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Robert Bauval Adds to The "9-11" Mystery

A few days ago writer
and sometimes partner of Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, posted a note
on Hancock's web site concerning the September 11th attacks and the various
"coincidences" around that date. Many of these we had already
noted in our own story on the subject, "Who's
the Enemy, Really?", but since Bauval added a few new twists
to the tale, we decided to reprint the post and include a link to the
original.
We have continued
to watch with some amusement as Bauval and Hancock continue to parse words and
dance around the obvious connections between various Masonic/Templar mysteries
and many prominent modern day figures and events. They continue to deny the
obvious, refusing to make the same kinds of connections in modern day events
that they so willing assert into interpretations of ancient events and
historical figures. It is our opinion that neither will ever truly figure out
the truth of they have uncovered unless they are willing to think the
unthinkable.
Still, some of
these recent statements have added useful information to the debate, and for
that reason we will continue to cite their work where it is applicable and
encourage them to expand the basis of their belief systems.
C'mon guys, you're
almost there ...
From:
http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=75176&t=75176
SATAN’S
CALLING CARD
SEPTEMBER 11: A DATE TO REMEMBER.
By Robert G. Bauval
Time and Place
Historical events are fixed by the time and place they occurred. And this,
as we all know, is expressed in a calendar date and the name of location.
On face value, this appears obvious enough. After all, I was born on the
5th March 1948 in the city of Alexandria, as officially recorded on my
birth certificate. No discussion, period. Ah, but what about much earlier
historical events such as, say, the famous battle of Kadesh between the
army of Ramses II and the Hittites, as depicted on the pylon walls of
the Rameseum near the city of Luxor in Upper Egypt? In this case there
are as many ‘dates’ ranging from c.1280 BC to c. 1298 BC depending which
textbook you pick up. Even the exact location of this battle is a matter
of some contention, and there are disagreement as to whether the battle
was a ‘victory’ or a ‘defeat disguised as a victory’ for Ramses II. But
there is worse. When it comes to such popular historical events such as,
for example, the Biblical Exodus, well, forget it. Historians can’t even
agree if it happened at all, let alone give us an exact date or the exact
route taken by the Jews. The problem with historical events such as these
is that they are ‘dated’ i.e. recorded, on different calendar systems
or by the ‘reigns’ of such and such a kings and suchlike methods, presenting
a nightmarish confusion for the chronologist. As for the location’s name,
that, too, is given in different languages often leading to totally wrong
conclusions. Think of the Arc of the Covenant or Noah’s Ark and you’ll
get the picture. There is, too, the possibility that certain locations
are, in a sense, chosen for symbolic reasons. Think of the terrorist attacks
on the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which were almost certainly
masterminded by Ossama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda organisation. In the minds
of the terrorists these bombings were, of course, attacks on the ‘United
States’ and thus, in a sense, projected elsewhere to geographical locations
either arbitrarily or for strategic convenience. But wait, this surely
does not apply to the 11th September attacks on American soil? These attacks
were clearly aimed at the United States. Well, yes…and no. Let’s look
at this more closely.
Firstly the 11th September of the year 2001 AD (Anno Domini) is based
on the Gregorian calendar. For the Islamic calendar this date fell on
the 23rd Jumaada Al Thani of the year 1422 A.H. (Anno Hegira); for the
Ethiopian calendar it was the 1st Meskerem of the year 7501; in the Coptic
(Christian Egyptian) calendar it was the 1st Thout of the year 1725, and
according to the Jewish calendar it was the 23rd Elul of the year 5761.
