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Originally posted by Masonic Light
reply to post by illuminatiorden
Anybody can put up a website, claim to be the Illuminati or the Rite of Memphis or whatever, take your money, and give you a membership card. That's not the issue.
The issue is whether such groups are authentic. They are not.
The Grand Oriente of France tabled the Rite of Memphis almost 200 hundred years, and it ceased to exist. Since that time, other "Rites of Memphis" have popped up, but they were not authentic. Ditto for all the "Illuminatis" and "Rites of Mitzraim".
Originally posted by orior
I do not know why the real issue most be if it's authentic or not, if by authentic you mean that the members of this organizations are able to improve themselves and their communities, then I would call it authentic, but if by authentic you mean a piece of paper, I think you will get deceived a lot of times.
Originally posted by Masonic Light
I do not know why the real issue most be if it's authentic or not, if by authentic you mean that the members of this organizations are able to improve themselves and their communities, then I would call it authentic, but if by authentic you mean a piece of paper, I think you will get deceived a lot of times.
Originally posted by Tamahu
Greetings Illahee
Are the Sexual practices of the Lodge you've referred to here as being legitimate, in alignment with those taught here?
Sacred-Sex.org
Originally posted by Tamahu
And can you tell us who are the faces in the Enneagram of you avatar, or what they represent?
Originally posted by Tamahu
I'm not very familiar with the it, but it seems that only the Higher Chambers of the Golden Chain of the White Lodge, such as the Gnostic Lumisials and the Naqshbandi Order of Sufis, are the only ones who hold the authentic Keys to Gurdjieff's Esoteric teachings on the Enneagram.
From what I've learned, most other groups who claim to teach the Enneagram of Gurdjieff, are only "New Age" charlatans.
Originally posted by Illahee
I believe one man and one woman in the bonds of marriage for life.
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Matthew 19
"Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." - Matthew 5
Originally posted by Illahee
I would be interested in your opinions via u2u. I think this is a bit deeper than just the explanation of the OPs invitation.
Originally posted by Tamahu
Do you consider John Yarker to have received the legitimate Egyptian Rite Degrees of Cagliostro?
Originally posted by Masonic Light
Cagliostro's Egyptian degrees were themselves not legitimate. They were created by he and his wife, and were never authorized by any regular Masonic body.
However, I do not recall Yarker ever claiming to be in possession of those degrees (he may have, I just don't remember him doing so).
Originally posted by Masonic Light
Originally posted by orior
I do not know why the real issue most be if it's authentic or not, if by authentic you mean that the members of this organizations are able to improve themselves and their communities, then I would call it authentic, but if by authentic you mean a piece of paper, I think you will get deceived a lot of times.
Many groups allow people to improve themselves. If they do, then I give them a big thumbs up.
But that has nothing to do with technical term "authenticity" in Freemasonry. Here, what is relevant is not whether a group promotes self-improvement, but whether or not the group is Masonic. Yoga classes, for example, promote self-improvement but they are not Masonic.
Originally posted by Tamahu
I don't know if John Yarker ever claimed such either. But it does seem that he received Initiation from either Cagliostro himself, or at least from those who had been Initiated by Cagliostro himself.