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- From: locklin@titan.ucs.umass.edu (SCOTT C LOCKLIN)
- Subject: Re: Masonic Practices??
- References: <1993Jan24.215455.11774@fuug.fi>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:20:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.215455.11774@fuug.fi> an4484@anon.penet.fi writes:
- >Date Entered: 01-24-93 03:46
- >
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- >My understanding (as much I guess as an outsider could have) of Masonic
- >practices would be that they descend from the Knights Templar of around
- >the time of the middle ages. Their purpose inbeing was to be the guardians
- >of the Holy Grail.
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- That is one theory I have heard. Read an entire book on the theory (sorry,
- forgot the title)
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- >Funny though....I was talking to a Witch whose grandfather was a Mason and
- >it seems their beliefs are a little more elaborate than that. It seems that
- >the whole idea behind Masonry is that Christ as a man was married or at
- >least had sexual relations with Mary Magdelan which produced offspring.
- >The Masons then have one purpose....to defend these descendants of Christ
- >down through the ages.
- >
- >And the reason for the secrecy is that the whole premise of the Christian
- >religion is the fact that Jesus was the Son of God....hence the need for
- >secrecy. The Witch (who had evidently gleaned this info from her grandfathers
- >diaries seemed to resent this, in that this means the Masons are basically
- >defending a lie...namely, Christ as the celibate Son of God who never married
- >as that might make certain Christian practices/beliefs untenable.
- >
- >Any comments on this?
-
- Hmmmm.
- She could have just as easily gotten these theories from any number of
- popular books. The R.A.Wilson "Historical Illuminatus" books say something
- along these lines (The descendants of Jesus being the "Widow's Son" of
- masonic lore as well as the ancestors of the Merovingian kings). There are
- also several books on "lost books of the bible" that say similar things.
- Seems a bit unlikely to be a doctrine that is known about by the "rank and
- file" masons, as these can be members of any religion; xtain or otherwise.
-
- -Scott
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