Corin's Reading Room Episode 2 May 11th 2025

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Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome into KLARM radio dot com Sunday
night lineup this week. Kicking things off one of the
newest shows in our lineup, Koran's Reading Room, hosted by
none other than Koran Nimmick himself and without further ado,
here he is.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Good Morning Vietnam, Just kidding, just kidding. Great movie though
almost as good as this book. I'm going to go
over with you. Welcome to klyn k l r N Radio.
Thank you so much for hosting me. Great guys over there,
And if anybody has a fantastic idea for a podcast,

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see if it matches. What their lineup is like and
also the music. The opening music was by Moss Jackson.
Thank you most for your wonderful music. Tonight's very interesting
book that I get to go over with you is
by one of my favorite philosophers and authors and lecturers

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he has. I mean, I can't even count how many
lectures he has. You can find them on YouTube and
rumo on in other places. But it's Manly P. Hall
and the book is let me try and get rid
of the reflection there there we go the Lost Keys
of Freemasonry. And it's not written backwards. When you get
it online you order it yourself, it will will be

(05:06):
correct so you can read it. But Manley P. Hall is, uh,
you know, an incredible philosopher who has written many many books,
every single one of them is worth reading. This one,
which is a thin little tome here and uh it's

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it's a quick, pretty quick read, So those of you
who get daunted by by thick books, this is a
great starter for you. It's it's not too heady, and
it's got a lot of incredible spiritual, uplifting information in it. Hell,

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everybody who's on the chat there, thanks so much. I
see Case's up there and Carlo and Raptor and Elihu
and uh Immortal and Jay Packard, all the folks. Thank
you so much much. We're joining in. The numbers were
really really pretty good last Sunday. And I know that
this is Mother's Day, so some of you might be busy,
but I welcome you all. And again, you know Manley

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pep Hal, I've been inspired by him since the nineties
when I first got a hold of some of his books,
and actually at one point he founded a group called
the Philosophical Research Society, and it still exists. The beautiful
building that it's in that I'm not sure if he
had it built himself for it. I'm pretty sure he did,

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but it houses his personal library.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
There.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
It's got a great lecture hall and they also do
courses and classes on different subjects. I took a few
courses there myself, one very interesting one on the Tibetan
Book of the Dead or the God all and I
recommend if anybody lives in the Los Angeles area, it's
in Los Felees, look it up, go buy, pay a visit.
They have an incredible books or there. And also if

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you're into tarot, he has his own tarot deck, which
I've heard is one of the best. I'm not much
of a person for taro myself, but it's been recommended
by many people who I know are so this particular book,
The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, it kind of goes into

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a bit about the more esoteric side of the degree
work when you join free masonry. I think quite a
number of the books that I'm going to be starting
out with on Sundays will likely be centered around masonry
and the philosophy, because I think that some people have
heard of freemasonry, but they don't really know too much

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about it except there's some secret handshakes and and we
wear like a little bib around our waist, right, you know,
the lambskin apron, which is a symbol of purity. But
how I do this for those who are new, Hey
there and Alan is in is that Alan Allen Ray

(08:03):
is in there? And but so how I do this?
I just kind of go through and I go over.
You can't see that a st a bit, but I
go over just little areas that I've I've highlighted or
outlined and read them, and I'll read through them and
and uh, and I'll stop and pontificate and all that
jazz But but let's dive into the Lost Keys of

(08:24):
Freemasonry by Manly P. Hall. In the introduction, I'm going
to skip the forward for now. It's a UH and
you can read that yourself if you order the book.
But and the introduction here it says, a religion is
a divinely inspired code of morals. A religious person is

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one inspired to nobler living by this code. The code
is his source of illumination. There is in religion a
wonderful point of balance where a materialist and spiritist meet
on the plane of logic and reason. The great work
the liberation of the spirit and intelligence from the three
dimensional prison house of ignorance, superstition, and fear right. So,

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the the great work is, if anybody is interested in alchemy,
there's the there's the the great work is the the
discovery of the philosopher's stone. Now in alchemy, when you
could say that in in practical alchemy, if they're actually
trying to create different different metals and and and chemical

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uh creations, the the goal of of alchemy would be
to turn base metals into gold. Now, in what you
could call speculative alchemy, the the great work finding the
philosopher's stone. The transmutation of the base metals into gold

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is is an analogy for UH for trans transitioning from
a very materialistic mindset into into a more spiritualized, you know,
state of being where you you take what's the base metal,
which is the lower self you could call it, and

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you transmute you know, all of the all of the
tendencies towards the material world into a more spiritual experience.
So when they're talking about the religious aspect of it,
you know, many religions give a guideline of principles for
us to be able to apply to our daily living.

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And this this certainly creates a much more tempered experience
in life, you know, without so much violence and chaos
and all of these things. Now, granted, we can all
agree that religion has caused a lot of wars around
the world, so you know, that's not the topic of
this conversation. But to apply religious principles to your life,

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no matter what your religion is, can can create a
better outcome for our daily living. You know. It goes
on to say God is the Self in all things,
the inspiration and the thing inspired God was the Word,
and that the Word was made flesh the glory of
that word is within the soul of himself. So again

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we get into this idea of of of the word
of God, this this uh you know, in the Old Testament,
the the word yahweh or the tetragrammaton the four letter
name of God. We talked a little bit about it
last week, but this is an unpronounceable word. It's unspeakable.
In fact, you know, the the word yahueh is really

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a breathing. It's the intake of breath is and then
the outbreath is way.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
So it's.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
So it's a breathing. It's it's it's it's the first
breath that you take when you were born. And there
is there is, you know, the theory out there that
in the in the Holy of Holies where the sacred word,
that the true name of God is spoken by that
the high Priest, I think it's once a year or whatever,
that that nobody actually knows what that word really is.

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So you know, when we talk about the you know,
the word it's it's it's more of a of an
allegory for the again, that transmutation of the lower self
to the higher self, where you have this incredible realization
of the oneness of all things. And I find that
that quite interesting. So it goes on, Uh, we are

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here to gain balance in a sphere of unbalanced, to
slay the dragon of our own animal natures. So the dragon,
you could say, would be that the ego self, which
desires for for self gratification and to you know, do
do things for yourself alone, or to get something out

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of an experience that is truly just you know, for yourself. Uh.
You know this. I think that that many of us
can can understand that in a way, when you find
somebody out there who's extremely uh selfish and uh and
and self serving, that that is the the dragon, that's
the lower part of our nature that drives us to

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do things that screws up everything. I've certainly done it
plenty of times in my life and had to reflect
back and realize that that my behaviors were self serving,
and you know, you got to you got to tuck
the tail, apologize and keep it moving right. But so
it says, man, creature of attitudes and desires and servant

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of impressions and opinions, cannot with the wavering, unbalanced of
an untortured mind. Learned to know that which he himself
does not possess. So meaning that you know you can't
There's some things in life that you can't necessarily understand intellectually,
but you can you have that aha moment, that incredible experience.

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I talked a little bit last week about the community
with nature, about getting back in touch with that unspoken
language that that the the universe is expressing through its creation. Uh,
through just through plants alone, you know, going out looking
at trees, at the magnificent uh state of their of

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their structure, and each one is different and unique, and
you know it's and and that that in and of itself, uh,
we can apply to our own idea of growth. You know,
we're all very individual and that individuality can be a trapping,
but it can also be the very thing that frees

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you from you know, from a lot of trappings. But
let's see here, where was I? Okay? So truing truing
the rough ashlar into the perfect stone. What more can
any creature ask than the opportunity to prove the thing
he is, the dream that inspires him, the vision that
leads him on. Man is given by nature a gift,

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and that gift is the privilege of labor. We are
here to learn break the strangling bonds of limitation. Every
soul is engaged in a great work, the labor of
personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is
a great prison. Its bars are the unknown, and each
is a prisoner until at last he earns the right
to tear these bars from their moldering sockets and pass

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illuminated and inspired into the darkness which becomes lighted by
that presence, the temple where God dwells, where the spirit
of the great Truth illuminates the shadows of human ignorance. So,
in a sense, like in freemasonry, the idea is to
take the tools of a mason and apply them to

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the building of the temple of the mind. So everybody's
mind has a landscape. And what is that landscape? Is it?
Is it a chaotic mess? Is it? You know? A
beautiful green pasture? Is it? You know? Endless stars and
and abundant space? You know, uh, and inspiration that you know?

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This is what what this is suggesting that we want
to try to achieve is is becoming disconnected from from
the solely materialistic world, so that we can reconnect with
that that higher plane of pure divine thought and inspiration
and creativity. And uh, and in that space, we can

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draw from that source, bring it, you know, closer to
the self and and redefine who we are as an individual.
And and how how that expresses itself in life is
how we treat other people, how we take care of
our space, what we do with our spare time.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
You know, these kind of of activities that from an
outside perspective, somebody else might look and say, you know, oh, well, yeah,
that person seems really nice and really cool, and they
don't realize that it's it's a wholly created expression that
that's very locked into a state of consciousness and being

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that is that is observant, sensitive and kind, not only
to itself, which is the most important, so that you
can if you're kind to yourself, generally speaking, you'll be
kind to others. But and you know, the truth illuminates
the shadows of human ignorance. It's again, it's very Buddhistic
in that expression that that when we allow all the

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dust to settle in life and we're just totally relaxed
and calm, and and suddenly we can see everything very clearly.
You know, it's greetings, my brother there to Mount Helicon
twenty seventy seven. Well, that's that's a long way down
the road. I hope I live that long. But you know,
so when when we have in darkness, is is that

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that state of mind where where we don't have a
connection to some type of higher power or some type
of of philosophical gem that guides us.

Speaker 8 (18:15):
You know.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
And and you know, living in that type of ignorance,
we can see and how violent the world is, how
crass the world is, how people treat each other in life.
You know, all of this stems from living in that
darkness of ignorance, not realizing that every every action we
take has an opposite equal reaction out there in the universe.

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And uh, and the more negative that that we are
in life to other people into to the universe. That's
you know, that individual is going to live that way
on the inside too, And I'm sure it doesn't feel
very good. But so you know this this uh, this
person who lives in darkness, right, so they wander in
darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is

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in the heart of the darkness. But seldom does man
understand the mystery that has been unveiled. He tries weekly
to follow in the steps of those who have attained,
but all too often finds the path more difficult than
he even dreamed. So he kneels in prayer before the
mountain he cannot climb, and whose top gleams the light
which he is neither strong enough to reach nor wise

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enough to comprehend. And then it says, I underlined the
flaming letters in the sky. And again this is this,
this attribute of the word, and the word made flesh,
so to speak. But so you know, the you know,
the mountain is what it is that we're trying to climb,
so that we can reach a higher a higher state

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of mind with a better point of view, right, And
I think that that is what we all strive for
in a way. So life is the span of time
appointed for accomplishment. And when you think of that, you
know what is accomplishment? And in this amount of time
that we actually have on earth, you know, some some
people may feel like that they're not fully accomplished or

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haven't achieved many things that they that they wanted to
do in life. But are they kind? Are they generous?
Are they soft spoken? Are they are they gentle with
with the lovely creatures of God's earth? Are they are?
Are they giving as much as they can? And way
of loving thy neighbor so to speak? And you know,

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because these to me this is these are the greatest
accomplishments that we can really that we can really ask
for is how we behave in life and how do
we treat others? You know, who we are or what
we do for a living. You know, that's just the
labor of life. And no matter what it is you do,
if you do it with love and you and you

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do it honestly, generally speaking, you'll you'll work your way
up into a higher position. Uh, no matter what it is.
Delicious coffee, lovaza. So we'll go into some Masonic stuff.
I'm still just in the introduction too when it starts
pretty soon. A Mason is a builder of the temple

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of character. He is the architect of a sublime mystery,
the gleaming, glowing temple of his own soul. He realizes
that he best serves God when he joins with the
great architect in building more noble structures in the universe below,
building more noble structures to the glory of the Universal God.
Above all our relationship. He recognizes the universal brotherhood of

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every living thing, for he is the comrade of all
created things. His spirit is a glowing, gleaming jewel, which
he must enshrine within a holy temple built by the
labor of his hands, the meditation of his heart, and
the aspiration of his soul. No truer religion exists than
that of world comradeship and brotherhood for the purpose of

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glorifying one God and building for him a temple of
constructive attitude and noble character. You know, So that pretty
much says it all. Probably should have just read that
instead of pontificating on my own that. But it says,
in the gleaming flame of cosmic light or the dark
clouds of not being, two great forms appeared, and a

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mighty voice thrilled eternity, each sparkling atom pulsating with the
power of the Creator's word. So that's that's similar from Genesis.
You know, let there be light, and there was light,
and what is the word? What is the what is
the command? And I think that, uh, that all of
us have that experience at some point in our lives
where we feel like something greater than us is dictating

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what our next action really should be. And that's where
the ego comes in, because you know, if we're if
we're in a in a lower condition of mental attitude
and and emotional maturity generally speaking, we were going to
behave on on that level, and and without without some

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sense of a higher purpose, we could be trapped like that,
you know, And I think it's uh, that's why this
this book is so interesting to me because it very
simply points out that there is a deeper path that
we can all take no matter what we're doing in life,
no matter what our our burdens are, no matter how

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tired we are, no matter how exhausted we are, no
matter how many bills we have to pay, no matter what,
you know, what our relationships are like our relationship with
our self and and our our our relationship with with
whatever our idea of a higher power is. And make
sure me they call the God the grand architect of
the universe, you know, And I love that saying. And

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so when we connect up with that, that higher sense
of self, I think that that that can help us
to tamper our our more briskly you know, scared porcupine
kind of side of us. You know what I mean.
So it says here from from these shall you build,

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without the sound of hammer or the voice of workmen,
the temple of your God, eternal in the heavens. To you,
I give the glory of work, and here ordain you
as the builder of my house. Unto you, I give
the word of the Master Builder. Unto you, I give
the tools of the craft. Unto you, I give the
power that has been invested in me. Be faithful. Unto
these things, bring them back when you have finished, and

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I will give you the name known to God. Alone,
So motive be in the divine solitude. He labored with
no voice to cheer, no spirit to condemn, alone in
the boundless all, with the great chill of the morning
mist upon his brow. But his heart's still warm with
the light of the Master's word. Oh Master of workmen,
great architect of the universe. My labors are not finished.

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Why must they always remain undone? That just it strikes
in me, the the desire to want to just not
not necessarily, have some kind of solidified plan for the
outcome of my life. I have thoughtful desires, you could say,

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for certain outcomes that I'd like to see for my
life certain projects I'd like to do, certain paintings, I'd
like to paint, certain poems, I'd like to write, certain
things like that. But they but again, you know, the
ultimate outcome is is how do we design our behavior
to be as as close to what someone might say

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is based on divine principles rather than you know, lowly
materialistic desires and actions. And I think that that even
just having this inkling of thought waking up in the
morning of like, okay, I know that it's just another
you know, Groundhog's day. Everything's going to be the same.

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It's just that big rat race and riga moreau of
you know, jumping in the car, sitting in traffic, getting
to the same cubicle, doing the same job, answering the
same phones, eating the same lunch, doing But all of
those things can be done as if it's a brand
new unit of time. And and there's a way of
kind of mastering the moment, you could say, where instead

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of feeling like it's a hamster or gerbil wheel that
you're in in life, that you know every morning can
be a new way of experiencing that day, even if
you're going to the same job you know, how do
you say hello to people today? How do you deal
with problems today that you didn't deal with you know,
you dealt with with differently the day before. How can

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you master that day's labor and make it worthwhile where
at least when you go home, you know you feel
like you you were a good person, You did the
best job you could do it whatever it is you do,
and you treated everybody with respect. You know, I think
that that's that's just so important in life around me.
Stand the ruins of my temple, which I must leave

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in Thy name I have labored, and in thy cause
I die a faithful builder. And that's just talking about
the end of life. You know, when we all pass
through the veils that we cannot see that, you know
at that time that nobody, I think, is going to
pass on thinking that they've done it all or achieved
every goal that they ever had set for themselves. So

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you know, we're all going to reach the veils and
pass through them at some point with with things that
we that we have left to do. But if you
believe in reincarnation, like Manly p. Hall does, you can
do them in the next incarnation. Right save him for
the next lifetime and ongoing. In this chapter titled in

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the Fields of Chaos, it says, no more shall I
speak until ye have found and raised my beloved son,
and have listened to the words of my messenger, and
with him as your guide, have finished the temple, which
I shall then inhabit. And in the sense this is
a this is again talking about the temple built within

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and the idea that that we want to create a
landscape of the mind, that that the idea of God
or our relationship with a higher power whatever, in a
landscape that that that that entity would want to live in.
You know, does does God want to live in in
a chaotic mess you know, full of of mis emotions

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and anger and frustration and and depression and all of this.
So it's you know, uh, if if we seek out
that that kind of restructuring of our of our own
internal world that we all live in. I mean, in reality,
when you think about it, everything that we're seeing and
and looking at is this is it's all just reflections

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that that through light reflecting off of its surface is
then you know, recalculated in our minds and we develop
an internal picture of it. So it's not that the
eyes are necessarily seeing these things, they're reflecting these things
back into the mind, and the mind is interpreting them.
And then we're like, oh, wow, look there's a microphone,

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there's a computer, it's a it's kind of a bluish gray.
There's a white desk. Oh, there's a bottle of water.
But you know, in that internal landscape, it can be
perceived as almost anything. You know, we've given these objects
names and values and and and without the names, how
would we necessarily know what they are. We could describe

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what they are. But by naming things, you know, it
makes it easier to understand the universe that we're in.
It's pretty interesting. So chapter one, the Eternal Quest, and
again I just read excerpts right, So, powers unseen and
unrecognized mold the destiny of those who consciously and of

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their own free will, will take upon themselves the obligations
of the fraternity. Freemasonry is not a material thing. It
is a science of the soul. Only those who see
in it a cosmic study, a life work, a divine
inspiration to better thinking, better feeling, and better living, with
the spiritual attainment of enlightenment as the end, and with

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the daily life of the true Mason, as the means
have gained even the slightest insight into the true mysteries
of the ancient rites. The true lodge of the Mason
is the Universe. In most Masonic lodges, they have an
image of the stars and the universe above on the

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ceiling there, and then the checkered tile on the floors
is symbolic of the darkness and the light that we
experience when we're going through life. We have moments of
darkness where we have to make the right choices, you know,
in order to get through those successfully, and then the
moments of lightness, which are the moments that are joyful

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and wonderful to experience. And so it's how we navigate
the two and still come out joyful, you know. Is
the art. When this is done and the mysteries of
the universe unfold before the aspiring candidate that in truth,
he discovers that what freemasonry really is, It's material aspects

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interest him no longer, for he has unmasked the mystery school,
which he is capable of recognizing only when he himself
has spiritually become a member of it, the universe itself,
which is the greatest of all schools, deals with the
unfolding of the threefold principle, the same three kings. They
are not personalities, but principles, great intelligent energies and powers,

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which in God, Man and the Universe have charge of
the molding of cosmic substance into the habitation of the
living King. The temple built through the ages, first of
unconscious and then conscious effort on the part of every
individual who is expressing in his daily life the creative
principles of these three Kings. So God, Man of the universe. Uh.

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And and you know we're we're here in between, you know,
these things between trapped between living this this holy physical
experience of life, uh, filled with emotions and and the
and the trappings of the physical universe, our desires, our wants,
you know what we can't have, but we but we

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want so badly. And you know, some people can be
absolutely miserable because they can't afford an Eve Saint Laurent purse,
you know what I mean, They go, they get spent
years and years.

Speaker 8 (32:56):
Going, I just want this purse, that's all I want,
you know, And and what a waste of time to
you know, or like a fast car like a hot rod,
and you know, you're driving around in Akiya and you're like,
you know, I want to ferrari And.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
It's just, you know, these kind of mental trappings can create,
you know, real and experience anguish for certain individuals, you
know what I mean. So it's like, are you happy
with what you have? And you know, if what you
have gets you to where you need to go, can
you be okay with that? Or do you never park

(33:32):
at the valet because your car is going to backfire?
You know, when I was young growing up, my mom
had this Honda Civic. It used to backfire all the
time and it would embarrass my sister and I. And
so when we go to the grocery store in Atlanta
at the A and P, she back it up right
against their big, huge concrete wall on the side of
the building and turn it off to the backfire would

(33:53):
echo really loud and she would intentionally embarrass Now I
appreciate that. I appreciate that she did that now because
it taught me a great lesson that it doesn't matter
what you drive, It only matters that you get to
where you're trying to go, right, So, uh, the true
student seeks to lift himself from the exoteric body upwards

(34:15):
spiritually until he joins the esoteric group, which, without a
lodge on the physical plane of nature, is far greater
than all the lodges of which it is the central Fire.
So you know what that means is that the the
inner lodge, so to speak. So the information you have,
the lodge that that Freemasons go to. Anybody can google
and learn a bit more about this if you're interested.

