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Bindura
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 Posted December 23rd, 2005 12:21 PM IP   
Great article Bro. Leomarth.
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universal
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Posted May 19th, 2006 08:36 PM IP
I didn't know that the freemasons had established in india since 1922. Quite interesting to know this.
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skiendhu
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Posted May 25th, 2006 08:31 PM IP
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I didn't know that the freemasons had established in india since 1922. Quite interesting to know this.
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Rudyard Kipling, who wrote the poem "My Mother Lodge" was initiated, passed and raised in India.
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skiendhu
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Posted June 13th, 2006 04:24 PM IP
Here is some information about lodges in India.
It is part of an e-mail sent to Canmas some six years ago by WB Tofique Fatehi of Lodge Al Ameen #1412 {GLOS} Bombay.
I have reproduced the parts that I deemed relevant to this thread.
Almost every lodge in India, irrespective of which constitution it belongs to, has 5 VSL placed open on the altar while the lodge is open. They are, Geeta, Koran, Zend-Avesta, Granth-Sahib and the bible. And yes, they are all refered to as the VSL.
There are 5 officers at the district level who are the official Bearers of the
Vs of the SL. If we have a candidate who does not subscribe to any of these faiths we ask him to bring his own VSL and that too is added to the other 5 on the altar.
There are many non English speaking christians in the world to whom the word God is meaningless because it is in the English language. There are christians here in India who pray in a church to Ishwar, the Hindu word for God, and whose christian names are Yesudas {Yesu = Jesus and Das = worshipper} or Ishwardas etc. There are Arab christians who pray to Allah, but there again the word Al-Lah - The Divine - is the Arabic word for God.
This word is more amorphous, like the VSL or the GAOTU. It is only a misconseption that Allah is the God of the Muslims that makes this a sacrilage. He is the same God as the God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammad.
Every bit of information is added knowledge.
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