Cydonia: Chapter Seventeen: The Future Tyrant of Tyre

The ultimate objective of such modern mystery school rituals as the Babalon Working of Parsons, and the Alamantra Working of Crowley, was to produce the age of the Antichrist, also called the Aeon of Horus. This future world religious leader--one who will be in touch with the former gods and their wisdom-- has been discussed in the ancient writings of many world cultures. Mayan prophecy claims Kukulkan, Mayan for "feathered serpent," will rule the earth at the end of the age. This prophecy was written 1500 A.D by a Mayan priest named Chilam Balam, who wrote the [1095] Book of the Jaguar Priest, translated later as the Book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin. Intriguingly, the noted mystery school adept Manly P. Hall, in the Secret Teachings of All Ages, claimed that the word for America came from Ameruka, another name for this mystical feathered serpent. Alberto Villoldo has catalogued Inca prophecies of the end of the age. Inca prophecy claims that Pachacuti (He Who Transforms the Earth) will come at the end of the world as we know it. Various writings of the Toltecs say that the demi-god Quetzalcoatl (the feathered serpent) will return, bringing a [1096] reign of peace, and the "advent of a new spiritual order." Hopi Indians of North America call the future great leader the Elder Brother. The oral traditions of the Navajo also warn of the end of the age, when a great chief from the east will come, wearing a [1097] headdress with twelve feathers. The early eleventh-century Indian texts Vimalaprabha, and in the Sekoddesa, explain that the Mahdi will be a future ruler or iman, descendent from Muhammad, who will lead the faithful to Jerusalem and [1098] unite the followers of Islam before the apocalypse that ends the world. These legends of a "future ruler" are consistent and widespread, seeming to diverge from one single source emphasizing a plan for the completion of time, and man's part in that plan. The common thread in these prophecies is some final event that will close all of mankind's relationship with the divine. This belief in a coming kingdom of God upon the earth was the ultimate theme of Hebrew scholars and prophets. Hebrew prophets and scholars of the Old Testament describe the future world ruler as the "Messiah." The Hebrew word for the messiah is moshiach, literally, "the anointed one." Judaism believes that their Messiah has not yet arrived, and they are still waiting for someone to fulfill that role. There have been false Messiahs in Jewish history. Two of the most notable were Bar Kochba and Shabbetai Zevi. Bar Kochba led a revolt against Rome in the years 132-135 C.E. During this revolt, one of the most famous figures in Jewish history, Rabbi Akiva, proclaimed him to be "King Messiah." Unfortunately, Bar Kochba, Akiva and many thousands of Jews were killed in 135 C.E. when the Romans stormed the stronghold of Betar. In Europe Shabbetai Zevi, 1626-76 was a self-proclaimed Messiah. He created the Shabbatean movement that spread through the Jewish communities of 17th- century Europe. However when Shabbetai Zevi was arrested in 1666 by the Sultan of Turkey, he converted to Islam rather [1099] than face death. These messianic imposters provided the Jewish communities of their day with the hope that oppression and rule by the gentiles would be ended by the power of God--a major qualification of the true Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew religious writings. But the error of these failed messianic revolts was in both timing and doctrine. The true Messiah would come first to pay for man's immortality, and then return at the time before the kingdom of God was finally established. The true Messiah of the Hebrew Old Testament was described in detail by all the major prophets. From the text of Isaiah 53 in particular the Messiah is shown as a Kinsman redeemer who came to take on himself the penalty for unrighteousness of mankind. This penalty was dictated to Moses by God in the books of the Law called the Torah. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Isaiah 53: 1,4-6,11 The description of the Messiah of Isaiah was written over 700 years before the birth of Jesus. Hebrew scholars of the Middle Ages interpreted this passage as a description of the Messiah. Jesus fulfilled this requirement of Messiah, creating (immortal) citizens of the future kingdom of God on earth, ruled by God in the form of a man. The first complete edition of the Babylonian Talmud that appeared at Venice (Bomberg), (12 vols.1520-23) states: The Messiah, what is his name?… The Rabbis say, The Leper Scholar, as it is said, surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him a leper, smitten of God and [1100] afflicted… (Soncino Talmud edition. Sanhedrin 98b) Another explanation of Ruth ii.14:--He is speaking of king Messiah; "Come hither, draw near to the throne; and eat of the bread," that is, the bread of the kingdom; "and dip thy morsel in the vinegar," this refers to his chastisements, as it is said, "But he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities." (Soncino Midrash Rabbah of The babylonian Talmud, [1101] vol. 8, p. 64) Many modern Jewish scholars and some ancient rabbis explain away the idea that this prophecy refers to a messiah and say that the sufferings described are those of the nation of Israel. However many ancient rabbis spoke of two Messiahs, one who was the "Son of David" and another who was the "Son of Joseph." Though one can find the suffering Davidic Messiah in many rabbinical writings, often a second Messiah is suggested, the "Son of Joseph" or "Son of Ephraim," who is the one who suffers while the Davidic Messiah conquers. The rabbis struggled with Biblical portraits of a suffering Messiah, as found in Isaiah 53 and other places, and descriptions of a conquering Messiah, also found in the Hebrew Bible, [1102] and decided there must be two Messiahs. The Hebrew scholar Raphael Patai, Professor of Anthropology at Dropsie, explains the two- messiah theory: When the death of the Messiah became an established tenet in Talmudic