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Post by fractal3rd on Aug 22, 2011 6:41:10 GMT
Hi there,
I was lucky I guess I was not even looking to become a mason - I had just enquired about it on a British Fed website - I did not know woman could be masons (or co-frees), they promptly refered my query to the South Federation (LDH) and I was contacted within a week by a South Aftrican representative. It took me 2 years to decide to become a mason, anyhoo my initiation was on Saturday!
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Post by fractal3rd on Aug 22, 2011 6:15:25 GMT
Hey hi, or maybe I should say, fraternal greetings brother. It was quite and experience this weekend, 3 ppl got initiated. So I got to stay and witness the ceremeony after my own one, in its entirety as well. So many questions. But I have the MPGC as my mentore, so I am sure I will be taught well. But can I ask - having read Albert Pikes Morals and Dogma - a while ago (the 1st deg now makes some sense ). He does mention that the lower degrees should be in some ways misled and some infact do not deserve the truth at all, do most lodges hold this view? I like alot of what he said - smart dude. My fav quote is: "They are not right because they are His laws, but His laws because they are right."
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Post by fractal3rd on Aug 18, 2011 14:23:01 GMT
Hi all, just wanted to get an esoteric understanidng of "As above so Below, as Within so Without"
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Post by fractal3rd on Aug 18, 2011 13:35:56 GMT
I once watched an interesting dvd on the Nephilum (Mis translation in some versions of the bible). The Sons of God, was a translation of Bene HaElohim - literally off the Most High - then sons of Man were off Adam.
So the theory was there were two 'races' on earth one a hibrid of angelic beings and one of adam.
Anyhow the translation to Nephilum should have been Gigas in Greek - Meaning Earth Born - but it was translated Giant. It is interesting that the so called Satanic Bible discovered in The Czech Republic has the name Codex Gigas. The Codex of the Earth born. This is where the concept of evil or demons truely came from - if the hibrid beings had a non typical soul/spirit where would they go should they die - hence the concept of Spirits was borne.
Also, if you had to read the Lost book of Enoch (did not make it into the Torah or Septuagent), this gives an account of Enochs intercession on the behalf of these "Nephilum" and God's response to it. Awesome book - even if you are not Christian - FYI Lucifer is never mentioned here - and it gives account of all the fallen (just to follow on the Thread about Lucifer).
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Post by fractal3rd on Aug 18, 2011 13:22:36 GMT
Just a hello. I am new to the forum and just wanted to say Hi. Also I am not a mason yet! My initiation is on Saturday. It took me 2 years of to-ing and fro-ing to decide. Here goes!
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