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Post by lanoo on Aug 14, 2010 17:07:08 GMT 10
"So, from being an "Edict" or "Resolution," this officious communiqué has now been downgraded to a "Circular"!? Hopefully, the "Circular" will eventually complete its circle and disappear all together."
What a load of twaddle. However much that bumptious committee wants to prevaricate, backpedal and save face, the unmasonic "circular" was obviously meant to be a full blown resolution, as it clearly states.
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 5, 2010 9:46:02 GMT 10
I heard a report last night on the standing of this so-called "resolution." There has been a huge outcry both internal and external, and a stubborn refusal of those concerned to concede they were wrong in any way, other than, in hindsight, the way it way communicated.
While the "resolution" has the imprimatur of the GM, following the outcry it was not put before the last Quarterly Communication of GL for ratification and so it remains in a sort of limbo, with regard to masonic jurisprudence.
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Post by irishmason on Sept 14, 2010 23:59:55 GMT 10
it is for me incomprehensile to exclude all that philosophy. The question above is right: What are they afraid of? There is esoteric teaching in the Masonic philosophy, when you see the KT degree there is religion and esoteric in it. When you go into other degrees there are also other elements in it. Astrological elements i find as well, we have symbols sun, moon, stars etc etc A bit more openess would be no harm. Really.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 15, 2010 6:59:06 GMT 10
One wonders what those who deny its esoteric context see in Freemasonry, which is not much better expressed elsewhere.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 25, 2010 8:46:30 GMT 10
UGLE’s Quarterly Communication December 1819, re complaints of “improper” lectures:
P.R. James, “The Union and After, 1813 to 1917”, 1967, Grand Lodge 1717-1967 [UGLE], Oxford University Press, pp.141/2.
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Post by maximus on Sept 26, 2010 9:10:35 GMT 10
No thinking out of the box, you lot!
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