times, this was felt to be irreconcilable with the belief in the Messiah as Redeemer who would usher in the blissful millennium of the Messianic Age. The dilemma was solved by splitting the person of the Messiah in two: one of them, called Messiah ben Joseph, was to raise the armies of Israel against their enemies, and, after many victories and miracles, would fall victim to Gog and Magog. The other, Messiah ben David, will come after him (in some legends will bring him back to life, which psychologically hints at the identity of the two), and will lead Israel to the ultimate victory, the triumph, and the Messianic [1103] era of bliss. The difficulty experienced among Judaic scholars in believing in only one Messiah is due to His dual aspects of suffering, and also ruling. This is reconciled with the doctrine of the Messiah's two comings and two aspects of his ministry. The Messiah came the first time to provide atonement for sin. One day He will return to judge the earth and to bring in His kingdom in all its fullness. There has long been confusion surrounding the identity of the last false messiah spoken of in Daniel. Jewish scholars have interpreted the prophecy of Daniel concerning the "king who will come" as the Roman Emperor Titus Flavius, the general who led the destruction of the second temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD. But the description of the destruction of the second temple referred to only that event--at no other time in history could this event have occurred but 70 A.D. Jesus Christ made this prophecy: And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Luke 21:5-6 Jesus, the Messiah of Christianity in the Greek New Testament, was specific about the coming false messiah, the "man of perdition" who will set up in the holy place of the temple of Jerusalem the "abomination that makes desolate." Titus Flavius did not set up an idol or an "abomination" in the temple. In the book War of the Jews the historian Flavius Josephus recorded that Titus did not even manage to enter the temple because his soldiers set fire to it. After the fire the temple was knocked down. There were great quantities of gold and silver there that had been placed in the Temple for safekeeping. This melted and ran down between the rocks and into the cracks of the stones. When the soldiers captured the Temple area, in their greed to obtain this gold and silver they took long bars and pried apart the massive stones. It [Jerusalem with its walls] was so thoroughly laid even with the ground by those that dug it up to the foundation, that there was left nothing to make those that came thither believe it [Jerusalem] had ever been inhabited" (Josephus War VII.1,1). "I cannot but wish that we had all died before we had seen that holy city demolished by the hands of our enemies, or the foundations of our Holy Temple dug up, after so profane a manner. (Josephus War VII.8,7). Intriguingly, the Jewish scholars recognized that the future and final false messiah would be inexorably connected with Mars. In addition to the Judaic teaching that there are two messiahs, the ancient Jewish sages also wrote of a false messiah who would step into the world scene before the coming of the end of the age. In the Targum Yonathan, the anti-messiah took on a decidedly Martian identity. He was [1104] called "Armilus," a Hebraic term for Romulus. In the post-Talmudic Midrash (8th century YM), Pirkei-Ha-Mashiach, the false messiah is called, "Satan Armilus, whom the Gentiles call Antichrist." Targum Yonathan translated Isaiah / Yesha'yah 11:4 into Aramaic with the paraphrase: "…and with the speech of his lips he [Messiah] will slay the wicked Armilus." The Encyclopedia Judaica explains: This Armilus will deceive the whole world into believing he is God and will reign over the whole world. He will come with ten kings and together they will fight over Jerusalem… Armilus will banish Israel 'to the wilderness' and it will be a time of unprecedented distress for Israel; there will be increasing famine, and the Gentiles will expel the Jews from their lands, and they will hide in caves and towers… God will war against the host of Armilus… and there will be a great [1105] deliverance for Israel and the kingdom of Heaven will spread over all the earth." A quote from Midrash Azeret haSh'vatim (circa 466 CE) concerning the antichrist says: And after all this, Satan will descend and go to Rome [there he will have sexual relations with a famous stone statue of a magnificently beautiful woman. She will become pregnant and] give birth to Armilus- And he [Armilus] will issue evil decrees against Israel, and men of good deeds will cease while men of plunder will multiply. If Israel is worthy, Messiah ben David will sprout up in Upper [1106] Galilee and will go to Yerushalayim. The strategy of Armilus will be the persecution of all who remain faithful to the true messiah. This is vividly portrayed in two 12th century rabbinical works, T'fillat Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai, BhM 4:124- [1107] 126 and the apocalyptic midrash Otot haMashiach. Jewish anthropologist and Hebrew scholar Raphael Patai, Ph.D., combined these works in his book, The Messiah Texts: Armilus will go to Rome and say to them: "I am your Messiah, I am your god!" And he will mislead them and they will immediately believe in him, and make him their king. And all the [Romans] will gather and come to him and join themselves to him. And he will go and conquer and announce to all the countries and cities, saying, "Bring me my holy book which I gave you!" And the nations of the world will come and bring the book- and he [Armilus] will say to them: "This is the book which I gave you." And he tells the nations of the world: "Believe in me. I am your god, I am your Messiah and your god." And instantly they believe in him [Armilus will call for a delegation of Israel to meet with him. He will say to them:] "Bring me your Torah and testify to me that I am god." Israel will read to Armilus from the Torah: "I am HaShem your Elohim and you shall have no other gods before Me" (Exodus 20:2-3). And Armilus