The “Star of David” – Is It Pagan?

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The "Star of David" – Is It Pagan?

 

What is the origin of the "Star of David"?  Was it really the ancient
                        symbol on David's shield?  Did it originate with king Solomon?
                        What is the meaning of two interlaced triangles, one pointed upward
                        and one pointed down?  Where did this ancient symbol REALLY
                        originate?   Why does this symbol figure so prominently in the modern
                        nation of Israel, today?   You may be totally shocked at the explosive,
                        provocative answers to these questions!

 

William F. Dankenbring

 

A Jewish Orthodox internet website tells us:  "The Magen David (shield of David, or as it is more commonly known, the Star of David) is the symbol most commonly associated with Judaism today, but it is actually a relatively new Jewish symbol. It is supposed to represent the shape of King David's shield (or perhaps the emblem on it), but there is really no support for that claim in any early rabbinic literature. In fact, the symbol is so rare in early Jewish literature and artwork that art dealers suspect forgery if they find the symbol in early works.

"Scholars such as Franz Rosenzweig have attributed deep theological significance to the symbol. For example, some note that the top triangle strives upward, toward G-d, while the lower triangle strives downward, toward the real world. Some note that the intertwining makes the triangles inseparable, like the Jewish people.  Some say that the three sides represent the three types of Jews:  Kohanin, Levites and Israel. Some note that there are actually 12 sides (3 exterior and 3 interior on each triangle), representing the 12 tribes. While these theories are theologically interesting, they have little basis in historical fact."

The site continues:  "The symbol of intertwined equilateral triangles is a common one in the Middle East and North Africa, and is thought to bring good luck. It appears occasionally in early Jewish artwork, but never as an exclusively Jewish symbol. The nearest thing to an 'official' Jewish symbol at the time was the seven-branched "menorah."

In the 17th century, it became a popular practice to put Magen Davids on the outside of  Jewish synagogues to identify them as Jewish houses of worship in much the same way that a cross identified a Christian house of worship.

The so-called "Star of David" gained popularity as a symbol of Judaism when it was adopted as the emblem of the Zionist movement in 1897, but the symbol continued to be very controversial for many years. When the modern state of Israel was founded in 1948, there was much debate over whether this symbol should be used on the flag.

Today, of course, the "Star of David" is a universally recognized symbol of Jewry. It appears on the flag of the state of Israel.  Its real origins, however, are not so pure.

The Hexagram

            The so-called "Star of David" is essentially a "hexagram," nothing more, nothing less.  There is no Biblical or Jewish evidence that traces this ancient occult symbol with king David of Israel.  However, there is evidence that it was used by king Solomon, after he turned to pagan gods and the occult, late in his life, causing God to become very angry with him .

 

A Masonic book called The Second Mile, an Eastern Star book, reveals that the "six pointed star is a very ancient symbol, and one of the most powerful."  The hexagram is used in magic, witchcraft, sorcery and occultism and the casting of zodiacal horoscopes by astrologers.  "It was considered to posses mysterious powers," says A Concise Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry.

            The six pointed star is used as a "stand-by for magicians and alchemists.  The sorcerers believed it represented the footprints of a special kind of DEMON called a trud and used it in ceremonies both to call up demons and to keep them away" (O. J. Graham, The Six Pointed Star, New Puritan Library, 1988, p.35).

 

            Says Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated, by Dr. Cathy Burns, "The Hexagram is formed by united the Water Triangle with the Fire Triangle, which is the Six-pointed Sart, Star of David, Solomon's Seal, etc.  When the two triangles (the 'Water Triangle' and the 'Fire Triangle') are joined together into one symbol, it forms a six pointed star known as a double triangle, hexagram, Crest of Solomon, star of the microcosm and the Shield of David, among other names.  It is even called the 'talisman of Saturn'" (p.38).

 

            Occultists use it as a "stand-by for magicians and alchemists.  The sorcerers believed it represented the footprint of a special kind of DEMON called a trud and used it for ceremonies both to call up demons and to keep them away" (ibid.).

 

            Bill Schnoebelen, a former Satanist, tells us, "To the sorcerer, the hexagram is a powerful tool to invoke Satan."  In fact, the word "hex" -- as to put a "hex" or "curse" on people -- comes from this word.

 

            The hexagram also has a sexual connotation.  It represents sexual union.  The triangle pointed downward is a female symbol and the triangle pointed upward is the male symbol; when they are interlaced it represents coitus, or sexual union of the active and passive forces in nature.  A former witch reveals, "When the male triangle penetrates the female triangle it produced the six pointed crest of Solomon or hexagram, the most wicked symbol in witchcraft" (Burns, ibid., p.39).

 

            In fact, the hexagram was also used by the ancient Hindus in the worship of their divine "Trinity" – Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva – as the "unity" of three gods in one.  J. S. M. Ward adds that it is "strictly the sign of Trimurti, the Three in One, typifying the creative, preservative and destructive natures of the Deity."

 

            If you examine the so-called "Star of David," or hexagram, closely, you will discover something astonishing.  It has six points, forms six equilateral triangles, and in its interior forms a six sided hexagon -- thus it reveals the number of Satan the devil, or the beast of Revelation -- 66, and 6 -- 666 !!!

 
An Occult Sex Symbol

 

            A Masonic author declares that the triangles that make up the hexagram "are symbolic of good and evil, day and night, the Chinese yang and yin, etc."   In the Masonic system, we have the interlaced triangles, one black and one white, the white triangle with its point up, the black triangle with its point down.  It represents the male and female elements.  The interlaced black and white triangles picture darkness and light, good and evil, error and truth, ignorance and wisdom, and supposedly balance and harmony.

 

            In The Gods of India, by Alain Danielou, we read:

 

                        "The triangle with its apex upward is also taken to represent fire,

                        identified with the male principle, the linga or phallus, symbol

                        of Siva the Progenitor or of the Cosmic Person . . .

 

                        "The triangle pointed downward represents the force of inertia

                        which pulls downward, and tends to suppress activity.  It is

                        associated with the element of water, which always tends to

                        come down, to equalize its level.  It is the passive aspect of creation

                        and thus is represented by the yoni or female organ, the emblem

                        of Energy or CosmicNature" (quoted by Dr.Burns, p.35).

 

            We see that this ancient occult figure of the hexagram, or Seal of Solomon, or Star of David – as it is also called -- is nothing more than a repulsive pagan symbol of sexual union and reproduction.  The triangle pointing downward represents the female sexual organ, the vagina, and the upward pointing triangle represents the male penis.  Joined together in the hexagram, they represent the act of sexual intercourse.  Thus the hexagram was a part of Satan's original "sex worship" rites and symbols of ancient BAALISM – the sensuous religion of Nimrod and Semiramis – which began just this side of the Flood!

 

            In the book The Gods of India, by Alain Danielou, we also discover:  "The two complimentary principles, the linga and the yoni, are graphically represented by the fiery triangle with upward apex and the watery triangle with downward apex.  When the triangles penetrate each other to form the hexagon, this is taken to show the state of manifestation.   When they part, the universe dissolves" (p.219).

 

            Archaeologist E.A. Wallace Budge, an authority on ancient Egyptian mythology, relates:  "Those who believed in the physical significance of the Hexagram taught that communication between the living and the dead was possible, and adopted the dogma of reincarnation " (Amulets and Superstition, p.432).

 

            How did this ancient symbol of the occult, and Satan the devil, find its way into Judaism, and become the major symbol today of the Jewish people, adorning the Israeli flag?  That is an interesting question, indeed!  As God says in His Word, Satan the Devil is "that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the WHOLE WORLD" (Revelation 12:9, NRSV).  That means virtually everybody – every nation – every religion – the WHOLE WORLD!

 

            The Christians have their "cross" – also an ancient pagan symbol of sex worship.  And the Jewish people have the Seal of Solomon or hexagram – another ancient pagan sex symbol!  See our article, "The Mystery of the Cross."

 

            When did the hexagram become a symbol of the Jewish people?

 
Egyptian Origin

 

            The first martyr of the Christian church, Stephen, in his defense before the Sanhedrin, warned the Jewish nation, as he reviewed the history of Israel:  "Then God turned and gave them p to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the Prophets:  Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?  You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and THE STAR of your god Remphan, IMAGES which you made to WORSHIP" (Acts 7:42-43).  Notice!  This pagan worship was derived from EGYPT, and even when Israel left Egypt under Moses, some of them brought the Egyptian pagan idols and images with them, secretly!

 

            God's Word warns us, in the prophecy of Amos:  "You also carried Sikkuth your king [tabernacle of Moloch] and Chiun, your idols, the STAR of your gods, which you made for yourselves" (Amos 5:26).   This star was very likely the SIX-POINTED STAR -- the star associated with sexual depravity, reproductivity, and whoring – already used in ancient Egypt! -- the Hexagram!

 

            How did this figure become popular in Israel?  Solomon, after he became king of Israel, "made a treaty with PHARAOH king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh's daughter; then he brought her to the city of David until he had finished building his own house" (I Kings 3:1).  The influence of the daughter of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, was no doubt considerable -- the foremost and chiefest of all his wives.

 

            Solomon who loved the Lord in the beginning of his reign, turned away from the true path of worship as he grew older.  The Scriptures tell us, "But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh:  women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites -- from the nations of whom the LORD had said, 'You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you.  Surely they will turn away your hearts after THEIR GODS.'  Solomon clave to these in love" (I Kings 11:1-2).  

 

            "For it was so when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David" (v.4).  Solomon worshipped, among other gods, Ashtoreth (Easter, Venus, Aprhodite), Milcom or Molech, the fiery king of gods whose rites included human sacrifice and witchcraft and sexual orgies, and Chemosh (see verses 5-7).  Solomon built high places, temples, and altars, for these pagan abominations, "And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods" (v..

 

            It would appear that king Solomon adopted the Hexagram, which became known as "Solomon's Seal."  When he went astray from God's path of truth, and began to consort with evil forces, he became a powerful wizard, or consulter of demons and the occult powers of darkness.  Thus it would appear that Solomon made the hexagram a prominent symbol in ancient Israel.  He adopted it from the pagan nations around him.

 

            There is no evidence to connect the hexagram with David, his father.  There is no reason to believe that David, a man after God's own heart, would ever adopt a pagan symbol for his "shield."  But Satan the devil, the chief of liars and deceivers, would certainly love to have you think so! (Rev.12:9; John 8:44).

 

            However, since the Seal evidently was used in Israel since the time of Solomon, it would not be strange if it was found associated with kings of Israel in later times.  James Trimm makes such an assertion saying a bas relief from the time of king Jehu of Israel shows a "Star of David" symbol over the prostrate Israelite king as he pays homage to the Assyrian conqueror.  It is found in the book Kings and Pharoahs by David Rohl.  He got the title reversed.

 

            I found the illustration he mentioned in Pharaohs and Kings:  A Biblical Quest, by David M. Rohl (Crown Publishers, New York, 1995).  It is on page 33.  It is a panel from the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, showing either Jehu or his representative bowing and scraping before the Assyrian king.  The so-called "Star of David" high on the wall behind the bowing figure, however, is hardly convincing.  It is nothing like two intersecting, interlaced triangles at all.  It looks more like a wheel with six spokes – much like a chariot wheel (or even the nautical "wheel" used to steer a ship or boat).  This picture hardly proves the Star of David was the seal of state of ancient Israel.  If this is supposed to be proof in the eyes of James Trimm that justifies the use of the Star of David, then I shudder to consider what some people consider "proof" of anything.

 

            Jehu, of course, was definitely not a righteous king of Israel.  He himself went astray from the paths of God and departed from His commands.  Jehu started out with great zeal, and slew the house of Ahab, and even Jezebel, and destroyed the temple of Baal, making it a latrine (II Kings 10:27), "But Jehu did  not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused Israel to commit – the golden calves that were in Bethel and Dan" (verse 28).  We read, "But Jehu was not careful to follow the law of the LORD the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit.  In those days the LORD began to trim off parts of Israel' (II Kings 10:31, NRSV).
 
Modern Israel

 

            Why and how did the six-pointed star -- the pagan occult symbol -- become connected with the MODERN state of Israel?  It was adopted as the family crest or shield by the Rothschild family during the 19th century.  The Rothschilds bought a great deal of property in Israel, from the Turks and Arabs, and were amongst the major supporters of the Zionist movement in the early decades.  The influence of the Rothschilds and their heavy financial support of Israel, led the Jewish nation to adopt the so-called "Star of David" as their own symbol as a nation.

 

            How amazing it is!  When we look at all the evidence, truly Satan the devil has deceived the whole world – all mankind – both Jews and Gentiles.  The Christians, so-called, adore the cross, which is an ancient pagan fertility symbol.  And likewise, the Jews cherish the Star of David or Seal of Solomon – the hexagram – which is another powerful occult sex symbol!

 
What Does GOD Say?

 

            What should God's people do about these things?  The prophet Jeremiah states, "Do not learn the way of the nations . . . For the customs of the peoples are FALSE" (Jer.10:1-3, NRSV).

 

            Moses wrote:  "You must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods [and their symbols] . . . Break down their altars, smash their pillars, burn their sacred poles with fire, and hew down the idols of their gods, and thus blot out their name from their places.  You shall not worship the LORD your God in such ways" (Deuteronomy 12:2-4).

 

            The apostle Paul wrote:  "Do not be mismatched with unbelievers.  For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness?  Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness?  What agreement does Christ have with Beliar?  Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever?  What agreement has the temple of God with idols?  For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, 'I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and TOUCH NOTHING UNCLEAN; then I will welcome you, and I will be your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty'" (II Cor.6:14-18, NRSV).

 

            As God's people, we should have NO PART in the use of these perverted and demonic symbols which have been the trademark of pagans, witches, and practitioners of the occult.  That includes both the falsely portrayed "Star of David," which has nothing to do with David, or the so-called "Christian cross," which has nothing whatever to do with the true Christ, Yeshua the Messiah, who died on an upright pole and not a cross!

 

            As the apostle Paul declared, its time to repent and put away all these pagan emblems and symbols, and become holy and pure before God.  "While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to REPENT, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged" (Acts 17:30-31).

 

            The apostle Jude declared, it is time we should "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints" (Jude 3, KJV).  Let's free ourselves from all such unholy influences.      

 
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John Todd: The Illuminati and witchcraft

(From tape recorded Lectures by John Todd, Ex-Grand Druid Witch, at Bible Baptist Church, Elkton, Md., USA, Fall 1978)

There is no reason to have fear in your heart. There is nothing to be afraid of when it comes to the devil; He was defeated 2,000 years ago!

I learned what most witches don't know and that the gods they worship are demons. They like to call them spirit guides–and that there is only one god and his name is Lucifer. I was explained to that Lucifer was a good god and not an evil god, and that Jesus was the imitator.

We were the religion of a political organisation called the Illuminati. The seal of the Illuminati says: "This New Order that began 1776"—not the 4th of July , but May 1st,1776, the creation day of the Illuminati.

On the top of each pyramid you will see a capstone with an eye in it. The capstone is the Rothschild Family or Tribunal that rules the Illuminati, they were the creators of it. The eye is Lucifer, their god and their voice. The top block is the Council of 13 called the Grand Druid Council. They only take orders from the Rothschilds. They're their private priesthood. The Council of 33 is directly under them, that is the 33 highest Masons in the world. Then the Council of 500, some of the richest people in the World.

The Golden Dawn is the Rothschilds private coven. The Aquarian Art Festival is the organisation that ties all the Occult Brotherhood together.

The national Council of churches, the Satanic Brotherhood of America, scientology, unity, is the main platform for witches to be speakers at towards what they consider to be Christian people. The Church of Wicka is another denomination.

The process church of Final Judgement is a church which Charles Manson belonged to. They believe in human sacrifice and they believe that the only answer to Christianity is to bomb the churches and execute the Christians.

The Garnarian Brotherhood is the traditional witchcraft in England. The Order of Rosicrucians is a sacrifice order. And the Holy Order of Garter is another traditional English Witchcraft group.

The Trilateral Council is the Inner Council of the Council of Foreign Relations, which is the American name for the Illuminati. They are not there without full knowledge and they are hand-picked by David Rockefeller, the leader of the Illuminati in the United States. Without the Sphinx the mystery of the Illuminati would have no power. This is were all the power comes from. The head of it is the Rothschild family and the Council of 500. Under that, the Rockefellers, Duponts, Kennedys, Onasises, and other families. Queen Juliana is also on the Council of 500. In the centre is its heart, the Bank of England, the Bank of France the Federal Reserve Act, a stockholder company owned by individuals. Much of the stock is owned by non-Americans.

Many Banks and famous corporations are owned or controlled by the Illuminati. Housewives cannot shop without buying from a company that the Illuminati owns, it is impossible.

(In 1966) Phillip Rothschild ordered one of his mistresses to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called "Atlas Shrugs". She spent a third of the book describing how they would raise the oil prices and then later destroy the oil fields and then they would completely shut down the coal.

Their sole purpose is to bankrupt their own companies and destroy their own companies until they destroyed the currency of the whole World, and still be so financially strong they would withstand it!

The Grand Druids meet eight times a year on the Witches' Sabbath at various locations in the world. The Grand Druid Council is nothing but glorified bankers, they write million of dollars worth of cheques to people in political and religious fields every month. Even though I was part of setting up a World Government, I never took it seriously until we opened two letters:

In the first one was a chart that listed a plan for a World take-over. The other letter said: " We have found a man whom we believe to be the son of Lucifer. We believe that through his works and our backings he can become ruler of this World, stop all wars, and bring peace, finally, to this war-stricken World." We had found a person so fantastically-powered that he could convince people he was their only salvation, in Christian terms, demon-possessed like nobody had ever seen! (Jn.2:18,Rev.13.)

The cornerstone of the whole floor of witchcraft is that you cannot mix a potion, you cannot do a rite without a firm knowledge of astrology. It is the base for all practices in Witchcraft, and one of its teachings is that you are born a set personality and there is nothing you can do to change from that set personality. You don't leave witchcraft. Once you're in, you're in!

The greatest Wizard that that ever lived was King Solomon. As great as his writings were in our Bible, they were as great in the Witchcraft bibles: initiation rites, how to conjure demons up, everything, even how to commit human sacrifices are writings that he created.

The Star of David has just recently been called the star of David. For thousands of years it was called the Hexagram or the Crest of Solomon.

Now when a witch wants to practice witchcraft, she'll get in a pentagram, that's the five-pointed star in the circle, their strongest form of protection. Then they will lay this six-pointed star, or hexagram — which means "to hex" or to cast black magic or to put a spell on somebody – they'll put it in a circle on the floor and this will cause the demons to appear at their instructions. It is the most evil sign of witchcraft. It's dangerous to have it. The pentagram, the pinnacle with the one point up, means Witchcraft; two points up means demon-worship or Satanism. A two points up, five-pointed star symbolises the goat head, which is representative of the devil.

The Ankh means that you despise virginity, believe in fertility rites, practice fertility rites and worship the sun god Ra, the Egyptian name for Lucifer.

The peace symbol is the broken cross. If a Christian wants to join Witchcraft, they would have to take a ceramic cross and turn it upside-down and break the cross bars down, symbolising their rejection of Calvary. This is said to bring you peace of mind while you practice Witchcraft, that's where it got the word "Peace Symbol" comes from. They are in the process of a Trial-and-Error right now, and they test things. They tested what it would be like to be without fuel to heat homes. They are going to see if they can't starve you, absolutely shut all electricity off.

The timetable in the book "Atlas Shrug" ended with this: "When the Lights of New York City go out for the last time, we will have the World."

Towards the end they are going to cut the cities off completely, nothing will move for months.

They are in the process of destroying all stored food and farmland, so that we will be without any food in the cities or in the country or anywhere except what is in the Federal storehouses. Nothing is going to move at all. If you live in a big city, how are you going to get your food if they don't bring it to you? Everything will be paralysed, nothing will move. At the same time there will be riot and revolution in the whole World. Charles Manson went to prison for a reason.

There is a mass army within every prison from coast to coast, he has them united. He has been gathering an army and the one thing that will hold their plan up is if they don't get the gun law passed. They have been promised that all the guns will be confiscated before they make their move.

They have been set up just so they will kill one million people and I will leave it to you imagination who is scheduled to be killed. This is just so that they can get the national guard called out.

The whole thing is, if you can be independent of Federal help, their plan won't work. You must be dependent on the Federal Government for every bite of food, every warmth that you feel coming through your homes. You must be dependent on them.

The Communist Party is run by Illuminati, not communists. In 1776, Albert Pike – The head of the Illuminati, also head of the Masons at the time – Said that they needed to create a political party that would frighten the World and keep it fighting with each other until they could bring peace to the World — and then Karl Marx showed up. Now if you go to the British Museum, you can find two cheques for several thousand pounds made out to Karl Marx, signed by Nathan Rothschild. I can go into how Lenin and Trotsky stayed at the Krupp mansion in New York, financed by Rockefeller and Krupp and Schiffs: How they put four million dollars worth of Jacob Schiff's gold to finance the revolution, sailed from New York Harbor where their ship was confiscated by the British Government as it tried to run a blockade during WW1 and Woodrow Wilson called and ordered their release so America wouldn't go into the War and they were sent on their way. Involved Organizations:

B'nai B'rith; American Civil Liberties Union; the Scottish Rites; the New York Rites; the Jaycess; the Junior Chamber of Commerce; the Masonic Lodges; the Knights of Columbus; the Knights of Philistivis and the Oddfellows.

It's leaders use these Organisations for their purposes, that does not mean that the members of those organisations know what's going on.

The 33rd Level Masons consider Jesus to be the impersonator and the true god is Lucifer. Tarot Cards: Every drawing means something and the demons control how they fall, nothing in Witchcraft is ever 100% accurate.

The Illuminati will use Israel to gain control of the World. The only thing the Illuminati fear is an independent person who can live, eat, sleep, stay warm and defend themselves separate from Federal help. They have never been this organised.

Is Rock music an outgrowth of Witchcraft? You can't practice Witchcraft without it!!!! Most of the rock groups are members of a Witchcraft Church, that's their religion, and when they do a song they'll ask the Witch coven or the temple to cast a spell over that song so that it will become a hit and sell. When a witch casts a spell they order demons to do things.

When you buy an album it's you who gets a free surprise .....it's called a demon! It goes along with the record.

Much of the music is written in Witch language by witches. Elton John has made the statement that he has never written or sung a song that was not in Witch language. "Beyond the Yellow Brick Road" is 100% Witch language. That's why many songs, you don't understand. That's why many people who listen to them don't understand until they get high on drugs and then all of a sudden the meanings start coming to them. Many songs have been written in Witch language such as the whole album by Carol King called "Tapestry".

The book of prophecy to witches is the double white album that the Beatles produced containing the song "Helter Skelter". Every song in it is prophesy. Oh let's see..."Horse With No Name", "One Tin Soldier", I could list thousands of songs that were written this way. They definitely have demonic influence behind them.

Have you noticed the increase of rebellion in teenagers in your home? It's your fault , you let them listen to it. It stirs up rebellion. It's not the words in the song, it's the music. Witches know it, they hit certain chords on purpose.

The music is hypnotic. It stirs up a war-like nature in the young people. It's the truth: the supernatural is tied in with the music.

The most perfect description of Lucifer that ever existed is in the 28th chapter of Ezekiel in the King of Tyrus. It describes Lucifer as being created with musical instruments imbedded in his body. He thinks he's god and therefore he must have music because gods must have music.
( See also Isa.14:4-21 )

I look into a person's eyes when I talk to them. I want to know who I'm talking to and who I'm not talking to. When you lived in a supernatural world and you have dealt with demons it's no different when you spot them in a person who's professing to be a Christian who isn't living the life.

A Christian can't be possessed, but when you can no longer crucify the flesh, and it goes beyond just crucifying the flesh, then it's time to cast out the demon, through prayer and the blood and the name of Jesus , just tell the devil to get out! We just have to say a prayer of rejection and we just take authority over them.

You are not a Christian because you say you're born again, you're a Christian if you have the fruit of the Spirit. If it's not there you're going to grow up thorns and not apples. I try to stay away from politics. I was very politically minded when I was a witch. I try to stay very Christian-minded and you can't do both.

Books written by Charles Finney who was saved out of the Masons and of the first man executed by the Illuminati for betraying them, Captain Morgan, expose. I don't believe that Christians can have books written by witches in their libraries and get away with it.

Many conservative political organisations find the Illuminati in their journeys. It's hard to fool around with politics and history and not to see the conspiracy. But they look at this little thing over here,and they see a war is happening, or they look over here at this little political movement and they miss the whole picture because they look at it from the outside. It's impossible to look at the Illuminati from the outside unless you under stand its structure.

Physical minds and computers can not come up with the Conspiracy as powerful and as direct, as workable, that has hundreds of different little conspiracies off of it, that do not know that it's all one big Conspiracy.

It's impossible to do something like this without a supernatural direction. The Prince and Power of the Air, They have Lucifer leading them.

Ezekiel the 28th verse11. When Lucifer was created, he was the complete sum of all beauty and wisdom. God wasn't created, but never had a created creature ever been created with such beauty and such wisdom and that was Lucifer.

"The workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created."—He was created with musical instruments imbedded in his body. He knows that to be a god he is going to have to have music. You can't be a god without music, so he has created his own music.

Witches don't say "Witchcraft" and they don't say "Witches , they say Practisers or something like this, and they say "the force", they describe him as "the force". "Star Wars" is the biggest thing that Witchcraft has ever done to spread its doctrine. There's nothing that happens by accidents.

The Devil's our accuser, he stands before the Throne of God constantly accusing us. The covering angel before God's Throne, covered with jewels. And when God's light shone through him it was like a prism, it changed the colors to where they come out, and colors are extremely important to the Devil. Everything he does is in colors, without them nothing happens.

Fight him really heard and I guarantee you that he'll show up in your life. He'll pay you a visit and say hi! If you start fighting the Devil and if he doesn't show up, he'll send somebody to pay you a visit. The Devil can only interfere in a Christian's life through several things.

If you fear him he can come in because you worshipped him, if you own something that belongs to him, jewelry, books on the occult, astrology and things that were actually created by the Devil, such as Rock music. Without it witches don't function. When witches do a book, they do a spell over the manuscript and they command demons which are under their authority to enter every manuscript that comes off the press, every copy of that book. So when you buy that book you get a little free gift, like when you open a little Cracker Jacks box and there's a little trinket in there. Well, you get a free demon, free of charge.

Most of the Rock groups do the same thing, this is why records zoom to the charts, you get free of charge your own private demon. You are responsible for the articles in your home, 'cause you are the head of the house. Maybe that's why your finances are messed up! Maybe that's why you and your kids are sick once in a while and you shouldn't be. How much credit do I give the Devil for sickness? "All of it, lock, stock and barrel!" There are seven principalities in the Devil's Kingdom.

There's Satan and there's Baalzebub, his prince. Under that are the seven principalities, and under the principalities are the powers,and under the powers, billions of demons. The seven principalities are as follows:

Rege which is the principality of the occult. ( Deuteronomy 18 ) When a woman is pregnant somebody will get a medallion and swing it over their hand and say, "Let's see if you're going to have a girl or a boy". – That's called divination, you might gain troubles from it by allowing it to happen

The difference between Witchcraft and Sorcery is: Sorcery is the use of certain occult drugs.

Timothy Leary said in his book on LSD, "You're not hallucinating when you take acid. Acid is blocking the physical senses out so that you can see the supernatural World!"

The next one is Lazers, sexual lust..

After Lazers, is Bacchus, The Roman god of wine, he's the principalities of addiction and he doesn't care what you feed him, just as long as you are addicted to it. Food and caffeine,
alcohol, cigarettes and drugs as when you've got to have it and you use it as a solution to your problems. "I gotta have my cup of coffee!"

Next Pan. Pan says, "What fools the mortals be". Pan is the principality of the mind, this is the Devil's favorite playground, the soul the mind. We run into Pan more than in any other demon, because of the demon of rejection that he is over. This is the base for sexual problems, drug problems, and occult problems. They pick this demon up when they're a child, sometimes even before they're even born, and they carry this thing that opens them up to other demons, trying to feed and fulfill the demon that's driving them from within. He's also over neuralgia, depression, suicide, schizophrenia, paranoia, all the mental illnesses. This is why people with rejection problems have deep depression, they try and kill themselves, they're nervous all the time.

The next one is Set. The principality of death. He was the Egyptian god of the underworld. Set is over all sicknesses, (there are 39 major illnesses) and the occult credits him with 39 powers. And it's interesting that it's believed tat Christ took 39 stripes for our healing.

The seventh one does not have a name because witches don't use it. They call it a Christian principality, it's called the principality of contentment, you can feel the power, the principality in the air of contentment.

Describing Lucifer; I've seen him sit down at tables at meals. I've seen him even have sexual relationships with women at higher Witchcraft meetings.

He appeared about seven feet tall, usually clothed in deep purple, sometimes in red, sometimes in gold, — purple and gold.

After I got saved, he showed up as Satan, clothed in black and not just handsome, but beautiful. Jet black hair, snow white skin, and the colour of his eyes, instead of blue, brown or whatever, were a deep violet, almost of deep purple. And when you looked in them, it was like looking down into the Grand Canyon. It's just like a pit that's just bottomless, this power! And believe me, if he appears to you, you'd know you were in his presence!

On to the physical Kingdom, the Illuminati means "The Bearers of Light". Call it the Great Conspiracy, call it "Moriah", which means " The Conquering Wind"; call it the CFR, it is still the Illuminati.

It's official birthday is may 1st 1776. May 1st is the holiest day because it is Beltane, (Witches') New Years Day, and all things begin on Beltane. It's the day Lucifer comes back from the underworld and dwells in the skies above, according to the witches. Witches call themselves pagans because they believe in "pre-Christian religion". The structure are three pyramids, each one bigger than the next, on all of them the Capstone.

The first pyramid is "Organization", you'll find the Masons here, the Grand Lodges of the Orient, which is where the Illuminati started. The Scottish Rites , the York Rites, the Oddfellows, the Jayees, any organisation that is secret, that has an inner group besides the outer group, as long as it is not directly occultism. B'nai B'rith ( Jewish laymen's org.), a very powerful Illuminati organization. They couldn't be doing what they are doing today without B'nai B'rith.

The Civil Liberties Union, also a new one, created by the man that is actually the brain of the Illuminati today, Isaac Bonovitz, the Aquarian Anti-defamation League, it's the anti-defamation league to the Occult, (which also attacks anyone who criticizes the Jews or Israel, accusing them of "anti-semitism").

At the top of every pyramid you will find the World Banking System, it's a counsel of the 500 richest people in the World, in existence for hundreds of years. David Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Phillip and Edward Rothschild, in fact all the Rothschilds.

Next is the Council of 33, the 33 highest Masons in the World. After that is the Council of 13, the Grand Druid Council, this is what I sat on. After that there's a Capstone, the Rothschild's Tribunal – Edward, Phillip and Richard are the ones that sitting up in the Rothschilds Tribunal now. In it is the leader of the Illuminati: the all-seeing eye, Lucifer!

The T.V. uses Witchcraft symbols, they put the symbols on their store names. You probably shop with Satan. There isn't one oil company that you can buy your gasoline at today that's not owned 100% by Illuminati stockholders.

A plan of World Rule will never take effect if you're independent of that World Rule, you must function within them for every bit of food and every drop of gasoline. The Illuminati is scared of every private-owned gun, it's the only threat to them.

The Beatles are classified in the occult world as the four major prophets, their White Double Album is considered the Book of Revelation to Witches. That and "Atlas Shrugs". In it is a song called "Helter Skelter". It meant a time when the pit would be open and the demons would be set free and the World would get insane in a less than 24-hour period and they'd be killing everybody – their next door neighbors, their kids, their wife, everything! The World would just go completely mass insane overnight.

