APPENDIX ONE

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Druidic Symbolism
in Masonry & Judeo-Christianity

From all these facts it appears that the population of Ireland came from the West, and not from Asia - that it was one of the many waves of population flowing out from the Island of Atlantis - and herein we find the explanation of that problem which has puzzled the Aryan scholars. As Ireland is farther from the Punjab than Persia, Greece, Rome, or Scandinavia, it would follow that the Celtic wave of migration must have been the earliest sent out from the Sanskrit centre; but it is now asserted by Professor Schleicher and others that the Celtic tongue shows that it separated from the Sanskrit original tongue later than the others, and that it is more closely allied to the Latin than any other Aryan tongue. This is entirely inexplicable upon any theory of an Eastern origin of the Indo-European races, but very easily understood if we recognize the Aryan and Celtic migrations as going out about the same time from the Atlantean fountain-head. There are many points confirmatory of this belief. In the first place, the civilization of the Irish dates back to a vast antiquity - Ignatius Donnelly (Atlantis: The Ante-Diluvian Epoch, 1882)

Cernunnos - Ancient Irish (Aryan) earth god. Before demonization by Christians, horned beasts were symbols of royalty and spiritual wisdom.

As we have shown throughout the Irish Origins of Civilization, the symbols and traditions we associate with Judaism, Christianity, Templarism, and Masonry, originate in Ireland. They were first employed by the Druid elders of the west, once known throughout the world as the Arya. The name of Ireland was originally Ari or Arya Land. One of the main connotations of this name was "Western Land." Another connotation was "Land of the Pure or Noble Ones." Hard as it is for most modern men and women to comprehend, once-upon-a-time the little green island of Ireland was home to the world's original aristocracy. This fact has not been conceded by the vast majority of Celtic scholars who are, for the most part, unaware as to where the so-called "Celts" originally came from, and that the term "Celt," as first promulgated by Roman mythmongers, is both inaccurate and prejudicial.

It has only been in relatively recent times that researchers have begun to fathom the mystery of the "Celts" and their illustrious priesthood, the Druids:

In the Gaelic tongue, the verdant land of Ireland is still known either as Eire or as Erin. But where do these words come from? In fact, they refer to the primordial goddess Eri or Ari. This means that the syllables ari and eri directly refer to the goddess after whom Ireland was named. In many cases, therefore, wherever word roots such as ari, ara, or eri, and so on, are found, they denote either the land of Ireland or, alternatively, the western hemisphere. They denote the men of the west, their sacred land, and their beloved goddess.

Cities may burn, floods may destroy, pestilence may kill, and wars may ravage, yet a word may survive – Henry Binkley Stein (Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah)

Ages of Catastrophe

Sometime between 10,000 and 13,500 years BC, the world was wrecked by a natural cataclysm of unimaginable proportions. The devastating catastrophe was recorded by numerous tribes and nations. It is mentioned in the earliest Irish legends. Due to its disruptive geospheric effects, the earth suffered subsequent upheavals. Significant disasters (tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes) shook the world at 8,000, 6,000, and 3,000 years BC. The Mycenaean Drought, the eruption of Thera in the Aegean, the Storegga Tsunami of Scandinavia, the rise of aridity throughout the Sahara region of North Africa, the rise of the waters of the Mediterranean, the dwindling of the vast Saraswati River in the Indus Valley in Pakistan, and the prolonged Bronze Age famine of Britain, are just a few of the super-catastrophes known to have occurred at different periods after the original global "Age of Catastrophe" mentioned in the records of antiquity. Legends from all over the world, which tell of the fall of the prehistoric continents Atlantis and Lemuria, record a real and exceptionally traumatizing episode in humankind's history. We dealt with the great catastrophe and the subsequent trauma to human consciousness in our book entitled Atlantis, Alien Visitation and Genetic Manipulation.

Old World Disorder

Concerning the Sphinx...Another inscription shows that it was consecrated to the god Ra Atum, or the "Sun in the West," thereby connecting it with the "lands toward the setting sun," with "the place of the dead," and with the country of their ancestors' origin - Edward F. Malkowski (Before the Pharaohs)

In The Irish Origins of Civilization, we covered the aftermath of global cataclysm and showed that nature's fury was particularly devastating to Britain and Scandinavia. These land were so smitten that they were through following ages referred to as "lands of the dead." So horrific was the onslaught, that the western elders were, along with the aboriginal inhabitants of Britain and Scandinavia, forced to vacate their homelands for new habitations and territories in Europe and Asia. Wherever the elders traveled they were received as veritable gods. They, and their people, have been referred to by most historians as "Celts." They are, however, properly distinguished by the following more accurate titles:

Aryans (Arya, Aryo, Ari, etc)
Goths (Gots, Guts, Gets, etc)
Nordics
Indo-Europeans
Caucasians

The Gaels, Iberians, and Scythians, were descendants of these illustrious Megalithic ancestors. The primordial elders, the Druids, were members of the world's forgotten Stellar, Solar, and Lunar Cults. (For more information on these Cults we refer the reader to our DVD and book entitled Astro-Theology and Sidereal Mythology.) There was not a savant of antiquity who did not know of the existence and significance of the ancient western elders:

The elder race excelled in sciences such as geometry, astronomy, and navigation, and also in metasciences such as astrology and geomancy. In European and Asian history the original Megalithic elders appear as the following:

Shemsu Hor (Disciples of Horus)
Phoenicians (Arcadians)
Chaldeans (The Magi)
Cabiri (or Kab Ari)
Amenists

As we explain in the introduction of Volume One, we do not regard the term "Celtic" as an accurate description either of the Megalithic Irish or of their European descendants. Recent scientific research strongly supports our contention that the term was merely the concoction of propagandists and mythmongers. As one perceptive commentator said, the Irish were Celticized. We find ourselves in complete agreement with this statement, and cannot forget that the inaccurate "history" of the early Irish has been concocted by their destroyers and colonizers.

After Christians had spent years destroying books and libraries, St. John Chrysostom, the pre-eminent Greek Father of the Church, proudly declared, “Every trace of the old philosophy and literature of the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth” – Helen Ellerbe (The Dark Side of Christian History)

The two invasions of Ireland by King Henry were bloody and ruthless culminating in the complete and utter dismantling of Tara to bare Earth and the final destruction of almost all remaining non-Christian Irish texts -

None of the Celtic source literature is by druids...In Ireland, the amount of poetic/druidic material in manuscripts...is substantial...the bulk of the source material is unpublished, and still untranslated – R. J. Stewart (Celtic Bards, Celtic Druids)

Evidence from the Heavens

Proof that a supremely educated elder race of adepts lived for extended periods of time in Northern Europe and Asia is made evident from a study of astronomy. Astronomically, certain cycles of luminaries, planets, stars, and constellations may only be observed and noted from specific locations on the earth. These various sidereal cycles are of such immense duration that they simply cannot be reckoned by any tribe or nation not geographically stable for an extended period. In short, the exceptional class of men responsible for precise astronomical calculations, and resident at the requisite geographical location, were the Megalithic Irish and Nordic elders displaced to Europe and Asia from shattered western habitats. They were the Hyperboreans. They were the Atlanteans. It was they, and their descendants who remained in Europe, who were the first expert astronomers, astrologers, and cyclopean monument designers. As scholar Godfrey Higgins explained:

In his treatise on the origin of the sciences in Asia, that most excellent man and great astronomer Baillie has undertaken to prove that a nation possessed of profound wisdom of elevated genius and of an antiquity far superior even to the Egyptians or Indians, immediately after the flood, inhabited the country to the north of India between the latitudes 40 and 50 degrees - (Anacalypsis)

The megalithic yard is much older...and was certainly in use in Britain as early as 3500 BC, at which time the Minoan civilization was still a full thousand years short of its ultimate emergence. Since there is little or no evidence of the existence of the megalithic system within central or southern Europe, the inference must surely be that the Minoan civilization ultimately responded to ideas that had originated further West - Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe (The Knights Templar Revealed)

...the strongly substantiated proof of the frequent travelling of Sagas from people to people, and their taking root among many different groups, shows that the majority of basic myths have a fixed point of radiation—their place of creation. Thus, in their outward form, they are only comprehensible on the basis of a completely distinct point of origin - Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the Twentieth Century)

The solar myth, with all its ramifications, did not arise spontaneously as a stage of general development, but was born where the appearance of the sun must have been a cosmic event of profoundest significance, that is, in the far north. Only there would the year be sharply divided into two halves, and only there would the sun represent a certainty in man’s innermost being of the life renewing, primal creative substance of the world. And so today the long derived hypotheses becomes a probability, namely that from a northern centre of creation which, without postulating an actual submerged Atlantic continent, we may call Atlantis, swarms of warriors once fanned out in obedience to the ever renewed and incarnate Nordic longing for distance to conquer and space to shape. These currents of Atlantic men moved by water in their swan and dragon ships into the Mediterranean - ibid

The Migration of Words
In Appendix XIV we deal with the subject of etymology and briefly examine the theory concerning the parent or root language. At this point we can simply note that a lot of evidence for the eastward spread of the Arya, and of later Celtic Scythians, can be found from a study of words and place names. The author T. W. Rolleston provides us with many examples demonstrating cultural dispersion:

The word dunum, so often traceable in Gaelic place names in the present day (Dundalk, Dunrobin, etc,) and meaning fortress or castle, is another typically Celtic element in European place-names. It occurred very frequently in France - e.g., Lug-dunum (Lyons), Viro-dunum (Verdun). It is also found in Switzerland - e.g., Minno-dunum (Moudon)Eburo-dunum (Yverdon) - and in the Netherlands, where the famous city of Leyden goes back to a Celtic Lug-dunum. In Great Britain the Celtic term was often changed by simple translation into castra; thus Camulo-dunum became Colchester, Bran-dunum Brancaster. In Spain and Portugal eight names terminating in dunum are mentioned by classical writers. In Germany the modern names Kempton, Karnberg, Liegnitz, go back respectively to the Celtic forms Cambo-dunum, Carro-aunum, Lugi-dunum, and we find a Singi-dunum, now Belgrade, in Servia, a Novi-dunum, now Isaktscha, in Roumania, a Carro-dunum in South Russia, near the Dniester, and another in Croatia, now Pitsmeza. Sego-dunum, now Rodez, in France, turns up also in Bavaria (Wurzburg), and in England (Sege-dunum, now Wallsend, in Northumberland), and the first term, sego, is traceable in Segorbe (Sego-briga), in Spain. Briga is a Celtic word, the origin of the German burg, and equivalent in meaning to dunum...One more example: the word magos, a plain, which is very frequent as an element of Irish place-names, is found abundantly in France, and outside of France, in countries no longer Celtic, it appears in Switzerland (Uro-magus, now Promasens), in the Rhineland (Broco-magus, Brumath), in the Netherlands, as already noted (Nimègue), in Lombardy several times, and in Austria - (Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911)

• For more information on the this subject, refer to Chapter Fourteen of Volume One, entitled: The Lost Language of the Ancients.

