text:
Bianca Steele wrote:

Comment:

If, as Alfred Whitehead suggested, western philosophy reduces to
"footnotes" to Plato, then one should look to Plato rather than his
footnote-writers for the proper definition of "epistemology" in the
context of western philosophy.

Here is an introductory paragraph in the Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy on the subject matter:

Epistemology, for Plato, is best thought of as the account of what
knowledge is. A reader who has some familiarity with philosophy since
Descartes may well think that epistemology must address the question
whether there is any knowledge. Plato never considers the global
skeptical challenge. He assumes that there is knowledge, or at least
that it is possible, and he inquires into the conditions that make it
possible. These conditions, broadly conceived, concern, on the one
hand, the rational capacities of humans, or more accurately souls, and,
on the other hand, the objects of knowledge. With respect to objects,
Forms certainly are objects of knowledge. However, there is much
dispute as to whether anything in the material world is a suitable
object. The physical world is an image, an imperfect world of change.
Many passages in the Phaedo and, most dramatically, the Republic's
great metaphors of Sun, Line and Cave, imply that Plato is a skeptic
about knowledge of the physical, sensible world. Humans can have only
beliefs about it. But many recoil at the prospect that Plato is such a
skeptic. Citing the thrust of other discussions, these readers argue
that while all knowledge for Plato must be based, in some sense, on
Forms, one who knows Forms can also acquire knowledge of the physical
world.

***
Plato's skepticism "about knowledge of the physical, sensible world" is
NOT shared by the modern academic philosophers of science, who have
footnoted Plato's concept of "epistemology" out of existence.

Going back to basics insofar as "epistemology" is concerned may not sit
well with those who share Popper's non-Platonic idea that experimental
science is a means of moving us ever closer to THE truth - where
"truth" is admittedly some je-ne-sais-quoi.

If "epistemology is best thought of as the account of what knowledge
is," then it is upto the je-ne-sais-quoi school of philosophers to "use
a different word" for their stuff.


author: Bianca Steele

subject: Re: "the same discovery had been made at least 16 times" (NYT)

text:
gangleri wrote:

Which wasn't made until after he died (and by those who had learned
from him).  So much for relying on online encyclopedias.

[snip]

Plato was not a mystic who wrote the equivalent of scripture.  And if
you re-read the encyclopedia entry, you will see that the majority do
not consider Plato a skeptic.

No, "truth" is not metaphysics or theology.  "Truth" is better science.

----
Bianca Steele

        "No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow,
        Who's once been set his tryst with Trystero."
                ---- Richard Wharfinger


author: Tom Reedy

text:
"Tom Veal" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

At firtst I thought you meant Wilhelm, but then I remembered, thanks to the
bell bottoms hint. We all should be at Consciousness 3 by now, and also
completely out of oil, IIRC (but that was another book).

TR


author: Art Neuendorffer

text:
David L. Webb wrote:

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   Perhaps Mr. Frizer/Frezer will see fit to pardon me.
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  The Queen's pardon of Ingram Frizer was given
    *Teste Regina apud Kewe xxviii die Junii*

  "Witness the Queen at Kew the 28th day of June".

<<According to Dasent's *Acts of The Privy Council*,
          however, they were meeting
  "At the Courte at Otelandes, the 28th of June, 1593">>

     [Henry VIII's 102nd (6 x 17th) birthday.]
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_______ Henry VIII  born    [Tuesday] June 28, 1491
_______ Globe Theatre fire  [Tuesday] June 29, 1613
   George W. Goethals born   [Tuesday] June 29, 1858
------------------------------ï¿½------------------------------
Gabriel Harvey enters Christ?s College Cambridge, June 28, 1566
Jean Jacques Rousseau born in Geneva June 28, 1712
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           Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules VERnE
          http://www.naturescapesgallery.com/msneffel.html
          http://www.educeth.ethz.ch/stromboli/index-e.html

                   Sneffels => 64.48 N  15.15 W  (1,833 m.)
                   Stromboli=> 38.47 N  15.12 E    (924 m.)

         JTCE:     << When we were quite ready, our watches
                       indicated thirteen minutes past one!>>

48:29:33  =       Arctan [1.13]
48:29   =  Sneffels noon sun angle at solstice + 6.8 days (June 28)
48:29   =  Stromboli noon sun angle at equinox + 6.8 days (Sept.30)
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            Abraham Ortelius (OERTEL)
       http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11328b.htm

A cartographer, geographer, and archï¿½ologist, born in Antwerp,
4 April, 1527; died there, 28 June, 1598. His family came from
Augsburg, wherefore Ortelius frequently referred to himself as
"Belgo-Germanus". Despite the great honour freely accorded to
Ortelius, he remained humble and modest. "Until his very end he was",
as F. Ratzel says, "a good Catholic and had particularly many friends
among the Jesuits". True to his motto, "Contemno et orno [mundum],
mente, manu", Ortelius, unmarried and earnest, remained above the
petty squabbles which so often disturb scientific circles.

      "Quietis cultor sine lite uxore, prole"

  is written on his tombstone in the Prï¿½monstratensian abbey
  at Antwerp. This epitaph was written by Justus Lipsius.

     http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11328b.htm
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Art Neuendorffer


author: Manda Ruby

subject: This is for Mal unless he is still deaf

text:
Muslim retreat denouces terrorism (by a Pakistani Celric):
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/08/10/ac.birth.terroism.touri
sts.cnn?hpt=C2


author: Malrassic Park

subject: Re: This is for Mal unless he is still deaf

text:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:47:24 -0700, Manda Ruby <[email]>
wrote:

Not at that video. That one concerns "anchor babies."


text:
On Aug 11, 8:55ï¿½am, Malrassic Park <[email]> wrote:

That's how that CNN link works. That's why I gave the title as well.

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text:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:13:30 -0700, Manda Ruby <[email]>
wrote:
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This is how the CNN link works:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/08/11/shubert.uk.muslim.summer.camp.cnn.html


text:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:28:20 -0700, Malrassic Park <[email]>
wrote:

Ok I watched the video. I noticed the caption reads "A Muslim retreat
in Britain aims to fight terrorism and extremism." I don't see anybody
fighting, only talking. There are people actually fighting terrorism,
they are called soldiers.

As for the video itself, it had a dual message for me. 1. A ray of
hope - not the poster on this forum, but an actual feeling. 2. On the
other hand, it is disheartening to see young people being such
followers, looking for, begging for, someone to tell them what to do,
like tools.

But then, that also goes for Christians who act like tools.


text:
On Aug 11, 11:28ï¿½am, Malrassic Park <[email]> wrote:

I didn't put more effort to locate the direct link. So, sue me.
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text:
On Aug 11, 11:36ï¿½am, Malrassic Park <[email]> wrote:

I reward you with first prize for being the best in twisting facts.

You are being impossible. The young oeople always look up o the old
people. It's hukan nature. I looked up for my oldest sister (even
though I was good at picking and choosing what fits me) only to
realize a little too latehow immature and petty she was. In the video,
the guy was trying to keep the younger ones form flocking to the other
side; too late as in I lost time, productivity, and burdened with
emotional baggage.  To these people, this was the the first step in
kepping them from going astray.  You know very well how people those
ages are.

I don't have any more first prize to give you.


text:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:28:01 -0700, Manda Ruby <[email]>
wrote:
..
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I'm going to tell your sister you said that about her.


text:
On Aug 11, 2:48ï¿½pm, Malrassic Park <[email]> wrote:

Oh..I am so scared.
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author: Mark N

subject: Hey, Malrassic Park

text:
Was there some *reason* why you asked to establish e-mail contact with
me? I mean, besides your desire to repeat your complaint about Kraft
Ranch dressing? Just curious.

Mark


subject: Re: Hey, Malrassic Park

text:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:28:07 +0000 (UTC), Mark N
<[email]> wrote:

To protect the privacy of another individual involved in it.


subject: Re: Hey, Malrassic Park

text:
Malrassic Park wrote:

???

Another individual involved in *what*? In Kraft Ranch dressing's excess
of vinegar? That's the only thing you mentioned in your e-mail message.

Mark


subject: Re: Hey, Malrassic Park

text:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:43:50 +0000 (UTC), Mark N
<[email]> wrote:

The original poster.


subject: Re: Hey, Malrassic Park

text:
Malrassic Park wrote:

Yeah, sure. Whatever that means.

Get help, Mal. The sooner, the better.

Mark

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subject: Re: Hey, Malrassic Park

text:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 04:09:48 +0000 (UTC), Mark N
<[email]> wrote:

Not necessary, the teacher didn't give me any tough homework
assignments today. If you gave me some other means of communicating,
email or whatever, I'd tell you. But you want to believe that
everybody is crazy except for yourself, and you're too paranoid to
reveal any info about your true email address, so I won't try to strip
you of whatever beliefs keep you going on your precarious life course.

Why do I bother even asking you a polite question? I should just
dredge up the address myself...


subject: Re: Hey, Malrassic Park

text:
Malrassic Park wrote:

Man, this guy gives me the creeps.

