This was pulled off of Youtube and sounds authentic.

Logan is a 13 year-old boy who lives on a ranch in a very small town in Nebraska. Logan listens to Christian Radio station 89.3FM KSBJ which broadcasts from Houston, TX. Logan called the radio station distraught because he had to take down a calf . His words have wisdom beyond his years.

Since airing the audio of the phone call and now the making of the video clip, it has taken on a life of its own. People are forwarding it all over the world. We encourage you to share the love of Christ with anyone you can.

(A FrankLozano.com Production) Little did I know when I was given the audio to this phone call that it would become SO HUGE. When I produced this video, I knew it was special to ME, but never would I have guessed when typing the text and editing the music that it would literally touch MILLIONS. I am proud to have put this video together for the world to see and hear. We have had a lot of requests to replay the phone call that Pastor Mike shared during our church service on Sunday, Nov. 11th, 2007.

(**Sky Angel is a family safe broadcasting service that is offered on satellite. KSBJ is a local Houston Christian music radio station. Video clip produced with love by me, www.FrankLozano.com Hear the entire message at www.ValenciaHills.com)

"Ahura Mazda came to my aid.

It was thanks to Darius the Great that we have been able to decipher the cuneiform script, which had fallen into even deeper oblivion than Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Based on Roland G. Kent, Old Persian, 1953

The Achaemenian Kings left extensive cuneiform inscriptions in Old Persian dated roughly between 600 BCE and 300 BCE. They also left ruins which have been described as the most grandiose of the ancient world. While it is by no means certain that they were orthodox Zoroastrians, the majority opinion among scholars is that this is very likely. One of the strongest arguments for this is the frequent mention of Ahura Mazda in the inscriptions, which is almost certainly an innovation of Zarathushtra's. Their religion is also described by Herodotus in sufficient detail to leave little doubt that they were basically Zoroastrian..."

http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

The Order of Malta and Freemasonry have parallels of current purpose and history.

The link above will take you to their official website. You must find the translation link at the top of the page if you do not speak Italian.

When the Knights Templar were disbanded and Grand Master Jacques De Molay and 11 others were burned at the stake in Paris the fallout was traumatic to the economic fabric of the Holy Roman Empire. As the Order created and ran the first effective banking system in Europe, there was certain to have been financial panic at the time.

By papal decree the Order of Malta, a parallel and sometimes rival brotherhood also known as the Order of Hospitallers, was given the property of Knights Templar shortly after the church disbanded them.

Like the Templars the Order of Malta is a fraternity created out of the Crusades and dedicated to St. John.

As the Knights Templar protected the road for Europeans traveling to Jerusalem, the Hospitallers provided clinics and medical care for the same pilgrims. Both orders fought to gain control of and protect Jerusalem after it was conquered, lost, reclaimed and ultimately lost again.

After being ejected from the holy land by Muslim forces the Order of Malta established themselves as the rulers of the Island of Rhodes as a military order of the Catholic Church and operated there from 1310-1523 AD until once again they were ejected by Muslim invaders.

From Rhodes they moved operations to  Malta and operated as "sovereign" from 1530-1798 AD when Napolean's military conquered the island and banished them to Rome where they have existed as a soveriegn order ever since.

Unlike Freemasonry the current membership of the Order of Malta has an unbroken line of history from the time of its inception in Jerusalem in 1050 AD., and to become a member of this order one must be born into it.

As in speculative Freemasonry, however, the current stated mission of the Order of Malta is one of philanthropy.

They build and fund hospitals and medical research primarily in Europe but have a worldwide presence and are diplomatically accepted as a sovereign nation by a some countries outside of the sphere of papal influence.

They have an extensive website worth checking out at:

http://www.orderofmalta.org/italiano

Le Plongeon's actual translation imaged in Google Books: Troano MS.

