Friday, June 7, 2013

The Masonic town plan of Aba



                             THE ABA MASONIC TOWN PLAN


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On the grounds of St. Michael’s Anglican cathedral Aba is a marked and chained grave, with a lot of history. The man lying beneath is Charles, John D D..wa (1862-1936)who served as Bishop of the Niger from 1933to36, and one the  figures who must have been  behind the Masonic map plan of Aba. He was a regular mason and might have also been linked to many other arcane and esoteric organizations. History has it that he came to Aba in middle to end 1800’s and found Aba very conducive for development as the natives had at first welcomed them with open arms
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He was instrumental in the establishment of St. John’s parish Osusu which at the time was just a local church, used to convert natives and which was probably at the centre of land conscription in the area under the British Empire.

A second look at the plan reveals information that was not first noticed by our research team. From the new design one sees a more elaborate plan with deeper hidden mysteries which, we have tried to unravel. By adding imaginary lines using the rules of geometry a complete pyramid with a compass manifests under the hand previously thought to be pointing upwards. The compass seems to obey the laws of perspective with one point appearing shorter than the other as it points to the center of the square. The other point appears longer while seemingly touching the top point of the second pyramid.


To the east one sees a figure thus:
   
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 on top of a rectangular box like design which kind of slips under the one of the arm of the large square towards the old town cemetery.

We find it thus, a remarkable design depicting the burial of Hiram Abiff as well as the landscape of the great pyramid in Gizeh. The same pyramid historians have linked to Khufu, “the pyramid of Cheops”.

The other pyramids both linked to Khafre and Menkuare are not depicted.
In this interpretation the figure we had shown above represents the sphinx, the wise “lion man” of the desert. A chimera of four animals in the ancient Egyptian view i.e. man, lion, eagle, bull. The first two being used mostly to describe qualities, which according to ancient esoteric principles represent alchemical air and fire…….

The sphinx is facing “east”, and overlooks the “Nile”, here represented by the Aba River commonly known as ‘waterside’.

Historians who view Egypt as the cradle of stone masonry and as such the best example of the beginning of our “craft’ will be in agreement with this design as it shows the landscape of Egypt as archeologist believe it must have looked back on 4000bc or so. No wonder the Masonic year is said to have started right about the same period.

As at that time and beyond, Egypt was ruled by a series of Semi divine kings.  Writers such as Hancock and Bauval refer to them as the ‘”followers of Horus”; and who according to evidence instituted or possessed a secret king making ceremony, before 3150-3100BC. According to history, Menes was the first of a series of 8 rulers whom Manetho the Egyptian sage and historian, referred to as the rulers of the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. So by the unification of both lands about 3150-3100BC, Menes symbolically signified Horus, who unified the upper kingdom and lower kingdoms of Egypt in what we term in modern times as ‘Egyptian mythology’.

Another significant fact is that at that time or probably during a later period, there existed two temple pillars in Upper and Lower Egypt.

The one in Lower Egypt was at Annu or Heliopolis also known as ‘On’ in the bible, which represented “Establishment”, perhaps erected when Menes had conquered and established himself as king over the lower land, and the other at the temple at Thebes to signify the might of Menes who had attacked from the upper kingdom.

This Temple was probably  where, during the later middle Kingdom period, when Memphis had been decimated and they were being ruled by the ‘Hyksos’, a desert tribe who invaded Egypt, the Egyptian priest hood put up a resistance against the invaders.

So Thebes was also later seen as the spiritual ‘stronghold’ of Egypt in religious matters, thus the pillar represented “Strength”.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, the ‘self -creating’  god Atum creates or gives birth to two children Shu and Tefnet; Shu and Tefnet gives birth to Geb and Nut or Nuit; Geb and Nut then gives birth to four children namely Osiris, Seth, Isis and Nephtys. These are the ‘ennead’ or group of nine deities.
Osiris is killed by his brother Seth and is decapitated into seven parts which Seth buries in seven different parts of Egypt. Isis, consort of Osiris, travels all over Egypt recovering all the seven parts, she puts them together and copulates with the dead Osiris to give birth to Horus.

