Freemasonry is not evil (Page 3 of 5)

I see the mind has no use for the heart in this thread, thanks for those of you who opened their's though... you're beautiful and I am grateful to feel it , but the identified mind and ego simply overlooks the heart because it only gets its energy through rampant conflict and pillaging.. freely given waves of yum are never felt nor acknowledged; it needs the fight.

There are newbies here on a mission. Whether through mind or soul I know a rat when I see it. I've seen this on other sites in the past. There goes the neighborhood.

.....ever wonder why all job applications ask about memberships in any clubs or fraternal organizations?....and I thought the Chess Club mention would help!

With a dwindling membership worldwide masonry appears to be circling the wagons and are now becoming more receptive to those thought previously as beneath the profane. God forbid this charitable group have to conviene at Roy Clark's Pikin and Grinin Resort in  Branson. Mo. as opposed to the Venetian in Vegas. The horror of it all.

Report from the Prague summitt....http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=1188

Are you sure he fasted ot death? I always thought he was killed by a radical  Hindu?

Ok, my example wasn't the best...I was using hyperbole to make a point (that using quotes and sloganeering is the lazy man's wit). And when is all said and done I wish people did listen to their hearts more, but listening to your heart exclusively can be as or even more dangerous than just listening to your mind. There is a reason why you have both as part of your makeup. I aknowledge that in our technologically focused world that the heart has taken a back door to the mind and that can lead to a certain 'dehumanisation' of the species. However that doesn't excuse certain luddite or anti-intellectual thinking.

I resent certain vague accusations that I am 'on a mission' or that I tow a party or club line. The closest thing to be being a club member would be the local library. I read a lot of threads on this board, but I rarely contribute because most people have tied things up pretty nicely and I feel I don't have anything more to contribute to the topic. Some of the topics open my mind to other possibilities, some I find amusing. But I will not stand idly by while a group of people is demonised with no solid evidence present. It wouldn't matter if it was the Freemasons or the Star Trek fanclub. It smelt like the Spanish Inquisition in here. You might as well have renamed the thread 'Malleus Maleficarum'.

My heart responded with compassion and then had a conversation with my mind to figure out exactly what was wrong with what was being said. And then both came up with an answer they were both happy with. That's teamwork!

Heya, this is a great part of a song by Lauren Hill called Freedom Time, and serves as a good prelude to my post below.

It's freedom, said it's freedom time now, It's freedom, said it's freedom time now. Time to get free, oh give yourselves up now, it's freedom, said it's freedom time

There's a war in the mind
over territory for the dominion
Who will dominate the opinion,
schisms and -isms, Keeping us in forms of religion,
conforming our vision
to the world church's decision
Trapped in a section,
submitted to committee election
Moral infection,
epidemic lies and deception
Insurrection of the highest possible order
Distorting our tape recorders
from hearing like under water
Beyond the borders
fond of sin and disorder,
bound by the strategy
of systemic depravity
Heavy as gravity,
head-first in the cavity
without a bottom
A fate worse than Sodom
What's got 'em drunk off the spirits,
truth comes we can't hear it
when you've been programmed to fear it
I had a vision
I was falling in indecision,
appalling, calling religion some program on television
How could dominant wisdom
be recognized in a system
of antichrists and majority rules
Intelligent fools
PhDs in illusion,
masters of mass confusion,
bachelors of past delusion
Now who you choosin,
the head or the tail
The bloodshed of the male,
or confidence in the veil
Conferences at Yale
discussing doctrines of Baal,
causing people to fail,
keeping the third in jail
His word has nailed everything to the tree
severing all of me from all that I used to be
Formless and void,
totally paranoid,
enjoyed darkness as
Lord keeping me from the sword,
I was blocked from mercy,
bitter than cerasee
hungry and thirsty for good meat we would eat
and still dine at the table of deceit
How incomplete
From confrontation to retreat,
we prolonged the true enemies' defeat
Destitute of necessity
Causing desperation to get the best of me
Punishment till there was nothing left of me,
realizing the inescapable death of me
No options in the valley of decision
The only doctrine supernatural circumcision
Inwardly only water can purge the heart from words
The fiery darts thrown by the workers of the arts
Iniquity, shapen in,
there's no escaping when your whole philosophy is paper thin
In vanity, the wide road is insanity
Could it be all of humanity?
Picture that,
Scripture that!
The origin of man's heart is black
How can we show up for an invisible war
Preoccupied with a shadow,
making love with a whore,
aching in sores/Babylon the great mystery,
mother of human history, system of social sorcery
Our present condition needs serious recognition
Where there's no repentance there can be no remission,
and that sentence more serious than Vietnam,
the atom bomb, and Saddam, and Minister Farrakhan
What's going on?
What's a priority to you?
By what authority do we do
The majority hasn't a clue
We've majored in curses,
search the chapters,
check the verses,
recapture the land,
remove the mark from off our hands,
so we can stand in agreement with His command
Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand.
Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand…

Your vision will become clear
Only when you look into your heart...
Who looks outside,  dreams.
Who looks inside awakens.

- Carl Gustav Jung

I would rather live in a world
where my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small
that my mind could comprehend it.

- Henry Emerson Fosdick

What a curious phenomenon it is
that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world
who will not make the little sacrifice
that is needed to free themselves
from their own individual bondage.

- Bruce Barton

Sit down before fact as a little child,
be prepared to give up every conceived notion,
follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads,
or you will learn nothing period.

- Thomas Huxley

Alright so in all fairness to psychopractor I did leave myself open with the waves of yum line, haha, but that post was directed at a friend of mine who has a brilliant mind and still lives in her heart.

It is not always an easy balance in this world of polarity. It is natural on a forum to make assumptions and externalize our inner battles. I am all for it, if it helps us to learn and further evolve. I live by the idea that what people think of me is truly none of my business and equally has nothing to do with me, and everything to do with their perceptions and needs at any given time.  And of course this goes double for what I think of any of you.  I am grateful for all I have learned here. I liked all the numerology information and the passion of peoples views is always interesting. I was also thinking of the whole heart versus mind debate and these quotes show that this is one polarity swing that has occupied minds and hearts before us and will do so perhaps long after we have taken on new shells and life stories.  Who knows, we may even find ourselves on a forum.

Today I send waves of transmutation from my heart to the human condition.