Charles Manson went to jail because in the seven years that he's been in he has organized from his jail cell every prison across the U.S.. They're waiting for a time when the World will go completely insane and they'll flood out of the prisons and they firmly believe that they will take over this country. When Manson gets out and "Helter Skelter" starts, in the first year, one million U.S. citizens are marked for death.

Nothing is going to move. If this happens, how soon would you die on your feet? Most cities would tell you within two weeks everybody would be starving. That's all the food there is in their storehouses.

"Atlas Shrugs", was supposedly a novel, written by one of Phillip Rothschild's girlfriends at his instructions. It is a coded book for witches that tells how they are to gain control of the World. In this book there is sort of a parable about New York City, New York City is more or less the World. When everything was shut down, then the lights went out for good.

The Dollar sign is a Witchcraft symbol that means "to control and to scourge", it's 6,000 years old. Isaac Bonovitz says that "through this symbol we will now rule and control the World", and the book ends. In the book, all the way through, businessmen that belong to these organizations purposely bankrupt or destroy their businesses so there aren't any businesses, and they drive the others out of business. And all the way through they use the battle plan called "the presence from below and the presence from above". Anybody that's studied Communism knows the same plan. That means the Devil must destroy all the regulations, and the banker do it this way, and guess who's in the middle? — Us!

Curtis B. Dall / (Board Chairman of "Liberty Lobby", Publisher of "The Spotlight") (Excerpts from letters, April and May 1979):

"Being reasonable well informed on the powers which are at work to influence our domestic and foreign policies, for their objectives, – having been with Liberty Lobby for over 19 years, on Capitol Hill – I am greatly shocked by the ineptitude and downright ignorance of many alleged Christian leaders in this country, in observing how they "pick on" John Todd, instead to steer him constructively in the religious field. Most of these preachers haven't the faintest idea of the contribution John Todd has made to his fellow Americans by revealing the secret power structure of the Rothschild Complex, who look to Lucifer for guidance, the Illuminati.

Most any High School student can grasp the fact that the power of the Occult, or the Witchcraft, plus the power of Evil ( The Illuminati ) exert a most powerful influence upon our economic and political policies. Obviously, his powerful enemies are leaving no stone unturned to silence him, which regrettably might well be expected! The majority of his Ministers, Pastors, Priests, have been heavily indoctrinated and are woefully uninformed, misinformed, or bribed! Todd created powerful, unrelenting enemies when he defected from " The Royal Family", – "The Grand Druid Council of 13"!

The enemies of John Todd have marshaled all the powerful "tools", at their disposal to attack, neutralize or destroy him in order to protect themselves and their image, – certainly not to advance Christianity! – The usual technique employed by the Enemy in retaliation in respect to somebody who has exposed some of their secret operations! The Religious Area is the one in which they prefer to operate, along with plenty of money, artfully supplied to grease-the-wheels. Apparently they feel that Todd must be thoroughly discredited, silenced, or even assassinated!"

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

This is the source of the "eye":
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The Harmony of the Spheres

by Thomas Váczy Hightower.


The concept of harmony

It is general knowledge that the notion of harmony comes from the ancient Greek word, harmonia. It was a key word of the Pythagoreanism and meant primarily the joining or fitting of things together. Originally it was connected to the concept of cosmos. Its musical meaning was established by the early fifth Century B.C. according to professor Guthrie ("A History of Greek Philosophy", Vol. I,) first seen from Pindar.

The numerical explanation of the universe was a generalization from the discovery made by Pythagoras himself and revealed the numerical ratios which determine the concordant intervals of the scale. We find it clearly in Aristotle's explanation of Pythagoras harmony of the spheres and also in Plato's statements.


However, as Burnet notes, there was no such things as harmony in our sense. Harmonia meant tuning, scale or octave. Classic Greek music was melodic, modal, without use of harmonious chords as we are used to.

Plutarch (44-120 B.C.) stats that for Pythagoras and his disciples, the word harmonia meant "octave" in the sense of an attunement, which manifests within its limits both the proper fitting together of the concordant intervals, fourth and fifth, and the difference between them, the whole tone.
Moreover, Pythagoras proved that whatever can be said of one octave can be said of all octaves.

The essential point was that the three intervals of octave, fourth and fifth were regarded as primary and fixed, as the element out of which any musical scale or composition was build. The other notes was not fixed and could move accordingly to the different modes.  

Order and beauty - the concept of cosmos - was imposed by the three fixed notes with the ratio of 1:2, 2:3 and 3:4 on the chaotic range of sounds from the other untied notes.

This is for me a graphic display of Harmonia; an integration of order and chaos. Harmony does not in my interpretation means pure harmonious tones, but permitting dissonance between the column of consonance creating harmony.
The ancient Greeks had a profound understanding of balance and proper proportions. It was not accidental that they chose the formulation on the temple of Apollo as

"Nothing too much" or "Observe limit".
Chaos meant for the Greeks unlimited – evil.
Limit stood for order, moderation - beauty.


The Greek genius in thought and art, represented the triumph of ratio, meaning on one hand the intelligible, determinate, measurable, as opposed to the fantastic, vague and shapeless. There had to be a proportion of things both in themselves and as related to the whole.

The integers 1,2,3 and 4 add up to 10, which was considered perfect and contained in itself the whole nature of numbers. This number was graphically represented by the figure known as the Tetratys, which became a sacred symbol for the Pythagorean's.




Numbers was responsible for "harmony", the divine principle that governed the structure of the whole world.

For the Pythagorean's the numbers had and retained a mystical significance, an independent reality. Phenomena were secondary for the only significant thing about phenomena was the way in which they reflected numbers. We have here an attitude that is utterly different from that of a mathematician of today. Mathematics had for them and also later for Plato a metaphysical as well as a purely mathematical significance.

The Harmony of the Spheres

The most remarkable feature of the Pythagorean cosmology recorded by Aristotle is that it displaced the Earth from the center of the universe and made it into a planet revolving in an orbit like the other planets. This idea was unparalleled in per-Platonic thought. Even Plato could not embrace this notion, which first later became accepted in the heliocentric theory.



The Pythagorean believed that the center of the whole system was occupied by the central "fire", which could not be seen. The relation to the Sun as the heat- and light giving body to the central fire was not explained by Aristotle, but later sources states it as a case of reflection like that of the moon's light from the sun.

A part of the cosmology of the Pythagorean is their extraordinary theory of the "harmony of the spheres", which caught later generations in the ancient world and the Renaissance.

It is generally accepted by scholars, that Pythagoras himself was the first to formulate that concept, which reflects the whole cosmic plan and showed the intimate connection between the laws of mathematics and of music.

Aristotle characterizes the Pythagorean as having reduced all things to numbers or elements of numbers, and described the whole universe as "a Harmonia and a number".

Aristotle continued: "They said too that the whole universe is constructed according to a musical scale. This is what he means to indicate by the words "and that the whole universe is a number", because it is both composed of numbers and organized numerically and musically. For the distances between the bodies revolving round the center are mathematically proportionate; some moves faster and some more slowly; the sound made by the slower bodies in their movement is lower in pitch, and that of the faster is higher; hence these separate notes, corresponding to the ratios of the distances, make the resultant sound concordant.

Now number, they said, is the source of this harmony, and so they naturally posited number as the principle on which the heaven and the whole universe depended."

Many scholars has pointed out: how could the Pythagorean s have supposed that all eight notes of an octave sounding simultaneously would produce a concordant and pleasing effect?

Others have answered: there is no question of harmony in modern sense, but only attunement to a perfect scale. When Greeks called certain intervals concordant, they were thinking primarily of notes sounded in succession. The word "harmony" means, in the Greek language, first "tuning" and then "scale".

Classical Greek music was melodic, not harmonic in modern sense. Further, the seven-stringed lyre had only three strings in a fixed tuning, the octave, the fifth and the fourth, which together made use of the first four integers forming the sacred tetractys. The other strings were adjustable to the type of scale required and therefore were called movable. It is therefore likely to assume that Pythagoras himself only had these concordant intervals in mind, which sounds very pleasant simultaneously, instead of the seven or eight strings.

Compared with the scattered and few information from the Pythagorean's themselves about the harmony of the spheres, it is staggering to see what an impact that notion has caused in later generations.

Johannes Kepler

The most passionate lifelong study of the Music of the Spheres was done by Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630). By the end of his career he had solved both the problem of what law governs the planetary distances and what law governs their velocities.

His solution of the first was geometrical, that of the second musical, and his Third Law of Planetary Motion (that the squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances from the Sun) provided the link between them.

He also changed the focal point from the Earth to the Sun by converting to the Copernican system. pondering the question of why there should be only six planets (instead of the canonical seven), and what governed their distances from the Sun.
←The solar system in a double logarithmic plot representing orbital speed and distance from the sun.

Then he was visited by a mystical intuition that the secret of the solar system lies in the five regular or Platonic solids. In between the six orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. Jupiter, and Saturn, he then inscribed the five solids in this order: octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, and cube; and behold, not only was the number of six planets accounted for, but their proportional distances were closely in accord with Copernicus's figures.
Yet the figures from Tycho Brahe's observations, as Kepler worked on them year after year, stubbornly refused to fit the regular solids.

Some other factor must be at work. It was the difficulties of calculating the orbit of Mars that led to the answer and to the overwhelming realization that the orbits of the planets are not perfect circles, nor even the elaborate combinations of pseudo-circles which astronomers from Ptolemy to Copernicus had used to keep the circularity of the heavens inviolate, but ellipses with the Sun at one of their foci.

From the point of view of time, these explain the variable speeds of the planets, which move faster as they approach the Sun.
It remained to find a rationale for the ellipses being just so, and it was to musical harmony that Kepler turned to.
He compared each planet's angular velocities at perihelion (nearest to the Sun) and aphelion (furthest from the Sun), and expressed this ratio as a musical interval.

 This was not all. Kepler had broken new ground in listening to the Music of the Spheres not from the point of view of Earth, like all his predecessors, but from the Sun. Henceforth it is no longer a harmony made for the benefit of our own planet, but the song which the cosmos sings to its lord and center, the Solar Logos.
Like Eriugena's approaches to the harmony of the spheres with widely varied planets in speed and distance, (Eriugena was an Irish monk from the 9. Century) each of Kepler's planets has a variety of notes: there is no question here of a simple planet-tone scale of any type. Unlike Eriugena, however, Kepler lived in an age when musical polyphony was the norm. The planetary music must therefore be polyphonic, too.
As Eriugena had already pointed out, the musical possibilities of these sliding scales are almost inexhaustible. Most of the chords they make together are dissonant to one degree or another, but once in many years a five or six-part consonance will occur. The time-scale exceeds human imagination, even human life: a single journey of Saturn up and down a major third (5:6 is the ratio between its maximum and minimum) takes 30 years!

The harmonics of planets angular velocities, or the ratios – interval -  seen from the Sun are as valid today than they were in his time. In addition, the outer planet discovered after Kepler's time, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto also fit into Keple's system.

His method was briefly as follows: The ratios compare the velocities of the planets at their fastest and lowest speed by calculating how far they go in 24 hours, (it can take many years before the planet in question have reach these positions) measured in minutes and seconds of arc as viewed from the Sun. These ratios are then simplified by octave reduction to give an interval between C and C'

An example of octave reduction: the ratio between Jupiter's maximum and Mars minimum speed is as 5:24. That is equivalent to the interval of two octaves plus a minor third. The two octaves are eliminated by dividing 24 with 4, which gives the ratio of 5:6, a minor third.  
By placing the calculated ratios from the many combinations after their harmonic numbers of a fundamental, let us call it C, a display of a harmonically scale is produced. A major part of the planets tones belongs to the major triad CEG.

In "Harmonia Mundi" Kepler present a very consistent theory of the music of the spheres. What was more important was his method. He used exact observations and formulated the data in a mathematical form, that could depict nature lawfulness. In this way he became the first modern scientist.

Frequencies of orbiting planets

With reference to the hierarchies of motion, which was explained in the previous part of The Sound of Silence, part I, we have oscillating bodies on any level of sizes. On the quantum level we have the double motion of spin and orbiting. On the level of molecules and cells only one motion - the pendulum to and fro motion exist.
When we reach into the size of the celestial bodies, the movements of orbiting and spin reappear. Our planet system behaves in that double motion, rotating about their axes while in the same time orbiting around our sun.

There is a basic acoustic law to calculate oscillation of a body into frequency. It is the relationship between the period of oscillation (the time it takes to complete the period or move back and forth) and its frequency. It is an inverse proportion: the period = 1/ frequency; (or frequency = 1/ period.) It means that the reciprocal value of a period of time represents its frequency (in seconds).  

Frequency range can be measured in a basic unit called octaves. In practice one can form an octave by multiply or divide a frequency with 2. The law of octaves raise or lower the fundamental frequency by factor 2 to any preferred level, e.g. to the audible range. It is still the same fundamental tone but in another octave.

The frequencies of our planets can be calculated with this formula, where the multiplication by 236 brings the fundamental to an audible range:  1 / period in seconds (1 day= 84400 sec.) * 236 (numbers of octaves) = frequency in Hz.

The approximate chromatic tones are picked from the below frequencies table for the equal tempered chromatic scale with the concert pitch of middle A =  440 Hz. The above display of tones does not constitute a musical scale as we can perceive. Other type of scales do not change much.


 It is apparently too demanding for us humans to expect, that our orbiting plants will present a neat musical scale just from their orbiting periods! It is more likely that the planetary orchestra is playing for the Sun. The frequency of the sun.

We have to remember, that time is different from celestial bodies that for humans. We perceive sound in seconds. For planets the sound unit is more in the category of years. For the Sun the concept of time is even more "inhuman". A lifetime of a human is just a "spark" for the Sun!


The time factor is the key to understand the notion of the music of the spheres. As demonstrated above the sound on the planetary scale has to be raised about 36 octaves to be perceived by humans.



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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

I think the Rothschilds acquired a collection of ancient Hebrew documents for the rebuilding of the Masonic  (and Babylonian) Solomon's Temple for the "Illuminated Eye"...

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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

From a Masonic Website:

Q. What is said to be the origin of the word 'Masonry'?

A.  We are informed by several distinguished writers that it is a corruption of the Greek word mesouraneo, which signifies "I am in the midst of heaven," alluding to the sun, which, being in heaven is the great source of light. Others derive it directly from the ancient Egyptian "Phre", the  sun, and "Mas", a child: 'Phre-massen" -- i.e., Children of the Light, Sons of Light... (others call it the Sons of Saturn).
 
Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy
 By Robert Hewitt Brown p.64

Phre-masons...children of saturn?

Postby masonfreeparty » Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:44 am
The ancient brotherhood of the Freemasons dates back to pre-history and it's terminology has thoroughly influenced our language. Although most take the term to originally mean a guild of stone masons, an alternative, and equally accurate understanding of the origin of the word are the ancient Egyptian terms Phre, meaning Saturn/ancient sun, , and -mas or -massen, meaning child or children. So we get Phre-massen, or Sons of Saturn, alluding to the ancient origins of modern religion in saturn worship. The Masons and their many branches consider themselves to be illuminated, meaning to be brightened with light, or enlightened, meaning to be furnished with knowledge or have spiritual insight albeit misguided.

A degree, a word covered earlier, has meaning in Masonic language. There are generally understood to be 33 degrees in American Masonic initiation. Upon completion of each degree, the individual Mason moves to a higher one. If Phremassens holding degrees are illuminated, is it a coincidence that sophisticated graduates are called alumni or alumnus, which both hold a meaning in Latin of foster son? Although these students have not gone through the ritual initiation, they have attended university, uni- meaning one or singular, -verse, meaning to familiarize by study, and the suffix-ity, meaning quality, state or degree. The foster sons of light have received an alternative initiation into the singular, or standardized, body of information and received a degree, or a negation to their natural status, replaced by one better suited to the goals of the international priesthood. So while they are not true Sons of Light, they are foster sons, and do serve a purpose. But before they can be used their natural inclinations and intuitions must first be brought under control and standardized at university.

This is why graduates, students who have received degrees, wear a mortar board at their graduation, or conferring of degrees. A mortar board is a tool used by Masons when building. It's purpose is to hold the mortar for the bricks, or stones, which are being placed. The two definitions for mortarboard are a board about three feet square for holding mortar, and an academic cap. The cap, like the tool, is square for a reason. When something is square, it is perfect. A square is also a Masons tool for perfecting angles, for perfect standardization.

If the mortar is used by the Masons to hold together the stones, the graduates are the standardized stones. Before they received their de-gree, they were in their natural, or rough, state. The Masons refer to a natural human as a rough ashlar, an ashlar being a type of stone. According to a Masonic dictionary, a rough ashlar is "a stone in its rude and unpolished condition, is emblematic of man in his natural state---ignorant, uncultivated, and vicious." But after having been de-greed, the ashlar, the student, is now standardized and ready to be placed as "another brick in the wall," which is really, all in all, what you are in the eyes of the saturn worshippers.

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Saturn

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Some of our ancient poems ties the founding of freemasonry to the masons who built the tower of Bable. During those times the world was said to be of one nation, one people, one language. Some of the olden day brothers living during the age of Enlightenment say that our Masonic King Solomon's Temple is a veiled Tower of Bable...after all we all come from very different backgrounds, profess different beliefs, are of different nationalities, have different political view points...but yet we have all come together as brother masons to built something...something big, a Temple Not Made With Hands Eternal In The Heaven...where each of us, a refined living stone of this Temple. Most of us never ask what it is that we are building.

In Genesis God looks down and notices humanity has come together and was building the Tower of Babel to reach heaven and God said to himself and the angels - Behold, mankind is united as one, and united they build this tower, if they remain united anything will be possible for them...and god divided mankind and the vision was lost.

This isn't the only instance in Freemasonry where some sort of a old world, or one world, or paradise is silently alluded to. There are others tied to and hidden into the symbolism of our Order.

The Pillars Boaz and Jachin were said by our ancient legend to have been built before the Deluge, within which were placed the divine wisdom of art and science. The world before the Deluge was said to be a perfect world, so perfect that mankind grew idle after a while and became corrupt.

The strangest of all is perhaps the ancient legend attached to the biblical Tubal Cain, an important figure in our rituals. We never really ask WHY whoever put Freemasonry together used the WORDs and TOKENs they put in Freemasonry. Most just accept them as passwords arbitrarily lifted out of the bible...but what are the odds that a third password is associated with a paradise or perfect world?

The legend of Tubal Cain says that an angel had approached him long before the flood was to take place and spoke to him and told him that in the days of Jared God will deliver a great flood to consume and purify this world because this world will grow corrupt. In Tubal Cain's time the world was perfect, a paradise. The angel had told Tubal Cain that God has forsaken him and his line because he was the descendant of the cursed Cain, who murdered his brother Able, and that his people would not survive the flood, but be wiped out.

Tubal Cain was King of his own Kingdom. His forefather Cain, when he left for Nod became the first Builder and built a City-kingdom which he named after his first born - Enoch. And Tubal Cain inherited the throne of the Kingdom of Enoch. Tubal Cain had plans in mind, his line and his people was going to survive, and he would make sure of it. Tubal cain gathered every abled body person in his Kingdom and he and his people began digging. Tubal Cain became the Chief Architect of large underground networks of tunnels and a city he built deep underground to shelter his people from the flood. The project took many generations no doubt, and during which time he caused to be erected land marks on the surface of his kingdom to testify to the world that his kingdom was once there. His people survived.

Its a odd legend...underground cities and tunnels...is it just a legend thoe?
In Turkey archaeologists have discovered something call "VARs". The word VAR in turkish means an underground city. The Vars in turkey were very old and were built by a people living during a time before the last ice age. There have been over 30 Vars discovered in Turkey, all interconnected by networks of tunnel, but only one has fully been excavated. This single Var can comfortably shelter 25,000 people in it.

What do underground cities have to do with Freemasonry? Probable nothing really; but it seems to have a lot to do with Masonry or the cyclopean structures built around the earth. There were three ancient civilizations on the earth that built giant temples and structures in relatively the same time and all within the same zone - between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. Egypt, the Khmer Empire of Cambodia, and the Maya. All three culture have legends that their founder or first people emerged out of an underground tunnel.

Egypt is connected to Tubal Cain. To this day in Arabic the Pyramids of Egypt are still called "the Pillars of Enoch." There is one other thing these three cultures have in common, something very strange. All three cultures when they built their monuments "locked" the SAME YEAR and date in stone.

The pyramids in Egypt, and there are more than 3 scattered across Egypt forms the constellation Orion - associated in egypt with Osiris. Each pyramid corresponding to a star in this constellation. The three Great Pyramids are orion's belt. The 3 pyramids are built very close to the Nile River in a certain position relative to it. But at night if we observe the stars of Orion and the Blue Nile (Milky Way) both don't line up to their earthly counterpart? A man by the name of Graham Handcock noticed this and used a computer program to see what date he came up with if he turned the sky back in time when each star in Orion lined up to each pyramid. The date was 10,500 BC. In that same year the Milky Way lined up with the Nile, and the Sphinx stared at its celestial counterpart every morning - Leo. 10,500BC, when Leo was in the east...or when the sun was in the house of Leo was the Age of Leo...the same age our ancient poems and legend says Freemasonry was founded.

In Cambodia was have the Angkor Temple complex. Each Temple in this complex corresponds to each Star in the constellation Draco. Handcock twisted the sky back in time and found out that in the same year - 10,500bc, all the stars in Draco lined up perfectly with the Khmer Temples.

The three large pyramids in in Yucatan built by the Mayans are coincidently also the stars in Orion's belt. It was found that in the same year - 10,500 BC, the stars in Orions belt line up perfectly with the three mani pyramids in the Yucatan.

What are the odds that one day in ancient times 3 very different culture, separated by thousands of miles, suddenly decides to expend all there man power, and money, and waste many generations of time to build seemingly useless cyclopean structure...and all three locked the same time in stone?

You're probably thinking to your selves my brothers - this is all really interesting, but what the hell does it have to do with our fraternity, our MASONIC fraternity???


We are told that our ancestors built the Gothic Cathedrals in Europe. It was Saint Bernard - the guy that helped found the Templars that actually came up with the new form of architecture we now call the Gothic Style. And it was Templars who supplied the money to built these structure, working with a band of Stone Masons who called themselves the Sons of Solomon. Each Gothic Cathedral in France lines up with the stars in the constellation VIRGO.

Now we saw that "Boaz" and "Jachin" are associated with a predeluge world. We saw that our man "Tubal Cain" is not only associated with a predeluge world, but built really big structures in the ground and on the surface. We saw that the "Pillars of Enoch" lines up with Orion...locking in the date 10,500BC. I will show you now how the Gothic Cathedrals in France and its celetial counterpart VIRGO ties into our Order: VIRGO holds in her right hand a sprig, or a branch (Virgo is the Virgin that weeps by the broken pillar in the monument erected to Hiram). This sprig is the star Spica. By the way, our olden brothers that built Washinton DC made sure that every building and structure in DC was built with Spica in certain key positions in the sky. That sprig she holds in Arabic culture is a shaft of wheat called SUNBULLAH - meaning a SHAFT OF WHEAT. In Hebrew SUNBULLAH is "SHIBOLETH" meaning a shaft of wheat or ear of corn (corn in britain is grain, they call our corn maze). Each brother should recognize Shiboleth and know what it means...

So, what are the odds that all FOUR of these words are associated with the same theme of predeluge worlds, lost paradises, megalithic structures lined up with geometric temples? And if you take a closer look at our Square and Compass you see the same theme. The Compass - Heaven; the Square earth...or as Jesus put it (which he got from the Egyptian Hermes): As above (heaven): so below (earth)...which alludes to the stars in heaven lining up with its earthly counterpart...and even our Solomon's Temple has its celestial counterpart...THAT HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS.

Now we will go deeper into Freemasonry and take a look at Father Time that stands behind the Virgin counting the ringlets of her hai, as she weeps over the broken collomn. He is Cronos or Saturn. The shape of our conjoined Square and Compass or interlocked V's forms the old SIGIL OF SATURN. And there is one more sign associated with Saturn in our Fraternity: the Triple Tau found in the Royal Arch Degree. It looks like a capital T and capital H conjoined. The triple tau cross during the age of Enlightenment in europe was associated with saturn; and if we lowercase the H and T we instantly see a recognizable astrological sign - the astrological sign for the planet saturn. Our Square is a superface square, and the compass encircles the square with a circle. the square in a circle is a hieroglyph. The square is a city, the circle a wall. The old Persian word for a Walled City is PARADIS where we get our word paradise from obviously. The Roman god Saturn was associated with a paradise world called The Golden Age. I have some quotes of Saturns Golden Age here for you to read:

Saturn's Golden Age. Saturn is the Roman god of agriculture concerned with the sowing of the seeds. He is regarded as the father of Jupiter, Ceres, Juno and many others. His wife is the goddess Ops. Jupiter supposedly chased him away and he was taken in by the god Janus in Latium where he introduced agriculture and viniculture. This event heralded a period of peace, happiness and prosperity, the Golden Age. Alchemical lead represents the planet Saturn, and it corresponding metal, lead. Alchemically, lead was the prima matera, or primal matter, from whence matter is born, and represented putrification and decay.


A golden age is a temporal term originated from early Greek and Roman poets. The term refers to a time when mankind lived in a utopia and was pure and/or immortal. It usually ends with a devastating event, identified to the Fall of Man. Some Utopianist beliefs, both political and religious, hold that the Golden Age will return.


The age that man later called the Age of Kronos (Saturn) was remembered with nostalgia as an age of bliss. References to the Age of Kronos in the ancient lore are very numerous.

Hesiod tells of:


A golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Kronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil: miserable age rested not on them . . . The fruitful earth unforced bare them fruit abundantly and without stint. They dwelt in ease and peace upon their lands with many good things. . . .

Similarly writes Ovid in the sixth book of his Metamorphoses:


In the beginning was the Golden Age, when men of their own accord, without threat of punishment, without laws, maintained good faith and did what was right. . . . The earth itself, without compulsion, untouched by the hoe, unfurrowed by any share, produced all things spontaneously. . . . It was a season of everlasting spring.

Rabbinical sources recount that men lived under very favorable conditions before the Deluge, and that these contributed to their sinfulness: “They knew neither toil nor care and as a consequence of their extraordinary prosperity they grew insolent.

". . . before the Cretan king, Dictaean Jove, held sway and an impious age of men began to feast on slaughtered oxen, this life was led on earth by golden Saturn, when none had ever heard the trumpet blown or heard the sword-blade clanking on the anvil." [Virgil, Georgics 2.534]

There was first a golden race of mortal men who lived in the time of Cronos when he was reigning in heaven. They lived like gods without sorrow or toil, and they did not know Old Age. And although they died, it was as if they were overcome with sleep. It is said that the earth, unforced, bare them fruit abundantly and yielded, without compulsion all needful things. For spring was everlasting, streams of milk and nectar flowed, and honey was distilled from the oak.

This Golden Age is described as the first age which compelled no one, kept faith and did the right. Men dwelt in ease and peace upon their lands with many good things and loved by the gods. There was no law and therefore no fear of punishment. There were no cities, no swords or helmets, no foreign nations were attacked in war, nor did anyone sail over the seas. During this time, to mark the land with private bounds would have been wrong since men worked for the common store.

Some have said that during this age of Cronos all the parts of the universe were divided in regions, each ruled by a different god. There were no wild creatures and the animals, being ruled by divine shepherds, did not eat one another. In the same way, there was no war among men, for they were ruled by a high deity. There were no states or families; and since they all came to life coming out of the earth and with no memory of their previous lives, they did not possess wives nor did they have any children. At this time, the universe revolved backwards; and, the climate being tempered, the men of this age lived in the open air without clothing, receiving from the earth all they needed although they did not work in agriculture. And since the universe revolved backwards they became younger as they lived.

At this time Justice had not yet left the Earth; and when she did, she planted her last footprints among those who cherished an easy livelihood, and kept themselves away from the clash of arms and the palaces with arrogant portals. For those who live in peace and innocence, worship the gods, feel reverence for Old Age, and have for leisure what nature and earth generously provide, resemble the men of the Golden Age.

This is what the Golden Age has been credited with, and that is why men of other ages talk of a "golden age" whenever they remember any advantageous circumstances of the past, be it a low rate of crime, low taxes, or higher profit. But were they asked whether they believe in the Golden Age of Man, most of them would refuse it credence; for a man of his times can only regard other ages as products of imagination. And yet they might show themselves ready to listen to promises such as this one:

"This is he . . . who shall again set up the Golden Age amid the fields where Saturn once reigned. . ." [Virgil, Aeneid 6.790]


So now even our Square and Compass is associated with Paradise and a Predeluvian world. During Saturns riegn the earth was said to have been perfect: her axis was said to be a perfect PERPENDICULAR (the Plumb) and not tilted; her plane of orbit said to be perfectly SQUARE (the masters Square); her equator was said to be perfectly LEVEL (the SW's tool). In this condition there was only on season - eternal spring. But sadly Saturn lost his throne and the Golden Age was lost.

Our Order and Ritual says that the secrets of a Master Mason are lost until a future age will discover it. What we lost was Paradise, and the innocent nature each man had in his soul and heart which made the Golden Age possible. The olden day Masons in Europe were all Utopianists, who were tired of the oppression, and rule of priest and king. We are "Masons" not because we ever actually built anything, nor are builders now; we are "Masons" because we are building or rebuilding what we lost, wherein each of us is a living stone...a refined, perfect and polishes ashlar. This is the "Great Work." Our olden brothers back in europe were also "Alchemists." They were no crazy guys believing that they could actually turn lead into gold. It is a social alchemy, an alchemy of the heart and soul. To turn the Lead (which is associated with saturn) of our present condition, in heart and society, to Gold, that is to say a nother Golden Age. And look closely at world history, you will see the fingerprints of Freemasons in almost every significant affair...especially the founding of America.


Both TubalCain and Hiram Abiff in the Bible were actually associated with metal, and Metallurgy...they were "WORKERS IN BRASS." Like Vulcan was a "WORKER OF METAL". It seem strange that a guild of stone masons and brick layers should make blacksmiths or hammermen central figures in their ritual. A "worker in metal" is another way to say an alchemist. And what actually has the power to turn Lead into Gold? The Philosopher's Stone, said to be a white Cube...our Perfect Ashlar...and the CUBE is associated also with Saturn.

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FREEMASONRY: ITS HIDDEN MEANING

by George H. STEINMETZ
A spiritual interpretation of the esoteric work of the Masonic lodge, analyzes the lectures and symbols of the three degrees. ( 1948 )
PREFACE - FOREWORD - CHAPTERS 1-5

PREFACE

"The archetypal image of the wise man, the saviour or redeemer, lies buried and dormant in man's unconscious since the dawn of culture; it is awakened whenever the times are out of joint and a human society is committed to a serious error" *

In the present era, when indeed, "the times are of joint," Freemasonry should eagerly embrace the sacred opportunity of awakening the torpid consciousness of the leaders of the masses to the real truths of Masonic Wisdom. This is my prayer and my hope; and this desire has inspired me to present in this treatise the illucidation of those Masonic truths as I have been given the light to see them.

* C. G. Jung Modern Man in Search of a Soul. Harcourt, Brace & Co.
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CHAPTER IV

Evolution

"Our starting point is that of a divinely ordained security from which we may quietly grow into that higher evolution which is the fulfilment of the law of our own being." -Thomas Troward

WE ARE told that Masonry was originated by King Solomon at the building of his Temple. However, it is a well established fact that Masonry is an ancient esoteric philosophy of life, ancient even in King Solomon's day.

