--- Begin Message ---
http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=75265&t=75249
SATAN�S CALLING CARD SEPTEMBER 11: A DATE TO REMEMBER. By
Robert G. Bauval
[Preface: The author does not believe that an actual
�Masonic� conspiracy exists. What the author does, however,
believe is that there is much to support the contention that
radical Arab and Judeo-Christian fundamentalists may
actually believe there is such a conspiracy.]
Your Place or Mine?
Historical events are fixed by the time and place they
occurred. And this, as we all know, is expressed in a
calendar date and the name of location. On face value, this
appears obvious enough. After all, I was born on the 5th
March 1948 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 textbook 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 calendar systems or by
the �reigns� of such and such a kings and suchlike methods,
presenting a nightmarish confusion for the chronologist. As
for the location�s name, that, too, is given in different
languages often leading to totally wrong conclusions. Think
of the Arc of the Covenant or Noah�s Ark and you�ll get the
picture.
There is, too, the possibility that certain locations are,
in a sense, chosen for symbolic reasons. Think of the
terrorist attacks on the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
in 1998, which were almost certainly masterminded by Ossama
Bin Laden�s Al Qaeda organisation. In the minds of the
terrorists these bombings were, of course, attacks on the
�United States� and thus, in a sense, projected elsewhere to
geographical locations either arbitrarily or for strategic
convenience. But wait, this surely does not apply to the
11th September attacks on American soil? These attacks were
clearly aimed at 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 calendar. For the Islamic calendar
this date fell on the 23rd Jumaada Al Thani of the year 1422
A.H. (Anno Hegirah); for the Ethiopian calendar it was the
1st Meskerem of the year 7501; in the Coptic (Christian
Egyptian) calendar 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
September of the Gregorian calendar (except on leap years,
where an extra day is added). But check this out: in the
year 1999 of the Gregorian calendar, the �11th September�
marked not only the Coptic and Ethiopian �New Year� but 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 but 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 Egyptian going as far back as
3000 BC. The ancient Egyptian civic calendar, probably
established in the forth millennium 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
principles 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 of Sirius, a
star sacred to the goddess Isis, which originally occurred
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 � day difference as well
as a small variance between the sidereal year and the
tropical year, this calendar slowly got out of synch from
the true astronomical events such as the heliacal rising of
Sirius and the summer solstice, such that by the early
Christian times the 1st of Thoth had �drifted� to the 11th
September Gregorian, which is why the Egyptian-Coptic �New
Year� i.e. 1st of Thoot, starts on that date.
Fine so far.
But what all this has calendar stuff got to do with the 11th
September attacks?
Peace Treaty In September 1999 a long-awaited peace treaty,
known as WYE II, was signed between the PLO Chairman 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 11 September 1999. The actual 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 WYEE II agreement was so named because it followed the
so-called Wye I negotiations that begun on the 9th and 10th
September 1993 by an secret exchange of private letters
between PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin. These letters 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 had been unofficially
represented in the Palestinian Delegation established under
the so-called Madrid formula, was to be recognised 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 recognised 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
into effect on the 11th September 1999. To many radical
Islamic fundamentalists and, to be fair, to many radical
Jewish fundamentalists, the peace treaty was seen as a
terrible betrayal of the worse possible kind and it probably
was the main cause of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in
1995.
Not surprisingly, 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 �The
Day of Atonement�. But the Jewish �New Year� has a much
deeper meaning to orthodox Jews. It is associated to the
Messianic Age, and many Jews today actually believe that it
will 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
prophecies but also, apparently, because some believe the
true �star of Bethlehem� appeared to the Magi on the 11th
September 3 BC in the east, when a bright light was seen at
the conjunction of the �star of kings�, Regulus, and the
�planet 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
incorporated in the construction history of the US Pentagon,
one of the terrorists� most coveted targets in 2001. Any
self-respecting employees of the US Pentagon will quickly
tell you these days that the �ground breaking� ceremony took
place on 11th September 1941 during the presidency of
Franklin D. Roosevelt. This �dual� dating tag that is now
forever locked in the annals of the US Pentagon is too much
of a coincidence to 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? But why? Let�s take a closer look. 1941
was, of course, the year that the US entered World War II.
September 11, 2001 is an attempt to drawn the United States
into a �World War III�. So far, there seems to be some
�sense� in making this link. But how does President
Roosevelt himself fit in this �message�? What has 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 Scottish
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 great men were perceived to have created: the
modern State of Israel.
In this respect, the �32nd and 33rd degrees� bear a curious
relevance to all this.
Let us see why.
A Question of Degrees
The Scottish Rite, which belongs to an elite branch of
Freemasonry known as the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree,
was founded in 1801 at the city of Charleston in South
Carolina. Its origins 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� Freemasonry 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 the new Christian �Kingdom of Jerusalem� was
placed under the protection the Christian knights, mostly
Knights Templar, who had sworn a 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 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 surprising then, the
rituals of Scottish rite Freemasonry are Judeo-Christian and
those of the top degrees between the 30th and the 33rd are
intensely �Templar� inasmuch as they advocate the symbolic
�rebuilding� of the Temple of Solomon.
