Letter from Hiram Abiff - Josephus
Dear Bro Damien
I do not know whether or not this letter
will reach you before your next edition.
We have up here all been attending to letters from some fellow who has
sent us many cheques, whatever they are, saying that they are to stimulate
us. We thought Viagra came in
bottles. Are we supposed to eat them?
It would take more than a piece of papyrus,
even a centerfold, to simulate us. Our
passions are subdued! Of course none of my generation have ever lived there let
alone paid our levies and taxes. However
it was a nice thought but we all would have voted for him again anyway without
him spending all that money.
The garrulous politicians, full of all the
hyperbole and all the money that you now have should never make it here - but
you never know. For example you modern
masons will all have heard of Josephus, the 1st Century writer of
Jewish history and tradition.
Josephus tells us that Enoch was the fifth
after Seth and the seventh from Adam and he was the one that prophesied the
flood and widespread bushfires. So that
all our smarts were preserved he erected two pillars with all the knowledge on
them, one of brick and the one of stone so the brick would survive fire and the
stone, floods. There was never any
suggestion that they were as artistic as my pillars and unlike mine they are
not mentioned in Good Book. (Even though
they are not in recommended reading as part of the Volume of the Sacred Law you
lot with the floods in the north, the economic pestilence from Canberra and the
fires in the south should have learned from history but of course first you
must have wisdom to comprehend, don’t you?
Some lack the required wisdom and will never learn! You get what you deserve)
Josephus (AD 37 – c 100), a Jew, was also
known as Yosef Ben Matityahu. He became
a Roman citizen and called himself Titus Flavius Josephus. So you can see that he would have had St
Peter at those awful pearly gates on his side and he would have hoped to have
the blessing of the Jewish gate keepers.
The problem that we have with him is that as the commander of the Jewish
garrison at Yodfat he was under siege by the Romans and when they overran the
position thousands were killed and the survivors committed suicide – except for
Josephus. He suggested to his men a
collective progressive suicide pact but he was the only survivor. Then he became a Roman citizen. Would you trust him? He must have been as glib as some of your
politicians today. I am not sure that he
made it here despite St Peter’s recommendations.
It is a wonder that some of your
revisionists do not have his writings as part of your Volume of the Sacred
Law.
Yours
fraternally
Hiram
Abiff
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