Oh for Pete's sake. Where'd you pull this from, and why is somebody already taking this as gospel without any kind of evidence he just wrote it up
himself?
Look, as interesting as it is, the 32nd degree is pretty much only part of the Scottish Rite, which, while starting to be practiced in Europe, is
distinctly American, while being more or less assembled from pieces and parts of other degree systems.
A Master Mason is a 3rd degree Mason of the Blue Lodge. The other groups are appendant, and are pretty much just something to add onto the Third
degree.
The last pole shift occurred roughly 200 million years ago. Keep in mind dinosaurs didn't even die out until 65 million years ago. The Earth tilted
about the distance between Alaska and the Equator.
And actually, people have looked in the Antarctic, it's a fairly good source of fossils and evidence of geology, since it's been protected so well
by the ice.
en.wikipedia.org...
Masonry also makes it pretty clear that it makes no statements about religion, save for the specific side degrees that are religious in foundation.
[edit on 1-12-2008 by RuneSpider]