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ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ctice and implicit in the theory of practically all intelligent people- as if it were the eccentricity of a few negligible or objectionable persons. this is the ordinary story of advertisement; the sham has exactly the same chance as the real. persistence is the only quality required for success. the opposite formula is that of secrecy. an idea is perpetuated because it must never be mentioned. a freemason never forgets the secret words entrusted to him, thought these words mean absolutely nothing to him, in the vast majority of cases; the only reason for this is that he has been forbidden to mention them, although they have been published again and again, and are as accessible to the profane as to the initiate. in such a work of practical magick as the preaching of a new 71 law, these met

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egypt must we go. the book is in every sense a great book, and, by the way, it forms an excellent seventh volume to gerald massey's monumental work. brother wynne westcott is very rightly condemned as displaying a peculiarly acute ignorance of both freemasonry and egyptology, and further on so is that chattering journalist, mr. andrew lang- the paul carus of the british isles. dr. churchward is a freemason of a very high degree, but yet not high enough to understand that secrets that need safeguarding are no secrets at all "l. h" for left hand is excusable because it saves printers' ink; but "these need no explanation to r.a.m.'s" etc, etc, is ridiculous because r.a.m.'s need not be told about it, and if you are not going to divulge this frightful secret about a "tau" why bother to say so?

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under that name. plotinus' method of mystic exercise is practically that of liber xvi (a. a. publication in class d, but it takes a deal of research to discover this in his dull pages. he drones on in such an exalted kind of way, don'tcherknow! there is hardly a mystic living who wouldn't be a better man for reading gal's gossip now and then. i wish i had a copy here! doris leslie("baby. things a freemason should know. by f. j. w. crowe. it is a pity that the title of this excellent manual should suggest the sexual sliminess of sylvanus stall, d.d, for it is a most admirable compliation, a capital handbook and "vade-mecum" which no mason should be without. it is intensely interesting and beautifully illustrated with portraits of masonic worthies past and present- there are no future celebr

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

he threshold of the french revolution, new denominations being devised when the old titles were exhausted. there arose in this manner a great tree of ritual, and it happens, moreover, that we are in a position to affirm the kind of root from which it sprang. twenty years after the date of the london grand lodge, and when that of scotland may not have been twelve months old, the memorable scottish freemason, andrew michael ramsay, delivered an historical address in a french lodge, in the course of which he explained that the masonic brotherhood arose in palestine during the period of the crusades, under the protection of christian knights, with the object of restoring christian churches which had been destroyed by saracens in the holy land. for some reason which does not emerge, the foster

BOOK OF ENOCH

escendants of these people are the falashas, who even today follow the form of judaism that had been practiced in israel only before 620 bc. the ethiopians translated the book of hanokh into ge'ez, and had enough respect to look after it. meanwhile, all hebrew versions disappeared but a substantial part of the book had survived in greek, and some parts in aramaic, but until scottish traveler, and freemason, james bruce, returned from ethiopia in 1773, with three manuscripts, no one in the west had ever seen the whole book. the two commonly available translations were done soon after this and the book was received with an embarrassed silence, for the most part, and not widely read. this book is based on a new translation published in 1978, which was produced as a result of research into a l

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t and his son, sebastian, both venetians, set off from bristol four years after columbus had sailed from spain; cabot 'discovered' north america in 1497. no link is offered by conventional history between these two events. but when you look deeper there is a potential link: the knowledge held by the brotherhood network, which had been passed on secretly since the time of atlantis. the 33rd degree freemason, manly p. hall, points out in his book, america's assignment with destiny,2 that john cabot's real name was giovanni caboto. he was born in genoa, the city where colombus is said to have been born, and caboto later became a naturalised venetian. it is suggested that he was involved with a secret christian brotherhood sect known as the johannites, which was greatly influenced by the esote

ho were both members of the st. andrews lodge.8 the momentum for a war of independence gathered strength until it was unstoppable. the leading revolutionaries and those who signed the declaration of independence in 1776 were almost all freemasons. george washington, the triumphant commander-in-chief of the american armies and the first president of the united states of america, was a high ranking freemason and all but two of his brigadier generals in the war were masons. top freemason and freemasonic historian, manly p. hall, says that of the fifty-six men who signed the declaration of independence, nearly fifty were known to be freemasons and only one was known not to be.9 another researcher, enrique de vincente, says that fifty-three of the signatories were freemasons and that seventeen

hwood, the chancellor of the british treasury, and founder of the secret society called the club of hell's fire. franklin became a member along with the mayor of london, the son of the archbishop of canterbury, and the prince of wales. he travelled to france to canvass successfully for the support of the french freemasons for the american revolution, and he also secured the services of the german freemason, baron von streube, who served in the army of frederick the great of prussia. the baron was to play a major part in the colonists' victory over the british. franklin's connections with the french brotherhood were very close and he became a high ranking member of the lodges of san juan and the nine sisters which, in league with the grand orient lodge in paris, would trigger the french rev

w world order. the founding of the united states was a massive step forward in the plan for centralised global power. today this part of the seal can be found on every dollar bill (see figure 4, and again this is very appropriate, given that the elite controls the american economy and everyone else's. the decision to put the pyramid/new world order symbol on the dollar was made by the 33rd degree freemason, franklin d. roosevelt, in 1935, with the full support and the birth of the brotherhood 35 encouragement of his vice president, henry wallace, another 33rd degree mason.11 mr roosevelt will be making many appearances in the text of the next few chapters. the american flag, the stars and stripes, was also designed to reflect brotherhood symbolism and the statue of liberty was given to ame

troversial. against opposition from two of the founding fathers, thomas jefferson and james madison, the first us central bank was introduced, thanks to the manipulation of one of their colleagues, alexander hamilton, who ran the bank of new york. he was secretly backed by the bank of england and the rothschild empire, which were, in truth, one and the same. when george washington, a high ranking freemason, became president in 1789, he made hamilton the secretary to the treasury. within two years, hamilton had secured his ambition with the creation of the us central bank, the bank of the united states. as with the bank of england, this was a private bank which now controlled the american economy. the bank caused mayhem, and riots erupted from the consequences of its policies. in the 1830s

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i, the "purest" of their bloodlines. in this way, they can co-ordinate through apparently unconnected, even "opposing" areas of society, the same policies. this is how they have created the explosion of centralisation in every area of life: government, finance, business, media, military. it is not by accident or natural occurrence. it is by coldly calculated design. jim shaw, a former 33rd degree freemason, exposes the craft in his book, the deadly deception (huntington house inc, lafayette, louisiana, 1988. he describes how freemasonry is based on the same compartmentalised pyramids. at the bottom are the three degrees known as the blue degrees and the vast majority of freemasons never progress beyond that through either the 33 degrees of the scottish rite or the 10 degrees of the york ri

t the outer court or portico of the temple. part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally mis-led by false interpretations. it is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understands them..their true implication is reserved for adepts, the princes of masonry."2 exactly. jim shaw says that there are two kinds of freemason. one just sits through the meetings and doesn't make much effort to understand the ritual, and the other does all the work, but only keeps to the ritual and memorises or reads the words without understanding what they really mean. that's correct, but there is a third kind: the very few who know the truth of who really controls freemasonry and what the rituals and initiations are really d

ds the words without understanding what they really mean. that's correct, but there is a third kind: the very few who know the truth of who really controls freemasonry and what the rituals and initiations are really designed to achieve. shaw also confirms from his own experience how the freemasons manipulate their own into whatever positions they choose. at work, his department director, a fellow freemason, advised him to apply for a particular job. shaw felt he was underqualified for the post and would fail the test paper.3 only through the urging of his freemason boss did he apply. when he arrived to take the test he was amazed to see that there were only two other applicants for a job he believed would be keenly contested. when he turned over the test paper, he saw that the questions we

"children of the gods) the beings in the mountain all wore long white gowns with a maltese cross medallion on a chain- the symbol of the knights of malta and widely seen in the symbolism of british royalty. it is also a symbol from lemuria-mu, according to james churchward, and i have heard beings of this description associated with lemuria. the founder of the mormons, joseph smith, a high-degree freemason and merovingian bloodline, said he had a the unholy alliance 89 "vision" on september 21st, 1821 in which he saw "a messenger sent from god" dressed in a long white robe of "the most exquisite whiteness. from this "vision" came the mormon church, and a stream of religions have been founded on stories, real or otherwise, of similar experiences. mohammed and islam is just one example. john

tion's temporary chief executive, the same role as the president of the former virginia company, which was formed in 1604 by the british crown and "aristocratic" bloodlines to steal north america in the first place. an extraordinary story, but true. at least 50 of the 56 signatories to the american declaration of independence were freemasons and only one was known not to be. when the grand master freemason, george washington, became the first president, he nominated eleven supreme court justices, at least six of which were confirmed freemasons. the same story has continued ever since. the inauguration of washington in 1789 was a freemasonic ceremony in which he swore the oath on a freemasonic bible. in january 2001 president george w. bush took the oath using that same bible, as did his fa

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urgled, mugged or bombed, they willdemand that you take their freedom away to protect them from what they have beenmanipulated to fear. the oklahoma bombing is a classic of this kind, as i detail in..and the truth shall set you free. i call this technique problem-reaction-solution.create the problem, encourage the reaction something must be done, and then offerthe solution. it is summed up by the freemason motto ordo ab chao- order out ofchaos. create the chaos and then offer the way to restore order. y our order.the masses are herded and directed by many and various forms of emotional andmental control. it is the only way it could be done. the few cant control billions ofpeople physically, just as farm animals cannot be controlled physically unless a largenumber of people are involved. tw

nd often had blue eyes -the same as the reptilian-human crossbreeds and the same, it would appear, as the racefrom mars. thus we have the scandinavian races, which were installed by thephoenicians and other peoples of the same bloodstock and general location. it is alsothe origin of the aryan master race nonsense which obsessed the nazis and the secretsocieties which created them. the hero of the freemason secret society to this day is themythical hiram abif, the so-called builder of king solomons temple. abif is supposedto have been a phoenician. the grandfather of the famous egyptian pharaoh akhenaten,the father of tutankhamen, was a phoenician high priest. the phoenix, the mythicalbird of egypt, was in fact the sun bird of the phoenicians, the emblem of the sun god,bil or bel, and as it

all these religions are justified by a vision orvisitation, followed by an extreme, dogmatic and autocratic religion which rules by fear,indoctrination and mind manipulation.another mind control sect which emerged from christianity/judaism is thejehovahs witnesses, the worship of the hebrew angry god, jehovah, and one of theirleading founders was the paedophile charles taze russell, a high degree freemason.these religions were set up to control, to create conflict between people, and to divideand rule the masses. visions of biblical characters like the virgin mary which haveenhanced mainstream christian beliefs over the centuries have followed a similarpattern. we have no idea what the jesus team looked like, but people always see themas their classic artistic depiction. those who have see

were reptile-aryans,some were not. bruce and the st clairs/sinclairs were reptilian for sure. it was one ofbruces descendants, the scottish nobleman james bruce of kinnaird, who left britainin 1768 for abyssinia, now ethiopia, to find a rare copy of the kebra nagast, the sacredbook of the ethiopians, and three copies of the book of enoch with which he returnedto europe in 1773. james bruce was a freemason, a member of the canongatekilwinning no 2 lodge in edinburgh, one of the oldest in scotland.1 the presentbritish royal family, the windsors, carry some of the blood of robert the bruce and ofthe scottish, irish and welsh elite, as well as the genetic stream of the reptile-aryanbranches in germany. the windsors, like all the royal families (family) of europe arerepresentatives of the blac

ere part of the same gang, although manyof the lower initiates would not have known this. among their symbols, apart from thephoenician red cross, were a black and white flag (made up of two squares, the skulland crossbones, and the watchtower. all of these symbols have spanned the centuries tothe present day brotherhood organisations. the black and white squares can be foundon the floor of every freemason temple, because the freemasons are the templarsunder another name. many churches and cathedrals, like westminster abbey and notredame in paris, also have black and white squares on the floor, because the christianchurch is a front for the babylonian brotherhood. many police forces, including thosein the uk and the usa, have black and white squares on their uniform because they arecontrol

DAVID ICKE RELATED THE HIDDEN GEARS OF FREEMASONRY

careful with this mason as well. this mason might be of type 2 and disguising himself as type 1. some masonic lodges may not have any members who are of type 2. therefore that lodge could be innocent. however, there are lodges in the world which are run by type 2. because of this, if one says freemasonry is satanic, they are correct. if one says freemasonry is not, they are correct as well "elite freemason" refers to someone who is recognized as being involved with the hidden gears of freemasonry. this mason is of type 2 and has revealed themselves to us through the books they have written. he is also aware of the luciferic design in washington d.c. and all the other secrets associated with world control. two organizations, one visible, the other invisible researching this subject is like

iar spirits as early as the 1740's that the new american continent was to be established as the new "atlantis, and its destiny was to assume the global leadership of the drive to the new world order. the united states of america was chosen to lead the world into this kingdom of antichrist from the beginning. the capital is washington, d.c. in 1791, pierre charles l'enfante(the designer, who was a freemason, laid out governmental center of washington, d.c, he planned more than just streets, roads, and buildings. he hid certain occultic magical symbols in the layout of u.s. governmental center. when these symbols are united they become one large luciferic, or occultic, symbol. washington d.c. an untrained eye might not see the luciferic connection in this map. the upper four points of the go

i believe this is the reason why thomas circle was placed in the odd position it was; it is the only circle which was not placed as an anchor of the pentagram. even the southern point of the goathead pentagram, the one which ends at the white house, has a circle at its top. notice the ellipse located just to the south of the white house lawn (below) north lansat image of the white house thus, the freemason architect who drew this pattern intended to show that governmental center was planned to be ruled by satan. further, the goathead pentagram was placed so the southernmost point, the spiritual point, is precisely centered on the white house. notice that i did not arbitrarily draw these lines to center on the white house; rather, the white house is the precise point where the two lines for

orizontal. according to goodman in his book "magical symbols" the vertical line symbolizes spirit. this spiritual force may move either from heaven to earth or from earth to heaven, or even from heaven to hell. the horizontal line symbolizes matter and movement from west to east. it also describes movement in time, as a direction in which one is traveling. this point is very critical, because the freemason is committed to taking america in the direction of the new world order. since the square combines the vertical and the horizontal, it becomes a symbol of the material, physical realm which is enmeshed with spirit and time. the passage of time within an occultic spiritual context is what is in view here. in this instance, the united states of america is the physical realm which is moving

will have to lay out a ruler and draw a solid line from the capitol to the jefferson memorial to get the full effect, because maryland does not run straight through. it runs for a while and then disappears only to reappear again further toward the memorial. however, you can easily see that the general direction runs precisely toward the jefferson memorial. this is the compass of freemasonry. the freemason's square begins at union square, with louisiana avenue forming one arm and washington avenue the other. again, you will have to draw a line down louisiana avenue and washington to see the fully-formed square, because louisiana ends at pennsylvania and washington ends at maryland. the critical 900 angle of the square is pictorially missing; however, once you draw the natural continuation

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

ondon) and trinity hall, cambridge (matriculating 1837; latin prize essay, 1838.39; b.a, 1841. he was ordained as a deacon in the church of england in 1841 and became a clergyman two years later. after serving in vari- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. ayton, w(illiam) a(lexander) 135 ous country parishes, he was appointed vicar of chacombe, northamptonshire, in 1873. ayton was a freemason and theosophist as well as a member of the societas rosicruciana in anglia before becoming one of the early members of the golden dawn in july 1888 at the age of 72, together with his wife. he took the magical motto virtute orta occident rarius (those that rise by virtue rarely fall, his wife, anne, took soror quam potero adjutabo (i will help as much as i can. ayton was a good latin sch

surrounds his origin does not in the least detract from his appeal. sources: funck-brentano, frantz. cagliostro and company. london, 1900. gervaso, roberto. cagliostro: a biography. london, 1974. trowbridge, w. r. h. cagliostro: the splendour and misery of a master of magic. london, 1910. reprinted as cagliostro: savant or scoundrel? new york: gordon press, 1975. reprinted as cagliostro: maligned freemason and rosicrucian. kila, mont: kessiger publishing, 1992. cahagnet, louis-alphonse (1805.1885) a journeyman cabinetmaker who, attracted to the study of somnambulism in 1845, published three years later magnetisme: arcanes de la vie future devoile (english translation: the celestial telegraph, 1848, the first volume of a remarkable book containing a summary of his experiments with eight som

dicting the exact time of his death. in 1784 franklin was a member of the committee of the academie des sciences in paris, which reported on the phenomena of franz anton mesmer during the furor created by animal magnetism. although certain aspects of animal magnetism were acknowledged by the committee, the report attributed these to other causes. franklin associated with rosicrucians and became a freemason in february 1730, a member of the lodge of the nine muses, which was said to have influenced the french revolution. franklyn, julian (1899.1970) british author, lecturer, and editor, active in the field of parapsychology. born december 30, 1899, in london, franklyn became an expert on london cockneys and their slang, as well as heraldry. he was a member of the heraldry society and the so

ho used the lodges as a home for their pursuit of spiritual wisdom apart from the theology of the established church, often while keeping a nominal membership in the church of england (by 1723, for example, all specific references to christianity were removed from the movement s constitution; members had only to acknowledge god, the great architect of the universe) the first prominent speculative freemason was astrologer elias ashmole (1617.1692, an officer in the court of charles ii. ashmole, and his contemporaries such as robert fludd (1574.1637, helped spread the revived gnosticism represented on the continent by rosicrucianism. through the century, speculative lodges consisting primarily if not exclusively of accepted masons spread throughout england and scotland where they existed as

ecame a member of the blavatsky lodge in 1890. he lost interest in the theosophical society after joining the golden dawn in 1894. he corresponded frequently with rev. w. a. ayton, another member of the golden dawn, who was a student of alchemy, and their letters (a collection of which, edited by ellie howe, was published in 1985) are valuable for their sidelights on the order. gardner was also a freemason, later joining the societas rosicruciana in anglia and becoming its librarian. he became financially involved in sponsoring publication of the english translation by mathers of the important occult treatise the book of the sacred magic of abra-melin in 1898. gardner retired from membership of the stock exchange in 1903 and thereafter was an antiquarian bookseller, with special interest i

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eer, and as early as 1852 he translated k. r. lepsius s briefe aus aegypten, aethiopen, 1842.45 into english. he also contributed articles on peking, america, and scandinavia to theodore alois buckley s work great cities of the ancient world (1852. the next year he assisted walter savage landor in a new edition of imaginary conversations. in 1870 mackenzie married alexandrina aydon, daughter of a freemason. his marriage became the occasion of his joining the craft in the same year. he was author of the royal masonic cyclopaedia (1877) and also planned a work called the game of tarot: archaeologically and symbolically considered, which was announced but not published. in 1861 mackenzie visited the famous french occultist eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant) in paris and published vivid pe

f the founders of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. born in hackney, london, january 8, 1854, he lived with his mother at bournemouth after the early death of his father. as a boy he was intensely interested in symbolism and mysticism. he claimed a romantic descent from ian macgregor of glenstrae, an ardent jacobite who was given the title of comte de glenstrae by louis xiv. mathers became a freemason on october 4, 1877, and a master mason on january 30, 1878, soon after his 24th birthday. his mystical interests led him to become a member of the societas rosicruciana in anglia (rosicrucian society of england, where he was an associate of william wynn westcott, william robert woodman, and kenneth mackenzie. together with westcott and woodman, mathers founded the golden dawn in 1888. me

ention may have had some substance in fact, perhaps revealed through lovecraft s subconscious mind. wilson told a story as fabulous as that of the origin of the golden dawn cipher manuscript. wilson s story concerned a dr. stanislaus hinterstoisser, president of the salzburg institute for the study of magic and occult phenomena, who was said to have claimed that lovecraft s father was an egyptian freemason. lovecraft sr. saw a copy of the necronomicon in boston (where he worked, which was a section of a book by alkindi (d. 850 c.e) known as the book of the essence of the soul.so the story went. science fiction writer l. sprague de camp (who published a biography of lovecraft in 1975) is said to have acquired an arabic manuscript from baghdad titled al azif. the british occultist robert tur

utler yeats, helena petrovna blavatsky, annie besant, rudolf steiner, wynn westcott, algernon blackwood, and aleister crowley. waite regularly contributed to shirley s occult review, and for some twenty years he edited anonymously its monthly review of periodical literature. during this period he acquired a knowledge of the major current developments in occultism all over the world. he was also a freemason and authority on masonic writings. he was responsible for the first british publication of many important occult and mystical texts. he translated and publicized the writings of occultist eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant. in 1891 waite joined the hermetic order of the golden dawn but quit in less than a year believing his time was better spent studying and translating alchemical tex

in no manner associated with the occult or magic. sources: westin, gunnar. the free church through the ages. nashville, tenn: broadman, 1958. walder, phileas a swiss lutheran minister who became an occultist and spiritualist, and a friend of french occultist eliphas levi. in the anti-clerical hoax of leo taxil (gabriel jogand-pages, walder and miss sophia walder were represented as associates of freemason albert pike in the rites of devil worship in charleston, south carolina. in reality, walder was an earnest freemason and mystic. wales wales shares with other celtic countries an ancient mythology and traditional lore, although much of this was suppressed with the spread of christianity from the fifth century on, and a succession of conquests by romans, normans, and english. many of the

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

suggestion in an earlier chapter that bruno's mission in england, with its appeal to pre-reformation social and mystical ideas, his lament at the destruction of great abbeys and monasteries, might have something in common with the attitudes to the past of freemasonry. 2 bruno attached his hermetism to royalism, to the chivalrous cult of elizabeth i by her knights. the interests of the first known freemason, ashmole, would not conflict with the idea of a stream of influence having reached him from courtly circles of the time of elizabeth. ashmole was a fervent royalist with a strong interest in the history of chivalry. that bruno's influence had persisted in court circles is indicated by the coelum britannicum, produced at court only twelve years before ashmole was made a freemason. it is a

r courtly stream, perhaps influenced by bruno, to produce freemasonry. in any event, our new understanding of the nature of bruno's influence in england and in germany makes of him a key figure for the exploration of those impulses through which renaissance hermetism passed underground into the channels of esoteric societies. we are told that mozart's magic flute embodies some of his beliefs as a freemason. if so, we might have in this opera a translation into poetic and musical imagery of the theme of the good religion of the egyptians, of the mysteries of isis and osiris into 1 quoted jones, op- cit, p. 99. 2 see above, p. 274. 415 after hermes trismegistus was dated which the good are initiated, of the magical atmosphere through which human souls make their way to a hermetic-egyptian sa

a in this respect, but he includes areas unknown to pico, such as mexico and japan, which had been covered by the jesuit missions. ibid, ii (2, p. 480. 6 ibid, ii (1, p. 358. see above, be. cit. 422 after hermes trismegistus was dated hermetism we have something like another of those esoteric channels through which the hermetic tradition is carried on, which perhaps explains why mozart could be a freemason as well as a catholic. the cambridge platonists and casaubon's dating of the hermetica as is well known, the school of english thinkers known as the cambridge platonists, of whom the chief were henry more and ralph cudworth, continued in the seventeenth century many of the themes and traditions of renaissance platonism. but, unlike fludd and kircher, both more and cudworth knew of and ac

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

ary motives, he freely and voluntarily offers himself a candidate for the mysteries of freemasonry; that if admitted he will cheerfully conform to all the ancient established usages and customs of the maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (5 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:54 am] fraternity; that he knows no physical, legal or moral reason which should prevent his becoming a freemason; and that he has before offered himself as a candidate to any lodge [deposit] we hereby certify, that we are personally acquainted with mr__above named, and do hereby recommend and propose him as a worthy candidate for the mysteries of masonry, and that the statements in his petition as to his residence are true. the foregoing application was presented to, lodge,on the_ day of_ a.l. 59

7, says "in all masonick processions, no freemasons shall wear the insignia of any order above the degree of a master mason: but, in his edition of 1822, he assigns a place in.lodge processions to "masons of such of the higher degrees as are recognized by the grand lodge, in the form of their respective orders" and changes the sentence above quoted to the following "in all masonic processions, no freemason shall wear the insignia of any order which is not recognized by the grand lodge" most of the recent monitors have followed the precedent of webb: mackey, however, follows dalcho, and assigns places to "members of the higher degrees" the better practice is to follow dermott's, and dalcho's original rule, except in cases in which a mason of a different grade has been invited, in his distin

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

at god was the light-bearer, but now, in this 19th degree, pike is giving them new revelation. this insight completely squares with stated masonic policy of deliberately misleading masons in the lower degrees until they were really ready for the "truth" this is the truth- masonry worships lucifer. pike's typical satanic phrase- out where everyone can see concrete evidence is then given by pike of freemason's worship of satan/lucifer on the very front of the cover of morals and dogma. pike writes a latin phrase just below the round seal of "god" this is a phrase proven to be satanic. any "satanic brother" looking at this phrase would know that the contents of this book are satanic. they would also understand that the entire religion of freemasonry is satanic "deus meumque jus" is this phras

anic brother" looking at this phrase would know that the contents of this book are satanic. they would also understand that the entire religion of freemasonry is satanic "deus meumque jus" is this phrase. the literal meaning is "god and my right" doc marquis says this statement is a typical one within satanism. there is one meaning within another with this statement. the first meaning is that the freemason can depend upon their god to determine their right and justice. the second meaning is, since the god of freemasonry is lucifer, masons are saying that they are "using occult methods" through lucifer, to achieve their rights and justice. this phrase is very powerful and dangerous within saanism says marquis. a satanist knows the content within pike's book is satanism just by reading "deus

e infernal names there may be some people who have read up to this point and still might be skeptical. masonry cleverly masks its references to satan. there are 77 names which pagans have used to refer to satan over the centuries and they are in the satanic bible. we'll review some of these "infernal names" of satanism found within masonry [satanic bible, anton lavey, p. 144-46] we shall list the freemason teaching on each of these names, and then the explanation. baphomet "the gnostics held that it [universal agent] composed the igneous [pertaining to fire] body of the holy spirit, and it was adored in the secret rites of the sabbat or the temple under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of mendes [pike, op. cit, p. 734, teaching of the 28th degree; emphasis add

sly satanic symbol, as well. it should also be noted that from the way a pentagram is normally seen(one point up, two down, rotating the pentagram 33 degrees you get a satanic pentagram. 33 is the highest degree there is in freemasonry. freemasonry makes use of the pentagram quite a bit. you can see the similarity between the eastern star and and the satanic pentagram above. the eastern star is a freemason division for women. once again, masonry utilizes a very evil satanic symbol for the order that trains its young, impressionable girls. why didn't masonry at least utilize the "good star" with one point up, rather than the most evil 5-pointed star, this goats head of mendes? truly, their use of this symbol tells us exactly that they are evil through and through, even to their own young gi

ed in the satanic bible as infernal names for satan] is the adversary of the good god, osiris; therefore, pike is saying osiris is lucifer, a finding consistent with the rest of the occult realm [above symbols taken from: arthur edward waite, the mysteries of ma, gic: a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, chicagodelaurence, scott, and company, inc, 1966 edition, 1909, p. 223- note: waite is a freemason author; also shown in d. duane winters, a search for light in a place of darkness: a study of freemasonry, p. 69] you should find this highly interesting that the masonic street layout for washington, d.c, which is on another page, is laid out in the form of the evil pentagram on the right, the symbol for satan, also known as the goats head of mendes. therefore, the masonic plan for the

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

stians. by 1880it was well establishedas a thoroughly respectablebodywhose members engaged in nothing more nefarious than the intellectual pursuit of the occult sciences; and in that year the society gained a new member whose inventive genius in the field of occultism was second to none:drwilliamwynnwestcott.1westcott was, as befitted a rosicrucian, a medicalpractitioneras well as being an active freemason and an enthusiastic believer inthereality of the rosicrucian myth. he was also a kabbalist, a keen theosophist, and a supporter 'from its inception, in 1884, of anna kingsford and edward maitland's 'hermetic society, which laid great emphasis on the western as opposed to the eastern tradition of occultism. all these activities ledhimto recognize the contribution that ladiescould-anddid-m

had set in.atthetime,waite wasnotunfriendly towards either westcott ormathers-andhe was eager tojointheorder.hehadmetmathers in 1883,whenthey wereboth'hauntingthebritishmuseum,tryingmany pathsofsearch, and having been introduced 'i'supposethatwemusthave spokenofoccult books or subjects. in oneofthecorridors, for he said to meina hushed voice andwitha somewhat awful accent:"iam a rosicrucian and a freemason; therefore i can speakofsome things,butof others i cannot speak, waite wasunimpressed-realrosicrucianswouldnot'parade the fact, hethought-andlooked on mathers as an eccentric.herecalled another occasion,whenhe encountered mathers 'staggering as usual under a load of books, and he said'"ihave clothedmyselfwithhieroglyphics aswithagarment",so i inferredthathe wasthendeep in egyptology. heh

was waite; and none of the offices calledfor a masonic qualification.thedaysof a 'triple masonic headship' were over. in future waite's masonic activities would be confined to their proper place.125_'brotherhoodisreligion--14 'brotherhoodisreligion'-anadeptamongthemasonsatthetime the independent and rectifiedriteof the golden.dawnwas declaring its independence from the old order, waite had been a freemason for barelytwoyears;buthis enthusiasm for freemasonry was boundless, for he saw it,notas did grandlodge-as'a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols-s-but as yet another aspect ofthesecret. tradition, and thus one more secret path to a direct experience of god. in his earlier years his approachtothecraft had been more prosaic, and it wasnotuntil he reac

kofwriting was increasingly onerous and unsatisfactory (of the additional chapter onthemasonic peacememorialfor a new editionofthenewencyclopaediawaite wrote,'thearticle may benotmuchworsethanthe alleged peace,butit seems to meprettybad, diary, 11june 1934, there were other rewards. in august 1933 waite was surprisedbutdelighted to receive a letter from william moseley brown, a prominent american freemason,whowrote 'as one of your american c1dmirers and a studentofyourworks, to ask'whetheryouwilldo us the honourto accept an honorary degree from atlantic university. waite was only too willing to accept and he advisedbrownaccordingly. a second letter followed on 21 september, inwhichbrownannounced .that'itgives me the greatest pleasure to enclosewiththis lettertheformal notification of the a

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

either by supernatural influence nor by their intrinsic merit that they were published; more simply it was due tohughelliott, who owned the publishing house of rebman and co, being a fellow initiate in the golden dawn. brodie-innes' successor as imperator in amen-ra was less open about his occult pursuits. william peck was the citys4thegoldendawnastronomer for edinburgh, a believer in astrology,a freemason, theosophist and a member of papus' martinist order. in the opinionofmme. de steiger, peck was 'abomoccultist..a first-rate astronomer and astrologer and accustomed to great thoughts, but he was extremely coy about publicizing his in. terests. even his quite objective lectures on astronomy to the' scottish lodge of the theosophical society were published anonymously. he joined the amen-r

and dr kenneth mackenzie. this society which has branches in england, scotland and the u.s. perpetu255 ates the formofrosicrucian initiation, which was conferred a hundred years ago in england and which is mentioned by godfrey higgins, in his famous work'theanacalypsis, or an attempt to withdraw the veil of the saitic isis. frater little was a student of the works of levi and was also an eminent freemason and the rosicrucian society as revised by him, was made by intention and permission essentially masonic,appendixb!o3thus severing all connection with the many eminent adepts who have not been craftsmen. history narrates to us the splendid mental achievementsofbasil valentine, artephius, nicholas flamel, pastellus, petrusofabano, cardan, gaffarelli, jacob behmen and robert fludd.thesociet

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

fe the outside world knew nothing. westcott was born at leamington, warwickshire, in 1848 and was effectively born into medicine, for both his father 255 who died when the young westcott was nine years old- and his uncle were surgeons. he studied medicine at university college hospital and after qualifying in 1871 he joined his uncle's practice at martock in somerset. in the same year he became a freemason and commenced his long and solid masonic career, but he did not begin his occult studies until 1879 when he 'went into a life of retirement at hendon, for two years, studying the kabbalah, the hermetic writings, and the works of a1chymists and rosicrucians .1this'retirement' was neither purely magical nor unproduc255 tive, for early in 1880 he joined the societas rosicruciana in anglia

here are modern rosicrucians who can do things which, if flaunted in the face of the world of society would cause them to be abused as cheats, charlatans, and knaves. for the dominant party of wealth and power will never grant that anyone can know or do what it is nottheirprivilege to permit to the public. peril and persecution alone await the student who develops abnormal powers. hence arose the freemason's watchwords, aude, vide, and then tace. nature is triune to the ordinary man, although the occultist may be trained to perceive the septenary constitution; and the profound hermetick is cognisant of the decad. nature is visible and external, nature is unseen, concealed, and existing68themagicalmasonas the shade or the type of all that is seen and known. nature has a spiritual essence; b

of the high priest to avoid persecution,andthat they had a grand secret of which allbutthe highest in rank were totally unconscious 'the faithful' he says 'received a new name and a secret mark upon a white stone, which he retained as a voucher of membership.theusual sign was the cross, though other signs also were employed' i cannot find any authority for such assertions. jeremiah how, in thethe freemason's manual,1881, writes:'thepronunciation of the name [of jehovah] was, it is said, preserved and transmitted by the essenes, who always com255 municated it to each other in a whisper and in such a form that while its component parts were known, its connected whole remains a mystery' i have been quite unable to find any ancient authority for this assertion, and if there were it contradicts

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

example, was not only a leading light of the swedenborgians of the 1780s but also a most active mason. their teacher, however, was not. swedenborg and freemasonry it is unusual to find such diverse authorities as a. e. waite, the revd. a. f. a. woodford, and h. w. coil agreeing on matters of masonic history, but on this issue they are at one. woodford states bluntly, we deny that swedenborg was a freemason; while coil is equally positive: swedenborg was not a freemason and at no time, had any connection with or gave any attention to the society. waite, for once, is both clear and concise on the question [swedenborg] connects with masonry only in a mythical sense. there is not the least reason to suppose that he belonged to the order 7[7. a detailed refutation of claims to the contrary is g

question [swedenborg] connects with masonry only in a mythical sense. there is not the least reason to suppose that he belonged to the order 7[7. a detailed refutation of claims to the contrary is give by r. l. tafel in his documents concerning the life and character of emmanuel swedenborg (1875, vol. 2, pp. 735 739, and the only contemporary scholar to argue in favour of swedenborg having been a freemason, dr. marsha schuchard, has yet to produce any satisfactory evidence8[8. but non-membership of the craft does not imply the absence of a relationship of some kind: the episode of the illumines d avignon is clear evidence that swedenborg had an influence upon freemasonry, albeit unknown to himself; or, in mackey s words: it was the freemasons of the advanced degrees who borrowed from swede

: the primitive and original rite of symbolic freemasonry. the first recorded reference to this body is in beswick s book of 1870, swedenborg rite and the great masonic leaders of the eighteenth century, or, as on the cover, swedenborg and phremasonry. the bulk of the book purports to show, by a judicious manipulation of sources and the use of specious reasoning, that swedenborg had indeed been a freemason and that many of the hauts grades of the later eighteenth century were heavily influenced by swedenborg and his theology. and then, towards the end of the text, comes the startling announcement that the swedenborgian rite had been revived in america. beswick s account of the recent history of the rite is guarded at best the author is not very clear in this part of the book commented the

t of the book commented the reviewer in the intellectual repository (june 1870, p. 791) although he is surprisingly forthcoming in describing the structure and teaching of the rite. even this failed to attract any but dismissive reviews in the masonic press18[18, and derision from his co- religionists: 17[17] beswick to george c. longley, 22 august 1876 (quoted in voorhis, op. cit, p. 226. 18[18] freemason s magazine, boston, vol. 39, no. 7, 1st may 1870, pp. 222 223; freemasons chronicle, 6th march 1886, pp. 146 148: jacob norton, the so-called swedenborg rite. what casts considerable discredit upon mr. beswick s book is the specimen he give of the instructions which characterize the new york swedenborgian rite19[19. the anonymous reviewer was especially irritated by beswick s derivation

his involvement with the antient and primitive rite, which was by the 1870s, primarily american (the sovereign sanctuary for great britain and ireland had been constituted on 8th october 1872; it remained on generally good terms with its american parent. the swedenborg rite in the united kingdom a letter from yarker announcing the introduction of the swedenborgian rite to england appeared in the freemason for 29 july 1876 (p. 349. in it yarker states that he has just received a warrant for a lodge and temple of the swedenborgian rite, styled emmanuel lodge and temple, no. 3, to confer the degrees of enlightened, sublime, and perfect phremason upon lawful master masons. the lodge and temple consist at present of only four members, but if any of your readers would like to enter the rite the

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

ed by a list of members of the high council of the s.r.i.a, all described as chiefs of the third luciferian order, and including john yarker, who is also correctly described as head of the rite of memphis and misraim. by this time, and with such allegations, the controversy over diana vaughan had spread to england, where waite took a leading role in the counter-attacks upon this suppositious lady freemason. a series of detailed rebuttals of her claims was published in the correspondence columns of the spiritualist journal light29[29, and waite then analysed the whole of the literature about the palladium in his book devil-worship in france30[30, demonstrating conclusively the fictitious nature of the whole affair- and this a year before jogand-pages admitted that it had been a hoax designe

spiracy in an unenviable light32[32. he had also earned the gratitude of both westcott and yarker for refuting the outrageous allegations of their involvement with satanism, and for giving a far kinder description of the s.r.i.a. than he had done nine years before in the real history of the rosicrucians33[33. yarker, especially, was impressed. in a brief review of devil- worship in france, in the freemason for 31 october 1896, he said 'mr. waite's well-written book is as -interesting as a romance, which in some sort it is, and though a non-mason, the order has fallen into good hands, and owes him some gratitude; the book is critical, scholarly and dispassionate. he repeated his praise in an article 'freemasonry and devil-worship, in the same journal two weeks later (11 november, describing

se a pseudonym-'doctor of hermetic science- to hide his connection with an anthology of the writings of andrew jackson davis, an early american spiritualist47[47. the first copy of the book on saint-martin sent to 'papus' had almost certainly been forwarded to edouard blitz, the head of the martinist order in america, who became a frequent correspondent of waite and who encouraged him to become a freemason. waite refers to blitz in his autobiography as one 'who had been long and intimately acquainted with the occult schools of paris, but was a mason under an orthodox obedience, probably in the united states'48[48] and adds 'i cannot remember whether i was already a mason 43[43] ibid, p. 73 44[44] ibid, p. 459 45[45] letter from waite to papus, london, 25 may 1901. original in the martinist

t in exhaustive detail his theory of the secret tradition and it was this that brought him a host of favourable reviews. the non-masonic press praised the book while not understanding it88[88, the occult press enthused over it, and the masonic press approved of it and commanded it to its readers. w. l. wilmshurst produced reviews in all three categories, for the bookman, the occult review and the freemason, all being favourable. this can only be presumed in the case of the occult review, for wilmshurst there achieved the almost impossible feat of writing in a style at once more verbose and more incomprehensible than waite at his 85[85] ibid, 18 october 1902 86[86] slt, p. 179 87[87] slt, p. 178 88[88] e.g. the saturday review, 18 november 1911 worst89[89. in the freemason he claimed that t

ise against those degrees from which he could extract nothing to confirm his theories, and the writer of this review comes in, with many better men, for a "slating, and he rightly criticized the factual errors and condemned waite for his sneers at 'the thing called co-masonry 'we may not like co masonry; for one thing, it affords less opportunity for the gourmandizing proclivities of the ordinary freemason, but the system has come to stay and we might treat it with civility. most co-masons were, however, quite happy with waite. the following issue of their journal contained a second and highly favourable notice of the book, written by revd. a. h. e. lee, who was an active member of waite's golden dawn but who preferred co- masonry to the legitimate craft. he also, and quite inexplicably, w

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

when we examine the matter more closely, we discover that the facts are quite something else. these facts lead us to the conclusion that the kabbalah is a system rooted in pagan idolatry; that it existed before the torah, and became widespread within judaism after the torah was revealed. this interesting fact about the kabbalah, is explained by just as interesting a source. murat ozgen, a turkish freemason, maintains the following in his book, masonluk nedir ve nasildir (what is freemasonry and what is it like: we don't know clearly where the kabbalah came from or how it developed. it is the general name for a unique, metaphysically constituted, esoteric and mystical philosophy particularly connected with jewish religion. it is accepted as jewish mysticism, but some of the elements it cont

d into judaism from ancient egypt was the kabbalah. like the system of the egyptian priests, the kabbalah was an esoteric system, and its basis was the practice of magic. interestingly, the kabbalah provides an account of creation quite different from that found in the torah. it is a materialist account, based on the ancient egyptian idea of the eternal existence of matter. murat ozgen, a turkish freemason, has this to say on this topic: it is evident that the kabbalah was composed many years before the torah came into existence. the most important section of the kabbalah is a theory about the formation of the universe. this theory is very different from the story of creation accepted by theist religions. according to the kabbalah, at the beginning of creation, things called sefiroth, mean

northern climes, meanwhile, a far more important union took place, with the humanists. aunion that no one could have expected. in the 1300s, during the time that the cabalist-humanist associations were beginning to find their bearings, there already existed particularly in england, scotland and france medieval guilds of men no one alive in the 1300s could have predicted a merger of minds between freemason guilds and the italian humanists. the new masonry shifted away from all allegiance to roman ecclesiastical christianity. and again, as for the italian occultist humanists, the secrecy guaranteed by the tradition of the lodge was essential in the circumstances. the two groups had more in common than secrecy, however. from the writings and records of speculative masonry, it is clear that t

3 the magazine mimar sinan, a publishing organization especially for turkish freemasons also gives expression to the same masonic philosophy: the great architect of the universe is a leaning toward eternity. it is an entering into eternity. for us, it is an approach. it entails the on-going search for absolute perfection in eternity. it forms a distance between the current moment and the thinking freemason, or, consciousness.44 ih humanism revisited ii global freemasonry some masonic symbols. ij this is the belief the masons mean when they say "we believe in god, we absolutely do not accept atheists among us" it is not god that masons worship, but naturalist and humanist concepts such as nature, evolution and humanity divinized by their philosophy. when we look briefly at masonic literatur

tion revisited dhd the rules that have been accepted as masonry's constitution have been preserved unchanged for centuries. global freemasonry dhe dhf the theory of evolution revisited they are written and unwritten laws of the society. the unwritten laws can be learned only from the rituals and rites of the lodge. there are six written laws that can be found under the title "the obligations of a freemason" first published in the english constitution in 1723. 117 let us examine these words closely: an organization called masonry exists. the members of this organization have for centuries followed a number of laws whose origins are unknown. moreover, they are quite determined that no one alter these laws. not one of them comes forward to ask why they follow them! and, for the sake of follow

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

ed by a list of members of the high council of the s.r.i.a, all described as chiefs of the third luciferian order, and including john yarker, who is also correctly described as head of the rite of memphis and misraim. by this time, and with such allegations, the controversy over diana vaughan had spread to england, where waite took a leading role in the counter-attacks upon this suppositious lady freemason. a series of detailed rebuttals of her claims was published in the correspondence columns of the spiritualist journal light29[29, and waite then analysed the whole of the literature about the palladium in his book devil-worship in france30[30, demonstrating conclusively the fictitious nature of the whole affair- and this a year before jogand-pages admitted that it had been a hoax designe

spiracy in an unenviable light32[32. he had also earned the gratitude of both westcott and yarker for refuting the outrageous allegations of their involvement with satanism, and for giving a far kinder description of the s.r.i.a. than he had done nine years before in the real history of the rosicrucians33[33. yarker, especially, was impressed. in a brief review of devil- worship in france, in the freemason for 31 october 1896, he said 'mr. waite's well-written book is as -interesting as a romance, which in some sort it is, and though a non-mason, the order has fallen into good hands, and owes him some gratitude; the book is critical, scholarly and dispassionate. he repeated his praise in an article 'freemasonry and devil-worship, in the same journal two weeks later (11 november, describing

se a pseudonym-'doctor of hermetic science- to hide his connection with an anthology of the writings of andrew jackson davis, an early american spiritualist47[47. the first copy of the book on saint-martin sent to 'papus' had almost certainly been forwarded to edouard blitz, the head of the martinist order in america, who became a frequent correspondent of waite and who encouraged him to become a freemason. waite refers to blitz in his autobiography as one 'who had been long and intimately acquainted with the occult schools of paris, but was a mason under an orthodox obedience, probably in the united states'48[48] and adds 'i cannot remember whether i was already a mason 43[43] ibid, p. 73 44[44] ibid, p. 459 45[45] letter from waite to papus, london, 25 may 1901. original in the martinist

t in exhaustive detail his theory of the secret tradition and it was this that brought him a host of favourable reviews. the non-masonic press praised the book while not understanding it88[88, the occult press enthused over it, and the masonic press approved of it and commanded it to its readers. w. l. wilmshurst produced reviews in all three categories, for the bookman, the occult review and the freemason, all being favourable. this can only be presumed in the case of the occult review, for wilmshurst there achieved the almost impossible feat of writing in a style at once more verbose and more incomprehensible than waite at his 85[85] ibid, 18 october 1902 86[86] slt, p. 179 87[87] slt, p. 178 88[88] e.g. the saturday review, 18 november 1911 worst89[89. in the freemason he claimed that t

ise against those degrees from which he could extract nothing to confirm his theories, and the writer of this review comes in, with many better men, for a "slating, and he rightly criticized the factual errors and condemned waite for his sneers at 'the thing called co-masonry 'we may not like co masonry; for one thing, it affords less opportunity for the gourmandizing proclivities of the ordinary freemason, but the system has come to stay and we might treat it with civility. most co-masons were, however, quite happy with waite. the following issue of their journal contained a second and highly favourable notice of the book, written by revd. a. h. e. lee, who was an active member of waite's golden dawn but who preferred co- masonry to the legitimate craft. he also, and quite inexplicably, w

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

rth and south walls. it should not have been beyond the mental powers of the pyramid builders to predict that sooner or later some inquiring person would be tempted to look for shafts in the queen s chamber as well. in the event nobody did look for more than a thousand years after caliph ma mun had opened the monument to the world in ad 820. then in 1872 an english engineer named waynman dixon, a freemason who had been led to suspect the existence of the shafts by their presence in the king s chamber above ,16 went tapping around the queen s chamber s walls and located them. he opened the southern shaft first, setting his carpenter and man-of-allwork, bill grundy, to jump a hole with a hammer and steel chisel at that place. so to work the faithful fellow went, and with a will which soon be

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

g upon the whole of achad s contribution to thelema and his approach to the a:.a. system, with much less emphasis upon the aeon of maat concept that he eventually questioned himself as perhaps premature. achad claimed the 10= 1 grade in the a:.a. in 1919, and is conceded by even the most conservative to have held 8= 3 status. one student of rosicrucian occultism was frater robertus, a high degree freemason and martinist who would eventually claim the 9= 2 grade, though, almost certainly, not until well after achad s death in 1950. robertus and his associates, as if following upon achad s suggestions and warrants, organized an order structure in line with achad s qabalistic attributions, under the initials q:.a:.a (quabalistic alchemist arcanum. in 1960 the qaa organized as a church, and sh

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

a seeming veracity by the presence in england of sigismund bacstrom with his certificate attesting. to his initiation into a rosicrucian group by the comte de chazal on 12 september 1794 in mauritius. godfrey higgins'anacalypsis(1836) was claimed as a further proof of the continuing tradition. higgins stated that he had been invited to join a templar and rosicrucian order in london. higgins was a freemason and i have no doubt that what he was referring to were themasonicknights templar and rose croix degrees.thelatter is now the 18th degree of the antient and accepted [scottish] rite of freemasonry, which in higgins' time did not exist as a coherent rite in england.therose croix degree was generally worked within knights templar encampments and was variously referred to as the rose croix

e into contact with local freemasons and on 27 september 1870 was elected a joining16therosicrucianseer freemasons.theanswer is possibly to be found in an extract copied by irwin from hockley's 'crystalmsno.7'.irwin simply copied the answers received from thecrownedangelbutit is easy to construct the probable questions. hockley appears to have asked the crowned angel's opinon as to his becoming a freemason.theanswers are, to say the least, surprising 'i have a greatobjectionto your being afellowof a fm lodge unless you could at once become a member of that sacredsocietyof which the fathers are at jerusalem'[why)'it is not onlyfollybut wickedness in joining asocietywho do no possible good but a great deal of harm [what is the sacredsociety)'they arefollowersofthe rosy cross [where arethey]'

jaquesrousseau was one of its firmest supporters. i will showyouvisionsthat will tend to enlighten you, but in the meantime i hope you will not join an english lodge' hockley either met aninvisiblepowerin france (the letters show he hadbeento paris, or chose to disregard his guardian spirit's warning, for on21march1864 he was initiated into freemasonry in the british lodgeno.8,then meeting at the freemason's tavern,greatqueen-street,london.heappears to have taken a liking to the ritualofthe craft for as soon as hehadtaken thethirddegree,ofmastermason, he became a memberofthe emulation lodgeofimprovement.thisis a lodgeofinstruction at which the ceremonies and thecatechi255tical lecturesofthe craft (in which the ceremonies, symbols and emblemsofthe craft are explained and moralized upon) are

o spare when in london to talk over old books& queer subjects i shall be delighted to seeyou-ido a little spiritualism 'with aspoon'-toour great comfort if not edification& with kindest regards& esteem. most faithfully and fraternally.idr william robert woodman (1828-91, medical practitioner in stoke newington until 1871 when he inherited a considerable horticultural estate in exeter. a prominent freemason, he had a knowledge of hebrew, cabala, astrology, egyptology, alchemy, and the tarot. secretary-general sria 1868-76; senior substitute magus 1877, and supreme magus 1878-91. with w. w. westcott and s.l.mathers he was one of the founding chiefs of the order of the golden dawn.2unidentified.3 raymond buildings, gray's inn,w.e.28 september 1877 dear bro. irwin, for the last three weeks i h

ere to address you when you get to'paradise'-andwith kind regards believe me, yours faithfully and fraternally. now act like a philosopher and take care of yourselfliwalter moseley of buijduas park. he had been initiated into freemasonry in apollo university lodge no. 357, oxford, when a student at trinity college, but although remaining a member for the remainder of his life he was not an active freemason. he appears to have been more interested in practical magic. on his death his collection was bought by redway and included a number of hockley mss, including the crowned angel'smagnumopus.2see letter2.3 richard monckton milnes, rst baron houghton (1809-85, politician, dilettante writer, and literary editor. collector of books and mss and founder of philobiblon society, whosetransactionsh

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

rovided him with a modest stipend( 300 per annum at chacombe) and sufficient leisure for his strictly private interests. in the victorian era the church of england offered a refuge for many young men who had no aptitude for commerce and a passage in one of ayton's letters suggests that he was already preoccupied with alchemy and occultism at about the time he left cambridge. he was initiated as a freemason in stjohn's lodge no. 601 at wellington, shropshire, shortly before his fiftieth birthday in 1866, when he was perpetual curate at oakengates, a nearby village. however, when he moved to edingale, yet another village not far from tamworth in staffordshire in 1868, he did not bother to join the local lodge (marmion no. 1060 at tamworth) until 1871. again, when he arrived at chacombe in 18

bject you have to be examined. mrs a. learned the hebrew letters so as to write them within the last year. we are well satisfied with it. use my name if you do apply. this, if you do, will occupy you till i am less occupied, and then you will be better prepared for what i have to say. h.p.b. is quite right as to piazzi smythe's [i.e, smyth's] mistakes. he is, i think, not an occultist, nor even a freemason, and therefore he must fall into error [see footnote on p. 26 above. as a freemason, you would see the use of the sarcophagus or coffin, in which the initiate would [symbolically] lay three days and 3 nights in darkness. i have ceased to trouble myself about piazzi smythe. no doubt a certain scale of measurement is used throughout, but it was mere assumption to make it the source of the

ayton knew little about burrows or, indeed, that he informed gardner that annie besant's manner to him was 'most ungracious and forbidding. for many years past she had had minimal respect for church of england clerics and was no doubt astonished to encounter one in theosophical circles. it has been supposed that burrows was a member of the golden dawn. this was not the case. however, he became a freemason in 1902 when he joined east anglia lodge no. 2920 and joined dr westcott's metropolitan college of the .societas rosicruciana in anglia in july 1906. he was an honorary 8 in the soc. ros. in 1921 and died in 1922. 33 chacombe vicarage. zz june 1891 the letters 67 circulation, got up this case which was really against w[illiam] e[wart] g[ladstone] and sir wm. harcourt, who were notorious

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ement is derived from the chaldaean system. 195. several writers have made persistent attempts to attach a phallic signification to these two pillars; i can only say that in the course of a prolonged investigation by means of the inner sight we found no trace of the attribution of any such meaning. 196. chapter iii 197. the fittings of the lodge 198. the ornaments 199. gthe interior fittings of a freemason fs lodge h, says the co-masonic ritual, gcomprise the ornaments, the furniture and the jewels. the ornaments are the mosaic pavement, symbolizing spirit and matter; the blazing star, ever reminding us of the presence of god in his universe, and the indented border, the guardian wall. h 200. the mosaic pavement 201. the three ornaments all belong to the middle of the lodge. the mosaic pav

co-operate in the work of the evening, and this important preliminary is achieved by his next questions. 359. tyling the lodge 360. the brn. being upstanding, the r.w.m. begins the proceedings by asking from the w.j.w (carefully addressing him by name, and not using the title of his office) the characteristic question which is the keynote of every masonic meeting: gwhat is the first care of every freemason? h and receives the traditional reply: gto see the lodge close tyled. h he continues: gdirect that that duty be done. h the w.j.w. passes on the command to the i.g, who goes to see that the t. is at his post, and reports that he is, this report being at once passed on to the r.w.m. 361. what is the symbolism here? the first requisite when we are about to do a great piece of work is to co

the ritual, to make assurance doubly sure; so the r.w.m. calls his lodge to order, and all adopt a certain attitude of attention with a s c p and s c n, both of which are highly symbolical, and have remained unchanged for a very long period. it should be distinctly understood that a man who joins freemasonry does thereby take a step forward in evolution, and the fact that his identification as a freemason begins with that s c p is a constant reminder and acknowledgment of that. 376. the l c f c, because it is nearest to the heart, symbolizes the intuition, while the r c f c is supposed to represent intellectual faculty. the meaning of the s c p is therefore obviously that in occult matters intuition always takes precedence over mere reasoning processes. the position adopted is intended to

krit chakras) in the human body, and that in the course of occult progress all of them have to be opened, developed and made effective. 379. there are many methods of psychic development, some of which commence with the opening of one centre and some with another; but in the scheme advocated in ancient egypt and continued in freemasonry the centre indicated by that s c is taken first. so when the freemason makes that movement he not only designates the opening up of that centre as the special work, from the occult point of view, of this degree, but he also commands the aid of the powers in nature connected with and controlled through that centre in whatever work he is about to undertake. the gestures and words taught in freemasonry are not chosen at random; each has a definite meaning and

e clergy of the church are linked in various degrees of connection with the head of the church, the lord christ himself, and with the reservoir of power which he has set apart for the celebration of the sacraments, so are the initiates of the various degrees in freemasonry linked according to their rank with the h.o.a.t.f, and with the reservoir of power set apart for the work of the craft. every freemason has a certain touch with him; but the first great link directly with him is given in the degree of i.m (for it is practically a separate degree, although it is not called so, and closer links still are conferred in the higher degrees of the ancient and accepted scottish rite; so that the earnest mason becomes a veritable outpost of his consciousness, a channel of his power and a minister

