Post by stewartedwards on Nov 18, 2013 13:54:34 GMT 9.5
As an aside but not unrelated sometimes I do wonder if UGLE really knows the power that it has to reilluminate the whole masonic world, if it ever chose to do so.
Anyhow time to go back to bed.
A Simple Man, who tried and failed to reilluminate this planet.
Slogging Scotsman Ma’at Ankh Re
Who am I trying to kid for I can’t even resolve family darkness. Whoever is next to step up, please do.
All aspirants know, and down the ages have been taught, that a clean mind and a pure heart, love of truth, and a life of service and unselfishness, are prime requisites, and where they are lacking, naught avails and none of the great secrets can be imparted. (4 – 543).
I have a nagging suspicion that the innermost genuine secrets were lost when our soul incarnated into a physical body.
The Two Pillars at the porch or entrance.... the two legs.
The Flood or Deluge.... our body is mostly composed of salt water.
The Fire is Soul/Spirit.
The Serpent which 'tempted Eve with Knowledge and/of Life Everlasting' is the Kundalini (Fire) energy which lies coiled at the base on the spine (in a triangular shape area referred to as the sacrum)
The Middle Chamber - the heart.
The Chair of King Solomon - the crown of the head.
We lost the secrets when we incarnated, we discover part of them again when we raise ourselves up by the right thinking, feeling and doing.
Mythology tells us that before we incarnate we pass through the 'river' Lethe one of the 'five rivers' in Hades.
Hades = Shade ? Five rivers - five senses ?
Good reply, this has always been MHO, I believe this is part of S.D. Found to be vieled in the severel ceremonies of C.M.
When I see some politicians speaking on the TV I switch it off. I do not wish to be contaminated by the emanations of their speech.
Really? How do you keep up with what is going on in the world? Surely all politicians are not contaminating ... I know two very fine men who are politicians, and I have met a Freemason or three who leave a lot to be desired. I listen to them all and then engage where I can. Sometimes it makes a difference.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth