Black People : The Masons and the Moors

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BY MEHMET SABEHEDDIN
The origins of Freemasonry – as would be expected of such
a "venerable secret society" – are shrouded in myth, legend and
almost impenetrable obscurity. Since at least the late 18th century
Masonic writers have sought to establish a link between the Knights
Templar and the Freemasons. Freemasonic lore and symbols have been
traced to ancient Egypt and Phoenicia. Yet, despite all the books and
articles exploring Freemasonry published over the last hundred years,
there is one area that has not received attention. It concerns
Freemasonry's debt to Islamic mysticism and a shadowy tradition
connecting the Masons with the Moors of North Africa.

Moorish Science

The involvement of Freemasons in the establishment of the
United States of America is well documented. In fact Masons featured
so prominently in drafting the American Declaration of Independence
that many people believed it a thoroughly `Masonic project'. Not only
George Washington but also the US founding fathers Benjamin Franklin
and Thomas Jefferson were high-degree Masons. Masonry had a profound
influence on the formation of American society, but there was also
another secret power which has gone completely unnoticed.

The Kingdom of Morocco under the leadership of Sidi Mohammed
Ben Abdullah, known as King Mohammed III, was the first country in
the world to recognise the United States of America as an independent
nation in 1777. This historic act by the North African Muslim kingdom
highlights the relationship then existing between America's Masonic
leaders and the Moors. Before exploring this strange connection
further we need to understand the part played by the Moors in the
transmission of knowledge to Europe.

Moor is the classical name in Europe of the Muslim people of
North Africa. In Spain, where Muslims ruled for over five hundred
years, Arabs are still called Moros. The term "Moor" came to be
synonymous with "Muslim" in many contexts, for example the Muslim
communities in the Philippines are known to this day as Moros. The
Supreme Wisdom of the Moors, much of it derived from ancient Egypt,
has come to be known as "Moorish Science".

The Moors provided the vital link between ancient and modern
civilisation. The light of knowledge which illuminated the Moorish
lands of Spain and Sicily was instrumental in dispelling the gloom of
ignorance that enveloped mediaeval Europe.

"It was under the influence of Arabian and Moorish revival of
culture," writes Robert Briffault in The Making of Humanity, "and not
in the 15th century, that the real renaissance took place. Spain and
not Italy, was the cradle of the rebirth of Europe. After sinking
lower and lower in barbarism, it had reached the darkest depths of
ignorance and degradation when the cities of the Saracenic world
Baghdad, Cairo, Cordova, Toledo, were growing centres of civilisation
and intellectual activity. It was there that the new life arose which
was to grow into a new phase of human evolution. From the time when
the influence of their culture made itself felt, began the stirring
of a new life."

The Orientalist Stanley Lane-Poole acknowledged the great
impact Moorish civilisation had on Europe when he wrote:

For nearly eight centuries under her Muslim rulers Spain set to all
Europe a shining example of a civilized and enlightened state. Art,
literature and science prospered as they then prospered nowhere else
in Europe. Students flocked from France and Germany and England to
drink from the fountains of learning which flowed only in the cities
of the Moors. The surgeons and doctors of Andalusia were in the
vanguard of science; women were encouraged to devote themselves to
serious study, and a lady doctor was not unknown among the people of
Cordova.1
The 19th century French writer on the esoteric sciences, Gerard
Encausse, known as "Papus", noted how "the Gnostic sects, the Arabs,
Alchemists, Templars" form a chain transmitting ancient wisdom to the
West. This explains why within the Ritual of Freemasonry there is the
admission "we came from the East and proceeded to the West." A
Masonic author Bernard H. Springett says:

The plain fact that much of what we now look upon almost entirely as
Freemasonry has been practised as part and parcel of the religions of
the Middle East for many thousands of years, lies open for anyone who
cares to stop and read, instead of running by. But it is frequently
and scornfully rejected by the average Masonic student…2
So we find that just as Europe borrowed considerably from the
learning of the Moors, European Freemasonry took its "secret wisdom"
from the Muslim East.

