Can someone briefly tell me what 33rd degree Scottish Rite is?
When my grandfather died I helped my grandma write his obituary and she told me to write that in there. I never knew what it meant, but I gather some folks here believe it to be evil. I don't think my grandfather was a bad person, but secret societies being secret and all, I just have no idea...
As simply as possible: Scottish Rite is a school of masonry. Masonry traditionally has three degrees of initiation: entered apprentice, fellow craft, and master mason. Scottish Rite has these as well, but continues to assign degrees to masons who progress through various stages of enlightenment. To understand what 33 means is to understand the total scope of human consciousness and the process of spirits (energies). It has to be explained metaphorically. Human consciousness has a tendency to crystallize (bare with me) when someone is convinced of something to be true. This crystallized mind is a cube (specific shape) of ice. Ice melts at 33 degrees. The human spine has 33 vertebrae along which energy travels from the base (root) to the mind’s eye (pineal). Also, Jesus Christ was a carpenter(used mason tools) who ascended at the age of 33. There are many more ways to explain the significance of 33 using geometry, but these are the simplest answers.
Wow... Read Genesis....... Dude..... You can not be this fucking blind..... Do you know what an allegory is?
Serpent at the base of the tree of life and death (spine) whispering evil thoughts into the feminine half of your mind, tempting you to awaken your passions, and as a result of taking a bite of knowledge, you lose you childlike innocence..... Do you know a single human being that hasn't experienced this? It's the inevitable nature of man. The rest of your life is spent making conscious decisions between good and bad.
The Scottish Rite's main charity, inspired by the story in Judges 12, is the https://scottishrite.org/philanthropy/ritecare/ritecare-srclp/ RiteCare free speech therapy clinics for children with speech disorders. By helping children correct speech disorders early in life, they help children avoid bullying and being ostracized.
The Scottish Rite raises its money as a theatrical group. They have 32 plays, but no one has that many actors, most will only see the five required plays to become a 32 degree. The plays are not sequential. They're more like the numbered dishes on a Chinese restaurant menu. There was for a while only 25 plays, but then everyone liked knights in armour, so they wrote an extra 7 plays with knights in armour, which made 32. They rent out their theater and social halls the rest of the year for weddings and other events, which is what pays the bills and raises money for their charities.
The plays (or "degrees") are about the same quality as you'll see at any summer Bible Camp, and the 18th degree is basically Easter Sunday service. (Easy to stage because it's just a cross on the stage with an off stage narrator reading New Testament passages) The overall impression is that Protestant Christianity is the final evolution of all older religions.
The 33rd degree is an honor given to older members. The Knights of Saint Andrew in the Scottish Rite are the younger whiskey drinking guys who enjoy dressing up in kilts and having cigar nights, and there's a whole thing about not being able to be join the KSA once you're a 33rd degree.
Can someone briefly tell me what 33rd degree Scottish Rite is?
When my grandfather died I helped my grandma write his obituary and she told me to write that in there. I never knew what it meant, but I gather some folks here believe it to be evil. I don't think my grandfather was a bad person, but secret societies being secret and all, I just have no idea...
As simply as possible: Scottish Rite is a school of masonry. Masonry traditionally has three degrees of initiation: entered apprentice, fellow craft, and master mason. Scottish Rite has these as well, but continues to assign degrees to masons who progress through various stages of enlightenment. To understand what 33 means is to understand the total scope of human consciousness and the process of spirits (energies). It has to be explained metaphorically. Human consciousness has a tendency to crystallize (bare with me) when someone is convinced of something to be true. This crystallized mind is a cube (specific shape) of ice. Ice melts at 33 degrees. The human spine has 33 vertebrae along which energy travels from the base (root) to the mind’s eye (pineal). Also, Jesus Christ was a carpenter(used mason tools) who ascended at the age of 33. There are many more ways to explain the significance of 33 using geometry, but these are the simplest answers.
Wow, fascinating! Thank you so much, I really appreciate that.
Wow... Read Genesis....... Dude..... You can not be this fucking blind..... Do you know what an allegory is?
Serpent at the base of the tree of life and death (spine) whispering evil thoughts into the feminine half of your mind, tempting you to awaken your passions, and as a result of taking a bite of knowledge, you lose you childlike innocence..... Do you know a single human being that hasn't experienced this? It's the inevitable nature of man. The rest of your life is spent making conscious decisions between good and bad.
The Scottish Rite's main charity, inspired by the story in Judges 12, is the https://scottishrite.org/philanthropy/ritecare/ritecare-srclp/ RiteCare free speech therapy clinics for children with speech disorders. By helping children correct speech disorders early in life, they help children avoid bullying and being ostracized.
The Scottish Rite raises its money as a theatrical group. They have 32 plays, but no one has that many actors, most will only see the five required plays to become a 32 degree. The plays are not sequential. They're more like the numbered dishes on a Chinese restaurant menu. There was for a while only 25 plays, but then everyone liked knights in armour, so they wrote an extra 7 plays with knights in armour, which made 32. They rent out their theater and social halls the rest of the year for weddings and other events, which is what pays the bills and raises money for their charities.
https://www.dummies.com/religion/spirituality/freemasons-and-the-scottish-rite-system/
The plays (or "degrees") are about the same quality as you'll see at any summer Bible Camp, and the 18th degree is basically Easter Sunday service. (Easy to stage because it's just a cross on the stage with an off stage narrator reading New Testament passages) The overall impression is that Protestant Christianity is the final evolution of all older religions.
The 33rd degree is an honor given to older members. The Knights of Saint Andrew in the Scottish Rite are the younger whiskey drinking guys who enjoy dressing up in kilts and having cigar nights, and there's a whole thing about not being able to be join the KSA once you're a 33rd degree.