Post by Torence on Oct 30, 2012 22:14:33 GMT 10
Being new to The Quarry, let me see if there is anything that I can add to this thread.
For my generation at least, much of what was held by Rand in the 1950s and later was built into the philosophies of “the movers and shakers” so that they could feel better about themselves when they knew they were doing wrong. However, her commitment to Free Thinking is undeniable; and, I believe that every one of us, from the youngest Entered Apprentice to the most Accomplished Master joined this organization in order to find from within themselves some ability which they did not know that they possessed to get on with life fully independent and without reliance and at the same time find some way to give back for the good things that might, and I do mean “might” come our way. In order to get her point across, took a thousand pages or more and many “in your face interviews” with Mike Wallace and others. There is value in what she stated but if you succumb to it and idolize her philosophy then you really do not understand it at all.
Rand left Communist Russia and came here to find that the second Brother Roosevelt was employing the same tools that were being used by the National Socialists, ex-Bolshevists and Fascists to bring their impoverished and uneducated countries out of some old century into the new one; and why shouldn’t he? Label it whatever you want, Socialism, Communism, Revisionism etc. that century was half over before these nations awoke and horrible war had left such a vacuum of worthwhile laborers with our best and brightest having died on the front lines while the idle and useless from among us held themselves back and finished out the century.
Today, at least, we have enough sense to send the least from among us to wear a uniform and commit our international crimes. If they make it back, then they have their snappy uniforms and parades to show for their efforts. The Rich possess their souls. We are broke and have no hope; but the demand to make room for them is upon us and there is now a ready made national army and police force to receive them and further put down the Divine Mandate to think freely and apply ourselves in endeavors of our own choosing.
The second Brother Roosevelt built upon the work of the first Brother Roosevelt, who was admired for just the sort of individualism that Rand admired and promoted, as much as he set the old philosophy aside. They were both traitors to their class. There is a parallel in that history to the details of our first Revolution in America and American Culture and Government has always been an experiment in Masonry.
Brother James Madison in large part wrote the Constitution. But we already had the Articles of Confederation. The ArtofC defined the relationships between the new states. Madison, Jay and Hamilton merely succeeded in dividing the government along Masonic lines, executive, legislative and judicial (though to this day we continue to corrupt our Masonic governments by allowing some grandfather to act in our name as if he were a King).
In Masonry, however, we must always remember the other nature of the word “Might” and that we must agree between ourselves that Might cannot be allowed to make Right. Madison’s constitution could never sustain us, and could not have been ratified. It was just not enough for the purpose. In stepped Brother George Mason who insisted upon, and wrote in large part the Bill of Rights. The second Roosevelt’s failure was that he died before he could achieve the establishment of the second Bill of Rights based upon the Five Freedoms. The Freedom to Assemble, the Freedom of Speech, the Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and more especially, Freedom from Fear.
In Masonry, and our large government, we would do well to draft a Masonic Bill of Rights and until we adopt one we will remain troubled and incomplete.
Fraternally,
Torence Evans Ake
Secretary – Auburn Park Lodge No. 789 Crete, Illinois
MIGS – Triluminar Lodge No. 767 – Lansing, Illinois
MIGS – Illinois Lodge of Research
Illinois City and Country Steward
PM – Arcadia lodge No. 1138 – Lansing, Illinois
For my generation at least, much of what was held by Rand in the 1950s and later was built into the philosophies of “the movers and shakers” so that they could feel better about themselves when they knew they were doing wrong. However, her commitment to Free Thinking is undeniable; and, I believe that every one of us, from the youngest Entered Apprentice to the most Accomplished Master joined this organization in order to find from within themselves some ability which they did not know that they possessed to get on with life fully independent and without reliance and at the same time find some way to give back for the good things that might, and I do mean “might” come our way. In order to get her point across, took a thousand pages or more and many “in your face interviews” with Mike Wallace and others. There is value in what she stated but if you succumb to it and idolize her philosophy then you really do not understand it at all.
Rand left Communist Russia and came here to find that the second Brother Roosevelt was employing the same tools that were being used by the National Socialists, ex-Bolshevists and Fascists to bring their impoverished and uneducated countries out of some old century into the new one; and why shouldn’t he? Label it whatever you want, Socialism, Communism, Revisionism etc. that century was half over before these nations awoke and horrible war had left such a vacuum of worthwhile laborers with our best and brightest having died on the front lines while the idle and useless from among us held themselves back and finished out the century.
Today, at least, we have enough sense to send the least from among us to wear a uniform and commit our international crimes. If they make it back, then they have their snappy uniforms and parades to show for their efforts. The Rich possess their souls. We are broke and have no hope; but the demand to make room for them is upon us and there is now a ready made national army and police force to receive them and further put down the Divine Mandate to think freely and apply ourselves in endeavors of our own choosing.
The second Brother Roosevelt built upon the work of the first Brother Roosevelt, who was admired for just the sort of individualism that Rand admired and promoted, as much as he set the old philosophy aside. They were both traitors to their class. There is a parallel in that history to the details of our first Revolution in America and American Culture and Government has always been an experiment in Masonry.
Brother James Madison in large part wrote the Constitution. But we already had the Articles of Confederation. The ArtofC defined the relationships between the new states. Madison, Jay and Hamilton merely succeeded in dividing the government along Masonic lines, executive, legislative and judicial (though to this day we continue to corrupt our Masonic governments by allowing some grandfather to act in our name as if he were a King).
In Masonry, however, we must always remember the other nature of the word “Might” and that we must agree between ourselves that Might cannot be allowed to make Right. Madison’s constitution could never sustain us, and could not have been ratified. It was just not enough for the purpose. In stepped Brother George Mason who insisted upon, and wrote in large part the Bill of Rights. The second Roosevelt’s failure was that he died before he could achieve the establishment of the second Bill of Rights based upon the Five Freedoms. The Freedom to Assemble, the Freedom of Speech, the Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and more especially, Freedom from Fear.
In Masonry, and our large government, we would do well to draft a Masonic Bill of Rights and until we adopt one we will remain troubled and incomplete.
Fraternally,
Torence Evans Ake
Secretary – Auburn Park Lodge No. 789 Crete, Illinois
MIGS – Triluminar Lodge No. 767 – Lansing, Illinois
MIGS – Illinois Lodge of Research
Illinois City and Country Steward
PM – Arcadia lodge No. 1138 – Lansing, Illinois