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“Dots, Lines, Triangles,
Cubes, Circles” and finally “Spheres” — why or how? Because,
says the Commentary, such is the first law of Nature, and
because Nature geometrizes universally in all her
manifestations: “The Mother is the fiery Fish of Life.
She scatters her spawn and the Breath heats and quickens it.
The grains are soon attracted to each other and form the
curds in the Ocean. The larger lumps coalesce and receive
new spawn, in fiery dots, triangles and cubes which ripen,
and at the appointed time some of the lumps detach
themselves and assume spheroidal form. Motion becomes the
whirlwind and sets them into rotation."
--
The Secret Doctrine -- The
Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky [1]
***
The following particulars are drawn
from a Directory of Lodges and Chapters under the Obedience of Annie
Besant. (1) HUMAN DUTY, No. 6, London. (2) H. P. B. Lodge, No. 14,
Bradford. (3) CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUZ, No. 18, Edinburgh. (4) HERMES, No.
20, London. (5) GOLDEN RULE, No. 21, London. (6) MANCHESTER Lodge, No.
22, Manchester. (7) EMULATION Lodge, No. 24, London. (8) HARMONY Lodge,
No. 25, Southampton. (9) PLATO Lodge, No. 31, Leeds. (10) UNITY Lodge,
No. 35, Bournemouth. (11) VERITY Lodge, No. 38, Brighton. (12) FIDELITY
Lodge, No. 49, Bath. (13) ARBOR VITAE Lodge, No. 50, Letchworth. (14)
DHARMA Lodge, No. 101, Benares. (15) SANGHA Lodge, No. 102, Bombay. (16)
SHANTI Lodge, No. 105, Bombay. (17) RISING SUN OF INDIA, No. 107, Adyar.
(18) BODHI Lodge, No. 108, East Rangoon. (19) SAN FRANCISCO Lodge, No.
358, California. (2) HELIOS Lodge, No. 360, Los Angeles. (21) UNITY
Lodge, No. 359, Oakland, Cal. (22) MELBOURNE Lodge, No. 401, Melbourne.
(23) VICTORIAN Lodge, No. 403, Melbourne. (24) SYDNEY Lodge, No. 404,
Sydney, N.S.W. (25) BRISBANE Lodge, No. 405, Brisbane. (26) ADELAIDE
Lodge, No. 406, Adelaide. I presume that the Lodge numbers are those of
the Original Roll belonging to the French Obedience and the enormous
gaps between represent in this case the issue of intervening charters
which are not under Theosophical influence. It will be seen that LA
MACONNERIE MIXTE, its derivations and developments are a power to be
reckoned with and that the conventional titular description of
"Clandestine Masonry" would be imbecile in reference thereto, or indeed
to "Ancient" Masonry. I have seen also reports of an AMITY Lodge, No.
220, Durban, South Africa, of a STAR IN THE EAST Chapter of the ROYAL
ARCH, without number of location, of a ROSECROIX Chapter, Tolerance, No.
2, London, and another at Edinburgh, being ST. ANN, NO. 3. Whether the
other Lodges enumerated about are confined to Craft workings I do
not know.
-- Universal
Co-Freemasonry, by Arthur Edward Waite
The Master is the overseer who sets the craft to work and
gives them proper instruction.
--
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry, by Albert Pike
***
The artisan gives the craft his love; and to him the craft
responds by making him one with his work. But the craftsman gives
the
craft his passionate research into the laws of Nature which govern it;
and the craft teaches him Wisdom. -- "Be Here Now," by Ram Dass
***
Magic is that which it
is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the
exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws.
--
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry, by Albert Pike
This is the immutable
law of Nature, the Eternal Will of the JUSTICE which is
GOD.
--
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry, by Albert Pike
It is for the Adepts to understand the meaning of the
Symbols. [2] [3]
--
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry, by Albert Pike
Notes:
1. The growing volkisch movement began an active battle against the
Jews,
the defilers of their blood, reinforced by a pseudo-scholarly writer
[Arthur de Gobineau] who
satisfied their desire for academic respectability. Rightist
Pan-German
groups also bolstered their ideology by citing the dubious
philosophical,
historical, and scientific analyses laid out by Houston Stewart
Chamberlain,
an Englishman in love with German culture. He told a mass
society,
at the mercy of the impersonal forces which were crushing it, that
the
Teutons were indomitable master builders, that in mysticism was
freedom,
that "every Mystic is, whether he will or not, a born Anti-Semite,"
and
that Darwin's theory of natural selection justifies the stricture
against
mingling of the races.
Even before Chamberlain, volkisch thinkers had tried to weave
together
lessons from history proving the heroism of the ancient Germanic
past.
Many of them were admirers of the Theosophical Society, which
combined
for the first time certain elements into a cohesive system
considered by
some people to be the beginning of modern occultism.
The Theosophical Society was organized in New York City in 1875 by
Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a Russian expatriate countess
known to her disciples as H. P. B. At age forty she decided
to come to New York to investigate spiritualism, which had become an
American craze. She delivered up an
unlikely
package of Hinduism, Gnosticism, and pseudoscience which had a
tremendous impact on the intelligentsia of the West. She even
converted
the Indians themselves to the "ancient wisdom" in modern dress. Her
ideas, about ancient lost races with secret knowledge of the
ultimate nature
of reality, the immortal soul perfecting itself through endless
rebirths, and
mastery of superhuman powers which could unlock the secrets of the
universe, if they had been presented by traditional organized
religions,
would not have been credited. But people were perfectly willing to
suspend
disbelief of a huge Russian countess with magnetic eyes who smoked
cigars and used bawdy language.
--
Gods & Beasts -- The
Nazis & the Occult, by Dusty Sklar
2. The animals regarded as sacred in the Bible are not few:
the goat for one, the Azaz-el, or God of Victory. As Aben Ezra says: “If
thou art capable of comprehending the mystery of Azazel, thou wilt learn
the mystery of His (God’s) name, for it has similar associates in
Scriptures. I will tell thee by allusion one portion of the mystery;
when thou shalt have thirty three years of age thou wilt comprehend me.”
--
The Secret Doctrine -- The
Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky
3. The "Brownie," as the cyclopeaedia informs
us, springs from an old Scotch tradition.
-- The Origin of the "Brownies," by
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