ruffashlar
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Lodge Milncroft No. 1515 (GLoS), Govanhill Royal Arch Chapter 523 (S.G.R.A.C.S.)
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Post by ruffashlar on Aug 27, 2011 21:57:30 GMT
For God's sake, would everyone please stop talking bollocks?
(After I've finished, that is)
The final and hiddenmost truth of the Masonic secret of secrets...
The ultimate revelation...
The golden apple of enlightenment...
The supreme arcanum and the ineffable doodah of the mystic wotsit...
... is that there is nothing more precious or more wonderful than love, understanding and friendship for one's fellow man (or woman).
It's what Shakespeare rhymed about, what the Beatles sang about, what Jesus taught, and what every prophet, mystic and Godbotherer worth their salt talked about, too. And it's what I'm telling you: it's the only thing that matters, the only thing you need.
Love.
Love.
Love.
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Post by billmcelligott on Aug 27, 2011 22:11:27 GMT
Dum, Dumti, Dum
All you need is love.
Love is all you need.
Dum, Dumti, Dum
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Post by fractal3rd on Aug 30, 2011 7:24:47 GMT
There are so many things to understand just within the first degree alone. But like that Great Devine teacher said... "Ask and you will receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be open." He also said "for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known." Masonary I believe tries to keep this tradition in opening the door to those who really seek, knock and ask. So why unravel the secrets of life and the Universe alone, when you could unravel them in the presence of like minded Brothers and Sisters and in the presence of God who made the Universe Himself? If there were no secrets to find life would be boring. Remember, to know a secret or thing, and to understand it; are 2 very different things . So in all you asking ask for wisdom and in all you seek, seek knowledge and in all your knocking, knock on the door of UNDERSTANDING... even if you think you know the major secrets of masonary.
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Post by maat on Aug 31, 2011 5:44:22 GMT
Ruff, I have a hunch that sitting on a hill loving the world and all that is in it, just won't be enough.
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Post by peteprint1 on Sept 1, 2011 7:59:30 GMT
This is a well-know quote from Casanova regarding the Masonic "secret":
"Those who become Freemasons only for the sake of finding out the secret of the order, run a very great risk of growing old under the trowel without ever realizing their purpose. Yet there is a secret, but it is so inviolable that it has never been confided or whispered to anyone. Those who stop at the outward crust of things imagine that the secret consists in words, in signs, or that the main point of it is to be found only in reaching the highest degree. This is a mistaken view: the man who guesses the secret of Freemasonry, and to know it you must guess it, reaches that point only through long attendance in the lodges, through deep thinking, comparison, and deduction. He would not trust that secret to his best friend in Freemasonry, because he is aware that if his friend has not found it out, he could not make any use of it after it had been whispered in his ear. No, he keeps his peace, and the secret remains a secret."
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, Memoirs, Volume 2a, Paris, p. 33
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Post by stewvan on Sept 1, 2011 18:56:30 GMT
Well said brother Peter,
Although i do like the magnetism conversation as well.
Ironic as it may seem to us "educated' masons"....... Our forebears spoke of chemical reactions, and scientific heresies, mathematics possibilities such as calculus....I can only image the laughter and humiliation those 'educated men' of the time gave them for such ridiculous notions.
Perhaps our masonic journey goes in circles and those who have not learned the humility of possibilities, and exception to the exceptional, are destined to be those 'educated' men so comfortable in their own 'complete' understanding of things, that possibilities generate mockery. and the true 'secrets' of the day are only grasped by a few.
Just a thought...
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Post by peteprint1 on Sept 6, 2011 8:00:40 GMT
Well put as well Brother Stewart.
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