tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36099872331345639142024-02-06T18:12:33.916-08:00The Anthropological MasonSheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-38530327511844292352023-12-09T17:06:00.000-08:002023-12-09T17:06:59.185-08:00presupposed outcomes <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">The questions devised and posed by anthropologists tend to reflect the cultural outlook of the anthropologists themselves, thus handicapping the usefulness of the data collected. Frake (1964) pointed out that individual as well as cultural 'expectancy' malform and bias the outcome of surveys and interviews. The solution, Freke proposed, was to have members of the culture being studied, devise the questions and collect the answers. Ethnographic bias is not insurmountable, and one should be careful not to let the pendulum swing to the other extreme where analysis of a culture becomes subjective to its members self awareness. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Independent scholars (those who make a living outside the realm of academia but nonetheless produce serious contributions to research) are encouraged to immerse themselves in the experiential of a culture.</span></div>
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-43768723024481758592018-02-17T20:34:00.000-08:002018-02-17T20:34:37.013-08:00The Christian Mystery Plays of the Early Operative Associations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Biblical scenes that made up the mystery play were staged by the various guilds. At York, for instance, the play of Noah was put on by the carpenter's guild, no doubt because they were able to build the ark most effectively. Other institutions put on plays set at Christ's tomb post resurrection. Still other guilds delivered dramas about the wonder works of the Saint to which their craft was dedicated. </span>In <a href="http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Medieval_theatre" target="_blank">Medieval days</a> 'mysteries' of a craft organization simply meant the operative trade secrets - hence the so-called 'Mystery Plays' which were </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-size-adjust: auto;">styled similarly to the old folk plays of the Wren Boys and Mummers but <a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/the-body-of-christ-sacred-street-theater-in-medieval-england/" target="_blank">performed with great enthusiasm before crowds of townspeople gathered on Corpus Christi days</a> in the streets (Towneley, <a href="https://aboutourisles.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/york-mystery-plays-2014/" target="_blank">York</a> and </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-size-adjust: auto;">Chester cycles). Each 'mystery' (i.e., each trade guild) had its own play </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-size-adjust: auto;">and members either performed the scripts as actors or they sponsored teams </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of actors to perform their play. </span></span></div>
Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-51662503172474285002017-12-09T21:47:00.002-08:002017-12-09T21:47:24.241-08:00Yeats and the Ancient Prince Masons from Time Immemorial: R+ H.R.D.M., S.P.R.C.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">In a letter to Lady Gregory, Yeats described the Masonic ceremony given at the funeral of his uncle, George Pollexfen, in Sligo in 1910. Pollexfen had been </span>initiated into the the Isis-Urania Temple of the Order of the Golden Dawn in December of 1893 where he took on the the Latin motto 'Festina lente'<span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span>He was a unionist Protestant who did not approve of Yeats's nationalist position. He was W.B. Yeats' Mother's brother. Eighty Masons attended his funeral, and two of them threw white roses (a traditional Jacobite symbol) on his grave. Yeats explained that they and Pollexfen were "Priori Masons," who used the white rose as a prime symbol. <br />
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<span class="s1">This reference to "Priori Masons" alluded to their membership in what is properly termed the '<a href="http://www.irishmasonichistory.com/original-chapter-of-prince-masons-established-1782.html" target="_blank">Original Chapter of Prince Masons</a>' or the Metropolitan College of Heredom for Ireland', which styles itself as the first and most ancient or primitive English speaking authority for the Rose Croix. </span><br />
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Introduction by David Sheihan Hunter Lindez</h3>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Dr.
Christopher McIntosh travelled to America to speak at the Rose Circle Research
Foundation's symposium in Manhattan. While in town that same week, he was
the guest of a distinguished and private lodge of gentlemen Freemasons where he delivered his lecture entitled “Louisenlund: A Masonic,
Rosicrucian, Alchemical, ‘Theme Park’ in Germany.” He explored German
Masonic and esoteric activity in the late 18th and early 19th century, focusing
on the milieu of <span style="background-color: white;">Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel</span> (1744-1836), an Aristocratic Patron and protectorate of Freemasonry involved in the institution of the Templar Rite of the Strict
Observance, the </span><span style="background: white;">Gold</span><span style="background: white;">- </span><span style="background: white;">und</span><span style="background: white;"> Rosenkreuz, Knight
Masons Elus Coen of the Universe and the Scottish Rectified Regime.</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> His seat was at Louisenlund
in Schleswig-Holstein; with a ‘Freemasons Tower’, consisting of both a lodge
space and an alchemical laboratory, used for a time by the legendary alchemist,
the Comte de Saint Germain. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Landgrave Carl von Hessen-Kassel was know</span>n the Strict Observance and later in the </span>Chevaliers Bienf'aisants de la Cite Sainte of the Scottish Rectified Rite<span style="background-color: white;"> as </span><span style="background-color: white;">Eques a Leone Resurgente. His influence in the shaping of the Scottish Rectified Rite ritual was extensive, as acknowledged by the Duke of Brunswick and later by Jean Baptiste Willermoz himself in correspondence from 1789 and several years after the French Revolution in 1810 when Willermoz had just completed his final edits of the Scottish Master of Saint Andrew. It was the Landgrave who had insisted on the preservation and adoption of the Strict Observance tracing boards with key additions, such as the added emphasis on Sion, interestingly enough. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">We found in examining correspondence that Prince Charles of Hesse was often hosting members of the Jesuit Order in his Alchemical Masonic meetings. For the "Reform of Lyon" and the Masonic Congress of 1782, he offered up the Summer residence of his brother </span></span>Wilhelm, the invested heir to Hesse-Kassel. The<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> castle was built on the edge of the spa baths as a ruin meant to bewilder its guests, as its interior was magnificent and luxurious with grand halls featuring large portraits of the family's Royal progenitors.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Landgrave Carl von Hessen-Kassel (1744-1836)</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The Masonic Alchemical Tower at Louisenlund has long since been a ruin, but there is now a project to raise funds to properly rebuild it. Dr. McIntosh is working with myself as an archivist and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stcolmanstleo/" target="_blank">preservationist</a>, to raise
awareness of this project throughout the world. Up till now, this has been accomplished via multimedia presentations in private clubs, lodges and the likes and by way of pamphlets, mailed and distributed in person via a grass roots campaign across the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, continental Europe and the Caribbean. All interested parties are invited to donate to the restoration effort, especially those who are custodian to traditions such as the Swedish Rite, the RER, Rosicrucianism or otherwise have a common root or shared heritage in the Strict Observance. Support from the world wide community of practicing Alchemists is also invited. </span></div>
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Tower was of wood made to look like stone. The ground
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">The Freemasons’ Tower, sometimes called the
Alchemist’s Tower, is part of the remarkable <a href="http://www.projectawe.org/blog/2017/6/19/the-symbol-filled-garden" target="_blank">Masonic/Rosicrucian/alchemical park</a> at Louisenlund in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, built by Prince
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But first I would like to set it in its context and talk a bit about the
esoteric mind-set which it reflects. It‘s typical of a strain of esoteric
spirituality which was very strong in Germany at that time. It goes back to
mystical writers like Meister Eckhart and Jakob Boehme and the Rosicrucian
movement of the 17thcentury. It includes Gnostic elements, Christian Kabbalah,
Christian theosophy, and in the 18th century it merges with the world of
Freemasonry and neo-Rosicrucian orders. Alchemy played an important part in it,
reflecting the view that the divine is present not just in heaven but in the
substance of the material world if you know where to find it. German mystical
poetry is full of alchemical references and metaphors – such as the idea that the
Trinity is actually present in material substance in the form of the three
basic alchemical principles of salt, sulphur and mercury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">This particular mixture
of ideas issomething very German and it accounts for the survival of alchemy in
Germany much longer than in other countries. When, in the 18th century, it
merged with Freemasonry and neo-Rosicrucianism it produced a whole
proliferation of high-degree Masonic and <a href="http://oplusultra.blogspot.com/2015/07/an-overview-of-alchemical-and-magical.html" target="_blank">Rosicrucian orders</a>, whose members
included many prominent aristocrats and landowners, who transformed their
estates into what I call symbol-filled landscapes, initiatic theme parks which
led you past a series of symbolic features, which reminded you of certain
virtues, heroic figures from the past, important stages in life’s journey,
ethical principles and so on, so that a journey through the park became a kind
of initiatic pilgrimage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang=DE>Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel: the Water Cascade
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="mw-mmv-final-image jpg" crossorigin="anonymous" height="427" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Herrenhaus_Louisenlund.JPG/1920px-Herrenhaus_Louisenlund.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;" title="Louisenlund Manor (photo credit: Wikipedia)" width="640" /></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Louisenlund Manor (photo credit - PodracerHH, 1, May 2009 Wikipedia)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 150%;">In Germany there are
some fascinating examples of parks of this kind. Above is one example:
Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, built by Prince Carl’s great-grandfather and namesake,
the Landgrave Karl of Hessen-Kassel. It is built on a steep hillside with a
water cascade, overlooked by a massive statue of Hercules, as a symbol of
courage and virtue. Another remarkable example of a “symbol-filled
landscape” that I’d like to mention isthe park at Wörlitz in Sachsen-Anhalt, in
the former German Democratic Republic, built in the latter part of the 18th
century by Prince Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau around a watery area formed
by a salient of the river Elbe. The Prince had spent a great deal of time in
England and may very well have been initiated there as a Mason – although we do
not know for sure. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But certainly the
whole garden </span><span style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">is unmistakeably initiatic. And we know
that this was deliberate, because there is a remarkable guide to the garden
written by the Prince's Privy Counsellor August von Rode, who was extremely
well read in the esoteric literature of the past and advised on the creation of
the garden.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">So if you walk through
it you are led on a sort of pilgrimage through a series of different settings
and past certain symbolic objects. There is, for example, a labyrinth (above),
which leads through rocky passages with inscriptions such as those shown above
that warn the visitor: WAEHLE WANDERER DEINEN WEG MIT VERNUNFT (Wanderer, choose
your way with reason) (top) or HIER WIRD DIE WAHL SCHWER ABER ENTSCHEIDEND (Here
the choice becomes difficult but decisive) (bottom). In a different part
of the park the journey becomes even more mysterious and intriguing (see images
below). You go across a rather precarious chain bridge over a chasm. On the
other side you come to a grotto. Then you go down a stairway to a small open
space, surrounded by rocks and stone walls. Here you were supposed to pause for
meditation. Then, going further, you pass the Cell of the Mystagogue, or the
"Cell of the Initiator into Sacred Mysteries", as Rode describes it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Initiatory Tunnel at Wörlitz - photo retrieved from: http://www.mz-buergerreporter.de/dessau-rosslau/lokales/tunnel-im-labyrinth-m6086,1886.html</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Then the itinerary continues
to the Temple of Venus. Inside the hill under this temple are two
grottos, one dedicated to the elements fire and earth, theother to water and
air. As you stand in the grotto of earth and fire you can look up directly into
the pedestal of the statue of Venus. And here Rode has a beautiful
description: "A circular opening inthe domed ceiling looks into the
pedestal of Venus, which is glazed with yellow glass, allowing a faint light to
fall into the grotto, resembling the light of the sun during an
eclipse." What a wonderful image! It's very alchemical, because for
the alchemists the presence of gold in the earth was analogous to the divine
light penetrating the depths of matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">We can see the same idea
in a painting by the Romantic painter Friedrich Otto Runge, entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Morning</i>. Here we have a
wonderful Venus-like figure floating in the air in front of a beautiful sunrise.
