Michael Parker interviewed Freemason Robert W. Sullivan regarding the “Royal Arch Of Enoch” and “Cinema Symbolism.”
They got into various and sundry interesting topics and made some good points all around.
However, of course, when you begin by interviewing a man, a Mason, who has been specifically trained to deceive non-Masons and even lower level (Blue Lodge) Masons well, you get that for which you asked.
Specifically, Robert W. Sullivan is a Scottish Rite Freemason and note that which Albert Pike wrote in Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry:
Every Masonic lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion…
Masonry, like all religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be mislead; to conceal the Truth, which it calls light, and draw them away from it…
The truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason…every man’s conception of God must be proportioned to his mental cultivation, and intellectual powers, and moral excellence. God is, as man conceives him, the reflected image of man himself…
The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry…
It is well enough for the mass of those called Masons, to imagine that all is contained in the Blue Degrees; and whoso attempts to undeceive them will labor in vain.
Also, Manly P. Hall (referred to by the 1990 AD Scottish Lodge magazine referred to as “the most significant philosopher of the Masonry”) wrote:
Freemasonry is a fraternity within a fraternity — an outer organization concealing an inner brotherhood of the elect…it is necessary to establish the existence of these two separate and yet interdependent orders, the one visible and the other invisible.
The visible society is a splendid camaraderie of “free and accepted” men enjoined to devote themselves to ethical, educational, fraternal, patriotic, and humanitarian concerns. The invisible society is a secret and most majestic fraternity whose members are dedicated to the service of a mysterious arcannum arcandrum [secretive secrets, mysterious mysteries, etc.]
—Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, p. 433
Well, there is at least one thing that Sullivan gets right and that is that his lodge within a lodge seems to have begun with instructions offered by, and I quote him now, “fallen angels” or “demons.” He pinpoints these are being those referenced within the apocryphal Book of Enoch (see here) a portion of which is a supposed accretion of the Genesis 6 affair (see here) with the fallen Angels or demons revealing to mankind the secrets of heaven, teaching them occult knowledge, etc. and yet, the Book of Enoch itself has God stating the following to the fallen Angels or demons in 16:3 “You were in heaven, but (its) secrets had not yet been revealed to you and a worthless mystery you knew.”
Robert W. Sullivan plays the “astrotheology” card by claiming that, for example, Enoch having lived 365 years (Genesis 5:23) which he tells us refers to the Sun since the solar calendar consists of a 365 day year. He does not bother telling us why we should interpret 365 years as days nor what all of the other biblical ages given for people mean.
He also claims that the 12 Apostles are symbolic of the 12 signs of the zodiac. He does not consider that they are symbolic of the 12 tribes of Israel. Oh but the 12 tribes of Israel must symbolize the zodiac then. Well, perhaps they do if this who original gospel in the stars thing pans out. But in any case, reading into numbers his preconceived notions is not the manner whereby to appropriately interpret anything actually.
He also asserts that Jesus being the “Son” refer to the “Sun” and when it is pointed out to him that this could even ever have been dreamed up once English came about he sounds like a flummoxed Ralph Kramden (think The Honeymooners) and begins beep bopping and scatting all over the place making a vague reference to Jesus coming from the East (like the Sun!) and then giving one example after another of Sun symbolism within Masonic rituals. Well, no one stopped him and stated that the context was not Masonic rituals but the Bible.
Remember to keep in mind that he has admitted that his method of preconceived (mis)interpretation is based on that which was taught by fallen Angels or demons.
Overall, he has some interesting things to say regarding, for example, the architectural layout of Washington DC and symbolism in movies but his overall worldview-philosophy-theology utterly fails.
On a different note, Robert W. Sullivan also wrote a book titled, “Cinema Symbolism” which seeks to uncover various occult, Gnostic, Freemason, etc. symbolism in various movies—find the book here.
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