The Hiram Key Pharaohs, Freemasonry, and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus

by Lomas, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781931412759
• ISBN10: 1931412758
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press

Summary

The Hiram Keyis a book that will shake the Christian world to its very roots. When Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, both Masons, set out to find the origins of Freemasonry they had no idea that they would find themselves unraveling the true story of Jesus and the original Jerusalem Church. As a radically new picture of Jesus started to emerge, the authors came to the startling conclusion that the key rituals of modern Freemasonry were practiced by the early followers of Jesus as a means of initiation into their community.

Author Biography

Robert Lomas is the co-author of The Hiram Key, The Second Messiah, and Uriel's Machine. A Freemason, he lectures at Bradford University in England.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xii
The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry	1	(18)
Sheer Pointlessness	2	(2)
A Poor Candidate in a State of Darkness	4	(4)
The Hidden Mysteries of Nature and Science	8	(1)
A Glimmer of Light	9	(10)
The Search Begins	19	(7)
Where Did the Order Originate?	19	(3)
The Temple of King Solomon	22	(4)
The Knights Templar	26	(10)
The Beginnings of the Order	26	(2)
What Were They Searching For?	28	(2)
The Rule of the Order	30	(3)
The Seal of the Order	33	(1)
Organisation of the Order	33	(3)
The Gnostic Connection	36	(8)
The Early Christian Censors	36	(1)
The Gnostic Gospels	36	(2)
The Gnostic Resurrection	38	(6)
Jesus Christ: Man, God, Myth or Freemason?	44	(37)
Another Virgin Birth	44	(8)
The Principal Groups of Jerusalem	52	(4)
The Hard Evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls	56	(3)
The Family of Jesus	59	(1)
The Birth of a New Religion	60	(6)
Truth Within the Heresies	66	(5)
A Positive Link between Jesus and the Templars	71	(4)
The Star of the Mandaeans	75	(1)
The Star of America	76	(5)
In the Beginning Man Made God	81	(17)
The Garden of Eden	81	(2)
The Cities of Sumer	83	(4)
Ur, the City of Abraham	87	(2)
God, the King, the Priest and the Builders	89	(3)
The Figure of Abraham, the First Jew	92	(6)
The Legacy of the Egyptians	98	(22)
The Beginnings of Egypt	98	(3)
The Stability of the Two Lands	101	(5)
The Making of a King	106	(5)
Proving the Unprovable	111	(1)
The Silent Evidence	111	(5)
The Morning Star Shines Again	116	(4)
The First Freemason	120	(32)
Hiram Abif Discovered	120	(2)
The Collapse of the Egyptian State	122	(2)
The Hyksos Kings	124	(2)
The Loss of the Original Secrets	126	(3)
The Biblical Evidence	129	(3)
The Murder of Hiram Abif	132	(4)
The Killers of Hiram Abif	136	(5)
The Physical Evidence	141	(2)
The Masonic Evidence	143	(3)
Seqenenre Tao the Fearless	146	(6)
The Birth of Judaism	152	(18)
Moses the Law-giver	152	(5)
The War God of the Mountains of Sinai	157	(3)
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down	160	(1)
The Timing of the Exodus	161	(1)
David and Solomon	162	(8)
A Thousand Years of Struggle	170	(19)
The Early Jewish Nation	170	(2)
The Exile in Babylon	172	(4)
The Prophet of the New Jerusalem	176	(5)
Zerubbabel's Temple	181	(1)
The New Threat to Yahweh	182	(7)
The Boaz and Jachin Pesher	189	(27)
The Dead Sea Scrolls	189	(4)
The Missing Books of Maccabee	193	(1)
The Elect of Judah	194	(4)
Midrash, Pesher and Parable	198	(3)
The Secrets of Qumran	201	(4)
The Twin Pillars	205	(11)
The Man Who Turned Water into Wine	216	(41)
The Race Against Time	216	(9)
The New Way to the Kingdom of God	225	(4)
The Arrest of the Kingly Pillar	229	(5)
The Trial and Crucifixion	234	(5)
The Symbols of Jesus and James	239	(4)
The Rise of the Liar	243	(7)
The Treasure of the Jews	250	(7)
The Resurrection	257	(18)
The Remnants of the Jerusalem Church	257	(10)
The `Heavenly Jerusalem' Scroll	267	(4)
The Impact of the Nasorean Scrolls	271	(4)
The Truth Breaks Free	275	(19)
The Prophecy Becomes Truth	275	(7)
The Crucifixion	282	(4)
The Physical Evidence	286	(2)
The Message Breaks Out	288	(2)
The Land of the Star called La'Merika	290	(4)
The Lost Scrolls Rediscovered	294	(29)
The Scottish Sanctuary	296	(5)
Return to Rosslyn	301	(3)
Let There Be Light	304	(6)
The Lost Secret of Mark Masonry Rediscovered	310	(6)
The Lord Protector Who Protected Rosslyn	316	(2)
Beneath Solomon's Seal	318	(3)
Excavating the Nasorean Scrolls	321	(2)
Postscript	323	(3)
Appendix 1: The Development of Modern Freemasonry and its Impact on the World	326	(32)
The English Reformation and the Conditions for Emergence	326	(1)
The King Who Built the Lodge System	327	(4)
The Architects of the Second Degree	331	(2)
The New Heresy	333	(3)
The Old Charges	336	(6)
The Rise of the Republicans	342	(4)
The Royal Society Emerges	346	(2)
Freemasonry Finds Its Feet	348	(3)
The Spread of Freemasonry	351	(3)
The Development of Masonry in America	354	(4)
Appendix 2: Pre-1710 Masonic Lodges in Scotland with Date of the First Recorded Mention	358	(1)
Appendix 3: Early Grand Masters of English Freemasonry	359	(2)
Appendix 4: Early Grand Masters of Scottish Freemasonry	361	(2)
Appendix 5: Chronology	363	(6)
Appendix 6: Maps	369	(3)
Index	372