"RIVETING!
VERY, VERY WELL RESEARCHED AND
WRITTEN!" Jim
Fletcher, WND columnist and author
of Its The End Of The World As We
Know It [And I Feel Fine]
"SHOCKING
REVELATIONS ABOUT A
SECRET, TRANSNATIONAL HAND DIRECTING
THE COURSE OF NATIONS!" Hilmar
von Campe, member of the International
Who's Who of Intellectuals and
best selling author of Defeating
the Totalitarian Lie: A Former Hitler
Youth Warns America
"A
TRUE BREAKTHROUGH!
THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK
EVER WRITTEN ON THIS
SUBJECT!" David Flynn, celebrated
discoverer and best selling author of Temple at the Center of Time
"THIS
INFORMATION ABSOLUTELY MUST
GET OUT TO THE PUBLIC!" Dr.
Stanley Monteith, legendary
broadcaster and host of Radio
Liberty
"FRIGHTENING!" Devvy
Kidd, radio host and 2 million
copy best selling author of Why A
Bankrupt America and Blind
Loyalty
"TOM,
THIS IS WITHOUT
PRECEDENT!" Dr.
Gianni DeVincent Hayes,
internationally recognized author and
radio host of New World Order
Disorder
"TERRIFYING!
BE WARNED!" Sharon
Gilbert, author of The
Armageddon Strain
"COMPREHENSIVE
AND HARROWING! EXTRAORDINARY
IN SCOPE & CONSEQUENCE!" Sue
Bradley, Geopolitical and research
journalist
"FRIGHTENING!
SHOCKS
LIKE AN ELECTRIC CHAIR!" Bruce
Collins, researcher and radio
host, The Big Finale
"Tom,
That was the most fascinating
interview I have ever heard. So
crystal clear. I would be amazed if
anyone could listen to it without
being blown away... No one has
deciphered the Great Seal until now. I
thank Jesus that I have heard it, and
can call you a friend. May you live
forever." David Flynn,
internationally known researcher and
best selling author of "Temple at
the Center of Time"
Tom
Horn has launched a new blog site for the express
purpose of blogging enigmatic
information concerning the greatest
conspiracy of all time. "Read It Before It Is Banned By
The US Government"
is not a play on words or an elaborate
advertising plot. Tom has visited more
than a dozen states in the last 12
months, met with experts in
disciplines from science to
government, and has committed to
writing, for as long as he can,
information related to what he says is
coming. Tom will be submitting (God
willing) at least one entry per week
during 2009.
An
important narrative is told from Masonic Legend
based partly on Talmudist and other traditions
including Josephus (indirectly in the first book
of Antiquities) wherein Enoch, here considered a
father of Freemasonry and before he is translated
into Metatron, is visited by his female
counterpart—the Shekinah of God—and is given a
vision of the end of the world. Because of his
devotion to God, Enoch constructs nine hidden
vaults underground at Mt. Moriah. The vaults are
perpendicular; one atop the other, in which he
deposits the most important ancient knowledge. In
the deepest vault (ninth), he places a triangular
plate of gold, measuring a cubit long on each
side, bearing the secret and ineffable name of
God. When the vaults of knowledge are complete,
Enoch covers them over with soil and erects two
pillars on the site—one on which he inscribes
the history, Arts and Sciences, and “doctrines
of Speculative Masonry” according to Masonic
historian MacKey, and one on which he places
hieroglyphic information pointing to the precious
treasure in the vaults nearby. The pillars are
nearly destroyed in the Great Flood and the vaults
lost until the building of Solomon’s Temple.
Maverick Freemason writers Christopher Knight and
Robert Lomas in their book, The
Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shrowd, and
the Great Secret of Freemasonry admit that
the legend of Enoch’s Pillars, as well as the
Solomon Pillars constructed afterward, are very
much a “Pesher” of Masonic rituals. The term
“Pesher” is a Hebrew word discovered in the
Dead Sea Scrolls, which implies that double
meanings or “ciphers” occupy certain ancient
texts. Thus “surface interpretation” of
particular writings are for common persons of
moderate mental capacity, while deeper concealed
truths lay hidden for the initiated persons of
higher degree. Knight and Lomas connect this with
the legend of Enoch and the illuminated Masonic
rites:
“The thirteenth
degree [of the Ancient Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry] is ‘The Royal Arch of Enoch’ or
‘The Master of the Ninth Arch’ and it is set
at the time of the building of Solomon’s
Temple three thousand years ago. It is very much
a ‘pesher’ of the Holy Royal Arch Degree,
which is the story of the Knights Templar
removing a keystone in the ruins of Herod’s
Temple and lowering themselves down into a
subterranean vault that contains an ancient
scroll.
