among men. their doctrines resembled the ancient sabeism, and being the faith of hiram the king and his namesake the artist, are of interest to all masons. with them, the first principle was half material, half spiritual, a dark air, animated and impregnated by the spirit; and a disordered chaos, covered with thick darkness. from this came the word, and thence creation and generation; and thence a race of men, children of light, who adored heaven and its stars as the supreme b

his world, where, since its making, war has never ceased, nor man paused in the sad task of torturing and murdering his brother; and of which ambition, avarice, envy, hatred, lust, and the rest of ahriman's and typhon's army make a pandemonium: this world, sunk in sin, reeking with baseness, clamorous with sorrow and misery. if any see in it also a type of the sorrow of the craft for the death of hiram, the grief of the jews at the fall of jerusalem, the misery of the templars at the ruin of their order and the death of de molay, or the world's agony and pangs of woe at the death of the redeemer, it is the right of each to do so. the third apartment represents the consequences of sin and vice and the hell made of the human heart, by its fiery passions. if any see in it also a type of the h

and christian books, and drawn from the ancient mysteries of egypt, persia, greece, india, the druids and the essenes, as vehicles to communicate the great masonic truths; as it has used the legends of the crusades, and the ceremonies of the orders of knighthood. it no longer inculcates a criminal and wicked vengeance. it has not allowed masonry to play the assassin: to avenge the death either of hiram, of charles the 1st, or of jacques de molay and the templars. the ancient and accepted scottish rite of masonry has now become, what masonry at first was meant to be, a teacher of great truths, inspired by an upright and enlightened reason, a firm and constant wisdom, and an affectionate and liberal philanthropy. it is no longer a system, over the composition and arrangement of the different

ous temple of tyre, where were the great columns consecrated to the winds and fire, the tyrian artist placed two columns of bronze at the entrance of the porch of the temple. the hemispherical brazen sea, supported by four groups of bulls, of three each, looking to the four cardinal points of the compass, represented the bull of the vernal equinox, and at tyre were consecrated to astarte; to whom hiram, josephus says, had builded a temple, and who wore on her head a helmet bearing the image of a bull. and the throne of solomon, with bulls adorning its arms, and supported on lions, like those of horus in egypt and of the sun at tyre; likewise referred to the vernal equinox and summer solstice. those who in thrace adored the sun, under the name of saba-zeus, the grecian bakchos, builded to h

of dead heroes, like glaucus, resuscitated in caves, were allegories of the natural alternations of life and death in nature, changes that are but expedients to preserve her virginity and purity inviolable in the general sum of her operations, whose aggregate presents only a majestic calm, rebuking alike man's presumption and his despair. the typical death of the nature-god, osiris, atys, adonis, hiram, was a profound but consolatory mystery: the healing charms of orpheus were connected with his destruction; and his bones, those valued pledges of fertility and victory, were, by a beautiful contrivance, often buried within the sacred precincts of his immortal equivalent. in their doctrines as to the immortality of the soul, the greek philosophers merely stated with more precision ideas long

h yet to be travelled, and is advised that upon that journey it depends whether he will become a master. this is symbolical of that which our saviour said to nicodemus, that, notwithstanding his morals might be beyond reproach, he could not enter the kingdom of heaven unless he were born again; symbolically dying, and again entering the world regenerate, like a spotless infant. 7th. the murder of hiram, his burial, and his being raised again by the master, are symbols, both of the death, burial, and resurrection of the redeemer; and of the death and burial in sins of the natural man, and his being raised again to a new life or born again, by the direct action of the redeemer; after morality (symbolized by the entered apprentice's grip, and philosophy (symbolized by the grip of the fellow-c

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ictest scientific sense, come this earth, a chilled spark of him, and all our light and life. his viceregent and representative in the animal kingdom is his cognate symbol the phallus, representing love and liberty. ra-hoor-khuit, like all true gods, is therefore a solar-phallic deity. but we regard him as he is in truth, eternal; the solar-phallic deities of the old aeon, such as osiris "christ, hiram, adonis, hercules, etc, were supposed through our ignorance of the cosmos, to 'die' and 'rise again. thus we celebrated rites of 'crucifixion' and so on, which have now become meaningless. ra-hoor-khuit is the crowned and conquering child. this is also a reference to the 'crowned' and conquering 'child' in ourselves, our own personal god. except ye become as little children, said 'christ, ye

