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Appendix A The Rose Cross of Azazel According to an esoteric reading of the Tarot, a Red Rose represents Venus (Azazel’s human wife), while a Red Cross represents the angel Azazel. The combined Rose-Cross in one respect represents the sexual union of Azazel and his human wife. The word ‘Rosicrucian’ is German for ‘Rose Cross,’ a term synonymous with Red Cross. In addition to this, the word ‘rose’ is an anagram for Eros, the name of the Greek god of Love, who was the first-born son of the angel Azazel and of his human wife. The 18th Degree in Freemasonry is commonly known as the Rose-Croix (Rose Cross), a fact showing the relation to and establishing a link between these two seemingly diverse organizations. In fact, the ascension of Freemasonry (not to be confused with the more archaic Masonry) as we know it today correspondingly relates to the decline of the Rosicrucian order in Europe, most markedly in Germany, the birthplace of Rosicrucianism (Dr Sigismund Bacstrom, an important Rosicrucian scholar of the alchemical sciences, wrote in Bacstrom’s Rosicrucian Society (circa late 18th to early 19th Centuries A.D.) of “the August most ancient and most learned (Rosicrucian) Society, the Investigators of Divine, Spiritual and Natural Truth (which Society, more than two centuries and a half ago (during the 15th Century), did separate themselves from the Freemasons…).” These movements being inter-related and dynamic by their their very natures, Freemasonry later re-absorbed many Rosicrucians back within its ranks (See pp.55-56 Proofs of a Conspiracy: Chapter I by John Robinson, 1798 A.D.). There are many Rosicrucian Societies yet in existence today, most notably AMORC. In addition, and of a most interesting note, the Order of Maat Supreme Grand Lodge owns a web site called Links Central of Maat (M.A.A.T. = Master of the Temple A.’A.’ [A.’A.’ = Aleister Crowley’s Argenteum Astrum/Silver Star]. See p. 241 Nightside of Eden by Kenneth Grant, 1977 A.D.), by their own profession
“a web ring for Rosicrucians,” which employs a rose-cross ankh symbol (a rosetau). This is derived from the name of the Egyptian god Seker, who represented the angel Azazel, who was called ‘He of the rosetau,’ which is to say, he of the rose (red) cross. In Scene 2 of the 3rd Tableau of the Initiation of Plato, it is revealed that Azazel’s symbol, “the red cross,” was “traced upon the banner of Egypt,” on 458
what amounted to being the national flag of Egypt. And according to Flying Roll No. 10 (in Roman numerals, 10 = X, named in honor of Azazel) of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, ‘X’ (a cross variant) is the occult sign of Osiris risen (Osiris represented Azazel’s cherub Behemoth. It is for this reason A. E. Waite, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, lists the Wheel of Fortune, representative of Azazel’s cherub, as the 10th [Roman numeral X] Major Arcana of the Tarot. There exist those who hold the crossedarm symbolism represents ‘Osiris slain’). It must also be noted The Church of Scientology employs a similar logo, called the Cross Saltire.** Compare the Cross Saltire to Aleister Crowley’s OTO Rose Cross Lamen (a lamen is a magical charm-like pendent worn around the neck by the leader of a witch’s coven). This signifies Azazel’s (represented by the ‘X’) future appearance as the false Christ (represented by the cross). When the symbol for Azazel (x) is superimposed upon the cross (+), it forms what is known as an eightpoint compass rose. For this reason a classical wooden ship’s wheel, which resembles an eight point compass rose, is at times used as a symbol of Azazel (as are wheels of similar composition). A ship’s anchor (often found wound round with a chain) is also used as a symbol for the union of Azazel and his human wife, as it represents the union of the tau cross, representative of Azazel, with the crescent moon, the crescent moon being a symbol of Azazel’s human wife). (**Author’s Note: The Process Church of the Final Judgment founded by two ex-Scientologists employed a decidedly related symbol depicting a serpent upon a cross [in the place of Christ crucified], what one might venture to identify as being a Chritianizedversion of the palladium (the palladium is related to the alchemical device known as the ‘Crucified Serpent.’ Most of the writings of the Rosicrucians are alchemical in nature). They even had rings made with this cross depicted in red on a white background [within the ‘disk’] the sigil of Azazel [See below]):
In Egyptian hieroglyphics the god Ptah (a god who represented 459
Azazel) is always associated with an ‘x’ within a circle, also known as the quartered circle (for this reason an ox has become an esoteric symbol of Azazel (Oxford University derives its name from it). A male ox is called a bull, a common angel symbol (by extension, Azazel’s human wife may be symbolized as a cow. The Egyptian cow goddess represents Azazel’s human wife). Compare the ‘x’ within a circle symbol of Ptah to the Cross of Wodan, also a cross within a circle. The Germanic god Wodan is yet another god who represented the angel Azazel/Behemoth. The Celtic cross of the Druids also incorporates the ‘cross within a circle’ motif. In some circles the ‘cross within a circle’ motif is known as the Mark of Cain (this is due to the fact that in the Phoenician alphabet the letter ‘T’ is rendered as an ‘X’ and is pronounced ‘tau,’ meaning ‘mark’). Cain of course was the son of Azazel by Eve. The quartered circle was the badge (talisman/magic charm) of the Grand Master of the Knights Templars. No doubt it was worn in part to protect the user in battle as God was said in Genesis 4:15 to have placed such a “mark” upon Cain to keep him from being slain). The so-called Freemasonic Scottish Rite 18th Degree Rose Croix quartered circle (also a symbol of the Gnostics/Gnosticism) is a variant of the ‘cross within a circle’ motif. The NATO military alliance also employees a variant of the ‘quartered circle’ logo which is representive of the god of war Azazel. As we learn from the Wicca witch priestess Doreen Valiente in Witchcraft for Tomorrow pp.67-68, the cross within the circle motif, the sign of Azazel, was one of the designs of the ‘magic circles’ of the witches; the construction of such a ‘magic circle’ was standard practice when witch’s invoked their Horned God, who was Azazel! In fact, the device known as ‘the witches’ mark’ which was employed by the witches (often signed during witches’ initiation ceremonies) is “an X-shaped cross” (Ibid p.179), the sign of Azazel. The red cross (in appearance a red X), was emblazoned upon Azazel’s cherub Behemoth: “Lamia is the ‘snake’ among the Ophidian; Lama is the hand: lamh, hand (for this reason a hand may also be used to represent Azazel; two examples are the god Sabazios, who represents Azazel, and whose symbol is a hand and also the witch’s Hand of Glory which likewise represented Azazel), is a divine name in the Scythian tongue. It also means the number 10, and the Roman numeral X, which is a cross…which, according to Eastern allegory, is placed…upon the Rebellious Spirits (read: a red X was 460
emblazoned upon the cherub of the angels) in their ‘abyss’ or ‘prison’ (within the earth).” - The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries by SRIA member Hargrave Jennings, 1870 A.D.. The SRIA is an English Rosicrucian Society. SRIA members, it must be remembered, gave birth to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, oweing its “mysteries” in part to this book by Jennings). The Knights Templar god