Mark

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subject: Re: Hey, Malrassic Park

text:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 04:27:49 +0000 (UTC), Mark N
<[email]> wrote:

I am paralyzed with dismay over your devastating response.


subject: Re: Hey, Malrassic Park

text:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 04:27:49 +0000 (UTC), Mark N
<[email]> wrote:

Don't worry, I found out your real e-mail address. Everything is ok
now...


subject: Straws like his name: *SHACK*

text:
---------------------------------------------------
.
Bob Grumman wrote:
<<Yep, straws like his name on forty books published during
his life, and his picture in the First Folio, and the monument.
As opposed to real evidence like a common name that has to
do with shaking a spear, which is just what every literate
person visualizes right away when thinking of a poet,
especially of Shakespeare.>>
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.         Straws like his name: *SHACK*
........................................................
*SHACK* , n. [Cf. Scot. *SHAG REFUSE* of barley or oats.]
.   A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar;
.  a *VAGABOND* ; a tramp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
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Q2 & Folio:  *CLAMBRIN[G] TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE*
.
.                  V E R O N I L V E R I U S
.                  A_______    L
.                  G_______    E
.                  A_______    N
.                  B_______    K
.                  O_______    C
.                  N_______    N
.                 [D]________  I
_________                      R
_________                      B
_________                      S
_________                      A
_________-                     M
_________                      O
_________                      H
_________                      T
................................................................
'It is my fate,' said Mr. Micawber,'to *walk the WALK as a VAGABOND*
.
'And I have only to add, sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, now thoroughly
. angry, 'that I consider you a rascal, and a--a--ruffian--and--
. and *worse than any man I EVER saw, or heard of* , except
that pious & sanctified *VAGABOND* in the *MULBERRY LIVERY* .'
......................................................
________    *SHACK* :  a *VAGABOND*
.
*VAGABOND* from Lat. VAGABUNDUS, "a wanderer,"
"a fugitive;"  not used opprobriously (Gen. 4:12, R.V.,
"wanderer;"  Ps. 109:10; Acts 19:13, R.V., "strolling").
.
*VAGABOND* first used in popular English literature: before 1350.
.
*VAGABOND* , a. [F., fr. L. vagabundus, from vagari to stroll about,
from vagus strolling. See {Vague}.] 1. Moving from place to place
without a settled habitation; wandering. ``VAGABOND exile.'' --Shak.
.
2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
.
. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way,
.    by envious winds Blown *VAGABOND* or frustrate. --Milton.
.
3. Being a VAGABOND; strolling and idle or vicious.
..............................................................
Edward VI.: A statute of the first year of his reign, 1547, ordains
that if anyone refuses to work, he shall be condemned as a slave to
the person who has denounced him as an idler. If it happens that a
*VAGABOND* has been idling about for 3 days, he is to be taken to
his birthplace, *branded with a red-hot iron with the letter V*
on the breast & *be set to work, in chains* ,
in the streets or *at some other LABOUR*
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GIBBET, n. [OE. gibet, F. gibet, in OF. also club, fr. LL. gibetum;
cf. OF. gibe sort of sickle or hook, It. giubbetto gibbet, and
giubbetta, dim. of giubba mane, also, an under waistcoat, doublet,
Prov. It. gibba); so that it perhaps originally signified
. *a halter, a rope round the neck of malefactors* ; or
. it is, perhaps, derived fr. L. gibbus HUNCHED, HUMPED,
E. gibbous; or cf. E. jib a sail.] 1. A kind of gallows;
. an upright post with an arm projecting from the top,
. on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged *IN CHAINS* ,
.  and their bodies allowed to remain as a warning.
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__          T  O T H E    o n
_____         {r}o    [H]     e
_____         {o}  n[E]         (M)
_____         {p} [N]e            (A)
_____         {e[R]n___             (R)o
_____         [Y]o______             l(I)
_____         O.E.______                (H)
_____         [W]
_____         [R]
_____        [E|
_____        [S|
_____        [L|H]
_____        [E|T]
_____        [Y|O]
_____          |I]
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http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/anagrams/
.
<<Even more curious is the [anagramma] for Southampton,
which explicitly states that he had been convicted
of treason on false testimony *inspired by envy* .>>
.............................................
.        HENRICUS URIOTHESLEUS
.            per anagramma
.       THESEUS NIL REUS HIC RUO
.
.[I]ure quidem poteras hanc fundere ab ore querelam,
.[S]ors tibi dum ficto crimine dura fuit:
"[N]il reus en Theseus censura sortis iniquae
.[H]ic ruo, livoris traditus arbitrio."
.[A]t nunc mutanda ob mutata pericla querela est.
.[I]nclite, an innocuo pectore teste rues?
.[N]on sane. Hac haeres vacuo dat *VIVERE* cura,
.[C]ollati imperii sub Iove sceptra gerens.
.............................................
*ISNHAINC*
*IN CHAINS*
.
*Victorious though IN CHAINS*
*In Vinculus Invictus*
Motto in Tower Painting:  http://www.gorki.net/Art/fa12.html
................................................................
.        Antony and Cleopatra  Act 5, Scene 2
.
CLEOPATRA:   Shall they hoist me up
.         And show me to the shouting varletry
.         Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt
.         Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud
.         Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies
.         Blow me into abhorring! rather make
.         My country's high PYRAMIDES my GIBBET,
.         And hang me up *IN CHAINS* !
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*VAGABOND* , v. i. To play the *VAGABOND* ; to wander like a *VAGABOND*
.
.   *On EVERy part my VAGABONDing sight* Did cast,
.    and drown mine eyes in SWEET delight. --Drummond.
.
Note: In English and American law, *VAGABOND* is used in bad sense,
denoting one who is without a home; a strolling, idle, worthless person.
*VAGABONDs* are described in old English statutes as ``such as wake on
the night & sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns & alehouses,
and routs about; and no man wot from whence they came, nor whither they
go.'' In American law, the term *VAGRANT* is employed in the same sense.
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.             Genesis Chapter 4, Verse 12
.
405 Vulgate: Cum operatus fueris eam non dabit tibi fructus
.           suos *VAGUS* et profugus eris *SUPER* terram
.
1395 Wyclif:   Whanne thow worchist the erthe,
.             it shal not yiue thee his fruytis;
.            *VAGAUNT* and fer fugitif thow shalt be
.           vpon the erthe alle the daies of thi lijf.
.
1526 Tyndale:   For when thou tyllest the grounde
.      she shall heceforth not geve hyr power vnto the.
. A *VAGABUNDE* and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon the erth.
.
1560 Geneva:      When thou shalt TILL the ground,
.   it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength:
.   a *VAGABOND* and a runagate shalt thou be in the earth.
.
1611 King James:   When thou tillest the ground,
.   it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength;
.   a fugitive and a *VAGABOND* shalt thou be in the earth.
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.                   _ULYSSES_
.
He has hidden his own name, a fair name, WILLiam, in the plays, a
*SUPER HERE* , a clown there, as a painter of old Italy set his face
in a DARK CORNER of his canvas. He has REVEalED it in the sonnets
where there is Will in OVER(pl)US. Like *John o'GAUNT* his name is
dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a
bend sable a spear or steeled argent, *honorificabilitudinitatibus*
dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country.
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood
when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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.           h_ o *n*  orific
.           a_ b *i*  litudi
.          *n  i_ t*  atibus
----------------------------------------------------
.            King Richard II  Act 2, Scene 3
.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
.You are my father, for methinks in you
.I see old *GAUNT* alive; O, then, my father,
.WILL you permit that I shall stand condemn'd
*A wandering VAGABOND* ; my rights and royalties
.Pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away
.To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?
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.     Antony and Cleopatra  Act 1, Scene 4
.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR: I should have known no less.
. It hath been taught us from the primal state,
. That he which is was wish'd until he were;
. And the ebb'd man, NE'ER loved TILL NE'ER worth love,
. COMES dear'd by being lack'd. This common body,
. Like to a *VAGABOND* flag upon the stream,
. Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,
. To rot itself with motion.
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.       Coriolanus  Act 3, Scene 3
.
CORIOLANUS: I know no further:
. Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,
. *VAGABOND* exile, raying, pent to linger
. But with a grain a day, I would not buy
. Their mercy at the price of one fair word;
. Nor cheque my courage for what they can give,
. To have't with saying 'Good morrow.'
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ACTS 19:13: Then certain of the *VAGABOND Jews* , exorcists, took
in hand to name over them which had evil spirits, the Name of the
Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.
.
.             Geneva:
.
ACTS 19:13: Then certain of the *VAGABOND Jews* , exorcists, took
upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the
Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
---------------------------------ï¿½-------ï¿½-----------------------ï¿½---
<<[Free]Masons read the inscription as Igne Natura Renovatur Integra
   meaning "Through FIRE, NATURE is reborn whole" or "By FIRE NATURE
   is renewed whole", symbolizing Humankind's spiritual regeneration
     by the sacred FIRE of TRUTH & love.>>  - From Wikipedia
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ACTS 19:19: "And a NUMBER of those who practiced magic ARTs brought
.          their *books together & burned them* in the sight of all;
.          and they counted the value of them and found that
.         it came to fifty thousand pieces pieces of silVER."
...........................................................
.             Geneva:
...........................................................
ACTS 19:19: Many also of them which used curious ARTs, brought
.        their *books together & burned them* before all men:
.         and they counted the price of them, and found
.              it fifty thousand pieces of silVER.
------------------------------------------------------------
ACTS 19:29:  And the whole city was filled with confusion:
.      and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus,
.     men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in TRAVEL,
.     they rushed with one accord into the *THEATRE*
.
ACTS 19:30: And when Paul would have entered in unto the people,
.           the disciples SUFFERED him not.
.
ACTS 19:31:  And certain of the chief of Asia,
.   which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him
.  that he would not *ADVENTURE* himself into the *THEATRE*
...........................................................
.             Geneva:
...........................................................
ACTS 19:29:  And the whole city was full of confusion,
.   and they rushed into the common place with one assent,
.    and caught Gaius, and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia,
.        and Paul's companions of his journey.
.
ACTS 19:30:  And when Paul would have entered in unto the people,
.            the disciples SUFFERED him not.
.
ACTS 19:31:       Certain also of the chief of Asia
.   which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him
.   that he would not present himself in the Common place.
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Henry Fielding. (1707-1754).  The History of Tom Jones.
.
MR. ALLWORTHY, in his last speech, had recollected some tender ideas
concerning Jones, which had brought tears into the good man's eyes. This
Mrs. Miller observing, said, 'Yes, yes, sir, your goodness to this poor
young man is known, notwithstanding all your care to conceal it; but
there is not a single syllable of TRUTH in what those villains said.
Mr. Nightingale hath now discoVERED the whole matter. It seems these
FELLOWS were employed by a lord, who is a rival of poor Mr. Jones, to
have pressed him on board a ship. "I assure them I don't know who they
will press next. Mr. Nightingale here hath seen the officer himself,
who is a VERy pretty gentleman, and hath told him all, and is VERy
sorry for what he undertook, which he would nEVER have done, had
he known Mr. Jones to have been a gentleman; but he was told
that *he was a common strolling VAGABOND* ."
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William Makepeace Thackeray. (1811-1863).  Vanity Fair.
.
.         29. A *VAGABOND* Chapter
.
[Mrs. Rawdon Crawley] was, in fact, no better than a *VAGABOND* upon
this earth. When she got her money she gambled; when she had gambled
it she was put to shifts to live; who knows how or by what means she
succeeded? It is said that she was once seen at St. Petersburg, but
was summarily dismissed from that capital by the police, so that there
cannot be any possibility of TRUTH in the report that she was a Russian
spy at Toplitz & Vienna afterwards. I have even been informed, that at
Paris she discoVERED a relation of her own, no less a person than her
maternal grandmother, who was not by any means a Montmorenci, but a
hideous old box-opener at a theatre on the Boulevards. The meeting
between them, of which other persons, as it is hinted elsewhere, seem
to have been acquainted, must have been a very affecting interview.
