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Originally posted by LUXUS
What are you guys trying to say are you denying the fact that Tubal-cain, Haram, Nimrod, Zilla, Lamech, Jabal and Jubal, were not ” ALL” descendants of Cain and are not all held in great honour in freemasonary?
Originally posted by AriesJedi
So maybe the Fremasons are waiting for Cain to be a walk-in, into the body of the antichrist?
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by LUXUS
What are you guys trying to say are you denying the fact that Tubal-cain, Haram, Nimrod, Zilla, Lamech, Jabal and Jubal, were not ” ALL” descendants of Cain and are not all held in great honour in freemasonary?
In Masonic ritual only Tubalcain is mentioned. The others are never even referenced so they are irrelevant.
Originally posted by LUXUS
Are you kidding me, and how long have you been a mason...
please re-read the charge
www.freemasons-freemasonry.com...
More specifically, it's not ritual at all... It's the writings of one architect in the 1600s. It's an op-ed piece, nothing more. Interesting, to be sure, but not specifically what Freemasonry teaches... just one man's interpretation of the teachings.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
This is ritual that is not used in the United States. As I stated earlier, the only mention is of Tubalcain, the others are irrelevant.
Originally posted by LUXUS
So you were not taught that Nimrod was the first grand master and originator in freemasonary? You are not taught about the building of the tower?
source
Neither Adam, nor Nimrod, nor Moses, nor Joshua, nor David, not Solomon, nor Hiram, nor St. John the Evangelist, nor St. John the Baptist belonged to the Masonic Order. It is unwise to assert more than we can prove, and to argue against probability. There is no record, sacred or profane, to induce us to believe that these holy and distinguished men were Freemasons, and our traditions do not go back to their days.--Dr Dalcho, G. M. of South Carolina. Historical Landmarks, vol. i, p. 59.
Haram? No. Hiram, yes. Brazen sea? Only in the context of the temple.
You are not taught about haram abif and the brazen sea?
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Within the Temple, all the arrangements were mystically and symbolically connected with the same system. The vault or ceiling, starred like the firmament, was supported by twelve columns, representing the twelve months of the year. The border that ran around the columns represented the zodiac, and one of the twelve celestial signs was appropriated to each column. The brazen sea was supported by twelve oxen, three looking to each cardinal point of the compass.
And so in our day every Masonic Lodge represents the Universe. Each extends, we are told, from the rising to the setting sun, from the South to the North, from the surface of the Earth to the Heavens, and from the same to the centre of the globe. In it are represented the sun, moon, and stars; three great torches in the East, West, and South, forming a triangle, give it light; and, like the Delta or Triangle suspended in the East, and inclosing the Ineffable Name, indicate, by the mathematical equality of the angles and sides, the beautiful and harmonious proportions which govern in the aggregate and details of the Universe; while those sides and angles represent, by their number, three, the Trinity of Power, Wisdom, and Harmony, which presided at the building of this marvellous work, These three great lights also represent the great mystery of the three principles, of creation, dissolution or destruction, and reproduction or regeneration, consecrated by all creeds in their numerous Trinities.
We are, again in the context of King Solomon's temple.
You are not taught about the two pillars and their history/origin?
Oh, believe me, there are hundreds.
If this is true it means that there is more than one version of freemasonry
It's mythology. Who's to say any of it is true?
and some get told the truth whilst others don’t
Morals & Dogma, Ch. XXI
And, finally, the Mason should be humble and modest toward the Grand Architect of the Universe, and not impugn His Wisdom, nor set up his own imperfect sense of Right against His Providence and dispensations, nor attempt too rashly to explore the Mysteries of God's Infinite Essence and inscrutable plans, and of that Great Nature which we are not made capable to understand.
Let him steer far away from all those vain philosophies, which endeavor to account for all that is, without admitting that there is a God, separate and apart from the Universe which is his work: which erect Universal Nature into a God, and worship it alone: which annihilate Spirit, and believe no testimony except that of the bodily senses: which, by logical formulas and dextrous collocation of words, make the actual, living, guiding, and protecting God fade into the dim mistiness of a mere abstraction and unreality, itself a mere logical formula.
Nor let him have any alliance with those theorists who chide the delays of Providence and busy themselves to hasten the slow march which it has imposed upon events: who neglect the practical, to struggle after impossibilities: who are wiser than Heaven; know the aims and purposes of the Deity, and can see a short and more direct means of attaining them, than it pleases Him to employ: who would have no discords in the great harmony of the Universe of things; but equal distribution of property, no subjection of one man to the will of another, no compulsory labor, and still no starvation, nor destitution, nor pauperism.
Let him not spend his life, as they do, in building a new Tower of Babel; in attempting to change that which is fixed by an in-flexible law of God's enactment: but let him, yielding to the Superior Wisdom of Providence, content to believe that the march of events is rightly ordered by an Infinite Wisdom, and leads, though we cannot see it, to a great and perfect result,—let him be satisfied to follow the path pointed out by that Providence, and to labor for the good of the human race in that mode in which God has chosen to enact that that good shall be effected: and above all, let him build no Tower of Babel, under the belief that by ascending he will mount so high that God will disappear or be superseded by a great monstrous aggregate of material forces, or mere glittering, logical formula; but, evermore, standing humbly and reverently upon the earth and looking with awe and confidence toward Heaven, let him be satisfied that there is a real God; a person, and not a formula; a Father and a protector, who loves, and sympathizes, and compassionates; and that the eternal ways by which He rules the world are infinitely wise, no matter how far they may be above the feeble comprehension and limited vision of man.
Originally posted by LUXUS
So you were not taught that Nimrod was the first grand master and originator in freemasonary?
You are not taught about the building of the tower?
If this is true it means that there is more than one version of freemasonry...
...and some get told the truth whilst others don’t.
Originally posted by LUXUS
Would seem that teachings have been jettisoned into side orders, keep them out of the hands of the masses!
Originally posted by LUXUS
"Oath of Nimrod
Apprentice Degree (1st).