The Helios Biblios Hour (book of the SUN) SuperBowl Special /Dr.Phil Valentine

Mis-educated in history and culture, the Prince Hall Mason finds in himself suffering from Masonic inferiority caused by a complex of racial inferiority. Nearly 400 years of living in a white dominated society has left a long and lasting mark on African-Americans. The racial attitudes are so deep and institutionalized it has affected not only the way whites view blacks but the way blacks view blacks. Blacks seem to only make their way of life valid only through European standards. In 1853, Dr. Martin R. Delany, a Prince Hall Mason wrote and published a book titled, “Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry its Introduction into the United States and Legitimacy Among Colored Men”, In this treatise, he discusses the African origins of Masonic principles and that the Caucasian Freemason cannot deny to the African his birthright to practice the principles which were in existence before the establishment of its principles within European civilization.

Delany stated,

“In the earliest period of the Egyptian and Ethiopian dynasties, the institution of Masonry was first established. Discovering a defect in the government of man, first suggested an inquiry into his true state and condition. Being a people of a high order of intellect, and subject to erudite and profound thought, the Egyptians and Ethiopians were the first who came to the conclusion that man was created in the similitude of God. This, it will be remembered, was anterior to the Bible record, because Moses was the recorder of the Bible, subsequent to his exodus from Egypt, all his wisdom and ability having been acquired there; as a proof of which, the greatest recommendation to his fitness for so high and holy an office, and the best encomium which that book can possibly bestow upon him in testimony of his qualifications as its scriptor, the Bible itself tells us that "Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians."