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Letters to Pope John-Paul II    Awareness & Gratitude
Why is the included included, and why is so much excluded?

Universal Wisdom?        Honestly, I just haven't a clue what you're driving at!

Metalogue - The Vision Thing: InciteYoga

METHOD I+N THEOLOGY

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all residents in this tiny dwelling-place"   _{.... i.e., the manifest cosmos}

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ENSTATIC CONVERSION?   Many current attitudes, beliefs and practical approaches widely reputed to be
well established have, in fact, long been in need of radical and urgent rethinking.

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The Neith Network Library: Policy Statement      Colin James Hamer's Nuptial Theology
Euphobia in the Rift Valley by J. D. Solomon       Preface      Abbreviations      Introduction
Letter to Shirley Williams      Prologue & Preliminaries      The Preliminary Letter

The Declaration of Arbroath      Thirty-three Preliminary Readings for Comment, Meditation-Mediation and Discussion
A List of Colin's Writings      Bibles & other Sacred Books      The Lady of All Nations
Women's Studies, Feminist Theology, Mary Magdalen (Leonarda da Vinci, Rennes-le-Château, Rosslyn, The Grail Quest…)
St. Paul's Shipwreck & Prehistoric Malta      Religion & Life in the times of Jesus Christ
St. Paul was shipwrecked 300 yards off the Maltese coast in late October or early November 59 A.D.
He probably embarked for Rome from Gozo on 10 February in A.D. 60.   _{Acts 27:39-28:11}

Pre-History, Earth Studies, Numbers & Sacred Geometry
Universal Deluge: Gilgamesh, Noah's Flood, Tsunamis & other Inundations
Pyramids, Megaliths, Stonehenge, Ley-Lines & Landscape Zodiacs
History & Myth, Science & Religion of & in Ancient Times
Atlantis, Tiahuanaco & Titicaca      Malta, Gozo & Menorca      Ancient Egypt, Akhenaton & The Exodus

Extra-Terrestrials & The Garden of Eden      Buddhists, Hindu, Islamic, Tao…
Conspiracy Theories, Globalisation, Creativity & The New World Order
St. Malachy, Nostradamus & other Prophetic Spirits

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Nature's Way: Shamans, Druids, Alternative & Complementary Medicine
Acupuncture, Shiatsu, T'ai Chi, Feng-Shui, & The Tao      Ayurveda, Huna & inciteYoga
Warlocks, Witches, Wizards & the Pagan Dawn      Robin Hood in Myth, History & Legend
Where is Glastonbury?      Mysticism, Gnosis, Magic & Hermetic Philosophy      Freemasonry
Eroticism & Sexuality - Normal, Deviant & Problematic       Occult & Esoteric Approaches

Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy & Divinity      The Question of Method
Reading, Writing and All about Books      Ready Reference
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Numbers in maroon highlight items of especial interest for readers seeking a deeper and better integrated understanding of our current multi-facetted geo-sociopolitical and economic crisis, but none are without relevance…

• 2962. DOROTHY BOUX, The Golden Thread - Words of Hope for a Changing World (Bath - London: Gateway Books/ Shepheard-Walwayn 1990).
• 2963. RENÉ DAUMAL, Mount Analogue - An Authentic Narrative (London: Vincent Stuart Ltd, 1959).
• 2964. VICTOR GOLLANCZ, From Darkness To Light - A Confession of Faith in the form of an anthology (London: Victor Gollancz, 1956) - deserves to be read in the order in which it is presented; highly recommended. Here, from pp. 287-8, is one of his citations of Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga:

