Warrior1256
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One of the main reasons that I decided to join was because some of the men that I admired most were Freemasons so I wanted to be a part of it. I'm just curious...what made you decide to join?
I ask myself that every day......what made you decide to join?
Good one as usual coachn.I ask myself that every day...
Yo, Coach!I ask myself that every day...
During meditation I was asked to rejoin so I did.
Good God Man, do you know what you have done?!?!?!?!?Elaborate?
Wow! Well, interesting comment. Thanks for sharing.As you can see from the post following mine, not everyone is interested in learning from others.
Many of us have noticed odd ideas appearing in our minds and wondered: where did that thought come from?
With practice it is possible to recognize incoming thoughts and then evaluate them. In this case the thought came in from an intelligence that I have known for a very long time. I recognized the source, evaluated the idea and agreed to cooperate.
The receipt of incoming thoughts is called telepathy. The trick is to recognize when that is occurring and apply discrimination. If we do not recognize when telepathy occurs we are likely to believe the thought to be our own and act on it without evaluation.
When was that created ? Got any provenance ? (we're probably seeing what we want to be worth a closer look)Here are the founders of the Chinese civilization: with Square and Compasses, Sun, Moon and Stars, and implied FPoF
And perhaps we see a Vienna waltz! Honestly, I feel you are trying to fit a star in a triangular hole. Nothing fits.In their embrace we perhaps see the Five Points of Fellowship.
"In the underground tomb of Fan Yen-Shih, d. A.D. 689, two painted silk veils show the First Ancestors of the Chinese, their entwined serpect bodies rotating around the invisible vertical axis mundi. Fu Hsi holds the set-square and plumb bob … as he rules the four-cornered earth, while his sister-wife Nü-wa holds the compass pointing up, as she rules the circling heavens. "
"… We see the king and queen embracing at their wedding, the king holding the square on high, the queen a compass. "
http://www.templestudy.com/2008/09/17/nuwa-and-fuxi-in-chinese-mythology-compass-square/
" It is worthy of special attention that the two words for compass and square, gui ju, used together denote -the rule, custom, usage- and -good behavior-, i.e., keeping order. Furthermore, it should be observed that the male-female system, the yang-yin philosophy, is expressed here in a complex manner, first as Fuxi and Nüwa, second as compass (male) and square (female), and third as Nüwa (female) with compass (male) and Fuxi (male) with square (female). "
In their embrace we perhaps see the Five Points of Fellowship.
"tomb of Fan Yen-Shih, d. A.D. 689" makes the Chinese moral use of the square and compasses much older than the official history of Freemasonry.
I have no idea, James. It could be as esoteric as Chinese creation myths or as exoteric as two gents in a friendly embrace that was then embellished by some poetically inclined author.What then is the origin of the FPoF?
As far as I have read no Masonic writer has speculated on the origin of the FPoF. Why not? Does that take us into areas that we do not wish to think about?
As you know, all native peoples maintain that they received their civilization and primary skills from visitors - usually from the skies.
Thus if we claim that the Chinese some millennia ago stole the Mesopotamian legends, then we will also have to claim that the Chinese repudiated their previous legends to make room for the new ones.
.....I'd love to chat but am sadly not going to be very responsive...