The word Mason is a general term given to one who builds or works with stone or brick. Nubians were skilled masons during the meroetic period, which was recognised on the Great Seal of the United States. The Phrase
Annuit Coeptis on the Great Seal of the United States is an alliteration for the words ANNU and COPT.
Annu was the place of the sun, called by the Greeks--Heliopolis, center of sun worship in Lower Egipt, the place of the Bennu Bird (the phoenix, which is seen on the opposite side of the Great Seal). Moreover, Copt is a corruption of the Greek word Aegyptios, which was derived from the metu neter word Hekau-Ptah (spiritual word formulas of Ptah). The "open" eye in the center of the triangle-tetrahedron symbolises PTAH, which means "to open" or opener. The "open eye" is consciousness or awake. Hence, the metu words PTH, BTH or BDH and its connection with the Sanskrit word Budha, which means "he awakes (enlightenment)."
NVBIAN = 62 = MASON
S. Brent Morris, Stephen C. Bullock, Kojo Nnamdi
c/o The Supreme Council, 33°<br>1733 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009-3103
The following article is edited from an interview with two well-known Masonic scholars. They were guests on a National Public Radio show on July 31, 2002. It was broadcast to 30 public radio stations across America and, via the Internet, to persons around the world.The first part of this interview appeared in the December 2002 issue of the Scottish Rite Journal.
Photo: The Great Seal of the United States was not designed by Masons, though conspiracists allege that it contains "hidden Masonic symbols" placed there by the Illuminati. The motto "Novus Ordo Seclorum," which means "New Order of the Ages," is frequently mistranslated as "New World Order" or "New Secular Order."
Nnamdi: We got an e-mail from Tom in Springfield, Virginia, who says, "Would you ask your guests to comment on conspiracy theories, which if taken seriously would indict the Founding Fathers of the United States in conspiracies like the Illuminati? Most specifically, what do they think of the claim that the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States--the side with the pyramid--refers to the New World Order?" That it is a code word for modern conspiracy theorists? Care to start on that one Steve?
Bullock: I'm going to defer to Brent on the question of the Great Seal, because he has written the sort of definitive work, but I would just say there are all sorts of stories like this, that the more you get closer to the actual sources the harder it is to find anything of that sort. There are fears of the Illuminati, a group that actually did have a real existence in Bavaria in the 1780s but seems to have died out. And there is no real evidence that it came to America, and of all the people in America who get very concerned about this, almost all of them except, the Masons, say it is not our American Masons who are involved here. So it is hard actually to see anything of that sort actually going on, as for the Great Seal I'll let Brent take over.
Morris: Thanks Steve. In fact, it's nice to chat with you again. The Great Seal of the United States is notorious for having on the back the uncompleted pyramid composed of 13 steps and at the top of it is the All-Seeing Eye of Providence. The motto is "Novus Ordo Seclorum" which is not "A New World Order." It is not.…<br>
Nnamdi: Can I interrupt?
Morris: Please, Sir.
Nnamdi: To have Chris ask you that question, that you were just about to explain. Chris, is that your question?
Chris: [On the telephone] It sure is. The question stems on the back. It says "Novus Ordo Seclorum." I was always told that it means "New Secular Order." It that true? Does it mean "New World Order," and how does that kind of play into the Masons sounding?
Morris: Well, the first thing is, who- ever told you that it means "The New Secular Order," I believe ought to go back and study a little more Latin. Secula is a word that means "an age or a generation" and Seculorum is the plural genitive of Secula, so Novus Ordo Seclorum is "A New Order of the Ages" or "A New Order of the Generations." This motto was taken from Virgil, the poet, and it means nothing about the New World Order.5 I mean, you can go back and read the minutes of the committee that designed it and read how they selected the motto and what it means.
Now, the Seal itself is composed of the pyramid of 13 steps or the uncompleted pyramid of 13 steps. Well the 13 steps are the 13 colonies; the pyramid is uncompleted because additional states were going to be added. At the top is the Eye of Providence, overseeing everything and showing Providence has interspersed itself into the history of our nation.
Now, the Freemasons do indeed use the Eye of God as a symbol. And in fact this was a … just as if you were to see a political cartoon with a skeleton figure inside of a black cowled robe holding a scythe, you would immediately recognize this as an emblem of death. It has become an icon. The Eye of God-the Eye of Providence-in the sky is similarly an icon. Sir Walter Raleigh in his book The History of the World has the Eye of Providence on the top of the frontispiece overseeing everything. It's an image that shows that God knows everything; He pervades the innermost recesses of our minds and our hearts. He watches our deeds and actions, and will take care of things in the end. So, this was added with that intention.
Now, the Freemasons use the All-Seeing Eye. On the committee, of all the committees that designed it, there was only one Freemason, and that was Benjamin Franklin. The first committee was Franklin, Jefferson, and John Adams.
Nnamdi: And Adams and Jefferson were not Freemasons.
Morris: There is zero evidence that they were Freemasons.
Nnamdi: Okay. Chris thank you very much for your call. Steve, to pick up, Masons are often accused of conspiring for bigger more sinister motives, such as world domination. Did you find anything in your research that would lead you to support any such conspiracy theories?
Bullock: I really didn't. As an academic, you know it might have been a good thing if I had found something like that.
Nnamdi: Sell more books, huh?
Bullock: Sort of appealing in some ways, and so I … it wasn't something I went in sort of looking for. If I had discovered that Washington and Franklin had worked together, tried to change the society in a way which we don't know about, that would have been sort of interesting, but, you know, unfortunately, from that one perspective, I didn't see anything.
It certainly is true that Freemasonry provides the way for people to make connections with each other. Connections which they wouldn't necessarily have before. So if you are a businessman in Washington, D.C., and you need to order goods from Baltimore, it may actually be very helpful to have some kind of connection between you and the person in Baltimore. In the 1600s and 1700s quite often people would send different members of their family there. One brother, the son of the same father, would go to another spot, and they would then be able to trust each other more.
Well, Freemasonry attempts to create that without actual blood families, but actually through an organization. And so there's no doubt that Masonry provides a way of doing this, and, from the outside, it can seem, I think, to the people of that time and maybe even today, as if there is some sort of unfair advantage there. But Freemasonry is open to all people-and at least to all men-and so there is that "voluntary-ness" which makes it a way of making connections which is very useful.
Nnamdi: On now to Gene in Charlotte, North Carolina. Gene, you are on the air, go ahead please.
Gene: [On the telephone] Thank You. My concern is, being an Evangelical Christian, the oath that one has to take to join the Brotherhood. And I was wondering if one of the gentlemen could recite or at least say part of that oath?
Nnamdi: Brent?
Morris: Well, I think, Gene, if you are interested in doing that, if you are willing to spend 15 minutes on the Internet, you can find anything you want. There are several kinds of "secrets," Gene. There are "real secrets" and there are "symbolic secrets." The "secrets" of the Masons are "symbolic secrets." I mean they have been in continuous print since 1723.6 We are listed in the telephone directory; you drive up to a Lodge and it tells you when the meetings are held; we have stickers on our bumper plates. This is not a good way to run a really secret organization! The "secrets" of the Masons are entirely symbolic. I promised I wouldn't tell anybody what they are. It doesn't matter if you know; it does not matter if Kojo knows; I promised I wouldn't say. It's the symbolism of me keeping a promise. Now, I consider my promise a sacred thing, and I have no intention of breaking it. So, do a little research on your own.
