Chapter 90

B

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 of, 500-u. Babylon, images of serpents at Temple of Bel in, 499-l. Bacchus led by a Lamb, or Ram, to Springs, etc, 466-m. Bacon gave philosophy a definite aim and method, 710-l. Bactria, the doctrines of Zoroaster came originally from, 258-l. Bad Principle represented by the number five, 630-u. Babylonish God, Bal, the Power of heat, life, generation, 590-l. Babys, a power set up as an adversary of Osiris, 588-u. Bagha, the Felicitous, a Vedic Sun God, 602-l. Bainah and Hakemah, Intelligence, Wisdom, the second Sephiroth, 552-u. Bainah, Mother, the passive capacity from which the Intelligence flows, 552-m. Bakchic initiation, emblems of generation principal symbol at the, 421-m. Bakchic initiation, raw flesh ate by the initiate at a, 421-u. Bakchos, at initiation, sufferings, death, resurrection, represented, 421-u. Bakchos' cup between Cancer and Leo, a symbol, 438-m. Bakehos, or Bacchus, the Sun, adored in Thrace as Saba Zeus, 410-l. Bakchos, slain by Titans, went to Hell; restored to life, 406-l. Bal, one of the Gods of Syria, Assyria, Chaldea, etc, 590-l. Bal or Bala, applied to Deity, represents, 208-m. Bal, seated on a Bull, with the Sun for symbol, was the Power of Life, 590-l. Bal, the Supreme Deity of the Moabites, Amonites, Carthagenians, 591-u. Balance and the human form the pattern of the world of restitution, 794-l. Balance, equilibrium the mystery of the, 305-u. Balance, everything in the Universe proceeds by the mystery of the, 305-u. Balance, explanation of the Soul losing its felicity by means of the, 490-l. Balance had Gedulah on one side, Geburah on the other, Tepharet over, 757-m. Balance had Hakemah on one side, Binah on the other, Kether over, 757-m. Balance has the Sephiroth arranged around it, 762-l. Balance held by Absolute Reason, above the male and female on each side, is the primary idea of things, 769-l. Balance instituted that judgments might be restored and not die, 798-m. Balance, symbol of all Equilibrium, taught the definition of Masonry, 854-m. Balance, the symbol of the male and female person, 757-m. Balance, the symbol of the person into whose form the Sephiroth were changed, 757-m. Balance; the root above is represented by the needle of the, 798-m. Balance; the Royal Secret is what the Sohar calls the Mystery of the, 858-l. Balance used to explain the Ternary, 769-l. Balder killed by Lok, Evil Principle, in the Mysteries of the Druids, 430-m. Balder, torn to pieces by Hother, lamented by the Scandinavians, 595-u. Balder's body placed in a boat by Lok and set adrift on the water, 430-m. Ballot for membership, objection sufficient to exclude, 121-m. Banners of Royal Arch Degree represent Constellations, 409-l. Baphomet adored as an idol by the Templars is an absurdity, 818-l. Baphomet of the Temple, representing Sulphur, or a goat's head, 779-l. Baphomet, the hieroglyphic figure representing the universal agent, 734-m. Baptist, religious systems approximating in the time of John the, 247-m, Baptism, a symbol of purification, 538-l. Baptism among the Gnostics refers to the Name Hidden, 561-l. Baptism as a sacred rite applied for by Christ, 262-u. Baptism, Christos united to the Eon Jesus by, 560-m. Baptism is a preparatory symbol preceding death, 392-l. Baptism of John the original rite, 263-u. Baptism, one of the important Gnostic ceremonies, 542-l. Bardesanes doctrines explained, 553-m. Bardesanes, the Syrian Christians embraced the doctrines of, 553-m. Bardesanes, the Syrian Christian, quoting from his "Book of the Laws", 857-l. Barruel, Abbe, Memoirs for the History of Jacobinism, 49-l. Base habit to defame a worthy man, 337-m. Basilidean ceremonies were varied and somewhat fantastic, 543-u. Basilideans, a Christian sect, practiced Mysteries, 542-m. Basilideans celebrated Jan. 10, date of Christ's baptism in the Jordan, 543-u. Basilideans gave talismans to every candidate, 542-m. Basilides, conception of God by, 271-u. Basilides doctrines embraced 365 emanations, 554-u. Basilides, personified attributes of God in the theory of, 271-m. Basilides, the Christian Gnostic, taught the seven emanation idea, 553-l. Basilik, the royal ensign of the Pharaohs, 413-u. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea, speaks of the secrecy of the early Christian Mysteries, 545-m. Base of a right angle triangle represents Deity and the Divine, 861-m. Base of the right angle triangle is Female, 789-m. Bases of true religious faith, of philosophical truth, metallic transmutation, 776-l. Basic ideas at the foundation of the great Religious Orders, 815-m. Basis of true Brotherhood; its duties and obligations, 856-l--857-m. Battery of 8th Degree, allusion to, 137-u. Bathing seven times in the sea, symbolism of, 431-l. Battle between our spiritual and material natures the greatest, 854-u. Battle of life; greatest glory won in the conflict between our own natures in the, 854-u. Beacon on the mountain top represented the Persian divinity, 592-m. Beauty and Harmony represented by Vau, 799-m. Beauty is harmonious proportions in forms, 845-u. Beauty of natural phenomena, 244-l. Beauty, or the Divine Harmony, the Eternal Law, a side of the Masonic triangle, 826-m. Beauty or Harmony produced by the equilibrium of Justice and Mercy, 859-m. Beauty or Harmony the result of the Divine Will limited by the Divine Wisdom, 846-l. Beauty represented by the Junior Warden of a Lodge, 7-l. Beauty represented in the Kabalah by green and yellow, 267-l. Beauty results from the equilibrium of Good and Evil, 782-m. Beauty, Severity, Benignity are Fathers proceeding from the Father of Fathers, 794-l. Beauty, the column which supports the world; that of Junior Warden, 800-u. Beautiful, in the Absolute, emanates from God, 702-l. Beautiful lives are the accurate ones, 845-u. Beautiful should be just; everything just is beautiful, 845-u. Beautiful things refer themselves to Absolute Beauty, 702-m. Beethos and His Thought made Wisdom fruitful by Divine Light, 563-u. Beethos Profundity, Source of Light and Adam-Kadmon, 562-l. Beginning of things was a single God who created matter, 609-l. Beginning, the Word is, was, will be in the, 323-l. Being and Existence, modes of, balance each other, 98-u. Being, Existence, is by itself; reason of Being is Being itself, 97-l. Being from whom emanates the True, Beautiful, Good, is triple and one, 702-l. Being; how the mind may receive intuition of the Absolute, 285-u. Being is Being the first Principle, 322-u. Being, Philosophy of, 98-m. Being: Vedanta and Nyaya philosophers acknowledge a Supreme, 607-u. Being's phenomena ought to be explained by Occult Philosophy, 822-u. Bel of the Chaldeans is a personification of the Sun, 594-u. Bel, symbol of the Sun, 77-m. Bel, the Assyrian and Chaldean name for the Sun God, 587-u. Bela, one of the Celtic deities upon the ancient monuments, 591-u. Belief concerning spiritual and material existence, 232-u. Belief, essential, of a Perfect Elu, 233-u Belief in a future existence from a desire to remedy injustices of this, 830-l. Belief in Deity and Immortality a natural feeling, 517-u. Belief in Divinity in danger because of misinterpretation, 652-m. Belief in God's benevolence, wisdom, justice, a part of Masonic Creed, 531-u. Belief in Nature as all sufficient not real Atheism, 644-u. Belief in the Father of All, Masonry wisely requires a; why, 166-l. Belief of a Mason regarding pain and suffering, 228--229-u. Belief of Masonry, 220-l. Belief of the Patriarchs did not exclude symbolic representations, 512-m. Belief, result of rejection of moral and religious, 197-m. Belief without understanding applied to the Word of a Master, 697-m. Beliefs of the Templar Chiefs indicated by hints and symbols of Masonic degrees, 819-u. Beliefs must be separated from our certainties, 776-u. Bellerophon fights with the Chimera, 499-m. Belin or Belinus: Gauls worshipped the Sun under the name of, 591-u. Benares temple represents Surya drawn by a horse with twelve heads, 587-u. Benedict, the Fourteenth Pope, renewed Bull of Clement the Twelfth, 50-m. Benefits of the Great Work to the Soul and to the Body, 785-u. Benefactor must look for apathy in those he benefits, 317-u. Benefactors enjoy reward hereafter, 172-u. Benefactors, to do all, be hindred, have others reap reward the lot of, 238-u. Beneficent operations are slow; those destructive are rapid, 317-m. Benignity or Mercy of God, the Male, 846-u. Benignity poured into the Autocracy of Deity determines the continuance of the Universe, 769-m Benignity tempering Justice enabled Deity to create, 769-u Berne, Masons in 1743 proscribed by the council of, 50-m Beth Alohim states that before God formed a conception he was alone, 752-u. Beth is the woman; Aleph, the man; One the Principle; two the Word, 771-l. Bible added to a point within a circle, vapid interpretation of the, 