Baphomet also represented Azazel. As we learn from The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries (Hargrave Jennings) p.215, the Coptic root –met encountered in the word Bapho-met means “ten.” The Roman numeral signifying 10, rendered as an X, a cross variation, is the sign of Azazel (Ba [ab/father]-pho [oph/serpent] – met [X]). In her book Witchcraft for Tomorrow p.117 the Wicca witchpriestess Doreen Valiente reveals: “Ogham was a sacred Druid alphabet and would certainly have contained magic secrets…” I would say one of the biggest secrets it reveals is the mystery surrounding the identity of the mysterious Theosophical Society deva known as Master KH with whom many high-ranking members of this society claimed to be in contact. In the sacred Ogham alphabet of the magic practicing Druids, KH was rendered as an X. Master KH, which is the Druid way to say, Master X, was the Hidden Master Azazel himself! This is also the idea behind the word ‘Ur-Khaos,’ the god of the underworld: KH (X) + A (horned ox head sign of the horned god) + O (the disk, a cherub) + S (the serpent), the serpent horned god of the X-marked disk of the Chaldean city of Ur (UrKhaos was later translated as Orcus, the Gaelic Druidic god of the underworld/abyss). According to the Ritual Magic of the Golden Dawn (p.208, King 1987), the rising of Adonai, of Mithra the Lord of Wide Pastures was by the ancient mysteries symbolized under the form of a rose (also known as the ‘Rose of Dawn’). In a like way, the gods Adonai and Mithra represented Azazel/Behemoth (“Adonai has…come to mean, through the Rosicrucian tradition, the Holy Guardian Angel [with whom, it must be noted, magicians sought to communicate].” - Eight Lectures on Yoga by Aleister Crowley, 1939 A.D.). Azazel will in the future arise within his cherub being loosed from his earthly imprisonment. In respect to the angel Azazel, the rose cross also symbolizes the future rising of Azazel/Behemoth, Azazel being accepted as the coming Messiah. So the rose is also used as a symbol of Azazel. The red cross as a symbol of Azazel’s cherub Behemoth also hearkens back to the Egyptian mysteries of Osiris. The god Osiris 461
represented Azazel’s cherub Behemoth, and by extension, Azazel. In the Egyptian Hymn to Osiris, the “disk” of Osiris (Osiris = Behemoth) is identified as the “rosetau,” the rose (red) cross (“Divine oblation to Osiris [Behemoth] Khent-Amenti, lord of Abydos…the disk…the rostau” - Hymn to Osiris). Cherubim are disk-shaped. It must also be noted the tau cross (rendered in Greek as a T) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. Azazel’s prophesied release takes place on the 19th day of July 2016 A.D. In Freemasony, the symbol for Azazel, a tau cross, is represented by the T-square. The Rosicrucians, whose name means “rose cross” in German, names their secret organization after the rostau/disk/Osiris/Behemoth. The Germanic name Christian Rosenkreuz, which in English translates as ‘Christian Rose Cross,’ represents no other persona than the rebellious angel Azazel himself. The name is a play on words which may be interpreted as the christ of the red cross, representing Azazel, whose sign is the red cross, in reference to his future appearance as the false-christ/false prophet/messiah (See Revelations 16:13; according to the Rosicrucian Hargrave Jennings in The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries, p.142, the color red is male and represents the Salvator, a Latin word meaning ‘Savior’). Theosophist Freethinker Ida C. Craddock provides another piece of our puzzle: “Why did these mystics call themselves Rosicrucian? Some writers have attempted to derive the name from two words meaning "dew" and "cross": but the usual interpretation is "followers of the Rosy Cross" (read: followers of Azazel) a cross with a rose (used analogously of Azazel) being used as the society's symbol.” - Heavenly Bridegrooms. (It must also be mentioned when one adds the disk (O) [Azazel’s cherub is disk-shaped], to the word Sirius, it becomes Osirius, and when one drops the ‘u’ it becomes Osiris. The heliacal rising of the star Sirius in 2016 A.D. takes place on the 19th day of July, the day Azazel in his disk-shaped red-cross emblazoned cherub is to emerge from his earthen imprisonment, claiming to be Christ. In this same way, the Babylonian god Ea, alternatively spelled Ia (another such god which represented Azazel/Behemoth), becomes the name of the Gnostic god Iao with the inclusion of the disk [O]). The words ‘Sirius’ and ‘Osiris’ are related to the Semetic word ‘Siru’: “Scholars ordinarily refer to the serpent god (who is Azazel) by the name Siru, being the Semitic word for serpent…” - p.120, Tammuz and Ishtar (S. Langdon, “Shillito Reader of Assyriology, Oxford,” 1914 A.D. It would also seem the name Isis is also derived from the word Osiris). As an additional added bonus
note, in the ancient Babylonian system of Gematria, where letters are 462
used to represent numbers, the number 10 is represented by the letters IA (which Roman numeral is represented by an X). ‘Ia’ of course is an alternative spelling of the name of the god ‘Ea.’ Compare the modern spelling of our number ‘ten’ to the name of the Egyptian sun disk ‘Aten’ (in Roman, A-X) (AX = IAO = OX). No doubt there exists a connection here. In the pictographic alphabet of the Egyptians, a horned ‘ox head’ (representative of the horned-god Azazel) was the equivalent of the Roman letter ‘A’ (and hence was also derived the anarchist symbol for Azazel, an A within a circle/disk [O]). All of these are designations for Azazel’s cherub Behemoth and by extension, Azazel. Additionally, Ax/Abrasax were synonymous terms: “You are Ax, you are Abrasax (Ab [father] + Ra [the disk] + S [the serpent] + A [horned oxhead/horned god] + X [ten] (A-ten)), the angel who sits upon the tree of Paradise...” (A-X is the Archaic Latin alphabetic version of the classical Greek Alpha-Omega, the title of the resurrected Christ (See Revelations 22:13). Both are the first and last letters of their respective alphabets. Perhaps it signifies a Creator/Destroyer, an angel and the cherub [the word ‘destroyer’ in The Bible is used synonymously with that of the word ‘cherub’] to which he was assigned). As such an ax is often used as a symbol for Abrasax/Azazel (compare ‘ax’ to the Greek word ‘aix’ which means ‘goat’ (note the addition of the phallic ‘pillar,’ I). The Hebrew word for a male goat is also used to denote a demon. The demons are the rebellious fallen angels. For this reason Satyrs/demons, representative of fallen angels, are symbolically represented as being goat-like in appearance, such as the god Pan, the king of satyrs, who represented Azazel). The letter ‘O’ was derived from the Semitic `Ayin (eye), and hence, the ‘eye (disk) of Horus,’ also known as Azazel’s cherub Behemoth. Constantine’s ‘IX monogram’ (also employed by the Merovingians) often encircled with the disk in its various forms is likewise esoterically connected with the false christ Azazel. Constantine never actually abandoned his pagan beliefs, he simply applied a Christian veneer. A phallis also is a symbol used to represent Azazel, often represented as an ‘I,’ it being representative of Osiris’ phallis which according to one version of the Osiris legend was the single dismembered member of Osiris’ dissected corpse retrieved by the goddess Isis. One may conclude this to be the origin of the artificial stone phalli and priapic statues employed in Egyptian magic rituals, it representing Osiris’ amputated phallis. I believe such priapic idols were actually used to perform hiero gamos magic rituals 463
involving the ritual rending of a virgin’s hymen. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn also esoterically derives its name from Azazel. Hermes was another Egyptian name for Azazel, he of a thousand names. The Golden Dawn is analogous of the solar disk, the sun, which like Azazel’s cherub Behemoth, is diskshaped and rises at dawn, which is the expected time of Azazel’s future release (“the holy one (read: the angel Azazel in his cherub) appeared…;; as a golden dawn did he appear…” - Aleister Crowley’s LIBER ARCANORUM τών ATU τού TAHUTI QUAS VIDIT ASAR IN AMENNTI SUB FIGURÂ CCXXXI LIBER CARCERORUM τών QLIPHOTH CUM SUIS GENIIS. ADDUNTUR SIGILLA ET NOMINA EORUM) (in the Egyptian Book of the Dead Plate
