Moorish Masonic Connection EXPOSED: Secret Ties Revealed Part 2 - Salman S. Sheikh

They tell you Freemasonry is a Western tradition, but the symbols keep pointing East. We follow that trail in Part Two of our Moorish Masonic Connection series, building on the hidden-history thread with a closer look at parallel teachings from Islam and the Sufi path that mirror core lodge ideas like initiation, sacred space, secrecy, degrees, and moral self-work.

We walk through the Kaaba as a living example of ritual movement and inner transformation, then compare Sufi order discipline, recommendation, probation, charity, fasting, and guarding entrusted knowledge with what many people recognize from Masonic practice. We also get into medieval and modern touchpoints, including Knights Templar stories, red and white symbolism, Baphomet as a balance-of-nature concept in the speaker’s framing, and a wild historical reference: a 1918 newspaper clipping describing a Masonic meeting held in a mosque in Palestine at a site associated with Solomon’s Temple.

From there we zoom out into the inner and outer dimensions of faith and initiation, zahir and batin, the traveling man and the salik, and why “die before you die” is really about defeating the ego and living clean. The message stays consistent: reclaim your intellectual heritage, do not chase validation, and judge every system by the fruit it produces in your character, your family life, and your service to the community.

If this conversation challenges how you think about Freemasonry, Sufism, Moorish history, and Islamic esoteric traditions, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave us a review so more people can find the work.

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SPEAKER_01 0:10

What's going on, everybody out there? It's Ron Brown, LMT the People's Fitness Professional, aka Soul Brother No. One reporting for duty. Thank you to everybody that come. Thank you for every thank you for coming out, everyone out there. I'm a little tongue-tied. Uh I had to get ready. A little hectic, hectic uh situation. Uh, we had some technical difficulties. Anyway, uh, we're here now. Uh uh uh Salman, how are you doing, brother?

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Greetings and peace, everyone. Assalamu alaikum, rahmutullah barakatuhu, and bismillah Rahmanir Rahim to the beloved brother Ron Brown and to all of our brothers and sisters watching this. I'm doing well, alhamdulillah. And I hope all of you are doing okay as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

That's peace. Now we're talking with with um part two. What do you we got the brother Cyrus in the building? What's up, bro? What's up, bro? Uh, we're talking about the Moorish Masonic Connection Exposed Secret Ties Reveal Part Two. So let's build on that. How do you want to set this off, brother?

SPEAKER_00 1:22

So uh definitely, I I think what we have here is in the part one, we explored the different connections that we have with our Moorish brothers and sisters in terms of that hidden history that the Eurocentric Masonry has not kind of brought to the forefront. So the part two that I want to build on from the last conversation is exploring the parallel teachings of Islam, the Sufi path, and Masonry to show you like where that exact information comes from. So without further ado, I'm gonna hit the uh the screen share and I will pull up this presentation that I have, inshallah. So the screen share. How do I do that from here? Okay, well it will it give me the screen share option from here?

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Uh I think I would have to share help. Well, what hold on see? No, I would have to do it. I think. Yeah, that's on me.

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All right, no worries. Uh let me uh send this to you. Okay. And uh just pull it up, my brother.

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You want to send it to email or uh private chat?

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I'll send it to you right now on the on the uh text message.

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Perfect. Okay, that's why that's a powerful. All right, so I'm gonna do this. Got it. Perfect. It's pulling up now. My my my couple years in computers computer science did something.

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Thank you, everyone, for being patient.

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Yeah, it's just it's just processing right now. Let's talk to everybody on the chat right now. What's going on? Uh Shams says, is the Arab slave trade a lie? Propaganda the white man use against Islam. Mm-hmm.

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(Cont.) Moorish Masonic Connection EXPOSED: Secret Ties Revealed Part 2 - Salman S. Sheikh