Confused? There’s more. The Ethiopian 1st Meskerem and the Coptic 1st
Thout are the New Year’s Day for both these calendars. The Ethiopian and
Coptic ‘New Year’, in fact, always fall on the 11th September of the Gregorian
calendar (except on leap years, where an extra day is added). But check
this. In the year 1999 of the Gregorian calendar, the “11th September”
marked not only the Coptic and Ethiopian ‘New Year’ and also the Jewish
New Year (which fell on 1st Tishri 5760). This is because the Jewish ‘New
Year’, which is a bit like the Christian Easter, is not fixed by changes
because of the complex way it is determined such as the sighting of the
new moon and also that it must not fall on certain days of the week. The
Jewish ‘New Year’ can fall anywhere between the first week of September
and the first week of October and, statistically, more than often somewhere
in the middle like, for example near or on 11th September. The historical
roots of all these ancient calendars are to be found mostly in ancient
Egyptian going as far back as 3000 BC. The ancient Egyptian civic calendar,
probably established in the forth millennium BC, was made up of 12 months
of 30 days with each month having 3 ‘weeks’ of ten days called Decans.
But to keep up with the (approximate) solar year of 365 days, the Egyptians
also added 5 extra or epagomenal days, known as the Birth of the Neters
(divine principles or ‘gods’), which included the celebrated mythological
couple, Osiris and Isis. The ‘Beginning of the Year’ or New Year’s Day
of the Egyptians was marked by the first dawn rising of Sirius, a star
sacred to the goddess Isis, which originally occurred on the day of the
summer solstice i.e. on the 21st June Gregorian. This special day was
called 1st day of the 1st month of Thoth. But because of the ¼ day difference
as well as a small variance the sidereal year and the tropical year, this
after all man-made calendar slowly ‘drifted’ away from both the heliacal
rising of Sirius and the summer solstice, such that by the early Christian
times the 1st of the month of Thoth had drifted to the 11th September
Gregorian, which is why the Egyptian-Coptic ‘New Year’ i.e. 1st of Thoot,
starts on that date.
Fine so
far. But what does all this have to have with the 11th September attacks?
Peace Treaty
In
September 1999 a long-awaited peace treaty, known as WYE II, was signed
between the PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and the Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak. The signature, which had taken place on the 4th September
1999 at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sham El Sheikh, was, in fact to
become officially effective seven days later i.e. on the 11 September
1999. The actual wording on the Wye II treaty reads "This Memorandum
will enter into force one week from the date of its signature. Made and
signed in Sharm El Sheikh, this Fourth day of September 1999." The
WYEE II agreement was so named because it followed the so-called Wye I
negotiations that begun on the 9th and 10th September 1993 by an secret
exchange of private letters between PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. These letters revealed that the two bitter
enemies had, in fact, been engaged for many months in secret negotiations
in Oslo, Norway. In Rabin's letter it is confirmed that the PLO, which
so far had been unofficially represented in the Palestinian Delegation
established under the so-called Madrid formula, was to be recognised by
Israel as the only representative of the Palestinian people. Rabin's official
recognition, which is dated 10th September 1993, came in reply to a letter
from Arafat dated 9th September 1993, in which the PLO also recognised
the State of Israel and further pledged to delete certain articles in
the old PLO Charter which had denied the existence of Israel. These negotiations
ended in the so-called ‘Declaration of Principles’ signed on the 13th
September 1993, and finally led to the WYE II peace treaty that came into
effect on the 11th September 1999. To many radical Islamic fundamentalists
and, to be fair, to many radical Jewish fundamentalists, the peace treaty
was seen as a terrible betrayal of the worse possible kind and it probably
was the main cause of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Not
surprisingly, many regarded the date of “11th September” as the 'Day of
Infamy' when their historical religious cause was finally sold out by
Arafat and Barak. Ironically, this ‘Day of Infamy’ also happened to be
in the year 1999, when the ‘New Year’ of the Jews and also the ‘New Year’
of the Egyptian Copts fell on the 11th September. The Jewish ‘New Year’
is generally known as Rosh Hashanah (which means ‘Beginning of the Year’),
but itt is also called Yom Hadin (the Day of Judgement); Yom Hazikaron
(the Day of Memorial) and is thought of as ‘The Day of Penitence’ when
starts a period of ‘ten days of penitence’ leading to Yom Kippur (Passover)
‘The Day of Atonement’. But the Jewish ‘New Year’ has a much deeper meaning
to orthodox Jews. It is associated to the Messianic Age, and many Jews
today actually believe that it will be on that ‘Feast of Trumpets’ that
their long awaited Messiah will come and make his appearance on the ‘Temple’
at Jerusalem. This day, it is said, will be the ‘ultimate redemption’
of Israel. Curiously, in recent years fundamental Christians have also
associated the 11th September with the Second Coming of Christ, probably
to conform with the ‘Rosh Hashanah’ Judaic prophecies but also, apparently,
because some believe the true ‘star of Bethlehem’ appeared to the Magi
on the 11th September 3 BC in the east, when a bright light was seen at
the conjunction of the ‘star of kings’, Regulus, and the ‘planet of kings’,
Jupiter, and when the sun, Venus and Mercury were in Virgo.
