Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00070)

Frank Reitemeyer wrote:
> 
> [Leon writes:]
> > But, when referring to a piece of parchment or plaque upon which there is
> > writing or pictures (such as HPB wrote about in the Voice of the Silence),
> > these words, having two separate and distinct *plane* geometrical meanings
> > that are contradictory, cannot be sensibly combined. (Ref: "oblong square
> > rectangle" ... Wrong! )
> >
> > William Judge, then, was perfectly correct in changing HPB's descriptive
> > mistake to the single word "oblong" (rectangle) -- which adequately
> describes
> > a rectangle which is longer than it is wide (such as a postcard, which may
> or
> 
> I have a book before me what is said to be one the leading glossaries of
> Freemasonry in the world. It is:
> Eugen Lenhoff & Oskar Posner: Internationales Freimauerlexikon
> [International FM Glossary], Wien [Vienna] 1932.
> I don't know if there is also an English translation.
> Look under "Temple", col. 1562. The Lodge room in the Freemason temple is
> here literal described as "laengliches Viereck",
> that is in English exactly: "Oblong square".
> 
> Since "H.P.B." (not H.P.B., not H.P. Blavatsky) uses the term oblong square
> on p. 7 of her book and in connection with the altars of the temples it
> occurs to me that she has had something in mind when she used this Masonic
> term. It seems the Intern. FM Glossary supports the statements of Daniel and
> Tony.
> 
> ULT member claim that it was Judge himself who stroke out the word oblong.
> My question is: Is that sure that Judge did it? Are there any proofs besides
> oral history? Does his copy of the VOS still exist where his notes are said
> to have been? Who has access to it today? Can someone may a scan of the page
> under question to allow investigation of the origin of the handwritten note?
> And - besides WQJ was a high adept as HPB too - could it be possible that he
> too has had times when he was tired, overwhelmed and confused?
> Or is that possibility beyond anyone's idea?
> 
> Frank
> 
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       Some times an oblong square is just an oblong square.Sometimes I
see square oblongs.:)

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