by Moe
“A great master of his craft, Ervin von Steinbach; but not he alone, For many generations labored with him, Children that came to see these saints in stone, As day by day out of the blocks they rose, Grew old and died, and still the work went on, And on and on and is not yet completed.” Henry Longfellow
All over the world you will find that many ancient peoples had tried to communicate and document their worlds permanently etching and carving their history into the immortal stones of the landscapes they had inhabited. It was as if they were leavig these marks as testaments of their will to serve God and to create a kingdom of heaven on earth for us, their descendants.
Over time, various cultures such as the Ancient Egyptians had developed their own methods of documenting their lives, laws, and histories in the form of magical writing known only to them called hieroglyphs. This style became the precursor to ideographs and a more magical type of writing that only the initiated could read and understand with the Phoenician/Hebrew alphabet and soon thereafter the Greek, Latin, and English writing systems were created.
Since the most ancient times, it was the stonemasons who had developed a symbolical system of immortally marking their work in stone as a means for both identification of the tribe and or craftsman, communication, and also the identification of their Masonic guild. The oldest sets of symbols to come out of this Freemasonic system which has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years and can be found all over the world are known as “Mason Marks.”
It is from these Masons and the Marks they left behind that I contend that we derive the modern-day Masonic Lodge, corporation, and also the corporate logo. I will detail these facts in another future essay.
In order to research who were the first people to incorporate these Mason Marks and document this history, it is important that we search back in time to locate the first people and or Tribe who may have developed and contributed to their distribution all over the world.
What I have discovered is that this Masonic symbology had originated on the Ancient Holy Island of Crete who along with the Greek Athenians I contend were the true progenitors of the Ancient Charges of Operative Freemasons. Masons such as one of the first immortal Masons, Daedelus of Crete who I had written about previously in my essay, “Hiram’s First Masons: The Cunning Daedalus Invented the Masonic Working Tools.”
The Great Work of Daedelus has been known for well over 2,000 years as being credited with inventing the Masonic Working Tools used in the various degrees of Masonry such as the plumb-line and the axe, most of the tools used in carpentry, and of glue and he is also known as world-famous Cretan Labyrinth, according to the statements of Diodorus Siculus and Pliny. Homer had said that the statue of the daughter of Minos, King of Crete, Ariadne at Knossos was made by Daedalus.
33rd Degree Freemason, Albert Mackey had said the genealogy of Daedelus was from the old Athenian race of kings. Mackey had written in An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences;
“A famous artist and mechanician, whose genealogy is traced in the Greek myths as having sprung from the old Athenian race of kings, the Erechtheidae. He is said to have executed the Cretan labyrinth, the reservoir near Megaris in Sicily, the Temple of Apollo at Capua, and the celebrated altar sculptured with lions on the Libyan coast.
He is said to be the inventor of a number of the “Working Tools” used in the various degrees of Masonry such as the compasses and square, the plumb-line and the axe, most of the tools used in carpentry, and of glue. Of him is told the fable of his flying safely over the AEgean by means of wings made by himself. His nephew, Perdix, is the reputed inventor of the third Great Light in Masonry, the Compasses, which are dedicated to the Craft. (page 945)”
In studying this history and the Athenian Kings who Daedelus had descended, I have found that a city of Crete once anciently called Tenos, which was sacred to Poseidon, and now The Holy Village of Ayios Nikolaos (Saint Nicholas) was a political community said to be created by King Theseus who is documented as the founder-king of Athens.
Before I get into the mythology, I wanted to share a little archaeology with you showing the evidence of these first Freemasons with a coin dated from Olous, Crete dated circa 300-270 BC showing the head of Artemis Britomartis and on the reverse is a Masonic square. The coins that have been unearthed here are known as the “Coins of Olous” this coin with a Freemasonic Square with what looks like the letter G in the middle which is the oldest representation of Masonry on a coin that I could find anywhere.
The mythology around this area of the island and King Thesus tells us that he was rescued from the Labyrinth by the Cretan King Minos’ daughter Ariadne and for her Great Work, she was given the Crown that was legally called Gnosis Corona, and she has officially surnamed Gnosis, from the City of the Goddess in Crete – Knossos.
