If so Heru (Horus) may well be Hiram Abiff and the Widow is Isis
I believe these excerpts offer enough evidence of this:
"In 1614, Freemasonry was not organized as it is today, but there is
no doubt that many essential traditions of Freemasonry and rites exemplifying
them were known then. Hence, it is interesting to note that MLK
ShLMH, Melek Shelomoh (King Solomon), adds to 465; ChVRM MLK TzVR,
Khurum Melek Tsore (Hiram King of Tyre), adds to 640; and the number of
ChVRM ABIV, Khurum Abiv (Hiram Abiff), is 273. Thus, the names of the
three original Master Masons have a numerical total that is the same as the
birthdate of Brother C.R.C.: 1378.
Moreover, 1378 is the "theosophic extension" of 52, or sum of the
numbers from 1 to 52 inclusive. Thus, it is the fifty-second in the series of
numbers termed "triangular" by the Pythagoreans, because they may be
represented by dots arranged to form an equilateral triangle. As the
theosophic extension of 52, the number 1378 represents the full manifestation
of the power of the name Jehovah, because that name spelled "in its
plenitudef'-that is, with the names of its four letters instead of single
characters, IVD-HH-VV-HH, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh-adds to 52. Thus, 1378 is a
numeral symbol of the full power of God the Father.
As the extension of 52, C.R.C.'s birthdate is also the numeral
symbol of the full power of the Qabalistic noun AIMA, Aima (Mother). This
word is a name specially applied to the third Sephirah-Binah, or Understanding-
and its value is also 52.
Fifty-two is also the value of BN, Ben (Son). This is the Qabalistic
designation of Tiphareth (Beauty), the sixth Sephirah. Hence, 1,378 is a
numeral symbol of the complete manifestation of the powers of the Son.
In other words, 1,378 represents numerally the full powers of the
Qabalistic triad-Father, Mother, Son. The Qabalistic Father is Wisdom, and
on the Tree of Life, this Sephirah is one of three Sephiroth composing the
Pillar of Wisdom. The Qabalistic Mother is Understanding, but the Pillar on
the Tree to which this Sephirah belongs is known as the Pillar of Severity or
Strength. The Middle Pillar on the Tree is usually called "Mildness" by
Qabalists, but sometimes it is known as the Pillar of Beauty, from the
Sephirah Tiphareth, which is its central point.
Our Masonic readers will know that Freemasonry associates King
Solomon with a Pillar named Wisdom; Hiram, King of Tyre, is connected
with a Pillar named Strength; and to Hiram Abiff, the Widow's Son, is
attributed a Pillar named Beauty. These three pillars are said to be the
supports of the Lodge, and leading Masonic authorities are agreed that the
Masonic symbolism of the pillars is very old, preceding the Masonic revival
of 1717. Mackey says, erroneously, that the Rosicrucians knew nothing of
these pillars, and his statement is the more surprising because he was of the
opinion that Masonry derived its conception of Beauty as one of the
supports of the Lodge from the Qabalistic Tiphareth.
But since the names of the three Ancient Grand Masters, as we
have shown, add to 1378, and three pillars associated with the Grand
Masters are directly connected with three Qabalistic names that correspond
to the same three Pillars on the Tree of Life, we submit that when the
Rosicrucians chose 1378 as the symbolic birthdate of the Son who was the
Founder of the Order, they were intimating to the initiated that he was
none other than that Son (BN, Ben) whose unity with his Father and Mother
is indicated by the fact that the names of all three correspond to 52, the
number that has 1378 for its theosophic extension.
A Widow's Son is the leading figure in the old Egyptian religion. He
is Horus, son of Isis and Osiris. In the Egyptian language his name was
Khoor, and it was spelled with two hieroglyphics that correspond exactly to
Greek Chi and Rho and may also be represented, as to sound, by Hebrew
Kaph and Resh, or German C and R. The Egyptian name of Horus,
therefore, agrees exactly with the Chi and Rho of the monogram of Christ,
already considered in this chapter.
Moreover, Plutarch informs us that the Egyptians attributed Khoor
or Horus to the hypotenuse of the celebrated Pythagorean Triangle, which
Masons revere as an invention of Pythagoras but in their monitors term the
Forty-seventh Problem of Euclid. According to Plutarch, the vertical line of
this triangle, three units long, represents Osiris, the Father; its base of four
units corresponds to Isis, the Mother; and Horus, the Son, is the hypotenuse
of five units. Observe that the parts of this triangle are assigned by the
Egyptians to Father, Mother, and Son, just as the Pillars of the Qabalistic
Tree of Life also are associated with a triad of Father, Mother, and Son. Note
also that the Egyptian hero Horus, like the Masonic hero Hiram, is the son
of a widow.”
(…)
“Returning now to Brother C. R. C., we note that these initials, as
Hebrew letters, have a total value of 240. This is the number of the noun
RM, rawm (high, lofty), which is applied to the spirit of Brother C. R. at the
beginning of the story. The same word refers also to Kether, the uppermost
Sephirah on the Tree of Life. It might also be applied to the upper end of the
hypotenuse in the Pythagorean Triangle, which is the highest point on that
symbol. Furthermore, the same word is a component part of the name
ChVRM, Khurum, or Hiram, which combines or coalesces the two words
KhVR, Khoor (white) (applied also to the Egyptian Khoor, Horus, as god of
light) and RM, rawm (high). Thus, C. R. C. is that Height which is also
termed the White Head by the Qabalists, or Kether, the Crown.
There is no Hebrew word spelled CRC (or Kaph Resh Kaph), but
the same letters do spell KKR, kikkawr, and furthermore, Gesenius traces
this word to a Syriac root meaning "to surround," which is actually spelled
KRK. Kikkawr means primarily "a circle." Hence, it is closely related in
meaning to Kether (the Crown) because, Kether is derived from a Hebrew root
also meaning "to surround." A crown, in its simplest form, is a metal circlet,
surrounding the head of a ruler. Thus, the primary meaning of kikkawr is
actually related in Hebrew to the word chosen by Qabalists as a name for
the first Sephirah. Later, we shall find that this Sephirah is regarded as the
root or origin of the whole Tree of Life, that it is the universal I AM, or
Cosmic Self, and that in the system of Rosicrucian Grades it is the highest
of all. All this agrees with what the Fama has to tell us concerning our
Father, Brother C.R.C.
When we come to the initials by which our Brother and Father is
distinguished after he has completed his initiation by his two years at Fez,
we do not have to make any transpositions of letters. For R.C. is RK, roke, a
Hebrew noun meaning "tenderness, as of a green shoot" and also, as
descriptive of character, "tender, compassionate."
Compassion is a distinguishing feature of the true adept. Thus, the
agreement of the Brethren says that "R.C. was to be their seal, mark and
character." That the Christ is compassionate is shown again and again by
the Gospels, and we have heard much over the years of certain wise men of
the East whose main title to human consideration is that they are Masters
of Compassion.”
