The Master Game: Unmasking the Secret Rulers of the World by Graham Hancock

Author:Graham Hancock [Hancock, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781934708750
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Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Conari
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The ‘Greek Hermenes’ is understood to be, of course, Hermes (the Thoth of the Egyptians and the Mercury of the Romans). As for ‘Hermes the Father of Wise Men’, there can be little doubt that this is reference to Hermes Trismegistus.

The rest of the ‘history’ in the Old Charges consists of a very convoluted and circuitous narrative that passes through Babylon, the coming of Abraham to Egypt (whence ‘he taught the Egyptians the seven sciences’) and finally brings us to the most important moment in the Masonic story – the building of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem. We are told that through the construction of this magnificent edifice ‘the worthy Craft of Masons was confirmed in the country of Jerusalem.’48

From there the Old Charges hop, skip and jump through space and time to try and show how this ‘worthy Craft of Masons’ was brought into Europe via France and finally to England in the ‘time of St. Alban’.49 Perhaps not totally unrelated is the curious fact that Francis Bacon, at the peak of his career, was granted the title of Viscount St. Albans by James I – thus linking him, in name at least, to this strange genealogy of Freemasonry in Britain.

We also note with interest that the Old Charges cast Hermes, the ‘Father of Wise Men’, as the finder and repromulgator of lost knowledge. Though the effect may not be intentional this is a scenario that does very much call to mind the rediscovery of the Hermetic writings in 1460 and their subsequent repromulgation. We saw in Chapter Eight that Marsilio Ficino and his intellectual successors, including men like Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella more than a century later, really believed that the lost ‘magical religion’ or ‘science’ of the Egyptians had been rediscovered and felt strongly that it should be ‘taught forth’.

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