  "Our whole being - soul, mind, sense, heart, will, life, body - must consecrate all its energies so entirely and in such a way that it shall become a fit vehicle for the Divine… The difficulty of the task has led naturally to the pursuit of easy and trenchant solutions; it has generated and fixed deeply the tendency of religions and of schools of Yoga to separate the life of the world from the inner life. The powers of this world and their actual activities, it is felt, either do not belong to G-d at all or are for some obscure and puzzling cause, Maya or another, a dark contradiction of the divine Truth. And on their own opposite side the powers of the Truth and their ideal activities are seen to belong to quite another plane of consciousness than that, obscure, ignorant and perverse in its impulses and forces, on which the life of the earth is founded. There appears at once the antinomy of a bright and pure kingdom of G-d and a dark and impure kingdom of the devil; we feel the opposition of our crawling earthly birth and life to an extalted spiritual G-d~consciousness; we become readily convinced of the incompatibility of life's subjection to Maya with the soul's concentration in pure Brahman existence. The easiest way is to turn away from all that belongs to the one and to retreat by a naked and precipitous ascent into the other. Thus arises the attraction and, it would seem, the necessity of the principle of exclusive concentration which plays so prominent a part in the specialised schools of Yoga; for by that concentration we can arrive through an uncompromising renunciation of the world at an entire self-consecration to the One on whom we concentrate. It is no longer incumbent on us to compel all the lower activities to the difficult recognition of a new and higher spiritualised life and train them to be its agents or executive powers. It is enough to kill or quiet them and keep at most the few energies necessary, one one side, for the maintenance of the body, and, on the other, for communion with the Divine.
  The very aim and conception of an integral Yoga debars us from adopting this simple and strenuous high-pitched process. The hope of an integral transformation forbids us to take a short cut, or to make ourselves light for the race by throwing away our impediments. For we have set out to conquer all ourselves and the world for G-d; we are determined to give him our becoming as well as our being, and not merely to bring the pure and naked spirit as a bare offering to a remote and secret Divinity in a distant heaven, or abolish all we are in a holocaust to an immobile Absolute. The Divine that we adore is not only a remote extra-cosmic Reality, but a half-veiled Manifestation present and near to us here in the universe [pluriverse]. Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet complete: here, in life, on earth, in the body, we have to unveil the G-d~head; here we must make its transcendent greatness, light and sweetness real to our consciousness, here possess and, as far as may be, express it. Life then we must accept in our Yoga in order utterly to transmute it; we are forbidden to shrink from the difficulties that this acceptance may add to our struggle. Our compensation is that even if the path is more rugged, the effort more complex and bafflingly arduous, yet after a point we gain an immense advantage. For once our minds are reasonably fixed in the central vision and our wills are on the whole converted to the single pursuit, Life becomes our helper. Intent, vigilant, integrally conscious, we can take every detail of its forms and every incident of its movements as food for the sacrificial Fire within us. Victorious in the struggle, we can compel Earth herself to be an aid towards our perfection and can enrich our realisation with the booty torn from the powers that oppose us."

• 2965. Count HERMANN KEYSERLING, The Travel Diary of a Philosopher in two volumes, translated by J. Holroyd Reece (London: Jonathan Cape, 1925) - "A glimpse not so much of a philosophy possible in theory, but rather of an attitude of soul and mind capable of attainment in practice, in which many an ominous problem will appear to be solved from the beginning, irreconcilable contradictions will pass away, and a newer and fuller significance will be revealed…" (vol. 1, p.9).

