IN this series, we seek to uncover the hidden meaning found in the artistic works of numerous Masters, including Michelangelo, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, William Blake, Georges de La Tour, and Raphael. First, by outlining a basic structure for analyzing art through an esoteric lens; thereby, utilizing both observation and intuition, symbolically represented by the concrete and abstract minds.
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Perhaps the question is not “Does or Should a Freemason judge another” but “How or What should a Freemason judge?” To cast doubt on someone because they don’t believe or act as you do seems to me to be a false judgement.
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IN this series, we seek to uncover the hidden meaning found in the artistic works of numerous Masters, including Michelangelo, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, William Blake, Georges de La Tour, and Raphael. First, by outlining a basic structure for analyzing art through an esoteric lens; thereby, utilizing both observation and intuition, symbolically represented by the concrete and abstract minds.
Category: Freemasons, Universal Co-MasonryTags: Art, Classical Art, classical elements, Co-Masonry, esoteric, esoteric and exoteric, esoteric freemasonry, Esoteric Symbols, Esotericism, Esoterics, exoteric, Freemason, Freemasonry, Freemasons, Georges de La Tour, Hidden in Plain Sight, initiation, Manly P. Hall, Manly Palmer Hall, masonic, masonic symbolism, Masonry, Masons, Michelangelo, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Religion, Universal Co-Masonry, Veiled, William Blake
Many a man has reasoned about faith, heaven, infinity, and God until his brain reeled at the impossibility of comprehending the infinite with the finite, and ended by saying in despair: “I cannot believe in God!” Then he has taken his wife or his child in his arms and there found happiness, completely oblivious to the most profound, as the most simple fact of all faiths and all religions; where love is, there is also God!
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IF someone had asked me 30 years ago if Freemasonry was masculine, I would have said: “Is there anything else?” I’m speaking of course about the mainstream idea, over the past three hundred years or so, that all Freemasons must be masculine. I was… Continue Reading “The Masculine of Freemasonry”
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This article gives a detailed explanation of the history and meaning of the phrase “Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.”
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Selected aphorisms from “The Book of the Lodge” by George Oliver (1782-1867)
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In Freemasonry, it explained that the “extent of a Lodge” covers the whole of existence, rising to the heavens, to the depths of the earth, east and west to each horizon, and north and south the same. This is the width, breadth, and depth… Continue Reading “The Edge of The Universe”
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Harmony, to this Freemason, is a shining goal, where the spirit of cooperation and unity produce amazing results in our rituals and in our lives.
Category: Freemasons, Universal Co-MasonryTags: Brotherhood, Business Culture, Co-Mason, Co-Masonry, Cooperation, Critical Thinking, Empathy, Freemason, Freemasonry, Intention, Issues, Mason, Masonry, Misunderstanding, Personal Attack, Political Discussions, Right Intentions, Roy T. Bennett, Smile, Sympathy, The Light in the Heart, Thinking Better, Thought, Tolerance
One dark, cold Winter night, in the pine forest near the foothills of the Rockies, a small rabbit runs across a snow-littered meadow. His small feet crunch the rocks as he makes a break for his warren. In the deep silence, a sudden flash… Continue Reading “What Would Your Sentence Be?”
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