105-m. Bible, doctrines of, clothed in language fitting the understanding of the rude, 224-l. Bible expresses incompletely the religious science of the Hebrews, 744-l. Bible, Holy, one of Great Lights; part of the furniture of the Lodge, 11-m. Bible speaks of Deity as Light; also the Isabeans and Kabalists, 739-l. Binah and Hakemah denoted by He, Yod, 798-m. Binah and Hakemah, the two lobes of the brain of Adam Kadmon, 758-m. Binah, by Hakemah's energy and the second Yod, projected the seven Sephiroth, 756-l. Binah conjoins with Hakemah and shines within Him, 763-l. Binah, female, placed itself on the left side of Hakemah, 756-l. Binah, illuminated within Hakemah by a second Yod, issued forth, 756-m. Binah in conjunction with Hakemah conceives and the outflow is Truth, 763-l. Binah, In formatio, existent in the Corona of the World of Emanation, 758-u. Binah is a person and termed Mother, Imma, 799-m. Binah is imbued by Wisdom with a luminous influence, 793-u. Binah is the lower apex of the three Yods composing the Yod, 763-m. Binah is the productive intellectual capacity which is to produce the Thought, Daath, 758-m. Binah, Kabalistic meaning of, 202-l. Binah produced the seven Kings all together, 796-l. Binah represents or is, the Eagle, 798-m. Binah, the Mother, Hakemah, the Father, in equilibrium as male and female, 763-m. Binah, the Mother, quantitatively equal to Hakemah, 763-u. Binah, Understanding, sends all things into the worlds of--, 753. Binah's seven sons were perfect rigors not connected with a root in the Holy, 795-l. Binah's sons placed in equilibrium when Wisdom was conformed Male and Female, 796-u. Binary, a measure of Unity, 771-l. Binary become Unity by conjunction of Generative Power and Productive Capacity, 772-m. Binary is Jachin; Unity is Boaz, 772-u. Binary is Unity multiplying itself by itself to create, 771-m. Binary manifests Unity; Unity itself and the idea of Unity are two, 771-u. Binary number stands for everything false, double, 630-m. Binary number, two, expresses the contraries in nature, 630-m. Binary, the generator of Society and law, the number of the Gnosis, 771-m. Birth of Mithras celebrated on Dec. 25th, 406-l. Black Eagle, the King of Birds, can fire the Sun, 787-u. Black of the nature of the Evil Principle, or Darkness, 662-m. Blazing Star a symbol of Sirius, 486-l. Blazing Star an emblem of Prudence, Omniscience, All Seeing Eye, 506-u. Blazing Star an emblem of the Sun to our ancient English brethren, 506-u. Blazing Star (an Ornament of a Lodge), symbolism of the, 15. Blazing Star announces the birth of the Sun, 787-u. Blazing Star, emblem of the Divine Truth, 136-m. Blazing Star of Truth formed by Faith above Reason resting on Revelation, 841-m. Blazing Star or an image thereof found in every initiation, 842-u. Blazing Star, or Horus, offspring of Sun and Moon, 14-u. Blazing Star the sign of the Grand Arcanum to the Magists, 842-u. Blazing Star the sign of the Quintessence to the Alchemists, 842-u. Blazing Star the sign of the Sacred Pentagram to the Kabalists, 842-u. Blessing, notwithstanding its evils, life is a, 142-l. Blessings of trials, pain, sorrow, will be understood, 240-l. Blindness, misery, bondage, symbolized by the condition of candidate, 639-u. Blows symbolize Christ's betrayal, refusal of protection, condemnation, 641-l. Blucher, guided by peasant boy, saves Wellington from rout, 42-m. Blue Masonry, mistaken explanation of symbol of the weeping virgin in, 379-u. Boaz and Jachin explain the mysteries of natural antagonisms, 772-u. Boaz and Jachin, parallel lines, point in circle, represent Solstices, 506-u. Boaz and Jachin, symbols of the bi-sexuality of the Ineffable Name, 849-m. Boaz has set on it the terrestrial globe, a symbol of our material part, 860-m. Boaz is Unity; the Binary is Jachin, 772-u. Boaz, name of the column at the left of the entrance; meaning of, 9-l. Boaz, one column of the Temple of Wisdom, represents the Passive, 860-m. Boaz, referred to symbolically, 202-l. Boaz represents Glory, one of the Sephiroth of the Kabalah, 267-l. Boaz, the eighth Sephiroth, is Splendor or Perfection of the Deity, 736-l. Bodies animated by a portion of God's own being, 609-l. Bodies return to the elements--a perpetual Genesis, 540-u. Body: Doketes believed that Christ took upon Himself only the appearance of a, 564-m. Body, Soul and Spirit the Hermetic Triad, 792-m. Body's universal medicine is