. The book of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite. tish Rite; its doctrine is derived from the Kabala, and is thesame as that of the Hermetic philosophers who wrote on Al-chemy. Nature is revelation, and the light of truth shines every wherein the world. Magism was made for kings and priests alone. Hewho dreads to lose his own ideas, and fears new truths, and isnot disposed to doubt everything, rather than admit anything atrandom, should not seek to learn the teachings of this degree,for they will be useless and dangerous to him; he will misunder-stand them and be troubled by them, and yet
. The book of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite. tish Rite; its doctrine is derived from the Kabala, and is thesame as that of the Hermetic philosophers who wrote on Al-chemy. Nature is revelation, and the light of truth shines every wherein the world. Magism was made for kings and priests alone. Hewho dreads to lose his own ideas, and fears new truths, and isnot disposed to doubt everything, rather than admit anything atrandom, should not seek to learn the teachings of this degree,for they will be useless and dangerous to him; he will misunder-stand them and be troubled by them, and yet be more troubledshould he chance to comprehend them. He who prefers anything to reason, truth, and justice, whosewill is uncertain and wavering, who is alarmed by logic and thenaked truth, should not rashly engage in the pursuit of the highsciences; but once on the road, he must reach the goal or perish;to doubt is to become insane, to halt is to fall, to go back is tcprecipitate ones self into an abyss. Sancta Sanctis/ The holy things for the holy!. SANCTO • SANCO ■ SEMONI . DEO . FIDIO .SACKUM. In the Veda there are only three deities : * Dyaus in heaven,Indra in the sky, and Agni on the earth. Dyaus, Indra, Agni,however, are but manifestations in the Sun, the bright Sky, andthe Fire derived from the solar light. In the Vedic hymns, wefind perpetual allusion to the sun with his life-bestowing Persians, the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, all worship the sun. Sun worship was introduced into the mysteries not as a ma-terial idolatry, but as the means of expressing an idea of restora-tion to life from death, drawn from the daily reappearance in theeast of the solar orb after its nightly disappearance in the west. • The Sun is the symbol of sovereignty, the hieroglyphic ofroyalty ; it doth signify absolute authority. Sol is the fire of heaven which lights the generative fires ofearth, the genial parent who renews in its season all nature, andgives fertility to both anima
Size: 1215px × 2058px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidbookofancien, bookyear1885