And down below, in the earth, is a sun partially eclipsed by a moon. It's
almost as though Runge knew that grotto and had read Rode's
description. So, as you go through these grottoes you go symbolically
through the four elements. And after the passing though the second grotto, the
grotto of water and air, you exit through the opening shown in the foreground
on the right, and as you come out you have a wonderful vista of the river Elbe,
for the water element, and it was originally planned that you would hear the
sound of an aeolian harp, a harp played by the wind. As Rode writes in his
guidebook: "Its strings, touched only by the swift,airy fingers of the
wind gods, will create divine melodies redolent of the air element." What
a pity that the harp was never installed. That would have been a wonderful
experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/13114505">St. Germain's Hermetic Garden & Tower of Eternity, by Iona Miller, 2010</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user3547022">Iona Miller</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span><br />
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Another fascinating
garden of about the same era is the New Garden beside a lake at Potsdam, near
Berlin. It was built by the Rosicrucian King Frederick William II of Prussia,
nephew of Frederick the Great, at about the same time as Louisenlund, and is
marked by the same esoteric world view. Frederick William became King of
Prussia in 1786 when his uncle died. Already as Crown Prince, he had become a
Freemason and had been initiated into the Golden and Rosy Cross Order, in which
alchemy played an important role. Frederick William was a keen member of the
order, and he duly worked diligently at his alchemy. Shortly after acquiring
the land for the New Garden he wrote to a fellow member of the Rosicrucian
order saying that he had bought a secluded garden and garden house, where he
intended to carry out alchemical work. Then, after he became King, he set about
building a palace by the lake and laying out the garden as a symbol-filled
landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">One of the Rosicrucian
motifs in the New Garden is an icehouse in the form of an Egyptian pyramid.
This reflects the mystique of ancient Egypt, which goes right back to the
Hermetic writings, but it became particularly fashionable in the 18th century,
partly through the novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sethos</i>, by
the French priest JeanTerrasson, published in 1731, which tells the story of
the young prince, Sethos, who is taken through an initiatory process by the sage
Amedes to prepare him to become King. This book also influenced the Egyptian
setting of Mozart's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Magic Flute</i>. The
pyramid has some Egyptian hieroglyphs and a set of seven alchemical symbols in
gilded wrought-iron work over the doorway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Phoenix Doorway to the Freemasons’ Tower before it fell into
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGtxmJVMCHbq6UnqV-v_KD20o8MtMvOR9ZcYwe54IsLPG7wnP73zuZgyMH2R4PySdtghdvEEpkU43fIz70tQXWBqbn191yZQ61n8nXICdlr6OM75EVWhTxziaDdMJNmWR6E38Lb9QXyPdP/s1600/louisenlund2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"></span></a><span style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Egyptian theme appears again in the Orangery made to look like an Egyptian temple with a sphinx over the portico and
two figures of gods in black marble flanking the doorway. Incidentally, this
organgery was designed by the architect Carl Langhans, who also designed the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">So, looking at these
features in the New Garden, it’s clear that King Frederick Williamand Prince
Carl von Hessen were kindred spirits, both of them at home in this esoteric
world of alchemy and Rosicrucianism. Interestingly they were the same age –
born in the same year – and they must surely have known each other. They were
both members of the Golden and Rosy Cross Order, which clearly played an important
role in their lives, so I should say a bit about this order. What was it
like to be a member? The Order was grouped into circles of nine members each,
and had nine grades of initiation, each involving elaborate initiation rituals.
In ascending order, the grades were as follows: Junior, Theoreticus,Practicus,
Philosophus, Minor, Major, Adeptus Exemptus, Magister and Magus. This grade
structure, slightly modified, was adopted by the English Occult Order, the
Golden Dawn, and later by other Rosicrucian orders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">In the symbolic tableau used at the initiation of members into the 5th grade of Minor a form of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life with the
Sefiroth arranged in two pentagonal figures is employed. Above is the eye of God in the
triangle and in between a sort of Adam Kadmon figure. The crosses on his clothing
and in the sphere underneath emphasize the basically Christian nature of the
Order. Part of the order's curriculum involved reading recommended books
and manuscripts on Christian theosophy, mysticism, Kabbalah and alchemy. And if
it was difficult for a member to attend a circle he could even be received into
the order by correspondence and initiate himself into the various grades. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Alchemy played a major
part in the Order’s activities. Alchemical symbolism featured inthe initiation
ceremonies and members were supposed to have their ownlaboratories, and work
diligently at their furnaces, and retorts and crucibles, and I think some of
them blew themselves up in the process. There survive today many alchemical
manuscripts that circulated among the Fraternity and, as you progressed up the
Order, you received more and more alchemical secrets. So they took alchemy very
seriously, as you can see from this engraving of a candidate being interviewed
for membership in a Rosicrucian lodge – clearly identifiable as such from the
alchemical equipment on the shelves – distilling apparatus, retorts and so on.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">If you look at the
alchemical books and manuscripts that circulated among the brethren, you will
see that they are very much practical recipe books, containing very detailed
and precise instructions about alchemical processes, often with drawings of
alchemical equipment. Many of these were traditional
alchemical procedures that you find inother alchemical sources. For example,
when you reached the grade of Adeptus Exemptus you were given the recipe for an
alchemical process involving dew. Part of it reads as follows: "Take as much
as you like of that material, which can most easily be found in stony meadows,
transparent and gleaming like emerald, or also in sandy hills …Collect it in
the sign of the Ram before sunrise; … Collect it as carefully as possible,
clean it and get rid of foreign impurities. NB. As soon as you have soaked up
some of it, for which you need a sheet of clean linen, you mustimmediately put
it into a glass vessel and close it securely, for the most subtle spirits can
easily evaporate …When your vessel is carefully sealed, dig a trench about two
fathoms deep in a dryplace, making a special hole for each vessel; put your
vessels in and, to make sure they do not break, cover each hole with an
earthenware plate. After you have covered your trench over again leave the
material to putrefy for 40 days.When you take it out after the elapse of this
period you will see, to your great astonishment, that your material has been
changed into a very pure blood… and restored to a quintessence of
nature."[1]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">So this was very
down-to-earth, practical alchemy, but it was also a spiritual process. One of
the mottos of the alchemists was “ora et labora” – pray and work. So it was a
dual process: on the other hand the work in the laboratory, which was an
attempt to raise substances to a higher level; and on the other hand
thestriving of the alchemist to raise himself up to a higher spiritual level.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Now we come to
Louisenlund itself. Shown above is one of the few remnants of the Freemasons’
Tower, the so-called Phoenix Gate, which is now in a different location. As one
can see, it’s built in the Egyptian style. The pillars are decorated with
lotuses. The cross-piece has a winged solar disk, flanked by caduceuses with
snakes curled around them, and in the middle of the cross-piece is a very
curious symbol, showing a winged scarab with two dog-like heads, holding in its
legs a ball of dung. It represents the type of beetle that lays its eggs in a
ball of dung, which was an important motif for the ancient Egyptians,
representing the god Khepri, who rolls the sun out in the morning and catches
it again in the evening. And one could also see this as an alchemical symbol –
the dung representing base matter, out of which the alchemist can conjure gold,
corresponding to the sun. And of course the gateway expresses again the
mystique of Egypt as the source of an ancientwisdom tradition. It’s a motif
that crops up again and again in Masonic symbolism and – for example, as I
mentioned – in Mozart’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Magic Flute</i>.
Mozart himself was of course a Freemason. And it’s not surprising that a
performance of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Magic Flute</i> took
place at Louisenlund. And one can imagine the opening tones of the opera
floating out over the park on a summer evening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Now here is an exercise
in imagination. Imagine that what you see in the picture below is a gateway in
time, and you’re passing through it – between the lotus pillars, under the
portico with the winged solar disc and the scarab. And on theother side you
emerge into the beautifully landscaped park of Louisenlund. And waiting to greet you is Prince Carl von Hessen-Kassel himself, Rosicrucian, (Knight Mason Elu Cohen), alchemist and one of the most prominent Freemasons of his day.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">To tell
you a bit about him – at the age of 22 he married Louise, the daughter of the
Danish King and they built a house at a beautiful spot on an inlet of the
Baltic, named Louisenlund after his wife – a fine house by today’s standards
but a relatively modest one for aprince of that era. A few years later, at the
age of 30, Carl became aFreemason, and rose very rapidly so that within a short
time he became a Provincial Grand Master. He was in many different Masonic
rites including the Golden and Rosy Cross Order, in which the practice of
alchemy played a central role. He was also Grand Master of an offshoot of the
Golden and Rosy Cross called the Asiatic Brethren (I’ve written about both of
these orders in my book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rose Cross
and the Age of Reason</i>).And, curiously enough, he was also a member of the
Illuminati, which was ahighly radical, democratic, rationalist order – quite the
opposite of theGolden and Rosy Cross.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">He was deeply immersed
in the world view of these Masonic and Rosicrucian orders,and he set out to
turn the park at Louisenlund into a sort of Masonic/alchemical/Rosicrucian
Arcadia. Like the other parks I mentioned, it’sa park of spiritual initiation,
designed so that a walk through the park becomes a kind of pilgrimage, taking
you past certain carefully placed symbolic features and leading you to an
experience of illumination. Over the years, many of these features have
disappeared or fallen into ruin, but let’s imagine that Carl von Hessen is
taking us on a tour of the park as it was around 1800 when it was pretty much
complete.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">We begin at the parterre
in front of the house, where we find a sundial in the form of an
armillary sphere, representing the notion of an ordered universe, mounted on a
truncatedpillar, which is a something we often find in masonic illustrations, symbolising
the fallen Temple of Solomon and the lost ancient wisdom that it represents.
The height of the pillar is carefully calculated so that, when you look through
the armillary sphere towards the house, the ball in the centre of it,
representing the sun, lines up with a diamond-shaped cartouche over the main
entrance [slide], in such a way that the ball, projected on to the cartouche,
becomes the pupil of an eye of Ra or the all-seeing eye of God. So we get our
first message: that this is a place wherethe eye of God is ever-present if you
know how to perceive it.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Next we come to the
obelisk, set in a small clearing in a wood. This commemorates the marriage of
Carl’s daughter Maria to Prince Frederick of Denmark in 1790, but it also –
like the Phoenix Gateway – evokes the notion of ancient Egyptian wisdom. In the
wood behind the obelisk is a small stone altar, originally set in front of a
dead oak tree and possibly intended as a memento mori, a reminder of
death. Then we come to the Felsenberg, the "Rocky Hill", with a path of rough stones, which is both a path of initiation and the rough
stone of the newly apprenticed Mason, ready to be made smooth. The path
leads up to a small pavilion at the top with a view out over the park. So this
is the arduous ascent of the Mason towards the light.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Going further we come to
a stream with a waterfall. This was an artificial waterfall – the water came
from a small lake fed by a device called a hydraulic ram, the remains of which
are still visible, which pumped water into the lake. When the hydraulic ram was
switched off and the water ceased to flow – lo and behold! – there was
a concealed entrance to a grotto in which Masonic initiation rituals were held. When
the brethren were assembled the water would be switched on and they would be
safe from prying eyes. In the present day we would find that this grotto has long
since caved in and is no longer visible.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Continuing on we find
other features that we wouldn’t find in the present day: a rune stone, brought
from a Viking site on the Baltic coast, a hermitage, complete with a mechanical
hermit, who sat up in bed and made groaning noises when anyon eentered his hut;
and, beside the hermitage, a labyrinth, similar to the one at Wörlitz,
representing life’s journey with all its dangers and pitfalls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">But most impressive of
all was the Freemasons’ Tower or the Alchemist’s Tower. It looked like a stone building, but in fact,
apart from the cellar and the foundations, the walls were of oak panels made to
look like stone. And today only some remains of the foundations are still
there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">This was a building
densely packed with symbolism. First of all take a look at the ground plan
(above). It has retaining walls projecting out from it. The Tower is marked C.
