The Hiram Key

More documents

Recommendations

Info

The Hiram Key In The Beginning Man Made God had been the common source of religious beliefs that had spread in the same way that language had done; developing to suit local preferences as it travelled but retaining an identifiable core. From the ruins of Nippur archaeologists have recovered many thousands of tablets that record the history of its people. Their early writing started out. as far as we know. around 3500 BC and in much the same way as language must have developed, fundamental objects such as head, hand and leg were the first items to be identified. These were easily recognised pictograms with a profile of the object, but quickly more symbolic words were created. The Sf. or a man was an e'aculating penis. looking very much like a candle. From that came the word for a male slave, which was the candle-shape with three triangles superimposed to represent hills. This denoted a stranger; Sumer had no hills and the only resident non-Sumerian males were slaves. The marks they made were created by pushing a stick into wet clay and this tended to give a broader indentation and deposit where the writing instrument started and finished a line. This triangular effect at each end of the line was later translated as a serif; the small marks that you can see on the extremities of the leiters on this page. It is not just the stylisti c treatment of our letters that stems from the land of Sumer; our very alphabet owes it much. The letter 'A', for example, derives from the image of a bull's head, which was a near triangle with two of the sides being overlong giving the impression of horns. This was first evolved by the Phoenicians, then entered early Greek where it looked like the bull's head on its side, for as the Greeks developed capitals in lheir alphabet the letter 'A' was rotated another ninety degrees and became 'alpha', a character very simil ar to our modem capital 'A', which is essentially a bull's head upside down. Today the English language sti ll contains a few almost pure Sumerian WOras, such as 3lcohol, cane:gypsum, myrrh and saffron. -- As well as passing down to us, amongst other things, the wheel. glass, our alphabet, our divisions of the time of day, mathematics. the art of - - building, the Sumerians ga,[e us something else: God. They also have provided us with the earliest written hi stories, and as Freemasons we were particularly interested in Sumerian references to Enoch, who is important in Masonic lore, and the Sumerian story of the great flood which figures so largely in the ritual of lhe Masonic Ark Mariners Degree. _ Etymologists have shown that the story of the Garden of Eden .. ~ " " Book of Genesis is the story ofSumer;moreover, cities such as Ur, Laesa 84 and Haram. mentioned in the Book of Genesis, were actually in the land of Sumer. Genesis gives us the creation story: 'In the beginning God created (he heaven and the earth. And the earth was without/onn, and void; and darkn ess was UpOIl theface 0/ the deep. And the Spirit 0/ God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light ... And God said, Let there beafirmament in the midst o/thewaters, and let it divide the waters/rom the waters. And God made thefinnament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so ... And God said, Let the walers under the heaven be gathered together umoone place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he seas ... And God said. Let (he earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind ... ' Compare this to an abstract from a Babylonian account of the creation known as 'Enuma Elish' from its first two words, meaning 'when on high'. It was written down in both Babylonian and Sumerian nearly a thousand years before Genesis and survives almost complete on seven cuneiform tablets: 'A ll lands were seQ. Then there was a movement on the midst of the sea; At that time Eridu was made ... Marduk laid