“The degree
tells how, in times long before Moses and
Abraham, the ancient figure of Enoch foresees
that the world will be overwhelmed by an
apocalyptic disaster through flood or fire, and
he determines to preserve at least some of the
knowledge then known to man, that it may be
passed on to future civilizations of survivors.
He therefore engraves in hieroglyphics the great
secrets of science and building on to two
pillars: one made of brick and the other of
stone.
“The Masonic
legend goes on to tell how these pillars were
almost destroyed, but sections survived the
Flood and were subsequently discovered—one by
the Jews, the other by the Egyptians—so that
civilization could be rebuilt from the secrets
that had been engraved on to them. Fragments of
one pillar were found by workmen during the
excavations for the foundations of King
Solomon’s Temple. Whilst preparing the site in
Jerusalem three thousand years ago the top of a
vault or arch was uncovered, and one of the
Masons was lowered into the vault where he found
relics of the great pillar of knowledge. . .
“The next
degree, ‘Scotch Knight of Perfection’, is
set in a room which has at its centre the
reassembled fragments of Enoch’s pillar,
inscribed with hieroglyphics. It is claimed that
King Solomon created a ‘Lodge of Perfection’
to rule over the thirteen lower degrees, and its
members held their first secret meeting in the
sacred vault of Enoch beneath the partly
constructed Temple of Solomon.” [6]
Consequently in
Masonic mysticism, Enoch/Metatron is not only
controller of “divine wind” but key to the
secrets of illumination. Rituals within
Freemasonry related to this legend of Enoch on
Moriah, his preservation of the Arts and Sciences
in the underground repositories, and the
rediscovery of such during the building of the
Temple of Solomon are two-fold—those based on
Enoch’s hidden vaults including the two pillars
representing secret knowledge from antiquity, and
those based on the pillars in the Temple of
Solomon representing the passageway that initiates
must move through en route to the guarded
knowledge. The rituals based on these legends are
separated for the primitive and higher degrees,
with those related to the Enochian Pillars being
“preserved exclusively to the higher and more
modern degrees” of the Craft, while the “only
pillars that are alluded to in the primitive
degrees are those of Solomon’s temple”
according to MacKey and Singleton. [7] In Morals
and Dogma, the late Sovereign Grand Commander of
the Scottish Rite, Albert Pike adds that Enoch’s
name in Hebrew signifies “initiate” or
“initiator” and hence the columns of knowledge
erected by him and those of the Temple of Solomon
parodied in the Craft and rituals (including the
Royal Arch Degree) is symbolic of the Mason’s
procession from uninitiated to illumined. When a
person joins the Order, he passes between the twin
columns during initiation, beyond which awaits the
mysteries “of which Masonry is the… custodian
and depository of the great philosophical and
religious truths, unknown to the world at large,
and handed down from age to age by an unbroken
current of tradition, embodied in symbols,
emblems, and allegories.” [8] Worshipful Master
Mason Keith Sheriff in a lecture available on the
Inhabitants Lodge No. 153 website acknowledges
that the two pillars erected at the Great Temple
of Jerusalem are mirrored in the Masonic Lodges as
sentinels to the entrance “of the inner sanctum,
where the Ark and the Divine Shekina resided.”
He adds that the pillars in the Masonic Lodge
represent a “portal through which the initiate
passes on his admission to Freemasonry” toward
the esoteric knowledge represented by and beyond
the pillars, available only to those who
“traverse the threshold and participate in the
mysteries of the Order.” [9]
While the original Scriptural symbolism (see 1
Kings 7:21) of the pillars in the Porch of
Solomon’s Temple suggest by their titles the
sustaining power of God (Jachin—the right
pillar, meaning “He will establish,” and
Boaz—the left pillar, meaning “Strength”),
the symbolical passage between the pillars in the
Masonic Lodge establish among other things the
goal of passing through the “guardians and
gates” in order to reach the presence of the
Great Architect of the Universe and the inner
sanctum or “Sanctum Sanctorum” where “the
Ark and the Divine Shekina” in Masonic
spiritualism hold high occult understanding.
