Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [211]
As Higgins says:
Every part of Christianity refers back to Abraham, and it is all Freemasonry. Jesus Christ at table, at the head of the twelve, offering the sacrifice of Bread and Wine, is Abraham and Melchizedek over again; such, in fact, it is acknowledged to be by the Romish Church; such is its esoteric religion ... 26
Doane further illustrates the connection between Masonry and Christianity:
Masons' marks are conspicuous among the Christian symbols. On some of the most ancient Roman Catholic cathedrals are to be found figures of Christ Jesus with Masons' marks about him.27
Unbeknownst to the masses, the pope is the Grand MasterMason of the Masonic branches of the world.28 Regarding this sordid partnership, Anderson remarks:
Freemasonry, corrupted by Roman Catholicism, has lost its ancient landmarks and been carried into captivity . . . Masonry not instituted by the ancient people is worthless and of no account. . . . Ancient Masonry is found all over the inhabitable world; modern Masonry in but a small portion of it. Ancient Masonry will last while the world endures; modern Masonry will die in derision as . . . the Catholic Church fades out; and it is rapidly dying in all places where science and knowledge prevail. A religion built upon a dream is not one to last; and Catholicism has for its authority, "and the angel appeared to Joseph in a dream."29
Masonry originally held, and still does at the higher levels, the knowledge that the Christ character was the sun. This knowledge has obviously been hidden from all but the few. In addition, as stated, the heliocentricity of the solar system and the roundness of the earth were known to the ancients eons prior to the Christian era, but these two facts, among innumerable others, were suppressed so that no one would apprehend the sublimation of the solar and celestial mythos. We must ask why the solar mythos, so significant and ubiquitous in cultures around the world for thousands of years, is now unknown, particularly when it is well understood that without the knowledge of the heavens we could scarcely function on Earth, time as we know it would not exist, and we would be unable to figure out when to plant and harvest our food, for one important example. What has happened to the ubiquitous celestial mythos? How is it that this information, so widely known in ancient times, is almost completely hidden from the masses today? The answer is that it has been deliberately suppressed, so that the masses would never realize the connection between their cherished gods and the celestial bodies.
As demonstrated by Paine, the Masons have known very well the true meaning and importance of astrology, which was considered a sacred science. Anderson explains this ages-old science and its relationship to Masonry and Catholicism:
... [A)strology is the Word, and written from the beginning ... an exact science, sublime and holy, which has existed longer than we have at present any history, and handed down by the great and wise of the past, those builders of the temples of the sun, or universe, until in its old age its ashes are buried in Roman Catholicism but yet burn in Freemasonry . . . [The] astrology of the ancients is the base of all and every science, either of the past or the future, and that it was at one time a universal religion, science, and language, the remnants of the sign language still held by the Masonic bodies, to whom it is as "shining in the darkness and the darkness comprehending it not."30
Astrology and astrotheology were not only known in the ancient world but have constituted an enormous portion of human civilization. Time and again, massive edifices around the globe have been built that are encapsulations of the heavenly story, serving as stellar "computers." But this astrotheological Masonry was corrupted, as the powermongering historicizers drove its true meaning and religion underground in a vicious quest to subjugate the world and acquire its wealth.
The Motive
It is obvious the conspirators were after power and money, and, as Pope Leo X quipped,