The Secret Teachings of All Ages Special Extended Edition by Manly P Hall – PART 3 of 3

The theory and practice of alchemy part two all true philosophers of the natural or hermetic Sciences begin their labors with a prayer to the Supreme Alchemist of the universe beseeching his assistance in the consummation of the magnum opus the prayer that follows written in a provincial German centuries ago by

Adept now unknown is representative oh holy and hallowed Trinity thou undivided and triple Unity cause me to sink into the abyss of thy Limitless Eternal fire for only in that fire can the Mortal nature of man be changed into humble dust while the new body of the salt Union lies in the

Light oh melt me and transmute me in thy Holy Fire so that on the day at thy command the fiery Waters of the Holy Spirit draw me out of the dark dust giving me new birth and making me alive with his breath may I also be exalted through the

Humble humility of thy son Rising through his assistance Out of the Dust and Ashes and changing into a pure spiritual body of rainbow colors like unto the transparent crystal-like par descal gold that my own nature may be redeemed and purified like the elements before me in these glasses and

Bottles diffuse me in the waters of life as though I were in the wine Celler of the Eternal solom here the fire of thy love will receive new fuel and will Blaze forth so that no streams can extinguish it through the aid of this Divine fire

May I in the end be found worthy to be called into the illumination of the righteous may I then be sealed up with the light of the new world that I may also attain unto the immortal mortality and Glory where there shall be no more alternation of light and darkness

Amen the origin of alchemical formula apparently but a few of the medieval Alchemists discovered the great Arcanum without Aid some authors declaring that none of them attained the desired end without the assistance of a master or teacher in every instance the identity of these Masters has been carefully

Concealed and even during the Middle Ages specul a ran rif concerning them it was customary to call such illuminated sages adepts a title which indicated that they possessed the true secrets of transmutation and multiplication these adepts were polyonymous individuals who unexpectedly appeared and disappeared again leaving no trace of their

Whereabouts there are indications that a certain degree of organization existed among them the most powerful of the AL chemical organizations were the rosac crucians the Illuminati and certain Arabian and Syrian sects in the documents which follow references are made to the Brethren or brothers these are to signify that those

Who would actually accomplished the magnumopus were band together and known to each other by Cipher codes and secret signs or symbols apparently a number of these illuminated adepts dwelt in Arabia for several of the great European Alchemists were initiated in Asia Minor when a disciple of the alchemical

Arts has learned the Supreme secret he guarded it jealously revealing to no man his Priceless treasure he was not permitted to disclose it even to the members of his immediate family as the years passed one who had discovered the secret or more properly one to whom it had been revealed sought

Some younger man worthy to be entrusted with the formula to this one and to this one only as a rule the philosopher was permitted to disclose the Arcanum the younger man then became the philosophical son of the old sage and to him the latter bequeathed his Secrets occasionally however an Adept on

Finding a sincere and Earnest Seeker would instruct him in the fundamental principles of the Ark and if the disciple persisted he was quietly initiated into the August fraternity of the brethren in such a manner the alchemical processes were preserved but the number of those who knew them did not increase

Rapidly during the 16th 17th and 18th centuries a considerable number of alchemical adapts made their way from place to place throughout Europe appearing and disappearing apparently at will according to the popular tradition these adepts were Immortal and kept themselves Alive by means of of the mysterious medicine that was one of the

Goals of the alchemical aspiration it is asserted that some lived hundreds of years taking no food except this Elixir a few drops of which would preserve their youth for a long period of time that such mysterious men did exist there can be little doubt as their presence is attested by scores of reliable

Witnesses it is further asserted that they are still to be found by those who have qualified themselves to cont ATT them the philosophers taught that like attracts like and that when the disciple had developed a virtue and integrity acceptable to the adeps they will appear to him and reveal those parts of the

Secret processes which cannot be discovered without such help wisdom is a flower from which the bee its honey makes and the spider poison each according to its own Nature by an unknown Adept the reader must bear in mind at all times that the formula and emblems

Of alchemy are to be taken primarily as allegorical symbols for until their esoteric significance has been comprehended their literal interpretation is valueless nearly every alchemical formula has one element purposely emitted it being decided by the medieval philosophers that those who could not with their own intelligence discover that missing substance or

Process were not qualified to be entrusted with secret which could give them control over great masses of humanity and likewise subject their will to the elemental forces of nature the oldest and most revered of all the alchemical formula is the Secret Emerald the emerald table of Hermes the oldest and most revered of

All the alchemical formula is the sacred Emerald Tablet of Hermes authorities do not agree as to the genuiness of this table some declaring it to be AOS post Christian fraud but there is much evidence that regardless of its author the table is of great Antiquity while the symbol of the

Emerald table is of special Masonic import relating as it does to the personality of cyam hyam it is first and fundamentally an alchemical formula relating both to the Alchemy of the base metals and the Divine Alchemy of human regeneration in Dr sigismond backstrom’s collection of alchemical manuscripts is a section devoted to the

Translations and interpretations of this remarkable tablet which was known to the Ancients as the tabula smar Gardina Dr Backstrom was initiated into the Brotherhood of the Rose cross on the island of morius by one of those unknown adepts who at the time called himself compt de chazel Dr backstrom’s translations and notes on

The Emerald Tablet are in part as follows the actual text being reproduced in capital letters the emerald table the most ancient Monument of the calans concerning the lapis philosophorum the stone of the philosophers the emerald table furnishes the origin of the allegorical history of King hyam rather chyam the calans Egyptians and Hebrews

In what concerns chyam have taken their knowledge from one and the same Fountain homas who relates this history in a different manner followed that original and Virgil followed homerus as hesus took the subject for his theogony likewise from then which idus took afterwards for a pattern for his metamorphosis the knowledge of Nature’s

Secret operations constitutes the principal sense of all these ancient writings but ignorance framed out of it that external or veiled mythology and the lower class of people turned it into idolatry the genuine translation from the original very ancient c d is as follows the secret works of chyam one in

Essence but three in aspect the first two large words mean the secret work second line in large letter reads chyam tet matches I.E Chum the universal agent one in essence but three in aspect it is true No Lie certain and to be depended upon the superior agrees

With the inferior and the inferior with the superior to effect that one truly wonderful work as all things owe their existence to the will of the only one so all things owe their origin to the one only thing the most hidden by the arrangement of the only

God the father of that one only thing is the sun its mother is the moon the wind carries it in its belly but its Norse is a spiritual Earth that one only thing after God is the father of all things in the universe its power is perfect after it has been

United to a spiritous earth process first distillation separate that spiritous Earth from the dense or crude by means of a gentle heat with much attention last digestion in great measure it ascends from the earth up to the heaven and descends again newborn on the earth and the superior and the inferior are

Increased in power the azoth ascends from the earth from the bottom of the glass and redescending vins and drops into the Earth and by this continual circulation the azoth is more and more stilized volatiles soul and carries the volatiles solar atoms along with it and thereby becomes a solar

Azoth I.E our third and genuine sopic Mercury and this circulation of the solar azoth must continue until it seizes of itself and the Earth has sucked it all in when its Muse become the black pitchy matter the toad the substances in the alchemical retort and also the lower elements in the body of

Man which denotes complete putrification or death of the compound this thou will partake of the honors of the whole world world without doubt as the black pitchy matter will and must of necessity become white and red and the red having been carried to Perfection medically and for

Metals is then fully capable to preserve menum sanm in corpor Sano until the natural period of life and promis US ample means in infinitum multipliable to be Ben elevant and charitable without any de of our inexhaustible resources therefore well may it be called The Glory honors of the whole

World as truly the study and contemplation of the lp lapis philosophum harmonizing with Divine truths elevates the mind to God our creator and merciful father and if he should permit us to possess it practically must eradicate the very principle of avarice Envy and evil inclinations and cause our hearts to

Melt in gratitude toward him that has been so kind to us therefore the philosophers say with great truth that the lp either finds a good man or makes one and darkness will fly from thee by invigorating the organs the soul makes use for the communicating with exterior objects the soul must acquire

Greater Powers not only for conception but also retention and therefore if we wish to obtain still more knowledge the organs and secret Springs of physical life being wonderfully strengthened and invigorated the soul must acquire new powers for conceiving and retaining especially if we pray to God for knowledge and confirm our prayers by

Faith all obscurity must vanish of course that this has not been the case with all possessors was their own fault as they contented themselves merely with the transmutation of metals this is the strength of all powers this is a very strong figure to indicate that the lp positively does

Possess all the powers concealed in nature not for Destruction but for exaltation and regeneration of matter in the three departments of nature with this thou wil be able to overcome all things and to transmute all what is fine and what is coarse it will conquer every subtle

Thing of course as it refixes the most subtle oxygen into its own fiery nature and that with more power penetration and virtue in a tenfold ratio at every multiplication and each time in a much shorter period until its power becomes incalculable which multip mul applied power also penetrates overcomes every

Solid thing such as unconquerable gold and silver the otherwise unalterable Mercury crystals and glass fluxes to which it is able to give natural hardness and fixity as ftha does a test and is proved by an artificial diamond in my father’s time in possession of Prince Lin in Vienna valued at500 th000 ducats fixed

By the lapis philosopher stone in this manner the world was created the arrangements to follow the road are hidden for this reason I am called chyam tet meat one in essence but three in aspect in Trinity is hidden the wisdom of the whole world I.E in chyam and its use it is

Thought that Hermes was Moses or zoroaster otherwise Hermes signifies a serpent and the serpent used to be an emblem of knowledge or wisdom the serpent is met with everywhere amongst the hieroglyphics of the ancient Egyptians so is the globe with wings the sun and moon dragons and Griffins whereby the Egyptians denoted their

Sublime knowledge of the lapis philosoph Forum according to sudas the hints in the scriptures and even Denon where he speaks of the sanctuaries of the ancient Egyptian temples it is ended now what I have said concerning the effects of the sun finish of the tabula

Smarda what I have said or taught of the solar work is now finished the perfect seed fit for multiplication this I know is acknowledged to be the genuine tabula smart Ina hertis a letter from the brothers of RC Rose cross although eugenius FES disclaimed membership of the rosac crucian

Fraternity It is believed that for a number of years he was the head of that order in a little work called Lumen dumin or a new magical light discovered and communicated to the World published in London in 1651 eugenius FES gives a remarkable letter presumably from the rosac crucian order

Accompanying the letter is an emblematic figure setting forth in symbolic form the processes and formula of the philosopher stone this epistle is an excellent example of the rosicrucian system of combining abstract theological speculations with concrete chemical formula with the aid of the material contained in various parts of this present book

The student would do well to set himself the task of solving the riddle contained in this hieroglyph a letter from the brothers of RC concerning the invisible magical mountain and the treasure therein contained every man naturally desires a superiority to have Treasures of gold and silver intellect and soul and to

Seem great in the eyes of the world God indeed created all things for the use of man that he might rule over them and acknowledge therein the singular goodness and omnipotence of God give him thanks for his benefits honor him and praise him but there is no man looks after

These things otherwise than by spending his days idly they would enjoy them without any pre they would enjoy them without any previous labor and danger neither do they look them out of that place where God hath treasured them up who expects also that man should seek

For them there and to those that seek will he give them but there is not any that labors for a possession in that place and therefore these Richards are not found for the way to this place and the place itself have been unknown for a long time and it is hidden from the

Greatest part of the world but not withstanding it to be difficult in laborers to find out this way and place yet the place should be sought after but it is not the will of God to conceal anything from those that are his and therefore in this last age before

The final judgment comes all these things shall be manifested to those that are worthy as he himself through obscurely lest it should be manifested to the Unworthy hath spoken in a certain place there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed and hidden that should not be

Known we therefore being moved by the spirit of God do declare the will of God to the world which we have also already performed and published in several languages but most men either revile or contemn that are Manifesto the F and confessio fraternus or else waving the spirit of

God they expect the proposals therein from us supposing we will straight away teach them how to make gold by art or furnish them with with ample Treasures whereby they may live pompously in the face of the world Swagger and make Wars Turn usurers Glutton and drunkards live un chastely

And defile their whole life with several other sins all which things are contrary to the Blessed will of God these men should have learned from those 10 virgins where of five that were foolish demanded oil for their lamps from those five that were wise how that the case is much

Otherwise it is expedient that every man should labor for this Treasure by the assistance of God and his own particular search and industry but the perverse intentions of these fellows we understand out of their own writings by the singular Grace and revelation of God we do stop our ears

And wrap ourselves as if it were in clouds to avoid the Bell ings and howlings of those men who in vain cry out for gold and hence indeed it comes to pass that they brand us with infinite calumnies and Slanders which not withstanding we do

Not resent but God in his good time will judge them for it but after that we had well known though unknown to you and perceived also by your writing how diligently you are to pursue the Holy Scripture and seek the true knowledge of God we have also above many thousands

Thought you worthy of some answer and we signify this much to you by the will of God and the admonition of the Holy Ghost there is a mountain situated in the midst of the Earth or center of the world which is both small and great it is soft also above measure hard and

Stony it is far off and near at hand but by the Providence of of God invisible in it are hidden most ample Treasures which the world is not able to Value this mountain by Envy of the devil who always opposeth the glory of God and the happiness of man is compassed with

Very cruel beasts and other sick ravenous Birds which make the way fither both difficult and dangerous and therefore hether to because the time is not yet come the way fither could not be sought after nor found out but now at the last the way is to be

Found by those who are worthy but not withstanding by every man’s self- labor and Endeavors to this mountain you shall go in a certain night when it comes most long and most dark and see that you prepare yourselves by prayer insist upon the way that leads to the mountain but

Ask not of any man where the way lies only follow your guide who will offer himself to you and will meet you in the way but you shall not know him this guide will bring you to the mountain at midnight when all things are silent and dark it is necessary that you arm

Yourselves with a Resolute heroic courage lest you fear those things that will happen and so fall back you need no sword nor any other bodily weapons only call upon God sincerely and heartily when you have discovered the mountain the first miracle that will appear is this a most vehement and very

Great wind that will shake the mountain and shatter the rocks to pieces you shall be encountered also by lions and dragons and other terrible beasts but fear not any of these things be Resolute and rake heed that you return not for your guide who brought you thither will not suffer any evil to

Befall you as for the treasure it is not yet discovered but it is very near after this wind will come an earthquake that will overthrow these things which the wind hath left then make all flat But be sure that you fall not off the earthquake being passed there

Shall follow a fire that will consume the Earthly rubbish and discover the treasure but as yet you cannot see it after all these things and near the Daybreak there shall be a great calm and you shall see the day star arise and the dawning will appear and you shall perceive a great

Treasure the chiefest thing in it and the most perfect is a certain exalted tincture with which the world if it served God and were worthy of such gifts might be tinged and turned into most pure gold this tinure being used as your guide shall reach you will make you young when

You are old and you shall perceive no disease in any part of your bodies by means of this tincture also you shall find Pearls of that Excellency which Cannot Be Imagined but do not you arrogate anything to yourselves because of your present power but be contented with that which your guide

Shall communicate to you praise God perpetually for his gift and have a special care that you use it not for worldly Pride but employ it in such Works which are contrary to the world use it rightly and enjoy it so as if you had it not live a temperate life and

Beware of all sin otherwise your guide will forsake you and you shall be deprived of this happiness for know this of a truth whosoever abusethe tincture and lives not exemplary purely and devoutly before Men He Shall lose this benefit and scarce any hope will there be left ever to recover it

Afterwards if as transcendentalists believe the initiations into the fraternity of the Rose cross were given in The Invisible worlds which surround and interpenetrate the visible Universe it is not beyond the range of possibility that this allegory is to be consider considered in the light of an initiatory ritual as well as an alchemical

Formula as has been noted it is difficult to secure a complete formula for any of the alchemical operations the one presented here is the most nearly complete of any available the collecting of the Rays and energies of the celestial bodies as precipitated in do is a process which

Paracelsus used with great success bear constantly in mind that these processes are only for those who have been properly instructed in this secret art a true revelation of the manual operation for the universal medicine commonly called the philosopher stone by the celebrated philosopher of leaden as attested upon his deathbed

With his own blood anod domini 1662 to my loving cousin and Son the true hermetic philosopher dear loving cousin and Son although I had resolved never to give in writing to any person the secret of the ancient sages yet notwithstanding out of peculiar affection and love to you I have taken it upon

Me to which The Nearness of our relation obliges me and especially because this temporal life is short and art is very dark and you may therefore not attain the wished for end but my son because so precious a jewel belongs not to swine and also this

So great a gift of God may be treated carefully and christian-like in consideration thereof I do so largely declare myself to thee I conjure thee with hand and mouth sacredly first that most especially thou Faithfully keep the same from all Wicked lustful and criminal persons secondly that thou exalt not thyself in any

Way thirdly that thou seek to advance the honor of thy creator of all things and the good of Thy Neighbor preserve it sacredly that thy Lord may not have cause to complain of thee at the last day I have written here in this treaties such a part of the Kingdom of Heaven

Just as I myself have worked this treasure and finished it with my fingers therefore I have subscribed all this work with my blood lying on my deathbed and Laden the process in the name of God take the purest and cleanest salt sea salt so as it is made by the sun itself

Such as is brought by shipping from Spain I use that salt that came from St Uber let it be dried in a warm stove grind it in a stone mortar as fine as possible to a powder that it may be so much easier your dissolve and taken up

By the Dew water which is thus to be had in the months of May or June when the moon is at the full observe when the Dew Falls with an East or Southeast wind then you must have sticks about 1 and 1/2 fet high above the ground when

Driven in the earth upon two or three such sticks lay some four square plates of glass and as the Dew Falls it easily fastens on the glass like a vapor and then have glass vessels in Readiness let the Dew drain from the sides of the glasses into your vessels do this until

You have enough the full moon is a good season afterwards it will be hard the solar rays descending from the Sun carry with them the solar sulfur the Divine fire these rays are crystallized by contact with the lunar Rays the solar rays are also met by the emanations

Pouring upward from the Earth’s surface and are thus still further crystallized into a partly tangible substance which is soluble and pure water this substance is the magical mountain of the Moon referred to in the RC letter the crystallization of the solar and lunar raay in water do produce

The Virgin Earth a pure invisible substance uncontaminated by material matter when the Virgin Earth crystals are wet they appear green when dry white Von Welling makes a suggestion for the extraction of the solar life from stag water but is reticent both as to naming the essence extracted and also to the

Various processes through which it must pass to be refined and increased in power his hint however is both valuable and unusual take sweet clean water and seal it in a large bottle leaving about 1/4 empty place the bottle in the Sun for some weeks until it rots showing a

Precipitation in the bottom this precipitation when properly manipulated by distillation will produce a clear fiery burning oil the Conant and use of which are only known to the wise the philosopher of leaden continues now when you have enough of your de close your glasses exactly and

Keep it until you use it that none of its Spirits May evaporate which may easily happen set it therefore in a cool place that no warmth may come to it or else the subtle spirit will rise and be gone which will not so happen it after you have filled

Your glasses with de quite full you close them very well with wax now in the name of God take this Dew water as much as thou Wilt put it in a clean dissolving glass then cast a little of your forementioned powdered salt in it to be dissolved and continue

To put it in your till your Dew water will dissolve no more or till the salt lies in it for 4 days without being dissolved then it has enough and unto your Dew it is given the proper powder of this compounded water take as much as thou Wilt I took about a pound

And a half and put it in a round vial with a short neck fill it without out water and loot it with a good loot cover and stole that fits it well that the subtle and Living spirit of the Dew may not fume away for

If they should the soul of the salt will never be stirred up nor the work ever brought to a Right End let the loot dry very well of itself and set it in the furnace of BM to purify make a slow fire and let it

Digest for 40 days or 50 and that the fume of the water can be continually round about it and you will see your matter grow black which is a token of its putrification as soon as you have taken it out have your dry furnace ready set your glass

With the matter into an inner Globe to coagulate give it a slow degree of fire continue it equally for 12 or 15 days and your matter will begin to coagulate and to fasten round about your glass like a gray salt which as soon as you

See and before it be two days slack in the fire that it may cool leisurely then have in Readiness your putrifying furnace as before set your glass therein and give the same degree of fire as before let it stand 12 days and again you will see the matter

Resolve and open as before and open itself but you must every time see that the loot and your glass is not hurt when you set your glass in the putrifying furnace take care that the neck of your glass is covered with a wooden or glass stop ER that fits it

Exactly that the moisture of the water may not come at it when you see it black set your glass as before to coagulate and when it begins to be of a grayish color and whitish set it in a third time to purify and coagulate to the fifth time until

You see that your water and its dissolution is clean lucid and clear and that it appears in its calcination of a fine white like snow then it is prepared and becomes a salt fixed which will melt on hot Silver Plate like Wax but before you set this

Your salt out set it again in the furnace of putrification that it may dissolve of itself and let it cool open your glass and you will find your matter lessened a third part but instead of your former salt water you will have a fine sweet and very penetrating water which the

Philosophers have hid under very wonderful names it is the Mercury of all true philosophers the water out of which comes gold and silver for they say its father is gold and its mother is silver thus hast thou the strength of both these luminaries conjoined in this water most true in its right

Pondis prescription five drops of this water taken inwardly strengthens the understanding in memory and opens to us most wonderful and sweet things of which no man hath heard and of which I dare not further write because of the oath I made to the contrary time and the holy use of this

Blessed water will teach us as soon as you have taken it inwardly such influence will happen to thee as if the whole heavens and all the stars with their powers are working in thee all knowledge and secret Arts will be opened up to thee as in a dream but

The most excellent of all you will perfectly learn rightly to know all creatures in their nature and by means thereof the true understanding of God the creator of us heaven and earth like David and Moses and all the saints of God for the wisdom of our Fountain of

Living Water will instruct thee as it did Solomon and the Brethren of our Fraternity in his rare treaties on salt sulfur and Mercury Von Welling discloses a secret not gener revealed in alchemical writings namely that the Alchemists were concerned not only with the transmutation of metals but had a complete cosmological and philosophical

System based upon the cabala according to Von Welling the universal salt in watery form is a positive cure for all the physical ailments of mankind it is in every living thing but from some things it is more easily secured than from others especially if this true of Virgin

Earth it is the universal solvent the alcahest the same writer also states that in the first stages of its preparation the salt will cure any and all diseases of the heart the anonymous philosopher of Laden continues would you now proceed further with our blessed water to the forementioned intention of preparing a

Tincture for Metals hearken my son take in the name of the Lord of thy paradisiacal water of heavenly water of mercury as much as thou Wilt put it into a glass to dissolve and set it in the slow Heat Of Ashes that it may just feel the warmth and then ready well purified

Gold for the red or silver for the white elexir for in both the processes are the same let your gold or silver be beaten as thin as Leaf gold cast it by degrees into your dissolving glass that contains s your blessed water as you did in the

Beginning with your salt and it will melt like ice in warm water and continue so to do till your gold or silver lie there in 4 days without dissolving then it has received its dup pondis then put this dissolution as before into a round glass fill it 2/3

Parts full seal it hermetically as before let your cilum be well dried set it in the furnace of balum vapor ey make a fire and let it remain 40 days as before then will the gold or silver be dissolved radically and will turn of the deepest black in the world which as soon

As you see have your other drying furnace in Readiness continuing philosophers say there is no true solution of the body without the preceding coagulation of the spirit for they are interchangeably mixed in due proportion whereby The Body Essence Becomes of a spiritual penetrating nature on the other hand the incomprehensible spiritual essential

Virtue is also made corporeal by the fire because there is made between them so near a relationship or friendship like as the heavens operate to the very depth of Earth and producing from then all the treasures and Riches of the whole world admirand nature operation m in arod dox’s

Cognitum with this powder you may as follows project on Metals take five parts of fine gold or silver according as you work and melt it in a crucible wrap up your medicine in wax cast it therein give it a strong fire for an hour then take The Crucible out as it

Were Cal signed then cast one part on 10 parts of imperfect metal Metals be it what it will and the same will be immediately changed into purer metal than what is brought out of the minds and produced by melting and when you augment it in strength and virtue by resolving and

Coagulating the fifth time it will resolve itself in 3 days and be coagulated in 24 hours time to an incredible and most highly pcid stone or red shining burning coal for the white work it will become like a white stream of lightning of this last coagulation take

One part cast it upon 5,000 of melted gold or silver as before it changes the same into perfect medicine one part whereof will tinge 100,000 parts of melted imp Perfect Metals into the very finest gold or silver so far I have brought and further

I would not come for as I would set in the matter to distill six times in in 12 hours it stilized so highly that the most part like somewhat most wonderful to behold passed through the glass causing an impressionable odorous smell so far I have brought and further I

Would not come for as I would set in the matter to distill six times in 12 hours it stilized so highly that the most part like somewhat most wonderful to behold passed through the glass causing an inex expressible odorous smell take heed that it happens not to

You many more wonders of this holy art might be added namely how to prepare therewith all sorts of precious stones and other most admirable things but it would require too great a book to express the whole as it ought to be especially as the art is endless and not

To be apprehended with one View and my purpose has been loving cousin and son devel vly to lead thee into the mysteries of Nature and this holy science and I have Faithfully performed it in conclusion the letter States go thou to work as I have done before thee fear God Love Thy Neighbor

From The Bottom Of thy Soul sincerely so will in the manual operation everything to thee and when thou art at work therein many of our Brethren will reveal themselves to thee of our holy order privately for I have on my part by the Eternal God wrote the truth which I found out by

Prayer and searching into nature which work I have seen with my eyes and with my hands extracted therefore also I have subscribed this Testament with my own blood the Last Day of My Life on my deathbed actum Laden 27th March 1662 the Hermetic and alchemical figures of Claudius de Dominico sentano valis

Novi from a manuscript written and illuminated at Naples a606 no better way can be found of introducing to the Royal art a Seeker after the mysteries of symbolical philosophy than to place at his disposal an actual example of alchemical writing the text of this manuscript is is as enigmatic as are its

Diagrams but to him who will meditate upon the profound significance of both the deeper issues of mysticism in due time will be made clear an unknown person through whose hands this manuscript past wrote thus of it because of its drawings and Illustrated expositions the manuscript is of preeminent importance to the rosac

Crucians in the Contemporary order of Freemasons the the first and larger part of the illustrations deals with the hermetic philosophy explaining its teachings and doctrines interspersed among these are portraits of great teachers and satirical representations of bunglers in their mistaken views the systematically arranged part shows with wonderful clearness the color

Development of the alchemical processes from Blue Gold over black to white and Rose throughout it treats of the change in human beings and not of the making of gold ever upon the grade of black the return into chaos from which New Creations are possible follows the grade

Of the neophytes the new birth which is often repeated with impressive Lucidity the black stage occurs as usual through fire this unopened and unpublished manuscript belongs to the order of the most important precepts and documents of the rosac crucians and Freemasons a search through the museums and Library collections of Germany has

Failed to reveal any item of even a similar character in addition to the 26 leaves here reproduced there are 10 bottles or retorts each half filled with very colored substances these bottles can be so easily described that it is unnecessary to reproduce them the first bottle from

The mouth of which issues a golden shrub with three blossoms contains a bluish gray liquid the entire figure being called our Quicksilver under the vessel is a verse containing the significant words he will have white garments for black and then red the second bottle from the neck of which rise four golden

Flowers also contains the bluish gray substance termed Quicksilver below the bottle is the admonition to make spirit of the body and Grace of the gross that the Cor corporeal may become incorporeal the third bottle is entirely black save for a golden tree trunk having six loed off branches and

Terminating in five branches which end in knobs and protrude from the neck of the bottle the state of the substance is termed Blackness showing through the head of the Raven under the bottle occurs the statement that the tincture of the philosophers is hidden in the air like the soul in the human body

The fourth bottle is of the deepest Blackness and is called the head of the Raven nothing rises from the neck of the vessel for the Earth its contents is described as submerged in chaos the bottom of the fifth bottle contains a bluish gray spotted liquid the upper part being filled with a brick

Colored substance above are the words sixth Raven’s Head below is added at the bottom of the vessel worm worms are born the lower half of the sixth bottle is of a bluish gray the upper half black the entire figure being termed seventh Raven’s Head the child is seated beside

The bottle concerning Whom It is written this newly born black sun is called Elixir and will be made perfectly white the seventh bottle is black below and black spotted with red above the process is thus described black blacker than black for many diverse colors will appear those black clouds will descend

To the body whence they came and the junction of Body Soul and Spirit has been completed and turned to ashes the eighth bottle is divided horizontally by a golden band from which Rises a golden stem ending in five leaves protruding from the neck of the bottle the contents of of the vessel are

Transparent and it is written that black clouds are passed and the great whiteness has been completed the ninth bottle from the neck of which Rises a golden White Rose is also partly filled with a transparent liquid the rose is made to say he who blanches me makes me red the 10th and

Last bottle represents the consummation of the great work the lower half of the vessel is filled with the blood red Elixir and from the neck Rises a red rose with many petals and of extreme Beauty after declaring all the planets to have been present at the consummation

Of the great work the author of the document concludes I gave to this master spirit so much silver and gold that he can never be poor in his dedication the author and illustrator of The manuscript declares that he has set forth all the operations of the great work he prays to the holy

Holy spirit that he may be included in the number of those who have pursued this most noble of the sciences and that he may be set always in the path of righteousness exclusive of his own researches the main sources of his information are said to be the writings

Of St Thomas aquinus Raymond LLY and Arnold of Villanova to protect themselves from the persecution of despotic theology the medieval Alchemists couched their philosophy and Christian terminology although the great secrets of the art were derived largely from Egyptian or Arabian adeps the muhammadans were masters of the Hermetic secrets and even the great

Paracelsus secured from them the major part of his knowledge in their manifestos the rosicrucians also disclose the Arabian source of their secret Doctrine hence it should be borne in mind that the relating of the alchemical teaching to biblical symbolism was a gesture of expediency in their search of the

Scriptures for the Arcana of Israel the cabalists substantiated in great measure the alchemical interpretations of the Bible for the soul of alchemy is one with that of cabalism both schools have a common end being who concerned with the mystery of human regeneration despite apparent discrepancies in their symbolism the publication of this

Manuscript places at the student disposal the most profound secrets of the Hermetic art at first the task of decipherment may seem hopeless and the superficially minded may be tempted to scoff at the possibility of real knowledge being perpetuated in such unconventional fashion the scoffer will not realize

That one of the purposes of the document is to awaken ridicule and thus preserve more effectually its Arcana from the profane a few sheets such as those here reproduced represent the life work of one who was consecrated himself to the task of tearing aside the veil of the world

Virgin years of research and experimentation days of incessant labor nights of prayer and meditation and at last comes the realization of accomplishment this is the real story told by the grotesque figures drawn so painstakingly upon the faded worm eaten pages those who have glimpsed the greater realities of being realize that the

Fundamental varities of Life find at best only imperfect expression through physical symbols only those who have passed through the travail of spiritual birth can adequately comprehend and properly reverence the pathetic efforts to portray for others that knowledge necessarily locked within the heart of the one who

Knows Leaf one the Top Line line reads our earliest medicine was made of natural objects about the king and queen appears the statement that to them a son shall be born in two trees of the vine resembling his father and without equal in all the world about the vas is written green and

White the vase flame color the flowers green our waters are silver the lines below the material of the philospher stone is that thick viscous water which either heat or cold can gals it is mercury boiled down and thickened cooked in neutral Earth with sulfurous heat and is called the prime material of the

Metals in Caverns yet dark and forbidding mountains if a stone be found which a thousand years ago nature made out of her fruits it will bring him that has it out of trouble listen carefully to to all my verses I speak them without Veil and without

Deception Leaf 2 at the top is a quotation from St Thomas aquinus concerning the composition of the philosopher stone which is described as of the purest transparency in it all the forms of the elements and their contrari were visible beneath the figure of St Thomas aquinus is a short paragraph praising

The Excellence of the philosophic stone declaring that from the one substance can be derived three and from the three two to the right of St Thomas aquinus is a likeness of Raymond LLY seated in the door of his Hermitage under his feet appears a quotation from the celebrated Alchemist

Beginning with the question what is the philosopher stone after declaring it to be a reddish fixed Mercury LLY swears to the Almighty that he has told the truth and that it is not permissible to say more the original manuscript is mutilated at this point Leaf three the writing at the top

Of the page reads death of Saturn life of mercury after describing the use of the saturnine substances the key to the process is declared to the depicted below the verse reads this the stone is made of four elements this is the truth in all nature take it in hand bright and

Shining with all diligence and great care and then try to bind all securely together side by side so the fire may cause alarm above the human figure is written Saturn is almost dead to the right if the devouring serpent is a statement of albertus Magnus that Saturn and Mercury

Are the first principles of the Stone it also declares that nature wisely provided a mixture of elements so that Earth can communicate its dryness to fire fire its heat to air air its moisture to water and water its coldness to Earth text about the vase is illegible in the

Original Leaf four at the top let them believe that everything is possible the art is fleeting bright and rare and not believed by the foolish the words between the Sun and Crescent read it is hidden and on the panel across the body The Book of Life and true treasury of the

World the panel to the left of the figure says moving almost all and the soul of its body returns to the place from which it had fled and ripens 7 months or nine and the King crowned with his diadem appears the right panel States there are three mercuries animal vegetable and

Mineral the text below is of such cryptic nature that to translate It is Well nigh impossible it declares that by putting fire beneath the feet of the symbolic figure it is possible to extract there from the Sun and the Moon which the human body is shown elevating

To a position of dignity above its head Leaf five in the upper panel it is declared that the Sunbird battles with the Earth serpent who tearing out its own entrails gives them to the bird the spirit is vivified and Lazarus with joy is raised from the dead above the bird

Is written this is the sun in the form of a bird and above the dragon this is the dragon devouring the bird the first operation the panel of text at the lower left reads in substance when our sperm Quicksilver is mixed with the mother of elements Earth the action is called

Quitus the detention by the Earth of a bit of quicksilver is called conception the Earth grows and multiplies and the operation is called impregnation when Earth is whitened in water and made of uniform color and appearance it is called birth and the king is born out of fire the text at

Lower right was deliberately mutilated to conceal a too evident secret Leaf 6 this plate shows all the secrets of the great Stone in the center stands the posal virgin in her hair the prime virtue which is described as an herb flourishing in Wells the hand holds the symbols of the spiritual and material

Elements the statement at the upper left is to the effect that there are four Spirits with two faces which are called the elements at the upper right it is written that fire lives on air air on water water on Earth and thus the stone lives peacefully on all the pure

Elements Under the Sun appears the word summer under the moon Autumn about the tree on the left with its attendant eyes are the words turn away your eyes to from the fire there is space about the tree to the right open your eyes to the fire there is time the

Lower panel opens with this sentence I am exalted above the circles of world Leaf 7 the verse at the top reads this stone is so Noble and worthy that nature has hidden it in her recesses its soul is all fair and pure for it is the true Sun I inform you of

This keep it removed apart and separated whatever Boon you crave it will come to you bounous without sin with pleasure and Delight the seated figure on the left holding aof the hammer is described as breaking hard Stone while the words beside the man with the retort read breaking of stone or

Replenishment between the standing figures below is the exclamation Oh seek and ye shall find my stone under the outstretched hand of the man with a basket appear the words draw out soram in the bottom below the pool which the man on the left is stirring appears the simple statement our healing

Water the faces of the four men are extremely well drawn leaf8 Under the Sun Moon and Mercury are the words three and one an inference that the three are one the words under the flower stem reads whiteness 40 days after ashes under the blossoms is written left

Minor time of the stone right the selected red between the arms of the central figure appears let one pound of mercury be placed to the left is written if you who read shall have known this figure you will possess the whole science of the stone to the right and if you do not

Acknowledge it you will be stiff necked and dull above the son is the word father above the Saturn ferment of the work beside the child is the sentence the son of the Moon would threw the stone Into the Fire his mother above the Flaming basket is written I am

The True Stone under the central figure are the words a moderate fire is the master of the work Leaf n in the upper left it is written that without the light of the Moon the sun does not heat the Earth and that into the moon the sun emits its

Fruit in the upper right the true herb of the philosophers is described and it is declared that whoever believes in him it shall be spiritually Rich the panel concludes thus understand thoroughly what it is that the man has in either hand if you wish to be enlightened the text to the left above

The sun reads entirely without the Sun and Moon make die dissolve congeal and like produces for itself like the words to the right of the man holding the philosophers herb declar sublimation to be the beginning the middle and the end of the great work the last sentence reads out of the

Sun and Moon make a thing of equal parts and by their Union God willing let the philosopher stone be made Leaf 10 the two short lines of text at upper left read some take a recent Stone the lines to the right of the symbol of Mars iron admonish the student to control his

Appetites and apply his mind to the accumulation of knowledge no satisfactory translation can be found for the words under the outstretched arm of the man holding the upper part of the tree the lower panel reads thus after the stone has been well refined it will appear to penetrate

Thoroughly it should be put into its vessel with its water Clos it well with a little fire and await the wonders of nature a large red oval filling the lower half of the leaf is evidently the egg or vessel of the sages the tree is a symbol of the growth

Of the Sacred Metals for the Alchemists affirm that the metals are like plants and grow in the Rocks spreading their branches veins through the esses EA 11 the fountain is described as that which from the two mercuries of the philosophers are extracted at the upper left is described

The white Mercury and at the right the red mercury the text about the fountain declares that Saturn collects the white Mercury which is called the water of Earth and the Earth collects the red mercury which is called the water of Heaven the text to the left of the Frog

Reads through him who created the heavens and the earth I am the philosopher stone and in my body I carry something the wise seek if such a charm be extracted from me it will be a sweet refreshment for you I am an animal having father and mother and father and mother were