Pentagon,
Pillars and the Temple of Jerusalem
Eerily,
the date of September 11 is also actually incorporated in the construction
history of the US Pentagon, one of the terrorists’ most coveted targets
in 2001. Any self-respecting employees of the US Pentagon will quickly
tell you these days that ‘ground breaking’ ceremony took place on 11th
September 1941 during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This ‘dual’
dating tag that is now forever locked in the annals of the US Pentagon
is too much of a coincidence to be simply ignored. Could the terrorists
have intended to draw attention to the year 1941 or, more specifically,
to the year 1941 and something to do with President Roosevelt? But why?
Let’s take a closer look. 1941 was, of course, the year that the US entered
World War II. September 11, 2001 is an attempt to drawn the United States
into a ‘World War III’. So far, there seems to be some ‘sense’ in making
this link. But how does President Roosevelt himself fit in this ‘message’?
What has Roosevelt got to do with the present PLO-Israeli conflict?
Roosevelt was sworn in on the 4th March 1933 as the 32nd President of
the United States. Coincidence would have it that he was also a 32nd Degree
Freemason of the Scottish Rite. His Vice-President was Harry Truman, who
was a 33rd Degree Freemason. In 1945 Truman became America’s 33rd President.
But so what? Surely these are just coincidences? Perhaps; but, perhaps
they are not seen as ‘coincidences’ by Anti-Masons and religious fundamentalists
in view of what these two man participated in ‘creating’: the modern State
of Israel. In this respect, the “32nd and 33rd degrees’ bear a curious
relevance to all this. Let us see why.
The Scottish Rite, which belongs to an elite branch of Freemasonry known
as the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree, was founded in 1801 at the
city of Charleston in South Carolina. Its origins are obscure, but it
is generally agreed by Masonic historians that it started in the 1740s
in the city of Bordeaux, France and brought to the American Colonies soon
after. The idea was to link the normal or ‘craft’ Freemasonry with the
elitist medieval order of the Knights Templar, a powerful political and
financial organisation that originally was formed to protect the Holy
Land --and especially Jerusalem-- from the Muslims. The Knights Templar,
in fact, got their evocative name from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem,
where had once stood Solomon’s Temple, and where these Christian knights
had established their first camp during the Crusades. Jerusalem had been
wrenched from the Muslims in the 11th century AD, and was the ‘Kingdom
of Jerusalem’ was placed under the protection the Christian knights, mostly
Knights Templar, who had sworn solemn oath to protect it. But in 1187
AD the Holy Land was lost again to the Muslims, when the army of Saladin
crushed a Knights Templar’s army at the battle of Hattin on the 4th July.
The Kingdom of Jerusalem eventually surrendered to Saladin on the 2nd
October 1187, and from this time onwards, it remained in Muslim hands
until modern times. Not surprising then, the rituals of Scottish rite
Freemasonry are Judeo-Christian and those of the top degrees between the
30th and the 33rd are intensely ‘Templar’ in as such as they advocate
the symbolic ‘rebuilding’ of the Temple of Solomon. Today, where once
stood this much-fantasised Temple of Solomon, are to be seen the Mosque
of Omar and the Mosque of Al Aqsa, two very sacred Muslim shrines and
where the Prophet Mohamad is beleived to have ascended to heaven. To put
it mildly, the Temple Mound in Jerusalem is Islam’s most venerated place,
some saying even more sacred than the Kaaba at Makka. By a terrible twist
of fate it is also the most haloed place in Judeo-Christian tradition
and, mostly, to neo-Templar secret societies such as the Scottish Rite.
