From above to below?

[Charlotte]

The beautiful month of May, my favorite, beside October.

Everybody knows that May brings with it the Germanic tradition of decorating and erecting the Maipole, said to be of pagan origin of the Iron Age. It is mostly decorated with white and blue streamers, the collour of Bavaria, a Church, School, Rathaus, a farmer with wagen and horse representing agriculture, and various trades such as carpenters, stone masons, etc. May is celebrated for the re-birth of great Nature, the accomplishments of the town's Folk, for reasons individuals give according to their fancy, they joke, and, of course, after der Maibaum is secured in the ground which is very hard work, most men head for the Gasthaus to quench their thirst with Mai Bier while the children take hold of the streamers and dance clock- and counter-clockwise around the pole, happy to break up the otherwise dull days. It's how I felt anyway.

I like the significance of the Maypole as the Axis Mundi, in the Norse Saga the Yggdrasil on which Odin was sacrificed.

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On the World Tree the "Realm of Lost Souls" and the Dead is called "Heilheim", the 'Home of Healing'.

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Odin's sacrifice has affinity with the relief of Christ descent from the Cross on the Externstein monument in the Teutoburg Forest.

The relief

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Again, this beautiful picture of the Externstones, the below a reflection of the above.

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Then there is the Myth associating the origin of the Maypole with the Pleiades, with Maia, the 'grandmother', 'mother', 'nurse'; the great one', the "Eldest and most beautiful of the sisters; a mountain nymph in Arcadia. Seduced by Zeus and gave birth to Hermes. Later became foster-mother of Arcas, son of Zeus and Callisto, during the period while Callisto was a bear, and before she and Arcas were placed in the heavens by Zeus." Seems an uncertain statement, but the thought that perhaps we're all from Arcadia occurred to me.

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Wikipedia shows a painting of the Pleiades dancing with streamers, so there might be something to the streamers reaching from the heavens to earth in our archaic memory, which an alternative version discounts, stating that the Pleiades were daughters of an Amazone Queen. That version doesn't ring a bell.

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[Charlotte]

Sorting through my notes I found a paper from December 2005 on the occult tradition.

Comments are on "The Da Vinci Code", "Angels And Demons" by Dan Brown, the Masonic conspiracy, the Rosicrucians, Atlantis, the Pyramids, the codes left for us to discover the hidden, and such, of no interest to me by most authors.

The author of the paper mentions a book written on the subjects, "an Israely professor of literature and history"

"Katz fast-forwards to the Renaissance, when many people believed in the existence of a lost, ancient Egyptian book, the Corpus Hermeticum, offering the key to astrology, alchemy and magic. In 1436, a Balcan monk showed up in Florence with the fabled book, which he had found in a Byzantine archive. It turned out to be less spectacular - and less old - than initially hoped, but this did nothing to shake the belief that the ancients knew more about the secrets of the universe than later generations, and had left their wisdom in code."

I could agree with the Ancients knowing more than we do.

"Isaac Newton was a firm believer in this hidden code theory. As Katz explains, Newton thought the lost Temple Of Solomon, described in the Bible, was a scale model of the universe, built by people who knew all about gravity and planetary orbits."

This brings up the thought as to why it is described as the most magnificent Temple, and why Archaeologists can't find it.

"Seventeenth and 18th century in Hermeticism spawned numerous clubs and societies, some more secretive than other. Many people tried to join the Rosicrucians, but nobody could find out where they were."

Probably because they were invisible to the naked eye, and that was their code. As far as I read, the Rosicrucians, and Masons, can be found even online when read cross-eyed.

[Charlotte]

So far as I know, Masons are talked and written about more that the Rosicrucians.

Reading general information on the RC online, I looked for a few opinions of detractors:

"What do you get when you mix alchemy, The Da Vinci Code, Nazis, Christianity, mysticism, the Knight Templar, Shakespeare, The Secret, and ancient Egypt? No, not a bad movie about Ben Stiller working late in a museum; you get the Rosicrucians. Who are they, what are they up to, what doe they believe, and what the heck's the deal with all the historical imagery?"

No less ignorant, vulgarity trown in, from a site claiming to fight ingnorance for 2+ decades:

Researching the occult is always tricky since you tend to find at least three times as much (oh, let's be dainty, shall we?) bull excrement as you might expect from a bull. Wiccans claim descent from old world matriarcal religions, while Masonic writers clain direct descent from God. The history of the Rosicrucians is interesting but often obscured by adherents who claim a much earlier origin than the record supports."