The present historian can give no certain details regarding the event.
--------------------------------------------------------------
.    Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885).  Notre Dame de Paris.
.               Book X  II. Turn *VAGABOND*
.
The scholar assumed an air of gravity and resolution: "Very good,
brother, then I am sorry to have to inform you that I have received from
other quarters very advantageous offers and proposals. You will not give
me any money? No? In that case I shall turn VAGABOND." And with this
portentous word he adopted the mien of an Ajax awaiting the lightning.
.
.  The Archdeacon answered, unmoved:  "Then turn VAGABOND."
.
.              Book X III. Vive la Joie!
.
THE READER may perhaps remember that a portion of the Court of Miracles
was enclosed by the ancient wall of the city, a good many towers of
which were beginning at that time to fall into decay. One of these
towers had been converted by the truands into a place of entertainment,
with a tavern in the basement, and the rest in the upper stores. This
tower was the most animated, and consequently the most hideous, spot in
the whole *VAGABOND* quarter-a monstrous hive, buzzing day and night.
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Ulysses 250.50: Then he starts all confused mucking it up about
mortgagor under the act like the lord chancellor giving it out on the
bench and for the benefit of the wife and that a trust is created but on
the other hand that Dignam owed Bridgeman the money and if now the wife
or the widow contested the mortgagee's right till he near had the head
of me addled with his mortgagor under the act. He was bloody safe he
wasn't run in himself under the act that time as a rogue and *VAGABOND*
only he had a friend in court. Selling bazaar tickets or what do you
call it royal Hungarian privileged lottery. True as you're there. O,
commend me to an israelite! Royal and privileged Hungarian robbery.
.
Ulysses 590.1: The unsympathetic indifference of previously
amiable females, the contempt of muscular males, the acceptance of
fragments of bread, the simulated ignorance of casual acquaintances,
the latration of illegitimate unlicensed *VAGABOND DOGS* ,
the infantile discharge of decomposed vegetable missiles,
*worth little or nothing, nothing or less than nothing*
--------------------------------------------
_Elizabethan Review_ article    by Warren Hope
_Lear's Cordelia, Oxford's Susan, and Manningham's Diary_
.   http://www.jmucci.com/ER/articles/lear.htm
....................................................
<<Nelson drew attention to a couplet recorded in the Diary of
John Manningham of the Middle Temple 1602- 1603 that was used
as part of a courtly entertainment before the Queen in the
summer of 1602. Ladies of the court drew lots and each gift
was accompanied by a couplet. Manningham recorded the verses
along with the names of the ladies who received them and
the nature of the accompanying gifts. Manningham wrote:
.
.   Blank: LA[DY] Susan Vere
.
*Nothing's your lott* , that's more then can be told
.   For nothing is more precious then gold.
.
Susan Vere is the recipient of a priceless gift one that
is both *more then can be told* & *more precious then gold*
a very special kind of "nothing" indeed. The couplet is in fact
a riddle, awarding Susan Vere an inexpressible & precious gift
that merely appears to be "nothing." What could that be?
.
.   A look at the text of King Lear unravels the riddle.
.
In the first scene of King Lear, the scene that precipitates the
action of the play, a kind of drawing of lots take place. Lear divides
his kingdom and announces the "dowers" or dowries to be awarded to his
three daughters. He gives equal portions of the realm to Goneril and
Regan and their respective husbands, Albany and Cornwall. He reserves
the largest portion of the kingdom for his youngest daughter, the
unmarried Cordelia. To be awarded this portion, she is to declare
publicly her love for her father in terms that will please him
no doubt by renouncing marriage in her father's lifetime.
The dialogue, beginning with the words of Lear, runs:
.
.    what can you say to draw
. A third more opulent than your sisters?
.
Speak.
.
Cordelia: *Nothing, my lord*
.
Lear:        *Nothing* ?
.
Cordelia:    *Nothing* .
.
Lear: *Nothing WILL come of nothing*
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.               Barnaby Rudge  Chapter 45
.
At other times,--and then their scanty earnings were barely
sufficient to furnish them with food, though of the coarsest sort,
-- he would wander abroad from dawn of day until the twilight
deepened into night. Few in that place, even of the children,
could be idle, and he had no companions of his own kind. Indeed
there were not many who could have kept up with him in his rambles,
had there been a legion. But there were a score of *VAGABOND DOGS*
belonging to the neighbours, who served his purpose quite as well.
With two or three of these, or sometimes with a full half-dozen
barking at his heels, he would SALLY FORTH on some long expedition
that consumed the day; and though, on their return at nightfall,
the DOGS would come home LIMPing and sore-footed, and almost spent
with their fatigue, Barnaby was up and off again at sunrise with
some new attendants of the same class, with whom he would return
in like manner. On all these travels, Grip, in his little basket
at his master's back, was a constant member of the party,
and when they set off in fine weather and in high spirits,
*no dog barked louder than the raven*
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.      Washington Irving's Astoria  CHAPTER XX.
.
They landed amidst a rabble crowd, and were received on the bank by
the left-handed chief, who conducted them into the village with grave
courtesy; driving to the right and left the swarms of old squaws,
*IMP-like boys, and VAGABOND DOGS* , with which the place abounded.
They wound their way between the cabins, which looked like dirt-heaps
huddled together without any plan, and surrounded by old palisades;
all filthy in the extreme, and redolent of villainous smells.
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.  _The Stout Gentleman_  by Washington Irving (1783-1859)
.
.  "I'll cross it though it blast me!"--Hamlet
.
The sound brought out from their lurking-places a crew of *VAGABOND*
boys, and *VAGABOND DOGS* , and *the carroty-headed hostler* , and the
nondescript animal ycleped Boots, and all the other *VAGABOND* race
that infest the purlieus of an inn; but the bustle was transient;
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.         Don Quixote (Part 2 Chap X)
.
"I am Sancho Panza his squire, and he is the way-beaten knight
Don Quixote de *LA MANCHA* "  - Translated by Thomas Shelton
.
"I am Sancho Panza & he the *VAGABOND knight*
Don Quixote of *LA MANCHA* " - Translated by John Ormsby
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lgboyd/chapter5.htm
.
<<The de VERES were an ancient dynastic family seated at their
ancestral village of VER (from which they took their name),
near Bayeaux and the River VIRE, in *MANCHE* on the NORMANdy
coast of present-day northern France. The name of the town
itself came from the "VER," a Norse word meaning "fishdam"
that the Vikings had introduced into NORMANdy, and
etymologically akin to the Old English word "weir" meaning
a "fish dam," and originally spelled both "Wier" & "Wear".>>
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GENEVA Genesis 4:12-14  When thou shalt till the ground, it shall
not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: a *VAGABOND* and a
runagate shalt thou be in the earth. Then Cain said to the Lord,
My punishment is greater, than I can bear. Behold, thou hast cast
me out this day from the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid,
and shall be a *VAGABOND* , and a runagate in the earth,
and whosoEVER findeth me, shall slay me.
................................................................
.         All's Well That Ends Well  Act 2, Scene 3
.
LAFEU:  Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a
.     kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a *VAGABOND*
.     and no TRUE TRAVELLER: you are more saucy with lords
.     and honourable personages than the commission of your
.     birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not
.     worth another word, else I'ld call you knave.
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1562  St TERESA, a Spanish reformer, includes chess in her writings.
.
.        "How is it you come this way, husband?
.    It seems to me you come tramping and footsore, and
. looking more like a disorderly *VAGABOND* than a GOVERNOR."
. "Hold your tongue, TERESA," said Sancho; "often 'where there
.    are PEGS there are no flitches;' let's go into the house
.         and there you'll hear STRANGE things."
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Janice Miller wrote:
.
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October 15: Feast Day of St THERESA of Avila.
.  Jewess founder of an order of Carmelite nuns.
.
"From silly devotions, and from sour-faced saints,
.      good Lord, DEliVER us!" --Saint TERESA.
.
.     http://teresarose.blogspot.com/
.
October 15, 70, Virgil born. Two quotations from his works,
*Novo ordo seclorum* & *Annuit coeptis* appear on the dollar.
.......................................................
__    *UNO VERE-VIR(G)IL  G = 33th letter* (Masonic)
__    *OUR EVER-LIVIN(G)  G = 33th letter* (Masonic)
__    *NIL VERO-VERIU(S)  S = 19th letter* (Islamic)
.......................................................
If the *VAGABOND* gives a *false birthplace*, he is then to
become the slave for life of this place, of its inhabitants,
. or its corporation, *and to be branded with an S*
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.     October 15, 1066, the Battle of *Hastings*
Harold was hit in the eye with an arrow. He pulled the arrow
out & remained standing but was cut down by 4 Norman horsemen.
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October 15, 1784, Thomas *Hastings* ,
.        American sacred ["Rock of Ages"] composer, born.
Hastings was an albino afflicted with extreme nearsightedness.
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October 15: Feast Day of St THERESA of *AVILA*
.
___________                         *AVELLANEDA*
.                TREACHEROUS MOOR:  *ALEVE LANDA*
___                  of HAZELNUT    *DE AVELLANA*
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The [27 day] month of COLL [*HAZEL*] ends on September 1st.
.        It is a time of knowledge & discovery,
.     symbolized by salmons, wells, and the horizon.
.
1st September 1659 - Jupiter/Venus conj. near Regulus.
1st September 1651 - 8 yr. Venus cycle (near Regulus).
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Don Quixote - PART 2 - CHAPTER LIX :Translated by Thomas Shelton
.
'In this little that I have seen, I have found three things in this
author worthy of reprehension. The first is, some words I have read in
his prologue; the second, that his language is Aragonian, for sometimes
he writes without articles; and the third, which doth most confirm his
ignorance, is that he errs and strays from the truth in the chiefest of
the history; for here he sayst that Sancho Panza my squire's wife's name
was Mary Gutierrez, which is not so, but she is called *TERESA* Panza;
and therefore he that errs in so main a matter, it may well be feared
*he will err in all the rest of the history* .'
.
To this Sancho said, 'Prettily done, indeed, of the historian; he
knows VERy well sure what belongs to our affairs, since he calls my
wife *TERESA* Panza, Mary Gutierrez. Pray take the book again, sir,
and see whether I be there, and whether he have changed my name.'
'By your speech, friend,' quoth Don Jeronimo,
'you should be Sancho Panza, Signior Don Quixote's squire.'
'I am,' quoth Sancho, 'and I am proud of it.'
.
'Well, in faith,' said the gentleman, 'this modern author doth not treat
of you so *NEATly* as your person makes show for; he paints you out
for a glutton, an idiot, and nothing witty, and far different from the
Sancho that is described in the First Part of your master's history.'
.
'God forgive him!' said Sancho;
'he should have left me in my corner, and not remembered me;
*for Every man in his ability*
and 'TIS good sleeping in a whole skin.'
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.    http://users.erols.com/saintpat/ss/1015.htm#tere
.
Born in ï¿½vila, Castile, Spain, March 28, 1515; died at Alba de Tormes,
Spain, October 4, 1582 (October 14 according to the Gregorian calendar,
which went into effect the next day); canonized in 1622 by Pope Gregory
XV; declared the first female Doctor of the Church in 1970 by Pope Paul
VI. Known for her practicality and good humor, Saint *TERESA* combined
intelligence & obedience with mysticism. TERESA's Interior Castles,
one of the Western classics on mysticism, describes the journey
of a soul towards God--likening it to God walking deeper into
concatenated rooms cleaning out the cobwebs along the way.
.
October 15, 1790, Ann TERESA Mathews (aka Mother Bernardina) founded
a convent of Discalced ('barefoot') Carmelites in Port Tobacco, MD:
the 1st Catholic convent founded in the United States.
.
October 15, 1542,  Indian Mughal emperor Akbar (1556-1605) born
.
October 15, 1582,  Saint *TERESA* buried? & the Gregorian calendar
.                  is adopted in Italy, France, Spain, & Portugal.
.
October 15, 1651,  James, 7th Earl of Derby, beheaded.
.
October 15, 1764, Sitting among the ruins of the Capitol in Rome,
Edward Gibbon conceived _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_
.
October 15, 1789, George Washington begins first presidential tour.
.
October 15, 1803, Meriwether Lewis met William Clark for the 1st time.
.                   Though both men kept extensive journals,
.                   no account of their first meeting was made.
.
October 15, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte begins exile St. Helena.
.
October 15, 1822,  in Italy, Byron published the only issue of
.             a periodical _The Liberal_; Byron's satire against
.               Poet Laureate Robert Southey was its only item.
.
October 15, 1844,       Friedrich Nietzsche born.
.
October 15, 1860,  11 years old Grace Bedell wrote a letter to
.                presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln stating that
.                  Lincoln would look better if he grew a beard.
.
October 15, 1878, The Edison Light Company formed in New York City.
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Art Neuendorffer


