Freemasonry is the generic name given to a variety of occult groups accredited to the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Freemasons. Freemasonry teaches that it evolved from the medieval guilds of stonemasons and cathedral builders, but continually hint at far older origins. The medieval guilds were fraternal societies of Gothic cathedral builders who were itinerant and moved freely about feudal Europe hawking their unique skills.
To safeguard the singular knowledge of masonry, including its secret tradition originating in the ancient Near East, , medieval masons banded themselves together in Guilds. Members who were accepted into it learned the peculiar secret signs and passwords that made their status and station within the Guild known to others of their ilk. Each of the Guilds formed a Lodge with three levels of membership. The first, or lowest form of members, was the “apprentice” or “bearer of burdens.” The second form was “craftsman” or “fellow,” the skilled workman on the cathedrals. The third and highest form was the “master,” who was the overseer and superintendent of the building project. Before a man could pass from one degree to the next, a certain degree of proficiency was demanded. Furthermore, the Guilds all taught and required of their membership certain qualities of moral conduct. The spectacular cathedral building activity declined in the sixteenth century and with it a decline in the strength of the Guild Lodges. Consequently, some lodges of Operative Masons began to accept honorary members to bolster their declining membership. These non-working masons were referred to as “Accepted” Freemasons and later as “Speculative” Freemasons. Eventually the Guild Lodges came to be known as “Speculative Lodges.” Modern Symbolicor Speculative Freemasonry claims descent from a few of these diluted lodges.
As Gothic construction declined in the seventeenth century, the Masonic Guilds faced oblivion. To preserve themselves, four Lodges in London met together, in 1717, and decided to form a Grand Lodge. On June 24, 1717, three men met at the Goose and Gridiron Ale House and negotiated the unification of the four Lodges in London into aGrand Lodge, sometimes called the Grand Mother Lodge, which initiated the era of modern Freemasonry.
A certain Anthony Sayer, Gentleman, was the first Grand Master. Using Dr John Anderson’s Book of Constitutions, often regarded as the first Freemasonic text, the rituals and practices of Freemasonry were standardised in the newly instituted Grand Lodge. The Freemasonic tales of Hiram Abiff, King Solomon’s Master Builder, along with the pyramid hierarchic structure dates from, this reorganisation. Anderson’s book also maintained that members of any religion could become Freemasons, “leaving their particular opinions [about god] to themselves. The Grand Lodge had over 100 lodges in England and Wales under its control by 1730 and had begun to spread Freemasonry abroad, warranting lodges to meet in Europe, the West Indies, North America and India.
By 1723, they adopted a constitution to govern themselves and their success led to the establishment of other Grand Lodges in similar fashion. In 1725, some of the Lodges in Ireland formed a Grand Lodge for that island, and a similar body was instituted in Scotland in 1736. The original Grand Lodge of England was not without rivals in its own country, and at one time in the eighteenth century there existed in England three Grand Lodges in addition to the one organised in 1717. Two of these atrophied without influencing the history of Freemasonry, but the third played a major part in the dissemination of Freemasonry throughout the world. In the 1740s, Irishmen in London, many of whom had become Freemasons before leaving Ireland found it difficult to gain entrance into Lodges in London, so in 1751 a group of them formed a rival Grand Lodge. While it called itself the Antients Grand Lodge, the 1717 Lodge called itself the”Modern” Grand Lodge.
Although the two Grand Lodges were vigorous rivals, they sought to reconcile differences. The rival Grand Lodges appointed Commissioners in 1809 to negotiate unification, which finally occurred amidst great ceremony on 27 December 1813 at Freemasons’ Hall, London. The two combined to form the United Grand Lodge of England with HRH the Duke of Sussex (younger son of King George III) as Grand Master. Henceforth, the English stream of Freemasonry became pre-eminent in the British Isles and from it arose the largest secret society in the world, spread by the advance of the British Empire. This is sometimes called English Freemasonry or Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry in contrast to that variant arising in Europe called Continental Freemasonry.
