Religion

This book will be welcomed by all Freemasons who feel the beauty of their ancient Rite, and desire to add knowledge to their zeal. The inner History of Masonry is left aside for the present, and the apprentice is led by a trustworthy guide through the labyrinth which protects the central Shrine from careless and idle inquirers.

A rare reprint of Albert Pike's Book of the Words - It is a study into the origin and meaning of those words/phrases peculiar to the art of Freemasonry. This reprint is a facsimile edition.

IN the following pages I have sought to satisfy a request, often made to me, to give a short but comprehensive view of the whole fabric of the Arcane mysteries, and affinity with the Masonic System; and I here take the opportunity of recording my protest against the sceptical tendencies of the present generation of the Moderns who are Masons, and against the efforts that are made, in season and out of season, to underrate the indubitable antiquity of the Masonic ceremonies.

THE SUPPRESSED GOSPELS AND EPISTLES OF THE ORIGINAL NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS THE CHRIST AND OTHER PORTIONS OF THE ANCIENT HOLY SCRIPTURES.

The author's expertise and knowledge of the Sumerian language helped to hasten the early decoding of the Indus Valley seals.

The study of ancient and modern philosophic theories is useful as showing how impossible it is, for even the greatest thinkers of any age, to grasp the Absolute with our understanding or to measure the Infinite with our finite units. The propounders of all these theories seem to me to be, without exception, looking in the wrong direction for the "Reality of Being"; they are all arguing from the standpoint of "Intellectualism" in a similar manner to that of the "Theologians"

Very few Christians even know there is suspicion that the last verses of Mark were tampered with. Mark was not a 'favorite' of the Catholic Church, and I have no doubt that Mark's original writings were rewritten to satisfy the 'altered' christianity of the church. This author goes to great lengths to prove that all of Mark is authentic.