  "The more profoundly I take root in my freedom, the clearer it becomes to me that nothing is more opposed to it than the desire for isolation, nay, that the recognition of essential freedom has its correlation in the feeling of oneness with the whole of nature.
  As a metaphysical being I am, of course, my own creator. But, regarded empirically, I am nothing at all by virtue of myself. I owe my talents and my point of departure in life to my parents, my earliest influences to my country; I owe to my age the mental content which I share, the impulses which drive me on; and finally, I owe to the whole earth the manifold experiences which have made me what I am today.
  I myself, as a conscious person, may put down to my own merit only the fact that, assuming my existing energy for work, I have worked at myself unswervingly - not its possession even is due to myself, and much less its success.
  It is not I who evoke my thoughts, they come to me.
  Thus I am inseparable from the universe. If I accept myself, I also affirm the universe; if it is my duty to perfect myself, this duty implies the further duty of cooperating as much as ever I can in the perfecting of the world.
  I can deny what this world is today just as little as I can deny my personal condition. The latter is the product of all that has ever been; if the processes of the world had taken a different course, I too would be different. Conversely, however, the world would necessarily be more perfect if I were more perfect, so that its future character is conditioned on all sides by the volition and achievement of its present elements.
  And of all the elements without a single exception: even the transient gesture of every individual continues to be effective through æons of time.
  Thus, no one can or may sever himself from the whole.
  This truth, of which only few are aware in peace days, inspires the impulses of most people during a war of defence. Every individual among the combatant nations feels the desire to give his life for something greater, every one of them feels that he should join with his fellows, that he may not cut homself off, that he must share in the fate of his nation, be it crime or happiness or death.
  My consciousness lives beyond the sphere of national boundaries, therefore I cannot be a party to this strife. But events touch me no less profoundly for all that: just as there are beings who must represent, according to their nature, certain special aspirations, so there are others who are destined to embody what is general and common to all.
  And this generality is no abstraction: it is a living entity, it is even more concrete than anything particular is, since the latter only serves it as a transient means.
  All the profoundest and most essential powers of life are superindividual and supernational; it is these which give significance and direction to particular events. The consciousness of the metaphysician is directly rooted in them. His participation in the processes of the world consists in lending expression to these powers.
  And this participation is no less important than that of the warrior.
  What would have happened to Europe if the contending voices had not been drowned again and agin by a single one, which could not countenance any partisanship and only knew of love? - The profoundest will of humanity spoke through this voice.
  The more self-conscious humanity becomes, the more must this will dominate, the more will it animate from within all special aspirations…" (vol. 2, pp. 370-71).

• 2966-7. FRANK PERETTI, This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness, 2 blockbuster novels in 1-volume edition (Crossway Books, 2000).
  This author's distinguishes between "Light" and "Darkness", but the real distinction we need to make is that between 'light and darkness', 'Light-&-Darkness' and 'pseudo-Light-&-Darkness' - much harder to write a blockbuster novel about, no doubt!
  Ignoring or, at least, feigning to ignore the quite obvious fact that two words orthographically identical may have diametrically opposite meanings, that "Lucifer", for instance, although often used in reference to "Satan", sometimes features, in hymns, for example, as one of the many names of the Risen Christ, fundamentalist Christians also frequently close their eyes to the plain fact that Alice Bailey never used the term "Lucifer" to designate any sort of principle of "evil." That much, at least, is abundantly clear to any reader of her many books, all of which are not only still in print, but also very widely both read and studied.
  By mistakenly representing Light as the enemy of Darkness, Peretti (e.g. on pages 512, 528 & 719) inclines his readers indiscriminately to confuse the latter with 'darkness' tout simple, cf. pp. 192 & 314:

  "You can't hide from them, you can't run, you can't get away with anything. They're part of the network, and the network knows everything, controls everything… It's all a con game: Eastern meditation, witchcraft, divination, Science of Mind, psychic healing, holistic education - oh, the list goes on and on - it's all the same thing, nothing but a ruse to take over people's minds and spirits, even their bodies."

• 2968. THE QUAKER TAPESTRY AT KENDAL, Pictorial Guide to The Quaker Tapestry (Kendal, 1998).
• 2969. J. D. SOLOMON, The Mind's Ear (Hounslow: Bibliagora1979) - and various other works now exclusively available from Creativity House).
• 2970. FRANCIS THOMPSON, Works, 3 volumes (London: Burns & Oates 1913)... ' "The fool," says Lord Verulam, "the fool receives not the words of the wise, unless thou speakest the things that are in his heart." And not only the fool. By the law of Nature, no man can admire, for no man can understand, that of which he has no echo in himself. Such an echo implies an experience, kindred, if not equal, to that of the utterer. Now, to the majority of men, Saintship is an uncomprehended world - "A doubtful tale from fairyland, hard for the non-elect to understand." Tell them its meaning, and your words will be to them a sound, signifying nothing.' ("Sanctity and Song", in Vol.3, p.89.)
  Seeking, therefore, ever more effectively to facilitate optimum transparency (a quality nowadays very seldom reflected in the public pronouncements of any of today's best known figures) our Webmaster, although now "in retirement", welcomes, even at short notice, invitations to take part in either introductory or more extended individual and/or group meetings, in order to clarify and explore the significance and current relevance of any of his selections, arrangements and presentations of this and his other listings of especially recommended articles and books for personal or community reading, meditation and mediation - details on request.