Who then, among Scholars and researchers determine or interpret the Rosicrucian Writings and Symbols, the age and duration of the Fraternity the records support, and who they are? I loved the sentence in my recent post of many people tried to join the Rosicrucians, but nobody could find out where they were.

In his Book

Codex Rosæ Crucis

A RARE & CURIOUS MANUSCRIPT OF ROSICRUCIAN INTEREST

Mr. Hall writes:

"The principle trustworthy historians of Rosicrucianism are Dr. Joh. S. Semler (1786) and J. G. Buhle (1803). A large part of Buhle's writings are incorporated in De Quincey's history of the Rosicrucians. I differ from Semler only in his effort to establish a fourteenth century origin of the Rosicrucians. I will concede that lodges of alchemists were formed, but they were composed of goldmakers and not philosophers."

Apropos the last sentence, it is good to remember that many times Mr. Hall kept things general and simple. In lectures, for instance, the Sage would smile almost imperceptible as in kindly mocking what historians tell the World.

"The Rosicrucians were admittedly a secret society that revealed itself chiefly through symbols. Rosicrucianism was a current moving in the vast ocean of early modern thought. Probably we shall never be able to define with any exactitude the boundries of its physical structure. Who shall dogmatize upon the consequences of thought? Or reduce to the limits of an institution such subtle factors as inspiration and vision?"

[Charlotte]

Mr. Hall continues:

"It appears reasonable that Rosicrucianism begun as an urge towards truth in the consciousness of a group of men, and was for a time crystallized into a fraternity only to be disseminated finally throughout society as an aspect of spiritual progress. Rosicrucianism, like the philosophers' tincture, has refined and transmuted the thoughts of many individuals and groups of individuals to whom the word Rosicrucian was neither known nor understood. Rosicrucianism is part of a universal mystical tradition, and, therefore must be examined in terms of mysticism, not in terms of physical history and tradition. A great method of thinking is not a sect, but rather an instrument of interpretation directed to the understanding of life and nature. Life itself forces the recognition of mystical values. Emerson has defined institutions as merely a lenghtened shadow of individuals. Likewise systems of philosophy are lengthened shadows of ideas. Rosicrucianism is important not as a sect, but as an approach to truth."

Elsewhere I read, and like:

"Rosicrucians are practical people who believe in the advancement of the race, in order, and in the continuous improvement of the self in all spheres of action. Their motto is: DARE TO DO."

Mr. Hall was a most practical Gentleman with a happy/witty sense of humor, comes naturally with the enlightened territory, even when speaking in earnest, he could not repress a spontaneous jest, with dignity.

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[Charlotte]

Sunday Travel to Fez, founded in 780 AD, home of the oldest University in the World.

It is said that the Founder of the laudable Rosicrucian Fraternity spent two years in Fez.



The following presntation might be interesting also.

[Charlotte]

The following presentation may not be what I had in mind, couldn't find the one I was thinking of. In the afternoon of the Sunday I posted the video of Morocco, I turned on the TV and behold, "National Treasure II" was shown, the part where Ben's parents argued about forgetting to pack the toothbrush when in Morocco, a synchronicity. Then continuing the quest for the City of Cibola, Ben's mother interpreting the symbols and directing them to the "Noble Bird" which opens the passage to the Temple, then begins the dangerous journey to the City of Gold. In all writings pertaining to this City, it is found via this Noble Bird, the Phoenix.

Mr. Ritman once came to see Marie concerning books in the PRS Library.

From the site, Ritman Library, Amsterdam

"The Rosicrucian movement is an originally German phenomenon but soon found adherents abroad, amongst whom the Englishmen Robert Fludd (see also the section of Hermetica 16th- 17th centuries) and Thomas Vaughan. The Rosicrucian Manifestoes drew responses from all over Europe, from Paris to Pague.

"In the 18th century the Rosicrucian legacy lived on in numerous spiritual movements such as the 'Gold- und Rosenkreuzer' and natural philosophical groups seeking a profound spiritual dimension. One of the major works produced in this period was the Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer aus dem 16ten and 17ten Jahrhundert (first printed 1785-88)."

Said book by Mr. Hall is replete with such secret figures and writings, planets, the Tree of Life, etc., the right page in German, the left in English.

During the Florentine and English Renaissance "a great influx of truth and light" became self-evident compelling a a reformation of the whole World.