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

which cheifly consists in the communication of certain secret signes, whereby they are known to one another all over the nation. he also speaks of a large parchment volum they have amongst them containing the history and rules of the craft of masonry(*emblematic freemasonry, p. 119) in the aubrey mss. of the natural history of wiltshire dr. plot refers to the adoption of sir christopher wren as a freemason(*ibid, p. 120) the minutes of lodge antiquity no. 2, the old lodge which met at the goose and gridiron, dated 1723, refer to a set of candlesticks which its worthy old master, sir christopher wren presented to the lodge(*the builders, vol. x, no. 2, p. 55) 581. the old lodge at york city was in a flourishing condition in 1705, but there is no documentary evidence to show its earlier hist

fore the revival in 1717. that there was a definite masonic ceremonial in existence at this time we learn from dr. stukely, who tells us that his curiosity led him to be initiated into the mysterys of masonry, suspecting it to be the remains of the mysterys of the antients(*gould. concise history, p. 54) he was initiated into the order on january 6th, 1721, and says: i was the first person made a freemason for many years. we had great difficulty to find members enough to perform the ceremony(*gould. concise history, p. 223) the manningham letters also offer testimony that the rituals of speculative masonry belong to an earlier period than 1717. dr. manningham, deputy grand master of the grand lodge of england, writes in 1757 of: 599. one old brother of ninety, who i conversed with lately;

pers found after his death it is clear that von hund regarded the knight of the red feather as prince charles himself. the life of von hund shows him to have been a man of stainless honour who had made great sacrifices for the cause which he had at heart; and although it has been said that in 1777 prince charles denied to an emissary of the strict observance(*ibid, p. 110) that he had ever been a freemason, such an official d menti is not unknown even to-day in political circles, and perhaps we need not attach great importance to it. 734. the scottish adherents of king james ii, who followed him into exile after the landing of the prince of orange in 1688, brought to the english court at s. germains (which had been placed at the disposal of the king by louis xiv) those ancient rites of her

LIBER 777

awn diagram (in turn derived from a figure in plate xvi in tom. i of von rosenroth s kabbala denudata) from which col. cvi. was derived, the seven earths of col. civ. were also enclosed by the four seas. godwin refers the infernal rivers to the elements thus: air, cocytus; water, styx; fire, phlegethon; earth, acheron. 12 heled, concealed, and never revealed. see the oath of an entered apprentice freemason. 13 the names appear in a supplement to the rituel de haute magie as part of an explanation of the nuctemeron of apollonius of tyana. in cap. xvii of the rituel levi gives the names and characters of another 24 zodiacal genii, two for each sign. the latter are here omitted. 14 i.e, the author of the heptameron (see note to preface on this point. but much of the following derives from the

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

sacred dances the most practical for a gathering is the seated dance. one sits cross-legged on the floor, and sways two and fro from the hips in time with the mantra. a solo or duet of dancers as a spectacle rather distracts from this exercise. i would suggest a very small and very brilliant light on the floor in the middle of the room. such a room is best floored with mosaic marble; an ordinary freemason fs lodge carpet is not a bad thing.1 the eyes, if they see anything at all, see then only the rhythmical or mechanical squares leading in perspective to the simple unwinking light. 1 [the design is a pattern of black and white squares. t.s] energized enthusiasm 15 the swinging of the body with the mantra (which has a habit of rising and falling as if of its own accord in a very weird way

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

byrom requires our attention. byrom was a fellow of the royal society, and he is known for his collection of curious geometric drawings. this remarkable collection has been analyzed thoroughly by joy hancox in her excellent book, the byrom collection, a work which provides much useful information about the thinking of the english intellectual community in the early 18th century. john byrom was a freemason, and he numbered among his friends such prominent masons as william stukeley, sir hans sloane, martin folkes, and john theophilus desaguliers, the third grand master of the premier grand lodge. the thing about byrom of particular interest to us is that from 1725 he ran a"cabala club" whose members included many of his friends; sir hans sloane was certainly a member.12 opponents of the vi

publications of the period. as we have seen, among the most important sources of information about freemasonry in the early 18th century are exposures which were published periodically in response to the popular demand for information about the order. one such broadsheet, the grand mystery laid open, was published anonymously in 1726; and it contains the following text "how many signs has a true freemason, nine, which are distinguish'd into spiritual and temporal. have the six spiritual signs any names? yes, but are not divulged to any new admitted member, because they are cabalisttical" and later, with respect to the secret word. what is it? it is a cabalistical word,"13 one must be careful to avoid jumping to conclusions on the basis of material which is published as an anonymous expose

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

strong, sleepless and ever awake (jaghaurvaunghem.'the supreme god ahura mazda also has one eye, or else it is said that 'with his eyes, the sun, moon and stars, he sees everything' the theory that mithra was originally a title of the supreme heavens-god--putting the sun out of court--is the only one that answers all requirements. it will be evident that here we have origins in abundance for the freemason's eye and 'its nunquam dormio" the reader must nor confuse the persian mithra with the vedic mitra. according to alexander wilder "the mithraic rites superseded the mysteries of bacchus, and became the foundation of the gnostic system, which for many centuries prevailed in asia, egypt, and even the remote west" click to enlarge mithras slaying the bull. from lundy's monumental christiani

were taken inland by solomon's workmen to the temple site. because of his great love for solomon, hiram of tyre sent also the grand master of the dionysiac architects, chiram abiff, a widow's son, who had no equal among the craftsmen of the earth. chiram is described as being "a tyrian by birch, but of israelitish descent" and "a second bezaleel, honored by his king with the title of father" the freemason's pocket companion (published in 1771) describes chiram as "the most cunning, skilful and curious workman that ever lived, whose abilities were not confined to building alone, but extended to all kinds of work, whether in gold, silver, brass or iron; whether in linen, tapestry, or embroidery; whether considered as an architect, statuary [sic; founder or designer, separately or together

nt in liquid form will dissolve into itself all other metals. in this high state the universal salt is a liquid fire. this salt dissolved with the proper amount of any metal and run through the different stages of digestion and rotations; of augmentations will eventually become a medicine for the transmuting of inferior metals. the true way of nature by hermes trismegistus, given out by a genuine freemason, i.c.h, describes the danger of over-augmenting the universal salt "but this multiplication cannot be carried on ad infinitum but it attains completeness in the ninth rotation. for when this tincture has been rotated nine times it cannot be exalted any further because it will not permit any further separation. for as soon as it perceives only the smallest degree of material fire it goes

ony and rhythm are all-pervading; by astronomy he gains an understanding of the immensities of time and space, of the proper relationship between himself and the universe, and of the awesomeness of that unknown power which is driving the countless stars of the firmament through illimitable space. equipped with the knowledge conferred by familiarity with the liberal arts and sciences, the studious freemason therefore finds himself confronted by few problems with which he cannot cope. the dionysiac architects the most celebrated of the ancient fraternities of artisans was that of the dionysiac architects. this organization was composed exclusively of initiates of the bacchus-dionysos cult and was peculiarly consecrated to the science of building and the art of decoration. acclaimed as being

o voted that the arrangement suggested by the professor be forthwith adopted. after the episode of the flag the professor quietly vanished, and nothing further is known concerning him. did general washington and doctor franklin recognize the professor as an emissary of the mystery school which has so long controlled the political destinies of this planet? benjamin franklin was a philosopher and a freemason--possibly a rosicrucian initiate. he and the marquis de lafayette--also a man of mystery--constitute two of the most important links in the chain of circumstance that culminated in the establishment of the original thirteen american colonies as a free and independent nation. doctor franklin's philosophic attainments are well attested in poor richard's almanac, published by him for many y

MEANING OF MASONRY

uipment. in one of the great london galleries there hangs a famous picture called" night" by the great artist and moralist of his age, hogarth. his purpose was to depict a characteristic night-scene in the streets of london as they appeared in his time. among the typical specimens of depravity haunting those ill-lit streets, the great artist has held up to the derision of all time the figure of a freemason staggering home drunk, still wearing his apron and being assisted by the tyler of the lodge. no true mason can regard this picture without a burning sense of shame, and without registering a resolution to redeem the craft from this stigma. we have, i hope, got past such things as these. we have awakened to some sense of dignity and self-reverence. the craft is well governed by its higher

o aimed at inaugurating an official uniform state-religion throughout its empire. subsequently, as the roman empire declined and broke up, the roman catholic church emerged from it, which, as we know, has resolutely discountenanced any authority in religion and philosophy as a rival to her own and at the same time claimed supremacy and an over-riding jurisdiction in temporal matters also. for the freemason the result of that church's conduct is instructive. for when an authority upon matters wholly spiritual and belonging to a kingdom which is not of this world, lays claim to temporal power and secular possessions, as the roman church has done and still does, it at once vitiates and neutralizes its own spiritual qualifications. it becomes infected with the virus of" worldly possessions" it

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

entists found cocoa and tobacco in the remains of the mummies in egypt. the thought is thatthe egyptians had consumed these products brought from south america.america and freemasonrythe freemasonic monopoly of government positions continued for at least the first hundred years ofunited states historyaccording to a 1924 census, even in that year, the senate had a membershipwhich was sixty percent freemason (p. 291)the number 13which appears on the american dollar bill, refers to the serpent. in the book of revelation, chapter 13,the dragon and its destructive power are introduced.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation209 appendix b: book abstracts past shock by jack barrangerin one of the most tragic ironies, the majority of humans continue to worship those gods who abusedthe

tened. they believed in direct contact between the human soul and the holy spirit, whichprompted the inquisition to issue three edicts against the group.12. 1756 charleston, south carolina, the original site of scottish rite masonry in the united states, isonly 15 miles south of the 33rd parallel. 13.1826 masons murdered masonic whistle blower captain william morgan. captain morgan was anamerican freemason who wrote a book revealing masonic secrets, illustrations of freemasonry.one revealed secret was that the last mystery at the top of the masonic pyramid is the worship oflucifer, that is, satan. in the legend of the murder of hiram abiff, abiff represents intelligence, lib-erty and truth, and was struck down by a blow to the neck with a rule, representing the suppressionof speech by the

etween anchorage and juneau, alaska on october 16,1972.masons representing many interests may have conferred and reached a consensus on kennedy's fate,as occurred in the morgan case in 1826, each knowing their discussions would be held in confi-dence. their motives would probably be to protect and advance business interests and their socialpositions. these would include: taking the presidency for freemason lyndon b. johnson, protecting freemason j. edgar hoover's control of the f.b.i. eliminating kennedy's softening position on communism, a threat to a wide variety of american business interests overseas. slowing the progress of the civil rights movement, an irritation to the kkk and other racists. eliminating kennedy's challenges to the cia's leadership; he'd fired cia director allen dull

r structure. the death toll included johnf. kennedy, robert kennedy, martin luther king, jr, and malcolm x. viewed as a whole, theseassassinations lead to the conclusion that anyone who promotes serious social reforms gearedtoward sharing the wealth and power will not be tolerated in a leadership position. kennedy was planning to withdraw from vietnam by the end of 1965" shortly after jfk's death,freemason lyndon johnson reversed kennedy's policy toward vietnam. the escalating involvementin the vietnam conflict was driven by the freemasons who solidified their control of the unitedstates government after the assassination of president kennedy. the war in vietnam profited thearms makers and drug runners. both the american and vietnamese peoples have paid dearly in bothappendix c: suggested

stnorth of 33? north latitude. its ancient name was fenex. as historical reminders, many sitessacred to the law of one are located in the vicinity of 33 including the pyramids of giza in egypt,which are patterned after the belt stars of orion.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation283 appendix c: suggested areas of research 29.1998 director james cameron was inducted as a 33rd degree freemason at the shrine auditoriumin los angeles with an informal ceremony. cameron's induction took place in a small room insidethe shrine while celebrities and movie stars were filing inside for the march 23, 1998, academyawards. later, on his birthday cameron formally became a 33rd degree freemason in the supremecouncil 33rd degree temple in washington, d.c. cameron is a leading light for the m

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

ment of individual completion. it is also to be noted incidentally that if the coffer in the king's chamber be struck, the sound emitted has no counterpart in any known musical scale. this tonal value may have formed part of that combination of circumstances which rendered the king's chamber an ideal setting for the conferment of the highest degree of the mysteries -manly palmer hall (33rd degree freemason "the secret teachings of all ages" it should never be forgotten for a moment that the central and essential work of the magicians is the attainment of knowledge and conversation with the holy guardian angel anything apart from this course is a side issue and unless so regarded may lead to the complete ruin of the whole work of the magician -aleister crowley "magic without tears--michael

MORALS AND DOGMA

worthy man in misfortune, to whom it gives assistance; to the afflicted, on whom it lavishes consolation; to the charitable man, whom it enables to do more good, by uniting with those who are charitable like himself; and to all who have souls capable of appreciating its importance, and of enjoying the charms of a friendship founded on the same principles of religion, morality, and philanthropy. a freemason, therefore, should be a man of honor and of conscience, preferring his duty to everything beside, even to his life; independent in his opinions, and of good morals; submissive to the laws, devoted to humanity, to his country, to his family; kind and indulgent to his brethren, friend of all virtuous men, and ready to assist his fellows by all means in his power. thus will you be faithful

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

y unpopular kind of servitude, the watch, something in which the bourgeois residents of paris were compelled to participate. the trades that benefited from such franchises were known as the francs metiers [free craftsmen. francs metiers and freemasonry it is perhaps within these privileged francs metiers that we should place the origin of operative or traditional freemasonry. apparently, the term freemason was imported from england. in that country there are texts from 1376 and 1396 in which the word ffremasons or ffreemaseons appears for the first time. in reality, however, the english had borrowed the term from the french language, as is evidenced by its etymology. we should not forget that under the norman monarchs and for three centuries following william the conqueror's victory at has

ously thought, do not have bearing on modern freemasonry: in 1212, the court of taxes in london alludes to a company of cementarii (masons) and sculptores lapidum liberorum (sculptors in free stone)2 and in the workers statute issued in 1351, which was composed in french, there is mention of mestre mason de franche pere [master mason of free stone. some have deduced from these texts that the term freemason may 186 from the art of building to the art of thinking have originally designated a sculptor of stone (sculptores in latin or latomos in greek) working free stone, which is to say stone that can easily be carved by hammer and chisel, as opposed to rough stone or hard stone. later, when the decadence of gothic art had brought about the gradual disappearence of free-stone sculptors, the t

mason may 186 from the art of building to the art of thinking have originally designated a sculptor of stone (sculptores in latin or latomos in greek) working free stone, which is to say stone that can easily be carved by hammer and chisel, as opposed to rough stone or hard stone. later, when the decadence of gothic art had brought about the gradual disappearence of free-stone sculptors, the term freemason would have been commingled with roughmason, but the first name prevailed. this etymology, which robert freke gould also found dubious, cannot be supported. the word free or franc does not apply to the craftsman working the stone but to the stone of pure and good quality that is being worked. in fact, the first use of the term freemason appeared in 1376 in the license for the franchise of

hould be wary of etymologies. for instance, the word layer, from to lay or lay, could mean the corporative masonry of great britain 187 someone who lays stone or someone of secular status. the word setter could refer to a stonecutter or the member of a set or association, such as a guild. the lay mason dependent upon a guild and subsequently a ligier, lige, or vassal, could then be opposed to the freemason, who is free because of his connection to the church. the 1396 text of the archbishop of canterbury shows that the term ffremaceons was then recognized as technically english with no latin equivalent. it is quite likely that it also confirms that the term franc maconnerie is to be understood as similar to francs metiers, artisans who were not only free but enjoyed certain franchises and

include the profession in all its locations thoughout the entire kingdom. this was the case for the masons of york and london, 188 from the art of building to the art of thinking who became freemasons and whose trade name freemasonry would eventually include the entire masonic craft. this evolution took shape quickly and is quite visible in the latefourteenth- century texts cited above. the term freemason applied in 1376 to the masons of the company of london is indicative of the generalization of the term. on the other hand, the license of the archbishop of canterbury still clearly shows that distinctions existed between the freemason, in the strict sense of the word, and the ordinary vassal mason (lathomos. three centuries later a manuscript of the old charters of the masons, the melros

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

rder has never been solely about world government, rather, from the beginning its proponents have been privy to secret doctrines and it is a spiritual plan more than anything. if one failed to take into account the occult nature of the new world order, they would be remiss. the un and the new age have been bed-fellows since the beginning. america s secret destiny is the product of rosicrucian and freemason forefathers. the new atlantis as proposed in francis bacon s work is almost at hand. the ancient mysteries are being studied for illumination and enlightenment by the new world order s elite. not to mention the new age gurus dutifully recruiting on behalf of the secret brotherhood. in 1980, marylin ferguson compiled and espoused a synthesis involving the theories of transformation and th

s incorporated into the newly formed lodges at that time. the mysterious heiroglyphs were considered to be symbols of hidden knowledge. symbols and gestures became a means of conveying secrets and truths. the cosmos was seen as an organic unity. it was peopled by a hierarchy of spirits which exercised all kinds of influences and sympathies. the practice of magic became a holy quest. back in 1927, freemason w.l. wilmhurst saw the dawning of the aquarian age as the fufillment of the plan. in the meaning of masonry, p.4, he writes: in this new aquarian age, when many individuals and groups are working in various ways for the eventual restoration of the mysteries, an increasing number of aspirants are beginning to recognize that freemasonry may well be the vehicle for this achievement he would

oals and looks to the light of masonry as its esoteric basis for occult initiation into the new world order. benjamin creme writes: the new religion will manifest, for instance,through organizations like masonry. in freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor and symbol (the reappearance of the christ and the masters of wisdom p.87) freemason and co-founder of lucifer publishing company (now called lucis trust, foster bailey, concurs, is it not possible from a contemplation of this side of masonic teaching that it may provide all that is necessary for the formulation of a universal religion (the spirit of masonry p.113) foster bailey states that masonry is the descendant of, or is founded upon, a divinely imparted religion. t

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

states, fined$ f, a a a, and sentenced to serve two years in the federal penitentiary. his pretension to scottish recognition was exposed by testimony showing that the grand lodge of scotland does not recognize these rites as belonging to freemasonry.32 the rite of memphis in england on october c e, b i f j, w. grey clarke, grand secretary of the grand lodge of england, issued a circular (see the freemason, september c d, b i h b) directing masters of lodges to see that no member of the reformed order of memphis, or rite of the grand lodge of philadelphes should be admitted to any lodge, and asking them to remind the members of their lodges that they could hold no communication with irregular lodges without incurring the penalty of expulsion from the order, and the liability of being proce

the grand lodge of philadelphes should be admitted to any lodge, and asking them to remind the members of their lodges that they could hold no communication with irregular lodges without incurring the penalty of expulsion from the order, and the liability of being proceeded against under the act d j, george iii, for taking part in the meetings of illegal secret societies. in the same issue of the freemason, there appeared a letter from meyer and lowenstark, which stated that the antient and primitive rite of memphis, late- volume j, c a a b b i b the spurious rites of memphis and misraim ly introduced into england by b.d.hyam,past grand master ofmasons of california, u.s.a, had no connection with the spurious body named. in the freemason of october h, b i h b, we find this note, we are req

re by the heads of the masonic order in america, who have reportedly denounced the reputed sovereign of memphis, harry j. seymour and his colleague, not only as spurious masons, but of men unworthy of credit in every respect.we are informed that the rite is impious and atheistical in its teachings and that active measures are on foot to expose the iniquity of its proceedings. again we find in the freemason of october b j, b i h c, page g e e, an editorial stating that the grand orient of france desired to absorb the rite of memphis and so wipe out what it considered an anomaly and a disgrace to the craft. according to brother dudley wright, all doubt as to the illegality of the antient and primitive rite had been settled on april b c and b d, b i h b,when a concordat was arrived at between

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

of these papers are among the most important of all order documents, since so many general magical formulae are there described. they pertain to a great many magical matters, other than initiation. as an aside, for the serious student who is interested in making comparisons and drawing deductions, i recommend a slim volume entltled the ceremony oflnitiation by w. l. wilmshurst, an eminent british freemason. this little volume, though privately printed in 1953, is available to the general public, being obtainable through j. m. watkins, london. it purports to be an analysis and commentary onmasonic initiations. its similarity to the 2-2 document is startling, though the latter is of course written on a much deeper level than its masonic equivalent, and is esoterically slanted. but without kn

r with a good many other writers and artists. with regard to the names given in dr. westcott's statement it is necessary that we bestow to them some little attention in order to unravel, so far as may be possible, the almost inextricable confusion which has characterised every previous effort to detail the history of the order. m.e.v. was the motto chosen by dr. william robert woodman, an eminent freemason of the last century. sapere aude and non omnis moriar were the two mottos used by dr. westcott, an antiquarian, scholar, and coroner by profession. s. r m. d. or s'rhiogail ma dhream was the motto of s. l. macgregor mathers, the translator of the greater key of king solomon, the book of the sacred magic of abramelin t h e m e, and thekabbalah unveiled, which latter consisted of certain <

red upon mathers. one legend has it that one day westcott discovered in his library a series of cipher manuscripts, and in order to decipher them he enlisted the aid of macgregor mathers. it is said that this library was that of the societas rosicruciana in anelia. and it is likewise asserted that those ci her manuscripts were among the rituals gd clocuments originally rescued by obe; little from freemason's hall. yet other accounts have it that westcott or a clerical friend found the manuscripts on a bookstall in farringdon street. further apocryphal legends claim that they were found in the library of books and manuscripts inherited from the mystic and clairvoyant, frederick hockley, who died in 1885. whatever the real origin of these mysterious cipher manuscripts, when eventually deciph

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marily and explicitly a religion. in addition, the ceremony appears to involve acts and principles contrary to setian ethics. f. would the bylaws prevent me from joining the freemasons? no. religion is not the primary and explicit focus of the freemasons. although they require belief in a supreme being- a suprarational premise- and base their ethical principles on this belief, as explained by one freemason writing on usenet, freemasonry is generally pursued as a fraternal activity, not a religion. g. would the bylaws prevent me from joining the oto? no. religion is not the primary, explicit focus of the oto. the oto describes itself as a fraternal, initiatory, social and educational organization of a religious nature, and describes that religion as thelema. however, the degree system of th

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

s to investigate the operations of the vatican bank, marcinkus and ties to the mafia and the illuminati. instead, john paul ii protected marcinkus, quashed any investigations to be carried out by john paul i's secretary of state cardinal jean villot and buried all the people on villot's list to be relieved of church duties or transferred, all the people on theist suspected of being members of the freemason's p-2 group and the illuminati. gangster mario cuomo although i didn't know it at the time, a naples "camorra" mafia figure, named mario cuomo, who lived in near me in a small town outside of rome and who eventually was killed in a gangland shooting, was instrumental in saving my life on several occasions. cuomo, who drove a mazzerati, lived in a huge villa, dressed to the 9's and who i

ncial post, victor golancz ltd. 1983) early september 1978: pope john paul i asks his secretary of state, cardinal jean villot, to initiate an investigation into vatican bank operations. september 28, 1978: john paul i presents cardinal villot with a list of people who are to be transferred, asked for their resignations, or reassigned. all the people on the list are suspected to be members of the freemason's group "p2" the reshuffle of power will have major implications for the existing vatican power structure and its financial dealings. september 29, 1978: john paul i found dead in his bed. villot issues false statements to the press about the circumstances surrounding the death, removes key evidence from john paul's room, and orders the body to be embalmed immediately without an autopsy

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

understood. masonic expert lynn f. perkins alludes to the gigantic amount of extracurricular research and work needed to uncover the greatest secrets of the masonic fraternity. he writes: the true wisdom is concealed and hidden, not only from those who do not join the masonic order but also from those who "take" the degrees; and it will remain hoodwinked! pity the poor, foolish man who becomes a freemason! in the very first degree ritual, that of entered apprentice, a blindfold is put over his eyes, and a cable-tow is hung around his neck. symbolically, the dumb candidate is "hoodwinked" little does he know that his superiors intentionally set out to deceive the candidate and they contrive their deceit through all the ritual degrees up to and including the 33rd. 22 codex magica hidden unt

truly, the man who has taken vulgar and bloody oaths to defend the order and has vowed to protect its secrets against onslaught by would be interlopers and intruders is not above killing those who oppose his ambitious personal goals or who stand in the way of the attainment of the objectives of the order of the illuminati "in freemasonry it is permitted to kill" consider the military trial of the freemason, cabrinovic, assassin of the archduke ferdinand of austria, hungary, a fateful event that touched off the deadly and fiery conflict of world war i. cabrinovic's testimony at his trial provides us a graphic example of the rebellious spirit of the men of the secret societies and orders. asked if he had conspired with other freemasons to murder the archduke and thus set off a saga of anarch

testified the assassin cabrinovic. how exquisitely truthful the man was as he s a t in the witness chair, being called to account for his horrific crime. when we examine the historical record of the world's most despicable mass murderers and revolutionaries, we find that almost all of them were members of 44 codex magica freemasonry and other secret societies of the illuminati: robespierre was a freemason; weishaupt was a freemason; napoleon was a freemason; lenin was a freemason; stalin was a freemason; mussolini was a freemason; truman and roosevelt were freemasons; ariel sharon is a freemason; bill clinton is a freemason; fidel castro is a freemason. is there no help for the widow's son? at his trial for conspiracy to commit homicide, satanist rebel charles manson was observed giving a

ual and monitor admits that over the years the spelling has been "corrupted" by freemasonry until it reached its current form.1 decker correctly asserts that "what these men are doing is worshipping a demon god so far removed from the real god that this worship must surely defile the holiness of god and guarantee those who pronounce that name in such a ceremony a swift ride to hell."2 c.c zain, a freemason who is part of a group called "the brotherhood of light" is developer and author of an entire course on ancient masonry having to do with "the spiritual significance of masonic rituals, degrees, and symbols" zain points out that the name jahbuhlun is masonry's grand omnific word, the name of their omnipotent deity. he further shows the significance of the fact that the name jahbuhlun has

aws celebrated as "robin hoods" who, it is claimed, showered some of their stolen wealth on the poor; anton lavey, who founded the church of satan in 1966 proclaiming it a temple of reason for those of wisdom and who sought mass membership as patronage; socialist eugene debs, who claimed to represent the common man; and john wilkes booth, alleged assassin of president abraham lincoln. booth was a freemason and as such, was a fomenter of international revolutions of the people; lincoln was not a mason and sought to quell insurrection of the masses. the sign of a fellow craft mason is made by raising the right hand to the left breast, with the palm towards the breast and the fingers crooked. then, draw the hand smartly across the breast from left to right and let it drop to the side. in perf

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

dea of an historical connection between masonry and the crusading orders received the enthusiastic support of the chevalier ramsay, a jacobite exile he was file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (1 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. the private tutor of the young pretender, bonnie prince charlie who was also an active freemason. ramsay said: at the time of the crusades in palestine many princes, lords, and citizens associated themselves, and vowed to restore the temple of the christians in the holy land, and to employ themselves in bringing back their architecture to its first institution. they agreed upon several ancient signs and symbolic words drawn from the well of religion in order to recognize themselves

e%20o.t.o/p1c3.html (1 of 3 [12/28/2001 2:01:29 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. existence at some time between 1830 and 1840.12 neither enjoyed any great success and both eventually fell into the hands of john yarker, an english masonic enthusiast who, after unifying them, publicized them through a periodical called the kneph. there is no doubt that yarker was a dedicated, even an obsessive, freemason. there is equally no doubt that his masonic activities led him to neglect his private affairs, to fall into poverty13 and, eventually, to be prepared to confer masonic charters on any individual, or group of individuals, who were prepared to pay a sufficiently large fee. in 1902 yarker was approached by three german occultists, named klein, hartmann and reuss, and on september 24 of that

is autobiography steiner was clearly ashamed of his former ritualistic file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c4.html (1 of 3 [12/28/2001 2:01:45 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. activities and devoted three pages to an attempt to explain them away. it is difficult to understand why he should have done this if he had been no more than an unorthodox freemason (d) crowley, who as we shall see, was on friendly terms with reuss, specifically stated that steiner had been an o.t.o. initiate. it is worth adding that crowley was usually accurate on matters of fact outside his own personal affairs (e) dr. felkin, the chief of the stella matutina (a magical fraternity derived from the golden dawn) and a disciple of steiner was also a member of the bri

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

eration? i am not trying to be sarcastic in the least, but even commonplace self- references used among wiccans today, such as "the craft" or the refrain "so mote it be"are lifted straight out of freemasonry (see, for example, duncan's ritual of freemasonry. and, as doreen valiente notes in her letter to me mentioned before..of course old gerald was also a member of the co-masons, and an ordinary freemason" as well as an oto member. part two a true history of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 20 the real origin of wicca we must dismiss with some respect the assertion, put forth by margot adler and others, that "wicca no longer adheres to the orthodox mythos of the book of shadows" many, if not most of those who have been drawn to wicca in the last three decades came to it

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

tion that an entire race of humanity could dwell in its depths struck them as plausible. it was believed in some quarters that bulwer-lytton's novel was fact disguised as fiction. 122 soul flight in a magical sense, vril is a blind force. it can be used for good or for evil, in a way similar to electricity, which also has no moral affiliation. one of hitler's earlier advisors, the rosicrucian and freemason general karl haushofer, founded the luminous lodge of the vril society in 1925, the same year in which the thule society was dissolved. the author wulf schwarzwiiller asserted that the purpose of the vril society was to investigate the roots of the aryan race, and to perform ritual exercises designed to awaken the power of vril. he claimed that haushofer was a student of the mystic grego

WILLIAM WESCOTT GOLDEN DAWN HISTORTY LECTURE

eries. this society, which has branches in england, scotland and the united states, is allied with the g.d. it perpetuated one form of rosicrucian initiation which was conferred 100 years ago in england and which was mentioned by godfrey higgins in his work the anacalypsis, or an attempt to withdraw the veil of the saitic isis. fratre little was a student of the school of levi and also an eminent freemason, and the rosicrucian society as revised by him was made by intention and permission essentially masonic, thus severing all connection with those adepts who have not been craftsmen, as basil valentine, artephus, nicolas flamel, jacob behmen and robert fludd. the rosicrucian society in the same manner fails to recognize any worth for occult research in women. this is also an innovation or

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

th power to grant charters to other lodges, and the constitutions of the fraternity were first published under its sanction. from this fountain free masonry has spread to every quarter of the globe. now and then we masons are amused by statements concerning female members of our order. some years ago it was claimed by a number of newspapers that a certain famous woman sculptor of washington was a free mason. the writer of this asked for the name of the lodge in which she was initiated and a few other particulars. the reply was given that she was a member of one of the lodges instituted by the then empress eugenie of france. my next audacious question was as to where the empress got her authority for chartering masonic lodges. the intimation was further made that she was no more a free maso

s given that she was a member of one of the lodges instituted by the then empress eugenie of france. my next audacious question was as to where the empress got her authority for chartering masonic lodges. the intimation was further made that she was no more a free mason than the gilt figurehead of a man-of-war. every real mason knows that there never was, is not, and never will or can be a female free mason. let our sisters remain content with the reply of a gallant brother vi introduction "you were born masons; any initiation or ceremony would be superfluous; therefore, we do not insult you by any such proposition" none the less, there is respectable authority for believing that three women have taken the first step in masonry. it is said that mrs. beaton, of norfolk, england, learned the

it. the most noted example of late years was gabriel jogand-pages, a frenchman born in 1854. his publications against free masonry were grotesquely monstrous, but for a time gained many believers. the fact that they were denied by such distinguished free masons as emperor william i, bismarck and the prince of wales added to the excitement caused by the book, of which hundreds of thou *a venerable free mason once told me that many years ago, he met. a very old brother who said he was present on one of the memorable occasions when it is claimed that a woman was made an entered apprentice mason. the oath which she was compelled to take, far from being the legitimate one of that degree, was simply a solemn pledge, under the most fearful penalties, never to reveal any of the secrets which she h

e most fearful penalties, never to reveal any of the secrets which she had discovered. i cannot help suspecting that in all the instances of these alleged initiations, a similar course was followed, and that no woman was ever made so much as a real entered apprentice. doubtless the awfulness of the oath and penalty had much to do in keeping her lips sealed regarding the little she had learned. no free mason needs to be reminded that it is simply impossible for any woman to become a member of our order. introduction vii sands of copies were sold. in 1897 jogand-pages publicly confessed that everything written by him against the order was a deliberate falsehood. the greatest blow ever received by free masonry in this country was in 1826, and it did not recover therefrom for twenty years. the

cabin of the sick man and discovered two important facts. he unquestionably had the disease, but he had had it for several days, and was convalescing. he might be considered out of danger, so far as he himself was concerned, but, as you know, the risk from contagion was as great, if not greater, than before "the second truth that came to me was the discovery that 88 after ten years the man was a free mason. i assured him he should be taken care of, and told him to give himself no anxiety on that score. promising to come to him again in a short time, i slipped out of his cabin, without attracting notice, and made my way to the deck, where the captain was standing near the pilot house with a score of men, pale, swearing and more excited than ever. he was awed by the display of anger and dea

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

m street, strand. oswald croll (d. 1609. hockley is presumably referring to h. pinnell'sphilosophyrljormedandimpruvedinfourprofoundtractates. byo.c.(1657).6 thomas norton (flourishedc.1477),m.p. for bristol 1436; ambassador for and member of privy chamber of edward iv. an alchemist and writer of alchemical tracts. his ms theordinalofalchemy(1477) is notable as having the earliest use of the term 'free mason. 7 eiraneus philalethes: pseudonym used by a seventeenth century alchemist whose identity remains unknown. he claimed to havehockley'sletters to the irwins 49marriedculpeper's!'widow and succeeded to his business, his great good fortune was being committed to the tower as a printer, where as was wittingly said 'he was better provided for than he had ever beeninhislife' he died in an obs

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

own unfinished sketch of figurative building(*emblematic freemasonry, p. 43) 577. among the records of the acception was a book of constitutions which mr. flood gave. 578. in the harleian mss, no. 2054, a rough memorandum of date 1665 is found, containing the following sentence, which looks like notes of an obligation, used probably in the chester lodge: 579. there is seu`all word and signes of a free mason to be revailed to yu wch as yu will anew: before god at the great and terrible day of iudgmt yu keep secret and not to revaile the same to any in the heares of any pson w but to the mrs and fellows of the said society of free masons so helpe me god, xt(*ibid, p. 115) 580. dr. robert plot in his natural history of staffordshire (chap. iii, published in 1686, refers to the admission of ma

le. maria deraismes, a well-known authoress and lecturer, noted for her service to humanitarian and feminist movements. they did so, in the presence of a large assembly, on january 14th, 1882. the right worshipful master, bro. houbron, 18, justified their experiment as having the welfare and highest interests of humanity at heart, and as being a perfectly logical application of the principle of a free mason in a free lodge. the lodge was of course suspended for putting the family motto into practice 780. for some time sister maria deraismes did nothing in the way of extending to others the masonic privileges she had received. eventually she yielded to the persuasions of friends, and notably of dr. georges martin. this latter gentleman was a member of the lodge les libres penseurs when mdll

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

rges and taxes as well as to their own trade regulations. this was the case in paris with respect to the masons. clearly in this distinction between "franc" craftsmen and free artists, we can seek the origin of the term francs-macon (franc-maconnerie, for with this term, the noun that labeled and distinguished the worker eventually became one with the name it qualified, quite opposite to a simple free mason who did not enjoy the benefits of any exemptions. it can also be said that because of the spiritual and temporal autonomy and authority of the temple, as well as that of a large number of its commanderies spread throughout the land, the francs-macons and all other free, exempt craftsmen in templar jurisdiction could move about freely. they enjoyed freedom of passage and were confident b

o have recently completed their apprenticeships and become qualified workers. the harleian document (circa 1650) provides a detailed formulation of an oath that could be equally appropriate for a speculative mason. this is also true for the text of the statutes published by the masonic assembly of december 8, 1663. this is the text of article 7 of these statutes: that no p'son shall be accepted a free mason, or know the secrets of the said society, until he hath first taken the oath of secrecy hereafter following: i, a. b, doe in the presence of almighty god and my fellows and brethren here present, promise and declare that i will not at any time hereafter, by any act or circumstance whatsoever, directly or indirectly, publish, discover, reveale, or make knowne, any of the secrets, privile

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

new york, 1961 sumerian mythology pennsylvania, 1972 laurent la magie et la divination chez les chaldeo-assyriennes paris, 1894 lenormant, f. science occult; la magie chez les chaldeens paris, 1874 lovecraft, h.p. tales of the cthulhu mythos new york, 1973 at the mountains of madness new york, 1973 the dunwich horror new york, 1963 the lurker at the threshold (with august derleth) new york, 1971 mason, h. gilgamesh (ed) new york, 1972 neugebauer, o. the exact sciences in antiquity new york, 1969 pritchard, j. near eastern texts relating to the old testament princeton, 1958 the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "sapere aude" new york seignobos, s. the world of babylon new york, 1975 seligmann, k. magic, supernaturalism, and religion new york, 1968 shah, i. oriental magic new york, 1973 the sec

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

the goddess nina,(26) for her number is an hundred and eleven. yet with all this went the work awry; for the word of the law is theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 114 [118] commentary( nu-delta) the title of this chapter refers to the duty of the tyler in a blue lodge of freemasons. the numbers in paragraphs 1 to 3 are significant; each master-mason is attended by 5 fellow-crafts, and each fellow-craft by 3 apprentices, as if the masters were sitting in pentagrams, and the fellow- craftsmen in triangles. this may refer to the number of manual signs in each of these degrees. the moral of the chapter is apparently that the mother-letter aleph is an inadequate solution of the great problem. aleph is identified with the yoni, for all the sy

fficer in a chapter of the royal arch masons. in this chapter the author, in a sort of raging eloquence, bewails his impotence to express himself, or to induce others to follow into the light. in paragraph 1 he explains the sardonic laughter, for which he is justly celebrated, as being in reality the expression of this feeling. paragraph 2 is a reference to the obligation of an entered apprentice mason. paragraph 3 refers to the ceremony of exaltation in royal arch masonry. the initiate will be able to discover the most formidable secret of that degree concealed in the paragraph. paragraphs 4-6 express an anguish to which that of gethsemane and golgotha must appear like whitlows. in paragraph 7 the agony is broken up by the sardonic or cynical laughter to which we have previously alluded

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

any book for free on: www.abika.com 15 the o.t.o. remind me of some women's idea of shopping. you want to 10 maul about the stock and then walk out with a proud glad smile: no. do you really think that i should muster all the most distinguished people alive for your inspection and approval? the affiliation clause in our constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. were you not a mason, or co-mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage inquisitors; and then- probably- thrown out on to the garbage heap. well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. would you do it yourself, if you were on the committee of a club? the o.t.o. is a serious body, engaged on a work of cosmic scope. you should quest

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effects, and these have not betrayed him. indeed, had mr trowbridge sworn secrecy to the modern illuminati, i am afraid that he might have his s..l 153 s..n across, and his b..s exposed to the s..g r..s of the s.n before now! i think mr trowbridge is too ready to assume that the initiations of egyptian masonry were ridiculous. on what documents does he base his description? it is always open to a mason to reply to an "exposure" that those who tell don't know, and those who know don't tell. my own small knowledge of the matter assures me that the accounts given on pp. 111 and 112, 120 and 121 are entirely foreign to that knowledge and priori most unlikely. it is incredible that one to whom so many impressive rites were accessible should found his system on tomfoolery. i wish mr trowbridge c

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

t, such as samadhi in one of its greater or lesser forms; and in england the difficulties were hardly to be overcome. i found it impossible to meditate in the cold, and fires will not last equably. gas stinks abominably; heating apparatus does not heat; electricity has hitherto not been available. when i build my temple, i shall try it. the food difficulty could be overcome by messrs. fortnum and mason, the noise difficulty by training, the leisure difficulty 37 by sending all business to the devil, the solitude difficulty by borrowing a vacant flat; but the british climate beat me. i hope one day to be rich enough to build a little house expressly for the purpose; but at present there is on the horizon no cloud even so large as the littlest finger of a man! if only, therefore, i could red

e style is [we regret that our space will not admit a more extended review- ed] 104 the dream circean the dream circean i au "lapin agile" perched at the junction of two of the steepest little streets in montmartre shines the "lapin agile" a tiny window filled with gleaming bottles, thrilled through by the light behind, a little terrace with tables, chairs, and shrubs, and two dark doors. roderic mason came striding up the steepness of the rue st. vincent, his pipe gripped hard in his jaw; for the hill is too abrupt for lounging. on the terrace he stretched himself, twirled round half a dozen times like a dervish, pocketed his pipe, and went stooping through the open doorway. grand old frederic was there, in his vast corduroys and sou'-wester hat, a 'cello in his hand. his trim grey beard

o his brain. was the rue des quatre vents haunted by a ghost in his image? there are no ghosts in practical paris. but of all the ideas 110 which came to him, not one was half so strange as the simple and natural story which he was later to hear "come" said frederic "i will present you to him "monseigneur" he said, as roderic stood before him, ready to make his little bow "let me present monsieur mason, an englishman" the old fellow took little notice. said frederic in his ear "monsieur lives on the boulevard st. germain, and loves to paint the streets" the old man rose with alacrity, smiled, bowed, was enchanted to meet one of the gallant allies whose courage had- he spoke glibly of the alma, inkerman, sebastopol. the little comedy had not been lost on roderic. wondering, he sat down besi

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

solar system correspond to the four "initiations of the threshold" prior to the first cosmic initiation. the fifth initiation corresponds to the first cosmic initiation, that of "entered apprentice" in masonry; and makes a master an "entered apprentice" of the lodge on sirius. the sixth initiation is analogous to the second degree in masonry, whilst the seventh initiation makes the adept a master mason of the brotherhood on sirius. a master, therefore, is one who has taken the seventh planetary initiation, the fifth solar initiation, and the first sirian or cosmic initiation. at-one-ment, the result of initiation. a point that we need to grasp is that each successive initiation brings about a more complete unification of the personality and the ego, and on higher levels still, with the mon

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

assure you that it is most difficult to raise, and can only be done by a definite act of the will and through the intense mental focussing and concentrated attention of the man, seated on the throne of consciousness in the head. the masonic tradition has the teaching- 341- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust clearly held in its beautiful ritual of the raising of the great master-mason. only when there is united effort of a fivefold kind, and only after repeated failure, does the vivifying life course through the entire body and bring to life the true man. the second point i would touch upon is that all this deeply esoteric work must only proceed under the direction of the skilled teacher. platitudinously, the aspirant is told that "when the pupil is ready, the master will

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

better grasped, man will arrive at real self knowledge. he will then be ready for the fourth initiation which releases him from all further need for rebirth. this is the truth which underlies the masonic teaching, which is given under the symbolism of the first eighteen degrees. these can be divided into four groups of degrees: entered apprentice, fellow craft (followed by the mark degree) master mason (followed by the h.r.a) and the grouped degrees, four to seventeen, in the scottish rite. these seventeen degrees prepare the man for the fourth or fundamental degree, taken by a man who is a master mason. it can only be taken when the master is in possession of the true lost word. he has risen from the dead; he has been entered, passed, and raised, and now can be perfected. herein lies a gr

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ritual, in words and in symbology; these veil the secret of man's origin and destiny, picturing to him, in rite and ritual, the long, long path which he must tread, back into the light. they provide also (when rightly interpreted and correctly represented) the teaching which humanity needs in order to pass from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real and from death to immortality. any true mason who understands, even if only to a slight degree, the significance of the three degrees of the blue lodge, and the implications of that in which he participates, will recognise the above three phrases for what they are, and will recognise the significance of the three degrees. i mention it here with masonic purpose because it is closely related to the restoration of the mysteries and has hel

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

rely with the progress of the ordinary man upon the wheel of life, and the saturn which he senses as ruling aquarius is the saturnian influence of capricorn, in which sign saturn governs in two fields. on the reversed wheel, the saturnian influence exhausts itself in capricorn and the man is then free from karma and needs no presentation of opportunity for he stands a free initiate, a true master mason and can then proceed with world service undeterred and held back by no thought of self or selfish desire. he comes then under the influence of uranus, that mysterious and occult planet. his will is focussed and developed by the uranian influences and he develops into a leader. he brings about desired changes and produces those new conditions which will help the soul of humanity to express it

of humanity, through the mind, to the hierarchy and the approach of that hierarchy to the human centre of energy. let me recall to your attention the following facts in this connection: t he approach of the hierarchy..l. emurian in date. proceeding steadily always. t he past..impetus then given still persists. sagittarius m ental unfoldment..instinct. intellect. intuition. t he work of the master mason..t. o raise humanity to the mountain top of initiation- 292- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust t he work of the hierarchy..to raise the mass consciousness. t he present..to capitalise on the original impetus of this sign. leo p sychic development..t. he growth of the response apparatus and the synthesis of the inner awareness. t he work o

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

e evolutionary process, hidden in numbers and in words; they veil the secret of man's origin and destiny, picturing for him in rite and ritual the long, long path which he must tread. they provide also, when rightly interpreted and correctly presented, the teaching which humanity needs in order to progress from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real and from death to immortality. any true mason who understands, even if only to a slight degree, the implications of that in which he participates will recognise this most ancient of oriental prayers, giving the key to the three degrees of the blue lodge. i mention here the masonic purpose because it is closely related to the restoration of the mysteries and has held the clue down the ages to that long-awaited restoration, to the platfor

tion, the information is of no use to you. it enables you, however, to begin to develop the esoteric sense of synthesis. these three grades of appreciation or of comprehension of the initiatory process are hinted at in the masonic work. the ceremonial aspect can be related to the degrees of entered apprentice and of fellow craft, plus certain little-practiced degrees, as for instance that of mark mason degree and one or two others; these are expansions of the implied teaching. the initiations, covered by the term symbolic representation, find their first hint in the sublime third degree, that of master mason, in the holy royal arch and in one or two succeeding degrees; the higher degrees of the scottish rite constitute a vague and nebulous attempt to hold before the masons of the world tho

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s cited and imagination may seem to have been at work. but some of the statements, including those of other english writers, are referable to a source in thory's acta latamorum. when woodford speaks of von hund's admission into templar masonry at clermont as not a matter of hypothesis, but of certain knowledge, he is dependent on the french historian, according to whom the german baron was made a mason at paris in 1742. the chapter of clermont was founded in that city so late as 1754, and some time subsequently von hund retunied thither, with the result that he derived templar teaching from clermont, on which he built up the observance system. but, whatever the point is worth, this story is not only at issue with that of von hund himself, but with the current chronology of the observance

ll in being and to test aspirants who entered the ranks, so that none but those who were found to be of true worth and fidelity should be advanced from the third degree into that which lay beyond. to such as were successful the existence of the secret chivalry became known only at the end of seven years, three of which were passed as apprentice, two as companion or fellow craft, and two as master mason. it was on the same conditions and with the same objects that the order in the eighteenth century was prepared to receive masons who had been proved into that which was denominated the illustrious grade and order of knights of the temple of jerusalem. the candidate undertakes in his obligation to do all in his power for the glorious restoration of the order; to succour his brethren in their

hat molay revealed to his nephew beaujeu, shortly before his death, the rituals and treasures of the order (2) that the latter escaped, apparently, with these and with the disinterred ashes of the master, and was accompanied by nine other knights, all disguised as masons (3) that they found refuge among the stonemasons. it is said that in denmark the history of masonry, owing to the activity of a mason named schubert, became practically that of the observance, until 1785, when the rectified rite was introduced as an outcome of the congress of wilhelmsbad. it was not until 1853 that the swedish rite replaced all others, by reason of a royal decree. so late as 1817 the rectified rite erected a central body in brussels. in 1765 the observance entered russia and was followed by the swedish rit

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o the apprentice for study" writes the founder "is the mineral kingdom, symbolized by tubalc (tubal-cain. the second side on which the 'companion' has to meditate, is the vegetable kingdom, symbolized by schibb[[diagram (schibboleth. in this kingdom begins the generation of the bodies. this is why the letter g is presented radiant before the eyes of the adept. the third side is left to the master mason, who has to complete his education by the study of the animal kingdom. it is symbolized by maoben[[diagram (sun of putrefaction" etc, etc. the first solid figure is the quaternary, symbol of immortality. it is the pyramid: for the pyramid stands on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminates with a point at the top, thus yielding the triad and the quaternary or the 3 and 4. it is

he triple ternary. it is the number which reproduces itself incessantly under all shapes and figures in[[footnote(s* osiris is called in the "book of the dead "osiris, the double crocodile (see chapter "on the names of osiris" cxlii "he is the good and the bad principle; the day, and the night sun, the god, and the mortal man" thus far the macrocosm and the microcosm[[vol. 2, page] 581 the master mason's grip. every multiplication. it is the sign of every circumference, since its value in degrees is equal to 9, i.e, to 3+ 6+ 0. it is a bad number under certain conditions, and very unlucky. if number 6 was the symbol of our globe ready to be animated by a divine spirit, 9 symbolized our earth informed by a bad or evil spirit. ten, or the decade, brings all these digits back to unity, and en

e animated by a divine spirit, 9 symbolized our earth informed by a bad or evil spirit. ten, or the decade, brings all these digits back to unity, and ends the pythagorean table. hence this figure[[diagram, unity within zero- was the symbol of deity, of the universe, and of man. such is the secret meaning of "the strong grip of the lion's paw, of the tribe of judah" between two hands (the "master mason's grip, the joint number of whose fingers is ten. if we now give our attention to the egyptian cross, or the tau, we may discover this letter, so exalted by egyptians, greeks, and jews, to be mysteriously connected with the decade. the tau is the alpha and the omega of secret divine wisdom, which is symbolized by the initial and the final letter of thot (hermes. thot was the inventor of the

y ancient one, and was not invented by us. this has been successfully done, for we are supported in this, consciously and unconsciously, by a number of ancient, mediaeval, and modern writers. what the former said, was well said; what the latter repeated, was generally distorted. an instance: read the "pythagorean fragments" and compare the septenary man as given by the rev. g. oliver, the learned mason, in his "pythagorean triangle (ch. on "science of numbers" p. 179. he speaks as follows "the theosophic philosophy counted seven properties (or principles, in man, viz (1) the divine golden man (2) the inward holy body from fire and light, like pure silver[[vol. 2, page] 641 hypnotism is- satanism (3) the elemental man (4) the mercurial paradisiacal man (5) the martial soul-like man (6) the

table and animal life. this is, again, no "special creation" nor is there any "design" except in the general "ground-plan" worked out by the universal law. but there are certainly "designers" though these are neither omnipotent nor omniscient in the absolute sense of the term. they are simply builders, or masons, working under the impulse given them by the ever-to-be-unknown (on our plane) master mason- the one life and law. belonging to this sphere, they have no hand in, or possibility of working on any other, during the present manvantara, at any rate. that they work in cycles and on a strictly geometrical and mathematical scale of progression, is what the extinct animal species amply demonstrate; that they act by design in the details of minor lives (of side animal issues, etc) is what

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he unknown "boundless space" the abstract garb of an ever present abstraction- the incognisable deity. it represents limitless time in eternity. the zeroana akerne is also the "boundless circle of the unknown time" from which circle issues the radiant light- the universal sun, or ormazd- and the latter[[footnote(s* the numbers 3, 5, and 7 are prominent in speculative masonry, as shown in "isis" a mason writes "there are the 3, 5, and 7 steps to show a circular walk. the three faces of 3, 3; 5, 3; and 7, 3; etc, etc. sometimes it comes in this form- 753/2= 376.5 and 7635/2= 3817.5 and the ratio of 20612/6561 feet for cubit measure gives the great pyramid measures" etc, etc. three, five and seven are mystical numbers, and the last and the first are as greatly honoured by masons as by the par

in blind, is the fact that every symbol in papyrus or olla is a manyfaced diamond, each of whose facets not merely bears several interpretations, but relates likewise to several sciences. this is instanced in the just quoted interpretation of the moon symbolized by the cat- an example of sidero-terrestrial imagery; the moon bearing many other meanings besides this with other nations. as a learned mason and theosophist, the late mr. kenneth mackenzie, has shown in his royal masonic cyclopaedia, there is a great difference between emblem and symbol. the former "comprises a larger series of thoughts than a symbol, which may be said rather to illustrate some single special idea" hence, the symbols (say lunar, or solar) of several countries, each illustrating such a special idea, or series of i

lars hold the key to the universal language of old, and have turned it successfully, though only once, in the hermetically closed door leading to the hall of mysteries. the great archaic system known from prehistoric ages as the sacred wisdom science, one that is contained and can be traced in every old as well as in every new religion, had, and still has, its universal language- suspected by the mason ragon- the language of the hierophants, which has seven "dialects" so to speak, each referring, and being specially appropriated, to one of the seven mysteries of nature. each had its own symbolism. nature could thus be either read in its fulness, or viewed from one of its special aspects. the proof of this lies, to this day, in the extreme difficulty which the orientalists in general, the i

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evitably one common ground on which all may meet. i fear that i have exhausted your patience with this letter, and i beg you to excuse me. but as you know, out of the abundance the mouth speaketh. you are perfectly right to retort that it need not speak so much. i add no more, but our glad greeting to all men: love is the law, love under will. i am, dear sir, yours in the bonds of the order, j.b. mason liber cxciv o.t.o. an intimation with reference to the constitution of the order o.t.o. issued by order^ xi o. t. o. h i b e r n i i o n e t omnium britanniarum rex summus sanctissimus 241 liber cxciv o.t.o. an intimation with reference to the constitution of the order any province of the o.t.o. is governed by the grand master and those to whom he delegates his authority, until such time as

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ric lore "there am lots of folks, and educated ones too, that says we-uns don't understand" he claimed" emember the lord, in some of his ways, can be mysterious. the bible says so" spiritual powers and supernatural abilities, he argued, were available to those who were divinely gifted or specially inspired by god.[8] this book considers other cases as well, such as that of bishop charles harrison mason, the founder of what would become the largest african american pentecostal denomination, the church of god in christ. mason possessed an uncommon fascination with strangely formed natural objects.objects that were reminiscent of the "roots" or magical artifacts used by black conjurers throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. mason, however, described his roots as "wonders of

black american spirituality? we now turn to supernatural healing traditions, to deepen our understanding of how conjuring beliefs and practices operated in african american life and culture\ 90\ black magic page 56 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 facing page illustration: founder of the church of god in christ (pentecostal, bishop c. h. mason, with "god's handiworks in nature" early twentieth century. photo courtesy sherry sherrod dupree collection, university of florida, gainesville\ 91\ 4 "medical doctors can't do you no good" conjure and african american traditions of healing in the mid twentieth century the reverend addie battle, pastor of the mount zion holy trinity spiritualist church of cleveland, ohio, rendered an account

the supernatural traditions that were prevalent among the slaves and their descendants. pentecostal belief revolved around invisible forces, beings, and powers in the spiritual realm, and like the conjure practitioners, pentecostalists viewed unusual events as signs of divine or satanic intervention in the physical realm. in a sermon, for example, entitled "storms. storms.storms" charles harrison mason, founder of the largest black pentecostal denomination, described some of the miraculous activities that he attributed to "god's strange work" in his strange act he put a woman in a well and the water felt as cotton under her feet, then in his strange way lifted her out, unhurt. c it is said in one home a lady had lately installed a new gas range but god came and swept it out of the house an

e, eyou have a very bad stomach and you will have to have an operation, f" stated one account "then suddenly the man disappeared. i then turned to the lord and began to pray" after praying for "ten days" claimed the writer "god truly healed me of my infirmities" reports of pentecostal faith healing highlighted its supernatural dimensions "some of the miracles which god performed in healing" wrote mason, were "the extraction of the jawbone of a woman who came to the meeting in memphis, tennessee, a few years ago. c another who was suffering with toothache came up. c the tooth came out of her mouth and she showed it to all who were present" such accounts resonate with the african american conjuring narratives of supernatural healing by slaves and ex-slaves.[40] pentecostals employed techniqu

ntury, were standard accoutrements in african american pentecostal healing services. a notice in the whole truth magazine, the newspaper of the church of god in christ, illustrates the currency of these traditions among black american pentecostals in the early twentieth century "sister larry of columbus, mississippi, writes c that god has so wonderfully healed her son through the prayers of elder mason and others. he was very sick with appendicitis. she wrote to lexington to elder mason to send her an anointed cloth, which he did send, and today her son is at work" another testimonial, published more than twenty years later, related an account with a similar emphasis on the efficacy of certain materials for healing "my little granddaughter was totally blind. c i told elder samuel to pray f

