Chapter 22 - Hiram Abif
The Masons have wrapped their initiation ceremony around a legend involving an individual named Hiram Abif.
The Masons have constructed this legend themselves from two brief references to him in the Bible.
This information on Hiram comes from Mackey's ENCYCLOPAEDIA: "When King Solomon was about to build a temple to Jehovah [called Solomon's temple,] the difficulty of obtaining skillful workmen to superintend and to execute the architectural part of the undertaking was such, that he found it necessary to request of his friend and ally, Hiram, King of Tyre, the use of some of his most able builders. Hiram [the King] willingly complied with his request [and dispatched] Hiram out of Tyre." 475
The Bible, in the 1st Book of Kings 7:13, says that Hiram Abif was: "... a widow's son,... and was filled with wisdom and understanding."
The Masons claim that Hiram Abif was a Master Mason, and possessed the secrets of the degree, secrets that he could not share with his fellow workers. The reason for that was because the other workers at the Temple were "apprentice Masons," not entitled to a share of the secrets of the Master Mason.
"Fifteen Fellow Crafts [masons but not possessors of the secrets] seeing the temple about to be completed and being desirous of obtaining the secrets of a Master Mason... whereby they might travel into foreign countries, work and receive Masters' wages, entered into a horrid conspiracy to extort [the secrets] from [the Master] or take his life.
... twelve of them recanted, the other three, however persisted in their murderous design." 476
According to the legend, Hiram Abif was slain by these three "ruffians" at "high twelve," because he refused to share the secrets. The three ruffians were named Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum.
The Masons admit that the death of Hiram is "a purely symbolic event..." Therefore, the student must look elsewhere for an explanation of what his symbolic death means.
In addition, they further admit that the story is not based completely on the two brief mentions of Hiram in the Bible: "Thus the Biblical account of the story of Hiram is occasionally at variance with the legend as told in Masonic literature." 477
The remaining parts of the legend of Hiram Abif are not pertinent to this study, so they will not be discussed here.
However, it will be helpful for further discussion in later chapter of this book for the following comments to be added at this juncture.
Rex Hutchens, a 32nd degree Mason, has placed an important piece into the puzzle in his book entitled, A BRIDGE TO LIGHT. He gives his readers this explanation as to what the symbolic death of Hiram means: "What are the symbolic meanings of the attacks upon Hiram?
Hiram is first accosted at the south gate of the Temple where the instrument of the attack is the rule.
In Greek, the word for a 'rule' whether a measuring instrument or a code of conduct, is canon. Thus we see the bureaucracy of the early Church establishing the Canon Law to regulate conduct.
This law was to be obeyed with unquestioned loyalty, hence it is an apt symbol of the suppression of freedom of speech which might question the divinity and justice of these laws; therefore Hiram, with the rule, is struck where the organs of speech are.
The instrument of attack at the west gate of the Temple was the square...; it represents the merger of civil and religious power intending to control man's emotions, telling him not only what he can do but also what he can believe.
Thus Hiram is struck near the heart, the traditional seat of the affections.
The setting maul, an instrument of brute force, is a fitting symbol of the blind, unreasoning mob. It fears the force of the intellect and seeks the destruction of the products of the mind.
Hiram is killed at the east gate by a blow to the head, the seat of the intellect." 478
So Mr. Hutchens is telling his reader that the "ruffians" that killed Hiram Abif were not individuals seeking the secrets of Masonry from Hiram, the Master Mason, but were concealed symbols of "the Church," the "church and the state," and the forces fearing the power of man's "reason."
This is an amazing revelation! It is rare that the Masons share the exact interpretation of their secrets as they have done in this instance. Remember that the contents of Mr. Hutchens' book have been approved by the Supreme Council of the 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. This explanation has official sanction! They want us to know that the enemies of the Masons are the Church, the State, and opposition to "man's reason."
In another part of his book, Mr. Hutchens provides the reader with another explanation of the symbols. This additional explanation of the true meaning of the symbols is strikingly similar to the first.
"... the Master Hiram is the symbol of intelligence, liberty and truth and the assassins are the symbols of tyranny, ignorance and intolerance or fanaticism." 479
So he equates the church and the state with tyranny, ignorance, intolerance and fanaticism. As will be shown in another part of this study, the Masons have pledged themselves to avenge the death of Hiram! They have pledged themselves to destroy the state and the church!
So, the real purpose of the Masons has been discovered.
The Masons are not a philanthropic organization out to assist men to better themselves.
They have a hidden purpose.
And it takes but a little fortitude to discover what that purpose is.
Their purpose is to destroy organized religion, and the state, just like the Illuminati and the Communist Party!
They have said so in their own literature!
There can be no doubt!
Additional evidence that the above interpretation of Mr. Hutchens' comments is correct will follow.
