Clifford Bob, Lecture on 'Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power'

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Excellent mid-day close friends, on part of Centre for the Research Study Living Societies. Ah I Hilal Ahmed, would love to invite you on this event of a special seminar by professor Clifford Bob. on a very interesting topic, which is, typically, not taken, very seriously in our discussion, and also that is regarding the principle of civil liberties. Ah, the title which he is provided ah for his talk, it'' s called ripes as weapon. Tool of problem and also devices of power. Teacher Bob is a teacher of political science at DeQuence University. He is currently a complete brilliant worldwide scholar and he is at the moment investigating civil culture feedbacks to COVID policies. Ah his recent book which is ah the the today'' s lecture is based upon that publication. It ' s called create as a it is released in 20 19 by Princeton University. Press.Ah he is likewise an

writer of 2 award winning books. One it is called the worldwide right wing. Released in 2012. Ah by university area as well as it won'' t the international research studies organization book of the decade award. As well as his another book that was released in 2 thousand as well as 5. The advertising of rebellion released by Cambridge University Best which likewise won ISA finest book honor. So we do hope that this publication will certainly also obtain one more honor. Ah so we are really looking forward for this lecture since in this ah lecture suppose that you are mosting likely to use a different structure to study legal rights. So over to you professor Thanks very much. I appreciate you'' re all'being below. I'' m sorry that I ' m going to type of be taking a look at the cam. People on-line as well as not back at you yet it'' s a little unpleasant yet I believe it'' ll work well.Um indeed, allow me just go to several of the slides I desire to share here. Um I, let'' s see, a little bit further on than we need to be. Okay, yeah. So, this is a publication that I published in two thousand nineteen as hi, simply stated as well as it is that does attempt to present a different view of just how civil liberties actually function in politics both nationally and also globally. As well as I will certainly in this talk because I'' m kind of a summary of the whole book. Uh but clearly much shortened. So I will begin by just quickly going over some of the crucial methods which human rights as well as rights generally have actually been conceived previously in government and also worldwide relationships. As well as in legislation. Then, I'' ll existing an alternative concept which I call the civil liberties as weapons approach Focusing on three various ways in which legal rights are utilized in hostile means. Uh first, to set in motion components and also allies in a specific rights project. Uh second released as tools versus adversaries of the project And also third I'' ll take a look at the method which those foes try to repulse or battle back against the campaigns.Uh typically utilizing

civil liberties as their own weapons against the original campaign. I will offer two brief study in addition to simply an extremely capsule instances in the discussion. Those study are on the ladies'' s legal rights and their uses by the US as well as Afghanistan war and also on LGBT legal rights in in Africa. And also I'' ll after that make a couple of verdicts as well as open it as much as concerns. So to simply to begin I believe that the traditional method in which philosoph many political researchers, global connections, experts have taken a look at human civil liberties. Uh has a number of different parts. First, rights are typically checked out as privileges that everyone have because of being human. Um this is a a quite a normative interpretation of rights in my sight. I'' m mosting likely to provide a more empirical one later. Uh yet the case is that human legal rights are points that every human has simply by virtue being human and also the emphasis in the scholarship that takes this method is commonly on the legal rights owner.

Uh and also just how the legal rights owner is worthy of and occasionally tries to attain its or his or her legal rights. In this consider as well legal rights are typically viewed as primarily a end or objective of national politics. In in some instances nearly as the key objective that all politics swirls around. Boosting civil liberties amongst numerous different populations. Um from the international legal standpoint, one of the essential methods or among the key concepts that is likewise discussed is that civil liberties are largely guards utilized to defend the interests of the powerless as Michael Ignatiev Canadian scholar and also political prospect stated in one of his vital publications back in the late nineteen nineties. And also I think this is a view that frequently shared by various other IR scholars as well as worldwide lawful scholars. Um along with that is the view promoted mainly by the United Nations. That all human legal rights are indivisible. That any type of attempt to enhance one particular right is going to work hand in hand with the boost of all various other civil liberties.

Therefore there'' s no real conflict between legal rights. At the very least that'' s the principle the UN forward in claiming that all civils rights are indivisible. Lastly, one more of the extra,'I ' d say standard sights of civils rights concentrates on their history and frequently sees the rise of civils rights as an unpreventable aspect of background as well as a sort of a unidirectional increase in civil liberties all over the world. Um most famously, I believe Francis Fukiyama placed this kind of suggestion forward in his end of history publication back in the early 1990s promptly after completion of the Cold War.I think he'' s in fact type of relocated far from that sight extra lately however still I believe that is a very fundamental part of the conventional sight of human legal rights. Now, I in my publication attempted to come up with a different view of civils rights as well as in doing so, I attempted to start with an empirical than a normative meaning of civil liberties. Um and in searching in the literary works for some suggestions concerning exactly how to define a right, I discovered back in the early 20th century, Wesley Hofield, one of one of the most famous American jurists of his day. Uh specifying legal rights in the following way, which I think is purely an empirical means of doing so.That is,

a right would be the ability of one entity, the civil liberties claimant, to enforce an obligation on an additional, that we can call the obligation bearer. And civil liberties complaintant can do this directly directly against a particular, allow'' s state, a specific, directly versus an additional person, or more commonly in culture, this would certainly be done indirectly via establishments, especially courts, that would justify the civil liberties of one plaintiff versus some other entity, consisting of the state, of training course.

Uh, so these entities can consist of people and also groups, teams that consist of the state however also can consist of numerous identity teams. I would also simply contribute to this meaning that utilizing Hoffeld'' s and also sort of the interpretation I adopt, using that definition, civil liberties and their linked duties can associate with or consist of any kind of kind of political objectives. They'' re not merely restricted to what are normally seen as civils rights in the worldwide lawful round. Now, making use of that empirical interpretation of civil liberties, I then established what I call legal rights as tools technique which I see is quite simply political instead of a normative sight of rights. and also in checking out this writes, the concept of legal rights is weapons. I claim to the standard view, that rights must be checked out mainly as the accomplishments of political battle. Uh, not as privileges that everybody have merely virtue of being human. Uh that'' s extra an insurance claim that may be made in an ideal battle but from the a lot more empirical and also political standpoint, civil liberties are the achievements or achievements that we reach through political struggle.Uh and rights

including human legal rights, do impose duties on others. So, importantly, those task holders usually oppose legal rights plaintiffs. Due to the fact that as a matter of fact, they put on'' t wish to presume new duties. Uh those responsibilities might minimize their very own power or compel them to do points that they wear'' t desire to do. So, in this sight, the emphasis must be not on Wright'' s owners because of this however on those that are declaring their legal rights and similarly on the those that are mosting likely to be enforced upon with brand-new obligations. Second of all, the Righteous Weapons Strategy views civil liberties not just as completions of political conflict or national politics more usually yet as suggests that are made use of in in national politics as well as political problem and I concentrate a lot in the publication and also actually I'' ve done this in previous publications too on Writes Projects and also problems over rights.

Epitomized in this image by one of the most vital modern rights battles at the very least the United States over trans legal rights. Civil liberties are not just suggests of national politics though. I would certainly say that they are usually offensive weapons. Not merely shields protecting the helpless as well as the weak. However weapons commonly wielded by political groups that are trying to achieve power, even self resolution as in these cases. Um as well as by extremely really effective entities consisting of the state itself, as we will see.

A fourth distinction between the alternative view that I'' m suggesting as well as the even more standard sight is that rights are naturally conflicted as well as never indivisible. I dramatically challenge the UN sight in the view of a number of others of scholars that there is no opportunity of problem between rights. That all rights are indivisible. Rather insurance claim that it'' s significantly a conflictive concept in national politics. As well as we as scholars must see it that way.And simply

as one instance that fight over trans civil liberties is really a fight with numerous in the round of feminist politics. Ladies'' s rights champs in fact opposing trans civil liberties suggesting again that there is not absolutely nothing indivisible concerning rights. Ultimately in regards to the historic side of things which I'' m not mosting likely to discuss way too much here however I will certainly at least mention. I would certainly say that rights is not inevitable.It ' s not unidirectional. Actually, it ' s highly contingent and also legal rights that we have today are by no methods below for life. Uh one fine example of that, just current, over the recently, is the High court ' s apparent draft viewpoint in the United States stating that the right to abortion might well pass the wayside. We ' ll see what takes place in a few months when they in fact release the final choice. But the broader factor is that civil liberties are not inevitable which you can in fact see adjustments, some would state, retrogression in rights with time. Now, taking this alternate perspective on legal rights, in my book, I concentrate on three essential aspects of how civil liberties are used in the problems that I look at.First, as I stated briefly before, civil liberties are utilized by advocates, activists, supporters, the state, to mobilize components and also allies. Those that are going to profit from the specific political goal that the civil liberties campaign is looking for to achieve. And also by claiming that a specific political objective is actually a right. Also a natural or human right. Um advocates can bring in components as well as allies to the campaign reinforcing it. A 2nd key element of the usage of rights is that they are usually released directly once again enemies in various ways to damage the foe and development the cause of the rights campaign. And also the final facet I ' m going to discuss towards completion is that those adversaries who are encountering civil liberties projects frequently will certainly use their very own civil liberties based techniques to battle versus the first campaign.So I ' m mosting likely to go into each of these a bit much more detail as well as then do the check out the have a look at some empirical instances in a bit more information. So In terms of setting in motion components and allies into a rights based project, among one of the most typical and also earliest methods that ' s been made use of to do this is to assert that civil liberties are all-natural or human in the US constitution and also also well before the the suggestion that'rights are natural was advanced. Um a lot more frequently today we become aware of civil liberties as human legal rights that all people have legal rights. Um yet my below would certainly be that this is simply there is you recognize proof for this. I could well agree with it, that most of us ought to have legal rights, yet in terms of empirical evidence for this, as well as in regards to exactly what it suggests to be an all-natural right, or perhaps a human right, there ' s a great deal of uncertainty entailed, and also in reality, the major effectiveness of asserting that is all-natural or human is to persuade'those that are seeking the same political objective to join the campaign.It likewise, of course, tosses the foe, those that will certainly have a brand-new task placed onto them, those that oppose the new right, it tosses them on the defensive

