A young Queen Elizabeth with the High Druid during a ceremony. Modern Druidism is nothing more than Atonism. It's a far cry from the original form known in ancient times.

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 term 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 in doubt about where the so-called "Celts" originally came from, and unaware that the term "Celt," as promulgated by Roman mythmongers, is both inaccurate and prejudicial.

Our Thesis

The Ten Commandments of the Druids were almost identical with those given by God to Moses - Richard Kelley Hoskins

We began work on The Irish Origins of Civilization in 2005 and published both volumes of the book in November 2007. Our researches into Ireland's role in world history commenced in 1981, after a preliminary study of ancient Irish mythology. As of this date, few of our theories and assertions have been accepted by modern-day writers and researchers. Nor have they been deeply contemplated and correctly tackled by revisionists. Nevertheless, we are now in an age when the ideas we present are likely to be corroborated. Recent archaeological discoveries are helping to radically change everything that has hitherto been accepted about the history of the West. The lies and fallacies that have concealed the facts about our past are daily being compromised.

...he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal, or both - Max Muller (The Science of Religion)

In our text we assert the following controversial points, which must be deeply considered by every unbiased historian and researcher:

• The elements of modern civilizations originated in prediluvian times, long before the official dates given for the advent of sophisticated human artifice. After the destruction of Atlantis and other prehistoric civilizations (approximately 13,500 years ago), surviving cultural elements were transported to Britain and Scandinavia.
   

• The preservers and disseminators of prediluvian knowledge were the priesthood known as the "Druids." This word means Servant or Keeper of Truth. However, the Druids were a worldwide priesthood and were not confined to Western Europe. In Egypt they were known as Amenists. The cosmologies and pantheons of India, Egypt, Italy, Greece, and other countries, were not autochthonous. They originated in Britain and Scandinavia. (Norway was once joined to Scotland via a great land bridge.)
   

• Ireland, not Egypt, was the post-diluvian cradle of the elements of civilization. It is from Britain and Scandinavia that these elements spread throughout the world. This fact is widely denied because it would inevitably give rise to speculation about Atlantis, the Age of Catastrophe, and antiquity of advanced humans. Revelations on these subjects devastate fundamental tenets of modern-day science and religion. However, the true facts about the widespread influence of Irish Druidism is largely unknown because of the wholesale destruction of the Druids and the prolonged and deliberate suppression and mutilation of their social traditions and religious leitmotifs.
   

• There were primordial connections between Britain and Egypt. Long before the first official dynasties, over 4,000 years ago, the Western Arya migrated to the Middle and Far East, establishing new civilizations and enriching existing ones. Their remains have been discovered in Upper Egypt and locations farther East. They were the original architects of the Giza Pyramids and the many sacred temples along the Nile. They brought with them the worship of Amen Ra, Osiris, Horus, and Isis (the Nordic Is) . While in the East, the Arya referred to their own Western habitats as "lands of the dead," due to the colossal devastation that occurred there.
   

• The many prehistoric and historic migrations to the British Isles (of Iberians, Celts, Gaels, and so on) were for the most part returns. During the so-called "Age of Catastrophe," titanic cataclysms (following on from those that destroyed Atlantis) displaced the original inhabitants of Britain, who were forced to flee to the Continent across land-bridges now lost beneath the waves.
   

• The Druids were Aryans. This word has been deliberately misinterpreted to signify members of a race. However, the term truly refers to a spiritual caste, an elect. It is also the true name of Ireland, correctly rendered Ariland, or "Land of the Arya." The term can also be correctly rendered Eri, signifying the Earth goddess of the ancient Druids. Etymologically, Ari and Eri can be found as roots in terms and names such as area, terra, Tara, Mary, Hera, Benares, Armenia, Aramaic, and aristocracy, etc.
   

• The language of the Arya is now referred to as Aramaic and Hebrew. However, these languages have been fraudulently put before us by duplicitous linguists and other so-called "experts." They are not "Semitic" and were not invented by early Jews or Canaanites. On the contrary, the twenty two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are based on the ancient Irish alphabet. Specifically, the so-called "Hebrew" alphabet was the sacred alphabet of the initiates. It was the non-hieroglyphic "hieratic" script of Egyptian adepts, the sacerdotal alphabet of the Ibaru who were not the ancestors of modern religious Jews. They were the Judites, Judges, and Wise Ones; the architects of high civilizations eventually brought low by desecrators who appropriated, corrupted, and misrepresented their sacred leitmotifs. (According to researcher Tony Bushby, the shapes of the twenty two "Hebrew" letters were, in fact, based on the serpentine shadows cast by sunlight passing through the, now lost, crystalline capstone on top of the Great Pyramid of Giza. These "letters" were assigned to the twenty two cards of the Tarot, which originated in Ireland, and to the twenty two "paths" on the Kabalistic "Tree of Life." The concept of the sacred tree was known to Western adepts - British, Nordic, and European - millennia before the rise of Judaism and Christianity.)
   

• Terms such as Israel, Israelite, Jew, Judite, Yahud, Jehovah, Adonai, Aton, Amen, Elohim, Christ, Jesus, Messiah, Joshua, Isaac, David, Solomon, and so on, were originally Druidic or Aryan appellations. Some of these terms were titles denoting senior members of Druidic colleges. These terms were plagiarized and deliberately mistranslated to obscure the facts about the origins of religion.
   

• Judeo-Christianity is an adulterated form of Druidism and Amenism. The vast majority of tenets, doctrines, terms, and symbols of modern religion are the result of deliberate plagiarism. They are based on ancient Aryan theology and astrotheology. The adulterated form of Druidism and Amenism can also be referred to as Atonism.
   