subject: Re: Straws like his name: *SHACK*

text:
.

.
Greg Reynolds <[email]> wrote:
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And his tory son took a powder:
.
<<Benjamin Franklin had 2 legitimate sons by his wife Deborah.
One died at the age of 4. The other son, William (1731-1813), was
with Franklin in 1752 when he flew the famous kite. William was
the last royal governor of New Jersey before the Revolution;
when the war broke out, he sided with the British. He was tried
as a traitor and imprisoned until 1782, when he was deported to
England, where he remained for the rest of his life. But in 1784,
after receiving overtures toward reconciliation from his Tory son,
Franklin wrote to him. "Nothing has EVER hurt me so much," he
confessed, "as to find myself deserted in my old age by my only
son; and not only deserted, but to find him taking up arms against
me in a cause wherein my good fame, fortune, and life were all
at stake ... we will endeavor, as you propose, mutually to forget
what has happened." A 3rd son, acknowledged although
illegitimate, was raised by Deborah Franklin.
.
Franklin's only daughter, Sarah (1744-?) was well known for her
efforts on behalf of the rebel soldiers during the War. She married
a merchant, Richard Bache, her father's successor as postmaster
general, and gave Franklin 7 grandchildren, and nursed her father
in his old age. His favorite grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache,
nicknamed "Lightning Rod, Jr.," was a prominent political
journalist.>>
.
"The People's Almanac" by David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace
---------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer


author: Greg Reynolds

subject: Re: Straws like his name: *SHACK*

text:
On Sep 13, 11:04 am, Art Neuendorffer
<[email]> wrote:

Yeah, we caught his act at Camden, he opened with "Chopping Down a
Perfectly Good Cherry Tree" and then did some of his early stuff
("Betsy, Betsy, Betsy Ross," "Redcoats for a Blue King," and "Martha,
My Dear.") He ended with "Been Jammin'" and we couldn't believe it
when Franklin himself came out and played flute.

Greg Reynolds


subject: Re: Straws like his name: *SHACK*

text:
.
Greg Reynolds <[email]> wrote:
.
You're sure it wasn't a fife?

Art Neuendorffer


subject: Re: Straws like his name: *SHACK*

text:
On Sep 13, 4:44 pm, Art Neuendorffer <[email]>
wrote:

I'm sorry, that was a fluke--it WAS a fife.

There was so much powder in his whig, well, the straws loved it!


author: Neuendorffer

subject: Masonic references in literature

text:
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http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/literature.html

	Masonic references in literature
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 Alexander Pope      Dunciad fourth book (1742)

             Next bidding all draw near on bended knees,
             The Queen confers her title and degrees.
             Her children first of more distinguished sort,
             Who study Shakespeare at the Inns of Court,
             Impale a glow-worm, or vertï¿½ profess,
             Shine in the dignity of F. R. S.,
             Some, deep Free-Masons, join the silent race,
             Worthy to fill Pythagoras's place:
             Some botonists or florists at the least,
             Or issue Members of an Annual feast.
             [cf. AQC XXI p. 235.]

 Alexander Pope         Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1734)

             Whom have I hurt? has Poet yet, or Peer,
             Lost the arch'd eye-brow, or Parnassian sneer?
             And has not Colley still his Lord and Wh . . e?
             His Butchers Henley, his Free-masons Moore?
             [Arbuthnot was a Freemason AQC XXI p. 242.]
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		 T H E A T R E

 The Man of Taste, or the Guardians, a Comedy. by James Millar. First
performed in the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London 1735. Found in Act
IV:  Martin: " as soon as I had finished settling with these polite
accomplishments, I resolved to crown all with a Smattering of
Philosophy; and for that purpose am now Fellow of the Royal Society."
Reynard: "And I am a Free-Mason, which is the same thing, you know."
cf. AQC XXI p. 234.]
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		 N O V E L S

 Robert Asprin. Time Scout Novels
 Novels taking place in an Earth of the near-future where time warps
have opened up, and time travel to the past is a tourist industry. The
House that Jack Built does not contain any Masonic references although
the Whitechapel Murders are a major part of the story.

 John le Carrï¿½. A Perfect Spy
 A British secret agent decides to quit the game. Penguin Books Ltd.,
England: 1986. ISBN 0-14-009229-3

 Robert Carter. Courage
 A British Naval officer, Sir William Sidney Smith, falls in love with
the daughter of a French aristocrat during the French Revolutionary
period. Chapter six [pp. 261-274] is a fictionalized account of Smith's
initiation into a lodge of Knights Templars in London. It is noteworthy
that although a great number of Masonic reference are made and the cover
art includes a square and compasses, Freemasonry is never mentioned by
name. Orion Books Ltd., London: 1985. ISBN 0 75280 347 6 [paperback 585
p.]

 John Case. The Genesis Code
 A private investigator uncovers a series of murders orchestrated by the
charismatic leader of a fictional Catholic lay society "Umbra Domini"
Ballentine Publishing Group, New York: 1998. ISBN 0-345-42231-7

 Susan Conant. Black Ribbon ("A Dog Lover's Mystery")
 Comparing the freemasonry of dog fanciers to various Masonic and
non-Masonic fraternal orders in the form of throw-away remarks
throughout the book.  Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-47415-6

 Arthur Conan Doyle. Creator of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories,
Doyle
 makes five distinct and several other oblique references to Freemasonry
in his fiction.