by portraying them as unnatural or perhaps merciless. So, this is a very important and effective approach that ' s frequently utilized in Wright ' s campaigns. A 2nd claim that ' s Frequently utilized is that rights are global. That they transcend all cultures, all nationwide boundaries, which they can be deployed throughout the world.Again, I would claim that'this is extra a claim than a real reality and it ' s an useful claim too especially for those that are encountering very solid opponents in a certain context since by declaring that the rights you ' re looking for or'that are being violated are in fact global ones, it opens you up for support from people around the globe. It might conveniently assist internationalize an ideal area'struggle.So, declaring that a right is universal is a very typical method also. A third common method to activate constituents and also allies is to declare that rights are apolitical or incredibly political. They are something that is beyond politics that noone can really dispute and we ' ve seen this over and over in recent political battles. Um the insurance claim that you understand, we truly can ' t argument, debate this issue since it is a right. Uh once again, I would claim this can be a powerful means to mobilize those who already support the political goal that this project is seeking. It usually doesn ' t cut significantly ice with the challengers because'truthfully, this is the utmost political method. It ' s an effort to take argument away just stating that this right is super political A last method which several rights projects seek to set in motion components and also allies is by asserting that legal rights are absolute or at least that the right that that particular claim is look for that specific campaign is looking for is absolute.This was a disagreement presented most famously I believe by a American legal scholar run dork in in a write-up as well as book understood as called Legal rights as Trumps. And he was concentrating on private civil liberties and also he made the insurance claim that legal rights must outdo any various other social or financial passion that ' s out there. Now I would certainly say that this idea has actually also been made use of even before Dwarkin broached it. Uh in by various other entities. Ones that probably Dwarkin would shutter at. Often in the US and also I believe more generally worldwide states civil liberties or the civil liberties of particular bulks are seen as absolute and also as being able to subdue the civil liberties of the private Lately, in the context of COVID, we ' ve seen around the globe asserts that the civil liberties of the society as a whole.To live, to be healthy, to avoid getting COVID, allow the state to declare a state of emergency, perpetually, it seems, in most cases, proceed that state of emergency situation, as well as eliminate a number of the democratic processes that we ' re all knowledgeable about, in regards to policy making, and also to

basic civil liberties that the majority of us, I think, presume, were going to be existing in our lives for the foreseeable future. But this claim that particular types of legal rights in particular contexts are absolute, has been very effective, and effective, not just in suppressing individual legal rights, however also in setting in motion those who are attempting to accomplish specific political goals. Currently, transforming to the 2nd crucial facet of, of this, view of rights as tools. Uh, civil liberties are, not only used to mobilize your very own constituency as well as your own allies, individuals who are currently supportive to your cause, however they are likewise utilized extremely aggressively versus foes, and also I ' m going to discuss basically 5 various manner ins which I consider in the publication that you that this happens.First, I would say commonly rights are used as camouflage to hide various other sorts of agendas. Insurance claims that civil liberties are being broken or that we need to achieve certain kinds of rights. Often, are used to are often kind of veneers'over various other kinds of goals. So, for instance, in the argument over same-sex marriage as well as gay legal rights a lot more typically in the States, there have actually been insurance claims mostly by conservatives that their religious flexibilities, their religious civil liberties are being abused by the rise of gay civil liberties. As well as the case definitely from the opposite is that in reality this is just camouflaged bigotry as that check in the reduced right indicates. In my publication, I discuss that instance, I also check out briefly at the instance of the English Defense League, an extremely nationalist motion in the UK that has long has a long-lasting type of anti Muslim animus. Uh interestingly, they generated a project that was concentrated mostly on pet civil liberties. Uh they suddenly had actually seemed to have actually located the requirement to to secure pets however several would declare as well as I are make the argument also that this is not a particularly honest idea that instead this is an initiative to actually maintain their long-standing anti-Muslim position in as an example this halal campaign that they have that they conducted a few years back.In the name of pet civil liberties. A second method which civil liberties are released versus opponents typically through the courts is as spears. This is an approach in which those that are promoting brand-new legal rights will target one really egregious, details plan to attempt to transform it. Um with the hope that that will then cause much more comprehensive social adjustment. Frequently, it is weak groups who utilize this this method since they put on ' t have

the capacity to to attack the broader culture all at once.Uh and instead we ' ll emphasis only on a solitary narrow instance. and renowned examples of this would certainly be the Brownview Board of Education case in the 1950s, which was made use of to desegregate the institutions in the south but belonged to a much more comprehensive campaign to try to end civil legal rights violations against African Americans in the USA and naturally this was a very successful usage of the spear technique focusing just on one narrow prone component of the wide of segregation in the south but one that after that helped lead to the toppling of a whole variety of other sorts of deprivals of civil liberties that African Americans faced at the time. A lot more lately, once more, just over the last couple of weeks, I believe what we ' re seeing in the existing obstacle to Roe V Wade, the American abortion case is another private certain case aimed just at ending abortion rights at at least at the level. however arguably it ' s part of a much more comprehensive conservative or traditionalist agenda to alter the methods which society deals with ladies and the family members in the United States.I believe certainly several of those bringing these kinds of lawsuits have that program in the back of their minds. I, in guide, concentrate on a particular instance in Italy. This is not, I believe, special to the United States, however a situation in Italy in which a group of atheists, there are atheists in in Italy, tried to end the enduring plan of having crucifixes in every public school classroom in Italy. Uh, and also they had a legal action. They brought a claim, making rights-based policies.They were attempting on these surface merely to obtain crucifixes out of public college classrooms however clearly and also I interviewed them concerning this. Plainly, their primary goal was in fact to lower the power of the Catholic Church in Italy far more generally and also at first, they actually did well at the European Court of Civil rights although eventually this was turned around on allure. Currently, that spear method is one that I I believe is mostly used by relatively weak groups. On the other hand, what I the dynamite method is often made use of by the most effective entities in a culture to attempt to strike weak aspects within that culture to try to remake society ' s wholesale rather than just attempting with one details policy to create slow and also more comprehensive change to actually come in and also initially and also attempt to weaken what is seen as a some type of a threatening component of the culture. One instance of this I take a look at in in my publication as well remains in France where the bulk population although it ' s a very nonreligious culture is has has made the wearing of the hijab illegal and this is seen as certainly by the Muslim the small Muslim populace as a an effort to threaten their ident and also their rights.But from the perspective of the French'state as well as I ' d state the mass of the French people, this is instead viewed as a method of protecting their own right to a nonreligious culture, which they see as part of their lengthy standing cultural long-standing French culture, although it really doesn ' t always go off all that far back. An additional instance I take a look at as well as I ' ll talk about a little bit a lot more in this talk towards the end is the method in international national politics is the means in which the United States has actually made use of females ' s civil liberties to attempt to keep for two decades up until this year. Uh

