Friday, February 28, 2014

James Michener analysis - part 8: Life in New Jerusalem

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The establishment of New Jerusalem is to usher in a Messianic Era for its inhabitants
According to Jewish tradition, the Messianic Era will be one of global peace and harmony, an era free of strife and hardship, and one conducive to the furtherment of the knowledge of the Creator. For our purposes, "global" is to be taken as applying only to the tiny 'world' in southern Indiana occupied by the conspirators, i.e., the New Jerusalem/Zion itself, whose land area is to be isolated and sealed off from the rest of the Earth's inhabitants. The theme of the Jewish Messiah ushering in an era of peace is taken up in two passages from the biblical book of Isaiah:

"4. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore." [Isaiah 2:4, New International Version]

"6. The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. 7. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. 8. The infant will play near the cobra's den, and the young child will put its hand into the viper's nest. 9. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea." [Isaiah 11:6-9, New International Version]

According to Chabad dot org, "[T]he Talmud states that there is a predestined time when Moshiach [the Messiah] will come. If we are meritorious, he may come even before that predestined time. This "end of time" remains a mystery, yet the Talmud states that it will be before the Hebrew year 6000. (The Hebrew year at the date of this publication is 5772.)"[a] 29 Elul is the last day of the Hebrew year 5999; this corresponds to a civil date of September 29, 2239.


The Freemasons are to 'build' a metaphorical Solomon's Temple at New Jerusalem



Above left: In his De Occulta Philosophia Lib. III (Three Books of Occult Philosophy), 16th-century philosopher Heinrich Agrippa drew a man over a pentagram inside a circle. [Image from the Wikipedia 'Pentagram' page, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.] One reason that Freemasons are interested in the pentagram, is that they consider it to express the Golden Ratio. The five signs at the vertices of the pentagram shown here, are the astrological symbols for Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. According to Freemasonic writer Jean-Louis de Biasi, "[A]ll traditional representations (hermetic, astrological, alchemical, etc.) show that the foundation of the [Freemasonic] initiatic progression is composed of four elements that constitute us and can be symbolized by the Pentagrammaton (the Tetragrammaton with the letter Shin added). So...they are the four traditional elements (earth, water, air, and fire) and aether (or mind) that overcomes them."[b] Author, mystic, and 33rd degree Mason Manly P. Hall (1901-1990), writing in the year 1928, tells us that "[M]an's physical body has five distinct and important extremities - two legs, two arms, and a head, of which the last governs the first four - the number 5 has been accepted as the symbol of man...The hands and feet are used to represent the four elements, of which the two feet are earth and water, and the two hands are fire and air. The brain then symbolizes the sacred fifth element - aether - which controls and unites the other four."[c] Above right: A goat's head inscribed in a downward-pointing pentagram, from La Clef de la Magie Noire by Stanislas de Guaita (1897). The Pentagrammaton (the Hebrew symbols surrounding the goat's head) translates into "Leviathan." [Image from the Wikipedia 'Pentagram' page, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.]


The quoted material below is from chapter 40 of Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages:[d]

"The name Solomon may be divided into three syllables, SOL-OM-ON, symbolizing light, glory, and truth collectively and respectively. The Temple of Solomon is, therefore, first of all "the House of Everlasting Light", its earthly symbol being the temple of stone on the brow of Mount Moriah. According to the Mystery teachings, there are three Temples of Solomon...The first temple is the Grand House of the Universe, in the midst of which sits the sun (SOL) upon his golden throne. The twelve signs of the zodiac as Fellow-Craftsmen gather around their shining lord. Three lights - the stellar, the solar, and the lunar - illuminate this Cosmic Temple. Accompanied by his retinue of planets, moons, and asteroids, this Divine King (SOLomon), whose glory no earthly monarch shall ever equal, passes in stately pomp down the avenues of space...SOLomon signifies [the sun's] invisible but all-powerful, spiritual and intellectual effulgency.

"The second symbolic temple is the human body - the Little House made in the image of the Great Universal House. "Know ye not", asked the Apostle Paul, "that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" Freemasonry within a temple of stone cannot be other than speculative, but Freemasonry within the living temple of the body is operative. The third symbolic temple is the Soular House, an invisible structure, the comprehension of which is a supreme Freemasonic arcanum. The mystery of this intangible edifice is concealed under the allegory of the Soma Psuchicon, or Wedding Garment described by St. Paul, the Robes of Glory of the High Priest of Israel, the Yellow Robe of the Buddhist monk, and the Robe of Blue and Gold to which Albert Pike refers in his Symbolism. The soul, constructed from an invisible fiery substance, a flaming golden metal, is cast by the Master Workman, CHiram Abiff, into the mold of clay (the physical body) and is called the Molten Sea. The temple of the human soul is built by three Master Masons personifying Wisdom, Love, and Service, and when constructed according to the Law of Life the Spirit of God dwells in the Holy Place thereof. The Soular Temple is the true Everlasting House, and he who can raise or cast it is a Master Mason indeed! The best-informed Masonic writers have realized that Solomon's Temple is a representation in miniature of the Universal Temple..."


Who exactly are these people?
To find out who the specific persons are that are conspiring to create the New Jerusalem, one way to begin doing this is by determining what the full story is regarding the events of September 11, 2001, and finding out who was actually behind the bringing down of the World Trade Center towers on that fateful morning. Unknown to many people is the fact that a third building in New York (WTC 7) fell on that day, later in the afternoon. This building was not struck by any airplanes, nor did it suffer significant damage from WTC 1 and 2 falling. A good place to start getting to the bottom of the true events of 9/11, is by viewing this highly informative video.

Along with the above, it should also be helpful to find out why it is that the mainstream news media, and certain films, such as The Fifth Estate, are portraying Wikileaks (and its founder, Julian Assange) almost entirely inaccurately.


a. Dubov, Nissan Dovid. Chabad.org "What Is the Jewish Belief About Moshiach?" page. Web, n.d. URL = http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/108400/jewish/The-End-of-Days.htm.
b. De Biasi, Jean-Louis. Secrets and Practices of the Freemasons. 2010. Google Books, p. 34. URL = https://books.google.com.
c. Hall, Manly P. The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Reader's Edition. New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2003. p. 229.
d. Ibid., pp. 574-575.








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