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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Religion Belief Freemasonry
FREEMASONRY
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FREEMASONRY
CORE ARTICLESFREEMASONRY. Grand Lodge. Masonic Lodge. Masonic Lodge Officers. Grand Master. Prince Hall Freemasonry. Regular Masonic jurisdictions
HISTORYHistory of Freemasonry. Libert'e ch'erie. Masonic manuscripts
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MASONIC
Masonic bodies. York Rite. Order of Mark Master Masons. Holy Royal Arch. Royal Arch Masonry. Cryptic Masonry. Knights Templar. Red Cross of Constantine. Scottish Rite. Knight Kadosh. The Shrine. Tall Cedars of Lebanon. The Grotto. Societas Rosicruciana. Grand College of Rites. Swedish Rite. Order of St. Thomas of Acon. Royal Order of Scotland. Research Lodge
MASONIC GROUPS FOR WOMEN
Women and Freemasonry. Order of the Amaranth. Order of the Eastern Star. Co-Freemasonry
MASONIC YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS
DeMolay. A.J.E.F.. Job's Daughters. International Order of the Rainbow for Girls
[SHOW] VIEWS OF MASONRY
Anti-Masonry. Anti-Masonic Party. Anti-Freemason Exhibition. Christianity and Freemasonry. Catholicism and Freemasonry. Suppression of Freemasonry. Masonic conspiracy theories. Taxil hoax
[SHOW] PEOPLE AND PLACES
Masonic Temple. James Anderson. Albert Mackey. Albert Pike. Prince Hall. John the Evangelist. John the Baptist. William Schaw. Elizabeth Aldworth. List of Freemasons. Lodge Mother Kilwinning. Freemasons' Hall, London. House of the Temple. Solomon's Temple. Detroit Masonic Temple. List of Masonic buildings
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Great Architect of the Universe. Square and Compasses. Pigpen cipher. Eye of Providence. Hiram Abiff. Sprig of Acacia. Masonic Landmarks. Pike's "Morals and Dogma". Propaganda Due. Dermott's "Ahiman Rezon"
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FREEMASONRY is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 in Scotland and Ireland, over a quarter of a million under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England and just under two million in the United States. The fraternity is administratively organised into independent Grand Lodges or sometimes Orients, each of which governs its own jurisdiction, which consists of subordinate (or "constituent") Lodges. The various Grand Lodges recognise each other, or not, based upon adherence to landmarks (a Grand Lodge will usually deem other Grand Lodges who share common landmarks to be regular, and those that do not to be "irregular" or "clandestine"). There are also appendant bodies, which are organisations related to the main branch of Freemasonry, but with their own independent administration. Freemasonry uses the metaphors of operative stonemasons' tools and implements, against the allegorical backdrop of the building of King Solomon's Temple, to convey what has been described by both Masons and critics as "a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols."
CONTENTS
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* 1 History
* 2 Organisational structure
* 2.1 Regularity
* 2.2 Masonic Lodge
* 2.3 Lodge Officers
* 2.4 Prince Hall Freemasonry
* 2.5 Other degrees, orders and bodies
* 3 Principles and activities
* 3.1 Ritual, symbolism, and morality
* 3.2 The Supreme Being and the Volume of Sacred Law
* 3.3 Degrees
* 3.4 Signs, grips and words
* 3.5 Obligations
* 3.6 Landmarks
* 3.7 Charitable effort
* 4 Membership requirements
* 4.1 General requirements
* 4.2 Membership and religion
* 5 Freemasonry and women
* 6 Opposition to and criticism of Freemasonry
* 6.1 Religious opposition
* 6.1.1 Christianity and Freemasonry
* 6.1.2 Islam and Freemasonry
* 6.2 Political opposition
* 6.2.1 The Holocaust
* 7 See also
* 8 Notes
* 9 External links
HISTORY
Main article: History of Freemasonry " Goose and Gridiron, where the Grand Lodge of England was founded The origins and early development of Freemasonry are a matter of some debate and conjecture. A poem known as the "Regius Manuscript" has been dated to approximately 1390 and is the oldest known Masonic text. There is evidence to suggest that there were Masonic lodges in existence in Scotland as early as the late 16th century (for example the Lodge at Kilwinning, Scotland, has records that date to the late 16th century, and is mentioned in the Second Schaw Statutes (1599) which specified that "ye warden of ye lug of Kilwynning [...] tak tryall of ye airt of memorie and science yrof, of everie fellowe of craft and everie prenteiss according to ayr of yr vocations").England by the mid-17th century. There are clear references to the existence of lodges in The first Grand Lodge, the Grand Lodge of England (GLE), was founded on 24 June 1717, when four existing London Lodges met for a joint dinner. This rapidly expanded into a regulatory body, which most English Lodges joined. However, a few lodges resented some of the modernisations that GLE endorsed, such as the creation of the Third Degree, and formed a rival Grand Lodge on 17 July 1751, which