Godfrey Daniel
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Don't be an esoteric Mason in Texas, may get you run out GL. Stay in the closet.
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Stay in the closet.
I realize you may have been trying to be funny but the truth is I think that's the situation in a nutshell. The majority (good ol' boy club) views esoteric masons as a weird minority with dangerous ideas that could scare people away.
Hope it works for someone, nine years ago as WM, I began an educational program by simply bringing articles from Masonic scholars (Newton, Pike, Hall) even a little Joseph Campbell for some open floor discussion. By Dec. I was asked to stop.
Then I heard a group from Ft. Worth tried bringing in some esoteric ideas into Lodge, and maybe had broke the bearer, until the GL of Texas got wind of it, and it ends with some members being expelled. Never heard what the charges were.
As I doing still hear from the Lodge when they degree work help, I still hear someone say "did you leave your Pagan ideas at home". There is no sense arguing, I do still drive to Guthrie SR once or twice a year ( I have always felt welcome there) and studying Golden Dawn. This forum does seem interesting as having discovered it a few weeks ago. So peace and harmony prevails over ignorance.
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Spot on, Brother, though I think you understate it a bit. Heck with the "dangerous ideas", just being "different" is scary enough to some that they feel the need to react as they have. I suspect it's the same crowd that wants to make sure, through legislation, that no yamulkes or turbans are ever worn in lodge, or that the KJV Bible, and only the KJV Bible, ever rests on the altar, or <insert superficial difference here>.
The most powerful thing about symbols is that they mean nothing.
This is a secret so deep that I can say or write it everywhere and be at no risk of revealing anything to anyone not able to handle it.
Any object that has been used for a few millenia could fill a large book just listing all the different (and sometimes opposite) things it has been used to symbolize. This is even more true when we move from objects to words or activities.
I think the brother's post was not written the way he thought it to be because the former makes no sense if you take his statement at face value.Different people find different meanings in the same symbol. Is this why to state that symbols mean nothing?
I suggest that symbols have context and that context defines a range of meanings. When inspecting a symbol for meaning we should ponder a range of meanings. Which meanings are circumspect; which are not. Then we should go with the center of that circle as the primary intended meaning with the rest of the range as the layers of meaning. This approach does yield different meanings for different people but in a way that does not mean nothing.
I think the brother's post was not written the way he thought it to be because the former makes no sense if you take his statement at face value.
For example, the S and C is the symbol for our fraternity however it has a deeper meaning to a mason than what the average person might be able to detract from it.
I think the brother's post was not written the way he thought it to be because the former makes no sense if you take his statement at face value.
We talk about symbols and I wrote something that "makes no sense if you take [it] at face value".
Hmmm....