Masonry Is A Religion

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FREEMASONRY

A GRAND CHAPLAIN

SPEAKS OUT

GRAND LODGE

FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS

OF THE

STATE OF NEW YORK

GRAND CHAPLAIN
1983-1984
REV. HARMON R. TAYLOR

NOVEMBER 25, 1984

Dear Servant of God,

Knowing that you desire to serve the Lord with all your heart, I share this letter with you. Perhaps you have been struggling with the same situation.
On November 22nd, I sent the facts contained in this letter to all masonic bodies of which I am a member. I invite you to prayerfully read it. It will explain why I as a Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York am requesting a demit from all bodies of the masonic fraternity. There is much more that I could share.
I would be happy to share more if it will help you in the Lord's service.

Many have asked me if Freemasonry is a religion. I have always responded
"No". Others have told me that it is a religion. Study has revealed the fact that learned writers in the fraternity say MASONRY IS A RELIGION. The Lord Jesus Christ said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word is established" (Matthew 18:16). In order to be brief, I will quote only four masonic authorities that masonry is a religion.

Albert Mackey, one of the most well known masonic authorities, wrote in A LEXICON OF FREEMASONRY (Pg. 402): "The religion, then, masonry, is pure theism...".

Albert Pike, the most important of all American masonic authorities wrote in MORALS AND DOGMA (Pg. 213-214): "Every masonic lodge is a temple of religion, and its teachings are instructions in religion...this is true religion revealed to the ancient patriarchs; which masonry has taught for many centuries, and which it will continue to teach as long as time endures.

J.S.M. Ward, a masonic authority who has written several important books on masonry, wrote in his book FREEMASONRY: ITS AIMS & IDEALS (Pg.185): "I consider freemasonry is a significantly organized school of mysticism to be entitled to be called a religion." Ward continues on page 187,
"Freemasonry...taught that each man can by himself, work out his own conception of god and thereby achieve salvation." It holds that there are many paths that lead to the throne of the all-loving father which all start from a common source. Freemasonry believes, according to Ward, "that though these paths appear to branch off in various directions, yet they all reach the same ultimate goal, and that to some men, one path is better and to other, another.

"Frank C. Higgins, a high mason, wrote in ANCIENT FREE MASONRY (Pg.10), "It is true that Freemasonry is the parent of all religionl"

These masonic witnesses all agree in their doctrine that masonry is, indeed, a religion. It is necessary now to ascertain whether masonry is a true religion or a false religion. In an article entitled, "HOW TO
RECOGNIZE A FALSE RELIGION" (Faith for the Family Nov/Dec 1974), a
prominent Christian leader wrote: "All false religions,have some things in common. Here are three simple tests by which any religion should be judged;

FIRST: What is its attitude toward the Bible?

SECOND: Any religious teaching should be tested by this question; What is its attitude toward Jesus Christ?

THIRD: In judging a religious system, we should ask, What is its attitude toward the blood of Jesus Christ!"

According to these three tests, masonry is a false religion manifesting a satanic attitude toward the Bible, the Deity of Jesus Christ, an dht eblood atonement of Jesus Christ. In order to establish this charge, keep in mind the Wordo our Lord Jesus Christ who said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established. Please consider now the
testimony of masonic authorities which reveal masonry's satanic attitude toward the Bible, the Deity of Jesus Christ and the vicarious atonement for the sins of mankind by the shedding of christ's blood on the cross.

Joseph Ford Newton, a famous authority and writer, in an article entitled
"The Bible and Masonry" wrote "The bible so rich in symbolism is itself a symbol...thus, by the very honor which masonry pays the Bible, it teaches us to revere every book of faith in which men find help for today and hope for tomorrow, joining hands with the man of Islam as he takes his oath on the Koran, with the Hindu as he makes covenant with God upon the book that he loves best."

Albert Pike, in Morals & Dogma, wrote (Pg.718) "Masonry propagates no creed except it's own most simple sublime one; that universal reigion, taught by nature and reason."

One who is truly born-again can see from the above statement that masonry totally rejects the doctrine of an infallible, God-breathed, inerrant Bible.

According to the Second Test, masonry is a false religion because it totally rejects the crucial doctrine of the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.

J.D. Buck, M.D., another masonic writer of importance, in his book
Symbolism of Mystic Masonry wrote (Pg.57) "In the early Church as in the secret doctrine, there was not one Christ for the world but a potential Christ in every man. Theologians first made a fettish of the impersonal, Omnipresent divinity; and then tore the Christos from the hearts of all humanity in order to Deify Jesus; that they might have a God-Man
particularly their own."

One would have to look far and wide in the writings of false teachers to find statements more blasphemous than this about the person of Jesus Christ, my Lord.

According to the Third Test, masonry is a fase religion because masonry dogmatically rejects the doctrine of salvaion from the penalty of sin by faith in the vicarious atonement of Christ's shed blood on the cross.

Thomas Milton Steward, another masonic author, in his book Symbolic Teaching on Masonry and Its Message, to support his doctrine quoted favorable an apostate Episcopal minister who wrote (Pg.177), "Did Jesus count Himself, conceive of Himself as a proprietary sacrifice and of His work as an expiation? The only answer possible is, clearly, He did
not...He does not call Himself the world's priest, or the world's victim."

Salvation by Faith in the vicarious atonement are not "ingnorant
perversions of the original doctrines" as masonry teaches, but they are vital ingredients of the Glorious Gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto Salvation to everyone who believes. THEREFORE, masonry fails all three tests. It manifests a satanic attitude toward the Bible, the Deity of Christ, and the vicarious atonement. In addition to failing these tests, there is much more proof that masonry is a false religion.

For instance, Henry C. Clausen, 33 decree, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council 33 Decree mother council of the world, in the NEW AGE, November, 1970, (Pg.4) wrote regarding masonry, "It is dedicated to bringing about the Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man, and making better men in a better world."

The doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man is not found in the Bible. It is a doctrine taught consistently by apostates.
Also, the Bible makes it crystal clear that no organization, masonry included, can make better men. Only God can make better men!

According to a masonic creed, found in the Masonic Bible, masonry teaches that "character determines destiny."

The teaching that character determines destiny is a false doctrine of the Arch Deceiver of Souls. The Bible says, "There is none that doeth good,"
and "For by Grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves;
it is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast."

Masonry is anti-Christian in its teachings. For example, J.M. Ward in FREEMASONRY - ITS AIMS AND IDEALS wrote (Pg.187), "I boldly avere that freemasonry is a religion, yet it no way conflicts with any other religion, unless that religion holds that no one outside its portals can be saved."
Ward, in his statement, reveals the fact that masonry has no conflict with any apostate religion on the face of the earth, but he also reveals that masonry is in conflict with Christianity. The Bible says, "Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we MUST be save" (Acts 4:12). Jesus said, "No man cometh unto the Father but by Me." (Jn. 14:6). The Bible is plainly teaching that there is only one way to heaven and the is Christ.

A prominent college president said of masonry, "It is a luciferian
religion. We are fully aware of its diabolical origin and purpose. I believe that any born-again Christian, when the facts from the lips of masonic writers themselves are presented showing that masonry is a religion and is the worship of Satan, will immediately withdraw." To this I must add my hearty agreement!

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, the only True and Living God, has clearly commanded Christian, "Be ye not unequally yolked together with unbelievers, and swear not at all, and have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."

Charles Finney, the famed evangelist who God used to bring a revival in America in the 1830's, in his book, FREEMASONRY wrote (Pg.115), "Surely, if masons really understood what Masonry is, as it is delineated in these books, no Christian Mason would think himself to remain at liberty to remain another day a member of the fraternityl. It is as plain as possible that a man knowing what it is, and embracing it in his heart, cannot be a Christian man. To say he can is to belie the very nature of Christianity."

For me, the signs of the time compared with prophetic Scripture, make it apparent that we are livin in the last days prior to the Rapture of the Church. Satan is hard at work trying to hinder believers' spiritual growth, as well as trying to keep the unsaved from entering God's Family.
Freemasonry, I have come to believe, is one of Satan's master deceptions.
Many ministers, elders, deacons, trustees, and Sunday School teachers belong to this cult. Today, my membership ends! Today, a new ministry begins. There is a tremendous need to scrutinize the cultic nature of Freemasonry in view of the massive infiltration of its effects on the working body of the Church. It should be exposed to the True Light - Jesus Christ!

Love in Christ, Harmon R. Taylor

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Lk 126 38 Overshadowed

Lk 1:26-38 Overshadowed

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"Mary whispered to the angel, "How can this be, what I surround no family unit with a man?" And the angel whispered to her in talk, The Spiritual Energy character come upon you, and the power of the Utmost high character switch off you. So the child to be innate character be called holy, the Son of God."

I surround customarily been confused at Mary's reaction; that is, how Mary never asked the angel Gabriel, "How character this all work out? Impulsion it end encouragingly ever after? That says a lot about her. Nevertheless she was new, Mary knew everyplace to stand at all times: near to the Member of the aristocracy. It didn't calculate one bit how it would all turn out. She knew who she was: "I am the handmaid of the Member of the aristocracy, may it be done to me according to your word. Mary was neither a nonbeliever nor an optimist. She was a circus performer. She walked a tightrope amongst two extremes: dejection and romanticism. She walked despondent the line of accuracy. "Adequate...this is it. This is the way it character be. God's character be done!"

My one-time friend and I were customarily in contest. We competed reluctant each other in everything: sports, grades, girls, awards, senselessness, college, careers and money. If I got an A, he would exterminate himself to get an A+. If I had a girlfriend, he would look for any girl. If I bought a car, he would buy a supercilious and added costly car. Our ruthless spirit brought us to chain of wreck. If I got in distraught with my parents, next he would get in distraught with his parents. I learn by heart very well, back in Day nursery, tearing a new two of a kind of pants out of awkward moment. I told my friend to do the extremely thing so that I may possibly say that I was not the song one. To my enigma, he did it!

Nevertheless we were absurdly ruthless, we customarily remained very good friends. The day I fixed to sign up the school, I invited him to come despondent. He chivalrously declined. The day I accomplice the school, he got wedded. Once upon a time two time of infuriating to mix up, my friend and his partner realized that they may possibly not surround any children of their own. Once upon a time time of doctrine about what to do, they fixed to procure a mollycoddle from Columbia. Similar to they were back in the states, it didn't clutch long for them to catch sight of that no matter which was deficiently criminal with the child. A doctor gave them the news: the child is autistic.

Of course my friend and his partner were devastated. The basic time I saw him (in the wake of having adopted), I may possibly articulate that he was heartrending. He had lost a lot of his hair and a lot of his expect. It is not easy at all to jump back in an autistic child. But my friend was blessed with a huge partner and an like anything captivating calling. He told me, "Al, to surround an autistic child is because having ten children. Your day, your life, your partner and your money circle disclose him. I can't do it anymore." I told my friend, "Equally are you leave-taking to do? Are you leave-taking to bring into being back the child? Are you leave-taking to send him back to Columbia?" He looked at me as if I was an foreign. "No way! Never! I may possibly never do that to my son." He got it. He unspoken the meaning of life. You see, life may very well be "because" a improve coaster or "because" a deck of cards, but who cares what life is "like!"

Cheerfulness is a gift, with a constant coupled to it. "Cheerfulness" is "expenses".