 Avrim Davidson. Science Fiction author

 Charles De Vet. Return Journey
 "A stray mongrel dog followed them up the street past the Masonic Lodge
as they started out."

 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov
     1879. translated by Constance Garnett.
No doubt it is so, and so it must be indeed. I fancy that even among the
Masons there's something of the same mystery at the bottom, and that
that's why the Catholics so detest the Masons as their rivals breaking
up the unity of the idea, while it is so essential that there should be
one flock and one shepherd.... But from the way I defend my idea I might
be an author impatient of your criticism. Enough of it."
 "You are perhaps a Mason yourself!" broke suddenly from Alyosha.
 "You don't believe in God," he added, speaking this time very
sorrowfully.
 Vanity! Ivan has no God. He has an idea. It's beyond me. But he is
silent. I believe he is a Freemason. I asked him, but he is silent.

 Umberto Eco. Foucault's Pendulum
 Three Milan editors, who have spent altogether too much time rewriting
crackpot manuscripts on conspiracy theories and the occult, decide to
write their own explanation for world events. Then the fictional world
they have created takes on a life of its own. Translated from the
Italian by William Weaver. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San
Diego, New York, London:1988. ISBN: 0-15-132765-3 [Hardcover, 641
pages.]

 Steven Fink. The Hailing Sign
 London: Headline, 1988 [403p ; 18cm] ISBN: 0747231753. Originally
published, New York: St. Martin's P., 1987.

 Diana Gabaldon. Voyaer
 Scottish highlander, James Fraser, was made a Mason while having been
imprisoned as a Jacobite. After fleeing prison, he seeks safe passage to
Europe from a cousin who owns a vineyard in France. The cousin tests him
by saying "We meet upon the level." To which Jamie replies "and we part
upon the square." New York, N.Y. : Delacore Press ; 1994. [870 p.] ISBN:
0-385-30232-0. p. 514.

 Diana Gabaldon. The Fiery Cross
 On page 810: Roger MacKenzie, son-in-law to James Fraser, greets a new
tenant with a handshake with the distinctive pressure against his
knuckle of a masonic greeting. On page 820: Roger Mackenzie is trying to
get some information regarding the new tenant from a friend, Kenny
Lindsay. Roger grasps Kenny by the hand, gave the squeeze, and a tap on
a knuckle. On pages 824 and 825: Kenny describes in detail how James
Fraser and all the rest of the prisoners at Ardsmuir Prison became
Freemasons. They form the second lodge in the prison called Ardsmuir
Lodge Number 2. Doubleday Canada; 2001 [979 p.] ISBN;0-385-25665-5.

 William Gibson. All Tomorrow's Parties
 "Rydell had had an uncle who was a Mason, and this program Durius
belonged to reminded him of that." [p. 24.] New York: G.P. Putnam's
Sons, 1999. [277 p.] ISBN: 0-399-14579-6.

 William Gibson, Bruce Sterling. The Difference Engine
 Although not ostensibly Masonic, this alternative history novel
contains several themes involving fraternities, secret societies and the
All-Seeing Eye. The depiction of Benjamin Disraeli as a writer who never
went into politics may be unrelated to the fact that in real life he was
a proponent of the plot theory of history. Spectra, Bantam Books, New
York: February 1992, ï¿½ 1991. ISBN: 0-553-29461-x pb. 429 pp.

 Goethe. Turmgesellschaft
 Wilhelm Meister novels.

 Robert A. Heinlein. I Will Fear No Evil
 Berkley Medallion Books, New York: 1970. p.204, p.341.

 Robert A. Heinlein. Job: A Comedy of Justice.
 Ballantine Books, New York: 1984. A Del Rey Book. [hd: 376 pp.] ISBN:
0-345-31357-7

 Robert A. Heinlein. Revolt in 2100
 Secret fraternity overthrows dictatorship. No mention of Freemasonry;
many references to Masonic ritual. The New American Library, Inc., New
York (Signat Book): 1954. [copyright, 1939, 1940 by Street & Smith
Publications, Inc.] Contents: If This Goes On-

 Robert A. Heinlein. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
 Semi-masonic subplot dealing with a stolen Shrine fez.

 Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms.
 One of the officers says he doesn't believe in religion but in
Freemasonry.

 James Joyce. Ulysses

 Rudyard Kipling. The Man Who Would Be King
 "A God and a Grand Master of the Craft am I, and a Lodge in the Third
Degree I will open, and we'll raise the head priests and the Chiefs of
the villages."  Maugham's Choice of Kiplings Best. Doubleday & Company,
Inc., Garden City, New York: 1953. p. 180.

 Katherine Kurtz. Two Crowns for America
 Includes a Freemason's masterplan for the independence of the British
colonies and the revival of the Jacobite crown.

 Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris. Death of an Adept
 Series of supernatural mysteries feature a police officer who is a
Mason; the main character joins the Craft in the third volume.

 R.A. Lafferty. Fourth Mansions
 Bart Book, New York: 1988. Copyright 1969 ISBN: 1-55785-048-8
[paperback, 252 pages].

 Mercedes Lackey and Mark Shepherd. Wheels of Fire
 Contemporary fantasy fiction of elves who save abused children. Two
gratuitous references: "They passed a Texaco, a mom and pop steakhouse,
a tag office, a Masonic temple and assorted city blocks of ancient brick
structures that had no obvious function...." [p. 96.] "The four hundred
ninety-nine volumes preceding it had been given away to Klansmen,
defrocked ministers, congressmen, mayors, governors, shriners, a hundred
right-wing organizations, and anyone else he thought might be
interested." [p. 142.] Baen Publishing Enterprises, Riverdale, N.Y.:
1992 ISBN: 0-671-72138-0. [pb 389p.]

 Louis L'Amour. Fair Blows the Wind
 A novel set in Elizabethan England, the protaganist, Tatton Chantry, is
assisted by Jacob Binns, "a pilgrim to the shrines of knowledge"[p. 134]
who introduces him to a "safe" Inn and Tavern, [pp. 137, 151-2] and
signs his notes with his name and a figure set in a triangle. [p. 144]
Chantry muses that Binns is a Freemason. [p. 177] Bantam Books: October
1978, 1st paperback edition.

 Ken MacLeod. The Stone Canal
 Set in the 25th century, the two references to Freemasonry are
gratuitous and irrelevant to the story, occuring in a single scene with
a character who only appears once.

 "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Wilde." His grip was clammy, perhaps from the
condensation of the glass, but his thumb pressure was firm. "Jon," I
said, nodding and wondering abstractly if the handshake I'd just
received was Masonic. [p. 113]

 "This is all legit. On the square and on the level--" He realized what
he was saying and laughed. "OK, old Ian is in the Craft but that's got
nothing to do with it!" [p. 120]

 The third reference is not specifically to Freemasonry but appears to
be a criticism of those who implicate Freemasonry in imagined
conspiracy. This has nothing to do with the story.

 As I pointed out in Ignoramus!, my work on the counter-conspiracy
theory of history, everybody knows somebody who knows somebody
who...(etc.), and it's the easiest job in the world to ink-in those
penciled lines; to speculate that the surprisingly few handshakes that
separate the obscure from the famous are all funny handshakes.... [p.
249]

 Tom Doherty Associates, LLC: 1996, ISBN: 0-812-56864-8.

 Edgar Allen Poe. The Cask of Amontillado.
 One of the characters asks another if he is a Mason. The short story
revolves around this pun.

 Terry Pratchett. The Discworld novels

 Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson. Illuminatus!
 Numerous references to the Illuminati of Bavaria and several references
to Freemasonry, none of them complimentary. Dell Publishing Co., Inc..
New York: 1975. [3 volumes] ISBN: 0-440-34688-6.

 Christopher Stasheff. A Wizard in Bedlam
 "Hail, Grandmaster...."[p. 127]. Ace Science Fiction Book, New York:
1979 ISBN: 0-441-90214-6

 Abbï¿½ Jean Terrasson(b. 1670, d. 1750) The Life of Sethos
 Sethos, histoire ou vie tiree des monumens anecdotes de l'ancienne
Egypt, Paris : 1731. [The Life of Sethos, taken from private Memoirs of
the ancient Egyptians; translated from a Greek MS. into French, and now,
done into English, by M. Lediard, London, 1732.] In this romance he has
given an account of the initiation of his hero, Sethos, an Egyptian
prince, into the Egyptian mysteries. Mackey notes that the book recounts
"...the outlines of an initiation into the Egyptian mysteries such as
the learned Abbï¿½ could derive from the documents and monuments to which
he was able to apply, with many lacunae which he has filled up from his
own inventive and poetic genius." [p. 1030]

 Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
 Description of Pierre Bezukhoi's initiation into a Russian Lodge.

 Von Mayern Dye Na Sore
 Die Wanderer aus dem Sanskrit Ubersetzt. Contains a complete account of
Masonic festivities. 1789: Vienna.

 Ellis Weiner National Lampoon's Doon
 "Twenty thousand of the emperor's fanatical terrorist-bouncers had
descended on the city of Arrucksack, disguised as a convention of
Shriners from the Benevolent Planetary Order of Elkoids. At the fatal
hour they had thrown off their fezzes and attacked. Simon & Schuster,
Inc., New York: 1984. p. 56.

 Edward Whittemore. Jerusalem Poker
 "Three cardplayers are the central spokes in a free-wheeling epic
fantasy that is both cosmic and profane, beautiful and preposterous, and
explains just about everything on earth."  Avon Books, New York: 1978
ISBN: 0-380-44395-8 [paperback 408 pages]

 Phillip Wilhite. Phila

 P.G. Wodehouse. Blendings Castle
 A prize sow is described as being "...to the pig world what the Masonic
grip is to the human."