Created and in my body are contain the four elements and I am before father and mother and I am a poisonous animal the lines at the right describe distilling and caling processes Leaf 12 the three words at the top read this is nature the lines above the donkey

Read this is the Philosopher’s donkey who wish to rise to the practice of the philosopher sum the three lines below the animal are translated frogs Gather in multitudes but science consists of clear water made from the Sun and Moon the text under the symbolic bird is

As follows this is Fortune with two WI Wings whosoever has it knows that the fruit will in such a way be produced a great philosopher has shown that the stone is a certain white sun to see which it needs a telescope to dissolve it in water

Requires the Sun and Moon and here one must open 200 telescopes putting body and soul in one mass and here is lost the mass other sages cook the frogs and add nothing the juice of the wise you wish to enjoy to the Greeks the Frog symbolized both metam psychosis and Earthly humidity Leaf

13 this page contains but two figures at the left stands morenus the philosopher pointing towards the salamander who lives and grows in fire morenus who was born in the 12th century became the disciple iple of the great Arabian Alchemist Adar from whom he learned the Hermetic Arts morenus prepared the philosophical

Elixir for the Sultan of Egypt inscribing upon the vase in which he had placed the precious substance the words he who possesses all has no need of others he spent many years as a Hermit near Jerusalem the lines below the salamander are Let the Fire be of

Perfect red color the Earth white the water clear then compound them by philosophical means and caline them as many times with the water which the body had as to turn it white by its kindness having done this you will have the greatest treasure in the

World Leaf 14 the three words at the top of the left Page are translated the man that digs above the birds it is declared that none but the of Hermes the two mercuries shall put hand to the plow and only after irrigation will the earth bring forth her

Fruits the seated man is Count Bernard of traviso who says work the Earth with Mercury see chapter on Alchemy and its exponents the three sentences to the Count’s left read go to the fire and with Mercury thy brother await me for a month crumble the stone I gave thee and

I shall go to the fire thy death my life I shall n die but living tell of the works of this my master Bernard of traviso in his alchemical speculation emphasized the necessity of meditation upon the philosophical writings of the great adepts rather than chemical experimentation he ultimately discovered the stone leaf

15 the first sentence reads the fruit of plants by virtue of the sun are Stone the boy holding the dish is made to say drink here all ye that are a thirst come unto me run to the waters here drink without price and drink your fill open your eyes and see the wonders

Of the earth they learn my thirsty 20 and four beneath the boys are the words in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth and divided the waters from the waters bless the waters which are above the heavens the circle contains this statement the Earth without form and

Void out of stars come the rains the lower left panel continues the alchemical process ending with admonition to renounce the mystery of worldly existence above is a prayer to the Virgin Mary which opens the us Hail Mary full of grace the Lord be with thee blessed thou among women Leaf

16 the first sentence reads the dead bodies remain the spirits are freed by the death in the bodies you will ride with that death with the scythe and the light of the Sun the moon and the fixed Stars over the Scythe is written subject to the Sun the moon and as off complete

The work the four words in the curve of the Scythe blade say man’s head head of Raven the three lines to the right are interpreted thus this figure is called Latin for it looks black in a vessel and is the beginning of corruption the text below the ladder

States this is the lad of primitive matter which when placed in a vessel turns black but gradually changes to White by the scale latter of digestion according to the degree of heat here a lad is used to signify the natural steps up which matter must ascend before it contained to a truly spiritual

State Leaf 17 the verse at the top of the page reads not only must this material be fixed but it must be allowed to enter into everything so that this material May well be completed and have infinite virtue then by making it thick it becomes at once all white sublimation

From White it becomes shining above the sun are the words God and nature do nothing in vain the man on the left is a medieval conception of Hermes the great Egyptian philosopher the one on the right is Christopher the philosopher of Paris above the latter is written if the

Stone is black it is not useless the words over the retort are there is air fire water and Earth Below is added a dissolution of the body is the first step the Curious chemical apparatus must be considered purely symbolic in this work and as its author himself says is

Intended to give only a hint of the art Leaf 18 at the left holding a book stands Aristotle who is described as the most learned of all the Greeks the tree surmounted by the sun and moon is accompanied by the words when the stone is dead that is changed

To water in this it will produce flowers beneath Aristotle and the prostrate human figure from which Rises the flowering tree are these statements he who makes everything descend from Heaven to Earth and then ascend from Earth to Heaven has information of about the stone for in Mercury there is something the wise seek

Not invoked except by white or red ferment the first part of this quotation is based upon the Emerald Tablet of Hermes in ordinary man the spirit is figuratively absorbed by the body but in the true philosopher the spirit is so greatly increased in power that it absorbs into itself and is nourished by

Man’s corporeal body Leaf 19 at the top it reads he that comes to know this figure will have knowledge of the stone the seated man probably represents paracelsus to his right are the words I am neither tree nor animal nor Stone nor vegetable but the philosopher

Stone trampled on by Men cast Into the Fire by my father and in fire I rejoice the four words to the left say in dryness is the stone below the man is the philosophic egg containing the words it is the end in which the beginning rests the capital T stands for

Tincture the text to the right States in stone it is formed as Gerber writes in this book very learnedly and possessing so much of its nature that it changes into clear Living Water and it has the power to make folks Rich satisfied and free from all cares so they will be

Always happy if they attain by their wit to the secret Leaf 20 at the top is written grains are made by six stars under the inverted man it reads receive new spirit arise for you are asleep the two sentences about the large figure read remember Mercury for ashes

Thou Art and unto ashes Thou shalt return I thirst and am dead above the seven globes at the left is the admonition if he thirst give him a drink and he shall live over the small man is written Hermes the father of philosophers the curved line of writing

To which Hermes Point says the measure of the drink under the central pedestal appears the light of my eyes is a lantern to my feet blow is added if the beginning is unknown the rest is unknown above the figure rising from the flames on the right is the statement he

Was resurrected after New Moon and under the eagle Thou shalt not fly further with me Leaf 21 the upper line reads two things and double but finally one is dissolved into the first and they make sperm the four capitals i a a t are the initial letters of the names of the

Elements ignis air aqua and Terra the writing under them reads our fire is water if you can give fire to fire fire and Mercury will suffice along the arm appear the words the art of the stone is and on the ribbon Swift brief bright and rare the two lines under the ribbon read

Every hand is a key because it was called the herb celandine Under the Sun I’m the gift of God the verse reads so that you remain contended in all matters I must listen attentively my body is naked clean and shining and I run like oil ready to drop

Resplendant like bright gold and then succumb to the plague in its bright and cheerful little chamber retort Leaf 22 the verse in the upper left is as follows this group is composed of three stones lunar solar and Mercurial in the lunar is White Sulfur in the Solar red

Sulfur in the Mercurial both I.E white and red and this is the strength of all instruction in the bottom at the left are the words dissolving calcination sublimation complete the instruction and at the base wash congeal and coagulate under the central tower is written metallic salts however are

Hidden by one letter around the bottom of the red circle dryness coldness humidity heat and dryness on the points below are the names of the four elements the the initial i a a t appear four times with the same meaning as that already given the three powers of the

Philosopher stone are symbolized by the heads of the cherubs in the circle in the upper left corner Leaf 23 the writing at the upper left is in substance The Lord’s Prayer with the addition of the words Jesus and Mary at the end the inverted words in the banner

Read ye can do nothing without me for God has so promised saying so be it the text under the angel reads by this plague he will be damned who knows he is dead all cold in a black body and let this be thy first comfort then he will burn into

Calcination when I have reduced him with this door know for certain that I shall be blessed if I shall know how to cultivate the garden the main part of the leaf is devoted to an elaborate symbolic drawing of alchemical equipment under which are the words the furnace of distillation congealing rectification Perfection

Fixation quintessence of the philosophers by quintessence should be understood the fifth essence of the most wise Leaf 24 the words at the top read I the bird the Adept speak into thine ears from the Sun moon and azoth the work is perfected with little labor the panel to the left

Describes the nature of primordial matter and the drink of the philosophers the text to the right reads this is my beloved Son whom I saw and loved if he be resurrected he will remain at home and in that house the spirit will be thy soul of the Body for

Mercury may be called the sun of the Sun and the Moon Under the child’s figure is added if he were were not dead I should not have been his mother I bore him after death before he was born in the world under my feet I have what was his and

Out of me and my son and the foundation of my feet the Philosopher’s Stone is made at the lower left the three constituents of the stone are shown elevated upon a pedestal to signify their dignity Leaf 25 above the figure of the Queen are three lines stating in

Substance that in the beginning of the book it was written of her that from her maternal breasts she nourish the Sun and that he who was capable of converting her into Primal matter possessed rare skill opposite the Queen’s head are the words in the highest mountains this

Water and I am the light of the philosophers to the left of the queen is an admonition to strike the sons who whom she Bears she calls herself the mother of the Sun the sister of the moon and the servant and spouse of mercury on the right she is made to exclaim I

Cannot be crowned unless these sons of mine become ashes the sons are shown directly below the verse under the queen continues the alchemical processes describing the method in which the exudations from the substance should be preserved Leaf 26 this this page which concludes that part of the Hermetic manuscript bearing

The symbols of the secret work contains a number of emblems not directly correlated at the top is the head of the king the most common of alchemical figures to the right of the king is the alchemical vessel designated the Hermetic seal below is the head of a ferocious bird here designated a

Griffin to the left of the king is a headless figure elevating a sun or spiritual face this figure is the world which must be headless since its spiritual and rational part is not material and consequently is invisible below is a circle unaccompanied by descriptive matter directly under the king’s head is

A vase of flowers in which Rises the golden plant of the philosophers at the bottom of the page is additional alchemical equipment this also being termed a hermetic seal the chemical marriage the self- admitted author of the chemical marriage Johan Valentine Andre born in wenberg in

1586 was 28 years of age when that work was first published it was presumably written about 12 years prior to its publication or when the author was 15 or 16 years old the fact is almost incredible that one so young could produce a volume containing the wealth of symbolic

Thought and philosophy hidden between the lines of the chemical marriage this book makes the earliest known reference to the Christian Rosen crutz and is generally regarded as the third of the series of original rosicrucian manifestos as a symbolic work the book itself is hopelessly irreconcilable with the statements made by Andre concerning

It the story of the chemical marriage relates in detail a series of incidents occurring to an aged man presumably the father CRC of the F and confessio if father CRC was born in 1378 as stated in the confessio and is identical with the Christian Rosen cruits of the chemical marriage he was

Elevated to the Dignity of a knight of the Golden Stone in the 81st year of his life 1459 in the light of his own statements it is inconceivable that Andre would have been the father Rosie cross many figures found in the various books on symbolism published in the

Early part of the 17th century bear a striking resemblance to the characters and episodes in the chemical marriage the alchemical wedding may prove to be the key to the riddle of the bonian Rosicrucianism the presence in the German text of the chemical marriage of some words in English indicates its

Author to have been conversant also with that language the following summary of the main episodes of the seven days of the chemical marriage will give the reader a fairly comprehensive idea of the profundity of its symbolism the first day Christian Rosen crutz having prepared in his heart the pasal lamb

Together with a small unleavened loaf was Disturbed while at prayer one evening before Easter by a violent storm storm which threatened to demolish not only his little house but the very hill on which it stood in the midst of the Tempest he was touched on the back and turning he

Beheld a glorious woman with wings filled with eyes and robed in skyc colored garments Spangled with stars in one hand she held a trumpet and in the other a bundle of letters in every language handing a letter to CRC she immediately ascended into the air at the

Same time blowing upon her trumpet a blast was shook the house upon the Seal of the letter was a curious cross and the words in Hawk signal vinces within traced in letters of gold on an Azure field was an invitation to a royal wedding CRC was deeply moved by the

Invitation because it was the Fulfillment of a prophecy which he had received seven years before but So Unworthy did he feel that he was paralyzed with fear at length after resorting to prayer he sought sleep in his dreams he found himself in a loome dungeon with a multitude of

Other men all bound and fettered with great chains the grievousness of their sufferings was increased as they stumbled over each other in the darkness suddenly from above came the sound of trumpets the cover of the dungeon was lifted and a ray of light pierced the Gloom framed in the light stood a horhe

Headed man who announced that a rope would be lowered seven times and whoever could cling to the Rope would be drawn up to Freedom great confusion ensued all sought to grasp the rope and many were pulled away from it by others CRC despaired of being saved but

Suddenly the Rope swung towards him and grasping it he was raised from the dungeon in aged woman called the ancient matron wrote in a golden yellow book the names of those drawn forth and each of the redeemed was given for remembrance a piece of gold bearing the symbol of the

Sun and the letters DLS CRC who had been injured while climbing the Rope found it difficult to walk the Aged woman B him not to worry but to thank God who had permitted him to come into so high a light thereupon trumpet sounded and CRC

Awoke but so vivid was the dream that he was still sensible of the wounds received while asleep with renewed Faith CRC arose and prepared himself for the Hermetic marriage he dawned a white linen coat and bound a red ribbon crosswise over his shoulders in his hat he stuck four roses

And for food he carried bread water and salt before leaving his Cottage he knelt and vowed that whatever knowledge was revealed to him he would devote to the service of his neighbor he then departed from his house with joy the second day as he entered the forest surrounding

His little house it seemed to CRC that all nature had joyously prepared for the wedding as he proceeded singing merrily he came to a green Heath in which stood three great Cedars one bearing a tablet with an inscription describing the four paths that led to the Palace of the king

The first short and dangerous the second circuitous the third a pleasant and Royal Road and the fourth suitable only for Incorruptible bodies weary and perplexed CRC decided to rest and cutting a slice of bread was about to partake thereof when a white dove begged it from

Him the dove was at once attacked by a raven and in his efforts to separate the birds CRC unknowingly ran a considerable distance along one of the four paths that leading Southward a terrific wind prevented him from retracing his steps the wedding guest resigned himself to the loss of

His bread and continued along the road until he aspired in the distance a great gate the sun being low he hastened toward the portal upon which among other figures was a tablet bearing the words pral pink pral it profani a gatekeeper in skyc colored habit immediately asked CRC for his Letter of

Invitation and upon receiving it bade him enter and requested that he purchase a token after describing himself as a brother of the red Rosy cross CRC received in exchange for his water bottle a Golden Disc bearing the letters s c night Drawing Near The Wanderer hastened to a second gate guarded by a

Lion to which was a fixed a tablet with the words date the tabur volis where he presented a letter given him by the first gatekeeper being urged to purchase a token bearing the letters s m he gave his little package of salt and then hastened on to reach the palace Gates

Before they were locked for the night a beautiful virgin called Virgo lucifera was extinguishing the castle lights as CR approached and he was barely able to squeeze through the closing Gates as they closed they caught part of his cloak which he was forced to leave behind here his name was written in the

Lord bridegroom’s little Vellum book and he was presented with a new pair of shoes and also a token bearing the letters s PN he was then conducted by pages to a small chamber where the ice gray locks were cut from the crown of his head by invisible barbers

After which he was ushered into a spacious Hall where a goodly number of Kings princes and commoners were assembled at the sound of trumpets each seated himself at the table taking a position corresponding to his dignity so that CRC received a very humble seat most of the pseudo philosophers present being vain

Pretenders the banquet became an orgy which however suddenly seized at the sound of stately and inspired music for nearly half an hour no one spoke then amidst a great sound the door of the dining hall swung open and thousands of lighted tapers held by invisible hands entered those were

Followed by the two pages lighting the beautiful Virgo lucifera Seated on a self-moving throne the white and gold robed version then Rose and announced that to prevent the admission of the Unworthy persons to the mystical wedding the set of scales would be erected the following day which

Each guest would be waited to determine his Integrity those unwilling to undergo this ordeal she stated should remain in the dining hall she then withdrew but many of the tapers stayed to accompany their guests to their quarters for the night most of those present were presumptuous enough to believe that they

Could be safely weighed but nine including SE SE felt their shortcoming so deeply that they feared the outcome and remained in the hall while the others were LED away to their sleeping Chambers these nine were bound with ropes and left alone in darkness see RC then dreamed that he saw

Many men suspended over the Earth by threads and among them flew an aged man who cutting here and there a thread caused many to fall to Earth those who in arrogance had soared to to lofty Heights accordingly fell a greater distance and sustained more serious injury than the more humble ones

Who falling but a short distance often landed without mishap considering this dream to be of a good omen CRC related it to a companion continuing in discourse with him until dawn the third day soon after Dawn the trumpet sounded and the Virgo lucifera raid in red velvet girded with a white sash and

Crowned with a laurel wreath entered accompanied by 200 men in red and white Livery she intimated to CRC and his eight companions that they might farare better than the other self-satisfied guests golden scales were then hung in the midst of the hall and near them were placed seven weights one good-sized four

Small and two very large the men in Livery each carrying a naked sword and a strong rope were divided into seven groups and from each group was chosen a captain who was given charge of one of the weights having remounted her High Throne Virgo lucifera ordered the ceremony to

Begin the first to step on the scales was an emperor so virtuous that the balances did not tip until six weights had been placed upon the opposite end he was therefore turned over to the sixth group the rich poor alike stood upon the scales but only a few passed the test

Successfully to these were given velvet robes and wreaths of Laurel after which they were seated upon the steps of Virgo Lucifer’s Throne those who failed were ridiculed and scorched the Inquisition being finished one of the captains begged Virgo Lucifer to permit the nine men who had declared themselves unworthy also to be weighed

And this caused CRC anguish and fear of the first seven one succeeded and was greeted with joy CRC was the eighth and he not only withstood all the weights but even when three men hung on the opposite end of the beam he could not be moved a page cried out that is he

CRC was quickly set at Liberty and permitted to release one of the captives he chose the first emperor Virgo lucifera then requested the red rose that CRC carried which he immediately gave her the ceremony of the scales ended about 10:00 in the for noon after agreeing upon the paneles to

Be imposed upon those whose shortcomings had been thus exposed a dinner was served to all the few successful artists included CRC were given the chief seats after which the Golden Fleece and a flying lion were bestowed upon them in the name of the Bride Grom Virgo lucifera then presented a

Magnificent goblet to the guests stating that the king had requested all to share its contents following this CRC and his companions were taken out upon a scaffolding where they beheld the various penalties suffered by those who failed before leaving the palace each of the rejected guests was given a draft of

Forgetfulness the elect then returned to the castle where to each was assigned a learned page who conducted them through the various parts of the edifice CRC saw many things his companions were not privileged to behold including the Royal sepulture where he learned more than his extent in all

Books he also visit a magnificent library in an observatory containing a great Globe 30 ft in diameter with all the countries of the world marked upon it at supper the VAR ious guest propounded enigmas and CRC solved the riddle which Virgo lucifera asked concerning her own identity then entered the dining hall

Two youths and six virgins beautifully robed followed by a seventh virgin wearing a cornet the latter was called The Duchess and was mistaken for the Hermetic bride The Duchess told CRC that he had received more than the others therefore should make a greater return The Duchess then asked each of the

Virgins to pick up one of the seven weights which still remained in the great room to Virgo lucifera was given the heaviest weight which was hung in the Queen’s chamber during the singing of a hymn In the second chamber the first virgin hung her weight during a similar

Ceremony thus they proceeded from room to room until the weights had been disposed of The Duchess then presented her hand to see our mer and his companions and followed by her virgins withdrew Pages then conducted the guests to their sleeping Chambers the one assigned CRC was hung with rare tapestries and with beautiful

Paintings the fourth day after washing and drinking in the garden from a fountain which bore several inscriptions among them one reading drink brothers and live the guests led by Virgo cph ascended to 365 steps of the royal winding stairs the guests were given wreaths of Laurel and a curtain being raised found

Themselves in the presence of the king and queen CRC was a struck by the glory of the throne room and especially by the magnificence of the Queen’s robes which were so dazzling that he could not gaze upon them each guest was presented to the King by one of the virgins and after

This ceremony the Virgo Luc cph made a short speech in which she recited the achievements of the honest artists and begged that each be questioned as to whether she had properly fulfilled her Duty old Atlas then stepped forward and in the name of the royal magistri greeted the Intrepid band of

Philosophers and assured Virgo lucifera that she should receive a royal reward the length of the throne room was five times its width to the West was a great porch in which stood three Thrones the central one elevated on each Throne sat two persons on the first an ancient

King with a young consort on the third a black king with a veiled matron beside him and on the central Throne two young persons over whose heads hung a large and costly Crown about which hovered a little Cupid who shot his arrows first at the two lovers and then about the

Hall before the queen a book bound in Black Velvet lay on a small altar on which were golden decorations beside this were a burning candle Celestial Globe a small striking watch a little crystal pipe from which ran a stream of clear Blood Red Liquor and a skull with a white serpent

Crawling in and out of the orbits after their presentations the guests retired down the winding stairs to the Great Hall later the virgu Lucifer announced that a comedy was to be performed for the benefit of the six Royal guests in a building called The House of the

Sun CRC and his companions formed part of the royal procession which after a considerable walk arrived at the theater the play was in seven acts and after its happy ending all returned through the garden up the winding stairs to the throne room CRC noticed the young king was very

Sad and that at the banquet following he offed sent meat to the white serpent in the skull the feast over the young king holding in his hand the little black book from the altar asked the guests if they would all be true to him through prosperity and adversity and when they

Tremblingly agreed he asked that each should sign his name in the little black book as proof of his fty the Royal persons then drank from the little Crystal Fountain the others afterwards doing likewise this was called the draft of Silence the Royal persons then sadly shook hands with all

Present suddenly a little bell tinkled and immediately all the kings and queens took off their white garments and dawned black ones the room was hung in Sable draperies and the tables were removed the eyes of the royal persons were bound with six black steta scarfs and six

Coffins were placed in the center of the room an executioner a mo robed in black and and bearing an axe entered and beheaded in turn each of the six Royal persons the blood of each was caught in a Golden Goblet which was placed in the coffins with the body the Executioner was also

Decapitated and his head placed in a small chest the Virgo lucifera after assuring CRC and his companions that all should be well if they were faithful and true ordered the pages to conduct them to the rooms for the night while she remained to watch with the dead about midnight CRC awakened

Suddenly and looking from his window beheld seven ships sailing upon a lake above each hovered a flame these he believed to be the spirits of the beheaded when the ships reached Shore the Virgo lucifera met them and on each of the six vessels was placed a covered

Coffin as soon as the coffins had been thus disposed of the lights were extinguished and the flame passed back over the lake so that there remained but one light for a watch in each ship after beholding this strange ceremony CRC returned to his bed and slept till

Morning the fifth day rising at Daybreak and entreating his page to show him other Treasures of the palace CRC was conducted down many steps to a great iron door bearing a curious inscription he carefully copied passing through he found himself in the Royal treasury the light in which came entirely from some huge

Carbuncle in the center stood the Triangular Sepulcher of Lady Venus lifting a copper door in the pavement the page ushered CRC into a crypt where stood a great bed upon which when his guide had raised the coverlets CRC beheld the body of Venus led by his page CRC then rejoined

His companion saying nothing to them of his experience Virgo lucifera robed in Black Velvet and accompanied by her virgins then led the guests out into the courtyard where stood six coffins each with eight paw bearers CRC was the only one of the group of artists who suspected the Royal

Bodies were no longer in these coffins the coffins were lowered into Graves and great Stones rolled over them the Virgo lucifera then made a short oration in which she exhorted each to assist in restoring the Royal persons to life declaring that they should Journey with her to the Tower of Olympus where the

Medicines necessary to the resurrection of the six Royal persons could be alone found CRC and his companions followed Virgo lucifera to the seashore where all embarked on seven ships disposed according to a certain strange order as these ships sailed across the lake and through a narrow channel into the Open

Sea they were attended by Sirens nymphs and sea goddesses who in honor of the wedding presented a great and beautiful pearl to the royal couple when the ships came in sight of the Tower of Olympus Virgo lucifera ordered the discharge of a cannon to Signal their approach immediately a white flag

Appeared upon the tower and a small gilded pennis containing an ancient man the warden of the Tower with his white clad guards came out to meet the ships the Tower of Olympus stood upon an island which was exactly square and surrounded by A Great Wall entering the

Gate the group was led to the bottom of the central tower which contained an excellent laboratory where the guests were faint to beat and wash plants and precious stones and all sorts of things extract their juice and Essence and put these latter into glasses es Virgo lucifera set the artists to

Work so arduously that they felt they were mere drudges when the day’s work was finished each was assigned a mattress on the stone floor being unable to sleep CRC wandered about contemplating the Stars chancing upon a flight of steps leading to the top of the wall he

Climbed up and looked out upon the sea remaining here for some time about midnight he beheld seven Flames which Passing Over the Sea towards him gathered themselves on the top of the Spire of the central tower simultaneously the winds arose the sea became tempestuous and the moon was covered with

Clouds with some fear CRC ran down the stairs and returned to the Tower and lying down on his mattress was lulled to sleep by the sound of a gently flowing fountain in the laboratory the sixth day the next morning the Aged Warden of the tower after examining the

Work performed by the wedding guests in the laboratory and finding it satisfactory caused ladders ropes and larged wings to be brought forth and addressed the assembled artists thus my dear Sons one of these three things must each of you this day constantly bear about with

Him lots were cast and the to CRC much to his Chagrin fell a heavy ladder those who secured Wings had them fastened to their backs so cunningly that it was impossible to detect that they were artificial the Aged Warden then locked the artists in the lower room of the

Tower but in a short time a round hole was uncovered in the ceiling and Virgo lucifera invited all to ascend those with wings flew at once through the opening those with ropes had many difficulties while CRC with his ladder made reasonable speed on the second floor the wedding guests musicians and Virgo lucifera

Gathered around a fountain like contents containing the bodies of the six Royal persons Virgo lucifera then placed the Moore’s head in a kettle likee recepticle in the upper part of the fountain and poured upon it the substances prepared on the previous day in the laboratory the virgins placed lamps

Beneath these substances when they boiled passed out through holes in the sides of the cattle and falling upon the bodies in the fountain below dissolved them the six Royal bodies having been reduced thus to a liquid state a top was opened in the lower end of the fountain

And the fluid drained into an immense Golden Globe which when filled was of great weight all but the wedding guests then retired and shortly a hole in the ceiling opened as before and the guests ascended pel Mel to the third floor here the globe was suspended by a

Strong chain the walls of the apartment were of glass and mirrors were so arranged that the sun’s rays were concentrated upon the central Globe thus causing it to become very hot later the sun’s rays were deflected and the globe permitted to cool after which it was cut open with a diamond

Revealing a beautiful white egg carrying this with her Virgo lucifera Departed the guests having ascended through another trapdoor found themselves upon the fourth floor where stood a square Kettle filled with silver and warmed by a gentle fire the great white egg was placed upon the warm sand to mature in a short time

It cracked and there emerged an ugly ill-tempered bird which was fed with the blood of the beheaded Royal person diluted with prepared water at each feeding its feathers changed color from black they turned to White and at last they become very colored the disposition of the bird improving the

While dinner was then served after which Virgo lucifera departed with the bird the guests ascended with ropes ladders and wings to the fifth floor where a bath colored with fine white powder had been prepared for the bird which enjoyed bathing in it until the lamps placed beneath the bath caused the

Water to become uncomfortably warm when the heat had removed all the bird’s feathers it was taken out but the fire continued until nothing remained in the bath save a sediment in the form of a blue stone This was later pounded up and made into a pigment with this all of the bird

Except the head was painted the guests thereupon ascended to the sixth floor where stood a small altar resembling that in the King’s throne room the bird drank from the little Fountain and was fed with the blood of the white serpent which crawled through the openings in the

Skull the sphere by the altar revolved continuously the watch struck one two and then three at which time the bird laying its neck upon the book suffered itself to be decapitated its body was burned to ashes which were placed in a box of Cypress Wood Virgo lucifera told CRC and three

Of his comrades that they were lazy and sluggish laborers and would therefore be excluded from the seventh room musicians were sent for who with cornets were to blow the foreign ridicule from the chamber CRC and his three companions were disheartened until the musicians told them to be of good

Cheer and led them up a wh ing stare to the eighth floor of the tower directly beneath the roof here the old Warden standing upon a little round furnace welcomed them and congratulated them upon being chosen by Virgo lucifera for this greater work Virgo lucifera then entered and

After laughing at her perplexity of her guests emptied the ashes of the bird into another vessel filling the Cypress box with useless matter she thereupon returned to the seventh floor presumably to mislead those assembled there by setting them to work upon the false Ashes In The

Box CRC and his three friends were set to work moistening the bird’s ashes with specially prepared water until the mixture became a dough-like consistency after which it was heated and molded into two miniature forms later these were opened disclosing two bright and almost transparent human images about 4 in high homunculi

One male and the other female these tiny forms were laid upon satin cushions and fed drop by drop with the blood of the bird until they grew to normal size and of great beauty though the bodies had the consistency of Flesh they showed no signs of life for the soul was not in

Them the bodies were NE surrounded with torches and their faces covered with silk Virgo lucifera then appeared bearing two curious white garments virgins also entered among them six bearing great Trumpets the trumpet was placed upon the mouth of one of the two figures and CRC

Saw a tiny hole open in the Dome of the Tower and a ray of light descend through the tube of the trumpet and enter the body this process was repeated three times on each body the two newly insold forms were then removed upon a traveling

Couch in about a half an hour the young king and queen awakened and the Virgo lucifera presented them with the white garments these they dawned and the king in his own person most graciously returned thanks to CRC and his companions after which the Royal persons departed upon a

Ship CRC and his three privileged friends then rejoined the other artists making no mention of that which they had seen later the entire party were in signed handsome Chambers and they rested till morning the seventh day in the morning Virgo lucifera announced that each of the wedding guests had become a KN of

The Golden Stone the Aged Warden then presented each man with a gold medal bearing on one side the inscription ATN me and on the other t na F the entire company returned in 12 ships to the king’s Palace the flags on the vessels bore the signs of the zodiac and CRC sat under

That of Libra as they entered the lake many ships met them and the king and queen together with their Lords ladies and virgins rode forth on a golden barge to greet the returning guests Atlas then made a short oration in the king’s behalf also asking for the

Royal presence in reply the a Warden delivered to Cupid who hovered about the Royal pair a small curious shaped casket CRC and the old Lord each bearing a Snow White in sign with a red cross on it rode in the carriage with the king at the first gate stood the porter

With blue clothes who upon seeing CRC begged him to intercede with the King to release him from that post of servitude the king replied that the porter was a famous astrologer was forced to keep the gate as a punishment for the crime of having gazed upon lady Venus reposing on her

Couch the king further declared that the porter could be released only when another was found who had committed the same crime upon hearing this crc’s heart sank for he realized himself to be the culprit but he remained silent at that time the newly created Knights of the Golden Stone were obliged to subscribe

To five articles drawn up by his Royal Highness one that they would ascribe their order only to God and His handmade nature two they should abominate all uncleanness and vice three that they should always be ready to assist the worthy and needy for that they should not use their

Knowledge and power for the attainment of worldly dignity five that they should not desire to live longer than God had decreed they were then duly installed as Knights which ceremony was ratified in a little chapel where CRC hung up his Golden Fleece and his hat for an eternal

Memorial and here he inscribed the following Sama Santia Nill sire France christianis Rosen cruts Eis Ori lepidus ano 1459 after the ceremony CRC admitted that he was the one who had beheld Venus and consequently must become the Porter of the gate the king embraced him fondly

And he was assigned to a great room containing three beds one for himself one for the Aged lord of the Tower and the third for old Atlas the chemical marriage here comes to an abrupt end leaving the impression that CRC was to assume his duties as Porter on the following morning the book

Ends in the middle of a sentence with a note in italics presumably by the editor under the symbolism of an alchemical marriage medieval philosophers concealed the secret system of spiritual culture whereby they hope to coordinate the disjecta membra of both the human and social organisms Society they maintained was a

Three-fold structure and had its analogy in the Triune constitution of man for as man consists of spirit mind and body so Society is made up of the church the state and the populace the bigotry of the church the tyranny of the state and the fury of the mob are the three

Murderous agencies of society which seek to destroy truth as recounted in the Masonic Legend men of ham abff the first six days of the chemical marriage set forth the processes of philosophical creation through which every organism must pass the three kings are the three-fold spirit of man and their consorts the corresponding

Vehicles of their expression in the lower World The Executioner is the mind the higher part of which symbolized by the head is necessary to the achievement of the philosophical labor thus the parts of Man by the Alchemists symbolized as the planets and elements when Blended together according to a

Certain Divine formula result in the creation of two philosophic babes which fed upon the blood of the alchemical bird become rulers of the world from an ethical standpoint the young king and queen resurrected at the summit of the Tower and insoled by the Divine Life represents the forces of the

Intelligence and love which must ultimately guide Society intelligence and love are the two great ethical luminaries of the world and correspond to enlightened spirit and regenerated body the bridegroom is reality and the bride the regenerated being who attains Perfection by becoming one with reality through a cosmic marriage wherein the

Mortal part attains immortality by being united with its own Immortal Source in the Hermetic marriage Divine and human cons n are united in holy wedlock and he in whom this sacred ceremony takes place is designated as Knight of the Golden Stone he thereby becomes a Divine philosophic Diamond

Composed of the quintessence of his own Sevenfold Constitution such is the intr interpretation of the mystical process of becoming a bride of the Lamb the Lamb of God is signified by the Golden Fleece that Jason was forced to win before before he could assume his kingship the flying lion is a lined will

An absolute prerequisite to the achievement of the great work the episode of weighing The Souls of men has its parallel in the ceremony described in the Egyptian Book of the Dead the walled City entered by CRC represents the sanctuary of wisdom wherein dwell the real rulers of the world the initiated

Philosophers like the ancient Mysteries after which it was patterned the order of the Rose cross possessed a secret ritual which was lived by the candidate for a prescribed number of years before he was eligible to the inner degrees of the society the various floors of the Tower

Of Olympus represent the orbits of the planets the ascent of the philosophers from one floor to another also parallels certain rituals of the ucini Mysteries and the rights of mithis wherein the candidate ascended the seven rungs of a ladder or climb the seven steps of a pyramid in order to signify release from

The influences of the planetary Governors man becomes Master of the seven spheres only when he transmutes the impulses received from them he who Masters the seven worlds and is reunited with the Divine source of his own nature consummates the Hermetic marriage bacon Shakespeare and the rosac crucians the present consideration of

The bacon Shakespeare rosac crucian controversy is undertaken not for the vain purpose of digging up dead men’s bones but rather in the hope that a critical analysis will Aid in the rediscovery of that knowledge lost to the world since the oracles were silenced it was WFC wigston who called

The Bard of Avon Phantom Captain Shakespeare the rosicrucian mask this constitutes one of the most significant statements relating to the bacon Shakespeare controversy it is quite evident that William Shakespeare could not uned have produced The Immortal writings bearing his name he did not possess the necessary literary culture for the town

Of Stratford where he was reared contained no school capable of imparting the higher forms of learning reflected in the writings ascribed to him his parents were illiterate and in his early life he evinced a total disregard for study there are in existence but six known examples of Shakespeare’s

Handwriting all are signatures and three of them are in his will the scrawling uncertain method of their execution stamps Shakespeare as unfamiliar with the use of a pen and it is obvious either that he copied a signature prepared for him or that his hand was guided while he

Wrote no autograph manuscripts of The Shakespearean plays or sonnets have been discovered nor is there even a tradition concerning them other than the fantastic and impossible statement appearing in the forward of the great folio a well stocked Library would be an essential part of the equipment of an author whose literary Productions

Demonstrate him to be familiar with the literature of all ages yet there is no record that Shakespeare even possessed a library nor does he even make many mention of books in his will commenting on the known illiteracy of Shakespeare’s daughter Judith who at 27 could only make her Mark ignasius

Donnelly declares it to be unbelievable that William Shakespeare if he wrote the plays bearing his name would have permitted his own daughter to reach Womanhood and Mary without being able to read one line of the writings that made her father wealthy and locally famous the query also had been raised

Where did William Shakespeare secure his knowledge of modern French Italian Spanish and danish to say nothing of classical Latin in Greek for in spite of the rare discrimination with which Latin is used by the author of Shakespearean plays Ben Johnson who knew Shakespeare intimately declared that the Stratford actor

Understood small Latin and less Greek is it not also more than strange that no record exists of William Shakespeare having ever played a leading role in the famous dramas he is supposed to have written or in others produced by the company of which he was a

Member true he may have owned a small interest in the Globe Theater or black frers but apparently the height of his thespian achievements was the ghost in Hamlet in spite of his admitted avarice Shakespeare seemingly made no effort during his lifetime to control or secure enumeration from the plays bearing his

Name many of which were first published anonymously as far as can be ascertained none of his heirs were involved in any matter whatsoever in the printing of the first folio after his death nor did they benefit financially there from had he been their author Shakespeare’s manuscripts and unpublished plays would certainly have

Constituted his most valued possessions yet his will while making special disposition of his second best bed and his broad silver guilt Bowl neither mentions nor Intimates that he possessed any literary Productions whatsoever while the folios and cortos usually are signed William Shakespeare All the known autographs of the Stratford actor Reed William Shack

Speare does his change in spelling contain any significance here to for generally overlooked furthermore if the public Publishers of the first Shakespearean folio revered their fellow actor as much as their claims in that volume would indicate why did they as if in ironical illusion to a hoax which they were

Perpetrating place an evident character of him on the title page certain absurdities also in Shakespeare’s private life are irreconcilable while supposedly at the Zenith of his literary career he was actually engaged in buying malt presumably for Brewing business also picture The Immortal shakspeare the reputed author of The

Merchant of Venice as a money lender yet amongst those against who shakspeare brought action to collect Petty sums was a fellow townsman one Philip Rogers whom he sued for an unpaid loan of 2 Shillings or about 48 C in short there is nothing known in the life of shakspeare that would justify

