User:Sloth monkey/Jota (Freemasonry)

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Jota is an alleged ideologue and spiritual entity, spoken of in reference to Freemasonry and their supposed "hidden masters". The validity of such claims are highly controversial and generally regarded as crackpot conspiracy theories. However, there are those (a minority of individuals) who feel strongly regarding the matter in which they seriously contest these allegations to be true.

"According to the Masonic reference works that you can get in any library, the Freemasonic orders of Europe said that there was an ideologue, a spiritual entity, that gave knowledge to what the masons call 'our hidden masters' (referring to those who allegedly lead world masonry)...They call him Jota; and in the reference works you'll see this little creature with pointed ears." ―Jordon Maxwell, American Historian, in the film The Illuminati (2005), by Chris Everard.

Maxwell then purported that the etymology of Jota comes from Joda, which is from Juda. He claims this comes from old British-Israel world Freemasonry, during the time of the founding of England. Maxwell then alleges that the term British comes from a combining of the words brit (Hebrew for "contract" or a "covenant") and ish (Hebrew for "man"). He says that there is somehow a connection between the term British and Freemasonry during that time.

It is also worth noting that in the video in which Maxwell spoke, the artwork shown to portray Jota looks very much like Yoda. Additionally, he pronounces the word Jota as "Yoda".