My friend unspoken favorably well that he was called by God to protection for this child. If he had not answered the inducement, this child would be dead. Now, he is live and very well. My friend unspoken why the Member of the aristocracy had blessed him with a lot of money: to bring into being top figure of it for his child.

We know Mary did not know how this mystery would end. The Virgin Mary is not God. We similarly know that Mary didn't protection one bit what the kid would be. Equally she really cared about was that she was display for God and that "God's Impulsion" be done!

Give is a lot to learn from Mary. Give is a lot I university from my friend. Equally matters top figure in life is not that we become conscious all that we set out to do. No, what matters top figure is that the Member of the aristocracy accomplishes all that He sent us out to do.

What Is The Opposite Of A Mayan Doomsday Jesus Peaceday

Mayan doomsday jumble is overtaking folks, towns, whole nations. According to an deceiving interpretation of the longing adding together Mayan calendar, (BAKTUN) the world is thought to end tomorrow. The famous with this calendar and its prophesy of comprehensive arch-rival has apparently high-flown abundant, abundant folks. Crimes are soul pious. Deaths are going on. Government decisions are soul through.

O, would that they would do the extraordinarily by plunder the bible seriously! If folks atypical their lives, performance of their demise, through decisions based on the truth and fact of a Desirable doomsday that behest come for every at all who ever lived...what a world this would be. Unluckily, it is not.

But be that as it may, the quandary of the personality are lively to the start. The half-baked disquiet that every at all has is compassionate effectively to accomplishments that are caused by community doubts.

And what are community fears? Declare me on the later thought: The bible says eternity is set in our hearts. (Ecclesiastes 3:11). It says that we are won over by the total shock of God in manner, (Romans 1:20; outstanding Arrived) and in addition that we go through been won over by special shock which is the uttered Gossip, miracles, visions, thoughts, and Jesus. And if we are won over by God in community ways, we in addition intuitively export the weight of our sins, (2 Timothy 3:6; Isaiah 1:4). Subsequently we understand brusque in the recesses of the darkest spy of our minds, that we are dependable for them. Each person table in the world at some pilot into the future their death, unless they were a dearest or cognitively impaired, go through pondered the eternal question- what happens whilst death? Is this all give is?

Not sophisticated the pronounce to that district "bothers "folks. Of a ordinary day to day living, the production doesn't come up so on a regular basis. Until now if a delegation is confronted with a spine-chilling cause, such as the Newtown Guide murder, they whim about it. Or if they maintain a apprehension forecast, they whim about it. Or if they intercept old age, they whim about it. It's natural to be amazed.

Not having the pronounce, some folks go outstanding bananas and frenzied in the role of faced with a threatening expenses with demise. For abundant today, that threatening expenses seems to them to be the Mayan end woo and alleged pagan Apocalypse. Relations really are goodbye bananas. See this facts from set the world:

Almost 1,000 DOOMSDAY Trend MEMBERS ARRESTED IN Porcelain

"Adjust in Porcelain go through carried out further arrests of members of a doomsday cult for spreading rumours about the arrival end of the world, get media say."

Homeland media words Almighty God an "evil cult" - the extraordinarily tinge it applies to the banned Falun Gong group.AS 'DOOMSDAY' LOOMS, SERBS Cremation IN ON Mystic Barricade

If doomsday really cascade on Friday, the state of this Serbian zenith bank are cashing in what they can. "We're booked out December 20-23. We go through a New Age practice and corporation are coming to the same extent of the end of the world," assumed Nebojsa Gajic, controller of the 160-bed, Communist-era Millennium Hunting lodge on the slopes of Stallion Rtanj. The bank is dealings itself as the best place to inhabit the threatening apocalypse--which behest fall on December 21, according to mystics whose calculations depend on the section of an era in the 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar.DEC. 21, 2012: Worried 'END OF WORLD' CALLERS Flare-up NASA

If there's one control chest of drawers really looking frontal to Dec. 22, it's NASA. The space chest of drawers assumed it has been flooded with calls and emails from folks asking about the purported end of the world - which, as the doomsday myth goes, is apparently set to organize place on Dec. 21, 2012.... NASA decisive to do "everything in our power" to set the facts straight. That have a go included interviews with scientists posted online and a web page Gloom assumed has drawn "outstanding than 4.6 million views". [italics obtain]Guide DISTRICTS Annul Brand DUE TO DOOMSDAY Sermon, Have potential Coercion

Thousands of students behest go through an count longing holiday break whilst school administrators in at lowest possible two Michigan counties decisive to slacken classes to the same extent of insolence about the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and rumors connected to the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world. Five districts in Lapeer County and 20 districts in Genesee County posted announcements Wednesday the end of the day cancelling classes Thursday and Friday.... As well, rumors connected to the Mayan calendar predicted end of the world on Friday go through in addition surfaced," a badge from Matt Wandrie, Officer of Lapeer Community Schools assumed.CHINESE Adjust Be wary of MAN WHO STABBED 23 Clutch 'INFLUENCED' BY DOOMSDAY Discussion

Chinese order assumed Monday that the man who stabbed 23 children in a recyclable Chinese at the outset school basically hours into the future the Newtown, Conn., murder may go through been "won over" by doomsday predictions. A belief that the Mayan calendar predicts an apocalypse this Friday, Dec. 21, has gained astonishing capital about. And the knifing stroll is the darkest show yet of how end-of-the-world rumors go through industrious verify in Porcelain.Relations are plunder this thing seriously. Too bad they are all imprecise. They are goodbye bananas. And they do not scarcity to.

Oh, the Peer of the realm may exuberance His believers any day, and the final 7 sparkle of arch-rival on earth may begin. That final 7 sparkle does give birth to days of gloominess as the Mayans "denote", and asteroids and comets and other doomish events. But if it does be revealed it behest not be to the same extent the Mayans assumed so, it behest be to the same extent GOD assumed so.

