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MYSTIC MASONRY
I
I
MYSTIC MASONRY
or
i j I
The Sjonbols
of
Freemasonry
and the
Greater Mysteries of Antiquity
iyl-FWuitk
D.
Supplemental Harmonic
Vol. V.
Series,
I I i
1911
MYSTIC MASONRY
or
The Symbols
of
Freemasonry
and the
Greater Mysteries of Antiquity
1 i
By
J. D. Buck,
M. D.
Supplemental Harmonic
Vol. V.
Series,
I
I I
1911
DEDICATED
TO THE
UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD
OF
HUMANITY
TO ALL
Its
Its
CONTENTS
Foreword
to the
Third Edition
-
vii
Preface to
xv
^^^
Introduction
Chapter
I
P^S^
of of of
Principles
41 65
II
The Genius
The Genius
Freemasonry
Freemasonry
Continued
III
80
117
IV
The
Secret Doctrine
V
VI
The
Secret Doctrine
Nature
Man
168
VII
The
Secret Doctrine
Master...
IX
An
Outline of Symbolism
239 256
Conclusion
--
269
LIST
OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Frontispiece.
Plate Plate
I.
II.
Trinity.
Plate
III.
Plate. IV.
The Second
Plate V.
The Third
Differentiation.
Plate VI.
Plate VII.
Plate VIII.
The Proportion
of
Number
to Form.
THE OLD-
WI5DOM/<r/X^REU6tON
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Frontispiece.
EDITION.
The
spirit of
unrest
is
in the air.
On
the sur-
CommerciaUsm most
often and
most loudly claims attention. Great combinations oi capital and the massing of millions seem the
order of the day.
politic organi-
economic problems are being tested in a way that cannot help adding immensely to the combined experience of mankind.
What the final outcome may now say, and perhaps only
essentially a stable product,
in
is
on
any event.
Deep
in the
man
lies
the principle of
justice
and
We may
(vii)
be far
from the
universal
reign of Brotherhood,
viii
Foreword
is
to
but there
in the heart of
it.
man
Potent as
this
nomic
strife,
other
problems are
up for
solution.
pace with
the
economic.
The con-
hear
less
Indeed,
we many
a survival
is
ages.
No
The
surface problems
zations
more
in evidence
than today.
Nor can
be other-
man remains
really
if
unchanged.
own
nature
he
tries.
its level.
Foreword
and ultimately
feel after that
to the
Third Edition.
to the sea, does
ix
finds
its
way
man
in-
Power
yond sordid
self,
and beckons
toward the
wings.
This
is
universal
experience,
equally
known
to the savage
and the
civilized,
and entirely
independent
of
all
theologies
or
ecclesiasticism.
Theologians in
common human
deavored to guide
just as capitalists
it,
This
is,
consitituting
element in
the
it
life
is
of
man.
This
It
it
today.
is
now
may make
everywhere
in
in evidence.
life
Every problem
the
of
is,
movement
sis,
a psychic problem.
its
One and
they concern
soul essentially.
Foreword
to the
Third Edition.
is
so remarkable that
is
difficult to
to designate
Hence
into equal
no
such
organized
results
can
be
The
race,
making
The working hypothesis in psychology has seldom been suggested. At any rate, there
experiments.
is
rems.
workmen, the
of people,
known
to
man.
then'
That
lost,
it
or
to
them preposterous;
working
It is the
Masonry
cluster
around
of man.
Foreword
This
Great
to
to
xi
Secret,
this
Master's
Word,
was
known
tiquity,
and preserved
is
in
the Mysteries of
An-
and
in the tradi-
tions
was
to set students,
to
searching for
terms.
tic
ritualis-
be.
soul of
man between
Beyond
life,
real
Becoming: At-one-ment.
both gratified and encouraged
al
The author
That
it
ism for
sand,
it
that.
In entering
now on
its
third thou-
the author,
who
will be
it
profoundly gratified
little,
if
he
may
aid.
though
be but a
in increasing the
xii
Foreword
to the
Third Edition.
community
and
at large for
his
Order
of
Freemasonry,
encourage
More
Light.
Brotherhood of
Perfect
is
it is
Man
as
in
the
till
Masonic Lodges.
not,
and cannot be
human
it
evolution
completed.
Among
one
the hundreds of
thousands
of
Masons today
charity
in the
United States
would be
difficult to find
who
exercise
and
loving-kindness,
toward
sands
of
Masons,
moreover,
implies
who
far
that
more than
ap-
in this direction,
and
is
it
is
this
that
Mystic Ma-
sonry, above
age,
all else,
and
help.
writer has
result.
It is
not a
shadow of a doubt as
the
Lodge
all
more than
and
so enable
him
to grasp
and
finally
comprehend the
Foreword
higher
to the
Third Edition.
in
xiii
problems concealed
bolism of Masonry.
Modern Masonry
thus fast
becoming,
like
its
the Mysteries;
is
so large, so wide-
seems destined
most glorious
Creed
no
no longer feared.
of
classes are
coming
of
avowed purpose
they
understanding, in order
other.
It
is
is
that
may
The
help each
"sin of separateness"
is
undermined.
Hence the
ethical,
and
all
definitely related in
xiv
Foreword
is
to the
Third Edition.
'
of interests
dream
Masonry stands
and
all
this,
just as
and
peoples possible.
It
edge of man's entire nature, and cemented by lovingkindness toward each and
all,
it
exist
and endure.
To promote
pose of this
of
this
glorious result
is
little
book.
it
This
is
indeed the
Work
work
the
Lodge, as
should
till
be of
every Frater
it
in the
end
is
the
Cincinnati^ January,
1903.
Preface
to the
Second Edition.
this
little
issue be called for within six weeks of the date of the in inquiry the to answer best the is, perhaps,
mind of
its
serious a view of
herein set
at-
might receive.
It
tention and excited inquiry, but met the unqualified approval of certain high Masons. Sir Albert Pike's
greatest
craft,
the
obtained
If
list
one
hundred
and
fifty
sub-
scribers.
scription
the
reason
is
to
in
which
the subject
is
all restric-
rethat a widespread interest has of late arisen in gard to these subjects; offering, as the author believes,
to
real
xvi
Preface
for
to the
Second Edition.
years, for pre-
Masonry
senting
its
upHfting of humanity.
Mystic Masonry
compilation.
It
is,
to
a considerable extent, a
the
was not
author's
purpose to
rather, in a
modest way,
purpose he
this
made
remembered.
work
is
down was
often
a matter of
secondary importance.
than quoted, in
authorities.
He
places,
adapted, rather
many
He
his
mind
of
all selfish
He drew
very largely, in
many
better
places,
known
Preface
to the
Second Edition.
xvii
of doubtedly contain the most profound knowledge given the Occult Sciences and the Ancient Mysteries
to the
Initiates.
As
book,
it
matters far
less
been derived than what they really mean, although no reader is bound to accept the interpretation put
upon them
Yet
may
universally
and
generally
adopted
amongst men.
Liberty and Equality based on Fraternity may have degenerated into a slogan of blood in the days
of the French Revolution, yet in
must such
state,
Fraternity be interpreted
qualified
INTRODUCTION.
The object of
of Antiquity.
title
is
to
show
This much, at
least, is
is
implied by the
of the book.
That there
both a historical
action
is
well
known
to
One
trav-
eler, in the
that he
By whom
was
built
is
a mat-
ter of conjecture.
now broken by
time, with
pathway, but
14;
In like manner
times,
not
XX
Introduction.
mistakable,
to
the
Masonry
The
came
been
lost to the
world,
may
be again recovered.
In
who
orig-
It
was
fane,
in a universal
language of Sym-
among
it,
all
as it^were, in their
own
alle-
language.
gory, so
was
and
that the
unlettered and
its
common
people
force
in
This Ancient
Wisdom
its
Masonry takes
in
rise.
The
lost;
true
Science of
Symbolism
time
became
fell
into decay, or
Introduction.
J'xi
influence.
For many weary centuries men lost key and to rethe parables and alle-
wisdom from
it
gories
in
which
had
been
is
concealed.
But
all
given rise to fantastic flights of the imaginain confusion, rather than in enresult has
tion,
and resulted
lightenment.
subject
The
make
the
name
its
true meaning.
the
(those of
the
Blue-Lodge)
more accommodating
by
curtailment
and sinking into common-place, to the often limited memory and capacity of the Master and Instructor,
and to the
Initiate;
intellect
come
to us
from an age
when symbols were used, not to reveal but to conwhen the commonest learning was confined ceal
:
to a select few,
ity
and the simplest principles of moralseemed newly discovered truths: and that these
xxii
Introduction.
antique and
simple degrees
now
many
stand
like
the
in
broken columns of a
roofless,
:
Druidic temple
in
06.
to
of
recovery,
viz.,
To
think of
perhaps millions, of
MSS.
about
among
and ready
and
pillar,
scroll or
if
it
their
hands upon,
new
faith:
and
how
it
that so
little
Past."
Secret Doctrine,
intelligent
vol. I.
is
Every
more
or
Introduction.
xxiii
less
aware of these
facts,
difficulty
attending
to
all efforts to
rebuild the
Lord,
glyph that
this
has
many meanings.
to aid all that
The
author of
book desires
he can
in this noble
is
not
now
is
organized.
If
the heritage
of
Masonry
dered
capable of
intelligent
among Masons, but everywhere, its beneficent influence may thus become universal among men. In this way may be hastened the rise
persons, not only
of that Great "Republic of
is
thing
to the pro-
has
al-
xxiv
Introduction.
ment.
The
interpretations resulting
have been as
fantastic
and varied
gator; had any of these been possessed of a universal key to symbolism, or a complete philosophy
very different.
The
is
not
when
investigation
is
guided
in-
on firm ground.
But a
far
to
be noted.
to
There
and
Perfect
Masters,
many
this
Lodge has
Knowing always
and having
al-
ways
in
viz.,
the Progress of
Humanity and
fame and
the Brotherhood of
Man;
despising
Introduction.
xxv
them not
to
To
may
be a matter of
to be measured.
But
to
Masons
it
should
a
it is
to be indeed
Master Builder.
It will reveal to
now aided by those who know, as it has not been for many centuries. Such work has now become possible,
ment,
ficed
when
to the
Moloch
of
bigotry and
exist,
superstition.
willit,
if it is
to be benefited by
agents.
Guided, then, by a
Mysteries of Antiquity
to
tell
may
be restored and
made
the
their hoary
secrets
coming
age.
The
is
to give
an outline of
xxvi
Introduction.
such work;
it
is
introductory, and, to
some
extent,
It is
not
sin-
is
recommended
so,
to
read carefully,
Albert
Dogma.
is
The
historical
method of research
not followed
It is of far less
importance to determine whence Masonry has been derived, than what it really teaches. In answering
this question,
it
au-
not
may To such
that
Masonry
facts, or
is
known
movements
at
Then
and place, and perhaps under a different name, lines. though evidently working on the same general
Introduction.
xxvii
fate.
One
writer makes
any
reliable
consecutive history of
various
it
movements.
But even
little
if
would but
work, as will be readily seen from what has heretofore been said regarding
all
human
it
imagination, and
its
as valuable that
which
is
cause
is
concealed.
Mere vulgar
and
Adytum
of real Initiation.
it
On
really exist,
would be tinged
many
sor-
rowful disappointments
it
would have
to record, in
"Lost
Word
malefactors
and enemies of
State or Church.
serve, in
Such
many
xxviii
Introduction.
fiction,"
and almost
invariably record
merely the
opinions of those
to
who were
friendly or unfriendly
facts.
One
of the
facts
as are
known
to
spirit
everywhere admitted
exist
through
at
first
all
a strange paradox.
The enemies
of
Ma-
that
is
modern
materialist.
With each
is
of
these
the
real genius of
Masonry
in perpetual conflict.
For
the of
first,
Man,
Introduction.
xxix
Fortunately, the
number
of
bigoted
is
sectarians
few.
The
by no means
without a parallel.
Christianity has,
of
it
true,
many
historical phases
ot doctrines pro-
dis-
his-
What,
we conclude regarding
?
the
Is
it
all
a fable, put
Are
historical facts
to
and
personal
credit?
While everlasting
no account?
Divine
Beneficence,
life
lives of
life
of
the
controversy that
XXX
Introduction.
its
heart-ofjus-
human
soul
of man.
The
and
eternal,
with
all
it
of
as
its
episodes.
Explain
;
you
can never be
;
explained away
and whether
Historical or Ideal,
is
real
and
eternal.
to illustrate a principle of
of
his-
from
data,
but
eternal
truths
historical epi-
would
and
These great
truths, obscured
Phoenix-like,
They
are Immortal
death.
Ideals,
knowing
They are
like a
a block of stone
artists
which many
square
a
assail
with
mallet
and
chisel,
and
release
distorted
Introduction.
xxxi
idol.
stone as to reveal in
Such
is
The
more
fable
of
after
all,
real than
The thread
of history
is
not in isolated
The
real thread
is
to be sought in the
;
theme that
in the lofty
him
Such
Master.
It is
organization of
The
great
Masonic revolution of
1717,
and the
which, by
no means
uniform
throughout
in
the
world, have,
nevertheless, very
much
common.
There were
and
operating
under different
xxxii
Introduction.
no direct
exist
connection has
present time.
rather
is
philosophical
our appeal
rather
to
into these as
land-
marks
in following
A
to
now
given
some of
in
Europe and
America.
Without the
opposition to the
any kind
an innovation,
of
toleration
and
neither
its
Jew nor
fold.
from
ample
Masonry
is
some of
its
degrees.
and
finds fellowship
with
all
men, as
genuine
will
brothers of
one
common
humanity.
spirit
No
of
liberality,
Introduction.
xxxiu
who beUeves
in
Man, and
spirit
This Catholic
parture from
the ancient
is
to
fit
Mohammetheir own
While
is
Masonry
of
its
universal character.
cannot
to
benefit
the
it
made
sonry
conform,
Maheld
itself.
True
Masonry
has,
for
ages,
The bigoted
faith,
sectarian,
whoever he may
and blind
not.
who do
ond
The
first
he
class
he regards as
aliens,
if
not enemies.
any one
embodying the
Every
and
to
may
institute such
forms of worship as
may seem
xxxiv
Introduction.
him
desirable
or
beneficent.
Now,
that
the old
to
show
that
none of these have ever been a legitimate part of Masonry; that while Masonry antagonizes none, it
can adopt none as Masonic.
is
This impartial
spirit
esoteric
and
ex-
Masonic) was
among
ander
the Greeks.
. .
It
.
remounted
to the
fabulous
time of Orpheus.
And
and
mysteries, to
Egypt and
Sicily,
The
real source
concealed wisdom.
In this book
it
is
all
of
the symbols of Freemasonry, or to completely unfold the philosophy of the Secret Doctrine.
Such
The aim
is
rather to
show
Introduction.
xxxv
to outline
methods of
inter-
lies
a mine of
wisdom
far be-
yond
all
operation of
Truths.
Masons
in
To
Word
is
to revive the
Universal
all
more than
other agencies
now
in our possession.
In
its
Masonry
or
human knowledge
past.
human
In
It is
Freemasonry that
its
real
secrets
to the
lie
Mason
symbols in particular.
mystery, and
few Masons up
This
the
is
a fact, and
If
xxxvi
Introduction.
its
transcendent interest
and importance, Masons have allowed the whole organization not only to
degenerate, that
is
progress, but to
indeed a reproach.
The number
rather emphasizes
it.
The author
of
book
is
perfectly well
treatise
will not be
They
and
with contempt
undertake to frown
is
it
down.
They
will
make
no
is
found
in the
moni-
the
secrets
of
the
Lodge unlawfully.
Lodge
again,
at
if
all.
to the few.
This
admitted as a
seem an
injustice.
own
ritual of the
If
Lodge, or by
he prefers to
Introduction.
xxxvii
treat the
himself
come
to
him
if
at
any time.
is
He
he
left in
darkness.
On
more
is
number
of persons
light;
who
that there
must be
other and
the ritual
Some
of these have
The
play
made upon
the
word
"light,"
in
the
three greater lights, and the three lesser, ought to teach every intelligent
Mason
whole
all
meaningless
farce.
Aside from
interest that
any individual
Mason may
enment,
it
own
enlight-
itself
xxxviii
Introduction.
The names
Lodge and
those
Order, belong to
who have
all
worthy of
emulation.
But
shall
neither the
roll of
honor?
or, if
need
martyrs?
Are
Masonry forever?
self-sacrifice
now
for
Masonry
assume
its
true place
among
tion
the institutions of
man and
to force recogni-
outside of
its
ancient symbols.
If the
signili-
is all
the
more need
for those
who do
Does any
in-
Mason imagine
Introduction.
xxxix
great majority of
as
Masons were
than
far
more ignorant,
of
manual
servants,
the majority
is
such
Freemasonry
modeled on the
plan of
and
allegories,
and
this is
drawn.
that certain
and Acsymbolfar
if
they embodied in
its
ism more
than appears on
deeper truths
discerns,
it
student readily
that future gen-
use these
profounder
The evidence
but
conclusive
overwhelming, though
only
frag-
ments of
In
lie
it
Freemasonry
in its
reveals
profound
philosophy, and
a universal
science, that
The author
to
hended, in
entirety,
this
old
philosophy.
He
and
xl
Introduction.
and
greater discoveries.
Even
was
rejected,
and became
lost in the
mark, but
is
itself,
from
first to
last,
with
its
sur-
symbol.
It
is
the
center
of
a five-pointed
star,
which
tion, it
is
In one direc-
When
this re-
King of
the
the temple
complete, and
to
the
il-
"Palace of
lumination.
The
result
is
light or
The writing
bor of love.
to the
designed to be no
less a tribute
in the Past,
D. B.
Cincinnati, November
1896.
MYSTIC MASONRY.
CHAPTER
I.
"And this to fill us with regard for man With apprehension of his passing worth,
Desire to work his proper nature out,
And
For
things tend
of life;
still
is
upward, progress
is
man
not
Man
as yet.
shall I
deem
dispels
When
mankind
alike
is
perfected.
till
then,
Bbowning's
for
Paracelsus.
