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In addition, Peter "the Rock" and his keys are Masonic symbols. Church doctor/Therapeut Jerome relates that the man with the withered hand in Matthew 12 was "said to be a mason" and thus needed his hand for his livelihood. 18 When at 1 Corinthians Paul calls himself a "skilled master builder," "he is using a word pre-eminently kabalistic, theurgic, and masonic ..."19 At Hebrews 3:3-4, a Masonic calling card is left with the following passage (and notation), which was evidently interpolated: "Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house. (For every house is built by some one, but the builder of all things is God.)" In addition, Jesus is called "the rose of Sharon," also known as "Nazir," which, according to Higgins, who was a magistrate and Mason, refers to "the schools of the prophets which were on the mount of Carmel or the vineyard of God . . ."20 Carmel, to repeat, was one of the earliest brotherhood strongholds and site of a temple of Jupiter, Melchizedek and Joshua, out of which emanated the monkishness that became the Nazarene brotherhood. As Nazarenes, Jesus and Paul were Masons as well. Furthermore, the "carpenter" label, also found in the stories of other solar heroes, is a Masonic designation, reflecting the sun's role as the great builder.

The Indian-Gnostic Nazarene-Carmelites were also Nestorians, Manichaeans, Samanaeans and Buddhists, Templars and Rosicrucians, "or followers of the eight-pointed Red Cross and Rose of Sharon, all the same under different names,"21 serving to illustrate the complexity and pervasiveness of the international brotherhood of Masonry. The Masons were also Essenes, Therapeuts and Gnostics, and they are now Christians, Jews and Muslims. The Mithraites were also Masons, and the Kabbalists and Chaldeans were Master Masons. In fact, the Scottish Rite Masonry can be traced to the Chaldeans.22 The Chaldeans, then, were also the Druids, who were likewise Masons. The Knights Templar were also Chaldeans, the same as the Culdees of India and as the Gnostic Manichaeans, who were followers of Bel/Baal.23 The Culdees/Masons were the judicial astronomers of Rome,24 and, as we have seen, the followers of Baal/Molech constituted the Order of Melchizedek, whose members were also Gymnosophs, as well as Zadokites. In fact, the fortress at Qumran was a Masonic enclave, since masons built it, particularly its large tower, a strong Masonic symbol. Likewise, the Dead Sea scrolls are abundant in "architectural metaphors," demonstrating their writers were Masons. Furthermore, the mysteries of Isis and Serapis, which were models of those of Eleusis and Samothrace, are part of Masonry.25

The historian Josephus certainly knew of the Masons and allegedly was one, as well as being a member of the secret order called the "Sons of the Sun," to which also purportedly belonged Apollonius and the Emperors Claudius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.

Two centuries ago, no less an authority than the great AngloAmerican philosopher, revolutionary statesman and lover of truth Thomas Paine clearly outlined the origins of Christianity and its connection to Masonry. Paine himself apparently was a Mason, as were his associates, George Washington, Ben Franklin and other American Founding Fathers. Why Paine's truthful admissions have been ignored by religionists, politicians and scholars alike can only be explained by the remarkably effective and disturbing system of concealment for profit that has been in place for thousands of years. In his treatise, "Origin of Freemasonry," Paine writes:

The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun ...

In Masonry many of the ceremonies of the Druids