"The appeal for reform obviously struck a chord: many readers, like the authors of the Rosicrucian Manifestoes, were disappointed in the Lutheren and Calvinist reformations, the Catholic Counter-reformation, being deeply convinced that Christianity should be about living a true Christian life, in daily practice."

The said reformation of the whole World was at war with the Catholic counter reformation led by the House of Habsburg.

Wikipedia

Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis

"In his book, Silentium Post Clamores 1617) [1] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silentium-Post-Clamores-Michael-Maier/dp/2917794100), famous seventeenth century Rosicrucian Michael Maier described the origins of Rosicrucianism as, "Egyptian, Brahmanic, derived from the Mysteries of Eleusis and Samothrace, the Magi of Persia, the Pythagoreans, and the Arabs." Several of his other works allude to the mysterious origins of the Rosicrucians.

"Francis Bacon's alleged connection to the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons has been widely discussed by authors and scholars in many books. However, others, including Daphne du Maurier (in her biography of Bacon), have argued there is no substantive evidence to support claims of involvement with the Rosicrucians www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta41.htm). Historian Dame Frances Yates does not make the claim that Bacon was a Rosicrucian, but presnts evidence that he was nevertheless involved in some of the more closed intellectual movements of his day. She argues that Bacon's movement for the advancement of learning was closely connected with the German Rosicrucian movement, while Bacon's allegorical tale, The New Atlantis portrays a land ruled by Rosicrucians. He apparently saw his own movement for the advancement of learning to be in conformity with the Rosicrucian ideal."

Obviously, I am more biased than that and say that Francis was involved and "worked the means to make" World Reformation possible, he himself stating so.

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[Charlotte]

Don't want to get to involved in the subject, Mr. Hall gives some insight:

"Nearly every mystic and philosopher from Imhotep to Herbert Spencer have been suspected of being Rosicrucians. A man performed some virtuous action—ergo, he is an adept. If we look about us in the present day, we shall be convinced that many men of small spiritual perception make important contributions to the various departments of human progress. We do not suspect these men of being members of some secret order that practises strange rites. Hence, why should we cast suspicion upon all antiquity and make an initiate out of each mortal who possessed a virtue?

"At various times, I have examined extraordinary lists of supposed Rosicrucian adepts. These lists are intirely fantastic. They can be digested only by the most gullable. To ssay with an air of finality that Charlemagne, King Arthur, Raneses I, and Britain's Merlin were all Rosicrucians, is to be guilty of the most vicious abuse of the privilege of free speech. There is no evidence that the Rosicrucian Society existed prior to the year 1600, and not more than half a dozen names can be advanced with reasonable certainty as being possible members of the Order. The rest is speculation, and as a product of this speculative instinct with its method of arriving at conclusions, the case of Jacob Boehme is an outstanding example."

Jacob Boehme, the Teutonic Theosopher

"The various lives of Jaco Boehme which have been published, including the rather complete biography which appears in William Law's edition of Boehme's writings, contain no hints or allusions in favor of the Rosicrucian hypothesis.

"Boehme seems to have been self-taught, entirely inspirational, and frequently overwhelmed by the strange forces which flowed through his conciousness. He remained a shoemaker to the end of his life, interrupting his labors at the bench to write strange books full of curious lore. He died in the midst of his family, his last words sounding a triumphant conviction that he was departing to the mysterious land which he had seen so often in his dreams."

[Charlotte]

Mr. Hall:

"The House of the Rosi Cross, like the mysterious city of Ben Salem described by Lord Bacon in his New Atlantis, or the Christianopolis of Johann Valentin Andreae, is to be understood figuratively rather than literally. This is generally acknowledged by the most enlightened Rosicrucian authors. The whole matter is not so different from the statement of the Scriptures that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. The House of the Holy Spirit containing the tomb of Christian Rosencreuz is a figure which explains this platonically and possesses the deepest and most sublime meaning. If however, spiritual matters be reduced to profane estate and things belonging to the spirit be profaned by literal interpretation, then, Rosicrucianism is reduced from a sublime science of universal significance to an illusive order of material human beings of comparatively little importance.

"In 1662, Heydon published The Holy Guide, dedicated to the modest task of "teaching the knowledge of all things, past, present, and to come." The Holy Guide consists of several books gathered into one collection, of which the last is entitled, The Rosi Cross uncovered, and the Places, Temples, holy Houses, Castles, and invisible Mountain of the Brethren discovered and communicated to the World.