This philosophy has been traced back to the "Lost Continent of Atlantis." The Great Masters, the "Noahs," of the time, warned of the impending doom of the continent, assembled the "worthy and well qualified" of their followers and migrated to Africa. They took with them the truths of that philosophy and re-established it in their new dwelling place. There we find their ruined temples which, compared with our lodge rooms, have similar floor plans, the same "dark north," and many of the same emblems.

In this connection the following quotation from James Churchward in Children of Mu may prove very enlightening. "Many Egyptologists find enigmas concerning the two Egyptian religious cults. These apparent enigmas are brushed aside when it is known in what way Egypt was first peopled and by whom. * * * Egypt was first colonized by two sets of people, commencing at two separate and distinct parts. One set coming to lower Egypt from the west, the other set coming to upper Egypt from the east. * * * Eventual ly the upper Egyptians met the lower Egyptians on the valley of the Nile. * * * A tablet found in Maycarne, Crete, by Schliemann says: 'The Egyptians descended from Misar. Misar was the child of Thoth, the God of history. Thoth was the emigrated son of a priest of Atlantis. He built the first temple at Sais and there taught the wisdom of his native land'."

Also, in South and Central America have been found ruins of Masonic significance. Churchward advances some strong, if unusual, arguments to support his claims that all these civilizations emigrated from the continent of Mu in the Pacific Ocean.*

Modern archaeology has accomplished much in rediscovering the ruins of the ancient temples, but as yet has not succeeded in bringing to light the philosophy of the Incas and Mayans to the point where it can speak with authority. In Egypt more has been learned from the temple ruins and hieroglyphics found on other monuments and on the walls of tombs.

* Those interested in an exhaustive study are referred to the Mu trilogy by Churchward: The Lost Continent of Mu, The Children of Mu, The Sacred Symbols of Mu.

That knowledge has brought to light more Masonic allegory and symbolism, as evidenced in their beliefs and practices. Unquestionably our third degree derives from the Mysteries of Osiris, or from the still more ancient legend from which the Osirian myth itself originated. This notwithstanding that some Masons see in the third degree the "enactment of a tragedy" which occurred at a later date in history. It is of interest to note that some modern psychologists claim all these "tragedy" legends stem from t he same ancient source. Historically true or false, it is a psychological necessity, and had there been no Osiris, no Hiram, no Christ, man's mind would have been compelled to fashion one.

He who does not wish to accept the "Atlantean" account will find himself on the threshold of an even more wonderful exhibition of the universality of Freemasonry if he will analyze the facts. He must seek elsewhere for an explanation: that at different places in the world temples of similar plan, undoubtedly used for similar rites and decorated with similar and, in some instances, identical emblems, were constructed. Why should these widely separated peoples, with no means of communication, arrive at the same conclusions regarding their origin and status in the universe? The only logical answer is contained in the teaching of Mental Science of an All Intelligent Universal Subjective Mind to which all human minds have access. From it they received the TRUTH, and there being only ONE TRUTH, necessarily, they arrived at the same conclusions.

To quote Francis Grant: "If miracles exist - does not one lie in this, that men far removed, at times simultaneously, should pronounce the same doctrine of Truth and the same path of human liberation? Apparently all men - whatever their race or creed - may pluck the same flowers in the Plane of High Heaven." *

This digression from the statement that Masonry is even older than Masonic tradition claims is for the purpose of establishing more firmly in your minds the age and universality of its great philosophy. Masonry contains within its teaching the whole purpose of man's existence, and the method of attaining the end of Creative Spirit in personalizing Itself through man. Man being created in the "Image of God" possesses within himself the potential possibilities of infinite progress and evolution. Harmonizing the Biblical story of creation with the findings of modern science, evolution, when carefully considered, is not in any way contradictory to the Bible. Evolution strengthens our faith in the Bible's prophetic utter-

* Francis Grant in The Introduction to Oriental Philosophy.

ances as to man's glorious possibilities. Man's primitive beginnings, when compared with his present attainment, give us renewed faith in the Divine purpose of the Creator for man to attain even higher levels than he has already reached, by the attainment of MASTERSHIP!

Man is a complex being consisting of material, psychical, and spiritual nature, and material science alone does not completely satisfy our investigation. Therefore we must direct our attention to that element within him we call "spiritual," and it is found that man's "spiritual" nature makes for his highest attainment. The quality whereby he attains that high evolution is the POWER OF CHOICE!

The creative law of being, implanted in man by Divine Intelligence, gives man the "freedom of choice," whether to spiritually retrograde or progress. The choice, however, lies between these two; there is no standing still in this universe of motion. Natural evolution betters the entire race without regard for the individual. SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION betters the INDIVIDUAL THROUGH HIS OWN EFFORTS. The statement that: "previously the Lodge prayed for you" is, in effect, advising that: "before the LAW OF EVOLUT ION ADVANCED YOU)); "NOW, You must (pray for) advance YOURSELF!"

In bringing the candidate to that part in the initiation where he must pray for himself, the Lodge has brought him to the same point as all others who have gone the way before him. From this point (level) individual desire is necessary to make further progress. It is a PERSONAL PROBLEM of "ASKING" - "SEEKING" "KNOCKING." This not only applies to that particular moment in the Lodge room but to any further progress in Masonry. In fact it is not too inclusive to add - ANY PROGRESS IN LIFE ITSELF!

Our quest is for the re-discovery of something lost. It is the knowledge of the two-fold principle in nature and specifically, knowledge of the modus operandi of the Constructive Principle. The loss of the knowledge of the Constructive Principle in nature brought into man's existence its opposite, the Destructive Principle.

Light is the symbol of knowledge, and knowledge properly used leads to wisdom and power. Therefore the Ancient High-Priest's breastplate had engraven thereon the two words: "URIM and THUMMIM"

LIGHTS AND PERFECTIONS!

CHAPTER V

The Secret Doctrine

"FREEMASONRY is a beautiful system of morals veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. Its tenets are Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth. Its Cardinal Virtues are TEMPERANCE, FORTITUDE, PRUDENCE, and JUSTICE.

"Its religion, if religion it may be called, is an unfeigned belief in the one living and true GOD."

- Masonic Manual of Missouri

IN ADDITION to the definition of Freemasonry on the opposite page we repeat Pike's definition: "Freemasonry is the subjugation of the human that is in man by the Divine; the conquest of the appetites and the passions by the Moral Sense and the Reason; a continual effort, struggle, and warfare of the Spiritual against the Material and Sensual. That victory, when it has been achieved and secured, and the conqueror may rest upon his shield and wear his well-earned laurels, is the true HOLY EMPIRE."

These two definitions of Freemasonry are apparently similar, yet there is a difference. The latter informs us what Freemasonry is, and to a limited extent advises how to become a Master Mason through "the conquest of the appetites and the passions by the Moral Sense and the Reason." However, it contains thoughts different from those in the former definition and is more definite as to the "morals."

The definition from the Blue Lodge Manual very distinctly states that "this system of morals" is "veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols." This statement will bear further investigation. If it is correct, it may be assumed there is something underlying the explanations given in the various lectures of the degrees. "Something" which is "veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols." This can be considered as an instruction where to look for further meaning. It is obvious that the "veil" must be pa rted and the hidden meaning of the "allegory" discovered. It is equally obvious that the usually accepted meaning of the symbols is not enough for our purpose, for then their meaning would be immediately apparent and such is not the case. This "system" which they "illustrate" then must be "illustrated" by a more recondite interpretation of their meaning than is apparent on the surface to the casual observer.

Analysis of the actual words in the quotation reveal a subtle significance not ordinarily attributed to them. MORALS - The common use is: "discrimination between right and wrong, chaste, just, ethical." This word of Latin origin literally means "custom," but a shaded meaning states: "verified by reason, logic or probability."

ALLEGORY - "Description of one thing under the image of another. A narrative in which a teaching is conveyed symbolically. Presents a truth under the guise of fictitious narrative or description."

SYMBOL - "Something that stands for, represents, or recalls something else, not by exact resemblance, but by suggestion or associations in thought; especially an object that represents something abstract, as an idea, quality or condition."

If the definition of Freemasonry is reconstructed in the light of the words used in the previous definition it will read: "Freemasonry is a beautiful system of customs, or method of living, which, if followed, results in one's discriminating between right and wrong, being chaste, just and ethical. This custom is verified by reason and logic. However, it presents a truth under the guise of fictitious narrative, and is in reality describing one thing under the image of another, using actual objects to repre sent abstract ideas - "NOT BY EXACT RESEMBLANCE - BUT BY SUGGESTIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS IN THOUGHT!" There is the answer. The symbols are not used in the commonly accepted meaning. It is "NOT BY EXACT RESEMBLANCE"; there IS a more recondite interpretation, as we suspected; it is one of "SUGGESTIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS IN THOUGHT.))

There is a SECRET DOCTRINE in Freemasonry. That secret doctrine is concealed, rather than revealed, by the very lectures which, we are told, offer a "rational explanation" of the ceremonies of initiation. If we were to accept these "rational explanations" as final, and seek no further, Freemasonry would be a farce. We should find ourselves on a "dead-end" street from which it would be impossible to make any progress.

Here it is necessary to digress that we may lay the foundation for our super-structure (as any Operative Mason would do) by inquiring into some of the actual history of Freemasonry, to discover its beginning and evolution.

Historically, we trace Freemasonry to a number of Operative Lodges in England. Extant records indicate that in the year 1717 four lodges in London established themselves under the denomination of a Grand Lodge which they constituted at that time. One of the oldest documents containing a written record of Operative Masonry is the Regius or Halliwell MS., circa 1390.

Many books have been written proposing various theories as to the origin of Freemasonry. The generally accepted theory is that our present lodges are the outgrowth of the Operative Lodges, or Guilds, of the Middle Ages. There is no inclination to question the fact that our modern lodge AS AN ORGANIZATION, owes its origin to these Operative Lodges, but what of its esoteric teaching?

Are we to believe that these craftsmen of the medieval guilds, most of whom were actually illiterate, conceived an entire philosophy such as Freemasonry, and then, with consummate cunning, concealed it beneath a complicated system of symbolism and allegory? For the rank and file, the symbols were used, if at all, for ethical analogies, and they were as ignorant of the underlying meanings, as are most Freemasons of today. They but served the purpose of being the preservers of its mysteries. As the reincarn ating soul is said to choose the body and environment best suited for its growth and evolution, so may it be that these Operative Lodges were chosen to form the "body" for the spiritual teachings of the secret doctrine.

Let us investigate the term "free" as used in relation with "Mason." Some authorities advance the theory that in ancient times "bonds-men" could not join the Operative Guilds, hence a Mason was a "free man" and, perforce, a "Free Mason." Others attach significance to the word "free" in connection with the request for admission, it being of the applicant's "free" will and accord. Both theories find some support in the rituals of various Grand jurisdictions. In some jurisdictions the candidate recites his q ualifications, at the door of the lodge room, as being of "lawful age, FREE-BORN etc." Here is predicated the theory of being a "free" man. All ritual supports the theory of its being of the candidate's "FREE-WILL" and accord. Enough theories have been advanced to fill volumes on the specific subject. Herein it is not possible to even comment on all of them. One of the more interesting is cited for the benefit of the reader, as it also co ntains the thought of the antiquity of Masonry.

Robert Hewitt Brown writes: "Long before the building of the Temple of King Solomon, masons were known as 'sons of light.' Masonry was practised by the ancients under the name of Lux (light) or its equivalent, in various languages of antiquity. * * * We are informed by several distinguished writers that it (the word masonry) is a corruption of the Greek word 'MESOURANEO' which signifies 'I am in the midst of heaven,' alluding to the sun, which, 'being in the midst of heaven,' is the great source of light. Others derive it directly from the ancient Egyptian 'PHRE,' the sun, and 'MAS, a child: 'PHRE MASSEN'- the children of the sun, or Sons of Light."

Regardless of the origin of the modern lodge, or of the name "Freemasons" we can, after freeing the symbolism of modern adaptations, discern in Freemasonry the outline of the teachings of the ancient mysteries of Egypt. ONE SUPREME BEING - IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL - THE THREEFOLD COMPOSITION OF MAN, that is: body, soul, and spirit (more correctly expressed as physical, psychical, and spiritual). Three planes of being dealt with in three "grades" or levels of instruction.

Pythagoras said: "God formed two things in his own image: first the Universe itself, and second, man." The Bible informs: "and God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our own likeness." The ancients postulated the complete man as the triune man composed of body, soul, and spirit. He was symbolized by the right angle triangle. The horizontal represents the physical or material, the perpendicular represents the psychical or mental, and the hypotenuse the spiritual. (The complete man symbolized by the right angle triangle should not be confused with the perfect or spiritual man, whose emblem is the equilateral triangle.)

The purpose of the mysteries was to teach the candidate the secret of making of himself the perfect man. Symbolically, it is the secret of progressing the right angle triangle to an equilateral triangle. As no "whole" can be complete and perfect except its parts be complete and perfect, their instructions were divided into three parts, or grades. The first dealt with the physical, the second with the psychical, and the third with the spiritual.

The body is the vehicle of the mind and the spirit; and to make it a fit habitation for them the Mysteries began their instruction with the purely physical aspect of man and his material relation to the Universe. This teaching was that a strong and obedient body was requisite for the development of a strong mind and, mind being the instrument of spirit, a strong and well developed mind was essential to spiritual development. Theirs was a rigorous and dangerous initiation, and a strong body was indispensab le to the candidate if he were to survive the physical ordeals entailed by the actual initiation as well as the arduous studies necessary for his mental development. This occurred before he was even introduced to the spiritual. Also, it was necessary to understand the operation of material laws, for they subscribed to the ancient theory that the material laws are but the extension into the manifest universe of the spiritual laws. "As above, so below ."

The candidate was obliged to spend years, if necessary, in each of the grades preceding, before he was permitted to proceed in spiritual instruction. Under such a system it is obvious that it was highly essential to "make the necessary proficiency in the preceding (degrees) grades," before he could be admitted to the next higher.

If Freemasonry is the actual descendant or, if one prefers the term, reincarnation of the Mysteries, back of its "veil of allegory," then must be concealed a deeper truth than expounded in the various lectures of the degrees. Therefore, we should be able to discover a similarity in its degrees with these ancient grades. The first degree should concern itself with the physical or material; the second should deal with the psychical or mental; the third degree wholly with the spiritual. The ceremony of initi ation in each degree should reveal a more recondite teaching than that which appears on the surface. It should be discovered that its symbology and allegory is as useful to CONCEAL that teaching from those who do not seek it out as to REVEAL it to him who, "of his own free will and accord," earnestly and prayerfully attempts to pierce the veil of mystery.

If the symbols can be consistently interpreted in this manner, throughout the three degrees, we have confirmed Freemasonry to be the reincarnation of the Ancient Mysteries of Egypt; we have rediscovered some part of the ancient teaching and have removed the veil of allegory from the Great Truth of the Universe.

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Doesn't explicitly mention the J-Factor in Freemasonry but it can be seen...some leaps of logic below but some interesting connections nevertheless... note: do not connect this to well-known J-Tribe B.S. like the "Da Vinci Code" which is a total fiction invented in France in the 1950s...  --CSR

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Saturday, March 28, 2009
The Mona Lisa, Freemasonry, and the Sigil of Saturn
Posted by Moonstonejonz






This sigil, or mystical seal, was found in the musical manuscript of a 1600s Catholic hymn by Spanish composer Cristóbal Galán. It appears to reveal an extraordinary Hermetic precursor to the most recognizable symbol of Freemasonry, the Square and Compass. In addition, if we consider the possible use of Hermetic Androgyne symbolism in Leonardo's works such as the Mona Lisa, as proposed in A Different da Vinci Code, a curious parallel may be drawn relating all three figures.

How do we get to this point of comparison? Might we suppose for just a moment that some form of a Hermetic Brotherhood of the Temple of Solomon had already flourished long before, perhaps during that brief golden period of medieval alchemy in such parts of Spain as were under a more tolerant Moorish influence? This hidden confraternity, quite possibly including intellectuals of a curious and diverse ruling order, might even have possessed chemical, metallurgical and engineering secrets of commercial and military value. These would have required some purposefully confusing terminology to protect.

Hermetic "gibberish" is generally assumed to be strictly religious since it uses the vocabulary of myth and mysticism. But science and technology, always starved for nomenclature, also uses whatever it has. Even today we coin terms like the Saturn rocket or the Apollo Mission. Similarly, the scientific concepts of such an early secret society and the symbols in which they were couched might reflect a cultural provenance going back through intriguing and even more ancient travelers' stops such as Carthage, Alexandria, and Tyre. Members of such a group certainly would have used cryptic signs, signals, and forms of recognition appropriate to such origins. Among those in the know, the accumulated lore of this secret society's focus might even have inspired the Templar's legendary search for the Holy Grail (?) within the elaborate interstices of the Temple Mount.

An all too obvious emblem for such a hypothetical group would probably be a six-pointed star, or Solomon's Seal, between the two historic columns of King Solomon's Temple, Boaz and Jachin, which flanked its portal. We know that this remarkable building was a product of the technology and design of master builders from Tyre. The suggestion of a roof we see in the sigil of Saturn certainly supports this structural analogy. It appears to be generally accepted that Solomon, rather than David, introduced the six-pointed star (in legend at least), and that it also represents the Chaldean supreme deity Saturn. Since the Chaldean Saturn apparently equates to Chronos or Aion, a deity with a Father Time quality, Solomon's use of the hexagram may appear a bit less startling than many allege.

To make this symbolism less obvious in a world where secrecy would have been increasingly crucial, we could minimize that Star of David into just its occult primordial angles...the male (representing fire) pointing up and the female (representing water) pointing down:





Now it looks a lot like the V, M, and A which seem coincidentally recognizable in that proto-Masonic sigil of Saturn, and it also contains the angles we see in the Masonic Square and Compass. These two essential angles floating in perfect equilibrium between the columns of the sigil would still represent the universal synergy of male and female as in Eastern cosmology...or in alchemical terms, the microcosmic marriage of metal with non-metal...in essence, the androgyne Hermes/Sophia of Gnosticism, representing the enlightenments of knowledge, wisdom and spiritual maturity.

The planet Saturn in alchemy equates to the black stone, or starting out point, and to the base metal lead. This occult insignia of the Temple of Solomon might be seen to beckon us to enter its star portal between the two columns and begin our own initiatory pathway upward toward philosophical gold. The gateway would be step one, like the GO square in Monopoly? And yes...it would represent the entrance to those ancient mystery schools of an even dimmer past.

Since the Hermeticist reveres the perfect balance of the celestial clockwork that we see in the skies above, both the hexagram and the Alchemical Androgyne can be understood to symbolically echo the prescription of the up-pointed finger of Mercury/Hermes: 'As above; so below.'

Along comes the ever-curious Leonardo da Vinci among many artists and seekers of his age. He picks up a bit of this Hermetic drift in the fabulous metallurgical workshop of Verrocchio...even more from some of Leonardo's notably well-read patrons. In addition, let's not forget that among the classical notions revived in the Renaissance was " man as the measure of all things." Lo, that Alchemical Androgyne, representing the conjoined male and female angles of fire and water, has now bloomed quite subtly into a full color human art symbol of enlightenment, science, and human progress...a true Back to the Future!

Consequently, for the following 500 years people wonder if that's a guy or a girl in lots of art of the period. In time, many commentaries on Leonardo and the Renaissance art movement will reference Hermeticism, Neo-Platonic texts, sacred geometry, the birth of modern science through alchemy, the androgyne in art history, one or another branch of Gnosticism and the curious relationship of Freemasonry to this pervasive occult tradition. Yet few will hazard the conclusion that these streams must all converge in that mysterious and conjectural medieval conspiracy with several names, the Brotherhood of the Rose-Cross.

Now here's the big question. Might Leonardo's androgyne Mona Lisa, as a human substitute for that symbolically androgynous hexagram and also set between two columns, represent a proto-Masonic sigil of Saturn hidden in plain sight? This might possibly have been the earliest design of this famous painting in the Louvre, since some early copies such as that in the Walters collection contain the columns:



But perhaps leaving the columns in the painting would have been just too much of a giveaway for Leonardo's taste. The original version in the Louvre appears not to have been cut down, however, most who analyze this work find it hard to avoid concluding that the intended setting for Leonardo's Mona Lisa must have been on a colonnaded balcony. Let's not forget that Hermetic messages are not necessarily for all, but only for those with 'eyes to see'. In fact, if we look closely, the tips of what certainly appear to column bases can still be clearly seen, creating a somewhat peculiar design element or perhaps a clue to that cryptic smile:



Similarly, as proposed in the article referenced above, does John the Apostle plus his infused female aspect (perhaps an occult Magdalene) also add up to another cryptic Alchemical Androgyne at the Last Supper?



(A totally ignored but more plausible androgyne duo might be the traditionally feminized 'youthful' John the Apostle seen in art, fused with John the Baptist, which operate as synergistic figures in Johannite lore.) In fact, might various Renaissance androgynes (and there are many) simply be the same rose by any other name in the sub rosa world of seditious iconography? If so, perhaps the V and M design motif we seem to see in the center of the Last Supper (which just happens to physically encompass this extraordinarily feminized depiction of the apostle John, well beyond the typical canon of youthfulness) is additional confirmation of Hermetic symbolism in the design. Perhaps that V and M represent yet another homage to the sigil of Saturn...in other words, a reintroduction of that missing divinely feminine angle in the midst of this rather imaginative Christian men's club dinner, complete with hard rolls.

Here's a further question to ponder. If that impossible-to-copy, almost smirky cat-that-ate-the-canary smile we see on the Mona Lisa, St.Anne in the Burlington House Cartoon, St. John the Baptist, the Angel in the Flesh, and the Archangel Uriel in the Virgin of the Rocks, signals a hidden Hermetic message in the painting, might it even have appeared on John the Apostle's face at the Last Supper, that is, before Leonardo's original paint rapidly fell off the damp refectory wall?


The restorer' guess:                  Or, how about this?:



                   

And finally, suppose we remove that shoehorned figure of Judas at the table. We would see St. Peter in the cartoon-like guise of a coarse street thug...his right wrist now quite understandably contorted backward to hide a knife from his intended victim, the eternally serene Gnosis, upon whose clavicle he is about to secure his grip for the thrust.








Leonardo's contemporaneous historical reference here, so ingeniously woven into a dissimulating Biblical anecdote, should be clear to all...Sophia (read enlightenment without dogmatic constraints) is in trouble, as it has been from the very outset of the Church! Incidentally, as everyone has noted, the furtive knife that Peter wields has not escaped St.Andrew, who signals an incongruously immediate threat right here at the Last Supper (incongruous since Malchus, who comes up later in the story, is not part of this scene). The clearly startled Andrew seems to be giving us the Masonic Grand Hailing Sign of Distress. Just how far back might that secret Masonic signal go?

Much like a Masonic ring, the sigil of Saturn as well as its concealed hexagram equivalent, the Hermetic androgyne in human form, would have been an insignia of recognition, but distinctively covert and most assuredly given a very good cover story (cf. Auspice Maria). Both might simply be ways of saying to those who have ears to hear that someone else is also tired of all the ignorance, fanaticism, and repression. It's time to, as Wordsworth would later say it best, "Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher." The same concepts of human progress, enlightenment, and freedom of thought that stirred the intellectual fires of the Renaissance are certainly aspirations very familiar to those who identify themselves as Freemasons.

Was Leonardo part of a great underground stream of hidden alchemical knowledge from an ancient past? This would be a most peculiar stream that flowed, in poetic tradition at least, from Arcadia, that mythical utopia in the rugged center of the Peloponnesus where Hermes was born, and "where Alph, the sacred river ran, through caverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea."

Some say that because Leonardo resented the transmutation hoaxers of his day who faked gold objects in the name of Hermes Trismegistus (whom Leonardo referred to as "Hermes the Philosopher"), he disapproved of alchemy altogether. This is claimed despite the fact that the Hermetic tradition represented the most important, familiar and promising repository of useful and fascinating scientific information available during his age.


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Going underground: The massive European network of Stone Age tunnels that weaves from Scotland to Turkey

    Evidence of tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements
    That so many tunnels have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original network must have been enormous

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:45 PM on 4th August 2011

Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient superhighways has claimed.

German archaeologist Dr Heinrich Kusch said evidence of the tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements all over the continent.

In his book - Secrets Of The Underground Door To An Ancient World - he claims the fact that so many have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original tunnel network must have been enormous.

Evidence of Stone Age tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements all over Europe - the fact that so many have survived after 12,000 years shows the original tunnel network must have been huge

Evidence of Stone Age tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements all over Europe - the fact that so many have survived after 12,000 years shows the original tunnel network must have been huge

'In Bavaria in Germany alone we have found 700metres of these underground tunnel networks. In Styria in Austria we have found 350metres,' he said.

 
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'Across Europe there were thousands of them - from the north in Scotland down to the Mediterranean.

'Most are not much larger than big wormholes - just 70cm wide - just wide enough for a person to wriggle along but nothing else.

'They are interspersed with nooks, at some places it's larger and there is seating, or storage chambers and rooms.

'They do not all link up but taken together it is a massive underground network.'
Not for the claustrophobic: Most of the tunnels are just 70cm wide - just wide enough for a person to slowly wriggle through

Not for the claustrophobic: Most of the tunnels are just 70cm wide - just wide enough for a person to slowly wriggle through

Some experts believe the network was a way of protecting man from predators while others believe that some of the linked tunnels were used like motorways are today, for people to travel safely regardless of wars or violence or even weather above ground.

The book notes that chapels were often built by the entrances perhaps because the Church were afraid of the heathen legacy the tunnels might have represented, and wanted to negate their influence.

In some cases writings have been discovered referring to the tunnels seen as a gateway to the underworld.

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WHERE ARE THE RUINS OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE?

Lecture, presented at America Lodge No.475, F. & A.M. by Leslie L. Szepesi



Freemasonry has to be divided into two periods: The Prehistoric and Historic. The first is tradi- tional or symbolical; the second is based on facts or evidences. Many of the prehistoric Masonic legends are really founded, as we shall endeavor to shown on a his- torical basis. For example: the legend of King Solomon's Temple. The belief, that Freemasonry as it now exist, was organized at the Temple of Solomon. Although al-most everywhere is accepted by Freemasons, who have not made the subject a historical study. Casting aside the old theory of Freemasonry, having an origin at the Temple of King Solomon and seeking in the records of the past, we can find a closer and more probable connecting link in the chain of evidence.

The oldest Masonic document is the Halliwell Manuscript - which was written in 1,390 AD. - it didn't give any references to Masonry before the Flood. It begins with the foundation of Masonry in Babylon. The fact however remains that in this Manuscript the Temple is directly and definitely referred to as a place, where Masons met in great numbers. One more reference to the Temple is in the first Charge, which is: "That you shall be a true man to God and the Holy Church". There is no mention of King Solomon's Temple. The Cook Manuscript -which was written in 1,490 AD.- puts the origin of Masonry at the time of the building of the Tower in Babylon. Nimrod was the first Grand Master, who made a first Charge; frames the first Constitution, that Freemasons ever had. Originally Nimrod was a Sumerian in Babylon, around 3,000 BC. His name was Nib-úr (Nib = panther; úr = hero). The discovery of the original inscriptions of great significance to prove, that Nimrod had actually been a historical personage. He was described as the founder of all the king- doms of Mesopotamia: Uruk, Akkad, Babylon and Assyria, and the royal city of Kish.

In 2,800 BC. Sargon I. the Akkadian took over the power in Babylon and the Akkadian language was used. Akkadian is the different dialect of the agglutinative Sumerian language. Nib-úr became "Nimrú" in the Akkadian language. The Hebrews borrowed the name, when they were in "captivity" at Babylon and changed it to "Nimrod" to make it phonetically suitable in their own language. The description of Nimrod in the Bible is: "A mighty hunter before the Lord". The Babylonians and Hebrews called the "Orion" star constellation "Nimrú." Orion is the only star constellation that looks like "a hunter with an arrow."

One, who carefully reads the Halliwell and Cook Manuscripts finds unmistakable evidence, that Nimrod organized the first Craft of Masonry. From Babylon Masonry was carried into Persia, Chaldea, Egypt and thence were carried into Greece and Rome. In Egypt, the pyramid-builder's priestly elite called each other "Brother Mason". Their god was "Ptah" and they called Him "Great Architect of the Universe". Their symbols and rituals were passed on to Freemasons by the Tem-plars and Jesuits, without any knowledge of natural science and architecture. The early Freemasons were a secret society. They were the inheritors of an ancient and pre-Chris- tian tradition handed down from ancient times.

Their object was magic in the kabalistic sense. This object of Freemasonry was represented under the form of a true Church - as mentioned in the first Charge,- whose cornerstone is Christ. Those early Freemasons have adopted, that Christ is the Grand Master and was put to death while laying the foundation of the mystical Temple of human nature. At that time Masonry was not it became later: It was neither a political institution nor a social club, but a true secret organization.The Jews were excluded from the original lodges of Freemasons as being great enemies of the Grand Master, Jesus. (See Appendix #1)

The mentioned facts were the general belief of the Fraternity until about the 17th or the beginning of the 18th century. At this time, members of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and the emancipated Jews moved into the Masonic Lodges, where there sought to get control over Masonic Institutions, schools, churches and even businesses. A very powerful Masonic lodge, the Illuminati -which were founded by a young Jew, Adam Weishaupt- influenced many Masonic lodges in Europe. They accepted the revolutionary ideals of liberty, universal brotherhood, love and the political aims of equality. They became "politi- cal Masonic lodges". The political philosophy of this lodges mapped out the ground plan of the French Revolution and all the leftist revolutions. The original leaders of the French revolution were Masons: Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Jean Paul Marat. Likewise, most leaders of the communist revolutions in the world were Masons. (See Appendix #2) The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite was a brainchild of Jesuit Chevalier Ramsay, under instruc- tions of the Jesuit College of Clermont at Paris. His Oration was delivered at the Masonic Lodge of St.Thomas in Paris on March 21, 1737. "Our ancestors, the Crusaders and Knights Templars gath- ered together from all parts of Christendom in the Holy Land, wished to reunite into one sole Fra- ternity embracing the individuals of all nations". In 1743, the "Kadosh" degree was invented by Jesuit Ramsay, and "it represents the revenge of the Templars."

The origin of Freemasonry began to be cast aside, and another one in denial of the old Manuscripts was put in its place. Freemasonry was no longer believed to have begun at the Tower of Babylon. From the Old Testament King Solomon's Temple was accepted, as the place of its birth; and Solomon, not Nimrod or Christ was called the first "Grand Master." (See Appendix #3) We must analyze the Hebrew/Jewish and Judeo-Christian religious backgrounds to understand the dramatic changes in the Masonic tradition. In 538 BC. when the Hebrews returned from the Babylonian captivity to their homeland Judea, Nehemiah a Babylonian Hebrew had knowledge of the Sumer-Babylonian religion and made moral and liturgical reforms in rededicating the Hebrews to "Yahweh" (Jehovah). He completely adopted the Sumer-Babylonian religious laws and scriptures, but made necessary changes by substituting all the Sumer-Akkad names by Hebrew ones. For example: let's compare Moses birth as told in the Bible with that of Sargon I, whose birth story is exactly the same, but Sargon I. lived more than 1,500 years before Moses. The original stone-tablet of the story of Sargon's birth was found in Kouyunjik Iraq, and translated by George Smith and published in the "Assyrian Antiquities" book. Nehemiah's reform was carried through systematically by Ezra. The first theological books were written in 100 BC. the "Torah", which contains the oral and written laws, customs and ceremonies; the "Talmud", which contains the scriptural laws and the Hebrew traditions.

