Thee Loyal Royal Order of the Water Buffalo Lodge

Official South Jersey Chapter of the Fraternal Order of the Loyal Royal Order of the Water Buffalo. A sub charter of the Ancient et Primitive Rite of Memphis Misraim (Egyptian Freemasonry)and Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis or Universal Gnostic Church (EGNU).

A study group based on the Universal Gnostic Church, Egyptian Freemasonry and Synergy (with a Chaos magick, Discordian and Sub-genius delivery).

Contact us at [email protected]

Mission Statement

We are not a Cult or brain-washing facility. If you form assumptions, please leave them at the door. We are part of an organization of Free thinkers and the New Aeon Movement.

I suppose I should tell you something about myself but I hate filling out labeling boxes. I am Alice in chase of the proverbial White Rabbit. I try to delve into the illusions and try to see the parallels and connections of our "pop" culture images with a connection to the Archetypes of our history.

We are in communion with all Free Assembly-men and women. (We as in My husband and I and the personal theosophy regarding this group).

We are the Aquarian Age. We are children of the New Aeon. We are students of scientific illuminism
I am the Grand Poobah of a Lodge in the Fraternal Order of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraim and facilitate a newly chartered active lodge (T.L.R.O. of W.B.) in New Jersey under the protection of Rt.Reverend Tau Allen Greenfield and in communion with the Sons and Daughters of Aaron and Assembly of Knowledge & Wisdom of Solomon .
I am the facilitator of a lodge or study Temple, (T.L.R.O.W.B.). I am a Bishop in the Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis. My husband is the High Priest.
We are Discordian Monks(hail Eris!)and acknowledgers of the Church of Sub-genius (Praise Bob!)and are tinkering with the idea of becoming a member of TOPY , or I.O.T ., if their current hierarchy/management changes.
I love mythology, symbols, astrology and tarot study. I also want to work more with the Point Chauds , reiki, music/sonic/frequency or energy rituals.
Or perhaps, we are just a couple of confusing chaos magickians who likes to keep you all guessing in a state of confusion.
We are a followers of the law of Thelema, you could infer that I am a Thelemite. I adhere to the philosophy of No religion, No Dogma. (We do not worship Uncle Al, but respect the philosophy and disarment of Victorian Repression.)Love is the law, love under will. I have an affinity for Babalon and Sirius/Sothis.
We believe in the Church of Last Thursday and The Flying Spaghetti Monster .(may his noodley appendages bless you, Ra-men!)
We are communicators and facilitators of the UFO-nauts and Men in Black .
We familiar with the Galactic Federation of Light and Universal Brotherhood of Light . I also believe in the triune Gods in the form of Larry, Curly and Moe and sometimes Shemp.
A tribal drumming, bon-fire loving, free-love, BDSM, Tantric, Earth-worshiping Hippy.
An Anarchist (the non-violent type)TAO/CHAOS.I guess you could say I practice a form of solispism and nihilism if you need labels to group me with.
A mixed breed. Raised on television and a mixed culture. I am proud of all my various cultures. America is the Melting pot.
A Javacrucian (I am not awake/alert until I complete my morning American coffee ritual).
I seek Bovination through Thee Church Ov Moo (Got Milk?).
A Sacred Whole in the Church of the Holy Donut.
Matrix scryer in the Church of Emacs.
A holy soothsayer in The Church of Google (Google is my Oracle!).
A free-lance Frisbeetarian (all hail the mystic flying saucer).
A Card toting Libertine of the local chapter of The Campus Crusade for Cthulhu.
In free communion with the Landover Baptist Church .
I don't know what I am, still searching and I will have to consort my mystic Magic 8 ball .
We really don't do so well with labels.

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Affiliated Bodies and Organizations:

Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis

 

 

 

A Stone Age Religion for the Cave Dweller

There are many reasons why I chose to model my lodge after the Famous Masonic Lodge of Fredrick Flintstone and his famous Water Buffalo Lodge. Mainly, because I have always been a fan of Sirius and the Dagon but also because I grew up on this cartoon and it was my first reality tunnel into secret societies. But there is more to this than a parody to a fictitious lodge.