So long
volves, as
as
it
the struggle
(40
42
Mystic Masonry,
pose of
human
existence.
Even
this
much may
is
be
human
brain, in
which there
a con-
to the preservation of
Mere
in-
velopment.
ofifices
largely for
known
today.
There are latent powers and almost infinite capabilities in man, the meaning of which he has hardly yet
dreamed of possessing.
Nor
will leisure
and
intelIt
is
nature of
human
soul,
edge, that
come
and from
"general
manhood
to perfection.
Two
43
in the
way
of such achievements
first,
anarchy and
all
social re-
viz.,
mere matter
which
is
now
The second
social temple
is
condition,
to
Workmen"
in building the
false ideals
inefficient
methods of education
and
almost total ignorance of the existence and the nature of the soul.
The
fact,
may
in a
be seen in the
million
that
who
or
any
real
;
advancement
is
higher
is
powers
a LIVING SOUL.
firmities,
Old age
is
filled,
Not
gives
me
mystical lore;
As coming events
east their
shadows before."
44
is
Mystic Masonry.
evil,
and
is
more often
What
life
ought
to be
is
it
often conceived
is
failures;
what
might be
dimly
to be,
earnest
and
is
This remedy
to be
found,
first,
in
Knowledge;
second, in Service of
the Truth.
tail
Let us
now examine
little
more
in desuffer.
The present
Science.
Age
of
The
power of Steam
Conservation
and Electricity
speculative
science,
with
the
resulting
dis-
our real
coveries.
One machine
is
made
to
do the work of
who have
in
the
mechanical invention.
45
The work
manufactured
article which,
when
many hands
before
it
is
completed.
The
laborer
is
the
Army
of the
Un-
employed
is
an ever-increasing
laborer
is
host.
The occupaIs
tion of the
common
any
when thousands
employment
to
apprehend
of those
life,
who
to
all
is
the luxuries of
radically
wrong
somewhere
justice,
band together
to secure
?
to be their rights
by force
But
all
this
existence,
life.
though the
on every plane of
46
Mystic Masonry.
to the
With regard
or
all
that
neither
science
nor religion
has
given
us
has
the
taught slogan
tific
"the
us
anything.
Science
survival of the
fittest,"
a mere
scien-
that "he
may
hold
result
may seize v^^ho hath the power, and he who can." In the industries of life the may be reduced to one word, Competition.
all
In manufacture, in trade, in
the
professions
even
Clerical
profession
Strife,
in
schools,
everywhere.
fittest."
Competition^
"And
this to
fill
man;
With apprehension
And
So
on a gigantic
scale,
wooden
our heathen
the killing by
we do
wholesale.
the whole of
And
47
all
We
life,
because
all
our ener-
"Ah! small
is
the pleasure
existence
can give,
When
the fear
we
we
live."
If real
destiny of
dition
it is
man had
would be
pitiable in the
extreme
but
when
lost
that
was
first
many of whom would have disgraced a scaffold, but who have been canonized as saints, have done their
utmost to deprive humanity of this knowledge, what
shall the
humanitarian say?
versal Brotherhood
thousand times, no
own
affairs
to
work
when
recovered devote
it
absolutely to Humanity.
sign of the times
is
the humani-
48
tarian
Mystic Masonry.
of well-disposed
persons
who
attained
or
tlie
commensurate
employed,
for
with
self-
energy
is
sacrifice
sacrifice
a virtue not
altogether
unknown
to
Christendom.
But
in very
many
instances these
Upas
tree,
We
the
We
se-
questrate
and
insanity
continually increases.
We
build
we do
well; but
grow
in
no wise
It
ought sometime
to
is
all
radically
all
wrong with
our methods.
In
the aggregate
The
in-
we can
boast of as a result
;
is
an
number
of milHonaires
and
these, as a
class, instead of
of
a Civilization of
49
what
is
called
"good society,"
viz.: ex-
travagant display and vulgar pretentiousness. What then is really the matter with our boasted
civilization?
The answer
is
is,
fishness;
ness."
If in
it
progress, and
in the face of our boasted "Christian Civilization," in the intellectual realm, or in educational matters,
are
we any
of
is
better off?
Let us
see.
is
One
school
child at
the
first
taught in
into
Competition.
instilled
every
to be at the
head of his
man
or
young
woman
from
literary
profi-
institutions
and carrying
the prizes
for
all
the rest
Nor
The amount of
50
Mystic Masonry.
in
the ordinary
walks of
life
more often
and seldom
five objects to be
:
at-
That education
that
which prepares
which prepares for indirect self-preservation; that which prepares for parenthood; that which prepares
for citizenship;
miscellaneous refinements of
set forth
These objects
present time,
may
by implication, have a
Social
bearing;
but any
in posses-
man
sion of his real powers and to promote the evolution of the soul, are not even mentioned.
In
all
and through
life,
we
are taught
salvation of our
own
souls
and
human
damned,
race
will
eventually
!
be
utterly
lost,
or
5^
existence
is
ment and
;
est
The
by
both
and
science
selfishness.
Self-
preservation
law
of life."
The
result
materialism
in
has
all
higher
ideals.
if
we were
we might
so govern our
which
;
is
as
the
giving of alms
edge.
pothesis, but
So
long as
It
requires
who can
we
are
have
little
The complicated
working
is
system
under which
we
the result of
and superstition,
52
Mystic Masonry.
Many
less,
of our
modern
institutions,
covered over, as
deep-rooted
have to work
be, yet it
would be impossible
to con-
number
of individuals
who
cause of
'time, to
Such a thing
is
work out
Is
it
its
own
results.
remain
follies,
and
we have
in-
voked
out, viz..
shown
Antiquity.
is
Man
is
the basis of
Repubhc
53
nity,
opportuand acted upon, there would result time, and the power to apprehend the deeper probof man. of the origin, nature, and destiny
lems
"Man
is
not
man
as yet."
What he may
of.
be,
and
is
what he might
yond our
ideals.
do,
We
We
comis
whom
re-
jority of
against
really
want, or being
they
have leisure for study and self-improvement; of these engage more or less in charitable many and the work. But possessing no high ideal beyond
meritoriousness of charity and the self-approbation
which
it
brings,
and having no
real
knowledge as
its
to
higher
away
their
opportunity in
is
jus-
The
result
is,
that
and
new
sensation or a
new
women who
deter-
'
54
Mystic Masonry.
in
what
is
called
men
The common
is
laborer
who
finds
continued
employment
who
generally
is filled
with mis-
It
is
among
are
favored
an increasing number
found devoting
betterment of
the condition of
the
masses.
Re-
Karma, which
is
lit-
inevit-
still
and best of
tions.
in
man
that
why
so
few per-
sons
are
is
possessed
of
perception
is false, is
what
true, is True,
False.
55
Education
would
if
we
we
could
eventually reform
society,
must perish" contains, no doubt, a great truth; but cannot it is offset by another saying: "Education
repair the defects of birth."
is,
What
real education
it
may
be ex-
pected to accomplish,
we do
The
the
saying that
it
make a Gentleman
criterion as to
if
what
gentleman
may
be uncertain or defective.
And
least nine
months before
But
it is
nized as existing.
to the
environment of the Mother during gestation, the Ancient Greeks knew far more than we, and enacted laws to prevent physical deformity from
being propagated or even seen.
physical
seen.
The
result
was
symmetry such
as
the world
has seldom
56
Mystic Masonry.
Now when
all
ob-
Ego
is,
determined by heredity,
Ego
itself.
It
always ab-
and as
Karma
vice.
with the
Karma
Ego
as
of the paIf
me
result ten-
former
living,
in the
way
the opportunity
work out
Now
change,
is
the only
this
genuine reformation
is
gained
If,
is
by improvement
environall
ment.
however,
it
be considered that
envi-
ronment
It
the result of
Karma under
natural law.
less
conditions of reformation.
'd
really
intelligent
57
Karma
sult of its
own
all
acts in a
its
former
life,
put forth
of
energies to
rise,
now surround
Here we come
him, and
flee
from them
as
from a
pestilence.
of education.
How
we
educate?
With the
of those
many
many
instances, in idleness
and
dissipation.
Many
may
in life
had themselves.
The
result
is
that
the innate perceptions of the child, which are naturally far keener than
of,
and
which
invariably,
become
58
Mystic Masonry.
It
may
it
makes
cate,
all
how we
edu-
true that in
colleges,
must necessarily
who
are so fortunate as to
come under
faculties,
its
influence in
in
possession of
their their
them aware of
own own
and
making
capabilities.
This method
in the
Now,
if
this
can be supplemented by a
what
kind of
knowledge
is
of
the most
use,
in
Herbert Spencer
first
places Scientific
Knowledge
the
category;
its
may
it
give
rise,
apprehension to which
cere
may
lead.
"Only the
sin-
man
mere
59
can
know how utterly beyond, not only human knowledge, but human conception, is the Universal Power of which Nature, and Life, and Thought are
manifestations."
summation of Science
to be the
discernment of the
It
is,
then,
all
use-
ful
and
is
necessarily a failure.
Now,
:
this
its
its
higher
origin,
knowledge
is
of
evolu-
and
this
is
precisely the
knowledge which
modern science
fails
to afford, but
which Ancient
"The
and
All
measure of a man."
so
is
Just as
all life is
an evoluit
all
real
knowledge an
initiation;
6o
Mystic Masonry.
be worthy
and well
is,
That
must desire
to
He must
have passed
beyond
the
and sense.
This
is
the
truly prepared."
He must
no
less
in these directions,
over others
less
highly
endowed, for
tive,
selfish
His mohe
is
therefore,
alone,
can
determine
that
qualified."
life,
by which knowledge
ence
is,
acquired
always
by experi;
that
re-
knowing
a progressive becoming.
There
sults,
whenever
on the
he
is
placed
Natural Order
6i
This
is
osophical meaning of
all Initiation.
By
referring to
it
concept that
man
is
and
that, therefore,
he inhabits.
There
is
so
much
of the
commonplace
is
that passes
so utterly void of
is
man
Here
always becomes
lies
which he
the
really knows.
the reason
why
fails
entirely in
is
why
there
so
much
China and Thibet, Abbe Hue gives a graphic account of the traveling traders
whom
he encountered.
He
and
their gen-
forever
on
their
lips
was
that
"All
men
are
so easy
62
Mystic Masonry.
for a moral precept to degenerate into
is
it
mere
slang.
Conscience
is
the
struggle of
it
the underis
the effort
Conscience
is
that
living,
active
itself to
memorized and
as easily
The
genuine
initiation,
and
As
didate enlarged
in relation
the
problems and
as-
meaning of
life,
his
This was
may
reasonably be supposed
life, viz.,
a knowledge of the
and his
relations,
passed
to
the
next
degree.
Here
he
learned theoretically, at
first,
63
the process of
its
and began
to
unfold
work.
If
he was found
"vow" capable of apprehending these, and kept his the discovered presently he degree, in the preceding
evolution within
him
and
if
his teachers
would refuse
all
further instruction,
All
these
must have
upon been fully discharged before he could stand Greater Mys. the threshold as a candidate for the
teries
;
for in these he
became an
unselfish Servant
of
Humanity
as a whole;
gifts
knowledge or power
friends,
that he possessed,
in preference to strangers.
even he might be precluded from using these powers Both the Master and his to preserve his own life.
but Powers belong to Humanity. If the reader will called reflect a moment, how the tantalizing Jews from upon Jesus to "save himself and come down
the cross,"
that
if
it
may
be seen
this doctrine of
Supreme
Selflessness ought,
64
Mystic Masonry.
a Divine Attribute,
latent in all
it
is
Synonym
of the Christ,
it is
human-
and must be evolved as herein described. That which makes such an evolution seem
impossible,
is,
to
modern readers
can
that
it
cannot be
life,
nor
be.
It is
may
logically
deny
such evolution.
There must, however, come a time when the consummation is reached in one life; and this is the logical meaning of the saying of Jesus it is finished.
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
65
CHAPTER
II.
Nation
which the diversity of States renew people, which, comnations and tongues, shall
all
posed of
men
of
many
p. 220.
"In
words:
To
caste, the
nationaUty; to annihilate fanaticism and superstiwith it extmtion, extirpate national discord, and
guish the firebrand of war
free
;
in a
word to
arrive,
by
and
pacific progress, at
which
each individual
human being
shall be
free to de-
may
be endowed,
66
Mystic Masonry.
to concur heartily
and
strength, in the
and thus
to
make
human
p.
race one
62.
The above quotations from two of the most prominent modern writers on Freemasonry the one deal-
may
this
fairly repre-
How
it
Masonry may
book
fall
today,
is
to
show.
No
ing
will for a
is left
moment undertake
to be accomplished.
indeed, some-
and
to
;
have striven
in
its
its
realization
and
this,
earliest history.
There
is
modern
Masonry with
tiquity.
An-
The
ancient landmarks
may
be discovered
in every
"Notwithstanding the
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
67
those
was the
art, sci-
Rebold's History,
The
Egypt,
other
among many
letter
a dead
in
modern
however,
Freemasonry.
The
intelligent
Mason,
Masonry
its
is
built
upon
existence, and
ritual serves as
living
is
monument.
degree
ment
in
Masonry.
made
to con-
sist in
word
for
already
passed, the
stitute
the lectures
at this
the
various degrees.
The
least,
usage
point,
in the
United States at
Lodge
to those entitled
all
to them,
and to withhold
them from
others, than to
68
Mystic Masonry.
In other Masonic jurisdictions,
in real knowledge.
Of
the Bel-
gium Lodges,
lows:
"Our Lodge,
levoi,
is
under obedience of
the great
Orient at
is
No Mason
supposed to
know anything
of the
The work
So
Mason
it
is
supposed to be
interior
work
in himself, before
rior labor.
to
supposed
and
passwords.
Now
have
to
tell
Mason
is
man, hu-
man
institutions,
etc.,
is
sociology,
etc.,
history,
is
philosophy,
philanthropy,
and
it
young Mason
supposed to do.
the
members
four
of
the
Lodge
and
his
moral feeling."
As
will be
shown
method
The Genius
conforms
to that
of Freemasonry.
69
Mysteries.
It
masonry,
all
of the
initiate,
and
vealed by degrees, according as the candidate demonstrated his fitness to receive, conceal, and rightly
use
the
knowledge
are,
so
imparted.
Few
first
professed
Christians
was the
two or three
Pike's great
of interest.
On
page
"This, in
religion, as
It
is
communicated by
religion, but
its
God
to the Patriarchs.
no new
true
is
is
St.
Augustine says:
"What is now called the Christian Religion existed among the ancients, and was not absent from the human race until Christ came, from which time
70
Mystic Masonry.
in 347 to
A. D.,
and
lived near
know whereof he
But
wrote.
Dogma
Pagans.
Persons were
To
arrive at a
The
initiates
:
were
first,
the
These Mysteries
first
were divided
the
styled the
Mass
of the Catechumens
Mass of
the Faithful.
The
Mythras was
*Quoted by Heckethorne
Introduction:
"Secret
first
Societies,"
p.
12,
"They
were
called
Christiana
at
Antioch."
The Genius
used were the same.
of Freemasonry.
71
all
the
"The
Basilideans, a sect of
practiced
the
Mysteries
with
the
old
Egyptian legend.
Sun,
Isis
by the
wore
were
talismans, to protect
They
and given
all
to
They
etc.)
"to possess
claimed"
(Gnostics,
Marcosians, Ophites,
directly
Gospels and
munications,
exoteric.
and superior
in
to those
com
which,
their
eyes,
were
merely
thousand
knew name
it,
as
we
We
know
the
They were
the World.'
and 'Strangers
to
They had
at least three
degrees the
72
Mystic Masonry.
those
who
was
quite
small."
St.
Dionysius,
is
grades
or
and
Accomplishment
also, as part of the
Perfection
and
it
mentions
to sight.
The Apostolic
Constitutions, attributed to
communicated
"
Anathemas
of
excommunication
of
later
Popes,
same
rites.
But
this
was
opposition.
cost.
maintained at any
Tertullian,
who
died about a.
d.
Apology
"None
are
admitted
to
the religious
mysteries
without an oath of
secrecy.
We
appeal to your
The Genius
Thracian and
specially
faithless,
of Freemasonry.
73
Eleusinian mysteries;
and we are
bound
we prove
dis-
we
human
a.
d.
191,
He
"Heathen Mysteries
as to their
Origen, born
who had
doctrine, said
"Inasmuch
trines
as
the essential
and
it
principles
is
of
Christianity
openly
taught,
common
dis-
and
it
is
enough
to say that
it
was
so with
some of the
nounced
disciples of Pythagoras.'^
the
primitive
church
its
pro-
of celebrating
!
mysteries,
was
"Depart ye Profane
74
mens, and those
tiated,
Mystic Masonry.
who have
go forth."
Cascara in Mesopotamia,
year 278, conducted a controversy with
Archelaus, Bishop of
who,
in the
gree.
all;
the Gentiles at
Cate-
spoken
is
in disguised
who
may
more informed, and those who are not acquainted with it may suffer no disadvantage." Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, was born in the year
be
still
which he spoke
in pubits
mysclass
teries to those
of
with
others."
St. Basil, the
year 326, and dying in the year 376, says "We receive the dogmas transmitted to us by
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
75
This
is
to
contem-
and how should it ever be proper to write and circulate among the people an account of them."
St.
A. D. 379,
much
of the mystery as
we
and
communicated
to
you
in private;
. .
.
that
yourself.'"
"Our
made known
i43. I44.
to strangers."
pp.
141,
142,
and
145.
To
Ambrose,
Archbishop of Milan,
Constantinople
340;
St.
Chrysostom of
of
(354-417)
Cyril
Alexandria,
effect.
teric
tians
were communicated
;
76
Mystic Masonry.
from those of the so-called Pagan world. The Mystery of Christ received a
first
new
minion,
lost the
it
denied
that
in
its
power
and monuments.
While we are concerned with Masonry rather than Christianity, it is, nevertheless, necessary to show
the
connecting
links,
in
"Ancient
cor-
masonry
is
Key
of
interpretation,
Key ever
existed.
