Theos-Talk Archives (February 1997 Message tl00103)

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> From: Jerry Hejka-Ekins <jhe@toto.csustan.edu>
>
> AEB
> >They also better be well off, as the clergy robes at
> >the LCC have to be tailored to CWL's specs (unless you have a
> >wife who is handy at sewing - but there's still the material.
> >Linen is $10-15 a yard.)  And in the Co-M, you pay more the
> >higher you climb through the lodges.  Is there a fee for ES?
>
> JHE
> That is where the women come in.  We had a woman in Los Angeles
> who sewed all of the robes.  She did a beautiful job too--they
> looked real professional.  No fee for the ES, but you are
> expected to be active in a TS Lodge if possible.
>
>I've done my time at the sewing machine as well.  A set of
vestments I did back in 1971 is still in use.  But it does take a lot
of time, of which most people are short of nowadays.  Unless
a man has a wife or girlfriend that knows how to sew, he has
to go to a religious store that makes the vestments to CWL's
specifications and pay for a professional seamtress.

CWL wrote that he thought all the vestments and altar linens
should be sewn by the ladies of the church, who would sing
devotional hymns while they worked, weaving in the high
vibrations as they went along.

-AEB