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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 10:57

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Architecture, harmony, and sacred geometry

know there was an old saying I I forget who who exactly it was it had to be some old English or German man I I put it in one of the Arcanum episodes but he basically said Um, architecture is frozen music, >> I think. >> And back back then it back then it was >> Yeah, I think I heard that quoted by uh Gerta. I'm not sure if he was the original person that said that, but I think I have heard that quoted by Gerta. >> Yeah. >> Or read that quoted by Gerta >> probably. But um

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 11:32

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Architecture, harmony, and sacred geometry

so you you you have the the collegia of of architects in ancient Rome and after a while they were disbanded because they exercised too much power. Um they became too strong unwieldy uh in terms of the the control by the repan of the republic. It could have could have had to do with the switch over to um you know empire. I'm not really 100% sure on the the exact details right now. I've read them. It's I can only fit so much in my brain. Um, but it's in a book called The Builders by Joseph Fort New Newton. And it's it's

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 12:10

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Architecture, harmony, and sacred geometry

a classic for the more mundane Mason. And it's it's also, you know, you can when you join organizations like masonry, you could have these pie in the sky ideals. Like it's you're going to walk in, it's going to be eyes wide shut meets boiler room or something crazy like that, you I don't even I don't even know, you know, meets like Wolf of Wall Street. You you have all these ideas of of certain hierarchies and behind the scenes guys behind the guys and sometimes you can get there and and it's

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 12:38

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Architecture, harmony, and sacred geometry

a bunch of guys that uh you know uh can can barely put a dinner together, no less uh you know control the government. But so it's really good to read things like the mundane interpretations to keep your head on straight if you come into this from a a very esoteric perspective. And so then you basically have the um the Lombardi Magistri Komasini, the Komasine masters, the Italian Lombardi uh architectural masters. and they they kind of are considered to carry uh the vestigages of Roman architecture through

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 13:17

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Architecture, harmony, and sacred geometry

and they these these secrets and and these these you know uh trade adapts are descended let's say from these these ancient trade guilds. They kind of make their way through and the thing is like trade guilds were important. trade guilds did have initiations, you know, because you had to swear that you would keep these trade secrets. You can't you can't just have anybody a claiming to be right. Right. You when you become like a master builder, I mean, you have a totally different lifestyle. You you know, you're you're

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 13:51

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Architecture, harmony, and sacred geometry

eligible for more responsibility and can be very dangerous. Lots of money, lots of lives at stake. Um if you screw something up, you don't know what you're doing. And also, you know, they're they're privy to privileges. There there's a lot of privilege that comes in in any um field where you you you become masterful. And so, they didn't want just anybody claiming to be uh master builders, architects. And they didn't want anybody just claiming to uh to, you know, have these trade secrets and be

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 14:23

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Architecture, harmony, and sacred geometry

eligible for for wages and a certain lifestyle and the ability to move from town to town. That's what they call a journeyman. They move from town to town for work and then they they as a team and then there's different stratifications of that team. There's the apprentices who like you know they they lay out the tools in the morning. Um there's the the the journeymen who uh in masonry they're called uh fellowcraft fellows of the craft and uh they're basically the laborers. Um, and

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 14:55

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Architecture, harmony, and sacred geometry

then you have the masters who essentially design everything and set everybody to work in their proper place and arbitrate, right? They pay and they arbitrate disputes and they watch over the workmen. Workmen typically being, you know, skilled with their hands, but bluecollar people. So, you got to make sure they don't get too rowdy. You know, you have no mutinies on your hands or anything like that. It all has to be harmonious, right? That's a skill. for anybody that's ever been in charge or uh

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Transcript passage · Sky Mathis & Ike Baker · 15:24

On The Mysteries

Relevant chapter: Architecture, harmony, and sacred geometry

kind of helmed something with a group of people, it's extremely difficult. Um uh so you have the McGistri Komasini who essentially um are the descendants of the Roman collegia of architects and they essentially and and Freemasonry kind of to make a long story short comes out of those rituals comes out of those things and then uh from there what happens is you have even in masonry today there's a distinction between uh operative and speculative so what we do as as blue lodge mason Mason is

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