Heydon evates responsibility by ascribing to a Doctor F. the description of an English Rosicrucian Temple: "And Doctor F. sayeth, somewhere there is a castle in the West of England, in the earth, and not on the earth, and there the Rosie Crucians dwell, guarded without walls, and possessing nothing, they enjoy all things; in this castle is great riches, the halls fair and rich to behold, and the chambers are made and composed of white marble; at the end of the hall there is a chimney, whereof the two pillars that sustain the mantel-tree are of fine jasper, and the mantel is of rich chalcedony, and the lintel is made of fine emeralds trailed with a wing of fine gold, and the grapes of fine silver, and all the pillars in the hall are of red chalcedony, and the pavement is of fine amber." These details are highly fantastic and obviously have symbolic rather than literal meaning."

The discription resembles Plato's Temple of Poseidon, but say literalists, unable to take the interior journey, Plato writes fiction, and Mr. Hall cannot be trusted. The same is true interpreting Shakespeare and other sublime Literature, from the absurd to insulting, such as:

"AMORC touts its authenticity by proclaiming it's the only Rosicrucian organization that uses the word "order" in its name claiming authorization from FUDOSI (the Fédération Universelle Des Ordres Et Sociétiés), a sort of clearinghouse of mystical societies. To my mind that's like Clarabella the Clown being validated by Howdy Doody, but we'll let that pass and trudge on."

The trudgery of goodman Dull who speaks words to the ear of drowsy man, nor understands none neither.

[Charlotte]

Wishing everyone a good weekend with one of my favorite songs afine to the Rosicrucians.

[Charlotte]

Up north near Oarland, I spent 5 hours yesterday thinning out "DOUBLE PINK KNOCK OUT ROSES" in my Daughter's garden, which had spread and overgown other flowers, maybe that is why they're called knock out roses. Love working in the garden, this time the Rosicrucian Movement of Europe on my mind.

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[Charlotte]

Other than the written words, the afore mentioned book is probably not helpful to most readers, including myself, as it betokens "THE MYSTERY OF THE HERMETIC ARTS", and would require decyphering the "Secrete Figures", which, looking at them, are obviously alchemical emblems.

"The problem of hanging responsibility for any publication upon the mysterious Brothers of the Rosi Cross is complicated by the apparently impossible task of discovering Rosicrucians. Of course, the eighteenth century ritualistic mechanism ground out innumerable pseudo-adepts, but initiates of the seventeenth century Order are exeedingly difficult, yes, almost impossible, to identify. We have advanced Andreae, Fludd, Maier, Vaughan, Ashmole, and Heydon as the most legitimate apologists of the Society. Yet not one of these men actually admitted a personal membership in the Society. Apologists, yes; members, perhaps.

"It is generally acknowledged that Fludd and Maier were Rosicrucians. But whence comes this general acknowledgement? Certainly not from Fludd or Maier. Both wrote about Rosicrucians, both sought for the Collegium Fraternitatis, but neither acknowledged that he actually had accomplished his quest. Fludd defends them vigorously and publishes a letter from the Rosicrucian Society which had fallen into his hands from the original recipient. But he cannot find them. Maier informs his readers that the House of the Holy Spirit is located on Mount Parnassus, but his entireaccount is highly enigmatical. Nor was he more successful than Flood in finding them—according to his writings.

"Thomas Vaughan, the so-called Grand Master, in his introduction to the first English translation of the Fame and Confession writes: "As for that Fraternity whose history and confession I have here adventured to publish, I have for my own part no relation to them, neither do I much desire their aquaintance." Mr. Vaughan here washes his hand of the whole matter. But, not being aquainted with them, he further writes: "I know they are masters of great mysteries."

These and other Brethren mentioned, seem to echo Andreae's "It was not I!"

"In the seventeenth century the Rosicrucians were called the "Invisible Bretheren." To some this was a title of honor, for the Rosicrucians adepts were believed to abide with the angels. But to the critics, this was a title of ridicule. The Rosicrucians have been known by so many names, the various spellings being as inconsistent as the teachings ascribed to them ..."

Their writings are "AN OPEN ENTRANCE TO THE CLOSED PALACE OF THE KING", attributed to Thomas Vaughan, which I read years ago, the only words I understood were, "don't worry about it too much."

