Mystery Babylon
Greece
- Delta
- 4th letter of Greek alphabet
- symbol of fire
- Uranus
- Deucalion
- Noah
- wife, Naamah
- Minerva
- father, Lamech
- brother, Tubal-cain
- Ptah
- Dumuzid
- Hephaistos
- Vulcanus
- Khouser
- wife, Gaia
- Britannia
- son, Iapetus
- Iapetos
- Iafeth
- Japheth
- Japetus
- Neifjon
- Neifion
- Neyed Naf Nevion
- Nevvid Nav Neivion
- Neptune
- Poseidon
- Aquarius
- wife, Clymene
- son, Prometheus
- son, Menoetius
- son, Atlas
- Titan
- wife, Pleione
- father, Oceanus
- mother, Tethys
- daughters, the seven stars of Pleiades
- Maia
- Electra
- Taygete
- Alcyone
- Celaeno
- Sterope
- Merope
- son, Gomer
- Cimmerian
- Goths
- Galicians
- Gauls
- Celts
- son, Togarmah
- son, Ashkenaz
- son, Rifath
- son, Magog
- Mat-Gugu
- King, Gog
- Gyges
- Γυγης
- Gugu
- killed by Cimmerians
- King, Mat-Gugu
- son, Baath
- Boath
- son, Fenius Farsaidh
- Phenius
- Phenech
- Pheneth
- Phinehas
- Phineus
- Samothes
- wife, Idaea
- son, Niul
- Nel
- Nelus
- Sthenelus
- Sthenelas
- son, Gaedal Glas
- Gaodhal
- Gelanor
- son, Asruth
- Esru
- son, Sruth
- Sru
- son, Heber Scutt
- Eber Scot
- son, Beouman
- Beogamhan
- son, Oghaman
- Eogamhan
- son, Tait
- Tath
- son, Agnan
- Agnoman
- Adnoin
- son, Alloth
- son, Lamfinn
- Lamhfionn
- White Hand
- a candle was not brighter than his hands at the rowing
- had radiant hands that gave off light like candles that permitted the ships to travel by day and night
- son, Eber Gluin-finn
- Heber Glunfionn
- born in Gothia
- son, Jobhath
- son, Fathochta
- son, Madai
- Medes
- Battle of the Eclipse
- son, Javan
- Iovan
- Ionia
- son, Elishah
- son, Tarshish
- Xouthos
- wife, Kreousa
- Creusa
- father, Erichthonios
- from Athens
- father, Dardanos
- son, Kittim
- son, Dodanim
- Dardanus
- King of Scythia
- King of Dardanus
- wife, Bateia
- Myrina
- father, Teucer
- Tros
- father, Scamander
- mother, Idaea
- daughter, Idaea
- son, Hercules Libycus
- wife, Celtine
- Celto
- Galathea
- Galatee
- father, Bretannus
- son, Celtus
- son, Galathes I
- founded Gallipoli
- 1647 B.C. - died
- son, Narbon
- Harbon
- founded Narbonne
- son, Lugdus
- Lugus
- King of Gaul
- son, Belgius
- Beligios
- son, Jasius
- Gaul
- son, Janigenas
- Gaul
- son, Allobrox
- King of Gaul
- son, Romus
- founded Romardin
- son, Paris
- son, Nannes
- son, Britan
- son, Leman
- Lemannus
- son, Olbius
- Albion
- son, Galathes II
- conquered the Sarmations
- son, Namnetes
- son, Thusco
- Tuscus
- son, Altheo
- Alcaeus
- Alteus
- son, Blascon
- son, Cambo Blascon
- Camboblascon
- son, Dardano
- son, Tubal immigrated from Palestine to Spain
- son, Meshec
- son, Tiras
- grandson, Dwyfan
- Deoius
- wife, Dwyfach
- Albina
- Cesair
- off-spring populated British Isles after "Great Deluge"
- son, Cronus
- Kronos
- Saturn
- Utu
- son, Zeus
- *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr
- Jupiter
- Hammon
- Picus
- Ammon
- Asterios
- Minos
- Pan
- Hermes II
- Cush
- Mes-kianga-sher
- son, Nimrod
- Belus
- son, Danaus
- son, Aegyptus
- Bel
- Marduk
- Asshur
- Abydenus
- lightning
- wife, Maia
- father, Italus
- son, Hermes
- Turms
- Faunus
- Gautama Buddha
- Siddhartha Gautama
- Caduceus of Hermes
- symbol of peace
- 2 Serpents coiled around winged wand of Mercury
- polarity
- male and female
- generation
- sun-god and moon-god
- Kundalini
- Sex Force
- twine around spinal column
- American Medical Association
- wife, Alcmene
- wife, Hera
- Queen of Heaven
- knows all things
- wife, Leto
- son, Apollo
- daughter, Artemis
- wife/sister, Electra
- Themis
- Justice
- Ozomene
- son, Iasion
- Iasus
- Eetion
- founder of the mystic rites on Samothrace
- wife/sister, Demeter
- daughter, Persephone
- son, Dionysus
- Iacchus
- Bacchus
- Osiris
- Adonis
- Tammuz
- torn into 7 pieces by the Titans
- wife/sister, Aphrodite
- Venus
- earth-mother
- The Mediatrix
- Divine Law
- husband, Ares
- son, Priapus
- son, Eros
- Cupid
- god of love
- wife, soul
- Psyche
- possessed spiritual beauty more attractive than physical beauty which made Aphrodite jealous
- men began turning their worship away toward Psyche
- told Cupid to arouse passion out of Psyche
- worshipped Artemis
- deity of virgins
- no desire to attend festivals of Aphrodite
- unless haunted by phantoms of doubt and suspicion, the soul retains a general state of peace and happiness
- child, Immortality
- Dionysian Artificers
- dedicated to helping poor
- utopia on Earth expressed in symbolic form
- hammer and chisel
- secret signs
- divided in chapters or lodges
- ruled by a Master
- lodges in
- Medterranean
- Syria
- Persia
- India
- Central/Western Europe
- British Isles
- traveled from Tyre to work on Solomon's Temple
- Ionians went with Artificiers from Tyre
- settled in Asia Minor
- dedicated to spreading of Greek civilization to Barbarian world
- responsible for Temple of Goddess Diana at Ephesus
- called themselves Sons of Solomon
- symbol, Star of David
- 1000 BC - temple erected
- founded Cassideans
- based in Israel
- skilled in repair of religious buildings
- founded Essenes
- sons of the light
- Jesus was an Essene
- thrived in 4th century A.D.