As much as I hate to admit it, women's roles are still repressed. Especially in the area of religion. I don't want to make this a bashing of the male species group. But I want to point out that this Traditional Masonic Lodge is ran by a WOMAN.

I think it matters not what gender you are. I do think its time to rise up and awake and come out of the cave!

It started with a cave

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ANDROGYNY AND GENDER DIALECTICS

 

South Direction, South Wind
Buffalo (Tatanka)

The buffalo was sustenance and life to the Sioux. It was also shelter and warmth. Our spiritual messenger, the Buffalo Calf Woman, even took the form of a buffalo, a white buffalo calf, after she appeared to us in human form and taught us the use of the sacred pipe within our ceremonies.

The buffalo was provisions, shelter, and thanksgiving. What buffalo symbolizes usually takes place in the summer; therefore the buffalo is strongly associated with the south. After the summer buffalo hunts, it was a time of rich provisions. The hot, dry plains air at that time of year effectively dried the buffalo meat for winter storage. Our tipis were made of buffalo hide, and after the summer hunt the Sun Dance for thanksgiving to Wakan Tanka (Great Spirit) was held.

Mother Earth
Turtle (Keya)

Turtle is the symbol for Mother Earth. Maybe in these troubled environmental times, everyone's shield should bear some recognition of turtle.

In the old days when the Sioux saw turtles leaving a pond or stream, in time the pond or stream would become dry. Of course these little creatures were regarded as knowing beforehand. Their exodus was a weather warning that dry times were coming; therefore, they were called water carriers. The Sioux said wherever they went they carried water. When they left the water would go with them.

The turtle has two habitats, water and earth. Our two-legged bodies are reflective of the turtle's habitats. We are made up of water and earth, and like the turtle we are dependent upon the sun for our energy source.

The Herd and the Pasture

Nomadic people, (from the Greek: νομάδες, nomádes, "those who let pasture herds"), also known as nomads, are communities of people that move with herd animals from one place to another, rather than settling down in one location. There are an estimated 30-40 million nomads in the world.

Shaman - A person (male or female) that possesses knowledge of the subtle energies of the world. Many Shaman were considered "Wise Men" (or Women) within their cultures. Their understanding of the subtle energies allowed them to perform magick.

Their role was to ward off evil from the village by battling demons. They believed that their mission and their ability were God-given.

Shamanism is innate within every one of us and can be tapped if we qualify by adjusting, our perception/attitude and making our being ready to accept the spontaneous.

 

Stories and Shamans

 

White Buffalo Woman
Teacher of Peace and Wisdom

In the legends of the Plains Indians, she came to the medicine lodge wearing a dress of white buckskin, and introduced the pipe ceremony. She taught the people to honor the whole universe when tobacco is placed in the pipe. She gave the sacred pipe she bears in her left hand to the medicine chief, then transformed into a white buffalo and departed. The shield in the uppermost plaque depicts four birds symbolizing the Four Directions, while the buffalo totem represents the peace and prosperity of the council circle.

 

Dreamweaving the Universe

Scrying the universe

Method of scrying

The visions that scryers say they see may come from variations in the medium. If the medium is water (hydromancy), then the visions may come from the color, ebb and flow, or ripples produced by pebbles dropped in a pool. If the medium is a crystal ball, the visions may come from the tiny inclusions, web-like faults, or the cloudy glow within the ball under low light (e.g. candlelight).

One method of scrying using a crystal ball involves a self-induced trance. Initially, the medium serves as a focus for the attention, removing unwanted thoughts from the mind in the same way as a mantra. Once this stage is achieved, the scryer begins a free association with the perceived images suggested. The technique of deliberately looking for and declaring these initial images aloud, however trivial or irrelevant they may seem to the conscious mind, is done with the intent of deepening the trance state, wherein the scryer hears their own disassociated voice affirming what is seen within the concentrated state in a kind of feedback loop. This process culminates in the achievement of a final and desired end stage in which rich visual images and dramatic stories seem to be projected within the medium itself, or directly within the mind's eye of the scryer, like an inner movie.

read more about scrying the universe with Tau Allen Greenfield

 

Scrying the Matrix

Like all systems of chaos and binary systems, a universal pattern is created that continually enfolds into each other. A type of recycling and pooling in the Matrix. A gateway to the source. We hold tools to either help us reach out to others or get lost in the illusion even further.

