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Midrash, the Messiah will have the reverse parentage to Samson. The
Messiah would come from Judah and his mother will be of the Tribe of
Dan. 1054
Returning to groups that used the rose as their symbol, we turn to
the Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion. Claude Antoine Thory, the famous
French Masonic Historian who co-founded the Rite Ecossaise
Philosophique in 1775, tells us that the Essenes and Jews founded a
School of Solomonic Wisdom in Alexandria. 1055 The School later divided
into a variety of Orders known as the Conservers of the Mosaic Secrets,
the Hermetic Secrets etc.
This School reunited with Ormus. According to the French Rite
of Memphis, Ormus was an Egyptian priest in Alexandria baptized by St.
Mark in 46CE. 1056 His school was probably the sole trustee of the ancient
doctrines of Egypt. The Knights Templar received these secrets from the
Knights of Palestine, the latter day followers of Ormus. 1057
It is worth briefly diverting to understand the Rite of Memphis,
which identified Ormus. Marconis was inspired to create his own system
of ninety degrees in 1839 called the Rite of Memphis. It was essentially
the defunct Rite of Mizraim, which probably dissolved because the final
parts of its ritual had become unacceptably occult. 1058 While initially the
Grand Orient of France supported the Rite of Memphis, it ultimately
suspended this rite as well. The exoteric portion of the Rites of Memphis
and Mizraim became the Ordo Templi Orientis. The Hermetic
Brotherhood of Light reserved the more occult inner teachings. The two
orders merged by about 1917.
Notwithstanding the passing of the Rites of Mizram and Memphis,
these degrees quite possibly included elements of scarce Rosicrucian
histories gleaned by the Jesuits, such as the Initiation of Plato. 1059
While Ormus may have been an Egyptian priest, his name is
likely to be an abbreviation for Ahura Mazda in the same way as
Ohrmazd. 1060 In other words, his School reunited with the religion of
Ormus, the Good Religion of Zoroaster. The symbol adopted by the
Conservers of the Hermetic Secrets was a rose on a cross. 1061
The Prieure du Notre Dame du Sion claims its original foundation
in this Alexandrian School of Wisdom. However, the mediaeval form
dates from about 1090CE and later became public when the Knights
Templar annexed it to accommodate Jews and Muslims within their
Christian organization. 1062 By this time, the Prieure du Notre Dame du
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