tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628299238534654620.post6886008301596066404..comments2024-01-16T17:49:50.776-08:00Comments on The Relevant Mason: Five Minutes with AliCliff Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08225842898777528860noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628299238534654620.post-63814933523328019792010-07-09T15:18:24.211-07:002010-07-09T15:18:24.211-07:00Kindness is a powerful tool.Kindness is a powerful tool.Cliff Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08225842898777528860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628299238534654620.post-22563792991853562602010-07-06T21:59:56.338-07:002010-07-06T21:59:56.338-07:00When I was knocking doors for two years as a missi...When I was knocking doors for two years as a missionary for the LDS Church (Mormons), I was called every bad thing and was told I was going to hell all the time. Every Mason I met was always nice to me and my partner. That made a big impression on me and was one the largest factors that lead me to join the Craft myself.<br /><br />Mark Tensmeyer<br />Eagle Rock #19<br />newfreemasons.comMark Tensmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08130208104622555677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6628299238534654620.post-85041286827242319072010-06-25T11:59:32.018-07:002010-06-25T11:59:32.018-07:00Have u seen the article of JAMES TRAUB, the Turkis...Have u seen the article of JAMES TRAUB, the Turkish Dilemma ?! Where he says: So yes, young people: Do learn Turkish !<br /><br />The enemy :-) feels the right thing to do by instinct ! Teaching Turkish is against the Turkish State Doctrine !<br /><br />Turks learn the languages of others but do not encourage others for learning Turkish. That is very Turkic actually. For example, during Genghis Khan times, learning the Mogul language was a crime punished by death.<br /><br />Turks had always been minorities within their own empires ! Their managerial skills obviously came from some secret teachings. One such secret text is quite famous: the 7 th volume of Mesnevi (The Masnavi). It is believed that Turks also do have the missing parts of the Critias (dialogue).<br /><br />There is a part of Istanbul called Karay Koy (Karakoy). It means the Karay Village. The name comes from the Crimean Karaites. No one can be as Jew as the Turk !<br /><br />Listen to this:<br /><br />From his own writings it is clear that his version of Freemasonry incorporated aspects of Islamic Sufi mysticism, alchemy, astrology and Rosicrucianism. In his autobiographical novel Der Talisman des Rosenkreuzers (The Rosicrucian Talisman), he made a clear distinction between Turkish Freemasonry and regular Freemasonry: It must be shown that Oriental Freemasonry still retains faithfully even today the ancient teachings of wisdom forgotten by modern Freemasonry, whose Constitution of 1717 was a departure from the true way.Arif Şahinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05663470112188977416noreply@blogger.com