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•Hiram Abiff is the Messiah. RUSSELL Russell in his sermon the "Desire of All Nations" says that the Messiah that the Jews and Christians are waiting for is the same personage as Hiram Abiff. Hiram is the sun god, much more than just a man but a resurrected messiah, but how did Russell learn this? MASONRY Hiram Abiff has been linked with several pagan Gods including Osirus (the Egyptian Sun God) and Baal (the Caananite/Phoenician Sun God). Hiram Abiff is the Masonic messiah. King Soloman, King Hiram, and Hiram Abiff (also written CHiram) to the initiated form the "triune foundation of existence." The Throne of CHiram is the sun." CHiram is...the active life principle throughout the elements which depend upon his activity for their existence." "As Christ he was crucified upon the cross...His divine body he offered up as food for the sustenance of his creations, for he himself became the bread and the wine of men." Masonic. Hermetic. Cabbalistic & Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosphy. by Manly Hall, unnumbered page facing p. CLXXIII. Hall sums up the Hiram Abiff story as "a philosophic exposition of redemption of human soul." p. CCXXV "while the Christian's Messiah is called Jesus, the Mason's Messiah is called Hiram" The Masonic handbook for all blue lodges in the Grand Lodge of Kentucky the Kentucky Monitor. "The Spirit of Masonry", p.xv. Each 3o Mason impersonates Osiris, the sun-god, and enters into his life of good deeds, his death, his burial and is raised in his resurrection from the dead.The Deadly Deception, p.154. The Legend of Hiram "is thoroughly Egyptian, and is closely allied to the Supreme Rite (highest degree) of the Isianic Mysteries (Mystery religion of Isis and Osiris)." Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p.195 "Since Masonry is a revival of the ancient pagan mystery religions, its god can also be said to be Nature, with its fertility (sex) gods and godesses representing the Sun and Moon (in Egypt, Osiris, and Isis) The Deadly Deception.p.130 "Masonry, successor to the Mysteries (the pagan religions of Isis, Osiris, Baal, Mythras, Tammuz, etc.) still follows the ancient manner of teaching." Albert Pike. Morals and Dogma. Fellowcraft Degree, p.22