Central to the Scottish Rite rituals are the so-called Masonic ‘Tracing
Boards’, which are usually cloths placed on the floor of the lodge on
which can be seen symbols representing the Temple of Solomon, usually
two tall pillars, called Jachin and Boaz, and in the centre a five-pointed
star, pentagon known as the ‘Blazing Star’. The ‘Blazing Star’ is identified
s ‘Lucifer’, but not in the malevolent sense that this name generally
has today, but to the classical ‘Lucce-Ferre’ or ‘Morning Star’ of the
Romans i.e. Venus, which in the Bible is associated to Messianic events.
But it can easily be seen how, to terrorist groups such as Hamas and Al
Qaeda, such and elitist and secret society in America might be perceived
as ‘Satanic’, hence the crude name allocated by radical Arabs of ‘Great
Satan’ to describing the United States and it leaders. But to be fair,
all this is not altogether surprising. In 1881, for instance, a huge scam
was mounted against the Scottish Rite Freemasons of Charleston by a French
author called Leo Taxil, who ‘exposed’ the ‘Satanic’ rituals of this fraternity
and named many senior politicians and clerics as being involved. The ‘Leo
Taxil Hoax’, as it is know in Masonic circles, caused much bad press for
the Masons, and brought a wave of anti-Masonic attacks from the general
public and the Church. Now the 32 degree rituals of the Scottish Rite
(the 33rd is a title an not a ritual) are said to be related to the 32
Paths of Wisdom of the Sephiroth or Tree of Life found in the Judeo-Christian
Kabala. The Kabala is a mystical system of learning or initiation based
on the idea that the Holy Scriptures, such as the Torah, the Talmud and
the Old Testament, are somehow encoded in the ‘language of God’ the key
of which (Kabala) was handed to Moses and passed on to the Jewish sages
and Rabbis. Apparently the secrets of the Kabala are in the mystical understanding
of the 22 letters of the Jewish alphabet. These letters, which are seen
as ‘paths’ or ‘roads’, link up the 10 ‘emanations of God’ that make up
the Sephiroth, and thus together make up the 32 Paths. The same idea,
interestingly enough, is also found in the modern esoteric Tarot Cards
which was invented by a Scottish Rite Freemason, Court de Gebelin. Even
more interestingly, the 31th, 32nd and 33rd degrees, which are the most
crucial to the ‘rebuilding’ of the Temple of Solomon, also are found in
the actual geographical latitudes or parallels that encompass the modern
State of Israel. The 32 parallel passes, in fact, just a little south
of the city of Jerusalem. It has often been remarked that the ‘Mother
Lodge’ of the Scottish rite Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree was fixed
at the city of Charleston in South Carolina because the 33rd degree parallel
passes almost right through it. Also on some certificates of the Scottish
Rite 33rd degree, the actual geographical latitude in degrees of the issuing
lodge is given alongside the name and location of the lodge, indicating
some sort of mystical connection between this ritual and the geographical
location of the lodge. One can easily see, therefore, how radical fundamentalists
might perceive the creation of the State of Israel which was encouraged
by F.D. Roosevelt and ‘recognised’ in the 14th May 1948 by Harry Truman.
Many ‘Founding Fathers’ of the United States were, in fact, Freemasons.
