Few of the Original Meanings of the Masonic Symbols are Known to the Modern Order

33rd Degree Freemasons, Many P. Hall had said that the modern rituals in Freemasonry do not in every case represent the original Symbols - Masonsrites of the Craft. He also adds that Pike had said that the true meanings of much of the symbolism such familiar emblems as the apron and the pillars were locked mysteries, whose “keys” had been thrown away by the uninformed.

Hall had said, “The average Masonic student is content, therefore, to trace his Craft back to the workmen’s guilds who chipped and chiselled the cathedrals and public buildings of medieval Europe. While such men as Albert Pike have realized this attitude to be ridiculous, it is one thing to declare it insufficient and quite another to prove the fallacy to an adamantine mind.

So much has been lot and forgotten, so much ruled in and out by those unfitted for such legislative revision that the modern rituals do not in every case represent the original rites of the Craft. (more…)

It is a test to stand yourself

Jung told a man to spend an hour a day by himself, to find what he was inside. “But then I would get quite melancholy, “the man replied. quote on the path“Exactly,” said Jung, “It is very depressing to be by yourself. But how do you think I can stand you?

It is a test to stand yourself.

If you can stand yourself, then the world might be able to stand you, but certainly nobody can stand you otherwise. It is like someone who is unwashed.” ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 369.

The initiation of Anointed Iesous (Jesus)

By James Pryse, “The Apocalypse Unsealed” & “The Restored New Testament”Initiation of jesus

The initiation of Anointed Iesous (Jesus), which the God conferred on him to make known to his slaves the (perfections) which must be attained speedily. He sent his Divinity and by him symbolized (them) to his slave Ioannes, who gave evidence of Anointed Iesous – of all the (visions) that he saw.

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In the Greek Mysteries, which were also called the “perfecting” or “finishing” rites, the candidates for initiation, after receiving some preparatory training in semi-exoteric lesser rites, were termed MYSTAI (*all italicized words will be capitalized) “veiled ones”, while the Initiates were called EPOPTAI, “those having super-sight” – or seers. The word APOKALYPSIS, “unveiling”, is clearly a substitute for EPOPTEIA, “initiation into seership.” (more…)