Don Pickett dp32@andrew.cmu.edu
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 08:15:11 -0600
Message-Id: <9201221415.AA01559@jido.b11.ingr.com>
From: Craig Presson <craig@jido.b11.ingr.com>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <MdSc=B_00WB9IGIo4R@andrew.cmu.edu>
In <MdSc=B_00WB9IGIo4R@andrew.cmu.edu>, Paul Christopher Workman writes:
|> Excerpts From Captions of internet.bob:
|> 19-Jan-92 Masons Adam the Salubrious@whim (1416)
|> >Jack T Chick ... Baphomet, he says, is just another name for satan.
|>
|> I'm told there was a group called the "Knights of Templar"
|> who worshipped a diety called Baphomet. A book in front
^^^ were accused of worshipping. The history was written
by the Church after the suppression, remember.
|> of me ("The Devil's Picture Book," by Paul Huson -- about
|> the mythological origins of the Tarot; it seems to be a
|> pretty good book, devoid of newage) says that in the
^^^^^^ rhymes with sewage?
|> middle ages "mahomet" and some variations thereof were taken by
|> the church to mean the devil, and was derived from
|> "Mohammed" (so we have a typical Middle-Ages-Catholic/Islamic
|> jab, here). The book also mentions these people represented
|> Baphomet as a cat sometimes, which suggests (to me)
|> Bubastis, but the book doesn't go into this and I could
|> be terribly, horribly wrong.
|>
|> Are the Masons related to the Knights of Templar?
The Knights Templar were founded during the crusades as an
elite guard for recaptured sites in the Holy Land. They took
vows of poverty, which back then was a get-rich-quick scheme,
the 501-c(3) corporation being centuries in the future ...
I digress, therefore I am ... of course, when they came back
to Europe with their riches and their ... ahem ... secrets ...
they aroused great jealousy, culminating in a midnight roundup
and the delivery of their last ... ahem ... above-ground ...
Grand Master, Jacques De Molay, to our kindly Dominican ...
_brothers_ <spit> ... of L'office de l'Inquisition ... he
said some typically heroic thing as the flames consumed him,
according to his sympathizers; and refugee Knights are said to
have joined or started Masonic lodges in Caledon ... hence Scottish
Rite masonry, and the name of the DeMolay youth organization.
There is, of course, no independent confirmation of this connection.
|>
|> OF COURSE THEY ARE! The first rule of conspiracy
|> theories is:
|>
|> "Every group or individual, aside from yourself,
|> is related, connected, or communicating with
|> all other groups or individuals, and their primary
|> objective is either world domination or persecution of YOU."
No -- the first rule is, it's a shame to let a good secret
organization die just because all its original members and
secrets are lost.
The second rule is, make sure that plenty of disinformation
circulates so that the truth sounds too paranoid to be real.
The Zeroth rule is, don't get so possessive about one reality.
They're a dime a million. But read _Focault's Pendulum_ for a
_tour de force_ of some of the best ones.
^
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