(In this message, which stands as a remainder of the third footnote
of 'The Relationship between Judaism and Freemasonry'-
http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com/id60.html - the reader will find
names of organisations, of orders and of societies with which
the 'conspiracy theory', of whichever flavour, is used to juggling,
while exercising considerable imagination to trace in them the origin
of speculative Masonry of the present day. Our approach is completely
different. We consider them from the point of view of the "race of
the spirit", and, from this point of view, they all turn out to have
similarities between each other)
On Muhammad's pagan background, F. E. Peters wrote : "Contrary to the
Muslim conviction that Muhammad was originally created by God as a
believer in His Oneness, he is reported to have worshipped and
offered sacrifices to Al-Uzza, an idol the pagans believed to be one
of the three daughters of God (cf. 42:52). The Quraish venerated Al-
Uzza highly, believing that her intercession on their behalf would be
acceptable to God, her father. One of his uncles was named after this
idol ; he was called Abd al Uzza, the slave of Uzza, before he was re-
named Abu Lahab, the Father of Flame, by his Muslim foes.
According to a famous, though much edited, tradition, it was young
Muhammad who was the pagan and Zayd ibn Amr who was the monotheist.
Peters also quotes Zayd ibn Haritha, who is said to have narrated the
following story to his son : The Prophet slaughtered a ewe for one of
the idols (nusub min al-ansab) ; then he roasted it and carried it
with him. (Muhammad and the Origins of Islam, p.126). While preaching
the oneness of God, Muhammad continued, in one form or another, to
venerate the idols - up to the time he conquered Mecca, when he
finally had all the idols, housed inside and outside the Ka'aba,
destroyed". (
http://www.mukto-
mona.com/Articles/asghar/muhammad_islam3.htm)
As a matter of fact, 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.
According to the soi-disant "Dr John Coleman, ex-MI6 officer", the
Muslim Brotherhood is a Masonic sect created by British
Intelligence's Middle East Division. Although, as ex-intelligence
officers often do, "Dr Coleman" may be peddling disinformation, the
fact remains nonetheless that the Muslim Brotherhood and Freemasonry
are as alike as two peas in a pod ; their tenets are the same. The
Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt, two years before Guénon was
to settle down in Cairo, by the eldest son of a famous sheikh, Hasan
al-Banna. Hasan, in his teenage years, had joined the Sufi sect of
the Hasafiyya Brotherhood, and had set up, later on, the Hasafiyya
Society for Welfare. However, Freemasonry was not a new element in
the Arab world. "Freemasonry appeared in Egypt soon after Napoleon's
conquest in 1798, when General Kleber, a French Mason and top
commander in Napoleon's army, established the Lodge of Isis. French
Masonry dominated Egypt until British lodges began to appear after
the British occupation in 1882. Freemasonry was very popular in the
first half of the twentieth century, and many important Egyptians
were Masons, along with the British rulers and aristocrats who
occupied the country. In fact the Egyptian monarchs, from Khedive
Ismail to King Fouad, were made honorary Grand Masters at the start
of their reigns. From 1940 to 1957 there were close to seventy
Masonic lodges chartered throughout Egypt. At one time the leaders of
the Nationalist and Wafd parties were Freemasons, and many members of
the Egyptian parliament were Masons as well, where they mingled with
the military commanders and aristocrats of the ruling British
occupation" (
http://www.redmoonrising.com/Ikhwan/MB.htm). Not only
was Masonry not new in the Arab world at the beginning of the XXth
century, but there are grounds for thinking that Freemasonry may
originate in the Semitic world and that, in fact, Masonry as it
emerged in the West in the sixteenth century may merely be an
imported product, created a long time before by revolutionary
subversive groups. The sect of Roshaniyya ('illuminated ones'), born
in Afghanistan in the fifteenth century, is one of them, and the
notorious sect of the Assassins, better known as the Ismailis, which
had its hour of glory at the end of the eleventh century and which
may have had some influence on the Templars "in moulding, or at
least in suggesting, some of its esoteric dogmas and ceremonies"
(
http://www.antiqillum.com/pdf/qadosh097.pdf) is another ; it is
believed that the former was and is still a branch of the latter, and
interestingly enough, the members of this sect claim to gain power
from the spirits of their dead members.
