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- From: ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan,alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Masonic Practices??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.181634.1521@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:16:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.215526.11908@fuug.fi>
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- In articles:
- <1993Jan24.215455.11774@fuug.fi> (alt.magick) and
- <1993Jan24.215526.11908@fuug.fi> (alt.pagan), an4484@anon.penet.fi writees:
-
- >My understanding (as much I guess as an outsider could have) of Masonic
- >practices would be that they descend from the Knights Templar of around
- >the time of the middle ages. Their purpose in being was to be the
- >guardians of the Holy Grail.
-
- >Funny though....I was talking to a Witch whose grandfather was a Mason and
- >it seems their beliefs are a little more elaborate than that. It seems that
- >the whole idea behind Masonry is that Christ as a man was married or at
- >least had sexual relations with Mary Magdelan which produced offspring.
- >The Masons then have one purpose....to defend these descendants of Christ
- >down through the ages.
-
- >And the reason for the secrecy is that the whole premise of the Christian
- >religion is the fact that Jesus was the Son of God....hence the need for
- >secrecy. The Witch (who had evidently gleaned this info from her grandfathers
- >diaries seemed to resent this, in that this means the Masons are basically
- >defending a lie...namely, Christ as the celibate Son of God who never married
- >as that might make certain Christian practices/beliefs untenable.
-
- >Any comments on this?
-
- > Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
-
- Well, yes.
-
- OK, we're discussing this hypothesis:
-
- (a) Christ survived the crucifixion.
- (b) He had children by Mary Magdelene, a bloodline which still survives
- in the British and French Royal Families.
- (c) The Masons have been keeping this secret all along.
-
- As far as I know, this notion was originated by Baigent, Leigh,
- and Powell, in their book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail", around
- 1974. If your witch friend's grandfather's diary (how's that for a
- FOAF type link :-) predates that period I would VERY MUCH LIKE TO HEAR
- ABOUT IT! Seriously, I would appreciate it if you could follow up on
- this.
-
- Baigent and Leigh have produced a series of popular books on
- historical subjects, and can be shown to have played *very* fast &
- loose with their sources, and ignored countervailing evidence. They
- are not taken seriously by academic historians.
-
- Frankly, I can't see how this would do much violence to
- Christianity even if it were true. All it would do is postpone the
- Ascension. It would not neccesarily affect the Passion or
- Resurrection.
-
- BTW, the phrase "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" refers to one of the
- "pieces of evidence" they offer:
-
- In (old?) French:
-
- Sang Real = Royal Blood
- San Greal = Holy Grail
-
- This convenient bit of punnery means that they can take any
- reference to the Holy Grail, and make it a reference to Christ's
- bloodline, when it suits their purpose.
-
- Just out of curiousity, why the anon post? You're not saying
- anything likely to get people's dander up.
-
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- In <1jvbniINN8j4@titan.ucs.umass.edu> (alt.magick) locklin@titan.ucs.umass.edu (SCOTT C LOCKLIN) writes:
-
- [deleted]
-
- Scott suggested that the witch's gdad may have got the idea from
- Robert Anton Wilson. However, RAW got it from Baigent & Leigh.
-
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- In <g9ywXB4w165w@tweekco.uucp> (alt.pagan) alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
- writes:
-
- >Sounds like the basic theme of Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Baigent, Leigh,
- >and Powell) ... which, lacking specialist knowledge of the time period
- >dealt with, I use as a working hypothesis until something better
- >comes along.
-
- >OOPS!!! I hate putting something on Usenet and suddenly remembering
- >that I posted something that reads drastically differently from
- >what I intended to say.
-
- >What I INTENDED to say is that the Christ married to Mary Magdalene
- >scenario presented in Holy Blood, Holy Grail is what I use as a working
- >hypothesis, along with the idea that Masonry has its roots in
- >an organization devoted to the purpose of protecting the "Holy Blood",
- >not that modern Masonry has that purpose today. (or has had that
- >purpose for the last few hundred years) ... if I only could get people
- >to read what I MEANT, not what I said.
-
- A "working hypothesis"? For what? Anyway, as I think I've made
- clear, my reading suggests that this notion is about as probable as
- Velikovsky's (sp?).
-
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- In <w03wXB1w165w@status.gen.nz> (alt.pagan) jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
- writes:
-
- >Various non-masonic orders based in the Catholic religion do indeed
- >practise what you have mentioned here and have no grounding in any
- >masonic related orders.
-
- Could you give us some more details? What groups are you talking
- about? Knights of Columbus? Knights of Malta? Opus Dei? The Order of
- the Water Buffalos?
-
- >The reading of Temple and the Holy Grail my enligten you to the French
- >Templars around the time of the refermation (late 1500's). While the
- >Knights Templar were supposed to be the orginal Guards of the first
- >temple they were infact an order founded in Malta and members of the
- >Knights hospitalier and founded at the time of the first crusades.
-
- I think you have your history screwed up. The Templars (The Order
- of Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon). originated in the Holy land
- in the 1110's. Their original brief was to protect pilgrims on the
- road from Jaffa to Jerusalem. Their first leader was Hugues de Payns,
- a French nobleman. They gained official Church recognition from the
- Council of Troyes in 1128. The Knights Hospitaliers (later the Knights
- of Malta) were a different, and rival, order.
-
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-
- W.'. Peter Trei
- ptrei@mitre.org
-
- Presiding Master,
- Wilder Lodge AF&AM
- Leominster, MA
-
- Editor: Masonic Digest
-
- Disclaimer: I am not speaking for my employer.
-