  

• 2971-83. UMBERTO ECO, A Theory of Semiotics (Indiana University Press 1979); Art & Beauty in the Middle Ages (Yale University Press 1986); Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Macmillan 1988); The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas; The Middle Ages of James Joyce - An Aesthetics of Chaosmos (Hutchinson Radius 1988, 1989); The Search for the Perfect Language (Fontana 1997); Il Nome della Rosa with the "postille" (Milano: Bompiani 1984); The Name of the Rose (Picador 1984); Travels in HyperReality (Picador 1986); Foucault's Pendulum (Secker & Warburg 1989); The Island of the Day Before (Secker & Warburg 1995); How to travel with a Salmon & other Essays (London: Minerva 1995) - this latter includes "How to justify a Private Library", "Editorial Revision", "Sequels", and "How to write an Introduction"; Serendipities - Language and Lunacy (Orion paperback, 1999, cf. especially, "The Force of Falsity", p.24):

  "Karl Popper has reminded us that the social theory of conspiracy is like the one we find in Homer."

  Adso's conclusion to The Name of the Rose: "stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus." may be rendered: "Whatever is rosy remains fresh for as long as the name by which it is called lives on; names are quite naked, but we can and do cling to them."
  "… By now the abbey was doomed. Almost all its buildings, some more, some less, had been reached by the fire. Those still intact would not remain so for long… Only the parts without buildings remained safe, the vegetable patch, the garden outside the cloister… Nothing more could be done to save the buildings…
  The conflagration of the Aedificium was different… As for the top floor, where once, and for hundreds of years, there had been the labyrinth, it was now virtually destroyed.
  'It was the greatest library in Christendom,' William said. 'Now,' he added, 'the Antichrist is truly at hand, because no learning will hinder him any more… Jorge, I mean. In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not come from the tribe of Judas, as his heralds have it, or from a far country. The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of G-d or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer… Jorge loved his truth so lewdly that he dared anything in order to destroy falsehood. Jorge feared the second book of Aristotle because it perhaps really did teach how to distort the face of every truth, so that we would not become slaves of our ghosts. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth… The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless… The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away… It's hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of G-d and His omnipotence. So the freedom of G-d is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.'
  I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: 'But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between G-d and primigenial chaos? Isn't affirming G-d's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that G-d does not exist?'
  William looked at me without betraying any feeling in his features, and he said, 'How could a learned man go on communicating his learning if he answered yes to your question?' I did not understand the meaning of his words. 'Do you mean,' I asked, 'that there would be no possible and communicable learning any more if the very criterion of truth were lacking, or do you mean you could no longer communicate what you know because others would not allow you to?'…
  I leave this manuscript, I do not know for whom; I no longer know what it is about: stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus." (UE, pp.490-3, 502.)

  At the end of the film version of The Name of the Rose Adso, who, prior to that final, climactic, almost-all-consuming fire, had known for the first time in his life what it is to know a woman in the flesh, confides that he never even knew her name.
  "Eritis mihi testes." (Acts 1:8.) Adso's very name evokes that traditional Latin affirmation of self-effacing self-commitment whereby each member of a group called to be ordained priests of Jesus Christ within the Roman Catholic Church was until relatively recently required publicly to declare his personal presence as an instrument and a witness of the One High Priest - "Adsum - Here I am."
  Although The New Jerusalem Bible translates the original Greek of Acts 1:18 - "You will be my witnesses," Heinz Cassirer prefers "You shall be my witnesses." Be that as it may, St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate also undeniably suggests - "You shall be my balls."

  2984. THEODORE ZELDIN, An Intimate History of Humanity (Vintage 1998). Zeldin mentions six ways of keeping social pain at bay - (1) obedient conformity, (2) negotiation, (3) privacy, (4) acquiring knowledge, (5) self-disclosure, and (6) creativity. He sees "humanity as a family that has hardly met". This is a fascinating and eminently readable book with a wealth of excellent reading-lists - one for each chapter.