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riest. in the louvre there are seated statues of goudea, who was both a patesi, meaning a governor representing the gods, and an architect. the architects seem to have been inspired by the gods they served.3 the books of i kings (5:13 ff and 7:13, 14) and ii chronicles (2:14 and 4:11) inform us that in judea during the construction of the temple of jerusalem, under the direction of master builder hiram of tyre and adoniram, solomon had 70,000 men to carry loads and 80,000 to carve the stones from the mountains, not to mention those who had managed each job, who numbered about 3,300 and gave orders to the workers. though we have no actual historical information on the subject, this story reveals that among the artisans busy on the construction of the temple there was a professional hierarch

ngland, we have testimonies of the bursts of faith that animated these men* this piece of correspondence provides us with* hist. litt. de la france par les religteux benedictines, vol. 12 (paris: m. paulin, 1865-1866, 356; mabillon, ann. benedict, vol. 128 (paris: billaine, 1668-1701, n. 67. it should be noted that the english legend places among the ancestors of the order a certain aymon, son of hiram, who was the greatest of master masons. should we view as a coincidence the fact that the elements of the legend of hiram are also present in the earlier chanson de geste "the four sons of aymon? in this text we see renaud de montauban, who, after following a life that has been hardly edifying and wishing to atone for his sins, hires on to the construction of the cathedral of cologne. his un

n regard to this subject: the rue des francs-macons in moissac is the same street that bore this name in the past and no doubt quite earlier than the eighteenth century, the time when speculative freemasonry first appeared in france. it therefore concerns corporative freemasons who, from the time of the middle ages in france, had inherited a name and professional traditions from the journeyman of hiram. moreover, it was also included in the quarter of those corporations that had probably been freed from the censive district of the abbey and whose old memory has been perpetuated by the names of other streets: rue des mazels (butchers, rue de l'escauderie (tripe butchers, and so forth *the current nomenclature of the old streets of moissac dates from 1824, but the names used then would have

the admission of women with hostility. we should also note that at the end of the seventeenth century, english freemasonry, which was speculative at this time, still continued to admit women members. proof of this can be found in the 1693 statutes of the lodge of york. here we read "hee or shee who would be made a mason, lays their hands upon the book [the bible] and then instructions are given* hiram (may-july 1908. it has been noted that this text contains the original latin ille vel illi (he, singular and plural, words that were incorrectly translated as hee or shee. see a. mellor, les grands problemes de la franc-maconnerie d'aujourd'hui (paris: belfond, 1971, 108. but is this translation an error or rather an evolutionary translation accepted by custom at that time, with the original

serve their wages, and that they should designate the most skilled among them as director of the work and call him "master" finally, euclid ordered his masons to hold an annual assembly. the legend next speaks of david, who loved and cherished the masons and gave them licenses. his son, solomon, gathered together 80,000 masons, including 1,000 masters, and finished the construction of the temple. hiram, king of tyre, who greatly loved solomon, provided him with the wood he needed for the construction and sent him an artist who was the very spirit of wisdom. this man's mother was of the nephtali tribe and his father was a man of tyre, and his name was also hiram (some versions of the story describe him as the son of king hiram; others give his name as amon or aymon) there had been no one li

construction and sent him an artist who was the very spirit of wisdom. this man's mother was of the nephtali tribe and his father was a man of tyre, and his name was also hiram (some versions of the story describe him as the son of king hiram; others give his name as amon or aymon) there had been no one like him in the world before his time. a master mason of great nobility and refined knowledge, hiram was master of the construction, all the builders of the temple, and all the carved and sculpted works in the temple and the surrounding area. the legend then leaps ahead several centuries and recounts how namus graecus* who had taken part in the building of solomon's temple, introduced masonry into france by teaching it to charles martel, who then instructed the men of france in its mysterie

epted into the association to establish any competitive endeavor at the expense of the association and for any sovereign to support his subjects in such a rebellion against the church" finally, all were expressly enjoined "to respect these credentials and to obey these commands, under pain of excommunication" the pontiffs signaled their approval of these absolute methods by citing "the example of hiram, king of tyre, when he sent architects to king solomon to build the temple of jerusalem" on reading these privileges, it is difficult to believe, like clavel (who accepts them, that the members of these corporations were opposed to the pope. while we may accept the authenticity of these briefs, the originals of which are missing, it is necessary to measure their scope. they were applicable o

