Can your mind come out and play?
Anniversaries mark our point
on the never ending cycle of birth and death.
They say that there is
nothing new under the sun.
Yet. we scurry about to find out
or experience it ourselves.
Where did that come from?
Can it really be true?
Is the mystery of life,
man-made?
Is Freemasonry but another
“Dead Poets Society”, teaching a culture of life?
If we can believe in mathematics
[which has not failed us yet] there is Infinite truth. In other words, we will
never run out of truths to discover!
As far as truth, something
can be true whither or not we wish to believe it or not. And true can exist
even when we over look it. Our experience & knowledge often affect our
abilities to see or understand. A child & adult see the
world or a movie, for that matter, much differently, And reading different things from it.
For you must know truth before you can see it.
Some trace the ideas of
Masonry to the popular story of the 16th century of “New Atlantis” by Frances Bacon and
Hiram to Cato or James the righteous. There are those who say that Masonry
makes Good men better had nothing over on my mother. She knew the benefits of personal
associations on behaviors. Not sure where she got the idea but can traced the
idea to that of the ancient Greeks.
Wonder where they got it from?
That takes use back to the
enduring debate did you learn it from some type of exposure to the idea?, perhaps an experience of one kind or another?, or is
there some type of human Psychology that transcends the boundaries of culture,
language and geographies?
I always wondered about being
given ideas and rules of thumb that I was sure I’d never use. But I guess ideas
are like eggs, we don’t crack them till we’re hungry.
Studying Mythology or myth
making {by myth I am referring not to story that are untrue but those that are
used as a method to teach lessons] were different allegorical stories from around
the world exist with reoccurring themes.
There are many creation
stories including my favorite from the Rig Veda.
It asserts thatin the beginning there was no air, no heavens, no
water, no death and no immortality. Night and day did not exist, only the
breathing of the One. Then somehow creation occurred. No one knows how this happened, and the Riga
Veda speculates that possibly even the One does not know.
Then there is the character, Adamu
of the Babylonians, the Hindus had Adama & Heva then 2,000 years later came Adam & Eve. All with the same story.
Does Adam’s character represent the “life force” ? Then Eve represent one side of that force; [yin
+ yang = life force].
Now what do these women have
in common?
Mary, Maia,
Maya, Myrrha, Maya Maria and Mariama.
All are characters in virgin
birth stories.
Does this virgin birth
represent the birth of our conscious from our animal nature [a separation from
mother earth] to a higher state of consciousness & compassion?
Hundreds of deluge &
floods stories exist as well as for methods to symbolically cleanse our soul’s
Heus,
Many see the archtype in psychology as a reflection of the greek gods
Others ask, Why is Buddha a Catholic Saint?
What of the Masonic myths?
What are they teaching?
Are the just teaching
parallel myths in a new way?
There are many Masonic
trinities to be found.
By use of the Pythagorean Theorem
we are reminded
of the triunity of male +female=son infact may slides used in the
Youth, Manhood, and Old age
is reminiscent of the Greek triform or hindu trimurti,
creator- preserver & destroyer
The Three principle officers can represent;
Soul mind body [as in pyscology]
The “3suns”;
rising in the east, meridian,
& setting in the west
moral light, intellectual light, animal light
superconscios the
conscious and the un conscious
Cosmology; sun earth &
moon
all forming the triangle again
The three Ruffians
The passions; fear,
superstition, & greed
By the
ending of their names.
the future the present and the past
or aum the sacred sound of the
life force and takeing us back to the Hindu trimurti–creator- preserver & destroyer or Greek triform of Hecate
Hiraim, giving us the birth from our animal instincts to a
higher plan of
consciousness.
Light in masonry is truth
life giving spark that lights the universe from with in
The widow’s son;
Sorry Queen lovers but the ancient usage was for those reborn out of
their animal nature as myth would have it, a Fatherless son who becomes the
savior of the world.
Society’s
pursuit to lift us from our basic animal instinct to a plane of compassion. Where our minds direct our
behavior. God’s unfinished business
Following or progression, we
become divine beings or perfected humanity, thus we are defining divinity not
divinity defining us!
Its as we confirm what we suspect