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

become james i of england. 1584-1653 johann valentin andreae 1584 edward kelley's vision of four castles john dee and edward kelley in cracow bruno's expulsion of the triumphant beast published. in london, alexander dickson the scottish disciple of bruno, published a book on the hermetic art of memory: on the shadow of reason and judgement. hermetic concepts later become an influence on scottish mason craft perhaps via dic(k)son through william schaw's statutes. 1585 petrus bongus mysticae numerorum asserts pythagoras derived from the cabbalists 1586-1652 pietro della valle. travelled extensively in the levant (1614-26, bringing back with him to italy egyptian mummies and coptic manuscripts. 1586-1588 giordano bruno university teacher at wittenberg, preaching the coming of a magical refor

stood by touching of several parts of your body, of several gestures, countenances, or actions" platt knew alexander dicson, who taught the art of memory. 1595-1649 hans theodor von tschesch. 1595 libavius alchymia 1597 passages from a diary by martin crusius (the preceptor of simon studion at tubingen university, hinting at the origins of rosicrucian ideology. 1598 schaw statutes which organised mason craft on a national basis, independent of local burgh councils. this was to have a great influence on the way freemasonry was to be organised in england in the following century. 1598-1655 michael guhler, author of clavis apocaliptica(not to be confused with joseph mede's work of the same name) 1599 first appearance of a work of basil valentine. book of lambspring included in barnaud's triga

von franckenberg- theophrastia valentiniana, a comparison of the teachings of paracelsus and the 2nd century gnostic, valentinus. 1629 o.t. apocrypha removed from protestant bible. 1630 poem: muses threnodie written by henry adamson, m.a. of perth; first mention connecting freemasonry with rosicrucianism 'for what we do presage is not in grosse/ for we be brethren of the rosie crosse/ we have the mason word and second sight,/things for to come we can foretell aright' published 1638. 1631 arthur dee fasciculus chemicus in latin 1633-1690 knorr von rosenroth 1638 abrahan von franckenberg raphael. 1638-1710 johann georg gichtel founded the angelic brethren with connections to the group of jane leade, john pordage, aka the philadelphians. 1640-1728 isaac newton 1641 samuel hartlib macaria. 164

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d so by opening their memberships to people who were not stonemasons, or so the story goes. these newcomers- the businessmen, merchants, landowners, and aristocracy- were called 'speculative' masons and soon they far outnumbered the original members. this was the knights templar/ illuminati manifesting on the public stage in the guise of freemasonry. the first recorded initiation of a speculative mason in england was in 1646 when elias ashmole (don't say it too quickly) joined a lodge in warrington. he was an astrologer and indeed esoteric knowledge was to be an important part of the new masonry at the higher levels of initiation. masonry had become freemasonry and as the years passed, the only remaining connection with the stonemasons were the symbolic paraphernalia and names for the leve

ent agenda. during the rituals which the founders of the new freemasonry introduced, barechested initiates were blindfolded with a noose around their neck and a dagger held 184 .and the truth shall set you free to their heart. they had to swear to serve the order and keep its secrets, on pain of a grotesque ritual death. the penalty for divulging the secrets of the second degree (the fellow craft mason) is "having my left breast laid open, my heart torn therefrom, and given to the ravenous birds of the air, or devouring beasts of the field as a prey. in the third degree (master mason) it is "being severed in two, my bowels burnt to ashes, and those ashes scattered over the face of the earth and wafted by the four winds of heaven, that no trace of remembrance of so vile a wretch may longer

they have turned it into something akin to the vatican- and then some. but the bible from which the figure of hiram was taken, describes a very different man. first of all his name was simply hiram. the addition of abif came from the pyramid power 185 founders of masonic myth. abif 's a miff, you might say. and what does the bible say about this man? does it say that he was "the most accomplished mason on earth, as the freemasons claim? not quite. it says that he was neither a mason nor an architect, but a worker in brass. according to the book of kings, he arrived from tyre after the temple was finished. the book of chronicles says he came before the temple was built and was an ornamental metal worker. any stone skills he had were in decoration, not construction. there is another hiram in

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yramids. at the bottom are the three degrees known as the blue degrees and the vast majority of freemasons never progress beyond that through either the 33 degrees of the scottish rite or the 10 degrees of the york rite* even at the 33rd degree of freemasonry you still don't know the real secrets unless you are one of the chosen few (bloodline. shaw says he was surprised when a fellow 33rd degree mason said that "they" had told him he was "going higher" and the guy left the temple by a "different door".1 there is, officially, no higher than the 33rd degree. but, of course there is. the top levels of the secret societies are only the top of their pyramid. they are also encompassed by a bigger pyramid, which includes all the secret societies and they feed their chosen bloodline initiates int

vel this is another sun symbol and can be found on the grave of president kennedy as a flame and circle, but the real meaning is bloodline. it is the same with the ship symbols you see on freemasonic buildings. the hull is the female (that's why ships are always "she) and the mast is the phallus impregnating her. lower-degree masons are told that the circle and the point represents the individual mason (point) restricted by the boundary line of duty (the circle. what a hoot. all these secret society symbols and codes have a meaning for the lower initiates (utter bollocks; the higher initiates (semi-utter bollocks; and for those who make it through to the highest levels of the illuminati (the true interpretation. in the "blood oaths (called the "obligation, the initiate agrees to accept tor

le. the real business exists only above the official levels, and only a handful of masons ever make it there. freemasonry is a cesspit of deceit and hypocrisy, and the oaths made to the secret societies and your fellow initiates override any oath you may have made to your country or people as a president, prime minister, congressman, member of parliament, policeman, or judge. jim shaw writes "the mason swears to keep the secrets of another mason, protecting him even if it requires withholding evidence of a crime. in some degrees treason and murder are excepted. in other, higher degrees, there are no exceptions to this promise to cover up the truth. the obligations, if the masonic teachings are to be believed, may require a mason to give false testimony, perjure himself, or (in the case of

tecting him even if it requires withholding evidence of a crime. in some degrees treason and murder are excepted. in other, higher degrees, there are no exceptions to this promise to cover up the truth. the obligations, if the masonic teachings are to be believed, may require a mason to give false testimony, perjure himself, or (in the case of a judge) render a false verdict in order to protect a mason."16 this has always been the way of the illuminati serpent cult in all its forms. and the vast majority of the world's political leaders, high administrators of government, judges, policemen, and media owners, have made that oath. does anyone still wonder why the truth has never come out until now? the many faces of the serpent cult 177 the ritual death of diana the symbolism of the sacrific

aham in the old testament, the alleged origin of the hebrew belief system. muslims believe that abraham built the kaaba, the sacred shrine of mecca, and the focus of pilgrimage for muslims all over the world. but it was originally a pagan temple to goddess worship featuring the famous black stone. w. wynn westcott, a founder of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, wrote in his work, the magical mason, that the black stone was first used for pagan rituals. a stone is ancient symbolism for the penis and for this reason many religions were founded on a stone or a "rock, as with peter the rock and christianity. in the old testament tale of jacob, he anointed his stone with oil, which sounds like great fun. must try that one. the koran, the islamic holy book, which is supposed to have been in

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rucified, but raised from the dead on march 25th- easter! mithran initiationstook place in caves adorned with the signs of capricorn and cancer, symbolic of the winter90and summer solstices, the high and low points of the sun. mithra was often portrayed asa winged lion, a symbol for the sun still used by the secret societies today. referencesto the lion and the grip of the lions paw in the master mason degree of freemasonryoriginate with this same stream of mystery school symbolism. initiates into the rites ofmithra were called lions and were marked on their foreheads with the egyptian cross.the first degree initiates had a golden crown placed on their heads, representing theirspiritual self, and this crown, symbolising the rays of the sun, can be found on thestatue of liberty in new york

clerics. at qumran they had a ritual bath to wash awaytheir sins. this became the christian baptism. they had a meal of bread and winewhich became the christian mass. w. wynn westcott was a founder of the satanicorder of the golden dawn in england which would later play a significant role in theemergence of adolf hitler and the nazis. he knew the inside story and he said in his98work, the magical mason, that todays freemasons go back to the essenes amongother ancient groups of similar background. today the arabic word for christians isnasrani and the muslim koran uses the term nasara or nazara. these originate with thehebrew word, nozrim, which derived from the term, nozrei ha-brit- the keepers ofthe covenant. the term, nozrei ha-brit, can be traced as far back as the alleged time ofsamuel

have emerged from the sumerian city of ur and headed foregypt. they believe that abraham built the kaaba, the sacred shrine at mecca, and thefocus of pilgrimage for muslims all over the world. but it was in fact originally a pagantemple of goddess (semiramis) worship featuring the famous black stone. w. wynnwestcott, founder of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, wrote in his work, themagical mason, that the black stone supposed to have been brought to mecca byabraham, was used originally for ancient pagan ritual.29 again you see brotherhoodsymbolism in this new religion. the symbols of the crescent and the curved sword, thescimitar, are identified with the moon and venus, the morning star, the term used forlucifer. v enus was also a title for queen semiramis. muslims have bought the i

ches,16730,000 of them in the british isles alone.27the freemasonic movement was to become a sort of central meeting place andcoordinator for the various elements of the brotherhood network. w. wynn westcott,founder of the hermetic (and satanic) order of the golden dawn, knew the truebackground to freemasonry because of his connections to the esoteric underground. hewrote in his work, the magical mason, that the freemasons originate from the essenes,the pharisee (levite) jews, the ancient mystery schools of egypt and greece, the v ehm-gerichte of westphalia, germany, the roman collegia, the french compagnons, andthe rosicrucians.28 the official (and inaccurate) story is that freemasonry emergedfrom the lodges of the stone masons who worked on the great churches and cathedrals,craftsmen wit

ofessional classes, the businessmen, merchants, landownersand the aristocracy. it was now freemasonry and, of course, the newcomers took overthe show very quickly, we are told. what happened, in truth, is that the knightstemplar-rosicrucian-babylonian brotherhood underground, created their own initiationstructure to pass on the secret knowledge to the chosen few and keep it out ofcirculation. the mason guilds were simply a cover story.freemasonry was born in scotland among the familiar brotherhood bloodlinefamilies, especially the reptilian st clair/sinclairs. they were based at rosslyn orroslin castle just south of edinburgh in a region steeped in templar tradition. like allof these bloodline families, they periodically change their name to hide their origins.this line became the st clair

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through the same education system i did. i also wasn't aware that masonry had such a large influence in the u.s. presidency both past and present. people who have been born into this world do not realize that they have been taught falsehoods and deprived of certain informations which are vital to their freedom. thirty three is the highest degree obtainable within masonry. you can be a 33rd degree mason with a p.h.d. and still be lied to by your lodge. the tumbling domino effect doesn't just apply to the church, it also applies to the masonic lodge as well. it is possible for the educated such as a ph.d, doctor, lawyer, businessman, journalist, scientist, accountant or even a mason to be uneducated. as mentioned on another page, there is a difference between vocational training and true edu

r even a mason to be uneducated. as mentioned on another page, there is a difference between vocational training and true education, and it has been cleverly blurred. and the reason for this is? it is so that people can successfully practice their vocations while at the same time remain totally ignorant of the larger issues of the world in which they live. there are two types of masons. type 1; a mason who is unaware of certain facts regarding the subject and may not be satanic. type 2; a mason who knows the truth and is trying to keep the first type and the general public from realizing it. this mason is satanic (elite mason) some masons proclaim that freemasonry is not satanic. these masons can fall under the description of both types. we must also be very careful with this mason as well

rfectly consistent with a secret society, an organization which operates through the invisible gears of freemasonry. the visible "good works" organization is deliberately lied to and mislead with false interpretations by the invisible organization. the invisible organization knows the truth and is comprised of elite masons. this two dimensional organization is described by manly p. hall (who is a mason himself. hall was honored by the scottish rite journal, who called hall 'the illustrious manly p. hall' in september, 1990, and further called him 'masonry's greatest philosopher, saying "the world is a far better place because of manly palmer hall, and we are better persons for having known him and his work. manly p. hall said "freemasonry is a fraternity within a fraternity- an outer organ

ic hermetic philosophy, and alchemy. freemasonry like the public education system was designed to conceal certain secrets from the brethren in the visible organization. the elite masons are the ones who know the truth. this again is consistent with a secret society because there is a hidden agenda. of course it also explains why politicians have their own agendas, they are controlled by the elite mason. the brethren in the visible organization are spoon-fed "false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols- for what reason- those brethren in the visible organization "deserve only to be mislead. if a man were to make it known to his fellow brethren that he believes in jesus christ he would immediately be placed into the visible organization of freemasonry. he would never learn the t

worships and serves satan, then such truth would become "deadly" to you. therefore "fictions are necessary" so visible masons would not be so devastated that they would leave freemasonry and expose its inner secrets. there is one short paragraph that properly and concisely defines the heart and soul of the invisible fraternity of freemasonry. let us return to manly p. hall for this quote "when a mason learns the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy [the lost keys to freemasonry, manly p. hall, published by the macoy publishing and masonic supply company, in

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nt on the sea-front to watch a storm, the waves made a "dead set" at her. she lived at a seaside place, but so great was her dislike of the waves that she did not care to walk on the promenade when the tide was in. she was cured of her fear in a curious way. she took initiation into co-masonry, and found to her surprise that from that day forth she was free from her fear of the sea. i am not a co-mason, and speak subject to correction, but i believe i am right in saying that co-masonry differs from other forms of masonry in that elemental invocations have been introduced into it. the element of air, as all occultists know, is a very tricky element to deal with. more initiates turn off the path in the grade of air than in any other, and it is rare to see a ritual of air worked without somet

he problem of purity (rider; but there is also another method, which consists in stimulating this force, and then directing it into abnormal channels where it will not be absorbed, but remain available for magical purposes. it is for this reason that in certain forms of the black mass the altar is the naked body of a woman who may either be still living, or have been slain sacrificially. a. e. w. mason gives an account of such a transaction in his book, the prisoner in the opal. less expert operators, however, cannot control this form of force; as soon as they generate it, it has to go to its logical conclusion. they therefore employ another type of stimulus, not the woman, but the boy or youth. the practice of paederasty in connection with occultism is very old, and was one of the causes

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rs on free masonry give the order an antiquity that is more or less imaginative. one specially ardent author makes the patriarchs and other noted biblical characters free masons, and insists that several of the saviour's disciples were members of the order. free masonry, none the less, is the oldest existing organization of a charitable nature in the history of mankind. during the middle ages the mason brotherhoods were organized corporations, resembling in a general way the other guilds, with rules of their own, and recruited from a body of apprentices who had served a period of probation. the time referred to was a church-building age, and men skilled in the hewing and setting of stones were in demand and held in high esteem. when a great church or cathedral was to be built, skilful maso

rch-building age, and men skilled in the hewing and setting of stones were in demand and held in high esteem. when a great church or cathedral was to be built, skilful masons gathered .from distant quarters to assist those of the neighborhood in the work. a master was chosen, who superintended the whole, and every tenth man was a warden with authority over the rest. it followed, therefore, that a mason, after serving his apprenticeship, could not settle down, like other craftsmen, among his neighbors, but was obliged to travel in order to find employment. it was advisable that all members of the fraternity should possess the means of making themselves iv introduction known to one another and thus avoid the necessity of proving their skill as craftsmen. in order to do so, and to enable a ma

hbors, but was obliged to travel in order to find employment. it was advisable that all members of the fraternity should possess the means of making themselves iv introduction known to one another and thus avoid the necessity of proving their skill as craftsmen. in order to do so, and to enable a mason to claim the hospitality of his brother masons, a system of symbols was devised, in which every mason was initiated and which he was pledged to keep secret. the term "free" as applied to the craft, arose from the fact that its members were exempted by several papal bulls from the laws which governed ordinary laborers, as well as from the various burdens imposed upon the working classes in england and on the continent. these laws bound the free masons to certain religious duties, and it was n

maintained, despite the opposition of a bigoted priesthood; and in all british america, from newfoundland, through nova scotia and the canadas to the icy regions of the north, masonic lodges and masonic brethren may be found `to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and bind up the wounds of the afflicted" ancient free masonry consists of the three degrees- entered apprentice, fellow craft and master mason. upon these are based the york rite and the scottish rite. the former takes its name from the city of york, in the north of england, where the annual and general assemblies of the craft were re-established in a .d. 926. in addition to the symbolic degrees, it includes capitular, cryptic and chivalric grades, conferred in bodies known respectively as the chapx introduction ter, council and co

nteresting and instructive. i find these incidents so numerous that a selection is difficult. i have been careful to give only those that in my judgment are authentic. truth compels me to admit, however, that the principal sketch which follows, although founded upon fact introduction xi (i was present in the lodge when jared j. jennings made his entrance as described, and he told me he was made a mason among the chippewa indians, contains some imaginative touches, which i am sure will not be found inconsistent with the real spirit of free masonry. e. s. e. upper montclair, n. j, 1907. and british america. 210 contents i. low twelve 17( ii( 29( iii( 40( iv( 50( v( 62- f( vi( 73 vii. after ten years. 86 viii. camping on his trail, 104 ix. a typical lodge 119 x. tried by fire, 133 xi. a livel

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naries, their magnate announced that the next day, precisely when the sun reached the zenith, a canoe would arrive with further tidings. at the appointed hour, the whole village, together with the incredulous englishman, was on the beach, and sure enough, at the minute specified, a canoe swung round a distant point of land and brought the expected news. more spectacular is an account by col. john mason brown published in the atlantic monthly (july 1866. some years earlier as the head of a party of voyagers, he set forth in search of a band of indians somewhere on the vast plains along the tributaries of the copper-mine and mackenzie rivers. danger, disappointment, and the fatigues of the road induced one after another to turn back, until of the original ten only three remained. they were a

o execute with her arms, gestures as though of evocation or adoration of some imaginary divinity, or gestures of benediction. the few persons who witnessed this spectacle are agreed that it was worthy of the powers of the greatest actress. of such a gift mme. x. has nothing. dr. f. l. h. willis claimed that he performed a difficult and delicate surgical operation in trance while controlled by dr. mason. at that time willis had not even started to study medicine. myers classified the motor messages in the order of their increasing specialization: 1. massive motor impulses. case of the bricklayer (phantasms of the living vol. 377, who had a sudden impulse to run home and arrived just in time to save the life of his little boy, who had set himself on fire. case of mr. garrison, who left a rel

a statue erected to him at balmoral. sources: underwood, peter. queen victoria s other world. london: harrap, 1868. victoria, queen. leaves from the journal of our life in the highlands. smith, elder, 1868. williams, henry l. life of john brown. for 30 years personal attendant of. the queen. london: e. smith, 1883. brown, courtney encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 222 brown, john mason (1837.1890) american lawyer who lived among indian tribes and studied their beliefs and customs. in 1866 he reported on the gift of prophecy by a medicine man. brown, rosemary (1917) a modern british medium who performs musical compositions on the piano which she claims originate from dead composers. born in london on july 27, 1917, brown grew up to become a housewife. she had no musical tra

worship encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 412 solerus there were similar desecrations, and even on the island of mauritius an outrage of peculiar atrocity occurred in 1895. meanwhile, it had been asserted by many writers, including archbishop meurin and dr. bataille, that freemasonry was merely a mask for satanism, that is, that an organization had developed of which the ordinary mason was ignorant and that had diabolism as its special object. members of this organization, it was asserted, were recruited from the higher branches of masonry, although it also initiated women. needless to say, the charge was indignantly denied by masons. bataille and margiotta claimed that the order of the palladium, or sovereign council of wisdom, had been constituted in france in 1737, and

with news of the anxiously awaited expedition. the entire population came down to the beach in order to witness its arrival, accompanied by the incredulous carver, and, to his intense surprise, at the very moment forecast by the shamans a canoe rounded a distant headland, and, paddling speedily shorewards, the navigators brought the patient killistenoes news of the expedition they expected. john mason brown recorded an equally singular instance of the prophetic gift of an american medicine man (see atlantic monthly, july 1866. difficulties experienced while searching for a band of native americans the mackenzie and coppermine rivers had forced the majority of brown s band to return home, until out of ten men who originally set out only three remained. they had almost decided to abandon th

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ge, william sims, and daniel h. jackson. the rise and fall of transcendental meditation. in the future of religion. edited by rodney stark and william sims bainbridge. berkeley: university of california press, 1985. jefferson, william. the story of maharishi. new york: pocket books, 1976. mahesh yogi, maharishi. the science of being and art of living. london: international srm publications, 1966. mason, paul. the maharishi: the biography of the man who gave transendental meditation to the west. shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element books, 1994. orme-johnson, david w, and john t. farrows, eds. scientific research on the transcendental meditation program: collected papers, i. seelisberg, switzerland: maharishi european research university press, 1977. white, john. everything you want to know abou

t the university of illinois. he was a charter associate of the parapsychological association. sources: mullin, albert a. some apologies by a cyberneticist. journal of parapsychology 23, no. 4 (1959. mullins, john (1838.1894) one of the most famous british water diviners. he was born at colerne, near chippenham, wiltshire, on november 12, 1838, into a family of 11 children. his father was a stone mason and mullins followed the same trade. at the age of 21, while employed by sir john ould to build a house in gloucestershire, a dowser (water diviner) was employed to locate a water supply. various people present tried their hand with the divining-rod, including ould s daughter, who was frightened when the rod suddenly turned over violently. an abundant water supply was found at the spot. ould

ncluding ould s daughter, who was frightened when the rod suddenly turned over violently. an abundant water supply was found at the spot. ould was most impressed and later asked all the workmen on his estate, about 150 men, to try divining with a rod. when mullins tried, the rod moved so violently it snapped in two. thereafter mullins was considered a dowser, although he continued in his trade as mason. when he first attempted to locate a water source for ould, he located a spring yielding 200 gallons per hour. after that, mullins was much in demand as a water diviner. he married in 1859 and continued his trade as a mason, however he devoted the last twelve years of his life to dowsing and well-sinking. such was his confidence in his talent that he made no charge for the expensive work of

he charges made against the order were that they practiced various forms of illicit sex, specifically sodomy and bestiality. through the nineteenth century a number of groups had emerged in both france and germany claiming to carry on the templar tradition. however, this order seems to have originated out of a masonic group founded by karl keller and theodor reuss and chartered in 1902 by english mason john yarker. they began publishing a magazine, oriflamme, in which the first mention of the oto occurred. there was mention that the order possessed the key of all hermetic and masonic secrets (i.e, sex magic. keller claimed to have learned his secrets from three adepts, two hindu and one arab. his adepts seem to have been the sex manuals from india, the kama sutra and ananda ranga, and the

video from 1952 partridge, john encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1188 onward and is instructor in parapsychology at the institute of advanced studies, montevideo. he also taught parapsychology at the university of san salvador, el salvador. he takes special interest in telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and mediumship. pasqually, martines de (ca. 1710.1774) french kabbalist, mason, and mystic, and founder of the order of elect cohens. the date of his birth is not known definitely, and even his nationality is a matter of uncertainty. it is commonly supposed, however, that he was born about 1710 somewhere in the south of france, most likely grenoble. several writers have maintained that his parents were jewish, but this theory has largely been dismissed. it is said that

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ure on this subject, see arnold, op. cit, pp. 229 ff; for a masonic point of view, see b. e. jones, freeiv.ason's guide and compendium, london, 1950, pp. 117 ff. 414 after hermes trismegistus was dated freemasonry is first heard of as an institution in england in the seventeenth century, and elias ashmole is an important figure in connection with it. ashmole states in his diary that he was made a mason in a lodge at warrington in 1646.1 there were certainly earlier traditions and origins in england upon which ashmole and his group were drawing, but about these very little is known. speculative freemasonry claims, of course, to be descended from the guilds of the mediaeval masons, but all these matters are wrapped in mystery. may it not be of significance that giordano bruno preached, not o

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r manner] the minutes were read and approved. no further business appearing, the lodge was duly closed in peace and harmony. w.m. attest, secretary. it is the prerogative of the master to determine what proceedings of the lodge are proper to be recorded, and he should sign the minutes, thereby giving them his sanction. chapter iii admission of candidates. the first degree when a candidate, whom a mason is willing to recommend,desires to apply for initiation, care must be taken that he presents his petition to the lodge nearest his residence. the determination of the place of one's residence is often difficult, especially in maine, from which so many young men go away into other states to seek employment. the residence, intended by our constitution, is the home where the party has the right

1. name in full (middle initial not sufficient) l 2. place and exact date of birth? l 3. single, married or widower? l 4. if married, how many in family? l 5. do you believe in god, the author, creator and ruler of the universe? l 6. what church do you attend? l 7. of what secret societies or organizations are you now a member? l 8. name of your father and address if living l 9. is he or was he a mason? l 10. places in which you have lived during past ten years, with approximate time in each place 11. if not a professional man give names and addresses of your employers or business associates for the past ten years l l 12. have you ever been respondent in a criminal case in court? if so give particulars l 13. where were you educated? l 14. have you ever before applied for the degrees to any

ace 11. if not a professional man give names and addresses of your employers or business associates for the past ten years l l 12. have you ever been respondent in a criminal case in court? if so give particulars l 13. where were you educated? l 14. have you ever before applied for the degrees to anyl odge of masons? l 15. if so, where? when? 16. is your financial position such that in becoming a mason, you will be able to pay promptly the annual dues and assessments, if any, of the masonic lodge of which you may become a member? l l 17. is this application made of your own free will, or was it solicited? i to the officers and brethren of..lodge of ancient free and accepted masons, at. the subscriber, aged_ years, and by occupation a__respectfully states that he is a resident of_ that he h

stils;like hermon's dew, so richly shed on zion's sacred hills. iii.for there the lord of light and love, a blessing sent with power; o may we all this blessing prove, e'en life for evermore. iv. on friendship's altar rising here, our hands now plighted be, to live in love, with hearts sincere, in peace and unity. the lambskin, or white leather apron. is an emblem of innocence, and the badge of a mason; more ancient than the golden fleece or roman eagle; more honorable than the star and garter, or any other order that can be conferred upon you at this or any future period, by king, prince, potentate, or any other person, except he be a mason, and which i hope you will wear with pleasure to yourself and honor to the fraternity. the twentyfour inch gauge. is an instrument made use of by oper

rough stones, the better to fit them for the builder's use, but we as free and accepted masons are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of divesting our minds and consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life, thereby fitting us as living stones for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. second section. the badge of a mason. the lamb has in all ages been deemed an emblem of innocence. he, therefore, who wears the.lambskin as a badge of masonry, is thereby continually reminded of that purity of life and conduct which is essentially necessary to his gaining admission into the celestial lodge above, where the supreme architect of the universe presides. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook

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initiates are also taught how to suspend the law of levitation when they are in their soul bodies, and how to pass through the nine strata of the earth. it is said that jesus was the son of a carpenter, but the greek word is tekton, and means builder; arche is the greek name of primordial matter. it is also said that jesus was a carpenter (tekton) himself. it is true, he was a tekton, builder or mason, a son of god, the grand archetekton. at the age of thirty-three, when he had taken the three-times-three (9) degrees of mystic masonry, he descended to the center of the earth. so does every other tekton, mason or phree messen (child of light) as the egyptian called such, descend through the nine arch-like strata of the earth. we shall find at the time of the first advent of christ both hir

war between the flesh and the spirit is still raging in the breast of most people as fiercely as it was in the days when paul gave vent to his pent up feelings, and told us how the flesh was warring against the spirit within himself, and how he did the wrong things which he would not do, and omitted good deed which he aspired so ardently to perform. nor will the struggle ever cease for the mystic mason until he has learned to build the temple made without hands, which is not completed until he has come to the eighteenth (1 plus 8) degree, which is the degree of the rose croix. this is the ultimate of the thirty-third degree, for three times three are nine, and one plus eight are nine. nine being the highest degree in the lesser mysteries, he who has passed this degree of the genuine mystic

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lic institutions; but the outcome will determine the nature of the training humanity will receive in the remaining periods of our evolution. we shall endeavor to show the cosmic root of both of these institutions, the purpose of each and the training which each will inaugurate, if successful; also the nature of the soul quality which may be expected to result from each method. the writer is not a mason, and thus he is free to say what he knows without fear of violating obligations, but he is a mason at heart, and therefore frankly opposed to catholicism. our opposition is not fanatical, or blind to the merits of the catholic religion, however. the catholic is our brother as well as the mason; we would not say a disparaging, irreverent word against this faith, or those who live by it, and s

. she is said to have come laden with gorgeous gifts and it is stated that at first she was much impressed with the wisdom of solomon. but even the bible, which is written from the standpoint of the jehovistic hierarchies, hints that she saw at the court of solomon one that was fairer than he, and there the bible narrative leaves her. her marriage with solomon was never consummated or the name of mason would have faded from memory long ere the present day and humanity at large would now be docile children of the dominant church, without free will, choice or prerogative. nor could she be permitted to wed hiram, who represented the temporal power, or religion would have been stamped out; she must wait for the bridegroom who shall embody within himself the combined good qualities of solomon a

scernible in those who soar in cloudland, but fear to soil their hands by actual work in the temple of humanity. the latter are not true temple-builders and would be unable to gain inspiration from the sight of that wonderful temple described by manson in "the servant in the house" the author calls him "man-son" this may mean that he regards him as the son of man, but it may also be that he meant mason, for the servant in the house was also a temple-builder. it is wonderful what insight the author of the play must have had when he planned the scene where his servant, the workman in love with his work, tells the worldly minded churchman, who is full of platitudes and as vile as a whited sepulcher, of the temple which he, the workman, built. this conception is a mystic gem and we append it f

ilt upon. sometimes the work goes forward in deep darkness, sometimes in blinding light, now beneath the burden of unutterable anguish, now to the tune of great laughter and heroic shoutings like the cry of thunder. sometimes in the silence of the night time one may hear the tiny hammerings of the comrades at work in the dome--the comrades that have gone aloft" it is such a temple that the mystic mason is building. he endeavors to work on the temple of humanity at large, but since "when the rose adorns itself, it adorns the garden" he aims also to cultivate his own spiritual powers, as foreshadowed in the molten sea. solomon had already sued for the hand of the queen of sheba, and had been accepted, so, feeling that the meeting with hiram abiff might change her affections, he endeavored to

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e son of the morning! is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? doubt it not [albert pike, morals and dogma of the ancient and accepted scottish rite of freemasonry, p. 321, 19th degree of grand pontiff; red emphasis added] masons from the first initiation which is the first degree are urged to mightily "seek the light" the average mason is continually saying that he is "seeking the light" and will spend his entire life "moving toward the light" people who haven't studied this subject would assume that this "light" is the revelation of the god of the bible. this statement is continuously held up to try to convince us that masonry is christian. in the above quote, albert pike is saying that lucifer is the one who bears the li

the book, just the phrase to know "seething energies of lucifer within your hands "the day has come when fellow craftsman must know and apply their knowledge. the lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion, which places the energy of the universe at their disposal. man can only expect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and selflessly. when the mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands, and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. he must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, tubal-cain, who with the mighty strength of the war

his forefather, tubal-cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare [manly p. hall, 33rd degree, k.t, the lost keys of freemasonry or the secret of hiram abiff, forward by reynold e. blight, 33rd degree, k.t, illustrations by j. augustus knapp, 32nd degree, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, inc, richmond, virginia, p. 48; emphasis added] once the mason learns to control his emotion and to apply the "dynamo of living power" the mason can be assured of being able to control the "seething energies of lucifer" in his hands. he makes the admission that masonry is the craft, which is an old name for witchcraft. satanists are assured that, if they will join the coven and learn the craft, he will control the supernatural power of satan, just as ma

e that only an insider can understand. further, note that hall and reynold e. blight are 33rd degree masons, while the illustrator is 32nd degree. macoy publishing company is also one of the most respected of all masonic publishing houses. revelations of tubal-cain please take note that hall makes reference to tubal-cain, above. we need to review this sentence because it too reveals satanism. the mason must "follow in the footsteps of his forefather, tubal-cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare" in the masonic quiz book, the candidate is asked this question "who was tubal cain" answer "he is the vulcan of the pagans [william p. peterson, editor, masonic quiz book "ask me brother, chicago, illinois, charles t. power company, 1950, p. 18, 88, 13

istory of freemasonry and its relation to the theosophic scientific and philosophic mysteries, belfast, ireland, william tait, 1909, p. 30; also found in a. r. chambers, editor, questions and answers, 1972, p. 237; also found in malcom duncan, duncan's ritual of freemasonry, new york, david mckay company, inc, n.d. 3rd edition, p. 94] tubal-cain is the password given in the third degree of master mason. you can identify freemasonry with paganism within this sentence. but what is the meaning of the vulcan of the pagans? a very important question because manly p. hall advises the mason that, once he has the seething energies of lucifer in his hands, he is to walk in tubal-cain's footsteps. hall makes it sound like tubal-cain is one of the greek gods, does he not? and, we know conclusively th

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ingwithequal facility the gloriesofmalted milk is curious enough to be examined in hisownright. if his quest for the secret tradition is seen as a tarnished followingofoccultism, and if his poetry is relegated to a minor place among the lesser poets, his progressthroughlife nonetheless remainsbotheccentric and entertaining__1 _fromthenewworldthe other day i came across an affidavit of theodore l. mason,m.d.,residing in state of new york, king's county,cityof brooklyn, who affirmed that in the month of september 1857 he was called to attend the wife of charles f. waite, who was duly delivered of a child. captain and mrs waite were boarders in the house of mrs sarah webb, washington street, city of brooklyn. this testimony calls for a certain interpretation.drmason was probably called in at

, for he saw it,notas did grandlodge-as'a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory, and illustrated by symbols-s-but as yet another aspect ofthesecret. tradition, and thus one more secret path to a direct experience of god. in his earlier years his approachtothecraft had been more prosaic, and it wasnotuntil he reached the age of43that he was entered, passed, and.finally raised as a master mason. his earliest comments on freemasonry, intherealhistoryoftherosicrucians,were somewhat disdainful:originally an associationforthediffusion ofnaturalmorality, it isnowsimply a benefit society.theimprovemen t of mankind and the encouragementof philan thropy wereand are its ostensible objects..it preaches a natural morality, and has so little interest in mysticismthat it daily misinterprets and

his role was not forgotten, and when he becameinterestedinmartinism-arite basedlooselyon the philosophyoflouisclaude de saint-martin 'the unknown philosopher (1743-1803, and on the teachings of his mentor, martinesdepasqually(1715-79- johnyarker,to whom he wrote foradviceabout the martinist order, encouraged him to join:i found an objection in themasonicbranchoftheorderofstmartinto receive a non-mason, and i have no doubt that it would be found inconvenient both to you and to them. however, that need not interferewithmy conferring the order upon you as i had it myself from a non255 mason, the baron surdi of prague. the ritual is properly in 4books-ienclose you the first, and you need only send me a short note that you conform yourself entirely to carry out the oblligation, you can then pr

y passingthroughthe craft degrees and theholyroyal arch would he be able to enter thosehigherdegrees whose rites he so eagerly desired. to this end he sought the help of palmer thomas,who'offered high encouragement' and persuaded w. f. kirby, the entomologistwhowas also amemberofthe golden dawn, to proposebothwaite and blackden for initiation in his lodge.thuson 19 september 1901 waite was made a mason in runymedelodge, no. 2430, at wraysbury in buckinghamshire. for reasonsthatwere never explained, waite and blackden werenotraised to the degreeofmaster mason in runymede lodgebut,'as a courtesy, instmarylebone lodge, no. 1305, on 10 february 1902. initiation into craft masonrybroughtno spiritual enlightenment to waite; perhaps because, at his initiation,'itwas so patentthroughoutthati could

he degreeofmaster mason in runymede lodgebut,'as a courtesy, instmarylebone lodge, no. 1305, on 10 february 1902. initiation into craft masonrybroughtno spiritual enlightenment to waite; perhaps because, at his initiation,'itwas so patentthroughoutthati could have toldtheworhsipful master all that he was communicating to me'e-he 'awaitedthegrades beyond'(slt,p.162).hewas, however, a conscientious mason and attended hislodgeregularly until he was installed as worshipful masterin1910; after that his attendance declined, ceasing altogetherwhenhe moved permanently to ramsgate in 1920.itwas, as he had intended, a means to an end, and as soonashehad been raised, waite began his quest for the'higherdegrees (which arenowtermed 'additional degrees) in, earnest.duringthe sevenyearsthatfollowed, wait

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

masonic rose-croix chapter, for he links them with the templars and says 'i am notofthe two orders; i have abstained from becoming a memberofthem that i might not have my tongue tied or my pen restrained by the engagements i must have made on entering the chapter or encampment.'2in spite of the disclaimer he does not reveal anything about their structure or their rituals for he would, as a craft mason himself, have seen such a revelation as a betrayal of trust.thereis, in fact, no evidence whatever of a secret rosicrucianorderworking its rituals in england until the societas rosicru255 ciana in anglia was founded in1865.according to w. wynn westcott,'therevival of rosicrucian activity in1865in england was the outcome of two sources; on the one hand frater robert wentworth little brought t

ich he had received from students and initiates in that country, where he had resided for some years as an english tutor in the familyofan austriancount."this'austrian count' was onecountapponyi, from whom mackenzie is alleged to have received 'rosicrucian initiation .16 thegoldendawntheoriginal rules of the society stated that 'no aspirant shall be admitted into the society unless he be a master mason, and of good moral character, truthful, faithful and intelligent. he must be a man of good abilities, so as to be capable of understanding the revelations of philosophy and science; possessing a mind free from prejudice and anxious for instruction. he must be a believer in the fundamental principles of the christian doctrine, a true philanthropist and a loyal subject" but the golden dawn, as

to his fellow rosicrucians of the s.r.i.a. and to the members of anna kingsford's hermetic society, amongst whom he was respected as an authority on alchemy, and on kabbalistic and hermetic philosophy. westcott was born in1848,orphaned at an early age,butreceived a good education and qualified as a medical practitioner in1871.he practised with his uncle at martock in somerset, where he was made a mason in1872;butby1880he had moved to london, taken up his various occult pursuits and joined the rosicrucian society.forthe next ten years he advanced steadily both in medicine and in hermeticism: in1881he became a deputy coroner, in1882secretary general of the s.r.i.a; by1892he was coroner for north-east london, and in the same year was elected supreme magus of the rosicrucians. and during that

. as his co-chiefs of temple no.3 (number 1 was sapiens dominabitur astris' fictitious licht, liebe, leben temple, and number2the equally fictitious hermanubis templeofthe unknown englishmen who held the cipher manuscript before woodford's alleged discovery of it) westcott selecteddrw. r. woodman, supreme magus of the s.r.i.a, of whom little is known and less need be said, and another rosicrucian mason,creation29samuel liddell macgregor mathers.tomathers, westcott entrusted the taskofreconstructing the cipher rituals so that they could be worked. he had already ensured, with mathers' help, that theorderwould be well publicized.thefirst step in promoting theordercame in february 1888, with a letter from mathers to the editor oflight.ostensibly this was in reply to a critical article on elip

the initiation of nine members at the spring equinox ceremony that same march.thefirst of the new initiates was miss mina bergson, the sister of the philosopher henri bergson, soon to bemrsmathers and thus central to the entire story of the order. mathers himselfis an enigma.hewas born in1854,educated at bedford grammar school and lived with his widowed mother atbournemouth255where he was made a mason in18n-untilher death in1885,when he moved to london to dedicate himself to hermetic philosophy, magical practice and an obsession with his fancied jacobite ancestry. his later history is one of growing eccentricity, of delusions both of persecution and grandeur, and of paranoia: it is also, to a large extent, the history of the order itself. but for all his oddity, mathers' friends and enemi

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

d. see fortunius licetus, cap. vii, and citesius in hisabstinensconsolentanea.in the volcanic island ofnesis, near naples,inthe year 600 a marble tomb was found, and when opened it contained a vase in which was a lamp still alight; the light paled and soon was extinguished when the vase was broken. see licetus, cap. x. see baptista porta,magia naturalis,lib. xii. cap. ult, a.d. 1658.62the magical mason a very notable example occurred in the discovery of lampsburiedinurnsabouta.d.1500; they were taken possession of by franciscus maturantius, and described by him in a letter to alphenus, his friend; theyhadbeen buried1500years.alabourer at ateste, near padua, in italy, found a sepulchre, in which was a fictileurn,andwithin it there stood anotherurn,andin this smaller one a lampburningbrightl

e of veiling a scheme of morality; a system of morals suitable to all men, whose realization would be the achievement of earthly perfection. our ritual embodies and traces out a definite legend, or set of legends, it insists on the acceptance of these events as positive truth, wholly apart from any evidence from common history. nay, even in spite of it. these events must be grasped by the perfect mason as masonic truth, and not believed only,butpersonally acted. could such an unusual, not to say unnatural,thereligion of freemasonrylisclaim on a man be made simply to veil a moral precept? could such a state of mind and body be made peremptory simple to paint a beautiful allegory?ourmysteries are positively guarded by signs, tokens, and words, so stringently accorded and so carefully preserv

close approximation to that which represen255 ted the slaying of osiris.thebattery of acclamation when the candidate is restored to light is a direct imitation of the sudden crash of feigned thunder and lightning by which the neophyte of the eleusinian mysteries was greeted.thedeath of osiris and resurrection ashorusarerepresented as the decease of the fellow craft and the raising of a new master mason.theentered apprentice is referred to three lights, these are osiris in the east, isis in the west, and horus, who was master or living lord in place of osiris, in the south. note also that there is no light in the north, the type of night,and of darkness, in this also the idea is an ancient one.thethree great, though emblematic, lights compose a bright triangle, the three lesser lights an in

eriods,butin the main the following elements were recognised: i.thematerial body,khat,which was preserved as a mummy after death; its emblem was a limp, dead fish. 2.theaura or ethereal envelope,khaibu;a shadow form represented by a fan or sun-shade.3. hati,is the emotional element, the passions whose vehicle wasab,the heart. 4.theka,the second personality, thealter egoor the genius.304themagical mason5.thehuman soul,ba,pictured as a bird which is released by death, flying up to the gods. we also find mention of thesahu,pictured as a beautiful lily, and of thekhou,theshining one(the greekaugoeides),pictured as a flame, a vehicle of the soul become divine (but thiskhouis also sometimes attributed to evil beings. still another human element was thesekhemor vitality.then,lastly, there was the

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

reams of military glory in the first hampshire infantry volunteers (although he was never an officer, despite being photographed in a lieutenant's uni255 form, and with the ceremonial glory of freemasonry through his initiation in the hengist lodge in 1877. at this time he began to reveal his aristocratic origins (or, from another point of view, to display his delusions of grandeur; on his master mason's certificate of 1878 he is styled comte de glenstrae, a title allegedly awarded to an ancestor by louis xv, and by 1882, when he joined the societas rosicruciana in anglia, he had added macgregor to his name. mathers was led into the s.r.i.a. by frederick holland, who had already encouraged him to take up occult studies but who derided his pretensions to a highland ancestry, and was, no dou

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

6th march 1886, pp. 146 148: jacob norton, the so-called swedenborg rite. what casts considerable discredit upon mr. beswick s book is the specimen he give of the instructions which characterize the new york swedenborgian rite19[19. the anonymous reviewer was especially irritated by beswick s derivation of the word phremason (as he spells it) from two ancient words, phre or pi-re, the light, and mason, to search, or feel for blindly. our ancient brethren meant by this significant title, that a phremason is a poor blind candidate, or one in darkness, who is feeling his way in search of light 20[20. for the reviewer, a more utterly preposterous and absurd etymology was never invented. and, he concludes, if the teachings of the european swedenborgian lodges were of this fantastic character

stic explains, perhaps, how he persuaded the masonic publishing co. to issue a book with so little commercial potential (it evidently failed to sell in england; by 1873 the distributors, trubner& co, had reduced the price from 7s 6d to 4s 6d. beswick himself remained confident that both the book and his rite would succeed, as is clear from his enthusiastic letter to the rev.j. p. stuart, a fellow mason and swedenborgian, at st. louis in missouri: the masonic publishers here say it is of more value than all the historic books on masonry either american or german. and they have placed the masonic encyclopaedia into my hands for revision in relation to all the masonic organisations of the eighteenth century23[23. presumably it did not remain in his hands, for no edition of any american or eng

y know it. beswick may have met pike (if the whole episode was not pure fantasy) but nothing came of the meeting and there is no trace of any correspondence between pike and beswick, nor of any swedenborgian rite rituals, in the archives of the supreme council of the ancient& accepted rite (sj) at washington. the other nabobs were presumably those named in an undated memorandum sent to a canadian mason, george c. longley our present grand secretary of blue masonry, of n.y. state, took the degrees by dispensation. so did robert macoy, dan sickels and john sheville, all 33 men, and within a few weeks of each other. these high masons care but little for the whole ceremony, so i initiated them by putting the three degrees of our order into the form of a lecture, and giving them the signs, word

grees of our order into the form of a lecture, and giving them the signs, words, grips, etc. at successive stages of the ceremony24[24. as with the pike episode this is probably pure invention on beswick s part, but the rite did have a few real members at this time, two of whom beswick mentioned in a subsequent letter to stuart. of one of them, a mr. royle, beswick wrote that, he is a well posted mason, and is now in office. he is also a member of our menei temple no. 1 (swedenborgian) also his eldest son.25[25] stuart, too, seems to have been a member, for beswick suggests to him 24[24] quoted in voorhis, op. cit, p. 225 25[25] beswick to stuart, 3 may 1871 that we can arrange for fall operations in relation to the ancient rite, and concludes his letter by stating that, our symbolic templ

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

rucians, founded on their own manifestos and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren (redway, 1887) pp. 403-4 11[11] ibid, p. 405 12[12] the rosicrucian; a quarterly record, no. 1, july 1868, pp. 6-9. this journal was the official organ of the societas rosicruciana in anglia, a body for which the qualification for membership was that the applicant must be a master mason. 13[13] real history of the rosicrucians, p. 424 14[14] published in the minutes of the high council of the s.r.i.a. for 13 october 1887, pp. 5-6 within the s.r.i.a; he would have known, as westcott certainly did,15[15] that the rosicrucian had never been copyrighted. waite returned to the subject of freemasonry in 1890 with an article in the british mail16[16, a journal that he edited for h

ho contributed to this result more than mr. a. e. waite did in england, and 'no one has contributed as he did to the propagation of mystico-magic among the english occultists in or out of freemasonry'37[37. colonel ratton, in his pseudonymous and rather silly attack upon freemasonry, the x-rays in freemasonry38[38, went further and claimed that waite 'professes himself to be both a "mystic" and a mason (p. 60- which claim is manifestly untrue- although he was here slightly less off the mark than when he claimed that 'waite is a rosicrucian, and cannot be suspected of catholic leanings (p. 110. he was evidently unfamiliar with both waite's life and his published works. martinism and the road to the craft after the diversions of the diana vaughan affair, waite returned to his more serious li

coming increasingly interested in the philosophy of louis claude de saint-martin 'the unknown philosopher (1743-1803, and in the newlycreated martinist order of the french occultist 'papus (dr. gerard encausse, 1865- 1916. he wrote to yarker for advice about joining the martinist order; yarker was enthusiastic 'i found an objection in the masonic branch of the order of st. martin to receive a non-mason, and 1 have no doubt that it would be found inconvenient both to you and them. however that need not interfere with my conferring the order upon you as i had it myself from a non-mason, the baron surdi of prague. the ritual is properly in four books- i enclose you the first, and you need only send me a short note that you 36[36] ibid, ff. 121 and 122 37[37] l. floquet, luciferianism or satan

a non-masonic branch, and when you have done something i daresay you might get a charter from "papus" for a london body'39[39. waite was delighted at this response and sent his obligation by return, expressing at the same time his own wish to promote the order 'i thank you most cordially for the honour which you have done me in conferring upon me the order of st. martin. the fact that i am not a mason makes that honour somewhat exceptional, and i can but value it the more highly in consequence. i entirely conform to the obligation required of the candidate, and i hereby pledge myself never to reveal the name of my initiator to anybody or to make it public in what manner soever. 1 have read with great interest and have carefully transcribed the ms. containing the first two books of the rit

e did not impress him 'as being of any particular attainments or of more than average education, nor did the other kilmarnock masons meet his expectations 'a considerable proportion of them belonged to the mechanic order while one or two looked as if they were shepherds. waite was also disappointed with the ceremony 'it was proposed to confer upon me the 41st degree called priestly order or white mason. i 65[65] diary, 2 december 1902 66[66] ibid, 23 october 1902 67[67] ibid, 30 march 1903 68[68] ibid, 7 april 1903 69[69] ibid, 13 october 1903 70[70] ibid, diary for 8 february 1903. all the quotations concerning his visit to kilmarnock are from this entry went through an almost indescribable initiation, the officiating brethren wearing white surplices and holding small pieces of tallow can

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

reveals some important facts about the roots of freemasonry. according to these authors, it is evident that masonry is a continuation of the templars. though, in addition to this, the authors also examined the origins of the templars. dl the magazine mimar sinan, a private turkish masonic publication intended for its own members. from the templars to ancient egypt global freemasonry ec a templar-mason temple: rosslyn chapel the church known as "rosslyn chapel" near edinburgh in scotland is recognized as a symbol of the heretical pagan beliefs of the templars. in the course of the construction of this edifice, masons and rosicrucians, the successors of the templars, were employed, and decorated the whole chapel with symbols representative of their pagan philosophy. in a publication of turk

gion and in this castle especially after 1312 under the protection of the barons of st. clair..the chapel was built between 1446-48 by sir william st. clair who was one of the most prominent nobles of the time in scotland and even in europe. masons and rosicrucians worked on the construction. the chief architect of the work was the templar grand master, sir william st. clair who brought itinerant mason architects and stone masons from every part of europe. new houses were built in the near-by village of roslin and a lodge was opened the plan and decoration of the chapel is unique. there is no other such example in ed from the templars to ancient egypt scotland or even europe. it captured the atmosphere of herod's temple very well and every part of it was decorated with masonic symbols. amo

, known from egyptian records as the "priests of amon" focused their attention on practicing magic and administering their pagan cult; in addition, they also studied various sciences such as astronomy, mathematics and geometry. this class of priests was a closed order possessed (so they thought) of a special knowledge. such orders are commonly known as esoteric organizations. in a magazine called mason dergisi (masonic journal, a publication distributed among turkish masons, the roots of freemasonry are stated as going back to this kind of esoteric order, and special mention is made of the ancient egyptian priests: as thought develops in human beings, science advances and as science advances, the number of secrets increases within the lore of an esoteric sys- global freemasonry fc the most

ic masonry: the only personal god freemasonry accepts is humanity in toto. humanity therefore is the only personal god that there is.47 evidently, masonry is a kind of religion. but, it is not a monotheistic religion; it is a humanist religion and, therefore, a false religion. it enjoins the worship of humanity, not of god. masonic writings insist on this point. in an article in the magazine turk mason (the turkish mason, it says "we always acknowledge that the high ideal of masonry lies in 'humanisme' doctrine."48 another turkish publication explains that humanism is a religion: global freemasonry ik far from dry sermons on religious dogmas, but a genuine religion. and our humanism in which the meaning of life takes root, will satisfy the longings that youth are not aware of.49 how do the

lished in the masonic magazine mimar sinan, it says "masons do not search for the origin of the ideas of evil, justice and honesty beyond the physical world, they believe that these things arise from a person's social conditions, social relationships and what he strives for in his life" and adds "masonry is trying to spread this idea throughout the whole world."53 selami isindag, a senior turkish mason, writes: according to masonry, in order to rescue humanity from a morality of the supernatural based on religious sources, it is necessary to establish a morality that is based on love for humanity which is not relative. in its traditional moral principles, masonry has taken into account the tendencies of the human organism, its needs and their satisfaction, the rules of social life and thei

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

rucians, founded on their own manifestos and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren (redway, 1887) pp. 403-4 11[11] ibid, p. 405 12[12] the rosicrucian; a quarterly record, no. 1, july 1868, pp. 6-9. this journal was the official organ of the societas rosicruciana in anglia, a body for which the qualification for membership was that the applicant must be a master mason. 13[13] real history of the rosicrucians, p. 424 14[14] published in the minutes of the high council of the s.r.i.a. for 13 october 1887, pp. 5-6 within the s.r.i.a; he would have known, as westcott certainly did,15[15] that the rosicrucian had never been copyrighted. waite returned to the subject of freemasonry in 1890 with an article in the british mail16[16, a journal that he edited for h

ho contributed to this result more than mr. a. e. waite did in england, and 'no one has contributed as he did to the propagation of mystico-magic among the english occultists in or out of freemasonry'37[37. colonel ratton, in his pseudonymous and rather silly attack upon freemasonry, the x-rays in freemasonry38[38, went further and claimed that waite 'professes himself to be both a "mystic" and a mason (p. 60- which claim is manifestly untrue- although he was here slightly less off the mark than when he claimed that 'waite is a rosicrucian, and cannot be suspected of catholic leanings (p. 110. he was evidently unfamiliar with both waite's life and his published works. martinism and the road to the craft after the diversions of the diana vaughan affair, waite returned to his more serious li

coming increasingly interested in the philosophy of louis claude de saint-martin 'the unknown philosopher (1743-1803, and in the newlycreated martinist order of the french occultist 'papus (dr. gerard encausse, 1865- 1916. he wrote to yarker for advice about joining the martinist order; yarker was enthusiastic 'i found an objection in the masonic branch of the order of st. martin to receive a non-mason, and 1 have no doubt that it would be found inconvenient both to you and them. however that need not interfere with my conferring the order upon you as i had it myself from a non-mason, the baron surdi of prague. the ritual is properly in four books- i enclose you the first, and you need only send me a short note that you 36[36] ibid, ff. 121 and 122 37[37] l. floquet, luciferianism or satan

a non-masonic branch, and when you have done something i daresay you might get a charter from "papus" for a london body'39[39. waite was delighted at this response and sent his obligation by return, expressing at the same time his own wish to promote the order 'i thank you most cordially for the honour which you have done me in conferring upon me the order of st. martin. the fact that i am not a mason makes that honour somewhat exceptional, and i can but value it the more highly in consequence. i entirely conform to the obligation required of the candidate, and i hereby pledge myself never to reveal the name of my initiator to anybody or to make it public in what manner soever. 1 have read with great interest and have carefully transcribed the ms. containing the first two books of the rit

e did not impress him 'as being of any particular attainments or of more than average education, nor did the other kilmarnock masons meet his expectations 'a considerable proportion of them belonged to the mechanic order while one or two looked as if they were shepherds. waite was also disappointed with the ceremony 'it was proposed to confer upon me the 41st degree called priestly order or white mason. i 65[65] diary, 2 december 1902 66[66] ibid, 23 october 1902 67[67] ibid, 30 march 1903 68[68] ibid, 7 april 1903 69[69] ibid, 13 october 1903 70[70] ibid, diary for 8 february 1903. all the quotations concerning his visit to kilmarnock are from this entry went through an almost indescribable initiation, the officiating brethren wearing white surplices and holding small pieces of tallow can

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

he numerically superior inca forces in the battles that followed. who had provided the model for the viracochas? 10 the facts on file encyclopaedia, p. 658. 11 see, for example, h. osborne, south american mythology, paul hamlyn, london, 1968, p. 81. 12 for further evidence and argument in this regard, see constance irwin, fair gods and stone faces, w. h. allen, london, 1964, pp. 31-2. 13 j. alden mason, the ancient civilizations of peru, penguin books, london, 1991, p. 135. see also garcilaso de la vega, the royal commentaries of the incas, orion press, new york, 1961, pp. 132-3, 147-8. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 54 chapter 6 he came in a time of chaos through all the ancient legends of the peoples of the andes stalked a tall, bearded, pale-skinned figure wrapped in a cloak of

le, at any one time, is the obliquity of the ecliptic. but because the earth is a ship that rolls, its obliquity changes in a cyclical manner over very long periods. during each cycle of 41,000 years the obliquity varies, with the precision and predictability of a swiss chronograph, between 22.1 and 1 tiahuanacu, ii, p. 89. 2 collins english dictionary, london, 1982, p. 1015. in addition, dr john mason of the british astronomical association defined obliquity of the ecliptic in a telephone interview on 7 october 1993: the earth spins about an axis which goes through its centre and its north and south poles. this axis is inclined to the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. this tilt is called the obliquity of the ecliptic. the current value for the obliquity of the ecliptic is 23.44 d

