Fr fr there is no one version of the har of beet just as there is no one version of of of any Legend according to the Freemasons the wi son of harff is the master builder of King Solomon’s Temple in the story Haram ath is accosted by three Junior workers who are jealous of the fact that they have not been uh given all the secrets of masonry and they try to extort them from har each one of the three asants of ham is constantly asking for the secret word
And ham keeps telling them you know this is strange why are you asking for this the word is given in recognition of accomplishment when a Mason has proved himself as an apprentice and as an expert Craftsman he’s then recognized by being given the word of a Master Mason [Applause] As represents the Free Mason that is the Builder who is free who has a free mind uh you know and that means freedom of religion freedom of speech freedom of movement you know all these Liberties that we cherish today so you’re a builder and a free one and
You’re always always under attack by three major enemies ignorance fanaticism and Tyranny For when I joined the rituals were just as bad as crazy as I thought they would be I asked everybody what they meant and the answer was well you’ll find out don’t worry and over the next two three years it became evident they had a clue nobody knows what those rituals are
About so it started me in my quest to try and understand them uh further it is an allegorical story of fidelity of int rity of keeping your word and your bond it is to teach the Mason the importance of the immortality of the soul and in so doing a Mason should not
Only strive to develop himself self physically and intellectually but Also spiritually and esoterically it is about death and Resurrection which is at the heart of the concept of Freemasonry each Freemason is physically resurrected from a symbolic death it’s all allegorical and this is this is what people will never understand it is
Really an individual secret there is no secret for the fraternity and for Freemasonry it is an individual secret that is hidden inside each and every Mason and that is of great importance to the Mason whether it’s a he or she and I mention she by the way because although
In Europe there are many more fe uh female Masons uh women masons in the United States they have more of a of um auxiliary body however feminine Freemasonry has already been introduced to the United States by the European Winston Churchill Henry Ford jke alingon Vol Moz to for in
Right from the beginning right from the time Freemasonry becomes your fraternity there’s nervousness about an order which is not only secret but talks about being secret are these guys taking over the country do they have their own secret plot or something there are many anti-masonic conspiracy theories that we are the
Secret controllers of government and Industry worldwide there’s also a theory out there that the secret Inner Circle of Freemasonry worship Satan didn’t you know that it was a Jewish Masonic imperialist conspiracy that killed lady die you find that on the internet when you tell them that it just doesn’t
Happen they they just simply say well you don’t know yet you’re not high enough I guess the best case you could make that the Masons are dangerous and Sinister is that we’ve been around for centuries located everywhere that men of power and import have belonged to us and
We meet privately however I’d like to add if we can’t agree on whether to serve ham sandwiches or or or tuna sandwiches after the meeting how can we possibly agree to take over the world don’t fr maest I think that Billy and stone has always been considered to be something akin to God
Major buildings tended to be temples and Cathedrals and the skills and knowledge to build them stemmed from geometry which itself stemmed from astronomy and astronomy was the heavens where the stars are were the gods or God is and there was this thread of godness for fr for The level is to remind the Mason that there are people of different cultures different backgrounds different professions yet in the large we all meet on the level that’s where it comes from in the English language being on the level or level with me it comes from the Masonic
Teaching you end up on the level and it doesn’t matter how great you are or how insignificant you are everyone is going to the same place you’re you’re going to the Grave For for I think if the heart of Freemasonry is this unstable mixture of of two different views of the world on one hand you have the view that the world is complicated it’s mysterious that people in the past knew things that we didn’t know today on the other hand you have another
View of the world that it’s simple that it’s based upon rules and it’s essentially mathematical and what freemasonary does is it takes these two views which have now in our culture become separated and it keeps them together We know that in 1599 when we have the oldest accident minutes of a lodge in Scotland that they are very definitely meeting as a labor union and we know in 1717 when the four old lodges come together in London they’re now gentleman’s clubs so during the 1600s something happened
