The Hiram Key

The Hiram Key
Elsewhere we could see many other recognisable plants ancleveIY.where
there were manifestations of the 'green man', the Celtic figure that
reptesented fertility. Over a hundred 'green men' have been counted but it
is believed that there are even more subtly peeping out of the vegetation.
Rosslyn Chapel is a remarkable and magical place. It links Christiani!y
with ancient Celtic folklore and Templarism Freemasonry. We kne;'
-with certainty that this would not be our last visit to this unique building.
Chapter Six
In The Beginning Man Made God
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Everything we had discovered about the EsseneslNasoreans seemed to
exhibitStriking lin with Freemasonry; the unexpected revelation that a
sect descended from the Mandaeans still exists in Iraq threw out more
parallels. One line of research had unexpectedly taken us to a building in
Scotland which displayed tantalisingFreemasonffemplar imagery. But to
understand the Nasoreans fully, we knew that we had to go back as far in
time as possible to unravel the initial threads of our mystery: we needed to
find out where the key elements of the Jewish religion first appeared.
CONCLUSION
Having found that the Qumranians and Jesus himself had some strong
connections with the TemQlars andr reemasonry. we now wanted to
know the origin of their beliefs and rituals. The people of Qumran were a
distillation of everything that can be described as Jewish. yet there was
obviously far more to their structure and belief system than can be
attributed to the Old Testament.
Once again we were lost for a next step in our research. Just as we had
had to leap back to the period of Jesus in the hope of finding an
explanation for Templar beliefs. we now had to go back in time once
again to reconstruct the theology of the Jews. Therituals of Freemasonry
might have been invented by the Qumranians. but we somehow felt sure
that they must be much. much older.
We decided to go back as far as it is possible to go. then work forward,
so that we could better understand the driving passions of the Qumranian
mind.
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The Garden or Eden
Having decided that we needed to understand the hi story and evolution
of Jewish religious beliefs, we turned our attention to something vital to
all ~ivilisations. -language. The : vidence is that most lan~a B e ~ . of the
Indian subcontment. western ASI!t =turo
anc!...P.arts of North Africa
stem from a cornman, ancient source. The commonalities of hundreds of
tongues have proven the point It seemed to us that the same might apply
to religion. because as people spread out, tiling their languages with
them, they are bound to have taken tlt~ir It:gt:nds and their gods as well.
The connections between apparently different relig!ons cant we believe.
reveal linkages just as clear as those found by philologists (those who
study the development of language). -
The Origins of language have been sought for thousands of years.
Many early peoples supposed that language was of divine origin, and
that if one could discover the first or purest form of speech, one ""Would
have found the lexicon of the gods. Many 'experiments' have been
conducted to find this primeval tongue. including one by Psamtik: "
Pharaoh of Egypt in the seventh century Be, who had two children
brought up to hear no spoken word in the hope that they would
instinctively develop the pure and godlike language .• Ther are said to
have spontaneously spoken Phrygian, an ancient language from Asia
Minor. The same experiment was carried out more than two thousand
years later by King James rv of Scotland with the resulting language
being. equally unconvincingly, Hebrew.
The first language from which virtually all subsequent tongues of the
Old World sprang has been labelled. rather unpoetically. Proto-Indo­
European. This has been shown to be the common source of Urdu,
French, Punjabi, Persian, Polish, Czech, Gaelic, Greek, Lithuanian.
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