Comments on The North Eastern Corner: It's Coming

The problem with fiction is that it has a nasty wa...

2009-09-15T11:53:55.438-04:00

The problem with fiction is that it has a nasty way of becoming some peoples truth. Leo Taxil's trash still haunts the fraternity today!
I guess its a York Rite Knight Templar degree, wow! From a skull!

I'll likely post this comment countless times.... ...

2009-09-14T08:47:53.158-04:00

I'll likely post this comment countless times....

Just remember that Dan Brown is a fiction writer. This was illustrated in "The DaVinci Code". Unfortunately, not everyone understood that fact. The same will be true with "The Lost Symbol'. Questions will be raised, rumors will spread, and disinformation will abound. But the fact remains that this is a work of fiction.

@Tom: you are correct.

From the context, I assumed that the individual wa...

2009-09-14T07:22:13.305-04:00

From the context, I assumed that the individual was taking a SR degree.

Uh, not to divulge any secrets or anything, but th...

2009-09-14T04:18:47.334-04:00

Uh, not to divulge any secrets or anything, but the two of you have obviously never been through the York rite Knight Templar degree...

The wine from a skull was part of a break-away gro...

2009-09-13T17:07:53.341-04:00

The wine from a skull was part of a break-away group that had it's own version of the "Scotch Rite" degrees. It dates back from the 1800s, and is not practiced by the current Scottish Rite jurisdictions.

But the old rituals are still in print and available on line. Somehow, those are the ones that the whacko anti-Masons manage to find.