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Initiation.'/><category term='Anglicanism'/><category term='Grão-Mestre'/><category term='Square'/><category term='Pentagram'/><title type='text'>LOJA LUZ DO ORIENTE N.o 80</title><subtitle type='html'>A LODGE WORKING IN THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED  SCOTTISH RITE UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE GRAND LEGAL LODGE OF PORTUGAL (REGULAR)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>813</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-731463817844216992</id><published>2012-01-27T19:47:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T21:17:27.515+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Macau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luis de Camões'/><title type='text'>Macau and Freemasonry</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VEfuszPTSLE/TyKUqgOgwUI/AAAAAAAADBE/S9LdZ9oUzdU/s1600/camoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VEfuszPTSLE/TyKUqgOgwUI/AAAAAAAADBE/S9LdZ9oUzdU/s320/camoes.jpg" width="233" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The emergence of Freemasonry in Macau in late XVIII century is a matter of academic research and curiosity namely among local academics. An interesting contribution under the title "&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;A Primeira República, Macau e os Maçons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;" (The First Republic, Macau and the Freemasons) appears in the last issue of the &lt;i&gt;Review of Culture &lt;/i&gt;edited by the Macau Culture Institute. According to the author there is a trace of relevant Masonic activity in Macau that explains why Freemasonry expanded to China from Macau and not as been advanced by traditional historians, through the context of the Opium War. There are signs that point out that Lodges belonging to different Orients may worked in Macau during decades and then being dissolved. The most emblematic Lodge was&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt; Lodge Luis de Camões&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; n.o 309 created in 1906 under the auspices of Lodge Pro Veritate (Coimbra), both Lodges belonging to the Grand Orient Lusitano, Portugal's historical Obedience. The most relevant names of local intelligentsia were members of that Lodge that subsisted till the third decade of the 20th Century. They were important actors in the political struggles that symbolize that epoch of transition from monarchy to republican rule.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-731463817844216992?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/731463817844216992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/731463817844216992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/macau-and-freemasonry.html' title='Macau and Freemasonry'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VEfuszPTSLE/TyKUqgOgwUI/AAAAAAAADBE/S9LdZ9oUzdU/s72-c/camoes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5240640895918594820</id><published>2012-01-27T19:33:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T19:33:54.466+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LdO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GLLP/GLRP'/><title type='text'>Gratitude</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;Gratitude to all the Brethren that send us best wishes for the reason of our first anniversary. Luz do Oriente will continue as an anchor of Regular Freemasory in the East. We noticed a new boom of interest for the Royal Art following the news escaping to the press about Freemasonry and Freemasons. We&amp;nbsp;acknowledge new Lodges, under different constituencies,&amp;nbsp;emerging in Asia what is a good sign of what we can do and create. Our West door is open for those who knock. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5240640895918594820?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5240640895918594820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5240640895918594820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/gratitude.html' title='Gratitude'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-1156624571993372950</id><published>2012-01-24T14:49:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T14:52:46.590+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luz do Oriente'/><title type='text'>Luz do Oriente: Primeiro Aniversário</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e7pPS36ajAQ/Tx5GIloaiVI/AAAAAAAADAs/AmCfacT7vEc/s1600/aniversario.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e7pPS36ajAQ/Tx5GIloaiVI/AAAAAAAADAs/AmCfacT7vEc/s400/aniversario.jpg" width="318" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Nascemos há um ano, criados por Decreto do MRGM, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;R:.I:. José Moreno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, com o número 80, a Oriente de Macau, praticando o Rito Escocês Antigo e Aceite. Chamamo-nos &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Luz do Oriente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&amp;nbsp;Somos a primeira Loja Regular em terras de Macau desde 1908. Partimos do Triângulo com o mesmo nome, criado em Dezembro de 2007 por Decreto de um Past-Grão-Mestre. Praticamos as antigas Tradições da &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Maçonaria Deista e Transcendente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Começámos poucos; hoje somos algumas dezenas. Fazemos parte da grande família da Maçonaria Lusófona embora aqui se falem outras línguas. Somos uma Ordem Discreta mas não Secreta. A nossa porta não está fechada a ferrolhos mas tentativamente entreaberta para os Homens de Boa Vontade que queiram aqui vir&lt;u&gt; talhar e polir a sua pedra interior&lt;/u&gt;. Basta bater à porta do Ocidente e submeter-se à aventura da Iniciação. Não damos privilégios, nem empregos, nem favores, nem poder terreno, ao contrário do que dizem algumas vozes maledicentes e ignorantes. Procuramos tornar Homens bons melhores homens, melhores pais, melhores filhos e melhores maridos. Achamos que &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;a família é o centro da sociedade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;; a sua âncora; o berço das promessas de futuro. Somos abertos aos homens de todas as crenças, de todas as religiões, ainda aos que não têm qualquer religião mas que acreditem num Princípio Criador, numa presença espiritual que explica a Ordem que existe no Universo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Somos uma Loja cosmopolita, multinacional, multiracial, como a Augusta Ordem Maçónica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Mandamos do Oriente um forte abraço fraterno, a todos os Irmãos da Grande Loja Legal de Portugal e das várias Lojas Irmãs localizadas na Ásia, de gratidão pelo apoio que temos recebido sem hesitações. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-1156624571993372950?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1156624571993372950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1156624571993372950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/luz-do-oriente-primeiro-aniversario.html' title='Luz do Oriente: Primeiro Aniversário'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e7pPS36ajAQ/Tx5GIloaiVI/AAAAAAAADAs/AmCfacT7vEc/s72-c/aniversario.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-7167740356155938374</id><published>2012-01-21T23:47:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T23:49:27.601+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Silêncio'/><title type='text'>Silêncio</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K4kiMjzK-Mc/TxrQbZK9BAI/AAAAAAAADAk/QELV69_yAwE/s1600/silencio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K4kiMjzK-Mc/TxrQbZK9BAI/AAAAAAAADAk/QELV69_yAwE/s320/silencio.jpg" width="291" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Aprendi o silêncio com os faladores, a tolerância com os intolerantes, a bondade com os maldosos; e, por estranho que pareça, sou grato a esses professores.&lt;br /&gt;Khalil Gibran&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-7167740356155938374?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7167740356155938374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7167740356155938374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/silencio.html' title='Silêncio'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K4kiMjzK-Mc/TxrQbZK9BAI/AAAAAAAADAk/QELV69_yAwE/s72-c/silencio.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8767144309028366099</id><published>2012-01-18T15:13:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T15:15:36.507+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Australia'/><title type='text'>Australia, the Jewish community and Freemasory</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JKQTurIflnY/TxZjf__UAAI/AAAAAAAADAc/bVIq0REDuPI/s1600/judeus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="236" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JKQTurIflnY/TxZjf__UAAI/AAAAAAAADAc/bVIq0REDuPI/s320/judeus.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;“Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternity that has always had an attraction for Jews. The movement uses a great deal of Jewish material,” Rabbi Apple said. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;RABBIS who are also Freemasons – no, not the plot for Dan Brown’s latest Da Vinci Code sequel, but the topic of a historical paper being penned by emeritus rabbi of Sydney’s Great Synagogue, Rabbi Raymond Apple.&amp;nbsp;Founded in the Middle Ages, Freemasonry rituals were based mainly on the Old Testament. In an effort to appeal to men from all corners of Christendom the ideology was strictly non-denominational, which, according to Rabbi Apple, made it appealing to Jews.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;ver the centuries many Jews, including leading rabbis, have been Freemasons. They must have felt good to encounter their own biblical figures, Noah, Nimrod, Solomon, Hiram and others, at a Masonic meeting. Those with a scholarly inclination were often motivated to research the Masonic application of Jewish legends.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jewishnews.net.au/ministerial-masons/24238"&gt;The rest here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8767144309028366099?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8767144309028366099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8767144309028366099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/australia-jewish-community-and.html' title='Australia, the Jewish community and Freemasory'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JKQTurIflnY/TxZjf__UAAI/AAAAAAAADAc/bVIq0REDuPI/s72-c/judeus.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5788400514597046639</id><published>2012-01-18T14:07:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T15:06:42.674+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria'/><title type='text'>Figueiredo Dias, a maçonaria e a revisão das leis penais</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i2m7tZDWeL4/TxZhZY16kAI/AAAAAAAADAE/leiTboBVvVQ/s1600/FIGUEIREDO-DIAS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i2m7tZDWeL4/TxZhZY16kAI/AAAAAAAADAE/leiTboBVvVQ/s400/FIGUEIREDO-DIAS.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"Não chamemos demasiado depressa as leis punitivas para questões desse teor", disse o professor, quando questionado pela Lusa sobre a hipótese, admitida pela ministra da Justiça, de se avançar para legislação que obrigue políticos e outros actores da esfera pública a declararem eventuais ligações à maçonaria. &lt;br /&gt;"Fui habituado na ideia de que esse secretismo existe na maçonaria. E o secretismo é algo contrário à famosa transparência que deve existir nos regimes democráticos. Mas outra coisa é se as leis constitucionais-penais devem ser chamadas a resolver essa questão e eu suponho que não", acrescentou. &lt;br /&gt;Na avaliação do penalista de Coimbra, a questão é "ético-social" e "de comportamento", pelo que o problema fica "resolvido se os maçons abandonarem a ideia de que tudo aquilo deve ser secreto". (...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jn.pt/PaginaInicial/Politica/Interior.aspx?content_id=2237670"&gt;In Jornal de Notícias&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5788400514597046639?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5788400514597046639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5788400514597046639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/figueiredo-dias-maconaria-e-revisao-das.html' title='Figueiredo Dias, a maçonaria e a revisão das leis penais'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i2m7tZDWeL4/TxZhZY16kAI/AAAAAAAADAE/leiTboBVvVQ/s72-c/FIGUEIREDO-DIAS.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2642974464037510772</id><published>2012-01-18T14:01:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T15:07:41.170+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GODF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mélenchon'/><title type='text'>Mélenchon, politician and freemason</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6wWpGGRu08s/TxZhpPVeiLI/AAAAAAAADAM/78E3BVMRgmQ/s1600/melenchon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6wWpGGRu08s/TxZhpPVeiLI/AAAAAAAADAM/78E3BVMRgmQ/s400/melenchon.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jean-Luc Mélenchon&lt;/strong&gt;, candidat du &lt;strong&gt;Front de gauche&lt;/strong&gt; à l'Elysée, confirme son appartenance à la franc-maçonnerie dans une biographie à paraître jeudi, dans laquelle on apprend que le nom et le logo Front de gauche appartiennent à son Parti de gauche. Dans "Mélenchon le plébéien", une biographie fouillée, écrite par les journalistes Lilian Alemagna (Libération) et Stéphane Alliès (Mediapart), M. Mélenchon parle pour la première fois de &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;son appartenance au Grand Orient de France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. "J'y suis entré en 1983", affirme-t-il, après "le tournant de la rigueur" qui l'a mis "K.O. debout". "&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Quand tout s'est cassé la figure, que reste-t-il? La République. Donc, in fine, la liberté et l'égalité&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;", souligne l'ex-trotskiste, dont le père était également maçon. "Je comprends non pas la vision trotskyenne de la franc-maçonnerie, c'est-à-dire une machine à corrompre la classe ouvrière, mais je vois l'inverse: le lieu où se conserve le fil d'or. Où traverse notre histoire. Les temps profonds", dit-il. Par ailleurs, on apprend dans ce livre qu'"en cas de divorce au sein de la famille Front de gauche (PCF-Parti de gauche-Gauche unitaire), c'est à lui que reviendrait le label" Front de gauche. Le nom ainsi que le logo rouge et jaune ont été déposés auprès de l'Institut national de la propriété industrielle (Inpi) après les européennes de 2009 par un proche, Gabriel Amard, secrétaire national du Parti de gauche. "Pris de court, le Parti communiste s'est lui empressé, en mars 2010, de devenir propriétaire du nom +Front populaire de gauche+", expliquent les auteurs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lci.tf1.fr/filnews/politique/melenchon-confirme-son-appartenance-a-la-franc-maconnerie-6938109.html"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2642974464037510772?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2642974464037510772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2642974464037510772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/jean-luc-melenchon-candidat-du-front-de.html' title='Mélenchon, politician and freemason'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6wWpGGRu08s/TxZhpPVeiLI/AAAAAAAADAM/78E3BVMRgmQ/s72-c/melenchon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-7551335515209582447</id><published>2012-01-18T13:33:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T15:09:09.246+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Corto Maltese'/><title type='text'>Corto Maltese and the secrets of Freemasonry</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I7W0GsGTKdc/TxZh9edmYuI/AAAAAAAADAU/GNwZ-I6tmtM/s1600/corto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I7W0GsGTKdc/TxZh9edmYuI/AAAAAAAADAU/GNwZ-I6tmtM/s320/corto.jpg" width="290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;(...) L'exposition "Corto Maltese et les secrets de l'initiation" débarque au Musée de la Franc-Maçonnerie du 15 février au 15 juillet 2012. Venez découvrir une quarantaine d’œuvres d'Hugo Pratt, en majorité, jamais présentées au public et en apprendre davantage sur sa vie et son inspiration. &lt;br /&gt;Hugo Pratt, le père de Corto Mlatese était un Franc-Maçon, ce n'est un secret pour personne. Du 15 février au 15 juillet 2012, le Musée de la franc-maçonnerie vous invite à découvrir l'histoire particulièrement intéressante d'Hugo Pratt. Une histoire où la franc-maçonnerie tient un rôle important mais pas uniquement.&lt;br /&gt;L'exposition Corto Maltese et les secrets de l'initiation vous ouvre les portes de la création d'Hugo Pratt. Une création dense, complexe et envoûtante. Découvrez sa vie mais aussi ses inspirations à travers des voyages, des rencontres et la musique. &lt;br /&gt;Le Musée de la franc-maçonnerie vous donnera à voir une quarantaine d’œuvres d'Hugo Pratt allant des aquarelles aux planches... Sachez que ces œuvres n'ont pour la plupart, jamais été présentée au public. Franc-maçon assez actif, son œuvre fourmille de référence à la franc-maçonnerie. Notamment dans Fable de Venise ou encore Wheeling.(...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sortiraparis.com/arts-culture/exposition/articles/48095-corto-maltese-s-expose-au-musee-de-la-franc-maconnerie"&gt;The rest here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-7551335515209582447?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7551335515209582447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7551335515209582447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/corto-maltese-and-secrets-of.html' title='Corto Maltese and the secrets of Freemasonry'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I7W0GsGTKdc/TxZh9edmYuI/AAAAAAAADAU/GNwZ-I6tmtM/s72-c/corto.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4765417001100199911</id><published>2012-01-17T11:13:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T11:13:15.620+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GLLP/GLRP'/><title type='text'>A Bem da Ordem</title><content type='html'>Notícias provindas de boa fonte dão conta que o MRGM se irá dirigir à opinião pública portuguesa esclarecendo polémicas que se têm arrastado nos jornais e nas televisões portuguesas sobre a Grande Loja, a R:.L:. Mozart e obreiros que desempenham (ou desempenharam) funções de oficias na mesma Loja. Com a serenidade que a sua função comporta e com o estilo que lhe conhecemos o nosso R:. I:. José Moreno irá seguramente dissipar dúvidas que pairavam nalguns espíritos sobre a conduta pública e profana da Maçonaria e dos Maçons, sobre a confundibilidade explorada de forma imprópria entre o plano rituálístico e simbólico e os vários planos profanos. O seu a seu dono o mesmo é dizer as questões da Grande Loja Legal de Portugal ao seu Grão-Mestre legítimo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4765417001100199911?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4765417001100199911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4765417001100199911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/bem-da-ordem.html' title='A Bem da Ordem'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6336323809287921095</id><published>2012-01-15T18:55:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T18:55:51.060+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MRGM GLLP/GLRP'/><title type='text'>O que é a Maçonaria Regular</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aizJ_VJLfcM/TxKiie8mMTI/AAAAAAAAC_8/BmnxYRf9auk/s1600/Jose+Moreno_0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aizJ_VJLfcM/TxKiie8mMTI/AAAAAAAAC_8/BmnxYRf9auk/s320/Jose+Moreno_0001.jpg" width="273" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://gllp.pt/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;http://gllp.pt/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-6336323809287921095?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6336323809287921095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6336323809287921095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/o-que-e-maconaria-regular.html' title='O que é a Maçonaria Regular'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aizJ_VJLfcM/TxKiie8mMTI/AAAAAAAAC_8/BmnxYRf9auk/s72-c/Jose+Moreno_0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5000887596963152345</id><published>2012-01-15T18:47:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T18:49:47.773+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maconaria'/><title type='text'>Uma excelente introdução ao que é a Maçonaria</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S_S4yDhwJVM/TxKhKdc-xGI/AAAAAAAAC_0/PI7qStCycug/s1600/IMG_0850.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S_S4yDhwJVM/TxKhKdc-xGI/AAAAAAAAC_0/PI7qStCycug/s400/IMG_0850.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://sicnoticias.sapo.pt/pais/article1243697.ece"&gt;http://sicnoticias.sapo.pt/pais/article1243697.ece&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5000887596963152345?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5000887596963152345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5000887596963152345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/uma-excelente-introducao-ao-que-e.html' title='Uma excelente introdução ao que é a Maçonaria'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S_S4yDhwJVM/TxKhKdc-xGI/AAAAAAAAC_0/PI7qStCycug/s72-c/IMG_0850.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-1942870267827682843</id><published>2012-01-11T16:57:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T23:32:24.030+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deveres'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçom'/><title type='text'>Obrigações de um Maçom</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CwK_PGNl9Q0/Tw2dSDJDD2I/AAAAAAAAC_A/AswGSg1L8Y0/s1600/Altar.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="258" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CwK_PGNl9Q0/Tw2dSDJDD2I/AAAAAAAAC_A/AswGSg1L8Y0/s320/Altar.gif" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;O QUE SIGNIFICA A PALAVRA MAÇOM?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Trata-se de palavra vinda do francês “maçon” que em português recebe a grafia de “maçom” ou “mação” e quer dizer “pedreiro”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;O QUE É UM MAÇOM?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;É maçom todo aquele que for regularmente iniciado nos Augustos Mistérios da Ordem Maçônica em Loja Justa e Perfeita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COMO DEVE SER UM MAÇOM?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ser maçom, não é apenas colocar-se dentro de um Templo, devidamente revestido de suas insígnias e em postura correta;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; ser maçom é irradiar as qualidades mentais e espirituais adquiridas através de uma vivência maçónica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;O QUE SE ESPERA DE UM MAÇOM?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;O maçom, desde que integrado na essência da iniciação, &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deve ser bom pai, melhor filho, apreciável irmão, ótimo esposo e invejável cidadão&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;COMO DE AGIR UM MAÇOM?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Deve tornar-se uma criatura transfigurada espiritualmente, pautando sua norma de agir dentro dos princípios maçónicos, &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;elegendo sua consciência como guia e proclamando sua liberdade como requisito fundamental&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;QUAIS SÃO OS VALORES QUE A MAÇONARIA RECONHECE?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;São os &lt;u&gt;sentimentos nobres e as acções altruísticas&lt;/u&gt;, únicos valores pessoais que a maçonaria reconhece como de alta valia para os homens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;COMO SE DENOMINAM OS ACTUAIS MAÇONS?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Maçons antigos, livres e aceitos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;O QUE SE ENTENDE POR MAÇOM ACEITO?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;São maçons não profissionais ou não operativos, admitidos ou agregados a corporações de pedreiros-livres e respectivas fraternidades, nos tempos em que a maçonaria operativa passou a congregar nobres, intelectuais e protetores.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;QUAIS OS PRINCIPAIS &lt;strong&gt;DIREITOS DE UM MAÇOM?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;a) a &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;justa protecção de sua Loja, da Ordem e dos maçons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;b) emitir livremente sua opinião, desde que não fira os preceitos da Ordem;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;c) pugnar pelos seus direitos, exercendo a mais ampla liberdade de defesa;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;d) pedir em qualquer tempo a sua demissão.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;QUAIS OS PRINCIPAIS &lt;strong&gt;DEVERES DE UM MAÇOM&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;a) &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;cumprir e fazer cumprir todas as leis e resoluções emanadas das autoridades maçónicas competentes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;b) &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;instruir-se nos princípios e práticas maçónicos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;c) ser &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;membro activo de uma loja e ser assíduo em seus trabalhos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;d) reunir e discutir assuntos maçónicos somente em lugar vedado à vista e aos ouvidos dos não maçons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;QUAIS AS OBRIGAÇÕES DE UM MAÇOM?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;a) honrar e venerar o GADU que quer dizer: Grande Arquiteto do Universo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;b) tratar todos os homens como seus iguais;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;c) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;combater a ambição&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;d) lutar contra a ignorância;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;e) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;praticar a justiça;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;QUAIS SÃO OS DEVERES DE UM MAÇOM PARA COM O GADU??&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Amá-lo sobre todas as coisas, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;venerando-o com todo o respeito&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; e não tomando o seu Santo Nome em vão.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;O QUE AMBICIONA O MAÇOM?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Sendo livre de bons costumes e estando nas trevas, &lt;strong&gt;ambiciona ver a luz.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;ONDE O MAÇOM É RECEBIDO?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Em uma Loja justa, perfeita e regular&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;POR QUEM O MAÇOM É LEVADO A UMA LOJA?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Sempre por um amigo que, depois, acaba reconhecendo como irmão.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;POR QUE SE USA O TRATAMENTO DE IRMÃO?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Porque os maçons devem amarem-se uns aos outros e&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;serem leais e dedicados mutuamente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Traduz uma maneira de proceder muito afetiva e agradável a todos os coraçoes dos que militam em seus augustos Templos ou augustos mistérios &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Perguntas e Respostas sobre a Maçonaria&lt;/em&gt;, doc. apócrifo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-1942870267827682843?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1942870267827682843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1942870267827682843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/obrigacoes-de-um-macom.html' title='Obrigações de um Maçom'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CwK_PGNl9Q0/Tw2dSDJDD2I/AAAAAAAAC_A/AswGSg1L8Y0/s72-c/Altar.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8580398470968293626</id><published>2012-01-11T16:40:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T23:34:34.034+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria.'/><title type='text'>Quais os princípios porque se rege o Maçom?</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-392dITOueYU/Tw2d6g76-dI/AAAAAAAAC_I/9eCA2eQc45I/s1600/Cubic-Stone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-392dITOueYU/Tw2d6g76-dI/AAAAAAAAC_I/9eCA2eQc45I/s320/Cubic-Stone.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Os Maçons definem-se&amp;nbsp;pelos seguintes postulados:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1] A Maçonaria crê e proclama o princípio impessoal do Grande Arquiteto do Universo (Deus) como fonte de prevalência do espírito sobre a matéria e sem o qual nenhum candidato será admitido em seu selo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2] Adota e propaga as doutrinas maçónicas que visam alcançar, pelos meios pacíficos da instrução e do exemplo, o &lt;u&gt;aperfeiçoamento moral e intelectual do homem&lt;/u&gt; em todos os setores de sua atividade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3] Recomenda o culto da Pátria e exige o respeito absoluto à Família. Aquela, o berço acrescido, o lar comum, a força vital; esta, o sustentáculo moral das coletividades politicamente organizadas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4] Considera o homem segundo a direcção que dá à sua vida, entendendo como condição de paz universal o &lt;u&gt;respeito mútuo de indivíduo a indivíduo&lt;/u&gt;, de povo a povo, de Estado a Estado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5] &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honra o trabalho em todas as suas formas honestas&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;e tem-no por dever&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; ao qual ninguém deve escusar-se sem justa causa, especialmente o maçom, obreiro que é da Arte Real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6] Repele qualquer recurso à força ou à violência e&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; não emprestará solidariedade ao menor desrespeito às autoridades públicas ou às Leis do País&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7] Não impõe limites à livre e consciente investigação da verdade em prol da doutrina e do aperfeiçoamento de seus adeptos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8] Não limita a prática da beneficência e dos auxílios materiais; mas, a estes sobrepõe o primado do amparo moral em todas as oportunidades dignas dele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9] Ensina que a democracia, no conceito maçónico, tem acepção filosófica diferente do sentido meramente político. Ninguém é livre contra a Verdade, contra a Evidência, contra a Necessidade. O &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;maçom jamais será voluntariamente escravo da ignorância, da falsidade ou do erro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10] Na &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;comunhão social da Maçonaria, o valor moral é tido como dote de alto preço&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11] Todo pensamento maçónico deve ser criador, porque isso engrandece o espírito e enobrece o coração.&lt;/blockquote&gt;José Carlos de Araújo Almeida Filho, A Maçonaria ao Alcance de Todos, &lt;em&gt;ibidem.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8580398470968293626?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8580398470968293626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8580398470968293626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/quais-os-principios-porque-se-rege-o.html' title='Quais os princípios porque se rege o Maçom?'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-392dITOueYU/Tw2d6g76-dI/AAAAAAAAC_I/9eCA2eQc45I/s72-c/Cubic-Stone.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5329481355886511923</id><published>2012-01-11T16:34:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T23:35:20.355+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria'/><title type='text'>Relembrando o que é a Maçonaria</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UIgbdFdDG6A/Tw2eHf3E4MI/AAAAAAAAC_Q/5Y70XPce_TA/s1600/EsqComp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UIgbdFdDG6A/Tw2eHf3E4MI/AAAAAAAAC_Q/5Y70XPce_TA/s400/EsqComp.jpg" width="295" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;“Muito misticismo, muita calúnia, muita ignorância, lendas fabulosas, interpretações fantasiosas e principalmente muitos preconceitos, encontramos quando, em grupos que a desconhecem se comenta sobre Maçonaria. O nosso intuito é dar àqueles interessados em conhecer a finalidade de nossa Ordem, e principalmente àqueles que querem iniciar-se, uma ideia simples, porém correcta, daquilo que é a nossa Sublime Ordem. A priori, devemos esclarecer os dois pontos principais, sobre os quais há muitas dúvidas: 1] a Maçonaria jamais poderá ser chamada de &lt;u&gt;organização secreta&lt;/u&gt;, já que seus Estatutos se encontram registrados em cartório (notarial). É sim, ama associação iniciática, cujos símbolos e alegorias são do conhecimento exclusivo de seus iniciados; 2] a Maçonaria ou seus membros jamais podem ser chamados de &lt;u&gt;ateus&lt;/u&gt;. A Maçonaria congrega em suas Lojas &lt;u&gt;adeptos de todas as religiões&lt;/u&gt;, quaisquer que sejam. Nenhum ateu é admitido na Maçonaria; para ser iniciado, o candidato tem que acreditar num &lt;u&gt;Ente Superior&lt;/u&gt;, num &lt;u&gt;Princípio Criador&lt;/u&gt;, numa &lt;u&gt;Força Vital e Perene&lt;/u&gt;, sem o que, jamais,&lt;br /&gt;entenderá as obras realizadas e patentes do Grande Arquiteto do Universo, e, pois, nunca será um Maçom."&lt;/blockquote&gt;De José Carlos de Araújo Almeida Filho, A Maçonaria ao Alcance de Todos, Editora: CopyMarket.com, 2000.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5329481355886511923?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5329481355886511923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5329481355886511923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/relembrando-o-que-e-maconaria.html' title='Relembrando o que é a Maçonaria'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UIgbdFdDG6A/Tw2eHf3E4MI/AAAAAAAAC_Q/5Y70XPce_TA/s72-c/EsqComp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2073677409522223628</id><published>2012-01-11T15:54:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T23:39:02.149+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portugal'/><title type='text'>Para memória futura.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QvfDiGZZHQc/Tw2e-cu23pI/AAAAAAAAC_Y/cG19Cur5a3k/s1600/assembleia_republica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QvfDiGZZHQc/Tw2e-cu23pI/AAAAAAAAC_Y/cG19Cur5a3k/s400/assembleia_republica.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Diz o artigo 26. da Constituição da República Portuguesa:&lt;br /&gt;"A todos são reconhecidos os direitos à identidade pessoal, ao desenvolvimento da personalidade, à capcidade civil, à cidadania, ao bom nome e reputação, à imagem, à palavra, à reserva da intimidade da vida privada e familiar e à protecção legal contra quaisquer formas de descriminação"". &lt;br /&gt;Diz o artigo 41.o da mesma Constituição:&lt;br /&gt;"A liberdade de consciência, de religião e de culto é inviolável". &lt;br /&gt;Por estas semanas temos assistidos a representantes eleitos em sufrágio universal e em consulta livre a procurar desrespeitar a Constituição que juraram defender. Muitos deles apesar de licenciados em Direito com uma grosseira inaptidão para interpretar o sentido objectivo das normas constitucionais, algo que se aprende no primeiro ano de qualquer licenciatura. Sobre o mesmo assunto com irrepreensível elevação pronunciou-se o representante máximo da Igreja Católica, Sua Excelência o Sr. Cardeal Patriarca, salvaguardando o mesmo princípio à opinião e à intimidade da vida privada desde que não choque com a lei.&lt;br /&gt;Porque vivemos num Estado de Direito é sempre bom lembrar-se as normas jurídicas que sustêm a nossa vida colectiva para que não se tome o lobo por cordeiro ou vice-versa o cordeiro por lobo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2073677409522223628?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2073677409522223628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2073677409522223628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/para-memoria-futura.html' title='Para memória futura.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QvfDiGZZHQc/Tw2e-cu23pI/AAAAAAAAC_Y/cG19Cur5a3k/s72-c/assembleia_republica.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8427772069035808363</id><published>2012-01-11T11:52:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T23:41:19.483+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GLLP/GLRP'/><title type='text'>Ainda o tema do ex-director do SIED.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-89AObc6eqJA/Tw2fa-ChZCI/AAAAAAAAC_g/zuSdXSR0ffg/s1600/Jose+Moreno_0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-89AObc6eqJA/Tw2fa-ChZCI/AAAAAAAAC_g/zuSdXSR0ffg/s320/Jose+Moreno_0001.jpg" width="273" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tardia mas ainda assim importante uma clarificação do Past-Grão Mestre José Manuel Anes sobre o caso do obreiro da R:.L:. Mozart. Está-se ainda na expectativa de um comentário do nosso MRGM José Moreno sobre um caso que tem, manifestamente, prejudicado a Ordem e a Maçonaria em geral, instituições de bem. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;O ex-director do SIED Jorge Silva Carvalho “usou a maçonaria para um projecto de ambição pessoal e conquista de poder”, disse ao PÚBLICO José Manuel Anes, fundador e ex-Grão-Mestre da Grande Loja Regular de Portugal. Silva Carvalho recusa responder a estas acusações. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O resto &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.publico.pt/Pol%C3%ADtica/silva-carvalho-usou-a-maconaria-para-um-projecto-de-ambicao-pessoal-diz-anes_1528432"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Em tempo, a tomada de posição de quinta-feira passada do MRGM que nos havia escapado, &lt;a href="http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/nacional/politica/nao-temos-nada-a-ver-com-essas-guerras"&gt;aqui.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8427772069035808363?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8427772069035808363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8427772069035808363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/ainda-o-tema-do-ex-director-do-sied.html' title='Ainda o tema do ex-director do SIED.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-89AObc6eqJA/Tw2fa-ChZCI/AAAAAAAAC_g/zuSdXSR0ffg/s72-c/Jose+Moreno_0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2106495130435002959</id><published>2012-01-10T01:03:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T01:09:24.100+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portugal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria.'