Both "are supposed to have derived their doctrines from the sect of
the Sofis in Persia" (ibid.), whose system of initiation, like the
Masonic one, is divided into degrees. Now, it is most interesting to
note that, according to von Hammer, Sufism, before even being a
philosophical and mystical sect, was a political one, and its main
aim was to overthrow the Abbassids in favour of the Fatimids. Junaid
(tenth century), head of the Safavid sect, is suspected of having
sought to turn sufism into a political power ; he combined warlike
policies with Shi'a piety. And so the Fatimids came to power. A few
years after having created the city of Cairo, the Fatimids, who we
know were sensitive to 'esoteric doctrines', established the Great
House of Wisdom, where scholars translated the main philosophical and
scientific works of antiquity, especially those of Greece and Egypt,
into Arabic, while trying to show that Islam could make faith and
reason coincide and experimenting in rationalism ; the Fatimid caliph
was called the Grand Master and, according to the Muslim historian
Ameer Ali, "the account of the different degrees of initiation
adopted in the [House of Wisdom] forms an invaluable record. In fact,
the [House of Wisdom] at Cairo became the model of all the
[Freemasonic] Lodges created in Christendom." Many scholars
associated with the Great House of Wisdom were Sufis. It is precisely
these that the Fatimid caliphs chose to propagate Islam, or rather
its esoteric doctrines, throughout the world, especially throughout
the West, where, as prophesied by Muhammad, the time would come
when "the sun (of Islam) would rise". Any outer form, whether
artistic, scientific or religious, could be used to achieve this
goal. This is how the European courts of the late twelfth century,
beginning with that of Eleanor d'Aquitaine and Marie de Champagne,
already weakened as a result of the domestication of the warriors by
the Church institution of chivalry, succumbed to the enervating
melodies and lukewarm poetry of the fidèles d'amour, whose forms
originated, as perfectly seen by de Rougemont, in the Middle East,
and whose vision of woman, idealised, risen above man, is completely
opposed to the traditional customs and conceptions of the West. In
this connection it should be noted that, besides including women in
their ranks, Sufi leaders have championed 'women's rights' within
their own sects.
Sufism, like any Islamic esoteric sect, contains a greater or lesser
quantity of pre-Islamic elements in its doctrine and in its
practices, though it is often assumed that these constitute only
peripheral residues. Specialists in sufism certainly make this
assumption, as do most modern sufis. But, what if, on the contrary,
they were the core of the teaching and the elements belonging to
Islamic exoterism were only a 'cover', having the dual purpose of,
first, protecting sufism from the attack of exoteric Islam, and
second, to hide its real nature from the non-Muslim milieux which it
has successfully infiltrated by playing on an apparent syncretism, a
vague pantheism, and the concept of a unity of all religions? We may
instance here the teaching of Al-Bistami, who was quoted as having
advocated a return to a pre-Islamic cult through sufism. This cult,
which various groups, operating together or alone, but, whether they
are aware of it or not, synergetically, while from time to time in
conflict with each other, have been trying to spread, by the means
either of exotericism (the Abrahamic religions) or of esotericism in
the spiritual field, is the Chthonic-Telluric worship of the Great
Mothers of nature, which derives ultimately, to quote Evola
in 'Guerra occulta nell'antichità - Roma, i "Libri Sibillini" e
l'ebraismo' ('Occult War in Antiquity - Rome, the "Sibylline Books"
and Judaism'), from a "substratum of ethnic, religious and even
mystical elements in which a strong Semitic-Pelasgian component is
unquestionable." This substratum gives birth to a social organisation
in which women exercise political functions and politics is
subordinated to economics ; juridically, it is based on the doctrine
of so-called 'natural right', which posits equality between all human
beings, and between men and women, as stated in the
notorious "Déclaration des droits de l'homme", whose evil Edmund
Burke once warned against with an appropriate scorn ; in
the "Universal Declaration of the United Nations", the "European
Convention of Human Rights", etc., all of whose evils Michel Villey
warned against with a similar scorn ; politically, it finds
expression either in democracy, whether parliamentary or not, or in
its borderline form : tyranny.
At the risk of disappointing some people, we must make it clear that
the Jews, who are along with the Chinese possibly the most feminine
people on earth, are only instruments of the forces of chaos, or
infra-human forces, which are behind this process which has led the
West to gynaecocracy ; among their most efficient instruments, to be
sure, but merely instruments nonetheless.