With the end of Moorish rule in Spain, the Europeans began to
colonise Africa, Asia and the Americas. In time European Christians
conquered Muslim territories and the great debt Western civilisation
owed to the Moors was quickly forgotten. By the 18th century European
Christians saw themselves as the predestined rulers of the world with
a divine mission to "civilise" the heathen. Western historians
conveniently ignored the immense contribution of the brilliant and
energetic Moorish civilisation in delivering Europe from mediaeval
barbarism. We can only conclude this is a result of the pride and
presumption of Westerners, which prevent them from recognising the
truth or importance of their debts to the East.

Seekers of Truth

The founders of the American republic, as high-degree
Freemasons, were aware of the importance of Moorish wisdom and
culture to the birth of Western civilisation. This may explain why
Morocco was the first nation in history to recognise the United
States, and what's really behind the story of George Washington being
presented with a Moorish flag. Some researchers believe this flag
consisted of a red background with a green five-pointed star in the
centre of it. The star or pentagram, which the Moors called the Seal
of Sulaiyman and coloured green to honour Islam, also figures
prominently in Masonic art and architecture. The layout of the city
of Washington D.C. – designed by Freemasons – incorporates the
pentagram.

When Freemasons travelling in the Moorish lands encountered
Sufis, the mystics of Islam, they soon recognised a common
bond. "Sufi-ism," said Sir Richard Burton, was "the Eastern parent of
Freemasonry." John Porter Brown, an American diplomat in Turkey in
the mid 1800s, was a Freemason who wrote sympathetically of the Sufi
path. In The Darvishes, he admits finding it "rather strange that the
Dervishes of the Bektashi Order consider themselves quite the same as
the Freemasons, and are disposed to fraternize with them." Brown
commented how in Turkey Freemasonry had come to be generally regarded
as "atheism of the most condemnable character." A position not unlike
the one held by Papus, the celebrated French occultist and Gnostic
bishop, who tried to counter the Masonic lodges which, he believed,
were in the service of British imperialism and the international
financial syndicates. Papus also viewed Freemasonry as a diabolical
perversion of the ancient secret tradition and atheistic at heart.

When Madame Blavatsky (1831-1891) set out in search of hidden
wisdom it was to the Moorish land of Egypt that she journeyed.
Blavatsky claimed to be a disciple of the Masters Morya and Koot
Hoomi. The researcher K. Paul Johnson convincingly shows her tales of
the "Masters" to be modelled on real people, many genuine occult
adepts. Prominent among them Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, a Sufi scholar,
tireless political intriguer, and the leader of radical movements
throughout the Muslim world, whose travels enigmatically paralleled
those of Madame Blavatsky for more than thirty years. Best remembered
for co-founding the Theosophical Society and helping to popularise
Buddhism and Hinduism in the West, Blavatsky also proudly wrote
of "living with the whirling dervishes, with the Druze of Mount
Lebanon, with the Bedouin Arabs and the marabouts of Damascus."

Madame Blavatsky's "Masters" are very close to the Sufi
tradition of Khwajagan (Persian: "Masters"). Ernest Scott states "the
Khwajagan teachers are entirely corporeal and literal, having been
physically located in the Hindu Kush area since the 10th century. The
Hindu Kush range is in Afghanistan: geographically, it forms the
Western extreme of the Himalayas."3 Scott quotes from a paper by a
Turkish writer who describes how members of the Khwajagan:

...intervene from time to time in human affairs. They do this, not as
leaders or teachers of mankind, but unobtrusively by introducing
certain ideas and techniques. This intervention works in such a way
as to rectify deviations from the predestined course of human
history. This inner circle, it is claimed, concentrates its
activities in those areas and at those times when the situation is
critical for mankind."4
Certainly Madame Blavatsky's teacher Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani,
who was raised in Afghanistan, fits the description of a Master
Adept. His life is described as a mysterious odyssey that led through
lands as far apart as India and America. Received by heads of state
in Cairo and Istanbul, he moved in both underground radical circles
and the highest centres of power in European and Oriental capitals.