a reed on the/ace of the waters, He formed dust and poured it out beside the reed. That he might cause the Gods to dwell in the dwelling of their heart's desire, He fo~d.nu;mkin.!l.JYJ1.hipuhL.go.des.Aruru _ . CIeatrd.Jhwwi..o/JI!!!llkilJ{i. The beasts 0/ the field and living things in the field he formed. The Tigris and the Euphrates he created and established in their place: Their name he proclaimed in goodly manner. The grass, the rush and the marsh, the reed and theJorest he created, The lands, the marshes and the swamps; The wild cow and her young, the lamb of the fold, Orchards and forests; The he-goat and the mountain-goat .. , The Lord Marduk built a dam beside the sea .. . Reeds he/armed, trees he created; Bricks he laid, buildings he erected; Houses he made. cities he built ... Ereeh he made .... This Mesopotamian epic of creation is without doubt the source of the 8S
The Hiram Key lege ~d , ex~rts, g~ civilisa ~s ~ of~o.I.>le f ~ r Genesis creation and it attributes to God all of the good things brought into existence by the remarkable Sumerians. The references to buildings being created by God did not carry through into the Israelite story because the nomadic nature of the Jews meant that the only cities they had lived in by the time the Book of Genesis came to be written down had been built by others; often taken after the original inhabitants had been put to the sword. The God of Genesis. Yahweh, did not come into existence for several hundred years after the writing of these "'CUneifonn tablets. = ... According to" many the o:J later are, develo[>men sot umenan ertl 1 an stonn gods. Couln this true? Certainly the storm god had a large part to play in the land ofSumer and the legend of Noah. The Sumerians saw nature as a living entity and the gods and goddesses were embodiments of the forces of that living • wi land; each had a part to play in the forces of nature. Some deities were resp9nsible for the fertilitr of the land and its people; others took responsibility for organising the storms which occurred. It was - obviously impp..ztant.for the continuance that the favour the feniliij' Ods should be actively sought; equally, given the devastating effects of their labours, the stonn gOds had to'be placated to preserve the Sumerian way' of life. It would have been a storm god with power over the weather caused the Great Rood which gave rise to the story of Noah, "",'-;;:; Freemasons we were n
Page 1 and 2: The Hiram Key I Christopher Knight
Page 3 and 4: Acknowledgements First published by
Page 5 and 6: Hiram Key Truth Within the Heresies
Page 7 and 8: ...- -_.._.. ---" Introduction Theb
Page 9 and 10: --- _._-J_ ._-". __ ... J Sheer Poi
Page 11 and 12: ·..-.... _... ---.. 'I do.' 'Then
Page 13 and 14: _ •• - --_. --_. --- - J ••
Page 15 and 16: The Hiram Key into that most intere
Page 17 and 18: The Hiram Key .Roman Ea ~ and has t
Page 19 and 20: --...... ---., one's wife or daught
Page 21 and 22: The Knights Temp/ar The Beginnings
Page 23 and 24: 31 The Hiram Key correct but, of co
Page 25 and 26: Order and were themselves priests.
Page 27 and 28: The Hiram Key The Gnostic Connectio
Page 29 and 30: The Hiram Key reason for our perusa
Page 31 and 32: The Hiram Key it today, it would tr
Page 33 and 34: \ The Hiram Key meaning precisely '
Page 35 and 36: 54 55 The Hiram Key Dead Sea Scroll
Page 37 and 38: The Hiram Key point in their bodily
Page 39 and 40: The Hiram Key Jesus Christ: Man, Go
Page 41 and 42: The Hiram Key coincidence it was He
Page 43 and 44: The Hiram Key own bizarre behaviour
Page 49: The Hiram Key In The Beginning Mall
Page 53 and 54: The Hiram Key In 1 ne Degmrlmg lY1U
Page 55 and 56: The Hiram Key In The Beginning Man
Page 57 and 58: Chapter Seven The Legacy of The Egy
Page 59 and 60: The Hiram Key The Legacy of The Egy
Page 61 and 62: longside Ma'at. Our interest arose
Page 63 and 64: The Hiram Key The Legacy of The Egy
Page 65 and 66: The Hiram Key The Legacy of Tire Eg
