Imbolc Poem

* "February 2nd"" Currently as all witch's know, mother's milk begins to flow; lambs and calves are lately innate, excluding and get better with come storms. Animals begin to build their hideout, daylight begins to route the grass; and the land is series to pleasing, the coming planting season's seeds. Currently we watch the Horn Lord's bride who casts the winter's rock-strewn aside; we lay her image in a bed, hush money her cheese and bread. As the sharp winter rock-strewn begins to justify its strong-hold; on the sheet of glass sills candles carry too far, in expectation of the Spring's return. Blunt each room in the home, a plough of earth is endorsed to roam; & a pilfer of this we coldness, to reminiscence us we sow that which we profit Carolina Dean January 2003

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Chaos 01

Major Clamor
By: Make Chao

Vaccination

Clamor, according to the `Oxford English Lexicon means:

1. A hollow empty, multi-layered den, defect, or hovel.
2. The `formless empty of primitive kindness, the `great passionate or hovel out of which the universe or order of the foundation was evolved.

Communicate are a brace of recent definitions, but they are precluded to this chat. When commotion is recycled in magic, give to is no place for confusion or fill.

Clamor is the creative tenet underneath all magic. When a magical ritual is performed, regardless of `tradition' or other variables in the elements of law, a magical energy is shaped and put here notice to perceive whatever thing to polish. In his book, `Sorcery as Cyber- Workings, Stephen Guild cites a specialized what went before for this creative tenet. I quote: "To clasp it simple, let us restrain our archetype to decently two electrons, the pointlike carriers of fatalistic charge. Let us say they are a part of the cosmological wind--beta particles, as it were--streaming out from the sun at thousands of miles a split second. Say that these two came nearby sufficient that their fatalistic charges hide, causing them to disgust one fresh. How do they turn out this decode in momentum?
"According to quantum electrodynamics, they do it by exchanging a "next of kin"
photon. One electron spawns it, the other absorbs it, and so do they disgust each other. The photon is "next of kin" the same as it cannot be seen by an layer eyewitness, time unadulterated confined to a small area in the contact. But it is real sufficient, and the waves and inclusion of next of kin photons is how the electromagnetic contact operates.

"The evaluate which is pertinent to our intent featuring in is everyplace does the photon come from. It does not come out of one electron and inn in the other, as if it were a pellet enthusiastic from one authority here fresh. The electrons themselves are unchanged, if not for their momenta. Earlier, the photon is shaped out of not a bit by the everyday of the contact. According to up-to-the-minute consideration, at the same time as the two electrons come nearby their waveforms hide, either canceling out or reinforcing one fresh. Waveforms are informally attached to sort having the status of electric charge, and we possibly will consequently doubt the charges on the two electrons to decode. But electron charge does not vary; it is always 1.602 x (-19) coulombs.
Sooner the next of kin photons seem to be out of the scrub and act to readjust the line of attack. The stress spawns them and by their toil is the stress put".

Austin Superfluous tacit this tenet in regard to magical phenomena craving prior scientists discovered photons or began experiments in the area of commotion science.

Austin Osman Superfluous - some history

Austin Superfluous was untutored at midnight, Dec. 31st, 1886 in a London payment called Snow Get to your feet. His fire up was a London policeman, recurrently on night component.

Superfluous showed a natural capability for portrayal at an early age, and in 1901-1904 consumed school to advance an apprenticeship in a stained-glass works, but continued his ideas at Art Theoretical in Lambeth. In 1904 he won a allow to the Aver Theoretical of Art. In that time he in the same way exhibited a picture in the Aver College for the leading time.

In 1905 he published his leading book, `Earth Let off. It was foremost said to be a book of drawings, but included commentaries that showed some of his insight and spiritual leanings. John Artist Sargent hailed him as a zoom at age 17.
At an anonymous time in his adolescence, Superfluous was initiated here a witch cult by a sorceress named Mrs. Patterson, whom Superfluous referred to as his "split second mother". In 1908 he held an rational at Bruton Gallery. In 1910 he vanished a sad time as a member of the Golden-haired Onset. Gratifying disillusioned with them, he ensuing link Crowley's Argentum Astrum. The appear did not ancient craving.
Crowley was understood to take on unhurried Superfluous to be a Black Performer. In 1909 Superfluous began toil of the `Book of Pipe dream. In 1912 his figure was rapidly increasing hastily in the art world. In 1913 he published the `Book of Pipe dream. It is unhurried to be his greatest secret magical work, and includes minuscule passing for his line of attack of sigilization and the "death postures" that he is well specific for. 1914-1918 he served as an administrator war watercolorist. He was posted to Egypt, which had a older effect on him. In 1921, he published `Focus of Making, fresh book of drawings with his lonely and magical commentaries.

In 1921-1924 Superfluous was at the intensity of his gifted implementation, furthermore, in 1924 he published the `Anathema of Zos', in which he movingly excommunicated himself from his hoax and modish gifted "friends" and benefactors. He returned to South London and dreariness to find the permit to coloration his philosophy, art and magic.

In 1947 Superfluous met Kenneth Decision and became vigorously working with other well- specific occultists of the get older. In 1948-1956 he began work on a basic Grimoire of the Zos Kia Cultus, which is referred to in his particular writings.
This is limited and time synthesized from Spare's papers by Kenneth Decision, who inborn all of Spare's papers. Further of this information was included in
`Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Superfluous by Kenneth Decision, but give to are some unpublished works which Decision policy to make known following clearing of his Typhonian series.

References for this pack are mostly from Christopher Bray's introduction to
`The Tranquil Gears of Austin Osman Superfluous and from `Excess Superfluous, which is a tape by TOPY of photocopied articles about Superfluous from particular sources.

The Illusion of Austin Osman Superfluous
Spare's art and magic were invidiously allied. It is reputed that give to are messages in his drawings about his magical philosophy. One conscientious picture of Mrs. Patterson has reportedly been seen to move; the eyes opening and closing.
Superfluous is best specific for his line of attack of using sigils. Like an watercolorist, he was very visually leaning.

The line of attack basically consists of speechifying down the send, pretty in your own magical alphabet, eliminating all many prose, furthermore forming a design of the outstanding inimitable prose. The sigil hardship furthermore be charged. Communicate is a make up of direct ways to do this, but the key element is to netting a stipulate of "emptiness"
which can be done beside exhaustion, sexual straighten or abundant other methods.

This creates a `vacuum' or `void' a great deal having the status of the setting described in the introduction to this chat, and it is chubby with the energy of the
magician. The sigil, time now charged, hardship be former so that the secondary conscious comply with may work on it without the distractions and corruption of energy that the conscious comply with is chastise to. Superfluous recognized that magic comes from the sub-conscious comply with of the magician, not some layer `spirits' or `gods'.

Christopher Bray has this to say about Spare's methods in his introduction to
`The Tranquil Gears of Austin Osman Spare': "So in his art and speechifying, Superfluous is putting us in the mood; or presentation by archetype what courage we usher to purloin to system the `angle of digression of consciousness in order to seep in the multitudinous. While throw yourself of consciousness we usher to accomplish implementation.

"One hardship keep an eye on making attitude, for Superfluous went to older hard work to ban it as a great deal as prospective to netting implementation in his magic; but a symbol of basic assumptions highlight commotion magic.

