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"THE GREAT WORK IN SPECULATIVE FREEMASONRY"THE DORMER MASONIC STUDY CIRCLE #47

"There can be no rational doubt, however, that the moral influence of Freemasonry would be much more powerful and efficient if the sources of intelligence amongst the Fraternity were augmented, and a higher grade of science substituted forthe meagre outline which at present prevails in our Lodges." (Dr. George Oliver1846.)

THROUGHOUT the ages the spiritual doctrine which is concealed within the architectural phraseology of our modern Craft system has undergone the influence of many different traditions of the Ancient Wisdom. The student, therefore, who seeksto analyse Freemasonry as it stands to day often finds himself lost in a bewildering maze of various tributaries of knowledge, and is apt to pore indefinitely over a mass of fragmentary facts without perceiving their inter relation, or being able to coordinate them into one comprehensive scheme.

In this Paper the attempt will be made to present, for the guidance of Masonic students, an interpretation of the Egyptian metaphysical tradition in harmony with the teachings set forth in what are called the Mysteries; the Egyptian tradition will then be briefly discussed in the light of its transmission and ultimate

incorporation in Speculative Freemasonry; finally, reasons will be given in support of the theory, which we hold to be valid, that the Great Work ("Magnum Opus") of the Rosicrucians and Spiritual Alchemists is the same as that which is symbolised in our Masonic legend of H.A. Thoughtful students may find in the references to the Old Wisdom and the Mystery tradition an introduction to a great subject; nor should the Mysteries be thought of only as institutions long vanished into the night of time; rather their re establishment is to be accepted as inevitable. In years to come a wiser generation will restore the sacred rites which are

indispensable to the spiritual, intellectual and social security of the race. Meanwhile, preserving the witness, Freemasonry keeps burning the light of the perpetual Mysteries in a dark age. If, in comparison with former witnesses, Freemasonry is but a "glimmering ray" rather than a powerful beam of light, it is nonethe less a true ray; a kindly light lit from the world's central altar flame, an

d sufficient at least to lead some aspirants on amid the encircling gloom untilthe existing "state of darkness" is dispelled by the dawn of a new era.

It is now generally acknowledged by those competent to judge, that of all the ancient peoples the Egyptians were the most learned in the wisdom of the Secret Doctrine; indeed, there are some who would have it that Egypt was the Mother of the Mysteries, and that it was on the banks of the Nile that the Royal Art was born. We can affirm, without entering into any controversy on the matter, that thewisest of philosophers from other nations visited Egypt to be initiated in the sacred Mysteries; Thales, Solon, Pythagoras and Plato are all related to have journeyed from Greece to the delta of the Nile in quest of knowledge; and upon returning to their own country these illumined men each declared the Egyptians to be

the wisest of mortals, and the Egyptian temples to be the repositories of subli

me doctrines concerning the history of the Gods and the regeneration of men. Tothe earliest period of Egyptian metaphysical speculation belongs the fable of Isis and Osiris, and we find that the myth of the Dying God recurs in many of thegreat World Religions; also it is an established fact that the life, death and resurrection of the immortal mortal have become the prototype for numerous otherdoctrines of human regeneration.

The fable, as it has descended to us in the account given by Plutarch, the celebrated Greek biographer, has not been much amplified by modern research; nor hasany new key been found to unlock this sublime drama, which may well be termed th


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e "Passion Play" of Egypt. Plutarch himself, however, says that "the mystic symbols are well known to us who belong to the Brotherhood," and this intimation suggests that the interpretation of the myth as it is given by him in his "Isis and

Osiris" will reveal its hidden meaning to students who are already familiar with the principles of the doctrine. Moreover, a perusal of the introductory remarks made by Plutarch discloses that these are of special significance, for if he,by any word or symbol, reveals even a small part of the sacred Mystery to the uninitiated, we may fairly claim that such revelation is to be found in the following excerpt from the text of his work :

"Isis, according to the Greek interpretation of the word, signifies knowledge; as does the name of her professed adversary Typhon; (signify) insolence and pride, a name therefore extremely well adapted to one, who, full of ignorance and error, tears in pieces and conceals that holy doctrine, which the Goddess collects,

compiles and delivers to those who aspire after the most perfect participationof the divine nature."