XXI B.D. Chap. XV it was said the Egyptian god Ra, who represented the angel Azazel, “risest at dawn” in allusion to the time of Azazel’s release). Israeli Regardie, a Rosicrucian who later joined the Stella Matutina, a successor organization of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Regardie served as personal secretary to Aleister Crowley), writes in his book entitled The Golden Dawn: “‘The RoseCross’… is a glyph…of the higher Genius (read: angel) to whose knowledge and conversation the student is eternally aspiring” (in reference to Aleister Crowley’s “attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel”). The ‘Genius’ of which Regardie speaks with whom such individuals sought to converse is a so-called ‘guardian angel,’ the angel Azazel. His glyph/symbol is the rose cross/red cross. Indeed, Azazel is known as Sirius, the Hidden God of the Illuminati (the Illuminati/angels are also known as the ‘Grand Masters of the Templars’), so named as his return is associated with the Dog Star Sirius. This fact is important enough to repeat. Azazel is known as the “Hidden God Sirius”: “In his book ‘Magickal Revival’ Grant writes that Phoenix was (Aleister) Crowley’s most secret name. It represented the ancient Constellation in which Sothis (Seth) or Sirius was the highest star. He writes that Crowley associated the very heart of his teachings and ‘Magick’ with a certain star, namely the ‘Sun behind the Sun,’ the ‘Hidden God Sirius.’ The secret of the Illuminati, or the Enlightened Ones is the blazing star Sirius, Grant writes.” – The Sirius Mysteries (Notable quote: “To the Egyptians, the Sun behind the Sun was known as Osiris (a god who represents Behemoth/Azazel) and also as Amun-RA, the Hidden Sun.” - The Book of the Master by Marshall Adams. Indeed, the Egyptian Hymn to Osiris-Soka is a summons/call addressing the angel Azazel in greeting: “Hail, thou 464
hidden God, Osiris (Behemoth/Azazel; Sirius is a cognate of Osiris) in the underworld!”) (The Great Hymn of Aten, Aten being representative of Azazel’s cherub Behemoth, is called therein the “hidden…god…in the underworld…”). Crowley was merely carrying on a long established magic tradition, most noteably of the magic practiced by high-degree Freemasons (often gleened from ongoing archaeological discoveries): “The Ancient Astronomers (astronomers were as a rule astrologers/sorcerers) saw all the great Symbols of Masonry in the Stars. Sirius glitters in our (Freemasonic) lodges as the Blazing Star (which is a symbol of Azazel. ‘Blazing’ is synonymous with ‘shining’**).” - Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Scottish Freemasonry by Albert Pike. Indeed, as we learn from C. W. Leadbeater (a prominent member of the Theosophical Society) in Glimpses of Masonic History the Blazing Star Sirius (representative of Azazel), the so-called glyph of the higher genius with whom all practitioners of magic sought to contact, was symbolized by “the Rose which ever blossoms at the heart of the Cross,” the very symbol of the Rosicrucians themselves. Compare to the Dogon tribe in Africa which also portrays the helical rising of Sirius as a cross with a flower-like sun at its center. (The fallen angel Azazel is associated with the star Sirius. The FivePointed Star, the pentagram/pentagon, is the icon of Sirius, and as such, the icon of Azazel, as well as the esoteric importance of the five-pointed Blazing Star of the Masons. The symbol of the star Sirius as a symbol of Azazel hearkens back to Biblical days: “Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch [their King Azazel], and the star [called a Chiun] of your god Remphan [Azazel], figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.” - Acts 7:43; and again: “But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch [their King Azazel] and Chiun your images, the star of your god [Remphan/Azazel], which ye made to yourselves.” - Amos 5:26) (** “According to Sufi expert Idries Shah the “true rulers of the world are the ‘Enlightened Ones’” (Illuminati) [read: the fallen angels] and the Sufi have discovered their secret in the Quran in the following verse: “Allah [who is Azazel] is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth. His Light is resembled by a lamp within a niche. The lamp within a crystal, like a shining (blazing) star.” He claims the allusion to a ‘shining star’ is a reference to ‘Sirius’ (See The Sirius Mysteries). The angels are known as the Shining Ones and a star is often used as the symbol for an angel, hence Shining Star/Blazing Star) (A Notso-notable Quote: “Such surely is the destiny that awaits our beloved Order in the future;; such the splendour that will transfigure the Craft [Freemasonry] in the years that are to come, until within its temple walls once more is raised - not only in symbol but in actual fact (upon Azazel’s release from his earthen imprisonment) - the ladder which stretches between earth and heaven, between men and the Grand Lodge above, to lead them from the darkness of the world to the fullness of light in God (he speaks not, to be sure, of the God of Christians and Jews, but of the god of the Craft, who is Azazel), to the Rose which ever blossoms at the heart of the Cross, to the Blazing Star whose shining brings peace and strength and blessing to all the worlds.” - Glimpses of Masonic History by C. W. Leadbeater)
According to a footnote to The Dionysian Artificers: “Thamuz 465
(a variant spelling of Tammuz) signifies the name of a month, and likewise the name of an idol or divinity, which even in the opinion of St. Jerome is the same as (the god) Adonis (both are gods who represent the angel Azazel). Plutarch says that the Egyptians called Osiris Ammuz, and from thence was corruptly derived the name of Jupiter Ammon (‘Ammon,’ a varient spelling of ‘Ammoum,’ means ‘the Hidden One.’ See p.29 Witchcraft for Tomorrow by Doreen Valiente, 1978 A.D.). Robertson (Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae) says that the word Ammuz (read Ammoum) used by Herodotus and Plutarch, were corruptions from the Hebrew Thamuz (Hebrew תםוז {Hebrew TMWZ}). I would rather say that the word was originally Egyptian, and made Hebrew by the addition of the formative ת {Hebrew T})…” And so was an Egyptian name for Azazel, namely Ammuz, transformed into Tammuz by the addition of the symbol for Azazel, namely, the tau cross (rendered in Greek as a T; in the Phoenician alphabet, the Greek ‘T’ takes the form of another enigmatic symbol of Azazel’s cherub Behemoth, the quartered circle/‘x’ within a circle, pronounced ‘tet’ and meaning ‘wheel,’ a Biblical name for a cherub). It must be noted The Dionysian Articifers (circa. 1820 A.D.) is an essay written by an eminent Brazilian Freemason. The Greek Dionysiacs as they were also called was an association of architects and engineers, followers of the god Dionysius (also known as Bacchus) and builders of temples, theatres and stadia, an early society of Freemasons. As earlier noted, in Freemasonry the tau cross, the symbol of Azazel, is represented by the T-square. (Notable quote: “The TAU [the sign of Azazel] is the central figure of the Theosophical Seal [employed by the Theosophical Society] and the heart of its message.” - The Theosophical Seal by Arthur M. Coon, 1958 A.D.) (The Thames River in England is named after Thamuz/Azazel: “The Thames through Oxford is often given the name the River Isis, although historically, and especially in Victorian times, gazetteers and cartographers insisted that the entire river was correctly named the River Isis from its source until Dorchester-on-Thames. Only at this point, where the river meets the River Thame and becomes the “Thame-isis” (subsequently abbreviated to Thames) should it be so-called; Ordnance Survey maps still label the Thames as “River Thames or Isis” until Dorchester.” – Wikipedia: River Thames. Isis, it must be remembered, is an Egyptian name for Azazel’s human wife) (The Hammer of the god Thor, who represented Azazel, in form resembles and represents a tau cross (T), the sign of Azazel)
The Rose Window (the rosette window) on the façade of the Rosslyn Chapel (aka the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew) located at the village of Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, employs such rose cross symbolism in its architechural design. This is a symbol of the future release of the angel Azazel. Other architectural features of Rosslyn 466