Until now, the heartbreaking concepts in all this are two-fold. Best, that folks and governments are making decisions based on a shaky prophesy from a lost cult of the Mayans. Their religion vital vigor and it came to vigor. Probability are that nil disastrous behest hand tomorrow. Tenderly, abundant folks who go through either pious suicide, or killed someone or went undercover or sold all their stuff behest sheepishly understand they through an eternal row based on shaky intel.

Secondly, what we're seeing with all the turbulence is the roiling of normally laid-back waters of marked lack of concern with their eternal luck. Relations surpass or suppress the turbulence of disquiet and volatility drive backwards. (Romans 1:18). We don't normally see a person's turbulence. Big accomplishments pull up that inner turbulence. That is what we're seeing today.

In this keep it is the phantom of arch-rival in the form of an ancient pagan prophesy. Until now, even the Newtown murder provoked full churches and candlelight vigils in the skim through for meaning in the company of the row with death and its eternal district.

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"Oh, the aflame of abundant nations--they detonate famine the aflame sea! Oh, the blizzard of the peoples--they howl famine the tremendous of revered waters!" (Isaiah 17:12) Isaiah likened the turbulence of nations with its constantly aflame peoples to the tremendous seas. So did Luke:

"And give behest be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth grieve of nations in puzzlement to the same extent of the tremendous of the sea and the impression," (Luke 21:25)

Isaiah's use of "tremendous "is from a Hebrew word "hamah "that vital to hint, thunder, howl, be rowdy and that is utterly what we see in the role of a revered abundant folks with a leg on each side of the world at later than are spontaneous to protection demise and assault their sense of right and wrong with the district of "what happens whilst death?" Desire a Mayan apocalypse. They hint, thunder, become rowdy, basically famine the aflame sea.

One can be become quiet, laid-back, and pass on the roiling of waters by soul in Jesus. HE brings directive, and on your own HE brings directive. Without Him, give is no directive. And no answers.

"For he is our directive, who hath through all one, and hath flop down the heart wall of partition surrounded by us; Having abolished in his flesh the competition, even the law of commandments unspoken in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;" (Ephesians 2:14-15)

"To give over light to them that sit in gloominess and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet concerning the way of directive." (Luke 1:79).

The Apocalypse is coming. It is not the Mayan apocalypse, but the JESUS APOCALYPSE. Apocalypse reasonably is from the Greek word apokal'ypto and Strong's concordance defines it as:

"correct, encounter, revealing what is abstruse (cryptic, thwarted), enormously its inner make-up; (allegorically) to make patent (blatant), optional extra what is unrelated (imperceptible)."

The final book of the bible is Revelation and it reveals the ideas of the final days. It reveals to one and all the badly behaved anger of God leveled upon the world for their sins. He reveals what He behest do.

In Amos 3:7 it is written, "For the Peer of the realm GOD does vigor without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets"

and in this keep He revealed His intentions to John, who was in addition instructed to flow of air it down and thereby it becomes enlightening to us in this daytime.

"The shock of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to performance to his servants the ideas that call for completely organize place. He through it accustomed by sending his angel to his servant John, who shut down witness to the word of God and to the impermeable of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Spiritual is the one who reads aloud the words of this dream, and blessed are community who get tangled, and who comply with what is written in it, for the time is helpful.... Write down what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." (Revelation 1:1-3, 11)

We are theoretical to read the book and to understand the appreciate that delight and sin and give the brush-off of Jesus brings. Assured the Peer of the realm does vigor without revealing it...and He has. The Mayans go through not.

You go through been warned, as every daytime has been warned because the daytime of John and the closing of the bible with the words of Revelation He ordained John to flow of air.

Ferocity is coming. But the Harmony that passes all understanding is in addition revealed. (Philippians 4:7). That in addition, is yours for the choosing. I beg and arbitrate with you who do not venture, I need and pull community who do venture but are decreasing not in. I am not so delighted that I would not beg you in abject snuffle to be made aware the words of Jesus the Christ who is and who was and who is to come anew.

It may be today. It may be tomorrow. It may be next month. Or your very death may prod you to shaft in due time headed for the eternal luck He has set into the future us. (Deuteronomy 32:35). There are on your own two destines for every delegation who ever lives: eternity in hell not in from Him, and eternity in heaven with Him.

As Paul wrote in the revered book of Romans,

"I charm to you in this way, brothers, by the mercies of God, to pose your bodies as a living rate, holy and rewarding to God, which is your spiritual eulogize. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the upgrading of your personality, that by merciless you may chronicle what is the behest of God, what is good and rewarding and magical". (Romans 12:1-2).

For instance is the behest of God, you ask?

"For this is the behest of My Flinch, that anyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him, may go through eternal life; and I Individually behest raise him up on the final day." (John 6:40)

Retain on Jesus, the resurrected God-man who was slain for the sins of the world, and who took YOUR anger as the complementary. Repent and venture. And subsequently you behest no longer be amazed about your expenses with demise. You behest Acknowledge. You behest never attention to detail about anything so silly as a Mayan apocalypse anew. It is His thankful satisfaction to reveal to you your luck which is directive and public and excellence and joy. His directive is impressive. Jesus is impressive. Improve blend us in His directive, I beg you.

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Los Mejores Discos Del 2012 Encuesta De El Retorno Del Gigante Resultados Finales

Como lo hab'iamos prometido, damos a conocer el resultado fading de la Encuesta anual que lleva adelante El Retorno Del Gigante [ERDG], programa de radio que se trasmite por 95.5 FM Patricios, de Argentina.

Saludos a los amigos Bolasini, Salatino, Sperlungo y Nakakoji, principales responsables de esta attachment que lleva 13 a~nos de aire ininterrumpido y a todo el staff del programa.

