re athiests and hell in article may geneva rutgers edu rexlex fnal fnal gov writes in article may athos rutgers edu ptrei bistromath mitre org peter trei writes in article may athos rutgers edu rexlex fnal fnal gov writes much deleted point today might be the masons just a note that they too worshipped osiris in egypt much deleted it bugs me when i see this kind of nonsense first there is no reasonable evidence linking masonry to ancient egypt or even that it existed prior to the late th century and there s nothing definitive before the th i m going to cut rex s ramblings down a bit you must not be past your th level you should read wilkinson s egyptians and how he shows this egyptian religion paralleling his own british masonry there is a man here at this laboratory who is a degree black mason i ve talked with him there is the public side with motorcyle mania and childrens hospitals and then there is the priviate side that only the highest degree mason every learns of rex there are literally hundreds of thousands of nd degree masons in this country and thousands of rds if nasty stuff was really going on don t you think you d have more than a couple of disgruntled members exposing it heck if what you say is true then rev norman vincent peale is an osiris worshiper long quote from someone named hislop source not given deleted i m attempting to extract from it the relevent points osiris is actually nimrod a babylonian deity it is admitted that the secret system of free masonry was originally founded on the mysteries of the egyptian isis the goddess mother or wife of osiris the babylonian nimrod and osiris are both connected with the building trade ie with masonry nimrod as the son of cush was a negro isn t this refering to a biblical nimrod rather than the babylonian god there was a tradition in egypt recorded by plutarch that osiris was black there is a long tradition in masonry of claiming ancient lineage for the order on the flimsiest of grounds this dates right back to the constitutions of which cite adam as the first mason i ve seen other claims which place masonry among the romans greeks and egyptians and atlanteans i even have a book which claims to prove that stonehenge was originally a masonic temple claims prove nothing where s the beef rex claims ex mason showed him leopard skin he wore in lodge any representation of osiris usually show the wearing of some leopard i d have to check this the tomb paintings i remember don t show this it is interesting that the druids of britian also show or should i say hide this representation they however worshipped the spotted cow can you give ancient citations for this the druids were suppressed over years ago what s your point this whole leopard skin business sounds bizarre i have not yet gone through the scottish rite which contains all of those higher degrees anti masons get so excited about and which was invented in the s but i know enough people who have and who are good christians that i reject your claim i ll stand by my statements masonry is of the mystery religions that all find their source in babylon the great harlot sorry peter i do not mean to be a cold slap to the face but there is to much not so much a slap in the face as a weary feeling of deja vu i m going through a very similar argument over on soc culture african american evidence to the contrary that masonry doesn t find its origins in egypt of the masons i have personally talked to all refered to egypt as their origin why don t you try reading some serious books on masonic history such as hamill s the craft why are you now separating yourself from this which not many years ago was freely admitted because we got honest if you can come up with actual evidence that masonry existed prior to i d be very impressed actually anything earlier than would be pretty good rex peter trei ptrei mitre org disclaimer i do not speak for my employer