My
contention
is
not against
either
Masonry
Doctrine
to
each.
had
it
ion,
Spirituality.
as to the origin
b.
c,
Cambyces,
called
"the
mad,"
an
army
into
The Genius
Egypt, overran
palaces
of Freemasonry.
yy
its
cities,
priest-initiates,
Persian
province
Many
of
its
and con-
veyed thither the Egyptian Mysteries, which Pythagoras had journeyed to Egypt to obtain half a cen-
tury earlier.
later,
them he learned
At
the
The
Neoplatonists,
headed
by
Ammonius
Saccus,
first
After the
first
Council of
325,
oblite-
wisdom
in
Western Europe,
as
was
from
the north.
The
principal seats of
learning were
y8
the convents.
Mystic Masonry.
Coming now
to the
dawn
St.
of the i6th
we
at
Jacob,
the
greatest of
were
his
pupils.
John
Reuchlin,
of
in his
day
in
philosophy of Aristotle.
to revive the ancient
made
as
its
ancient great
many
and
in
some of them
its
summary
sense,
of their doctrines.
all,
Masonry,
in a certain
includes
their
precepts.
They were
all
hood of Man; and with these primitive and fundamental truths Masonry
is
in full accord.
The Genius
of Freemasonry^
79
The Guilds of Masons, or Builders, with which modern Freemasonry claims connection, doubtless suggested the name of Mason, the symbolism of a
Builder, and perhaps the form of organization or
advancement
craft
The
past
at
most
will
modern Freeprininter-
masonry.
ciples,
The organization is recent, but its when clearly defined, and intelligently
and are in
full
Masonry should
be-
come
the
their
coming
discipline,
or changing
8o
Mystic Masonry.
CHAPTER
III.
The
cluster
traditions, glyphs
and
ritual of
Freemasonry
le-
lost his
Word
of the Master.
As
is
the candidate
furnished with
to their use;
all,
shown
to be a
symbol of a deeper
This
is,
The method
itself,
outside of
all
details
of.
This method of
to the process of
Eternal
Nature
in building
an
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
8i
Cosmos has atom or a world; a daisy or a man. remains the evolved from Chaos, and yet Chaos
the 'World of Eternal Potency; what Plato called explained Divine Ideas." This will be more fully For the present, it may in a. subsequent chapter.
suffice to say, that
ether, or
or
from primitive space, primordial what modern science might call the Matrix and all origin of the "nebulous mass," the earth
it
that
The
idea of
things;
and the
in
matter as
we now
discern
it,
primordial space.
ist,
viz.,
the inner
meansym-
Each
is
in its turn a
the Smarag-
realm all ing Ideas, and out of this subjective ideal of doctrine This emanated. have things
visible
emanations
that
is
of
the
the key to the philosophy of Plato, and Gnostic sects from which the early
their mysteries.
Christians derived
This
fact
is
mentioned here in order to show the deep foundations of the glyphs of Masonry.
temple In the Ritual of Masonry, King Solomon's
82
Mystic Masonry.
taken as a symbol. The building and the restorathe temple at Jerusalem are dramatically the Lodge, and in the
is
tion of
ceremony of
initiation,
admonition,
warning
or
encouragement,
as
the
drama
unfolds.
have the
The symbolism
Sol-om-on represents
the
name
Sun-god.
There
is
no
Hiram
yet
Abiff
life
it
is
when
is
ornament
Add
ment
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
tool of iron,
83
thus
and
it is
more nearly
not
symbolism
out
in
bold
relief.
;
Masonic
to the Sts.
Greek philosophy of the Logos, the principle of emanation already referred to; and the other, the
Seer of Patmos, writes a book symbolical of ancient
initiations,
tried in
is
vain to interpret.
may
"And
the
city
with
twelve
thousand
The
are
the
length,
and
equal"
(a perfect cube).
"And he measured
is,
an angel."
The language
ceal the real
is
As
the
measure of man
that
is,
we have
Hence
a Square
Man.
The temple
of Sol-om-on;
84
the Cubical City
Mystic Masonry.
which
all
these refer
work
of regeneration, or initiation.*
The
re-
drawn upon
the
from which
and
perfect harmony.
this
unknown
to the Craft of
Ma-
sonry except in
ism:
it
is
nowhere hinted
full
an inherent
relation
and
"A
very limited
knowledge of
is
the
history
of
necessary to en-
of Jesus
Christ.
Otherwise,
all
the
*See
Plate
XIII.
The Genius
religions
earth.
of Freemasonry.
85
In an astronomical connection,
Hiram
is
the
smote downward and more downward passing, he as he advances toward the west, which immediately vanquished and put to death by
is
again, conqueror
and resurrected."*
page 79:
"Khurum,
is
therefore
the
improperly
as
called
Hiram,
Khur-om,
same
he says:
'Abif,' or
name
of the artificer.
'of
Abin
.
.
my
father's'
my
"
*Reybold'3
Translator,
p.
"History
392.
of
Freemasonry."
Note
by
86
Mystic Masonry.
As
to
the
Fellowcrafts
shown
to
shown
further on.
"Is
it
Dogma,
p. 82,
name
o,
m, make
Hindoos,
A.
-.U. -.M.
',,
the
sacred
word
of
the
Meaven (elementals)
The aim
to
show the
The
real
meaning
will
appear fur-
ther on.
As
The Genius
an
imitation of
of Freemasonry.
87
ancient
genuine
Mysteries,
it
the
a meaning
fully verified.
Key
It re-
mains for the future to determine whether any considerable number of our Masonic Brethren really
desire to possess in fuller
That Living
exists,
and
is
as accessible to every
Mason
as
it
masquerades
every Lodge.
As
same
"The
the
It is a
it
sacred tree
among
the Arabs,
who made
of
Mohammed
destroyed
arf
It is
of
set
fit
it
its
tenacity of
life
for
to
it
when
planted as a door-
post,
we
revived
88
Mystic Masonry.
and adopted
in
many
Sorrows" of
the
is
Whether any
sym-
Resurrection and
the
Life;
Redemption and
Immortality.
light,
the
now
is
imagines himself
He
is
no certainty that he
He
subsequently starts on
re-
After
is
many
trials,
receives and
is
is
ever to
made exact
and guarded
by solemn obligations.
The meaning
The Genius
of the
of Freemasonry.
89
word are
beyond
is
never be profaned, or taken in vain, or carelessly used and I venture the opinion, that not one Mason
;
among
why.
The
is
As
reason is scientific to the last analysis; scientific to a degree beyond the penetration, up to the present
time, of the "radiant matter" or the
Roentgen Ray
the sci-
of
Modern
Science.
harmony
of
Eternal Nature.
Name
is
brought
Masonry from the Hebrew Kabalah, and how became lost is partly historical, at least. The an-
cient
Hebrew
fit
to
the
names of
really a
symbolism and
Master's
Word
It
were
word
at
all,
Hebrews
than
it
any other.
a question of
mere orthography.
Pentateuch
lies
the
90
Mystic Masonry.
Kabalah.
should
text,
for
him who
priests
in the
alter,
of
many
The monothe-
ism of the Jews was of a robust character, and their priests and prophets had a hard time to preserve
their
people
polytheism
and
abominations of surrounding nations. The Ineffable Name was not only concealed, but "terrible as an
rival in the
reli-
gion of antiquity
man
and worlds made so exceedingly human. The Kabalah, on the contrary, embodying considerable of the true and ancient Secret Doctrine,
While carrying
Inthe tradition, therefore, of the lost v/ord as the as taken was symbolism the Deity, Name of
effable
literal fact,
"make
no
and the people who were commanded to graven image" ended by making a
Amid
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
91
ill
at ease
and
far
from home.
pended
to Foot's
as the Ineffable,
and that
substitute.
The Highpriest
from and
is
finally lost
common
is,
people.
This
The
not
"What
answer
;
is
in a
name?"
after
all,
Before the
introduction
of
the
The
principle of the
Mantram was
in
all
its
therefore
known
plenitude
to
or invoked in the
Holy
Some who
read this
may
92
that indites
ters of a
it;
Mystic Masonry.
let-
name
in
one
Notwithstanding,
the letter
maketh
al-
the
Hebrew
phabet
blocks.
as so
one knows
how
life,
"There are dangers inseparable from SymboUsm, which afford an impressive lesson in regard to simThe ilar risks attendant on the use of language.
imagination called in to assist the reason usurps place, or leaves its ally helplessly entangled in
its its
web,
Names which
and the instrument of interpretation for the object; thus symbols come to usurp an independent character as truths
and persons.
Though perhaps
a neces-
sary path, they are a dangerous one, by which to approach the Deity; in which many, says Plutarch,
mistaking the sign for the thing signified, fell into a ridiculous superstition, while others, in avoiding one
extreme, plunge into the no less hideous gulf of
irreligion
and impiety."
The Genius
"It
of Freemasonry.
93
is
we
principles of
life,
wherefore
.
. .
"To employ
of the
technicalities
of
language,
its
rewards
the
secrets to every
to
one
in
proportion to
comprehend them.
and
all."
If their philosophical
meaning
moral
their
a lecture, but
the opening of
dormant
intellect.
They implied no
is
hostility to Philosophy,
because Philosophy
the
There
is
as Magic,
and
a Magician.
Feared by the
Science and
in all ages,
its
genuine Initiation
p.
64.
94
consists
in
Mystic Masonry.
become the
In seeking Magic,
he
is,
finally
like
evolution and
this inner
regeneration,
from within.
all rituals
Devoid of
ceremonies an empty
Even such
to
the rituals of
Masonry have
be-
come
that
many.
That the
Christ-life
made
Jesus to be called
sick,
Christos,
and
the
Antiquity,
is
perfectly
plain.
The
disrepute
into
from
in
every age
sorcerers
there
have
been
dabblers
in
magic;
possessing
some of the
its
beneficence,
have used
Hypnotism and
sufficient
Phe-
illustrations of
to
power
to
which
I refer,
which
may
be put.
Magic, per
it
always a Science,
be cultivated with-
and up
to a certain point
may
The Genius
out regard to
its
of Freemasonry.
95
use,
or the well-being of
it is
man;
The popular
in the
idea
is
An
by
always recommended
is
by educators, and
religious
alone,
its
outer form
illustrated
ceremonies.
to
it
But
intellectual
it
cultivation
no matter
what extent
may
be carried
way
the
concerned
is
in
no sense an evolution.
without spiritual
is
the sign-manual
Satan.
Intelligence,
without
goodness,
lies
hand
in hand.
On
may
be
and sympathetic
A
be
world made
live in; if
a thousand times
that
to
preferred.
Magic contemplates
all-around
development
96
Mystic Masonry.
co-worker or
hand-maid.
To
all
such,
Nature makes obeisance, and delegates her powers, and they become Masters. The real Master conceals his
others.
it
He works
or
reward."
is
power, designing
and
evil
men
knowledge and
It
power
ily
may
be read-
purely selfish
man
This
possesses, the
more inimical
less
to
humanity he becomes.
in ignorance.
is
He
can do
harm
if
kept
selfish,
but
all
"Black
Magician."
its
Modern
Science,
purely materialistic in
always,
till
bodied in
name
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
97
very force Hypnotism, since the time of Braid, the days of Meswhich it denied and condemned in the unmight be difficult to find a palpable and
mer, it power deniable illustration of what kind of
is
in-
volved in Magic.
But Hypnotism
vocabulary
It is
is
known
to the real
men.
We
of
greed,
have only
to reflect
Hypnotism
by
its
markmana
of
to determine
The
key to
traditional-Lost
all
Word
of
the Master
is
The knowledge
the Master
not empirical.
It
certain startling or a few isolated formulae by which Magician's unusual effects can be produced. The and exact deep more far science on a based art is
dreamed of, than modern physical science has yet as boundphilosophy lies a science this and back of
less
as Cosmos,
as inexhaustible as Time,
and as
98
as
Mystic Masonry.
the
beneficent
"Father
in
Heaven."
If
the
Masonic meaning of Master: Perfect and Sublime Master: Prince Adept: etc., is less than I have indicated, then
it
is
a roaring
farce, or a
stupendous
is
humbug.
it
The conception
of
Masonry
true,
but
Mason
in ten
Word
has a
literal,
no
less
is
than a symbolical
given
to
meaning.
ophite
The
"Substitute"
the
ne-
"till
Word."
The question
propounded
to
is
every
is
the
singly;
light,
saw the
and took
ning of time.
There
exists in
Masonic
literature
many
Word;
but
am
acquainted
if
secret,
he concealed
it
at last.
source
le-
The Genius
gend
lah,
is
of Freemasonry.
99
is
the Jewish
Kabaand
derived
from
the
Chaldean
;
the prin-
lamented Bro.
32.
R.
Skinner's
greater
works, however,
aside
from
Source of
number
use
Running
all
through
Talmud are found references to the Secret Wisdom, while the Sohar, the Kahalah Demidata, and
other Kabalistic works are
all
designed to conceal the secret from the uninitiated, and to be meaningless without the key. Bro. Skinner's discoveries
Palace of
the
a
systematic and
study of
the
lies
Kabalistic
concealed
Hebrew
text of the
Pentateuch, and
reveal.
biblical
100
Mystic Masonry.
real the text sufficiently to desire to discover the meaning of the Pentateuch, as to the creation of
Men and
Worlds.
special lished researches have been so placed by his such desire and act, that they may be preserved for
world.
But
the
Hebrew Kabalah
is
but one of
many
desources from which the Secret Science may be of Symrived, and it is not the one which in its form
is
best fitted to
When
Ka-
balah
it
is
modern
ideas
or forms of thought.
The
basis of
it
in existence,
is
accessible
to
modern
to exist,
known
and
it is
may
be produced at the
proper time.
For be
it
exMasters, "Prince Adept Masons," have always preserving or isted, and no book or record worth
man
is
ever
lost.
In se-
hand
of
The Genius
All
of Freemasonry.
lOT
human
terialistic science
has had
its
brief day,
its
foundations.
The
Plato,
show a genuine
principles
revival of Philosophy.
enunciated
by
less
involved
and
dialectical,
command
is
the attention
Every one
was an
Initiate,
the obligation he
and on almost every page reveals is under not to betray to the com-
mon
The foregoing
digression
seemed necessary
in
order to show the real basis for the traditions of the Lost Word, and to put beyond cavil, at least with
the
is
is
more
Word
parables and
glyphs of
Freemasonry.
of a
Mason
is
to be
found
in
Name
of Deity
communicated by God
to
Moses"
lost
The
name
102
Mystic Masonry.
in truth a secret, in which,
was
ing."
however, was
its
in-
mean-
"Thus the
Ineffable
Name
the Ens,
To On,
is
Essence
To
not
Nature or the Soul of Nature, but that which created Nature; but also the idea of the Male and Female
Principles, in
to wit, that
its
God
;
comprehended
in
Himnot
that matter
was not
co-existent with
Him
or
independent of
Him;
that
He
did
itself
Him;
among
that
the ancients
deemed the
He Was
in
and
Is all that
all
Was,
lives,
Is,
whom
. .
.
else
moves, and
being."
and of course
its
its
The Genius
meaning became
of Freemasonry.
103
lost to all
it
whom
ically
it
was confided;
common
and, as
were, tangible
God
in
whom
they believed,
and who alone was within reach of their rude capacThis was the profound truth hidden ities.
. .
veil.
meaning of the generation and production of the of Indian, Chaldean, and Phoenician Cosmogonies; and the Active and Passive Powers; of the Male
Female Principles; of Heaven and its Luminaries generating, and the Earth producing; all hidden
from vulgar view, as above
doctrine that matter
the
is
its
comprehension; the
God was
from
all
only original
Existence, the
Absolute,
Whom
returns.
tire
Whom
And
to
this
True Word
lost,
is
with enits
accuracy said
lost
have been
because
meaning was
we
still
find
the
name
(its
real
meaning
unsus-
pected) in the
Hu
Fo-Hi of the
Chinese."*
Morals
and Dogma,
p.
700 et
seq.
104
Mystic Masonry.
in
"There
is
means whereof
himself of
could
world.
it,
who
could possess
to direct
it,
revolutionize and
the
It is a
equilibrium;
and whereby,
trol
it,
if
how
to con-
it
;
will be possible to
to
Seasons
to send a thought in
to
where."
guesses of Mesmer,
great work."*
Motor,
And
to continue
"There
is
This ambient
fluid per-
vades everything.
It
is
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
105
attraction.
It is the
body
Holy
Spirit, the
own
"With
and
were familiar.
Of
phase of modern
talks
its
incoher-
knowing naught of
it
it
save
its
effects;
and
all
pretended defini-
"Quiescent,
disturbed,
it
is
appreciable by no
human
sense;
its
mode
it
'fluid'
and speak of
its
alliance of
it
Word;
being;
estab-
opposite,
balance of
it
alone
reconciles
"The
contains, ex-
p.
734.
io6
Mystic Masonry.
presses, in
The
doctrine
identical at
bottom with
its
outward
meaning and
its
veils.
memory
the traditions
and
Profane.
the prophetic
poems
veil still
transparent.
to,
Thus was
rather
unknown
or
uncomprehended
the
wherein
is
diamond concealed
in a
"One
is filled
same time
so abso-
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
107
World; The-
a theology
summed up by counting on
which can be held
in the
two
are
letters,
all
these
the elements of
Kabalah.
Word
And
so
real
pilation,
among Masons, whose great work, even as a comis a monument more enduring than brass,
and more honorable than the crown of kings.
If
he
all
that he tran-
to teach
may
thus
Lights
is,
that he
may
p.
475.
io8
Mystic Masonry.
This glyph in
outer form
of
wages.t
its
is
taken from
Masons
Mark
of
strict,
when
received
builders over
a wide domain.
the Master's
Word, which
possessor to
The wages
knowledge.
Knowledge
is
there-
in
perfect synthesis.
to
This
is,
pronounce
the
Word."
already stated, the Kabalah of the ancient He-
As
brews, which Moses derived by initiation into the mysteries of Egypt and Persia, and which Pike and
many
among
the
He-
tThe wages
Power to
of
real
Master
will
is
Knowledge
space.
and
travel
where he
in
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
109
was known
The
name
fully revealed in
what has
What
true
of
tiquity.