the war in Afghanistan. and also surprisingly, the method in which as well, non-governmental who advertise civils rights have really tried to perpetuate the battle in order to basically initial of all assistance Covering females however more usually to reprise Afghan society.Another method which legal rights are'typically deployed versus enemy foes are as wedge concerns or I call them crowbars too to the effort below is to attack a broad-based union that you remain in the political dispute with by trying to damage from that coalition certain parts of of the of'the union. Uh and also thereby damaging that coalition. An instance here is is all in various Israeli support NGOs, use of gay rights to attempt to disintegrate the pro-Palestinian union, that includes a wide variety of, we ' d call the left-wing teams, including guys, many that support gay civil liberties. An additional of the extra,'I ' d say traditional views of human legal rights concentrates on their background as well as typically sees the increase of human civil liberties as an unpreventable element of history and a kind of a unidirectional boost in rights around the globe. Women'' s civil liberties champs really opposing trans legal rights showing once more that there is not absolutely nothing indivisible about civil liberties. Currently, taking this alternate point of view on legal rights, in my publication, I focus on 3 essential elements of how legal rights are made use of in the disputes that I look at.First, as I discussed briefly prior to, rights are utilized by campaigners, protestors, supporters, the state, to set in motion components as well as allies. Um more regularly today we listen to regarding legal rights as human civil liberties that all humans have civil liberties. For circumstances, in the argument over same-sex marital relationship and gay legal rights extra typically in the States, there have been claims mainly by traditionalists that their religious liberties, their religious legal rights are being abused by the rise of gay legal rights.That claim this initiative to raise trans rights is in fact partially a camouflage for enhancing males ' s rights however more significantly, it ' s an effort to block the legal rights of ladies and also they claim to do away with the rights of ladies as a separate sex. The final facet of civil liberties I want to talk concerning below is the usage of rights by those who are struck by the rights campaign. Uh all sides in these kind of conflicts will deploy different kinds of rights and also this kind of problem is pervasive in any kind of form of politics today suggesting that legal rights are by no methods indivisible.Again, I didn ' t truly talk about this in detail yet I would certainly say that rather than rights being fundamental in humanity and manifesting themselves in a kind of unidirectional way over time, rights have ended up being much more and more popular in component due to the fact that of their critical utility in political disputes today. Who declare this effort to increase trans rights is in fact partly a camouflage for enhancing men ' s civil liberties yet even more importantly, it ' s an initiative to block the legal rights of ladies as well as even they claim to do away with the civil liberties of females as a different sex. The final facet of civil liberties I desire to talk about here is the usage of civil liberties by those that are struck by the legal rights project. The foes of a rights project will certainly typically merely turn down or refute the the concept that the rights bear the the the the there are even legal rights that issue. That the civil liberties bear saying that the rights holders cases are merely not legal rights at all. Uh all sides in these kind of disputes will certainly release numerous kinds of legal rights as well as this kind of dispute is prevalent in any kind of form of national politics today recommending that legal rights are by no ways indivisible.Again, I didn ' t truly speak about this in detail yet I would certainly say that instead than civil liberties being inherent in humankind and also manifesting themselves in a kind of unidirectional means over time, rights have actually become a lot more and also much more prominent in component due to the fact that of their tactical energy in political conflicts today.I imply, all of us I believe have are going to make certain legal rights asserts possibly against the state yet others, we'' re we ' re also going to have certain tasks upon us put upon us of the civil liberties of others Uh and also so you can I think, in this, in, you know, as a private, or as an organization, you are both a rights plaintiff or if you can accomplish that, as well as an obligation bearer.I wear ' t know that, I, I think I couldn ' t see that you were, you were both all at once on the very same issue. Now, I think I, in some means, what I ' ve found in some of the research I ' ve done does jive well with my own politics like, let ' s say on the Afghanistan case. Now, they put on ' t, in some methods, they put on ' t have the very same condition as civil and also political rights, I imply, they ' re commonly spoke regarding as legal rights that we are simply going to attempt to attain over time, to the extent that They can be in a developing society.That ' s, you recognize, not a straight quote however it ' s something like that in the, I think the preamble to the ICESCR. I imply, all of us I think have are going to make particular rights asserts possibly versus the state but others, we'' re we ' re additionally going to have specific duties upon us put upon us of the civil liberties of others Uh and also so you can I think, in this, in, you recognize, as an individual, or as an organization, you are both a civil liberties complaintant or if you can achieve that, and also a responsibility bearer.I wear ' t understand that, I, I think I couldn ' t see that you were, you were both simultaneously on the same problem. Currently, I guess I, in some means, what I ' ve located in some of the research I ' ve done does jive well with my own national politics like, allow ' s say on the Afghanistan instance. Currently, they put on ' t, in some ways, they put on ' t have the exact same status as civil as well as political rights, I mean, they ' re typically chatted about as legal rights that we are simply going to attempt to accomplish over time, to the level that They can be in a progressing society.That ' s, you recognize, not a direct quote yet it ' s something like that in the, I believe the preamble to the ICESCR. To me, what is interesting about it is that it ' s, you know, the it was there in these global conventions long ago yet it ' s ended up being much extra famous in, let ' s say, development circles, much more just recently, the right to development has actually been emphasized. Um with regard to Jammu and Kashmir and also human legal rights offenses there, I ' m going to have to state I wear ' t I have however not really followed that completely and also I I don ' t that I can really state much concerning that.It ' s, it ' s, it ' s, in reaction to what you claimed earlier, I indicate, I assume it ' s not about separating one ' s politics from one scholarship due to the fact that you understand that may likewise be an initial world privilege. And also in fact', you know, I started out by focusing on human legal rights, which is many of what people concentrate on in, international relations anyhow, however I chose I actually might not just look at human legal rights, I had to make it a lot wider to look at civil liberties, typically, as well as that ' s why the meaning comes from Wesley Holfeld, who was chatting about rights at a time when human civil liberties weren ' t also actually a principle, really didn ' t come into significant play till after the global Declaration of Human Rights.Uh so that ' s part of this entire signing up with concept and also I I believe we can learn a great deal when we do take this kind of wide sight. It is, they ' re joined by human rights NGOs, international ones, mostly, although likewise residential Covering ones, numerous'of them, although in my publication, I do price estimate a number of Afghan ladies ' s protestors who are not weren ' t on being ludicrous below but weren ' t on the American Aid dollar or something and also were you understand, exceptionally critical in kind of the means Ananya you pointed to prior to about the battle as well as its ability even in concept to bring civil liberties to women. It ' s, it ' s, it ' s, in action to what you claimed earlier, I indicate, I assume it ' s not regarding dividing one ' s politics from one scholarship because you recognize that may additionally be a very first globe advantage. Ah you know it ' s not, it ' s not, it doesn ' t exist in some pure, pure political area. Um, and also I believe by the way, one of the reasons that possibly, is unexpected to you is, again, because scholars, I believe, many of them who are being liberal, I, there ' s no question, I, myself, consider myself a liberal, I assume, extremely in the United States, have actually focused extra on the reasons that they such as, and also they support, as well as so, it after that can come as a shock when you have, you understand, all the activities you ' ve just chatted around, or when you have a Trump that ' s elected, or a Brexit, or something like that. And also in truth', you know, I began out by concentrating on human civil liberties, which is many of what individuals focus on in, worldwide relations anyhow, yet I determined I actually can not only look at human legal rights, I had to make it much more comprehensive to look at legal rights, generally, and that ' s why the interpretation comes from Wesley Holfeld, that was talking concerning legal rights at a time when human civil liberties weren ' t also actually an idea, actually didn ' t come into significant play till after the universal Declaration of Human Rights.Uh so that ' s part of this entire signing up with idea and I I think we can find out a lot when we do take this kind of wide view. It is, they ' re joined by human rights NGOs, global ones, mostly, although likewise residential Covering ones, numerous'of them, although in my book, I do price estimate a number of Covering women ' s lobbyists who are not weren ' t on being sarcastic below however weren ' t on the American Aid buck or something as well as were you know, extremely critical in kind of the way Ananya you pointed to before concerning the battle as well as its capacity also in theory to bring legal rights to females.

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17th Degree Lecture - Knight of the East and West - Magnum Opus - Albert Pike