Freemasonary is rooted in this period when science is becoming the center of learned culture the center of Science in this period is the Royal Society and by the early 18th century being headed by Sir Isaac Newton they were intending to create a new belief system a new
Cosmology a new way of looking at the world more fitting with their own experience Newton and Freemasonry share things not only of a view of the world which is mathematical which is scientific but also in in the ancient world and the mystical origins of humanity whilst a lot of this is theological and
Fanciful in my view a lot of it is science too very ancient science so there is a period in ancient history where the two became mixed together uh where science and theology uh were two halves of the same thing pH If you were a person of science if you were a person who favored liberal humanistic tolerance uh separation of church and state you ran the risk of being on the other side of a political or religious Inquisition we must remember that the medieval times people didn’t even known their
Bodies if the church wanted to torture them the Inquisition for some reason that was sort of okay because they didn’t own their bodies if you think about the 18th century Freemason lodges as sort of revolutionary coffee houses the ideas that are developing here are tolerance Brotherhood egalitarianism these are ideas that are
New ideas in that time period Newton there are so many symbols in Freemasonry that it’s difficult to say which are the most important the square reminds me to square my actions by the square of virtue the compasses tells me that I should circumscribe my passions the letter G stands for geometry which was
In the center of the Mason’s life or God who is in the center of the free Mason’s life the lury refers to the Supreme Being uh the grand architect of the universe and we use that term to emphasize uh freedom of religion because people can Define that Supreme Being anywhere they want for
The church tried everything in its power to Halt this Force which we almost can’t imagine today the power of that political force it caught like a wildfire because it represented a new way of thinking about the world that was the wave of the future L as Benjamin Franklin was at the center of
The Diplomatic movement of the American Revolution he belongs to a masonic lodge in France to the lodge of the nine sisters in fact Benjamin Franklin escorts Vol the greatest in enen figure of France he escorts him into the Lodge at a special meeting so here you have the
Two of the key figures of the Enlightenment and where do they meet in the Masonic Lodge the structure that I see is that the rituals used by freem today came from the Knights Templar and the Knights Templar got them from uh the priests of Jerusalem at the time of Christ fr It was known in medieval times that the Templars housed their horses in underneath the Southeastern platform in the area called Solomon’s Stables so the Templars were involved in cleaning out this area and that was an extensive Job they lived on charity they had no income and they just wor worked night and day digging they found their documents over those nine years um and their treasures and within months they were fabulously rich the Knights Templar were really the first multinational banking concern and Multinational Corporation of
Sorts perhaps similar to a board meeting today you know Outsiders were not allowed so that opened up questions about what was really happening within just a handful of years rumors were spreading that they were conducting strange rituals which were apparently not Christian Templar families had to bring in
Stonemasons and turn these people into perhaps like something like lower level Templars they had to give them a ritual so they were bound to secrecy also there is one very good reason why Freemasonry created this Aura of secrecy that is because of the rituals they conduct they don’t know why they conduct
Them so if you’re open with somebody and say well yes I went to this ritual and I had one trouser leg rolled up and I had my my my chest out here and I was blindfolded a newr my neck and a knife to my chest and all right yeah that’s
Pretty weird why did you do that I don’t know well you’re going to sound a fool so you pretend it’s secret it was early in the morning at dawn that the frightening knock on the door came suddenly the Stampede Began the initial shock became um a a shock wave across all of Europe it’s like every single company director of every corporation or government had been rounded up at dawn it happened on Friday the 13th 1307 some folklorists today believe that the Friday the 13th Superstition May originate from the Templar
Arrest they were charged with blasphemy heresy spitting on the cross they were accused possibly of worshiping a cat or a severed head and um something called allegedly called baffet the most terrible thing they could be accused of really was denying the Divinity of Christ and the power of the