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

of jerusalem. other objects are removed: a pot of manna a relic of the mysterious food that appeared out of nowhere to feed the israelites fleeing egypt; the rod of aaron, that which had turned to a serpent, which devoured those created from the wands of the egyptian magicians. the high priest then finds four pieces of paper that on inspection, prove to be the key to the cipher of the royal arch mason. with it, those present are able to decode the mysterious writing on the ark, which includes the long-lost word of the master mason, the ancient names of three sky gods drawn together to form a single word. by such ciphers and codes have the initiates of all times communicated with each other and with their ultraterrestrial masters, the secret chiefs of the great white brotherhood. others ha

ly 18th century craft masonic bodies formally merged in a grand lodge that included speculative masons; these individuals mostly aristocrats of wealth and power were not skilled at the building arts and had no direct connection, in most cases, with the rich lore of rosicrucian and masonic legend. they settled on a system of three initiatory degrees, the entered apprentice, fellow craft and master mason. this tri-fold system does indeed correspond to the communication of the formal guild secrets of operative, or practical masonry, but has little of the metaphysical meaning and a distinct feel of incompleteness. later a so-called royal arch degree, which attempted to deal with many questions unanswered in the craft degrees, became popular with masons. the royal arch came to include the commu

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

e that should cross the bridge, ho has ah^eady clutched numbers of men and beasts, when a holy man, being a thirteenth, confronts and conquers him (mem. de i'acad. celt. 5, 384^ the church-building devil also having bargained for the soul of the first that should enter, they make a wolf scamper through the door (deut. sag. no. 186; he in a rage flies up thi-ough the roof, and leaves a gap that no mason can fill up (the last incident is in nos. 181-2. on mountains he builds mills, and destroys them again (nos. 183. 195^ his tvager with the architect of cologne cathedral is remarkable: that he will lead a rivulet from treves to cologne*'before the other can finish his church (no. 204. in the same way a giantess wngcrs to throw a stone bridge over a strait of the sea, before st. olaf shall ha

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

o'you-thereis no one knows more of our favourite occult subjects than he. can you be a peace-maker between us as i am willing to say and do anything to that purpose. 1874 7 nov. as to bro. hockley i assure you that i am greatly obliged toyou-sucha man cannot be spared from amongst us, and we all know how ready he is to aid and advance our common studies..1875imarch capt. morrison i know was not a mason but used frequently to mention his connection with an order which he called the order of the swastika but which bro. hockley humorously familiarised to the order of the swashtub! i meant nothing disrespectful of capt. morri255 son's attainments. he was an excellent astrologer although not so good or deep as hockley whom i still 225 believe to be the profoundest man in england. i must deplore

ind-letme at once say it is now dispelled, blotted out('not with an angel's tear) and utterlyoblivious255not to be thought of or mentioned in future by either. i hope you will say amen.lsaturday weekrjthoctober is my birthday (69) and i hope by that time to have all my things arranged (except those horrid indispensable books) and fit to be seen. i like my new place very much&my landlord is a bro. mason, tho' very recent, and the place is very pleasant-unfortunately i cannot yet make arrangements for leaving my business but i have a chancery suit accounts to complete&that i hope will be ended shortly and thus i must determine my future when i hope to leave off my incessant grumbling and groaning. when are you likely to beinlondon? our grand stewards lodge meetings are on the third wednesday

in most faithfully&fraternally yours.1adolphe didier, and his brother alexis, came to england from france in the1840s.adolphe practised healingbymesmerism, alexistherosicrucianseeryears met at weston-super-mare, before removal to irwin's residence in bristol.2the royal arch is a masonic order which, in england, is administrativelylinked to the craft and is regarded as the completion of the master mason's degree.them.e.z. is one of the three presiding officers of a royal arch chapter.thewhole paragraph is a play on a quotation from the royal arch ritual which irwin would easily have recognized. 3 hockley was indeedexalted.he had never been formallyinitiated into or taken any of the degrees of the sria! 4 secretary of the grand stewards lodge, past master of the british lodgeno.8,member of a

e of the three presiding officers of a royal arch chapter.thewhole paragraph is a play on a quotation from the royal arch ritual which irwin would easily have recognized. 3 hockley was indeedexalted.he had never been formallyinitiated into or taken any of the degrees of the sria! 4 secretary of the grand stewards lodge, past master of the british lodgeno.8,member of alnwicklodge no.i167,royalarch mason.5167 liverpool road, n. 19 march 1872 dear bro. irwin, thanks for your kind note, which crossed mine to you. when i got to croydon i found i had left out"hamlet"-inmy hurry in london to catch my train. i had posted the letter before i had obt[aine]d the p[ostal] o[rder. i now enclose it and when i hear from you i will send the other in haste. most fraternally yours.63 raymond buildings, gray

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

. for some of us, the time h as come to mobilize. if yo u h ave an interest in assis tin g in this p rocess- we all h ave strengths to bring to the table- ple ase email occ u lt .d igit al.mob iliz ation@gmail.com complacency s-erves t h e o ld gods. by the same author: astrology and the third reich the magicians of the golden dawn masonic underworlds (in progress) also in thisseries: the magical mason: forgotten hermetic writings of w. w. westcott editedby r. a. gilbert the rosicrucian seer: the magical work of frederick hockley editedbyjohn hamill the sorcerer and his apprentice: unknown hermetic writings ofs. l. macgregor mathers and j. w. brodie-innes edited by r. a. gilbert ibe 1llebemist of tbe golden 'dawn (lhe tetters of the1ivd (1.11. l1jton to 1.t.gardner and tithers 1886-19 6 ed

aite described him in the brotherhood of the ro y cross (19 24, pp 568 ff) as 'a believer in the occult arts within the measure of a thinking and reading person of his particular mental class. for the rest [he] was satisfied apparently with the pursuits of spiritualism, to the truth ofwhich his circle bears witness in unpublished writings. waite mentioned too that irwin 'was a zealous and amiable mason, with a passion forrites and an ambition to add to their number. for irwin's career (military, masonic and pseudo-masonic) see my 'fringe masonry in england, 187 -85' in a rs quatuor coronatorum, vol. 85 for 1972. ayton's letter reached the library of the united grand lodge of england, together with about 150 others from various correspondents, a year after irwin's death. i used them extensi

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

sized cargoes we begun to ship aout to newb'ryport, arkham, an' boston. t'was then obed got the ol' branch railrud put through. some kingsport fishermen heerd abaout the ketch an' come up in sloops, but they was all lost. nobody never see 'em agin. an' jest then our folk organised the esoteric order 0' dagon, an' bought masoic hall offen calvary commandery for it. heh, heh, heh! mart eliot was a mason an' agin the sellin, but he dropped aout o' sight jest then "remember, i ain't sayin' obod was set on hevin' things jest like they was on that kanaky isle. i dun't think he aimed at fust to do no mixin, nor raise no younguns to take to the water an' turn into fishes with eternal life. he wanted them gold things, an' was willin' to pay heavy, an' i guess the others was satisfied fer a while "

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

ized cargoes we begun to ship aout to newb'ry-port, arkham, an' boston. t'was then obed got the ol' branch raitrud put through. some kingsport fishermen heerd abaout the ketch an' come up in sloops, but they was all lost. nobody never see 'em agin. an' jest then our folk. organised the esoteric order 0' dagon, an' bought masoic hall offen calvary commandery for it. heh, heh, heh! mart eliot was a mason an' agin the sellin, but he dropped aout o' sight jest then "remember, i ain't sayin' obod was set on hevin' things jest like they was on that kanaky isle. i dun't think he aimed at fust to do no mixin, nor raise no younguns to take to the water an' turn into fishes with eternal life. he wanted them gold things, an' was willin' to pay heavy, an' i guess the others was satisfied fer a while "

ISIS UNVEILED

. by a. wilder, editor ot tht elauitnan and baeehie myotnet, of tliomu taylor. 180. t.tlybr: rfeefciw.onjbaota. jfyrf.p. hed. a. wuiter; 4tliedil, new york, 1801. 181. i cor, iii. 10. digitizecoy google peteb's hatred op paul aa well as to obtatn' the word epoptma is a compound one, from tri upon, and swraiuu to look, or an overseer, an inspector alao uaed for a masterbuuder. the title of tuastor-mason. in free- masomy, is derived from this, in the sense used in the mysteries. therefore, when paul entitles himself a "masterbuilder" he is using a word pre-eminently kabalistic, theurgic, and masonic, and one which no other apostle uses. he thus declares himself an ade, having the right to iniiiate others. if we search in this direction with those sure guides, the grecian mysteries and the ka

es of throat-cutting, dismemberment, and disemboweling, with which the candidate is threatened. as the masonic 'master's word' is communicated only at 'low breath' so the selfsame precaution is pre- scribed in the chaldaean book of nwraera and the jewish merla^mh. when initiated, the neophyte was led by an ancient to a secluded spot, and there the latter whispered in hit ear the great secret* the mason i, under the most frightful penalties, that he will not communicate 204. a. fiuck: la kabbau. ch. l 56ai3,iao8lc 100 isis unveiled the secrets of any degree "to a brother of an inferior degree; and the agrudiada parikskai says" any initiate of the third degree wiio before the prescribed time reveals the superior truths to the initiates of the sec- ond degree, must be put to death" again, the

ateriei caj] me liber; the arebtmi rm adouul" and the chosen people adoni and jehovah we may add. how little the philosophy of the old secret doctrine was understood is illustrated in the atrocious persecutions of the templars by the church, and in the accusation against them of worshiping the devil under the shape of the goat baphomet! without going into the old masooic mysteries, there is not a mason of those we mean who do know tome- thing but has an idea vx the true relation that baphomet bore to azazel, the scapegoat of the wilderness* whose character and meaning are entirely perverted in the christian translations' this terrible and 780. k. 0. mulicr: a hitl, t^ ou lit. cf and. oraet, p. 238; mava: du pwruut, i, pp. 547-53; duuiap: ssd, uie myit. of adoni, p. 21. 781. a vnaernd hutor

s have been met by trustworthy and not unknown persons, besides the present writer, who states a few facts concerning them, by the qiecial permission of one who has a right to give if. in a recent and very valuable work on secret societies, k. r. h. mackenzie's royal masonic cydopaedia, we find the learned author himself, an honorary member of the canongate kuwinning lodge, no. 2 (scotland, and a mason not likely to be imposed upon, stating the following, under the head 'hermetic brothers of egypt "an occult fraternity, which has endured from very ancient times, having a hierarchy of officers, secret signs, and passwords, and a peculiar method of instruction in science, moral philosophy and relif^on. if we may believe those who at the present time profess to belong to it, the philosopher's

nearest resemblance to the br&hmanical mysteries b probably found in the very ancient 'patha' of the dervishes, which are usually governed by twelve officers, the oldest 'court' superintending the others by right of seniority. here the master of the 'court' is called 'sheik' and has his deputies 'cauphs' or successors, of which there may be many (as, for instance, in the brevet degree of a master mason "the order is divided into at least four columns, pillars, or degrees. the first step is that of 'humanity' which supposes attention to the written law, and 'annihilation in the she' the second is that of the 'path' in which the 'murid' or disciple, attains spiritual powers and 'self-annihilation' into the 'i^er' or founder of the 'path' the third stage is called 'knowledge' and the 'murid'

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

usi ethe hidden life in freemasonry by c. w. leadbeater 33 (edited and re-formatted by brother w *december 2005) the theosophical publishing house adyar, madras, india 1926 second edition, plate 0. foreword it is once more my privilege to usher into the world, for the helping of the thoughtful, another volume of the series on the hidden side of things written by bishop charles w. leadbeater. true mason that he is, he is ever trying to spread the light which he has received, so that it may chase away the darkness of chaos. to look for the light, to see the light, to follow the light, were duties familiar to all egyptian masons, though the darkness in that ancient land never approached the density which shrouds the west today. this book will be welcomed by all freemasons who feel the beauty

operative masons, though some regarded these in turn as relics of the roman collegia. there may still be some who know no better than that, but all students of the ancient mysteries who are also freemasons are aware that it is along that line that we find our true philosophical ancestry; for there is much in our ceremonies and teachings which could have had no significance for the mere operative mason, though when examined by the light of the knowledge received in the mysteries it is seen to be pregnant with meaning. many masonic writers claim various degrees of antiquity for the craft, some assigning its foundation to king solomon, and one at least boldly stating that its wisdom is all that now remains of the divine knowledge which adam possessed before his fall. there is, however, plent

or was an equilateral triangle of stone, which turned on a pivot on its own centre. 11. as the candidate entered he trod on the square, and, in so doing, it was supposed that he was treading on, and leaving, the lower quaternary or personality of man, in order to develop the higher triad, the ego or soul (in modern masonry the same idea is expressed in the first lecture, where it is stated that a mason comes to the lodge gto learn to rule and subdue his passions, and to make further progress in masonry h) he was conducted through long passages, and led round the lodge seven times; and, after having replied to many questions, he was eventually brought to the centre of the lodge, and there asked what he required. he was told to answer: glight h. in all his perambulations, he had to begin wit

nitiations, splendid though they be, are but faint reflections, for masonry has ever been one of the gates through which that white lodge might be reached. today but few of his masons acknowledge him as their sovereign grand master, yet the possibility of such discipleship has ever been recognized in the traditions of the order. it is said in an ancient catechism of masculine masonry: 33. q. as a mason whence come you? a. from the w c t. 34. q. whither directing your course? a. to the e c t. 35. q. what inducement have you to leave the w c t and go to the e c t? a. to seek a master, and from him to gain instruction. 36. fortunately our ancestors have recognized the importance of handing down the working unchanged. some few points have been dropped during that vast lapse of time; a few othe

d i have published some of its results in the book just mentioned, glimpses of masonic history. 86. much of the ancient wisdom has been allowed to slip into oblivion, and so some of the true secrets were lost to the great body of the brn. but among the hierophants of the great white brotherhood the true secrets have ever been preserved, and they will always reward the search of the really earnest mason. we, of these later sub-races, may prove ourselves just as unselfish and capable of just as good work for our fellowmen as were the people of old. indeed, we ourselves may well be those men of old, come back in new bodies, and bringing with us the old attraction to the form of faith and work which then we knew so well. let us try to revive under these far different conditions the unconquerab

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

chool there is a tendency, also very natural when such a theory of origin is held, to deny the validity of the higher degrees, and to declare, in accordance with the solemn act of union between the two grand lodges of the freemasons of england, in december, 1813, that pure antient masonry consists of three degrees and no more, viz, those of the entered apprentice, the fellow craft, and the master mason, including the supreme order of the holy royal arch(*book of constitutions, 1884, p. 16) all other degrees and rites are, among the more rigid followers of this school, looked upon as continental innovations and are accordingly rejected as spurious masonry. 10. as far as interpretation goes, the authentics have ventured but little further than a moralization upon the symbols and ceremonies o

lare that the degrees of the order are symbolical of certain states of consciousness which must be awakened in the individual initiate if he aspires to win the treasures of the spirit. they give testimony of another and far higher nature upon the validity of our masonic rites- a testimony that belongs to religion rather than to science. the goal of the mystic is conscious union with god, and to a mason of this school the craft is intended to portray the path to that goal, to offer a map, as it were, to guide the feet of the seeker after god. 19. such students are often more interested in interpretation than in historical research. they are not primarily concerned in tracing an exact line of descent from the past, but rather in so living the life indicated by the symbols of the order that t

the kabbala a written and exoteric portion of certain teachings belonging to the jews, though handed down along an independent line, which may nevertheless have crossed that of our own craft and influenced it to some extent in later days. there is much in the kabbala which throws light upon our ceremonies and symbols, and a study of kabbalistic theosophy may be of both profit and interest to the mason. 300. the briefest summary is all that we can attempt here(*see the secret tradition in israel, the secret tradition in freemasonry, a new encyclopaedia, all by bro. a. e. waite) the literature of the kabbala represents a growth of many centuries under the influence of many types of thought- jewish, gnostic, neo-platonic, greek, arabic and even persian- and it has never been fully translated

ce and always kept hidden in the heart of the world among the secret things of god. 309. such is a brief outline of those jewish mysteries, the tradition of which was carried to rome, and thence passed down through the collegia into the mediaeval guilds, finally emerging in the eighteenth century in the speculative rituals of the craft degrees, in the holy royal arch and the degree of mark master mason, and in those other emblems and ceremonies which have been incorporated into certain of the subsidiary grades belonging in their symbolic time to the old covenant. the jewish mysteries are the source of our present tradition, for the three craft degrees are, and always have been, the basis of the whole system of masonic initiation, since they enshrine the relics of the lesser and greater mys

igher instruction still belonged only to the few, and was handed down in far deeper secrecy still, being introduced from time to time into the heart of various mystical schools, which were much more exclusive in their choice of members than the operative builders. 481. with the craft degrees were associated the kernel of those ceremonies which we now attach to the honourable degree of mark master mason, connected, as always, with the 2, and the supreme order of the holy royal arch of jerusalem, worked in conjunction with the 3. our present rituals for these are not therefore necessarily ancient, for all have been subjected to much modern recasting and editing. a body of legend and tradition explanatory of the ceremonial appears also to have been handed down; and the relics of this have in

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erly jostle thee in thine. for by the practice of this tolerance thou shalt come sooner to the understanding of this equality of all things in our lady nuith, and so the high attainment of universal love. yet in thy partial and particular action, as thou art a creature of illusion, do thou maintain the right relation of one thing to another; fighting if thou be a soldier, or building if thou be a mason. for if thou hold not fast this discipline and proportion, which alloweth its true will to every part of thy being, the error of one shall draw all after it into ruin and dispersion. u the book of wisdom or folly 147 ep de formula deorum occisorum (of the formula of the dying gods) las, my son! this hath been fatal constantly to many a man of noble aspiration, that these words were hidden fr

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

rned he killed the giant builder. loki subsequently gave birth to sleipnir. references and further reading: the medieval and folklore analogues to the story of the construction of the wall were long ago pointed out by c. w. von sydow, gstudier i finnsagnen och beslaktade byggmastarsagner, h fataburen, 1907: 65.78, 199.218; and 1908: 19.27; lotte motz fs discussion, gsnorri fs story of the cheated mason and its folklore parallels, h maal og minne, 1977: 115.122, adds little. joseph harris, gthe masterbuilder story in snorri fs edda and two sagas, h arkiv for nordisk filologi 91 (1976: 66.101, argues that snorri created the story in an attempt to clarify voluspa, stanzas 25.26. his source would have been an oral legend, retained in two of the sagas of icelanders, eyrbyggja saga and heidarvig

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

s the principles of morality and seeks to advance the practice of brotherly love and charitable action among all persons not simply among masons. it is not a religion; but it is a society of religious men in that as it requires its members to believe in the existence of "a supreme being" the name of that being and the form in which it is to be worshipped is entirely the business of the individual mason. masons are obligated on the "volume of sacred law" and each mason takes his obligation on that particular volume of sacred writings which he holds to be sacred. while encouraging each brother to follow the teachings of his own religion, freemasonry is not concerned with the details of those religions; and sectarian religious discussion is forbidden at masonic gatherings. while not a religio

. it appears to be more of a memorial written by a brother who seems to have been very proud of his masonic connections and very moved by his association with the order. among other things, it contains a romantic history which suggests that masonry had its origins in antiquity, and among the various mystical disciplines that it cites as sources of masonry is. the caballa of the jews."15 in 1730 a mason named samuel prichard published a very hostile, 32 page pamphlet entitled masonry dissected. he had apparently joined the order seeking some personal advantage, and he had been disappointed. as he put it "of all the impositions that have appeared amongst mankind, none are so ridiculous as the mystery of masonry" and he hoped that his publication would. have its desired effect in preventing s

had been disappointed. as he put it "of all the impositions that have appeared amongst mankind, none are so ridiculous as the mystery of masonry" and he hoped that his publication would. have its desired effect in preventing so many credulous persons being drawn into so pernicious a society"16 for the benefit of the credulous, he sets out all the rituals in which he participated when he became a mason. in a sense we are indebted to prichard. in the period around 1717 the premier grand lodge seems to have been working a system of two degrees. through his expose we have learned that by 1730 the premier grand lodge was using a ritual of three degrees.17 masons of the period did not feel this indebtedness. they were made very indignant by prichard's revelations; and there were a number of rej

der some of the writings of laurence dermott, as well as the masonic symbolic structure and the role which is played by this "fourth degree" we may feel that the antients may have been accusing the moderns of having forgotten their mystical heritage. through the last few decades of the 18th century the rituals and symbolic structure used by both grand lodges continued to evolve. perhaps no single mason had more influence on that evolution than did william preston. preston was initiated into freemasonry in 1763 in a lodge working under the antient grand lodge. very shortly thereafter he joined a lodge working under the premier grand lodge. by 1768 he was the master of philanthropic lodge, and the records indicate that he was a member of several lodges under the latter constitution. one of p

les and symbolic structure in common, and all have three degrees. that was one of the significant provisions in the articles of union; it was agreed that masonry consisted of the three degrees, including the holy royal arch. in the english workings the royal arch, since it is conferred separately, might appear to be. a fourth degree in freemasonry, such, however, is not the case. it is the master mason's completed "29 at this point it would be useful to be able to demonstrate some definite kabbalistic influence on the lodge of reconciliation, but no direct evidence of this sort has been discovered. there are, however, some suggestive,ideas to be found in the writings of the antient grand lodge. figure 5. index to the manuscripts in the duke of sussex's library. figure 6. index to the manus

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

heights attained by zarathustra, its effect upon the civilization of the western world was far-reaching, for at one time nearly all europe was converted to its doctrines. rome, in her intercourse with other nations, inoculated them with her religious principles; and many later institutions have exhibited mithraic culture. the reference to the "lion" and the "grip of the lion's paw" in the master mason's degree have a strong mithraic tinge and may easily have originated from this cult. a ladder of seven rungs appears in the mithraic initiation. faber is of the opinion that this ladder was originally a pyramid of seven steps. it is possible that the masonic ladder with seven rungs had its origin in this mithraic symbol. women were never permitted to enter the mithraic order, but children of

iopia, but the port was closed. all three were finally captured, and after admitting their guilt were duly executed. parties of three were then sent out by king solomon, and one of these groups discovered the newly made grave marked by the evergreen sprig. after the entered apprentices and the fellow- craftsmen had failed to resurrect their master from the dead he was finally raised by the master mason with the "strong grip of a lion's paw" to the initiated builder the name chiram abiff signifies "my father, the universal spirit, one in essence, three in aspect" thus the murdered master is a type of the cosmic martyr--the crucified spirit of good, the dying god--whose mystery is celebrated throughout the world. among the manuscripts of dr. sigismund bastrom, the initiated rosicrucian, appe

ucian fraternity. charles was dethroned in 1647 and died on the block in 1649, leaving the royalist party leaderless. an attempt has been made to relate the term "the sons of the widow (an appellation frequently applied to members of the masonic order) to this incident in english history, for by the murder of her king england became a widow and all englishmen widow's sons. to the mystic christian mason, chiram. represents the christ who in three days (degrees) raised the temple of his body from its earthly sepulcher. his three murderers were c sar's agent (the state, the sanhedrin (the church, and the incited populace (the mob. thus considered, chiram becomes the higher nature of man and the murderers are ignorance, superstition, and fear. the indwelling christ can give expression to himse

ure into the actual parts and dimensions of earthly buildings. the three degrees of the craft bury the grand master (the great arcanum) in the actual structure they erect, after first having killed him with the builders' tools, by reducing the dimensionless spirit of cosmic beauty to the limitations of concrete form. these abstract ideals of architecture can be resurrected, however, by the master mason who, by meditating upon the structure, releases therefrom the divine principles of architectonic philosophy incorporated or buried within it. thus the physical building is actually the tomb or embodiment of the creative ideal of which its material dimensions are but the shadow. moreover, the hiramic legend may be considered to embody the vicissitudes of philosophy itself. as institutions for

ignity were personified in chiram abiff--the master builder--but they eventually fell a victim to the onslaughts of that recurrent trio of state, church, and mob. they were desecrated by the state, jealous of their wealth and power; by the early church, fearful of their wisdom; and by the rabble or soldiery incited by both state and church. as chiram when raised from his grave whispers the master mason's word which was lost through his untimely death, so according to the tenets of philosophy the reestablishment or resurrection of the ancient mysteries will result in the rediscovery of that secret teaching without which civilization must continue in a state of spiritual confusion and uncertainty. when the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by supers

MEANING OF MASONRY

freemasonry enshrines something deeper and greater than, in the absence of guidance, they have been able to realize. it does not profess to be more than an elementary and far from exhaustive survey; the subject might be treated much more fully, in more technical terminology and with abundant references to authorities, were one compiling a more ambitious and scholarly treatise. but to the average mason such a treatise would probably prove less serviceable than a summary expressed in as simple and untechnical terms as may be and unburdened by numerous literary references. some repetition, due to the papers having been written at different times, may be found in later chapters of points already dealt with in previous ones, though the restatement may be advantageous in emphasizi ng those poin

ertible quest of that reality itself and the recovery of those genuine secrets of our being which lie buried and hidden at" the centre" or innermost part of our souls. it means the awakening of those hitherto dormant higher faculties of the soul which endue their possessor with "light" in the form of new enhanced consciousness and enlarged perceptive faculty. and lastly, in words with which every mason is familiar, it means that the postulant will henceforth dedicate and devote his life to the divine rather than to his own or any other service, so that by the principles of the order he may be the better enabled to display that beauty of godliness which previously perhaps has not manifested through him. to comply with this definition of initiation-which it might be useful to apply as a test

wledge of every other kind has been laid aside and a difficult path of life long and strenuously pur sued that alone fits and leads its followers to its attainment. the wisest and most advanced of us is perhaps still but an entered apprentice at this knowledge, however high his titular rank. here and there may be one worthy of being hailed as a fellow-craft in the true sense. the full master- the mason--the just man made perfect who has actually and not merely ceremonially travelled the entire path, endured all its tests and ordeals, and become the raised into conscious union with the author and giver of life and able to mediate and impart that order life to others--is at all times hard to find. so high, so ideal an attainment, it may be urged, is beyond our reach; we are but ordinary men

ent in their way, but foreign to and accretions upon the primal main intention. indeed, so little perceived or appreciated is that central intention that one frequently hears it confessed by men of eminent position in the craft and warm devotion to it that only their interest in its great charitable institutions keeps alive their connection with the order. relief is indeed a duty incumbent upon a mason, but its masonic interpretation is not meant to be limited to physical necessities. the spiritually as well as the financially poor and distressed are always with us and to the former, equally with the latter, masonry the was designed to minister. theoretically every man upon reception into the craft acknowledges himself and as within the category of the spiritually poor, and as content to r

f the nature of what he is engaging in. even after his admission he usually remains quite at a loss to explain satisfactorily what masonry is and for what purpose his order exists. he finds, indeed, that it is" a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols" but that explanation, whilst true, is but partial and does not carry him very far. for many members of the craft to be a mason implies merely connection with a body which seems to be something combining the natures of a club and a benefit society. they find, of course, a certain religious element in it, but as they are told that religious discussion, which means, of course, sectarian religious discussion, is forbidden in the lodge, they infer that masonry is not a religious institution, and that its teachings are in

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

s it possible that this most important starof the ancient world should find itself, as it were, resurrected in the architecture of theunited states. in the course of that day, when the cornerstone of the washington monument was laid, thesun would have passed over sirius..computations clearly show that on the day the declaration of independence was agreed inphiladelphia, the sun was on sirius. the mason who first signed the declaration of independence would have been aware of theparticular significance of july 4 as a cosmic event. the day was the second in the so-calleddog dayswhich begin on july 3. the dog days are so-called because they refer to the risingof the star sirius.this emphasis on the star sirius is singular since a name of the monarch of atlantis, posei-don, comes from the syll

. ralph epperson, the unseen hand 126 (1985. of all the secretsocieties in the world, the only one in which the number 33 is important is the secret cult of freema-sonry, which mixes a brew of symbols from egypt, the bible, persia, alchemy, and twisted occultists'imaginations. freemasons are sworn to protect their brother freemasons should they engage in immoral or criminalconduct. the royal arch mason swears, i will aid and assist a companion royal arch mason, whenengaged in any difficulty, and espouse his cause, so far as to extricate him from the same, if in mypower, whether he be right or wrong. a companion royal arch mason's secrets, given me in charge assuch, and i knowing him to be such, shall remain as secure and inviolable, in my breast as in his own,murder and treason not excepte

e masses. captain morgan caused a small uproar against the masons which culminated in a vital anti-freema-son movement causing nearly 40% of masons belonging to the northern jurisdiction of the unitedstates to secede and, in 1829, gave birth to an anti-masonic political party when the author, williammorgan disappeared. he was apparently abducted and drowned in lake ontario, allegedly by hisfellow mason richard howard.14.1861 on april 12, confederate forces fired on the union's fort sumter in charleston harbor, southcarolina, igniting the civil war. charleston, at the 33rd parallel, is known officially as the motherlodge of the world. this lodge had been founded by moses lindo as the king solomon lodge.15.1933 late in the pre-inaugural banking crisis, on march 3, 1933 (3/03/33, the federal

sudden death of a cerebral hemorrhage at the 33rd parallel at warm springs, georgia. his lastwords were, i have a terrific headache. his medical chart is missing.17. 1945 roosevelt's successor was harry s. truman. i've got every degree in the masons that thereis, said truman. harry s. truman often told journalists, the s doesn't stand for anything. how-ever, after he attained the 33rd degree as a mason, truman secretly changed his name by adding themiddle initial s, which stood for solomon. truman's rise as a politician is traceable to masonicsponsorship. he said that being grand master for the whole state of missouri helped him win a u.s.senate seat in 1940. truman's sister, mary jane truman, was the grand matron of missouri in theorder of the eastern star, a masonic organization. as the

s name by adding themiddle initial s, which stood for solomon. truman's rise as a politician is traceable to masonicsponsorship. he said that being grand master for the whole state of missouri helped him win a u.s.senate seat in 1940. truman's sister, mary jane truman, was the grand matron of missouri in theorder of the eastern star, a masonic organization. as the 33rd president, this 33rd degree mason initiated the nuclear age, the crowning success ofalchemy, when the first a-bomb exploded at the 33rd parallel trinity test site (alamogordo) whitesands, new mexico, at the 33rd parallel. he was responsible for killing of thousands of japanese(the yellow peril) at two cities close to the 33rd parallel, hiroshima and nagasaki.on august 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m. united states b-29 bomber enola gay

MORALS AND DOGMA

former word also means _he will establish, or _plant in an erect position--from the verb [hebrew _kun, he stood erect. it probably meant _active_ and _vivifying energy_ and _force; and _boas, stability, permanence, in the _passive_ sense. the dimensions of the lodge, our brethren of the york rite say "are unlimited, and its covering no less than the canopy of heaven "to this object" they say "the mason's mind is continually directed, and thither he hopes at last to arrive by the aid of the theological ladder which jacob in his vision saw ascending from earth to heaven; the three principal rounds of which are denominated faith, hope, and charity; and which admonish us to have faith in god, hope in immortality, and charity to all mankind" accordingly a ladder, sometimes with nine rounds, is

odges, because they cannot regard the new testament as a holy book. the bible is an indispensable part of the furniture of a christian lodge, only because it is the sacred book of the christian religion. the hebrew pentateuch in a hebrew lodge, and the koran in a mohammedan one, belong on the altar; and one of these, and the square and compass, properly understood, are the great lights by which a mason must walk and work. the obligation of the candidate is always to be taken on the sacred book or books of his religion, that he may deem it more solemn and binding; and therefore it was that you were asked of what religion you were. we have no other concern with your religious creed. the square is a right angle, formed by two right lines. it is adapted only to a plane surface, and belongs onl

e lights, you have heard, are the sun, the moon, and the master of the lodge; and you have heard what our brethren of the york rite say in regard to them, and why they hold them to be lights of the lodge. but the sun and moon do in no sense light the lodge, unless it be symbolically, and then the lights are not they, but those things of which they are the symbols. of what they are the symbols the mason in that rite is not told. nor does the moon in any sense rule the night with regularity. the sun is the ancient symbol of the life-giving and generative power of the deity. to the ancients, light was the cause of life; and god was the source from which all light flowed; the _essence_ of light, the _invisible_ fire, developed as flame _manifested_ as light and splendor. the sun was his manife

ing his substance of light back on all sides from one point. our brethren add that "this circle is embordered by two perpendicular parallel lines, representing saint john the baptist and saint john the evangelist, and upon the top rest the holy scriptures (an open book "in going round this circle" they say "we necessarily touch upon these two lines as well as upon the holy scriptures; and while a mason keeps himself circumscribed within their precepts, it is impossible that he should materially err" it would be a waste of time to comment upon this. some writers have imagined that the parallel lines represent the tropics of cancer and capricorn, which the sun alternately touches upon at the summer and winter solstices. but the tropics are not perpendicular lines, and the idea is merely fanc

full moon: thou shalt study to know men; that thereby thou mayest learn to know thyself! thou shalt ever seek after virtue! thou shalt be just! thou shalt avoid idleness! but the great commandment of masonry is this "a new commandment give i unto you: that ye love one another! he that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, remaineth still in the darkness" such are the moral duties of a mason. but it is also the duty of masonry to assist in elevating the moral and intellectual level of society; in coining knowledge, bringing ideas into circulation, and causing the mind of youth to grow; and in putting, gradually, by the teachings of axioms and the promulgation of positive laws, the human race in harmony with its destinies. to this duty and work the initiate is apprenticed. he mus

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ncient corporations: colleges of builders in rome 4 2 the collegia and the barbarian invasions 18 3 ecclesiastical and monastic associations 34 4 secular brotherhoods: the germanic and anglo-saxon guilds 51 5 the crusades and the templars 62 6 the templars, the francs metiers, and freemasonry 81 7 the templars and the parisian builders 102 part 2. from the art of building to the art of thinking 8 mason corporations in france 146 9 builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 168 10 the corporative masonry of great britain 180 11 universal freemasonry 205 12 speculative freemasonry 221 13 the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 247 conclusion 270 notes 278 index 293 preface i state with all modesty, and without presuming to underestimate the value of preceding works on the subje

et my law within them and write it on their hearts. behold the days come that city shall be built. jeremiah 31:33-38 to find the origins of freemasonry, it is important first to isolate its original characteristics, which can be found in the institutions from which it appears to have emerged: 1. it was a professional builders or, more precisely, construction organization; the long-ago vocation of mason does not correspond directly to the modern specialization, but included an extensive knowledge of architecture. the organization was represented hierarchically. 2. the organization extended beyond a strictly professional framework. its members considered themselves brothers and provided mutual assistance. 3. the association, in both its operations and assistance, followed traditional rites

and liutprand laws to the magistri comacini allow us to believe that the lombards permitted* these authentic documents are well known to legal historians but are apparently unknown to historians of freemasonry such as knoop and jones (genesis of freemasonry, quator coronati lodge no. 2076, 1978, 60-61. in their opinion, the word comacinus does not derive at all from como, but from the english co-mason! this logic reveals how circumspect the use of earlier works can be. for more on the comacins, see m. salmi, maestri comacini e maestri lombardi palladio: 1938. the collegia and the barbarian invasions 27 these professional groups to survive. as their name allows us to presume, it seems that their principal seat was in the town of como, which must have been granted certain privileges, no dou

of king dagobert. he designed the blueprints for several churches and monasteries (solagnac monastery near limoges, a convent for nuns, and saint paul and saint martial churches in paris. his name is especially prominent in connection with the famous abbey of saint denis (631-637. he also created superb works in gold and silver. in eighth-century spain, in monasteries founded by the architect and mason saint fructueux, there were masters who taught theory and, if need be, directed construction. special compartments were assigned to the art of decoration.1 during the darkest hours of the middle ages, the monastery of saint gall in what is now switzerland distinguished itself by the skilled teachers who flourished there. it was this monastery that produced the monks tutillon, notker, adalber

phasis mine. we know what kind of authority over the building crafts was held by the magister carpentarius, the master carpenter, in the templar domain. as a result, master fouques had oversight of both carpenters and masons in the parisian domain of the temple. by way of contrast, in the royal provostship his authority extended only to the carpenters. this provostship in fact had a king's master mason, at this time guillaume de saint palu, who held authority over all the masons in the provostship. the two trades of carpenter and mason were nonetheless connected throughout the entire city and the influence of the templars is equally evident where masons are concerned. this templar influence is noticeable in the rule of the masons in the livre des metiers. it was because of the templars tha

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

g li chu an and lu tung-pin, they asked him where the way was, and he pointed to the sky. they asked him where the sky was, and he pointed to his heart. so they taught him the secrets of perfection, and he became an immortal. he is holding a court writing tablet. walking stick chung li ch uan chung li chu an was a portly and rather flippant character. the story of the kitchen god once there was a mason called tsao-wang who, no matter what he did, was always poor. finally, he was so poor that he had to let his wife marry someone else. one day, without realizing it, he worked for the new husband. his ex-wife, who still cared for him, baked him some cakes, secretly putting a coin into each one. but because it was his destiny to be poor, the mason gave them away. when he discovered what he had

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

larly, if that is possible, the insignia of every degree, and proscribe whatever incongruous or shocking there is in masonic decorations, restoring everywhere unity and simplicity,we appeal to the firmness and good taste of all our brethren; but it belongs, above all, to the venerables to cause, the law to be respected; it is for them a right and a duty to refuse to admit into their temples every mason of the b f i heredom albert pike& william l. cummings jurisdiction, wearing a decoration, a cordon, a title, a degree, not recognized by the gr orient of france.any weakness in these respects would be a fault, any toleration an infraction of the regulations.we are confident that our appeal will be listened to, and will produce the best fruits. receive, very dear brethren, the assurance of my

the stand that such organizations as the rites ofmisraim and memphis have no legal status, and a number of them, by constitutional amendment or edict of the grand master, have forbidden members of their lodges in their jurisdiction to associate themselves in any way with such organizations. in b i i c, the grand lodge of massachusetts amended its constitution (section c f) to read as follows: any mason in this jurisdiction who shall confer, communicate, or sell, or assist in conferring, communicating or selling, or solicit anyone to receive or apply for, any so-called masonic degree or degree limited to freemasons, not hereinbefore recognized or admitted, may be expelled from all the rights and privileges of masonry. the degrees excepted are those conferred in the bodies named in the prece

d in the bodies named in the preceding paragraph. section f a h of the constitution of the grand lodge of new york says: as the true and legitimate source of masonic authority and the supreme and sovereign masonic body in this grand jurisdiction, this grand lodge recognizes as masonic only those organizations or bodies which it shall declare so to be or with which it is in masonic affiliation.any mason under the jurisdiction of this grand lodge who shall hereafter take or receive, confer or be present at, or assist in the conferring of any degree, grade or order, in or under the authority of any organization or body claiming to be masonic, or which uses or employs in its ceremonies, either directly or indirectly, or by reference to or otherwise, any part of the esoteric work, signs or symb

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

tice. rules the whole of libra. stars. part of the south scale of libra, tail of hydra, head, body, armsand forefeet of centaurus. legs, body and tail of lupus, the wolf which he is killing. right claw of scorpio. 70. death. rules the whole of scorpio. stars. body and tail of scorpio, head and neck of lupus, whole of ara- altar, two feet of ophiuchus, point of arrow of sagittarius, part of norma, mason's square. 71. temperance. rules the whole of sagittarius. stars the whole of sagittarius, the archer, except right hind leg, the tail, the crown of the head, extreme points of bow and arrow, corona australis, telescope, pavo-peacock. 72. the dmil. rules the whole of capricorn. stars. whole lower half of capricornus, the he-goat, part of piscis australis, southern fish, microscope, part of gr

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

by devils, whose continual torments could not allow them so much leisure. beside these i have found five curiosities in scotland, not much observed to be [known] elsewhere: 1. the brownies who in some families [labour] as drudges [and] clean the houses and dishes after all [mortals] go to bed, and removing before daybreak [each brownie] taking with him his portion of food [as left for him. 2. the mason word, which though some make a mystery of it, i will not conceal a little of what i know; it is like a rabbinical tradition in [the] way of comment on iachin and boaz, the two pillars erected in solomon's temple, with the addition of some secret sign delivered from hand to hand, by which they [the masons] know and become familiar with one another. 3. this second sight so largely [that is, ex

once frowned upon as magical but soon proven to be perfectly normal. this argument is used several times by kirk, and has certain merits in simultaneously dissolving prejudice and superstition. commentary 117 page 52 i have found five curiosities in scotland, not much observed to be [known] elsewhere. the five curiosities are as follows: 1. the labor of the brownies (previously discussed. 2. the mason word. here kirk is referring to the tradition that certain socalled ancient aspects of masonry are known in scotland, and that scottish masonry is of a more original lineage than that of england, having unique elements to it, such as the mason word. 3. the second sight. 4. curative charms (see page 63) 5. magical proof against wounding used by scottish soldiers. with the possible exception o

e kirk is referring to the tradition that certain socalled ancient aspects of masonry are known in scotland, and that scottish masonry is of a more original lineage than that of england, having unique elements to it, such as the mason word. 3. the second sight. 4. curative charms (see page 63) 5. magical proof against wounding used by scottish soldiers. with the possible exception of the scottish mason word, these curiosities are found worldwide in various folk traditions, albeit taking varied forms. page 54 though i will not be so curious nor so peremptory as he who will [seek to] prove. the philosopher's stone from scripture. or the plurality of worlds. or the circulation of the blood. nor the talismanical art. yet i humbly propose these passages which may give some light to our subject

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

from which sisodia, not wishing to show unseemly partisanship, also fetched eats- sweetmeats, samosas, chicken patties- for the increasingly voracious gibreel. he brought, too, dishes made by his own hand, fish curries, raitas, sivayyan, khir, and doled out, along with the edibles, namedropping accounts of celebrity dinner parties: how pavarotti had loved whisky's lassi, and o but that poor james mason had just adored his spicy prawns. vanessa, amitabh, dustin, sridevi, christopher reeve were all invoked "one soosoo superstar should be aware of the tatastes of his pipi peers" sisodia was something of a legend himself, allie learned from gibreel. the most slippery and silver-tongued man in the business, he had made a string of "quality" pictures on microscopic budgets, keeping going for ove

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ame to an end. leadership was supposed to be passed to the oldest son, but shoghi effendi had no children, and other members of the family had already been excommunicated as covenant breakers. for a time control fell to a small body of advisers, the hands of the cause of god, until the universal house of justice was established in 1963. in 1960 one of the members of the hands of the cause of god, mason remey, claimed that he was the second guardian because shoghi effendi had named him president of the international baha council, a forerunner to the universal house of justice. he formed the orthodox baha sect. 76 world religions: almanac baha although he was expelled from the mainstream religion, remey managed to attract followers to his cause. by 2005 the orthodox baha had established seve

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

where i left clara. it was a clear winter's day when i approached the outskirts of the town. i had no fear of detection, for my beard and hair were as good as a mask. oh, mother of mercy! there came across my way a funeral procession! there, now you know it; i can tell you no more. she had died, perhaps of love, more likely of shame. can you guess how i spent that night? i stole a pickaxe from a mason's shed, and all alone and unseen, under the frosty heavens, i dug the fresh mould from the grave; i lifted the coffin, i wrenched the lid, i saw her again again! decay had not touched her. she was always pale in life! i could have sworn she lived! it was a blessed thing to see her once more, and all alone too! but then, at dawn, to give her back to the earth, to close the lid, to throw down

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

ealed the dead body of her husband, and the four cross-bars indicate the four cardinal points; it became a symbol of the highest religious importance to the egyptians, and the setting up of the tet at busiris, which symbolized the reconstituting of the body of osiris, was one of the most solemn of all the ceremonies performed in connexion with the worship of osiris. the tet represents neither the mason's table nor a nilometer, as some have thought, it is always associated with the clvth chapter of the book of the dead, which reads "rise up thou, o osiris! thou hast thy backbone, o still-heart! thou hast the fastenings of thy neck and back, o still-heart! place thou thyself upon p. 45 the mummy of ani the scribe, lying on a bier, attended by isis, nephthys, anubis, the four children of horu

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

milan. october 2, 1982: guiseppe dellacha, executive at banco ambrosiano, dead of a fall from a window of banco ambrosiano, in milan. march 23, 1986: michele sindona found dead of poisoning in the italian jail to which he had been extradited on charges of ordering the murder of giorgio ambrosioli. albino luciano, pope john paul i list of masons in the italian church and vatican the following is a mason list reprinted from the bulletin de l'occident chretien nr.12, july, 1976 (directeur pierre fautrad a fye- 72490 bourg le roi) if still alive, it should be noted with interest that all of the men on this list, are subject to excommunication by canon law 2338. each man's name is followed by his position, if known; the date he was initiated into masonry, his code; and his code name, if known:

lanzoni, angelo. chief of the office of secretary of state. 9-24-56# 6-324 "lana" levi, virgillio (alias levine, monsignor. assistant director of official vatican newspaper, l'osservatore romano. manages vatican radio station. 7-4-58# 241-3 "vile" lozza, lino. chancellor of rome academy of st. thomas aquinas of catholic religion. 7-23-69# 12-768 "loli" lienart, achille. cardinal. grand master top mason. bishop of lille, france. recruits masons. was leader of progressive forces at vatican ii council. macchi, pasquale. cardinal. pope paul's prelate of honour and private secretary until he was excommunicated for heresy by pope paul vi. was reinstated by secretary of state jean villot, and made a cardinal. 4-23-58# 5463-2 "mapa" mancini, italo. director of sua santita. 3-18-68# l551-142 "mani"

diocese of rome. controls clergy of rome since 3- 6-73. member of sacred congregation of sacraments and of divine worship. he is president of pontifical works and preservation of the faith. also president of the liturgical academy. 2-17-69# 32-1425 "upo" rizzi, monsignor mario. sacred congregation of oriental rites. listed as "prelate bishop of honour of the holy father, the pope" works under top-mason mario brini in manipulating canon law. 9-16-69# 43-179 "mari "monmari" romita, florenzo. was in sacred congregation of clergy. 4-21-56# 52-142 "firo" rogger, igine. officer in s.s (diocese of rome. 4-16-68# 319-13 "igro" rossano, pietro. sacred congregation of non-christian religions. 2-12-68# 3421-a "piro" rovela, virgillio. 6-12-64# 32-14 "rovi" sabbatani, aurelio. archbishop of giustinian

ther side to christmas. it's, it's. gs (in shock) you know, i'm just listening and i just can't believe, you know, we're, you know, we have leaders in our country that have probably gone through this kind of stuff. i mean, uh, it's just incredible, this group. i know they've been around for a long, long time, thousands of years, and gone through it, came here. george washington was a 33 rd degree mason. sv (crosstalk) oh, yeah! gs..and we go on. uh, the quest. you know, i just, i want you to understand, just from my point of view, i just wonder how. you know, you write a story "the end of the illuminati" how do we get rid of these people? i know, you're out of it. you couldn't take it any more. you think we can inspire more mid-level people to just leave, like you, so they have no one to d

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

rdance to the method in which the individual perceives his/her environment. this is what must be fully explored and understood in terms of the over riding principles that reflect this individuated perception. the pentagram is a symbol that is approximately five thousand years old and has its initial use in ancient egypt and mesopotamia, first as a potter mark, and in later egyptian dynasties as a mason s mark. symbolically, it was connected to the souls separate journey through the universe. gerald gardner (considered the founding father of modern wicca) utilized the inverted pentagram as representive of the second degree of wicca. the gnostics called the pentagram the blazing star and related it to night time magic. pagan, druids, celts, pythagoreans, greeks and romans all used the pentag

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

best evidence. deciphering a mountain of data one of the problems inherent in an undertaking so vast as this book is that the subject matter is so broad and complex. there are literally thousands of secret signs, grips, and symbols to consider in evaluating photographic evidence. my opponents the men of the secret societies and the illuminists would agree that this is the case. in the royal arch mason, an official publication of freemasonry, dr. william l. cummings commented on how many hundreds of rites, rituals, and degrees existed.3 obviously, in each of the hundreds of ceremonies a number of secret handshakes and signs are taught and practiced. thus, cummings remarks, masons themselves are in a state of confusion: it generally comes as a surprise and sometimes as a shock when the maso

and signs are taught and practiced. thus, cummings remarks, masons themselves are in a state of confusion: it generally comes as a surprise and sometimes as a shock when the mason who has never given any attention to the subject learns at least a hundred masonic and quasi-masonic rites and systems have existed and no less than eight hundred socalled masonic degrees have been revised.4 royal arch mason editor ray v. denshaw wryly comments that a long-time mason of reputation may be asked "how many of the hundreds of degrees have you received? have you received the rite of memphis of 90 degrees? or the rectified rite? or the swedenborgian rite?"5 moreover, masons affiliated with the grand lodge of the orient in paris, the united lodge in london, or the grand masonic lodge of israel, may wel

ieties and orders throughout europe, he traveled around from city to city and discovered that by knowing how to convey the appropriate handshake, he was invited into what is normally the guarded inner sanctum of almost all the groups. they were persuaded simply by his handshake that crowley was eligible to attend their conclaves and be made privy to their most closely guarded secrets. the average mason or member of other secret orders knows little of the signs and symbols of his own order, let alone that of others. in my work for this book, i have communicated with a number of ex-masons, but few were able to identify any but the most rudimentary of signs and symbols. i did far better with masonic encyclopedias and with modern and ancient magical texts and guides. i give credit to. in addit

them, these are not just geometric shapes, architectural patterns, lines, and circles. their signs and symbols both live and possess creative power. they are archetypes and thoughtforms. in sum, they are real things that perform. one is reminded, therefore, of the "image of the beast" which, in the last days, is prophesied to both move about and to speak (revelation 13. pity the poor, hoodwinked mason it's bad enough that the elite hide their dirty little (and big) secrets behind such smoke screens as secret hand signs, codes, etc. but what is remarkably obscene is that they hoodwink their own people. the highest levels of the freemasons, for example, have a special word for the manner in which they seek to deceive and mislead not only the "profane (you and me) but the vast majority of fe

hoodwink. it is defined as the effort put forth by the lying men at the top echelons to keep lower-level members in darkness. in the encyclopedia of freemasonry, editor dr. albert mackey, 33, a former sovereign grand commander, claims that secrecy, silence, and deceit in other words, hoodwink, is an absolute necessity so that "the mysteries of our art should be preserved."18 helena blavatsky, co-mason and founder of theosophy, was unusually candid when she once remarked "what is one to do, when in order to rule men, it is necessary to deceive them..for almost invariably the more simple, the more silly, and the more gross the phenomenon, the more likely it is to succeed."19 listen to the admission of albert pike, former sovereign grand commander who masonic historian manley p. hall, 33, ma

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s blessings would be bestowed upon the tribe, and many ghosts would materialize during the dance to join with the living in celebration of the return of the old ways. wovoka said that the old man had spoken to him as if he were his son, and god had assured him that many miracles would be worked through him. in his heart and in his life, wovoka, also known in his tribe as the cutter, became jesus; mason valley, nevada became galilee; and the native american people received a messiah. wovoka s father had been the respected holy man tavibo and his grandfather had been the esteemed prophet wodziwob. and now he, too, had spent his time in imitation of death, lying in a trance-like state for three days, receiving his spiritual initiation in the other world. wovoka had emerged as a holy man and a

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gene barry, who starred in such television series as bat masterson (1958 61) and burke s law (1963 66, was a scientist attempting to thwart a martian invasion of earth. he also appeared in the devil and miss sarah (1971, an offbeat western about a satanic outlaw harassing his tormentor s wife. raymond burr (1917 1993, television s masterful attorney in the long-running law and order series perry mason (1957 66, was not quite so articulate in bride of the gorilla (1951. burr portrayed a scheming murderer who was transformed into a human gorilla by a witch, the mother of a native girl he had betrayed. in the movie monster classic godzilla (1956, he was an american journalist in tokyo covering the story of a radioactive, prehistoric monster s devastation of japan s capital. burr s scenes wer

le tension, and even high cholesterol. m delving deeper carrington, patricia. the book of meditation: the complete guide to modern meditation.worchester, great britain, uk: element, 1998. leichtman, robert, and carl japikse. active meditation: the western tradition. columbus, ohio: ariel press, 1982. levy, jodi. the healing handbook: a beginner s guide to meditation. new york: pocket books, 1999. mason, paul. the maharishi: the biography of the man who gave transcendental meditation to the west. london: element books, 1994. ozaniec, naomi. essential meditation 101 tips. london: dorling kindersley press, 1997. rosenberg, larry. breath by breath. boston: shambala press, 1998. west, serene. very practical meditation. virginia beach, va: donning, 1999. psychedelics the mind-expanding drugs thr

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mystery religions, egyptian rituals, and babylonian paganism. often linked to the illuminati, freemasonry is said to have exerted its influence on every aspect of american society. including its currency. of all of the above alarmist concerns, only the part about the currency may have some credence. on the front of a one-dollar bill, there is a portrait of george washington (1732.1799, an avowed mason, who donned his masonic apron and presided over the dedication of the united states capitol. the flip side of the bill displays the great seal of the united states. the front side of the seal depicts the spread eagle, arrows in one claw, olive branch in the other, and a banner proclaiming e pluribus unum in its beak. opposite the spread eagle, the backside of the seal, is an incomplete pyram

e seal were finally completed, but at its premiere showing, the side that featured the pyramid with the all-seeing eye was turned to the wall because some viewers were offended by the symbol fs masonic associations. the backside of the great seal, first authorized by congress in 1792, was not seen by the american public until 1935 when president franklin delano roosevelt (1882.1945, a 32nd-degree mason, put it on the back of the one-dollar bill. most scholars agree that the pyramid represented on the bill is the great pyramid of cheops at giza, which, to a mason, is emblematic of the continuity of the craft of freemasonry from the dawn of civilization in egypt. for freemasons it is also a reminder of the legend that egyptian civilization was founded by survivors from atlantis and that the

agree that the pyramid represented on the bill is the great pyramid of cheops at giza, which, to a mason, is emblematic of the continuity of the craft of freemasonry from the dawn of civilization in egypt. for freemasons it is also a reminder of the legend that egyptian civilization was founded by survivors from atlantis and that the united states is the new atlantis foretold by the great master mason sir francis bacon (1561.1626. the pyramid with the all-seeing eye represents the great architect of the universe that guided the founding fathers of the united states to establish a nation that might one day reveal itself as the heir of the ancient mysteries of atlantis and restore all humankind to the earthly paradise that existed in that golden age of old. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d

tates to establish a nation that might one day reveal itself as the heir of the ancient mysteries of atlantis and restore all humankind to the earthly paradise that existed in that golden age of old. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d secret societies 9 masonic temple in alexandria, virginia (corbis corporation) georgewashington was an avowed mason. the central mythos of freemasonry centers around the building of the great temple of king solomon (tenth century b.c.e) and solomon fs securing the services of the most accomplished architect in the world, hiram abiff, who was said to have designed the magnificent temple according to the precepts of the great architect of the universe. although hiram is mentioned in biblical accounts as a m

1 officers of the new york mecca temple (corbis corporation) thefree and accepted order of freemasons is the oldest fraternity in the world. ous to their initiates than many contemporary college fraternities or sororities. it was the abducted and assumed tragic death of one of its members in 1826 that led to the near-annihilation of the masons in the united states. william morgan, a disillusioned mason from batavia, new york, let it be known that he was writing a book that would reveal all the secrets of freemasonry to the world. the printer fs shop that was going to publish his manuscript was torched, and a few days later, morgan was arrested on charges that he was in arrears on a two-dollar debt. that night, a stranger arrived to pay morgan fs bail, and the dissident mason was then seize