Chapel include over 110 ‘Green Man’ carvings. The Green Man represents the angel Azazel (the Egyptian god Osiris, a god who represented Azazel/Behemoth, was depicted with green skin). Ancient Sumerian depictions of Azazel show him wearing rosette bracelets (which would account for the rose being used as a symbol of Azazel). It must be noted the Rosslyn Chapel was erected by 15th Century Masons acting under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church. Ceremonial magician A.E. Waite and one-time Chief of the Druid Order in England Godfrey Higgins believed that the secret to forming the Philosopher’s Stone with the aid of dew was the secret concealed in the Rosicrucian name. One interpretation of the Rose Cross is that the rose represents the dew in an alchemical process, as Rosi Crucis translates as ‘dew cup.’ The following scripture esoterically refer to regeneration as it refers to the Resurrection. Note the use of the rose motif to symbolize regeneration (Franz Hartmann has stated “the greatest of all magical feats” is “the spiritual regeneration of man.” See the Preface to Third Edition of Magic, White and Black). Flowers are often used as symbols to represent the human body: “…your body is the garden of flowers.” - The Songs of Kabir “Listen to me, you holy sons, and bud like a rose which grows by a watercourse; exhale fragrance like a frankincense tree, and blossom like a lily. Give forth an odor and sing a song, bless the Lord (God) for all His works.” - The Wisdom of Sirach 39:13-14 “How glorious he was…Like roses in the days of first fruits, like lilies by a spring of water, like a sprig of frankincense, on summer days, like fire and incense in the censer…” - The Wisdom of Sirach 50:8,9 “I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.” -
Song of Songs 2:1
(KJV) (Lilys of the valley are hexagonal in shape)
The rose and the cross of the Rosicrucians also symbolize regeneration. To Rosicrucians, the rosy cross can represent the formula for the Universal Medicine, the panacea for all forms of disease. In addition to the Rosicrucians, the Rose/Cross motif is shared by the Masons (as evidenced by The Scottish Rite ‘18th degree 467
Knight of the Rose Cross’). To the Masons the rose/cross was in one respect the symbol of regeneration: “The rose is the ancient emblem of spring. Upon the cross it signifies…man regenerated” (Ancient Masonry C.C. Zain 1994 p. 249). It must be noted a five-petaled rose is used to represent a pentagram, while a six-petaled rose represented a hexagram. The cross is an esoteric symbol for a transverse electromagnetic wave; a hexagram represents a standing wave (See The Knowledge of Wisdom by John of the Gentiles). The Rose/Cross motif is also a symbol of (as evidenced by the Rosy Cross lamen of) the magic group known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. These organizations are all associated and the use of shared motifs, vis a vis, evidence these organization’s shared beliefs, as well as their shared associations. Members of one such order are often members of similar orders. These organizations are cell-like and dynamic, and like the hydra of old, they have many heads working towards the same final goal, so the loss of one does not result in the destruction of all, while others will spring up in its stead. The beast lives on to fight another day. The ancient Roman practice of adorning with roses the door of a room in which confidential matters were discussed gave birth to the phrase “sub rosa,” which translates as “under the rose,” meaning, “to keep a secret” (Notable quote: “…brought from ancient Egypt, is the Cross upon the Rose — Cross, symbol of life, Rose, symbol of matter and symbol of secrecy as well.” – The Brotherhood of Religions by Annie Besant Adyar Pamphlets No.24). These were secret meetings of secret societies discussing secret matters. The Romans called the rose the ‘Flower of Venus.’ The goddess Venus represented the angel Azazel’s human wife. King Arthur and his Round Table used Rosicrucian motifs, or, rather, vice versa. The rose/cross symbol was said to be drawn upon the Round Table used by Arthur and his Knights (the Tree of Life is also a common symbol amongst Medieval knightly themes). Arthur’s/Azazel’s Round Table represented Azazel’s cherub Behemoth. The red cross was also associated with the Holy Grail which in the Arthurian legends was the Christianized symbolic version of the long sought after cherub of Azazel (Behemoth). A rose is also the central motif for the links of the chain upon which the “Great George” is suspended amongst the jewels of the Order of the Garter. 468
The symbol of the Knights of the Garter is a red cross on a white shield. Both were/are Masonic organizations. One symbol of the Knights Templar was the red cross on a white background, also by design symbolic of Azazel’s cherub (the rose/cross combination was also the badge [talisman/magic charm] of the Knights Templar group). The tradition continues today with the Red Cross organization. It must be mentioned many of the gods which represented Azazel were gods associated with healing. The Sumerians worshipped Azazel as Ninazu (nin means ‘lord’), the god of healing and of the underworld. The Romans knew him as Aesculapius, the god of medicine, and he was known to be as well the Greek and Phoenician god of healing. The red cross which represents the god-angel of healing Azazel is for this reason used as a symbol of the medical organization known as the International Federation of the Red Cross, most commonly known as the Red Cross. (Notable quote: “Many of the magical charms and spells were for the healing of the sick or for the prevention of disease...Many charms and spells surviving to the present day contain the names of pre-Christian gods (all representing the angel Azazel). These spells are usually connected with cures for diseases in human beings and animals” - p.75 The God of the Witches by Margaret Alice Murray, D.Lit., “Fellow of University College, London,” 1933 A.D. ) Aesculapius (Azazel) was the Roman god of medicine as well as the Greek and Phoenician god of healing. He was often depicted wielding what is known as the Staff of Aesculapius. Various medical organizations adopted the Staff of Aesculapius as its medical insignia, the staff itself consisting of an axial rod with a single winged serpent entwined about it. The U.S. Army Medical Corp has the Staff of Aesculapius as its insignia. The winged staff/serpent symbolism was also employed in the symbol of the Caduceus of Hermes. Enki’s emblem (Enki who also represented Azazel) was two entwined serpents and was the symbol of his ‘cult center’ at Eridu, same as that of the medical profession. This symbolism is also reminiscent of the Sumerian underworld god of healing, Ningishzida (Nin- means ‘divinity’/lord), whose symbol was two snakes entwined around a central axial rod (the Rod of Ningishzida is the symbol of the great guild of physicians in England) (It must be noted one of the many Egyptian titles for Azazel was “the two-headed serpent” (See the Egyptian Book of the Dead Plate XXXI)). The satyrs themselves carried a similar instrument known as a thyrsus, also known as the rod of Dionysus, a stick wound round with ivy and tipped with a pine 469