The well-known Masonic legend of Hiram Abiff, the
Tyrian ‘First Grand Master’ of the order of
Masons and chief Architect of the Temple of
Solomon (whose legend is impersonated every time
an initiate reaches the level of Master Mason) is
said to have been the only man at the time of the
Temple’s construction who knew, and therefore
could pass down, the Enochian secrets. Every
Freemason of Third Degree and higher thus
understands what researchers of the Order know as
well, that the Temple of Solomon is central to the
origin, buildings, layout and rituals of
Freemasonry. Each Lodge is a representation of the
Jewish Temple, every lower degree Mason a
depiction of the Jewish workmen who built the
Temple, and “every Master in the chair a
representation of the Jewish King.” Significant
reasons why this is the case include belief by
particular Masons that under the bowels of Moriah,
where the Temple was built and near the place
where Christ was Crucified, is Enoch’s buried
arched vault that held (or holds) the mysteries of
angelic knowledge and the ineffable name of God.
In Cryptic (concealed or subterranean) Rites of
Freemasonry, the Council of Royal and Select
Masters actually ritualize this concept by playing
out the discovery of the concealed vaults wherein
the hidden name of God (discussed later) is
bestowed. Occultists prefer to keep shrouded why
knowing this hidden name is so important, but
according to ancient ritual magic, it is because
one can capture, control, or manipulate the power
of the “god” if one possesses his oracular
name. This is a demonization of a biblical tenant,
which conveys that names have power, such as evil
spirits being cast out “in Jesus name” and
Jesus having “a name which is above every
name” (see Mk. 9:38-40, 16:17; Mt. 7:22-23; Acts
19:13-17; Phil. 2:9-11).
Hebrews as well as other Old Testament peoples
ascribed great significance to naming their
children, believing the name held power to
determine the outcome of the individual’s life.
In occultism, this belief is echoed in the mythos
of many magical ceremonies including those of one
of the most important deities from mythology,
Isis, who was venerated by the Egyptians, Greeks,
and the Romans as the undisputed queen of magical
skills due to being the “goddess of a thousand
names.” Her enchantments were so powerful that
she even forced the high god Ra to reveal his most
secret name to her. She accomplished this by
conjuring a magic serpent that bit the sun god—a
reptile whose venom was so potent that it brought
Ra to the point of death, forcing him to surrender
his hidden and powerful name. When Ra succumbed,
Isis uttered different secret words, which drove
the serpent’s poison from his body. Afterward,
the victorious goddess added Ra’s powerful and
hidden name to her archive of divine words. Such
magic words were considered by the Egyptians to be
of the highest importance for the navigation of
physical and spiritual dimensions. This was
because Isis not only possessed secret words, but
she instructed her followers as to how, when, and
with what vocal tones they were to be uttered. If
the proper words were pronounced correctly—at
the right time of the day and with proper
ceremony—they would have the effect of altering
reality, manipulating the laws of physics, and of
forcing the being or object to which they were
directed into compliance, including people,
spirits, and gods. Interestingly, Freemasonic
scholars admit that the legend of Hiram Abiff—their
original Grand Master and architect of Solomon’s
Temple—is but a retelling of the mythos of Isis
and Osiris, a fact that the reader will find
significant later.
Due to the occult value or sacredness then of the
numerous elements surrounding the story of
Solomon’s Temple in mystical literature, there
has been an idea for some time that groups from
among the Freemasons and illuminated fraternities
intend to rebuild or to participate in the
rebuilding of a glorious New Temple in Jerusalem
fashioned after the one built by Solomon.
Disclosure of this has occasionally reached the
public’s ear. The
Illustrated London News, August 28, 1909
ran a spectacular supplement in which they
detailed this goal. The article was titled, “The
Freemason’s Plan To Rebuild Solomon’s Temple
At Jerusalem”.