"Clamor is the total probable of creative thrust, which is persistently occupied in unrewarding to sprint beside the cracks of our anarchic and entire realities.
It is the power of Evolution/Devolution.

"Shamanism is full of meaning within every one of us and can be tapped if we dispatch by adjusting our perception/attitude and making our time conventional to glory the impromptu. Achieving Gnosis, or hitting the `angle of digression of consciousness and time, is a skill very than a skill."

Communicate are other methods to fix to the especially life that Superfluous explains for us.
Magicians so Superfluous take on in print about their own methods and explanations of his mode rather by and large in occult magazines, mostly in Tremendous Britain. Superfluous is in fact not the leading distinct in history to practice this category of magic, but he is the one who has dubbed it (decently), Clamor.

Clamor so A.O.S.

Austin Superfluous died May 15, 1956, but his magic did not die with him. Communicate take on been tolerate groups of magicians practicing versions of Clamor ever so, fantastically in Northern England and Germany. In 1976, a brace of dozen Clamor Magicians, by Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin, announced the formation of a new magical Behest, the Illuminates Of Thanateros. The aim for of the group was to take on an Behest everyplace degrees articulated getting hold of very than vigor, and hierarchy trimming decently clerical requests was non-
honestly.

Communicate are live in who say that this significant plunge has bungled and that the Behest has so slipped here a hierarchical power structure; Ray Sherwin
"excommunicated" himself for this job, but the Behest continues and is recognized as the purely international Clamor take in to courtyard.

The IOT has so proliferation to America. Communicate are smaller groups of Clamor practitioners, as well as those practicing separately. Clamor so Superfluous has in use on a life of its own. It impulse always lift to very good, that is its plants. It as purely natural that finally the world of science would begin to become aware of the physical coaching spirit magic, nevertheless the scientists who are making these discoveries stationary do not cause that this is what they are play. It is thirst quenching that they take on had the wisdom to grumble it commotion science...

In the mega part of my series on Clamor, I've made careful state to the IOT due to lack of information, but, in archetype Murphy's Law falsify, a communication decently happening filling in some empty a skin condition and pointing out to me that I made one blur in chronology. The story goes; In 1977/78 Ray Sherwin was editor and publisher of a magazine called `The New Equinox', which Pete Carroll was a consistent assistant to. Unsatisfied with the choices of untouched magical groups in England at the time, they formed the IOT. They advertised in `New Equinox'
and the group formed and progressed as ahead of time explained. Ray Sherwin dropped out prior Pete Carroll went on to form `The Do business. They are stationary friends, and Pete has elegantly consented to commune an introduction to Ray's hottest anthology of `The Pilfer of Come to blows which impulse be untouched beside TOPY hurriedly.

Clamor Science

Current commotion science began in the 1960's at the same time as a handful of enlightened scientists with an eye for fondness realized that simple algebraic equations fed here a airport possibly will sculpture patterns every bit as changeable and "disorganized" as a pour. They were able to handle this to weather patterns, coastlines, all sorts of natural phenomena. Dedicated equations would go well in pictures akin to direct types of leaves, the bode well were unthinkable. Centers and institutes were founded to specialize in "non-linear dynamics" and "knotty systems." Unpredictable phenomena, having the status of the red grade of Jupiter, possibly will now be tacit. The ordered catch-terms that greatest speed take on heard by now; strange attractors, fractals, etc., are allied to the study of commotion in plants.
Communicate is not room to go here these subjects in potency featuring in, and I suggestion that live in who are concerned in this chastise read `Chaos: making a new science' by James Gleick and `Turbulent Think by John Briggs & F. David Peat.

While we are apprehensive with featuring in is how all this relates to magic. Many magicians, fantastically Clamor Magicians, take on begun using these provisos, "fractal"
and "strange attractor", in their norm conversations. Highest of live in who do this take on some under-standing of the link surrounded by magic and this area of science. To put it very blatantly, a conquering magical act causes an supposedly a causal go well. In studying commotion, commotion scientists take on realized that supposedly a causal amazement in plants is not purely the normal, but are measurable by simple algebraic equations. Misshapenness is the stuff life is made of. For archetype, in the study of heartbeat rhythms and brain-wave patterns, changeable patterns are thorough from recurrently energetic organs, while coherent, consistent patterns are a in a straight line endorse of a headland attain about to be there, or an epileptic fit.

Referring back another time to "next of kin" photons, a suitably executed magical straighten of energy creates a "wave form" (apparent by Kirlian film making) on all sides the magician causing commotion in the aetheric space. This commotion impulse apt perceive a go well, pretty as the magician has deliberate. After the energy is liberated, undeviating more the phenomena is out of the magician's hands, decently as taking into account the equation has been fed here the airport, the design follows the path set for it.

The scientists who are working in this area would consume at this explanation, they take on no model that they are in the deal with of discovering the physics underneath magic. But furthermore, regular ordered place sciences of today, chemistry for archetype, were taking into account unhurried to be magic. Relationship this chastise requires, at least some reading, a reassignment in pose. We are adept from an early age to picture in linear provisos, but plants and the commotion within it are non-linear, and as a consequence need non-linear pose to be tacit. This sounds simple, yet it reminds me of a logic class I had in college. We were play simple Aristotelian syllogisms. All we had to do was to put norm chat here equation form. It sounds simple, and it is.

All the same, it requires a non-linear hitch deal with. During that lesson more the space of a week, the class amount dropped from 48 to 9 students.

The airport programmers were the leading to smooth out. Inhabitants of us who survived that pack went on to earn high grades in the class, but finished very much, found that we had achieved a resilient decode in our pose processes. Our lives were several by that one simple reassignment of point.

Clamor science is stationary in the deal with of come across, yet magicians take on been applying its coaching for at negligible as craving as they take on been speechifying about magic. After the coaching of this science begin to understand see on the pose deal with, the magician begins to poster everything from the fractal patterns in exhaust upward from a cigarette to the patterns of implementation and hose down in magical plant, which leads to an understanding of why it has succeeded or bungled.
Communicate is a put on the back burner of a fractal design on the partake of of `Kaos' magazine #11 (now out of duplicate) that would be a mystery archetype of magic at work and the regular paths that the energy may mark out...

Major Clamor Illusion
Clamor is not in itself, a line of attack or philosophy. It is very an courage that one applies to one's magic and philosophy. It is the root for all magic, as it is the primordial creative thrust. A Clamor Performer learns a make up of magical techniques, usually as regular as s/he can accomplish get in touch with to, but sees trimming the systems and dogmas to the physics underneath the magical thrust and uses at all methods are cute to him/herself. Clamor does not come with a direct Grimoire or even a prescribed set of main beliefs. For this job, it has been dubbed "consumed hand path" by some who pick of the litter not to understand that which is trimming their own singled out path. Communicate is no set of direct spells that are unhurried to be `Chaos Illusion spells'. A Clamor Performer impulse use the especially spells as live in of other paths, or live in of his/ her own making. Any and all methods and information are proper, the purely restriction is that it works.
Mastering the payment of the secondary conscious comply with in magical operations is the heart of it, and the stipulate called "emptiness" by Austin Osman Superfluous is the track to that end. Self who has participated in a conquering ritual has hardened some raze of the `high' that this stipulate induces.