The main entrance with the Phoenix Gate is marked D. And there were two other
entrances on the other side, one of them on a lower level. As one can see, the
retaining walls make the shape of an Egyptian scarab, with the Tower forming
the ball of dung, pushed by the scarab, and symbolising the sun. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">elevation diagram of the Alchemical Tower</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Another
interesting thing about the Tower is that the proportions of the building are
according to the golden section, a ratio that is present throughout nature –
it’s the key ratio with which nature works. It’s present in the proportions of
the human body – the limbs, the hands, the face, even in the DNA molecule. And
it goes right up to the Milky Way galaxy, which is a spiral, shaped according
to the golden section. The ratio is also present in Masonic symbols such as the
pentagram, where the sides intersect each other according to the golden ratio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Prince Carl von Hessen engaged in alchemic work with the Count of St Germain</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Looking at the elevation
– above ground level there are three three stories, corresponding to the three
degrees of Craft Masonry. At the top is a viewing platform. At the very bottom
was a cellar and at ground level a lodge room and we think an alchemical
laboratory. Here (at the right) we see Prince Carl von Hessen doing alchemy with
the famous alchemist, the Count of Saint Germain, who spent the last four and a
half years of his life as a guest of Prince Carl, and they worked very closely
together. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Count de St Germain (image retrieved from http://fr.muzeo.com)</span></td></tr>
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The Count de St Germain (shown above) was a fascinating and mysterious
figure. Apart from being an alchemist, he was a physician, a composer, a
painter, a diplomat and much more. Undoubtedly he was not a real count. Some
people considered him a confidence trickster, but there is no doubt that he had
enormous knowledge and also enormous charm and charisma. Prince Carl came to
admire him greatly and worked with him on a number of projects, including
developing various remedies and a metal alloy, similar to gold in appearance,
which came to be called the Carl metal. So the kind of alchemy they were
pursuing was not about turning lead into gold but about refining substances,
making elixirs, creating alloys and so on. But it was also about raising the
alchemist himself to a higher spiritual level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Now let me talk a bit about the project to rebuild the Tower. An architect,
Axel Brauer, has been appointed and has been working on some alternative
designs. The task is not so easy. For various reasons it’s not possible to
simply rebuild the Tower in its original form. The foundations are no longer
strong enough to hold a heavy structure, so probably the building will have to
be held by a skeleton of vertical steel girders, driven into the ground. Then
there’s the problem of what material to use for the walls. Wooden panels made
to look like stone (as shown below) would not be durable enough, and
stone would be prohibitively expensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"> One suggestion the architect made was to
use glass, but that didn’t meet with much enthusiasm, so he came up with another
idea, which was to clad the building with sheet metal. The building would then
look something like the computer simulation shown on the left. This has the merit
that the walls could be decorated with murals, such as alchemical images,
evoking the alchemical work that was carried out there.</span></div>
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It is intended that the Tower should contain a display about Freemasonry and an
alchemical museum, which would also be a working laboratory, so that one could
actually demonstrate alchemy as it was practised by Carl von Hessen and his
contemporaries. We’re fortunate to have acquired a set of exhibits from an
alchemical museum in Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic, founded by my friend
Michal Pober, which closed down a few years ago, and he very kindly donated the
exhibits to Louislund.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit;"> The former Museum of Alchemy at Kutna Hora in
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Here’s what <a href="http://tripfreakz.com/offthebeatenpath/alchemy-museum-in-kutna-hora" target="_blank">the museum in Kutna Hora lookedlike</a> (above), and the museum in the Tower would be somewhat similar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">So the reconstructed
Tower would be a wonderful resource for Masons, for visitors interested in
Freemasonry or the history of science, for pupils in<a href="http://www.louisenlund.com/" target="_blank"> the school</a>, and for the
general public. It would mean that the key feature, the cornerstone of the
park would be restored,and with it this whole unique park would come to life
again and be a place of inspiration and uplifting symbolism – especially of
course for Freemasons but also for anyone who is receptive to the spirit of the
place. The project will cost an estimated $550,000, and we are appealing for
sponsors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">People involved in the
project include Princess Ingeborg of Schleswig-Holstein, whose husband
Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, is a direct descendant of Prince Carl,
who created the park. The Advisory Board comprises, apart from myself, <a href="http://www.louisenlund.com/" target="_blank">the school</a> Director Dr. Peter Rösner, Dr. Alf Hermann, Head of the Park Archaeology
Guild at Louisenlund, Andreas Rothgaenger and Jörgen Jessen from local Masonic
lodges, the architect Axel Brauer, Dr. Kirsten Baumann, Director of the
Regional Museum of Art and Cultural History, Dr. Margita Meyer from the
Regional Ancient Monuments Agency, Gabriele Gruber, Burser of the school, Sven
Meier, P.R. Officer, Dr. Eva Witzel, Librarian, and two pupils, Magnus Salsali
and Jost-Hinrich Reemtsma, who are members of the school Archaeology Guild,
which is working to restore other parts of the park.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">There are various
privileges that come with sponsorship, depending on the level of the donation.
All donors will get regular updates, a guided tour of Louisenlund on request
and an invitation to the inauguration of the Tower. For higher-level donations
the privileges will include an invitation to a gala dinner with Princess
Ingeborg and the school Director, and a certificate of appreciation signed by
the Princess, and – for the top donations – also a stay of three days as a
guest of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>t<a href="http://www.louisenlund.com/" target="_blank">he school </a>with a guided tour
of the region. The Louisenlund Foundation is acharity, so donations are
tax-deductible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Donations can be made by
bank transfer to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Stiftung Louisenlund<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Bank: Förde Sparkasse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">BIC: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NOLADE21KEI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">IBAN: DE86 2105 0170
0000 6314 40.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Checks can be sent to
Dr. Peter Rösner at:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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including a leaflet about the project, can be obtained from Franziska Trautmann,
Project Management, Louisenlund: Tel: +49 4354 999-375<br />
Email: </span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:franziska.trautmann@louisenlund.de"><span style="line-height: 150%;">franziska.trautmann@louisenlund.de</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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[1] <span style="font-size: x-small;">Quoted in Christopher McIntosh, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-8220355165692228792016-09-06T08:18:00.001-07:002016-09-07T07:49:32.546-07:00The Red Cross Degrees of Babylon and Daniel<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The much propagated opinion that the degrees of Knight Masonry are
or were somehow the Ne Plus Ultra, is arguably even in Ireland, a blind. Their pre-Christian
chivalry is at once intriguing. For these ancient degrees are but a bridge for
the individual Mason's path to reunion with the GAOTU. So, there is in fact
more. These degrees consist of the Knight of the Sword (formally Red Cross
of Babylon or Red Cross of Daniel), Knight of the East (also known as the
Jordan Pass or alternately as the Jewish Pass), and Knight of the East and
West. They bridge the journeyman to that place where he is properly
prepared to receive more from On High.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The Order of the Red
Cross in Ireland (The Babylonian Pass aka Knight of the Sword) has been found
to be a part of some of the earliest lodge records in Ireland, styled as having
existed since "Time Immemorial". The secrets of this ritual are at
once simple, but they are actually intended to ritualize the act of secrecy,
adjusting the initiate to a new and insular world where self awareness and the
examination of one's own myriad of personal mysteries, is the ultimate
goal. The tales of Zerubbabel and Joshua mark the journey of the Companion
from the pillar of baptism by fire (see Zerubbabel legend of the fiery
furnace of Nebuchadnezzar) to the pillar of baptism by water (see Joshua 4:19).
Having traversed the firewater, a Mason was now ready for the Johannite Order,
thus the reason for the craft degrees and the Royal Arch, then the Order of the
Red Cross of Babylon being a pre-requisite and stabilizing force on the middle
path in preparation for Masonic Knighthood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The degree of Knight of the East,
is in alignment with the Knight of the Tower in the Royal Order of Scotland,
and the mysterious degree of the Red Cross of Babylon (consisting of the three
sojourners Shadrach, Meshac and Abadnigo's trial by fire in the furnace, the
passing of the bridge to and from Darius and the Council of the Persian
Monarch) was named as such in the year 1744 as a bridge to be crossed, dealing
with the erection of the 2nd temple in preparation for the other side of the
river, where the journeyman cousin begins the erection of the spiritual temple,
the house not made with hands…the Rose Croix of Heredom. Truth prevails over
the strength of wine, the allure of the mysteries of women and the might of the
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-81728294828468232512016-08-04T20:40:00.002-07:002016-08-04T20:52:07.071-07:00Pillars of Freemasonry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">A few years ago, I became conscious of the very "Masonic looking" pillars flanking the entrance to the local beaux arts styled police station in town, and I couldn't help but be struck by the obvious Masonic nature of them. I mean, there's no identifiable, architectural purpose for the spheres being placed atop two pillars. I was reminded of a conversation I once enjoyed participating in and contributing to well into the late hours of the early morning. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Much of the discussion that night was concerned with the origin and sudden appearance of globed pillars in the rituals, writings, illustrations and tracing boards of Freemasonry. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">You can watch a short extract of our lively conversation here:</span></h4>
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The use of the open compasses reminds the viewer</span> of the imagery employed by Blake and found in the public sphere in such places as Rockefeller Center. Interestingly enough, there's quite a bit of variance in the arrangement as well as the representation of Pillars in Freemasonry. T</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">he placement of pillars in a Masonic lodge can differ dramatically across jurisdictions of mainstream craft Masonry in the United States. In some mystical orders and magical lodges, one pillar is depicted as black and the other as white in color. According to Biblical accounts, one floats while the other sinks or that one is capped (this is not the case in French or Continental Freemasonry) with a Celestial sphere and the other Terrestial (neither of which serve any architectural purpose). </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-ffW5P6NW1kC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=On+top+of+each+pillar+was+a+large+bowl-now+erroneously+called+a+ball+or+globe-one+of+the+bowls+probably+containing+fire+and+the+other+water.+The+celestial+globe+(originally+the+bowl+of+fire),+surmounting+the+right-hand+column+(Jachin),+symbolized+the+divine+man;+the+terrestrial+globe+(the+bowl+of+water),+surmounting+the+left-hand+column+(Boaz),+signified+the+earthly+man.+These+two+pillars+respectively+connote+also+the+active+and+the+passive+expressions+of+Divine+Energy,+the+Sun+and+the+Moon,+sulphur+and+salt,&source=bl&ots=qFWX40wR--&sig=3DtwvFFQGM1fgJU8pS4JR5-9V7A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwhtb3l6nOAhXNZiYKHQ9jBIcQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=On%20top%20of%20each%20pillar%20was%20a%20large%20bowl-now%20erroneously%20called%20a%20ball%20or%20globe-one%20of%20the%20bowls%20probably%20containing%20fire%20and%20the%20other%20water.%20The%20celestial%20globe%20(originally%20the%20bowl%20of%20fire)%2C%20surmounting%20the%20right-hand%20column%20(Jachin)%2C%20symbolized%20the%20divine%20man%3B%20the%20terrestrial%20globe%20(the%20bowl%20of%20water)%2C%20surmounting%20the%20left-hand%20column%20(Boaz)%2C%20signified%20the%20earthly%20man.%20These%20two%20pillars%20respectively%20connote%20also%20the%20active%20and%20the%20passive%20expressions%20of%20Divine%20Energy%2C%20the%20Sun%20and%20the%20Moon%2C%20sulphur%20and%20salt%2C&f=false" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Some esoteric interpretations point to implications of polarity and the male and female energies of the two Saints John...fire (celestial globe) and water (terrestrial globe).</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Every initiate who is pulled or passed through these pillars, is set out to be instructed in a middle path where the initiate strives to balance their time and manage their energy so as to act rationally, fairly and objectively towards their fellow man.</span></h4>
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-65340893512457853852015-10-17T16:12:00.002-07:002015-10-17T16:14:05.812-07:00Rose Circle Symposium in Manhattan features Grand Archivist of the Swedish Rite: Tommy Westlund<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Practical Approaches to Spiritual Alchemy in the Western Mysteries" Presented by <b>Piers A. Vaughan</b></div>
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Piers is well known for his French translations of texts related to Martinism and is a former Choral Director in France and holds a Doctorate of Divinity, an MBA and an MA from Oxford. He is a Freeman of the City of London, the newly coronated Primate of the Apostolic Church of the Golden and Rosy Cross and currently holds many positions of leadership and grand rank in Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism and various other streams of Western Esotericism. </div>
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Presented by: <b>Tommy Westlund</b> of Stockholm, Sweden</div>