Horus ruled over Lower Egypt while Seth ruled the upper kingdom. Then Horus becomes the crowned and conquering Lord of both kingdoms, by avenging his father’s death; in some versions he kills Seth to rule over Upper and Lower Egypt and in other versions, Geb overrules Seth and strips him of the upper kingdom, then hands it over to Horus.

The Templar connection:
According to legend(rites of Aebrmln) this tradition was brought by Moses who had grown up in the pharaohs household and trained as a prince from Egypt  to Canaan and it finally reached  Israel; and was later ‘instituted’ by the tribe of Judah whose symbol is also “the Lion”.
David’s son Solomon built the first temple and in front, were two pillars representing the same principles. After the destruction of the first temple, Zerubbabel on his return from exile in Babylon built a second temple. It was done with a sword in one hand and a trowel in the other.

Some historians claim that this second temple had gone through some dilapidation, when Herod decided to rebuild and his temple was finished sometime around 60-68AD, then it was destroyed in 69, 70 or 76 AD thereabout. It was claimed that  a spiritual sect had buried some of their wealth and knowledge under this temple before it was destroyed, and perhaps what was discovered in terms of ‘knowledge’ was used by nine knights (Hugues de Payen et al) to found The Knights Templar around 1118AD. It has also been suggested that Hugues de Payen was married to a Sinclair and the Roslyn chapel in Scotland has the same floor plan as the temple of Herod destroyed in 70 AD.

“Da Vinci” connection:
LEONARDO DA VINCI 1452-1519 AD ; 15th-16th Century, is described in Hamlyn’s Encyclopedic World Dictionary as: Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, mathematician, scientist.

  He is also known for two famous paintings, “La Gioconda” (The ‘Mona Lisa’) at the Louvre museum Paris, and the “Last supper”.  The latter was commissioned by the Monks of Santa Maria delle Grazie ‘to be painted on a wall of the refectory of the convent’, which he completed in 1498. It has been written that the moment chosen for the illustration is, when Christ pronounced the words “One of you shall betray me.”
Scholars have held that these two paintings together hold  keys to information some refer as a ‘code’ of sorts; more so elaborated upon by copies of the ‘last’  painting by other painters after Leonardo, who might have shared the same view.

 The first key to this code may be in the name of the artist himself, seen in certain quarters to represent the constellation of Leo, the zodiacal Lion and the fifth sign.  This is also reminiscent of the leonine features of the famous Sphinx of Egypt. This fact can be guessed, by reading both paintings in the right light. The information can also be divined from a meticulous search in comparison, through the elucidated writings of Hancock and Bauval, in their 1996 epochal volume “The message of the Sphinx”.
Leonardo was said to have shared the same views as the Templar’s, though by his time no known Templar organizations existed in the open, not after the burning on the stake of John Demolay, the grand master of the knights in the 1300’s
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In the ‘last supper’ painting ,it is said that Leonardo shared a view held by an ancient ‘sect’(Johaninne) and the ‘Merovingian knights’ that Jesus left a bloodline in secret, and the Magdalene was a receptacle(Grail) for this. He painted both Jesus and Mary Magdalene as a couple or a “mirror” of each other.
The ‘sect’, reputed to be a group which held John the Baptist in high esteem, and which, it was later claimed Jesus joined through baptism by John.

 The painting shows the figure of Jesus sits in the center of the table and reaches as if to pick a piece of bread, egg or stone like round object, with his right hand, while he seemly displays the third rock like object with his left. In between these is a second stony object.