SPEAKER_00 5:39

Yeah, we we gotta realize that um the Arabs we have of today, especially the Wahhabi Arabs, that was a conspiracy from the British aspect to basically infiltrate and compromise Islam, especially with Lawrence of Arabia and what they were doing in that aspect. So the Salafi Wahhabi, the ones that we have today, like basically the head choppers, right? Like that's not Islam. Islam is demonstrated through peace, love, unity, and justice, demonstrated through the principles of Muhammad of Arabia, Prophet Noble Jwali, peace be upon them, all of them. So we gotta realize that certain hadiths that they fabricated, hadiths and certain propagandas, like the conspiracy is so deep. And that is the purpose of my work is to basically reclaim our intellectual heritage. Because the step one is if you reclaim your history and intellectual heritage, that destroys the enemy right then and there. So thank you all for being patient. Uh I apologize on my end for any delays or difficulties as well. So basically, this conversation builds upon our part one, where we we give credit to our Moorish brothers and sisters for their contributions to what we know as Freemasonry today. The second part, inshallah, focuses on the parallel teachings to show that, yeah, they did take it from Islam. So, yep, without further ado, um, I start this. So, next slide, brother Ron. So here we see, my brothers and sisters, the Kaaba, right? If you look at the Masonic tracing board, we see the three pillars strength, beauty, and most people don't realize about the third pillar, wisdom, of King Solomon's temple. Strength and beauty and wisdom, basically the equilibrium and the middle path of this journey that we're on. And a hadith of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, says that the signs of Allah are the sun, the moon, and the stars, and the all-seeing eye, which is known as Al-Basir, one of the 99 names of Allah. So when we do the rite of circumambulation around the Kaaba, it is that initiation taking place, right? Most people do not know that inside of the Kaaba, they have the three pillars and the altar. Most people never seen what's inside of it. And even outside the cloth, the black and white cloth represents the basically duality of man. And that good and evil comes from Allah, and there's that initiation of strength, beauty, and wisdom that we must inhabit. The rite of circumambulation, the same thing they do in Masonic lodges, wearing the ihram. Ihram is like the anagram of Hiram, right? The white cloth of innocence where everyone is equal. And what changed Malcolm X's life when he went to Mecca. So this place is very interesting because the initiation, how it happens, is like one of my Sufi friends that was there, he felt like his heart was weighed on a scale. There was an entity that took his heart and weighed it on a scale. And that was the beauty of it. And this uh honestly, this doesn't happen to everyone because you must be deemed worthy of initiation. Most of the Muslims who go today, like, they just go take their little social media picks that I went to Mecca and they come back just because they had the money to go there, because of how expensive the Arab royals have made it to go to Hajj. So, yep, the real Hajj is the initiation of the heart. And if you can do that, then you are connected to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, as even the latter on the Masonic tracing board is taking you to the heavens. Next slide. So we see where they took this from, right? We see the initiation rites among the Dervishes. The candidate must be recommended by two members of the order who can vouch his character to the sheikh, the master. Once recommended, the initiate must respect all brethren equally, despite his worldly rank or title. The work entails of chanting the names of Allah, God, memorizing portions of the Quran, helping with public services, being charitable, and period of seclusion and fasting, right? Circumscribing your desires, your passions, what we see the brothers doing with the fish fries and just contributing to the community. So in the Dervish community, it's basically the same. And this is also during the probationary period between recommendation and initiation. Now the brother must promise to be faithful to his oath, protect and guard the secrets of which are entrusted to him, and live his life in obedience to the will of God. Next slide. So we see with the Knights Templar, they spend a lot of time with the Ismaili Shia community, right? The Hashashin, what we know as the assassins. We see the rank structure, which is very, very similar, right? We look at the Hashashin, for example, right? The Grand Master, the Prince of the Mountain, the old man of the mountain, the Dais Al-Kabir, or the three great viceroys under him, the Dais or Provincial Masters, the Rafiks or Chaplains, the Lazik, the military body, the Faraim, the death devoted, the Batani or the Secret Brethren, the Filiates. Same thing with the Knights Templar, right? They got the Grand Master, the three grand priors, the provincial prior, the chaplains, the knights, the esquires, the serving brethren, the Denato and Obligati and the Afiliati. And they would often, because even during the holy wars and the crusades, they would both wear red and white. So sometimes when you saw red and white coming towards you, you wouldn't know who that was. Was that the Hashashin or was that the Knights Templar? And at that time, they were taking a lot of that wisdom from the Moorish lodges and from the Moorish brothers and incorporating that within their own systems as well. And red being significant for the Fez and also for the Moors as well. Next slide. So we see, right, the Arabization of the Knights Templars, where the charges against them accuse them of being crypto-Muslim with worshiping of Baphometh, Mahamet, which is Muhammad, peace be upon him, and denial of Christ. They were persecuted on a Friday, which is a holy day. And Baphomet basically represents the Insan Al-Camille in Sufism, where the masculine, feminine, animalistic, lower nature, all of those instincts within you as the human being, as the representative of God on this earth, must be balanced. You become the Insan Al-Camille. That's basically what that is. The Templars made treaties in the Holy Land with Muslims contrary to French interest and betraying Frankish armies to Muslims during periods of conflicts. They even allowed Muslims and Moors to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque. So Robert of St. Albans, he was an English knights templar who converted to Islam and married Saludin's niece. In the 1270s, the Templar commander in Sidon, Matthew Savaj, also spelt Sir Maj, and the Mamluk ruler of Egypt, Sultan Babers, were blood brothers. Hugu de Paines, right? He was the co-founder and first grandmaster of the Knights Templar, and he was a descendant of the Moorish Sufis. Um his grandfather, he was a Moor, and he instructed him into the sciences. If you look at the Pagani family crest of Sicily in Italy, you have the heads of three Moors on there. And even Hollywood kind of tells you the truth. If you look at the movie True Romance, they kind of point out that fact as well of the Moors ruling in Sicily and in Italy. And right, even what the Pope does, right? He washes the feet of the melanated people inside of those services. So those that know, you know, they give they give that respect of where it all comes from in the long run. Next slide. So here we have a news clipping from the London Evening News where they have a Masonic meeting in a mosque from September 3rd, 1918, London Evening News. They tried their best to scrub this off the internet, but I had I had the clipping saved. And this is talking about Freemasons in Palestine, right? Palestine that existed way before what we know as the so-called state we're not allowed to criticize that formed in 1948. So Freemasons in Palestine have held the Masonic meeting on the historic site of King Solomon's Temple, right? The Al-Asqa Mosque, where Freemasonry is supposed to have originated about 1000 BC. The meeting was organized by members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Palestine, the mosque of Umar being on the site of the temple. The New Zealanders approached the great sheikh in charge of the mosque for permission. Then occurred an incident showing the universality of the order. The sheikh listened to what the strangers had to say, and then to their surprise and amazement, he asked if there were any masons among them. The rest was easy. He declared himself a Mason, and at the meeting, he acted as one of the guards of the lodge. The place within the mosque where the meeting was held is known as the Cave of the Rock of the Dome, and is believed to have been the Holy of Holies of the Old Temple. As it is today, the mosque of Umer, soldiers of all ranks were present, and after a lodge had been duly constituted and opened, resolutions were passed, conveying fraternal greetings and good wishes to various Grand Lodges, to the lodges in New Zealand, and the brethren on service in France. So basically, one of the holiest sites of Islam, right, after Mecca and Medina, is the Dome of the Rock in Al-Aqsa Masjid in Jerusalem. And there was a Masonic meeting that took place in here. Most people don't know that. And it is the site of King Solomon's temple. Even if you look at Mecca, right? The perfect ashlar stone, right? The temple in that square fashion. Outside, you have the black and white cloth that covers it, right? The black and white tiles. Inside you have the pillars and the altar, people doing the rite of circumambulation. So it all comes back to Islam. Next slide. Now there's a tradition in the Sufi lodges called the Odd Lang Sign, the Robert Burns Masonic tradition. And what they do is they hold their hand like hand in hand one another, the Sufi Zikr circles. And this they call this the mystic tie that binds us all, right? The brethren where two or three are gathered in my name and God is amongst them. And we see here in the Sufi lodges, right? You got the checkerboard floor, you got them doing the same thing, dressed in black and white clothing, similar to the Masonic suit, right? And they're doing the same thing, the mystic tie that binds us all. Now they normally do this during the third degree when the brethren, the craft is assembled, and they do the whole thing around higher mabif. But at the same time, they also do this in the lodges, right? When they do the tradition of the mystic tie that binds us all, that comes from Sufiism, where we hold each other hand in hand. Next slide. Now, Al-Fatuwa, the Islamic knighthood and mentoring from youth. Now, what we see in the Dimolai tradition, it comes from Al-Fatua. Fatua is the way of the Fatah. In Arabic, Fatah literally means a handsome, brave youth. After the enlightenment of Islam, following the use of the word in the Holy Quran, the Fatah, the plural fit fatian, came to mean the ideal, noble, and perfect man whose hospitality and generosity would extend until he had nothing left for himself, a man who would give all, including his life for the sake of his friends. According to the Sufis, Fatua is a code of honorable conduct that follows the example of the prophets, the saints, the sages, and the intimate friends and lovers of Allah, the walis, taught starting from a young age, and they were taught all the arts and sciences. So chivalry, what we know as the chivalry and demolet and all of that stuff, was introduced into Europe through the Islamic arts and sciences. Of course, with a Moorish presence in Spain, right? That brought Europe out of darkness into the light. That's where all of this was transmitted from. Next slide. Thank you, Brother Ron. Uh any questions or you just keep going? Just keep flowing. Yeah. This is good. So the importance of free thinking and internal self-growth. Now, the Fatumiya Sufi order, which I'm a part of, the commandment number three, which tells you, right, your free will and accord, that always on the path of the great work of the life to death to palingetic resurrection, rely upon what thine own inner light and what the truth within tells thee, and not what thy neighbor, preacher, rabbi, priest, minister, mullah, sheikh, guru, clairvoyant, astrologer, institution, corporation, right, superior, bureaucrat, politician, or popular consensus insists or demands that ye think and do. Therefore, the only obedience due on the path of the great work of life to death to palingetic resurrection is the obedience to that voice of truth emanating forth when truly unveiled from within the essential light of thine own inner being, or to that living, vertical embodification of the proof of that truth in that outer world and nothing else. So listen most intently to that mighty voice of truth. And Allah tells you, you know, He's given us the world, He's given us the resources, He's made us the vice-gerent of Himself on this earth. And not only this earth, the entire universe. Man is the highest ranking creature in the universe after Allah. We are his deputy deputies on this earth and the universe. So don't let anybody tell you what to do. It's like even in Masonry, right? They give you the degrees and they tell you that we're giving you the tools and the lessons and the allegories. Now it's up to you to decide how you want to live your life and which way you want to go. Next slide. So we have the zahir, the outer, and the batim, the inner. And this is the beauty of this because most people see the inner temple and the outer temple. So, you know, just take a moment to reflect on that, and then um I will go into that.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