will say: "There is nothing in this Torah of yours; come and testify to me that I am god." [Israel refuses. Armilus responds by proclaiming:] "I shall not let go of you [i.e. will not stop forcing and persecuting you] until you believe that I am god in the same manner in which the gentile nations (goyim) of the world believe in me." And the wrath of Armilus is kindled, and he gathers all the armies of the nations of the world, and makes war against the [1108] children of Israel. In both the Old and New Testaments, the designated spot on earth where the ultimate rebel of God will perform the greatest act of idolatry is the temple of Jerusalem in Israel. The last and boldest counterfeit measure of the false Messiah will be his claim to be God. The only place designated by the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as his eternal dwelling place on earth was the temple of Jerusalem. When referring to the Jerusalem Temple God declared in Ezekiel: And He said to me, Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the Children of Israel forever. Ezek. 43:7 In Satan's "I will… " speech in Isaiah 14:13-14, he disclosed his modus operandi--the entirety of Satan's goals in his interaction with mankind--proclaiming: "I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation (the temple mount Zion) in the sides of the north (where the holy of holies is located in the temple complex)… I will be like the most High." The Temple of Jerusalem was built c.966 B.C. by Solomon, son of David, second king of Israel. In 586 B.C. King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon besieged Jerusalem and took the Israelites captive and destroyed the Temple. Fifty years later (537 BC), Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylonia and permitted the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple. Persia held the city until 333 BC, when Alexander the Great added Palestine to his empire. In 323 BC, Ptolemy I of Egypt took Palestine into his kingdom. About 198 BC, the Seleucid king Antiochus III conquered Judaea (of which Jerusalem was a part), making it tributary to Syria. The Jews later revolted under the leadership of Maccabees and defeated the Syrians. The Temple was reconsecrated in 165 BC, and the Maccabean, or Hasmonean, dynasty ruled until Rome took the city in 63 BC. The Romans set up a local dynasty, the house of Herod, to rule most of Palestine; Herod the Great (r. 40-4 BC) rebuilt much of Jerusalem, including the Temple. Roman governors, however, retained ultimate control; one of them, Pontius Pilate, authorized the execution of Jesus Christ. While suppressing a major Jewish revolt, the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in AD 70. In 135, after the failure of the Bar Kochba revolt, Jews were banished from Jerusalem. From the early 4th century, when Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire, Jerusalem developed as a center of Christian pilgrimage. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher and many other Christian shrines were erected. Except for a brief period of Persian rule (614-28) the city remained under Roman (later, Byzantine) control until 638, when the Muslim Arabs took Jerusalem. In the year 688 AD the Arabs built [1109] the Dome of the Rock mosque on the site of the Temple. The Hebrews considered the temple furnishings to be divinely designed, according to a literal template for things that existed in the "heaven of heavens." While in the presence of God, Moses was shown heavenly items which he was to use as the pattern for their earthly counterparts in Exodus 24:15- 18: And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. According to the pattern of the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it. Exodus 25:8- 9 The book of Hebrews resolves the idea further: …who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the Tabernacle. For He said "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain." (Hebrews 8:5) The furnishing of the tabernacle were used later in the Temple in Jerusalem. This area corresponded to the region under heaven of the sign Taurus. Extra-Biblical Jewish writings state that the Tabernacle and its furnishings were an image of heaven: …the structure of the Tabernacle corresponds to the structure of heaven and earth. (Soncino Zohar, Shemoth, Section 2, Page 149a) The Talmud says that the temple in Jerusalem was also located in an earth-heaven alignment: The Holy of Holies below (on the Temple Mount) is positioned parallel to the Holy of Holies above (in Heaven), as the Torah states, "Machon leshivtecha." Shmot 15:17--interpreted here as "mechuvan leshivtecha"--position parallel to Your Sitting. The pasuk is explicitly referring to the Beit HaMikdash, [temple]. Rabbi Pinchas Talmud Yerushalmi Brachot, 4:5. The mirror of the heavens upon the earth was designed by God the Creator. It was His intent to make manifest in the heavens His plan for the ages. The mystery schools--and the rebellious angels who are worshipped within the mystery schools--have focused on the symbols from a counterfeit perspective. Satan has already expressed his goal to "be compared to the Most High." He will be like God, a counterfeit of the Creator. Satan was created to glorify God through the patterns that God originally created. In order to be compared to God, Satan has to use and distort the very designs of God to glorify himself. He has no other modality, being created to function in this way from the beginning. The ultimate location of a temple to God would necessarily lie under the brightest constellations of Taurus and Orion. These two groupings of stars, and the legends and symbols attached to them, were the religious focus of every ancient culture. The "horns" of the altar of the temple in Jerusalem were likened to the horns of the great bull of Taurus. Orion was usurped in occult legend as Osiris, the god who once lived on earth but had died and was reborn--a counterfeit type of the Hebrew Messiah. The power and brilliancy of these constellations, as well as the strength attached to the symbols that represent them, demonstrate the dominion