Alan Watt: “Now I think we’ve got Steve in Burlington, Ontario on the line. Are you there, Steve? Hello Steve?
Steve: Yes. Hi, Alan. I’m here.
Alan: How are you?
Steve: I have to say I thoroughly enjoy the information you’re bringing out and I appreciate what you’ve been doing. Just a question that’s been bugging me. It’s probably pretty trivial but I want your insight on this nonetheless. I recently bought a copy of Bertrand Russell’s book and I believe it’s the original ’53 publication and on the inside flap inside of the cover there’s a label of the owner. Just picture a window frame and the outside of the frame is grapevines and some birds and a ram on top, and a man and a woman on the left and right respectively. The man’s holding an open book and the woman is holding a closed book, and at the bottom near a flask and an open book it says ex libris and below that is the owner’s name typed in on the label. I thought that was just kind of curious if there’s any insight you could share on that. It’s trivial. It may be. I don’t want you to spend too much time.
Alan: You’ll find that with all of the Masonic groups in fact, because the man is the open book, meaning he’s allowed to grow higher in spirit. We’ll talk after the break here.
Hi folks. Alan Watt back with Cutting Through the Matrix. I’m talking to Steve from Burlington, Ontario who’s described a picture, an inner page, the starting page of a book to do with a man and a woman with books. One book is opened. One is closed and so on. The vine is on the other side. That’s the Tree of Life and in the higher orders especially, the things that Russell and so on were into, the woman was inferior. In fact, that’s always been the case in the mystery religions and Pike himself talked about side degrees given to the women, like the Eastern Star, where they pretend they were members of the higher mysteries but they could never be allowed into them. They believe that women don’t have spirit basically. That’s what they believe. They’re extremely sexist at the top and woman is also the end of everything.
You’ll find that too even in the Hindu religions with the female goddess who is both the giver and destroyer, meaning mother, earth, et cetera. You’re born into the world of matter and you die, your matter simply disintegrates back into matter again, it joins the rest. Whereas man with spirit can go on to higher and that’s why Pike and others said that the wife can only reflect the light of her husband. She’s the moon in other words. He’s the sun. The moon reflects the light of the sun. This is what they teach them in the higher degrees. Incredibly, incredibly sexist and yet they have all the women joining the lower orders thinking they’re going to get taught stuff, only to be used. The vine is the Tree of Life, meaning he has a chance through his intellect and proper selection for breeding to join the Tree of Life. He’s grafted onto the tree, becomes a scion, which is SCION. It’s no coincidence it sounds the same as SION or ZION, the same old thing. It’s also alpha and omega, the spirit begins and it ends with matter; and the open book, closed book again. Does that help?
Steve: Yes, very much, Alan, and outside of this window and the image there’s an obelisk and at the top of the obelisk is a shining sunlike silhouette. It makes a lot of sense now.
Alan: Yes, they’re very illumined indeed.
Steve: Thank you very much for explaining all that.
Sexism and the higher degrees of Masonic Lodges
Alan Watt: “Now I think we’ve got Steve in Burlington, Ontario on the line. Are you there, Steve? Hello Steve?
Steve: Yes. Hi, Alan. I’m here.
Alan: How are you?
Steve: I have to say I thoroughly enjoy the information you’re bringing out and I appreciate what you’ve been doing. Just a question that’s been bugging me. It’s probably pretty trivial but I want your insight on this nonetheless. I recently bought a copy of Bertrand Russell’s book and I believe it’s the original ’53 publication and on the inside flap inside of the cover there’s a label of the owner. Just picture a window frame and the outside of the frame is grapevines and some birds and a ram on top, and a man and a woman on the left and right respectively. The man’s holding an open book and the woman is holding a closed book, and at the bottom near a flask and an open book it says ex libris and below that is the owner’s name typed in on the label. I thought that was just kind of curious if there’s any insight you could share on that. It’s trivial. It may be. I don’t want you to spend too much time.
Alan: You’ll find that with all of the Masonic groups in fact, because the man is the open book, meaning he’s allowed to grow higher in spirit. We’ll talk after the break here.
Hi folks. Alan Watt back with Cutting Through the Matrix. I’m talking to Steve from Burlington, Ontario who’s described a picture, an inner page, the starting page of a book to do with a man and a woman with books. One book is opened. One is closed and so on. The vine is on the other side. That’s the Tree of Life and in the higher orders especially, the things that Russell and so on were into, the woman was inferior. In fact, that’s always been the case in the mystery religions and Pike himself talked about side degrees given to the women, like the Eastern Star, where they pretend they were members of the higher mysteries but they could never be allowed into them. They believe that women don’t have spirit basically. That’s what they believe. They’re extremely sexist at the top and woman is also the end of everything.
You’ll find that too even in the Hindu religions with the female goddess who is both the giver and destroyer, meaning mother, earth, et cetera. You’re born into the world of matter and you die, your matter simply disintegrates back into matter again, it joins the rest. Whereas man with spirit can go on to higher and that’s why Pike and others said that the wife can only reflect the light of her husband. She’s the moon in other words. He’s the sun. The moon reflects the light of the sun. This is what they teach them in the higher degrees. Incredibly, incredibly sexist and yet they have all the women joining the lower orders thinking they’re going to get taught stuff, only to be used. The vine is the Tree of Life, meaning he has a chance through his intellect and proper selection for breeding to join the Tree of Life. He’s grafted onto the tree, becomes a scion, which is SCION. It’s no coincidence it sounds the same as SION or ZION, the same old thing. It’s also alpha and omega, the spirit begins and it ends with matter; and the open book, closed book again. Does that help?
Steve: Yes, very much, Alan, and outside of this window and the image there’s an obelisk and at the top of the obelisk is a shining sunlike silhouette. It makes a lot of sense now.
Alan: Yes, they’re very illumined indeed.
Steve: Thank you very much for explaining all that.
Alan: Bye now.”
[Alan Watt, Cutting through the Matrix, 2007]
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