Page 67 and 68: The Hiram Key incarnation of Ho ~ s
Page 69 and 70: The Hiram Key potential solution to
Page 71 and 72: The Hiram Key The First Freemason a
Page 73 and 74: Jhe First I'reemason The story of J
Page 75 and 76: The Hiram Key who was armed with a
Page 77 and 78: The Hiram Key The First Freemason c
Page 79 and 80: ~'J olrum n.t:y incision and all in
Page 81 and 82: The Hiram Key spent large periods o
Page 83 and 84: The Firsl Freemason CONCLUSION Focu
Page 85 and 86: l fit: UI,.,fl Uj Juaal,sm inventio
Page 87 and 88: The Hiram Key cenO"al theme for the
Page 89 and 90: Hie Ntram Key The Birth oj Judaism
Page 91 and 92: , "'" " .. " ' " S\.f: Y relatively
Page 93 and 94: A Thousand Years OJ ~ tru gle Chapt
Page 95 and 96: The Hiram Key not been put to the s
Page 97 and 98: The Hiram Key ceremony was conducte
Page 100 and 101:
...... --,-, .... - 4 ABOVE LEFT A
Page 102 and 103:
, , '" , , ..... ,.,. , " '., ' . ,
Page 104 and 105:
~I\ 13 ABOVE LEFT 'Jubelo'. "~ \ ~
Page 107 and 108:
21 The drawing of 'Heavenly Jerusal
Page 109 and 110:
24 The so-called Rosslyn Chapel is
Page 111 and 112:
-- ,,- .. ' I .;. ,-:-- - -.
Page 113 and 114:
The Hiram Key purify her from all u
Page 115 and 116:
...... ~" .. ". '~ ".f beautiful; c
Page 117 and 118:
lhe Hiram Key ritual conferring a '
Page 119 and 120:
4 .... ....... ~ ... "" " ... " ...
Page 121 and 122:
The Hiram Key founding of Qumran. T
Page 123 and 124:
The Hiram Key literalism of Greek t
Page 125 and 126:
The Hiram Key Dis described only on
Page 127 and 128:
The Hiram Key The left-hand pillar
Page 129 and 130:
f }fIe Hiram Key sem~dliw after tha
Page 131 and 132:
The Man Who Turned Water into Wine
Page 133 and 134:
The Hiram Key Roman rule. We found
Page 135 and 136:
The Hiram Key Oavidic king of the J
Page 137 and 138:
- The Hiram Key 'Blessed are yOIl w
Page 139 and 140:
The Hiram Key gateway. As Jesus pra
Page 141 and 142:
I I The Hiram Key 'He took a knife
Page 143 and 144:
The Hiram Key The Mall Who Turn ed
Page 145 and 146:
The Hiram Key So free from sin and
Page 147 and 148:
The Hiram Key The Mati Who Turned W
Page 149 and 150:
The Hiram Key The Man Who Tumed Wat
Page 151 and 152:
The Hiram Key Even the name Qumran,
Page 153 and 154:
J lie HIram Key starting to feel th
Page 155 and 156:
lhe Hiram Key The Resurrection brin
Page 157 and 158:
The Hiram Key their own pillars and
Page 159 and 160:
The Hiram Key The Resurrection glor
Page 161 and 162:
The Hiram Key rivalling or surpassi
Page 163 and 164:
The Hiram Key Christian faith, ever
Page 165 and 166:
The Hiram Key The Truth Breaks Free
Page 167 and 168:
nJe Hiram Key 71w T,."lh Breaks Fre
Page 169 and 170:
The Hiram Key The Truth Breaks Free
Page 171 and 172:
The Hiram Key The Lost Scrolls Redi
Page 173 and 174:
300 301 The Hiram Key It also gives
Page 175 and 176:
304 The Hiram Key To get a better v
Page 177 and 178:
The Hiram Key knights had found the
Page 179 and 180:
Page 181 and 182:
Page 183 and 184:
J ne nlram /{ey The Losf Scrolls Re
Page 185 and 186:
~ ~=- Lodge members, two clergymen,
Page 187 and 188:
The Hiram Key proud stonemasons had
Page 189 and 190:
I. a classification of sciences. 2.
Page 191 and 192:
I ne HIram Key Appendix I The Old C
Page 193 and 194:
The Hiram Key Appelldix J 'Shame on
Page 195 and 196:
The Hiram Key Appendix I Lancashire
Page 197 and 198:
JJre Hiram Key Appendix I for biolo
Page 199 and 200:
Tile Hiram Key Montague resigned as
Page 201 and 202:
The Hiram Key lefs pleafing to know
Page 203 and 204:
The Hiram Key 1752- 53 Lord Carysfo
Page 205 and 206:
The Hiram Key Appendix 5 1786 1780
Page 207 and 208:
1 fit: rurum hey ttl'lJerlUIA J 175
Page 209 and 210:
13th October 1307, 33, 288 A-user-r
Page 211 and 212:
Lost SecrelS, 17, 270 Masonic Curse
Page 213 and 214:
index Tile Hiram Key 163, 167, 168,
Page 215:
Inat:.x Warrington, 343 Waset,l02 W
show all

The Hiram Key

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?