of the God of the universe and His claim over the earth. They also demonstrate God's claim over the land of Israel and Jerusalem itself. According to Bullinger's Witness of the Stars: The name of the sign [Taurus] in Chaldee is Tor. Hence, Arabic, Al Thaur; Greek, Tauros; Latin, Taurus, etc. The more common Hebrew name was Shur, which is from a root which means both coming and ruling. There are several Hebrew words for bulls and oxen, etc. But the common poetical term for all is Reem, conveying the idea of loftiness, exaltation, power, and pre-eminence. We find the root in other kindred languages (Etruscan, Sanscrit, etc.), and it can be traced in the name of Abram, which means pre-eminent or high father; Ramah, high place, etc. The brightest star, a (in the bull's eye), has a Chaldee name--Al Debaran, and means the leader or governor. The star b (at the tip of the left horn) has an Arabic name--El Nath, meaning wounded or slain. Another prophetic intimation that this coming Lord should be first slain as a sacrifice. Then there is the cluster of stars known as the Pleiades. This word, which means the congregation of the judge or ruler, comes to us through the Greek Septuagint as the translation of the Hebrew kimah, which means the heap or accumulation, and occurs in Job 9:9; 38:31, 32, and Amos 5:8. Other stars are named Palilicium (Hebrew), belonging to the judge; Wasat (Arabic), centre or foundation; Al Thuraiya (Arabic), the abundance; Vergiliae (Latin), the centre (Arabic, vertex) [1110] turned on, rolled round. Orion was the warrior of light and power, the constellation symbolizing the Second Advent of the Messiah who rules in power and righteousness. Bullinger explains the etymology of Orion: Orion was anciently spelt Oarion, from the Hebrew root, which means light. So that Orion means coming forth as light. The ancient Akkadian was Ur-ana, the light of heaven. The brightest [star on Orion], alpha (in the right shoulder), is named Betelgeuz, which means the coming (Mal 3:2) of the branch. The next, beta (in the left foot), is named Rigel, or Rigol, which means the foot that crusheth. The foot is lifted up, and placed immediately over the head of the enemy, as though in the very act of crushing it. Thus, the name of the star bespeaks the act. The next star, gama (in the left shoulder), is called Bellatrix, which means quickly coming, or swiftly destroying… Other (Arabic) names relate to His Person: Al Giauza, the branch; Al Gebor, the mighty; Al Mirzam, the ruler; Al Nagjed, the prince; Niphla (Chaldee), the mighty; Nux (Hebrew), the strong. Some names relate to His coming, as Betelgeuse and Bellatrix, as above; Heka (Chaldee), coming; and Meissa (Hebrew), coming forth. [1111] Both these constellations perfectly define the future of the land underneath according to the heaven- earth mirror. This knowledge was clearly understood by the Nephilim and "sons of God" from Genesis 6. Egypt resides under Orion with Giza representing the three belt stars of the constellation. To the north, the ancient boundaries of Assyria stretched under Taurus where the greatest monuments of Baalbek were built. Baalbek was built according to the location of its heavenly counterpart constellation fixed above. Isaiah 19 explains why Assyria and Egypt are connected with Israel, which is in between the two, in the "midst": In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, [even] a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed [be] Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance. Isaiah 19:24-25. "That day" to which Isaiah is referring, shall exist in the future after God sets up his heavenly kingdom on earth. This is the true meaning of the heaven to earth alignment established across the earth through the ages. The litany of the mystery religions, "As above, so below," was a Luciferic usurpation of that finished work of God. Angelic forces knew the significance of the temple that would one day be built in Jerusalem. It also is known that the angelic hybrids consistently produced the structures that reflected the earth-heaven alignment across the globe. The temple of Jerusalem was, without a doubt, the most important building these angelic beings could conceive. The ultimate goal of their hierarchical leader is to dwell in the same place that God has promised to establish as the seat of His kingdom on earth. Legends of the first temple to God in Jerusalem found in the Talmud describe supernatural means of construction. These stories resemble the building legends associated with many of the megalithic structures around the world. The Midrash Pesikta Rabbati 6, 28a of the Talmud states: The stones moved of their own accord; they flew and rose up by themselves, setting themselves in the wall of the Temple and erecting it. The local Aymara Indians living near the ruins of Tiahuanaco, near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, preserve in myth the origin of that great megalithic complex. According to tradition, Tiahuanaco was built at the "beginning of time" by the founder-god Viracocha and his followers, who caused the stones to be "carried through the air to the sound of a trumpet." Tiahuanaco is composed of many blocks weighing on the order of 100 tons, transported from quarries 50 km away. A similar Mayan legend describes the temple complex of Uxmal in the Yucatan Peninsula as being built by a race of dwarfs who were able to [1112] move heavy rocks into place by whistling. And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. (2 Chronicles 2:13-14) The city of Tyre or Tyrus was situated on the Sidonian coast of the Mediterranean, At King Solomon's command they quarried fine large stones for the foundation of the temple. Solomon's and Hiram's workmen and men from the city of Byblos prepared the stones and the timber to build the temple. (1 Kings 5:17-18) There was a high degree of skill involved in building the first temple of Solomon, according to the record of 1 Kings in the Old Testament: For the house, while it was in the building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was being built. (1 Kings 6:7) There