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Knights_Templar
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History of_the
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First Crusade |
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Originally their stated mission was to protect
pilgrims on their journey to visit
The Holy Places. They approached King
Baldwin II of Jerusalem, who allowed them to set up
headquarters on the southeastern side of the
Temple Mount, inside the
Al Aqsa Mosque. |
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The Temple Mount is sacred to the
Jews,
Christians, and
Muslims, as an important location throughout
history. It is believed to be the location of the ruins
of the
Temple of Solomon, the legendary storage place for
the
Ark of the Covenant, and the probable
Mount Moriah, where Abraham is said to have come to
sacrifice his son Isaac. It is also an important
location to Muslims. At that location in the 7th
Century, Caliph
Abd al-Malik had built a major Islamic shrine, the
Dome of the Rock, at the center of which was the
rock from which
Muhammad had, as described in legend, briefly
ascended to heaven to receive the Islamic prayers. |
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Rumors about the Templars' secret initiation ceremony
created mistrust, and King
Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order,
began pressuring
Pope Clement V to take action. On Friday, October
13, 1307, King Philip had many of the Order's members in
France arrested, tortured into "confessions", and burned
at the stake. In 1312, Pope Clement, under continuing
pressure from King Philip, forcibly disbanded the entire
Order. |
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Most, however, were not so brutal as the French. In
England many Knights were arrested and tried, but not
found guilty.
Much of the Templar property outside of France was
transferred by the Pope to the Knights Hospitaller, and
many surviving Templars were also accepted into the
Hospitallers. In
Spain, where the king of
Aragon was against giving the heritage of the
Templars to
Hospitallers (as commanded by Clement V), the
Order of Montesa took Templar assets. |
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Little is known about what became of the Templar's fleet
of ships. There is record of 18 Templar ships being in
port at
La Rochelle, France on October 12, 1307 (the day
before
Friday the 13th). But the next day, the fleet had
vanished. |
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The order continued to exist in
Portugal, simply changing its name to the
Order of Christ. This group was believed to have
contributed to the first naval discoveries of the
Portuguese. Prince
Henry the Navigator led the Portuguese order for 20
years until the time of his death. |
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In the end, the only three accused of heresy directly by
the papal commission were
Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights
Templar, and his two immediate subordinates; they were
to renounce their heresy publicly, when de Molay
regained his courage and proclaimed the order's and his
innocence along with
Geoffrey de Charney. The two were arrested by French
authorities as relapsed heretics and
burned at the stake in 1314. |
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The denomination with the longest history of objection
to Freemasonry is the Catholic Church. The objections
raised by the Catholic Church are based on the
allegation that Masonry teaches a naturalistic
deistic religion which is in conflict with Church
doctrine.[51]
A number of Papal pronouncements have been issued
against Freemasonry. The first was
Pope Clement XII's
In Eminenti,
April 28,
1738; the most recent was
Pope Leo XIII's
Ab Apostolici,
October 15,
1890. The 1917
Code of Canon Law explicitly declared that joining
Freemasonry entailed automatic
excommunication.[52]
The 1917 Code of Canon Law also forbade books friendly
to Freemasonry. |
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Freemasonry
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Washington
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Manly Palmer Hall
wrote highly regarded "The Secret Teachings of All Ages:
An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic,
Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy", in
1928 when he was just 27 years old. |
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Benjamin Franklin
As a leader of the
Enlightenment, he gained the recognition of
scientists and intellectuals across Europe. His success
in securing French military and financial aid was a
great contributor to the American victory over
Britain. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787,
when the convention seemed headed for disaster due to a
vitoral debate, the elderly Franklin displayed his
conviction that was intimately involved in human affairs
by requesting that each day's session begin with
prayers. Franklin recalled the days of the Revolutionary
War, when the American leaders assembled in prayer
daily, seeking "divine guidance" from the "Father of
lights." He then rhetorically asked, "And have we now
forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we
no longer need his assistance?"