Today, where once stood this much-fantasised Temple of
Solomon, are to be seen the Mosque of Omar and the Mosque of
Al Aqsa, two very sacred Muslim shrines and where the
Prophet Mohamad is believed to have ascended to heaven. To
put it mildly, the Temple Mound in Jerusalem is Islam�s most
venerated place, some saying even more sacred than the Kaaba
at Makka. 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 Scottish Rite.
Central to the Scottish Rite rituals are the so-called
Masonic �Tracing Boards�, which are usually a sort of sheet
placed on the floor of the lodge on which can be seen
various symbols representing the Temple of Solomon, the most
prominent being two tall pillars, called Jachin and Boaz,
leading to a five-pointed star or pentagonal altar known as
the �Blazing Star�.
The �Blazing Star� symbolises �Light� and was sometimes
identified to �Lucifer�, which is very unfortunate, for it
was not meant in this context to be seen in the malevolent
sense that this name generally evokes today, but rather to
the classical �Lucce-Ferre� (Lucifer) which means �Bringer
of Light� or the �Morning Star� of the Romans i.e. Venus,
and 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 of �Great Satan� allocated
by radical Arabs to the United States and it leaders. But to
be fair, this �Satanic� link, although of course wrong, is
not altogether surprising to see. 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 know 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 32 degree rituals of the Scottish Rite (the 33rd is
a title an 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 they make up the 32
Paths.
The same idea, interestingly enough, is also found in the
modern esoteric Tarot Cards, which were invented in the
1770s by a Scottish Rite Freemason in Paris, Court de
Gebelin. But here is a curious thing: the 31th, 32nd and
33rd degrees, which are the most crucial to the �rebuilding�
of the Temple of Solomon, also are found in the actual
geographical latitudes or parallels that encompass the
modern State of Israel. Modern Israel is, in fact,
contained, as it were, between those latitudes. Indeed, the
32nd degree parallel passes 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, in
fact, the 33rd degree parallel passes almost right through
it. Coincidence? Perhaps. But there is more. On some
certificates of the Scottish Rite 33rd degree, the actual
geographical latitude given in degrees is shown alongside
the name and location of the issuing lodge indicating,
perhaps, some sort of mystical connection between the
�Degree� rituals and the geographical latitude �degree� of
the lodge. One can easily see, therefore, how radical Muslim
fanatics might perceive the creation of the modern State of
Israel which they believe was masterminded in secret deals
between the Zionist Organisation and F.D. Roosevelt and
Harry Truman in the 1940s.
The Source 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 he immediately joined the famous and very
influential Nine sisters Lodge in Paris. Also members of
this lodge are said to have been the hero of the American
War of Independence the marquis de Lafayette, the future US
President Thomas Jefferson, and the future leaders of the
French Revolution, George Danton and Jean-Paul Marat. Also
at the Nine Sisters lodge were registered the inventor of
the Tarot cards Court de Gebelin, the celebrated astronomer
Gerome de Lalande, and the mathematician Gaspard Monge.
Now this is most interesting: 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 framed on the ancient Egyptian
prototype and may have been masterminded at the Nine Sisters
lodge itself. It was also at this time that Court de Gebelin
made the link between the �Blazing Star� of the Freemasons
with the five-pointed star, the symbol of Sirius, the �star
of Isis� and on which the original ancient Egyptian calendar
was based.
Eerily, 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. We shall see later how
this symbol crops up in the 11th September attacks. Now
Court de Gebelin, as all scholars at the time, knew that the
original Egyptian calendar had been fixed on the first dawn
rising of the star Sirius (the Egyptian �New Year�), which
took place at the summer solstice, 21 June according to the
Gregorian calendar. But when Gebelin�s made this connection
with the Masonic and Tarotic �Star�, 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 dates into the Gregorian dates
had, in fact, been imposed by Pope Gregory XIII in October
1582 but, in fact, was not adopted in the American colonies
until 1752, by coincidence the same year that George
Washington was initiated in Freemasonry at Fredericksburg.
According to the old Julian calendar the 21 June was no
longer the summer solstice but, instead, fell on the 4th
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. The question is not whether this happened or not.
The question is whether some Anti-Masons and fanatics think
it happened.
Shangri La
It has been seriously suggested by the US Pentagon that one
of the �aborted� targets of the 11th September 2001 attacks
may have been the famous presidential Camp David, in
Maryland. �Camp David� is, to say the least, a name very
evocative of �Camp Temple Solomon� of the original Knights
Templar. David, in the Bible, was Solomon�s father and first
�king of Israel�. In the New Testament Jesus is said to be
of the �line of David�. But to the Arabs �Camp David� has
another, more political, connotation. It is, above all else,
the place where the Egyptian President, Anwar Al Sadat and
Israeli Prime Minister, Menahim Begin, signed the first
peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on the 17th September
1978.
The original name of �Camp David� was, in fact, Shangri La,
when it was first established by President F.D. Roosevelt in
1941-2. It was 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 US presidents since F.D.
