I was walking home from a Timbers game, with my Daimler Truck of North America friend, and we passed by Portland's landmark Masonic lodge. Many other lodges around town, such as right across from the Quaker meetinghouse, were sold off. Hawthorne Theater is likewise in Masonic digs, a few blocks from The Bagdad.
Speaking of which, here's me on Telegram earlier today:
A way Masons got "perpetuated" (regenerated?) around Portland is a couple brothers started a successful brewpub empire that gradually came to include theaters and hotels (all connected to breweries).McMenamins. They have a strong iconic look and feel owing to incorporating lots of symbols, so feels kinda Masonic. Then they actually bought a Grand Lodge retirement home for Masons (in the old days) and converted it into one of their brewpub hotels (a whole campus, room for small golf course etc.). But they preserved the Masonic heritage, with paintings and plaques and so on, bringing it forward one could say.McMenamins is entirely a commercial business and not Masonic or anything, but it shows how momentum is preserved, if you know what I mean. Mixed into their symbols is the Grateful Dead stuff. Jerry Garcia et al. A powerful mix. Helps make Portland what it is (the brand is so successful the brewpubs have spread to adjoining Washington state, as well as all over western Oregon).
You can see where I'm going with this: secularization is a powerful process, even still.
Lifting text from one of my memos:
Proponents of the ethno-state consider ethnicity a basis of a sense of national unity, kind of like those Europeans who saw the New World as a future utopia for Christian palefaces such as themselves. “We shall make of these newly forming United States, a Christian nation.”
However these religious zealots were frustrated from the beginning, by Freemasons such as George Washington, other founding fathers, who had no interest in expanding the authority of the church, any church, within their version of USA OS.
Their motherboard circuit design was based on the principle of E Pluribus Unum (hence the “unum state”) and the ideal that no one ethnicity (no Aryans, no Caucasians, no Christians, no Ivy Leaguers…) need be uber alles. Dynamical systems theory would apply (what some people call Chaos — a branch of math). We’d surrender to the Ouija Board in a way.
Again on Telegram:
I don't think the Masons make a big deal of the compass in their logo being set to 60 degrees, in contrast to the "square" (right angle device) it subtends (overlays). Fuller's angle vs frequency distinction seems embedded in the sense that angles are primitive timeless sizeless whereas once you assign a size (scale) you get time/size i.e. frequency i.e. energy involvement. Their G stands for God but also for Geometry according to Wikipedia. Too rich a symbolry to just leave on the shelf.
But is it so, that the compass is set to 60 degrees? "Compasses" is plural in Masonic lore. The whole point of the compass, as a tool, is its angle is variable. Perhaps it's set at 36 degrees some of the time, suggesting a bridge to five-fold symmetry.
