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Originally posted by Getsmart
Actually, if you had a crack at examining their Treasure Rooms at your ease, it is more likely that all you'd find would be wrinkles and spotty magazines with Bettie Page pictures!
GS
Yes, at the bottom of my "Rabbits Hole" I find your drawing. I suspected as much. It was the "SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET" that told the story for me.
Originally posted by yampa
Originally posted by dign4it
I knew this post was going to draw the ire of some, but so be it.
You realise that 'treasure' in the Mason's intellectual and moral quest is a metaphor, right? Like gold with alchemists?
This be the treasure you are looking for, lad:
www.sacred-texts.com...
THE Occult Science of the Ancient Magi was concealed under the shadows of the Ancient Mysteries: it was imperfectly revealed or rather disfigured by the Gnostics: it is guessed at under the obscurities that cover the pretended crimes of the Templars; and it is found enveloped in enigmas that seem impenetrable, in the Rites of the Highest Masonry.
I'm fairly certain not all the Masons are aware of who actually instituted their organization, or for what ultimate reason.
Originally posted by KSigMason
reply to post by All Seeing Eye
Yes, because its on the Sacred Texts website, it must be true.
I'm fairly certain not all the Masons are aware of who actually instituted their organization, or for what ultimate reason.
I'm fairly certain you are unaware as well to the truth of the matter.
Originally posted by All Seeing Eye
So, Mason, do you bow down to the Ancient Royalty, and if so, why?
There is no bowing in any Masonic body of which I am a member. The only supplication is before the Bible, not to any man.
Originally posted by All Seeing Eye
So, Mason, do you bow down to the Ancient Royalty, and if so, why?
As I would suspect is a true statement. And I suppose you would agree that there is no way you could know the actual intentions or interactions with all the other secret society members. And of course there is no way you could testify to any covert agenda the society might have. All you can attest to is what you have been taught, told, or took an oath to.
There is no bowing in any Masonic body of which I am a member
Originally posted by JoshNorton
There is no bowing in any Masonic body of which I am a member. The only supplication is before the Bible, not to any man.
Originally posted by All Seeing Eye
So, Mason, do you bow down to the Ancient Royalty, and if so, why?
Originally posted by network dude
The letter G in the second degree?
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by network dude
The letter G in the second degree?
Good catch. The cadidate (and the lodge) are told that to, '...stand, uncovered and bow, with that reverential awe and adoration which is due from the creature (man) to the Creator (God).'
Originally posted by network dude
reply to post by AugustusMasonicus
I was going to type the actual line used, since I just was in the east for a second on Tuesday, but that is one of those things I am not sure I can just put out there. The actual verbiage does help the understanding of why we bow and whom we are bowing to.
there are three great duties, which, as a mason, you are charged to inculcate to god, your neighbor, and yourself. to god, in never mentioning his name but with that reverential awe which is due from a creature to his creator; to implore his aid in all your laudable undertakings, and to esteem him as the chief good: to your neighbor, in acting upon the square, and doing unto him as you wish he should do unto you: and to yourself, in avoiding all irregularity and intemperance, which may impair your faculties or debase the dignity of your profession. a zealous attachment to these duties will ensure public and pria tongue of good report, maintain secrecy, and practice charity. it is so far interwoven with religion as to lay us under obligations to pay that rational homage to deity which at once constitutes our duty and our happiness.