The inner temple and the outer temple.

SPEAKER_00 21:51

Everything, there's two sides to each story. It's like what we see uh in Masonry. Now, Zahir refers to the outer dimensions of the Islamic faith and what the outsider sees initially, such as the community, the prayers, the mosques, the charities, the basic teachings. In Freemasonry, this can be seen as the lodge community events, the pancake breakfast, the fish fries, the charities, and other outreach programs that the community comes to know the people as. Now, the batin refers to the inner spiritual dimensions and what the only true initiate of the Heart will have access to. The eye of providence, Allah, you know, in the 99 names, Al-Basir, knows who to select. In Sufism, the inner mysteries are revealed by the divine for those worthy. So you have the outer Muslims, and then you have the inner Muslims. In Freemasonry, this can extend to special invitation only esoteric bodies that one cannot petition to or apply for. You have to be seen as worthy and invited. They send you the invitation. So we see even with Prophet Isa, right, Jesus, peace be upon him, in Mark 4.11, where he tells people that those of you that will be taught the inner mysteries, while those on the outside will be given the parables. In Islam, it's the same thing, right? You got the community Muslims, right, going to the masjid and doing their salats and prayers, while you'll have an another initiatic body which kind of deals with the inner sciences. So Freemasonry takes that from the Zahir and the Batin, right? The inner and the outer temples, where even in Freemasonry, you could be a master mason in good standing, past master, worshipful master, all of that. But certain doors will always be closed to you. Like they test you over time and see if it's for you, then those doors get open for you. It's not like a house or an independent body you can petition to. So there is that truth about high how high you are up. And it's not even about being a 33rd or not. There are certain doors that get open to you throughout time. Next slide. Now, what we have is the Salik, right? And the traveling man. So the Salik in uh Arabic, it's it's about being a traveling man and knowing that we're just passing through this life. And it reminds me a lot of most death song, traveling man, and I and I love that. Uh, a salik is a follower of Sufism, right? From the word Salaka, which means to travel or follow, related to Saluk pathway. Saluk here specifically refers to a spiritual path, the combination of the two paths that can be followed in religion, the exoteric path or sharia, and the esoteric path or hakika to find God. In Freemasonry, one who is a traveling man represents a worthy brother on his journey towards the east from darkness to true Masonic light. Masons refer to each other as traveling men, while in Sufism, those that are a traveling man are referred to as Saliks, you know, Saliks. And that that's the beauty because they tell us that you come to this world with nothing, you're gonna leave with nothing, travel light, don't let the illusions of this world weigh you down where you're chasing after this or chasing after that, and at the end, you know, you're on your deathbed and you got nothing to show for. But we what we do take with us is our good deeds that we did for ourselves and others. So that does that is the wealth that we carry with us, and that's why they tell us to always travel light and not let the baggage of the simulation hold us down. Next slide. So even with Crowley, right, and Crowley is a subject that I've covered extensively before. And the thing is that in Western esotericism and occultism, it always comes back to the Moors. It always does to Islam and the Moors. Even Madame Blavatsky, right? She tells that the Moors were the great purveyors of magic and spiritual knowledge. She said that? Yeah, she said that. Wow. I gotta see that, man. So even Blavatsky, her teacher was a Moorish Sufi, Jamal Al-Afgani, who was known as Serapis Bey, you know, the Brotherhood of the Luxra of Light. So all of these traditions in the West, right, they kind of watered it down and repackaged it into these several different groups. It always comes back to the Moors in Islam. So with Crowley, right, he talks about Lam. And Lam is one of the names of Allah. Alif, Lam, Meme, which means Alif, I am. Lam is an abbreviation of Allah. Meem, an abbreviation of Al-Alim or the Knowing, means I am Allah, the knowing. Crowley was initiated in 1904 by a Sufi Sheikh in Egypt, and he details this in his book, The Confessions. Crowley recited Surah Al-Iqlas, the declaration of God from the Quran, continuously. Some say 111 times, some say a thousand and a hundred and eleven times, without any break consecutively. Afterward is when he opens the inner gateway and is inspired by Lam, Allah, to write the book of the law. Right? And it's it's channeled the same way.

SPEAKER_01 27:33

Real quick. So you said afterwards, afterwards is when he opened the inner gateway. So what would be the inner gateway?

