I'm still a member of the Phylaxis Society payed up for the next 4 years will do a lifetime membership when it's time to renew
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Ripcord22A
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Ive always wondered what the meaning of phylaxis is and so i finally googled it...protection against infection. Very fitting considering what they do!
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AndreAshlar
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I believe they are a little slow in moving just as everything else in the fraternity as for you being a member of GLofNY that shouldn't be an issue with you being a member as long as they are in amity with the PHA GL witch I believe they are anyone can become a subscriber even non-Mason's only PHA and GL's who share mutual recognition with PHA GL's can be members did you mean to say you are a FPS (Fellow Phylaxis Society Member) a title given to one who has published something of significant importance AKA blockbuster issues
I'm on it about to look over it now brother
Awesome article brother I will be back ordering your other articles
I'm sure you will be with us for a while and I'm sure you still have much more
li/G\ht to impart
Citation to the book your wife as reading that had "Ma-ha-ma-bona"?This is really a response to Bro. Pierce and a continuation of our personal, conversational correspondence. What I am putting down, relates to my first published thesis on the Master's Word, i.e., " Much More Than A Word; A Way Of Life", The Phylaxis, vol, No. XVII, No. IV., Fourth Quarter, 1991. For any of you scholars who will be availing your selves of that available "Light", this is the unpublished prelude. Hopefully, it will encourage you to purchase the back issue from Phylaxis. Brother Pierce has just done that. He was self encouraged to to it, after reading my 3rd published thesis in the current issue of Phylaxis. GOFUHVIT!
Fifty years ago, I was drawing stone from the 200 year old rubble bluestone walls surrounding our 11 acre night pasture. We were laying-up a 12 foot fireplace wall in the 12 room mountain side cottage we were erecting.
On these slopes, the rocks are fractured quarry stone with squared sides and sharp edges. A mile below us in the river valley, the stones are cobbles that are rounded by water action.
I pulled out an unusual pelvic/heart shaped, well rounded bit of a boulder from the wall. It didn't belong on the hillside. It was evidently carried in from a distance. That at the time was not an issue to be considered. I was really interested in what piece of ancient horse or oxen drawn farm tool had made the 4 lineal gouge marks on its surface.
I occupy my time with seemingly useless knowledge. That is also why I am inspired to write about the Craft.
I lugged the treasure down to the farmer that we bought from. He had worked the land with draft horses. "Adriano! What kind of equipment made these stratch marks ?"
Adriano was from Italy and was simply educated in a one room school house. The foundation is still there.
He said to me in the local speak, "Warrant no equipment! War made by the hand oh man".
RIGHT!!! "Man". Hey! I may have been born in brooklyn but I do know a snow-job when I hear one.
Off I went to the Russian neighbor and asked him the same question. I told Alexander what Adriano said. He responded, "He's right".
My being of Polish/Lithuanian descent on my mother's side, I was made aware at an early age, of how Russians are not exactly forth coming with the truth.
So home I went, none the wiser but with my farm equipment scared field stone and I cemented it into the wall.
Several years later, my wife called out to me, "Here is the stone you found. It is illustrated in the book I am reading. It is a Celtic-Irish stone with Ogham script, fashioned into a pelvic shape to honor the mother Goddess. Ma-ha-ma-bona; the Mother of Heroes.
NOW DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION????
Several years later, I was writing and article for a Scottish magazine on, "The Symbiotic Relationship Between The Elder Faith And Christianity". While researching, I came across this line, "The Freemasons still practice the ancient rituals of the Druids." Hot digitty! Now, all I had to do, was to become a freemason for more light on the subject.
My deadline would not allow me to spare the time for the Masonic pursuit, so I published and was elected a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries at the Royal museum of Scotland. Then I went into Freemasonry.
When I was given the Masters' Word, I already knew it but said nothing.
Ten (10) years later, I realized that the Craft preached that the "Word is Hebrew". That will never do, so I submitted a note to The American Lodge of Research and the Master was astounded. "How did you come up with this? The word has been lost for 400 to 600 years and you translated it? Can you write a scholarly work for publication? I want to print it right away."
He approvingly read what I submitted. He was a Law Professor at Columbia University.
So I sent it off to Phylaxis for a scoop first publication with The late Brother Joseph Walkes, who said that he was honored, since we were not in mutual recognition.
Three brothers in my Lodge attempted to have me expelled from the Craft but the grand Master sponsored me for the Royal Order of Scotland and the York Rite Sovereign College of North America, awarded me their gold honor Award for my thesis.
I ride a white horse and I shoot straight.
rrc
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That does not say Ma-ha-ma-bona; Citation to the book?
At risk of not talking about you, but about the article referenced immediately above, I didn't seem to find the reference or source section. If I overlooked it, could you provide a link?
You indicate "alembic" is from Arabic. Citation? Is not alembic from the Greek and al-anbik the Arabic derivation thereof?