To corroborate Mackey’s claims about Daedelus’ relation to royalty with actual archeological science, you will find a divine place on Crete that was once known as “The Plateau of St Nicholas” and is more commonly called “The Plateau of Isopata”. It is from this location where you will obtain a most spectacular “royal view” of the city of Knossos and the Harbor below and also the Royal Tomb of Isopata that is said to date back approximately 3,500 hundred years and also where the famous 3,500-year-old sarcophagus of Hagia Triada was discovered.
The symbols, Mason Marks, divine biblical history and the importance of Crete and Athens to true Masons are a testament to these facts spanning 3,000 years to in the building of the new world and in bringing wisdom to the world in an attempt to civilize of humankind.
For example, the symbols of these Masons have been found all over Crete in the Minoan palaces at Knossos, Malia, and Phaestos, which were listed and enumerated by author S. Hood in his publication, “Mason’s Marks in the Palaces,” in “The Function of the Minoan Palaces: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 10-16 June 1984).
Searching the internet for more information, I discovered there were more than 220 mason’s marks at Phaistos mostly connected to the First Palace that was reported by Luigi Pernier in 1935 and Hood in 1987, who reported 750 mason marks at Knossos and 130 at Mallia that were dated to 1900-1700 BC. making them the oldest that I could locate anywhere in the world.
These are the main Mason Marks and symbols found all throughout the palaces of Knossos, Phaistos, and Mallia found in the book, Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script which the meaning were largely unknown at the time of this book.
The meanings of the symbols in Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script are largely unknown or were at the time of this book.
Here is a later interpretation of the meaning of the symbols (S. Hood Oxford, 1994).
The oldest and most important symbols used by these Masons you will find are used all over the globe in almost all their building projects such as the Doubled Headed Axe of the Goddess Cult;
8 Pointed Star of Jupiter, Cross of Jerusalem, and the Swastika to name a few plus various other symbols and derivates thereof carved onto the pillars at Knossos.
“Incised signs on base blocks of Early Palace walls, Knossos” (Evans 1921)
Here is the beautiful stonework that can be found in the west court of the Phaistos Palace mason’s marks found in the book of Luigi Pernier (Pernier 1935)
In the museum at Malia, there have on display some of these ancient Mason Marks that were found there and at the other palaces on Crete.
These same Mason Marks first created on Crete can be found in many important stone buildings and Christian Cathedrals all throughout the world such as Melrose Abbey.
Places like Culross Abbey in Culross, Scotland
The Mediaeval Masons’ Marks that can be found all over the sone building structure in Herefordshire like the Templar Church of Garway also known as St Michael’s Church in the Herefordshire village of Garway
Medieval mason’s marks
Here is a list of all the Mediaeval Masons’ Marks found in Herefordshire
King Richard’s Tower, Nottingham Castle
Durham Cathedral
Interestingly as time would move forward, the Mason Marks of particular Freemasons that reside mainly in France, and Germany by the Cathedrals that the German Princes had built in which they had refined these symbols down to what appears to be a few core symbols being that of the Cross of Jerusalem, Star of Jupiter, Tau Cross, and the Russian Cross, as a secret inheritance to these Rites of their Greco-Roman Masonic Building Ancestors.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
by Moe
“I was ordained from of old, and I was present in the formation of the first human, when he was molded by God.”
In the Scripture, God is sometimes referred to as the potter and we humans are the clay pots he continually shapes and molds into his creations. As it is said in Isaiah, “Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter.”
For example, the first man, Adam signifies the son of God (Luke 3:38) and clay or the red earth out of which man was molded by the divine “Potter” (Isaiah lxiv. 8.) and the New Testament (Law) has numerous references to Jesus, as the only begotten Son of God since the time of the Dogmas set forth by the Nicene Creed when it was officially declared by the Council;
“We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in on Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, the only-begotton; that is of the essence of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, True God of True God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father.”
The Nicene fathers declared from John’s writings that Jesus is the “only begotten” (Monogenes) and “begotten not made” (Gennao) to also denote “generation” or “begottenness.” As it is said in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Church Father, Athanasius of Alexandria, says that we are all “made by God” but that Christ was considered the “First-born among many brethren;’ of First-born of all creation.” Athanasius had written;
“Our Lord not said in Scripture to be created,’ or the works to be begotten.’ In the beginning’ means in the case of the works from the beginning.’ Scripture passages explained. We are made by God first, begotten next; creatures by nature, sons by grace. Christ begotten first, made or created afterwards. Sense of First-born of the dead;’ of First-born among many brethren;’ of First-born of all creation,’ contrasted with Only-begotten.” (Select Works and Letters or Athanasius Chapter XXI. Proverbs viii. 22)
The Greek translation of the phrase “only begotten” is “Monogenes” which is also variously translated as “one and only” and “only begotten.” The meaning of mono is “one, single, alone; containing one (atom, etc.),” and from the Greek and Latin gene, genie, gen, genus, meaning “race; kin; root; birth; born; or “that which produces.”