Hyksos, Saxons, Scythians

Osiris came from the west according to myth. He was born from the sea. He appeared as a local god in the city of Ded in the Nile Delta. Isis was sometimes called the goddess of the west - Henry Binkley Stein (Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah)

As we show in Volume One - in our chapter on the Milesian invasion of Ireland - the ancient records inform us that the Celtic or, more correctly the Gaelic Scythians of Europe, were closely allied with the Egyptian pharaohs of the Delta region, those same Hyksos Kings. The old Irish annals refer to the descendants of the Scythians who had lived in Egypt, as "Milesians." This was a name taken from their great chieftain Mile. The vast majority of British historians prefer to deal with the Milesians long after their vacation from Egypt. They concentrate on the Milesian conquest of Spain and avoid dealing with the historical anecdotes that speak of their time in Egypt.

The Saca (or Scythians) - The "Sages" of Europe. A group of Scythians were, we believe, allied to the Hyksos Kings of Lower Egypt. After the fall of Akhenaton, the Scythian-Hyksos-Atonists made their way westward to invade Spain and Ireland. These conquerors, known in Irish mythology as the Milesians, were the destroyers of the Druids, their own ancient ancestors. Princess Meritaten, daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaton, was known by the nickname Scota. This name derives from Scuti or Scut, which denoted the Scythians. Ireland was once known as Scota. Scotland was later named after the Atonist princess.

However, when the dots are connected, a fascinating story comes to light, not only concerning the connections between ancient lands and peoples, but concerning the origins the world's premier secret societies and their so-called "New World Order." In our opinion, the so-called Scythians of Europe were the people that Egyptologists refer to as the "Hyksos" kings of Egypt. These Hyksos have recently been related to the Israelites of the Bible. If our Scythian-Hyksos connection is correct, then we have, from the annals, strong confirmation of the west to east transit of the elements of civilization. Furthermore, we can offer a more logical explanation for the word "Saxon," and for why some researchers believe Saxons and Israelites to have been one and the same group. Some investigators believe the word Saxon to be a derivation of Saca (or Saka, Sakai, or Saga) denoting "Scythian." Allegedly, this word gives us the name Isaac or, more properly Ish Sac, meaning "Man of the Saca." According to the Bible, Isaac was the son of Abraham who was,  along with his wife Sarah, the first "Israelite" to enter the land of Egypt. The name Isaac indicates that Abraham and his descendants were Scythians. We think this to be very likely, although we suggest caution when consulting the official accounts concerning this prophet and his spurious emigration. In any case, the etymology suggests that the Scythians were indeed the Hyksos People. Therefore, it follows that the Scythians were the Biblical Israelites. Additionally, the etymology suggests that the so-called "Anglo-Saxons" were descendants of the Scythian-Hyksos-Israelites.

We see no reason to doubt that Gaelic Scythians traveled to Egypt as the ancient Irish records state. Their city near Galilee, called Scythopolis, has been excavated by archaeologists.

And we can be sure that other settlements existed in the region, as well as in the Nile Delta area. Therefore, since the Scythians and so-called "Israelites" (the Hyksos of Egypt) were so intimately connected, it is quite correct to refer to Saxons of the western lands as "Israelites," although not for the reasons given by orthodox Jews, Christians, and British-Israelites who generally believe the Israelites to have been a ragged but god-inspired underclass cruelly oppressed by despotic Egyptian slave masters. That supposition is unsupported by the facts, and has now been openly refuted by leading Jewish historians. It was an unsustainable concoction from start to finish. Personally, we think it likely that the Scythians were connected not only to the Hyksos, but also to the Cretans, Mycenaeans, Philistines, and Amorites of Mesopotamia. We also believe that Aryans from the western hemisphere traveled into eastern Europe and Asia long before the time of the Scythians. In fact, as we have stated, we believe the Scythians were themselves displaced to Europe from Britain and Scandinavia. To the west, to the mansions of Osiris, To the west thou are going. Thou who were best among men, Who did hate the untrue - (Egyptian hymn to Osiris)

The Scythian settlement of Scythopolis, a stone-throw from Jerusalem. Place names, such as Galilee, Golan, Samaria, Jordan, Sumeria, Saqqara, Sahara, Gadara, Arabia, Armenia, Iran, Syria, Mallewi, Amarna, Tyre, and Tarim, etc, betray Irish roots and the presence of the Scythians and earlier Arya - the men of the west. Another name for the Scythians was Ashguza. The syllable ash may refer to the ash tree, and the syllable guza to Goth and to goat.

Arya in the East

It is surely pertinent that almost all traditions which refer to culture-heroes…describe them as white, tall, bearded, and invariably superior to the aboriginal peoples among whom they appeared — often suddenly — to impart laws, crafts and useful information - D. S. Allan and J. B. Delair (When the Earth Nearly Died)

The Mahabharata reports of the Indian hero, Arjuna, that during his visit to the mountain of Meru, the sun and moon daily passed around from left to right. Such an idea could never have originated in the tropical south, for only in the far north does the sun disc roll along the horizon. A prayer is also addressed to the Indian Adityas: May the long darkness not come over us, and it is complained of bright Agni that he had tarried too much in the long darkness, all of which can only be attributed to the long Hyperborean night - Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the Twentieth Century, 1930)

A Caucasian Mummy found in Cherchen, China.

Whether the western Goths were related to, or descended from, proto-Scythians or earlier Aryan migrants, they succeeded in reaching India and China. Recent archaeological evidence shows us that fair-skinned westerners made homes along the Indus Valley in Pakistan, in the Indian Kush, and in China's Cherchen region and Tarim Basin. Examinations of the hair, clothing and accoutrements of long buried men and women in these far eastern locations clearly identifies them as Nordics from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Physicians in Shanghai who studied the preserved corpse came up with some baffling new information about the blonde mummy of China. Whoever she was, she died with high levels of cholesterol in her muscles—and inexplicable traces of the silvery white metalloid element antimony in her lungs - Charles Berlitz (World of the Odd and the Awesome)

The Jats (elite Sikhs) of Northern India may be an late offshoot of the Arya. Or they may be the descendants of later Scythian migrants. This much is confirmed by the Sikh historians and Sikh people who have always maintained their that race came to India from the west. Likewise, the Yuezhi of China appear to have a connection to visitors from the west.

Were the "Aryan" warrior Sikhs of Northern India descended from nomadic Scythians or from earlier visitors from the western hemisphere? Their own history claims this to be the case. Their physique, physiognomy, bearing and general temperament is certainly akin to that of ancient Vikings and Goths, that is, of Nordics. The very name Sikh may derive from Sac or Sakh, denoting the Scythians.

Together with these primeval Aryan Atlantic memories appear those cult allegories, costumes, carvings which are understandable only in terms of Nordic origin. In predynastic Egypt, we find the Nordic boat with its swan neck and trefoil. But the rowers are the later ruling Amorites, already recognized by Sayce as fair skinned and blue eyed. They once traversed north Africa as strictly homogeneous hunter clans which gradually subdued the entire land. They then migrated somewhat further, across Syria and toward the future site of Babylon. The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of the fifth century A.D., but to the prehistoric Atlantic Nordic human wave - Alfred Rosenberg (Myth of the Twentieth Century, 1930)

The Amorites founded Jerusalem, and they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the pagan region whence Jesus is said to have come. The Amorites were then augmented by the Philistines, who also brought to Syria hitherto unknown Nordic ship designs, with axe and trefoil as the stem symbols - ibid

Suddenly, around 2400 B.C., there appear reliefs of men with fair skin, reddish blond hair and blue eyes, those blond Libyans of whom Pausanias later reports. In the tomb paintings at Thebes, we find four races of Egypt represented: Asiatics, negroids, Libyans, and Egyptians. The last are depicted with reddish pigmentation; the Libyans, on the other hand, are always shown bearded, with blue eyes and white skins. Pure Nordic types are shown on a grave of the Senye dynasty, in the woman on the pylon of Horemheb at Karnak, by the swanboat people on the temple relief at Medinet Habu, and by the Tsakkarai who founded Phoenician sea travel. Light skinned men with golden hair are shown on the tombs at Medinet Gurob. In the most recent excavations in 1927 in the mastabas at the pyramid of Cheops, the Princess and Queen Meres Aneh (2633-2564) were found depicted with blond hair. Queen Nitokris, legendary and surrounded by myths, is likewise always said to have been blonde. All these are racial memories of a prehistoric Nordic tradition in north Africa - ibid

One of the names for eastern Scythians was Getes or Gets, connoting "Goat." These Gets are very likely the same people as the Mesopotamian Guts or Guteans who founded one of the most powerful ancient dynasties in the region. Although the following quoted researcher, like so many others, erroneously imagines the migrations to have be from the eastern to the western hemisphere, his analysis in other respects is most insightful. It reveals the facts that have been kept from us for centuries by complicit historians who would rather we not know the truth about the origin, nature, and movement of the ancient races of the world:

In a rather bold paragraph in their recent book on The Tarim Mummies, James P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair suggest that there may have been more cohesion among these nomads than was previously believed. They wrote in the following paragraph regarding the Yuezhi nomads near the border of China:

Da (Greater) Yuezhi or in the earlier pronunciation d'ad-ngiwat-tieg, has been seen to equate with the Massagetae who occupied the oases and steppelands of West Central Asia in the time of Herodotus; here Massa renders an Iranian word for "Great," hence "Great Getae." ...Others have seen in this word an attempt to capture in Chinese the name of a tribe that is rendered in Greek as the Iatioi who are recorded in Ptolemy's geography. The original pronunciation has been reconstructed as gwat-ti or got-ti or gut-si, which opens up distant lexical similarities with the Goths (the German tribes of northern and eastern Europe), the Getae (the Dacian, i.e., Balkan, tribes northwest of the Black Sea), the Guti (a people on the borderlands of Mesopotamia), the Kusha (our Kushans), the Gushi (a people mentioned in Han texts and regarded as brigands along with the peoples of Kroran), or a combination of some but not all of the above (Mallory and Mair 2000, 98-99).

