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Continued… “Despite having come across more evidence that most male-dominated magical orders are “obsessed” with structure, hierarchy and organisation, there is something more meaningful to the AB’s title system. [idiotic feminism comment]. Their seemingly cryptic nature actually stems from the fact that many of them refer to 💥rabbinic honorary titles which were very little known at that time outside of jewry: We can capture for now that the grandiose nomenclature of the order’s grades stemmed from Hirschfeld’s knowledge of rabbinic Hebrew. Other Freemasons lodges where jews didn’t play a role might have shown a similar tendency to assume ceremonial Hebrew nomenclature, which however remained within the confines of biblical Hebrew according to the educational standards of its authors who often stemmed from Protestant clergy. 💥💥Only the ‘Asiatic Brethren’ used this purely rabbinic terminology which must have stemmed from a jew accustomed to rabbinic titles. The three functional titles Chacham Hackolel, Rosch Hamdabrim and Ocker Harim represent such typical honorary titles. — Scholem 1962, p.262 Secondly, there is another meaningful aspect to the AB’s titles. As they were the only order that accepted people of all religious denominations, and jews in particular, it meant that they had a much higher degree of cultural and religious diversity amongst their members than any other occult organisation. Rather than shying away from this and emphasising the common bonds, the AB actually decided to do the opposite: Upon admission into the order 💥Christians were required to assume a jewish internal lodge name; jews on the other hand were asked to assume a Christian-sounding pseudonym. _______ Jacob Katz pointed out that it is precisely in these types of admission rites that we can find the 💥influence of Franz Thomas von Schönfeld’s (aka Moses Dobrushka’s) Sabbatean and Frankist roots: Where the original heretic currents would have advocated a full conversion to another faith, the AB mimicked this rite on an individual level by assuming a lodge name that had its roots in the adversary believe system of the member’s family background. Along the same lines the AB celebrated both Christian as well as jewish holidays within their lodges. This went as far as stating in the order’s constitution that even jewish members would have to eat pork and drink milk during some of their annual ceremonial rites (Katz, p.250f).” https://theomagica.com/on-the-occult-order-of-the-asiatic-brethren-4 Masonic seals https://www.pragamasonica.cz/seals/

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