Rabbi Kaufmann wrote in "The Biblical Era" book, that "The foundations of the Hebrew/Jewish religion such as myth of the Creation, devotional exercise, order of the clergy, prophecies, psalms, code of laws and morals are inherited from the traditions of the Middle East.(See Appendix #4) The New Testament was written in the 4th century AD. in Greek language and translated to Latin in the 6th century AD. They were the "Codex Sinaiticus" and the "Codex Vaticanus". In order to lega- lize the "new religion" and establish the priesthood and church hierarchy, bishop Eusebius of Cae- sarea (260 to 340 AD.), a Church historian made an appropriate selection of parts of the Hebrew Canon of scriptures, known as the "Old Testament" and integrated them into a carefully revised collection of Christian writings, known as the "New Testament". The early Church Fathers accepted them in 325 AD. at the first Council of Nicea (in Turkey - modern name is Iznik) and the combined books became the "Holy Book" of all the Christian Churches. (See Appendix #5) The legend of the King Solomon's Temple is in the adopted Hebrew scriptures, called the "Old Testa- ment". We have to look back into history if we want to find out the truth. Solomon was the son of David, but since David himself was a mythological hero, with no historical proof to the contrary, we are under no obligation to believe he had a son named Solomon. Accord- ing to Chronicles 9:23 "all kings of the earth sought his presence."...If this be so, it is strange none of them mention him. His time, allegedly was just prior to Homer and Hesiod, yet they do not men- tion King Solomon. Herodotus who traveled through-out the entire Middle East does not mention him, or even the Hebrews.

The Temple of Jerusalem, which all archeologist have shown to be a structure with nothing like the pretended antiquity of its erection, and incorrectly called after a fictitious monarch, whose name proves his mystical character. (See Appendix #6) The name of Solomon is made up of the three ancient Sun names: The Roman SOL, the Hindu OM, and the Chaldeo-Egyptian ON. The architecture and the inside arrangements of the allegorical Solomon Temple were undoubtedly borrowed from the Egyptians and described it in the Hebrew scriptural book. His "Holy Temple" has gone down in history as one of the greatest of all buildings, yet according to specifications it was small indeed, only about 40 x 120 feet. Compared to other ancient Temples, this one was insignificant. Consider Nagkon-Wat in Cambodia, for instance. It is 769 x 588 x 250 feet, elaborately carved and columned. In the stonework there are approximately 100,000 figures, one picture occupying 240 feet. King Solomon's Temple was a poor imitation of the Great Sandstone Temple of "Horus", near Edfu in Upper Egypt.

According to the Old Testament, Solomon's Temple was surrounded with spacious courts. In the court of the priests was an altar. From this court 12 steps ascended to the Temple, which was divid- ed into three parts: the Porch; the Sanctuary and the Holy of Holies. The Temple of Edfu has the same arrangement. King Solomon's Temple was 120 ft. long and 40 ft. wide and it was completed in 957 BC.(?) Temple of Edfu is 450 ft. long and 150 ft. wide and it was built around 1,300 BC. It has two tall obelisks at the Porch. King Solomon's Temple had two pillars at the Porch. The right pillar was "Jachin", which means: "to establish" and the left one was "Boaz", which means: "in strength". The Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of "Osiris" in Abydos, Upper Egypt has two pillars at the en- trance. The right pillar is "Tattu", which means: "to establish", and the left one is "Tat", which means: "in strength". The Temple and the Hall were built around 2,500 BC. The Ark of the Covenant in King Solomon's Temple had exactly the same dimensions as the baptis- mal font in the King's chamber of Khufu or Cheops pyramid at Gizeh, near Cairo. The pyramid was built between 3,733 and 3,700 BC. (See Appendix #7) According to the Old Testament, King Solomon's Temple originally was built on very hard rock on Mt. Moriah. Its foundation were laid very deep. The Temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II. of Babylonia in 586 BC. The archeologist dug out cities and ruins of the ancient civilizations, but they didn't find the ruins of King Solomon's Temple in spite of fact, that they knew that the Temple loca- tion was on Mt. Moriah, and that it was built on very hard rock, and that the foundations were very deep in the ground.

The historical facts are:

1.) The founders of Jerusalem were the Turanian Hurrians. The Bible calls them Jebusites. Manetho the Egyptian priest (300 BC.) called them Royal Shepherds, he also called them Royal Scythians and Phoenices (See Appendix #8). The city which they founded was called Solyma. Alexander the Great put the world "Iero" or "Hiero" (Holy) in front of the city's name and pronounced it "Hiero-solyma". The city was called Solyma or Hierosolyma for many years. Josephus Flavius the Hebrew historian (37-100 AD.) in his writings always uses the name Solyma instead of Jerusalem. In 70 AD. when the Roman Titus destroyed the Temple and demolishing the city, the soldiers were shouting "Hierosolyma est perdita!" meaning "Hierosolyma (Jerusalem) is destroyed!" This name:"Templum Hiero-Solyma" carved onto the "Triple Tau" column of the Knights Templar's shrine at Rosslyn, Scotland. The chapel construction and stone work completed in 1480 AD. The Hebrews written down the name of Solyma like this: SLM (no vowels). We can pronounce it S(o)L(y)M(a), or S(a)L(e)M. Later the city called "Uru-Salem". The word "Iero" or "Hiero in front of the city's name remained and pronounced it "Iero Uru-Salem", "Ierusalem", finally "Jerusalem."

2.) In 1,015 BC. the alleged David purchased a small part of the city of Uru-Salem from Urukhi or Uriah, king of the Jebusites. The Bible says: "and the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day" (Judges 1:21). So, the Jebusites still dwelled Jerusalem in the 7th century AD. in the period when the Masoretic Bible was constructed. The Jebusites shared their Sun-God Temple with the Hebrews, who were worshipped Tammuz Moloch and other gods.This Temple was built on Mt .Moriah to the Jebusites' Sun-God "Nib-Utu" (Shamash). It was built by the pattern of the Egyptian Temples of Osiris and the Egyptian sacred number "3" governed the exterior proportion of the building (width x 3 = length), and its interior design (porch, sanctuary and the Holy of Holies). In 1130 AD. the Scotch Templars were excavated a place at Mt. Moriah (Temple Mount) on the spot where the alleged temple of Solomon had stood. During their work they found two stones which were the cornerstones of the Jebusites Temple. In the foundation stones of the Temple had Phoenician cuneiform epigraph and a Crux Gammata (swastika), the symbol of the Sun-God. The Scotch Knights took the stones with them, and used one of the stone as a cornerstone of the first temple at Edinburg. The second stone was preserved at the Rosslyn Chapel at South Scotland. Dome of the Rock at the Temple Mount was built upon the other two cornerstones.

3.) In the early 6th century BC. the Jebusites' city Uru-Salem and the Sun-God Temple were des- stroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II., King of Babylon, and the captivity of the Hebrews began.

4.) In 538 BC. Cyrus II. of Babylonia let the Hebrews return to their homeland. For the adopted new religion and the glory of "Yahweh" (Jehovah), in 515 BC. Nehemiah and his companions built the first Hebrew Temple, over the foundation of the Jebusites' Sun-God Temple on Mt. Moriah. In 333 BC. Alexander the Great destroyed the walls around it, but not the Temple. In 54 BC. this Temple was plundered and destroyed by the Roman Crassus.

5.) The second Hebrew Temple was built by Herod, King of Judea over the remains of Nehemiah's Temple. This Temple was larger than the previous Temples, and to accommodate its expanded foundations and the greatly increased size of the Temple Mount, a massive retaining wall was built on the southwest side of the Temple Mount. Herod was of Edomite descent, though of Hebrew (Judaic) face. In 40 BC. he was appointed as King of Judea and governor of Galilee by the Roman Senate. When the Roman Titus crushed the Hebrew Revolt and destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. they razed the temple to the ground. While nothing remains of the temple itself, large portions of the enclosure (re- taining) walls still remains. The most famous remnants are the lower portions of the Western Wall, known as the Wailing Wall. Modern archeological research confirms that the alleged Solomon Temple, as it described in the Old Testament, bears unmistakable resemblance to the actual Temple in Uru-Salem (Jerusalem) built by the Phoenicians for the Jebusites' Sun God.

6.) In 638 AD. the Muslim caliph Omar I. entered Jerusalem and during the period from 685 to 691 the 10th Caliph Abd-el-Malik ibn Marwan built the Dome of the Rock right over the foun- dation of the ancient Jebusites' Temple. Other Islamic shrine on the Temple Mount is the al-Aqsa Mosque (one of Islam's largest and holiest mosques) was built 715 AD. on the southwest side of the Temple Mount. The Great Constantine (306 to 337 AD.) and his mother built a few churches there. A few churches remained intact, also a few ruins can be found there. The present Western Wall or Wailing Wall formed no part any of the previous temples. All that remains of the elaborate structure is part of the retaining wall. Then as now, it was merely a retaining structure for Temple Mount. Where are the ruins of King Solomon's Temple?

APPENDIX.

#1...The early Freemasons:

They accepted the early Christian teachings (Essenes, Gnostic), based on the Great Oriental, Chal-dean Kabalah (not Hebrew) and Magic....This was occult wisdom, transmitted from the beginning of the world and matured by Christ....St.Paul uses the "building" and "laying the foundations" imagery, describes his community as "God's building", and he as the "architect" and Jesus Christ as the "cornerstone". These are the terms used by Jesus and all of the Nazarenes that have been passed down to the early Christians, the Knights Templars, Rosicrucians and Freemasons. God's building of early Freemasonry was represented under the form of the Temple of the Knights Tem- plars...Not King Solomon's Temple, but this mystical Temple which to be built of men, or living stones. Christ was the Grand Master, the Light from the East". It recognizes man as the living Temple of God, that Temple which was built without "sound and hammer, or noise whatever". St.Augustine (founder of the Christian Theology) made this statement: "What is now called the Christian religion, existed among the ancient". Eusebius of Caesarea -the church historian- had this to say: "That the religion by Jesus Christ of all nations is neither new nor strange. The ancient Essenes (Therapeutae) were Christians and their writings are our Gospel and Epistles."

#2...Political Masonic Lodges:

The Illuminati were founded 1776 in Bavaria, Germany. Within a short period of time had lodges all over Germany, Austria, and branches founded in France, Switzerland, Hungary and Italy. The Bavarian mother lodge conducted a secret operation to infiltrate Masonic lodges and established power base within Continental Freemasonry as part of her long-term plan to use the secret soci- eties for political change in Europe. By 1788 nearly every lodge in the Grand Orient had been in- filtrated by supporters of Illuminist. The Comte de Mirabeau confessed that the ground plan for the French Revolution was discussed at the Grand Masonic Congress in 1785 at Wilhemsbad, Germany, which he attended as a delegate of the French Masonic lodges. When the Bastille was stormed (1789), Comte de Mirabeau said: "The idolatry of the monarchy has received a death blow from the sons and daughters of the Order of Knights Templars"...Jacques de Molay (the last Grand Master of the Templars) had been imprisoned in the Bastille. It is said that when the French King was executed a voice cried out from the crowd "de Molay is avanged!" Comte Cagliostro confessed, that the House of Rothschild, the international banking family had supplied founds to finance the French Revolution, and that they were acting as agent for the Masonic-Illuminist. The representatives of the Illuminati had been placed a large sums of money in Holland, Italy, France and England. Cagliostro was a Freemason, Illuminati and the creator of the Egyptian Freemasonry.

After the French Revolution the Masonic-Illuminist didn't alter their purpose for a major political reforms in Europe. They already had overthrown Louis XVI, completely ruined the dynasty of the Bourbon. Their next aim was to destroy the dynasty of Hohenzollerns in Prussia and Germany, the Habsburgs in Austria-Hungary (dual monarchy), and the Romanovs in Russia. In 1794 the Illuminist attempted to overthrow the Habsburgs in Austria. In 1820 was the Carbonari (secret society) revolution in Italy. They had connections with both the

Freemasons and the Illuminati.

In 1825 at St.Petersburg with help of the Illuminist French Freemasonry, the Russian Decembrist rebelled against Czar Nicholas I. The Masonic Convention in 1842 (Strassbourg,France) planted the seeds of the 2nd French Revolu- tion in 1848 which spread like wildfire across many European countries. Behind the assassination attempt against Kaiser Franz Josef von Habsburg in 1882 and the assas- sination of his wife Empress Elizabeth von Habsburg in 1898 were Masonic-Illuminati lodges. The two assassins (William Oberdank and Lucheni) were themselves Masons. Crown Prince Rudolf von Habsburg allegedly shot dead his mistress, baroness Maria Vetsera and then committed suicide in the hunting lodge at Mayerling in 1889. After the tragic deaths rumors have circulated that Freemasons had murdered the Crown Prince. There is no evidence of this accusation, but this raises a legitimate question: why were the two alleged eye-witnesses mur- dered? The two alleged eyewitnesses were the armour-bearer of the Crown Prince, and forester Wolf of Mayerling.

In 1914, Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophia were assassinated in Sara- jevo, Bosnia. Their assassins were Cabrinovits, Grabec, major Tankosits and dr.Kasimirovits. The four principal assassins were Freemasons. Before of the Grand Duke and his wife assassi- nation, the four assassins and several other persons from Serbia had met with members of the French Masonic-Illuminati lodges at the Hotel Jerome in Toulouse France in January 1914. Deed of Sarajevo and its international repercussions were to cause not only the downfall of the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, but also that of the Romanov dynasty which was swept away by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

In Russia in November 7, 1917 the Bolsheviks came to power. The leaders of the Revolution were Lenin (Uljanov / Berg), Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Zinovjev (Apfelbaum), Kamenev (Rosenfeld), Sverdloff (Sobelsohn) were all Freemasons, and 40% of the commissars also were Freemasons or belonged to some secret society. It is no secret that the German Freemasons by the German military had aided Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the Russian revolution. In 132 AD. during the Hebrew revolt in Judea, the revolt leader Bar-Kochba and his followers were wearing the self- same insignia (the red five-pointed star) on their hat, which 1800 years later Trotsky's terror gangs were wearing in Russia. On April, 1917 armed with an American passport (authorized by President Wilson, who was a Freemason), Leon Trotsky left the United States with $40 million funds, pro-vided by Wall Street bankers ( Schiffs, Warburgs, Kuhn & Loeb Co., Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, and Harrimans) to help Lenin overthrow the Provisional Government in Russia (Congres- sional Records of September 2, 1919).

The French Grand Orient was behind the 1918 socialist revolution in Austria, the communist upris- ing in defeated Germany and the communist terror in dismembered Hungary. In 1918 after the World War I the representatives of nations who participated in the formation of the League of Nations were Freemasons. The delegates of the 1919-1920 peace conference in Paris were under pressure of the Freemasons majority: President Wilson (USA), M.Clemenceau (France), Lloyd George (Britain), Signor Orlan- do (Italy). Behind the curtains were Masaryk and Benes (Czeh-Bohemian). The Austro-Hungarian Empire was broken up altogether. A little Austria was left, and clipped, and a mutilated Hungary. Germany was crippled. France (represented by the Grand Lodge of France) declared itself the win- ner, and sole arbiter of a new Europe. The French fury (Clemenceau), unjust treaties, and punitive treatment of Paris-Versailles-Trianon were the motive of the World War II. British foreign secretary Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, another delegate, said he felt the treaty only set the stage for more war and even predicted the date. "This is no piece; this is only a truce for twenty years," he stated at the 1919 Versailles conference. Word War II. indeed began in 1939, exactly twenty years later. In 1920 a new Illuminist's front organization arose from the Paris meeting. In Britain this organi- zation was called the Institute for International Affairs (IIA), while in New York it operated as the Council for Foreign Relations (CFR). The finances for the group came from wealthy international bankers.

In the 1920s Nesta Webster exposing the so-called Masonic-Illuminist world domination plan. She claimed that the international banking system working through the Masonic lodges, and they were behind the revolutionary movements of the 18th and 19th centuries. Webster's theories were widely accepted all over Europe, and by the British politicians, including Sir Winston Churchill. In 1945, after the 2nd World War, the United Nations Organization was founded by Masonic-Illumi- nist (President Franklin Roosevelt), UK (Round Table-Illuminist) and the Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union. At the UN the policy making body was staffed by CFR, IIA and Bolshevik agents. In 1947 another Illuminist front organization was created, called the United World Feder- alists (UWF).

In 1954 the Bilderberg Group was founded, and in 1970 the Tri-lateral Commission. Both power groups associated with the CFR and the international bankers. All these Illuminist organizations act as a shadow government, promoting internationalist policies and world government. They are the followers of Adam Weishaupt and his Illuminist doctrine.

#3...Changes of the Rituals:

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the major banking family, and supporter of Freemasons and the French Revolution was Jewish. The Blue Lodge and Scottish Rite degrees used in the lodges were Christian in nature. This created problems for all the leading bankers, including the Rothschilds, and the other emancipated Jews who may have wanted to participate. To solve the dilemma, effort were made to change the rituals in order to make Freemasonry acceptable to Jews. From the Old Testament King Solomon's Temple was accepted as the birthplace of Free- masonry. The accepted change created three Grand Masters, based upon a literal interpretation of an allegory, which is central to the initiation ritual of a Master Mason. The three Grand Masters of the Masonic Order: the mythical King Solomon, Hiram, King of Tyre, and a mythical Hiram, called "Hiram Abiff." This changes created two more problems; 1./ In Masonic ritual the master builder, Hiram Abiff is murdered and the Temple of Solomon is never finished, while the biblical account says that the temple was indeed finished and Hiram the metalworker went home, alive and well. 2./ In the ritual, Hiram Abiff murdered because he didn't divulge the "Master's World" (secret of the Master Mason) to the three Fellow Crafts. In the Blue Lodge, where the Master representing King Solomon, agrees with King Hiram (Senior Warden) that "Mah-Hah-Bone" shall be used as a substitute for the "lost Master's World" until wiser ages shall discover the true one. Freemasons has never possessed the "lost world". The adepts of various countries, a limited num- ber among the chiefs of the Templars, some Rosicrucians and Arabian alchemist could really had possession of the Secret World. The substitute for the "lost world" is a modern invention. "Maha" in Sanskrit signifies "great", what the mysterious Eastern Brothers used in their initiation and ceremonies. "Bone" came from the French "bon" (good). The two words had combined together; it is meaningless!

Hiram Abiff was a symbolic representative of Osiris, the Egyptian god of death and rebirth. The Mysteries of Osiris formed the third degree or summit of the Egyptian Initiation. In the third de- gree of Freemasonry the candidate impersonates Hiram Abiff. A very limited knowledge of the history is necessery to enable any person to recognize in the Grand Master Hiram Abiff, the Osi- ris of the Egyptians, the Mithras of the Persians, the Christ of the Greeks, the Dionysus of the Fraternity of the Artificers and the Atys of the Phrygians. Hiram Abiff was the son of the priest King of Astarte/Adonis - Hiram, king of Tyre. Abiff means "of" or "from" my Father. He was a member of the Dionysian Architects, who first appeared around 1,000 BC. when the Jebusites' Temple at Uru Salem was being erected. Not King Solomon's Temple! He was a wor- shipper of the Goddess Astarte and was responsible for designing her Temples in Tyre, Phoenicia. The Roman architect and master builder Vitrivius (1st century AD.) was the last initiated member of the Dionysian Architects. Hiram, King of Tyre have been a priest king of the cult of Astarte. He was the Grand Master of the Dionysian Architects. The name Hiram was understood by the early Freemasons as an anagram. It meant: Homo Iesus Redemptor AnimaruM (Jesus a man, redeemer of souls). Others explained the name: Homo Iesus Rex Altissimus Mundi (Jesus a man, king of the highest world)

#4...The Adopted Religion (Old Testament):

The Bible's creators were plagiarists and they got their knowledge from older races. The religion of the Masters -Egyptians and Babylonians- was transferred almost bodily into the re- vealed scriptures of the Hebrews and from there into Christianity. The source of the Biblical myths are Phoenician, Chaldean and mostly Indian, and the original of it may be found in the Mahâbhârata .Most of the Biblical myths borrowed from the Vedic-Brahman- ical literature, latter borrowed from the Chaldeans and Persians, shaped them into a history of the Hebrew nation, in which their spirit of philosophy was buried beyond the recognition. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth chapters of Genesis taken word for word from the secret Book of Numbers of the Great Oriental (Chaldean) Kabalah. Many texts of Old Canaanite mythology discovered at Ugarit. These texts not only constitute a liter- ature of high standing and great originality, but also have an important bearing on Old Testament studies. It is now evident that the patriarchal stories in the Old Testament were based on written documents of Canaanite origin.

There is no real history in the Old Testament, and the little historical information one can glean is only found in the indiscreet revelations of the prophets. The book as a whole, must have been written at various times, or rather invented as an authorization of some subsequent worship. Out of the 149 Biblical Psalms (the 14th is identical with the 53rd), 47 were copied from Yasna, the second part of the Persian Zend Avesta. Authors of the Bible were borrowed 15 more Psalms from Yasna, but they put their own ideas into them also. They composed 87 new Psalms. Pure Psalms which are borrowed from the Zend Avesta: the 35th, 36th, 37th, 38th, and the 119th. The 104th Psalm is a prayer. It has written by Pharaoh Amenhotep (Akhenaton) to the Egyptian Sun-God Aton. The "Ecclesiastes" is an imitation of the Persian Holy Writ. "Song of Solomon" is very similar to the love poems of the Sumerian King Shu-sin, which are in the museum of Istanbul (Turkey) under the number 2461.

"The book of Job" was written by a Persian priest in dialogue and it is a narration of the moral pre- cepts of the Zend religion. The contents of the "Proverbs" reveals where it was written; the condi- tions of the state, social life and the country's climate lead us back to the Zend Avesta and Persia. The Psalms are poetry, but strip them of poetry and what is left? Flattery, selfishness, greed and cow- ardice. They are cry for help, a bargaining with God. This is not a "heroic faith"; it is spiritual deg- radation and ignorance.

#5...The New Testament:

The New Testament was of the same nature, age and race as the Old. We should therefore expect to find in it the same theology, methodology and formula. The New is not different from the Old. Moses is the Savior of the Old Testament, and such is Jesus of the New. The New Testament in many places a greatly altered version of the original accounts on which it is based. In addition, probably 5% of all that Jesus and his original followers taught is found in the Bible. In 125 AD. St. Irenaeus said, "There was a multitude of Gospels" in his day. Those that came down to us are but the ones the priesthood needed for its purpose, the rest is destroyed. Many of the changes and deletions to the New Testament were made by special church councils. The editing process began as early as 325 AD. (First Council of Nicea), and continued well into the 12th century. Many passages were originally written using code words whose meanings were lost over time, causing misinterpretations. In other instance there was just plain tampering to advance some then current dogma or political agenda. The Bible scholars agreed; that "One of the most important purposes of this tampering was to support the aims of those who sought to make Christianity more attractive to potential Hebrew/ Jewish converts by proving that the events of Jesus' life fulfill prophecy from the Old Testament". Mythic methodology used throughout the entire Bible.

# 6...The Temple of Jerusalem:

Contradictions of the Biblical narrator prove, that King Solomon did not build a Temple in Jerusalem. According to Kings 1 chapter 5:1-6, Solomon ask help and support from "Hiram, King of Tyre", to build a Temple. He agreed to support Solomon and in addition he sent him a brassmaker, whose name was "Hiram" too (7:13-14). However, the Chronicles 2 chapter 2:3,11 said, that "Huram, King of Tyre" and "Huram", the Brassmaker, so, the Chronicles 2 called them "Huram" instead of "Hiram". The Kings 1 chapter 5:13 stated: "and King Solomon raised a levy out of Israel; and the levy was 30,000 men". In chapter 5:15 the Biblical narrator raised this number, saying "the hewers in the mountains were 80,000 men" and those who "bare burdens were 70,000 men". In Chronicles 2. Chapter 2:17 said "Solomon numbered all the men and they were found 150,000"; therefore not 30,000 men......In Kings 1. chapter 5:16 mentioned 3,300 overseers, which is 3,600 in the Chronicles 2. chapter 2:18. From the perplexing descriptions we understand as much, that altogether 150,000 men cut down trees in the mountains and carried them to the construction side of the Temple. If anybody analyses this given numbers logically, would find out that these numbers are irrational. In Biblical times, in Palestine there could have not lived so many able-bodied men. For the construction of a 40'-0" x 120'-0" (12.19 meter x 36,50 meter) based temple it was not necessary to employ 150,000 workmen and the duration of 7 years. But those 150,000 could have cleared the jungle of Brazil, and could have built up a city which would have had more than several millions inhabitants. According to Kings 1. chapter 6:2,"the Temple height thereof 30 cubits" (45'-0" - 13.71 meter) and in chapter 7:15, "the 2-pillars of brass of 18 cubits high apiece" (27'-0" - 8.23 meter). However in the Chronicles 2. chapter 3:4, "and the height of the Temple was 120 cubits" (180'-0" - 54.86 meter), and in chapter 3:13, "the 2-pillars of 35 cubits high" (52'-6" - 16.00 meter).

#7...Ark of the Covenant:

The Hebrew Ark of the Covenant was an adaptation of the Egyptian Ark and bears a close resem- blance to the sacred Ark of the Egyptians, even to the kneeling figures upon its lid. The relief on the Temple of Philae shows Egyptian priests carrying their Ark upon their shoulders. The Tabernacle of the Hebrews was merely a temple patterned after the Temples of Egypt, and transportable to meet the needs of that roving disposition for which the Hebrews were famous. Every ancient race had its Ark. The Ark represents the Holy of Holies and it was one of the most im- portant symbols in the religious ceremonies of the ancients. The Covenants were not rare in the Near Eastern religions. Similar to Abraham's covenant the Hittite king Hattusilis III made such a cove- nant with Ishtar.

#8...Founders of Jerusalem:

Manetho the Egyptian priest says in his Sacred Books: "The nation called Hyksos (Shepherds) were Pâli shepherds of the Indus Valley, who emigrated from India and conquered Egypt. After 200 years of ruling they were driven out of Egypt. They journeyed through the wilderness and built a city in Judea, which they called Solyma" (Jerusalem). The founders of Solyma called their city of Scythian's holy Sólyom -gyrfalcon or the Solyma(sz)- falconer. Manetho called them Royal Shepherds. He also called them Royal Scythians and Phoenices. Marcus Julianus Justinus the Roman historian (3rd century AD.) states in his book (Historiae Philippiace et totius mundi origines et terrae situs) that the Phoenicians were Shepherds (Hyksos), who came from the east and settled down first near the north side of the Assyrian Lake, which is the Persian Gulf. Later migrated north west from this land and built a city on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, which they called Túr. In 332 BC. Alexander the Great conquered this city and changed it's name to Tyre.

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The Destruction of Baalbek (the Temple to Jupiter was "Solomon's Temple" which the Satanic Jew Rabbis seek to rebuild.) :

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The Baalbek trilithon is a set of three massive stone blocks which are part of the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter Baal ("Heliopolitan Zeus") in Baalbek. They are so large that people cannot imagine how they were cut and transported to the site. As impressive as these three stone blocks are, though, there is a fourth block still in the quarry which is three feet longer than the blocks in the trilithon and which is estimated to weigh 1,200 tons. Locals have named it Hajar el Gouble (Stone of the South) and Hajar el Hibla (Stone of the Pregnant Woman), with the latter apparently being the most popular.

In the two photos above you can see just how large it is - if you look closely, each image has one or two people on the stone to provide reference. The stone is at an angle because it was never cut away. Although we can see that it was cut to be made part of the Baalbek site, it remains attached at its base to the underlying bedrock, not unlike a plant which still has roots in the earth. No one knows how such a massive stone block was cut so precisely or how it was supposed to be moved.

As with the trilithon, it's common to find people claiming that since we don't currently know how the ancient engineers accomplished this or how they planned on moving this massive block to the temple site, that therefore they must have employed mystical, supernatural, or even extraterrestrial means. This is just nonsense, however.Presumably the engineers had a plan, otherwise they would have cut a smaller block, and an inability to answer the questions right now simply means that there are things we don't know.

Baalbek Temple of Bacchus: Exterior of the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, Lebanon

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Freemason's Hall -- Jerusalem


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David Livingstone - 02/02 - Kabbalah, Mystery Religions, World Conspiracy -- JoBloSho  
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The Truth Behind the "Star of David"
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

Posted May, 1999

A Paper by Bro. Raymond L. Schwartz, Harmony Lodge No. 8, Newton, New Jersey, U. S. A.

Winner of the 1989 Phoenix Prize Competition

Masonic scholars such as Alex Horne and Harry Carr, in previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between the ancient Hebrew religion and its attendant symbols and certain aspects of Freemasonry.

A major motif in Freemasonry is the building of King Solomon's Temple, the search for light, and the lost word of a Master Mason. The temple and the ability of the high priest to pronounce the name of God properly while in the Holy of Holies comprised much of the substantive nature of the Jewish High Holy days of worship in ancient times. The activities of the high priest within the Sanctum Sanctorum is particularly featured in the Royal Arch Degree.

Nathan Ausubel, in his work, The Book of Jewish Knowledge, and Samuel M. Jackson in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge describe the Holy of Holies as being built on a raised Platform within the interior of the temple. This sanctorum was separated by an enormous veil. The veils are a prominent component in the work of the Royal Arch. Ausubel tells that there were two cherubim carved out of cedar wood. The wings of the cherubim met in the center of the Holy of Holies in a protective arch which represented the hands of the high priest when a benediction over the people was given (Ausubel, 1964). Underneath these wings was the Ark of the Covenant, which contained tne stone tablets of Moses and the Shechina, or divine radiance of God's presence.

Ausubel and Jackson portray two pillars of Bronze, which were located at the entrance of the interior of the temple. According to Jackson, these pillars were 18 cubits high, 12 inches in circumference, and 4 fingers thick. These pillars were covered with chequered work (Jackson, 1969).

Ausubel suggests that these pillars were named Jachin and Boaz. Furthermore, the pillars were crowned by 10 feet capitals and were embellished with the design of carved lilies. The author also suggests that the pillars were hollow inside. Ausubel compares them to the pillars the Greek historian, Herodotus mentioned as standing in front of a Phoenician temple.

The authors describe the various ritual vessels and ceremonial objects contained in the temple, which would not be unfamiliar to freemasons today. The authors recount the story of how the vessels and ceremonial objects were stolen by King Nebuchadanezzar of Babylonia in 586 BC and how the temple situated on Mount Moriah was destroyed.

Ausubel and Jackson tell that the leading artist-sculptor was Hiram of Tyre. Hiram was also a master weaver and dyer of colors. He played a leading role in the building of King Solomon's Temple and can still be found to play a prominent role in masonic ritual today.

There is no doubt that there is a confluence between Freemasonry and the ancient Hebrew religion. This present study seeks to establish that there is a parallel between certain themes from the Kabbalah and Freemasonry. This thesis will be developed by examining the works of authors devoted to the Kabbalah and comparing them with the degrees and lectures of Freemasonry.

Gershom G. Scholem in his book, On the Kabbalab and its Symbolism, asserts that "Kabbalistic speculation and doctrine is concerned with the realm of the divine emanations or Sefiroth, in which God's creative power unfolds" (Scholem, 1965).

Scholem contends that the Kabbalist speaks about spheres of light and divine names, and that God's name is the highest concentration of divine power. This concern with God's name and the function of light correlates with the activities of the high priest in the ancient temple and with some of the substance of the masonic degrees and lectures.