SPEAKER_00 27:44

The inner gateway is basically, you know how you have that hadith where Allah tells you that I become your eyes, I become your eyesight, I become your limbs. So basically, we are the vessel which uh the divine embodies. And whether it's the five percenters telling you that, whether it's the Sufis telling you that, whether it's the Moors telling you that, that Allah is in the heart. It's basically us, you know, that hidden treasure who wish to know itself through itself. So basically it's all us. Arm, leg, leg, arm, head, right? Something like that. Yep. So, you know, afterwards is Crowley when he opens himself up to write the book of the law. Now, the Thelemites have Islamic influences and respect Islam. And, you know, the Prophet Muhammad is regarded as a grand magist of the AA as much as did their founder, who was also a Mason. Now the Surah Al-Aqla's translation is in the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful. He is Allah, the one and only, Allah, the eternal, absolute. He begetteth not, nor is he begotten, and there is no one, none like unto him. And how you say that in Arabic is Bismillah Iraqman Rahim, Kulhu Allahu Ahad, Allahu Samad, Lam Ya Lid, Walla, Walam Ya Kullahu, Kufu one Ahad. And if you recite that three times, then you get the reward of reading the whole Quran. That it's like you read the whole Quran and you get the reward for that. Next slide. This is a picture of Crowley uh wearing the Moorish attire while he was in Egypt. So, you know, you have these people in the Western esoteric system, and it's not like you know, we're making this stuff up. Those that have the common sense, they can put the two and two together. Next slide. Now, the Insan Al-Kamil, that is the goal of the Sufi, the perfect man, that you have divinity within you. Now, look look at the way the Insan al-Kamil is illustrated, right? Similar to a master mason doing the sign of distress or holding his hands up, right? Let letting you know who he is. So the insan al-Kamil is basically telling you that you are that divine experiencing reality in these different physical vessels. And your job is to basically know yourself, know thyself, know the world around you. And that's basically it, right? I mean, you can read all of the books and join all of the different fraternities, but at the end of the day, how well do you know yourself? It all comes back to you in some way. Do you know your strengths, your weaknesses? Masonry kind of tells you the same. We're giving you the tools. Now you got to smooth out the ashler from a rough ashler to a smooth ashler. So whatever you join, whatever you do, whatever degree you accomplish, it all comes back to you. You gotta perfect yourself. And if you do that, then you accomplished your purpose in this life, right? Because Allah tells you, I created man and jinn to know me and to worship me. And that is the purpose of the human being. It's very simple and to the point. You gotta know thyself. Next slide. So we have the importance of the free will and accord, right? You get out what you put in. And in Islam, you know, it it tells us that there shall be no compulsion in matters of faith, and that man will have nothing but what he strives for. And they tell us the same thing in Masonry where you get out of the craft what you put into it. And it's also the concept that there is no evidence to indicate that each man's life is preordained, and that he has no choice or option in choosing between good and bad, right and wrong. The Quran categorically rejects the concept of compulsion and clearly states that every human being is free to choose between good and evil. So that's where they get that do what thou wilt from, where Allah has given you the intellect and the free will and accord to choose right from wrong. There is no wrong path at the end of the day. As long as you're not hurting yourself or hurting other people, there is no wrong path or option at the end of the day. You got the free will. Next slide. Even Christian Rosencruz, right, in and Sufism, the Rose Cross, and even the Rose Cross that's tied into Masonry, right? The appendant bodies. We see on the right the symbol of the rose, which originates from the Qaderiya Sufi order. And Sheikh Abdul Qadr Jalani of Baghdad was known as the Rose of Baghdad, right? And that's basically symbolizes the union with the God, you know, the mystical union. And on the left, we see the same thing, the rose and on the cross. If you fold up the cross, you get the cube of the Kaaba. So basically, even Christian Rosencruz, he was initiated by the Ikwan al-Safah when he went to Morocco, he went to Fez, North Africa, and the Middle East. And, you know, the Moors, the Moorish brothers and sisters, look, whether it's Masonry, Rosencrucianism, Crowley, the Knights Templar, there's a recurring theme which they don't give credit for, right? And this is building on part one here in part two, that they all went to the East, right? Travel, travel to the East, get that knowledge, travel back to the West, and repackaged it in these different groups. You already have what you need within your own heart and teachings. Next slide. So in the Holy Quran, there's a verse that is tied to each degree of blue lodge masonry or the craft masonry. The first degree, the entered apprentice degree, Allah brings you from darkness to light. Chapter 2, verse 257. Allah is the guardian protector of the believers. He brings them out of darkness and into the light, right? Where they got the blind foiled on you, and they tell you, like, hey, take one step in front of the other. Do not fear any danger and walk your path. And it tells you that life can be unexpected sometimes. And they give you that lesson right then and there that trust God and do not fear any danger. Put one foot in front of the other, knowing that you have a divine decree to fulfill in your life with all that you're meant to do. So that is called Tawakulallah, you know, trust God no matter what happens. And that is it's easy to say, but it's hard to do. The the second degree, the fellow craft, the knowledge of the arts and sciences, right, chapter 58, verse 11. Allah tells you, you who believe, if you are told to make room for one another in your meetings, right, then do so, and God will make room for you. And if you are told to rise up when they hit the gavel, do so. God will raise up by many degrees those of you who believe, and those who have been given knowledge. He is fully aware of what you do. Now, this is the chamber of reflection where God is always watching you, and how you have the middle chamber, and how you must always seek knowledge in your life, the seven liberal arts, and what the Prophet Muhammad says, that you must seek knowledge from cradle to grave. Now, the Master Mason degree, chapter 21, verse 35, is that every soul will taste death. We test you with good and evil. That's God saying that we test you with good and evil as a trial, then to us you will all be returned. Memento mori, that you will die. That is a promise that you have in this life, is that you could live a life of financial security, live in a gated community, eat healthy, exercise, do all that. But whether you live up to 90, you live up to 100, one day you will leave this earth, and then you get held accountable for the good and evil that you have done. And everything is a trial. And same thing, you know, with the story of Hiram Abiff, where despite danger, he kept his faith in God and he became a martyr. You know, it's about you know staying focused on the path. And if you get martyred in the process or anything happens like that, then so be it. You know, it's it's a part of the journey. Next slide. Here we have the royal arch, right? And in the royal arch degree, those that have witnessed it and seen it, there's like the veils, and each veil you have to prove yourself worthy until you get to the holiness of the Lord. Now, the stage that the Sufi gets to when he removes the veils and knows the glory and holiness of God, the Sufi's journey is at a conclusion when he comes to this gnosis and unity with his beloved. The Sufi