Cross they never sought to deny that and they were tortured pretty horribly Said not all of the Templars were rounded up or perhaps could have been because there were so many thousands of them the Templars went underground all over Europe and they did as a matter of fact create other offshoot secret societies and tried to keep some of their Traditions
Alive some say that some of them went and infiltrated the Mason guilds so they could travel freely Christopher Nal Masonic ritual describes how King Solomon met with his leading priests in a chamber underneath King Solomon’s Temple now rosin has exactly that and Masonic ritual describes exactly that c be coincidence
Rosin is hugely important it’s a key to understanding Sonic ritual the Masonic rituals that we use today the the certainly the important ones and rosin Chapel are two halves of the same thing one unlocks the other we have no documentable evidence William stclair was ever a night Templar the suppression of the Templar
Order was in 1312 but rosin wasn’t started until 1446 well beyond that time frame did the Templars build rosin Chapel the answer is a definitive no the best seller one of the most intriguing ones perhaps is just behind me on the window here the image of the night Templar on a
Horse and behind him a passenger it’s indicative of the night Templars in as much as they invariably had somebody on the horse behind them it was kind of their like being a Boy Scout really you always had a buddy to look after with the Spear and the cross on the back
That’s very much a Templar Image Christopher Rosen Chapel is a one3 scale uh copy of U herodian Temple when you marry together the foundations of rosalin and overlay them with the herodian temple in Jerusalem they are the same they’re perfect it is an exact copy it’s thought that William Sinclair had
Been to Rome and seen a pillar which he just thought was so Exquisite he wanted to have replicated in his Chapel so he went to his master Mason and said I’ve seen a pillar and I would like you to build it for me Master Mason felt it was such a responsibility that
He had to go to Rome to see the original before he could build it and during that time one of the apprentices had a dream and in this dream he was told how to build the pillar and he also saw himself completing it and William Sinclair fearing that his master Mason may never
Return from Rome authorized The Apprentice to do it and this is what he produced the Master Mason did return and on his arrival when he saw the beautiful pillar clearly enraged with Envy he gave him a smash across the forehead with a mallet killing him instantly all of the other apprentices
Then turned on the Master Mason and kills him on the spot so the other apprentices decided that this story shouldn’t be forgotten so they carved faces from the story on the interior of the chapel that’s actually the face of The Apprentice you can see that there is
Actually a big gash on the upper right hand side of his forehead where the Fatal Malik struck who rather ironically will be forced forever to look diagonally Across The Chapel At The Apprentice pillar perhaps the most single important item is a little carving that stands about that High um which shows a
Candidate being initiated um one would say into Freemasonry uh but of course this is long before Freemasonry there’s a noose around the person’s neck which is part of the requirement for the first degree in Freemasonry and it’s been held by someone who appears to be a Templar with
The Templar cross on his chest and the beard and the points of convergence between the modern ritual of the first degree and this are so many that statistically it’s impossible for it not to be directly connected in some way Sir William foresaw the possible danger that certain belief systems or thoughts
Or images that had been previously burned in many inquisitional book burnings through the Middle Ages might not get preserved for posterity so Roslin is a Bible or a book in Stone Sir Henry we asked a botanist from the University to give us his opinion of this and when he looked at them he wasn’t convinced until he found one more plant in rosin Chapel a small plant and he said if you’ve got that one then I’m prepared to believe that the other ones
Are genuine because this plant would only have been found in the new world I personally think that while the evidence is is very romantic and makes a great tale that there’s nothing there that supports it factually a wonderful Legend and a wonderful myth and I put it
In the camp of sort of Greek myths great story great narrative uh highly unlikely I think it’s reasonable to suggest that the United States of America is in part at least the the Triumph of Freemasonry the ideals of equality and openness of thinking that were inside this early Jewish priesthood
They used those Masonic ideals to create this new Utopia where everybody would be free the Land of the Free Benjamin Franklin George Washington Paul in Congress July 4th 1776 EV famia
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