tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87012939184373783322024-03-13T23:13:42.359-07:00Masonic BookwormFinding Light, Spreading LightAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-86747329114019350662016-02-23T11:51:00.003-08:002016-02-23T11:51:53.140-08:00The Peppermint Men by Gladys Tracey<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span class="TextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I posted a poem called "The Peppermint Men" on my blog ages ago (actually I guess it was just 2012). I'd found it somewhere online drifting around the Masonic-sphere, and it was clearly attributed to an unknown </span><span class="SpellingError SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">author. Some</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> of you may have enjoyed the post on my </span><span class="SpellingError SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">site. Imagine</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> my surprise when I learned that the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">poem has a clear author, and in fact the version I posted was altered.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I am grateful to my good Brother Richard Swan, who brought the proper authorship and correct version to my attention. Of course I agreed to make the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">correction. Here's what Bro. Swan told me.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">" 'The Peppermint Men' was created by Gladys Tracey. Gladys created this and read it out for her own Ladies Night in 1986 and it was very well received and appreciated at the time and for a long time after. In fact many asked for copies!"</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span class="SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"></span><span class="EOP SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">"The version you have published is not an exact copy with a few lines being altered. I would dearly like to publish the original version with Gladys name clearly defined as the author. Gladys died 3 years ago, she is sadly missed and we would all love to think that her memory and prowess as a poet could live on."</span><span class="EOP SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></div>
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<div class="Paragraph SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; word-wrap: break-word;" xml:lang="EN-US">
<span class="TextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">"I have the full permission of my friend and brother, W-Bro Alex F Tracey, PPJGW of Blackwater Lodge 1977 to make contact with you and to ask that you kindly edit the entry on your site to give credit to the correct author."</span><span class="EOP SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It is not often you get to make a connection with a part of the Masonic world that has made a contribution Masons all over the world love and </span><span class="SpellingError SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; background-image: url("data:image/gif; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">appreciate. I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> am proud to give proper credit and join the Brothers of Blackwater Lodge 1977 in celebrating Gladys Tracey.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> </span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> have removed the version of the poem I had posted, and I include the corrected version below. I pray that the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; background-color: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">poem will reach a wider audience and new generations of Masons will gain appreciation for it.</span></span><span class="EOP SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"> I repost the poem here, now, with the permission of W. Bro. Alex Tracey. If you want to post or publish it yourself, please take care to give due and proper credit, as well as obtain permission. Thank you Brothers of Blackwater 1977 for sharing.</span></div>
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<span class="TextRun SCX88407314" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-user-select: text; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;" xml:lang="EN-US">Herewith, is "The Peppermint Men", by Gladys Tracey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">“It will only mean one evening out, and once a month” said he. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">One evening quickly led to two, followed by three and four </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">And pretty soon I asked his name when he walked in the door. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">He bought a jar of peppermints and put some in a tin,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">“I have to hand them round”, he said, “or they won’t let me in.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">So now when friends come calling and ask, “Where is he then?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">I say, “You won’t see him tonight, he’s with the Peppermint Men.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">He dines out fairly often, superb meals, mainly roast. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">I sit and watch the ‘goggle-box’ and eat my beans on toast. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">A clean white shirt is needed, his gloves as white as snow, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">His suit well brushed, his case in hand, oh dear, I wish he’d go. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">“I’m going in the chair”, he said, “a position of renown.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">That’s nice, I thought, with his poor legs, he’s better sitting down. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">“I am dear – take the rubbish out, as soon as you are dressed.