How many
ists,
think you,
my
Brother, would
of
it
cover it?
mankind
age not only do not possess the secret and the power
of the Master's
of com-
prehending
it.
We
it is so.
Here
initia-
tions.
in
an
the
orderly, systematic
as
The
a growth, an evolu-
Knowledge
not a mere
sum
in
addition
it
every step a
New
Being.
no
Mystic Masonry.
growth of Wisdom
in
man,
is
an Eternal Becoming
a progressive transformation into the hkeness of the Supernal Goodness and the Supreme Power.
Initiation
and
Regeneration
are
synonymous
terms.
The
ritual of
Freemasonry
is
if
The mere
illus-
tration and dramatic representation, are by no means in vain. These appeal to the conscience and moral
man
the
made
these
all
worse
"rites
by the Lessons of
Lodge.
is,
By
and
benefits"
the
Freemason
above
Ancient Wisdom.
lie
He
has possession of
concealed the
Crown Jewif
Wisdom.
He may
content himself,
he
will,
He may
Law,
but, using
The Genius
he
of Freemasonry.
may
rise
ple,
and, meeting
Alohim face
am!
Does
Landmarks,
traditions,
?
and glyphs
The
from
first
to last in
Masonry, as
nacle of the
It is built,
Taber-
Human
Soul.
hammer
(made
in the likeness
spiritual
temple,
;
not
made with
man
its
source of Ufe;
as
that
does not so
much
enter
in,
overshadow
and
is
dissipated at death.
The
Spirit
is
It is Christos,
Soul, or physical
The
the
man
Name, and
have
Word,
way."
conquest,
He
would
wisdom without
self-
power without
sacrifice.
He
112
Mystic Masonry.
voice
of
pleading,
is
ten
to
the
"Be
patient,
if
my
brother, and
when
the temple
completed,
found
No! he
will
have
it
now! and
to hide
his
accusing conscience.
rected.
sin of
Hiram
(Christos)
is
resur-
really die.
No
man
is final.
by suffering, the
spirit in
man
being again
victory,
lifted up,
and he
re-
Word.
He
hears,
however
Harmony. Future
more
keep
sincere
generations, that
He
learns to
silent."
"know,
to
will,
to
dare,
and
to
and Mercy
all the
Virtues and
all
the
The candidate
is
as his
own though To
;
make reasonable
he
is
shown through
at the heart
the
same eternal
truths.
The Genius
of Freemasonry.
113
differ.
The
Ineffable
is
Name
and
is
spelled in
many ways,
is
yet the
Word
one
eternal.
Masonry
owes allegiance
Drawn from
but discerns in
all
them universal
other
religions.
truths,
which
it
recognizes in
Many
;
to the bigoted
men
any the
less
Christos, because
Good
a grave before
he was resur-
Are we not
our other
possessions?
Then why
is
man, while
reli-
The Great
the Ideal of
is
like
Make
it
impos-
114
Mystic Masonry.
sible for
Jew
enter any
of his sacred altars or contempt for his reHgion, and the angel hides her face and retreats from altars
Masonry
is
long
as, it
embraces
it
For
this reason,
and
this alone,
is
Neither
It
may
find
no place
in a generation of bigots;
it
may
comes a Mas-
ter
Key
to the
"Shut Palace of
anew
the
fire
on the sacred
!
altar,
clears
away
ment
ries
the rubbish,
is
as bright
truth,
pavequar-
of
the
"When And
the candidate
is
yet
men
are so
and so
vile as to
stroy this heirloom of the ages; this heritage from the Immortals
tirely the
!
No
age
is
light of
the Lodge;
its
no persecution so
votaries; no anathemas of
its
Dial
The Genius
of Time!
of Freemasonry.
115
all,
the
the
Great Orphan
He
smiles
at the passions of
folly of
sults,
pities
man.
He
knowing these
may
find lodg-
ment
Masters.
The
its
Lodges, transof
its
formed out of
recognition
many
degrees,
But at last the Jesuits became glutted with gold and impudent with power, and the Church became
frightened and destroyed or banished the destroyers.
its
warfare
Never
It can,
it
however, be forever
never allow
its
ig-
will
secrets
in its place.
He who
tory in vain.
force, but
it
The Kingdom
is
of
Heaven
is
taken by
moral
force, or
ii6
Mystic Masonry.
for the conquest of self; the
spirit,
the
first
great battle
is
which, joined
bhnd
eternal spirit.
He who
conquers here
may
at last
become Master.
117
CHAPTER
IV.
Mason
is
ages
adopted by
plans traced
of
by nature and
moral
all
edifice
Knowledge."*
it is
"As
Grand Master of
tive purity."t
Symbolic Lodges,
your es-
Masonry
to its primi-
"Among
faith
intelligent,
all
was one
for
and one
and
educated,
and another
rule the
is
the
common
no
cause
it
people.
To
"It
this
Hebrews were
exception.''^
(Masonry)
philosophical, be-
immortality of
the soul."||
"The
Morals
$Ibid.
and Dogma,
303.
p.
268.
I
Ibid.
[Ibid.
221.
ii8
Mystic Masonry.
the uttered
is
Universe, which
finite in extent.
is
Word
of God,
is
in-
There
Thought
of
The Universe, which is the God pronounced, never was not since
inert."*
all
the
we
ever hereafter
the
Moving Power
in its purity
There
is
no fact
in history
more
easily
and com-
Doctrine in
or Masters
all
ages among all people, and of Adepts who were familiar with its teachings,
less
capable of expounding
its
trine
206.
tBhagaradgita.
119
any
case,
and
all
religions,
the
Vedas, Pura-
and
Upanishads
all
either
make confusion
of
when
written by initiates,
Secret Doctrine
came
originally
and
is
the Primitive
Wisdom ReHgion.
in India
records are
it
now found
be easily ascertained
is it
everywhere and
at
120
Mystic Masonry.
times essentially the same; only the outer gloss,
parables
all
the
and
allegories
concealing
it
differ
among
different people.
this Secret
Underlying
philosophy of
and of man.
ters
The
present humanity, in
many
quar-
now
numold
persons capable of
apprehending
this
large
the
tree
is,
of
knowledge
of
Good and
Evil."
There
therefore, no reason
why
it
ophy should
be
longer concealed.
On
the other
why
should be known.
Empirical knowledge has advanced in certain directions into the realm of Psychism,
ciently designated by the
and the
arts anit
is
im-
may
may
How
far these
modern inroads
121
ophy of the East should illumine the science of the West, and thus give the death blow to that intellectual
diabolism,
and
spiritual
nihilism,
known
is
as
Grave
responsibility,
however,
in-
Those who,
the
like the
Hypnotists
and
Vivisectionists,
Magicians," will
eventually
no avenue of escape.
The Hyp-
ignorant brother to the condition of imbecility, without facing the law that counts such a crime as no
less
than murder.
The new
I
Mr.
J.
M. Rusk proposes
Psycho-
in
the
arena will be
little
They know
cient
principles involved,
who imagine
that there
is
suffi-
force
in
dissolving creeds,
or in the dying
122
Mystic Masonry.
to
for millen-
"To
recapitulate
Secret Doctrine
was
the
Proof
of
its
diffusion,
authentic
records of
its
docu-
ments, showing
great
As
the danger of
profane
this
Doctrines
such
as
the
For each
race
on every plane,
correlated
sevenfold
occult
forces*
those
of
the highest
planes being of
a
tremendous power."
in
"No one
styling himself
'scholar,'
whatever
will
be permitted to
'Experimenters
profitably
with
the
"Roentgen
Ray" may
take
notice.
123
teachings
seriously.
They
will
be
derided and rejected, a priori, in this century; but only in this one.
scholars will
For
in the 20th
Secret
finally,
that
And
in
footnote
is
said:
"This
a
is
no pretension to
based
prophesy,
but
simply
facts."
statement
on the
knowledge of
upon which
writ-
of occult
piled
The most ancient Hebrew document learning, the Siphrah Dzeniouta, was comit,
from
and that
at a time
in
when
the former
"The days
of Constantine
were the
of the
last
turning
strug-
point in history.
The period
Supreme
new
ones, built
on their
From
124
Mystic Masonry.
Past,
began
fa^ir
and
of
Every
issue
was blocked
up,
every
This same Constantine who, with his soldiers environed the Bishops at the
A. D. 325,
first
Council of
Nice,
to their deliberations,
was
by the
no purgation could
free
or from his
many
Every
knows why
little
since
An
exoteric religion
it
and
God
and
blotted
tection;
and
yet, oh,
it,
irony of history
for
tateuch conceals
many
of
Kabalah of
broken.
the
be
least,
of the
be
kept
;
conthe
and Consciousness
is
former, in relation to
all
that
either thought or
Secret
Doctrine.
125
and the
latter,
In the
last
analysis,
us.
What they are, per se, we shall may as well take them as facts
and
in
We
in our experience,
ness and
Knowledge
is
will
expand.
is,
"What
there
is
that
which was,
and
will be,
whether
Gods
And
Deity.
the an-
swer made
is
Space."
is
Now
may
space
is it
Space
conceal Divinity.
The
Occult
Catechism contains
the
following
"What
was?"
is
is
it
Anupadaka"
(parentless).
"What
that ever
is
it
"The germ
in the Root."
"What
that
is,
is
is
that
which
ever was,
one
that
:
which
becoming,
also one
and
this is Space."
the
126
Mystic Masonry.
general reader,
it
ence
recognizes
physical,
it
Elements
(Ether)
four
semi-
entirely
and
material, as
will
become
toward
The
re-
human
perception.
These
latter will,
however,
the
6th
and 7th
Rounds
respectively.
their numberless
Sub-Elements
more numer-
known
This
ditional modifications
only Element.
nor even
now advocated
he
calls
it
is
not the
although
it
in his
ol
As Newton
intuitionally says:
'Nature
a perfect
out of fixed.
.
.
of subtle.'
Thus, perhaps,
may
I,
all
things be
(Hypoth.
675.)*
127
"Teutonic
Theosopher,"
and
that
among Newton's posthumous papers were found copious notes and translations from his works. As
to the "Races," referred to in the
it
above quotation,
now
now
rounder" appearing.
The
Secret
on
this Earth.
inci-
is
There are three fundamental propositions that underlie the Secret Doctrine,
(o)
"An Omnipresent,
Principle
since
it
Eternal,
Boundless, and
speculation
is
Immutable
impossible,
on
which
all
tran-
human conception, and could human expression or similibeyond the range and reach of human
the words of
thought
in
Mandukya, "unthinkable
128
Mystic Masonry.
This Infinite and Eternal Cause
and unspeakable."
dimly
. . .
is
the
In Sanscrit
in
it
is
"Sat."
This "Beness"
is
symbolized
aspects.
the
Secret
Doctrine
under
two
On
either exclude
On
Motion repre"Spirit
senting
"Unconditioned
Consciousness."
two facets or aspects of the Absolute, which constitutes the basis of conditioned
jective or objective."
ical triad"
manifestation, the
World
of Divine Ideas.)
and of
all
individintelli-
ual consciousness,
On
129
(b)
The second
is:
of
Secret Doctrine
"The Eternity
'the
manifesting
Eternity,'
'The Eternity
Monad
or Self in
man)
is
Hke
'The appearlike a
regular
reflux.'
"
The
is: (c)
identity of all Souls with the
itself
"The fundamental
pect of the
an
as-
through the Cycle of Incarnation (or Necessity) in accordance with Cyclic and Karmic law, during the
whole term."
"The
Eastern philosophy admits no privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own Ego through
personal effort and merit throughout a long series
of Metempsychosis and Reincarnations."*
Secret
Doctrine,
Introduction.
130
Mystic Masonry.
its
own
salvation,"
force."
Sal-
not taught, as
now
Scriptures.
They are
inal
later
doctrines.
Church, as
in
the
in
every man.
made
;
Omnipresent Divinity
all
humanity
in
order to deify
peculiarly
God-man
own
it.
Masonry, unconit
proposition (a),
Ain
is
This
it
is
creative,
but
the
cause
of
Creation.
("Causeless Cause.")
The Jewish
"creators"
(plural)
In this conception
131
lies
Name,
Mas-
e.,
the
Nameless.
possesses
the
it
is
to the
ter
it,
who
what
to
"pronounce"
is
to
the
Nameless.
Hence
Man.
proposition
The second
verse in toto
cessant"
the
reveals
work
of creation.
There
is
Worlds and
Each
activity
is.
and a period of repose; emanates from, and These drawn back into, the All and the One.
The human
idea that a
qualities
and
passions
made
sufficiently
who
who do
the
To endow
God with
power of performing
132
Mystic Masonry.
the impossible
sufficient
honor bestowed.
of periodicity
is
The law
a necessary corollary of
Ryth-
harmonious movements
in space give
how
fast,
is
how
is
often,
how
slow,
how
regular, etc.
The ear
a time or-
Sound.
is
sym-
Freemasonry
five,
in
many
ways.
In the three,
penance;
of
in
and seven
famine.
ment, and
many
others.
we
One," which gives the basis of the eternal and universal Brotherhood of
tire
When
will be seen to
somewhat
similar
human
completely
the
Mysteries.
133
oftener
Brother Pike says repeatedly that they have been far disfigured than apprehended, and never
transcended
genius,
its
in
modern
times.
its
Masonry derives
its
its
inspiration,
glyphs, and
traditions
from
this
How
must
it
Grand Traditions,
its
interpretations, derived
were
in the beginning,
who knew"
a
is
the ignorant
masses,
who demanded
This
sign
and
like barter-
common
by try-
Shall
folly
the only
How much
idea
is
of
God
colors
all
his
seldom realized.
The
ordi-
God more
lyle
what Car-
and seeing
it
go
!"
134
Mystic Masonry.
it,
when
the fact
is
that cre-
The
world
worlds
are
much
as at
any period
Even
the ap-
a creative, or evo-
emerge
and
start
again on a
immanence
to that of
personality,
personal Absolute
not think, but
is
is
is
God does
the cause of
Thought.
God does
God
is
not
;
love,
he
and so with
(to be seen of
men).
is
His manifestation:
and as creation
it
never had
creation,
which
is still
God.
Now, Space
is
135
enters into
all
our con-
cepts,
and
is
the basis of
it,
all
our experiences.
or exclude
it
We
or define
it,
from a
Space
is
boundless,
unfathomable, unknowable: in
all.
all,
over
is
all,
through
We
It.
know
that It Is
and that
all
we know about
as-
negations.
is
No
Thing.
this is
no more Pantheism
than
it is
Atheism,
for, as
Ain
It
Soph
is
is
not
God deduced
remains
cisely
yet
God
is
"the
same,
yesterday,
today, of
and forever"
nature
the
is
Changeless.
The
at
stability
God never
needing
ish,
not exhausted
His work,
to be child-
rest.
and the
from the
cyclic
law found
in the
136
Mystic Masonry.
the parable, given to the ignorant or
Hence
viie
If the
moment on
his
own
proc-
dif-
on
is,
this
the
more
his
will
own
it
being.
But
may
be asked
is
man
is
to be deprived of all
own?
the
By no means.
Author of Peri.
God
that
is
the
Author of Being,
sonality.
He
personifies Himself,
e.,
expresses
is,
potency
of
Himself
which
personality
is
through Man.
a
of Providence
is
always
human
hand.
the agent of
God.
Humanity
and Christos
in toto, then,
is
is
God;
When
this perfection
is
137
Hence
"Be ye
is
the
Christ
is
at-one
with
the
perfect,
Heaven
perfect."
in toto
!
Humanity
What
is it?
Is
it
the genera-
or of the future?
Justice rules
all
the foundation of
Law. Jus-
coming ages, on
no Justice.
to the
else there is
And
if it
shall be
as a
And
this the
trine
all
all
binding to
The
is
result
is
Atheism and
man, as part
is
Materialism
for there
an instinct
in
an
138
Mystic Masonry.
Justice.
innate sense of
result
is
Destroy
this,
and
the
Destruction of
The
God
that
is
Supreme Reason.
this
But
philosophical concept of
still
Divinity has
another and
wider bearing.
life,
It
concerns not
men.
It
furthermore co-ordinates
his knowledge,
his experience
and
all
and
wisdom.
"To
this
know God
is
the
Supreme Wisdom."
It will be
To
that
this objection
the anIt
is
Humanity.
far
more important
men
should strive to
that
human
man
is
human
perfection an impossibility.
139
all
no
less
Divine because
men may
it w^ill
Again,
be
or amongst
men
But
is
Name,
are synonymous.
act in the
drama of the
to be
found in the
all
life
the
Sun-Gods
will find to
not that
it
it
that
disproves
We
have
brought
the
same
selfishness
into
our
religions that
we indulge
in regard to
land,
in
our
and
this
else
founding
of
the
"Great
all
composed
of
people."
140
Mystic Masonry.
in the
first
Ancient Mysteries
as
it
is
involved in the
equally given
rank in Masonry
is
Christos.
is
Humanity,
the personification
all
the
myriads constituting
favor.
Divine Conception,
God toward
Law
and the
lution necessitate
Reincarnation.
The number
of
in-
souls constituting
numerable,
is,
nevertheless definite.
woman
born;"
con-
each
life
another
Man.
141
The
real
Masters in
all
ages,
knowing
this
from
to
They
are not
enlight-
By
to
is
strive
reform
the outin
The
true Republic
Church or State
will naturally
however, that
all
may
Germain, or Masons
like
like
de Molai, or Philosophers
the Great
Lodge
The
peals,
and turned
like
in
Lodges were
In 1737 Louis
XV.
142
Mystic Masonry.
famous Bull of
re-
and
vivid
remembrance
memory
the ruthless
extermination of
sexes
the
and both
because
it
was
know
the
God of the Hebrews, or to worship Him under wrong name by the savage troops of Moses and
It
Joshua.
sees the
persecutions of
trials
and
the
bloated
Henry;
lions,
the
Roman
young Mar-
Graham
*Moiials
and Dogma,
p.
50.
143
until
the savage waters broke over her head; and all that
in all ages
peril
sword
roll
it
sees
them
all,
and shudders
at the
long
of hu-
man
atrocities.