/><title type='text'>Protagonismos e Maçonaria</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XRwsilDCeV8/TwsQTw09BmI/AAAAAAAAC-4/CquphL-klxU/s1600/Cidade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XRwsilDCeV8/TwsQTw09BmI/AAAAAAAAC-4/CquphL-klxU/s400/Cidade.jpg" width="286" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;A guerra das secretas e a dança dos protagonismos à volta de uma Loja Maçónica faz a curiosidade das massas que picadas pelos jornalistas se lançam sobre a Maçonaria como os romanos nos circos aplaudindo a chacina dos cristãos. É a mesma &lt;u&gt;alarvice animal&lt;/u&gt;, o mesmo pre-julgamento feito de ignorância, o raciocínio expedito de quem levanta a voz e diz "isto basta juntar um e dois é igual a três". &lt;b&gt;Tugas no seu melhor&lt;/b&gt;, na cauda da Europa, incapazes de pagar as dívidas do segundo carro, da casa de fim-de-semana, das férias na neve pagas a cartão de crédito mas ainda assim soberbos, arrogantes. Não tenho aqui o Eça à mão mas é a mesma basbaquice saloia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Alguém da Ordem escrevia no Facebook que temos de ser mais criteriosos nos recrutamentos. É verdade. Não chega saber-se que o profano é importante (ou se diz), que conhece fulano ou beltrano, que pode ser uma "peça" importante na Loja para se achar que já nem é preciso inquérito, &lt;b&gt;é gingas&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Falta ao mundo fácil dos nossos dias a prova da dureza da vida, a possibilidade da perseguição por se defender a liberdade, a justiça, a democracia, um mundo mais equitativo. Quando tudo se toma por adquirido, sem suor e lágrimas, os valores diluem-se, esfumam-se, abastardam-se.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De repente surgiu um casta de xico-espertos que enche o peito e diz todos os politicos que são maçons devem dizer que o são. E porque não os que são da Opus Dei, do Benfica, da Tertúlia do Bacalhau? Quando a inteligência se priva da racionalidade e se rende ao cabotino e ao vulgar anula-se a si própria.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bem sei que isto &lt;u&gt;vende jornais&lt;/u&gt; e &lt;u&gt;abre noticiários&lt;/u&gt;. Sempre é mais saboroso do que os objectivos do Orçamento que não se cumprem, que os assessores que afinal se recrutaram em catadupla e que contradizem as juras de rigor e parcimónia de há seis meses atrás.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vamos ser claros. Não sei se isto é alguma guerra de protagonismo entre o Grande Oriente Lusitano e a Grande Loja Legal de Portugal. Se o é, é mau pois no fim &amp;nbsp;ficamos todos a perder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Maçonaria deu à humanidade alguns dos seus maiores marcos: a Sociedades das Nações, a Carta Universal dos Direitos Humanos, a independência dos Estados Unidos, a Unesco, a Cruz Vermelha Internacional, a Bill of Rights, a música excelsa de Mozart, Bach, Bethoven, Sibelius, List, etc.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;É para aí que devemos virar a nossa vista procurando imitar e replicar.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;As outras minundências dos negócios da televisão e da multimédia, deixemos aos &lt;u&gt;pares da Lili Caneças&lt;/u&gt;, com o respeito que a Sra naturalmente merece. Sempre vende aquelas revistas cor-de-rosa que nos ajudam a passar o tempo até ao encontro semanal com o dentista.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deixem a Maçonaria em paz e concentrem-se no que é essencial: um país que está na cauda da Europa, 300 000 portugueses que durante os ultimos seis meses de 2011 sairam para o estrageiro à procura de trabalho, nos novos pobres que dormem à esquina das nossas ruas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vivemos num mundo de aparências que num certo tempo vai rebentar. Então talvez nos viremos para o que é sério e verdadeiramente importante: o ser humano. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gama&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2106495130435002959?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2106495130435002959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2106495130435002959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2012/01/protagonismos-e-maconaria.html' title='Protagonismos e Maçonaria'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XRwsilDCeV8/TwsQTw09BmI/AAAAAAAAC-4/CquphL-klxU/s72-c/Cidade.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8123694061764230482</id><published>2011-12-28T02:18:00.006+09:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T00:37:06.549+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maconaria'/><title type='text'>Pos-Natal</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SLTDcsrMuTk/TwsJcHY5t3I/AAAAAAAAC-w/NHDzmisnfFE/s1600/Pintura+abstracta+2.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SLTDcsrMuTk/TwsJcHY5t3I/AAAAAAAAC-w/NHDzmisnfFE/s1600/Pintura+abstracta+2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Refazemos o nosso tempo a seguir ao Natal vencendo os dias que nos faltam para a mudança do ano. 2011 conclui-se com a consolidação da nossa Augusta Ordem com a entrada de obreiros que haviam saído na cisão de 1997 da Casa do Sino. Processo naturalmente lento e gradual. Na imprensa portuguesa reflexos da mudança de liderança no Grande Oriente Lusitano e&amp;nbsp; da curiosidade imensa no mundo profano pela Maçonaria, pelos seus objetivos e atividades e sobretudo pela "dança" dos nomes famosos. Sinal dos tempos e da exposição das organizações à curiosidade das massas. No plano internacional, os ecos da tragédia da Noruega às mãos de um paranoico que por acaso era macom, levando os pescadores de aguas turvas a tradicional confusão entre a atuação de alguns e a organização em si. Em Franca, noticias de turbulências na Grande Loja irmã e anúncios da retirada do reconhecimento internacional, a justificar alguma reflexão sobre os caminhos, os estilos e as escolhas. Em termos gerais reforça-se algum sentimento de orfandade no Ocidente dos valores que fizeram a nossa historia e civilização e a procura de um quadro referencial que nos leve adiante, construindo uma sociedade mais fraterna e solidária para os nossos filhos. A Oriente, sucessivas tragédias climáticas e naturais revelam as limitações da razão e do poder do homem e a necessidade de uma maior espiritualidade e de um renovado apelo à transcendência. O ano de 2012 que se aproxima será difícil e penoso para muitas famílias dada a crise internacional. Também em Portugal em que o mimetismo do consumismo desgarrado não disfarça o sentimento de aflição e desorientação.&lt;br /&gt;Nesta encruzilhada de caminhos a maçonaria ainda não encontrou o seu papel e o sentido renovado para a obra que faz. Começa a franquear a porta ao mundo mas convive dificilmente com as adulterações profanas que a pressionam num sentido antagónico aos valores que propaga e a justificam. Há um sentido de equidade que importa repor na sua pureza inicial e esse e o trabalho de mais de uma geração. Também aqui há-que dar lugar aos novos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8123694061764230482?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8123694061764230482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8123694061764230482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/12/pos-natal.html' title='Pos-Natal'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SLTDcsrMuTk/TwsJcHY5t3I/AAAAAAAAC-w/NHDzmisnfFE/s72-c/Pintura+abstracta+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-531565123658945120</id><published>2011-12-09T16:34:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T16:34:51.342+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas'/><title type='text'>Merry Christmas and Happy New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wIWImIufDDI/TuG55TECuAI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/QrPPHBVuGZo/s1600/Boas+Festas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="229px" mda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wIWImIufDDI/TuG55TECuAI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/QrPPHBVuGZo/s320/Boas+Festas.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 新細明體;"&gt;A Joyful Season for everyone and the Brethren in particularly wherever they may be. We need words of wisdom and goodwill of the good men in the world. The world has become an unjust place where a few seem to have a lot and the majority doesn’t have enough to live with dignity and survive. Two wars are coming to an end but new shadows of darkness obscure the light of the Morning Star. More then ever we need Faith and Understanding and much Humbleness; and respect for Nature and the work of Creation. Whatever the name we give to Him (or don't give) He made us at to His image and let us to drive our lives. A special word to our compatriots (and Portuguese Brethren) in a time of difficulties and lack of hope. We need sense of leadership and focus on what is really important, not fait divers. With our collective effort life can be easier and more rich in warm, love and dedication. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-531565123658945120?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/531565123658945120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/531565123658945120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.html' title='Merry Christmas and Happy New Year'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wIWImIufDDI/TuG55TECuAI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/QrPPHBVuGZo/s72-c/Boas+Festas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-754193516406332517</id><published>2011-12-04T11:55:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-12-04T11:57:46.324+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='World'/><title type='text'>December.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R5zIEylq9z4/Ttrhi-psOoI/AAAAAAAAC-I/qGf7sP5L31g/s1600/Voos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R5zIEylq9z4/Ttrhi-psOoI/AAAAAAAAC-I/qGf7sP5L31g/s400/Voos.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times;"&gt;Convened the assembly of the Grand Lodge for the second week of December. It will be an exaltation of unity and purpose, with a new breed of Brethren coming in. It is a new phase, and new responsibilities for the young Portuguese Obedience. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times;"&gt;If we look the world as it is, Freemasonry is more needed then ever. There is a lack of values, sentiment, purpose, and goal, everywhere. In Norway, an assassin is not going to prison because he has psychiatric problems, the experts said. Now he goes to a psychiatric centre where he would stay six/eight years to be treated. Then what? He would released? And what about those who died because of its anger and premeditation? Strange world we live in.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-754193516406332517?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/754193516406332517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/754193516406332517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/12/december.html' title='December.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R5zIEylq9z4/Ttrhi-psOoI/AAAAAAAAC-I/qGf7sP5L31g/s72-c/Voos.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-7098179965896533693</id><published>2011-12-01T17:17:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T17:34:16.351+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fernando Pessoa'/><title type='text'>Fernando Pessoaºs anniversary.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1xr78dD0iWU/Ttc5tXVhoPI/AAAAAAAAC98/5bcHYbGI77A/s1600/fernando-pessoa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" dda="true" height="320px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1xr78dD0iWU/Ttc5tXVhoPI/AAAAAAAAC98/5bcHYbGI77A/s320/fernando-pessoa.jpg" width="223px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;Yesterday, the 30&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; November, passed the anniversary of the death of Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa remains one of Portugal’s&amp;nbsp;more emblematic&amp;nbsp;symbols as one of the oldest nations&amp;nbsp;of Europe and its legacy, both as poet, writer&amp;nbsp;and intellectual, although admired has&amp;nbsp;remained quite&amp;nbsp;unknown outside the Portuguese speaking world. Its poetry&amp;nbsp;demonstrates Portuguese symbolism, one of the most important intellectual movements of the 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Century. Man of transition&amp;nbsp;between the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; Republic&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;Salazar “Estado Novo”, he experienced the frustrations&amp;nbsp;raisind from the difficult balancing between liberty and order that&amp;nbsp;rooted the first decade of Salazar’s long rule. Pessoa’s late poetry&amp;nbsp;became a&amp;nbsp;cry against the lack of freedom and "air" that surrounded&amp;nbsp;Portuguese intellectuals&amp;nbsp;along the 1940’s. It is a matter of controversy if he was a Freemason or not. There are no indications that he was initiated as member of Grande Oriente Lusitano, the sole Portuguese Obedience at that time. It has been&amp;nbsp;suggested, by his biographers, that he may be had been initiated as Templar Knight during his&amp;nbsp;stays in&amp;nbsp;England. This is a part of Pessoa’s “secretive” life still looking to be studied as many of its personal notes are still kept by his family outside the public and schoolars eyes. One of his most interesting poems is called “Iniciação” (Initiation) and runs like this: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;“&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;You don’t sleep under the cypress because there is no sleep in this world. Body is the shadow of the dress that covers your inner self. Comes the night that is the death and the shadow vanishes without being it. You go through the night just a transparence equal to you without knowing it. But in the Haunting Inn the angels undress you of your cover. You continued without anything covering your shoulders just the little that covered you. Then, the archangels of the road unfit you and let you naked. You have no clothes, you have nothing on, you have only your body that is you. Finally in the gloomy cavern, the Gods undress you more. Your body evanish, external soul, and you see that they are equal to you. The shadow of your clothes stayed with us in the destiny. You are not dead, between cypresses. Neophit, there is no death&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;“ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;Pessoa’s&amp;nbsp;admirers interpret this poem and other esoteric reflections as clues of Pessoa’s undisguised connection&amp;nbsp;to the Craft but till now there is no indisputable proof. Pessoa remains one of the most admired Portuguese intellectuals of the 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Century and give name to one of Lodges of the Grand Legal Lodge of Portugal performing the Scottish Rectified Rite, a Christian Rite. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-7098179965896533693?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7098179965896533693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7098179965896533693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/12/fernando-pessoas-anniversary.html' title='Fernando Pessoaºs anniversary.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1xr78dD0iWU/Ttc5tXVhoPI/AAAAAAAAC98/5bcHYbGI77A/s72-c/fernando-pessoa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-1909385878781639350</id><published>2011-12-01T16:14:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-12-01T16:29:17.076+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Macau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freemasonry'/><title type='text'>Freemasonry in Macau</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;João Paulo Meneses (Ponto Final, 30.11.2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com a institucionalização formal da Loja Luz do Oriente, Macau passou a ser o único espaço da lusofonia com duas lojas maçónicas fora de Portugal. É mais um capítulo de uma longa história, ainda por fazer. E que também passa por Hong Kong.&lt;br /&gt;São duas as lojas maçónicas de raiz portuguesa que existem em Macau, embora apenas uma tenha publicitado a sua existência. A que formalmente não ‘existe’ é, contudo, a mais antiga e que reunirá personalidades mais conhecidas da comunidade portuguesa e até da chinesa. (...) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;(With the institutionalization of Luz do Oriente, Macau becomes the only place inside the lusophone world with two Masonic Lodges out of Portugal. It is another chapter in a long history, still to be done. And that passes also by Hong Kong. There are two lodges of Portuguese origin in Macau, although only one has publicized its existence. The one that formaly doesnºt exist is the oldest and will include figures well-known from the Portuguese and even the Chinese community. (...)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In &lt;a href="http://pontofinalmacau.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/macau-tem-duas-lojas/"&gt;http://pontofinalmacau.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/macau-tem-duas-lojas/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-1909385878781639350?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1909385878781639350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1909385878781639350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/12/freemasonry-in-macau.html' title='Freemasonry in Macau'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2981834276976368606</id><published>2011-11-26T17:12:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T17:25:46.002+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Espana'/><title type='text'>El 43% de los masones españoles se declaran cristianos o católicos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-urIcxzdfW9A/TtCifE1tetI/AAAAAAAAC9g/Db49ir8EVBY/s1600/espana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-urIcxzdfW9A/TtCifE1tetI/AAAAAAAAC9g/Db49ir8EVBY/s400/espana.jpg" width="344" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;La masonería siempre ha estado envuelta en un halo de misterio y de leyenda, y más en España, donde fue perseguida durante toda la dictadura franquista, cuyos ideólogos lanzaron además toda clase de acusaciones contra ellos. Por eso, con la intención declarada de luchar contra una imagen "deformada",&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gle-crd.com/" style="color: #134d86; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;la Gran Logia de España&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;(que congrega a 3.000 de los 3.600 masones que se calcula que viven en el país) decidió hace años&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/masones/abren/elpepusoc/20060615elpepisoc_6/Tes" style="color: #134d86; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;que debían abrirse y darse a conocer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;por la sociedad. En ese camino, acaba de publicar el primer Barómetro Masónico que, basándose en las metodologías del Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), ofrece una fotografía de cómo son y qué les preocupa a los miembros de este colectivo. El resultado es que se trata de personas creyentes (el 32% se declara cristiano, sin señalar de forma específica a ninguna de sus confesiones, y otro 11,6% católico romano), con fuertes, aunque variadas, convicciones políticas (el 28% se declara liberal, el 16,3% socialdemócrata, y el 15,6% conservador), y que consideran que el mayor problema que afronta España en estos momentos es "la crisis de valores". Para el trabajo se ha entrevistado a 152 personas, es decir, en torno a un 4% de los masones que viven en España. (...)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;La masonería&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/ESPANA/MINISTERIO_DE_INTERIOR/AUDIENCIA_NACIONAL/PODER_EJECUTIVO/_GOBIERNO_UCD_/1979-1982/FRANQUISMO/Legalizada/masoneria/espanola/elpepisoc/19790520elpepisoc_12/Tes" style="color: #134d86; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"&gt;volvió a ser legal en España en 1979&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;. Terminaron así más de 40 años de persecución: Decreto de ilegalidad, prisión e incautación contra la Masonería (1937); Ley de Responsabilidades Políticas (1939); Ley de Represión de la Masonería y creación del Tribunal Especial para la Represión de la Masonería y el Comunismo (1940). Entonces había 5.000 masones en España, hoy son 3.600, la mayoría de nacionalidad española, pero también otras, sobre todo, británicos (en Inglaterra y Francia hay varios cientos de miles, asegura el Barómetro).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/43/masones/espanoles/declaran/cristianos/catolicos/elpepusoc/20111103elpepusoc_17/Tes"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/43/masones/espanoles/declaran/cristianos/catolicos/elpepusoc/20111103elpepusoc_17/Tes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2981834276976368606?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2981834276976368606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2981834276976368606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/el-43-de-los-masones-espanoles-se.html' title='El 43% de los masones españoles se declaran cristianos o católicos'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-urIcxzdfW9A/TtCifE1tetI/AAAAAAAAC9g/Db49ir8EVBY/s72-c/espana.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4189142462617243238</id><published>2011-11-26T17:06:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T17:06:54.592+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France'/><title type='text'>Le temple maçonnique lève le voile</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-obsQI6G50/TtCeEkX1UgI/AAAAAAAAC9Q/BHEmu7nHlj4/s1600/temple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-obsQI6G50/TtCeEkX1UgI/AAAAAAAAC9Q/BHEmu7nHlj4/s400/temple.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Secte ? religion ? Société secrète ? Que de préjugés circulent sur la franc-maçonnerie, au Havre comme ailleurs. En réalité, c’est peut-être plus simple que cela : "La franc-maçonnerie, c’est la réunion de personnes de bonne volonté" expliquent de concert Claude et Alain, deux maçons du Havre. Des personnes discrètes plus que secrètes – et pour cause, les francs-maçons furent régulièrement persécutés au cours de l’histoire -, réunis pour travailler sur des thèmes sociétaux avec dans l’idée première de se perfectionner soi-même dans le contexte d’un monde qui évolue; ceci expliquerait cela. Quoi qu’il en soit, il y a, semble-t-il, la volonté d’ouvrir quelques brèches dans la carapace franc-maçonne. C’est ainsi qu’en septembre dernier, le temple maçonnique du Havre ouvrait pour la première fois ses portes au grand public. Ils ne sont pas moins de 1000 à s‘être rendus sur place pour visiter; c’est dire si la curiosité de l’inconscient collectif avait besoin d’être nourrie. Enfin, occasion fut donnée de démythifier la "chose".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.lehavreinfos.fr/2011/11/14/le-temple-maconnique-leve-le-voile/"&gt;http://www.lehavreinfos.fr/2011/11/14/le-temple-maconnique-leve-le-voile/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4189142462617243238?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4189142462617243238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4189142462617243238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/le-temple-maconnique-leve-le-voile.html' title='Le temple maçonnique lève le voile'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-obsQI6G50/TtCeEkX1UgI/AAAAAAAAC9Q/BHEmu7nHlj4/s72-c/temple.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-7236915600898686582</id><published>2011-11-26T17:01:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T17:01:36.215+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rudyard Kipling'/><title type='text'>Rudyard Kipling and Freemasonry</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" class="table_bg" style="background-color: #232850; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="page_bg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;div class="spaced130 justify" style="line-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"&gt;The new book, Man and Mason - Rudyard Kipling, by Richard Jaffa is not just a biographical account of the life of Rudyard Kipling, but centers around his Masonic background.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most intriguing and elusive personalities in English literature. As a 20 year old he became a Freemason and this is the first book that analyses the influence that made on his writing for the rest of his life. It affected the young Kipling and his early stories and also his darker stories that he wrote after the First World War. The book has been praised by the Kipling Society and welcomed on both sides of the Atlantic. It looks at his life history and examines the individual works where Freemasonry has played a major influence.&lt;a href="http://Link/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;http://www.pr.com/press-release/370617&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-7236915600898686582?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7236915600898686582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7236915600898686582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/rudyard-kipling-and-freemasonry.html' title='Rudyard Kipling and Freemasonry'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4780727495873643704</id><published>2011-11-26T16:59:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T16:59:20.058+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Freemasons'/><title type='text'>Time Capsule Opens</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t93jnujqSFQ/TtCcOY__O5I/AAAAAAAAC9I/z04WjdjiGUM/s1600/Macons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t93jnujqSFQ/TtCcOY__O5I/AAAAAAAAC9I/z04WjdjiGUM/s400/Macons.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;One hundred years later, Duplin County relives history. Coins, morning and evening newspapers and civil war bullets were placed inside the time capsule in 1911. It remained closed until today. For Deputy Grandmaster Jackie Robinson, it's a defining moment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;"It really represents what America is," said Robinson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Centuries of Freemason tradition continue in the courthouse. More than 50 people from different generations reflect over the past 100 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;The cornerstone is the most important stone of any building because it is where two walls meet. In this case, it is the symbol of Duplin County.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Kenansville attorney, Charles Ingram, is overwhelmed before delivering his speech. He talks about the symbolism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;"It stands for stability. It stands for permanence. The courthouse as a whole is the symbol of our democracy," said Ingram.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;In&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://Link/"&gt;http://www.wcti12.com/news/29808283/detail.html&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4780727495873643704?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4780727495873643704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4780727495873643704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/time-capsule-opens.html' title='Time Capsule Opens'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t93jnujqSFQ/TtCcOY__O5I/AAAAAAAAC9I/z04WjdjiGUM/s72-c/Macons.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-7222451937791839569</id><published>2011-11-26T12:31:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-26T12:38:27.607+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mestria'/><title type='text'>Mestria</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YJh8KeKy478/TtBee6xXMXI/AAAAAAAAC9A/6rtw_JWveAU/s1600/Hiram_Abif.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YJh8KeKy478/TtBee6xXMXI/AAAAAAAAC9A/6rtw_JWveAU/s400/Hiram_Abif.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A elevação de um &lt;u&gt;Maçom à Mestria&lt;/u&gt; continua dos momentos mais bonitos e sentidos da Arte Real. O seu simbolismo é tão antigo quanto a construção das pirâmides, liga-se aos Antigos Mistérios e coloca-nos perante a inevitabilidade da morte como &lt;u&gt;ritual de passagem&lt;/u&gt;. Nem sempre quem passa por esse cerimonial apreende em toda a sua extensão o que ele significa e que impacto tem no seu "eu". Julgo que só com o tempo e a reflexão isso acontece. Devolve-nos à relatividade da nossa condição humana, ao facto de como dizem as Escrituras &lt;b&gt;virmos do pó e um dia a ele regressarmos&lt;/b&gt;. Para os homens exaltados nasce um outro caminho, porventura mais grandioso, mas para que isso ocorra é indispensável que se continue no bom caminho, numa via de humildade, dedicação, sentido colectivo, esforço e sacrifício. A cultura hodierna de facilitismo e hedonismo nada facilita. Mas para isso cá estamos e muitos se juntam a nós. Outros partem porque o que somos não é exactamente o que procuravam. &lt;i&gt;Bonne journé&lt;/i&gt;. Quando uma Loja se enriquece com novos Mestres é um momento particularmente bonito e as três horas de concentração ficam no fim mais que compensadas. Parece que limpamos dentro de nós as más energias que se foram acumulando. Daqui parte um novo lance da escada mais exigente, mais responsabilizante.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-7222451937791839569?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7222451937791839569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7222451937791839569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/mestria.html' title='Mestria'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YJh8KeKy478/TtBee6xXMXI/AAAAAAAAC9A/6rtw_JWveAU/s72-c/Hiram_Abif.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6984218035711099834</id><published>2011-11-23T13:06:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T15:11:29.922+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria em Portugal'/><title type='text'>Maçonaria em Portugal e Transparência</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MoGmCoDMa0E/TsyOiL3VmxI/AAAAAAAAC84/p5nZ7wCu6fo/s1600/transparence.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MoGmCoDMa0E/TsyOiL3VmxI/AAAAAAAAC84/p5nZ7wCu6fo/s400/transparence.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Novembro de 2011&lt;/strong&gt; ficará na história da Maçonaria portuguesa como o&amp;nbsp;momento em que a Augusta Ordem se tornou mais transparente e visível &lt;u&gt;aos olhos dos seus concidadãos&lt;/u&gt;. Não se escancarou mas revelou à sociedade que os seus membros estão &lt;strong&gt;em todos&lt;/strong&gt; os domínios sociais, em todas as actividades, em todos o planos de exercício da cidadania. Esta conecção da Maçonaria com o mundo profano é histórica e recorrente, já que enquanto escola de formação de carácteres e aperfeiçoamento de homens, a Maçonaria tende a ser uma &lt;u&gt;escola de criação de elites&lt;/u&gt;. Está-lhe na natureza quando evoluiu pelo século XVIII de Maçonaria Operativa para Maçonaria Especulativa. &lt;br /&gt;Essa dimensão cidadã da Maçonaria pairava nos dicursos, nas reflexões, no espaço público, como algo de &lt;strong&gt;sacrílego&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;conspirativo&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;nebuloso&lt;/strong&gt;. Algo que deveria merecer a preocupação do Estado de Direito e que envergonharia os que o eram.&lt;br /&gt;Nesta data a Maçonaria emancipou-se dessa carga negativa, desse ostracismo, dessa pecha.&lt;br /&gt;Está &lt;u&gt;cá dentro&lt;/u&gt; na comunidade dos homens irmanada nos mesmos combates,&amp;nbsp;orientada pelos valores que nos permitem evoluir&amp;nbsp;na direcção do&amp;nbsp;progresso humano,&amp;nbsp;da paz e do desenvolvimento.&lt;br /&gt;Pela primeira vez, desde o 25 de Abril de 1974, constata-se que&amp;nbsp;a Maçonaria Portuguesa é, afinal, formada por homens normais, comuns,&amp;nbsp;que vão sigrando nas suas profissões, nos seus métiers,&amp;nbsp;pelo valor que têm, pelo espírito de liderança que aplicam. Os nomes que surgiram nos dossiers de órgãos de comunicação social são gente&amp;nbsp;comparável a&amp;nbsp;outros que noutros tempos e noutras longitudes se bateram pelo progresso dos seus países, pelos valores que acreditavam&amp;nbsp;ou apenas pela causa da humanidade. Nomes como Wiston Churchill, Salvador Allende, Gerald Ford, Buzz Aldrin, Egas Moniz, Adelino Palma Carlos, Abel Salazar, António Macedo, Eça de Queiroz, Norton de Matos, José Magalhães Godinho, Vitorino Nemésio, etc.&lt;br /&gt;Como mandam os antigos costumes da Maçonaria optaram em liberdade de consciência por se assumirem, ou não, como Maçons. É essa a&amp;nbsp;liberdade que lhes assiste.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-6984218035711099834?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6984218035711099834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6984218035711099834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/maconaria-e-transparencia.html' title='Maçonaria em Portugal e Transparência'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MoGmCoDMa0E/TsyOiL3VmxI/AAAAAAAAC84/p5nZ7wCu6fo/s72-c/transparence.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3158689228830915986</id><published>2011-11-20T19:34:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T19:46:35.728+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Morte'/><title type='text'>Ritual (da morte)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZakXUvjTiYI/TsjYDNSfW8I/AAAAAAAAC8Y/Pios75M1Js8/s1600/PedraTumular.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZakXUvjTiYI/TsjYDNSfW8I/AAAAAAAAC8Y/Pios75M1Js8/s200/PedraTumular.JPG" width="129" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6_Saz7NO3T4/TsjYwPIRgfI/AAAAAAAAC8g/B1N10LQK0tI/s1600/OutroMac%25CC%25A7om.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6_Saz7NO3T4/TsjYwPIRgfI/AAAAAAAAC8g/B1N10LQK0tI/s200/OutroMac%25CC%25A7om.JPG" width="141" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;O ritual da morte perdeu por razões da moral dominante algum do simbolismo e da ritualistica que várias civilizações (os egípcios, os sumeros, os gregos, os romanos, etc) lhe atribuiram ao longo dos séculos. A morte era então &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"&gt;um ritual de passagem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; não o fim do caminho, largava-se o corpo que definhava, retomando a forma do pó (donde brotara) mas a alma libertava-se e subia no firmamento retomando o lugar ao lado dos deuses do Olimpo (e de Zeus) ou descendo às profundezas da terra, zona reservada a Hades. Com a modernidade este simbolismo de passagem perdeu-se, para comodidade dos que ficam que gostam de se convencer que tudo é permitido aqui.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3158689228830915986?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3158689228830915986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3158689228830915986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/ritual.html' title='Ritual (da morte)'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZakXUvjTiYI/TsjYDNSfW8I/AAAAAAAAC8Y/Pios75M1Js8/s72-c/PedraTumular.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5632474206613715890</id><published>2011-11-20T19:28:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T19:29:02.148+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Macau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria em Portugal'/><title type='text'>Maçonaria no mundo lusófono.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WpSe_989aEQ/TsjV7y-a8BI/AAAAAAAAC8M/DTc7eBY6K1Q/s1600/CampaCP.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WpSe_989aEQ/TsjV7y-a8BI/AAAAAAAAC8M/DTc7eBY6K1Q/s200/CampaCP.JPG" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k2g4Z2bV7MM/TsjVuvzubqI/AAAAAAAAC8E/na09g3eniCw/s1600/Camillo+Pessanha+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k2g4Z2bV7MM/TsjVuvzubqI/AAAAAAAAC8E/na09g3eniCw/s200/Camillo+Pessanha+2.jpg" width="147" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Excelente dossier da revista "Sábado" sobre Maçonaria e Primeira República. Noutra longitude quase tudo está por dizer. As peugadas de um poeta (aqui sepultado) podem abrir uma janela, provavelmente a do Sul, porque a luz não pode ser excessiva sob pena de cegar a quem a ela não está habituado. Será mais tarde depois do Solstício do Inverno.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5632474206613715890?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5632474206613715890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5632474206613715890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/maconaria-no-mundo-lusofono.html' title='Maçonaria no mundo lusófono.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WpSe_989aEQ/TsjV7y-a8BI/AAAAAAAAC8M/DTc7eBY6K1Q/s72-c/CampaCP.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-9222213993741838019</id><published>2011-11-15T13:46:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T14:37:38.006+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Igreja'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria'/><title type='text'>Dossier "Maçonaria" do Diário de Notícias</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SAeh5Vdf0M4/TsH50jXoZ4I/AAAAAAAAC78/rQsoGN2f7z0/s1600/CapaDNFM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SAeh5Vdf0M4/TsH50jXoZ4I/AAAAAAAAC78/rQsoGN2f7z0/s400/CapaDNFM.jpg" width="282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Interessante o dossier DN "Maçonaria" de sábado, domingo e segunda que faz uma curiosa viajem ao mundo da Maçonaria. Do ponto de vista contextual a descrição que é feita é precisa, sem grandes erros, sendo notória a preocupação de "revelar", "descobrir" nomes e acontecimentos relacionados com as duas principais Obediências portuguesas: a &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"&gt;Grande Loja Legal de Portugal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/b&gt;e o&lt;b&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"&gt;Grande Oriente Lusitano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Em termos de coerência o melhor compósito é o de sábado, o pior o de domingo, razoável o de segunda-feira. O jornalista Rui Pedro Antunes fez um muito razoável trabalho de investigação e traça, para um profano, um cenário consistente do que é a Augusta Ordem e o que são as Obediências. Provavelmente como resulta do &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;"jornalismo de investigação&lt;/span&gt;" dá à Maçonaria uma influência, uma premeditação, um conciábulo que não existe (ou pelo menos não se connhece). As duas Obediências &lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;ficam bem no retrato&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, sendo claro por outro lado que &lt;b&gt;Fernando Lima&lt;/b&gt;, o Grão-Mestre do GOL, está ainda a "agarrar" o lugar, já que é &lt;b&gt;António Reis&lt;/b&gt; a fazer, quase no exclusivo, as "despesas da conversa". Pelo lado da GLLP, &lt;b&gt;José Manuel Anes&lt;/b&gt; e &lt;b&gt;José Moreno &lt;/b&gt;dividem as intervenções e os comentários. Seria interessante conhecer depoimentos dos ex-Grão-Mestres (da GLLP) ainda vivos mas provavelmente escusaram-se a fazer comentários.