Originally posted by Crakeur
What Are The Masonic Secrets?
That is the topic of this thread.
I am not a mason so I don't know but I do know what they are not.
they are not private u2u's being posted on the public forum. this is not allowed unless both members consent to the posting. If the u2u is off
topic, it i shouldn't be posted, even if both members consented.
masonic secrets do not have anything to do with achilles' posts being tagged as off topic.
so, let me ask a question.
What Are The Masonic Secrets?
discuss.
Thank you, Thank you.
I missed a few pages of the thread and have been trying to review the last couple of days worth, but I had to stop and reply to this one.
The 'secret' of masonry is not a word, a grip or a ritual.
I think the closest (at least in my travels thus far) concept of the masonic secret is 'gnosis'.
When someone asks or demands me to give them the 'secrets' of a Master Mason, my reply is exactly the same as all of my 3.5 million brethren.
I can not.
It is not that I refuse, it's that I am physically, spiritually and mentally unable to give it to you. Honestly I haven't even made it through the
paper that surrounds the skin of the onion that has to be peeled away.
However, even the small amount of light I have sought and received thus far is something that I cannot give. I am not able to give it. It is
something that must be revealed and discovered by each man.
Another good point that was made in the last couple of days is that we may actually be at a point in our history where the ritual has become more
important than the journey.
So, I guess the point I am trying to make is that even if you threatened to take my life in exchange for the masonic secrets I cannot give them to
you.
In defense of my friend Achilles, who believes in his cause as strongly as I do mine, he brings up an excellent point.
IF the masons were hiding a vast conspiracy, what better way to hide it than to introduce disinformation? Each new conspiracy that arises deflects
attention from us and focuses it somewhere else, IE the 'illuminati', the NWO, the 'church'...
I am not aware of any disinformation attempts, but I have to admit that disinfo has been the single biggest tool in mankind's history to cover
secrets.
I don't always agree with the messenger, but I have to give Achilles this one - his thought is valid.