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Originally posted by Wifibrains
I noticed the link he provided went to a revised version of the book and remembered the op saying it was published in 1917 and thought the revised version may be edited and more resent.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by FriedBabelBroccoli
The Master's Carpet, Or, Masonry and Baal-worship Identical ; Reviewing the ...
By Edmond Ronayne
books.google.com... ed=0CDsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=ou%20must%20conceal%20all%20the%20crimes%20of%20your%20brother%20Masons&f=false
The problem is the above quote is not in the below book as is alleged. I provided a link to the below book earlier in the thread that enables you to search the entire book. The quote is not in the Handbook.
www.amazon.com...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357087215&sr=1-1
This would be the actual handbook quoted from.
Here is the link again, please tell me what page the quote supposedly appears.
Edit to add: Notice where it says 'No results found in this book for crimes'?
edit on 4-1-2013 by AugustusMasonicus because: networkdude has no beer
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by Wifibrains
I noticed the link he provided went to a revised version of the book and remembered the op saying it was published in 1917 and thought the revised version may be edited and more resent.
The book I linked is the 1968 reprint of the 1917 edition. I do not see where it said revised on the title page.
In the Master Mason's degree murder and treason are excepted or left to one's own option but here no crime is excepted - the bishop and preacher being bound under oath to keep all criminal acts of a companion Royal Arch Mason coming to their knowledge profoundly secret. This is simply wicked beyond expression."
I do furthermore promise and swear, that I will keep the secrets of a companion Royal Arch Mason when given to and received by me as such sacred and inviolable.
The offending page is missing from the copy below (Am still looking for a complete one) but at the bottom of page 220 the author does give his own view of some parts that reflect the "quote" in question. preview.tinyurl.com...
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by Wifibrains
I noticed the link he provided went to a revised version of the book and remembered the op saying it was published in 1917 and thought the revised version may be edited and more resent.
The book I linked is the 1968 reprint of the 1917 edition. I do not see where it said revised on the title page.
Here is the link again, please tell me what page the quote supposedly appears.
Edit to add: Notice where it says 'No results found in this book for crimes'?
The book I linked is the 1968 reprint of the 1917 edition. I do not see where it said revised on the title page.
In the Master Mason's degree murder and treason are excepted or left to one's own option but here no crime is excepted - the bishop and preacher being bound under oath to keep all criminal acts of a companion Royal Arch Mason coming to their knowledge profoundly secret. This is simply wicked beyond expression."
pg 220
I do furthermore promise and swear, that I will keep the secrets of a companion Royal Arch Mason when given to and received by me as such sacred and inviolable.
Originally posted by VeritasAequitas
reply to post by AugustusMasonicus
The video focuses heavily on being a 'born-again Christian', and her experiences of 'negativity' didn't start until people started telling her it was demons and stuff.
I would like to point out that being 'born-again' is not a Christian concept by any means whatsoever....Egyptian priests predate you by a good while folks...You might want to look into what it really meant and was about.edit on 4-1-2013 by VeritasAequitas because: (no reason given)
History
To many historic church denominations, to be "born again" was understood as spiritual regeneration via the sacrament of baptism by the power of water and word. This is still the understanding in Roman Catholicism, some parts of Anglicanism,[5] Lutheranism and Eastern Orthodoxy. However, beginning sometime after the Reformation, being born again[6] has been predominantly understood by some Protestants (of the "anabaptist" branch) to be an experience of conversion symbolized by water baptism, and rooted in a commitment to one's own personal faith in Jesus Christ for salvation. This same belief is also an integral part of Methodist doctrine,[7][8] and is connected with the doctrine of Justification.
Public stances
In recent history, born again is a term that has been widely associated with the evangelical Christian renewal since the late 1960s, first in the United States and then later around the world. Associated perhaps initially with Jesus People and the Christian counterculture, born again came to refer to a conversion experience, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in order to be saved from Hell and given eternal life with God in Heaven, and was increasingly used as a term to identify devout believers.[13] By the mid 1970s, born again Christians were increasingly referred to in the mainstream media as part of the born again movement.
The word amen (pron.: /ˌɑːˈmɛn/ or /ˌeɪˈmɛn/; Hebrew: אָמֵן, Modern amen Tiberian ʾāmēn; Greek: ἀμήν; Arabic: آمين, ʾāmīn ; "So be it; truly")
There is no academic support for either of these views. The Hebrew word, as noted above, starts with aleph, while the Egyptian name begins with a yodh.
Amun (also Amon, Amen, Greek Ἄμμων Ammon, Ἅμμων Hammon)
Originally posted by FriedBabelBroccoli
I happen to possess a late 1800's printing of a Royal Arch Mason's handbook so I will look into whether or not it is actually found within those pages over the next few days.edit on 4-1-2013 by FriedBabelBroccoli because: 101
Originally posted by CIAGypsy
Originally posted by FriedBabelBroccoli
I happen to possess a late 1800's printing of a Royal Arch Mason's handbook so I will look into whether or not it is actually found within those pages over the next few days.edit on 4-1-2013 by FriedBabelBroccoli because: 101
You are just NOW pointing this out??? Why not mention that you had an earlier printing before now? Just curious...
If you find the excerpt in your copy, it'd be great if you could scan it and post the picture for us to see...