The Masons have wrapped their initiation ceremony around a legend involving an individual named Hiram Abif.
The Masons have constructed this legend themselves from two brief references to him in the Bible.
This information on Hiram comes from Mackey's ENCYCLOPAEDIA: "When King Solomon was about to build a temple to Jehovah [called Solomon's temple,] the difficulty of obtaining skillful workmen to superintend and to execute the architectural part of the undertaking was such, that he found it necessary to request of his friend and ally, Hiram, King of Tyre, the use of some of his most able builders. Hiram [the King] willingly complied with his request [and dispatched] Hiram out of Tyre." 475
The Bible, in the 1st Book of Kings 7:13, says that Hiram Abif was: "... a widow's son,... and was filled with wisdom and understanding."
The Masons claim that Hiram Abif was a Master Mason, and possessed the secrets of the degree, secrets that he could not share with his fellow workers. The reason for that was because the other workers at the Temple were "apprentice Masons," not entitled to a share of the secrets of the Master Mason.
"Fifteen Fellow Crafts [masons but not possessors of the secrets] seeing the temple about to be completed and being desirous of obtaining the secrets of a Master Mason... whereby they might travel into foreign countries, work and receive Masters' wages, entered into a horrid conspiracy to extort [the secrets] from [the Master] or take his life.
... twelve of them recanted, the other three, however persisted in their murderous design." 476
According to the legend, Hiram Abif was slain by these three "ruffians" at "high twelve," because he refused to share the secrets. The three ruffians were named Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum.
The Masons admit that the death of Hiram is "a purely symbolic event..." Therefore, the student must look elsewhere for an explanation of what his symbolic death means.
In addition, they further admit that the story is not based completely on the two brief mentions of Hiram in the Bible: "Thus the Biblical account of the story of Hiram is occasionally at variance with the legend as told in Masonic literature." 477
The remaining parts of the legend of Hiram Abif are not pertinent to this study, so they will not be discussed here.
However, it will be helpful for further discussion in later chapter of this book for the following comments to be added at this juncture.
Rex Hutchens, a 32nd degree Mason, has placed an important piece into the puzzle in his book entitled, A BRIDGE TO LIGHT. He gives his readers this explanation as to what the symbolic death of Hiram means: "What are the symbolic meanings of the attacks upon Hiram?
Hiram is first accosted at the south gate of the Temple where the instrument of the attack is the rule.
In Greek, the word for a 'rule' whether a measuring instrument or a code of conduct, is canon. Thus we see the bureaucracy of the early Church establishing the Canon Law to regulate conduct.
This law was to be obeyed with unquestioned loyalty, hence it is an apt symbol of the suppression of freedom of speech which might question the divinity and justice of these laws; therefore Hiram, with the rule, is struck where the organs of speech are.
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The instrument of attack at the west gate of the Temple was the square...; it represents the merger of civil and religious power intending to control man's emotions, telling him not only what he can do but also what he can believe.
Thus Hiram is struck near the heart, the traditional seat of the affections.
The setting maul, an instrument of brute force, is a fitting symbol of the blind, unreasoning mob. It fears the force of the intellect and seeks the destruction of the products of the mind.
Hiram is killed at the east gate by a blow to the head, the seat of the intellect." 478
So Mr. Hutchens is telling his reader that the "ruffians" that killed Hiram Abif were not individuals seeking the secrets of Masonry from Hiram, the Master Mason, but were concealed symbols of "the Church," the "church and the state," and the forces fearing the power of man's "reason."
This is an amazing revelation! It is rare that the Masons share the exact interpretation of their secrets as they have done in this instance. Remember that the contents of Mr. Hutchens' book have been approved by the Supreme Council of the 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. This explanation has official sanction! They want us to know that the enemies of the Masons are the Church, the State, and opposition to "man's reason."
In another part of his book, Mr. Hutchens provides the reader with another explanation of the symbols. This additional explanation of the true meaning of the symbols is strikingly similar to the first.
"... the Master Hiram is the symbol of intelligence, liberty and truth and the assassins are the symbols of tyranny, ignorance and intolerance or fanaticism." 479
So he equates the church and the state with tyranny, ignorance, intolerance and fanaticism. As will be shown in another part of this study, the Masons have pledged themselves to avenge the death of Hiram! They have pledged themselves to destroy the state and the church!
So, the real purpose of the Masons has been discovered.
The Masons are not a philanthropic organization out to assist men to better themselves.
They have a hidden purpose.
And it takes but a little fortitude to discover what that purpose is.
Their purpose is to destroy organized religion, and the state, just like the Illuminati and the Communist Party!
They have said so in their own literature!
There can be no doubt!
Additional evidence that the above interpretation of Mr. Hutchens' comments is correct will follow.
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