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Tommy Westlund is a trained therapist in psychosynthesis, and since 1990 has pursued studies and research in esotericism and the Western Hermetic tradition. With an academic background in psychology, the history of religion, and the history of ideas, he writes and lectures internationally on esotericism, alchemy, the Golden Dawn, Gnosticism, Martinism, and Freemasonry. </div>
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He is one of the founders of the initiatic Order of the Sodalitas Rosae+Crucis & Solis Alati, which perpetuates many of the old esoteric currents and Hermetic filiations of Europe, and he is also the Director of the Swedish Alchemical Academy, which offers alchemical courses, workshops, travels, and literature. </div>
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Tommy has the highest degree (X) in the Swedish Rite of Freemasonry and has held his position as Deputy Master of one of Sweden’s oldest S:t John lodges, St Erik (originated in 1756) for the past six years now.</div>
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He continues to serve as Archivist of the Swedish Masonic Grand Archive, a position he has held since 2009 and as Secretary of the Swedish Masonic Education Committee (since 2012).</div>
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(Tommy is also a member of the oldest Provincial Grand Lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland.)</div>
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-25643084267640992552015-08-21T20:59:00.001-07:002015-10-12T00:19:55.656-07:00The passing of Most Rev. Kt. Herbert A. Fisher, C.B.C.S.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Earlier today, 21 August 2015, we lost a great man. Herb, at 90 years old, was a living legend amongst the Orders of Freemasonry, and his accomplishments and contributions to the gentle craft, the brotherhood of the Rosy Cross and to Templary will be chronicled for centuries to come. Those of us who were privileged to count him as not only a brother but as a friend with whom we shared intimate moments and conversations with, can take some satisfaction in knowing that Herb leaves behind such a legacy. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Herbert Arthur Fisher </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">was born on November 19, 1924 </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">in Portlock, Virginia to </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Charles Cleveland Fisher and Sally</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Latimer.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">He served in the Pacific Air</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Command of the United States Army and the 1938</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">th </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Corps of</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Engineers of</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">the Army Air Corps and was discharged as a T/5 (Technician, 5</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">th </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Class). Herb went on to serve in the most prestigious ranks of invitational and Christian Orders of Freemasonry in the world, notably as Secretary General of the High Council of the Societas Rosicruciana In Civitatibus Federates and as Great Prior and then Great Chancellor of the Great Priory of America Knights Beneficent of the Holy City. His name is well known amongst the leadership of the various obediences of mainstream and regular Freemasonry from Geneva to Scotland to Brazil and Mexico.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In 1951, he married Jacqueline Anne Wentz (deceased). From this union three children were born: Kelly Ann Cappetta (David), Todd Steven Fisher and Kerry Irene Fisher. On April 23rd, 1977, Herb married his wife Phyllis. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">He is survived by a beautiful family of children, grandchildren </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Meredith, Taryn, Brandy, Jessica, Anastasia, Scott, Galyna, Rachel, Haily, Victoria, Ethan and Christian)</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and great grand children.</span></span></div>
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He was Entered, Passed and Raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason in South Norfolk Lodge No. 339 in 1949.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Memberships, offices, positions and honors</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">1. Grand Commander Virginia 1978-1979 </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">2. Honorary Past Department Commander 1991</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">3. Senior Aide de Camp the following Most Eminent Grand Masters</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">A. Donald Hinslea Smith 1985- 1988 </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">B. Marvin Edward Fowler 1988- 1991</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">C. William Henry Thornley,Jr. 1991- 1994</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">D. Blair Christy Mayford 1994- 1997</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">E. James Morris Ward 1997- 2000</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">4. Chairman Necrology Committee 1991-2000 </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">5. Knight Commander Temple, Grand Encampment, KT</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">6. Knight Grand Cross of the Temple, Grand Encampment, KT</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">7. Member Grand Masters Club, ( Eye Foundation), # 1976 for year 1993 & </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> # 4016 for year 2002</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br />HOLY ROYAL ARCH KNIGHT TEMPLAR PRIESTS<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Member No. 1755 Garden of Gethsemane No. II December 12, 1964</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">1. Knight of the Christian Mark</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">2. Knight of St Paul</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">3. Knight of Patmos</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">4. Knight of Death</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">5. Knight of the Black Cross</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">6. Knight of Bethany</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">7. Knight of the White Cross</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">8. Knight of Saint John</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">9. Knight Priest of the Holy Sepulchre</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">10.Knight Priest of the Holy Order of Wisdom</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">11.Holy and Illustrious Order of the Cross</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">12.Knight Priest of Eleusis or Elysium</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">13.Knight of Harodim</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">14.Knight of the North</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">15.Knight of the South</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">16.Knight and Prince of the Sanctuary</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">17.Knight Grand Cross of St Paul</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">18.Knight of St John the Baptist</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">19.Knight Rosae Crucis</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">20.Knight of the Triple Cross or of the Three Crosses</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">21.Knight of the Holy Grave or of the Sepulchre</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">22.Knight of the Holy Virgin Mary</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">23.Knight of the White Cross of Torpichen</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">24.Grand Trinitarian Knight of St John</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">25.Knight Grand Cross of Saint John</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">26.Knight Priest of Jerusalem</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">27.Knight of Palestine</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">28.Knight of the Most Holy Cross</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">29.Knight Priest of the Tabernacle</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">30.Knight of the Redemption or of Mercy</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">31.Knight of Truth</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">32.Knight of the Red Cross of Rome</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">33.Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priest</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Herb shares a moment with Michael N. Buckley the Supreme Magus of the Order of the Rose and Cross while Dr. Trevor Stewart makes his remarks from the podium</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Past Preceptor Garden of Gethsemane Tabernacle No.II</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Grand Prelate GEKT 1991-2001</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Served as Grand Prelate, Grand College of America</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">HRAKTP Consecration of Grand Preceptory of France 1999</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">1999 - 2001</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight Commander of Holy Wisdom</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight Grand Cross of Holy Wisdom</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chevaliers Grand Croix De La Sainte Sagesse, France</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Honors within this Order, conferred by Grand College:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight Commander of Holy Wisdom</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight Grand Cross of Holy Wisdom</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br /><a href="http://www.redcrossconstantine.org/" target="_blank">RED CROSS OF CONSTANTINE</a><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Past Puissant Sovereign of St Polycarp Conclave, Richmond Va.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Charter Member Saint Thomas Conclave, Chesapeake Va.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Past Intendant General, Division of Virginia</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight Commander Constantine UGIC RCC USA</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight Commander Constantine, Conclave Henrique de Bourgogne Palmela, Portugal 2002</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chevalier Commandeur, Imperial Grand Conclave France</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.sricf.org/" target="_blank">SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANA IN CIVITATIBUS FOEDERATIS</a><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Past Chief Adept, Virginia College</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Past Secretary Virginia College</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Past Celebrant Virginia College</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Secretary Supreme Magus College</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Secretary General, KGC, The High Council, SRICF</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Honorary Past Supreme Magus. SRICF</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Honorary Past Secretary General, Societas Rosicruciana in Lusitania</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Honoray Past Secretrary General Societas Rosicruciana in Gallia</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight Grand Cross, Societas Rosicruciana Romania 4 22 05</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right Worthy Fra. Herbert A. Fisher IX, KGC with R.W. Fra. Piers A. Vaughan holding his 9th grade certificate and Most Worthy Thurman C. Pace Jr. IX KGC, Past Supreme Magus</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A personal friend of <a href="http://www.cesnur.org/2006/amadou.htm" target="_blank">+Robert Amadou</a>, Herb considered the Scottish Rectified Regime to be his life's obsession, and he was eternally grateful to Harold V.B. Voorhis for introducing him to the likes of Lewis Richter of Ohio, Dr. Peacher et al.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Great Priory of America, Knights Beneficient </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">of the Holy City, CBCS (Ne Plus Ultra) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Member No. 138, 1984</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Great Prior, 1991</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Great Chancellor 1995 - 2000</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight Grand Cross 1991</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Medaille D’ Honneur, du Grand Prieure Rectifie De France CBCS</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Visiteur General D’Honneur Grand Prieure Rectifie de France CBCS</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">post initiatory libations with his favorite single malt</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">ROYAL ORDER of SCOTLAND</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brother of the Royal Order of H.R.M. and Knight Rose Croix of the Knights of the R.S.Y.C.S.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br />Order of DEMOLAY<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Legionaire, Honorary Legion of Honour</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Masonic Brotherhood of the Blue Forget Me Not </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Member Number 208</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Allied Masonic Degrees</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Most Venerable Sovereign Grand Master, KGC 1991</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Marvin Edward Fowler Distinguished Service Award (First Recipient) 2002</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Grand Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus 2004</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Society of the Six - </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Founder and Chief Officer (1969)</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Order of St. Patrick</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Valley of Fort Worth, Texas</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Valley of Raleigh, North Carolina</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Illustrious Order of Horace</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Commonwealth of Virginia</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Keeper of the Stables</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Custodian of the Ark</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Grand Order of Imps, International</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Member No. 006 March 4th, 1997</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">HONORARY GRAND COMMANDER GENERAL ORDER BATH February 13th,2004.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Allied Masonic Degrees</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Most Venerable Sovereign Grand Master, KGC </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Past Grand SecretaryHerbert Arthur Fisher No. 7 Council named after Herb in AMD of France.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">HAF OVA Council No 442 Alexandria VA 8 05 06</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Honorary Member & Knight of the Spur Trinity Commandery No. 17, New Jersey 2006<br />University of Louisville - Adopted Alumni Society Member (1994)<br />Grand Knight of the Epsilon Chapter of the Black Eagle in the Sacred and Noble Order of the Knights CORVIDA<br />Knight Commander of the United Templar Rites under the Patriarch of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church<br />4th degree in the Swedenborgian Rite<br />Grand Sovereign in the Ancient & Accepted Rite</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Elect Master Cohen in the Saint Sulpice Lodge of Knight Masons Elus Cohen of the Universe</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knight of the Holy Ghost, Commandery of St Finnian</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Honorary Magus, <a href="http://www.orderroseandcross.org/" target="_blank">ORC</a></span></span></div>
