Repairers of Creation
No matter what our particular job, especially in our world today, we all are called to be Tikkun olam - repairers of creation.
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Topic: “The Great Work”
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The Great Work
An alchemical or spiritual process of inner transformation and realization of divine unity.
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No Reason Why This Old Philosophy Should Be Longer Concealed
Underlying this Secret Doctrine was a profound philosophy of the creation or evolution of worlds and of man. The present humanity, in many quarters of the globe, has evolved on the intellectual plane so far that there now exist a...
Source: Mystic Masonry by Jirah Dewey Buck
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
World Democracy Was the Secret Dream of the Great Classical Philosophers
World democracy was the secret dream of the great classical philosophers. ... Thousands of years before Columbus they were aware of the existence of our Western Hemisphere and selected it to be the site of the philosophic empire. ... The...
Source: The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
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
🧵 Narrative Threads containing “The Great Work”
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.