“A Mason has to declare his belief in a personal God, Jehovah, and in the Encampment degrees also in Christ, before he can be accepted in the Lodge, while the Johanite Templars believed in the unknown and invisible Principle, whence proceeded the Creative Powers misnamed gods, and held to the Nazarene version of Ben-Panther being the sinful father of Jesus, who thus proclaimed himself “the son of god and of humanity.” This also accounts for the fearful oaths of the Masons taken on the Bible, and for their lectures servilely agreeing with the Patriarcho-Biblical Chronology. In the American Order of Rose Croix, for instance, when the neophyte approaches the altar, the “Sir Knights are called to order, and the captain of the guard makes his proclamation.”
“To the glory of the sublime architect of the universe (Jehovah-Binah?), under the auspices of the Sovereign Sanctuary of Ancient Primitive Freemasonry”, etc., etc. Then the Knight Orator strikes 1 and tells the neophyte that the antique legends of Masonry date back FORTY centuries; claiming no greater antiquity for the oldest of them than 6:22 A.M., at which time he says Noah was born. Under the circumstances this will be regarded as a liberal concession to chronological preferences. After that Masons are apprised that it was about the year 2188 B.C., that Mizraim led colonies into Egypt, and laid the foundation of the Kingdom of Egypt, which kingdom lasted 1,663 years (!!!). Strange chronology, which, if it piously conforms with that of the Bible, disagrees entirely with that of history.
The mythical nine names of the Deity, imported into Egypt, according to the Masons, only in the twenty-second century B.C., are found on monuments reckoned twice as old by the best Egyptologists. Nevertheless, we must take at the same time into consideration that the Masons are themselves ignorant of these names. The simple truth is that modern Masonry is a sadly different thing from what the once universal secret fraternity was in the days when the Brahma-worshippers of the AUM, exchanged grips and passwords with the devotees of TUM, and the adepts of every country under the sun were “Brothers”.
What was then that mysterious name, that mighty “word” through whose potency the Hindu as well as the Chaldean and Egyptian initiate performed his wonders? In chapter cxv., of the Egyptian Funeral Ritual, entitled “The chapter of coming out to the Heaven…and of knowing the Spirits of AN”, (Heliopolis), Horus says: “I knew the Spirits of AN. The greatly glorious does not pass over it…unless the gods give me the WORD.” In another hymn the soul, transformed, exclaims: “Make road for me to Rusta. I am the Great One, dressed as the Great One. I have come, I have come! Delicious to me are the kings of Osiris. I am creating the water (through the power of the Word). …Have I not seen the hidden secrets…I have given truth to the Sun. I am clear. I am adored for my purity”, cxvii – cxix – The chapters of the going into and coming out of the Rusta. In another place the mummy’s roll expresses the following: “I am the Great God (spirit) existing of myself, the creator of His Name. I know the name of this Great God, that is there.””
H. P. Blavatsky
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 