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the North Façade shows Melchizedek again. An inside window of Paris’
Notre Dame Cathedral also shows alchemy in action. 577
The blessing of Abraham with holy bread and wine at Salem
suggests Salem was a special alchemical or metallurgy site from early
times. The Palestine campaign of Thutmose III indeed confirmed this in
1480BCE. Jerusalem, or Salem, was Kadesh or the Holy City and seen as
the most important city in Palestine long before King David made
Jerusalem his capital.
Chapter 9 described the ascendancy of the Pharisees over the
Melchizedekian Sadducees. This was a major change in the power
structure of religion in Israel. It marginalized the Melchizedek Priests,
who retired to the wilderness. The ever-vigilant Pharisees recorded in
Talmud that the heretical Melchizedekians continued to frequent Hebron
to visit Abraham’s cave of Machpelah. 578 The contents of the cave have
remained a mystery for eight hundred years. 579 The mosque that now
conceals it admits neither Jews nor Christians. Benjamin of Tudela
visited the cave in 1163CE and wrote that its innermost reaches contained
six sepulchers. Josephus noted that these were of the finest marble.
Perhaps a rabbinical tradition that formed part of an old lecture in the
Masonic Degree of Knight Rose Croix holds the key. It described how
Abraham discovered the sepulcher of Adam and Eve in a cave of the
Jebusites. 580 They were lying on couches with lamps burning before
them, which spread a rich perfume.
The Melchizedek traditions along with those of the Calebite Dog
Men were some of the very few to remain fresh with the remnant that
evaded the Exile in Babylon. 581 In about 750BCE Amos prophesized the
return from Exile with the Lord’s words: 582
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen,
and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins,
and I will build it as in the days of old: That they may possess the
remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my
name, saith the Lord that doeth this.
The Damascus Document then tells us that God: 583
Left a remnant to Israel, and did not give them over to
destruction. But in the Time of Wrath He visited them (three
hundred and ninety years after He had given them into the hands
of Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon). And He caused to
spring forth from Israel and Aaron a root of His planting to
inherit the land.
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