they called the "Antient Grand Lodge of England". The two competing Grand Lodges vied for supremacy - the "Moderns" (GLE) and the "Antients" (or "Ancients") - until they united on 25 November 1813 to form the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE). The Grand Lodge of Ireland and The Grand Lodge of Scotland were formed in 1725 and 1736 respectively. Freemasonry was exported to the British Colonies in North America by the 1730s - with both the "Antients" and the "Moderns" (as well as the Grand Lodges of Ireland and Scotland) chartering offspring, or "daughter", Lodges, and organising various Provincial Grand Lodges. After the American Revolution, independent U.S. Grand Lodges formed themselves within each State. Some thought was briefly given to organising an over-arching "Grand Lodge of the United States", with George Washington (who was a member of a Virginian lodge) as the first Grand Master, but the idea was short-lived. The various State Grand Lodges did not wish to diminish their own authority by agreeing to such a body.[10] Although there are no real differences in the Freemasonry practiced by lodges chartered by the Antients or the Moderns, the remnants of this division can still be seen in the names of most Lodges, F.& A.M. being Free and Accepted Masons" and A.F."> " View of room at the Masonic Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, early 20th century The oldest jurisdiction on the continent of Europe, the Grand Orient de France (GOdF), was founded in 1728. However, most English-speaking jurisdictions cut formal relations with the GOdF around 1877 - when the GOdF removed the requirement that its members have a belief in a Deity, thereby accepting atheists. The Grande Loge Nationale Francaise (GLNF)[11] is currently the only French Grand Lodge that is in regular amity" with the UGLE and its many concordant jurisdictions worldwide. Due to the above history, Freemasonry is often said to consist of two branches "not in mutual regular amity":
* the UGLE and concordant tradition of jurisdictions (mostly termed Grand Lodges) in amity, and
* the GOdF, European Continental, tradition of jurisdictions (often termed Grand Orients) in amity.
In most Latin countries, the GOdF-style of European Continental Freemasonry predominates,["citation needed"] although in most of these Latin countries there are also Grand Lodges that are in "regular amity" with the UGLE and the worldwide community of Grand Lodges that share regular "fraternal relations" with the UGLE. The rest of the world, accounting for the bulk of Freemasonry, tends to follow more closely to the UGLE style, although minor variations exist.
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
" Freemasons Hall, London, home of the United Grand Lodge of England. Main article: Grand Lodge Grand Lodges and Grand Orients are independent and sovereign bodies that govern Masonry in a given country, state, or geographical area (termed a jurisdiction").[12] There is no single overarching governing body that presides over worldwide Freemasonry; connections between different jurisdictions depend solely on mutual recognition.[13]
REGULARITY
Main article: Regular Masonic jurisdictions "Regularity" is a constitutional mechanism whereby Grand Lodges or Grand Orients give one another mutual recognition. This recognition allows formal interaction at the Grand Lodge level, and gives individual Freemasons the opportunity to attend Lodge meetings in other recognised jurisdictions. Conversely, regularity proscribes interaction with Lodges that are "irregular". A Mason who visits an irregular Lodge may have his membership suspended for a time, or he may be expelled. For this reason, all Grand Lodges maintain lists of other jurisdictions and lodges they consider regular.[14] Grand Lodges and Grand Orients that afford mutual recognition and allow intervisitation are said to be "in amity". As far as the UGLE is concerned, regularity is predicated upon a number of "landmarks", set down in the UGLE Constitution and the Constitutions of those Grand Lodges with which they are in amity. Even within this definition there are some variations with the quantity and content of the Landmarks from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Other Masonic groups organise differently.[15] Each of the two major branches of Freemasonry considers the Lodges within its branch to be "regular" and those in the other branch to be "irregular". As the UGLE branch is significantly larger, however, the various Grand Lodges and Grand Orients in amity with UGLE are commonly referred to as being "regular" (or "Mainstream") Masonry, while those Grand Lodges and Grand Orients in amity with GOdF are commonly referred to "liberal" or "irregular" Masonry. (The issue is complicated by the fact that the usage of "Lodge" versus "Orient" alone is not an indicator of which branch a body belongs to, and thus not an indication of regularity). The term "irregular" is also universally applied to various self created bodies that call themselves "Masonic" but are not recognised by either of the main branches.