• Atonism is the basis for the monotheistic elements of Judeo-Christian theology. That modern experts foam at the mouth denying this fact, does not make it less true. The truth is that Christianity was not conceived by egalitarian Jews or Essenes, Mandeans, Stoics, Therapeuts, or Alexandrian Gnostics, as many misinformed researchers and authors believe. Most of these Oriental sects were branches of ancient Atonism. The same can be said of Mithraism and Talmudism. The Jewish Jehovah is none other than Adon or Aton, god of light.
   

• The emperors who codified and established Christianity were members of Solar Cults that were outer cells of a more secretive Atonist lodge. Senior members of the Claudian, Piso, and Flavian dynasties of Rome worked closely with wealthy and powerful Sadducees and Pharisees to establish the Christian religion. This Atonist quorum feared the rise of other religions with egalitarian tenets and "Druidic" elements. To suppress rivals and galvanize imperial dominion, they funded duplicitous scribes and compilers (such as Paul and Marcion) to create Christianity, basing their "Jesus Christ" on many ancient solar heroes and deities. The sidereal motifs found throughout the scriptures prove this beyond all doubt. Nevertheless, the god of the Bible, Jehovah, was not the god of the Jews, as most academic historians falsely allege. He was the god of Solar Cult priests and pharaohs who were themselves descended from the Hyksos kings cryptically referred to in the scriptures as "Israelites." This term derives from Isa (god of the Western Arya and their descendents), and Amen Ra (god of the ancient Egyptian kings.)
   

• The so-called but misnamed "Jewish" co-conspirators who directed the operations of the Roman Caesars and Emperors, were Atonists. Specifically, they were the leaders of the Order of Melchizedek (or Akhenaton). They were Pharisees and Sadducees of high rank, keepers of the so-called "Oral Tradition" allegedly delivered to their ancestors at Mount Sinai. This quorum of sorcerers were also known as the Gaonim. The capitalized letter "G" found on Masonic iconography refers to this super secret Luciferian cabal. The Gaonim have nothing whatever in common with modern religious Jews or the individuals, races, and tribes featured in the testaments.
   

• The original Jews or Judites are not the religious Torah-readers known today. Terms and appellations of this kind do not refer to the kind of sects or beliefs we might first imagine. They refer to a caste of sorcerers descended from the corrupt Solar Cults (or Luciferians) of antiquity. The members of the British royal family, for example, are Judites, even though they belong to the Protestant religion. The Pope is a Judite, and so are his bishops and cardinals, even though they belong to the Catholic religion. The word Tudor derives from Juda or Judah, as do the terms judge, tutor, and Teuton. These facts are known to members of Masonic Orders and other "Judaic" enclaves. To them religious affiliations mean little and are merely a form of camouflage. They serve to dupe the uninformed masses of the world.
   

• The founder of Atonism was Pharaoh Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV). He appears in Jewish history as Moses, Zadok, and Melchizedek. He was not an enlightener, as ninety eight percent of the world's writers and historians apparently imagine. On the contrary, Akhenaton was a megalomaniac who ravaged Egypt and violently destroyed its many marvels. He was finally ousted from power and expelled from the country. As researcher Ralph Ellis has shown, the rise of Akhenaton's monotheistic beliefs and warped brand of solar theology coincided with an important astrological phenomenon, namely, the precessional transition of the sun out of the house of Taurus into Aries.
   

• Akhenaton's Atonists were members of the Hyksos dynasty of kings and princes. However, in our estimation, these controversial kings were of Scythian (or Gaelic) ancestry. In other words, they were from the West. During and after the Age of Catastrophe their ancestors (the pure Arya) fled from Britain to Northern and Eastern Europe, and from there further Eastward toward Syria, Palestine, and India. Although the Scythians of later ages were originally affiliated with the Megalithic Arya, some of their number became spiritually and morally corrupt. Today, a few mainstream historians and archeologists hesitatingly accept that Western "Celts" (as they are erroneously called) had settlements in the Middle and Far East. This is because these migrations were relatively late, historically speaking. They date from approximately 600 years BC onward. Modern academics, however, dare not accept or acknowledge earlier Megalithic migrations from the West to the East. As we said, this idea leads to a plethora of vexatious questions that "experts" habitually and contemptuously ignore.
   

• The modern-day revisionists Ralph Ellis, Moustafa Gadalla, and Ahmed Osman (following on from Comyns Beaumont and other maverick geniuses) conclude that the so-called "Israelites" and "Judites" of the Old Testament were none other than the Hyksos-Atonists, first expelled from Egypt at the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty and again during the reign of Akhenaton. We assert that the Hyksos/Atonists were originally Scythians from the West. We also assert that Akhenaton's first wife Nefertiti, her daughter Meritaten, and their descendents, were Scythians.
   

• The exiled Scythian/Hyksos/Atonists, or Israelites, did not disappear from the world and did not spend any time in "Captivity."  They were a super-wealthy pharaonic dynasty with connections throughout the world. After the fall of Akhenaton, their descendents eventually migrated to their ancestral homes in the West in order to establish a new empire. From Britain they exercised control over their many lieutenants in Athens, Rome, Tanis, Alexandria, Judea, and elsewhere. The British Empire is the Atonist Empire upon which the sun (Aton) never sets. (The Union Jack is really a symbol of the Union of Jacob.) Its founders and maintainers have unleashed untold mayhem for centuries and have caused unfathomable suffering throughout the world. Our work is dedicated utterly to the exposure of these psychopathic plutocrats and the ruin of their anti-human industry.
   

• The coming of the Atonists was recorded by Irish and Scottish annalists. The records refer to the invaders as Milesians, after their leader King Mil. (He is known to the Scots as Gathelos or Gaythelos, which is probably were we derive the term "Gael," meaning "stranger.") Officially, the Milesians are believed to have crossed over to Ireland from Spain around 600 BC. However, we believe these dates have been deliberately falsified. The Atonist invasion probably occurred nearly one thousand years before the official dates given. The falsification occurred because historians have been directed to date the Gaelic invasion of Ireland, suppression of the Druids, and creation of Christianity, to the period following the rise of Rome (700 BC), and not before. As we said, the ancestors of the Milesians (the Scythians) were originally Irish. They had been displaced to Europe and the Middle East after experiencing the havoc of the Age of Catastrophe.
   

