When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too

“This is why alchemy exists,” the boy said. “So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was Symbols - alchemy is lifein his former life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and then lead will have to turn itself into gold. That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

The Greatest Of Mystery Schools

1GR-18-E1-1-1 G.A.Spangenberg,Schule des Aristoteles Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt), Hauptgebaeude der Universitaet, Treppenhaus. - Die Philosophie: Die Schule des Aristoteles. - Ausschnitt. Fresko, 1883/88, von Gustav Adolph Spangenberg (1828-1891). Aus dem Zyklus 'Die Vier Fakultaeten'. E: G.A.Spangenberg / School of Aristotle Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt), Main building of the unitersity, staircase. - Philosophy: The School of Aristotle. - Fresco, 1883/88, by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg (1828-1891). Detail. From the cycle 'The Four Faculties'.

By Manly P. Hall – “The world is the schoolroom of God. Our being in school does not make us learn, but within that school is the

opportunity for all learning. It has its grades and its classes, its sciences and its arts, and admission to it is the birthright of man. Its graduates are its teachers, its pupils are all created things.

Its examples are Mature, and its rules are God’s laws. Those who would go into the greater colleges and universities must first, day by day, and year by year, work through the common school of life and present to their new teachers the diplomas they have won, upon which is written the name that none may read save those who have received it.

The hours may be long, and the teachers cruel, but each of us must walk that path, and the only ones ready to go onward are those who have passed through the gateway of experience,

GOD’S GREAT SCHOOL FOR MAN”

By Manly P. Hall ~ Forward to The Initiates of the Flame

The most dangerous form of black magic

By Manly P. Hall – “The most dangerous form of black magic is the scientific perversion of occult power for the gratification of personal black magic
desire. Its less complex and more universal form is human selfishness, for selfishness is the fundamental cause of all worldly evil. (more…)

The Pyramid shall remain as the Visible covenant between Eternal Wisdom and the world

By 33rd Degree Freemason, Manly P. Hall – The word pyramid is popularly supposed to be derived from πῦρ, fire, thus signifying that it sphinx-and-pyramid-egyptis the symbolic representation of the One Divine Flame, the life of every creature. John Taylor believes the word pyramid to mean a “measure of wheat, ” while C. Piazzi Smyth favors the Coptic meaning, “a division into ten.”

The initiates of old accepted the pyramid form as the ideal symbol of both the secret doctrine and those institutions established for its dissemination. Both pyramids and mounds are antitypes of the Holy Mountain, or High Place of God, which was believed to stand in the “midst” of the earth. John P. Lundy relates the Great Pyramid to the fabled Olympus, further assuming that its subterranean passages correspond to the tortuous byways of Hades. (more…)

The Meaning of Pyramid

“The word pyramid is popularly supposed to be derived from πῦρ, fire, thus signifying that it is the symbolic representation of As above, so belowthe One Divine Flame, the life of every creature.” – Manly P. Hall

The word pyramid is composed of the three words, Pyr, am (om), and id.

Pyr – The meaning of pyr or pyre is from Latin which is derived from the Greek pura, from pur, ‘fire.’ (more…)