still exists massive stone blocks of the foundation of Solomon's temple which were exposed by the excavations of the Palestine Exploration Fund. The foundation consists of blocks measuring from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, and from ten to twelve feet in height. The width of the blocks is from twelve to eighteen feet. Thirty-one courses of these megaliths have been counted by recent explorers, who estimate the weight of the largest block above four hundred tons. The same method of construction is found in the Lebanon cities Tyre, Sidon and Byblos and at the islands off of ancient Aradus and Gaulos. [1113] The Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon recorded that Sidonia's first city, Byblos, was built by the god Ouranos, who made stones move as if they had a life of their own. Tyre was called, "daughter of Zidon/Sidon," Isaiah 23:12, who was the first born of the eleven cursed tribes of Canaan (Genesis 9:25) Canaan had been cursed (indirectly) by Noah when Canaan's father Ham had seen Noah naked and drunk in his tent and did not cover him as his brothers Shem and Japheth later did. Canaan inherited this curse because Ham had previously been blessed by Noah. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son [Ham] had done unto him. And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. (Genesis 9:23-27) The Muslems believed the race of Jinn were employed by Solomon to build the temple of God in Jerusalem. And to Solomon (We made) the Wind (obedient): Its early morning (stride) was a month's (journey), and its evening (stride) was a month's (journey); and We made a Font of molten brass to flow for him; and there were Jinns that worked in front of him, by the leave of his Lord, and if any of them turned aside from Our command, We made him taste of the Penalty of the Blazing Fire. 13 They worked for him as he desired, (making) Arches, Images, Basins as large as Reservoirs, and (cooking) Cauldrons fixed (in their places). (Qur'an 34:12) The common Arabic name given to the Genii is Ar-rajim, literally, "the stoned ones" (Suras 55:14; 51:56; 11:120). The abode of all of these Genii or demons is said to be the mountains of Qaf which are said to encircle the world. These beliefs are due primarily to the connection Islam has to the writings of the Hebrew Old Testament, which Islam embraces as holy texts because Ishmael, the father of the Arab race, was descended from the Jewish patriarch Abraham. It is believed even into modern times, by both Muslims and Jews, that the spirits of the hybrid Nephilim, whose human-like bodies perished in the flood, remain on the earth as demons, or in the Arabic language, the Jinn. Scholars of the Qur'an considered the race of the Jinn synonymous with the Sidonian workers of Hiram, king of Tyre (2 Chronicles 2:1-314). The Qur'an incorporated the legend from the flood epic of Genesis 6, which explained that some of the Nephilim remained after the catastrophic world deluge, and that the descendants of the Nephilim were seen by the Israelites when they entered the land of Canaan, the father of Sidon (Numbers 13:33). The Sidonians shared their land with the Nephilim and apparently continued to breed with them even up until the invasion of the Israelites. Additionally the Old Testament described the race of Sidonians having been collected into service as Nethanim (servants)--what they had been before they were conquered by the Israelites while living in Sidonia. The word "nethanim" should not to be confused with Nephalim (the fallen ones) although there is a correlation between the two. The Nethanim of Sidonia were considered pagans whose gods-genii were sympathetic to them, and even at times, possessed them. The Jinns are also mentioned as a race in the Qur'an 15:27, called the Jaan. The Hadith, a collection of traditions and tales of Islam, described the Jinns, who helped with the construction of Solomon's temple, as physical human beings. In Sahih Al- Bukhari Hadith 4.634, narrated by Abu Huraira, Muhammad acknowledged a human being who was cursed was a Jinn: The Prophet said, "A strong demon from the Jinns came to me yesterday suddenly, so as to spoil my prayer, but Allah enabled me to overpower him, and so I caught him and intended to tie him to one of the pillars of the mosque so that all of you might see him, but I remembered the invocation of my brother Solomon: And grant me a kingdom such as shall not belong to any other after me,… so I let him go cursed." There are several Jewish mystical manuscripts that attribute the construction of Solomon's temple to demonic spirits. The most extensive of these is the Testament of Solomon dating from the15th century. This text, written in Greek, tells the legend of a magical ring of King Solomon and its power over the [1114] demons that aided the building of the Temple. [Solomon] thought earnestly, and consulted the writings of the ancients; …And after some days there came to me an angel, and brought me a ring with a stone in it, on which was cut the figure that is called the Pentalpha and within it the Name-that may not be spoken. A servant of Solomon used the ring to bind a demon that had been tormenting him and brought it before the Hebrew king: Then I rose up from my throne and went out into the court of the palace, and saw the creature, in the form of a flame of fire, quivering and shrinking; and I stood over it, and said, "What is thy name?" And it answered, "Ornias." And I bade Ornias reveal to me, in the strength of the ring, how I should make him subject to me; and he told me where his abode was, and how he afflicted men and all that I asked him. Then I sealed him with the seal of the ring, and appointed him to hew stones for the building of the temple. Thereafter, when I considered what I should do, I called for Ornias, and delivered the ring to him, and bade him bring before me Beelzebul, the prince of all the demons. … And Ornias cast the ring into the bosom of Beelzebul, and said again, "Solomon calleth for thee." And at that Beelzebul uttered a mighty roar, and cast forth from his mouth a great flame of fire; but he must