Ancient Mysteries, Jesus Christ and the Terrorism of 9/11.

Dr. Mohiuddin Waseem

AbrahamicFaiths@hotmail.com

I consider 9/11 a cowardly act of terrorism committed against America in which some 3000 innocent people lost their lives. Such acts of killing innocents are condemnable and those responsible deserve swift justice without regards to their race, religion or nationality. Having said that it is also important to ask ourselves why in the first place terrorists chose the twin towers and the pentagon for their terrorist activities? And not some other public sites such as the commuter trains of New York, the golden gate bridge of San Francisco or the marvelous casinos of Las Vegas for that purpose. Your answer will be and I take it, that both these monuments reflected economic as well as military might of America. But beyond this generalization there is an interesting twist, which I would like to share with you and you will appreciate the fact that the choice of their targets reflected a deeper understanding of the system against which the terrorists were operating.

But before we start, a little introduction to ancient mysteries is essential so as to understand the significance of current events and the modus operandi of the terrorists. In almost every pagan religious system of antiquities it was assumed that gods are distant from their creations living at far away places like the starry heavens; and therefore to reach them people erected pyramids in Egypt and high placed temples at the mountains in India and stepped ziggurats in Sumeria. But before any pyramid was erected for that purpose more ancient were the “Pillars”, which had the same function of reaching between the world of man and the world of gods. That is precisely what the Holy Quran tells us that while in confrontation with Moses, Pharaoh said to his courtiers “...Build me a lofty building, that I may attain the ways and means of reaching the heavens, and that I may mount up to the God of Moses” (40; 36-37).

Such pillars were abundant in ancient cities of Egypt and when two of these pillars were considered united by the heavenly crossbeam; the three parts were imagined as architectural doorway greeting the rising sun from the east. The whole complex represented stability as long as the pillars remained intact.

(The “dollar sign” depicting the rising sun between the pillars)

Jews borrowed this Egyptian philosophy and introduced these pillars into the Old Testament where King Solomon is said to have erected these pillars at the entrance of the Solomon’s Temple and named them ‘Boaz’ meaning strength is in God, and ‘Jachin’ meaning God is our foundation(Holy Bible: 1 King 7;21 & 2 Chronicle 3;17).

A system of governance was modeled after this ideology where these two pillars were figuratively replaced by a king and a high priest, with god’s providence resting upon them. That is why the Jewish priestly sect by the name Essene living at Qumran (near Jerusalem) about two thousand years ago and close to the time of Jesus appearance was waiting for two Messiahs, one kingly and the other priestly as recorded in their “Dead Sea Scrolls”.

Muslims on the other hand believe that Jesus was the messiah, with no ifs or buts and this belief is based on their book of authority, which is the Holy Quran. They do not further subdivide this title into a kingly and a priestly variety as mentioned earlier. Though I do not believe that Jesus was even touched by his opponents and Quran explicitly mentions that God saved him from the evil plans of his enemies and ascended him alive unto Himself, but our Christian brethren tell us that he was tried as “the King of Jews” and later executed on demand of Jewish unbelievers. Obviously they are not happy with the Jews of his time in committing such a heinous act but the Christian record (New Testament) essentially fails to show the real difference Jews had with Jesus. The theological aspects of him being the god incarnate or a savior to take away the sins of the world are all later additions in the religious history of Christianity. Some one might jump in and say “well the Jews doubted him being the messiah”, then the natural question which follows is “what justified him (Jesus) being the messiah in the first place?” In answer to this query our Christian brethren start with the book of prophet Jeremiah that it was prophesized by him that “the strangers (foreign nations) would no longer enslave” the masses of Israel “but they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them” (Holy Bible: Jer 30; 9). In another place the book of Ezekiel prophesized in similar terms, “And David my servant shall be king over them” (Holy Bible: Ezekiel 37; 24); and finally in the second century B.C the future David was called the anointed one (messiah), “Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one (messiah), a prince, there shall be seven weeks…” (Holy Bible: Daniel 9; 25).

In short it can be said that the awaited personality was assumed to be a prince and a king, like King David. Unfortunately our Christian brethren forget that their own book (New Testament) never presents Jesus as a king rather he is almost always depicted as a priest in every aspect teaching and preaching people in every wake of life. His priestly character is also elaborated in the Holy Quran when he addressed the Jews in these words, “(I have come to you) to attest the Law which was before me and to make lawful to you part of what was (before) forbidden to you; I have come to you with a Sign from your Lord. So fear God and obey me. It is God who is my Lord and your Lord; then worship Him. This is a way that is straight” (Holy Quran: 3; 42-51).