(34:38):
There's there's a lot of like really really ridiculous conspiracy
theories out there about Mason's so I can tell you that.
But the the point is is that you know, we
want to focus on on that building of the internal lodge,
that that that our mind exists, that our spirit body
exists in. So you have you know, spirit, mind, soul,

(35:01):
and body, and and you know, you could say the
soul is that that that incarnate energy that that you
could say comes from you know, like an earthly force.
It's that that natural energy that that is just in
all of us that animates the body. The spirit you
could say, is that energy that animates the mind and
the creative principles uh that that we hopefully all live

(35:25):
by and the mind itself should essentially be a blank
canvas that we repaint every single day, you know, because
we take all of those mental trappings that we grow
up with in life and we collect them into, you know,
into this big cluttered mess and walk around with that.
My acting teacher, Manu Uh, he always said, when you

(35:47):
step on stage, leave your baggage at the door and uh.
And it took me a while to really really get
what he meant by that, you know, because again he
was teaching sort of this this spiritual way of of
approaching the creation of a character, and in uh, in
abandoning all of those things that that are are keeping

(36:10):
us bound to this old version of ourselves, we're not
really able to recreate ourselves in a new unit of time.
And it was important for Manu that he stressed to
us his his students that that we always wanted to
be a blank slate when when it came to creating

(36:31):
a character, and that also goes to creating, you know,
our own character who we are in our life. And
that's what this book is about creating a character for
the stage or life, which is based on Manu's teachings,
and you can get that on Lulu dot com, l
U l U dot com. Just search my name, it'll
pop up along with the but some other interesting things. So, uh,

(36:58):
who's don't So it goes here. Let me pick up
at the top of this. And so the true Mason
realizes that the work of the mystery schools in the
in the world is of an inclusive rather than an
exclusive nature, and that the only lodge which is broad
enough to express his ideals is one whose dome is
in the heavens, whose pillars are the corners of creation,

(37:20):
whose checkerboard floor is composed of the crossing currents of
human emotion, and whose alter is the human heart. So again,
you know it's it's it's by thinking with the heart this.
You know, you could say that that that we have
our our empathy for for things, and I don't know
you'd be speaking. Well, hello over buddy. I'm sorry. I

(37:41):
know I don't look at the comments too much over here,
but I see you over there out of the corner
of my eye, and uh, I just want you to
know that I appreciate everybody who's out there chiming in
and and and talking, and if anybody has some kind
of question that they throw up there. I'll make sure
that I look over there or Rickle jump in and go, hey,
read that question, you dumb me, and I'll jump over

(38:01):
and read it and see if I can answer it
for you. But there's there's so much information to try
and get to. I'm gonna sort.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Of you know, I will never call you a dummy,
at least not above.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
You're welcome to call me a dummy anytime you like.
I take it as a compliment. So if he would
fill his place in the plan, he must not enter
this sacred study for what he can get out of it,
but what he may learn how to serve. Oh, but
that he may learn how to serve. So again, you know,
when when when you come to this kind of realization

(38:37):
that that we are something greater than then you know,
just this meat body with with a bunch of emotions
and needs and wants and desires. That's just you know,
trapesing through life like a gargoyle, right. You know, there's
you know, there's different there's different experiences that can happen
that when you find that there is this this creative

(38:59):
force out there you can tap into, well, then you
have the realization that you can use that power for
good or for bad. You know, you can use that
same kind of charisma that comes out of being naturally
inclined to being a spiritualized individual that will come across
as this kind of a potential type of charisma or

(39:21):
an attractive personality. But somebody who has bad intentions can
mock up that kind of personality and get over on you.
I'm not referring to all the evangelists out there, but
some of them. Some of them, especially that guy with
the crazy eyes. I don't know if you've seen him.
I don't know his name, but every time I see him,
it terrifies me. And freemasonry is concealed the mystery of creation,

(39:42):
the answer to the problem of existence, in the path
the student must tread in order to join those who
are really the living powers behind the thrones of modern
national and international affairs. A Mason is not appointed. He
has evolved, and he must realize that the position he
holds and the exoteric lodge means nothing compared to his
position and the spiritual lodge of life. His duty is

(40:04):
to build and evolve the sacred teachings of his own
being that nothing but his own purified being can unlock
the door to the sealed libraries of human consciousness. And again,
you know that that just goes into this idea that
that when we can detach ourselves from from all of
the crap that we're that we're dealing with every day,

(40:25):
and believe me, all of us are dealing with a
lot of crap. But when we can have a moment
of detachment from all of that and and and experience,
you know that that moment of peace and serenity. Uh,
that's that that right there, that's that's what we want
to hang on to as hard as we possibly can
and and try to ride that wave, because, uh, it's

(40:47):
always going to crash eventually. But if we if we
are spiritually inclined enough, we can handle the crash a
lot better than if we're already emotionally spent, you know
what I mean. Oh, I hear the snoot outside, I
hear theo. If that door moves, that means he's coming in.