[16]. the only Founding Father who signed all four
of the documents that created our republic; -the
Declaration of Independence,
-the treaty with France,
-the peace treaty with Britain,
and -the Constitution. |
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Ankh is
known as the Egyptian Cross, the key of life
giving a symbolic
representation of both Physical and Eternal
life. It is also known as the original cross |
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Pythagoreans |
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Elysium |
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Adam Weishaupt
founded the Order of
Illuminati. radical offshoot of
The Enlightenment, and became increasingly liberal
in his religious and political views, favoring
deism and a kind of millennial natural order that
swept aside states and organized religion. A century
after his death,
occultist interest in Weishaupt and the Bavarian
Illuminati picked up through the writings of
Aleister Crowley. |
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No Sin in Symbols |
Symbols of Freemasonry @ altreligion
.about.com |
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Freemasonry: The Legacy of the Ancient Egyptians
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The Triple Tau important symbol of Royal
Arch Masonry |
---Stargate
city
---Biblio
tecapleyades.net-a symbolic and geometric link
between the area of Washington D.C., the capital of the
United States, and the area on Mars known as Cydonia ["exposing
the lies and evils of Freemasonry"]
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Museum of Antiquities in Newcastle-on-Tyne
Scotland
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Masons Ancient Egyptian Origins @ tribes.tribe.net |
Sacred number Dictionary @ experience
festival.com |
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FREEMASONRY FOR WOMEN |
Freemasons $ 2012 @ soulsof
distortion.nl |
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Speak aloud the word "three" in English or most
any language past or present and you'll hear its relation to
words like "through" and "threshold" and the prefix trans
("across," "penetrate"). The leap to "three," as its linguistic
root tells us, takes us over a threshold and through past
polarized limits of the Dyad. Whenever there are three, as the
three knights, three musketeers, three wise men, or three
wishes, there is throughness, rebirth, transformation, and
success.
---Michael S. Schneider author A Beginner's Guide to
Constructing the Universe, |
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MASONRY ON YOUTUBE
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The Origin of
Black Friday ---Friday the 13th
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On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip had
many of the Order's members in France arrested,
tortured into "confessions", and burned at the
stake. In 1312, Pope Clement, under continuing
pressure from King Philip, forcibly disbanded
the entire Order.
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On
October 13, 2007, the 700th anniversary
of Black Friday the 13th, The Vatican
declared Knights Templar innocent of the
crimes for which their leaders were
burned at the stake and the order
disbanded. |
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That the 13th day of the
month, when a Friday is particularly
unlucky may belong to another age. The
space age is often considered the event
to mark the new
Aquarian great age we are
inaugurating now. In 1970, the Apollo 13
lunar spacecraft experienced an
explosion that almost wrecked it. Yet it
returned to Earth safely, unlike any
other manned spacecraft that has
exploded.
The Apollo
13 spacecraft, was named 'Aquarius' the
event occurred at 1:13 in the afternoon
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On October 13, 2007 the
Vatican announced it is publishing only 799
copies of the minutes of trials against the
Templars, Processus Contra Templarios - Papal
Inquiry into the Trial of the Templars, which
will sell for €5,900 (£4,115).
A letter to the Pope from
living descendents of the Templars appeared in
the press in 2004. "We shall witness the 700th
anniversary of the persecution of our order on
13th October 2007," the letter said. "It would
be just and fitting for the Vatican to
acknowledge our grievance in advance of this day
of mourning."
On 25 October 2007, exactly 13 days from the
morning of the anniversary, an official document
will be released by the Vatican absolving the
Knights Templar and confirming their innocence.
Until now official Church
history had written the Knights off as corrupt
heretics.
The documents that reprieve
the Knights Templar, the stormtroopers of the
Crusades - from accusations of heresy are the
minutes of the trials that led to the disbanding
of the order. They were discovered by chance in
the Vatican archives in 2001. The records show
that Pope Clement V did not believe they were
heretics but that the order should be suppressed
for the good of the Church.
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Two Templars burned at the stake, from a
French 15th century manuscript.So widely was
the injustice of Philip's rage against the
Templars perceived that the "Curse of the
Templars" became legend: Reputedly uttered
by the Grand Master Jacques de Molay
upon the stake whence he burned, he adjured:
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"Within one year, God
will summon both Clement and Philip
to His Judgment for these actions."
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The fact that both rulers
died within a year, as predicted, only
heightened the scandal surrounding the
suppression of the Order. |
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Mithraism was a religion with no
dogma, no "original sin," no revelation, no history of
"miracles," totally tolerant, stressing benevolence,
possessing ranks as (secret) initiation rites in
consecrated Mithraism--and barring women.
A central story of Masonry concerns
Soloman's Temple where the Knights of
Masonry is the preservation of an ancient system of
esoteric knowledge with four principle ideas;
belief in one God, a teaching of Immortality, a symbolic
idea of building, and a seeking after something which
was lost.