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17th degree night of the east and west this is the first of the philosophical degrees of the ancient unaccepted Scottish Rite and the beginning of a course of instruction which will fully unveil to you the heart and inner mysteries of masonry do not despair because you have often seemed on the point of attaining the inmost light and have as often been disappointed in all time truth has been hidden Under symbols and often under a succession of allegories where Veil after Veil had to be penetrated before the True Light was reached and the essential truth stood revealed the human light is but an imperfect reflection of array of the infinite and divine we are about to approach those ancient religions which once ruled the minds of men and whose ruins encumber the plane to the great past the broken Columns of Palmyra and tadmor lie bleaching on the Sands of the desert they rise before us those old strange mysterious Creeds and faiths shrouded in the midst of antiquity and stalk dimly and undefined along the line which divides time from eternity and forms of strange Wild Ling Beauty mingled in the vast Thrones of figures with shapes monstrous grotesque and hideous the religion taught by Moses which like the laws of Egypt initiated the principle of exclusion borrowed at every period of its existence from all the Creeds with which it came in contact while by the studies of the learned and wise it enriched itself with the most admirable principles of the religions of Egypt and Asia it was changed in the wanderings of the people by everything that was most impure or seductive in the Pagan manners and superstitions it was one thing in the times of Moses and Aaron another in those of David and Solomon and still another in those of Daniel and Philo at the time when John the Baptist made his appearance in the desert near the shores of the Dead Sea all the old philosophical and religious systems were approximating toward each other a general latitude inclined the minds of all toward the quietude of that amalgamation of doctrines for which the Expeditions of Alexander and the more peaceful occurrences that followed with the establishment in Asia and Africa of many Grecian dynasties and a great number of Grecian colonies had prepared the way after the intermingling of different nations which resulted from the wars of Alexander in three quarters of the globe the doctrines of Greece of Egypt of Persia and of India met and intermingled everywhere all the barriers that had formally kept the Nations apart were thrown down and while the people of the West readily connected their faith with those of the East those of the Orient hasten to learn the traditions of Rome and the legends of Athens while the philosophers of Greece all except the Disciples of epicurus more or less platonists seized urgely upon the beliefs and doctrines of the East the Jews and Egyptians before then the most exclusive of all peoples yielded to that eclecticism which prevailed among their masters the Greeks and Romans under the same influences of Toleration even those who embraced Christianity mingled together the old and the new Christianity and philosophy the apostolic teachings and the traditions of Mythology the man of intellect devotee of one system rarely displaces it with another in all its purity the people take such a Creed as is offered them accordingly the distinction between the esoteric and the exoteric doctrine immemorial in other creeds easily gained a foothold among many of the Christians and it was held by a vast number even during the preaching of Paul that the writings of the apostles were incomplete that they contained only the germs of another Doctrine which must receive from the hands of philosophy not only the systematic Arrangement which was wanting but all the development which lay concealed therein the writings of the Apostles they said in addressing themselves to Mankind in general enunciated only the articles of the vulgar Faith but transmitted the mysteries of knowledge to Superior Minds to the elect ories handed down from generation to generation in esoteric traditions and to this science of the Mysteries they gave the name of gnosis the gnostics derived their leading doctrines and ideas from Plato and Philo the Zender Vesta and the Kabbalah and the sacred books of India and Egypt and thus introduced into the bosom of Christianity the cosmological and theosophical speculations which had formed a larger portion of the ancient religions of the Orient joined to those of the Egyptian Greek and Jewish doctrines which the neoplatonists had equally adopted in the occident emanation from the deity of all Spiritual Beings Progressive degeneration of these beings from emanation to emanation Redemption and return of all to the purity of the Creator and after the re-establishment of the Primitive Harmony of all a fortunate and truly Divine condition of all in the bosom of God such were the fundamental teachings of gnosticism The Genius of the Orient with its contemplations irradiations and intuitions dictated its doctrines its language corresponded to its origin full of imagery it had all the magnificence the inconsistencies and the mobility of the figurative Style behold it said the light which emanates from an immense Center of light that spreads everywhere its benevolent Rays so do the spirits of light emanate from the Divine Light behold all the Springs which nourish embellish fertilize and purify the Earth they emanate from one and the same ocean so from the bosom of the Divinity emanates so many streams which form and fill the universe of intelligences behold numbers which all emanate from one primitive number all resemble it all are composed of its essence and still vary infinitely and utterances decomposable into so many syllables and elements all contained in the Primitive word and still infinitely various so the world of intelligence is emanated from a primary intelligence and they all resemble it and yet display an infinite variety of existences it revived and combine the old doctrines of the Orient and the occident and it found in many passages of the gospels and the Pastoral letters a warrant for doing so Christ himself spoke in Parables and allegories John borrowed the enigmatical language of the platonists and Paul often indulged in incomprehensible rhapsodies the meaning of which could have been clear to the initiates alone it is admitted that the Cradle of gnosticism is probably to be looked for in Syria and even in Palestine most of its expounders wrote in that corrupted form of the Greek used by the Hellenistic Jews and in the Septuagint and the New Testament and there is a striking analogy between their doctrines and those of the judeo-egyptian Philo of Alexandria itself the seat of three schools at once philosophic and religious the Greek the Egyptian and the Jewish Pythagoras and Plato the most mystical of the Grecian philosophers the latter heir to the doctrines of the former and who had traveled the latter in Egypt and the former infinitia India and Persia also taught the esoteric Doctrine and the distinction between the initiated and the profane the dominant doctrines of platonism were found in gnosticism emanation of intelligences from the bosom of the deity the going Australian era and the sufferings of spirits so long as they are remote from God and imprisoned in matter Vain and long continued efforts to arrive at the knowledge of the truth and re-enter into their primitive Union with the Supreme Being Alliance of a pure and divine soul with an irrational soul the seat of evil desires Angels or demons who dwell in and govern the planets having but an imperfect knowledge of the ideas that presided at the creation regeneration of all beings by their return to the cosmos notice the world of intelligences and its chief the Supreme Being sole possible mode of re-establishing that primitive Harmony of the creation of which The Music of the Spheres of Pythagoras was the image these were the analogies of the two systems and we discover in them some of the ideas that form a part of masonry in which in the present mutilated condition of the symbolic degrees they are disguised and overlaid with fiction and absurdity or present themselves as casual hints that are passed by wholly unnoticed the distinction between the esoteric and exoteric doctrines a distinction purely Masonic was always and from the very earliest times preserved among the Greeks it remounted to the fabulous times of Orpheus and the mysteries of theosophy were found in all their traditions and myths and after the time of Alexander they resorted for instruction dogmas and Mysteries to all the schools to those of Egypt and Asia as well as those of ancient Thrace Sicily etroria an Attica the Jewish Greek School of Alexandria is known only by two of its Chiefs aristobius and Philo both Jews of Alexandria in Egypt belonging to Asia by its origin to Egypt by its residence to Greece by its language and studies it strove to show that all truths embedded in the philosophies of other countries were transplanted either from Palestine aristobius declared that all the facts and details of the Jewish scriptures were so many allegories concealing the most profound meanings and that Plato had borrowed from them all his finest ideas Philo who lived a century after him following the same Theory endeavored to show that the Hebrew writings by their system of allegories were the true source of all religious and philosophical doctrines according to him the literal meaning is for the vulgar alone Whoever has meditated on philosophy purified himself by virtue and raised himself by contemplation to God in the intellectual world and received their inspiration pieces the gross envelope of the letter discovers a wholly different order of things and is initiated into mysteries of which the elementary or literal instruction offers but an imperfect image a historical fact a figure a word a letter a number a right a custom the parable or vision of a prophet vale's the most profound truths and he who has the key of science will interpret all according to the light he possesses again we see the symbolism of Masonry and the search of the candidate for light let men of narrow Minds withdraw he says with closed ears we transmit the Divine Mysteries to those who have received the sacred initiation to those who practice true piety and who are not enslaved by the empty trappings of words or the preconceived opinions of the pagans to Philo the Supreme Being was the Primitive light or the archetype of light Source went to the Rays emanate that illuminate souls he was also the soul of the universe and as such acted in all its parts he himself feels and limits his whole being his powers and virtues fill and penetrate all these powers junemias are spirits distinct from God the ideas of Plato personified he is without beginning and lives in the Prototype of time aeon His Image is the word a four more brilliant than fire that not being the pure light this logos dwells in God for the Supreme Being makes to himself within his intelligence the types or ideas of everything that is to become reality in this world the logos is the vehicle by which God acts on the universe and maybe compared to the speech of man the logos being the world of ideas by means whereof God has created visible things he is the most ancient god in comparison with the world which is the youngest production the logos chief of intelligence of which he is the general representative is named archangel type and representative of all spirits even those of Mortals he is also styled the man type and primitive man Adam Cadman God only is wise the wisdom of man is but the reflection and image of that of God he is the father and his wisdom the mother of creation for he United himself with wisdom Sophia and communicated to it The Germ of creation and it brought forth the material world he created the ideal world only and caused the material world to be made real after its type by his logos which is his speech and at the same time the idea of ideas the intellectual world the intellectual city was but the thought of the architect who meditated the creation according to that plan of the material City the word is not only the Creator but occupies the place of the Supreme Being through him all the powers and attributes of God Act on the other side as first representative of the Human family he is the protector of men and their Shepherd God gives to man The Soul or intelligence which exists before the body and which he unites with the body the reasoning principle comes from God through the word and communes with God and with the word but there is also in man and irrational principle that of the inclinations and passions which produce disorder emanating from inferior spirits who fill the air as Ministers of God the body taken from the Earth and the irrational principle that animates it concurrently with the rational principle are hated by God while the rational Soul which he has given it is as it were captive in this prison this coffin that encompasses it the present condition of man is not his primitive condition when he was the image of the logos he has fallen from his first estate but he may raise himself again by following the directions of wisdom and of the Angels which God has commissioned to Aid him in freeing himself from the bonds of the body and combating Evil the existence where of God has permitted to furnish him the means of exercising his Liberty the souls that are purified not by the law but by light rise to the Heavenly regions to enjoy their a perfect Felicity those that persevere in evil go from body to body the seats of passions and evil desires The Familiar ligament of these doctrines will be recognized by all who read the Epistles of Saint Paul who wrote after Philo the latter living till the reign of Caligula and being the Contemporary of Christ and the Mason is familiar with these doctrines of Philo that the Supreme Being is a center of light whose Rays or emanations pervade the universe for that is the light for which all Masonic Journeys are a search and of which the sun and moon in our lodges are only emblems that light and darkness Chief enemies from the beginning of time dispute with each other the Empire of the world which we symbolize by the candidate wandering in darkness and being brought to light that the world was created not by the Supreme Being but by a secondary agent who is but his word and by types which are but his ideas aided by an intelligence or wisdom which gives one of his attributes in which we see the occult meaning of the necessity of recovering the word and of our two columns of strength and wisdom which are also the two parallel lines that bound the circle representing the universe that the visible world is the image of the invisible world that the essence of the human soul is the image of God and it existed before the body that the object of its terrestrial life is to disengage itself of its body or its Sepulcher and that it will Ascend to the Heavenly Regent whenever it shall be purified in which we see the meaning now almost forgotten in our lodges of the mode of preparation of the candidate for apprenticeship and his tests and purifications in the first degree according to the ancient and accepted Scottish Rite Philo Incorporated in his eclecticism neither Egyptian nor Oriental elements but there were other Jewish teachers in Alexandria who did both the Jews of Egypt were slightly jealous of and a little hostile to those of Palestine particularly after the erection of the sanctuary at leontopolis by the high priest onions and therefore they admired and magnified those Sages who like Jeremiah had resided in Egypt the wisdom of Solomon was written at Alexandria and in the time of Saint Jerome was attributed to Philo but it contains principles at variance with his it personifies wisdom and draws between its children and the profane the same line of demarcation that Egypt had long before taught to the Jews that distinction existed at the beginning of the Mosaic Creed Moshe himself was an initiate in the mysteries of Egypt as he was compelled to be as the adopted son of the daughter of pharaoh thaurus daughter of cisostris Ramses who as her tomb and monuments show was in the right of her infant husband Regent of Lower Egypt or the Delta at the time of the Hebrew prophet's birth reigning at heliopolis she was also as the release on her tomb show a priestess of ather and Neath the two great primeval goddesses as her adopted son living in her Palace and present 40 years and during that time scarcely acquainted with his Brethren the Jews the law of Egypt compelled his initiation and we find in many of his enactments the intention of preserving between the common people and the initiates the line of Separation which he found in Egypt Masha and ahara and his brother the whole series of high priests the Council of the 70 elders salomo and the entire succession of prophets were in possession of a higher science and of that science masonry is at least the lineal descendant it was familiarly known as the knowledge of the word among at first the god of Lower Egypt only where Moshe was reared a word that in Hebrew means truth was the supreme god he was styled the celestial Lord who sheds light on hidden things he was the source of that Divine Life of which the Crux and SATA is the symbol and the source of all power he United all the attributes that the ancient Oriental theosophy assigned to the Supreme Being he was the pluroma or fullness of things for he comprehended in himself everything and the light for he was the sun god he was unchangeable in the midst of everything phenomenal in his worlds he created nothing but everything emanated from him and of him all the other gods were but manifestations the ram was his living symbol which you see reproduced in this degree lying on the book with Seven Seals on the tracing board he caused the creation of the World by the Primitive thought annoya or spirit pneuma that issued from him by means of his voice or the word and which thought or Spirit was personified as the goddess Neath she to was a Divinity of light and mother of the sun and the Feast of lamps was celebrated in her honor at seis the creative power another manifestation of deity proceeding to the creation conceived of in her the Divine intelligence produced with its word the universe symbolized by an egg issuing from the mouth of neph from which egg came for image of the Supreme intelligence as realized in the world and the type of that manifested in man the principal agent also of nature or the creative and productive fire free or RS the Sun or Celestial light whose symbol was the point within a circle was the son of fur and Taif his wife or the celestial firmament with the seven celestial bodies animated by spirits of Genie that govern them was represented on many of The Monuments clad in blue or yellow her garment sprinkled with stars and accompanied by the Sun Moon and five planets and she was the type of wisdom and they of the seven planetary spirits of the gnostics that with her presided over and governed the sublunary world in this degree unknown for a hundred years to those who have practiced it these emblems reproduced refer to these old doctrines the lamb the yellow hanging stroot with stars the seven columns candlesticks and seals all recall them to us the lion was the symbol of athemri the great God of Upper Egypt the hawk of raw or free the eagle of Mendes the bull of apis and three of these are seen under the platform on which our altar stands the first Hermes was the intelligence or word of God moved with compassion for a race living without law and wishing to teach them that they sprang from his bosom and to point out to them the way that they should go the books which the first Hermes the same with Enoch had written on the mysteries of Divine Science in the sacred characters being unknown to those who lived After the flood God sent to man Osiris and Isis akakum Panic by Thoth the Incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first Hermes who taught men the Arts science and the ceremonies of religion and then ascended to heaven or the Moon Osiris was the principle of good Typhon like aramin was the principle and source of all that is evil in the moral and physical order like the Satan of gnosticism he was confounded with Mata from Egypt or Persia the new platonists borrowed the idea and the gnostics received it from them that man in his terrestrial career is successively under the influence of the Moon of Mercury a Venus of the Sun of Mars of Jupiter and of Saturn until he finally reaches the Elysian Fields an idea again symbolized in the Seven Seals the Jews of Syria and Judea were the direct precursors of gnosticism and in their doctrines were ample Oriental elements these Jews had had with the Orient at two different periods intimate relations familiarizing them with the doctrines of Asia and especially of caldia and Persia their forced residents in Central Asia under the Assyrians and Persians and their voluntary dispersion over the whole East when subjects of the celicity and the Romans living near two-thirds of a century and many of them long afterward in Mesopotamia the Cradle of their race speaking the same language and their children reared with those of the Chaldeans Assyrians medes and Persians and receiving from them their names as the case of Daniel who was called BL to satsa proves they necessarily adopted many of the doctrines of their conquerors their descendants show us hardly desired to leave Persia when they were allowed to do so they had a special jurisdiction and governors and judges taken from their own people many of them held high office and their children were educated with those of the highest Nobles Daniel was the friend and minister of the king and the chief of the College of the Magi at Babylon if we may believe the book which Bears his name entrust to the incident related in its highly figurative and imaginative Style Mordecai 2.

