The symbols in this beautiful design
of the Masonic emblem feature the carpenter's right angle square and the draftsman's compass for drawing circles,
equal lengths and arcs, and constructing geometric forms. The grasping hands are the universal sign of brotherhood, law, and social order within a society. The letter "G" is often thought to represent God, but in reality master-masons say the letter means "geometry" -which is the science used by the Creator to fashion the universe. In Mexican-Maya-Andean cosmology the symbol that resembles the letter "G" denotes the
Galaxy, our Milky Way galaxy which is the very
heart and foundation of their cosmology. "G" might also
mean Gravity which helps to set all things in order. The triangle is in the shape of the pyramid, itself a sign of the element of fire and the Sun which sees all things as represented by the eye
in the middle of this pyramid. The rays are the warm light
and energy of the Sun.
The Masonic pyramid with the all-seeing-eye radiates the heat and light of the Sun. This energy comes from the cyclical motion and
the expansion and contraction movement of the universe
which is transferred to our Milky Way galaxy from where it is conveyed to our Sun which translates it to our Earth and the planets of the solar system. |
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Light is an electro-magnetic wave which travels through a vacuum at a speed of about 186,000 miles per second (about 671 million mph). Light is slowed down by passing through a medium to almost 38 mph. Einstein seeks to equate energy with mass (a constituent of matter) in his famous formula E = mc squared. Ancient
cosmology had already based the dichotomy of the universe upon cyclical unions and separations of light (energy) and matter (mass).
A traditional expression of a religious view of the
balance and contention between spirit and matter comes from the New
Testament of the Bible:
The Book of
Revelation
7:14 says,
“These are they which have come out of great tribulation, and
have washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of
the Lamb....For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne
shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of
water: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
The Lamb was materialized in Blood (matter) and formed and
shaped by the spirit (energy). But the Lamb was slain in
atonement for our sins -that we might have life once again.
This is a Great Mystery -that the Innocent Blood was to be
slain in a cosmic ritual.
Cosmic Physics & Dichotomy
Everything in nature is split into a dichotomy of matter and
spirit and opposites: night and day, woman and man, peace and
war, negative and positive, low and high, cold and hot. This
dualism pervades not only our Earth but the entire universe.
Entities in dramatic and physical tension are the number one
law of cosmic physics. A single cell splits into two and these
cells split into a total of four basic principles:
moist-hot-dry-cold. These four elementary natures produce the
movement and dynamism of the cosmos in which cycles go through
stages of moist-hot-dry-cold. Some cycles also move backward
through these stages from cold-dry-hot-moist. Movement is
generated because cold draws dryness which draws heat which
draws moisture. This is dramatized in the phenomena of
“backdraft” in which fire explodes by rushing in to consume
oxygen (air or dryness).
Thus the cosmic system reflects all human understanding
and logic. It unites humanity, religion, and science under one
philosophy. The physics of this system explains all through
love-hate, attraction-repulsion, and gravity-space. God is the
universe. God is the whole which subdivides and unfolds itself
ad infinitum –and thereby generates all things in perfect
measure and structure. Therefore they have called Him the
Divine Architect, the great mathematician and geometer.
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