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">“You’ll have to make a speech you know, when it’s your Ladies’ Night.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">I looked at him in horror, as fear replaced delight. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">I scribbled through a pad or two as I tried hard to think. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 18px;">I threw away six ballpoint pens as they ran out of ink. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-4987589732961921652015-09-24T19:47:00.001-07:002015-09-24T19:47:15.984-07:00More Than Human<p dir="ltr">"When the divine principle in man speaks in the depth of his being, the remaining portions of his nature should reverberate in sympathy. Without the presence of this divine principle in him man would be less than human. Because of its presence in him he can become more than human." </p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>Walter Leslie Wilmshurst</b>, <i>Further Notes on Craft Symbolism </i></p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com66tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-42945981434277859882014-05-08T18:51:00.001-07:002014-05-08T18:51:01.967-07:006 before 7<p dir="ltr">If SEVEN was the number rounding out the cycles, SIX was the one that completed the physical evolution of the life forms of any cycle. The progress achieved in the first six sub-cycles was necessary preparation for the channeling down of the SPIRITUAL grade in the seventh and climactic sub-cycle.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Alvin Boyd Kuhn, The Esoteric Structure of the <u>Alphabet</u><br>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-81885436191230218852014-05-08T18:43:00.001-07:002014-05-08T18:43:29.975-07:00Sphinx, Ankh, and Phoenix<p dir="ltr">If SPHINX derives from the ANKH symbol, it is not at all unlikely that the other great emblem suggestive of the SPIRIT involved in matter... the PHOENIX, stems from it likewise.</p>
<p dir="ltr">- Alvin Boyd Kuhn, The Esoteric Structure of the Alphabet.</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-29944148006983659982014-03-15T15:57:00.000-07:002014-03-15T15:57:00.596-07:00Stones are for Markers<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1 Samuel 7:12</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-56835125847637330732014-03-01T15:57:00.000-08:002014-03-01T15:57:00.020-08:00No tool of iron<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it."</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Exodus 20:25</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-90924585065612742612014-02-01T15:57:00.001-08:002014-02-01T15:57:00.417-08:00The Traveling Man<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The Traveling Man</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Isaiah 19:17</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Jeremiah 9:2</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wayfaring = Traveling, especially on foot.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">[From Middle English waifaringe, journeying, from Old English wegfarende : weg, way; see way + farende, present participle of faran, to go on a journey; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">WAYFARING MAN - wa'-far-ing, The translation in Jdg 19:17</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">; 2 Sam 12:4; Jer 9:2; 14:8 of ('oreach), the participle of 'arach, "to journey." In Isa 33:8 of `obher 'orach, "one passing on a path," and in Isa 35:8 of holekh derekh, "one walking on a road." "Traveler" is the meaning in all cases.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-33281033897244519432014-02-01T15:57:00.000-08:002014-02-01T15:57:00.929-08:00Passions within bounds<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"He who believes fears; he who fears is humble; he who is humble becomes gentle and renders inactive those impulses of incensiveness and desire which are contrary to nature. A person who is gentle keeps the commandments; he who keeps the commandments is purified; he who is purified is illumined; he who is illumined is made a consort of the divine Bridegroom and Logos in the shrine of the mysteries."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Maximos the Confessor</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-41338858637975603152014-01-21T15:57:00.000-08:002014-01-21T15:57:00.091-08:00The Higher Man<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"The Hebrew name for Altar is explained as signifying, "It wipes away sin; it nourishes the higher man; it fosters love for God; and it atones for all guilt" (Ket. 10b): its four letters (initials of meḦilah, zekut, berakah, Ḧayyim), point to Forgiveness, Justification, Blessing, and Life (Tan., Terumah, 10). It was considered a miracle and a proof of the manifestation of the Shekinah that the continual fire upon the Altar did not destroy the copper with which the stones were overlaid (Lev. R. vii.; Tan., Terumah, 11)."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-26876025355998877232014-01-18T15:57:00.000-08:002014-01-18T15:57:00.502-08:00Altar of Whole Stones<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Thou shalt build the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord thy God:"</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Deuteronomy 27:6</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-83569493212577073372014-01-15T15:57:00.000-08:002014-01-15T15:57:00.059-08:00Altar of Stone<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"The Altar is the means of establishing peace between the people of Israel and their Father in heaven; therefore, iron, which is used as an instrument of murder, should not be swung over it. What a guaranty for those that endeavor to establish peace between man and man, and between nations and nations, that no evil shall befall them!" said Johanan ben Zakkai (Mek., Yithro, 11; Tosef., B. Ḳ. vii. 6). And in the same spirit he said: "If the altar of the Lord must be built of whole stones (according to Deut. xxvii. 