The literary Excellence imp Ed to him the philosophic ideals promulgated throughout the Shakespearean plays distinctly demonstrate their author to have been thoroughly familiar with certain doctrines and tenants peculiar to Rosicrucianism in fact the profundity of The Shakespearean Productions stamps their creator as one of the Illuminati of the

Ages most of those seeking a solution for the bacon shakspeare controversy have been intellectualists not withstanding their scholarly attainments they have overlooked the important part played by transcendentalism and the philosophic achievements of the ages the mysteries of the super physics are inexplicable to the materialists whose training does not equip him to

Estimate the extent of their ramifications and complexities yet who but a platonist A cabalist or a Pythagorean could have written the Tempest McBeth Hamlet or the trag of symol who but one deeply versed in paracelsian lore could have conceived the Midsummer Night’s Dream father of modern science remodeler

Of modern law editor of the modern Bible patron of modern democracy and one of the founders of modern Freemasonry Sir Francis Bacon was a man of many aims and purposes he was a rosicrucian some have intimated the rosac crucian if not actually the illustrious father CRC referred to in the rosac crucian

Manifestos he was certainly a high initiate of the rosac crucian order and it is his activities in connection with the secret body that are of prime importance to students of symbolism philosophy and literature scores of volumes have been written to establish Sir Francis Bacon as the real author of The plays and

Sonet popular ascribe to William Shakespeare an impartial consideration of these documents cannot but convince the open-minded of the ver similitude of the bonian theory in fact those enthusiasts who for years have struggled to identify Sir Francis Bacon as the true B of Avon might long since have won their case had

They emphasized its most important angle namely that Sir Francis Bacon the rosac crucian initiate wrote Into The Shakespearean plays the secret teachings of the fraternity of RC and the true rituals of the freemasonic order of which order it may yet be discovered that he was the actual founder a

Sentimental World however dislikes to give up a traditional hero either to solve a controversy or to write a wrong nevertheless it can be proved that by raveling out the riddle there can be discovered information of practical value to mankind then the best minds of the world will cooperate in the Enterprise

The bacon shakspeare controversy as its most able Advocates realize involves the most profound aspects of science Religion and Ethics he who solves its mystery May yet find therein the key to the supposedly Lost Wisdom of antiquity it was in recognition of Bacon’s intellectual accomplishments that King James turned over to him the

Translators manuscripts of what is now known as the King James Bible for the presumable purpose of checking editing and revising them the documents remained in his hands for nearly a year but no information is to be had concerning what occurred in that time regarding this work William T Smedley

Writes it will eventually be proved that the whole scheme of the authorized version of the Bible was Francis Bacon’s see the mystery of Francis Bacon the first edition of The King James Bible contains a cryptic bonian headpiece did bacon cryptographically conceal in the authorized Bible that which he dared not literally reveal in

The text the secret rosac crucian key to the Mystic and Masonic Christianity Sir Francis Bacon unquestionably possessed the range of general and philosophical knowledge necessary to write The Shakespearean plays and sonnets for it is unusual conceded that he was a compos oer lawyer and linguist his chaplain Dr William Raleigh

And Ben Johnson both attached to the philosophic and poetic accomplishments the former pays bacon this remarkable tribute I’ve been induced to think that if there were a beam of knowledge derived from God upon any man in these modern times it was upon him for though

He was a great reader of books yet he had not his knowledge from books but from some grounds and Notions from within himself see introduction to the risos satad Sir Francis Bacon being not only an able Barrister but also a polished courtier also possessed that intimate knowledge of parliamentary law and the

Adequate of the Royal Court revealed in The Shakespearean plays which could scarcely have been acquired by a man in the humble station of the Stratford actor Lord ver furthermore visited many of the foreign countries forming the background for the plays and was therefore in a position to create the authentic local atmosphere contained

Therein but there is no record of William shakspeare everever having traveled outside of England the Magnificent Library amassed by Sir Francis Bacon contained The Very volumes necessary to supply the quotations and anecdotes incorporated into the Shakespearean plays many of the plays in fact were taken from plots in earlier writings of

Which there were no English translation at the time because of his Scholastic acquirements Lord verum could have read the original books it is most likely that William shakspeare could have done so abundant cryptographic proof exists that bacon was concerned in the production of The Shakespearean plays Sir Francis Bacon’s Cipher number was 33

In the first part of King Henry IV the word Francis appears 33 times upon one page to attain this end obviously awkward sentences were acquired as and non Francis no Francis but tomorrow Francis or Francis on Thursday or indeed Francis when thou Wilt but Francis throughout the Shakespearean

Folios and CTO occur scores of acrostic signatures the simplest form of the acrostic is that whereby a name in these instances bacon was hidden in the first few letters of lines The Tempest act one scene two appears a striking example of the bonian aquastic begun to tell me what I am but

Stopped and left me to a bootless Inquisition concluding stay not yet the first letters of the first and second lines together were the first three letters of the third line form the word bacon similar acrostics appear frequently in Bacon’s acknowledged writings the tenor of The Shakespearean dramas politically is in harmony with

The recognized viewpoints of Sir Francis Bacon whose enemies are frequently charactered in the plays likewise their religious philosophic and educational undercurrents all reflect his personal opinions not only do these marked similarities of style and ter terminology exist in Bacon’s writings and The Shakespearean plays but there are also certain historical and

Philosophical inaccuracies common to both such as identical misquotations from Aristotle evidently realizing that Futurity would enveil his full genius Lord verum in his will bequeathed his soul to God above by the oblations of his savior his body to be buried obscurely his name and memory to men’s charitable speeches to foreign Nations

To succeeding ages and to his own countrymen after some time had elapsed that portion appearing in italics bacon deleted from his will apparently fearing that he had said too much that Sir Francis Bacon’s subterfuge was known to a limited Feud during his lifetime is quite evident accordingly stray hints

Regarding the true author of the sh Shakespearean plays may be found in many 17th century volumes on page 33 Bacon’s Cipher number of the 1609 edition of Robert cauldre’s treasure or Storehouse of similes appears the following significant illusion like as men would laugh at a poor man if having precious garments

Lent him to act and play the part of some honorable personage upon a stage when the play were at an end he should keep them as his own and brag up and down in them repeated references to the word hog in the presence of cryptographic statements on page 33 of various

Contemporary writings demonstrate that the keys to Bacon’s ciphers were his own name words playing upon it or its numerical equivalent notable examples are the famous statement of mistress quickley and the merry wives of Windsor hang hog is Latin for bacon I warrant you the title pages of the

Countess of pem’s Arcadia and Edmund Spencer’s fairy queen and the emblems appearing in the works of alatus and wither furthermore the word honorific abil TOA natat tabus appearing in the Fifth Act of Love’s labor lost is a Roser crucian signature as its numerical equivalent 287 indicates again on the title page of the

First edition of Sir Francis Bacon’s new Atlantis father time is depicted bringing a female figure out to the darkness of a cave around the device is a Latin inscription in time the secret truth shall be revealed the catchwords and the printer’s devices appearing in volumes published especially during the first

Half of the 17th century were designed arranged and in some cases mutilated according to a definite plan it is evident also that the Mis paginations in The Shakespearean folios and other volumes are keys to bonian ciphers for read additions often from the new type and by different printers contain the same

Mistakes for example the first and second folios of Shakespeare are printed from entirely different type and by different PR 9 years apart but in both editions page 153 of the comedies is numbered 151 and Pages 249 and 250 are numbered 250 and 251 respectively also in the 1640 edition of

Bacon’s the advancement and proficience of learning Pages 353 and 354 are numbered 351 and 352 respectively and in the 1641 edition of dubart Divine weeks Pages 346 to 350 inclusive are entirely missing while page 450 is numbered 442 the frequency with which Pages ending in numbers 50 51 52 53 and 54 are

Involved will be noted the requirements of Lord vilums bilateral Cipher are fully met in scores of volumes printed between 1590 and 1650 and in some printed at other times an examination of the verses by El diggies dedicated to the memory of the deceased author maester W Shakespeare

Reveals the use of two fonts of type for both capital and small letters the differences being most marked in the capital T’s n’s and A’s see the first folio the cipher has been deleted from subsequent Editions the presence of hidden material in the text is often indicated by

Needless involvement of words on the 16th unnumbered page of the 1641 edition of dubart divine weeks is a boore surmounting a pyramidal text the text is meaningless jargon evidently inserted for cryptographic reasons and marked with Bacon’s signature the hog the year following publication of the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays in

1623 there were printed in lunberg a remarkable volume on cryptography avowedly by Gustavus selenis it is considered extremely probable that this volume constitutes the cryptographic key to the great Shakespearean folio peculiar symbolical head and tail pieces also Mark the presence of cryptograms while such ornaments are found in many early printed books

Certain emblems are peculiar to volumes containing bonian ruian ciphers the light and dark shaded a is an interesting example bearing in mind the frequent recurrence in bonian symbolism of the light and dark shaded a and the hog the following statement by bacon in his interpretation of nature is highly

Significant if the sa with her snout should happen to imprint the letter a upon the ground wouldst thou therefore imagine that she could write out a whole tragedy as one letter the rosicrucians and other secret societies of the 17th century used watermarks as mediums for the conveyance of cryptographic references and books

Presumably containing bonian ciphers are usually printed upon paper bearing rosac crucian or Masonic watermarks often there are several symbols in one book such as the rose cross ears Bunches of grapes and others at hand is a document which may prove a remarkable key to a cipher beginning in the tragedy of

Symol so far as known it has never been published and is applicable only to the 1623 folio of The Shakespearean plays the cipher is a line and word count involving punctuation especially the long and short exclamation points and the straight and slanting interrogation points the code was discovered by Henry William

Bur in 1900 and after it has been thoroughly checked and its exact nature will be made public no Reasonable Doubt remains that the Masonic order is the direct outgrowth of the secret societies of the Middle Ages nor can it be denied that Freemasonry is permeated by the symbolism and mysticism of the ancient

And medieval worlds Sir Francis Bacon knew the true secret of masonic or origin and there is a reason to suspect that he concealed this knowledge in Cipher and cryptogram bacon is not to be regarded solely as a man but rather as the focal point between an invisible institution

And a world which was never able to distinguish between the messenger and the message which he promulgated this secret society having rediscovered the Lost Wisdom of the ages and fearing that the knowledge might be lost again perpetuated it in two ways one by an organization Freemasonry to

The initiates of which it revealed its wisdom in the form of symbols two by embodying its Arcana in the literature of the day by means of cunningly contrived ciphers and enigmas evidence points to the existence of a group of wise and illustrious frats who assume the responsibility of publishing and preserving for future

Generations the choicest of the secret books of the ancients together with certain other documents which they themselves had prepared that future members of their fraternity might not only identify these volumes but also immediately note the significant passages words chapters or sections therein they created a symbolic alphabet of hieroglyphic

Designs by means of a certain key and order the Discerning few were thus enabled to find that wisdom by which a man is raised to an illumined life the tremendous import of the bonian mystery is daily becoming more apparent Sir Francis Bacon was a link in that great chain of Minds which has

Perpetuated the secret doctrine of antiquity from its beginning this secret Doctrine is concealed in his cryptic writings the search for this Divine wisdom is the only legitimate motive for the effort to decode his cryptograms Masonic research might discover much of value if it were to turn its attention to certain volumes

Published during the 16th and 17th centuries which bear the stamp and signate of that secret society whose members first established modern Freemasonry but themselves remained as an intangible group controlling and directing the activities of the outer body the unknown history and lost rituals of Freemasonry may be rediscovered in the symbolism and

Cryptograms of the Middle Ages Freemasonry is the bright and glor ious son of a mysterious and hidden father it cannot Trace its parentage because that origin is obscured by the veil of the super physical and the mystical the great folio of 1623 is a veritable Treasure House of masonic lore

And symbolism and the time is at hand when that great work shall be accorded the consideration which it is due though Christianity shattered the material organization of the Pagan Mysteries it could not destroy the knowledge of the supernatural power which the pagans possessed therefore it is known that the

Mysteries of Greece and Egypt were secretly perpetuated through the early centuries of the church and later by being clothed in the symbolism of Christianity were accepted as elements of that Faith Sir Francis Bacon was one of those who had been entrusted with the perpetuation and dissemination of the

Arcana of the super physical original in the possession of the Pagan hierophants and to attain that end either formulated the fraternity of RC or was admitted into an organization already existing under that name and becoming one of its principal representatives for some reason not apparent to the uninitiated there has

Been a continued and consistent effort to prevent the unraveling of the bonian scheme whatever the power may be which continually blocks the efforts of investigators it is as unremitting now as it was immediately following Bacon’s death and those attempting to solve the Enigma still feel the weight of its

Resentment a misunderstanding world has ever persecuted those who understood the secret workings of nature seeking in every conceivable manner to exterminate the custodians of this Divine wisdom Sir Francis Bacon’s political Prestige was finely undermined and sir Walter rally met a shameful fate because their transcendental knowledge was considered dangerous the forging of Shakespeare’s

Handwriting the foisting of fraudulent portraits and Death Masks Upon A gullible public the fabrication of spurious biographies the mutilation of books and documents the destruction or rendering illegible of tablets and inscriptions containing cryptographic messages have all compounded the difficulties attended upon the solution of the bacon Shakespeare rosac crucian

Riddle the Ireland forgeries deceived experts for years according to the material available the Supreme Council of the fraternity of RC was composed of a certain number of individuals who had died what is known as the philosophic death when the time came for an initiate to enter upon his labors for the order

He conveniently died under some what mysterious circumstances in reality he changed his name and place of residence and a box of rocks or a body secured for the purpose was buried in his dead it is believed that this happened in the case of Sir Francis Bacon who like all Servants of the Mysteries

Renounced all personal credit and permitted others to be considered as the authors of the documents which he wrote or inspired the cryptic writings of Francis Bacon constitute one of the most power powerful tangible elements in the mysteries of transcendentalism and symbolic philosophy apparently many years must yet pass before an uncomprehending world

Will appreciate the transcending Genius of that mysterious man who wrote the Noom organum who sailed his little ship far out into the unexplored sea of learning through the pillars of Hercules and whose ideals for a new civilization are magnificently expressed in the utopian dream of the new

Atlantis was Sir Francis Bacon a second Prometheus did his great love for the people of the world and his pity for their ignorance cause him to bring the Divine fire from heaven concealed within the contents of a printed page in all probability the keys to the bonian riddle will be found in classic

Mythology he who understands the secret of the seven raid God will comprehend the method employed by bacon to accomplish his Monumental labor Elias’s were assumed by him in accordance with the attributes and Order of the members of the planetary system one of the least known but most

Important keys to the bonian Enigma is the third or 1637 Edition published in Paris of leaz otau De plat H deu phrat sophists geks statue de castrate by bless division this title page of this volume which as the name of the author when properly deciphered indicates was written by or under the

Direction of bacon or a secret society is one Mass important Masonic or rusan symbol on page 486 appears a plate entitled Hercules fero showing a gigantic figure shaking a spear the ground before him strewn with curious emblems in one of his curious Works Alfred frund attempts to explain the

Bonian symbolism in The Fill trits bacon he reveals as the philosophical Hercules whom time will establish as the true spear Shaker the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy no treaties which deals with symbolism would be complete without a section devoted to the consideration of cryptograms the use of ciphers has long

Been recognized as indispensable in Military and diplomatic circles but the modern world has overlooked the important role played by cryptography in literature and philosophy if the art of deciphering cryptograms could be made popular it would result in the discovery of much hither to unsuspected wisdom possessed by both ancient and medieval

Philosophers it would prove that many apparent verbos and rambling authors were wordy for the sake of concealing words ciphers are hidden in the most subtle manner they may be concealed in the watermark on the paper which a book is printed they may be bound into the covers of ancient books they may be

Hidden under imperfect pagination they may be extracted from the first letters of words or the first words of sentences they may be art concealed in mathematical equations or in apparently unintelligible characters they may be extracted from the Jaron of clowns or revealed by heat as having been written in sympathetic

Ink they may be the word ciphers letter ciphers or apparently ambiguous statements whose meaning could be understood only by repeated careful readings they may be discovered in the elaborately illuminated initial letters or early books or they may be revealed by a process of counting words or letters if those interested in

Freemasonic research would give serious consideration to this subject they might find in books and manuscripts of the 16th and 17th centuries the information necessary to bridge the gap in Masonic history that now exists between the mysteries of the ancient world and the craft masonry of the last three centuries

The Arcana of the ancient Mysteries was never revealed to the profane except through the media of symbols symbolism fulfilled the Dual office of concealing the sacred truths from the uninitiated and revealed them to those qualified to understand the symbols forms are the symbols of formless divine principles symbolism is the language of

Nature with reverence the wise Pierce the Veil and with clear Vision contemplate the reality but the ignorant unable to distinguish between the false and the true Behold a universe of symbols it may well be said of nature the great mother that she is ever tracing strange characters upon the

Surface of things but only to her eldest and wisest Sons as a reward for their faith and devotion does she reveal the cryptic alphabet which is the key to the import of these tracings the temples of the ancient Mysteries evolved in their own sacred languages known only to their initiates and never

Spoken save in the sanctuary the illumined priests considered it sacrilege to discuss the sacred truths of the higher worlds or the Divine varities of Eternal nature in the same tongue as that used by the vulgar for wrangling and dissension a sacred science must needs be couched in a sacred language secret

Alphabets also were invented and whenever the secrets of the wise were committed to writing characters meaningless to the uninformed were employed such forms of writing were called sacred or hermetic alphabets some such as the famous Angelic writing are still retained in the higher degrees of masonry secret alphabets were not

Entirely satisfactory however for although they rendered unintelligible the true nature of the writings their very presence dis Clos the fact of concealed information which the priests also sought to conceal through patience or persecution the keys to these alphabets were eventually acquired in the contents of the documents revealed to the

Unworthy this necessitated employment of the more subtle methods for concealing the Divine truths the result was the appearance of cryptic systems of writing designed to conceal the presence of both the message and the cryptogram having thus devised a method of transmitting their secrets to Prosperity the Illuminati encouraged the circulation of certain documents

Specially prepared through incorporating into them ciphers containing the deepest secrets of mysticism and philosophy thus medieval philosophers disseminated their theories throughout Europe without evoking suspicion since volumes containing these cryptograms could be subjected to the closest scrutiny without revealing the presence of the hidden messages during the Middle Ages scores of writers

Members of secret political or religious organizations published books containing ciphers secret writing became a fad every European Court had its own diplomatic Cipher and the intelligencia vi with one another in devising curious and complicated cryptograms the literature of the 15th 16th and 17th centuries is perme ated

With ciphers few of which have ever been decoded many of The Magnificent scientific and philosophic intellects of this period dared not publish their findings because of the religious intolerance of their day in order to preserve the fruitage of their intellectual labors for mankind these pioneers of progress concealed their discoveries in ciphers

Trusting that future Generations more kindly than their own would discover and appreciate their learning many churchmen it is interesting to note use cryptograms fearing excommunication or at worse fate should their scientific researches be suspected only recently an intricate Cipher of Roger Bacons has been unraveled revealing the fact that this

Early scientist was well versed in the cellular Theory lecturing before the American philosophical Society Dr William Roma nuble who translated the cipher manuscript of the frier declared there are drawings which so accurately portray the actual appearance of certain objects that it is difficult to resist the inference that bacon had

Seen them with the microscope these are the spermatozoa the body cells and the seminiferous the OVA the tubes with their nuclei distinctly indicated there are nine large drawings of which one at least Bears considerable resemblance to a certain stage of development of a fertilized cell see review of reviews July

1921 had Roger Bacon failed to conceal this discovery under a complicated Cipher he would have been persecuted as a heretic and would probably have met the fate of other early liberal thinkers in spite of the rapid progress made by science in the last 250 years it’s Still Remains ignorant concerning

Many of the original discoveries made by medieval investigators the only record of these important findings is that contained in the cryptograms of the volumes which they published while many authors have written on the subject of cryptography the books most valuable to students of philosophy and religion are polyg graphia and stenog

Graphia by trmus Abbot of spanheim Mercury or the secret and Swift messenger by John wilcoms Bishop of Chester edus egyptus and other works by aanus ker Society of Jesus and crypt Meneses by Gustavus selenius to illustrate the basic differences in their construction and use the various forms of ciphers are

Here grouped under seven General headings number one the literal Cipher the most famous of all literal cryptograms is the famous bilateral Cipher described by Sir Francis Bacon in his de augus scentarium Lord bacon originated the system while still a young man residing in Paris the bilateral Cipher requires

The use of two styles of type one an original face and the other specially cut the differences between the two fonts are in many case so minute that it requires a powerful magnifying glass to detect them originally the cipher messages were concealed only in the italicized words sentences or paragraphs

Because the italic letters being more ornate than the Roman letters offered greater opportunity for concealing the slight but necessary variations sometimes the letters vary a trifle in size at other times in thickness or in their ornamental flourishes later Lord bacon is believed to have had two Roman alphabets specially prepared in which the

Differences were so trivial that it is almost impossible for experts to distinguish them the careful inspection of the four first Shakespeare folios discloses the use throughout the volumes of several styles of type differing in minute but distinguishable details it is possible that all the Shakespeare folios contain ciphers

Running through the text these ciphers may have been added to the original plays which are much longer in the folios than the original quatal full scenes having been added in some instances the bilateral Cipher was not confined to the writings of bacon and Shakespeare but appeared in many books

Published during Lord Bacon’s Lifetime and for nearly a century after his death in referring to the bilateral Cipher Lord bacon terms it Omnia per Omnia the cipher may run through an entire book and be placed therein at the time of printing without the knowledge of the original author for it does not

Necessitate the changing of either words or punctuation it is possible that the cipher was inserted for political purposes into many documents and volumes published during the 17th century it is well known that ciphers were used for the same reason as early as the Council of NAA the bonian bilateral Cipher is difficult

To use today owing to the present exact standardized of type and the fact that so few books are now handset accompanying this chapter are fa similes of Lord Bacon’s bilateral alphabet as it appeared in the 1640 English translation of De ogus scentarium there are four alphabets two

For the capital and two for the small letters consider care carefully the differences between these four and note that each alphabet has the power of either the letter A or the letter b and that when reading a word its letters are divisible into one of two groups those which correspond to the

Letter a and those which correspond to the letter B in order to employ the bilateral Cipher a document must contain five times as many letters as there are in the cipher message to be concealed for it requires five letters to conceal one the bilateral Cipher somewhat resembles

A telegraph code in which letters are changed into dots and dashes according to the bilateral system however the dots and dashes are represented respectively by A’s and B’s the word bilateral is derived from the fact that all letters of the alphabet may be reduced to either A or B

An example of bilateral writing is shown in one of the accompanying diagrams in order to demonstrate the working of this Cipher the message concealed within the words wisdom and understanding are more to be desired than riches will now be deciphered the first step is to discover the letters of each alphabet and replace

Them by their equivalent A or B in accordance with the key given by Lord bacon in his bilateral alphabet in the word wisdom the W is from the B alphabet therefore it is replaced by a b the I is from the a alphabet therefore an a is put in its

Place place the S is also from the a alphabet but the D belongs to the B alphabet the O and the M belong to the a alphabet is replaced by a by this process the word wisdom becomes ba a AAA treating the remaining words of the sentence in a similar Manner and becomes

AA understanding a a a a a a a a a a b a r ABA more abbb to AB b a desired a a a b AA then a a baa riches a AA a AA the next step is to run all the

Letters together thus B AA b a a a b a a a a a b a a a a a b a b a b a a b BB a b a b a b a a b a a a b a a a a a a

A all the combinations used in the bonian bilateral Cipher consists of groups containing five letters each therefore the solid line of letters must be broken into groups or five in the following manner b a a b a a a b AA a a b a a a a ab ab B

AA a BB a b a b a b a a b AA a a b AA a a a AA each of these groups of five letters now represents one letter of the cipher the actual letter can now be determined by pairing the groups within the alphabetical table the key to the

Bilateral Cipher from De augmentis sentarum b a a b a equals t a a b a a equals e a a b a aals e a a a a b equal b a b a b AAL L AB BB a equal p b a b a

B equal x a a b a a equal e a a a a a equal a but the last five letters of the word riches being set off by a period from the initial R the last five A’s do not count in the cipher the letters thus extracted are

Now brought together in order resulting in Te b l p XE at this point the inquire might reasonably expect the letters to make intelligible words but he will very likely be disappointed for as in the case above the letters thus extracted are themselves a cryptogram doubly involved to discourage those who might

Have a casual acquaintance with the bilateral system the next step is to apply the nine letters to what is commonly called a wheel or disc Cipher which consists of two alphabets one revolving around the other in such a manner that numer numerous transpositions of letters are

Possible in the uncompany and cut the a of the inner alphabet is opposite the H of the outer alphabet so that for the cipher purposes these letters are interchangeable the F and M the p and Y the W and D in fact all the letters may be transposed as shown by the two

Circles the nine letters extracted by the bilateral Cipher May thus be exchanged for nine others by the wheel Cipher the nine letters are considered as being on the inner circle of the wheel and are exchanged for the nine letters on the Outer Circle which are opposite the inner Letters by this

Process the T becomes a the two e’s become L’s the B becomes I the L’s become s the P becomes W the X becomes e and the two e’s become L’s the result is all is well which broken up into the words reads all is well of course by moving the inner disc

Of the wheel Cipher many different combinations in addition to the one given above can be made of the letters but this is the only one which will produce sense and the cryptog grst must keep on experimenting in until he discovers a logical and intelligible message he may then feel reasonably sure

That he has Cipher the system Lord bacon involved the bilateral Cipher in many different ways there are probably a score of different system used in the Shakespeare folio alone some so intricate that they may forever baffle all attempts at their decipherment in those susceptible of solution sometimes the A’s and B’s have

To be exchanged at other times the concealed message is written backwards again only every other letter is counted and so on there are several other forms of the literal Cipher in which letters are substituted for each other by a pre-arranged sentence the simplest form is that in which two alphabets are written

Thus a b CDE e f g h i k l m n Zed YX w u t Sr q p o n m o p QR s t u WXYZ l k i h GF e d CB a by substituting the letters of the lower alphabet for the equivalent in the

Above one a meaningless conglomeration results the hidden message being decoded by reversing the process there is also a form of the literal Cipher in which the actual cryptogram is written in the the body of the document but unimportant words are inserted between important ones according to a pre-arranged

Order the literal Cipher also includes what are called acrostic signatures that is words written down the column by the use of the first letter of each line and also more complicated acrostics in which the important letters are scattered through entire paragraphs or chapters the two accompanying alchemical cryptograms illustrate another form of

The cipher involving the first letter of each word every cryptogram based on the arrangement or combination of letters of the alphabet is called a literal Cipher two the pictorial Cipher any picture or drawing with other than its obvious meaning may be considered a pictorial cryptogram instances of pictorial Cipher

Are frequently found in Egyptian symbolism and early religious art the diagrams of Alchemists and hermetic philosophers are invariably pictorial ciphers in addition to the simple pictorial Cipher there is a more technical form in which words or letters are concealed by the number of stones in

A wall by the spread of birds Wings in Flight by ripples of the surface of the water or by the length and Order of lines used in shading such cryptograms are not obvious and must be decoded with the aid of an arbitrary measuring scale the length of the lines determining the

Letter or word concealed the shape and proportion of a building the height of a tower the number of bars in a window the folds of a man’s garments even their proportions or attitude of the human body were used to conceal definite figures or characters which could be exchanged for

Letters or words by a person acquainted with the code initial letters of names were secreted in architectural arches and spans a notable example of this practice is found on the title page of Mon’s essays Third Edition where an initial b is formed by two arches and an F by a broken

Arch pictorial cryptograms are sometimes accompanied by the key necessary for the decipherment a figure May Point toward the starting point of the cipher or carry in its hand some Implement disclosing the system of measurement used there are also frequent instances in which the cryptographer purposefully distorted or improperly clothe some

Figure in his drawing by placing the hat on backwards the sword on the wrong side or the shield on the wrong arm or by employing some similar artifice the much discussed fifth finger on the Pope’s hand in Raphael’s cinee Madonna and the sixth toe on Joseph’s

Foot in the same artist marriage of the Virgin are cunningly concealed cryptograms number three the acromatic cipher the religious and philosophical writings of all Nations abound with acromatic cryptograms that is Parables and allegories the acromatic is unique in that the document containing it may be translated or reprinted without affecting the

Cryptogram Parables and allegories have been used since remote Antiquity to present moral truths in an attractive and understand understandable manner the acromatic cryptogram is a pictoral cipher drawn in words and its symbolism must be so interpreted the Old and New Testaments of the Jews the writings of Plato and

Aristotle Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad Virgil’s anid the metamorphosis of aulus and aso’s fables are outstanding examples of acromatic cryptography in which are concealed the deepest and most Sublime truths of ancient mystical philos philosophy the acromatic cipher is the most subtle of all for the parable or allegory is susceptible of several

Interpretations Bible students for centuries have been confronted by this difficulty they are satisfied with the moral interpretation of the parable and forget that each Parable and allegory is capable of seven interpretations of which the seventh the highest is complete and allinclusive whereas the other six and lesser in interpretations are

Fragmentary revealing but part of the mystery the creation myths of the world are acromatic cryptograms and the dees of the various pantheons are only cryptic characters which if properly understood become the constituents of a Divine alphabet the initiated few comprehend the true nature of this alphabet but the uninitiated many

Worship the letter of it as Gods the initiated few comprehend the true nature of this alphabet but the uninitiated many worship the letters of it as Gods number four the numerical Cipher many cryptograms have been produced in which numbers and various sequences are substituted for letters words or even complete

Thoughts the reading of numerical cers usually depends upon the possession of specially arranged tables or correspondences the numerical cryptograms of the Old Testament are so complicated that only a few Scholars versed in rabinal lore have ever sought to unravel their mysteries in his edus egyptus aesia ker describes several Arabian cabalistic

Theorems and a great part of the Pythagorean mystery was concealed in a secret method in Vogue among Greek Mystics of substituting letters for numbers the most simple numerical Cipher is that in which the letters of the alphabet are exchanged for numbers in ordinary sequence thus a becomes one B2

C3 and so on Counting both I and J as n and both u and v as 20 the word yes by this system would be written 23518 the cipher can be made more difficult by reversing the alphabet so that Z becomes 1 Y2 X3 and so on and by inserting a non-significant or

Uncounted number after each of the significant numbers the cipher is still more effectively concealed thus 23165 918 the word yes is found by eliminating the second and fourth numbers by adding 23 5 and 18 together the sum 46 results therefore 46 is the numerical equivalent of the word

Yes according to the simple numerical Cipher the psalm 138 is equal to the words note carefully therefore in a book using this method line 138 page 138 or paragraph 138 may contain the concealed message in addition to this simple numerical Cipher there are scores of others so complicated that no one

Without the key can hope to solve them authors sometimes base their cryptograms upon the numerical value of their own names for example Sir Francis Bacon repeatedly used the cryptic number 33 the numerical equivalent of his name numerical ciphers often involve the pagination of a book and perfect pagination though generally attributed

To carelessness often conceals important Secrets the Mis paginations found in the 1623 folio of Shakespeare and the consistent recurrence of similar errors in various volumes printed about the same period period have occasioned considerable thought among Scholars and cryptograms in bonian cryptograms all page numbers ending in 89 seem to have a special

Significance the 89th page of the comedies in the 1623 folio of Shakespeare shows an error of type in the pagination the nine being from a considerably smaller font than the eight 189th page is entirely missing therefore being two pages numbered 187 and Page 188 shows the second eight scarcely more

Than half the size of the first one page 289 is correctly numbered and has no unusual features but 89 of the histories is missing several volumes published by bacon show similar errors page 89 being often involved there are also numerical ciphers from which the cryptic message may be extracted by counting every 10th

Word every 20th word or every 50th word in some cases the count is irregular the first important word may be found by counting 100 the second by counting 90 and the third by counting 80 and so on until the count of 10 is reached the count then returns to 100 and the

Process is repeated five the musical Cipher John Wilkins afterwards Bishop of Chester in 1641 circulated an anonymous essay entitled Mercury or the secret and Swift messenger in this little volume which was largely derived from the more voluminous treeses of trithemius and cenus the author sets forth a method whereby

Musicians can converse with each other by substituting musical notes for the letters of the alphabet two persons understanding the code can converse with each other by merely playing certain notes upon a piano or another instrument musical cryptograms can be involved to an inconceivable Point by certain systems it is possible to take

An already existing Musical theme and conceal it in a cryptogram without actually changing the composition in any way the Penance upon the notes May conceal the cipher or the actual sounds of the notes may be exchanged for syllables of similar sound this latter method is effective but its scope is

Somewhat limited several musical compositions by Sir Francis Bacon are still in existence an examination of them might reveal musical cryptograms for it is quite certain that Lord bacon was well acquainted with the manner of their construction number six the arbitrary Cipher the system of exchanging letters of the alphabet for hieroglyphic figures

Is too easily decoded to be popular Albert Pike describes an arbitrary Cipher based on the various parts of the knights templar’s cross each angle representing a letter the many curious alphabets that have been devised are rendered worthless however by the table of recurrence according to Edgar Allan Poe

A great cryptog grst the most common letter of the English language is e the other letters in their order of frequency are as follows a o i d h n r s t v y c f Q L M WB k p QX Z other authorities decare the table of

Frequency to be e t a o n i r s h d l c w u m f y g p b vkx QJ Z by merely counting the number of times each character appears in the message the law of recurrence discloses the English letter for which the arbitrary character

Stands further help is also rendered by the fact that if the cryptogram be split up into words there are only three single letters which may form words a IO thus any single character set off from the rest of the text must be one of these three three letters for details of

This system see the gold bug by Edgar Allen Poe to render more difficult the decoding of arbitrary ciphers however the characters are seldom broken up into words and further the table of recurrence is partly nullified by assigning two or more different characters to each letter thereby making it impossible to estimate accurately the

Frequency of recurrence therefore the greater the number of arbitrary character is used to represent any single letter of the alphabet the more difficult it is to decipher an arbitrary cryptogram the secret alphabets of the Ancients are comparatively easy to decode the only requisites being a table of frequency a knowledge of the language

In which the cryptogram was originally written a modern amount of patience and a little Ingenuity number seven the code Cipher the most modern form of cryptogram is the code system its most familiar form is the morse code for use in telegraphic and wireless communication this form of Cipher may be

Complicated somewhat by embodying dots and dashes into a document in which periods and colons are dots while commas and semicolons are dashes there are also codes used by the business World which can be solved only by the use of a private code book because they furnish an economical and efficient method of transmitting

Confidential information the use of such codes is far more prevalent than the average person has any suspicion in addition to the foregoing classifications there are numbers of miscellaneous systems of secret writing some employing mechanical devices and others colors a few make use of the sundry miscellaneous objects to represent words

And even complete thoughts but as these more aborate devices were seldom employed by the Ancients or by the medieval philosophers and Alchemists they have no direct bearing upon religion and philosophy the mystics of the Middle Ages borrowing the terminology of the various Arts and Sciences evolved a system of

Cryptography which concealed the secrets of the human soul under terms generally applied to chemistry biology astronomy botony and physiology ciphers of this nature can only be decoded quoted by individuals versed in the Deep philosophic principles upon which these medieval Mystics base their theory of Life much information relating to the

Invisible nature of man is concealed under what seem to be chemical experiments or scientific speculations every student of symbolism and philosophy therefore should be reasonably well acquainted with the underlying principles of cryptography in addition to serving him well in his researches this art furnishes a fascinating method of developing the

Acuteness of the mental faculties discrimination and observation are indispensable to the Seeker after knowledge and no study is equal to cryptography as a means of stimulating these Powers freemasonic symbolism in several early Masonic manuscripts for example the haran Sloan lown and Edinburg kill winning it it is stated that the craft of initiated

Builders existed before the delu and that its members were employed in the building of the Tower of Babel a masonic Constitution dated 1701 gives the following naive account of the origin of the Sciences arts and crafts from which the major part of masonic symbolism is derived how this worthy science was

First begun I shall tell before Noah’s flood there was a man called lamek as it is written in the fourth chapter of Genesis and this lamek had two wives the one was called adah and the other Zilla by the first wife adah he got two sons the one called jabal and the other

Jubal and by the other wife Zilla he got a son and a daughter and the four children found the beginning of all crafts in the world this jabal was the Elder son and he found the craft of geometric and he parted flocks as of sheep and Lambs in the

Fields and first rought houses of stone and tree as it is noted in the chapter afores said and his brother Jubal found the craft of music of songs organs and harp the third brother tubalcain found out Smith’s craft to work Iron and Steel and their sister Nama found out the art of

Weaving these children did not know that God would take Vengeance for sin either by fire or water wherefore they wrote These Sciences which they found in two pillars of stone that they might be found After the flood the one stone was called Marbel cannot burn with fire and

The other was called lerus brass that cannot drown in water the author of this constitution thereupon declares that one of these pillars was later discovered by Hermes who communicated to mankind the secrets thereon inscribed in his Antiquities of the Jews Josephus writes that Adam had forewarned his descendants that sinful Humanity would

Be destroyed by a deluge in order to preserve their science and philosophy the children of Seth therefore raised two pillars one of brick and the other of stone of which were inscribed the keys to their knowledge the patriarch Enoch whose name means the initiator is evidently the personification of the son since he

Lived 365 years he also constructed an underground Temple consisting of nine vaults one beneath the other placing in the deepest Vault a triangular tablet of gold bearing upon it the absolute and ineffable name of diti According to some accounts Enoch made two golden Deltas the larger he