• Eradicating the Druids proved to be a difficult task for the Milesian-Atonists. They eventually called on their agents in Rome to lend a hand. In our opinion, the imperialist activities of Alexander the Great, Julius and Augustus Caesar, and other Greek and Roman tyrants, were mercenary actions, funded and directed by high-ranking Atonists ensconced in Britain. This same British-based cabal also financed the establishment of the Christian Church in Byzantium (Constantinople) and finally Rome. Christianity was and is hybridized Druidism. It has usurped the place of the unadulterated school once known and respected throughout the world. Furthermore, Irish Culdean (or Atonist) monks (those in charge of cannibalizing Druidic traditions) became tutors of the Templar nobility of Britain and Europe. The Culdeans, together with their Templar and Cistercian scions, were the "preservers" of cannibalized Druidic traditions. This the secondary reason why pagan elements turn up in Christianity. It is also the reason for the rivalry that eventually erupted between hardline Romish Christians and "Gnostic" types such as the Knights Templar.
   

• Members of the French, German, and Swiss Merovingian dynasty were, and still are, Atonists. Powerful secret societies such as the Priory de Sion, Knights Templar, Freemasons, and Rosicrucians, etc, are funded and operated by elite royals who were and are either biologically or ideologically related to the Hyksos-Atonist-Judites of antiquity. They are "Luciferians" or "Princes of Light." In times past most of the autocratic Merovingian dukes and princes were tutored by Irish Culdean monks who had appropriated, corrupted, and cannibalized the traditions, teachings, and iconography of the Druids. The Culdeans, Cistercians, and Templars were descended from the Atonist-Milesians who, after being expelled from Egypt with Akhenaton, journeyed West to eventually conquer Ireland approximately one thousand years BC.
   

• The modern-day architecture of control, and so-called "New World Order," is the brainchild of the Atonist imperialists whose existence we expose throughout our work. The politically active members of present-day royal dynasties, who fund the powerful secret societies, are either biologically or ideologically related to the Atonist pharaohs of old. The majority of the symbols permeating the corporate and religious world denotes this Atonist Cult of Luciferians. Their "New World Order" is a architecture of control designed to replace the "Old World Order" lost to them in ages past. This cult of sorcerers - the Gaonim or Exilarchs (the Princes and Brothers of Light, or of Aton) - exercise control over human beings politically and theologically. The religions they have spawned serve to control man's emotions and pacify his rebellious spirit, while their political orgs offer him a semblance of superiority and power. Tantalized with chimeras of positive social change and technical progress, and blinded by the "light of Aton," man remains psychologically arrested. Consequently, he presents no threat whatsoever to the Establishment figures who habitually treat him as a disposable pawn on their geopolitical board game.
   

• The modern-day architects of control are not scions of some indefinable "mystery religion," as many Christian conspiracy buffs allege. They are initiates of secret fraternities created by the same Black Lodge responsible for the establishment of the Christian Church. Therefore, Christians who seek to expose the workings of secret societies are largely ignorant of vital facts concerning their own allegiances. They are handicapped by not knowing that the  very religions to which they belong were established and financed by the same Atonists who fund and direct the secret societies. The Atonists have cunningly divided society in order to pit one faction against another. While the "opposames" witlessly ride their see-saws, the Atonist presence remains indistinct. Nevertheless, the Judaism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Zionism, and Masonry, known today, are all "brands" manufactured by the Atonist "corporation" or Black Lodge. Therefore, only those free from political and religious bias can successfully combat the nefarious intelligence that has preyed over mankind for so many ages.

Emperor Titus was the son of Emperor Vespasian (7-79AD) of the Flavian dynasty. According to certain records (in the works of Tacitus, Suetonius, and Josephus), Vespasian was associated with elite Jews, such as procurator Tiberius Julius Alexander and Alexandrian priest Basilides. According to a few researchers, Vespasian and his Eastern allies created the religion that would eventually become Christianity. As the arch-conspirators funded the creation of their new religion, they saw to it that rival cults and sects were undermined and exterminated. Vespasian’s successor, his son Titus (79-81 AD), ransacked Judea, slaughtered one million people or more, and had the sacred treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem transported under guard to Rome. We believe the Flavians were merely servants of “Atonist” elites who considered certain powerful sects in Alexandria and Judea a threat to their hegemony. They feared the advent of a “Gnostic” type religion that would incorporate Druidic and Amenist theological elements. Fearing diminution of their power, they directed their Roman and Roman-Jewish lackeys to fund “Paul” and other scribes. These scribes were to plagiarize and cannibalize ancient doctrines so that a new empire-galvanizing religion could be concocted. As we show in the following chapters, the Roman oligarchs worked closely with the shadowy elite Sadducees of Judea to suppress revolt and expand theocratic and imperial power. These groups were directed by the highest-ranking Atonists in Britain - Michael Tsarion (Irish Origins of Civilization, Vol. II)

There is no room for doubt that the presence of many learned men from Egypt who maintained close contact with the emperors (e.g., Chaeromon of Naucratis or Dionysus of Alexandria…) contributed to the popularity of the Egyptian cults at the Imperial court – Dr. Margarita Tacheva (Eastern Cults in Moesia Inferior and Thracia)

