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Post by paul on May 7, 2012 9:04:49 GMT 9.5
And of course, those with multiple incarnations in single sex institutions (monasteries, nunneries, armies) tend to have most emotional experience with the same sex.
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Post by stewartedwards on May 7, 2012 22:57:12 GMT 9.5
Change of gender between lives certainly occurs, but it takes more than one life to get the hang of the new gender. Even one's incarnational brethren can take some time to adapt to your new gender. Paul Would you suggest that this is why I have a fairly stong feminine side?
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Post by paul on May 8, 2012 5:35:00 GMT 9.5
... Would you suggest that this is why I have a fairly strong feminine side? The chakra intelligences also get recycled, mostly within groups and families. For example, in your case, the emotional intelligence might be inherited from a grandmother or great grandmother. That could, depending on the previous owner, provide quite a soft emotional character.
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Post by LorrB on May 10, 2012 8:40:05 GMT 9.5
Safe and intelligent judgment on any question depends upon the knowledge of the opposite phase of the thing discussed. Judgement of an individual does not depend solely upon his good points or upon his bad points, but upon a blending of the two. If you are giving a learned discussion on the subject up Up, be certain that you have considered equally the problem of Down. People whose knowledge is limited to only one side of a question are unfit to pass judgement on any phase of it. This is a rule very frequently broken in Nature, for the majority of people who talk with glibness concerning things have totally ignored other viewpoints which may have an important bearing upon the subject.
Every element in Nature has its opposite. In most cases the opposite of a thing is the lack of that thing. Light is an element; darkness is the absence of it. Knowledge is an evolved state; ignorance is the lack of it. Good is a quality; evil is the least degree of good. As we evolve, we form a triangle out of the opposites by lifting our own centre of consciousness above the plane in which lie the two point of our horizon.
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Post by paul on May 10, 2012 9:04:43 GMT 9.5
Since we have 2 eyes and 2 ears, we may also have 2 opinions - on everything?
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Post by LorrB on May 10, 2012 10:27:34 GMT 9.5
... on the one hand, but then again on the other ...
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Post by LorrB on May 10, 2012 10:32:42 GMT 9.5
we form a triangle out of the opposites by lifting our own centre of consciousness above the plane in which lie the two point of our horizon.
Best explanation of the Triangle ever, imo. Good men becoming better. The point within a circle might be an illustration of a cone (looking up from the inside?)
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Post by paul on May 10, 2012 10:42:18 GMT 9.5
The point within a circle might be an illustration of a cone (looking up from the inside?) If the Point within the Circle actually refers to a chakra then it will generally be spherical. The relevant chakra might sit just above Keter corresponding to Ain (An/On)
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Post by LorrB on May 11, 2012 16:38:38 GMT 9.5
... just like the Star in the East.
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Post by jackjack on May 14, 2012 15:09:33 GMT 9.5
Ein Soph is a distinctively Jewish interpretation; in many masonic writings, when the word "ancient wisdom" is used, doesn't it mean a collection of various mystical texts from ages past? Secondly, Hall makes a very veiled reference at one of the primary teachings of Buddhism in trying to teach the concept of the proper application of numbers in understanding the origins of the dynamic power that created the universe--effortless action. Thirdly, the soul of the individual is like the body; the main difference lies in the fact that the one is invisible and the other visible. Both however develop through "diet and exercise." St Paul says, "Glorify God in the spirit of your mind" and in another place "I delight to follow God after the inner man" and in another "Grow in GRACE [spiritual power] and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb6ShUYq-1k
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Post by jackjack on May 14, 2012 15:13:12 GMT 9.5
...and of course...
"Exercise [vigorously stretch] your mind toward godliness [virtue]."
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Post by paul on May 14, 2012 17:28:36 GMT 9.5
The set of Ain, Ain Soph and Ain Soph Aur is probably an attempt to link theological history with metaphysical reality.
Thus Ain/Anu/An/On (TMH) is theologically above Earth humanity hence must be represented as such on the Tree of Life on to which the human fits.
This theological requirement may be combined with the need to represent the energy centres that exist further above the human than the Tree shows.
Thus Ain Soph may be a theological name for an observable energy centre (chakra)
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Post by jackjack on May 15, 2012 3:24:03 GMT 9.5
I disagree...
For I find it impossible for a masonic authority to promote one belief system over the other; rather, it has been my observation that the masonic authors pull from various mystical systems and use them in this way to bring out the teachings of Masonry.
For a masonic authority to promote one belief system over the other is a clear cut violation of the landmarks and the blueprint for the masonic lectures.
I say this Paul b/c it looks like you're attempting to make it appear that Manly is promoting Christian Science or Neoplatonism; true, Masonry does have certain elements of both views but I've never heard of a masonic authority be in favor of one system of belief over the other.
Maybe I misread your post but that is what it appears you're doing in your post.
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Post by paul on May 15, 2012 5:30:47 GMT 9.5
There is a strong Jewish influence in the present format of Masonry. That may change next time Masonry is renewed. If so, Masonry will be acceptable to a wider range of human cultures.
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Post by LorrB on May 15, 2012 8:13:15 GMT 9.5
... but I've never heard of a masonic authority be in favor of one system of belief over the other. I have. Rose Croix.
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Post by paul on May 15, 2012 8:38:09 GMT 9.5
Rose Croix is overtly Christian but contains much older influences, particularly in the Scottish forms.
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Post by LorrB on May 16, 2012 12:47:50 GMT 9.5
I looked briefly, and did not see the The History of Thoth, The Atlantean link here, but wanted to share this information as the math here is very simple but important, as it is an understanding of harmonics verses angular displacement. See: www.crystalinks.com/emerald1bw.htmlWith this method I also recommend using a personal ground method to earth, and or connecting to the 4 compass points above and below also, and feeling the energy from these localities, is the goal, sort of to draw energy of feel connected to them Readers might like to read this link and then check out these symbols. symboldictionary.net/?p=2658One can't help but think further on The Green Man, The Green Language (Language of the Birds), and Green Lions paws. I am supposing that most readers are also familiar with The Emerald Tablets. www.sacred-texts.com/alc/emerald.htm
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Post by paul on May 16, 2012 13:23:18 GMT 9.5
That site is not too reliable on alchemical symbolism. I understand that the Green Lion is described as green to designate its immaturity - as compared with the Red Lion. (There is an interesting book called The Red Lion www.the-great-work.com/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=228 ) As for Green Men, my etheric vision is rudimentary so the various Green Men I have seen were perceived more as a transparent outline against the green foliage. So I am unable to comment on their actual colours. The Green Language can be seen as requiring some minimum heart function, and the heart when functioning properly is commonly a new leaf green colour.
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Post by LorrB on May 16, 2012 14:30:03 GMT 9.5
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Post by LorrB on May 17, 2012 8:23:03 GMT 9.5
Green men also is indicative of the war like state men are in and being under the Mars god of war, where man's battles and war is an internal feeling made to an outward projection as he battels between love and hate emotions, to conquer the first trial of feeling emotions, and passing the emotional trials Green with envy springs to mind. Some refer to Jesus as "Green Man". I guess this might be true when one considers He was the one who constructed the bridge from the law, an eye for an eye to the law, love one another. The first law is the result of emotions, the second law the result on thoughtful consideration. The Entered Apprentices are encouraged to make this transition if they have not already done so.
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