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Post by cwhite on Jun 8, 2012 0:03:28 GMT 9.5
One of my favorites is to substitute the word contusion for conclusion. That would be your sub-conscious informing you of the nature of your conclusion....
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Post by Henka on Jun 8, 2012 0:12:15 GMT 9.5
One of my favorites is to substitute the word contusion for conclusion. That would be your sub-conscious informing you of the nature of your conclusion.... Henka "Likes" this. ;D
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Post by Henka on Jun 8, 2012 0:15:30 GMT 9.5
I was in Saudi Arabia as part of Operation Desert Shield when the first Gulf War "broke out." I sense that you have been a warrior in many lives. Do you rest easy now? asked in all sincerity. I find it difficult to watch war movies, all that pain, on both sides. It must be really difficult to lead a 'normal' life afterwards. I am at peace. We do the things we must, and accept that which we can't change. I have a wonderful partner.
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Post by paul on Jun 8, 2012 8:00:06 GMT 9.5
Sometimes a certain amount of contusion is necessary to clear a space for a conclusion - the human mind & brain commonly being rather cluttered.
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Post by LorrB on Jun 13, 2012 8:39:03 GMT 9.5
The Three is also the number of the three worlds which the true Qabbalist is investigating with his self-evolved powers. It stands for the triple crown of the ancient Magus, who was king of heaven, earth and hell; and, of course, it represents the three grand centres in the human body – the brain, the heart, and the generative system. The triple sceptres of the Egyptian kings, the triple tiara of the Dalai Lama of Tibet, the three domed roofs of the Temple of Heaven and Peking, all carry the same symbolism. Only when these three great universal natures are blended in harmonious understanding – each serving the other and the three uniting to serve the Divine – do we have the eternal triangle in man, which is symbolic both of his divine search and its consummation. Jakob Boehme, the great German mystic, said that these three natures were three witnesses by which God was known to men.
The number Three is symbolic also of balance or equilibrium; for the triangle is equilateral, meaning that all of its sides are of equal length. With its point upward it represents human aspiration and consciousness rising out of form to union with its divine source; with its point downward, it represents the triune powers descending into matter to mould it into a semblance of the trinity of spirit.
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Post by cwhite on Jun 27, 2012 23:24:22 GMT 9.5
Threes precede fourss.
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Post by paul on Jun 28, 2012 8:38:54 GMT 9.5
Pythagoras told us that the numbers are alive. What could we do with that knowledge?
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Post by LorrB on Jul 2, 2012 12:36:36 GMT 9.5
Four
Four is the symbol universally accepted to represent the path of accomplishment and the labours to be done; for, being the number of form and hence of earthly things, it is represented as a cube or stone within which life is imprisoned. Wherever this is found, it means that the labour of liberating life is the next thing to be accomplished. During involution man assumed bodies; now, since the point has turned and evolution is under way, man must concentrate his energies upon the labour of liberating life from its vestments of ignorance.
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Post by LorrB on Jul 2, 2012 12:37:26 GMT 9.5
the stonemasons apron - threes and fourss
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Post by LorrB on Jul 27, 2012 12:45:28 GMT 9.5
Four is the number of matter, because for our particular day of manifestation matter manifests as earth, water, fire, and air – action, vitalization, emotion and thought. Science recognizes four basic principles as the key to all form, which is built up of their compounds. These four elements are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. The higher the plane of evolution, the more the life controls its own bodies. These four principles, however, form the cross upon which is crucified the spirit of life. Four is called the symbol of crystallization and is also known as the number of impediment.
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Post by LorrB on Sept 5, 2012 14:22:43 GMT 9.5
In Astrology (a science well understood by the Qabbalists) Four is symbolized as a square, one of the so-called evil aspects of a horoscope. It merely means that the points where the square falls, crystallization has not yet given place to vitalization. The square presents us with a problem to be solved, and is therefore a great benefactor in spite of its oppression. Matter is always opposing its own vitalization because of its negation. Matter, symbolized by the cube block of salt in alchemy, is symbolic of the body, which, while unregenerated, seeks to smother and destroy the life imprisoned within.
The Square therefore is the symbol of the tomb, and this holy sepulcher is the tomb of matter in which our own spiritual nature lies buried. This is the cross of four arms which man must carry if he is to reach the footstool of Divinity. When our physical body is not properly taken care of, one corner of the square strikes us; when our emotions are not mastered, then the second corner of the square falls; when our vital systems are depleted, the third angle, as body crystallization, steps in; while our destructive thoughts react upon us at the fourth corner. When we have not been true to any of these, our nature collapses and we are buries in the tomb of matter under the symbol of the Four.
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Post by LorrB on Sept 5, 2012 14:59:34 GMT 9.5
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Post by paul on Sept 6, 2012 12:12:06 GMT 9.5
Maybe the "G" is for Generation and Raising is Re-Generation ?... On the other hand, if Masonry is truly ancient, then when did the G enter? Greeks are inclined to use a gamma - presumably because its geometry - but I suspect that is a relatively modern adaptation
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Post by cwhite on Sept 7, 2012 8:11:28 GMT 9.5
The above pic reminds of a backwards Rash, who's value is 6.
The upper case G reminds me of a 6..
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Post by paul on Sept 7, 2012 9:12:20 GMT 9.5
Perhaps there is value in considering qoph/qaf rotated 90 degrees The Qoph has value 100. There are 99 known names of God (according to the Sufis) but the 100th name is secret. In Masonry the secret name is confounded with the lost secrets - hence the lost word.
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Post by LorrB on Sept 9, 2012 14:05:46 GMT 9.5
Well this Lorraine is a g(r)amma..... Near enough is close enough
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Post by LorrB on Sept 21, 2012 14:32:47 GMT 9.5
By his thoughts, feelings, and actions, man slowly transmutes this square tomb of stone into a cube of glass from which the light of spirit shines forth as through a protecting lantern. His present duty is to cleanse the glass; for though we see now through a glass but darkly, some time we shall know face to face. Four represents the number of bodies and the work we much accomplish with them. They are useful servants but hard taskmasters.
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Post by LorrB on Sept 21, 2012 14:40:54 GMT 9.5
The MYSTERY of the Number Five FIVE is the hand of the philosopher. It is made up on the four elements plus spirit, which – like the coordination between the human thumb and the fingers – co-operates with the four elements but is not with them for it works by opposition. FIVE is called the Christ, and in the Tarot it is the hierophant or priest, because it is the spirit of man rising from the tomb of matter. Those who have lived through the laws of the four and have mastered themselves have become the Five – ie liberated from the casket of matter. The geometric form of this condition is the pyramid, in which one corner rises from the four corners of the base. When the four elements have become the pedestal upon which the spirit stands as a city upon a hill and not with stone walls which close it is, then man has reached the spiritual number of the Five.
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Post by paul on Sept 21, 2012 17:53:25 GMT 9.5
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Post by LorrB on Sept 26, 2012 13:01:55 GMT 9.5
Did you discover this information 1st hand ( )
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