Who was Hiram Abiff?

John Sebastian Marlow Ward (1885 — 1949). A lecturer at Cambridge, one of the compilers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica — and the founder of a new branch of Christianity, which still exists today. The leading consultant for the entire British industry — and a mystic who predicted key events of the twentieth century.

This book, co-authored with master masons, is dedicated to the central figure of the masonic myth: the builder of the Temple, Hiram Abiff. The search for the source of faith in the power of the human mind and the immortality of the soul leads John Ward into the darkness of bloody rituals of the archaic world. The mysteries of the great initiates and the rites of primitive savages grow from a single root. What is the reason for such intertwining? John Ward offers some answers, but many questions remain for the reader to ponder, as whole unexplored continents of the human unconscious are still waiting for their discoverers.