We find in Solomon 7:22, Wisdom is also called “monogenes” – for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me which implies both a philosophical and spiritual meaning;
There is in her a spirit that is intelligent, holy,
unique, manifold, subtle,
mobile, clear, unpolluted,
distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen,
irresistible, beneficent, humane,
steadfast, sure, free from anxiety,
all-powerful, overseeing all,
and penetrating through all spirits
that are intelligent, pure, and altogether subtle.
For wisdom is more mobile than any motion;
because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things.
For she is a breath of the power of God,
and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty;
therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her.
For she is a reflection of eternal light,
a spotless mirror of the working of God,
and an image of his goodness.
Although she is but one, she can do all things,
and while remaining in herself, she renews all things;
in every generation she passes into holy souls
and makes them friends of God, and prophets;
for God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom.
She is more beautiful than the sun,
and excels every constellation of the stars.
Compared with the light she is found to be superior,
for it is succeeded by the night,
but against wisdom evil does not prevail.”
According to Athanasius, at the Jordan River, God anointed Christ with the “Spirit of God” or the “Holy Spirit” (pneuma) for the specific reason as he explains: “It happened not for the Word’s improvement but for our sanctification, in order that we may share his anointing.”
In Christianity, the first principle is the breath of life (πνοή) that God breathed into the nostrils of the first human – Adam (cf. Gen. 2:7). Church Faher, Irenaeus describes the creation of the first human being as a process of “plasmation,” which is from the Greek word plasso wand where we get the English word “plastic” AKA “to form into shapes; mold or model.”
The Ancient Egyptians (Mizraim) defined spirit as the creative power of Amun which was also called “the spirit of God,” the breath of life poured into our nostrils in which he molds man. You will find Amun is always painted in a blue color being symbolical of his alchemical nature of the decrees of the Most High God whose servants are identified by the wisdom and truth they dispell from their lungs as great Orators.
This is why the Levite High Priest had worn a Blue Sapphire (Sphir) stone on his Breast Plate covering his heart and lungs for they represented the word of God.
The true meaning of Sepher in Hebrew is written web (Sphir) and it is also listed as a city in the Bible of which Eusebius places in the tribe of Judah between Eleutheropolis and Ascalon.
Irenaeus explains this scientific process of human alchemy in detail when he writes about “Plasmation being the Formation of the Flesh out of the Earth” and to become Wholly or what we would call Holy today would be when the God of Peace sanctifies us wholly ie: “I pray God your whole Spirit, and Soul and Body.”
Irenaeus said, “That is, but when this Spirit mixed with the Soul, ‘is united with the Flesh, by reason of this Effusion (or Infusion) of the Spirit, the Man is made Perfect ‘ and Spiritual [i. e. Immortal.] But if the Spirit ‘ be wanting to the Soul, He is truly Animal, who is ‘ such and being left Carnal, He will be Imperfećt, ‘ retaining indeed the Image [or Impression] in the ‘ Flesh, but not Affuming the Similitude [Likeness] by ‘the Spirit.
“For neither is the Plasmation [the ‘ Formation] of the Flesh [out of the Earth] itself in ‘ itself, the Perfect Man, but the Body of Man, and a ‘ part of Man: Neither is the Soul itself, in itself, the ‘ Man, but the Soul of Man, and a Part of Man. Nor ‘ is the Spirit, Man, for its called Spirit, not Man. But ‘ the Commixtion, [Conjunćtion] and Union of all these, constitutes the Perfect Man.
For this reason, ‘ the Apostle, explaining himself, says, (1 Theff. v.23.) ‘ And the very God of Peace fänétify you wholly; and ‘I pray God your whole Spirit, and Soul and Body “ ‘ be preserved blameless, unto the coming of the Lord “Jesus Christ.
This is was also known as the plasmation or creation of Adam which is reckoned among the generations down through Jesus Christ.
The word plasmatation shows us that as it relates to the creation of Adam and Christ pertaining to plasma is a thing that is formed or molded from clay or wax, an image, assumed form or manner; “A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.” Of plasmatic origin means “plastic or formative; a molded figure, an image or one who forms or creates; a creator.”
