Who is 'Hiram the Great'?

Hiram was the mythical figure of freemasonry who was killed to map out the way for his followers but this wasnt a sacrifice Hiramdied his own death to discover his own life and is now a hero for his followers his story occurs in the Old Testament ib the bible in first kings and again in chronicles he is likened to christ in gnostics of the cartharians not of the church