jerusalem was the militant church; in the tropological sense, it was the christian soul; and in the anagogical sense it was the celestial jerusalem, the land above announced by saint john in the apocalypse. with respect to kings david and solomon, both of whom were extremely popular, they were regarded, curious as this might appear today, as signs or portents of jesus christ. the same was true of hiram, the founder of the pillars of the temple, and adoniran, solomon's high official and head of the conscripted labor. hic et christus, said the venerable bede in the eighth century, meaning that it is christ who guides the workers of the temple and provides the measures of the construction. this was repeated in walafrid strabo's ordinary gloss, which, from the ninth to the sixteenth century, a

would be too narrow and anti-christian. truth for them was intemporal, not merely a question of historical contribution. truth was what was primarily and clearly expressed in the new law as taught by jesus, the verb incarnate. for the church fathers, the literal sense of the hebrew scriptures was clearly sacred in nature. according to the symbolic exegesis, the* w. strabo in kings iii, 7, 13 for hiram and kings iii, 5, 28 for adoniram (kings i in modern editions of the bible, in which the former kings i and kings ii have become the book of samuel. this reference comes from the latin bible of froben (basel, 1498; bibliotheque national, res. a 807) see also emile male, l'art religieux du iiiieme stecle en france, vol. 1, 23 ff. speculative freemasonry 227 historical foundations of the scrip

ong allusion to the two pillars of the 230 from the art of building to the art of thinking temple, jachin and boaz "where (was) the noble art or science found when it was lost" this is the meaning it gives them "for ye present ye sons of god have received strength inwardly, for ye time to come god will stablisch so with his spirit of grace yt they shall never wholly depart from him* the legend of hiram and the initiatory myth the legend of hiram is particularly significant with regard to the sacred scope of the masonic ritual. for the masons, who made him both their master and model, hiram was a mythical figure who was the brilliant builder of the temple. haloed by glory and talent, he is a synthesis of two biblical figures: huram or hiram abi, and adoram, adonhiram, or adoniram. according

articularly significant with regard to the sacred scope of the masonic ritual. for the masons, who made him both their master and model, hiram was a mythical figure who was the brilliant builder of the temple. haloed by glory and talent, he is a synthesis of two biblical figures: huram or hiram abi, and adoram, adonhiram, or adoniram. according to the kings iii (5:13, 14, 15, king solomon fetched hiram out of tyre. he was a widow's son of the tribe of naphtali, and his father was a man of tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. and he came to king solomon and wrought all his work. for he cast two brass pillars. that of the right was jachin, and that on the left, boaz. according to the chronicles ii (2:14 and 4:11, h

a widow's son of the tribe of naphtali, and his father was a man of tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. and he came to king solomon and wrought all his work. for he cast two brass pillars. that of the right was jachin, and that on the left, boaz. according to the chronicles ii (2:14 and 4:11, huram abi was sent by king hiram of tyre to solomon. he was the son of a woman of the daughters of dan, and his father was a man of tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving. and huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. and huram finished the work he was to make for king so

was he who, in this capacity, directed the works of the temple, but we know that in reality the true architect of the temple was god himself. when king david gave his son solomon the plans for the building of the temple and the models of the tabernacle and all the tools, he declared "all of this was written by the lord's hand which gave unto me the understanding (chronicles i, 28:19. solomon and hiram were merely executing (albeit perfectly) the will of god. in the commingling of hiram and adoniram, the masons followed the customary interpretation of all the medieval commentaries and interpretations of the bible. but the masonic legend a major theme of the initiation of the mason to the grade of master invented the tragic death of hiram, who was said to have been killed by three evil jour

to the grade of master invented the tragic death of hiram, who was said to have been killed by three evil journeymen to whom he had refused to give the master "word" he was then transfigured and resuscitated in the person of the newly initiated master. in this story, the masons embroidered upon the bible. what's more, as we shall see, adoniram was killed in circumstances that bear resemblance to hiram's death through their sacred and spiritual significance. hiram is mentioned in the old charges (see the tew manuscript, circa 1680, which describes him as the son of king hiram; see also the inigo jones manuscript from the same era. but the legend of his death, with its initiatory and therefore secret character, appears in documented form only with modern freemasonry, specifically in prichar

nds. those of saint christopher, mary magdelene, and the three magi, which remain extremely popular today, shared the same sources. outside of these particularly deeprooted cases, however, other similar innovations woven from the scriptures were no longer accepted by christian churches either protestant or catholic after the reformation and the council of trent. in the masonic rite of initiation, hiram, projection and adaptation of the tradition, is the embodiment of christ in the form of a minor deity. the church itself declared as much for eight centuries through bedes and strabo's commentaries on the bible. in them, hiram and adoniram are seen to be combined in a single figure: the image and figure of christ. as we learned earlier, hic est christus is written in the text about adoniram

und in stained glass (for example, in chartres, saint denis, le mans, and sainte chapelle) and in the archivolts of portals (in senlis, mantes, laon, chartres, amiens. starting at the end of the thirteenth century, the virgin began appearing at the top of the tree, holding the infant jesus in her arms. she is the rose, the flower that blossoms at the tip of the stem. how illuminating and eloquent hiram's legend becomes when placed alongside christ's ascension, which was so often celebrated by stone sculptors, masons, and carpenters. all the prophets and seers of israel, all those heralds of christ, all those figures who gravitated around the scriptures and the apocrypha and oral tradition or the books of legends such as jacques de voragine's golden legend, comestor's historia scholastica

t was expected that these figures, who had served as heralds, would also be illustrations of the passion in accordance with the indications of their gestures as related by the scriptures and various legends. all of this served as a departure point for the elaboration of the mysteries, which in this way rejoined and continued the traditions of the ancient mysteries. the masons' legend connected to hiram belongs within this general framework. the circumstantial and fixed death of hiram, followed by his resurrection within his own person as well as in those who emulated him, is a reflection of the passion in the fullness of its lesson. it is also a continuation and the christianized spiritual finality of the ancient mysteries: the attainment of immortality and understanding through by incorpo

y building within the ideal and undying dwelling of the lord. a final observation may prove helpful in explaining the symbolic meaning of these narratives. the majority of ancient bibles provide a lexicon that interprets hebrew names. in franciscus de hailbrun's bible (venise, 1480; bibliotheque nationale, res. a2331, for instance, we can read "adoniram= dominus exaltatus, vel dominator sublimes; hiram= vivit excelsus, aut vivens est excelse" the word abi means pater, father, which lends even more support to the identical nature and unity of the two figures. adon (dominus) is the precursor to the name hiram, which is the explanation that vuillaume gives in his masonic tiler. lord the father, lord most high, lord of life we find the same amphibology on the initiatory legend. these were comm

don (dominus) is the precursor to the name hiram, which is the explanation that vuillaume gives in his masonic tiler. lord the father, lord most high, lord of life we find the same amphibology on the initiatory legend. these were commonly taught during the middle ages, connections that everyone understood in the theophany in which the world lived. to measure the importance of the legend for which hiram's legend is central, it is important to note that despite the existence of three levels in masonry apprentice, journeyman, and master in scotland, england, and on the continent we cannot assume that three separate rituals existed for initiation at these three levels. the initiation ritual among the operative masons should be viewed as a single entity markspeculative freemasonry 235 ing the t

owever, where the grade of master was pan of the craft hierarchy. this had been true for a long time as is demonstrated by the schaw statutes. during this era of religious and dynastic struggles, it is said that the scots tried to use this distinctive feature as a means of dominating the lodges. at this same time they were developing the symbolism of the master grade. in particular, the legend of hiram, the brilliant builder of the temple who was murdered by three evil journeymen and was res [clodion refers to the merovingian king whose brother, fredemundus, was claimed an ancestor by the stuarts. trans] the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 259 urrected in the person of the newly initiated master, was used by the friends of charles i to avenge his death and set his son upon the throne

d its development and application had faded from memory. similarly, some say the jacobites combined their knightly titles and decorations with freemasonry and that this served as the origin of the scottish higher grades, which were intended to serve the political purpose of dominating freemasonry and placing it in the service of the dynastic interests of the stuarts. we have covered the legend of hiram at length and it seems it has an ancient origin that cannot be traced to any single location and retains a sense that is strictly traditional and christian. we have also seen that the english craft did not overlook the grade of master, but that it was simply less differenciated in their practice than it was in scotland. during the era of the transistion between the two forms of masonry opera

