Illustrious Elect of the Fifteen | Chapter 10
p. 160 [Elu of the Fifteen.] THIS Degree is devoted to the same objects as those of the Elu of Nine; and also to the cause of Toleration and Liberality against Fanaticism and Persecution, political and religious; and to that of Education, Instruction, and...
Elect of the Nine | Chapter 9
p. 149 [Elu of the Nine.] ORIGINALLY created to reward fidelity, obedience, and devotion, this Degree was consecrated to bravery, devotedness, and patriot-ism; and your obligation has made known to you the duties which you have assumed. They are summed up in the...
Intendant of the Building | Chapter 8
p. 136 IN this Degree you have been taught the important lesson, that none are entitled to advance in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, who have not by study and application made themselves familiar with Masonic learning and jurisprudence. The Degrees of this...
Provost and Judge | Chapter 7
p. 126 THE lesson which this Degree inculcates is JUSTICE, in decision and judgment, and in our intercourse and dealing with other men. In a country where trial by jury is known, every intelligent man is liable to be called on to act as a judge, either of fact alone,...
Intimate Secretary | Chapter 6
p. 119 [Confidential Secretary.] You are especially taught in this Degree to be zealous and faithful; to be disinterested and benevolent; and to act the peace-maker, in case of dissensions, disputes, and quarrels among the brethren. Duty is the moral magnetism which...
Perfect Master | Chapter 5
p. 114 THE Master Khu_ru_m was an industrious and an honest man. What he was employed to do he did diligently, and he did it well and faithfully. He received no wages that were not his due. Industry and honesty are the virtues peculiarly inculcated in this Degree....
Secret Master | Chapter 4
p. 106 MASONRY is a succession of allegories, the mere vehicles of great lessons in morality and philosophy. You will more fully appreciate its spirit, its object, its purposes, as you advance in the different Degrees, which you will find to constitute a great,...
The Master | Chapter 3 Part 2
p. 85 The consequence is, that those who feel themselves competent and qualified to serve the people, refuse with disgust to enter into the struggle for office, where the wicked and jesuitical doctrine that all is fair in politics is an excuse for every species of low...
The Master | Chapter 3 Part 1
p. 62 * * * * * * To understand literally the symbols and allegories of Oriental books as to ante-historical matters, is willfully to close our eyes against the Light. To translate the symbols into the trivial and commonplace, is the...
The Fellow-Craft | Chapter 2 Part 2
p. 42 folded back upon themselves. In the vast cosmical changes the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, enveloping all in the invisible mystery of the emanations, losing no dream from no single sleep, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there,...
The Fellow-Craft | Chapter 2 Part 1
p. 22 IN the Ancient Orient, all religion was more or less a mystery and there was no divorce from it of philosophy. The popular theology, taking the multitude of allegories and symbols for realities, degenerated into a worship of the celestial luminaries, of...
Apprentice | Chapter 1
p. 1 THE TWELVE-INCH RULE AND THE COMMON GAVEL. FORCE, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they...
Preface
p. iii THE following work has been prepared by authority of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, by the Grand Commander, and is now published by its direction. It contains the Lectures of the Ancient and...
Title Page 2
p. i MORALS AND DOGMA OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY PREPARED FOR THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE THIRTY-THIRD DEGREE FOR THE SOUTHERN JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND PUBLISHED BY ITS AUTHORITY. CHARLESTON A∴ M∴ 5632 [1871] Scanned at...
Title Page
Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike [1871] Start Reading This is Albert Pikes' 861 page volume of 'lectures' on the esoteric roots of Freemasonry, specifically the 32-degree Scottish Rite. Until 1964, this book was given to every Mason...
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ISIS UNVEILED A MASTER-KEY TO THE MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY BY H. P. BLAVATSKY, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY "Cecy est un livre de bonne Foy." – MONTAIGNE ____________ VOL. II. -- SCIENCE. ____________...