The idea of living `spiritual guides' or masters is central to
Sufism. In the words of Sir John Glubb Pasha: "Sufism cannot be
defined in words, nor can it be comprehended by the human intellect.
It can only be imperceptibly `caught' or imbibed by association with
a Sufi master." The Sufi master is revered by his disciples for being
in contact with a level of higher consciousness, his mission on Earth
directed by higher powers. Studying the lives of some of the greatest
Sufi masters we often find them to be wandering holy men (& women)
whose actions are usually misunderstood by orthodox believers. The
shrines of Sufi masters are centres of trance dancing, exorcism, and
miraculous healings.

The Sufi tradition is integral to Moorish Science.

Sufi masters are also renowned for communicating with their
followers through dreams. There are numerous stories of Sufi saints
appearing in a disciple's dreams and using telepathy to direct
followers to undertake a special mission.

Mission to America

A few years after Madame Blavatsky founded the Theosophical
Society in New York in 1875, the Master Adept Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
turned up in America around 1882. Two Americans of African descent,
who are rumoured to have studied under al-Afghani, were the parents
of the man who would one day establish Moorish Science in the United
States.

Noble Drew Ali (born Timothy Drew) early in the 20th century
took a job as a merchant seaman and found himself in Egypt. According
to one legend, Noble Drew Ali made a pilgrimage to North Africa where
he studied with Moorish scholars and received a mandate from the king
of Morocco to instruct Americans of African descent in Islam. His
association with the ruler of Morocco is significant when we recall
the historic relationship between this Moorish country and the early
United States.

At the Pyramid of Cheops his followers believe he received
initiation and took the Muslim name Sharif [Noble] Abdul Ali; in
America he would be known as Noble Drew Ali. On his return to the
United States in 1913 he had a dream in which he was ordered to found
a movement "to uplift fallen humanity by returning the nationality,
divine creed and culture to persons of Moorish descent in the Western
Hemisphere." He organised the Moorish Science Temple along lines
similar to Masonic lodges, with local temple branches and "Adept
Chambers" teaching the esoteric wisdom derived from the secret circle
of Eastern Sages, the Master Adepts of Moorish Science.

Noble Drew Ali is said to have made a historic visit to
Washington, D.C. in order to reclaim the Moorish flag and obtain
official recognition to call his people to their true faith, "Al
Islam". The US president, believing that African Americans would not
embrace Islam, gave Noble Drew Ali full authority to teach Moorish
Science in America.

By the end of the 1920s, membership in the Moorish Science
Temple had grown substantially. With increasing numbers of African
Americans rallying behind Noble Drew Ali the Moorish movement soon
came under the scrutiny of the FBI. In 1929 several Moors, including
Noble Drew Ali, where detained for questioning by the Chicago police.
Released from custody, Noble Drew Ali fell ill and never recovered.
Many Moors suspected his death the result of a severe police
beating.

Following the inexplicable `death' of Noble Drew Ali, the
Moorish Science Temple continued and gave rise to unique Islamic
groups among the African American community. Much of the known
history of Moorish Science in North America is extremely complex and
obscure.

By the 1950s some white American poets and jazz musicians came
into contact with Moorish Science. The North African cities of
Tangiers and Marrakech held a magic attraction for the leaders of
America's counterculture, with writers like William S. Burroughs
spending years living in the Moorish lands. The Moorish Orthodox
Church of America was formed by white Americans who held Moorish
Science passports and had ties with certain "Wandering Bishops" of
the Old Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

Joseph Matheny, the American author and media theorist, first
encountered Moorish Science when he was researching time travel and
quantum consciousness. In his book Ong's Hat The Beginning, the
Moorish Orthodox Church is called "one of the most secretive and
mysterious religious organisations ever known to man" and:

a revolutionary and heretical sect of Islam that carries on an
ancient tradition which sought to counterbalance the forces of
orthodox Islam. Despite the controversial and dubious nature of the
MOC, part of their tradition has been to serve as the torch bearers
of freedom against the tyrannical and repressive aspects of the
Earth's patriarchal power structure as our planetary consciousness
shifts to the Age of Aquarius and sets its site on unlimited freedom
and the expression of life in all of its true wonder and beauty.
Years before the "War on Terror" and Bush's invasion of
Afghanistan and Iraq, this writer attended a lecture organised by
people associated with the Moorish Orthodox Church. The speaker, a
Moorish Sheik returned from a long sojourn in the East, claimed
Freemasonry is built on a twisting of the truth of Moorish Science.
It is the secret power behind the West based on the Supreme Wisdom
derived from esoteric Islam. The European colonisers usurped the
knowledge of the Moors and created a nefarious system of control that
blinds man to his true identity. Freemasonry was identified as a
chief player in the world "Babylonian" system, the mastermind of the
institutions of indoctrination that prevent the full knowledge of the
True God to be known. Moorish Science is the effective counter to the
Freemasonic imposters and a force for Truth, Love, Peace, Freedom and
Justice. The Sheik also revealed how Afghanistan and Iraq figure in
sacred geography and numerology, and mentioned a secret war between
the Anglo-American and Asiatic powers.

Is there a struggle between occult brotherhoods to influence
human destiny? Are the dramatic events taking place in the world,
from the continuing strife in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, to the
rivalry between the forces of Atlanticism (Britain and the USA) and
Eurasia (Russia and China), just surface manifestations of a deeper
conflict? Certainly the strange saga of Moorish Science and the
Moorish Orthodox Church adds weight to the observation made by one of
the 20th century's most controversial mystics:

...There is a history behind our so-called history that you cannot
even conceive of. History has a deeper base. The periphery that we
know as history is not the reality. Behind our so-called history
continues another history, a deeper one about which we know nothing.5
Footnotes:

1. Stanley Lane-Poole, Studies in a Mosque

2. Bernard H. Springett, Secret Sects of Syria and the Lebanon

3. Ernest Scott, People of the Secret

4. Ibid.

5. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, I AM THE GATE: The Meaning of Initiation
and Discipleship

This article can be found at
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/articles/Masons and the%
20Moors.html
 
MoorNegusNegast said:
BY MEHMET SABEHEDDIN
The origins of Freemasonry – as would be expected of such
a "venerable secret society" – are shrouded in myth, legend and
almost impenetrable obscurity. Since at least the late 18th century
Masonic writers have sought to establish a link between the Knights
Templar and the Freemasons. Freemasonic lore and symbols have been
traced to ancient Egypt and Phoenicia. Yet, despite all the books and
articles exploring Freemasonry published over the last hundred years,
there is one area that has not received attention. It concerns
Freemasonry's debt to Islamic mysticism and a shadowy tradition
connecting the Masons with the Moors of North Africa.

Moorish Science

The involvement of Freemasons in the establishment of the
United States of America is well documented. In fact Masons featured
so prominently in drafting the American Declaration of Independence
that many people believed it a thoroughly `Masonic project'. Not only
George Washington but also the US founding fathers Benjamin Franklin
and Thomas Jefferson were high-degree Masons. Masonry had a profound
influence on the formation of American society, but there was also
another secret power which has gone completely unnoticed.

The Kingdom of Morocco under the leadership of Sidi Mohammed
Ben Abdullah, known as King Mohammed III, was the first country in
the world to recognise the United States of America as an independent
nation in 1777. This historic act by the North African Muslim kingdom
highlights the relationship then existing between America's Masonic
leaders and the Moors. Before exploring this strange connection
further we need to understand the part played by the Moors in the
transmission of knowledge to Europe.

Moor is the classical name in Europe of the Muslim people of
North Africa. In Spain, where Muslims ruled for over five hundred
years, Arabs are still called Moros. The term "Moor" came to be
synonymous with "Muslim" in many contexts, for example the Muslim
communities in the Philippines are known to this day as Moros. The
Supreme Wisdom of the Moors, much of it derived from ancient Egypt,
has come to be known as "Moorish Science".

The Moors provided the vital link between ancient and modern
civilisation. The light of knowledge which illuminated the Moorish
lands of Spain and Sicily was instrumental in dispelling the gloom of
ignorance that enveloped mediaeval Europe.