Indeed these characteristics in Masonry are found not
just in the Mysteries of Mithras but also among the
Ancient Egyptians in the mysteries of Osiris, where it
is said Moses was initiated into the solemn rites by the
powerful priesthood which antedated the return of the
chosen people of God; within the old Persian Mysteries
of Mithras as administered by the Magi, the conception
of rebirth and life after death is strong within
Dionysian Mysteries of Greece which was practiced
throughout the Mediterranean and probably carried by the
workmen of Tyre into Jerusalem when Solomon's temple was
built on Mount Moriah. We also find these four
characteristics in the mysteries of Bacchus in early
Rome; later in the Roman Collegia of Builders; and in
the teachings of the peaceful Essenes along the Jordan,
who played a dominant role in the ideas of John the
Baptist and Jesus.
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Ban on Roman Catholics joining Masonic
Lodges
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In 1983, the Church issued a new Code of Canon
Law. Unlike its predecessor, it did not
explicitly name Masonic orders among the secret
societies it condemns. It states in part: "A
person who joins an association which plots
against the Church is to be punished with a just
penalty; one who promotes or takes office in
such an association is to be punished with an
interdict."
This omission caused both Catholics and
Freemasons to believe that the ban on Catholics
becoming Freemasons may have been lifted,
especially after the perceived liberalisation of
Vatican II.[53]
However, the matter was clarified
when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later
Pope Benedict XVI), as the Prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
issued
Quaesitum est, which states:
"...the Church’s negative judgment in regard
to Masonic association remains unchanged since
their principles have always been considered
irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church
and therefore membership in them remains
forbidden. The faithful who enroll in Masonic
associations are in a state of grave sin and may
not receive Holy Communion."
Thus, from a Catholic perspective, there is
still a ban on Catholics joining Masonic Lodges.
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For its part, Freemasonry has never objected to
Catholics joining their fraternity and while up until
recently have not been interested in explaining their
secrets have always been forthright in denying the
Church's claims and stating that they explicitly adhere
to the principle that "Freemasonry is not a religion,
nor a substitute for religion."[46]
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The
Secret Teachings
of ALL AGES
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 "The
explorers who opened the New World operated from
a master plan and were agents of re-discovery
rather then discoverers. Time will reveal that
the continent now known as America was actually
discovered and, to a considerable degree,
explored more than a thousand years before the
beginning of the Christian era. The true story
was in the keeping of the Mystery Schools, and
passed from them to the Secret Societies of the
Medieval world. The Esoteric Orders of Europe,
Asia, and the Near East were in at least
irregular communication with the priesthoods of
the more advanced Amerindian nations. Plans for
the development of the Western Hemisphere were
formulated in Alexandria, Mecca, Delhi, and
Lhasa (in Tibet) long before most European
statesmen were aware of the great Utopian
program."
- Manly P. Hall |
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"A government is like
fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
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On September 18, 1783, President George
Washington dressed in his Masonic apron, leveled the
cornerstone of the United States Capitol with the traditional
Masonic ceremony. Eight signers of the Declaration of
Independence were Freemasons: Benjamin Franklin, Robert Treat
Paine, John Hancock, Richard Stockton, Joseph Hewes, George
Walton, William Hooper, and William Whipple. |
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As
above, so is below
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Washington DC |
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When
constructed, the Washingtom monument
was the tallest building in the world.
It is still the tallest building in
Washington, D.C. as a 1910 law restricts
new building heights to no more than 20
feet (6 m) greater than the width of the
adjacent street. |
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The layout of
Washington D.C. was done in precise accords with
Masonic symbolism and offers one of the better
links of the group with the Egyptian wisdom
embodied in the
Great Pyramid.
The White House is situated at the tip of a
large compass created by Vermont Avenue and
Connecticut Avenue as they lead north. Of
course, the emblem of Freemasonry is a
compass overlapping a square (the tool). Two
right triangles meet exactly between Connecticut
Avenue and Vermont Avenue at 16th Street. The
Washington Monument (phallic symbol) is
positioned precisely south from where the two
right triangles meet, and the tip of the compass
at the White House
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crosspiece at the top of the upright is
known as the Cross of St. Anthony or as
the Crux Commissa. This cross is also
known as the Tau Cross, because it looks
like the Greek letter tau which is the
same as the T in our alphabet. In this
form, the cross symbolizes the triumph
of Man's spiritual nature over his
physical nature. |
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Temple at the top
of the Narmer Plate
NB: Tau and H
(H = Double Tau)
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Triple Tau: The
Temple of Jerusalem
NB: Tau and H
(H = Double Tau) |
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the
Triple Tau,
is a Trinity symbol. Christians
interpreted the symbol as “Holiness
supporting Trinity”. it is also
said to mean Clavis ad Thesaurum - "A
key to the treasure" - and Theca ubi res
pretiosa - "A place where the precious
thing is concealed." The Triple Tau
is a significant symbol, or logo, of the
Royal Arch Mason. It represents the
Mason who has reached either the seventh
degree of the York Rite or 13th degree
of the Scottish Rite. |
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Van de Graaff generator. Isis and
Nephthys at the bottom sit on the sign
for gold, nebu, which is a superior
power conductor. The djed column means
stability, acting as a stable base for
the generator, the term possibly also
meaning "insulator" in this context. The
ankh means the power of life, or
electrical power. The round symbol is
the solar disk, or a source of light, as
the case may be. The current
understanding of the ankh and solar disk
as merely symbolic of life is the result
of a degeneration of ancient Egyptian
thought, where superstition had taken
the place of science. |
The center
axis of the Capitol dome aligns itself with the
center axis of the Washington Monument, the dome
of the Lincoln Memorial, and the White House.
