Re: Deep focus on Freemason forms found in Forbidden Planet

Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 4/06/24 09:18, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 6/3/2024 1:07 AM, Titus G wrote:

On 3/06/24 11:28, David Duffy wrote:

John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

I didn't have to know anything about Freemasonry to suspect the
original post was nonsense.
However, what little I do know allowed me to spot the references to
Freemasonry in Robert A. Heinlein's story "If This Goes On...".
So Freemasonry has been referenced in SF.
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I am suspicious that there might be references to Freemasonry in
Ada Palmer's _Terra Ignota_ series.

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I know little about Freemasonry but Terra Ignota did feature a secret
society amongst the aristocracy that placed loyalty above principle.
However women were rated more highly than kitchen appliances.
And obedience wasn't enforced with ritual.

 
Your first statemeny 'I know little about freemasonry' is correct, and
the rest the paragraph gives examples proving that.

 

Freemasonry has members from all classes - the dues are pretty low. Yes,
we have aristocrats. We also have truck drivers.
 

 
You have misunderstood. I will elaborate. There are overt references to
Freemasonry in Terra Ignota though I assumed that the secret society
aspect alluded to by David Duffy is referring specifically to the covert
aristocratic group in Terra Ignota rather than aristocracy membership
being a prerequisite applicable to Freemasonry membership in general.
 

I'm sorry I started this ;) I was alluding to the Masonic Hive (3.1B members),
run by a neo-Latin speaking emperor. Our narrator says:

"Here once again, reader, we manage to both believe and not believe. We
say we are not so gullible as to accept the propaganda that the Masons
are as ancient as the cults of Mithras and Orpheus. We say that we do
not believe they conspired from the shadows, guiding human progress for
millennia before the Church War???s chaos...But something inside us
can???t believe it???s all invention. It feels so ancient..."