"Sadiq has the biggest deepest eyes imaginable. they look right through you, and they are alive. He sees where other people only gaze."

FREEMASONRY

• 2985. A. J. AGIUS, The Genesis of Freemasonry in Malta (1730 - 1843) (Valletta 1993).
• 2985a. JOHN ANKERBERG & JOHN WELDON, The Facts on the Masonic Lodge (Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishing, 1989).
• 25. FOSTER BAILEY, The "Ancient Landmarks", in The Spirit of Masonry (Lucis Trust 1957) - by no means out of date. RICHARD DAWKINS, too, is also quite plainly legible.
• 2985b. ASHLEY BECK, Freemasonry and the Christian Faith (CTS, 2005). Fair and helpful, but wrongly continues to accept Augustine's condemnation of Pelagianism despite the implications of Aquinas's acknowledgment that agere est quoddam pati, and misses the point that Masons merely deny their Craft is "a religion".
• 2986. W. BROTHER REVEREND ALLAN V. W. BEECHING, P.M., "Freemasonry - Whence come you? Whither are you directing your course?" (Christchurch, New Zealand: Lodge Idris 452, January 1999). Text of an official Communication in which favourable reference is made to some of Colin James Hamer's lesser known writings.
• 623. DAN BURSTEIN & ARNE DE KEIJZER, editors, Secrets of Angels & Demons - The Unauthorised Guide to the Bestselling Novel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, pp. 119-65).
• 2986a. GEORGE G. BUTTIGIEG, Of Craft and Honour - A Templar's Chronices: Templar Lore and Freemasonry Betrayed meet in Catholic Malta (Luqa: Agenda, 2006).
• 2987. NICOLA COLDSTREAM, Medieval Craftsmen - Masons & Sculptors (British Museum Press, 1st edition 1991, 2nd impression 1993).
• 899. MAURICE M. COTTERELL, The Tutankhamun Prophecies - The Sacred Secrets of the Mayas, Egyptians and Freemasons (Headline 1999).
• 1892-3. GIULIANO DI BERNARDO, Freemasonry and its image of Man - A Philosophical Investigation (Tunbridge Wells: Freestone 1989); La Ricostruzione del Tempio - Il Progetto Massonico per una Nuova Utopia (Venezia: Marsilio 1996).
• 643. SYLVIA FRANCKE & THOMAS CAWTHORNE, The Tree of Life and the Holy Grail (London, Temple Lodge, 1996); page 100 includes this quotation from Rudolf Steiner's The Temple Legend: "In the original occult brotherhoods the thought lived that man has a task to fulfil; the task of restructuring the inanimate world, of not being satisfied with what is already there. Wisdom thus becomes deed through its penetration of the inanimate world, so that the world should become a reflection of the original and eternal spirituality. Wisdom, Beauty, Strength are the three fundamental words of all Freemasonry. So to change the outer world that it becomes a garment for the spiritual - that is its task."
• 2988. R. A. GILBERT, Casting the first stone - The hypocrisy of Religious Fundamentalism and its threat to Society (Element Books 1993) - "Without exception, fundamentalist controversial works display an ignorance of the subjects they combat, whether these are other faiths, cults, alternative medicine, the New Age, or the 'occult'." Gilbert's wide ranging discussion helpfully focuses several common misunderstandings of Freemasonry in the U.K. and elsewhere.
• 1538. ALAN W. GOMES, Series Editor, Guide to Cults & Religious Movements (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House - Carlisle, U.K.: OM Publishing, 1995). Volume 3: GEORGE A. MATHER & LARRY A. NICHOLS, Masonic Lodge.
