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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 23:50:26 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9201230450.AA11797@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
The Masons _claim_ descent from the Knights Templar. I 'm not buying it
(because ``Bob'' didn 't sell it to me---remember ``Bob''? No, I think
not).
Personally, I think a handful of listening-to-Dr.-Gene-Scott-on-the-shortwave--
set'ers is descended from the Knights Templar.
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From: phy6jem@sun.leeds.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 20:58:22 GMT
Message-Id: <792.9201212058@sun018.sun.leeds.ac.uk>
To: subgenius <@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk:subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: masonic symbols
>Can anyone also tell me why on the same car that I saw with the
>Mason's symbol on it, there was also the sword emblem (which I
>believe signifies the Shriners), _and_ a symbol that was unmis-
>takibly an upside-down pentagram with a goat's head in it? I'm
>not one to take the "Devil" worship stuff seriously (you'd have
>to believe in God to believe there's a Devil), but what gives
>here anyway? How are these things related?
Then again there used to be a country that had a Hammer and
Dividers on its state flag and all its coins etc. Obviously
masonic symbols. The country completely disappeared a year or
so back which should be a warning...
grand ant wizard
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Message-Id: <9201230321.AA02662@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 19:21:22 PST
From: "Alan H. Martin 22-Jan-1992 2223" <amartin@tle.enet.dec.com>
To: bob@tle.enet.dec.com
Cc: amartin@tle.enet.dec.com
Subject: Masons
>From: Jesus Christ On XTC <crimson@wpi.wpi.edu>
...
>...perhaps it is time again for us all to make our fave research books known,
>to help out those who may be lacking in such?
Well, _Handbook of Secret Organizations_ by William J. Whalen (1966, The Bruce
Publishing Company) casts a pretty wide net: 47 organizations from Acacia to
the Modern Woodmen of America (with the Mafia in the middle). The copy in the
Westford Mass Public Library has been "edited" with a razor blade, but some
antient slackmaster re-penned the missing words (maybe even the right words).
/AHM
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Message-Id: <al81488@pro-angmar.alfalfa.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 92 22:31:52 EST
From: Steven Mesnick <steffan@pro-angmar.alfalfa.com>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Masons and Pentacles
At the risk of actually posting a serious message to this list, I'd like to
point out that the badge of the Order of the Eastern Star has no connection
whatsoever to the sort of things that we usually associate with inverted
5-pointed stars. The choice of that symbol was *real* unfortunate, and Dr.
Rob Morris, the founder of the Order, should have known better. In New
York, the badge is at least shown right-side-up.
The Eastern Star is a so-called "androgynous co-masonic" group,
i.e. men and women are both allowed to join, and it is considered by Masons
to be affiliated with, though not part of, Freemasonry.
In point of fact, most of the members are nice grey-haired ladies
who would be utterly shocked to learn that their beloved symbol has such a
horrible other meaning.
Steve Mesnick,
Past Patron, Unity Chapter #14, OES, Riverside, RI
[I just wanted to nip that one in the bud. We now return to our regularly
scheduled program....]
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steffan@world.std.com
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From: Joseph Zachary Provo <crimson@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 03:41:24 EST
Message-Id: <9201220841.AA07448@starbird>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: mrrrmrrrmrrrmrrrtraffic
<Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 10:07:05 EST
<From: Andy Looney - Code 521 <looney@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
<
<William Poundstone's excellent book _Big Secrets_ has a long chapter
<on the Masons in which he reveals all of their secret passwords, handshakes,
<initiation rituals, etc.
all...?
[to use an overused word these days] not.
Duncan's ritual doesn't even have a meager primer....
<Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 15:40:19 PST
<From: "Alan H. Martin 19-Jan-1992 1004" <amartin@tle.enet.dec.com>
<Subject: The Freemasons
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<>From: Nathan Charles Crowell <bigal@wpi.wpi.edu>
<>Can anyone also tell me why on the same car that I saw with the
<>Mason's symbol on it, there was also the sword emblem (which I
<>believe signifies the Shriners), _and_ a symbol that was unmis-
<>takibly an upside-down pentagram with a goat's head in it?
<Either you've got some funky Freemasons in Worcester, or you actually saw an
<emblem for the Order of the Eastern Star (OES). That's the "women's
<auxiliary" run by and for Freemasons and their female relatives.
nope, our masons here are just as masonic as masons elsewhere.
[say anything?...i didn't think so....]
Yup, I've known masons whose old biddy wives were in OES and so they had both
emblems on their family trucksters...
......................................Rev Dkr Nick LaRG0, ASC
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 09:16:35 -0800
From: Dave Butterfield <dave@prodnet.la.locus.com>
Message-Id: <9201221716.AA604013@prodnet.la.locus.com>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Planned Parenthood "Pledge-a-Picket"
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