the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold, 773-m. Bohemian "Thot" corresponds to the Hebrew Tetragram, 732-m. Bolingbroke, Lord, activity and usefulness in retirement, 39-l. Bootes is the great Star, Arcturus, 454-m. Bootes plays a leading part in Landseer's Osirian legend, 483-487. Bona Dea, the name of the Mysteries of Rome, 625-u. Border around the columns of the lodge, symbolism of the, 209-m. Borsippa, seven stages of the pyramid of, 233-m. Borsippa: the pyramid of Bel at Babylon contained seven spheres of, 729-u. Bounds set to the scope of our human reason by Deity, 852-m. Boundehesch, an ancient sacred writing concerning Zoroastrianism 612-u. Bourbon dynasty runs out with Bomba, 49-u. Brahm, Source of all, Very God, without sex or name, 849-l. Brahma, as incarnate Intelligence, communicated knowledge to man, 604-u. Brahma, having created the Universe, was absorbed in the Supreme Spirit, 608-l. Brahma of the Hindus, a personification of the Sun, 594-u. Brahma shared the corruption of an inferior nature, 603-l. Brahma, the creating agent of the Veda, interwoven with the Universe, 603-l. Brahma, the creating power of the Hindu Trinity, 550-m. Brahma, the divine male, produced from that which is, 608-l. Brahmins expressed the Active and Passive idea, by a statue, of both sexes, 656-u. Brahmins' Trinity the oldest, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, 550-m. Brain of Microprosopos produced by Love impregnating Rigor, 796-u. Bramah, symbol of Sun, 77-m. Bramah, Vishnu, Seeva, manifestations of the One Deity, 205-u. Brazen Sea, a symbol of purification before we can contemplate the Flaming Star, 782-m. Brazen sea, description and symbolism, 410-l. Brazen Serpent, Nakhustan, a token of healing power, 497-u. Breath of Life, vitality, perishes with the mortal frame, 852-m. Brehm, similar to Athom and Aum, was the Supreme God, 584-l. Brehm, the Hindu Supreme God, above Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, 597-l. Briah, the World of Creation of the Sephiroth Theology, 99-m. Brihim or Brehm given no emblem or visible sign, 605-u. "Brother" a mockery when we malign one another, or defraud them, 808-u. "Brother," characteristics necessary to be a true, 122-l. Brother discovered by the Mason in the flame and smoke of battle, 57-m. Brother, erring, to be spoken kindly to, 134-u. Brother, praise a; refrain from disparagement, 120-l. Brotherhood of man a tendency of Kabalistic philosophy, 625-l. Brotherhood of Masonry made possible by the Royal Secret, 861-l. Brotherhood possible only among those who have mutual regard and--, 856-l. Buddha comprehended the essence of the Trimurti, 82-u. Buddha, meaning of the names of, 82-u. Buddha or Fo religion introduced idolatry into China, 615-l. Buddha represented to have been crucified, 505-l. Buddha, the first Masonic legislator, doctrines of, 277-l. Buddha, the Gymnosophists came from the religion of, 278-u. Buddha to raise all men up to the perfect state, 623-m. Buddhist Crosses and ruins in Ireland and Scotland, 505-l. Buddhist idea was matter subjugating the intelligence, 258-l. Buddhist Trinity of Buddha, Dharma, Sanga, signifies--, 551-m. Buddhists hold that Sakya of the Hindus constituted a Trinity, 551-m. Buddhists supposed to have reached Ireland, 278-u. Buddhism, an innovation on an older religion, 602-u. Buddhistic doctrines exterminated by Brahmaism, 278-u. Building is slow; destruction swift--example, 320-m. Bull and afterwards the Ram regarded as the regenerator of Nature, 465-l. Bull carried into Spain and Gaul by the Cimbrians, 451-m. Bull held sacred by Hindus, Japanese, Egyptians, because--, 448-u. Bull; in the ceremonies, covered with black crape, was a golden, 479-l. Bull of Pope Clement against Masons, title and penalties, 50-m. Bull of Mithras dies from sting of Scorpion in Autumn, 466-l. Bull, opening the new year, breaks with his horn the egg out of which the world is born, 448-u. Bull, or Taurus, religious reverence for Zodiacal Bull, 450-l. Bull, the symbol of Apis, 254-l. Bull; the symbols of the Sun and Moon appear on the head, neck, back of the, 451-l. Bulls, symbolism of, 404-410. Burning bush of the Scriptures, 286-u. Burdens of Government borne by those who reap the benefits, 176-u. Burials, eulogies at, 187-m. Burke, members of Commons left when he rose to speak, 37-l. Buthos and His Thought made Wisdom fruitful by Divine Light, 563-u.

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