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[Charlotte]

I should add that after reading the "Open Entrance to the closed Palsce of the King", I read it twice again to find this one sentence "don't worry about it too much", but could not, leading me to believe that it was my own wanting to understand thinking appearing in letters tween the text, which to my mind is a little bit of magic that happens when reading such literature. Whether Vaughan wrote the booklet or not, doesn't matter to me, I made Soul-contact with the author in the introduction. We do have a Philalethes Society here in Los Angeles, but I never allowed time to visit.

Mr. Hall:

"All to the contrary notwithstanding, the Rosicrcian Society, according to its earliest manifestoes, was not strictly Christian in its foundation. The Account in the Fame and Confession of the wanderings of Father C. R. C. indicates clearly that the dogma of the Society was derived from Islam, the religion of Arabia. Of this, Thomas Vaughan writes in his introduction to the first English translation of the Fame and Confession: But this point I need not insist on, for the learned will not deny but wisdom and light were first manifested in the same parts, namely, in the East, where the first man planted. And hence did the world receive not only their religion but their philosophy, for custom had distinguished those two. From this fountain also—this living oriental one—did the Brothers of R. C. draw their wholesome waters; for their founder received his principles at Damcar in Arabia, as their Fama will instruct you at large."

"A man as orthodox as Boehme shows no evidence of having quenched his thirst at Mohammed's fountain. It is also noticable that the Rosicrucians themselves glossed over their pagan principles and Islamic progenitors. Seventh century Europe did not take kindly to unorthodox beliefs. Rosicrucian literature rapidly assumed a pro-Christian appearance, until by the end of the seventeenth century the Eastern atmosphere had been entirely dispelled.

"Rosicrucian tradition still exist among the Arabs of Syria and Irak. Occasional allusions occur to this time, relating the existence of a Rosicrucian temple at Damascus. It appears to me to be entirely contradictory that a deep, mystical organization should claim a spiritual aristocracy and still cling desperately to sectarian dogma. If the Rosicrucian adepts were, indeed, "messengers of the generalissimo of the world" and a race "inhabiting the suburbs of heaven," it is unbelievable that they should still preserve orthodox prejudices concerning the relative importance of man-made theologies."

[Charlotte]

Concluding the information Mr. Hall provides apropos the Rosicrucians.

The book is 12x9 inches in size, 113 pages, extensivly researched in detail, with 29 drawings of "the Light of the Rosicrucians", the pages in German and English opposite each other.

"Boehme was a mystic and, like Eckhartshausen, belonged entirely to a circle of inspirationalists. He made no pretence to a large scholarship or to a greatly developed critical or correlative faculty. He wrote what was given to him, what he felt or what he perceived with clairvoyant vision. There is no evidence that he ever claimed to be an adept or to be other than a humble man, inspired by sincerity and devotion.

"Some of these opinions may appear to be irrelevant to the problem at hand, but it is necessary to establish general values before it is possible to attempt a practical consideration of particulars. So much is claimed for the Rosicrucians and so few of these claims are based on any reasonable premises that considerable clairification must presede an examination of any document purporting to have originated among the members of the fraternity.

"Heckethorne in his The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries devotes a section to Boehme, whom he eulogizes with such statements as, "But the fact remains, that in the writings of this poor cobbler lie the germs of all the discoveries in physical science hitherto, and yet to be, made," In another place, Mr. Hackethorn describes the large extracts out of Boehme's works which Sir Isaac Newton had laboriously written with his own hand. Mr. Heckethorn felt that Leibnitz, Laplace, Schilling, Hegel, Fichte, and even Goethe had imbibed deeply of Boehme's thought. There can be no doubt of the wide influence exercised by the shoemaker of Görlitz. But in no way does this encomium relate to the Rosicrucian Fraternaty or prove that Boehme was either Supreme Magus of the Society or some humble zelator, knocking at the gate of the House of the Holy Spirit.

"We sincerely hope that we shall not offend by the frankness of our statements thos who have taken for granted that Rosicrcianism is an open book. We expect each student to investigate the subject further with an open mind and keen regard for fact. Such research is apt to change the course of present opinion on the subject resulting in the discovery of little suspected but vital information."

With utmost love and respect, I would like to say, I see Mr. Hall smiling as almost only with his eyes: did you read between the lines.

