"Pre-islamic worship of the goddess seems to be primarily associated with Al'Lat, which simply means 'goddess'. She is a triple goddess, similar to the Greek lunar deity Kore/Demeter/Hecate. Each aspect of this trinity corresponds to a phase of the moon. In the same way Al'Lat has three names known to the initiate: Q're, the crescent moon or the maiden; Al'Uzza, literally 'the strong one' who is the full moon and the mother aspect; then Al'Menat, the waning but wise goddess of fate, prophecy and divination. Islamic tradition continue to recognise these three but labels them 'daughters of Allah'."
We Will Now Examine Allat, (who is a Triple Goddess and is the same as Al Uzza and Al Manat).
"Allat was known as the goddess of spring and fertility. Under Hellenization Allat was later identified with the Greek/Roman goddess Athena/Minerva, and sometimes with Aphrodite or Urania/Venus Caelestis. Inscriptions mentioning Allat range from Hegra in Saudi Arabia to the Hauran in Syria. They include terms of reverence and adorati on lasting until the Islamic period. Even at the founding of Islam, an image of Allat, along with one of Al-'Uzza."
We Will now take a look at some peculiar aspects of the Goddess Aphrodite who is identified with Al-'Uzza :
"Meteorites-cults are common in Greco-Roman civilizations. According to the religious historian Mircea Eliade, the Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus contained a squat statue of the mother-goddess, carved from a meteorite that fell from Jupiter (Acts 19:26-35). The Palladium of Troy and the conic black stone or (Baetyl) of Elagabal in Emesa, Syria, are believed to be of meteoric origin. Likewise, the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele worshipped in Pessinus (later Rome) was a stone; doubtless a meteorite. A further example is the meteorite of Pessinunt in Phrygia, which was worshipped as "the needle of Cybele," brought to Rome in a powerful procession after the Punic war on advice from the Delphic oracle; there the meteorite was worshipped as a fertility goddess for further 500 years."
"The most famous of all of the stone fetishes of Arabia was, of course, the black stone in the sanctuary of Mecca. The Kabah was, and still is, a rectangular stone structure. Built into its Eastern corner is the black stone which had been an object of worship for many centuries before Mohammed appropriated the Kabah for his new religion, and made the pilgrimage to this holy place one of the pillars of Islam" (Mohammed: The man and his faith, Tor Andrae, 1936, Translated by Theophil Menzel, 1960, p. 13-30; Britannica, Arabian Religions, p. 1059, 1979). The "Hadschar al Aswad" in the Kabah is the most well known example of meteorite worship in newer times. Despite the prohibition of portraying God and adoration of objects, pilgrims to Mecca kiss this "Hadschar al Aswad" (black stone) which, according to the prophet is "Yamin Allah" (the right hand of God), supposedly a divine meteorite or Bethel- stone predating creation that fell at the feet of Adam and Eve. It is presently embedded in the southeastern corner of the Kabah. Muslims touch and kiss the black stone during Hajj."
"Al-'Uzza was the goddess of power. The chief goddesses of the Nabataean pantheon were Al-'Uzza, Allat, and Manawat. Under Hellenization, Al-'Uzza was later identified with Aphrodite, Urania/Venus Caelestis, and also linked to the Egyptian goddess, Isis. Representations of Al-'Uzza are carved on the Treasury at Petra. The baetyl of al- Uzza-Aphrodite is carved to the left of al-Kutbay. She is also mentioned in the Bosra inscription as a deity of the city, and her cult continued at Mecca until the coming of Islam. An Osiris (Isis) fragment from the Temple of the Winged Lions in Petra has been found, and Nabataean inscriptions have been located in Egypt. These provide us with evidence of how far the Nabataeans traveled and traded, and give us clues of how the Nabataean sculptors could have borrowed traits from Osiris (Isis) in Egypt that they applied to their own goddess, Al 'Uzza."
The Acacia Symbol and Freemasonry
"What
is less well-known is that an acacia tree, or a cluster of acacia
trees, is the symbol of Al-Uzza, an Arabic goddess who rules birth,
death, marriage, warfare, raids, the Zodiac, the change of the seasons,
the course of heavenly bodies, and Venus as the morning star. Green, her
sacred color, was adopted by Islam as its own favourite colour.
Meteorites, such as, for instance, the black stone in the Ka'aba
('cube'), are her sacred stones. Al-Uzza received blood offerings,
sacrifices of humans and animals. The acacia, as we have just pointed
out, is her sacred tree. It is under an acacia tree that the companions
of Muhammad took a pledge of fidelity (known as Ba'ait al-Ridwan -
"Pledge of Good Pleasure") to him the day before the signing of the
Treaty of Hudaibiya, a treaty which brought about the political victory
of Islam throughout Arabia. "
"Acacia
is one of the main symbols of Freemasonry, as acknowledged in 'Morals
and Dogma' by none other than Albert Pike (who plagerized many of his
material from the books of the French magician, Eliphas Levi) : "Masonry
still retains among its emblems one of a woman weeping over a broken
column, holding in her hand a branch of acacia, myrtle, or tamarisk
(...)". The sprig of Acacia plays a central part in the third degree
ritual ; a sprig of Acacia is sometimes laid in graves or on caskets at
Masonic funerals, and it is also seen on the 14th Degree cordon. As a
matter of fact, in ancient Egypt, from which Masonry claims to have
borrowed a large part of its imagery, the thorn of acacia was conceived
of as a symbol of the birth-and-death mother-goddess Neith. In the Old
Testament, from which Masonry also twists much to add to the decoration
of its Temples, the Acacia is said to have been used in the building of
the Tabernacle and of the Ark of the Covenant. Some Freemasons also
claim that the crown which Jesus-Christ wore on his crucifixion was made
of acacia thorns and his cross made of acacia wood, as part of their
bizarre attempt to 'prove' that Jesus Christ was himself a 'Famous
Freemason'!"
