Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all

By Albert Pike – “Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all Albert Pikeexcept the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it.

Truth is not for those who are unworthy or unable to receive it, or would pervert it.

So God Himself incapacitates many men, by color-blindness, to distinguish colors, and leads the masses away from the highest Truth, giving them the power to attain only so much of it as it is profitable to them to know.” – Morals and Dogma pages 104 and 105

The birth of this true faith, is the beginning of Gnosis

The dawning of this sacred conviction, the birth of this true faith, is the beginning of Gnosis; it is the Glad Tidings, the Gnosis angel of light gnosticof Joy, at whose shining Sorrow flees away.

This is the Gospel, as Basilides the Gnostic conceived it, the Sun of Righteousness with healing in His wings; that is to say, the Father in the likeness of a dove–the Father of Light brooding over the sacred vessel, or divine chalice, or cup, the awakened spiritual nature of the new-born son. – GRS Mead

May he be born out of ignorance into Gnosis

The office of the “father” is to bring the “son” to union with himself, so that he may be born out of ignorance into Gnosis, born in Mind, his Highest Self, and so become Son of the Father indeed. – GRS Mead

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This earth may in fact be likened to a school to which we return life after life to learn new lessons

(By Rosicrucian, Max Heindel) – This earth may in fact be likened to a school to which we return life after life to learn new reincarnationlessons, as our children go to school day after day to increase their knowledge.

The child sleeps through the night which intervenes between two days at school and the spirit also has its rest from active life between death and a new birth.

There are also different classes in this world-school which correspond to the various grades from kindergarten to college. (more…)

I am the Invisible One within the All

I am the Invisible One within the All.Worm

It is I who counsel those who are hidden, since I know the All that exists in it.

I am numberless beyond everyone.

I am immeasurable, ineffable, yet whenever I wish, I shall reveal myself of my own accord.

I am the head of the All.

I exist before the All, and I am the All, since I exist in everyone. – Quote taken from the Nag Hammadi Library

Falsehood has become a current coin, and circulates with a certain degree of respectability

(By Albert Pike – foundation for the 27 degree Scottish Rite Freemasonry) – Truth, in act, profession, and opinion, is rarer now albert-pikethan in the days of chivalry.

Falsehood has become a current coin, and circulates with a certain degree of respectability; because it has an actual value.

It is indeed the great Vice of the Age—it, and its twin-sister, Dishonesty.

Men, for political preferment, profess whatever principles are expedient and profitable.

At the bar, in the pulpit, and in the halls of legislation, men argue against their own convictions, and, with what they term logic, prove to the satisfaction of others that which they do not themselves believe. (more…)