As Above So Below
Symbology
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A study into the words (commonly used by Masons), their etymology, and meaning to Freemasons.
Naturally, there clusters about the sun a rich mine of folk-lore. The prominence of the orb of day, its importance in the maintenance and the development of life, the mystery that has ever enveloped it, its great influence in the well-being of mankind, have secured for the sun a history of interest equalled by none, to which every age and every race have contributed their pages.
Large Print 12-15 pt font - The authors look at the origin of the swastika, decades before it became an icon of the Nazi Party.
I have been led into a train of thought, having as its basis a more philosophical treatment of the meaning of the scarab
THE human mind has a passionate longing for knowledge even of things past comprehension. Where it cannot know, it will imagine; what the mind conceives it will attempt to define.
Hard to find research into various Kabbalistic concepts.
"The Pope will never come to the secret societies. It is for the secret societies to come first to the Church; in the resolve to conquer the two ... in order to secure to us a Pope in the manner required, it is necessary to fashion for that Pope a generation worthy of the reign of which we dream.., go to the youth ... in a few years the young clergy will be called upon to choose the Pontiff..."
Few words have acquired such a wide signification as the word symbol. Originally applied, amongst the Greeks, to the two halves of the tablet they divided between themselves as a pledge of hospitality-in the manner of our contract forms, detached along a line of perforations from the counterfoil record-it was gradually extended to the engraved shells by which those initiated in the mysteries made themselves known to each other; and even to the more or less esoteric formulas and sacramental rites that may be said to have constituted the visible bond of their fellowship.
Although appearing in the full light of historical times, Pythagoras has come down to us as almost a legendary character. The main reason for this is the terrible persecution of which he was the victim in Sicily, and which cost so many of his followers their lives. Some were crushed to death beneath the ruins of their burning schools, others died of hunger in temples. The Master's memory and teaching were only perpetuated by such survivors as were able to escape into Greece.
Shakespeare's works are embedded with secret symbols and codes. Are they the work of Rosicrucians? This author explores these mysteries.
For three thousand years a code in the Bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer -- and it may reveal our future. The code was broken by an Israeli mathematician, who presented the proof in a major science journal, and it has been confirmed by famous mathematicians around the world.
The Mother of the Gods has birthed itself in every religion, including Christianity. The author researches sources of this mythology.
The mystical connection within Judaism, the Kaballah and this is a source material (or what remains of it) for practicing some of the ancient rites practiced by those mystics.
Symbolism, magic, kaballah, mysticism, and more are touched on in this book, a study into the research of Henry Cornelius Agrippa
The hidden traditions must have been successful, for every modern generation has its adherents searching for them. Lost in time, as the philosophers stone.