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REVIEWS < THE GOLEM: tions by refusing to allow inspections of its this day, is a pastiche of seven different sto- A World Held Hostage — nuclear arsenal (Mordechai Vanunu was ries, he reckons, complete with symbologies, Israel's Nuclear Hell Bomb and the right, and is still being persecuted for reveal- designed to reinforce the St Clair claim to Road to Global Armageddon ing some of Israel's nuclear secrets). Piper the Scottish throne. Yet nearly 200 years . + DF warns against Israel having unbridled would pass before it became a political tool by Michael Collins Piper . authority in the region and over its "tool", in the St Clair claim to masonic lineage. American Free Press, Washington, 2007 the USA—or at least its Zionist factions. Unexpectedly in this journey, Lomas finds ISBN 978-1-571 74-533-0 (i 82pp tpb) The world should not be held hostage by the codes of the original Neolithic religion Available: www.michaelcollinspiper.com Israel's nuclear Golem, implores Piper, who _ of farming—a religion led by a group of lhe State of Israel has had a long-time claims that unless Israel dismantles its "Hell "fanatical" women who were in touch with pernicious influence on the USA, says Bombs" there will be no peace. the goddess of fertility. Those very keys to American author, critic and talk-show host Piper keeps the rhetoric to a minimum in the realisation of the inevitability of death— Michael Collins Piper, who suggests that his exposé, but he's sure to enrage certain that one generation has to die for another to anyone who speaks out against its policies, Jewish and Zionist factions regardless. live—are part of the Third Degree of its Zionist philosophies or its elitist lobbyists Freemasonry and are also represented in is labelled an anti-Semite. That's what hap- | TURNING THE TEMPLAR KEY masonic symbols. Those keys were also pened to General Wesley Clark (Ret.) by Robert Lomas encoded in the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh (actually, the son of a Jewish father), who in Lewis Masonic, Hersham, UK, 2007 several thousand years later and this spiritual 2004 pointed out that the US Jewish press ISBN 978-0853 8-286-3 (383pp he) truth lives on, preserved in the 26th grade of the Ancient and Accepted Rite. In closing, Lomas suggests Freemasonry offers a route to study the inner mystery of consciousness which is free of superstition yet reconciles later beliefs in an afterlife. was openly advocating American military action against Iran, with "New York money people" putting pressure on political candi- dates and politicians to go down this treach- erous road. Clark was not alone among the Available: www.lewismasonic.com n the final book in his "Key" trilogy, Robert Lomas investigates the links, if any, between Freemasonry, Templar ou A u dl Masonry and the Knights Templar. He con- military in holding views contrary to those cludes there is no proven historical connec- of the neoconservative, fanatical, pro-Zionist tion, and that many myths have been "spun" members of the present Bush administration. yer the centuries for political purposes to Piper was even blacklisted by the Israel- lead us to think there might be a connection. based Coordination Forum or Countering To illustrate this, he uses the example of Antisemitism for attending the December Sir William St Clair, the 12th Baron Roslin, 2006 Tehran conference at which Iran's who in 1446 laid the foundations and then president Ahmadinejad denounced the oversaw the building of Roslin (Rosslyn) Zionist factions of the Israeli government. Chapel in Scotland. St Clair held vast lands In his new book, Piper uses the Jewish and was planning to lay claim to the Scottish myth of the Golem as a metaphor for the throne. He hired a Scottish scholar-poet, nuclear arsenal that Israel has at its disposal Gilbert Hay, a chamberlain to King Charles to "defend" itself but possibly to obliterate VII of France, to design the layout according the Middle East if not the whole world if it to the floor plan of the Temple of Solomon, so desires. He slams Israel's defiant stance as Lomas has already proposed, and the in refusing to sign the nuclear non-prolifera- _ ornately sculpted, esoterically inspired inte- tion treaty and flouting international conven- iors. The result, which awes the visitor to tions by refusing to allow inspections of its nuclear arsenal (Mordechai Vanunu was right, and is still being persecuted for reveal- ing some of Israel's nuclear secrets). Piper warns against Israel having unbridled authority in the region and over its "tool", the USA—or at least its Zionist factions. The world should not be held hostage by Israel's nuclear Golem, implores Piper, who claims that unless Israel dismantles its "Hell Bombs" there will be no peace. Piper keeps the rhetoric to a minimum in his exposé, but he's sure to enrage certain Jewish and Zionist factions regardless. 72 = NEXUS this day, is a pastiche of seven different sto- ries, he reckons, complete with symbologies, designed to reinforce the St Clair claim to the Scottish throne. Yet nearly 200 years would pass before it became a political tool in the St Clair claim to masonic lineage. Unexpectedly in this journey, Lomas finds the codes of the original Neolithic religion of farming—a religion led by a group of "fanatical" women who were in touch with the goddess of fertility. Those very keys to the realisation of the inevitability of death— that one generation has to die for another to live—are part of the Third Degree of Freemasonry and are also represented in masonic symbols. Those keys were also encoded in the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh several thousand years later and this spiritual truth lives on, preserved in the 26th grade of the Ancient and Accepted Rite. In closing, Lomas suggests Freemasonry offers a route to study the inner mystery of consciousness which is free of superstition yet reconciles later beliefs in an afterlife. APRIL — MAY 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com