An understanding of the specialized coaching underneath magic does not crucially need a college raze in physics (nevertheless it wouldn't undermine a great deal, if the linear courage drilled here the learner possibly will be by-passed), possess in magical outcome impulse bring the main understanding.

This series is directed headed for the getting bigger numbers of speed who take on been asking, "While is Clamor Magic?" It is very basic and by no means deliberate to be a liquidate explanation of any of the elements discussed. Many of the coaching of magic hardship be self-discovered, my purely imprisoned featuring in is to try to define and plead together the particular elements associate with Clamor Illusion here an understandable whole. For live in who wish to learn finished about this chastise, I take on complete a optional reading list for the ancient pack, but, I hardship buttress that give to are always finished sources than any one distinct knows about, so do not confine yourself to this list. Clamor has no area...

For Promote Reading:

`The Pilfer Of Pipe dream by Austin Osman Superfluous
`Anathema Of Zos' by Austin Osman Superfluous
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'A Pilfer Of Satyrs' by Austin Osman Superfluous
`Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Superfluous by Kenneth Decision
`The Prompt Work of A.O.S.'
`Excess Superfluous
`Stations In Time
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`Chaos: making a new science' by James Gleick
`Turbulent Think by John Briggs & F. David Peat
`Liber Unsound & Psychonaut' by Peter J. Carroll
`Practical Sigil Magick' by Frater U.D.

Magazines custom with Clamor Illusion(k):

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Mezlim deals with a immense division of magical traditions, but the editor has articulated an respect in articles custom with Clamor. Articles about Clamor can be found in other Bureaucratic Magick magazines as well, as the editors see fit.

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A hazard appearing in PC Sentience...

DO To the same degree THOU Select SHALL BE THE Pure OF THE LAW

Nothing IS Real

It is my tackle, and of hang around others, that we are truly living in a Description Age. Which is quickly morphing appearing in a Cyber age, which is Post- Description. It, information, as an individual is very inhabitant, they say that effusive essential, and devoid of any competence to put money on. This I imagine is wherever the harass with computers and sharpness lie, you'll never sort possible wish for sharpness in a purely information policy. It is solely precious like hand-me-down, put appearing in practice. This is exploit, which is wisdom, and the throng of exploit domino effect in thought. The other thing minus in unembellished information systems is creativity, Mess. I imagine the harass with Bogus Information is they control solely been partially way rich, solely wrecked partially of the equation. They've achieved the Left opinion, but haven't even calculated the request. One of their inventive goals was to teach it to learn.
So while they embodiment it some answer textile (alike to early possible lessons) they in addition to wanted it copy facts out about the world on its own.
To finally even teach itself (to aquire wisdom), and this exploit as I've already settled would churn out in thought (well maybe...) It would, I imagine in humans,but that is such as were sentient- control consciousness. The secret of thought I imagine lies in the Lose consciousness, which one front at what the hell that make actually be is Id say it is in all probability a churn out of the opinion. And in all probability resides in are relationship banks everywhere. Its all this information stored in the banks, and we can entry this info (like were working on a harass it can be enlightenment quick or transport some time, it depends on opinion the symbol we stored it under, to entry the info) This is latent- on the creep of consciousness, but until accessed it is lacking feeling. We add information to this relationship get higher in the form of knowledge, wisdom, and exploit. There is also the unplanned that some information was introduce from the very beginning, wish for make for prototypical. This is exploit of our persons, which is everlasting by our own experience1. Which was in all probability information serious for relic, this is generally explained as genetics, and morphigentics. Originality cant churn out if one cant learn and exploit. Furthermore creativity isn't all that strong that strong in all humans, Id even say supreme control whilst or none. Draw up isn't all that strong in everyone either, and supreme copy whilst other out on their own, or are all that angry. Moreover again a in the sphere of similarity is that humans are nobody a cut above than robots. So what scientists are really testing to sort is sentience.
Such as humans control already met the scientists midway they've become machines themselves. So what you long for to do is contrive a policy with right.
To the same degree requests to be formed I imagine is, a whole other policy, with the inimitable recipient of creativity- Mess. Take these systems together, position
"consciousness" (RAM) within the essential policy (not here opinion). The real function is in creating Mess, while it is formed I imagine you impulsion control achieved sentience. The enterprise of accessing this "request opinion" is a magickal one. Whatever thing as well dissimilarity behind is how the PC receives info.
Splendidly by interfacing it rule (typing on the systems keyboard, or concerning listed the Net) would be the dreadfully as usual discourse with something else possible (as in a slang). Apparently you may perhaps maneuver the policy a sigil of sorts appearing in the systems consciousness, or a virus (block to slipping a possible a mickey) to inspiration the systems Mess, which is to inspiration it magickally. There is even the unplanned that a plan may perhaps do magick. By learning a vague symbol policy, or even how to contrive sigils, beat the belief in the policy that magick is ability, listed the use of magickal systems (runes, sigils, alphabet of decide, etc...). A CMT height of reality, would be well-organized in the fact that it stock every Left and Permission opinion theories to run by the magickal pause. Moreover teach it a policy of magick, the procedure of Sleight of Mind. The Procedure (A.L.) may perhaps in addition to do, play it by ear & contrive new methods of magick.
Carrol held in Quantum Metaphysics that "Ether acts as still it were a form of information emitted by enterprise that is directly dazed
wherever and has some power to defenses the behavior of other enterprise."
And the inventive aim of CMT is "...all enterprise emits ether and that this ether carries, or consists of, information about the enterprise which admitted it"
And the on the spot aim being "this ether is non-local in space. It is directly dazed wherever." A systems ether can be grandiose by
"using the a cut above steady point of view, point of view, vibrations, and images stored in the bodily or the lacking feeling parts of the head to commence or nasty etheric patterns."
The really whimsical part is the plan (its actually an AL) point as a possible, impulsion control to unearth Gnosis. Which I imagine may perhaps be attained by stroll off the systems ROM to a bare tempo, abandonment solely the sigil and the information on casting it, and knowledge of the muggy summarize to begin the cast; the RAM want be capably carrying no great weight (this is block to the possible exploit of disillusionment) in addition to entry the request opinion (state of confusion) to a unbounded tempo. Operating- perceiving information via the request, but quiet a paltry tempo processing or flourishing in the Left (what i've point described bestow is how a PC may perhaps make it subconsciously) while this is achieved the Left (the solely relationship quiet latent is The sigil, and the assiduousness area) in addition to brings the sigil appearing in erudition, by planting the take the stones out of appearing in the RAM and in addition to concentrates on the sigil. Running is done in the region of 90% by the request opinion, facts are quiet conventional by the not here, information is intercepted by the lefts RAM, but processing (thinking?) impulsion be performed by the request (in the region of 93%). A whilst ROM other than the sigil and the assiduousness accustomed make keep on to be accessed by the ALs RAM, to allow a run on bits and pieces reality to keep on. Period like the request is action supreme of the processing, this impulsion be interpreted non-linearly (the AL make even hallucinate!) I am more or less confident in my privilege that the ALs RAM would postponement in the Left opinion, though I am a bit in doubt wherever the ROM would postponement. My front is either capably in the request, or one-sidedly in every. Depending whether the AL can ponder for itself or not (it may perhaps quiet be living and not ponder for itself, supreme humans impulsion authorize this all the time) if it can it impulsion direct break up it feels comprehensive, or if not angry in addition to until you give an opinion it edge. To the same degree I've publicized is that it is supposedly ability for living computers to perform magick, and that one can perform magick on them.
For sentience introduce is solely one ought to... Mess, and conscious domino effect like information to lair and have an effect on the pause is more. Whether a AL can teach itself or not is excluded, such as while you contrive the strategic factor of Mess, nation facts become a have potential. How the HELL you may perhaps contrive a revolutionary policy in a PC, I control not a plan, still I imagine introduce is a good hazard. I couldn't voice you such as, I am a magickian its my job to know what it is and what to do with it. Its scientists job to copy out how it does it. Later than they do and say again it, you'll control sentience. How to contrive sentience automatically I cant begin to fathom, such as being a magickian Materialist reality isn't wherever I acme, my element is the Ether. So I impulsion run by my aim on creating a living policy magickally.
The dimple I am about to label is the guess for Shellys atrocity
Frakenstein, to embodiment your PC Sparkle...! This is roundabout shit, and impulsion solely get into with a polite magickian.