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-17017629005205992372015-08-19T16:12:00.000-07:002015-09-07T14:39:20.012-07:00The Honorable John P. Saylor, H.R.M., R.S.Y.C.S.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">On September 28th, 1972, Congressman John P. Saylor was admitted into the Royal Order of Scotland as the exemplar for the degree of Heredom of Kilwinning at the 95th Annual Meeting of the <a href="http://www.roosusa.org/" target="_blank">Provincial Grand Lodge R.S.Y.C.S. and the Provincial Grand Chapter H.R.M. of L.L.W.N.G. of the Royal Order of Scotland of the United States of America</a> at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Boston Massachusetts. The most profound ceremonies of this Trinitarian Christian Order were worked in the presence of the Deputy Grand Master and Governor of the Royal Order, The Right Hon. The Earl of Elgin and Kincadine, D.L., J.P., M.A. and the Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland, Sir Harold C. M. Eggo, T.D., M.A., the Provincial Grand Master Sir Marvin E. Fowler and an entire room full of dignitaries including Donald W. Voss, Grand Master of Masons of Massachusetts and Sovereign Grand Commander George A. Newbury (1895-1984) of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction. Saylor had been dubbed “St John” in the political arena for his work <a href="http://libs0500.library.iup.edu/depts/speccol/exhibits/saylor.html" target="_blank">advocating for environmental issues</a>. Just one month later on October 28th, 1972, Sir John Phillips Saylor died of a heart attack in Houston, Texas.</span><br />
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The power of language to shape or constitute bodily experience, necessitates the anthropological investigation and analysis of the nuances of subcultures such as Freemasonry and especially where it is practiced within the confines of ethnically insulated communities, thus differentiating itself via subtle nuances of ethnographic and cultural influences upon its practices. Still, no matter how many interviews are held, conversations transcribed and rituals read or even more especially experienced within the context of the fully entrenched researcher, it still becomes impossible to betray the actual secrets of such entities. These hybrid traditions and initiatory lodges, convey a gnosis to their recipients, which language, no matter how eloquent, fails to convey. But, science is becoming increasingly helpful as a tool to measure what is taking place during ritual.</div>
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<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/voices/newberg.html" target="_blank">Dr. Newberg and D'Aquili used high-tech imaging devices</a> to peer into the brains of meditating Buddhists and Franciscan nuns. As the data and brain photographs flowed in, the researchers began to find solid evidence that the mystical experiences of the subjects "were not the result of some fabrication, or simple wishful thinking, but were associated instead with a series of observable neurological events," explains Newberg. "In other words, mystical experience is biologically, observably, and scientifically real.... Gradually, we shaped a hypothesis that suggests that spiritual experience, at its very root, is intimately interwoven with human biology.”</div>
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Ritual or liturgy, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Why-God-Wont-Go-Away/dp/034544034X" target="_blank">Newberg and d’Aquili write</a>, is performed in order to solve a problem presented to the verbal, analytic part of the mind/brain. The problem may be that of discerning between good and evil, life over death, or the disparity between God and humanity. These are not abstract concerns solely; they are lived out all the time in our lives, and they produce anxiety, unrest and dissatisfaction. . .</div>
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Ritual behaviors bring about a simultaneous discharge of both the arousal and quiescent systems. The result is not only a feeling of “union with a greater force or power but also an awareness that death is not to be feared and a sense of harmony of the individual with the universe.”</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1reHL-GjaS2-L1wc190H1eFMSQE-TWq_x4BT0V7QMxbxHgrp0qDRgaT-r1U96-Ju7CeJv9AwkLCVIELxeCdy8g06Ajzs8wzPIMI33V2dapacJqOQ13z4PTeDg-s1BcB2kizOLFTuBWj5m/s1600/goldenrosycross.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1reHL-GjaS2-L1wc190H1eFMSQE-TWq_x4BT0V7QMxbxHgrp0qDRgaT-r1U96-Ju7CeJv9AwkLCVIELxeCdy8g06Ajzs8wzPIMI33V2dapacJqOQ13z4PTeDg-s1BcB2kizOLFTuBWj5m/s1600/goldenrosycross.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">Lodge Au Bon Pasteur was a Polish Lodge, and like Russian Freemasonry, there was a requisite that prospective members be Christian. Lodges chartered in Russia in the 1730's by England, maintained Christian requisites and worked a variety of esoteric systems of Masonry, capped by chivalric and superior grades. The Strict Observance, the Rectified Scottish Rite and the Swedish Rite were all worked at one time or another in Russia and Poland. The Lodge Au Bon Pastuer in Poland had its own system of Freemasonry that incorporated Rosicrucian influences as well as those of Alchemy, Cabbala and the likes. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">This 7th degree of Prince Knight of the Croix d'Or was only awarded to sixth degree members of the system of Bon Pasteur (the 12 degree system of Masonry practiced in a lodge of the same name founded by Jean de Thoux de la Salverte in Poland in 1750 just 6 years after the founding of the Lodge Les Trois Freres) who had succeeded in the collection of the morning dew of the stars. This system was influenced by both the Gold-und Rosenkreuz and the high degrees and chivalric grades of Freemasonry. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">According to McIntosh, the "Old laws and statutes of the wise brethren of the exalted Golden and Rosy Cross in the year 1624" was a list of rules given to recipients of the seventh grade of Prince Chevalier de la Croix d'Or, and it bore a great relation to the Testamentum der Fraternitat Roseae et Aureae Crucis. Those initiates who were given the Prince Knight of the Croix d'Or were sworn to uphold and enforce the rules of the Order. This is not dissimilar to the Rules of the RER given to Knights Beneficent of the Holy City in the Scottish Rectified Regime. The Bon Pasteur system of Polish Freemasonry held a Christian requirement, but it proudly proclaimed its tolerance by pointing to its acceptance of Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant Christians.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">t is 400 years since the document known as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fama Fraternitatis</i> (Proclamation of the
Fraternity) burst like a firework over Europe in the year 1614, igniting the
imagination of many with its story of the German seeker Christian Rosenkreuz,
his journey through the Middle East in search of wisdom, and his creation of
the esoteric <a href="http://roseandcross.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rosicrucian Fraternity</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now, to mark the 400<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the
original publication, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/christopher-mcintosh" target="_blank">Christopher McIntosh</a> and <a href="http://www.polythea.com/wer-wir-sind/dr-donate-mcintosh/" target="_blank">Donate Pahnke McIntosh</a> have
produced an English rendering, based on a careful study of printed and
manuscript versions. Provided with a searching introduction by Christopher McIntosh
as well as a bibliography, this is a reliable English translation correcting
the errors of the so-called “Vaughan” version of 1652 and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In parallel, Donate Pahnke McIntosh has produced <a href="http://www.vanadis.org/english-1/" target="_blank">a modern German version of the text.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These editions will be an essential resource for all
who are preoccupied with Rosicrucianism, whether as a scholarly field or a
spiritual path.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yjivQc_IRhS4wEwVCnBAQAraWvl_M3EFJrXXrgSthCF8tFqcUaCcEFHMjBIXeWy47c6JrBjUV8qUxnkSNwn4qnHKbbmyn4oT4Q8XTe1RTsTWpmwKCSnXcbLhyphenhyphen8uPm2EQEy2o9ofIh0EI/s1600/McIntosh_Gramercy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yjivQc_IRhS4wEwVCnBAQAraWvl_M3EFJrXXrgSthCF8tFqcUaCcEFHMjBIXeWy47c6JrBjUV8qUxnkSNwn4qnHKbbmyn4oT4Q8XTe1RTsTWpmwKCSnXcbLhyphenhyphen8uPm2EQEy2o9ofIh0EI/s1600/McIntosh_Gramercy.jpg" height="175" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dr Christopher McIntosh is known for his various books
on esoteric subjects, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Rosicrucians</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rose Cross and
the Age of Reason</i>, and has long experience translating from the German. Dr
Donate Pahnke McIntosh is a scholar of religion and former lecturer at the
University of Bremen, has translated various books and was a regular translator
for UNESCO.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">His Royal Highness David Kalakaua, King of Hawaiian Islands (member of Le Progres de L’Oceaniea Lodge No. 124, a red lodge in Honolulu that was initially chartered in 1842 by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite in France) was accompanied by the Governor of Maui, John M. Kapena of Lodge No. 21 in Honolulu on December 30th, 1874 for a Special Communication of New York Lodge No. 330, the mother lodge of Brother Edwin T. Booth, (1833-1893) a Shakespearean actor and co-founder of the Gramercy Park <a href="http://www.theplayersnyc.org/History.html" target="_blank">Players Club with Mark Twain</a> and noted architect of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth's_Theatre" target="_blank">Booth’s Theatre on 23rd St & 6th Avenue</a> which would serve as a duly consecrated Masonic Temple for Lodge No. 330. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">The Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons for the Grand Lodge of the State of New York was formally admitted with his Grand Staff. After the exemplification of the Third Degree of Masonry, the King requested that the <a href="http://www.stjohns1.org/portal/" target="_blank">St Johns Lodge No. 1 Ancient York Masons</a> Inaugural Bible be opened to the page upon which George Washington took his Presidential oath. He held the Bible and kissed the page, saying, “I thank God for this privilege.” </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.hawaiiforvisitors.com/images/topics/posters/king-kalakaua-246x350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.hawaiiforvisitors.com/images/topics/posters/king-kalakaua-246x350.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" width="140" /></a>Days later on January 5th, 1875, King Kalakua was proposed for Honorary membership in <a href="http://www.stjohns1.org/portal/" target="_blank">Saint Johns Lodge No. 1 Ancient York Masons</a> and was elected at the following communication.* On January 14th, King Kalakua was initiated into St Johns Conclave No. 1 for the Order of Red Cross of Constantine in Chicago, Illinois and made a Viceroy and Sovereign at the hands of Jonathan J. French, Past Grand Sovereign and Intendant General and founder of the <a href="http://www.sricf.org/info.html" target="_blank">Matier Royal Provincial College in Illinois in 1878 under the Societas Rosicruciana in Scotia</a>. These events mounted to a crescendo of sorts when a special meeting of the Grand Council of the Red Cross of Constantine of Scotland was called on September 10th, 1881 where the King was made a Knight Grand Cross.<div>
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*Kalakaua's acknowledgment of this honor was received on April 20th, 1875 and spread upon the minutes of the lodge.</div>
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-60927407484042867222013-08-14T14:47:00.001-07:002018-05-18T10:23:14.181-07:00CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ~and~ By-laws of the Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees in America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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(<i>The following entry is presented as information regarding the intended purpose of the Grand Council of the AMD as formed by North Carolina State Senator Ray Shute after working with his friend and brother, Most Worshipful Br. Dr. William Moseley Brown of Virginia and Bishop +Henry V.A. Parsell of New York City to absorb the pre-existing Sovereign College of the Allied Masonic and Christian Degrees in America, founded by the Illustrious Rev. Dr. Hartley Carmichael in Richmond, Virginia, later being moved (as a result of the Sovereign Grand Master Dr. Carmichael falling into a state of ill health) to Norway, Maine under the care of Most Worshipful Br. Alfred S. Kimball, Grand Master of Masons in Maine at the time. J. Edward Allen, J. Ray Shute and William Moseley Brown secured charters for three Royal Ark Mariners lodges from Scotland's Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter as a way to initially form what would become the new Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees in America.) </i><br />
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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION<br />
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The Grand Council of the Allied Masonic Degrees of the United States of America, Incorporated<br />
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3. The objects for which this corporation is formed are as follows:<br />
(a) To assume, hold, and exercise jurisdiction and control over such Masonic Degrees as are not under the jurisdiction and control of some other recognized and regularly constituted Body of Freemasonry, to preserve these Degrees, and to engage in, foster and encourage Masonic study and research.<br />
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CONSTITUTION OF THE GRAND COUNCIL OF THE ALLIED MASONIC DEGREES<br />
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ARTICLE 1<br />
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...and shall have power to take under its direction any other Masonic Order approved by the Grand Council and which is not already under the control of:<br />
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The Several Grand Lodges, A.F.&A.M.<br />
The General Grand Chapter, R.A.M. of the United States<br />
The Several Grand Chapters, R.A.M.<br />
The General Grand Council, R.&S.M. of the United States<br />
The Several Grand Councils, R.&S.M.<br />
The Grand Encampment of K.T.<br />
The Supreme Councils 33', A.&A.S.R.<br />
Red Cross of Constantine<br />
Royal Order of Scotland<br />
Order of Anointed High Priesthood<br />
Societas Rosicruciana<br />
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In the correspondence between Sir Kt. L. P. Newby as the M.E. Grand Master of Grand Encampment Knights Templar of the United States of America in 1931 and several of his peers serving around the World as Knight Templar Grand Masters and Grand Priors, Newby proceeded to mail out letters as inquiries into the Masonic requirements for attaining the rank of Masonic Knighthood in the various countries. He wrote to the Great Priory of England & Wales regarding this matter and the response he received from the Great Vice Chancellor V E Kt Major Sir Thomas Lumley-Smith, DSO, GCT. (1879-1961) of the GP of England, was as follows:</div>
