The Hiram Key

The Hiram Key
Jesus Christ: Man, God, Myth or Freemason?
doctrinal gulfs that had looked as though they might split the Eastern
Church away completely. The rulings that emerged still provide the
basis for most Church establishments today, covering many points of
detail such as when congregations should stand and when they should sit
during services. The central issue, however, was the problem of whether
~ u s the Christ was a man or a g9, and if he wereJndeed a god, what
was the Qrecise nature oLhis divinity?
The members of the Council had a major task in front of them which
must have tied their theological brains in knots. To find a logical solution
was painfully difficult: 'f there was only one God, how could Jesus be a
god without being that Go ~ ? And ifhe had been conceived inMary, then
it followed that there must have been a time when God was not born, so
1 there must be a senior deity who is not totally separate. This was
rationalised in Constantine's Gentile mind by explaining the relationship
as 'God the father' and a 'God the son'. This seems to us a pretty
poor conclusion because nobody believes that the y~ nd their own father
, are different manifestations of the same enti ~ if it were so there would
only be one human. as we are all from an almost infinitely long parenti
child lineage. he ine ~ Qable conc!!illQ.n is that Christianity is not a
monotheistic...religion at all1.it just deludes itself bY keeping its thinking
supremely muddled.
The Nicaean Council members also posed themselves the awkward
question, ''Iru;re must have been a God the Fath fore he built the
world .. but what could he have been doing. ~ he was all alone?' No
answer emerged but a century later St Augustine of Hippo neatly
suggested that ' ~ od hgd,Spent that time building a special hell for those
that ask such guestions!' l \ ~) ....
.t\P,!!S, a priest from Alexandria, was the champion of the non-god
lobby. He had argued tha!!esu, the Christ c uld not God becau~e .b!;.
as a man. God was God and it had to be blaspheJDQ.utlQJhink that Jesus
was divine b nature.; he could only have become divine through hi;'"
actions. Arius was an extremely clever theologian and he produced a
staggering array of scriptural argument to support his thesis that Christ
was a man. just as the members of the Council were. He was opposed by
another Alexandrian called Athanasius, who claimed th at ~ Father and
the Son were aradoxically) .. of one substance. opinion on the divinity
of Jesus the Christ was split and it had to be put to the vote. Arius lost. and
the penalty he paid for losing the ballot was that his name became
despised as synonymous with evil under the designation 'the Arius
Heresy' .
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Heresy had been an accusation readily but imprecisely thrown by onc
Christian group at another, but after Constantine took control its
meaning became crystal clear. In essence, th~ truth became what the
EmQCror said it w~; the rest was heresy, the work oi ~ 1. Many
scriptures were outlawed, and application of the label 'Gnostic' to them
effectively removed them from the now narrowly defined creed of
Christianity.
Interestingly, one of the most important documents not to come out of
the Council of Nicaea was the 'Donation of Constantine'. This was an
eighth-century discovery which purported to be Constantine's instruction
that the Church of Rome should have absolute authority in secular
affairs because St Peter, the successor to Jesus as leader of the Church,
had passed such authority to the bishop of Rome ]'hills now uniyeCJ!nlly ...
accepted to be a I?29r forge£Y. but despite thi§.lht;Roman.calholic Chur.£h
st ill cJi!!&up theJjghts that ~ ogus documen kC onfe ~ We'
should also mention at this point that he claim that Peter gave theJ eys of
eaven to the Pop£' is