Warrior1256
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Thanks Brother.I wasn't too impressed by that book, but if you like Lamb, you may like the new website he and a few others have started:
Thanks Brother.I wasn't too impressed by that book, but if you like Lamb, you may like the new website he and a few others have started:
(I don't have anything meaningful to add, but just chiming in to say I found this thread interesting to read and I hope those more conversant with this material continue the conversation)
"And after this flood many years, as the chronicle telleth, these 2 pillars were found, and as the Pilicronicon saith, that a great clerk that [was] called Pythagoras found that one, and Hermes, the philosopher, found that other, and they taught forth the sciences that they found therein written."
Who has gave me that which I have sought and left me alone and why?
The enticements, the oohs and the ahhs. I understand. The bells and the whistles are the beginning of what such individuals seek when they have an assumption of what they believe Freemasonry to be or what they may gain. I seek nor have I sought from moment one, an earthly gain or treasure that I haven't possessed already(I have two sons) I have been told what freemasonry was and is and that which I am to do. Or perhaps I have cracked my very last eggshell and am off my ******* rocker! A straight answer for once would be so nice, but ......Freemasonry has the same problem. I see regularly new initiates who were attracted to the essence of Freemasonry,
....Modern Freemasonry contains traces of Egyptian, Sumerian and Hindu mysteries modified by Jewish and Christian custodians. Identifying and learning from those traces requires spiritual practices that develop the inner senses and wide reading of ancient accounts - preferably not translated by religionists.
But who would want to know such an ancient history of Freemasonry?
I just found it, and of course it was not an masonic lecture....wishful thinking right?I came across it during what I believe was a Masonic lecture.
Supposedly, Hermeticism in the form of the Corpus Hermeticum came to Europe for the first time in 1471 via Marsilio Ficino. However, the Matthew Cooke Manuscript (dated 1450) talks about Hermes the philosopher finding one of the antediluvian pillars in its discussions on the history of Freemasonry.