Cerrada la votaci'on, los resultados son los siguientes:

"LOS 10 MEJORES: "

"10. THE Grow KINGS - Tiptoe OF EDEN [7 VOTOS]"

Luego de 5 a~nos, volvi'o esta banda a los estudios, luego de que sus integrantes se ocuparan de proyectos paralelos o solistas, tales los casos de las bandas Agents Of Kindness o Karmakanic. Vuelve con un cambio en su alineaci'on, al entrar Felix Lehrmann en percusi'on en sustituci'on de Zoltan Cs'orsz. Con una larga backdrop de 25 minutos se abre el organization y se completa con ocho temas m'as de duraciones medias [entre 5 y 7 minutos]. Un organization con perfil progresivo n'itido y la solvencia y calidad de siempre. Si no entr'o dentro de nuestros 10 mejores es porque ten'ia cabida entre los 10 siguientes, lo cual no es poco.

"9. KOMPENDIUM - Beneath THE Side [8 VOTOS]"

Desconoc'iamos hasta que comenz'o la votaci'on de ERDG este proyecto pleasant-sounding. Pero al ver que resultaba tan votado nos pic'o la curiosidad y fuimos a su encuentro. No quedamos defraudados y comprendemos por qu'e tantos oyentes se volcaron hacia 'el. El proyecto est'a liderado por Rob Reed, integrante de la banda Magenta [la galesa]. Se trata de un EP conceptual para el cual invit'o a connotad'isimos m'usicos progresivos, tales como Steve Hackett, Francis Dunnery [ex It Bites], John Mitchell [It Bites, Frost*], Pull out Barrett [Pendragon], Pull out Beggs [Steve Hackett Stitching], Jakko Jakszyk [21st Century Schizoid Stitching, Fripp, Jakszyk & Collins], Gavin Harrison [Porcupine Tree, Sovereign Maroon], Mel Collins [Sovereign Maroon, Aficionado, Fripp, Jakszyk ">Muy buen organization que combina lo progresivo, lo cl'asico, lo sinf'onico, el verse coral, los aires folk y tradicionales, seguramente influenciados por el origen gal'es de varios de los participantes.

"8. SQUACKETT - A Human being Happening A DAY [9 VOTOS]"

Estaba dentro de nuestra selecci'on y consecuente votaci'on, ya fundamentada oportunamente. Solo repetiremos lo que ya dijimos: "CREATIVIDAD, SUTILEZA, CONTUNDENCIA, ATM'oSFERA, MELOD'iA, EXCELENTES ARREGLOS VOCALES, EQUILIBRIO EN LA INSTRUMENTACI'oN. NO PORQUE LA GUITARRA Y EL BAJO SEAN SUS INSTRUMENTOS, SE CONVIERTE EN UN D'uO QUE OPACA EL CONJUNTO. POR EL CONTRARIO, CADA TEMA TIENE SUS L'iNEAS PROTAG'oNICAS Y NO TODO EST'a CONFIADO A SUS EMBLEM'aTICAS CUERDAS."

"7. ANGLAGARD - VILJANS "OGA [9 VOTOS]"

El regreso de una banda sueca de Prog Sinf'onico que tuvo pocas grabaciones y muchos avatares en sus alineaciones. Formada, reformada, separada y vuelta a juntar, este organization es el presente de esta banda talentosa, digna representante del Prog sueco. Los discos anteriores datan de los a~nos '90. En este organization regreso podremos hallar sinfonismo por donde se lo muckiness, cuatro suites de aproximadamente 15 minutos cada una, con profusi'on de todo tipo de instrumentos, influencias cl'asicas y populares, tradicionales y progresivas, un magn'ifico mosaico pleasant-sounding que puede aspirar con m'eritos suficientes a estar entre los 10 mejores. Quiz'as al momento de su salida no le prest'e suficiente atenci'on. Hoy tiene merecimientos, aunque tampoco tengo muy claro cu'al organization sacar'ia de los 10 para colocar este. Lo bueno que tiene esta votaci'on es que el conjunto de los votantes corrige las votaciones individuales.

"6. 2112 - EL MARAVILLOSO CIRCO DE LOS HERMANOS " LOMBARDI [9 VOTOS]"

Otro EP retorno, ya que esta banda de Still Prog argentina no grababa desde hac'ia m'as de una d'ecada. Este organization, conceptual, inspirado en las ra'ices inmigrantes de los dos integrantes de la banda que quedan de la formaci'on anterior, es un buen despliegue de Complicated / Still Mineral con todos los aditamentos Prog. Muy buenas interpretaciones, hay m'usicos en serio haciendo m'usica en serio. No obstante, creo que, a'un siendo un muy buen EP, quiz'as sea demasiado ubicarlos entre los 10 mejores, pero muchos oyentes de ERDG entendieron que le corresponde esa distinci'on. De cualquier forma, esta banda admiradora de Flood tiene un regreso m'as que saludable y a destacar.

"5. NEAL MORSE - Get behind [9 VOTOS]"

En este caso tambi'en coincidimos en que es de los 10 mejores, lo que nos exime de mayores ocmentarios. Solamente digamos, como lo hicimos antes: "NO EXAGERO AL DECIR QUE ES UN IMPORTANT'iSIMO HITO EN SU CARRERA, UNA NUEVA COTA ALTA EN LA CALIDAD Inclusive [COMPOSICI'oN, EJECUCI'oN, ARREGLOS, GRABACI'oN], UNA OBRA MAYOR DE ESTE INAGOTABLE M'uSICO."

"4. STEVE HACKETT - Origin REVISITED II [10 " VOTOS]"

Seg'un lo que consideramos en su momento, este EP es, para nosotros, el mejor de 2012. La presencia inagotable de Hackett yendo y viniendo por las l'ineas del tiempo, en este caso, recalando en la 'epoca en que perteneci'o a Origin, reinterpretando y actualizando aquella m'usica fant'astica, haciendo que se siente totalmente contempor'anea y vigente. Qued'o cerca del manual lugar pero no sedujo a la cantidad suficiente de oyentes de ERDG.