&lt;br /&gt;Não sei qual a opinião dos Irmãos mas a Maçonaria sai &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;prestigiada do dossier&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;; as pessoas interessam-se por quem tem influência e o pó de "coscuvilhice" explorado pelo jornal é decisivo para aguçar a curiosidade de quem vê de fora. Haverá seguramente quem sai com a opinião que&lt;i&gt; tudo isto é misterioso e pernicioso para a democracia&lt;/i&gt; mas como ali se diz pela boca do Presidente do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, quanto ao argumento que os magistrados deveriam identificar a sua condição de Maçons por causa do requisito da independência, tudo passa pela consciência do indivíduo em causa. Não é por ser Maçom que coloca em risco o seu julgamento, preferindo uma das partes porque é Maçom ou protegida por Maçom. O mundo não funciona assim. Sobre quem olha a Maçonaria como palco para &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;tráfico de influências&lt;/span&gt;, essa pecha sempre acompanhou a Ordem nos seus 300 anos de existência. O tráfico de influências existe sempre onde há "interesses" e ambições em confronto (logo humanos) porque elas entram num jogo de soma positiva: uns ganham para outros perderem.&lt;br /&gt;A Maçonaria não será diferente nesse particular da Opus Dei, dos clubes desportivos, das corporações, das associações civis, etc. A peça de segunda-feira é pouco equilibrada e retrata uma Maçonaria ainda anticlerical que é apenas a face de uma das Obediências. Passa de lado o facto de não obstante a posição institucional do actual Papa existirem boas relações entre a Maçonaria e as instituições da Igreja, em Portugal. As missões completam-se e não sendo a Maçonaria nem uma Igreja, nem um culto há lugar para homens de todas as fés inclusive sem uma fé institucionalizada. As duas instituições fazem parte da sociedade civil e têm um papel na exteriorização da opinião da sociedade civil. Acarência de uma dimensão espiritual na sociedade dos nossos dias aproxima as duas instituições.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-9222213993741838019?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/9222213993741838019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/9222213993741838019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/dossier-diario-de-noticias.html' title='Dossier &quot;Maçonaria&quot; do Diário de Notícias'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SAeh5Vdf0M4/TsH50jXoZ4I/AAAAAAAAC78/rQsoGN2f7z0/s72-c/CapaDNFM.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4635127140216285395</id><published>2011-11-12T14:07:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T14:11:25.128+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portugal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria'/><title type='text'>More then 80 Freemasons in important positions (in Portugal)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_r9uqC0Iuwk/Tr3_lD0SyEI/AAAAAAAAC70/G3m4sNPtTks/s1600/3_macons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="168" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_r9uqC0Iuwk/Tr3_lD0SyEI/AAAAAAAAC70/G3m4sNPtTks/s400/3_macons.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;The Portuguese diary&lt;i&gt; Diario de Noticias&lt;/i&gt; initiates a series of articles about the influence of Freemasonry in Portuguese society. It is something that the the Craft needs to live with. During sometime the curtains were drop and nothing was unveiled. There is no space for that in modern society and Freemasonry as organization needs to find a way to live side by side with this requirement of transparency that comes from the public.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(...)&lt;u&gt; Mais de 80 maçons em cargos influentes&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A partir de hoje e até segunda-feira, o DN publica um trabalho que desvenda o lado oculto da maçonaria.&lt;br /&gt;Descubra quem são os maçons, o que fazem e como se relacionam. Como os próprios 'irmãos' assumem, uma coisa é certa: "Há maçons em todo o lado".&lt;br /&gt;Um grande debate na tarde de segunda-feira, no Auditório do DN, fecha esta Grande Investigação sobre a maçonaria. O painel de oradores desta conferência-debate inclui figuras da maçonaria portuguesa. Realiza-se entre as 17.00 e as 19.00 e será transmitido em directo no site www.dn.pt.&lt;br /&gt;O livro "O Estado da Saúde" - que resulta de uma investigação publicada no DN entre 1 e 4 de Julho - será lançado a 29 de Novembro. É já o terceiro livro da equipa de investigação do DN, depois de "O Estado a Que o Estado Chegou" e "O Estado do Parlamento".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cimdn.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx"&gt;Leia a primeira parte deste trabalho (12 páginas) no e-paper do DN.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.dn.pt/inicio/tv/interior.aspx?content_id=2115627&amp;amp;seccao=Media"&gt;http://www.dn.pt/inicio/tv/interior.aspx?content_id=2115627&amp;amp;seccao=Media&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4635127140216285395?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4635127140216285395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4635127140216285395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-then-80-freemasons-in-important.html' title='More then 80 Freemasons in important positions (in Portugal)'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_r9uqC0Iuwk/Tr3_lD0SyEI/AAAAAAAAC70/G3m4sNPtTks/s72-c/3_macons.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5440881257702243786</id><published>2011-11-12T13:57:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T13:58:16.927+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Argentina'/><title type='text'>To bring Freemasonry into society, the challenge of Argentinian Freemasons</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ypsKl-UsCOs/Tr384NbEBEI/AAAAAAAAC7s/BaokKtnBNCM/s1600/JorgeClavero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="262" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ypsKl-UsCOs/Tr384NbEBEI/AAAAAAAAC7s/BaokKtnBNCM/s400/JorgeClavero.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;“Queremos llevar la masonería a la sociedad”, consideró hoy el 1er. Gran Maestre de la Masonería Argentina, Jorge Clavero, en declaraciones al programa “Fuentes confiables”, que se emite de lunes a viernes de 9 a 10 por radio AM Líder (1540), con la conducción de Alfredo Goijman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sobre el Observatorio de la Ciudadanía y la visibilidad que está teniendo la masonería en la Argentina, dijo: “queremos llevar a la masonería ala sociedad”. “Hoy los masones somos una sociedad discreta en lugar de secreta”, enfatizó, y agregó: “queremos estar en las universidades”.&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"&gt;El observatorio de la ciudadanía &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;está formados por masones y no masones”, enfatizó, y añadió: “la masonería había llegado a una meseta y ahora los ingresantes son muchos más, sobre todo jóvenes”.&lt;br /&gt;“El promedio de edad de la orden es de 41 años, pero el listado de ingresantes de este año tiene un promedio de 36 años”, dijo y agregó: “los ingresos tiene que ver con que nos abrimos, estamos en la universidad y en los medios”.&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Los jóvenes adhieren a nuestros valores&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; que vine desde la revolución francesa, libertad, igualdad y fraternidad”, dijo, y sostuvo: “en Salta hacemos un congreso de simbolismo y trabajamos sobre la educación y el laicismo”.&lt;br /&gt;“Estamos en todo el país”.&lt;br /&gt;“En EE.UU. la masonería está muy bien y vista y está en la calle, a eso queremos llegar nosotros”, dijo y sostuvo luego: “la masonería siempre estuvo presente en nuestros gobiernos”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In&lt;a href="http://Link/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=133376&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5440881257702243786?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5440881257702243786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5440881257702243786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/to-bring-freemasonry-into-society.html' title='To bring Freemasonry into society, the challenge of Argentinian Freemasons'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ypsKl-UsCOs/Tr384NbEBEI/AAAAAAAAC7s/BaokKtnBNCM/s72-c/JorgeClavero.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8663939836130063645</id><published>2011-11-12T13:52:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T13:52:44.897+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GLDF'/><title type='text'>The vitality of Freemasonry (France)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c42VG5WPR2M/Tr37ibUSF-I/AAAAAAAAC7k/3kPoLJm6uq4/s1600/GLF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="396" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c42VG5WPR2M/Tr37ibUSF-I/AAAAAAAAC7k/3kPoLJm6uq4/s400/GLF.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Week-end maçon. La Grande loge de France "dédicace", comprendre inaugure, en public, son nouveau temple, samedi, à Schiltigheim. Le lendemain, l'obédience installera entre initiés sa 17e&amp;nbsp;loge dans la région (500 à 600&amp;nbsp;frères). Le Grand orient l'imitera, samedi à Strasbourg, en "allumant les feux" de sa 19e&amp;nbsp;loge. Pour son délégué Jacques Sima, l'actualité "prouve la vitalité de la maçonnerie". L'Alsace, un triangle d'or maçonnique ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Il existe ici une forte histoire maçonnique, estime Jacques Sima. "Elle a débuté au XIXe&amp;nbsp;siècle avec les grandes familles industrielles de Mulhouse", raconte Jean-Michel Gerhart de la Grande loge de France. Mais, elle a été, après des hauts et des bas, "arrêtée" dans son élan par la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le nazisme. "&amp;nbsp;Des maçons ont été déportés, les temples pillés", déplore Jean-Michel Gerhart.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Si 70&amp;nbsp;ans plus tard, les esprits ont évolué et qu'une dizaine d'obédiences sont représentées, il subsiste "une frilosité des Alsaciens liée à l'histoire", estime Alain Brau de la Grande loge nationale de France (495&amp;nbsp;frères en Alsace).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;L'image extrême du méchant maçon n'existe plus, mais certains se posent encore des questions, dit Jean-Michel Gerhart. D'où l'utilité de nous ouvrir, de montrer que nous ne sommes pas des sectes."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The rest in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.20minutes.fr/article/820924/franc-maconnerie-ouvre"&gt;http://www.20minutes.fr/article/820924/franc-maconnerie-ouvre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8663939836130063645?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8663939836130063645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8663939836130063645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/vitality-of-freemasonry-france.html' title='The vitality of Freemasonry (France)'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c42VG5WPR2M/Tr37ibUSF-I/AAAAAAAAC7k/3kPoLJm6uq4/s72-c/GLF.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3788175118039454765</id><published>2011-11-12T13:42:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T13:44:23.031+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Silence'/><title type='text'>A disciplina do silêncio (The discipline of silence)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sEl92r5vpGk/Tr35nkMqpmI/AAAAAAAAC7c/26qcKAb_KQE/s1600/silence.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sEl92r5vpGk/Tr35nkMqpmI/AAAAAAAAC7c/26qcKAb_KQE/s320/silence.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Grato ao R. Cruz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;(...) A disciplina do silêncio é um dos ensinamentos fundamentais da Maçonaria. Quem fala muito pensa pouco, rápida e superficialmente, e a Maçonaria quer que seus adeptos se tornem mais pensadores do que faladores.&lt;br /&gt;Não se atinge a Verdade com muitas palavras e discussões, mas sim com o estudo, a reflexão e a meditação silenciosa. Portanto apreender a calar é aprender a pensar e meditar.&lt;br /&gt;Por esta razão a disciplina do silêncio tem uma importância tão grande na escola pitagórica, onde a nenhum discípulo era permitido falar, sob nenhum pretexto, antes de que houvessem transcorrido os três anos de sua aprendizagem, período que corresponde exatamente ao do aprendizado maçônico.&lt;br /&gt;Saber calar não é menos importante que saber falar, e esta última arte não é perfeitamente aprendida antes de que tenhamos nos adestrado na primeira, retificando por meio do esquadro da reflexão todas nossas expressões verbais instintivas.&lt;br /&gt;No silêncio as idéias amadurecem e clareiam, e a Verdade aparece como a Verdadeira Palavra que é comunicada no segredo da alma a cada ser. A Arte do Silêncio é pois, uma arte complexa, que não consiste unicamente em calar a palavra exterior, mas que requer para que seja realmente completa, que também ocorra o silêncio interior do pensamento: quando soubermos calar nossos pensamentos então é quando a Verdade poderá intimamente revelar-se e manifestar-se em nossa consciência.&lt;br /&gt;Para poder realizar esta disciplina do silêncio, temos igualmente de compreender o significado e o alcance do segredo maçônico. O maçom deve calar-se ante as mentalidades superficiais ou profanas sobre tudo aquilo que somente os que forem iniciados em sua compreensão podem entender e apreciar. Por outro lado, os sinais e meios de reconhecimento, e tudo quanto se refere aos trabalhos maçônicos, devem conservar-se no mais absoluto segredo, posto que deste segredo depende a perfeita aplicação, utilidade e eficácia dos mesmos. São estes os meios exteriores ou materiais com os quais está formada e é soldada fazendo-se efetiva, a mística cadeia de solidariedade, que através da Maçonaria abraça toda a superfície da Terra.&lt;br /&gt;Nenhuma razão justificaria que o maçom violasse o segredo ao qual se obrigou com solene juramento, sobre a forma de reconhecimento entre os maçons e o caráter de seus simbólicos trabalhos, nem sequer quando lhe parecer útil para sua própria defesa ou para a defesa da Ordem.&lt;br /&gt;Como os iniciados sempre fizeram, os maçons devem suportar estoicamente e deixar sem resposta as acusações e calúnias das quais forem objeto, esperando com tranqüila segurança que a verdade triunfe e se revela por si mesma, pela própria força inerente a ela, como inevitavelmente sempre ocorre.&lt;br /&gt;O iniciado deve, pois, renunciar sempre à sua própria defesa, quaisquer que possam ser as acusações e ofensas que lhe sejam dirigidas. Deve, além disso, estar disposto a sofrer, se necessário, uma condenação imerecida: Sócrates e Jesus, entre outros, são dois exemplos luminosos, cujo martírio foi transmutado em apoteose. A Verdade que silenciosamente atesta sua conduta, fará de per si, sem dúvida, sua defesa segura e infalível.&lt;br /&gt;No que diz respeito ao ritual maçônico, é certo que boa parte das formalidades em uso na Sociedade não permaneceram inteiramente secretas. Mas, é igualmente certo que não podem ser de utilidade verdadeira senão para os maçons, da mesma maneira que os instrumentos de determinada arte só servem para os obreiros conhecedores e capacitados nessa arte. A grande maioria das obras que tratam de Maçonaria sempre caem, direta ou indiretamente, nas mãos de maçons, que, por outro lado, são os únicos capacitados para realmente entendê-las.&lt;br /&gt;Assim pois, é dever do maçom cuidar de que seja observado o segredo também, naquelas partes do ritual maçônico que possam ter chegado a conhecimento público, abstendo-se de igualmente negar como de confirmar a autenticidade das pretensas revelações encontradas nas obras que tratam de nossa Instituição e que muitas vezes revelam extrema ignorância além de superficialidade.&lt;br /&gt;Quanto ao verdadeiro "segredo maçônico", a sua natureza esotérica coloca-o para sempre ao abrigo dos espíritos superficiais, tanto fora como dentro de nossa Sociedade. Ainda que se possa falar deste segredo com toda clareza em obras similares à presente, quem as escreve bem sabe que sua compreensão e entendimento não podem ir mais além daquilo que lhe tenha sido destinado pela Hierarquia Oculta que governa a Ordem: os que lêem e entendem ou bem são maçons desejosos de conhecer o significado oculto do simbolismo de nossa; Arte, ou bem o são em espíritos superficiais estas obras não exerceram atração alguma. A discrição do maçom que entende os segredos da Arte também deve ser exercida, com os irmãos que não possuem ainda a suficiente maturidade espiritual que é condição necessária para que possam fazer uso proveitoso de suas palavras.&lt;br /&gt;A verdade não serve e não pode ser recebida por aquele que não se encontre ainda em condições de entendê-la, ou prefira viver no erro: todo esforço que for feito para convencê-lo transmutar-se-á em vosso prejuízo pessoal. Deixai, pois, em paz a todos aqueles irmãos sinceros, e muitas vezes entusiastas, que entendam a Maçonaria à sua maneira, com espírito semi-profano, e que se esforçam em praticá-la com boa Vontade, na medida de seu entendimento.&lt;br /&gt;O maçom que conhece a verdadeira palavra deve estar sempre disposto a dar a letra que lhe corresponde quantas vezes esta lhe for pedida. Mas deve esperar sempre que esta letra lhe tenha sido direta ou indiretamente pedida fazendo com que ela esteja em perfeita correspondência e harmonia com a letra encontrada que lhe é dirigida como pergunta. A cada um se responde quando se julga necessário, de acordo com as idéias que ele expressar: não se fazer compreender bem causa dano igualmente a quem fala e a quem escuta.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3788175118039454765?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3788175118039454765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3788175118039454765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/disciplina-do-silencio-discipline-of.html' title='A disciplina do silêncio (The discipline of silence)'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sEl92r5vpGk/Tr35nkMqpmI/AAAAAAAAC7c/26qcKAb_KQE/s72-c/silence.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2161653854077254592</id><published>2011-11-06T13:18:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-06T13:18:50.651+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luz do Oriente'/><title type='text'>Picnic.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0jZUgJBrqlY/TrYKZSKIunI/AAAAAAAAC7Q/0R9vfwVEF5k/s1600/PICNIC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0jZUgJBrqlY/TrYKZSKIunI/AAAAAAAAC7Q/0R9vfwVEF5k/s320/PICNIC.JPG" width="255" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A R:.L:. Luz do Oriente assinala o &lt;u&gt;Equinócio de Outono&lt;/u&gt; com Picnic que reuniu Irmãos e famílias em Coloane. Foram várias horas de convívio num dia primaveril soalheiro, numa combinação luso-brasileira de ementas várias acompanhada com vinho português e com música a preceito da coluna de harmonia do I:. Mestre da Harmonia. Na &lt;i&gt;giração&lt;/i&gt; dos petiscos e das brasas o nosso I:.1o:.V:. fez as honras. As senhoras ajudaram também a tornar os trabalhos "perfeitos". O convívio teve a cereja do bolo no anúncio da chegada de uma sobrinha, nascida no dia anterior, filha de um dos Irmãos mais recentes da Loja. Ao I:., cunhada e sobrinha um abraço de felicitações da Loja e dos Irmãos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2161653854077254592?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2161653854077254592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2161653854077254592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/picnic.html' title='Picnic.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0jZUgJBrqlY/TrYKZSKIunI/AAAAAAAAC7Q/0R9vfwVEF5k/s72-c/PICNIC.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8914488695223968602</id><published>2011-11-01T17:11:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T17:11:55.060+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France'/><title type='text'>Freemasonry in Bretagne</title><content type='html'>"La franc-maçonnerie entre réalité et fiction". Un titre accrocheur pour l'association culturelle d'études maçonniques et symboliques ( ACEMS) qui inaugure ce week-end son premier salon du livre et de la culture sous l'égide de l'Institut Maçonnique de France. &lt;br /&gt;L'objectif affiché par les organisateurs est d'apporter un éclairage nouveau, afin de démystifier le mouvement franc-maçonnique. De nombreuses tables rondes et conférences seront organisées. Elles regrouperont toutes sortes de frères et anciens frères. La franc-maçonnerie en Bretagne, l'enjeu de la franc-maçonnerie féminine ou encore le maçon au travail seront des thèmes qui y seront abordés. Le salon se tiendra à l'Union de la lande , 25 rue Jules Vallès, à St-Jacques-de-la-Lande. Il sera ouvert de 10h à 18h. &lt;a href="http://www.rennes.lemensuel.com/actualite/article/2011/10/28/la-franc-maconnerie-organise-un-salon-du-livre-10164.html"&gt;L'entrée est libre&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8914488695223968602?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8914488695223968602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8914488695223968602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/freemasonry-in-bretagne.html' title='Freemasonry in Bretagne'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-1617060379926453680</id><published>2011-11-01T16:56:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T16:56:54.112+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Freemasonry and Democracy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YaUcK-4C99k/Tq-mGPoGJ9I/AAAAAAAAC6k/J6Kc_MXMS7s/s1600/French+Freemasons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="204px" ida="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YaUcK-4C99k/Tq-mGPoGJ9I/AAAAAAAAC6k/J6Kc_MXMS7s/s320/French+Freemasons.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;An interesting lecture took place in France about the relations between &lt;u&gt;Freemasonry and Democracy&lt;/u&gt; a theme that raises always doubts considering the well-know proibition to have discussion of politics within the Lodges. Is it forbiden to have an active participation in politics and civil society or does that participation take plase without mixing up the individual level with the institutional level? If there is an increasing divorce between the young generations and politics can Freemasonry fulfill a constructive role on this? Many issues to deserve reflexion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Une conférence intéressante a été récemment donnée, devant un parterre d'une vingtaine de personnes, à la salle des fêtes de Villenauxe-la-Grande par &lt;strong&gt;Marcel Pinon&lt;/strong&gt;, représentant de la Grande Loge de France :&amp;nbsp;"Le but est de faire connaître la franc-maçonnerie, autrement que par les idées reçues et les articles, montrer ce qu'elle peut représenter dans la société actuelle."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marcel Pinon a présenté l'historique de la franc-maçonnerie et de la Grande Loge, dont la création remonte à 1688, son évolution et ce qu'on peut en attendre aujourd'hui. Basée à l'origine sur les principes de construction, la maçonnerie a évolué vers la recherche spirituelle, avec une démarche de compréhension du monde afin de construire sa vie et de construire la société. Pour Marcel Pinon,&amp;nbsp;" la Grande Loge de France affiche une volonté de puiser dans la tradition pour comprendre la nature humaine. C'est un regard sur la philosophie, les religions, l'existence et le monde, sans prendre parti." L'humanisme est, avec la spiritualité, le domaine de recherche, de réflexion et d'engagement des maçons de la Grande Loge. Il est à la base de leurs convictions éthiques d'ouverture et d'universalité.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lest-eclair.fr/article/societe/la-franc-maconnerie-ecole-de-la-democratie"&gt;The rest here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-1617060379926453680?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1617060379926453680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1617060379926453680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/freemasonry-and-democracy.html' title='Freemasonry and Democracy'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YaUcK-4C99k/Tq-mGPoGJ9I/AAAAAAAAC6k/J6Kc_MXMS7s/s72-c/French+Freemasons.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4815918851835525382</id><published>2011-11-01T16:33:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T16:33:35.617+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>Franco and the Cemitery of Bunol</title><content type='html'>Franco, the Spanish dictator,&amp;nbsp;considered&amp;nbsp;the Freemasons enemies of the State and of the Holy Church. It is known today that as young official of the Army he tried to enter the Craft but his proposal was rejected by the Brethren; he never forgive it and persecuted and enjailed its members. But in some places in Spain, the Freemasons managed to have its members ritually buried and the place of rest symbolicaly decorated. Here the report of one of this places in &lt;strong&gt;Bunol&lt;/strong&gt; (Valencia):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Para Franco los masones fueron una obsesión. En su ideario político no había cabida para este grupo y así lo manifestaba con mucha frecuencia en sus discursos, donde hacía referencia a la "conspiración judeomasónica".&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Esta obsesión fue tan manifiesta, que el 21 de diciembre de 1938, Franco, publicó un decreto ordenando que todas las inscripciones o símbolos de carácter masónico o que pudieran molestar a la iglesia católica fueran eliminados de todos los cementerios de la zona nacional en el plazo de dos meses. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.levante-emv.com/comarcas/2011/11/01/cementerio-mason-bunol/853089.html"&gt;The rest here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4815918851835525382?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4815918851835525382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4815918851835525382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/11/franco-and-cemitery-of-bunol.html' title='Franco and the Cemitery of Bunol'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6469768360444178251</id><published>2011-10-28T15:03:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T15:06:06.273+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freemasonry'/><title type='text'>Masonic Research</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v9WhXl3QaE4/TqpF6yDVHVI/AAAAAAAAC6U/3jsAmYMI6sM/s1600/livros.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v9WhXl3QaE4/TqpF6yDVHVI/AAAAAAAAC6U/3jsAmYMI6sM/s400/livros.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We have updated the&lt;u&gt; area of links&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;(right side) including now links to revues and magazines that may help Freemasons working in works of architecture or looking to deep new subjects of the Royal Art. Unfortunatly these publications are still very restricted or even secretive what is not too healthy for the progress of our art. There is a new generation of workers that needs to be call to work from refreshment and allow them to fly and observe the masonic landscape and also the inner works. We need open mind within the ranks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-6469768360444178251?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6469768360444178251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6469768360444178251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/10/research.html' title='Masonic Research'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v9WhXl3QaE4/TqpF6yDVHVI/AAAAAAAAC6U/3jsAmYMI6sM/s72-c/livros.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3814378770856367456</id><published>2011-10-27T18:47:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-10-27T18:52:15.137+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fernando Pessoa'/><title type='text'>Sê grande</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SpAKkxoEl9M/Tqkpu00z14I/AAAAAAAAC6M/r5RWV1CtJUw/s1600/fernando-pessoa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ida="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SpAKkxoEl9M/Tqkpu00z14I/AAAAAAAAC6M/r5RWV1CtJUw/s1600/fernando-pessoa.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Aos que se perdem no caminho por causa do caminho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Para ser grande, sê inteiro&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada&lt;br /&gt;Teu exagera ou exclui.&lt;br /&gt;Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és&lt;br /&gt;No mínimo que fazes.&lt;br /&gt;Assim em cada lago a lua toda&lt;br /&gt;Brilha, porque alta vive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ricardo Reis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3814378770856367456?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3814378770856367456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3814378770856367456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/10/se-grande.html' title='Sê grande'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SpAKkxoEl9M/Tqkpu00z14I/AAAAAAAAC6M/r5RWV1CtJUw/s72-c/fernando-pessoa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8480004799668234222</id><published>2011-10-25T13:08:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-10-25T13:21:28.891+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Craft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transparency'/><title type='text'>Openess in an Era of transparency</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5TC_XywAFtU/TqY3BEsWDAI/AAAAAAAAC6E/ABNxgTLSRys/s1600/Droit+Human.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ida="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5TC_XywAFtU/TqY3BEsWDAI/AAAAAAAAC6E/ABNxgTLSRys/s1600/Droit+Human.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;There is an effort from different Constituencies to turn Freemasonry more visible and transparent. It seems a struggle difficult to face as within the Craft officers are not used to act in consideration to the public but basically to members. This is a change of attitude that these new times of globalization, Internet, Facebook communities require. We cannot have the traditional outlook of an Order of old-fashion guys gathered to make ancient rituals and have some drinks and food at the end if we are in time of gentlemen exclusive clubs. The world outside demand from us another “state of mind” as the song of Billy Joel concedes. &lt;br /&gt;This month, two responsibles of French Orders, the&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lesnouvelles.pf/article/ca-fait-la-une/lumiere-sur-la-franc-maconnerie"&gt;Grand Loge&amp;nbsp;de France&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vivre-a-chalon.com/lire_CHALON-_-Les-Macons-jouent-Franc-jeu,2303a5c8b89256775074f67fefe8532470f90cc4.html"&gt;Le Droit Human&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are interviewed by well-known French newspapers. Much of they say is probably assumed by most of us in the Grand Legal Lodge of Portugal. A need to change, to be akin to the rifts of these present times, the challenge to attract new people and inject new blood, the way to match tradition with modernity. Every Craft looks for its own answers expressing the average mood of their members. There are no exceptional or bad answers, just different. I am convinced that we have to learn a lot from each other respecting our singularity and values. We are all creations of the Grand Architect and we look as&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Jesus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; said for different ways to reach Him, knowing that someday we will be called to Him and respond for what we did in our lifetime for His Glory and our fellow-citizens happiness. In this regard some will fail and others will succeed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8480004799668234222?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8480004799668234222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8480004799668234222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/10/openess-in-era-of-transparency.html' title='Openess in an Era of transparency'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5TC_XywAFtU/TqY3BEsWDAI/AAAAAAAAC6E/ABNxgTLSRys/s72-c/Droit+Human.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3584401586946396185</id><published>2011-10-18T11:09:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-10-18T11:14:57.331+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Morals'/><title type='text'>Relativity and vanity.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kF9NAPol7Wg/TpzhFe0jLfI/AAAAAAAAC58/EqvSfR99vMY/s1600/human+life.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="307" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kF9NAPol7Wg/TpzhFe0jLfI/AAAAAAAAC58/EqvSfR99vMY/s400/human+life.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The relativity of life make us think on the purposes of the GAOTU towards this world and community of men. If He has a global purpose to the human race is to put it under test, submitting its&amp;nbsp;will to proves of feasibility and endurance,&amp;nbsp;dig for the real reasons below the rose-like appearances. We, Freemasons, believe in its Existence, make Him the overall concept of aim and&amp;nbsp;purpose that cherishes and strengths the best that we have inside us. This challenge of GATU it is not easy to follow as it requires new improvements in the struggles that we have with ourselves, our fears, our ambitions, our desires, our sense of power, unconditional power. In this struggle, as anything in life, there are winners and losers. Some of us reach the Light, others surrender to the futilities of modern life, where consumerism or&amp;nbsp;hypocrisy reigns. We call it &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;polish the stone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, a task that seems easy to face but as the expression means requires patience, endeavour, rightfulness and&amp;nbsp;faith. It is a all-day battle, a every age struggle. In this pathway we become more humble, less&amp;nbsp;demanding&amp;nbsp;from others&amp;nbsp;but more akin to what is really important in human life: truth, friendship, love, solidarity, work and reward, moral retribution. This is what really matters; the rest is just vanity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3584401586946396185?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3584401586946396185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3584401586946396185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/10/relativity-and-vanity.html' title='Relativity and vanity.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kF9NAPol7Wg/TpzhFe0jLfI/AAAAAAAAC58/EqvSfR99vMY/s72-c/human+life.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4308867998440611345</id><published>2011-10-13T13:34:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T13:36:27.713+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cadeia de União'/><title type='text'>Cadeia da União</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HTdZpjnfIoY/TpZqFTfEjtI/AAAAAAAAC50/i8G5zj7hUFA/s1600/stonehenge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="263px" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HTdZpjnfIoY/TpZqFTfEjtI/AAAAAAAAC50/i8G5zj7hUFA/s400/stonehenge.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A rotina em que por vezes caiem os trabalhos maçonicos leva a que se perca a verdadeira dimensão simbólica do que se vai fazendo em Templo. A cadeia de união é uma delas. Representa a união de todos os maçons, designadamente os obreiros da Loja, à volta dos ideais de Paz, Fraternidade, Caridade e Amizade Fraterna. Reunidos como elos individuais desse círculo sagrado acreditamos que ao elevarmos as nossas preces ao Grande Arquitecto, à Soberana Divindade, geramos ondas de energia positivas capazes de ajudar aqueles a quem dirigimos a prece a encontrar a paz dentro de&amp;nbsp;si próprios, o calento para a dor, a firmeza de espírito para ultrapassar as dificuldades mais intransponíveis. Nesta nossa particular Cadeia de União um nosso Irmão está presentemente em sofrimento. Que o Grande Arquitecto do Universo em toda o seu Amor e Sabedoria o ilumine e o proteja. O seus Irmãos estão com ele irmanados na dor. &lt;br /&gt;Gama, V:.M:.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4308867998440611345?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4308867998440611345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4308867998440611345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/10/cadeia-da-uniao.html' title='Cadeia da União'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HTdZpjnfIoY/TpZqFTfEjtI/AAAAAAAAC50/i8G5zj7hUFA/s72-c/stonehenge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8355923649440639439</id><published>2011-10-10T16:09:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T16:11:58.977+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GODF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UGLE'/><title type='text'>UGLE and GODF</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MNWSyKcxNUo/TpKaqDT-YQI/AAAAAAAAC5o/QpKsg9o4qek/s1600/GOF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212px" kca="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MNWSyKcxNUo/TpKaqDT-YQI/AAAAAAAAC5o/QpKsg9o4qek/s320/GOF.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;A visit of a Past-Grand Official of the UGLE to the French larger masonic Obedience (not recognized) raises questions about its truly intent and eventual consequences. It is the first time in decades that some semi-official contact is made between UGLE and GODF.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le 9 novembre 2011, un "passé Grand Officier" de la Grande Loge Unie d’Angleterre (GLUA), proche d’un très haut dignitaire actif, doit venir plancher au siège du Grand Orient de France (GODF) lors d’une tenue qualifiée d’historique, sur le thème : "Le chemin spirituel de la Franc-Maçonnerie, essai d’approche comparée vers la convergence". Le frère anglais répond à l’invitation d’une seule Loge -L’Internationale (Rite Français)- mais elle a fait les choses en grand : le temple Groussier a été réservé, le plus spacieux du siège du GODF… et il pourrait bien refuser du monde ! L’obédience n’est pas officiellement puissance invitante, mais le Grand Maître Guy Arcizet a d’ores et déjà assuré les organisateurs de sa présence à l’Orient. &lt;a href="http://blogs.lexpress.fr/lumiere-franc-macon/2011/10/08/un-frere-de-la-glua-va-plancher-rue-cadet-le-godf-annonce-une-tenue-historique/"&gt;In L'Express&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8355923649440639439?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8355923649440639439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8355923649440639439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/10/ugle-and-godf.html' title='UGLE and GODF'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MNWSyKcxNUo/TpKaqDT-YQI/AAAAAAAAC5o/QpKsg9o4qek/s72-c/GOF.