• 440-42. NICHOLAS GRUNER, “Do not despise prophecy” in The Fatima Crusader (452 Kraft Road, Fort Erie, ON L2A 4M7, Canada: No. 54, Winter 1997); Issue No. 70 (Spring 2002) marshalls a lot of data purporting to show that, unlike Pope John-Paul II, Cardinal Ratzinger and Archbishop (now Cardinal) Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., have lied about the true nature of the '3rd secret of Fatima'; a 'masonic plot', or should one say 'conspiracy', is also mentioned… For a reliable and comprehensive account, including a photostat copy of Sister Lucia's 3 January 1944 4-page disclosure of the third "secret" together with the full text of some related writings of Pope John-Paul II, Cardinal Sodano, Cardinal Ratzinger and Archbishop Bertone, see LOUIS KONDOR, editor, Fatima in Lucia's own words - Sister Lucia's memoirs, 11th edition (Fatima: 2000), ISBN 972-8524-20-X.
• 2988a. JOHN HAMILL & ROBERT GILBERT, general editors, Freemasonry - A Celebration of the Craft, with a Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Kent (Greenwich Editions, 1998).
• 1927. MARK HEDSEL, The Zelator - A Modern Initiate explores the Ancient Mysteries, with an Introduction and Notes by DAVID OVASON (London: Century Books 1998). "The importance of the square is reflected in both speculative and operative Masonry... The two streams... seem to merge in the inscribed square, dated 1507, which was left as a foundation deposit in the building of the old Baal's Bridge in Limerick." The inscription reads: "I will strive to live with love & care upon the level. By the square."
  In this same note (on p.444) David Ovason remarks that giblim, a Masonic term for 'Mason', may derive from the name of an ancient town, Gebal, whose inhabitants, the Giblemites, are said to have been responsible for the stone-work when Solomon's Temple was first built. Since the Hebrew root gib pertains to height, the Biblical Gibeon being nowadays identified as the village of El-Jib which, like Malta's prehistoric temples of Ħaġar Qim near Qrendi, does indeed stand on a height, Ovason surmises that a true 'Mason' is one standing on the Spiritual Heights - a symbolic reference to Capricorn's place in the heavens being clearly intended.
  In modern Maltese gebel is a collective noun meaning 'stone', but the related Arabic word commonly means 'mountain'. Interesting, too, the Maltese equivalent for "By Jove" is ballec literally: "By God" (in Maltese here: b' allek). A prediluvial half-human and goat-like image can still be discerned in the south wall at Ħaġar Qim - the only wall not to have been thrown down by the onrushing wave from the West that Joseph S. Ellul has associated with Noah's Flood.
• 2989-90. MAX HEINDEL, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception and Freemasonry & Catholicism - an exposition of the Cosmic Facts underlying these two great institutions as determined by their occult investigation (Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, CA: Rosicrucian Fellowship 1931 & 1937). Heindel has explained the wording of that second title: "The term Catholicism as used in this work does not refer to the Roman Catholic Church alone, but Catholic is taken in the sense of Universal, so that the term includes all movements inaugurated by the Sons of Seth, the Priestcraft."

