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Post by billmcelligott on Apr 23, 2017 9:10:00 GMT
>which word The 3 most important Sumerian gods, from the lowest are Ea, Baal, An. Is that clear enough? These are not personal names and they respectively translate as: - House in the Water (equivalent to Buck House) - Lord - Heaven I believe I know the word. i am just pointing out that it is not universally used. Royal Arach in the UK does not use this word. It does not mean one ritual is right and another wrong.
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Post by billmcelligott on Apr 23, 2017 9:22:00 GMT
>sections in Royal Arch that repeat Bible verse do includes some old phrasing. I am not familiar with your ritual. I also note that decoding Holy Royal Arch is partially dependent on knowing why An was called Holy Arch by the ancient Egyptians. I do not know of any Royal Arch connections in Ancient Edyptian history, There are references to an Ark being carried in some wall carvings. Arches were rarely used in Egyptian architecture.
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Post by peter2 on Apr 23, 2017 21:39:48 GMT
>I do not know of any Royal Arch connections in Ancient Edyptian history, Operative ritual links TMH (An - the Egyptian "god of millions of years") to the Pole Star around which the arch of the heavens rotates. He was thought to have come from the Pole Star and hence was called Holy Arch. In the Sumerian writings An instituted royalty, establishing kings to rule for the gods - hence TMH is Holy Royal Arch. >Royal Arach in the UK does not use this word. The origins of the ritual are in Sumer - Abraham was from Sumer. It seems that the Jews forced the circle of the zodiac into straight lines to allow the geometry of the Tree of Life to be represented in Chapter. Look at the locations of the officers. They all fit on the sephiroth of the 3 column Tree. The Jews were not so self-assured that they could eliminate the Sumerian words and so in the local ritual we have both Sumerian and Jewish words. Recent changes in the UK were perhaps made in ignorance of the origin of the technique we see preserved as the triple grip. The introduction of vault is Scottish and points to the importance of the foundations at Rosslyn - whence the appearance of Latin words in the local ritual. Do you have the Latin for "if you understand this then you know enough"? This is the only place in Masonry where we are told that we can know enough. Odd? No doubt you have realized that the 3 Principals are the same as the Heavenly Sovereign and the 2 Generals in 18th. Read "The Twelfth Planet" to see why the Heavenly Sovereign had to descend repeatedly. www.goodreads.com/book/show/508957.The_12th_PlanetThe 2 Generals from the human perspective correspond to the Prince of Peace and the Prince of Darkness.
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Post by billmcelligott on Apr 24, 2017 13:12:02 GMT
>I do not know of any Royal Arch connections in Ancient Edyptian history, Operative ritual links TMH (An - the Egyptian "god of millions of years") to the Pole Star around which the arch of the heavens rotates. He was thought to have come from the Pole Star and hence was called Holy Arch. In the Sumerian writings An instituted royalty, establishing kings to rule for the gods - hence TMH is Holy Royal Arch. No doubt you have realized that the 3 Principals are the same as the Heavenly Sovereign and the 2 Generals in 18th. Read "The Twelfth Planet" to see why the Heavenly Sovereign had to descend repeatedly. www.goodreads.com/book/show/508957.The_12th_PlanetThe 2 Generals from the human perspective correspond to the Prince of Peace and the Prince of Darkness. There is not a Universal acceptance of what I would term as the Old name on the centre pedastal. Wiki gives us this commentary : WORD REMOVED is a word which was allegedly used historically in some rituals of Royal Arch Masonry, and derivations thereof. There has been much debate over the origin and meaning of this word. There is no consensus even among Masonic researchers as to its meaning or legitimacy: one Masonic scholar alleges that the word first appeared in an early 18th-century Royal Arch ritual as the name of an allegorical explorer searching for the ruins of King Solomon's Temple. Another Masonic scholar believes it is a descriptive name for God in Hebrew[citation needed]; The most common masonic explanation is that it is a word derived from combining parts of the name of God in different historic languages.[citation needed] Non-Masonic authors, especially those with an anti-masonic attitude, have alleged that it is a Masonic name for God, and even the name of a unique "Masonic God", despite repeated statements by Freemasonry's officials that "There is no separate Masonic God", nor a separate proper name for a deity in any branch of Freemasonry. It is this interpretation of a "Masonic God" that has led to debates about and condemnation of Freemasonry by several religious groups. In England, no ritual containing the name has been in official Masonic use since February 1989
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Post by peter2 on Apr 25, 2017 0:20:43 GMT
>There is not a Universal acceptance of what I would term as the Old name on the centre pedastal
In my view that was the Jewish brethren introducing their kabbalistic words into an older ritual.
The central placement of course prevented the Triple Grip being practiced in the center of the zodiac thereby further obscuring the nature of the technique.
The recent English replacement of the original substitute words with a more remote substitute is yet another layer obscuring the genuine secrets. Why brethren who admit to not having the genuine secrets believe they should alter rituals is a puzzle.
A remanent of the older ritual can be seen in the TB where there is a semi-circular pavement in the East - reminding us of when the ritual had the signs of the zodiac in a circle around the arch formed by the pole star.
The kabbalists however thought their linear Tree of Life more important than the original circular/spherical geometry. Were they correct?
That rather depends upon whether they understood how the Tree of Life fits on to the temple that extends from E to W and N to S i.e. across the planet and under the hemispherical arch of the heavens.
The proof of the pudding of course can be seen in the flows of Light ritually induced (or not) by the Companions.
As might be deduced from the above, I suspect that Freemasonry is at the end of a cycle and soon will need to regenerate based upon application of Masonic Science - if brethren can be found capable and willing to do that. Regardless, the GAOTU will make his own decisions about the training of humanity.
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Post by billmcelligott on Apr 25, 2017 12:54:00 GMT
Just making sure the reader is not given the impression that there is only one viewpoint on the Royal Arch ritual.
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