By the 19th centuries Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry was operating in the Mid and Far East, Australasia, Africa and South America; that is, in most places that comprised the British Empire. many of the lodges formed independent local Grand Lodges when those areas eventually achieved nation status. However, at least 750 lodges overseas, principally in Commonwealth countries, have remained within the United Grand Lodge of England. Masonry also spread slowly throughout the world not under the sway of the British Crown: France (1718-25), Ireland (1725-26), Spain (1726-27), Holland (1731), Germany (1730-33), Africa (1735), Scotland (l736), Portugal (1736), Switzerland (1737), Italy (1733-37), Russia (1731-40), Canada (1745), Sweden (1735-48), Prussia (1738-40), Austria (l742), Poland (1784), and Mexico (1825).
Public interest in the nature, the ceremonies and intentions of Freemasonry developed considerably through the eighteenth century. So in addition did the number of aristocrats, landed gentry and professional men who began to seek admission into the Lodges. The first Royal Freemason to be “made” was Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, son of King George II in 1737. The tumultuous period during the French Revolution in which all governments in Europe shuddered, Freemasonry in Britain almost came to a halt. Acts of Parliament were passed in an attempt to curb trade unions, political clubs and other subversive organisations that threatened the social order. The Unlawful Societies Act of 1799 banned any meetings of groups, which required their members to take an oath or obligation. Organised Freemasonry acted swiftly to meliorate the effects of this rational and prudent act on its operations.
The Acting Grand Master of the premier Grand Lodge, Earl of Moira, and the Grand Master of the Antients Grand Lodge, the Duke of Atholl visited the Prime Minister, William Pitt (1759-1806), who was not a Freemason, to plead their case. They managed to perpetuate the fraud that Freemasonry was a supporter of the law and lawfully constituted authority and Christian to boot. Moreover, they told Premier Pitt that Freemasonry was much involved in charitable work. Consequently, Freemasonry was let off the hook and specifically exempted from the terms of the Act. However, each Lodge secretary was required to give an annual account to the local Clerk of the Peace of the members of his Lodge together with their ages, professions and addresses. A provision that was only rescinded by Parliament in 1967.
Most general accounts of Freemasonry cite the formation of the archetypal Grand Lodgein 1717 in London as the start of its inexorable rise to prominence. There is incredible speculation concerning the myths surrounding the origins of “the Craft,” however, there are four main traditions current in Freemasonry that purport to give a thorough account of its origins. The first claims that Freemasonry is the apotheosis of some simple Mystery within the old building Guilds. The second, that the terminology of architecture was used symbolically by occult philosophers and that the eighteenth century Craft Rituals were the epitome of this development. Thirdly, that the medieval Builders Guilds were heir to an ancient tradition that can be traced back to the architectural builders in antiquity who were initiates of the old Instituted Mysteries. Therefore, this account claims that there has always been a “speculative” component within Freemasonry. Masonic writers have sought to implicate Akhenaten, the Druids, the Culdees, pre-Christian Jewish monks, the Essenes, and the Rosicrucians in their genealogy. The fourth account asserts that the Knights Templars, heir to the esoteric traditions of the ancient Near East, created Speculative Freemasonry after their suppression.
Within the third tradition, the Freemasons have a custom that places their origins in a more remote distant era; in fact, they are quit ambitious in their claims to pedigree. Some elements within Freemasonry claim that its origins can be traced back to Adam, who not only was the First Man but also was the first Freemason. The infamous apron of Freemasonry is, they claim, merely symbolic of the fig leaves worn by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
This claim of great antiquity is reflected in the Freemasonic calendar which was founded on that dating of Creation made by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin.Ussher concluded after an exhaustive correlation of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean histories and Holy writ that the first day of Creation was Sunday 23 October 4004 BC. Moreover, the good Bishop calculated the dates of other biblical events. For example, he concluded that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the Ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 1491 BC “on a Wednesday.”For apparent convenience, Freemasonry ignores the odd four years in the Ussher date of 4004 and Anno Lucis (in the Year of Light, when Freemasonry is deemed to have begun) is thus four thousand years ahead of Anno Domini. Therefore, Freemasonic dating is four millennia in advance of the Christian calendar inferring that Freemasonry arose with Adam. Thus, 2015 AD (Anno Domini) is in the Freemasonic calendar 6015 AL (Anno Lucis).
