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Post by crossbow on Dec 22, 2013 14:18:18 GMT
Getting around can be good. There are benefits and detriments of course.
I wonder why in your masonic practice you haven't had those questions answered about control of thought, the science of morality, the nature of word, and so forth. If you are looking for answers along those lines then it is all there in the ritual. Your assertions about mainstream freemasonry lacking in teaching control of freewill and thought and the science of morality are simply not true. Such matters are thoroughly taught throughout masonic ritual. From basic self discipline, through moral guidance, training in social skills and masculine citizenship, conduct and virtues, self governance, the mechanism of the soul, and for those interested there are teachings on the hidden sciences. Its all there in the ritual, the charges, the t-boards, the positions and duties of the officers, the furnishings and layout of the lodge. In Victoria there are lodges whose members are known to have a more esoteric focus and which any interested Master Mason may attend and make contact with similar minds and learn from each other. And there are regional classes held on various subjects ranging through etiquette, protocol, decorum, public speaking, body language, and so on. And I expect the standard is similar in other Australian states.
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Post by peter2 on Dec 22, 2013 20:18:23 GMT
The mysterious ladder veiled by Jacob's Ladder is shown on the EA TB as the only path to the Blazing Star. We are told to practice faith, hope and charity. That does not seem to me to be a science of morality, but rather the preparation before instruction in such a science.
A science of morality does exist but I have never seen it explicitly taught in Masonry. All I have heard is moralising.
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Post by crossbow on Dec 23, 2013 3:22:17 GMT
The mysterious ladder veiled by Jacob's Ladder is shown on the EA TB as the only path to the Blazing Star. We are told to practice faith, hope and charity. That does not seem to me to be a science of morality, but rather the preparation before instruction in such a science. A science of morality does exist but I have never seen it explicitly taught in Masonry. All I have heard is moralising.
Of course. How you describe it is how it appears to you.
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Post by Marcus on Dec 23, 2013 10:30:12 GMT
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The lost word - Is an expression which defines a communication we once had then lost.
Perhaps, best explained by the allegorical story of Adam. The fall of Adam was his loss of Eden (perfect harmony) by consuming the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Knowledge (intellegence logic and reason) become our (mankind’s) distraction from personnel human harmony will all that is now. Humans become obsessed with wanting. Adam originallly lived as peace an d harmony without wanting. Very happy and content with himself and the world he lived in. Humans lost contact with the true state of peace and harmony that is the only state of all of nature and the Universe. Our intelligence (fruit from the tree of knowledge) drives us to question, doubt and fear. To restore the lost word you must become the master of yourself (the temple). To command or master your inner questions, doubts and fears. Trust me, it can be done with time or circumstance.
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Post by peter2 on Dec 23, 2013 11:22:09 GMT
To restore the lost word you must become the master of yourself (the temple). I have no doubt that each of us must master him/her self. So how does self-mastery disclose the lost word? For example, taking Masonry literally, do not 3 Masons need to agree before the word can be given? (Are those Masons self-made?) I suspect that several allegories are being confounded.
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