-Caveat Lector-
Most interesting of all is how we instinctively respond to these
stories with a sense of awe and magic. They touch "something" deep
within us which seems real and not external "propaganda."
The very best of children's literature seems to resonate with
"something" we already know--rather than imposing or teaching
external principles.
Curiously, too, M.P.Travers, author of Mary Poppins, was a Sufi
mystic and later in her life wrote many interesting essays for
Parabola, a journal dedicated to mythological and spiritual issues.
I think one can only see this as dangerous or "evil" if one is
entirely wedded to a religious dogma that considers the ideas
in these stories heretical.
On 11 Dec 98 , John wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
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> Pro McClelland of Harvard once stated that childerns stories are where the values
>imparted from one generation to the next are the most clearly seen.
>
> John
>
>
> TheDawning of the the new age new world order
> D L Cuddy
>
> Chapter Four
> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
>
> Masons are supposed to be engaged in a search for "light" (Ahura-Mazda is the
>"spirit of light") with all of their"heart, mind, and strength."ln L. Frank Baum's
>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the tin ma> L. Frank Baum (possibly a Buddhist)
>was int
erested in Theosophy (which he and his wife joined in 1896), and The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz is on page 36 of the Theosophical University Press 1989-> Concerning
Theosophy, Baum pronounced, "God is Nature, and Nature God, " and in the Aberdeen, So
uth Dakota Saturday Pioneer (January 25,1890), he wrote of "an eager longing to
penetrate the s> Baum believed in reincarnation, in karma, that there was no Devil,
and "that man on earth was only, one step on a ladder through many states of
consciousness
, through mans 'universes, to a final sta> "The author of The Wonderful Wizard of 0Z
was well read in the occult sciences. .....Paracelsus, the sixteenth century) Swiss
alchemist and physician, divided all spirits into , four categorie
s: Air> the gnomes are the Nomes (the Nome king of The Life and Adventures of Santa
Claus und Ozma of Oz);
> and the salamanders are the ,fairies of energy' (the Demon of Electricity of
>TheMaster Key; the Lovely Lady of light of Tik-Tok of 0z).
> Baum seems to have created a highly sophisticated cosmology by interpreting
>this theory of spirits of elementals' in terms of tradirional fairies. This is
>basically a religion of Nature.
>
> Modern science itself has its origin in The Wonder full world of Oz the occult
>sciences, in the search for the secrets of nature. It is nor by mistake that the
>Shaggy Man in The Patchwork Girl of >
> In many of Baum's works, there are revealing references. In The Master Key,
>a boy summons up the "Demon of Electricity," and A Kidnapped Santa Claus refers to a
>"Demon of Repentance." The Tin> A similar message ("The Power Is Yours") is
delivered today by Ted Turner's (1990 Humanist of the Year) "Cap-tain Planet" cartoon
program on television, where Gaia (the spirit of "Mother Eart>
> These all lead one to consider the possibility that Baum selected the word
>"Oz" because it sounded like "us" (Baum wrote a poem rhyming Oz" with the word
>"was"), meaning that if the heart (ti> It is also possible that Baum chose
>the nam
e "Oz" from the "0" in Oscar Wilde (famous author and Mason, born just two years
before Baum and died in the year 1900, when the Oz books began) and> A third
possibility for Baum's selection of the word "0z" is that according to writer Jack
Snow,
Baum once wrote that he always enjoyed stories that caused the reader to exclaim with
"Ohs" an>
> Baum dedicated Wonderful Wizard of' Oz;( 1900) to his wife, whom he called
>"my good friend and comrade." When Baum and his wife traveled to Europe in 1906, they
>also went on to Egypt, where M> The land of Oz, with its four countries, is
rectangular in shape like the state of Kansas. In the city of Wichita in south
central Kansas, about ten years ago a pyramid was built at 3100 Nort> White Light. The
first issue of the comic was called "The Tale of the Kingdom of Light," as the author (
Pamela Wunder Myers) says: "A paradigm [referring to a cultural change] shift occurs
when a 'be> In the first comic issue, Sir Cosmic searches for the Land of
"Awes" where he finds the Wonderful Wizard who describes their "Divine Science of Natur
e "and gives a riddle to Merlin that says,> Love and cooperation rule in Oz, and
Masons seek light and harmony. Before meeting the Wizard in Oz, the cowardly lion says
he will do what's necessary until the Wizard "promises to give US wha
t we d> There is also a certain existentialist and gnostic (transcendental
"self") aspect to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Wizard in Oz tells Dorothy's
companions that what they most desire is alr> says: "Baum's concern is with the
presentatio
n of reality and worth and of the power of the Self: In terms of the Rogerian [Carl
Rogers, 1964 Humanist of the Year] method of treatment a faith in the > Just
as in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz individuals are told they'll find the power to solve
problems within themselves, the same is true in the more recent book and movie Star
Wars. Similarly,>
> What Masons say they desire most is "light," which is also very important in
>the Oz books. In Tik-Tok of Oz, there is the palace of the Queen of Light, and when
>Dorothy enters the Wizard's th> of his falling; he believes that a word "means just
what I choose it to mean'; and he feels "the question is, which is to be the master.
"The story also contains an episode with a lion and a unicorn> Commons: "I am told
that a British minister has boasted - and a very unwise boast it was - that he had o
nly to hold up his hand and he could raise a revolution in Italy tomorrow. .... A
great prince >
> The Masonic Connection
>
>
> The term "point of light" is also used in Masonry and the occult, with "point"
>standing for the points on the
> Mason's compass, and "light" standing for "truth." "Light" also comes from the
>heavens, as the name "Blue Lodge" comes from Masons' "ancient brethren who met under
>the starry canopy of heaven," accor> Perhaps coincidental is the fact that
>Mason
Charles Willson Peale (born 1741) painted at least two portraits (including the first
portrait ever painted) of George Washington with the latter's> "Although I hold the
highest civil honor in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a pas
t grand master of Masons as the greatest honor that has ever come to me" (Empire State
Mason, F>
sno0wl
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