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Grand Lodge of France is not "regular"; they DO NOT require a belief in G*d. Napoleon was also a Freemason.Yes, Calvin C. Burt and Lewis Cass were both raised in a lodge in France.
"Reflects both"...?"Osiris, the husband of Isis, was an ancient king of the Egyptians. Having been slain by Typhon, his body was cut into pieces18 by his murderer, and the mangled remains cast upon the waters of the Nile, to be dispersed to the four winds of heaven. His wife, Isis, mourning for the death and the mutilation of her husband, for many days searched diligently with her companions for the portions of the body, and having at length found them, united them together, and bestowed upon them decent interment,—while Osiris, thus restored, became the chief deity of his subjects, and his worship was united with that of Isis, as the fecundating and fertilizing powers of nature. The candidate in these initiations was made to pass through a mimic repetition of the conflict and destruction of Osiris, and his eventual recovery; and the explanations made to him, after he had received the full share of light to which the painful and solemn ceremonies through which he had passed had entitled him, constituted the secret doctrine of which I have already spoken, as the object of all the Mysteries. Osiris,—a real and personal god to the people,—to be worshipped with fear and with trembling, and to be propitiated with sacrifices and burnt offerings, became to the initiate but a symbol of the
"Great first cause, least understood,"
while his death, and the wailing of Isis, with the recovery of the body, his translation to the rank of a celestial being, and the consequent rejoicing of his spouse, were but a tropical mode of teaching that after death comes life eternal, and that though the body be destroyed, the soul shall still live.
"Can we doubt," says the Baron Sainte Croix, "that such ceremonies as those practiced in the Mysteries of Osiris had been originally instituted to impress more profoundly on the mind the dogma of future rewards and punishments?"
"The sufferings and death of Osiris were the great Mystery of the Egyptian religion" A similar legend and similar ceremonies, varied only as to time, and place, and unimportant details were to be found in all the initiations of the ancient Mysteries. The dogma was the same.
I believe this society reflects both, don't you
"Sea measurements" SEXTANT; ever notice how the "general" shape of the SEXTANT is the OLD Square & Compass ( w/o the "G") of Free-Masons (curved bottom). YEP!Yes, that's the dog I am talking about. On the first piece located outside of Nebraska City that was the first star given with a month and day and a distance in Leagues and Fathoms. They used sea measurements on land and a star to navigate by to the next location to look for the next piece. It pitted brother against brother, the tale of the divine ruler Osiris, who was murdered by his jealous brother. The ancient Egyptians also had intricate doctrines about death and the afterlife and I believe there was more substance to it within the secret society I am studying at this time. It would concern the 137.5-degree angle used in part of the layout by them and the fact that there are other members laid upon that line and other lines projected from markers that are in line. In other words, I believe the thing they are lined up with was placed in line with the universe for a specific reason. I also believe part of that reasoning is based on their beliefs and rituals that they all had in common, but I have been wrong before. the death and subsequent rebirth of Osiris was connected to the Egyptian agricultural cycle, in which crops grew in the wake of the flooding of the Nile, and also provided a template for the resurrection of the human ka and ba after death. Another important motif in ancient Egyptian myth was the journey of Ra through the Duat each night. During the course of this journey, Ra would meet with Osiris, who served as an agent of regeneration, so that his life was renewed. Ra would also battle each night with Apep — a serpentine god that represented chaos. The defeat of Apep and the meeting with Osiris would ensure the rising of the sun the next morning, a daily event that symbolized rebirth and the victory of order over chaos. The hieroglyph for Sothis features a star and a triangle.
Used on land; watching the SUN movements... even the shift in Spring & Fall. THAT was the emphasis, NOT the "seasons" of Preparing, Planting, "WATERING", & Harvesting; sorta like EA, FC, & MM. For TREASURES, follow the SUN.
? The Egyptian Lord of the Underworld and Judge of the Dead, brother-husband to Isis, and one of the most important gods of ancient Egypt mentioned in another secret societies rituals and possibly even tied to a trail they had left marked If you think about it Isis was accompanied on the search by Anubis who is also referred to as a K-9 from time to time. He was also the one that imbalmed Osiris after he was killed by Set. Archeologists have identified Anubis's sacred animal as an Egyptian canid, the African golden wolf who protected graves as early as the first dynasty. After he was replaced as Lord of the Underworld by Osiris he attended the weighing scale during the "Weighing of the Heart," in which it was determined whether a soul would be allowed to enter the realm of the dead.