occupied a high station no less than that of prime minister an Esther or Astor his cousin was the Monarch's wife the Magi of Babylon were expounders of figurative writings interpreters of nature and of Dreams astronomers and divines and from their influences arose among the Jews after their rescue from captivity a number of sects and a new exposition the mystical interpretation with all its wild fancies and infinite Caprices the Aeons of the gnostics the ideas of Plato the angels of the Jews and the Demons of the Greeks all correspond to the fair hours of zoroaster a great number of Jewish families remain permanently in their new country and one of the most celebrated of their schools was at Babylon they were soon familiarized with the doctrine of zoroaster which itself was more ancient than curos from the system of the Zender Vesta they borrowed and subsequently gave large development to everything that could be reconciled with their own faith and these additions to the old Doctrine were soon spread by the constant intercourse of Commerce into Syria and Palestine in the Zenda Vesta God is a limitable Time no origin can be assigned to him he is so entirely enveloped in his glory his nature and attributes are so inaccessible to human intelligence that he can be only the object of a silent veneration creation took place by emanation from him the first emanation was the Primitive light and from that the king of light almost by the word almost created the world pure he is its preserver and judge of being holy and Heavenly intelligent and knowledge the firstborn of time Without Limits and invested with all the powers of the Supreme Being still he is strictly speaking the fourth being he had a fair hour a pre-existing soul in the language of Plato a type or ideal and it is said of him that he existed from the beginning in the Primitive light but that light being but an element and his fair hour type he is in ordinary language the firstborn of zeroane akarim behold again the word of masonry the man on the tracing Board of this degree the light toward which all Masons travel he created after his own image six Genie I called amsha spans who surround his throne are his organs of communication with inferior spirits and Men transmit to him their prayers solicit for them his favors and serve them as models of Purity and perfection thus we have the demiogos of gnosticism and the sixth Genie that assist him these are the Hebrew archangels of the planets the names of these anxious bands are Barman order behest shariva sir Panda mad ameridad the fourth the holy sepandamad created the first man and woman then almost created 28ists of whom mithras is the chief they watch with all moves in the amcha spans over the happiness purity and preservation of the world which is under their government and they are also models for mankind and interpreters of men's prayers with mithras and almost they make a pluroma or complete number of 30.

corresponding to the 30 Aeons of the gnostics and to the Ogden dodecade and decade of the Egyptians mithras was the sun god invoked with and soon confounded with him becoming the object of a special worship an eclipsing almost himself the third order of pure spirits is more numerous they are the fair hours the thoughts of almost all the ideas which he conceived before proceeding to the creation of things they too are superior to men they protect them during their life on Earth they will purify them from Evil at their Resurrection they are their tutelary geniei from the fall to the complete regeneration Armon second born of the Primitive light emanated from it pure like almost but proud and ambitious yielded to jealousy of the firstborn for his hatred and pride the Eternal condemned him to dwell 4 12.