...comparison of like-sounding tribal names, although merely a paragraph in length, could potentially generate volumes of discussion and can help us understand more definitively the nature of the barbarian invasions in ancient Rome, the powerful Kushan Empire in India, the possible origins of the Guti people, the Guti kings of Mesopotamia, and the similarity between the Goths, Getae, and the Yuezhi. Moreover, this opens up the possibility that at least some of the people termed "Scythians" were a single tribe -- the Getae. So could there have been a nation of nomads who knew themselves as Gets, Gats, Guts, or Yuts?

This is not the first time that the suggestion has been offered that the Yuezhi could be related to Goths. In his Tableaux Historiques De L'Asia, Julius Von Klaproth (1783-1835) wrote:

The name of Yueti or Yut recalls that of Yuts or Goths, which came to Europe: it would be very possible that the Yutes who arrived in Scandinavia with Odin, are the same people who three centuries before our era, still inhabited the area...northwest of the Chinese Kansu province. This would suppose the emigration of the Goths of Central Asia after that of the other Germanic peoples.

This identification between the Yuezhi and the Goths by Klaproth suggests that the tribes involved in the movement of nomads into Roman territory may have been greater than modern scholarship holds. Could it be that the Goths, along with the Alans, were pushed into Europe under pressure from the Huns? Moreover, could these same tribes be found in the Indian and Persian frontiers? The South Asian Jats are one such group that may lead us in the proper direction, as their settlement corresponds geographically with the Indo-Scythian settlement on the Indian subcontinent. Perhaps by examining the customs and characteristics of this living population we can better understand the role the Getae played in history - Sundeep S. Jhutti (The Getes)

The evidence revealing the presence of the Arya in Eastern Europe and Asia has been suppressed. The powers that be do not want the true origins of civilization to be widely known. They have seen to it that questions concerning the west to east migration of the elements of civilization are never broached by academics. Instead of the truth we are forced to ingest irrefutable errors. However, many perceptive researchers, not willing to fall into lockstep with the official consensus on history, have seen through the smokescreens and disinformation. Their discoveries provide us with insight into all that has been hidden from view when it comes to prehistoric migrations and the connections between ancient peoples:

When modern academics composed reference books about early Egyptian history, they scrupulously avoided mention of the impressive body of ancient evidence attesting to the celestial rulers of predynastic Egypt – Tony Bushby (The Secret in the Bible)

Classical archaeologists are in agreement that ancient migrations did take place in prehistoric times, although they often tend to be rather hazy about the dates and the countries involved – Ralph Ellis (Jesus: Last of the Pharaohs)

The religion of the ancient peoples seems to have been one throughout the entire world; a great brotherhood, a universal faith. Strange has been the impulse of priests and theologians to deviate from the ancient holiness which was so solemn and majestic in primeval days, and to instruct the masses in false doctrines - E. Valentia Straiton (The Celestial Ship of the North)

The Egyptians were sublime philosophers who had dictated theology to the world. And in Chaldea arose the first astrologers who watched the heavenly bodies with curiosity as well as with awe, and who made divine discoveries, and who called themselves The Interpreters of God – W. Winwood Reade (Veil of Isis: Or Mysteries of the Druids)

...Egypt is highly unusual, in that the early craftsmanship and construction from the Old Kingdom are the finest and the quality and dimensions of each monument reduce from then on throughout the following millennia – Ralph Ellis (Eden in Egypt)

The predynastic Egyptians, that is to say, that stratum of them which was indigenous to North Africa, belonged to a white or light-skinned race with fair hair, who in many particulars resembled the Libyans, who in later historical times lived very near the western bank of the Nile – E. A. W. Budge (Egypt in the Neolithic and Archaic Periods)

Among the ancient crania from the Thebaid in the collection in the Department of Human Anatomy at Oxford, there are specimens which must unhesitatingly be considered to be those of Nordic type – L. H. Dudley Buxton (The Peoples of Asia)

...the famous Egyptologist (Prof. Walter B. Emery), author of “Archaic Egypt”...discovered the remains of individuals who lived in the predynastic epoch. These presented a dolichocephalous skull, larger than that of the local ethnic group, fair hair and a taller, heavier build. Emery declared that this stock wasn’t indigenous to Egypt but had performed an important sacerdotal and governmental role in this country. This race kept its distance from the common people, blending only with the aristocratic classes and the scholar associated them with the Shemsu Hor, the “disciples of Horus”...The Shemsu Hor are recognized as the dominant sacerdotal caste in pre-dynastic Egypt (until approximately 3000 B.C.), being mentioned in the Turin papyrus and the list of the kings of Abydos - Vittorio Di Cesare and Adriano Forgione (Malta: Skulls of the Mother Goddess)

It is singular to find a white race spoken of in the ancient monuments. Dr. Brugsch, the learned German, notices the word Tam-hou or white men. As it occurs on tablets dated 2,500 years before Christ, it is puzzling to indicate the people. Brugsch traces them to Libya. Champollion recognized in the Tamh’ou a type of European ancestry. M. Deveria remarks upon hieroglyphics recording the fact that Horus, the god, leading and guiding a white race. As there are still many Celtic monuments in the north of Africa, over many hundreds of miles, he contends for the existence of an original Celtic people in Egypt, or, in modern language, that the Welsh and Irish were once in Egypt – James Bonwick (Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought, 1878)

Nobody knows just who these blue-eyed, fair-skinned people were, or even where they came from...Anthropologically, they were termed Caucasians…These people, Elliot Smith concluded, were more than intelligent enough to accomplish the amazing building feats that the modern world marvels at on the banks of the Nile – Gerald O’Farrell (The Tutankhamen Deception)

The Druids worshipped deity under the form of the Equinoctial Bull, as did the early Hebrews and Egyptians, and under the form of an erect monolithic stone, the Hermetic pillar or "gilgal," of which so many are found in Palestine to this day - Frank Higgins (Ancient Freemasonry)

For more hard evidence of the presence of Arya in the East, see Appendix II: Recent Discoveries Confirming Western Origins of Civilization.

The Ring of Power, with goat-horned hybrid animal. This ring was the supreme symbol of kingship and spiritual authority in ancient Persia (modern Iran). Persia was a land of the Arya. The modern name of the country - Iran - means "Aryan" in the Farsi language. The ring was considered to be the bestowal of the supreme god Ahura Mazda. As the exquisite depictions of Ahura and the Persian kings show, the Persians were of Western origin. Their ancestors, the Elamites and Medes, were closely associated with the Scythians. (Click here and here for more information.)

Two ancient sculptures of Ahura Mazda. The Nordic features are most distinctive. The word Mazda means "knowledge" or "wisdom."

(Click here for more on Ahura Mazda.)

Shushinak of the Avan dynasty: One of the oldest god-kings of Iran. His cult stretches back over 8,000 years. His headdress contains stylized horns. The horn-headdress eventually became crowns. The features of the god king are noticeably Western.

Horned God-Men

"The Roaring Lion"...This relief on the house of Caius Manilius, in the Via del Portico d'Ottavia, shows a lion (the symbol of Rome) seizing a deer

From the root Saca come words such as sacred, sacrament, sage, and saga. The root is most likely a variation of a word referring to the stag and stag god of the ancient Irish. This stag god is also known as Cernunnos or Herne. The name Scythian probably derives from zakha or staka, meaning stag. Horned animals such as the stag, goat, and ram, were sacred to the Scythians, Goths, and Druid Elders of western lands. The images of the male stag and female hind can be found on many coats of arms and on the heraldry of many old and illustrious families.

The god Horus was often represented with the horns of both a ram and a goat - Frank Higgins (Ancient Freemasonry)

The divine ram god of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes. Note the horns and solar disk. In Sumerian mythology, the god Enki was symbolized by a horned goat. Enki was known as Ea in the Babylonian tradition. The word Enki is believed to mean "Lord of the Earth." In this instance Enki is akin to the Irish earth god Herne. (Click here for more info on Enki).

The Irish god Herne was also known as Cernunnos and Nikor. This image is from the Gundestrup cauldron. Herne wears the original crown of thorns. Herne's Indian equivalent is Shiva Pashupati, god of the animals. Herne holds the serpent and torc, which are symbols of royalty. Torcs of this kind have been found in Egyptian tombs, for instance, that of Tutankhamen. The stag was a symbol of the Arya. The word stag may be the origin of Saga, meaning Scythian.		A prehistoric image of the great stag on a cave wall. The male stag and female hind were the only animals capable of eating of the yew tree without being poisoned. The yew was one of the most sacred trees to the Druids. The word Jew originally meant "Man of the Yew," connoting a Druidic Elder.
The god Mercury beside the goat. Mercury was the Roman version of the Greek Hermes. Hermes was an adaptation of the Irish Herne. In the Egyptian pantheon Thoth is the equivalent of Herne. In India he is Shiva and to the Orphics he was Orpheus.		The god Pan with the hooves and horns of the goat. Pan is yet another variation of the original forest god. Michelangelo depicted his Moses with goat horns. Did the great sculptor know that the horns symbolized godliness and wisdom? Was he letting us know that Moses, the great leader of the "Israelites" was, like his people, from the west?
Michelangelo's depiction of the Israelite Moses with goat horns, signifying the ancient god of the Aryans and Scythians. Let us remember the passage in Samuel (16:1-13), which reads:  Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. So, we see that kings of the ancient world, as well as Messiahs, were anointed with oil from a sacred horn.		A fair-complexioned Jesus with the lamb and shepherd's crook. There is hardly a single aspect of Christian iconography or theology that was not plagiarized and cannibalized from earlier pagan traditions.
The Roman god Mercury with the ram. This image is similar to many Christian portrayals of Jesus holding the lamb.		The Phoenician fertility god Tascio with goat-headed chaplet. In ancient times the goat symbolized divinity. (Click here for more on the Goths and Phoenicians.)
For more on Baphomet, go to Appendix VIII.		The icon Baphomet (as conceived by Eliphas Levi), was, allegedly, worshipped by the Knights Templar. The Atonist Templars and Masons are the unworthy inheritors of the entire Druidic corpus. Although most of their rituals and degrees appear to derive from Judaic traditions they, in fact, derive from Irish and Aryan traditions. Their Baphomet is merely a rendition of Herne. The words goat and god come from the same root. Before it was demonized by mythmongers eager to conceal the truth about the origins of Judeo-Christianity, the image of the goat signified god. This is because, as we have said, the earliest god worshipped was the forest god Herne. Herne was the gatekeeper and guide of the initiated into the spirit world. The icon represents the unification of the masculine and feminine polarities.