Noah had three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth. Ham had a son by the name of Cush, and Cush’s son was called Nimrod, and was known as the “mighty hunter.” Freemasonic myth declares that the gnosisreceived by Adam after eating from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge was transmitted to his son Seth. Nimrod, the eldest son of Cush and the great-grandson of Noah also received this wisdom. Nimrod (literally, in Hebrew, “Harad,” “we will rebel” or “let us rebel”) was the legendary biblical figure, described as “the first on earth to be a mighty man. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord”(Gen. 10:8–12). Genesis states that his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Akkad in the land of Shinar, and that he built Nineveh, Calah (modern Nimrud), Rehoboth-Ir, and Resen. In Micah 5:5 the “land of Nimrod” is a synonym for Assyria. Nimrod and the Mesopotamian epic hero Gilgamesh have been identified as the same personality by some authors aware of the mytho-poetic nature of both. Others claim that Nimrod’s name is a distortion of Ninurta the Mesopotamian who was a great hunter and warrior, a culture hero who in some texts is called the ruler of the universe.
In Freemasonic myth, not only was Nimrod the founder of the Babylonian monarchy, he was also the Grand Master of all Freemasons and the builder of many wondrous cities in the land of Shinar. He was also the genius behind the Tower of Babel, a tower that would reach to Heaven: which was the first co-ordinated assault on Heaven by the incipient five thousand year old Luciferian Conspiracy for World Government, according to conspiracy. God confounded this attempt at World Empire by confusing the common language so people could not understand each other, causing the creation of different races and inter racial tensions and rivalries. The newly created races were eventually scattered over the face of the Earth. It is interesting to remember in ancient texts such as the story of Atrahasis, it is Enki who saves mankind.
Nimrod with the help of his mother, Semiramis and father, Cush, also established a religious system whereby the people, the masses, were controlled by political methods. The fundamental tenet of this organised religion was the worship of the god Baal, which included human sacrifice, especially infants. . Nimrod’s activities so enraged his great-uncle Shem that he killed the “great hunter” with the help of a group of Egyptians. Nimrod’s body was chopped up into little pieces, and parts sent to different cities as a warning to those who practised the occult.(we should not here Baal and Bel are synonymous, and in Assyrian text Bel is associated with Enlil…why would Nimrod bow to Enlil??as opposed to Enki?)
Semiramis, who was wife as well as mother to Nimrod, for, she had married her son, took command of the religion and proclaimed Nimrod a god. She collected all of Nimrod’s body parts except for his penis, which she could not find, and created the symbol of the obelisk and established phallus worship. This mother-wife also claimed that an evergreen tree sprang forth from a dead tree stump, which symbolised springing forth into new life of the dead Nimrod. Semiramis further claimed that every year on the anniversary of Nimrod’s birth, said to be on December 25th, he would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. This tradition is the real origin of the Christmas tree. Semiramis was an adroit schemer who manoeuvred herself into prominence in the religion founded by Nimrod. Through her scheming she became the Babylonian “Queen of Heaven” whilst Nimrod, under various names, became the “divine son of heaven.” Nimrod was later refashioned as a messiah figure, son of Baal the Sun-god, thereby creating the archetypal motifs: the World Redeemer and the”Mother and Child.”
Thus, Semiramis and Nimrod reborn became chief objects of worship within the cults of the ancient world. The worship of the “mother and child” spread throughout the ancient world appearing in different cultures in different names. In Egypt, the pair was called Isis and Horus,in Asia Minor, they were Cybele and Attis, in Rome, they were Fortuna and Jupiterpuer. The figure of Nimrod as the dying and resurrecting man-god is at the heart of the Ancient Mysteries but under different names. In Egypt, he was Osiris, in Greece Dionysus, in Asia Minor, Attis, in Syria, Adonis, in Persia, Mithras, in Rome, Bacchus. It is also the motif of theMessiah Tradition in Judaism and Christianity. Hence, throughout the ancient world the idea of the World Saviour, the incarnation of a god into the body of a man, was a perennial theme. The”mother and child” motif also appears in other religious systems throughout the world. In the seventeenth century, for instance, Jesuit missionaries to Tibet, China, and Japan were astonished to find the counterpart of Madonna and her Child was devoutly worshipped in the lands as in papal Rome itself.
A well known writer on Freemasonry, Albert Mackey (a 33° Mason and Secretary General of theSupreme Council of the thirty third degree Scottish Rite), alludes to two manuscripts, the “York manuscript, No. 1” and the “Cooke Manuscript” in justification of this ancient lineage. The first manuscript apparently contained information from a parchment that dated back to the year 1560 that identified Babylon as the originator of Freemasonry. Whilst the second relates a legend in which Nimrod taught the craft of Freemasonry to the workers at the Tower of Babel. These secrets were said to be lost when God broke up the ancient common language. Freemasonry was revived centuries later when King Solomon was building the Temple in Jerusalem. The “Masonic Lodges,” wrote Mackey,”were initially dedicated to King Solomon, because he was our first Most Excellent Grand Master.”