000 years in that part of space where no Ray of Light reaches the black Empire of darkness in that period the struggle between light and darkness good and evil will be terminated arm and scorned to submit and took the field against ormused to the good spirits created by his brother he opposed an innumerable Army of evil ones to the seven anxious bands he opposed seven archdevs attached to the seven planets to the easts and Fair hours an equal number of devs which brought upon the world all moral and physical evils hence poverty maladies impurity Envy Chagrin drunkenness Fawcett calumny and their horrible array the image of Ironman was the Dragon confounded by the Jews with Satan and the serpent tempter after a reign of three thousand years almost had created the material world in six periods calling successively into existence the light water Earth plants animals and man but Armin concurred in Crete the earth and water for Darkness was already an element an almost could not exclude its master so also the two concurred in producing man almost produced by his will and word a being that was the type and source of universal life for everything that exists under heaven he placed in man a pure principle all life proceeding from the Supreme Being but Armand destroyed that pure principle in the form where with it was clothed and when all moves had made of its recovered and purified essence the first man and woman Armand seduced and tempted them with wine and fruits the woman yielding first often during the three latter periods of three thousand years each Armament and darkness are and are to be triumphant but the pure souls are assisted by the good spirits the Triumph of good is decreed by the Supreme Being and the period of that Triumph will infallibly arrive when the world shall be most Afflicted with the evils poured out upon it by the spirits of perdition three prophets will come to bring relief to Mortals the principle of the three will regenerate the Earth and restore to it its primitive Beauty strength and purity he will judge the good and the wicked after the universal resurrection of the good he will conduct them to a home of everlasting happiness Armen his evil demons and all wicked men will also be purified in a torrent of melted metal the law of all moods will reign everywhere all men will be happy all enjoying unalterable Bliss we'll sing with sojas the Praises of the Supreme Being these doctrines the details of which were sparingly Borrowed by the pharisaic Jews were much more fully adopted by the gnostics who taught the restoration of all things their return to their original pure condition the happiness of those to be saved and their admission to the Feast of heavenly wisdom the doctrines of zoroaster came originally from bactria an Indian province of Persia naturally therefore it would include Hindu or Buddhist elements as it did the fundamental idea of Buddhism was Mata subjugating the intelligence an intelligence freeing itself from that slavery perhaps something came to gnosticism from China before the chaos which preceded the birth of Heaven and Earth says Lao Tzu a single being existed immense and silent immovable and ever-active the mother of the universe I know not its name but I designate it by the word reason man has his type and model in the Earth Earth in heaven heaven in reason and reason in itself here again are the fair hours the ideas the Aeons the reason or intelligence silence word and wisdom of the gnostics the dominant system among the Jews after their captivity was that of the Pharisee or Pharisees whether their name was derived from that of the parces all followers of zoroaster or from some other source it is certain that they had borrowed much of their Doctrine from the Persians like them they claim to have the exclusive and mysterious knowledge unknown to the Mass like them they taught that a constant War was waged between the Empire of good and that of evil like them they attributed the sin and fall of Man to the demons and their Chief unlike them they admitted a special protection of the righteous by inferior beings agents of Jehovah all their doctrines on these subjects were at bottom those of the Holy books but singularly developed and the Orient was evidently the source from which those developments came they styled themselves interpreters a name indicating their claim to the exclusive possession of the true meaning of the Holy writings by virtue of the oral tradition which Moses had received on Mount Sinai and which successive Generations have initiate had transmitted as they claimed unaltered unto them they're very costume their belief in the influences of the Stars and in the immortality and transmigration of Souls their system of angels and their astronomy were all foreign sadduceism arose merely from an opposition essentially Jewish to these foreign teachings and that mixture of doctrines adopted by the Pharisees and which constituted the popular Creed we come at last at the essenes and therapeutes with whom this degree is particularly concerned that intermingling of Oriental and Occidental rights a Persian and Pythagorean opinions which we have pointed out in the doctrines of Philo is unmistakable in the Creeds of these two sects they were less distinguished by metaphysical speculations than by simple meditations and moral practices but the latter always partook of the zoroastrian principle that it was necessary to free the soul from the trammals and influences of Mata which led to a system of abstinence and maceration entirely opposed to the ancient hebrecidious favorable as they were to physical pleasures in general the life and manners of these mystical associations as Philo and Josephus describe them and particularly their prayers at sunrise seeing the image of what the Zenda Vesta prescribes to the faithful Adora all moves and some of their observances cannot otherwise be explained the therapeutes resided in Egypt in the neighborhood of Alexandria and the essenes in Palestine in the vicinity of the Dead Sea but there was nevertheless a striking coincidence in their ideas readily explained by attributing it to a foreign influence the Jews of Egypt under the influence of the school of Alexandria endeavored in general to make their doctrines harmonized with the traditions of Greece and thence came in the doctrines of the therapeutes as stated by Philo the many analogies between the Pythagorean and orphic ideas on one side and those of Judaism on the other while the Jews of Palestine having less communication with Greece or condemning its teachings rather imbib the Oriental doctrines which they drank in at the source and with which their relations with Persia made them familiar this attachment was particularly shown in the Kabbalah which belonged rather to Palestine than to Egypt though extensively known in the latter and furnished the gnostics with some of their most striking theories it is a significant fact that while Christ spoke often at the Pharisees and Sadducees he never once mentioned the essenes between whose doctrines and his there were so great a resemblance and in many points so perfect in identity indeed they are not named nor even distinctly alluded to anywhere in the New Testament John the son of a priest who ministered in the temple at Jerusalem and whose mother was of the family of aharan was in the desert until the day of his showing unto Israel he drank neither wine nor strong drink clad in hair cloth and with a girdle of leather and feeding upon such food as the desert afforded he preached in the country about Jordan the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins that is the necessity of repentance proven by Reformation he taught the people charity and liberality the publicans Justice equity unfair dealing the soldiery piece truth and contentment to do violence to none accuse none falsely and be content with their pay he inculcated necessity of a virtuous life and the Folly of trusting to their descent from Abraham he denounced both Pharisees and Sadducees as a Generation of Vipers threatened with the anger of God he baptized those who confessed their sins he preached in the desert and therefore in the country where the essenes lived professing the same doctrines he was imprisoned before Christ began to preach Matthew mentions him without preface or explanation as if apparently his history was too well known to need any in those days he says Came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea his disciples frequently fasted for we find them with the Pharisees coming to Jesus to inquire why his disciples did not fast as often as they and he did not denounce them as his habit was to denounce the Pharisees but answered them kindly and gently from his prison John sent two of his disciples to inquire of Christ art thou he that is to come or do we look for another Christ referred them to his miracles as an answer and declared to the people that John was a prophet and more than a profit and that no greater man had ever been born but that the humblest Christian was his Superior he declared him to be Elias who was to come John had denounced to hurt his marriage with his brother's wife as unlawful and for this he was imprisoned and finally executed to gratify her his disciples buried him and heard and others thought he had risen from the dead and appeared again in the person of Christ the people all regarded John as a prophet and Christ silenced the priests and Elders by asking them whether he was inspired they fear to excite the anger of the People by saying that he was not Christ declared that he came in the way of righteousness and that the lower classes believed him though the priests and Pharisees did not thus John who was often consulted by heard and to whom that Monarch showed great deference and was often governed by his advice whose Doctrine prevailed very extensively among the people and the publicans taught some Creed older than Christianity that is plain and it is equally plain that the very large body of the Jews that adopted his doctrines were neither Pharisees nor Sadducees but the humble common people they must therefore have been a scenes it is plain two that Christ applied for baptism as a sacred right well-known and long practiced it was becoming to him he said to fulfill all righteousness in the 18th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles we read thus and a certain Jew named Apollos born at Alexandria an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures came to Ephesus this man was instructed in the way of the Lord and being fervent in spirit he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue whom when Ikea and Priscilla had heard they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly translating this from the symbolic and figurative language into the true ordinary sense of the Greek text it reads thus and a certain Jew named Apollos an alexandrian by birth an eloquent man and of extensive learning came to Ephesus he had learned in the Mysteries the true Doctrine in regard to God and being a zealous Enthusiast he spoke and taught diligently the truth in regard to the deity having received no other baptism than that of John he knew nothing in regard to Christianity for he had resided in Alexandria and had just then come to Ephesus being probably a disciple of Philo and a therapeut that in all times says Saint Augustine is the Christian religion which to know and follow is the most sure and certain health called according to that name but not according to the thing itself of which it is the name for the thing itself which is now called the Christian religion really was known to the ancients nor was wanting at any time from the beginning of the human race until the time when Christ came in the flesh from whence the true religion which had previously existed began to be called Christian and this in our days is the Christian religion not as having been wanting in former times but as having in later times received this name the disciples were first called Christians at ansh when Barnabas and Paul began to preach there the wandering or itinerant Jews or exorcists who assumed to employ the sacred name in exorcizing evil spirits were no doubt therapeutic or essenes and it came to pass we read in the 19th Chapter of the acts verses one to four that while Apollos was at Corinth Paul having passed through the upper parts of Asia Minor came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples he said to them have you received the Holy Ghost since you became Believers and they said unto him we have not so much has heard that there is any Holy Ghost and he said to them in what then were you baptized and they said in John's baptism then said Paul John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance saying to the people that they should believe in him who was to come after him that is in Jesus Christ when they heard this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus this faith taught by John and so nearly Christianity could have been nothing but the doctrine of the essenes and there can be no doubt that Jon belonged to that sect the place where he preached his macerations and Frugal diet the doctrines he taught all prove it conclusively there was no other sector which he could have belonged certainly none so numerous as his except the essenes we find from the two letters written by Paul to the Brethren at Corinth that city of luxury and Corruption that there were contentions among them rival sex had already about the 57th year of our era reared their banners there as followers some of Paul some of Apollos and some of cephas some of them denied the resurrection Paul urged them to adhere to the doctrines taught by himself and had sent Timothy to them to bring them afresh to their recollection according to Paul Christ was to come again he was to put an end to all other principalities and Powers and finally to death and then be himself once more merged in God who should then be all in all the forms and ceremonies of the essent were symbolical they had according to Philo the Jew for degrees the members being divided into two orders the practice eye and therapeuticide the latter being the contemplative and medical Brethren and the former the active practical businessmen they were Jews by birth and had a greater affection for each other than the members of any other sect their Brotherly Love was intense they fulfilled the Christian law love one another they despised riches no one was to be found among them having more than another the possessions of one were intermingled with those of the others so that they all had but one patrimony and were brethren their piety toward God was extraordinary Before Sunrise they never spake a word about profane matters but put up certain prayers which they had received from their forefathers a dawn of day and before it was light their prayers and hymns ascended to heaven they were eminently faithful and true and the Ministers of peace they had mysterious ceremonies and initiations into their Mysteries and the candidate promised that he would ever practice Fidelity to all men and especially to those in authority because no one obtains the government without God's assistance whatever they said was firmer than an oath but they avoided swearing an esteemed it worse than perjury they were simple in their diet and mode of living bore torture with fortitude and despise death they cultivated the science of medicine and were very skillful they deemed it a good omen to dress in white robes they had their own courts and past righteous judgments they kept the Sabbath more rigorously than the Jews their Chief towns were in Gadi near the Dead Sea and Hebron ingadi was about 30 miles Southeast from Jerusalem and Hebron about 20 miles south of that City Josephus and uzibia speak of them as an ancient sect and they were no doubt the first among the Jews to embrace Christianity with whose faith and Doctrine their own tenets had so many points of resemblance and were indeed in a great measure the same Pliny regarded them as a very ancient people in their devotions they turned toward the Rising Sun as the Jews generally did toward the temple but they were no idolaters for they observed the law of Moses with scrupulous fidelity they held all things in common and despised riches they're once being supplied by the administration of curators or stewards the tetraxes composed of round dots instead of jods was revered among them this being a Pythagorean symbol evidently shows their connection with the school of Pythagoras but their peculiar tenets more resemble those of Confucius and zoroaster and probably were adopted while they were prisoners in Persia which explains their turning toward the sun in prayer their demeanor was sober and chaste they submitted to the superintendent of Governors whom they appointed over themselves the whole of their time was spent in labor meditation and prayer and they were most saidlessly attentive to every call of justice and Humanity and every moral duty they believed in the unity of God they supposed The Souls of men to have fallen by a disastrous fate from the regions of Purity and Light into the bodies which they occupy during their continuance in which they considered them confined as in a prison therefore they did not believe in the resurrection of the body but in that of the Soul only they believed in a future state of rewards and punishments and they disregarded the ceremonies or external forms enjoined in the law of Moses to be observed in the worship of God holding that the words of that lawgiver were to be understood in a mysterious and recondite sense and not according to their literal meaning they offered no sacrifices except at home and by meditation they endeavored as far as possible to isolate the soul from the body and carry it back to God eusebius broadly admits that the ancient therapeutic were Christians and that their ancient writings were our gospels and Epistles the essenes were of The Eclectic sector philosophers and held Plato in the highest esteem they believed that true philosophy the greatest and most salutary gift of God to Mortals were scattered in various portions through all the different sects and that it was consequently the duty of every wise man to gather it from the several quarters where it lay dispersed and to employ it thus reunited in destroying the Dominion of impiety and vice the great festivals of the solstices were observed in a distinguished manner by the essenes as would naturally be supposed from the fact that they reverence the Sun not as a god but as a symbol of light and fire the Fountain of which the Oriental supposed got to be they lived incontinence and abstinence and had establishments similar to the monasteries of the early Christians the writings of the essenes were full of mysticism parables enigmas and allegories they believed in the esoteric and exoteric meanings of the scriptures and as we have already said they had a warrant for that in the scriptures themselves they found it in the Old Testament as the gnostics found it in the new the Christian writers and even Christ himself recognized it as a truth that all scripture had an inner and an outer meaning thus we find it said as follows in one of the gospels unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God but unto men that are without all these things are done in Parables that seeing they may see and not perceive and hearing they may hear and not understand and the disciples came and said unto him why speakest thou the truth in Parables he answered and said unto them because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven but to them it is not given Paul in the fourth chapter of his epistle to the Galatians speaking of the simplest facts of the Old Testament asserts that they are an allegory in the 3D chapter of the second letter to the Corinthians he declares himself a minister of the New Testament appointed by God not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter killeth origen and Saint Gregory held that the gospels were not to be taken in their literal sense and athanasius admonishes us that should we understand sacred writ according to the letter we should fall into the most enormous blasphemies eusebius said those who preside over the holy scriptures filaso fies over them and expound their literal scent by allegory the sources of our knowledge of the kabbalistic doctrines are the books of jezra and Soha the former drawn-up in the second century and the latter a little later but containing materials much older than themselves in their most characteristic elements they go back to the time of the exile in them as in the teachings of zoroaster everything that exists emanated from a source of infinite light before everything existed the Ancient of Days the king of light a title often given to the Creator in the Zenda Vesta and the code of the surveillance with the idea so expressed is connected the pantheism of India king of light the ancient is all that is he is not only the real cause of all existences he is infinite ain't soft he is himself there is nothing in him that we can call thou in the Indian Doctrine not only is the Supreme Being the real cause of all but he is the only real existence all the rest is illusion in the Kabbalah as in the Persian and Gnostic doctrines he is the Supreme Being unknown to all the unknown father the world is his revelation and subsists only in him his attributes are reproduced there with different modifications and in different degrees so that the universe is his holy Splendor it is but his mantle but it must be revered in silence all beings have emanated from the Supreme Being the nearer being is to him the more perfect it is the more remote in the scale the less it's Purity a ray of light shop from the deity is the cause and principle of all that exists it is at once father and mother of all in the sublimeist sense it penetrates everything and without it nothing can exist an instant from this double Force designated by the two parts of the word I U of H U View U of H you emanated the firstborn of God the universal form in which I contained all beings the Persian and platonic archetype of things United with the infinite by the Primitive ray of light this firstborn is the creative agent conservator an animating principle of the universe it is the light of light it possesses the three primitive forces of the divinity light spirit and life as it has received what it gives light and life it is equally considered as the generative and conceptive principle the Primitive man Adam Cadman as such it has revealed itself in 10 emanations or sephiroth which are not 10 different beings nor even beings at all but sources of life vessels of omnipotence and types of creation they are sovereignty or will wisdom intelligence benignity severity Beauty Glory permanency an Empire these are attributes of God and this idea that God reveals himself by his attributes and that the human mind cannot perceive or discern God himself in his works but only his mode of manifesting himself is a profound truth we know of the invisible only what the visible reveals wisdom was called Mouse and logos El to let all the word intelligence source of the oil of anointing responds to the Holy Ghost of the Christian faith beauty is represented by Green and Yellow Victory is Jehovah sabarov the column on the right hand the column check-in glory is the column Boaz on the left hand and thus our symbols appear again in the Kabbalah and again the light the object of our labors appears as the creative power of deity the circle also was the special symbol of the first Sapphira kether or the crown we do not further follow the Kabbalah in its four worlds of spirits as a loaf Briar yazira anosia or of emanation creation formation and Fabrication one inferior two and one emerging from the other the superior always enveloping the inferior it's doctrine that in all that exists there is nothing purely material that all comes from God and in all he proceeds by irradiation that everything subsists by the Divine Ray that penetrates creation and all is United by the spirit of God which is the life of life so that all is God the existences that inhabit the four worlds inferior to each other in proportion to their distance from the great king of light the contest between the good and evil angels and principles to endure until the Eternal himself comes to end it and re-establish the Primitive Harmony the four distinct parts of the soul of man and the migrations of impure Souls until they are sufficiently purified to share with the spirits of light the contemplation of the Supreme Being whose Splendor fills the universe the word was also found in The Phoenician Creed as in all those of Asia a word of God written in Starry characters by the planetary divinities and communicated by the Demi gods as a profound mystery to the higher classes of the human race to be communicated by them to mankind created the world the faith of the Phoenicians was an emanation from that ancient worship of the Stars which in the Creed of zoroaster alone he's connected with a faith in one God light and fire are the most important agents in The Phoenician faith there is a race of children of the light they adored the heaven with its lights deeming it the supreme god everything emanates from a single principle and A Primitive love which is the moving power of all and governs all light Union with spirit wherever it is but the vehicle or symbol is the life of everything and penetrates everything it should therefore be respected and honored everywhere for everywhere it governs and controls the kaldaic and Jerusalem paraphrasts endeavored to render the phrase Dubai yahova the word of God a personality wherever they met with it the phrase and God created man is in the Jerusalem targum and the word of e her created man so inks VI General 20 21.

Where Jacob says if God him will be with me then shall I be my Al him and this Stone shall be God's house paraphrases it if the word of e her will be my help then the word of e her shall be my God so in three General eight for the voice of the Lord God him we have the voice of the word of eha in nine wisdom one o God of my fathers and Lord of Mercy who has made all things with Thy Word and in 18. wisdom 15. thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven Philo speaks of the word as being the same with God so in several places he calls it the second Divinity the image of God the Divine word that made all things substitute of God and the like thus when John commends to preach had been for ages agitated by the priests and philosophers of the east and west the great questions concerning the eternity or creation of matter immediate or intermediate creation of the universe by the Supreme God the origin object and final Extinction of evil the relations between the intellectual and material worlds and between God and man and the creation fall Redemption and restoration to his first estate of man the Jewish Doctrine differing in this from all the other Oriental Creeds and even from the allahistic Legend with which the Book of Genesis commences attributed the creation to the immediate action of the Supreme Being the theosophists of the other Eastern peoples interposed more than one intermediary between God and the world to place between them but a single being to suppose for the production of the world but a single intermediary was in their eyes to lower the Supreme Majesty the interval between God who is Perfect Purity and matter which is base and foul was too great for them to clear it at a single step even in the occident neither Plato nor Philo could thus impoverish the intellectual world thus sirenthus of Ephesus with most of the gnostics Philo the Kabbalah the Zenda Vesta the puranas and all the Orient deemed the distance and antipathy between the Supreme Being and the material world too great to attribute to the form of the creation of the latter below and emanating from all created by the Ancient of Days the central light the beginning or first principle 1.

Two or more principles existences or intellectual beings were imagined to someone or more of whom without any immediate creative act on the part of the Great immovable silent deity the immediate creation of the material and mental Universe was due we have already spoken of many of the speculations on this point to some the world was created by the logos or word first manifestation of or emanation from the deity to others the beginning of creation was by the emanation of a ray of light creating the principle of light and life the Primitive thought creating the inferior deities a succession of intelligences the anges of zoroaster his anxious bands is and Fair hours the ideas of Plato the Aeons of the gnostics the angels of the Jews the naus the Demi orgos the Divine reason the powers or forces of Philo and the Elohim forces or Superior gods of the ancient legend with which Genesis begins to these and other intermediaries the creation was owing no restraints were laid on the fancy and the imagination the various abstractions became existences and realities the attributes of God personified became powers spirits intelligences God was the light of light Divine fire the abstract intellectuality the root or germ of the universe Simon magus founder of the Gnostic faith and many of the early Judaism Christians admitted that the manifestations of the Supreme Being as father or Jehovah son or Christ and holy spirit were only so many different modes of existence all forces of the same God to others they were as with a multitude of subordinate intelligences real and distinct beings the Oriental imagination reveled in the creation of these inferior intelligences powers of Good and Evil and angels we have spoken of those imagined by the Persians and the kabbalists in the talmud every Star every country every town and almost every tongue has a prince of Heaven as its protector jehul is the guardian of Fire and Michael of water seven spirits assist each those of fire being seraphile Gabriel nitrile tamarel chimskiel had Daniel and Sanyo these seven are represented by the square Columns of this degree while the columns Jack in and Boaz represent the angels of fire and water but the columns are not representatives of these alone tobacillites God was without name uncreated at first containing and concealing in himself the plenitude of his Perfections and when these are by him displayed and I manifested their result as many particular existences all analogous to him and still and always him to the essenes and the gnostics the East and the West both devised this faith faith that the ideas conceptions or manifestations of the deity were so many creations so many beings all God nothing without him but more than what we Now understand by the word ideas they emanated from and were again merged in God they had a kind of middle existence between our modern ideas and the intelligences or ideas elevated to the rank of geniei of the Oriental mythology these personified attributes of deity in the theory of basilides were the first born now saw mind from it emanates logos or the word from it Francis intellect from its Sofia wisdom from it done Amos power and from it to chiosun righteousness to which latter the Jews gave the name of Irene peace or calm the essential characteristics of divinity and harmonious effect of all his Perfections the whole number of successive emanations was 365.

