Origens Calvinistas e Presbiterianas na Maçonaria – Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1734) J. Anderson

Resolvi fazer aqui uma visita à Ilha antiga.

Nos dias que correm, milhares de anglo-saxões clamam gritam e insultam o “Vaticano”, “os Jesuítas”, a Igreja católica, como sendo os satânicos de planos diabólicos de posse do mundo, causa de todos os males que ocoreem, os illuminati, os próprios maçons.O meu objectivo neste artigo, não é defender nem uns nem outros, mas estudar a maçonaria, esclarecer-me.
A origem da maçonaria moderna, não é somente anglo-saxónica. É protestante:  judaico-protestante. Porquê fundada na Escócia? Pelas origens presbiterianas na sua constituição. Vou demonstrá-lo.
As citações em inglês que se seguem são dos artigos cujas ligações inseri. O texto é bi-lingue.

A Maçonaria foi iniciada na Itália, na cidade de Florença, uma Loja Inglesa, fundada por um inglês, em 1737. 
A primeira Obediência portuguesa foi o Grande Oriente Lusitano, reconhecido pela Grande Loja de Inglaterra em 12 de Maio de 1802. O seu primeiro grão-mestre foi um neto do Marquês de Pombal. Que enterrou os projectos de P. António Vieira para o Reino de Cristo na Terra no caixote do lixo, e abraçou os planos anglo-saxónicos. Os protestantes já então tinham dois séculos de serem amamentados com o ódio aos católicos, jesuítas, ordens religiosas, desde o berço. Saíu-lhes o equivalente à sorte grande, ao terem um membro como o Marquês de Pombal… E Deus pareceu estar do lado deles, em 1755.

[James Anderson]

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“As Constituições de Anderson - redigidas em 1723, veneradas e respeitadas por toda a Maçonaria – viriam esclarecer que o templo de pedra deixava de ser a tarefa do maçon: o edifício a ser levantado em honra e glória ao Grande Arquitecto do Universo passaria a ser a catedral do Universo, ou seja, a Humanidade“. ~   História da Maçonaria em Portugal
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uma ideia bonita aliás, com que concordo)
“The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1734). An Online Electronic Edit” by James Anderson A.M., Benjamin Franklin et al..

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James Anderson A.M., 
     
Foi um pastor protestante escocês, Presbiteriano, isto é, portanto, Calvinista; e Maçon.

  • He was ordained a minister in the Church of Scotland in 1707 and moved to London, where he ministered to the Glass House Street congregation until 1710, to the Presbyterian church in Swallow Street until 1734, and at Lisle Street Chapel until his death. He is reported to have lost a large sum of money in the South Sea Company crash of 1720. 
  • Anderson is best known, however, for his association with Freemasonry. He was Master of a Masonic lodge, and a Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster.

Foi este pastor presbiteriano, James Anderson, que foi encarregado pela Grande Loja de Inglaterra, de mudar a velha *constituição gótica* num novo e melhor método. Esta referência ao repúdio do gótico, para “optar por um método melhor”, foi feita também a respeito da arquitectura de Alexander Thomson. Voltarei a isso mais tarde.
Que fosse ele o escolhido para ser o redactor de um documento tão importante como as Constiuições da Maçonaria, nada teve de especial, porque a maioria dos maçons eram protestantes, e muitos presbiterianos, calvinistas, mais tarde episcopais, da Igreja anglicana nos EUA. Que fosse um católico é que seria impossível. Aliás porque os católicos não eram admitidos, nem o seriam durante muito tempo.

  • “The Charges of a Free- Mason” and the “General Regulations” concern rules of conduct for individuals and of governance for Lodges and their officers.
    The work also includes five songs to be sung at meetings, one of which—“A New Song”—appears in print for the first time and may have been composed by Franklin.
  • The document suggests that Masonry, in its modern Anglo-American form, was rooted in Old Testament exegesis (“So that the Israelites, at their leaving Egypt, were a whole Kingdom of Masons, … under the Conduct of their GRAND MASTER MOSES”) and in contemporary Protestant ideals of morality, merit, and political equality.”

 Right Worshipful Fraternity of Accepted Free-Masons
de James Anderson… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anderson_(Freemason)

 

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Protestantismo, Calvinismo e o O Grande Arquitecto do Universo

Agora, vejamos as origens do Presbiterianismo, quais são ?

A Igreja Presbiteriana inicia-se na Escócia, e a sua doutrina é o Calvinismo. 
Importante característica é que o seu governo não é episcopal, como o da Igreja Católica, mas sim organizado em assembleias de anciãos.

Congregations are organized according to a Presbyterian polity.  Scotland ensured Presbyterian “church government” in the Acts of Union in 1707 which created the kingdom of Great Britain. In fact, most Presbyterians found in England can trace a Scottish connection, and the Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants. 
The Presbyterian denominations in Scotland hold to the theology of Calvin and his immediate successors, although there is a range of theological views within contemporary Presbyterianism.  ~ Presbyterianism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Uma das suas características parece ter sido a criação de boas universidades e excelentes carreiras. 