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-573216244598641949</id><published>2011-10-10T15:52:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-10-10T15:52:44.170+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freemasonry'/><title type='text'>Diversity</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"&gt;The privilege of receiving visitors gives the chance to see how others practice freemasonry. Not being a Church or even a spiritual creed Freemasonry doesn’t have a unified dogma or even standardized rituals. Within each school of thought, if we may entitle it, there are different ways to practice the ritual and the passwords and secret words, or even the sign and the grips are different. In our tradition the recognition is done by doing the grip and asking the password of Entered Apprentice. Sometimes the response matches what we are waiting for, other times no. It is amazing. There is always an instant of surprise in it. This what makes the Royal Art so daring and brave. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-573216244598641949?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/573216244598641949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/573216244598641949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/10/diversity.html' title='Diversity'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3131901196538684496</id><published>2011-10-01T13:56:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T13:56:04.523+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mexico'/><title type='text'>Mexican freemasonry meets</title><content type='html'>Esta mañana, en sesión solemne, el Congreso del estado entregó un reconocimiento a la Gran Logia Suroeste del Estado de Colima, por ser una institución progresista, filosófica, filantrópica y humanista dedicada al estudio de los valores morales, a la práctica de las virtudes y a la formación de ciudadanos solidarios y responsables.&lt;br /&gt;Alfredo Hernández Ramos, presidente de la Comisión Permanente del Congreso del estado, ponderó que los principales avances y desarrollo en lo social, político y económico, en mucho se deben al grupo de mujeres y de hombres integrantes de la masonería que, anteponiendo el bienestar de sus congéneres, han dado lo mejor de sí para el engrandecimiento del pueblo de Colima.&lt;br /&gt;Agregó que, Benito Juárez, Manuel Álvarez, Ramón R. de la Vega, Griselda Álvarez, Miguel de la Madrid, Gustavo Vázquez y la mayoría de los Personajes Ilustres y de las y los representantes populares que tenido el Congreso del estado han sido, a lo largo de la historia de Colima, integrantes destacados de grupos masones, que con sus fórmulas internas rescata lo mejor de la esencia de cada ser humano.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3131901196538684496?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3131901196538684496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3131901196538684496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/10/mexican-freemasonry-meets.html' title='Mexican freemasonry meets'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6623071448966092165</id><published>2011-10-01T13:50:00.004+09:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T13:51:50.127+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Puerto Rico'/><title type='text'>Puerto Rico Freemasonry plant acacias</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #494949; font-family: Tahoma; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 0.8em !important; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OjyitWe8aRk/ToacRpghy6I/AAAAAAAAC5k/V61DRUjwe4g/s1600/puerto+rico.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OjyitWe8aRk/ToacRpghy6I/AAAAAAAAC5k/V61DRUjwe4g/s1600/puerto+rico.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Con una ceremonia llena de simbolismo, la Gran Logia Soberana de Puerto Rico comenzó &amp;nbsp;la celebración de la semana de la masonería puertorriqueña con la siembra de un árbol de acacia el domingo en el Jardín Botánico William Miranda Marín, en&amp;nbsp; Caguas.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #494949; font-family: Tahoma; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;“La acacia tiene un simbolismo muy importante para los masones porque representa entre muchas otras cosas, la inmortalidad del alma”, indicó&amp;nbsp; Miguel Pereira, historiador de la Gran Logia Soberana de Puerto Rico.&amp;nbsp;Pereira destacó que la semana de la masonería puertorriqueña es un evento que se ha venido celebrando por los pasados&amp;nbsp; siete años y que coincide con el aniversario 126 de la creación de la Gran Logia Soberana de Puerto Rico, fundada el 21 de septiembre de 1885 por Santiago R. Palmer.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #494949; font-family: Tahoma; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Como parte de la conmemoración, el domingo también se entregó la medalla Antonio Rodríguez Rodríguez a la excelencia académica al “Venerable Maestro” Luis René Gómez, de la Logia Unión y Amparo de Caguas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #494949; font-family: Tahoma; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;In&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.elnuevodia.com/masonescelebransusemana-1072064.htm"&gt;http://www.elnuevodia.com/masonescelebransusemana-1072064.htm&lt;/a&gt;l&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-6623071448966092165?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6623071448966092165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6623071448966092165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/10/puerto-rico-freemasonry-plant-acacias.html' title='Puerto Rico Freemasonry plant acacias'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OjyitWe8aRk/ToacRpghy6I/AAAAAAAAC5k/V61DRUjwe4g/s72-c/puerto+rico.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-1563673862135200083</id><published>2011-09-26T14:28:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T14:34:05.396+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Symbols'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scottish Rite'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Symbolism'/><title type='text'>Jornadas do Patrimonio (a Francomaconaria)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6hGXfPnmlRE/ToAOf0P-0uI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/gMnoRhQ2pwo/s1600/simbolos+maconicos.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6hGXfPnmlRE/ToAOf0P-0uI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/gMnoRhQ2pwo/s1600/simbolos+maconicos.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In Le Gazette'info&lt;br /&gt;L’an passé, le temple de la Grande loge de France avait attiré de très nombreux visiteurs. Les francs-maçons ont donc décidé de rouvrir exceptionnellement leurs portes. Mais avant d’effectuer cette plongée dans ce monde si particulier, un maître maçon propose un lexique des symboles visibles dans le temple.&lt;br /&gt;L’oeil au milieu d’un triangle : « Il symbolise le Grand architecte de l’univers. C’est un concept déiste et pas théiste. Dans la tradition maçonnique, c’est l’œil qui voit tout. En quelque sorte, cela peut être l’œil de la conscience. »&lt;br /&gt;Le pavé mosaïque : « Il représente l’alternance du blanc et du noir que l’on retrouve dans la vie quotidienne. C’est un va-et-vient entre une grande joie, et le doute et la tristesse. L’idéal serait de marcher sur une ligne, d’une épaisseur de lame de rasoir, sans tomber ni dans le noir, ni dans le blanc. »&lt;br /&gt;Les trois colonnes : « Elles symbolisent la sagesse, la force, et la beauté. Sous ces trois invocations, nous ouvrons les travaux.&lt;br /&gt;Le fil à plomb : « Il est au-dessus du pavé mosaïque. Il est relié à l’étoile polaire. Il nous fait passer du plan horizontal du temple, au plan vertical de la spiritualité. Ce fil nous relie aussi à l’univers se trouvant au-dessus, avec la voûte étoilée. Un temple maçonnique n’est jamais terminé. C’est pour cela que l’on retrouve le symbole des étoiles au plafond. Cela signifie que le temple n’est pas couvert. »&lt;br /&gt;The rest here &lt;a href="http://www.gazetteinfo.fr/2011/09/16/journees-du-patrimoine-les-symboles/"&gt;http://www.gazetteinfo.fr/2011/09/16/journees-du-patrimoine-les-symboles/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-1563673862135200083?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1563673862135200083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1563673862135200083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/jornadas-do-patrim.html' title='Jornadas do Patrimonio (a Francomaconaria)'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6hGXfPnmlRE/ToAOf0P-0uI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/gMnoRhQ2pwo/s72-c/simbolos+maconicos.bmp' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5944133178346507667</id><published>2011-09-26T14:25:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T14:27:07.518+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Templars'/><title type='text'>Des Templiers à la Franc-Maçonnerie, aux éditions Trajectoire</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CWtiNgYr7q4/ToANHq9rN5I/AAAAAAAAC5M/aTLUUFXh_xo/s1600/Templiers.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CWtiNgYr7q4/ToANHq9rN5I/AAAAAAAAC5M/aTLUUFXh_xo/s320/Templiers.bmp" width="213px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Peut-on établir une filiation directe ou indirecte entre &lt;u&gt;l'Ordre du Temple&lt;/u&gt; et la &lt;u&gt;Franc-maçonnerie&lt;/u&gt; ? Pourquoi la littérature maçonnique fait-elle l'impasse sur cette transmission ? Certainement du fait de sa profonde complexité. &lt;strong&gt;Jacques Rolland&lt;/strong&gt; nous propose, dans ce remarquable essai, fruit d'innombrables recherches, une étude sur la lente émergence de la maçonnerie à partir du phénomène templier. Aussi paradoxal que cela puisse paraître, alors que l'on croyait l'Ordre du Temple disparu dans les flammes des buchers, il allait essaimer plus largement encore qu'il ne l'avait fait de son vivant. Il léguait en héritage pour les siècles à venir ses idéaux et ses valeurs. Si la cathédrale des tailleurs de pierres est gothique, elle est plus encore Templière, pour avoir mis les hommes debout et en état de marche, car la véritable mission que s'étaient donnés les Templiers n'était-elle pas justement de provoquer une révolution sociale et économique ? L'héritage, telle une pierre précieuse, se retrouve entre les mains des Francs-Maçons. &lt;br /&gt;Jacques Rolland est reconnu comme l'un des &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;meilleurs spécialistes français de l'Ordre du Temple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Il est l'auteur d'ouvrages de référence sur ce sujet : "L'Ordre Noir des Templiers", aux éditions Traditionnelles, "Les Templiers du Troisième Cercle", aux éditions Dervy, "L'Assassinat programmé des Templiers", aux éditions La Table d'Emeraude, "Les Grand Maîtres de l'Ordre du Temple", aux éditions Dervy et enfin, "Les Templiers – Les Archives secrètes du Vatican", et "Le véritable trésor des Templiers", aux éditions Trajectoire.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5944133178346507667?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5944133178346507667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5944133178346507667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/des-templiers-la-franc-maconnerie-aux.html' title='Des Templiers à la Franc-Maçonnerie, aux éditions Trajectoire'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CWtiNgYr7q4/ToANHq9rN5I/AAAAAAAAC5M/aTLUUFXh_xo/s72-c/Templiers.bmp' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-7520858980065604588</id><published>2011-09-26T14:20:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T14:20:58.207+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Australia'/><title type='text'>Three degrees (Australia)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gBVS0TfcX4A/ToALk4ZhqoI/AAAAAAAAC5I/0P2f-f56DeA/s1600/Gary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="200px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gBVS0TfcX4A/ToALk4ZhqoI/AAAAAAAAC5I/0P2f-f56DeA/s200/Gary.jpg" width="190px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Freemasonry is the largest fraternity in the world. Its members say it is neither a religion nor a cult. It has more than five million members worldwide and numbers continue to grow. Charlotte Azzopardi unravels the secrets behind the mysterious group.&lt;br /&gt;"People seem to think it’s a secret, but it’s not,’’ says John Burgess, a freemason for 50 years.&lt;br /&gt;‘‘There’s little bits and pieces of it that are distinctly peculiar to Freemasonry that only freemasons know. But if you go on the internet you can find whatever you like about it.’’ &lt;br /&gt;But it wasn’t always like that. Rumours that it was a secret cult, religion or world government were whispered behind the backs of men who gathered, dressed in identical clothing, for reasons no one knew.&lt;br /&gt;Today that’s something freemasons laugh off.&lt;br /&gt;‘‘It’s a shame people think like that,’’ says Darley resident Gary Vaughan. ‘‘I’ve told people I’m a freemason. Some of them are intrigued and some people say I’m in a cult. It’s not a cult. It’s nothing like that. It’s not about religion either.’’&lt;br /&gt;Freemasons promote a way of life that brings like-minded men together in a brotherhood. The principles are based on tolerance, equality, charity, honour, morality and self-development.&lt;br /&gt;Mr Vaughan, 34, is relatively new to Freemasonry, having just completed the three degrees required to become a master mason — the entry level rank in the lodge.&lt;br /&gt;But it’s something that he grew up knowing about. His uncle, cousins and brothers are freemasons in England.&lt;br /&gt;‘‘It’s something I always thought I wanted to do ... I’m interested in the history side of it and the so-called secrets were intriguing to learn. They’re not hardcore secrets, just a way of identifying fellow freemasons.&lt;br /&gt;‘‘My older brother is quite proud that I’ve joined. I’m going home [to England] in March and he wants me to see his lodge. We’ve got a lot of respect for each other as freemasons. It’s not the sort of thing people do every day.’’&lt;br /&gt;At monthly meetings men gather at the lodge, practising ceremonies for upcoming initiations, teaching younger freemasons, and listening to their colleagues deliver speeches on chosen topics.&lt;br /&gt;The idea behind the requirement to deliver speeches — known as ‘‘charges’’ — in front of the lodge to fellow masons is to teach members how to speak publicly, sometimes in front of hundreds of people.&lt;br /&gt;Freemasons are benevolent people. They have raised thousands of dollars for charity. It’s just they don’t talk about it. It’s there to benefit the community, through freemasons’ homes, hospitals and aged care places.&lt;br /&gt;‘‘It teaches good men to be better,’’ Mr Vaughan says. ‘‘You’re surrounded by good people who have done the same initiations as you and the same work. It keeps you in check with yourself and you learn from good people.’’&lt;br /&gt;Conclusive records on the beginnings of Freemasonry don’t exist. Some scholars argue that it can be traced as far back as the 1300s. The most widely held belief is that modern Freemasonry evolved from the stonemasons’ guilds in 17th century England.&lt;br /&gt;The theory suggests that guilds started the movement to admit non-craftsmen to help spread moral and spiritual ideas.&lt;br /&gt;The rest here &lt;a href="http://www.humeweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/freemasons-three-degrees-of-revelation/2300822.aspx?storypage=0"&gt;http://www.humeweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/freemasons-three-degrees-of-revelation/2300822.aspx?storypage=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-7520858980065604588?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7520858980065604588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7520858980065604588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/three-degrees-australia.html' title='Three degrees (Australia)'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gBVS0TfcX4A/ToALk4ZhqoI/AAAAAAAAC5I/0P2f-f56DeA/s72-c/Gary.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6447882928746046418</id><published>2011-09-26T14:13:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T14:13:03.301+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Athletes'/><title type='text'>Athlete Freemasons</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FBmO2Tjjaqs/ToAJy_hnRjI/AAAAAAAAC5E/t0ryiaWY7Po/s1600/shaq-nba-sports-retirement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="150px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FBmO2Tjjaqs/ToAJy_hnRjI/AAAAAAAAC5E/t0ryiaWY7Po/s200/shaq-nba-sports-retirement.jpg" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;They aren't as powerful as politicians. They aren't as rich as CEOs. And they aren't as smart as Rhodes Scholars. But for whatever reason, athletes are consistently members of the world's most elite secret societies. The oldest and most famous of those societies — Freemasonry — is no exception.&lt;br /&gt;For over 100 years, America's athletes have been active masons. They play a variety of sports and come from a variety of backgrounds, but they all took the secret oath.&lt;br /&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/athlete-freemasons-2011-9#ixzz1Z24KXqR4"&gt;http://www.businessinsider.com/athlete-freemasons-2011-9#ixzz1Z24KXqR4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-6447882928746046418?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6447882928746046418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6447882928746046418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/athlete-freemasons.html' title='Athlete Freemasons'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FBmO2Tjjaqs/ToAJy_hnRjI/AAAAAAAAC5E/t0ryiaWY7Po/s72-c/shaq-nba-sports-retirement.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6658456277850244354</id><published>2011-09-22T11:30:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-22T11:47:51.581+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luz do Oriente'/><title type='text'>Nota na primeira pessoa do singular</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uAW3kiPwppM/Tnqhsw4V93I/AAAAAAAAC5A/67LPrVN5EGc/s1600/alguma+luz.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hca="true" height="263px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uAW3kiPwppM/Tnqhsw4V93I/AAAAAAAAC5A/67LPrVN5EGc/s400/alguma+luz.bmp" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="PT" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Vivo numa parte do mundo em que os problemas e dificuldades são tidos por desafios, oportunidades para se começar outra vez. Creio ser uma forma positiva de encararmos as dificuldades e raciocinarmos sempre em termos de novos objectivos a concretizar. Uma Ordem como a nossa não pode deixar de ter essa aposta, sob pena de se deixar trucidar pelos pequenos acidentes do dia-a-dia, pelas incompreensões, pelas ambições de alguns, ou a má fé de outros. Uma das coisas que nos dá segurança é esta coisa da &lt;strong&gt;Tradição &lt;/strong&gt;do facto de andarmos nesta caminhada há quê? 300 anos? E continuarmos o nosso caminho &lt;em&gt;malgré tout&lt;/em&gt;. Neste próximo Sábado, a Oriente de Lisboa, os Veneráveis Mestres da nossa Augusta Ordem serão ouvidos pelo Grão-Mestre numa coisa essencial e que muitas vezes esquecemos quando a certo ponto da nossa iniciação nos é mostrada a imagem de nós próprios: a capacidade de perdoarmos e nos reconciliarmos. Acho que há sempre razões, processos e melindres mas se somos sinceros connosco próprios devemos antes de tudo seguir o sentido do nosso coração. Somos felizmente homens de coração e de paixão, não máquinas de ritualistica. Deus nos livre! O que significa que somos iguais aos Homens e Mulheres que passam ali à nossa frente, e teremos o mesmo fim: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dust to dust&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; ashes to ashes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;As agruras da vida mostraram-me esta relatividade e forçaram-me a pensar desta forma. Provavelmente envelheci, mas acho dentro de mim que me&amp;nbsp;passei a ater ao que é essencial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Confio, portanto, nos meus Irmãos que ali reunirão a &lt;u&gt;Oriente de Lisboa&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Quanto ao mais temos um novo Ano Maçónico a começar e&amp;nbsp;mais gente a mostrar a Luz e a fazer progredir nesta Augusta Arte que é a nossa. A maioria ficará, mas alguns perceberão que estão enganados, que não temos aqui o que eles procuram, nem glória, nem riqueza, nem mecanismos de sucesso, nem empregos, nem poder. É normal que assim seja e neste processo vamos fortalecendo as nossas raízes porque árvore com raízes débeis está condenada a ser tombada ao primeiro vendaval. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;A &lt;u&gt;Oriente de Macau&lt;/u&gt; prosseguiremos idêntico processo, consolidando as colunas com sangue novo que vai surgindo. Alguém me perguntava um dia destes porque é que sendo a Maçonaria tão antiga em Macau (e ela data do século XVIII) porque é que não perdurou de forma significativa até aos nossos dias? Talvez porque nem sempre se percebe o sentido mais profundo da Arte que praticamos, porque se não tem a curiosidade de conhecer mais e melhor e os outros aspectos mais lúdicos do convívio escapam-se entre os dedos da mão, porque hoje há outras alternativas, talvez menos envolventes e exigentes para quem procura apenas um espaço e um tempo para &lt;u&gt;escapar à rotina&lt;/u&gt;. Mas talvez mais curioso que as Lojas que abatem colunas sejam precisamente aquelas que teimam em levantar colunas quando as condições não são as mais estimulantes ou favoráveis. Teimosia? Provavelmente. Consciência do que podemos deixar? Igualmente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="PT" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Assim acontece com a &lt;strong&gt;R:.L:. do Oriente n.o 80&lt;/strong&gt;. Bons trabalhos Meus Irmãos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="PT" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;À GGADU.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="PT" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Gama, V:.M:.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-6658456277850244354?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6658456277850244354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6658456277850244354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/nota-na-primeira-pessoa-do-singular.html' title='Nota na primeira pessoa do singular'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uAW3kiPwppM/Tnqhsw4V93I/AAAAAAAAC5A/67LPrVN5EGc/s72-c/alguma+luz.bmp' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4742900134942213293</id><published>2011-09-16T19:15:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-16T19:15:00.704+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scottish Rite'/><title type='text'>THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: S. Brent Morris</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZrBfbbSjftY/TnMhjanCAgI/AAAAAAAAC48/EnbvvAaQBwU/s1600/morris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZrBfbbSjftY/TnMhjanCAgI/AAAAAAAAC48/EnbvvAaQBwU/s320/morris.jpg" width="214px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Morris is a cryptologic mathematician and author and expert on Freemasonry. He is the D.C.-based managing editor of the Scottish Rite Journal of the Supreme Council. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is Freemasonry?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a fraternity, in the term of Delta Sigma Phi at college, or the Moose Lodge, or the Knights of Columbus. We've got about 1.3 million members and 10,000 lodges in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aren't a few presidents and other notable people Freemasons?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fourteen presidents have been Freemasons. Gerald Ford was the most recent. George Washington was a Freemason, as was Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, the Marquis de Lafayette and Henry Ford. Harry Houdini was also a Freemason, and so is Richard Dreyfuss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did the Freemasons develop such a mysterious reputation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original Freemasons were a trade guild, and the earliest lodge minutes we have, from 1588 in Edinburgh, Scotland, they are reprimanding one of their members for hiring a non-lodge member.&lt;br /&gt;But by 1717 in London, it's gentlemen who are running the lodges, they are not working with their hands or in connection with the building trades. One of the great mysteries of the history of Freemasons is just what exactly happened to cause this transition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a secret handshake?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They had secret means of identifying each other, like secret handshakes and passwords. That is because they had to travel to do their work. If you are going to maintain any kind of union consistency of tradesmen and craftsmen, you have to have a way to identify members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any truth to the Freemason conspiracy theories?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You read stories that we are trying to infiltrate the government and run it for ourselves, but that's not true. The reputation is a whole lot bigger than the reality.&lt;br /&gt;-- Susan Ferrechio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;In &lt;a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/people/2011/09/3-minute-interview-s-brent-morris#ixzz1Y6jO0iOX"&gt;http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/people/2011/09/3-minute-interview-s-brent-morris#ixzz1Y6jO0iOX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4742900134942213293?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4742900134942213293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4742900134942213293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/3-minute-interview-s-brent-morris.html' title='THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: S. Brent Morris'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZrBfbbSjftY/TnMhjanCAgI/AAAAAAAAC48/EnbvvAaQBwU/s72-c/morris.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5972354811966289993</id><published>2011-09-16T19:08:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-16T19:09:56.457+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria no Brasil'/><title type='text'>Maçonaria brasileira organiza "costelão" benemérito.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rhZtAzi6xyE/TnMgOvCSqRI/AAAAAAAAC44/0dWC7E7LX3E/s1600/matos.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212px" rba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rhZtAzi6xyE/TnMgOvCSqRI/AAAAAAAAC44/0dWC7E7LX3E/s320/matos.bmp" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Organizado em parceria entre as Lojas Maçónicas Irmão Paulo Roberto Machado e Estrela de Davi, o II Costelão da Maçonaria visa arrecadar fundos para as acções filantrópicas desenvolvidas pelas entidades. &lt;br /&gt;O evento será realizado no próximo dia 25 de Setembro no Balneário do Clube de subtenentes e sargentos do 4º Batalhão de Engenharia de Construção, em Barreiras. Segundo a organização do II Costelão, será assado aproximadamente uma tonelada de costelas. “Esperamos contar com a presença de mais de 2 mil pessoas no evento”, disse o Venerável Mestre, Gilvani M. de Matos (a esquerda).&lt;br /&gt;Loja Maçônica Irmão Paulo Roberto Machado tem diversas actividades filantrópicas, entre elas, a administração de uma Escola de música para crianças carentes da Vila Rica e bairros adjacentes. “Além disso, a maçonaria selecciona nos correios algumas cartas enviadas pelas crianças carentes durante o Natal e no Dia das Crianças e com os recursos arrecadados nos eventos da maçonaria, distribui presentes e ameniza um pouco o sofrimentos da meninada”, comentou o Venerável Meste, informando que a entidade Maçónica está reactivando o consultório odontológico que a loja possui no bairro para atender a comunidade da Vila Rica.&lt;br /&gt;Gilvani M. de Matos aproveita o ensejo para agradecer o apoio da comunidade barreirense, que sempre que solicitada, ajuda com doações diversas e lembra aos interessados em adquirir o ingresso para o II Costelão da Maçonaria poderão entrar em contacto pelo telefone (77) 8817-1899.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.jornalnovafronteira.com.br/index2.php?p=MConteudo&amp;amp;i=4420&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5972354811966289993?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5972354811966289993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5972354811966289993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/maconaria-brasileira-organiza-costelao.html' title='Maçonaria brasileira organiza &quot;costelão&quot; benemérito.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rhZtAzi6xyE/TnMgOvCSqRI/AAAAAAAAC44/0dWC7E7LX3E/s72-c/matos.bmp' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5062565571725647746</id><published>2011-09-16T19:06:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-16T19:06:41.555+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freemasonry'/><title type='text'>Freemasons have nothing to hide</title><content type='html'>Masons aren’t hiding anything. The Big Bear Masonic Lodge is in the Yellow Pages, it has a website and there’s a big sign on the building. Any perceived secrets are revealed Monday, Sept. 12, when the local lodge hosts an open house.&lt;br /&gt;John Wells, junior warden with the Big Bear Masonic Lodge, says Freemasonry isn’t about some clandestine society. The motto is “We make good men better,” Wells says. The Masons do good work in the community and they want to share what they do, Wells says.&lt;br /&gt;Masonry is built on a foundation of values including ethics, truth, integrity and honor. Masons have an unwavering dedication to those values, and there is no gray area, Wells says. Founders of communities across the country have been Masons, including early leaders of Big Bear Valley such as Bill Knickerbocker and Ed Stanfield. It’s an organization of inclusion, not exclusion, Wells says.&lt;br /&gt;There is a concerted effort nationwide to get the word out about who Freemasons are and what the organization does. That’s the reason for the Sept. 12 open house.&lt;br /&gt;Masons don’t recruit, which dates back to ancient times. It’s against the organization’s charter, but the reason isn’t because the group is trying to keep a secret. Men ask to join, they aren’t asked. When a man applies, he must go through background checks and interviews. Once accepted, there is plenty of work to do before reaching the first degree, Wells says.&lt;br /&gt;Freemasons are builders, and they advance through the degrees of freemasonry using the tools of operative masonry symbolically toward their moral and spiritual growth. Advancing through the first degrees takes time, up to a year to reach the third degree. And it may take decades to reach the 32nd degree, the highest level.&lt;br /&gt;Big Bear’s Masonic Lodge 617 is the oldest organization in the Valley. The lodge has a speakers bureau to share the history of the organization. It also operates the Child ID program, helping parents create information on their child to be used if the child is missing. &lt;span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;In &lt;a href="http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net/news/article_92e23aea-d904-11e0-8174-001cc4c03286.html"&gt;http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net/news/article_92e23aea-d904-11e0-8174-001cc4c03286.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5062565571725647746?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5062565571725647746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5062565571725647746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/freemasons-have-nothing-to-hide.html' title='Freemasons have nothing to hide'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3468985820517185470</id><published>2011-09-14T19:18:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-14T19:20:29.237+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GOD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Creation'/><title type='text'>The Work of Creation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-256RcM4K6Sc/TnB_2vHnJTI/AAAAAAAAC40/AyMkhvhaHJA/s1600/horizonte.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="250px" rba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-256RcM4K6Sc/TnB_2vHnJTI/AAAAAAAAC40/AyMkhvhaHJA/s400/horizonte.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;One of the challenges of Freemasonry is its capacity to rejuvenate itself and reinvent the way the Royal Art has&amp;nbsp;been performed&amp;nbsp;for almost 240 years. Every Lodge has a way to add &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;something&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; to the Rite without dissolving it or corrupt it. We like to start the part of &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;unveiling the Lights of Freemasonry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; by a reading, or better a citation, taken from the New Testament or the Old Testament. Normally the initial paragraphs of the Book of Saint John are elected but sometimes we do otherwise. In the last session we choose&amp;nbsp;a very beautiful passage of the &lt;strong&gt;Book of Ecclesiastes&lt;/strong&gt; dealing about&amp;nbsp;rifts of the world. This Sunday I assist to the reading of the same page from the former Maire of New York, Giuliani, in remembrance of those who were killed ten years ago in New Yok. I don’t know if Giuliani is a Freemason but the reading of that precise piece was remarkable and match the ambience of sorrow we experiment all.&lt;br /&gt;Whenever we look for an appropriate way to reach the Heaven and pray to the &lt;u&gt;Wisdom of God &lt;/u&gt;there is a &lt;u&gt;multiplicity of ways to do it&lt;/u&gt;. We just need to be sincere and trustful. We are such a tiny particle in the marvelous work of Creation that we have much less importance than we give to ourselves. Is'nt it?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3468985820517185470?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3468985820517185470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3468985820517185470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/work-of-creation.html' title='The Work of Creation'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-256RcM4K6Sc/TnB_2vHnJTI/AAAAAAAAC40/AyMkhvhaHJA/s72-c/horizonte.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-16597109958455613</id><published>2011-09-11T09:53:00.031+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-11T09:53:00.450+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='United States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freemasons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='9-11'/><title type='text'>Remembering those who fell.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_rQENR-2vLE/TmnI0vzgU-I/AAAAAAAAC4w/2DfdDLqPVa8/s1600/firefighters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="315px" nba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_rQENR-2vLE/TmnI0vzgU-I/AAAAAAAAC4w/2DfdDLqPVa8/s400/firefighters.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Freemasons as Men of Faith and courage cannot disconnect themselves from what is going on the world. It is a basic teaching of our Fraternity to put us in &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;the pursuit of perfection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; and bring the values that we cherish so much to the&amp;nbsp;Profane world. One of the values is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763;"&gt;freedom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, freedom from tyranny, from oppression, but also from hatred and intolerance. We are particular suspicious of those who&amp;nbsp;proclame the superiority of a faith, a Church, a sect, a spiritual orientation. We have been made equal by birth, in the eyes of God, our Creator. Not that “one” God but the God of each one allegiance. That’s why, almost three hundred years ago, we cease to entitle him God, Dio, Deus, Dieu, Gut&amp;nbsp;and start calling&amp;nbsp;Him the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;Grand Architect of the Universe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the Creator of everything that live. &lt;br /&gt;Ten years ago a bunch of desperate men guided by an evil reading of one of the most beautiful and sacred books of Mankind, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;the Koran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, launch three airplanes against civil buildings in New York and Washington&amp;nbsp;looking to destroy well-known landmarks of the American Civilization and kill most people they can. In these acts of despair they&amp;nbsp;assassinate almost 3000 people among white, black, Indian, Asian persons and people of diverse races and believes (Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and people with no religion). A significant part of them were firemen and policeman&amp;nbsp;from New York that run to rescue the people trap in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.&lt;br /&gt;Among those who fell and died, ten years ago,&amp;nbsp;were&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;Freemasons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, from different &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;Lodges and Constituencies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, among them several &lt;strong&gt;Luso-Americans Freemasons&lt;/strong&gt;. In this day of memory and worship for those who died, the &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;Brethren of Lodge Luz do Oriente nº 80 of the Grand Legal Lodge of Portugal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; bow themselves in respect to their remembrance and pray the Almighy God, asking Him to keep them aside Him in the Eternal Valley and keep their souls in peace. They were Men of Peace and Fraternity and the values they fought for are ours. The value of rememberance is something that distinguishes good men from evil men.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-16597109958455613?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/16597109958455613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/16597109958455613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/remembering-those-who-fell.html' title='Remembering those who fell.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_rQENR-2vLE/TmnI0vzgU-I/AAAAAAAAC4w/2DfdDLqPVa8/s72-c/firefighters.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2785323052373520466</id><published>2011-09-07T20:20:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T20:20:03.847+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Star in the East'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bangkok'/><title type='text'>Star in the East (Bangkok)</title><content type='html'>We have been informed that the&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt; &lt;u&gt;R:.L:. Star in the East&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, located at the Orient of Bangkok and subordinated to the &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Grand Loge Nationale Française&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; became dormant, that is "abateu colunas". To the body of Officials and Brethren the R:.L:. Luz do Oriente n.o 80 extend its greetings and comprehension. It is a pity that such a remarkable Masonic Lodge became inoperative, working in one of the most beautiful Temple we ever saw. The reasons are private but the Scottish Portuguese Freemasons wish that in close future these difficulties may be surpassed. To the R:.W:.M:. and the R:.Bro:. Secretary our best wishes and fraternal compliments are advanced. The related link is herein subtracted at the list of links.