tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post8452494213084876..comments2024-03-26T12:05:58.591-04:00Comments on Freemasons For Dummies: Grand Priory of the Scottish Reformed & Rectified Rite of the United States of AmericaChristopher Hodapphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201859873755654395noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-69258079637721254752017-03-04T15:54:51.036-05:002017-03-04T15:54:51.036-05:00I'm agreeI'm agreeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18159257533936940480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-54049188929597543762011-01-07T13:59:13.562-05:002011-01-07T13:59:13.562-05:00The whole point of this move by the GEKT is to mak...The whole point of this move by the GEKT is to make the Rectified Scottish Rite available to those spiritually inclined Christian Masons in search of Reintegration. This much should be obvious to the even the most uninformed of persons. No longer will American Masons be criticized for confining the Rectified Scottish Rite to a small, bitter group of old men in an ivory tower eating shrimp and not giving a toss about the spiritual charity and synarchic and sublimely theurgic doctrine of the CBCS. Now it will be worked in FULL without persecution.<br /><br />And, the SRICF is the correct name for the Societas Rosicruciana. Drop the 'M'. And, speak with actual members and you will know that young men are thriving in this institution of spiritual study, ritual and research, and the Great Work is accomplished within the confines of most of its Colleges. The example starts at the top, and ever since 2005 under MW Thurman C. Pace Jr., the SRICF High Council has given esoteric lectures, stressed secrecy, conferred full form grades, taught Rosicrucian spirituality and raised the bar internationally when it comes to research in related fields. Less and less are the senior Mason types promoted in the SRICF, unless they are themselves seekers and demonstrating understanding of the spiritual realm. <br /><br />The standards for the new Great Priory of CBCS in America under the GEKT will be in lines with the RER Rules written by Willermoz. Being a big shot in your Grand Commandery or even in Grand Encampment, does not mean that you will ever received the RER degrees. Gong chasers need not apply. But, demonstrate a sincere interest in Willermozism, Martnism, rectified Masonry, esoteric Christianity or the Elus Coen, and you will find an invitation extended to you to participate in a cohesive system that develops you through intense ritual, intense study and highly formal standards. Unknown Superiors as spiritual professed guardians are already in place to guard the portals. The merely curious will be directed elsewhere.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498020596544772656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-9242792762231514002011-01-06T07:31:54.706-05:002011-01-06T07:31:54.706-05:001- Dear brethren, English is not my first language...1- Dear brethren, English is not my first language, so excuse me if there are some errors.<br />2-"are the successors, or the spiritual continuators, of those valiant Knights who of yore founded the Beneficent Order of the Knights of the Holy City, and who bore so gloriously the title of Templars". This sentence is a CHANGE to the ritual wich official writing was defined in 1782.<br />3- The RER and it's inner Order (Order of the CBCS) does not proclaim to be a Templar Order.<br />4- That decision was taken in 1782.<br />5- The Inner Order proclaims to have the same origin of the Templar Order (and of the Essens, and of the Therapeutics at the time of Philon of Alexandria, etc).<br />6- Yes the Inner Order use templar simbology and organisation: a paradox? Maybe, but the Templars didn't created it...<br />7- The Inner Order have a valid templar linneage (from the scottish nobles that fled to France) since Baron von Hund received it in 1743.<br />8- However the RER and it's Inner Order doesn't want to continue the Templar Order or replicate it (like it is said in our rituals and in the writings of our "reformers and founding fathers" like Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, Louis-Claude Saint Martin, Joseph de Maistre, etc.).<br />9- The goals of RER are the quest of "the thing" from wich the Initiation comes.<br />Fraternnaly,<br />Nonnus, in ordine eques Cordi ArdensWillermozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643055381001946437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-66582631475262111992011-01-06T04:55:14.546-05:002011-01-06T04:55:14.546-05:00Dear Laurent, I love the image at the bottom of th...Dear Laurent, I love the image at the bottom of the page you're indicating : putting Willermoz and Martines de Pasqually one facing the other is a good way to present the rectified rite :)<br />Thanks<br />Frat.<br />a Valle sanctaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07860164288418519498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-89450088266476464752011-01-03T07:17:38.540-05:002011-01-03T07:17:38.540-05:00Dear Brethren,