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ospital. fortunately, the damage was not permanent. what puzzled me about connie's case, however, was that she had not seen a splendid luminous flying saucer. she had seen a giant "winged man" in broad daylight. according to her story, connie, a shy, sensitive eighteen-year-old, was driving home from church at 10:30 a.m. on sunday, november 27, 1966, when, as she passed the deserted greens of the mason county golf course outside of new haven, west virginia, she suddenly saw a huge gray figure. it was shaped like a man, she said, but was much larger. it was at least seven feet tall and very broad. the thing that attracted her attention was not its size but its eyes. it had, she said, large, round, fiercely glowing red eyes that focused on her with hypnotic effect "it's a wonder i didn't run

mproved dirt roads with no suggestion of all the activity going on below ground. it looked like nothing more than what it was supposed to be, a haven for birds and animals in the ohio river valley. after the war most of the explosives were carted away. the factories were dismantled. the entrances and exits of the tunnels were plugged with thick concrete slabs. some of the igloos were given to the mason county government as possible storage vaults. they still stand empty. others were sold to the trojan-u.s. powder co. and the lfc chemical co. some were leased to american cyanamid. the years washed away the camouflage and now the igloos stand out starkly on the landscape, row upon row of white mounds with deer and rabbits running between them. the old factory buildings are broken shells. the

s. it wasn't even flapping its wings "i could hear it making a sound" mrs. mallette added "it squeaked like a big mouse "it followed us right to the city limits" roger went on "funny thing, we noticed a dead dog by the side of the road there. a big dog. but when we came back a few minutes later, the dog was gone" panic-stricken, the red eyes still burning in their minds, they went directly to the mason county courthouse, charged into the sheriffs office, and blurted out their story to deputy millard halstead "i've known these kids all their lives" halstead told me later "they'd never been in any trouble and they were really scared that night. i took them seriously" he hopped into a patrol car and followed roger's car back to the tnt area. at the edge of town they looked for the dog's body

enly dove at his car and pursued him for a mile or so. on the eighteenth two firemen from point pleasant, paul yoder and benjamin enochs, were in the tnt area when they encountered a giant bird with big red eyes "it was definitely a bird" they stated flatly "but it was huge. we'd never seen anything like it" everyone was now seeing mothman or the "bird" or so it seemed. sightings were reported in mason, lincoln, logan, kanawha, and nicholas counties. people were traveling for hundreds of miles to sit in the cold tnt area all night, hoping to glimpse the creature. those who were unlucky enough to see it vowed they never wanted to see it again. it evoked unspeakable terrors. like flying saucers, it delighted in chasing cars. a very unbirdlike habit, and it seemed to have a penchant for scari

ig red eyes that popped out of its face. my husband is six feet one and this bird looked about the same height or a little shorter, maybe "it had a funny little face. i didn't see any beak. all i saw were those big red poppy eyes. i screamed and ran back into the house. my brother-in-law went out to look, but it was gone" the next morning the winged phantom pursued young connie carpenter near the mason, west virginia, golf course (chapter two. that evening, it encored in st. albans. sheila cain, thirteen, and her younger sister were walking home from the store when they saw an enormous "something" standing next to a local junk yard "it was gray and white with big red eyes" sheila reported "and it must have been seven feet tall taller than a i man. i screamed and we ran home. it flew up in

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

new york, 1961 sumerian mythology pennsylvania, 1972 laurent la magie et la divination chez les chaldeo- assyriennes paris, 1894 lenormant, f. science occult; la magie chez les chaldeens paris, 1874 tales of the cthulhu mythos new york, 1973 at the mountains of madness new york, 1973 lovecraft, h.p. the dunwich horror new york, 1963 the lurker at the threshold (with august derleth) new york, 1971 mason, h. gilgamesh (ed) new york, 1972 neugebauer, o. the exact sciences in antiquity new york, 1969 near eastern texts relating to the old testament princeton, 1958 pritchard, j. the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "sapere aude" new york seignobos, s. the world of babylon new york, 1975 seligmann, k. magic, supernaturalism, and religion new york, 1968 oriental magic new york, 1973 shah, i. the sec

THE BOOK OF GATES

that several kings of the ancient and middle empires carried on works in them, no doubt for the purpose of obtaining alabaster for funeral purposes. the sarcophagus is 9 ft. 4 in. long, 3 ft. 8 in. wide, in the widest part, and 2 ft. 8 in. high at the shoulders, and 2 ft. 3 in. at the feet; the cover is 1 ft. 3 in. high. the thickness of the alabaster varies from 21 to 4 inches. the skill of the mason who succeeded in hollowing the blocks without breaking, or even cracking them, is marvellous, and the remains of holes nearly one inch in diameter suggest that the drill was as useful to him as the chisel and mallet in hollowing out the blocks. when the sarcophagus and its cover were finally shaped and polished, they were handed over to an artisan who was skilled in cutting hieroglyphics and

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

, formerly the name of the second degree. degree masonic equivalent (if any) and classification course of instruction 1 probationer 2 minerval novices preliminary state of preparation. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c6.html (1 of 2 [12/28/2001 2:02:15 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. 3 craft of masonry entered apprentice fellow craft master mason full instruction in craft masonry, including the catechism of the first three degrees, and an explanation of all the various masonic systems. 4 scotch masonry scotch mason knight of st. andrew royal arch students or lay brothers full instruction in the scottish degrees of ancient and accepted masonry. 5 rose-croix knight of rose-croix knight of pelican knight of east and west esoteric instru

ngue breaks forth into a weird and monstrous speech. the embrace of him intense on every centre of pain and pleasure the six interior sense aflame with the inmost self of him myself flung down the precipice of being even to the abyss, annihilation! an end to loneliness, as to all! pan! pan! to pan! to pan! viii: let us sing the song of the p.i. song of the perfect initiate stanza 1 how the simple mason plies tool to temple, see it rise! princes of jerusalem, how we mock and scoff at them! chorus. boaz broken, jachin gone, file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c6.html (8 of 9 [12/28/2001 2:04:24 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. freely spoken, jahbulon, all above is overthrown for the love of babalon. stanza 2 lend a hand, my trusty brother!

uminated adepts of this secret areopagus, that from the beginning of all, the vows of your initiation have invoked upon you the most fearful penalties of disobedience. for as soon as ye erect any natural and common thing into a formula of magick, so soon do ye excite also the contrary current. thus while every child reads and speaks freely of the pillars of the temple of king solomon by name, the mason dare not so much as letter them without precaution. and while the private man may speak evil of the king, and blaspheme god without risk, yet the servant of the king, and the minister of god, must cloke (sic) themselves with reverence, even though it be not in their hearts, for this reason, that they have invoked the king, and god, as sword and shield of their own authority. to you, then, if

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

ion was "reprobated universally throughout victorian society" and considered a possible source not just of moral decay but even of epilepsy and insanity. so too, homosexuality was foremost among those acts seen to violate the "borders of masculinity" defined by middle class society, and thus among the greatest threats to a productive, efficient and healthy social body.xl -146- however, as michael mason suggests, the first two decades of the 20th century also gave birth to a powerful reaction against the sexual values of the victorian era.xli as we see in a wide array of authors like havelock ellis, edward carpenter and d.h. lawrence, there was a growing critique of the prudery of the victorian age, and an increasing call for social and sexual liberation. as carpenter put it "the strange pe

ban, the economics of ecstasy: tantra, secrecy and power in colonial bengali (new york: oxford university press, 2001. viiurban "the omnipotent oom: tantra and its impact on modern western esotericism" esoterica: the journal of esoteric studies 3 (2001: 218-259. viii here i am using the phrase "victorian era" to refer primarily to the period of victoria's rule, ending in 1901. however, as michael mason and others argue, many of the cultural and moral attitudes that we associate with the victorian era would persist well into the early 20th century. see mason, the making of victorian sexuality (new york: oxford university press, 1994; lesley a. hall, sex, gender and social change in britain since 1880 (new york: st. martin's press, 2000. ixsee hugh b. urban "the cult of ecstasy: tantrism, th

stasy: tantrism, the new age and the spiritual logic of late capitalism" history of religions 39 (2000: 268-304, and urban, tantra: sex, secrecy, politics and power in the study of religion (berkeley: university of california press, forthcoming, ch. vii. xfoucault, the history of sexuality; cf. jeffrey weeks, sex, politics and society: the regulation of sexuality since 1800 (london: longon, 1981; mason, the making of victorian sexuality. xiicrowley, confessions, 75. xiii xiii quoted in sutin, do what thou wilt, 422. xiv"the king of depravity" john bull (march 10, 1923. xv leslie shepard, introduction to aleister crowley, the diary of a drug fiend (hyde park: university books, 1970, v. xvi sutin, do what thou wilt, pp. 4-5. martin similarly describes crowley as an expression of the late and

..was the victorians' ability both to express and to contain sexuality..those limits were set by the prevailing idea of 'normal sex' that is, heterosexuality..with growing insistence society..demanded the childbearing marital union (patricia anderson, when passion reigned: sex and the victorians [new york: basic books, 1995, 17-18. xlhall, sex, gender and social change in britain, p. 26. see also mason, the making of victorian sexuality, p.210; steven marcus, the other victorians: a study of sexuality and pornography in mid-nineteenth century england (new york: basic books, 1966, 13 xlimason, the making of victorian sexuality, 9-12. xliiedward carpenter, my days and dreams (london: g. allen& unwin, 1916, 321-22 -177- xlivcrowley, the law is for all, p. 42 "when you have proved that god is

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

ns that it forms a good point of departure "but as we are not all operative masons, but rather free and accepted or speculative, we apply these tools to our morals" with certain variations, these words occur in each of the craft degrees, and their analogies are to be found in a few subsidiary degrees which may be said to arise out of the craft- as, for example, the honorable degree of mark master mason. that which is applied more specially to the working implements of masonry belongs to our entire building symbolism, whether it is concerned with the erection by the candidate in his own personality of an edifice or "superstructure perfect in its parts and honorable to the builder" or, in the mark degree, with a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, or again with solomon's templ

idate is, however, subjected to like personal experience in each of the craft degrees, and it calls to be understood thus. in the entered apprentice degree it is because of a new life which he is to lead henceforth. in the fellowcraft, it is as if the mind were to be renewed, for the prosecution of research into the hidden mysteries of nature, science, and art. but in the sublime degree of master mason it is in order that he may enter fully into the mystery of death and of that which follows thereafter, being the great mystery of the raising. the three technical and official words corresponding to the successive experiences are entered, passed, and raised, their craft-equivalents being apprentice, craftsman and master- or he who has undertaken to acquire the symbolical and spiritualized ar

now generally abandoned- has proposed for the most important text. we find therein after what manner, according to mystic israel, solomon's temple was spiritualized; we find deep meanings attached to the two pillars j. and b; we find how the word was lost and under what circumstances the chosen people were to look for its recovery. it is an expectation for jewish theosophy, as it is for the craft mason. it was lost owing to an untoward event, and although the time and circumstances of its recovery have been calculated in certain texts of the kabalah, there has been something wrong with the methods. the keepers of the tradition died with their faces toward jerusalem, looking for that time; but for jewry at large the question has passed from the field of view, much as the quest is continued

called, almost indifferently, that of resurrection, the world to come, and the advent of the messiah. in such day the present imperfect separation between the letters will be put an end to, once and forever. if it be asked: what is the connection between the loss and dismemberment which befell the divine name jehovah and the lost word in masonry, i cannot answer too plainly; but every royal arch mason knows that which is communicated to him in that supreme degree, and in the light of the present explanation he will see that the "great" and "incomprehensible" thing so imparted comes to him from the secret tradition of israel. it is also to this kabalistic source, rather than to the variant accounts in the first book of kings and in chronicles, that we must have recourse for the important m

egards the sources, the lost word in masonry is derived from a kabalistic thesis of imperfection in the divine name jehovah, by which the true pronunciation- that is to say, the true meaning- is lost. it was the life of the house of doctrine, represented by the temple planned of old in israel. the master-builder is the spirit, secret or life of the doctrine; and it is the quest of this that every mason takes upon himself in the ceremony of the third degree, so that the house, which in the words of another masonic degree, is now, for want of territory, built only in the heart "a superstructure perfect in its parts and honorable to the builder" craft masonry but if these are the sources of craft masonry, taken at its culmination in the sublime degree, what manner of people were those who gra

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

god. fishermen, fowlers, and hunters were to pay an octroi duty of one-tenth of the value of their catches when they brought them into the city, and a tithe of the cattle was to be set apart for the daily sacrifice. the masters of caravans coming from the sudan were to pay a tithe also, but they were not liable to any further tax in the country northwards. every metal-worker, ore-crusher, miner, mason, and handicraftsman of every kind, was to pay to the temple of the god one-tenth of the value of the material produced or worked by his labour. the decree provided also for the appointment of an inspector whose duty it would be to weigh the gold, silver and copper which came into the town of elephantine, and to assess the value both of these metals and of the precious stones, etc, which were

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

of cannibalism, the heads being buried and the bodies eaten. but cannibals would not fetch other bones to bury with the heads, and they usually split all the big bones to get the marrow, and these thigh-bones are all intact. the skull-and-crossbones sign is often found in old tombs and cemeteries; i believe it goes back to roman times and is the symbol of death and resurrection. when i was made a mason i was told the skull and crossbones represented 'death' and the blazing star 'resurrection. now this star is also a pentacle. as i have said, in old times witches used a skull and crossbones to represent their god when his representative, the high priest, was not present. nowadays the priestess assumes a position much like that of osiris to represent the god in his death form, then opens out

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

ebook in which were hebrew letters. this visit filled the group with hope and expectation. they conducted their meeting according to the form he sent and kept in touch after his return to england. in due time he wrote that if further progess was to be made, people would have to come from england to teach. within a week of receiving this letter, reginald gardiner through the generosity of john and mason chambers (nationally known architect, cabled 300 pounds to pay the passages. advice followed that dr. felkin, with his wife and daughter would come for three months. though the wording leaves a lot to be desired, it does show the close knit aspect of the group on which whare ra was built. to some occult historians, some of these names will be known as members of other stella matutina temples

more of our time and attention. people had to be taught and helped and we could be ill spared. yet on the other hand, it would be a terrible pity to let such an opportunity as this slip. we would be pioneers in a new world with virgin soil to work with. wyn westcott aided feilkin by giving him introductions to various masonic groups in australia (in adelaide, melbourne and sydney. as a 32 degree mason, felkin was one of the highest to visit new zealand. he was also appointed as an inspector for the societies of rosicrudans in anglia, which had a foothold in new zealand at that stage, though he never offidally took up this appointment. during his three month stay in new zealand, about a dozen members received the 5=6 grade, as all the training had to be telescoped into a short time period

ted as an inspector for the societies of rosicrudans in anglia, which had a foothold in new zealand at that stage, though he never offidally took up this appointment. during his three month stay in new zealand, about a dozen members received the 5=6 grade, as all the training had to be telescoped into a short time period. the rituals were done in a large house in havelock north. during this time, mason chambers and his wife donated some land on which rested the foundation of whare ra (a maori name meaning house of the sun. the house itself was built by chapman taylor, with a huge vault in the basement and a temple area of between 1200 to 1500 square feet before he left for england, felkin consecrated the temple and left his daughter behind to further help those members with ritual and stud

aper by wescott dearly shows that the golden dawn and its inner order the r.r. et a.c. hinges on interpretations. the first is that series of cyphers (based on an alchemical treatise and published in the polygraphiae of johann trithemius, was found in a book stall; while the second says that these papers found their way into wescott's hands through the papers of fred hockley (1808-85, a prominent mason, rosicrucian and spiritualist. at any rate once wescott had the papers, he asked mathers to translate and expand them into workable grade rituals. it is said that with these cyphers was an address of a certain s.d.a. in germany to whom wyn wescott wrote, and in return received a charter promoting him and two others (mathers and woodman) to the rank of 5=6 grade. these original cyphers when t

orum which made it possible to reorganise the order and set it upon a wider footing. neville died in the arms of dr. felkin in october, 1912. dr. felkin f.r.c.s (edin) was a distinguished physician scientist and explorer. he was a member of the royal geographical society, the anthropological society, the ethnographical society, as well as of corresponding societies on the continent. he was also a mason of the 33rd degree, a knight templar, a leading member of the anti slavery society and on the medical staff of london national guard. he was definitely a christian man. there was a prophecy in the order that the order would at some time be taken across the seas to certain islands where it would again flourish. in 1912 dr. felkin, the 41st grandmaster of the order, justified the first part of

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

a-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-eta lambskin cowan, skidoo! tyle! swear to hele all. this is the mystery. life! mind is the traitor. slay mind. let the corpse of mind lie unburied on the edge of the great sea! death! this is the mystery. tyle! cowan, skidoo! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 83 [86] commentary( lambda-eta) this chapter will be readily intelligible to e.a. freemasons, and it cannot be explained to others. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 84 [87] 39 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-theta the looby only loobies find excellence in these words. it is thinkable that a is not-a; to reverse this is but to revert to the normal. yet by forcing the brain to accept propositions of which one set is absurdity, the other truism, a new

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

-ha is not a historical egyptian deity but is mentioned in cap. iii of the book of the law and is said to combine hoor-par-kraat (horus the child) and ra-hoor-khuit (ra-horus of the two horizons. line 6: on was not an egyptian deity but a transliteration into hebrew( a or wa) of the name of the egyptian solar cult-centre called heliopolis by the greeks. the confusion arose through a misreading by freemasons of genesis xli, 45 and 50 where joseph married asenath daughter of poti-phera priest of on. on spelt u as a formula is another matter entirely; see col. clxxxvii. hrumachis is probably a variant spelling of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) to be the greek name for heru-khuti, horus of the two horizons, who represented the sun from sunrise to sunse

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

o read his account of it. he- the monster, not treves- seems to have been a most charming individual- ah! that's the word we want. every individual has some qualities magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 263 that endear him to some other. and per contra, i doubt if there is any class which is not detestable to some other class. artists, police, the clergy "reds" foxhunters, freemasons, jews "heavenborn" women's clubwomen (especially in u.s.a "methodys" golfers, doglovers; you can't find one body without its "natural" enemies. it's right, what's worse; every class, as a class, is almost sure to have more defects than qualities. as soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. collect schol

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

or the book, the whole book, and nothing but the book, as the veritable work of the apostle john, hence the clergy may extend a welcome hand to it. he quite believes it is a work of the apostle john, and defends the style; amongst these there are some doubtless who are narrow-minded, but here, and still more prominently in america, there are broad-minded clergy who will welcome the unsealing. the freemasons too in their higher grades, which have more or less reached us through the rosicrucians, have very strong allusions to the apocalypse, and may profit by it, and this refers to several systems practised throughout the world. thus the order of heredom (harodim) rosy cross, which has an unchanged ritual from 1740, at least, draws upon dionysius the areopagite, a disciple of st paul, and it

ce adept, which he had in his patent of 1762, with knight of the sun, and supplying the blank thus created with patriarch noachite. there is also the royal oriental order of the sat bhai which was founded 1743-5 by a brahmin pundit at prag, for certain anglo-indian officers, and which is now well established in america. 166 the idea that revelation is a book of initiation is not altogether new to freemasons, as the late dr geo. oliver elaborated that view at considerable length, but mr pryse's view is quite a different sort of initiation; it is the development of the semi-miraculous powers of the gnosis of clement, origen, and the early christian church, the birth of the divine three principles, the crestos, in the human soul. the key to this "unsealing" is the text itself, in which is fou

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

s at present handling the majority of the third ray pupils in- 34- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust the occident in conjunction with the master hilarion. the master r. is upon the seventh ray, that of ceremonial magic or order, and he works largely through esoteric ritual and ceremonial, being vitally interested in the effects, hitherto unrecognised, of the ceremonial of the freemasons, of the various fraternities and of the churches everywhere. he is called in the lodge, usually "the count" and in america and europe acts practically as the general manager for the carrying out of the plans of the executive council of the lodge. certain of the masters form around the three great lords an inner group, and meet in council with great frequency. on the fifth ray of concret

vise the development of certain activities within the next fifteen years, work under the master r. very definitely may the assurance be given here, that prior to the coming of the christ, adjustments will be made so that at the head of all great organisations will be found either a master, or an initiate who has taken the third initiation. at the head of certain of the great occult groups, of the freemasons of the world, and of the various great divisions of the church, and resident in many of the great nations will be found initiates or masters. this work of the masters is proceeding now, and all their efforts are being bent towards bringing it to a successful consummation. everywhere they are gathering in those who in any way show a tendency to respond to high vibration, seeking to force

rought into coherent activity- 77- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust all physical plane organisation governmental, religious, or cultural is the working out of inner forces and causes, and, before they definitely appear in physical manifestation, a focalisation if it might be so expressed of these influences and energies, takes place on etheric levels. the organisation of the freemasons is a case in point. it has two magnetic centres, one of which is in central europe. in all the cases cited, the lord of the world was the officiating agent, as is ever the case in the founding of great and important movements. in all lesser movements for the helping of the race, initiated by the masters working through their disciples, the aid of the bodhisattva is invoked, and the less

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om something unspecified at lyons which is referred to 1738. the utmost variety of statement will be found, moreover, as to the content of the clermont rite, the templar character of which has been also challenged. it is proposed otherwise that the chapter was founded on a scale of considerable magnitude, that it was installed in a vast building, and that it attracted the higher classes of french freemasons, which notwithstanding it ceased to exist in 1758, being absorbed by the council of emperors established in that year for the promulgation of a different grade system. i am in a position to reflect some light for the relief of these complications by reference to dutch archives which have come to my knowledge. the date of the chapter's foundation remains uncertain, but it was in activity

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rically, and unfolding an idea in panoramic views, one after the other. thus the puranas are written emblems. so are the mosaic and christian testaments, or the bible, and all other exoteric scriptures. as the same authority shows "all esoteric societies have made use of emblems and symbols, such as the pythagorean society, the eleusinian, the hermetic brethren of egypt, the rosicrucians, and the freemasons. many of these emblems it is not proper to divulge to the general eye, and a very minute difference may make the emblem or symbol differ widely in its meaning. the magical sigillae, being founded on certain principles of numbers, partake of this character, and although monstrous or ridiculous in the eyes of the uninstructed, convey a whole body of doctrine to those who have been trained

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rgence of female energy is symbolised as 'the return of the goddess. it is highly appropriate that the obelisk (the symbol of male energy) should be so important to the brotherhood over the centuries, because it is, after all, a brotherhood, not a brother-and-sisterhood. the secret societies are almost entirely male-dominated with women excluded from the knowledge and decision making. look at the freemasons as an example. it is a male preserve, with their wives wheeled out for the annual dinner like a piece of decoration. such a male-dominated organisation must by definition be imbalanced, and this one most certainly is. the freemasons have become one of the most important of the secret societies which have appeared since the ancient times, and they have based themselves on the the birth o

s have the others. i will refer to this network as the cult of the all-seeing eye, the cult that worships these fourth dimensional "gods" or "masters. it goes back to antiquity and this same stream of manipulation is behind the new world order to this day. it is a fusion of the ancient esoteric beliefs which have emerged from babylon, egypt, and the hebrew kabbala school. the higher levels of the freemasons still worship a 'god' called jahbulon- jah (jehovah, hebrew, bul (baal, babylon, and on (osiris, egypt. perhaps the most important achievement by this global elite-brotherhood on the journey to world domination has been the colonisation of america, a land it knew existed long before it was officially 'discovered. throughout known human history, there have been two levels of knowledge op

s in religion, politics, economics, and literature; but they are all connected, all directed by the invisible centre that hides its power as it thus seeks to move all the sceptres of the earth" the opposition by the american colonies led the british government to withdraw the new taxes, except for those on tea, but the brotherhood was not going to let the anger subside. members of the st. andrews freemasons lodge in boston, led by the junior warden, paul revere, dressed up as native american 'indians' and threw tea chests into the harbour to protest at the tax on tea. the boston tea party, as it became known, was hatched during a supper at the home of the bradlee brothers, who were both members of the st. andrews lodge.8 the momentum for a war of independence gathered strength until it was

e order. the second president, john adams, belonged to a secret society known as the dragons, named after the magnetic energy lines in the earth's energy grid. he studied the sacred geometry contained in the energy grid and knew how to harness the power it contained.10 one of the leading revolutionaries and founding fathers of the united states was benjamin franklin, the first grand master of the freemasons of pennsylvania. he 34..and the truth shall set you free became a friend of sir francis dashwood, the chancellor of the british treasury, and founder of the secret society called the club of hell's fire. franklin became a member along with the mayor of london, the son of the archbishop of canterbury, and the prince of wales. he travelled to france to canvass successfully for the support

and he became a high ranking member of the lodges of san juan and the nine sisters which, in league with the grand orient lodge in paris, would trigger the french revolution of 1789. franklin was made grand master of the nine sisters. one of the central revolutionaries in france, the marquis de lafayette, was a friend of franklin and supported him and the colonists during the american revolution. freemasons manipulated and won the war of independence and then took control of the new united states of america. they, and other brotherhood groups, have never conceded that control to this day. how appropriate, then, that when the founding fathers commissioned a design for the great seal of the united states, it included the classic brotherhood (prison warder) symbols which go back to ancient eg

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luminated ones. in other words they are illuminated into knowledge that everyone else is denied. the llluminati is an organisation within all significant organisations. it's like a cancer. all the major secret societies feed carefully chosen recruits into the llluminati and these are the ones you find in positions of power throughout the world. they infest all colours, creeds, and countries. most freemasons never progress higher than the bottom three levels of degree, the socalled blue degrees. they have no idea what their organisation is being used for. even most of those who make it to the apparent peak, the 33rd degree in the scottish rite, know relatively little. only the tiny few, all from a particular bloodline, move through the top of their "individual" secret society into the lllum

d in, but, in truth, only a tiny few have any idea of what is going on and who, ultimately, is calling the shots. albert pike, who died in 1891, was one of the most pre-eminent figures in world freemasonry. among his titles were sovereign grand commander of the supreme council of the 33rd degree and supreme pontiff of universal freemasonry. in his book, morals and dogma, written for higher degree freemasons, he reveals the way the lower levels are misled* the 33 degrees of the scottish rite and 10 degrees of the york rite, both include the blue degrees, of course. to the prison born 7 "the blue degrees are but the outer court or portico of the temple. part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally mis-led by false interpretations. it is not intended that h

riod on the horizon where sirius rises on july 23rd and that the pyramids are also lined up to that point on the horizon" this, incidentally, is the time every year that the illuminati elite gather at bohemian grove in northern california wearing their hooded robes for their infamous rituals under a 40-foot stone owl, as detailed in the biggest secret. i will mention more about this later on. the freemasons and other secret societies within the illuminati web have sirius as their focus. it is known as the eastern star- the very name for the freemasonic organisation that allows women to become initiates.23 sirius is the first star to rise in the east in the latitudes of egypt. the symbol of the eastern star is the symbol of satanism, the inverted pentagram, and that is their symbol for siri

ing to a man i met who once worked in covert operations for the british government, similar phoenician artefacts were discovered in the rainforests of queensland, australia, a few miles from where captain cook landed on his voyage of "discovery. it was a journey of rediscovery in truth, and it was funded and organised by the royal society in london, a body created and controlled from the start by freemasons. the queensland find would help to explain why some australian aboriginal terms are the same as the egyptian, although the lemurian connection would do that also. evidence of phoenician activity has been identified in new england on the eastern seaboard of the united states and unmistakable egyptian-oriental remains were discovered in the grand canyon in arizona in the first decade of t

redo explains, of the union between the people from the stars and humanity, which you find recorded in virtually every ancient culture. significantly, he says the copper willy was once made of gold before it was stolen and replaced with copper. this mirrors the ancient egyptian story about the golden penis of their key god, osiris, which is symbolised by the secret societies today, especially the freemasons, as an obelisk. the way the extraterrestrial is portrayed on the necklace, credo says, is merely symbolic because these "gods" were of a very distinct and unhuman form (reptilian) and they warned the people of instant death if they ever depicted them as they really looked. thus the "gods" were portrayed symbolically. hanging from the necklace of the mysteries is a large hand, full of sy

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e brotherhoodnetwork. there are also gargoyles on a building in dealey plaza where presidentkennedy was assassinated and now they turn up again in a modern airport built on analleged underground reptilian base. gargoyles are symbols of the reptilians and that iswhy you will find them at denver airport. the capstone or dedication stone at the airportis marked with the classic compass symbol of the freemasons and it stands in part of theterminal called the great hall, another freemasonic term. on a wall is a grotesquemural full of malevolent symbolism, including three caskets with dead females in them:a jewish girl, a native american and a black woman. another girl is holding a mayantablet that tells of the destruction of civilisation. a huge character, described as a greendarth v ader by al

watchers who revealed thesecrets to humans was gadreel, the fallen angel who has been identified with temptingeve. the book of enoch was banned by the roman church which sought to deny theearlier christian belief in the existence of flesh and blood angels and fallen angelsoccupying physical bodies and interbreeding with humans. this was to stop the massesunderstanding the true situation. but the freemasons, who control the roman catholicchurch today along with other brotherhood offshoots, have always looked upon enochas one of their legendary founders. the very name enoch means initiated.the theme of the fallen angels giving forbidden secrets to humanity can be found inthe book of enoch and other works. among these tellers of secrets is azazel, whotaught the art of metal making, and shemy

for nimrod before becoming a deity of the greeks.9 in 1825,pope leo xii authorised the production of a jubilee medal and it depicted a woman in apose that was blatant symbolism of queen semiramis. she had a crucifix in her lefthand, a cup in her right and on her head was a seven rayed crown like the one on thestatue of liberty, another depiction of semiramis which was given to new y ork byfrench freemasons. a contact who has relatives working in high positions in the v aticantold me how, during the reign of pope john paul ii, he was given a guided tour of theplace which blew his mind. he was shown the popes solid gold bath which is decoratedwith all the astrological symbols and he saw inside the vacuum-sealed vaults whichcontain thousands of ancient esoteric books which have been stolen a

herhood across the world. invariably, the babylon reptilian full-bloods and hybridsmanipulated themselves into the positions of power and influence in the countrieswhere they settled. they had a much higher level of knowledge than most of the peopleand, as vehicles for the fourth dimensional reptilians, there was already a long term planto work to, the great work of ages as it became known to the freemasons. theyallowed the non-reptilian population to do the work and then, when new societies wereestablished, the brotherhood priests and initiates would hijack the positions of religiousand political power and ensure that any advanced knowledge in circulation was suckedout of the public domain and into their mystery schools and secret societies. the whiterace and the reptile-aryan crossbreeds

trong and hadlong hair, but he lost his power when his hair was cut. the problems started when heentered the house of delilah- the astrological house of virgo, the virgin, through whichthe sun passes as autumn approaches. summoning his last burst of power, sam-the-sun,pushes down the two pillars, which are classic brotherhood symbolism going back atleast to ancient egypt and are still used by the freemasons today. samson is sam sun- asymbolic story of the suns annual cycle. there wasnt any such person. in hebrew,samson means i understand, the god of the sun.to the orthodox christian, jesus is the only begotten son of god who died so oursins could be forgiven. but you will find exactly the same claims for a stream of godsin the ancient world long before the name of jesus was even heard of

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uare. of course, the number 13 represents rebellion against god's authority, and is generally thought of as satan's number. it is no accident the house of the temple is located 13 blocks north of the white house. the meaning occulticly transmitted is that the control of the white house would be spiritual and would emanate from the house of the temple. certainly, many american presidents have been freemasons. the most famous is george washington, but the most influential was franklin d. roosevelt, who did more to advance the cause of the new world order than anyone else in american history. seventeenth president andrew johnson 1865-1869 brig general albert pike (1809-1891) confederate the critical importance of this symbolism pointed out above, namely, that the presidency of the united stat

ou should make the connection that the churches and governments are all controlled by this brotherhood as well. statue of liberty- information compiled by a list member the statue of liberty is another brotherhood symbol highlighting the lighted torch, statue of liberty is actually the statue of liberties- the liberties perpetrated on the american people by the brotherhood. it was given by french freemasons, a mirror image stands on an island in the river seine in paris. initiates into the rites of mithra were called lions and were marked on their foreheads with the egyptian cross. the first degree initiates had a golden crown placed on their heads, representing their spiritual self, and this crown, symbolizing the rays of the sun, can be found on the statue of liberty in ny harbor. all th

to create order in society through the implementation of a belief system geared towards their fascist ideologies. the chaos is carefully orchestrated to insure the passing of more and more laws that will (eventually) completely destroy freedom. this is why there is more and more morality being preached by the politicians. this (as well as the war on drugs) is the product of the secret societies (freemasons etc) who have a great motto "ordo ab chao" meaning order out of chaos. agendas are formulated designed to give the powerful more power. chaos is created, and media blitzed. then cries go out for solution. laws are passed which could never have been passed without the chaos. the order has reigned by deception of the masses, and the agenda is accomplished. after all, it is those secret so

of antichrist (6 points, 6 angles, 6 planes- 666) the 5 pointed pentagrams multiplied by the 13 stars equals 65, the same cabalistic number as mentioned above. this makes one wonder with whom or what, we are to dwell in unity! the eagle replaced the phoenix in 1841 as the national bird. the phoenix has been a brotherhood symbol since ancient egypt. the phoenix was adopted by the founding fathers (freemasons) for use on the reverse of the first official seal of the united states after a design proposed by charles thompson, secretary of the continental congress. to the right of george washington's portrait on the front of the american dollar bill you will see the seal of the department of the treasury. it comprises of a key, the scales of justice and a square which is a very important symbol

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ayas the illuminati. the early lodges had no connection to each other but made similar claims of possessing hidden knowledge passed down from ancient times or from a race of secret masters in the east. in reality, these lodges had very few secrets to reveal other than hand-shakes and grade signs but masonry was condemned by the church as a form of devil-worship which only added to its popularity. freemasons may have had few hidden secrets, but the myth of masonic secrecy led to more myserious (and occasionally more sinister) occult lodges being established. one such group was the rosicrucians, the brethren of the rosy cross. among them was the magician francis barrett, author of the magus, a classic on the subject of ceremonial magic, and eliphas levi, author of numerous books on the cabal

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rovided in the illustration at the top of this page, which was given by cornelius agrippa in book iii, chapter xxx of his three books of occult philosophy, the name of the archangel michael has been converted into angles on the aiq beker grid, and these angles have been combined to yield the attractive sigil inside the circle. in modern times, the aiq beker became a form of secret writing used by freemasons and other esoteric societies. through overuse, the method became so well known that it has now degenerated into a plaything for children, who insert the letters of english into the grid to make a form of secret writing. however, the method has immense power, and is still in serious use among kabbalists and magicians. return to magic alphabets return homhome resources demons bios fiction

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cifer. it was later disclosed that all the revelations of dr. bataille were an elaborate invention of the french journalist gabriel jogand-pages. jogand-pages also embroidered his inventions by writing under the pseudonym leo taxil and also wrote the detailed confessions of the fictional diana vaughan. this elaborate and mischievous hoax both deceived the roman catholic church and embarrassed the freemasons. it also confused the issue so far as nineteenth- and earlytwentieth- century devil worship revivals were concerned. as with other hoaxes of a literary nature, this one came back to life as people in the late twentieth century rediscovered jogand- pages s books and, in their ignorance of the hoax, used them to weave new theories of contemporary diabolism. sources: bois, jules. le petite

ere read by pope leo xiii, and jogand himself was received in private audience by the pope, and an anti-masonic congress was summoned in 1887 at trent. on easter monday 1897, at a press conference to present diana vaughan, jogand confessed to his conspiracy and the details of his complex hoax are now generally known. but, great damage had already been done to relations between roman catholics and freemasons. in 1917 the church declared that anyone who joined a masonic lodge was automatically excommunicated. the masonic worldview the freemasons instituted an initiatory degree system by which members were step-by-step brought into the inner working of the lodge. initially there were three degrees, but these could never satisfy the true gnostics. various elaborate systems of degrees were deve

ancient wisdom myth of freemasonry found an origin in the bible, a significantly more acceptable source to a christian establishment than arabia and the muslim countries of rosicrucianism. in 1 kings 7:13.45, the masons found the story of hiram. hiram was employed by king solomon to work on the temple in jerusalem. after his work, he disappeared from both the pages of the bible and from history. freemasons, however, developed his biography that included a murder by his artisan colleagues. hiram, in working on the temple, became aware of the word of god inscribed in the secret parts of the temple. he would not reveal what he had learned and his noncollegial reticence cost him his life. his death then became integral to the ritual initiation of members who symbolically die and are reborn in

tress of g. b. shaw, s. l. mac- gregor mathers, aleister crowley, israel regardie, a. e. waite, algernon blackwood, arthur machen, violet firth, and many others. the order dated from the discovery in 1887 of a cipher manuscript, bought from a bookstall in farringdon road, london, by william wynn westcott. he was a coroner and a member of the societas rosicruciana in anglia (rosicrucian society of freemasons. westcott deciphered the manuscript, which contained a series of mystical rituals. with the aid of his occultist friend macgregor mathers, these rituals were expanded and systematized. also among the pages of the manuscript was a slip of paper with the address of fraulein anna sprengel, a rosicrucian adept living in germany. reportedly, westcott corresponded with sprengel, who authorize

no. 1 (january 1959. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. hall, manly palmer (1901.1990) writer and lecturer on astrology and the occult. he was born on march 18, 1901, in peterborough, ontario, canada, and moved to the united states in 1904. he had an early interest in matters occult and as a young man joined the theosophical society, the freemasons, the rosicrucians, and the american federation of astrologers. hall moved to california in 1923 and was ordained to the ministry in a metaphysical church. he became the pastor of the church of the people, an independent occult and metaphysical congregation in los angeles, california; established the hall publishing company; and began a magazine, the all-seeing eye. hall, though lacking

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of the sacred tetragram and various kabalistic names were prounced over it (see kabala. it was believed to be of great efficacy in terrifying phantoms if engraved upon glass, and the magicians traced it on their doorsteps to prevent evil spirits from entering and good spirits from departing. this symbol was used by many secret and occult societies, by the rosicrucians, the illuminati, down to the freemasons of modern times. modern occultists translate the meaning of the pentagram as symbolic of the human soul and its relation to god. the pentagram is placed with one point in the ascendant. that point represents the great spirit, god. a line drawn from there to the left-hand angle at the base is the descent of spirit into matter in its lowest form; where it ascends to the righthand angle, i

e their religion in the privacy of their families. the existence of such jews was amply demonstrated by jews who migrated and soon afterward reemerged to practice publicly the jewish faith. the term was also applied to a jewish secret fraternity that arose in spain in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. its members met in the greatest secrecy at inns, and used grips, signs, and passwords (see freemasons magazine 3 [1860: 416. the term marranos (hogs) was used contemptuously at the time to denote moors and jews. marcellus empiricus (ca. 395 c.e) a gallic-roman writer born at bordeaux in the fourth century. he was magister officiorum under theodosius (379.395 c.e. he wrote a work called de medicamentis conspiricis physicis ac rationalibus, a collection of medical recipes, for the most pa

. he was arrested for treason, but released as the war effort collapsed. now hated by both sides, he retreated to the ozark mountains. it is possible that pike s sojourn into the occult started during his days in hiding. rumors emerged that he was conjuring the devil and engaging in sexual orgies (charges discussed by montague summers in his history of witchcraft and demonology. he had joined the freemasons in 1850 and began working seriously on reforming what he thought of as worthless rituals. he became accomplished in hermetic, rosicrucian, and continental masonic traditions and incorporated extensive esoteric content. his monumental textbook, morals and dogma of freemasonry, appeared in 1872. since pike had dumped so much material pierrakos, john c. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsych

on of the catholic religion. in 1890, he published a further attack titled l ennemie sociale; histoire documentee des faits et gestes de la franc-maconnerie de 1717 a 1890 en france, en belgie et en italie. he made accusations of a supreme directory of freemasonry in berlin. such conspiracy accusations were common from the eighteenth century onward, reflecting social unrest and the involvement of freemasons in the various revolutionary causes of the period. freemasonry was generally pictured as anti-catholic, pro-jewish, subversive, and even diabolical. substance for these acusations was provided by the prominent role of freemasons, from george washington to garibaldi, in the anti-monarchical and secularizing trends of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. rosen s delusions were soon ec

s in the wise man s crown; or, the glory of the rosie-cross (1664. heydon also wrote a variety of other treatises regarding alchemical skill and medical ability in el havareuna; or, the english physician s tutor (1665, and a new method of rosie crucian physick (1658. in france, rosicrucianism was also widely discussed. it has been stated that there was a strong connection between rosicrucians and freemasons. in germany, rosicrucianism became identified with various pietist movements, movements that attempted to revive spiritual life above and beyond that to be found in the many parish churches. one pietist leader was johann jacob zimmerman, a theologian and occultist who emerged in the 1680s. zimmerman also believed that christ would return at some point in the 1690s. he found an apt pupil

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at all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries [p. 624, teachings of the 28th degree] of course these top 5% call jesus christ an "inferior god" they never, ever mention him in their teachings or their rituals. this shouldn't surprise you since the pope carries a bent satanic cross as seen on another page which shames christ on the cross. freemasons used luciferic symbols within the layout of government center washington d.c. freemasons worship lucifer, the light-bearer. lucifer and satan are biblically the same individual, freemasonry is really the worship of satan. by quoting their own sources and depicting the symbols in which they use, this claim is proven. freemasonry gives itself away more through its symbols than it does in

then the explanation. baphomet "the gnostics held that it [universal agent] composed the igneous [pertaining to fire] body of the holy spirit, and it was adored in the secret rites of the sabbat or the temple under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of mendes [pike, op. cit, p. 734, teaching of the 28th degree; emphasis added] we find it absolutely incredible that the freemasons should portray the holy spirit with the satanic symbol, baphomet. eliphas levi created this symbol, one of the foremost satanists and freemasons of all time. the baphomet is one of the most evil of all symbols. looking closely at the baphomet(left) you will see that the emphasis is on sex. this being is androgynous- both male and female- you can see it has the breasts of a woman, and an

rinting and bookbinding company, 1877, p. 554, xxxiii. colored emphasis added] blavatsky like anton lavey in the satanic bible, had no trouble tying the infernal name, thoth, with satan, and especially the egyptian satan. this subject does go back a long way. remember pike's words, quoted in the very beginning, that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" what this statement means is that freemasons believe the same as all the ancient mysteries and worship the same god, satan, and they worship satan under different names. keep in mind that we are dealing with a highly advanced people. a people who have had a lot of practice in their art of deceit. from the table of coincidence page in the masonic rituals section you were made aware that individuals within the u.s government and nas

. because of this symbolism, the phoenix is generally regarded as representing immortality and resurrection. the phoenix is one sign of the secret orders of the ancient world and of the initiate of those orders, for it was common to refer to one who had been accepted into the temples as a man twice-born, or reborn. wisdom confers a new life, and those who become wise are born again [p. p. 176-77] freemasons like all occultists, refer to their initiates who have completed their initiation, as being "born again" in 1988, when george bush was on the presidential campaign trail; barbara walters interviewed him. she asked him a question that caught him off guard. barbara asked george if he was a christian. bush literally stumbled, looked down for a moment, and answered "if by being a christian

a divine bird going back to egypt. this phoenix destroys itself in flames and then rises from the ashes. most occultists believe that the phoenix is a symbol of lucifer who was cast down in flames and who. will one day rise triumphant. this [belief] also relates to the raising of hiram abiff, the masonic 'christ" to prevent most people from associating the masonic eagle with the ancient phoenix, freemasons changed the phoenix to an eagle, and began to refer to it as an eagle. however, two masonic authors blow the lid off that change in symbolism. manly p. hall, in his book, the lost keys of freemasonry, states "these were the immortals to whom the term 'phoenix' was applied, and their symbol was the mysterious two-headed bird, now called an eagle, a familiar and little understood masonic

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'ordinary member' of the quest society's council. he was also a founder memberofanother body, the independent and rectified rite: waite's versionofthe hermeticorderof the golden dawn_ 12_'goldendemonsthatnonecanstay'-anhermeticorderofthegoldendawnearlyin 1867, at a timewhenthe young a. e. waite was preparing for his first communion, the prehistory of the goldendawnwas being acted out. two english freemasons,r.w. little and w.j.hughan, were advanced through a series of grades in the rosicrucian society in scotia (they had been admitted to the first, or zelator grade on 31 december 1866),so that they would be qualified to form a similar society in england.on1 june 1867, at aldermanbury in thecityof london, thesocietasrosicrueianain anglia held its first meeting, although it waslooked upon as

ting a secret society of men and women 'for the purpose of the study of occult science, and the further investigation of the mysteries of life and death, andourenvironment. there was also, so westcott argued, every justification fornotincluding a masonic qualification and for including members ofbothsexes:'onthe continent many groups of rosicrucian initiates and adepts had admitted menwhowere not freemasons, and evenlearned women, to their grades and assemblies. this may have been a departure from the original rules of the society, as first designed byc.r.ourfounder; it is a point left undecided by the early rosicrucianpublishedliterature,butthere are extant documents to showthatwomen were admitted in the 17th and 18th centuries'(therosicruciansocietyofengland,1915, p. 3. but westcott was

1(anotherprominent.memberofthegoldendawn)thecreation,ofa 'secret councilofrites'thatwouldbringtogetherthevarious linesofwhatwaite saw as a typeofmasonic (or quasi-masonic) apostolic succession. they were enthusiastic, and on2december1902thesecret council was founded;'weshall be, waite noted 'indeed an occultorderofunknownphilosophers-aconcealed' kind'.bothwaite and blackden had recently been made freemasons, and for twelvemonthsthey had gathered together all the obscure masonic rites they could find.notthatwaite had any intentionoffalling foulofthe masonic authorities; hewouldnotencroach on the jurisdictionofgrand lodge, grand 'chapter, great priory, or supreme council, andwouldseek possessionofonly those rites that were moribund, quasi-masonic, or unrecognized in england.theritualsofhisow

nsational tales of one'drbataille',under the titlelediableauxixesiecle;as the plot of this luridly illustrated part-work unfolded week by week, it becameclear that it was built upon the earlier revelations of 'leo taxil',whohadproclaimed the existence of the'newand reformed palladium, an allegedly androgynous.andsatanic rite. ultimately derived fromalbertpike,one of the most prominent of american freemasons. to this massofsensational rubbish was added thememoiresd'uneex-palladiste,the supposed confessionsof'miss diana vaughan, a penitent from the satanic foldwhohadbecome-aconvert to rome. in due course the authorsofthese ridiculous tales of satanic wonders. charleshacks(drbataille) and gabriel jogand-pages (leo taxil/diana vaughan) revealed themselves as hoaxerswhohad set out to discomfit1

ing andtosupersede in factthatwhich it preserves in name (p.x).in his prospectus for this revised edition waite had stated:'inenglish freemasonry the sealof a certain distinction attaches to the name of arthur edward waite';butit was a small and unobserved seal, forwhenhe died, in1942,the masonic establishment virtually ignored theevent-hewas accorded only a brief, three-paragraph obituary in the freemasons'chronicle,and their was no mentionofhis speculative work. his- success as a mystic lay elsewhere_-15--thewayofdivineunionw was always at pains to present himself as'theexponent in poetical and prose writingsofsacramental religion and the higher mysticism, understood in its absolute separation from psychic and occult phenomena, and his friends and colleagues.saw him in that light;butit w

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

eir origin; but by tradition, they suppose themselves descendants of the ancient egyptians, chal255 deans, magi and gymnosophists; and this is probably true" this yearning for along-anddistinguished-ancestry was present, too, in the latter-day rosicrucians of the hermetic orderofthe golden dawn, as it was in all the occult movements and secret brotherhoods of the last century, whether respectable freemasons claiming spiritual descent from the builders of king solomon's temple or madame blavatsky with her dubious claims for a theosophical wisdom born in lost ages.itwas possibly partofthe more general desire for respectability that characterized english occultists and distinguished them from the illuminati of the continent, who worked as much for political subversion as for spiritual enlight

and distinguished them from the illuminati of the continent, who worked as much for political subversion as for spiritual enlightenment. such a path of revolution was abhorrent to studentsofthe occult arts and sciences in england, whatever the tradition they followed. thus, ebenezer sibly, physician and astrologer ex255 traordinary, dedicated his massiveillustrationoftheoccultsciences(1784)to the freemasons, praising the 'moral rectitude and purityofdesign'oftheir fraternity, and he took great pains to show the14thegoldendawnconformity of astrology with christianity and to urge 'the young student in astrology' to lead an upright and sober life. similarly, francis barrett, when advertising for students in the pages of his textbookofceremonial magic,themagus,orcelestialintelligencer(1801),ga

ver of a secret rosicrucianorderworking its rituals in england until the societas rosicru255 ciana in anglia was founded in1865.according to w. wynn westcott,'therevival of rosicrucian activity in1865in england was the outcome of two sources; on the one hand frater robert wentworth little brought to light some rosicrucian ritual litera255 ture which had been lying forgotten in the record rooms at freemasons' hall; on the other hand, frater kenneth r.h.mackenzie brought from austria a permission to extend to england the knowledge of certain rosicrucian doctrines which he had received from students and initiates in that country, where he had resided for some years as an english tutor in the familyofan austriancount."this'austrian count' was onecountapponyi, from whom mackenzie is alleged to

from prejudice and anxious for instruction. he must be a believer in the fundamental principles of the christian doctrine, a true philanthropist and a loyal subject" but the golden dawn, as we shall see, made no such restrictions.inlater years westcott was at pains to justify this distinction 'at the constitution of our societas rosicruciana in anglia, it was decided to make it consist solely of freemasons, although it was recognized that on the continent many groups of rosicrucian initiates and adepts had admitted men who were not freemasons, and even learned women, to their grades and assemblies.thismay have been a departure from the original rules of the society, as first designed by c.r. our founder; it is a point left undecided by the early rosicrucianpublishedliterature, but there a

eno.insome respects their pro255 ceedings may emulate their prototype of the middle ages, being as profound and unintelligible a mystery to the world as to themselves. they have nothing rosicrucian-except the name? and yet, from their ranks would come two men whowereconcerned with spiritual philosophy and who would, in time, create the darkly glittering splendour of the golden dawn.therosicrucian freemasons were not, of course, the only established body of occultists in victorian england. mesmerism, or animal magnetism, with its trances and etheric fluids, still had its followers, although the continuing refusal of the medical profession to consider its claims as a curative agent prevented any real study of its phenomena in orthodox scientific circles.itremained the property of occultists

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

om his rosicrucian studies that a magical order would need a history, he set about creating a first-class pedigree for his own brainchild, the hermetic order of the golden dawn. his first creation, or contact on the inner planes if one prefers to suspend disbelief, was a rosicrucian adept named anna sprengel, whose address appeared on a collection of manuscript rituals allegedly discov255 ered in freemasons' hall- the famous cypher manuscript that was the foundation of the golden dawn system. westcott promptly wrote to his own creation and was authorized to found a temple in england, which he estab255 lished in march 1888 as the isis-urania temple, with mathers and dr w.r. woodman as his co-chiefs. the story of the golden dawn need not be repeated here" save only the major events that invo

come here to-nightbecausei am a theosophist;buton the contrary, i have been asked to speak upon the rosicrucians, because i have the pleasure to hold a high office intherosicrucian society of england, and so might reasonably be supposed to have studied the history of that order.butto avoid misconception, i wish to say that the society of rosicrucians in anglia is a masonic body -itis composed of freemasons who have gathered themselves together to study the old rosicrucianism and the origins of freemasonry, a connection which has been alleged to exist by many historians belonging to the outer world.themembers of this order, as such, make no claim to be in possession of the secret wisdom of the pupils of christian rosenkreuz, and i am very desirous that no one should leave with the impressi

received much occult knowledge from william backhouse, a renowned rosicrucian and chemist. in 1646 ashmole, lilly, the two whartons, withdrshewitt and pearson, formed a rosicrucian lodge in london, which32themagical masonwas carried on with great privacy: see theencyclopediametropoluanaof 1845. in 1847 george soane, in hisnewcuriositiesofliterature,gives a lengthy article on the rosicrucians and freemasons. in 1652 thomas vaughan, a famous mystic, under the pseudonym of eugenius philalethes, published an english translation of thefamaandconfessio;the soc. ros. library has a copy, as has also the library of the hallamshire college; he died in 1666. associated with vaughan was sir robert moray, the first president of the royal society. in 1656 was published an english translation of michael

,bythe comte de chazal. dr wynn westcott, when on a visit to natal and east africa, traced the descendants of this french rosicrucian, who ceased to use his title of nobility: he was noted in the island of mauritius as a learned person of eccentric habits and benevo255 lent character.in 1803 christoph gottlieb vonmurrpublished his uber denwahrenursprungdesrosenkreuzer,in which he asserts that the freemasons and rosicrucians were at first identical, and only became distinct bodies in 1633. in 1804 was publishedueberdenursprung..derordenderrosenkreuzerundfreimaurer,by johann g. buhle, at got255 tingen, a german version of a lecture given in latin in 1803; he positively asserts the early existence of an english rosicrucian college. in 1836 godfrey higgins, in his erudite and valued workanacal

crucians was at work at this time,buthe had not joined it. in 1850 the very old rosicrucian lodge at frankfort-on-the255 main fell into abeyance; in this lodge the first lord lytton was received into adeptship and became imbued with the ideas he displayed in his novel ofzanoniand other works. thomas de quincey (d. 1859) published a very interesting 'inquiry into the origin of the rosicrucians and freemasons, commenting on the german essays of j.g. buhle, 1804, and c.f. nicolai, 1806. in a survey of the past, it is obvious that very few rosicru255 cians have been permitted to publish anything relating to the fraternity, or to acknowledge their membership.thename rosicrucian has suffered greatly from the preten-34themagical masonsions of men, who falsely claiming membership, have made exagge

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ion of witchcraft trials, such as. may be found for example in pitcairn'scriminaltrials,will leave no doubt that most of the christian scientists today would have stood a very poor chance two or three hundred years ago. the confessions of witches of those days contain lurid and graphic accounts of the worship of the devil, and there are certain jesuit writers today who would persuade us that. all freemasons are devil worshippers. but without going this. lengthit.is well known that societiesofsatanists do exist in italy, and in paris, and are not wholly unknown even in london. we may imagine then thatifwecould.project ourselves backwards some two or three hundred years we should find much the same'phenomena that we are familiar with now, only more universally believedin,andpersecuted with v

n experiment, and the possibility of failure. the spark is not strong enough. no result follows' the extreme caution as to secrecy inculcated on witches in old times as to their designs and methods is usually attributed to fear of persecution. probably it was far older than persecution days, and much more occult than generally supposed. the silence so strongly insisted on by the old templars, the freemasons, and by students of ceremonial magic was an essential of occult working, and necessary to successful witchcraft. but how, we ask, did the witches themselves regard their own operations when successful? here we must distinguish. the ordinary uneducated peasant woman who had become a witch, as i have tried to indicate, seems to have had very little thought or care for the consequences of

f these occult schools, and many exist to this day.anenormous amount of learning exists in them, an amount those outside do not credit. the rosicrucian body is a solid fact, and not the sub-section of freemasonry which goes by that name; it is absolutely an esoteric school, possessing extraordinary wisdom.162 the sorcererand his apprenticea large amount of wisdom has also been preserved among the freemasons, although they have lost a great deaf of what they ought. to have; they have a large quantity. of exoteric symbology, but, sad to say, they have in great part lostthekey toitin the meantime, the knights templars in the middle ages again, handed down a great deal-of wisdom and knowledge. they are gone;butthere are schools of occultism descended from them still existing, and from timetoti

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

at bristol in 1822 he was appointed pastor of the accrington church in 1829. in the same year he was initiated in samaritan lodge no. 539, meeting at accrington, and in the following year he was appointed secretary to the lodge and published his lectures on masonry. it was also probably goyder who in 1851 arranged a public meeting for the new jerusalem church at the highly respectable hall of the freemasons in london. 11[11] beswick to the rev. w. h. benade, 15 august 1866. all of beswick s letters are in the archives of the academy of the new church (general church) at bryn athyn, pa for in 1850 he joined the british association for the advancement of science on the recommendation of the physicist j. p. joule who was a student of dalton. there is a similar lack of proof for many other cla

ibility of my accepting the position& i am afraid my note which was intended as a courteous refusal of your offer has placed me in an awkward predicament. i cannot accept this position& have to request you at once to cause my name to be excised from your list35[35. despite these occasional setbacks the rite continued to grow. the supreme grand lodge and temple was constituted at a meeting held at freemasons hall, manchester, on 13 january 1877, at which the following officers were appointed: john yarker, m.w. supreme g.m. f. g. irwin, r.w. supreme s.g.w. c. scott, r.w. supreme j.g.w. s. p. leather, v.w. supreme grand treasurer t. l. shaw, v.w. supreme grand registrar k. r. h. mackenzie, v.w. supreme grand secretary h. t. f. irwin, v.w. supreme grand director of ceremonies (later altered to