-Rolph Klein, Grand Lodge of Alberta A.F. & A.M.
The
broken column denotes the untimely death of our Grand Master Hiram
Abiff; the beautiful Virgin, weeping, denotes the Temple, unfinished;
the book open before her, that his virtues there lie on perpetual
record; the sprig of acacia in her right hand, the timely discovery of
his body; the urn in her left, that his ashes were there safely
deposited to perpetuate the remembrance of so distinguished a character;
and Time standing behind her unfolding the ringlets of her hair denotes
that time, patience and perseverance will accomplish all things.
-Master Mason initiation lecture
(Here
is something rather interesting, Semiramis, the queen of Babylon called
herself a Virgin even though she had a son named Tammuz, she later
became Ishtar, Venus, Aphrodite, Al Uzzah etc. she is the counterfit
Mary that the Catholics worship and is not the real Mary, mother of
Jesus Christ thus we see how Satan fools the Masons and the world into
thinking Semiramis is the mother of Christ, when she is really the
mother of Tammuz who she claims to be the Reincarnation of Nimrod, her
husband who Shem son of Noah killed)
Masonry
still retains among its emblems one of a woman weeping over a broken
column, holding in her hand a branch of acacia, myrtle, or tamarisk,
while Time, we are told, stands behind her combing out the ringlets of
her hair. We need not repeat the vapid and trivial explanation... given,
of this representation of Isis, weeping at Byblos, over the column torn
from the palace of the King, that contained the body of Osiris, while
Horus, the God of Time, pours ambrosia on her hair.
-Albert Pike 33° Freemason, "Morals and Dogma" page 379
(What Albert Pike means is that the Acacia tree brach is a symbol of Isis who is linked to Al-Uzzah)
"The
color green has a special place in Islam. It is used in the
decoration of mosques, the bindings of Qur'ans, the silken covers for
the graves of Sufi saints, and in the flags of various Muslim
countries. Green has been associated with Islam for many centuries.
The colour green was the colour used by Muhammad’s tribe on their
flags. Al Uzza (whose color was Green) being a Goddess of war and
beauty is also linked with the Goddess Athena, who is also linked to
the Goddess Aphrodite which is identified with Allat."
"Manawat
(Al Manat) was considered to be the goddess of destiny or fate.
Under Hellenization, Manawat was associated with the Greek/Roman
goddess Nemesis/Fate. As with Al Uzza, Manawat similarly does not
emerge to any major role among the Nabataeans, judging from the
relative infrequency with which she was invoked in ancient
inscriptions. Her major domain would seem to have been around Hegra,
although she, as Al-'Uzza, survived until the coming of Islam. Her
image does not appear among the pre-Islamic “idols“”at Mecca, however,
and she may never have been represented there."
"Sin
is also the progenitor of the ancient Arabian high God al- Llah, which
like El simply means God, who is still represented by the crescent
moon. It has already been noted that the star and crescent of Islam
is prefigured both in the coinage of Harran and the symbolic
relationship between the crescent moon of Sin and the evening star of
Ishtar, seen also among the Sabeans."
One of the false messiahs of Islam, the Mahdi, fits the description of
the Anti-Christ from Revelation, who will rule for 7 years.
this is according to wikipedia
The
Mahdi will be of my stock, and will have a broad forehead, a prominent
nose. He will fill the earth with equity and justice as it was filled
with oppression and tyranny, and he will rule for seven years.5
There
is also a branch of Freemasonry called The Shriners, who swear an oath
to the moon god Allah, here is a copy of the oath as well as their
insignia:
“Candidates for induction into the Shriners are greeted by a High Priest, who says:
“By the existence of Allah and the creed of Mohammed; by the legendary sanctity of our Tabernacle at Mecca, we greet you.”
The inductees then swear on the Bible and the Koran, in the name of Mohammed, and invoke Masonry’s usual gruesome penalties upon themselves:
“I do hereby, upon this Bible, and on the mysterious legend of the Koran, and its dedication to the Mohammedan faith, promise and swear and vow … that I will never reveal any secret part or portion whatsoever of the ceremonies … and now upon this sacred book, by the sincerity of a Moslem’s oath I here register this irrevocable vow … in willful violation whereof may I incur the fearful penalty of having my eyeballs pierced to the center with a three-edged blade, my feet flayed and I be forced to walk the hot sands upon the sterile shores of the Red Sea until the flaming sun shall strike me with livid plague, and may Allah, the god of Arab, Moslem and Mohammedan, the god of our fathers, support me to the entire fulfillment of the same. Amen. Amen. Amen.”
With this oath, Christians swear on the Koran, and declare Allah to be “the god of our fathers.” From the perspective of Christianity and Islam alike, Shriners take the name of God in vain, and mock both faiths.”
Excerpt from The Origins and Influence of Masonry
by Lee Penn, SCP Journal Vol. 25:2-25:3 2001
P0 Box 4308, Berkeley, CA 94704
by Lee Penn, SCP Journal Vol. 25:2-25:3 2001
P0 Box 4308, Berkeley, CA 94704
"On
the first face is engraved...a pentagram or a star with five points. On
the other side is engraved a bull's head enclosed in a SIX-POINTED
STAR, and surrounded by letters composing the name REMPHA, THE PLANETARY
GENIUS OF SATURN, according to the alphabet of the Magi." (Christian,
p. 304-5)
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