Terminus: Auburn Avenue

[jack_babalon]

"Speculating Masonry: All Eyes On Egipt"


"Urbanglyphics"
May 27th, 2007
~Rob M.

Auburn Avenue is one of the more vital currents flowing through the City Too Busy to Hate: An open air mueseum, one that provides an architectural record of the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. It is also one of the few places in the United States where you can actually feel the history floating in the air around you. Usually you can pick up this 'feeling' all over Europe, where the Past is more than just an expensive shopping district where tourists window shop for fragile relics and crumbling documents, but rather acts as a palpable ghost, whose echos can be sculpted intuitively into an individually unique understanding. Auburn has this Ghost.

One of the often overlooked attractions here in the heart of the King Legacy, is the Prince Hall Grand Lodge as well as the integral role played by the African-American Children of the Widow throughout the South. I found this shop while cruising down Jackson Street. Sitting across from the MLK Historic Site's winding park, a pair of Eye of Horus's stare unblinkingly out across Auburn at the prestigious Ebenezer Baptist Church. Here we have a wonderful juxtaposition of symbols and frozen rituals. A crossroads of initiations, ceremonies, baptisms and burials. Where one can kneel before the great mysteries or cross the street and pursue them through library forests of estoric academia.

Hard to believe that only three blocks down towards the shores of the skyline, that Auburn becomes a ghetto no mans land. Perhaps it's because temples, lodges and churches have always thrived in the human heart of raw desperation.

Comments

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Wow, i've never heard the expression "RIDE THE GOAT" before. You've intrigued me... can you share or is it a "Heal, conceal and never reveal" thing?