The Bonds of Material Perception
The key to the Hermetic rebirth resided in attainment of gnosis, spiritual knowledge to free the mind from the bonds of material perception.
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Topic: “Freemasonry”
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Freemasonry
A system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
Ordo Ab Chao
ORDO AB CHAO. Order out of Chaos. This is the famous motto of the Supreme Council, thirty-third degree of the Ancient and Accepted rite—the highest degree of the Freemasons. From...
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Their Varied Meanings Are Only To Be Discovered by Reflection and Study
The symbols and ceremonies of Masonry have more than one meaning. They rather conceal than disclose the Truth. They hint it only, at least; and their varied meanings are only to be discovered by reflection and study. Truth is not...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
Every Visible Thing Is Only an Effect of the Invisible or Causal
Light is not only a physical element, it is also a mental and spiritual element and in the temple the disciple is told to revere the invisible sun even more than the visible one; for every visible thing is only...
Source: Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire by Manly P. Hall
Rolling Round the Central Sun
In his chapter of the antiquity of Masonry, [Captain George Smith] makes it to be coeval with creation, 'when,' says he, 'the sovereign architect raised on Masonic principles the beauteous globe, and commanded the master science, Geometry, to lay the...
Source: The Origin of FreeMasonry
They Were Not Allowed Even to Speak of These Important Secrets
The secrecy in which they buried their Mysteries, had that end. Those to whom they were confided, bound themselves, by the most fearful oaths, never to reveal them. They were not allowed even to speak of these important secrets with...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
Links in This Vast Chain Extending Round the Whole Globe
I might point to the fact that, although the meetings of our society are of necessity enshrouded with the veil of secresy, which circumstance, in seasons of excitement and peril, the designing and malicious would have converted into matter of...
Source: The Freemasons’ Quarterly Review
Initiating and Advancing Other Men
To attain this transmutation, this metamorphosis of himself, he is taught first to purify and subdue his sensual nature; then to purify and develop his mental nature; and finally, by utter surrender of his old life and losing his soul...
Source: The Meaning of Masonry by W.L. Wilmshurst
A Co-Conscious Vehicle of Divine Wisdom
He is able to discern that it was himself who at first was "without form and void" and who in virtue of that Fiat Lux! has at last become transformed from chaos and unconsciousness into a form so perfect and...
Source: The Meaning of Masonry by W.L. Wilmshurst
The Real Purpose of Modern Masonry
This - the evolution of man into superman - was always the purpose of the ancient Mysteries, and the real purpose of modern Masonry is, not the social and charitable purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the...
Source: The Meaning of Masonry by W.L. Wilmshurst
The Science of the Spheres and Heavens
The Square is a right angle, formed by two right lines. It is adapted only to a plane surface, and belongs only to geometry, earth-measurement, that trigonometry which deals only with planes, and with the earth, which the ancients supposed...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
The Corpus Hermeticum
[Renaissance philosophers] were alerted to the ancient manuscript tradition named after their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus... The documents were collectively called the Corpus Hermeticum or, simply, the Hermetica.
Source: The Magus of Freemasonry by Tobias Churton
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The World Was Made Up of This Brotherhood of Man
I realized quickly when I knew I should, that the world was made up of this brotherhood of man
Source: What’s Up? by 4 Non Blondes
Carry a Compass to Help You Along
If you are confused, check with the sun - Carry a compass to help you along
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Cause Everything Is Never As It Seems…
With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
Think About the Place Where You Live
If you are confused, check with the sun. Carry a compass to help you along. Your feet are going to be on the ground. Your head is there to move you around.
My Friends and I We’ve Cracked the Code
One day the blood won’t flow so gladly. One day we’ll all get still. Get still.
Feelings Are Intense, Words Are Trivial
To start by making the trade center disappear, though, seems a good way to begin.
The More You Change, the Less You Feel
And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same.
I Was Just Guessing at Numbers and Figures
Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I’m going back to the start.
High Time We Made a Stand
Read it in the books, in the crannies and the nooks, there are books to read.
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I Wanna Turn the Whole Thing Upside Down
Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot, this world keeps spinning.