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"Under our Statutes, a candidate must be a Master Mason of twelve months standing and a Royal Arch Mason, but it is not necessary for him to be a subscribing member of either of those Orders at the time he is proposed.</div>
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The name and number of both and the Chapter to which he belongs, or did belong, must be stated on his proposal form, so that enquiries may be made that he resigned from them in good standing."</div>
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Newby pointed out in his letters that in the USA, one must be a Royal Arch Mason at the time of application and he must continue to remain in good standing afterwards in order to maintain his membership in the Knights Templar. Sir Kt. Newby mentioned that, "There is some talk of changing the Statute, as regards to qualification to the effect that an applicant must be a Master Mason and is or has been a Royal Arch Mason." </div>
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The Great Vice Chancellor V. E. Kt Major Sir Thomas Lumley-Smith reaffirmed that the Great Priory of the United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St. John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta in England and Wales and its Provinces Overseas, did not require that a Master Mason maintain his membership in his lodge or his Chapter after having been admitted. </div>
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Inside my hard bound edition of the Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Massachussetts dated 1857, I found a handwritten and stamped and sealed letter from J.E. Gates, the Secretary of Denver No. 2 Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in Denver, Colorado. It's addressed to the Right Reverend Bishop Randall, and it states that, "the following was unanimously adopted:<br />
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Resolved, That the thanks of this Chapter be tendered to our Companion Right Rev. Bishop Randall for the able and eloquent address delivered on the occasion of St. John the Baptist. June 24th A. L. 5867"<br />
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J.E. Gates applied the seal for Denver Chapter No. 2 Royal Arch Masons. Geo M. Randall actually headed the committee that compiled and published the 1857 Constitutions along with Memoir of Henry Price Esq and others of interest.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In Scotland one finds what has been referred
to by the Masonic World as "The World's Most Ancient Masonic Lodge"
in the form and name of <a href="http://www.mk0.com/" target="_blank">Mother Kilwining Lodge No. 0</a> in the old village town of
Kilwinning in the county of Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland just
opposite the Scottish isle of Arran. Mother Kilwinning Lodge, as she is
known, is "number nothing". This is an acknowledgment of her
seniority. Mother Kilwinning, known initially as the "First
Metropolitan Lodge of Europe" has over time actually chartered other
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Mother Kilwinning Lodge was referred to by
Schaw (the "Maister of Wark and Warden of the Maisonis" as the
"heir" Lodge of Scotland. He insisted that it was in possession
of "many old actis and statutes." Most of these are said to
have been lost in a 1544 fire. Mother Kilwinning, the First Metropolitan
Lodge of Europe, is associated with an array of telling traditions,
including the use of 'Kilwinning' in attributing ancient origin to things
Masonic. The Town of Kilwinning itself is according to various lore
associated with the abbeys on the Western Isles of Mull, Man & Iona, the
birthplace of speculative Freemasonry as we know it. Lodge Canongate
Kilwinning No.2 in Edinburgh, Scotland has in its very name, a token of
acknowledgment to Mother Kilwinning. Canongate Kilwinning meets in St
John's Chapel, known as the most ancient lodge room in the World and is the
very place where the Grand Lodge of Scotland was constituted. Some might
say that its naming was an attempt to lend antiquity and mystique to its own
history, but truly it is a sign of respect and even obedience to Mother
Kilwinning No. 0 in the county of Ayrshire. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In 1128, King David I of Scotland
called for the Masons of Kilwinning to to journey to Edinburgh to build the
Abbey and Palace of the Holyrood. Then in 1140, the Masons of Kilwinning
returned to restore their own Abbey. To this day, membership certificates
for Mother Kilwinning feature a picture of the ruins of the "ancient
Chapter House" with the date 1140. English author and historian
A. E. Waite pointed out that Ramsey’s oration affirmed a link through
Kilwinning and Palestine with the Knights of the Order of Saint John. In
1314, King James, the Lord Steward of Scotland, presided over a meeting of Kilwinning
where two aristocrats were admitted as Speculative Masons. The first was
an English Earl of Gloucester, the other an Irish Errenagh of Ulster. The
Lodge of Heredom, often abbreviated in old Masonic texts as HRDM, is recorded
by the Royal Order of Scotland as having been established in Kilwinning in the
year 1314 by Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. In the year 1491, King
James IV held a Masonic festival and agape at Kilwinning.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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0's ritual and operation apart from much of the World include the fact that the
Mark Master Mason degree is part of the Fellowcraft degree. One must hold
this degree either through a Mark Lodge or a Royal Arch Chapter if they are
visiting from another Constitution and attending a meeting of Master Masons. Also,
there are, as is the case throughout Scotland, three Masters to contend with. There
is the Right Worshipful Master, the Deputy Master and the Substituted Master. The
Provincial Grand Master is always the Right Worshipful Master of Mother
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orient of Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No. 2 - courtesy of Adam Kendall, Curator of the Henry Coil Masonic Museum in San Francisco, California USA</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://www.lck2.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No. 2</a> meets in St.
John's Chapel, which is known to be the oldest continually used Masonic lodge
room in the World. This is the room where the Grand Lodge was eventually founded and where one of Canongate Kilwinning's members, William St. Clair of Rosslyn, would become the first Grand Master Mason of Scotland. Canongate Kilwinning has held her meetings in St. John's Chapel since
1735. The arrangement of the lodge consists of the a triangular form where the Master's and Wardens form three points. The Master's chair forms the apex in the East, just as one would find on the Continent or in a Scottish Rite or red lodge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">There is a Masonic museum on site, and like St Mary's and Mother
Kilwinning, it is home to some priceless archives of Freemasonry. The organ in the lodge room is composed of natural reeds and was installed in 1754. It is the only organ currently existing, on which Robert Burns' songs were played in his presence as he was being affiliated into the lodge in 1787. He is said to have personally played the organ once he was officially made a member. He was the first person to be given the honor of Poet-Laureate of the lodge on March 1, 1787. The likes of Anthony O'Neal Haye (Magus Max, the founding Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in Scotia) would later earn the same distinction in 1860, and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rudyard Kipling would follow in his footsteps in 1905. There are large oil portraits of Burns and Sir Walter Scott on the panels of the walls, and the seat where Burns traditionally sat is marked by a bust on a bracket upon the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">As mentioned previously, Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No. 2 has opted to pay tribute and display its reverence and some say "obedience" to the Mother Lodge of Kilwinning by appending the word <i>Kilwinning</i> to its name as others (Greenock, Cumberland, etc.) have similarly done themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 19px;">Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No. 2 traces its operative roots and corporate privileges back to the building of Holyrood Abbey and Palace in 1128 for the Canons Regular of St. Augustine, dedicated to the Holyrood Cross, which tradition holds as a relic of the True Cross upon which Jesus died. It was brought to Scotland by Saint Margaret. King David chartered the priests, and the work was carried out under the constitution of the Burgh of Canongate. In 1677, they identified themselves as part of the greater body of Freemasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The Brethren open lodge inside their temple in the usual manner and then proceed in a procession with banners of the Knights Kadosh, the Knights Templar, the craft lodge and the Knight Masons Elus Cohen. The members of these various bodies of Masonry are in their regalia. Occasionally in the midst, one might spot a Grand Master Elus Kohen or an elderly Reax Croix in his foot high band of fire around the bottom of his alb. The procession goes down the rural hillside into town where the streets and balconies are packed with onlookers, some hurling prayers for loved ones, written on parchment, into a large basket carried by a Rose Croix Mason. The procession is circular and returns to the point in town where the Freemasons had entered, this time with family, friends and townspeople in tow. 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The prayers collected in town are stuffed by the Preparing Brother of the lodge into center of the bundles of wood forming the altar, which the Haitian brethren refer to as "the Ark". A special mixture of incense is burned in a thurifer. 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There are formulas and appeals, ceremonies and prayers that would be familiar to anyone who has read</span> <a href="http://rumasonic.blogspot.com/2009/05/right-worthy-rev-knight-piers-vaughan.html" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Piers Vaughan</a><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">'s </span><a href="http://www.thule-italia.net/esoterismo/Theurgia%20pratica%20cabalistica.pdf" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">translation of Robert Ambelain's Practical Kabbalah</a><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">. After a series of prayers and the tracing of sigils, calls and responses, there is a final censing by the Thurifer. The Ark is lit by a single flame. The brethren join in a very large chain of union that takes on a motion and song with a crescendo like finish after many spirited circumambulations in fervent unity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In his classic work <i><span style="color: #262626;">Ecce Homo</span></i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #262626;">, Louis Claude de St. Martin (who belonged to the Masonic Lodge Benevolence in Lyon and was both a Secretary to Don Martinez de Pasqually and a “Sovereign Judge et Superièur Inconnu de L’ Ordre”) wrote that the early
Christian priests had four powers: make the Lord's Supper, to forgive sins,
heal diseases and know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. He believed that Modern day priests today have actually only retained the first two. Ordinary priests were in his eyes, like officers in the Lodge of Saint John who had lost the password, as they
say. In Haiti, the priest class is the Ne Plus Ultra level of Freemasonry. Their approach to Freemasonry is altogether magical and theurgical and quite serious in manner, as they are carrying out the work of the Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings, the magnum opus of the founding Grand Sovereign of the Order. <o:p></o:p></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2X5LuTD4RDiUXbnb2os1c0Upxw6rlGaQge59gLsULRUkSiZSXZ9QA9TjeBNUcMm4plKUTG1zuYss_btIbrEKgEEH29qUUZ9SLL-ICA8Q-EHgmWPZwgfor1ZQxhz_g8jKElQ5I9DqOvzOr/s1600/david09+019.JPG" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2X5LuTD4RDiUXbnb2os1c0Upxw6rlGaQge59gLsULRUkSiZSXZ9QA9TjeBNUcMm4plKUTG1zuYss_btIbrEKgEEH29qUUZ9SLL-ICA8Q-EHgmWPZwgfor1ZQxhz_g8jKElQ5I9DqOvzOr/s640/david09+019.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></a></div>
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-8828221402718900692012-09-04T22:28:00.000-07:002016-07-07T00:51:01.362-07:00And under what authority were those four lodges in England working?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times";">by David Sheihan Hunter Lindez BFA, MFA, MSM</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times";">Most persons with even the most cursory knowledge of Masonic history in
England, are familiar with the story of four speculative Masonic lodges
composed of English Gentlemen who came together in the <a href="http://www.thefleece.org/goose.html" target="_blank">Goose and the Gridiron Tavern</a> to formulate a maternal grand lodge system, essentially
subordinating all existing lodges with the demand that they submit to this new
authority for charters or warrants. Under Cromwell, laws were
created which when enforced, essentially classified lodges as subversive organizations unless
they came under the protection of the new Grand Lodge. But, were not
these English lodges to find their origin in the Ancient
Scottish or even the Ancient Irish Lodges? If one were to trace back their origins, would it not be
found that they originated with the very lodges that they were now seeking to
subordinate? If so, it would not be the last time. Again, anyone
familiar with the origins of the English Masonic Rosicrucian Society would know
that Robert Wentworth Little was initiated by the Magus O'Haye in Scotland's
Edinburgh College, only to turn around and offer to charter the same after
founding a High Council in Anglia. </span><span style="font-family: "times";"></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg9aBgYHsennAJQuVZ6SFpazBeOuzP_6FNT7blDK8U50rQNFkcdsKIiATSypUjHASM1jh-8AGOkXfCwZolszJtqamIbp6SWWucKdy0mBnl4Oh2O85A-TNzrj4lmzU7xB1raH5wSrkeK3ZV/s1600/const_Mason.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg9aBgYHsennAJQuVZ6SFpazBeOuzP_6FNT7blDK8U50rQNFkcdsKIiATSypUjHASM1jh-8AGOkXfCwZolszJtqamIbp6SWWucKdy0mBnl4Oh2O85A-TNzrj4lmzU7xB1raH5wSrkeK3ZV/s320/const_Mason.JPG" width="240" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times";">With regards to the four lodges of Drury Lane, St Paul's Churchyard,
Covent Garden and Channel Row in Westminster, where else might their authority
have derived? From what organization or Masonic body could they have obtained their Warrants (Charters) from if no Grand Lodge existed in London before 1717? Masonic histories recorded by the likes of Oliver, Knoop,
Carr, Coil and the likes each treat the matter in their own way. The
three lodges that survived till this day, seem to have had the charters of
other lodges forced upon them as a result of mergers with other lodges, as was
the case with Fortitude Lodge. It merged with a lodge ("Old
Cumberland Lodge") whose origins only went back as far as 1723. The
lodge's identity became lost in the shadows and for a brief period of years,
the membership were unaware of its important origins. The fact that a
lodge can lose the knowledge of its own origins in this manner, actually gives
credence to the tales of Iona and the Isle of Man and the oral history of one
Commander Harris transferring the See to the Lodge in Aberdeen.
