In need of a Masonic floor plan for yr ποΈ Wide Shut Bday party? I gotchu (really Alexander Roob does). "The depiction of the Great Work through regicide, decay, & resurrection lives on in the higher degrees of Freemasonry. In its ceremonies, the murder of the architect... 1/
...of Solomon's Temple, Hiram Abif, is ritually carried out. Hiram was murdered w/ the 3 tools of Masonryβthe measure, the set-square, & the hammerβby 3 apprentices who wanted to force the master-word from him. For later recognition, the murderers placed an acacia branch on... 2/
...the spot where they buried him." Does the branch remind anyone else of the Arm from Twin Peaks: S3? "This new master-word has been interpreted as: 'the flesh coming away from the bone', 'He lives in the Son', 'Son of Decay', etc... The meaning of the ceremony lies in the... 3/
...unification of each new master w/ Hiram & continuation of the endless chain of death & rebirth." Sharing next ΒΆ just bc: "Joyce's cryptically infinite work is about the death & resurrection of a mason of the other kind. His name is...Finnegan, ...'Finnagain (...) of the... 4/
...Stuttering Hand', a 'freemen's maurer' who dies when he falls drunk from scaffolding & is put in his coffin. The guests at his cheerful wake (funferal) exp his resurrection when the loud uncorking of a whisky bottle awakens new life in him. The whisky is the elixir,... 5/
..'wise key', the key to the Work: the lost master-word of Hiram Abif & lost member of Osiris. Finding it means bringing together the beginning & end of the 'end-negating' (fin negans) book, completing the Ouroboros." <-whiskey Thursday vibes from Roob's "Alchemy & Mysticism" 6/
(The image in tweet 1 is a work table, and the image in tweet 2 is a rug. Although I certainly ain't 'on the level', I kinda want some of this Masonic decorβwho's buying?)
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