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Originally posted by Zhenyghi
Okay, another question.
Can anybody in effect become a 33rd Degree Mason, or is it reserved for the super-rich captains of industry?
My 32nd Degree uncle once loaned me some Masonic publication, and it had bios or other articles about select 33rd Degree Masons. All were well-known person, but oddly enough I can only recall one -- the late Dave Thomas of Wendy's. That's what got me to wonder if the 33rd was reserved for a certain "class" of men.
Originally posted by Zhenyghi
Okay, another question.
Can anybody in effect become a 33rd Degree Mason, or is it reserved for the super-rich captains of industry?
Originally posted by plainPlaidplain
In the end, though, aren't you guys just patriachal, business-and-community minded Wiccans?
Some of you guys know an awful lot about ancient pagan practices for people who eschew those belief systems.
Originally posted by plainPlaidplain
A few things don't make sense to me:
1. The fundamentalists in this country consider all of it to be heathenism.
2. The lefty new-agers are obsessed with ancient pyramids, crytals, the tarot, numerology, etc.
3. The Freemasons don't speak out against the increasingly narrow fundamentalism in this country, despite the fact that their own group was persecuted as heretics at different times.
4. Freemasonry appears to use the symbols of Egypt, Babylon, Hermeticism. I read references to the Emerald Tablet on a Freemasonry site. The only other places I see references to Hermes Trisemegistus are on New Age websites.
5. The prevailing political culture of Freemasonry seems to be center-right and churchgoing.