The following quotation is from Le Plongeon's translation of the famous Troano MS., which may be seen in the British Museum. The Troano MS. appears to have been written (hieroglyphed) about 3,500 years ago, among the Mayas of Yucatan, and the following is its description of the catastrophe that submerged the island of Poseidonis:--"In the year 6 Kan, on the 11th Muluc in the month Zac, there occurred terrible earthquakes, which continued without interruption until the 13th Chuen. The country of the hills of mud, the land of Mu was sacrificed: being twice upheaved it suddenly disappeared during the night, the basin being continually shaken by volcanic forces. Being confined, these caused the land to sink and to r' se several times and in various places. At last the surface gave way and ten countries were torn asunder and scattered. Unable to stand the force of the convulsions, they sank with their 64,000,000 of inhabitants 8060 years before the writing of this book."

http://books.google.com/books?id=gGBEwKdyLfMC&pg=PR42&lpg=PR42&dq=Troano+MS+Le+Plongeon&source=bl&ots=mxskJ5TJCd&sig=IFnaK1_u_FVkVWxSIeFHtgXvEoc#PPR42,M1

An interpretation of heiroglyphs and oral traditions written by indigenous peoples being converted by Jesuits in Central America and Eastern Mexico.
Popul-Vul, Tedlock Translation

POPOL VUH: THE MAYAN BOOK OF THE DAWN OF LIFE
translated by Dennis Tedlock with commentary based on the ancient knowledge of the modern Quiche Maya
- There was no little justice in the fact that it was the missionaries themselves, the burners of the ancient books, who worked out the problems of adapting the alphabet to the sounds of Mayan languages, and while they were at it they charted grammars and compiled dictionaries.

Their official purpose in on-going this linguistic work was to facilitate the writing and publishing of Christian prayers, sermons, and catechisms in the native languages. But very little time passed before some of their native pupils found political and religious applications for alphabetic writing that were quite independent of those of Rome.

These independent writers have left a literary legacy that is both more extensive than the surviving hieroglyphic corpus and more open to understanding. Their most notable works, created as alphabetic substitutes for hieroglyphic books, are the Chilam Balam or "Jaguar Priest" books of Yucatan and the Popol Vuh of Guatemala.

http://www.tphta.ws/TPH_POPL.HTM

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For masons and non-masons alike this New York Masonic Organization has put together a great page explaining what Freemasons aspire to be.

How does a man become a Mason?

Some men are surprised that no one has ever asked them to become a Mason. They may even feel that the Masons in their town don’t think they are “good enough” to join. But it doesn’t work that way. For hundreds of years, Masons have been forbidden to ask others to join the fraternity. We can talk to friends about Masonry, we can tell them about what Masonry does. We can tell them why we enjoy it. But we can’t ask, much less pressure anyone to join.

There’s a good reason for that. It isn’t that we’re trying to be exclusive. But becoming a Mason is a very serious thing. Joining Masonry is making a permanent life commitment to live in certain ways. We’ve listed most of them above — to live with honor and integrity, to be willing to share and care about others, to trust each other, and to place ultimate trust in God. No one should be “talked into” making such a decision.

So, when a man decides he wants to be a Mason, he asks a Mason for a petition or application. He fills it out and gives it to the Mason, and that Mason takes it to the local lodge. The Master of the lodge will appoint a committee to visit with the man and his family, find out a little about him and why he wants to be a Mason, tell him and his family about Masonry, and answer their questions. The committee reports to the lodge, and the lodge votes on the petition. If the vote is affirmative — and it usually is — the lodge will contact the man to set the date for the Entered Apprentice Degree. When the person has completed all three degrees, he is a Master Mason and a full member of the fraternity.

So, what’s a Mason?

A Mason is a man who has decided that he likes to feel good about himself and others. He cares about the future as well as the past, and does what he can, both alone and with others, to make the future good for everyone.

Many men over many generations have answered the question, “What is a Mason?” One of the most eloquent was written by the Reverend Joseph Fort Newton, an internationally honored minister of the first half of the 20th Century.

When is a man a Mason?

When he can look out over the rivers, the hills, and the far horizon with a profound sense of his own littleness in the vast scheme of things, and yet have faith, hope, and courage which is the root of every virtue.

When he knows that down in his heart every man is as noble, as vile, as divine, as diabolic, and as lonely as himself, and seeks to know, to forgive, and to love his fellow man.

When he knows how to sympathize with men in their sorrows, yea, even in their sins knowing that each man fights a hard fight against many odds... "

See the complete article at: What Is a Freemason?

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