Today, science has verified these teachings by clarifying that is plasma is the “fluid part of the blood that is aptly named plasma for its plasticity in molding and forming which the tissues of the body are built up.”
But it is important to note that “not everyone’s spirit on earth is cut of the same mold and or stone” for we are told by the apostle Paul that there are two separate molds for humanity and in Chronicles, there lists a specific people and or tribes who have been molded from the beginning to also become like God as potters with the king.
In reading these various Biblical passages I mention above, you will find that “One mold appears to be of God the potter” referenced above who are said to originate from the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah who lived there with the king for his work and the “other mold” is the “world around you.”
As it is said in Romans 12:2 where the apostle Paul says, “Do not let the world around you squeeze you into its mold.” And in Chronicles 4:23, “These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.”
Searching our modern era for clues for the whereabouts of the Holy City of the clay potters of God who are named “Netaim and Gederah,” I have found they were a people of the ancient Kingdom of Judah where Gedor is listed as ancient city in the mountains of Judah (Jos 15:58), and a chief City of the Benjamites resident at Jerusalem (1Ch 8:31; 1Ch 9:37). B.C. 536 or ante.
Looking further into this story, we find in the Hebrew (Phoenician) Bible that the Tribe of Simeon, the Simeonites were said to have gone to the entering in of Gedor in search of pasture for their flocks. They smote and expelled the Meunim, “and dwelt in their stead” (1 Chronicles 4:39).
In 1 Chronicles 4:38, we learn that “These men noted by name were the leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly and elsewhere more truly as “These were the names of some of the leaders of Simeon’s wealthy clans whose families grew.”
They are collectively described in King James Version as “those that dwelt among plants and hedges.”
The word Netaim is derived from the word Nata or Nat which means to be from, to spring forth, root and sometimes as plant, and or planters. For example, in Italian, nata means born.
I have found that Gederah was an old common Phoenician and or a Canaanite name that is also spelled Gedor, Geder, Gedar, Gadeira, and or Gedoroth etc. For example, Eusebius calls it Gadeira and Jerome calls it Gadora which was a village in the borders of Jerusalem, near the terebinth. It is probably represented today by Khirbet Jedur, about 7 miles North of Hebron (PEF, III, 313, Sh XXI).
The race of people who hailed from here as referred to as a Gederathite such as “Josabad the Gederathite” (q.v.) belonged (1Ch 12:4); as also “Jeroham of Gedor,” and among the Benjamites were the sons of Jeroham of Gedor (1 Chronicles 12:7) – Joelah and Zebadiah (Obed, Obediah, Bediah, Beda, Widow’s Won) were among the mighty men that joined David in his difficulties at Ziklag (1Ch 12:7). The son of Jeiel of Gibeon, a Benjaminite and an ancestor of Saul (1 Chron 8:31; 9:37).
As I explained in my essay, Abibalus: King Hiram’s Father is the Widow’s Son, King Hiram’s son is 2 Samuel 4:2 to Ishbosheth, who is said to be “Saul’s son,” had two men who were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin.)
Abibalus: King Hiram’s Father is the Widow’s Son
In the ancient Scripture, the city listed as Beeroth (AKA Berytus, Berith, Beirut, Baruth, and Tyre) was located seven miles from Jerusalem, toward the city of Nicopolis. Beeroth is said to be of the Children of Jaakan (Jachin) and a city of the Gibeonites (Masons) Joshua 9:17; assigned to Benjamin 2 Samuel 4:2.
Eusebius says, Beeroth was seven miles from Jerusalem, toward Nicopolis. Jerome writes Neapolis, or Naplouse instead of Nicopolis or The Holy Village of Ayios Nikolaos.
The Holy Village of Ayios Nikolaos (Saint Nicholas) on Crete
Nicopolis was anciently called Neapolis (Naplouse or Napolose) by Jerome and is listed as a city in Samaria between the Mountains of Gebal and Gerizem approximately 24 miles North of Jerusalem. As you can witness with all names from this time, the city Jerome calls Neapolis is also known as Nicolopolis and I have found it also under the names of Sychar, called also Sichem, and Shechem.
The Nicolaitans come from the city known as Nicopolis or Nicomedia. Nicopolis in Greek: Νικόπολις Nikópolis, means “City of Victory” or Actia Nicopolis. Strabo states that it was founded by Augustus Caesar.
