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- From: markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr)
- Subject: Re: Masonic Practices??
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:56:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.181634.1521@linus.mitre.org> ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes:
- >
- >In articles:
- ><1993Jan24.215455.11774@fuug.fi> (alt.magick) and
- ><1993Jan24.215526.11908@fuug.fi> (alt.pagan), an4484@anon.penet.fi writees:
- >
- >>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 in being 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?
- >
- I might as well throw another brick into this xian mess.
-
- From what I have heard, in the original Aramaic, there are references, not
- to JC's cousins, but to his brothers & sisters (by blood, from Mary, not Mag).
- Which means there's other relatives running around.
-
- ha. ha. ha.
- (I'm over 34! They didn't get me! (B-{^} )
-
- mark, who really (at least right at this moment) doesn't *give* a
- shit about what xians believe (except where it's going to
- mean they want to attack me, and really doesn't want to
- hear about it so much *here*.
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