Can't help but adding a little story of my own which I wrote somewher on this board: In my hometown, a shaky wooden bridge led to the other side of the little creek, where way below the water level, hence the soil always somewhat soft and moist, lived a shoemaker in a house that could collapse any day, named Jacob Bene? Don't now the spelling of his family name, he was simply called "Bene Jackl". No one seemed to know anything about him or his family, or cared. For some reson I didn't know then, I visited this old, small of stature man every so often, sat across from him in a small room cluttered with all sorts of old stuff which I could not make out because the room had only a small window, so semi-dark. I was not interested in all the stuff anyway, but only in the way he spit small wooden nails held between his lips onto the shoes where he wanted them and wacked them with a wooden hammer. He had a permanent blood-blister in the middle of his lower lip, I suppose from holding the nails. He was as if oblivious to my presence and we never spoke a word as I watched for a time. I was about 8 years of age or so. The only words he ever said were: "go home now", upon which I left immediately lest he would not let me come back.

On the way there or back, I would lift a heavy round stone covering a well next to the little creek with crystal clear water which I cupped in my hands and drank while watching spiders moving on the bottom, wondering how they could live in this cold water. When I first read a bit about Jacob Boehme, I remembered my visits to Bene Jackl. Thinking back later and now, I suppose the steady, perfected routine of his craft, the quiet undisturbed atmosphere of the room, and the calm demeaner of this mysterious man, who was seldom seen in public, held my attention and admiration. I still see it all in my minds eye.

[Charlotte]

S:.R:.I:.A:.. Christian Rosencreutz

Further Agreement with the Signature Rerum

"The Rosicrucian writers of acknowledged authority in those times further agreed with the Signatura Rerum, that everything in this external world "has outwardly impressed upon it its inward spiritual character. And they taught that by the practice of virtue the Mortal could attain to knowledge of the Spiritual while yet incarnate, and discover the Philosopher's Stone, which could not be found except by the regenerate, "for it is in close communion with the heavenly essence." Thus the letters INRI signified to them, Igne Natura Regenerando Integra."

The aspiring character outwardly impressed, Steven Berger, who used to post here: "Our inner state becomes our outer environment", and quantum theory affirms this to the T. Regeneration while yet incarnate was also taught by the ancient Egyptians.

Shakespeare

Man's Superiority

"Man was held to be superior to these beings in one great respect, - he had an immortal soul. Any one of these beings , it was believed, could become partaker in Man's immortality by inspiring in one of the humans the passion of love. Thus we have Shakespeare's Ariel, a Sylph; "Undine," "Rape of the Lock," "Masque of Cosmos," the poem "Salamandrine" and many others. The Elementals were said to be composed of the purest atomic particles of the substance of which they were habitant, either Earth, Air, Fire or Water, and that in consequence of having no other antagonistic element in their substance they could live indefinitely, but not immortally."

www.sria.org/crc.htm

Madam Blavatzky termed these pure atomic particles "angels".

Hamlet, one of my favorite passages.

King Claudius and Queen Gertrude of Denmark, mother of Hamlet, have sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Rosencrantz: To what end my lord?

Hamlet: That you must teach me. But let me conjur you by the
rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our
youth, by the obligation of our ever-present love, and
by what more dear a better proposer can charge you withal,
be even and direct with me, whether you were
sent for or no.

Guildenstern: What say you?

Hamlet: Nay then, I have an eye of you. - If you love me,
hold not off.

Guildenstern: My lord, we were sent for.

Hamlet: I will tell you why. So shall my anticipation prevent
your discovery, and your secrecy to the King and Queen
moult no feather . . .
What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason!
how infinate in faculties! in form and moving how express
and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god!

[Charlotte]

Don't quite know where to post this cartoon I surfed into a few days ago, probably everyone but me has seen it, very interesting in plot and names, Vitruvius and Wyldstyle are "MasterBuilders".

"In the Lego universe, the wizard Vitruvius attempts to protect a super weapon called the "Kragle" from the evil Lord Business, but fails. He then prophesies that a person called "the Special" will find the piece of Resistance, a brick capable of stopping the Kragle."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Movie



The brick of Resistance reminds me of St. Spiridon

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I remember at some points being said, 'enter your mind to become a Master Builder', and, 'all you have to do is believe, then you see everything, and 'yes I think I am'.

[Charlotte]

Happy Halloween

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The old European tradition "originating with the ancient Celtic festival of Samheim, when people would light bonfires and wear costums to ward of ghosts".

"Samheim was in part a sort of harvest festival, when the last crops were gathered in for the winter, and livestock killed and stored. But the pagan Celts also believed it was a time when the walls between our world and the next became thin and porous, allowing spirits to pass through.

