Morals and
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共 108 段- You entered the Lodge between two columns. They represent th
- Whatever occurs, we should have Faith in the Justice and ove
- Domitian claimed to be the Lord God; and statues and images
- But Resignation is the more noble in proportion as it is the
- As to ability, dynasties invariably cease to possess any aft
- In _six_ days, or periods, God created the Universe, and pau
- Thus the cold calculations of a sordid self-interest, in nat
- KHURUM, therefore, improperly called _Hiram_, is KHUR-OM, th
- Habit is a great force; it is second nature, even in trees.
- The perception of the Light is the dawn of the Eternal Life,
- It is our duty to obey the laws of our country, and to be ca
- Nothing should be allowed to interfere with that kindness an
- A moral offence is sickness, pain, loss, dishonor, in the im
- God hath appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world
- The Mason would much rather pass his life hidden in the rece
- The fancies of a lunatic are realities, _to him_. Our dreams
- The duties of a Prince Ameth are, to be earnest, true, relia
- What grand social problems or useful projects engage our att
- Faith in moral principles, in virtue, and in God, is as nece
- The Supreme, Self-existent, Eternal, All-wise, All-powerful,
- The practical object of Masonry is the physical and moral am
- The true Mason, sincerely holding that a Supreme God created
- It teaches that the soul of man is formed by Him for a purpo
- Again we see the symbolism of Masonry, and the search of the
- John, the son of a Priest who ministered in the Temple at Je
- The Oriental imagination revelled in the creation of these I
- The Supreme Being of the Egyptians was _Amūn_, a secret and
- To the word INRI, inscribed on the Crux Ansata over the Mast
- Exalt and magnify Faith as we will, and say that it begins w
- "... Let the narrow-souled withdraw, having their ears seale
- The Apocalypse, indeed, is a book as obscure as the Sohar.
- _The Directors of the Work_, or those of the 9th, 10th, and
- "Work; and therein have well-being," is the oldest of Gospel
- The Initiates were regarded as the only fortunate men. "It i
- Bar Hebraeus says: "Enoch was the first who invented books a
- The Priesthood possessed one third of Egypt. They gained muc
- Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, conceali
- Dionusos-Orpheus descended to the Shades to recover the lost
- In a fragment of the same writer, preserved by Stobæus, we l
- In the Mysteries of Mithras, a sacred cave, representing the
- Cybele was worshipped in Syria, under the name of Rhea. Luci
- This was preceded by frightful scenes, alternations of fear
- Man, enveloped by the thick darkness of profoundest night, w
- When he was close upon the meridian, the Heavens presented t
- So the risings and settings of the Fixed Stars, and their co
- All the old Adorers of Nature, the Theologians, Astrologers,
- The learned author of the Sabæan Researches, Landseer, advan
- The Serpent-bearer, or Ophicus, was Æsculapius, God of Heali
- As the single Tau represents the one God, so, no doubt, the
- No symbol of Deity can be appropriate or durable except in a
- PRINCE OF MERCY, OR SCOTTISH TRINITARIAN.
- _Ans_ The moral truths are as absolute as the metaphysical t
- The Apostolic Constitutions, attributed to Clemens, Bishop o
- Bardesanes, whose doctrines the Syrian Christians long embra
- The Ophites commenced their system with a Supreme Being, lon
- Take, then, the attributes of the soul. I am conscious that
- AMUN was the Nature-God, or Spirit of Nature, called by that
- So too the struggle between the Good and Evil Principles was
- Besides their doctrine of the transmigration of souls, their
- Iamblichus (_De Mys_. viii. 4) says: "The Egyptians are far
- These truths were covered from the common people as with a v
- The numerous applications of the septenary confirmed the anc
- True, the theory of Atheism has been uttered. It has been sa
- The doctrine of Ocellus was the general doctrine everywhere,
- On the contrary, with them the immense, immutable, and Etern
- In the philosophical systems, the Divine Activity, divided b
- God alone is all-powerful; but the human soul has in all age
- A general idea of purpose and regularity in nature had been
- As we assign to God that liberty which is the basis of our e
- Nature is full of religious lessons to a thoughtful man. He
- At the same time that we judge that a free agent has done a
- This force was known to the ancients. It is a universal agen
- No characteristic of matter belongs to Light, or Heat, or fl
- The First Adam, _in the ten circles above the Splendor_, is
- Geburah, Severity, the Sephirah opposite to and conjoined se
- The disciples of Hermes, before promising their adepts the e
- "He will be supremely fortunate, who shall, by arduous labor
- From the fragments of the vessels came all Evils; judgments,
- Even Free-Masonry has so multiplied its members that its obl
- For the Johannism of the Adepts was the Kabalah of the earli
- In the spiritual world, the world of human consciousness, th
- SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET.
- Reversing the letters of the Ineffable Name, and dividing it
- Sympathy and Antipathy, Attraction and Repulsion, each a For
- Aaron made an image of a false god while Moses received the
- B is the passive, A the active; Unity is Boaz; the Binary is
- Cabala, composition of immaterial man, according to the, 57-
- Creative process according to the Sohar; section of the lett
- Daath is the Act, the Thought, the Intellection producing th
- Eagle flying, a Hermetic symbol of Sulphur, 774-m.
- Fabrication, matter and bodies, as it were of manufacture, t
- "G" in the Fellow-Craft Degree represents God and Geometry,
- Habit is a Force, a second nature, 90-l.
- I, A, O, the three-lettered Greek name of Deity, 632-l.
- Kabala consecrates the alliance of the Universal Reason and
- L, P, D on Cagliostro's seal were the initials of "Tread und
- Macrobius in the Sacred Fables explains theory of the Two Pr
- Mind is all which man permanently is, 200-u.
- Name, all ancient nations held the sanctity of the Sacred, 2
- Pagodas of Tanjore and Deogur, construction of the, 234-m.
- Prince of Libanus, Knight of the Royal Axe, 22d Degree, 340-
- Rab Banaim, Chief of the Architects in 12th Degree, 202-l.
- Sabaoth, one of the seven Reflections of the Ophites, 563-m.
- Splendor, the sphere in the centre of the space Malakoth; Fi
- Symbols, signs, doctrines of ancients should not be disparag
- Taaut of the Phoenicians the same as Hermes, 586-l.
- Vacant space for Worlds formed by the recession of the Prima
- Y, alludes to the Triune God and is the ineffable name in Ch