Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: First Three Degrees

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It is a common Egyptian sign for the Sun and Osiris, and is still used as the astronomical sign of the great luminary. Might, in an army wielded by tyranny, is the enormous sum total of utter weakness; and so Humanity wages war against Humanity, in despite of Humanity. Then everywhere, the people will be forced to defend themselves against the world minority of the world revolutionaries and will exterminate those destroyers of civilization and the multitudes disillusioned with Christianity whose spirits will be from that moment without direction and leadership and anxious for an ideal, but without knowledge where to send its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into public view.

The doctrines of the Bible are often clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine. And it is true that a Brotherly affection and kindness should govern us in all our intercourse and relations with our brethren; and a generous and liberal philanthropy actuate us in regard to all men.Morals and Dogma of Freemasonry is clearly plagiarized from Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie by the French occultist Éliphas Lévi". He should meet them, too, foot to foot, even in the darkness, and protest against the national wrongs and follies; against usurpation and the first inroads of that hydra, Tyranny. They are the stars and coruscations from that great sea of electricity, the Force inherent in the people. The pavement, alternately black and white, symbolizes, whether so intended or not, the Good and Evil Principles of the Egyptian and Persian creed. Contents [ edit ] The Double Headed Eagle emblem of the Scottish Rite, from the cover of Morals and Dogma.

The Blazing Star in the centre is said to be an emblem of Divine Providence, and commemorative of the star which appeared to guide the wise men of the East to the place of our Saviour’s nativity. Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. The Mason should struggle in the same manner, and with the same bravery, against those invasions of necessity and baseness, which come to nations as well as to men.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Not low worldliness; but the love of Earth as the garden on which the Creator has lavished such miracles of beauty; as the habitation of humanity, the arena of its conflicts, the scene of its illimitable progress, the dwelling-place of the wise, the good, the active, the loving, and the dear; the place of opportunity for the development by means of sin and suffering and sorrow, of the noblest passions, the loftiest virtues, and the tenderest sympathies. Under Claudius and under Domitian there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the ugliness of the tyranny.

A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its material advancement. The text is reprinted in full, with about 4000 scholarly notes on difficult passages, touching on historical, religious, and philosophical issues.My ideas on the origin of our moral prejudices—for this is the subject of this polemic—received their first, brief, and provisional expression in the collection of aphorisms that bears the title Human, All-Too-Human. Even when they seem to teach that the Great Work is the purification of the Soul, and so deal only with morals, they most conceal their meaning, and deceive all but the Initiates. It is stated that nothing in the book is meant to unveil any of the secrets of Freemasonry but to simply hint or shed light. The original printing had 861 pages of text, while a 218-page Digest-Index was added by Trevanion W.