Portanto vejamos: o que é o Calvinismo ?

Ficheiro:John Calvin.jpg

  • Calvinists broke with the Roman Catholic church but differed with Lutherans on the real presence of Christ in the Lord’s supper, theories of worship, and the use of God’s law for believers, among other things. Calvinism is a misleading term because the religious tradition it denotes is and has always been diverse, with a wide range of influences rather than a single founder. The movement was first called “Calvinism” by Lutherans who opposed it, and many within the tradition would prefer to use the word ”Reformed” rather than “Calvinist.”
  • Since the Arminian controversy, the Reformed (as a branch of Protestantism distinguished from Lutheranism) are divided into Arminians and Calvinistshowever it is now rare to call Arminians Reformed, as many see these two schools of thought as opposed, making the terms Calvinist and Reformed synonymous.
  • John Calvin, in his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536), repeatedly calls the Christian God “the Architect of the Universe”, also referring to his works as “Architecture of the Universe”, and in his commentary on Psalm 19 refers to the Christian God as the “Great Architect” or “Architect of the Universe”.  ~ Great Architect of the Universe – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Não é incrível ? Para mim, é novo. E como poderia não ser interessante, nesta contínua convivência que temos com este “Arquitecto do Universo”, na nossa sociedade, já que somos regidos por Maçons ?

O primeiro arquitecto do estilo maçónico Alexander Thomson :
Um arquitecto Escocês Presbiteriano, construindo provavelmente a primeira Igreja de “estilo maçónico”: uma Igreja, Presbiteriana.
Pelo que vejo, talvez possa ser considerado o fundador do “estilo”, que observamos em tantos edifícios maçónicos !!!

File:Wellington Church.jpgThomson was an elder of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and his religious convictions informed his work. There is a strong suggestion that he closely identified Solomon’s temple with the raised basilica of the same form of his three major churches.
His architectural style was often eclectic; it cannot be described as truly neoclassical (he never managed to visit Greece), but he frequently used Egyptian and other Middle Eastern motifs. His interior designs and colour schemes for churches were strongly influenced by Biblical descriptions of King Solomon’s Temple, for example the reference to pomegranates.

St. Vincent Street Church  built in 1859
Presbyterian church on St. Vincent Street inGlasgow, Scotland. It was designed by Alexander Thomson (also known as “Greek” Thomson), built for the former United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. The building is currently used by a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland: Glasgow City Free Church.

As Sir John Summerson noted, “There is something wildly ‘American’ about Thomson – a ‘New World’ attitude”

Não vejo nada de selvagem, pessoalmente, a não ser que com isso ele quisesse dizer, horrendo… o que nos dá poucas esperanças, ou um indício certo, sobre esse “Novo Mundo”  !!!

Portanto agora sabemos melhor o que quer dizer “New World Order” !!!
Não se trata de uma NOM, mas sim de uma NOMEUA…

Para melhor observação do “estilo”, veja-se mais trabalhos de Alexander Thomson

Glasgow Guide: Glasgow Images: Focus on Alexander Greek Thomson
Glasgow Guide: Glasgow Images: Egyptian Halls
citações daqui   ~ 
de James Anderson… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anderson_(Freemason)

  • Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903-1987) was the leading American architectural historian of his generation. A long-time professor at Smith College and New York University, he is best known for writings that helped to define Modern architecture. Sobre Alexander Thomson, ele disse em 1966 esta coisa fantástica:  “Glasgow in the last 150 years has had two of the greatest architects of the Western world. C.R.Mackintosh … An even greater and happily more productive architect, though one whose influence can only occasionally be traced in America in Milwaukee and in New York and not at all as far as I know in Europe, was Alexander Thomson.

Reconheço-o reconheço-a bastante na nosso Baixa ou em algumas construções do período, embora não saiba se foram essas as feitas por Carlos Mardel, mas adivinha-se a influência!

De repente já sei porque é que às vezes se houve dizer que o Terreiro do Paço é a Praça “mais bonita do mundo” !!! Estranha-se essa fama incompatível com um país de que a maioria das pessoas nada sabe, e ao qual só vêm para apanhar sol. Nunca se houve que temos outras construções entre as mais bonitas do mundo, etc.

Henry A. Wallace
Adivinho que tenha tido um papel importante na industrialização da produção agricola em grande escala. (animal farms?)
Apenas mais um exemplo da ligação presbiteriana maçónica: nasceu em 1888, filho de H.C. Wallace, agrónomo, editor de um jornal e professor universitário, secretário de agricultura.

  • The Wallaces were of Scotch Irish Presbyterian stock, who had originally emigrated from Ulster, Ireland to Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Henry Wallace, was a former Presbyterian minister“Wallace was raised as a Presbyterian and remained a devout Christian all his life. In 1939, however, he formally joined the Episcopal Church.
  • Henry Wallace was also a Freemason and attained the 32nd Degree in the Scottish Rite.”

