|
The Mammoth Book of Cover-UpsThe first thing that was found was Hiram’s hand. Thereafter a handshake became the secret sign by which Freemasons recognized themselves. The Masonic authors Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas pursued the history of Freemasonry even further back in time, to Pharaonic Egypt, where Hebrew slaves learned the secrets of pyramid construction and Egyptian symbolism, later using this wisdom to build the wondrous Temple of Solomon. In Knight and Lomas’s bestselling The Hiram Key, Jesus himself was apprised of the Masonic secrets of Hiram, which were passed to the modern age by the Knights Templar when they stumbled upon the Temple during the Crusades. Knight and Lomas are far from alone in identifying the Templars as the В«missing linkВ» between the masons of antiquity and modern Freemasonry. Chevalier Andrew Ramsay had done so in an oration to the Grand Lodge of Paris in 1737, further suggesting that the prevalence of Freemasonry in Scotland was attributable to Templar refugees who washed up there. Freemasons and conspiracists alike have a vested interest in claiming a long pedigree for the Brotherhood ...» |
Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
phpBB
текст
|
|