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THE PRUNED MAILNG LIST

Brethren:

It would not be right if the results of pruning the mailing list is not explained. And so here it is. Incidentally, this will also be the first email on the new mailing list.

Of the eighty two (82) email addresses in the original list, thirty three (33) signified their desire to continue receiving the lion’s articles; this represent 40 percent of the total number. Not a bad score!

Of those who did not reply:

Five were rejected (through Mailer Daemon) by supposed recipients, indicating that they have already discontinued use of their email addresses. For what reason, only they knew.

Most of those who did not reply were carry over from those who were registered two years ago under the Glphils@yahoogroups.com and are not really familiar with the aging lion. No wonder!

A few were, in one way or another, acquainted with the cat but for some reasons failed to communicate. It can be that they are quite busy or have simply lost their interest to read. Should they desire to do so later, they can always submit their confirmation and their email addresses will be added to the list.

The recipients of this email now comprise the 33 respondents and members of laonglaanlodge185@ yahoogroups. com because Kuya Billy insisted that this group where the aging cat holds honorary membership is entitled to receive the articles that he distribute to the brethren. And how the heck can he decline? Without Kuya Billy the pink panther would now be limping but with his right foot no longer planted on the ground as must have already returned ahead of his body as organic fertilizer to the earth where it belongs...

To the magic thirty three (same as the age of Jesus Christ and the number of degrees in the Scottish Rite, eh?!) please accept my sincerest thanks for your perseverance to read and indulgence! Rest assured that the aim to amuse and to please will be his objective. And there will be no ifs nor buts about this!

You may also refer or forward these to friends you knew but they are required to send their desire to receive copies so that they can be registered. Forwarding, of course, is a perfectly good alternative, although the aging lion is not required to answer questions of unregistered senders.

With my kindest fraternal regards!

Leon

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Anonymous said…
Hi Jun,

What a coincidence!!!

Right before I went downstairs to my computer, I was reading a book showing the significance and importance of the number 33. I will copy the page and see if it makes any sence.

From Michael A Hoffman:

1. The creation and destruction of primordial matter, which was achieved through the explosion of the first atomic bomb at the Trinity site near the 33rd parallel in l945.
2. The Killing of the Divine King, achieved in Dallas, Texas in 1963, with assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. (The killing took place near the Trinity River, just before the president's Limo. went under a Triple underpass, ten miles south of the 33rd parallel. JFK assassination took place in Dearly Plaza which was the site of Dallas first masonic temple)

According to Day William

The number 33 is seen in different areas of life: The human foot has 33 muscles. The number of turns in a complete sequence of human DNA equals 33. The Holy Bible, New International version, uses the word 33 seven times in 7 verses. King David reigned in Jerusalem 33 years (2Samuel 5:5, 1 Kings 2:11, 1 Kings 5:16, 1 Chronicles 3:4 and 1 Chronicles 29:27) Genesis 46:15 states: "These son and daughters of his (Israel's or Jacobs's) were 33 in all. Leviticus Chapter 12 discusses purification after childbirth. Leviticus 12:4 states that after the boy is circumcised on the eighth day, 'Then the woman must wait 33 days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anythng sacred or go to the sanctuary until her days of her purification are over.' Jesus Christ, having began his 3 years ministry at about the age of thirty (Luke3:23) must have died on the cross and risen again at the age of 33. The Catholic Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) divided his Divine Comedy into 100 Cantos: one for the introduction, 33 Cantos for the Inferno, 33 Cantos for the Purgatorio, and 33 Cantos for the Paradiso. Masons and their confederates may note that Dante placed the traitors to their guest in a deep pit of Hell in his 33rd Canto of the Inferno."

The symbolism in free masonry - highest is 33rd degree. There are 32 vertebrae in the human backbone. The 33 degree symbolizes the head sitting on atop the spine, and many more.

The 33 responders can also be telling something of significance.

Tante
3:45 AM
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