Chapter 1 (part 2) of THE SECRET BIBLE, vol.1: THE BOOK OF RUTH by: Bro:. Majesty Montanez

... And a certain man from Bethlehem-Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab; him and his wife, and their two sons.

---Ruth 1:1 of the Holy Bible

                                                                                                  

The Hebrew name Moab means from father, which spiritually means from God. But in the Jewish mythology of the Holy Bible, Moab --- just like any other country "outside" of the holy city of Jerusalem, which is the mythical homeland of the Israelites or the Jewish people (who biblically symbolize human beings in general) --- symbolizes the materialistic and non-spiritual state of mind that we wind up in when we leave our homeland of Oneness or Union with God or Spirit, which is the true nature or reality of our existence, as the Hebrew name Jerusalem means home of peace and completeness. Therefore, this spiritual story is telling us that because of our physical incarnation, which begins as a spiritual famine, a "family from Bethlehem-Judah", which means an "Israelite family", and thus symbolically the many living organisms that collectively make up a human being or an "Israelite", we are now "sojourning" or living temporarily in "Moab", meaning materialism. However, this part of the story also symbolically expresses to us the spiritual secret that materialism, which is godlessness, is not absolutely "bad" or "evil" because it's merely a state of mind that ultimately comes from God as a natural part of Man's spiritual evolution; because remember, the name Moab means from God.

                                                          

                                                          

And the name of the man was Elimelech...

---Ruth 1:2 of the Holy Bible

Elimelech means my God is King, and this is symbolic of the fact that before each human being leaves from his or her "home in Jerusalem" and goes to "sojourn in Moab" by being born as a human being, we are all completely conscious of the truth that God is the One True Self of all existence, and that God is therefore the one true king and ruler of the Universe, which is God's own Self. This so-called man named Elimelech is therefore symbolic of God before God becomes relatively-incarnated as every human being through the opposite and natural creative processes of involution and evolution, which are the effects of the universal laws of vibration, polarity, gender, and rhythm.

      
                            

Chapter 1 (part one) of THE SECRET BIBLE, volume 1: THE BOOK OF RUTH by: Bro:. Majesty Montanez

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land...

---Ruth 1:1 of the Holy Bible

The "famine" that's being spoken of here is a spiritual famine, not a literal one. This is because the Holy Bible, as every duly and truly initiated Free-Mason knows, is a spiritual book that symbolizes the Universe and Man (or the Macrocosm and the Microcosm) in accordance with the universal law of correspondence, which means that the Holy Bible symbolizes you, and that the Holy Bible is therefore not concerned with teaching any literal history when it tells the stories of the lives of the characters of its tales (in fact, there is no real historical evidence to prove the past existence of most of the characters of the Bible, including Jesus Christ). The symbolic stories of the Bible are timeless-wisdom stories that teach the secret and holy science of Man and the Universe which Man is a part of. Each and every one of the characters of the Holy Bible's stories are thus symbolic of particular manifestations of the one eternal energy that Man is made of, which the Universe (God) reveals to us through the rhythmic and eternal process of Creation in general. And so The Book of Ruth begins its symbolic and spiritual tale about the nature of Man by symbolically telling us that there is a spiritual famine in Man's life, which means that Man is experiencing spiritual poverty and spiritual starvation due to his lack of spirituality.

Introduction to THE SECRET BIBLE, Volume 1: THE BOOK OF RUTH by:. Bro:. Majesty Montanez

And Jesus said to his twelve disciples, "You have been given the ability to understand the Mystery of the
Kingdom of God; but as for those who are on the Outside, everything is taught to them in
parables."         

---The mythical Master, Jesus in Mark 4:11 of the Holy Bible

Peace and greetings to the East, to all true Free-Masons everywhere throughout

the Universe.

The Secret Bible, volume 1  is a short book about another short book --- a short book within the Holy Bible known as The Book of Ruth, which is named after the great-great grandmother of the mythical ancient Jewish king and prophet, King Solomon, who, according to masonic teachings, is one of the three mythical Past Grand Masters who created the masonic brotherhood.

The moral of the allegorical story of The Book of Ruth is that God doesn't care whether you call yourself an "Israelite", a"Christian",a "Muslim", a "Buddhist", a "Taoist", a "Hindu", or whatever you may call yourself religiously or spiritually; all that really matters is that you are true in wanting to know and follow God in your heart. But like all the rest of the

many books of the Holy Bible  (which is one of the three main symbols of Free-Masonry), The Book of Ruth is an ancient book of secret mystical teachings that have been purposely hidden from the spiritually blind beneath the

surface of the words of its pages, which means that The Book of Ruth has a secret, mystical meaning beyond the basic moral of the story that can only be understood by those who have the one and only true key to unlocking all of

the Holy Bible's secret revelations. As all true Masons already know, the true Masons have always possessed and carried this Master Key; and this Master Key is known as Kabbalah, which is the secret science of ancient Jewish and Christian mysticism.

