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from evil with the elixir of salvation. This elixir will purge all deceit, evil
and untruth.
In this elixir of salvation, we can see the Philosophers' Stone,
manna or dew. An early proto-Jesus also emerges from the amalgam of
Ahura Mazda's perfectly good son Spenta Mainyu and the virgin born
savior, the Saoshyant.
East of Harran is the famous Hierothesion temple, built by the
Commagene's most famous king, Antiochus I Epiphanes. He succeeded
his father Mithridates in about 69CE. The Hierothesion displays a
famous relief of Antiochus I shaking hands with Hercules in a way
familiar to Freemasons. An abundance of evidence leads to the
conclusion that Antiochus I was a leader of one of the mystery
brotherhoods of the Commagene, such as the fabled Sarmoung
Brotherhood. 491
Yet, there are many other possibilities of brotherhoods because
the religiously tolerant Persian nobles had widely settled the interior of
Anatolia after the invasion of King Cyrus in 546BCE. The successors of
Cyrus claimed divine kingship through the grace of Ahura Mazda. For
this reason the nobles would have enthusiastically supported the tolerant
Zoroastrian philosophy. This same tolerance saw the Jews repatriated to
Jerusalem, protected from the Samaritans and with sufficient funds to
rebuild the Second Temple.
Ostanes the Mede, Xerxes’ (519-465BCE) brother-in-law, was a
well-known Persian Magus and local administrator or satrap. Pliny the
Elder and Georgius Syncellus of the ninth century CE note that Ostanes
was known as the master of all magi, a father of alchemy and of
medicine, mineralogy and botany. He taught priests and philosophers at
Memphis in Egypt. 492 The great Jewish alchemist Maria the Jewess was
reputedly a student or fellow instructor of Ostanes. She gave her name to
the ubiquitous cafeteria bain-marie, the vessel of Mary. A cook fills a
bain-marie with hot or boiling water and then places another vessel in it to
slowly cook or keep hot.
Another prominent sect in the area was the School of the
Persians. Expelled from Edessa by the Romans in 489CE, the school
relocated to Nusaybin. 493
The Christian Emperor Justinian closed down Athens’ Platonic
Academy in 529CE. The philosophers Damascius and Simplicius
relocated close to Harran. Simplicius was a follower of Xenophanes’
Eleatic School. These philosophers would have greatly enriched society
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