Charles Ponce in his book, Kabbalah, asserts that the Sefiroth and En-Sof are two major concepts in the Kabbalah. The En-Sof can be translated to read "without end." This term is the name of God in the Kabbalah. Both Ponce and Scholem contend that the En-Sof and its emanations, the Sefiroth, are inseparable. Ponce describes the Sefiroth as being ten points of light which develops from the En-Sof. This light makes the world comprendable to man. The concept of light and its effect on the work of Freemasonry is a critical component of all masonic degrees.

Ponce examines the beliefs of some Kaobalists who maintain that the light emanating from the En-Sof was not reflected in the Sefiroth but in the body of Adam Kadmon. Adam Kadmon represents the body of heavenly or primordial man. The Sefiroth are then portions or parts of the heavenly man's body. The Kabbalists believe that the spiritual portions of any man can contain the Sefiroth. The challenge is for man to restore and establish the Sefiroth in his spiritual life. Consequently, mortal man can be united with divine man.

At the heart of Freemasonry and its masonic precepts is the encouragement and inculcation of values whech can "Make good men better." Faith, hope and charity and values such as fortitude, prudence, temperance and justice are the cornerstones of masonic conduct and comprise many of the fundamental precepts of Freemasonry (see attached illustration at the end of this file from Gershom G. Scholem's book, On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism. Wisdom, strength, and beauty are the foundations of the masonic lodge, and in fact, beauty, with which the freemason is taught to adorn all important undertakings, is at the very center of the Sefiroth. Furthermore, the Sefiroth of strength is found on the left-hand side of all the Sefiroths, which corresponds to the placement of one of the pillars in the masonic lodge.

According to Ponce, there are three pillars in the Sefiroth. The pillar on the right is the pillar of mercy, which can be masonically related to the value of charity. The pillar on the left side is the pillar of judgement, which can be related masonically to the concept of establishment. The middle pillar provides a balance between the left and right pillars. The middle pillar also represents the Creator of the universe. The fellowcraft freemason stands between these two pillars and is at the center. Symbolically, the fellowcraft freemason dramatizes President Kennedy's statement that "God's work here on earth must surely be done by man."

Ponce recounts that the earliest forms of Kabbaiistic literature dealt with the mystery of the Merkabah. The Merkabah was the throne chariot of God. One could reach the Merkabah by passing through a series of heavenly halls. Those who sought to reach the Merkabah had to possess secret words to gain admission into each heavenly hall. The freemason is required to know certain words which facilitate his entrance into the lodge. Moreover, certain words denote which degree is being conducted by the lodge.

The Kabbaiists believe that the transmission of the name of God from master to pupil is part of the rites of initiation. The newly-raised brother also receives a word in a certain manner, which is never used in normal conversation. Masonically, the ability of a freemason to recite the word and reproduce it as it was given to him are the identifying characteristics of a Master Mason.

The Kabbalists study Sefer Yetshirah, or the Book of Creation. Again, the information in this book could only be communicated by the master to his disciple by word of mouth, study may explain the origin of the masonic practice of the "Mouth to ear" instruction.

All of the masonic oaths or obligaitons impose a requirement that the freemason should hold the work of Freemasonry to be inviolate. Furthermore, the act of creation of the world is particularly pronounced in the first degree of Freemasonry.

The Kabbalists believe that air, water, and fire were used to create the world. The Hebrew letter, Mem, belongs to the class of Mutes, according to Ponce. These letters do not have any sound in their production. The letter, Mem, is associated with water, and since the fish is the chief occupant of water, it is silent as well. The newly-raised freemason is instructed about a particular word which is whispered to another brother. This "muted" word begins with the letter, "M" which corresponds with the letter, Mem. The Kabbalists also believe that the earth was created from water, which is related to the dirt of Hiram's burial site. Therefore, the word used in raising a Freemason has the characteristic of being earthlike. Other letters in the Hebrew alphabet represent the five human senses, which are emphasized in the fellowcraft degree.

The Hebrew alphabet has 32 letters, which also serve as numbers. Some Kabbalists manipulate words and numbers for explaining much about the universe and the works of God. The number 32 denotes the number of degrees in the Scottish Rite. The Hebrew letters Yod, Heh, and Vav are an important symbol in the Royal Arch degree. Hebraically, these letters form the name of God and this is also a magnificent centerpiece of the Royal Arch degree. There is no question that the Kabbalistic En-Sof and the masonic manipulation of these letters are conceptually related.

The Kabbalists argue that there are 32 paths of widsom, which lead to knowledge about God. It is interesting to note that the Babylonia version of the Talmud has 32 tractates. Again, the number 32 is a significant feature in both the Kabbalah and Freemasonry.

Charles Ponce describes a magic circle that King Solomon created so as to protect himself from evil svirits. Within this circle one finds the Greek letter, Tau, which has been masonically represented as a combination the words "Temple, Hirosalmis" (Templum Hierosolymae or Temple of Jerusalem). Furthermore, the points of the compass in the circle correspond directly with the officers' places in the masonic lodge.

The Kabbalists contend that the soul is comprised of three levels. The Nefresh deals with all of the instincts and bodily desires. The Ruah concerns itself with morality and ethical conduct. The Neshama is the highest level of the soul and is related to the divine spirit of man. These gradations of the soul can be compared to the first three degress of Freemasonry.

The first degree relates to youth and so the Nefresh or bodily desires are paramount. The second degree in Freemasonry is identified as a freemason coming to full maturity, so that ethical conduct and control over one's desires is accentuated. The third degree represents old age and the fullness of maturity, which is also represented by the highest level of the soul, the Neshama, or in the case of Freemasonry, the Master Mason. Death awaits the Master Mason, but his soul is raised to divine heights. The Kabbalists warn us that reaching the level of the Neshama was only awarded to some and not guaranteed to all. Therefore, as is true with the third degree in Freemasonry, the level of Master Mason is only reached when a man proves himself worthy of that esteemed title.

In conclusion, this study has contended that there is a relationship between certain themes of the Kabbalah with the lectures and degrees of Freemasonry. This should come as no surprise. Freemasons are taught both the universality of God and of brotherly love. Therefore, any religious belief or practice can be found within the parameters of Freemasonry. The imagination of man allows him to approach the unknowable and create structures and practices that assist him in gaining faith in the Glorious Supreme Architect of the Universe.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

AUSUBEL, Nathan, The Book of Jewish Knowledge, Crown Publishers, New York, 1964.

JACKSON, Samuel M., Edit., The New Scbaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1969

PONCE, Charles, Kabbalah, Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco, California, 1973.

SCHOLEM, Gershom G. On the Kabbalab and it's Symbolism, translated by Ralph Manheim, Schaken Books, New York, 1965.

http://www.2be1ask1.com/library/kabbalah.html

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Hexagram


Usage in occultism

The hexagram, like the pentagram, was and is used in practices of the occult and is attributed to the 7 'old' planets outlined in astrology.

The six-pointed star is commonly used both as a talisman and for conjuring spirits in the practice of witchcraft. In the Book The History and Practice of Magic, Vol. 2, the six-pointed star is called the talisman of Saturn and it is also referred to as the Seal of Solomon.[3] Details are given in this book on how to make these symbols and the materials to use.

Dr. John Dee, the court astrologist of Queen Elizabeth I, in his book Hieroglyphic Monad, includes the following quote:

    "'Mahatma Letters,' page 345: 'The double triangle viewed by the Jewish Kabbalists as Solomon's Seal is...the Sri--Antana of the Archaic Aryan Temple, the Mystery of Mysteries, a geometrical synthesis of the whole occult doctrine. The two interlaced triangles are the Buddham-Gums of Creation. They contain the 'squaring of the Circle,' the 'Philosophers' Stone,' the great problems of Life and Death--the mystery of Evil. The Chela who can explain this sign from every one of its aspects is virtually an Adept.'"[4]

Traditionally, the Hexagram can be seen as the combination of the 4 elements. The triangle with the point upwards symbolises Fire, and with a horizontal line across its center symbolises Air. The triangle with the point downwards symbolises Water, and with a horizontal line across its center symbolises Earth. The two combined create the Hexagram, and hence a combination of the elements.[5]

Usage in Freemasonry

    "The interlacing triangles or deltas symbolize the union of the two principles or forces, the active and passive, male and female, pervading the universe... The two triangles, one white and the other black, interlacing, typify the mingling of apparent opposites in nature, darkness and light, error and truth, ignorance and wisdom, evil and good, throughout human life." —Albert G. Mackey: Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

The hexagram, one of the world's most ancient symbols, is featured within and on the outside of many Masonic temples as a decoration. It may have been found within the structures of King Solomon's temple, from which Freemasons are inspired in their philosophies and studies. Like many other symbols in Freemasonry, the deciphering of the hexagram is non-dogmatic and left to the interpretation of the individual.









The Kabbalah and Freemasonry


History of the Kabbalah

After the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem (70 CE), many Jews who relocated to Egypt were influenced by the Alexandrian Pythagoreans. Jewish leaders and intellectuals such as Artapanos, Philon the Alexandrian, the historian Josephus Flavius, the Hasmoneans, Johanan Hurcanus, Alexander Jannean, Hanoch, Hillel, Johanan ben-Zakkai, and others were central figures of this spiritual-scientific development. The esoteric Jewish theosophy, or religious mystic philosophy, developed from about this time. In the absence of a central spiritual leadership, under foreign and hostile rule, some regional Jewish schools developed into sects such as the Essenes, Nazarenes, Pharisees, and Sadducees.

The Jewish Kabbalah reached its peak during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, arguably responsible for the development of both science and mysticism in Europe. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the greatest contributions to science were made by Jewish scholars, especially in Spain. Names known from religious sources as "Rabbis" and "Kabbalists", are known in history books of mathematics and science as outstanding inventors and developers. 5
A distinctly Christian Cabala may be said to have started with the work of Ramon Lull (1232-1317) during a period of religious tolerance in Spain. Starting in the late fifteenth century CE, a movement arose among some Jewish converts to Christianity in Spain to ascribe a distinctly Christian context to the hidden meanings of Kabbalistic doctrines. This movement gained momentum from speculation among Florentine Platonists that the Kabbalah contained a lost revelation that explains the secrets of the Catholic faith. This cross-pollination led to the emergence of a distinctly Christian Cabala founded by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494). Pico saw in the Cabala a link to the Greek philosophers as well as a proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Pico's writings, and subsequently those of John Reuchlin (1455-1522), created an interest that spread throughout the intellectual European community.

In the sixteenth century, the appearance of Kabbalistic texts in Latin translation enhanced attempts to draw further parallels between esoteric Jewish doctrines and Christianity. Guillaume Postel translated and published the Zohar and Sefer Yetzirah into Latin even before they were published in Hebrew. Latin texts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were influential in standardizing "Cabala" as the spelling commonly associated with the Christian perspective on Kabbalistic teachings.
In the seventeenth century, the centre of Christian Cabala study moved to England and Germany, where its status was boosted by the theosophical writings of Jacob Boehme and the compendium of Christian Knorr von Rosenroth. Von Rosenroth and Athanasius Kirchner extrapolated the Cabalistic allusion of Adam Kadmon to be a reference to Jesus as the primordial man in Christian theology. In the final phase in the development of the Christian Cabala in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became permeated with alchemical symbolism and conjoined with the emerging doctrines of theosophy and rosicrucianism.
Those who believe Freemasonry's roots are found in rosicrucian and hermetic teachings will therefore see the influence of the Kabbalah in its development.

Claims and accusations

Those who claim Kabbalistic roots for Freemasonry are of two, widely different, perspectives. The first group are generally religious fundamentalists who, a priori, condemn Freemasonry, Judaism, and the Kabbalah as being anti-Christian and often equate the whole with satanism.
They will also make such accusations as "Freemasonry and the New World Order are Nazism revived." 6; "...that one key ritual in freemasonry involves drinking from human skulls...." 7; and "Freemasonry is the instrument created to carry out this return to paganism." 8

They will also quote, out of context, from Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma: "all the Masonic associations owe to it their Secrets and their Symbols." 9 and claim that Freemasonry is divided into two branches. "There is the branch of the Scottish Rite and the branch of the Shriners. Scottish Freemasonry is the Christian branch while the Shriners are actually the Islamic branch." The Prophecy Institute in Keene Texas will, for a "donation" of $26, "inform you of what is the Cabala, and how it influences Today's governments." To anyone who has made an objective study of either Freemasonry or the Kabbalah, these accusations and claims are patently ridiculous.
The second group is composed of freemasons and kabbalists who promote the theory of Freemasonry's link to the Kabbalah. They are entitled to their opinions, but it must be stressed that they do not speak for Freemasonry. They are only expressing their opinions. They view the study of both as enhancing their relationship with God and have come to some personal conclusions about what they perceive as similarities. Whatever intellectual or spiritual similarities there may be between Freemasonry and the Kabbalah, any historical links are strictly conjectural and unsupported.

1. The Practical Kabbalah guidebook, C. J. M. Hopking. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2001. pb. ISBN: 0-8069-3121-3.
2. Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, vol. i. p. 166.
3. <workofthechariot.com/Back-HermeticQabalah.htm>
4. <workofthechariot.com/Back-JewishKabbalah.htm>
5. Dr. Daniel Farhey, Jacob Caspi Lodge, Haifa, Israel <web.mit.edu/dryfoo/Masonry/Essays/pythagoras.html>
6. Cutting Edge Ministry <cuttingedge.com>
7. <speciesofangel.serverpro2.com/featured/page1cx.htm>
8. Gerald Rose, Schiller Institute Conference, September, 1993. Noted in The American Almanac, The New Federalist.
9. Morals and Dogma, Albert Pike. p. 744.

References:
Understanding the Kabbalah, Edward Albertson.
The Holy Kabbalah, A.E. Waite.
A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, Gareth Knight.
also see The Kabbalah Society <www.kabbalahsociety.org>.
The Inner Dimension <www.inner.org/channel/basics.htm>.
   
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/kabbalah.html

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The Temple in Jerusalem over the threshing floor which is presently under the Al Kas fountain.

(Some interesting points below but taken from a "Christian True J-Tribe Believer" (CTJTB)   )

Introduction:

    Solomon built the temple on the threshing floor David bought. The Dome of the rock is the highest point of the temple mount. Threshing floors were never built on hills, but in curved valleys, like directly under the Al Kas Fountain. Under the dome of the Rock, was where the Fortress of Antonia stood. In 135 AD, Hadrian filled in about 50 feet of earth over top of where the temple stood and enlarged the temple mount and built a temple of Jupiter where we see the Dome of the rock today. In 325 AD Constantine tore down the Temple of Jupiter and assumed Hadrian built the temple of Jupiter on top of the spot where the temple of Solomon once stood. Constantine built an octagon church on the site. In 700 AD the Muslims found the foundations of Constantine's octagon church and built the dome of the Rock we see today.
    "On the Temple Mount he (Hadrian) erected a temple to Jupiter with an equestrian statue of himself in front of it." (The temple of Jerusalem, Joan Comay, 1975, p199)
    Where was the threshing floor on the temple mount?
    Tuvia Sagiv's theory focuses on Hadrian building a Temple of Jupiter on the temple mount in 135 AD. Hadrian had built many large scale projects including the Jupiter on the Temple in Baalbek, Lebanon, that is still standing to this day. Sagiv, being an architect by trade, noticed that both the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek and the Islamic buildings we see on the temple mount today, were almost an exact match in both design and scale. The similarity between a hexagon shaped Jupiter "Forecourt" with the Dome of the Rock and the Jupiter Temple with the Al-Aqsa mosque is nothing short of stunning.

Detailed high resolution photos of the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon.

: Temple of Venus

2: Temple of Muses

3: Propylaea (entrance)

4: Hexagonal Court (North)

5: Hexagonal Court (South)

6: Hexagonal Court (West)

7: Altars and Statues

8: Large Court (North)

9: Large Court (South)

10: Exedra (side rooms)

11: Basins

12: Temple of Jupiter entrance

13: Temple of Jupiter columns

14: Temple of Bacchus

15: Temple of Bacchus entrance

16: Temple of Bacchus: Interior

17: Remnants of Arab Construction



Temple of Jupiter photo gallery[/b

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A. The sequence from Herod's Temple, to Temple of Jupiter, to Dome of the Rock:

    From 2 Macc 6, we learn that in 167 BC, Antiochus IV Epiphanes attacked Jerusalem setting up a temple to Jupiter and offering pig sacrifices. He ordered the Jews to worship idols and stop keeping the Sabbath and practicing circumcision. A major theme in 2 Macc is that the Jews triumph over Antiochus in the end and regain control of the temple again.

    After Titus destroyed the Temple in 70 AD, Hadrian became Caesar in 117 - 138 AD. Hadrian, revisits the actions of he predecessor Antiochus IV Epiphanes and sets up a Temple of Jupiter on the Temple mount, ordering circumcision to cease and expelling the Jews from Jerusalem altogether. He not only made himself the object of worship in this temple, but made Jerusalem the capital city of the Roman world for the worship of Jupiter. He also built an temple to Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon that is still standing today. Just as Hitler deceived British Prime Minister Chamberlain in 1938 AD that there would be "peace in our time", so too Hadrian deceived the Jews to believe that he was peacefully rebuilding the Jewish Temple, when in fact he was constructing the world headquarters "Temple of Jupiter". As construction began, the Jews probably even helped in thankfulness and praise to Hadrian. But when the Jews finally learned of Hadrian's true intent, as did England learn of Hitler's, they rebelled and a huge war broke out in 132 AD where 85 major Jewish towns were destroyed and 580,000 Jewish men were killed. The false promises of peace of Hadrian and Hitler both resulted in major holocausts against the Jews. Israel came to the promised land with about 600,000 men and they were finally expelled from the land by having about 600,000 men killed by Hadrian. The Temple of Jupiter was completed on the temple mount in 135 AD and was the most important (Jupiter Capitolinus) "Temple to Jupiter" in the world. While the Jews of Hadrian's time may have been looking for the story of 2 Maccabees conclude with a similar victory for the Jews, Hadrian was likely reminded of the same 2 Macc. text to make sure the ending was different.



    Hadrian killing a Jew in 135 AD

    The Temple of Jupiter had two buildings: The rectangular shaped "Temple" and the hexagon shaped "forecourt" at the other end of a large open area lined with large marble pillars. Hadrian built more than one Temple of Jupiter. Here is the floor plan of the Temple of Jupiter that you can visit today in Baalbek, Lebanon. Hadrian would have followed this same basic pattern when he built the Temple of Jupiter on the Jerusalem temple mount.



    Dan 9:27; 11:31; Matt 24:15; Luke 21:20 are specific prophecies that the "abomination of desolation that will make sacrifice cease" in the Jewish temple which was fully fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. But there were two other shadow or anti-typical fulfillments of these same prophecies. One was in 167 BC with Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the other was in 117 AD with the rise of Hadrian to power. Whereas Antiochus merely offered sacrifices to Jupiter in the Jewish Temple, Hadrian built the largest temples of Jupiter in the world in place of the Jewish temple. We know that Hadrian wanted to make himself the object of worship in his Temple to Jupiter in Jerusalem and he set up a statue of himself riding a horse on the Temple mount at the El-Kas fountain. Tuvia Sagiv believes that Hadrian, in the ultimate act of arrogance and insult to the Jews, placed this horse statue in the precise location of where the Holy of Holies stood from the Jewish temple. Jesus words in Matthew 24:15 echo, "Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand)."


    The Temple of Jupiter stood from 135 AD, until the time of Hadrian's later successor Constantine in 325 AD. Constantine "did right in the sight of God" and was as anti-pagan as any of the most righteous Jewish Kings of the Old Testament. He utterly destroyed Hadrian's Temple of Jupiter on the temple mount. The temple of Jupiter on the temple mount, lay in ruins for almost 350 years until the Muslims arrived, except for a unsuccessful attempt by the Jews to rebuilt the temple around 400 AD.

    Eusebius 325 AD: When Constantine came upon the temple mount in Jerusalem, he destroyed the temple of Jupiter that had been built in 135 AD by Hadrian. In building the "Church of the Holy Sepulchre" in 325 AD, Eusebius records how Constantine even removed the soil on the site and dumped it far away. Hadrian had built a temple to Venus on the site and Constantine destroyed and removed every trace of this pagan idolatry. It seems unlikely that Constantine would remove even the soil from the site of the "Church of the Holy Sepulchre" where Hadrian had built a temple to Venus, but leave Hadrian's statues on the temple mount. Yet in 400 AD, Jerome says that the statue of Hadrian riding a horse was still standing on the very place of the Jewish Temple. Eusebius wrote in 325 AD: "How Constantine Commanded the Materials of the Idol Temple, and the Soil Itself, to Be Removed at a Distance: Nor did the emperor's zeal stop here; but he gave further orders that the materials of what was thus destroyed, both stone and timber, should be removed and thrown as far from the spot as possible; and this command also was speedily executed. The emperor, however, was not satisfied with having proceeded thus far: once more, fired with holy ardor, he directed that the ground itself should be dug up to a considerable depth, and the soil which had been polluted by the foul impurities of demon worship transported to a far distant place." (Eusebius , The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, book 3, ch 27)
    In 325, Constantine built at least three octagonal churches. The church of Nativity in Bethlehem. The location of "Mary's rock" near Bethlehem and the other on the temple mount where the octagonal Dome of the Rock presently is. There are other octagonal churches Constantine build. Eusebius indicated that the original floor plan of the church of the Holy Sepulchre had an octagon. The similarities between the Dome of the Rock and the "Church of Mary's Rock" are astounding. They are the same basic size. Both are octagonal (8 sided) and both were built over rocks!
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    In 333 AD, the "Bordeaux Pilgrim" mentions he saw two statues of Hadrian near the temple mount and that there was a building over the place of the Jewish Temple. But he also mentions the church which Constantine built over the cave where Jesus was buried. It seems strange that Constantine would have already competed the "Church of the Holy Sepulcher", but had not yet torn down the temple of Jupiter over the "rock" or removed Hadrian's statues. Even if we suggest that Constantine immediately destroyed Hadrian's temple of Jupiter and erected another building over the "rock" it seems unlikely that he would leave Hadrian's statues in place. Perhaps Constantine destroyed the Temple of Jupiter, built a small structure over what he thought was the location of the temple over the "rock" and allowed the statues of Hadrian to remain out of respect of a fellow, "past Caesar". Perhaps Constantine wanted to keep the statues of Hadrian on the site as a reminder to the Jews that God was unhappy with them for crucifying His Son Jesus. Here is the text of the Bordeaux Pilgrim from 333 AD, "Here is also the corner of an exceeding high tower, where our Lord ascended and the tempter said to Him, 'If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence.' . And the Lord answered, 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, but him only shalt thou serve.' (Matt 4:1-11). There is a great corner-stone, of which it was said, 'The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner.' (Matt 21:42; Ps 118:22). Under the pinnacle of the tower are many rooms, and here was Solomon's palace. There also is the chamber in which he sat and wrote the (Book of) Wisdom; this chamber is covered with a single stone. There are also large subterranean reservoirs for water and pools constructed with great labour. And in the building itself, where stood the temple which Solomon built, they say that the blood of Zacharias (Matt 23:35) which was shed upon the stone pavement before the altar remains to this day. There are also to be seen the marks of the nails in the shoes of the soldiers who slew him, throughout the whole enclosure, so plain that you would think they were impressed upon wax. There are two statues of Hadrian, and not far from the statues there is a perforated stone, to which the Jews come every year and anoint it, bewail themselves with groans, rend their garments, and so depart. ... About a stone's throw from thence is a vault wherein His body was laid, and rose again on the third day. There, at present, by the command of the Emperor Constantine, has been built a basilica, that is to say, a church of wondrous beauty, having at the side reservoirs from which water is raised, and a bath behind in which infants are washed." (The Bordeaux Pilgrim, 333 AD)



    In 361 AD, Julian the Apostate tried to reverse Constantine's anti-pagan, pro-Christian influence and he gave permission to the Jews to come and rebuild the Jewish temple on the temple mount. The Jews dug up the foundations of and excavated the temple mount. In May 363 AD an earthquake that caused an explosion of underground gases on the temple mount, ended the Jewish efforts to rebuild the temple.

    In 400 AD, Jerome's commentary on Matthew mentions an equestrian statue of the Emperor Hadrian was still standing directly over the site of the Holy of the Holies. Perhaps Constantine wanted to keep the statues of Hadrian on the site as a reminder to the Jews that God was unhappy with them for crucifying His Son Jesus. On the other hand, the Jews would surely remove the statue in 361 AD, when they tried to rebuild the temple. Yet if all this knowledge was available to Jerome in 400 AD, after such a statue had been removed, it would have been known to Constantine, who destroyed the Temple of Jupiter 75 years earlier. It appears that Constantine was under the impression that the Jewish temple was located over the "rock". Perhaps someone brought back the statue from where the Jews removed it after 363 AD, as a message to the Jews their temple would never be rebuilt and that they should believe in Jesus. In spite of these conflicting problems in the history that we have, if we use the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek as a model, this would place the Holy of the Holies at the El Kas foundation, for that is where Hadrian would likely place his statue of himself riding a horse. Jerome wrote in 400 AD, "So when you see the standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation... or to the statue of the mounted Hadrian, which stands to this very day on the site of the Holy of Holies." (Jerome, Commentary on Matthew 24.15, 400 AD)

    In 400 AD, Jerome's letter to Paulinus stated that Hadrian had marked all the "holy sites" with idols. These included Venus at the birth cave in Bethlehem, Venus at Golgotha, and Jupiter at the site of the tomb. It would seem very consistent that Hadrian would indeed put a statue of himself over the very spot of the Holy of Holies. Jerome wrote in 400 AD: "From the time of Hadrian to the reign of Constantine—a period of about one hundred and eighty years [Hadrian died in 138 A.D.; Constantine became Emperor in 306 A.D.] -the spot which had witnessed the resurrection was occupied by a figure of Jupiter; while on the rock where the cross had stood, a marble statue of Venus was set up by the heathen and became an object of worship. The original persecutors, indeed, supposed that by polluting our holy places they would deprive us of our faith in the passion and in the resurrection. Even my own Bethlehem, as it now is, that most venerable spot in the whole world of which the psalmist sings: "the truth hath sprung out of the earth," was overshadowed by a grove of Tammuz, that is of Adonis; and in the very cave where the infant Christ had uttered His earliest cry lamentation was made for the paramour of Venus." (Jerome, Letter 58. To Paulinus, 3, 400 AD)

    In 1884 AD, Charles Warren, claimed to have not only seen one of Hadrian's statues of Jupiter but even read the inscription at the base of the statue. Here are Charles Warren actual field notes from 1884 AD: "Hadrian erected a statue of Jupiter (still in position when seen by the Bordeaux Pilgrim) on the site of the Temple (Jerome, Comm. on Isaiah ii. 8 and on Matt. xxiv. 15), and the inscription which was cut on its base is still recognizable on a large stone built upside down into the south wall of the Haram near the Double Gate. According to Eusebius (Vita Const. iii. 26) and Jerome (Epit. xlix.), Hadrian also built a Temple of Venus on the site of the present Church of the Holy Sepulchre; but of this no remains have been recognised. A coin of Antoninus Pius represents such a temple as existing in Jerusalem. Among the other public buildings of this period were two markets, a theatre, a mint, a tricameron, a tetranymphon, and a dodekapylon ('Paschal Chronicle'), but none of these have been recognised. It is, however, supposed on architectural grounds that the so-called Ecce Homo arch was a triumphal entry (similar to that at Jerash, beyond jordan) erected by Hadrian, or by one of his immediate successors, in the second century A.D. The attempt of the Emperor Julian to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple in the fourth century failed entirely; in 333 A.D. the enclosure was found still in ruins by the Bordeaux Pilgrim. According to Eusebius, it would appear that a church already existed on Olivet when Helena visited the city in 326 A.D. According to Epiphanius, seven synagogues were found by Hadrian on Sion, one of which still existed in the fourth century, according to the Bordeaux Pilgrim. Epiphanius also speaks of the Sion Church (the later Coenaculum) as existing in the time of Hadrian. A cemetery of tombs in the lady Rababeh belonging to this church will be found described in a later page under the name of that valley." (The Survey of Western Palestine, Charles Warren and Claude Reigner Conder, 1884)

    Below is the El-Kas fountain where Hadrians horse statue was most likely located:



    In 622 AD, the Muslims murdered their way into possession of the Temple mount as well as wiping out all churches from Alexandria to Antioch. The Muslim's looked at the remainders of foundations of the two buildings of the Temple of Jupiter on the temple mount and wrongly assumed the hexagon shaped "forecourt" was the Jewish Temple. In fact the more holy building in the Temple of Jupiter was the rectangular shaped "temple" building. The hexagon shaped "forecourt" was of less importance. They really had no idea where the Temple once stood, but built the Dome first, on what appeared to be the Temple. The Dome of the Rock is unique in all the Islamic world and they have built nothing else like it architecturally. However, we see almost an exact replica in Baalbak, Lebanon. Obviously, the Muslims dug up the foundation stones of Hadrian's Temple of Jupiter and used it as their blueprint for the Dome of the Rock thinking it was the Jewish temple. This of course doesn't say much for the religion of Islam, that teaches that the Dome of the Rock was built on the exact location of the Jewish Temple. Remember that Muhammad initially instructed his followers to pray towards the Jerusalem temple until he realized that the Jews would not convert to Islam, then he changed and directed all prayers to Mecca. So the Jewish Temple was important at the earliest stages of Islam.


    But the Dome of the Rock is more likely patterned after Constantine's octagonal church that he built on the temple site. Perhaps Constantine built this church on what he knew was the place where Jesus was condemned at the fortress of Antonia. The bedrock is very close to the surface here. When the Muslims came along in 685 AD, it may be the octagon of Constantine's church rather than the hexagon of Hadrian's temple of Jupiter, that the Muslims mistook for the original Jewish temple.
    In 685 AD, they began construction of the Dome of the Rock and wrongly assumed the foundation of Hadrian's "forecourt" in the temple of Jupiter was in fact the Jewish Temple. Then in 705 AD, the Muslims built the Al-Asqa mosque on the foundation of the actual "Temple" building in the Temple of Jupiter.

    This is the Hadian inscription from a statue that he placed in the Temple of Jupiter. Constantine destroyed the temple and dumped the rubble, along with these statues away from the temple mount area. Later, the Muslims found these dumped stones from the temple of Jupiter and reused them to build the dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa mosque. The Hadrian inscription stone was a replacement of a broken stone. It was set upside down just above and to the right of the Huldah gate (double gate) arch.



    Hadrian's inscription reads:
    TITO AEL HADRIANO
    ANTONINO AUG PIO
    P P PONTIF AUGUR
    D D
    Translation of Latin:
    To Titus Ael[ius] Hadrianus
    Antoninus Aug[ustus] Pius
    the f[ather] of the f[atherland], pontif[ex], augur.
    D[ecreed] by the D[ecurions]

    (letters in brackets fill out abbreviations)

    For a number of additional reasons to be discussed, we believe Tuvia Sagiv's placement of the Herodian temple, as seen below, is the most likely location on the temple mount. You can see the three structures in the picture below: Blue is Hadrian's temple of Jupiter. Black is the Muslim dome and Al Aqsa mosque which they patterned after the Temple of Jupiter. Red is the Herodian Temple that Jesus and the Apostles preached and taught in.