 Roger Zelazny. Isle of the Dead
 Zelazny (b. May 13, 1937, Euclid, Ohio) creates a world centuries in
the future where planet builders merge their personalities with a
pantheon of alien gods. The sole reference to Freemasonry is gratuitous
and depreciating.

 S H O R T......S T O R I E S

 Dostoevsky. The Possessed

 Thomas Hardy. A Pair of Blue Eyes
 'What do you think my father is - does for his living, that is to say?'
 'He practises some profession or calling, I suppose.'
 'No; he is a mason.'
 'A Freemason?'
 'No; a cottager and journeyman mason.'

 Nancy Pickard. The First Ladies' Secret A fictional account of Scottish
stonemasons building the USA White House, a murder and a ghost, combined
with Harry Truman's factual association with Freemasonry. The First Lady
Mysteries. edited by Nancy Pickard. Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster Inc.)
New York: 1999. ISBN 0-671-01444-7

 Herbert George Wells. The Inexperienced Ghost Incorporating a ghost who
makes use of certain hand gestures to return to the netherworld and a
member of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, the premier Lodge of
Masonic research. The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells. Ernest Benn
Limited, London: 1927-1974. ISBN 0 510-40301-8. [pp.909,910]

		 A U T H O R S

 Eighteenth century Russian authors who became Freemasons
 and incorporated Masonic themes in their work:
 V.I. Likin,
 N.M. Karamzin,
 M.M. Kheraskov,
 V.I. Maikov,
 A.N. Radishchev,
 A.A. Rzhevskii,
 A.P. Sumarokov
 M.M. Shcherbatov
 [Russian Freemasonry by Wor. Bro. Dennis Stocks, Barron Barnett Lodge.
 1998 ripper.wildnet.co.uk/russianfm.html]

		 P O E T R Y

 Bowman
        "Voice of America"
 Burns
             "Masonic Farewell"
             "Master's Apron" [ascribed]
 Carruth
             "Each in His Own Tongue"
 Kipling
             "The Palace"
             "Mother Lodge"
 Goethe
             "Masonic Shield"
 Leigh Hunt
             "Abou Ben Adhem"
 Malloch
             "Father's Lodge"
 Meredith
             "Ebony Staff of Solomon"
 Nesbit
             "I Sat in Lodge with You"
             (Carl H. Claudy)
 [Richard D. Nelson's compilation of Masonic poetry can be found at
http://www.nels.com/mason/]
------------------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer


author: David L. Webb

subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see
   the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]

In article <[email]>, Neuendorffer <[email]>
([email]) wrote:

   You mean, the Dunciad isn't your autobiography, Art?

   Have you eVER noticed the substantial oVERlap between the Royal
Society and the Priory of Sion, Art?

   But Art -- "Arbuthnot" is an anagram of "But Art N.?  Ho!"

[...]

   I don't follow you, Art; "Umbra Domini" is clearly a fictionalized
VERsion of Opus Dei, which is militantly Catholic and hence perforce
staunchly *anti*-Masonic.

[...]

   So?  Doyle also makes explicit, oVERt references to the Mormons, the
Ku Klux Klan, and various other at times secretive groups.  What of it?
Do you conclude that Conan Doyle was a Mormon and a Klansman as well,
Art?

   But Art -- "De Vet" is merely one letter away (and that letter is
contiguous with "r" on the keyboard, at that!) from "De Ver"!  Can that
*really* be coincidence, Art?

[...]

   Sounds like YOU, Art!

   But Art -- "William Weaver" is a perfect anagram of

                  "Aw, I'm a Vere. -- Will"!

MoreoVER, William WeaVER also translated Calvino's _If on a Winter's
Night a TRAVELER_, a participatory novel (narrated in the second
person) concerning impostures and authorship questions that make the
Shakespeare authorship "question" pale in comparison.

[...]

   But Art -- "I Will Fear No Evil" is an anagram of

               Ver in/of Will?  A lie!

[Much lunacy snipped]

   At least get the *name* right, Art; it's BEZUKHOV, not "Bezukhoi."
In Russian "bez" means "without" and "ukho" means "ear"; surely you can
turn that into to some lunatic etymology concerning Masonic ritual
dismemberment, as you did in the case of Lomonosov, can't you, Art?

[...]

   That's BLANDINGS Castle, Art; at least get the *name* right.  Note
that one of Wodehouse's initials is the (Masonic) "G"!  Wodehouse wrote
_The Mating Season_, whose title is a perfect anagram of "Negate Mason
shit."  Wodehouse wrote _The HeART of a GOOF_, which I warmly recommend
to you, Art.

[...]

   But Art -- you left out the most celebrated Russian writer of them
all -- Aleksandr Pushkin, the greatest of Russian poets, often called
the Russian Shakespeare, member of Ovid Lodge in Kishinev.  In his
novel _Evgenii Onegin_, Onegin's neighbors mutter with disapproval that
Onegin is an ignoramus, an eccentric, and a Freemason.  You qualify on
two of those three counts, Art -- are you a Freemason as well?

[...]

            David Webb


text:
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                 AVEN : nothingness; VANITY.

EZEKIEL 30:17  The young men of AVEN and of Pibeseth shall fall
            by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

*On* light; the sun, (Gen. 41:45, 50), the great seat of sun-worship,
 called also Bethshemesh (Jer. 43:13) and AVEN (Ezek. 30:17), stood
   on the east bank of the NILE, a few miles north of MEMPHIS.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
          T O T H E O   [N]  L i     E B E G      E T T E R O
          F T H E S E   [I]  n S     U I N G      S O N N E T
          S M R W h a   [L]  L H   A]  P P I  [N]   E S S E A
          N D t h a t   [E]  T  [e|R]  N I T  [I]   E P R O M
          I S E D B Y O      U  [r|E]  V E R  [L]   I V I N G
          P O E t W I S      H  [e|T]  H T H  [E]   W E L L W
          I S h I N G A       [d V E]  N T U      R E R I N S
          E t T I N G                               F O R T H
---------------------------------------------------------------
   Odyssey - Homer (tr. Samuel Butler) **  BOOK VII

<<"First find the queen her name is ARETE. . ."

   Ulysses found all the chief people among the Phaecians
  making their drink-offerings to MERCURY. He went straight
 through the court, still hidden by the cloak of darkness in
which Minerva had enveloped him, till he reached ARETE and King
Alcinous; then he laid his hands upon the knees of the queen, and
at that moment the miraculous darkness fell away from him and he
became visible. Every one was speechless at seeing a man there>>
-------------------------------------------------------------------
  Alexander Pope      Dunciad fourth book (1742)

              Next bidding all draw near on bended knees,
              The Queen confers her title and degrees.
              Her children first of more distinguished sort,
              Who study Shakespeare at the Inns of Court,
              Impale a glow-worm, or vertï¿½ profess,
              Shine in the dignity of F. R. S.,
              Some, deep Free-Masons, join the silent race,
              Worthy to fill Pythagoras's place:
              Some botonists or florists at the least,
              Or issue Members of an Annual feast.
              [cf. AQC XXI p. 235.]

  Alexander Pope         Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1734)

              Whom have I hurt? has Poet yet, or Peer,
              Lost the arch'd eye-brow, or Parnassian sneer?
              And has not Colley still his Lord and Wh . . e?
              His Butchers Henley, his Free-masons Moore?
              [Arbuthnot was a Freemason AQC XXI p. 242.]
 ------------------------------------------------------------
                  T H E A T R E

  The Man of Taste, or the GUARDIANS, a Comedy. by James Millar. First
 performed in the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London 1735. Found in Act
 IV:  Martin: " as soon as I had finished settling with these polite
  accomplishments, I resolved to crown all with a Smattering of
 Philosophy; and for that purpose am now Fellow of the Royal Society."
 Reynard: "And I am a Free-Mason, which is the same thing, you know."
 cf. AQC XXI p. 234.]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer


author: Dave Furstenau

subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
"Neuendorffer" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

Hhehheh-he ....


author: Neil Brennen

subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
Neuendorffer <[email]> wrote in message news:<[email]>...

(snip list)

Mr. Neuendorffer,

May I ask what the purpose behind all these masonic references being
posted to a Shakespeare group? Also, just what is it you have against
the Masons?

Neil Brennen

PS. You forgot the libretto to "The Magic Flute" in your list.


author: Daibhid Chienedelh

subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
Neuendorffer <[email]> wrote in message news:<[email]>...

Further information? The only reference I can think of is the secret
society in Guards! Guards!, and even that seems a bit of a stretch.


subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
"David L. Webb" wrote:

			Not the 4th book.

		 	I notice everything, Dave.

	Aren't you going to tell me that Pope was Catholic?

		Are they oblique references?

	  Charles De Ve(t.)Re-turn Journey

---------------------------------------------------
David Sherman wrote:

---------------------------------------------------

	     It's not me; it's those Yukon Freemasons.

  Do you think that Tolstoy did not intentionally give his main
character this name?

	     It's not me; it's those Yukon Freemasons.

	     It's not me; it's those Yukon Freemasons.

	Tolstoy qualifies on two of those Counts as well.

Art Neuendorffer


subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
Dave Furstenau wrote:

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QUINCE     .. Then, there is
     another thing: we must have a WALL in the great
     chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did
     talk through the chink of a WALL.

SNOUT   You can nEVER bring in a WALL. What say you, Bottom?