When do we stop chasing the Hare around the Moon?
When do we stop chasing the rabbit down the hole and realize that you always have had the answer. Knowledge is a finer drug than all the others combined. You can send God an instant message anytime. We are hardwired to the source. We are the source.

Architect: "Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant."
Neo: "There are only two possible explanations, either no one told me, or no one knows." Architect: "Precisely."

 

 

WE are Hunters and Gatherers. A nation full of tribes coming together. We survived by dodging the elements and working together. We are a nomadic tribe of kinsmen. We share the same stars and the same body of land. This is our HOME and we must learn to grow and expand with it. All these stories were the answers to the questions of the People. But as people and technology changes, we still cling to the old Path. There is a way to blend the old with GNU.

From the nights in the cave listening to the weavers spin their tales of the warriors and ancestors around a fire. The stories get a different label but the function remains the same. It is time to move forward. We are the rainbow made of children. we have moved into a new age. WE have become the technoshaman of the World Wide Web.

We all are part of this story.

 

 

Phases of a Medicine Wheel
Throughout the year and the rising of Orion.

Graphic chart: phases of a medicine wheel throughout the year and the rising of Orion.

Marker “O” shows summer solstice sunrise, approx. June 21.

Marker “A” shows the rising of Aldebaron as a morning star, approx. April 21.

Marker “B” shows the rising of Rigel as a morning star, approx. May 21.

Marker “C” shows the rising of Sirius as a morning star, approx. June 21.

Marker “D” shows the rising of Fomalhaut as a morning star, approx. Aug. 21.

Markers “E” and “F” are backsights for observing the other markers in sequence.

 

Get Thee Behind Me

 

 

 

The Serpent and the Turtle, "The Southern Cross"

Principles of Archaeoastronomy

as described by Dr. John Eddy and co.

Lines illustrate common sight lines used in layout of “medicine wheels” and other stone petroforms.

Eddy identified several angles which were common to most (if not all) medicine wheels and related petroforms. The shape of the wheel or petroform did not matter as long as key markers were placed at specific points on the pattern.
Diagram: Basic astronomic grid showing the markers, axes, and angles described below.
Markers

Key stones are indicated in the diagrams as: A, B, C, D, E, F, and O. Marker F is the main “back sight.”

Markers A, B, C, and D are foresights denoting the “morning star” position of specific stars. A, B and C are found in what is commonly known as the constellation Orion.

Marker O is movable and often contains submarkers for reinforcing lines A, B, C and D. However, the main purpose of marker O seems to be to set up a summer soltstice sunrise angle from Marker E.

Line E-O is relatively independent of the rest of the structure and can be slid to the outside of the form.

The stone petroforms discovered or examined under the Turtle Mountain Petroform Project usually have these markers present, but within these general rules they display considerable variety.
Axes

Each site tends to have at least a north-south axis, an east-west axis and the E-O summer soltice sunrise angle. More developed sites include A, B, C and D.

In addition, each site while more-or-less complete unto itself, also works in conjunction with other such sites. That is, one site as a point on the map may serve as its own giant marker F, while another site forms one of the sight lines. The longest distance we’ve measured so far: a solstice angle from the Turtle’s Back through the Nineteen Hills site is approximately thirty miles in length.
Angles

Angle F-A
Aldebaron morningstar, one-month after solstice approx. 63-75°
Angle F-B
Rigel morningstar, two months after solstice approx. 105-110°
Angle F-C
Sirius morningstar, three months after solstice approx. 115-116°
Angle F-D
Fomalhaut morningstar, five months after summer solstice, one month before winter solstice approx. 146°
Angle E-O
Summer solstice sunrise angle, approx. 48-52°

 

The GNU WAY

 

 

WAWA ABA (Seeds of the wawa tree):

Symbol of HARDINESS, TOUGHNESS & PERSERVERANCE. Saying: "Oye den se wawa aba." (He is as tough as the seed of wawa tree.) Overcoming barriers, movement, progression.

"Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains". ∞Kahlil Gibran

 

Some memorable quotes from the Ghost in the Shell:

Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you

Puppet Master: I refer to myself as an intelligent life form because I am sensioned and I am able to recognize my own existence, but in my present state I am still incomplete. I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms: reproducing and dieing.
Major Motoko Kusanagi: But you can copy yourself.
Puppet Master: A copy is just an identical image. There is the possibility that a single virus could destroy an entire set of systems and copies do not give rise to variety and originality. Life perpetuates itself through diversity and this includes the ability to sacrifice itself when necessary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die, obliterating an entire set of memory and information, only genes remain. Why continually repeat this cycle? Simply to survive by avoiding the weaknesses of an unchanging system.
It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system. So, man is an individual only because of his intangible memory... and memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind. The advent of computers, and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data has given rise to a new system of memory and thought parallel to your own. Humanity has underestimated the consequences of computerization.
If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation. What's true for the group is also true for the individual. It's simple: Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.
That's all it is. Information. Even a simulated experience or a dream is simultaneous reality and fantasy. Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket.
There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience. I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries.

The GNU Project

Share and Share Alike With OPEN SOURCE products and applications. Get on the GNU Aeon Movement!

“Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”.

Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:

* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

 

Rites of Passage

A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's social or sexual status. Rites of passage are often ceremonies surrounding events such as childbirth, menarche or other milestones within puberty, coming of age, marriage, weddings, and death. Initiation ceremonies such as baptism, confirmation and bar or bat mitzvahs are considered important rites of passage. In the last centuries Western society has seen a steady decline in the usage of rites of passage.

Most rites of passage fall into three main phases: separation, transition, and incorporation. I am legally and spiritually authorized to conduct all types of rites of passage.

Other roles of the Shaman is to heal others and to "turn the light on" in others. Shamans or mystics are born that way. It is a special calling just like any other call to faith. The light is dormant or the seed is dormant until water is poured into the vessel. After the seed is penetrated with the holy life then it can break the shell, spread like a root and establish a direct link with the Higher Self or Collective Unconscious.

Shamans also seem to get a lot more training and experience about how to travel to various dimensions, deal with nonphysical entities, and are called upon to relate more directly with various beings and archetypes. Kundalites do experience dimensional travel, through the opening of the chakras, but Shamans experience the unreality of the "real" to a much greater degree. They seem to be able to see through the holographic universe or the threads that hold the world together. It is frustrating to try to explain what you see to people who don't see things the way that you do. It is hard to explain the optical illusions that you see.

Often, I use stories to convey an thought seed.

"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest: a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

∞Albert Einstein

 

 

 

Riding the Wheel of Change

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self". ∞Aldous Huxley

"In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic". ∞Alvin Toffler

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Allegory

Imagine prisoners who have been chained since their childhood deep inside a cave: not only are their arms and legs immovable because of chains; their heads are chained in one direction as well so that their gaze is fixed on a wall.

Behind the prisoners is an enormous fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a raised walkway, along which puppets of various animals, plants, and other things are moved. The puppets cast shadows on the wall, and the prisoners watch these shadows. Behind this cave there is a well-used road, and upon this road people are walking and talking and generally making noise, which echoes off of the wall. The prisoners, then, believe that these noises are coming directly from the shadows they are watching pass by on the cave wall.

The prisoners engage in what appears to us to be a game: naming the shapes as they come by. This, however, is the only reality that they know, even though they are seeing merely shadows of objects. They are thus conditioned to judge the quality of one another by their skill in quickly naming the shapes and dislike those who play poorly.
Suppose a prisoner's chains break, and he is able to get up and walk about (a process which takes some time, as he has never done it before). Eventually he will be compelled to explore; he walks up and out of the cave, whereby he is instantly blinded by the sun. He turns then to the shadows on the floor, in the lakes, slowly working his way out of his deluded mind, and he is eventually able to glimpse the sun. In time, he would learn to see it as the object that provides the seasons and the courses of the year, presides over all things in the visible region, and is in some way the cause of all these things that he has seen.