Preface
Page iii WERE it possible, we would keep this work out of the hands of many Christians whom its perusal would not benefit, and for whom it was not written. We allude to those whose faith in their respective churches is pure and sincere, and those whose sinless...
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ____________ PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii ____________ Volume Second THE "INFALLIBILITY" OF MODERN RELIGION ____________ CHAPTER I THE...
The Church: Where Is It? – Chapter 1
Page 1 PART TWO. -- RELIGION. "Yea, the time cometh, that whomsoever killeth you, will think that he doeth God service." -- Gospel according to John, xvi. 2. "Let him be ANATHEMA . . . who shall say that human Sciences ought to be pursued in such a spirit of...
Christian Crimes And Heathen Virtues – Chapter 2
Page 55 "They undertake by scales of miles to tell The bounds, dimensions, and extent of hell; Where bloated souls in smoky durance hung Like a Westphalia gammon or neat's tongue, To be redeemed with masses and a song." -- OLDHAM: Satires upon the Jesuits. "York. --...
Divisions Amongst The Early Christians – Chapter 3
Page 123 "KING. -- Let us from point to point this story know." -- All's Well That Ends Well. – Act v., Scene 3. "He is the One, self-proceeding; and from Him all things proceed. And in them He Himself exerts His activity; no mortal BEHOLDS HIM, but HE beholds all!"...
Oriental Cosmogonies And Bible Records – Chapter 4
Page 167 "Nothing better than those MYSTERIES, by which, from a rough and fierce life, we are polished to gentleness (humanity, kindness), and softened." -- CICERO: de Legibus, ii., 14. "Descend, O Soma, with that stream with which thou lightest up the Sun. . . ....
Mysteries of The Kabala – Chapter 5
Page 212 "Learn to know all, but keep thyself unknown." -- GNOSTIC MAXIM. "There is one God supreme over all gods, diviner than mortals, Whose form is not like unto man's, and as unlike his nature; But vain mortals imagine that gods like themselves are begotten...
Esoteric Doctrines Of Buddhism Parodied In Christianity – Chapter 6
Page 251 "The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of To-morrow roll up; but Yesterday and Tomorrow both are." -- Sartor Resartus: Natural Supernaturalism. "May we not then be permitted to examine the authenticity of the Bible? which since the second century...
Early Christian Heresies And Secret Societies – Chapter 7
Page 289 "Of the tenets of the Druzes, nothing authentic has ever come to light; the popular belief amongst their neighbors is, that they adore an idol in the form of a calf." -- KING: The Gnostics and their Remains. "O ye Lords of Truth without fault, who are...
Jesuitry And Masonry – Chapter 8
Page 348 "Christian and Catholic sons may accuse their fathers of the crime of heresy . . . although they may know that their parents will be burnt with fire and put to death for it. . . . And not only may they refuse them food, if they attempt to turn them from the...
The Vedas And The Bible – Chapter 9
Page 405 "All things are governed in the bosom of this triad." -- LYDUS: De Mensibus, 20. "Thrice let the heaven be turned on its perpetual axis." -- OVID: Fasti iv. "And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven...
The Devil-Myth – Chapter 10
Page 473 "Get thee behind me, SATAN" (Jesus to Peter). -- Matt. xvi. 23. "Such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff As puts me from my faith. I tell you what – He held me, last night, at least nine hours In reckoning up the several devils' names." -- King Henry IV., Part...
Comparative Results of Buddhism And Christianity – Chapter 11
Page 529 "Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of the Awakened. . . . "Better than Sovereignty over the earth, better than going to heaven, better than lordship over all the worlds is the reward of the first step in...
Conclusions And Illustrations – Chapter 12
Page 587 "My vast and noble capital, my Daitu, my splendidly-adorned; And thou, my cool and delicious summer-seat, my Shangtu-Keibung . . . . . . . . . . . . Alas, for my illustrious name as the Sovereign of the World! Alas, for my Daitu, seat of sanctity, glorious...