Three years later, September 22, 1912, The
New York Times published an outline by
Freemasons to rebuild the Temple under the title “SOLOMON”S
TEMPLE: Scheme of Freemasons and Opinions of Jews
on Rebuilding”. By 1914, some publishers
had begun adding unprecedented details, including
a report that the land on which the Dome of the
Rock now stands was secretly purchased and plans
were already under design for the construction of
the Third and Final Temple. Researchers since have
produced intelligence that a hushed collaboration
was firmly in place, held back only against the
right time, opportunity and circumstances when
exalted Freemasons and their associates would move
with haste to reconstruct a New Temple, from which
their “earthly representative” would reign.
In addition to occultists, groups including the
Temple Mount Faithful and the Temple
Institute in Jerusalem are busy restoring and
constructing the sacred vessels and vestments that
will be used for service in the New Temple at the
arrival of their “Messiah.” Students of Bible
prophecy recognize the importance of such plans as
signaling the arrival of Antichrist. Old and New
Testament scriptures explain that a false Jewish
Messiah will appear, enthroning himself as God in
the Temple in Jerusalem, but afterward he will
defile the holy place by setting up a sacrilegious
object in the Temple and ordering the sacrifices
and offerings to cease (see Dan. 9:27; II Thess.
2:3-4). For any of this to occur, it is necessary
for the Temple to be rebuilt, thus making claims
by Freemasons or other groups interested in
fulfilling this monumental task highly suspect
with regard to unfolding end-times events.
A major obstacle that arises when discussing the
rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem is the
present-day existence of the Islamic shrines known
as the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque on
the Temple Mount, an issue that may also be
resolved in Bible prophecy. A fault line near
Jerusalem has been the cause of a half-dozen major
earthquakes over the last thousand years and may
be strategically located to utterly destroy the
Islamic shrines at any point in time. Zechariah
14:3-4 reads, “Then the LORD will go out and
fight against those nations, as he fights in the
day of battle. On that day his feet will stand on
the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the
Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to
west, forming a great valley, with half of the
mountain moving north and half moving south.”
Such a catastrophic event could wipe out the
Muslim compound and provide a catalyst for
rebuilding Solomon’s Temple. Reports in recent
years have featured scientific evidence and
geological surveys warning that buildings in this
area could be severely damaged if not utterly
demolished by an earthquake. The Associated Press
in what sounded particularly prophetic in this
regard reported, “Most at risk… is the Old
City and the 11-acre elevated plaza housing two
major mosques, including the gold-capped Dome of
the Rock. The site is known to Muslims as the Al
Aqsa Mosque compound and to Jews as the Temple
Mount—once home to the biblical Temples.” [10]
It is also entirely possible that an event such as
an earthquake would not be required to bring about
the dream of a new Temple in Jerusalem. The Middle
East is a powder keg and war with its missiles and
bombs could take out the Islamic shrines in a
single hour. Some claim the Muslim structures
could even be intentionally targeted during a
conflict as a way of facilitating the construction
of a New Temple. Among such writers and
researchers a theory exists that the New Temple
will be a Masonic one for all faiths, built on the
very spot from where the debris of the Moslem
structures will be cleared following calamity, and
then a New Messiah will pass through the golden
Masonic portals of the New Temple, announcing to
the world that the Universal Savior of mankind has
come.
Whether circumstances will be sufficient to build
the New Temple before America elects its next
president in 2012, evidence that the foundation
upon which the Man of Sin shall reign is
impossible now to deny.
An
important narrative is told from Masonic Legend
based partly on Talmudist and other traditions
including Josephus (indirectly in the first book
of Antiquities) wherein Enoch, here considered a
father of Freemasonry and before he is translated
into Metatron, is visited by his female
counterpart—the Shekinah of God—and is given a
vision of the end of the world. Because of his
devotion to God, Enoch constructs nine hidden
vaults underground at Mt. Moriah. The vaults are
perpendicular; one atop the other, in which he
deposits the most important ancient knowledge. In
the deepest vault (ninth), he places a triangular
plate of gold, measuring a cubit long on each
side, bearing the secret and ineffable name of
God. When the vaults of knowledge are complete,
Enoch covers them over with soil and erects two
pillars on the site—one on which he inscribes
the history, Arts and Sciences, and “doctrines
of Speculative Masonry” according to Masonic
historian MacKey, and one on which he places
hieroglyphic information pointing to the precious
treasure in the vaults nearby. The pillars are
nearly destroyed in the Great Flood and the vaults
lost until the building of Solomon’s Temple.
Maverick Freemason writers Christopher Knight and
Robert Lomas in their book,