who reaches this stage becomes clairvoyant and one with spirit. Like some of these guys that I ran into, like, they can tell the future, like they can look at you and tell you your whole life, but I guess they have a contract with Allah. Like, they can't really tell you directly, but they can guide you, like, hey, maybe you should do this, maybe you should talk to this person, or look into this path. I was in ninth grade when I had a Sufi like this come up to me from my community, and he was like, Have you looked into Freemasonry? This was at a time when YouTube was like new and stuff, like 2006-2005, and I think he kind of like lit the match on me, knowing who I was, and you know, here we are today. So in Royal Arch, you also see that your true journey as a master mason continues beyond craft masonry. So the story doesn't end with Hiram Abiff. You must be raised and exalted to get the full story. You see the holiness of the Lord and the removal of veils as you go from raised to exalted. And even what we see with Rudolf Steiner, right? The guardian of the threshold, that's taken from Islam, where Islam, as soon as you go into the grave, you get questioned by the two angels, the guardians, with the questions, and then if you are deemed worthy, then you are passed on to the next reality. So even that concept of Western esotericism is taken from Islam. Next slide. Now the Qashaf, right? Removing the veil and to know God, the master mason and the royal arch. Now the seven veils to the grand architect of the universe, God, G, the seventh letter, seven, even being with the five percenters, reason, knowledge, the heart, the self, senses, desire, and will. Only the true seeker will find God's reality, which can be found only through self-realization. You are given the tools, but must do the work yourself. The Sufism path is aimed at lifting the symbolic veil between the heart of the believer and the true reality of Almighty God. Next slide. Now, Tasavuf, right? Tasavuf, the wearers of wool and the people of the bench. Now, if you look at the the hats of the Knights Templars that they wear, they have that wool on top of their hats. Now the Sufis are wearers of wool, Suf, that exemplify the prophets and teachers of purity. The wool is also worn by the Knights Templars, as the grandfather of the first grand master, Hugh DePaines, was a Moorish Sufi who initiated him in the mysteries. They are known as the people of the bench that were initiated into the inner Islam, similar to what Jesus says in Mark 4.11 about the inner and outer temple by Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Now, following Tasawuf, which means good character and being aware of self and Allah, God, everything is about heart and purification of the self. The true initiation happens from the heart. So if your heart is not pure, you could be a past master, you could be a 33rd, you could be an imam of the masjid. If your heart is not pure and you hold malice in yourself against self and others, then you lost the plot, right? You have so many people out here. I see it even here in Philly, in my community, pretending to be good, pious people while they're cheating people, they're lying to people, they're not helping one another. Well, it tells you in the Quran, why are you not helping one another? And it's basically this that we're all extensions of that divinity. And right in Islam, they tell you if you save one person, you save all of mankind. And if you hurt or kill one person, you basically do it to everyone. Meaning it's all just one divine reality experiencing itself through these different realities that we're in. Next slide. Now the three stages, right? The degrees. The first is fighting the ego and coming to the light, right? Hakika and tarika. And the second same thing with the second stage to unite with the grand architect of the universe. Now, the third being the Marifa, the act of know thyself and know thy Lord, full gnosis. Now we operate in different realms. We have the four veils. The reality that we're in is the first one: matter, earth, water, air, fire, and ether. This world, the 3D world, the aspect of knowing God and the world. Now, the second world is the spiritual beings, the jinns, angels, heaven and hell, cause and effect. As above, so below. What happens up there is reflected down here, and vice versa. The third veil is the source of the lost word, the hidden tablet, the knowledge of spirit. The fourth reality is the realm of the grand architect of the universe, pure essence, and knowing that God is the only reality. La ilaha illallah, there is no God but God. And at the end, nothing is truly existing but God. So, how do you tell people that you technically don't exist? You know, if I go up to somebody like, yo, you don't really exist. The only thing that exists is God, and we're all just experiencing this reality, knowing it, knowing ourselves, knowing each other. I mean, it's hard to explain that to somebody, but that's the that's what these paths are teaching us. And it all comes back to the Moors, to the Moors and the Sufis. Next slide. Oh no. And now we have the three stages of realization: Iman, Islam, and Isan. The first degree, Iman, belief, faith, secrecy, and full trust in the grand architect. The entered apprentice degree, trust God and do not fear any danger. The second degree, Islam, submission, obedience, knowledge and practice. The first and second degrees, right, secrecy and obedience, to reflect on your growth and continue the pursuit of knowledge, the fellow craft. Isan, a righteous, upright character, living a good life with the time you have been granted, the Master Mason, where you die before you die. All three stages must be honored fully, or you are just following mere rituals without any meaning and inevitably leading to hypocrisy. But you got to practice what you preach. You must practice that, otherwise, it's all meaningless and wasted effort. There is a difference between a learning phase and application phase of knowledge. Like we can gather all this information, but how is it helping us in our life practically? That's what matters most. Also, you need a guide and a mentor, no egoism or individualism. Western society kind of tells us that we don't need one another, but that's you know, that's the devil's way. We gotta find out how we come together as a community and help one another, which is demonstrated through the Black Panthers, through the different communities. Communities that we see that have lifted people. And right, even with the Black Panthers, right? They took that from you. The WIC programs or the helping out the mothers, helping the unfortunate, right, with the food, the food programs. So whether it's masonry, whether it's these different Westoter Western uh occultism or esoteric bodies, whether it's the contributions of the Black Panthers, they basically taken all of that from you and put their own stamp on it. So you gotta reclaim your intellectual heritage. And didn't they find out recently that the guy who was involved in some of these recent projects that were tearing down the rights of our African American brothers and sisters, he had a PhD in African American studies. Like, I can't remember that guy's name. I just saw it in the news recently. So basically, what we know as the enemy, he will come into your house, take your knowledge, study everything about you, and use it against you. And I think that that was recently in Project 2025 or something like that, where the guy that was basically the situations we're seeing in Tennessee and in other parts of the countries with the voting stuff, and what we're seeing is that these people have degrees, they know about your heartbreaks, they know about your struggles, they know what you're going through, what you have been through, but they use it as a form of control. So if you want to beat them at their own game, reclaim your intellectual heritage and get everything back. I'm just one of many people doing this, and I applaud Brother Ron Brown and everyone else that's basically doing it the right way and taking everything back. Next slide.

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Now, before before we uh brother uh uh Rondo Wessoteric. Wes Oteric. Uh uh die before you die. What does that mean, actually?

SPEAKER_00 46:37

So yeah, die before you die is basically um you have to basically know that this world and reality is an illusion, it's a dream, and we gotta realize that okay, what are we doing any of this for? What are we chasing? Even the people that are have all the money, but they're still not happy. So what is any of this for? But we realize it's about know thyself, be good to yourself and each other, and that's pretty much it. You basically kill your lower self, where you're not chasing drugs, alcohol, sex, money, and the the nature of the lower realm, which kind of keeps you entrapped. So, yeah, I think that's what it is. You got to basically let go of this dunya and stay focused on the path and just perfect your character and be an upright, righteous human being. That's basically it. You know, you you you die before you die. So the prophet Muhammad, most people don't know that he was a widow's son. The prophet Muhammad lost at a young hold on. Well, and for the and for the brother, uh the wesoteric, uh, English is my second language, my brother. You know, sometimes I get tongue-twisted and tongue-tied, like Twister, the rapper. So it happens to me sometimes. Uh, so the Prophet Muhammad is the widow's son. He lost his father at a young age and was raised by his mother, a widow, till the age of six, Amina. He married Khatijah, his first wife, who was also a widow at age 25. The Prophet Muhammad said that I have come to perfect the Adab character of mankind, right? So he established religious and racial freedom with his decrees, dealing with Hazrat Bilal, who was an African slave. He freed him from the pagan Arabs, covenant with the monks of St. Catherine Monastery, and the Constitution of Medina, which gave rights to Jews and Christians who were persecuted by the pagan tribes. That's where Thomas Jefferson and the Quran and the freedom of religion, it comes from Islam. He instructed mankind to become one ummah community, right? And be on the level with each other. And in the Bukhari and Muslim hadith, he tells us to take care of widows and orphans, and how in Masonry they have this big uh emphasis on taking care of widows and orphans. So it all comes back to Islam, right? Take care of the widows and orphans, perfect your character, be uh one community, be on the level, right? And it's it's it's all relative, it all comes back to the same source. Next slide. Now, the Masonic teachings is telling us that we're always looking for the lost word, right? Seeking the lost word. So in Islam, you have the same thing where you have the 99 names of Allah, but the 100th name is missing. Al-Basir, the all-seeing, that's one of the names that he is aware of the deeds done in darkness. And he's God is always watching you. Even if you're in a place where you believe no one is watching you, you are always being watched. And that's the thing about Masonry as well. They tell you that you are always being watched, right? And what you do in that moment determines your character and the kind of being that you are. Now, the camel, the camel knows the hundredth name of God, and why you must ride the camel, and how the camel is the one that can traverse the hot sands of the desert, and how basically we must come to that inner knowing within us. So, to get the hundredth name in Sufism, your sheikh assigns you a zikr, right? So every person has their own specific zikr. Some might someone might get one zikr, someone might get another wazifa or zikr, but each person has their own zikr. And once you say it for a certain amount of time, for a certain amount of years, then that word is basically given to you in your heart, and that opens up everything in your reality. And you see some of these people here, right, in America, from the Muslim community that are rich and loaded, they got the secrets to wealth, they got all the businesses, and they're doing good. There are certain secrets of the Quran, you know, which bring you wealth, prosperity, and all of that in between. So, yeah, it's it's the same thing with the lost word, you know. It's the same concept that they're taking from Islam and the Moorish Science. Next slide. Now we have Hiram, right? And the cloth, the clothes that you wear in Mecca when you go to the Hajj and Umrah is called the Ehram, the anagram of Hiram. And basically that represents being in a state of purity, being worthy, right? Like Hiram Abiff. Brethren of the white cloth, equally divested and on the level. This is what changed Malcolm X's life in Mecca, because when he saw the rite of circumambulation happening, it wasn't about what race or occupation or wealth, right, that that individual belonged to. They were all equally divested, wearing the same white cloth of innocence. And it was not wealth that could buy your way into the brotherhood, but the content of your character, as it's even shown to you in the inner apprentice degree. And how when you see another brother that's wearing the white lampskin master mason apron and the innocence, you greet him on the level. So it's the same thing, right, with Mecca, where they're going around doing the rite of circumambulation, and inside of the Kaaba, which is the perfect Ashler stone temple, you got the pillars and the altar. Same thing is happening in Masonic initiation, and these people have no idea. Next slide. Oh man. So on the level, right? The Holy Quran, Surah 2, verse 62, tells you that those who believe in the Quran and those who follow the Jewish scriptures and the Christians and the Sabians, any who believe in Allah in the last day and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord. On them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. So it's not about your God or my God. As long as you're an upright, righteous individual, then on the day of judgment you shall have no grief or punishment. And the Holy Quran, Surah 49, verse 10 tells you the believers are but one brotherhood. If you believe in God, you're a believer, despite your religion. So make peace between your true two brothers and be mindful of God, so that you may be given mercy, which is equivalent of what the Masons like to use with Psalms 133. Behold, how good it is for brethren to dwell in unity. Holy Quran, Surah 2, verse 285, that Allah tells you we make no distinction between any of his messengers. That includes Prophet Noble Drua Lee, because every nation and tribe gets sent their own messenger to guide and uplift them. That's what it's all about, you know, the content of your heart and your character. And you're not gonna burn in hell because you believe something else, right? I mean, what's the logic in that where you could be the most beautiful human being, you're upright, you're charitable, you're not hurting anyone, you're doing the right thing, but just because you believe in God in a different way, you're gonna go to hell? No, that's not how it is. You gotta be able to see through that, and the Quran tells you that. Next slide. And even with the cable toe, right? The cable toe in Islam, unity and charity, helping each other if within your capability to do so. Surah 3, verse 103, hold fast together to the cable of Allah, God, and be not divided. Remember the blessings that Allah bestowed upon you. You were once enemies. Then he brought your hearts together so that through his blessing you became brothers. Right? In Masonry, they put the cable toe around you and they tell you to trust God and do not fear any danger when they take you in with the blindfold. Masonry unites men of every country and of every religion and conciliates true friendship among those who might have otherwise have remained at a perpetual distance. So that is the thing, you know, you gotta hold on to the rope of God. Next slide. Now you do have the proper vetting, the recommendation and mentoring, the tarbia, because when you submit the petition to the lodge, it's not basically a petition or an application that you're submitting, it's basically a prayer. You you're wanting this prayer to be accepted, the prayer of your petition to be accepted. Now you have to be truly be about it for you to gain anything. The proper recommendation of the seeker is needed, or the sheikh, right? The worshipful master and proposer, recommender, have to deal with spiritual consequences from God. So if anything happens, you know, they're like, Yeah, who's the person who recommended so and so? Now the seeker must be of a pure heart, intent, and soul. Once initiated, the seeker must be carefully mentored and counseled. Quality over quantity. Uplift the seeker's heart so he can do for others. But what we have with the modern day institutionalized Freemasonry, the Grand Grand Lodge and Lodge system, is that they're just basically selling these memberships, you know. As long as you have a pulse and you can breathe, you know, they get you in. And they even have one-day classes where you could become a 30-second master mason shriner all in one day. So they have turned in the esoteric masonry, the institutional masonry of today, they have turned it into a business. And that's why, like, I'm kind of independent, and I do my own aspect of the esoteric side where your heart must be in the right place and you must do the right thing. And that's why the institutional Grand Lodge Lodge system has been turned into a business, and I don't believe in that. Next slide. Makes sense. Now, the Islamic lunar cycle, right? The Masonic moonlight lodges, the lodges on the moon, Sufi Masonic aspect, right? It's not uncommon for Masonic lodges to meet at the full moon cycle. This is the origin of the tradition in some jurisdictions that a lunar month was the minimum time between degrees. In Islam, the lunar months are also followed for practices, holidays, observances, ceremonies. There are still lodges that follow this, and the moon has the 33-year cycle. So Ramadan is always two weeks behind every year. It's because of the lunar, the lunar calendar, right? And uh even the salats when you make your prayer, right? It's the solar calendar, where depending on winter or summer or spring, the prayer times are different. So it all coordinates with what even what we see on the Masonic tracing board with the sun and the moon, right? Being aspects of God. So we must follow all of that accordingly. And in Islam, when we die and go to heaven, Jannah, everyone will be the equivalent age of 33. So everyone in heaven is going to be 33 years old, not a day less, not a day old. Even in the test B, when we do the zikr of Allah, it's in cycles of 33. Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar. So everything, 33 is basically, you know, that connection with God. And same with the moon, right? Cycles of 33 year cycles. So now Ramadan is gonna be in winter for the next 10 or 15 years. And then, like maybe in the 2040s, it's gonna come back to the summertime. Next slide. Here we're here we have the Ikwan al-Safa, and we see it right here with the sheikh, who's here with his student, the disciple, the worshipful master with the brethren. He's holding the sun and moon in his hands, the sun, the moon, and the worshipful master. So the Iqwan al-Safa, who were known as the Freemasons of Basra, ninth century, Mackie's encyclopedia number two, page 601, describes them as being pre-1717, and the above images showing the same, the three great lights. Now their ranks were different. It was about age. The first rank was the craftsmen, you were you were a minimum 15 years old. The second are the leaders, 30 years old. The third, the kings, 40 years old, and the prophets and philosophers who were a minimum 50 years old, and they taught esoteric knowledge with their 52 epistles and influenced Christian Rosencrutz and the Knights Templars pre-1717. There were Moors, right? The Equan al-Safa. They were in Fez Morocco, they were in North Africa in the Middle East. So they were Moors. Next slide. Here we see the same with the Bektashi Sufi order, which predates Freemasonry, the sun, the moon, and the worshipful master. Same thing is demonstrated on the left, which is pre-1717, and the same is demonstrated on the right. Because the sheikh is the one who becomes the representative of God, and he basically guides you and uplifts you so you could become one with God as well. Next slide. Now we have the sprig of acacia, right? So when somebody dies in Freemasonry, or even higher Mabif, they talk about the sprig of acacia, the plant which symbolizes immortality. Now the Prophet Muhammad, the widow's son, with his companions and brethren, there is the pledge of the tree, the acacia tree, in Surah 48, verse 18, where they say, Allah was pleased with the believers when they were pledging allegiance with you, O Muhammad, by placing their hands in your hands under the tree. The companions and brethren of Muhammad, the widow's son, taking the oath of Rizwan under the acacia tree. This pleased Allah, God. The companions were rewarded with eternal paradise, a tree of heaven, native to desert areas of the Islamic world. In Freemasonry, the acacia tree symbolized the immortality of the soul that the master mason will always live on. And this tree is native to those lands, and how basically it tells us that our story doesn't end here. We think that our reality ends here, but we move on to other places as well, right? This is just like a suit. When a suit wears out, we drop it and we just go to the next uh phase of our existence. Next slide. And look, right, it all comes back to the same thing. Whether you're in the Masonic Lodge, they got the uh a representative of the altar and the uh the three pillars. Same what you're seeing in Mecca. They're going around the altar and the pillars, the perfect Ashlar stone temple of God, right? With the black and white cloth on it, the duality, it's all similar, it's all relative, it's all from the Moors and Islam. Next slide. And you know what's interesting is when it when they tell you, when they initiate you in the Masonic Lodge, they tell you remove your shoes for you are on holy ground, right? And same thing on the Islamic uh mosque, right? Where you must remove your shoes for you are on holy ground. Now, what they show in in the Western traditions about the magic carpet is the Islamic prayer rug, and it's in the shape of the oblong square. You are the temple. So when you pray and you make salat, right? You're like Aladdin. You're elevating yourself to higher realities and existence. So you must pray. And you look, even the prayer rug, the oblong square, it's got the Kaaba, the pillars, the arches, it's all it's all relative, you know. The magic you are the magic carpet, and you must elevate yourself to higher realities. Remove your shoes for you are on holy ground. And the only place that tells you to remove your shoes before entering the holy place is the Islamic mosque. No other institution or religion tells you to remove your shoes. So that's where you know that Masonic aspect comes from as well. Next slide. Now, as a Sufi, you must be one who's dividing up your time carefully, right? The 24-inch gauge, where the teachings of Islam concerning social responsibilities are based on kindness and consideration of others. Your first obligation is to your family, then to your relatives, your neighbors, friends and acquaintances, orphans and widows, the needy of the community, God, fellow Muslims, and our fellow human beings and animals. Most people fail this lesson because they end up dedicating their time to masonry 24-7, which jeopardizes their relationship with their family, their income, their wives, right? They're not home all the time. So what we know is the Grand Lodge, lodge system, the appendant body system, the different houses. I mean, it's uh it's all a business at the end of the day, you know. True masonry, it's about dividing your time, where eight hours you're dealing with your work, eight hours is for God, you know, and your own personal refreshment and needs, and eight times for your family and community. So your day must be divided equally. Next slide. Now, even with Thomas Jefferson and the Quran, right? Where basically the Prophet Muhammad's declaration that everyone must be treated equally and protected, Jews and Christians, that freedom of religion, even what Thomas Jefferson had came from the Quran. The Prophet Muhammad is shown in the bust of the Supreme Court on the bottom left as a great lawgiver. The above, you see the Kingdom of Hawaii banner of the two dark-skinned Moors holding up the banner of the Kingdom of Hawaii, wearing the red clothing, the red fezes. And this was in the 1500s, right? And you see King Kamehameha wearing the fez of the Islamic Shriners. You look at the grotto, you look at the shrine, you look at the Masonic degrees. It's all comes from the Moors and Islam. Even on the top right, you have Jamal Elifghani, who was Madame Blabatsky's teacher, right? And they had the Brotherhood of the Luxor of Light trying to claim immortality. She called him Sarah. And he was also he also visited the parents of noble Dru Ali in the 1800s in Chicago. On the bottom right, you have the letter that George Washington wrote to the Sultan of Morocco, right? So these people want to talk about the Judeo-Christian values that founded this country, but it was in reality Islam, right? And it was an Islamic country, Morocco, that recognized America post-independence. So, you know, that's a hidden history that they don't tell us. But see, the Spanish Inquisition, their job was not only to remove the Islamic Moorish influence from Spain, but also anywhere else where the Moors had ruled, which included the Americas. That's why if you look at certain Native American clothing, it has the Islamic crescent star and moon on it. Next slide. Now we have the Oriental room in the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. This is where I got my royal arts degree, right in this room. And you see, it's it's a tribute to the Moors. So if the Moors in Islam had nothing to do with Masonry, why would there be a room dedicated to their legacy and their intellectual contribution? And not only the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, but many other Grand Lodges and Masonic temples and rooms have a dedication to the Oriental room. And even King Solomon's chair is referred to as the Oriental Chair. On the left, we have the King Faso Mosque in Islamabad, which was built by a Turkish Muslim Freemason. So, you know, it's it's all relative, even with the sacred architecture of what the Moors did. Next slide. We have the five pillars, right? Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and composite. Islam, right? You have the Shahada, which is the creed, where they tell you, do you believe in a supreme being in masonry? Right? Tawhid. Salat, which is prayer, where they do the prayers and the lodges, right? Give thanks to God for the gathering, for the meals and all that. The psalm, which is the fasting, right, where you circumscribe your desires and passions. The Hajj, which is the pilgrimage, traveling to the east for knowledge. And the zakat, which is the alms giving and charities that they do. So it's all, you know, one and the same at the end of the day. The merits of the soul is that the greatest jihad you could do is against your own self. If you fix your inner reality, then that will reflect your outer reality as well. So basically, if you change your mindset and the way you operate, no one in the physical world can do anything to you. Next slide. Even with Saladin and Richard the Lionheart, anytime that they met with each other, they met with a lion's grip, right? Richard the Lionheart and they uh greeted each other with a lion's grip. And this is basically how, even in the Scottish Rite degrees, they tell us that Brother Masons who saw each other on opposite sides, they spared each other's lives when they recognized each other. Now this goes way back. Saladin and Richard were part of the same brotherhoods as well, as even demonstrated in the Knight of the Brazen Serpent degree, the Knight of St. Andrew degrees, and Scottish Rite, that these fraternal orders and esoteric orders, sometimes these guys could be on the opposite side of the fence, but but they still operate with each other in a very diplomatic way. And that's even now in history, right? We see all of these wars and conflicts taking place, but who knows at the end of the day, these guys might be sitting in lodge together. That's that's what it this is all teaching us that the world is a stage, it's a show, and don't invest yourself too much into it. Next slide.