CREED OR CHRIST No man loves G-d who hates his kind, Who tramples on his brother's heart and soul; Who seeks to shackle, cloud, or fog the mind By fears of hell has not perceived our goal.   G-d-sent are all religions blest; And Christ, the Way, the Truth, the Life, To give the heavy laden rest And peace from sorrow, sin, and strife.   Behold the Universal Spirit came To all the churches, not to one alone; On Pentecostal morn a tongue of flame Round each apostle as a halo shone.   Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed, We oft have battled for an empty name, And sought by dogma, edict, cult, or creed, To send each other to the quenchless flame.   Is Christ then twain? Was Cephas, Paul, To save the world, nailed to the tree? Then why divisions here at all? Christ's love enfolds both you and me.   His pure sweet love is not confined By creeds which segregate and raise a wall. His love enfolds, embraces human kind. No matter what ourselves or Him we call.   Then why not take Him at His word? Why hold to creeds which tear apart? But one thing matters, be it heard, That brother love fill every heart.   There's but one thing the world has need to know, There's but one balm for all our human woe: There's but one way that leads to heaven above - That way is human sympathy and love. Max Heindel.       As that last line makes clear,         "brother love" here does not imply homosexuality!

• 1930. J. JAMES, Chartres - The Masons who built a Legend (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1982).
• 2990a. MICHÆL JOHNSTONE, The Freemasons - The Illustrated Book of an Ancient Brotherhood (London: Arcturus, 2005).
• 2991. BERNARD E. JONES, Freemasons' Guide and Compendium (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1950; Dewey Decimal classification: 366.1).
• 2833 + 2992-3. STEPHEN KNIGHT (= Swami Puja Debal), Jack the Ripper - The Final Solution (Grafton Books, 1977) - plausibly, if mistakenly, suggests the involvement of one or more individual Freemasons, if not of Freemasonry as such; The Brotherhood - The Secret World of the Freemasons (1st edition Granada 1983, slightly revised paperback edition Grafton 1985, HarperCollins paperback 1994 - ISBN 0 586 05983 0). This author, a follower of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, died in 1985. He endorses WALTON HANNAH's claim in Darkness Visible (1952) that Masonry is a religion incompatible with Christianity because its Supreme Being is neither Allah nor the Christian Trinity but the Great Architect of the Universe, identified by Stephen Knight in the light of his own research as Jah-Bul-On, according to him a logically impossible conflation of Yahweh, Baal and Osiris. Logically impossible entities are, one may feel, unlikely to exist. The name "Baal" today resonates quite differently from the name "Osiris" and the resonance of "Yahweh" is different again - yet the Hebrew equivalent of "Baal", which means simply "Lord" or "Master", is homophonic with today's Maltese baalec meaning "by Jove" (literally, "by Allah" or, in English, "by God").
• 2994-5. ELIPHAS LEVY, Key to the Mysteries, translated by Aleister Crowley; The Book of Splendours containing The Judaic Sun, The Christian Glory and The Flaming Star, with research into the mysteries of Freemasonry followed by The Profession of Faith and elements of the Qabalah. with an appendix by Papus (Aquarian Press & Samuel Weiser: 1973).
• 2996. KENNETH MACKENZIE, The Royal Masonic Cyclopædia (Aquarian Press 1987).
• 951. NICHOLAS R. MANN, The Isle of Avalon - Sacred Mysteries of Arthur & Glastonbury (Llewellyn Publications 1996) - mentions on pp. 51-3:
  "In his work New Light on the Ancient Mystery of Glastonbury, John Michell presents a splendid case for the continuation at Glastonbury of a mystical tradition of remote antiquity, and indeed one that originated from a heavenly source…
  This 'sacred mystery', Michell argues, was maintained in the new church. It is found in all architectural traditions able to invoke the sacred source. It is not exclusive to any religion. Thus it is found in the design of Stonehenge as well as in Indian and Japanese temples. According to the Knights Templar and their fellow Masons, the prototype for the mystical pattern lay in the ancient temples of Egypt and, above all, in the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. It is really the quest of John Michell and others like him - including the Masonic fraternity - to recover the exact order of this pattern, to recreate it and so make the earthly order a mirror of the heavenly…
  To the Neo-Platonic statement of Mr. Michell: 'The ideal pattern is ready-made and comes from above. It enters the mind as archetype which takes shape as symbol, and thence it descends down the scale of human consciousness into the sphere of concrete reality. It is not invented but invoked.' The author replies: 'The ideal pattern is constantly emerging and comes from within. It enfolds and unfolds through mind and nature in a never-ending play of form, and thence is immanent within human consciousness and the universe. It is not invented but enacted.' The difference being while in the first instance the sacred order of the Isle of Avalon is a matter of maintaining union with the heavenly order, in the second instance the natural order of the Isle of Avalon IS the sacred order."