Please visit this website :
http:/...Dear Brethren,<br /><br />Please visit this website :<br />http://www.rite-ecossais-rectifie.org/in-english<br /><br />This tells more than all we can speculate.<br /><br />S&F<br /><br />MoryasonUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03990210379848036009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-46798723868149047182011-01-01T16:33:45.604-05:002011-01-01T16:33:45.604-05:00I guess my biggest question is why do bodies which...I guess my biggest question is why do bodies which are NOT Grand Lodges (who CAN and DO tell their members which bodies are allowed in their jurisdiction) attempt to dictate what OTHER appendant orders exist?<br /><br /><i>Accordingly, membership in the Great Priory of America is incompatible with membership in the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America and any Grand, Subordinate, or Constituent Commandery under its jurisdiction or owing allegiance to the same.</i><br /><br />You answr, in part, the so what, by insinuating it might cause tensions and hurt feelings among many senior and well respected Brethren in the USA.<br /><br />I would ask again, so what?<br /><br />It's about time Grand level officers see how these politics of territorial fighting in the appendant orders hurt EVERYONE involved, including those who aren't members of those app. bodies.<br /><br />Ask any Massachusetts Mason about the Sword of Bunker Hill, which commemorates the death of one of our ancestral GM's.<br /><br />Oh, wait, you can't - it's banned in MA.<br /><br />Ask anyone about any group not mentioned in section 701 of MA GL Constitutions - those groups have been left off the list in order to not offend/step on the toes of, the Supreme Council in Lexington.<br /><br />When PGMs start finding out that two orders they belong to are at odds with each other, either an under the table aggreement will be reached to let sleeping dogs lie, or they will start asking GL's to get involved and take sides.<br /><br />It's a shame.MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15904412888243979076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-3118373458186024322010-12-31T00:24:40.977-05:002010-12-31T00:24:40.977-05:00My main question is this: is this action going to ...My main question is this: is this action going to make this Rite any more accessible to the average Mason, or is it just going to be more of the same supper club baloney, except under the influence of the GEKT? If it's the former, then I suppose that this could be a good thing, provided that the structure and teachings of the RER are not watered down to make them more palatable to the masses. If it's the latter, then this comes off just looking like another high muckity-muck pissing match.Prexyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09360373309806880168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-19286441648489881762010-12-30T16:58:19.260-05:002010-12-30T16:58:19.260-05:00@San Diego Freemason:
Like to think that, wouldn&...@San Diego Freemason:<br /><br />Like to think that, wouldn't you. The Grand Prieuré de Gaules WAS under the GLNF until 2000. When it went out on its own as a new Rectified Rite "grand lodge", they managed to make everybody mad. One word: "France."Christopher Hodapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201859873755654395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-16353799702568269192010-12-30T16:19:21.081-05:002010-12-30T16:19:21.081-05:00Oh, more fun with higher bodies and recognition is...Oh, more fun with higher bodies and recognition issues!<br /><br />I have never heard a good argument for why Memphis-Misraim is banned, under the guise of "the men who ran it in the USA subsumed it to the GCR in order to make sure no one could partake in their degrees" to paraphrase a Heredom article about it ... when there are GL's in the world who were working it BEFORE any of the GCR bodies were formed, and still work it.<br /><br />Let's see, what else?<br />Oh, MSRICF claims to be a Freemasonic society dedicated to exclusively to historical research about Rosicrucianism. MSRICF is open by invitation only, and exclusively to high grade Freemasons, and requires that its members belong to no other Rosicrucian orders or societies.<br />Of course, a number of MSRICF members are ALSO members of The Invisible Temple No. 0, (R.R. et A.C.) a Golden Dawn group apparently remaining "invisible" to protect many its members from being thrown out of MSRICF. <br />Of course, a number of THOSE Masons are AASR SC Officers, as well as officers of the GCR.