Placed upon the white cubicle altar in the lowest Vault and the smaller he gave into the keeping of his son Methuselah who did the actual construction work of the brick Chambers according to the pattern revealed to his father by the most high in the form and arrangement of

These vaults Enoch epitomized the nine spheres of the ancient Mysteries and the nine sacred strata of the earth through which the initiate must pass to reach the Flaming Spirit dwelling in its Central core according to freemasonic symbolism Enoch fearing that all knowledge of the Sacred Mysteries would be lost at the

Time of the Deluge erected the two columns mentioned in the quotation upon the metal column and appropriate allegorical symbols he engraved the secret reaching upon the metal column in appropriate allegorical symbols he engraved the secret teaching and upon the marble column placed an inscription stating that a short

Distance away a Priceless treasure would be discovered in a Subterranean vault after having thus Faithfully completed his labors Enoch was translated from the brow of Mount Moriah in time the location of the secret vaults was lost but after the lapse of Ages there came another Builder

An initiate after the order of Enoch and he while laying the foundations for another Temple to the great architect of the universe discovered the long lost vaults and the secrets contained within John liland was a appointed by King Henry VII to go through the archives of the various religious

Institutions dissolved by the king and removed for preservation any books or manuscripts of an important character among the documents copied by liland was a series of questions and answers concerning the mystery of masonry written by King Henry V in answer to the question how came masonry into England the document states that Peter

Go a Grecian traveled for knowledge in Egypt Syria and every land where the Phoenicians had planted masonry winning entrance in all Lodges of Masons he learned much and returning dwelt in Greater Greece he became renowned for his wisdom formed a great lodge at coton and made many Masons some of whom journeyed in

France spreading masonry there from France in the course of time the order passed into England to even The Superficial student of the subject it must be evident that the name of Peter go the Grecian is merely an anglicized form of Pythagoras consequently Groton where he formed his lodge is easily identified with

Cretona a link is thus established between the philosophic mysteries of Greece and medieval Freemasonry in his notes on King Henry’s questions and answers William Preston enlarges upon the vow of secrecy as it was practiced by the ancient initiates on the authority of PL he describes how an aarkus having been

Imprisoned in order to extort from him some of the secrets with which he had been entrusted bit out his own tongue and threw it in the face of nisson the Tyrant of Cyprus Preston adds that the Athenians revered a Brazen statue that was represented without a tongue to denote

The sanctity with which they regarded their oathbound secrets it is also noteworthy that according to King Henry’s manuscript masonry had its origin in the East and was the carrier of the Arts and Sciences of civilization to the Primitive Humanity of the western Nations conspicuous among the symbols of

Freemasonry are the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences by grammar man is taught to express in Noble and adequate language his innermost thoughts and ideals by rhetoric he is enable to conceal his ideals under the protecting cover of ambiguous language and figures of speech by Logic he is trained in the

Organization of the intellectual faculties with which he has been endowed by arithmetic he not only is instructed in the mystery of universal order but also gains the key to multitude magnitude and proportion by geometry he is inducted into the mathematics of form the Harmony and rhythm of angles and the philosophy of

Organization by music he has reminded that the universe is found founded upon the laws of celestial harmonics and that Harmony and Rhythm are all pervading by astronomy he gains an understanding of the immensities of time and space of the proper relationship between himself and the universe and of

The awesomeness of that unknown power which is driving the countless stars of the firmament through illimitable space equipped with a knowledge conferred by familiarity with the liberal arts and sciences the studious Freemason therefore finds himself confronted by a few problems of which he cannot cope The dionesia Architects the most celebrated of the

Ancient fraternities of Artisans was that of The diania Architects this organization was composed exclusively of initiates of the bakus dianus cult and was peculiarly concentrated to the science of building and the Art of decoration acclaimed as being the custodians of a secret sacred knowledge of architectonics its members were

Entrusted with the design and erection of public buildings and monuments the superlative Excellence of their handiwork elevated the members of The Guild to a position of surpassing dignity they were regarded as the master Craftsman of the Earth because of the first dances held in honor of dionos he was considered the founder and

Patron of the theater and the doosan specialized in the construction of buildings adapted for the presentation of dramatic performances in the circular or semicircular Orchestra they invariably erected an altar to ailis a famous Greek poet that while appearing in one of his own plays he was suspected by a mob of angry

Spectators of revealing one of the most profound secrets of the Mysteries and was forced to seek Refuge at the altar of dionos so carefully did the Nic Architects Safeguard the secrets of their craft that only fragmentary records exist of their esoteric teachings John a Weiss thus sums up the

Meager data available concerning the order they made their appearance certainly not later than a thousand BC and appear to have enjoyed particular privileges and immunities they also possessed secret means of recognition and were bound together by special ties only known to themselves the Richer of this fraternity were bound

To provide for their poorer Brethren they were divided into communities governed by a master and wardens and called yulai connected houses they held a grand festival annually and were held in high esteem their ceremonials were regarded as sacred it has been claimed that Solomon at the instance of hyam king of

Tire they were also employed at the construction of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus they had means of intercommunication all over the then Known World and from them doubtless sprang the Guilds of the traveling Masons known in the Middle Ages see the Obelisk and Free Masonry the fraternity of the DIC

Architect spread throughout all of Asia Minor even reaching Egypt and India they established themselves in nearly all the countries bordering the Mediterranean and with the rise of the Roman Empire found their way into Central Europe and even into England the most stately and enduring buildings in Constantinople roads Athens

And Rome were erected by these inspired Craftsmen one of the most illustrious of their number was Vitruvius the great architect renowned as the author of De architectura libum in the various sections of his book vvus gives several hints as to the philosophy underlying the DIC concept of the principle of

Symmetry applied to the science of architecture as derived from a consideration of the proportions established by Nature between the parts and members of the human body the following extract from Vitruvius on the subject of symmetry is representative the design of a temple depends on symmetry the principles of

Which must be most carefully observed by the architect they are due to proportion proportion as a correspondence among the measures of the members of an entire work and of the whole to a certain part selected as standard from this results the principles of symmetry without Symmetry and proportion there can be no

Principles in the design of any Temple that is if there is no precise relation between its members as in the case of those of a well-shaped man for the human body is so designed by Nature that the face from the chin to the top of the forehead and the lowest

Roots of the hair is a tenth part of the whole height the open hand from the wrist to the top of the middle finger is just the same the head from the chin to the crown is an eighth and with the neck and shoulder from the top of the breast

To the lowest roots of the hair is a sixth from the middle of the breast to the summit of the crown is a fourth if we take the height of the face itself the distance from the bottom of the chin to the underside of the nostrils and from that point to aign

Between the eyebrows is the same from there to the lowest roots of the hair is also a third compromising the forehead the length of the foot is 1 six of the height of the body of the forearm 1/4 and the breadth of the breast is also

1/4 the other members too have their own symmetrical proportions and it was by employing them that the famous painters and sculptors of antiquity attained to great and endless Renown the edifices raised by the diania builders were indeed sermons in stone though unable to comprehend fully the cosmic principles thus embodied in these

Masterpieces of human inuent though unable to comprehend fully the cosmic principles thus embodied in these masterpieces of human Ingenuity and Industry even the uninitiated were invariably overwhelmed by the sense of majesty and symmetry resulting from the perfect coordination of pillars spans arches and domes by variations in details of size

Material type Arrangement ornamentation and color these inspired Builders believe believed it possible to provoke in the nature of the onlooker certain distinct mental or emotional reactions the truus for example described the disposition of bronze vases about a room so as to produce certain definite changes in the tone and quality of the human

Voice in like manner each chamber in the Mysteries through which the candidate passed had its own peculiar Acoustics thus in one chamber the voice of the the priest was Amplified until his words caused the Very Room to vibrate while in another the voice was diminished and softened to such a degree

That it sounded like the distant tinkling of Silver Bells again in some of the underground passageways the candidate was apparently bereft of the power of speech for though he shouted at the top of his voice not even a whisper was audible to his ears after progressing a few feet

However he would discover that is softest sigh would be re-echoed a hundred times the Supreme ambition of the DC Architects was the construction of buildings which would create distinct Impressions consistent with the purpose for which the structure itself was designed in common with the pythagoreans they believed it possible by combination

Of straight lines and curves to induce any desired mental attitude or emotion they labored therefore to to the end of producing a building perfectly harmonious with the structure of the universe itself they may have even believed that an edifice so constructed because it was in no respect at variance with any

Existing reality would not be subject to dissolution but would endure throughout the span of mortal time as a logical deduction from their philosophical trend of thought such a building on rapport with Cosmos would also have become an oracle certain early works on magical philosophy hint that the Ark of the

Covenant was oracular in character because of specially prepared Chambers in its interior these by their shape and Arrangement were so attuned to the vibrations of the invisible world that they caught and Amplified the voices of the ages imprinted upon and eternally existent in the substance of the astral light unskilled in these ancient

Subtleties of their profession modern Architects often create architectural absurdities which would cause their creators to blush with shame did they comprehend their actual symbolic import thus phallic emblems are strewn in profusion among the adornments of banks Office Buildings and department stores Christian churches Also may be surmounted with Brahman or mohammadan

Domes or be designed in a style suitable for a Jewish synagogue or a Greek Temple to Pluto these in congruities may be considered trivial in importance by the modern designer but to the trained psychologist the purpose for which a building was erected is frustrated in large measure by the presence of such architectural

Discordances Vitruvius thus defines the principle of propriety as conceived and applied by the dians propriety is that Perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles it arises from prescription from usage or from nature from prescription in the case of hyperal edifices open to the sky in

Honor of Jupiter lightning the heaven the Sun or the moon for these are Gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright the temples of minurva Mars and Hercules will be Doric since the viral strength of these Gods make daintiness entirely inappropriate

To their houses in temples to Venus Flora praphan spring water and the nymphs the Corinthian order will be found to have peculiar significance because these are delicate divinities and so its rather slender outlines its flowers leaves and ornamental volutes will lend propriety where it is due the construction of temples of the

Ionic order to Juno Diana father bakas and the other gods of that kind will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian in describing the society as of ionian

Artificers Joseph dasta declares the diania rights to have been founded upon the science of astronomy which by the initiates of this order were correlated to the Builder’s art in various documents dealing with the origin of architecture are found hints to the effect that the great buildings erected by these initiated Craftsmen were based

Upon the geometrical patterns derived from the constellations thus a temple might be planned according to the constellation of Pegasus or a court of judgment modeled after the constellation of the scales the dians evolved The Peculiar code by which they were able to communicate with one another in the dark

And both the symbols and the terminology of their Guild were derived in the main from the elements of architecture while stigmatized as pagans by reason of their philosophic principles it is noteworthy that these diania Craftsmen were almost universally employed in the erection of early Christian abies and

Cathedrals whose Stones even to this day bear the distinct ising marks and symbols cut into their surfaces by these illustrious Builders among the ornate carvings upon the fronts of the great churches of the old world are frequently found representations of compasses squares rules mallets and clusters of Builder tools skillfully incorporated into mural

Decorations and even placed in the hands of the Effigies of saints and Prophets standing in exalted niches a great mystery was contained in the ancient p portals of the Cathedral of notra Dame which were destroyed during the French Revolution for among their carvings were numerous rosicrucian and Masonic

Emblems and according to the records preserved by Alchemists who studied their bass reliefs the secret processes for metallic transmutation were set forth in their grotesque yet most significant figures the checkerboard floor upon which the modern freemasonic Lodge stands is the old tracing Board of the DIC Architects and while the modern

Organization is no longer limited to workman’s guilds it still preserves in its symbols the metaphysical doctrines of the ancient Society of which it is presumably the outgrowth the investigator of the origin of freemasonic symbols who desires to trace the development of the order Through the Ages will find a practical

Suggestion in the following statement of Charles W heathorn but considering that Freemasonry is a tree the roots of which spread through so many soils it follows that traces thereof must be found in its fruit that its language and ritual should retain much of the various sects and institutions it has passed through

Before arriving at their present State and in masonry we meet with Indian Egyptian Jewish and Christian ideas terms there from the Supreme ambition of The Craft and symbols see the secret societies of all ages and countries the Roman collegia of skilled Architects were apparently a subdivision of the

Greater ionian body their principles and organization being practically identical with the older ionian institution it has been suspected that the dians also profoundly influenced early Islamic culture for part of their symbolism found its way into the mysteries of the dervishes at one time the dians referred

To themselves as sons of Solomon and one of of the most important of their symbols was the Seal of Solomon two interlaced triangles this Motif is frequently seen in the conspicuous parts of the muhammadan mosques the Knights Templar who were suspected of anything and everything are believed to have contacted these DIC

Artificers and to have introduced many of their symbols and doctrines into Medieval Europe but Freemasonry most of all owes to the DIC cult the great mass of its symbols and rituals which are related to the science of architecture from these ancient and illustrious Artisans it also received

The legacy of the unfinished Temple of civilization that vast invisible structure upon which these initiated Builders have labored continuously since the Inception of the fraternity this Mighty edifice which has fallen and being rebuilt time after time but whose foundations remain unmoved is the true Everlasting House of which the

Temple on the brow of Mount Moria was but an impermanent symbol aside from the operative aspect of their order the DIC Architects had a speculative philosophic code Human Society they considered as rough and untr ashler but lately chiseled from the Quarry of Elemental nature this crude block was the true

Object upon which these skilled Craftsmen labored polishing it squaring in it and with the aid of fine carvings transforming it into a miracle of beauty while Mystics released their souls from the bondage of matter by meditation and philosophers found their keenest joy in the profundities of thought these Master workmen achieve

Liberation from the wheel of life and death by learning to swing their hammers with the same Rhythm that moves the swirling forces of Cosmos they venerated the Dei under the guise of a great architect and Mastercraft Craftsman who was ever gouging rough ashlers from the fields of space and TR them into

Universes the dians affirmed constructiveness to be the Supreme expression of the soul and attuning themselves with that ever visible constructive natural process going on around them believed immortality could be achieved by thus becoming a part of the creative agencies of nature Solomon the personification of universal wisdom

The name Solomon may be divided into three syllables Saul om on symbolizing light glory and Truth collectively and respectively the Temple of Solomon is therefore first of all the house of everlasting light its Earthly symbol being the Temple of stone on the brow of Mount Moria according to the mystery teachings

There are three temples of Solomon as there are three Grandmasters three Witnesses in three Tabernacles of the Transfiguration the first temple is the grand house of the universe in the midst of which sits the sun Soul upon his Golden Throne the TW signs of the zodiac as fellow Craftsmen gather around their

Shining Lord three lights the Stellar the solar and the lunar illuminate this Cosmic Temple accompanied by his retinue of planets moons and asteroids this Divine King Saul man whose Glory no earthly Monarch shall ever equal passes in stately pomp down the Avenues of space whereas seyam represents the

Active physical light of the sun Soul Lon signifies its invisible but all powerful spiritual and intellectual eesy the second symbolic Temple is the human body the little house made in the image of the great Universal house know ye not asked the Apostle Paul that ye are the temple of God and

That the spirit of God dwelleth in you Freemasonry within a temple of stone cannot be other than speculative but free masonry within the living Temple of the body is operative the third symbolic Temple is the solar house an invisible structure the comprehension of which is a supreme freemasonic

Arcanum the mystery of this intangible edifice is concealed under the allegory of the Som pikon or wedding garment described by St Paul the Robes of Glory of the high priest of Israel the yellow robe of the Buddhist monk and the robe of blue and gold to which Albert Pike refers in his

Symbolism the soul constructed from an invisible fiery substance of flaming golden metal is cast by the master Workman see hyam abff into the mold of clay the physical body and is called the molten sea the Temple of the human soul is built by three Master Masons personifying wisdom love and service and

When constructed according to the law of Life the spirit of God dwells in the Holy Place thereof the soul are Temple is the true Everlasting house and he who can raise it or cast it is a master Mason indeed the best informed Mason writers have realized that Solomon’s Temple is a

Representation in miniature of the universal Temple concerning this point AE weight in a new Encyclopedia of Freemasonry writes it is macrocosmic in character so that the temple is a symbol of the universe a type of manifestation itself Solomon the spirit of universal illumination mental spiritual moral and

Physical is personified in the king of an Earthly Nation while a great ruler by that name may have built a temple he who considers the story solely from its historical angle will never clear away the rubbish that covers the secret vaults the rubbish is interpolated matter in the form of superficial

Symbols allegories and degrees which have no legitimate part in the original freemasonic Mysteries concerning the loss of the true esoteric key to Masonic Secrets Albert Pike writes no one Journeys now from the high place of cabon to the threshing floor of Oman the yoite nor has seen his master

Clothed in blue and gold nor are apprentices and fellow crafts any longer paid at their respective columns nor is the Master’s working tool the tracing board nor does he use in his work chalk char Co and an earn vessel nor does The Apprentice becoming a fellow craft pass

From the square to the compass for the meanings of these phrases as symbols have been long lost according to the ancient rabins Solomon was an initiate of the mystery schools and the temple which he built was actually a house of initiation containing a mass of pagan philosophic and phallic

Emblems the pomegranates the Palm headed columns the pill before the door the Babylonian cherubim and the arrangement of the chambers and draperies all indicate the temple to have been patterned after the sanctuaries of Egypt and Atlantis Isaac Meyer in the cabala makes the following observation the pseudo Clement of Rome

Writes God made man male and female the male is Christ the female the church the cabalists call the Holy Spirit the mother and the Church of Israel the daughter daughter Solomon engraved on the walls of his Temple likeness of the male and female principles to ad dumet this mystery such

It is said were the figures of the cherubim this was however not in obedience to the words of the Torah they were symbolical of the upper the spiritual the former or maker positive or male and the lower the passive the negative or female formed or made by the first

Masonry came to Northern Africa and Asia Minor from the lost continent of Atlantis not under its present name but rather under the general designation sun and fire warship the ancient Mysteries did not cease to exist when Christianity became the world’s most powerful religion great pan did not die

Freemasonry is the proof of his survival the pre-christian Mysteries simply assume the symbolism of the new faith perpetua ating through its emblems and allegories the same truths which had been the property of the wise since the beginning of the world there is no true explanation therefore for Christian symbols save

That which is concealed within Pagan philosophy without the mysterious Keys carried by the hierophants of the Egyptian Brahman and Persian Cults the gates of wisdom cannot be open consider with reverent Spirit therefore the suime allegory of the temple and its builders realizing that beneath its literal interpretation lies hidden a royal

Secret according to the talmudic Legends Solomon understood the mysteries of the cabala he was also an alchemist and a necromancer being able to control the demons and from them and other inhabitants of the invisible worlds he secured much of his wisdom in his translation of clavicula

Salonus or the key of Solomon the king a work Pres presumably set forth the magical Secrets gathered by Solomon and used by him in the conjuration of spirits and which according to Frank C Higgins contains many sidelights on Masonic initiatory rituals SL McGregor mats recognizes the probability that King Solomon was a

Magician in the fullest sense of that word I see no reason to doubt he affirms the tradition which assigns the authorship of the key to King Solomon for among others Josephus the Jewish historian especially mentions the magical Works attributed to that Monarch this is confirmed by many Eastern

Traditions and his magical skill is frequently mentioned in the Arabian Knights concerning Solomon’s Supernatural Powers Josephus writes in his eighth book of the Antiquities of the Jews now the sagacity and wisdom which God has bestowed upon Solomon was so great that he exceeded the Ancients in

So much that he was no way inferior to the Egyptians who are said to have been beyond all men in understanding God also enabled him to learn the skill which expelled demons which is a science useful and stive to him he composed such incantations also by which distempers are

Alleviated and he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms by which they drive away demons so that they never return and this method of cure is of great force unto this day the medieval Alchemists were convinced that King Solomon understood the secret processes of Hermes by which

Means of which it was possible to multiply Metals Dr Backstrom writes that the universal Spirit cyam assisted King Solomon to build his Temple because Solomon being wise in the wisdom of Al knew how to control his incorporeal Essence and setting it to work for him caused the invisible Universe to supply him with

Vast amounts of gold and silver which most people believe were mined by natural methods the mysteries of the Islamic faith are now in keeping of The dervishes Men Who renouncing worldliness have withstood the test of a thousand one days of Temptation Jalal ludin the great Persian sufk poet and philosopher is accredited

With having found the order of Mev Levy or the dancing dervishes whose movements exoterically signify the Motions of the celestial bodies and esoterically result in the establishment of a rhythm which stimulates the centers of spiritual consciousness within the dancer’s body according to the mystical Cannon there are always on earth a certain

Number of holy men who are admitted to intimate communion with the deedi the one who occupies the highest position among the contemporaries is called the Axis or pole of his time subordinate to the cube are two holy beings who bear the title The faithful ones and are assigned places on

His right and left respectively below these is a quartet of intermediate ones and on successively Lower planes are five lights and seven very good the next rank is filled by 40 absent ones also termed Martyrs when an axis quits this Earthly existence he is succeeded by the

Faithful one who has occupied the place at his right hand for to these holy men who also bear the collective titles of Lords of Souls and directors has committed a spiritual Supremacy over mankind far exceeding the temporal authority of Earthly rulers see mysticism and magic in Turkey by lmj

Garnet the axis is a mysterious individual who unknown and unsuspected mingles with Mankind and who according to tradition has his favorite seat upon the roof of the cabba JP Brown in the dervishes gives a description of these Master Souls freemasonry’s Priceless heritage the sanctum sanctorum of Freemasonry is

Ornamented with the Gnostic jewels of a thousand ages its rituals ring with the divinely inspired words of Sears and sages a hundred religious have brought their gifts of wisdom to its altar Arts and Sciences unnumbered have contributed to its symbolism Freemasonry is a worldwide University teaching the liberal arts and

Sciences of the soul to all who will hearken to its words its chairs are seats of learning and its pillars uphold an arc of universal education its Trestle boards are inscribed with the Eternal varities of all ages and upon those who comprehend its sacred depths has dawned the realization that within the freemasonic

Mysteries lie hidden the Lost long Arcana sought by All Peoples since the Genesis of the human reason the philosophic power of Freemason relies in its symbols its Priceless Heritage from the mystery schools of antiquity in a letter to Robert freck Gould Albert Pike writes it began to shape itself to my

Intellectual Vision into something more imposing and Majestic solemnly mysterious and Grand it seemed to me like the pyramids in their loneliness and whose yet undiscovered Chambers may be hidden for the enlightenment of coming Generations the sacred books of the Egyptians so long lost to the world like the Sphinx half buried in the

Desert in its symbolism which and its Spirit of Brotherhood are its Essence Freemasonry is more ancient than any of the world’s living religions it has symbols and doctrines which older than himself zarathustra inculcated and seemed to me a spectacle Sublime yet pitiful the ancient Faith of Our Ancestors holding out to the world

Its symbols once so El quent and mutely and in vain asking for an interpreter and so I came at last to see that the true greatness and Majesty of Freemasonry consist in its proprietorship of these and its other symbols and that its symbolism is its Soul though the temples of thees and

Carnac be now but Majestic heaps of broken and time battered Stone the spirit of Egyptian philosophy still marches triumphant through the the centuries though the rock Hune sanctuaries of the ancient brahin are now deserted and their carvings crumble into dust still the wisdom of the vadas endures though the oracles be silenced

And the house of the Mysteries be now but rows of ghostly columns still shines the spiritual Glory of helas with luster undiminished though zoroaster Hermes Pythagoras Plato and Aristotle are now but dim memories in a world once rocked by the transcendency of their intellectual genius still in the Mystic Temple of

Freemasonry these God men live again in their words and symbols and the candidate passing through the initiations feels himself face to face with these illumined hierophants of days long past Mystic Christianity the true story of the life of Jesus of Nazareth has never been unfolded to the world either in the

Accepted gospels or in the Apocrypha although a few stray hints may be found in some of the commentaries written by the anti nyine fathers the facts concerning his identity and Mission are among the Priceless Mysteries preserved to this day in the secret vaults beneath the houses of the

Brethren to a few of the Knights Templars who were initiated into the Arcana of the jus nazarin ases and johanniter fastness of the Holy Land part of the strange story was told the knowledge of the Templars concerning the early history of Christianity was undoubtedly one of the main reasons for

The persecution and final Annihilation the discrepancies in the writings of the early church fathers not only are irreconcilable but demonstrate Beyond question that even during the first five centuries after Christ these learned men had for the basis of the writings little more substantial than folklor and hearsay to the easy believer everything

Is possible and there are no problems to the unemotional person in search of facts however is confronted by a host of problems with uncertain factors of which the following are typical according to popular conception Jesus was crucified during the 33rd year of his life and in the third year of his

Ministry following his baptism about ad. 180 St arenus Bishop of lions one of the most eminent of the anti nine theologians wrote against heresies an attack on the doctrines of the gnostics in this work irus declared upon the authority of the Apostles themselves that Jesus lived to old age to

Quote they however that they may establish their false opinion regarding that which is written to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord maintain that he preached for only one year and then suffered in the 12 month in speaking thus they are forgetful of their own disadvantage destroying his whole work and robbing

Him of that age which is both more necessary and more honorable than any other the more advanced age I mean during which also as a teacher he accepted all others for how could he have had his disciples if he did not teach and how could he have taught

Unless he had reached the age of a master for when he became to be baptized he had not yet completed his 30th year but was beginning to be about 30 years of age for thus Luke who has mentioned his years has expressed it now Jesus was

As it were beginning to be 30 years old when he became to receive bap baptism and according to these men he preached only one year Reckoning from his baptism on completing his 30th year he suffered being in fact still a young man and who had by no means attained to Advanced

Age now that the first stage of early life Embraces 30 years and that this extends onward to the 40th Year everyone will admit but from the 40th and 50th year a man begins to decline towards old age which our Lord possessed while he still fulfilled the office of a

Teacher even as the gospel and all other Elders testify those who were in conversant in Asia with John the disciple of the Lord affirming that John conveyed to them that information and he remained among them up to the time of trajan some of them moreover saw not

Only John but the other Apostles also and heard the very same account from them and be testimony as as to the validity of the statement whom then should we rather believe whether such men as these as tus who never saw the apostles and who never even in his dreams attained to the

Slightest trace of an apostle commenting on the foregoing passage Godfrey Higgins remarks that it is fortunately escaped the hands of those destroyers who have attempted to render the gospel narratives consistent by deleting all such statements he also notes that the doctrine of the crucifixion was a vat quo among the

Christians even during the 2 Century the evidence of arenus he says cannot be touched on every principle of sound criticism and of the doctrine of probabilities it is unimpeachable it should further be noted that Iranians prepared this statement to contradict another apparently current in his time to the effect that the ministry

Of Jesus last lasted but one year of all the early fathers irus writing within 80 years after the death of St John the Evangelist should have reasonably accurate information if the disciples themselves related that Jesus lived to Advanced age in the body why has the mysterious number 33 been arbitrarily chosen to

Symbolize the duration of his life were the incidents in the life of Jesus purposely altered so that his actions could fit more closely into the pattern established by the numerous savior Gods who preceded him that these analogies were recognized and used as leverage in converting the Greeks and Romans is evident from a

Perusal of the writings of Justin Martyr another second century Authority in his apology Justin addresses the pagans thus and when we say also that word who is the first birth of God was produced without sexual Union and that he Jesus Christ our teacher was crucified and died and rose again and descended into

Heaven we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding Those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter and if we assert that the word of God was born of God In A peculiar manner different from ordinary generation let this as said above be no extraordinary thing to

You who say that mercury is the Angelic word of God but if anyone objects that he was crucified in this also he is on par with those reputed sons of Jupiter of yours who suffered as we have now enumerated from this it is evident that the first missionaries of the Christian

Church were far more willing to admit the similarities between their faith and the faiths of pagans than were their successors in later centuries in an effort to solve some of the problems arising from from any attempt to Chronicle accurately the life of Jesus it has been suggested that

There may have lived in Syria at the time two or more religious teachers bearing the name Jesus jehoshua or Joshua and that the lives of these men may have been confused in the gospel stories in his secret sects of Syria and the Lebanon Bernard h springett a

Masonic author quotes from an early book the name of which he was not at Liberty to disclose because of its connection with the ritual of a sect the last part of his quotation is gerain to the subject at hand but Jehovah prospered the seed of the Asians in Holiness and love for many

Generations then came the chief of the Angels according to the Commandment of God to raise up an heir to the voice of Jehovah and in four generations more an heir was born and named Joshua and he was the child of Joseph and Mara devout worshippers of Jehovah who stood aloof

From all other people saved the Asians and this Joshua in Nazareth reestablished Jehovah and restored many of the Lost rights and ceremonies in the 36th year of his age he was stoned to death in Jerusalem within the last century several books have been published to supplement the meager descriptions in

The gospels of Jesus and his Ministry in some instances these narratives claim to be founded upon early manuscripts recently discovered and others upon direct spiritual Revelation some of these writings are highly plausible While others are incredible there are persistent rumors that Jesus visited and studied in both

Greece and India and that a coin struck in his honor in India during the first century has been discovered early Christian records are known to exist in Tibet and the the monks of a Buddhist Monastery in silon still preserve a record which indicates that Jesus sojourned with them and became conversant with their

Philosophy although early Christianity shows every evidence of Oriental influence this is a subject the modern Church declines to discuss if it is ever established Beyond question that Jesus was an initiate of the Pagan Greek or Astic Mysteries the effect upon the more conservative members of the Christian faith is likely to be

Cataclysmic if Jesus was God incarnate as the solemn councils of the church discovered why is he referred to in the New Testament as called of God and high Prime after the order of melchisedek the words after the order make Jesus one of a line or order of

Which there must have been others of equal or even Superior dignity if the mescs were the Divine or Priestly rulers of the nations of the earth before the inauguration of the system of temporal rulers then the statements attributed to St Paul would indicate that Jesus was either one of

These philosophic elect or was attempting to reestablish their system of government it will be remembered that meis EDC also performed the same ceremony of the drinking of wine and the breaking of bread as Jesus did at the Last Supper George Faber declares the original name of Jesus was jesua

Hamah Godfrey Higgins has discovered two references one in the midrash jealth and the other in the aboad desara early Jewish commentaries on the scriptures to the effect that the surname of Joseph’s family was Panther or in both these works it is stated that a man was healed in the name of Jesus Ben

Panther the name Panther establishes a direct connection between Jesus and bacus who was nursed by Panthers and is sometimes depicted riding either on one of these animals or in a chariot drawn by them the skin of the panther was also sacred in certain of the Egyptian initiatory ceremonials the monogram IHS now

Interpreted to mean isus homonim Salvatore Jesus Savior of men is another direct link between the Christian and the bakic rights IHS is derived from the Greek y he which is its numerical value 608 signifies is emblematic of the Sun and constituted the sacred and concealed name of

Bakus see the Celtic Druids by Godfrey Higgins the question arises was early Roman Christianity confused with the worship of bakus because of the numerous parallelisms in the two faiths if the affirmative can be proved many have two incomprehensible enigmas of the New Testament will be solved It Is by no means improbable that

Jesus himself originally propounded as allegories the cosmic activities which were later confused with his own life that the Christos represented the solar power reverenced by every nation of antiquity cannot be controverted if Jesus revealed the nature and purpose of this solar power under the name and personality of

Crystals thereby giving to this abstract power the attributes of a God man he but followed a precedent set by all previous World teachers this God man thus endowed with all the qualities of deedi signifies the latent Divinity in every man mortal man achieves deification only through atement with his Divine

Self Union with the immortal self constitutes immortality and he who finds his true self self is therefore saved this Christos or Divine man in man is Man’s real hope of Salvation the living mediator between abstract Dei and Mortal humankind as atis Adonis bakus and Orphus in all likelihood were originally

Illumined men who later were confused with the symbolic personages whom they created as personifications of this divine power so Jesus has been confused used with the Christos or God man whose wonders he preached since the Christos was the god man imprisoned in every creature it was the first duty of the initiate to

Liberate or resurrect this eternal one within himself he who attained reunion with this Christos was consequently termed a Christian or christened man one of the most profound doctrines of the Pagan philosophers concerned the universal savior God who lifted The Souls of regenerated men to Heaven through his own nature this concept was

Unquestionably the inspiration for the words attributed to Jesus I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but me in an effort to make a single person out of Jesus and his Christos Christian writers have patched together a Doctrine which must be

Resolved back into its original con suant if the true meaning of Christianity is to be rediscovered in the gospel narratives the Christos represents the perfect man who having passed through the various stages of the world mystery symbolized by the 33 years ascends to the heaven sphere where he is reunited with the Eternal

Father the story of Jesus has now preserved is like the Masonic story of hyam abff part of a secret initiatory ritualism belong belonging to the early Christian and Pagan Mysteries during the centuries just prior to the Christian era the secrets of the Pagan Mysteries have gradually

Fallen into the hands of the profane to the student of comparative religion it is evident that these secrets gathered by a small group of faithful philosophers and Mystics were reclo in new symbolic garments and thus preserved for several centuries under the name of Mystic Christianity it is generally supposed that the ases

Were the custodians of this knowledge and also the initiators and educators of Jesus if so Jesus was undoubtedly initiated in the same Temple of mesed where Pythagoras had studied six centuries before the ases the most prominent of the early Syrian sects were an order of Pious men and women who lived lives of

Aestheticism spending their days in simple labor and their evenings in prayer Josephus the great Jewish historian speaks of them in the highest terms they teach the immortality of the Soul he says and esteem that the rewards of righteousness are to be earnestly striving for in another place he adds

Yet it is their course of life better than that of other men and they entirely addict themselves to husbandry the name of scen as supposed to be derived from an ancient Syrian word meaning physician and these kindly folk are believed to have held as their promise of existence the healing of the

Sick in mind soul and body according to Edward Sher they had two principal communities or centers one in Egypt on the banks of Lake moras the other in Palestine at engadi near the Dead Sea some authorities traced the ases back to the schools of Samuel the prophet but most agree on

Either an Egyptian or Oriental origin their methods of prayer meditation and fasting were not unlike those of the holy men of the Far East membership in the asene order was possible after only one year of probation the mystery school like so many others had three degrees and only a few candidates passed successfully

Through all the ases were divided into two distinct communities one consisting of celibates and the other of members who were married married the ases never became merchants or entered into the commercial life of cities but maintained themselves by Agriculture and the raising of sheep for wool also by such crafts as pottery and

Carpentry in the gospels and Apocrypha Joseph the father of Jesus is referred to as both a carpenter and a Potter in the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas and also that of pseudo Matthew the Child Jesus is described as making sparrows of out of clay which came to

Life and flew away when he clapped his hands the Asen were regarded as among the better educated class of Jews and there are accounts of their having been chosen as tutors for the children of Roman officers stationed in Syria the fact that so many artificers were listed among their number is

Responsible for the orders being considered as a progenitor of modern Freemasonry the symbols of the asins include a number of Builder tools they were secretly engaged in the erection of a spiritual and philosophical Temple to serve as a Dwelling Place For the Living God like the gnostics the ases were

Emanationist one of their Chief objects was the reinterpretation of the Mosaic law according to certain spiritual Keys preserved by them from the time of the founding of their order it would thus follow that the ases were cabalists and like several other temporary sex flourishing in Syria were awaiting the Advent of the Messiah

Promised in the early biblical writings Joseph and Mary the parents of Jesus are believed to have been members of the asene order Joseph was many years the senior of Mary according to the Proto evangelium he was a widower with grown sons and in the gospel of pseudo

Matthew he refers to Mary as a little child Less in age than his own grandchildren in her infant Mary was dedicated to the Lord and the apocryphal writings contain many accounts of Miracles associated with her early childhood when she was 12 years old the priests held counsel as to the future of

This child who had dedicated herself to the Lord and the Jewish high priest bearing the breastplate entered into the holy of holies where an angel appeared to him saying Zacharias go forth and summon the widowers of the people and let them take a rod of peace she shall

Be the wife of a man to whom the Lord shall show a sign going forth to meet the priest at the head of the widowers Joseph collected the rods of all other men and gave them into the keeping of the priests now Joseph’s Rod was but half as

Long as the others and the priests on returning the rods to the widowers paid no attention to Joseph’s but left it behind in the holy of holies when all the other widowers had received back their wands the priests waited a sign from heaven but none came Joseph because of his Advanced age did

Not ask for the return of his rod for to him it was inconceivable that he should be chosen but an angel appeared to the high priest ordered him to give back the short Rod which laid unnoticed in the holy of holies as the priest handed the rod to

Joseph A white dove flew from the end of it and rested upon the head of the Aged Carpenter and to him was given the child the editor of the Sacred books and early literature of the East calls attention to The Peculiar spirit with which the childhood of Jesus is treated

In most of the apocryphal books of the New Testament particularly in one work attributing to the doubting Thomas the earliest known Greek version of which dates from around ad 200 the child Christ is represented almost as an imp cursing and destroying those who annoy him this apocryphal work

Calulated to inspire its readers with fear and trembling was popular during the Middle Ages because it was in full Accord with the cruel and persecuting Spirit of medieval Christianity like many other early sacred books the book of Thomas was fabricated for twoo closely Allied purposes first to outshine the pagans

And Miracle working second to inspire all unbelievers with the fear of the Lord apocryphal writings of this sort have no possible basis in fact at one time in asset the Miracles of Christianity have become its greatest liability supernatural phenomena in a credulous age interpolated to impress the ignorant in this Century have only

Achieved the alienation of the intelligent in the Greek Gospel of Nicodemus it is declared that when Jesus was brought into the presence of pilate the standards borne by the Roman guards bowed their tops in homage to him in spite of every effort made by the soldiers to prevent it in the letters of