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2785323052373520466?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2785323052373520466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2785323052373520466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/star-in-east-bangkok.html' title='Star in the East (Bangkok)'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-1400094959373806801</id><published>2011-09-07T19:14:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T19:23:55.231+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Macau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luz do Oriente'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lusophonie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GLLP/GLRP'/><title type='text'>Declaration of the MRGM to the newspaper "Sol". Freemasonary and Lusophonie.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rEDDPgcWsQw/TmdGCRuBSAI/AAAAAAAAC4s/4tSjOPZORU8/s1600/MRGM.GIF" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="212px" nba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rEDDPgcWsQw/TmdGCRuBSAI/AAAAAAAAC4s/4tSjOPZORU8/s320/MRGM.GIF" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Maçonaria está a instalar-se em força nos países lusófonos. &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;A Grande Loja Legal de Portugal (GLLP), a maçonaria regular, já tem lojas em todos os países e territórios onde se fala a língua portuguesa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Angola &lt;/strong&gt;é o país onde se verifica maior crescimento, existindo neste momento &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;três lojas da GLLP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, com um total de 150 maçons – adiantou ao SOL o grão-mestre da maçonaria regular, José Moreno. &lt;br /&gt;O mesmo crescimento verifica-se em &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Cabo Verde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, onde a GLLP já &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;tem duas lojas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;u&gt;Timor&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;, Guiné-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;e &lt;u&gt;Macau&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt; têm, cada um, uma loja maçónica. &lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A última a ser constituída foi a de Macau, no passado mês de Junho: «Fui a Macau consagrar essa loja», refere José Moreno, acrescentando que só neste território haverá maçons da outra maçonaria, a irregular. «Nos outros não há. Só há maçonaria regular», garante&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Já no Brasil e em Moçambique o peso da maçonaria é tal que a organização foi autonomizada da portuguesa. «Nestes países, já há a Grande Loja Legal do Brasil e a Grande Loja Legal de Moçambique», explica José Moreno, acrescentando que no território brasileiro «há milhões de maçons». &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moçambique&lt;/strong&gt;, por seu lado, obteve a sua ‘independência’ há dois anos, tendo na altura três lojas e 200 membros.&lt;br /&gt;Ou seja, nestes dois países a maçonaria regular não depende da portuguesa: têm um grão-mestre próprio e são reconhecidas internacionalmente. As outras, isto é, a de Angola e dos restantes países, pertencem à Grande Loja Legal de Portugal, sendo o grão-mestre José Moreno.&lt;br /&gt;In &lt;a href="http://sol.sapo.pt/inicio/Lusofonia/Angola/Interior.aspx?content_id=27831"&gt;Maçonaria entra em força nos países lusófonos.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-1400094959373806801?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1400094959373806801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1400094959373806801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/declaration-of-mrgm-to-newspaper-sol.html' title='Declaration of the MRGM to the newspaper &quot;Sol&quot;. Freemasonary and Lusophonie.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rEDDPgcWsQw/TmdGCRuBSAI/AAAAAAAAC4s/4tSjOPZORU8/s72-c/MRGM.GIF' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-7671737212113317512</id><published>2011-09-07T19:03:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T19:03:53.361+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Espana'/><title type='text'>A Masonic Spanish Heart: Luis Perez Martin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MdhkPu3yl0s/TmdBc-c1kcI/AAAAAAAAC4k/39vTklzTKsM/s1600/martin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MdhkPu3yl0s/TmdBc-c1kcI/AAAAAAAAC4k/39vTklzTKsM/s1600/martin.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Un día, Luis Pérez Martín comenzó a perder el hilo. Sus discursos eran inconexos, sus disertaciones carecían de sentido, y en sus clases, ante sus alumnos, pasaba de una asignatura a otra en cuestión de segundos. Algo le estaba pasando y él no se daba cuenta. No era consciente de lo que decía. Fueron sus colegas, los otros profesores, los que le advirtieron del problema. Así que acudió al médico para que le hiciera un chequeo. (...) Afirma que &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;él es masón desde que nació&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, desde mucho antes de ingresar en una logia y pasar por los rituales de iniciación. Es lo que siente, lo que siempre ha barruntado su corazón.&lt;br /&gt;En La Palma, de donde es, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;creció oyendo hablar de la masonería&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, algo que, al parecer, era muy habitual en esa Isla. Por eso, nunca le han sido ajenos ni extraños los objetivos, creencias y ceremonias de esta organización. Su abuelo también fue masón, aunque jamás lo desveló a su familia. De hecho, Luis se enteró una vez que murió, cuando un médico, también masón, se lo dijo y le mostró documentos que así lo acreditan. Resultaba lógico que su abuelo cerrara el pico y guardara el secreto, ya que la época que le tocó vivir era delicada, tiempos en los que la libertad estaba secuestrada y amordazada. &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Decir que uno era masón suponía la prisión, como poco.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; "&lt;strong&gt;Yo conocí a uno que sufrió diez cárceles y un destierro&lt;/strong&gt;", informa.&lt;br /&gt;Ahora las cosas han cambiado y &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Luis puede practicar la masonería sin miedo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Su dedicación, su fe y sus obras han hecho que haya escalado puestos hasta ser &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;el nuevo Venerable de la Logia Añaza 33, además de templario&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, entre otros nombramientos.&lt;br /&gt;"La masonería &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;tiene como objetivo ayudar a los demás de forma incondicional&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;y sin desvelar que les has ayudado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;", resume. Contiene todos los símbolos de las medicinas alternativas, y sus rituales, mil veces explicados en la literatura, facilitan a los miembros de las logias poder acceder a la energía que necesitan para luego revertirla en otras personas.&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;No podemos hablar de los ritos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Lo que pasa en una tenida (reunión) se queda en la tenida, y ni siquiera se nos permite comentarlo con los miembros que no hayan acudido a esa reunión", explica. De todas formas, asegura que es muy difícil narrar lo que uno siente en los rituales. "&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;No hay palabras. Hay que experimentarlo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;", indica. En cualquier caso, a él le funciona. Le sirve para encajar todas las piezas que encienden el motor de su vida, que &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;le impulsan a ser mejor persona y que le muestran el camino a seguir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;; un camino estrecho, con obstáculos y precipicios, pero en el que aprende muchas cosas cada día, a cada paso que da.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.laopinion.es/tenerife/2011/09/05/corazon-mason/366499.html"&gt;The rest here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-7671737212113317512?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7671737212113317512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7671737212113317512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/09/masonic-spanish-heart-luis-perez-martin.html' title='A Masonic Spanish Heart: Luis Perez Martin'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MdhkPu3yl0s/TmdBc-c1kcI/AAAAAAAAC4k/39vTklzTKsM/s72-c/martin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3238784264482789889</id><published>2011-08-25T20:40:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-25T20:41:53.687+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GLLP/GLRP'/><title type='text'>September: time of resume of Masonic works and reunification.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i66IJ-qMSFo/TlY096yiseI/AAAAAAAAC4Y/XnPYpU59164/s1600/Freemasons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="291px" qaa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i66IJ-qMSFo/TlY096yiseI/AAAAAAAAC4Y/XnPYpU59164/s400/Freemasons.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;According with the plans the Masonic works will be resumed next Thursday in Macao and Brethren will gather for the Glory of the Grand Architect of the Universe. &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;September&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; is an important month for Portuguese Freemasonry as the perspective of reunification of Regular Freemasonry is on the table. The situation is not singular, as Spanish Craft passed for a similar challenge some years ago and manage to overcome sensibilities, expectations and even contradictory ambitions. It is a much more restricted process not involving the so-called irregular Freemasonry, that is going on in Portugal. In the short history of three centuries of the Masonic presence in Portugal, several divisions took place along the years either following eras of repression from the political powers or anticipating it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;In the 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century the Craft has been united for almost of that time, a time abruptly broken during Salazar personal dictatorship and its successor's, the jurist Marcello Caetano. In the post-fascist era the privileges of the Craft were restated under the&amp;nbsp;gavel of the Grand Orient Lusitano untill late 90s when a group of theist freemasons formed the Grand District of Portugal of the Grand Loge Nationale Française, district that will become the Grand Regular Lodge of Portugal under the leadership of the M:.R:. Grand-Master Fernando Teixeira. With&amp;nbsp;his decease, a group of Lodges disputed the election of the M:.R:. Grand-Master Nandin de Carvalho, and left the Obedience aiming to be the sole Masonic Traditional Obedience in Portugal. The majority of Lodges that gather around the elected Grand-Master Nandin de Carvalho pursued and received the recognition&amp;nbsp;from the majority of&amp;nbsp;world Masonic authorities, namely UGLE, GLNF, and the American North and South Supreme Councils of the Scottish Rite. Is this situation that comes to an end with the integration of the Lodges that left in the main body of Portuguese Regular Freemasonry in GLLP. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The M:.R:. Grand Master José Moreno is the architect of this reunion. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3238784264482789889?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3238784264482789889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3238784264482789889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/september-time-of-resume-of-masonic.html' title='September: time of resume of Masonic works and reunification.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i66IJ-qMSFo/TlY096yiseI/AAAAAAAAC4Y/XnPYpU59164/s72-c/Freemasons.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-826516533062192780</id><published>2011-08-21T14:55:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-21T14:57:44.036+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria no Brasil'/><title type='text'>Day of the Freemason (Brazil)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1pQ6VDicnb4/TlCeM6CBxNI/AAAAAAAACzM/5tEtroKfVMQ/s1600/Cristovam+Buarque.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="204" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1pQ6VDicnb4/TlCeM6CBxNI/AAAAAAAACzM/5tEtroKfVMQ/s320/Cristovam+Buarque.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://oreporter.com/detalhes.php?id=56899"&gt;In O Reporter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Durante a homenagem à maçonaria feita pelo Senado nesta sexta-feira (19), o senador Cristovam Buarque (PDT-DF) lembrou que os maçons estiveram envolvidos na&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://oreporter.com/detalhes.php?id=56899#" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #006600; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;independência&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;do país, na abolição da escravatura e na proclamação da república, mas afirmou que esses processos "ainda não foram completados" e que a maçonaria pode contribuir para que isso aconteça. Ele disse que o Brasil ainda não pode ser considerado um país plenamente republicano devido aos níveis de corrupção que apresenta.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;- É uma tarefa da maçonaria ajudar o&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://oreporter.com/detalhes.php?id=56899#" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #006600; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Brasil&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;a se livrar da corrupção - reiterou.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Cristovam ressaltou que há duas formas de corrupção. Uma delas, "que a imprensa felizmente denuncia", é visível e envolve a corrupção do comportamento (como o dos políticos que desviam verbas governamentais para&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://oreporter.com/detalhes.php?id=56899#" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #006600; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;benefício&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;próprio; é a apropriação privada de recursos públicos).&amp;nbsp;Mas há outra, "para a qual a mídia fecha os olhos", que envolve a corrupção de prioridades, a qual se revela "no uso eticamente equivocado do dinheiro público, quando o governo gasta, por exemplo, para viabilizar o transporte privado em vez de gastar mais com escolas,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://oreporter.com/detalhes.php?id=56899#" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #006600; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;saúde&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;e esgotos".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Segundo Cristovam, a corrupção de prioridades não é visível e o seu resultado "até nos orgulha, quando passamos por um viaduto e ignoramos as pessoas que moram embaixo dele, já que a prioridade, nesse caso, é dos carros".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;- Nós precisamos da rede e da força que os maçons têm para limpar o país dessas duas formas de corrupção - declarou.(...)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-826516533062192780?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/826516533062192780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/826516533062192780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/day-of-freemason-in-brazil.html' title='Day of the Freemason (Brazil)'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1pQ6VDicnb4/TlCeM6CBxNI/AAAAAAAACzM/5tEtroKfVMQ/s72-c/Cristovam+Buarque.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4751638825112072852</id><published>2011-08-21T14:49:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-21T15:20:22.746+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Catholicism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freemasonry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Church'/><title type='text'>Freemasonry and the Church of Rome.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-zYovxN0YA/TlCcosoIUbI/AAAAAAAACzI/xDQZXXSQ00I/s1600/igreja-catolica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="236" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-zYovxN0YA/TlCcosoIUbI/AAAAAAAACzI/xDQZXXSQ00I/s320/igreja-catolica.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;How compatible is to be Freemason and Catholic? The debate continues with no foreseen ending. Several arguments are raised by each line of the barricade. Seen from the Craft there is no incompatibility in both statutes as the belief in a Supreme Being and a deep sense of spirituality is required for those who join the Craft. Secondly no discussion on religious matters are allowed in &lt;i&gt;the ranks.&lt;/i&gt; From the point of view of the Church several edicts condamned Freemasonry allong the years and a testimony of the current Pope made the division line &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;even harder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Therein, the question is still open for scrutiny. Here an excerpt from an article of Laurent Dandrieu published in the Catholic review,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;Valeurs Actuelles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;(...)&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Dans cet esprit de conciliation, l’épiscopat allemand entame en ces années-là un dialogue avec la franc-maçonnerie, qui se conclura pourtant en 1980 par un&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;non possumus&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;, sous la forme d’une déclaration estimant que "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;la franc-maçonnerie n’a pas changé dans son essence"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;et que "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;le fait d’y adhérer met en cause les fondements de l’existence chrétienne"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;. En 1983, le nouveau code de droit canon donne un nouvel espoir aux partisans de la conciliation : la fran-maçonnerie n’est plus explicitement citée, et il n’est donc plus question d’excommunication. Mais la même année, le texte du cardinal Ratzinger vient préciser les choses:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Le jugement de l’Église sur ces associations maçonniques demeure&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;[…]&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;inchangé, parce que leurs principes ont toujours été considérés comme inconciliables avec la doctrine de l’Église"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;; les fidèles qui y appartiennent sont&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"en état de péché grave"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;. Pour Jean-Paul II tout autant que pour le futur Benoît XVI, les choses sont claires : entre la vision de l’Église et celle de la maçonnerie, il faut choisir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ambitionnant de dissiper les&amp;nbsp;"&lt;i&gt;suspicions"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;de l’Église dans son ouvrage&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;l’Église et la Franc-Maçonnerie&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;(Jean- Cyrille Godefroy), Michel Jarrige y donne pourtant ce résumé de la vision maçonne, qui ne peut que heurter un catholique :&amp;nbsp;"&lt;i&gt;Homme, connais-toi toi-même. Ne t’avise pas de scruter la puissance divine. L’étude de l’homme est en l’homme lui-même."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;L’exact inverse de ce que professait Jean-Paul II lors de sa messe d’intronisation, en 1978 :&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;« Le Christ sait “ce qu’il y a dans l’homme” ! Et lui seul le sait !"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="noir12"&gt;Laurent&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="noir12"&gt;Dandrieu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="noir12"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.valeursactuelles.com/dossier-d039actualit%C3%A9/dossier-d039actualit%C3%A9/l039%C3%A9glise-face-aux-francs-ma%C3%A7ons20110728.html"&gt;The rest here.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4751638825112072852?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4751638825112072852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4751638825112072852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/freemasonry-and-church-of-rome.html' title='Freemasonry and the Church of Rome.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-zYovxN0YA/TlCcosoIUbI/AAAAAAAACzI/xDQZXXSQ00I/s72-c/igreja-catolica.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3780971619333818771</id><published>2011-08-21T14:35:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-21T14:35:39.594+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dictionary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freemasonry'/><title type='text'>Petit dictionnaire énervé de la Franc-Maçonnerie</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http:/www.frequenceterre.com/chroniques-environnement-130811-2401-Petit-dictionnaire-enerve-de-la-Franc-Maconnerie-de-Patrick-Lelong-Ed-L-Opportun.html"&gt;In Radio Nature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GUzNs8Zp9Ok/TlCZBwX7XgI/AAAAAAAACzE/9LxfWQwqmbw/s1600/DictionaireFM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GUzNs8Zp9Ok/TlCZBwX7XgI/AAAAAAAACzE/9LxfWQwqmbw/s320/DictionaireFM.jpg" width="244" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Faut-il avoir du courage ou être inconscient pour se déclarer publiquement franc-maçon en cette période ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Patrick Lelong, journaliste à France Info, n'a pas hésité à évoquer son &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;jardin secret&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;, à savoir son appartenance à cette vénérable institution, secret qu'il livre dans son ouvrage &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Petit dictionnaire énervé de la Franc-Maçonnerie&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;paru aux Editions de l'Opportun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Précision notoire: la Franc-Maçonnerie est une institution à vocation philosophique, contrairement aux fausses idées et aux rumeurs qui se répandent comme la peste.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Quasiment tout cet ouvrage se veut caustique, mais, heureusement, l'auteur sait de quoi il parle avec ce sujet «&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;sérieux&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;» quand il évoque la menace bien présente dans maints pays : "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Les francs-maçons relèvent de la chasse à courre"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;et, au sujet de certaines campagnes d'une presse aux abois, il suggère, avec une référence historique sous-jacente qu' "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;il faut les obliger à se dénoncer, à porter des signes distinctifs, à multiplier et affiner les enquêtes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Pourtant, avec sagesse, il avait mis les choses au point: "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Résumer la maçonnerie aux affaires, c'est comme ne retenir du catholicisme que l'Inquisition"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Ainsi, l'antimaçonnisme semble retrouver de sa superbe, si j'ose dire, et Patrick Lelong le compare à l'antisémitisme.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Néanmoins, l'essentiel du livre donne une définition par ordre alphabétique des principaux termes maçonniques: cabinet de réflexion, équerre, compas, humanisme, mots de passe, etc. Parfois, ça décoiffe et peut déranger.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;A lire par les fra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;ncs-maçons qui, toujours restent des Apprentis, et ceux qui ne le sont pas, ou pas encore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3780971619333818771?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3780971619333818771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3780971619333818771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/petit-dictionnaire-enerve-de-la-franc.html' title='Petit dictionnaire énervé de la Franc-Maçonnerie'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GUzNs8Zp9Ok/TlCZBwX7XgI/AAAAAAAACzE/9LxfWQwqmbw/s72-c/DictionaireFM.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-7750887053687247330</id><published>2011-08-21T14:29:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-21T14:29:07.678+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UGLE'/><title type='text'>Sine Favore Lodge</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="firstPar" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Leading police officers have set up a &lt;u&gt;national Masonic lodge&lt;/u&gt; where they can meet in secret in defiance of fears about the influence of the secret society on the criminal justice system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The founding members include senior officials from the &lt;u&gt;Police Federation&lt;/u&gt;, the &lt;u&gt;police staff association&lt;/u&gt;, which is currently fighting the Government over its plans to cut budgets.&amp;nbsp;The new Masonic lodge is led by &lt;b&gt;John Tully&lt;/b&gt;, a &lt;u&gt;Metropolitan Police officer&lt;/u&gt;, who has given numerous interviews in recent days accusing the Prime Minister of "fighting violence, arson and looting on our city streets with sound-bites".&amp;nbsp;Other founder members include officers from the Metropolitan Police, Essex Police, Thames Valley Police and from other forces including Northumbria, Dyfed Powys, South Wales, South Yorkshire and even a high ranking officer from the Royal Gibraltar Police.&amp;nbsp;The "Sine Favore" Lodge was opened despite the conclusions of a Parliamentary inquiry which warned of public fears that "Freemasonry can have an unhealthy influence on the criminal justice system".&amp;nbsp;The inquiry followed questions about masonic involvement in the abandonment of an investigation into a shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland and with the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, which was disbanded after evidence of police malpractice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #282828; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.48em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8713343/Freemasons-in-the-police-leading-the-attack-on-David-Camerons-riot-response.html"&gt;In The Telegraph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-7750887053687247330?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7750887053687247330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7750887053687247330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/sine-favore-lodge.html' title='Sine Favore Lodge'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-671164598420523429</id><published>2011-08-21T13:00:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-21T13:04:55.336+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Regularidade'/><title type='text'>Porque somos Maçons Regulares?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jS7elG7knic/TlCDyVURhFI/AAAAAAAACy8/8gOeWuipJwY/s1600/Jovens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="177" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jS7elG7knic/TlCDyVURhFI/AAAAAAAACy8/8gOeWuipJwY/s320/Jovens.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Os outros (liberais) partem do postulado da liberdade de crença ou não no&amp;nbsp;Criador, uns e outros, sem se remeterem a uma posição contemplativa, buscam&amp;nbsp;o seu próprio aperfeiçoamento, "não faças aos outros aquilo que não gostavas&amp;nbsp;que te fizessem", mas com efeitos diversos ao nível de intervenção na sociedade.&amp;nbsp;De facto, enquanto os regulares situam-se no plano do sagrado, os outros&amp;nbsp;colocam-se no campo do laicismo, e consequentemente envolvem-se mais&amp;nbsp;directamente na vida profana que procuram aperfeiçoar, senão mesmo&amp;nbsp;transformar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;Para um maçon "regular" a sociedade só será mais perfeita se isso decorrer do&amp;nbsp;processo de aperfeiçoamento individual, de cada um, enquanto para um maçon&amp;nbsp;"irregular", o essencial é ser ele o agente da transformação da sociedade. Isto é,&amp;nbsp;passa o maçon em vez de ser o destinatário das suas reflexões e consciência,&amp;nbsp;para procurar o auto aperfeiçoamento, a considerar-se o agente de&amp;nbsp;transformação e da perfeição da sociedade.&amp;nbsp;Bem se compreende que esta atitude possa gerar desde logo, a quebra de&amp;nbsp;harmonia entre os maçons. Ultrapassada a intimidade de cada um, em que só&amp;nbsp;cada qual é juiz de si próprio, e de acordo com os parâmetros da sua&amp;nbsp;autodefinição, sendo portanto responsável pela sua própria consciência, os&amp;nbsp;maçons irregulares confrontam-se exteriormente sobre as varias actividades que&amp;nbsp;poderão contribuir para transformação e aperfeiçoamento da sociedade...e estas&amp;nbsp;serão tantas quantas as percepções do que é a perfeição da sociedade. (...)&amp;nbsp;Aos que &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"&gt;se consideram maçons regulares,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; para que efectivamente o sejam, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;é&amp;nbsp;necessário serem reconhecidos como tal, é indispensável que tal estatuto lhes&amp;nbsp;seja reconhecido&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. De facto o reconhecimento é essencial para atestar um dos&amp;nbsp;requisitos fundamentais e integradores da regularidade, que é o da legitimidade&amp;nbsp;da transmissão da própria regularidade. Só assim se constitui legitimamente a&amp;nbsp;regularidade.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;Um pouco à semelhança do próprio processo de reconhecimento da&amp;nbsp;independência dos Estados, em que não basta a proclamação unilateral de&amp;nbsp;independência, é crucial que a comunidade internacional a reconheça, e depois,&amp;nbsp;para se ser verdadeiramente membro de pleno direito da comunidade&amp;nbsp;internacional, ou de comunidades regionais (como os Estados membros da União&amp;nbsp;Europeia), é ainda necessário o respeito da legalidade universal, que tem como&amp;nbsp;referência a declaração universal dos direitos do homem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;Um maçon que respeite as regras da regularidade, tem pois&amp;nbsp;de respeitar as suas&amp;nbsp;regras essenciais: Os landmarks, as constituições, os regulamentos, a&amp;nbsp;regularidade da transmissão maçónica, enfim o próprio cumprimenta das leis&amp;nbsp;civis. Um maçon que portanto seja irregular quanto à sua filiação numa Grande&amp;nbsp;Loja ou Grande Oriente irregular, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;não pode ser considerado regular pela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;comunidade maçónica regular...não pode pois aceder a sessões rituais regulares&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&amp;nbsp;Só o poderá fazer se, e quando por um processo dito de regularização,&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt; deixar a&amp;nbsp;sua obediência irregular e for recebido como regular por uma obediência&amp;nbsp;maçónica com estas características.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;M.E. -L.N.C.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-671164598420523429?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/671164598420523429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/671164598420523429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/porque-somos-macons-regulares.html' title='Porque somos Maçons Regulares?'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jS7elG7knic/TlCDyVURhFI/AAAAAAAACy8/8gOeWuipJwY/s72-c/Jovens.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2495590562634217833</id><published>2011-08-21T12:53:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-21T14:24:44.222+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maçonaria'/><title type='text'>Como actua o Maçom?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ebHLj7kaCKc/TlCWkpR2wYI/AAAAAAAACzA/A4la6yb_R0k/s1600/Macons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="283" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ebHLj7kaCKc/TlCWkpR2wYI/AAAAAAAACzA/A4la6yb_R0k/s400/Macons.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;O maçon deve actuar&amp;nbsp;de acordo com as suas responsabilidades próprias, isto é a bem da Ordem, o que&amp;nbsp;significa nada fazer que ponha em causa a sua respeitabilidade e dignidade de&amp;nbsp;instituição milenária, por via da contenção e da discrição. E por outro lado, pela&amp;nbsp;via activa, tudo deve fazer para que os ideais universais dos valores da Paz, da&amp;nbsp;Harmonia, solidariedade, fraternidade e tolerância, sejam efectivamente&amp;nbsp;difundidos, aceites e praticados pelo maior número de pessoas, sejam ou não&amp;nbsp;crentes no Grande Arquitecto do Universo.&amp;nbsp;Quer isto dizer, que não se pode ser maçon sem se respeitar a ordem&amp;nbsp;democrática e da moral vigente, que aliás devem estar em consonância nas&amp;nbsp;sociedades civilizadas contemporâneas. Um maçon que não se identifique nesses&amp;nbsp;termos com a sociedade em que se integra, dificilmente poderá ser manter a sua&amp;nbsp;condição de Maçon, porquanto nenhum legítimo dever profano deve estar em&amp;nbsp;contradição com o juramento maçónico.&amp;nbsp;O maçon contemporâneo deve pois actuar de acordo com uma cultura maçónica&amp;nbsp;espiritualista consequente, isto é, que compatibilize os valores humanistas&amp;nbsp;universais, com os valores espirituais universais. Numa síntese, o maçon deve ter&amp;nbsp;os pés na terra, a cabeça no céu, e o coração com o do dos outros...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;O que significa que o maçon deve sempre procurar superar as suas limitações,&amp;nbsp;auto aperfeiçoar-se na busca de ser melhor do que é, especialmente em relação&amp;nbsp;aos outros, qual bom samaritano. Correlativamente, cabe à Maçonaria&amp;nbsp;proporcionar-lhe as condições objectivas para que tal lhe seja possível.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;In M.E.-LNC&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2495590562634217833?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2495590562634217833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2495590562634217833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/como-actua-o-macom.html' title='Como actua o Maçom?'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ebHLj7kaCKc/TlCWkpR2wYI/AAAAAAAACzA/A4la6yb_R0k/s72-c/Macons.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-931878156723736531</id><published>2011-08-08T21:42:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T21:43:48.533+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Javier Otaola'/><title type='text'>Book "The Lodge and the Law of Desire", Javier Otaola.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f6FE2rXgQ28/Tj_Z9FVi-WI/AAAAAAAACy0/5Suojk3nyCU/s1600/javierotaola.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f6FE2rXgQ28/Tj_Z9FVi-WI/AAAAAAAACy0/5Suojk3nyCU/s1600/javierotaola.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Franco quiso ser masón, le rechazaron y como consecuencia desarrolló su inquina obsesiva contra la Masonería. Este es el tópico que personas como&lt;a href="http://www.escritoresdeeuskadi.com/asociados/74-javier-otaola"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.escritoresdeeuskadi.com/asociados/74-javier-otaola"&gt;Javier Otaola&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;más veces han tenido que desmentir. Otaola llegó a ser Gran Maestro de la Gran Logia Simbólica Española (1997-2000) y es Miembro del Supremo Consejo Masónico de España con grado 33. Su Nuevo libro, &lt;a href="http://serescritor.com/javier-otaola-presenta-%E2%80%9Cla-logia-y-la-ley-del-deseo%E2%80%9D/"&gt;La logia y la ley del deseo&lt;/a&gt; (Ed. Atanor), trata de ofrecer al lector información e Historia de la &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francmasoner%C3%ADa"&gt;Masonería&lt;/a&gt; para que cada uno forme su opinión en torno a esta organización "sobre hechos acreditados y no cosas fantasmagóricas".&lt;br /&gt;A lo largo de la Historia, los regímenes totalitarios han perseguido a la Masonería y la Iglesia nunca la aceptó. Esta combinación de factores ha sido la causa de que en países como España haya vivido oculta y vinculada con lo oscuro, lo maligno y lo prohibido. En el caso concreto de España, Franco, hasta el último momento de su vida, hizo lo posible por desacreditarla como represalia por haber defendido la legalidad de la República tras el golpe de Estado.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-931878156723736531?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/931878156723736531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/931878156723736531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/book-lodge-and-law-of-desire-javier.html' title='Book &quot;The Lodge and the Law of Desire&quot;, Javier Otaola.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f6FE2rXgQ28/Tj_Z9FVi-WI/AAAAAAAACy0/5Suojk3nyCU/s72-c/javierotaola.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2422865227849306879</id><published>2011-08-08T21:38:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T21:39:06.571+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>Freemasonry returns to Jaen (Spain)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OJGm68_QpH4/Tj_Y3Eh5XuI/AAAAAAAACyw/NLwrcZL-EBc/s1600/Jaen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OJGm68_QpH4/Tj_Y3Eh5XuI/AAAAAAAACyw/NLwrcZL-EBc/s320/Jaen.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Un grupo de jiennenses reinstalará la masonería en la capital —más de siete décadas después de que desapareciesen las logias en la provincia— con la fundación del taller que llevará el nombre de Andrés de Vandelvira. Participan miembros de Jaén, Andújar, Linares, Úbeda y Bailén.