<br /><br />But, hey, who cares about regularity of origin, when the SC's in the USA basically tell GM's which bodies they can and cannot allow Blue Lodge Masons to join ...MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15904412888243979076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-89487014666634711642010-12-30T11:51:25.431-05:002010-12-30T11:51:25.431-05:00I am confused (who wouldn't be?). If the four...I am confused (who wouldn't be?). If the four CBCS bodies in France recognize one another, does that not (by extension) imply some form of recognition by the GLNF of the GOdF and the GLdF?San Diego Freemasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12138769022498075405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-80284434220230126152010-12-29T12:42:40.534-05:002010-12-29T12:42:40.534-05:00The Grand Priory de Gaules was ostracized by an or...The Grand Priory de Gaules was ostracized by an organized agenda of an anti-Christian element that has slowly infiltrated the GLNF over the years. Remember, the GLNF was originally composed of only the Rectified Scottish Rite, having formed out fo an RER lodge. Once it brought in other rites (Scottish, French, etc) it slowly brought infiltrations of people who are of a secular humanist agenda, others who are of a dark occult and thelemic agenda and still others who are on the payroll for other foreign interests and others who have their own religious agenda. They began to attack the RER under the guise of "tolerance" and pretending to worry about what the visiting New York and American Masons (whom they know view Masonry as an instrument of universalism) would think about the very Christian RER craft degrees. They began to demand to take control and to change the rituals, rituals that had never been changed before. When Fontaine refused, they tried to slander him and to accuse him of having an inner Gnostic church (similar to the one used by some members of the Swedish Rite) and Martinist inner order. But even to this day, the GLNF maintains its own Martinist Order, one for the men and another that is androgynous for the male members and their wives. <br /><br />The GPDG in turn left, choosing to work and maintain the substance of their lineage, rather than worry about the politics of recognition. They received no help from any other bodies, as everyone wanted to maintain their own regularity and not be criticized. So the GPDG took the soul and authority with them, transferring the archives, the charter and the College of Lyon Profes & Grand Profe with them. What was left behind were a few fellows looking to capitalize on their own act of loyalty by staying behind with the GLNF, and with the help of a few very high ranking American CBCS, the Grand Priory Rectifie was founded in France.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13498020596544772656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-69389732163668849642010-12-29T09:05:26.417-05:002010-12-29T09:05:26.417-05:00Waite's Grand Priory CBCS is most certainly Ma...Waite's Grand Priory CBCS is most certainly Masonic. It was chartered by the Independent Great Priory in Helvetia some 30 odd years before the GP of England & Wales.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17666861793522464771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-50058660915840879332010-12-28T23:13:54.297-05:002010-12-28T23:13:54.297-05:00I was once told by a member of another high-soundi...I was once told by a member of another high-sounding invitational body that has its roots in a very old, esoteric tradition, but in much of the US is nothing but a dinner club for "past grands," that it was resurrected here because the "33rds let in too much of the riff-raff."<br /><br />So much for seeking further light.Christopher Hodapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201859873755654395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-55829074401747319602010-12-28T22:55:58.101-05:002010-12-28T22:55:58.101-05:00What a shame. It would seem to me that this amount...What a shame. It would seem to me that this amounts to a lot of "chao ab ordo" to have so much in-fighting within our beloved brotherhood. I believe the redundant and overlapping bodies present two distinct problems: 1. They seem competitive, rather than complimentary to one another; 2. They risk dilluting the message of brotherhood and altruistic meaning of our fraternity.<br /><br />All in all, it's a wholly unfortunate set of circumstances that will do little more than squander what wisdom we have to share with the world.The Patriothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09853385670433226728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683662.post-15726700270152821862010-12-28T22:42:07.985-05:002010-12-28T22:42:07.985-05:00Very good article. Definitely good information to...Very good article. Definitely good information to have in hand and to keep following. As a member of the A&ASR and a soon to be member of the Commandery, it is good to have. Thanks!<br />Bill Wojtas - http://ordbillspolitics.blogspot.com/ORDBillWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245746330772705248noreply@blogger.com