Pilate the statement also appears that Caesar being wroth at pilate for executing a just man or ordered him to be decapitated praying for forgiveness pilate was visited by an Angel of the Lord who reassured the Roman Governor by promising him that all Christendom should remember his name and then when

Christ came the second time to judge his people he pilate should come before him as his Witness stories like the foregoing represent the incrustations that have attached themselves to the body of Christianity during the centuries the popular mind itself has been the self-appointed guardian and perpetrator of these Legends bitterly opposing every effort

To divest the faith of these questionable accumulations while popular tradition often contains certain basic elements of truth these elements are usually distorted out of all proportion thus while the generalities of the story may be fundamentally true the details are hopelessly erroneous of Truth as of beauty it may

Be said that it is most adorned when unadorned through the midst of fantastic accounts which obscure the true foundation of the Christian faith is faintly visible to the Discerning few a great and Noble Doctrine communicated to the World by a great and Noble Soul Joseph and Mary two devout and holy

Minded Souls consecrate to the service of God and dreaming of the coming of a messiah to serve Israel obeyed the injunctions of the high priest of the ases to prepare a body for the coming of a Great Soul thus of an Immaculate Conception Jesus was born by Immaculate is meant clean rather than

Supernatural Jesus was reared and educated by the ases and later initiated into to the most profound of their Mysteries like all great initiates he must travel in an easterly Direction and The Silent years of his life no doubt were spent in familiarizing himself with that secret teaching later to be

Communicated to him to the world like all great initiates he must travel in an easterly Direction and The Silent years of his life no doubt were spent in familiarizing himself with that secret teaching later to be communicated by him to the world having consummated the aesthetic practices of his order he attained to

The christening having thus reunited himself with his own spiritual Source he then went forth in the name of the one who has been crucified since before the worlds were and Gathering about him disciples and apostles he instructed them in that secret teaching which has been lost in part at least from the

Doctrines of Israel his fate is unknown but in all probability he suffered that persecution which is the lot of those who seek to reconstruct the ethical philosophical or religious systems of their day to the multitudes Jesus spoke in Parables to his disciples he also spoke in Parables though of a more exalted and

Philosophic nature voler said that Plato should have been canonized by the Christian church for being the first propounder of the Christos mystery he contributed more to to its fundamental doctrines than any other single individual Jesus disclosed to his disciples that the lower world is under the control of a great spiritual being

Which has fashioned it according to the will of the Eternal Father the mind of this great Angel was both the mind of the world and also the worldly mind so that men should not die of worldliness the Eternal Father sent unto creation the eldest and most exalted of his

Powers the Divine mind the Divine mind offered itself as a Living Sacrifice and was broken up and eaten by the world having given up its spirit and its body at a secret and sacred supper to the TW manners of rational creatures this Divine mind became a part of every

Living thing man was thereby enabled to use this power as a bridge across which he might pass and attain immortality he who lifted up his soul to this Divine mind and served it was righteous and having attained righteousness liberated this Divine mind which thereupon returned again in glory to its own Divine

Source and because he had brought to them this knowledge the disciples said to one another Lo he is himself this mind personified the arthan cycle in the legend of the Holy Grail according to Legend the body of the Christos the spiritual law was given into the keeping of two men of whom the

Gospels make but brief mention these were Nicodemus and Joseph of arthea both devout men though not listed among the disciples or Apostles of the Christos were all men chosen to be custodians of his sacred remains Joseph of artha was one of the initiated Brethren and is called by AE

Waight in his a new Encyclopedia of Freemasonry the First bishop of Christendom just as the temporal or visible power of the Holy SE was the establishment by St Peter so the spiritual or invisible body of the faith was entrusted to the secret Church of the Holy Grail through Apostolic

Succession from Joseph of arthea into whose keeping had been given the Perpetual symbols of the Covenant the ever-flowing cup and the bleeding spear presumably obeying instru of St Philip Joseph of arthea carrying the sacred relics reached Britain after passing through many and varied hardships here a site was allotted to

Him for the erection of a church and in this manner glastenbury Abbey was founded Joseph planted his staff in the earth and it took root becoming a miraculous thorn bush which blossomed twice a year and which is now called the Glastonberry Thorn the end of the life of Joseph of artheus is

Unknown by some It is believed that like Enoch he was translated by others that he was buried in glastenbury Abby repeated attempts have been made to find the Holy Grail which many believe to have been hidden in a crypt beneath the ancient Abbey the Glastonberry chalice recently discovered and by The Devout

Supposed to be the original sreel can scarcely be accepted as genuine by the critical investigator Beyond its inherent interest as a relic like the famous Antioch chalice it actually proves nothing when it is realized that practically little more was known about the Christian Mysteries 18 centuries ago than can be discovered

Today the origin of the Grail myth as of nearly every other element in the great drama is curiously elusive sufficient foundation for it may be found in the folklore of the British Isles which contains many accounts of magic cauldrons kettles cups and drinking horns the earliest Grail Legends

Described the cup as a veritable Horn of Plenty its contents were inexhaustible and those who served it never hungered or thirsted one account states that no matter how desperately ill a person might be he could not die within 8 days of beholding the cup some authorities believe the Holy

Grail to be the perpetuation of the Holy cup used in the rights of Adonis and Attis a communion cup or chalice was used in several of the ancient Mysteries and the God bakus is frequently symbolized in the form of a vase cup or n in nature worshiping The ever-flowing

Grail signifies the Bounty of the Harvest by which the life of man is sustained like Mercury’s bottomless picture it is the inexhaustible Fountain of natural resource from the evidence at hand it would indeed be erroneous to ascribe a purely Christian origin to the Grail symbolism in the arthan cycle appears a

Strange and mysterious figure Merlin the magician in one of the Legends concerning him it is declared that when Jesus was sent to liberate the world from the bondage of evil the adversary determined to send the Antichrist to undo his labors the devil therefore in the form of a horrible Dragon overshadowed a

Young woman who had taken refuge in sanctuary to escape the evil which had destroyed her family when Merlin her child was born he partook of the characteristics of his human mother and Demon father Merlin however did not serve the powers of Darkness but being converted to the True Light retained only two of

The supernatural Powers inherited from his father prophecy and Miracle working the story of Merlin’s infernal father must really be considered as an allegorical illusion to the fact that he was a philosophical son of the serpent or Dragon the title applied to all initiates of the Mysteries who thus acknowledge nature as their mortal

Mother and wisdom in the form of the serpent or dragon as their Immortal father confusion of the dragon and serpent with the powers of evil has resulted as an inevitable consequence from misinterpretation of the early chapters of Genesis Arthur while an infant was given into the keeping of Merlin the Mage and

In his youth instructed him by the secret Doctrine and probably initiated into the deepest secrets of natural magic Arthur while an infant was given into the keeping of Merlin the Mage and in his youth instructed by him in the secret Doctrine and probably initiated into the deepest secrets of natural

Magic with Merlin’s assistance Arthur became the leading general of Britain a degree of dignity which has been confused with kingship after Arthur had drawn the sword of branstock from the Anvil and thus established his divine right to leadership Merlin further assisted him to secure from the Lady of the Lake the sacred sword

Excalibur after the reestablishment of the Round Table having fulfilled his duty Merlin disappeared according to One account Vanishing into the air where he still exists as a shadow communicating at will with Mortals according to another retiring of his own accord into a great Stone vault which he sealed from

Within it is reasonably certain that many Legends regarding Charlemagne were later associated with Arthur who was the most famous for establishing the order of the round table at Winchester reliable information is not to be had concerning the ceremonies and initiatory rituals of the Round Table in one story the table was endowed

With the powers of expansion and contraction so that 15 or 1,500 could be seated around it according to whatever need might arise the most common accounts fix the number of knights who could be seated at one time at the round table at either 12 or 24 the 12 signified the signs of the

Zodiac and also the Apostles of Jesus the Knights names and also their heraldic arms were emblazoned upon their chairs when 24 are shown seated at the table each of the 12 signs of the zodiac is divided into two parts a light and a dark half to signify the nocturnal and

Dial phases of each sign as each sign of the zodiac is ascending for two hours every day so the 24 kns represent the hours the 24 Elders Before the Throne in Revelation and 24 Persian Dees who represent the spirits of the divisions of the day in the

Center of the table was the symbolic Rose of The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ the symbol of Resurrection in that he rose from the dead there was also a mysterious empty seat called The Siege perilous in which none might sit except he who was successful in his quest for the Holy

Growl and the personality of author is to be found a new form of ever recurrent Cosmic myth the Prince of Britain is the sun his Knights are the zodiac and his flashing sword maybe the sun’s Ray with which he fights and vanquishes the dragons of Darkness or it may represent the Earth’s

Axis Arthur’s Round Table is the universe The Siege perilous the Throne of the perfect man in its terrestrial sense Arthur was The Grandmaster of the secret Christian Masonic Brotherhood of philosophic Mystics who term themselves Knights Arthur received the exalted position of Grandmaster of these Knights because he had Faithfully accomplish the

Withdrawal of the sword Spirit from the Anvil of the base medals his lower nature as invariably happens the historical Arthur soon was confused with the allegories and myths of his order until now the two are inseparable after Arthur’s death on the field of camlan his mystery seized and

Esoterically he was born away on a black barge as is so beautifully described by Tennyson in his Mort Dar the great sword Excalibur was also cast back into the Waters of Eternity all of which is a vivid portrayal of The Descent of cosmic Knight at the end of day of universal

Manifestation the body of the historical Arthur was probably interred at glassenberry Abbey a building closely identified with the Mystic rights of both the Grail and the arthan cycle the medieval rosicrucians were undoubtedly in possession of the true secret of the Arthurian cycle and the Grail Legend much of their symbolism

Having been incorporated into that order though the most obvious of all keys to the Christos mystery The Grail Legend has received the least consideration the cross and the crucifixion one of the most interesting Legends concerning the cross is that preserved in Oria legenda by Jacobus devor the story is to the effect that

Adam feeling the end of his life was near entreated his son SE to make a pilgrimage to the Garden of Eden and secure from the angel on guard at the entrance the oil of Mercy which God had promised mankind Seth did not know the way but

His father told him it was an Eastward Direction and The Path would be easy to follow for when Adam and Eve were banished from the garden of the Lord upon the path which their feet had trod the grass had never grown Seth following the directions of his father discovered the garden of Eden

Without difficulty the angel who guarded the gate permitted him to enter and in the midst of the garden Seth beheld a great tree the branches of which reached up to heaven the tree was in the form of a cross and stood on the brink of a precius which led downward into the

Depths of Hell among the roots of the tree he saw the body of his brother Cain held prisoner by the entwining limbs the angel refused to give Seth the oil of Mercy but presented him instead with three seeds from the Tree of Life some say the tree of

Knowledge with these Seth returned to his father who was so Overjoyed that he did not desire to live longer 3 days later he died and the three seeds were buried in his mouth as the angel had instructed the seeds became a sapling with three trunks in one which absorbed

Into itself the blood of Adam so that the light of Adam was in the tree Noah dug up this tree by the roots and took it with him into the ark after the waters subsided he buried the skull of Adam under mount Cavalry and planted the tree on the summit of Mount

Lebanon Moses beheld a Visionary being in the midst of this tree burning bush and from it cut the magical Rod which was able to bring water out of a stone but because he failed to call upon the Lord the second time he struck The Rock he was not permitted to carry the

Sacred staff into the promised land so he planted it into the hills of Moab after much searching King David discovered the tree and his son Solomon tried to use it for a pillar in his Temple but his Carpenters could not cut it so that it would fit it was always

Either too long or just too short at last disgusted they cast it aside and used it for a bridge to connect Jerusalem with the surrounding Hills when the Queen of Sheba came to visit King Solomon she was expected to walk across this bridge instead when she

Beheld the tree she refused to put her foot upon it but after kneeling and praying removing her sandles and forwarded the stream this so impressed King Solomon that he ordered the log to be overlaid with golden places and placed above the door of his Temple there it remained

Until his Covetous grandson stole the gold buried the tree so that the crime would not be discovered from the ground where the tree was buried there immediately bubbled forth a spring of water which became known as Bethesda to it the sick from all Syria came to be healed the angel of the pool

Became the guardian of the tree and it remained undisturbed for many years eventually the log floated to the surface and was used as a bridge again this time between C calry and Jerusalem and over it Jesus passed to be crucified there was no wood on Cavalry

So the tree was cut into two parts to serve as the cross upon which the son of man was crucified the cross was set up at the very spot where the skull of Adam had been buried later when the cross was discovered by the empress helina the

Wood was found to be of four different varieties containing in One Tree representing the elements and therefore the cross continued to heal all the sick who were permitted to touch it the prevalent idea that the reverence for the cross is limited to the Christian world is disproved by even the

Most superficial investigation of its place in religious symbolism the early Christians used every means possible to conceal the pagan origin of their symbols doctrines and rituals they either destroyed the sacred books of other peoples among whom they settled or made them inaccessible to students of comparative philosophy apparently believing that in this way

They could Stamp Out All record of the pre-christian origin of their doctrines in some cases the writings of various ancient authors were tampered with passages of a compromising nature being removed or foreign material interpolated the supposedly spirous passage in Josephus concerning Jesus is an example of used to illustrate this

Proclivity the Lost libraries of Alexandria prior to the Christian era 700,000 of the most valuable books written upon parchment Papyrus Vellum and wax and also tablets of stone terracotta and wood were gathered from all parts of the ancient world and housed in Alexandria and buildings specially prepared for the purpose This

Magnificent republ depository of knowledge was destroyed by a series of Three Fires the parts that escaped the conf flager lighted by Caesar to destroy the fleet in the harbor were destroyed about ad through 89 by the Christians in obedience to the Edict of theodosius who had ordered the destruction of the

Sarapeum a building sacred to carapus in which the volumes were kept this conflag duration is supposed to have destroyed the library that Marcus Antonio had presented to Cleopatra to compensate in part for that burned in the fire of the Year 51 concerning this HP blavatsky and Isis unveiled has

Written they the rabbis of Palestine and the wise men say that not all the roles of manuscripts reported in history to have been burned by Caesar by the Christian mob in 389 and by the Arab General amru perished as his is commonly believed and the story they tell is the

Following at the time of the contest for the throne in 51 BC between Cleopatra and her brother dianus tme the briian which contained over 700,000 rolls all bound in wood and fireproof parchment was undergoing repairs and a great portion of the original manuscripts considered among the most precious and which were not duplicated

Were stored away way in the house of one of the Librarians several hours passed between the burning of the fleet set on fire by Caesar’s order and the moment when the first building situated near the harbor caught on fire in their turn and the Librarians aided by several 100 slaves

Attached to the museum succeeded in Saving the most precious of the roles in all probability the books which were saved lie buried either in Egypt or in India and until they are discovered the modern world must remain in ignorance concerning many great philosophical and mystical truths the ancient world more clearly

Understood these missing links the continuity of the Pagan mysteries in Christianity the cross in Pagan symbolism in his article on the cross and crucifixion in the Encyclopedia Britannica Thomas Macau fallow casts much light on the Antiquity of this ideograph the use of the Cross as a religious symbol in pre-christian times

And among non-Christian peoples May probably be regarded as almost Universal and in very many cases it was connected with some form of nature worship not only is the cross itself a familiar object in the art of all Nations but the veneration for it is an essential part of the religious life of

The greater part of humanity it is a common symbol among the American Indians North Central and South William W Seymour States the Aztec goddess of rain bore a cross in her hand and the toltecs claimed that their Dei quits a quaddle taught them the sign and

Ritual of the Cross hence his staff or scepter of power resembled a Crosser and his mantle was covered with red crosses the cross in tradition history and art the cross is also highly revered by the Japanese and Chinese to the pythagoreans the most sacred of all

Numbers was 10 the symbol of which is an X or cross in both the Japanese and Chinese languages the character of the number 10 is a cross the Buddhist Wheel of Life is composed of two crosses superimposed and its eight points are still preserved Christendom in the peculiar L formed

Cross of the Knights Templars which is essentially buddhistic India has preserved the cross not only in its carvings and paintings but also in its architectonics a great number of its temples like the churches and cathedrals of Christendom are raised from cruciform foundations on the mandalas of the

Tibetans Heaven is laid out in the form of a cross with a demon king at each of the four Gates remarkable Cross of great Antiquity was discovered in the island caves of elephanta in the harbor of Bombay crosses of various kinds were favorite motifs in the art of Cala Phoenicia Egypt and

Assyria the initiates of the ucini and Mysteries of Greece were given a cross when they suspended about their necks on a chain a cord at the time of initiation to the rosicrucians Alchemists and Illuminati the cross was the symbol of light because each each of the three letters lvx is derived from

Some part of the cross the towel cross there are three distinct forms of the cross the first is called the towel more correctly the Tav it closely resembles the modern letter T consisting of a horizontal bar resting on a vertical column the two arms being of equal

Length an oak tree cut off some feet above the ground and its upper part laid across the lower in this form was the symbol of the Druid God who it is suspected that this symbol originated among the Egyptians from the spread of the horns of a bull or Ram

Taurus or Aries and the vertical line of its face this is sometimes designated as the hammer cross because if held by its vertical base it is not unlike a mallet or gavl in one of the cabalistic Masonic Legends seyam abff is given a hammer in the form of a towel by his ancestor

Tubalcain the towel cross is preserved to Modern masonry under the symbol of the T Square this appears to be the oldest form of the Cross extent the towel cross was inscribed on the forehead of every person admitted into the mysteries of mithis when a king was initiated into the Egyptian

Mysteries the towel was placed against his lips it was tattooed upon the bodies of candidates in some of the American Indian Mysteries to the cabalist the tow stood for heaven and the Pythagorean tetrus the caducus of Hermes was an outgrowth of the to cross see Albert Pike the

Kata the second type was that of a te or towel Cross surmounted by a circle often foreshortened to the form of an upright oval this was called by the Ancients the anada or the cross of life it was the key to the mysteries of antiquity and it

Probably gave rise to the more modern story of St Peter’s golden key to heaven in the mysteries of Egypt the candidate passed through all forms of actual and imaginary dangers holding above his head the Crux and Sada before which the powers of Darkness fell back abashed the student is reminded of the

Words in Hawk signal vinces the towel form of the Cross is not unlike the Seal of Venus as Richard pay Knight has noted he States the cross in this form is sometimes observable on coins and several of them were found in a temple of serus the serapium demolished at the

General destruction of those edifices by the emperor theodosius and were said by the Christian antiquaries of that time to signify the future life man has four vehicles or mediums of expression by means of which the spiritual ego contacts the external Universe the physical nature the vital nature the emotional

Nature and the mental nature each of these partakes in principle of one of the primary elements and the four creatures assigned to them by the cabalists cause the cross to be symbolic of the compound nature of man Augustus leanon in his sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and kesas

Notes that the Crux andada which he calls the key to the Nile and the symbol of symbols either in its complete form or as a simple towel was to be seen adorning the breasts of statues and boss reliefs at pelen Copan and throughout Central America he notes that it was

Always associated with water that among the Babylonians it was the emblem of the water Gods Among the Scandinavians of heaven and immortality and among the Mayas of Rejuvenation and freedom from physical suffering concerning the association of this symbol with the Waters of Life count goblet delilia in his migration of

Symbols calls attention to the fact that an instrument resembling the krux onada and called the nyom meter was used by the ancient Egyptians for measuring and regulating the it is probable that this relationship to the Nile caused it to be considered the symbol of life for Egypt depended

Entirely upon the inhudes of this River for the irrigation necessary to ensure sufficient crops in the Papyrus Scrolls the krux sonada is shown issuing from the mouths of Egyptian kings when they pardoned enemies and it was buried with them to signify the immortality of the

Soul it was carried by many of the gods and goddesses and apparently sign ified their Divine benevolence and life-giving power the Cairo Museum contains a magnificent collection of crosses of many shape sizes and Designs proving that they were a common symbol among the Egyptians the Roman and Greek Catholic

Crosses the third form of the Cross is the familiar Roman or Greek type which is closely associated with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ although is improbable that the cross used resembled its more familiar modern form there are unlimited subvarieties of crosses differing in the relative proportions of their vertical and horizontal

Sections among the secret orders of different Generations we find compounded crosses such as the triple tow in the Royal Arch of Freemasonry and the double and triple crosses of both Masonic and Roman Catholic symbolism to the Christian the cross has a a two-fold significance first it is

The symbol of the death of his Redeemer through whose martyrdom he feels that he partakes of the glory of God secondly it is the symbol of humility patience and the burden of life it is interesting that the cross should be both a symbol of life and a symbol of

Death many nations deeply consider the astronomical aspect of religion and it is probable that the Persians Greeks and Hindus looked upon the cross as is a symbol of the equinoxes and the solstices in the belief that a certain seasons of the year the sun was symbolically crucified upon these imaginary Celestial

Angles the fact that so many nations have regarded their savior as a personification of the sun Globe is convincing evidence that the cross must exist as an astronomical element in Pagan allegory Augustus leanon believed that the veneration for the cross was partly due to the the rising of a constellation called the Southern

Cross which immediately preceded the annual Reigns and as the natives of those latitudes relied wholly upon those rains to raise their crops they viewed the cross as an annual promise of the approaching storms which to them meant life there are four basic elements according to both ancient philosophy and

Modern science and the Ancients represented them by the Four Arms of the Cross placing at the end of each arm a Myster ious cabalistic creature to symbolize the power of one of those elements thus they symbolize the element of Earth by a bow Water by a scorpion a

Serpent or an eagle Fire by a lion and air by a human head surrounded by Wings it is significant that the four letters inscribed upon parchment some say wood and fastened to the top of the cross at the time of the crucifixion should be the first letters of four

Hebrew words which stand for the four elements iamin the sea or water nure fire Ro the air and iasha the dry Earth see morals and Dogma by Albert Pike that a cross can be formed by opening or unfolding the surfaces of a cube has caused that symbol to be

Associated with the Earth though a cross with a circle has been long regarded as a sign of the planet Earth it should really be considered Ed as the symbol of the composite element Earth since it is composed of the four triangles of the elements for thousands of years the

Cross has been identified with the Plan of Salvation for Humanity the elements salt sulfur Mercury and azoth used in making the philosopher stone in alchemy were often symbolized by a cross the cross of the four cardinal angles also had its secret significance and M parties of three still go forth to

The four cardinal points of the compass in search of the Lost word the material of which the cross was formed was looked upon as being an essential element in its symbolism thus a golden cross symbolized illumination a silver cross purification a cross of Base Metals humiliation a cross of wood

Aspiration the fact that among many nations it was customary to spread the arms in prayer has influenced the symbolism of the Cross which because of its shape has come to be regarded as an emblematic of the human body the four major divisions of the human structure bones muscles nerves and

Arteries are considered to have contributed to the symbolism of the Cross this is especially due to the fact that the spinal nerves cross at the base of the spine and as a reminder that our Lord was crucified also in Egypt the crucifixion a cosmic allegory saviors unnumbered have died

For the sins of man and by the hands of man and through their deaths have interceded in heaven for The Souls of their executioners the martyrdom of the god man and the Redemption of the world through his blood has been an essential tenant of many great religions nearly all these stories can

Be traced to Sun worship for the Glorious orb of day is the savior who dies annually for every creature within his universe but year after year rises again Victorious from the tomb of winter without doubt the doctrine of the crucifixion is based upon the secret traditions of the ancient

Wisdom it is a constant reminder that the divine nature of man is perpetually crucified upon the animal organism certain of the Pagan Mysteries included in the ceremony of initiation the crucifixion of the canid did upon a cross or the laying of his body Upon A cruciform altar it has also been claimed that

Abalonus of tyana the Antichrist was initiated into the Arcanum of Egypt in the Great Pyramid where he hung upon a cross until unconscious and was then laid in the Tomb the Coffer for 3 days while his body was unconscious his soul was thought to pass into the Realms

Of the Immortals the place of death after it vanquished death by recognizing that life is eternal it returned again to the body which then Rose from the Coffer after which he was hailed as a brother by the priests who believed that he had returned from the Land of the

Dead this concept was in substance the teaching of the Mysteries the crucified saviors the list of The deathless Mortals who suffered for man that he might receive the Boon of eternal life is an imposing one among those connected historically or allegorically with the crucifixion are Prometheus Adonis Apollo

Aries bakus Buddha Krishna Horus Indra exion mithis Osiris Pythagoras quadal samaris and Jupiter according to the fragmentary accounts extent all these Heroes gave gave their lives to the service of humanity and with one or two exceptions died as Martyrs for the cause of human progress in many mysterious ways the

Manner of their death has been designedly concealed but it is possible that most of them were crucified upon a cross or tree the first friend of man The Immortal Prometheus was crucified on the Pinnacle of Mount caucus and a vulture was placed over his liver to torment him throughout eternity

By CLA fing and rening his flesh with its Talons Prometheus disobeyed the Edict of Zeus by bringing fire and immortality to man so for man he suffered until the coming of Hercules released him from his ages of Torment concerning the crucifixion of the Persian mithis JP lundi has

Written dup tells us that Mithra was put to death by crucifixion and rose again on the 25th of March in the Persian Mysteries the body of a young man apparently dead was exhibited which was feigned to be restored to Life by his sufferings he was believed to

Have worked their salvation and on this account he was called their savior his priest watched his tomb to the midnight of the vigil on the 25th of March with loud cries and in darkness when all at once the light burst forth from All Parts the priest cried Rejoice

Oh sacred initiated your God has risen his death his pains and sufferings have worked your salvation see Monumental Christianity in some cases as in that of the Buddha the crucifixion Mythos must be taken in an allegorical rather than a literal sense for the manner of his death has been recorded by his own

Disciples in the book of the green decease in some cases as in that of the Buddha crucifixion Mythos must be taken in an allegorical rather than a literal sense for the manner of his death has been recorded by his own disciples in the book of The Great

Decease however the mere fact that the symbolic reference to death upon a tree has been associated with these Heroes is sufficient to prove the universality of the crucifixion Story the east Indian equivalent of Christ is the immortal Krishna who sitting in the forest playing his flute

Charm armed the birds and beasts by his music it is supposed that this divinely inspired savior of humanity was crucified upon a tree by his enemies but great care has been taken to destroy any evidence pointing in that direction Lewis jacolot in his book The Bible in India thus describes the death of

Krishna Krishna understood that the hour had come for him to quit the Earth and returned to the bosom of him who had sent him forbidding his disciples to follow him he went one day to make his abols on the bank of the Ganges arriving at the sacred River he

Plunged himself three times therein then kneeling and looking at Heaven he prayed expecting death in this position he was pierced with Arrows by one of those whose crimes he had unveiled and who hearing of his journey to the Ganges had with generation a strong troop followed with the design of assassinating him

The body of the god man was suspended to the branches of a tree by his murderer that it might become the prey of vultures news of his death having spread the people came in a crowd conducted by aruana the dearest of the Disciples of kristna to recover his sacred

Remains but the Mortal frame of the Redeemer had disappeared no doubt it had regained the celestial abodes and the tree to which it had been attached had become suddenly covered with great red flowers and diffused around it the sweetest perfume other accounts of the death of

Kristna declare that he was tied to a cross-shaped tree before the arrows were aimed at him the existence in Moors the Hindu Pantheon of a plate of kristna with nail wounds in his hands and feet and a plate in inman’s ancient faiths showing an oriental Dy with white might be called a

Nail hole in one of his feet should be sufficient motive for further investigation of this subject by those of unbiased Minds concerning the startling discoveries which can be made along these lines JP Lundy in his Monumental Christianity presents the following information where did the Persians get their notion of this prophecy as thus

Interpreted respecting Christ and his saving mercy and love displayed on the cross both by symbol and actual crucifix we see it on all their monuments if it came from India how did it get there except from one common and original Center of all primitive and pure religion there is a most extraordinary

Plate illustrative of the whole subject which representation I believe to be anterior to Christianity it is copied from Moore’s Hindu Pantheon not as a curiosity but as a most singular Monument of the crucifixion I do not V venture to give it a name other than that of a

Crucifixion in space can it be the victim man or the priest and victim both in one of the Hindu mythology who offered himself a sacrifice before the worlds were can it be Plato’s second God who impressed himself on the universe in the form of a

Cross or is it his Divine man who had been scourged tormented and fettered have his eyes burnt out and lastly having suffered all manner of evils would be crucified Plato learned his theology in Egypt in the East and must have known of the crucifixion of Krishna Buddha Mithra

At all at any rate the religion in India had its mythical crucified victim long anterior to Christianity as a type of the real one and I am inclined to think that we have it in this remarkable plate the modern world has been mled in its attitude towards the so-called Pagan

Deities and has come to view them in a light entirely different from their true characters and meanings the ridicule and slander heaped by Christendom upon Krishna and bakus are excellent examples of the persecution of immortal principles by those who have utterly failed to sense the secret meaning of the

Allegories who was the crucified man of Greece concerning whom vague rumors have been AF qu Higgins thinks it was Pythagoras the true story of whose death was suppressed by early Christian authors because it conflicted with their teachings was it true also that the Roman legionaries carried on the field

Of battle standards upon which were crosses bearing the crucified son man the crucifixion of qua quad one of the most remarkable of the crucified World saviors is the Central American God of the winds or the Sun qua quad concerning those activities great secrecy was maintained by the Indian Priests of Mexico and Central

America this strange Immortal whose name means feathered snake appears to have come out of the sea bringing with him a mysterious cross on his garments were embellished clouds and red crosses in his honor great servants carved from Stone were placed in different parts of Mexico the cross of quet bottle became a

Sacred symbol among the Mayas and according to available records the Maya Indian Angels had crosses of various pigments painted on their foreheads similar crosses were placed over the eyes of those initiated into their Mysteries when Cortez arrived in Mexico he brought with him the cross recognizing this the natives believed he

Was qua quad returned for the latter had promised to come back in the infinite future and redeem his people in anacalypsis Jeffrey Higgins throws some light on the cross and its symbolism in America the Yas had a cross a very fine marble or beautiful Jasper highly

Polished of one piece 34s of an L in length and three fingers in width and thickness it was kept in a sacred chamber of a palace and held in great veneration the Spaniards enriched this cross with gold jewels and placed it in the Cathedral of kutco Mexican temples are in the form of

A cross and face of the four cardinal points qua quaddle is represented in the paintings of the Codex Banus nailed to the cross sometimes even the two thieves are there crucified with him in volume 2 plate 75 the God is crucified in the heavens in a circle of 19 figures the

Number of the matonic cycle a serpent is depriving him of the organs of generation in the codex boronas page 472 7375 the Mexican God is represented crucified and nailed to the cross and in another place hanging onto it with a cross in his hands and in one instance where the

Figure is not merely outlined the cross is red the clothes are colored and the face and hands quite black if this was the Christianity of the German nestorius how come he came to teach that the crucified savior was black the name of the God who was crucified was qua

Quaddle the crucifixion of the word in Space the crucifixion of the dove often seen in religious symbolism both of these are reminders of pagan overshadowing the fact that a cross is formed by the spread wings of a bird in relation to its body is no doubt one of

The reasons why the Egyptians used a bird to symbolize the immortal nature of man and often show it hovering over the mummified body of the dead and carrying in one of its claws the sign of life and in the other the sign of breath the nails of the

Passion the three nails of the passion have found their way into the symbolism of many races and faiths there are many Legends concerning these nails one of these is to the effect that originally there were four nails but one was dematerialized by a Hebrew cabalist and magician just as they were about to

Drive it through the foot of the master hence it was necessary to cross the feet another Legend relates that one of these nails was hammered into a crown and that it still exists as the Imperial diadem of a European house still another story has it that the bid on the bridal of Constantine’s

Horse was a passion nail it is improbable however that the nails were made of iron for at that time it was customary to use sharpened wooden pegs Hargrave Jennings and his rosac crucians their rights and Mysteries calls attention to the fact that the Mark or sign used in England to

Designate Royal Property and called the broad arrow is nothing more nor less than the three nails of the crucifixion grouped together and that by placing them point to point the ancient symbol of the Egyptian C cross is formed in his ancient Freemasonry Frank C Higgins reproduces the Masonic apron

Of a colossal Stone figure at kuga Guatemala the central ornament of the apron is the three Passion Nails arranged exactly like the British broad arrow that three Nails should be used to crucify the Christ three murderers to kill seyra MTH and three wounds to slay Prince Prince Co the Mexican Indian

Osiris is significant CW King in his gnostics and the remains thus describes a gnostic gem the Gnostic ploma or combination of all the aons is expressed by the outline of a man holding a scroll the left hand is formed like three bent spikes or Nails unmistakably the same symbol that

Bellis often holds in his extended hand on the Babylonian cylinders after afterwards discovered by the Jewish cabalists in the points of the letter shin and by the medieval Mystics in O the three nails of the cross from this point Hargrave Jennings continues King’s speculations noting the

Resemblance of the nail to an obelisk or pillar and that the cabalistic value of the Hebrew letter Shin or sin is 300 namely 100 for each Spike the Passion Nails are highly important symbols especially when it is realized that according to the esoteric systems of culture there are certain secret centers

Of force in the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet the driving of the nails and the flow of blood and water from the wounds were symbolic of certain secret philosophic practices of the temple many of the Oriental Dees have mysterious symbols on the hands and feet

The so-called Footprints of Buddha are usually embellished with a magnificent burst at the point where the nail pierced the foot of Christ in his notes on the Theology of jaab Bal dror France Hartman thus sums up the Mystic symbolism of the crucifixion the cross represents terrestrial life and the crown of thorns

The sufferings of the Soul within the elementary body but also the victory of the spirit over the elements of Darkness the body is naked to indicate that the candidate for immortality Must Die divest himself of all desires for terrestrial things the figure is nailed to the cross which symbolizes the death

And surrender of the self-will and that it should not attempt to accomplish anything by its own power but merely serve as an instrument wherein the Divine will is executed above the head are inscribed the letters i NR J whose most important meaning is in nois regnat Jesus within ourselves Reigns

Jesus but this signification of this inscription can be practically known only to those who have actually died relatively to the world of desires and risen above the Temptation for personal existence or to express it in other words those who have become alive in Christ and in whom thus the kingdom of

Jesus the Holy Love Will uing from the heart of God has been established one of the most interesting interpretations of the crucifixion allegory is that which identifies the man Jesus with the personal consciousness of the individual it is this personal Consciousness that conceives of and dwells in the sense of

Separateness and before the aspiring Soul can be reunited with the everpresent and all pervading father this personality must be sacrificed that the universal Consciousness may be liberated The Mystery of the Apocalypse the presence of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus marked that city as sacred to the mystery religion for the

Seven wonders of the ancient world were erected to indicate the repositories of recondite knowledge of aesus HP baty writes it was a focus of the universal secret Doctrine the weird laboratory went fashioned in elegant GRE and phraseology sprang the quintessence of buddhistic zoroastrian and caldan philosophy Artemis the gigantic concrete

Symbol of theosophical pantheistic abstractions the great mother multim mama androgine and patroness of the Ephesian writings was conquered by Paul but although the zealous converts of the Apostles pretended to burn all their books on Curious Arts enough of these remained for them to study when their first Zeal had cooled off see Isis

Unveiled being a great Center of pagan learning Ephesus had been the local for many early Christian myths the assertion had been made that it was the last domicile of the Virgin Mary also that the tomb of St John the Divine was located there according to Legend St

John did not dep apart from this life in the usual manner but selecting his vault entered it while still alive and closing the entrance behind him vanished forever from Mortal sight a rumor was current in ancient Ephesus that St John would sleep in his tomb until the return of the Savior and

That when the Apostle turned over on a sepulcral couch the Earth moved above like the coverlets of a bed subjected to more criticism than any other book now Incorporated in the New Testament the apocalypse popularly accredited to St John the Divine is by far the most important but least

Understood of the Gnostic Christian writings though Justin Martyr declared the Book of Revelation to have been written by John one of Christ’s Apostles its authorship was disputed as early as the 2 Century after Christ in the third Century these contentions became acute and even dianus of Alexandria and uus attacked the

Johannine theory declaring that both the Book of Revelation and the gosple according to St John were written by one serenus who borrowing the name of the great Apostle the better too his own doctrines upon the Christians later Jerome questioned the authorship of the apocalypse and during the Reformation his objections were

Revived by Luther and arasmus the once generally accepted notion that the Book of Revelation was the actual Accord of a mystical experience occurring to St John while that seir was in Exile in the Isle of parmos is now regarded with disfavor by more critical Scholars other explanations have

Therefore been Advanced to account for the symbolism permeating the volume and the original motive for its writing the more reasonable of these theories may be summed up as follows first upon the weight of evidence furnished by its own contents The Book of Revelation May well be pronounced a pagan

Writing one of the Sacred books of the ucini or frian Mysteries as a coraly the real author of a work setting forth the profundities of Egyptian and Greek mysticism must have been an initiate himself and consequently obligated to write only in the symbolic language of the Mysteries second it is possible that the

Book of Revelation was written to reconcile the seeming discrepancies between the early Christian and Pagan religious philosophies when the zealots of the Primitive Christian Church sought to christianize pagam the Pagan initiates retorted with a powerful effort to paganized Christianity the Christians failed but the pagans succeeded with the decline of

Paganism the initiated Pagan hierophant transferred their base of operations to the new vehicle of primitive Christianity adopting the symbols of the new cult to conceal those Eternal varities which are ever the Priceless possession of the wise the apocalypse shows clearly the resultant Fusion of pagan and Christian symbolism and thus Bears irrefutable

Evidence of the activities of these initiated Minds operating through early Christianity third the theory has been Advan that the Book of Revelation represents the attempt made by the unscrupulous members of a certain religious disorder to undermine the Christian Mysteries by satirizing their philosophy this nefarious end they H to

