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Heal
Nov 6, 2004 10:14:51 GMT
Post by Stash on Nov 6, 2004 10:14:51 GMT
"HEAL: An act of a legally constituted body of Masons by which a person who has been irregularly admitted to the mysteries of Freemasonry is made a lawful Mason. When the person to be "healed" has been initiated into a self-constituted or false lodge he can be healed only by a reinitiation....."
Anybody see or hear of this happening??
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Heal
Nov 6, 2004 12:59:37 GMT
Post by taylorsman on Nov 6, 2004 12:59:37 GMT
I have not as yet come across this happening, but it makes sense both as regards the use of the word Heal as in "to heal a breach" and the very idea has echoes elsewhere.For example when a convert is received into a new Religion he often takes part in a Ceremony where he pledges Loyalty to his new Faith and forswears his old. Likewise someone obtaining nationality of a new Country will attend a Ceremony to swear allegience , and indeed of a Brother from another Constitution joins a British Lodge he is required to pledge his Obedience to the Grand Master and his successors.
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Heal
Nov 10, 2004 4:11:35 GMT
Post by ruffashlar on Nov 10, 2004 4:11:35 GMT
To heal (Old English haelan, "make whole", hael="hale"; cognate with Greek holos) is to close up a wound, repair a break, restore health (haelthu, "wholeness"). Considering the Penalties, anyone who has Initiated irregularly, or by extension been so Initiated, must be symbolically spilling more juice than a skewered satsuma. They'd certainly need more than a Band-Aid.
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Heal
Nov 10, 2004 17:44:57 GMT
Post by leonardo on Nov 10, 2004 17:44:57 GMT
Very interesting topic.
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