All axes of which are maintained with unobscured
sight lines. The Capitol dome, the Washington
Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial are all sited
in a perfect East/West alignment and in
conformity with the Golden section (PHI).
Sacred geometry
has its laws and Washington, D.C. is in
conformity with them. With this conformity, it
is possible to tell the time and date of the
year from above or below. The Federal complex
functions as both a clock and a calendar.
National Mall Stones & Mortar @nps.gov |
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The
Origin of Baseball:
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Abner Doubleday, Alexander
Cartwright |
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& 432 @ Elysian Fields |
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The first recorded baseball game
in 1846 when Alexander Cartwright's
Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball
Club. The game was held at the Elysian Fields,
in Hoboken, New Jersey.
The father of modern baseball Alexander Joy
Cartwright put forth in 1945 20 rules which
provided uniform standards. Cartwright is
thought to be the first person to draw a diagram
of a diamond shaped field.[4]
In 1849, he a dozen
friends set off for San Francisco to try to
strike it rich as 49er gold miners. He continued
West to Hawaii where he spent the rest of his
long life as a Mason becoming master for two
terms 1855 & 1856.
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BAYSball World Series |
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Loma
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San
Francisco Bay Area of California on
October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m |
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Prieta earthquake, which registered 6.9
on the Richter sale, struck at 5:04pm,
lasted 15 seconds killed 63 people
throughout central California and 9 in
San Francisco.
The Oakland Athletics
and the San Francisco Giants were
playing the 3rd game of the 1989 World
Series at Candlestick Park after opening
the series just across the Bay, just 11
miles away, at the Oakland Coliseum.
The earthquake had
been predicted. Four days before the
earthquake, an article appeared entitled
"Is World Series Quake Coming?" in the
Gilroy Dispatch. Also in the morning
edition of The San Jose Mercury News by
Kevin Cowherd in his syndicated column
when he wrote:
"... these are two teams from California
and God only knows if they'll even get
all the games in. An earthquake could
rip through the Bay Area before they
sing the national anthem for Game 3
The Loma Prieta
largest quake since 1906, and the most
tremendous onshore seismic activity in
California that did not break the
Earth's surface. |
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Pythagoras
taught that seven was composed of the
numbers three and four, explaining that
"on the plane of the noumenal world, the
triangle was, as the first conception of
the manifested Deity, its image:
'Father-Mother-Son'; and the Quaternary,
the perfect number, was the noumenal,
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It is doubtful that
Abner Doubleday devised "the first scheme for
playing baseball, as reported originally in 1905
by the Mills commission who were assigned by
Major League baseball to determine the origin of
baseball. His distinguished military career
included firing the first shot in defense of
Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the civil war.
He is also credited with devising the first
scheme for the San Francisco cable car, still in
use today.
Baseball has many marks of Freemasonry. The
field, from home plate to the left and right
field wall forms a compass; the entire outfield
wall is the semicircle which this compass draws.
Upside-down, overlapping this compass, the bases
form the square. Three strikes and three
outs were assigned because three is a principle
sacred number throughout history as well as in
Freemasonry. Four recalls the four directions
common to so many sacred traditions
as well the square formed by the four
bases of baseball as well as four balls. Nine is
sacred not only because it is three
squared but because of the wonderful things it
does. There are nine fielding positions and nine
innings.
Of particular note for us is how well the
precessional number 432 corresponds to baseball
and ballparks. Gives new meaning to the idea
that ballparks have replaced cathedrals in the
21st century in the realm of public
architecture.