A year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th,
1776, Benjamin Franklin, the most famous of the signatories, was sent
to Paris to obtain funds and military support for the American War of
Independence against the British. Franklin, too, was a Freemason, and
he immediately joined the famous and very influential Nine sisters Lodge
in Paris. Also members of this lodge are said to have been the famous
hero the marquis de Lafayette, the future US President Thomas Jefferson,
and the future leaders of the French Revolution, Danton and Marat. Also
at the Nine Sisters lodge were registered the inventor of the Tarot cards
Court de Gebelin, the celebrated astronomer, Gerome de Lalande, and the
mathematician, Gaspard Monge. Interestingly, the last two were largely
responsible for the creation of a new ‘Republican’ calendar based on 12
months of 30 days, with each months divided into three ‘decanis’ or ‘weeks’
of ten day, giving a total of 360 days. Five extra days, known as the
‘5 days of virtues’, were then added to make up 365 days of the solar
year. This calendar was almost certainly based on the ancient Egyptian
prototype and was probably masterminded at the Nine Sisters lodge. It
was at that time that Court de Gebelin made the link between the ‘Blazing
Star’ of the Freemasons with the five-pointed star symbol of Sirius, the
‘star of Isis’ (on which the original ancient Egyptian calendar was based).
More intriguing, Court de Gebelin identified this star to the Tarot card
No. 17, known as ‘The Star’, which depicts a woman wearing a large star
on her head. Court de Gebelin, as well as other scholars at the time,
knew very that at the Egyptian calendar had originally been fixed on the
first dawn rising of Sirius i.e. the ancient Egyptian ‘New Year’, which
takes place at the summer solstice, 21 June on the Gregorian calendar.
But at the time of Gebelin’s ‘discovery’, the Gregorian calendar had only
recently been introduced to replace the old Julian calendar established
by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. The conversion of the Julian calendar into
the Gregorian calendar had, in fact, been imposed by Pope Gregory XII
in 1582 but had not been adopted until 1752 in the American colonies.
According to the old Julian calendar the 21 June was no longer the summer
solstice but, instead, fell on the 4th July of the new Gregorian calendar.
It was then customary during those early transitory years of the two calendars
to include both the Julian and the Gregorian date on official documents.
Interestingly, Freemasons consider their own ‘New Year’ to begin at the
summer solstice, which in the old Julian calendar would be the ‘4th July’.
Was the Declaration of Independence signed on that date for ‘Masonic’
reasons? Who knows.
Shangri La
It has been seriously suggested by the US Pentagon that one of the aborted
targets of the 11th September 2001 attacks may have been Camp David, in
Maryland. ‘Camp David’ is, to say the least, very evocative of ‘Camp Temple
Solomon’ of the original Knights Templar. And to the Arabs ‘Camp David’
is, above all else, the place where the Egyptian President. Anwar Al Sadat,
signed the first peace treaty with Israel with Prime Minister Menahim
Begin on the 17th September 1978. The original name of Camp David was,
in fact, Shangri La, and was first established by President F.D. Roosevelt
in 1941-2. It was subsequently renamed ‘Camp David’ during the administration
of President Eisenhower in 1953, apparently after his grandson, David
Eisenhower. Camp David is the traditional place of retreat of US presidents
since F.D. Roosevelt created the ‘camp’ and where many of had come to
‘see the whole world very clearly during times of conflict and strife.’
To Arab and especially Egyptian fundamentalists, however, Camp David is
thought of as the place where Sadat ‘betrayed’ the Muslim people. So much
was Sadat’s action vilified by the fundamentalists, that it caused him
his life in 1981. Camp David was, quite obviously, a very hot target for
11th September terrorists.
But could there have been an undetected ‘fifth’ target other than the
twin towers of the WTC, the Pentagon and the aborted Camp David targets?
And if so, what would the terrorists have selected? Again, we must resort
to the same symbolic ‘language’ made up from the strange Kabalistic-Judeo-Christian-Templar
brew that appears to be the trade mark of the 11th September attacks.
