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Page 175<br />
Eight Mas<strong>on</strong>ic Roots: Christ, Solom<strong>on</strong>, or Baal?<br />
Keith Harris<br />
Page 181<br />
Osiris Legend<br />
Osiris was the chief god of Egypt, the s<strong>on</strong> and husband of Isis. Osiris is said to have been killed by his<br />
jealous brother Typh<strong>on</strong> by trickery. Osiris was nailed in a chest and cast into the Nile. Later, his dead<br />
body was cast up at Byblos in Phoenicia and left at the foot of a Tamarind tree. Isis retrieved his body<br />
<strong>on</strong>ly to lose it again to the jealous brother who then cut him into fourteen pieces, which he scattered<br />
around the kingdom. Isis again went in search of Osiris and found all the body parts except the<br />
phallus, which had been eaten by a crab in the Nile. Isis then made a phallus, which was to be sacred<br />
(origin of the Obelisk).<br />
She embalmed him thus claiming restorati<strong>on</strong> and gave rise to the c<strong>on</strong>cept that the immortality of the<br />
soul was dependent <strong>on</strong> the preservati<strong>on</strong> of the body. Osiris was afterward known as the Lord of the<br />
Underworld. He was also god of the sun and god of fertility, worshipped in orgiastic sex rituals.<br />
Pages 183-184<br />
The following informati<strong>on</strong> tells us that the third degree ritual is not actually that of Hiram nor Christ,<br />
but the epic of Osiris. Thus, in the Third Degree of Mas<strong>on</strong>ry, the initiate is actually entering into the<br />
death, burial, and resurrecti<strong>on</strong> of Osiris. Speaking of the degree of "Knight of the Brazen Serpent",<br />
Pike elaborated for us:<br />
While it teaches the necessity of reformati<strong>on</strong> as well as repentance, as a means of<br />
obtaining mercy and forgiveness, it is also devoted to an explanati<strong>on</strong> of the symbols of<br />
Mas<strong>on</strong>ry; and especially to those which are c<strong>on</strong>nected with that ancient and universal<br />
legend, of which that of Khir-Om Abi is but a variati<strong>on</strong>; that legend which, representing<br />
a drama which figure Osiris, Isis and Horus, . . . and many another representative of<br />
active and passive powers of Nature, taught the Initiates in the Mysteries that the rule of<br />
Evil and Darkness is but temporary, and that of Light and Good will be eternal. [Khir-<br />
Om Abi is Hiram Abiff] (Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, 435)<br />
The "raised" candidate is stated as being raised into a philosophy of regenerati<strong>on</strong>, or the new birth of<br />
all things. In effect, he is becoming born again through the power of Mas<strong>on</strong>ry.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Freemas<strong>on</strong>ry</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Trial</strong> -–Part Three<br />
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