    Here is where Tuvia Sagiv places the Herodian Temple on the temple mount as we see it today:





Solomon's Quarry: The entrance to the cave is just north of the Damascus Gate along the city wall. From the entrance under the city wall to the deepest point is 230 meters. Its widest point is 100 meters and the highest point from floor to roof is 15 meters. Although the cave cuts an almost direct line to the NW corner of the temple mount which is 335 meters from the entrance of the cave, no part of the cave is directly under the temple mount area, but falls 105 meters short. In other words, the closest point of the cave is still 105 meters away from the NW corner of the temple mount. The underground spring is due east of the "Freemasons Hall" and is near the lowest point of the cave. Josephus Flavius, refers to it as the "Royal Caverns." In the 10th century, the Damascus Gate was called "the Gate of the Grotto." In the 15th century, the cave was a textile storage are and "the Cotton Grotto." In the 16 century, the turks sealed the cave until it was discovered by Dr. Barclay while walking with his son and dog. The dog started digging at the entrance of the cave while tracking a fox. There is nothing in the Bible that connect Zedekiah with any kind of cave. The story in Jeremiah 39:4; 2 Kings 25:4 is often suggested, but clearly not related.




 

B. Additional factors for placing Herod's temple in this location:

    Threshing floor
    There is a small (red on map below) rectangular carved depression in the Rock under the Dome that is off center, but directly in line with where an idol might be placed in the Temple of Jupiter. If the Dome was the former site of the Temple of Jupiter, you would expect Hadrian to place an idol in the hexagonal Jupiter building centered as you walk in, but near the rear of the room giving worshippers more space. You can draw a line through the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque and it exactly intersect this small rectangular carved shape in the Rock under the Dome.



 

C. Documentation from sources:

    2 Maccabees: "Not long after this the king [Antiochus IV Epiphanes] sent an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God: And to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius; and that in Garizim, of Jupiter the Defender of strangers, as they did desire that dwelt in the place. The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the people: For the temple was filled with riot and revelling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that brought in things that were not lawful. The altar also was filled with profane things, which the law forbiddeth. Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath days or ancient fasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew. And in the day of the king's birth every month they were brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the fast of Bacchus was kept, the Jews were compelled to go in procession to Bacchus, carrying ivy. Moreover there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of the heathen, by the suggestion of Ptolemee, against the Jews, that they should observe the same fashions, and be partakers of their sacrifices: And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the Gentiles should be put to death. Then might a man have seen the present misery. For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes handing at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall. And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep the sabbath day secretly, being discovered by Philip, were all burnt together, because they made a conscience to help themselves for the honour of the most sacred day. Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation." (2 Maccabees 6:1-12, 167 BC)

    Cassius Dio, a Roman Historian in 229 AD stated that Hadrian built the Temple of Jupiter on the temple mount: "At Jerusalem he [Hadrian] founded a city in place of the one which had been razed to the ground, naming it Aelia Capitolina, and on the site of the temple of the god he raised a new temple to Jupiter. This brought on a war of no slight importance nor of brief duration, 2 for the Jews deemed it intolerable that foreign races should be settled in their city and foreign religious rites planted there. ... After Hadrian's death there was erected to him a huge equestrian statue representing him with a four-horse chariot. (Roman History, Cassius Dio, Book 69:12, 229 AD, Translation by Earnest Cary p 425-467)

    Hadrian while in the East in 117 did visit the two great centers of Jewish disaffection, Palestine and Egypt. During his stay in Jerusalem he discussed with his associates the rebuilding of the city as a Roman colony, and caused the work to be taken in hand.' It is possible that he held conferences also with deputations from the Jewish leaders, and that the Jews were deceived regarding the real character of his intentions in beginning this work. Their delusion as to Hadrian's friendly disposition toward themselves, was furthered by his treatment of their old enemy, Trajan's famous general, the Moorish chieftain Lusius Quietus. The latter, it will be remembered, had repressed the Jewish rebellion in Mesopotamia with great severity and had been a stern governor of Judaea over which Trajan had appointed him Legatus in 117. He was a personal enemy of Hadrian, who soon after his accession removed him from his post, and later put him to death on the charge of conspiracy. But as time went on the Jews gradually became aware that Hadrian, so far from reviving the glories of the ancient capital, was in reality building in place of it a Roman camp-city, pagan in character, specifically dedicated to the worship of the emperor as the earthly manifestation of Jupiter Capitolinus. Their wrath eventually took the form of sporadic revolts to one of which the Rylands papyrus bears witness. It is possible that Hadrian during his absence in Rome and his journeys in the West allowed the work on the colony to languish, but renewed it with vigor during his journeys in the East, 128-32. Exasperated by Jewish revolts and by the persistent recalcitrancy of this stiff-necked people, he adopted further measures of repression against them. He excluded them altogether from the colony' and finally forbade them to practice the rite of circumcision. This was the last straw. The smoldering embers of rebellion burst into the great conflagration, the extinction of which taxed the resources of the empire, in other words, the war under Barc osiba. The Jewish war under Hadrian began then ca. 132 only in the sense that it became at that time so intense and formidable that it required the summoning to the seat of war of legionary troops other than those already stationed in Palestine and Syria, and demanded, as Hadrian concluded, the presence of the emperor himself. Whatever may be thought of this reconstruction, it will be admitted, I think, that the new evidence favors the view that the Jewish and Christian traditions deserve more respect than they have received of late, that the building of Aelia Capitolina began early in Hadrian's reign, and that consequently there was a long prelude to the final struggle that began in 131 or 132. That struggle was not, as it is currently presented, a sudden outbreak following an interval of peace. As early as 128 at least, a cloud had appeared to foretell the coming of the storm. (The Founding of Aelia Capitolina and the Chronology of the Jewish War under Hadrian, William D. Gray, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 39, No. 4., Jul., 1923, p 248-256.)

    The "Chronicon Paschale" written in 627 AD, calls one of the public buildings of Hadrian in Jerusalem "the square" (Chronicon Paschale .Ed .Du Cange in J.P. Migne, PG, vol. 92).

D. Some problems with Tuvia Sagiv's view:

    What additional actual evidence is there that Hardian built a temple of Jupiter on the Temple Site and that Constantine destroyed it, that Hadrian's statue of a horse was on the temple mount? Sagiv himself admits "that there are researchers who doubt if a temple to Jupiter was built at all on the Temple Mount." (Tuvia Sagiv, June 2006)
    The Dome of the Rock is an 8 sided octagon whereas the Temple of Jupiter is a six sided hexagon. It would give more support for Sagiv's theory if the Dome of the Rock was a Hexagon like the Temple of Jupiter. However, Sagiv still may be correct. When the Muslims murdered their way into possession of the site in the 7th century, it was in utter ruins. The Temple of Jupiter, being a pagan temple, had been destroyed by Constantine the Christian some three hundred years earlier. By digging up what was left of the foundations of the Temple of Jupiter, if anything, the Muslims may have indeed known it was a hexagon shape, but to "do one better" made the Dome of the Rock into an octagon shape. On the other hand, they may have wanted to imitate the original shape of what they mistakenly thought was the Jewish temple, but the foundation footprint of the Temple of Jupiter may have been so damaged that they knew the general shape, but could not tell if it was 6 or 8 sided.



    Octagon vs. a Hexagon .

    It makes sense to suggest that in 135 AD, Hadrian build the outer wall of the temple mount we see today, since Josephus and the Mishna both say the size was half the what see today. The idea that Hadrian built the wailing and south walls, for example, is not without problems. First, the Hebrew inscription, "To the place of trumpeting" found by B. Mazar in the 1960's at the base of the corner of the S.E. wall is proof that Herod built the wall. This section was the top edge of the parapet (low protective wall) on the trumpeters tower over the pinnacle of the temple. It was found by Mazar, exactly where we would expect to find it if the existing walls we see today were built by Herod. If these walls today were built by Hadrian in 135 AD, who doubled the size of the Temple mount area, the remains of the trumpeters parapet would be found further east, or well inside the current temple mount undiscovered. Josephus explains: "the last [tower] was erected above the top of the Pastophoria (special rooms for priests), where one of the priests stood of course, and gave a signal beforehand, with a trumpet, at the beginning of every seventh day, in the evening twilight, as also at the evening when the day was finished, as giving notice to the people when they were to leave off work, and when they were to go to work again. (Josephus, Wars 4.582)



    Another problem with the idea that Hadrian built the wailing and south walls, is the "Cave of the Patriarchs" in Hebron. It is almost universally accepted that Herod built the Cave of the Patriarchs and there is a close match in the size, style and quality of workmanship with the lowest section of the walls at the temple mount. Tuvia Sagiv rejects the idea that Herod build either the cave of Patriarchs or the temple mount walls. While he may be right that there are no historic references, like Josephus, who actually built the cave of Patriarchs, he needs to do put forward his proposed builder and date of building. We know it predates Hadrian, so if not Hadrian or Herod, then who built the Cave of the Patriarchs. This is important, what is his guess?




    The concept that the priests must use "living water" to cleanse the temple area is as foreign to the Bible as it is absurd. Lets assume this was really true. So God commands Solomon to build the temple in a place that has no natural springs of water, then tells Solomon that he must use spring water to wash the blood from the sacrifices of the temple. While this may be one of the many "laws of the Pharisees" that they invented, there is no scriptural evidence where God required "living water". Also, the water conduits feeding the temple were not built till hundreds of years after Solomon. How did the temple priests wash and cleanse the temple area with "living water"? The Gihon spring inside the city of David cannot lift water that high, so the nearest "living water" would be 30 miles south in Hebron. A considerable construction task. For those who think the solution is locating the temple right over the Gihon spring itself, we remind them that just as you would not locate your toilet in the middle of your kitchen table, so also no one in ancient times would locate a threshing floor directly beside the only source of fresh drinking water for a 5 mile radius.
    Another problem with the idea that the temple floor had to be lowered by 50 feet in order to have water flow freely from the conduit is overcome if you assume they used a closed siphon to raise it up higher to the current floor level. There are several long sections of siphons from the headwaters of Hebron. If they already employed siphons in the water system to get to water to Jerusalem from 30 miles away, why not use a siphon at the Temple mount?

Conclusion:

    A threshing floor would never have been built at the highest point of a hill where the Dome of the Rock presently sits.
    Titus tore down the temple in 70 AD. Jesus said not one stone would be left upon another.
    In 135 AD Hadrian enlarged the temple mount area and filled in dirt about 50 feet of dirt above the temple location and built a temple to Jupiter. The temple of Jupiter featured a 6 sided (hexagon) building.
    In 325 AD Constantine tore down Hadrian's temple of Jupiter and built a church on the site with a 8 sided (octagon) dome, just like we see he did today at the "Church of Mary's Rock" and the "Church of the Nativity" that still stand today.
    In 685 AD, when the Muslims started to build the Dome of the Rock, it may have been patterned after the octagon of Constantine's church rather than the hexagon of Hadrian's temple of Jupiter. Either way, the Muslims mistook the structure that was there for the original Jewish temple and built the Dome of the Rock.
    But the Dome of the Rock is more likely patterned after Constantine's octagonal church that he built on the temple site. Perhaps Constantine built this church on what he knew was the place where Jesus was condemned at the fortress of Antonia.
    The only place for a threshing floor is in the hollow of the hill, 50 below where the Al Kas fountain presently sits. Today, the temple mount level is 10-20 meters higher than is was in Jesus' day.

By Steve Rudd: Contact the author for comments, input or corrections.

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[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Pretty much shows the Jews were Child Sacrificers to a Pagan Altar from ancient times... I'm now not a believer in the Khazar theory... the Khazars were likely converted to Christianity over the centuries... Crimerian Jews are the only remaining Khazars and they are "Jews" and largely uneducated "expert Horsemen"... early on before the Mongolian "push" is a different story though. --CSR

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Beyond the Mountains of Darkness

This short discourse is not a part of the chronological problem discussed in the work of reconstruction of ancient history; it deals with historical geography—the whereabouts of the places of exile of the Ten Tribes of Israel.

The sentence (II Kings 17:6) which relates how the King of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away into Assyria and "placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes," caused much deliberation among the historians. The mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes produced also fantastic convictions such as the belief that the Britons are the descendants of the Lost Tribes who, after much wandering, reached Albion.

The sentence in II Kings 17:6 is repeated almost verbatim in 18:11. In I Chronicles 5:26, the exile of the Transjordan tribes—Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe Manasseh—to Halah, and Habor and Hara, and to the river Gozan is ascribed to "Pul king of Assyria" and to "Tilgath-pileser king of Assyria." Modern scholars consider Pul and Tiglath-pileser to be one and the same king, Pul having been his name in Babylonia.(1)

It is generally agreed that the location of Halah (in Hebrew with two letters kheth, transcribed as h in scholarly texts), or Khalakh, is not given to identification.(2) As to Gozan, the texts of II Kings 17:6 and 18:11 speak of Habor by the river Gozan; also I Chronicles 5:26 speaks of the river Gozan. In Isaiah 37:12 it can be understood as a region or a people of a region. The correct translation of the two passages in the Second Book of Kings is "to the confluence (habor)(3) of the river Gozan."

Biblical scholars who sought for the place of exile of, first, the two and a half tribes of Israel by Tiglath-Pileser and then of all the tribes of Israel by Sargon upon the fall of Samaria, decided that the river's name was Habor and Gozan was the region. They have therefore identified Gozan with Guzana, modern Tell Halaf in northeastern Syria. But this interpretation is a violation of the texts. Looking for a river Habor, they thought to identify it with the tributary of the river Euphrates mentioned in Ezekiel I:3 "the word of the Lord came . . . unto Ezekiel . . . in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar." However the spellings in Hebrew of Habor and Chebar are different, the river Khvor (Chebar) is not Habor, and the latter is not a river at all. Furthermore, the co-called river Chebar is actually an irrigation canal.(4)

In explaining why the misfortune of exile befell the population of the Northern Kingdom, the Book of Kings says that the Children of Israel "worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal," and "caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments," and therefore "the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only" (II Kings 17:17, 18).

"Removed them out of his sight" seems to signify that the people of Israel were removed far away, out of every contact with the remnant Judah, not even by a chance messenger.

When one hundred and thirty-eight years later, in the beginning of the sixth century, the people of Judah were also led into exile—by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—they did not find the exiled tribes of Israel in Babylonia, though they dwelt by the river Chebar (Khvor, i.e., Khabur), which flows in the central region of that country.

It appears that the places to which the Ten Tribes were removed by the Assyrian kings must have been far more remote than northeastern Syria.

Assyria, with its capital cities of Nimrud (Calah), Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad), and Nineveh—all on the Tigris—expanded greatly in the days of its warrior kings Tiglath-Pileser, Sargon, and Sennacherib. Repeatedly, the Assyrian kings led their troops across the Caucasus northward. Not satisfied with the passage along the coastal road of the Caspian Sea, they also explored the mountainous passes. Sargon, the conqueror of Samaria, wrote in his annals:

    I opened up mighty mountains, whose passes were difficult and countless, and I spied out their trails.

    Over inaccessible paths in steep and terrifying places I crossed . . .(5)

The descriptions of Tiglath-pileser and Sargon of their campaigns in the north lead us to recognize that they passed the mountains of the Caucasus and reached the steppes between the Don and the Volga. When the barrier of the mountains was overcome, they could proceed northward in a scarcely populated area barren of natural defenses, where they would have met less resistance than in the foothills of the mountains. It is unknown how far they may have let their armies of conquest march across the steppes, but probably they did not give the order to return homeward until the army brought its insignia to some really remote point: it could be as far as the place of the confluence of the Kama with the Volga, or even of the Oka, still farther north. The middle flow of the Volga would be the furthermost region of the Assyrian realm.

The roads to the Russian steppes along the Caspian and Black seas were much more readily passable than the narrow path along the river Terek and the Daryal Canyon that cut the Caucasus and wind at the foot of Mount Kazbek, over sixteen thousand feet high.

The fact that the "confluence of the river Gozan" is considered a sufficient designation suggests that it must have been a great stream.

A large river in the plain behind the crest of the Caucasus is the Don, and a still larger river—the largest in Europe—is the Volga. If the Assyrians did not make a halt on the plain that stretches immediately behind the Caucasus and moved along the great rivers without crossing them to conquer the great plain that lies open behind the narrow span where the rivers Don and Volga converge—then the most probable place of exile might be reckoned to be at the middle Volga. The distance from Dur Sharrukin to this region on the Russian (Scythian) plain is in fact much less than the distance from Nineveh to Thebes in Egypt, a path taken by Assurbanipal several decades later. Under Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal, Assyrian armies repeatedly invaded "Patursi and Kusi" —Upper Egypt and Ethiopia (Sudan). But Assyrian occupation of Scythia is not a mere conjecture: it is confirmed by archaeological evidence. "The earliest objects from Scythia that we can date," writes a student of the region's antiquities, "referred to the VIIth and VIth centuries B.C., are under overwhelming Assyrian influence. . ." (6)

The exiles who were removed from Samaria, a city of palaces and temples, no doubt, bewailed the capital they had heroically defended for three years against the army of what was, in its time, the world's most powerful nation. Accordingly they might have called their new settlement Samaria (in Hebrew Shemer or Shomron; Sumur in the el-Amarna letters).

On the middle flow of the Volga, a city with the name Samara exists and has existed since grey antiquity. It is situated a short distance downstream from the point where the Volga and the Kama join. Russian conquerors of the ninth century found this city in existence. The medieval Arab geographer Yakubi, basing himself on accounts of the ninth-century traveller Ibn Fadlan, speaks of the Khazars who dwelt in Samara.(7) This people dominated southern and eastern Russia possibly as early as the third,( but especially during the tenth and eleventh centuries. They passed the Caucasus mountains to participate in the wars of the Romans and the Persians, dominated the Ukraine as far as Kiev, concluded treaties with the emperors of Byzantium, and their influence and suzerainty sometimes reached as far west as Sofia.(9)

The ruling class of the Khazars used Hebrew as its language, and the Hebrew faith was the official religion in the realm of the Khazars. There was a system of great tolerance, unique in the Middle Ages, in respect to other religions; the Supreme Court was composed of two persons of Jewish faith, two Moslems, two Christians, and one idolater of the Russian population; but it was not a confusion of creeds as it had been in old Samaria, which tolerated many creeds, the monotheism of Yahweh being a protesting ingredient of the confusion.

Were the Khazars or their ruling aristocracy converted to Judaism in a later age? This position was based on what was said in a letter of the Khazar king Joseph, written about the year 961, to the Jewish grandee, Hasdai ibn-Shaprut, at the court of Cordoba. 'Abd-al-Rahman al-Nasir, the Moorish ruler of Spain, had asked the King of the Khazars to provide any available information about his people, Hasdai's brothers in religion. In the letter of reply the Khazar king recited a tradition or a legend; advocates of three religions came to some prior king of the Khazars, and he picked the Jewish faith because the Christian and the Mohammedan alike gave preferrence to the Jewish religion above that of their respective rival.(10)

The story exposes its mythical character. In the seventh or eighth centuries of the present era, the adepts of the Jewish faith were persecuted by the Christians and also by the Moslems, and would hardly be chosen to become the religion of the state. A similar legend of "choosing" a religion is told about Vladimir of Kiev: in this legend the Khazars were the delegates representing the Jewish faith.

Had the Khazars been converted to Judaism, it would be almost incredible that they would call their city by the name Samara. Samaria was a sinful city from the point of view of the nation that survived in Palestine after the fall of Samaria, and out of which eventually grew the rabbinical Judaism of later centuries.

The conversion to the Jewish religion would also not imply the adoption of the Hebrew language. It is remarkable that the state language of the Khazars was Hebrew; the king of the Khazars was quite capable of reading and answering a Hebrew letter.

Long before the correspondence between Joseph and Hasdai of the tenth century, the Khazar monarchs had Hebrew names. The dynasts previous to king Joseph were in the ascending order: Aaron, Benjamin, Menahem, Nisi, Manasseh II, Isaac, Hannukah, Manasseh, Hezekiah, and Obadiah. A conversion to Judaism in the seventh or eighth century of the present era would bring with it names common to Hebrews in the early Middle Ages, like Saadia or Nachman; the Judaism of the early Christian age was rich in names like Hillel, Gamliel, while Hellenistic names like Alexander, or Aristobul were not infrequent. Again, the Biblical names of an early period would give prominence to names like Joab, Gideon, or Iftach, and still an older group of names would be Gad, Issahar, Zwulun or Benjamin.

It is peculiar that some of the king of the Khazars were called by the names used in Israel at the time that Samaria was captured by the Assyrians. Hezekiah is said to have been the king of Jerusalem at that time (II Kings 18:10), and the name of his son and successor was Manasseh. Obadiah was one of the most common names at that time and in the preceding century. It seems not arbitrary to assume that the Khazars absorbed, or even originally were, the remnants of some of the tribes of Israel.

It is most probable that the religious reform among the Khazars, about which some tradition was preserved until the tenth century, is to be interpreted as an act of purification of the half-pagan religion that the exiles from Samaria brought into and developed in their new abodes on the Volga, and as an act of return to the old Hebrew religion of Yahweh. This might have been performed with the help of some Hebrews who perchance left the schools of Sura and Pumbadita, where the Babylonian Talmud was composed. Old Jewish authors(11) actually mention the fact that teachers of rabbinical Judaism were invited to the kingdom of the Khazars as early as the eighth century. Possibly, the name "Khazars," despite a difference in writing, is to be interpreted as "Those Who Return." A long, probably illiterate period, when Hebrew was used only in speech, may have preceded the period of revival of learning and purification of faith.

I would like to express here the belief that excavation in or around Samara on the Volga may disclose Hebrew signs of the eighth and seventh centuries before the present era. Other sites of old settlements on the Volga, too, may disclose remnants of old Hebrew culture.

The Hebrew (most probably also Assyrian) name for the Volga, Gozan, seems to have survived in the name Kazan. The city Kazan is located to the north of Samara, a very short distance beyond the place of confluence of the Volga and the Kama, two equally large streams. A tributary by the name Kazanka, or "small Kazan," flows there into the Volga.

In the days of the Khazar realm, the river Volga was called not by its Assyrian, nor by its present name, but by the name Etel (the name is given also as Itil or Atil). This name appears to derive from a Semitic root; it is also used by the medieval Arab geographers.

Many place names in southern Russia seem to be of Hebrew derivation. The name of the river Don may go back to the name of the Israelite temple-city Dan. The Caspian Sea is best explained as "The Silver Sea" from the Hebrew caspi (of silver). Rostov means "The Good Harbor" in Hebrew. Orel, read in Hebrew, would mean "uncircumcised" ; Saratov may mean "to make an incision." (12) With our identification of Gozan—one of the places of exile of the Ten Tribes—as the Volga, we may now investigate the question, what place is Khalakh, the other place of exile mentioned in II Kings 17:6? This place name is generally regarded as unidentifiable.

The eastern coast of the Black Sea was the goal of the Argonaut expedition in its search for the Golden Fleece. This expedition, engineered by Jason, was undertaken on the boat Argo. The land on the eastern coast of the Black Sea was called Colchis in ancient times, and the region is still known by this name. In Russian literature it is called Kolkhida.

I consider western Georgia—to which Colchis belongs, to be the Biblical Khalakh. Those of the expatriates of Samaria whose destination was Khalakh arrived there some decades after the Argonaut expedition, which was regarded by the later Greeks as an historical event and chronologically placed two or three generations before the Trojan War.(13)  :wtf:

In the mountainous region of western Georgia, adjacent to the Colchian coast, live the so-called Georgian, or Mountain Jews. They claim to be of the Ten Tribes of Israel, their ancestors having been exiled there upon the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians. Ben Zvi (the second president of the modern state of Israel) tells of these people and their claims.(14) He writes that "there is no reason to doubt the existence of a continuous Jewish settlement in both the north and south of Caucasia, whose roots were laid in very ancient times, perhaps as early as the days of the Second Temple, perhaps even earlier." Yet he does not express any suspicion that Khalakh may have been Colchis.

The third place of exile of the Ten Tribes according to the Book of Kings were the "cities of the Medes." Is it possible to locate also this last destination? The Medes first appear in Assyrian annals in the time of Shalmaneser III: it was in his days that they started to penetrate across the mountains of Iran to infringe on the boundaries of the Assyrian kingdom. They appear once again in the annals of Sargon II, who claims to have repelled "the distant Medes on the edge of the Bikni mountain." (15) Some scholars maintain that the homeland of the Medes before their occupation of the Iranian plateau in the seventh and sixth centuries was in Turan, that is, West Turkestan. Sargon's reference to "distant Medes" would then designate their homeland in Turan.

In this context it is interesting to note that the Jews of Bukhara, the great trading city and metropolis of West Turkestan, (Turan) claim direct descent from the Ten Tribes.(16) Some writers are even prepared to admit the possible veracity of this claim,(17) though no one so far seems to have attempted to place the "cities of the Medes" in this region. While the greater part of the Jewish community of Bukhara may well be descended from migrants from the time of the Babylonian Exile or the Diaspora of Roman times or even later, it is not excluded that the oldest group among them are remnants of those tribes dispatched by Sargon to the "cities of the Medes."


References

    E.g., H. W. F. Saggs, The Greatness that was Babylon (New York, 1966), pp. 104, 557.

    H. Graetz, History of the Jews, Vol. I (Philadelphia), p. 265.

    [Cf. Strong's Concordance of the Bible, p. 36 where (Hebrew section) habor is translated from the root word meaning "to join." ]

    [See Atlas of the Bible, (ed. by J. L. Gardener, 1981), p. 145; also consult W. Gesenius, Hebrew Lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs), p. 140, "Kebar" —"a river (or perhaps a canal) of Babylonia, not at present identified . . ." —LMG/WBS]

    Luckenbill, Records of Assyria II, par. 54.

    Ellis H. Minns, Scythians and Greeks (Cambridge, 1913), p. 263.

    Yakubi, Kitab al-Buldan, 262 (in Bibl. Geogr. Arab, VII, ed. De Goeje).

    Masudi hands down a tradition that the Sassanid king Ardashir fought against the Khazars. Masudi, Muruj al-Dhabab, ed. Barbier de Meynard and Pavet de Courteille (Paris, 1861-78), VI, 124ff.

    For general discussion and sources, see D. M. Dunlop, The History of the Jewish Khazars, (Princeton, 1954).

    Cf. A. Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, pp. 63-64.

    Jehudah bar Levi, The Khazar. [Such names were perhaps chosen to describe the inhabitants of the respective areas.—LMG]

    [Herodotus (II. 104) reports that in his time the people of Colchis practiced circumcision and claimed descent from Egypt. Although his inquiries in Egypt evinced no remembrance of the Colchians from among the Egyptians, Herodotus concluded that they must have been descended from the remnants of the army of the semi-legendary Sesostris. It seems to me that the Colchians may have told Herodotus the Mosaic tradition of the Exodus from Egypt—if they were Jews, they would have had to answer in the affirmative the question posed by Greek historian, as to whether their ancestors had come from Egypt.—JNS]

    Itzak Ben-Zvi, The Exiled and the Redeemed (Philadelphia, 1957), p. 62.

    Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria II, par. 54. The location of "Bikni mountain" is uncertain.

    See the eighteenth-century report of Joseph Maman of Tetuan, summarized in A. Ya'ari, "Emissaries of the Land of Israel" (Hebrew) (Jerusalem, 1951), p. 664.

    Itzak Ben-Zvi, The Exiled and the Redeemed, p. 62.

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[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Hey Michael,
Careful with Khazars... they have existed and exist today as the Karaites. The Jewish Star of David is Baal Pagan and has nothing to do with the Irish or Russians. I generally posted Brit-Am material here as a massive "hoax" of sorts. Some truth mixed with a lot of fiction. --CSR

Language

Karaim is a Kypchak Turkic language being closely related to Crimean Tatar, Armeno-Kipchak etc. Among the many different influences exerted on Karaim, those of Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian were the first to change the outlook of the Karaim lexicon. Later, due to considerable Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian influence, many Slavic words entered the language of Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and Russian Karaims. Hebrew remained in use for liturgical purposes. Following the Ottoman occupation of Crimea, Turkish was used for business and government purposes among Karaims living on the Crimean peninsula. Three different dialects developed: the Troki dialect, used in Trakai and Vilnius (Lithuania), the Lutsk or Halych dialect spoken in Lutsk (until World War II), and Halych, and the Crimean dialect. The last forms the Eastern group, while Troki and Halych Karaim belong to the Western group.


Origins and ethnic identity

Karaite men in traditional garb, Crimea, 19th century.

Turkic-speaking Karaites (in the Crimean Tatar language, Qaraylar) have lived in Crimea for centuries. Their origin is a matter of great controversy. Some regard them as descendants of Karaite Jews who settled in Crimea and adopted a form of the Kypchak tongue (see Karaim language). Others view them as descendants of Khazar or Kipchak converts to Karaite Judaism. Today many Crimean Karaites deny Israelite origins and consider themselves to be descendants of the Khazars.[1] The consensus view among historians, however, considers that the Torah religion of the Khazars was Talmudic Judaism.[2]
Former Karaim Kenesa in Kiev

Some modern Karaims seek to distance themselves from being identified as Jews, emphasizing what they view as their Turkic heritage and claiming that they are Turkic practitioners of a "Mosaic religion" separate and distinct from Judaism. On the other hand, many scholars state that the phenomenon of claiming a distinct identity apart from the Jewish people appears to be no older than the 19th century, when it appeared under the influence of such leaders as Avraham Firkovich and Sima Babovich as a means of escaping anti-Semitism.[3] In addition, Karaite works written before that time strongly suggest that Crimean Karaites previously considered themselves Jews (See Yitzhak of Troki's "Hizzuk Emunah" or a Crimean Karaite poem from 1936).

Whatever their origin, from the time of the Golden Horde onward, they were present in many towns and villages throughout Crimea and around the Black Sea. During the period of the Crimean Khanate some of the major communities could be found in the towns of Çufut Qale, Sudak, Kefe, and Bakhchisaray.

Many Karaims were farmers. Members of the community served in the military forces of Rzeczpospolita and the Crimean Khanate.

Karaites in the Khazar Khaganate

Besides the Jewish diaspora in Khazaria, a part of the Khazars converted to Judaism in the 8th-9th centuries CE. A part of the Khazars - who rebelled and then faild - joint to the Magyars and then they took part in the Settlement of Hungary in the end of the 9th century CE. An interesting relic of these Khazar people was explored in (Transylvania, today Romania) in the 20th century CE called Alsószentmihály Rovas inscription. It was transcribed by the archaeologist-historian Gábor Vékony.[4] According to the transcription, the meaing of the two-row isncription is the following:[5] (first row) "His mansion is famous." and (second row) "Jüedi Kür Karaite." or "Jüedi Kür the Karaite."

This proves that at least a part of the Khazars were Karaites. See more details: Inscription in Khazarian Rovas script and RovasPedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Karaites

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

I was happy to get this in the mail today! Looks pretty good. Huge format.

[ada]

Mike, jews are jews as long as they use their tenets the talmud, and their black magic tools from the devil the kabbah the zohar to democide and kill any inocent people using material occult forces give to them by satan himself to slaughter any human being. Jesus Christ told us that he came for the whole world, even if some sadly brainwashed zionist pseudo christians tells something else.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

I was happy to get this in the mail today! Looks pretty good. Huge format.

Interesting Tim... please share points of interest.   :up:

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Fair enough.  I need the weekend to do it right, so if you don't want to be a prick then wait until Monday morning.

It's nice to hear that you are going to evaluate all my posts for political correctness, Comrade.  TIU needs your censorship.

I guess you are finally playing your hand as gatekeeper.

Vladmir Putin is an Orthodox Christian and a Jew defender, and you like him don't you?

Putin is a 50/50 kind of like you... post on Monday.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

I was happy to get this in the mail today! Looks pretty good. Huge format.

Interesting Tim... please share points of interest.   :up:

CSR, when you order something from Texe Marrs, he sends you a monthly newsletter in the mail that is almost always Jew-related. This book is a comprehensive collection of these newsletters with some new stuff thrown in. There are some gems in it for sure that the patriot movement hasn't picked up on yet. Marrs also does a weekly radio program.http://remnantradio.org/Archives/audio/ ... TM2011.htm

Marrs is probably the biggest distributor of Jew-related conspiracy literature in the world that I know of. Texe has most recently republished the Protocols of Zion with a new forward and redesigned front cover. If you call up his ministry, they will send you a comprehensive catalogue. Lots of rare books, vids, and audios.