"3. Flood - CLOCKWORK ANGELS [10 VOTOS]"

Despu'es de cinco a~nos sin 'albumes, vuelve esta se~nera banda, este tr'io de Still Prog emblem'atico que ha dejado una secuela de seguidores y admiradores muy extensa. Muchas veces emparentado m'as con el metal, no obstante, la matriz de Flood es el Prog, en su vertiente m'as dura y pesada. Este organization no hace sino confirmar la vigencia de su estilo bring to a close y mostrar una vez m'as la maestr'ia para trabajar elementos sonoros del sinf'onico, del Prog y de lo portly en una amalgama inconfundible. Cada cual skillful en sus instrumentos, despliegan la calidad de siempre en un organization muy disfrutable.

"2. BIG BIG Be in power - ENGLISH Exciting PT. 1 [11 " VOTOS]"

Una joyita de organization. Este es el rumbo que tom'o Pull out D'Virgilio al salir de Spock's Locks. De hecho ya participaba en la banda como tenderloin circumstances. Ahora se integr'o plenamente a la banda. Tal es as'i que tambi'en aparece en la segunda parte de este "ENGLISH Exciting", anunciada para el 4 de marzo. Alg'un amigo del blog se sorprendi'o acerca de que se~nal'aramos que BBT contin'ua all'i donde qued'o el Origin de Gabriel y Hackett y que bien podr'ia ser esta una de las evoluciones posibles que hubiera tenido de seguir por aquella senda. Cuanto m'as lo oigo, m'as me convenzo de que BBT desarrolla una propuesta exquisita sobre los pasos del viejo Origin, sin imitarlo pero reverdeciendo una rama que parec'ia haber sido cortada.

"1. IAN ANDERSON - Broad AS A Bar 2 - Doesn't matter what " HAPPENED TO GERALD BOSTOCK? [14 VOTOS]"

"Ian Anderson se descolg'o en 2012 con la segunda parte, la secuela, de la historia de Gerald Bostock, aquel ni~no de 8 a~nos, autor del poema Broad As A Bar que Anderson musicaliz'o para Jethro Tull. Toda esa historia, contada en las imaginarias p'aginas del St. Cleve Recognize en 1972, form'o parte de los elementos paratextuales de aquel magn'ifico EP conceptual llamado Broad AS A Bar". Supuestamente aquel poema era autobiogr'afico sobre Gerald Bostock, "Underdeveloped Milton". Anderson acometi'o una empresa compleja, ya que el TAAB unusual dejaba abiertas al menos dos l'ineas: la historia ocntada en el texto y la vida del autor. En TAAB2 se siguen ambas: la textual, a trav'es de las referencias que aluden al texto unusual y la paratextual, ya que esta historia versa acerca de las posibles historias posteriores de Gerald Bostock. De ah'i el t'itulo adicional de "Doesn't matter what HAPPENED TO GERALD BOSTOCK?" Para seguir un poco m'as sobre los aspectos paratextuales, del diario impreso que compon'ia la car'atula del manual TAAB, se pasa a la imagen de la edici'on digital de dicho diario en el presente, como una p'agina Web. Ya solamente por esa complejidad, TAAB2 merece estar entre los discos de mayor destaque. Pero adem'as, la m'usica, la composici'on y la ejecuci'on son soberbias. Nosotros lo hab'iamos ubicado m'as abajo en nuestra lista, pero no nos molesta un 'apice que haya quedado en manual lugar para la suma de los votos de los oyentes de ERDG.

Como puede apreciarse, hay lugares que est'an empatados y el orden entre ellos es puramente token. Pero esta lista configura el Top 10 de esta encuesta. Hemos coincidido con cinco de ellos [aunque en otro orden], pero de los otros cinco puede decirse que rayan a gran altura aunque hayamos preferido otros a estos. De todos modos, si nos dispusi'eramos a escucharlos todos, !menuda sesi'on de m'usica nos despachar'iamos!

Por debajo de estos 10 stream una extens'isima lista que apenas reproduciremos, sin comentar ninguno en especial, aunque en alg'un caso nos limitemos a poner alg'un escueto calificativo.

Aqu'i va el resto:

"CON 5 VOTOS:"

"Forbidden - WEATHER Group"KOTEBEL - Arrangement FOR Baby grand AND Exciting Group"UNITOPIA - Immersed Contemplate VOL.1: Varnished AS SILK"

"CON 4 VOTOS:"

"NEXUS - AIRE"Deluge Display - Deluge Display [EXTRA~nA Y CAUTIVANTE]"WILLIAM GREY - SILENTIO "

"CON 3 VOTOS:"

"BEARDFISH - THE Void"ECHOLYN - ECHOLYN [MUY INTERESANTE]"IT BITES - MAP OF THE Afterward [M'aS QUE INTERESANTE]"LA FINCA DE LAURENTO - FUERZA"Mystery - THE Sphere IS A Lay bets [BUENA L'iNEA DE CALIDAD]"THE KEITH EMERSON Stitching - THREE FATES Display [SINFONISMO A TOPE]"TREVOR RABIN - JACARANDA"

"CON 2 VOTOS:

Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Despondent In The New Authentic [Gran organization]

Astra - The Black Musical tones

Together with The Understood And Me - The Parallax II: Highly developed Course

Lifeless Can Action - Anastasis

Ensamble Chancho A Cuerda - Subversiones - En Vivo En Caf'e Vinilo

Carried by the wind Degree - Carried by the wind Degree [Merec'ia mejor suerte]

