All delicate days and pleasant, all spirits and sorrows are cast
Far out with the foam of the present that sweeps to the surf of the past:
Where beyond the extreme sea-wall, and between the remote sea-gates,
Waste water washes, and tall ships founder, and deep death waits:
Where, mighty with deepening sides, clad about with the seas as with wings,
And impelled of invisible tides, and fulfilled of unspeakable things,
White-eyed and poisonous-finned, shark-toothed and serpentine-curled,
Rolls, under the whitening wind of the future, the wave of the world.

IT IS eleven of the clock on the night of August 28, in the 1914th year of the Christian Era, and the news of the annihilation of the British Army has not yet reached London. It will come.¹

from the Grady Project:

Originally published in Grady McMurtry, Poems (London, England & Bergen, Norway: O.T.O., 1986), then in The Grady Project 4 (Berkeley: O.T.O., December 1988).

Track this pattern down the Tree of Life. The first goes to Keter (1). The - goes to Chokmah (2) and Binah (3), in order. The -- goes in order to Chesed (4), Geburah (5) and Tipheret (6). Finally, each letter of --- is attributed to the remaining four Sephirot in Order, from Netzach to Malkut. Taking the four rows from this tetractys as the four worlds: Keter is Atzilut, Chokmah and Binah are Briah, Yetzriah is Chesed with Geburah and Tipharet, while Assiah combines all the last four Sephirot. This procedure also produces the elemental qualities of the pillars. The right hand pillar is of fire because it has all 's in it. The left hand pillar is of water because it has all 's in it. Fire is emotion in the sense of rising up and generating power. Water in Qabalah is more a thing of thinking, since the flowing of thought is steadier and slower than the leaping of the emotions. In the middle pillar we see the of Air predominating between Fire at the top and Earth at the bottom. All of these different things are workable patterns to help explain the structure of the Tree of Life.

THE CORNERSTONE

Quotations Related to Symbolic, Philosophic,
and Historic Doctrines of Ancient
and Accepted Freemasonry,
selected by Frater Drax

"At the time of the '[Boston] Tea Party,' St. Andrew's Lodge was meeting regularly in what was called the 'Long Room' of Freemasons Hall, formerly the 'Green Dragon' tavern. The Lodge shared this room, and much of its membership, with a burgeoning number of politically-oriented secret societies and quasi-masonic clandestine fraternities dedicated to opposing British fiscal legislation . . . Another even more militant organization was the 'Sons of Liberty' and its inner nucleus, the so-called 'Loyal Nine,' who advocated violence and had been fomenting riots, demonstrations, and other forms of civil disobedience since 1765 . . . At least three of the 'Loyal Nine' were also freemasonic brethren of St. Andrew's.

-- Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh, The Temple and the Lodge (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1989), 224-5.

"Men of vision realized that another step must be taken if the weak confederation of American States was to become a strong, unified nation. Again Freemasonry set the pattern in ideology and form, since the Masonic federal system of organization was the only pattern for effective organization operating in each of the thirteen colonies, it was natural that patriotic brethren intent on strengthening the fledgling nation should turn to the organizational base of the Craft for a model. Regardless of other forces that affected the formation of the Constitution during the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the fact remains that the federalism established in the civil government the Constitution created is identical to the federation of the Grand Lodge system of masonic government created in Anderson's Constitutions of 1723."

-- H. C. Clausen, Masons Who Helped  Shape  Our  Nation (Washington, DC: Wash- ington Press, 1976), 82.

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