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sts and new kings by science and, above all, by charity. the ancient magi were priests and kings, and the saviour's advent was proclaimed to them by a star. this star was the magical pentagram, having a sacred letter at each point. it is the symbol of intelligence which rules by unity of force over the four elementary potencies; it is the pentagram of the magi, the blazing star of the children of hiram, the prototype of equilibrated light. towards each of its points a beam of light ascends, and from each a beam goes forth; it represents the grand and supreme athanor of nature, which is the body of man. the magnetic influence issues in two rays from the head, from either hand and either foot. the positive ray is balanced by the negative. the head corresponds with the two feet, each hand wit

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w is added a third sign, the grand hailing sign of distress of the master mason, given with the upper arms parallel to the ground, forearms vertical with hands above the head, palms forward. for those times when the master mason is out of sight of possible help, or in the dark, he is taught to summon assistance with the word "o lord, my god, is there no help for a son of the widow" a reference to hiram, legendary master craftsman at the building of the temple of solomon, about whom the initiate has yet been told nothing, and whom masons identify with the metalworker that scripture describes as "a son of a widow of naphtali."5 note that robinson makes mention of the "penal sign, the hand signal based on the penalty of the master mason's oath" in codex magica, you will see several examples o

recognized as an emblem of omniscience, or the all-seeing eye, which to the ancients was the sun."3 the illuminati and their subordinates, the masons, honor the deity of countless names. yes, one of those names is osiris, with his son horus. but the illuminati deity is a concealed god who hides his true identity in a multitude of disguises and subterfuges. he is called "the sun" the "central sun "hiram abiff" the one with the "ineffable name "ein soph" the "great architect of the universe "abaddon "mahabone" and "jahbuhlun" ostensibly the illuminati worship a pantheon, a multiplicity of gods. but, not so. these are all fronts for the elite worship of lucifer. he is their true god, the god of light. as albert pike stated in morals and dogma "doubt it not" their god is the serpent now, the b

munism's best-known symbol. i have examined the occultic meaning of the five-pointed star in previous chapters, so i simply reiterate here that the star is a sign of false gods and specifically of the god of illuminism, in the perfect master degree, the masons assembled in the lodge all simulate the drama of lamenting the mythical death of their "brother" the false christ-figure, the grand master hiram abiff. observe the red star on the coffin here (from richardson's monitor of freemasonry, p. 134) lucifer, the solar deity who comes disguised and is worshipped by the deceived illuminati as "angel of light" and as the "blazing star" incidentally, so popular is the red star in russia that in late 2000, under pressure from military brass and segments of public opinion, vladimir putin, russia'

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e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d secret societies 9 masonic temple in alexandria, virginia (corbis corporation) georgewashington was an avowed mason. the central mythos of freemasonry centers around the building of the great temple of king solomon (tenth century b.c.e) and solomon fs securing the services of the most accomplished architect in the world, hiram abiff, who was said to have designed the magnificent temple according to the precepts of the great architect of the universe. although hiram is mentioned in biblical accounts as a master of the arts of construction, the rites of freemasonry extend beyond the bible and fashion a parallel myth, portraying hiram as a primary figure in the creation of the temple. according to masonic tradition

er. gfezzes, sphinxes and secret handshakes, h the washington post, november 25, 2001 [online] http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/a61372-2001nov20.html. goeringer, conrad. gfreemasons.from the 700 club to art bell, an object of conspiracy thinking. h american atheist, may 1998 [online] http/ www.americanatheist.org/supplement/conspiracy. html. lomas, robert, and christopher knight. the hiram key: pharaohs, freemasons, and the discovery of the secret scrolls of jesus. boston: element books, 1999. macoy, robert. a dictionary of freemasonry. new york: gramercy books, 2000. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon books, 1948. the garduna the origins of the garduna begin in a legend not dissimilar from that of el cid (c. 1043.1099, the heroic knight t h e g a l e e

sweeping through and plundering all the great incan centers. they missed one, however, and it would remain lost to the world until 1912. the majestic site is called machu picchu, a city in the clouds that rests at 8,000 feet in altitude between two mountains, huayana picchu( gyoung mountain h) and machu picchu( gancient mountain h, and overlooks a sacred river and valley called urubamba. in 1911, hiram bingham (1875.1956, a historian from yale university who was per- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d places of mystery and power 251 during the 1400s, the inca empire was largest in the world, stretching 2,500 miles and supporting a population of over ten million people. forming research in peru, was alerted by a local farmer, melchior a