By now it must be clear to you that Jewish priests planned against Jesus as he was not fitting into the scheme they had in mind which was that a David like ‘kingly messiah’ should appear and fight with Romans, instead they were witnessing a ‘priestly messiah’ preaching in their midst challenging their own livelihood. To them Jesus was not worthy of the title as he was not illuminated enough to understand the ideology of ‘twin pillars’.

In historical evolution as the majority of Jewish bible (Old Testament) was later shared by the Christian world, it introduced the idea of these twin pillars to the Freemasons, who understand that the Bible has an apparent as well as hidden meaning similar to Islamic Sufis who approach the Holy Quran with similar enthusiasm.

Anyway in Masonic symbolism the two pillars stood for “justice and benevolence”, the two pillars of humanity. Because the founding fathers of America were Freemasons it is quite natural to see influence of Masonic ideas in the American ideologies. The biggest evidence of such claim is the ‘Masonic pyramid’ and ‘all seeing eye’ on the back of dollar bill which is actually an imprint of the “Seal of the United States”.

This pyramid is one of the overlaid equilateral twin triangles comprising the famous ‘Star of David’ you can also find on the flag of Israel. The upward pointing pyramid is an ancient symbol reflecting the power of the king, with its base resting on the earth and its summit reaching the heavens. The other pyramid, symbolize the power of the priest established in the heaven and reaching down to earth. This ‘six sided star’ as well as the ‘five sided star’ or ‘Seal of Solomon’ stands for the same ideologies and are considered to have magical powers.

It will be dishonesty here not to mention about Muslims who in imitation of their religious cousins-Jews and Christians- have their own pillars (minarets) and eight sided star [two interlocking cubes (Kabahs)]. Even the six cornered star which is widely known to be a Jewish symbol (Star of David) has its roots in “Muslim” traditions. The famous ‘786’ which is believed by many to be the Arabic numerical value of “Bismillah Arrehman Nirrahim” (In the name of God the beneficent the merciful) is in fact symbolization of this six cornered star formed after interlocking the Arabic numerical ‘۷’ (seven) with ‘۸’ (eight) (see the diagram below). A scholarly search on this topic I believe will be very illuminating!

(“Overlapping Arabic numerical ‘۷’ (seven) and ‘۸’ (Eight) with their six corners depicted in the form of “Star of David”.)

Finally it will be interesting to briefly review the Biblical story of “Samson and Delilah” on which a famous Hollywood director Cecil B. De Mille made a movie in 1949. According to the Bible, Samson a Jewish man received great physical powers from God Almighty that he could devour both the beast of the land (lion) and thousands of his enemies (Philistine) with bare hands. The lords of Philistine persuaded their beautiful subject Delilah with whom Samson was in love to “entice him and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him that we may bind him and subdue him”. After being mocked three times by Samson, Delilah finally came to know that the secret of Samson’s strength lies in the long hairs of his head and if shaved he will become weak and be just like any other human being. In his sleep Samson’s hairs were shaved by Delilah and once it was done he became an easy prey to Philistines, who seized him, gouged out his eyes and brought him to Gaza to ground at a mill in the prison.

With the passage of time his hairs started to grow back again and one fine day when the lords of Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to their fish shaped god, Dagon, Samson was called out of the prison that he may make sport for them. Verses 28-30 of Judges Chapter 16 read, “ Then Samson called to the Lord (God) and said, “O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be avenged upon the Philistines for one of my two eyes”. And Samson grasped the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and he leaned his weight upon them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines”. Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it”.

With this background in mind if you re-evaluate the situation it will be clear to you that just like Samson the terrorists attacked the ideological foundation of America and targeted the ‘twin pillars’ and the ‘pentagram’ of that system clearly for religious and political reasons.

“Photo depicting evolutionary stages in the history of Kabah. Second photo on the left illustrates that minarets became part of its identity during the Abbasid era (310 A.H/ 923 A.D

Suggested Reading:

1. Holy Bible: King James Version; 1Kin 7: 21 & 2Chr 3: 17

2. The Hiram Key by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas.

3. Encyclopedia Britannica: Key words ‘Star of David’, ‘Seal of Solomon’.

4. Dictionary of Symbols by Hans Biedermann.