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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2007 1:06:11 GMT
Happy Birthday KarenBy now I expect you are one of our "time-immemorial" treasures. I thought the following image of the "third pillar" was appropriate to mark the occasion: Augustin M. lith., Lith. Fourquemin, La Maçonnerie Secourant L’Humanité (Masonry Helping Humanity), Paris, chez Kiener, Place Maubert, 41, the accompanying text reads: ‘Elle aide l'infortune et tarit tous les pleurs: 'veuves, enfants, vieillards en elle out un refuge. De'elle vient la lumiére, et, la prenant pour juge l'esclave lui demande un term á ses douleurs.’ ≈ ‘It relieves their misfortune and dries the tears of: widows, children and the old and homeless. From it comes the Light, and, esteeming its judgement, the slave appeals for mercy.’ Courtesy The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania. The sentiments are akin to those by Emma Lazarus in The New Colossus and associated with the Statue of Liberty. "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Post by matt on Jan 14, 2007 1:12:19 GMT
Happy Birthday!
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Post by Bettendorf on Jan 14, 2007 2:35:57 GMT
Happy Birthday Bro!
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2007 3:31:27 GMT
We ' mice' need to stick together.
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Post by giovanni on Jan 14, 2007 6:45:27 GMT
happy birthday!
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Post by imakegarb on Jan 14, 2007 9:58:28 GMT
:'-) Oh my. Y'know, of all my friends (and I have many. I'm at 12th Night, I'm surrounded by them), this is the only place to notice it's my 44th birthday. Not a biggie I suppose. But I wonder. . . Two years ago, I was 42. Then I was the answer. Last year I was 43. 4+3 is 7. So I was the lucky number. What to make of this year? Thank you
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2007 10:51:43 GMT
Forty-four!Four plus four equals EIGHT. In Chinese tradition this is esteemed as the luckiest number.
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Post by staffs on Jan 14, 2007 14:58:38 GMT
I was 43 last Monday.. i had not sussed the number 7
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Post by Bettendorf on Jan 14, 2007 16:27:19 GMT
:'-) Oh my. Y'know, of all my friends (and I have many. I'm at 12th Night, I'm surrounded by them), this is the only place to notice it's my 44th birthday. Not a biggie I suppose. But I wonder. . . Very fuzzy indeed. Maybe I shouldnt say anything, de-mystify the poetry but, but! the messageboard shows a handy little notifier of all forum members birthdays at the bottom of mainpage. We have an upperhand to your close acquaintances. Hope you did something fun for your B-day!
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Post by keith on Jan 15, 2007 2:10:50 GMT
Many happy returns of the day Karen. How's the cake going? or is it all gone !
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Post by imakegarb on Jan 15, 2007 3:48:46 GMT
The Christmas cake was a serious hit with everyone, dispite the whoops I didn't realize I'd made until I started dishing it out. You may recall you suggested I drizzle 3/4 of a cup of rum over the cake before I wrapped it up. Well, the cakes were large and I wanted to take it with me over a number of visits. So I cut each cake into four generous portions and then drizzled 3/4 of a cup of rum over each portion before I sealed it. That was three cups in all for each cake Well, I thought not a thing about it until the third portion, though I did notice the cakes were more moist than I'd expected. Then someone mentioned they seemed especially strong and . . . well, then it hit me. Oh my. But everyone raved over them. And my cooking buds suggested I make the same mistake next year but then, maybe, let them cure a bit longer. Oh, Tamrin, about that image . . . something I noticed in it for the first time. What is the broken mask on the ground? And that dude to the left, the one dressed a bit like an inquisitor, armed with a dagger, a flaggelent's whip and a rosary. I have an idea but who is he? BTW, my age here is listed incorrectly. I'm only 44 -er, I mean, 29 Thanks everyone!! ;D
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 15, 2007 5:18:43 GMT
Oh, Tamrin, about that image . . . something I noticed in it for the first time. What is the broken mask on the ground? And that dude to the left, the one dressed a bit like an inquisitor, armed with a dagger, a flaggelent's whip and a rosary. I have an idea but who is he? You ask more than I can confidently or authoritatively answer. I would not stake my reputation on it but my subjective impression is that SHE, as the Middle Pillar of 'stability'; as the Lost Word (see the initials on the pedestal); and as the Star in the East (above her head)—Astarte / Asherah, has revealed her true, radiant and beneficent nature after breaking free of the chains of heresy and from the demonic mask of defamation, imposed by the 'Silas' character, chiefly representing the mainstream church.