Just a clarification. FSA Scot does not require publication for membership. Pretty much anyone can join. It has around three thousand members world wide. It is headquartered at the National Museums of Scotland, found in 1985 by a statutory merger of the National Museum of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Museum.This is really a response to Bro. Pierce and a continuation of our personal, conversational correspondence. What I am putting down, relates to my first published thesis on the Master's Word, i.e., " Much More Than A Word; A Way Of Life", The Phylaxis, vol, No. XVII, No. IV., Fourth Quarter, 1991. For any of you scholars who will be availing your selves of that available "Light", this is the unpublished prelude. Hopefully, it will encourage you to purchase the back issue from Phylaxis. Brother Pierce has just done that. He was self encouraged to to it, after reading my 3rd published thesis in the current issue of Phylaxis. GOFUHVIT!
Fifty years ago, I was drawing stone from the 200 year old rubble bluestone walls surrounding our 11 acre night pasture. We were laying-up a 12 foot fireplace wall in the 12 room mountain side cottage we were erecting.
On these slopes, the rocks are fractured quarry stone with squared sides and sharp edges. A mile below us in the river valley, the stones are cobbles that are rounded by water action.
I pulled out an unusual pelvic/heart shaped, well rounded bit of a boulder from the wall. It didn't belong on the hillside. It was evidently carried in from a distance. That at the time was not an issue to be considered. I was really interested in what piece of ancient horse or oxen drawn farm tool had made the 4 lineal gouge marks on its surface.
I occupy my time with seemingly useless knowledge. That is also why I am inspired to write about the Craft.
I lugged the treasure down to the farmer that we bought from. He had worked the land with draft horses. "Adriano! What kind of equipment made these stratch marks ?"
Adriano was from Italy and was simply educated in a one room school house. The foundation is still there.
He said to me in the local speak, "Warrant no equipment! War made by the hand oh man".
RIGHT!!! "Man". Hey! I may have been born in brooklyn but I do know a snow-job when I hear one.
Off I went to the Russian neighbor and asked him the same question. I told Alexander what Adriano said. He responded, "He's right".
My being of Polish/Lithuanian descent on my mother's side, I was made aware at an early age, of how Russians are not exactly forth coming with the truth.
So home I went, none the wiser but with my farm equipment scared field stone and I cemented it into the wall.
Several years later, my wife called out to me, "Here is the stone you found. It is illustrated in the book I am reading. It is a Celtic-Irish stone with Ogham script, fashioned into a pelvic shape to honor the mother Goddess. Ma-ha-ma-bona; the Mother of Heroes.
NOW DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION????
Several years later, I was writing and article for a Scottish magazine on, "The Symbiotic Relationship Between The Elder Faith And Christianity". While researching, I came across this line, "The Freemasons still practice the ancient rituals of the Druids." Hot digitty! Now, all I had to do, was to become a freemason for more light on the subject.
My deadline would not allow me to spare the time for the Masonic pursuit, so I published and was elected a Fellow of The Society of Antiquaries at the Royal museum of Scotland. Then I went into Freemasonry.
When I was given the Masters' Word, I already knew it but said nothing.
Ten (10) years later, I realized that the Craft preached that the "Word is Hebrew". That will never do, so I submitted a note to The American Lodge of Research and the Master was astounded. "How did you come up with this? The word has been lost for 400 to 600 years and you translated it? Can you write a scholarly work for publication? I want to print it right away."
He approvingly read what I submitted. He was a Law Professor at Columbia University.
So I sent it off to Phylaxis for a scoop first publication with The late Brother Joseph Walkes, who said that he was honored, since we were not in mutual recognition.
Three brothers in my Lodge attempted to have me expelled from the Craft but the grand Master sponsored me for the Royal Order of Scotland and the York Rite Sovereign College of North America, awarded me their gold honor Award for my thesis.
I ride a white horse and I shoot straight.
rrc
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Ripcord22A
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I provided no correction, but please do explain. You have claimed the source says something it does not. I would also note this is not the source one would expect to cite in a serious study.
Not sure why you would want to speak Gaelic, as the goal is to communicate. Or is it?
You find those who make claims on lists, and when challenged, attack, change the discussion, ignore the question, perceive they are the victim...
well, you get these folks on our lists, though I wouldn't say they were trolls. More of a narcissistic pattern or perhaps the frailties of age, in my view. They post something, but no one is allowed to question it. If you do, they will reiterate their personal qualifications, change the subject, engage in bullying and personal attacks, or completely ignore the question because they realize they've been caught out. Often, they end up either removing themselves from, or stopping their participation in the list because they don't get the approval and adulation they seek; or they end up being banned.
At some point, I will mostly ignore them, as I've done with our two correspondents who have variously indicated Freemasonry is from extraterrestrials or having visions in the lodge.
To be fair, the instant individual has received positive feed back which reinforces his behavior by publication in a members' magazine. It is telling that he was turned down by a more scholarly journal, but that is because they just don't understand
.My funniest narcissistic story is about another attorney who explained his superiority with the statement "other people just don't think they way I do." When I pointed out this was the classic statement of a narcissist, he could not address that issue, but only reiterate his superior way of thinking.
Ripcord22A
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Well since he openly admits to being a troll i think he should be banned
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SimonM
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There are no posts missing from my feed. I must have the right people on ignore. ;-)
Ripcord22A
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I just used the member search option and it told me that "this member limits who may see his full profile" I think he put us all on ignore.