The Goat Throne, as used by "Gothic" chieftains and nobles. (See L. A. Waddell.)

Far Left: The Roman goddess Diana with her totem, the hind. Goddess of the hunt and of the forest, she was based on Danu of the ancient Druids. There are images showing the Egyptian Isis with the hind. These are not found in most history books. Both Isis and Diana were connected with the moon.

	Early British coins, featuring the symbol of the goat. This animal was the main tribal insignia of the Goths, Phoenicians, Hittites, and other Aryan cultures. The goat was often depicted near the cross and a variety of stellar symbols. (Click here for more info.)

Right: A Goth. Literally "Goat Man;" a "Good Man," a "God Man." The syllable got (also get and gut) refers to the goat and to god and goodness (holiness). The name Goth has been purposely mistranslated to mean "Bucket Men" or "Those Who Pour." Similarly, and equally preposterously, the name Scythian has been mistranslated to mean "Men of the Spears," in an attempt to have the world believe the Scythians to have been barbarous European horseback-riding invaders. In fact, as the Irish and Scottish annals relate, in the early days they had colleges of language and esoteric learning all over the globe and around 1400 BC, a particular group of Scythians were privileged guests in Egypt.

The Scythians were "Celts" or, more correctly, Gaels. This word means "pure" or "white." One group of Goths were known as Visigoths, meaning "white" or "wise" Goths.

 

Photograph of a Nordic-type male with blond hair and beard. He has been burned red by the sun. In ancient days, when men from the west arrived in the Near East or Asia, on ships or on horseback, with their piercing blue eyes, tattoos, and copper jewelry, they were taken for gods and referred to as "red men." This is rendered "Edomite" in the Bible. Greek historians know that the mystery school of Pythagoras was actually inspired by a western Scythian known as Abaris. The name Abaris should probably be rendered Ab Ari, meaning "Great One of the Ari or Arya." Abaris was clearly a western adept. The words abbe and rabbi (meaning "priest") come from the same root. The following quote concerns King David:

And he sent, and brought David in. Now he was ruddy (red) and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look at – Dr. Donald Redford (Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times) The casual Roman attitude toward slavery...is well illustrated by the famous anecdote about Pope Gregory the Great's...first encounter with Englishmen. He notices them on sale while passing through the Roman market and, taken by their blond beauty, asks what manner of men they are. "Angli" (Angles or Englishmen), comes the reply. Witty Gregory indulges himself in a pun, saying they are aptly named for they look like angeli, angels - Thomas Cahill (How the Irish Saved Civilization) In Scripture Phoenicia was closely related to Edom, both meaning “red man”...They had, moreover, kings before Israel and were among the most highly civilized of the early races in the most distant prehistoric times – Comyns Beaumont (The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain) Another feature to be observed of the Giants is that nearly always they are described as red-haired, as were the Adamites and Edomites, names derived from the Hebrew adom or edom, red or ruddy...The same applies to the Phoenicians of like stock, whose name is but a derivation of the word meaning red or carroty, relating to a ruddy-faced people – ibid

Scythians, Atonists, and Templars

The Druidical religion prevailed not only in Britain, but likewise all over the East - Edward Vaughan Kenealy (Book of God)

Members of the Spanish branch of the Knights Templar. Note the white tunic and red double-cross motif.

As stated above, we believe that a contingent of western Scythians were at one time close allies of the Egyptian Atonists. Indeed, there is reason to believe that these Scythians were the Atonists of Egypt. Because Atonism is the root of Judeo-Christianity, and because it is also the root of Freemasonry, it does not surprise us to see Masonic orders such as the Knights Templar employing symbolism connoting the Scythians and Atonists. The very insignia of the Templars (two knights riding a single steed facing west) commemorates, we believe, the Scythian-Hyksos or Scythian-Atonist blood bond.

The so-called Double Cross of Lorraine appears to us to be another prominent Masonic emblem connoting the same tryst. Interestingly, Charles de Lorraine, of the French House of Lorraine, was apparently the main patron of Adam Weishaupt and his Illuminati. Weishaupt's political and social ideologies are known to have influenced American presidents John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, as well as many other influential personages throughout the world. The Illuminist or, more correctly, Atonist emblems appear on American bank notes and in the architecture of most towns and cities. Furthermore, Benjamin Franklin's code name was "Moses." His personal design for the American one-dollar-bill depicted the Israelites leaving Egypt during their exodus. (For more information on this, refer to Volume One, chapter forty two, and to our DVD entitled The Irish Origins of Civilization.)
 

Left: Charles de Lorraine: Patron of the Illuminati. Researchers who imagine that the Illuminati were anti-royalist are grievously misinformed. Although this is the impression the secret society's elite members attempted to generate, it is anything but the truth. European royals were, and still are, the power behind the world's prominent secret societies. Their interests have never been the overthrow of orthodox religion or monarchy, or the liberation of humanity. This idea existed only in the mind's of gullible, misinformed lower rank members.

Above: The emblem of the Knights Templar: Two knights riding a single steed facing west. Although many ridiculous explanations regarding this strange symbol have been proffered forth through the years, we believe the emblem represents the age old Scythian-Hyksos, or Scythian-Atonist alliance, that is the ancient confederation of Gaels from Europe with Egyptians of Lower Egypt, as mentioned in early Irish chronicles. The horse was a seminal symbol for the Scythians. If the Scythians were the Hyksos, or allied with them, then they were surely Atonists. After entering Egypt as welcome scholars and mercenaries, they married in with the families of prominent Egyptians, such as Pharaoh Akhenaton. This much is confirmed by the Irish annals. After the removal and exile of the demented tyrant Akhenaton, the Atonists moved westward toward ancestral habitats. The coming of the Atonists to Spain and Ireland was recorded in histories dealing with the "Milesian" invasion of Ireland dated to approximately 500 BC. The Milesians were referred to as Gaels, which traditionally means they were "Celts." Their ancestors in Ireland were the Megalithic Druids who were, in our estimation, close allies of the Egyptian Amenists. This made the Druids rivals to the Atonists or Milesians. And this accounts for why we read of the antipathy that quickly lead to all out war between the Druids (Megalithic Irish) and the Milesians. (See Volume One for more on this subject; the chapter entitled: The Atonists Arrive). The Tuatha de Danann were the ancient inhabitants of Ireland who were forced to give way to the Gaels and to become the gods of Celtic imagination, the lords of the subterranean world. There is no doubt that the name Tuatha de Danann was given to the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland and that it must have been they who built the megaliths. Their uncertain origins combined with their curious stone constructions give them a cloak of mystery...If the Celts drove out the megalithic peoples of Ireland, there is no reason why the same thing should not have happened on the continent, where much of the region occupied by the Celts still bears traces of megalithic monuments – Jean Markale (The Celts)     The Cross of Lorraine: Also referred to as the "Double Cross." We believe it connotes the alliance between ancient Atonists, preserved to the present day by the world's royal dynasties and major secret societies. Atonism is the root of Judeo-Christianity. It may also signify Jesus and Akhenaton - that is - the Christ and the Christ before the Christ. The trefoil motifs are a throwback to Druidry. (Click image for more info.)

A European Coat of Arms bearing Druidic oak leaves (13 on each side), Masonic checkerboard, lions' heads, Druidic 3 bars, a Double Cross of Lorraine, a Atonist phoenix, and Atonist crown with pyramids. The fact that the design is encompassed by Irish oak leaves is most suggestive.

Internet homepage of the Grand Orient Freemasons of America. They are happy to emphasize that their members included American presidents and Founding Fathers, and that they are still an influence at the White House. (Click image for more info.)

The Name of Israel

The truth about the origins of Israel and the so-called "Israelites" is covered at length in the Irish Origins of Civilization books and DVD Series. This word Israel is made from three syllables: Is, Ra, and El. Each syllable appears to refer to the three power Cults of antiquity, namely the Stellar, Solar, and Saturnian Cults. However, the fusion of syllables may also refer to the alliance between Scythian-Atonists and Hyksos-Atonists. The origin of the syllable "Is" could be Iesa or Esa, the sun god of the ancient Druids. The syllable "Ra" may refer to Amen Ra of the Egyptian Amenists. Amen Ra was, of course, the sun god of the Egyptians. So, the word Israel may be a fusion of the names of two important sun gods. In this scenario, the suffix "el" may mean "messenger of" or "servant of." An Israelite, then, would originally have been a "messenger of Esus and Ra;" that is, of the two major sun gods of antiquity. This adds support to our theory concerning the intimate connections between the Amenists of Egypt and the Druids of Britain and Scandinavia.

The names of the patriarchal heroes, as that of God Himself, are non-Semitic...and go back to the earliest known civilizations in the near East, indeed of the world – John Allegro (The Chosen People)

The monuments prove that, quite early in the Dynastic Period, there was known and worshipped in Lower Egypt another form of the Sun-god who was called RA. Of his origin and early history nothing is known, and the meaning of his name has not yet been satisfactorily explained. It does not seem to be Egyptian – E. A. Wallis Budge (Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism)

In the Book of Genesis (chapter  32, verses 27 to 28), we read that the Israelite Jacob (the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham) was renamed "Israel" by the Lord. Genesis also tells us that his elder twin brother was named Esau. Esau was also named Edom, meaning "red one." In fact, this Esau is, according to the Old Testament, the ancestor of the so-called "Edomites." In any case, can we surmise the name Esau to be Celtic (Scythian) in origin? Is it a rendering of Esus, the great lord of the Gaels, Goths, and Arya? Interestingly, the Book of Genesis describes Esau as a adept hunter. And that description certainly harkens back to Esus and to Herne, the animal and forest gods of the western elders. The story of the twin brothers, Jacob (Israel) and Esau, appears to be taken from earlier myths of pagan peoples. The version of their story that appears in the ex-canonical Book of Jubilees, is strongly reminiscent of the Egyptian story concerning  the conflict between the twins Horus and Set.