"It was under the influence of Arabian and Moorish revival of
culture," writes Robert Briffault in The Making of Humanity, "and not
in the 15th century, that the real renaissance took place. Spain and
not Italy, was the cradle of the rebirth of Europe. After sinking
lower and lower in barbarism, it had reached the darkest depths of
ignorance and degradation when the cities of the Saracenic world
Baghdad, Cairo, Cordova, Toledo, were growing centres of civilisation
and intellectual activity. It was there that the new life arose which
was to grow into a new phase of human evolution. From the time when
the influence of their culture made itself felt, began the stirring
of a new life."

The Orientalist Stanley Lane-Poole acknowledged the great
impact Moorish civilisation had on Europe when he wrote:

For nearly eight centuries under her Muslim rulers Spain set to all
Europe a shining example of a civilized and enlightened state. Art,
literature and science prospered as they then prospered nowhere else
in Europe. Students flocked from France and Germany and England to
drink from the fountains of learning which flowed only in the cities
of the Moors. The surgeons and doctors of Andalusia were in the
vanguard of science; women were encouraged to devote themselves to
serious study, and a lady doctor was not unknown among the people of
Cordova.1
The 19th century French writer on the esoteric sciences, Gerard
Encausse, known as "Papus", noted how "the Gnostic sects, the Arabs,
Alchemists, Templars" form a chain transmitting ancient wisdom to the
West. This explains why within the Ritual of Freemasonry there is the
admission "we came from the East and proceeded to the West." A
Masonic author Bernard H. Springett says:

The plain fact that much of what we now look upon almost entirely as
Freemasonry has been practised as part and parcel of the religions of
the Middle East for many thousands of years, lies open for anyone who
cares to stop and read, instead of running by. But it is frequently
and scornfully rejected by the average Masonic student…2
So we find that just as Europe borrowed considerably from the
learning of the Moors, European Freemasonry took its "secret wisdom"
from the Muslim East.

With the end of Moorish rule in Spain, the Europeans began to
colonise Africa, Asia and the Americas. In time European Christians
conquered Muslim territories and the great debt Western civilisation
owed to the Moors was quickly forgotten. By the 18th century European
Christians saw themselves as the predestined rulers of the world with
a divine mission to "civilise" the heathen. Western historians
conveniently ignored the immense contribution of the brilliant and
energetic Moorish civilisation in delivering Europe from mediaeval
barbarism. We can only conclude this is a result of the pride and
presumption of Westerners, which prevent them from recognising the
truth or importance of their debts to the East.

Seekers of Truth

The founders of the American republic, as high-degree
Freemasons, were aware of the importance of Moorish wisdom and
culture to the birth of Western civilisation. This may explain why
Morocco was the first nation in history to recognise the United
States, and what's really behind the story of George Washington being
presented with a Moorish flag. Some researchers believe this flag
consisted of a red background with a green five-pointed star in the
centre of it. The star or pentagram, which the Moors called the Seal
of Sulaiyman and coloured green to honour Islam, also figures
prominently in Masonic art and architecture. The layout of the city
of Washington D.C. – designed by Freemasons – incorporates the
pentagram.

When Freemasons travelling in the Moorish lands encountered
Sufis, the mystics of Islam, they soon recognised a common
bond. "Sufi-ism," said Sir Richard Burton, was "the Eastern parent of
Freemasonry." John Porter Brown, an American diplomat in Turkey in
the mid 1800s, was a Freemason who wrote sympathetically of the Sufi
path. In The Darvishes, he admits finding it "rather strange that the
Dervishes of the Bektashi Order consider themselves quite the same as
the Freemasons, and are disposed to fraternize with them." Brown
commented how in Turkey Freemasonry had come to be generally regarded
as "atheism of the most condemnable character." A position not unlike
the one held by Papus, the celebrated French occultist and Gnostic
bishop, who tried to counter the Masonic lodges which, he believed,
were in the service of British imperialism and the international
financial syndicates. Papus also viewed Freemasonry as a diabolical
perversion of the ancient secret tradition and atheistic at heart.

