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Date Posted: 21:02:27 12/09/07 Sun
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Post 206A: Perspectives.
I should apologies to my audience. I was wrong in bring my tiff with my friend before you. Each person, he and I included, brings their own past; opinions, prejudices, hurts, insults, anger, and wrongheadedness to every situation.
If one should say something like, "in my opinion, only women wear aprons," to his friend who happens to be a Freemason, his friend should not lash out. Masonry is about taking a good man and making him a better man. Masonry teaches tolerance, understanding and brotherhood. There is always hope that a closed mind might be opened. But, as a wise instructor in Masonry once told me, "you can't teach a fool." He is my friend, and will always be so. But, I don't have to listen to him.
The only thing of a religious nature that is required of one in Masonry is that one believes in a Supreme Being. Atheist are not made Masons.
I believe Jesus was the hereditary son of his father, Joseph, and his mother, Mary. I also believe he was the Son of God. To me the divine is found in the soul, not in the physical body.
I quote one of the highest authorities, as I have done to my friend Timothy many times, George Burns in the movie 'OH GOD', "Jesus was my son. Mohammed was my son. Buddha, Krishna, even the man who said there's no room at the inn was my son, and so is the man who charges ten dollars for a steak in this one."
As far as religion is concerned, I have no problem with nativity scenes, christmas carols or any of that. Why should I? If you all want to venerate my ancient ancertor, great.
Now to my opinion.
The Magdalene Legacy, by Sir Laurence Gardner
"...Father Martin let loose a Greek word which had been logged in Imperial records before the Roman Church ever came into being. The word was Desposyni. ...Desposyni was the most hallowed of distinctions in early Christian times, an for a good while thereafter. It meant 'Heirs of the Lord' and, as Father Martin explained, 'it was reserved uniquely for Jesus' blood relatives'. He further qualified this by saying that 'only those persons in the bloodline with Jesus through his mother qualified as Desposyni'. Page 20
...This definition has long posed a problem for the Church because it can only mean one of two things:
1. If Jesus were the one and only son of Mary, the Desposyni could only be his personal descendants.
2. If there were some Desposyni in descent from Mary, but not from Jesus, then Mary must have had offspring other than Jesus." page 30.
Bloodline of the Holy Grail, by L. Gardner
"...The portrayal of Jesus as the son of a 'carpenter' is yet anotherexample of how later language misinterpreted an original meaning. ...The word translated into English as 'capenter' represents the much wider sense of the ancient Greek ho tekton, which is in turn a rendition of the Semitic word naggar. As pointed out by the Semitic scholar Dr Geza Vermes, this descriptive word could equally well define a scholar or teacher. It certainly did not identify Jesus and Joseph as woodworkers. More precisely it defined them as men with skills, learned men, who were masters of what they did. Indeed, one translation of the Greek, ho tekton, relates to 'a master of the craft', as may be applied to modern Freemasonry." page 35.
You know, Masonry, as in the old French word Perrieur.
A tomb was recently discovered around Jerusalem. It was highlighted in a documentary called 'The Lost Tomb of Jesus'. On several ossuary in this tomb were found all the names carves on the sides in Aramaic of Jesus' family members. Interestingly, there is a symbol carves in the rock face above the entrance to the tomb like an upward pointing chevron or compass, with a round circle in the middle of it like an all seeing eye. Humm! I wonder what it could be? They can't figure it out. Can you?
End post 206 A: Perspectives. www.voy.com/40560/
teltalheart (-;
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