And
it
still
prac-
ticed in the
name
of religion
men
shot in a Chris-
ding
freedom of
speech
on matters
relating
its
to
Christianity,
arm over
the pulpit."
"The
fires
of
Moloch
tions in the
name
Pagan Torturers
the
still
Roman
Gothic Christians in
fiendish cruelties to
Amerto
warn man of
matter of religion,
to
in his nos-
144
Mystic Masonry.
trils,
and groans of
agony
to
be delicious in his
ears."
"Man
men
are brothers by
all
But so long as
God v^ith human attributes, "man's inhumanity to man" vi^ill continue to make "countless millions
mourn," and
find vent for all evil passions justified
But,
some
w^ill
say this
is all
Mankind, especially
in Chris-
relics of
Bar-
barism,
Alas
if
it
were only
true.
We
do not
found in scorn,
in
ostracism,
slander and
defamation of character.
we were
a century ago?
or have
we
Do
not
supreme
and
competition?
Are not
p.
1G2
et
seq.
I45
wild beasts?
Ah,
my
Brother,
after
we
all,
and
it
does make
enter-
what idea we
tain of God,
and what
is
The
is self-
We
must be saved,
if all
religion,
it
but
the
New Commandment
also
announced by
re-
Jesus,
which was
Drop
the
centuries,
its
and
it
Ma-
sonry in
purity, derived as
is
Hebrew Kabalah
Wisdom-Religion
as part of the of
Great Universal
Antiquity,
remotest
stands
hood of Man,
in
all
To
to the secta-
is
among war-
with religions, in
14^
Mystic Masonry.
final dissolution.
This
is
one
Word.
The
Ineffable
Name
is
This
is
is
and Hate.
it
Even
till
v^^ill
ever be
Humanity.
The
refinements of
so-called
Civilization
nature of man.
virakes
Beneath
demon or an
no
angel,
ever
in chains, for
man
I47
CHAPTER
V.
The Science and the ReHgion (Theology) West are in perpetual conflict. The genius
religion discerns Faith
tion.
of the
of this
and Miracle
its
as
its
founda-
Science holds as
is
ideals
This religion
is ma.erialistic,
mankind
is
as
far
from any
real
ago.
it
is
war
eign parentage.
dreamed
of,
way
off.
is
The theory
or "working
last de-
hypothesis" of Science
gree.
mechanical to the
Law
without an
148
Mystic Masonry.
Matter
said to be essen-
underlying Intelligence.
tially
is
is
dead and
inert,
and Mind
regarded as the
fortuitous
result
of
known
as
"organization."
regarded
by heredity.
The theory
that of a Personal
God
Law.
It talks of
Laws, but
the
foregoing
but
as-
postulates
to
own good
is
pleasure
Reconcilia-
Religion thus
becomes
itself.
a contradiction to
in the
Secret
The
old universal
;
Wisdom
and Re-
I49
was
the Philosophy
or-
anywhere
in
Cosmos.
Postulate
to, lays
The
First
of
the
Secret
Doctrine,
already referred
old Philosophy.
An
Omnipotent,
Principle,
Eternal,
co-evil
Boundless,
and
Im-
mutable
and
co-extensive with
Immanent
Result,
in
alternating forever
Law
ture
the
is
in
Nature
is
the
Na-
Harmony
etc.,
Hence,
"Beauty,"
Attributes of
trine
Ain Soph, the Boundless. The docof Emanation, taught by Plato and held by the
cosmic and
is
human
evolution.
Plotinus said:
"God
Principles."
Universal
ergy, Universal
Law, Universal
ISO
Mystic Masonry.
the
One
is
Principle.
This
Theism.
The All
is
One, and
that
One
is
Divinity, Spinoza
in space
is
of Divinity.
is
There
is
He
("It")
not.
The
among
it
the Hebrev^^s
knew
had
Egypand neither Jehovah nor Adonai was the Nameless or the Boundless.
skilled in all the vv^isdom of the
("Moses
tians"),
lies
the complete
Through
ali,
the Divine
Immanence
endowed
with Life and Intelligence and bound by Law. Evolution is a Formation, Transformation,
and Re-for-
Creation
continually
the
center in Divinity.
atom
Sun
lies
Divinity (Unity)
at the
circumference
151
for-
One and
at-one.
How
any rational
mind can
fail
to see in this
and Science,
it
is difficult
to understand.
In the beginning,
begins
(called
to
when
the
"curds"
old
Hindoo Cosmology)
becomes
it
with
substance.
is
The
invisible
visible.
This
the
first
"Matter," and
is
called Akasa.
On
(prior
"nebula")
"Absolute Abstract
Motion,
latent
primal
potential energy
becomes
Latent
Consciousness
becomes
is
Cosmic Ideation.
Fohat,
"the
This
energy
called
mysterious
link
between Mind
and
atom into
Motion,
(active)
life."
We
Law
have
as
now
with
the
Guiding
(latent)
and
Consciousness
;
as
Cosmic
and
all
these in perfect
Of
We
152
Mystic Masonry.
Intelli-
them,
all in
Unknowable.
his
postulation
of
Protyle.
He
has
further
touched the septenary key in the order of the emanation of the so-called elements
science.
It
known
in a
to
modern
as
would be impossible
work such
by
which a planet
rise
is
evolved;
how
to denser
(Fohat),
and
how
is
the
"Fire-Mist"
cools
and
Though apparin
is
much
is
as
now may
present
state of
our Earth.
The
real
Chaos
Space, which
Tracing
process of
"beginning," the
One
(negative), abstract
Space
and absolute Abstract Motion (the Ineffable Name, or Deity, lying still back of these, "Nameless" and
never manifesting),
lies
now become
active,
and here
the
first
153
From
Triad becomes
sets
Fohat "lights
the fires,"
the
(latent Consciousness
form
to
evolving substance.
first
this
and we
have the
triad
reflecting
in
matter a
Name
inscribed in the
first
triangle;^
which
six,
and the
is
Name
This
the key-
that follows
harmony
of Creation:
The
first
octave in the
Th
:
first
septenary in
first
and the
is
ex-
molded.
*In
the
of
Kabalah
the
the
"Ancient
Face
"the
of
Days;"
in
the the
"Aged
Aged;"
is
"The
reflected
Waters."
apace."
Akasa
also
called
pure
waters of
tSee Plate
154
Mystic Masonry.
synthesize
these
To
all
movements
;
in
one word we
and amphtude of
first
vibration,
who can
produce this
septenary of
that
form, can by so doing raise his Consciousness to from first or seventh (according as we count
Such a one
It is
knows how
to
not only a matter of pure science, dealing with laws sentiof rhythm; a fact, and not a tradition or a
ment, but
it
implies absolute
At-One-Ment
that goes to
in
knowl-
all
make up
what we
is
call
man and
"It
is
all
the
consummation
of
finished."
In giving himself
on the plane of
is
rela-
man
to
Renunciation, or
self-sacrifice.
Hindoo
tradition
regarding
of pro-
the Master's
Word
ways
nouncing
it,
a different result.
says
"Before thou
set'st
155
(the Higher
God
"The
first
is
like
the
nightingale's
its
sweet voice
mate.
cym-
"And
"The
this is followed
fifth
like the
sound of bamboo-flute
blast.
"The "The
rumbling of
thunder-cloud.
seventh
swallows
all
the
other
sounds.
They
are
die,
"When
laid,
then
is
the pupil
merged
lives therein."
who can
induce them in
All.
If
members
156
Mystic Masonry.
when consciousness ceases on the outer plane, he has a fact in his own experience givnig him the key
to
in
Samadhi.
if
then
is
how
to
The "designs on
Man:
a
transformation
the
lower nature
into
made
This
is
the square.
The
Being
Eden.
triangle
in
potential
before
evolution
Man
in
the
Garden of
The square
may "ascend
This
is
to
the Father;"
return to
Paradise.
tion of
Holy
Bible,
while
the
three
Greater
lights,
and
make
a double triangle;
157
because
above,
one
lesser
because
Mason
will understand.
seemed
fanciful.
ity
persons purely
in electric-
and photography
emotion,
like
light
the
human
in
forces
man
is
synthesis which
Masonry
pos-
sesses in
its
Passing
now from
we have
and evolution.
We
Man
he
is
is
es-
What
in the
else
phrase
"Made
is
image of God"
Man
posits
the
image,
God
the
reality.
Divinity
a center of
into
man.
Just
as
Cosmogenesis,
latent
con-
158
Mystic Masonry.
We
speak of
man
as a "spark of
this spark
itself,
it
Divinity."
is to
What
all
Divinity
is
to
Cosmos
man.
but
the
giving rise to
is
apex of the
we
is true,
mathe-
matics,
or like
lying back of
actuality.
all
This
is
am
I"
in
man.
So
or the cause of
the
It
It is
"All-seeing Eye."
is
Christos,
potentially.
is
the po-
Thought.
Mind
is
as matter
Thus, from
the
Secret
159
we
have,
first:
Divinity,
and Nature
at
one; second,
we have
Spirit
all
Matter
each with
itself,
and
in perfect
other; fourth,
nature, and
fortified
we have
destiny of
all
Man, agreeing
by
previous concepts.
The
First Postuall
things.
The Second
Law
of
Cycles,
world-building.
The
souls
harmony with
the First
all
Laws
of
Karma and
factors in
Human
Evolution.
to the First Postulate,
we
find
One
all
ifestations"
conceive,
and
from or manifestations of
Matter or Spirit;
One: whether
it
be
man or beast; angel or worm; every thing from the One and, after all manifestation, as before, the One is concealed; inexhaustible, unknowable. We know and can know only Its gar;
ment,
Its manifestations.
i6o
Mystic Masonry.
Man
One
is
is
called the
Microcosm, or
little
world.
The
Being;
and as
manifests as the
many by an
ferentiation, so in
have
first
The
three
first
Then
from the
fires"*
Hindu
philosophy.
him turn
to the investigations of
modern physical
Helmholtz
es-
man
ear,
dissonant vibrations
It
is
has,
fur-
an exact
*See Plates
and
II.
i6i
In other words,
colors.
and Conservation of Force, designates the various forces, as "Special Modes of Motion:" that is, definite vibrations.
Matter
densities,
and hence
or rather
Change the
plane,
Reverse
vibration,
means the
and
to
another
plane.
We
must go
further.
we have
complex and
all
Hence on
is
to,
there
an inter-
On
all
is
dominant chord
to
which
in
vibrations conform.
Just as
we may have
an
i62
Mystic Masonry.
of this interpenetration, however,
The order
is
from
above downvi^ard.
the lower,
enth)
physical
The
It
first
or
lowest plane
is
altogether
existence.
its
characteristics.
Under
3d,
and so on.
The
is
greatest activity
is
on
merge
in,
or return
less,
All
known
phe-
nomena
law.
Hence
saying in
the
old
philosophy:
shall be eternal
on the
The
stances
grossest
physical
substance,
therefore,
is
penetrated or
saturated
energies.
with
all
the
higher subto
and
These
are
held
subis,
and so are
theme
163
imagine such a complicated condition and such coordinate resuks as all the time occur, and yet believe that there is
whole process?
It is
general
way
Take the
first
or lowest plane.
2,
It
is
penetrated
Let us
say that each plane represents matter and force, the Cosmic duality. The so-called Force, of plane i,
is
2.
But plane
is
of plane
is
Hence the
latent
plane 3
on plane
2,
The
law, therefore,
may
be thus formulated:
is
From
der derives
its
where
all
are
merged
One Eternal
Passing
now from
the organic nature of man, and applying these universal laws to his physical,
sensuous, intelkctual,
we
164
Mystic Masonry.
well to bear in
mind
Religion
(theology)
were the
the ex-
To deny
all
hu-
man
ignorance
and discouragement,
This
philosophy,
not to despair.
here but
all
crudely outlined,
is
it
was
them concealed
show how
embodied
in the symbols of
Masonry,
in the Buildit
Man may
as a
concrete whole
Anand
man
is
composed of
are
fluids,
organs.
The
fluids
165
The
tissues
and
these
again are
supposed to
elements.
Physiology
organic
life
the
functions
of
man
as
mere
like
association of
tissues en-
dowed with
called
the plant,
as
hence sometimes
vegetative
functions:
Animal viewe'd
to all animal
from
life
:
and common
is
usu-
appears
has already
been shown
ness
is
Man's Being.
pended, but
never
destroyed,
may
it
retire
In this sense
ical plane.
may
and
its
may
may,
connection with
the body,
in
makes
its
it
Ego
states
a conception of the nature and existence of the human Soul. These elements of truth, be it observed,
are derived from the
i66
Mystic Masonry.
body, and the key to the
It
is
problem
lies
it
denies or
It
is
agnostic
should also
we do
Consciousness as a w^orking
man
experience.
itself,
Regarding
the
nature of
con-
sciousness
we
Spencers and
posited
it
Huxleys of
we have man
As
to
changes
in
states
the
bounds of
consciousness,
in the
has
already
been
proved empirically
experiments in hypnotism.
Beyond the
field
pressed thought of
the
Hypnotizer.
its
Thus, even
mechanical working
cm-
167
Had
ments
clues, at least, in
Academy
are
true,
of
Medicine, and
many
lines.
the
reports
Dr.
Baraduc has
to
many Adepts
J.
of of
Long before
Ohio,
this,
Mr.
M. Rusk,
a
McConnelsville,
photographed
"thought
potheses of
modern
science,
and
to
Now,
the
to
which
have referred,
method of
investigat-
magnificent results,
it is
not,
purposes.
to
The Planes
referred,
in
Nature and
in
Man,
which
have
in their divisinvesti-
method of
i68
Mystic Masonry.
CHAPTER
VI.
Man.
We
Love
may
as Principles manifesting in
nized by results.
definite
In themselves they
may have no
which,
if
vessel.
Still it is
definite
form of
own.
So
it
is
ciples
we
are considering.
is
human
sevenfold
occult
forces.
It
shown how
169
determining penetrate with the "dominant chord" As to the general vibration on any plane.
the
method of evolution
in
thropogenesis to Cosmogenesis,
may
here be noted
and hardenits
present
The
Secret Doctrine teaches that man, like the earth, expotentially in the fire-mist, and that he has
isted
evolved
downward
inhabits,
earth he
part.
and of which he
is
an integral
is,
evolving
within
the
greater
earth
(Macrocosm).
This
is
one of
the meanings of
In a metaphysis
com-
posed in
ilar process.
may
whole process of
evolution
Analogy.
It
must
intimate relation
to
expansion
of
consciousness,
and
170
Mystic Masonry.
mation of evolution
with the All.
him.
is
reached,
man
will be at
one
in
will be
One
This
forth by Herbert
re-
infinite
possibilities
made
to
Humanity.
During the
life
of
is
man
in the animal
body on the
physical plane, he
ciples.
Astral
(The order
from
The
three, namely,
bolized by a triangle.
known
to
man, and
is
the origin of
the "Trin-
As
Name
written in the
Principle,
One Universal
all
is
evolution.
called the
Word, but
not
Ain Soph.
171
Atma
Hence
in
it
man
is
represents
Ain Soph
in
Cosmos.
called a
one in essence.
When
Christ
"ascended to the Father," he raised his consciousness to the seventh or Atmic Plane, and became in
fact (no longer in essence only)
God.
Spirit-
Atma-
God
in
man.
Life-Principle,
Form-Body and Kama (or Desire), are symbolized by a square. To make it plain, let
that
It
what
The Body
of
Life
is is
of the Astral
;
Kama Kama
Atma.
This
the vehicle of
;
Manas
is
Manas
is
and Buddhi
the vehicle
of the principles.
a
is
is
not
mere aggregation of
or
172
Mystic Masonry.
organs; and organs, the
same
is,
whole.
its
That
co-ordinating centers of
like
the
cerebellum,
the medulla,
or the
sensory
and
volition,
to the
cerebrum.
iology nor
at the slightest
really are,
organization.
can not
be
The
point
which the
square; that
through
Mind.
Kama
first in
passion, etc.)
is
the
Kama
We
173
from
this
association
Kamathe
the
human
brain.
Here
is
know with
in
the
Here
is,
furthermore,
the origin,
man.
On
the
we have
Will;
on the lower
side,
Desire.
This union of
Manas with Kama, or Mind with Desire, is called the lower mind (Lower Manas), because it always
involves the personal equation.
exist,
but
sonal,
and
the
Higher-Mind
becomes
free.
The
merged
This
is
At-One-Ment
held
of the lower
man with
desire,
bondage by
man can
the for
Good
or the True.
He
inquires,
"What
is
is
good
bias,
me?"
good or
When
this condition is
is
reached and
said to be inis
174
Mystic Masonry.
or circumscribed
;
by,
or the
physical body
tion
but,
Hu-
manity,
man
attains Divinity.
In other words, he
becomes Christos.
This
is
consummation of
losophy defines
Human
by which
it
may
be attained.
is
is
Christ: and
Christ
God.
of every
human
was taught
in
all
the
this doctrine
was concealed
Supreme Consummation
it
to
made
manity.
by Faith
of
the
in a
the Authority
Church
lose
;
on
Earth or
in
Heaven."
Law
annulled
Justice,
dethroned
results.
17S
symbolizes and
illustrates,
and
mony
by
instructs, but
it
form means
effort,
to regenerate;
comes by
trial,
out his
is
own
salva-
tion."
The consummation
of initiation
the Perfect
human
Now, with
the
this idea of
human
evolution, and in
is
it
to
be a
Master?
so holy,
of
tated,
an
Idol, a Fetish,
to love, and,
above
all,
an
Human
Race.
By
has conquered
experience.
Life after
life
he has gathered
sor-
He
has assailed
all
problems;
studied
all all
sciences;
exhausted
litanies;
apprehended
philosophies; practiced
all
IJ76
Mystic Masonry.
arts.
At every
and
own
desires
all
Grovi^n
life
the
llower planes of
by sore
by bitter
conflict,
he has at
last
renounced
self utterly,
and so
This
is
the "Great
all
An
Infinite
Compassion for
and an
that
his soul,
infinite
peace
settles
within his
spirit.
on roots and
final liberation."