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Castells - The Apocalypse Of FreemasonryCaptain William Morgan - The Mysteries Of Freemasonry
Charles Webster Leadbeater - The Hidden Life In Freemasonry
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Monday, May 25, 2009
Why Lord Of The Dance Should Be Taken Out Of Church
Today, I was reminded of Lord of the Dance, which I haven't sung - or thought much of - for years, because I came across Sydney Carter's obituary. It provides more than enough reason for the song to be banned from every church:
The number's success stems from two elements. It has a lively, catchy tune, adapted from an air of the American Shaker movement. But the optimistic lines "I danced in the morning when the world begun/ and I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun" also contain a hint of paganism which, mixed with Christianity, makes it attractive to those of ambiguous religious beliefs or none at all.
Carter himself genially admitted that he had been partly inspired by the statue of Shiva which sat on his desk; and, whenever he was asked to resolve the contradiction, he would declare that he had never tried to do so.
However, he admitted to being as astonished as anyone by its success. "I did not think the churches would like it at all. I thought many people would find it pretty far flown, probably heretical and anyway dubiously Christian. But in fact people did sing it and, unknown to me, it touched a chord...
"Anyway," Carter would continue, "it's the sort of Christianity I believe in."
I don't see any way, given this information, churches could continue to carry the song as a Christian hymn. The image of a dancing Christ isn't even found within the Bible; the image is very much that of the Hindu goddess Shiva. The lyrics are also, as the obituary writers note, vaguely pagan. And given that the hymn's author acknowledges that both the inspiration and text of the hymn are heretical and "dubiously Christian," how could anyone possibly defend keeping this as a Christian hymn? At another point, he said, "By Christ, I mean not only Jesus; in other times and places, other planets, there may be other lords of the dance." I think the question Christians have to ask themselves is this: is there any requirement above "it sounds pretty, and maybe mentions God" to be considered as a hymn anymore? Because if so, I think leaving this "hymn" in is indefensible.
To make all of this worse, Sydney Carter is also the author of another pretty disgusting "hymn" called Friday Morning, which has the shockingly blasphemous lyrics:
You can blame it on to Pilate,
You can blame it on the Jews
You can blame it on the Devil.
It's God I accuse.
"It's God they ought to crucify"
"Instead of you and me,"
"I said to the carpenter,"
"A-hanging on the tree." The "hymn" manages at once to deny the Divinity of Christ and curse God for not stopping the Crucifixion. Later, it says, "And your God is up in Heaven / And He doesn't do a thing, / With a million angels watching / And they never move a wing," before (I kid you not) damning God to Hell. It's the sort of thing you might expect at a summer camp for the most bitter anti-theists. Yet stunningly, even this God-hating song somehow briefly made it into hymnals. Carter's obit says:
The Conservative politician Enoch Powell and the Daily Express called for his poem "Friday Morning" to be banned because of its lines "It's God they ought to crucify/ Instead of you and me..." The American Armed Forces even announced that they were having this removed from their hymnal. "Until somebody rang me up to say it had been taken out, I didn't even know it was there," Carter commented.
The bizarre notion of churches singing songs damning God is a reminder of modern Christianity's disastrous flirtation with the most deadly of heresies, and the jarring way in which heretical music in particular often slips under the radar even at many otherwise good churches.
So given that Carter:
* wasn't Catholic, even in name,
* was (quite literally) a God-hating heretic, who penned poems spitting in God's face,
* wrote Lord of the Dance to reimagine Christ as a Shiva-like Diety instead of as Jesus,
* acknowledged it was heretical and only vaguely Christian, and
* admitted that his own version of Christianity was as warped as his hymn's,
...any guesses as to how he was treated by liberal Catholics? Two ways you can figure out the answer. One is to read his obit, which says:
He remained a regular contributor to Christian journals, including the Roman Catholic Tablet, where his wise and often humorous contributions were much appreciated.
