So my Aunt was a Pastor as was her late husband. Im not sure when it happend but my Aunt has lost touch with reality as it pertains to the GAotU. First of off she told me a story of a time when she was in South America, I cant remember the country she was in. WHile she was there there was a terrible car accident. I city bus lost control and rolled down a large embankment shredding the bus and ejecting most of its passengers. Almost everyone was killed. She said the town came together at the site during recovery efforts and started praying and almost all the people that were dead were "resurrected". SO apparently there is a city in SOuth America with a bunch of Zombies.
2nd Her husband was diagnosed with Cancer in 2013. They refused treatment at first saying they were going to pray to God and he would heal my uncle. My aunt was a RN. Yet she shunned the very scientists that her god put here on this planet for that exact reason. By the time they realised that their game of Chicken that they were playing with God wasnt working it was too late and my uncle passed in 2014.
A belief in something is not "woowoo" but when you start talking about people coming back from the dead, or things like that that is WooWoo.
Also as it pertains to Freemasonry there is no magic or devine anything. as Coach has pointed out on may occasions our degrees are not historical or anything like that. our founders took Stonemason tools and attached esoteric meaning too them, the real Stonemasons didnt. Our FOunders Made up the stories of our degrees to teach lessons because when someone has to find something the remember it better, meaning if I just tell you to be a b etter man by doing ABC that wont mean anything but if I show you a play, a song a movie or soemthing and then tell you to study it for what it is really saying you will grasp it much better.
There is no lost word, or secrets or anything. Cause it a MADE UP STORY!! the point of the storys is convey a moral compass on to people...1st: respect people privacy, 2nd LEARN! 3rd killing is bad and EARN YOUR PLACE IN LIFE THORUGH GOOD DEEDS! obviously that is pretty stripped down meaning of the degrees.
To think that the GAotU is actually watching and actively participating in the Degrees is Hubris.
People Already think that the Freemasons are crazy and we want to take over the world or we control it and we worship the devil and we are a religion ect ect, so to put on a public forum these beliefs that a "Being" is participating in our rituals is at best irresponsible and at worst intentionally destructive to the Craft.
this video is from a church in my hometown. They piped in gold confetti dust and got the people to believe that it was from god. They speak in tounges, conduct false healings and are just all around nuts. They are very pushy in town they come up to you and want to pray for you and lay hands and when you politly decline they will follow you through the store and keep insisting. When I read his comments these are the people that I think of. They even have a 1 and 3 yr program entitled School of Supernatural Ministry........
I am sorry if you feel that I am being intollerant of his beliefs but as I stated above I dont think posting those belifs are benefical to the Craft!