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You'll be able to make changes before you submit your review. Pharaohs, Freemasonry, and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus, at least it was original and put some challenges forward, appreciated by some, reacted allergic to by others. This second part hasn't that awfully lot to reveal, mostly it is just providing more evidence for the former book without making any progress seven years later in in excavating beneath "Rosslyn Chapel" , referencing in debth one of the authors' other books, "Uriel's Machine", and is derailing with the few new "revelations".
The latter opinion from the perspective of someone who actually largely appreciated "The Hiram Key". In the edition, there are no pictures to be found, in contrast to the first part. Exploring the Venus cult, which in itself is indeed rewarding, the authors adopt the folk etymology that Jerusalem would be derived from "Urushalim", with "-shalim" supposedly named after an Amorite god with no evidence of his cult ever to be found in this city , meaning "Venus at dusk".
Ahmed Osman's explanation in Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs: The Essene Revelations on the Historical Jesus appears to make more sense. Not because the city, known under a different name before, was so peaceful, but because its inhabitants successfully attempted to appease pharao, who was rampaging through Canaan, levelling all resisting cities. Symbolically saying with the new name in their correspondence with him "we will submit to you, no need to destroy us".
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The power of constructivism must be very great! I couldn't share the hefty criticism, which "The Hiram Key" encountered for the brave theories put forward, with supposedly too much speculation and too less evidence. One might think, the authors should have learned from that. But not as expected, rather as in: You have nothing to lose once you've lost your reputation. Circumcision would be an old rainmaking tradition. After all, it began in dry areas and rainmaking rituals are usually associated with circles. And a severed foreskin is a circle, through which once liquid sprinkled.
I have to confess, as a campaigner against forced body mutilation, I will follow that one up some day or please, anybody leave a note of confirmation with source , yet, that should have been the job of those who propose such an imaginative idea. Gary Greenberg in The Bible Myth: The African Origins of the Jewish People puts the no less unorthodox, but much more conceivable information forward that this habit goes back to ancient Egypt which by itself is accepted knowledge already , as a covenant with God which is what it is called today in e.
Judaism, which derives from Egypt. Originally, Osiris was meant, whose "best part" had been severed once. The foreskin representing the humanly possible symbolism for that.
The last example is the softening of the authors on Astrology. Generally, they do not believe in it, but after reading some Swiss paper on it, they suddenly have to confess: With astonishing results, of course. Using probability calculations, it gets "proven" that it is impossible to be accidental that so many Any disciple on constructivism has a field day with such studies. I don't know about Switzerland, but about neighbouring Germany.
The frequency of people there asking after someone's star sign within the first three questions of getting acquainted and then acting accordingly is this alarming that I stopped giving out that information. People get fed with Astrology and who gets along with whom best from earliest childhood.
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Any marrying schemes are self-fulfilling prophecies. Many other data was not considered and as such this part of the study is void. For the death causes accidents and violence has been excluded to get best results. Could someone, within the logic of Astrology, explain that to me, please? I am sure wondering, wether the big tsunami killed according to the asterisk If I had time and space, I could debunk that study for hours and pages. But, according to the book, the probability statistics say that people have been convicted for less likelihood with DNA-samples.
Probability statistics simply cannot get compared in both fields. If you attempt that, you fall victim to constructivism. But even that aside, for such a study to merit some attention, it would have to be reproducable anytime, anywhere, by anyone.
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Where Astrology has never been heard of, let's say in a remote valley in Papua New Guinea and with a different Astrological system such as China. Plus, there wouldn't have to be single exceptions admissable - otherwise any theory gets automatically invalid. But now it starts: The authors attempt to prove their theories via probability calculations, as in how likely is it that two unrelated cultures developed this many features the same way. Don't shoot the messenger: It all depends and what and how you feed the calculation with.