BOTTOM   Some man or other MUST present WALL: and let him
     have some PLASTER, or some loam, or some rough-cast
     about him, to signify WALL;
     and LET him hold his fingers thus,
     and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper.
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LET, n. [OE. letten, AS. lettan to delay, to hinder, fr. l[ae]t slow;
akin to D. letten to hinder, G. verletzen to hurt, Icel. letja to hold
back.]  1. A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay.
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                 UNRIDDLE [WALL] LET
                 LLUDD [LLAW] EREINT
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 http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrislees/Epilogus/epilogus2.html

<<In the ancient Irish stories, Nuadu came to Ireland with the Tuath de
Danann, the people of the goddess Danu, or Anu. Having lost an arm in
battle which was replaced with one made of silver, he is called Nuada
Airgedlï¿½mh, or Nuada ' of the silver hand '. In the Welsh tales he is
called Lludd Llaw Ereint, which also means 'of the silver hand '. With
the coming of the Romans, he appears at Lydney (named after Lludd ) on
the western side of the River SEVERN ( itself named after a goddess
Sabren, or Sabrina ), where in late Roman times, c. 365 A.D., a temple
was flourishing, probably a healing centre for wealthy patrons, where
was discovered an inscription ' D. M. Nodonti ', meaning ' to the great
god Nudons, or Nodons, or Nodens ', another cognate of Nuadu, Lludd,
Nudd. After the Romans had been and gone, and England had been conquered
 and settled, first by the Anglo-Saxons, and then by the Normans led
by William the Conqueror, Nuadu transmutes once again, his name Lludd
or Lud becoming Lot or Loth in Norman French, and thus he enters the
 Arthurian legends, (joining PWYLL, who became Pelle, then Pelleas )
becoming in Malory's ' Morte d' Arthur' ( c.1469 ), King Loth of Orkney.
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April 14, 1471,  RichardNeville, ï¿½Warwick the kingmaker,ï¿½ killed at
    the Battle of Barnet in the War of the Roses on EASTER Sunday.

                King Henry VI, Part iii  Act 5, Scene 1

GLOUCESTER      See how the surly Warwick mans the WALL!
---------------------------------------------------------------
April 14, 73, According to Josephus, 967 Jewish zealots committed mass
 suicide within the fortress of Masada on this last night before the
   WALLs were breached by the attacking Roman Tenth Legion.

April 14, 1865, <<The young couple (Henry Rathbone & Clara Harris) who
attended Our American Cousin with the Lincolns got married on July 11,
1867 and had three children. In 1882 Rathbone was appointed to the post
of U.S. Consul General to Germany. On December 23, 1883, Rathbone went
berserk. He tried to kill the children, then shot and stabbed his wife
to death, and finally stabbed himself. When the police arrived, Rathbone
mumbled, "Who could have done this to my darling wife?" and went on
about people "hiding behind the pictures on the WALL." He spent the
rest of his life in an asylum for the criminally insane in Hildesheim,
Germany. While there he maintained that the WALLs were hollow and
contained a spray apparatus which blew dust and gas on him causing
headaches and chest pain. He died on August 14th, 1911, at the age
of 73.>> -- http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln41.html
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Art Neuendorffer


subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
Neil Brennen wrote:

      You mean posting from
 the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon website?

   http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/literature.html

---------------------------------------------------
  My entire life has been influenced by Masonry:
---------------------------------------------------
1) George Mason elementary school,

2) best friend a deMolay,

3) Sunday school at a Unitarian church formerly owned by George Mason's
brother,

4) attracted to & deeply influenced by Freemason books:

 	a) Charles Dicken's Christmas Carol
	b) Charles Dodgson
	c) Conan   Doyle
	d) Poe
	e) Hugo
	f) Baum
	g) Swift
	h) Dumas
	i) Twain
	j) Joyce
	k) Verne
	l) Sterne
	m) Welles
	n) Tolstoy
	o) Melville
	p) Cervantes
	q) Shakespeare
---------------------------------------------------
	  and I suspect much much more. . .

   I am simply trying to make sense of it all.

Art Neuendorffer


author: lyra

subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
Neuendorffer wrote in message news:<[email]>...

                  <some snips>

              I love Pushkin!  both the poems and the short stories...
    thanks for reminding me of him... I'll read some again soon...(in
    English, anyway)

                       lyra


subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
Neuendorffer <[email]> wrote in message news:<[email]>...

On what grounds do you suspect Shakespeare of being a Mason?

So are we.

Neil Brennen


subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see
   the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]

In article <[email]>, lyra
<[email]> wrote:

   Pushkin's Russian is little short of magic.  If you must rely upon
translations, try James Falen's excellent verse translation of _Evgenii
Onegin_.  Nabokov's commentary on _Onegin_ (some four volumes, counting
the translation, commentary, bibliography, etc.) is absolutely
brilliant -- reading Falen's verse translation and Nabokov's commentary
will afford many hours of pleasure.

   You might also try Tyutchev, another Russian poet for whom I have a
special fondness.  And don't miss Griboyedov's _Gorye ot uma_.

            David Webb


subject: Re: Masonic references in literature

text:
Neil Brennen wrote:

It is not so much that "Shakespeare" himself was a Mason
but that Masons/Rosicrucians published Shake-speare and
maintained the authorship deception:
--------------------------------------------------------------
     [In first Quarto (1603) Guildenstern was GILDERSTONE]

         Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, (1536-1608)
     the English dramatist that paved the way for Shakespeare.
             was Grandmaster Freemason (1561-1567)
 -------------------------------------------------------------
          Ben Jonson <=> Bnbn-stone

        ï¿½O Atum-Khoprer, you became high on the
         height, you rose up as the bnbn-stone
	 in the Mansion of the Phoenix at Onï¿½

          From ancient Egyptian myth,
 the hill which was the first land to rise from the waters.
---------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.ancientsites.com/~Tjeti_Sobkneferu/Amun/benben.html

<<Sacred stone at Heliopolis that symbolized the Primeval mound
  and perhaps also the petrified semen of the sun god Re-Atum,
   when he self-copulated and brought things into being:

The stone served as the earliest prototype for the obelisk, and possibly
   even the pyramid. In recognition of these connections, the gilded
cap-stone placed at the very top of each pyramid or obelisk was known as
a benbenet. The original stone at Heliopolis was believed to have been
the point at which the rays of the rising sun first fell, and its cult
appears to be dated back to the First Dynasty.>>
-------------------------------------------------------
                   <= 33 =>

              TOT    [H]  EONLIEBEGETTEROFTHESEINSVINGS
              ONN   [E T]  SMRWHALLHAPPINESSEANDTHATETE
              RNI  [T(I)E]  PROMISEDBYOVREVERLIVINGPOET
              WIS [H E T H]  THEWELLWISHINGADVENTVRERIN
----------------------------------------------------------
 	  Washington Monument Masonic benbenet
----------------------------------------------------------
    http://www.greatdreams.com/washmnmt.htm

<<The aluminum metal apex, representing a small pyramid, on top
   of the 3300 pound capstone. The apex was engraved with the
 names of the engineers and notables who completed the monument
        and on one side contained the words: LAUS DEO.>>
---------------------------------------------------------
         Final words of First Folio:

CYMBELINE       LAUD we the GODS;
        And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils
        From our blest altars. Publish we this peace
        To all our subjects. Set we forward: let
        A Roman and a British ensign wave
        Friendly together: so through Lud's-town march:
        And in the temple of great Jupiter
        Our peace we'll ratify; seal it with feasts.
        Set on there! Never was a war did cease,
        Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace.
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*On* light; the sun, (Gen. 41:45, 50), the great seat of sun-worship,
 called also Bethshemesh (Jer. 43:13) and AVEN (Ezek. 30:17), stood
   on the east bank of the NILE, a few miles north of MEMPHIS.

 EZEKIEL 30:17  The young men of AVEN and of Pibeseth shall fall
            by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

                 AVEN : nothingness; VANITY.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
          T O T H E O   [N]  L i     E B E G      E T T E R O
          F T H E S E   [I]  n S     U I N G      S O N N E T
          S M R W h a   [L]  L H   A]  P P I  [N]   E S S E A
          N D t h a t   [E]  T  [e|R]  N I T  [I]   E P R O M
          I S E D B Y O      U  [r|E]  V E R  [L]   I V I N G
          P O E t W I S      H  [e|T]  H T H  [E]   W E L L W
          I S h I N G A       [d V E]  N T U      R E R I N S
          E t T I N G                               F O R T H
---------------------------------------------------------------
   Odyssey - Homer (tr. Samuel Butler) **  BOOK VII

<<"First find the queen her name is ARETE. . ."

   Ulysses found all the chief people among the Phaecians
  making their drink-offerings to MERCURY. He went straight
 through the court, still hidden by the cloak of darkness in
which Minerva had enveloped him, till he reached ARETE and King
Alcinous; then he laid his hands upon the knees of the queen, and
at that moment the miraculous darkness fell away from him and he
became visible. Every one was speechless at seeing a man there>>
-------------------------------------------------------------------
  Alexander Pope      Dunciad fourth book (1742)

              Next bidding all draw near on bended knees,
              The Queen confers her title and degrees.
              Her children first of more distinguished sort,
              Who study Shakespeare at the Inns of Court,
              Impale a glow-worm, or vertï¿½ profess,
              Shine in the dignity of F. R. S.,
              Some, deep Free-Masons, join the silent race,
              Worthy to fill Pythagoras's place:
              Some botonists or florists at the least,
              Or issue Members of an Annual feast.
---------------------------------------------------------
     Alexander Pope's Shakespeare statue points to
		"The Solemn Temples,"
---------------------------------------------------------
        http://www.sirbacon.org/gallery/west.htm

               "The Cloud cupt Tow'rs,
                 The Gorgeous Palaces
                  The Solemn Temples,
                 The Great Globe itself
                Yea all which it Inherit,
                   Shall Dissolue;
       And like the baseless FnBRICK of a Vision
               Leave not a WRECK behind."
-------------------------------------------------------
        Q1      Rossencraft     Gilderstone
        Q2      Rosencrans      Guyldensterne
        F1      Rosincrane      Guildensterne
        F2,3,4  Rosincross(e)   Guildenstare

       Rosicrucian =>   Rosy Cross
       Freemason   =>   Stone Guild / the Craft
------------------------------------------------------
 Many Elizabethans (e.g., Edward Dyer & Francis Bacon)
   were Rosicrucians    {Rosencrantz => Rosenkreutz}
    In Folio's 2,3, & 4  Rosencrantz was ROSINCROSS
        [In the first Quarto ROSINCROSS is Rossen(CRAFT)!]
----------------------------------------------------------------
 From: A Visit to Edinburgh and Lodge Canongate Kilwinning #2.
                 Wor. James T. Watson, Jr.

     http://www.freemason.org/scrl/monthly/edinburg.htm  :
--------------------------------------------------------
 <<The "Royal Mile" leads from this castle to Holyrood Castle,
        home of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1561-1567.>>

  [ Webster's Biographical Dictionary and the DNB assign
    Thomas Sackville as Grandmaster Freemason 1561-1567.]