(41:08):
I can hear his little lips smacking back there. His
karmic responsibilities increase with his opportunities. Those who are surrounded
with knowledge and opportunity for self improvement and make nothing
of these opportunities are the lazy workmen who will be spiritually,
if not physically, cast out of the temple of the king.
So again, it's you know, when we have these realizations

(41:30):
that there is a greater way to experience life, and
and though it takes discipline and time and attention, that
then and if we don't do that, if we know
it's possible, and we say I forget it, you know,
that's that's like one of the greatest crimes we can
commit against ourselves is to not you know, reach for
that that that brightest star. You know what I'm saying.

(41:53):
Someone's calling it. Someone wants the puppy. That's all they want.
THEO come on it. You can push the door open. Buddy,
he's not feeling very well today. He's done four poopies,
and I feed him very good food. Let me tell
you that I care about this guy, probably more than
I care about myself. He eats the best. But I

(42:15):
don't know what he's gotten into today. But he's a
little down, he's a little depressed, he's a little sad.
So if he comes in, we're all gonna have to
cheer him up. So they are or should be philosophers,
sages and sober minded individuals who have dedicated themselves upon
the Masonic altar, and vowed by all they hold dear
that the world shall be better, wiser, and happier because

(42:37):
they have lived. Those who enter these mystic rights and
pass between the pillars seeking either prestige or commercial advantage
are blasphemers. And while in this world we may count
them as successful, they are the cosmic failures who have
barred themselves out from the true right, whose keynote is unselfishness,
and whose workers have renounced the things of earth. And

(43:00):
this gets into a lot of the you know, the
kind of dialectic materialism that we live under that you
know that the idea that we're we're given now is
is success and happiness means the biggest house, the fastest car,
the private jet, the yacht, you know, the nicest clothes,
all of these trappings and and and it becomes you know,

(43:22):
kind of a selfish you know, look at me, Look
what I got this is, you know, I got I
got it all right here, and uh, you know, whoop
you woo. And they're just they're just collecting and collecting
things like hoarders, you know. And and and in reality,
if you if you took all of the wealthiest people
on planet Earth and and you and you taught them

(43:43):
this type of philosophy, the amount of good that they
could do in the world by simplifying their own footprint
in life and by giving back to the world. How
many more businesses could they start? How many more charities
could they could they donate to? Granted a lot of charities,
you have to know, only about five to ten percent
of the money that gets donated it actually goes to
those charities. The rest goes to the board members of

(44:05):
the charities for their rich, fat, stuffy pockets. It's very sad,
It's unfortunately true. A good one, Rick, I love that.
That was awesome. So we are the builders of the
Universal Temple. The dead Builder will rise from his tomb,
and the lost words so long concealed from the profane

(44:26):
will blaze forth again with the power that makes all
things new. So the idea of the dead Builder is
that when we're unrealized of this higher plane of consciousness
and creative thought, when we're unrealized of that, then we
are the dead Builder. But when you suddenly wake up
to the fact that we every single day can wake

(44:48):
up and start our lives anew and be open to
a new way of experiencing life. Then there's a massive
change that can occur, and you can't open that door,
you know what. Hold on, guys, let me open the
door for this little rascal. We can take a second.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Come on, sir, insert Jeopardy theme music here, here we go.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
Come on, deos in the house. If he's feeling better,
I'll try and pick him up here and show you
guys just how absolutely adorable and fluffy and wonderful he is.
But he, uh, you know, he's just he's a little
down in the dumps today. I don't know what to
do about that. It looks like I have a mullet.

(45:38):
That's interesting. So here on chapter two the candidate, there
comes a time in the growth of every living individual
thing when it realizes, with dawning consciousness that it is
a prisoner. And I just, you know, I had to
outline that one little saying right there, because it's it's

(45:59):
it is this realization that we are trapped in this
in this kind of prison, you know, I mean, it's
just it's just true. There's even a theory that the
planet Earth is a prison planet, and that's what It
was initially, if you believe in kind of ancient aliens
type theories and all of that, that the human population
that exists here were brought from another star system and

(46:21):
placed here because this was a planet for the unruly,
and we were just left here, right you know, Yes,
poor baby, I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Poor I'm just saying.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
It would explain a lot, wouldn't it. Hey, buddy, he
needs some love and attention. You want to come up
here and say hello real quick. I know everybody's dying
to see you. Come here, pal. Oh, yeah, there you go.
Look at it. Look at that guy who's the most
magical creature that ever lived, Theodore Corki belt Is. He's

(46:54):
the rough rough Rider. Yep, it's right, the ador Corky Belt.
He's a star. There you go, buddy, And yes, he's wonderful.
See Hamlet said, Denmark is a prison. So the eternal
prisoner is life incarnate within the dark stone walls of matter,

