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Canaanite Ugaritic texts from the fourteenth century BCE call the
two pillars cutter-twins. They are the Asherah poles called Shacharu and
Shalim, meaning integration and completion respectively. 430 These two
pillars support the deathly net of Asherah, the most ancient of all mother
goddesses.
In De dea Syria, Lucian described the two large phalli at the door
of Astarte’s temple in Heirapolis. 431 These pillars were thirty fathoms
high and hollow. Each year, a sacred king climbed inside and worked his
way to the summit as a human sperm. There he conversed with the Gods
to ensure fertility of the land. This means the priests killed him and
ejaculated his blood through the phallus.
This pillar later became the Rosicrucian tower of Mysteries and
mason’s lodge room. The Degree of Heredom of Kilwinning, a prelude to
Knighthood of the Rosy Cross, led to the building of many humble follies
euphemistically called hunting towers. An excellent example of the tower
is Lord Anson’s Tower of the Winds at Shugborough Hall, with its
delightful baby-blue and gold ceiling based on Nero’s Golden House in
Rome. Another notable tower is Dane Holger Rosenkranz’ Pirkentavl
Tower in Denmark’s Rosenholm Castle, which dates from about 1600.
The tower or Heredom had the same esoteric role as God’s Mountain, the
place of testing, as did the Tholos at Delphi. The Rosicrucians briefly
described it in the Chymical Wedding by Christian Rosenkreutz, Knight
of the Golden Stone, 1459. 432 The Danes know the tower as the first
University of Jutland. It was an important library of Danish national
treasures with an alchemical laboratory in the basement. The Rosenkranz
family still tells of how Holger the Learned Rosenkranz and
Gyldenstierne from Møllerup (the neighbouring estate) met Shakespeare
in an English inn. They told Shakespeare that ghosts haunted
Gyldenstierne's guest room at Rosenholm. Shakespeare probably saw
there a copy of Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum (The Feats of the
Danes), dated about 1100 CE, and the Odyssey in which Ulysses’ son
Telemachus feigns a dullard and then like Horus killed Set, Telemachus
killed his uncle to prevent his mother marrying a second time. 433
Interestingly, the root Telemach contains Hamlet’s name, reversed.
Shakespeare decided to relocate his play from Greece to Denmark.
Macrobius described how the two pillars represent the portal od
the sun, Capricorn and Cancer, with the Milky Way between them. 434
One is the portal of men and the other the portal of the gods. It was
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