Excerpt from: The Masonic Secret by Robert Ambelain
Solomon, the son of David, receives the mission from God to build the Temple following the instructions of the prophet Nathan, to whom the Lord sent the necessary directions in a dream. Hiram, king of Tyre, friend of his father, provides him with help both to repair materials, and above all to find workers. Sent by Hiram the Founder. The latter, one day, prepares to form the molten bronze sea for the Temple, in the presence of Solomon and Balkis, the Queen of Sheba, whom Solomon intended to seduce in order to marry her. The people of Israel will witness the downfall. Benoni, helper and loyal disciple of the opera master, surprised, at night, three workers, Fanor the Syrian, mason, Anru the phoenix, carpenters and Metusael the Jew, a miner, trying to sabotage the mold of the future bronze sea. Benoni warns Solomon of the betrayal of the three accomplices, but the King jealous of the admiration Balkis has for Hiram the Founder, lets the preparations continue. As the sun rises, Hiram gives the order to proceed with the pouring. And the gigantic mold in which it was supposed to sink into the sea of molten bronze, due to manipulation, cracks. Melted metal spills sharply on terrified crowd. Benoni, desperate for not personally warning Hiram, throws himself into the burning lava. Shortly after being alone, abandoned by everyone, Hiram dreams in front of his destroyed work. Ready from the molten metal that glows reddish in the darkness of the night, a luminous shadow rises. Ghost advances towards Hiram holding a blacksmith’s hammer. His eyes, big and bright, rest softly on Hiram and, with a voice that seems to be from within bronze, he says to him: "Revive your soul, arise my son. Come on, follow me. I have seen the evils that dwell among my people and I have felt compassion for them. ” Spirit is the shadow of all Hiram fathers of the past, all those who work and suffer. Hiram is taken to the center of the earth, in the heart of the inhabited world. There stands the underground palace of our father Enoch, whom Egypt calls Hermes and Arabia honors with the name Edris. The Spirit is none other than Tubal Cain, who instructs Hiram on the essence of the traditions of the Cainites, the blacksmiths, the fire lords. Tubal Cain passing on the luciferian tradition to Hiram. In the beginning of time, two Gods splitting the universe. One Adonai, is the master of Matter and the Earth element; the other Iblis, is the king of Spirit and the Fire element. Adonai creates the First Man out of the mud that subdued him and gives him life. Moved by compassion for the raw unsensitive that Adonai intends to turn into his slave and toy, Iblis the Elohim (secondary Gods) awakens his spirit, giving him intelligence and understanding. While Lilith, the sister of Iblis, became the occult lover of Adam, the First Man and taught him the art of thought, Iblis seduced Eve, from the First Man, impregnated her and, together with the seed of Cain, inserted into her breast a divine spark. In fact, according to Talmudic traditions, Cain was born out of the love of Eve and Iblis. Abel will be born by the union of Eve and Adam. Later on, Adam will feel nothing but despise and hatred for Cain, who is not his real son. Aclinia, the sister of Cain, who loves her, will be proposed to Abel. Despite this, Cain devotes his intelligence and inventiveness, derived from Elohim, to improving the living conditions of his family, expelled from Eden and wandering on Earth. But one day, tired of seeing ingratitude and injustice in response to his own efforts, he will rebel and kill his brother Abel. In bringing Hiram back into the limits of the tangible world, Tubal Cain reveals to him that Balkis also belongs to Cain's lineage and that she is the bride destined for him from eternity. Later, before the Queen's departure for Sheba, Hiram and Balkis will secretly unite, unaware of Solomon's jealous vigilance. Hiram, a descendant of the Fire Intelligence, and Balkis, a descendent of the Air Intelligence, can't be together anyway. Hiram will be assassinated by three Comrades, eager to undoubtedly know the secret signs of the Masters, in order to obtain their own salary. The crime will take place inside the Temple of Jerusalem under construction, at that time deserted. And Balkis, on his return to Sheba, without marrying Salmon, will meet without seeing them, the three assassins transporting Hiram's corpse, to bury him secretly. Only, on her breast she will hold the child born of her fleeting loves with the Opera Maestro, the child who will later be the first of the Widow's Children. This is the legend of Hiram, which will not appear in the bosom of speculative Freemasonry until about 1723. Hiram in the Bible is referred to as the Founder and is never presented as the architect of the Temple of Jerusalem. If you want to pinpoint the true identity of this architect, you need to stick to the biblical account, according to which it was the same God who communicated the plans to David, through the mediation of the prophet Nathan, during a vision or dream.