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Originally posted by NeonHelmet
Thank you ML!
As always you’re a shining light that guides the ignorant!
I think it is the way you transfer your knowledge, in that old ML non judging way, even though you are being judged. Very commendable, very much indeed!
So the OTO, has no influence on the Scottish or York rite? I thought that the OTO where kind of a governing “state”?
As for the York rite’s general grand council, they don’t lay down the guidelines i.e. Rules for the other York lodges?
But it still didn’t answer my question? Is there or is there not a master mason, without any pendant
Degrees, in the OTO or general grand council of the York rite?
Thank you MasonicLight for adding to this thread!
Originally posted by duskboy
Originally posted by NeonHelmet
But to sum it up! Would you ML say that it is impossible, to direct any form of agenda through the free masons?
And is it impossible to use these lodges i.e. Scottish / York / OTO as a filter, for the capitalist and Zionist etc. , to find brethren of their own kind i.e. People they can use, for investment purposes, as a tool for the NWO?
Also what about all the symbolism! Is it just “stolen”, to make the impression of depth?
And finally! Don’t you see the connection to Egypt / Sumer / Babylon in your own Symbolism?
And do you have a comment on the “Comacine Masters” and “Dionysian Artificers”?
Originally posted by NeonHelmet
Ahh Nygdan! Hail and welcome 8)
Also he’s birthday? C’mon? It was celebrated thousands of years before as the REBIRTH of the SUN!
First as priest kings of Egypt, Sumer and Babylon then as oracles and prophets of Greece and Rome, Jesuits and Vatican, Royal Bloodlines and more priest, finally as presidents and bankers etc. etc.
The bible consists of the New Testament and the old!
A lot of their stories is about nations before that time
build them all around the world in INDUS VALLEY and AMERICA etc
Actually the Free Masons can be traced back further! To the Order of St. John, Teutonic Knights, Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templars!
It is isn’t it!
Sir Andrew Bertie: Grand Master of the Soverign Military Order of the Knights of Malta (he is a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II)
i was just messing with you, poor attempt of humor! mybad
There have been quite a few agendas advanced through Freemasonry, but no, I wouldn't say that any agenda could be. For example, atheism could not be advanced through Masonry, or anything else that conflicts with the basic principles of Masonry.
Its when we look at the 'passion play' that we have the 'hard core' of christianity
I really think that more direct connections need to be made to say that egyptian preists and kings initiated greco-roman oracles and then the early chruch fathers and then eventually the kings and queens of europe, and finally bankers. I mean, to say that there is a direct connection is a pretty strong statement, it really requires a single cult that's been passed from adept to initiate for an immense period of time. There's also a somewhat paradoxical problem of it having to change in forms from an egyptian religion into a fraternity with symbology centered around the art and science of masonry, while at the same time preseving the symbols in such a way as to indicate that its an egpytian religion in the first place. It seems rather unlikely and it really does seem more like it started off as a christian masonry guild, with a biblical legend about how it was founded, and that then that was added to by philosophs who were invited in later, who made it more 'high falutin', bring in pythagoras and islamic shrines and egyptian symbology. I mean, it seems like that is a better explanation for the mix of forms than to say that the egyptian stuff has managed to stay intact over 4 millenia, but has been out of any egpytian context for nearly as long.
There is no evidence to contradict the idea that the meso-american pyramids and egyptian pyramids are independant inventions.
But even if we say that the Templars did have an esoteric philosophy adapted from the assasins/sufis/etc, there doesn't seem to be much evidence supporting a masonic-templar connection. I really think that the biggest blocks to this are the the templars were warrior-knights, why would they ever make themselves day-labourers? And why would they change their secret rituals into the forms of day-labourers?
Damnit, don't be so agreeable, don't you know that you are supposed to pick and mud and throw it at other posters in this forum!
How'd the cousin of the anglican queen get into a Catholic Knightly Order??
In any case, headquarters is hardly equipped to run a world conspiracy. Housed in a small palace on a narrow, crowded Roman street, SMOM's offices are more suitable to a museum than a military command post. The order's grand master, Sir Andrew Bertie, a Scottish friar and a cousin of England's, Queen Elizabeth, and his court are primarily concerned with protocol, knightly honors and the Vatican intrigue that inevitably infects church institutions in Rome. Church sources familiar with SMOM's workings dismiss the idea that the prince is "privy to all the schemes of Knights in other countries," and they cite the case of J. Peter Grace Jr., the best-known American Knight and the most controversial
Andrew Bertie, 68th Prince and Grand Master, lives and works in the Magistral Palace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Via Condotti, in the heart of Rome. Born in London in 1929, Frà Bertie was educated by Benedictine monks. Winston Churchill was a relation and Queen Elizabeth II is related to him on his mother’s side;
Originally posted by NeonHelmet
(there have been proved a connection with Egypt and South America; in the lungs of a pharaoh they found traces of tobacco and coc aine! (suggesting trade with the Indians of south America and the Egyptian pharaohs who were the only ones allowed to trade with outsiders.)