needs rise up from his throne and follow Ornias, and stand before me. And when I saw him, I gave thanks to the Most High, who had given me power over the demons. And I spoke roughly to him; and he promised to bring before me all the demons, and that they should be subject to me, and do all that I commanded them. And I appointed him to saw blocks of marble in pieces for the work of the temple …After that I sent for many of the chief of the demons, one by one, and questioned them concerning their deeds, what diseases they sent upon men, and what secret things they knew, and how they were to be subdued; and when they had told me, I bound them, and set them to work upon the building of the [1115] temple. Ornias, the lead demon controlled by Solomon's ring, appeared as a "burning fire," "flaming fire" or as a winged creature and a lion later in the text of the Testament of Solomon. All these symbols are [1116] consistent with those of the Sumerian god of Mars, Nergal. The name Ornias has the ancient [1117] Chaldaen root Ur which means, "to burn, flames" and is known in Hebrew as Aour. Thomas Paine, (1736-1809) the American political and deistic writer was born at Thetford, England, 1736-1737. One of his major contributions to American history was his pamphlet, "Common Sense" (January, 1776), which helped the cause of Independence of America from Britain. Paine had this to say about the Temple of God in Jerusalem: As to what Masons, and books of Masonry, tell us of Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, it is no wise improbable that some Masonic ceremonies may have been derived from the building of that temple, for the worship of the Sun was in practice many centuries before the Temple existed, or before the Israelites came out of Egypt. … We do not read in the history of the Jews, whether in the Bible or elsewhere, that they were the inventors or the improvers of any one art or science. Even in the building of this temple, the Jews did not know how to square and frame the timber for beginning and carrying on the work, and Solomon was obliged to send to Hiram, King of Tyre (Zidon) to procure workmen; "for thou knowest, (says Solomon to Hiram, i Kings v. 6.) that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Zidonians." This temple was more properly Hiram's Temple than Solomon's, and if the Masons derive any thing from the building of it, they owe it to the [1118] Zidonians and not to the Jews. Paine summarized the quintessential point: the Cydonians built the temple of God in Jerusalem. Now, in the present day, there are men dedicated to re-building the temple on the site that the Cydonians had constructed it before. And now the world is being told of the ancient ruins of an advanced civilization that has been found on Mars--on Cydonia. The ruins of Cydonia are what remains of the the city of angels who rebelled with Satan before the creation of Adam. Their rebellion resulted in the corruption of life on earth: death, disease, violence, and creatures made in the very image of the serpent. The age of dinosaurs lasted from about 248 million years ago to 65 million years ago. That entire world came to an end. God shattered Satan's crown jewel, the fifth terrestrial planet, and the rebels were stoned, their creation wiped out. Then came the creature made in God's own image, Adam, and when the serpent corrupted Adam, God gave him a promise--one day the Creator of all the heavens and earth would take on the form of a man. In the future, God Himself would come to one specific planet in the entire universe. On that single planet, God, in the shape of a man, would act as kinsman redeemer, and take on the judgment Adam had brought down on himself and his kinsman. Because He is the "Kinsman Redeemer," Jesus did not come to save the dolphins, the apes, the puppies, the "friendly aliens," or any seemingly penitent Nephilim--Jesus came only to redeem the sons and daughters of Adam. The Nephilim were produced on the earth by the rebellious angels to prevent a pure "kinsman of Adam." It was in order to prevent the total corruption of "Adams" that God saved Noah out of the Flood. The second part of God's promise was that He would live "forever" on planet earth, with those He saved from death. The house that God declared as His dwelling place is none other than a temple in Jerusalem. The temple therefore is not only important from the perspective of mankind (Adams), but from that stated by God himself. Satan fully comprehends the significance of the temple, and has molded his plan accordingly. In order to be "like the most High," Satan must counterfeit the fulfillment of the promises of God, as well as the prophecies of God. He must cause a temple to be built in the very place God will set up His temple. He must try and dwell in it in the place of God. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isaiah 14:12-14) History will repeat itself; the Cydonians will again take part in the construction of the temple in Jerusalem. Perhaps the Cydonians will not literally set the stone blocks in place, but they will definitely provide a "supernatural and religious foundation" for the temple. In fact, they already have. The "Great Work" of the Masonic mystery schools is the building of a temple--literally, building a world that worships the serpent of the Garden of Eden. The substructures are already in place; the hierarchies of rebel angels have prepared the world to accept the counterfeit god who established civilization, as this book has explained. Future space exploration on Mars will reveal the wealth of lost information intact in the structures remaining on its surface, just as similar information was preserved in the megalithic monuments of post- diluvial earth. If the angel of Mars is capable of making men forget the magical knowledge of the past, he is also able to make them remember. Occult authorities of the 19th and 20th centuries speak of a "reawakening" of mankind to the lost knowledge. Kenneth Grant, in his book Outside the Circles of Time, wrote: The Forgotten Ones, the Faceless Ones, the Titans, have, in the twentieth century, breached