"The name Hallowe'en is a shortening of All Hallows' Even, or All Hallows Evening. All Hallows is an old term for All Saint's Day (Hallow, from Old English "halig", or holy, compared with Saint, from the Latin "sanctus", also meaning holy, or consecrated)."

The Kelts celebrated their new year November 1, Samheim, I read, is pronounced 'sow-in', in German 'Samen' is a seed, so Samheim would mean home of the seed. Perhaps the Kelts, "marking the end of the light half of the year and the beginning of the dark half", gathered around their bonfires contemplating the mystery of life and death, giving thought/seeds to the light half of the year to come.

Spoke with my Sister yesterday, who decorated the grave of our Parents, her Daughter, and In-Laws for "Allerheiligen", appropriate to this time.

[Charlotte]

From below to above

As luck would have it I was taken over the rainbow from the dreary everyday world by surfing into the "Wizard of Oz" almost from the beginning. What a welcome in Munchkinland, accompanied Dorothy and gang on the yellow brick road all the way to the Emerald City.

Great film, how the tree wouldn't let her eat an apple in the beginning, the wicked witch hiding behind the tree, how they faced and overcame all the dangers with Toto's help, easily killed the wicked witch with water and finally made it to the entrance-hall and were offered a seat in a carriage drawn by a white horse then changing to many colors. Meeting the wise Wizard who gave them a brain, a heart and courage, they found themselves back in the mundane world as if nothing ever happened, only Dorothy insisted it wasn't a dream but the folk told her to forget about it and go about the sensible, normal life, but for her that was easier said than done, even as I now will peal apples thinking about the Land of Oz, or Us.

Almost like the dangerous journey to Rosetau, save there a person crossed the sky to open the portals to eternity.

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte ... Yes a great movie ... however have you not seen Wicked ? The "Wicked Witch" does not die ... but runs off to live happily ever after with The Tin Man ...

Cheers and love and have ...

The Merriest of Christmas' and The Safest and Most Enlightened New Year yet ...
Don and Carol , and Marianna and Matt (NOW EXPECTING THEIR FIRST CHILD !!!!!!!!!!!!) and Angelica and Marc ... NEWLY ENGAGED !!!!!! (Dec 19th )

Just an average month at The Barone Homestead

[Charlotte]

Seasons Greetings, Don, Family and Guests,

Happy to find you in great spirits, Don, thank you for the beautiful logo.

The bird of dawning singeth all night long,
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,
So wholesome is th night
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated.
WS



Wishing warm and joyous Holidays in the Barone Homestead, and Homes of our Guests

Love

Charlotte

[Don Barone]

Hi all. This season is always somewhat saddened for me by the fact that Clive Ross passed away on Christmas Day. A true pioneer of Giza mathematical studies his work has and will live long after his passing.

I still miss him ...

I hope he is resting in peace and is finding the answers he searched for ...

[Don Barone]

Please all of our members have a

[Don Barone]

Ghosts of Christmas' Past ...

[Charlotte]

The Christmas Spirit lingering still with us, I hope everyone had a delicious dinner and fun opening gifts. We also celebrated my Son's birthday on the 24th so double the merryment.

Thanks to Clive Ross for his contributions of knowledge to Mankind, peace eternal.

Sounds you, Don, had many good years and many ahead with your growing family.

And no, I never saw "Wicked", hence didn't know someone had the witch running off with the Tin Man, maybe both rusted in the rain. In the Land of Oz, however, I saw her made to shrink by water. She had to die so Dorothy and companions could get to the Emerald City, just like the wicked Vizier Jafar had to die else there could not have been a festive marriage in Agrabah and Aladdin and Jasmine could not fly on a magic carpet, about the Sphinx no less, to "a whole New World".

Atreyu had to kill the vicious Gmork to reach the Palace of the snow white Empress, the Pearl of Great Prize on her brow.

The wicked Grimhilde had to die so Snow White and the Prince could marry and live happily ever after. The wicked Scar had to be erased so good Simba could become King in this here "Circle of Life".

[Don Barone]

My bad it was The Scarecrow ... she ran off with  



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[Charlotte]

Actually my first thought, the straw man, not that it matters, I was just thinking of all the films and videos reminding children and adults that 'wicked' has do die to reach a happy place.

See your name, Daz, hope you had a good Christmas and wishing you all the best in 2018