The Nicolaitans
THE TRIBE OF SIMON AND THE SANHEDRIN
Biblically speaking as it relates to the Tribe of Judah is the family of our Lord, this location could be considered to be both the most Holy place on earth where possibly the bones of the first Apostles would be found and also could be called the “First Supreme Court of Judah” known as “the Sanhedrim.”
The Sanhedrin or Sanhedrim was the supreme judicial council at the Temple of Jerusalem, which was the seat of the Sanhedrin. Two of the most important men to rule from here are Jonathan and his brother Simon who ruled after as found on the coins of Simon and his successors.
When the Sanhedrin (Acts iv. 7) asked Peter, “By what power or by what name have ye done this?” Simon replied, “By the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth doth this man stand here before you whole.”
As this relates to the Ancient Gnostic mythos and the Abrahamic religions, Jesus and mankind, our bodies act as shells or unholy husks that serve as plasma or molds for the spirit that controls our bodies whether it be the Counterfeit Spirit or the Holy Spirit.
To become a Savior of the human race, the spirit MUST come from the true God in order to identify as the “Holy Spirit” for you will know them by their works.
MOE’S COMMENTARY
The Matrix in which you and I live was set up from everlasting in Psalm 2:6, “I have set my King upon my holy hill” “to pour forth” (as of molten metal), then “to put down,” “to appoint or establish” the Wisdom was from everlasting exalted as ruler and disposer of all things from the beginning; i.e. before the world was begun to be made.
Since the beginning of the Ages, humans have sought to understand these immortal laws that govern the world and themselves. At first, they had errored in thinking that it was man who was the arbitrator, legislators, and final judge who would determine their fates.
As time progressed and the cosmology of the human race had further developed through the knowledge of who can be called “God’s anointed” beings that have come to us in the form of Holy Men, Sages and or Saints. These Secret Agents molded by God from the first sentient beings sent to us from the netherworld with a message that it is not man who decides the fate of humanity.
In fact, it is the immortal microscopic legal representatives in the unseen world that both inhabit our bodies and the ride the filamentary dark matter connecting us all to one another by carrying the light of the message of God to those with “an eye” to see.
We can say that these special beings have been ordained with a task and or a crown to act as intermediaries between man, God, and both the good and bad Demons who they govern.
We learn in Ephesians 2:10; “God has made us what we are, and in our union, with Christ Jesus, he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.”
Meaning it wasn’t man or a priest who anointed Jesus, it was God working through plasmatation and it wasn’t Jesus who was the spirit, he was just the firstborn man of the flesh verified by DNA as one of the Old Ones who became wholly through God by transmuting his Spirit, Soul, and Body into the Holy Communion to become the “Perfect Man” whose ideas are obviously from the Holy Spirit and because he walked the talk and live the Word, he was ultimately judged by his fellow Brethren to have been the savior.
As this relates to the Ancient Gnostic mythos and the Abrahamic religions, Jesus and mankind, our bodies act as shells or unholy husks that serve as plasma or molds for the spirit that controls our bodies whether it be the Counterfeit Spirit or the Holy Spirit.
To become a Savior of the human race, the spirit MUST come from the true God in order to identify as the “Holy Spirit” for you will know them by their works.
This is why Jesus is from the Tribe of Judah which is where we get the English word idea which is originally derived from the old Greek oida, eido, eidomen, and oidamen and later as Idaean, Judiean, Judean, Juda, and or Judah. As I explained in my article, “Jesus: The Tribe of Idea (Judah),” https://www.gnosticwarrior.com/tribe-idea.html
This is what it says in Scripture that God anointed Jesus with the Spirit so that the Spirit might anoint believers with salvation.
As St. John says (John 1:1), “In the beginning was the Word;” and Christ prays, “Glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was” (John 17:5).
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call – one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is overall, and through all and in all. Eph. 4:4-6
MORE MOLDED BIBLE VERSES FOR GOD TRUE BEGOTTEN SONS
Job 33:6
Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
Job 38:14
Like clay is molded by a signet ring, the earth’s hills and valleys then stand out like the colors of a garment.
Rom 8:29
For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 9:20
On the contrary, who are you mere man that you are to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, “Why did you make me like this?”
Gal 4:19
My little children, for whom I am again suffering birth pangs until Christ is completely and permanently formed (molded) within you.
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ART: Brendan Flynn
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
