Around and around it turns…
The Devil Wears Nada: freemasonryesoterica: “Man has natural empire over all institutions....
“Man has natural empire over all institutions. They are for him, according to his development; not he for them.”—
Excerpts from the 2° - Fellowcraft Degree
Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
1871It’s exactly this attitude that stunts our evolution, and may well lead to our demise. The notion that ‘Man’ is separate from nature somehow seems to serve as justification for environmental arrogance. ‘Man’ is just another cog in the wheel. That fact that the combination of our minds and our opposable thumbs have put as at the top of the Earth’s foodchain, doesn’t mean that we have no responsibility to whatever isn’t human.
The clothes we wear, the cars we drive, the factories we build: it’s all nature. You don’t ‘go out into nature’. Even in a metal and glass skyscraper with climate control, you’re in the middle of nature. We have somehow evolved to this point because their was a little niche in all of nature to be filled. To think that anything is for ‘Man’ is arrogant, destructive, and counterproductive as far ‘his development’ goesthis christian/western
bastardizationnotion of stewardship ruins a looooot of things.
For the record, “institutions” here implies man made organizations, i.e. religions, government, collectives, democracies, etc.
To the best of my knowledge, religious or governmental institutions are not naturally occurring phenomena, unless i’ve missed something or were talking about bees and ants, in which case I suppose autocracies are naturally occurring.
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Autor ego audendi
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“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness” ~ Dalai Lama
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Interesting apron II.
Rose Croix - The Degree of Rose Cross teaches three things;—the unity, immutability and goodness of God; the immortality of the Soul; and the ultimate defeat and extinction of evil and wrong and sorrow, by a Redeemer or Messiah, yet to come, if he has not already appeared.
A. Pike
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Required reading.
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Remember The Alamo? The Masons were there #thealamo #alamo #texas #sanantonio #freemasons #masonic (Taken with Instagram at The Alamo)
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The world is conquered by the head even more than by the hands.
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Excerpts from the 2° - Fellowcraft Degree
Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
1871
The true alchemist will extract the lessons of wisdom from the babblings of folly. He will hear what a man has to say on any given subject, even if the speaker end only in proving himself prince of fools. Even a fool will sometimes hit the mark. There is some truth in all men who are not compelled to suppress their souls and speak other men’s thoughts. The finger even of the idiot may point to the great highway.
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Excerpts from the 2° - Fellowcraft Degree
Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
1871
