On Sunday, I posted a few articles with which I don't necessarily agree.
But these Kenyans sometimes make an effort to reply to peoples' mail. Maybe
one should bring [EMAIL PROTECTED] into the discussion.
I don't feel competent enough for this topic. May be you, comrade, have an
angle on it to share with us. i.e. the spiritual dimension of
'Freemasonary'.
Mitayo Potosi
From: Robert Owor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ugnet_: Fifth Columnist Their false witness to Freemasons
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:14:07 -0600
Phillip Ochieng does not have a clue what he is talking about. Be a
journalist and leave religion alone. If you must write about religion tell
us what you believe or go properly study the damn thing before giving us
de-constructionist mumbo-jumbo!
Steven Owor waits for your reply.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/25/04 4:53 PM
Comment ; sundaynation kenya
Sunday, January 25, 2004
PHILIP OCHIENG / Fifth Columnist Their false witness to Freemasons
As Chronicles would say, Mzee Kimani Maruge will soon lie with his
fathers. But he is completely illiterate and cannot read Chronicles. So,
at
84, he has decided to learn the Three Rs. I cannot sneer at that
motivation.
I know, from my own reading, that the pursuit after god can be a major spur
to worldly knowledge. You wouldn't know it from the bloodthirst with which
the Vatican has pursued scientists. But even Christianity began as a
knowledge cult. Techno-scientific knowledge * though steeped in
magico-sexual ritual and abracadabra * was the only path to god. Thus the
original Christians are called Gnostics (from gnosis, Greek for
knowledge).
We see it in Carl Sagan's remark in the introduction to A Brief History of
Time that, by subjecting the physical universe to minute inspection,
Stephen
Hawking is eavesdropping on god's mind.
In the days of Giordano Bruno, Hawking would have roasted at the stake.
Today even John Paul II apologises for what the Holy Office did to
Galileo
Galilei. The Pope asserts that the Big Bang of quantum mechanics was the
same event that Genesis calls the beginning.
Many powerful Jewish minds * Spinoza, Freud, Marx, Trotsky, Einstein *
would
have no quarrel with that. When they call themselves atheists, what they
are
rejecting is only the god of Deuteronomy.
Einstein once told some rabbinical opponents of his General Relativity that
what he objected to was only the whimsical, stormy and salacious god of
Joshua, with a people chosen by a moral criterion which is most
impugnable.
In its search for a Grand Unified Theory * a single formula to explain
everything in the universe * what modern physics is seeking is a divinity
who manifests herself through the governability of her creation.
Before the rise of the rigidly androcentric monotheon, this was the case
throughout the world. Self-created and then fertilised by the Serpent * her
own begotten son-husband * Mother Earth was the only Creator that humanity
knew.
It was only in the second millennium BC, when Semito-Aryan patriarchy
invaded Hamitic motherland, that she (as Tiamat) fell to Marduk, as Hera to
Zeus, as Minerva to Jupiter, as Isis to Osiris, as Rahab (or Tehom or
Leviathan) to Yahweh.
Elsewhere she was known as Athene, Cybele, Diana, Oestre, Anath, Hawwa,
Eve,
Hebe, Kali, Ngame. But, along the Nile, she was focused on Maat, the
Goddess
who personified cosmic and social order, symmetry, harmony, unity, justice,
beauty, love and peace.
Even after the Nile itself had been patronised, pursuit of knowledge
remained its idea of worship.
It was Thoth, Cush's god of science and magic * adopted by Greece as Hermes
and by Rome as Mercury * who introduced Hermeticism in Europe, whose
preoccupation with astrology, alchemy and the elixir that so appalled the
Vatican.
Yet, in the hands of the Knights-Templar, the Priory of Zion, the
Rosicrucians, the Freemasons and other anti-Church movements, this black
magic was what created the modern West.
They went underground first because they were part of the ancient Egyptian
tradition in which knowledge was always arcane and could be accessed only
by
the initiated and, secondly, to escape the murderous hands of the
Inquisitors.
But, despite the persecution, it was they who created the modern
university,
the Gothic cathedrals, the Renaissance, the voyages of discovery, the
Enlightenment, the American War of Independence, the Industrial Revolution,
the Information Age.
Both the Anglican Church and the Church of Scotland are vitally linked to
Freemasonry. The royal families have always been Freemasons and yet the
monarch has always been the head of the national church.
That was why I was surprised when a newspaper reported that Kenya's chapter
of the Anglican Church would not help plant my high school class-mate Joab
Omino because he was a Freemason. The Church has done well to deny it.
For, though I myself am not a Freemason, I know that it is a knowledge
movement dedicated
