Jerusalem Poker “Three cardplayers are the central spokes in a free-wheeling epic fantasy that is both cosmic and profane, beautiful and preposterous, and explains just about everything on earth.”
“From what he could make out between the cryptic symbols, the assembly was a gathering of a group called the Order of the Mystic Shrine, a society of Freemasons made up of men with high Masonic degrees. The speaker was saying that Masons from many lodges in many countries had made the long journey to Jerusalem to take part in this international conclave of the Order, the first ever held in the rock chambers beneath the western ramparts of the Old City that had long been poularly known as Solomon’s Quarries, the spot where stonemasons in antiquity are said to have cut and dressed the stone blocks used by Solomon to build his temple.
And since we trace the origins of Freemasonry back to these very stonemasons, continued the speaker of the platform, it is truly a momentous event in history, albeit a secret one the world will never know about, for us to gather here and perform the mystical rites of our fraternal Order in the lofty chamber where Solomon’s temple was hewed from the earth, a chamber which can honestly be said to be Solomon’s temple in etertnity, this spacious are where we know stand, once carved out and emptied by our brothers, being nothing less than the material form of the spiritual shrine we carry within us and treasure in common.” [page 76]
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There are two further references to “Masons” on pages 78 and 79. Reference is made to John Robison‘s “Proofs of a Conspiracy” on page 197, explaining that the Templars captured control of the freemasons.
Nubar then goes on to make oblique references to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.“
Jerusalem Poker. Edward Whittemore. Avon Books, New York: 1978 ISBN: 0-380-44395-8 [paperback 408 pages] |