(47:18):
and not a single ray to brighten the blackness of
his faith. This is the eternal prisoner, who, through the
ceaseless ages of cosmic unfoldment, through forms unnumbered and species
now unknown, strives eternally to liberate himself and gain self
conscious expression the birthright of every created thing. So you know,

(47:40):
that's just expressing this idea that we can become so
automatic in our tendencies in life. You know, wake up
feeling the same you know, make our coffee the same way,
put on our shoes the same way, brush our teeth
with the same hand, use the same toothpaste we've been
using for fifteen years. You know, it's well, whatever the
case may be. Even going shopping, it's like sometimes I'll

(48:03):
go down the aisle and I'm like, you know what,
I'm going to try a different soap today, or I'm
gonna get you know this, uh this unfore you know,
non floor right, uh, preferably toothpaste, or you know, trying
different things out, different coffee brands. I you know, I
I constantly when I go to the store, I I
I usually go like, okay, let's see what's on sale

(48:26):
for buy buy one, get one free today, and the
coffee pods and I'll just grab whichever one has that
and uh and and experience some different coffee. So, you know,
just try to keep things shifting and changing a little bit.
Not so I'm constantly stuck on that on that hamster wheel, right,
you know, And when we start to become more and

(48:46):
more self aware of of the habitual nature that we
that we live under, we can break that mold and
and free ourselves from that, from those mental trappings, from
that kind of internal prison. So you can say you
have an extern no prison. You know that this this
planet that we that that we're stuck on, in this
universe that that we can only look at and you know,

(49:09):
you know what is this this experience? And then we
have our internal type of prison that we're trapped in
this mind and it's our mind, and it's the mind
that we're going to have to live in from now
until we let go of this body and move on
to whatever happens next. So how do we make the
best out of it? How do we we stay in
the esthetic you know, mindset and and and then let

(49:32):
those that that kind of esthetic way of thinking and
uh manifest in our behavior and even how we we
regulate our space around us, you know, just I mean,
do we make our better? I don't make my bed
every day, but I try to make it every day,
and I almost make it every day because there's nothing
nicer than walking in and seeing a nice made bed.

(49:54):
It makes me feel good. It's just little things, you know.
I keep a very clean kitchen and h I'm a
pretty orderly guy. I do get a little ripe every
now and then, but hey, don't we all right? But
but you know, how do we take care of ourselves
is part of you know, yes, how do we take

(50:14):
care of ourselves is part of that expression. You know,
when you can see somebody who who takes care of them,
it doesn't mean you're a good person because you know,
you look at Klaus Schwab, that guy has the nicest suits,
He's always nice and clean, looks like he just got
done shampoon with Irish spring or whatever. And but he's
one of the most evil villains you could imagine on

(50:35):
planet Earth. So I'm not saying that that just because
you have an outward appearance of you know, you can
have the most dirtiest, stinkiest hippie you know with hobo
feet out there and he's the nicest, friendliest, most special
person you've ever met in your life. So I'm not
saying I'm just saying, you know, hippie, take a shower. Okay,
we can all we can all gain from that. But

(50:58):
so matter is the love that damn hippith your damn heaIth.
Matter is the tomb. It is the dead wall of substance,
not yet awakened into the pulsating energies of spirit. The
spirit within cries out for freedom, freedom to be, to express,
to manifest its true place in the great plan of

(51:20):
cosmic unfoldment. It is this great yearning within the heart
of man which sends him slowly onward toward the gate
of the Temple. It is in this inner urge for
greater understanding and greater light which brought us being through
the law of necessity, the great cosmic Masonic Lodge dedicated
to those seeking union with the powers of light, that

(51:42):
their prison walls might be removed. This shell cannot be discarded.
It must be raised into union with the life. Each
dead crystallized atom in the human body must be set
vibrating and spinning to a higher rate of consciousness. I mean, dude,
guy is the best. I love manly bewholl. I mean

(52:03):
the way he says things is so dynamic. And you
know that that line right there. You know, each dead
crystallize Adam and the human body must be set vibrating
and spinning to a higher rate of consciousness. And that
goes with, you know, that feeling that we that you know,

(52:26):
I think all of us have had when we when
we have a moment where everything seems aligned, or even
when we're just on vacation and we've let go of
all of the trappings of our regular, everyday life and
you know, I don't know where you are. Hopefully you're
not on a carnival cruise, but I don't know where
you are on vacation. Maybe you know you're at a
koa campground I highly recommend you know, or at a

(52:49):
beachfront hotel or a little cabana, or just up in
the woods in a cabin, or whatever the case may be.
Maybe you're having a personal vacation just at home and
you're just got the phone off, that's he off, everything silent,
you're just humming and hauling around going an old lp.
You know, it's in those moments with something we feel
like wow. You know, it's that kind of childlike moment

(53:12):
of I mean, everybody, remember when you were a kid,
you didn't care about anything. Mom took care of everything,
Dad took care of everything. All you had to do
was just wake up and well and there was school. Okay,
we'll get that there was school, but it's that same
child like yeah, the kismet, it's that same childlike vibe
and and sensation where every single molecule in our body

