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The King Who Built the Lodge System 327 The Architects of the Second Degree 331 The New Heresy 333 The Old Charges 336 The Rise of the Republicans 342 The Royal Society Emerges 346 Freemasonry Finds Its Feet 348 The Spread of Freemasonry 35 1 The Development of Masonry in America 354 Appendix 2: Pre-1710 Masonic Lodges in Scotland with Date of the First Recorded Mention 358 Appendix 3: Early Grand Masters of English Freemasonry 359 Appendix 4: Early Grand Masters of Scottish Freemasonry 361 Appendix 5: Chronology 363 Appendix 6: Maps 369 Index 372 PHOTO CREDITS - PLATE SECTION C W. Oro Alan AIkins I. 2, 3, 7, 8, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29. C Iilliotl Smith, The Royal Mummies (1909) - copied by W. Bra Alan Atkin, 9,10, II , 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 1# listate of the late John M. Allegro 17,18. o University o/Ghent Library 21. 22. "Colorado Shroud Cenlre 19, CO R J Lomas 29,30, 31. Authors' own collection 4,5,6,20. OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS (1 289 Drawing of the Westford knight taken from an original by Frank Glynn x xi
...- -_.._.. ---" Introduction Thebes to Jerusalem, we uncovered its role in the building of the Hebrew Ilollon and in the evolution of Jewish theology. In startling contrast to what is currently held to be fact, the Western world actually developed according to a very ancient philosophy ('11 coded into a secret system that has come to the surface at three key moments over the last three thousand years. The final proof of our findings may well tum out to be the lacigoloenh~ find of the century. We have located the secret scrolls of Jesus and his followers. Henry Ford once declared that 'all history is bunk'. It may have sounded a liUle abrupt but when it comes to the 'facts' of the past which most Westerners are taught in school, it turns out that Me Ford was right. Our starting point was a private piece of research to find the origins of Freemasonry - the world's largest society that today has almost five million male members in regular Lodges and has in the past included many great men amongst its number, from Mozart to Henry Ford. ~ Freemasons. OUT goal was to try to understand a little about the meaning of Masonic ritual: those strange, secret ceremonies carried out by mainly middle·c1ass, middle-aged men from Huddersfield to Houston. At the centre of Masonic lore is a character called Hiram Abif who. according to a story told to every Freemason, was murdered almost three thousand years ago at the building of King Solomon's Temple. This man is a total enigma. Hi s role as the builder of King Solomon's Temple and the circumstances of hi s horrible death are clearly described in Masonic history, yet he is not mentioned in the Old Testament. f2ll2:ur of the six ears we ~ nt working o~this research .. we believed that Hiram Abif was a symbolic creation. But then he materialised out of the mists of time _to prove hi self very real indeed._ - Once Hiram Abif emerged from the distant past, he provided nothing less than a new key to Western history. The intellectuaJ contortions and laboured conclusions that have previously formed Western society'S collective view of the past gave way to simple and logical order. Our researches led us first to reconstructing the ancient Egyptian king~ making ritual of four thousand years ago; that in tum ~ u s to u!!.cover an ~ ination that took ~Iace around J 570 Be, which gave rise to a resurrection ceremony that is the direct antecedent of modem Freemasonry. As we tracked the development of this secret ritual from XII xiii
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