We have in this passage a clear indication that Osiris is to be regarded as thepersonification of an Order of learning, because Plutarch identifies him beyondquestion with the "holy doctrine," or, in other words, the Mystery tradition. Hence, we may further deduce that since, in the Egyptian system, THOTH personifies

the whole sphere of knowledge (and it was through THOTH that OSIRIS came into being), so Osiris embodies the secret and sacred wisdom reserved for those who were proficients in the ancient rites. To the Elect, therefore, Osiris represented

"primordial knowledge," and He signified not only divine "at one ment" with theAbsolute (which is the end of all illumination), but by his life, death and resurrection, He also revealed the means by which mortal consciousness could attain

that end. Stated alternatively, the personality of Osiris typifies the Institution erected by the ancients in order to perpetuate the deathless truths of the soul.

We will next examine the Egyptian historical tradition. According to this, Osiris is the first of the five children of the Goddess NUT ; He therefore corresponds with the first of the five divine kings of China and the five exoterically known Dhyana Buddhas of Lamaism. The five children of NUT are otherwise the five traditional root races which have populated the five continents which have appeared upon the earth. Isis is represented as being born on the fourth day, and is co

nnected with the fourth race (populating Atlantis see Plato "Timaeus" and "Critias"), the tradition of Osiris (the primitive revelation of the first race) coming into Egypt through the Atlantean Mystery School, of which Isis is the symbol.From the Egyptian account of the reign of Osiris as King we glean the followingphilosophical history; there was a time, the Golden Age, when truth and wisdom ruled the earth, and this aristocracy of wisdom was a benevolent despotism in which men were led to a nobler state of being by the firm kindly hand of the enlighted sage. This was the dynasty of the mythological Priest Kings, who were qualified to govern humanity by reason not only of temporal, but of divine attributes;

through his priests, Osiris, representative of the hidden tradition, ruled theentire world by virtue of the perfection resident in that tradition. If, then, we may concede that Osiris is the positive pole of the universal life agent, Isis

becomes the receptive pole of that activity ; He is the doctrine, She is the Ch

urch; and as in Christianity it is customary to refer to the Church as the Brideof Christ, so in ancient Egypt the institution of the Mysteries was the Great Mother, the consort of heaven itself. From this interpretation we gain a deeper insight into the symbolism of the whole Osirian cycle.

Isis signifies the temporal order of the priesthood, the cumulative body of Initiates; She is personified as the Temple; She is the Mother of all good, the protectress of right, the patron of all improvement; She ensures nobility, inspiresvirtue, and awakens the nobler passions of the soul; like the Moon as reflector,

She shines only with the light of Her sovereign Sun, even as the Temple can onl


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y be illumined by its indwelling truth.

In the Egyptian metaphysical system, TYPHON, the conspirer against OSIRIS, is the embodiment of every perversity; He is the negative creation (the AHRIMAN of Zoroaster); He is black magic and sorcery, the Black Brotherhood and his wife, NEPHTHYS, is the institution through which He manifests. The traditional history relates that TYPHON lured OSIRIS into the ark of destruction, stated to be it chest or coffin (the symbol of material organisation the imprisonment of the soul in

a physical body), at the time when the Sun entered the house of Scorpio, i.e.,the 17th day of the second month of the Egyptian year (corresponding to the month of November in our calendar); hence we know him to be the type of the eternalnegative, the betrayer of the Lord, namely JUDAS. In the initiation rites Typhon

is also the "tester" or "tryer" ("the Lord who is against us"), personifying ambition the patron of ruin. Typhon was assisted in his "impious design" to usurpthe throne of Osiris by ASO (the Queen of Ethiopia) and seventy two other conspirators. These conspirators represent the three destructive powers, "the three ruffians," which are preserved to modern Freemasonry as the murderers of the Master Builder; they are ignorance, superstition and fear. Thus the advent of greed and perversion marked the end of the Golden Age, and with the death of Osiris, Typhon forthwith ascended the throne as regent of the world. It is further narrated that in consequence of the material organisation of the social sphere which followed upon the exile of Truth to the invisible world, Isis, the Mother of the Mysteries, was so defiled and desecrated by the profane, that her sages and prophets were forced to flee into the wilderness to escape the machinations of the ev

il one. At this stage, Isis, now represented by the scattered but still consecrated body of Initiates, began the great search for the secret that was lost; andin all parts of the world the virtuous in "grief and distress" raised their hands to the heavens, pleading for the restoration of the reign of Truth. Continuing

their search in all parts of the earth and throughout innumerable ages, the congregation of the just at last re discovered the lost arcana and brought it backwith rejoicing to the world over which it once ruled. In this manner, we learn,Isis by magic (the initiated priests were magicians), resurrected the dead God,and through union with him brought forth an order of priests under the collective title of HORUS. These were the HERJ SESHTA (the Brothers of Horus), the chiefof whom wore the dog headed mask of ANUBIS. Anubis was the son of Osiris by NEPHTHYS (the material world) and represents the divine man, or the mortal being who

rose to enlightenment.