Druidism and Judeo-Christianity

The facts about the western origins of the major elements of civilization have been cryptically referenced in the Bible and other Judeo-Christian scriptures. Indeed, Druidic elements can be found throughout the texts and traditions of the corrupted solar religions that assimilated and cannibalized the ancestral traditions of the elder race. A few of the more obvious examples are:

Noah and his ark
The great deluge
God's wrath with mankind
Moses and the burning bush
The name of Jehovah (or Yahweh)
The twelve tribes of Israel
The Brazen Serpent in the Wilderness
The Trees of Life and of Good and Evil
References to the Mount of Olives and fig tree
The garden of Gethsemane
Judas hanging himself from a tree
Moses erecting a circle of 12 stones at Gilgal and Sinai
David and Goliath
The nativity and visitation of the three wise men
Joseph being a "carpenter"
Baptism of Jesus by John
Christ entering the temple at twelve years of age
Christ dying at age thirty-three
Christ's ministry lasting 3 years
The Last Supper with chalice
The anointing and Eucharist ritual
The twelve disciples
The sermon on the mount
The crucifixion on Skull Hill
The internment, transfiguration, and resurrection
Joseph of Arimathea (supposed uncle of Jesus)

Of course, we are not told anything about the Druidic origins of Judeo-Christianity by the sanctimonious mythmongers whose deliberate and calculated misinterpretations serve to undermine the reason of Christians and Jews, thus preventing the true foundations of religion from coming to light. The mythmongers, ensconced in Britain and Rome, inverted the true story concerning the origins of religion. Their ideological descendants continue with the work of deception. The elements of civilization, they falsely contend, first moved from the eastern to the western hemisphere. There can be no sanity in this world, politically or spiritually, until this lie is dashed and the true facts are brought to light.

Notably, in an Irish version of the gospel of St. Matthew, the phrase “there came wise men from the east” is rendered “the Druids came from the east.” In like manner, in the Old Testament, Exodus vii. II, the “magicians of Egypt” are made “Druids of Egypt" - James Bonwick (Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions)

According to the rather bizarre and improbable story, the ten Israelite tribes, after their release from captivity in Babylon, decided not to return to their beloved holy city of Jerusalem that they had been so long in building. Instead, they decided to move west. Allegedly, they followed their leader Jeremiah and crossed the Caucasus Mountain ranges into Europe. These so-called Israelites were apparently known as the "Sons of Isaac." This term was also rendered "Isaac's Sons" and, later, as "Saxons." Therefore, the British-Israelite pseudo-historians have decided that "Anglo-Saxons" are originally "Aryan-Israelites" from Judea and Palestine. This may be true but, historically speaking, the migration of these so-called Israelites occurred in relatively recent times. So much had been going on in previous centuries when the men who truly and deservedly bore the titles "Israelite," "Jew" and "Levite," walked the earth. Modern teachers have warily chosen to refer to early epochs as "Mythological Cycles." They dismiss them and concentrate attention on relatively recent historical  times and events. In our work we explore the unadulterated meanings of the problematic terms Jew, Judite, Levite and Israelite. We explore the true origins of the names Jehovah, Yahweh, Adonai, and Elohim.

The truth is that the so-called "Israelites" of the Old Testament, were, in fact, wealthy pharaohs in Egypt. Investigations made in the last decade and a half, into the ancestry of the "Jews," have conclusively proven this to have been the case. Recent research has served to uncover scandalous mythmongering and misuse of terms, titles, and words. Thanks to authors Ahmed Osman, Mustapha Gadalla, and Ralph Ellis, many key historical theories of earlier men of genius (Sigmund Freud, Karl Abrahams, Immanuel Velikovsky, Comyns Beaumont, Conor MacDari, and others) have been confirmed and reinforced. In short, we now know the true identity of the misnamed "Israelites" and "Judites" - the so-called "Twelve Tribes." We know that once-upon-a-time they were identical with the infamous Hyksos pharaohs whose origins have been a bone of contention among Egyptologists for decades.

	A mural of St. Patrick. He stands between the pillars of a Masonic-style archway and under a solar disk emitting rays. The female to his right, representing the land of Ireland, is shown demure and humbled.

What the Artists Reveal

 

	Baptism was not known among so-called Jews as they have been put before us. It was, however, known to Amenists and Druids, and other ancient adepts. The artist depicts the dove, river, and tree. On the right stand three figures. The number three represents the Druids. The artist knew what most Christians are not meant to know about their all too pagan religion. The river may represent the constellation Eridanus. It may also represent the Milky Way that runs between Gemini and Sagittarius. In this case, Jesus and John would represent the "Twins" of Gemini.

	The pillars seen in front of large buildings represent trees. The pilasters on top of many columns frequently bear floral motifs. On the right, we see Arcanum II of the Tarot's Major Arcana. The pillars bear the letters "J" and "B," which stand for Jakin (Jachin) and Boaz. The columns also bear floral motifs. The black and white coloring represents the banks of the Nile. On one bank, the black desert, on the other, the white desert. These two banks are also represented by the numeral of this card - II. The Priestess depicted represents Isis, the goddess associated with the Nile. Note how her blue dress flows like water. Behind Isis is the tree of life, bearing pomegranates. These fruits symbolize the "underworld," and the sacred mysteries protected by the body of the goddess. In the baptism painting above, we see the tree and the sacred river. Trees were sacred to the Arya, or Druids, and so was the river. Therefore, whenever we encounter trees and rivers in Jewish, Christian , or Masonic iconography, we understand that they are plagiarized and cannibalized tropes.

The name of the Canaanite goddess Asteroth means "sacred tree," although this translation is redundant because all trees were sacred to the ancient peoples of the Near East and Europa - John Lamb Lash (Not in His Image)

“The groves were God’s first temples,” says Bryant. The groves, too, were among man’s first gods...Not only the Druids of Britain, but the Greeks, and the Semitic races of Asia were worshipers of trees. The giant oaks and the symmetrical evergreens were gods...”The worship of trees,” says Soury, “only disappeared in Syria at a very late date...The largest and tallest trees, and the evergreen ones, were adored as gods – John E. Remsberg (The Christ)

In Ireland certain very famous trees, usually yew trees, were closely connected with the tribes in whose territory they stood. They were held as sacred, and served as tribal meeting places. This custom was pagan in origin, but the trees continued to be held in reverence in Christian times. When Christianity was introduced, pagan sacred sites were often converted into Christian sacred sites – Alexander Stewart (A Highland Parish or the History of Fortingall, 1928)

In the religious history of the Aryan race in Europe the worship of trees has played an important part. Nothing could be more natural...From an examination of the Teutonic words for “temple” Grimm has made it probable that amongst the Germans the oldest sanctuaries were natural woods...tree worship is well attested for all the great European families of the Aryan stock – Sir James George Frazer (The Golden Bough, 1922)

Christ with solar halo and book. He makes the sign of the goat. The raised two fingers originally symbolized the "horned one." This did not signify something evil. It simply denoted the great stag god Herne. Place names such as Cadiz, Aegean, Golgotha, and Giza, mean "Place of the Goats" or more correctly "Goths," that is the Arya from the west. Jesus was based on the Gothic or Irish Iesa (Esa). Other European gods such as Orpheus, Dionysus, and Bacchus, were based on this western antetype.

The Adoration, by Domenico Ghirlandaio. The figure of the Virgin Mary represents the night sky. The artist suggests the round of the zodiac by the circular hem of the Madonna’s cloak. Christ is the sun born in the sign of Virgo, the Virgin. Joseph, the ”Carpenter” looks up toward the heavens. He is contemplating the signs and represents the ancient gnosis suppressed by the Church of Rome. The three animals present represent signs of the zodiac. The bull represents Taurus (and the Amenists and Druids), the ass represents Cancer; the lamb represents Aries (and the Atonists). The arched portal on the left of the canvas cryptically signifies Druidism. The word druid means "doorway" or "portal." It gives our modern "door." Indeed, this is what the words pontifex (signifying the pope) and cardinal also mean. The fact that one of the three visitors holds a lamb indicates that they are members of the Solar Cult, and probably Atonists. The blatant Romanesque motifs (of archway, Corinthian pillars, fallen column, and marble altar) were added by the artist to signify where the Bible story depicted was truly composed. It was not in Judea or Galilee.

Many Medieval and Renaissance paintings depicting events from the scriptures feature a mount or high place in the background. This artist has chosen to place the mount centrally on his canvas. This motif is purely Druidic, as is the motif of the sacred garden or, more correctly, grove.

This artist has placed the luminaries (the sun and moon) on either side of the crucifix. This brings out the Astro-Theological elements in the story of the crucifixion. Could the four attendees at the foot of the cross then represent the four cardinal points of the zodiac? Could the strange letters above Christ's head be the first letters for Iammim, Nour, Ruach, and Ibeshah, or Fire, Water, Air, and Earth? Is Jesus the fifth element? For more on this subject, see our book Astro-Theology and Sidereal Mythology

The Crucifixion, by Signorelli. A red-haired Mary Magdalene mourns at the foot of the cross on Skull Hill. A mound and and a portal stand in the background. A skull lies at the foot of the cross. The skull denotes the Merovingians, Templars, Cistercians, and Culdeans, and hints to the viewer that the painting contains esoteric motifs understandable only to those men initiated into the Mysteries. Mary's distinctive red hair connotes her western origins as well as the western origins of Biblical lore. Red hair was the distinguishing mark of Scythians and Merovingians. The Bible's convoluted texts were composed by scribes in the pay of the Merovingians and Templars, that is, of the Atonists. The Galatians of the New Testament were blond, blue-eyed Celts. An apocryphal legend claims that John the Baptist was a Celt, and Mary Magdalene was Circassian, half Celtic, half Jewish - John Lamb Lash (Not in His Image)

The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andres Mantegna. Here are all the major Druidic (and Amenist) elements. The triform tree in the background; the phallic standing stone behind the Madonna's head such as can be found in Ireland; the sacred mound behind the tree; the tree of life to the left of the Madonna; and the portal.