Claudius was also positively disposed toward Egyptian religion, and Nero…had an Egyptian teacher, Chaeromon, who saw to the dissemination of Egyptian knowledge at Rome…Vespasian dedicated a large statue of the Nile to Rome…Together with his son Titus, he spent the night before their triumph over Judea (71 AD) in the temple of the Roman Isis…Titus is probably the anonymous “pharaoh” depicted in front of the Apis bull in the catacombs of Kom el-Shuqafa in Alexandria – Erik Hornung (The Secret Lore of Egypt)

Emperor Vespasian took possession of all Jewish religious artifacts that had previously been safely stored in the Temple, including the precious Torah, and stored them in the Capitoline Jove in Rome. He then proclaimed the entire Jewish territory the Roman Emperor’s persona property. And had his decision officially ratified by the Senate…Josephus recorded that Vespasian personally kept the Torah, revealing that it had at sometime been recovered from Rabbi Jesus Cunobeline and replaced in the Temple…the great Temple of Jerusalem was no longer, and the Jews had been disposed of their land, their treasure and the physical substance of their religion – Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

The Romans...harbored no hostility toward the Jews whom they though more ethical and religiously observant than the Greeks. The Romans knew that Judaism  was a religion of great antiquity and respected this. Jews had a reputation as ethical people among the Romans and were granted full religious liberty. Many Romans became "God-fearers," that is practitioners of Judaism observing all precepts except circumcision...There is some evidence that one of the Flavian emperors may have converted to Judaism even as Constantine later converted to Christianity - Richard A. Gabriel (Jesus the Egyptian)

He is brought in chains to Rome, but against tradition, and because of their legal title to the Emperorship, he is greeted and freed of all charges. He and his family live splendidly in Rome, in the Palace of the British, given them by the Emperor - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud, on British King Caradoc's treatment after his capture)

	The Arch of Titus was erected to commemorate the sacking of Jerusalem by Roman forces in AD 70. The Holy of Holies was violated and the Menorah and Scrolls of the Torah were pillaged and transported to Rome. Emperor Titus ordered the slaughter of over one million people in Judea. To this day, Jews refuse to walk beneath the Arch of Titus in Rome. (Here for more)

The Aryans

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)

Although the priests of Aton were monotheistic, Atonism itself was a corrupt version of earlier sacred traditions. The theology of Atonism was built upon the age old foundations of Amenism and Druidism. The facts about the Amenists and Druids have, however, been deliberately obscured by the ideological descendants of the Atonists who have funded and directed so-called "historians" to skew the facts about Egypt and Ireland and distort the meaning of many important terms and titles.

One of the most misunderstood and misapplied titles is "Aryan." Its origins are much more interesting than we might at first imagine. To this day Ireland is known by the Gaelic appellations Eire and Erin. But where do these terms come from? In fact, they refer directly to the primordial goddess Eri or Ari. Therefore, the syllables ari and eri either denote or connote the goddess after whom Ireland was named. In many cases, therefore, wherever word roots such as ari, ara, eri, and so on, are found, they connote or denote either the land of Ireland specifically or, alternatively, the Western hemisphere. They signify the men of the West, their sacred land and beloved goddess.

Goddesses permeated Ireland. Mountain, rivers, valleys, wells, all testified to her presence. Around the eleventh century, Ireland became known predominately as Eire, a name derived from the Goddess Eriu, one of the triple Goddesses: Eriu, Banba, and Fotla...Eriu makes it clear that anyone wishing to enter Ireland would have to revere the goddesses if they wished to prosper and be fruitful – Mary Condren (The Serpent and the Goddess)

As to the original homeland of the Arya, we take the view of researchers Ignatius Donnelly, Anna Wilkes, Conor MacDari, and Comyns Beaumont, who stressed that the ancestral habitat of the Arya lay in the West. Donnelly specified the lost prediluvian continent of Atlantis, and we agree wholeheartedly with his assertion. The lands of the North-West, namely Britain, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, and perhaps even the Arctic climes, are in our opinion remnants of lost Atlantis. There is ample evidence for this contention, even though it has long been suppressed by academics who would rather that vexatious questions about man and his true history are never sufficiently answered.

...the Aryans were autochthonous neither in Europe nor in Central Asia, but had their original home somewhere near the North Pole in the Paleolithic times, and that, they migrated from this place southwards in Asia and Europe, not by any “irresistible impulse,” but by unwelcome changes in the climatic conditions of their original home. The Avesta preserves traditions which fully support this view. But these have been treated as valueless by scholars, who worked up their theories at a time when man was regarded as post-glacial, and the Avestic traditions were, it was believed, not supported by any Vedic authority. But with the time-telescope of a wider range supplied to us by recent scientific discoveries it has become possible to demonstrate that the Avestic traditions represent a real historical fact and that they are fully supported by the testimony of the Vedas - L. B. G. Tilak (The Artic Home in the Vedas)

The North Pole is already considered by several eminent scientific men as the most likely place where plant and animal life first originated; and I believe it can be satisfactorily shown that there is enough positive evidence in the most ancient books of the Aryan race, the Vedas and the Avesta, to prove that the oldest home of the Aryan people was somewhere in regions round about the North Pole - ibid

...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 Druids

Druid colleges existed in many regions due to the guardian role of the Celtic race all across Europa. Druids, or Hibernian Gnostics as they might be called, were known to be fluent in several languages - John Lamb Lash (Not in His Image)

The high priests of Ireland - the original Arya or Aryans - are commonly known as "Druids." In Volume One we analyzed this word and discussed the beliefs and relevance of this ancient priesthood. We showed just how many insidious falsehoods have been deliberately disseminated about their origin and beliefs. Fortunately, the truth about this mysterious pre-Celtic and Celtic priesthood is slowly coming to light:

Death mask of a Scythian queen. Note her handsome Caucasian features.

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. 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."

