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Post by jmd on May 27, 2010 22:38:11 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on May 28, 2010 7:14:23 GMT 10
From the excerpt, your publication of the 2009 Transactions of the Victorian Lodge of Research appears to be a great credit to your efforts both as W.M. and as Editor. I look forward to printing your paper and reading it over the weekend. I also look forward to receiving my copy of the papers for the whole year. Congratulations.
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Post by Tamrin on May 31, 2010 20:32:15 GMT 10
Bro. JMD,
The paper is a great credit to you. I have yet to see a better explanation of the proto-secular spirit of the Age of Enlightenment and how Anderson's First Charge had as much of a tendency in that direction as the age could reasonably accomodate.
I think I mentioned last June at your meeting, my opinion that England's withdrawal of recognition from GOdF had more to do with Franco-phobia and a desire to distance the Anglo-Craft from association with its Continental Brethren, in the wake of the Revolution, the memory of Napoleon and the ongoing success of the Republic than its policy of laïcité or the involvement of women.
Hopefully your paper will enjoy the attention it deserves and helps us look again at the issue, in both inter-jurisdictional and intra-jurisdictional terms. Certainly, in an institution which increasingly makes much of it NOT being a religion, the religious beliefs (or lack thereof) of its members ought to be none of its concern.
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