cone. The Sidonian god of healing, Eshmun, was also depicted holding a serpent entwined staff in his right hand. All of these healing ‘gods’ represented the angel Azazel who holds the title of Chief Physician. In fact, Azazel was what was known as a ‘rapha,’ a surgeon, a member of the medical profession (compare ‘rapha’ to the cognate ‘pharma,’ thre root of the words ‘pharmacy’ and ‘pharmaceutical’). The Book of Enoch lists medical practices (including abortion; an abortion is considered to be a sacrifice to the god Molech [who is Azazel]. See p.23 Blood on the Altar) as being amongst the secrets which were revealed to mankind by Azazel and his group of fallen angels. Many early doctors were students of the occult, as many folk cures can be found amongst the folklore of many diverse civilizations. Magic practicing cunning folk often employed herbal medications, as did the Shamanistic medicine men. Many drugs today are herbal based. The fact that the cross (X) is linked with Azazel, who is oft confused by some as being the devil Satan himself, is the reason the horned devil, who in reality represents the ‘horned god’ Azazel, is associated with crossroads. In fact many Egyptian mummies are laid to rest with arms crossed in the sign of ‘Osiris Risen,’ the crossed arm symbol of Azazel being depicted on numerous Egyptian statues and reliefs (most notably depictions of the god Osiris/Azazel himself) (a man sitting cross-legged may also be thusly interpreted. For example: “The Indian figures of the Horned God (who is Azazel), found at Mohenjo-Daro, are of the earliest Bronzeage…The most remarkable is that of a man with bull’s horns on his head, sitting cross-legged…This representation was regarded in historic times as a form of Shiva (who represents Azazel) and is called Pasupati, ‘Lord of animals’ (a shepherd of sorts. Azazel is often depicted as a shepherd god).” – p.11 The God of the Witches by Margaret Alice Murray, 1933 A.D.). As we learn from British witch/author Nigel Jackson in Chapter VI Masks of Misrule pp.93 & 99, the Horned One, the Horned God of the Witches (Azazel), was represented by a “skull resting on crossed thighbones.” Two crossed swords in the form of an ‘X’ is a symbol of the Roman god of war Mars who likewise represented the angel Azazel, as is the ‘skull and crossbones’ insignia said to have been originally flown on Knights Templars ships, though being more famously flown on English privateer pirate ships of British persuasion (these being known collectively as ‘Jolly Roger’ flags). Interestingly enough, this symbol for Azazel, namely the ‘skull and crossbone,’ is a design used in the logo of Yale University’s Skull and Bones secret society, of which exRepublican-presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush were prominent members (the Skull and Bones secret society mimics the experience of the angels who are entrapped within the earth when they bury new initiates in a coffin and later unearth them). The eminent British knight/astronomer/astrologer/sorcerer Sir Isaac Newton esoterically pledges his allegiance to the fallen angel Azazel through his employment of a crossed-bones (X) motif sans skull in his personal coat-of-arms. 470
The swastika is also a variant form of the sign representing the angel Azazel. The swastika employed by German Nazis, Neo-Nazi Aryan groups and the Theosophical Society itself is but the Indian/Hindu form of the sign representing Azazel (X). It must be noted the swastika, the Hindu sigil of Azazel, is the letter ‘G’ in the Ancient Northern European/Anglo-Saxon Runic script known as ‘Futhorc’/’Futhark’ (the Armanen ‘Futharkh’ of Guido Von List, also known as the Norse rune ‘gifu,’ which is rendered as a simple ‘X,’). This is the esoteric reason for the inclusion of the ‘G’ within the Freemasonic ‘Square and Compass’ standard. The swastika, it must also be noted, is called the ‘Hammer of Creation,’ and in Teutonic legends, the swastika is known as ‘Thor’s Hammer,’ as Arthur M. Coon is nice enough to point out in explanation of the significance of the swastika’s inclusion in the seal of the most reverent Theosophical Society (See The Theosophical Seal by Arthur M. Coon, 1958 A.D.), Thor of course representing the fallen angel Azazel. The hammer then is likewise a symbol of the blacksmithing god Azazel, who taught mankind the art of metalworking. He has placed his mark upon it)
The Roman emperor Constantine the Great (c. 285-337 A.D.), who made Christianity the official religion of Rome, of “In this sign, conquer” fame, conquered under the sign of Azazel (as did the ancients Egyptians, the Spanish Conquistadores, England and later Hitler also similarly conquer under the sign of Azazel) when he emblazoned the red cross on white background insignia on the shields of his conquering legions (See also the Labarum [Chi-Rho symbol] of Constantine which incorporates the sign of “Osiris risen,” namely, the ‘X’ within its construction. The significance of the ‘P’ in the Chi-Rho [X-P] symbol is that ‘P’ is the 16th letter of the alphabet signifying Azazel’s release/“Osiris Risen” in 2016 A.D. The Chi-Rho symbol was also employed by the Merovingians. The Greek Chi (X) symbol is often used to abbreviate the word ‘christ,’ as when ‘X-mas’ is employed as an abbreviation of ‘Christmas,’ thereby literally taking Christ out of Christmas. Somehow wishing someone a “Merry Osiris Risen” on December 25th just doesn’t pack the same jolly holiday punch). The Knights Templars (c. 12th - 13th Centuries) likewise employed a red cross on white field motif, as did their Crusading contemporaries the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem who ran a hospital there in Jerusalem in what is now modern day Israel (Notable quote: “From the descendants of the Magi, the Sufis, the mystics amongst the Mahometans derived their knowledge of astrology, medicine, and of esoteric doctrines. In 1118 the order of the Temple (the Knights Templars) was founded, nominally for the protection of pilgrims, but really for the restoration of the primitive 471
mysteries.” – The Masters of Wisdom by E. Adams, 1890 A.D.) (The Germanic Teutonic Knights also employed the Red Cross of Azazel as its sigil). Today the Hospitallers are headquartered in Rome, as is the Vatican, and the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers group is considered the world’s highest-ranking Catholic lay person. The modern contemporary of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem is the medical organization known as the International Organization of the Red Cross which likewise employs a red cross on white background insignia, this being the sign of Azazel. The British Red Cross Society works closely with a group called the St. John Ambulance Association, named after the leader of the Knights Hospitallers, St. John of Jerusalem. The red cross, also known as St. George’s Cross, is the English national emblem, with the British national flag incorporating a red cross on a white background motif within its design, as well as the esoteric ‘X’ sign of Azazel (however, the Flag of England is simply a red cross on white background!): “The Union Jack (the flag of the United Kingdom) is a combination of the military ensigns of St. George's Cross for England, St. Andrew's Cross for Scotland, and St. Patrick's Cross for Ireland.” – p. 36 Manners, Customs, and Observances: Their Origin and Significance by Leopold Wagner (1894 A.D.). All of these sigils are representative of Azazel (as are the ‘saints’ with whom these crosses are associated). Consider also the May-pole, one of the central motifs of May Day celebrations in England: “In olden times nearly every village had its May-pole, around which, decorated with wreaths of flowers, ribbons, and flags, our merry ancestors danced from morning till night. The earliest representation of an English Maypole is that published in the Variorum “Shakespeare”…The pole is planted in a mound of earth (planted in the earth, representing Azazel’s encapsulation within the earth), and has affixed to it St. George’s redcross banner (also known as the “Colours of Saint George,” the red cross being the sign of Azazel)…” - Folk-lore of Shakespeare Chapter XI (T.F. Thiselton Dyer, 1883 A.D.). All of these motifs represent and honor the angel Azazel whose sign was the redcross on white background. (Of an interesting added note, the American Eagle such as that depicted on the back of the dollar bill [a decidedly Masonic emblem] is often pictured with its wings unfurled and its legs outstretched forming an esoteric ‘X’ the sign of Azazel [its left claw, signifying the 472
sinister ‘left-hand path’ of black magic, clutches divining arrows!]. The eagle is the bird of Jove/Jupiter, who is Azazel, and Azazel (the Genesis serpent), it must be remembered, habitually dressed in bird costumes and was often symbolized by a bird. Indeed: “In Elamitic religious art the eagle is brought into connexion with the serpent…” Tammuz and Ishtar by S. Langdon, “Shillito Reader of Assyriology, Oxford,” 1914 A.D.
