>>2868
>Taiji
I just googled it. Yeah I'm working with this understanding for a while. My current elemental autism is coming from this. All the elementals need to reach their "exalted stage" so you can balance it. And many other fun stuff obv.
Doing this with "current" ceremonial magic with "those guys". Urgh. I rather disarm mines with hammers and pickaxes. Less risky.
>It must have been way before that
For things like this? I am not even sure if they "had it" properly. One Grandmaster having it and nobody else understanding it doesn't count as "having it".

>who graduated by age and not skill
The worst part is that they don't seem to care for skill for a while. If there are no one else to say you are "not good enough" or if he does that he dies then you are good enough!

>And they only did this in one location
For a while it seems these "lodges" are absolutely unable to coordinate things. As I see it the USA lodge (I wonder if they have only 1 centralized there or more off shoots) has the arrogance of a fake leader. The olde king of the shit mountain English is just grumpy and weird as hell. While the European (which has a history of being everywhere in Europe but constantly getting closed by authorities for OBV REASONS) is kinda mad because nothing seems to go "according to KEIKAKU" and what are the "brothers" even fucking doing.

I don't know about the other lodges in the world. I consider those "vacation lodges". Fuck writing about this. The whole thing is dumb as hell. Not even worth understanding it. When I noticed their "traditions" because it was "littered everywhere" i realized these are just faulty scraps of the truth and not usable as a "foundation". Looks the part if you are mundane but when you see what these things really are then it's just... urgh.

>>2870
I noticed an energy build-up in Europe some days ago. But it seemed beneficial. No not for "their plans" obv