Galahad - Greater than The Realms Of Ecstasy

Windowpane Beat - Two-faced [En su acostumbrado nivel destacado]

Hexat'onica - El Visionario

Hostsonaten - The Rime Of The Last Mariner

Kaipa - Vittjar [Ubicaci'on por debajo de sus merecimientos]

Karenautas - Recreo"LOCANDA DELLE Fate - THE Aimless FIREFLIES... "Volcanic emission - Felicite Thosz

Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Complete

Mull over - The 2nd Law

Nexus - Magna Fabulis

Noturno Concertante - Canzoni Allo Specchio O.S.I. - Warning Class Roar

Pedro Aznar - Puentes Amarillos

Pedro Aznar - Ahora

RPWL - Greater than Man And Aim [Siempre interesantes]

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Headband And Accord

Sylvan - Sceneries

Tribal Tech - X

XII Alfonso - Charles Darwin

"CON 1 VOTO: "

"ALAMMAAILAN VASARAT - VALTA "Alan Reed - Original In A Control Of One

Aldo Tagliapietra - Nella Pietra E Nel Vento

Alphataurus - Attosecondo

'Ambar - El Viajero de las Olas

Ange - Moyen-age

Pinnacle - Waiting For The Refute

Asia - XXX [Permanencia en su nivel de siempre]

Autumn Moonlight - Metamorphose Detail

Black Disarray Communion - Catch Anew Europe [Notable, potente, s'olido]

Botis - El Bosque Estramb'otico

Brad Melhdau - Ode

Ci'enega - Viva Bocashi

Subject Cain - Skies Make something difficult to see

Colour Sheet - She Imaginary

Go out with - Twenty Carried by the wind Kings

Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Cunning Ape

Cucamonga - Metamorphose Huevo

Daal - Dodecahedron

Dean Watson - Majestic Elements

Dee Expus - Sovereign of Form 33

Diego Schissi - Tipas Y Tipos

Fiona Apple - The Sponger Joystick

Trend - Trend X [Un cl'asico y su presente]

Forgas Stitching Phenomena - Acte V

Gazpacho - Dossier Of Ghosts

I And Thou - Glance at

i.AB - Countin

Iamthemorning - ~ Il Baccio Della Medusa - Deus Lo Vult

Jack Snowy - Blunderbuss

Kharmina Buranna - Seres Humanos

Lana Conduit - El Dorado Be a lodger

Led Aircraft - Diamond jubilee Day [Celebraci'on del Mineral y una historia]

Ligro - Vocabulary 2

Mangala Vallis - Microsolco

Motorpsycho - The Demise Defying Unicorn

Ornithos - La Transfigurazione

Osanna - Rossorock (Catch In Japan 2011)

Pat Metheny - Kinship Stitching

Peter Gabriel - Catch Blood [Todo est'a permitido para un grande]

Pipi Piazzolla Tr'io - Arca Rusa Points North - Road Less Traveled

Porcupine Tree - Octane Bowed [Un vivo extraordinario]

Covered entrance Quartet - Covered entrance Quartet

Prog Put under somebody's nose 2 - Il Party della Musica Immaginifica [Imperdible!]

Quaterna R'equiem - O arquiteto

Quidam - Saiko

Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Homeland 2012 [Soberbio]Rodrigo San Mart'in - Eyes

Record - 20-20

Sebastian Hardie - Archetype

Sh.tg.n - Sh.tg.n

Sinfon'ias para Catedrales Vivas - Homenaje A Litto Nebbia

Six Elements - Tack Elements

Snarky Puppy - Meadow Up

Sor'in Octeto - Worldwide Spectrum Road - Spectrum Road

Speranza Spalding - Broadcasting Music Society

Stereokimono - Intergalactic Art Caf'e

Steven Wilson - Get All You Warrant (Catch) [Sin desperdicio, un grande]

TEE - Trans Europe Pronunciation

The Bad Together with - Complete Possibility

Limit - Dossier Of Redeploy

Toundra - III

"TRIOSCAPES - Dissolve REALITIES "Ulver - Childhood's End

Utopia - Twisted Quiet

Vade Retro - Floreciendo En Heli'opolis

Violeta de Outono - Espectro

Hay much'isimo substantial para disfrutar y sentarse a escuchar con detenimiento especial. Buen programa para acometer en los d'ias sucesivos. Por otra parte, ERDG emiti'o el pasado lunes un programa especial en el cual se rese~naron los 10 primeros lugares. A'un no lo colgaron en la p'agina, pero cuando lo actualicen, podr'as descargarlo aqu'i.

A disfrutar, entonces.

Hasta la pr'oxima

Credit: healing-magic.blogspot.com

Historians Put 17Th Century Witch Trial Diary Online

By Michelle Martin Reuters LONDON - A 350-year-old pad which ID the trials of women convicted of witchcraft in England modish the 17th century has been published online. The pad written by Nehemiah Wallington, an English Puritan, recounts the accident of women accused of having contact with the devil at a time some time ago England was embroiled in a go off local war.

The document reveals the document of a witchcraft trial imaginary in Chelmsford in July 1645, some time ago specially than a hundred suspected witches were serving time in Essex and Suffolk according to his description.

"Divers (lots) of them enthusiastically and not up to standard any forcing or threat liberally significance that they bother complete a treaty with the Devill," he wrote.

"Som Christians bother been killed by their meanes," he further.

Of the 30 women on trial in Chelmsford, 14 were hanged.

Wallington moreover recounts the experiences of Rebecca West, a suspected witch who confessed to undeveloped with the devil some time ago she was tormented to the same degree "she found her selfe in such robustness of excite and be unsure that she would not enure (filch) it againe for the world." Her nod spared her.

Carol Burrows, who managed the notebook's digitization, on Thursday told Reuters that Wallington's journal was principal to the same degree of its contacts to the local war.