Melchizedek - Like so many Biblical characters (Enoch, Abraham, Noah, David, Solomon, Joseph of Arimathea, and Jesus, and so on), he was based on the archetype of the Druid. Note the artist's incorporation of the tree and portal, which cryptically refer to Amenism and Druidism. Melchizedek is traditionally connected to the Tribe of Shem, which was made up of fair-skinned types. The word Shem is, however, probably a poor rendition of Khem, meaning Egypt, or of Shmn, meaning Hermopolis, the great city in Egypt. We believe Melchizedek, as he appears in the Bible, truly signifies Pharaoh Akhenaton, king of the Atonists. It might even signify Aton himself. As such, it serves the same purpose as the name Moses. And just as it is clear that there was no such man as Moses, as portrayed in the Old Testament stories, so we can assume there was no such entity as Melchizedek, as the Bible portrays him. Both fictive characters serve as place-holders for another who is not named. Those initiated into the mysteries, the higher members of the Church and the secret societies, know who is signified by these, and other, pseudonyms. In the painting, the figure of Melchizedek bears a solar halo and holds what appears to be a sun symbol, but which is, according to the Bible, an offering of bread. Abel holds the lamb which symbolizes Aries, the sign most sacred to Atonists. The central table is designed to appear like a cube. It is the ashlar, or altar, of Masonry. The ninety-degree "rules" at the base of the "table" also signify the Masonic fraternities. For more on Melchizedek, see Irish Origins Volume Two, Chapter 8: The Dead Sea Scrolls.

Hiram Abiff (Builder of Solomon's Temple)

Druidism itself was known in ancient Britain as "Y Maen" - the stone religion, or "The Stone Kingdom." Let us also remember that Zion also means "Stone;" Mount Zion is "the mount of stone" - Fredrick Haberman

Who or What was Hiram?

As we have mentioned above, the scriptures are replete with Druidic leitmotifs. If anything makes such texts "holy," it is the plagiarized elements belonging to the noble elders of old. Naturally, without a study of how the Druidic symbolic tropes were cannibalized and finally incorporated into the Christian canon, one is sure to misunderstand our theory concerning the dark origins of Judeo-Christianity and Masonry. However, in our opinion, the symbolism serves to tell the tale and to expose the level of perfidy of these wholly corrupt institutions. One Druidic trope concerns the famous Old Testament character referred to as Hiram Abiff. This character also plays a very prominent role in Freemasonry.

He has been accepted by Jews, Christians, and Masons, as one of their most illustrious spiritual ancestors. Allegedly, he was the builder of the Temple of Solomon.

As to so-called Druidical monuments, no argument can be drawn thence, as to the primary seat of this mysticism, since they are to be seen nearly all over the world – James Bonwick (Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions, 1894)

Newgrange (in Ireland) is the oldest scientific instrument in the world still functioning. It predates Stonehenge and the Pyramids, and stands as one of the world’s most ancient monuments. It is quite likely it will still be functioning when our own scientific instruments have turned to dust – Martin Brennan (Lecture on Newgrange Tumulus)

The earliest people inhabiting Celtic territory in the West of Europe of whom we have any distinct knowledge are a race without name or known history, but by their sepulchral monuments, of which so many still exist, we can learn a great deal about them. They were the so-called Megalithic People, [from Greek megas, great and lithos, a stone] the builders of dolmens, cromlechs, and chambered tumuli, of which more than three thousand have been counted in France alone. Dolmens are found from Scandinavia southwards, all down the western lands of Europe to the Straits of Gibraltar, and round by the Mediterranean coast of Spain. They occur in some of the western islands of the Mediterranean, and are found in Greece, where, in Mycenae, an ancient dolmen yet stands beside the magnificent burial-chamber of the Atreidae. Roughly, if we draw a line from the mouth of the Rhone northward to Varanger Fiord, one may say that, except for a few Mediterranean examples, all the dolmens in Europe lie to the west of that line. To the east none are found till we come into Asia. But they cross the Straits of Gibraltar, and are found all along the North African littoral, and thence eastwards through Arabia, India, and as far as Japan - T. W. Rolleston (Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911)

Of course, we refute the idea that such a temple existed, at least as the Testaments portray it. We are more inclined to agree with those investigators who speculate the temple to have been the great pyramid at Giza. We stress, however, that the term "Solomon" was the title for the highest class of solar priests and, like Moses, Aaron, David, Joshua, and Jesus, etc, it was bestowed upon several individuals. It denoted both the physical sun and spiritual enlightenment. It denoted men who were illumined and illustrious. And so, Astro-Theologically speaking, the so-called "Temple of Solomon" was simply the zodiac, the place of "many mansions." We believe the mythmongers used many cover terms for the zodiac. Here are a few that were used as references to the heavenly temple:

Abode of the Most High Tabernacle New Jerusalem Nazareth Bethlehem Hall of Judges Kingdom of God Tent of God Flocks by Night Aeons / Ages Seasons

Mansions Citadel 7 Churches Mount of Olives Mount of Glory City of David Gates Celestial City Throne of the Elect Mount Zion

Seat of Judgment Wilderness Bottomless Pit Heaven or Hell Grotto Oracle Tomb Labyrinth

If the Temple was so spectacular and so wealthy, why did Herodotus not bother to go there? Why did the knowledge seeking Alexander the Great when in the area, not bother to go there, even for the plunder? - Ernest Busenbark (Symbols, Sex and the Stars)

Clearly, Hiram was the sun and not an individual per se. Additionally, the term was most probably used as a title for those chief astrologers and astronomers whose temple was the heavenly zodiac. Earthly shrines and temples were geographically and geometrically based upon the various constellations and luminaries in the zodiac, and so it is not at all far-fetched to suppose the Temple of Solomon to be that which cosmic one which encircled the heavens above men's heads, and in which the "gods" resided. Elements found in the story of the life and death of Hiram lead us to believe the story to be largely Astro-Theological in nature.

...this whole affair of which we speak and preach, and which is called Gospel, has no reference at all to any person that ever existed, or events that ever occurred upon earth, but it is astronomical – Rev. Robert Taylor (The Devil’s Pulpit)

…King of Heaven, prince of Creation, sun of the eastern sky who appeared both to the dead in Hades and to the mortals upon earth he, the only true Helios, arose for us out of the highest summits of Heaven - Melito of Sardis (Second Century Theologian)

The name Hiram Abiff has interesting etymological origins. Abiff may derive from Abi, meaning "master," "father," or "elder." According to Philip Gardner, the word Hiram may derive from Hir, meaning "head," or "exalted," and Am, meaning "people." In this instance the name would be similar in meaning to Abraham, which can be rendered Ab Hir Am, meaning "Father Head of the People." It may also derive from Ahi Ram, meaning "Head Snake" or "Exalted Serpent." In this instance it would be similar in meaning to Pendragon, meaning "Head of the Dragons."

There is also evidence indicating that the term "Hiram" was used by the Bible's mythmongers to obliquely refer to the Druids or, more specifically, to their highest degreed elder, the grand master of building, navigation, astronomy, language, and magic. It is acknowledged by historians and Masonic writers that Hiram was of the "Phoenician" race. And since the Phoenicians (or more correctly the Arcadians) were elders from the British Isles, it follows that Hiram the Elder, if he existed, was a member of the Arya. It implies, more correctly, that "Hiram Abi" was yet another title referring to the chief among the Arya or Druids. Given the superb temples which fill Egypt, most of them erected by Amenists, we can certainly conclude that there was, among the people and their leaders, the deepest awe and respect for the master architects.

The Druids taught the existence of one god, to whom they gave a name "Be' al," which Celtic antiquaries tell us means "the life of everything," or "the source of all beings," and which seems to have affinity with the Phoenician Baal. What renders this affinity more striking is that the Druids as well as the Phoenicians identified this, their supreme deity, with the Sun - Thomas Bulfinch (Bulfinch's Mythology, Chapter XLI)

The Druids had also their high places, which were large stones or piles of stones on the summits of hills. These were called Cairns, and were used in the worship of the deity under the symbol of the sun - ibid

...the Roman writers admit that "they paid much attention to the order and laws of nature, and investigated and taught to the youth under their charge many things concerning the stars and their motions, the size of the world and the lands, and concerning the might and power of the immortal gods - ibid

…in the very oldest monuments of the Druids, we have the circle of stones, in the number 12, the signs in the circle - signs of the zodiacal circle, with the arch of heaven for the cupola; and, in fact, the divisions of the heavens marked in a great variety of ways - Godfrey Higgins (Anacalypsis)

The Kelts placed pillars on the tops of their hills, many of which are still visible. The pillars were dedicated to the Sun-god, Bal, or Bel, identical with Hu or Huan of Wales, and with Aedh...Many upright stones, pillars and uncut monoliths are to be seen in India...Bringing the stone, often from a great distance, sometimes from the Himalayas, no doubt on account of their great sanctity...The stones are usually roughly cut, like those which one sees so frequently standing in fields in Wales and Cornwall - Dorothea Chaplain (Matter, Myth, and Spirit or Keltic and Hindu Links)

Repeated references are made in the Bible to phallic idols, images, and worship, but they have been so thoroughly disguised in translation that they give the average reader no understanding of the beliefs and practices to which they refer. Many of the names of people and places mentioned also have a phallic significance, which is not revealed in the standard Bible Concordances - Ernest Busenbark (Symbols, Sex and the Stars)

In short, if a Hiram existed, we can surmise that he was, given the accounts about him, certainly one of the following:

A Phoenician
A Scythian
A Chaldean
A Druid

In every case (given the researches of this author, and of others in the last decade and a half) Hiram's ancestry would have been Irish. In every case he would have been one of the Arya. He would, therefore, have been a member of the Serpent Brotherhood, which held the secrets of geometry, geomancy, astronomy, and temple design, and so on. Indeed, the Bible, in it's characteristically veiled manner, lets us know that this was the case.  2 Chronicles (2:11-14) tells us that Hiram was a member of the Tribe of Dan. The Tribe's emblem was the serpent. Author Barbara Walker emphasizes the Western origin of the Danites:

Writers of the Old Testament disliked the Danites, whom they called serpents (Genesis 49:17). Nevertheless, they adopted Dani-El or Daniel, a Phoenician god of divination, and transformed him into a Hebrew prophet. His magic powers were like those of the Danites emanating from the Goddess Dana and her sacred serpents…Daniel was not a personal name but a title, like the Celtic one - (The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets)

Her point, and ours, is strengthened by Philip Gardiner, author of the book Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon’s Temple Revealed. In Gardiner's work we find intriguing facts about Hiram and the Irish (or Aryan) connection. The most intriguing reference concerns Hiram and the symbol of the serpent. The serpent was the symbol of the ancient Dragon Court and of the Irish Druids (the Adders, Naddreds, or Pendragons, etc). It also served as the universal symbol for wisdom and royalty.

