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The Richard Charlie "Manual" was a partial forgery written to smear the order, after some lodge drama that left him butthurt about being kicked out.
As for the imagery in Masonry that refers to King David and Hiram Abiff and so on, you should keep in mind that this was allegory created by late medieval Christan who knew the old and new testaments very well.
Nearly everything in pre-industrial Western civilization has Judaeo-Christian imagery in it. If you're white your name has a fifty percent chance of being Jewish. May as well freak out about that.