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The Man Who Would be King

Posted By Azaziel 28/08/2009 08:09:49
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I saw this brilliant film last night, has anyone else seen it?

I love Michael Caine's Character - Peachy. Was this an actual book written by Rudyard Kipling?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_(film)

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Yes a fascinating film based on the story written by Kipling, a very famous Freemason.

I had just done my Second Degree the first time I saw this film and enjoyed picking up all the Masonic references therein.

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It has one of my favorite Hymns in it. Although it coud just be the fact that Sean Connery is blasting it out at the end. "The Son of God Goes Forth to War". Excellent film.

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Yes a fascinating film based on the story written by Kipling, a very famous Freemason.

And featuring Kipling as a character!

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Yes, doesn't Peachy (Caine) steal the S&Q fob off of Kipling's watch but return it to him before they go on their adventures?
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 Posted 02/09/2009 22:25:37
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Yes, doesn't Peachy (Caine) steal the S&Q fob off of Kipling's watch but return it to him before they go on their adventures?

Yes your right! That's in the early part of the film, when they first meet.

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This was the film that directed my original course away from the anti-masonic material I was reading in the mid 80s.

I went out and bought a Kipling compendium of short stories so that I could read the original, the story itself is quite different from the film, I would recommend it.

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This is a great film, the DVD of which I have in my collection.

The book is obviously out of copyright and is therefore available at the Gutenburg project web site (www.gutenberg.org). As a PDF it can be read on a number of readers, including Stanza on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

There are lots of other Masonic books at the Gutenberg web site, BTW.


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It can also just be read online: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8king10h.htm

opening para:

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once came near to kinship with what might have been a veritable King and was promised the reversion of a Kingdom — army, law-courts, revenue and policy all complete. But, to-day, I greatly fear that my King is dead, and if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself.

The beginning of everything was in a railway train upon the road to Mhow from Ajmir. There had been a deficit in the Budget, which necessitated travelling, not Second-class, which is only half as dear as First-class, but by Intermediate, which is very awful indeed. There are no cushions in the Intermediate class, and the population are either Intermediate, which is Eurasian, or native, which for a long night journey is nasty; or Loafer, which is amusing though intoxicated. Intermediates do not patronize refreshment-rooms. They carry their food in bundles and pots, and buy sweets from the native sweetmeat-sellers, and drink the roadside water. That is why in the hot weather Intermediates are taken out of the carriages dead, and in all weathers are most properly looked down upon.

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