The Order of Mark Master Masons is an appendant order of Freemasonry that exists in some Masonic jurisdictions, and confers the degrees of Mark Man and Mark Master.
In North and South America, parts of Europe, Asia and Australia the Mark Master Mason degree is conferred as part of Royal Arch Masonry which is included in the York Rite.
Allegorical legend
Similarly to Craft Freemasonry, the Mark Degree conveys moral and ethical lessons using a ritualised allegory based around the building of King Solomon's Temple. The events of the degree require the candidate to undertake the role of a Fellowcraft, thus the degree is seen as an extension of the Fellowcraft Degree and the philosophical lessons conveyed are appropriate to that stage in a candidate's Masonic development. The legend reconciles the Anglo-American version of the Hiramic legend with the 3,300 Master Masons of Anderson's constitutions, making them Mark Masters, or overseers. The candidate is helped to choose a Mason's mark, and introduced to another extension of the Hiramic myth, relating to the manufacture, loss, and re-finding of the keystone of the Royal Arch of that degree.
History
The first record of the degree is in 1769, when Thomas Dunckerley, as Provincial Grand Superintendent, conferred the degrees of Mark Man and Mark Master Mason at a Royal Arch Chapter in Portsmouth.[4]
Following the Union of the Antients and Moderns Grand Lodges and the formation of the United Grand Lodge of England in 1813, the articles of union stated that there would be three Craft degrees only, including the Royal Arch, excluding the Mark degree. For this reason, while in the rest of the world Mark Masonry became attached to Royal Arch chapters, in England it was actually proscribed from the Union until the 1850s. It was a group of Scottish masons who procured an illegal warrant from Bon Accord Chapter in Aberdeen to set up a Mark lodge in London. An attempt to add Mark Masonry to the approved craft workings was defeated in 1856, and a Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons was created in response.[5]
As Freemasonry spread around the globe in the 18th and 19th centuries, Mark Masonry became well established and now has a worldwide presence, with six daughter Grand Lodges and the degree being worked under alternative administrative structures elsewhere. In England, the current Mark Grand Master, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, is the younger brother of the Craft Grand Master, HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.
Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas speculate in their 1996 book The Hiram Key that the construction of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland (1440–1490) provided the interface between the Knights Templar and Freemasonry. Accordingly, the first degree and Mark Masonry was introduced by William Sinclair, whom they claim was the first Grand Master and founder of Freemasonry.
Catholics and Protestants agree that to be saved, you have to be born again. Jesus said so: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). When a Catholic says that he has been "born again," he refers to the transformation that God’s grace accomplished in him during baptism. Evangelical Protestants typically mean something quite different when they talk about being "born again." For an Evangelical, becoming "born again" often happens like this: He goes to a crusade or a revival where a minister delivers a sermon telling him of his need to be "born again."
Molds are made from wood of a red tree in the forms of the sixteen dismembered parts of Osiris, cakes of divine bread made from each mold, placed in a silver chest and set near the head of the god, the inward parts of Osiris as described in the Book of the Dead (XVII). On the first day of the Festival of Ploughing, where the goddess Isis appears in her shrine where she is stripped naked, Paste made from the grain is placed in her bed and moistened with water, representing the fecund earth. All of these sacred rituals were climaxed by the eating of sacramental god, the eucharist by which the celebrants were transformed, in their persuasion, into replicas of their god-man (Larson 20). The passion of Osiris is reflected in his name 'Wenennefer" ("the one who continues to be perfect"), which also alludes to his post mortem power.[12] Parts of the Osirian passion ceremonies have drawn comparison with later Christian rituals relating to the passion of Jesus Christ. Historian M. D. Donalson compares the fourteen part Osirian ceremonies with the route followed in the fourteen part Roman Catholic Stations of the Cross ritual.[22] Christian scholar Stephen Benko argues that the death and resurrection of Osiris, the sorrow followed by the joy, made a similar impact on the Ancient Egyptians as the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ had on Christians, as enacted during the Good Friday and Easter Sunday ceremonies.[23]
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
I did not post this because it is for the Mark Masters degree of Royal Arch Freemasonry and I did not think it held much relevance to the Master Masons degrees of the blue lodges.
Originally posted by bknapple32
I don't know why you guys keep trying. They wont listen to reason. They want to cherry pick the information that suits their cause.And I'm assuming they are also just trying to keep the thread alive while ladyk sits out a post ban. Let this thread of lies just whittle away.
So as a bridge for your theory you make a claim that the Roman Catholic Church doesn't want the truth of the phrase amen being a cover for worship of the god Amun-Ra so they cover up all evidence of it.
Originally posted by VeritasAequitas
reply to post by FriedBabelBroccoli
So as a bridge for your theory you make a claim that the Roman Catholic Church doesn't want the truth of the phrase amen being a cover for worship of the god Amun-Ra so they cover up all evidence of it.
Yeah, actually, that sounds just about right. Thanks for clearing everything up in your own words, with such concise details.
By the way, in regards to your first section of reply; did you ever go look up that definition of allegory?
Some folks been lying on "Jesus".
/E: Scratch that ^^
The whole Bible itself is nothing but allegory and metaphor, agree or disagree with that as you will.edit on 5-1-2013 by VeritasAequitas because: (no reason given)