Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Sabaoth, one of the seven Reflections of the Ophites, 563-m. Sabbat, brother of the Serpent, represents the Evil Force or Devil, 102-l. Sabean Researches by Landseer suggests an...

Macrobius in the Sacred Fables explains theory of the Two Principles, 404-l. Macrobious taught that the heavens and spheres were part of the Universal Soul, 669-m. Macrocosmos,...

Cabala, composition of immaterial man, according to the, 57-l. Cabala, Tetractys composed of letters of the name of Deity in the, 60-l. Cabalistic clavicules, Ezekiel and the Ap...

Pagodas of Tanjore and Deogur, construction of the, 234-m. Pain and suffering a part of the scheme of the Universe, 229-m. Pain used to illustrate the relation of Hakemah, Binah...

Taaut of the Phoenicians the same as Hermes, 586-l. Taaut the author of serpent worship among the Phoenicians, 501-u. Taaut the first to represent the Stars by symbols, 501-u. T...

Aaron made an image of a false god while Moses received the Law, 206-m. Aaron restored the worship of Apis when he made the golden calf, 369-m. Aaron's golden calf was one of th...

Daath is the Act, the Thought, the Intellection producing the idea, 766-l. Daath, the Intellect flowing from Hakemah and Binah, 552-m. Daath, the result of the conjunction of Ha...

"G" in the Fellow-Craft Degree represents God and Geometry, 640-m. "G," represents the Hebrew Jod or Yod, the generative principle, 632-u. "G" said to signify Geometry, 40-m. "G...

Knowledge is the most genuine and real of human treasures; for it is Light, as Ignorance is Darkness. It is the _development_ of the human soul, and its acquisition the _growth_...

However created, or invested with separate existence, the Soul, which is but the creature of the Deity, cannot know the mode of its creation, nor comprehend its own individualit...

_The Knights_, of the 15th and 16th Degrees, wear the sword. They are bound to prevent and repair, as far as may be in their power, all injustice, both in the world and in Mason...

To the primeval man, whatsoever good came, descended on him (as in mere fact, it ever does) direct from God; whatsoever duty lay visible for him, this a Supreme God had prescrib...

It is not only true that we may learn the moral law of justice, the law of right, by experience and observation; but that God has given us a moral faculty, our conscience, which...

The true Mason labors for the benefit of those who are to come after him, and for the advancement and improvement of his race. That is a poor ambition which contents itself with...

Eagle flying, a Hermetic symbol of Sulphur, 774-m. Eagle or Vulture sometimes substituted for the Scorpion, 448-m. Eagle or Vulture substituted for Serpent on account of its mal...

When we gaze, of a moonless clear night, on the Heavens glittering with stars, and know that each fixed star of all the myriads is a Sun, and each probably possessing its retinu...

It should be the earnest desire of every Perfect Master so to live and deal and act, that when it comes to him to die, he may be able to say, and his conscience to adjudge, that...

Do not expect easily to convince men of the truth, or to lead them to think aright. The subtle human intellect can weave its mists over even the clearest vision. Remember that i...

But if vapor falls in water, it was held, water is again the birth of vapors, which ascend and adorn the Heavens. If our mortal existence be the death of the spirit, our death m...

"To these three substances allude the three golden basins, in the first of which was engraved the letter M. in the second, the letter G. and in the third nothing. The first, M....

Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say,...

The Augean Stables of the World, the accumulated uncleanness and misery of centuries, require a mighty river to cleanse them thoroughly away; every drop we contribute aids to sw...

There may be a world of Masonic sentiment; and yet a world of little or no Masonry. In many minds there is a vague and general sentiment of Masonic charity, generosity, and disi...

You entered here amid gloom and into shadow, and are clad in the apparel of sorrow. Lament, with us, the sad condition of the Human race, in this vale of tears! the calamities o...

As He taught, so Masonry teaches, affection to our kindred, tenderness to our friends, gentleness and forbearance toward our inferiors, pity for the suffering, forgiveness of ou...

It is philosophical, because it teaches the great Truths concerning the nature and existence of one Supreme Deity, and the existence and immortality of the soul. It revives the...

Besides the division of the signs into the ascending and descending series (referring to the upward and downward progress of the soul), the latter from Cancer to Capricorn, and...

