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Maybe a little too religious for some...
On Dec 20, 8:15Â*pm, Chuck Gould wrote:
On Dec 20, 3:39�pm, John H. wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:31:28 +0000, Larry wrote: John H. wrote in : but the Battle Hymn of the Republic *was* religious, after all. More Masonic than religious....actually. http://www.masonmusic.org/uslodge.html They play it a lot.... Larry I thought of Christ as a religious, as opposed to Masonic, symbol. -- John H The two are more entwined than you might imagine. Masons often claim to be the philosophical descendants of the Knights Templar. During the Crusades, the Templars literally guarded the Temple in Jerusalem, and were additionally responsible for the safety of pilgrims and, believe it or not, banking. People who wanted to travel from Europe to Jerusalem on pilgrimage were often reluctant to carry large sums of money on their person en route. There were too many Â*opportunities to be waylaid by bandits, etc. So if the Herring family wanted to travel from Paris to Jerusalem, for example, you could go to the local office of the Templars and desposit, let's say, a chest of 2000 gold coins. You would be given a receipt and you would carry that with you to the Holy Land. Upon arrival in Jerusalem, you would turn the receipt into the Templars and receive 2000 gold from the Templars depository there, less of course a "carrying charge" of perhaps 20 percent. Between the interest charged for banking services and the number of people who simply died or were murdered along the road to Jerusalem and never showed up to collect anything, the Templars eventually got so rich that they were loaning money to European kings. Anyway, while hanging around Jerusalem and guarding the temple the Knights Templar became aware of an entire school of Christianity that had been fairly well stamped out in Europe. Gnosticism. Gnosticism was one of two predominate forms of Christianity in the first couple of centuries AD. Sometime around the year 300 or so, the 20-30 Christian "gospels" were examined by a committee and four were deemed worthy to be included in an official collection of religious documents that would thereafter be called The Bible. None of the gnostic texts were included, and before long gnostic groups were being persecuted as "heretics" by the othodox church. Several attempts were made to locate and burn every copy of the gnostic gospels, but there were successful attempts made to hide some of them away. (see "The Dead Sea Scrolls" as one example). Some of the gnostic texts were found in Jerusalem during the Crusades. Many of the Knights Templar adopted gnostic Christianity, and some of the Masonic traditions were supposedly inspired by gnostic literature. Hmmm..... I always thought they traced their roots back to the master builder of Solomans Temple, by a guy named Huram (Hiram) [1 kings chapt. 5-7] Where he supposedly got the name 'Hiram Abiff' I don't have a clue. And actually the biblical acct of "Hiram" is a bit confusing. King Hiram of Tyre, that sent Solomon the materials for the temple? or Hiram the master builder who was from Tyre and was the son of a widow? Now I don't really know but, When Julia Howe was visiting a Union army camp, and was inspired to write the words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, I sincerely doubt if Freemasonry was really on her mind. |
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