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

-4. further fuel was added to the anti-masonic fire with the revelations of the supposed head of the 'new and reformed palladium, miss diana vaughan, soi-disant descendant of thomas vaughan the alchemist, and recent convert to rome. her memoires d'une ex-palladiste (1895-7) equals the work of 'dr. bataille' in its ridiculous tales of satanic wonders, but surpasses it in libels upon living english freemasons. she claimed that 'le chef actuel des luciferiens anglais est m. le docteur william-wynn westcott, demeurant d londres, camden-road, no. 396. c'est lui le supreme mage de la rose-croix socinienne pour i'angleterre. ses adjoints sont: en premier degre, m. john-lewis thomas (senior sub-magus, qui est aussi le tresorier general de la fraternitie; en second degre m. macgregor mathers (junio

ts symbolism to satisfy the needs of any reconstituted rituals within the golden dawn, and his further statement 'that i did not fail to anticipate an extreme probability of meeting in the high grade circles, if not in craft and arch, with at least a few others of our own dedications, to whom symbolism spoke a language and ritual opened a realm of grace'51[51, gives a wrong emphasis for those few freemasons who were 'of our own dedications' were already within the confines of the golden dawn. the most probable reason for waite's seeking admission to freemasonry at this time is a growing awareness on his part, through his correspondence with blitz, that only by passing through the craft degrees and the holy royal arch would he be able to enter those higher degrees whose rites he so eagerly

en in r. a. gilbert, the golden dawn: twilight of the magicians (aquarian press, 1983) immediately evident when the rituals are read105[105. the first meeting of the f.r.c. was held on 9 july 1915 at de keyser's hotel on victoria embankment. of the ten fratres who, with one soror, were present at that consecration of the salvator mundi temple of the f.r.c, five can be identified, all of whom were freemasons106[106. the f.r.c. did not demand a masonic qualification from its fratres but in practice most who joined were not only members of the craft but active in the higher degrees. they were also increasingly outnumbered by the ranks of co-masonic and theosophical sorores. nor were all the members english. the single soror present at the first meeting was an american medical practitioner, dr

neoplatonic society, known as the universal order, borrowing parts of waite's rituals for use within it. this was unforgiveable to waite and, at the end of 1924, the two men broke completely with each other. coburn, however, still recognized waite's preeminence in the field of esoteric research and continued to recommend waite's writings to his own followers107[107. relations with other american freemasons were to prove more satisfactory to waite. in july 1915 waite had published a fulsome review, under the title of 'master building'108[108, of dr. joseph fort newton's book, the builders: a story and study of masonry (1914. this was only just for fort newton had referred to waite in glowing terms as a 'master of the vast literature and lore of his subject, to the study of which he brought

ks in its bibliography- two are by waite 108[108] the occult review for july 1915 109[109] the builders, pp. 55-6 grand lodge of iowa, waite's name and ideas were rapidly made known to a far greater number of masons in america than was ever the case in england. this, in fact, is still the case for the builders has remained constantly in print and waite has thus remained constantly before american freemasons. so great was the esteem in which waite was held that, shortly after fort newton's meeting with waite during his visit to england in 1916110[110, the grand lodge of iowa awarded him the rank of past senior grand warden, which rank was, in due course, prominently displayed on the title-page of the new encyclopaedia. during the 1920s a number of young american freemasons became fascinated

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

most important unifying influence among masons is their philosophy which can be best described according to such terms as "materialism" and "secular humanism" but, it is an errant philosophy based on false suppositions and flawed theories, as you will see in this book. in this book, the reader will also be presented with a summary of the history of the masons struggle against theistic religions. freemasons have played an important role in distancing europe from religion, and in its place, founding of a new order based on the philosophies of materialism and secular humanism. the reader will also see how masonry has been influential in the imposition of these dogmas and a social order based on them on non-western civilizations. after reading this book, the reader will be able to consider ma

of them, to show them the path to true righteousness. but of course, their right to live according to what they believe in and desire is beyond question. global freemasonry sets out from this premise, and investigates critically masonry's roots, as well as its aims and activities. in this book, the reader will also find a summary of the history of the masons' struggle against theistic religions. freemasons have played an important role in europe's alienation from religion, and in its place, founding of a new order based on the philosophies of materialism and secular humanism. we will also see how masonry has been influential in the imposition of these dogmas to non-western civilizations. finally, we will discuss the methods masonry has used to help establish and perpetuate a social order

o this day. in short, the templars did not disappear, but their philosophy, beliefs dj from the templars to ancient egypt templars fleeing the church were given refuge by the scottish king, robert the bruce. and rituals still persist under the guise of freemasonry. this thesis is supported by much historical evidence, and is accepted today by a large number of western historians, whether they are freemasons or not. in our book, the new masonic order, we examined this evidence in detail. the thesis that traces the roots of masonry to the templars is often referred to in magazines published by masons for its own members. freemasons are very accepting of the idea. one such magazine is called mimar sinan (a publication of turkish freemasons, which describes the relationship between the order o

he leader of the templars, mabeignac, with a few other members, found refuge in scotland under the guise of a wall builder under the name of mac benach. the scottish king, robert the bruce, welcomed them and allowed them to exercise great influence over the masonic lodges in scotland. as a result, scottish lodges gained great importance from the point of view of their craft and their ideas. today freemasons use the name mac benach with respect. scottish masons, who inherited the templars' heritage, returned it to france many years later and established there the basis of the rite known as the scottish rite."8 again, mimar sinan presents a lot of information about the relationship between the templars and freemasonry. in an article entitled "templars and freemasons" it states that "the ritu

ons have to a great extent identified themselves with the templars and it can be said that what is viewed as original masonic esoterism (secrecy) is to an important extent an inheritance from the templars. to summarize, as we said in the title of this essay, we can say that the starting point of freemasonry's royal art and initiatic-esoteric line belonged to templars and its end-point belonged to freemasons.11 finally, we say, it is clear that the roots of freemasonry stretch back to the order of templars, and that the masons have adopted the philosophy of this order. masons themselves accept this. but certainly, the important matter for our consideration is the nature of this philosophy. why did the templars abandon christianity and become a heretical order? what led them to this? why did

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

-4. further fuel was added to the anti-masonic fire with the revelations of the supposed head of the 'new and reformed palladium, miss diana vaughan, soi-disant descendant of thomas vaughan the alchemist, and recent convert to rome. her memoires d'une ex-palladiste (1895-7) equals the work of 'dr. bataille' in its ridiculous tales of satanic wonders, but surpasses it in libels upon living english freemasons. she claimed that 'le chef actuel des luciferiens anglais est m. le docteur william-wynn westcott, demeurant d londres, camden-road, no. 396. c'est lui le supreme mage de la rose-croix socinienne pour i'angleterre. ses adjoints sont: en premier degre, m. john-lewis thomas (senior sub-magus, qui est aussi le tresorier general de la fraternitie; en second degre m. macgregor mathers (junio

ts symbolism to satisfy the needs of any reconstituted rituals within the golden dawn, and his further statement 'that i did not fail to anticipate an extreme probability of meeting in the high grade circles, if not in craft and arch, with at least a few others of our own dedications, to whom symbolism spoke a language and ritual opened a realm of grace'51[51, gives a wrong emphasis for those few freemasons who were 'of our own dedications' were already within the confines of the golden dawn. the most probable reason for waite's seeking admission to freemasonry at this time is a growing awareness on his part, through his correspondence with blitz, that only by passing through the craft degrees and the holy royal arch would he be able to enter those higher degrees whose rites he so eagerly

en in r. a. gilbert, the golden dawn: twilight of the magicians (aquarian press, 1983) immediately evident when the rituals are read105[105. the first meeting of the f.r.c. was held on 9 july 1915 at de keyser's hotel on victoria embankment. of the ten fratres who, with one soror, were present at that consecration of the salvator mundi temple of the f.r.c, five can be identified, all of whom were freemasons106[106. the f.r.c. did not demand a masonic qualification from its fratres but in practice most who joined were not only members of the craft but active in the higher degrees. they were also increasingly outnumbered by the ranks of co-masonic and theosophical sorores. nor were all the members english. the single soror present at the first meeting was an american medical practitioner, dr

neoplatonic society, known as the universal order, borrowing parts of waite's rituals for use within it. this was unforgiveable to waite and, at the end of 1924, the two men broke completely with each other. coburn, however, still recognized waite's preeminence in the field of esoteric research and continued to recommend waite's writings to his own followers107[107. relations with other american freemasons were to prove more satisfactory to waite. in july 1915 waite had published a fulsome review, under the title of 'master building'108[108, of dr. joseph fort newton's book, the builders: a story and study of masonry (1914. this was only just for fort newton had referred to waite in glowing terms as a 'master of the vast literature and lore of his subject, to the study of which he brought

ks in its bibliography- two are by waite 108[108] the occult review for july 1915 109[109] the builders, pp. 55-6 grand lodge of iowa, waite's name and ideas were rapidly made known to a far greater number of masons in america than was ever the case in england. this, in fact, is still the case for the builders has remained constantly in print and waite has thus remained constantly before american freemasons. so great was the esteem in which waite was held that, shortly after fort newton's meeting with waite during his visit to england in 1916110[110, the grand lodge of iowa awarded him the rank of past senior grand warden, which rank was, in due course, prominently displayed on the title-page of the new encyclopaedia. during the 1920s a number of young american freemasons became fascinated

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

entic, recognized rosicrucian organization in north america as decreed by the unanimous decision of the imperators and grand masters of the fourteen ancient mystical groups assembled in convention at brussels, belgium, august 1934" if our members will read the foregoing statements again they will see that amorc has never claimed and could not claim to be connected with the honorable fraternity of freemasons, even though that body has in one of its higher degrees one grade named in honor of the ancient rosicrucians; and amorc is not connected in any way with any publishing firm, group, or movement using the word rosicrucian unless it is also using the word amorc and the true patented symbols of the order. nothing said herein is intended to cast any aspersion on the work being done by any gr

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ay be so carefully used as to serve in several operations.theroom when not in use must be locked up.theinvocant must be reminded. that every operation belonging to the art must be made during the moon's increase-;sfabojray ojh'tetra&iiam"j'ton7crystaliomancy, or the art of invocating.spiritsbythecrystal[transcribed fromhockley'soriginalmanuscript,acquiredby f. g.irwinand presented to thelibraryat freemasons' hall as part of hismasoniccollection.]theart of invocating spirits by the crystal was known and practised by the ancients which all those who read sacred and profane history may discover, also the sacred text contains many instances in which invocation by the crystal is alluded to and it is the opinion of many learned and eminent men that the divine urim and thummin of the holy scriptu

boy and the quarrel about the pipe; this is easily ascertained by a reference to my 'pilgrimage (signed) richd. f. burtonthecircumstances happened sept. 4, 1853.theabove is extracted from crystal ms vol.4,pages124-5in the blank page. lieut. burton wrote the above certificate.6theburtonepisode[copied by f. g. irwin from hockley's ms into his own rosicrucian commonplace book, now in the library at freemasons' hall. the whereabouts of hockley's crystal ms containing the original is not known.]called r. f. burton. now it is light i see somesand-allsand-nowi see some camels one is lying down, the other two standing up there's a black boy with a tremendous roughwig-helooks like a negro laying down. there's a tall dark man with a black beard and moustaches, and no hair he's quite clean shaved, h

arrangements for leaving my business but i have a chancery suit accounts to complete&that i hope will be ended shortly and thus i must determine my future when i hope to leave off my incessant grumbling and groaning. when are you likely to beinlondon? our grand stewards lodge meetings are on the third wednesdays in november, january, march and april-januaryisour installation.itisalwaysheld at the freemasons' tavern&our time is 1h pastfive,as i am secretary i of courseamalwaysthere. i must now beg you will give my kindest regards to mrs irwin and my hope that the lady is quite well, as for mr herbert i will drop him a note shortly&remain with kindest regards, most fraternally and faithfully.iitwouldappear from this thatsomeunpleasantness hadpassedbetweenhockleyand irwin-possibly a misunders

&dates-youmay have the luck to pick them up.hockley'slettersto theirtoins77ofcourse i shall keep friday evening sacred for you, but that we can talk about on thursday. i received your further particulars of your friend's very interesting caseofclairvoyance which interests me much. trusting you will have a pleasant journey up, yours faithfully and fraternally.ithefreemasons' tavern was attached to freemasons' hall in great queen street and was used both for refreshment and informal meetings. its modem counterpart is the connaught rooms.33 3 raymond buildings, grays inn, w.c. 22june 1877 my dear herbert, your letter came to hand just as i was sitting on the floor for the first time this two years pulling out my books in search of somemssi want to separate. i did it two evenings butitdid my s

to her,&with kind regards i remain, faithfully and fraternally yours.1anuntitled paper given by spencer to the bristol college sria, a rather confused statement on the history of occultism, rosicrucianism and the search for the philosopher's stone.323 raymond buildings, grays inn,w.e.8 march 1876 dear bro. irwin, i rejoice i am so soon to see you. i shall be in the restaurant (down below) at the freemasons' tavern! on thursday atvlpast 4 to get a [illegible].hockley'slettersto theirtmns75freemasonry, alchemy and occultism. hockley is possibly referring tothelifeofcagliostro,printed by hookham (1787).3260[no address]zzjuly1875my dear herbert, considering the excessive bad weather and the critical stateofyour health i think you are fortunate in only catching a severecold-unfortunatelyyou ma

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ng to waite, davidson continued to run the h.b. of l. 2 i have described the royal oriental order of the sat b'hai as 'a comic pseudo-masonic balloon, which rose a few feet into the air, wobbled briefly and then quietly collapsed without the average member of the craft knowing that the thing had ever existed('fringe masonry in england, 1870-85, aqc, vol. 85, 1972. nevertheless, it recruited a few freemasons without much sense of discrimination during the period 187i -80. after the latter date it fell into the hands of john yarker, a major collector of pseudo-masonic 'nonsenses, who ingeniously amalgamated its ceremony of perfection with the ritual of a recent novely called the order of light. the latter had been launched without any audible beating of drums by maurice vidal portman in 1882

yet, nor do i think that e.l. has contemplated such a case as the t.s. my own opinion is that it is destined to survive, at least during the life-time of the founders. beyond that, i cannot see. it has survived a much worse crisis than the present, when it was placed under dr a. k [i.e. archibald keightley. the whole of that was by trusting people who ought, by rights, not even to be admitted as freemasons. notwithstanding all these blunders, i now perceive that the very blunders committed by the agents of the mahatmas tend to carry out their intentions by bringing it before the public. the t.s. is now most grossly assailed and slandered by all the spiritist journals here, and in america, with, in all probability (unknown to themselves) the b.b [bla k brethren; jesuits] in the back-ground

ock] for letting me have ms 476. no parcel by second post, so i post this. i suppose it will come tomorrow morning. written at 3 p.m. 1 with gardner's promotion to the g.d.'s 5= 6 and its second order he had become a 'very honoured frater. 44 west hoathly 24 may 1895 1 f. g. irwin died on 26 july 1893. his widow presented his masonic books, manuscripts copies of rituals and about 150 letters from freemasons or occultists to the library of the united grand lodge of england. no copy is known of the 'irwin catlalogue' mentioned by ayton. it is possible that irwin's miscellaneous books on spiritualism, etc, were sold by auction at bristol. care frater [gardner, i sent off the cagliostro ms by early train this morning, thinking it would be delivered at your office before you leave. i told you o

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their cults in the orient, or the exorcism ritual of magicians. the synthesis will always remain the same. at a trial, the hand with three fingers raised for the oath as confirmation of a truthful statement may also be regarded as a magical gesture. from the christian point of view the raised fingers symbolize the trinity. each of the numerous lodges and sects has its own rites. the lodges of the freemasons, for example, are all bound to a fixed sign, word and touch. a lot could be said about this problem from the historical point of view. for practical magic respecting the magical training, however, studies like these would be absolutely useless. it is of no importance at all to the genuine magician if he reads books about the particular way in which any other magician is drawing his magi

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

s and their remains, ancient and mediaeval; although there is an evident betraying total ignorance on the part of the author, throughout his book, as to the purpose, meaning, and reality of the whole of these remote and mysterious subjects: to which he is, however, blindly constantly referring, without the merit of even feeling his way. it is well known that the preservation of gnostic symbols by freemasons was, and remains so to this day, exceedingly sedulous. we will terminate this part of our long dissertation, which commenced with the explanation of the descent, or the genealogy, or the generation, of the famous fleursde- lis of france, the noblest and sublimest symbol, in its occult or mysterious meaning, which the monarch sun ever saw displayed to it, inexpressibly mean and repellant

r snake, prevails, in its innumerable contradictory and effective disguises, over the whole world. how like are the noises and explosions of crackers &c, to the tumult of the festivals of dionusus or dionysius, to the riot or rout of the corybantes amongst the greeks, to the outcry and wild music of the priests of the salii, and, in modern times, to the noises said to be made at initiation by the freemasons, whose myths are claimed to be those (or imitative of those) of the whole world, whose mysteries are said to come from that first time, deep-buried in the blind, unconscious succession of the centuries! in the royal-arch order of the masons, as some have said, at an initiation, the u companions fire pistols, clash swords, overturn chairs, and roll cannon-balls about. the long-descended

gr. ils menacent le soleil et la lune de r v ler les secrets des mysteres. eusebius lamblicus, de mysteriis egyptiorum. the mystic emblems of the religions of india, china, greece, and rome are closely similar, and are set forth in the ornaments on the friezes of the temples of all those countries, explaining their general principles. your popular societies are an emanation from the lodges of the freemasons, in like manner as these proceeded from the funeral pile of the templars( castle of the tuilerics, year viii) thus the egg-and-tongue moulding( egg and adder's tongue, for the egg and the serpent were two of the emblems of the egyptian and greek mysteries, the griffin, the lion of st. mark, the honeysuckle-and-lotus ornament the convolutions and volutes, the horns as floriations springi

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

thing less than a concerted effort to carry out the duty that is laid upon us, as those who possess the light, to spread that light abroad through the world, and actually to become fellow-labourers with t.g.a.o.t.u. in his great plan for the evolution of our brn h. the detailed explanations of the ceremonies are profoundly interesting and illuminative, and i commend them very heartily to all true freemasons. our v. e. e. i. e. e. brother has added a heavy debt of gratitude by this book to the many we already owe him. let us be honest debtors. adyar annie besant december 25, 1925 author fs preface the masonic fellowship differs from all other societies in that candidates for membership have to join it blindfold, and cannot receive much information about it until they actually enter its rank

ven- all have a symbolical meaning which i distinctly remember. 4. egyptian evidences 5. knowing these facts to be so from my own experience, i set to work to collect ordinary physical-plane corroborative evidence for them from such books as were within my reach, and found even more than i had hoped. the explanation of the first degree t c b c begins by remarking that the usages and customs among freemasons have ever borne a near affinity to those of the ancient egyptians, but does not furnish us with any illustrations of the points of similarity. these are to be found in bro. churchward fs most illuminative books, signs and symbols ofprimordial man and the arcana of freemasonry, also in the arcane schools, by bro. john yarker, and freemasonry and the ancient gods, by bro. j. s. m. ward. i

disguised himself as baron hompesch, who was the last of the knights of st. john of malta, the man who arranged the transfer of the island of malta to the english. this great saint and teacher still lives, and his present body has no appearance of great age. i myself met him physically in rome in 1901, and had a long conversation with him. 32. in co-masonry we refer to him as the head of all true freemasons throughout the world (abbreviated as the h.o.a.t.f) and in some of our lodges his portrait is placed in the east, above the chair of the r.w.m, and just beneath the star of initiation; others place it in the north, above an empty chair. upon his recognition and assent as head of the seventh ray the validity of all rites and degrees depends. he often selects pupils from among the brn. of

the volutes of the ionic style. 134. the three columns are part of the greek or classic style of architecture, which has always a flat or very slightly sloping roof, no arches, and many pillars arranged in rows, generally with a large shallow triangle, the pylon, at the front of the building (see plate v) 135. in the religious architecture of europe we find mainly the gothic style. the guilds of freemasons in the middle ages travelled over europe in wandering bands, which were engaged in building churches. all the great gothic building was cone, broadly speaking, about the same period, and at that time the famous cathedrals of europe were erected by the freemasons, who had the three orders. they were operative masons, but they had their practical secrets, and only they were able to do thi

uilding was cone, broadly speaking, about the same period, and at that time the famous cathedrals of europe were erected by the freemasons, who had the three orders. they were operative masons, but they had their practical secrets, and only they were able to do this kind of work. the gothic was an entirely new method, departing altogether from the classic, and there is ample evidence to show that freemasons were responsible for the change. the great cathedral of cologne, for example, which has been five hundred years in course of erection and is not yet completed, was laid out by a man who signed himself with a sign known only by the m. m, and there are also documents to show that the early part of the building was done by freemasons. it has the peculiar form of pointed arch, made by the i

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ain precisely what the title indicates- the hidden life in freemasonry- the mighty force in the background, always at work yet always out of sight, which has guided the transmission of the masonic tradition through all the vicissitudes of its stormy history, and still inspires the utmost enthusiasm and devotion among the brn. of the craft to-day. the existence and the work of the head of all true freemasons is the one and sufficient reason for the virility and power of this most wonderful organization. if we understand his relation to it and what he wishes to make of it, we shall also understand that it embodies one of the finest schemes ever invented for the helping of the world and for the outpouring of spiritual force. many of our brn. have been for many years unconsciously taking part

t is only since the year 1900 that, largely owing to the work of sir arthur evans, the modern world has come to know something about the cretan civilization, and to realize that in age and splendour it compared even with the grandeur of ancient egypt. but even now, though there is abundant appreciation of the archaeological value of the cretan discoveries, not much attention has yet been given by freemasons to the highly interesting fact that the minoan civilization shows us the existence, five thousand years ago at least, of a mystery-religion which in its symbols and general arrangements closely resembles our modern ritual. one feature of those cretan mysteries especially attractive to co-masons is that in them women were admitted as well as men. the admission of women was the practice o

p. cit, p. 503) 256. various symbols 257. there were also some lesser religious symbols and objects which are of such decidedly masonic character that they are worth mentioning. in plate vi, 1 (following p. 50, we see a relic of bone found in the temple repository which, as evans says is in the shape alternately of flowers and buds, suggested by those of a pomegranate. further symbols familiar to freemasons are the frequently recurring sun and moon, shown in our illustration (plate vi, 2 and 3, following p. 50) on a bronze votive tablet from the psychro cave, and a gold ring from mycenae. with regard to the former evans says: 258. the tree, dove and fish, which here appear as the vehicles of divine possession, aptly symbolize her dominion of earth, air and sea. the triple group of sacral h

ld from above, see it as a whole, and therefore understand it. among the followers of this bacchic form of the mysteries were the celebrated dionysian artificers, a secret society, bound by the most rigid pledges never to reveal their s and p w, and employing emblems adopted from the building trade. these wandering bands of workmen built temples all over syria and asia minor, just as the bands of freemasons afterwards built churches in europe. bro. ward writes of them: 406. they appear to have reached asia minor from the south-east, and, according to strabo, could be traced through syria and phoenicia, via persia and india. apparently they reached phoenicia about fifty years before the building of k.s. s temple, and it is their presence which alone explains how that temple came to be built

jewish form of the mysteries was therefore adopted by the white lodge as the best means of transmitting the ancient rites through the dark ages, when the church rigorously persecuted all who were not in agreement with her doctrines. the chief agent in the work of transition was he who was then known as s. alban, but whom to-day we revere as the master the comte de s. germain, the head of all true freemasons throughout the world. i have given some account of him and his roman incarnation in the hidden life in freemasonry(*op. cit, pp. 12-16) 445. the transition to the operatives 446. the mysteries of bacchus quite naturally and gradually gave place to the jewish form of the same tradition as christianity grew more and more powerful; for this was not incompatible with the christian faith as

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

tle of the founder, and these factions generally then become independent organizations, which repeat the cycle. most contemporary magic goes back to that of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd, which was an offshoot of a masonic- rosicrucian organization, the societas rosicruciana in anglia (sria, founded by robert wentworth little in 1865, and supposedly based on old manuscripts found in freemasons hall, apparently the ones owned by hockley. the london lodge of the theosophical society was opened in 1883, and members of both these lodges were among the early members of the hogd, which was founded in 1888 by w. r. woodman, a. f. a.woodford,w.wynn westcott, and samuel liddell mathers (1854 1918; a relative of alice liddell, whose father coauthored the most important greek dictionary

LIBER 777

-ha is not a historical egyptian deity but is mentioned in cap. iii of the book of the law and is said to combine hoor-par-kraat (horus the child) and ra-hoor-khuit (ra-horus of the two horizons. line 6: on was not an egyptian deity but a transliteration into hebrew( a or wa) of the name of the egyptian solar cult-centre called heliopolis by the greeks. the confusion arose through a misreading by freemasons of genesis xli, 45 and 50 where joseph married asenath daughter of poti-phera priest of on. on spelt u as a formula is another matter entirely; see col. clxxxvii. hrumachis is probably a variant spelling of harmachis (hor-maku, said by budge (gods of the egyptians vol. i p. 470) to be the greek name for heru-khuti, horus of the two horizons, who represented the sun from sunrise to sunse

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

y development of freemasonry. another piece of evidence which demonstrates the existence (and perhaps sheds light on the intellectual orientation) of masonry in the late 17th century is the bit of ephemera shown in figure 2. this pamphlet, which was distributed in 1698, warns "all godly people in the citie of london" to beware the "mischiefs and evils practiced" by "this devilish sect of men" the freemasons. we can establish two facts from this pamphlet (1) that freemasonry existed at that time in some form; and (2) that some people, the author of the pamphlet at least, believed that masons were involved in some sort of mystical activity. apparently, in author's view they were acting in the role of "conjurers, necromancers, and witches (to borrow ashmole's words. of course, simply from thi

his idea. figure 2. from the original in the library of the united grand lodge of england. on st. john the evangelist's day in 1717 four masonic lodges which are said to have been meeting "from time immemorial" met at the goose and gridiron ale-house in covent garden and constituted themselves a grand lodge. this action brought into being the first public and formally acknowledged organization of freemasons. five years later, in 1723, dr. james anderson, a presbyterian minister, published a book of constitutions. in the preparation of his constitutions, anderson is said to have consulted the opinions of. the late and present deputy grand masters and other learned brethren; and it was published "with a certain measure of grand lodge authority."11 andersons constitutions is, in many ways, a

reparing this part of the presentation i have had my masonic obligations, my obligations to my brethren and their sensibilities, and the idea of discretion much in mind. where appropriate, i have referenced the published emulation workings which are printed largely in plain text. beyond that, i have been guided in this regard by three authoritative books written by well respected masonic authors: freemasons' guide and compendium by bernard e. jones;36 symbolism in craft freemasonry by colin dyer; and the craft by john hamill. each of these authors is, or was, a grand officer in the united grand lodge of england. i have taken the view that if these brethren have discussed a symbol in their published works, the symbol is a proper subject for public presentation. i will not always put the sam

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

of the cabiri he was unable to restrain his mirth at seeing before him the figure of a man standing upright and, facing the man, the figure of a woman standing on her head. had cambyses been acquainted with the principles of divine astronomy, he would have realized that he was then in the presence of the key to universal equilibrium"'i ask' says voltaire 'who were these hierophants, these sacred freemasons, who celebrated their ancient mysteries of samothracia, and whence came they and their gods cabiri (see mackey's encyclop dia of freemasonry) clement speaks of the mysteries of the cabiri as "the sacred mystery of a brother slain by his brethren" and the "cabiric death" was one of the secret symbols of antiquity. thus the allegory of the self murdered by the not-self is perpetuated thro

rld today there are none to equal them. the profound knowledge of mathematics and astronomy embodied in ancient architecture, and the equally profound knowledge of anatomy revealed in greek statuary, prove that the fashioners of both were master minds, deeply cultured in the wisdom which constituted the arcana of the mysteries .thus was established the guild of the builders, progenitors of modern freemasons. when employed to build palaces, temples or combs, or to carve statues for the wealthy, those initiated architects and artists concealed in their works the secret doctrine, so that now, long after their bones have returned to dust, the world realizes that those first artisans were indeed duly initiated and worthy to receive the wages of master masons. the seven wonders of the world, whi

d standing thus at the gates of sanctuary they are a reminder that jehovah is both an androgynous and an anthropomorphic deity. as two parallel columns they denote the zodiacal signs of cancer and capricorn, which were formerly placed in the chamber of initiation to represent birth and death--the extremes of physical life. they accordingly signify the summer and the winter solstices, now known to freemasons under the comparatively modern appellation of the "two st. johns" in the mysterious sephirothic tree of the jews, these two pillars symbolize mercy and severity. standing before the gate of king solomon's temple, these columns had the same symbolic import as the obelisks before the sanctuaries of egypt. when interpreted qabbalistically, the names of the two pillars mean "in strength sha

this is the divine eve that is taken out click to enlarge a table of sephirothic correspondences. from fludd's collectio operum. the above diagram has been specially translated from the latin as being of unique value to students of qabbalism and also as an example of robert fludd's unusual ability in assembling tables of correspondences. robert fludd ranks among the most eminent rosicrucians and freemasons; in fact, he has often been called "the first english rosicrucian" he has written several valuable documents directly bearing upon the rosicrucian enigma. it is significant that the most important of his works should be published at the same time as those of bacon, shakespeare, and the first rosicrucian authors. p. 123 click to enlarge the sephirothic tree of the later qabbalists. trans

ndividual. they accept fire as their universal symbol because it was the one element by means of which they could control the metals. they declared themselves the descendants of tubal-cain and hiram abiff, and that the purpose of their existence was to preserve the spiritual nature of man through ages of materiality "the gnostic sects, the arabs, alchemists, templars, rosicrucians, and lastly the freemasons, form the western chain in the transmission of occult science (see the tarot of the bohemians translated by a. e. waite from the french of papus) max heindel, the christian mystic, described the rosicrucian temple as an "etheric structure" located in and around the home of a european country gentleman. he believed that this invisible building would ultimately be moved to the american co

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nal language of the nephelim. by the seventeenth century, the persecution of witches, by protestants now as well as catholics, seems to have fairly well decimated most of the centres of witch lore, save those preserved under heavy disguise of cabalistic or alchemical learning. even these by now had also become suspect, and apparently owing to this, secret brotherhoods such as the rosicrucians and freemasons were organized, for the very purpose of keeping the flame of the old wisdom burning. by the eighteenth century masonic and hermetic lodges had become widespread and the power of the church had been considerably reduced, indeed was waning fast, never to recover its old position of strength. within the lodges, many old witch secrets were being rediscovered. swedenborg reintroduced the con

MEANING OF MASONRY

he sacred law is a fountain of truth and instruction; or to go through the great and elaborate ceremony of the third degree merely to learn that we have each to die. the craft whose work we are taught to honour with the name of a" science" a" royal art" has surely some larger end in view than merely inculcating the practice of social virtues common to all the world and by no means the monopoly of freemasons. surely, then, it behooves us to acquaint ourselves with what that larger end consists, to enquire why the fulfilment of that purpose is worthy to be called a scien ce, and to ascertain what are those" mysteries" to which our doctr ine promises we may ultimately attain if we apply ourselves assiduously enough to understanding what masonry is capable of teaching us. realizing, then, what

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

monasteries, universities became the epicenters forcollation of the myriad researches that were frantically going on throughout the globe(see or read the name of the rose. these colleges housed and preserved the infor-mation gleaned through time. to make sure that only initiates had access, themasonic-based fraternity structure was instigated. virtually all the royal society founding members were freemasons. one could reasonablyargue that the royal society itself, at least in its inception, was a masonic institution.(michael baigent, holy blood and holy grail)it was only much later to stifle curiosity and prevent class war that the universities werefinally opened to the masses. the study of the architecture, symbolism, and geomantic posi-tioning of the worlds great seats of learning, such

s satanic ritualprecincts? we call these precincts cities. in the book, secret architecture of ournation s capitol, researcher david ovason gives information gleaned from thelibrary of congress, from the vaults and archives of washington d. c, and from thememoirs, letters, and writings of americas founding fathers which reveal that citiesand their design are part of an occult agenda instigated by freemasons of the 33rddegree and beyond. ovason, apparently, does not comprehend what the agenda is. hereveals that in washington d. c. alone, however, there are 22 full zodiacs secreted intothe architecture and layout. this is more than anywhere else in the world. he drawsattention to the reasons why the u. s. pentagon, the oval office, and the washingtonmonument have the shapes they do. have we

es do (j. p. morgan)ovasons book continues..for within a year of washington s death, it was recognized that the great man could mostfittingly be memorialized by means of a massive pyramid.the pyramid was already widely used as a symbol in masonic fraternities in europe, andwe should, therefore, not be surprised that it should have been proposed in the context of anational symbol guided by so many freemasons. the chances of the correspondence being mere coincidence are so remote that we mustassume that whoever was directing the planning of washington d.c, not only had a consid-erable knowledge of astrology, but had a vested interest in emphasizing the role of..virgo. the constitution put before the people on september 19th 1787 in virgo. virgo is important for several reasons, one of them b

and the burning bushjehovah announces himself as the god of thy father. it was not until the time of the prophet amos thatjehovah is raised to the level of the universal lord and creator god. jeremiah and ezekiel also followedsuit.the sakhraa sacred stone of the israelites that was contained in their temple of solomon. but, it was an object ofveneration long prior to this time. the ashlar of the freemasons is probably an analogue of it.age of aquariusthe age of aquarius opened 1750 a.d; planet uranus was discovered in 1781. then there came theinventions of the steam engine, airplane, etc. technology became vogue, and so on. in both the bible history and platos story, the destruction of the people was largely caused by the inter-marriage of the superior or divine race the sons of god with

shington monument was laid, the sunwould have passed over sirius (p. 138)the library of congresswhoever chose the day must have surely realized what was happening in the skies at that time: thesun and saturn were in conjunction in the zodiacal sign of virgo (p. 195)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation245 appendix b: book abstracts house of the temple(designed for the scottish rite freemasons) the chart for the laying of the cornerstone, on october 18,1911, is very revealing from an esoteric point of view. the moon and v enus are together (conjunct) invirgo (p. 223)buzz aldrin/moon landingwhat is not widely known is that alongside the national flag, aldrin also carried a masonic banner. thishad been embroidered especially for this strange journey by the librarian of the maso

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

r may have the impression that erishkigal, queen of the underworld, absorbed the qualities( or body) of her sister inanna. yet another copy of this goddess is queen semiramis. the average american is more familiar with semiramis than they realize; it is her likeness that graces the statue of liberty. even though the statue of liberty is a spiting likeness of queen semiramis of assyria, the french freemasons that funded the statue s construction left subtler clues as to the true identity of our lady liberty. in magic (of coarse, the metal of the goddess venus is copper, her color is green, and her number is 7. the exterior of the statue of liberty is made of copper, the statue is green, and has 7 rays of light reaching out from her head--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 13 then there s s

rds to the wider world of the occult, you ll generally run into two types of books: the philosophy of the occult--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 44 and magic. avoid the former; books about occult philosophy that make no mention of the laws of magic are often laced with deliberate misinformation, cryptic terms, veiled remarks, and a respectable gallery of symbols (who are more guilty than the freemasons. yet, sadly, this is the chewed meat most reach for when studying the occult. books about magic, on the other hand, spoke of the same things but in more literal terms. unlike freemasonic authors, and other occult philosophers, who give grandiose titles to even the most elementary principles of magic (and even more pompous titles to themselves, the magician has dispensed with their misle

ty that they are different from most people; this type usually claim to have many past-lives, as opposed to the human, whose soul is fresh and will only die once. this cycle of death and rebirth is often symbolized with a serpent eating its own tail. the many names these converted ones have gone by throughout the centuries are: witches, warlocks, druids, vampires, and of coarse the jedi. although freemasons do in fact conduct real rituals of transformation, they also reenact those rites by having initiates lowered into a pyramid while blindfolded. the good folks at yale s skull and bones fraternity also reenact the ritual of death and rebirth by climbing into a coffin and being reborn as bonesmen. after which they are allegedly told that they are now superior to the human cattle (consideri

ative to vampires) undergone the ritual of death and rebirth. my guess is when the time of the renegades ends, the hierarchy will once more rule in the light. this hierarchy has gone by many names throughout the ages, but today they are known as the illuminati. the illuminati is a organized collection of satanic secret societies, and other secret societies that are not openly satanic, such as the freemasons and the vatican. these groups work cooperatively seeking to fulfill an ancient prophecy, the return to the golden age of worldwide and open rule. the illuminati, using the powers of the catholic church and the european empires, have long sought to crush all records of man s true history, ensuring themselves a monopoly on historic truth. from russia to peru, they systematically destroyed

MORALS AND DOGMA

u advance in masonry, in the mean time exercising your intellect in studying them for yourself. to study and seek to interpret correctly the symbols of the universe, is the work of the sage and philosopher. it is to decipher the writing of god, and penetrate into his thoughts. this is what is asked and answered in our catechism, in regard to the lodge* a "lodge" is defined to be "an assemblage of freemasons, duly congregated, having the sacred writings, square, and compass, and a charter, or warrant of constitution, authorizing them to work" the room or place in which they meet, representing some part of king solomon's temple, is also called the lodge; and it is that we are now considering. it is said to be supported by three great columns, wisdom, force or strength, and beauty, represente

dges were proscribed in 1735, by an edict of the states of holland. in 1737, louis xv. forbade them in france. in 1738, pope clement xii. issued against them his famous bull of excommunication, which was renewed by benedict xiv; and in 1743 the council of berne also proscribed them. the title of the bull of clement is "the condemnation of the society of conventicles _de liberi muratari, or of the freemasons, under the penalty of _ipso facto_ excommunication, the absolution from which is reserved to the pope alone, except at the point of death" and by it all bishops, ordinaries, and inquisitors were empowered to punish freemasons "as vehemently suspected of heresy" and to call in, if necessary, the help of the secular arm; that is, to cause the civil authority to put them to death* also, fa

c and religious absolute, of this doctrine that is summed up in a word, of this word, in fine, alternately lost and found again, that was transmitted to the elect of all the ancient initiations: it was this same remembrance, preserved, or perhaps profaned in the celebrated order of the templars, that became for all the secret associations, of the rose-croix, of the illuminati, and of the hermetic freemasons, the reason of their strange rites, of their signs more or less conventional, and, above all, of their mutual devotedness and of their power. the gnostics caused the gnosis to be proscribed by the christians, and the official sanctuary was closed against the high initiation. thus the hierarchy of knowledge was compromitted by the violences of usurping ignorance, and the disorders of the

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

this book and especially in part 2, the author strives to make a strong distinction between speculative freemasonry and the operative freemasonry that is its origin and between more or less "accepted" masons and those craftsmen masons who actually practiced the building crafts. to make these distinctions clearer, an upper case f and m are used to distinguish speculative and modern freemasonry and freemasons/masons and a lower case f and m are used to refer to operative or original freemasonry/masonry and freemasons/masons. editor] viii preface the order for how can anyone claim to discuss this subject without touching upon this question? have largely contributed insights only to the various fragmentary aspects their individual studies may have addressed. far too often these studies have co

knowledge of traditional rules. they did introduce into their ornamentation, however, all kinds of animals and motifs derived from byzantine and eastern sources, proof of their contacts with the roman collegia and the byzantine regions of italy. they made particular use of the endless cord, woven into complicated designs and known as the comacine knot. the houppe dentelee [serrated tassel] of the freemasons is strangely reminiscent of this decorative element. the comacines did not, however, take advantage of other byzantine teachings in the art of building. the collegia in regions of italy free from lombard rule in those regions on the italian peninsula that were dependencies of the eastern empire, roman laws remained in effect. craftsmen were still trained in collegia and were governed as

ue+ it is in norman territory at the end of the eleventh century where we must search for the first manifestation of the french ogival rib. the aisle of the anglo-norman cathedral of durham, dated convincingly to* anthyme saint-paul, histoire monumentale de la france (paris: editions hachette, 1932, 89. we cannot stress too strongly the inexactitude of this legend, still commonly accepted by some freemasons, such as l. lachat, who view these gothic cathedral builders as the precursors of freethinkers and anticlericalists+ ibid, 241. for more on the cistercian influence on the continuity between the romanesque and the gothic, see also henri focillon, art d'occident, vol. 2 (paris: librairie armand colin, 1971, 56 ff. ecclesiastical and monastic associations 43 some time between 1093 and 110

eague shall not give allegiance to any other; they are expected to make common cause of their affections and their hates and to avenge an insult given to one of their brothers as if it had been addressed to all. it is interesting to find these indications concerning the guilds in a text dating from the time of king athelstan, given that according to legend it is to the era ruled by this king that freemasons attribute their oldest charter. it was in 926 in york that edwin, adopted son of athelstan, gave a charter to the masons. the oldest text attesting to the existence of this document, however, the cooke manuscript* dates back only to* this manuscript takes the name of its first publisher, matthew cooke. secular brotherhoods: the germanic and anglo-saxon guilds 59 the beginning of the fif

portance. in 1146 they already had a seat in nimes and in 1173 they had one in the templars, the francs metiers, and freemasonry 95 toulouse. it should also be noted that the lords of these provinces, just like those of flanders and hainaut, were particularly numerous in the earliest crusades.15 in conclusion of our discussion of templar influence on the existence of associations, guilds, and the freemasons, we can cite the case of metz, where the templars had installed a commandery in 1133. as templar establishments in cattenom, gelucourt, pierrevilliers, and richemont show, this initial commandery spread to surrounding areas. in the framework of the territorial organization of the order, the commandery of metz included in its jurisdiction the establishments of the trois eveches, lorraine

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

americans are pupils of these masters. in fact, the motto of the hierarchy of world teachers is identical with america s destiny the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of god (p. 95) another writer, from the opposite camp, confirms the assertions of heironimus. willy peterson writes: in order to reach their aims of world unity and thus engage the whole world in service to the plan, enlightened freemasons and new agers have been pushing for collectivist motifs that promote monistic pantheism and unity. this is why the chief instigators to the globalist league of nations and the united nations have been theosophists, trying to work out the plan. this is why the verbiage and aims at the u.n. is for world peace and brotherhood. it is a spiritual undertaking in a secular world. lucis trust h

PIKE CUMMINGS THE SPURIOUS RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM

. albert pike s 1865 allocution early in his career albert pike paid little attention to either of these rites. his earliest comments reflect a type of sympathetic indifference, and reveal that he did not yet know how specious they actually were. by the b i g as, however, his study convinced him that both the rites of memphis and misraim peddled cheap wares which were unworthy of consideration by freemasons. we extract pike s article, the grand orient of france and the rite of memphis, from his b i g f allocution to the supreme council.2 william l. cummings s 1936 study in his b j d g allocution to the grand college of rites, grand chancellor j.hugo tatsch stated, for the b j d g issue of collectanea i have selected the fine article of fellow william l. cummings, on the spurious rites of m

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

wn as the hermetic order of the golden dawn. how the actual instigation of the order came to pass is not really known. or rather, because of so many conflicting stories and legends the truth is impossible to discover. at any rate, so far as england is concerned, without a doubt we must seek for its origin in thh ocieta s osicrucianain anglia. this was an organisation formulated in 1865 bv eminent freemasons, some of them claiming authentic rosicrucian initiation from continental authorities. amongst those wh; claimed such initiation was one kenneth h. mackenzie, a masonic scholar and encyclopaedist, who had received his at the hands of a count apponyi in austria. the objects of this society which confined its membership to freemasons in good standing, was "to afford mutual aid and encourag

woodman, westcott and mathers, to formulate in enaland a semi-public occult organisation which was to employ an elaborate magical ceremonial, abalisticte akg and a comprehensive scheme of s irituatlr aining. its foundation was desiened to include both men and women on a'basis of perfezequality in contradistinction to the policy of the societas rosicruciana in anglia which was comprised wholly of freemasons. thus, in 1887, the hermetic order of the golden dawn was established. its first english temple, isis-urania, was opened in the following year. there is a somewhat different version as to its origin, having behind it the 18 the golden dawn authority of frater f. r, the late dr. felkin, who was the chief of the stella matutina as well as a member of the societas rosicruciana. according t

RITUEL ET DOGME DE LA HAUTE MAGIE BY ELIPHAS LEVI PART II

s on the outer side drove away the evil; two points on the inner side imprisoned them; one only on the inner side held good spirits captive. all these magical theories, based upon the one dogma of hermes and on the analogical deductions of science, have been confirmed invariably by the visions of ecstatics and the paroxysms of cataleptics, declaring that they are possessed by spirits. the g which freemasons place in the middle of the blazing star signifies gnosis and generation, the two sacred words of the ancient kabalah. it signifies also grand architect, for the pentagram on every side represents an a. by placing it in such a manner that two of its points are in the ascendant and one is below, we may see the horns, ears and beard of the hierarchic goat of mendes, when it becomes the sig

sabbath. the frontispiece to this gritual h reproduces the exact figure of the terrible emperor of night, with all his attributes and all his characters. let us state now for the edification of the vulgar, for the satisfaction of m. le comte de mirville, for the justification of the demonologist bodin, for the greater glory of the church, which persecuted templars, burnt magicians, excommunicated freemasons, etc. let us state boldly and precisely that all inferior initiates of the occult science and profaners of the great arcanum, not only did in the past but do now, and will ever, adore what is signified by this alarming symbol. yes, in our profound conviction, the grand masters of the order of the templars worshipped the baphomet, and caused it to be worshipped by their initiates; yes, t

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

to the grand master (rt entries are from the ruby tablet of set) barrett, ronald k "book of opening the way (key #4rosearching for the illuminati deep within the bowels of the vatican all roads lead to piazza san pietro when it comes to power, leadership and initiation into the devious and diabolical illuminati. in the 1980's, the vatican bank scandal brought to light the connections between the freemasons/illuminati, the vatican and the mafia. secret initiations are said to take place in the catacombs of the vatican and was pope john paul i killed after 39 days in office for wanting to expose the truth about vatican finances and the illuminati? 16 jan 2006 by greg szymanski part i while mass is being said in the sistine chapel and tourists are being shown the works of michelangelo, deep

alvi, found dangling under the blackfriars bridge in london, a little known mafia figure named mario cuomo (not the former mayor of new york) and a mysterious woman named maria would all help in putting the pieces together of a larger more sinister puzzle. although still incomplete, the small pieces of the puzzle i uncovered in the 1980s all lead to direct involvement of members of the illuminati/freemasons, through groups like "p due, the prieure du sion and others, as well as the deep involvement of the vatican, the hub and centerpiece of this secret worldwide organization known to the public as the illuminati but known by members as "the family or the order" after writing several stories about the vatican bank scandal and traveling to london on the calvi story, finding very little new e

are carried out. january 21, 1979: murder of judge emilio alessandrini, the milan magistrate investigating the activities of banco ambrosiano, whose director, roberto calvi, has close ties with michele sindona and the vatican. march 20, 1979: murder of mino pecorelli, an investigative journalist in the process of publishing articles exposing the membership and dealings of "p2- a powerful group of freemasons whose membership was involved in vatican financial dealings, and whose founder, lucio gelli, was deeply connected with roberto calvi. march 25, 1979: arrests on false charges of mario sarcinelli and paolo baffi of the bank of italy. the two men were pressing for action on the investigation of the financial dealings of roberto calvi and banco ambrosiano. july 11, 1979: murder of giorgio

you know what i find quite interesting about this? about 25 years ago, i was a reporter and a freelance writer in rome, and i spent six years there. i walked through the vatican many, many times. hundreds of times. i covered the papal addresses, things like that. during that time i was there during a vatican scandal, which involved the church bank and other things. members of the illuminati, the freemasons. i was approached by a woman, maria vendital (ph, and i'll never forget this. rome's a small town. people knew i was covering stories about the secret societies, things like that. i had to ask people. well, this woman came up to me and told me similar stories. she wasn't quite as specific because she couldn't handle it without breaking out crying, and tried to commit suicide twice becau

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

s, supplication, acknowledgment, adoration, admiration raised to head thought, care, intellect, wisdom numerical hand signs from a renaissance text on mathematics. such usage often combines the teachings of numerology with the secret messages of hand communications. the international secret language is the occult hand sign, in its many forms and varieties, the international secret language of the freemasons and other covert societies? manfred adler, in his german-language book, the freemasons and the vatican, says the answer to this question is, yes.3 he writes that according to the findings of a united states senate committee that investigated the central intelligence agency (cia "ninety percent of the secret news is transmitted via the media, in particular the press, with the aid of code

y its chairman of the board, fellow illuminist, peter g. peterson. pat robertson meets with red chinese premier zhu rongji in 1998. the 700 club host has invested millions of dollars in red china and supports its policy of forced abortions, all the time pretending to be "pro-life" secret handshakes of the illuminati 153 the cover of stephen knight's expose, the brotherhood the secret world of the freemasons. this book caused a sensation and a furor upon its publication because knight revealed that the police, judiciary, and government of great britain are riddled with freemasons who give job preference and show official favoritism to their masonic cohorts. 154 codex magica pope pius xii greets cardinal spellman of new york. new york's powerful cardinal spellman shakes hand of pope john xxi

uccessors like clinton and both bushes. captain william morgan, in the nineteenth century, suffered a worse fate, being murdered in a masonic ritual and his disfigured body dumped into a lake. incensed 190 codex magica by this outrage, john quincy adams, sixth president of the united states, in his classic exposure of the masonic murderers (letters on freemasonry, minced no bones in declaring the freemasons as "luciferian" and as a grave threat to america. in this section, we examine a few of penal (penalty) signs and also signs given to communicate the message "on the square" a phrase made common in the american lexicon by its frequent usage by masons. along the way, we shall note the illuminist involvement of such infamous folks as the russian mystic and master seducer, grigore rasputin

ones shall come forth to rule. the phoenix (satan and his "son) shall rise from the flames of destruction just as the legendary phoenix bird arose. the phoenix, however, is, in reality a cockatrice, a dragon-bird, a flying serpent. the word "pyramid" incidentally, literally means "amidst the fire" and now you know the true, occultic meaning of the word. peering into the all-seeing eye simply put, freemasons, under the direction of haym salomon, ben franklin, and others, designed the great seal with its all-seeing eye in the capstone amidst the radiant sun background. as followers of egyptianism, it has long been assumed that the eye is that of osiris, the egyptian sun god, and/or of his son, horus. this is true, but there is much more. osiris, of course, was worshipped as the sun. albert p

v, was a favorite of the illuminati. roman catholic bishop selim sayegh of amman, jordan (photo: us. catholic, may 2003, p. 31) james jesus angleton, cia chief of counterintelligence, presents the clenched fist under chin and throat sign that a violent end at the hands of revolutionary assassins shall come to he who reveals secrets of the craft. up to their necks in mischief 303 the scottish rite freemasons, on the cover of the september 2000 issue of their official journal, recognized "brother michael a. richards" as a "renaissance man, not kramer" richards, a jew, is the well known comic actor who won raves for his role as "kramer" in the long-running #1 hit tv show, seinfeld. inside the masonic lodge magazine, it was noted that richards holds the 32nd degree of freemasonry and has recei

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s of power and wealth to control the entire world. conspiracy enthusiasts allege that there are clandestine organizations which for centuries have remained a threat to individual freedoms, quietly operating in the shadows, silently infiltrating political organizations, and secretly manipulating every level of government and every facet of society. one of the favorites of conspiracy theorists, the freemasons, while once a powerful and influential group throughout the western world, is today regarded by many as simply a philanthropic and fraternal organization. another secret society, the illuminati, deemed by many conspiracy buffs to be the most insidious of all, faded into obscurity in the late eighteenth century. however, there is always a new secret society that seeks to divine arcane an

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s of power and wealth to control the entire world. conspiracy enthusiasts allege that there are clandestine organizations which for centuries have remained a threat to individual freedoms, quietly operating in the shadows, silently infiltrating political organizations, and secretly manipulating every level of government and every facet of society. one of the favorites of conspiracy theorists, the freemasons, while once a powerful and influential group throughout the western world, is today regarded by many as simply a philanthropic and fraternal organization. another secret society, the illuminati, deemed by many conspiracy buffs to be the most insidious of all, faded into obscurity in the late eighteenth century. however, there is always a new secret society that seeks to divine arcane an

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

s of power and wealth to control the entire world. conspiracy enthusiasts allege that there are clandestine organizations which for centuries have remained a threat to individual freedoms, quietly operating in the shadows, silently infiltrating political organizations, and secretly manipulating every level of government and every facet of society. one of the favorites of conspiracy theorists, the freemasons, while once a powerful and influential group throughout the western world, is today regarded by many as simply a philanthropic and fraternal organization. another secret society, the illuminati, deemed by many conspiracy buffs to be the most insidious of all, faded into obscurity in the late eighteenth century. however, there is always a new secret society that seeks to divine arcane an

re possessed by mysterious societies that choose to keep their methods hidden from the larger society. throughout the centuries, such secret societies have taunted outsiders with their forbidden knowledge and, on occasion, frightened or even assassinated those whose persistence in seeking access to their mysteries were unwelcome. 1 chapter exploration the assassins the decided ones of jupiter the freemasons the garduna the holy vehm the illuminati the knights templar the leopard men the mau-mau the rosicrucians the thuggee the tongs introduction in this chapter a number of secret societies will be examined that have fueled the imaginations, fear, and envy of those on the outside of the mysterious organizations for hundreds of years. one of the favorites of paranoid conspiracy theorists, th

eemasons the garduna the holy vehm the illuminati the knights templar the leopard men the mau-mau the rosicrucians the thuggee the tongs introduction in this chapter a number of secret societies will be examined that have fueled the imaginations, fear, and envy of those on the outside of the mysterious organizations for hundreds of years. one of the favorites of paranoid conspiracy theorists, the freemasons, while once powerful and influential throughout the western world, is today regarded by many as little more than a social relic of the past. another secret society, the illuminati, deemed by many conspiracy buffs to be the most insidious of all, faded into obscurity in the late eighteenth century. for conspiracy enthusiasts, however, both societies remain a threat to individual freedoms

responsible for many such ritual murders on their jungle altars and left hundreds of mutilated human corpses to prove their guilt. the thuggee of india, who committed more murders than any other secret society, allegedly dedicated the lives of the thousands of victims which they strangled to death to their goddess kali. of all the secret societies examined in this chapter, only the tongs and the freemasons remain in existence in the twenty-first century. while some contemporary metaphysical groups proclaim that their philosophical heritage may derive from the knights templar or the rosicrucians, there is little to substantiate such claims other than an admiration for their precepts and ideals. on occasion, international law enforcement investigators may see elements suggestive of the thug

eved that the u.s. army secretly implanted such devices in the legs of american soldiers during the gulf war. sources: conspiracy journal [online] http//members.tripod.com/uforeview. conspiracy planet [online] http//www.conspiracyplanet.com. gmkultra, biochips, microchip implants. h psychops.com [online] http//www. psychops.com. big brother fs biochip implants guarantee slavery for the masses the freemasons there are those who claim that the freemasons constitute a powerful secret brotherhood of darkness that is planning to take over the world. according to some scholars of the occult, the masons f gsupreme architect of the universe h is none other than lucifer, who cloaks himself in masonic literature under such names as zoraster, shiva, abaddon, and other pagan-god disguises. the so-call

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

he remotest antiquity, is still the attribute of our sovereign pontiffs, and forms the upper extremity of their pastoral staff. but the sign traced by the pencil had this particularity, that the upper branch, the head of the cross, was double, and formed again the terrible typhonian v, the sign of antagonism and separation, the symbol of hate and eternal combat. the third character was that which freemasons call the philosophical cross, a cross with four equal arms, with a point in each of its angles. but, instead of four points, there were only two, placed in the two right-hand corners, once more a sign of struggle, separation and denial. the professor, whom one will allow us to distinguish from the narrator, and to name in the third person in order not to weary our readers in having the

tans and the gods. the two armies are everywhere invisible, disciplined and always ready for attack or counterattack. simple-minded folk on both sides, astonished at the instant and unanimous resistance that they meet, begin to believe in vast plots cleverly organized, in hidden, all-powerful societies. eugene sue invents rodin< churchmen talk of the illuminati and of the freemasons; wronski dreams of his bands of mystics, and there is nothing true and serious beneath all that but the necessary struggle of order and disorder, of the instincts and of thought; the result of that struggle is balance in progress, and the devil always contributes, despite himself, to the glory of st. michael. physical love is the most perverse of all fatal passions. it is the anarchist