Here is page 211 of this 426-page book.

[GordZilla]

Be careful Tim, Texe Marrs is one you should take with a grain of salt. I do agree he has some good info, and I do try to catch his weekly shows, BUT he has an undying support for Alex Jones that makes me just a little skeptical of him. It seems to me, since 9/11, nothing good ever comes out of Texas.  
 

He may be legit, I don't know for sure, but until he outs Alex for the scumbag he is, I personally will always keep him at arm's length.  I'll never fully trust him until he washes himself of that filth. After all; we can see thru Alex's bullshit so easily, why can't this man? A man who claims to be  'Jew-wise'  doesn't notice his best buddy is nothing but a gatekeeper for the Jews??

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

Be careful Tim, Texe Marrs is one you should take with a grain of salt. I do agree he has some good info, and I do try to catch his weekly shows, BUT he has an undying support for Alex Jones that makes me just a little skeptical of him. It seems to me, since 9/11, nothing good ever comes out of Texas.  
 

He may be legit, I don't know for sure, but until he outs Alex for the scumbag he is, I personally will always keep him at arm's length.  I'll never fully trust him until he washes himself of that filth. After all; we can see thru Alex's bullshit so easily, why can't this man? A man who claims to be  'Jew-wise'  doesn't notice his best buddy is nothing but a gatekeeper for the Jews??

I hear ya, Gordo. I even boycotted Marrs for awhile. But, I have kind of put things aside for now. I think Alex is doing a fine job discrediting himself. He has gone silent as of late. While I was angry that Marrs didn't expose Jones, he did expose Jason Bermas. I'm not sure what the deal is with him and Jones. Never understood it. I think Marrs was Jones' mentor for awhile. If you look at Jones' earlier videos and broadcasts, they are styled like Marrs'. Jones even offered Marrs' highly anti-Jewish documentary "Illuminati Mystery Babylon" on prisonplanet for awhile. It might even still be up there. I can't figure it out, though. But, above all, I have never seen Marrs put out disinfo.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

The Jews and Saturn

Postby Whaler » Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:36 pm

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14002

Whaler's vid is a great (but disturbing) confirmation:

[youtube:frhj1g7p]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncZ9uhPiqTM[/youtube]frhj1g7p]

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

The Chaldean Magi: A Library of Ancient Sources

Wisemen of the East

Made famous by the account of the New Testament, by which the were said to have followed a start to the birth of the Christian Messiah, the Magi were priests of the Persian empire, who were renowned throughout antiquity for their knowledge of magic, astrology and alchemy. Thus, our own word for magic refers to the occult arts of the Magi.

In truth, though, the Magi known to the Greek and Roman world, were not the same as the official priests of the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism, said to be founded by Zoroaster. For, when we compare the ideas that were attributed to the Magi by ancient writers, we find that they differed widely from what we know of the mainstream version of the religion, as found in its sacred scriptures, the Avesta.

Rather, it would appear that the Greeks had come into contact, not with priests of Zoroastrianism, but the notorious Magussaeans of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. These Magussaeans were Persian emigres that found their way to the region after it had come under Persian domination. Speaking the language of Aramaic, rather than Palahvi, they were unable to read their own scriptures in their original tongue, and thereby deviated from the faith.

 
Babylon

Basically, the cult of the Magussaeans was a combination of heretical Zoroastrianism and Babylonian astrology. When Cyrus the Great conquered the great city of Babylon in the sixth century BC, the Magi came into contact with the teachings of the city's astrologers, known as Chaldeans. According to Diodorus of Sicily, a Greek historian of 80 to 20 BC, and author of a universal history, Bibliotheca historica:

...being assigned to the service of the gods they spend their entire life in study, their greatest renown being in the field of astrology. But they occupy themselves largely with soothsaying as well, making predictions about future events, and in some cases by purifications, in others by sacrifices, and in others by some other charms they attempt to effect the averting of evil things and the fulfillment of the good. They are also skilled in the soothsaying by the flight of birds, and they give out interpretations of both dreams and portents. They also show marked ability in making divinations from the observations of the entrails of animals, deeming that in this branch they are eminently successful.

Though astrology has often been regarded as representing an ancient form of knowledge devised by the Babylonians, scholars have now determined that its development was impossible, before the eighth century BC, due to the absence of a reliable system of chronology, and that, more properly, astrology was a product of the sixth century BC. This transformation, according to Bartel van der Waerden, was the result of the influence of Zoroastrianism, with its doctrine that the human soul originated in the stars.

In addition, the sixth century BC is also known in Jewish history as the Exile, when their entire population was located in the city, having been removed to there by Nebuchadnezzar, at the beginning of the century, after he had destroyed Jerusalem. Having become substantial citizens, with some achieving minor administrative posts, it is possible the Jews also contributed to this development. In fact, in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 2:48, Daniel is made chief of the "wise men" of Babylon, that is of the Magi or Chaldeans. In any case, scholars have certainly recognized that the later teachings referred to collectively as the esoteric Kabbalah, seem to have been a combination of Magian and Chaldean lore.

Astrology was not a component of mainstream Zoroastrianism, and those who incorporated its concepts into their version of the faith seem to have been regarded as heretical. As Edwin Yamauchi describes, "the relationship of the Magi to Zoroaster and his teachings is a complex and controversial issue." Ever since the early days of the Persian Empire, there had existed an antagonism with the proponents of true Zoroastrianism and the Magi. And, according the French Assyriologist Lenormant, "to their influence are to be ascribed nearly all the changes which, towards the end of the Achaemenid dynasty, corrupted deeply the Zoroastrian faith, so that it passed into idolatry."

 
Bel

It is believed that Zoroaster was a monotheist but that it was the Magi who had sought to re-introduce the paganism of their ancient Iranian heritage. According to Herodotus, the Persians had learned the worship of "Mitra" from the Babylonians. Mitra, or Mithra was an ancient Iranian deity, which the Magi assimilated to Bel, the chief god of the Babylonians. Bel, or Marduk, was a species of dying god worshipped throughout the ancient Middle East. Every year, corresponding to our Easter, his death and resurrection was celebrated, believed to symbolize the fertility cycle of nature. He was a god recognized as the Sun, and often symbolized by the bull, but also as a ram or a goat.

In imitation of the Babylonian triad of Bel, Shamash, and the goddess Ishtar, Mithras was recognized as one of three chief deities, along with Ahura Mazda and Anahita, as the Sun, Moon and Venus. The Persians also worshipped the "four elements". Therefore, according to Strabo Greek geographer of the first century AD:

Now the Persians do not erect statues or altars, but offer sacrifice on a high place, regarding the heavens as Zeus [Ahura-Mazda]; and they also worship Helios [the Sun], who they call Mithras, and Selene [Anahita or the Moon] and Aphrodite, and fire and earth and winds and water [the four elements]

As he was believed to descend there in winter, this dying god was also associated with the Underworld. It was through him that sorcerers were required to consult in order to confer with the departed spirits that dwelt there. Thus, the Magi acquired their renown as necromancers, or the power of summoning of evil spirits. Demon worship was thoroughly forbidden in orthodox Zoroastrianism. This would mean that the Magi known to the west were those condemned in numerous instances in Zoroastrian texts as a "daeva" or demon worshipping sect of the faith. Therefore, in Lucian,, when one of his characters wishes descend to underworld, he describes: as I was puzzling over these matters, it occurred to me to go to Babylon and ask one of the Magi, Zoroaster's disciples and successors. I had heard that they could open the gates of the underworld with certain spells and rites and conduct and bring back up safely whomever they wished.

 
Zurvanism

Judging by the fourth century BC accounts of Eudemus of Rhodes, a pupil of Aristotle, and Greek historian Theopompus, these Magussaeans were adherents of the Zurvanite heresy. Borrowing from the conceptions of the Chaldeans, Zurvan Akaran, or Boundless Time or Fate, was seen as the father of twin sons, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, the evil spirit. These two battle each other for twelve thousand years, divided into four cycles of three thousand years, with each millennium governed by a sign of the Zodiac.

During the first three thousand, ruled by Aries, Taurus and Gemini, Ahura Mazda created light, patterned after the celestial light. The second three, Cancer, Leo and Virgo, is the period of the creation of life in the material world: vegetation, fire, the primeval bull, and Gayomart, the primordial man. In the third period, Ahriman, who has been imprisoned in darkness, is revived by the Whore, and renews his assault on Ahura Mazda and his creation.

Prior to the end, Ahura Mazda now brings about the resurrection, and from the corpse of the Bull the land is fertilized, and from the Primordial Man, known as Gayomart, he creates the ancestors of mankind. The earth then become filled with evil until the coming of Zoroaster, whose advent begins the final period to last until the Day of Judgment, with the coming of the saviour, when a flood of molten metal shall burn the wicked, while the righteous will pass unharmed, and good and evil are finally separated from one another.

 
Asia Minor

Persian emperor Cyrus, had attacked Croesus, king of Lydia In 546 BC, defeated him, and annexed Asia Minor to his realm, followed by the gradual conquest of the small Greek city-states along the coast. Cyrus' son Cambyses, added Egypt in 525 BC, and after him, in 522, Darius came to power and set about consolidating and strengthening the Persian empire. From 521 to 484 BC, Darius expanded the empire further with conquests in India, central Asia and European Thrace.

With Cyrus came the settlement of many Medes and Persians accompanied by their Magi. The fact that the Greeks knew of Zoroaster and of the Magi is enough assure us of some degree of contact. The first among the Greeks to actually mention Zoroaster by name was Xanthus of Lydia, in the fifth century BC. Empedocles left an unfinished poem on the Persian wars, in which it was suspected that he spoke of Zoroaster, and Herodotus spoke of the Magi as a tribe of the Medes, though without mentioning Zoroaster. In the fifth century BC, Ctesias, makes Zoroaster a king of Bactria surrounded by Magi. Theopompus,, in the fourth century BC, spoke of the relation of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman in the Zurvanite context. Finally, in the fourth century BC, Dinon, the historian of Persia, connected Zoroaster etymologically with the stars, showing that already from an early date Zoroaster was erroneously connected with astrology.

As a result, all the early ideas of the pre-Socratic philosophers would suggest that they had come into contact with Magi in Asia Minor. Thus we find among them the recurring presence of the typical Magian or Chaldean doctrines of dualism, pantheism, astralism, the four elements and the belief in reincarnation. The influence of the Magi on Greek philosophy has been proposed by some the twentieth century's foremost scholars. In Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient, M. L. West has suggested that the introduction of Persian and Babylonian beliefs into Greece was attributable to Magi fleeing west from Cyrus' annexation of Media. In Alien Wisdom : The Limits of Hellenization, Arnoldo Momigliano affirms:

Those who have maintained that Pherecydes of Syros, Anaximander, Heraclitus and even Empedocles derived some of their doctrines from Persia have not always been aware that the political situation was favourable to such contacts. But this cannot be said of Professor M. L. West, the latest supporter of the Iranian origins of Greek philosophy. He certainly knows that if there was a time in which the Magi could export their theories to a Greek world ready to listen, it was the second half of the sixth century BC. It is undeniably tempting to explain certain features of early Greek philosophy by Iranian influences. The sudden elevation of Time to a primeval god in Pherecydes, the identification of Fire with Justice in Heraclitus, Anaximander's astronomy placing the stars nearer to the Earth than the moon, these and other ideas immediately call to mind theories which we have been taught to consider Zoroastrian, or at any rate Persian, or at least Oriental.

According to Pliny, it was Osthanes, a supposed disciple of Zoroaster, known as the "prince of the Magi", said to have accompanied Xerxes on his campaign against Greece, who "was chiefly responsible for stirring up among the Greeks not merely an appetite but a mad obsession for this art." It is said that Osthanes became the teacher of Democritus, born in 460 BC. Democritus apparently also visited Babylon and summed up the results of his investigations in a Chaldean Treatise, and On the Sacred Writings of Those in Babylon. As a result of his visit to Persia, he wrote Mageia.

 
Orphism

Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher of the sixth century BC, equated the rites of the Bacchants with those of the Magi, and commented: if it were for Dionysus that they hold processions and sing hymns to the shameful parts [phalli], it would be a most shameless act; but Hades and Dionysus are the same, in whose honor they go mad and celebrate the Bacchic rites, and of the Nightwalkers, Magi, Bacchoi, Lenai, and the initiated, all these people he threatens with what happens after death: for the secret rites practiced among humans are celebrated in an unholy manner. A papyrus from Derveni, near Thessalonika, belonging to the fourth century BC, we read about "incantations" of the Magoi that are able to placate daimones who could bring disorder... Therefore, the Magoi perform this sacrifice as if they would pay an amend, and initiates of Dionysus, first sacrifice to the Eumenides, like the magoi.

According to the Orphic Theogonies, Kronos, or Time, is described as a serpent having heads growing upon him of a bull and a lion, and in the middle the face of a god; and he has also wings upon his shoulders, and is called ageless Time, and Herakles the same. In Orpheus and Greek Religion, Guthrie remarked that, the depicting of ageless Time himself in this form shows correspondences with Oriental, and in particular with Persian religion, which are too detailed and exact to be passed over.

The female worshippers of Dionysus, called Maenads, were supposed to re-enact the a myth of the tearing and eating of Dionysus, by whipping themselves into a frenzy, and tearing a live bull to pieces with their bare hands and teeth, for the animal in some sense was an incarnation of the god. Similarly, Nigosian, in The Zoroastrian Faith, has pointed out that according to a Zoroastrian text, titled the Yasna, Yima was the instructor of the bull-sacrifice, condemned by Zoroaster, which were nocturnal and orgiastic rites, accompanied with shouts of joy, and combined with the haoma, an intoxicating drink prepared from the sacred plant of Zoroastrianism.

The Orphics worshipped Phanes, a beautiful figure with wings on his shoulders, four eyes and the heads of various animals, is born from an egg. Similarly, according to Plutarch, the twenty-four gods created by Ahura Mazda were placed in an egg, but those created by Ahriman pierced their way through it and made their way inside, and hence evil is now combined with the good. Zeus swallows Phanes, taking all that exits within himself, a myth that gave rise to the dualism typical of the Orphics, whereby the soul of man is seen as created by the true god, while matter is created by the evil god.

Though Orphic dualism did not borrow the simple dualism of Zoroastrianism, being an opposition between a Good and Evil god, it may have been elaborated from Zurvanism. Theodore bar Konai and Eznik, Zurvan says to Ahriman, "I have made Ormazd to rule above thee," meaning, as Zaehner has shown, that Ahriman rules the material world, while Ormazd is appointed over the world of spirit. Likewise, according to the Orphic Theogony, Phanes made the world in its primeval state, but Zeus swallowed Phanes and then produced the world known to humanity. Thus, Phanes was interpreted as the creator of the spiritual realm, while Zeus gave rise to the cosmos of matter.

 
Pythagoras

According to Apuleius, Pythagoras was captured by Cambyses during his invasion of the country, and taken back to Babylon along with other prisoners. In Babylon, maintains Porphyry Pythagoras was taught by Zaratas, a disciple of Zoroaster, and initiated into the highest esoteric mysteries of the Zoroastrians. Aristoxenus, friend and pupil of Aristotle, who came originally from Pythagorean circles, had also maintained that Pythagoras had been a student of Zaratas.

According to Iamblichus, Pythagoras traveled to Phoenici, where he conversed with the prophets who wer descendants of Moschus, or Moses, the physiologist, and with many others, as well as with the local hierophants. OF his ideas, maintained Hermippus, a Greek writer who lived about 200 BC, Pythagoras practiced and taught these in imitation of the beliefs of the Jews and the Thracians, which he had appropriated to himself. Josephus also believed in Pythagoras' affinity for Jewish ideas: Now it is plain that he did not only know our doctrines, but ws in very great measure a follower and admirer of them. For it is very truly affirmed of this Pythagoras, that he took a great many of hte laws of the Jews into his own philosophy.

Pythagoras propounded a doctrine known as the Music of the Spheres, whereby the distances and speeds of the planets' orbits were thought to create a musical harmony that was inaudible to humans. The doctrine, which presupposed that the distances between the planetary spheres have the ratios of simple whole numbers, was originally Babylonian a theory. Iamblichus explained that it was in Babylon that Pythagoras learned mathematics, music, and all other sciences. According to Philo of Alexandria:

The Chaldeans appear beyond all other men to have devoted themselves to the study of astronomy and of genealogies; adapting things on earth to things sublime, and also adapting things of heaven to things on earth, and like people who, availing themselves of the principles of music, exhibit a most perfect symphony as existing in the universe by the common union and sympathy of the parts for another, which through separated as to place, are not disunited in regard of kindred.

Scholars have not been able to account for the provenance of the belief of reincarnation among the Greeks. Herodotus maintained that the belief was adopted from the Egyptians, but no such doctrine is found among them. Some have thought to suggest a transmission from India, but it is improbable, as the belief in reincarnation emerged there quite late. Though reincarnation is not found in orthodox Zoroastrianism, it would have been an important tenet of the Magussaeans, for as Porphyry reported, the Magi divided themselves into three classes, "of which the uppermost and the most wise do not eat nor kill any living creature and persevere in the old abstinence from flesh," the second do not consume wild game, nor domestic animals, and even the third only of certain species, because all three classes believe in metempsychosis.

 
Plato

According to Momigliano, it was Plato who made Persian wisdom thoroughly fashionable, though the exact place of Plato in the story is ambiguous and paradoxical. A fragment of Aristotle's Peri philosophias associated Plato's teaching with the dualism of the Magi. In the Laws he suggests the necessity of two souls to govern the universe: that which does good, and that which has the opposite capacity, an idea which Prof. Werner Jaeger regards as ultimately Zoroastrian. Plato's philosophy further incorporates an Orphic dualism, evident in a number of his dialogues, including the Timaeus, Phaedo, Gorgias and Cratylus. He defines a divine part and a mortal part of the human soul, the mortal part being attributed to the "titanic nature" within man.

The man considered most responsible for introducing Magian tenets to Plato was one of his friends, an Ionian mathematician and astronomer, Eudoxus of Cnidus, who seems to have acted as head of the Academy during Plato's absence. Eudoxus is said to have traveled to Babylon and Egypt, studying at Heliopolis, where he learned the priestly wisom and astronomy. According to Pliny, Eudoxus wished magic to be recognized as the most noble and useful of the schools of philosophy.

The great exposition of Magian thought in the Greek language is the Timaeus, where Plato treated the common Magian themes of Time, triads, pantheism, astrology, and the four elements. Similar ideas were expounded in the Epinomis, and though it may not have been his work, we should expect that he at least would not have denied the origin of his new-found religion, which the author acknowledges as belonging originally to the Egyptians and the Syrians, from when the knowledge has reached to all countries, including our own, after having been tested by thousands of years and time without end.

Most common to the tales or motifs borrowed from the Magi were those dealing with visits to the Underworld. Plato concluded his Republic with such an account, known as the myth of Er. Colotes, a philosopher of the third century BC, accused Plato of plagiarism, maintaining that he substituted Er's name for that of Zoroaster. Clement of Alexandria and Proclus quote from a work entitled On Nature, attributed to Zoroaster in which he is equated with Er. Quoting the opening of the work, Clement mentions:

Zoroaster, then, writes: "These things I wrote, I Zoroaster, the son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth: having died in battle, and been in Hades, I learned them of the gods." This Zoroaster, Plato says, having been placed on the funeral pyre, rose again to life in twelve days. He alludes perchance to the resurrection, or perchance to the fact that the path for souls to ascension lies through the twelve signs of the zodiac; and he himself says, that the descending pathway to birth is the same. In the same way we are to understand the twelve labours of Hercules, after which the soul obtains release from this entire world.

 
Zoroastrian Pseudepigrapha

Greek interest in Oriental teachings during the Alexandrian period resulted in the production of a curious set of pseudoepigraphical works, written in Greek, and attributed to Zoroaster, his disciple Osthanes, and to his patron Hystaspes. However, as Bidez and Cumont have sought to demonstrate, in The Hellenized Magi, these documents held nothing of orthodox Zoroastrian content, but reflected the magical and astrological notions of the Magussaeans. Momigliano described that, these "new-fangled speculations gained prestige from the Academic and Peripatetic admiration for the wisdom of Zoroaster and, no doubt, mixed Platonic ideas with those alleged to be Oriental." Though no such works survive, ancient authors make mention of a number of them. Celsus maintained that "Zoroaster and Pythagoras formulated their doctrines in books" which were conserved until his time, while the scholiast of the Alcibiades affirms that Zoroaster left philosophical writings. The Clementine Recognitions assert that books of magic under the title of Zoroaster circulated in large number. Proclus, a Greek philosopher of the fourth century AD, knew of four books on Nature by Zoroaster dedicated to King Cyrus. Hermippus, who lived about 200 BC, wrote a book on the Magi and believed in the Oriental origins of Greek thought. According to Pliny, he "commented upon two million verses left by Zoroaster, besides completing indexes to his several works." Pliny also knew of a work ascribed to Osthanes, and Philo of Byblos, refers to a work attributed to him titled Octateuch. Christian writers Justin and Lactantius quoted a prophecy under the name of Hystaspes, the protector and first convert of Zoroaster, sometimes identified as the father of Darius.


Stoicism

At the beginning of the Hellenistic Age, Greek philosophy at this time was divided into fairly definite schools, of which the most important were the Cynics, Sceptics, Epicureans and the Stoics. Of these, the most influential was that of the Stoics. The Stoics adopted a pantheistic philosophy, believing that all reality is animated by a rational principle that was at the same time both the law of the universe and of the human soul, calling it either Logos, Zeus, or even God. Like the Magi, they equated it with fire. Essentially, the Stoics appropriated their pantheistic and fatalistic view of the universe from the Chaldeans, of whom Philo of Alexandria mentioned:

These men, then, imagined that this world which we behold was the only world in the existing universe, and was either God himself, or else that it contained within itself God, that is, the soul of the universe. Then, having erected fate and necessity into gods, they filled human life with excessive impiety, teaching men that with the exception of those things which are apparent there is no other cause whatever of anything, but that it is the periodical revolutions of the sun, and moon, and other stars, which distribute good and evil to all existing beings.

The Stoics believed that the divine "fire," or God, generated the universe, and at the end of the Great Year, took it back into itself through a great conflagration. Eventually the Fire would die down to Air, and finally to a Watery condition in which the seed for the next cycle of would be. This cycle repeats itself eternally. The idea of recurring conflagrations was attributed by Nigidius Figulus, prominent Roman philosopher and astrologer of the first century BC, to the Magi, and the notion that the world would be destroyed by fire is found in the Bundahishn. It may have been from the Magussaeans that Heraclitus learned the same doctrine. Also, in the Republic, Plato made use of the Babylonian Sar, where it appears as the numerical equivalent of the period between global catastrophes outlined in the Timaeus, when the stars and seven planets are aligned with each other exactly as they were at the Creation.

Dio Chrysostom recorded a hymn sung by the Magi of Asia Minor on account of its resemblance to the Stoic theory of conflagrations. In the hymn, which Dio claimed was sung by Zoroaster and the children of the Magi who learned it from him, Zeus is portrayed as the perfect and original driver of the most perfect chariot, drawn by four horses representing the four elements. The hymn ends at the moment that the Divine Fire, having absorbed all the substance of the universe, prepared for a new creation.

 
Mithraism

In the early part of the twentieth century, Franz Cumont, who founded the study of Mithraism, considered the Mysteries of Mithras to have evolved from the Magussaeans of Asia Minor. However, believing they have refuted his hypothesis of a Zoroastrian origin of the cult, modern scholars of the subject tend towards the opinion that it was entirely a Roman creation. However, according to Plutarch mysteries dedicated to Mithras were practiced by pirates of Cilicia in the early first century BC, who "offered strange sacrifices of their own at Olympus, where they celebrated secret rites or mysteries, among which were those of Mithras. These Mithraic rites, first celebrated by the pirates, are still celebrated today." Similarly, Lactantius Placidus, tells us that the Mithraic cult passed from the Persians to the Phrygians, and from them to the Romans.

However, on the authority of Bardasenes, a Syrian Christian of the late first and early second century AD, the Magussaeans, wherever they were found, observed "the laws of their forefathers, and the initiatory rites of their mysteries." Though we have no information as to the exact nature of these mysteries, we should presume that they were dedicated to Mithras, and like many of the other cults of the Roman period, would have been largely influenced by a combination of Magian and Chaldean doctrines.

The longest tractate in the Nag Hammadi find is Zostrianos. The Gnostics attacked by Plotinus also possessed apocrypha attributed to Zoroaster, as did certain Gnostics, the disciples of Prodicus, mentioned by Clement of Alexandria. According to the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions and Homilies, a Gnostic doctrine fought by the apostle Peter, supposed Zoroaster to have been sent to combat the invading influence of evil demons in the world, and through his triumph over them, to bring in a golden age. The government of the world was thought to have been divided by two Aeons, one identified with the god of the Old Testament, a vengeful demon, the other with the Christ, the god of light.

According to Numenius, thought to have been the main influence behind the thought of Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, to explore the nature of God, Numenius insisted, one had to look back beyond the wisdom of Plato, or even of Pythagoras, to everything that the Brahmins, the Jews, the Magi and the Egyptians have established. In the Life of Plotinus, Porphyry reported of his teacher that:

    At twenty-seven he was caught by a passion for philosophy. He was directed to the most highly-reputed professors to be found at Alexandria; but he used to come home from their lectures saddened and discouraged. A friend to whom he opened his heart divined his temperamental craving and suggested Ammonius, whom he had not yet tried. Plotinus went, heard a lecture, and exclaimed to his comrade, "This was the man I was looking for!" From that day he followed Ammonius continuously, and under his guidance made such progress in philosophy that he became eager to investigate that practiced among the Persians and that perfected by the Indians.

Neoplatonists regarded the Chaldean Oracles, a work attributed to Zoroaster, that combined Platonic elements with Persian or Babylonian creeds, as a sacred text, sometimes, even above Plato himself. Proclus would have withdrawn all books from circulation except the Timaeus and the Chaldean Oracles, to prevent them from harming the uneducated. Referring to the Chaldean Oracles, the emperor Julian mentions the following, in what is generally regarded as one of his few allusions to the doctrine of the Mithraic Mysteries, And if I should also touch on the secret teachings of the Mysteries in which the Chaldean, divinely frenzied, celebrated the God of the Seven Rays, that god through whom he lifts up the souls of men, I should be saying what is unintelligible, yea wholly unintelligible to the common herd, but familiar to the happy theurgists.

Zoroaster, explained Zosimus of Panopolis, of the end of the third and beginning of the fourth century AD, and probably the most important of the Alexandrian alchemists, agreed with Hermes that men could raise themselves above Fate, but he took the way of magic, while Hermes, on the other hand, took the way of philosophy. The founder of the alchemical art was thought to have been Osthanes, to whom several works on the nature of plants and minerals were ascribed. One of the first alchemical works, written by a certain Bolos of Mendes in the second century BC, was attributed to Democritus, the reputed student of Osthanes.

Upon closer examination of the fundamental beliefs of these major mystical schools, it becomes apparent that, though they appear outwardly eclectic, their underlying theology was essentially the same. All were founded on a ritual of death and rebirth, the belief in a divine triad, Orphic dualism, pantheism, magic, astrology, and the belief in reincarnation. The one element which cannot be traced back to the Magi though is the doctrine of the ascent through the seven planets to union with the divine. This component may have been a later addition, and may have its origins in Merkabah mysticism.

Essentially, Merkabah mysticism is a method of astral magic, identical to that of the Mysteries of Mithras, that so pervaded Hellenistic mysticism, a similarity that may be the result of Roman soldiers coming into contact with Jewish mystical doctrines during their invasion of Palestine. Having first been sent to the Euphrates in 63 BC to fight the Parthians, from 67 to 70 AD, the Fifteenth Apollonian Legion took part in suppressing the uprising of the Jews in Palestine, when 97,000 Jews, according to Josephus, were taken captive. This legion accompanied Titus to Alexandria, where they were probably reinforced by recruits from Cappadocia in Asia Minor. It seems to have been a curious mix of these several elements, after the Legion had been transported to Germany, that erected the first temple dedicated to Mithras on the Danube.

According to Kaufman Kohler, in an article on Merkabah mysticism in the Jewish Encyclopedia, in light of evidence and the Mithras Liturgy, the rites of Mithraism "bear such a striking resemblance to those by means of which the Merkabah-riders approached the Deity that there can scarcely be any doubt as to the Mithraic origin of the latter." In Merkabah, the mystic ascends through the seven planets through the aid of a mediator god named Metratron, the equivalent of Enoch. This Metratron is the archetypal man that became a common doctrine of not only Philo of Alexandria but of Gnosticism as well.

The doctrine of the Primordial Man, was known to the Zoroastrians as Gayomart, or as Anthropos to the Chaldeans, who, according to the Christian Father Hippolytus, "say that this Adam is the man whom alone earth brought forth. And that he lay inanimate, unmoved, (and) still as a statue; being an image of him who is above, who is celebrated as the man Adam, having been begotten by many powers, concerning whom individually is an enlarged discussion." Similarly, according to Plutarch, Zoroaster:

    ...declared that among all the things perceptible to the senses, Ahura Mazda may best be compared to light, and Ahriman, conversely, to darkness and ignorance, and midway between the two is Mithras; for this reason the Persians give to Mithras the name of Mediator.

Merkabah-riders sought to have a vision like that described in the first chapter of Ezekial, of God upon his chariot. Supporting the chariot, were four "creatures", each with a human body, two sets of wings and cloven feet like that of a calf. Each creature had four faces, of a man, lion, ox and eagle, understood esoterically to represent the four seasons and elements. Not only is this image redolent of Kronos of the Orphics, it is also similar to the Leontocephalus of Mithraism, depicted standing on a globe, on which there are two circles intersecting each other, which Celsus explained, is a symbol of the two orbits in heaven, the one being that of the fixed stars and the other that assigned to the planets.

A number of ancient Jewish historians had equated Zoroaster with Ezekial, an identification which seems to have been replicated in the Mithraic mysteries. In the pseudepigraphic writings attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite, the convert of St. Paul, reference is made to a miracle by which the day was lengthened three-fold, and said to have occured in the time of Ezekiel. He is purported to have claimed, Accordingly of this the sacred records of the Persians make special mention, and to the present day the Magians celebrate the memorial rites of the triple Mithras. Similarly, Cosmas Indicopleustes, claimed that, it is reported that to the present time the Persians keep the festival of Mithras, that is of the Sun, in memory of the miracle of the time of Ezekiel.

According to Zosimus, the alchemical process is the Mithraic Mystery, the incommunicable Mystery. Thus we are able to understand the Mithraic system as explained by Celsus. Converting lead into gold, implied the purification of the soul by removing successive levels of impurity, beginning with lead, which, according to the Mithraic system described by Celsus, is the first gate, the planet Saturn, then ascending through the six other planets, culminating in the Sun, symbolized by gold.

http://www.thedyinggod.com/chaldeanmagi/

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Arpachshad , Son of Shem


Arpachshad or Arphaxad or Arphacsad (Hebrew: אַרְפַּכְשַׁד / אַרְפַּכְשָׁד, Modern Arpakhshad Tiberian ʾArpaḵšaḏ / ʾArpaḵšāḏ ISO 259-3 ʔarpakšad; Arabic: 'أرفخشذ', Ārfakhshad‎; "healer," "releaser") was one of the five sons of Shem, the son of Noah (Genesis 10:22, 24; 11:10-13; 1 Chron. 1:17-18). His brothers were Elam, Asshur, Lud and Aram; he is an ancestor of Abraham. He is said by Gen. 11:10 to have been born two years after the Flood, when Shem was 100.