Baseball
& Freemasonry @books.google.com/
Alexander_Cartwright &
Abner_Doubleday
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Masonry is a secular fraternity and does
not require belief in any particular revelation, but is
only open to those who believe in a power greater than
themselves, like baseball perhaps? |
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Egyptian Priest -> Persian Magi -> Pythagoreans ->
Mithras ->
Knights Templar
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The organization was in some ways a school, in some ways a
brotherhood, and in some ways a monastery. It was based upon
Pythagoras’ religious teachings and was very secretive. At
first, the school was highly concerned with the morality of
society. Members were required to live ethically, love one
another, share political beliefs, practice pacifism, and devote
themselves to the mathematics of nature.
Pythagoras's followers were commonly called "Pythagoreans." For
the most part we remember them as philosophical mathematicians
who had an influence on the beginning of axiomatic geometry,
which after two hundred years of development was written down by
Euclid in
The Elements.
The Pythagoreans observed a rule of silence
called echemythia, the breaking of which was punishable by
death. This was because the Pythagoreans believed that a man's
words were usually careless and misrepresented him and that when
someone was "in doubt as to what he should say, he should always
remain silent". Another rule that they had was to help a man "in
raising a burden, but do not assist him in laying it down, for
it is a great sin to encourage indolence", and they said
"departing from your house, turn not back, for the furies will
be your attendants"; this axiom reminded them that it was better
to learn none of the truth about mathematics, God, and the
universe at all than to learn a little without learning all.
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Eye of Mind
or the Eye of Horus:
the "all seeing eye" is
not just a symbol of God's omniscience but also of the source of
spiritual enlightenment. A genuine Egyptian obelisk stands in
the centre of St. Peter's Square with a clear view to the East
to catch the first rays of the rising Sun. This obelisk
symbolises Christ as Light of the World. |
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The great
Seal of the United States of America & Sacred numbers |
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"It will take a more definite
recognition of the Grand Architect of the Universe before the
apex stone is finally fitted into place and this nation in the
full strength of its power is in a position to assume leadership
among the nations in inaugurating "the new order of the ages"
[the motto of the Great Seal]. - Henry A. Wallace, 1934. 33rd
Vice President of the United States & 32nd degree Freemason |
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In 1933, Adolf Hitler and
President Franklin Roosevelt came to power. Both these men were
committed to the establishment of the New World Order, and their
actions impacted humanity greatly. |
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The Masons use the Square and
Compasses as their most common symbol. The Square stands for
Virtue and Morality. The Compasses stand for the importance of
keeping our passions within bounds. But it is even richer.
The compass, which is used to draw circles,
represents the realm of the spiritual- eternity. It is symbolic
of the defining and limiting principle, and also of infinite
boundaries.
The angle measures the square, the symbol of
earth and the realm of the material. The square reprents
fairness, balance, firmness, etc., which is reflected in phrases
such as "on the square" and "squared away." |
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the Eastern Star uses the symbol to mean. They
use it as a symbol of the star which guided the Wise Men to
Bethlehem. The downward pointing ray represents the light of the
star coming to the earth and also the birth of Jesus when He
came down to earth from heaven. |
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Masons use the five-pointed star as a symbol,
too. For Masons, the star is a symbol of Man, with the five
points representing the head, the hands, and the feet as seen in
this classic drawing. |
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Seven is a sacred number in masonry symbolism. It
has always been a sacred number and can be traced back to the
sacred planets are: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars,
Jupiter, and Saturn of the ancient wisdom religions |
When the pharaohs could no
longer build huge pyramids they began to erect very tall
obelisks. They plated the pyramidions of these obelisks with
polished gold or electrum, which is an amalgam of gold and
silver. Each dawn, before those on the ground were illuminated,
the mirror surface of the obelisk pyramidion would give off a
sun-flash - a symbolic "Eye of Horus". |
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Dan Brown's best-selling novel, "The Da Vinci
Code," linked the Knights Templar to the story of the Holy
Grail. |
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Benjamin Franklin, a key leader of the delegates,
was both a Grand Master Mason (Lodge of Nine Sisters, Paris,
France) and a Rosicrucian. Thomas Jefferson, who helped draft
the Declaration of Independence, wrote favorably of the Order of
the Illuminati and its founder, European Jesuit Professor Adam
Weishaupt. |
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which has changed little over the centuries.
Masonry shares stories with the Knights Templar
who are said to have successfully sought refuge
when persecuted by King Philip of France and
Pope Clement early in the 14th century.
Free-Masonry
initiates and teaches for three levels of the craft 1.
Apprentice 2.Fellow Craft 3.Master Mason
These are taught through… An allegory that refers to one
Hyrum Abiff and the unfinished completion of the
allegorical Temple at Jerusalem. Hyrum Abiff is killed
by the treachery of three fellow masons in the allegory
and his work remains uncompleted.