Apparently, modern day members of the Masonic Lodge in Aberdeen, while
acknowledging their ancient history, are surprised to hear of their inclusion
in such lore associated with the Strict Observance and offer no validation to
affirm it.</span><span style="font-family: "times";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times";">So, where are the original warrants for the four lodges that came
together to form the first Grand Lodge in England? Were such documents even necessary? There might never have
been any warrants at all, or they may have simply eroded over time from vermin and damp
weather. Or...they were destroyed or secreted away. Why would they be destroyed or hidden? Jacobite Masons would point to the intention to obscure the fact that the origin and provenance of authority given to these English lodges of gentlemen was to be found without the city of London in the form and places that the London Grand Lodge would eventually condescend to in its effort to suppress while usurping or assuming an authority of antiquity via Anderson's Constitutions. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times";">Some lodges such as St Mary's and Kilwinning issued warrants for
other lodges and some lodges made claims to antiquity by simply using Kilwinning in their name. Most lodges of this era would have actually claimed authority to meet from their
possession of copies of one of the 'Old Charges' written out. It is important to point out that there are many records in the minutes of lodges where the Old Charges were read out loud in full and long form at the making of new Masons. This is most likely the case when it comes to these four lodges in London, though I would welcome evidence to the contrary.</span><span style="font-family: "times";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times";">Dr. Trevor Stewart, a Past
Prestonian Lecturer for the UGLE and Past Master of both Sir Robert Morray
Lodge of Research in Scotland and the prestigious Quator Corronati Lodge of
Research in England, points out Anderson’s references to ‘lodges’ in England,
from the year 1603 to 1717. Could this be suggestive of a connection or
continuity that leads us back to Scotland? Have a look at the following extracts from Anderson's 1738 New Book of Constitutions, as not one of them can be found in the 1723 edition:</span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB">KING JAMES VI &
I</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">: ‘Royal
Brother Mason’ (Scoon & Perth Lodge No. 3 has preserved the unchallenged
tradition of his initiation at his own request) and ‘Grand Master by
Prerogative’ (GM of what?)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Appoints INIGO JONES to be ‘his Surveyor
General’ and approves ‘of his being chosen Grand Master of England to preside
over the Lodges’ (Chosen by whom?
Where? When?)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Foundation stone of new Banqueting Hall in
Whitehall laid ceremonially ‘attended by many Brothers in due form’ (Where did
they come from? What does he mean
by ‘in due form? Was there a
settled order of procession and/or apparel? Settled by whom, where and when?)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">INIGO JONES ‘always allow’d good wages and
seasonable Times for Instruction in the Lodges, which he constituted with
excellent By-Laws, and made them like the Schools or Academies of the Designers
in Italy. He also held the
Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge of Masters and Wardens and the
Annual Assembly and Feast on St. John’s Day when he was annually rechosen, till
A.D. 1618’.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Masonry thus flourishing, many eminent,
wealthy and learned Men, at their own Request, were accepted as Brothers, to
the Honour of the Craft, (Where and by whom?) till the King died 17 March
1625’.</span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB">KING CHARLES I</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">‘also a
Royal Brother and Grand Master by Prerogative’ (absolutely no evidence for this
statement)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">INIGO JONES continued to hold office as Deputy
GM under Pembroke, Danby, Arundel, Bedford. After the latter he assumes office again as GM.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Yet even during the (Civil) Wars, the Masons
met occasionally at several places’.
Where? When? Who? 16 October 1646: initiation of Elias Ashmole in Warrington</span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB">KING CHARLES II</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">: ‘In his travels (in exile) he had
been made a Free Mason’.
Absolutely no evidence of this!
He is claimed ‘to encourage the Augustan Stile by reviving the
Lodges’. Where? Who was involved? </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">St. ALBANS </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">chosen as GM (by whom, where and
when?) ‘held a general Assembly
and Feast on St. John;s Day 27 Dec. 1663’. Several ‘Regulations’ were made.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">No. 1 refers to the notion of ‘a regular
lodge’. What does this mean? Who decides on the regularity and by
what criteria? It also refers to
‘that Limit or Division where such Lodge is kept’. ‘Regular’ implies a continuity? This regulation certainly implies a restriction to the
lodge’s jurisdiction.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">No. 3 refers to a Certificate of the
Time and Place of his Acception from the Lodge that accepted him (i.e., a
person claiming to be a ‘Free Mason’).
This implies some continuity and some rudimentary administration on a
national basis.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">No. 5 refers to ‘for the Future the
said Fraternity of Free Masons shall be regulated and govern’d by One Grand
Master and as many Wardens as the said Society shall think fit to appoint at
every Annual General Assembly’.
Continuity again, perhaps!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Succession of noblemen as GMs: Rivers,
Buckingham, Arlington – with CHRISTOPHER WREN as Deputy GM. ‘Many Lodges were constituted
throughout the Islands’ (implying England, Ireland as well as Scotland). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘But many of the Fraternity’s Records of this
and former Reigns were lost in the next and at the Revolution (i.e., the
so-called ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688); and many of ‘em were too hastily
burnt in our Time from a Fear of making Discoveries: So that we have not so
ample an Account as could be wish’d of the Grand Lodge, &c.’ Note the ‘&c.’) – what could this
imply? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">1685 ‘the lodges met and elected CHRISTOPHER
WREN’ as GM (Where? When?)</span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB">KING WILLIAM III
& QUEEN MARY II</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">’Particular Lodges were not so frequent and
mostly occasional in the South (does this mean in England?), except in or near
the Places where Great Works were carried on. Thus Sir Robert Clayton got an Occasional Lodge of his
Brother Masters to meet at St. Thomas’s Hospital Southwark, A.D. 1693 and to
advise the Governors about the best Design of rebuilding that Hospital as it
now stands most beautiful; near which a stated Lodge continued long
afterwards’. Notice the new
distinction that has emerged – between an ‘occasional’ lodge and a ‘stated’
lodge. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Besides that (i.e., the ‘stated’ lodge at St.
Thomas’s Hospital) and the old Lodge of St. Paul’s, there was another in
Picadilly over against St. James’s Church, one near Westminster Abbey, another
near Covent Garden, one in Holborn, one on Tower Hill and some more that
assembled statedly’. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">WILLIAM III </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">(who survived his wife, Mary II)
‘was privately made a Free Mason’ (absolutely no evidence of this!) and
‘approved of their choice of G. Master WREN’ (no evidence of this either).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">At the re-construction of Hampton Court Palace
‘a bright Lodge was held during the Building’. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">1695 RICHMOND &
LENNOX </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">was ‘Master
of a Lodge at Chichester’. At ‘the
annual Assembly and Feast at London, was chosen Grand Master and approv’d by
the King’; Wren appointed to be
his Deputy GM and then again elected as GM in 1698.</span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB">QUEEN ANNE</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">: ‘Yet still in the South the Lodges
were more and more disused, partly by the Neglect of the Masters and Wardens,
and partly by not having a Noble Grand Master at London, and the annual
Assembly was not duly attended’. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Some few Years after this (i.e., completion of
St Paul’s Cathedral in 1708) Sir Christopher Wren neglected the Office of Grand
Master; yet the Old Lodge near St. Paul’s and a few more continued their stated
Meetings still’. This would be
what later became known as ‘Lodge of Antiquity’. </span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB">KING GEORGE I</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">: ‘after the Rebellion was over
(i.e., the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobite_risings#The_Rebellion.2FRising_of_1715_.28.27The_Fifteen.27.29" target="_blank">first Jacobite incursion</a>) A.D. 1716 the few Lodges at London finding
themselves neglected by Sir Christopher Wren, thought fit to cement under a
Grand Master ...’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Anderson lists four such lodges:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">At
the Goose and Gridiron ale-house in St. Paul’s Church-yard;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3609987233134563914#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">At
the Crown ale-house in Parker’s-lane near Drury Lane;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3609987233134563914#_ftn2" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span></a></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span lang="EN-GB">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">At
the Apple-Tree Tavern in Charles-Street, Covent Garden;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3609987233134563914#_ftn3" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[3]</span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">At
the Rummer and Grapes Tavern in Channel-Row, Westminster.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3609987233134563914#_ftn4" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[4]</span></a></span></div>
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‘They and some old Brothers (where did these come
from?) met at the said Apple-Tree, and having put into the Chair the oldest
Master Mason (now the Master of a Lodge) they constituted themselves a Grand
Lodge pro Tempore in Due Form and forthwith revived the Quarterly Communication
of the Officers of Lodges (call’d the Grand Lodge) resolv’d to hold the Annual
Assembly and Feast and then to chuse a Grand Master from among themselves, till
they should have the Honour of a Noble Brother at their Head’.</div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3609987233134563914#_ftnref" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span></a> This old ale-house was probably off, rather
then ‘in’, St Paul’s Churchyard.
The famous old lodge (now known as) Antiquity No. 2 met there from 1716
to 1729 almost certainly in an upper room. The first assembly of the four original old lodges took
place there in June 1717. The
tavern, undistinguished architecturally, was demolished in 1894 and the
immediate area (St. Paul’s Churchyard) has since then undergone many radical
architectural changes. Officially,
the lodge had been formed in 1691 but it may have had an even earlier
origin. In 1760 it acquired the
name ‘West India and American Lodge but adopted its present name in 1770. It is a highly prestigious ‘Red Apron’
Lodge. <b>No Charter or Warrant. </b>The
first warrants were issued in 1731 by the Grand Lodge of <b>Ireland </b>(1 February 1731 for Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. That was a feature of the noted revival
of Irish freemasonry under the Grand Mastership of Originally in England there operated an ad hoc
arrangement of issuing letters of ‘Deputation’. <span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3609987233134563914#_ftnref" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span></a> This old inn was situated in Lincoln’s
Inn Fields. The lodge which met
there is claimed to have existed since 1712. It was assigned the number 2 in the 1729 printed List. It moved around a little in the Holborn
area. 1723 – to the Queen’s Head
Tavern, Turnstile, Holborn; 1725 – to the Green Lettuce Inn, Brownlow Street,
Holborn; 1727 – to the Rose and Rummer Tavern, Furnival’s Inn, Holborn; 1729 –
to the Rose and Buffalo Inn, Furnival’s Inn, Holborn; 1730 – to the Bull and
Gate Inn, Furnival’s Inn, Holborn.