Viewing the stones as representative of the three pyramids at Gizeh, the ‘Leo’ code mentioned above points Christ out as the Sphinx, a statue worshipped by a desert tribe from the Harran desert as Christ was worshipped by the Magi in his cradle. Coincidentally these ‘Chaldean priests’ were known to sojourn into the Harran desert to meditate and were perfect astrologers. So according to Davinci, Christ (the sphinx) seems more connected to Cheops (the Khufu) pyramid than the other two (Khafre and Menkuare). This may also allude to secret connection between the Kingdom in Jerusalem and the secret king making rituals of the followers of Horus.

In this light Christ becomes the crowned and conquering child Horus who unites both upper and lower kingdoms, heaven and earth. This might also lead us to read new meanings to the second Chapter of Mathew (the visit from the magi), with special attention on Vs 13 to 23 (ten verses in all). In v 15 is revealed what the Lord had said through the prophet “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
In viewing Christ, as the son of David, the ‘Lion’ of Judah and heir to the crown, the code opens up a portal to the searcher and observer. 

In the message from the Sphinx Hancock and Bauval reveals the Orion mystery. They show that the three pyramids represent the ‘belt of Orion’ in the Orion constellation in the Sky. They also showed how the horizon may have looked in the periods before Menes, and make a good argument for dating the pyramids later than 4000,5000 or 7000BC, in fact they seem to pinpoint 10500BC, while Davinci puts it at 11000BC through his code if well deciphered.
As at that time, with the other pyramids intact and the Nile flowing nearby the landscape looked this:

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This seems like a good representation of Orion on the ground according to Hancock and Bauval. The star is the sphinx; the three pyramids are Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, with the Nile flowing besides and mirroring the Milky Way.

One gets the feeling that this if translated to Hebrew, which if you read it to be the heiro -script of priests of Egypt spells “JA”, Yod and Aleph, and shows the first two letters in “Jaweh” and in roman figures “IX” represents the number nine, the Egyptian Ennead. Hugues de Payen and his eight knights total 9.
From the heavens the opposite becomes the reality the Hebrew translation reads AJ, Aleph –Yod and the Roman numerals XI =11, the number of the sephiras in kabala if you include the sphere of ‘Daat,’ “knowledge”

So we take it the Bishop probably viewed Christ in the same way the Templars or Davinci did; perhaps the same way he is viewed in the AASR, York rite and probably other masonic rites which lean towards the ancient and primitive rites of Egypt.

Let’s consider the other masonic links of the town plan shall we;
In the figure representing the Sphinx we have “constitution” crescent on which is a notable street “Santa Maria”. Constitution is a word used in regular masonry to differentiate as we say customs and usages. And Santa Maria delle Gracie is the name of the monastery which commissioned Davinci’s “Last Supper” in the 15th century. After Howells crescent in the same neighborhood, you get “Scotland” crescent. The land of Templar’s and the country of the Sinclair’s and where Roslyn chapel is located. Taken with constitution crescent we have “Scottish Constitution” which founded, consecrated and built the first and only Masonic temple in Aba.

Close by is York street, “York” was a “craft” rite in England that is extant there,  but still remains a rite in masonry that offers up to 11 degrees in some versions and 33 degrees in others; it’s well steeped in templar rituals.

Ehi road can be translated to English as Cow road. C.O W. Corn, oil, and wine, gifts king Solomon gave to King Hiram.

East Street which leads to the waterside or East of the view of the Sphinx. Masters Stand ‘due’ east in craft masonry.

 The “cemetery”: The Masonic significance to Hiram having been mentioned, I would like to draw your attention once again to the cemetery area, where as we can see the designer seems to have included some perspective.

Looking at the end of the square that ends by cemetery market, one notices a ‘slant’. This is intended to depict in a sense, perspective. Like the end of the e square is slightly lifted on that side, while the end of the square starting at Calabar Street appears flat. If you notice the compass on top of the Pyramid, it does not seem to be in position on any degree.

So to correct this, imagine moving the compass slightly towards  45 degree angle NE. you will notice that the shorter point of the compass will land of top of the square at Calabar street while the longer end will slip under the raised end of cemetery where it will be buried and ready for ‘work’ on the right degree. This degree is also the portal for the higher degrees of Mark Master, Royal Arch, and Rosé Croix etc. And in order to proceed under the “Scottish Constitution”, you will have to reduce from 3 to 2; now there lies another mystery on the map, which I’ll leave for those with the keys to solve.

