40 oz. of Bible (Straight to da head)!

40 oz. of Bible (Straight to da head)!

June 19, 2009 at 3:50pm

The meaning of the ancient name of Jerusalem tells us unequivocally that it was founded with Venus in mind. According to tradition its high sanctuary was the spot where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son, and where Solomon built the Temple that is aligned to the pre-dawn rising of that planet. We also know from our study of Groved Ware structures of the British Isles that the period of the Venus cycle is forty years - a number which we now noticed seemed to be of great importance in the Bible.
To check out if our assessment of the biblical use of forty was more than wishful thinking we pulled out as many references as we could find to forty-day or forty-year periods in the Bible. Here are just a sample of forty mentions of forty we extracted from the Old and the New Testaments:

1. The Flood was associated with rains that fell for 40 days and nights. (Gen. 7:4)
2. The Flood was on the earth for 40 days. (Gen. 7:17)
3. Issac was 40 years old when he took his wife. (Gen 25:20)
4. Esau was 40 years old when he took his wife. (Gen. 26:34)
5. Israel ate manna for 40 years. (Exodus 16:35)
6. God said that at the end of 40 years He would end the captivity of the Jews amongst the Egyptians. (Ezekiel 29:13)
7. Moses was with God on the mount for 40 days and nights. (Ex. 24:18)
8. Moses was again with God for a further 40 days and 40 nights. (Ex. 34:28)
9. Moses led Israel out of Egypt aged 80 (2 X 40), and after 40years in the wilderness he died aged 120 (3 X 40). (Deut. 34:7)
10. Spies searched in the land of Canaan for 40 days. (Num. 13:25)
11. God made Israel wander for 40 years. (Num. 14: 33-34)
12. 40 stripes was the maximum whipping penalty. (Deut. 25:3)
13. God allowed the land to rest for 40 years. (Judges 3:11)
14. God again allowed the land to rest for 40 years. (Judges 5:31)
15. God again allowed the land to rest for 40 years. (Judges 8:28)
16. Abdon (one of the Judges in Israel) had 40 sons. (Judges 12:14)
17. Israel did evil and God gave them to an enemy for 40 years. (Judges 13:1)
18. Eli judge Israel for 40 years. (1 Sam. 4:18)
19. Goliath presented himself to Israel for 40 days. (1 Sam. 17:16)
20. Saul, the first Jewish king, reigned for 40 years. (Acts 13:21)
21. Saul was 40 years old when he became king. (Acts 13:21)
22. Ishbosheth (Saul's son) was 40 when his reign began (2 Sam 2:10)
23. David reigned for 40 years. (2 Sam. 5:4, 1 Kings 2:11)
24. Solomon reigned for 40 years. (1 Kings 11:42)
25. The holy place of the Temple was 40 cubits long. (1 Kings 6:17)
26. 40 baths (measurement) was the size of lavers in the Temple. (1 Kings 7:38)
27. The sockets of silver were in groups of 40. (Ex. 26:19 & 21)
28. King Ahaz arose, and did eat and drink with an angel, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. (1 Kings 19:8)
29. Elijah had one meal that gave him strength for 40 days. (1 Kings 19:8)
30. Ezekiel bore the iniquity of the house of Judah for 40 days. (Ezekiel 4:6)
31. Jehoash reigned for 40 years in Jerusalem. (2 Kings 12:1)
32. Egypt was to be laid desolate for 40 years. (Ezek. 29:11-12)
33. Ezekiel's vision of the new Temple is 40 cubits long. (Ezek. 41:2)
34. The courts in Ezekiel's temple were 40 cubits long. (Ex. 46:22)
35. God gave Nineveh 40 days to repent. (Jonah 3:4)
36. Forty years God grieved for generation of people. (Psalms 95:10)
37. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights. (Matthew 4:2)
38. Jesus was tempted for 40 days. (Luke 4:2)
39. Jesus was ministered to by angels in the wilderness for 40 days. (Mark 1:13)
40. Jesus remained on Earth for 40 days after his resurrection. (Acts. 1:3)

FROM: The Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus, and the Secret Key to the Life of Jesus by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas

There are actually 101 references to this Venusians period of 40 in the Bible. The preceding is just a small sample.

Templum Hierosolyma
Clavis ad Thesaurum
Theca ubi res pretiosa deponitur
Res ipsa pretiosa
Nil nisi clavis deest
si talia jungere possis
sit tibi scire posse 

PM John B Love, III 33°
Right Illustrious Grand Lecturer

Most Illustrious Prince Hall Grand Council of Texas Royal and Select Masters

This table shows the basic eight-year cycle of Venus. The first column shows the year of the cycle. The next column shows whether Venus is appearing as the morning or the evening star.

George Washington Obsession with Virgins

I wrote this originally  as a Facebook Notes page back in 2009.  I brought it here to my blog for future posterity.  

PM John B Love, III 33°
Right Illustrious Grand Lecturer

Most Illustrious Prince Hall Grand Council of Texas Royal and Select Masters

George Washington Obsession with Virgins

June 17, 2009 at 4:05pm

Now I realize that the title might be a little misleading, but its not. George Washington was obsessed with the Virgin Mary.