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: As Martin Bernal in Black Athena noted, ever since late Antiquity, writers have seen links between the Egyptian records of the expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt, the biblical tradition of the Exodus, and the Greek legends of the arrival of Cadmus and Danaus. Heccataeus of Abdera, a Greek historian of the fourth century BC...set out his view that the traditions of the Egyptian expulsion of the Hyksos, the Israelite Exodus and that of Danaus' landing in Arcadia, were three parallel versions of the same story - David Livingstone (The Dying God)

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.

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.

 

	The "Sages" of Europe, the Saca, Saka, or Scythians, were a powerful Gaelic or "Celtic" tribe that were once connected to the Western Arya. A group of them were, we believe, allies of the Hyksos Kings of Lower Egypt. After the fall of Akhenaton (1400 BC), the Scythian-Hyksos-Atonists made their way Westward to invade Spain and Ireland. These conquerors (known in Irish mythology as the Milesians), were responsible for the destruction of the Druids. One of their elite members was the Atonist Princess Meritaten. She was the daughter of Akhenaton and Nefertiti, and had the nickname Scota. This name derives from Scuti or Scut, the name by which the Scythians were originally known. After the Milesian-Atonist invasion, Ireland was given the name Scota. Later, the Irish took their Princess's name to Scotland ("Land of Scota," or "Land of the Scots or Scythians"). The Scythian-Hyksos-Atonists were none other than the "Israelites" and "Judites" of the Old Testament. Click here for more info. A study of their symbolism leaves us in no doubt of this. ...have all deep blue eyes, and bright red hair - Herodotus (on the appearance of the Scythians)

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 Egypt, 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 blond 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)

When Victor Maire, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and archaeologist J. P. Mallory returned from China, they told their colleagues of what they had seen: perfectly preserved 4,000 year-old mummies, desiccated by dry desert sands. Tall white women with blonde hair, pigtails and tattoos; tall white men with brown beards; tiny white babies with blue eyes; woven fabrics of tartan and bonnets made of soft dyed wool...What were Caucasians doing in the wastelands of China 4,000 years ago? – Maurice Cotterell (Jesus, King Arthur and the Journey of the Grail)

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 blond. All these are racial memories of a prehistoric Nordic tradition in north Africa - ibid

I want to advance some reflections on the religiosity of the Indo-Europeans — that is to say, the Indo-European speaking peoples originating from a common Bronze Age nucleus — who have always exerted a significant influence on the government and spirit of predominantly Nordic races. Just as by comparing the structure of the Indian, Persian, Sacaean, Armenian, Slavic and Baltic languages, and of the Greek, Italian, Celtic and Teutonic dialects, we can reach a conclusion as to a common or primal Indo-European language, approximating to the latter part of the early Stone Age, in the same way, an examination of the laws and legal customs of the different peoples of Indo-European language reveals a primal Indo-European feeling for law. Similarly, from a comparison of the religious forms of these peoples we can identify a particular religious attitude emanating from the Indo-European nature — a distinctive behavior of Indo-European men and people towards the divine powers. So it is that certain common religious attitudes, which originally were peculiar to all peoples of Indo-European language, reveal the identity of an Indo-European religiosity. But since in fact all Indo-European nations represented different types moulded on the spiritual pattern of the Nordic race, the origin of these common religious attitudes may be identified in a religiosity which is characteristically Nordic, emanating from the spiritual nature of the Nordic race – Prof. Hans F. K. Gunther (The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans)

Trade relationships, it seems, had been established between Egypt and Europe during the Early Dynastic Age, and merchants travelled immense distances to bring luxury items to adorn the palaces and tombs of the pharaohs. We have noted too that even before the founding of the First Dynasty, lapis-lazuli from the borders of Pakistan had reached Egypt in considerable quantities. Thus also gold used in the jewelry of Khasekhemwy (Dynasty 2) was found to have originated in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania. Such far-reaching links appear to be out of the question in the early third millennium BC (the date normally given for Khasekhemwy). The arrival in Egypt of gold from north of the Danube speaks of a highly developed system of international trade, some of it apparently conducted by sea. And this impression is further reinforced by the discovery in Early Bronze Age Troy...the city destroyed in the great cataclysm, of artifacts made of tin-bronze. The only sources of tin known to the ancient world were in Europe: Bohemia and the Atlantic west, northern Spain and Britain. It is generally assumed that the first tin to reach the Near East was from Bohemia, yet mineralogist John Dayton has argued persuasively for Britain as the primary source of the material: mainly due to the fact that in Britain, and here alone, tin and copper are found together in the ground, already mixed, in ore-form. For Dayton, the evidence says that true bronze was invented in Britain, and nowhere else, which, if correct, means - Emmet Sweeney (The Genesis of Israel and Egypt)

In our work, we maintain that the term Jew did not refer to those using it as a denomination in recent history. It referred to the Arya and to the "Men of the Trees." This is the reason why Judaic (Jewish) terms are found in the Far East. It is not because religious Jews travelled to the far flung corners of the world, but because the Arya had done so. As H. Westropp explains:

The colonization of the Jews in Palestine under Cyrus and his successors appears very like a new occupation, rather than a return. It is evident that there were more of them beyond the Euphrates than ever made their homes in Judea. Their leading class bore the title of Pharisees, perhaps from their Persian affiliations...The patriarchal names are very similar to those of the Brahmin  divinities: Brahma and his consort Sara-Iswati, his son Ikshwaka, and great-grandson Yadu. The ruins of the temple of Peace, or Tukht Solumi, have  been found in Cashmere, and many names of the Bible and Western Asia, like Yuclia, Dawid, Arabi, Cush, Yavan, are also indigenous to the region of  the Indus - (Ancient Symbol Worship)

Sadly, Westropp and many other authors who analyzed the symbolism of the ancient races, often believe the "Jews" to have the same people as those under that sobriquet today. Those who have not bought into the propaganda, however, and who have dug much deeper, know this to be far from the truth.