&lt;br /&gt;Una de las principales instituciones filantrópicas y simbólicas de la historia regresa a la vida.La masonería se restituirá en la provincia de Jaén con la fundación de la logia Andrés de Vandelvira mediante un rito escrito en el siglo XVIII. La reunión iniciática acontecerá a finales de octubre, en cuanto concluya la construcción del templo. A la cita asistirán oficiales de toda España, encabezados por el gran ma-estro de la Gran Logia de España, Óscar de Alfonso, uno de los pocos personajes públicos que representa a la organizaciónmás discreta de la sociedad. &lt;br /&gt;Desde 1939 no ha habido actividad masónica en Jaén, aunque en los siglos XIX y XX llegó a haber más de cuarenta logias en la provincia, como las de Jaén, Linares, Quesada, Valdepeñas, Úbeda, Baeza, Andújar o Alcalá la Real. A lo largo de la historia, más de mil quinientas personas han pertenecido al colectivo, cuyo primer grupo del que hay constancia es el fundado por las tropas de Napoleón. &lt;br /&gt;Así, y al contrario de lo que pudiera parecer, Jaén era una de las provincias con más logias en el país. De hecho, estaba entre las zonas más punteras, hasta el punto de que uno de sus talleres, el que llevaba el nombre de Lealtad, fue considerado como uno de los más relevantes de Andalucía y de España.Su actividad cesó en 1939, con la prohibición y seguimiento de su actividad. Los jiennenses han sufrido una diáspora en toda regla. Hay hasta una veintena de masones de Jaén enBarcelona, Madrid, Málaga, Cádiz, Sevilla y Granada, entre otros lugares. &lt;br /&gt;Doce masones emprenderán la nueva singladura de la institución en el Santo Reino, aunque a finales de año las filas estarán integradas por unos veinte, ya que hay numerosos interesados en ingresar. El grupo estará compuesto por un venerable maestro  —que se elegirá en la consagración— y por su cámara de oficiales. Llevará el nombre de Vandelvira porque fue un arquitecto, miembro del grupo selecto, que llevó una vida ejemplar. Por ello, la nueva logia de Jaén quiere honrar su figura. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Picture: La casa de los Masones.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.diariojaen.es/index.php/menujaen/25-notlocales/39747-la-masoneria-regresa-a-jaen"&gt;The rest here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2422865227849306879?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2422865227849306879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2422865227849306879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/freemasonry-returns-to-jaen-spain.html' title='Freemasonry returns to Jaen (Spain)'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OJGm68_QpH4/Tj_Y3Eh5XuI/AAAAAAAACyw/NLwrcZL-EBc/s72-c/Jaen.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2230982485123679481</id><published>2011-08-08T21:32:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T21:33:31.904+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mexico'/><title type='text'>Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" received recognition by the Grand Lodge of Mexico</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4gdCCd9L7oo/Tj_Xf6OzYcI/AAAAAAAACys/KQjLrKH1Boc/s1600/cantinflas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4gdCCd9L7oo/Tj_Xf6OzYcI/AAAAAAAACys/KQjLrKH1Boc/s1600/cantinflas.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;C&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;on la entrega de un pergamino, un videoclip y una semblanza fílmica, &lt;u&gt;Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" fue homenajeado por parte de la Gran Logia Valle de México,&lt;/u&gt; que recordó así al fallecido actor, a unos días del centenario de su natalicio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;El acto fue celebrado en la sede de la logia, en la colonia San Rafael, en el Distrito Federal, al que asistieron Eduardo Moreno Laparade, responsable del patronato de la Fundación "Mario Moreno ‘Cantinflas’", y de Maty Huitrón, a cargo de la Casa del Actor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Rodolfo Cota Corona, quien lidera la Gran Logia del Valle de México, señaló que existen en la Ciudad de México 60 agrupaciones de este tipo, entre ellas la Respetable Logia Simbólica "Mario Moreno ‘Cantinflas’ número 177", fundada hace tres años.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Añadió que la creación de esta última, a instancias del exvenerable Maestro Manuel Ojeda López, reunió a siete Maestros masones para crear una nueva logia y se buscó el nombre de una personalidad acorde a los preceptos de las agrupaciones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;"Recuerdo que el Maestro Ojeda López nos mostró un libro titulado: ‘¿Quién es quién en la masonería?", editado en España, y ahí venía el nombre de &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Mario Moreno Reyes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, pero se consignaba que se desconocía a qué logia perteneció", dijo el entrevistado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="ttp://www.informador.com.mx/entretenimiento/2011/312586/6/rinde-tributo-a-cantinflas-la-gran-logia-valle-de-mexico.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The rest.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2230982485123679481?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2230982485123679481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2230982485123679481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/mario-moreno-cantinflas-received.html' title='Mario Moreno &quot;Cantinflas&quot; received recognition by the Grand Lodge of Mexico'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4gdCCd9L7oo/Tj_Xf6OzYcI/AAAAAAAACys/KQjLrKH1Boc/s72-c/cantinflas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5777071867761607600</id><published>2011-08-08T21:23:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T21:23:32.482+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='United States'/><title type='text'>Colorado Freemasonry comemorates 150 years of existence</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mqLBDoYPc8o/Tj_VLUEc1-I/AAAAAAAACyo/f1eO08UM4ck/s1600/american+temple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mqLBDoYPc8o/Tj_VLUEc1-I/AAAAAAAACyo/f1eO08UM4ck/s320/american+temple.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;On Aug. 2, 1861, the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Colorado was born in Golden.&lt;br /&gt;To celebrate the 150th anniversary, Gov. John Hickenlooper has proclaimed August “Masonic Month” in the state of Colorado.The Centurion Lodge was established in 1979 and has remained an active participant in the Tri-Lakes community. Awards are annually handed out to fire, police and education personnel. This year’s awards — along with a $100 check — are going to police officer Ryan Koski of the Palmer Lake Police Department, paramedic Erin Lamb-Smith of the Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District, and Lewis-Palmer High School music teacher George Douthit. Douthit’s son, Charles, is also receiving a $1,000 scholarship to help with his expenses at the University of Colorado.&lt;br /&gt;“Colorado Masonic organizations have contributed millions of dollars for scholarships for deserving Colorado students,” Hickenlooper said in a released statement. “They have established and maintained services for children with speech and hearing difficulties, have supported the Knights Templar Eye Foundation to support medical research, contributed to the operations of the 22 Shrine Hospitals in the United States, and many other important charities providing service to Colorado residents.” &lt;br /&gt;The Centurion Lodge has 105 members and meets the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;“Masonry is about making good men better men,” said Bruce Fritzsche, an active member of the Centurion Lodge, as well as past Master and secretary. “We believe in the brotherhood of man and trying to improve our moral and ethical standards. We’re the ones you see at events wearing white aprons.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ourcoloradonews.com/trilakes/life/article_5239d0b2-b7f6-5333-856f-76f54a6c6b60.html"&gt;The rest here.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5777071867761607600?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5777071867761607600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5777071867761607600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/colorado-freemasonry-comemorates-150.html' title='Colorado Freemasonry comemorates 150 years of existence'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mqLBDoYPc8o/Tj_VLUEc1-I/AAAAAAAACyo/f1eO08UM4ck/s72-c/american+temple.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3184133798419667445</id><published>2011-08-08T21:14:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T21:14:51.335+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Australia'/><title type='text'>Freemasons in Sydney. Ancient cerimony.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6aYgpE9ixZE/Tj_TF5eY8_I/AAAAAAAACyk/y5z5D0hOy84/s1600/Freemasons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="231" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6aYgpE9ixZE/Tj_TF5eY8_I/AAAAAAAACyk/y5z5D0hOy84/s320/Freemasons.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;For an organisation shrouded in secrecy for close to 300 years, a press release from the freemasons is a radical break from tradition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;The media were invited to a &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;centuries' old ceremony installing a new grand master of the NSW and ACT United Grand Lodge - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;Derek Robson, a former Australian Navy officer and now national secretary of the RSL.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;More than 900 freemasons gathered for the three-hour investiture at the Convention Centre in Darling Harbour. Ahead of the ceremony, Mr Robson said the organisation was adopting a new openness to explain how freemasonry fits into the modern world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/masons-out-and-proud-20110806-1igix.html#ixzz1URGZUMrk" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #003399; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;http://www.smh.com.au/national/masons-out-and-proud-20110806-1igix.html#ixzz1URGZUMrk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3184133798419667445?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3184133798419667445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3184133798419667445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/freemasons-in-sydney-ancient-cerimony.html' title='Freemasons in Sydney. Ancient cerimony.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6aYgpE9ixZE/Tj_TF5eY8_I/AAAAAAAACyk/y5z5D0hOy84/s72-c/Freemasons.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5460327123545692344</id><published>2011-08-08T21:11:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T21:11:24.472+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>Remains of Freemasonry in London</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;A small piece of Bushey history was saved when stone carvings from a school that closed more than 50 years ago were recovered.&lt;br /&gt;The tablets, that once provided a focal point to many classrooms of the Royal Masonic Junior School for Boys - now the &lt;a href="http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/search/?search=Bushey+Academy"&gt;Bushey Academy&lt;/a&gt;, in London Road - were removed before many of the old buildings are demolished as part of a £29million redevelopment.&lt;br /&gt;hree former pupils and one ex-teacher of the masonic school, all of whom are now committee members of the 900-strong Old Masonians, were presented the stones at a special ceremony.&lt;br /&gt;Joe Murphy, senior project manager at construction company Kier, overseeing the new development, said: “The demolition of the old school buildings marks the end of an era, so it seemed appropriate to give these former pupils the opportunity to say a final farewell and take away some keepsakes for their association.”&lt;br /&gt;John Tapster, of Abbots Langley, Roger Puddephatt, of Croxley Green, Peter Parnell, from Bricket Wood, and former-teacher Gordon Metcalfe, from Bushey, accepted the last of the recovered stones at the site last week.&lt;br /&gt;The final memento recovered depicts the school badge, which is a Lewis, a stone mason’s device used in lifting heavy blocks.&lt;br /&gt;Other recovered stone carvings show the square and compasses, the universal symbol of Freemasonry, and an artist’s palette, previously displayed on the wall of the art department.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/9183347.Small_piece_of_history_saved_with_recovered_carvings/"&gt;The rest here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5460327123545692344?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5460327123545692344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5460327123545692344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/remains-of-freemasonry-in-london.html' title='Remains of Freemasonry in London'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2411850188183413253</id><published>2011-08-06T22:51:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-08-06T22:51:07.945+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nini Sequeira'/><title type='text'>Nini Sequeira</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; 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Irmão Nini Sequeira&lt;/u&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; que foi Grande Oficial da Grande Loja Legal de Portugal, Cavaleiro Rosa-Cruz, e amigo de tantos Irmãos da Grande Loja. Era um homem bom, fraterno amigo, com um coração do tamanho do mundo. Encontrava-se há meses em tratamento por causa de doença prolongada, de que veio a falecer. Os Irmãos de Macau da R:.L:. Luz do Oriente n.o 80 dirigem sentidos pêsamos à família enlutada e inclinam-se perante a memória de tão excelso Maçom que permanecerá, sempre entre nós. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;It was informed that Bro:. Nini Sequeira, that was Grand Official of our Order, and Knight Rose-Croix, passed to the Eternal Valley. Bro: . was a very good man, a close friend of so many in our Order and with a heart so bug as the world. He as been ill for many months of a very painful illness. The Brethren of Luz do Oriente n.o 80 adress their condolences to Bro Nini Sequeira family and pray homage to the memory of such exceptional freemason.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2411850188183413253?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2411850188183413253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2411850188183413253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/08/nini-sequeira.html' title='Nini Sequeira'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4536286747242420294</id><published>2011-07-31T11:28:00.003+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-31T11:37:32.506+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GLLP/GLRP'/><title type='text'>20 anos da Grande Loja Regular de Portugal.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y8lahr4ZLnE/TjS-3GduLoI/AAAAAAAACyU/gOoUqquEhBo/s1600/GrandeLOja4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="130" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y8lahr4ZLnE/TjS-3GduLoI/AAAAAAAACyU/gOoUqquEhBo/s200/GrandeLOja4.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cpcoH3p4eus/TjS-yFHI5JI/AAAAAAAACyQ/HXtvAd5Fu6M/s1600/GrandeLOja3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="141" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cpcoH3p4eus/TjS-yFHI5JI/AAAAAAAACyQ/HXtvAd5Fu6M/s200/GrandeLOja3.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Parece curto mas os 20 anos de vida da Grande Loja Regular de Portugal são o galardão de um longo caminho percorrido, da certeza que estávamos na direcção certa e que o tempo nos deu razão. Pelo caminho alguns acidentes próprios de qualquer construção humana, alguns que se enganaram quando entraram e procuraram outra coisa que não encontraram aqui. Salutarmente reconstroi-se o bloco fundador dos que vinte anos atrás fizeram uma aposta, ao sairem do GOL, e refundar a Maçonaria Regular acolhendo-se a quem na altura nos abriu a porta do Templo, os Irmãos da Grande Loja Nacional Francesa. É importante recordar isto agora, porque todas as instituições têm a sua crise de crescimento mas encontram com paciência e sem declinarem os princípios fundamentais o seu caminho. Por muito negro que o futuro se anuncie. Gostoso este abraço que hoje se verifica à Maçonaria da América Latina e de África, novas pedras no edifício deste Templo colectivo da Maçonaria Universal. Aqui algumas fotos da sessão comemorativa dos 20 anos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ceqqIa_9OkM/TjS-8YIXauI/AAAAAAAACyY/WO7CcHU-DgE/s1600/Grande+LOja.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="235" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ceqqIa_9OkM/TjS-8YIXauI/AAAAAAAACyY/WO7CcHU-DgE/s320/Grande+LOja.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4536286747242420294?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4536286747242420294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4536286747242420294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/20-anos-da-grande-loja-regular-de.html' title='20 anos da Grande Loja Regular de Portugal.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y8lahr4ZLnE/TjS-3GduLoI/AAAAAAAACyU/gOoUqquEhBo/s72-c/GrandeLOja4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8370767843295198018</id><published>2011-07-30T17:54:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-30T18:22:09.403+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mestria'/><title type='text'>Mestria</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QKw1hnk8ous/TjPG90F7lUI/AAAAAAAACyE/BpRausi3ftc/s1600/Mestria.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QKw1hnk8ous/TjPG90F7lUI/AAAAAAAACyE/BpRausi3ftc/s400/Mestria.JPG" width="361" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Muitas vezes nos questionamos o que nos faz diferentes como Mestres Maçons. A consciência da necessidade de percorrer um caminho para sermos dignos de ser elevados a essa condição. A responsabilidade de sabermos que é uma tarefa sempre inacabada. A convicção que o conhecimento não se esgotou, há sempre muita pedra a polir. O dever de sermos um exemplo de conduta para os que nos observam e seguem em Loja. Bem sei que isto é, muitas vezes, teórico e pouco rigoroso. Há sempre aquela atitude bem portuguesa: deixa ir; não te preocupes. No fundo pensamos “isto não é para levar a sério”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Aligeiramos o ritual, facilitamos as provas e os interrogatórios rituais, pois num mundo em que algo só se faz quando há retribuição, nada se faz desinteressadamente. É difícil explicar aos homens que estão à nossa frente na coluna do Norte que não há nada a ganhar, que no “comércio do Templo”&amp;nbsp; valemos pouco, tudo é feito &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;a bono&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; da causa. A lógica do processo leva a que calcorreado o caminho para a Mestria os que lá chegam descansem nos louros da caminhada e deixem cair os braços.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Quantos Mestres, nas nossas lojas, se dão ao trabalho de fazer pranchas depois de ser elevados ao 3.o Grau? Seguramente poucos, muito poucos. O que significa, na maior parte dos casos, que descontraímos subido o segundo para o terceiro degrau. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Continuo convencido, uma década e meia depois, que isto não é bem assim. Quando se baixa os braços perde-se focagem, aprumo, consciência, determinação. E o tédio ou a rotina tomam conta de nós. E cometem-se erros; de avaliação e deponderação, de autojulgamento.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;No último mês fomos surpreendidos por dois casos públicos que rapidamente ganharam foros de primeira página dos jornais do nosso país: o caso do terrorista norueguês e de um antigo chefe dos Serviços de Informação de Portugal. Creio que ambos os casos têm a ver com o que acimo refiro: menor cuidado com os deveres maçónicos. Seguramente há um mar a separar os dois casos e eles não são por forma alguma comparáveis mas neles participaram homens que são tidos por Maçons. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;O primeiro é-o porque foi o Grão-Mestre da Grande Loja a que ele pertence a determinar a sua expulsão da Ordem e só se expulsa alguém de uma organização quando ele é membro. Não sei se a decisão do Grão-Mestre mereceu comentário mas tratou-se de um acto de coragem e rectidão. Expulsar alguém de uma Ordem exige coragem e sentido do dever; até porque a lógica centrípeta, o “bottom up” sugere o encapotamento, o silenciamento, o “olhar para o lado”. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;O &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Max Webber&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt; já escreveu tudo o que havia a escrever sobre organizações do nosso jaez onde impera a verticalidade do comando, o princípio da hierarquia e do dever, a lógica da obediência. Não há do ponto de vista da teoria organizacional grande diferença do Sínodo dos Bispos, de um regimento militar, de uma orquestra e de outra organizações litúrgicas. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Dei comigo a pensar que consequências terá a expulsão desse Maçom norueguês na sua esfera pessoal ? A perda do reconhecimento da sua qualidade; o fim do direito a ser tratado como um dos “nossos”; o revogar do privilégio de encontrar em cada um de nós o prestador de assistência que eventualmente pedisse. Mas será que ele interiorizou na cerimónia de iniciação o que é libertar-se das referências do mundo profano e &lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;nascer outra vez&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;? Nunca o saberemos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Pensei ainda como se sentirá o homem que foi seu padrinho e que na lógica da nossa instituição é responsável pela sua caminhada até ao fim da vida? Provavelmente decepcionado, traído, incomodado, mas a capacidade de antever este tipo de desenvolvimento é mínima senão impossível. Por muito que nós, os que fomos já padrinhos de neófitos, o deploremos a nossa &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;capacidade de os influenciar &lt;/span&gt;depois de tornados mestres é mínima. Os homens como seres auto-determinados constróem o seu destino, seguem o caminho que escolhem, porfiam (ou não) nos valores que lhe são transmitidos. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Do segundo presume-se a condição de Maçom. O seu nome foi referido numa reportagem da TVI e depois da revista&lt;i&gt; Sábado &lt;/i&gt;e referenciado à nossa Augusta Ordem, sem que se perceba que o tenha negado. Era, pelo que se percebe, uma figura pública pelo menos nos meios da tecno-estrutura do aparelho de Estado. Conheço quem tinha (e tem) uma opinião formada a seu respeito.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;A saída dos serviços que dirigia fez-se com grande eco na comunicação social. Escreveu-se que saiu em divergência com o Primeiro-ministro. É bizarra esta lógica de algum &lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;voyeurismo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; que leva um director-geral da administração pública a explicitar as razões da saída para os órgãos de comunicação social, um assunto que é do &lt;u&gt;foro privado&lt;/u&gt; e quando muito &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;contratual&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Percebe-se que um político tenha que entrar neste jogo pois há uma carreira à frente, um veredito de reconhecimento (ou opróbio ao invés) perante a classe a que pertence mas é estranho que um servidor do Estado se sinta forçado a entrar no mesmo “jogo”. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Incomoda que se baralhe tudo nos jornais, serviços de informação, maçonaria, empresas privadas, gente famosa. Temos uma regra de descrição que quando permitimos que se viole vemo-nos metidos num novelo onde vale tudo: a aparência, o faz de conta, a mentira, o absurdo, a ausência de eticidade. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;O que devolve a reflexão ao ponto de partida: o que &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;nos distingue dos Irmãos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; dos outros graus? Talvez um instinto de sobriedade, de distanciamento dos flashes da fama, a ideia que valemos pouco, que não temos o “poder” que imaginamos, a influência que presumimos, a destinção que presumimos. Somos filhos litúrgicos de um homem que foi a prova provada das consequências da vaidade irrazoável, da sofreguidão em se ter o que não é devido ou apenas pertinente, o desafio rufião à autoridade legítima, a inveja, a vendetta. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Tudo coisas que têm muito a ver com &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;ser-se português&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Outros o descreveram melhor que eu poderia aqui dizer.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Ser capaz de nos imaginarmo-nos no momento em que entrámos numa casa &amp;nbsp;que desconhecíamos, pela mão de alguém que conhecíamos de passagem, levados vendados a um local que nunca imagináramos, a surpresa do desvendar da cerimónia e depois o juramento. O temor, o medo do desconhecido. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Acho que é isso o que é essencial: o medo do desconhecido. Tornamo-nos confiantes à medida que subimos, sem que percebamos que isso não se traduz num prémio mas num novo patamar de responsabilidades. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Por vezes o ambiente geral não tem essa cultura de responsabilidade. Não por fraqueza mas porque nos tornamos condescendentes, pactuamos com o facilitismo. E estas coisas acontecem. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Há provavelmente quem pense que estes casos não nos dizem respeito, são com outros. Haverá seguramente. Não parece contudo que vamos a algum lado se alinharmos por esse ponto de vista, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;se lavarmos dai as mãos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. É como o compasso a descrever circunferências com base num ponto central pouco definido, seja porque não se vê, seja porque a superfície é rugosa e não deixa assentar, bem, a ponta do compasso. O resultado não é uma linha curva, perfeita, com o traçado equidistante do centro mas uma linha cheia de altos e baixos, de acidentes, de imperfeições. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Um desenho geométrico que não serve para coisa alguma. Sabe-o qualquer aprendiz de geometria.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;GAMA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8370767843295198018?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8370767843295198018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8370767843295198018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/mestria.html' title='Mestria'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QKw1hnk8ous/TjPG90F7lUI/AAAAAAAACyE/BpRausi3ftc/s72-c/Mestria.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6974238259410923178</id><published>2011-07-25T21:21:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-25T21:24:12.426+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Norway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Grand Lodge of Norway'/><title type='text'>Declaration of the Sovereign Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Norway.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDSjMDH9O2E/Ti1gVVWRX1I/AAAAAAAACx4/5uJZ_cGZjmI/s1600/Ivar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="205" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDSjMDH9O2E/Ti1gVVWRX1I/AAAAAAAACx4/5uJZ_cGZjmI/s320/Ivar.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;-&lt;i&gt; I am appalled by the horrible atrocity that was committed in the government district and at the Utøya island, says the Sovereign Grand Master of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons,&lt;b&gt; Ivar A. Skar&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;We are filled with mourning and compassion for those who have been affected and their relatives.&lt;br /&gt;It has appeared in the media that the accused has been a member of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;He has now been excluded&lt;/u&gt; - t&lt;u&gt;he exclusion immediately effective&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The exclusion reflects that the acts he is accused of having carried out, and the values that appear to have motivated them, are completely incompatible with what we stand for as an Order.&lt;br /&gt;We build our activity on Christian and humanistic values and want our members to contribute to the promotion of charity, peace and goodness among all people.&lt;br /&gt;The police will of course get all the help and information we can give to contribute to the investigation&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;In&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.frimurer.no/"&gt;http://www.frimurer.no/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-6974238259410923178?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6974238259410923178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6974238259410923178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/declaration-of-sovereign-grand-master.html' title='Declaration of the Sovereign Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Norway.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDSjMDH9O2E/Ti1gVVWRX1I/AAAAAAAACx4/5uJZ_cGZjmI/s72-c/Ivar.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2253649592024489687</id><published>2011-07-25T12:30:00.008+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-25T16:04:22.402+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Antimaçonaria'/><title type='text'>Antimaçonarias.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KOeBmvgaWSE/Ti0SNI2d1uI/AAAAAAAACx0/Pz0FQb5BxRQ/s1600/Baphomet.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KOeBmvgaWSE/Ti0SNI2d1uI/AAAAAAAACx0/Pz0FQb5BxRQ/s320/Baphomet.bmp" t$="true" width="229px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;As &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;antimaçonarias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; são movimentos formados por fundamentalistas religiosos, políticos radicais e ex-maçons voltados para a crítica à Maçonaria. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O primeiro ensaio para a criação de uma antimaçonaria foi escrito pelo escritor e jornalista francês Marie &lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léo_Taxil"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand Pagès&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;mais conhecido por &lt;strong&gt;Léo Taxil&lt;/strong&gt;. Taxil tornou-se conhecido na Europa entre 1870 e o início do século XX por ter enganado as hierarquias eclesiásticas com falsas publicações (ditas “confissões”) sobre maçons. A principal dessas “confissões” consistia no relato das desventuras de uma suposta Diana Vaughan às mãos de uma imaginária “seita maçónica”. O livro de Taxil causou grande repercussão entre o clero católico e, apesar das sábias advertências do bispo de Charleston, denunciando as falcatruas e invenções de Taxil, o &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;Papa Leão XIII &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;recebeu o falsário em audiência e acreditou nele. Só mais tarde se descobriu que Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand Pagès – aliás Léo Taxil, aliás Paul de Régis, aliás Adolphe Ricoux, aliás Samuel Paul, aliás Rosen, aliás Dr. Bataille… – era o oportunista director do jornal “La Marotte” proibido na França por violação da moral. Por causa disso, Léo Taxil fora sentenciado a oito anos de prisão. Era o mesmo Adolphe Ricoux que publicava livros anti-católicos pintando a hierarquia eclesiástica como hedonista e sádica. &lt;br /&gt;Aproveitou as alucinações de &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliphas_Lévi"&gt;Eliphas Lévi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; (aliás &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;abade Alphonse Louis Constant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;) e endereçou novas “acusações” contra a Ordem que inadvertidamente o iniciara. Os maçons seriam satanistas e adoradores de um ídolo com cabeça de bode chamado &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet"&gt;Baphomet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Essa reinvenção do absurdo ficou conhecida como “Jogo de Taxil” ressuscitando a figura do bode como ícone da Maçonaria. Entre 1886 e 1887, doente, Taxil acabou por confessar a sua fraude. &lt;br /&gt;No século XX as bases das antimaçonarias assentaram em &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;três elementos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;: as fantasias de Léo Taxil, o &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;fanatismo religioso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; e os &lt;u&gt;movimentos políticos totalitários&lt;/u&gt;: o salazarismo, o fascismo, o nazismo e o estalinismo. Quanto ao comunismo, o &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International"&gt;Quarto Congresso da III Internacional&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; (Novembro de 1922) estabeleceu “a incompatibilidade entre a Maçonaria e o Socialismo” tido como evidente na maioria dos partidos que fizeram parte da II Internacional. A Maçonaria foi considerada uma “organização do radicalismo burguês destinada a semear ilusões e a prestar seu apoio ao capital organizado em forma de Estado”. Em 1914, o &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Socialist_Party"&gt;Partido Socialista Italiano&lt;/a&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;expulsou os maçons de suas fileiras&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; e o Quarto Congresso recomendou ao Comité Central do &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Communist_Party"&gt;Partido Comunista francês&lt;/a&gt; que erradicasse os maçons das suas fileiras. Todo o militante que antes de 1 de Janeiro de 1923 não declarasse abertamente e a público, através da imprensa do partido, sua ruptura total com a Maçonaria ficaria automaticamente excluído do Partido.&lt;br /&gt;Esta perseguição à Maçonaria pelo comunismo teve, no entanto, uma excepção: a &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;Maçonaria é legal em &lt;a href="http://www.google.pt/url?q=http://www.flickr.com/photos/33535417%40N05/3257332104/&amp;amp;sa=U&amp;amp;ei=mBQtTuTsFqyNmQWkxvS5Dw&amp;amp;ved=0CBIQFjAD&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFs0C690xKb2UHvRb_DN-rqWQhssw"&gt;Cuba&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;tendo mais de 300 Lojas. Desde 1995, a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freemasonry.ru/index_e.html"&gt;Grande Loja da Rússia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; reergueu colunas tendo Lojas sediadas em Moscovo, São Petersburgo e noutras cidades russas.&lt;br /&gt;Em 1945, o &lt;u&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism"&gt;nazismo&lt;/a&gt; ilegalizou as Lojas Maçónicas&lt;/u&gt;. Nos países ocupados as Lojas foram queimadas e todos seus arquivos confiscados e queimados. Os líderes da Maçonaria alemã foram sumariamente assassinados sob o pretexto de que a maçonaria mantinha ligações “ilícitas” com o judaísmo internacional e outros foram mandados para campos de concentração, juntamente com suas famílias. &lt;br /&gt;Quanto ao fanatismo religioso, torna-se mais difícil analisá-lo hoje. Muitos de seus “baluartes” estão na Internet ocultos em sites anónimos.&lt;br /&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.revistauniversomaconico.com.br/"&gt;http://www.revistauniversomaconico.com.br/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nota adicional.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A antimaçonaria colhe na ignorância e no gosto do público pelo desconhecido e o secreto. O facto da Ordem viver em descrição, mantendo sigilo sobre os rituais e práticas dos ritos, bem como sobre os membros da mesma adensa as suspeitas dos que têm um prazer particular pelas teorias da conspiração. Tal como os comunistas e os nazis estes apaixonados do falsário acham que há uma qualquer conspiração para conquistar o mundo que tem origem na Ordem Maçónica. Trata-se de uma fantasia que pode vender jornais mas não resiste à primeira prova de falsidade. Hoje em dia a antimaçonaria tem uma outra dimensão, as organizações de extrema-direita que procuram associar a maçonaria ao radicalismo judaico e a Israel, invocando o facto de vários mitos do Antigo Testamento terem um papel significativo nos rituais maçónicos. O que é verdade. De qualquer forma esta propaganda de ódio e intolerância faz o seu caminho junto de um sector da juventude que acredita nestas fantasias e embora não simpatize com o nazismo e o fascismo identifica com estas teses radicais e extremistas. Também na orla das religiões do Livro alguns grupos alimentam um ódio patológico contra os maçons e a maçonaria. Como grupos sectários sem expressão no corpo das religiões institucionais (catoliscismo, protestantismo, islamismo, induismo, budismo) eles alimentam-se da crendice, da superstição e do medo com o desconhecido. A melhor postura é esclarecer de forma firme mas inteligente e desmontar os argumentos mais inflamados.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2253649592024489687?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2253649592024489687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2253649592024489687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/antimaconarias.html' title='Antimaçonarias.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KOeBmvgaWSE/Ti0SNI2d1uI/AAAAAAAACx0/Pz0FQb5BxRQ/s72-c/Baphomet.bmp' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-1342776443485916791</id><published>2011-07-22T12:25:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-22T12:29:40.305+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scottish Rite'/><title type='text'>Scottish Rite</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8R5kf4q4v1Q/TijuYHZPRUI/AAAAAAAACxs/qwRG0REO6Qw/s1600/REAA.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8R5kf4q4v1Q/TijuYHZPRUI/AAAAAAAACxs/qwRG0REO6Qw/s320/REAA.gif" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;(Excerpt from an article about &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #351c75;"&gt;the Scottish Rite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, published by R:. Bro:. Gama, elsewhere)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;O Rito Escocês Antigo e Aceite é um dos ritos maçónicos mais praticados no mundo e encontra-se estruturado em &lt;strong&gt;33 graus&lt;/strong&gt;, os três primeiros que correspondem à &lt;strong&gt;Maçonaria Azul ou Simbólica&lt;/strong&gt;, constituída pelos graus de &lt;strong&gt;Aprendiz, Companheiro e Mestre&lt;/strong&gt; e os outros trinta graus que integram os chamados &lt;strong&gt;Graus Filosóficos&lt;/strong&gt;. Os três primeiros graus encontram-se sob jurisdição de Grandes Lojas ou Grandes Orientes; os restantes do Supremo Conselho dos Soberanos Grandes Inspectores Gerais do 33º e Ultimo Grau do Rito Escocês.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;O Rito na sua formulação actual tem origem em França, no século XVIII, e a designação de “escocês” pouco tem a ver com a sua génese histórica, já que terá surgido entre a comunidade exilada inglesa, na sequência da guerra civil britânica entre católicos e protestantes. Dali o Rito é levado para as Américas, para São Domingos, por três franceses- Etienne Morin, Grasse-Tilly e Delahogue – que se refugiarão depois em Charleston. Em Charleston o Rito alcança o 33º grau, com Grasse-Tilly e John Mitchel fundando em 31 de Maio de 1801 o primeiro Supremo Conselho do Rito Escocês (o Supremo Conselho da Jurisdição Sul dos Estados Unidos) e recebendo patente para criar outros Supremos Conselhos pelo mundo. Supremos Conselhos congéneres foram criados em França (1811), Espanha (1813), Brasil (1830), Portugal (1845), Inglaterra e Pais de Gales (1864), Escócia (1856), etc. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;O REAA é &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;uma escola de ética e valores morais&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; construída de &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;nove princípios&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;: venerar a Deus e cultivar a espiritualidade; investigar a verdade, defender a liberdade; amar o próximo, manter entre si a fraternidade, obedecer `as leis do país; praticar a justiça; combater a ignorância; trabalhar pela felicidade da humanidade. O Rito estabelece como princípio cardinal a &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Liberdade que Deus, o Grande Arquitecto do Universo, deu ao homem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; como o mais precioso dos bens e património de toda a Humanidade e que a ninguém é lícito diminuir ou apagar já que é a fonte do sentimento de honra e dignidade. (...) O Rito Escocês é &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;profundamente deista&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; no sentido que não impõe aos prosélitos a escolha de uma religião revelada, apenas a aceitação das verdades comuns a todas elas e ainda da espiritualidade dos que não se sentem tocados por uma delas, em particular. Implica e exalta a centelha divina que foi transmitida à raça humana &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;no acto fundador da Criação&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, a ideia transcendente que nos faz Irmãos e ao mesmo tempo filhos de Deus. É natural que integre, na sua rica imagística, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;elementos dos Mistérios Cristãos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; (Grau de Cavaleiro Rosa Cruz), mas fá-lo com uma abrangência que um muçulmano, judeu, hindu ou ba’ hai não se sentirá dessacralizado.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É por isso &lt;span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;o mais universal e cosmopolita dos ritos maçónicos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-1342776443485916791?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1342776443485916791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1342776443485916791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/scottish-rite.html' title='Scottish Rite'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8R5kf4q4v1Q/TijuYHZPRUI/AAAAAAAACxs/qwRG0REO6Qw/s72-c/REAA.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5315281024583359297</id><published>2011-07-22T11:56:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-22T12:04:28.362+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hergé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tintin'/><title type='text'>Hergé and Freemasonry</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pGx-Fd4mtRA/Tijol6TD-gI/AAAAAAAACxc/j-C-QkFHE7M/s1600/Tintin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pGx-Fd4mtRA/Tijol6TD-gI/AAAAAAAACxc/j-C-QkFHE7M/s320/Tintin.jpg" t$="true" width="228px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;One of the heroes of our youth (and imaginary), Tintin, came true through the genius of Hergé, his creator. Those stories fulfill the dreams of adventure of Portuguese youth in a time when traveling outside the borders of our country was restricted to wealthy families and grown-up people. Hergé escaped through the arguments of Tintin stories its fascination for the unknown, the secret and ancient civilizations. Now we know that he was ravishing for Freemasonry although its affiliation in the Craft was never confirmed. It seems that the American director Spielberg has the plan to bring to the screen in 3D the adventures of our beloved character. Here the report&amp;nbsp;of Le Monde.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; --/--/--&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tintinophiles, tintineurs ou tintinolâtres ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;La vie littéraire LE MONDE DES LIVRES &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;30.06.11 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mobilisation générale chez les tintinophiles en attendant "l'événement" de la rentrée : Les Aventures de Tintin, coproduit et réalisé en 3D par Steven Spielberg. Au lendemain d'une avant-première à Bruxelles, le film sortira le 26 octobre en Europe, et peu après dans le reste du monde puis à la veille de Noël aux Etats-Unis. Le scénario a puisé dans l'ensemble de la série mais il s'agit surtout du Secret de la Licorne mâtiné de morceaux de Crabe aux pinces d'or. Ce qui met déjà en émoi les tintinolâtres canal historique. Qu'importe du moment que Tintin a à l'écran la même voix que dans les albums. Inutile de préciser que vous n'avez pas fini d'entendre parler du génie d'Hergé. Les bédéphobes, ennemis de la ligne claire et autres allHergiques sont priés de s'éloigner des fenêtres. L'édition ne sera pas en reste. Quelques auteurs ont déjà ouvert la marche. &lt;br /&gt;Avec Dans la peau de Tintin (Les impressions nouvelles, 332 p., 22 euros), Jean-Marie Apostolidès, un récidiviste, soutient que Tintin est une carapace dans laquelle Hergé s'est dissimulé pour conquérir sa femme puis la reconnaissance sociale, son oeuvre devant être lue comme une autobiographie dissimulée : "La peau de Tintin se fait alors corps collectif et le petit reporter acquiert le statut de mythe. Ce mythe nouveau permet à ceux qui y participent de se reconnaître entre eux comme des frères unis et de solidifier leur rapport au monde contemporain." Ainpsy soit-il.&lt;br /&gt;L'approche est toute autre dans La Vie secrète d'Hergé (Dervy, 484 p., 26 euros), d'Olivier Reibel, biographie pour initiés sur les rapports d'Hergé avec la franc-maçonnerie, les sciences occultes et la théosophie. En était-il et quel message voulait-il transmettre ? D'après l'auteur, il aurait appartenu à la fraternité des Polaires, laquelle croit en l'origine hyperboréenne et thuléenne de l'humanité (ils n'ont pas froid aux yeux) et l'aurait quittée pour se rapprocher des martinistes, avant un détour par l'ordre ou Prieuré de Sion, alors qu'il était déjà sur la voie du taoïsme. "Seule certitude absolue : sa vie durant, il fut, selon la formule du rite écossais rectifié, un initié cherchant, persévérant et souffrant et qui affirmait : "Je n'arrive pas à être moi-même avec tous ces moi qui cohabitent en moi."" Les archives polaires ont été emmenées par les nazis à Berlin puis confisquées par les Russes. La vérité est à Moscou, rien ne change.&lt;br /&gt;LA PISTE DE LA FOLIE&lt;br /&gt;François Rivière, lui, publiera Hergé, ligne claire, ombres portées (Robert Laffont) au moment de la sortie du film. Ce portrait, écrit avec Benoît Mouchard, s'attache à montrer comment la vie du dessinateur se retrouve dans son oeuvre. On ne s'attend pas à ce qu'il soit iconoclaste dans la mesure où il est coédité avec Moulinsart. Mais François Rivière a enquêté sur la manière dont on soignait les gens en Belgique : "Nous avons développé la piste de la folie de la mère d'Hergé, morte dans un asile après avoir subi des séances d'électrochocs. C'était en 1946, l'époque des Sept Boules du cristal, où la folie est bien présente, comme elle l'était déjà dans Le Lotus bleu."&lt;br /&gt;Enfin, Georges Remi. Ne cherchez pas dans les programmes, son manuscrit est encore à l'état de tapuscrit. Je dirais même plus : il n'a pas encore trouvé son éditeur. C'est le témoignage sensible, anecdotique, chaleureux et assez bachi-bouzouk du neveu, filleul et homonyme d'Hergé (de son vrai nom Georges Remi, dont les initiales inversées ont donné...) qui fut également son témoin de mariage. Pour son malheur, l'auteur a lui aussi tâté du dessin. Graphiste et président fondateur de l'Association des peintres belges de marine, il offre un portrait contrasté du tonton et de son entourage. Son histoire s'intitule Le Sabre et le Crayon. Autrement dit son père, officier de cavalerie, et son oncle, qui-vous-savez. Il s'est retrouvé pris entre les deux comme on dirait entre le marteau et l'enclume. "Une étrange fratrie partageant - tous comptes négatifs soldés - un même idéal d'absolu : droiture, intégrité et loyauté. Tintinesques tous les deux."&lt;br /&gt;Au fil de leurs conversations, l'oncle voulut l'ouvrir à la philosophie en lui offrant Les Chemins de la sagesse, d'Arnaud Desjardins, le neveu ayant été "mentalement lessivé" après un passage chez les Témoins de Jéhovah. Un temps, ils se rapprochèrent, au point qu'Hergé songea à lui confier par testament la mise en valeur de sa collection d'art contemporain, bien que le peintre de marine reconnaisse avoir du mal à concevoir comme on peut mettre autant d'argent dans un Fontana au motif qu'un simple coup de lame dans la toile égale une calligraphie dans la voie de l'ultime perfection. Mais une lettre de trop ("mon crime épistolaire"), il est vrai particulièrement violente, rompit les ponts et junior se vit à jamais écarté.&lt;br /&gt;"Est-ce que mon obstination à "tintiner" sans cesse relève d'une pathologie ?", se demande-t-il. Rassurons-le sur un point : il n'est pas indispensable d'être de la famille pour être atteint.&lt;br /&gt;Pierre Assouline&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2011/06/30/tintinophiles-tintineurs-ou-tintinolatres_1542806_3260.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dans Le Monde&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5315281024583359297?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5315281024583359297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5315281024583359297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/herge-and-freemasonry.html' title='Hergé and Freemasonry'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pGx-Fd4mtRA/Tijol6TD-gI/AAAAAAAACxc/j-C-QkFHE7M/s72-c/Tintin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8084276129377509644</id><published>2011-07-22T11:44:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-22T12:08:43.701+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mozart'/><title type='text'>Mozart and the Magic Flute</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R6WII4BEWWg/TijpoM7R72I/AAAAAAAACxg/1uMkwytBKI8/s1600/Magic+Flute.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R6WII4BEWWg/TijpoM7R72I/AAAAAAAACxg/1uMkwytBKI8/s320/Magic+Flute.jpg" t$="true" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Mozart music is for many years associated with Freemasonry. The young musician and composer was introduced to the secrets of the Royal Art by its protector, a noble aristocrat. He became member of Lodge Beneficence in Viena, and presumptily composed some of its magestatic pieces with his mind in the teachings he received at Lodge. Mozart is one of our most dearest historical figures and his music is always present in our sessions and within the Column of Harmony of the Scottish Rite. &lt;br /&gt;Its famous opera, &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Magic Flute&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, was rehersead recently in France. &lt;a href="http://www.sudouest.fr/2011/06/25/la-musique-de-mozart-s-invite-dans-la-bastide-435610-2966.php"&gt;Here the report about it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;--/--/--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La musique de Mozart s'invite dans la bastide&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Une représentation intégrale de l'opéra « La Flûte enchantée » de Mozart est donnée samedi soir à l'église Saint-Jean, sous la direction de Bruno Ricaud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Un dragon, un prince parti à la recherche de sa bien-aimée, des épreuves et l'amour vainqueur. « La Flûte enchantée », célèbre opéra de Mozart qui sera interprété samedi à 20 h 30 en l'église Saint-Jean, a tout d'un conte qui commencerait par « Il était une fois ». Et plus encore, selon Bruno Ricaud, directeur du conservatoire de Libourne, à l'initiative de la représentation avec la mairie. « Nous sommes devant un spectacle divin. Mozart avait de quoi faire quatre opéras avec tous les thèmes qu'il aborde. » &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Conte fantastique, « La Flûte enchantée » évoque le besoin de croyance des hommes dans un univers merveilleux. Né à Salzbourg en 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entre en franc-maçonnerie à Vienne en 1784. L'œuvre qu'il compose à la fin de sa vie se calque sur son parcours initiatique au sein de la loge de la Bienfaisance. « Cette notion de bienfaisance est son obsession. Il a besoin de partager », explique Bruno Ricaud, pianiste et grand admirateur du compositeur. C'est ainsi qu'il laisse le soin à Emanuel Schikaneder, ami et frère de loge, d'écrire le livret de l'opéra. C'est aussi ce dernier qui interprète le rôle de Papageno lors de la première représentation le 30 septembre 1791. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8084276129377509644?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8084276129377509644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8084276129377509644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/mozart-and-magic-flute.html' title='Mozart and the Magic Flute'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R6WII4BEWWg/TijpoM7R72I/AAAAAAAACxg/1uMkwytBKI8/s72-c/Magic+Flute.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-3869165127569092559</id><published>2011-07-10T17:01:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-10T17:02:59.401+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freemason'/><title type='text'>How to become a Freemason?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #515151; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5Qxk9cveSJw/ThlcrLXLKYI/AAAAAAAACxQ/HLDAgO2NIHE/s1600/compass.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5Qxk9cveSJw/ThlcrLXLKYI/AAAAAAAACxQ/HLDAgO2NIHE/s1600/compass.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The person who wants to join Freemasonry must be a man, sound in body and mind, who believes in a Supreme Being, is at least the minimum age required by Masonry in his country, and has a good reputation as a responsible citizen and human being.&amp;nbsp;Those are the only formal requirements. &amp;nbsp;However there are others that are informal. He should believe in helping others. He should believe there is more to life than pleasure and money. He should be willing to respect the opinions of others. And he should want to grow and develop as a human being, assuming that he is in position of perfectioning himself. [Source: Detroit Lodge n.o 2]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-3869165127569092559?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3869165127569092559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/3869165127569092559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-become-freemason.html' title='How to become a Freemason?'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5Qxk9cveSJw/ThlcrLXLKYI/AAAAAAAACxQ/HLDAgO2NIHE/s72-c/compass.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5781026700801570917</id><published>2011-07-09T17:13:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-10T17:17:28.296+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rose-croix'/><title type='text'>Poema Rosacruz</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y32Nuysl1Eo/ThlgBmkQAsI/AAAAAAAACxY/om4fJeobt8E/s1600/rosa-cruz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y32Nuysl1Eo/ThlgBmkQAsI/AAAAAAAACxY/om4fJeobt8E/s320/rosa-cruz.jpg" width="302" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Porque choras de que existe&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;A terra e o que a terra tem?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Tudo nosso – mal ou bem –&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;É fictício e só persiste&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Porque a alma aqui é ninguém&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Não chores! Tudo é o nada&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Onde os astros luzes são.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Tudo é lei e confusão.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Toma este mundo por estrada&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;E vai como os santos vão.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Levantado de onde lavra&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;O inferno em que somos réus&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Sob o silêncio dos céus,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Encontrarás a Palavra,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;O Nome interno de Deus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;E, além da dupla unidade&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Do que em dois sexos mistura&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;A ventura e a desventura,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;O sonho e a realidade,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Serás quem já não procura.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Porque, limpo do Universo,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Em Christo nosso Senhor,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Por sua verdade e amor,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Reunirás o disperso&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;E a Cruz abrirá em Flor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fernando Pessoa [Poema Rosa-Cruz]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5781026700801570917?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5781026700801570917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5781026700801570917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/poema-rosacruz.html' title='Poema Rosacruz'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y32Nuysl1Eo/ThlgBmkQAsI/AAAAAAAACxY/om4fJeobt8E/s72-c/rosa-cruz.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8414387041321219090</id><published>2011-07-09T17:06:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-10T17:11:39.573+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fernando Pessoa'/><title type='text'>Estrofes do poema S. João</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N2Qq4zSd2Vw/ThlereY_PQI/AAAAAAAACxU/KeTP6qv-Gmc/s1600/fernando-pessoa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N2Qq4zSd2Vw/ThlereY_PQI/AAAAAAAACxU/KeTP6qv-Gmc/s320/fernando-pessoa.jpg" width="290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Foi então que, para te vingar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;E à maneira de santo, os arreliar&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Desceste mansamente à terra&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Perfeitamente disfarçado&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;E fizeste entre os homens da razão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Um milagre assignado, mas cuja assignatura se erra&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Quando em teu dia, S. João do Verão,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Fundaste a Grande Loja de Inglaterra.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Isto agora é que é bom,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Se bem que vagamente rocambolico.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Eu a julgar-te até catholico,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;E tu sahes-me maçon.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Bem, ahi é que ha espaço para tudo,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Para o bem temporal do mundo vario.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Que o teu sorriso doure quanto estudo&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;E o teu Cordeiro Me faça sempre justo e verdadeiro,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Prompto a fazer fallar o coração Alto e bom som&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Contra todas as fórmulas do mal,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Contra tudo que torna o homem precario.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Se és maçon, Sou mais do que maçon – eu sou templarío.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Esqueço-te santo&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Deslembro o teu indefinido encanto.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;Meu Irmão, dou-te o abraço fraternal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fernando Pessoa [1935]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8414387041321219090?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8414387041321219090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8414387041321219090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/07/estrofes-do-poema-s-joao.html' title='Estrofes do poema S. João'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N2Qq4zSd2Vw/ThlereY_PQI/AAAAAAAACxU/KeTP6qv-Gmc/s72-c/fernando-pessoa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4572327898374422341</id><published>2011-06-29T12:26:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-29T12:26:29.892+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Macau'/><title type='text'>For our visitors.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KRr9zsw5Kcs/TgqbAalkvBI/AAAAAAAACxM/chJKGB9Dhq0/s1600/d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="305px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KRr9zsw5Kcs/TgqbAalkvBI/AAAAAAAACxM/chJKGB9Dhq0/s320/d.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We will have our last session of the masonic year the &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;next 7th July, 18:30h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; at our Temple. Regular freemasons are mostly welcome to visit us. We will break for holidays till the &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;1st of September&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Although closed, the traditional Portuguese welcome is always active. If visiting Macau [or Hong Kong] send us an email and come to see the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;historical old town&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; included in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Unesco World Heritage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Is a must see. Freemasonry had an important role in Macau's history starting in the 18th Century. Several signs and symbols illustrate that presence in the Macau monuments and gardens.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4572327898374422341?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4572327898374422341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4572327898374422341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/for-our-visitors.html' title='For our visitors.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KRr9zsw5Kcs/TgqbAalkvBI/AAAAAAAACxM/chJKGB9Dhq0/s72-c/d.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5012346276461565940</id><published>2011-06-28T12:44:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T12:44:25.754+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='José João Cardoso'/><title type='text'>José João Cardoso</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IiD1-vNDj1U/TglM_FFlLFI/AAAAAAAACxI/tzb-MkaEUYc/s1600/JoseJoao.BMP" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="280px" i$="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IiD1-vNDj1U/TglM_FFlLFI/AAAAAAAACxI/tzb-MkaEUYc/s320/JoseJoao.BMP" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Passou ao Oriente Eterno o nosso &lt;strong&gt;Quer:. I:. José João Cardoso&lt;/strong&gt;, Past-V:.M:. da R:.L:. Pitágoras, V-R da Ordem da Cruz Vermelha de Constantino, Past-Grande Comendador da Grande Comenda dos Cavaleiros Templários de Portugal, Past-Sumo Sacredote do Capítulo Mosteiro de Sagres. Era um nobre membro da nossa Augusta Ordem e um dedicado Irmão e Cavaleiro. Que Descanse em Paz&amp;nbsp;à direita do Nosso Criador.&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Passed to the Eternal Valley our Dearest and Illustreous Brother José João Cardoso, Past-WM of Lodge Pitagoras, V-R of the Order Red Cross of Constantine, Past-Grand Commendador of the Great Comenda of&amp;nbsp;the Templars Knights of Portugal, and Past-Grand Priest of the Chapter Mosteiro de Sagres. He was a distingushed member of our Order and a dedicated Brother and Knight. May he rest in Peace at the right of our Creator&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5012346276461565940?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5012346276461565940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5012346276461565940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/jose-joao-cardoso.html' title='José João Cardoso'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IiD1-vNDj1U/TglM_FFlLFI/AAAAAAAACxI/tzb-MkaEUYc/s72-c/JoseJoao.BMP' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-659393706722967101</id><published>2011-06-25T14:59:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-07-25T15:40:23.895+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='America'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Peter Falk'/><title type='text'>Brother Peter Falk dies.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8Yi4_2btNWg/TgV5M8ohoaI/AAAAAAAACxE/Kxjv7GDQ4ug/s1600/falk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="234" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8Yi4_2btNWg/TgV5M8ohoaI/AAAAAAAACxE/Kxjv7GDQ4ug/s320/falk.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Our Brother Peter Falk has died. It was a well known member of the Order in the United States. He died with 83 years old. May he rest in peace in the Eternal Valley.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;he news&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #505050; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;A família de&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://cinema.sapo.pt/pessoa/peter-falk-i" style="color: #0099ab; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Peter Falk&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;confirmou à CBS que o ator faleceu na noite de ontem, 23 de Junho, aos 83 anos, embora a causa da morte não tenha ainda sido divulgada. Sabe-se, contudo, que em 2007 fora diagnosticado ao ator a doença de Alzheimer, na sequência de uma série de operações dentárias, após as quais o intérprete rapidamente foi vítima de demência e perda de memória, situação eventualmente agravada pela anestesia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #505050; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Peter Falk nasceu em Nova Iorque em 1927 e logo aos três anos perdeu o olho direito devido a um tumor maligno. O olho de vidro que usou desde então conferiu-lhe um olhar peculiar, que se tornaria imagem de marca quando atingiu a popularidade máxima na década de 70 e 80.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-659393706722967101?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/659393706722967101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/659393706722967101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/brother-peter-falk-dies.html' title='Brother Peter Falk dies.'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8Yi4_2btNWg/TgV5M8ohoaI/AAAAAAAACxE/Kxjv7GDQ4ug/s72-c/falk.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6508446962780108275</id><published>2011-06-22T10:50:00.007+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T10:50:00.685+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian Jacq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mozart'/><title type='text'>Christian Jacq, the guest of this month in Classica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FRT3GWnkNMQ/TgBVTwLv5UI/AAAAAAAACw0/DqgwF9SoBW0/s1600/jacq.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FRT3GWnkNMQ/TgBVTwLv5UI/AAAAAAAACw0/DqgwF9SoBW0/s320/jacq.jpg" width="212px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;La Flûte enchantée représente, à mes yeux, l'aboutissement de toute la recherche spirituelle de Mozart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; N'oublions pas qu'il a écrit, très jeune, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;Thamos roi d'Égypte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; et qu'il était déjà fasciné par la civilisation des pharaons. Adulte, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #274e13;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;Mozart &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;est devenu &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;franc-maçon grâce au parrainage d'Ignaz von Born&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, minéralogiste autrichien dont Schikaneder s'est inspiré pour créer le personnage de&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt; Sarastro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;". &lt;br /&gt;"Si la branche philosophique de la franc-maçonnerie date du XVIIe siècle, une autre branche trouve sa source chez les bâtisseurs de cathédrales et une autre remonte à l'Égypte ancienne. Dans ses écrits, Ignaz von Born témoigne d'une grande connaissance de cette période alors que les hiéroglyphes de la pierre de Rosette n'ont été déchiffrés par Champollion qu'en 1822. Il y avait donc une tradition orale de ces mystères et de ces rites, puisque le dernier temple égyptien n'a fermé ses portes qu'au VIe siècle de notre ère, après trois millénaires ininterrompus de rites qui réunissaient l'architecture, la peinture, la poésie, la musique, la sculpture, les parfums.&lt;br /&gt;Si la Grèce, Jérusalem et Rome sont nos mères,&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt; l'Égypte est la grand-mère de notre civilisation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. C'est un univers. Et lorsqu'on va au plus profond de soi, on rejoint le cosmos. Je suis d'accord avec Hubert Reeves lorsqu'il dit que nous venons des étoiles. &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;Mozart en était très conscient&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Les Égyptiens aussi. Contrairement à ce que dit la Bible, les Hébreux n'étaient pas des esclaves (l'esclavage date des Grecs) et ils n'ont pas été chassés d'Égypte. Simplement, leur monothéisme pur et dur n'avait pas sa place dans la civilisation égyptienne."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iIMVaUTaYbw/TgBV2hxPYwI/AAAAAAAACw4/RCdn_TTXbvU/s1600/laudate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iIMVaUTaYbw/TgBV2hxPYwI/AAAAAAAACw4/RCdn_TTXbvU/s320/laudate.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"Dans le "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Laudate Dominum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" des &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Vêpres d'un confesseur de Mozart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, dans l'"Adagio" du &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Concerto pour clarinette&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, dans les &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;airs de Sarastro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, je retrouve &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;la sagesse de la haute Antiquité égyptienne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Au cours de ses voyages, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;Mozart a rencontré de grands esprits qui ont nourri sa recherche spirituelle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; On sait qu'il a fréquenté des alchimistes à Prague, des kabbalistes, etc. Il y a dans sa musique un sens de l'harmonie, une perfection des proportions qui échappent à l'analyse et dont la mystérieuse beauté rejoint celle des pyramides. De même, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;Bach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;a également travaillé les nombres, notamment le nombre d'or&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, et s'est inspiré des pythagoriciens de manière scientifique". &lt;br /&gt;"Voilà pourquoi, selon moi, leurs œuvres n'expriment pas seulement des sentiments humains, mais vont très loin dans la pensée universelle. Et voilà pourquoi elles tiennent toujours debout, tout comme les pyramides ou les cathédrales. Bach exprime de manière sensible, dans le début de la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Cantate BWV 170&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; par exemple, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;l'enchantement du monde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Il rejoint cette idée, qui remonte à l'Égypte mais que les chrétiens ont exprimée ainsi : "&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Fends la pierre et tu trouveras la Lumière, soulève le bois et Je serai là&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;." &lt;br /&gt;"Jean-Victor Hocquard a magnifiquement compris la pensée de Mozart. &lt;span style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Sa sagesse transcende toutes les religions. C'est une pensée qui s'appuie sur la lucidité.&lt;/span&gt; Il faut d'abord prendre la réalité à bras-le-corps et nommer les choses. Ensuite viennent l'élévation et la grâce. Mozart nous dit que c'est en traversant l'Enfer que nous connaîtrons le Paradis".&lt;br /&gt;"En outre, les hiéroglyphes procèdent par symboles et par analogies. De même, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;l'orchestration de Mozart m'évoque ce langage très complexe, dont on est loin d'avoir percé tous les secrets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, qui atteint la transparence en reliant la matière à l'esprit et au cosmos".&lt;br /&gt;"Je rêve de voir un jour La Flûte enchantée dans l'île de Philae, en Égypte, où la profondeur de sa pensée s'éclairerait d'un coup."&lt;br /&gt;In &lt;a href="http://www.qobuz.com/info/MAGAZINE-ACTUALITES/L-INVITE-DU-MOIS/Christian-Jacq-l-invite-du-mois-de55516"&gt;http://www.qobuz.com/info/MAGAZINE-ACTUALITES/L-INVITE-DU-MOIS/Christian-Jacq-l-invite-du-mois-de55516&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-6508446962780108275?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6508446962780108275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6508446962780108275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/christian-jacq-guest-of-this-month-in.html' title='Christian Jacq, the guest of this month in Classica'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FRT3GWnkNMQ/TgBVTwLv5UI/AAAAAAAACw0/DqgwF9SoBW0/s72-c/jacq.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-2781995032285189146</id><published>2011-06-22T10:19:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T10:19:00.680+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Clavero'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Argentina'/><title type='text'>“La masonería moderna ya no es secreta, sino discreta” [Angel Clavero]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hulUQDa_dig/TgBIpzSRSTI/AAAAAAAACww/FswZBEWEM-Y/s1600/MasonArgentina.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239px" i$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hulUQDa_dig/TgBIpzSRSTI/AAAAAAAACww/FswZBEWEM-Y/s320/MasonArgentina.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Por años la masonería ha sido considerada en la sociedad como la institución más secreta del mundo, pero según &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Ángel Jorge Clavero&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;; el &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;gran maestre de la gran logia de la Argentina de Libres y Aceptados Masones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, la masonería moderna ya no es secreta, sino que tiene una suerte de discreción. De visita oficial en Paraná contó que en &lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Argentina hay alrededor de 200 logias&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A pesar de la aseveración del gran maestre, es sabido que la vida y las actividades de las logias masónicas, así como sus miembros e ideales a seguir son un verdadero misterio para el mundo. Ayer estuvo en Paraná el máximo exponente de la logia masónica argentina y en una entrevista exclusiva brindada a UNO reveló algunos misterios que envuelven a la organización de la escuadra y el compás (su insignia).&lt;br /&gt;El gran maestre y otras autoridades de altos grados estuvieron en la capital entrerriana de visita oficial. “&lt;em&gt;Vivimos un día de fiesta, ya que estamos inaugurando un nuevo templo masónico, o taller de ideas como modernamente lo llamamos&lt;/em&gt;”, sostuvo el masón.&lt;br /&gt;En la capital provincial hay &lt;strong&gt;cinco logias&lt;/strong&gt;: Unión y Trabajo Nº 18; Refugio Fraterno Nº 480; Asilo del Litoral Nº 484; Justo José de Urquiza Nº 192 y Triángulo San Juan de la Fe Nº 1030, las cuales se reúnen en diferentes días en la única sede paranaense, ubicada en Andrés Pazos 141. También hay en Concordia, La Paz, Colón, Victoria y Concepción del Uruguay. &lt;br /&gt;En tanto en el país hay alrededor de 200 logias (100 en Capital y Gran Buenos Aires y el resto en ciudades del interior). Por lo general hay varias logias en las capitales de provincia, y en cada ciudad grande de cada una de ellas hay una o dos.&lt;br /&gt;El gran maestre sostuvo que Entre Ríos tiene una larga historia masónica. El Litoral estuvo muy vinculado a la masonería, y a su vez la masonería en el Litoral estuvo muy vinculada a la historia política, social y económica de nuestro país, por lo tanto han quedado logias que son muy antiguas, justamente como la logia &lt;em&gt;Unión y Trabajo&lt;/em&gt;, que ayer cumplió 150 años.&lt;br /&gt;Conocida a lo largo de los siglos como una sociedad secreta y víctima de persecuciones, la masonería parece estar mostrando una nueva tendencia, mucho más abierta a la comunidad.&lt;br /&gt;Al respecto el gran maestre explicó que “&lt;em&gt;el secreto de la masonería es algo muy antiguo, desde la Edad Media, dado que aquellos masones operativos, los que construían los grandes castillos medievales, las abadías e iglesias eran los únicos que tenían los secretos de la construcción y lo guardaban celosamente (y así mantener el monopolio de la actividad). La masonería moderna tiene una suerte de discreción, pero ya no es tan secreta; porque no tiene nada que resguardar en cuanto a sus valores éticos, la piedra angular de su funcionamiento&lt;/em&gt;”, señaló.&lt;br /&gt;La masonería empieza siendo operativa de la mano de aquellos que ponían piedra sobre piedra. Cuando comienza a cambiar la civilización, al concluir la Edad Media, con ella la época de las grandes construcciones y viene la Ilustración, el Iluminismo, el Enciclopedismo y se empieza a creer más en el hombre. “&lt;em&gt;Entonces la masonería dice: desde ahora de operativos pasamos a ser especulativos y de aquellos grandes templos de piedra que armábamos, ahora vamos a armar el templo interior del ser humano, lo dotaremos de mejores valores y convicciones, los haremos menos fanáticos y apasionados, para que el hombre sea el centro de lo que vendrá y convertirse en ciudadano”, señaló el masón. Continuó diciendo: “Los masones queremos hacer mejores hombres, para que sean luego excelentes ciudadanos y así mejorar la calidad de vida política de los países&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;En cuanto &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;al modo de reclutamiento de los miembros de la logia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, el entrevistado aseguró que &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;hoy es libre y que cualquier persona, comunicándose telefónicamente, por mail, o bien presentándose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; en un lugar masónico &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;puede iniciar los trámites&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. “&lt;em&gt;Desde que asumimos la conducción de la institución (hace tres años) entendimos que teníamos que poner en valor comunicacional a la masonería, que estaba un poco quedada y nadie la conocía. Por eso es que difundimos nuestros valores, principios, actitudes y explicamos que se trata de una escuela de vida con nuestros valores éticos como piedra angular&lt;/em&gt;”, comentó.