A story central to the Freemasonic tradition concerns the two master temple builders,Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff. These are the Old Testament personages that King Solomon commanded to build his temple:
“Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave” (2 Chron. 2:7).
“And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre” (1 Kings 7:13).
Hiram of Tyre was of the tribe of Naphatali, a son of a man from Tyre and of a woman of the daughters of the tribe of Dan, and a worker in brass, filled with wisdom and understanding to the work of metal. This Hiram made the two pillars of brass known asJachin and Boaz. The other temple builder, Hiram Abiff, is the “widow’s son” of Freemasonic myth. Tragedy stalked Hiram Abiff for he was murdered by three Fellow-Craftsmen when he would not reveal the secret Freemasonic word, the “Master’s Word,”which was engraved on a gold triangle he wore around his neck. Solomon found the triangle, and had it placed in a secret vault under the Temple. The retribution Solomon extracted from the fleeing murderers is the inspiration for the unholy blood oaths of entry into the first three degrees of Freemasonry.
In Freemasonic legend, the names of these murderers are Jubelo, Jubela and Jubelum, collectively described as the “Juwes.” The weapons used to murder Hiram Abiff, so legend relates, were a variety of temple-building tools, including a heavy maul. His body also went missing after the murder and the corpse of the Master Mason was sought by fifteen trusty Fellow Crafts. Forming themselves into three classes, or Fellow Craft Lodges, they departed the Temple and spent many fruitless days in their search for their beloved Master. Eventually, the second class uncovered the hastily made grave in which the body of Hiram was indecently interred. Solomon was told of the discovery and ordered the return of Hiram Abiff so that his body could be accorded proper respect due to one of his rank and exalted talents. According to Freemasonic lore, the three Juwes were hunted down and executed;
“… by the breast being torn open and the heart and vitals taken out and thrown over the left shoulder.”
. Freemasonry exalts Abiff as a near Christ-like figure. Mackey wrote:
“Hiram represents a popular Syrian god against whom the champions of Jehovah [the Jews] strove ceaselessly.”
According to other Freemasonic writers, Abiff personifies all of the pagan sun gods of antiquity. The symbolism behind this statement is that the Freemasons believe that the sun god was the builder of the Temple. Therefore, the Temple in this context, is itself symbolic, and should not be confused with the physical Temple built by the Israelites in Jerusalem. Albert Pike (1809-91) wrote in Morals and Dogma, that the:
“Temple of Solomon presented a symbolic image of the Universe; and resembled, in its arrangements and furniture, all the temples of the ancient nations that practised the mysteries.”
The concept of the Lodge is derived from the Classical World in which the builders of the wonders of antiquity organised themselves into groups, or guilds of mutual self-interest. For instance, in ancient Greece, they were called the “Dionysiacs,” and in Rome, the “Collegium Muriorum,” In the medieval world, these artisans who constructed the immense Gothic cathedrals, castles, abbeys and churches were called “masons.” Because they lived or “lodged” together in a fraternal way during the construction process, the term “Masonic lodge” was used to denote a meeting place of kindred souls. Another tradition in Freemasonry, arising from Irish Freemasons living in London, informs us that theFirst Grand Lodge of England met at York in 926 and there developed the hand signs and passwords with which to identify themselves. In 1751, a group of Irish Freemasons formed a rival Grand Lodgedue to a difficulty gaining entrance into Lodges in London. They claimed to be working “according to the old institutions granted by Prince Edwin at York in AD 926” and thus became known as theAntients Grand Lodge whilst referring to their older rival, the Grand Lodge formed in 1717, as”Moderns.”