There are more real links between Hiram and the serpent. For instance, we noted above that he was of the Tribe of Naphtali. The standard of the Tribe of Naphtali, according to Jewish tradition, is a serpent or basilisk and this could have come from Egyptian origins, as Jewish tradition states that Naphtali was the brother of Joseph, chosen to represent the family to Pharaoh – Philip Gardiner (Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon’s Temple Revealed)

…Hiram is said to be a son of the Tribe of Dan and even the tribe of Dan had an emblem, which was amazingly also the serpent, this time with a horse – ibid

According to Rabbinical teaching the prefabrication of the Temple was performed by the Shamir, a giant worm or serpent that could cut stones (incidentally worm means serpent). Not dissimilar to Norse and Celtic beliefs where Valhalla and Camelot were built with the fire of the dragon and in China where building is aided by the serpent energy – ibid

This is what the Bible has to say about Hiram Abiff:

And now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, Huram my master craftsman, (the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skilful men of my lord David your father – (2 Chronicles 2:13-14)

Hiram was referred to as a "widow's son." This anecdote refers to the heavens. In this case, Hiram would be the sun and the widow, his mother, would be the supreme goddess of heaven, variously known as Apt, Taurt, Nuith, Isis, etc. Additionally, the term "widow" can refer to the Irish goddess Eri, and in this case it would strengthen our theory of the Irish symbolism that has been employed in the story of Hiram Abiff.

Hiram is described in the Book of Chronicles as - the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan. Christians will say this refers to the Israelite Tribe of Dan. But we might ask if there is there something more to this term Dan? Additionally, was there some significance to the Tribe of Dan having a serpent for their clan symbol? We think there is indeed a good reason, one which has to do with Druidism. Not only are the names of the twelve so-called Tribes of Israel Irish names, but the various emblems of the tribes originate with Druidism. The root dan (and related roots such as don, dona, adon, and dun, etc) can, for instance, be found throughout the world. It is particularly conspicuous in regions frequented by "Celts." It originates with Danu, a prehistoric Irish deity and one of the most prominent goddesses known. Her name can also be rendered Anu, or Ana. In this form the name turns up among the Babylonians and Sumerians. The name connotes the heavens. This is one reason why the serpent was a symbol for the Danites. The serpent is Draco of the zodiac. Draco figuratively guards the northernmost stars, those considered most sacred to ancient astrologers. The great cosmic serpent was, however, a symbol for the female. The Egyptian hieroglyph denoting woman was a serpent. In light of this, there can be little doubt that the Danites, referred to as Israelites, were really astrologers, that is, Arya.

Hiram is said to have hailed from the great Phoenician city of Tyre. But this city bears an Irish name. Tyre and Tara both derive from the name of Eri. And, as we stated above, Eri's name was the origin of the name Ireland. Eri is the Hera of the Greeks. Her name is still preserved in words such as terra and terrestrial, denoting the earth.

Hiram has also been associated with Osiris. A comparison of the myths of these two figures reveals many similarities:

Both went to foreign lands to share their knowledge of arts and sciences

In both legends there is a precious thing possessed: Hiram has the secret word; Osiris has the kingdom

In both legends there is a wicked conspiracy by evil men to seize the precious thing

In both legends there is a struggle and a murder of the virtuous leader

Both are murdered by their brothers (Osiris by Typhon; Hiram by Jubelum, his brother Mason)

Both bodies are buried hastily, with the intention of a later, deliberate burial

Locations of the bodies are both marked by Acacia at the head

In both legends, there are two separate searches for the bodies

In both legends there is a loss of something precious: in Hiram's death, the secret word is lost; in Osiris' death, the phallus is lost

In both there is a substitution for the precious thing that has been lost; concerning Hiram it is the substitute for the secret word; concerning Osiris it is the substitute phallus.

- (Thanks to http://watch.pair.com/symbol.html#hiram)

The name Osiris derives from the Egyptian Ausares, which can be more correctly rendered Aus Ari. In this instance we see the all important phoneme ari. The worship of Osiris (god of the Amenists and of the Underworld) was, we believe, transported to Egypt from the west in prehistoric times. The similarities between Osiris and the Irish fertility gods is uncanny.

From the midst of chaos was born Osiris, and at his birth a voice was heard proclaiming − "The ruler of all the earth is born"...Osiris traveled over the whole world, and civilized its inhabitants, and taught them the art of agriculture. But on his return to Egypt the jealous Typhon laid a stratagem for him, and in the midst of a banquet had him shut up in a chest which exactly fitted his body. He was nailed down in his prison, which cast into the Nile floated down to the sea - W. Winwood Reade (The Veil of Isis, or Mysteries of the Druids, 1861)

Hiram, Hermes, and Herne
Since vowels were absent in most ancient writings (Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, etc), the word Hiram can be rendered HRM. This, in turn, can be re-rendered HERMES.

In this permutation, the term refers to secret knowledge and the Hermetic Tradition. The name of Hermes, however, is a derivation of the Irish Herne. Herne, also known as Cernunnos, Nikor, or as the Green Man, was the stag-horned forest god. He was seen depicted (like Orpheus and Krishna) sitting tranquilly among the forest animals. Herne was also depicted holding a circlet in one hand and a serpent in another. (As we saw above, the serpent features prominently in the story of Hiram Abiff). The circlet and serpent motif connotes the number 10, now known as ten. When the Greek letters of the name Hermes are added, we get 343, which equals 10. If the name Hiram connotes the mysteries of the number ten, then Abiff, meaning "Father" or "Elder," simply implies that the number ten was considered the "Father Number." Indeed, the ancient architects and geometrists of Egypt, Greece, and Ireland, held the number in high esteem. Ten was a most sacred number.

Primordial gods (such as Atum Ra) and archetypal figures (such as Adam) were esoterically associated with the number ten. In English numerology, the letters of ATUM (1, 2, 3, 4) add to 10. This is the same for the letters of the name ADAM (1, 4, 1, 4). The human hands figuratively denote 1414 - that is one thumb and four fingers, on each hand - ergo 1414 (or 10). Ergo, the numerological testament proclaims each and every man to be an "Adam."

In their book entitled The Hiram Key, Masonic authors Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas contend that Hiram Abiff was Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao II, of Egypt's seventeenth dynasty. (Click here for more on this pharaoh).

Jacques de Molay. Grand Master of the French Knights Templar during the fourteenth century. He was allegedly condemned to death as a heretic by King Philip IV. Like most of the Templar nobility, he had visited England and was probably educated by Culdean Monks from Ireland. Masonic lore tells us that he bore the title "Hiram Abiff," which lends credence to our contention that (like David and Solomon, etc) Hiram Abiff was indeed a title and not a personal name.

Additional Symbolic Examples
The god Mercury, who was associated with the language and the arts of communication, was originally the Irish god known as Ogma, the son of the supreme Irish goddess Brigid.
 

Mercury was the Roman rendition of the Hellenistic Hermes, who was based on Thoth of the Egyptians, and Herne of the Irish. Thoth's name can also be rendered as Tut or Taut, and his name is close to the English word truth. Words such as tote (to calculate) taught, throat, talk, and thought, etc, come from this god's name. Herne (also known as Cernunnos or Nikor) was the forest god of the ancient Druids. Herne is also a prototype of the Hindu Shiva (or Pashupati). Ogma's name is pronounced auma, or as a long-sounding aum. This is close to the Sanskrit sacred phoneme AUM. One of Ogma's titles was "the Honey Mouth."

The sacred Ogham alphabet of the Druids. (For more information, see Volume One, Chapter 14, entitled The Lost Language of the Ancients.)

He was also the god of strength.  To this day the ancient Irish alphabet is known as the Ogham. Versions of the Ogham have been found as far off as America and Bosnia, although the evidence has been carefully covered-up.

They worship chiefly the god Mercury; of him there are many symbols, and they regard him as the inventor of all the arts, as the guide of travelers, and as possessing great influence over bargains and commerce. After him they worship Apollo and Mars, Jupiter and Minerva. About these they hold much the same beliefs as other nations. Apollo heals diseases, Minerva teaches the elements of industry and the arts, Jupiter rules over the heavens, Mars directs war...All the Gauls assert that they are descended from Dispater, their progenitor - Julius Caesar (on the religion of the Irish and Druids, from: de Bell. Gall. vi. 17, 18)

The Kabala

The Kabala of the Jews is but the distorted echo of the Secret Doctrine of the Chaldeans - Madame Helena Blavatsky

The sacred alphabet, together with the veneration of the sacred tree, reached the Orient and, after adaptation, the alphabet became the foundation of the Phoenician and Hebrew scripts. Hebrew is related to Gaelic, and is the "lost" alphabet of the Egyptians. It possessed 22 letters and 5 vowels. These secrets, concerning the magical operations of these letters, was transmitted in the mystery schools of old. Today, it has been discovered that these 22 letters denote the 22 pathways on the Kabalistic Tree of Life. The Kabala, and its related disciplines, comes not from the Israelites but from the Druids. It was they who would have used this pagan image (of a tree) and who would have likened the journey of mental and spiritual enlightenment to the paths or branches of a tree. This symbolism does not originate with those races taking the credit for it today. Top Jewish rabbis and scholars have deftly concealed their own puzzlement concerning the Kabala and why it is part of their rabbinical canon. They take credit for it and pretend that they understand it, but they do not know its origins or how it really came into their possession. It did so from their association with the Egyptian Solar Cult of Aton.

