Ancient Order of Freesmiths

[TheHummingbirdWizard]

I get my mundane life in order by pretending to believe fabrications about King Solomon? Seems a flamboyant path to a prosaic destination.

Yeah, the 1800s were a hell of a time for historical interpretation. We had brothers that believed we went back to the Knights Templar, brothers that believed we went back to Solomon's temple and brothers that thought we went back to Egypt. We cant show the former to be true and the latter two are complete hogwash.

But there is something to be said for our ritual despite in not always being historically accurate...so we keep it because it does a meaningful and profound effect on the candidate ..but we don't lie that them about what we know, don't know or can prove. We hand them what has been the handed to us.

 

[Xenophon]

Yeah, the 1800s were a hell of a time for historical interpretation. We had brothers that believed we went back to the Knights Templar, brothers that believed we went back to Solomon's temple and brothers that thought we went back to Egypt. We cant show the former to be true and the latter two are complete hogwash.

But there is something to be said for our ritual despite in not always being historically accurate...so we keep it because it does a meaningful and profound effect on the candidate ..but we don't lie that them about what we know, don't know or can prove. We hand them what has been the handed to us.

Well, yes. Donald Webb likes to argue for "the cheese factor" (as he calls it) being a tenable aspect to occult teachings. Kenneth Grant argues along similar lines in his apologia for Madame Blavatsky and Crowley, among others.