human consciousness. Various reasons could be given for this which would include the splitting of the atom, the development of nuclear science, our own evolutionary development, and the peculiarities of a double aeonic current (Horus/Maat) that is now in operation. These primal forces variously named The Forgotten Ones, the Elder Gods, the Great Old Ones or the Ancient Ones have been defined by [1119] the artist-magickian. Su Leybourn in the book The Keys of Aaton warns : Mark well what I have said, for comes a day When dark things held in harness are revealed By Man's own curiosity, and blood Is multiplied with new and deadly fears. The Faceless Ones [1120] unlocked are not put out With weaponry or words that of a time Created access. These modern occultists echo the threats of the Titans recorded by the Greek poets, threats and prophecy produced by minds that knew the epochs and cycles. The same chained Watchers of the Book of Enoch will be released according to the Jewish sages at the time of the judgment of all who dwell on heaven and earth. This theme is consistent through the Old Testament of the Bible as well. [Typhoeus to Zeus declaring his intentions when he seizes the throne of heaven:] And cannibal Kronos I will drag up once more to the light, another brother, to help me in my task, out of the underground abyss; I will break those constraining chains, and bring back the Titanes to heaven, and settle under the same roof in the sky the Kyklopes, sons of Gaia. (Dionysiaca 2.336) Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing declared: There are unimaginable wonders [out there], for those who can remove some of Truth's protective layers. Adam Weishaupt was said to have organized the Order of the Illuminati on May 1, 1776. Albert Pike wrote to Wesihaupt's successor, Guiseppe Mazzini, that the Luciferian outline for world government was scheduled to be completed by the close of the 20th century. In this letter Pike described how the world would come to embrace Lucifer through re-application of the ancient knowledge of the Nephilim of Cydonia: …and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the pure light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time. Albert Pike 33° Letter 15 August 1871 Addressed to Grand Master Guiseppie Mazzini 33° Archives British Museum London, England In Jerusalem the preparation for the building of the 3 temple is already underway. The Temple rd Institute (in Hebrew, Machon HaMikdash), located in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem's Old City was founded in 1987 for the purpose of rebuilding the temple of Jerusalem. Their mission statement explains: The major focus of the Institute is its efforts towards the beginning of the actual rebuilding of the Holy Temple. Towards this end, the Institute has begun to restore and construct the sacred vessels for the service of the Holy Temple. These vessels, which G-d commanded Israel to create, can be seen today at our headquarters in Jerusalem. They are made according to the exact specifications of the Bible, and have been constructed from the original source materials, such as gold, copper, silver and wood. These are authentic, accurate vessels, not merely replicas or models. All of these items are fit and ready for use in the service of the Holy Temple. Among the many items featured in the exhibition are musical instruments played by the Levitical choir, the golden crown of the High Priest, and gold and silver vessels used in the incense and sacrificial services. After many years of effort and toil, the Institute has just recently completed the three most important and central vessels of the Divine service: the seven-branched candelabra, or Menorah, made of pure gold; the golden Incense Altar, [1121] and the golden Table of the Showbread. It is actually possible to visit the Temple Institute located at 19 Misgav Ladach Street in Jerusalem. Guided tours are given Sunday through Thursday of the exhibition of temple vessels not seen in nearly [1122] 2,000 years. The prophet Daniel learned of the history of the end of the aion and the counterfeit savior of mankind. Daniel wrote of the counterfeit god, a man who set himself up in the temple of Jerusalem, "the mount of congregation," the place Satan boasted he would sit: And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. (Dan 11:36) The Pharisee Paul who wrote letters to the early followers of Jesus explained the actions of the man called antichrist: [He will] opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:4) This man will marshal the forces in the heavenly places to completely convince mankind of his authority. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces [Ala Maozime]: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. Thus shall he do in the most strong holds [maoz] with a alien god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain. (Dan 11:37-39) The Antichrist will not only interact with the god of fortresses but also with the minions of this alien god, "and he shall cause them to rule over many." The god whom he honors shall be the same that Rome, Crete, Tyre, Egypt, Sumeria, and various ancient cultures honored around the world. This god was worshipped as Baalhazor," Lord of the Fortresses" by the Cydonians of Lebanon, Mars Quirinus,"Mars of the Walls" by the Romans, and called Ala Maozim "the god of forces or strongholds" in Hebrew. There is a strong parallel between Ala Maozim and the god Melkart , the "angel of the city," worshiped in the island kingdom of Tyre, or in Hebrew tzor, rock rwc, off the Cydonian coast. This god was supposedly brought to the island by Astarte after he had fallen from the heavens. In ancient Rome the god Mars is said to have been worshiped in the form of two idols, one named Mars Gradivus "Mars of War" and the other Mars Quirinus "Mars of Fortresses." This was because the god Mars was not only a fierce warrior, but also a great Builder of Cities. The name "Mars" itself was a Roman form of the [1123] Chaldean word "Mar," or "Mavor" which meant "the rebel." Mars is the rebel whose shattered vestiges remain on earth as megalithic foundations and as the astounding ruins on the planet Mars. The "god of fortresses" honoured by the antichrist is the god of civilization and building, the god of Cydonia. In 167 B.C. the Greek general Antiochus Epiphanies desecrated the temple in Jerusalem by setting up a pagan altar, a foreshadowing of the future desecration by the Antichrist, spoken of in Daniel. 