Freemasons were taught that the Order had been established among the workmen who built Solomon's Temple. The reconstruction of the Solomonic Temple in Freemasonic thought represented both the intention to imitate the rules of divine architecture and to apply the natural laws of proportion as part of the search for an individual and common purification.
Fundamentally, Freemasonry has no other aim than the knowledge of man and of nature; being founded on the Temple of Solomon which…has existed for itself in the universe solely to be the universal type of man in general in his past, present, and future states, and figurative emblematic picture of his own history.
The Holy of Holies was a sacred chamber in Solomon's Temple, which housed the Ark of the Covenant, therefore it would have been the Ark of the Covenant that Thutmose III looked into and received the divine revelation. Also it is my understanding if I remember correctly, that Thutmose III captured Jerusalem and after that when he went into battles he carried the Ark of the Covenant into those battles and was victorious. As I recall he was if not the most successful at least one of the most successful Pharaoh’s when it came to winning battles and wars.
If my reading of history is correct, then yes not only did Thutmose III claim divine revelation but it was also claimed of him and if correct he made use of it to become one of the most powerful Pharaohs.
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