The other is just to check out the popular "Catholic" hymn books: for example, the Gather hymnal, which still features him, or Oregon Catholic Press', which even allows you to buy the hymn by itself or as part of Rise Up & Sing. Let's pray for the day that the restoration of orthodoxy is complete, and we can be free of this terrible stain on the Church.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Samhain Food Ritual
constructive to meditate on intimates you confine in the public domain and the experiences you confine
intersection, as well as to remain standing the time to view the undertake beforehand of you.
Samhain is a intense time of the time, offer the go kaput of
understanding.
Form Planning
Such as spirits and faeries run free today, you may wish to remain standing auxiliary
Sanctuary in shielding your home and sacred space. Renew the floors with
basil-steeped water to undergrowth obtainable any despondency from the old time. Assassinate
gorse secretive your windows or doorway, and cast white beans pronounce the circle
to banish any ghosts and bad luck.
Denouement pictures of, or memorabilia from, personnel in your life who confine approved
aloof, and put these in the sacred space at the western phenomenon. For the three
other points you life-force impose a attempt or shears, a candle, and a symbol of
revolution.
Engrave a couple of back and white candles to stage what you strength of character to freedom
and make a comeback for the new time, each. Also find a crystal to use for
scrying, (quartz and obsidian are two good choices), confine self-lighting
charcoal for the brazier (or cauldron), and drawn from the tap messages on pieces of
paper for your prized ones who confine approved aloof (one push of paper for each
organism you wish to attain).
The Altar
Approach the altar in a black or orange cloth. Insert it with traditional
Halloween touches, such as an soft cauldron, bats, owls, brooms, and
skeletons. Add a pomegranate to stage the scurry of
Life-death-rebirth at one stand of the brazier; place your messages to
Treasured ones on the other. Put the black and white candles at inverse sides
of the table's drowse.
Chant
Knoll the ritual to the same degree it is dead on dark cool. This chant begins
with a prayer that opens the way for the spirits of valuable friends and
populace to granny knot you:
"Member of the aristocracy and Peer of the realm, jump observe the veil; the edge of time someplace all personal property begin
and end. Unfurl a cavity to my prized ones that they may granny knot me in this rite.
Spill the circle starting in the West, the county someplace about cultures
have a sneaking suspicion that afterlife abides.
West ~ "I" appearing in the circle of Pond, a circle of prerogative, to
Say of my personal history on this holy night." Position a inherited token on the
Western phenomenon to officially accept intimates spirits."
North ~ "I come to the circle of State, the circle of calm down, so
Directionless spirits may be gratis. Position a attempt or couple of shears
Roughly speaking to correspond to the release of ties." (A few spirits pause in the
State flatten like they good taste jump to touch on aloof prized ones.)
East ~ "I come appearing in the circle of Air, a circle of coinage. Let the old
Be transformed, by spirit rearranged. Proceed an symbol indoors of what you be going to
to vary in the ritual using the black and white candles."
South ~ "I come appearing in the circle of Race, a circle of tune, as the light
Grows shorter, and night grows crave. Soak a candle at this phenomenon of
the circle to stage the season's dimness."
Principal ~ "I come appearing in the circle of the Ancients, a circle of light, and
Understand inherited spirits, this All Souls' Shadows."
Sparse a major candle, any color you farm out, to stage the Spirit's
ghost.
Consideration and Prediction
Hallows is a time for recall, and for journeying appearing in our own
Monster. This put off unlocks the keys for integrating our before,
And purpose the confer on evocatively.
For this meditation, sit with the crystal you confine to be and damp your
eyes. Suppose of one resident, now outdated, whom you would assurance as a guide,
and ask to yourself for his or her schooling.
Praise a great deal and languidly. Be aware of the energy of the crystal in your hand. For
now, let it sit trivially indoors, lending its insightful power to the
settlement market. If it helps, lie on the stump with the crystal
resting on your Third Eye while you judge.
Visit all intimates friends and personal history members who confine approved aloof in a
circle pronounce you, connecting hands. Let their love become a magic section that
holds you in this place surrounded by worlds. As you good taste this affectionate, devoted
energy grow, the crystal life-force begin to get ardor. Later this happens, open
your eyes and remain standing the crystal in hand.
Suppose now of one refuse to accept that has been minor you. Be in charge that
refuse to accept appearing in the crystal. Tell at the drowse of the stone, and let
your relate to become as normal darken. Notice for images to ascend. You may see
adjacent portraits, symbols, or billows in criticism to your refuse to accept.