<<The initiative in forming the Grand Lodge of Scotland was taken by
this Lodge. One of its members, William St. Clair of Rosslyn became
first Grand Master.

  The Lodge motto, "POST NUBILE PHOEBUS" (After the clouds
   the sun), refers to dawn and ancient sun worship.>>

     ["ancient sun worship" => obelisks => Baalbek.]

<<The Annual Festival is held on St. John the Baptist's Day,
	   June 24th.>>

          [ June 24, 1604 => Oxford's death ]

<<The present Lodge building was consecrated in December, 1736, and is
the oldest building in the world built for Masonic purposes. On entering
the Lodge room, one is instantly drawn drawn to what appear to be four
alcoves contining statues, two on the north wall and two on the south.
When approached, they are found to be cleverly executed mural paintings
of Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott on the north wall and Robert Burns
and WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE on the south. These works were completed by
an unknown artist in 1833.>>
------------------------------------------------------------
            Baron Munchausen's _Gulli[VER REV]iv[ED]
         OR, THE VICE OF LYING PROPERLY EXPOSED_ (1793)

                      CHAPTER 33
-----------------------------------------------------------
    http://www.ffutures.demon.co.uk/munch/munch.htm#ch33

  <<The Baron goes to Petersburgh, and converses with the Empress -
Persuades the Russians and Turks to cease cutting one another's Throats,
  and in concert cut a Canal across the Isthmus of Suez - The Baron
discovers the Alexandrian Library, and meets with HERMES TRISMEGISTUS -
Besieges Seringapatam, and challenges Tippoo Saib to single Combat -
     They fight - The Baron receives some Wounds on his Face,
 but at last vanquishes the Tyrant - The Baron returns to Europe,
         and raises the Hull of the Royal GEORGE>>
------------------------------------------------------------------
                                the Royal GEORGE
------------------------------------------------------------------
                  King Richard III  Act 1, Scene 1

 CLARENCE   Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest

          [A]s yet I do not: but, as I can learn,
          [H]e hearkens after prophecies and dreams;
          [A]nd from the cross-row plucks the letter G.

          [A]nd says a WIZARD told him that by G
          [H]is issue disinherited should be;
          [A]nd, for my name of GEORGE begins with G,

           It follows in his thought that I am he.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Old High German: AHA!      water, river,
          Goth.: AHwA      water, river,
             L.: AQUA      water;
             L.: AQUARIUS, water carrying, n., A WATER CARRIER,

 (E.VERE)=> EWER, n. [OF. EWER, euwier, prop. A WATER CARRIER,
            F.['e]vier a washing place, sink, aigui[`e]re EWER,
------------------------------------------------------------------
                   33 Decades: 1300 => 1630
----------------------------------------------------------------
              <<Dante's journey starts on Friday, 8 April, 1300
Canto 33: Dante emerges from Hell and
          sees the stars again on Easter Sunday, 10 April, 1300.>>

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/LD/numbers/04/lobner.html

             William Herbert was born on Friday,  8 April, 1580.
   William Herbert died of apoplexy on Saturday, 10 April, 1630
    after 13 years as the Freemason Grandmaster.
------------------------------------------------------------------
William Herbert's 13th birthday was Palm Sunday:  8 April, 1593
                      = Catholic Easter Sunday:  18 April, 1593.
              Venus & Adonis was registered on:  18 April, 1593.

   E.K. Chambers thought the Sonnets were written to Herbert.
------------------------------------------------------------------
                      The Divine Comedy
        http://www.angelfire.com/ak/Nyquil/Dante.html

<<Written by Dante Alighieri in 1306 - 21. The time setting when the
book begins is [the night before Good Friday: April 8] 1300, so he uses
his knowledge of the present to "predict" events. It is divided into 3
sections: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each one of these sections
is divided into 33 cantos (except Inferno, which has 34 cantos),
 which are written in tercets (groups of 3 lines).>>
-------------------------------------------------------
  Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
  And make me travel forth without my cloak,
  To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
  Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
  'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
  To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
  For no man well of such a salve can speak,
  That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:
  Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
  Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:
  The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief
  To him [I. cH(eth)] that bears the strong offence's cross.
---------------------------------------------------------
         SONNET     33

            TOT    [H]  EONLIEBEGETTEROFTHESEINSVINGS
            ONN   [E T]  SMRWHALLHAPPINESSEANDTHATETE
            RNI  [T(I)E]  PROMISEDBYOVREVERLIVINGPOET
            WIS [H E T H]  THEWELLWISHINGADVENTVRERIN
--------------------------------------------------------
  1. Full many a glorious morning have I seen
  2. Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,

   http://www.sirbacon.org/gallery/pyramid.html

  3. Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
  4. Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
  5. Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
  6. With ugly rack on his celestial face,
  7. And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
  8. Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
---------------------------------------------------------------
   Sonnet  34

           T  OTHEONLIEBEGETTEROFTHESEINSVINGSO
          N N  ETSMRWHALLHAPPINESSEANDTHATETERN
         I T I  EPROMISEDBYOVREVERLIVINGPOETWIS
        H E T H  THEWELLWISHINGADVENTVRERINSETT

        T O T   H   EONLIEBEGETTEROFTHESEINSVINGSO
         N N   E T   SMRWHALLHAPPINESSEANDTHATETERN
          I   T I E   PROMISEDBYOVREVERLIVINGPOETWIS
             H E T H   THEWELLWISHINGADVENTVRERINSETT
-----------------------------------------------------------
        JOYCE: Ulysses, Lestrygonians

-- A MYRIADminded man, Mr Best reminded.
                 Coleridge called [Shakespeare] MYRIADminded.

ï¿½A phrase,ï¿½ says Coleridge, ï¿½which I borrowed from a Greek monk,
     who applies it to a patriarch of Constantinople.ï¿½
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 <<The greatest genius that perhaps human nature has yet produced, our
   MYRIAD-minded Shakspeare. I mean the 'Venus and ADonis', and the
'Lucrece'; works which give at once strong promises of the strength,
and yet obvious proofs of the immaturity, of his genius. From these I
abstracted the following marks, as characteristics of original poetic
genius in general.>>  --  1817  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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                       p[YRAMID]
                        [MYRIAD]
                      [MYRRHA-AD]onis
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<<MYRRHA was so beautiful that her father king Cinyras of Cyprus
 boasted she outshone Aphrodite. Aphrodite sought revenge by
making the girl fall in love with her own father. Clouding Cinyras'
 mind with wine, MYRRHA seduced him, and a child was born from the
incestuous union. After discovering the truth, Cinyras threatened to
kill the pregnant MYRRHA, and committed suicide when she fled. MYRRHA
was then turned into a MYRRHA tree, the trunk of which was SPLIT
by a either a wild BOAR or Eileithyia to release her son ADonis.>>
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          Rushton Triangular Lodge
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<<Reputed meeting place of the Gunpowder plot conspirators. Through a
letter of warning written by Tresham to a peer, the plot was exposed.
Catesby was killed and the others taken prisoner when they were too weak
or badly wounded to fight any longer. All were executed on 31 st January
1606 except for Francis Tresham. He was sent to the Tower of London but
not harshly treated. When he died shortly afterwards poison was
suspected but never proved.>>

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1373/n3_v46/18099925/p2/article.jhtml?term=
http://www.theheritagetrail.co.uk/notable%20houses/rushton%20lodge.htm

<<The Triangular Lodge went up between 1593 and 1597. By this time
Sir Thomas felt increasingly victimised - his Catholicism, with the
penalties attendant on it, was a major factor in this. The Lodge is
an allegory on the Trinity and the forbidden Mass. It is built in
two different coloured limestones, to a plan based on an equilateral
triangle. Each side is 33 feet and 4 inches long (i.e. one-third
of a hundred) and the inscriptions on each side contain 33 letters.
    There are three windows in each of the three floors and,
  whenever appropriate, the trefoil which features in the Tresham
coat of arms comes into its own as yet another symbol of the Trinity
  in the trefoil over the door is the motto Tres testimonium dant
(There are three that bear witness) from the first Epistle of St. John.
Everywhere space was found for inscriptions and the emblems or conceits
which were so fashionable at the time. They were intended to convey a
meaning in a more or less disguised form. Where there are layers of
meaning, as in the Tresham buildings, it is likely that some of the
clues still remain unravelled. At the Lodge, Mass was symbolised by
the Lamb and Cross and the Chalice. One inscription is taken from the
preface to the canon of the Mass. Of all Sir Thomas' architectural
creations, the Lodge is the most detailed and complete.>>
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Art Neuendorffer