One of the purposes of Masonic Initiation is to teach you how to dream better dreams. George Washington went on to use this knowledge throughout his career. Masonry taught him that people become great not by what they do with their bodies, but by what they are inspired to do with their minds.

The rituals of Freemasonry say there is a hidden power at the center of the human mind. But this truth can be revealed only to an Initiate who is properly prepared. The Masonic system uses allegory and symbols to work its magic on the human spirit, by showing you that both your own motivations and the "benign rays" of the Bright Morning Star influence what you can become.

"The Key to the mysteries of Freemasonry...is the getting knowledge of the celestial globe, knowing the mysteries of all the figures and grouping of stars on that globe; knowing further, that this globe is the foundation of all religion, knowing how to calculate the procession of the equinoxes, the return of the comets and eclipses, and all the planetary motions and astronomical relations of time"

"Astrology, gypsy fortune telling, Modern Freemasonry, Mohammedanism, Christianity, and Judaism, have sprung from and are so many corruptions of the ancient mysteries of the Pagans..."

"The whole account of the building of King Solomon's Temple, given in Masonic myth is an astronomical myth"

Masonic astrology appears to have tapped into ancient observations of natural cause and effect that science has overlooked....The Craft, as Freemasons call the ritual practice of Masonry, had preserved legends which claimed that being re-born to the rays of the Bright Morning Star brought positive benefits to an individual....It claims there is a secret key to knowledge locked inside each individual personality, and that knowledge can be freed by turning the key of Solomon's wisdom....Masonic astrology might conclude that George Washington should align the Capitol and the President's House (the White House) so that a Bright Morning Star will rise over the Capitol and shine its rays down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the President's House on a particular morning in February, if he wants his society to benefit. FROM: Turning the Solomon Key: George Washington, the Bright Morning Star, and the Secrets of Masonic Astrology by Robert Lomas (Lomas is the man that Dan Brown model the character Robert Langdon after in his books Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code.)

Now back to the Virgins.....
Washington was trying to bring about the birth of a nation using Masonic Astrology to perpetuate the success of the country. Those familiar with Freemasonry will recognize the fact that the entire ritual of Freemasonry is symbolical of birth. Thus, the two pillars symbolize legs and the passing through these pillars is equivalent to being born from the womb and pass through the legs of woman.
The choice for the location of DC in light of the information up above is also interesting.

The very position of Washington betrays this importance because the District of Columbia stands on the dividing line between Maryland and Virginia. Maryland derived its name from queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of King Charles I, whilst Virginia was named after Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen. However, this apposition of 'Mary' and the "Virgin' symbolized the Christian character most closely associated with the zodiac sign of Virgo and ultimately therefore Demeter, Isis and the Shekinah--'brides of God'. FROM: Solomon's Power Brokers: The Secrets of Freemasonry, The Church, and The Illuminati by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler

Washington DC itself is shaped like a lozenge (diamond shaped) which traditionally has been considered a womb shape.
Thus to sum up: Washington DC is womb shaped sitting between the legs of the Virgin Mary where upon, the birth of this nation and its ideas are directly influenced by the Shekinah of light that descends down to influence.

George Washington was obsessed with Virgins!

Masonic G = 2n-1

Masonic G = 2n-1

Please accept this definition and history on Gnomon as it is much better than I can hope to achieve:


[A gnomon ([ˈnoʊmɒn], from Greek γνώμων, gnōmōn, literally: "one that knows or examines"^[1][2]) is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow.

The term has come to be used for a variety of purposes in mathematics and other fields.

Anaximander (610–546 BC) is credited with introducing this Babylonian instrument to the Greeks.^[3]Oenopides used the phrase drawn gnomon-wise to describe a line drawn perpendicular to another.^[4]Later, the term was used for an L-shaped instrument like a steel square used to draw right angles. This shape may explain its use to describe a shape formed by cutting a smaller square from a larger one. Euclidextended the term to the plane figure formed by removing a similar parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram. Indeed, the gnomon is the increment between two successive figurate numbers, including square and triangular numbers.

Hero of Alexandria defined a gnomon as that which, when added to an entity (number or shape), makes a new entity similar to the starting entity. In this sense Theon of Smyrna used it to describe a number which added to a polygonal number produces the next one of the same type. The most common use in this sense is an odd integer especially when seen as a figurate number between square numbers. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomon ]

The above comes directly from the Wikipedia page on gnomon.  It is a succinct summary of what a gnomon is and the history of a gnomon.  My job in this article then is to connect your synapsis of dots esoterically and Masonically. 

First as a sundial, a gnomon is a three-dimensional instrument, embodying two dimensions (a plane is length and width), that uses light to determine the fourth dimensional concept of time.  Immediately, it should be self-aware that a gnomon is extraordinary.

