Black Watch, Shekhina, S�ances, and Freemasonry
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From: David Simpson on 11 May 2010 17:52 On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:26:39 -0700 (PDT), jon <corn2nemesis(a)yahoo.com> typed: >Heterosexual Telepathy.... > >Black Watch, Shekhina, S�ances, and Freemasonry > > Hey, Jon. Didn't you post this same rant some time back? I didn't bother to read it then either. -- Regards David Simpson (Unattached MM, Victoria, Australia) Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
From: KIV11 on 11 May 2010 18:50 On May 11, 5:52�pm, David Simpson <farook...(a)picknowl.com.au> wrote: > Hey, Jon. Didn't you post this same rant some time back? I didn't > bother to read it then either. Dave, it wasn't some time ago, it's every freeking day. At least, if he came up with something new, it would be a relief from "A friend of mine invited me to a S�ance in Toronto." yadda, yadda, yadda.
From: Don Phillipson on 13 May 2010 13:24
"Giles" <g_goatboy(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:8ae6a8be-3052-4a10-8689-4833362780ab(a)r11g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... On May 12, 1:18 pm, jon <corn2neme...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > A friend of mine invited me to a S�ance in Toronto. I looked up > S�ance at Wikipedia and Google and it is a French word from the > Enlightenment and it is the worship of the dead. Wikipedia's remarks seem authentic: " A s�ance (pronounced /'se?.??ns/) is an attempt to communicate with spirits. "The word "s�ance" comes from the French word for "seat," "session" or "sitting,"." As noted, this is a common word in French: the next session of the legislature and the next showing of a movie are both the next "seance." Victorian spiritualists (spook-hunters) adopted the word to mean attempts to communicate with the dead. Of course you have to believe in survival after death for this to be meaningful, but this belief is not "worship of the dead." -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |