Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of FreemasonryL. H. Jenkins, 1871 - 861 sider This is Albert Pikes' 861 page volume of 'lectures' on the esoteric roots of Freemasonry, specifically the 32-degree Scottish Rite. Until 1964, this book was given to every Mason completing the 14th degree in the Southern jurisdiction of the US Scottish Rite Freemasons. |
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Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike Begrænset visning - 1881 |
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Adam Kadmon Ahriman allegories ancient animals attributes beautiful become Binah body called cause celestial ceremonies Ceres Christian constellations created creation creatures creed darkness death degree Deity descended Divine doctrine duty earth Egypt Egyptians Eleusis emanation emblem essence eternal everything evil existence faith Father fire force Gnostics God's Gods harmony heart Heaven Hebrew Holy honor human idea immortal Infinite initiation intellect Intelligence Isis justice Kabalah Kabalists Kether King labor Light living mankind Mason Masonry matter means mind Mithras Moon moral mysteries nations nature night Ormuzd Osiris passions perfect Persians philosophical planets Plato Plutarch primitive Principle purified Pythagoras reason religion religious represented sacred says secret Sephiroth serpent seven Sohar soul spheres spirit Stars Supreme symbols taught Taurus teach Temple things thou thought tion true truth Typhon Unity Universe vernal equinox virtue Wisdom wise word worship Yōd Zodiac Zoroaster
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Side 849 - God after the inward man ; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Side 802 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Side 223 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Side 108 - ... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other...
Side 532 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Side 108 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Side 108 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twentyfive hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished...
Side 111 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Side 38 - But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Side 242 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.