Like many Egyptian idioms and teachings the Kabala was absorbed by association. It is not a creation of the Old Testament Jews. Researcher Kieran Barry (although he is not concerned with the Irish or the Druids) offers compelling evidence to show that the Kabala was known to the Greeks before it was known to the Jews. What he does not realize is that it came to the Greeks by way of the Hermetic colleges themselves founded upon Druidic mystery traditions. Of all the modern researchers into this field, it was Robert Graves, Godfrey Higgins, Albert Churchward, and the great Gerald Massey, who understood the truth presented here concerning the Irish origins of the Kabala, the Tree of Life, and the sacred alphabets. The image of the living, organic Tree of Life was a pagan symbol that does not derive from the Levitical tradition.

It was a most ancient motif of ancient Caucasian tribes and it appears in the Scandinavian Viking tradition as Yggdrasil, the cosmic tree that has its roots in the underworld and its branches in the heavens, and which is demarked by seven major stages, in a similar way as we find in the chakra system. Around Yggdrasil coils the serpent, another symbol employed largely by the Irish and the Egyptians.

...we can see that the greater number of the peculiar features of this history existed in Egypt--the tree of life and knowledge, the serpent of Paradise, Eve thinking of appropriating divinity to herself, and in short Adam himself, are all there - M. Lefébure

One is filled with admiration, on penetrating into the Sanctuary of the Kabalah, at seeing a doctrine so logical, so simple, and at the same time so absolute. The necessary union of ideas and signs, the consecration of the most fundamental realities by the primitive characters; the Trinity of Words, Letters, and Numbers; a philosophy simple as the alphabet, profound and infinite as the Word; theorems more complete and luminous than those of Pythagoras; a theology summed up by counting on one's fingers; an Infinite which can be held in the hollow of an infant's hand; ten ciphers and twenty-two letters, a triangle, a square, and a circle - these are all the elements of the Kabalah. These are the elementary principles of the written Word, reflection of that spoken Word that created the world! - Albert Pike (Morals and Dogma)

The motif of the Tree of Life was known to the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, and the Irish Magi. As the Christian Christ hung on the tree, so did the great hero Odin ritually hang upon a great tree in order to self-initiate himself into the mysteries of life. The tree became a symbol of the royal couple, the king and queen, who were considered agents of the gods. On the plagiarization of ancient gnosis, Professor. L. A. Waddell wrote:

...the Hebrew rabbis who composed Genesis with its Garden of Eden and Creation of Man story, had manifestly helped themselves to the floating traditional history in late Babylon in respect to the oldest kings known to the ancient world, namely the kings of the First Aryan Dynasty. But not understanding it, they had travestied the historical facts and the noble character of the great King "Adam," by making "Adam" to be the first lowly "created" man, instead of the first man and superman - (Makers of Civilization in Race and History)

The Number Three
The number 3 was extremely important in the Shamanic tradition because it represented the harmonious median between conflicting polarities, such as ignorance and knowledge, or folly and wisdom, etc. Three represented the agents of harmony. The Druids understood that nature did not possess such vexatious dichotomies, but that the minds of men most certainly did. Duality was a phenomenon of consciousness, not of nature, even though a fragmented psyche may erroneously project that falsity, and then believe it to be the case.

In Welsh the word for three is tri, and that is the same in Sanskrit. The Irish Gaelic word for Trinity is Triquetra, which is similar to the Sanskrit word Trikuta, which means "Three Peaks." In Egypt, the hieroglyphic depicting three peaks or hills signified "foreigners," or travelers from distant lands.

Druidic Ireland was divided according to the hemispheres of consciousness. There were four main counties, with one administrative center making the fifth sacred province. This province was called Mide, (or Meath) which meant the middle place. The capital city Tara was situated there, as well as the great astronomical megaliths (Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth and other impressive geomantic sites). The Egyptian supreme goddess of balance and harmony was called Ma'at, and this word is of Gaelic origin. Ma'at is the great mother, the same type as Danu or Brigit. Her name meant "straight," "true," or "just." The hieroglyph denoting Ma'at also signified the mathematical formula one half (1 divided by 2).

The power of the Magi lay in their understanding and application of the properties of the Third Principle. Iesa, the third aspect of the Druidic Trinity, was their most venerated god. Iesa was the prototype of Jesus and he can also be linked to the Hindu god Shiva, the lord of deconstruction and renewal. This Third Principle turns up in the Christian canon as the Holy Spirit, the symbol of which is the dove.

...among the whole of them three classes more especially are held in distinguished veneration, the Bards, the Ovates, and the Druids. The Bards are chanters and poets. The Ovates are…physiologists. The Druids, in addition to physiology, practice ethic philosophy. They are deemed to be most upright, and, in consequence, to them are committed both public and private controversies, in as much that on some occasions they decide on battles and stop the combatants on the eve of engaging. These and others say that souls are immortal, and that the world is so too; yet that ultimately fire and water will prevail - Strabo (First Century Greek historian and geographer)

We find the archetype of threeness expressed throughout the esoteric Kabalistic doctrine. Mystery school traditions such as Kabalism were based on the teachings of the Druid Elders. Druidic colleges employed tripartite divisions. The very Druidic Order was subdivided into three parts. And the Druidic Trinity (Bel, Taranis, Esus) was surely the archetype upon which all others were based.

Ancient Egyptian religion had from the earliest times displayed a natural inclination to the arrangement of its gods in groupings of threes, or "triads." Following the model of Osiris - Isis - Horus, the triad later took on a "familial" pattern of father-mother-child, and several cities worshipped their own particular variations on theme - Nicholas Reeves

Hebrew theology was divided into three distinct parts. The first was the law, the second was the soul of the law, and the third was the soul of the soul of the law. The law was taught to all the children of Israel; the Mishna, or the soul of the law, was revealed to the Rabbis and teachers; but the Qabalah, the soul of the soul of the law, was cunningly concealed, and only the highest initiates among the Jews were instructed in its secret principles - Manly Palmer Hall (The Secret Teachings of All Ages)

More Esoteric Symbolism

Left - Irish figure dug up from under a tree. Figure has characteristically crossed arms, as are common in Egyptian images Right - Similar statuette with "Buddhic" mudra Christian monks successfully saw to it that such icons were destroyed.

...In my Celtic Druids I have shewn that the worship of Buddha is everywhere to be found - in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Hu, the great God of the Welsh, is called Buddwas; and they call their God Budd, the God of victory, the king who rises in light and ascends the sky - Godfrey Higgins (Anacalypsis)

Numerous analogies and correspondences with India are to be found in the Celtic and Celto-Iberian religion, which was familiar with the idea of reincarnation, a vegetarian diet, the tree cult and the swastika, a symbol that is found even today on the door-posts of Basque farmhouses. In the Musee Borely at Marseille there are two sitting stone figures, presumably cult idols, dated as originating in the second century BC...Although these figures are headless and believed by scholars to be Celto-Iberian gods, yet they are astonishingly similar to early Buddhist works of art, to bodhisattva sculptures characteristically sitting in the lotus position, with the brahmanic cord over the shoulder and bangles around the neck and upper arms and hands is also reminiscent of the mudras (gestures) in statues of the Buddha - Gruber and Kersten (The Original Jesus)

A "Jewish" menorah. From an illustration in the Cervera Bible of 1299 AD. We might ask where this symbol came from? It was originally Aryan and Druidic. It represented the three schools of Druidry (the Druids, the Ovates, and the Bards). Many other tribes and nations divided their priesthoods after the schemata laid down by the Western Arya.

The Hierophant - Card 5 of the Tarot. Despite the garb, the image connotes the Druidic priesthood that was subdivided into three schools

An examination of the Major Arcana's fifth card - The Hierophant - reveals that the central figure, a pope-like initiator, holds in his hand a wand with three horizontal bars. This strange non-Christian motif is of Druidic origins. It represents the three divisions of the Druidic Order. This fifth Arcanum is an oblique reference to the original Solar Church - the disseminator of sacred knowledge to the world. Subsequently, the Christian mythographers incorporated the number three, in their pontiff's tiara, and in the architectural layout of their churches and cathedrals, etc. And of course, it was incorporated into dogma as heaven, purgatory and hell, and in the sublime, but rather obscure trinity of God, the Son, and Holy Ghost. The penchant for arranging and dividing according to the trinity, was very conspicuous among the Egyptians, who had learned of it from the Druids.

The suits of the ancient Tarot (as well as of regular playing cards) are based on the four sacred treasures of the ancient Irish. These four august treasures which are the prototypes of the suits are the Wand or Lance of Lugh (the Sun King), the Sword of Nuada (the High King), the Stone of Manannan Mac Lir (God of the Sea), and the Cauldron of the Dagda (the All-Father). Into this Cauldron of Plenty dead heroes could be placed to be given new life, and from it all manner of dead things could be renewed. It provided food during times of famine and was also used for divination purposes.
 

Sir Thomas More wearing the "Collar of Esses" (Iesa). Note the Irish triskellion and serpentine "S" motifs. A ceremonial undergarment worn by the Egyptian solar priesthood was suggestively known as the "Essen" breastplate.
 

It is this sacred cauldron of the Druids, which became the prototype of the so-called "Holy Grail," the sacred chalice believed to contain to the "blood" of the dying savior Jesus Christ. Of course, we understand that the motifs of the grail chalice, as well as that of the dying savior, are of Druidic origins. It was not Jesus' blood that the cauldron or chalice contained, but that of Esus or Iesa, the dying god of the earth, who gave up his life and who poured his blood and life-force upon the land to ensure the renewal of all life. Esus was the earth, but also the sun. He died to be reborn. As the Sun King, he was the icon for victory, triumph over evil, and the unification of opposites.

• The word Dagda comes from the same root as daddy, meaning "Father." In Hebrew we have dagh, which means fish, but which connotes reptile or serpent. (The Hebrew term probably comes from Gaelic anyway). Another word for fish, is luce, which gives us lucifer. What does this tell us about Christians who have used the fish-symbol as an insignia of their path and for their leader?