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- From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Masonic Practices??
- Message-ID: <g9ywXB4w165w@tweekco.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 19:51:27 PST
- References: <1993Jan24.215526.11908@fuug.fi>
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- an4484@anon.penet.fi writes:
-
- > Date Entered: 01-24-93 03:46
- >
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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?
- >
- >
- > ... ...
- > ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
-
- Sounds like the basic theme of Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Baigent, Leigh,
- and Powell) ... which, lacking specialist knowledge of the time period
- dealt with, I use as a working hypothesis until something better
- comes along.
- A.Lizard
- (however, I suspect that the editor of Masonic Digest will be here
- rather soon to comment on this himself, he has an autoscan setup
- that looks for Mason and other related keywords... an advantage in
- this case as he can give us an authoritative answer regardind
- Masonic history.)
-
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