Given that the tortuous story of the Whitechapel murders is filled with liars, tricksters, and unreliable witnesses, it is a fog we shall encounter often. How much, then, can their denial of Gulls Masonic status be trusted? The problem we face here is that neither Knight nor the assembled ranks of Freemasonry are necessarily telling the truth, at which point an obscuring Victorian fog starts to engulf the facts of our narrative. In at least this last denial, the Masons it seems may be telling less than the full truth: Martin Shorts Inside The Brotherhood (Grafton Books, 1989) seems to confirm that, despite Masonic denials, Jah-Bul-On is an authentic Masonic deity.
The Masons themselves have since denied that Gull was ever a member of their order, and have generally derided the claims made in Knights books, including The Brotherhood (Grafton Books, 1989), wherein Knight suggests that higher-level Freemasons pay homage to a bizarre triple-deity known as Jah-Bul-On. The only source would seem to be The Final Solution, in which Knight dates Gulls involvement with the craft from 1842, when the 26 year-old was employed at Guys Hospital. Gulls entry into Freemasonry is more problematic. "Details of Gulls meteoric medical career are accurate, and drawn from A Biographical Sketch. An appendex attempts to give a pseudo-scholarly veneer to this work of fiction, but the authors lack of masonic research and his reliance on other works of fiction is telling : A secret fraternity of Dionysus cultists originating in 2,000 B.C, they worked on Solomons temple, eventually becoming the Middle Ages' travelling Masonic guilds" Ĭhapter 2, pages 8, 9, 16 and 17 are filled with mistaken notions of masonic ritual and regalia. Later, one of the several mythical origins of Freemasonry is repeated in conversation: "The Dionysiac architects?" "unmistakably. William Gullwhose bloody hands are shown was ever a freemason.
And there is no documentation even suggesting that Dr. The rules of regular Freemasonry strictly prohibit the solicitation of members, or the use of Freemasonry to promote ones career. As an example, shown above is a set of panels from chapter 2, page 7, misrepresenting two points of masonic law and one of history. Subtitled a melodrama in sixteen parts, this "graphic novel"contains many errors and outright fabrications about Freemasonry. Freemasonry in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell Northampton's From Hell
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