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

in a child would be touching, but is repugnant in a person of mature years, or a capacity to tell a good, strong lie. for the o.t.o. not only had, as we shall see, connections with spurious and clandestine masonic groups but functioned as a recruiting office for one of these for in the classification of members by degrees appended to reuss s document it is clearly stated that candidates are made freemasons by the directing members (fratres superiores) of the o.t.o. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c1.html (3 of 4 [12/28/2001 2:01:15 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. nevertheless reuss s 1917 manifesto is not without interest even importance for, while there is no need to follow reuss in believing that the o.t.o. was the one ancient org

itiated hugues de payens into the mysteries and hopes of his pretended church, he lured him by the ideas of sacerdotal sovereignty and supreme royalty, he indicated him finally as his successor; so the order of the knights templar was stained from its origin with schism and conspiracy against kings! 10 by the last decade of the nineteenth century certain german occultists, most of them high-grade freemasons, had been stimulated by their study of l vi s writings on magic to take an interest in templarism. these men were to be the founders of the o.t.o. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c2.html (5 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:01:22 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the o.t.o* chapter three the early years of the

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

lf, from which all power emanates. t here are three reasons esoteric alphabets are used in ritual magic. the first is simply to provide a script that cannot be read by the uninitiated. in this way ritual techniques and beliefs of a particular occult order may be recorded with little danger that anyone outside the order will understand them. this protects the secrets of the order from profanation. freemasons used an abbre- viated script that is difficult to decipher without practice in their printed rituals for precisely this purpose (for example "i-n. th bgng. g. creat-t. th hvs" means "in the beginning god created the heavens. this custom is very ancient. lucius apuleius, a writer and platonic philoso- pher of the second century who became a priest of isis in his later years, writes in hi

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

occult societies, out of apprehension that they practiced black magic. but when members of her own society appealed to her to rescind her decision, she relented and permitted theosophists to also belong to the golden dawn. as a gesture of fraternity, a group of twenty-one golden dawn members joined the theosophical society.l13 history of the golden dawn the golden dawn was founded by three master freemasons: dr. william robert woodman (1828-1891, dr. william wynn westcott (1848-1925, and samuel liddell mathers (1854-1918. woodman suffered from ill health and lived some distance from the center of london, and so played little active part in the running of the golden dawn in the outer, as the more or less publicly accessible lower grades of the order were known. he died before the second ord

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

erhood network. there are also gargoyles on a building in dealey plaza where president kennedy was assassinated and now they turn up again, in a modern airport built on an alleged underground, reptilian base. gargoyles are symbols of the reptilians and that is why you will find them at denver airport. the capstone or dedication stone at the airport is marked with the classic compass symbol of the freemasons and it stands in part of the terminal called the great hall, another freemasonic term. on a wall is a grotesque mural full of malevolent symbolism, including three caskets with dead females in them: a jewish girl, a native american and a black woman; another girl is holding a mayan tablet that tells of the destruction of civilisation. a huge character, described as a 'green darth vader'

am told this addiction is quite common among satanists, and researchers into the reptilian question suggest that this is the substance the reptiles also want. it all fits (note: below is the reference to denver, colorado being a major satanic centre. i checked with encarta world atlas and littleton is only 16 km from denver "low income parents, and those addicted to drugs, are at the mercy of the freemasons and satanists operating among the social services hierarchy and judges. their children are often taken away from them for satanic ritual or mind control projects. so called 'crack' babies are apparently sought after for mind control operations, as are twins. i know of twins who were crack babies in denver, colorado, a major satanic centre. they were first taken from their parents and gi

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

ad memories of an old cult of death and resurrection, and while more or less christians still had leanings towards it, and possibly practised some of the magic connected with it. it must be remembered that novices were forbidden to speak of anything which occurred at their initiations, even to another member. if they were only forbidden to tell anything to outsiders, it might be simply that, like freemasons and others, they had secret rites of initiation; but novices being forbidden to compare notes points, it would seem, towards certain parts of the ceremony not being given to all novices, or, alternatively, that different explanations were given of the same ceremony. possibly certain commanders favoured the old gods and might introduce certain practices, and the fact that in many cases n

gave a hint of it away in any of his many writings. in ancient times probably many magicians, amongst the scholars and learned men, before and during the fall of byzantium, came west and many may have made contact with the cult; also men who read forbidden books would be apt to come to the only places where they could meet people with free minds, the houses of the witches. later rosicrucians and freemasons might have attended. they might not have known that their hosts were witches in all cases, though they would have known there were places where they might discuss things reasonably without fear of being tortured and burnt. there are resemblances to freemasonry in certain parts of the rites which i think can-not be due to chance, so i think the one influenced the other. and it is probabl

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

vah or vision of ezekiel. the chagigah of the talmud says it were better never to have been born than to pry into the 4 sides thereof, what is above and below, before and behind it. the ancient legend of the four crowned martyrs, who were masons, who refused to disclaim their christian faith and refused to build an idol, has led in our own time to the consecration of the quatuor coronati lodge of freemasons, which has a corresponding membership numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott of 3000 brethren. the present author is a past master of this lodge of literary freemasons. the four masters of ireland of the first half of the 17th century compiled a history of ireland from b.c 2242 to a.d. 1616. 58. magic squares were first known by the work of a greek, e

hand the monocotyledons or endogens have a constant predominance of the numbers 3 and 6, and a total absence of 4 and 5 symmetry. there are 5 kinds of intercolumniations in architecture, mentioned by vitruvius, determined by the proportions of height and diameter, viz, pycnostyle, systyle, eustyle, diastyle and aerostyle. 63. the triad society of china, concerning which we find an article in the freemasons quarterly review, 1845, p. 165, boasts of great antiquity; it resembles freemasonry in some points. five is a chief mystical number in its concerns. its seal is pentangular, or its angles are 5 characters representing too or saturn, muh or jupiter, shwuy or mercury, kin or venus, and ho or mars. in the infernal world are 5 terrors and torments. deadly bitterness, horrible howling, terri

lf in the unit place, thus, 6, 36, 216, 1296, 7776. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott on the 6th day, man was created according to genesis. on the 6th day of the week, jesus died on the cross. 67. the israelites had 6 cities of refuge. numbers xxxv. v. 6. there were six things hated by jehovah. prov. vi. v. 16. the seraphim of isaiah had each 6 wings. in a freemasons lodge there are 6 jewels, three of which are immovable and lie open in the lodge for the brethren to moralize upon, while the other three jewels are transferable from one brother to another at the periodical changes of officers. in the hebrew, book of creation, the sepher yetzirah, the hexad is spoken of. the units representing the four quarters of the world; north, south, east and west

vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the golden candlestick of seven branches was a notable emblematic ornament of the tabernacle of moses, exodus xxv. 31. note the seven years for repentance; 7 churches of asia (or assiah, 7 angels with trumpets, 7 candlesticks of the holy places, 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 kings, 7 thousands slain, 7 vials of wrath to be poured out, pace the apocalypse. 7 members make a freemasons lodge perfect, although 5 may hold one. francis barrett, in his magus, catalogs 7 birds, fishes, animals, metals, stones and members of the body. it has been said there are seven apertures of the skull to correspond with the seven planets. there are seven degrees in the oriental order of sikha and the sat bhai (7 brothers; but i have doubts of the brahmanic authenticity of the present o

stian theology was built, it was a part of the gnosis and was derived from the priestly astronomers of egypt. 123. 1484. christian rosenkreutz died. the vault closed over his body and the secrets of the order he had founded. 1604. the vault of c. r. opened by his successors after 120 years of secret study and benevolence. 1614. the fama fraternitatis rosae crucis was printed. 1717. grand lodge of freemasons was founded. 1752. new year s day changed from march 25 to january 1. 1865. frater robert wentworth little founded the rosicrucian society of freemasons of england, in its present form. 1885. dr. robert woodman became supreme magus. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 1892. dr. william wynn westcott became supreme magus. 1911. this year a.d. is the

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

"jewel" are further identified with the lotus and jewel of the well-known buddhist phrase and this seems to suggest that this "toad" is the yoni; the suggestion is further strengthened by the concluding phrase in brackets "keep us from evil, since, although it is the place of life, the means of grace, it may be ruinous [117] 54 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta nu-delta five and forty apprentice masons out of work! fifteen fellow-craftsmen out of work! three master masons out of work! all these sat on their haunches waiting the report of the sojourner; for the word was lost. this is the report of the sojourners: the word was love;(23) and its number is an hundred and eleven. then said each amo;(24) for its number is an hundred and eleven. each took the trowel from his lap,(25) whose numbe

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

prox. the favour of isis [is] the treasure of the sons of wisdom] liber lviii 23 yes: but why should not berashith 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, give, say, e?39 the only answer is, that if you screw it round long enough, it perhaps will! the rational table of tziruph should, we agree with fra. p, be left to the rationalist press association, and we may present the irregular table of commutations to irregular masons. 4. to the less important methods we may apply the same criticism. we may glance in passing at the yetziratic, tarot, and signifactory methods of investigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is a

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finite square of creation was assimilated to the infinite circle of he creator. yes: but why should not berashith 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, give, say "e? the only answer is, that if you screw it round long enough, it perhaps will! 92 the rational table of tzirup should, we agree with fra. p, be left to the rationalist press association, and we may present the irregular table of commutations to irregular masons. 4. to the less important methods we may apply the same criticism. we may glance in passing at the yetziratic, tarot, and significatory methods of investigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in "777. thus hb:aleph in the yetziratic w

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publishing each combination under a different name. for fifteen years mr. perrycoste has been snipping hard, and the above work consists only of chapters iii and iv of one volume of a series of volumes. we are charitable enough to hope that mr. perrycoste may be spared to produce the rest, so long as we are spared reviewing them. elias ashmole. the ancient constitutional charges of the guild free masons. by john yarker. william tait, 2"s" 6"d" net. this is a most learned work; the author holds solomon only knows how many exalted degrees; but besides the title-page there is much of interest to masons in this little volume. some of the ancient charges are quite amusing "that no fellow go into town in the night time without a fellow to bear witness that he hath been in honest company" seems

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

prophet loose! some anonymous person wrote cran, cran, mcgregor's man served a writ, and away he ran 3 before a writ was served! though he might have guessed that it would be. but he couldn't possibly have known that the action would be dropped, as it has been. and mathers has run away too- without paying our costs* a word as to the sanctity of obligations seems necessary here. some of my brother masons (for example) have heard imperfectly and judged hastily. but if we apply our tools to our morals with patience and skill, we shall cure any defects in the building. let me explain the situation carefully and clearly (1) mathers and dr. wynn westcott were the apparent heads of the order calling itself rosicrucian (2) this order seriously claimed direct descent, and transmitted authority, fro

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

church of the period, of which the nucleus is already forming wherein the first initiation will become exoteric, in this sense only, that the taking of the first initiation will, before so very long, be the most sacred ceremony of the church, performed exoterically as one of the mysteries given at stated periods, attended by those concerned. it will also hold a similar place in the ritual of the masons. at this ceremony those ready for the first initiation will be publicly admitted to the lodge by one of its members, authorised to do so by the great hierophant himself. four words defined. when we speak of initiation, of wisdom, of knowledge, or of the probationary path, what do we mean? we use the words so glibly, without due consideration of the meaning involved. take, for instance, the

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

those working with involutionary forces. one group is the agent of constructive purpose, and the other of destructive. more need not be- 275- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust submitted anent this group as they are not easily contacted, fortunately for man, and can as yet only be reached by a particular group ritual accurately performed, a thing as yet practically unknown. the masons eventually will be one of the chief agents of contact, and as men are as yet not ready for such power as this will put into their hands, true masonry will develop but slowly. nevertheless, under the magnetic force of this seventh ray, the growth of masonry is inevitably sure. this ray of ceremonial magic will consequently have a very profound effect upon the physical plane, for not only is

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

in to approximate its true function and to fulfill its long-seen destiny. one point it might be of interest here to note. during the period of the activity of the sixth ray the fraternity fell into a crystallised and sectarian attitude, along with the many other grouped circles. it fell also into the snare of materialism, and the outer form has for centuries been of more importance in the eyes of masons than the inner spiritual meaning. the symbols and the system of allegories have been emphasized, whilst that which they were intended to convey and to reveal to the initiated has been quite forgotten. also, the trend of the attention of a lodge of masons, and the main emphasis, has been potently placed on the function and place of the w.m, and not upon the inner significance of the work upo

n of world understanding and harmony. it cannot be solved without the cooperation of the men of good will throughout the world. there is little that i can say anent this matter that can be checked and proved, for the clue to the problem is to be found back in the very night of time and, literally, when the sun was in the constellation gemini. at that time the two pillars were set up which, as all masons know, are two great landmarks in masonry. hence the jewish colouring of all the masonic work, though it is not jewish in the sense that that word conveys today. who, therefore, if the facts are of such ancient import, shall say that i speak with accuracy, or establish the right or wrong nature of my conclusions? i but present the facts as i know them from my access to records more ancient t

d. they passed within the gates, leaving the three outside. many were raised unto the heights of joy. the three remained without the gates, holding their treasure firm" in this ancient writing, older than any of the written scriptures of the world, is to be found the secret of the masonic story and of the slaying of the master by the three most closely associated with him in his death and burial. masons will all recognise the three to whom i here refer. these three were the founders of the modern jewish race. they were three advanced disciples who resented the command to enter, free and untrammelled, the place where light is to be found. they sought to hold that which they had gathered and to dedicate it to the service of god. their unrecognised motive was love of riches and a desire to ho

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

ing to our world because a mighty stream of spiritual influence has gone forth from him and has penetrated our age also. this fact will be neither shaken nor confirmed by an historical knowledge."6 always the word has sounded out which has enabled the race to see and recognise its next step. the christ enabled man to hear this in the past; he will enable man to do so again today. some day, as all masons know, these words which have been spoken periodically will be superseded- 24- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust by a word which is known among them as the "lost word" when that word is finally spoken humanity will be enabled to climb to the final peak of human achievement. the hidden divinity will then shine forth in its glory, through the medium of the race. the height o

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

gnition of power and of opportunity. it is for this end that the teaching anent the new group of world servers was given out broadcast. this is the first attempt to form a group which would work as a group and attempt a world task. they can act as an intermediate group between the world of men and the hierarchy. they stand between what is occultly called the "dead master" and the "living masters" masons will understand what is here described. the true esotericist will also see the same truth from another angle. i would like here to give you some thoughts anent the new groups which come into functioning activity under the law of group progress. it must be constantly remembered, as one considers these coming new groups, that they are primarily an experiment in group activity, and are not for

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

flict. aspirants. struggling, well-meaning people. workers for unity emerge along this line. 5. the fifth ray of concrete knowledge or science. scientists and people who are purely mental and governed only by the mind. 6. the sixth ray of devotion or idealism. many christian people. fanatics. numbers of earnest churchmen of all the world religions. 7. the seventh ray of ceremonial order or magic. masons. financiers. great businessmen and organisers of all kinds. executives are found with these energies in their equipment. however, only when a man is highly developed and nearing the path of discipleship is it possible for the esoteric student accurately to surmise what his ray may be. people of all kinds and professions are found on all the rays. the conflict in a disciple's life is found t

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

bjective approach. the sun was in leo when physical plane individualisation took place as a result of the applied stimulation. the sun was in gemini when this approach was consummated by the founding of the hierarchy upon the earth. this is one of the great secrets which the masonic rituals typify, for the symbol of the sign, gemini, is the source of the concept of the two pillars, so familiar to masons. it- 39- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust might therefore be stated that, symbolically speaking, 1. leo governs the e\ a\ degree. 2. gemini governs the f\ c\ degree. 3. sagittarius governs the degree of m\ m\ up to the episode of the raising of the master, and that capricorn governs the final part of the ceremony and the h\ r\ a\ it is

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

types of energy in their lowest and most material expressions) and their manifestations war, fear and cruelty. they are united by one point of view and by one goal, and hence their success (it is interesting that, again in their case, there appears inevitably an initiatory seven the base and dark parallel of the initiating seven who lead human beings into light and who are symbolised in the seven masons who constitute a lodge of masons) they are the custodians of forces which control them and over which they themselves have no slightest control. you ask who these seven are: hitler, von ribbentrop, goebbels, goering, hess, himmler and streicher names well-known to you all. these men embody and personify the forces of aggression and rule by fear not only the enslaved nations but also their f

he nature of esotericism is understood will be the utilisation of the banded esoteric organisms, the masonic organism and the church organism as initiating centres. these three groups converge as their inner sanctuaries- 335- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust are approached. there is no dissociation between the one universal church, the sacred inner lodge of all true masons, and the innermost circles of the esoteric societies. three types of men have their need met, three major rays are expressed, and the three paths to the master are trodden, leading all three to the same portal and the same hierophant. it must not be forgotten that only those souls who are on the probationary path or the path of discipleship will form the nucleus of the coming world religion

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

c response. subhuman lives express the guna of tamas or of inertia. they work blindly and have no ability to- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust respond consciously to the plan. they are the sumtotal of the "units of inertia" just as the human units are called "the points of light moving within the square" this may have its appeal to masons. this subject of the use or misuse of energy is capable of infinite expansion, and in my other books where i give you more upon the centres i have enlarged upon it. i but seek at this time to give you that which can be of immediate use to students and thus lay the foundation for later work. a close study of the needed transmutation of astral and emotional energy into love, the energy of lov

ost high when all other words and sounds have failed. it is not a triple sound as is the a.u.m, but a dual sound, significant of the relation of spirit and soul, and of life and consciousness. this lost word, symbolic of the loss in the three worlds (typified by the degrees of the blue lodges in masonry) must be recovered and is in process of discovery today. the mystics have sought after it; the masons have preserved the tradition of its existence; the disciples and initiates of the world must demonstrate its possession. 3. the sound is the sole expression of the ineffable name, the secret appellation of the one in whom we live and move and have our being, and who is known to the great white lodge through this name. remember always that name and form are synonymous terms in the occult tea

therefore, connected in a peculiar way with the fourth path. down the ages, the masonic tradition has been preserved, changing its nomenclature from time to time, reinterpreting its words of power, and consequently getting further and further removed from its original beauty and intent. the time has now come, under cyclic law and in preparation for the new age, for certain changes to be worked by masons with spiritual understanding. the present jewish colouring of masonry is completely out of date and has been preserved far too long, for it is today either jewish or christian and should be neither. the blue lodge degrees are entirely jewish in phrasing and wording, and this should be altered. the higher degrees are predominantly christian, though permeated with jewish names and words. this

initiations those subject to the process called illumination through revelation. the masonic work is an ancient and laudable attempt to preserve in some germinal form the spiritual truth anent initiation. in spite of distortion, some loss of the ancient landmarks and a deplorable crystallisation, the truth is there and at a later date (in the early part of the next century) a group of enlightened masons will re-arrange the rituals and adapt the present forms and formulas in such a manner that the spiritual possibilities, symbolically indicated, will emerge with greater clarity and a deepened spiritual potency; the coming form of masonry in the new age will necessarily rest upon the foundation of a newly interpreted and enlightened christianity, having no relation to theology and being univ

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

albat, abgat, agdat: the complete set was called "the combinations of tziruph" other forms were rational, right, averse and irregular, obtained from a square of 22 spaces in each direction, that is of 484 secondary squares, and then putting a letter in each square in order up and down, and then reading across or diagonally, etc. of this type is the so-called "kabalah of nine chambers" of the mark masons. a further development of the numerical arts was shown by the modes of contraction and extension; thus jehovah, ihvh 26, was extended to ivd-ha-vv-ha, and so 10, 5, 6, 5 or 26 became 20, 6, 12, 6 or 44. by extension zain, z.7, became 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 or 28; or 28 was regarded as 2 and 8 or 10. the tetragrammaton, jehovah 26 was also at times regarded as 2 and 6 or 8: so el shaddai, go

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

was the original impetus which led to their production may be regarded as beyond dispute, and it was the case especially with masonic templar revivals. their thesis was his thesis varied. for example, according to the rite of the strict observance the proscribed order was carried by its marshal, pierre d'aumont, who escaped with a few other knights to the isles of scotland, disguised as operative masons. they remained there and under the same veil the templars continued to exist in secret from generation to generation under the shadow of the mythical mount heredom of kilwinning. to whatever date the old dreams ascribe it, when emblematic freemasonry emerged it was- ex hypothesi-a product of the union between knights templar and ancient scottish masonry. such is the story told. the strict o

f considerable interest as variants of the english original, but the second differs from all other codices by the introduction of three historical discourses, dealing with the origin of the templar chivalry, its destruction and its alleged masonic connections, which are subject to critical examination, the conclusion reached being that the templar system is masonic only in the sense that none but masons are admitted. the appeal of the entire sequence is one and the same throughout, an allegory of human life considered as pilgrimage and warfare, with a reward at the end in christ for those who have walked after his commandments under the standard of christian chivalry. we have very little need to make a choice between them, either on the score of antiquity or that of ritual appeal. a descen

ly sepulchre for them is the church of christ, however understood, and if there is anything in the old notion that the christian chivalry in the past had sounded strange wells of doctrine, far in the holy east, there are such wells awaiting our own exploration, to the extent that we can enter into the life behind doctrine, and this is the life which is in christ. finally the modern chivalry is of masons as well as templars, because in both orders there is a quest to follow and attain. but this quest is one, a quest for the word, which is christ, and a quest for the abodes of the blessed, where the word and the soul are one. scanned from the periodical "the occult review, volume xlv, nos. 1 and 4, january and april, 19. aos artist, occultist, sensualist an essay by j. balance (taken from th

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ian nation" and "we need to take america back for christ" many christians in the southern states believe, quite firmly, that the founding fathers of our great nation were evangelical christians like themselves, and that they intended for the constitution to be observed in a biblical context. the fact that many of the founding fathers- including our first president, george washington himself- were masons and deists seems to be glossed over nowadays, even in high school american history classes. and the fact that they included the first amendment in our constitution- affirming even the rights of demonolators, satanists, and other minority religions to observe their religious beliefs- is apparently becoming more and more problematic to some. a new trend within the american christian spiritual

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

e tree of knowledge, were denounced as the forbidden fruit, and the "serpent of wisdom" the voice of reason and consciousness, remained identified for ages with the fallen angel, which is the old dragon, the devil (vide part ii "the evil spirit, who, or what) the same for the other high symbols. the svastica, the most sacred and mystic symbol in india, the "jaina-cross" as it is now called by the masons, notwithstanding its direct connection, and even identity with the christian cross, has become dishonoured in the same manner. it is the "devil's sign" we are told by the indian missionaries "does it not shine on the head of the great serpent of vishnu, on the thousand headed sesha-ananta, in the depths of patala, the hindu naraka or hell? it does: but what is ananta? as sesha, it is the al

temple libraries under the guardianship of the hierophants and initiated priests, and was never meant for the profane. apocrypha comes from the verb crypto[[krupto "to hide" for ages the enoichion (the book of the seer) was preserved in the "city of letters" and secret works- the ancient kirjath-sepher, later on, debir (see joshua xv, 15. some of the writers interested in the subject- especially masons- have tried to identify enoch with thoth of memphis, the greek hermes, and even with the latin mercury. as individuals, all these are distinct one from the other; professionally- if one may use this word, now so limited in its sense- they belong one and all to the same category of sacred writers, of initiators and recorders of occult and ancient wisdom. those who in the quran (see surat xix

izes our human existence, for the circle of life circum[[footnote(s* the swastica is certainly one of the oldest symbols of the ancient races. in our century, says kenneth r. h. mackenzie (royal masonic cyclopeadia) it (the swastica "has survived in the form of the mallet" in the masonic fraternity. among the many "meanings" the author gives of it, we do not find, however, the most important one, masons evidently not knowing it[[vol. 2, page] 557 the primitive cross scribes the four points of the cross, which represent in succession birth, life, death, and immortality 'attach thyself' say the alchemists 'to the four letters of the tetragram disposed in the following manner: the letters of the ineffable name are there, although thou mayest not discern them at first. the incommunicable axiom

t see "the ice-age climate and time" popular science review, vol. xiv, p. 242) no wonder if mr. pengelly confesses that "it is at present and perhaps always will be impossible to reduce, even approximately, geological time into years or even into millenniums (vide supra, foot-note. a wise word of advice from the occultists to the gentlemen geologists: they ought to imitate the cautious example of masons. as chronology, they say, cannot measure the era of the creation, therefore, their "ancient and primitive rite" uses 000,000,000 as the nearest approach to reality. the same uncertainty, contradictions and disagreement reign on all other subjects. the scientific authorities on the descent of man are again, for all practical purposes, a delusion and a snare. there are many anti-darwinists in

the renovation of the ancient mysteries, and that he was to become a mason after the manner of apollo or amphion. and do not we know that the ancient initiated poets, when speaking of the foundation[[vol. 2, page] 796 the secret doctrine. of a city, meant thereby the establishment of a doctrine? thus neptune, the god of reasoning, and apollo, the god of the hidden things, presented themselves as masons before laomedon, priam's father, to help him to build the city of troy- that is to say, to establish the trojan religion (maconnerie orthodoxe, p. 44) such veiled sentences with double meaning abound in ancient classical writers. therefore, had an attempt been made to show that, e.g, laomedon was the founder of a branch of archaic mysteries in which the earth-bound material soul (the fourth

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a, or the rejection of idols, including every anthropomorphic god. in this sense every occultist is a nastika (2) it admits a logos or a collective "creator" of the universe; a demi-urgos- in the sense implied when one speaks of an "architect" as the "creator" of an edifice, whereas that architect has never touched one stone of it, but, while furnishing the plan, left all the manual labour to the masons; in our case the plan was furnished by the ideation of the universe, and the constructive labour was left to the hosts of intelligent powers and forces. but that demiurgos is no[[vol. 1, page] 280 the secret doctrine. personal deity- i.e, an imperfect extra-cosmic god- but only the aggregate of the dhyan-chohans and the other forces. as to the latter (3) they are dual in their character; be

ereal cycle, which he symbolised under the form and measurements of the tabernacle, that he is supposed to have constructed in the wilderness. on these data, the later jewish high priests constructed the allegory of solomon's temple- a building which never had a real existence, any more than had king solomon himself, who is simply, and as much a solar myth as is the still later hiram abif, of the masons, as ragon has well demonstrated. thus, if the measurements of this allegorical temple, the symbol of the cycle of[[vol. 1, page] 315 piazza smyth and petrie disagree. initiation, coincide with those of the great pyramid, it is due to the fact that the former were derived from the latter through the tabernacle of moses. that our author has undeniably discovered one and even two of the keys i

the latter should abandon its crude materialistic dogmas. and it is because it has so unwisely rejected the pythagorean monad and geometrical figures, that christian theology has evolved its self-created human and personal god, the monstrous head from whence flow in two streams the dogmas of salvation and damnation. this is so true that even those clergymen who would be philosophers and who were masons, have, in their arbitrary interpretations, fathered upon the ancient sages the queer idea that "the monad represented (with them) the throne of the omnipotent deity, placed in the centre of the empyrean to indicate t.g.a.o.t.u- read "the great architect of the universe" a curious explanation this, more masonic than strictly pythagorean. nor did the "hierogram within a circle, or equilateral

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

dictionnaire mytho-hermetique. martinez de pasqually elus-cohens l ordre des chevaliers ma ons elus cohens de l univers. 1767-1825 fabre d'olivet 1768 carl friedrich koeppen. erklaehrung einer egyptischen spitz-schule welche vor dem lateran in rom zu finden ist (interpretation of an egyptian obelisk to be found in front of the lateran in rome. 1770 "initiations of egyptian priests" by two german masons, von kappen and j. w. b. hymmen thought to have influenced the composition of cagliostro's egyptian masonry. 1773 james bruce returned from six years in abyssinia with three ethiopic copies of the "lost" book of enoch. savalette de langes, keeper of the royal treasury, and court de gebelin, founded the rite of "philalethes or searchers after truth" its aim was the perfection of man, and his

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ous beliefs in the same merciless way that they themselves had been treated. the land they occupied, now called the united states, was and is a key weapon in the brotherhood's long term plan for world domination. the masonic societies went through a massive change and expansion after the english civil war and especially in the early 1700s. up to that point, only people who worked by profession as masons or building craftsmen could be members. now it became open to all and freemasonary or speculative masonry was born. it is likely that francis bacon was a force behind this transformation. the centre of the freemasonic network that now expanded rapidly was a new grand lodge (launched in london in 1717) which became known as the mother grand lodge of the world. it was a centre of freemasonic

mid of manipulation. it was not always like this. it is said that freemasonry was once a society that was exclusive to those who worked as stonemasons and builders on the churches and cathedrals. it was then called masonry. their lodges were like trade organisations some historians claim, and their secrecy and rituals were designed to protect their profession from unskilled outsiders. most of the masons' work came from the catholic church, ruled from rome. the immense wealth of the church, most of it stolen directly or indirectly, paid for the construction of the great cathedrals on which the masons' income largely depended. but disaster came when henry viii broke with rome in 1534 and formed his own church of england after the pope refused him a divorce. this event had many implications f

mense wealth of the church, most of it stolen directly or indirectly, paid for the construction of the great cathedrals on which the masons' income largely depended. but disaster came when henry viii broke with rome in 1534 and formed his own church of england after the pope refused him a divorce. this event had many implications for the future (see the robots' rebellion) and it ensured that many masons were made unemployed. far from continuing the building programmes of rome, henry looted the monasteries and everything else he could get away with. he was broke, basically, and there were always wars to fight. one of his targets was the assets of the 'fraternities, brotherhoods and guilds. the masonry societies collapsed in the wake of this royal mugging and the desperate lack of work for t

y day of their conception. among the members of the lodges will be almost all the agents of international and national police since their service is for us irreplaceable in the respect that the police is in a position not only to use its own particular measures with the insubordinate, but also to screen our activities and to provide pretexts for discontents" protocol 15 the protocols describe the masons on the lower levels of degree- the great majority- as a part of a 'show army' who are there only "to kick dust in the eyes of their fellows. everyone is manipulating everyone else. unless we know the secret society background of people employed by the controlling institutions, be it the police, politicians, doctors, military officers, editors and journalists, or government officials, and un

folding underneath the arches which he could not have known was there. he then somehow rigs up the rope, fills his pockets with rubble, and hangs himself. yeah, sounds feasible. a second inquest in june 1983 returned an open verdict, which at least was a little more sensible, though far from the outcome the evidence demanded. there was certainly freemasonic symbolism involved in his death and the masons love their symbolism. blackfriars was once the site of a friary church run by 192..and the truth shall set you free a dominican order who were called blackfriars because of the black habits they wore. it was they who expanded the use of pulpits, hence the pulpit is a theme in the stonework on blackfriars bridge. members of the p2 lodge dressed like blackfriars for their rituals. also, one o

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ever, because freemasonry is not a revival of those mystery religions, it is a continuation of them. they never went away, only underground. freemasonry is a wonderful example of how the liluminati have the many faces of the serpent cult 175 always hidden the truth in a complex mass of degrees, levels, contradictions, mystique, and blatant lies. and no one is lied to more comprehensively than the masons themselves. jim shaw confirms that lower-degree masons (the overwhelming majority) are given false information and interpretations to keep them in the dark. even at the 33rd degree level, the official peak, most are told nothing of the true meaning of freemasonry, its symbols and agenda. symbolism is the very foundation of the anunnaki-illuminati secret language and codes (see the biggest s

bloody wars waged with christianity and judaism. these are three prison religions ultimately controlled by the same force. islam, like christianity and judaism, was also a vehicle for the systematic suppression of women and the feminine principle. again we see the connection to freemasonry. after earning the three blue lodge degrees of freemasonry and completing the scottish or york rite degrees, masons can petition to become a shriner. these who swear a blood oath and confess allah as god.43 allah is a moon god. this is why you will see a crescent moon at the top of mosques around the world, and why the shriners have the crescent moon on their fez hats. this symbol is on the flags of various islamic nations and muslims fast during the month that begins and ends with the appearance of the

of "light. there is the one you see and the one you don't. the one you see is a stunning landscape and seascape, the beauty that attracted me here many years ago. but the one you don't see is very, very, dark indeed. the island has a massive freemasonic network, astonishingly so for a place with only 125,000 people, and i had many run-ins with them in the 1980s over environmental issues when the masons were manipulating planning applications for building developments that were making some of them a fortune. but since my research into the manipulation of the world has advanced over a decade and more, 288 children of the matrix calling the demons 289 i realised that the isle of wight's dark secrets went very much deeper than that. it is one of the satanic capitals of the uk and probably muc

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ust know that it isnt?eventually the roman church withdrew its support for the merovingians and theylost their power and faded from the public scene until the last few years. anotherbloodline monarch from the reptilian stable became king of the franks. his name wascharles, better known as charlemagne, one of the most celebrated monarchs in thehistory of europe. he was an early patron of the stone masons who later built thegothic cathedrals of europe for the templars. in toulouse he is said to have founded alodge of the rosicrucian order, which has its origins at least as far back as ancientegypt,4 and relates, as stated, to the rosi-crusis, the symbol of the reptilian bloodlines.charlemagne vastly extended the frankish empire and in 800 he was installed asemperor of the west in the papal e

ge of sacred geometry. they had enjoyed a close connectionwith the knights templar since the building of the gothic cathedrals. but by the time ofhenry viii, their work was in decline. far from building more cathedrals, henry setabout looting the monasteries and the fraternities, brotherhoods and guilds to raise somemuch needed cash. to survive, the masonic guilds began to open their doors to non-masons, people from the professional classes, the businessmen, merchants, landownersand the aristocracy. it was now freemasonry and, of course, the newcomers took overthe show very quickly, we are told. what happened, in truth, is that the knightstemplar-rosicrucian-babylonian brotherhood underground, created their own initiationstructure to pass on the secret knowledge to the chosen few and keep

ent-provided instructions, my father began working me likethe legendary cinderella. i shovelled fireplace ashes, hauled and stacked firewood, rakedleaves, shovelled snow, chopped ice, and swept- because, my father said, your littlehands fit so nicely around the rake, mop, shovel, and broom handles. by this time myfathers exploitation of me included prostitution to his friends, local mobsters, and masons,relatives, satanists, strangers, and police officers. government researchers involved in mkultra project monarch knew about thephotographic memory aspect of mpd/did, of course, as well as other resultantsuper-human characteristics. visual acuity of an mpd/did is 44 times greater than that ofthe average person. my developed unusually high pain threshold, plus compartmenta-lisation of memory

akers, the goldsmiths, andsuch like. in fact they are secret societies fundamental to the control of the cityinstitutions and much further afield. in the 1350s, in the wake of the plague known as theblack death, government of the city was passed from the ward councils to the citylivery companies. the templars were still very active behind the scenes and the powerappeared to be concentrated in the masons guild. this network interlocks with itsoffshoots around the world. in 1979, the year that margaret thatcher became britishprime minister, the honourable company of freemen of the city of london of north383america began to hold meetings in new york and toronto, and on october 21st 1991the association of liverymen of the city of london in hong kong was founded and alltheir members appeared to

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question it. we see this echoed within the public education system which does not teach children about masonic influences within the united states presidency, government, big business and other countries. no one even questions it either. people are unaware. i went through the u.s. education system. i certainly wasn't taught that freemasonry was behind the luciferic design in washington d.c. some masons may not even be aware of that fact because they went through the same education system i did. i also wasn't aware that masonry had such a large influence in the u.s. presidency both past and present. people who have been born into this world do not realize that they have been taught falsehoods and deprived of certain informations which are vital to their freedom. thirty three is the highest

etations of its symbols, so that you would merely think you knew the truth "so masonry jealously conceals its secrets and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray [ibid, p. 105] with that pike completes his instructions to intentionally mislead members of the visible organization. the term "masses" refers to those who are members of the visible organization and it comprises of 95% of all masons. listen to what pike says about telling the truth of the organization to the 'masses "a spirit, he said "that loves wisdom and contemplates the truth close at hand, is forced to disguise it, to induce the multitudes [that is you] to accept it. fictions are necessary to the people, and the truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance [morals

0 pentagrams on it with thirteen stripes. but again, as mentioned in an earlier page, the number 13 is not evil. they have programmed us to think that it is evil because they do not want us to go near the knowledge that is behind it. the real matrix: freemasonry there is more to this "clever system" than meets the eye. it is called "freemasonry" freemasonry is linked to satanism, however, not all masons are evil or have evil intentions. in fact, a majority of them are mislead and kept in the dark as to what the true agenda is. superior masons deliberately lie to their fellow masons, as those masons "deserve to be mislead" explanations given to 95% of all masons are wrong. listen to this quote from a masonic author, carl claudy "cut through the outer shell and find a meaning; cut through th

er shell and find a meaning; cut through that meaning and find another; under it, if you dig deep enough, you may find a third, a fourth- who shall say how many teachings" so we see that freemasonry deliberately misleads its members. this behavior of course, is not limited to just members of freemasonry, it extends to the entire human race. freemasonry is a worship of lucifer by the top 5% of all masons. you can spot evidences of satanism all over the world. there are numerous masonic/satanic symbols on this web site, all of which originate from this secret society called "the brotherhood of the serpent/snake" many call it "big brother" without even realizing its extraterrestrial origins. it was also known in ancient egypt as "the mystery schools" freemasonry is the secret organization fam

ssed without the chaos. the order has reigned by deception of the masses, and the agenda is accomplished. after all, it is those secret societies (which follow this egyptian model) that control the finances, governments, and religious systems that currently plague the planet with perversions of truth and fascist agendas not becoming of the truly enlightened. below are quotes written by high level masons praising lucifer with references "the mysteries of magic' by eliphas levi "what is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. the intellectual lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the holy spirit, while the physical lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism" page 428 'the book o

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church condemned every natural inclination as sinful and wicked. the only way to salvation, the people were told, was denial of the flesh and obedience to the church and state. it is questionable whether or not there was a single satanist before the inquisition, but as a result of christian oppression (and repression) the cult of satanism and practice of witchcraft and magic developed. those evil masons& brothers of the rosy cross masonic lodges, which began to appear in france and england in the 18th century and spread to other countries, made a number of false claims: a) the origin of masonry can be traced to ancient jerusalem and the construction of solomon s temple, b) freemasonry is linked with the knights templar, and c) the leader of the lodge is in contact with master beings who li

eister crowley, and others. the eol also contributes a new magic (the demonic bible) and a new philosophy (deitic philosophy) with which others may experiment. as a political and diplomatic organization, the eol places itself apart from any particular religious organization. membership in the eol does not preclude membership in the church of satan, the temple of set, the ordo templi orientis, the masons, or any other fraternal, religious, or secular organization. the rcol, the ecclesiastical arm of the eol, has been disbanded due in part to the potential for conflict with certain organizations but also for its irrelevance to the goals of the eol. as a magical temple, the eol is open to anyone who shares its philosophical approach. and as a diplomatic organization, the eol has worked, and w

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ings, however, require detailed knowledge, and that can only be got together gradually. it is more than one pen can do unaided, and i should welcome the correspondence of those who are interested in these subjects, not as research into antiquity, but as living forces that come home to men's business and bosoms. 5. all that remains to us of ceremonial in the west is in the hands of the church, the masons, and the producers of cabaret. all three are effectual after their kind: the church mystical qabala page 208 [page 306] evoking love of god; masonry evoking love of man; and cabaret evoking love of women. 6. viewed as a means of invoking the spirit of god, ceremonial is pure superstition; but viewed as a means of evoking the spirit of man, it is pure psychology, and that is how i view it. i

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haute magie. two volumes. paris: g. balliere, 1856. 10. thine art, malchut (the kingdom, and gebura (the power, and hesed (the mercy, forever. 11. a hebrew prophet says "he that consulteth spirits will not so t- the first motion you make to do that, i'll shoot you dead- low twelve "by their deeds ye shall know them" a series of striking and truthful incidents illustrative of the fidelity of free masons to one. another in times of distress and danger by edward s. ellis, a.m. p, m. trenton (n. j) lodge, no. 5 f& a. m. new york f. r. niglutsch 1907 copyright, 1907 by f. r. niglutsch introduction it is to be feared that some enthusiastic writers on free masonry give the order an antiquity that is more or less imaginative. one specially ardent author makes the patriarchs and other noted biblic

us duties, and it was natural that a craft whose principal business was church building should receive the special attention and care of the clergy. so marked became the influence of the free masons that the jealousy of the church was aroused long before the reformation. henry of beaufort, cardinal of winchester, instigated the passage of an act, during the minority of henry vi, which forbade the masons to hold their accustomed chapters and assemblies. but the act was never enforced, and when henry vi. became of age he joined the order, while henry vii. was the grand master in england. the origin of operative masonry is traced back by many to the old roman empire, the pharaohs, the temple of solomon, even to the tower of babel and to the ark of noah. speculative free masonry originated in

al virtue" its characteristic feature being charity in the broadest sense, brotherly love, relief and truth. it is because of this foundation, so closely approaching that which is divine, that the growth, prosperity and permanence of the noble institution is due. it has withstood every shock and will continue its beneficent sway to the end of time. introduction v charles ii. and william iii. were masons, and a seeming connection with operative masonry was kept up by the appointment of sir christopher wren to the office of grand master. the scottish lodges claim origin among the foreign masons who came to scotland in i iso to build kilwinning abbey; those of england go back to an assemblage of masons held by st. alban at york in 926. the mother lodges of york and kilwinning were, with a few

hapter has four degrees- mark master, past master, most excellent master and the royal arch, together with an honorary order of high priesthood. the council has two degrees-royal master and select master. the commandery has three orders-knight of the red cross, knight templar and knight of malta. free masonry has been tardy in admitting the african race to recognition. the first negroes made free masons were prince hall and fourteen colored citizens of boston. the travelling lodge of a british regiment in 1775 conferred the symbolic degrees upon them. england granted them a charter in 1787, and the first masonic lodge, with prince hall as master, was instituted. in 1797 a second negro lodge was established in philadelphia and a third soon after in providence. these three lodges united in f

m. england granted them a charter in 1787, and the first masonic lodge, with prince hall as master, was instituted. in 1797 a second negro lodge was established in philadelphia and a third soon after in providence. these three lodges united in forming a grand lodge in 18o8, which in 1827 declared itself independent of england. our colored grand lodges now number over thirty. the legality of these masons is indisputable, but as much can hardly be said of the negro royal arch masons, commandery and scottish rite. liberia, on the west coast of africa, has had a legitimate grand lodge for sixty years. in some parts of germany jews are not admitted as candidates, nor are they recognized as such individually. these isolated instances of race prejudice must disappear with the progress of enlighte

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ek mysteries were added to the rite by the ladies hospitallers of mount tabor. the greatest ladies in france joined the french lodges of adoption. the rite of mizraim created lodges for both sexes in 1819, 1821, 1838, and 1853, and the rite of memphis in 1839. america founded the rite of the eastern star in five points. in these systems, admission was generally confined to the female relations of masons. the order of the eastern star and that of adoptive masonry were attempted in scotland but without success. adramelech according to johan weyer, adramelech is chancellor of the infernal regions, keeper of the wardrobe of the demon king, and president of the high council of the devils. he was worshiped at sepharvaim, an assyrian town, where children were burned on his altar. rabbis of the pe

lly any christian elements in their past. the pact was then signed in blood (see satanism) brotherhood of the trowel a whimsical masonic society founded in florence, italy, in 1512, composed of eminent architects, sculptors, and painters. its emblems were the trowel, the gavel, and the square, and its patron was st. andrew. the society may have been an offshoot of an older fraternity of traveling masons. the rites are believed to have been a travesty of genuine masonry, culminating in a banquet. the society existed until 1737. brotherhood of the white temple the brotherhood of the white temple is a theosophical occult organization founded in 1903 in denver, colorado, by maurice doreal (d. 1963, the religious name of claude doggins. a lifelong student of the occult, doreal claimed to have s

hoods that disentanglement is an extremely difficult process. the ancient legend of its foundation at the time of the building of the temple at jerusalem is manifestly mythical. if one might hazard an opinion, it would seem that at a very early epoch in the history of civilization, a caste arose of builders in stone, who jealously guarded the secret of their craft. where such a caste of operative masons might have arisen is altogether a separate question, but it must obviously have been in a country where working in stone was one of the principal arts. it is free daist communion encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 604 also almost certain that this early brotherhood must have been hierophantic with a leadership adept in the ancient mysteries. its principal work to begin with

re conspicuous everywhere, and we know that among the ruins of central america temples and palaces alone remain, the huts of the surrounding dwellers having long ago disappeared. the temple was the nucleus of the early city. commerce, agriculture, and all the affairs of life revolved around the worship of the gods. a medieval cathedral took more than one generation to erect, and in that time many masons came and went. the lodge was invariably founded near the rising cathedral or abbey, and apprentices and others started work as opportunity offered. indeed, a man might serve his apprenticeship and labor all through his life on one building, without ever seeing any work elsewhere. the evidence as to whether the master-masons were also architects is very conflicting, and it has been held that

cathedral or abbey, and apprentices and others started work as opportunity offered. indeed, a man might serve his apprenticeship and labor all through his life on one building, without ever seeing any work elsewhere. the evidence as to whether the master-masons were also architects is very conflicting, and it has been held that the priests were the architects of the british cathedrals, the master-masons and operatives merely carrying out their designs. there is good evidence, however, that this is not wholly true. of all arts, architecture is by far the most intricate. it is undoubtedly one that requires a long and specific training. questions arise of stress and strain of the most difficult description, and it is obvious that ecclesiastics, who had not undergone any special training, woul

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dionysian mysteries of the hellenistic and roman age. lund, sweden: c. w. k. gleerup, 1957. ouvaroff, m. essay on the mysteries of eleusis. london: rodwell& martin, 1817. mystic order of veiled prophets of the enchanted realm in spite of its name, the mystic order of veiled prophets of the enchanted realm is not an occult or mystical organization, but entirely a fellowship association for master masons. the order was created in 1889 by leroy fairchild and members of a masonic lodge in hamilton, new york. it grew out of an expressed desire of lodge members for diversions from the mundane concerns. meeting for the first time in september of 1889, the order was originally known as the fairchild deviltry committee. the idea proved a popular one, and the next year, members of the growing organ

or diversions from the mundane concerns. meeting for the first time in september of 1889, the order was originally known as the fairchild deviltry committee. the idea proved a popular one, and the next year, members of the growing organization formally instituted the supreme council of the mystic order of veiled prophets of the enchanted realm. from the beginning, membership was limited to master masons in good standing. in spite of its major membership requirement, the order is not formally connected to any particular masonic organization and does not engage in masonic rituals. it does encourage the members participation in their lodge, but the rituals and activities of the order are strictly for fun. the unique ritual of the order is an elaborately staged production that amid its humor o

pliny was skeptical about magic and astrology, he described many of the occult beliefs of his time (see also earthquake prediction) plummer, george winslow (1876.1944) george winslow plummer, cofounder of the societas rosicruciana in america, was born august 25, 1876, in boston, massachusetts. he graduated from brown university and moved to new york city as an artist. along the way he joined the masons. at this time there was within the masonic movement a rosicrucian society, but its membership was limited to masons. in 1907 sylvester c. gould decided to found a rosicrucian group that would be open to all. plummer worked with gould in the formation of the group, the societas rosicruciana in america, and the founding of a periodical, the rosicrucian brotherhood. gould died in 1909, and plu

ed the present headquarters in rural pennsylvania near quakertown. clymer was eventually succeeded by his son emerson clymer. the rosicrucian fraternity differs from other rosicrucian groups in its refusal to advertise or engage in selfpromotional activities. in england the idea of rosicrucianism was passed through the masonic orders and thereby came to frederick hockley. in 1865 a small group of masons founded the societas rosicruciana in anglia (rsia; the rosicrucian society of england (there is some hint of a rosicrucian society having been founded in the 1830s, but its existence is somewhat shadowy) the rsia published a small quarterly magazine, beginning in 1868 and continuing through the end of the 1870s, which in an early number stated that the society was calculated to meet the req

brotherhood is a plausible hypothesis. the entry on the templars, for example, suggests the possibility of that brotherhood having received its tenets from the east. it seems very likely that its rites were oriental in origin, and certainly the occult systems of europe owed much to the templars, who, probably, after the fall of their own order, secretly formed others or joined existing societies. masons have a hypothesis that they inherited traditions from the dionysian artificers, the artisans of byzantium, and the building brotherhoods of western europe. this is not a proven theory; however, it is much more feasible than the romantic legend concerning the rise of freemasonry at the time of the building of the temple of solomon. one of the chief reasons that we know so little concerning t

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pt for their philosophy, their philanthropy, and their magic. where is there such a combination as this of religious toleration, emotional linkage with the mediaeval past, emphasis on good works for others, and imaginative attachment to the religion and the symbolism of the egyptians? the only answer to this question that i can think of is in freemasonry, with its mythical link with the mediaeval masons, its toleration, its philanthropy, and its egyptian symbolism. freemasonry does not appear in england as a recognisable institution until the early seventeenth century, but it certainly had predecessors, antecedents, traditions of some kind going back much earlier, though this is a most obscure subject. we are fumbling in the dark here, among strange mysteries, but one cannot help wondering

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id a reformation. these generous principles are to extend further. every human being has a claim upon your good offices. do good unto all. recommend it more especially to "the household of the faithful" finally, brethren, be ye all of one mind; live in peace; and may the god of love and peace delight to dwell with and bless you. benediction may the blessing of heaven rest upon us, and all regular masons! may brotherly love prevail, and every moral and social virtue cement us! amen. response.so mote it be. form for minutes stated communication of portland lodge, no.1, held in masonic hall in portland, wednesday, october 4, a. d. 1876, a. l. 5876. officers present [give the name of each officer, designating those temporarily filling any chair by the word" as "between the name and the office)

more ancient than the golden fleece or roman eagle; more honorable than the star and garter, or any other order that can be conferred upon you at this or any future period, by king, prince, potentate, or any other person, except he be a mason, and which i hope you will wear with pleasure to yourself and honor to the fraternity. the twentyfour inch gauge. is an instrument made use of by operative masons to measure and lay out their work; but we, as free and accepted masons, are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of dividing our time. it being divided into twentyfour equal parts, is emblematical of the twentyfour hours of the day, which we are taught to divide into three equal parts, whereby we find eight hours for the service of god and a distressed worthy bro

of dividing our time. it being divided into twentyfour equal parts, is emblematical of the twentyfour hours of the day, which we are taught to divide into three equal parts, whereby we find eight hours for the service of god and a distressed worthy brother; eight for our usual vocations; and eight for refreshment and sleep. common gavel. the common gavel is an instrument made use of by operative masons to break off the corners of rough stones, the better to fit them for the builder's use, but we as free and accepted masons are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of divesting our minds and consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life, thereby fitting us as living stones for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heaven

wears the.lambskin as a badge of masonry, is thereby continually reminded of that purity of life and conduct which is essentially necessary to his gaining admission into the celestial lodge above, where the supreme architect of the universe presides. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (8 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:54 am] third section. a lodge is a certain number of masons duly assembled, having the holy bible, square and compasses, with a charter or warrant empowering them to work. the form of a lodge* the supports of a lodge. our institution is said to be supported by three great pillars, called wisdom, strength and beauty. it is necessary there should be wisdom to contrive, strength to support, and beauty to adorn all great and important undertakings. cove

mpowering them to work. the form of a lodge* the supports of a lodge. our institution is said to be supported by three great pillars, called wisdom, strength and beauty. it is necessary there should be wisdom to contrive, strength to support, and beauty to adorn all great and important undertakings. covering of a lodge. it is no less than the clouded canopy or starry decked heaven, where all good masons hope at last to arrive, by the aid of that theological ladder which jacob in his vision saw ascending from earth to heaven called jacob's ladder, the three principal rounds of which are called faith, hope and charity. the greatest of these is charity, because our faith may be lost in sight, hope ends in fruition, but charity extends beyond the grave through the boundless realms of eternity

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sharply between the catholic hierarchy and the catholic religion, but the former are also our brothers; we would not throw stones either physically or morally, for we know our own shortcomings too well to attack others. thus our opposition is not personal, but spiritual, and to be fought with the weapon of the spirit--reason. we firmly believe it to be for the everlasting good of mankind that the masons should win, and cannot therefore be sure to present the catholic side in a perfectly unbiased manner, but we ask our students for whom this is written, to believe that we shall try to be just. of the cosmic facts we are certain, but bias may creep into our conclusions, therefore each must use his reason to test what we have to say, viz "prove all things and hold fast that which is good" the

revealed in "the light of the world" the son, who is the highest initiate of the sun period. as the unseen fire is revealed in the flame, so also the fullness of the father dwelt in the son, and they are one as fire is one with the flame in which it manifests. this is the root of all true sun and fire worship. all look beyond the physical symbol and adore "our father who art in heaven" the mystic masons of today hold this faith in fire as firmly as ever. thus it will be seen that the unity which prevailed in the saturn period continued in the sun period. the ordinary humanity of that time has now evolved to the glory of archangels; some were more advanced than others, but there was no antagonism among them. our present humanity had advanced to a plantlike stage, and was slightly above the

flowered into the conception of the magnificent temple called solomon's temple, though solomon has only the instrument to carry out the divine plan revealed by jehovah to david. but solomon was unable to execute the divine design in concrete form. therefore it became necessary for him to apply to king hiram of tyre, the descendent of cain, who selected hiram abiff, the son of a widow (as all free masons are called because of the relation of their divine progenitor with eve) hiram abiff then became grand master of the army of construction. in him the arts and crafts of all the sons of cain who had gone before had flowered. he was skilled beyond all others in the work of the world, without which the plan of jehovah must have remained forever a divine dream, and could never have become a conc

with their retinue, the churchmen, must finally merge and be unified in the kingdom of christ. we have already seen how hiram abiff, the widow's son, left his father, the lucifer spirit samael, after the baptism of fire in the molten sea, and how he received the mission to prepare the way for the kingdom among the sons of cain, his brethren, by developing their arts and crafts as temple builders--masons- and teaching them the preparation of the philosopher's stone or molten sea. thus also the physically negative sons of seth must learn to leave their father, jehovah, and naturally the first to take the step must be a great soul. as the superlative skill of the sons of cain was focused in hiram abiff at the time of his baptism of fire, so the sublime spirituality of the sons of seth was cen

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spirit, but try (test) the spirits whether they are of god: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" we see that any religious teaching that does not conform to scripture is from a "false prophet" many people still do not understand the importance of studying this subject to its logical conclusion. their spiritual freedom is at stake. remember two things about masonry: 1) superior masons deliberately lie to their fellow masons, as those masons "deserve to be mislead" 2) explanations given to 95% of all masons are wrong. this quote from masonic author, carl claudy sums it all up "cut through the outer shell and find a meaning; cut through that meaning and find another; under it, if you dig deep enough, you may find a third, a fourth- who shall say how many teachings" many wh

ashington d.c. freemasons worship lucifer, the light-bearer. lucifer and satan are biblically the same individual, freemasonry is really the worship of satan. by quoting their own sources and depicting the symbols in which they use, this claim is proven. freemasonry gives itself away more through its symbols than it does in its writings. you saw in the analogy page of "the matrix" that high level masons praise lucifer. it is within these writings the "smoking gun" will be found, proof that masons worship satan. once this is comprehended, you will understand why "they" have been trying to keep this all secret. if people really understood that masonry is the worship of satan, no one in their right mind would join. not only that but people would demand that this organization be outlawed. you

people who haven't studied this subject would assume that this "light" is the revelation of the god of the bible. this statement is continuously held up to try to convince us that masonry is christian. in the above quote, albert pike is saying that lucifer is the one who bears the light of freemasonry. the sentence immediately preceding confirms not only that lucifer is the light-bearer, but that masons of previous degrees have been led to believe that the opposite was true. the wording of this sentence is difficut to understand unless you have special knowledge. doc marquis was asked for his explanation, lets look at what he had to say "the apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth degree, the apotheosis of that sublime faith which aspires to god alone, and despises all the pomps

is known to hate satan. pike then says that these three books "are the completest embodiment of occultism [ibid] now, we understand that pike views the god of the apocalypse as being the opposite but equal to satan just as typical occultists believe and teach! secondly, doc marquis provides the esoteric, occultic, explanation. pike is also saying in this sentence that, in the previous 18 degrees, masons believed that god was the light-bearer, but now, in this 19th degree, pike is giving them new revelation. this insight completely squares with stated masonic policy of deliberately misleading masons in the lower degrees until they were really ready for the "truth" this is the truth- masonry worships lucifer. pike's typical satanic phrase- out where everyone can see concrete evidence is then

bill cooper, describe freemasonry. cooper was a member of demolay during his youth, and later, spent over 20 years in naval intelligence. he is most familiar with the organizations which are driving the world into the new world order and the appearance of its messiah, the biblical antichrist "i tell you now that freemasonry is one of the most wicked and terrible organizations upon this earth. the masons are major players in the struggle for world domination. the 33rd degree is split into two. one split contains the core of the luciferian illuminati and the other contains those who have no knowledge of it whatsoever [behold a pale horse, p. 78] freemasonry the worship of lucifer, satan part 2 of 5 this page concentrates on masonic symbols. occultists put an enormous emphasis on communicatin

