12-17-2010, 10:40 PM
(12-17-2010, 10:25 PM)cladking Wrote: Yeah, I've investigated the masons in some small depth and intend to not talk too much about them.
I investigated because for the last four years every single time I get a single hit on a google search and it's an individual that individual has been a mason. I'm quite convinced they have rituals that go all the way back to great pyramid building. They're distorted and opaque now but very ancient.
From the Emerald Tablet:
1. I speak no lies, but what is true and most certain.
2. What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of the one thing.
3. And as all things were produced by the mediation of one Being, so all things were produced from this one thing by adaptation.
4. Its father is the Sun, its mother is the Moon; the wind carries it in its belly, its nurse is the Earth.
5. It is the cause of all perfection throughout the whole world.
6. Its power is perfect if it be changed into action.
7. Separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, acting prudently and with judgement.
8. Ascend with the greatest sagacity from the earth to heaven, and then again descend to the earth, and unite together the powers of things superior and things inferior. Thus you will obtain the glory of the whole world, and all obscurity will fly far away from you.
9. This thing is the fortitude of all fortitude, because it overcomes all subtle things, and penetrates every solid thing.
10. Thus were all things created.
This sounds an awful lot like basic particle physics to me.
My friend is a Worshipful Master at a local lodge who has traveled to all the mother lodges around the world. He gets pissy when I ask stuff. My dad was a Mason and he wouldn't tell, either. I did overhear him practicing with his sponsor a few times, so I know a little. I just have an interest because of the symbology they use, the tracing boards they use to enhance memorization, and their general interest in geometry. Plus, it's funny as hell that men wear aprons.