The Irish Freemasons also asserted that the concept of the Lodge, wherein the initiations, rites, rituals, and ceremonies took place, was also formulated at the York conference. In this account, the occult group invested with “Institutions by Edwin at York” had, by the 13th century, grown to be an association that was centred at Cologne, with Lodges at Strasbourg, Vienna, and Zurich. Moreover, by this time, it had ceremonies for initiation and had started calling themselves Freemasons. By the seventeenth century, the non-workers called the “Accepted” Freemasons joined the artisans and soon outnumbered them in the Lodges. These “Accepted” Freemasons were usually distinguished members of the community, including the aristocrat, who joined for a variety of reasons, but the reinforcement of power and personal position within general society was the primary reason for most. The decline of Operative Masonry was reciprocated by the rise of the symbolic, Speculative element that caused most working masons and builders to leave. Soon even the well-healed Accepted Freemasons, these men of fashion, left the lodges set-up by the working men and formed their own gentlemen’s Lodges. This was the start of Freemasonry.
The Rosicrucian, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), was, in this account, recognised as the founder of Freemasonry bequeathing to it the secrets of the Rosicrucian Order of which he was the guiding light. These secrets were none other than the true universal knowledge, the Secret Doctrine of the Ages, which the Rosicrucians had safeguarded during the ravages of the Middle Ages and from the cruel eyes of the Roman Church. A secret society of intellectuals dedicated to civil and religious freedom had initiated Bacon who propagandised this agenda in several of his books. His book New Atlantis(1627) sets out the Ancient Agenda of the Secret Societies that had been working for thousands of years to achieve what it believed was the the ideal form of government for the nations of the world.
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Francis Bacon was an initiate into the Ancient Mysteries and charged by his Secret Masters to prepare the way for those who followed. They commanded him to lay the philosophical groundwork for the reordering of society .. InInstauratio Magna, Bacon revealed the Humanist Agenda to reorganise the sciences into thoroughly materialistic disciplines that would subdue Nature and extract her secrets thereby restoring man to the mastery over Nature that he lost following the Fall of Adam. In the Freemasonic tradition, Bacon was said to have written an unpublished sequel to New Atlantis which included details and timetables of how this “Great Plan” was to be accomplished. This sensitive document was kept secret by those aware of its importance. However, in 1653, his descendant Nathaniel Bacon transported it across the Atlantic Ocean, to the “New Atlantis” in North America, to Jamestown, where it was buried in Williamsburg, Virginia. Its resting place is supposedly in a great vault beneath the tower centre of the first brick church in Bruton Parish, now known as the Bruton Vault. The last person to view the contents of this vault and the secret document within was, according to legend, Thomas Jefferson
By the time Inigo Jones (1573-1652) had reorganised the English Lodges according to the genius of the Enlightenment, by introducing Descartean rationalism, “the Craft” had become known as the Free and Accepted Freemasons. The first record of the”making” of a Freemason in England is the Rosicrucian and antiquarian Elias Ashmole(1617-92), founder of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. He recorded in his diary that a Lodge met at his father-in-law’s house in Warrington, Cheshire on 16 October 1646 to make him a Freemason. None of those involved was a stonemason, which is evidence that at this time Freemasonry was a separate organisation unrelated to groups controlling the stonemason’s craft. In other words, at this time, Freemasonry was not directly related or associated with the ancient Guild of Masons: i.e. Freemasons are not or related to Craftmasons.
Ashmole established the three basic degrees of Freemasonry: the Entered Apprentice, the Fellow-Craft and the Master Mason. These entry grades were later called the Blue Lodge or Symbolic Lodge of Freemasonry. From here, this account of the origins of Freemason joins the three men at the Goose and Gridiron Ale House and thereby the orthodox version favoured by conservative gentlemen and publicists of the Lodge. Many myths swirl around the founding of Freemasonry some deliberately made opaque others distortions of the truth. We will now broach the Truth.
Freemasonry remains most popular in the British Isles, in other countries originally within the British Empire, and other nominally Protestant nations. Freemasonry’s avowed goals are to promote brotherhood amongst the diverse tribes of humankind. A laudable aim indeed, but it is not the only aim of Freemasonry. There is much hidden behind the aphorism beloved of Freemasons that their Craft is “a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.” The quaint symbolism of Freemasonry and the fraternal posturing of Freemasons masque the Luciferian roots and Dark secrets of Freemasonry. The “Grand Lodge Era” of English Freemasonry or Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry was deistic and politically conservative and Protestant by inclination. Many Lodge members were Protestant clergy and the bulk of Freemasons were predisposed toward the Hanoverian dynasty, which ruled the country, and antagonistic towards Catholicism. Anderson had stipulated in his Constitution that:
“A Mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the Moral Law: and if he rightly understands the Art, he will never be a stupid Atheist nor an irreligious libertine ….”
Therefore, in early Freemasonry outright Atheism was ostensibly taboo. The streams of consciousness that were commingled into Freemasonry came from very different sources. The ancient gnosis concerning the celestial hierarchies, which had been nurtured in the Orient and transmitted into Europe during the ninth century, was subsumed into a dogma that was eventually called Freemasonry. The demise of ancient Craftmasonry occurred in the beginning of the eighteenth century when their patrons among the aristocracy joined in the rituals in the lodges and underwent initiation themselves. Craftmasonry was a vehicle that carried ancient knowledge and the capacity for spiritual vision that the majority of humanity had lost. .
The Roman Church had effectively ruled that man did not possess a spirit, but merely consisted of body and soul. This pronouncement eradicated the conception of the individual spirit from the entelechy of man and anticipated the contraction of human consciousness that confined waking men to the terrestrial world. That is, the ancient picture consciousness had atrophied and the rational part of the brain had subsumed all into itself thereby presenting an arid dry sterile picture of reality to the waking self. The rejection of the individual spirit and the immersion in gross materialism that followed had literally closed the gates to the spiritual world for the mass of humanity. Vestiges of the ancient ways were retained in some occult Orders but the group that brought the traditions of initiation into modern times was Craftmasonry. Especially the New Dispensation founded upon the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross at Cavalry.
In 1727, the aristocrats who had poured into the lodges changed the passwords and thereby excluded Operative Freemasons from their own lodges. This act of theft was the moment when Freemasonry was born. The Craftmasons who worked raw stone into sublime structures, who encoded the ancient knowledge of Creation into their designs, and who left to future generations the secrets of evolution in the cathedrals they had built, were ousted from the Lodge. The dilettante, the gentleman, the aristocrat, the parvenu, the thief, the murderer and the idler ejected them. By this grave act, an unbroken line stretching back to the building of the Temple of King Solomon in Jerusalem was broken. The pristine nature and purpose of the original Craft lodges had been perverted by the new regime that had taken control of the Order.
The new Freemasonry offered its aristocratic members means to obtain spiritual knowledge and spiritual faculties, which exposed them to the workings of earthly power structures. This privileged class of men had witnessed their temporal power and prestige wither in the modern world as thepetite bourgeoisie rose up to snatch political control away from them. Exiled from real power, the aristocrat idled as landowners and courtiers. However, these new spiritual insights into the workings of the physical and supersensible world opened latent possibilities of great opportunity for political manipulation and power.
The inevitable occurred and men who had access to power became corrupted by the very power they craved. The spiritual faculties that had been guarded by the initiates of Craftmasonry, which they preserved for moral reasons, and intended to benefit all humanity, became the preserve of a privileged group. This group jealously guarded this new knowledge, the source of their power, and ruthlessly pursued political power and commercial gain for themselves. The Craft of Masonry had existed since the building of Solomon’s Temple c.960 BC and an unbroken line of skilled adepts had guided and trained their novices through every degree in the path of perceptive knowledge. This continuity was severed by the act of treachery by the first Freemasons who stole the rituals and observances from the Operative Freemasons, and excluded them from the Lodges. Ancient rituals that had served generations of initiates were refashioned and their true meaning and effects were lost. Sacred Rituals that were intended to guide the initiate into higher states of consciousness were devalued and abused by men who undertook them, knowing nothing of them and reciting them parrot-like, all for self-serving and selfish reasons.
The story continues….
These remains are from a third grave unearthed in central Bulgaria linked to the ritual, which was also apparently practised in Southwell, Nottinghamshire
A new archaeology report tells of the discovery of a skeleton, dating from 550-700AD, buried in the ancient minster town of Southwell (above) with metal spikes through its shoulders, heart and ankles
John Dee was an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, in particular, on the reform of the calendar. His activities in this area are described in an article on this website by Dr Robert Poole. What is not mentioned in that article is that (as shown by investigations by Simon Cassidy) Dee did not in fact propose the adoption of a modified form of the Gregorian Calendar (with the omission of 11 days instead of the Pope’s 10 days) but actually intended a quite different and superior calendar reform — an Elizabethan calendar with a 33-year cycle (based on the life of Jesus) including eight leap years and with the spring equinox always occurring on March 21 (provided the calendar was used at a certain meridian of longitude).
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