Time and Place
Historical events are fixed by the time and place they occured.
And this, as we all know,is expressed in a calender date and the
name of location. On face value, this appeares obvious enough. I
was born on the 20th of September 1968 in the city of
Alexandria, as officially recorded on my birth certificate. No
discussion,period.Ah,but what about much earlier historical
events such as, say, the famous battle of Kadesh between the
army of Ramses II and the Hittites, as depicted on the pylon
walls of the Rameseum near the city of Luxor in Upper Egypt?
In this case there are as many 'dates' ranging from c.1280 BC to
c.1298 BC depending which text book you pick up. Even the exact
location of this battle is a matter of some contention, and
there are disagreement as to whether the battle was a 'victory'
or a 'defeat disguised as a victory' for Ramses II. But there is
worse. When it comes to such popular historical events such as,
for example, the Biblical Exodus, well, forget it. Historians
can't even agree if it happened at all, let alone give us an
exact date or the exact route taken by the Jews. The problem
with historical events such as these is that they are dated'
i.e. recorded, on different calender systems or by the 'reigns'
of such and such a kings and suchlike methods, presenting a
nightmarish confusion for the chronologist. As for the locations
name, that, too, is given in different languages often leading
to totally wrong conclusions. Think of the Arc of The Covenant
or Noahs Arc and you will get the picture. There is, too, the
possibility that certain locations are, in a sense, chosen for
symbolic reasons. Think of the terrorists attacks on the U.S
Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which were almost
certainly masterminded by Osama Bin Laden's Al Quaeda
organization. In the minds of the terrorists these gbombings
were, of course, attacks on the United States. Well,yes...and
no. Let's look at this more closely.
Firstly the 11th September of the year 2001 AD (Anno Domini) is
based on the Gregorian calender. For the Islamic calender this
date fell on the 23rd Jumaada Al Thani of the year 1422 A.H
(Anno Hegira); for the Ethiopion calender it was the 1st
Meskerem of the year 7501;in the coptic (Christian Egyptian)
calender it was the 1st Thout of the year 1725, and according to
the Jewish calendar it was the 23rd Elul of the year 5761.
Confused? There's more. The Ethiopian 1st Meskerem and the
Coptic 1st Thout are the New Year's Day for both these
calendars. The Ethiopian and Coptic 'New Year', in fact, always
fall on the 11th of Setember of the Gregorian calendar (except
on leap years, where an extra day is added). But check this. In
the year 1999 or the Gregorian calendar, the "11th of September"
marked not only the Coptic and Ethiopian 'New Year' and also the
Jewish New Year (which fell on 1st Tishri 5760). This is because
the Jewish 'New Year' which is a bit like the Christian Easter,
is not fixed by changes because of the complex way it is
determined such as the sighting of the new moon and also that it
must not fall on certain days of the week. The Jewish 'New Year'
can fall anywhere between the first week of September and the
first week of October and, statistically, more than often
somewhere in the middle like, for example near or on 11th
September. The historical roots of all these ancient calendars
are to be found mostly in ancient Egyption going as far back as
3000 BC. The ancient Egyption civic calendar, probably
established in the forth millenium BC, was made up of 12 months
of 30 days with each month having 3 'weeks' of ten days called
Decans. But to keep up with the (approximate) solar year of 365
days, the Egyptians also added 5 extra or epagomenal days, known
as the birth of the Neters (divine principals or 'gods'), which
included the celebrated mythological couple, Osiris and Isis.
The 'Beginning of the Year' or New Year's Day of the Egyptians
was marked by the first dawn rising og Siris, a star sacred to
the goddess Isis, which originally occured on the day of the
summer solstice i.e. on the 21st June Gregorian. This special
day was called 1st day of the 1st month of Thoth. But because of
the 1/4 day difference as well as a small variance the sideral
year and the tropical year, this after all man made calendar
slowly 'drifted' away from both the heliacal rising of Siris and
the summer solstice, such that by the early Christian times the
1st of the month of Thoth had drifted to the 11th September
Gregorian, which is why the Egyption-Coptic 'New Year'i.e. 1st
of Thoot, starts on that date.
Fine so far. But what does all this have to have with the 11th
September attacks?
