The Hiram Key

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The Hiram Key
hand-in-hand to achieve the final victory of Yahweh and His chosen
people. A kingly messiah from the tribe of Judah, the royal line ofDavid, /
would bejoined by a priestly messiah from the tribe of Levi. This was
expected because according to tradition, Jewi sh.pri~ t s had to .. be I&vites.
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This theory assumes that at the point of the trial both messiahs had been
arrested and charged with causing civil insurrection. The Jesus from the
royal line of Judah was held and died on the cross whilst the Jesus from
the priestly line of Levi went free.
Which was which? The Jesus who was born to Mary claimed to be a
messiah because he came from the royal line of David, and was
,supposedLyj>om in Daxid.:s.cdty ~ etbJ em. However, as can be read
in the opening verses of the New Testament, this descent, through a
string of 'begets', is !lased uQQ.n the genealogx of Mary's husband Joseph
who was not, according to Christian belief, the father of Jesus. A cruel
twi st of cold logic - if he was the son of God, he could not be the royal
messiah!
The Jesus born to Mary could not technically be a kingly messiah, but
he could possibly be the priestly version: .his motheusJmocwn to be a
.re.ktiP hn the Ba tist who was a Levite~ so Jesl!!..must havt;" had
.u)lne .Leyj t ~ lod himself. If thi s esus ha ollowed thi s argument it
would be clear that it was not he who died on the cross.
In this 'double Jesus' situation we had come across an obvious flaw in
the Chri sti an story of the messiah, but apart from discussing these two
scenarios as possible solutions we could get no further at this point. It
was not until we had unlocked a deeper Masonic riddle that the real
solution became clear; this we will cover later in the book.
The Principal Groups of Jerusalem
The three principal groups amongst the population of Judaea in the first
century were Sadducees, Pharisees and the Essenes. The first two are
defined in the footnotes of the Douai Bible as follows:
'Pharisees and Sadducees. These were the two sects among the
Jews: of which the former were for the most paT1 notorious
hypocrites; the latter, a kind offreethinkers in matters o/religion.'
For such a little piece of information the degree of ina{;{;uracy is
remarkable.
The Sadducees were, by established right, the priestly and aristocratic
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bureaucracy of Jerusalem. They were very conservative in their religious
views, not believing in any existence beyond the grave and they no doubt
considered the complex views and actions of the Pharisees to be the work
of superstitious fools. In most respects they ran the country according 10
Roman requirements rather than Jewish ones; they were what we now
call Quislings. They maintained the freedom of the individual to shape
his own destiny and unlike the Pharisees they believed that history took
its own course rathe! than being a part of some divine Ian. I st they
were wealthy and of high social standing they were boori sh, rude and
extremely hard on anyone who broke the Jawor interfered with their
administration. They were not men of ideas or ideals but they kepI the
country running whilst looking after the status quo which was to their
advantage. To be fair. they were probably not much different to the
rul ing classes in most countries before and si nce. but to call them 'free
thinkers in matters of religion' is about as far from the truth as one can
get.
The Pharisees, on the other hand, were not, snictly speaking priests at
all. but were devoted to the Law and constantly tried to apply it in every
avenue ofJife. To assist them in this search for fu]filment of the Law they
had developed a tradition of interpretation by which all actions were
minutely regulated. They set high standards which became the landmarks
of modern orthodox Judaism, and whether one shares their beliefs
or not they were impressively single-minded. Traditionally, all worship
of Yahweh had been restricted to occurring in His Divine Presence in the
Temple at Jerusalem under the control of the high priest, but the
Pharisees created (he opportunity for the eventual evolution of the
structure of the rabbi and the sy nagogue, as a basis for Jews everywhere
to have access to God.
Today the fears and the hopes of the Pharisees live on in the form of
Orthodox Judaism. Throughout the entire world Orthodox Jews will not
conduct business on the Sabbath, neither will they drive a motorcar, use
public transport. push a baby buggy, sew or mend, watch television,
cook or squeeze out a sponge, press a doorbell or use a lift. Recently a
Jewish manager of a kosher hotel in the southern English holiday reson
of Boumemouth was sacked for operating the electrical switch to
activate acentraJ heating system on a Saturday morning. The fact that his
guests were QOssi bly about to die from hypothermia was no excuse (or
this blatant abuse of the Law, which stems from the fact that the Torah.
the book of Jewish law, forbids the 'kindling of fires' on the Sabbath.
The Essenes remained a less understood group until 1947, when the