Both are symbols of Azazel) “The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret-society founded at Washington, D.C., on 19 February 1864.” – Wikipedia: The Knights of Pythias. Famous Pythian Knights include former U.S. Presidents Warren G. Harding (Oddfellow), William McKinley (Oddfellow) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (Oddfellow), ex-U.S. Vice-Presidents Hubert Horatio Humphrey and Nelson A. Rockefeller, as well as U.S. Senators William Jennings Bryan (Oddfellow), Robert Byrd (Oddfellow) and Charles “Chuck” Schumer, including U.S. Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black (Oddfellow), Benjamin Cardozo, as well as Bob Jones, Sr., prominent Evangelist leader and founder of Bob Jones University. The Knights of Pythias logo employs a crossed axe (double axe in the form of an X) logo which includes arms and armor (it was Azazel who introduced the armorial arts to humans), as well as a lion (another sign of Azazel). All of these emblems are esoteric symbols of the false prophet Azazel. The Knights of Pythias (read: the Knights of Azazel, Pythias being a cognate of Python/Typhon) are still in existence today. Charles Schumer is the senior United States Senator from New York State, born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to a Jewish immigrant family. (Interesting Note: “…Horus [Azazel] was also called Horus-Behutet, or ‘the Great Blacksmith,’ and was symbolized by the axe or the hammer.” – The Origin and Evolution of Freemasonry by Albert Churchward, 1920 A.D.. It was Azazel, it must be noted, who taught manking the blacksmith’s art. In Egyptian hieroglyphs a ‘neter’ [a god] was symbolized by an axe) Another symbol of Azazel is the Watchtower, as it is from such an exalted edifice the Greek god Bacchus (who represented Azazel) was said to watch over the grape vines from which he made his wine. See also the Greek Magical Papyrus [PDM xiv.554-62] which states: “…the Temple of Osiris (Behemoth/Azazel), my Watch-Tower.” As we learn from the early church father Athenagoras: “‘Osiris is named Dionysos by the Greeks.’ And Bacchus is but another name for Dionysos. I will do for you according to the Voice of Isis, the Magician, the Lady of Magic, who Bewitches everything, who is Never Bewitched in her Name of Isis, the Magician.” Azazel is also associated with the Tower of Babel beneath which he lays entrapped (See Hidden Truths: A History of the World from Beginning to End by John of the Gentiles). Azazel (as Horus) is also represented as a ‘point within a circle.’
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The death of St. George, the patron saint of England, is depicted on St. George’s Collegiate Church in Tübingen (erected no doubt by Freemasons). Note the eightpoint compass rose (x superimposed upon +), a symbol of Azazel (as well as the point within the circle). The rose is also a symbol of Azazel, hence the association of the “rose” with that of the eight-points of the compass. It is likely St. George represented Azazel. Many pagan gods were made into saints to ease their worshiper’s conversion to Christianity (the following selection is exemplary of this notion: “The Roman Church adopted the Angels and Archangels of the Celestial Allegory as its Saints, including Saint Bacchus (Bacchus represented the angel Azazel) and Saint Satan in place of Guardian Spirits that were once human beings (read: angels incarnate).” - Gnostic and Historic Christianity (Gerald Massey)). Note Azazel’s sign (x) in the form of an
equilateral cross in the decorative motif to the north of ‘St. George.’ Concedes C.F. Oldham (Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in London), in a book devoted to the history of serpent worship as universally encountered in nearly every ancient religion, entitled The Sun and the Serpent: “The legend of St. George and the Dragon, although it assumed its present shape in Christian times, was probably founded upon an older story.” The story concerns, of course, the fallen angel Azazel. Indeed, one astrological symbol of the stately planet named in honor of the Horned-God Saturn who represented Azazel was such a mounted horseman with lance (See Astrology, p.61, Louis MacNeice, 1964 A.D.); no doubt this symbol was also a symbol of Azazel. As we learn from Wikipedia: “The Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest order of chivalry, or knighthood, existing in England, founded in 1348. The Order is dedicated to the image and arms of St. George (who represented Azazel) as England's patron saint.” Gerald B. Gardner explains the establishment of the Order of the Garter was in this way: “It is said that King Edward III saved one witch from certain torture at that famous incident to which the origin of the Order of the Garter was
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ascribed. He was dancing with the Countess of Salisbury (she was a high priestess in a witches coven) when she dropped the ritual Garter (as Gardner explains: “the garter is a badge of rank among witches”) which proclaimed her high rank in the cult. With Bishops about this was dangerous, so the King, knowing what it was (it being the witches symbol denoting ones rank as high-priestess in a witches coven), picked it up and put it on his own leg, saying: 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' (which translates as: "shame upon him who thinks evil upon it")…The King's quickness saved the situation (as the Bishops would have tortured her and burnt her at the stake, the penalty for being a witch) and placed him almost in the position of their incarnate god in the eyes of his more pagan subjects. This was followed by the foundation of an Order of twelve Knights for the King and twelve for the Prince of Wales, i.e. twenty-six members in all, or two (witches) covens” - Witchcraft Today, 1954 A.D. Gardner therein poses the following question: “In this connection, can anyone tell me exactly what is the meaning of the double SS on the collar of the Garter?” SRIA member Hargrave Jennings provides the answer in The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries (p. 119): “the British golden collar of “S.S.” (worn on the collar of a Knight of the Order of the Garter) which is worn as a relic of the oldest day (in perpetuation of a mythos long ago buried (a nod to the fact that Azazel is currently interred within the earth)…and forgotten in the dust of ages) by some of our (British) officials, courtly and otherwise…belongs to no known order of knighthood, but only to the very highest order of knighthood, the Magian, or to Magic.” It is the sign of Azazel, the god of magic, the horned-god of the witches, the original Mage himself. (One such example of an Order of the Garter ceremonial magician is the Wizard Earl Henry Percy (1564 – 1632 A.D.). Percy prospered under Elizabeth I but was relegated to the Tower of London by the pious James I) The following red-cross on white background is the symbol of the Order of the Garter (note also the quartered-circle design):
Azazel has left his mark the world over!
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Appendix B All high-degree Freemasonic magic groups invoke the rebellious fallen angels, including the angels Satan and Azazel. No wonder membership in the fraternal organizations of Freemasonry is condemned by the Roman Catholic Church with membership in such an organization being considered a “grave” and mortal sin. As a matter of fact, the Catholic Church considers Freemasonry to be a conspiratorial organization hostile to the Church and its doctrines. Pope Leo, in his Encyclical Letter dated April 20, 1884 A.D., Humanus Genus (On Freemasonry), describes Freemasonry and Freemasonic Organizations as being a “foul plague,” and that people should “tear the mask from Freemasonry…to let it be seen as it really is,” and “as our predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect…as the whole principle and object of the sect lies in what is vicious and criminal, to join with these men or in any way to help them cannot be lawful,” and that ones association in such a group is regarded by the Church as being a “grave sin,” in that “these evil sects, in which is revived the contumacious (rebellious) spirit of the demon…Satan…together with his unsubdued perfidy (deliberate treachery) and deceit.” The letter states that “at this period, the partisans of evil (the divided magic-practicing groups of the different nations of the world) seem to be combining together (into a magic confederacy of sorts), and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the Freemasons…that this Apostolic See denounced the sect of the Freemasons, and publicly declared its constitution, as contrary to law and right, to be pernicious no less to Christendom than to the State,” and “that it is against the Church that the rage and the attack of the enemies are principally directed.” It also states that “its (Freemasonry’s) ultimate purpose…(is) the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced (read: the Old World Order), and the substitution of a new state of things (read: a New World Order) in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism,” and that “the fundamental doctrine of the naturalists…is that the human nature and human reason ought in all things to be mistress and guide,” that “they 476
(Freemason’s) deny that anything has been taught by God.” It is the Church’s belief “their ultimate purpose” is “the utter overthrow of that whole religious and political order of the world which the Christian teaching has produced, and the substitution of a new state of things (a New World Order) in accordance with their ideas, of which the foundations and laws shall be drawn from mere naturalism.” The Church says “they (Freemasons)…teach the great error of this age— that a regard for religion should be held as an indifferent matter, and that all religions are alike.” He speaks of course of the teachings of the Theosophical Society. As an affirmation to past denunciations of Freemasonry by the Roman Catholic Church, including condemnations by at least nine different popes in seventeen different pronouncements, and at no less than six Church councils, in the “Declaration on Masonic Associations,” signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who is now the current pope) with the approval of Pope John Paul II and dated November 26, 1983 A.D., states that “the Church’s negative judgment in regard to Masonic organizations remains unchanged, since their principles have always been considered irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church, and, therefore, membership in them remains forbidden. The faithful, who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin…” Indeed, speaking out against the supposed infallibility of the popes as set forth by the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility, eminent Freemason Albert Pike states: “No man (or body of men can be infallible, and authorized to decide what other men shall believe, as to any tenet of faith.” (See Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike (circa. 1871 A.D.)). (On June 30, 1990 A.D. at Catholic University, in Washington, D.C., Father Robert J. Bradley stated: “Masonry is Secular Humanism incarnate. Masonry is also Satanism incarnate.”)