Attain by showing the new Faith to be merely a restatement of ancient Pagan doctrines by heaping ridicule upon Christianity and by using its own symbols towards its disparagement for example the star which fell to Earth Revelation 81011 could be construed to mean the Star of Bethlehem and the the bitterness

Of that star called wormwood and which poisoned mankind could signify the false teachings of the Christian Church while the last theory has gained a certain measure of popularity the profundity of the Apocalypse leads the Discerning reader to the inevitable conclusion that this is the least plausible of these three

Hypothesis to those able to pierce the veil of its symbolism The Inspired source of the document requires no further corroborative Evidence in the final analysis true philosophy can be limited by neither Creed nor faction in fact it is incompatible with every artificial limitation of human thought the question of the Pagan or

Christian origin of the Book of Revelation is consequently of little importance the intrinsic value of the book Lies in its magnificent epitome of the universal mystery an observation which led St Jerome to declare that is susceptible of seven entirely different interpretations untrained in the reaches of ancient thought the modern theology

Cannot possibly cope with the complexities of the Apocalypse for to him this Mystic writing is but a fantasmagoria the divine inspiration of which he is sorely tempted to question in the limited space here available it is possible to sketch but briefly a few of the Salient features of

The vision of the sear of Patmos a careful consideration of the various Pagan Mysteries will assist materially also in filling the inevitable gaps in this abridgement in the opening chapter of the Apocalypse St John describes the Alpha and Omega who stood in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks surrounded by his flaming

Planetary regions the sublime one thus epitomizes in one impressive and mysterious figure the entire sweep of Humanity’s evolutionary growth past present and future the first stages of man’s Earthly development writes Dr Rudolf Steiner ran their course at a period when the Earth was still fiery and the first human

Incarnations were formed out of the element of fire at the end of his Earthly career man will himself radiate his inner being outwards creatively by the force of the element of fire this continuous development from the beginning to the end of the Earth reveals itself to the sear when he sees

On the astral plane the archetype of evolving man the beginning of Earthly Evolution stands forth in the fiery feet its end in the fiery countenance and the complete power of the creative word to be finally one is seen in the fiery Source coming out of the mouth see oul seals and

Colums in his restored New Testament James Morgan price traces the relationship of the various parts of the Alpha and Omega to the seven sacred planets of the Ancients to quote the logos figure described is a composite picture of the seven sacred planets he has the snowy white hair of

Kronos father th the Blazing eyes of wide seeeing Zeus the sword of ARS The Shining face of Helios and the chitten and girdle of Aphrodite his face are of mercury the metal sacred to Hermes and his voice is like the murmur of the ocean’s waves the many Waters alluding

To Seline the moon goddess of the Four Seasons and of the waters the Seven Stars carried by this immense being in his right hand are the governors of the world the Flaming sword issuing from his mouth is the creative Fiat or word of power by which the illusion of material permanence is slain

Here also is represented in all his symbolic Splendor the hierophant of the fan Mysteries his various Insignia emblematic of his Divine attributes seven priests bearing lamps and his attendants and the Stars carried in his hand are the seven schools of the Mysteries whose power he administers as one born again out of

Spiritual Darkness into perfect wisdom this Arch Mages is made to say I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive forever more amen and have the keys of hell and of death in the second and third chapters St John delivers to the seven churches

Which are in Asia the injunctions received by him from the Alpha and Omega the churches are here analogous to the rungs of a mithraic ladder and John being in the spirit ascended through the orbits of the seven s sacred planets until he reached the inner surface of the

Empirion after the soul of the Prophet writes the anonymous author of mankind their origin and Destiny in his ecstatic state has passed in its rapid flight through the seven spheres from the sphere of the Moon to that of Saturn or from the planet which corresponds to

Cancer the Gate of men to that of Capricorn which is the Gate of the Gods a new gate opens to him in the highest s and in the Zodiac beneath which the seven planets resolve revolve in a word in the firmament or that which the Ancients called crystallinum primum or the crystal

Heaven when related to the Eastern system of metaphysics these churches represent the chakras or nerve ganglia along the human spine the door in heaven being the brahmarandra or point in the crown of the skull golgatha through which the spinal Spirit fire passes to Liberation the Church of Ephesus

Corresponds to the muladar or sacral ganglion and the other churches to the higher ganglia according to the order given in Revelation Dr Steiner discovers a relationship between the seven churches and the divisions of the Aryan race thus the Church of Ephesus stands for the arch Indian branch the Church of

Sna the arch Persians the Church of pamos the C and Egyptian citic the Church of Thera The Grecian Latin Roman the Church of Sardis the Tuton Anglo-Saxon the Church of Philadelphia the Slavic and the Church of lisia the manakan the seven churches also signify the Greek vowels of which Alpha and

Omega are the first and the last a difference of opinion exists as to the order in which the seven planars should be related to the churches some proceed from the hypothesis that Saturn represents the Church of Ephesus but from the fact that this city was sacred

To the moon goddess and also that the sphere of the moon is the first above that of the Earth the planets obviously should Ascend in their order from the Moon to Saturn from Saturn the soul would naturally Ascend through the door in the Imperium in the fourth and fifth

Chapters St John describes the Throne of God upon which sat the Holy One which was and is and is to come about The Throne were 24 lesser seats upon which sat 24 Elders arrayed in white garments and wearing crowns of gold and out of the throne preceding Lightnings and thunderings and voices

And there were seven lamps of of fire burning Before the Throne which are the seven spirits of God he who sat upon the throne held in his right hand a book sealed with Seven Seals which no man in heaven or Earth had been found worthy to open then

Appeared a lamb Aries the first and chief of the zodiacal signs which had been slain having seven horns rays and seven eyes lights the lamb took the book from the right hand of him him that sat upon the throne and the four beasts and all the elders fell down and worshiped

God and the lamb during the early centuries of the Christian Church the lamb was universally recognized as a symbol of Christ and not until after the fifth Cod of Constantin opal the quinex sinod ad 692 was the figure of the crucified man substituted for that of Agnes

D as shrewdly noted by one writer on the subject the use of a lamb is indicative of the Persian origin of Christianity for the Persians were the only people to symbolize the first sign of the zodiac by a lamb because a lamb was the sin offering of the ancient pagans the early Mystic

Christians considered this animal as an appropriate emblem of Christ whom they regarded as the sin offering of the world the Greeks and the Egyptians highly venerated the lamb or Ram often placing its horns upon the foreheads of their gods the Scandinavian God Thor carried a hammer made from a pair of rams horns

The lamb is used in preference to the ram apparently because of its Purity and gentleness also since the Creator himself was symbolized by Aries his son would consequently be the little Ram or lamb the lambskin apron worn by the Freemasons over that part of the body symbolized by Ty Aon or Judas represents

That purification of the generative process which is a prerequisite to True spirituality in this allegory the lamb signifies the purified candidate its seven horns representing the divisions of the illuminated reason and its seven eyes the chakras or perfected sense perceptions the sixth to 11th chapters inclusive are devoted to an account of

The opening of The Seven Seals on the book held by the lamb when the first seal was broken there rode forth a man on a white horse wearing a crown and holding in his hand a bow when the second seal was broken there rode forth a man upon a red horse

And in his hand was a great sword when the third seal was broken there rode forth a man upon a black horse and a pair of balances in his hand and when the fourth seal was broken there rode forth death upon a Pale Horse and Hell Followed after him

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse may be interpreted to signify the four main divisions of human life birth is represented by the rider on the White Horse who comes forth conquering and to conquer the impetuosity of Youth by the rider on the red horse who took peace from the

Earth maturity by the rider on the black horse who weighs all things in the scales of reason and death by the rider on The Pale Horse who was given power over a fourth part of the Earth in the Eastern philosophy these Horsemen signify the four yugas or ages of the

World which riding forth at their appointed times become for a certain span the rulers of creation commenting on the 24 allocution of crystalum and the origin of the religious warship dup notes that each of the four elements were represented by a horse bearing the name of the God who is set

Over the elements the first horse signifying the fire ether was called Jupiter and occupied the highest place in the order of the elements the horse was winged very Fleet and describing the largest Circle encompassed all the others it sha with the purest light and on its body were

The images of the Sun the moon the stars and all the bodies in the Ethereal regions the second horse signifying the element of air was Juno it was inferior to the horse of Jupiter and described in a smaller Circle its color was black but that part exposed to the sun became

Luminous thus signifying the dial and nocturnal conditions of air the third horse symbolizing the element of water was sacred to Neptune it was of heavy gate and described a very small circle the fourth horse signifying the static element of Earth described as immovable and champing its bit was the Ste of

Vesta despite the differences in temperature these four horses lived harmoniously together which is in accord with the principles of the philosophers who declared the world to be preserved by the Concord and Harmony of its elements in time however the racing horse of Jupiter burned the man of the

Horse of Earth the Thundering Steed of Neptune also became covered with sweat which overflowed the immovable horse of Vesta and resulted in the Deluge of dualon at last the fiery horse of Jupiter will consume the rest when the three inferior elements purified by reabsorption in the fiery ether will

Come forth renewed constituting a new Heaven and a new Earth when the fifth seal was opened St John beheld those who had died for the word of God when the six seal was br broke and there was a great earthquake the sun being darkened and the moon becoming like

Blood the angels of the Winds came forth and also another Angel who sealed upon their foreheads 144,000 of the children of Israel that they should be preserved against the awful day of tribulation by adding the digits together according to the Pythagorean system of numerical philosophy the number 144,000 is reduced to nine the

Mystic symbol of man and also the number of initiation for he who passes through the nine degrees of the Mysteries receives the sign of the cross as emblematic of his regeneration and Liberation from the bondage of his own infernal or inferior nature the addition of the three ciphers

To the original sacred number 1.44 indicates the elevation of the mystery to the third sphere when the seventh seal was broken there was silence for the space of half an hour then came forth seven angels and to each was given a trumpet when the seven angels sounded their trumpets and toned the

Seven-letter name of the logos great catastrophes ensued a star which was called wormwood fell from heaven thereby signifying that the secret doctrine of the Ancients had be given to men who had profaned it and caused the wisdom of God to become a destructive agency and another star symbolizing the

False light of human reason as distinguished from the Divine reason of the initiate fell from heaven and to it materialistic reason was given the key to the bottomless pit nature which had opened causing all manner of evil creatures to issue forth and there came also a mighty Angel

Who was clothed in a cloud whose face was as the sun and his feet and legs as pillars of fire and one foot was upon the waters and the other upon the land the Hermetic anthropos the celestial being gave St John a little book bidding him to eat it which the sear

Did the book is representative of the secret doctrine that spiritual food which is the nourishment of the spirit and St John being in the spirit ate his fill of the wisdom of God and the hunger of his soul was appeased the 12th chapter treats of a great Wonder appearing in the heavens a

Woman clothed with the Sun the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of 12 Stars this woman represents the constellation of Virgo and also the Egyptian Isis who about to be delivered of her son’s Horus is attacked by Typhon the latter attempting to destroy the

Child predestined by the gods to slay the spirit of evil the war in heaven relates to the destruction of the planet Ragnarok and to the fall of the Angels the Virgin can be interpreted to signify the secret Doctrine itself and her son the initiate born out of the womb of the

Mysteries the spirit of evil thus personified in the Great Dragon attempted to control mankind by destroying the mother of those illumined Souls who have labored unceasingly for the Salvation of the world wings were given to the Mysteries the Virgin and they flew into the Wilderness and the evil dragon tried to

Destroy them with a flood of false Doctrine but the Earth Oblivion swallowed up the false doctrines and the Mysteries endured the 13th chapter describes a great Beast which rose out of the sea having seven heads and 10 horns Faber sees in this amphibious monster the demiurges or creator of the world rising

Out of the ocean of chaos While most most interpreters of the Apocalypse consider the various beasts described therein as typical of evil agencies this Viewpoint is the inevitable result of unfamiliarity with the ancient doctrines from which the symbolism of the book is derived astronomically the great monster

Rising out of the sea is the constellation of cus the whale because religious Aesthetics looked upon the universe itself as an evil and in snaring fabrication they also came to regard its very Creator as a weaver of delusions thus the great sea monster the world and its maker the demiurges whose

Strength is derived from the dragon of cosmic power came to be personified as a beast of horror and destruction seeking to swallow up the immortal part of human nature the seven heads of the monster represent the Seven Stars Spirits composing the constellation of the great Dipper called by the Hindus rishis or

Cosmic creative Spirits the 10 horns Faber relates to the 10 primordial Patriarchs there may also denote the ancient zodiac of 10 signs the number of the Beast 666 is an interesting example of the use of cabalism in the New Testament and early among Christian Mystics in the following

Table ker shows the names of antichrist as given by arenus all have 666 as their numerical equivalent James Morgan py also notes that according to this method of figuring the Greek term which signifies the lower mind has 666 as its numerical equivalent it is also well known to

Cabalist that Jesus has for its numerical value another sacred and secret number 888 adding the digits of the number 666 and again adding the digits of the sum gives the sacred number nine the symbol of man in his unregenerate State and also the path of his resurrection the 14th chapter opens with

The lamb standing on Mount Zion the Eastern Horizon about him gathered the 144,000 with the name of God written in their foreheads an angel thereupon announced is the fall of Babylon the city of confusion and worldliness those perish who do not overcome worldliness and enter into the realization that spirit and not matter

Is enduring for having no interest other than those which are material they are swept to destruction with the material World and St John beheld one like unto the son of man Perseus riding upon a cloud the substances of the invisible world and bearing in his hand a sharp

Sickle and with the sickle The Shining one reaped the Earth this is a symbol of the initiator releasing into the sphere of reality the higher Natures of those who symbolized by ripened grain have reached the point of Liberation and there came another Angel bhes deaf also with a sickle Karma who

Reaped The Vines of the earth those who have lived by the false light and cast them into the wine press of the wrath of God the purgatorial Spheres the 15th to 18th chapters inclusive contain an account of seven angels the pleades who pour their vials upon the Earth the contents of their

Vials the loosened energy of the cosmic bull are called The Seven Last plagues here also is introduced a symbolic figure termed the Harlot of Babylon which is described as a woman seated Upon A Scarlet colored Beast having seven heads and 10 horns the woman was arrayed in purple

And Scarlet and beded with gold precious stones and Pearls having in her hand a golden cup of Abominations this figure may be an effort probably interpolated to vilify cbel or timus the great mother goddess of antiquity because the pagans venerated the Mator deorum through symbols appropriate to the feminine generative

Principle they were accused by the early Christians of worshiping a corisan as nearly all the ancient Mysteries included a test of the neopit moral character the temptress the animal soul is here portrayed as a pagan goddess in the 19th and 20th chapters is set forth the preparation of that

Mystical Sacrament called The Marriage of the Lamb the bride is the soul of the neopit which attains conscious immortality by uniting itself to its own spiritual Source the heavens opened once more and St John saw a white horse and the rider the illumined mind which sat upon it was called faithful and

True out of his mouth issued a sharp Sword and the armies of Heaven followed after him upon the plains of heaven was fought the Mystic Armageddon the last great war between light and darkness the forces of evil under the Persian araman battled against the forces of good under ahura Mazda evil was

Vanquished and the Beast and the false prophet cast into a lake of fiery Brimstone Satan was bound for a thousand years Then followed the last judgment the books were opened including the Book of Life the dead were judged according to their works and those whose names

Were not in the Book of Life were cast into a Sea of Fire to the neopit Armageddon represents the last struggle between the Flesh and the spirit when finally overcoming the world the illumined soul Rises to Union with its spiritual self judgment signifies the weighing of the soul and was borrowed from the

Mysteries of Osiris the rising of the dead from their graves and from the sea of Illusion represents the consummation of the process of human regeneration the Sea of Fire into which those are cast who fail in the ordeal of initiation signifies the fiery sphere of the animal

World in the 21st and 22nd chapters are pictured the new Heaven and the new Earth to be established at the close of aran’s Reign St John carried in the spirit to a great and high mountain the brain beheld the New Jerusalem descending as a bride adorned for her

Husband the holy city represents the regenerated and perfected world the true ashlar of the Mason for the city was a perfect Cube it being written the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal the foundation of the holy city consisted of 140 stones in 12 rows from

Which it is evident that the New Jerusalem represents the microcosm patterned after the greater Universe in which it stands the 12 gates of this symbolic do decahedra are the signs of the zodiac through which the celestial impulses descend into the inferior world the jewels are the precious stones of the

Zodiacal signs and the transparent golden streets are the streams of spiritual light along which the initiate passes on his path towards the sun there is no material temple in that City for God and the lamb are the temple and there is neither Sun nor moon for

God and the lamb are the light glorified and spiritualized initiate is here depicted as a city this city will ultimately be United with the spirit of God and absorbed into the Define ecy and St John beheld a river the Water of Life which proceeded out of the

Throne of the Lamb the river represents the stream pouring from the first logos which is the life of all things and the active cause of all creation there also was the Tree of Life the spirit bearing 12 manner of fruit whose leaves were for the healing of the

Nations by the tree is also represented the year which every month yields some good for the maintenance of existing creatures Jesus then tells St John that he is the root and The Offspring of David and the bright and Morning Star Venus St John concludes with the words

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all amen the faith of Islam representative of the attitude of Christendom toward Islam till recent years at least is Alexander Ross’s postcript to the anglicized version published in 1649 of sire du ry’s French translation of the Quran the author of The postcript

Directs the following invective against Muhammad and the Quran good reader the great Arabian impostor now at last after a thousand years is by way of France arrived in England and is alaran or gamry of Errors a brat as deformed as the parent and as full of heresies as his scalded head was

Full of scurvy have learned to speak English if you will take a brief view of the alran you shall find it a hodg Podge made up of these four ingredients number one of contradictions number two of blast blasphemy number three of ridiculous fables number four of Lies the accusation of blasphemy is

Emphasized against Muhammad because he affirmed that God being unmarried was incapable of having a son the fallacious argument however is Apparent from The Prophet’s own views of the nature of God as contained in the second Surah of the Quran to Allah God belongeth the East and the West therefore withs soever you

Turn yourselves to pray there is the face of Allah for Allah is omnipresent and omniscient they say Allah hath begotten children Allah forbid to him belongeth whatever is in heaven and on Earth all is possessed by him the creator of Heaven and Earth and when he decree a

Thing he only saith unto it be and it is in other words the god of Islam has but to desire and the object of that desire at once comes into being whereas the god of Alexander Ross must proceed in accord with the laws of human generation Muhammad prophet of Islam the

Desired of all Nations was born in Mecca ad. 570 and died in Medina ad. 632 or in the 11th year after the Hegira Washington Irvine thus describes the signs and wonders accompanying the bir of the Prophet his mother suffered none of the pangs of travail at the moment of his

Coming into the world a Celestial light illumined and surrounding the country and the newborn child raising his eyes to Heaven exclaimed God is great there is no God but God and I am his Prophet Heaven and Earth we are assured were agitated at his Advent the lake Sawa

Shrank back to its secret Springs leaving its borders dry while the Tigris bursting its bounds overflowing the neighboring lands the Palace of kosu the King of Persia Shook on its foundations and several of its Towers were toppled to the Earth in the same eventful night the sacred fire of zoroaster which guarded

By the Magi had burned without interruption for Upward of a thousand years was suddenly extinguished and all the idols in the world fell down see Muhammad and his successor while the prophet was still but a toddling babe the angel Gabriel was 70 Wings came to him and cutting open the child withdrew his

Heart this Gabriel cleansed of the backdrop of original sin which is in every human heart because of the perid of Adam and then return the organ to its proper place in the prophet’s body see footnote in eh Palmer’s translation of the Quran in his youth Muhammad traveled

With the meccan Caravans and on one occasion acted as armor Bearer for his uncle and spent a considerable time among the BNS from whom he learned many of the religious and philosophic traditions of ancient Arabia while traveling with his uncle Abu talb Muhammad contacted the nestorian Christians having encamped on

A certain night near one of their monasteries here the young Prophet to be secured much of his information concerning in the origin and doctrines of the Christian faith at the passing years Muhammad attained marked success in business and when about 26 years old married one of his employers a wealthy Widow nearly 15

Years his senior the Widow kadia by name was apparently somewhat mercenary for finding her young business manager most efficient she resolved to retain him in that capacity for life kadia was a woman of exceptional mentality and to her integrity and devotion must be ascribed the early success of the Islamic

Cause by his marriage Muhammad was elevated from a position of comparative poverty to one of great wealth and power and so examplary was his conduct that he became known throughout Mecca as the faithful and true Muhammad would have lived and died an honored and respected meccan had he not unhesitatingly sacrificed both his

Wealth and social position in the service of the god whose voice he heard while meditating in the cavern on Mount Hira in the month of Ramadan year after year Muhammad climbed the Rocky and desolate slopes of Mount Hira since called Jebel Nur the mountain of light and here in his loneliness

Cried out to God to reveal and knew the pure religion of Adam the spiritual Doctrine lost to Mankind through the dissensions of religious factions kadia solicitous over her husband’s aesthetic practices which were impairing his physical health sometimes accompanied him in his weary vigil and with womanly intuition

Sensed the travail of his soul at last one night in his 40th year as he lay upon the floor of the cavern enveloped in his cloak a great light burst upon Him overcome with a sense of perfect peace and understanding in the blessedness of the celestial presence he lost

Consciousness when he came to himself again the angel Gabriel stood before him exhibiting a silken Shaw with mysterious characters traced upon it from these characters Muhammad gained the basic doctrines later embodied in the Quran then Gabriel spoke in a clear and wonderful voice declaring Muhammad to be the prophet of the Living

God in awe and trembling Muhammad hastened to kadia fearing the vision to have been inspired by the same evil Vil spirits who served the Pagan magicians so greatly despised by him kadia assured him that his own virtuous life would be his protection and that he need fear no

Evil thus reassured the prophet awaited further visitations from Gabriel when these did not come however such a despair filled his soul that he attempted self-destruction only to be stopped in the very Act of casting himself over a cliff by the sudden appearance of Gabriel who again assured the prophet

That the revelations needed by his people would be given to him as necessity arose possibly as a result of his lonely periods of meditation Muhammad seemingly was subject to estatic swounds on the occasions when the various suras of the Quran were dictated he is said to have fallen unconscious

And regardless of the chill of the surrounding air to have been covered with beads of perspiration often often these attacks came without warning at other times he would sit wrapped up in a blanket to prevent a chill from the copious perspiration and while apparently unconscious would dictate the various

Passages which a small circle of trusted friends would either commit to memory or reduced to writing on one occasion in later life when Abu Becker referred to his gray hairs in his beard Muhammad lifted the end of his beard and looking at it declared its whiteness to be due to the

Physical Agony attendant upon his periods of inspiration if the writings attributed to Muhammad be considered as merely the hallucinations of an epileptic and for that reason discounted his Christian detractors should be we less with the doctrines of the Prophet they also undermine the very teachings which they themselves affirm for many of the

Disciples Apostles and Saints of the early church are known to have been subject to nervous disorders Muhammad’s first convert was his own wife kadia who was followed by other members of his immediate family a circumstance which moved Sir William Mir to note it is strongly corroborative of Muhammad’s sincerity that the earliest

Converts to Islam are not only of upright character but his own buzzom friends and people of his household who intimately acquainted with his private life could not fail otherwise to have detected those discrepancies which ever more or less exists between the professions of the hypocritical deceiver

Abroad and his actions at home see the life of Muhammad among the first to accept the faith of Islam was Abu Bakr who became Muhammad’s closest and most faithful friend in fact his alter ego Abu Bakr a man of brilliant attainments contributed materially to the success of the prophet’s Enterprise

And in accord with the Express wish of the Prophet became the leader of the faithful after Muhammad’s death Aisha the daughter of Abu Bakr later became the wife of Muhammad thus still further cementing the bond of fraternity between the two men quietly but industriously Muhammad promulgated his doctrines among

A small circle of powerful Friends when the enthusiasm of his followers finally forced his hand and he publicly announced his mission he was already the leader of a strong and well organ organized faction fearing Muhammad’s growing Prestige the people of Mecca waving the time honored tradition that blood could not be spilt

Within the holy city decided to exterminate Islam by assassinating the prophet all the different groups combined in this undertaking so that the guilt for the crime might thereby be more evenly distributed discovering the danger in time Muhammad left his friend Ally in his bed and fled with Abu Bakr from the

City City and after adroitly eluding the meccans joined the main body of his followers that had preceded him at yib afterwards called Medina upon this incident called the haira or flight is based the Islamic chronological system dating from the Hegira the power of the Prophet steadily grew until the

Eth year Muhammad entered Mecca after practically a bloodless victory in a establish it as the spiritual center of his faith planting his standard to the north of Mecca he rode into the City and after circling seven times the sacred cabba ordered the 360 images within its precincts to be heed down he then

Entered the cabba itself cleansing it of his idolatrous associations and rededicated the structure to Allah the monotheistic god of Islam Muhammad next granted amnesty to all his enemies for their attempts to destroy him under his protection Mecca increased in power and Glory becoming the focal point of a great annual

Pilgrimage which even to this day winds across the desert in the months of pilgrimage and numbers over three score thousand in its train in the 10th year after the higera Mohamad Len the valedictory pilgrimage and for the last time rode at the head of the faithful along the sacred way

Leading to Mecca and the black stone as the premonition of death was strong upon him he desired this pilgrimage to be the perfect model for all the thousands that would follow conscious that life was waning away from him writes Washington Irvine mamed during his last sojourn in the

Sacred City of his faith sought to engrave his doctrines deeply in the minds and hearts of his followers for this purpose he preached frequently in the cabba from the pulpit or in the the open air from the black of his camel listen to my words he would say for I

Know not whether after this year we shall ever meet here again oh my hearers I am but a man like yourselves the angel of death May at any time appear and I must obey his summons while thus preaching the very heavens are said to have opened and the

Voice of God spoke saying this day I have perfected your religion and I accomplished in you my Gra when these words were uttered and the multitude fell down in adoration and even Muhammad’s camel knelt see Muhammad and his successors having completed the valid Victorian pilgrimage Muhammad returned to

Medina in the seventh year after the Hegira ah7 an attempt was made at Kar to poison the prophet as Muhammad took the first mouthful of the poison food the evil design was revealed to him either by by the taste of the meat or as the faithful Believe by Divine

Intercession he had already swallowed a small portion of the food and for the remainder of his life he suffered almost constantly from the effects of the poison in ah1 when his final illness Came Upon him Muhammad insisted that the subtle effects of the poison were the indirect cause of his approaching

End it is related that during his last sickness he rose one night in visited a burial ground on the outskirts of Medina evidently believing that he too would soon be numbered with the dead at this time he told an attendant that the choice had been offered him of

Continuing his physical life or going to his Lord and that he had chosen to meet his maker Muhammad suffered greatly with his head and side and also from fever but on June 8th seemed convalescent he joined his followers in prayer and seating himself in the courtyard delivered a

Lecture to the faithful in a clear and Powerful voice apparently he overtaxed his strength for it was necessary to assist him into the house of Aisha which opened into the court of the mosque here upon a tough pallet laid on the bare floor the prophet of Islam spent his last two hours on

Earth when she saw that her aged husband was suffering intense pain Aisha then but a girl of 20 lifted the gray head of the man she had known from infancy and who must have seemed more like a father than a husband supported him in her arms Until the

End feeling that death was upon Him Muhammad prayed oh Lord I beseech thee assist me in the agonies of death then almost in a whisper he repeated three times Gabriel Come Close unto me for details consult the life of Mohammad by Sir William mure in the hero as Prophet Thomas Carlile

Writes thus of the death of Muhammad his last words were a prayer broken ejaculations of a heart struggling up in trembling hope towards its maker Muhammad was buried under the floor of the apartment in which he died the present condition of the Grave is thus described above the Hira is a green dome

Surmounted by a large guilt Crescent springing from a series of globes within the building are the tombs of Muhammad Abu bakar and Umar with a space reserved for the grave of our Lord Jesus Christ who Muslims say will again visit the Earth and die and be buried at

Al-madina the grave of Fatima the prophet’s daughter is supposed to be in a separate part of the building although some say she was buried in Baki the prophet’s body is said to be stretched full length on the right side with the right palm supporting the right cheek the face fronting

MAA close behind him is placed Abu bakar whose face fronts Muhammad’s shoulder and then Umar who occupies the same position with respect to his predecessor among Christian historians there is a popular story to the effect that muhammadans believe the coffin of their Prophet to be suspended in the air

Which no Foundation whatsoever in Muslim literature and nuber thinks the story must have risen from the rude picture sold to strangers see a dictionary of Islam concerning the character of Muhammad there have been the grossest misconceptions no evidence exists to support the charges of extreme cruelty

And the sensous laid at the door on the other hand the more closely the life of Muhammad is scrutinized by dispassionate investigators the more apparent become the finer qualities of his nature in words of Carlile Muhammad himself after all that can be said about him was nor a

Sensual man we so a widely if we consider this man as a common voluptuary intent mainly on base enjoyments nay on enjoyments of any kind his household was of the frugalist his common diet barley bread and water sometimes for months there was not a fire once lighted on his Hearth a poor

Hardworking ill provided man careless of what vulgar man toiled for they called him a prophet you say why he stood there face to face with them there not enshrined in any mystery visibly clouding his own cloak cobbling his own shoes fighting counseling ordering in the midst of them they must

Have seen what kind of man he was was let him be called what you like no Emperor with his Tiaras was obeyed as this man in a cloak of his own clouting confused by the Apparently hopeless task of reconciling the life of the Prophet with the Absurd statements long accepted as authentic Washington

Irving weighs him in the scale of fairness his military triumphs awakened no Pride nor vain Glory as they would have done had they been affected for selfish purposes in the time of his greatest power he maintained the same Simplicity of manners and appearances as in the days of his

Adversity it is this perfect abnegation of self connected with this apparent heartfelt py running throughout the various phases of his fortune which perplex one in forming a just estimate of Muhammad’s character when he hung over the deathbed of his infant son Ibraham resignation to the will of God

Was exhibited in his conduct under the keenest of afflictions and the hope of soon rejoining his child in Paradise was his consolation see Muhammad and his successors Aisha questioned after the death of the Prophet concerning his habits replied that he mended his own clothes cobbled his own shoes and helped

Her in the household duties how far removed from Western concepts of Muhammad’s sanguinary character is Aisha’s simple admission that he loved most of all to seow he also accepted the invitations of slaves and sat at meals with servants declaring himself to be a servant of all

Vices he hated lying the most before his death he freed all his slaves he never permitted his family to use for personal ends any of the alms or tithe money given by his people he was fond of sweet meats and used rainwater for drinking purposes his time he divided into three parts

Namely the first he gave to God the second to his family and the third to himself the latter portion however he later sacrificed to the service of his people he dressed chiefly in white but also wear red yellow and green Muhammad entered Mecca wearing a black turban and

Bearing a black standard he wore only the planless of garments declaring that rich and conspicuous rment did not become the pious and did not remove his shoes at prayer he was particularly concerned with the cleanliness of his teeth and at the time of his death when

He was too weak to speak indicated his desire for a toothpick when fearful of forgetting something the prophet tied a thread to his ring he once had a fine gold ring but noting that his followers had taken to wearing similar rings in emulation of him he removed his own and threw it away

Lest his followers form an evil habit see the life of Muhammad the most frequent and apparently the most damaging accusation brought against Muhammad is that of polygamy those who sincerely believe the herum to be irreconcilable with spirituality should with consistency move for the experation of the Psalms of

David and the Proverbs of Solomon from the list of inspired writings for the heram of Islam’s Prophet was insignificant compared with that maintained by Israel’s wisest King and the reputed favorite of the most high the popular conception that Muhammad taught that woman had no soul and could attain Heaven only through

Marriage is not substantiated by the words and attitude of the Prophet during his lifetime in a paper entitled the influence of Islam on social conditions read at the world’s parliament of religions held in Chicago in 1893 Muhammad Webb States the charge and answers it thus it has been said that Muhammad and

The Quran denied a soul to women and ranked her with the animals the Quran places her on a perfect and complete equality with man the prophet’s teachings often Place her in a position superior to the male in some respects Mr Webb justifies his stand by quoting from the 35th verse of the 33rd

Surah of the Quran verily the Muslims of either sex and the True Believers of either sex and The Devout men and the devout woman and the men of veracity and the women of veracity and the patient men and the patient women and the humble men and the

Humble women and the alms givers of either sex and the men who fast and the women who fast and the Chast men and the Chast women and those of either sex who remember Allah frequently for them hath Allah prepared forgiveness and a great reward here the attainment of Heaven is

Clearly set forth as a problem whose only solution is that of individual Merit on the day of his death Muhammad told Fatima his beloved daughter and safia his aunt work ye out that which shall gain acceptance for you with the Lord for I verily have no power with him

To save you in any wise the prophet did not advise either woman to rely upon the virtues of her husband nor in any manner did indicate wom’s salvation to be dependent upon the human Frailty of her spouse everything to the contrary notwithstanding Muhammad is not responsible for the contradictions and

Inconsistencies in the Quran for the volume was not compiled and did not assume its present form until over 20 years after his death in his present State the Quran is for the major part A jumble of hearsay through which occasionally shines forth an example of true inspiration

From what is known of the man Muhammad it is reasonable to suppose that these nobler and finer portions represent the actual doctrines of the Prophet the remainder are obvious interpolations some arising from misunderstanding and other direct forgeries calculated to satisfy the temporal Ambitions of conquering Islam on this subject Godfrey higin

Speaks with his usual perspicacity here we have the Quran of muham and the first four sincere and zealous Patriarchs and the Quran of the Conquering and magnificent sarens puffed up with pride and vanity the Quran of The Eclectic philosopher was not likely to suit the conquerors of Asia a new one

Must be grafted on the old to find a justification for their enormities C anacalypsis to the Discerning few it is evident that Muhammad had a knowledge of that secret Doctrine which must needs constitute the core of every great philosophical religious or ethical institution through one of four possible

Avenues Muhammad may have contacted the ancient mystery teachings one through direct contact with the great School in The Invisible world number two through the nestorian Christian monks number three through the mysterious holy man who appeared and disappeared at frequent intervals During the period in which the suras of the Quran were

Revealed number four through a decadent school already existing in Arabia which school in spite of its lapse into idolatry still retain the secrets of the ancient wisdom cult the Arcana of Islam May yet be demonstrated to have been directly founded upon the ancient Pagan Mysteries performed at the cabba centuries before

The birth of the prophet in fact it is generally admitted that many of the ceremonials now embodied in in the Islamic Mysteries are survivals of pagan Arabia the feminine principle is repeatedly emphasized in Islamic symbolism for example Friday which is sacred to the planet Venus is the

Muslim’s holy day green is the color of the prophet and being symbolic of verdur is inevitably associated with the world mother and both the Islamic Crescent and the Scimitar may be interpreted to signify the Crescent shape of either the moon or Venus the famous stone of

Kabar cabba Kabir or Kabir at Mecca says jannings which is so devoutly kissed by the Faithful is a Talisman it is said that the figure of Venus is seen to this day engraved upon it with a crescent this very cabba itself was at first an idolatrous Temple where the Arabians worshiped alza

God in Isa that is Venus see canel’s Enoch the second messenger of God the musl man writes Sir William Jones are already a sort of heterodox Christians they are Christians if Lo reasons justly because they firmly believe the Immaculate Conception Divine character and miracles of the Messiah

But they are heterodox and denying hly that his character of son and his equality is god with the father of whose unity and attributes they entertain and express the most awful ideas while they consider our Doctrine as perfect blasphemy and insist that our copies of the scriptures have been

Corrupted by both Jews and Christians the following lines are declared by the followers of the Prophet to have been deleted from the Christian gospels and when Jesus the son of Mary said oh children of Israel verily I am the Apostle of God sent upon you confirming the law which was delivered

Before me and bringing Good Tidings of an apostle who shall come after me and whose name shall be Ahmed in the present text containing the prophecy of Jesus concerning a comforter to come after him it is further claimed that the word comforter should be translated illustrious and that it had being a

Direct reference to Muhammad also to that the tongues of flame that descend upon the Apostles of the day at Pentecost in no way could be interpreted as signifying the promised comforter when asked however for definite proof that the original gospels contain these so-called expurgated references to Muhammad the Muslims make

A counterd demand for production of the original documents upon which Christianity is founded until such writings areed discovered the point under dispute must remain a source of controversy to ignore the heritage of culture received from Islam would be an unpardonable oversight for when the Crescent triumphed over the cross in

Southern Europe it was the harbinger of a civilization which had no equal in its day in studies in a mosque Stanley lane pool writes for nearly eight centuries under her mohammadan rulers Spain set to all Europe a shining example of a civilized and enlightened State art literature and

Science prospered as they then prospered nowhere else in Europe students flocked from France and Germany and England to drink from The Fountains of learning which flowed only in the cities of the Moors the surgeons and doctors of Andalusia were in the van of science women were encouraged to devote

Themselves to Serious study and a lady doctor was not unkown known among the people of Cordova mathematics astronomy and botany history philosophy and Jurish Prudence were to be mastered in Spain and in Spain alone the library of original sources thus sums up the effects of Islam the results of muhammadanism have been greatly

Underestimated in the century after Muhammad’s death it rest Asia Minor Africa and Spain from Christianity more than half of the Civilized world and established a civilization the highest in the world during the Dark Ages it brought the Arabian race to their highest development raised the position of women in the East though it

Retained polygamy was intensively monotheistic and until the Turks gained control for the most part encouraged progress in the same work among the great Islamic scientists and philosophers who have made substantial Cal contributions to human knowledge are listed Gerber or yaer who in the 9th century laid the foundations for Modern