Using light to cast shadow, a gnomon gives us insight to how the duality of this world, symbolized by the two pillars upon the porch, can not only be understood but also manipulated. No more shall be said here, except that the division of earth into degrees of day and night is a dual process of two right angle (gnomonic) forces known as Centrifugal force (earth rotating on its own axis) and Centripetal force (earth rotating around the Sun).

The very shape of a gnomon makes the Greek letter Gamma which is our equivalent of the English letter "G".  The same letter in the center of the compasses and the square of our beloved symbol. G is the seventh letter in the English alphabet. But Gamma (gnomon) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet and Gimel is also the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet.  Three, of course, is the magic number. (Forgive me School House Rock!)

So as Masons we “square” our actions and it should be obvious that the Square is a gnomon.  Morally we should make sure that our actions are “right”.  But esoterically, this can mean that we should make sure that our actions are “seeded for growth”.  

You see, when you add a gnomon to a square (geometrically AND mathematically) you create another square.  See the picture below to understand geometrically of how when you add a right-angle gnomon to a four-sided square you get another four sided square.  

Note that gnomons are odd numbers.  Odd numbers are masculine.  Masculine is seed. (Even numbers are feminine. Feminine is fertile.)  

Mathematically, therefore, adding odd numbers together gives you squares.  (Side note:  Notice how the numbers of the squares below oscillate from feminine to masculine.)

1 is a square 1 x 1= 1       Add odd number 3    to get   4 which is the next square

4 is a square 2 x 2= 4       Add odd number 5    to get   9 which is the next square

9 is a square 3 x 3= 9       Add odd number 7    to get   16 which is the next square

16 is a square 4 x 4= 16  Add odd number 9    to get   25 which is the next square

25 is a square 5 x 5= 25  Add odd number 11    to get   36 which is the next square

Ad infintum……

 So then the equation for a gnomon is (2n-1) where "n" is the size of the side of the square (pictured below).  

Or to put differently, "n" is how big you want it to be grown.  Knowing how big you want something to grow will tell you the size of the gnomon (right force) that needs to be applied to it.  

The point is that masculine activity (making it happen), as opposed to feminine activity (letting it happen) is the gnomon that grows a square.  The gnomon and its applications can readily be seen in the Mosiac pavement that adorns our floors and lives. 

Hopefully this is enough, to allow you Fellows of the Craft to be able to apply your Square to Self in an esoterically different way for the benefit of us all.

PM John B Love, III 33°
Right Illustrious Grand Lecturer

Most Illustrious Prince Hall Grand Council of Texas Royal and Select Masters

The Three that are Four

The Three that are Four.

There is a subset of symbolism within esoteric circles like Freemasonry, Alchemy and Astrology. The three that are four.

 In Science, we see Chemistry inherit from its mother Alchemy, the three states (solid, liquid and gas) transformed by the fourth (energy). This immediately brings to mind the Mystic who equates this with the four elements (Earth, Water, Air and Fire).

 The Astrologer has this symbol doubly impressed upon its lore with four elements that divide the Zodiac into three groups and the three signs (Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable) which divide the Zodiac into four groups. Incidentally, in Astrology the three signs of Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable are called Quadruplicities while the four elements of Earth, Water, Air and Fire are called Triplicities. The three that are four.

 There is also the three positions of the Sun at Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice and Equinox. Spring and Vernal Equinox mark the same position of the Sun but make the positions four instead of the appearance of three.

 In Ancient Craft Masonry, there are several references to the three that are four. There are the three degrees that apparently included the fourth of Royal Arch. Symbolically, there are the three stations of East, West and South along with the fourth of North. There is the substitute word of the third degree that consist of three words but has a correct pronunciation of four syllables (sounding like the last name of Cosby show actress Lisa Bonet instead of the mispronounced sound of a dog’s treat). This correct pronunciation of course alludes to the Tetragrammaton which is mentioned below. 

This symbol has numerous Biblical references. The three who were in the furnace (Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego) who upon further inspection were actually four (with the addition of Daniel). The three nails used in the Crucifixion that created four holes in the Body of Christ.

 In Geometry, you have three vectors that when combined create a fourth vector. This is suggested in the symbol that Masons revere of “a point to a line, a line to a superficies and a superficies to a solid”. (Notice the four dimensions are connected by three movements.) Thus, a solid is a three-dimensional object but it has an implied fourth dimension (or original dimension) of timelessness. 

And of course, the Tetragrammaton. The four-letter word, as its name means, is actually composed of only 3 letters: Yod, He and Vau. The Hebrew meaning of Yod He Vau He turns out to be the equivalent of our English word of “being” in three states that allude to a fourth: “I was”, “I am” and “I will be”. These three states of being (past, present and future) refer to the fourth that suggests “timelessness” or “Eternity”.

 As Masons, our objective is the search for the Lost Word which is synonymous with the search for Truth. We eventually find that Truth within ourselves. The three that are four.

TIM John B Love, III 33⁰
L G Raynor Council #8 R&SM
Right Illustrious Grand Lecturer
Most Illustrious Prince Hall Grand Council of Texas Royal and Select Masters.