"Ye cannot," said the Great Teacher, "serve God and Mammon." When the thirst for wealth becomes general, it will be sought for as well dishonestly as honestly; by frauds and ove...

Manes, founder of the Sect of the Manicheans, who had lived and been distinguished among the Persian Magi, profited by the doctrines of Scythianus, a Kabalist or Judaizing Gnost...

Let Masonry use the pen and the printing-press in the free State against the Demagogue; in the Despotism against the Tyrant. History offers examples and encouragement. All histo...

"Offer up thy grateful prayers to the Lord, the most just and pure Ormuzd, the supreme and adorable God, who thus declared to his Prophet Zerdusht: 'Hold it not meet to do unto...

The body of Osiris, enclosed in a chest or coffin, was cast into the Nile. Pan and the Satyrs, near Chemmis, first discovered his death, announced it by their cries, and everywh...

Masonry, by its teachings, endeavors to restrain men from the commission of injustice and acts of wrong and outrage. Though it does not endeavor to usurp the place of religion,...

They take very unprofitable pains, who endeavor to persuade men that they are obliged wholly to despise this world, and all that is in it, even whilst they themselves live here....

_Ephraim_, on whose ensign appears the Celestial Bull, Jacob compares to the ox. _Dan_, bearing as his device a Scorpion, he compares to the Cerastes or horned Serpent, synonymo...

It is not enough for a people to _gain_ its liberty. It must _secure_ it. It must not intrust it to the keeping, or hold it at the pleasure, of any one man. The keystone of the...

How to deal with this apparently inevitable evil and mortal disease is by far the most important of all social problems. What is to be done with pauperism and over-supply of lab...

With these Decans were connected the _paranatellons_ or those stars _outside_ of the Zodiac, that rise and set at the same moment with the several divisions of 10° of each sign....

But from that ant-hill, not only the talk of the streets, the sounds of music and revelling, the stir and tread of a multitude, the shout of joy and the shriek of agony go up in...

The belief in dualism in some shape, was universal. Those who held that everything emanated from God, aspired to God, and re-entered into God, believed that, among those emanati...

Apollonius of Tyana says: "We shall render the most appropriate worship to the Deity, when to that God whom we call the First, who is One, and separate from all, and after whom...

PLUTARCH says, in his book _De Iside et Osiride_, "But the better and diviner nature consists of three,--that which exists within the Intellect only, and Matter, and that which...

A new language was adapted to these celebrations, and also a language of hieroglyphics, unknown to any but those who had received the highest Degree. And to them ultimately were...

The numerous applications of the septenary confirmed the ancient sages in the use of this symbol. Moreover, they exalted the properties of the number 7, as having, in a subordin...

We believe that the soul of another is of a certain nature and possesses certain qualities, that he is generous and honest, or penurious and knavish, that she is virtuous and am...

Thus there is an Absolute, in the matters of the Intelligence and of Faith. The Supreme Reason has not left the gleams of the human understanding to vacillate at hazard. There i...

And what a mystery are the effects of heat and cold upon the wondrous fluid that we call water! What a mystery lies hidden in every flake of snow and in every crystal of ice, an...

The Hospitallers and Templars took upon themselves vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity. The Lamb, which became the device of the Seal of the Order of the Poor Fellow Soldie...

This is what magic had been, from Zoroaster to Manes, from Orpheus to Apollonius Thyaneus; when positive Christianity, triumphing over the splendid dreams and gigantic aspiratio...

Paracelsus, the great Reformer in medicine, discovered magnetism long before Mesmer, and pushed to its last consequences this luminous discovery, or rather this initiation into...

To this duty and work the Initiate is apprenticed. He must not imagine that he can effect nothing, and, therefore, despairing, become inert. It is in this, as in a man's daily l...

The same officers are found in the procession of Initiates of Isis, described by Apuleius. All clad in robes of white linen, drawn tight across the breast, and close-fitting dow...

Theophilus says that the Osiris of Egypt was supposed to be dead or absent fifty days in each year. Landseer thinks that this was because the Sabæan priests were accustomed to s...

Their love of imagery caused them to personify what they conceived to be some of the attributes of God, perhaps in order to present things in a way better adapted to the compreh...

Such is a brief summary of the doctrine of this philosopher, whose work is one of the most ancient that has survived to us. The subject on which he treated occupied in his time...

