Good day Worthy Knights

In this part 5, you will find an essay from Les Woodbridge on the X and the P.

On reading the details of the Red Cross of Constantine Certificate, we find the following:

“The Keystone of the central arch bears the sacred monogram, which comprises the interwoven letters X and P (Chi-Rho, pronounced Ky-ro), being the first two letters of the Greek version of the Name of Christ, which is to be found on the Labarum Standard of every Conclave…”

Recently I have been accessing some of the esoteric Rosicrucian records whilst researching the origin of the name Jesus, and I found some of the information quite interesting:

We know that the word Christ comes from the Greek word Christos which means “Messiah.” We find that the word Christos was introduced to other nations when the Septuagint was prepared about 100 B.C., and that it was used to translate the word Mashiach, which means “the anointed one,” or, in its more complete form, Meschiach, meaning “Yahvehs Anointed.”

Cyrus is called “the anointed,” and in Psalm 105:15, the plural form “anointed ones” is used to apply to the patriarchs.

In the Old Testament, the word “anointed” is limited to mean a Jewish king, except in the case of Cyrus and the patriarchs, which exceptions prove that it could mean a person great in more ways than one. The word or title Christos had been used in the mystery schools and in the Orient for the name and title of many of the former avatars.

Going back to the Septuagint, we find that the Greek word Christos originally came from the name of one of the Egyptian deities.

This was old Hermes, whose name has been corrupted or translated into “Hiram of Tyre,” who built the temple without the noise of axe or hammer.

The Latin form of this name is Mercury, while the Greek form is Hermes, and the Egyptian form was Tachut. Now in Hebrew, the word Tachath, which is called Thoth occasionally in Greek, means “under” and “beneath.”

Thoth was the Lord or God of Maa, or the Egyptian Maa or Maat, meaning “truth.”

And Maa kHeru, meaning “true words” is the basis from which came from the Greek form Merkury or Mercury.