• Proceeding according to Plan |
Conspiracy 2008-02-03 |
"King Solomon's plans for the consolidation of his people were not yet complete; by the building of his temple he had formed an outer centre of national worship, and he now desired that the Mysteries, the heart of his people's religion and the centre of their spiritual consciousness, should also be purely Jewish in their form.
The ceremonial handed down from the days of Moses was still Egyptian, and the initiates of the mysteries were yet symbolically engaged in building the great pyramid, the House of Light, and in celebrating the death and resurrection of Osiris...
The Jewish Mysteries are the source of our present tradi-tion, for the three Craft degrees are, and always have been, the basis of the whole system of Masonic initiation, since they enshrine the relics of the Lesser and Greater Mysteries of Egypt,"
-- Charles Leadbeater, "Glimpses of Masonic History"
"The first thing that surprises the new disciple of a [Masonic] lodge is the Jewish character of everything which he finds there. From the first to the thirtieth degree he hears only talk of the 'great work' of rebuilding the temple of Solomon; of the murdering of the architect Hiram Abiff; of the two pillars Boaz and Jachin; of a host of secret symbols (signs) and Hebrew holy words; and of the Jewish calendar, which adds 4000 years to our own [Anno Lucis]..."
-- Msgr. Leon Meurin, "Philosophy of Freemasonry"
Indeed, the Plan for the "consolidation of the people" is not yet complete; but it is proceeding rapidly.