<b>No Charter</b>. It was deleted from the lists in 1736. <span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3609987233134563914#_ftnref" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[3]</span></a> This old inn has long ceased to
exist. It was situated in Charles
Street (which is now part of Wellington Street) in Covent Garden. It was there that the first preliminary
meeting of the four originating lodges was held in June 1716. By 1723, when the lodge that met there had
moved to the Queen’s Head Tavern in Knave’s Acre, the Apple-Tree ceased to have
any connection with freemasonry. The Lodge is now known as Fortitude and Old Cumberland
No. 12, though when it accepted a ‘Certificate of Constitution’ from the
nascent Grand Lodge in 1723 it was assigned No. 11. The lodge continued to operate under this mere ‘letter of
authority’ until 1967 when it reverted to its ‘Time Immemorial’ status. It is, of course, a highly prestigious
‘Red Apron’ Lodge. Hence <b>no Charter.</b> <span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3609987233134563914#_ftnref" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[4]</span></a> This is another Time Immemorial
Lodge. It still exists, though its
present name is Royal Somerset House and Inverness Lodge No. 4. The Grapes and Rummer Tavern was situated
in Channel Row, Westminster – a location strongly associated with Dr. J. T.
Desaguliers who had his home in the same street. Soon after he joined, and certainly by 1723, the lodge
adopted the name the Old Horn Lodge after the tavern in which it met. It was famous for the quality of its
members even then. Membership was
highly sought (as it is now, of course!)
However, it lapsed and was deleted from the lists in 1747 but restored
thereto in 1757. The Lodge has
continued to meet thereafter in various central London locations. It is also a ‘Red Apron’ Lodge. <b>No
Charter or Warrant</b> but in 1883 deigned to apply for, and accept, a
Centenary ‘Warrant’ from UGLE.<span lang="EN-GB"></span><br />
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-68400662714035988812012-08-09T13:49:00.000-07:002016-04-24T20:57:54.463-07:00The placement of the Altar in the Symbolic Craft Lodge of the Holy Saints John<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">In England the position of the altar in a Masonic lodges can vary quite a bit from one locale to another. Some altars are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">positioned peculiarly close to the Worshipful Master's pedestal in the East of the lodge room. In Continental Europe, the Holy Bible or what is referred to as the <i>Volume of the Sacred Law, </i>may often be found</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";"> on the Master's pedestal. Depending upon the amount of space available, this arrangement can justify the absence of a more centralized altar. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">The ritual (as in the specific rite practiced) and thus the furniture of a lodge of Masons in the United States is much more rigorously standardized by the administration of the various state Grand Lodges. This is not the case elsewhere, especially not in England or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";"> Scotland where each lodge is afforded its individual autonomy t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">o carry on its own traditions with regards to the ritual. The</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";"> procedures involving movement and presentation are generally unregulated. Lodges under the Scottish Constitution are often distinguished by their own tartan pattern, and this creates a beautiful diversity of regalia. This sense of independence in Scottish </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">lodges can be further observed in the fact that t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">he Grand Lodge did not attempt </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">to issue a Book of Constitution until 100 years had passed since its founding in 1736. Its first 'Constitutions' (issued in 1836) did not contain any prescription as to regalia and lodge layout and for the most part was legendary.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The oldest lodges had been in existence without a Grand Lodge for some hundreds of years prior to 1736. These lodges are generally dubbed as 'Time Immemorial' lodges, and their warrants (with the exception of those chartered by Mother Lodge Kilwinning No. 0, generally consist of an old handwritten copy of the Ancient Charges. This is also the case in Ireland and England. The sovereign power is the lodge - not the Grand Lodge as such. <br /><br />The Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel No. 1) have occasionally altered their procedures since their founding in 1598. They adopted what one might term to be an English mode of configuring their lodge room. It may be reasoned that their geographical proximity has something to do with this influence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br />It has been argued that the actual layout in a lodge room is more or less dictated by the 'geography' of the room and the convenience of the placement. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">There is a very old lodge that meets in a tiny room down by a harbour on the east coast of Scotland, and they do not have an altar because the room is so small. The Holy Bible is placed on a chair near to the Bible-bearer (an office which does not appear in English lodges).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">I would argue that the central placement of the altar is an intuitive process, but what verifiable evidence is there </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">that it may be so? It is only conjecture, and it could be argued that the placement of the altar in the East with the Master is more conformable to the craft lodge's Catholic beginnings in the bosom of the church as guild and craft societies preserving mystery plays in imitation of the liturgy of the Latin Missal. Yes, some ancient initiatory rites used </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">centrally-located altars, but is that any reason to assume that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">Freemasonry employed the same underlying principles regarding lodge room </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">layouts? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">None of the earliest known Scottish </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">catechisms (from 1696 onwards) mention altars used in the ceremonies. The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">only references to the Holy Bible's positioning is in connection with the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">emblematic position the candidate assumed in holding the Holy B</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">ible while taking his oath. Admittedly, there is nothing about the bible being placed on and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">supported by an altar.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">The designs drawn upon the floors were the proto-types of the modern day t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">racing boards. By way of hand drawn diagrams, they showed summaries of the teachings </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">incorporated in the ceremonials. But, none of the early French exposures </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">which give copious details of the ceremonies used in England in the early </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">1740s, mention or show altars</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "helvetica";">. </span>Can it be fathomed that the placement is due to convenience and not entirely owed to a purposely symbolic motive? One can discern a great deal of emphasis on the centrality of the altar as being intuitive. In the context of Scotland or England and the respective influence of the Roman Catholic and Anglo Catholic churches, the placement of the altar in the east in an institution born in the bosom of the church, could equally be considered to be a logical conclusion. Now, if Stuart and Jacobite supporting lodges burned their records and whatever was designed upon the floor was washed off, how are we to really know definitively that there was no meaning behind the placement of the altar. It seems to me that there is meaning to be found in every placement of every piece of furniture, every movement, and every image used within the context of Freemasonry. </span><br />
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Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-12299951943306992222012-08-02T21:39:00.002-07:002012-08-03T07:40:31.212-07:00Illustrious Grand Conservator General, King Hussein bin Talal 33/90/95 Freemason<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">In the Middle East there has often existed a double standard where the ruling class could practice <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1343924935_0" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Freemasonry</span> in secret, while still enforcing a ban on Freemasonry in their country to appease the clerics as well as the fundamentalists and extremist parties. There are certain Prime Ministers and Presidents who currently engage in Masonic activity in private, usually clandestinely and sub rosa, other times out of the country entirely, just as Arafat and King Hussein did at one time. Multiple diplomats and businessmen and academics from Islamic countries, belong to lodges under the GLNF where their membership can be kept private, as it is often a matter of life or death. There are lodges in Saudi Arabia, including at least one on a military installation. There are lodges in Morroco, and Lebanon currently has more Grand Lodges and Grand Orients than one can keep up with.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">The world of <a href="http://www.grandorientarabe.org/" target="_blank">Freemasonry in Islamic countries</a> is not easily penetrated by researchers who rely solely upon the internet search engine for their gathering. One must be more resourceful than this. Submersion into the experiential is necessary in order to pierce the veils of Islamic countries where lodges such as the one a group of Army Rangers kicked the door down on in Baghdad in 2003, operate in secrecy. There is a Masonic Lodge still working in Cairo for instance, but still we see the public arguments on internet forums where those who are far removed from the underground World of Freemasonry in the Middle East, are busy insisting that such things do not exist simply because there is an official ban and/or citing the lack of a website to validate such things.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It may interest such parties to know that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_of_Jordan" target="_blank">King Hussein</a> (1935-1999) was initiated into the mysteries of Freemasonry on May 17, 1959 in Amman Jordan. The Worshipful Master for the degree was Most Worshipful Hanin Kottini who was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Lebanon and Honorary Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy. Then, King Hussein was again initiated on October 20th, 1963 in Amman during a private ceremony arranged by W.Bro Jan Onderdenwijngaard, an influential Dutch Freemason who was active in Jordan and Past Master of Lodge Via Lucis no. 161, the Hague, under the Grand Orient of the Netherlands. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Onderdenwijngaard passed on in 1973 after a distinguished and yet at times tumultuous career in the craft where he straddled both sides of the fence of regularity.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> King Hussein went on to pursue an active membership in the Grand Lodge of Lebanon and Arab speaking Countries, and he subsequently became the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Jordan. He also joined the Grand Orient of Italy's Sovereign Sanctuary of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Mizraim Rite.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A select portion of the King's masonic regalia is on display in the small museum at Palazzo Vitelleschi in Rome, including a mallet that King Hussein had originally donated to the Sovereign Grand Commander & Grand Master Giovanni Ghinazzi.</span></div>Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-2925477062793476002012-07-21T12:50:00.004-07:002015-09-07T14:42:37.752-07:00Edward Burnett Taylor Rest In Peace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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trailblazer in his anthropological analysis of religion, but he failed to
explain why certain people felt the need for certain rituals, items, dress and
practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The role of receptive
psychology is essential to understanding how the vessel in the form of the recipient or initiate is prepared &
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</div>Sheihanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17207532792990068790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3609987233134563914.post-59597049765603663022012-01-02T17:03:00.000-08:002012-12-09T19:41:03.494-08:00First NY Masonic Lodge outside of Manhattan informally started by an Irish Military Lodge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On the revolutionary battleground extending between the waters of Lake Champlain and the Hudson River and up to <a href="http://www.revolutionaryday.com/usroute4/ftedward/default.htm" target="_blank">Fort Edward</a>, traitors, double agents, royalists, loyalists, patriots and American Indians were gathering intelligence, trading in goods and being made Masons. The French forces (who would later march unsuccessfully against Fort Edward, only to be met with canon balls ushered in by the colonial forces) were in Montreal and later the Dutch gathered in Albany. The British formed an alliance with the Iroquis while the Algonquian tribes cooperated with the Dutch. The British regiments were attached to lodges which would meet in the off hours of war. <a href="http://quatuorcoronati.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AQC-A-Cerza-American-War-Independence-Freemasonry.pdf" target="_blank">Military lodges were a common theme amongst the Colonies</a>, and the Colonial forces congregated in a lodge at Fort William Henry on Lake George. In the winter of 1758, the 2nd Battalion of Royal Scots, attached to the Military Masonic Lodge No. 74 under the Irish Constitution, quartered at Albany and initiated several residents in the area into Freemasonry. When the regiment pulled out of Albany, they left behind a copy of their lodge's charter and a certificate which read as follows:<br />
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We, the Master, Warden and Brethren of a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 74, Registry of Ireland, held in the second Battalion Royal, adorned with all the honors, and assembled in due form, Do hereby declare, certify and attest that Whereas, our body is very numerous by the addition of many new members, merchants and inhabitants of the city of Albany, they having earnestly requested and besought us to enable them to hold a Lodge during our absence from them and we knowing them to be men of undoubted reputation and men of skill and ability in Masonry and desirous to promote the welfare of the Craft: We have, therefore by unanimous consent and agreement, given them an exact true copy of our Warrant as above, and have properly installed Mr. Richard Cartright, Mr. Henry Bostwick and Mr. W. Ferguson, as Assistant Master and Wardens of our body, allowing them to set and act during our absence, or until they, by our assistance, can procure a separate WARRANT for themselves from the GRAND LODGE IN IRELAND.<br />
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Given under our hands and seal of our Lodge in the City of Albany, the eleventh day of April, in the year of MASONRY, 5759, and in the year of our LORD GOD 1759.<br />
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ANIAS SUTHERLAND, <i>Master</i></div>
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CHARLES CALDER<i>, Senior Warden</i></div>
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THOMAS PARKER<i>, Junior Warden</i></div>
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The group of Masons left behind in Albany continued to function and flourish as a lodge, and they came under the Grand Lodge of New York in 1807. On May 12th, 1768, the cornerstone was laid for the first lodge building to be built and owned by Masons for Masonic purposes in North America.</div>
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