When Madame Blavatsky (1831-1891) set out in search of hidden
wisdom it was to the Moorish land of Egypt that she journeyed.
Blavatsky claimed to be a disciple of the Masters Morya and Koot
Hoomi. The researcher K. Paul Johnson convincingly shows her tales of
the "Masters" to be modelled on real people, many genuine occult
adepts. Prominent among them Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, a Sufi scholar,
tireless political intriguer, and the leader of radical movements
throughout the Muslim world, whose travels enigmatically paralleled
those of Madame Blavatsky for more than thirty years. Best remembered
for co-founding the Theosophical Society and helping to popularise
Buddhism and Hinduism in the West, Blavatsky also proudly wrote
of "living with the whirling dervishes, with the Druze of Mount
Lebanon, with the Bedouin Arabs and the marabouts of Damascus."

Madame Blavatsky's "Masters" are very close to the Sufi
tradition of Khwajagan (Persian: "Masters"). Ernest Scott states "the
Khwajagan teachers are entirely corporeal and literal, having been
physically located in the Hindu Kush area since the 10th century. The
Hindu Kush range is in Afghanistan: geographically, it forms the
Western extreme of the Himalayas."3 Scott quotes from a paper by a
Turkish writer who describes how members of the Khwajagan:

...intervene from time to time in human affairs. They do this, not as
leaders or teachers of mankind, but unobtrusively by introducing
certain ideas and techniques. This intervention works in such a way
as to rectify deviations from the predestined course of human
history. This inner circle, it is claimed, concentrates its
activities in those areas and at those times when the situation is
critical for mankind."4
Certainly Madame Blavatsky's teacher Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani,
who was raised in Afghanistan, fits the description of a Master
Adept. His life is described as a mysterious odyssey that led through
lands as far apart as India and America. Received by heads of state
in Cairo and Istanbul, he moved in both underground radical circles
and the highest centres of power in European and Oriental capitals.

The idea of living `spiritual guides' or masters is central to
Sufism. In the words of Sir John Glubb Pasha: "Sufism cannot be
defined in words, nor can it be comprehended by the human intellect.
It can only be imperceptibly `caught' or imbibed by association with
a Sufi master." The Sufi master is revered by his disciples for being
in contact with a level of higher consciousness, his mission on Earth
directed by higher powers. Studying the lives of some of the greatest
Sufi masters we often find them to be wandering holy men (& women)
whose actions are usually misunderstood by orthodox believers. The
shrines of Sufi masters are centres of trance dancing, exorcism, and
miraculous healings.

The Sufi tradition is integral to Moorish Science.

Sufi masters are also renowned for communicating with their
followers through dreams. There are numerous stories of Sufi saints
appearing in a disciple's dreams and using telepathy to direct
followers to undertake a special mission.

Mission to America

A few years after Madame Blavatsky founded the Theosophical
Society in New York in 1875, the Master Adept Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
turned up in America around 1882. Two Americans of African descent,
who are rumoured to have studied under al-Afghani, were the parents
of the man who would one day establish Moorish Science in the United
States.

Noble Drew Ali (born Timothy Drew) early in the 20th century
took a job as a merchant seaman and found himself in Egypt. According
to one legend, Noble Drew Ali made a pilgrimage to North Africa where
he studied with Moorish scholars and received a mandate from the king
of Morocco to instruct Americans of African descent in Islam. His
association with the ruler of Morocco is significant when we recall
the historic relationship between this Moorish country and the early
United States.

At the Pyramid of Cheops his followers believe he received
initiation and took the Muslim name Sharif [Noble] Abdul Ali; in
America he would be known as Noble Drew Ali. On his return to the
United States in 1913 he had a dream in which he was ordered to found
a movement "to uplift fallen humanity by returning the nationality,
divine creed and culture to persons of Moorish descent in the Western
Hemisphere." He organised the Moorish Science Temple along lines
similar to Masonic lodges, with local temple branches and "Adept
Chambers" teaching the esoteric wisdom derived from the secret circle
of Eastern Sages, the Master Adepts of Moorish Science.