Peace Treaty
In September 1999 a long-awaited peace treaty, known as WYE II,
was signed between the PLO Chairmen Yasser Arafat and the
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The signature, which had
taken place on the 4th September 1999 at the Egyptian Red Sea
resort of Sham El Sheikh, was, in fact to become officially
effective seven days later i.e on the 11th September 1999. The
actuall wording on the WYE II Treaty reads "This Memorandum will
enter into force one week from the date of its signature. Made
and signed in Sharm El Sheikh, this fourth day of September
1999. "The WYE II agreement was so named because it followed the
so-called WYE I negotiations that begun on the 9th and 10th
September 1993 by a secret exchange of private letters between
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin. These letter's revealed that the two bitter enemies had,
in fact, been engaged for many months in secret negotiations in
Oslo, Norway. In Rabin's letter it is confirmed that the PLO,
which so far has been unofficially represented in the
Palestinian Delegation established under the so-called Madrid
formula, was to be recognized by Israel as the only
representative of the Palestinian People. Rabin's official
recognition, which is dated 10th September 1993, came in reply
to a letter from Arafat dated 9th September 1993, in which the
PLO also recognized the state of Israel and further pledged to
delete certain articles in the old PLO Charter which had denied
the existence of Israel. These negotiations ended in the so
called 'Declaration of Principles' signed on the 13th September
1993, and finally led to the WYE II peace treaty that came int
effect on the 11th September 1999. To many radical Islamic
Fundamentalists and, to be fair, to many Jewish fundamentalists,
the peace treaty was seen as a betrayl of the worse possible
kind and it probably was the mai9n cause of the assassination of
Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Not suprisingly , many regarded the date
of '11th September' as the 'Day of Infamy' when their
historical religious cause was finally sold out by Arafat and
Barak. Ironically, this 'Day of Infamy' also happened to be in
the year 1999, when the 'New Year' of the Jews and also the 'New
Year' of the Egyptian Copts fell on the 11th September. The
Jewish New Year is generally known as Rosh Hashanah (which
means 'Beginning of the Year'), but it is also called Yom Hadin
(the Day of Judgement); Yom Hazikaron(the Day of Memorial) and
is thought of as 'The Day of Penitence' when starts a period
of 'ten days of penitence' leading to Yom Kippur(Passover)'the
Day of Atonement'. But the Jewish 'New Year' has a much deeper
meaning to Orthodox Jews. Itis associated to the Messianic Age,
and many jews today actually beleive that it wilol be on
that 'Feast of Trumpets' that their long awaited Messiah will
come and make his appearance on the'temple' at Jerusalem. This
day, it is said, will be the "ultimate redemption" of Israel.
Curiously, in recent years fundamental Christians have also
associated the 11th September with the Second Coming of Christ,
probably to conform with the 'Rosh Hashanah Judaic prphecies
also apparently, because somebeleive the true 'star of
Bethlaham' appeared to the Magi on the 11th September 3 BC in
the east, when a bright was seen at the conjuction of the starof
Regulas, and the 'pnet of kings', Jupiter, and when the sun,
Venus and Mercury were in Virgo.
Pentagon, Pillars and the Temple of Jerusalem
Eerily, the date of September 11 is also actually incorperated
in the construction history of the U.S Pentagon, one of the
terrorists' most coveted targets in 2001. Any self-respecting
employees of the U.S Pentagon will quickly tell you these days
that 'ground breaking' ceremony took place on the 11th September
1941 during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This 'dual'
dating tag that is now forever locked in the anals of the U.S
Pentagon is too much of a coincidence too be simply ignored.
Could the terrorists have intended to draw attention to the year
1941 or, more specifically, to the year 1941 and something to do
with President Roosevelt? Let's take a closer look. 1941 was,
of course, the year that the U.S entered World War II. September
11, 2001 is an attempt to draw the United States into a 'World
War 3'. So far, there seems to be some 'sense' in making this
link. But how does President Roosevelt himself fit in
this 'message'? What has President Roosevelt got to do with the
present PLO-Israeli conflict?
Roosevelt was sworn in on the 4th March 1933 as the 32nd
President of the United States. Coincidence would have it that
he was also a 32nd Degree Freemason of the Scotish Rite. His
Vice-President was Harry Truman, who was a 33rd Degree
Freemason. In 1945 Truman became America's 33rd President. But
so what? Surely these are just coincidences? Perhaps;but,
perhaps they are not seen as 'coincidences' by Anti-Masons and
religious fundamentalists in view of what these two men
participated in 'creating':the modern state of Israel. In this
respect, the 32nd and 33rd degrees' bear a curious relevance to
all this. Let us see why.