One of the names for eastern Scythians was Getes or Gets, connoting "Goat." The 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:

	Lhasa in Tibet. The syllable "asa" is a Scandinavian word meaning "gods" or "holy ones" (as in Asar and Aser, etc). Until the seventh century the original name of the city was Rasa, said to mean "place of the Goats."

	Osiris enthroned and in the process of judging the dead soul that passes through the trials of the underworld ("neter world") on its way to Amenta. Osiris (Asari) holds the flail and sickle (or lituus). These two objects mean many things, but primarily symbolize the Earth and royalty. They are also associated with the Western Druids. The majority of images of the pharaohs depict what appears to be a shepherd's crook. However, in this image from the Book of the Dead we clearly see the sacred sickle identical to that employed ritually by Western Druids. As Osiris was god of the earth, agriculture, and vegetation, it certainly makes more sense to see him holding the sickle, especially when the flail for winnowing is in his other hand. The crosier, or pastoral staff of the Pope was also used by the Druids, and answers to the lituus of the Roman augurs and the hieralpha of the Hindoos - W. Winwood Reade (The Veil of Isis)

	The city of Arish in Egypt. Just one example of many place names bearing roots that may connote the Arya of the West. The very name Africa may derive from Aparica, meaning "west." (Here for more info.)

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.)

The divine ram god of the ancient Egyptian city of Mendes. Note the two pairs of horns (ram's and goat's), the the solar disk, and protecting serpent. 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 forest god Herne. (Click here for more info on Enki).

The Irish god Herne (the "horned" or "honored" one) 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 wisdom and 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.

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 both of Judeo-Christianity and Freemasonry, it does not surprise us to see Masonic Orders such as the Knights Templar employing symbolism that connotes the Scythians and Atonists.

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

In our estimation, the very insignia of the Templars (two knights riding a single steed facing West) commemorates 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.

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, allegedly dated to approximately 600 BC. The Milesians were referred to as Gaels, which traditionally means they were "Celts." The term Gael allegedly derives from the Scottish version of King Mile's name, Gathelos or Gaythelos. 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 Sarmatians were a tribe connected to the Scythians, roamed and dominated the Southern Russian Steppes, and buried their dead in Kurgens, which resemble Celtic Cairns…They are now thought to have been the allied with the Amazons, since their women were known to be fighters, priestesses, and to ride horses with great skill during battle. They were primarily blonde. It is also believed that the myth of King Arthur arises from the Sarmatian riders who accompanied the Romans to Britain as mercenaries     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.)

Horus, Osiris, and the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh was, like Jesus, the god made flesh. He was a personification of Horus. Osiris was the name of the sun after it sank beneath the horizon into the underworld. When it was reborn every morning, it was known as Horus, the "Risen One." When the sun annually reached the Winter Solstice point it was known as Osiris. When it rose above the Spring Equinox it was Horus. When the sun reached an equinox point it was "on the cross," or "crucified." (For more on this, see our book Astro-Theology and Sidereal Mythology)

An ancient pseudonym for Horus Iusa or Iusas. When the letter "I" is translated as "J," we have Jusa or Jusa, from which we derive Jesus. The Biblical Son of God, therefore, was based on the Egyptian Sun of Heaven, who was, in turn, a version of the Druidic Sun King.

	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. St. Patrick's reputed success with the snakes is a rich metaphor to illustrate the ultimate triumph of orthodoxy over a pre-existing form of Christianity in Ireland, which consisted of sects like the Orphites. Even a sensible observer like Michael Viney agreed that the snakes 'could actually have been a metaphor for the pagan druids and the symbol of their rival religion' - Bob Quinn (The Atlantean Irish)

Origin of the Crucified Savior

Osiris and Horus were crucified as 'saviors' and 'redeemers;' the sufferings, death, and resurrection of Osiris forming the great mystery of the Egyptian religion. Prometheus, of Greece, was with chains nailed to the rocks of Mount Caucasus, 'with arms extended,' as a savior; and the tragedy of the crucifixion was acted in Athens 500 years before the Christian era - William W. Hardwicke (The Evolution of Man)

Below we see the Aryan Lord Vishnu with outstretched arms. He embraces and blesses the universe. In the center, we see Quetzalcoatl (the "Feathered Serpent") on his cross. This god was described as being fair of complexion, that is, tall, blond, and blue-eyed. On the right, we see a sculpture of Osiris holding and Ankh, or cross of life, in either hand. Osiris was a "crucified" god. He appears in the Gospels as Lazarus. His early name, Wesir, is very near to the modern word "West."

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)

In Scandinavian mythology, the god-man Odin hung himself upside-down upon Yggdrasil (the "World Ash Tree") in order to attain enlightenment. The symbolism we speak of and see here did not arise because of the dispersion of Jews and Christians. No, the same high symbolism is found the world over because of the migration of the Arya. Like Quetzalcoatl, they too were fair-complexioned and from the West.

The mythographers have used many excuses in an attempt to disguise the Egyptian and Druidic origins of their symbolism and iconography. Most of the stories and tales in the Jewish books and Old Testament have undergone heavy revision. The accounts of Pharez and Zarah, of David and Goliath, of Salome and the Baptist's beheading, and of the forty days in the wilderness, of Solomon and the two mothers, the massacre of the innocents, and the plagues of Egypt, for example, have each been given "the treatment."

Vishnu of the Hindus		Quetzalcoatl on the cross		The Egyptian cross
Observe the images below. On the left we see outstretched human arms and the Ankh or Crux Ansata. We also see the sun. On the right we see the well known image of Jesus on the cross. We see the cross or crucifix and outstretched arms. The image of the divided or quartered god-man was known throughout the world thousands of years before the advent of Christianity. In the Egyptian rendering, we see two females (Isis and Nephthys) in close proximity to the cross. In the Christian rendering, we see the two Marys (the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene) at the foot of the cross. Most of what we read, in the New Testament, from the Nativity to the Resurrection, has its origins in the Astro-Theological canon of Irish Druids and Egyptian Amenists.