Na sua página na wiki, a parte sobre religião, é interessante, (sobre Roerich!) embora não relevante para o tema presente.
Henry A. Wallace – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ainda uma nota sobre o que é a Igreja Episcopal:

Ou seja, fizeram-na, para terem a sua própria Igreja autónoma, independente e americana. Como um filho que depois quer formar a sua própria casa. 

Este artigo tem continuação, mas vou fazer aqui uma pausa, pois que sei como é insuportavelmente chato, ler um artigo longo na internet — a não ser que seja excelente. Espero que este, nada excelente, possa ser útil.
Até então !

YouTube – Nuclear Submarines Collide in Atlantic Ocean

Long time ago – excuse me if this has to come in English….. i’m thinking in English and can’t switch right now.

i wrote about my meditations on the first commandment. Well i mentioned them, wrote a little about it. I suddenly realized that the first commandment is not what we think it is, and that we got to make efforts in order to follow that commandment. Instead of thinking, as we normally do, that that doesn’t have to do with us… because to assassinate someone is far from our actions.

It is  rich, i tell you, to start meditating on these commandments. That is of course how we can become really good people, instead of only superficial “good” people which is often not good at all.

Very recently i have found out what Swendenborg is saying about the commandments, and it is also very interesting. And this is how it goes. I am always pleased to have this… It ‘s a good thing in my life, i tell you.Hey! A good thing in my life ! :) And that is that i first discover, understand it inside, and then come to read it somewhere. Something strong in my soul and spirit, stops me from reading esoteric religious or spiritual literature, which might have become a burden or even a wall of deviation. It would be nice if that would be the reason for the secrets of mystery schools and for the secrets of the masons.

Try to discover for yourself. That is so nice, such an empowering feeling. I didn’t even conclude my meditations on this. As a matter of fact it was just a beginning. But i had to think of those posts of mine here at A Ilha dos Amores, when i saw this video.

For the ones who don’t know, what i considered is that in order for us not to kill, we need to feel desperate and full of desire and thirst to change our lives and society… etc. Because the most of us are co-responsible in killing.

Let me give an example: you have an intelligent mind by which you are a Phd. You have a good mind to see the relations of causality. You get a job in a laboratory, or a company or a hospital… and you don’t do research to see how the end product of what you are working in is going to be used.  You think for yourself “well, that is not my responsability”. Or “that is always how it is with human beings, everything can be used for evil or for good, i can’t do anything about it”.

I recently read about a man who has been doing an expensive decades long research on some good use for one of the most poisonous substances that has been fabricated… After all that money, energy, time, work spent, of course he discovers some good use for it: it can help some people who are having spasms. Well, ja….

First things is that there were maybe already perfect medicines for people who were having spasms, (I have had it once and know how bad it is) so, this discovery is just one more on the shelves of the pharmaceutic industry. And the second thing is that they never tell you the dozen of good things that would have been discovered and done, if the same money, time, resources and effort was given to more pleasant things then fabricating poisons to kill and harm and hurt and torture people. But of course: why do they pay millions to such a ridiculous research? Because like this, the company can have an excuse to fabricate it by tons.

I suppose that when anyone reads this, he thinks “you are telling me the obvious”. But how many people do inquire into the consequences and interrelations of their work. Because all this, and much more is related to commandment one. And which commandment could be more related with the stopping of War ?How far do we go in inter-relating things, so as to really understand the causes and effects ?

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How many people have worked at the development of the advanced technical knowledge in order to make a submarine invisible? And then let it go around full of nuclear arms….

So, the next great wars will be announced like this “an accident, a mistake made that that whole continent disappeared after a great nuclear explosion with the consequence of the spreading out of lethal poison all over the earth….

It sounds familiar…

I have always wondered at the people i have heard of who mentioned Atlantis, as a good and desirable example of advanced people. It is considered among many Atlantis civilization “believers” that it collapsed under some technical abuse or wrong use. So, the meditation needs to be “which mistake did they do, what was missing?”.  What do we need to do differently ?

Maybe that is why some ideas of New-Age have become almost general consensus…. while I never heard anything else anymore about Atlantis… We are not supposed to remember and think: Wait a minute! We have more then technical knowledge enough and what we are missing is love.

Whether we call it Atlantis or Ancient Church, as Swedenborg explains, it is the same. And now as then, we are before the same situation and choice.

So it is maybe not surprising if what i say is nothing new. It isn’t. New is to do it. To find ways in which we can put more love in practice. And that i can not do alone.

YouTube – Veni Veni Emmanuel

YouTube – Veni Veni Emmanuel.

Veni, veni Emmanuel;
Captivum solve Israel,
Qui gemit in exilio,
Privatus Dei Filio
Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel,
Nascetur pro te, Israel!

Veni, veni, O Oriens;
Solare nos adveniens,
Noctis depelle nebulas,
Dirasque noctis tenebras
Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel,
Nascetur pro te, Israel!

Veni, Clavis Davidica!
Regna reclude caelica;
Fac iter tutum superum,
Et claude vias inferum
Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel,
Nascetur pro te, Israel!

Veni, veni Adonai!
Qui populo in Sinai,
Legem dedisti vertice,
In maiestate gloriae
Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel,
Nascetur pro te, Israel!

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