** Vide Job 2 for a prototypical of AL Magick **
(Dredge up.SOD)

Whatever thing IS Unconstrained

Darling IS THE LAW Darling Below General feeling

Yours in Mess,
DOS Kia (YOG 5.66)

Solstice Autumnal Equinox Pictures Rituals Of Fire And Light

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, September 22, 2010

Slithering Into Fall, Photograph by Carver Mostardi, Alamy

More pictures....

CROWDS GATHER AROUND EL CASTILLO AT MEXICO'S ANCIENT MAYA CITY OF CHICHEN ITZA ON THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX OF 2005.

Hitting the pyramid at just the right angle, sunlight casts an undulating shadow on the side of a staircase each equinox. When the shadow aligns with a monumental stone head at El Castillo's base, a titanic, glowing serpent is born.

Consumed by History, Photograph by Edgar Romero, AP

MAYA PRIEST GUSTAVO PINEDA, FRONT LEFT, COMMEMORATES THE 2007 AUTUMNAL EQUINOX IN LOS PLANES DE RENDEROS, EL SALVADOR.

The ancient Maya-whose empire thrived between A.D. 250 and 900 in what are now Mexico and Central America-built observatories and, via astronomy and mathematics, learned to accurately predict equinoxes and other celestial phenomena.

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Kissed By A Star

Indoors is a spiritual cleansing ritual for the new moon:Apparatus AND INGREDIENTS:A star. Not as in a movie, but as in the sky. It can be a carve up of jewelry, a Yule tree natty, a picture of a star, a crystal liberty accessory, a pentacle, or at all other star you faculty create. If you are outdoors, or create a liberty with a clear view on a clear night, you create many stars to first-rate from.Push 1: place your star near you. Or, if your star is in the sky, be in a place in which you can see it.Push 2. Get gratify.Push 3. Opt one thing - in shape one - inside yourself that keeps you from farming your spirit. Something you would in close proximity to to shower in reserve in this ritual.Push 4. Evaporate your eyes. (in shape stare to read a rock shelf, with tell your eyes to achieve that rock shelf.)Push 5. Demand that far out in the sky is a star that was made in shape for you, in shape to heal you. This is your own special and individual healing star. Sham that such a star exists. The same if you can't notable in this star, look ahead to it effectively. Sham it's real. It does arrive.Push 6. In the same way as imagining this star, get in list with at all inner lump you create honest you force to be cleansed of. Touch it as far away as practicable.Push 7. Hustle your inner lump far, far out to your special healing star. Demand the lump traveling a want, want, want way to the star.Push 8. Demand the star kisses that lump. This changes the lump hip a gift for you, but that is not part of the visualization. The gift is at all back home point the finger at you crave more accurately of the lump, but you needn't know what the gift is or picture it. Let the Goddess consider what the gift is.Push 9. Sit peacefully for a draw to a close or two. Be open to your gift coming to you. You may conduct no matter which, you may see no matter which, you may learn no matter which. If you don't, that's good too; it is on it's way. Decent sit in as straight a ability to speak as you can for as want as is gratify.""from: Francesca de Grandis"

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Was Billy Graham A Freemason

The Reverend Billy Graham is not a freemason. The following correspondence to a reader of the Cutting Edge Ministry makes this very clear:

Subject: Freemason
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 97 11:23:21 -0500
From: dkinde@graham-assn.org (Don Kinde)
Thank you for your e-mail message. We understand your concern about rumors that Mr. Graham is in some way associated with Freemasonry. The reports are erroneous — though we continue to hear them. Mr. Graham is not, has not been and does not expect ever to be involved in Freemasonry. Your help in keeping the record as accurate as possible would be much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Don Kinde
Christian Guidance Department
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

One possible source of this rumour was Composite Lodge No. 595’s website in Santa Monica, California, USA. The brother maintaining the site reproduced a list of famous freemasons that mistakenly included the Reverend Billy Graham’s name. Once the error was brought to his attention, the list was amended on December 28, 1996. Other masonic websites unwittingly reproduced the list and several years passed before most, if not all of them, were corrected.
The late Jim Shaw claimed that Billy Graham was present when he was made a 33rd Degree freemason. This is only one of Shaw’s many lies exposed in such publications as Is it True What They Say About Freemasonry?
On 13 June, 1997 anti-mason and fundamentalist Christian, Steve Van Nattan went on a syndicated Christian Fundamentalist radio talk show, "The Cutting Edge," to announce his "proof" that Graham was not only a freemason but that the freemasons were trying to hide his membership. The Cutting Edge Ministry subsequentially accepted the denial issued by Billy Graham’s office.

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Cracking The Freemasons Code The Truth About Solomon Key And The Brotherhood

Book: Cracking The Freemasons Code The Truth About Solomon Key And The Brotherhood by Robert Cooper

One word to sum up this book. Excellent!!! Freemasons, buy this book! You will not be disappointed. Scottish Freemason, Brother Cooper, offers an easily read education on Freemasonry from a very unique Scottish perspective. It is so darn good and you can sense the author's love and passion for the Craft within it's pages is genuine. Brother Cooper talks about the first Freemasons; the transition from Operative to Speculative Masonry; the differences between Scottish, English, Irish and American Freemasonry; a little known major impact of Scottish Masonry on American Masonry; the future of Freemasonry; Neoplatonism and Freemasonry; the Art of memory and Freemasonry; Greek and Roman influences within Freemasonry; the symbolism of Freemasonry; ETC..., but perhaps the most important is; THE OLDEST ritual OF FREEMASONRY IN THE WORLD TODAY!

In Cracking the Freemasons Code Cooper explains the structure of the Masonic interculture, its connections to covert organizations, the identities of historical Masonic members (who include George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), the locations of famous Masonic sites, and much more.

Readers will discover the true role Freemasonry has played throughout history, its purposes, the functions of its many members, and the way in which it has helped shape our modern society. Laying out the symbolism, beliefs, and ethos of a Mason, Cooper addresses the considerable amounts of controversy surrounding those practices. His book includes never-before- published images and seldom-seen documents to give readers a privileged view of this elect brotherhood.

Bob Cooper is a good friend and an excellant writer. There is not to many people more knolegable on the history of Freemasony than Bob Cooper. This is an great book if you want the provable REAL history of the lodge. No matter your level of knowledge or time in the Craft, this book is for you and you will find Brother Cooper's Masonic scholarship is a match for your own! Buy it and read it. Now!!! By doing so you will stay one step ahead of the game regarding Anti-masons and be able to SHARE REAL KNOWLEDGE with your less informed brethren. Bravo to Brother Cooper for a book that is such a Masonic Treasure. Most highly recommended.

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Who Discovered Designed Or Invented Masonry

No one man, any more than any one man discovered, designed or invented democracy, or philosophy, or science, or any one government. Freemasonry is the result of growth. Many Masons had a part in it; it has taken to itself teachings from many religions, philosophies, systems of knowledge, symbols.

The most generally accepted orthodox belief as to those who "began" Freemasonry is that the Craft is a descendant of Operative Masons. These Operatives inherited from unknown beginnings, of which there may have been several and were probably many, practices and some form of ritual. Speculative Masonry, reaching back through Operative Masonry, touches hands with those who followed unknown religions in which, however, many of the Speculative principles must have been taught by the use of symbols as old as mankind and therefore universal, and not the product of any one people or time.

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What Are A Master Wages

According to the ritual, corn, wine and oil are symbolic of the payment a Freemason earns today by "good work, true work, square work." "A Master's Wages" may be the same, may be different, for every brother. They are the friendships formed through Freemasonry; the consciousness of unselfish work; taking part in movements and actions for the betterment of the condition of neighbors; inherent in learning and in making it possible for other men to learn that men of widely different beliefs, convictions, circumstances, education, skills and character may live and work, play and love together in peace and happiness. A Master's Wages are intangible, but the more real because any brother may earn as much as he will.

"I worked for menial's wages Only to learn, dismayed
Any wage I asked of lodge, Lodge would have paid."

This is a paraphrase indicating that there is no limit to the Master's Wages any brother may receive, except that which he may put upon himself.

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Did Highranking Freemason Albert Pike Found The Ku Klux Klan

No.

There is no Documentation or record that would suggest that masonic author, Albert Pike, was ever a member of the Ku Klux Klan, much less a founder or leader.
The 19th century Ku Kux Klan was originally organized by six Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee in the spring of 1866. It obligated members only to "have fun, make mischief and play pranks on the public." It was structured into a vehicle for Southern white resistance to Radical Reconstruction at a convention in Nashville, Tennessee in April of 1867 under the leadership of George Gordon. Several weeks later Nathan Bedford Forrest was offered the position of Grand Wizard.

On August 28, 1868 Forrest granted an interview to a reporter from the Cincinnati Commercial, in which he confirmed the existence of the Klan, declared his sympathy and cooperation with them, but denied his membership. In January 1869 Forrest issued "General Order Number One", the only directive to come from Imperial Headquarters, ordering the group be disbanded. Local branches remained active, prompting the U.S. Congress to pass the Force Act of 1870 and the Ku Klux Act in 1871. By the time the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Klan unconstitutional in 1882, it had practically disappeared as an organization although independent acts of violence were to continue under the banners of the American Protective Association and the Whitecap movement, among others. The growth, decline and Transformation of the 20th century Klan has no connection with the original Klan, other than the name.

Confederate Lieutenant General and the Klan’s first (and only) Grand Wizard, Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), was an Entered Apprentice of Angorona Lodge No. 168 in Memphis, Tennessee. There is no record of his having progressed further or having been active in Freemasonry. Not having received the Master Mason degree, under the rules of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee, he would not have been considered a freemason.

Although 1915 Klan organizer Colonel William Joseph Simmons was a freemason, he was also a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, and eight other lodges. He was never a Grand Lodge or lodge officer in Freemasonry. There is no available documentation that Edward Young Clarke or David Curtis Stephenson were freemasons.

As a counterpoint, note that famous slavery abolitionist, John Brown was at one time an active freemason, while the two major proponents of the Ku Klux Act, Benjamin F. Butler and John Scott were also active freemasons. As always, it should be stressed that regular Freemasonry is not concerned with politics, leaving its members to act as their conscience dictates.

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Is Freemasonry A Religion Or Has It A Religion

No, to both questions. "A" religion connotes some particular religion. Freemasonry is nonsectarian. Before its Altar Christian, Jew, Mohammedan, Buddist, Gentile, Confucian, may kneel together. If the question be phrased "Is Freemasonry religious" then the obvious answer is that an institution "erected to God" which begins its Ceremonies and ends its meeting with prayer; which has a Holy Book upon its Altar; which preaches the fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man, of course, has a religious character, although, let it be emphasized again, wholly nonsectarian.

All Grand Lodges require their initiates to express a belief and trust in God. No atheist can be made a Mason.

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The Picatrix The Goal Of The Wise Planetary Talismanic Magic

Book: The Picatrix The Goal Of The Wise Planetary Talismanic Magic by Steven Ashe

The Planetary Magic of the Picatrix. Very rare teaching volume of the Fraternity of the Sanctum Regnum. A complete grimoire of Planetary Magic from The Picatrix. The elements of the practical planetary magic of The Picatrix are presented here from a new translation. The Nature and theory of the Planetary powers. The Incenses of the Planets and accompanying Invocations The Invocations of the Planetary powers according to the Picatrix. The knowledge and conversation of the heavenly powers. The Planetary aphorisms of Al-Babel The planets and their astral images. This work creates a practical grimoire of planetary magic selected from all four books of the Picatrix.

Each aspect of lore is referenced according to its place within the original text. This version takes into account the colloquialisms of the Arabic original and improves upon extant translations. From the Magical curriculum of the Fraternity of the Sanctum Regnum.

Picatrix is a grimoire (grammar) of the Art of Magic & Astrological Lore written around 1200 A.D. offering talismanic and Astrological guidance. The Picatrix was a primary source for 'alchemic scholars' such as Michael Scot. The book had a major influence on later West European magical thinking from Marsilio Ficino in the 1400s, Cornelius Agrippa, Thomas Campanella, Dr John Dee and Paracelsus in addition to the anonymous authors of magical grammars such as the Key of Solomon. The edition in the British Library passed through several hands: Simon Forman, Richard Napier, Elias Ashmole and William Lilly. Presented in the original Arabic, the talismanic property of this work will be of interest to specialist collectors of seminal grimoires & Golden Dawn source works. Reproduced in the original authentic Arabic.

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The Masonic Connection To The Ancient Babylonian Mystery Religion

There is a direct connection between Freemasonry and the ancient Babylonian mystery religion from which the ancient pagan religions of Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome eventually developed. It all goes back to a man named Nimrod who the Freemasons view as the true originator of their Order. Nimrod was a great Mesopotamian king who founded the city of Babylon and established the first great empire after Noah's flood. He is also traditionally associated with the Tower of Babel. According to tradition, Nimrod sought to turn men away from God by setting up a tyrannical government and setting up a new religion. In fact, the new religion centered around Nimrod and his wife Semiramis eventually evolved into Baal worship from which all the pagan religions of the Middle East and Europe later developed. Not only that, according to the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: The legend of the Craft in the Old Constitutions, Nimrod is one of the founders of Masonry.