The Woman with the Star
We have seen how the so-called 32 Paths or ‘degrees’ of enlightenment
were associated with the ‘rebuilding’ of ‘Solomon’s Temple’ as well as
with the idea of the Masonic ‘Blazing Star’ or pentagon. We have seen
how this ‘star’ was also linked to the Egyptian five-pointed symbol of
Sirius, especially in the Tarot card called the ‘Star’ and represented
by a woman wearing a seven-pointed star on her head. Often the Kabalistic
Sephiroth or Tree of Life, with it’s distinct 22 ‘paths’ and 10 ‘emanations’
is also shown next to the woman with the star. ‘The Star’ is card numbered
17 and is preceded by cards 16, known as ‘The Tower’, and then card 15
known as ‘The Devil’. ‘The Tower’ card, which is thus in the middle of
this series, depicts a gruesome scene showing a very tall building whose
top part has been struck by lightning and has caught fire, and with people
falling off the building. Often next to this burning tower is shown the
Sephiroth. Card 15, ‘The Devil’, shown the ‘goat of Mendes’ (Satan) fronted
by a five-pointed star or pentagon. In view of the striking imagery of
these series of Tarot cards to the actual targets of 11th September, as
well as the connection of the Tarot to the Scottish Rite, we cannot be
blamed to wonder if the terrorists had the Tarot in mind when they planned
the attacks? For when we project these Tarot images on the actual geographical
landscape of the 11th September attacks, we can easily identify two of
the target areas: the ‘Tower’ with the WTC, and the ‘Pentagon’ (Devil),
the latter the ‘Great Satan’ of the terrorists, with the US Pentagon.
But if we are reading this grusome ‘message’ correctly, there should also
be the ‘women with the star’ in this scheme, and more precisely somewhere
on the ‘other side’ of the WTC towers. And when we look for her, there
she is: the Statue of Liberty, a ‘women’ wearing a tiara or crown in the
form of a ‘star’. Less known to the general public is that the cornerstone
for the Statue of Liberty was placed in a solemn ceremony in 1884 organised
by the Masonic lodges of New York. Again, if we are reading the ‘message’
correctly, there should be some association between the Statue of Liberty
and the ‘Blazing Star’ or Tarot ‘Star’. We recall that the latter were
identified to Sirius, the star sacred to the Egyptian goddess Isis. But
how could there possibly be a connection with this Egyptian icon and the
Statue of Liberty? Odd enough, there is. For the Statue of Liberty, which
was designed by the French sculptor Bartholdi and actually built by the
French Engineer, Gustave Eiffel (both well-known Freemasons), was not
originally a ‘Statue of Liberty’ at all, but first planned by Bartholdi
for the opening of the Suez Canal in Egypt in 1867. Bartholdi, like many
French Freemasons of his time, was deeply steeped in ‘Egyptian’ rituals,
and it has often been said that he conceived the original statue as an
effigy of the goddess Isis, and only later converted it to a ‘Statue of
Liberty’ for New York harbour when it was rejected for the Suez Canal.
The ‘star’ on the head of the Statue of Liberty might, therefore, be seen
as the star of Isis, Sirius, who rising marked the ‘New Year’ of the ancient
Egyptian calender and which now had ‘drifted’ to the “11th September”
of the Coptic-Egyptian calendar …and by a fluke of destiny to the ‘Date
of Infamy’ of PLO-Israeli peace treaty when it coincided with the Jewish
and Coptic ‘New Years’. Bearing in mind that Anwar Al Sadat was attempting
to bring together the three major religion, Islam, Christianity (Copts)
and Judaism, this date now takes a particular sinister meaning in the
wake of the terrible 11th September attacks.
But could the terrorists have known all this? Mystical Kabala has been
practiced by Muslim mystics for centuries. As for Knights Templar mysticism,
these are said to have originally derived from the contact of the Christian
knights with Muslim sages and Sufi mystics during the Crudades and even
after. In short, for any self-respecting Muslim mystic like many found
in organisation such as Al Qaeda, all this is, quite clearly, is kids’
stuff.
The question
is: who’s talking to whom?…
Far fetched? But so was the 11th September attack.
Only ‘Time’ will tell.
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