In fact, years ago I saw a parchment that was conferred by the initiation to the Carbonari supporting the Garibaldian ranks as officers (Garibaldi became the Great Master of the Memphis-Misraim) and in which appears the Temple, with its entrance between the columns of the Sun and the Moon, the three steps, and, on the threshold, both the Terrible Master and the Mistress of the Triangle (contrary to the ancient Masonry, this Order was androgynous), introducing the neophytes. Beyond the columns begins the path leading to the top of the initiation mountain, where overhangs the figure of the Goddess, standing on the globe of the world, with the acacia of immortality in the hand.
Did penetrate in that temple only the individual capable to “pass” symbolically between the two columns hymning to al-Uzza, the Triple “solar” Great Mother of the legendary Arabia Felix. Her sanctuary, in the
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From: evola_as_he_is
We stated (see message 72) that "it is believed by some scholars that
henotheism, the worship of only one god while not denying the
existence of other gods, may have existed in pre-Islamic society and
that Allah, or al-Ilah ("the god"), can be traced to Ilah, the South
Arabian moon god, who was the 'father' of three deities popular at
Mecca at the time of Muhammad's birth : Uhzza or al-Uzza, "the mighty
one" (her sanctuary was in a grove of acacia trees to the south of
Mecca) ; Lat, or al-Lat, "the goddess", the deity of the sun ; and
Manat, the deity of good fortune. These were three different aspects
of the same goddess : the warrior virgin, the Mother, and the crone,
respectively. The Koran mentions these deities in Sura 53:19-20 :
"Have ye seen Lat, and Uzza, and another, the third (goddess),
Manat?". Those three goddesses, represented by the waxing moon, the
full moon, and the waning moon, respectively, are sometimes engraved
together with Allah, represented by a crescent moon above them.
Interestingly enough, 'Allah' is of the feminine gender in classical
Arab."
A few weeks ago, a dedicated member argued that, according to J.B.
Ragon (1771-18632), one of the most famous French Masonic authors, the
acacia is on the contrary a solar symbol
" (...) Egyptians considered acacia as a sacred tree. It was
worshipped among ancient Arabs, particularly in the Ghaftan tribe. It
was first consecrated by one Dhalem, who built a chapel over it,
called Boss, so contrived as to give a sound when any person entered.
Acacia was also the main object of cult for the Quraysh tribe. Khálid
(Ibn Walíd) was sent by Muhammad to destroy this idol and to kill its
priestess. The Arabs had turned acacia, Al-Uzza, into their idol,
which however, Muhammad destroyed. To sum it up, acacia was, for the
ancients, a solar symbol, like the leaves of the lotus and of the
heliotrope (…) The Egyptians and the Arabs consecrated acacia to the
god of day and invoked it in the sacrifices they offered (...)"
This misinterpretation of the symbolism of acacia is typical of
Masonic error. It is brought to light by a deeper analysis of the
symbolic value of the tree in question. "Acacia is said to be the
Greek Akakia, "the thorny Egyptian acacia", and its root is 'akis', a
point or thorn. (...) According to rabbinical tradition, the burning
bush upon Mount Sinai, wherein the God of Israel appeared to Moses,
was a thorn bush. In Egypt, the thorn bush was associated with UNBU,
and the thorny acacia was reputated to be the habitation of the
mother-goddess Neith. (...) in Arabia, the thorny lotus was
consecrated to Baal."
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pTeuIvN1ZogC&pg=PA360&lpg=PA360&dq=neith+acacia&source=web&ots=hQHwUTYg8q&sig=sUBPejdDXp2tJAXVjVbzrqygN74&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result
- p.360) In this respect, it is not by chance that mention is made of
the acacia in many key passages of the Isis and Osiris myth. Moreover,
the tree can be a feminine symbol, in that, providing the seed, it is
fertile and nutritive, as well as a masculine, phallic, axial, symbol,
in that it is strong and rises towards the sky ; in this respect, it
can naturally be found in association with solar symbols, but, by
nature, it is in no case a solar symbol as such.
"It is quite possible that the veneration accorded the acacia is due
to the peculiar attributes of the mimosa, or sensitive plant, with
which it was often identified by the ancients. There is a Coptic
legend to the effect that the sensitive plant was the first of all
trees or shrubs to worship Christ. The rapid growth of the acacia and
its beauty have also caused it to be regarded as emblematic of
fecundity and generation."
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FDSab8rWZScC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=acacia+idols+muhammad+destroyed&source=web&ots=lYimU60ceF&sig=Mek5J52X-EEbhBcIQphGMB1xK6g&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
- p.252)
The fundamental error of Freemasonry and of all other subversive sects
appears clearly from the following statement made by the notorious
Freemason A. Pike : "It (acacia) is a fit type of immortality, on
account of its tenacity to life," : "tenacity to life", that is to
say, the will to remain in the cycle of generation, is wrongly and,
shall we say, parodically, identified with immortality.
For those interested in exploring further the pre-Islamic Arabian
world and its connection to the Muslim credo :
http://www.frontpagemag.com/GoPostal/commentdetail.aspx?GUID=4ce58c71-80bf-4fba-aa1f-793dd75e1a9b&commentID=efc6769d-59c1-4df9-8ee9-d8d2407bf59a
http://www.archive.org/stream/koran00sale/koran00sale_djvu.txt