The Roman Catholic Church’s condemnation of Freemasonry is not unique in the annals of Christian history. Several Protestant churches, organizations and Christian ministries such as the Church of England and the Southern Baptist convention also reject various Freemasonic teachings as incompatible to the doctrines of Christianity. The Roman Catholic Church has warred against those Masonic organizations at odds with itself from the beginning, the most notable group being the Knights Templars of the 13th Century A.D. We must 477
not forget, America was founded by a group of persecuted pilgrims, victimized by a Roman Catholic Church which allowed no variance from their stated beliefs. America was from the beginning peopled by enemies of the Roman Catholic Church. America became a Mecca for those persecuted for religious reasons, the vast majority victims of the Roman Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Inquisition established to combat the growth of Protestantism and magic practices. Amongst this population were many Freemasons (indeed, 50 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were known Freemasons). Freemasons became affluent and influential, thriving in early America and throughout its generations up until today, at such time as their authority has reached its peak, a power unsurpassed in all the annals of the world, while during this same period the Roman Catholic Church has seen its supremacy increasingly wane. Is it any surprise their Freemasonic descendants should be bent on the Church’s destruction? Many current Freemasons unknowingly (and some knowingly) do the bidding of Satan and Azazel. The Skull and Bones (which derives its name from the flag flown by ships of the Knights Templar group which sought the overthrow of the power of the Roman Catholic Church, an organization which the champions of the Church itself later destroyed), an organization of which many prominent American politicians of today enjoy membership, including ex-American President George W. Bush, is a Masonic organization, a secret-society in the grand old tradition. Many prominent American politicians throughout the history of the United States (including crucial members of our Founding Fathers, George Washington included; many of America’s Founding Fathers were in effect transplanted English Freemasons of the very highest-order) are or have been Freemasons, including ex-President George H. W. Bush (George H. W. Bush has received an honorary knighthood by the British Government as Knight Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath which was awarded to him in 1993 A.D.), who once proudly announced the establishment of the Freemasonic New World Order, the ultimate goal mentioned in the quasi-Masonic Rosicrucian Fama Fraternitis (as opposed to the Old Word Order headed by the Roman Catholic Church). The number of Freemasons in the United States today numbers in the millions; many are oblivious to their complicity with fallen angels. Others have willingly joined them in their rebellion against God. 478
Appendix C Ancient Descriptions of the Cherubim In the sacred text of the Babylonians, The Seven Evil Spirits (the Maskim), we find descriptions of the cherubim of the angels. They are called: “Raging storm, evil gods are they, ruthless demons, who in heaven’s vault (in the Majestic Glory) were created, are they (the cherubim). Workers of evil are they, they lift up the head to evil, every day to evil destruction to work.” The seven cherubim of which they speak are identified as being “messengers,” the very definition of the word ‘angels.’ The cherubim are also in this work analogized by the Babylonians as “horses,” a common symbol for the cherubim in The Bible. The cherubim in The Seven Evil Spirits are described as “A hurricane (which spins), which mightily hunts in the heavens, are they, thick clouds, that bring darkness in heaven…gusts of wind rising, which cast gloom over the bright day, with the Imkhullu the evil wind, forcing their way…mighty destroyers, are they…In the height of heaven, like lightning flashing…to wreak destruction forward go they, in the broad heaven…evilly do they arise, and none to oppose…From the heaven (from the Majestic Glory), like a wind, over the land they (the cherubim) rush…The seven evil gods, death-dealing, fearless are they, the seven evil gods, like a flood, rush on, the land they fall upon, do they, against the land, like a storm, they rise…Neither male nor female are they. Destructive whirlwinds are they (the seven cherubim).” These Babylonian descriptions have Biblical parallels because they all describe the same objects, the cherubim. The seven evil spirits are the seven cherubim of the seven angels who stand in the presence of God (the seven spirits of God). Or at least they did before Satan’s rebellion. The cherubim, who wrought destructive judgments from God upon them, were considered evil gods by the erring Babylonians who in rituals involving fornication worshipped the rebellious fallen angel Azazel, known to Babylonians as the god Tammuz, and Azazel’s human wife, known as the goddess Ishtar, worshipping the angels and their human wives as gods and goddesses. Satan also continuously contested the Babylonian’s worthiness as members of mankind to supplant the angels as heirs to God’s promised kingdom in the angels’ stead. As related in the Biblical Book of Job, Job was from Babylon and he suffered from the very same treatment (See Job 1:6-22 through Job 2:1-8), being in a like way detrimentally and destructively tested by Satan as related in the Book of Job (the following is exemplary: “The fire of God is fallen from heaven (originating from Satan’s cherub), and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them…” - Job 1:16 (KJV)). It must also be noted that both the prophets Daniel and Ezekiel experienced their cherubic visitations as residents of Babylon, though these were of the angels who were loyal to God. In the Mithraic literary work (Mithraism was popular amongst the legioners of the Roman army) known as “The Great Magical Papyrus of Paris” a cherub is described as a “Heavenly Wheel” which would “hurl thunder and thunderbolts, earthquakes and lightning against the race of the impious.” From the judgmental destruction these cherubim meted out comes the Roman conception of the Wheel of 479
Fortune. The Wheel of Fortune (Rota Fortunae), or more specifically, the Wheel of the Roman goddess Fortuna (her Greek counterpart is Tyche. They are both one and the same. Fortuna is mentioned in Isaiah 65:11), esoterically represents Azazel’s cherub Behemoth, within which Azazel and his human wife are entrapped within the earth. Fortuna was one of the many names by which the human wife of the incarnate angel Azazel was known. That the Wheel of Fortune represents a cherub is evidenced by the esoteric teachings of the Tenth Major Arcana of the Egyptian Tarot (The Tarot is alternatively known as The Book of Thoth. Thoth is an Egyptian name for Azazel) where the Wheel of Fortune is therein associated with the four faces of a cherub, namely, the man, the lion, the eagle and the ox. The “living creatures,” which is to say, the cherubim described in Ezekiel 1:10-11 are also similarly adorned, each having upon them four divisions of “four faces.” The Wheel of Fortune of the Tarot is similarly depicted with four such divisions. Both examples represent a cherub. The Mithraic literary work known as “The Great Magical Papyrus of Paris” invokes Azazel/Behemoth as “the great Sun God Mithras” and his human wife under the name ‘Fortune’ (Fortune being the translation from the Greek of pronoia kai tyche, ‘pronoia’ being a known epithet of the goddess Athena who represented the human wife of the angel Azazel, and Tyche being the name of the goddess whose Roman equivalent was Fortuna, both goddesses likewise representing the angel Azazel’s human wife. The Wheel of Fortune represented Azazel’s cherub Behemoth. This magical work speaks of Behemoth when it speaks of the “Heavenly Wheel” (which like Ezekiel’s description of the cherubim as being “whirling wheels” (See Ezekiel 10:6,13), it being disk-shaped, and that this “Heavenly Wheel” was said to “turn” (spin) on its “Axis”). Descriptions of the Wheel of Fortune, memorialized in Shakespeare’s Henry V as “Fortune’s wildly spinning wheel,” and described in the Burana Codex in a poem called “Fortune, the Empress of the World” as being a “malevolent” “whirling wheel” echo the Book of Ezekiel in its description of the cherubim as being “whirling wheels” (See Ezekiel 10:13). The word ‘Fortuna’ is derived from the Latin word ‘vortumna,’ meaning ‘turner,’ or that which ‘turns/revolves.’ It was believed by the Romans that the fickle Fortuna decided one’s fate (the secret Yale society of the Skull and Bones employs a similar concept when it spins a wheel of fortune when deciding a participants’ fate—whether one is to become a Senator, a President, etc. Members, hailing from rich influential families then work to make it so. George W. Bush was such an initiate before he was the Decider, which in itself explains so very much). The Papyrus of Ani from the Egyptian Book of the Dead Plate XXIX equates fate/fortune with Osiris/Behemoth: “I am fate and Osiris.” Indeed, as we learn from Wikipedia, the word: “sorcery was taken in ca. 1300 from Old French sorcerie, which is from Vulgar Latin *sortiarius, from sors "fate", apparently meaning "one who influences fate."” In Egypt, Azazel was alternately known as Tahuti, who was also known as Thoth (cognate with Tahuti), the god of magic. A sorcerer is a practitioner of magic. Azazel was a determiner of fates, a sorcerer, a god of magic (compare the prefix Du- of the words Dudael/Duidain (where the god of magic Azazel was said to be entrapped within the earth) to Du’a, an Islamic word which means ‘to call/to summon.’ In magic parlance this denotes an invocation. Practitioners of magic invoke the fallen angels. Related to this is the word Druid (compare to Duidain), well known practitioners of magic who summoned the fallen angels during their magic
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In the Babylonian work, Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, we also are provided with eyewitness accounts of a description of a cherub. It describes “a storm” (a cherub) whose “good bright metal, stepped down from heaven to the great earth (it descended and landed on the ground). His head (the top of the cherub) shines with brilliance, the barbed arrows flash past him like lightning…” It also goes on to describe a sight witnessed by a group of “young men,” who saw what they described as a “shield (a dome-shaped cherub) standing on the ground,” “resting among the cypresses,” in a grove, or forest, which began “rising up from the horizon” and which “extended his holy, shining rays down from heaven.” It goes on to describe the cherub’s illuminating “brilliance,” and how it “hovered” in the sky nearby. Concealing itself amongst the cypress trees by definition marks its pilot as an angel of the forest. A shield is sometimes used to symbolize a cherub. For greater in-depth details, as well as a study of Biblical descriptions of the cherubim of the angels, see Evildoer Added to Evildoer: The Story of Satan, Azazel and the Rebellious Angels by John of the Gentiles.
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Appendix D The History of Freemasonry (From: The Provincial Grand Lodge of Buckinghamshire website) circa. 2011 A.D.) (HRH = His Royal Highness) Note the Royal Association with High-Degree Masonry which involves the practice of ceremonial magic, invoking fallen angels. 18th Century 1717 Grand Lodge convened. Anthony Sayer becomes Grand Master. 'First Assembly' of the Grand Lodge, 24 June. 1723 Book of Constitutions published. Secretary to Grand Lodge first appointed. 1729 Grand Stewards first appointed. 1730 Duke of Norfolk, Grand Master, presented sword of Gustavus Adolphus to Grand Lodge. 1751 Atholl or Ancient Grand Lodge formed. 1765 HRH Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, initiated, 27 July. 1766 HRH Prince William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, initiated, passed and raised, 16 February. 1767 HRH Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, initiated, passed and raised, 16 February. Charter of Compact under which the Grand Chapter was constituted, signed 22 July. 1771 3rd Duke of Atholl installed Grand Master, Antient Grand Lodge. 1773 Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London committee appointed. 1775 Freemasons' Hall foundation stone laid. 1776 Freemasons' Hall dedicated. 1782 HRH Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn elected Grand Master. 1786 HRH Prince William Henry (later King William IV) initiated 9 March. 1787 HRH George, Prince of Wales (afterwards Prince Regent and George IV) initiated, 6 February. 1788 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls founded. 1789 HRH Prince Edward Augustus (later Duke of Kent and Strathearn), initiated 5 August 1791 HRH Prince George, Prince of Wales (later Prince Regent and George IV), installed as Grand Master, May. 1793 HRH Prince William Frederick (later 2nd Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh), initiated 12 May 1796 HRH Prince Ernest Augustus (later Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and King Ernest I of Hanover), initiated 11 May. 1798 HRH Prince Augustus Frederick (afterwards Duke of Sussex), initiated 20 December. Royal Masonic Institution for Boys founded. 19th Century 1813 HRH Duke of Kent elected Grand Master. HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, elected Grand Master of the Atholl or Antients Grand Lodge. Both Grand Masters signed the Articles of Union on 25 November, subsequently ratified by each constitution on 1 December. Both signed the Warrant of the Lodge of Reconciliation on 7 December. HRH Duke of Sussex elected Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, 27 December. 1814 HRH Duke of Sussex installed as Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, 2 May. 1815 Constitutions of the United Grand Lodge published.
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1817 Union of the Grand Chapter with Antient Royal Arch Masons, 18 March. 1830 Charity Jewel instituted. William IV became Grand Patron. 1842 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution founded. 1843 Duke of Sussex died. Fund in his memory started in his memory and devoted to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, London. 1852 Queen Victoria became patroness of the Masonic Boys' School. 1868 HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), initiated in Sweden, 21 December. 1874 HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), elected Grand Master. 1875 HRH the Prince of Wales installed at the Royal Albert Hall as Grand Master, 28 April. 1880 Foundation stone of Truro Cathedral laid by the Prince of Wales, Grand Master. 1882 Queen Victoria became Chief Patroness of the Masonic Girls' School. 1885 HRH Prince Albert Victor (later Duke of Clarence and Avondale), initiated 21 March. 20th Century 1910 George V became Grand Patron of the three Masonic institutions. Queen Mary became Grand Patroness and Queen Alexandra Chief Patroness of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls. 1917 Bi-centenary of the United Grand Lodge of England. 1919 HRH Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor), initiated 2 May. HRH Prince Albert, (later Duke of York and George VI), Initiated, 21 December. Appeal for a Masonic Peace Memorial and subsequent Establishment of the Masonic Million Memorial Fund. 1921 Hall Stone Lodge Medals first conferred, 7 December. 1927 Foundation stone of Peace Memorial Building at Great Queen Street laid (by electrical connection) in the Royal Albert Hall. 1928 HRH Prince George (later Duke of Kent), initiated 12 April. 1933 George V, accompanied by Queen Mary, opened the new Freemasons' Hospital and Nursing Home, later named, by Royal authority, the Royal Masonic Hospital. 1934 Visit to the Masonic Peace Memorial by George V and Queen Mary. 1937 George VI invested as Past Grand Master at the Royal Albert Hall. 1939 HRH Duke of Kent installed as Grand Master by George VI, at Olympia, 19 July. 1942 HRH Duke of Kent killed on active service, 25 August. 1943 Earl of Harewood installed as Grand Master by George VI, at Freemasons' Hall, London. 1953 HRH Duke of Edinburgh initiated, 5 December. 1963 HRH Duke of Kent initiated, 16 December. 1966 Bi-Centenary of Supreme Grand Chapter. 1967 HRH Duke of Kent elected Grand Master. 250th anniversary of United Grand Lodge of England. Trust fund set up for surgical research under the direction of the Royal College of Surgeons. 1974 HRH Prince Michael of Kent initiated, 13 March. 1975 Masonic Housing Association registered as an exempt charity. 1980 Grand Charity established. 1986 Physical penalties removed from Obligations, 11 June. 1990 New Masonic Samaritan Fund established. 1992 275th anniversary of Grand Lodge held at Earls Court.
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