- famous for dead sea scrolls
- 1953 - moved to Rockefeller Museum
- formerly Palestine Archaeological Museum
- 1967 - fell under Israeli administration
- 1967 - moved to the "Shrine of the Book" in the Israel Museum
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
- born in 1st century
- 46 B.C.
- Battle of Zan
- 2nd Punic War in Zama
- 33 B.C. - military engineer
- Roman architect
- master builder
- De Architectura
- 3 departments
- the art of building
- private use
- public use
- defense
- religious buildings
- temples must face west
- altars should face east on a lower level than statues
- temple had to be reconstructed according to principles of sacred geometry
- reflected divine plan of God
- symmetrical
- Human body
- principle source of proportion
- constructed religious buildings to represent the human body as symbol of universe
- utilitarian buildings
- making of timepieces
- construction of machinery
- influenced by Artificiers
- theories formed basis of Roman Empire
- inspired Renaissance architects
- Orpheus
- place of philosophers
- Branches
- Epistemology
- Theory of Knowledge
- empirical
- rational
- Axiology
- Ethical Value
- Aesthetics
- philosophy of art
- require metaphysical foundations
- Social Philosophy
- applies ethics to social systems
- Politics
- Pythagoras
- priests at Samos
- gained knowledge of the Mysteries from Thales of Miletus
- initiated into the Mysteries of several nations
- spent 22 years in Egypt
- Pythagorean philosophy
- democracy based on brotherly love
- metempsychosis
- 3 major philosophers responsible for totalitarianism today
- Plato
- pagan Greek
- wise in the wisdom of the Egyptians
- holder of knowledge
- member of the mystery schools
- initiated in the Great Pyramid in Egypt
- entered as a mortal man
- laid in the sarcophagus for three days and three nights
- emerged as a god
- given or imparted knowledge which he was to guard and keep
- father of collectivism in the west
- first to form a systematic view of reality with a collectivist politics in its culmination
- the function and authority of the state should be unlimited
- government-approved ideas
- government-run ideas
- sexual activities
- government should be run by elite
- man should flee from selfishness for the collective
- Neo-Platonism
- 240 - founder, Plotinus
- 4 truths
- 1. The ancient Mysteries had two forms of worshiping the same god.
- 2. The knowledge of the true god was reserved for those who had been entrusted with the secrets, and not for those whom they call the 'profane'.
- 3. Those who understood those secrets were sworn to the strictest secrecy, and
- 4. Those who have knowledge of the secrets claimed to possess all of the answers to all of the problems of mankind.
- 2 opposed dimensions
- true reality
- universals
- forms
- abstractions
- supernatural
- non-material in another dimension
- fundamentally spiritual
- material world
- what is really real
- imperfect appearance of true reality
- Emmanuel Kant
- Mackey: to understand Masonry, one must understand Kant
- goal
- to save religion
- the essence of religious morality
- emphasis on epistomological issues
- the world that men perceive is essentially a creation of man's consciousness
- 2 opposed dimensions as Plato
- things themselves, reality
- what is not real
- what men perceives is not reality, only appearance
- logic is a subjective human device
- deny knowledge to make room for faith
- necessary to deny happiness to make room for duty
- the essence of moral virtue is selflessness
- not full-fledged statist
- accepts certain elements of individualism
- German philosophers followed
- poisoned intellectual atmosphere of Germany
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- post-Kantian Platonist
- his own version of Platonism
- attacked root principles of Aristotle's philosophy which Kant didn't dare to challenge
- mysticism
- brought about German S.S.
- true reality is a non-material dimension
- a dynamic, cosmic mind
- constant process of evolution unveiling itself in various stages
- reality is organized trilaterally
- thesis
- antithesis
- synthesis
- collectivism
- the group has primacy over the individual
- the state itself is an individual made up of human beings with a will and purpose of its own
- creature of God
- requires reverential worship
- duty to the state
- if the state claims right, the individual must surrender it
- all the work the human being possesses is only possessed through the state
- an unmoved end in itself, not a means to an end
- perpetuated in a variety of forms
- authoritarian state representing a Prussian monarchy
- monarchs embody true will of the people
- Aristotle is the antidote
- champion of nature and this world instead of the supernaturalism of Plato
- denies Plato's forms
- one reality in which we live
- concrete individual entities
- each with a definite nature
- each obeying the laws inherent in its nature
- physical world
- autonomous self-sufficient realm
- knowledge cannot be acquired by revelations of another dimension
- universe of science
- father of logic
- champion of reason
- allowed freedom to work
- production
- knowledge must be derived from the data of sense experience
- validated by a process of logic
- the good life is personal self-fulfillment
- conscious of man's own value
- the crown of the virtues
- not a consistent advocate of individualism
- man is either Platonic or Aristotlian
- Intellectual Counter-revolution
- in the industrial revolution old dogmas began to be challenged
- the tragedy is that Platonism was too rooted firm