[Magdalen] Curse on Masons

[Sally Davies]

A very interesting thought, David!

Sally D

On Wednesday, 13 January 2016, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> I have always been amused at the "high church" bowing and scraping
> (as my mother always dismissed Episcopal Liturgy) that goes on during
> meetings/sessions of the Masons and their auxiliaries such as the
> Eastern Star.  These folk were/are all Protestants (heavily  Methodists,
> Baptists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists) where formalized
> liturgical movements worshipping on Sunday in church were  non-existent
> and frowned upon.
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> Yet these Masonic rituals were very formalized with bowing at "the  altar"
> on which a Bible lay occurred repeatedly.  Someone once explained  this
> dichotomy by asserting that humans need a certain amount of ritual or
> at least body expression in their lives, and if the church didn't  provide
> it, then these people got it in their Masonic lodges.
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> I pointed this out a number of times to my mother (my father died
> before I entered the Episcopal Church), and it went right over her
> head.
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> David Strang.
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