"Step out
from sunlight
. .
into
.
shade,
to
make
more room
" 'Tis
for others."
"The
selfish
The
man who
life
"So
lives;
accord with
all
that
bear love to
men
i??
saith
?
Can
there be bliss
when
all
that lives
must
suffer
foundation in
life
in the
of man.
It will
tramps, or lunatics.
What,
then,
is
the meaning,
?
Is
Tantalus
what happens
the
as the
consciousness
animal-self
of
lower
toward
soul;
from the
We
"Lower
Quaternary."
When man
and more apparent as the battle-ground of his evoHe gradually relaxes tooth and claw, and, lution.
first,
by
instinct,
finally
by
'Voice of the
Silence.
178
Mystic Masonry.
He
ethics,
and
His very
selfishness leads
him
to
combine and
sympathies
At
last his
expand.
By and by he
He
reciprocates,
all this
and
becomes generous.
his
During
is
long and
weary struggle
mind
sciousness expanding.
He
is
himself a
world of Thought.
It
He
reflects
seeks causes,
the
and discerns
He
:
realizes
saying,
"My mind
to
me
kingdom
is;"
"On Earth
there
is
there
is
Man
In
Man
nothing
am
is
the result of
in
what
have Thought."
Mind
all
is like
an alembic
ex-
periences.
By
to
evolution
man
is
continually climbfive
His
senses are
the
adjusted
physical plane
The
become
refined.
His
179
He
is
is
There
revealed to
him
world of aspiration
in
which Self
is
The very
panding, disappearing.
of
knowing things he
sees inner
He
in
mean-
Not only
in visions
He
Self,
power of Thought.
By conquering
becomes strong.
clear.
all
By subduing
passion, his
mind becomes
He
He becomes
clairaudient and
He
now
As
his senses
and
same Evolutionary
Law
of
make him, on
men and
of higher Nature.
is
evolving organs
i8o
Mystic Masonry.
force.
him
the
(spir-
plane.
man
on
in contact with
all
Even
so
it is
tion,
Deep within
as
a curious
little
structure
known
Des
Pineal
Gland
with
the
it
Restiform bodies.
Modern physiology
Cartes called
it
assigns to
no function.
In the aver-
age individual
is
though
its
would seem
It
to assign
office.
presents a dif-
and
life,
in the idiotic,
in the
prime of
health,
and vigor.
Third Eye."
the
and
Eye
Siva
of Siva, and
is
Hindoo
Trinity,
i8l
stroyer).
The
action of this
little
"gland"
It
may
be
renders the
It
is
atrophied,
individual,
and
becor-
therefore dormant
the average
cause the
relaxed chords
(using a symbol)
is
Going back
find
to
we
Mind
:
to be the
sciousness
orderly,
when governed by
(Apperception).
Now
it
can easily be
"descent" from higher to lower planes, on his "ascent" from lower to higher planes, the differentiations
i82
Mystic Masonry.
This
precisely
what happens
in the case of
hearing and
seeing,
color.
Since empirical
may now,
it
perhaps, no longer
in
must be borne
mind
Here then
is
The Eye
for
it
of Siva
is,
in fact,
an All-Seeing- Eye
practically annuls
Whether
tradition, or
or not
con-
All-Seeing-Eye so conspicuous
least, is its
symbolism, such, at
meaning
in the
real
pineal gland,
dormant
in others, is active
in
him;
he lives
one and
is
Master of
all
lower planes.
Says
183
men
Alaya
should so
little
avail."
second stage."
as to the
attained.
Now,
or,
Power he
possesses,
the
Master's Word.
his ideas,
and reveal
his character.
is
the creative
power of Deity
called the
Word
of
Divinity,
is
"There
is
in
force,
by
means whereof a
himself of
could
world.
it,
direct
it,
revolutionize
It
is
is
equilibrium,
and whereby,
trol
it,
if
how
to con-
it
will be possible to
184
Mystic Masonry.
produce in night the phenomena of
the Seasons
to
"This
agent,
partially
revealed
is
by
the
blind
precisely
what
The Gnostics
held that
Spirit;
and
or
was adored
Sabbat
the Temple,
under
Modern Science
Professor
is
of
Roentgen,
photography, the
all,
Mayava Rupa
discoveries of
the
W.
Akas
of the
There
is
*Moral8 and
Dogma,
p.
734.
185
was
is
said,
possessed the secret of this "most potent force," referred to by Bro. Pike, that they were great Magicians,
Pera
in
solving
ancient "Fables"
may seem
less
fabulous to
modern
"scientific materialism."
When
it is
But when
it
is
knowledge of
these forces
is
concealed from
in the
fied,
If this
any uncertainty as
to the
i86
Mystic Masonry.
at the present time, the contest
Cuban Rebels
This force
says,
would
fluid
pene-
Hence
It is
is
of the Alchemists.
concentrated in
man
as the
He who
knows
its
its
and send
real
mighty waves
to
do his bidding.
The
Word
is
sense,
this tone-key
do his
and withhold
average
man
of
today;
own
gether incredible to an age of Syndicates and Trades Such a power would, indeed, be a Unionists.
knockdown argument
nish a very ready
in
all
way
of settling
disputes.
The
ethical training to
187
many
But
it
mortal Gods."
because the real Master does not enter into competition on the physical plane, or parade his gifts for the
transcendent Powers.
It
would
awe
and such
things.
Men
From
have
away
childish
men;
ment
is
According
tive
the synthesis of
It
is
gence."
"that
first
time law."
It is
mic Electricity."
These are
Electricity,
Mag-
*Se Plate
I.
i88
Mystic Masonry.
What
can
modern science
calls
The
If
forces just
named
That
all
is,
we
back of
all
forces there
One
Force, and
if
this
we
get the
modulus; and
that
what
is
known
must
to exist in the
Chem-
the rate of vibration, the quality and amplitude of the "wave-length" in any given case, he will hold
the
Key
to that plane.
is
Fohat
forces,
tially,
all
known
of
but poten-
the
Author
the
Law
tions, or action
If this
view
is
might seem
But such
is
'See
Plate
I.
189
When
is
one
of the highest of the Elohim, or Builders, the Creators spoken of in Genesis, the direct agents of Divinity through
Soph
creates, this
The
law of
first all
subsequent vibration.
Fohat
is,
more-
gent Force
moved by
Will."
As
tion of
man
can readily be
;
man and
that the
and
Master
thereof,
and
let it
be done."
naturally say:
"What manner
the
man
.
is
this, that
said of
Word
A.
-.U. -.M.
that
it
has
therefore,
190
Mystic Masonry.
Tetragramaton
to
of the
balah
gels
^"He who maketh the earth quake and anand men to tremble" even Jehovah, For the
of Kabalah,
it
Ka-
has
many
is
The
all
construction.
The
Key
this
As
is
long as
concord,
in
perfect
health exists.
disease results
Whenever
;
the
harmony
disturbed,
the result.
The problem
the operations of
v/ill
;
in freeing
Ego from
sions,
The
it;
idea
is
not
not to destroy
but
Without
191
ture
drowns out
all
higher vibrations
as
if
in
an
Hence
is
"He
that conquers
himself
greater than he
who
taketh a city."
There
called
skill
Yoga, and
in
defined as
of
equal-mindedness and
actions. It
is
is
the performance
distinguished from
after special
mere straining
is
ship), and
called
;
or Divine sort
and
everywhere portrayed as a
Whatever
apparent
is
gained
one
life
over to the
gain
is
next
incarnation
while
all
of
in
lost
a detriment to evolution.
The potency
of the planes in
man
increases from
192
Mystic Masonry.
we
in
have
been
considering
consists
symbolically,
:"
that
to
is,
of
it
make
The mind
that functions
longer
first gives man self-connow moves one plane higher. Passion no rules the man and blinds him to universal
The Higher
;"
Self
in
man, called
"crucified
his
between
two
thieves
namely,
the
the
Higher
and
I
Lower Manas.
evil
is
Hence
saying,
"when
would do good,
is
As
the body
crucified (a
me
in paradise."
This
lower nature.
mind,
is
The other
to
"thief,"
or
the
brain
left
perish with
may
thus be seen
how
the higher
The process
Hence
193
"I
my
lips,
know
shalt be-
come
as gods
dominant chord and the combination of the keyboard directed by the Will,
is
the discovery of
is
J.
W.
Keely.
The
clearly
shown
vibration
(bombardment)
of
the
remainder;
light."
and
"new
The
He
been
verified,
It
losophy as related to
man
Our theory
194
Mystic Masonry.
itself,
but rather
The
from the
"The
the
sweet-tongued
voices of illusions."
"Thou
make
a play-ground
of thy mind."*
It
may
the
Christs of
stand as
made
is
195
must be seen
to be both evo-
Taking now
as a fact,
we may
change that
We
which the
supremacy of
"Thou
of the mind."
No
doubt
it
not only
philosophical
all
concept
but
truths.
scientific
facts
and
moral
sum
of
sides of Consciousness.
Experience
in the
may
be called the
life
conscious
of man.
therefore, the
changes
in
Thought
is
196
Mystic Masonry.
theater of
Ufe.
Con-
sciousness
therefore,
to
the Hfe of
man what
Space
is
to the existence
the
cell,
ALL-CONTAINER.
The Ego
a self-centered
is
to the living
the point
forces and
movements
all
counter-movements and
the
Ego
the
Thinker of man.
The
first
point to be
to
made
the
the Thinker
passively
that
all
control
thought.
all
Instead of
suggestions
;
come from
or
that
and pride
he
selects,
shall
come.
over his
own
He
is
upon the
subject.
thought
197
Yet
what
ness?
is
revery,
or
We
have only
and
reflect
on our
how
natural and
oc-
cult laws.
When
persisted
strong,
this process
in,
is
intelligently conceived
and
the
mind grows
clear
is
and for
this
change there
a physical basis
and a
scientific
This change
Kamic
plane,
;
which
is
now
subordi-
and also
in the Astral or
Form-body, which
is
the vehicle of
is
Kama
(passion
and desire).
the
mold or patis
built,
which
it
precedes and
after death.
Atomic.
is
incarnation
immediate result of
the
the
life;
thoughts
and experiences
all
preceding
lives.
modified, however, by
previous
It is
in-
by the strong
may appear
as the Ghost of
Wraith seen
at
198
Mystic Masonry.
has also much to do with
It
rooms.
like
all
the
is
other
seven (really
fold in
its
seven-
constitution in
man and
;
it
is
the lowest
is
of
This Astral
or
one of
the "square,"
lower
quaternary, and
soul, or
With
now
the
Form-Body and
shell.
vibrations of the
now
The
heretofore described,
purified
now come
The
physical
body
is
Ego on
It
the physical
plane; but
common
199
we
"jour-
We
rare that
we remem-
son that
all
that
ing
He
occurs.
By and by he
out"
observes the
process
of
"going
and "coming
observed.
The
Ibbetson
osophical
ness,"
and
phil-
description
is
of
this
"double
conscious-
which
more than
justified
by the phenom-
The Adept
once
last
is
leads a double
and
lives
at
in
two
worlds.
He
foot."
has,
enemy
under
He
conquered Death.
whom
At
Plato and
the death
is
not
new
200
Mystic Masonry.
is
realm
It is
for he has
now no
to live so little
little
on that plane,
work
do for humanity, or
he finds nothing
the
an obligation to discharge
to
to others,
regret in dying.
He
has
fulfilled
it!
Law
of
'This
is
peace,
life.
To conquer
love
of
self
and lust
of
To
tear
deep-rooted
passion
from the
breast,
To
"For
still
love,
clasp
to
Eternal
Beauty
self,
close;
For glory,
be
Lord
gods;
of
for
pleasure
To
live
beyond
tbe
for
countless
wealth
To
lay
up lasting treasure."
for
Life
How
spent?
clear, the
new
is
clean;
201
"Hark
Na-
proclaim
men
of Myalha.
the other
is
born."*
in
in
philosophy,
;
science,
in
fact,
and
in
a Master
a Master, and
power which he
as in
all
finds
derived,
One
experimentlittle
way
to
in
no "go-as-
accomplish
God concerning
and ennui
life
'Voice of the
Silence.
202
Mystic Masonry.
indeed,
is
The term Astral-Body has been used because it is somewhat familiar to Western students. The term
is
ture to
which
it
it
com-
plex that
scribe
call
it.
is difficult
which
to de-
The conception
is,
of
what we ordinarily
in-
moreover, entirely
Electric-
for example,
is
not simply a
"mode
of motion,"
Will: a duality in
according as
it
manifests as
re-
out,
makes
difficult to
Ego on
In "going out
is
of the body,"
example, there
freeing of
203
Body and
this
The Astral-Body,
take
therefore,
need not
cognizance
of
events
elsewhere
transpiring.
in cases
at
the time,
Thought
substance
is,
in
every
case,
vibration molding
into
definite
forms.
far,
Whenever we think
of a person near or
we
This
to the clearness of
memory
selves,
characteristic of our-
and
in thinking intently of
a distant object or
may appear
With
at
may
who
thinks clearly
*Dr.
Baradue
has
demonstrated
this,
by
the
'Thought- Body."
204
Mystic Masonry.
possessed of a strong
to fix
is
who knows,
also,
how
and
hold the
Such an
;
Illusion
might
nor, except in
successful or not.
facts
to students
scientific
experiment trenches
may
June
is
not
27,
photography
given
Academic de Medicine by
methods of
Dr. Baraduc:
his
simple enough.
in
The experimenter
locks himself
a dark
room
plate.
sensitive
After seating himself and divesting his mind of vagrant thoughts and deliberations, and after steady-
205
on a
certain image, be
man,
and
it
will be
power of
his will.
If
no other image has intruded, a perfect likeness will have been obtained. In conclusion. Dr. Baraduc
says that not everybody has this
his volition,
power
to control
and
nation
is
indispensable."
result
Mr. James M. Rusk, of Ohio, reports the same from a similar experiment made by himself
is
the
photography and
the
is,
consequent
of course,
science.
and
this result
to
of paramount importance
materialistic
will be convinced
by a fact or
perceive
will
Let
all
means.
as-
Experiment might be
sistance derived
is
facilitated
immensely by
as this
apprehends the
from
2o6
Mystic Masonry.
The
death-knell
"For
to receive, the
Lord make us
207
CHAPTER
VII.
the Master.
in the
became
Master
To
the Lesser
were
Some remained
for a lifetime
the Build-
No ceremony was
fanciful.
artificial
and meaningless
the ignorant,
to
was merely
must
2o8
Mystic Masonry.
The
Priests
knew
better than
.
we do
the laws of
move-
ment and of
life.
."*
Philosophy, however,
may
give us a
Key
t-o
symdis-
True philosophy
Board of Time
few and simple.
Symbolism.
changes rung
on concept
and
who
to
know.
When
it
apprehen-
and binding
garment
in
high places, or
power
interpret, or willfully
done for
lo,
these
many
centuries, the
dis-
covered.
their
work
better
p.
734.
209
in destroy-
The
real
sym-
destroy these.
in
make
this generally
known, because
to
do so
it
Tem-
and radiation, or
ment, which
is
and the
perpetual cause of
Lactanius, as
it
was long
proven a
Priests,
dogmas and
all
To
preserve
authority and
its
perquisites,
Ec-
all
the past,
answer
nor ar-
facts, reason,
men
p.
842.
210
Mystic Masonry.
When men
are
wise
enough
and
brave
enough
imitating their
superiors,
will
scout,
ridicule
and
slander
all
who
The
all
Ideal in
Church and
State, the
ages to govern
men
as
own
all
good.
The
man
to
govern
himself.
So long
Hierarchies subordinate
Knowledge
to all in such
When, however,
edge, claims
and by
punished as a
man when ignorance or disbelief is crime and men torture the body, or
"to
save
Soul"
then does
the
Hierarchy become an
enemy
of both
2il
The continuance
ment.
It is for this
many
centuries
of
its
students or ex-
able
Persecution in every
Might
and
the
weak and
to
and powerful
complete
the
blasphemy,
is
and
monument
cruelty,
such persecution
of the Lord." of
the
name
The Altars
Masonry have
ever
been
the
the
way-faring
Brother
of
all
Nations
and
tongues.
Brotherhood of
Liberty.
aloft
the Torch of
212
Mystic Masonry.
and color
lines
craft,
the
re-
persecution,
op-
pression.
When
v^^orth
alone,
and Ma-
sonry
its
heritage from
all
the past,
and
its
The
traditions of
Masonry
in the
work
of the Lodge,
The reasons
all
women
to
sufficient
answer
Androgynous
all
Masonry may be
and have gen-
attempts to establish or
failed,
Each and
all
have
Nor
woman
most
to
blame for
this result.
In
modern
man-
the place of
to
Lodge
213
its
to preserve unaltered
the Ancient
Landmarks
as a heritage to posterity.
Altars and
its
In this
work of
the
is
men
every
office
of
woman,
as
Mother,
Sister,
her presence in the Lodge, and she would have received no benefit by being admitted.
When, how-
when
light-
altars
its
and
prerogative
and when with no fear of persecution from timeserving Potentate or Creed-ridden Priest, the Light
may
shine for
all,
tion be as open to
in the schools of
woman
as to
Souls of
life
to
earthly
214
Mystic Masonry.
teaches that souls are sexless; and that
is
Ideals.
It
an incident of gestation.
No
known
to
man
great
heights,
or long maintained
supremacy,
that debased
woman.
in
debasement
any form
is
the
highway
to de-
horrible chapters in
Atavism
is
possible experience of
man,
lies
the
Holy
Ghost;"
for
through
open door,
possible for
man
to lose If
human
any
one doubts
scientific
him read
if
he can
some of the
of Lunacy.
"The
be good
lesson
we
are taught in
Masonry
that he
is
to
men and
true."
And
made by
to the
the neophite in
Masonry
comes
Lodge
to "learn to
215
i.
e.,
to
engage
in the
may
experience, by
all his-
and by
date.
all scientific
up
to
These
ancient
derided,
anathematized, misrepresented, persecuted, and suppressed, as they have been for the last fifteen hun-
dred years,
will,
now dawning,
man
them.
true,
even
yet,
that
among otherwise
They
and they
new
discovery in
be for
all
It will
all
make
progress," and
Egyp-
exhausted
philosophies, apprehended
all
sciences,
in
2i6
Mystic Masonry.
erations of the
human
race.