Chemistry Ben Musa who in the 10th Century introduced the theory of algebra Al Hayes who in the 11th century made a profound study of Optics and discovered the magnifying power of convex lenses in the 11th century also both abisa or IA whose medical encyclopedia was the standard of his age and the great

Cabalist abis Bron or ibben gibber looking back upon the science of muhammadans resumes The Authority just quoted it will be seen that they laid the first foundations of chemistry and made important advances in mathematics and Optics their discoveries never had the influence they should have upon the course of European civilization but this

Was because Europe itself was not enlightened enough to to grasp and make use of them Gerber’s observation that oxidized iron weighs heavier than before oxidation had to be made over again so had many of their work in Optics and many of their geographical discoveries they had rounded Africa long before

Vasco de Gama composition of gunpowder came into northern Europe from them we must never forget that the Dark Ages in Christian Europe were the bright ones of the muhammadan world in the field of philosophy the Arabs started by adopting the neoplatonism they found in Europe and gradually working back to

Aristotle what means the subtle mystery of the Phoenix reborn every 600 years faintly from the sanctuary of the world Mysteries is whispered the answer 600 years before Christ the Phoenix of wisdom Pythagoras spread its wings and died upon the altar of humanity consumed by the sacrificial fire in Nazareth the bird was again

Reborn from its own ashes only to die upon the tree which it roots in Adam’s skull in ad600 appeared Ahmed Muhammad again the Phoenix suffered this time from the poison of kar and from its charred ashes Rose to spread its wings across the face of Mongolia where in the

12th century genas con Lish the rule of wisdom circling the mighty desert of GOI the Phoenix again gave up its form which Now lies buried in a glass sarcophagus under a pyramid bearing upon it the ineffable figures of the Mysteries after the lapse of 600 years from the death of genas Khan did

Napoleon bonapart who believed himself to be the man of Destiny contact in his wanderings this strange legend of the continual periodic Rebirth of wisdom did he feel the spreading of wings of the Phoenix within himself and did he believe the hope of the world had taken flesh in

Him the eagle on his standard May well have been the Phoenix this would explain why he was moved to believe himself predestined to establish the kingdom of Christ on Earth and is perhaps the clue to his little understood friendliness toward the Muslim American Indian symbolism the North American Indian is by nature a

Symbolist a Mystic and a philosopher like most Aboriginal peoples his soul was on rapport with the cosmic agencies manifesting about him not only did his manitos control creation from their exalted seats above the clouds but they also descended into the world of men and mingled with their red

Children the gray clouds hanging over the horizon were the smoke from the cumuts of the Gods who could build fires of petrified wood and use a comet for a flame the American Indian peopled the forests rivers and skies with myriads of super physical and invisible beings there are legends of entire tribes of

Indians who lived in Lake bottoms of races who were never seen in the daytime but who coming forth from their hidden caves roam the Earth at night and way laided un weary Travelers also of bat Indians with human bodies and bat-like wings who lived in Gloomy forests and inaccessible Cliffs

And who slept hanging head downward from great branches and Oak croppings of rock the Red Man’s philosophy of Elemental creatures is apparently the outcome of his intimate contact with nature whose inexplicable wonders became the generating cause of such metaphysical speculations in common with the early Scandinavians the Indians of North

America considered the Earth the great mother to be an intermediate plane bounded above by a Heavenly sphere The Dwelling Place of the great spirit and Below by a dark and terrifying Subterranean world the Abode of Shadows and of sub mundane powers like the calans they divided the interval between the surface of the

Earth and Heaven into various strata one consisting of clouds and another of the paths of heavenly bodies and so on the underworld was similarly divided and like the Greek system represented to the initiated the house of the Lesser Mysteries those creatures capable of functioning in two or more elements were

Considered as Messengers between the spirits of these various Plains the Abode of the Dead was presumed to be in a distant place in the heavens above the earth below the distant corners of the world or cross wide wi Seas sometimes a river flows between the

World of the dead and that of the living in this respect paralleling Egyptian Greek and Christian theology to the Indian the number four has a peculiar sanctity presumably because the great spirit created his Universe in a square frame this is suggestive of the veneration accorded the tetrad by the

Pythagoreans who held it to be a fitting symbol of the creator the legendary narratives of the strange Adventures of the Intrepid Heroes who while in the physical body penetrated the Realms of the Dead Prov Beyond question the presence of mystery Cults among the North American red men wherever the Mysteries were

Established they were recognized as the philosophic equivalents of death or those passing through the rituals experienced all afterdeath conditions while still in the physical body at the consummation of the ritual the initiate actually gained the ability to pass in and out of his physical body at will this is the philosophic

Foundation for all the allegories of Adventures in the Indian Shadowland or world of ghosts from coast to coast writes Harley Burr Alexander the sacred calt is the Indian’s Altar and its smoke is the proper offering to Heaven see mythology of all places in the notes on the same work is

Given the following description of the pipe ceremony the Master of Ceremonies again rising to his feet filled and lighted the pipe of peace from his own fire drawing three whiffs one after the other he blew the first towards the Zenith the second towards the ground and the third

Towards the Sun by The First Act he returned thanks to the great spirit for the preservation of his life during the past year and for being permitted to be present at this counsil by the second he returned thanks to his mother the Earth for her various Productions which administered to his

Sustenance and by the third he returned thanks to the Sun for his never failing light ever shining upon all it was necessary for the Indian to secure the red stone for his calt from the Pipestone Quarry where in some remote past the great spirit had come and after fashioning with his own hands

A great pipe had smoked it toward the four corners of creation and thus instituted the most sacred ceremony scores of Indian tribes some of them traveling thousands of miles secured the sacred stone from the single Quarry where the Mandate of the great spirit had decreed the Eternal peace should

Reign the Indian does not worship the sun he rather regards this shining orb as an appropriate symbol of of the great and good spirit who forever radiates life to his red children in Indian symbolism the serpent especially the Great Serpent corroborates other evidence pointing to the presence of the Mysteries on the

North American continent the flying serpent is the Atlantean token of the initiate the seven-headed snake represents the seven Great Atlantean Islands the cities of chibola and also the seven Great prehistoric schools of esoteric philosophy moreover who can doubt the presence of the secret Doctrine in the Americas when he gazes upon the Great

Serpent Mound in Adams County Ohio where the huge reptile is represented as disgorging the Egg of existence many American Indian tribes are reincarnationist and some are transmigrations they even called their children by the name supposed to have been born by them in a former life there is an account of an instance where

A parent by inadvertence has given his infant the wrong name whereupon the Babe cried incessantly until the mistake had been rectified the belief in reincarnation is also prevalent among the esos Aged Eskimos not infrequently kill themselves in order to reincarnate in the family of some newly married loved

One the American Indians recognize the difference between The Ghost and the actual soul of a dead person a knowledge restricted to initiates of the Mysteries in common with the Pless they also understood the principles of an archetypal sphere which exists the patterns of all forms manifesting in the

Earth plane the theory of group or Elder Souls having supervision over the animal species is also shared by them the Red Man’s belief in Guardian Spirits would have warmed the heart of paracelis when they attain The Importance of Being Protectors of entire Clans or tribes these Guardians are

Called totems in some tribes impressive ceremonies Mark the occasion when the young men are sent into the forest to fast and pray and they remain until their Guardian Spirit manifest to them whatever creature appears thereupon becomes their peculiar genius to whom they appeal in time of trouble the outstanding hero of North American

Indian folk f is hawaa a name which according to Lewis Spence signifies he who seeks the wampum belt hawaa enjoys the distinction of anticipating by several centuries the late woodro Wilson’s cherished a dream of a League of Nations following in the footsteps of Schoolcraft Longfellow confused the

Historical hawaa of the iroa with a manazo a mythological hero of the Algonquin and aias hawaa a chief of the iroa after many reverses and disappointments succeeded in uniting the five Great nations of the IRA into the league of five nations the original purpose of the League to abolish War by substituting

Councils of arbitration was not wholly successful but the power of the silver chain conferred upon the IRA a solidarity attained by no other Confederacy of North American Indians hawaa however met the same opposition which has confronted every great idealist irrespective of time and race the shamans turned their magic

Against him and according to one Legend created an evil bird which swooping down from heaven tore his only daughter to Pieces before his eyes when hawaa after accomplishing his mission had sailed away in his self-propelled canoe along the path of the sunset his people realized the true greatness

Of this benefactor and elevated him to the Dignity of a demigod in longfellow’s Song of hawaa the poet has cast The Great Indian Statesmen in a Charming setting of magic and enchantment yet through the Maze of symbol and allegory is ever faintly visible the figure of hawaa the initiate

The very personification of the Red Man and his philosophy the popv no other sacred book sets forth so completely as the popv the initiatory rituals of a great School of mystical philosophy this volume alone is sufficient to establish incontestably the philosophical Excellence of the red race the red Children Of The Sun writes

James Morgan price do not worship the one God for them that one God is absolutely impersonal and all the forces emanated from that one God are personal this is the exact reverse of the popular Western conception of a personal God and impersonal working forces in nature decide for yourself

Which of these beliefs is the more philosophical these children of the Sun theore the plumed serpent who is the messenger of the son he was the god qua quad in Mexico ukat and kin and in Peru he was called amaru from the latter names comes the word America Amara is literally translated

Land of the plumed serpent the priests of this God of Peace from their Chief Center in the cordilleras once ruled both Americas all the red men who have remained true to the ancient religion are still under their sway one of their strong centers was in Guatemala and and

Of their order was the author of the book called Popova in the kishe tongue gamat is the exact equivalent of qua quad in the nul language quel the bird of paradise quaddle serpent the serpent veiled in plumes of the Paradise Bird the popal V was discovered by

Father gimenez in the 17th century it was translated into French by brur De bourge and published in 1861 the only complete English translation is that by Kenneth silven Guthrie who ran through the early files of the word magazine and which is used as the basis of this article a portion

Of the poova was translated into English with extremely valuable commentaries by James Morgan price but unfortunately his translation was never completed the second book of the Popova is largely devoted to the initiatory rituals of the kishe nation these ceremonies are of first importance to students of masonic symbolism and mystical philosophy since

They establish Beyond doubt the existence of ancient and divinely instituted mystery schools on the American continent leis Spence in describing the Popova gives a number of translations of the title of the man uscript itself passing over the Renditions the book of the mat and the record of the community

He considers it likely that the correct title is a collection of written leaves poal signifying the prepared bark and V paper or book from the verb to write Dr Guthrie interprets the words hul to mean the Senate book or the book of the Holy assembly brur de borbor calls it the sacred book

And father gimenez designates the volume the national book in his articles on the popv appearing in the 15th volume of Lucifer James Morgan price approaching the subject from the standpoint of the Mystic calls this work the book of the Azure veil in the pp VA itself the ancient records from which the

Christianized Indian who compiled it derived his material are referred to as the tale of human existence in the Land of Shadows and how man saw light and life the meager available native records contain abundant evidence that the later civilizations of Central and South America were hopelessly dominated by the

Black Arts of their priest crafts in the convexities of their magnetized mirrors the Indian Sorcerers captured the intelligences of Elemental beings and gazing into the depths of these abominable devices eventually made the scepter subservient to the wand robed in garments of sable Hue the neopit in

Their search for truth were led by their Sinister Guides Through the confused passageways of necromancy by the leftand path they descended into the somber depths of the infernal world where they learned to endow stones with the power of speech and to subtly ens snare the minds of men with their chants and F

Es as typical of the perversion which prevailed none could achieve to the greater Mysteries until a human being had suffered imulation at his hand and the bleeding heart of a victim had been elevated before the learing face of the stone Idol fabricated by a priestcraft the members of which realized more fully

Than they dared to admit the true nature of the man-made demon the sanguinary and Indescribable rights practiced by many of the C Cal American Indians may represent remnants of the later Atlantean perversion of the ancient Sun Mysteries according to the secret tradition it was during the later Atlantean Epoch that black magic and

Sorcery dominated the esoteric schools resulting in the bloody sacrificial rights and gruesome idolatry which ultimately overthrew the Atlantean Empire and even penetrated the Aryan religious world the mysteries of zalba the princes of zeala so the popo Vu recounts sent their four owl Messengers to hanu and VAB hanu ordering them to

Come at once to the place of initiation in the fastnesses of the Guatemalan mountains failing in the tests imposed by the princes of zeala the two brothers according to the ancient custom paid with their lives for their shortcomings Han hanu and VAB hanano were buried together but the head of

Hanano was placed among the branches of the Sacred Calabash tree which grew in the middle of the road leading to the awful mysteries of zalba immediately the Calabash tree covered itself with fruit and the head of hanano showed itself no more for it reunited itself with the other fruits of the Calabash

Tree now zquick was the virgin daughter of Prince Kucha mqu from her father she had learned of The Marvelous Calabash tree and Desiring to possess some of its fruit she journeyed alone to the somber place where it grew when zqu put forth her hand to pick the fruit of the tree some

Saliva from the mouth of hunapu fell into it and the head spoke to zwick saying this saliva and froth is my posterity which I have just given you now my head will cease to speak for it is only the head of a corpse which has no more flesh following the admonitions of

Hunapu the young girl returned to her home her father kuchum makik later discovering that she was about to become a mother questioned her concerning the father of her child zqu replied that the child was begotten while she was gazing upon the head of hunhun NAU in the Calabash tree

And that she had known no man pucha mck refused to believe her story at the instigation of the princes of zebala demanded her heart in an N LED Away by her executioners zquick pleaded with him to spare her life which they agreed to do substituting for her

Heart the fruit of a certain tree rubber whose sap was red in the consistency of blood when the the princes of zebala placed the supposed heart upon the coals of the altar to be consumed they were All Amazed by the perfume which rose there from for they did not know that

They were burning the fruit of a fragrant plant zqu gave birth to Twin sons who were named hunapu and zalen and whose lives were dedicated to avenging the deaths of hun hunapu and vuku hunapu the years passed in the two boys grew up to manhood and great were their

Deeds especially did they excel in a certain game called tennis but somewhat resembled hockey hearing the prowess of the youths the princes of zabala asked who then are those who now begin to play over our heads and who do not scruple to shake the Earth are not hunu and vuku hunapu dead

Who wish to exalt themselves before our face so the princes of zalba sent for the two youths hanu and zalen that they might destroy them also in the seven days of the Mysteries before departing the two brothers bade farewell to their grandmother each planting in the midst

Of the house a cane plant saying that as long as the cane lived she would know that they were alive oh our grandmother oh our mother do not weep behold the sign of our word which remains with you hunapu and zeelen then departed each with his saaran the blowpipe and for

Many days they journeyed along the perilous Trail descending through torturous Ravines and along precipitous Cliffs past Strange Birds and Boiling Springs towards the sanctuary of zabala the actual ordeals of the zabian Mysteries were seven in number as a preliminary the two adventurers crossed a river of mud and then a stream of

Blood accomplishing these difficult Feats by using their saans as Bridges continuing on their way they reached a point where four roads converged a black Road a white Road a red Road and a green road now hunapu and zeelen knew that their first test would consist of being able to discriminate

Between the princes of zalba and of the wooden effigies robed to resemble them also they must call each of the princes by his correct name without having been given the information to secure this information hunapu pulled a hair from his leg which hair then became a strange insect called

Xan buzzing along the Black Road the xan entered the council chamber of the princess of zabala and stung the leg of the figure nearest the door which had discovered to be a mannequin by the same artifice the second figure was proved to be of wood but upon stinging the third there was an

Immediate response by stinging each of the TW assembled princes in turn the insect thus discovered each one’s name for the princes called each other by name in discussing the cause of the mysterious bites having secured the desired information in this novel manner the insect then flew back to hunapu and zaben who thus

Fortified fearlessly approached the threshold of zabala and presented themselves to the TW assembled princes when told to adore the king hunapu and zalinki laughed for they knew that the figure pointed out to them was lifeless mannequin the young adventurers thereupon addressed the TW princes by name thus hail H came hail vub

Came hail zirot hail hqu hail aala hail halana hail chabak hail chami holana hail CH hail patan hail Qui hail Qui when invited by the sabians to seat themselves upon a great Stone bench hunapu and zalen declined to do so declaring that they well knew the stone

To be heated and that they would be burned to death if they sat upon it the princes of zabala then ordered hanu and zalen to rest for the night in the house of Shadows this completed the first degree of the zabian Mysteries the second trial was given in the house of

Shadow where to each of the candidates was brought a pine torch and a cigar with the the injunction that both must be kept a light throughout the entire night and yet each must be returned the next morning unconsumed knowing that death was the alternative to failure in the test the

Young men burnt ARA’s feathers in place of the pine splinters which they closely resemble and also put fireflies on the tips of the cigars seeing the lights those who watched felt certain that hunapu and zalen had fallen into the trap but when morning came the Torches and cigars were

Returned to the guards unconsumed and still burning in amazement and awe the princes of zabala gazed upon the unconsumed splinters and cigars for never before had these been returned intact the third ordeal took place presumably in a cavern called the house of Spears here hour after hour the youths

Were forced to defend themselves against the strongest and most skillful Warriors armed with Spears hanu and zalen pacified the Spearman who thereupon seized attacking them they then turned their attention to the second and most difficult part of the test the production of four vases of the rarest flowers but which they were

Not permitted to leave the temple to gather unable to pass the guards the two young men secured the assistance of the ants these tiny creatures crawling into The Gardens of the temple brought back the blossoms so that by morning the vases were filled when hunapu and zalen presented

The flowers to the 12 princes the latter in amazement recognized the blossoms of having been filched from their own private Gardens in consternation the princes of zabala then counseled together how they could destroy the Intrepid neop phyes and forth with prepared for them the next ordeal for the fourth test the two

Brothers were made to enter the house of cold where they remained for an entire night the princes of zabala considered the chill of the icy Cavern to be unbearable and it is described as the Abode of the Frozen Winds of the north hanu and zalen however protected themselves from the deadening influence

Of the frozen air by building fires of pine cones whose warmth caused the spirit of cold to leave the cavern so that the youths were not dead but full of life when the day dawned even greater than before was the amazement of the princes of zabala when

Hanu and zeelen again entered the Hall of assembly in the custody of their Guardians the fifth ordeal was also of a nocturnal nature unu and zaben were ushered into a great chamber which was immediately filled with ferocious Tigers here they were forced to remain throughout the night the young men

Tossed bones to the Tigers which they ground to pieces with their strong Jaws gazing into the house of the Tigers the princes of zabala beheld the animals chewing the bones and said to one another they have at last learned to know the power of zababa and they have given themselves up to the

Beasts but when at dawn hunapu and zalen emerged from the house of the Tigers unharmed the zabians cried of what race are those for they could not understand how any man could escape the Tiger’s Fury then the princes of zabala prepared for the two brothers a new ordeal the sixth test consisted of

Remaining from Sunset to sunrise in the house of fire hunapu and zaben entered a large apartment arranged like a furnace on every side the Flames arose and the air was stifling so great was the heat that those who entered this chamber could survive only a few

Moments but at Sunrise when the doors of the Furnace were opened hunapu and zeelen came forth unscorched by the fury of the Flames the princes of zebala perceiving how the two Intrepid youths had survived every ordeal prepared for their destruction were filled with fear lest all the secrets of the zabala

Should fall into the hands of hunapu and zalen so they prepared the last ordeal an ordeal yet more terrible than any which had gone before certain that the youths could not withstand this crucial test the seventh ordeal took place in the house of the bats here in a dark Subterranean

Labyrinth lurked many strange and odious creatures of Destruction huge bats fluttered dismally through the corridors and hung with folded wings from the carvings on the walls and ceilings here also dwelt kamots the god of bats a hideous monster with the the body of a man and the wings and head of

A bat kots carried a great sword and soaring through the Gloom decapitated with a single sweep of his blade any unwe Wanderers seeking to find their way through the terror-filled chambers zalinki passed successfully through this horrifying test but hunapu caught off his guard was beheaded by kamot later hunapu was restored to Life

By Magic and the two brothers having thus foiled every attempt against their lives by the zabians in order to better Avenge the murder of hunapu and vub hunapu permitted themselves to be burned upon a funeral P their powdered bones were then cast into a river and immediately became two great man

Fishes later taking upon themselves the forms of aged Wanderers they danced for the zabians and wrought strange Miracles thus one would cut the other to pieces and with a single word resurrect him or they would burn houses by Magic and then instantly rebuild them the fame

Of the two dancers who were in reality hunapu and zalen finally came to the notice of the TW princes of zabala who thereupon desired these two miracle workers to perform their strange Feats before them after hunapu and zaben had slain the dog of the princes and restored it

To life had burned the Royal Palace and instantly rebuil it and given other demonstrations of their magical powers the monarch of the zabians asked The Magicians to destroy him and restore him to life also so hunapu and zalinki slew the princess of zabala but did not return

Them to life thereby avenging the murder of hunapu and vuku hunapu these Heroes later ascended to heaven where they became the celestial lights keys to the mysteries of zabala do not these initiations writes the plon vividly recall to mind what henok said he saw in his visions that blazing House of Crystal

Burning hot and icy cold that place where there was the bow of fire the quiver of arrows The Sword of Fire that other where he had to cross the Babbling stream and the river of fire and those extremities of the earth full of all kinds of huge beasts and birds or the

Habitation where appeared one of great Glory sitting upon the orb of the Sun and lastly does not the tamarine tree in the midst of the earth that he was cold was the tree of knowledge find in its simile the Calabash tree in the middle of the road where

Those of zabala placed the head of hunapu after sacrificing him for having failed to support the first trial of the initiation these were the awful ordeals that the candidates for initiation into the sacred Mysteries had to pass through in ex zabba do they not seem an exact

Counterpart of what happened in a milder form at the initiation into the ucini Mysteries and also the greater mysteries of Egypt from which these were copied does not the recital of what the candidates to the mysteries in zalba were required to know before being admitted weall to mind the wonderful

Similar Feats said to be performed by the mahatmas the brothers in India and of several of the other passages of the Book of Daniel who had been initiated to the mysteries of the calans or Magi which according to ubilus were divided into three classes or Genera the highest being the most

Learned see sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the kesas in his introductory notes to the popo V Dr Guthrie presents a number of important parallelisms between this Sacred Book of the kishes and the sacred writings of other great civilizations in the tests through which hanu and zeelen are forced to pass he

Finds the following analogy with the signs of the zodiac as employed in the mysteries of the Egyptians calans and Greeks Aries crossing the river of mud Taurus crossing the river of blood Gemini detecting the two dummy Kings cancer the house of Darkness Leo the house of Spears Virgo the house of cold

The usual trip to Hell Libra the house of tigers feline Poise Scorpio the house of fire Sagittarius the house of bats where the god chot to capitates one of the heroes Capricorn the burning of the scaffold the Dual Phoenix Aquarius their ashes being scattered in a river Pisces

Their ashes turning into man fishes and later back into human form it would seem more appropriate to assign the river of blood to Aries and that of mud to Taurus and it is not all probable that in the ancient form of the legend the order of the rivers was

Reversed Dr Guthrie’s most astonishing conclusion in his effort to identify zabba with the ancient continent of Atlantis he sees in the 12 princes of zebala the rulers of the Atlantean Empire and in the destruction of these princes by the magic of hanpu and zabal Link an allegorical depiction of the tragic end of

Atlantis to the initiated however it is evident that Atlantis is simply a symbolic figure in which has set forth the mystery of Origins concerned primarily with the problems of mystical Anatomy Mr Price relates the various symbols described in the popo VA to the occult centers of Consciousness in the human

Body accordingly he sees the elastic ball the pineal gland and in hanu and zalinki the dual electric current directed along the spinal column unfortunately Mr Price did not translate that portion of the popo V dealing directly with the initiatory ceremonial zabala he considers to be the shadowy or etheric sphere which

According to the mystery teachings was located within the body of the planet itself the fourth book of the popo concludes with an account of the erection of a majestic Temple all white where was preserved the black secret divining Stone cubicle in shap Cape ukat or quad partake of the many

Attributes of King Solomon the account of the temple building in the popovo is a reminder of the story of Solomon’s Temple and undoubtedly has a similar significance brur deor Borg was first attracted to the study of religious parallelisms in the popo vo by the fact that the temple together with the black

Stone which it Con ained was named the kabaha a name astonishingly similar to that of the temple or Caba which contains the sacred Black Stone of Islam the exploits of hunapu and zalinki take place before the actual creation of the human race and therefore are to be considered essentially as spiritual

Mysteries Zaba doubtless signifies the inferior Universe of caldan and Pythagorean philosophy the princes of zabala are the 12 governors of the lower universe and the two dummies or mannequins in their midst may be interpreted as the two false signs of the ancient zodiac inserted into the heavens to make the astronomical Mysteries incomprehensible

To the profane The Descent of hunapu and zaben into the Subterranean Kingdom of zababa by crossing over the rivers on bridges made from their blow guns has a subtle analogy to The Descent of the spiritual nature of man into the physical body through certain super physical channels

That may be likened to the blow guns or tubes the Saban is also an appropriate emblem of the spinal cord and the power resident within its tiny Central opening the two youths are invited to play the game of life with the gods of death and only with the aid of Supernatural power

Imparted to them by the sages can they triumph over these gloomy Lords the tests represent the soul wandering through the sub zodiacal Realms of the created Universe their final victory over the Lords of death represents the Ascension of the spiritual and illumined Consciousness from the lower nature which has been

Wholly consumed by the fire of spiritual purification that the kishes possess these keys to the mysteries of regeneration is evident from an analysis of the symbols appearing upon the images of the priests and gods in volume two of the anels Del Museo National de Mexico is reproduced the head of an image generally

Considered to represent quak quad the sculpturing is distinctly Oriental in character and on the crown of the head appear both the Thousand pedal Sunburst of spiritual illumination and the serpent of the liberated spinal fire the Hindu chakra is unmistakable and it frequently appears in the religious art of the three

Americas one of the carved monoliths of Central America is adorned with the heads of two elephants with their drivers no such animals have existed in the Western Hemisphere since prehistoric times and it is evident that the carvings are the result of contact with the distant continent of

Asia among the mysteries of the C American Indians is a remarkable Doctrine concerning the consecrated mantles or as they were called in Europe magic capes because their Glory was fatal to Mortal Vision the gods when appearing to the initiated priests robed themselves in these mantel allegory and Fable

Likewise are The Mantel with which the secret Doctrine is ever enveloped such a magic Cape of concealment is the popo vo and deep within in its folds sits the god of Kish philosophy the massive pyramids temples and monoliths of Central America may be likened also to the feet of gods whose

Upper parts are enshrouded in Magic mantel of invisibility the Mysteries and their emissaries the Mysteries and their emissaries did that Divine knowledge which constituted the Supreme possession of the Pagan priest crafts survive the destruction of their temples is it yet accessible to mankind or does it lie beneath the rubbish of

Ages and Ted within the very sanctuaries that were once illuminated by its Splendor in Egypt writes origin the philosophers have a Sublime and secret knowledge respecting the nature of God what did Julian imply when he spoke of the secret initiations into the sacred Mysteries of the seven raid God

Who lifted souls to Salvation through his own nature who were the Blessed theorists who understood them profundities concerning which Julian dared not speak if this inner Doctrine were always concealed from the masses for whom a simpler code had been devised is it not highly probable that the exponents of every aspect of modern

Civilization philosophic ethical religious and scientific are ignorant of the true meaning of the very theories and tenants on which their beliefs are founded do the Arts and Sciences that the race has inherited from older Nations conceal beneath their Fair exterior a mystery so great that only the most illumined intellect can grasp its

Import such is undoubtedly the case Albert Pike who has gathered ample evidence of the Excellence of the doctrines promulgated by the Mysteries supports his assertions by quoting from the writings of Clement of Alexandria Plato epicus procus Aristophanes and Cicero all of whom unite in Laing the high ideals of these

Institutions from the unqualified testimony of such reputable authorities no Reasonable Doubt can exist that the initiates of Greece Egypt and other ancient countries possess the correct solution to those great cultural intellectual moral and social problems which in an unsolved State confront the humanity of the 20th century the reader must not interpret

This statement to mean the Antiquity had foren and analyzed every complexity of this generation but rather that the Mysteries had evolved a method whereby the mind was so trained in the fundamental varities of life that it was able to cope intelligently with any emergency which might arise thus the reasoning faculties were

Organized by a simple process of mental culture for it was asserted that where reason Reigns Supreme inconsistency cannot exist wisdom it was maintained lifts man to the condition of godhood a fact which explains the enigmatical statement that the Mysteries transformed roaring beasts into divinities the pre of any philosophical

System can be determined only by the Excellence of its product the Mysteries have demonstrated the superiority of their culture by giving to the world minds of such overwhelming greatness Souls of such beatific vision and lives of such outstanding impeccability that even after the lapse of Ages the teachings of these individuals

Constitute the present spiritual intellectual and ethical standards of the race the initiates of the various mystery schools of past ages form a veritable Golden Chain of Supermen and super women connecting Heaven and Earth they are the links of the homeric golden chain with which Zeus boasted he

Could bind the several parts of the universe to the Pinnacle of Olympus the Sons and Daughters of Isis are indeed an illustrious line founders of Sciences and philosophies patrons of Art and crafts supporting by the transcendency of their divinely given power the structures of world religions erected to do them

Homage founders of doctrines which have molded the lives of uncounted Generations these initiate teachers bear witness to that spiritual culture which had always existed and always will exist as a Divine institution in the world of men those who represent an ideal beyond the comprehension of the masses must

Face the persecution of the unthinking multitude who are without that Divine idealism which inspires progress and those rational faculties which uniring sift truth from falsehood a lot of the initiate teacher is therefore almost invariably an unhappy one Pythagoras crucified and his university burned ipaa torn from her Chariot and rendered limb from limb

Jacqu deole whose memor survives the consuming flame savola burned in the square of Florence Galileo forced to recant upon bended knee Giordano Bruno burned by the Inquisition Roger Bacon compelled to carry on his experiments in the secrecy of his cell and leave his knowledge hidden under Cipher Dante

Alagiri dying in Exile from his beloved City Francis Bacon patient under the burden of persecution cagliostro the most vilified man of modern times all this illustrious line bear unending witness of man’s inhumanity to man the world has ever been prone to Heap plotts upon its fools and columnia upon its

Thinkers here and there notable exceptions occur as in the case of the compt de St Germain a philosopher who survived his inquisitors and through the sheer transcendency of his genius won a position of comparative immunity but even the illustrious compt whose illumined intellect merited the homage of the world could not Escape

Being branded an impostor a charlatan and an adventurer from this long fist of immortal men and women who have represented the ancient wisdom before the world three have been chosen as outstanding examples for more detailed consideration the first the most eminent woman philosopher of all ages the second

The most maligned and persecuted man since the beginning of Christian era the third the most brilliant and the most successful modern exponent of this ancient wisdom HIPAA sitting in the chair of philosophy previously occupied by her father Theon the mathematician The Immortal HIPAA was for many years the central figure in the

Alexandrian school of neoplatonism famed alike for her depth of her learning and the charm of her person beloved by the citizens of Alexandria and frequently consulted by the magistrates of that City this Noble woman stands out from the pages of history as the greatest of the Pagan Martyrs a personal disciple of the

Magician Plutarch and versed in the profundities of the platonic School IAA eclipsed in argument and public esteem every proponent of the Christian doctrines of Northern Egypt while her writings perished at the time of the burning of the Library of Alexandria by the muhammadans some hint of their nature

May be gleaned from the statements of contemporaneous authors HIPAA evidently wrote a commentary on the arithmetic of diaphanus another on the astronomical Cannon of tme and a third on the conics of abalonus of perga cus Bishop of té her devoted friend wrote to HIPAA for assistance in

The construction of an astrol LA and a hydroscope recognizing the transcendency of her intellect the Learned of many nations flocked to the academy where she lectured a number of writers have credited the teachings of hpaa with being Christian in spirit in fact she removed the veil of mystery in which the

New cult and shrouded itself discoursing with such Clarity upon its most involved principles that many newly converted to the Christian faith deserted it to become her disciples Thea not only proved conclusively the pagan origin of the Christian faith but also Expos the purported Miracles then Advanced by the Christians as tokens of divine

Preference by demonstrating the natural laws controlling the phenomena at this time sirel later to be renowned as the founder of the doctrine of the Christian Trinity and canonized for his Zeal was Bishop of Alexandria seeing in HIPAA a continual menace to the promulgation of the Christian faith sirel indirectly at

Least was the cause of her tragic end despite every later effort to exonerate him from the stigma of her murder the incontrovertible fact remains that he made no effort to avert the foul and brutal crime the only shred of excuse which might be offered in his

Defense is that blinded by the spell of fanaticism sirel considered hpaa to be a Sorceress in League with the devil in contrast to the otherwise General Excellence of the literary works of Charles Kingsley maybe noted his pural delineation of character of HIPAA in his book by that name without exception the meager

Historical references to this virgin philosopher attest her virtue and take integrity and absolute Devotion to the principles of Truth and right while it is true that the best minds of the Christianity of that period May readily be absolved from the charge of participe criminis the implacable hatred of sirel unquestionably

Communicated itself to the more fanatical members of his faith particularly to a group of monks from the nitan desert led by Peter the reader a Savage and illiterate man they attacked HIPAA on the open Street as she was passing from the academy to her home dragging the defenseless woman

From her Chariot they took her to the cesarian church tearing away her garments they pounded her to the death with clubs after which they scraped the flesh from her bones with oyster shells and carried the mutilated remains to a place called syron where they burn them to

Ashes thus perished in ad. 415 the greatest woman initiate of the ancient world and with her fell also the neoplatonic school of Alexandria the memory of HIPAA was probably been perpetuated in the holtry of the Roman Catholic Church in the person of St Catherine of Alexandria the comp the

Cagliostro the Divine keg Ostro one moment the idol of Paris and the next the lonely prisoner in a dungeon of the Inquisition I passed like a meteor across the face of France according to his Memoirs written by him during his confinement in the bastile alesandro kostro was born in

Malta of a noble but unknown family he was reared and educated in Arabia under the tutelage of Al toas a man well-versed in several branches of philosophy and Science and also a master of the transcendental Arts while kagle orro’s biography ERS generally ridicule this account they utterly fail to advance in instead any

Logical solution for the source of his magnificent store of Arcane knowledge branded as an impostor and a charlatan his miracles declared to be ledain and his very generosity suspected of an ulterior motive the compt de cagliostro is undoubtedly the most calumniated man in modern history the mistrust writes whk

Tribridge that mystery and Magic always Inspire made kegle Ostro with his fantastic personality an easy target for column after having been riddled with abuse till he was unrecognizable Prejudice the foster child of colum proceeded to Lynch him so to speak for over 100 years his character is dangled

On the gibbet of infamy upon which the spe of tradition have inscribed a curse on anyone who shall attempt to cut him down his Fate has been his Fame he is Remembered in history not so much for anything he did as for what was done to

Him see GG Ostro the Splendor and misery of a master of magic according to popular belief kegle orro’s real name was jeppi balamo and he was a sicilian by birth within recent years however doubts have Arisen as to whether this belief is in accord Accord with the

Facts it may yet be proved that in part at least the tirades of abuse heaped upon the unfortunate comp have been directed against the wrong man jepi balsamo was born in 1743 of honest but humble parentage from Boyhood he exhibited selfish worthless and even criminal Tendencies and after a series of escapades

Disappeared troutbridge presents ample proof that kostro was not jepi balamo thus disposing of the worst accusation against him after 6 months in prisonment in the Basel on his trial keegle olra was exonerated from any implication in the theft of the famous Queen’s necklace and later the fact was

Established that he had actually warned Cardinal D Roan of the intended crime despite the fact however that he was discharged as innocent by the French trial court a deliberate effort to vilify kegle Ostro was made by an artist more talented than intelligent who painted a picture showing him holding

The Fatal necklace in his hand the trial of kostro has been called the prologue of the French Revolution the smoldering animosity against Mary antoinet and Louis V 16th engendered by this trial later burst forth as the Holocaust of the reign of terror in his brochure Kegley Ostro and his Egyptian right of

Freemasonry Henry R Evans also ably defends this much persecuted man against the infamies so unjustly linked with his name sincere investigators of the facts surrounding the life and mysterious death of keegle Ostro or of the opinion that the stories circulated against him may be traced to the machinations of the

Inquisition which in this manner sought to justify his persecution the basic charge against kostro was that he attempted to found a masonic lodge in Rome nothing more all other accusations are of subsequent date for some reason undisclosed the pope commuted cagliostro sentence of death to Perpetual imprisonment this act in itself showed

The Regard in which kostra was held even by his enemies while his death is believed to have occurred several years later in an inquisitional dungeon in the castle of San Leo it is highly improbable that such was the case there are rumors that he escaped and according to one very

Significant story hegle Ostro fled to India where his talents received the appreciation denied them in politics rid in Europe after creating the Egyptian right kegle Ostro declared that since women had been admitted into the ancient Mysteries there was no reason why they should be excluded from the modern orders

The princess dambal graciously accepted the Dignity of mistress of Honor in his secret society and on the evening of her initiation the most important members of the French Court were present the Brilliance of the affair attracted the attention of the Masonic lodges in Paris the representatives in a

Sincere desire to understand the Masonic Mysteries chose the Learned orientalist Court deala as their spokesman and invited comp de cagliostro to attend a conference to assist in clearing up a number of important questions concerning Masonic philosophy the compt accepted the invitation on May 10th 1785 kostro attended the conference

Called for that purpose and his power and simplicity immediately won for him the favorable opinion of the entire Gathering it took but a few words for the court de Galan to discover that he was talking not only to a fellow scholar but to a man infinitely his Superior kostro immediately presented an

