32nd degree lecture Sublime Prince of the royal secret magnum opus Albert Pike moral and Dogma 1871 brought to you by Masonic audiobook Library Sublime Prince of the royal Secret master of Royal secret the occult science of the ancient Magi was concealed under the shadows of the ancient Mysteries it was imperfectly
Revealed or rather disfigured by the gnostics it is guessed at under the obscurities that cover the pretended Crimes of the Templars and it is found enveloped in enigmas that seem impenetrable in the rights of the highest Masonry magism was the science of Abraham and Orpheus of Confucius and zoroaster it
Was the dogmas of this science that were engraven on the tables of stone by hanuk and tris Magistas Moses purified and revealed them for that is the meaning of the word reveal he covered them with a new Veil when he made of the Holy Kabbalah the exclusive Heritage of the
People of Israel and the inviolable secret of its priests the mysteries of Thebes and eluses preserved among the Nations some symbols of it already altered and the Mysterious key whereof was lost among the instruments of an ever-growing Superstition Jerusalem the murderess of her prophets and so often prostituted to
The false gods of the syrians and Babylonians had at length in its turn lost the holy word when a prophet announced to the Magi by the consecrated star of initiation came to rendous under the worn veil of the old temple in order to give the church a new tissue of
Legends and symbols that still and ever conceals from the profane and ever preserves to the elect the same truths it was the remembrance of this scientific and religious absolute of this doctrine that is summed up in a word of this word in fine alternately lost and found again that was
Transmitted to the elect of all the ancient initiations it was this same remembrance preserved or perhaps profaned in the celebrated order of the Templars that became for all the secret associations of the Rose qua of the Illuminati and of the Hermetic Freemasons the reason of their strange
Rights of their signs more or less conventional and above all of their mutual devotedness and of their power the gnostics caused the gnosis to be prescribed by the Christians and the official Sanctuary was closed against the high initiation thus the hierarchy of knowledge was complemented by the violences of
Usurping ignorance and the disorders of the sanctuary are reproduced in the state for always willingly or unwillingly the king is sustained by the priest and it is from the Eternal sanctuary of the Divine instruction that the powers of the earth to ensure themselves durability must receive their Consecration and their Force
The Hermetic science of the early Christian ages cultivated also by gibber alpharabius and others of the Arabs studied by the chiefs of the Templars and embodied in certain symbols of the higher degrees of Freemasonry may be accurately defined as the Kabbalah in active realization or the magic of works
It has three analogous degrees religious philosophical and physical realization its religious realization is the durable foundation of the true Empire and the true priesthood that rule in the realm of human intellect its philosophical realization is the establishment of an absolute Doctrine known in all times as the holy Doctrine and of which Plutarch
In the Treatise de izid at osirid speaks at large but mysteriously and of a hierarchical instruction to secure the uninterrupted succession of adepts among the initiates physical realization is the Discovery and application in the microcosm or little world of the creative law that incessantly peoples the great universe
Measure a corner of the creation and multiply that space in proportional progression and the entire infinite will multiply its circles filled with universes which will pass in proportional segments between the ideal and elongating branches of your compass now suppose that from any point whatever of the infinite above you a hand holds
Another Compass or a square the lines of the celestial triangle will necessarily meet those of the compass of science to form the mysterious star of Solomon all hypotheses scientifically probable are the last gleams of the Twilight of knowledge or its last Shadows Faith begins where reason sinks exhausted
Beyond the human reason is the Divine reason to our feebleness the great absurdity the infinite absurd which confounds US in which we believe for the master the compass of faith is above the square of reason but both rest upon the holy scriptures and combine to form the Blazing star of Truth
All eyes do not see alike even the visible creation is not for all who look upon it of one form and one color our brain is a book printed within and without and the two writings are with all men more or less confused the primary tradition of the single
Revelation has been preserved under the name of the Kabbalah by the priesthood of Israel the kabbalistic doctrine which was also the dogma of the Maji and of Hermes is contained in the sephir yet saira the sohar and the talmud according to that Doctrine the absolute
Is the being in which the word is the word that is the utterance and expression of being in life magic is that which it is it is by itself like the mathematics for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws magic is the science of the ancient Magi
And the Christian religion which has imposed silence on the lying oracles and put an end to the prestigious of the false gods itself reveres those Magi who came from the East Guided by a star to adore the savior of the world in his cradle tradition also gives these Meiji
The title of Kings because initiation into magism constitutes a genuine royalty and because the grand art of the Magi is styled by all the adepts the Royal art or the holy realm or Empire Sanctum regnum the star which guided them is that same blazing star the image whereof
We find in all initiations to the Alchemists it is the sign of the quintessence to the magists the grand Arcanum to the kabbalists the sacred pentagram the study of this pentagram could not but lead the Magi to the knowledge of the new name which was about to raise
Itself above all names and cause all creatures capable of adoration to bend the knee magic unites in one and the same science whatsoever philosophy can possess that is most certain and religion of the infallible and the eternal it perfectly and incontestably reconciles these two terms that at first
Blush seems so opposed to each other faith and reason science and Creed Authority and Liberty IT Supplies the human mind with an instrument of philosophical and religious certainty exact as the mathematics and accounting for the infallibility of the mathematics themselves thus there is an absolute in the matters
Of the intelligence and of faith the Supreme reason has not left the gleams of the human understanding to vacillate it Hazard there is an incontestable Verity there is an infallible method of knowing this Verity and by the knowledge of it those who accept it as a rule may