Roosevelt created the �camp, and where many have come to
�see the whole world very clearly during times of conflict
and strife.�
To Arab and especially Egyptian fanatics, however, �Camp
David� is remembered as the place where Sadat �betrayed� the
Muslim people --so much so, that this vilification
eventually cost Sadat his life in October 1981. The
circumstances of Sadat�s assassination on 6th October 1981,
when a group of fanatical army officers opened fire on him
and his quests during the �Victory� over the Yom Kippur 1973
war, bears all the hallmark of the 11th September attack.
Camp David then, was, quite obviously, a very high
target-potential for those who masterminded the 11th
September 2001 attacks.
All this may imply that there might have been an undetected
�fifth� target also �aborted� on 11th September 2001. Let us
see why.
The Woman with the Star
We have seen how the so-called 32 Paths or �degrees� of
enlightenment were associated with the �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 star on her head. Often the
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�, shows the so-called �goat of Mendes� (i.e.
Satan) on whose forehead is placed a five-pointed star
�Blazing Star� or pentagon.
In view of the striking imagery of these triad series of the
Tarot cards when compared to the actual targets of 11th
September 2001, it would be foolish to discount a possible
link with the state of mind of the fanatical terrorists that
hatched this abominable plan. For when we project these
Tarot images on the actual geographical landscape of the
11th September attacks, we can easily correlate two of the
target areas: the �Tower� Card with the WTC in New York
City, and the �Satan-Pentagon� Card with the US Pentagon in
Washington DC, the HQ of the �Great Satan� in the mind of
the terrorists.
But assuming we are reading this gruesome �message�
correctly, then there should also be the �women with the
star� in this bizarre scheme. More precisely, this symbol
should be seen somewhere on the �other side� of the WTC
towers. And so when we look for this symbol there, well
there she is, the Statue of Liberty: a �women� wearing a
�star� on her head. What, if any, could be the connection
with our analysis so far? Firstly, the cornerstone ceremony
for the Statue of Liberty was conducted in 1884 by the
Masonic lodges of New York, including the Scottish Rite. So
far so good. But if this is match perfectly with the
gruesome imagery of the Tarot traid, then there should also
be an association between the Statue of Liberty and the
�Blazing Star�, the Tarot �Star� and, consequently, the
�star of Isis� Sirius. Absurd? Surely there is no possibly
connection here?
Well, odd enough, there is. For the Statue of Liberty, when
it was designed by the French sculptor Bartholdi in the
1860s and built by the French Engineer, Gustave Eiffel (both
men were well-known Freemasons), was not originally a
�Statue of Liberty� at all, but originally intended 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, consequently, it has often been
suggested that he had at first imagined the statue�s
prototype in Egypt to be a giant effigy of the goddess Isis
but only later converted it to a �Statue of Liberty� for New
York harbour when the idea was rejected by the Egyptian
Khedive due to lack of funds. Another factor to consider
here is that during the French Revolution, many celebrations
had taken place in honour of �Liberty�, with one notable
celebration at the Place de la Bastille in 1793 where a huge
statue of �Isis� representing �Liberty and Reason�, was
raised. So bearing all this mind, and in view of Barthlodi�s
involvement with �Egyptian rituals� and Masonic affiliation
and thus his familiarity with association of the �Isis� with
�Liberty�, the star that was placed on the statue�s head
could well-have been regarded as Sirius, that special star
whose rising in ancient times in Egypt had marked the
�Beginning� of a Messianic age.
By a weird and fateful fluke, this �Beginning� had now had
now moved to the �11th September� of the Coptic-Egyptian
calendar due to the �drift� in the calendar. Worse; it had
�drifted� to the �Dau of Infamy� of PLO-Israeli 1999 peace
treaty which, again by fluke, had coincided with the Jewish
and Coptic �New Years�. Bearing in mind that Anwar Al Sadat
and Mehahim Begin at �Camp David� were attempting to bring
together the three major religion of Islam, Christianity and
Judaism, then this new �Day of Infamy� of 11th September
2001 takes on a particular sinister meaning. Forever.
Was this in the mind of the fanatics who planned this
attack? Was there in their midlst people who could know all
these links and symbolism?
Mystical ideas as these involving Kabala, Tarot and so on
have been practiced by Muslim mystics for centuries. Indeed
they probably invented them. As for Knights
Templarism/Scottish Rite mystic, this is said to have also
originated in the Middle East and passed into Europe by the
Knights Templar through their close contacts with Muslim
sages during the Crusades. To put it in another way, for any
self-respecting Muslim sage, this �stuff� is kids stuff.
Indeed, we may only be gleaning at the outer layer of their
veiled �message�.
But the question, then, is: to whom are they sending the
�message�?
Who is talking to whom here?
Far fetched �theory�? Perhaps. But I do not think so.
Certainly not as far-fetched as the 11th September attacks.
Indeed, both bear the same hallmark of fanaticism.
But only �Time� will tell.
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
<FONT COLOR="#000099">Buy Stock for $4
and no minimums.
FREE Money 2002.
</FONT><A HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/ySSFAA/TySplB/TM";><B>Click
Here!</B></A>
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
--- End Message ---