Thus the secret science and mysterious emblems of initiation were connected with the Heavens, the Spheres, and the Constellations: and this connection must be studied by whomsoe...

Ablutions were also required, symbolical of the purity necessary to enable the soul to escape from its bondage in matter. Sacred baths and preparatory baptisms were used, lustra...

The Hierophants, men of intellect, and well understanding the disposition of the people and the art of controlling them, used every appliance to attain that object, and give imp...

Moral Truth, like every other universal and necessary truth, cannot remain a mere abstraction. Abstractions are unrealities. In ourselves, moral truth is merely conceived of. Th...

Then he passed through a representation of Hell and Elysium. "Then," said an ancient writer, "they are entertained with hymns and dances, with the sublime doctrines of sacred kn...

All soul is part of the Universal Soul, whose totality is Dionusos; and it is therefore he who, as Spirit of Spirits, leads back the vagrant spirit to its home, and accompanies...

There is another division of nature, which has in all ages struck all men, and which was not forgotten in the Mysteries; that of Light and Darkness, Day and Night, Good and Evil...

You entered the Lodge between two columns. They represent the two which stood in the porch of the Temple, on each side of the great eastern gateway. These pillars, of bronze, fo...

The more the great Hierophants were at pains to conceal their absolute Science, the more they sought to add grandeur to and multiply its symbols. The huge pyramids, with their t...

The conceited boast would hardly have died upon the lip, when, from the mysterious depths of remotest India a spectre stalked forth, or rather a monster crept, more fearful than...

Men do not feel the worth of their own souls. They are proud of their mental powers; but the intrinsic, inner, infinite _worth_ of their own minds they do not perceive. The poor...

And the Mason is familiar with these doctrines of Philo: that the Supreme Being is a centre of Light whose rays or emanations pervade the Universe; for that is the Light for whi...

"Before all the things that actually exist, and before all beginnings, there is one God, prior even to the first God and King, remaining unmoved in the singleness of his own Uni...

Dionusos is the Sun, that liberator of the elements; and his spiritual meditation was suggested by the same imagery which made the Zodiac the supposed path of the Spirits in the...

To conceive of God as an actuality, and not as a mere non-substance or name, which involved non-_existence_, the Kabala, like the Egyptians, imagined Him to be "a most occult Li...

The Assyrians, the Emperors of Constantinople, the Parthians Scythians, Saxons, Chinese, and Danes all bore the serpent as a standard, and among the spoils taken by Aurelian fro...

From the doctrine of the two Principles, Active and Passive, grew that of the Universe, animated by a Principle of Eternal Life, and by a Universal Soul, from which every isolat...

Thus science teaches us that we are but an infinitesimal portion of a great whole, that stretches out on every side of us, and above and below us, infinite in its complications,...

In this Ether are two Lights; that is, the Light of the SUBSTANCE, which was taken away, and that of the Garment. There is a vast difference between the two; for that of the Ves...

It was soon found that the denial of a Conscious Power, the cause of man and of his life, of a Providence, or a Mind and Intelligence arranging man in reference to the world, an...

To unite the Rose to the Cross, was the problem proposed by the High Initiation; and in fact the Occult philosophy being the Universal Synthesis, ought to explain all the phenom...

Though Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries, it is so in this qualified sense; that it presents but an imperfect image of their brilliancy; the ruins only of their gr...

A figurative idea, adopted from familiar imagery, gave that endearing aspect to the divine connection with the Universe which had commanded the earliest assent of the sentiments...

"It seems to me," says the great orator, philosopher, and moralist, Cicero, "that Athens, among many excellent inventions, divine and very useful to the human family, has produc...

We, to whom the vast Universe has become but a great _machine_, not instinct with a great SOUL, but a _clockwork_ of proportions unimaginable, but still infinitely less than inf...

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1906, by THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN JURISDICTION, A. A. S....

Forget not these precepts of the old Law; and especially do not forget, as you advance, that every Mason, however humble, is your brother, and the laboring man your peer! Rememb...

Translating this from the symbolic and figurative language into the true ordinary sense of the Greek text, it reads thus: "And a certain Jew, named Apollos, an Alexandrian by bi...

As man [the unit of Humanity] is a microcosm, so Adam Kadmon is a macrocosm, containing all the Causates of the First Cause ... as the Material Man is the end and completion of...