Give their will a sovereign power that will make them the masters of all inferior things and of all errant spirits that is to say will make them the Arbiters and kings of the world science has its Knights and its Dawns because it gives the intellectual World a life which has its regulated movements
And its Progressive phases it is with truths as with the Luminous rays nothing of what is concealed is lost but also nothing of what is discovered is absolutely new God has been pleased to give to science which is the reflection of his glory the Seal of his eternity it is not in the
Books of the philosophers but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients that we must look for the footprints of Science and ReDiscover the mysteries of knowledge the priests of Egypt knew better than we do the laws of movement and of life they knew how to temper or intensify
Action by reaction and readily foresaw the realization of these effects the causes of which they had determined The Columns of Seth Enoch Solomon and Hercules have symbolized in the magian traditions this universal law of the equilibrium and the science of the equilibrium or balancing of forces had
Led the initiates to that of the universal gravitation around the centers of Life heat and light thales and Pythagoras learned in the sanctuaries of Egypt that the Earth revolved around the Sun but they did not attempt to make this generally known because to do so it would have been necessary to reveal one
Of the great secrets of the Temple that double Law of Attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy of fixedness and movement which is the principle of creation and the Perpetual cause of life this truth was ridiculed by the Christian lactanteus as it was long after sought to be proven a falsehood by
Persecution by papal Rome so the philosophers reasoned while the priests without replying to them or even smiling at their errors wrote in those hieroglyphics that created all dogmas and all poetry the secrets of the truth when truth comes into the world the star of knowledge advises the Magi of it and
They hasten to adore the infant who creates the future It Is by means of the intelligence of the hierarchy and the practice of obedience that one obtains initiation if the rulers have the Divine Right to govern the true initiate will cheerfully obey the Orthodox Traditions were carried from chaldea by Abraham they
Reigned in Egypt in the time of Joseph together with the knowledge of the true God Moses carried Orthodoxy out of Egypt and in the secret traditions of the Kabbalah we find a theology entire perfect unique like that which in Christianity is most grand and best explained by the fathers and the doctors
The whole with a consistency and a harmoniousness which it is not as yet given to the world to comprehend the sohar which is the key of the Holy books opens also all the depths and lights all the obscurities of the ancient mythologies and of the Sciences originally concealed in the sanctuaries
It is true that the secret of this key must be known to enable one to make use of it and that for even the most penetrating intellects not initiated in this secret the Sahar is absolutely incomprehensible and almost illegible the secret of the occult Sciences is
That of nature itself the secret of the generation of the angels and worlds that of the omnipotence of God ye shall be like the Elohim knowing good and evil had the serpent of Genesis said and the tree of knowledge became the tree of death for six thousand years the martyrs of
Knowledge toil and die at the foot of this tree that it may again become the Tree of Life the absolute sought for unsuccessfully by the insensate and found by the sages is the truth the reality and the reason of the universal equilibrium equilibrium is the harmony that results
From the analogy of contraries until now Humanity has been endeavoring to stand on one foot sometimes on one sometimes on the other civilizations have risen and perished either by the anarchical insanity of despotism or by the despotic Anarchy of Revolt to organize Anarchy is the problem which The revolutionists
Have and will eternally have to resolve it is the rock of Sisyphus that will always fall back upon them to exist a single instant they are and always will be by fatality reduced to improvise a despotism without other reason of existence than necessity and which consequently is violent and blind as necessity
We escape from the harmonious monarchy of Reason only to fall under the irregular dictatorship of folly sometimes superstitious enthusiasms sometimes the miserable calculations of the materialist Instinct have led astray the Nations and God at last urges the world on toward believing reason and reasonable beliefs we have had profits enough without
Philosophy and philosophers without religion the blind Believers and the Skeptics resemble each other and are as far the one as the other from the Eternal salvation the chaos of universal doubt and of the conflicts of reason and Faith the Great Men and seers have been but in firm and morbid artists
Seeking the bow ideal at the risk and Peril of their reason in life living only in the hope to be crowned they are the first to do what Pythagoras in so touching a manner prohibits in his admirable symbols they rent crowns and tread them underfoot light is the equilibrium of Shadow and
Lucidity movement is the equilibrium of inertia and activity Authority is the equilibrium of Liberty and Power wisdom is equilibrium in the thoughts which are the scintillations and Rays of the intellect virtue is equilibrium in the affections beauty is harmonious proportion in forms the beautiful lives are the accurate
Ones and the magnificences of nature are an algebra of Graces and splendors everything just is beautiful everything beautiful ought to be just there is in fact no nothing no void emptiness in the universe from the upper or outer surface of our atmosphere to that of the Sun and to
Those of the planets and remote stars in different directions science has for hundreds of centuries imagine that there was simple void empty space comparing finite knowledge with the infinite the philosophers know little more than the Apes in all that void space are the infinite forces of God acting in an infinite variety of
Directions back and forth and never for an instant inactive in all of it active through the whole of its Infinity is the light that is the visible manifestation of God the Earth and every other planet in sphere that is not a center of light carries its cone of Shadow with it as it
Flies and flashes round in its orbit but the darkness has no home in the universe to illuminate the sphere on one side is to project a cone of Darkness on the other an error also is the shadow of the truth with which God illuminates the soul
In all that void also is the mysterious and ever active electricity and heat and the omnipresent ether at the will of God the invisible becomes visible two invisible gases combined by the action of a force of God and compressed become and remain the water that fills the great basins of the Seas
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