A Weird Day

What else do I call it?  I spent much of the morning running errands and then came home to find another student application to Avalon Center.  I have very mixed feelings about what to do with these applications, considering the state of the Center.  I do not want to misrepresent what we have here, and [...]

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Thoughts on the Master Architect Degree

I’ve been going through all of the degress of the Lodge of Perfection in the Scottish Rite, re-reading Rex. R. Hutchens book A Bridge to Light as part of the Guthrie College of the Consistory study program.  I would like to write some short commentaries of my own on each of the degrees, and this [...]

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Wicca and Freemasonry

I just acquired a DVD ROM of the Internet Sacred Texts Archive and for the first time am reading the Gardnerian Book of Shadows. This is, as I understand it, reliably reproduced from Gardner’s own rituals. What is immediately striking to anyone who has been initiated as a Freemason are the obvious borrowings [...]

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Avalon Rising

We have just celebrated Imbolc in the druidic calendar, a festival in honor of the Goddess Brighid, poet, healer, smith. She is the inspiration of creativity and transformation and so this Winter seasonal festival is dedicated to her in hope. She is the power who brings the spring, for which we are all [...]

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On the Right and Left

In the U.S. we are awash in politics. In such a presidential election year as this, the mass media cannot talk about anything except political debates. The debates are not very good. The participants mostly use them for repeating slogans and “talking points” instead of actually thinking and demonstrating their ability to [...]

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