Before the Pyramids: Cracking Archaeology's Greatest Mystery (38 page)

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Abraham is intimately connected with the idea of kingship through his meeting with Melchizedek. Later, all Jewish kings for hundreds of years from the time of Solomon sacrificed their children to the god Moloch in order to cement their right to rule. After the Babylonian captivity all such practices were banned and it is likely that the story of Abraham was adjusted to suit.

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Solomon’s Power Brokers
: Knight C & Butler A, Watkins, 2008

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The Hiram Key
: Knight C & Lomas R, Random House, 1996

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There still are still people in Scotland who continue to claim that Rosslyn was intended to be a Christian chapel. They ignore all of the evidence and statements of several leading experts to the contrary – that it was clearly designed as a Jewish building depicting the New Jerusalem. Some also continue to publish the fatuous argument that the building was the Lady Chapel of an intended, but never constructed, collegiate church. These claims are breathtaking in their denial of fundamental evidence that shows this theory to be utterly impossible.

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Uriel’s Machine
: Knight C & Lomas R, Transworld Books, London

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Civilization One
: Knight C & Butler A, Watkins, London, 2004

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The Bronze Age Computer Disc
: Butler A, Foulsham, 1997

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In reality these days many of the degrees of Scottish Rite Freemasonry beyond the three initial degrees are offered to Freemasons in ‘blocks’ and so the ceremonies are not always undertaken.

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