The book of Hiram. Freemasonry, Venus, and the secret key to the life of Jesus 0007200889

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Introduction 1
Part One
1 The Death of the Builders 11
The Oldest Mysteries of Nature and Science 11
A Matter of Death and Life 12
The Darkness of the Third Degree 15
Weaving the Web of Hiram 20
Conclusions 25
2 The Grooved Ware People 27
The First Stonemasons 27
The Riddle of the Megalithic Yard 31
The Crystal Palace 36
Venus and Resurrection 44
Conclusions 4 7
3 The Light of Secret Knowledge 49
The Knights of Solomon's Temple 49
The Secrets of Rosslyn : 57
Proving the Masonic Connections 62
Conclusions 64
4 The Norse Connection 66
The Holy Shining Light 66
Freemasonry's First Temple 78
f The Norse Queen of Heavep 69
Conclusions 79
5 The Temple of Solomon 80
The Enochian Artefacts 80
The Venus Alignment of Solomon's Temple 84
Hiram the Master Builder 88
Hiram, the Son of Venus 93
Conclusions 99
6 The Maritime Connections.. 101
Whatever Happened to the Grooved Ware People? 101
The Beginnings of Egypt 107
The Phoenicians 109
The Priest-kings of the Phoenicians 117
Conclusions 134
7 The Twin Cults of Judaism 136
The New Nation 136
Rich Man, Poor Man 146
Conclusions 1-50
8 Real Kings, Human Sacrifice and Rainmaking 152
The Failure of the Final Instalment 152
Suffer Little Children 164
Abraham and Child Sacrifice 167
Child Sacrifice and Yahweh 169
The Rainmakers 179
Conclusions 185
9 The Sons of Dawn 186
The Dial of Ahaz 186
Return from Exile 189
Astrology and Sun Worship 193
Conclusions 205
10 The Holy Shekinah 20 6
The Venus Cycle in Judaism 206
Metatron, Shekinah and the Kabbalah 218
The Star of Bethlehem 223
The Pattern of the Shekinah 22 7
Conclusions 23 0
11 The Coming of the Messiah 23 2
The Rising of the Star 23 2
Forty Days in the Wilderness 238
The Man Who Would Be King 241
The Great Failure 24 5
The Enochian Jesus 249
The Cult of Paul 251
Astrology the Big Secret? 258
Dates of the Venus Cycles 259
Conclusions 264
12 The Return of the Shekinah 266
The Underground Millennium 26 6
Breaking the Code of Rosslyn 271
The Secret Tunnel 27 9
The Problem of Rosslyn 28 3
Conclusions 28.5
13 Neither Harmless nor Fun 28 6
The Great Secret of the Astral Religion 28 6
Is It in Our Stars? 29 2
A Star-Strewn History 294
Looking for Patterns 304
Conclusions 311
14 The Star Achievers 312
Learning and Striving 312
Riding the Cycles of Success 318
The End of the Journey 329
What is Freemasonry? 335
Part Two: The Masonic Testament 33 9
To the Reader 341
1 God Makes Mankind 345
2 Enoch Meets God and Engraves His True Name 348
3 Noah Builds the Ark to Survive the Flood 351
4 The Tower of Babel destroyed by God 355
5 Melchizedek, King of Salem, makes Abram a Grand High Priest...357
6 The Secrets of Moses 1 36 2
7 The Building of Solomon's Temple 36 9
8 The Assassination of Hiram Abif 379
9 The Completion of the First Temple of Jerusalem 39 0
10 The Return from the Babylonian Captivity 394
11 The Rediscovered Secrets of King Solomon's Temple 40 3
12 The Honouring of Zerubbabel 411
13 The Great Architect of the Church 42 1
14 Early Christian Degrees 42 6
15 The Knights Templar and the Knights of St John of Jerusalem 433
16 Evolved Freemasonry 44 0
Time-Line 44 9
Appendix 1 The Mystery of the Megalithic Yard Revealed 45 2
Appendix 2 The Statistical Evaluation of the Rosslyn Lozenges 45 7
Appendix 3 The Names for Venus in Various Traditions 45 9
Bibliography 46 1
Index 46 7

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