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Now I want to I want to pause there, uh, you know, because time, time and stuff. So um uh we're gonna go, matter of fact, we let's go to the next slide. Uh-huh. Let's go to the next slide.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:55

Yeah, basically it's the same, you know, that every living being shall taste death, brother Ron, and in this life, we just gotta do good do good basically for ourselves and each other. Next slide. And same thing, right? The Sufis in Istanbul, 15th century, the arts and sciences. We we look at the Sufis, right, on the left hand side. They got the Masonic tools. We see the stars, which have Arabic names, and we see them holding the square, the compasses, the telescope, the hourglass. And on the right hand side, we see the same with the liberal arts and sciences. So it all comes from the Moorish presence in Spain and the Sufis in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East about the arts and sciences. Next slide. Rumi, right? Every moment I shake my destiny with a chisel, I am the carpenter of my own soul. So basically, it all comes back down to you at the end. You know, I could tell you something, brother Ron could tell you something, the worshipful master could tell you something, but at the end, it all comes back down to you of how you want to live your life. Next slide. Even in Star Wars, the word Al-Jedi, right? The it comes from the Arabic word to be the Jedi, the master of the way. And it all it basically it's all about uplifting your character, you know. Even Star Wars took it all from Moorish Science and Islam, where most of the movie was shot in Tunisia. Same with Dune, of course. Next slide. And Prophet Suleiman, King Solomon, right? Suleiman Al-Hakim, he was the one that basically told us to be that perfect master and to master the elements within us and around us. And when God asked him, What do you desire, wealth or wisdom? And he he asked for wisdom. And just because he asked for wisdom, he was given wealth as well. So the lesson here is that if you choose a path of wisdom, then your needs and necessities in life will be provided for. Next slide. Even in Freemasonry, right, if you look at the Jamatria from the Jewish cipher, it comes up to the number 787. If you look at the Arabic numbers 787, it looks like the square encompass. That basically means Bismillah Rahman i Rahim. Some sources would say 786, but in the African Sufi lodges, they have 787 written outside of the lodges. That's the square encompass, which means Bismillah Rahman i Rahim. So most of these Masons have the square encompass. They don't know they're walking around with Bismillah Rahman i Rahim. Next slide. And basically, it all comes down to that, right? Where your journey is from darkness towards light. There is no compulsion in religion. You don't have to live an uptight, strict religious life. Just be a good person, don't hurt anybody, live a good, clean life, and that's what it is at the end of the day. Don't get lost in the sauce about, you know, uh following something in the right way or doing something the right way. You gotta follow your own heart at the end of the day. Because the entire world is almighty God in existence. Next slide. Now, most people don't know that the tilers of the Kaaba are known as the sons of the old woman, right? The Bani Sheba tribe, the Bani Sheba Quraysh, are an Arab tribe and they're dark-skinned too, that hold the keys to the Kaaba, right? The dark-skinned Arabs. The priests of the sacred shrine are still known as the Beni Sheba or the sons of the old woman, right? Widow sons. They are the Tyler's guardians of the Kaaba. And most people do not know that, that those esoteric sciences and teachings, there are still those people still present that are guarding everything and are behind everything. Next slide. Now, keeping sacred knowledge to yourself is also important. The penalty of the entered apprentice degrees is shown here in volume one, book three, number 120 of the Sahih Bukhari Hadith, where one of the companions, right, of Prophet Muhammad Abu Harrera, says that I have memorized two kinds of knowledge from Allah's Messenger. I have propagated one of them to you, and if I propagate the second, then my throat will be cut off, that I'll be killed. So that innered apprentice penalty is even shown here in the Muslim hadith. Next slide. So you know, to conclude this, what is the goal of all of this? Is to trust God, belief in a supreme being, to honor your brothers, yourself, your family, smooth out your ashler, and to live a good, clean life. That's what it all comes down to. And the part two, please watch part one and part two with these parallel teachings. It basically tells you that you as a community and as a people already have everything. You don't need to go to anyone or anything else to validate those teachings that you already possess within you and that come from you anyway. They took it from you, water it down, and sell it back to you. So you already have what you need.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:51

Indeed, indeed. Uh, on that note, thank you, brother, for coming out this evening. I really appreciate you. Thank you, brother Ron. Thank thank you to the chat. Um, I see some familiar faces in the chat. What's going on, brothers? Uh um, thank y'all for coming out this evening. We really appreciate you. Support the movement NYP talk show. A lot of meetings are happening. Well, not a whole lot, but meetings are happening behind the scenes. Uh we're talking to some great brothers. Uh uh, so we've got a lot in store. Tomorrow, Mikey Fever is going on, uh talking about Palo, Voodoo, etc. Uh, and then Wednesday, we're back about talking about UFOs with Brother Kevin Ali. Thursday, we're talking about relationships with Brother Henry Mohammed, and then we're back Sunday with Brother Eric Mohammed. On that note, again, thank you, brother, for coming out this evening. I really appreciate you. Thank you. Have any uh last words?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:01

I I I would only say to all of the brothers and sisters listening is support brother Ron Brown, the NYP talk show. He's doing great work to uplift fallen humanity, which is the goal that Prophet Noble Dwali gave us. And one of those goals is to spread knowledge. And spreading knowledge is something that will continue to bless us even after our death in this physical life. So the NYP talk show, Brother Ron Brown being on the internet, the world of the ether, the ethernet, he will continuously be blessed even after his life, after this physical world for what he left behind on the internet. So please support him, the NYP show, and just know that you don't need anyone's rec recognition or validation. As I've demonstrated in my talks, it all comes back to you anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:54

Indeed. On that note, salute uh tomorrow, Wednesday, the rest of the week. Peace and blessings.