GAMBLE ELIZA BURT THE GOD IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS OR SEX IN RELIGION

the female element in the deity may not be doubted. an ancient homily on trinity sunday has the following "at the deth of a manne, three bells should be ronge as his kuyl in worship of the trinitie, and for a woman, who was the second person of the trinitie two bells should be ronge" upon this subject hargrave jennings remarks "here we have the source of the emblematic difficulty among the master masons who constructed the earlier cathedrals, as to the addition, and as to the precise value of the second (or feminine) tower of the western end or galilee of the church"[148 [148] rosicrucians, vol. i, p. 206. the fact that the religion of the ancient irish, who, were phallic worshippers, was modified but not radically changed by the introduction of christianity, is believed by at least one of

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

toutits views as follows:1.thatareturnto thestatusquoante1890 on the lines proposed by the draftconstitutionof1903 was impossible or at least undesirable.2.thatthe alleged derivation from athirdorderwas amatterof opinion and could not be affirmed certainly.3.thatthe electionofchiefswhetherautocratic or otherwise was not in accordancewiththestatusquoante.4.thatthe chiefs of theorderwere originally masons andthaton areturnto the status in question theymustagain be masons. 5.thatthe principle of examinationwithinthesecondorderwas objectionable. 6.thatthe continued use of the defective rituals and the setting aside of the revised rituals couldnotbe tolerated. 7.thatthe draft' constitution of 1903 was designed to further individual ambitions. 8.thatseveral persons in the minority felt that athi

vocation, held on 16 april 1904, waite was able to report an increaseofeight secondordermembers and from theouterorder(including algernon blackwood,arthurmachen, and pamelacolmansmith).hewas also able to tell the membersthatrevised rituals for the neophyte and zelator grades had been completed and were ready for use. meetingsofthe.outerorder267of the. independent and rectifiedritewere held'atmark masons' hall, greatqueenstreet-ashad always been the casewiththeisis-urania temple;butit wasnotuntilearly in 1905267that a home was found for the second. orderand waite could report to the membersthat'thepropertiesofthe secondorderhave been removed from the depository and placed at 16 allison road, acton, where they are underthecareofc.h.fratermawahanuthesi [blackden]whohas made himself inpartresp

u most cordially for the honour which you havedone me in conferring upon me the order of st martin. the fact that i am not a masonmakesthat honoursomewhatexceptional,and i can butvalueit the more highly in consequence' he returned the rituals toyarkerand addedthe hope that 'i shallproveuseful, asi shallcertainly endeavour to beactive,in the diffusion of the order among occult students who are not masons (letter of 5 february1897).there is noevidencethat waite applied isreligion'127for a charter, but papus (dr gerardencausse,1865-1916, the founder in 1884 of the martinist order, referred to the setting-up of two new 'formations' in england when he addressed the international congress of spiritualistsin1898;one of these mayhaveinvolvedwaite. he did,however,sendpapusa copy of his booklouiscla

notbegin well:'myprojected journey to scotland .tookplace by themidnighttrain on friday and ,i, reached kilmarnock intheearly morning, asmightwell havebeen expected, in drenching rain.'itwas afternoon before hemethis host, colonel spence 'comingfromthe stationthrougha seaofmud 'spence didnotimpresshim'as beingof any particular attainments orofmore than average education',nordid theotherkilmarnock masons meet his expectations 'a considerable proportionofthembelonged to the mechanic order while one ortwolooked as if they were shepherds. waite was also disappointedwiththeceremony,whichhe recorded as 'an almost indescribable initiation, in which'therewas noattemptat reciting the ritual from memory, books being used for the purpose andtheceremony was simply muddled through. worse was to follow:

ourpower should be done to corroborate and extendourknowledge andnotto restrict itwithinthe present narrow limits. we consider that special attention should be given to historical and mystical research. we hold that theordershould be reconstituted and desire to reconstitute it on its original basis prior to the ascendency obtainedbyasingle chief.theorderwas established about 1885 by chiefswhowere masons and possessedhighgrades in the masonic fraternity. if these chiefs were warrantedbyathirdorder, they were inouropinion warranted as masons.theorder. at that time was ruled fromwithina body in which the masonic qualification was. requiredofjoiningmembers.theorderin respectofits rituals as well asofits government was masonic at that period and is still masonic by its rituals. it has become di

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

tificateofadmission it is made clear that the rosicrucians are essentially christian and primarily concerned with alchemy. as in freemasonry, rosicrucian brethren are sworn to eschew politics utterly, but contrary to masonic practice'oursociety does not exclude a worthy woman from being initiated, this provision dating, perhaps, from1490when the rosicrucians 'did separate themselves from the free-masons. from this, and from the fact that it had no instituted rituals, it would seem that de chazal's order did not derive from the german masonic order of the golden and rosy cross, of1m,butfrom the earlier alchemical rosicrucians described by sig255 mund richter in1710.bacstrom gives a further account of defoundation15chazal in a letterof1804to alexander tilloch, one of his fellow alchemists,bu

d which has yet to be fully appreciated.thethirdofthe1903triumvirate, with ayton and waite, was marcus worsley blackden, a gentleman egyptologistwho joined the golden dawn in august1896,shortly after waite's re255 admission. unlike waite, blackden joined florence farr's sphere group, but he and waite both decided that masonic initiation was essential for adepts and accordingly they were both made masons in1901.in the followingyear they both joined the s.r.i.a. and in1903they seized the golden dawn, although blackden's active involvement in the new order was brief, for waite records that in1904frater mawahanu thesi (a supposed and quite untranslatable egyptian motto 'married a first cousin and retired to a country house in the neighbourhood of the new forest. from there he returned in1914to

oice within it and pray pardon meifi say that perhaps unconsciously you seem to speak as its interpreter.'thiswas both perceptive andprescient-brodie255innes did, indeed, believe in the authorityofthethirdorder andoftheir mouthpiece, macgregor mathers, and in due course he found his way back to mathers' fold. on 7 november1903,the independent and rectified rite held its first convocation, at mark masons' hall, and the members were presented with a reportofthe events since june, the correspondence with brodie-innes was displayed and the offerofa concordat left open, while it was announced that the new rite 'will act henceforward in all respects as the governing body, assuming in this capacity the chargeofthe outer order andofthe members thereof. now firmly in charge, for blackdeneffectively

wknown asfrateraryabhatha-wastoo frail to attend meetings, waite set about turning theorderaway from magic and along the mystical path. his own 'historical notes' on theorderreflect his deter255 mination only in an oblique manner:in this manner frater sacramentum regis became automatically thechiefadept in charge of the golden dawn.thelower grades of theorderhad met for years on saturdays at mark masons' hall, greatemanationqueen street, and continued to do so.thesecond order, repre255 sented erroneouslyabinceptioneby the 5=6 grade and certain connected lectures, met separately at various houses rented for the purpose and set apart thereto.therewas one at staple inn, london, which continued for several years and another on the outskirts of kensington, to the north west of earl's terrace, b

d be done to corrobo255 rate and extend our knowledge and not to restrict it within the present narrow limits. we consider that special attention should be given to historical and mystical research. we hold that theordershould be reconstituted and desire to reconstitute it on its original basis prior to the ascendency obtained by a single chief.theorder was established about1885by chiefs who were masons and possessed high grades in the masonic fraternity.ifthese chiefs were warranted by athirdorder, they were in our opinion warranted as masons.theorder at that time was ruled from within a body in which the masonic qualification was requiredofjoining members.theorder in respect of its rituals as well as of its government was masonic at that period and is still masonic by its rituals.ithas b

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horoughly competent modern hebrew scholar, in his published workthe essenes,1864,summarises almost all previous authorities, which are non-masonic, and makes no assertions of the use of secret words, signs, or attitudes. no useful purpose would be serviced by quoting from other masonic books and lectures of the last century which make similar claims of the relationship between essenes and free255 masons; it is folly to perpetuate errors. i have read carefully the works of the oldest authorities in the greek and latin, and in their english versions given by thejewish encyclopedia,by ginsburg and by moffat, and i find no corroboration of the assertions that the essenes had any ceremony of initiation, any definite ritual, any signs or words of recognition, or any recognised postures in giving

e result is quite apparent in our own times, for almost every entered apprentice seeks his third degree, lodge officers aim at the dignity of a worshipful master, and past masters, according to their position, means and opportunities, aspire to office in the grand lodge of the nation.[reprinted fromarsquaruorcoronarorum,vol. 29 (1916),pp.1-9.]24. religiousandmasonic symbolism ofstonesas operative masons are mostly concerned with preparing and shaping stones and with fixing them into buildings, so we free and accepted masons are much concerned with the symbolic meanings which stones have received in the religious worship of all ages and peoples, and also in the emblematic uses of stones as exhibited in our ceremonies and rituals. it has been found from the earliest times that men were dispo

erence to a cape255 stone. a. e. waite notices a scotch grade of marked-master whose legend narrates the fall of the cape-stone or coping255 stone of the north gate of the temple of solomon, which killed the intendant of the works.thedouble cube is a form of special excellence, and its side, often absurdly called the 'oblong-square, is considered to be the proper form for a masonic lodge. english masons refer to the rough ashlar and the perfect ashlar; these are the unhewn block and the finished cube. in earlier times some lodges appear to have exhibited a peculiar stone, the broached thurne1, a name which has lately led to much controversy as to its shape, and the manner in which its surface has been worked: some authors have declared it to be the same as the rough ashlar because an old e

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

oth, without running through intermediate numbers: there is a sudden transition from 1 to 10, and from 10 to 100. now that is put down in the kabala in what is called the kabala of nine chambers. the hebrew letters and symbols are arranged in a cross formed of two lines drawn vertically and two lines drawn horizontally, making nine compartments#are also used for the symbols contained within them. masons will recognise that a superficial and rather rough form of this is used as a cryptogram in arch-masonry. the full and complete explana255 tion and working out of this kabala of nine chambers belongs only to the hermetic and rosicrucian temples, and can only be fully explained to initiated hermetists. but, as a crypto255 gram, they claim to understand what it means, and perhaps i may say tha

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

higher degrees were initiated into the swedenborgian degrees. a lodge, called menei temple no. 1, was organized and began work, feb, 1859, in the old kane lodge room, broadway, new york city. from thence it was removed to the egyptian room, odd fellows hall. and worked from may, 1861 1862. a few meetings were subsequently held in the montauk lodge room, brooklyn, long island. some of the leading masons of new york have had the degrees conferred on them by communication: indeed, but few of the members have seen the degrees worked in full. applications for admission have come from every quarter of the american continent, and there can be no doubt that the swedenborgian rite is destined, in a few years, to spread itself over the continent of america, north, south, east, and west. if its lead

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

hostile to freemasonry27[27. each successive work became more extravagant in its allegations of satanic practices within freemasonry, until the publication in 1891 of y-a-t-il des femmes dans la franc-maconnerie, in which 'leo taxil' described the rituals of the 'new and reformed palladium, an androgynous and satanic rite ultimately derived from albert pike, one of the most prominent of american masons. this nonsense was avidly swallowed by the french anti-masonic lobby, as were the utterly fantastic tales of 'dr. bataille (dr. charles hacks) in le diable au xix siecle (1892-4. further fuel was added to the anti-masonic fire with the revelations of the supposed head of the 'new and reformed palladium, miss diana vaughan, soi-disant descendant of thomas vaughan the alchemist, and recent co

rebuttals of her claims was published in the correspondence columns of the spiritualist journal light29[29, and waite then analysed the whole of the literature about the palladium in his book devil-worship in france30[30, demonstrating conclusively the fictitious nature of the whole affair- and this a year before jogand-pages admitted that it had been a hoax designed to embarrass the french anti-masons. 27[27] there are twelve in all, the most important being revelations completes sur la franc-maconnerie (1886) and les freres trois-points (1885. 28[28] op. cit, p. 247 29[29] waite's letters were printed in the issues of 7 december 1895, 4 january, 28 march and 6 june 1896. 30[30] devil- worship in france, or the question of lucifer. a record of things seen and heard in the secret societie

author had taken a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and popular interest in masonic satanists waned rapidly so that waite's sequel, diana vaughan and the question of modern palladism35[35, was never published. it is, nonetheless, worth quoting its conclusion for it shows a significant change in waite's attitude to freemasonry 'it is a satisfaction to be able to add that the reception of my book among masons has not at all justified the common accusation of languid interest shown by the rank and file of the brethren towards all that concerns the craft. it is sometimes said that the fraternity in england possesses no literature because masons fail to support any enterprise of the kind. possibly the average brother is not a more serious personage than the average man anywhere, and i must admit th

tember 1896, and f. legge's review in the contemporary review (date not ascertained. 35[35] the typescript survives. it is on 130 leaves, typed on one side only order, but personally i have no cause to complain of what has resulted from my first attempt to interest and vindicate the institution'36[36. this change on waite's part had already been perceived by the more rabid of roman- catholic anti-masons who saw him as a prime mover of the satanic conspiracy 'it is perfectly apparent that during the last thirty years the english leading masonic knights, whether in europe or america, have imbibed more or less of the magical teachings of the french magician (eliphas levi, and we do not known anyone who contributed to this result more than mr. a. e. waite did in england, and 'no one has contri

itiator to anybody or to make it public in what manner soever. 1 have read with great interest and have carefully transcribed the ms. containing the first two books of the ritual, and 1 return it herewith. i shall look forward to the receipt of the third. i trust that i shall prove useful, as i shall certainly endeavour to be active, in the diffusion of the order among occult students who are not masons'40[40. no correspondence with 'papus' survives from this period and it is not possible to determine whether or not waite applied for a charter but, in an address to the international congress (of spiritualists) in 1898 'papus' referred to the progress of his order, which had added two new martinist 'formations' in england during 189741[41. one of these may well have involved waite, although

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of evolution revisited..118 vi. the masonic war against religion..155 conclusion..185 notes..188 contents reemasonry is a subject that has attracted much discussion for several centuries. some have accused masonry of fantastic crimes and misdeeds. instead of trying to understand "the brotherhood" and criticizing it objectively, critics have been unduly hostile to the organization. for their part, masons have deepened their traditional reticence in the face of these accusations, preferring to present themselves as an ordinary social club which they are not. this book contains a correct exposition of masonry as a school of thought. the most important unifying influence among masons is their philosophy which can be best described according to such terms as "materialism" and "secular humanism"

unifying influence among masons is their philosophy which can be best described according to such terms as "materialism" and "secular humanism" but, it is an errant philosophy based on false suppositions and flawed theories. this is the basic starting- point from which masonry must be criticized. it is necessary to point out from the start that such criticism is important, not only to inform non-masons on the subject, but also to invite masons themselves to see the truth. of course, masons, like everyone else, are free to choose for themselves, and can adopt whatever worldview they wish and to live in accordance with it. this is their natural right. but, others also have a right to expose their errors and to criticize them, and this is what this present book attempts to do. we follow the

fluential in the imposition of these dogmas to non-western civilizations. finally, we will discuss the methods masonry has used to help establish and perpetuate a social order based on these dogmas. their philosophy and the methods they use to establish this philosophy will be exposed and criticized. it is hoped that the important facts related in this book will be a means whereby many, including masons, will be able to look at the world with better awareness. after reading this book, the reader will be able to consider many subjects, from schools of philosophy to newspaper headlines, rock songs to political ideologies, with a deeper understanding, and better discern the meaning and aims behind events and factors. dc -ifrom the templars to ancient egypt the crusaders he common perception o

e bankers: a book about the templars the same article, as in masonry, the members of the order of the templars called each other "brother."10 towards the end of the article, we read: the order of the templars and the masonic organization have influenced each other to a noticeable extent. even the rituals of the corporations are so similar as to have been copied from the templars. in this respect, masons have to a great extent identified themselves with the templars and it can be said that what is viewed as original masonic esoterism (secrecy) is to an important extent an inheritance from the templars. to summarize, as we said in the title of this essay, we can say that the starting point of freemasonry's royal art and initiatic-esoteric line belonged to templars and its end-point belonged

ut certainly, the important matter for our consideration is the nature of this philosophy. why did the templars abandon christianity and become a heretical order? what led them to this? why did they undergo such a change in jerusalem? through the agency of masonry, what has been the effect on the world of this philosophy adopted by the templars? the templars and the kabbalah a book written by two masons, christopher knight and robert lomas, entitled the hiram key reveals some important facts about the roots of freemasonry. according to these authors, it is evident that masonry is a continuation of the templars. though, in addition to this, the authors also examined the origins of the templars. dl the magazine mimar sinan, a private turkish masonic publication intended for its own members

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hostile to freemasonry27[27. each successive work became more extravagant in its allegations of satanic practices within freemasonry, until the publication in 1891 of y-a-t-il des femmes dans la franc-maconnerie, in which 'leo taxil' described the rituals of the 'new and reformed palladium, an androgynous and satanic rite ultimately derived from albert pike, one of the most prominent of american masons. this nonsense was avidly swallowed by the french anti-masonic lobby, as were the utterly fantastic tales of 'dr. bataille (dr. charles hacks) in le diable au xix siecle (1892-4. further fuel was added to the anti-masonic fire with the revelations of the supposed head of the 'new and reformed palladium, miss diana vaughan, soi-disant descendant of thomas vaughan the alchemist, and recent co

rebuttals of her claims was published in the correspondence columns of the spiritualist journal light29[29, and waite then analysed the whole of the literature about the palladium in his book devil-worship in france30[30, demonstrating conclusively the fictitious nature of the whole affair- and this a year before jogand-pages admitted that it had been a hoax designed to embarrass the french anti-masons. 27[27] there are twelve in all, the most important being revelations completes sur la franc-maconnerie (1886) and les freres trois-points (1885. 28[28] op. cit, p. 247 29[29] waite's letters were printed in the issues of 7 december 1895, 4 january, 28 march and 6 june 1896. 30[30] devil- worship in france, or the question of lucifer. a record of things seen and heard in the secret societie

author had taken a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and popular interest in masonic satanists waned rapidly so that waite's sequel, diana vaughan and the question of modern palladism35[35, was never published. it is, nonetheless, worth quoting its conclusion for it shows a significant change in waite's attitude to freemasonry 'it is a satisfaction to be able to add that the reception of my book among masons has not at all justified the common accusation of languid interest shown by the rank and file of the brethren towards all that concerns the craft. it is sometimes said that the fraternity in england possesses no literature because masons fail to support any enterprise of the kind. possibly the average brother is not a more serious personage than the average man anywhere, and i must admit th

tember 1896, and f. legge's review in the contemporary review (date not ascertained. 35[35] the typescript survives. it is on 130 leaves, typed on one side only order, but personally i have no cause to complain of what has resulted from my first attempt to interest and vindicate the institution'36[36. this change on waite's part had already been perceived by the more rabid of roman- catholic anti-masons who saw him as a prime mover of the satanic conspiracy 'it is perfectly apparent that during the last thirty years the english leading masonic knights, whether in europe or america, have imbibed more or less of the magical teachings of the french magician (eliphas levi, and we do not known anyone who contributed to this result more than mr. a. e. waite did in england, and 'no one has contri

itiator to anybody or to make it public in what manner soever. 1 have read with great interest and have carefully transcribed the ms. containing the first two books of the ritual, and 1 return it herewith. i shall look forward to the receipt of the third. i trust that i shall prove useful, as i shall certainly endeavour to be active, in the diffusion of the order among occult students who are not masons'40[40. no correspondence with 'papus' survives from this period and it is not possible to determine whether or not waite applied for a charter but, in an address to the international congress (of spiritualists) in 1898 'papus' referred to the progress of his order, which had added two new martinist 'formations' in england during 189741[41. one of these may well have involved waite, although

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

s. it wasn t just the tens of thousands of blocks weighing 15 tons or more that the builders would have had to worry about. year in, year out, the real crises would have been caused by the millions of average-sized blocks, weighing say 2.5 tons, that also had to be brought to the working plane. the pyramid has been reliably estimated to consist of a total of 2.3 million blocks.7 assuming that the masons worked ten hours a day, 365 days a year, the mathematics indicate that they would have needed to place 31 blocks in position every hour (about one block every two minutes) to complete the pyramid in twenty years. assuming that construction work had been confined to the annual three-month lay-off, 3 dr. joseph davidovits and margie morris, the pyramids: an enigma solved, dorset press, new yo

egypt, pp. 229-30. 6 the pyramids of egypt, p. 229. 7 ibid, p. 85. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 276 the problems multiplied: four blocks a minute would have had to be delivered, about 240 every hour. such scenarios are, of course, the stuff construction managers nightmares are made of. imagine, for example, the daunting degree of coordination that must have been maintained between the masons and the quarries to ensure the requisite rate of block flow across the production site. imagine also the havoc if even a single 2.5 ton block had been dropped from, say, the 175th course. the physical and managerial obstacles seemed staggering on their own, but beyond these was the geometrical challenge represented by the pyramid itself, which had to end up with its apex positioned exactly

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

iphers have followed the decoding rules established in the various techniques of qabalistic number analysis, including gematria, theosophical addition, notariqon, temura, etc. the most recent past known cipher was that of aiq bakur, or the qabala of nine chambers a system laid out first in hebrew (then a dead language of scholars) on a number sign or tic tac toe pattern, and adopted by royal arch masons for english language use. to some extent, this cipher is still in current use, but it has long been deciphered and is no longer utilized by illuminati of the ufonauts. the ciphers are discontinued when they are cracked. seventh, although in use for some time, an english language cipher, using the 26 letters of the standard alphabet and laid out on a grid or plotted out on a 26- pointed star

nts (and perhaps revolutionary conspirators; madame blavatsky, theodor reuss and aleister crowley all were so suspected, and blavatsky and reuss certainly interacted with revolutionary conspirators on a regular basis. the basic documents of the hermetic order of the golden dawn were written in a strange cipher that may have originated with such continental adepts. as noted earlier, all royal arch masons were taught a special cipher on the occasion of their initiation. thus, that a cipher was included in the book of the law dictated to aleister crowley by the shadowy, mysterious aiwass on april 8, 9, and 10, 1904 at cairo should come as no surprise. the cipher is repeatedly referred to in the text and is associated with the grid page in liber al. in liber xxxi (book 31, frater achad began t

act that they can be decoded via the ciphers of al revealed by aiwass years after blavatsky s death indicates perhaps a secret code known to blavatsky and later to crowley and his heirs. as i have pointed out, the basic documents of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, for example, were written in a cipher, the originals still being readily available. i have also pointed out that all royal arch masons were (and are) taught a cipher, since frequently reprinted. if there was a common occult cipher, it seems to have emerged in the world of mediumship. the cipher continues in the similar world of ufo contacteeism and trance channeling, which resembles mediumship as well as extraterrestrialism. the ufo contactees emerged as a distinct branch of mediums hip in the 1940s, first in meade layne s

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

d he closed with the stranger's offer: not till he turned to leave did he notice a cow's foot and homo's foot peep out fi'om under the gray coat. he went home, and told his wife what had happened to him in the field' my god! what hast thou done? i have a child unborn, and thou hast signed it away to the evil one' the moment it was dark, a tremendous din arose in the farmyard, carters, carpenters, masons working away together, the devil as architect directing the whole business, which advanced with incredible speed: a few hours more, and the barn 1 hdttr (hat, gray hat, i.e. osinn (p. 146, after giving geirhildr his spittle to be the barm of the ale she was brewing (couf. p 'm2, demands what is between her and the vat, viz. her unborn child, fornald. sog. 2, 26. the ivilde walrabe (p. 997)

ble-door. in time of murrain, the esthonians bury one head of the herd under the stable-door, that death may have his victim (m, 69^ when the new bridge at halle, finished 1843, was building, the common people fancied a cjiild was wanted to be walled into the foundations. to make liebenstein castle impregnable, there was tvaued-iii a child, whom its mother for base gold had parted with; while the masons were at work, says the story, it sat eating a roll and calling out' mother, i can see you' then' mother, i see a little of you still' and when the last stone was let in' mother, i see nothing of yon now (bechst. thiir. sag. 4, 157; conf. 206. in the outer wall of reichenfels castle a child was built in alive: a projecting stone marks the spot, and if that were pulled out, the wall would tum

p. 153. similar stories in spiel's archiv. 1, 160 with the addition, that latterly, by way of symbol, empty coffins were built in. a rampart had to be raised round copenhagen, but every time it was begun, it sank down again: so they took a little innocent maiden, set her on a chair before a table, gave her toys and things to eat; then, while she amused herself with eating and play, twelve master-masons built a vault over her, and amid music and loud minstrelsy threw up the wall, which hath stood unshaken to this day (thiele 1, 3. why they kept the child playing and happy, and prevented her crying, i have explained at p. 46. it is the vulgar opinion in greece, that whoever first goes by, where they^ unci hadden de delver sicli mit groten unkosten an holt, balken, struk (brushwood) daran ve

t mit der hchte togeslagen (easily stopt up, neocor. 2, 340. conf. in chap. xxxvi. inserting the shrewmouse into the ash. built in alive. 1143 are laying tlie fouudatiou-stone of a new building, shall die within a year; the builders, to avert the calamity, kill a lamh or a hack cock on the stone, just as at frankfort they made a cock run across the new-made bridge, ds. no. 185. at arta a thousand masons wrought at a bridge: all that they raised in the day rushed down at night. then sounded the archangel's voice from heaven' unless ye dig theveinto a child of nutn, the masonry shall not stand; yet no orphan nor stranger shall ye bury, but the master-builder's wife' when the wife came to the workmen, the master pretended his ring had dropt into the foundation, and the woman offered to fetch

er's wife' when the wife came to the workmen, the master pretended his ring had dropt into the foundation, and the woman offered to fetch it out, then swiftly they set to work to icall her in; dying, she pronounced a curse on the bridge, that it should tremble like a flower-stalk (tommaseo's canti pop. 3, 178. still more touching is a servian legend on the building of scutari: for three years 300 masons laboured in vain to lay the foundations of the fortress; what they built by day, the vila tore down at night. at last she made known to the kings, that the building would never hold till two horn brothers (or sisters) of like name ivere pid into the founda'ion. nowhei-e could such be found. then the vila required, that of the three wives of the kings she that carried out food to the masons

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

y way in your purchases&i shall be very glad to inspect [remainder of letter missing]1hockley's two business partners have proved elusive.2itwould appear he was preparing a history of the grand stewards lodge.itwas never published and the lodge records contain no mention of a ms. 3 see note2of letter12.4 w.j.hughan, who had been appointed past junior grand warden of the grand lodge of mark master masons of england in 18 72 .5claviculasalomonis:variouslyreferredtoas the key of solomon, key of rabbi solomon and the rath solomon. a magical andhockley'slettersto theirtoins59i will not further bother you with my reiterated grievancesbuttrust you will attribute any future shortcomings of mine to its real cause. with kindest regards allow me to remain, most fraternally yours.ieveningswithindwelle

ISIS UNVEILED

, of the book of genesis. if rightly interpreted it overturns, as we have remarked, the whole elaborate system of christian theology, for it proves that behind the cretuixe deity there was a hioheb god, a planner, an architect; and that the former was but his executive agent a dmple poweb! they [the christiana] persecuted the gnostics, murdered the philo- sophers, and burned the kabalists and the masons; and when the day of the great reckoning arrives, and the li^t shines ui darkness, what will tfaey have to offer in the place of the departed, expired religion? what will they answer, these pretended monotheists, these worshipers and jwrado-servants of the one living grod, to their creator? how will they account for this long persecution of those who were the true followers of the grand meg

^t shines ui darkness, what will tfaey have to offer in the place of the departed, expired religion? what will they answer, these pretended monotheists, these worshipers and jwrado-servants of the one living grod, to their creator? how will they account for this long persecution of those who were the true followers of the grand megahstor, the supreme great master of the rosicrucians, the rirst of masons "for he is the builder and architect of the temple (rf the universe; he is the verbum sapienii "every one knows" wrote the great manichaean of the third cen- tury, faustus "that the evai^eb were written neither hy jesus christ, 64 "hie altogether mystic ccdoring (rf chrisuajiity harmotuzed with the eweme rule* of life mtd opinion, and it it not improbable that jcsiu and john the baptift wer

tly "every initiate, to whatever degree he may belong, who reveab the great sacred formula, must be put to death" naturally enou^ this same extreme penalty was prescribed in all the mul^anous sects and brotherhoods which at diffocnt periods have sprung bom tfae ancient stock. we find it with the early ess^nes, gnos- tics, theurgic neo-platonists, and medieval philosophers; and in our day even the masons perpetuate the memory of the old obligations in the penalties of throat-cutting, dismemberment, and disemboweling, with which the candidate is threatened. as the masonic 'master's word' is communicated only at 'low breath' so the selfsame precaution is pre- scribed in the chaldaean book of nwraera and the jewish merla^mh. when initiated, the neophyte was led by an ancient to a secluded spot

and veneration, about the lake of bacchus, in which "they [the priests] made at night exhibitions of his life and sufferings* in the mithraic sacrifices, during the initiation, a pre- liminary scene of death was simulated by the neophyte, and it pre- ceded the scene showing him himself "being bom agiun by the rite of bapti m" a portion of this ceremony is still enacted at the pres- ent day by the masons, when the neophyte, as the grand master hiram abiff, ues dead, and is raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw. the priests were circumcised. the neophyte could not be initiated without having beea present at the solemn mysteries of the lake. the nazarenes were baptized in the jordan; and could not be baptised elsewhere; they were also circumcised, and had to fast before as well as after

the author of this reatitutw was mosah, our master, upon whom be peace! who was the revoltitio [transmigration] of seth and hebel, that he might cover the nudity of his father adam i*rtmta" says the kabala" thus the hint of jesus that john was the raxautio, or transmigration, of elias, seems to prove beyond any doubt the sduiol to which he belonged. until the present day uninitiated kabalists and masons bdieve per- mutation to be synonymous with transmigiation and metempsychosis. but they are as much mistaken in regard to the doctrine of uie true kabalists as to that of the buddhists, true, the zoaor says in one place "all souls are subject to transmigration, and men do not know the ways of the holy one, blessed be he; they do not know that they are biou^t before tiie tribunal, both before

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ent homily on trinity sunday has the following: at the deth of a manne, three bells should be ronge as his knyll in worship of the trinitie. and for a woman* who was the second person of the trinitie, two bells should* this is a curious direct assertion that the saviour of the world was feminine. 152 the rosicrucians. be ronge. here we have the source of the emblematic difficulty among the master-masons, who constructed the earlier cathedrals, as to the addition and as to the precise value of the second (or feminine) tower at the western end (or galilee) of a church. valentinus is called the profoundest doctor of the gnosis. according to him, the eons (angels, or effusions) number fifteen pairs, which represent the thirty degrees of each sign of the zodiac. the name of the great gnostic de

meaning the woman and the man, side by side, and left and right. these glyphs in the two capitals of the columns signify jachin and boaz, and stand for the first man and the first woman. the mysterious letter tau, which is the same as the runic hammer of thor, and which in truth is a cross, occupies the centrepoint, or, heraldically, the honour-point, of the first column to the right. the master-masons were celebrated in their art of concealing myths, or hinting them cautiously in the most difficult and far-off resemblances. the curious reader is referred to our illustration, figs. 119, 120. the character of the" head" which the templars were charged with having worshipped in their secret encampments, or mystic lodges, has been the subject of much dispute. some say it was the head of pros

italian carnivals? it seems highly probable. the carnivals occur at the same time as these roman lupercalia. many early norman mouldings exhibit various examples of the cable. thongs, ties, and network are seen to bind all the significant figures in the early english and irish churches. is there any connection between these bonds, or ties, or lacings, with the cable-tow of the initiates among the masons? perhaps the tow in this cable-tow means the tau, or stood for it originally. reference may here be made to the snake which forms the girdle of the gnostic good shepherd in the illustration later in our book (fig. 252. the cable-mouldings in gothic architecture are intended to carry an important meaning. they are found in the pointed or christian architecture in continual close connection w

e accumulation of letters from persons in every condition of life addressed to the authors of the present work since the publication of the first edition from all parts of the world; anonymously, or with particulars of names &c. the celebrated author of the confessions of an english opium eater (thomas de quincey, in his historico- critical inquiry into the origin of the rosicrucians and the free-masons, originally published in the london magazine of january 1824, also continued in the succeeding number, has this remarkable passage: rosicrucianism is not freemasonry. the exoterici, at whose head bacon stood, and who afterwards composed the royal society of london, were the antagonist party of the theosophists, cabbalists, and alchemists. at the head of whom stood fludd; and from whom freem

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

. e. brother has added a heavy debt of gratitude by this book to the many we already owe him. let us be honest debtors. adyar annie besant december 25, 1925 author fs preface the masonic fellowship differs from all other societies in that candidates for membership have to join it blindfold, and cannot receive much information about it until they actually enter its ranks. even then the majority of masons usually obtain only the most general idea of the meaning of its ceremonies, and seldom penetrate further than an elementary moral interpretation of its principal symbols. in this book it is my object, while preserving due secrecy upon those matters which must be kept secret, to explain something of the deeper meaning and purpose of freemasonry, in the hope of arousing among the brn. a more

with any illustrations of the points of similarity. these are to be found in bro. churchward fs most illuminative books, signs and symbols ofprimordial man and the arcana of freemasonry, also in the arcane schools, by bro. john yarker, and freemasonry and the ancient gods, by bro. j. s. m. ward. i will proceed to summarize, with grateful acknowledgment, the information derived from these volumes. masons of various degrees will be able to select from it the features which remind them of their own ceremonies. 6. some interesting illustrations have been collected from the wall-pictures of ancient egypt, and from vignettes on various papyri, chiefly from the book of the dead, of which there are many recensions. it is clear from these sources that the formation of the temple in egypt was 7. fig

the square was to build for ever, according to the teachings of ancient egypt; and in the egyptian hall of judgment osiris is seen seated on the square while judging the dead (see plate ii b) 17. 18. thus the square came to symbolize the foundation of eternal law(*churchward, the arcana of freemasonry, p. 59) 19. the egyptians used the rough and the smooth ashlars with much the same meaning that masons attach to them today(*ibid, p. 60) a wand surmounted by a dove is represented, not only in ancient egypt, but also in some of the monuments in central america, and those who bore it were called gconductors h. it is a curious fact, also, that the descendants of the nilotic negroes, who emigrated long ago from egypt to central africa, when called to take an oath in a court of law, still do so

that the temple was strongly magnetized, and that to preserve the full strength of that magnetism great care was necessary. to speak of ordinary matters in the temple would have been considered as sacrilege, as it would mean the introduction of a disturbing influence. vesting and all preliminary business was always done in the anteroom, and the brn. entered the lodge in procession, singing, as co-masons do now. 79. the history of masonry 80. the mystery teaching of egypt was very closely guarded, and it was only with great difficulty and under special conditions that anyone not an egyptian born could be allowed to receive it. still, it was given to various distinguished foreigners, and among others to moses, of whom it is said in the biblical story that he was glearned in all the wisdom of

ighbouring tribes and nations. there were many lines of mystery tradition, and though the jews had brought with them across the desert of sinai much of the egyptian form, the tyrians and others preserved rather the story of the descent of tammuz or adonis than that of the dismemberment of osiris. indeed, bro. ward in his latest book on this subject seems inclined to advocate the theory that we as masons owe comparatively little to egypt and very much to syria. in this briefest of outlines of masonic history i cannot pursue the question further, but i hope to say more upon it in my next volume, glimpses of masonic history. 83. it is principally along this line of jewish descent that masonry has come down to us in europe, though there have been other infiltrations. numa pompilius, the second

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

s of the craft were minutely examined in the light of authentic records within reach of the historian. an enormous amount of research was undertaken into lodge minutes, documents of all kinds bearing upon masonry past and present, records of municipalities and boroughs, legal and judicial enactments; in fact, whatever written records were available were consulted and classified. in this field all masons are greatly indebted to r. f. gould, the great masonic historian; w. j. hughan; g. w. speth; david murray-lyon, the historian of scottish masonry; dr. chetwode crawley, whose work upon the early irish craft is in its way a classic; and others of the inner circle of the famous lodge quattuor coronati, no. 2076, the fascinating transactions of which are a precious mine of historical and archa

mysteries of many nations, which clearly possessed our symbols and signs, and in all probability ceremonies analogous to those worked in masonic lodges to-day. 13. the anthropologists do not confine their studies to the past alone, but have investigated the initiatory rites of many existing tribes, both in africa and australia, and have found them to possess signs and gestures still in use among masons. striking analogies to our masonic rites have also been found among the inhabitants of india and syria, interwoven with their religious philosophy in a way which renders entirely impossible the idea that they were copied from european sources. masonic scholars have by no means exhausted the facts which may be discovered in this most interesting field of research, but even with our present k

ediences only a mere vestige of the original procedure remains. 123. the mystery language 124. besides the teaching upon the life after death- which was elaborated by countless stories of imaginary individuals, showing the results in the astral plane after death of certain courses of action during life- a fine course of education was also given to the initiates of the first degree, embracing what masons term the seven liberal arts and sciences- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. by grammar the egyptians meant the sacred hieroglyphic writing of the priests, which was taught to all the initiates of the mysteries, but it also signified a kind of secret language, a way of speaking peculiar to the priesthood. in the secret language of the mysteries it was not s

osts of minoan civilization, which are represented in such indubitably masonic attitudes (some of which now belong to the higher degrees) that even the most sceptical student must acknowledge that no chance can explain this similarity (see plates vii and viii following p. 50) it would not be in accordance with masonic secrecy to mention the degrees to which the different attitudes belong, but all masons will readily recognize them. ridiculous as these statuettes are, if they were the only evidence found in crete they would be sufficient to indicate the existence of mysteries of a masonic character in that ancient civilization. but where that evidence is supported by the various proofs discussed above no doubt can remain that four thousand years ago and more there existed in crete mysteries

and considered it to be one of the great achievements of the age. 275. in this work he was assisted by his ally, hiram king of tyre, who supplied a quantity of material for the building, and lent many clever craftsmen to aid in the work; for the phoenicians were more skilled in building than the jews, who were chiefly a pastoral people. also about fifty years before some of the wandering bands of masons who called themselves the dionysian artificers had settled in phoenicia, so king hiram was able to supply many expert workmen. this alliance is a matter of secular history, for josephus tells us that even in his day copies of the letters which passed between the two kings existed in the tyrian archives and might be consulted by students(*josephus. ant, viii) hiram abiff was also a real pers

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

tualist newspaper, was being published. this helped to stir popular interest in the supernatural. around this time, the societas rosicruciana in anglia (sria) was formed in england in 1865 by robert wentworth little. it was based on eighteenthcentury rosicrucian texts. among its members were kenneth r. h. mackenzie, dr. wynn westcott, and w. r. woodman. members of the societas were required to be masons prior to beginning their work. the magical writings of levi, the existence of the societas rosicruciana in anglia, and the continuing impact of speculative freemasonry provided fertile soil in which new magical orders could grow. in 1885, the reverend a. f. a. woodford inherited the magical manuscripts owned by psychic fred hockley, upon which the order of the golden dawn (ogd) would be bui

as meeting with various government officials to discuss aid to their countries in the form of money. a few did not know that i was a satanist, but thought i was associated with a powerful wealthy organization of some kind. people asking for money don t ask too many questions. the pope knew very well who i was.we worked closely both with the catholics (especially the jesuits) and the high-ranking masons. it was during this time that i met many of the well known rock music stars. they all signed contracts with satan in return for fame and fortune. the next person on the program was the author of he came to set the captives free, who had helped the high priestess and many others escape from satanic cults. when asked about her association with law enforcement, she responded that, i have a ver

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

h he answered with a curious smile, gif all they tell of you is true. h in the meantime he permitted me to describe the ceremony and its results as faithfully as i was able, charging me only to give no indication of the city near which it took place. i am willing to indicate to initiates of the rose croix degree of masonry under proper charter from the genuine authorities (for there are spurious masons working under a forged charter) the address of a person willing to consider their fitness to affiliate to a chapter practicing similar rites. xvi i consider it supererogatory to continue my essay on the mysteries and my analysis of energized enthusiasm. energized enthusiasm 23 [the following appeared in crowley fs editorial to equinox i (10; the bulk of it is crowley quoting g.r.s. mead quo

. iii cap. 45-49, and giordano bruno in de gli eroici furori (for which see yates, giordano bruno and the hermetic tradition. in connection with the three genthusiasms h mentioned here, there is evidence that crowley referred the letters of iao to iacchus, asi (isis) or aphrodite and `orus (permissible since h is not a letter in greek, the latter as a cognate of apollo. the reference to gspurious masons working under a forged charter h at the end of section xv probably denotes the ancient and accepted scottish rite, so called because it originated in france, claimed an authorisation from a prussian prince, and had its greatest initial success in the southern u.s.a. aasr, despite being founded on a questionable warrant, is the most numerous and wellestablished masonic ghigh grade h system

LIBER LVII

finite square of creation was assimilated to the infinite circle of the creator. yes: but why should not berashith 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, give, say, e?40 the only answer is, that if you screw it round long enough, it perhaps will! the rational table of tziruph should, we agree with fra. p, be left to the rationalist press association, and we may present the irregular table of commutations to irregular masons. 4. to the less important methods we may apply the same criticism. we may glance in passing at the yetziratic, tarot, and signifactory methods of investigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is

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of such books have to leave as an unsolved question the problem of the origin of "speculative" masonry, with its symbolic use of columns, arches, and other architectural features, and of geometrical symbolism, as the framework within which it presents a moral teaching and a mystical outlook towards the divine architect of the universe."3 at the present time there is no real agreement, even among masons, about the origins of the order. some masons, those who are romantically inclined, like to think that they have participated in the very rituals which were used by king solomon to instruct the workmen at the building of his temple. this is certainly an unrealistic view.4 without doubt, there are plenty of operative masons (stonecutters) to be found in european history, but there is no evide

rituals which were used by king solomon to instruct the workmen at the building of his temple. this is certainly an unrealistic view.4 without doubt, there are plenty of operative masons (stonecutters) to be found in european history, but there is no evidence of a group of philosophically inclined men who transmit a masonic tradition from biblical times to england in the late renaissance. others masons, at the opposite pole of opinion, consider that masonry started as nothing more than a gentleman's club, one of the myriad clubs that sprang up in london in the early part of the 18th century. if that be true, it was a very unusual club, indeed. unlike the other clubs of the period, very shortly after its initial organization in 1717 it grew explosively, not simply in england but also in sc

ow. the parts in blue represent the grand lodge(s, and the dotted portions at the left of the drawing are intended to indicate how very uncertain our information about their origins really is. even with respect to the period after the formal organization of the premier grand lodge in 1717, there are large areas about which only a little is known. for example, in the area of ritual and symbol what masons actually did at their meetings we must rely almost entirely on exposures for the period from 1717 until the last quarter of the 18th century. we do know a little. there certainly was "masonic activity" in england in the middle of the 17th century. the first speculative masons that we can identify positively are sir robert moray and elias ashmole. they were initiated into the order in 1641 a

e's words. of course, simply from this pamphlet, we cannot know what transpired in the meetings of these late 17th century masons; but it is not unreasonable to think that they might have been doing something related to the hermetic/kabbalistic tradition in order to earn the suspicion of the pamphlet's author. this pamphlet assures us that in the late 17th century there was a popular awareness of masons and a perception that they had mystical involvements. beyond concluding that masons were present in london in 1698, we can derive from this pamphlet some tentative ideas about their frame of mind. it was to be almost twenty years before these men made their meetings a matter of public knowledge and formed themselves into the premier grand lodge. at the end of the 17th century, their activit

th a representative of the god. the magister "brought in" female recruits. the lady brought in male recruits. this is the historical basis for the claim that a candidate must be initiated by a person of the opposite sex. the magister passed the "power" to women. the lady passed it to men. this sexual induction at the entrance rite was mandatory."10 it seems to me entirely reasonable to think that masons, seeking to rebut accusations of witchcraft, had excluded women from their proceedings simply to be able to say "look, see! we cannot possibly be involved in that; because we allow no women at our proceedings; and that they formalized this practice, for the same reason, when they founded the premier grand lodge. the allegations contained in the broadsheet shown in figure 2 gives support to

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

y in symbolism the philosophical manikin--the three universal centers--the temples of initiation--the hand in symbolism--the greater and lesser man--the anthropos, or oversoul. 73 the hiramic legend the building of solomon's temple--the murder of chiram abiff--the martyrdom of jacques de molay--the spirit fire and the pineal gland--the wanderings of the astronomical chiram--cleopatra's needle and masons' marks. 77 the pythagorean theory of music and color pythagoras and the diatonic scale--therapeutic music--the music of the spheres--the use of color in symbolism--the colors of the spectrum and the musical scale--zodiacal and planetary colors. 81 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds jonah and the whale--the fish the symbol of christ--the egyptian scarab--jupiter's fly- the serpent

y concerning the repopulation of planets at the beginning of each world period, this only makes it less likely that they were historical personages. according to robert fludd, the sun has three properties--life, light, and heat. these three vivify and vitalize the three worlds- spiritual, intellectual, and material. therefore, it is said "from one light, three lights" i. e. the first three master masons. in all probability, osiris represents the third, or material, aspect of solar activity, which by its beneficent influences vitalizes and enlivens the flora and fauna of the earth. osiris is not the sun, but the sun is symbolic of the vital principle of nature, which the ancients knew as osiris. his symbol, therefore, was an opened eye, in honor of the great eye of the universe, the sun. op

werewolves. serpents, because they lived in the earth, were associated with the spirit of darkness. as the battle between good and evil centers around the use of the generative forces of nature, winged serpents represent the regeneration of the animal nature of man or those great ones in whom this regeneration is complete. among the egyptians the sun's rays are often shown ending in human hands. masons will find a connection between these hands and the well-known paw of the lion which raises all things to life with its grip. solar colors the theory so long held of three primary and four secondary colors is purely exoteric, for since the earliest periods it has been known that there are seven, and not three, primary colors, the human eye being capable of estimating only three of them. thus

easy, one of my brothers will pay my debts' a year afterwards, as a stranger was passing by this inn he saw the signs and said to the host 'i am a pythagorean; one of my brothers died here; tell me what i owe you on his account" frank c. higgins, 32, gives an excellent compendium of the pythagorean tenets in the following outline "pythagoras' teachings are of the most transcendental importance to masons, inasmuch as they are the necessary fruit of his contact with the leading philosophers of the whole civilized world of his own day, and must represent that in which all were agreed, shorn of all weeds of controversy. thus, the determined stand made by pythagoras, in defense of pure monotheism, is sufficient evidence that the tradition to the effect that the unity of god was the supreme secr

es of galilee which solomon presented to him upon the completion of the temple, the two monarchs remained the best of friends. both were famous for their wit and wisdom, and when they exchanged letters each devised puzzling questions to test the mental ingenuity of the other. solomon made an agreement with hiram of tyre promising vast amounts of barley, wheat, corn, wine, and oil as wages for the masons and carpenters from tyre who were to assist the jews in the erection of the temple. hiram also supplied cedars and other fine trees, which were made into rafts and floated down the sea to joppa, whence they were taken inland by solomon's workmen to the temple site. because of his great love for solomon, hiram of tyre sent also the grand master of the dionysiac architects, chiram abiff, a wi

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lodges. his was a soul filled with the wonder of wisdom, strength, and beauty. in these pages, he whispers the password to those of us who still clamour at the gate, enabling us to enter that inner chamber where we can join the true initiates and share experiences now veiled from all but a handful of brethren. allan boudreau, ph.d. curator and librarian grand lodge of free and accepted july, 1980 masons of the state of new york introduction the position and possibilities of the masonic order the papers here collected are written solely for members of the masonic order, constituted under the united grand lodge of england. to all such they are offered in the best spirit of fraternity and goodwill and with the wish to render to the order some small return for the profit the author has receive

each to grown-up men of the world the symbolical meaning of a few simple builders' tools, or to impress upon us such masonry elementary virtues as temperance and justice--the children in every village school are t aught such things; or to enforce such simple principles of morals as brotherly love, which every church and every religion teaches; or as relief, which is practised quite as much by non-masons as by us; or of truth, which every infant learns upon its mother's knee. there is surely, too, no need for us to join a secret society to be taught that the volume of the sacred law is a fountain of truth and instruction; or to go through the great and elaborate ceremony of the third degree merely to learn that we have each to die. the craft whose work we are taught to honour with the name

me measure at least of what i have been able to glean for myself. but, finally, i must ask you to remember that, in accordance with the general design of our system, every master of a lodge is but a symbol and a substitution, and that behind him, and behind all other the grand officers of the masonic hierarchy, there stands the" great white head" the" great initiator" and grand master of all true masons throughout the universe, whether members of our craft or not. to whom let us all bow in gratitude for the invaluable gift accorded to us in this our the order; and to whose protection, and to whose deeper enlightening guidance into its deeper mysteries, i recommend you all. chapter ii. masonry as a philosophy signs are not wanting that a higher masonic consciousness is awakening in the craf

e surface of masonic doctrine and symbols. they are beginning to think for themselves instead of taking the face-value of things for granted, and, as their thought develops, facts that previously remained unperceived assume prominence and significance. they discern the masonic system to be something deeper than a code of elementary morality such as all men are expected to observe whether formally masons or not. they reflect that the phenomenal growth of the craft is scarcely accountable for upon the supposition that modern speculative masonry perpetuates nothing more than the private associations that once existed in connection with the operative builders' trade. they recognize that there can be no peculiar virtue or interest in continuing to imitate the customs of ancient trade-guilds for

o building of stone, no temple or other edifice capable of being built with hands, has remained unfinished through the death of any professional architect such as hiram abiff is popularly supposed to have been. the principles of architecture, the genuine secrets of the building trade, are not and never have been lost; they are thoroughly well known, and the absurdity is manifest of supposing that masons of any kind are waiting for time or circumstances to restore any lost knowledge as to the manner in which temporal buildings ought to be constructed. we know how to erect buildings to-day quite as well as our hebrew forefathers did who built the famous temple at jerusalem, and indeed a well known architect has stated that most of our london churches are, both for size and ornamentation, far

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in the final analysis, itmatters little what weapons are used and what field is chosen for battle. it mattersgreatly thoughto know the enemy. in its education of these matters, humanity has con-tinually been helped, even occasionally from those behind the veils of secrecy. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation75 this place is terrible! not only were many of the founders of the u.s. masons, but they received aid from a secretand august body existing in europe, which helped them to establish the united states for apeculiar and particular purpose known only to the initiated few (peter tompkins quotingm. p. hall in secrets of the great pyramid)i have been convinced that we, as an order, have come under the power of some very eviloccult order, profoundly versed in science, both o

re convinced that the order is being controlled by some sunorder, after the nature of the illuminati, if not by that order itself (duke of brunswick,grand master of world freemasonry. while the real brothers died ignominious deaths, the spurious order which tried to stepinto their shoes became exclusively a branch of the jesuits (illuminati) under the immediatetutelage of the latter. true-hearted masons ought to reject with horror any connection, letalone descent from these (madame helena blavatsky, the secret doctrine) there exists. another class of adepts belonging to a brotherhood also and mightier thanany other they have to be ranked with the adepts of the black arts. these are our romancatholic fathers and clergy. a hundred times more learned in secret symbology and theold religion th

us are together (conjunct) invirgo (p. 223)buzz aldrin/moon landingwhat is not widely known is that alongside the national flag, aldrin also carried a masonic banner. thishad been embroidered especially for this strange journey by the librarian of the masonic house of thetemple in washington, d.c.the pyramidthe reluctance to bring the pyramid into the light of day was not restricted to individual masons; evenbureaucrats seem to have been unhappy with bringing it forward (p. 225)the precise origins of the pyramid design for the reverse seal, with its three latin inscriptions, are stillsteeped in mystery (p. 227)the pyramid was already widely used as a symbol in masonic fraternities in europe, and we shouldtherefore not be surprised that it should have been proposed in the context of a natio

and genetic manipulation.the rise of the alchemiststhe rise of alchemy (magic) was not an accident or an event which happened simultaneously in europeand elsewhere as part of the erstwhile movement of the times, as has been put before us by modern his-torians. almost all of the so-called alumni of alchemy were under royal patronage and were membersof occult societies, such as the rosicrucians and masons. many were instrumental in creating the educa-tional and governmental edifices which came into existence in the post industrial epoch. a cursoryobservation of some of the details in the biographies of these magi reveals suggestive information wor-thy of deeper investigation. of special note is the fact that almost all of them existed and operatedbetween the fifteenth and seventeenth centuri

arbara bush is also related to the same monarchs as her husband. bob dole is related to thesame monarch as his so-called opponent bush.in every case where the running opponent has a lesser blood tie, that person is invariably theloser in the so-called free election (see the biggest secret by david icke.)appendix c: suggested areas of research272atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation masons and mystery at the 33rd parallel by day williamsfreemasonry american freemasonry and related power elites are responsible for a number of murders and provoca-tions to war which happened along or close to the northern 33rd degree of latitude, also known as the33rd parallel. most of the world's wealth is stored north of the north 33rd parallel. major financial cen-ters north of the 33rd paral

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copyrighted, to prevent its republication elsewhere, and the copyright, like those of all the other works prepared for the supreme council, has been assigned to trustees for that body. whatever profits may accrue from it will be devoted to purposes of charity. the brethren of the rite in the united states and canada will be afforded the opportunity to purchase it, nor is it _forbidden_ that other masons shall; but they will not be solicited to do so. in preparing this work, the grand commander has been about equally author and compiler; since he has extracted quite half its contents from the works of the best writers and most philosophic or eloquent thinkers. perhaps it would have been better and more acceptable if he had extracted more and written less. still, perhaps half of it is his ow

t cease to do its duty. we never know at what moment success awaits our efforts--generally when most unexpected--nor with what effect our efforts are or are not to be attended. succeed or fail, masonry must not bow to error, or succumb under discouragement. there were at rome a few carthaginian soldiers, taken prisoners, who refused to bow to flaminius, and had a little of hannibal's magnanimity. masons should possess an equal greatness of soul. masonry should be an energy; finding its aim and effect in the amelioration of mankind. socrates should enter into adam, and produce marcus aurelius, in other words, bring forth from the man of enjoyments, the man of wisdom. masonry should not be a mere watch-tower, built upon mystery, from which to gaze at ease upon the world, with no other result

theory, in political science, is worthless, except for the purpose of being realized in practice. in every _credo, religious or political as in the soul of man, there are two regions, the dialectic and the ethic; and it is only when the two are harmoniously blended, that a perfect discipline is evolved. there are men who dialectically are christians, as there are a multitude who dialectically are masons, and yet who are ethically infidels, as these are ethically of the profane, in the strictest sense--intellectual believers, but practical atheists--men who will write you "evidences" in perfect faith in their logic, but cannot carry out the christian or masonic doctrine, owing to the strength, or weakness, of the flesh. on the other hand, there are many dialectical skeptics, but ethical bel

hically infidels, as these are ethically of the profane, in the strictest sense--intellectual believers, but practical atheists--men who will write you "evidences" in perfect faith in their logic, but cannot carry out the christian or masonic doctrine, owing to the strength, or weakness, of the flesh. on the other hand, there are many dialectical skeptics, but ethical believers, as there are many masons who have never undergone initiation; and as ethics are the end and purpose of religion, so are ethical believers the most worthy. he who _does_ right is better than he who _thinks_ right. but you must not act upon the hypothesis that all men are hypocrites, whose conduct does not square with their sentiments. no vice is more rare, for no task is more difficult, than systematic hypocrisy. wh

and almost the only lesson taught to the entered apprentice. the obligations which we have each assumed toward every mason that lives, requiring of us the performance of the most serious and onerous duties toward those personally unknown to us until they demand our aid--duties that must be performed, even at the risk of life, or our solemn oaths be broken and violated, and we be branded as false masons and faithless men, teach us how profound a folly it would be to betray our secrets to those who, bound to us by no tie of common obligation, might, by obtaining them, call on us in their extremity, when the urgency of the occasion should allow us no time for inquiry, and the peremptory mandate of our obligation compel us to do a