And the Indians of South America have sailed the Atlantic Ocean in one of their old primitive sailing boats not so long ago!
They used this to build temples and cathedrals around Europe. So they didn’t degrade them selves but ascended, according to them!
The tobacco and coke pressence don't actually prove a connection. There are several plants in the old world that are related to tobacco and coke (however, I will say, none that test for nicotine or coc aine), and its not unreasonable to think that there were indeed plants that used to exhibit these chemicals, but have since been wiped out. Part of the reasoning that would support this is that tobacco is found on lots of european remains, long before the accepted contact dates, and this, I think, implies too much of a connection between the old and new worlds to have not also left other strong evidences of contact, like new world pottery, precious stones and gems, artwork, or even remnants of trading posts, etc etc).
You mean in recent times? I think people like heyerdal demonstrated that contact was possible given the technology.
I don't know of any evidence suggesting that the Templars were the ones supervising work on their temples and fortifications. But rather that actual stonemasons and architects were. And, again, it still seems very likely that they'd drop their knightly order and become a stonemason's guild, building castles for anyone that could pay them for it, etc etc.
Originally posted by Masonic Light
A lot of Masons consider the O.T.O. to be sort of a rip-off of Masonry. Most of the O.T.O. rituals have been copied from an irregular branch of the Scottish Rite called the Cerneau Rite. The original O.T.O. rituals written by Reuss were, for the most part, plagiarism of Masonic ritual.
Also, from my personal experience, the members of O.T.O. generally come from the counterculture, i.e., they're hippies. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being a hippie (I was one myself when I was a kid), but am using this to point out the difference between O.T.O. and Masonry. In the '60's, it was the hippie counterculture who rediscovered Crowley's work, and carried it forward.
Members of O.T.O. dedicate themselves to these principles, and generally ignore all the hang-ups of the outer and profane world, viewing such things as a hindrance to their own personal development
:::snip:::
Unlike O.T.O., Masons do not scoff at, and remove themselves, from the outer and profane world, but try to work within it to make it a little better place to be.
They have taken all the sacred symbols and turned them into evil
they had to do this because then they couldnt be able to control the masses of people,. Keep em in Ignorance. If one is in Ignorance then you can be controlled. When one comes out of this Ignorance, then they no longer can control you. This systems been at work for centuries. Most all mainstream religions are under this controlled system. Its like slavery. ( of the mind)
when are people going to wake up to this
so all Masonic symbols to me are good.
When we are born, we are born into this Ignorance, the only way to come out of it, is to Knowledge oneself. People need to start re-searching their History more, and what was going on back in the Dark ages, (why do you think it was called the "Dark Ages") the church held the people in the Dark ( Ignorance) I would walk by a Mason before I would a closed mind preacher
I believe you have, however, adequately demonstrated that most faith systems, regardless of their geographic origin or their place in the timeline of history, all share common traits and legends, perhaps just with different names. (Here we have the result of the language barrier.
Why should I stop talking about the Illuminati? I'll talk about what I want to talk about, thank you very much. My only point was that groups - like the Masons AND the Bavarian Illuminati (both of which were formed and/or flourished during the Enlightenment) were accused of a lot of things because they believed in changing the social order (Democracy vs. Monarchy). You do realize that the original critics of Masons were against the group because of this idea, right? And that they formulated all kinds of wild theories to discredit Masons, which are still being repeated today, right? I can easily back this up with references if you don't believe me.
I understand what you're saying, but the concept does not make logical sense. At the very least, there is absolutely no evidence, other than your opinion, to back up that statement.
shrub- You can believe what you want to! 8)
Shrub? Lol
perhaps James Churchward was not so far off in his theories, presented in
Sacred Symbols of MU, Children of MU, etc
You all seem to be taking yourselves wayyyy too seriously playing the "Im right, your wrong" game. Life is too short to argue over simplistic things. Go to a movie today...call a friend and tell them how much ya appreciate them compliment a stranger
Originally posted by NeonHelmet
Here is a little Slide Show!