Washington was a Holy Royal Arch
Mason, to be sure, and attained to
this level because of the
circumstances of his participation
in the American Revolutionary War
in connection with his own efforts
of self-initiation. Like Cincinnatus,
he dropped out of freemasonry on an
organizational level because it no
longer serves a useful purpose if
it degenerates to the stuff of
life of itself and worldly
cause, crusade and agenda,
which it always does
according to the law
of octaves . . .
unavoidable.
This was made clear by A.O. Aldridge
in his BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND NATURE'S
GOD, p. 156:
"A few years before the Kinnersley
affair, Franklin became a Mason; and
subsequently took an active part in
both the Philadelphia Lodge and the
Parisian Lodge of the Nine Sisters.
Since Eighteenth century Masonic
doctrine was almost inseparable from
deism, there is little purpose in
detailing this segment of Franklin's
religious history. In his Masonic
rites he referred to God as 'the
Supreme Architect' and to his fellow
members as 'brothers,' but otherwise,
Masonic ritual had but little to
contribute to his spiritual life."
Notice in the above that Franklin
referred to God as a Higher Being
apart from the organization.
If the above was true for Franklin,
then the same was true for Washington
and this, in fact, happens to be
historically accurate. Neither of
these men regarded themselves as
"organizational" types. Obviously,
such a thing as this was what they
were fighting with the British
about! So, no mystery to this.
CHAPTER 12
The first growl
Beelzebub's Tales
to His Grandson
AFTER A MOMENT'S pause,
Beelzebub continued:
"This story of ANATHEMA
reminds me of another story,
which may provide very useful
material for understanding the
strangeness of the psyche of the
three-brained beings of that planet
which has taken your fancy.
Furthermore, it may reassure
you a little and give you some
hope that, even if these peculiar
terrestrial beings did learn how
you had insulted them and should
ANATHEMATIZE you, things might
not turn out so badly for you
after all.
"The story I am going to
tell you is about something
that happened quite recently
among the three-brained beings
of that planet, and which came
about as follows:
"In one of their large
'communities,' there existed
quite peaceably an ordinary
being who was by profession
a 'writer.'
"Here you must know that
in long-past ages one could
occasionally run across beings
of that profession who still
invented and wrote something
really by themselves, but in
later epochs, and especially
in recent times, writers have
been of the kind that only
copy out all sorts of ideas
from many books already in
existence, and fit them
together to make a 'new'
book. And in general they
prefer books that have
reached them from
their remote
ancestors.
"I must point out that the
books fabricated by contemporary
writers, taken all together, are
the principal factor in diluting
the Reason of all the other
three-brained beings there
until it has become, as the
venerable Mullah Nasr Eddin
says, 'thinner than air.'"
"And so, my boy, the contemporary
writer I was speaking of was just a
'writer' like all the rest of them,
and was nothing particular in
himself.
"One day, after finishing one of
his books, he began to wonder what
to write about next, and decided to
look for some new 'idea' in the
books piled up in his 'library,'
which every self-respecting
writer there feels obliged
to have.
"As he was rummaging about,
a book called 'The Gospels'
fell into his hands.
" 'The Gospels' is the name
given there to a book written
once upon a time by a certain
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
about Jesus Christ, a Messenger
from our Endlessness to that
planet.
"This book is widely circulated
among the three-centered beings
there who nominally exist
according to the
indications of
this Messenger.
"And when this 'writer' happened
to come across that book, the notion
suddenly popped into his head: 'Why
shouldn't I also write a gospel?'
"According to certain investigations
that I had to make for quite different
needs of mine, he must then have
deliberated as follows:
'Am I any worse than those ancient
barbarians, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and Johnnie?
'At least I am more cultured than
they were, and I can certainly write
a much better gospel for my
contemporaries.
'What is more, a gospel is the
very thing that is needed just
now, because the "English" and
"Americans" have a great weakness
for this book, and the rate of
exchange of their pounds and
dollars is "not half bad"
just now.'
"No sooner said than done."
--Gurdjieff
--ch 12, first growl
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LDS debate - bashing the church? WHAT????by testskriftene4,641 views
I think I got some of what you are saying. So, basically, you are a member of the church, but not active right now? Its just that your train of thought was a little hard to follow, but I often think a little bit randomly as well. You have some interest in Masonry, and perhaps other subjects it seems. Fortunately, there is a lot out there to research. Unfortunately, it is not easy to know how reliable some sources of information really are. More later! :)
BenjaminGessel 1 year ago
Some interesting comments. thanks!
LukeAir2008 2 years ago