Address which was so unexpected so totally different from anything ever heard before by those assembled that all were speechless with amazement kegle Ostro declared that the rose cross to be the ancient and true symbol of the Mysteries and after a brief description of its original symbolism branched out into a consideration of the

Symbolic meaning of letters predicting to the assembly the future of France in a graphic manner that left no room for doubt that the speaker was a man of insight and Supernatural power with a curious arrangement of the letters of the alphabet kegle Ostro foretold in detail the horrors of the

Coming Revolution and the fall of the monarchy described minutely the fate of the various members of the Royal Family he also prophesied the Advent of Napoleon and the rise of the first Empire all this he did to demonstrate that which can be accomplished by Superior knowledge later when arrested and sent

To the bastile kostro wrote on the wall of his cell the following cryptic message which when interpreted reads in 1789 the besieged Basel will on July 14th be pulled down by you from top to bottom hegle Ostro was the mysterious agent of the Knights Templars the rosicrucian initiate whose magnificent

Store of learning is attested by the profundity of the Egyptian right of Freemasonry thus comp de cagliostro remains one of the strangest characters in history believed by his friends to have lived forever and to have taken part in the marriage Feast of Cana and Accused by his enemies of being the devil

Incarnate his powers of Prophecy are ay described by by Alexandra Dumas in the Queen’s necklace the world he sought to serve in his own strange way received him not but is followed with Relentless persecution down through the centuries even the very memory of this illustrious adapt who

Unable to accomplish the great labor at hand stepped aside in favor of his more successful compatriot the comp to St Germain the comp to St Germain during the early part of the 18th century there appeared in the Diplomatic Circles of Europe the most baffling personality of History a man

Whose life was so near a synonym of mystery that the Enigma of his true identity was so insolvable to his contemporaries as it had been to later investigators the comp to St Germain was recognized as the outstanding scholar and linguist of his day his versatile accomplishments extended from chemistry

And history to poetry and music he played several musical instruments with great skill and among his numerous compositions was a short Opera he was also an artist of rare ability and the remarkably luminous effects which he created on canvas are believed to have been the result of his

Mixing powdered mother of pearl with his pigments he gained worldwide distinction for his ability to reproduce in his paintings the original luster of the precious stones appearing upon the costumes of his subject his linguistic proficiency verged on the supernatural he spoke German English Italian portuges Spanish French with a panes accent greek latin

Sanskrit Arabic and Chinese with such fluency that in every land he visited he was accepted as a native he was ambidextrous to such a degree that he could write the same article with both hands simultaneously when the the two pieces of paper were afterwards placed together

With a light behind them the writing on one sheet exactly covered letter forl the writing on the other as a historian the comp to St Germaine possessed uncanny knowledge of every occurrence of the preceding 2,000 years and in his remes he described in Intimate detail events of previous

Centuries in which he had played important roles he assisted Mesmer in developing the theory of mesmerism and in all probability was the actual discoverer of that science his knowledge of chemistry was so profound that he could remove flaws from diamonds and other precious stones a feat which he actually performed at

The request of Louis the 15 in 1757 he was also recognized as an art critic without a peer and was often consulted regarding paintings accredited to the great Masters his claim to the possession of the fabled elixir of life was home witness to by Madame dep pomidor who

Discovered she declared that he had presented a lady of the court with a certain Priceless liquid which had had the effect of preserving her youthful vivacity and Beauty for over 25 years beyond the normal term the startling accuracy of his prophetic utterances gained for him no small degree of Fame to Maran twanette

He predicted the fall of the French monarchy and he was also aware of the unhappy fate of the royal family years before the Revolution actually took place the crowning evidence however of the comp’s genius was his penetrating grasp of the political situation of Europe and the consummate skill with

Which he parried the thrust of his diplomatic adversaries he was employed by a number of European governments including the French as a secret agent and at all times bore credentials which gave him entree to the most exclusive circles in her excellent monograph the comp to St Germain The Secret Of Kings

Mrs Cooper Oakley lists the most important names under which this amazing person masqueraded between the years 1710 and 1822 during this time she writes we have M St Germain as the Marquee de montat PP bellamar or Amar at Venice Chevalier shaing at Pisa Chevalier Weldon at Milan

And lipzig compt sulov at Genoa and Leghorn graph sari at schwalbach and trees dorf Prince Regal at Dresden and compt de St Germaine at Paris the heg London and St Petersburg it is evident that m to St Germaine adopted these various names in the interests of the political Secret

Service work which historians have presumed to be the major mission of his life the comp to St Germain has been described as of medium height well proportioned in body and of regular and pleasing features his complexion was somewhat sarthy and his hair dark though often shown powdered he dressed simply usually

In black but his clothes were well fitted and of the best quality he had apparently a Mania for diamonds which he wore not only in rings but also in his watch and chain his snuffbox and upon his buckles a jeweler once estimated the value of his shoe Buckles at 200,000

Franks the comp is generally depicted as a man in middle life entirely devoid of wrinkles and free from any physical infirmity he ate no meat and drank no wine in fact seldom dined in the presence of any second person although he was looked upon as a charlatan and

Impostor by a few Nobles at the French Court Louis the 15 severely reprimanded a courtier who made a disparaging remark concerning him the grace and dignity that characterized his conduct together with his perfect control of every situation attested the innate refinement and culture of one to the manner

Born this remarkable person also had the surprising and impressive ability to Divine even to the most minute details the questions of his inquisitors before they were asked by something Ain to telepathy he was able to feel when his presence was needed in some distant city or state and

It has even been recorded of him that he had the astonishing habet not only of appearing in his own apartment and in those of friends without resorting to the conventionality of the door but also of departing there from in a similar manner m St germain’s travels covered

Many countries during the reign of Peter III he was in Russia and between the years 1737 and 1742 in the court of the shaw of Persia as an honored guest on the subject of his wanderings unaa bur writes the travels of the comp to St Germain covered a long period of years

In a great range of countries from Persia to France and from Kolkata to Rome he was known and respected Horus Walpole spoke with him in London in 1745 Clive knew him in India in 1756 Madame de adamar alleges that she met him in Paris in 1789 5 years after his supposed death

While other persons pretend to have held conversations with him in early 19th century he was on familiar and intimate terms with the crowd heads of Europe and the honored friends of many distinguished persons of all nationalities he is even mentioned in the Memoirs and letters of the day and

Always as a man of mystery Frederick the great voler Madam de pompadour Roso Chatham and Walpole all of whom knew him personally rivaled each other in curiosity as to his origin during the many decades in which he was before the world no one succeeded in discovering

Why he appeared as a Jacoby agent in London as a conspirator in Petersburg as an alchemist and connoisseur of pictures in Paris or as a Russian general at Naples now and again the curtain which shrouds his actions is drawn aside and we are permitted to see him fiddling in

The music room at Versailles gossiping with Horus Walpole in London sitting in Frederick the Great’s library at Berlin for conducting illuminist meetings in Caverns by the rind see the 19th century January 1908 the comp of St Germain has been generally regarded as an important figure in early activities of the

Freemasons repeated efforts however probably with an ulterior motive have been made to discredit his Masonic affiliations an example of this is the account appearing in the secret tradition in Freemasonry by Arthur Edward weight this author after making several rather disparaging remarks on the subject amplifies his article by

Reproducing an engraving of the wrong comp to St Germain apparently being unable to distinguish between the Great illuminist and the French General it will yet be established beyond all doubt that the compt of St Germain was both a Mason and a Templar in fact the Memoirs of kegle

Ostro contain a direct statement of his initiation into the the order of the Knights Templars at the hands of St Germain many of the illustrious personages from whom the comp to St Germaine Associated were high Masons and sufficient memoranda had been preserved concerning the discussions which they

Held to prove that he was a master of freemasonic lore it is also reasonably certain that he was connected with the Rosa crucians possibly having been the actual head of that order the comp Des Germain was thoroughly conversant with the principles of Oriental esotericism he practiced the Eastern system of meditation and concentration

Upon several occasions having been seated with his feet crossed and hands folded in the position of the Hindu Buddha he had a retreat in the heart of the Himalayas to which he retired periodically from the world on one occasion he declared that he would remain in India for 85 years and then

Would return to the scene of his European labors at various times he admitted that he was obeying the orders of a power higher and greater than himself what he did not say was that this Superior power was the mystery school which had sent him into the world to accomplish a definite

Mission the comp to St Germain and Sir Francis Bacon are the two greatest emissaries sent into the World by the secret Brotherhood in the last Thousand Years e Francis udney a the opical writer is of the belief that the comp of St Germain was not the son of Prince

Rakosi of Transylvania but because of his age could have been none other than the prince himself who was known to be of a deep philosophic and mistic nature the same writer believes that comp to St Germaine passed through the philosophic death as Francis Bacon in 1626 as Francois rosi in

1735 and as compt St Germain in 1784 he also feels that the comp to St Germain was the famous comp de gabal and as count hes was the last Grandmaster of the Knights of Malta it is well known that many members of the European secret societies have feigned death for various

Purposes Marshall nay a member of the Society of unknown philosophers escaped the firing squad and under the name of Peter Stewart nay lived and taught school for over 30 years in North Carolina on his deathbed PS nay told Dr lock the attending physician that he was Marshall nay of

France in concluding an article on the identity of the inscrutable comp to St Germaine an Andrew Lang writes did St Germaine really die in the Palace of Prince Charles of Hess about 1780 to 85 did he on the other hand escape from from the French prison where grossly

Thought he saw him during the French Revolution was he known to Lord Linton about 1860 is he the mysterious musite adviser of the doy Lama who knows he is a will a whsp of the Memoir writers of the 18th century see historical mysteries episodes from American history many times the question has been

Asked was Francis Bacon’s vision of the new Atlantis a prophetic dream of the great civilization which was so soon to rise upon the soil of the new world it cannot be doubted that the secret societies of Europe conspired to establish upon the American continent a new nation conceived in liberty and

Dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal two incidents in the early history of the United States evidence the influence of that silent body which has so long guided the Destinies of peoples and religions by them nations are created as vehicles for the promulgation of ideals

And while nations are true to these ideals they survive when they vary from them they vanish like the Atlantis of old which had ceased to know the Gods in his admirable little treaties our flag Robert Allan Campbell revives the detail of an obscure but most important episode of American

History the designing of the colonial flag of 1775 the account involves a mysterious man concerning whom no information is available other than he was on familiar terms with both General George Washington and Dr Benjamin Franklin the following description of him is taken from Campbell’s treaties little seems to have been known

Concerning this this Old Gentleman and in the materials from which this account is compiled his name is not even once mentioned for he is uniformly spoken of or referred to as the professor he was evidently far beyond his three score in 10 years and he often referred to historical events of more

Than a century previous just as if he hadd been living witness of their occurrence still he was erect vigorous and active hail hearty and clear-minded as strong and energetic every way as the prime of his life he was tall of fine figure perfectly easy and very dignified

In his manners being at once courteous gracious and commanding he was for those times in considering the customs of the colonists very peculiar in his method of living for he ate no flesh fowl or fish he never used for food any green thing any roots or anything unright he drank no

Liquor wine or ale but confined his diet to cereals and their products fruits that were ripened on the stem in the sun nuts mild tea and the sweets of honey sugar or molasses he was well educated highly cultivated of extensive as well as varied information and very studious he spent considerable amount of

His time in the patient and persistent conning of a number of very rare old books and ancient manuscripts which he seemed to be deciphering translating or rewriting these books and manuscripts together with his own writings he never showed to anyone and he did not even mention them in his conversations with

The family except in the most casual way and he always locked them up in a very large old-fashioned cubicle shaped Ironbound heavy Oaken chest whenever he left his room room even for meals he took long and frequent walks alone sat on the Brows of the neighboring Hills or mused in the midst

Of the green and flower jammed Meadows he was fairly liberal but in no way lavish in spending his money with which he was well supplied he was a quiet though a very genial and very interesting member of the family and he was seemingly at home upon any and every topic coming up in

Conversation he was in short one whom everyone would notice and respect whom few would feel well acquainted with and whom no one would presume to question concerning himself as to whence he came why he carried or whether he journeyed by something more than a mere coincidence the committee appointed by

The colonial Congress to design a flag accepted an invitation to be guests while in Cambridge of the same family with which the professor was staying it was here that General Washington joined them for the purpose of deciding Upon A fitting emblem by the signs which passed between them it was

Evident that both General Washington and Dr Franklin recognized the professor and by unanimous approval he was invited to become an active member of the committee during the proceedings which followed the professor was treated with the most profound respect and all of his suggestions immediately acted upon he submitted a pattern which he considered

Symbolically appropriate for the new flag and this was unhesitatingly accepted by the other six members of the committee who voted that the arrangement suggested by the professor be forth with adopted after the episode of the flag the professor quietly vanished and nothing further is known concerning him did General Washington and Dr

Franklin recognize the professor as an emissary of the mystery school which has so long controlled the political Destinies of this planet Benjamin Franklin was a philosopher and a Freemason possibly a rosicrucian initiate he and the Marquee de Lafayette also a man of mystery constitute two of the most important

Links in the chain of circumstance that culminated in the establishment of the original 13 American colonies as a free and independent nation Dr Franklin’s philosophic attainments as well attested in Poor Richard’s Almanac published by him for many years under the name of of Richard Saunders his interest in the cause of

Freemasonry is also shown by his republication of Anderson’s constitutions of Freemasonry a rare and much disputed work on the subject it was a grave moment and not a few of those present feared that their lives would be the forfeit for their audacity in the midst of the debate a

Fierce voice rang Out The Debaters stopped and turned to look upon the stranger who was this man who had suddenly appeared in their midst and transfix them with his oratory they had never seen him before none knew when he had entered but his tall form and pale face filled them with

Awe his voice ringing with a holy Zeal The Strangers stirred them to their very Souls his closing words rang through the building God has given America to be free as the stranger sank into a chair exhausted a wild enthusiasm burst forth name after name was placed upon the parchment the Declaration of

Independence was signed but where was the man who had precipitated the accomplishment of this Immortal task who had lifted for a moment the veil from the eyes of the assemblage and revealed to them a part at least of the great purpose for which the new nation was

Conceived he had disappeared nor was he ever seen again or his identity established this episode parallels others of a similar kind recorded by ancient historians attendant upon the founding of every new nation are they coincidences or do they demonstrate that the Divine wisdom of the ancient Mysteries still is present

In the world serving mankind as it did of old conclusion Philip king of Macedon ambitious to obtain the teacher who would be most capable of imp in the higher branches of learning to his 14-year-old son Alexander and wishing the prince to have for his mentor the most famous and learned of the great

Philosophers decided to communicate with Aristotle he dispatched the following letter to the Greek Sage Philip to Aristotle health no that I have a son I render the gods many thanks not so much for his birth and as that he was born in your time for I hope that being educated and instructed by

You he will become worthy of us both in the Kingdom which he shall inherit accepting Philip’s invitation Aristotle journeyed to Macedon in the fourth year of the 108th Olympiad and remained for eight years as the tutor of Alexander the young Prince’s affection for his instructor became as great as

That which he felt for his father he said that his father had given him being but that Aristotle had given him well-being the basic principles of the ancient wisdom were imparted to Alexander the Great by Aristotle and at the Philosopher’s feet the Macedonian youth came to realize the transcendency

Of Greek learning as it was personified in Plato’s Immortal disciple elevated by his illumined teacher to the threshold of the philosophic sphere he beheld the world of the Sages the world that fate and the limitations of his own soul decreed he should not conquer Aristotle in his Leisure Hours

Edited and annotated the ilad of Homer and presented the finished volume to Alexander this book The Young conqueror so highly prized that he carried it with him in all his campaigns at the time of his triumph over Darius discovering among the spoils a magnificent gem studded casket of unat

He dumped its contents upon the ground round declaring that at last he had found a case worthy of Aristotle’s addition of The Iliad while on his atic campaign Alexander learned that Aristotle had published one of his most prized discourses An Occurrence which deeply grieved the young king So to Aristotle

Conqueror of the unknown Alexander conqueror of the known sent this reproachful and pathetic in admission of the insufficiency of worldly Pomp and Power power Alexander to Aristotle Health you were wrong in publishing those branches of science hether to not to be acquired except from oral instruction in what shall I excel others

If more profound knowledge I gained from you be communicated to all for my part I had rather surpassed the majority of mankind in the sublimer branches of learning then in extent of power and domination farewell the receipt of this amazing letter caused no Ripple in the Placid life of

Aristotle who replied that although the discourse had been communicated to the multitudes none who had not heard him deliver the lecture who lacked spiritual comprehension could understand its true import a few short years and Alexander the Great went The Way of All Flesh and with his body crumbled the structure of

Empire erected upon his personality one year later Aristotle also passed into the greater World concerning whose Mysteries he had so often discoursed with his disciples in the Lum but as Aristotle excelled Alexander in life so he excelled him in death for though his body moldered in an obscure tomb the great philosopher

Continued to live in his intellectual achievements age after age paid him grateful tribute generation after generation pondered over his theorems until by the sheer transcendency of his rational faculties Aristotle the master of those who know as Dante had called him became the actual conqueror of the very World which Alexander had sought to

Subdue with the sword thus it demonstrated that to capture a man is not sufficient to enslave his body it is necessary to enlist his reason that to free a man it is not enough to strike the shackles from his limbs his mind must be liberated from bondage to his own

Ignorance physical Conquest must ever fail for generating hatred and dissension it Spurs the mind to the avenging of an outraged body but all men are bound whether willingly or unwillingly to obey that intellect in which they recognize qualities and virtues Superior to their own that the philosophic culture of

Ancient Greece Egypt and India excelled that of the modern world must be admitted by all even by the most confirmed of modernists the golden era of Greek Aesthetics intellectualism and ethics has never since been equal the true philosopher belongs to the most noble order of men the nation or race which is

Blessed by possession of illumined thinkers is fortunate indeed and its name shall be remembered for their sake in the famous Pythagorean school at cetona philosophy was regarded as indispensable to the life of of man he who did not comprehend the Dignity of the reasoning power could not properly

Be said to live therefore when through innate perseverance a member either voluntarily withdrew or was forcibly ejected from the philosophic fraternity a headstone was set up for him in the community graveyard for he who had forsaken intellectual and ethical Pursuits to reenter the material sphere with its illusions of sense and false

Ambition was regarded as one dead to the sphere of reality the life represented by the thraldom of the senses the pythagoreans conceived to be spiritual death while they regarded death to the sense world as spiritual life philosophy bestows life and that it reveals the dignity and purpose of living materiality bestows death and

That it Ben numbs or clouds those faculties of the human soul which should be responsive to the enlivening impulses of creative thought and an nobling virtue how inferior to these standards of remote days are the laws by which men live in the 20th century today man a Sublime creature with infinite capacity for

Self-improvement in an effort to be true to false standards turns from his Birthright of understanding without realizing the consequences and plunges into the melstrom of material illusion precious span of his early years he devotes to the pathetically futile effort to establish himself as an enduring power in a realm of enduring

Things gradually the memory of his life as a spiritual being vanishes from his objective mind and he focuses all his partly awakened faculties upon the sing beehive of Industry which he has come to consider the sole actuality from the lofty Heights of his selfhood he slowly sinks into the gloomy depths of

Ephemerality he falls to the level of the Beast and in brutish fashion mumbles the problems arising from his all too insufficient knowledge of the divine plan here in the lurid turmoil of a great industrial political commercial Inferno men wrie in self-inflicted agony and reaching out into the swirling Mists

Strive to clutch and hold the grotesque Phantoms of success and power ignorant of the cause of Life ignorant of the purpose of life ignorant of what lies Beyond The Mystery of death yet possessing within himself the answer to it all man is willing to sacrifice the Beautiful the true and the

Good within and without upon the bloodstained altar of worldly ambition the world of philosophy that beautiful garden of thought wherein the sages dwell in the bond of fraternity Fades from view in its place Rises an Empire of stone steel smoke and Hate a world in which millions of creatures

Potentially humans Scurry to and fro in the desperate effort to exist and at the same time maintain the vast institution which they have erected and which like some mighty Juggernaut is rumbling inevitably towards an unknown end in this physical Empire which man erects in the vain belief that he can

Outshine the kingdom of the celestials everything is changed to Stone fascinated by the glitter of gain man gazes at the Medusa likee face of greed and stands petrified in this commercial age science is concerned solely with the classification of physical knowledge and investigation of the temporal and illusionary parts of

Nature its so-called practical discoveries bind man more tightly with the bonds of physical limitation religion too has become materialistic the beauty and dignity of faith is measured by huge piles of masonry by tracks of real estate or by the balance sheet philosophy which connects heaven and earth like a mighty ladder up the

Rungs of which the illumined of all ages have climbed into the living presence of reality even philosophy has become a prosaic and heterogeneous mass of conflicting Notions its beauty its dignity its transcendency are no more like other branches of human thought it has been made materialistic practical and its activities so

Directionalize that they may also contribute their part to the erection of this modern world of stone and steel in the ranks of the so-called learned there is rising up a new order of thinkers which may be best termed the school of the worldly wise men after arriving at the astounding conclusion

That they are the intellectual salt of the earth these gentlemen of letters have appointed themselves the final judges of all knowledge both human and divine this group affirms that all Mystics must have been epileptic and most of the Saints neurotic it declares God to be a fabrication of primitive Superstition

The universe to be intended for no particular purpose immortality to be a figment of the imagination and an outstanding individuality to be but a fortuitous combination of cells Pythagoras is asserted to have suffered from a bean complex Socrates was a notorious inebriate St Paul was subject to fits paracelsus was an Infamous

Quack the comp the calostro a mount bank and the comp to St Germaine the outstanding crook of History what do the lofty concepts of the world’s illumined saviors and sages have in common with these stunted dist orted products of the realism of this Century all over the world men and women

Ground down by the soulless cultural systems of today are crying out for the return of the banished age of beauty and Enlightenment for something practical in the highest sense of the word a few are beginning to realize that so-called civilization and its present form is at the vanishing point that coldness

Heartlessness commercialism and material efficiency are impractical and only that which offers opportunity for the expression of love and idealy is truly worthwhile all the world is seeking happiness but knows not in what direction to search men must learn that happiness crowns the Soul’s quest for understanding only through the

Realization of infinite goodness and infinite accomplishment can the Peace of the inner self be assured in spite of man’s geocentrism there is something in the human mind that is reaching out to philosophy not to this or that philosophic code but simply to philosophy in the broadest and fullest sense the great philosophic institutions

Of the past must rise again for these alone contend the veil which divides the world of causes from that of effects only the Mysteries those sacred colleges of wisdom can reveal to struggling Humanity that greater and more glorious Universe which is the true home of the spiritual being called

Man modern philosophy has failed in that it has come to regard thinking as simply an intellectual process materialistic thought is as hopeless a code of life as commercialism itself the power to think true is the savior of humanity the mythological and historical redeemers of every age were all personifications of that

Power he who has a little more rationality than his neighbor is a little better than his neighbor he who functions on a higher plane of rationality than the rest of the world is termed the greatest thinker he who functions on a lower plane is regarded as a barbarian thus comparative rational

Development is the true gauge of the individual’s evolutionary status briefly stated the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development of the rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower process of nature this supreme source of power this attainment of knowledge this

Unfolding of the God within is concealed under the epigrammatic statement of the philosophic life this was the key to the great work the mystery of the philosopher stone for it meant that alchemical transmutation had been accomplished thus ancient philosophy was primarily the living of a life secondarily an intellectual method

He alone can become a philosopher in the highest sense who lives the philosophic life what man lives he comes to know consequently a great philosopher is one whose three-fold life physical mental and spiritual is wholly devoted to and completely permeated by his rationality man’s physical emotional and mental Natures provide environments of

Reciprocal benefit or detriment to each other since the physical nature is the immediate environment of the mental only that mind is capable of rational thinking which is enthroned in a harmonious and highly refined material Constitution hence right action right feeling and right thinking are prerequisites of right knowing and the

Attainment of philosophic power is Possible only to such as have harmonized their thinking with their living the wise have therefore declared that none can can attain to the highest in the science of knowing until first he has attained to the highest in the science of living philosophic power is the natural

Outgrowth of the philosophic life just as an intense physical existence emphasizes the importance of physical things or just as the monastic metaphysical aestheticism establishes the desirability of the aesthetic state so complete philosophic absorption ushers the consciousness of The Thinker into the most elevated and Noble of all spheres the Pure philosophic or rational

World in a civilization primarily concerned with the accomplishment of the extremes of temporal activity the philosopher represents an equating intellect capable of estimating and guiding the cultural growth the establishment of the philosophical rhythm in the nature of an individual ordinary requires from 15 to 20 years during that entire period the

Disciples of old were constantly subjected to the most severe discipline every activity of life was gradually disengaged from other interests and focalized upon the reasoning part in the ancient world there was another and most vital factor which entered into the production of rational intellects and which is entirely beyond the comprehension of modern

Thinkers namely initiation into the philosophic Mysteries a man who had demonstrated his peculiar mental and spiritual Fitness was accepted into the body of the learned and to him was revealed that Priceless Heritage of Arcane lore preserved from generation to generation this Heritage of philosophic Truth is The matchless Treasure of all

Ages and each discipline admitted into these brotherhoods of the wise made in turn his individual contribution to this store of classified knowledge the one hope of the world is philosophy for all the Sorrows of Modern Life result from the lack of a proper philosophic code those who sense even in part the

Dignity of Life cannot But realize the shallowness apparent in the activities of this age well has it been said that no individual can succeed until he has developed his philosophy of Life neither can a race or Nation attain true greatness until it is formulated an adequate philosophy and has dedicated

Its existence to a policy consistent with that philosophy during the World War when so-called civilization hurled one half of itself against the other in a frenzy of hate men ruthlessly destroyed something more precious even than human life they obliterated those records of human thought by which life can be intelligently directionalize

Truly did Muhammad declare the ink of philosophers to be more precious than the blood of Martyrs Priceless documents invaluable records of achievement knowledge founded on ages of patient observation and experimentation by the elect of the Earth all were destroyed with scarcely a qualm of regret what was knowledge what

Was truth beauty love idealism philosophy or religion when compared to man’s desire to control an infantes spot in the fields of Cosmos for an inestimably minute fragment of time merely to satisfy some whim or urge of ambition man would uproot the universe though well he knows that in a

Few short years he must depart leaving all that he has seized to posterity as an old cause for fresh contention War the irrefutable evidence of irrationality still smolders in the hearts of men it cannot die until human selfishness is overcome armed with multifarious inventions and destructive agencies civilization will continue its

Fratricidal Strife through future ages but upon the mind of man there is Dawning a great fear the fear that eventually civilization will destroy itself in one great catalyic struggle then must be reenacted the Eternal drama of reconstruction out of the ruins of the civilization which died when its

Idealism died some primitive people yet in the womb of Destiny must build a new world foreseeing the needs of that day the philosophers of the ages have desired that into the structure of this new world shall be incorporated the truest and finest of all that is gone

Before it is a Divine Law that the sum of the precious accomplishment shall be the foundation of each New Order of Things the great philosophic Treasures of humanity must be preserved that which is superficial may be allowed to perish that which is fundamental and essential must remain regardless of cost two fundamental forms

Of ignorance were recognized by the platonists simple ignorance and complex ignorance simple ignorance is merely lack of knowledge and is common to All Creatures existing posterior to the first cause which alone has Perfection of knowledge simple ignorance is an Ever active agent urging the soul onward the acquisition of

Knowledge from this virginal state of unawareness grows the desire to become aware with its resultant Improvement in the mental condition the human intellect is ever surrounded by forms of existence beyond the estimation of its partly developed faculties in this realm of objects not understood as a never failing source of mental

Stimuli thus wisdom eventually results from the effort to cope rationally with the problem of the unknown in the last analysis the ultimate cause alone can be denominated wise in simpler words only God is good Socrates declared knowledge virtue and utility to be one with the innate nature of good knowledge is a condition

Of knowing virtue a condition of being utility a condition of doing considering wisdom as synonymous with mental completeness it is evident that such a state can exist only in the whole for that Which is less than the whole cannot possess the fullness of the all no part of creation is complete

Hence each part is imperfect to the extent that it falls short of entirety where incompleteness is it also follows that ignorance must be coexistent for every part while capable of knowing its own self cannot become aware of the self in the other parts philosophically considered growth from the standpoint of human evolution

Is a process proceeding from heterogenity to homogenity in time therefore the isolated consciousness of the individual fragments is reunited to become the complete consciousness of the whole then and then only is the condition of all knowing an absolute reality thus creatures are relatively ignorant yet relatively wise comparatively nothing yet comparatively

All the microscope reveals to man his significance the telescope his insignificance through the eternities of existence man is gradually increasing in both wisdom and understanding his ever expanding Consciousness is including more of the external within the area of itself even in man’s present state of imperfection it is Dawning upon his

Realization that he can never truly be happy until he is perfect and that of all the faculties contributing to this self-perfection none is equal in importance to the rational intellect through the Labyrinth of diversity only the illumined mind can and must lead the soul into the perfect light of

Unity in addition to the simple ignorance which is the most potent factor in mental growth there exists another which is of far more dangerous and subtle type the second form called two-fold or complex ignorance may be briefly defined as ignorance of ignorance worshiping the sun moon and stars and offering sacrifices to the

Winds the Primitive Savage sought with crude fetishes to propitiate his unknown Gods he dwelt in a world filled with wonders which he did not understand now great cities stand where once roam the crook boned men Humanity no longer regards itself as primitive or Aboriginal the spirit of Wonder and awe

Has been succeeded by one of sophistication today man worships his own accomplishments and either relegates the immensities of time and space to the background of his Consciousness or disregards them entirely the 20th century makes a fetish of civilization and is overwhelmed by its own Fabrications its gods are of its own

Fashioning it has forgotten how infantes how impermanent or how ignorant it actually is tmy has been ridiculed for conceiving the Earth to be the center of the universe yet modern civilization is seemingly founded upon the hypothesis that the planet Earth is the most permanent and important of all the

Heavenly spheres and that the gods from their Starry Thrones are fascinated by the Monumental and epocal events taking place upon this spherical an Hill in chaos from age to age men seiz usly toil to build cities that they may rule over them with PP and power as though a

Fillet of gold or 10 million vassals could Elevate man above the Dignity of his own thoughts and make the glitter of his scepter visible to the distant stars as this tiny planet rolls along its orbit in space it carries with it some two billion human beings who live

And die oblivious to that immeasurable existence lying beyond the lump on which they dwell measured by the Infinities of time and space What are the captains of industry or the Lords of Finance if one of those plutocrats should rise until he Ruled the Earth itself what would he be but a petty

Despot Seated on a grain of cosmic dust philosophy reveals to man his kinship with the all it shows him that he is a brother to the sons which Dot the firmament it lifts him from a taxpayer on a whirling atom to a citizen of Cosmos it teaches him that while

Physically bound to Earth of which his blood and bones are part there is nevertheless within him a spiritual power a diviner self through which he is one with the Symphony of the whole ignorance of ignorance then is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man knowing nothing Outside The

Limited area of his physical senses Bumpus Le declares there is nothing more to know he who knows no life save the physical is merely ignorant but he who declares physical life to be all important and elevates it to the position of supreme reality such a one is ignorant of his own

Ignorance if the infinite had not desired man to become wise he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing if he had not not intended man to become virtuous he would not have sown within the human heart the seeds of virtue if he had predestined man to be

Limited to his narrow physical life he would not have equipped him with perceptions and sensibilities capable of grasping in part at least the immensity of the outer Universe the criers of philosophy call all men to a comradeship of the spirit to a fraternity of thought to a convocation of selves philosophy invites

Man out of the vainness of selfishness out of the sorrow of ignorance and the despair of worldliness out of the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed out of the red hell of hate and the cold tomb of dead idealism philosophy would lead all men

Into the broad calm vistas of Truth for the world of philosophy is a land of Peace where those finer qualities pent up within each human soul are given opport Unity for expression here men are taught the wonders of the blades of grass each stick and stone is endowed

With speech and tells the secret of its being all life bathed in the radiance of understanding becomes a wonderful and beautiful reality from the four corners of creation swells a mighty anthem of rejoicing for here in the light of philosophy is revealed the purpose of existence the wisdom and goodness

Permeating the whole become evident to even man imperfect intellect here the yearning heart of humanity finds that companionship which draws forth from the innermost recesses of the soul that great store of food which lies there like precious metal in some deep hidden vein following the path pointed out by

The wise the Seeker after truth ultimately attains the summit of the wisdom’s mount and gazing down beholds the Panorama of Life spread out before him the cities of the Plains are but tiny specks and the Horizon on every hand is obscured by the gray Haze of the unknown then the Soul realizes that

Wisdom lies in the breadth of vision and it increases in comparison to the Vista then as man’s thoughts lift him heavenward streets are lost in cities cities in Nations nations in continents continents in the Earth the Earth and space and space in an infinite eternity until it last but two things Remain the

Self and the goodness of God while man’s physical body resides with him and mingles with the heedless throng it is difficult to conceive of man as actually inhabiting a world of his own a world which he has discovered by lifting himself into communion with the profundities of his own internal

Nature man may live two lives one is a struggle from the womb to the tomb its span is measured by man’s own own creation time well may it be called the unheeding life the other life is from realization to Infinity it begins with understanding its duration is forever and upon the

Plane of Eternity it is consummated this is called the philosophic life philosophers are nor born nor do they die for once having achieved the realization of immortality they are Immortal having once communed with self they realize that within there is an immortal Foundation that will not pass

Away upon this living vibrant base self they erect the civilization which will endure after the Sun the moon and the stars have ceased to be the fool lives but for today the philosopher lives forever when Once the rational consciousness of man rolls away the stone and comes forth from its Sepulcher

It dies no more for to this second or philosophic birth there is no dissolution by this should not be inferred physical immortality but rather that the philosopher has learned that his physical body is no more his true self than the physical Earth Is His True World in the realization that he and his

Body are dissimilar that though the form must perish the life will not fail he achieves conscious immortality this was the immortality to which Socrates referred when he said anitus and meletus may indeed put me to death but they cannot injure me to the wise physical existence is but the

Outer room of the Hall of Life swinging open the doors of this anti- chamber the illumined pass into the greater and more perfect existence the ignorant dwell in a world bounded by time and space to those however who grasp the important Dignity of being these are but Phantom

Shapes illusions of the senses arbitrary limits imposed by man’s ignorance upon the duration of deedy the philosopher lives and thrills with the realization of this duration for to him this infinite period has been designed by the all-wise cause as the time of all accomplishment man is not the insignificant creature that he appears

To be his physical body is not the true measure of his real self the invisible nature of man is as vast as his comprehension and as measureless as his thoughts the fingers of his mind reach out and grasp the Stars his Spirit mingles with the throbbing life of the cosmos

Itself he who has attained the state of understanding thereby has so increased his capacity to know that he gradually incorporates within himself the various elements of the universe the unknown is merely that which is yet to be included within the consciousness of the Seeker philosophy assists man to develop the sense of

Appreciation for as it reveals the glory and the sufficiency of knowledge it also unfolds those latent powers and faculties whereby man is enabled to master the secrets of the seven spheres from the world of physical Pursuits the initiates of old called their disciples into the life of the

Mind and the spirit throughout the ages the Mysteries have stood at the threshold of reality that hypothetical spot between numon and phenomenon the substance and the shadow the gates of the Mysteries stand ever ajar and those who may pass through into the spacious domicile of spirit the world of

Philosophy lies neither to the right nor to the left neither above nor below like a subtle Essence permeating all space and all substance it is everywhere it penetrates the innermost and outermost parts of all being in every man and woman these two spheres are connected by

A gate which leads from the not self and it concerns to the self and its realizations in the Mystic this gate is the heart and through spiritualization of his emotions he contacts that more elevated plane which once felt and known becomes the sum of the worthwhile in the

Philosopher reasons as the gate between the outer and inner Worlds the illumined mind bringing the chasm between the corporeal and the incorporeal thus godhood is born within the one who sees and from the concerns of men he rises to the concerns of gods in this era of practical things men

Ridicule even the existence of God they scoff at goodness while they Ponder with befuddled Minds The fantasmagoria of materiality they have forgotten the path which leads beyond the stars the great mystical institutions of antiquity which invited man to enter into his Divine inheritance have crumbled and institutions of human scheming now stand

Where once the ancient houses of learning Rose a mystery of fluted columns and polished marble the white robe sages who gave to the world its ideals of culture and Beauty have gathered their robes about them and departed from the sight of men nevertheless this little Earth is bathed

As of old in the sunlight of its providential generator wide-eyed babes still face the mysteries of physical existence men continue to laugh and cry to love and hate some still dream of a nobler world a fuller life a more perfect realization in both the heart and mind

Of man the gates which lead from mortality to immortality are still a jar virtue love and idealism are yet the regenerators of humanity God continues to love and guide the destiny of his Creation The Path still winds upward to accomplishment the soul of man has not been deprived of its wings they are

Merely folded under its Garment of Flesh philosophy is ever that magic power which surrendering the vessels of clay release the soul from its bondage to Habit and perversion still as of old the soul released can spread its wings and sord to the very source of itself the criers of mystery speak again

Biding all men welcome to the house of light the great institution of materiality has failed the false civilization built by man has turned and like the monster of Frankenstein is destroying its creator religion wanders aimlessly in the Maze of theological speculation science batters itself impotently against the barriers of the

Unknown only transcendental philosophy if he knows the path only the illumined reason can carry the understanding part of man upward to the light only philosophy can teach a man to be born well to live well to die well and in perfect measure to be born again and to

This band of the elect those who have chosen the life of knowledge of virtue and of utility the philosophers of the ages invite you the the secret teachings of all ages by manly P hall narrated by Graham Dunlop and Russ Allen edited by Darren Grimes

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