Reddit reviews Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of Freemasonry

http://www.amazon.com/Second-Messiah-Templars-Shroud-Freemasonry/dp/1931412766

This book proposes that the secret history of Freemasonry is that its formal genesis occurred following the suppression of the Knights Templar in the 14th century, when a branch of the Order escaped to Scotland and another went underground in France and across Europe (and some even took to the high seas, possibly looking for La Merica/America). The Templar’s themselves originated in the early 12th century but the book proposes that they did so as part of a coordinated emergence of European noble families centered in France who were themselves blood-descendants of a first-century Jewish-Christian priest class which gathered at the Jerusalem Church under the Apostle James, brother of Jesus Christ. This priest class escaped the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD and hid their secret knowledge under the temple to be excavated by the Knights Templar Order a thousand years later. This priestly order themselves allegedly trace their lineage back another millennium (approximately 3,000 years ago) to the establishment of Solomon’s Temple, and who are alleged to possess antediluvian wisdom derived from one of the two pillars encoded by Enoch prior to the flood. According to legend, one of the pillars was recovered by Hermes who then established the Egyptian civilization around 3000 BC. The other pillar was recovered by the Jews at some point, again according to legend. The over-arching idea binding all this history together is the notion that Jesus was not God become Man, but was an initiate of the mysteries through this Jewish priest class (and perhaps through his time in Egypt, although that piece isn’t explored in the book) and emerged as human messiah to establish a hereditary lineage of kings, what’s called the “Rex Deus” or Kings of God. The dispersed priests who escaped the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD fled across Europe and established noble families preserving holy bloodlines of this lineage which reaches back to King David.

The book spend considerable effort explaining how the Shroud of Turin is the linen cloth which wrapped Jacques de Molay following his mock-crucifixion at the hands of the French Inquisition in October 1308, and this seems to be a well-documented theory. The suppression of this truth by the Catholic Church was intended to quell the rise of a potential cult of a second messiah at a time when papal influence waned due to global instability.

Whatever your response to the claims made in this book, it is important not to ignore them because powerful people throughout history have believed them, and their collective belief has shaped world history right up to today. The Crusades were initiated for this very reason, it is suggested.

My interest is in gaining a clearer picture of medieval European history and the forces which shaped it. I believe there is a secret society that traces its lineage back 3,000 years to the foundation of Solomon’s temple, but which at that time broke away from the branch that was essentially a Babylonian mystery religion (Synagogue of Satan, Jews who are not Jews, etc) which would eventually overtake Freemasonry entirely. High Level Insider Anon presents this competing historical narrative. The notion of a Rex Deus bloodline is intriguing because it strikes at the heart of orthodox Christian teaching, which itself is circumspect given its undeniable Roman influence.

My conclusion is that there is a spiritual lineage that Jesus Christ did initiate, and which can be more deeply apprehended through certain secret rites, but the secretiveness should be understood largely relative to Roman persecution, not because of a mystery religion prerequisite. The Rex Deus bloodlines are likely factual, as established by the escaping priest-class. But they are also likely misunderstood, that is to say, they are a physical maintenance hiding a more esoteric truth, which is the spiritual lineage established by Christ, of which the literal bloodlines are a dull symbolic idol. The "secret" spiritual lineage of Christ is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit among the Body of believers, which is a coherence of consciousness akin to Plato's "land of forms," based upon restored relationship with God the Father through the "royal blood" of his Son attributed to us.

Grasping this deeper truth means that the one who breaks the idol is the rightful leader, for he has recovered the sword from the Lady of the Lake (the Templars likely authored the Arthurian Myths to encode their own secret history). It also means that the 3000 year old breakaway society has done a good thing by preserving ancient wisdom with which to anesthetize Mystery Babylon. This society was behind the Magi who welcomed Jesus’ birth, they three.

What comes next, in my judgment, is a restoration of the Kingdom of God based on a synthesis of true ancient wisdom which has been systematically corrupted by evil mystery schools going back to Nimrod (and further back to the Brotherhood the the Snake, Cain himself, and the seed of the serpent) and continuing through the Vatican and others, and true Christian faith in the figure of Jesus through whom the power of evil is routed. No doubt both sides will be dissatisfied with this outcome, at least at first. But the job of this leader will be to shepherd the flock through the narrow gate, all the time upholding the banner of Christ, the risen lamb. How he is risen and to what degree will be testified by each individual’s heart, mind, and soul. But the collective consciousness thereof will take hold of the Truth, and see its Face, and know it even as itself is known.