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Eight Masonic Roots: Christ, Solomon, or Baal?
Keith Harris
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Osiris Legend
Osiris was the chief god of Egypt, the son and husband of Isis. Osiris is said to have been killed by his
jealous brother Typhon by trickery. Osiris was nailed in a chest and cast into the Nile. Later, his dead
body was cast up at Byblos in Phoenicia and left at the foot of a Tamarind tree. Isis retrieved his body
only to lose it again to the jealous brother who then cut him into fourteen pieces, which he scattered
around the kingdom. Isis again went in search of Osiris and found all the body parts except the
phallus, which had been eaten by a crab in the Nile. Isis then made a phallus, which was to be sacred
(origin of the Obelisk).
She embalmed him thus claiming restoration and gave rise to the concept that the immortality of the
soul was dependent on the preservation of the body. Osiris was afterward known as the Lord of the
Underworld. He was also god of the sun and god of fertility, worshipped in orgiastic sex rituals.
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The following information tells us that the third degree ritual is not actually that of Hiram nor Christ,
but the epic of Osiris. Thus, in the Third Degree of Masonry, the initiate is actually entering into the
death, burial, and resurrection of Osiris. Speaking of the degree of "Knight of the Brazen Serpent",
Pike elaborated for us:
While it teaches the necessity of reformation as well as repentance, as a means of
obtaining mercy and forgiveness, it is also devoted to an explanation of the symbols of
Masonry; and especially to those which are connected with that ancient and universal
legend, of which that of Khir-Om Abi is but a variation; that legend which, representing
a drama which figure Osiris, Isis and Horus, . . . and many another representative of
active and passive powers of Nature, taught the Initiates in the Mysteries that the rule of
Evil and Darkness is but temporary, and that of Light and Good will be eternal. [Khir-
Om Abi is Hiram Abiff] (Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma, 435)
The "raised" candidate is stated as being raised into a philosophy of regeneration, or the new birth of
all things. In effect, he is becoming born again through the power of Masonry.
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