rumpelstilzchen wrote:Rose Croix
Secret Society? Is he an illuminati overlord come to wreak havoc upon the plebs?
I completely missed that old Peter of England is a mason
http://www.berkshirerosecroix.org.uk/
So why Rose Croix?
The Cross needs no explanation, while the Red Rose alludes both to the Precious Blood and to the Rose of Sharon, mystically identified with Christ. There is also a link with Rosicrucian thought, despite some members being keen to downplay it.
In the ceremony the Candidate is taken from room to room figuratively through his spiritual and masonic life from Solomonic Masonry, through despair, to a Rose Croix Chapter and the discovery of the Lost Word. At the start, he is figuratively but a 17º mason, a Knight of the East and West, of symbolic age, coming – as the ritual explains - at a time of dire calamity with but incomplete pre-Christian knowledge. Following perfection, the ensuing "feast of fraternal affection" is a wonderful moment of shared Freemasonry all too often lost in other degrees. That this 18º is special is not in doubt for those on whom it has been conferred. In Bristol, the members of Baldwyn have their own version as the pinnacle of their unique Rite of Seven Degrees.
Rose Croix, like Freemasonry as a whole, is not a religion. It does, however, serve to point the way. It is this which makes Rose Croix masonically so important, encompassing all we seek, while pointing us clearly to the Trinitarian Christian Faith.
© Grand Lodge Publications Ltd 1997-2010
I wonder how it will sit with the Freeloaders over at GOODF that the latest Guru is a mason
Is Jim Smith is Dad ?
http://www.berkshirerosecroix.org.uk/in ... h-50-years