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- From: tmd@wixer.cactus.org (Tom Davis)
- Subject: Re: Masonic Practices??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.125133.3123@wixer.cactus.org>
- Sender: Tom Davis
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <1993Jan24.215526.11908@fuug.fi>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:51:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.215526.11908@fuug.fi> an4484@anon.penet.fi writes:
-
- >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....
-
- It sounds like your friend's been reading a book entitled "Holy Blood,
- Holy Grail" by Baigent et al., in which this exact premise is expounded.
- Or, if she's seen independent verification of the premises of the book,
- the authors of it would be _delighted_ to hear of that.
-
- As one who was initiated into (the lowest 3 degrees of) Freemasonry, I
- can tell you that (that part of) the "craft" has _nothing_ to do with
- the bloodline/grail theory. [For those of you who haven't read the book,
- consider this: "Holy Grail" is "San Graal" (misspellings aside), and
- "Holy Blood" is "Sang Raal" (again) -- an easy step for a semiliterate
- population.]
-
- --
- Tom Davis Internet address: tmd@wixer.cactus.org
- "Imagine there's no countries; it isn't hard to do;
- Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion, too."
- [Disclaimer: I speak for nobody but me - and sometimes not even that.]
-