Templar Edification

In the Royal and Select Masters Degrees we are introduced to Ahishar and Adoniram and their roles in teaching us the lessons that these two degrees have to offer. In the Royal Master degree we are introduced to Adoniram and the role he plays in teaching us about the death of Hiram Abiff and the Master’s word being lost. It is believed among individuals who are not Masons that Adoniram and Hiram Abiff are one in the same. Adoniram was a high ranking official in King Solomon’s court. He was responsible for overseeing the collection of taxes throughout Israel, a portion of which went into the building of King Solomon’s Temple. He was also responsible for and oversaw the labor force in the construction of the Temple. Adoniram was also responsible for acquiring and getting the resources needed for the Creation of the Temple to the Temple Mount. Adoniram is described in the Talmud as having great wisdom and dedication. He was the principal tax collector of Israel under King Solomon. He was a...

I have on my little finger one of the oldest and most widespread of esoteric symbols: the pentagram, or five-pointed star within a circle. I view this as something of a litmus test. The pentagram has been, at various points in history, a Jewish symbol, a Christian symbol, a sigil of Renaissance magic, a Masonic symbol, a Wiccan symbol, and last as well as least, a Satanic symbol. But it appears to have started with Pythagoras. Pythagoras lived and taught in the sixth century BC. He was born in Samos and settled in the Greek colony of Croton, modern day Calabria, where he founded his community. His teachings emphasized moderation, piety, health of body and soul, respect for elders and of the state, and monogamy. He believed in the transmigration [also known as metempsychosis, is the belief that the soul or non-physical essence of a living being continues its existence in a different physical form or body after biological death] of souls, opposed animal cruelty, and advocated for the ben...

References to the ‘Lion of Judah’ notwithstanding, as this is geared toward Christian specific bodies including Templary, many references remain quite important to all given the fact ‘Jesus’ was not named specifically in the time of Hiram Abif or the timeline of this story, beginning long before Jesus was born. At the time when premonitions of ‘a’ Savior were made by Founding Fathers of the Craft, the Lord’s Temple had yet to be completed. Please enjoy. Thank you. SK Eric Erfourth An excerpt from: Freemasonry and Catholicism By: Max Heindel - 1919 {the entirety of the book may be found in the public domain at  https://www.google.com/books/edition/Freemasonry_and_Catholicism/d0BIAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1  } Part IV. CASTING THE MOLTEN SEA “As the spiritual gifts of the Sons of Seth flowered in Solomon, the wisest of men, and enabled him to conceive and design a marvelous temple, according to the plan of his creator, Jehovah, so Hiram, the clever craftsman, embodied within himse...