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pressed in 1314 on the grounds that its members were heretical, blasphemous and sodomitical. with the rise of continental and anglo-saxon freemasonry, however, the building activities of the templars began to attract attention. perhaps, thought some masons, the fact that the symbolism of the craft degrees of masonry was concerned with both the building of a temple and the murder of its architect, hiram, suggested the existence of a connection between the knights templar and freemasonry? perhaps the masonic fraternity did not, as was assumed by most of its members, go back to the time of king solomon but was simply an underground continuation of the order of the temple? perhaps the murdered hiram was really jacques de molay, the martyred grand master of the templars? the idea of an historic

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nd smiteth the jebusites, and the lame and the blind [that are] hated of david s soul [he shall be chief and captain] wherefore they said, the blind and the lame shall not come into the house. 5:9 so david dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of david. and david built round about from millo and inward. 5:10 and david went on, and grew great, and the lord god of hosts [was] with him. 5:11 and hiram king of tyre sent messengers to david, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built david an house. 5:12 and david perceived that the lord had established him king over israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people israel s sake. 5:13 and david took [him] more concubines and wives out of jerusalem, after he was come from hebron: and there were yet sons and daughte

ke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. 4:33 and he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. 4:34 and there came of all people to hear the wisdom of solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom. 5:1 and hiram king of tyre sent his servants unto solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for hiram was ever a lover of david. 5:2 and solomon sent to hiram, saying, 5:3 thou knowest how that david my father could not build an house unto the name of the lord his god for the wars which were about him on every side, until the lord put them under the soles of his

rone in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name. 5:6 now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will i give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that [there is] not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the sidonians. 5:7 and it came to pass, when hiram heard the words of solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, blessed [be] the lord this day, which hath given unto david a wise son over this great people. 5:8 and hiram sent to solomon, saying, i have considered the things which thou sentest to me for [and] i will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 5:9 my servants shall bring [them] down from leba

o me for [and] i will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. 5:9 my servants shall bring [them] down from lebanon unto the sea: and i will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive [them] and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household. 5:10 so hiram gave solomon cedar trees and fir trees [according to] all his desire. 5:11 and solomon gave hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave solomon to hiram year by year. 5:12 and the lord gave solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between hiram and solomon; and they two made a league together. 5:13 and king so

n thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; 5:16 beside the chief of solomon s officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. 5:17 and the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. 5:18 and solomon s builders and hiram s builders did hew [them] and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. 6:1 and it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of israel were come out of the land of egypt, in the fourth year of solomon s reign over israel, in the month zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the lord. 6:2 and the house

as of] costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 7:11 and above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. 7:12 and the great court round about [was] with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the lord, and for the porch of the house. 7:13 and king solomon sent and fetched hiram out of tyre. 7:14 he [was] a widow s son of the tribe of naphtali, and his father [was] a man of tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. and he came to king solomon, and wrought all his work. 7:15 for he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a 1 kings page 200 line of twelve cubits did compass

l of them had one casting, one measure [and] one size. 7:38 then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths [and] every laver was four cubits [and] upon every one of the ten bases one laver. 7:39 and he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south. 7:40 and hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. so hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king solomon for the house of the lord: 7:41 the two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the chapiters that [were] on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which [were] upon the top of the pillars; 7:42 and four hundred pomegranates for the

which [were] upon the top of the pillars; 7:42 and four hundred pomegranates for the two networks [even] two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that [were] upon the pillars; 7:43 and the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; 7:44 and one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; 7:45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which hiram made to king solomon for the house of the lord [were of] bright brass. 7:46 in the plain of jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between succoth and zarthan. 7:47 and solomon left all the vessels [unweighed] because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out. 7:48 and solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the house of the lord: the altar