Viewing the compass and pyramid as a huge clock, the hand holding the compass while pointing is at tilling time 12noon the big hand is at 9 while the little hand of the clock is at 3. The time is 3:45 another key into the “Chapter”. Then you will also notice that these numbers have something in common. 3,9,12.
3+9=12 and 12 reduces to 3 etc. But they are also missing something; which is the number 6.
If you include the missing number you get the cardinal points represented thus 12, 3, 6 &9 or progressively 3, 6, 9, 12. These are progressions of threes. Any student of the “Goetia” will see that these are the lesser key of Solomon.

Besides if you cross multiply 12 by6 and 3 by 9 you will get a mirror number 72, 27 they both reduce to the number 9=7+2. Looking at it from another view point 22 is the number of parts on the tree of life and the number of the Hebrew alphabets.  It reduces to the number 4; also2x2=4. While 77 is a very mystical number in lamechian terms. 7x7 =49.I’ll live those versed in the Babylonian ‘evocation’ system to fill in the blanks.

Now by using the reduction system in qabalah, 49 reduces to 13 which relates to the base figure and dimensions of the great pyramid and also a full moon circle for a year.  13 also reduces to 4
72 is a number esoterically linked to ‘Shemhamphorash’ which in turn relates to the aforementioned key of Solomon. 27 and 72 both relate to the magic square number 108 ie72=36 by 2, while 36 by 3=108. In the same vein 27 by 4=108; now 3and 4 relate magically in a very mystical way in the way of the “Rose”

But that’s not all. If you follow the progression you will get to 15 thus 3, 6,9,12, and 15. Fifteen is a special number for fellows of craft it also the “lamechian” number of the chambers in the ark of Noah. Looking at these numbers one can readily see the number of Endeavour lodge under the rolls of the Grand Lodge of Scotland 1593; this achieved by jumping  backwards over two numbers one at a time; the two numbers are 6 and 12 the same numbers which total 72 when multiplied; the key of Solomon. The regalia of Lodge Endeavour has two crossed keys depicted on it as part the design.

Lastly for the cinch, we also think that the name ENDEAVOUR is a cipher for “EDEN” “OUR”“AV “; an allusion to Garden Avenue on top of   ‘St John’s Pyramid’. It also seem like it was chosen as an inspiration to ‘try’ to solve the mystery; to continue from the point where the previous masons stopped.
So therefore  by placing Lodge Endeavour under the second pyramid in 1963, the colonial masons bequeathed within it’s safe depository, the final keys to the Map.

Bibliograph/theque;

MESSAGE OF THE SPHINX; Hancock and Bauval

HIRAM KEY; Christopher knight and Robert Lomas

THE ORION MYSTERY; Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert

GOETIA; Compiled and Translated by S.L. “MacGregor” Mathers; Editing and Additional Material by Aleister Crowley

ENCYCLOPEDIC WORLD DICTIONARY; Hamlyn

CHAMBER’S ENCYCLOPEADIA; N.R.E VOL 5

HOLY BIBLE; NIV

THE HUNDRED BEST PICTURES; Arranged and Edited by C. Hubert Letts

ANCIENT EGYPTO BABYLONIAN RITE OF MAGES AND LAMECH OF NINEVEH; Rectified rite of Memphis

LEONARDO DA VINCI 1452-1519 AD (15th-16th Cent.) “Magus” ©2012 by Frater: A.: A: Menkheru

AKHUNATEN’S WORD;   ©2012 by Fra :. Tau Ar-Mn-Kohene-Aten

ANCIENT AND PRIMITIVE RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MIZRAIM;

THE CRAFT; Irish Constitution

GOOGLE EARTH; ©2010 Google

LAST SUPPER; Leonardo da Vinci




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