Arpachshad's son is called Salah, except in the Septuagint, where his son is Cainan (קינן), Salah being Arpachshad's grandson. Cainan is also identified as Arpachshad's son in Luke 3:36 and Jubilees 8:1.

Other ancient Jewish sources, particularly the Book of Jubilees, point to Arpachshad as the immediate progenitor of Ura and Kesed, who allegedly founded the city of Ur Kesdim (Ur of the Chaldees) on the west bank of the Euphrates (Jub. 9:4; 11:1-7) — the same bank where Ur, identified by Leonard Woolley in 1927 as Ur of the Chaldees, is located.[1]

Donald B. Redford has asserted[2] that Arpachshad is to be identified with Babylon. Until Woolley's identification of Ur, Arpachshad was understood by many Jewish and Muslim scholars to be an area in northern Mesopotamia, Urfa of the Yazidis. This led to the identification of Arpachshad with Urfa-Kasid (due to similarities in the names ארפ־כשד and כשדים) - a land associated with the Khaldis, whom Josephus confused with the Chaldean.

Another Arpachshad is referenced in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith as being the "king of the Medes" contemporary with Nebuchadnezzar II, but this is thought to be a corruption of the historical name Cyaxares (Hvakhshathra).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpachshad

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It was only in 620 BC under Nabopolassar that the Chaldeans finally gained control over Babylon, founding the Chaldean Dynasty. After the death of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king in 627 BC, Assyria descended into a period of bitter civil war. A rebellious Assyrian general Sin-shumu-lishir briefly set himself up as king in Babylon, but was ousted by Ashur-etil-ilani the legitimate king of Assyria. Further civil war erupted with Sin-shar-ishkun seizing the throne of Assyria from his brother Ashur-etil-ilani . Nabopolassar took advantage of all this to seize a rebellious Babylon. Bitter fighting continued in the region from 627 to 620 BC, the final straw was another massive rebellion in Assyria while its king Sin-shar-ishkun was marching on Babylon in an attempt to regain control. Nabopolassar seized Nippur and thus Babylonia as a whole. Nabopolassar's position, and the fate of Assyria was sealed when he entered into an alliance with another of Assyria's former vassals, the Medes, the now dominant people of what was to become Persia. The Medes, and Chaldean ruled Babylonians, together with the Scythians and Cimmerians attacked Assyria in 616 BC, and by 612 BC the alliance had sacked Nineveh, killing Sinsharishkun in the process. Nabopolassar and his allies were now in possession of the huge Neo Assyrian Empire. An Assyrian king Ashuruballit II held out at Harran, resisting until 605 BC, when the remnants of the Assyrian Army and an Egyptian force were defeated at Karchemish.

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The Chaldeans

The Chaldeans now ruled all of Mesopotamia, and the former Assyrian possessions of Aram, Phoenicia, Israel, Edom and parts of Arabia, while the Medes took control of the former Assyrian colonies in Iran, Asia Minor and the Caucasus.

Nabopolassar was succeeded by Nebuchadnezzar II, who became king after the death of his father in 604 BC.

Nebuchadnezzar was a patron of the cities and a spectacular builder. He rebuilt all of Babylonia's major cities on a lavish scale. His building activity at Babylon was what turned it into the immense and beautiful city of legend. His city of Babylon covered more than three square miles, surrounded by moats and ringed by a double circuit of walls. The Euphrates flowed through the center of the city, spanned by a beautiful stone bridge. At the center of the city rose the giant ziggurat called Etemenanki, "House of the Frontier Between Heaven and Earth," which lay next to the Temple of Marduk.He also made The Hanging Gardens of Babylon,for his wife from the mountains so that she would feel at home. Now,the garden is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. A capable leader, Nabuchadnezzar II, conducted successful military campaigns in Aramea (Syria) and Phoenicia, forcing tribute from Damascus, Tyre and Sidon. He conducted numerous campaigns in Asia Minor, in the "land of the Hatti". Like the Assyrians, the Babylonians had to campaign yearly in order to control their colonies.

In 601 BC Nebuchadnezzar II was involved in a major, but inconclusive battle, against the Egyptians. In 599 BC he invaded Arabia and routed the Arabs at Qedar. In 597 BC he invaded Judah and captured Jerusalem and deposed its king Jehoiachin. Egyptian and Babylonian armies fought each other for control of the near east throughout much of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, and this encouraged king Zedekiah of Israel to revolt. After an 18 month siege Jerusalem was captured in 587 BC, thousands of Jews were deported to Babylon and Solomon's Temple was razed to the ground.

Nebuchadnezzar fought the Pharaohs Psammetichus II and Apries throughout his reign, and during the reign of Pharaoh Amasis in 568 BC it is rumoured that he may have set foot in Egypt itself.

By 572 Nebuchadnezzar was in full control of Mesopotamia, Syria, Phonecia, Israel, Philistinia, northern Arabia and parts of Asia Minor. Nebuchadnezzar died of illness in 562 BC.

He was succeeded by Amel-Marduk, who was deposed after only 2 years on 560 BC.

The End of the Chaldean Dynasty

Neriglissar succeeded Amel-Marduk. It is unclear as to whether he was in fact a Chaldean or a native Babylonian nobleman, as he was not related by blood to Nabopolassar's descendants. He conducted successful military campaigns against Cilicia, which had threatened Babylonian interests. Neriglissar however reigned for only four years, being succeeded by the youthful Labashi-Marduk in 560 BC. Again it is unclear as to whether he was a Chaldean or a native Babylonian.

Labashi-Marduk reigned only for a matter of months, being deposed by Nabonidus in late 560 BC. Nabonidus, was certainly not a Chaldean, ironically he was an Assyrian from Harran. Nabonidus proved to be the last king of Babylon, he and his son, the regent Belshazzar being deposed by the Persians in 539 BC.

When the Babylonian Empire empire was absorbed into the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the name "Chaldean" lost its meaning as the name of a race of men, and came to be applied only to a social class. The Persians found the Chaldeans masters of reading and writing, and especially versed in all forms of incantation, in sorcery, witchcraft, and the magical arts. They quite naturally spoke of astrologists and astronomers as Chaldeans. It therefore resulted that Chaldean came to mean astrologist. In this sense it is used in the Book of Daniel (Dan. i. 4, ii. 2 et seq.), and with the same meaning it is used by the classical writers (for example, by Strabo).

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This is where "magic" comes from... the Chaldean Magi... that helped create the "oral law" otherwise known as the Jewish Talmud.

TALMUD

The Hebrew word signifying doctrine. The Jews say that Moses received on Mount Sinai not only the written law which is contained in the Pentateuch but an oral law, which was first communicated by him to Aaron, then by them to the seventy elders, and finally by these to the people, and thus transmitted by memory, from generation to generation This oral law was never committed to writing until about the beginning of the third century, when Rabbi Jehuda the Holy, finding that there was a possibility of its being lost, from the decrease of students of the law, collected all the traditionary laws into one book, which is called the Mishap, a word signifying repetition, because it is, as it were, a repetition of the written law. The Mishna was at once received with great veneration and many wise men among the Jews devoted themselves to its study.

Toward the end of the fourth century, these opinions were collected into a book of commentaries, called the Gernara, by the school at Tiberias. This work has been falsely attributed to Rabbi Jochanan; but he died in 279, a hundred years before its composition. The Mishna and its Commentary, the Gemara, are, in their collected form, called the Talmlud. The Jews in Chaldea, not being satisfied with the interpretations in this work composed others, which were collected together by Rabbi Ashe into another Gemara. The former work has since been known as the Jerusalem Talmud, and that of Rabbi Ashe as the Babylonian Talmud, from the places in which they were respectively compiled. In both works the Mishna or law is the same; it is only the Gemara or Commentary that is different.

The Jewish scholars place so high a value on the Talmud as to compare the Bible to water, the Mishna to wine, and the Gemara to spiced wine; or the first to salt, the second to pepper, and the third to spices. For a long time after its composition it seemed to absorb all the powers of the Jewish intellect, and the labors of Hebrew writers were confined to treatises and speculations on Talmudical opinions.

The Mishna is divided into six divisions called Sederim, whose subjects are:

    The productions of the earth;
    Festivals;
    The rights and duties of women;
    Damages and injuries;
    Sacrifices;
    Purification.

Each of these Sederim is again divided into Massicoth, or treatises, of which there are altogether sixty-three.

The Gemara, which differs in the Jerusalem and Babylonian redactions, consists of commentaries on these Massicoth, or treatises.

Of the Talmud, Lightfoot has said that the matters it contains "do everywhere abound with trifles in that manner, as though they had no mind to be read; with obscurities and difficulties, as though they had no mind to be understood; so that the reader has need of patience all along to enable him to bear both trifling in sense and roughness in expression." Stehelin concurs in a similar opinion; but Steinschneider, as learned a Hebraist as either, has expressed a more favorable judgment.

Although the Talmud does indeed contain many passages whose peculiarities found little favor with Doctor Mackey, he deemed it, nevertheless, extremely serviceable as an elaborate compendium of Jewish customs, and it has therefore been much used in the cretinism of the Old and New Testaments. It furnishes also many curious illustrations of the Masonic system; and several of the traditions and legends, especially of the higher Degrees, are either found in or corroborated by the Talmud. The treatise entitled Middoth, for instance, gives us the best description extant of the Temple of Solomon.

- Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

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Interesting take on the Talmudic Jews as fundamentally Merkabah "Demon" worshipers by C.I. researchers.
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Plato And The Kabbalah
Submitted by Pilgrim on Sat, 2010-06-05 18:30

Throughout the centuries, leading Jewish mystics and Kabbalists regarded Plato as a student of their doctrines. Among the prominent Kabbalists of the Renaissance, for example, was Leone Ebreo, who saw Plato as dependent on the revelation of Moses, and even as a disciple of the ancient Kabbalists. While Rabbi Yehudah Messer Leon,criticized the Kabbalah's similarity to Platonism, his son described Plato as a divine master. Other Kabbalists, such as Isaac Abravanel and Rabbi Yohanan Alemanno, believed Plato to have been a disciple of Jeremiah in Egypt. On the similarity of the teachings of the Greek philosophers and the Kabbalah, Rabbi Abraham Yagel commented:

This is obvious to anyone who has read what is written on the philosophy and principles of Democritus, and especially on Plato, the master of Aristotle, whose views are almost those of the Sages of Israel, and who on some issues almost seems to speak from the very mouth of the Kabbalists and in their language,without any blemish on his lips. And why shall we not hold these views, since they are ours, inherited from our ancestors by the Greeks, and down to this day great sages hold the views of Plato and great groups of students follow him, as is well known to anyone who has served the sage of the Academy and entered their studies, which are found in every land

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While these claims may at first seem contrived, there is a great deal of evidence to substantiate it, and Greek philosophy can be demonstrated to be an appropriation of the ideas of the Babylonian Magi, who in turn were influenced by early Jewish Kabbalistic ideas.

The subject of Persian or Babylonian influences had been a contentious one in the earlier part of the twentieth century. The subject currently continues to receive attention from several leading scholars, including Walter Burkert, and M.L. West.On the whole, however, the idea has yet to penetrate into mainstream circles, because of a  xenophobia which insists on the unique "genius" of the Greeks.

Ancient Babylon

Although Kabbalists make claims of a much older tradition, the Kabbalah was incepted in Babylon, when the Jews were held there in captivity, in the sixth century BC. A faction chose to reclaim their former status in the Promised Land, and achieve the world domination they believed was promised to them, through the practice of magic. Magicis, however, is forbidden in Judaism, and therefore, not to reveal their apostasy,they created an "interpretation" of the religion, which is now called Kabbalah.And, having rejected the Jewish God, their secret interpretation involved reverence forhis enemy, the dying-god of ancient fertility rites. The dying-god was associated with the Underworld, where he was said to sojourn in the winter, and from which he wassubsequently resurrected in spring, by his sister, the goddess. As twins, the dying-god and the goddess were interpreted to represent dual aspects of a single androgynous deity.  Therefore, both came to be symbolized by the planet Venus, whose original Latin name was Lucifer.

These Kabbalists, however, were confused by ancient historians with the chief priests ofthe Babylonians, known as the Chaldeans, and with the priests of the religion of Zoroaster, or Zoroastrianism, known as Magi. The ancient cult practices of magic and sex-rites that figured in the cult of the dying-god were incorporated by these Magi, who developed the Mysteries of Mithras, the ancient god of the Persians.

This fact was pointed out by one of the leading scholars of the twentieth century, Franz Cumont, in Les Mages Hellenisees, which remains to be translated into English. According to Cumont, those Magi with whom the Greeks were most familiar were these heretical Zoroastrians, which he called Magussaeans. What I have pointed out in my ownbook, The Dying God: The Hidden History of Western Civilization, is that the heretical leanings of these Magi were derived from the principal tenets of the Kabbalah, includingdualism, the worship of a dying-god and the four elements, astrology, pantheism,numerology, and the belief in reincarnation, which were falsely attributed to Zoroaster.R. C. Zaehner commented that in many cases the Magi were sorcerers, or demon worshipers, who were condemned by orthodox Zoroastrians. Zaehner continues:

The practice of worshipping the demons is also referred to by Clement of Alexandria:"the Magians", he says, "worship angels and demons."2 This as we have seen, is thepractice ... of the "devil-worshippers", the third Iranian sect mentioned in the Denkart.With these facts in mind it will, perhaps be safe to conclude that Xerxes, in suppressing the deava cult, caused a large-scale emigration of dissident Magians. These, after absorbing much of Babylonian speculation, transported their beliefs to Asia Minor; and from them arose the Graeco-Roman religion of Mithra.3

With the expansion of the Persian Empire in the sixth century BC, the ideas of theKabbalistic Magi were cultivated in different parts of the world, mainly in Egypt, and in India, where they went on to influence Buddhism, and most importantly Greece.Jewish Influence in Ancient Greece

There were already important hints of Jewish influence in Greece long before the sixth century BC. However, there are no specific references to Jews by the Greeks until the third century BC. Therefore, Herodotus does not mention them, but discusses the"Phoenicians" and the "Syrians" of Palestine who practiced circumcision.4 In classical times, the Greeks recognized three great divisions among themselves: Aeolian, Ionian,and Dorian. According to Greek mythology, the Ionians and Dorians both derived their origin from a foreign source, the "Phoenicians".

An important branch of the Greeks traced themselves back to Cadmus, the son ofPhoenix, from whom the name Phoenician is derived. The other great branch were known as the Danaans, descended from Danaus, who came from Egypt, but who was originally believed to have been a Phoenician. Heccataeus of Abdera, a Greek historian of the fourth century BC, set out his view that the stories of Danaus and Cadmus were traditions were related to the Israelite Exodus. Referring to the Egyptians he said:The natives of the land surmised that unless they removed the foreigners their troubles would never be resolved. At once, therefore, the aliens were driven from the country and the most outstanding and active among them branded together and, as some say, were cast ashore in Greece and certain other regions; their teachers were notable men, among them being Danaus and Cadmus. But the greater number were driven into what is now called Judea, which is not far from Egypt and at that time was utterly uninhabited. The colony was headed by a man called Moses.5

The Dorians, who were believed to have invaded Greece, were also believed to have been of Phoenician origin. The Dorian Invasion, which took place in the twelfth century BC,may be connected with the devastation throughout the Middle East wrought by the controversial Sea Peoples. Among the Sea Peoples were the Denyen, which scholars have equated with the Israelite Tribe of Dan, as well as the Danaans. A measure of the broader impact of these conquests is provided by the renaming of territories after various groups of Sea Peoples. After the invasion of Cyprus, its name was changed from Alashiya to Yadanana, "the isle of the Danunians/Danaoi/Denyen." The Sikils, who settled at Dor, also sailed west and gave their name to Sicily, and the Sherden, gave their name to Sardinia.6

The Dorian Invasion was often termed The Return of the Heraklids, their calling themselves Heraklids being a claim, not only of descent from Hercules, the Greek version of the Phoenician Baal. Ultimately, as related by Herodotus, the Persians traced the ancestry of Hercules to Perseus, whom they believed to be an "Assyrian."7 Hemaintained:

... if we trace the ancestry of the Danae, the daughter of Acrisius, we find that the Dorian chieftains are genuine Egyptians. This is the accepted Greek version of the genealogy of the Spartan royal house; the Persians, however, maintain that Perseus was an Assyrian who adopted Greek nationality; his ancestry, therefore, was not Greek; and the forebears of Acrisius were not related to Perseus at all, but were Egyptian, which accords with the Greek version of the story. But there is no need to pursue this subject further. How it happened that Egyptians came to the Peloponnese, and what they did to make themselves kings in that part of Greece, has been chronicled by other writers.8It may have been on this basis that, sometime around 300 BC, Areios, King of Sparta,wrote to Jerusalem: "To Onias High Priest, greeting. A document has come to light which shows that the Spartans and Jews are kinsmen descended alike from Abraham."9Both books of Maccabees of the Apocrypha mention a link between the Spartans and Jews. Maccabees 2 speaks of certain Jews "having embarked to go to the Lacedaemonians (Spartans), in hope of finding protection there because of their kinship."In Maccabees 1, "It has been found in writing concerning the Spartans and the Jews that they are brethren and are of the family of Abraham."10

The Mysteries of Dionysus

Contact between the Greeks and the Magi was effected through the Persian conquest of the Greek city-states of Ionia in Asia Minor. Greek interest in Oriental teachings resulted in the production of a curious set of pseudoepigraphical works, written in Greek, and attributed to Zoroaster, his disciple Osthanes, and to his patron Hystaspes. Osthanes, a supposed disciple of Zoroaster, known as the "prince of the Magi", was said to have accompanied the Persian Emperor Xerxes on his campaign against Greece as his chief magus. Osthanes, mentioned Pliny, was the first person to write a book on magic,meaning the art of the Magi, or the Kabbalah:

...and nurtured the seeds, as it were, of this monstrous art, spreading the disease to all corners of the world on his way. However, some very thorough researchers place another Zoroaster, who came from Proconnesus, somewhat before Osthanes' time. One thing iscertain. Osthanes was chiefly responsible for stirring up among the Greeks not merely an appetite but a mad obsession for this art.11

The influence of Mithraic cult of the Magi was adapted by the Greeks as the cult of Dionysus, or Latin Bacchus. Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher of the sixth century BC,equated the rites of the Bacchants with those of the Magi, and commented: "if it were for Dionysus that they hold processions and sing hymns to the shameful parts [phalli], it would be a most shameless act; but Hades and Dionysus are the same, in whose honor they go mad and celebrate the Bacchic rites,"12 and of the "Nightwalkers, Magi, Bacchoi,Lenai, and the initiated," all these people he threatens with what happens after death: "for the secret rites practiced among humans are celebrated in an unholy manner."13

The female worshippers of Bacchus, called Maenads, were supposed to re-enact the tearing and eating of Dionysus by the Titans, by whipping themselves into a frenzy, and tearing a live bull to pieces with their bare hands and teeth, for the animal in some sense was an incarnation of the god.14

Several descriptions of the rites of the Dionysians are available from ancient authors. Clement of Alexandria reports:The raving Dionysus is worshipped by Bacchants with orgies, in which they celebrate their sacred frenzy by a feast of raw flesh. Wreathed with snakes, they perform the distribution of portions of their victims, shouting the name Eva (Eua), that Eva through whom error entered into the world; and a consecrated snake is the emblem of the Bacchic orgies.15

The legendary founder of the rites of Dionysus was known to have been Orpheus. Artapanus, a Jewish philosopher of the third century BC, declared of Moses that, "as a grown man he was called Musaeus by the Greeks. This Musaeus was the teacher of Orpheus." 16

Aristobulus, another Jewish philosopher from the same century, claimed that Orpheus was a follower of Moses, and quoted the following from an Orphic poem: "I will sing for those for whom it is lawful, but you uninitiate, close your doors, charged under the laws of the Righteous one, for the Divine has legislated for all alike. But you,son of the light-bearing moon, Musaeus (Moses), listen, for I proclaim the Truth."17

Moses was of course not the source of a magic cult that was developed in Babylon in the sixth century BC. Spurious attributions is the nature of the Kabbalah. It is interesting,however, to note that these writers at least recognized the Jewish origin of these ideas.

Pythagoras

The great exponent of the Orphic tradition in ancient Greek philosophy was Pythagoras.According to F. M. Cornford, "whether or not we accept the hypothesis of direct influence from Persia on the Ionian Greeks in the sixth century, any student of Orphicand Pythagorean thought cannot fail to see that the similarities between it and Persian religion are so close as to warrant our regarding them as expressions of the same view of life, and using the one system to interpret the other."18

Though Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos, his father was a "Phoenician" fromTyre.19

It was apparently following a suggestion by Thales that Pythagoras had traveled to Egypt, at which point, according to Apuleius, in his Apology, he was captured by the Persians and taken back to Babylon along with other prisoners. In Babylon, maintained Porphyry, Pythagoras was taught by Zaratas, a disciple of Zoroaster, and initiated into the highest esoteric mysteries of the Zoroastrians.20

According to Iamblichus, Pythagoras traveled to Phoenicia, where "he conversed with theprophets who were descendants of Moschus (Moses) the physiologist, and with many others, as well as with the local hierophants.21

Of his ideas, maintained Hermippus, a Greek writer who lived about 200 BC, "Pythagoras practiced and taught these in imitation of the beliefs of the Jews and the Thracians, which he had appropriated to himself."22

Josephus also believed in Pythagoras' affinity for Jewish ideas: "Now it is plain that he did not only know our doctrines, but was in very great measure a follower and admirer of them... For it is very truly affirmed of this Pythagoras, that he took a great many of the laws of the Jews into his own philosophy."23

Plato

As Bertrand Russell outlines, in the History of Western Philosophy, "from Pythagoras,Orphic elements entered into the philosophy of Plato, and from Plato into most later philosophy that was in any degree religious."24

In antiquity, the reputation of Plato's purported connection with the Magi was widespread. Therefore, according to Momigliano, in Alien Wisdom, "it was Plato who made Persian wisdom thoroughly fashionable, though the exact place of Plato in the story is ambiguous and paradoxical."25

According to Aristobulus, a third century BC Jewish philosopher:It is evident that Plato imitated our legislation and that he had investigated thoroughly each of the elements in it. For it had been translated by others before Demetrius Phalereus, before the conquests of Alexander and the Persians. The parts concerning the exodus of the Hebrews, our fellow countrymen, out of Egypt, the fame of all things that happened to them, the conquest of the land, and the detailed account of the entire legislation (were translated). So it is very clear that the philosopher mentioned above took many things (from it). For he was very learned, as was Pythagoras, who transferred many of our doctrines and integrated them into his own beliefs.26
 
The man considered responsible for introducing Magian tenets to Plato was one of his friends, an Ionian mathematician and astronomer, Eudoxus of Cnidus, who seems to have acted as head of the Academy during Plato's absence. Eudoxus is said to have traveled to Babylon and Egypt, studying at Heliopolis, where he learned the priestly wisdom and astrology. According to Pliny, Eudoxus "wished magic to be recognized as the most noble and useful of the schools of philosophy."27  In the opinion of Jaeger:

Our material unfortunately does not permit us to evaluate to its full extent the tremendous influences exercised upon the Platonists by this man. They are connected in part with the Academy's admiration for Chaldean and "Syrian" astronomy, from whose empirical acquaintance with the heavens it had obtained its reckoning of the times of revolution and  its knowledge of the seven planets... In part, again, these tendencies are connected with the appeal of the religious dualism of the Parsees, which seemed to lend support to the dualistic metaphysics of Plato's old age. The bad world-soul that opposes the good one inthe Laws is a tribute to Zarathustra, to whom Plato was attracted because of the mathematical phase that his idea-theory finally assumed, and because of the intensified dualism involved therein. From that time onward the Academy was keenly interested in Zarathustra and the teaching of the Magi.28

In the Laws, Plato proposed that the citizens be divided into twelve tribes, each to be named for one of the twelve gods, and that the focus of the state religion be a joint cult of Apollo and the Sun-god Helios.29 Not only are the stars described as "the gods in heaven," the Sun and moon as "great gods," but Plato insists that prayer and sacrifice should be rendered to them by all. E. R. Dodds, who is skeptical of the extent of Magian influence on Plato's thought, is willing to concede that:the proposals of the Laws do seem to give the heavenly bodies a religious importance which they lacked in ordinary Greek cult, though there may have been partial precedents in Pythagorean thought and usage. And in the Epinomis, which I am inclined to regard either as Plato's own work or as put together by his Nachlass (unpublished works), we meet with something that is certainly Oriental, and is frankly presented as such, the proposal for public worship of the planets.30

The Epinomis, either a work of Plato, or his pupil Philip of Opus, is clearly influenced by the Magi. But the ideas we find in the book are not reflected in orthodox Zoroastrianism,but in the heterodox teachings of the Magussaeans, which are identical to those of the Kabbalah. As for the myths of the popular gods, Zeus and Hera and the rest, claims thework, man must accept their accounts as reliable, but the best and greatest of the gods,are the "visible gods", the stars and the seven planets.

That science which makes men most wise, it maintains, is astronomy, in other words,astrology, for it proffers man with knowledge of numbers. Because, without the knowledge of number, it claims, man cannot attain to a knowledge of virtue. Therefore,the study of the stars and planets is at the heart of philosophy. Those who study astronomy are the wisest and most happy, and it is they who are to be the guardians of the ideal state. These doctrines have their origin among the Chaldeans, who, as Philo of Alexandria explains, "especially cultivated astronomy and ascribed everything to the movements of the stars, assumed that cosmic phenomena are regulated by forces contained in numbers and mathematical proportions."31

Though Plato may not have written the Epinomis, we should expect that he at least would not have denied the origin of his new-found religion, which the author acknowledges as belonging originally to the Egyptians and the Syrians, "from when the knowledge has reached to all countries, including our own, after having been tested by thousands of years and time without end." Though, the work apologizes:

And let us note that whatever Greeks acquire from foreigners is finally turned by them into something nobler; and moreover the same thing must be borne in mind regarding our present statements – that although it is hard to discover everything of this kind beyond dispute, there is hope, both strong and noble, that a really nobler and juster respect than is in the combined repute and worship came from foreigners will be paid to all these gods by the Greeks, who have the benefit of their various education, their prophecies from Delphi, and the whole system of worship under their laws.32

However, the great exposition of Kabbalistic thought in the Greek language is the Timaeus, where Plato treated its common themes of Time, triads, pantheism, astrology,and the four elements. Plato posits the existence of three distinct realities, as in the ancient pagan trinity, which he identifies with a father, a mother, and their offspring.These are: the model or archetype of creation; the space or receptacle in which creation was placed; and creation itself. Each is considered a living being, or a god.

The universe is suffused with a spirit, the agent of cosmic sympathy, called the "World-Soul". The universe, the stars and planets, are all living gods, and the reflection of the more perfect model. The revolutions of the astral bodies are regulated according to the Perfect Year, known as the Platonic Great Year, and derived from the Babylonian Great Year, when the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the fixed stars will have returned to their point of departure. The souls of men originate among the stars. Those that live well afte rdeath return to their native star, but those that live otherwise are reincarnated as women,or for those who persist in wrongdoing, return into the bodies of animals.

The purpose of life, according to the Timaeus, is to study astrology, or in other words,Kabbalah. Ultimately, according to Plato, man must learn the laws of the revolutions of the spheres, that he may, guided by the revolutions that are found within himself, tame the irrational feelings that are due to his soul's contamination with matter, or the four elements:

There is of course only one way to look after anything and that is to give it its proper food and motions. And the motions are akin to the divine in us are the thoughts and revolutions of the universe. We should each therefore attend to these motions and by learning about the harmonious circuits of the universe repair the damage done at birth to the circuits in our head, and so restore understanding and what is understood to their original likeness to each other. When that is done we shall have achieved the goal set us by the gods, the life that is best for this present time and for all time to come.33

It is in the Republic that Plato articulates the need for a totalitarian state to be governed by philosopher-kings. These elite leaders are to be instructed in Kabbalistic teachings as described in the Timeaus. These ideas he explains in last chapter of the Republic in what is called the Myth of Er.

Most common to the tales or motifs borrowed from the Magi were those dealing with visits to the Underworld, like the mystic vision of the Jewish Kabbalists which they called "descent to the Merkabah". Similarly, Plato concluded his Republic with a vision of the afterlife recounted by Er, the son of Armenius, who died in a war but returned to life to act as a messenger from the other world. He described a heaven and hell where souls are either rewarded or punished, and a cosmic vision of the universe, controlled by the Spindle of Necessity and her daughters, the three Fates, where the Sirens' song echoed the harmony of the seven spheres.

Colotes, a philosopher of the third century BC, accused Plato of plagiarism, maintaining that he substituted Er's name for that of Zoroaster. Clement of Alexandria and Proclus quote from a work entitled On Nature, attributed to Zoroaster, in which he is equated with Er.34 Quoting the opening of the work, Clement mentions:

Zoroaster, then, writes: "These things I wrote, I Zoroaster, the son of Armenius, aPamphylian by birth: having died in battle, and been in Hades, I learned them of thegods." This Zoroaster, Plato says, having been placed on the funeral pyre, rose again tolife in twelve days. He alludes perchance to the resurrection, or perchance to the fact thatthe path for souls to ascension lies through the twelve signs of the zodiac; and he himselfsays, that the descending pathway to birth is the same. In the same way we are tounderstand the twelve labours of Hercules, after which the soul obtains release from thisentire world.35

Ultimately, as Numenius of Apamea remarked, in the late second century AD, "what isPlato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek."361 Mazref la-Hokhmah, chap. 25, quoted from Idel, "Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance", Neoplatonism and Jewish though, p. 336.2 Stromata, III. 6. 48.3 Zurvan, A Zoroastrian Dilemma, p. 194 The Histories, II:1045 Diodorus Siculus. XL: 3.26 Stager. "Forging an Identity", The Oxford History of the Biblical World, p. 1577 Bernal, Black Athena, p. 113.8 Histories, VI: 549 Bernal. Black Athena, p. 11010 Baigent. Leigh and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, p. 27711 Pliny, Natural History, XXX: 812 Clement. Protreptic, 34.5, quoted fr. A Presocratics Reader, p. 3913 Clement. Protreptic, 22.2, quoted fr. A Presocratics Reader, p. 3914 Russell. The History of Western Philosophy, p. 3715 Clement of Alexandria. Exhortation to the Greeks, 2.1216 Eusebius. Praeparatio Evangelica, 9.27 .1-3717 Eusebius. 13.13.3-818 From Religion to Philosophy, p.17619 Porphyry. The Life of Pythagoras, 120 The Life of Pythagoras, 1221 The Life of Pythagoras, 322 Against Apion, 1.163-6523 Josephus. Flavius Josephus Against Apion, p. 61424 Russell. The History of Western Philosophy, p.4925 Alien Wisdom, p. 14226 Eusebius. 13.12.1f.27 Natural History, XXX: 328 Aristotle, quoted from Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism, p. 25929 E. R. Dodds. The Greeks and the Irrational, p. 22130 The Greeks and the Irrational, p. 233 n. 7031 De Abrahamo: 68-7132 987d-988a33 Timaeus 9034 Proclus, In Rem Publicam Platonis, quoted from Bidez & Cumont, Les Mages Hellenisees, t. II, p. 159.35 Stromata, Book V, Chap 14.35 Timaeus, vi, 136.36 Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, IX: VI, p. 411a.


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