y shall answer, because they forsook the lord their god, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the lord brought upon them all this evil. 9:10 and it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when solomon had built the two houses, the house of the lord, and the king s house, 9:11([now] hiram the king of tyre had furnished solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire) that then king solomon gave hiram twenty cities in the land of galilee. 9:12 and hiram came out from tyre to see the cities which solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. 9:13 and he said, what cities [are] these which thou hast given me, my brother? and he called them t

mon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire) that then king solomon gave hiram twenty cities in the land of galilee. 9:12 and hiram came out from tyre to see the cities which solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. 9:13 and he said, what cities [are] these which thou hast given me, my brother? and he called them the land of cabul unto this day. 9:14 and hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. 9:15 and this [is] the reason of the levy which king solomon raised; for to build the house of the lord, and his own house, and millo, and the wall of jerusalem, and hazor, and megiddo, and gezer. 9:16 [for] pharaoh king of egypt had gone up, and taken gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it [for]

built for her: then did he build millo. 9:25 and three times in a year did solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that [was] before the lord. so he finished the house. 9:26 and king solomon made a navy of ships in eziongeber, which is beside eloth, on the shore of the red sea, in the land of edom. 9:27 and hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of solomon. 9:28 and they came to ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought [it] to king solomon. page 203 1 kings 10:1 and when the queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon concerning the name of the lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. 10:2 and she

delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of israel: because the lord loved israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice. 10:10 and she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of sheba gave to king solomon. 10:11 and the navy also of hiram, that brought gold from ophir, brought in from ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. 10:12 and the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the lord, and for the king s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. 10:13 and king solomon gave unto the queen of sheba all her desire, whatsoever she aske

e lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom. 10:21 and all king solomon s drinking vessels [were of] gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of lebanon [were of] pure gold; none [were of] silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of solomon. 10:22 for the king had at sea a navy of tharshish with the navy of hiram: once in three years came the navy of tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 10:23 so king solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. 10:24 and all the earth sought to solomon, to hear his wisdom, which god had put in his heart. 10:25 and they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and arm

13:12 and david was afraid of god that day, saying, how shall i bring the ark of god [home] to me? 13:13 so david brought not the ark [home] to himself to the city of david, but carried it aside into the house of obededom the gittite. 13:14 and the ark of god remained with the family of obed-edom in his house three months. and the lord blessed the house of obed-edom, and all that he had. 14:1 now hiram king of tyre sent messengers to david, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house. 14:2 and david perceived that the lord had confirmed him king over israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people israel. 14:3 and david took more wives at jerusalem: and david begat more sons and daughters. 14:4 now these [are] the names of [his] children whi

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and without any doubt, the two interlaced triangles of the seal of solomon, which join or separate love, are the two shuttles with which the ineffable mystery of eternal life in the loom of god is woven or unwoven. the upper triangle symbolizes kether (the father who is in secret, chokmah (the son) and binah (the holy spirit of each human being. the lower triangle represents the three traitors of hiram abiff; those three traitors are inside of us. the first traitor is the demon of desire; that traitor lives within the astral body. the second traitor is the demon of the mind; that traitor lives within the mental body. the third traitor is the demon of evil will; that traitor lives within the body of willpower (causal body. the bible cites these three traitors in the apocalypse of saint john

rot. amad simos: recordad el sello de salom n; sus dos tri ngulos entrelazados que junta y separa el amor, son realmente y sin duda alguna enlazados (las dos lanzaderas con que se teje y desteje el telar de dios. el tri ngulo superior simboliza a kether (el padre que est en secreto, chokmah (el hijo) y binah (el esp ritu santo de cada hombre. el tri ngulo inferior representa los tres traidores de hiram abiff. esos tres traidores est n dentro de nosotros mismos. el primer traidor es el demonio del deseo. ese traidor vive dentro del cuerpo astral. el segundo traidor es el demonio de la mente. ese traidor vive dentro del cuerpo mental. el tercer traidor es el demonio de la mala voluntad. ese traidor vive dentro del cuerpo de la voluntad (cuerpo causal. la biblia cita estos tres traidores en e

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