By and
it
by,
even our
children,
become
tired
in
trying to do
over again by
themselves, and
Voices of
ask,
were the
call his?
dawn
of
what we
in the
Initiation
to
have far
The Secret
the
it
is
vain guesses, or the tortuous investigations of ignorant men, but of the recorded and carefully tested
Humanity
in
every age.
cause they are old, but old because they are true.
God hath
said
it
said
it,
or
is
suptrue;
God
because
it is
is
thus the
is
The
Master who
217
it
erations of men.
But
it
is
but
it
in
in the Master.
stition.
The masses
his service to
humanis
best
work and
best
:
agree"
called a Master.
Service and
Harmony
these are
The Ignorant
to
may worship
wallow
as a
Hence
the
"gone
into
a mountain apart"
and
to
shunned
applause
of
men, preferring
be despised
and
2i8
Mystic Masonry.
CHAPTER
THE GREAT
VIII.
LODGE.
the Ancient
upon every
political oppression
which have already been pointed out. In times of and ecclesiastical persecution it
became necessary
mem-
mutual protection.
or an Occultist
inal, to
When
to be
to be
known
as a
Mason
crim-
was
hunted down
life,
like a
be imprisoned for
or perhaps to be tor-
men
There
naturally
concealed
their
probably no degree in
Masonry today
mem-
Those who
end are well aware that under the plea that "the
219
the means,"
to
no member of
these bodies
would hesitate
might support the power and maintain the prerogative of his Sodality,
knowing
in
lution
for
the
many
upon
In the face of
trayal,
so-called exposures,
and
of
all
be-
its
way,
its
and
and inculcates
and
perjury a crime
unknown
to
the
all
Notwithstanding
Lodge; and no
honest
possible
why any
man
of the Lodge except in the order and under the conditions prescribed.
But after
all
rule in the
mys-
220
Mystic Masonry.
has had more to do with concealment than
teries,
The pen-
alties
excration of
honest
In gen-
directions
He
had created a
and
it
destroyed him.
exeas
cution
was
it
was portrayed
in the
terrible.
Too
genuine occultism, to
telligible.
West
of
explanation inis
full of
"Demon
of the Threshold"
may
mance, as many cases of obscession recorded in the annals of Medicine and Spiritualism abundantly
221
The
"Principalities
which the
Kabalah
scribed)
ture.
though but
When
underentities
stood,
becomes known,
be gained, and
ing them.
will be discerned
is
how
little is to
how much
lies
to be risked
by invok-
Here
the reason
why mediumship
or,
is
Real Seership
a very dif-
compared
to the
Ecstacy of an inno-
may
be likened to
Some
for
idea
may
be
gained,
perhaps,
from the
of
obligations
assumed
by .the
In
the "Mystery of
and
impossible.
No
real
Master,
even
222
Mystic Masonry.
own
creation.
The imagination
The
trials
stories that
the
down
to
Tom
Moore's Epi-
Lesser Mysteries.
teries
The
Mys-
What
they were
knowledge of what
idea as to
initiation really
last
what the
any
indi-
likely that
it
vealed, because, as
it
shown
is
an
Initiate.
The philosophy
Man.
it,
Thus philosophy,
the
for
understand
instruction of
phite as enable
him
223
mere teaching
is
is
hension of what
is
to be done,
is
tellectual
When
Mysteries of Antiquity
well-qualified
established,
worthy and
receive
neophites
will
doubtless
not
We
theme
may now
in
history like a
idea crops
a musical composition.
The
it
is
not history
full-page
reasons
already
made
clear.
is
The
and some of
Like
all
its
tions
and
seats.
;
symbols,
symbolized
it is
not a his-
seat in Egypt, or in
possible, instead of in
Old India,
224
Mystic Masonry.
or in Ireland, which
tinent of Atlantis,
is
which
more
likely
still, it
would
not
make any
not designed to
When
now
and
what are
called the
the
will be deciphered,
Venus
rising
of Ireland's stories.
On
right
the
scientific
Masonry,
Furthermore:
the
further back
the grander
we go
become
in history,
the
monuments
Plato
Secret
their
Science.
Pythagoras and
found
knowledge ready-made
lonian Mysteries.
in the
The deeper we
the
edge they betray of Astronomy, Mechanics, Mathematics and Architecture, demonstrate the existence
225
we mod-
We
is
again concealed;
till
grows
we
proceed,
irresistible that
beneath
this
The analogy
But
if
is
ing
scientific.
the ancient
monuments on
more
the
still
tran-
the
Intellectual
There
is
known
to
to
Old
we have
only the
fragments, the
ture as
it
once existed.
The
records
known
to us today,
hymns of the Vedas, have scarcely yet been spelled out by their letters. Such translations as have been given us are both
superficial
and
literal,
and
the
inner
meaning,
all.
226
Mystic Masonry.
has
The
interpretation
that
heretofore
been
put
upon them by
Philologists,
few of
as Symbologists,
a real Occultist,
Ihese
in introducing ancient
and
in
but in nearly
modern Christendom.
work
it
has been
unchallenged.
The
have
When Western
students are
symboHsm,
not only
it
is
scholars
who
know
Sanskrit, but
Secret Doctrine,
227
single
instance.
known
made
great progress in
Modern Modern
science.
But
in
no form conceived
by
science
and
all
the
this theory
account for
of the
phenomena observed.
an Hypothesis
Science,
The Atoms
as
solid,
of
Modern
whether
etheric,
conceived
fluidic,
gaseous,
all
or
of
for
are,
these
nevertheless,
as
regarded
as dead atoms.
centers,
mere neutral
still
or
far
removed
every
Monad
reflecting
every other.
"Compare
modern
Jones, in which
the Divine
it is
Mind."
"Hidden
in
veil
of
thick darkness,
own
face on every
atom."
When we
we
shall
have come
228
Mystic Masonry.
will
The
original
Hymns
of
the
allegorical
form of
Secret Doctrine,
and Perfect
Sublime
who
made
and broken
all
monuments remain,
these
outrank
modern
achievements of man.
The
ancient government
was
In
it
as his children.
and
sit at
the feet of
some inspired
recluse, in order
more
light,
which he would
Instead of teaching
the real
it
when
meaning of
perhaps, be
is
revealed,
will,
veil ever
imposed between
Wisdom and
The
to
old gods
229
and of pointing
No
word-painting
known
to
man seems
half so beautiful as
some
of
joy of
home and
duties of
affection illustrated,
life,
common
and
in
language so musical,
so perfect, as to
make
the
whole
more
like a
On
nearly
"they
Anugita
said
^in
relation to
so
to
and
so.
an old
woman
record
in her dotage,
devour her
primeval
the
of
dimmed or destroyed. In the olden time the Brahman was indeed "twiceborn," and it was the second birth alone that made
greatness can never be
him Brahman.
apprehend
The
parables, then,
were not
in-
who
could
230
Mystic Masonry.
power.
the
possession
office
To such
to all
ing obedience.
The doors
of Initiation
were open
who had
With
Lodge standing
in the
was a perfect
rep-
resentative of
Science and
Philosophy, in which
symmetry
gion.
in
The
Vedas.
of
the
Hymns
of the
Brahm;
But
in time the
the
people
Then came
"twice-
was
lost.
231
failed in India,
The
religions of
Philosophical.
folly of India,
religions.
existed,
and
Masters
like
Hermes,
Zoroaster,
Confucius,
and
many
comand
The conquest
to,
Mys-
largely,
perJiaps,
From
phy of
During the
232
Mystic Masonry.
trines flourished;
The Religion
ligion,
of Jesus
it
was
in
of the Mysteries;
Wisdom- Re-
and
rebellious people."
The
ethical
Jesus in time give place to Priestcraft and Sacerdotalism; to worldly power, and conquest; and the religion of
by the
"Holy
shed.
and blood-
The
Sufis,
among
the conquering
Mohammedans,
power paled
in
knew
"Sword
of the Prophet."
lineal
descendant of
may
justly be regarded as a
modern
rites
times.
Grand
Ideal,
Masonry stands
has pre-
233
it
cherished and
honored
Temple
of the
among
"Stone that
"Lost
and
for the
Word
is
Alas
who can
signs,
say
There
and
line
evidence
of
The
grips,
and
passwords, by which a
Mason
recognizes a Brother,
The
It
is
real
Master
else-
knows
his fellows
by other signs.
has been
both clairvoyant
There
is
a magnetic atmosphere,
human
being,
and,
in-
Every one
in contact
feels this
with others,
may
its
see nothing,
effects.
This atmosphere of
the source of
what
is
called
"Sym-
It is
the focal-
234
Mystic Masonry,
all
life.
composed of matter,
is
mode
may
be ab-
The
vibrations
in
man.
The Key-note
and
in all
in every individual
thus de-
termined as a
sualist,
In the sen-
who
selfishness,
red,
like
it
the
oomb
as hot
of a
pro-
often described
and
stifling.
In an individual
who
is
unselfish
and pure-minded, the color may alternate between a golden yellow and blue, and the effect described by
the sensitive
is
that
it is
cool, restful,
and inspiring.
easily verified,
and
it
is
and
if
a real Master
is
able to see
all
ditions
invisible
he
signs, or
Man
betrays
all
his
tour and pose of his body, in his gait, in his handwriting, in the lines in his hand, in the tones of his
235
no man
al-
possesses character.
Character
is
that
which he
together
is,
One need
what he
this;
he
life
recog-
and unhigher
in the
science,
and
pro-
nounced or
Adept, possessed
should
fail
in
interpreting them.
The
individual
who
is
really
Hence
it
is
who
really
know
the
true wisdom.
Its
signs
stolen Shibboleths by
which the
can be
pic-
betrayed.
many
236
Mystic Masonry.
Even
patois.
the crim-
History
is
pretenders in Occultism.
Pre-
tension alone
There
are,
who
were, never-
genuine Adepts,
if
not Perfect
Masters.
We
must distinguish between self-conviction that comes from the pretender's own mouth and those
ported by evidence.
The pretender
is
often loaded
ward
which he
shrewd enough
is
to conceal.
On
the other
barter
the
may
be found those
wisdom and
and
seen and
their
own
identity
unknown
to the
to their fellows,
and
237
The ignorance
God" have
often
bear wit-
If the reader is
ready
deny
all this,
of course
it
and
it is
One can do no
believes,
more than
to state, candidly
what he
and
which he knows
to be true.
in
every age,
would be
likely to
know
unless he beis
very
and that
is,
and knowl-
in the
West
as they
have not
They
are
by many igno-
at every step
238
Mystic Masonry.
by "More-Light."
close
namely, the
Kali Yuga.
junctions,
first
many
earthquakes,
already apparent to
is
all
who
a transition period,
and what-
This
is
and by.
Note
Many
Two
references
of
in
literature
might be adof
the
existence
the
Great
viz.,
these
may
here
be
mentioned,
that given in the Life of Apollonius Tyanseus of his visit to the Adepts of India, and the account of Fla-
Redivivus, by Campbell.
ever,
mel and the Adepts in an old book called Hermippus The present object is, howrather
to
unfold
philosophy than
be,
to
gather
facts;
to explain
rather than
to
An
Outline of Symbolism.
239
CHAPTER
IX.
AN OUTLINE OF SYMBOLISM.
A
clay,
man
Every
detail
of
allegory, or a parable
or indicate a use
but the
all-
vv^ould
be a universal and
thought in man.
is
its
This picthis
an idea or a thought,
Art-
speech,
is
Symbolism.
When
is
human
experience,
common.
When
the
dragon, or a
man
veyed
is
Take
240
Mystic Masonry.
point
a circle
O,
O;
the
0;
divided
the circle
the series
If,
the upper half divided ; a cross within -; and we have ; the cross alone emanating from the point and the circle.
;
-i
to un-
fold in the
Hence,
just in
the
and each
Aside
in the
(OO )
pinhead or a sun.
Form and
have
Proportion,
little
meaning ex-
To
tt,
or the proportion
:3i4i59,
An
Outline of Symbolism.
241
ad-
OO,
mea-
The simple
illustrate the
series to
which
have referred
will
Added
meaning
to this science of
Symbolism there
is
an
may
scientific or philosophical
meaning.
This gives
rise
to the allegory
may convey
to
the
The most
the
known
to
modern times
is,
perhaps,
Jewish
The
all
object of
the
present
work
but
is
not to explain
value
when
242
Mystic Masonry.
and
are
worn
We
told in tihe
is
an instrument
we as free and accepted Masons make use of it for the more noble and
etc.
golden
rule,
So
Compass the
;
practical use
is
made
due bounds.
illustrated
But Masonry
is
there
in the
is
This
its
may
be outHned as follows:
its
scale of
ap-
and
solids,
this involves
The Comat
in the
Lodge
an
movements and
is
revolutions.
In a general sense,
;
the square
the
In the Lodge
An
Outline of Symbolism.
243
made
The compass
is set
at
an angle of
60'',
and
is if
repre-
sentative of the
movements
of Spirit, and,
crossed
nt a certain distance
will
produce
an equilateral triangle
three sides equal,
it
the
three
angles
and the
now
brium, or proportion.*
is
now
refers to
what was
said in a pre-
angle
(Law);
and
in
and Atma; he
compass may
primary
till
by
progression
emerges, and
finally,
in the Master's
In the
man
of
*Radius of
t
244
ignorance
Mystic Masonry.
(sin),
its
the
spirit
is
body and
state of
This
is
the
In
and
in the Master's,
Matter
is
subordinated to Spirit.
degrees explain the
(Spirit)
The
lectures
on the several
may
gain
Square
(body
and
passion)
Spirit, "in
circumpassions
our
desires,
and
keeping
our
The
perfect equilibrium of
and matter
is
star,*
which
is
from which
to
form a
triangle.
now
purified,
with Divin-
or the Over-Soul.
emblem of
Life,
^
it
and we
Transform the
rium; and
and
now sym-
An
matter to
its
Outline of Symbolism.
245
source in
spirit.
and
tail
of the serpent by a
Hammer,
it
or
symbolizes
meaning
Compass.
"Freemasonry
that
is in
Human
Reason; a continual
the
Spiritual
victory,
effort, struggle,
against
the
Material
That
when
it
may
rest
laurels, is the
True Holy
The Masonic Apron made of lambskin symbolizes innocence or purity, the condition required of
candidates in
The shape
of the
apron
is
triangle.
We
One
the square
As
spirit,
the trian-
See
Plate XII.
246
Mystic Masonry.
is
starts
As he we have the
progresses the
triangle in the
will understand.
Masonry being
of the
neophite
thus
made
to
conform to the
and
is
this
is
illustrated
by the manner in
which he
in the
Blue Lodge.
is
not
only a "hewer of
wood and
he
is
and
this is
The
which
of
its
Word,
of the
power
loss
its
Name
it
in
or, as
the
Hindoo
hand covering
the mouth."
The symbolism
An
and three lesser
places on the
the Lost
stitute
Outline of Symbolism.
lights,
247
in
many
word Light
all
conjunction with
Word,
complicated
Symbolism working
in
and
in
Ma-
What
real initiation is
vious chapter.
terpreted, serve
essences, powers,
Ini-
tiation as
lution of
all
other nations.
The
supe-
Masonry
exoteric
ReHgions consists
the
in this:
Christ
is
was
iden-
Now He
made
248
Mystic Masonry.
In deifying Jesus the whole
Christos as an eternal
soul,
tical
of
humanity
bereft of
human
a latent Christ
man.
humanity
On
the
other
original teaching,
which
a universal glyph.
Few
candidates
may
be aware
that
Hiram whom
is
sonified
ideally
is
Yet such
how
from
is
both
and and
both
philosophical
practical.
and
scientific;
and
In
name
of Deity,
is
the
is
Hebrew
tetrad ihvh, or
*Here
lies
or from
my
with
Father."
the
and
or
Father,"
e.,
"of,"
ABiFF=:"at "from."
one
An
with
the
in
Outline of Symbolism.
speech.
249
Pythagorean
art
Hebrew,
to
the tetrad
if
(Lord), and
of Alhim, he called
Elohom.
This custom
pre-
for the
he,
Master's Word.
is
The Hebrew
tetrad
"Yod,
"he."
vau, he,"
root
The
is
word
a triad,
nary
undoubtedly a blind.
as with the
and the aum^ indicating different methods of pronouncing the Sacred name.
raktys
is
represented by numbers,
in the
called
the
"lesser
while
points, is called
in
In the
lesser
and greater
*See Plates
and VIII.
250
Mystic Masonry.
by equilateral triangles,
in either case,
of lesser triangles.
count
fo/rty-nine,
or
and
i,
in
from apex
5
to base,
I3
3,
5,
and
i,
3,
7>
9,
iij
series of
odd numbers;
5,
8.
These symbols
v^^ere
and "even,"
to carry a philosophical
meaning, and
Emanation.
is
everywhere
AH
related to the
One by
absolute geometry
(perfect
and movements).
In the 47th Problem, so famous in ancient philos-
Pythagoras
we have
between
spirit
An
lars;
Outline of Symbolism.
a
251
and
this
is
constant
symbol
in
Masonic
Lodges.
In the Pythagorean Triangle, or tetrad (see Plate
V),
this
same philosophy
is
symbolized.
PROPOSITION.
same shape as
the fig-
and 16
in
16 is the
square of
is
4,
or the Tetraktys.
The
triangle series
of odd
occupy
all
(Quoted,
This Pythagorean method of "philosophizing according to numbers" has not only fallen into disuse
in
modern
deemed
alto-
it
is
based
is
It
Art-Speech, or
glyphs,
which that
and
to
Law.
It
coimected
Physics
with
Metaphysics
252
Mystic Masonry.
Mathematics, or the
of EquiUbrium to
relations
rela-
mo-
between the
movements (vibrations)
that produce
number
is
The source
of
all
these
Hence
the play
The
first
postulate of
this
and
Atoms, thus constituting "the center which is everywhere and the circumference which is nowhere;"
i.
space.
