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Freemasons and pyramids?

posted 17 years ago by mwerner6
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Was I not paying attention enough or did they say the pyramids were created by the freemasons? It's kind of cool to think that and I can see why they added that in there with all the Dan Brown influenced things now days but, it's impossible for that part of the story to even be believable because the freemasons didn't start till the early 18th century. Yes, there were masons but not the freemasons, which are plagued by myth. Also, mentioning Egypt's version of hell? The afterlife was the afterlife in egypt. If you were bad, you're heart was eatin and you'd vanish. If you were good, you'd join osiris. Fun movie to watch but, I wish they could get some more facts right and made more sense. Oh, I just remembered, they said they got some kind of story from a cartouche, cartouches only contain kings names.

[–] stbarabas 17 years ago

not sure what part you are talking about but you did know that the movie was supposed to take place in california right? it was a old movie set they were excavating where the masons had hidden the thing.

[–] bebw 17 years ago

Well, I'm a freemason and I can definitely say that you should do a bit more research - freemasonry goes a *lot* further back than the 18th century! :)

[–] mwerner6 17 years ago

Yeah I know about the Hiram Abiff and Solomons temple and everything. But, the way they implied it, it was the type of freemasons that are in the popular view nowdays. Relating with the templars and all that stuff.

[–] dosmaridos 15 years ago

Get a life, and tell another lie. Any true Freemason would capitalise, "Freemason", and would never announce their membership in such a flippant way.
Grow up.

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[–] thesnowleopard 15 years ago

The Freemasons only date back to the 18th century. Really. Possibly the late-17th, but anything before the English lodge went public in 1717 is speculation, at best.

At any rate, the myth of Hiram is set during the building of the Temple of Jerusalem, which occurred far from and a fair bit after the pyramid-building period in Egypt.

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[–] Strazdamonas 16 years ago

they didnt said Freemasons built the pyramids, but they indeed said they built the chamber to contain the evil creature.

[–] michaelexarkun 16 years ago

I found that the movie became unclear and confusing once they tried to incorporate the Freemason aspect into the story, not that that was the only confusing thing.

[–] cjs1976 16 years ago

My husband and I rented this since our son has such an interest in Egypt it looked good. I jokingly stated at the beginning where it shows the priests with the triangles on their heads "oh it's the Mason's fault!" Little did I know that later in the film they would imply Masonic involvement.

I think the OP misunderstands the connection between the Freemasons and the Templars. Freemasons are indeed Masons, the only difference is the addition of the word "Free" in the last couple of centuries, to encourage philosophers/freethinkers, etc. to participate. I think there was the assumption that in order to belong you had to be a 'mason' by trade. They were originally much like today's unions, but grew to be a fraternal organization that 'makes good men better'(NOT A RELIGIOUS CULT as some would have the public believe). In order to become a Freemason all you have to do is ask...2B1Ask1 as they say.

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