The Scotish Rite, which belongs to an elite branch of
Freemasonary known as the supreme council of the 33rd degree,
was founded in 1801 at the city of Charleston in South Carolina.
Its origions are obscure, but it is generally agreed by Masonic
historians that it started in the 1740s in the city of Bordeaux,
France and brought to the American Colonies soon after. The idea
was to link the normal or 'craft' Freemasonary with the elitist
medieval order of the Knights Templar, a powerful political and
financial organisation that originally was formed to protect the
Holy Land--and especially Jerusalem--from the Muslims. The
Knights Templar, in fact, got their evocative name from the
Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where had once stood Solomon's
Temple, and where these Christian Knights had established their
first camp during the Crusades. Jerusalem had been wrenched from
the Muslims in the 11th Century AD, and was the 'Kingdom of
Jerusalem' was placed under the protection of the Christian
Knights, mostly Knights Templar, who had sworn solemn oath to
protect it. But in 1187 AD the Holy Land was lost again to the
Muslims, when the army of Saladin crushed a Knights Templar's
army at the battle of Hattin on the 4th of July. The Kingdom of
Jerusalem eventually surrendered to Saladin on the 2nd October
1187, and from this time onwards, it remained in Muslim hands
until modern times. Not suprising then, the rituals of Scotish
Rite Freemasonary are Judeo-Christian and those of the top
degrees between the 30th and 33rd are intensly 'Templar' in as
such as they advocate the symbolic 'rebuilding' of the Temple of
Solomon. Today, where once stood this much fantasized Temple of
Solomon, are to be seen the Mosque of Omar and the Mosque of Al
Aqsa, two very sacred muslim shrines ande where the prophet
Mohamad is beleived to have ascended to heaven. To put it
mildly, the Temple Mound in Jerusalem is Islam's most venerated
place, some say even more sacred than the Kaaba at Mecca. By a
terrible twist of fate it is also the most haloed place in Judeo-
Christian tradition and, mostly, to neo-Templar secret societies
such as the Scotish Rite. Central to the Scotish Rite rituals
are the so-called Masonic 'Tracing Boards', which are usually
cloths placed on the floor of the lodge on which can be seen
symbols representing the Temple of Solomon, usually two tall
pillars called Jachin and Boaz, and in the centre a five-pointed
star, pentagon known as the 'Blazing Star'. The 'Blazing Star'
is identified s 'Lucifer', but not in the melevolent sense that
this name generally has today, but to the classical 'Lucce-
Ferre' or 'Morning Star' of the Romans i.e. Venus, which in the
Bible is associated to Messianic events. But it can easily be
seen how, to terrorist groups such as Hamas and Al Qaeda, such
and elitist and secret society in America might be perceived
as 'Satanic', hence the crude name allocated by radical Arabs
of 'Great Satan' to describing the United States and it's
leaders. But to be fair, all this is not altogether suprising.
In 1881, for instance, a huge scam was mounted against the
Scottish Rite Freemasons of Charleston by a French author called
Leo Taxil, who 'exposed' the 'Satanic' rituals of this
fraternity and named many senior politicians and clerics as
being involved. The 'Leo Taxil Hoax', as it is known in Masonic
circles, caused much bad press for the Masons, and brought a
wave of anti-Masonic attacks from the general public and the
Church. Now the 32nd degree rituals of the Scottish Rite (the
33rd is a title and not a ritual) are said to be related to the
32 Paths of Wisdom of the Sephiroth or Tree of Life found in the
Judeo-Christian Kabala. The Kabala is a mystical system of
learning or initiation based on the idea that the Holy
Scriptures, such as the Torah, the Talmud and the Old Testament,
are somehow encoded in the 'language of God' the key of which
(Kabala) was handed to Moses and passed on to the Jewish sages
and Rabbis. Apparently the secrets of the Kabala are in the
mystical understanding of the 22 letters of the Jewish alphabet.
These letters, which are seen as 'paths' or 'roads', link up the
10 'emanations of God' that make up the Sephiroth, and thus
together make up the 32 paths. The same idea, interestingly
enough, is also found in the modern esoteric Tarot Cards which
was invented by a Scottish Rite Freemason, Court de Gebelin.