expressed by the gnostics in Greek letters by The Mystic word Abraxas designating God as manifested or the aggregate of his manifestations but not the Supreme and secret God himself these 365 intelligences compose altogether the fullness or plenitude of the Divine emanations with the rfites a sect of the gnostics there were seven inferior Spirits inferior to yaldabath the demio goes or actual Creator Michael surreal Raphael Gabriel thought about eritayov and Nathaniel the genie eye of the Stars called the bull the dog the lion the bear the serpent the eagle and the ass that formally figured in the constellation cancer and symbolized respectively by those animals as yaldabath iao Adonai eloi or I an astify with a genie of Saturn the Moon the Sun Jupiter Venus and Mercury the word appears in all these creeds it is the almost of zoroaster the ants off of the Kabbalah the mouse of platonism and villainism and the Sofia or demiogos of the gnostics and all these creeds while admitting these different manifestations of the Supreme Being held that his identity was immutable and permanent that was Plato's distinction between the being always the same and the Perpetual flow of things incessantly changing the Genesis the belief in dualism in some shape was Universal those who held that everything emanated from God aspired to God and re-entered into God believe that among those emanations were two adverse principles of light and darkness Good and Evil this prevailed in Central Asia and in Syria while in Egypt it assumed the form of Greek speculation in the former a second intellectual principle was admitted active in its Empire of Darkness audacious against the empire of light so the Persians and serbians understood it in Egypt this second principle was Mata as the word was used by the platonic School with its sad attributes acuity Darkness and death in their Theory Mata could be animated only by the low communication of a principle of Divine Life it resists the influences that would spiritualize it that resisting power is Satan the rebellious matter Mata that does not partake of God to many there were two principles the unknown father all Supreme and eternal God living in the center of the light happy in The Perfect Purity of his being the other Eternal matter that inert shapeless darks and Mass which they considered as the source of all evils the mother and Dwelling Place of Satan to Philo and the platonists there was a soul of the world creating visible things and active in them as agent of the Supreme intelligence realizing they're in the ideas communicated to him by that intelligence and which sometimes Excel his conceptions but which he executes without comprehending them the apocalypse or Revelations by whomever written belongs to the Orient and to extreme antiquity it reproduces what is far older than itself it paints with the strongest colors that the Oriental genius ever employed the closing scenes of the great struggle of light and Truth and good against Darkness error an evil personified in that between the new religion on one side and paganism and Judaism on the other it is a particular application of the ancient myth of almost and his Genia against Armament and his devs and it celebrates the final Triumph of Truth against the combined powers of men and demons the ideas and imagery are borrowed from every quarter and Illusions are found in it to the doctrines of all ages we are continually reminded of the Zenda Vesta the Jewish codes Philo and the gnosis the seven spirits surrounding the Throne of the Eternal at the opening of the grand drama and acting so important apart throughout everywhere the first instruments of the Divine will and vengeance are the seven anxious bands of parsism as the 24 ancients offering to the Supreme Being the first supplications and the first homage remind us of the mysterious Chiefs of Judaism foreshadow the eons of gnosticism and reproduce the 24 good spirits created by almost and enclosed in an egg the Christ of the Apocalypse firstborn of creation and of the Resurrection is invested with the characteristics of the almost and sojish of the Zenda Vesta the Aints off of the Kabbalah and the carpists of the gnostics the idea that the true initiates and faithful become Kings and Priests is it once Persian Jewish Christian agnostic and the definition of the Supreme Being that he is at once Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end he that was and is an is to come ivy time illimitable izoroaster's definition of zeroing akarin the depths of Satan which no man can measure his Triumph for a Time by fraud and violence he's being chained by an Angel his reprobation and his precipitation into a sea of metal his names of The Serpent and the dragon the whole conflict of the good spirits or Celestial armies against the bad are so many ideas and designations found alike in the Zenda Vesta vocabula and the gnosis we even find in the apocalypse that singular Persian idea which regards some of the lower animals as so many devs or vehicles of devs the guardianship of the Earth by a good angel the renewing of the earth and heavens and the final Triumph of pure and holy men are the same victory of good over evil for which the whole Orient looked the gold and white raiment of the 24 Elders are as in the Persian faith the signs of a lofty Perfection and divine Purity thus the human mind labored and struggled and tortured itself for ages to explain to itself what it felt without confessing it to be inexplicable a vast crowd of indistinct abstractions hovering in the imagination a train of words embodying no tangible meaning an inextricable Labyrinth of subtleties was the result but one grand idea ever emerged and stood prominent and unchangeable over the weltering chaos of confusion God is great and good and wise evil and pain and sorrow are temporary and for wise and beneficent purposes they must be consistent with God's goodness purity an infinite Perfection and there must be a mode of explaining them if we could but find it out as in all ways we will endeavor to do ultimately good will prevail an evil be overthrown God alone can do this and he will do it by an emanation from himself assuming the human form and Redeeming the world behold the object the end the result of the great speculations and legomar keys of antiquity the ultimate annihilation of evil and restoration of man to his first estate buy a redeemer a messiah a Christus the Incarnate Word reason or power of deity this redeemer is the word or logos the almost of zoroaster the ants off of the Kabbalah the NASA platonism and villainism he that was in the beginning with God and was God and by whom everything was made that he was looked for by all the people of the East is abundantly shown by the Gospel of John and the letters of Paul wherein scarcely anything seemed necessary to be said in proof that such a redeemer was to come but all the energies of the writers are devoted to showing that Jesus was that Christus whom all the nations were expecting the word the Messiah the anointed or consecrated one in this degree the great contest between Good and Evil in anticipation of the appearance and Advent of the word or redeemer is symbolized and the Mysterious esoteric teachings of the essenes and the kabbalists of the practices of the former we gain but glimpses in the ancient writers but we know that as their doctrines were taught by John the Baptist they greatly resembled those of Greater Purity and more nearly perfect taught by Jesus and that not only Palestine was full of John's disciples so that the priests and Pharisees did not dare to deny John's inspiration but his Doctrine had extended to Asia Minor and had made converts in luxurious Ephesus as it also had in Alexandria in Egypt and that they readily embraced the Christian faith of which they had before not even heard these old controversies have died away and the old faiths have faded into Oblivion but masonry still survives vigorous and strong as when philosophy was taught in the schools of Alexandria and under the Portico teaching the same old truths as the essenes taught by the shores of the Dead Sea and as John the Baptist preached in the desert truths imperishable as the deity an undeniable as light those truths were gathered by the essenes from the doctrine of the Orient and the occident from the Zenda Vesta and The Vedas from Plato and Pythagoras from India Persia phenicia and Syria from Greece and Egypt and from the holy books of the Jews hence we are called Knights of the east and west because their doctrines came from both and these doctrines the wheat sifted from the chaff the truth separated from error masonry has garnered up in her heart of hearts and through the fires of persecution and the storms of calamity has brought them and delivered them unto us that God is one immutable unchangeable infinitely just and good that light will finally overcome Darkness good conquer evil and Truth be Victor over error these rejecting all the Wild and useless speculations of the Zenda Vesta the Kabbalah the gnostics and the schools other religion and philosophy of masonry though speculations and fancies it is useful to study that knowing in what worthless and unfruitful investigations the Mind May engage you may the more value and appreciate the plane simple Sublime universally acknowledged truths which have in all ages been the light by which Masons have been guided on their way the wisdom and strength that like imperishable columns have sustained and will continue to sustain its glorious and magnificent Temple

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How To Play Sting's "7 Days" Drum Beat - Drum Lesson (Drumeo)

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(fashionable rock-and-roll) - Hi, guys. Welcome back. This is Gabor "" Gabs"" Dornyei Okay? the song remains in five four. Currently, you'' re going to play. quarter note to the high hat, defeated one on the bass drum,. and also beat four on the snare. Similar to this. One,. 2, 3, 4 five. One, 2, 3,. 4, 5. One. (mumbles). ( drumming) In the 2nd line. of the symbols, you locate the initial. little bit challenging thing, that we'' re mosting likely to accent every second note. on the best hand. Currently the factor for. that is because Sting. desired the target market to really feel that the. tune remains in 4 4, while in fact, the. meter is in 5 four.So, your accents will certainly drop on the one, 2,. three, 4, 5, one, two, 3, four, five,. one, two, 3, 4, 5, one, two, three, four, 5,. one, 2, three, 4, 5, one, 2, 3,. 4, five, one. Okay? And after that,. as the next step, in the next line you can see a dotted quarter note and. an eighth note bass drum, which is taking place throughout. the whole song, fine? To make sure that will certainly be this. One,. 2, three, four, 5. One, two, three, 4, five. ( drumming) So now you have the fundamental groove with the initial bass. drum pattern occurring, and also the accent in the 4 four.Now we ' re

mosting likely to start. including the eighth notes, extremely rapidly on the high hat. One, two, 3, 4,. 5, no accent up until now. (drumming) One, two, three, four, 5,. one, two, three, four, five. One, 2, 3, four, 5,. one, 2, 3, four, 5. Currently, the exact same point with the. initial bass drum pattern. (drumming) Your third graph will certainly reveal the. accent in a four four feel, however played as an eighth note. One, 2, 3, four, 5,. one, two, three, four, 5. (drumming) Very same point with the. last bass drum pattern. (drumming) Okay, so since we. have the main groove that Vinnie plays. throughout the song, with the accented eighth. notes in groups of four, often he also. opens up the high hat, or plays the accent on the bell. What I'' m going to. demonstrate currently is what happens if you opened up high. hat on the accented notes, and also leave the complying with. One, two, 3, 4, five.One, two, 3, four, 5. ( drumming) The second line of. the same notation is the opposite version. One, 2, 3, four, five. One, 2, three, 4, five. (drumming) So the following one. the fifth symbols below. It'' s a shuffle beat. that Vinnie uses the right bell occasionally, and also some sprinkles, as a fill, sort of an accumulate. toward the choruses. Now, the shuffle. beat would certainly be this. One, a 2, a 3, a 4,. if we were in four four.Right, since.

we ' re in five four, the shuffle note ' s going to drop'into entirely. different areas. This is quite progressed,. so check this out. ( drumming )As well as in your last clip today, we'' re mosting likely to begin something that is an addition. to this groove. Well, we'' re going to play the shuffle beat on. the right cymbal bell. Keep the high hat occurring. on the 2 as well as 4. We should cross over bench. Allow'' s claim in the initial bar it ' s. going to be a two and 4. Second bar is going. to be one, three, and also 5th quarter note, but the kick drum. pattern remains the very same. So, at the end of the lesson, you'' re going to. have the appropriate foot as well as the left hand. playing in five four. The left foot enters four 4. As well as the right hand plays. really in three 8, which is the shuffle beat. Okay, so entirely. you'' re going to have this. (drumming) I wish you guys appreciated. Please make sure to . We have a great deal of lessons there, all time trademarks,. various groupings.There ' s a

training course with rumbling. Duo that I tape-recorded recently. Also, I have an additional. lesson titled "" Percussive Drumming. as well as Self-reliance."" Please make certain to subscribe. below, as well as see drumeo dot com. Make certain to practice, spread out. words, spread out the love, as well as maintain drumming. ( psychedelic rock songs). One, 2, three, four, five.One, 2, 3, 4, 5. One, 2, three, four, five. One, 2, three, 4, five. Allow'' s say in the very first bar it ' s. going to be a two and 4. The left foot goes in four 4.

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Dopebwoy - Cartier ft. Chivv & 3robi

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