The Compass and Square with Symbolism: For Women Only: For Women Only

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The Wilson Press, Los Angeles, 1922 - Freemasonry - 111 pages
 

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Page 58 - To sum up all in a few words; Magic is spiritual wisdom ; nature the material ally, pupil, and servant of the magician. One common vital principle pervades all things, and this is controllable by the perfected human will. The Adept can stimulate the movements of the natural forces in plants and animals in a preternatural degree. Such experiments are not obstructions of nature but quickenings; the conditions of intenser vital action are given.
Page 79 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 98 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate me: And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 58 - The corner-stone of MAGIC is an intimate practical knowledge of magnetism and electricity, their qualities, correlations, and potencies. Especially necessary is a familiarity with their effects in and upon the animal kingdom and man. There are occult properties in many other minerals, equally strange with that in the lodestone, which all practitioners of magic must know, and of which so-called exact science is wholly ignorant.
Page 12 - Adepts understand. [The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them ; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry.
Page 10 - Behold ! I will deal fairly with thee ; shew me but one good Christian who is capable of and fit to receive such a secret, and I will show him the right, infallible way to come by it. Yet this I must tell thee ; it would sink thee to the ground to hear this mystery related, for it cannot ascend to the heart of the naturall man how neer God is to him, and how to be found.
Page 46 - From the outer darkness of ignorance Through the shadows of our earth life Winds the beautiful path of initiation Unto the divine light of the holy altar.
Page 59 - ... error, and here we might learn with advantage from the ancients. There is the strongest disinclination among spiritualists to admit the possibility of the truth of occultism. In this respect they are as hard to convince as is the outer world of spiritualism. Spiritualists start with a fallacy, viz. : that all phenomena are caused by the action of departed human spirits ; they have not looked into the powers of the human spirit ; they do not know the extent to which spirit acts, how far it reaches,...
Page 30 - Because sound and rhythm are closely related to the four Elements of the Ancients; and because such or another vibration in the air is sure to awaken corresponding powers, union with which produces good or bad results, as the case may be.
Page 58 - Nature is triune: there is a visible, objective nature; an invisible, indwelling, energizing nature, the exact model of the other, and its vital principle; and, above these two, spirit, source of all forces, alone eternal, and indestructible. The lower two constantly change; the higher third does not.

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