(53:37):
starts to vibrate with positive energy and excitement and creativity.
And you know, if you you know, when we were
when we were young, someone could give us a pile
of rocks and next thing, you know, we got one
half of the rocks is is one army, another half
is another army, and we got a whole battle going.
Or maybe we build a castle out of it, or that,
you know, whatever the case may be, it's that it's

(53:57):
that creative way of thinking that can get us out
of our everyday grind, so to speak. The expression of
man through constructive thought, emotion, and action liberates the higher
nature from bodies, which, in their crystallized states, are incapable
of giving him his natural opportunities. In freemasonry, this crystallized

(54:20):
substance of matter is called the grave. This is the
grave within which the lost Builder lies, and with him
are the plans of the temple and the Master's word.
And it is this builder our grand Master, whom we
must seek and raise from the dead. I can hear
Hiram Abiff, my grand Master, crying out in his agony,

(54:41):
the agony of life, hidden within the darkness of its
prison walls, seeking for the expression which I have denied,
laboring to bring closer the day of its liberation. And
I have learned to know that I am responsible for
those walls. So Hiram Abyff is in freemasonries in the
Old Testament suggested that he was one of the uh

(55:02):
builders of the Temple of Solomon. It's it's a very
short lived character in biblical references. But and in Masonic lore,
he is the grant, he is the architect, the designer
of of Solomon's temple. And in in the philosophy of

(55:22):
Free Mason read there's you know, there's these three, these
three evil workmen who want to know the secret of
of how he builds things. And it's jubile I, Jubilo
and jubile M and they and they, and they kill
him and bury him in the desert, you know, because
he refuses to tell them the secret of the Creator.
And those and again, those those those three uh, those

(55:45):
three criminals. You could say, are like, you know, thought,
emotion and action. I think it talks about that later
on in this and uh and and when we're in
a negative space, we are going to destroy our own
creator within, and that creator will be buried in this,
in this kind of grave of the mundane and listless existence.

(56:08):
That is potentially the outcome of our lives if we don't,
you know, wake up right. The something about the sg
Ones fallout had a whole combo about you just a
few hours ago. Glad to catch you. Well, O, well,
thanks for coming, man, I appreciate that you are welcome.
Oh and you watch Dragon Wasps. Yes, I got some
funny stories about Dragon Wasps. I got to do a

(56:30):
rewrite on that, so there's there's some stuff in there
that I created. That's why it's funny. Anyway. So these three,
these three may be called oh yeah, these three may
be called thought, desire, and action. When purified and transmuted,
they are three glorious avenues through which may manifest the

(56:50):
great life power of the Three Kings, the glowing builders
of the Cosmic Lodge, manifesting in this world a spiritual thought,
constructive emotion, and useful daily labor in the various places
and positions where we find ourselves while carrying on the
Master's work. The flaming triangle. When crystallized and perverted, they
form a triangular prison. First in the mind is one

(57:12):
of the three kings, or rather we shall say a
channel through which he manifests. For King Solomon is the
power of the mind, which perverted becomes a destroyer who
tears down with the very powers which nourish and build.
The right application of thought, when seeking the answer to
the cosmic problem of destiny, liberates man's spirit, which soars

(57:33):
above the concrete. Through that wonderful power of mind, with
its dreams and its ideals. This light enables us to
seek more clearly the mystery of creation and to find
with greater certainty our place in the Great Plan. And
you know, again it's just, I know, I'm repetitive about it,
But what it's suggesting here is that when we do

(57:57):
come to kind of a self realism, that that you know,
we don't have to be trapped in this in this
continual pattern of behavior every single day, and and our
relationships are all are all based on specific patterns and
expectations and thoughts, and and you know, memories and all

(58:20):
of that. You know, we we might see somebody that
we remember from high school that was the biggest jerk
and the bully and we just hated him and he
was misery and then you see him thirty years later
and you're like, oh, there's that jerk again, and not
knowing that he's gone through a massive transparent information and
now he's the nicest guy in the world. Right, I mean,
these things are possible, so, you know, or he might

(58:41):
still just be a big bully. But but it's it's
in what we do with ourselves. How do we uh
he does write this really well. I mean, manly Pep
Hall is one of the best. He's one of the
best of the best. You can't get it with that.
But uh, you know, how do we speaking of writing, Yeah,
how do we rewrite our our everyday life experience? You know?

(59:02):
How do we wake up in the morning with a
blank page even though we're going to the same job,
we're driving the same car, we're drinking the same coffee,
we're making the same eggs and bacon. You know, how
do we do it as if it's the first time
we've ever done it? And how do we you know,
take that drive to work as if we've never taken
that drive before. And how do we connect up with

(59:24):
with our external you know, world around us in order
to really are we coming up on? Oh wow, we're
fifty nine minutes. Man, it goes so fast, everybody, it
goes so fast. Look, hey, we almost got halfway through
on this one too. I tell you what, if you
guys hit me up on on on X about this

(59:47):
particular book, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, I highly suggest
you order it from the Philosophical Research Society. And if
you guys hit me up on X and let me know,
we'll finish this book next week and keep going from there,
because it is it gets deeper and deeper and deeper.
But thank you all for being here. Thank you klr
in Radio, and thank you everybody out there who's tuning in.

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This is a lot of fun for me and I'm
learning stuff and you're learning stuff, and we're doing it together, all.

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