• 141. Reverend C. L. MARSONS, Glastonbury - The Historic Guide to the "English Jerusalem" (London: George Gregory, 1909). Even if St. Paul & Simon Zelotes did visit Joseph of Arimathæa in what is now Glastonbury [but where is Glastonbury?], his was no more than "a rushlight mission" surrounded by darkness (p.7). The life-style of those disciples of The Lord in that area then, persons whom we in retrospect may identify as 'Christians' or 'Celtic Christians' or 'Pelagians', like that of Pelagius (Morgan) himself, would have been condemned by the urbanely cultivated but pastorally (in the root sense of that term) ignorant St. Augustine as "heretical" because "Pelagian" because, as Marson expresses it, they "denied heredity and the social nexus" - obviously, without ever having or needing any such concepts (p.9)! When St Patrick arrived in Glastonbury he found only twelve orthodox Catholics in residence there (p.10).
• 2996a. SEAN MARTIN, The Knights Templar - The History and Myths of the Legendary Military Order (Harpenden, Herts: Pocket Essentials, 2004).
• 2997. THOMAS MAUDE, Guided by a Stone-Mason - The Cathedrals, Abbeys & Churches of Britain unveiled (London - New York: I. B. Tauris 1997).
• 1945. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON, The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry, (Copyright 1914, first U.K. edition 1918: 5th reprint, George Allen & Unwin, October 1934, indexed), p.205: "Outside of the home and the house of G-d there is nothing in this world more beautiful than the Spirit of Masonry." He cites this passage from C. R. Kennedy's The Servant in the House:
  "I am afraid you may not consider it an altogether substantial concern. It has to be seen in a certain way, under certain conditions. Some people never see it at all. You must understand, this is no dead pile of stones and unmeaning timber. It is a LIVING thing.
      When you enter it you hear a sound - a sound as of some mighty poem chanted. Listen long enough, and you will learn that it is made up of the beating of human hearts, of the nameless music of men's souls - that is, if you have ears to hear. If you have eyes, you will presently see the church itself - a looming mystery of many shapes and shadows, leaping sheer from floor to dome. The work of no ordinary builder!
      The pillars of it go up like the brawny trunks of heroes; the sweet flesh of men and women is moulded about its bulwarks, strong, impregnable; the faces of little children laugh out from every corner-stone; the terrible spans and arches of it are the joined hands of comrades, and up in the heights and spaces are inscribed the numberless musings of all the dreamers of the world. It is yet building - building and built upon.
      Sometimes the work goes on in deep darkness; sometimes in blinding light; now under the burden of unutterable anguish; now to the tune of great laughter and heroic shoutings like the cry of thunder. Sometimes, in the silence of the night-time, one may hear the tiny hammerings of the comrades at work up in the dome - the comrades that have climbed ahead."
• 1946. Oxford Ritual of Craft Freemasonry (1980 edition).
• 1947. ALEXANDER PIATIGORSKY, Who's afraid of Freemasonry? (London: Harvill Press 1997).
• 1947*. JASPER RIDLEY, The Freemasons (London: Constable & Robinson, 1999; Robinson paperback, 2005).
• 1963. RALPH SHIRLEY, Occultist & Mystics of all ages (Secaucuas, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1974) - biographies of Apollonius of Tyana, Plotinus, Michæl Scott, Paracelsus, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Count Cagliostro (about whom it corrects several misconceptions), Anna Kingsford:

  "In those days within the Papal States Freemasonry was a crime punishable by death..." Thomas Carlyle caricatured Cagliostro unfairly; he also assessed Cardinal Newman as "not passessing the intellect of a moderate-sized rabbit", which, in strict logic, is very likely true! (pp. 139 & 142.)

• 2998. JOHN & ANNE SPENCER, Mysteries and Magic (Orion paperback, 2000), pp. 55-61: "Freemasonry".
• 675-9. ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE, The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal - Its Legend and Symbolism considered in their Affinity with Certain Mysteries of Initiation and other Traces of a Secret Tradition in Christian Times (London: Rebman Limited 1909); editor, The Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes (London: Theosophical Publishing House 1919); author of: The Book of Ceremonial Magic - A Complete Grimoire (New York: Citadel Press 1973); A New Masonic Encylopædia, 2 volumes in One with an Introduction by Emmit McLoughlin (Avenel, New Jersey: Wings Books 1994); The Secret Doctrine in Isræl, etc.
• 2999. HUGH ROSS WILLIAMSON, The Arrow and the Sword (Faber and Faber, 1947).

       

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