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Post by imakegarb on Jan 15, 2007 6:36:08 GMT
Hmmmmm. Perhaps more than I should have asked. I'll look out for the initials, and this Silas dude, later I do wonder (little smile) that she should be facing the East. And who might be looking back at her.
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 15, 2007 7:39:55 GMT
Karen wrote:Unlike Masonic 'Temples' King Solomon's Temple (see also the Wikipedia entry), was, if it existed, oriented East to West, with the Holy of Holies, and thus the image of Asherah (the 'pillar' of 'stability'), in the West. Even so, the orientation depicted is odd and I suspect it has more to do with artistic inclusion and composition than with strictly accurate representation. Please note the image of the sun, (emblematic of the [R.] W.M.), partly obscured by the watered silk baldric. Note too the fox head clasp, reminiscent of the little foxes enigmatically described in The Song of Solomon (e.g., 2:15). Similar themes are found elsewhere: Left: La Franc-Maçonnerie Triomphante Right: Freemasonry Instructing the People My reference to 'Silas' was in allusion to one of your least favourite books, The Da Vinci Code: Silas was a zealous but misguided monk. You said you had an idea concerning the figure—would you care to share it?
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Post by corab on Jan 15, 2007 12:27:26 GMT
Happy birthday Karen!
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Post by waynecowley on Jan 15, 2007 13:09:45 GMT
Belated Happy Returns from me too Karen
Wayne
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Post by keith on Jan 15, 2007 18:39:17 GMT
All that extra rum wuld do no harm (to the cake). Sounds like a good idea, I'll try it myself next time. ANyway, I'm glad it was a success. Did you try the fudge recipe?
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Post by imakegarb on Jan 15, 2007 18:47:16 GMT
Thanks every one.
I've not read the book, I have no plans to, but I was imprisoned on a cross-country flight and did see the movie. His name hadn't sunk in with me but the character, Silas, in the movie was a faily well-done stereotype of a religious zealot. Empower him a bit more and we've got heretic a'la flambe on the barby.
I'd say this character rather closely represents a Silasish-type person and I had that type of person in mind. His whip, supposedly to discipline himself, is instead the symbol of the pain he inflicts upon others. His rosary, used for meditation and prayer, is instead the symbol of his empowered state. The dagger, symbolic of the only way he knows to squelch any truth that doesn't conform to his own - to kill it, or at least seem to.
And ever he lingers in the shadows, his back to the Light but his eye ever turned toward it, always ready for his chance to rise again to put out the Light. She has never struck him down but then She's never tried. For he's in our midst and he is outnumbered. It's up to us whether he ever gains the upper hand.
But he often does. We not only allow it to happen, we encourage him to do so. For it is in the nature of the majority of us to seek the Light but to do so with as little discomfort as possible. We don't like to make waves. We like to allow others to make waves and to place those who do into authoritative positions. We think they'll keep us safe, and many of them do, but we don't like to say anything when they don't. We don't want to be the odd one out, the one next to come under the gazed of this empowered one. And so jerks have a lot of power in this world.
So how do you know her baldric is watered silk?
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 15, 2007 19:42:25 GMT
Imakegarb asked:Knowing of your expertise in matters of garb, I tremble before your question . I had thought the wavy pattern on the baldric was a characteristic of watered silk. Naturally, I bow to your judgment on the matter and, in any case, I attach no significance to the type of fabric used in this case. Even so, I would like to know your opinion, so as to not make the same blunder again.
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Post by imakegarb on Jan 15, 2007 22:46:32 GMT
Oh my, there's bo blunder. So far as I know, this is a drawn image, not a photograph. It's just that when you mentioned such a specific fabric, I thought you read somewhere that she wears this sort of baldric.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cause you any stress over it.
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