Civilization One: The World is Not as You Thought it Was (34 page)

By mechanisms fully described in
The Book of Hiram
the memory of these prehistoric secrets was transmitted by the remnants of the Order of the Knights Templar who took their rituals to Scotland at the beginning of the 14th century when their luck had run out and they were on the run from King Philip of France and Pope Clement V. This was one of the few safe places on the planet because the king of the Scots, Robert the Bruce, had recently been excommunicated from the Church.

As hereditary Grand Master Masons of Scotland, the once dominant St. Clair family had nurtured this ancient knowledge until such time as it was safe to create a new order that we know today as Freemasonry. The opportunity came in 1601 when a Scottish Freemason (James VI of Scotland) became King James I of England, but a little over a century later Freemasonry had to hide itself in London as war had broken out with the Jacobites of Scotland.

In 1715 a Jacobite army marched deep into England and English Freemasons began to walk away from their lodges (meeting places) for fear of being taken as supporters of the enemy. Two years later a small group of London lodges joined forces to try to save the Order from imminent extinction. They did so by forming a new Grand Lodge and by denying all knowledge of where Freemasonry had come from. This mass amnesia worked and Freemasonry began to grow into a major international organization with the United Grand Lodge of England still claiming original authority.

Today, the official line is still, ‘We don’t know anything before 1717’, and hundreds of thousands of men (and women) around the world play out prehistoric rituals in their astronomically-designed temples under the light of the planet Venus, as they say their prayers to the Grand Geometrician of the Universe.

Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and others come together to share substituted secrets connected with the working of stones, the skills of measurement and a shared awe of the workings of the Great Architect of the Universe.

But Freemasonry is dying. Dying at the very moment that we are starting to understand the nature of the original secrets: the units of measurement that truly describe both heaven and Earth.

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