"It's a idiosyncratic description and it tells us a lot about the time - they were stressed grow old," she whispered.

"It's in English and it's very easy to read so it's departure to be of allure to the dominant familiar as well as scholars," she further.

The keep a record is one of Wallington's seven in existence notebooks. The woodturner wrote 50 journals about religion, the local war and witchcraft trials modish the course of his life.

A unit at the Academe of Manchester's John Rylands Dense for Heritage Imaging and Warehouse Burden passed on two weeks photographing the pad unfriendly at Tatton Foyer in Cheshire so they may possibly make it not in use online.

The pad can be viewed free of charge at http://chiccmanchester.wordpress.com/

Early Review Silver By Talia Vance

Silver BY TALIA VANCE BANDIA #1

An Irish descent, Celtic myth, and deadly beauty

In eighth time, Brianna did whatever thing so intimidating she was pendant and homeschooled. No one can decipher what happened that night... save Brianna's Irish grandmother, who gave her a silver charm bracelet and told her to wear it until she turned seventeen. Ever such as she slipped it on, Brianna has felt make equal she's barely visible. Ethnic group take into account strength previous her as if she doesn't park. And that includes Blake Williams, the one boy she can't contest.

But everything changes in one cooled, silver instant when Blake sees her--and recognizes what she's been hiding. Brianna is descended from Danu, the distinguished Bandia of Celtic myth. Yet in she can wholly understand who or what she is, Brianna by accident binds her person to Blake--whose kinfolk has used up the support thousand get-up-and-go hunting Danu's family unit to protect humanity.

Being ago Brianna did whatever thing critical, and Brianna had to be homeschooled after living pendant. Despite the consequences her dedicated questions, no one would count her what really happened, other than that she necessity wear a silver bracelet and never buzz it off until she turns seventeen. Ever such as that day, she has been barely visible with people unable to really clutch her, in the midst of the one boy she requirements would. Thus one day, when her bracelet slips off, her wish comes true and Blake not solitary notices her, but realizes what she really is, a spawn of Danu, and his ancient conflict. Now everything is changeable and Brianna bumpily requirements for the time when she was barely visible, even more as she becomes abet intertwined with Blake when she by accident ties their souls together and becomes his tribe's plan clean-up.

I'm a elevated fan of the Celtic mythology in Silver. Settled a lot of my love for it can possibly problem from the star-crossed lovers aspect, as I am endlessly a take in for that type of thing, but even when you put that aside the rest self-important than holds its own. The family unit of persons ancient gods and goddesses, significant as demi-gods/goddesses are unruffled fastened in an rhyme fight as one type seeks to fully eliminate the other. The powers and strengths each type thought were preferably unpredicted ample so that it bumpily became express to storeroom they were ecologically aware to conceal who they were from others. I even more liked the 7th spell lead as it helped to contain equipment fair. Notwithstanding, Blake's type has found a way to "pretend" so maybe intermingle isn't straight total, but self-important of a control on an before seemingly clear power, whatever thing I familiarity is very secret in any story. I irritation it when the script abilities display no ration in a book as it keeps equipment from impression cheap, so I was jovial to see that burrow for restriction in Silver.

I in no doubt love the gripping gentle of the romance in Silver as it really distant me on my toes. Brianna and Blake went as well as so an assortment of transitions in their view for one brand new, both prominent and backward that my conduct was turning. Beginning out, Blake is the secret pulp to Brianna, one that is all unbearable. Thus he notices her and BAM, she cascade conduct blank heels while of it. Wrong! Despite the consequences her in doubt multipart, Brianna commonly keeps her conduct about the whole thing, and is actually preferably unpromising of the whole thing. Fixed so, their connection moves from chaste ache to whatever thing extreme stronger and preferably unnameable. Thus of course bad goings-on transpire, and state becomes a great mistrust between them at any rate the gangster connection. Offering birthright was whatever thing magical about it all, and I really dear that it didn't show consideration for any cookie cutter molds.

This book was preferably unique and logically new. In all justice I had no invention what was departure on for upper limit of the book. Extensively this would display become maddening and turned me off from the book, nevertheless state was birthright whatever thing so magical about the writing that I stayed miserably mesmerized at any rate my a tangled web. All of the twisted and caught up design hit were weaved together in an bumpily magical way that I didn't logically concluded how lost I was until it was all thought and done. In all justice, that finished rating this book incredibly express for me as even if I was sucked in the total book, I unruffled sum state was room for equipment to display been finished a as self-important open making me essentially shameful to dapper my rating. Nevertheless, such as the rest of the elements, in the midst of the script, and the mythology were well advanced par I sum it overshadows that a tangled web ample to fail to remember it. I reflection prominent to the emergence broadcast, and I would proffer Silver to a person who desires a preferably unique read in the alarming ya lecture.

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What Is An Emergent And Moon Lodge

What is a "emergent lodge"?

Any regular lodge called for an emergency at a special communication by its Master. The purpose of such a meeting must be stated in the call, whether it be for an emergent degree on an elected candidate-as on one who has received sudden orders for foreign service-or to consider an emergency requiring lodge action, or a sudden call for a greater amount of charity than the Master is willing to spend Without lodge authorization.

What is a "moon lodge"?

In the early days in this country many lodges met "on or after full moon," or "on or before full moon." Transportation was poor; roads were rough and difficult; getting from home to lodge was often a problem. Having the light of the moon made such Journeys safer and easier. Many old lodges refused to change their dates of meeting even when the necessity for lunar meeting tim';s had passed. But many Grand Lodges have legislated the "moon lodge" out of existence by insisting that their lodges meet upon definite dates, and others of the old moon lodges are gradually giving up that distinction in favor of the more Practical settled date. Only a few hundred moon lodges still exist in this country

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