6), all the more should the men that perform the peaceful work of divine instruction be whole-souled and peaceful" (ib. 7). In a similar strain: "If the very stones of the altar are to be treated with respect and with decorum, how much more living man!" (Mek. l.c., end).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jewish Encylopedia of 1906</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-68045134842776557982014-01-04T15:57:00.000-08:002014-01-04T15:57:00.312-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."</span><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ephesians 2:20</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">-22</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-62759829365621241722014-01-01T15:57:00.000-08:002014-01-01T15:57:00.649-08:00True Nobility<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"No deiform soul is in its essence of greater value than any other deiform soul. For </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">when God in His supernal goodness creates each soul in His own image, He brings it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">into being endowed with self-determination. By exercising this freedom of choice each </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">soul either reaffirms its true nobility or through its actions deliberately embraces what is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ignoble."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"It is by means of the more lofty conceptual images that the inner principle of Holy Scripture can be stripped gradually of the complex garment of words with which it is physically draped. Then to the visionary intellect - the intellect which through the total abandonment of its natural activities is able to attain a glimpse of the simplicity that in some measure discloses this principle - it reveals itself as though in the sound of a delicate breeze."</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662), First Century on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-88458720524753048172013-12-21T15:57:00.000-08:002013-12-21T15:57:00.074-08:00The Word vs. The Logos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Hence a person who seeks God with true devotion should not be dominated by the literal text, lest he unwittingly receive not God but things appertaining to God; that is, lest he feel a dangerous affection for the words of Scripture instead of for the Logos."</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662), First Century on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-4951053739746342342013-12-19T15:58:00.000-08:002013-12-19T15:58:00.835-08:00Through A Glass Darkly<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1 Corinthians 13:12</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-24658134684753146982013-12-17T15:57:00.000-08:002013-12-17T15:57:00.371-08:00The Perfect vs. The Partial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"But when what is perfect appears, what is partial is superseded: all mirrors and indistinct images pass away when truth is encountered face to face."</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662), First Century on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-87397386063744136422013-12-12T15:57:00.000-08:002013-12-12T15:57:00.077-08:00The Cross and the Burial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"All visible realities need the cross, that is, the state in which they are cut off from things acting upon them through the senses. All intelligible realities need burial, that is, the total quiescence of the things which act upon them through the intellect. When all relationship with such things is severed, and their natural activity and stimulus is cut off, then the Logos, who exists alone in Himself, appears as if raised from the dead. He encompasses all that comes from Him, but nothing enjoys kinship with Him by virtue of natural relationship. For the salvation of the saved is by grace and not by nature."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662), First Century on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-28284078424735124992013-12-10T03:57:00.000-08:002013-12-10T03:57:00.576-08:00Blue, Purple, Scarlet, Gold, White<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson;"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"The mystery of the incarnation of the Logos is the key to all the arcane symbolism and typology in the Scripture, and in addition gives us knowledge of created things, both visible and intelligible."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662), First Century on Theology and the Incarnate Dispensation of the Son of God</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-87444706364571107342013-12-02T15:57:00.000-08:002013-12-02T15:57:00.757-08:00Cathedral Mechanics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The soul that at any time improved as regards the knowledge of virtue and increase in righteousness should obtain an improved position in the universe, pressing onwards at every step to a passionless state, until it comes to a perfect man, a preeminence at once of knowledge and of inheritance."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father."</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05523009451278858992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701293918437378332.post-15475060080132754542013-11-12T05:47:00.001-08:002013-11-12T05:47:58.847-08:00The Sun and the Moon<p dir="ltr">"God set these lights in the heavens, not merely as lamps unto our physical feet by night and by day, but in a far deeper sense to keep us mortals enlightened by their astonishing revelation of our cosmic and spiritual history. For the sun and moon together trace in the open book of the skies each month and each year the entire narrative of our inner experience."</p>
<p dir="ltr">Alvin Boyd <u>Kuhn</u>, Spiritual Symbolism of the Sun and <u>Moon</u></p>
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