As I recall, their speculation was that the person mummified in this manner was one of the three Juwes who murdered Hiram Abiff, and that this murder happened not in the Temple of Solomon, but at a much earlier date, in Egypt. And that the mummy was screaming because he had just had his bollix sliced off as a punishment before being mummified alive (apparently, the mummy is actually minus his bollix, and the wound happened just before death).
The book goes on to make further leaps, drawing wild conclusions based upon creeping speculation. You can read more about it here.
Yes, I have a copy in my Masonic library, yes it was written by a pair of Freemasons, yes I have read it and yes I too am a Freemason. But no, I do not believe everything that other Freemasons have speculated upon. Few Freemasons do, and this would be an excellent example of one such work I take with a huge grain of salt.
In this particular case, the only thing that I can really agree with the authors on is that Freemasonry is an Antient brotherhood that has existed for many, many centuries.
May it long be thus, and may God preserve The Craft.
Diehard, isn’t being a Mason supposed to be a secret? Or was that just back in the old days?
Whence came you, brother?