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For example I could say probability calculations prove that Hitler's Germany is secretly related to Tibet, because both used the swastika, believe in an Underworld people I am not kidding! That already is sufficient to make for a probability of several million to one. However, the Egyptians believed in the Underworld, used the swastika before Tibet, gave Germans their words for e. Mum, sea, nature and there were Arians as well as in followers of Aris. Plus, the Nazis even invaded Egypt. Statistically it is more likely for anyone to get hit by lightning than to win the jackpot in the lottery.
Yet, week for week, more people hit the jackpots than get killed by lightning. Using statistics is for politicians and the desperate: It should not be part of history books. If your theory does not work without statistics, then discard it. That is not to debunk completely the book. After all, there IS a connection between Nazigermany and Tibet in my example.
But why did the authors got into the notion of attempting to prove Astrology?
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Because they found out that Freemasonry and Christianity, in their roots, however unrecognizable, are based on Astrological beliefs. The word "abi" is translated as "father" or "my father" in other translations whilst the Luther and Coverdale translations treated it as a personal name. The Jewish Study Bible suggests that the word "father" is an honorific title applied to a skilled craftsman. The use of "abu" meaning "father" as an honorific is still used in the Middle East today, hence "Abukir" named after "Father" or Saint Cyril.
The book's authors claim that the stonemason-origin theory could be discounted because it had so many apparent fallacies. Why would powerful and rich people have been attracted to join a fraternity that came from poor and uneducated stonemasons' Guilds? The theory of Freemasonry originating in London in is also regarded as unlikely, because there are earlier mentions of Freemasonry in other locations.
The authors concluded that Freemasonry was actually as old as it claimed in its traditional ritual, dating back to the building of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. Knight and Lomax claim to have analysed their sources rigorously, including the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible , ancient Jewish texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls , the Gnostic Gospels , and Masonic rituals to support their conclusions.
They note the global significance of religion and that any major refutation of commonly held beliefs would meet resistance from the established and orthodox authorities in any particular religion. They note that, 40 years after their discovery, only about half of the available material had ever been published or made available for independent review. It was not until that public access restrictions were lifted. The scrolls contained various versions of Biblical texts, all of which were more than years older than the oldest surviving Hebrew texts that were produced by Aaron ben Moses ben Asher in AD The texts of these scrolls are believed by the authors to have been written by ancestors of the same Qumran community of the Judaean hills that found them.
The authors also believe that the Qumran Community were Essenes , and that they and the Nasoreans and the original Jerusalem Church were all one and the same. That is, the ancient Qumranians were the first Christians. They decided that the story of Hiram Abiff was actually based on the initiation ceremonies of the ancient kings of Egypt. They also came to the conclusion, after analysis of the New Testament, the Gnostic Gospels, and Masonic ritual, that Jesus and the original Christians were thoroughly different from what the Roman Catholic Church and orthodox Christianity has taught they were.
The authors believe that Jesus did not claim to be divine, but was instead a messiah in the Jewish sense of the term, a good man and a freedom fighter, trying to liberate the Jews from Roman occupation. The authors do not claim that the Christianity is incompatible with the ideals and goals of Freemasonry.
Neither do they claim that the Jewish Faith or the Muslim faith or Buddhist faith are incompatible with the tenets of Freemasonry. Although The Hiram Key highlights some inconsistent historical references within various dogmas , they do not claim dogma to be devoid of value to humanity.
The book is more an examination of historical references rather than an examination of religion. Jesus did not claim to work miracles , according to the authors. When Jesus claimed to have raised Lazarus from the dead, it was intended as an allegorical reference; followers were referred to as the "living" and others were referred to as the "dead" in certain Jewish esotericism of the time. Similarly, Jesus' turning water into wine merely meant elevating people to a higher status within the framework of the sect. The authors believe that Jesus' sect, the Jerusalem Church, operated some kind of "quasi-Masonic" initiation ceremonies and develop that line of thought to claim that Jesus was thus, in a sense, a Freemason.
Man, God, Myth, or Freemason? The book contains a radical hypothesis about the origins of Freemasonry, seeking to demonstrate a heritage back through the Knights Templar to the Jerusalem Church and Pharaoic Egypt , claiming to draw on a wide range of material to support this hypothesis.