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originally posted by: tikbalang
a reply to: redhorse
Yes they are from India, doesn't mean the name is
Linguistic evidence suggests that Gypsies left India in the tenth or eleventh century AD., migrating west to Iran (Persia) and the Arabian Peninsula, with some splitting off to the north to Central Asia (although some argue that the Central Asian group arrived in an earlier migration). Some moved westward to Byzantium and the Transcaucasus, reaching Europe by around 1250. The Seljuk and Ottoman expansions caused mass migrations, and by the fifteenth century Roma lived throughout Europe
Persian Book of Kings
About the year 420BCE, a wise and beneficent prince realized that his poor subjects were pining away for lack of amusements. He sought a means of reviving their spirits. He sent a diplomatic mission to the Maharajah of India and begged him to choose among his subjects and send to him in Persia persons capable by their talents of alleviating the burden of existence and able to spread a charm over the monotomy of work. Behram Gour soon assembled twelve thousand itinerant minstrels, men and women, assigned lands to them, supplying them with corn and livestock in order that they should have the wherewithal to live in certain areas which he would designate; and so be able to amuse his people at no cost.
originally posted by: surfer_soul
Manly P Hall was made an honory 33rd degree Mason, he never actually joined the Masons as such.
On June 28, 1954, Hall initiated as a Freemason into Jewel Lodge No. 374, San Francisco (now the United Lodge); passed September 20, 1954; and raised November 22, 1954. He took the Scottish Rite Degrees a year later. Source
edit on 11-8-2016 by AugustusMasonicus because: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
originally posted by: surfer_soul
So surely he wasn't getting his information directly from your illustrious institution at time?