Your feet are on the earth Your head is in the sky You stand up with the strength of your arms, But your weight rests upon the secret The sky is over you, the underworld beneath you, The wind is the air in your nostrils (Ancient Egyptian Hymn to Shu)

	The Lakota Sun Dance ceremony was, to all intents and purposes, a "crucifixion." The candidate was raised into the air, his arms outstretched to embrace the cosmos. During the ceremony the candidate experienced the presence of the "Great Spirit." The idea of the circle and cross and of a ritual sacrifice was common throughout the Americas long before Christianity made an appearance. (In Mexico, the "Feathered Serpent" was seen in proximity to a cross.) North-American Indian tribes had elaborate annual rites with rich cosmological and astro-theological themes. Giant medicine wheels (representing zodiacs) were constructed on the plains. Some of these earthworks are approximately 10,000 years old. (Here for more)

In the solar mythology, the sun god is regularly "crucified" as he crosses over the equinoxes and when he wanes towards the end of the year - D. M. Murdock (Christ in Egypt)

Osiris was represented as being stretched on the immense cross formed by the junction of the meridian and the equator. This deity was suspended in the Phrygian mysteries to a cruciform tree – Arthur Dyott Thompson (On Mankind: Their Origin and Destiny)

In all private religious associations and secret cults of later antiquity the members made use of a secret sign of recognition or union. This they carried about in the form, in some cases, of wooden, bronze, or silver amulets hung around the neck or concealed beneath the clothes, in others woven in their garments, or tattooed upon the forehead, neck, breast, hands, etc,. Among these signs was the cross, and it was usually described under the name “Tau” after the letter of the old Phoenician alphabet - Arthur Dewes (The Christ Myth)

...the non-Christians possessed crosslike sacred objects and revered their idols of gods in the shape of a cross or in cruciform. In fact, Tertullian is very insistent on this point, stating of the Pagans, "your religion is all cross" and "your gods in their origin have proceeded from this hated cross" - D. M. Murdock (Christ in Egypt)

A number of Egyptian goddesses are likewise depicted in cruciform, with arms and wings outstretched, found in tombs and commonly on coffins - ibid

...regarding the cross and the image of a god in cruciform - or the crucifix - William Williamson states: "The cross...is a symbol of the highest antiquity, but the representation of a figure with the hands and feet pierced with nails belongs to a later period. The most ancient delineation of the cruciform attitude is the figure of the god in the vault of heaven, with outstretched arms, blessing the universe - ibid

The ritual lamentation of the divine sisters, Isis and Nephthys, for Osiris...is found in the temple remains of the island of Philae expressly connected with the representation of Osiris in the form of a crucifix, the God's head standing on top of a four-barred Nilometer, faced by the mourning female figures - John M. Robertson (Christianity and Mythology)

Osiris has been found in this attitude. Also Vishnu as Witoba is presented as the crucified in what has been termed the crucifixion in space; the crucifixion without a cross, in which the god himself is the cross in a male form - Gerald Massey

Osiris was represented as being stretched on the immense cross formed by the junction of the meridian and the equator. This deity was suspended in the Phrygian mysteries to a cruciform tree – Arthur Dyott Thompson (On Mankind: Their Origin and Destiny)

We have evidence from the pyramid of Medum (Meidoun) that from 6,000 to 7,000 years ago the dead in Egypt were buried in a faith which was founded on the mystery of the cross, and rationally founded too, because that cross was a figure of the fourfold foundation on which heaven itself was built - ibid

The symbol of the cross originated as part of an ancient Egyptian initiatory rite, and eventually found its way into Christianity. The church stated that in its history, ‘there is no proof of the use of a cross until much later’ than the Sixth Century. It is recorded in Christian archives that the general use of the crucifix was ratified at the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680…The Council decreed that ‘the figure of a man fastened to a cross be now adopted’ and the new church logo was later confirmed by Emperor Hadrian I (772-95). About a century later, the first pictures of Jesus Christ standing against a cross slowly started to appear – Tony Bushby (Secret in the Bible)

The attention of the writer having been called to the fact that all Indo-Germanic nations have worshipped crucified Saviours, an investigation of the subject was made. Overwhelming proof was obtained that the sun-myths of the ancient Aryans were the origin of the religions in all of the countries which were peopled by the Aryans. The Saviours worshipped in these lands are personifications of the Sun, the chief god of the Aryans. That Pagan nations worshipped a crucified man, was admitted by the Fathers of the early Christian Church. The holy Father Minucius Felix, in his Octavius, written as late as A. D. 211, indignantly resents the supposition that the sign of the cross should be considered as exclusively a Christian symbol ; and represents his advocate of the Christian argument as retorting on an infidel opponent thus: "As for the adoration of crosses, which you object to against us, I must tell you that we neither adore crosses nor desire them. You it is, ye Pagans, who worship wooden gods, who are the most likely people to adore wooden crosses, as being parts of the same substance with your deities – Charles Morris (Aryan Sun Myths)

Tertullian, a Christian Father of the second and third centuries, writing to the Pagans, says: "The origin of your gods is derived from figures moulded on a cross. All those rows of images on your standards are the appendages of crosses; those hangings on your standards and banners are the robes of crosses" – ibid

By the Sixth Synod of Constantinople (Canon 82), it was ordained that instead of the ancient symbol which had been the lamb, the figure of a man nailed to a cross should be represented. All this was confirmed by Pope Adrian I. (See Dupuis's Origin of Religious Belief, and Godfrey Higgins's Anacalypsis) - ibid