9:11. In keeping with the temperament of the "god of war and fortresses," the general Antiochus built a fortress [1124] overlooking the Jerusalem temple. This precursor to the anti-messiah established the pattern which will find its ultimate expression in the last days spoken of by the Hebrew prophets. His inspiration was from the same source that will be fully manifest in the final antichrist--the rebel cherubim Satan. The prophet Jeremiah described the consequences of accepting false gods of the "high places" in place of the God of Israel: Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:11-13) Daniel not only foresaw what the Antichrist will do during his reign of evil, he also discerned the "heart" of the delusion the Antichrist will perpetuate. The revelation of an ancient civilization discovered on the planet bearing the rebel's name will prove that intelligent life, other than man, exists in the universe. The structures on Mars so evident in the Cydonia region will cause people to doubt the Bible. Proof of the existence of artificial structures on Mars will lead to the conclusion that the entities responsible not only designed and guided our species through history, they also qualify as our gods. This lie, taken to a higher level is this: that the king of the race from Mars, is the God of the Bible. This is the strong delusion sent by God for "those dwelling on the earth to believe the lie" II Thess 2:11. The lie itself is the counterfeit messiah. Jesus himself explained the coming of the false messiah to the temple of Jerusalem as described by the prophet Daniel: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand.) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." (Matthew 24:15-21) In the book of Daniel the antichrist: … shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate…" (Daniel 9:27) Jesus's description of this event caused great consternation and alarm among his apostles. The Jews were no strangers to hardship and persecution; living in Roman occupied land, they had come to accept this. The Jews had endured hundreds of years of exile in Babylon, centuries of infighting among their own tribes and wars with the Philistines, Egyptians, and hostile neighbors. This was a prophecy of doom and destruction unlike anything they had known. Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the [aion] ? (Matthew 24:3) The use of the word "Aion" in this passage is specific; it is not the general designation "time" (chronos) in Greek. The literal definition of the Greek word Aion as representing the actual cycle of the Milky Way cosmic clock--the life span of an age--throws considerable light on the texts as it is found within the Greek New Testament. Ancient texts recorded a world having been destroyed by water. They also explain that "sacred mounds" would make possible the re-creation of the age that was destroyed. The symbol of water encompasses the spiritual concepts of time, cleansing, and change--the cycle of the Milky Way alignments every suntelia. The answer Jesus provided His apostles for "when" the end of the aion would occur was specific. The astronomical signs in the heavens would be just as those during the days of Noah when Leviathan encircled the horizon in the dawn of the Summer solstice. But as the days of Noah [were], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew 24:37-39) There could have been no more accurate comparison made between our present time than the age of Noah. The Nephilim lived and moved among men then, as it seems they do now. Leviathan once again aligns with the horizon during a solstice, and the world is corrupt and continually striving to do evil. Jesus might very well have told his apostles that he would not return for another 2000 years, but this knowledge seems to be reserved for our times. The present Aion is coming to a close. Like the sunteleia before there will be great upheaval and change. Jesus warned that the calamity at the end of this age would be greater than all that came before: The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. (Isa 24:20, 21) This is not a comfortable picture. History and geology bare witness to the extremes of global upheaval and destruction in past aions. However, God is in control. His plan was set and finished from before He created the universe. Man's part in it is no small matter--Man is God's treasure, and the recipient of the greatest act of love in history--the sacrifice of His only begotten son on the cross. There is every reason to put away fear. …the mystery of Christ….Which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed…the mystery, which from the beginning of the [Aion] hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the [eklisia- called out of the earth] the manifold wisdom of God, According to the [aion] demonstration which he brought forth in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Eph 3:4-11) In other words Paul is explaining the meaning of life. Mankind was set up on earth to demonstrate God's wisdom to the entire universe. Some portion of humanity will listen to God's call in their lives and respond. They will realize that the kinsman redeemer has bought them with His blood to become His immortal sons and daughters. Others will reject or ignore the only hope of Jesus and choose their own way. This aion is coming to a close before our eyes. Jesus will return. The most significant change of order will occur over the earth during this sunteleia. God will dwell with men on the earth in the form of a man, Jesus Christ. The kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms] of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 11: 15) And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God. (Rev 21:3)