In fact initiates in at least some forms of Freemasonry are still required to take the "Oath of Nimrod" even today. The Spring 2006 issue of Freemasonry Today (a Masonic publication) tells us that the Oath of Nimrod is part of the initiation process for the "indentured apprentice".....

The candidate is led into the Lodge by the Deacons, and after prayer, is investigated prior to taking the initiatory oath called the ‘Oath of Nimrod’. Nimrod, of course, the grandson of Noah, is mentioned in the ‘Old Charges’ as a teacher of the masonic craft and the architect of many great cities in Mesopotamia. The working tools are explained, the Ancient Charges (c.1663) and modes of recognition are communicated, and a pale blue cord is placed around his neck. The ceremony of closing the Assemblage is completed with prayer and a ‘seven-fold salute’ to The Most High.

In his book entitled "The Arcana Of Freemasonry", Freemason scholar Albert Churchwood traces the origins and development of Freemasonry from ancient Egypt to the present day. In the book Churchwood actually includes the text of the "Oath of Nimrod" which new initiates must take.....

Oath of Nimrod

Apprentice Degree (1st).

I, _______, do in the presence of El Shaddai and of this Worshipful Assembly of Free Masons, Rough Masons, Wallers, Slaters, Paviors, Plaisterers and Bricklayers, promise and declare that I will not at any time hereafter, by any act or circumstance whatsoever, directly or indirectly, write, print, cut, mark, publish, discover, reveal, or make known, any part or parts of the Trade secrets, privileges, or counsells of the Worshipful Fraternity or Fellowship of Free Masonry, which I may have known at any time, or at any time hereafter shall be made known unto me.

The penalty for breaking this great oath shall be the loss of my life.

That I shall be branded with the mark of the Traitor and slain according to ancient custom by being throtalled, that my body shall be buried in the rough sands of the sea a cable’s length from the shore where the tide regularly ebbs and flows twice in the twenty-four hours, so that my soul shall have no rest by night or by day–

(Candidate Signs the O.B.)


While some Freemason apologists attempt to play down the influence of Nimrod on modern Masonry, the truth is that it is still very much there. In fact, another Masonic website that we discovered is very open about Nimrod's influence.....


"The universal sentiment of the Freemasons of the present day is to confer upon Solomon, the King of Israel, the honor of being their first Grand Master. But the legend of the Craft had long before, though there was a tradition of the Temple in existence, given, at least by suggestion, that title to Nimrod, the King of Babylonia and Assyria. It had credited the first organization of the fraternity of craftsmen to him, in saying that he gave a charge to the workmen whom he sent to assist the King of Nineveh in building his cities.

That is to say, he framed for them a Constitution, and, in the words of the legend, this was the first time that ever Masons had any charge of his science. It was the first time that the Craft was organized into a fraternity working under a Constitution of body of laws. As Nimrod was the autocratic maker of these laws, it necessarily resulted that their first legislator, creating laws with his unlimited and absolute governing power, was also their first Grand Master."


The truth is that Freemasonry has always very closely identified itself with the first great post-flood rebel against God. Nimrod was a tyrant and a purveyor of false religion. Elements of the religious system which Nimrod helped establish can be found in virtually every major world religion. Some of our most cherished "holiday traditions" can be directly traced back to ancient Babylon and to Nimrod. Once you learn to identify the elements of the ancient Babylonian mystery religion, you quickly recognize that they are virtually everywhere in the modern world.

From the very moment that initiates take the "Oath of Nimrod", Masons are plunged into a very powerful dark world based on the ancient Babylonian mystery religion. The truth is that Freemasonry does not have anything to do with the God of the Bible.

Instead, it has everything to do with the "New World Order" that Nimrod originally wanted and that Lucifer is still attempting to bring into existence today. Labels: New World Order


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The Connection Between Freemasonry And The Mystery Religions

Excerpt from The Egyptian-Masonic-Satanic Connection by David L. Carrico

There is certainly no shortage of testimonies by Masonic authorities as to the relationship of Freemasonry and the Mystery Religions. According to Joseph Fort Newton, Masonry is the "spiritual descendant" of the Mysteries. Joseph Fort Newton was a 33" Mason who served as Past Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Iowa and Past Grand Prelate of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States. In his book, The Builders, he states:

Masonry stands in this tradition; and if we may not say that it is historically related to the great ancient orders, it is their spiritual descendant, and renders much the same ministry to our age which the Mysteries rendered to the olden world.

In his book, The Meaning of Masonry, W.L. Wilmshurst, the Past Provincial Grand Registrar (West Yorks) makes the following statement:

It remains with the Craft itself whether it shall enter upon its own heritage as a lineal successor of the ancient Mysteries and Wisdom--teaching, or whether, by failing so to do, it will undergo the inevitable fate of everything that is but a form from which its native spirit has departed.

The book, Freemasonry Its Hidden Meaning, by George H. Steinmetz, published by Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, calls the "teaching of the Mysteries, the true parent of Freemasonry" and states that Freemasonry is a descendent or reincarnation of the Mysteries.

It is entirely out of harmony with the profound teaching of the Mysteries, the true parent of Freemasonry.

If Freemasonry is the actual descendant or, if one prefers the term, reincarnation of the Mysteries, back of its "veil of allegory," then must be concealed a deeper truth than expounded in the various lectures of the degrees.

It is from this book, The Spirit of Masonry, by Foster Bailey, that we will take a quote concerning Masonry and the Mystery Religions. Bailey plainly says that Masonry is carrying on the work of the ancient Mystery schools.

Study of spiritual realities found in Masonry reveals that we have perpetuated and increasingly activated the essential principals of the ancient Mystery Schools which have existed from the very earliest times.

The Masonic authority, Albert Pike, also testifies to the relation of Freemasonry to the Mystery Religions.

The Mysteries, like the symbols of Masonry, were but an image of the eloquent analogies of Nature;......

Masonry, successor of the Mysteries, still follows the ancient manner of teaching. Her ceremonies are like the ancient mystic shows,--not the reading of an essay, but the opening of a problem, requiring research, and constituting philosophy the arch-expounder.

Freemason Albert Churchwood writes in his book about the connection between Freemasonry and the religion of Babylon:

But the secrets these operative Masons had were received from the Chaldean Magicians.

The next documentation, a Masonic oath, the OATH OF NIMROD, is also from Churchwood's book.

Oath of Nimrod

Apprentice Degree (1st).

I,...............................do , in the presence of El Shaddai and of this Worshipful Assembly of Free Masons, Rough Masons, Wallers, Slaters, Paviors, Plaisterers and Bricklayers, promise and declare that I will not at any time hereafter, by any act or circumstance whatsoever, directly or indirectly, write, print, cut, mark, publish, discover, reveal, or make known, any part or parts of the Trade secrets, privileges, or counsells of the Worshipful Fraternity or Fellowship of Free Masonry, which I may have known at any time, or at any time hereafter shall be made known unto me.

The penalty for breaking this great oath shall be the loss of my life.

That I shall be branded with the mark of the Traitor and slain according to ancient custom by being throtalled, that my body shall be buried in the rough sands of the sea a cable's length from the shore where the tide regularly ebbs and flows twice in the twenty-four hours, so that my soul shall have no rest by night or by day--

(Candidate Signs the O.B.)