Shu, the Egyptian god of life. His arms are cruciform as he divides the heavens from the earth. He was the original "Crucified Savior." This god was based on the Aryan (Irish) Esus who was depicted in a similar fashion. The name Shu turns up in the Hebrew Joshua, which becomes Yeshua, the Hebrew rendition of Jeshua or Jesus. This is comprehendible once we realize that the original Jews or Judites were Druids. It is Druidic or Aryan gods and ways that were adopted by Eastern races and nations. Shu was known as "the firstborn" and "the Lion." Jesus was known as the "Lion of Judah." Esoterically, this simply means "Jesus of the Judites or Druids," and not "Jesus the Jew," as we would normally conceive. In fact, the Welsh title for the Druids is Shaau, Suw, or Shew. This is where the modern name "Shaw" originates. Shu is equivalent with the Christian "Holy Spirit."       Shu is one of the few male Egyptian gods to be shown with a human face. He was a member of the Ennead, or nine original creator gods. This Ennead appears in the Old Testament as the Elohim. Shu was part of the trinity of creator gods that included Atum, his father, and Tefnut, his sister. He symbolized the element Air (Holy Spirit) and the space between heaven and earth. He is commonly depicted with his arms raised or spread in the shape of a cross. In pre-Christian times, the crucified god was himself the cross. He was the "quartered one." Jesus makes the sign of Shu, the "crucified one" of Egypt.       Ancient Minoan goddesses with arms raised. Statuettes of ancient fertility goddess (4000 BC) Fertility goddess in cruciform (3000 BC) Lilith ("Night" or "Moon") The goddess Hecate

This image of the Vishnu (the second god of the Vedic Trinity), was originally featured in Edward Moore's definitive book entitled Hindu Pantheon, of 1810. The image was, however, subsequently removed from the first edition due to the controversy it caused in Victorian society. Here for more.

What the Artists Reveal

 

	Baptism was not known among so-called "Jews." It was, however, known to Amenists, Druids and other ancient adepts. Washing or bathing in the sacred river was primarily associated with the goddess tradition and was a feminine initiation rite. For example Hera, the consort of Zeus and supreme goddess of the Greeks, bathed herself yearly in a river in order to restore her purity or divine "virginity." 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. For washing in the channel through which the heathen are initiated into some sacred rite - of some notorious Isis or Mithras. The gods themselves likewise they honor by washing - Tertullian (On Baptism) The use of lustral water is found among the Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and others - Catholic Encyclopedia (Baptism Entry) ...all religious ceremonies of Pharaonic times, whether performed on behalf of a deity, a deceased noble, or the living king, were prefaced by some act of ritual cleansing - Dr. Richard A. Gabriel (Gods of the Fathers) Note the following two cards from the Tarot's Major Arcana. The card on the left represents the sign of Sagittarius. The card on the right represents Aquarius. In each image the figures have one foot on land and one foot in water. (Compare this to the figure of Christ in the painting above.) The figures below represent Sagittarius and Aquarius. The former sign comes after the water sign of Scorpio and before the Earth sign of Capricorn. The latter sign comes after the Earth sign of Capricorn and before the Water sign of Pisces. The artist has subtextually referenced the astrological position of the two signs in an idiosyncratic manner. In other words, the images are laced with occult facts discernable only to initiates of the mystery traditions. The situation is no different when it comes to Judeo-Christian iconography and scripture.

	The Madonna, by Sandro Botticelli. Note how the youthful John the Baptist gazes out toward the viewer. His arms are suggestively crossed on his breast in the manner of Egyptian gods and pharaohs. This is no surprise, once we understand that John the Baptizer was based on Anubis the Baptizer. As authors such as Picket and Prince have discovered, it is John the Baptist who was the prophet chosen as tutelary master by secret societies such as the Freemasons and Knights Templar. This is the reason why many Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli in this instance) portrayed John holding the cross, not Jesus. (For more on the Jesus and John controversy, refer to Templar Revelation, by Picket and Prince, and Volume Two of The Irish Origins of Civilization.) Anubis is also the messenger of the gods, equivalent to the Greek god Hermes or Mercury, the counterpart of Egyptian lunar god Thoth...Moreover, like Those, whose emblem is the Tau or T, Anubis is "never without a cross," specifically the life-giving ankh, one of the holiest symbols in Egyptian religion..."The cross with a handle which Tot holds in his hand was none other than the monogram of his name" - D. M. Murdock (Christ in Egypt) ...in the version by Church father Hippolytus...the Aeon Horus is called by his "primary title," Stauros, meaning "cross." Hence, in ancient times - during the second century, precisely when Christianity was finding its footing - there existed in Egypt the concept of Horus as the Cross personified - ibid

	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. (Note the similarity between the words "horned" and "honoured.") 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 ever-important Isis was in fact one of these goddesses known by the title Meri/Mery...That goddesses were beloved or Mery is obvious from an enigmatic spell...that invokes "the Goddess greatly beloved with red hair" or "Her who is greatly beloved, the red-haired" - D. M. Murdock (Jesus in Egypt)

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. (The word Druid, means "portal" or "doorway.")

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 Seven 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 Asari or As Ari. In this instance we see the all important phoneme ari, denoting the Arya. The syllable as means "gods" in Nordic tongues. (See Aesir, Asa, and Asgard, etc.) The name Asari, therefore, means "god of the Arya." 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.
 

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.

The Shepherd's staff or crosier did not originate with Christianity. The staff held by Catholic bishops was originally common to the priests of the pagan sun god Mithras. The Church also borrowed the term "father" from a term used to address priests of the cult of Mithras.

 

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.

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 is Arcanum Five of the Tarot. Despite the garb, the image connotes the Druidic priesthood that was subdivided into three schools. Note the staff in the hand of the figure. It has three horizontal bars. The figure wears a garment with three crosses. There are three tiers to his headdress. All trinities and triple pantheons derive from the observation and veneration of the constellation Orion.

An examination of Arcanum Five - 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.