(This part of the allegory, incidentally, closely relates to Plato's metaphor of the sun which occurs near the end of The Republic, Book VI.)[1]

Once enlightened, so to speak, the freed prisoner would not want to return to the cave to free his fellow prisoners, but would be compelled to do so. Another problem lies in the other prisoners not wanting to be freed: descending back into the cave would require that the freed prisoner's eyes adjust again, and for a time, he would be one of the ones identifying shapes on the wall. His eyes would be swamped by the darkness, and would take time to become acclimated. He might stumble, Plato asserts, and the prisoners would conclude that his experience had ruined him. He would not be able to identify the shapes on the wall as well as the other prisoners, making it seem as if his being taken to the surface completely ruined his eyesight. (The Republic bk. VII, 516b-c; trans. Paul Shorey).[2]

Interpretation

Plato believed that truth was gained from looking at universals in order to gain understanding of experience. Humans had to travel from the visible realm of image-making and objects of sense, to the intelligible, or invisible, realm of reasoning and understanding. "The Allegory of the Cave" symbolizes this trek and how it would look to those still in a lower realm. Plato is saying that humans are all prisoners and that the tangible world is our cave. The things which we perceive as real are actually just shadows on a wall. Just as the escaped prisoner ascends into the light of the sun, we amass knowledge and ascend into the light of true reality: where ideas in our minds can help us understand the form of 'The Good'.

Socrates himself interprets the allegory (beginning at 517b): "This image then [the allegory of the cave] we must apply as a whole to all that has been said"—i.e., the preceding analogy of the divided line and metaphor of the sun.

It has been up to scholarly debate in 20th century how exactly these three sequential comparisons can be coherently bound together. The main problems arise from the allegory of the cave having three cognitive stages and the divided line having four of them, where the first division (shadows, reflections) seems not to be needed to apply to the cave and is hard to be interpreted ontologically, i.e. in the manner of the cave at all. The metaphor of the sun seems to assert that from seeing things in the light of the sun we can raise to seeing ideas in the light of the Good, while in the cave it is not evident that it can not be done without helping and forcing prisoners to look at the light.

Plato's own remarks on the allegory
In particular, Plato likens "the region revealed through sight"—the ordinary objects we see around us—"to the habitation of the prison, and the light of the fire in it to the power of the sun. And if you assume the ascent and the contemplation of the things above is the soul's ascension to the intelligible region, you will not miss my surmise... My dream as it appears to me is that in the region of the known the last thing to be seen and hardly seen is the idea of good, and that when seen, it must point us to the conclusion that this is indeed the cause for all things of all that is right and beautiful, giving birth in the visible world to light, and l the author of light and itself in the intelligible world being the authentic source of truth and reason..." (517b-c). After "returning from divine contemplations to the petty miseries of men", one is apt to cut "a sorry figure" if, "while still blinking through the gloom, and before he has become sufficiently accustomed to the environing darkness, he is compelled in courtrooms or elsewhere to contend about the shadows of justice or the images that cast the shadows and to wrangle in debate about the notions of these things in the minds of those who have never seen justice itself?" (517d-e)

Movements between stages
Since the allegory is by Socrates' words about education, it should be interpreted from the viewpoint of conditions for taking steps toward higher stages, i.e., conditions for education.

There are four steps described: (1) prisoners who think that shadows are reality; (2) prisoners who are freed and forced to look at the things that are used to cast shadows on the wall and do not recognize these as sources for shadows; (3) prisoners who are freed and dragged along to the outside of cave; (4) free men returning to the cave to former fellow-prisoners.

Step (3) has also four sub-steps of looking at (a) shadows, (b) things that cast shadows, (c) heavenly bodies, (d) sun as the source and guarantee of all the things outside cave.

Substeps beneath step (3) cohere notably with analogy of the divided line. Confrontation between cave and outside can be explained by metaphor of sun, but there is one major difference: in the cave one cannot deduce from whatever position that burning artificial light and things that are carried are the source for shadows. Metaphor of the sun argues but that this kind of deduction is possible.

All the steps have their proper interpretation from the ontological, epistemological and ethical points of view to any one who understands this basic idea of knowledge.

How do you Look at the world?

 

 

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Monthly Get togethers

We will meet for a Study Group or philosophical discussion and Angst on the 1st Saturnday of each month. I will post a schedule or event notice in advance. If you would like to ask questions or discuss this please don't hesitate to email me