Noble Drew Ali is said to have made a historic visit to
Washington, D.C. in order to reclaim the Moorish flag and obtain
official recognition to call his people to their true faith, "Al
Islam". The US president, believing that African Americans would not
embrace Islam, gave Noble Drew Ali full authority to teach Moorish
Science in America.

By the end of the 1920s, membership in the Moorish Science
Temple had grown substantially. With increasing numbers of African
Americans rallying behind Noble Drew Ali the Moorish movement soon
came under the scrutiny of the FBI. In 1929 several Moors, including
Noble Drew Ali, where detained for questioning by the Chicago police.
Released from custody, Noble Drew Ali fell ill and never recovered.
Many Moors suspected his death the result of a severe police
beating.

Following the inexplicable `death' of Noble Drew Ali, the
Moorish Science Temple continued and gave rise to unique Islamic
groups among the African American community. Much of the known
history of Moorish Science in North America is extremely complex and
obscure.

By the 1950s some white American poets and jazz musicians came
into contact with Moorish Science. The North African cities of
Tangiers and Marrakech held a magic attraction for the leaders of
America's counterculture, with writers like William S. Burroughs
spending years living in the Moorish lands. The Moorish Orthodox
Church of America was formed by white Americans who held Moorish
Science passports and had ties with certain "Wandering Bishops" of
the Old Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

Joseph Matheny, the American author and media theorist, first
encountered Moorish Science when he was researching time travel and
quantum consciousness. In his book Ong's Hat The Beginning, the
Moorish Orthodox Church is called "one of the most secretive and
mysterious religious organisations ever known to man" and:

a revolutionary and heretical sect of Islam that carries on an
ancient tradition which sought to counterbalance the forces of
orthodox Islam. Despite the controversial and dubious nature of the
MOC, part of their tradition has been to serve as the torch bearers
of freedom against the tyrannical and repressive aspects of the
Earth's patriarchal power structure as our planetary consciousness
shifts to the Age of Aquarius and sets its site on unlimited freedom
and the expression of life in all of its true wonder and beauty.
Years before the "War on Terror" and Bush's invasion of
Afghanistan and Iraq, this writer attended a lecture organised by
people associated with the Moorish Orthodox Church. The speaker, a
Moorish Sheik returned from a long sojourn in the East, claimed
Freemasonry is built on a twisting of the truth of Moorish Science.
It is the secret power behind the West based on the Supreme Wisdom
derived from esoteric Islam. The European colonisers usurped the
knowledge of the Moors and created a nefarious system of control that
blinds man to his true identity. Freemasonry was identified as a
chief player in the world "Babylonian" system, the mastermind of the
institutions of indoctrination that prevent the full knowledge of the
True God to be known. Moorish Science is the effective counter to the
Freemasonic imposters and a force for Truth, Love, Peace, Freedom and
Justice. The Sheik also revealed how Afghanistan and Iraq figure in
sacred geography and numerology, and mentioned a secret war between
the Anglo-American and Asiatic powers.

Is there a struggle between occult brotherhoods to influence
human destiny? Are the dramatic events taking place in the world,
from the continuing strife in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, to the
rivalry between the forces of Atlanticism (Britain and the USA) and
Eurasia (Russia and China), just surface manifestations of a deeper
conflict? Certainly the strange saga of Moorish Science and the
Moorish Orthodox Church adds weight to the observation made by one of
the 20th century's most controversial mystics:

...There is a history behind our so-called history that you cannot
even conceive of. History has a deeper base. The periphery that we
know as history is not the reality. Behind our so-called history
continues another history, a deeper one about which we know nothing.5
Footnotes:

1. Stanley Lane-Poole, Studies in a Mosque

2. Bernard H. Springett, Secret Sects of Syria and the Lebanon

3. Ernest Scott, People of the Secret

4. Ibid.

5. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, I AM THE GATE: The Meaning of Initiation
and Discipleship

This article can be found at
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/articles/Masons and the%
20Moors.html



That is an excellent article. This ties in with some of the same research i've come across pertaining to the freemasons and the African influence.



Htp.u :bullseye:
 

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