Comments on: Masonic Telepathy (and a challenge) http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/ Masonic Thinking and Working Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:34:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: emeraldi42 http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5225 emeraldi42 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:25:50 +0000 http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5225 Novorser: The Chamber of Reflection is a room that the candidate enters before preparation of his 1st degree. The room is usually dark and has certain symbolic props to aide the candidate in his 'reflection'. The purpose for the chamber is to give the candidate time to reflect on his decision to become a mason, his life and deeds, his philosophy and his future goals and commitments. This practice from what I have read is not presently conducted in most lodges in the USA, at least not for a long time. However I have read and heard that the chamber of reflection is still used in Central and South America and places in Western Europe. The differences between blue lodges either using or not using the chamber goes back to those lodges chartered from York Rite lodges and those from Scottish Rite lodges.(This all goes way back to the many schisms between ancients/moderns and the whole Irish/Scottish/English/German and French masonry disputes). The lodges that were chartered under a Scottish Rite charter that still conferred the first three Scottish Rite degrees use the chamber, those under York Rite charters (like most in the USA) has not perpetuated this custom regularly, but there has been an increase in interest and it has come back into the workings of some American blue lodges. Articles on the chamber of reflection can be found on the net, but two of the best that I have read are from the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon and the October 2007 Philalethes article. Novorser: The Chamber of Reflection is a room that the candidate enters before preparation of his 1st degree. The room is usually dark and has certain symbolic props to aide the candidate in his ‘reflection’. The purpose for the chamber is to give the candidate time to reflect on his decision to become a mason, his life and deeds, his philosophy and his future goals and commitments. This practice from what I have read is not presently conducted in most lodges in the USA, at least not for a long time. However I have read and heard that the chamber of reflection is still used in Central and South America and places in Western Europe. The differences between blue lodges either using or not using the chamber goes back to those lodges chartered from York Rite lodges and those from Scottish Rite lodges.(This all goes way back to the many schisms between ancients/moderns and the whole Irish/Scottish/English/German and French masonry disputes). The lodges that were chartered under a Scottish Rite charter that still conferred the first three Scottish Rite degrees use the chamber, those under York Rite charters (like most in the USA) has not perpetuated this custom regularly, but there has been an increase in interest and it has come back into the workings of some American blue lodges. Articles on the chamber of reflection can be found on the net, but two of the best that I have read are from the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon and the October 2007 Philalethes article.

]]> By: AEdifico http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5107 AEdifico Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:15:53 +0000 http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5107 I can't speak for Emeraldi, but having been to and seen a chamber of reflection in Mexico, I have a specific idea about what one would look like...but more importantly, the purpose of that chamber. Perhaps Emeraldi will expand on his idea in a future blog. I can’t speak for Emeraldi, but having been to and seen a chamber of reflection in Mexico, I have a specific idea about what one would look like…but more importantly, the purpose of that chamber.
Perhaps Emeraldi will expand on his idea in a future blog.

]]> By: Navorser http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5082 Navorser Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:14:00 +0000 http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5082 I am very curious Brother. What is a Chamber of Reflection according to you? Fraternally................... I am very curious Brother. What is a Chamber of Reflection according to you? Fraternally……………….

]]> By: AEdifico http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5030 AEdifico Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:03:51 +0000 http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5030 How soon he forgets... Emeraldi forgot the time when we both had brain bolts on the "Reverse Staircase" at the same time...the time when I was writing my Dionysis blog and an article about that drinker-of-a-God showed-up in the Aztlan #1 Trestleboard...the time when lightning struck at Flagstaff and everyone decided that the Grand Master was, after all, the Supreme Masonic Authority... How quickly he forgets... How soon he forgets…
Emeraldi forgot the time when we both had brain bolts on the “Reverse Staircase” at the same time…the time when I was writing my Dionysis blog and an article about that drinker-of-a-God showed-up in the Aztlan #1 Trestleboard…the time when lightning struck at Flagstaff and everyone decided that the Grand Master was, after all, the Supreme Masonic Authority…
How quickly he forgets…

]]> By: emeraldi42 http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5026 emeraldi42 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:54:30 +0000 http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5026 Excellent! Thanks for citing that for me. At least somebody calls it something, and its no surprise that Jung references it. I must have missed that one. Excellent! Thanks for citing that for me. At least somebody calls it something, and its no surprise that Jung references it. I must have missed that one.

]]> By: Widow's Son http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5019 Widow's Son Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:19:10 +0000 http://masonicminute.com/blog/2007/11/26/masonic-telepathy-and-a-challenge/#comment-5019 It's called synchronicity. Carl Jung referred to the phenomena as "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Widow's Son BurningTaper.com It’s called synchronicity. Carl Jung referred to the phenomena as “temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events.”

Widow’s Son
BurningTaper.com

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