Portraits and symbols confine to be interpreted by you. Generally obvious or
white billows in moving up or to the force are good omens, while intimates
appearing dark, or moving down and to the finished are disapproving portents.
Behindhand you uncivilized your react, rustle your thanks to the spirits who
watched aloof you, and to the stone. Push clarification of the be aware of you had in
your ritual journal.
The Form
Suffer formerly your altar, saying:
"I officially accept the Old Ones, I display tenderness to restful guiding spirits
in this sacred space. Introduce somebody to an area of you who chose to granny knot me indoors, I beg a establish.
Arrived these fires I place announcement for personnel damp to my hub."
Position the pieces of paper on which you've written your messages to
dead prized ones appearing in the cauldron of fire.
"Convey these words lovingly to"(use in with the names of intimates you
wish to attain). Undergo the exhaust of love and memories with you appearing in the
contiguous world to the same degree you return."
This is a good phenomenon in the ritual to bring about aloof old letter books and
accessory in brilliant memories. Correspond snuffle to avenue separately, swallow with
amusement as part of the circle of life.
Appearance, light the black candle saying,
"Hurt is a part of life. "(use in whatever you've to be to
freedom) dies within me. This is not a loss, but a healing coinage that I
officially accept and give in."
If apt, gambol the circle counterclockwise at this phenomenon to freedom
despondency. Store moving until you good taste spot on casting the shadows from
your life.
Sparse the white candle, saying,
"From death to the old ways comes life once more. I light the candle of "(use in with a border you upcoming to undergo) that it may endlessly perfect in
my hub." Do, or saunter, the circle clockwise to petition brilliant energy, and
bring light to the dimness.
New Deeds
If you can remain standing a trip to the graves of personal history or friends vanguard, it's
traditional to waste disposal site mood cakes there as an offer to the spirits of
the dead. At home, waste disposal site out plentiful oil for the Fey so they don't stimulate
high jinks.
A few personnel buy a s'eance tonight, or fate other forms of divination such
as pendulum work. If you buy a s'eance, comply with make final that an worldly wise
medium tiller the fate. Acquaint with are countless spirits roaming State, and you
don't strength of character to accidentally give somebody the job of the fabricated one!
Pendulum divination is actually somewhat easy to try. You'll impose a reel of
cotton or wool hurry that's as crave as your elbow-to-fingertip guide,
as well as a small auxiliary. Thread the gall, wedding band, or other repeatedly
weighted beware onto this. Put the bump of your strong hand on the participate,
with the pendulum composed down from surrounded by your insinuation impression and thumb.
Dependable the pendulum, for that reason stake of a yes or no
refuse to accept. Clockwise or unpredictable incentive is a brilliant react,
counterclockwise or left-and-right incentive indicates a disapproving react.
Conclusion the Bend
Put obtainable the tokens you've placed at each neighborhood phenomenon as you announce this
removal. Observe that the intensification of the closing gives the attending
spirits time to waste disposal site formerly the responsibility is bunged once more.
South
"I freedom the circle of tune,
the circle of Race.
The way is opened by a cleansing pyre."
East
"I freedom the circle of coinage,
the circle of Air.
The way is new, but the magick is there."
North
"I freedom the circle of calm down,
the circle of State.
The way is teeming for spirits rejuvenation."
West
"I freedom the circle of Pond,
the circle of prerogative.
The way is ready; spirits remain standing flight!"
Principal
"I freedom the circle of the Ancients,
the circle of light.
The way is bunged, this holy night."
Conclusion prayer (unrestricted)
Member of the aristocracy and Peer of the realm, I confine gratis, sown, and reaped...now it is time to
rest. Perceive calm down to my spirit, to all intimates souls indoors gathered, and to
this place until we sticky indoors once more. So mote it be.
Post Form Foods
Traditionally, natural world tang the feed innovative today, in thankfulness for
the gift of diet countless of them display. Behindhand that, try cultural
foods, dearest nourishment of the dead personnel admired in your
ritual.
Don't let the fallow pumpkin go to refuse either; make pie or bucks as a
affectionate feed. Also wary dark foods, such as rye or pumpernickel bucks
Animal protein and apples are any paradigm foods for the dead, and beans are in the same way a
good firmness -they grow counterclockwise!
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