"The Eternal," says the Bereshith Rabba to Genesis, "called forth Abraham and his posterity out of the dominion of the stars; by nature, the Israelite was a servant to the stars...

And, as the Thought of the Soul, emanating _from_ the Soul, becomes audible and visible in Words, so did THE THOUGHT OF GOD, springing up within Himself, immortal _as_ Himself,...

Habit is a Force, a second nature, 90-l. Hades, Hercules under the guidance of Minerva descended to, 592-l. Haikal denotes the place in which all things are contained, 799-u. Ha...

The Kabalists consider God as the Intelligent, Animated, Living Infinite. He is not, for them, either the aggregate of existences, or existence in the abstract, or a being philo...

_Ans_ Lavation with pure water, or baptism; because to cleanse the body is emblematical of purifying the soul; and because it conduces to the bodily health, and virtue is the he...

Two, or the Duad, is the symbol of Antagonism; of Good and Evil, Light and Darkness. It is Cain and Abel, Eve and Lilith, Jachin and Boaz, Ormuzd and Ahriman, Osiris and Typhon.

¤ כתר: Kether: Crown Will. /\ / \ / \ / \ Binah: ¤ חכמח ¤ / \ כינח: Hakemah: Passive capacity <──────────> Active Potency of being impregnated \ / of begetting intellection and...

Bar Hebraeus says: "Enoch was the first who invented books and different sorts of writing. The ancient Greeks declare that Enoch is the same as Mercury Trismegistus [Hermes], an...

Man is capable of a higher Love, which, marrying mind with mind and with the Universe, brings forth all that is noblest in his faculties, and lifts him beyond himself. This high...

Consciousness of self and of personal identity is co-existent with our existence. We cannot conceive of mental existence without it. It is not the work of reflection nor of logi...

There is a water-plant, on whose broad leaves the drops of water roll about without uniting, like drops of mercury. So arguments on points of faith, in politics or religion, rol...

There are _three_ Degrees in Blue Masonry; and in addition to the two words of two syllables each, embodying the binary, three of three syllables each. There were three Grand Ma...

L, P, D on Cagliostro's seal were the initials of "Tread under foot the Lilies", 823-m. Labor a blessing, not a curse, 691-u. Labor has produced all that is glorious in the worl...

War, for great principle, noble; for commercial supremacy, despicable, 70-m. War, prevalence and effects of, 297-298. War, results of, 124-l. Washington adored because of his co...

Jachin and Boaz explain the mysteries of political and religious antagonisms, 772-u. Jachin and Boaz, parallel lines, point in circle, represent Solstices, 506-u. Jachin and Boa...

I, A, O, the three-lettered Greek name of Deity, 632-l. I am alpha and omega, the omnipotent, 701-u. I signified unity, 701-u. Iahaveh, Father, Kabalah ascribes Creation to, 104...

But some, setting out from ideas which had long prevailed among certain Jews of Alexandria, supposed that the Supreme God created and governed the world by His ministering spiri...

Quadrature of the circle indicates the knowledge of the four vulgar elements, 629-m. Quadrature of the circle produced by movements of four equal angles, 771-l. Qualities we cal...

Ultimate nature of things probably never will be known, 712-u. Unbelief of the many, 296. Understanding, the Capacity to be impregnated by the Active Energy, 305-m. Unchanging n...

B is the passive, A the active; Unity is Boaz; the Binary is Jachin, 772-u. Baal or Bal signifies Lord and Master, 591-u. Babylon, a great, live serpent worshipped by the people...

Fabrication, matter and bodies, as it were of manufacture, the world of, 768-l. Fabrications, World, embraces the six members contained in Malakoth, 795-l. Faith, a great moral...

Name, all ancient nations held the sanctity of the Sacred, 204-l. Name, Divine, or Creative Word, 204-l. Name, in exorcising priests the Jews used the Sacred, 262-l. Name not ap...

O, I, W expressed the Druids' name of Deity, 622-u. O, I. W, the Druidic symbol of Deity, 618-u. Oath of Secrecy a requisite to admission to the Christian Mysteries, 544-u. Oath...

The following Digest of the contents of Brother Albert Pike's monumental work, "Morals and Dogma," the text book of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the southern juris...

Z, the initial of Zeus because of its resemblance to the figure seven, 635-l. Zagreus dismembered; protected by the dance of the Curetes, 585-l. Zagreus the same as Dionusos; en...