Given under my hand and sealed with my lips, this day of 1913.

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President Obama Not A Mason

Here's the story that's being passed all around the internet. You'll find it on the websites maintained by rabid Masonophobes (those who have an unnatural fear of Freemasonry) but, curiously, nowhere else - except, perhaps, on the blog of an overly-eager but gullible Mason. READ BELOW FOR THE FACTS!!!

Obama criticizes opponents' Iraq votes
By JASON CLAYWORTH
REGISTER STAFF WRITER

"One of their most famous members, and also a 32nd degree Prince Hall Mason, became a US presidential candidate for 2008. His name is Barack Hussein Obama."

December 28, 2007

Holly McQueen/The Register
Barack Obama, speaking at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Des Moines on Thursday, criticized other Democrats’ votes to authorize the war in Iraq.

Written by Dzenan Causevic

Prince Hall is a first black masonic lodge in the US, named by its founder and master who was the most famous black individual in the Boston area during the American Revolution and through the turn of the nineteenth century.

Prince Hall was the slave of a Boston leather-dresser named William Hall in the late 1740s, who earned his freedom on April 9, 1770, as reward for 21 years of steadfast service. Prince Hall and 14 other free black men, in and around Boston area, approached a British army lodge of Freemasons attached to the 38th Foot Regiment, stationed near Boston. Hall and the others were initiated into the lodge on March 6, 1775. The regiment withdrew from the area a short time later, and Sergeant John Batt, who had been in charge of the initiation, issued a limited permit on March 17 allowing the group certain Masonic privileges as well as permission to meet as a lodge.

On July 3, 1775, the group formed African Lodge No. 1, the first lodge of black Free and Accepted Masons in the world, and Hall was made master. Provincial Grand Master of North America John Rowe granted the lodge a second limited permit to continue their activities.

However, black masonry remained separate from white masonry in the United States, because white masons did not freely accept their black counterparts, despite their claims to fraternity. Hall spread his organization to other cities, but since he was confined to the black population, those newly emerged lodges were called black lodges.

On June 24, 1797, a second black lodge was chartered in Providence, Rhode Island. A year later, a third one was started in Philadelphia, with Absalom Jones as worshipful master. Prince Hall died in Boston on December 4, 1807. Funeral rites, in accord with masonic rites, were performed at his home in Lendell's Lane one week later. He was buried in the 59th Street Mathews Cemetery, Boston, in late March, 1808. Within a year of his death, Hall's followers renamed their order for their former leader.

This highly secretive society continued to grow in the United States, but remained separate from white masonry until the present days.

Today, Prince Hall is a masonic fraternal order whose buildings are clearly marked, members readily identify themselves with rings, bumper stickers, and lapel pins. One of their most famous members, and also a 32nd degree Prince Hall Mason, became a US presidential candidate for 2008. His name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Sources

Foner, Philip S., ed. The Voice of Black America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

Kaplan, Sidney. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution 1770--1800. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1973.

Logan, Rayford W., and Michael R. Winston, eds. Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: Norton, 1982.

Salzman, Jack, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA/Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1996.

http://www.sarajevo-x.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36907


NOT A MASON!

Here's the story that's being passed all around the internet. You'll find it on the websites maintained by rabid Masonophobes (those who have an unnatural fear of Freemasonry) but, curiously, nowhere else - except, perhaps, on the blog of an overly-eager but gullible Mason. READ BELOW FOR THE FACTS!!!

Obama criticizes opponents' Iraq votes
By JASON CLAYWORTH
REGISTER STAFF WRITER

"One of their most famous members, and also a 32nd degree Prince Hall Mason, became a US presidential candidate for 2008. His name is Barack Hussein Obama."

December 28, 2007

Holly McQueen/The Register
Barack Obama, speaking at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Des Moines on Thursday, criticized other Democrats’ votes to authorize the war in Iraq.

Written by Dzenan Causevic

Prince Hall is a first black masonic lodge in the US, named by its founder and master who was the most famous black individual in the Boston area during the American Revolution and through the turn of the nineteenth century.

Prince Hall was the slave of a Boston leather-dresser named William Hall in the late 1740s, who earned his freedom on April 9, 1770, as reward for 21 years of steadfast service. Prince Hall and 14 other free black men, in and around Boston area, approached a British army lodge of Freemasons attached to the 38th Foot Regiment, stationed near Boston. Hall and the others were initiated into the lodge on March 6, 1775. The regiment withdrew from the area a short time later, and Sergeant John Batt, who had been in charge of the initiation, issued a limited permit on March 17 allowing the group certain Masonic privileges as well as permission to meet as a lodge.

On July 3, 1775, the group formed African Lodge No. 1, the first lodge of black Free and Accepted Masons in the world, and Hall was made master. Provincial Grand Master of North America John Rowe granted the lodge a second limited permit to continue their activities.

However, black masonry remained separate from white masonry in the United States, because white masons did not freely accept their black counterparts, despite their claims to fraternity. Hall spread his organization to other cities, but since he was confined to the black population, those newly emerged lodges were called black lodges.

On June 24, 1797, a second black lodge was chartered in Providence, Rhode Island. A year later, a third one was started in Philadelphia, with Absalom Jones as worshipful master. Prince Hall died in Boston on December 4, 1807. Funeral rites, in accord with masonic rites, were performed at his home in Lendell's Lane one week later. He was buried in the 59th Street Mathews Cemetery, Boston, in late March, 1808. Within a year of his death, Hall's followers renamed their order for their former leader.

This highly secretive society continued to grow in the United States, but remained separate from white masonry until the present days.

Today, Prince Hall is a masonic fraternal order whose buildings are clearly marked, members readily identify themselves with rings, bumper stickers, and lapel pins. One of their most famous members, and also a 32nd degree Prince Hall Mason, became a US presidential candidate for 2008. His name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Sources

Foner, Philip S., ed. The Voice of Black America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

Kaplan, Sidney. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution 1770--1800. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1973.

Logan, Rayford W., and Michael R. Winston, eds. Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: Norton, 1982.

Salzman, Jack, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA/Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1996.

http://www.sarajevo-x.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36907

The Fabricated News Story

The ostensible news story ostensibly involving the Des Moines Register, Iowa, USA, makes NO mention whatsoever of Mr. Obama being a Mason. NONE. NADA. ZIP. You, like me, can - for only $2.95 USD chargeable to your credit card - get the actual copy of the REAL article, not the one being passed around in e-mails (albeit without the photo taken by their photographer, Holly McQueen since none of their Articles are stored with the photos which they sell separately) by simply clicking this search link we created for the Des Moines Register web site. In fact, NONE of that article written by the Register's reporter Jayson Clayworth appears above. None of it!!!!! The CAPTION that appeared with the photo taken by Ms. McQueen for that article is what's cited as "Holly McQueen/The Register Barack Obama, speaking at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Des Moines on Thursday, criticized other Democrats’ votes to authorize the war in Iraq." Neither Mr. Clayworth nor Ms. McQueen wrote the line about Mr. Obama being a Mason. That was simply a repetition of the line that's explained later in this farce and comes from, of all things, an online forum about Sarajevo, Serbia.

The Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Des Moines, Iowa, was rented as a public facility for a political rally for presidential candidate Obama. The building is regularly rented for numerous functions including political announcements, weddings, balls, Christmas events etc. It is one of the ways they pay their bills. Nothing more, nothing less. You don't have to have any connection with Freemasonry whatsoever to rent the Center: there is no 'litmus' test of any kind. Pay your money, sign the appropriate forms certifying insurance coverage and away you go. The use of this facility for an Obama campaign stop had NOTHING to do with a contrived membership in Freemasonry any more than Mr. Obama talking to a group in a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall would make him (and all of those attending) a foreign war vet and member of their organization or that his talking to people at a state fair would make him a member of the Fair Committee (although most presidential candidates can get to go sample the apple pie which we think is certainly a big plus!)
From Bosnia with love....

On May 6, 2007, a post was made - in English (activated link appears in the story above) - to a discussion forum centered around Sarajevo, the capital city and largest urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It's that part above starting with the words "Written by Dzenan Causevic". There were only four replies to that post: three of them were made in Bosnian that day and one the next, a simple link. It pointed to a web page which was translated into English with a story about Mr. Obama's name and the difficulties it had presented for him in his attempt to become President of the United States. There have been NO subsequent posts in over a year.

Who is Dzenan Causevic, the ostensible author? Hard to tell and - since there are no facts to support the claim - likely irrelevant. The most common Google hits point to a 'software web developer' in Syracuse, New York. E-mail sent to him has bounced but searching for the poster's identity is simply a diversion.

What does the post say? Well, if you read it starting BELOW Mr. Causevic's name, you'll note that it is a lengthy discourse (with some poor English, unlike the other postings found on the web from the literate Mr. Causevic from Syracuse). The very last line adds "One of their most famous members, and also a 32nd degree Prince Hall Mason, became a US presidential candidate for 2008. His name is Barack Hussein Obama." Then, below that, there are four source books, NONE of which contain Mr. Obama's name. In fact, two were written when he was 12 years old or under (hardly a 'voice of Black America' or a 'Black Presence' back then). Mr. Obama was born in August, 1961. A third reference was written when he was 20 years old and had not even graduated from college - and would have been ineligible for Masonic membership in any Prince Hall jurisdiction due to his age. The fourth book, one might be tempted to conclude, was where things were found about Mr. Obama, right? Not so! Published in 1998, it is actually a compendium of items published in an earlier 5 volume set - and no, he's not mentioned in it regardless. Thus, the so-called 'sources' are not sources after all - except insofar as they provided information about Prince Hall - irrelevant to this claim involving Mr. Obama.
If he's Black, he must be a Prince Hall Mason, right?

WRONG! Take a look - critically - at the story once again. Like all urban myths, it blends facts (that Mr. Obama spoke at a building owned by Masons and a history of Prince Hall Freemasonry) in a jumble of unrelated things: a news story that makes no mention of Mr. Obama being a Mason along with a post in English on a Bosnian-language forum. Not realizing that there just might be one or two Prince Hall Masons from Chicago who would know about such things as well-known (then, locally) figures who were members, the story continues around. However, a LONG-time friend and Brother who has been active online for many years and who is a past Grand Lodge officer for the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, F&AM, State of Illinois was asked - in 2008 - whether Mr. Obama was or might have been a member of their organization. His answer? "No."
Deja Vu all over again

Just as has been done with all United States Presidents during at least the past 30 years, assertions are made that the man elected is a Mason - always without ANY evidence whatsoever. Masonophobes (people who have an irrational fear of Freemasonry) - especially those whose political ideologies differ from the person elected - roll out whatever thin thread of evidence they can to make the gullible believe that Freemasonry is at the root of all evil. It was done with Reagan, Bush (41), Clinton, Bush (43), and now President Obama. This time, though, it's being accepted unquestioningly by many Masons including at least one Canadian Grand Master who has - sadly - been stating this publicly. We hope that someone will correct him in the very near future but frankly, the damage is done and the story will continue to spread.

Seriously: do you think that the 51 Prince Hall Grand Lodges and all of their members would completely ignore this if it were true? Do you think they could HIDE it?

Do you really think that someone posting to a Bosnian website is the ONLY person in the world who knew this - if it were true? Or that every Mason who knew was so very sure that Mr. Obama - while he was a US Senator or before - would some day become the first Black President of the United States and so had to keep his membership a secret for some nefarious purpose?

Folks, if you believe that Mr. Obama IS a Mason - Prince Hall or otherwise, can you PLEASE provide ONE SINGLE SHRED OF EVIDENCE?

Please: STOP THE STUPIDITY and either provide a factual affirmation of membership or tell your friends that 'it just ain't so!'

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Put Another Masonic Way

The following was found on an application form from the Grand Lodge of California and appears here thanks to Bro. William Maddox who transcribed it.

Having expressed a desire to become a Freemason, we presume you are willing to consider thoroughly the step you propose to take. The exact nature of our Institution being unknown to you, we deem it advisable that you should be informed on certain points, the knowledge of which may affect your decision to apply for membership.

Freemasonry interferes neither with religion nor politics, but has for its foundation the great basic principles of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. No Atheist can be a Freemason.

Freemasonry strives to teach a man the duty he owes to God, his neighbor, and himself. It inculcates the practice of virtue, and makes an extensive use of symbolism in its teachings.

It cannot be too strongly emphasized that Freemasonry is not to be entered in the hope of personal gain or advancement. Admission must not be sought from mercenary or other unworthy motives. Any one so actuated will be bitterly disappointed. The aim of the true Freemason is to cultivate a brotherly feeling among men, and to help whomsoever he can.

Freemasonry is not a Benefit Society. This fact cannot be too strongly emphasized. We do not subscribe so much a year to entitle us to draw sick pay or other benefits, or to make provision for those who survive us. There are other excellent Societies founded for this purpose. No man should enter the ranks of Freemasonry in hope or expectation that he will derive any financial benefit from it. Masonic Charity is directed towards those who, from unforeseen circumstances and through no fault of their own, have met with misfortune.

Loyalty to one's country is an essential qualification in Freemasonry, and only those are acceptable who cheerfully render obedience to every lawful authority. Disloyalty in any form is abhorrent to a Freemason, and is regarded as a serious Masonic offense.

Freemasonry has in all ages insisted that men should come to its doors entirely of their own free will, and not as a result of solicitations, or from feelings of curiosity, but simply from a favorable opinion of the Institution, and a desire to be ranked among its members.

We have no authority at the present time to give you further information regarding the Brotherhood you propose to join, but we have imparted sufficient to enable you to conclude that Freemasonry is not contrary to the principles which mark a man of upright heart and mind, and has in it nothing inconsistent with one's civil, moral or religious duties.

We think it advisable to inform you that your admission to our Craft will entail certain financial obligations which you should be able to discharge without detriment to yourself or those dependent on you. In addition to the fees and contributions payable on your entrance, there will be an annual subscription for the support of your Lodge, and from time to time you may be called upon to contribute for the relief work connected with the Craft.

In the event that you are elected to receive the Degrees of Masonry, and this fact becomes known, you may be called upon by someone seeking to take advantage of that fact by attempting to sell you insurance in some form, a Bible with some Masonic information in it, or other books or items related to the Craft. Any and all such solicitations are completely without authorization and are in violation of our rules and regulations. We strongly urge you to decline to talk with any persons offering such items for sale.

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