Even more interstingly, the 31st, 32nd and 33rd degrees, which
are the most crucial to the 'rebuilding' of the Temple of
Solomon, are also found in the actual geographical latitudes or
parallels that encompass the modern State of Israel. Ther 32nd
parallel passes, in fact, just a little south of the city of
Jerusalem. It has often been remarked that the 'Mother Lodge' of
the Scottish Rite Supreme Council of the 33rd degree was fixed
at the city of Charleston in South Carolina because the 33rd
degree parallel passes almost right through it. Also on some
certificates of the Scottish Rite 33rd degree, the actuall
geographical latitude in degrees of the issuing lodge is given
alongside the name and location of the lodge, indicating some
sort of mystical connection between this ritual and the
geographical location of the lodge. One can easily see,
therefore, how radical fundamentalists might perceive the
creation of the state of Israel which was encouraged by F.D.
Roosevelt and 'recognized' in the 14th May 1948 by Harry Truman.
Many 'Founding Fathers' of the United States were, in fact,
Freemasons. A year after the signing of the Declaration of
Independence on July 4th, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, the most
famous of the signatories, was sent to Paris to obtain funds and
military support for the American War of Independence against
the British. Franklin too was a Freemason, and h4e immediately
joined the famous and very influential Nine sisters Lodge in
Paris. Also members of this lodge are said to have been the
famous hero the marquis de Lafayette, the future U.S President
Thomas Jefferson, and the future leaders of the French
Revolution, Danton and Marat. Also at the Nine Sisters Lodge
were registered the inventor of the Tarot cards Court de
Gebelin, the celebrated astronemer, Gerome de Lalande, and the
mathematician, Gaspard Monge. Interestingly, the last two were
largely responsible for the creation of a new 'Republican'
calendar based on 12 months of 30 days, with each months divided
into three 'decanis' or 'weeks' of ten day, giving a total of
360 days. Five extra days , known as the '5 days of virtues',
were then added to make up 365 days of the solar year. This
calendar was almost certainly based on the ancient Egyptian
prototype ande was probably materminded at the Nine Sisters
Lodge. It was at that time that Court de Gebelin made the link
between the 'Blazing Star' of the Freemasons with the five-
pointed star symbol of Sirius, the 'star of Isis' (on which the
original ancient Egyptian calendar was based). More intriguing,
Court de Gebelin identified this star to the Tarot Card No.17,
known as 'The Star', which depicts a woman wearing a large star
on her head. Court de Gebelin, as well as other scholars at the
time, knew very well that the Egyption calendar had originally
been fixed on the first dawn rising of Sirius i.e. the ancient
Egyptian 'New Year', which takes place4 at the summer solstice,
21 June on the Gregorian calendar. But at the time of
Gebelin's 'discovery', the Gregorian calendar had only recently
been introduced to replace the old Julian calendar established
by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. The conversion of the Julian calendar
into the Gregorian calendar had, in fact, been imposed by Pope
Gregory XII in 1582 but had not been adopted until 1752 in the
American Colonies. According to the old Julian calendar the 21
June was no longer the summer solstice but, instead, fell on the
4th of July of the new Gregorian calendar. It was then customary
during those early transitory years of the two calendars to
include both the Julian and the Gregorian date on official
documents. Interestingly, Freemasons consider their own 'New
Year' to begin at the summer solstice, which in the old Julian
calendar would be the '4th July'. Was the Declaration of
Independence signed on that date for 'Masonic' reasons? Who
knows.
Shangri La
It has been seriously suggested by the U.S Pentagon that one of
the aborted targets of the 11th September 2001 attacks may have
been Camp David, in Maryland. 'Camp David' is, to say the least,
very evocative of 'Camp Temple Solomon' of the original Knights
Templar. And to the Arabs 'Camp David' is, above all else the
place where the Egyptian President, Anwar Al Sadat, signed the
first peace treaty with Israel with Prime Minister Menahim Begin
on the 17th September 1978. The original name of Camp David
was,in fact, Shangri La, and was first established by President
F.D. Roosevelt in 1941-2. Itwas subsequently renamed 'Camp
David' during the administration of President Eisenhower in
1953, apparently after his grandson, David Eisenhower. Camp
David is the traditional place of retreat of U.S presidents
since F.D.Roosevelt created the 'camp' and where many have come
to s'see the whole world very clearly during times of conflict
and strife.' To Arab and especially Egyptian
fundamentalists,however, Camp David is thought of as the place
where Sadat 'betrayed' the Muslim people. So much was Sadat's
action vilified by the fundamentalists that it cost him his life
in 1981. Camp David was quite obviously, a very hot target for
the 11th September terrorists.
