The Masonic Influence on the Vatican IV

 

   Still in doubt? This is the famous New Saint Peter's and Baroque Rome. What attracts one's attention immediately is the Sun. This was completed in 1614. This is where the bees are located as discussed before. This is the same picture in color.
 
This coin  is the back of a coin depicting Pope Augusto Giacomini, Pius XI on the other side. (Vatican Treasures p.128)
 
 The Vatican takes pride in this display of manpower trying to erect this colossal obelisk, which is situated in the centre of Saint Peter's square. It was brought to Rome from Heliopolis in Egypt around A.D. 40. The huge column of red Egyptian granite .. measures .. 25.36 meters high; in Rome the only obelisk higher than this is the one with hieroglyphics erected at San Giovanni in Laterano. . 800 men with the aid of 140 horses and 40 mightly winches, lifted up the obelisk. . (Vatican Treasures, p. 162)

 
 Why is this a problem in regard to the Roman Catholic Church being regarded as the historical "Christian" church. It is difficult to believe that and here is why: Where does Jesus fit into this picture?

 
 The front of this coin is Gaspare Morone, Alexander VII, 1666 (cat.no. 102)

 From Masonic Literature, the only place where we can get some understanding of the symbols we are confronted with when we go to Rome and visit St Peter's Square. "The Sun is symbolized by a point in the middle in Freemasonry.. In this case the obilisk serves as the middle. The Ancient Astronomers saw all the great Symbols of Masonry in the Stars, (l'Etoile Flamboyante). The Sun is still symbolized by the point within a Circle; and, with the Moon and Mercury or Anubus, in the three Great Lights of the Lodge. .. (they) were ascribed peculiar divine powers. (It is also) an emblem of UNITY. (Morals and Dogma , by Albert Pike- p. 486)

"The celebrated Labyrinth was built in honor of the Sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the Temple at Hieroplolis. The figure of the pyramid (on top of the obelisk) and that of the obelisk, resembling the shape of a flame, caused these monuments to be consecrated to the Sun and the Fire. Obelisks were erected in honor ot the Sun. (Ibid., - p.459,460)

The worship of the Sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity. To them the Sun is author of life, heat, and ignition.. His (the sun's) beneficient influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the Brahma of the Hindus, the Mithras of the Persians, and

 

Athom, Phtha, and Osiris, of the Egyptians. the Bel of the Chaldeans, the Adonai of the Phoenicians, the Adonis and Apollo of the Greeks became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence. (Ibid., - p. 593)

Freemasons believe: "Man descended from the elemental Forces or Titans [Elohim], who fed on the body of the Pantheistic Deity creating the universe by self-sacrifice, commemorates in sacramental observance this mysterious passion; and while partaking of the raw flesh of the victim, seems to be invigorated by a fresh draught from the fountain of universal life, to receive a new pledge of regenerated existence. Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity.. (Ibid., p. 393)

Not only Egyptians.., but every other people that consecrate this symbol (the Phallus), deem that they thereby do honor to the Active Force of the universal generation of all living things. (Ibid., p. 402)