It is
mind
of
modern
call
all,
endowed
and
(potentially)
with
are
Consciousness,
equally
Life,
Intelligence,
and
world-
They
all
Law
in
moving panorama
of thought
and the
tides of
The beating
of the
human
heart,
;
the
An
Outline of Symbolism.
253
There
rium
is
all,
the
One
without
beginning,
is
without
end,
without
change.
Space
Him.
tion
is
his Fiat.
Crea-
Thought
from
call it
what you
will.
Man
is
a "Spark"
this
"Flame," and,
This Spark of
man
is
his consciousness,
and
as
this in a
chapter
we have
postulated
fact,
nothing more.
Name,
the Lost
Word. The
Hebrews seem
to
may
be
till
finally
Word
is
In both Persian or
Zend and
found
in
es-
many names
sence, etc.
that designate
fire,
flame.
Spirit,
This again
is
a glyph or
is
form of ex;
pression.
Every emanation
a trinity
and Fire,
254
Mystic Masonry.
Flame, and Light are the most perfect synthesis of Consider the expressions, "The Lord this tri-unity.
is
The symbol
the
is
found in
all
thus
symbolized
made known.
trinities
Here, then,
in
is
found
exthe trinities of Light, and the most superficial planations are found connected with the three lesser
is
comprehended,
ought
Veda.
He who knows
knows
265.
the Ved?i."Laws of
fire will
from Divinity."
Chaldean Oracle.
Unity."
Chaldean Oracle.
necessary to
know
Name
of its
a symbol of
the
impression of
it
Demiourgos, according to
its
which
being,
is
in-
An
effable
Outline of Symbolism,
255
known
themselves."
The legend
the Ineffable
Word and
the Potency o
Name
are inseparable.
They
are the
So
also
Initiation,
which
is
the
same
as Regeneration
and
Evolution.
This ancient
to
Wisdom
it
Masonry, for
tion of
modern times
a superficial
unknown
it
is
equally
unknown
initiait is
genuine
where
to be found,
above
all
price,
it
is.
without
knowing,
what
Such
is
Word, or the
Ineffable
Name.
under mathemat-
and
synchronous relations;
and
its
Law
is
Equilibrium, or Eternal
Harmony.
256
Mystic Masonry,
CHAPTER
X.
CONCLUSION.
Freemasonry.
systematic
treatise
on
either of
the other.
is
the complete
this
So long as
unknown
to the
Mason,
his symbols
dead
letters, the
its
work
of the
lodge a
the Genius of
for
the
members
of
the
Craft
is
self-interest,
mutual
support,
latest
embodiment of which
and
how many
who
believe that
Masonry means
more than
this,
in its
symbols and
Many
to
which served
Conclusion.
257
down
to our
own
time,
more
stu-
all
of
All
and traditions
East, and go
of Freemasonry
far
back
to the
remotest antiquity.
to
East
is
in
search of light
is
literally
true.
This search
only. If
to
any one
can
it
to trace
them down?
What
real
benefit
in
the Mysteries
were taught
followers of Zoroaster?
Such, however,
not the
genius of Freemasonry.
The
real secrets of
Masonry
lie
concealed in
its
Symbols, and these, constituting as they do a Picture Language, or Art Speech, are
made
to carry a
258
Mystic Masonry.
Man.
knowing nothing
which they
rest, is
incredulous that
it
ever existed,
in search of
new
joke.
As mere
pastimes
ex-
invoked,
where the
the question,
whether
round
it
is
all this
a course tend
make
all
Every Mason
is
carried,
first to
by no means the
protest against
however ungraciously
unpopular
this
his protest
be.
may
be received or
work may
Conclusion.
259
Mason
and
that there
another extreme.
Suppose
it
to be true
Symbols of Ma-
vey the most profound Wisdom, and that these symbols stand
unchanged through
that
all
the
means by which
wisdom may
any time
be recovered by him
ing.
who can
is
mean-
Masonry
is,
its
Landmarks
spirit of
are to be
preserved unaltered.
logical deduction
This
is
Masonry.
These custodians
Nay, Sublime
Reflect a
Princes
What
there
is
no Royal Secret.
moment, good
Mason.
What
session of
tidal
man?
Is
it
wave should
sweep
in a
might take
26o
Mystic Masonry.
our
half
prosperity.
all
swept
away,
like
many an
Em-
and we -lost
all
Arts,
all
Sciences, and
to the condition
of
half a century,
so
then,
would destroy
out,
all
we have
laboriously
in
wrought
weed-grown
streets, or
amid crumbling
ruins.
What
we have imagined
other civilizations.
conceal,
of our
we
bed
lie
own, and beneath the ocean's entombed the records and the monuments of
lasting
man.
Our most
this
is
possession
is
knowledge;
and when
mains.
Ma-
Symbols, are
and are at
sand
that
the Art-Speech,
which
Symbolism
was designed by
Royal Secret, by Prince Adepts, or Perfect Masters, to conceal, preserve, and convey this Ancient
Wisdom to the latest generations of men: when Civilizations decayed, when Empires
That
ceased
Conclusion.
261
to be,
in silence over
a whole continent, a
a
to
symbol trans-planted
convey the
lost secret to
Knowing
the course of
Such
is
the heritage
all
all
The value
of
such
investigations
this
is
an easy task,
and no one with the shghtest knowledge of the subject dare dispute it, for the symbols are found on
the oldest monuments, and described in the oldest
records
known
to
man.
far
more
difficult
undervalu-
all else
symbols mean.
sults of
all
If
past civilizations,
all
we have
interpret
all
past
is
knowledge, in substance,
This
262
Mystic Masonry.
precisely
the
interpretation
and
the
value
is
that
This result
the
Word
is
the A. U.
M.
of the Persian
Magi and
Knowledge.
instead of doing
ridicule the
title
still
boasts the
men once
imprecations of his
present re-
bring about
it
While
cannot
Masonic organization
its
in the least,
ceremonies, grips, or
passwords, by which
be obtained
-the
secrets of
it
Masonry may
unlawfully,
must
Ancient Landmarks have been preserved by the organization of Freemasons, and seek the co-operation
of
all
Masons
in the
recovery of
this
the Lost
Word, and
in
promulgating
sublime
race.
human
Conclusion.
263
There
that
is
an old
is
occult
"Nothing
is
No Mason
he
its
bound
own
estimate upon
its
for value, and becomes individually responsible and be It must be a matter of conscience, use.
in the balance of duty, If
weighed
Masonry has
it,
Royal
it
never possessed
in the very
or
if
was
little
wrenched away
name
of Religion
it
belongs to
Wisdom. the Craft as the Heir-apparent of the Old bind But the time has come when no cable-tow can
it.
It
Mason.
now To
belongs to Humanity equally with the this end has it been preserved through-
What
Masonry should
it
deit.
birthright to possess
it
is,
Thoroughly organized membership by tens of thousands, rehabilitated in become an irresistible its ancient wisdom, it may
as
and counting
its
force
in
shaping
and
in
influencing
Man.
of
All else
has perished
from the
is
civilizations
all
the
past.
Wisdom
alone
immortal of
the possessions of
264
Mystic Masonry.
man.
Of
is
all
the achievements
of Classic
Greece
nothing
of
so well
remembered today
and
these but
embody and were founded upon the Royal Secret of every Prince Adept Mason. To restore
when
Columns are
Beauty.
to the
Lodge
Wisdom,
Strength
and
It
(Knowledge,
Power and
Harmony.)
motives,
and
new
in a
into
modern education,
If
and give us
we
are sure to
follow.
Here hes
the
reward for
persecutions to which
in the past.
all its
Here we may
monument
of
We may
so build that
seeing
end.
from Inductive Philosophy alone; but on such lines it must be forever a dream. The old Philosophy is
both inductive and deductive, through the perfect
equilibrium of Reason and Intuition, or Experience
is
give us as a result
Conclusion.
265
Uni-
Man.
Of
course
it
is
in the province
of
Masonry
to
may admit
glyphs and parables that once served to embody and convey the most complete and profound philosophy, and, while adopting these symbols and the
ancient art-speech, confine their use and interpretation to such lessons of equity, morality,
nity, as are to be
and frater-
found in
this
all
exoteric religions.
The author
precepts.
of
book would
be the last to
the
if
But these are the basis of conduct, not crown of existence; the beginning, not the end
wisdom,
Man'-s "general
infancy,"
as
Browning puts
is
it,
only begins
when
complete, and
greater
is
when he
not
is
perfected as man.
To spend the
his
Man's "object
served,
Masonry not
this
deeper
266
Mystic Masonry.
meaning
mitted
to
it
to its
symbolism, but
many
it,
v/riters
have ad-
have
because
of
sectarian
bias,
which dwarfed
their vision
Wisdom
and
universal
To deny
is
most
superficial
view
who makes
chamber
!"
of the great
It is to
mabe
terialize
spiritual
things.
It
may
justly
man
and
much toward
restoring
Masonry
His
to
Pike.
known
The
recent Jesuit-
on
his
memory
it
is
sensational
lie,
but
the
Masonic
virtues,
Conclusion.
267
ure
of
eternal
principles
The charge
that
fessed devil-worshiper,
worthy of
his
real
ac-
cusers
cently
daily.
is
made
in the
pages of a leading
New York
The
Masonry.
is
all,
This hysterical
if
''Granddaughter of Astarte"
she has any real existence at
body, and
is
herself a victim,
only a
itself;
it
fit
subject
this
History repeats
and
Masonry, while
enlightened age the minions of the Prince of Darkness and the Father of Lies have not renounced
their allegiance or forgotten their cunning.
Perse-
cution
is
to the
268
Mystic Masonry.
If
Masons
from refreshment
to labor
and unite
the saying of
it
Macaulay
all
to
her enemies
"We
againsit us
vi^ritten.
much
...
It w^as
but
little
that he could do to
little
he
Renegade,
traitor,
coward,
liar,
police-spy
the
all
one small
service which
he could
was may
who
fear the hatred of such, and only such will hate her
if
aloft
light
her
time-honored Landmarks.
so
MOTE
IT BE.
269
The
Masonry" may be
de-
fined as follows:
To show and
illustrate the
and runs
like
a golden
To demonstrate through
illustrations,
this
philosophy and
its
use,
that the
"Work
of
life,
meaning
human
con-
results
To
and
all
that
real
Masters
of the past,
of antiquity.
Masonry seems
the
past,
to
have embodied,
crystallized,
pre-
divested
of
all
extraneous or irrelevant
matters.
270
Mystic Masonry.
This
is
The author
what a
realized
together fanciful.
He was
also
of
Brother
Masons who
or generally apprehended,
search,
he has heard
old.
Indeed,
it
is
To
justify
this
logical
inference,
encourage the
in-
assist in the
Recovery
motive
of
of the Lost
Word was
a
of
"Mystic Masonry".
Mason
Masonry,
sources, symbol-
test theories of
of
life,
and the
really
character
others.
sees like
The physician
271
human
life.
From
the
of
the Great
Unknown,
all
wailing,
and
alone"
is
any
of
and
vigilant,
It
observing,
Is
and
full
deep
reflection.
his office to
try to understand,
in order that
after.
It
he
may
to
apply and
utilize then,
and
there-
may seem
some a
startling
and unwarranted
which more
and
self-control
than
all else
senility
and
are
all
embodied
in the
very foun-
dations of Freemasonry.
But
To
it
illustrate
is
a Science of Ethics, of
character,
of all
indulgence.
I
am
writing principally
Brother
Masons, that
this
government, of which,
we
was
in-
spired
272
\Mystic Masonry.
The "truths"
They were
trans-
This
is
why
Albert
Pike and
They
served
Life, Liberty
of Happiness.
These In-
required of
him
shall interfere
God, to
alone
his
is
his
to be
These are
Duties;
his
"Inalienable
Eminent Domain.
and
codified, here is
the Genius
It
is
impossible to
man
while these
strictly
and
logically ad-
hered
to.
of this
Government
for the
People" either in
State, as far as
273
possible.
to
be a State
affair,
officially,
nothing to do what-
Rome
Church. I hereby challenge every Freemason in America today to Take Notice of this Sign and Summons. To the profound Philosophy of Life, and the stores of
Ancient
Wisdom
book
to which
it
was the
original design of
is
this little
now added an
imminent duty
than any other, for the simple reason that these duties and obligations are taught, ingrained, and illustrated
in the School of
Masonry,
specifically
and concisely as
no where
This
is
else in
why Rome
and anathematizes
eternally.
Masonry
continually, relentlessly
and
There
can be no compromise. Shall it be Church, or State, It cannot possibly be to rule in this "Free Country"? Rome today is the most powerful and ambiboth.
tious Political Autocracy on earth,
of
the
have said nothing here of the Religious department Roman Hierarchy. That is "another story".
is
than a Traitor to
his
Country.
274
Mystic Masonry.
If
who run
Roman
is
Church would
America
same
no
rights
and
benefits here as
less.
Of what value
fail
or use
is
the
Wisdom
of the
if
we
to put
its
Every
realize
just
to
know and
to
what he stands
is
why
he
his
is
reserved,
"inalienable rights"
were secured by
sacrifice,
"Eternal
greatest
vigilance
is
of
Liberty".
is is
The
enemy
of the Republic
today
the
man who
"There
no danger".
This
ties.
is
enemy
all
Get a word
if
newspaper
you can.
They
"censored".
are
political
and simple;
and founded
intelligent, just
275
single
The
facts are
scarcely
will
outlined.
The
fear
The
is
The most hopeful sign is the Resolution recently passed by the National Teachers Association, unanimously protesting against
any
any
Nothing
ciples
is easier than to demonstrate that the Prinwhich Masonry so clearly defines and upon which
the Lodge
Is built,
constitute the
Magna
derived.
Charta of this
Government,
ciples are the
life,
These
prin-
pure gold of ethics and the conduct of both individual and associate, from the melting
all
is
pot of
This
Italian
human history, and the wisdom why "Mother Church", that is,
arrogant,
of all ages.
the sixty-odd
vin-
Cardinals,
ambitious,
it,
relentless,
dictive, hate
Masonry, misrepresent
it,
and continually
if
anathematize
it
they could, as
Masonr>' stands squarely across their path; stands for all their political ambition covets
at
for with
them,
justifies
the means".
Not one
citizen in a
what immense
in
made
America
276
Mystic Masonry.
In
undo the
work
shake
ties.
they are
not
censored.
is
Of what value
a knowledge of history
its
if
we
are
never to profit by
bitter lessons
and admonitions?
Of what value
underlie
all
is
we
to utilize
them,
by them, and,
them and
I
on
and a Mason
I
for nearly
fifty years.
In
many
countries today,
and
country
six deliberate
to assassinate one of
my
in
the
same
cause.
this
country,
far as
But so
is
the
yet
all
made a
our Free
Government, or one
that
is
Freedom
exists
Free School-,
all
undermined by Jesuitry,
have advanced from
Postscript
to the
Fifth Edition.
277
Mason
be com-
become a
in the
Masonic
principle,
and implicated
In "Mystic Masonry"
of the Jewels of
have
every high
their sages
by
drawn from
and
by Natural
Science,
of
had not
score of times
Comrade, "I
found him.
I
am
find
had discovered.
It
was
space,
The whole
symbolism,
278
Mystic Masonry.
q.e.d.
to no other solution of
I
the
movements
of the
new
star
on
my
horizon,
firmation, satisfaction
so often discouraged
life.
and
To
the ever-
"What does
and
it all
the
discouraged,
discouraging
knows".
How
its
life,
the
results
upon
Work.
Facing, as
present,
we must.
Principalities
of
Does
this not
imply a mental
of
a method living an assurance that we are on the right path and a contude
way
of looking at things
Masonry
is
What
the
else
What
Is
can
be to be "made a Mason in
the heart''?
not that
an expression
expression
"By
of reality
and
sincerity?
What
else
can the
being a
Man'\ mean?
Certainly not
279
an imbecile. Test the a coward, a slave, a fanatic, or principles and noblest characters of all time by these
these standards and see
if
This
is
through the ages, whether one student in a thousand Graduates, and "makes good", or not.
The
"Infallible"
He knows
better.
No man
can
in
Freemasonry
is
all
who would
enslave the
human
soul,
and
it will
stand so long as
God
is
in the
Heavens, and
Time
shall
be no more.
Murder, as
Rome
would be changed or
You might
or Gravitation.
One
East,
we
fell
are told,
is
that
upon Egypt".
beshould look upon this bottle he would undoubtedly swarm of hold his own image reflected there, with his
Italian Cardinals hovering like locusts in the
background
and
his "bottle of
erang.
280
Mystic Masonry.
in its glory,
when
Government, and
"Rock
every
may
yet become
Landmarks and his traditions, and to the Fathers who instituted them here. What Egypt is today, America will become, a waste of sand and howling jackals, if the same Priestcraft and
Mason
is
true to his
Paganism that triumphed there, are allowed here to and State. destroy our Free Schools, and reunite Church The issues are exceedingly plain, and as old as the
human
Word" may be
"discovered" in the
"Great Work", the designs upon the trestleboard are Only restored for the first time in many a weary century.
are required. the Listening Ear, and the Faithful Breast and found the Jewel, examined listened, have one, I, for
the Mark.
Fraternally,
J.
D. Buck.
Cincinnati, June
19U.
^^
Unveil
to
the
universe,
all
from whom
whom
must return,
that face
we may
know
the
truth,
journey
to thy
sacred seat."
'^^/z, ^S _
SPWt^^
I.
Plate
From One."
Plats IL
Plate
III.
The
First Differentiation.
Plate IV.
The Second
Differentiation.
/ X/"'
3
5
7
-10
-J
6
4
4
4
4
= 16
Plate V.
Tetragrammaton of Pythagoras.
Platf. VI.
The Relation of
Spirit to Matter.
Plate VII.
Matter and
Spirit in Equilibrium.
Plate VIH.
know
Plate IX.
rejected."
Plate X.
Trinity of Trinities,
Quaternary
Matter,
Plape XI.
Diversity in Unity.
Plate XII.
Plate XIU.
Plate XIV.
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