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Post by whistler on Feb 21, 2010 6:53:48 GMT
I appreciate Judaic Symbolism in our Ritual - With Hebrew being the oldest language on planet earth still in use and recognizable by the ancients of a few thousand years ago - It reminds me that as we peel back the onion of wisdom - We can go back to Moses the Egyptian and even further
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Post by ruffashlar on Feb 24, 2010 14:18:29 GMT
With Hebrew being the oldest language on planet earth still in use and recognizable by the ancients of a few thousand years agoThis is an enduring myth, despite it being well-known that the languages of the Andaman Islands near India date back some 60,000 years. One of them became extinct only recently. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Andamanese
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Post by sid on Feb 24, 2010 22:06:12 GMT
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Post by ruffashlar on Feb 26, 2010 17:36:52 GMT
Didn't want to bring in AtlantisPlease don't! I don't think Patrick Duffy has worked since the infamous Dallas shower scene! The Hebrew letters are *pretty* old; but that's because, in their original forms (before people started writing them with a brushpen) they were actually the letters of the Phoenician alphabet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet(actually an abjad, being vowelless). This is also the origin of the Greek, Roman and Arabic writing systems. It is also believed to have influenced the Indian Devanagari script and even the Germanic Runes.
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Post by beersheva on Mar 1, 2014 16:48:00 GMT
Hebrew is a language that came after Aramaic and uses the same letters as Aramaic, which is not the oldest language on the block. A book by General Albert Pike which I saw in the Scottish Rite Library on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles described Freemasonry as "Universal Judaism". But, it's really much much more than that, and Pike was probably speaking "tongue-in-cheek".
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