But could ther have been an undetected 'fifth' target other
than the twin towers of the WTC, the Pentagon and the aborted
Camp David targets? And if so, what would the terrorists have
selected? Again, we must resort to the same symbolic'language'
made up from the strange Kabalistic-Judeo-Christian-Templar brew
that appears to be the trade mark of the September 11th attacks.
The Woman with the Star
We have only seen how the so-called 32 Paths or 'degrees' of
enlightenment were associated with 'rebuilding' of 'Solomon's
Temple' as well as with the idea of the Masonic "Blazing Star'
or Pentagon. We have seen how this 'Star' was also linked to the
Egyptian five-pointed symbol of Sirius, especially in the Tarot
Card called the 'Star' and represented by a woman wearing a
seven pointed star on her head. Often the Kabalistic Sephiroth
or Tree of Life, with it's distinct 22 'paths' and
10 'emanations' is also shown next to the woman with the
star. 'The Star' is card numbered 17 and is preceded by cards
16, known as 'The Tower', and then card 15 known as 'The
Devil'. 'The Tower' card, which is thus in the middle of this
series depicts a gruesome scene showing a very tall building
whose top part has been struck by lightning and has caught fire,
and with people falling off the building. Often next to this
burning tower is shown the Sephiroth. Card 15, 'The Devil',
shown the 'goat of Mendes'(Satan) fronted by a five pointed star
or pentagon. In view of the striking imagery of these series of
Tarot Cards to the actuall targets of September 11th, as well as
the connection of the Tarot to the Scottish Rite, we cannot be
blaqmed to wonder if the terrorists had the Tarot in mind when
they planned the attacks? For when we project these Tarot images
on the actuall geographical landscape of the September 11th
attacks, we can easily identify two of the target areas:
the 'Tower' with the WTC, and the 'pentagon' (Devil), the latter
the 'Great Satan' of the terrorists, with the U.S Pentagon. But
if we are reading this gruesome 'message' correctly, there
should also be the 'woman with the star' in this scheme, and
more precisely somewhere on the 'other side' of the WTC towers.
And when we look for her, there she is; the Statue of Liberty,
a 'woman' wearing a tiara or crown in the form of a 'star'. Less
known to the general public is that the cornerstone for the
Statue of Liberty was placed in a solemn ceremony in 1884
organized by the Masonic Lodges of New York. Again, if we are
reading the 'message' correctly, there should be some
association between the Statue of Liberty and the 'Blazing Star'
or Tarot 'Star'. We recall that the latter were identified to
Sirius, the star sacred to the Egyptian goddess Isis. But how
could there possibly be a connection with this Egyptian icon and
the Statue of Liberty? Odd enough, there is. For the Statue of
Liberty, which was designed by the French sculptor Bartholdi and
actually built by the French Engineer, Gustave Eiffel (both well
known Freemasons), was not originally a 'Statue of Liberty' at
all, but first planned by Bartholdi for the opening of the Suez
Canal in Egypt in 1867. Bartholdi, like many French Freemasons
of his time, was deeply steeped in 'Egyptian' rituals, and it
has often been said that he conceived the original Statue as an
effigy of the goddess Isis, and only later converted it to
a 'Statue of Liberty' for New York harbour when it was rejected
for the Suez Canal. The 'star' on the head of the Statue of
Liberty might, therefore, be seen as the star of Isis, Sirius,
who rising marked the 'New Year' of the ancient Egyptian
calendar and which now had 'drifted' to the "11th of September"
of the Coptic-Egyptian calendar...and by a fluke of destiny to
the 'Date of Infamy' of PLO-Israeli peace treaty when it
coincided with the Jewish and Coptic 'New Years'. Bearing in
mind that Anwar Al Sadat was attempting to bring together the
three major religions, Islam, Christianity(Copts) and Judiasm,
this date now takes a particular sinister meaning in the wake of
the terrible September 11th Attacks.
