Contents: Masonry and Religion; From Darkness to Light; Initiation, Real and Ceremonial, The Purpose of the Mysteries, The Ideal Lodge; Light on the Way, The Knowledge of Yourself, The "G," The Ladder, The Superstructure, The Cable-Tow, The Apron, The Wind, Seeking a Master, Wages, The Law of the Mount; Fulness of Light, Observations and Examples, Apocalypsis; The Past and Future of the Masonic Order. Freemasons, this book should be in your Masonic library!

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

THE papers here collected are written solely for members of the Masonic Order, constituted under the United Grand Lodge of England. To all such they are offered in the best spirit of fraternity and goodwill and with the wish to render to the Order some small return for the profit the author has received from his association with it extending over thirty two years. They have been written with a view to promoting the deeper understanding of the meaning of Masonry; to providing the explanation of it that one constantly hears called for and that becomes all the more necessary in view of the unprecedented increase of interest in, and membership of, the Order at the present day. The meaning of Masonry, however, is a subject usually left entirely unexpounded and that accordingly remains largely unrealized by its members save such few as make it their private study; the authorities of what in all other respects is an elaborately organized and admirably controlled community have hitherto made no provision for explaining and teaching the "noble science" which Masonry proclaims itself to be and was certainly designed to impart.

Contents: Masonry and Religion; From Darkness to Light; Initiation, Real and Ceremonial, The Purpose of the Mysteries, The Ideal Lodge; Light on the Way, The Knowledge of Yourself, The "G," The Ladder, The Superstructure, The Cable-Tow, The Apron, The Wind, Seeking a Master, Wages, The Law of the Mount; Fulness of Light, Observations and Examples, Apocalypsis; The Past and Future of the Masonic Order. Freemasons, this book should be in your Masonic library!

We are to examine now a Ceremony which, because it is less dramatic and spectacular than that of the First Degree, is often regarded as a somewhat colourless interlude between the impressive surprises of the one which precedes and the awesome grandeur of the one which follows it. Being a 'veil of allegory' the Ceremony must not only be looked at but looked through, if its significance is to be realized. The Ceremony is called one of 'passing', since it relates to a midway, transitional phase of personal experience through which every aspirant to perfection must inevitably pass before he can think of attaining the ultimate degree of soul-development and mastership to which our system leads.

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