The Secret Bible, volume 1, is a book that has been written for students of Free-Masonry, only. It's a masonic book that has been written to help all of the masonic temples of Blue Majestic Masonry in the work of effectively teaching the secret wisdom of the Holy Bible to all Entered Apprentice and Fellowcraft

Masons who are truly living the masonic life and working hard to be raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason. So if you're a Mason, see to it that the purpose of this book is duly and truly fulfilled. So mote it be!                            

I remain on the level,

Brother Majesty Montanez

     

YOUR PREPARATION IN THE ANTE-CHAMBER OF THE LODGE Part 3: The Secret Meaning of You Being Stripped of All Money and Metallic Subtances by: Bro:. Majesty Montanez

By reflecting upon the catechism (official ritualistic test questions and answers) of  the first degree, you will eventually realize that one of the reasons why you were stripped or divested of all money and metallic substances was so that you could keep in mind the fact that the work of a Free-Mason is "Symbolic Masonry" (not literal masonry), and that this "Symbolic Masonry" that we work in as Free-Masons is a very ancient form of spirituality that's taught in the Holy Bible through the story of the building of King Solomon's Temple, which is a biblical symbol of yourself as the holy dwelling place or house of God. What this means is that the biblical story of the building of King Solomon's Temple has nothing to do with the building of a literal temple, and this is why you were taught that the Bible says that "not even the slightest sound of a hammer, a chisel or any metal tool was heard while King Solomon's Temple was being built, so that the temple was built in silence" (I Kings 6:7), which means the mental Silence of deep meditation.

In the spiritual language of Masonry, "metallic substances" means the so-called material things that are loved, valued and worshiped by materialists in the same way that they love, value and worship real metallic substances such as silver, platinum and gold. And so to be divested of all metallic substances means to give up your love and worship of, and attachment to, all material things so that you can become spiritualized and find God, which is what a Mason's quest for Light is all about. This lets you know that divesting yourself of all money and metallic substances is a thing of the heart, and that the heart is truly what the ante-chamber of the Lodge symbolizes, since the heart is the seat of love and emotional attachment. This means that part of your spiritual work as an Entered Apprentice Mason is to remove the love and worship that you have for money and material objects from your heart, which is a lesson that the Holy Bible upon the altar of the Lodge teaches us just as symbolically as Masonry does in the following story about the mythical Master, Jesus Christ:

Someone came and asked him (Jesus), "Good Master, what good things should I do so that I can have eternal life?" So he said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God. So, if you really want to become alive, obey God's commandments." And so he asked him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said, "'You should not murder', 'you should not commit adultery', 'you should not steal', 'you should not bear witness falsely', 'you should honor your father and your mother', and 'you should love your fellow human beings like you love yourself''". Then the young man said to him, "I've been following all of those things since I was a child. What do I still lack?" So Jesus answered him, "If you want to be complete, go and give away everything that you have to the poor, and you will have a treasure in Heaven; and come, follow me." But when the young man heard this saying, he walked away in sadness, because he was a rich man. Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say to you, that it's hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. And I say to you that it's easier for a rope to fit through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."     (Matthew 19:16-24)

With this, a young Mason must remember that in the mythology of the Holy Bible, the mythical Master, Jesus, always speaks in the symbolic language of parables and metaphors to all those who have not been initiated into the secret teachings of the Ancient Mysteries.

In the first degree catechism you were also taught that "you were stripped of all metallic substances so that you couldn't bring any weapons into the Lodge", which is another symbolic statement. This particular statement of the catechism is a symbolic way of teaching you that a Mason is one who doesn't use his mind and his words as weapons to attack others in order to force them to conform to his way of thinking, since a Mason is a seeker of truth and knows that a person can only truly know something through his own mind, and not through the minds and beliefs of others. But more importantly, this lesson is meant to teach you that when a man comes into Masonry in search of spiritual enlightenment, he must come symbolically unarmed, which means that he must come with a neutral mind, meaning a balanced, meditative mind that knows that it does not yet truly know divine truth, and that it cannot therefore fight against nor defend anything that claims to be divine truth, because this would automatically block the unenlightened mind from its opportunity to eventually acquire true knowledge.

Another reason why you were stripped of all money and metallic substances was to indirectly teach you that it's the inner or spiritual worth of a person, and not the amount of money in his or her bank account or the titles and positions he or she holds in the world of material affairs, that makes a person worthy of being a Free-Mason, which means that it's spiritual wisdom and humanity, and not egoism and money-making, that Free-Masonry holds in high esteem.

(It's also very important for a Mason to know that when Masonry uses the term metallic substances in her teachings, she's giving us a hint that one of the main foundations of masonic philosophy is Hermetic Philosophy. Remember that metal is one of the main symbols of Alchemy, which is an ancient hermetic school of spirituality, and that Alchemy symbolically defines itself as being the art of transforming unprecious metals into gold.)

To be continued...