&lt;br /&gt;Clavero también aportó que el ingreso de mujeres estuvo permitido desde siempre, aunque explicó que tienen su propio grupo, la Gran Logia Femenina Argentina. “&lt;em&gt;La masonería es filosófica, filantrópica y progresista, esto está reconocido como valor positivo en todas las constituciones masónicas del mundo&lt;/em&gt;”, expresó el consultado.&lt;br /&gt;Desmenuzó que en cada una de sus reuniones, a las cuales ellos denominan las tenidas en logia, llevan adelante &lt;strong&gt;el trabajo filosófico&lt;/strong&gt;. Es ese &lt;strong&gt;el espacio de contención&lt;/strong&gt;, en donde sus interioridades confluyen y los miembros de la logia pueden ir &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0c343d;"&gt;en busca de la verdad, siempre ayudados de la razón&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Son solidarios y además trabajan por el progreso. “&lt;em&gt;Esto es algo que nunca se dice, somos progresistas. La cuestión de la mujer en la logia a veces es mal entendido, si somos progresistas no podemos dejar afuera a la mitad de la población del mundo&lt;/em&gt;”, expresó el máximo representante de la logia en Argentina.&lt;br /&gt;El máximo representante de la masonería argentina aseguró que la misma estuvo, está y estará presente en la vida política, social, científica, económica y cultural de los pueblos.&lt;br /&gt;Luego confirmó: “&lt;em&gt;En este gobierno actual hay masones. Los hay en todos los gobiernos porque la masonería no trabaja institucionalmente, sino a través de sus hombres. Están quienes militan en una ONG, otros en un partido político, en una organización barrial, club de fútbol, y el masón, a través de su conducta va llevando la masonería adelante, por eso es que está en todos los gobiernos, partidos políticos y organizaciones internacionales&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;Entre los masones conocidos están &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;Bernardino Rivadavia, Santiago Derqui, Bartolomé Mitre, Domingo Sarmiento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; y dos personajes muy reconocidos como los &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;generales Justo José de Urquiza y José de San Martín&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Sobre este último se ha dicho que durante sus luchas libertadoras, más que por un sentimiento patriótico estaba guiado por una motivación superior relacionada con la logia Lautaro a la cual pertenecía.&lt;br /&gt;Consultado respecto de esto, el gran maestre consideró que “&lt;em&gt;el masón está impulsado por los valores que encarna. Estos hermanos, como San Martín, estaban imbuidos por la tríada de valores de libertad, igualdad y fraternidad.&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0c343d;"&gt; La lucha era justamente por la libertad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, tal es así que San Martín para el logro de ese valor cada vez que constituía un ejército lo primero que hacía era una logia entre los oficiales que tenía alrededor. Con esto que hacía ganaba, porque guardaba el secreto por ejemplo en las órdenes de mando y resguadaba la confiabilidad de sus oficiales. La masonería servía mucho para el grupo que comandaba los ejércitos, porque estaban juramentados en lograr la libertad de los pueblos&lt;/em&gt;”, reflexionó.&lt;br /&gt;Luego la masonería siguió trabajando por la igualdad, y ahora con la igualdad reconocida prácticamente en las leyes y constitucionalismo moderno, lo que le queda a la masonería es luchar por el último valor: la fraternidad. “&lt;em&gt;Es un poco nuestra lucha final, estamos trabajando en lograr la fraternidad como asignatura pendiente&lt;/em&gt;”, dijo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;En el primer viaje a la Luna, el 20 de julio de 1969&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, el hermano &lt;strong&gt;Buzz Aldrin&lt;/strong&gt;, miembro de la logia &lt;strong&gt;Clear Lake Nº 1.417 de Texas,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;llevó a suelo lunar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;una plaqueta y una bandera de la masonería&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, según confirmó el gran maestre Clavero.&lt;br /&gt;En el billete americano dólar se encuentra impreso en la parte de atrás el triángulo masónico. La llamada Pirámide con el Ojo que todo lo ve es símbolo de la masonería y del dios egipcio Horus.&lt;br /&gt;La justificación está en que “los patriotas en Estados Unidos eran todos masones”, explicó el gran maestre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.unoentrerios.com.ar/laprovincia/La-masoneria-moderna-ya-no-es-secreta-sino-discreta-20110605-0010.html"&gt;http://www.unoentrerios.com.ar/laprovincia/La-masoneria-moderna-ya-no-es-secreta-sino-discreta-20110605-0010.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-2781995032285189146?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2781995032285189146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/2781995032285189146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/la-masoneria-moderna-ya-no-es-secreta.html' title='“La masonería moderna ya no es secreta, sino discreta” [Angel Clavero]'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hulUQDa_dig/TgBIpzSRSTI/AAAAAAAACww/FswZBEWEM-Y/s72-c/MasonArgentina.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-5472870526423022753</id><published>2011-06-22T10:05:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-21T16:34:44.798+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GLE'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alfonso'/><title type='text'>Principios e ideales masónicos están reflejados en la Constitución de 1812 [Oscar del Afonso]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nFGKtl-mUMk/TgBFpFONEpI/AAAAAAAACws/8qaZ0HhhkrY/s1600/Alfonso.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" i$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nFGKtl-mUMk/TgBFpFONEpI/AAAAAAAACws/8qaZ0HhhkrY/s1600/Alfonso.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;El día de ayer fue sin duda una jornada especial para anotar en los anales del &lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Monasterio de la Victoria&lt;/span&gt;. Por vez primera en sus cinco siglos de historia accedía de forma oficial la masonería a este recinto tan cargado de simbolismo. Y lo hacía en libertad, con la satisfacción de pertenecer a una institución que se &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;está despojando de la leyenda negra que secularmente vertió contra ellos el nacional catolicismo español&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Seguramente, muchos de los albañiles y artesanos que edificaron la iglesia y los claustros del Monasterio de la Victoria en el siglo XV pertenecieron a las &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763;"&gt;logias de constructores&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de las que procede la institución masónica. Mucho tiempo después, transformado el imponente edificio en el tristemente recordado Penal de El Puerto y Prisión Central, muchos masones sufrieron represión entre sus muros. Este fin de semana, la masonería está celebrando en la antigua iglesia del Penal el &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;cónclave de la Gran Logia de España&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, la reunión del órgano legislativo de la orden masónica española. Los más de 60 'hermanos' participantes en el cónclave han lucido las medallas y mandiles que los distinguen en sus reuniones, sus mejores galas para tan digna ocasión, para exorcizar las persecuciones pasadas y mirar hacia el futuro. &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;La consagración de un nuevo templo masónico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; en Cádiz, que llevará el nombre de 'Obreros de Hiram', representa esta nueva etapa abierta por la masonería en la provincia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La persona que ha hecho posible este encuentro en El Puerto es un &lt;strong&gt;abogado de Valencia&lt;/strong&gt;, de &lt;strong&gt;44 años de edad,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;casado y padre de dos hijas&lt;/strong&gt;, nombrado en el año 1998 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;maestro de la Gran Logia de España&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, es decir el máximo dirigente de la institución en nuestro país. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #660000;"&gt;Oscar de Alfonso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; es &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;el maestro más joven desde que existe la masonería española&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; y personaliza ese espíritu aperturista y de cambio que experimenta la institución. &lt;br /&gt;Entrevistado por este diario en el Hotel Santa María, sus primeras palabras son de &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47;"&gt;reconocimiento a los más de 600 masones que estuvieron presos en el Penal durante la posguerra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, a quienes dedica "un especial recuerdo y homenaje". La masonería actual no tiene sin embargo los mismos objetivos que la de la Segunda República. "&lt;em&gt;La masonería de hoy no tiene la importancia que tuvo antaño, ni tampoco la deseamos. La masonería en España poco tiene que ver con la de la II República&lt;/em&gt;", reconoce el maestro de la Logia de España. Aquella masonería, según añade, "&lt;em&gt;estaba muy influencia por componentes políticos, que a la corta o a larga siempre causan problemas a la institución masónica&lt;/em&gt;". &lt;br /&gt;De esta forma, la masonería ha evolucionado, aunque sigue &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;fiel a los principios de hace mil años&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;:&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; amor fraternal, ayuda mutua, virtud y honor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, así como el deber de confidencialidad de todo masón con sus 'hermanos': no revelar lo que se hace dentro del templo de la logia, ni tampoco los nombres de sus miembros si estos no dan su consentimiento. Pese a todo Oscar de Alfonso insiste en que la masonería "no &lt;em&gt;quiere ser ni un partido político ni un sindicato&lt;/em&gt;", es decir que la renovación pasa por asumir posiciones "&lt;em&gt;apolíticas e independientes&lt;/em&gt;", por acoger en su seno a personas de diversas tendencias y extractos sociales y no sólo a la burguesía liberal. &lt;br /&gt;Esto no siempre fue así. La masonería o mejor dicho &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;destacados masones tuvieron un papel relevante en la promulgación de la Constitución de 1812&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, de la que se celebra el Bicentenario, una conmemoración en la que la Gran Logia de España quiere estar presente. "&lt;em&gt;La actuación de los masones para la elaboración de la Constitución de Cádiz fue más a nivel político y particular de sus miembros que como proyecto masónico -aclara Oscar de Alfonso-. Pero es evidente que determinados principios e ideales masónicos se ven reflejados en algunos artículos y en algunos preceptos de la Constitución de Cádiz&lt;/em&gt;", subraya. Es por este motivo que la Gran Logia de España tiene &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;un programa para la participación en el Bicentenario&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, con unas jornadas que el &lt;strong&gt;Instituto Krausista de Zaragoza&lt;/strong&gt; organizará el año próximo. &lt;br /&gt;La escasa impregnación política de la masonería se refleja en el hecho de que &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;actualmente ningún político se declara masón&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, siendo &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;muy escasa su influencia en los círculos de poder político y económico de España&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, a diferencia de otros países como Estados Unidos, América Latina, Inglaterra o algunos países nórdicos, donde los varones de las familias reales pertenecen a la masonería. &lt;br /&gt;Otro de los retos que afronta la masonería es &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;cambiar la imagen de sociedad secreta y cerrada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; en la que se practican extraños ritos. Sobre este particular, Oscar de Alfonso reconoce que es necesaria "una &lt;em&gt;dinámica de apertura, de explicar lo que somos, lo que hacemos y cómo lo hacemos. Sobre todo para dar a conocer a la sociedad que no somos perniciosos, ni maliciosos, ni somos personas malas, ni malignas, que no realizamos cosas extrañas sino que somos perfectamente normales e integrados y aportamos valores espirituales y humanísticos que son buenos&lt;/em&gt;". &lt;br /&gt;Fue precisamente esa &lt;strong&gt;leyenda negra&lt;/strong&gt; lo que hizo que en el franquismo muchos bienes de masones fueran confiscados. "&lt;em&gt;Muchos hermanos tuvieron que marcharse al exilio y los inmuebles que se utilizaban como templos fueron incautados. La vía legal para obtener ahora algún resarcimiento sería una ley promulgada por el Parlamento&lt;/em&gt;". Sin embargo no es esta la prioridad de los masones: "&lt;em&gt;Lo que sí reclamamos es que se nos de un reconocimiento moral de lo mucho que la masonería ha hecho por este país&lt;/em&gt;", subraya el maestro. &lt;br /&gt;Parece claro que muchas cosas están cambiando en la masonería en estos tiempos y aunque el objetivo no sea ya la construcción de catedrales, puentes, ciudades o la independencia de las naciones, la vocación de edificar algo nuevo sigue presente en su ideario. "&lt;em&gt;En momentos de crisis la &lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;masonería ofrece a las personas que se integren en ella instrumentos para su perfeccionamiento personal&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;la construcción de un templo interior que sirva a la vez para mejorar la sociedad&lt;/span&gt;, partiendo de la transmisión de los principios masónicos, aunque descartando propuestas de tipo político o económico&lt;/em&gt;", concluye &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Oscar de Alfonso. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.diariodecadiz.es/article/provincia/1002185/principios/e/ideales/masonicos/estan/reflejados/la/constitucion.html"&gt;http://www.diariodecadiz.es/article/provincia/1002185/principios/e/ideales/masonicos/estan/reflejados/la/constitucion.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-5472870526423022753?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5472870526423022753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/5472870526423022753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/principios-e-ideales-masonicos-estan.html' title='Principios e ideales masónicos están reflejados en la Constitución de 1812 [Oscar del Afonso]'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nFGKtl-mUMk/TgBFpFONEpI/AAAAAAAACws/8qaZ0HhhkrY/s72-c/Alfonso.bmp' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-9181604308144486001</id><published>2011-06-22T09:52:00.005+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T09:52:00.634+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Espana'/><title type='text'>Masoneria in Euskadi [Valentin Diaz]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Eligieron una fecha notoriamente masónica: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;el solsticio de verano&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Era el año 1981. Todavía retumbaban los ecos disparatados de Tejero y sus cómplices. Un joven abogado bilbaíno de 26 años entró con gran excitación y con los ojos vendados, como es preceptivo, en un pequeño local de la Alameda Mazarredo. Junto a él, otro profano también estaba vendado, con el pie derecho descalzo, el pecho izquierdo descubierto y una soga al cuello. Tan pequeño era el sitio que allí cabían malamente una decena de personas. Acababan de decorar aquel minúsculo y bonito espacio con madera pintada de blanco y el fuerte olor a disolvente era muy perceptible.&lt;br /&gt;La ceremonia la presidía&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt; José Torrente&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, un viejo masón exiliado en Toulouse y tesorero del PSOE histórico. Otros veteranos masones vueltos del exilio asistían a esa tenida. Habían logrado constituir en la capital vizcaína un triángulo al que denominaron &lt;em&gt;La Tolerancia&lt;/em&gt; y que dependía de la logia&lt;em&gt; La Matritense&lt;/em&gt;, del Gran &lt;em&gt;Oriente Español Unido&lt;/em&gt;, la federación heredera de la masonería exiliada en México y que apenas dos años antes había sido legalizada por el nuevo Estado democrático.&lt;br /&gt;Era la &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;primera iniciación masónica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; que se llevaba a cabo en Euskadi&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt; desde la guerra civil de 1936-1939&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Aquel joven abogado, educado con los jesuitas, descubrió ese inolvidable 24 de junio de 1981 no sólo el hechizo de un ritual dieciochesco. Se dio cuenta, además, de que la masonería era mucho más que el ateneo de librepensadores que él había imaginado. Tampoco sabía que aquella ceremonia de iniciación masónica tenía un carácter histórico. Javier Otaola, que más tarde se convertiría en letrado del Gobierno vasco y que lleva nueve años como Síndico (Defensor del Ciudadano) de Vitoria-Gasteiz, se convirtió ese día en la primera persona que era iniciado masón en Euskadi desde el fin de la II República. Del otro iniciado aquel día no se han vuelto a tener noticias.&lt;br /&gt;Han pasado 30 años desde entonces. Aquel triángulo es hoy la &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Respetable Logia La Tolerancia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, federada en la &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Gran Logia de España (GLE).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; Otaola, tras haber sido su presidente, abandonó la GLE, y fundó en 1993 en Vitoria la&lt;em&gt; logia Manuel Iradier&lt;/em&gt;, que se federó en la &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Gran Logia Simbólica Española (GLSE)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; y de la que nacerían más tarde otras dos logias de la GSLE: &lt;em&gt;Altuna,&lt;/em&gt; en San Sebastián, que acaba de celebrar su décimo aniversario, y &lt;em&gt;Luz del Norte&lt;/em&gt;, en Bilbao. &lt;u&gt;Javier Otaola&lt;/u&gt; sería luego gran maestre de la GLSE y ensayista masónico de referencia.&lt;br /&gt;Esto es, en rápido resumen, lo que han dado de sí 30 años de trabajo masónico en Euskadi. Se partió, como en toda España, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;del absoluto vacío dejado por la despiadada persecución de Franco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;cuya obsesión en destruir y demonizar a la masonería, reflejada en la famosa coletilla del "contubernio judeo-masónico",&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; logró laminar su presencia durante cuatro largos decenios. Su reconstrucción ha sido lenta y difícil. Pero ha contado con la fuerza de una tradición, que tiene entre sus antecedentes los tiempos de la Ilustración y de los &lt;em&gt;Caballeritos de Azkoitia&lt;/em&gt;, y con el vigor de una idea de construcción individual y social basado en la libertad, la igualdad y la fraternidad.&lt;br /&gt;Adalid de la tolerancia y la laicidad, de los Derechos Humanos y, sobre todo, de los deberes que esos derechos comportan, la masonería tiene una larga trayectoria en Euskadi y en el conjunto de Euskal Herría, que va mucho más allá de los últimos 30 años. Las logias de Bayona se cuentan entre las primeras que se establecieron en el continente europeo en el siglo XVIII y han sido siempre refugio para los masones españoles perseguidos y apoyo para los talleres masónicos de este lado del Bidasoa.&lt;br /&gt;En los siglos XIX y XX, logias como La Vigilancia, La Caridad o Goethe, en Vizcaya; La Providencia, La Luz de la Frontera o la primitiva Altuna, en Guipúzcoa, y Los Amigos de San José, La Luz de Vitoria o Victoria, en Álava, testifican una larga trayectoria en la que hombres ilustres como el explorador alavés Manuel Iradier, del que este año se celebra el centenario de su fallecimiento, encontraron un marco de referencia para sus ideas de progreso intelectual, moral y social.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/pais/vasco/anos/masoneria/Euskadi/elpepuespvas/20110604elpvas_11/Tes"&gt;http://www.elpais.com/articulo/pais/vasco/anos/masoneria/Euskadi/elpepuespvas/20110604elpvas_11/Tes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-9181604308144486001?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/9181604308144486001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/9181604308144486001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/masoneria-in-euskadi-valentin-diaz.html' title='Masoneria in Euskadi [Valentin Diaz]'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-1856174518409709442</id><published>2011-06-22T09:40:00.002+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T09:40:00.251+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Secret'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paraguay'/><title type='text'>Masonería: Una sociedad discreta, ¿o secreta?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vzaJEmQceGc/TgA-74PJTTI/AAAAAAAACwk/KZDUJ1r0y-Q/s1600/MAC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="263px" i$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vzaJEmQceGc/TgA-74PJTTI/AAAAAAAACwk/KZDUJ1r0y-Q/s400/MAC.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Con tres únicos principios: "&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Libertad, Igualdad y Fraternidad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;", los masones basan su accionar como institución, si cabe el término, en la discreción. Esa discreción ha hecho que muchos la encasillen como una “sociedad secreta”, cosa que no es del todo fantasiosa, según varios estudiosos de la misma.&lt;br /&gt;Las personas que forman parte de la masonería aceptan que hay cosas que se manejan con absoluta reserva, pero señalan que corresponden solo a temas internos de la orden, como ocurre en toda asociación.&lt;br /&gt;Hemos accedido a una conversación con un referente importante de la masonería paraguaya, cuya identidad nos reservamos, naturalmente (por respeto y agradecimiento a la gentileza).&lt;br /&gt;Esta persona indicó que el trabajo que desarrollan apunta al ennoblecimiento de la humanidad y busca contribuir para que la libertad, la tolerancia y la fraternidad dejen de ser una utopía y se extiendan cada vez más por el mundo.&lt;br /&gt;Habla de sus &lt;u&gt;logias como centros de unión&lt;/u&gt;, que permiten una amistad verdadera entre personas, y fomentan cualquier obra o idea, tanto en el plano práctico como teórico que beneficie a los miembros de la institución y también al resto de la sociedad.&lt;br /&gt;A los masones les gusta &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;definir su sociedad como una nucleación de características discretas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, y no precisamente secretas, como creen quienes no pertenecen a ella.&lt;br /&gt;Existe desde hace mucho, muchísimo, y se ha extendido en el tiempo por la solidez de sus estructuras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Pertenecieron a ella hombres de todas las ramas del saber humano&lt;/u&gt;, “verdaderos eslabones de esa cadena humana que se llama masonería”, según dice nuestro interlocutor.&lt;br /&gt;Por dar ejemplos, se considera que los masones influyeron decisivamente en la Revolución Francesa y en la independencia de los países americanos. [...]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Y en Paraguay?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diez presidentes y tres vicepresidentes de la República han formado parte de la historia masónica del Paraguay (sin hablar de tiempos cercanos).&lt;br /&gt;Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Cayo Miltos, Juan Bautista Gill, Cándido Bareiro, Bernardino Caballero, Juan G. González, Cecilio Báez, Benigno Ferreira, Eduardo Schaerer, José Félix Estigarribia, Tomás Romero Pereira, Adolfo Saguier, Juan Antonio Jara y Cipriano Ibáñez son solo algunos de los nombres que, además, pueden recordarse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abc.com.py/nota/masoneria-paraguay-sociedad-secreta-discreta/"&gt;http://www.abc.com.py/nota/masoneria-paraguay-sociedad-secreta-discreta/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-1856174518409709442?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1856174518409709442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/1856174518409709442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/masoneria-una-sociedad-discreta-o.html' title='Masonería: Una sociedad discreta, ¿o secreta?'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vzaJEmQceGc/TgA-74PJTTI/AAAAAAAACwk/KZDUJ1r0y-Q/s72-c/MAC.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-317257779310247249</id><published>2011-06-22T09:30:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T09:30:01.005+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Silence'/><title type='text'>Silencio en la Masonería [Silence in Freemasonry]</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;, serif;"&gt;Yo te amaré en silencio … como algo inaccesible, como un sueño que nunca conseguiré hacer y el lejano perfume de mi amor imposible rozará tus cabellos … y nunca lo sabrás.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;José Angel Buesa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Cultivar y practicar el silencio en muy importante en el crecimiento de toda persona y en este caso particular que nos hace del masón. &lt;br /&gt;Ha determinar su alcance, lo que esto representa y genera una vez que determinamos su relevancia y lo ponemos en práctica. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Justamente, dado a que involucra y aporta, nos recuerda muy bien A V M. que en los tiempos de &lt;strong&gt;Pitágoras &lt;/strong&gt;se apreciaba el silencio en su más amplio y profundo &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;significado esotérico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Por este motivo, los aprendices que acudían voluntariamente a la famosa Escuela de trotones debían permanecer en silencio los &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;cinco primeros años&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; de su alumnado. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;lt; callar. escuchar ojos, los cerrar encerrado, estar cerrarse, myoo: verbo del derivan se misterios, relativo místico secreto, por traduce que Mystik con conjuntamente, que, misterios? inicia ?el significa: mystodotes, denominaba iniciática actitud aceptada antigua.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Agrega A.V.M. que los masones, especialmente los aprendices, están obligados a considerar estas palabras con el mismo sentido y trascendencia que daban los pitagóricos, observando con el respeto que se merecen y dándoles la importancia iniciática y esotérica que tienen. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Asimismo, mística o místico, deriva del Mystik griego. De este modo místico, es el que habla en voz baja y entrega la palabra sagrada de boca a oreja &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Se nos dice además, que a todos los Aprendices con muchas excepciones, le sorprende lo que se le prohíba terminantemente esculpida, grabarla, trazara, e incluso, pronunciar si adoptar antes las precauciones y las formas necesarias. Esto es porque la palabra sagrada es necesario incorporar al espíritu, la mente, al fuero interno de cada uno, para que tenga ella una ubicación abstracta, ya que ésta es la única manera que nos vivifique y ilumine, y que en otra forma tendría el carácter de una letra muerta que nada aportaría a nuestra sed de conocimiento. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;Por lo tanto señala A.V.M. que la Tenida Masónica, fuente fecunda de toda idealización progresista, inicia sus trabajos imponiendo el silencio, con el alcance espiritual y mental que le diéramos. Esta precaución básica en la ginnacia masónica, tan indispensable como fundamental y trascendente, nos potencia intensamente para abordar, con éxito, las empresas más atrevidas, y para planear objetivamente que en otras circunstancias no sería posible realizar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;El Silencio creador, base del Progreso y de la evolución de la especie humana, se vuelve más notable en las reuniones de hombres de buena voluntad, amantes del prójimo como son, en general. Aquellos que se encuentran adscritos a la Francmasonería Universal. [...]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="font-family: 新細明體; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;El silencio es para el masón, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #20124d;"&gt;virtud firme que conlleva a la corrección de defectos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;es parte del trabajo del cantero, que con el cincel y el mazo,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; simboliza y aplica en la práctica, &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;la devastación de la Piedra Bruta, o con palabras de San Pablo, transforma al hombre viejo con sus defectos en el hombre nuevo, por la Gloria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. Gracias a la observancia del silencio, &lt;u&gt;el masón hace crecer en su vida interior, la capacidad de escucha, aumenta poco a poco su buen juicio &lt;/u&gt;y sabe tener piedad y sana compasión de los defectos de los demás, a partir del trabajo escultórico del su cambio interior, para ser persona integral, hombre de bien y hombre probado en el duro pero hermoso caminar en la vida. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The rest here&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pysnnoticias.com/2011/06/20/silencio-en-la-masoneria/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;http://www.pysnnoticias.com/2011/06/20/silencio-en-la-masoneria&lt;/span&gt;/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-317257779310247249?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/317257779310247249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/317257779310247249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/silencio-en-la-masoneria-silence-in.html' title='Silencio en la Masonería [Silence in Freemasonry]'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6627364827887332733</id><published>2011-06-19T18:52:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-19T18:54:21.132+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Solstice'/><title type='text'>Solstice of Summer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3ZBWx2M4j5Q/Tf3F1mXHrdI/AAAAAAAACwg/-mqjnt6pUAc/s1600/Cubic-Stone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3ZBWx2M4j5Q/Tf3F1mXHrdI/AAAAAAAACwg/-mqjnt6pUAc/s400/Cubic-Stone.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Next tuesday, the 21st, in the West Hemisphere the &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;Summer Solstice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; is commemorated in the Masonic world as the starting point of a season that will lead us till autumn. Is one of the time of the year that Earth is more close to the Sun, the celestial star, and the days are longer than the nights. Is a &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;time of rejoice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; as the fruits get mature in the trees and the fields reach it’s more beautiful scenario. Is a time of gathering for families, of relax and departure for vacations generating new energies that will be crucial for autumn and its works. Masonically, is a time of intermission and election of the new heads of Lodges all over the world. New Men are called to lead the Brotherhood of Men and form their teams of officers that will lead the Lodges in the next masonic year. It is a time also of rebuild, of strengthening the columns of the Temples. This last Saturday the &lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"&gt;General Assembly of the Grand Legal Lodge of Portugal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; gather in antecipation for its traditional meeting. Some more stones were added to our foundations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-6627364827887332733?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6627364827887332733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/6627364827887332733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/solstice-of-summer.html' title='Solstice of Summer'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3ZBWx2M4j5Q/Tf3F1mXHrdI/AAAAAAAACwg/-mqjnt6pUAc/s72-c/Cubic-Stone.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-7223366143417558838</id><published>2011-06-15T17:45:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-15T17:45:37.241+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LdO'/><title type='text'>Templo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-plQtxmPjDyk/TfhwaHsO4PI/AAAAAAAACwc/i_LbsPUW5uM/s1600/IMG_4591.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-plQtxmPjDyk/TfhwaHsO4PI/AAAAAAAACwc/i_LbsPUW5uM/s400/IMG_4591.JPG" t8="true" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;O lugar onde os Maçons se reunem a coberto da indiscrição dos profanos, onde talham a pedra bruta e exaltam o Grande Arquitecto. Transformando-se, ajudam a transformar o mundo, lá fora. Partilham a paz e a concórdia, combatem o que os divide; pregam a tolerância e combatem a injustiça; ridicularizam a ostentação e os dictames do dinheiro fácil e dos&amp;nbsp;"esquemas". Constroiem&amp;nbsp;o Templo, reconstruindo-se a si.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-7223366143417558838?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7223366143417558838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/7223366143417558838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/templo.html' title='Templo'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-plQtxmPjDyk/TfhwaHsO4PI/AAAAAAAACwc/i_LbsPUW5uM/s72-c/IMG_4591.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4202849751303417281</id><published>2011-06-14T13:10:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-14T13:27:43.333+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GLLP'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LdO'/><title type='text'>Muito Respeitável Grão-Mestre consagra Templo e Loja de Macau</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bD2251fTVeA/TfbjC-mLdVI/AAAAAAAACwY/kH6yvINKUfk/s1600/IMG_4680.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bD2251fTVeA/TfbjC-mLdVI/AAAAAAAACwY/kH6yvINKUfk/s400/IMG_4680.JPG" t8="true" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Cumprindo um desiderato de quatro anos a Maçonaria Regular volta a ver a LUZ em Macau depois de ter estado dela ausente &lt;u&gt;cem anos&lt;/u&gt;. A GLLP fez-se representar por uma delegação de cinco Grandes Oficiais liderada pelo nosso MRGM, &lt;u&gt;R:.I:. José Moreno&lt;/u&gt;, a qual consagrou o Templo, a Loja e instalou os oficiais do Primeiro Veneralato. Nunca os II:. de Macau poderão retribuir o carinho, o amor fraterno e a disponibilidade que sentiram num alegre convívio com o I:. José Moreno e restantes Irmãos. Sentiram-se recompensados pelo esforço, a dedicação e a lealdade à Grande Loja Legal de Portugal. Um novo caminho se abre agora, novos objectivos foram traçados a bem da Ordem. A Luz da Maçonaria Regular voltou a brilhar nesta terra que nos recebe e acolhe. Os trabalhos continuarão como o foram sempre à Glória do Criador, Grande Arquitecto do Universo, que nos ilumina e auxilia em todas as horas, boas e más. &lt;br /&gt;Grande abraço para os II:. e as Lojas da GLLP-GLRP que têm dirigido saudações e congratulações. A Luz do Oriente convida-vos a visitarem-nos. Hoje a Cadeia União passa pelo cais das colunas e vai até a esta terra de Santo Nome de Deus. Bem hajam. O VM, GAMA&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4202849751303417281?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4202849751303417281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4202849751303417281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/muito-respeitavel-grao-mestre-consagra.html' title='Muito Respeitável Grão-Mestre consagra Templo e Loja de Macau'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bD2251fTVeA/TfbjC-mLdVI/AAAAAAAACwY/kH6yvINKUfk/s72-c/IMG_4680.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-4397175272123924834</id><published>2011-06-12T13:34:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T13:34:27.061+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luz do Oriente'/><title type='text'>Fiat Lux</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qVtXIHCAN4c/TfRBuJb8ngI/AAAAAAAACwQ/Y5s5-5z3m3Y/s1600/Programa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qVtXIHCAN4c/TfRBuJb8ngI/AAAAAAAACwQ/Y5s5-5z3m3Y/s400/Programa.jpg" width="275" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-4397175272123924834?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4397175272123924834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/4397175272123924834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/fiat-lux.html' title='Fiat Lux'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qVtXIHCAN4c/TfRBuJb8ngI/AAAAAAAACwQ/Y5s5-5z3m3Y/s72-c/Programa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-8733483790209485511</id><published>2011-06-12T10:37:00.001+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-12T13:41:44.886+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Luz do Oriente'/><title type='text'>Fiat Lux</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JxLOsM8LLRs/TfRDat7yMJI/AAAAAAAACwU/XzZfzneqnXc/s1600/Programa2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JxLOsM8LLRs/TfRDat7yMJI/AAAAAAAACwU/XzZfzneqnXc/s400/Programa2.jpg" width="275" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/589524017703595991-8733483790209485511?l=luzoriente.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8733483790209485511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/589524017703595991/posts/default/8733483790209485511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://luzoriente.blogspot.com/2011/06/fiat-lux_12.html' title='Fiat Lux'/><author><name>Luz do Oriente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06526581401724393116</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IrYRx1_Rj44/SYATkuyLrZI/AAAAAAAAA3w/UIUVoiKn00E/S220/macao.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JxLOsM8LLRs/TfRDat7yMJI/AAAAAAAACwU/XzZfzneqnXc/s72-c/Programa2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-589524017703595991.post-6481000921857369165</id><published>2011-06-10T16:43:00.000+09:00</published><updated>2011-06-10T16:43:13.310+09:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freemasonry'/><title type='text'>Freemasons</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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As Brethren we work the rough stone, serving humanity and aiming to transport our values and ideals to the profane world. 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