Ambition, however, personified by Typhon, knowing that temporal power must die if divine power, in the form of Truth, became re established in the world, put forth all its might to again scatter the doctrine, and this time so thoroughly that it should never again be re discovered. If, as Plutarch has suggested, Typhonin one of his manifestations represents the sea, then it would appear that the second destruction of Osiris may refer to the Atlantean deluge (alluded to in the

dialogues of Plato) by which the doctrine was swallowed up or lost, and its fragments scattered among all the existing civilizations of that time. According to

the narrative, the body of Osiris (the Secret Doctrine) was now divided into fourteen parts and distributed among the parts of the world; that is, it was scattered through the seven divine and seven infernal spheres (the "lokas" and "talas" of the Indian tradition), or by a different symbolism, through the seven world

s which are without and the seven worlds which are within. The parts of Osiris were now scattered so hopelessly that Typhon felt his authority to be secure at last, but wisdom is not so easily to be cheated, and in due time, we are informed, Isis succeeded in recovering all the parts except one, the phallus, which hadbeen thrown into the river and devoured by three fishes. Failing to recover thephallus, Isis is said to have substituted a golden replica for the missing organ. In our interpretation of this symbolism we must infer that mankind itself is represented by the fish, the phallus being the symbol of the " vital and immortal

principle," and so used in Egyptian hieroglyphics. The phallus, therefore, denotes the Lost Word (the three fold generative power), and the golden replica of E


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gypt, which was rendered alive by magic, is the equivalent of the three letteredword of our modern Freemasonry, concealed (in the Royal Arch Degree) under the

letters A U M. It should here be noted that in the Egyptian rites, Isis, by modelling and reproducing the missing member of Osiris, gives the body the appearance of completeness, but the life power is not there; recourse is therefore had to

magic and the golden phallus is brought to life by means of the secret processes rescued from the lost "Book of Thoth." The allusion is to the restoration of divine power through the regeneration of man himself and the Initiation processes.

Isis was the patroness of the magical arts among the Egyptians, but the use to which magic should be put is clearly shown in the Osirian cycle where Isis applies the most potent of her charms and invocations to accomplish the resurrection of Osiris. In other words, the magical power is used solely for the purpose of the redemption of the human soul. Masonic students are recommended to study carefully such magical practices as evidenced in the various types of dramatic initiatory ritual. To quote the eminent psychologist, Dr. Jung, from his commentary to"The Secret of the Golden Flower":

"Magical practices are the projections of psychic events which, in cases like these, exert a counter influence on the soul and act like a kind of enchantment of

one's own personality. That is to say, by means of these concrete performancesthe attention, or, better said, the interest, is brought back to an inner sacred

domain which is the source and goal of the soul. The inner domain contains the

unity of life and consciousness which, though once possessed, has been lost andmust now be found again."

In the Egyptian rites HORUS is the saviour avengert son of ISIS, conceived by magic (the ritual) after the brutal murder of OSIRIS; hence he is the posthumous redeemer. The destruction of TYPHON is to be accomplished by ISIS through her immaculately conceived son, HORUS, which is a term concealing the collective body of the perfected adepts who were "born again" out of the womb of the Mother ISIS,

the Mystery School. We can apply this analogy to our great modern system of Initiation, which has certainly perpetuated the outer form of the ancient rites. Freemasonry as an Institution is, in this sense, the modern ISIS, the Mother of the Mysteries, from whose dark womb the Initiates are born in the mystery of the second or philosophic birth. Similarly, all Masonic adepts (Master Masons) are, b

y virtue of their participation in the rites, figuratively speaking, "Sons of the Widow"; they are the offspring of the Institution widowed by the loss of the living Word, and theirs is the eternal quest they discover by becoming.

The metaphysical significance of the death and resurrection of the Egyptian demigod has for the most part been lost to the Craft, notwithstanding the undoubtedfact that Masonic scholars of the calibre of Pike, Mackey and Oliver are in gen

eral agreement as to a definite association between the legend of Osiris and thedrama enacted in the Third Degree. We may, however, attribute the failure of st

udents to recognize the Egyptian origin of certain parts of Craft Lodge ritualism and symbolism to the transmission of the legend by way of the Hebrews who, naturally, superimposed their own terminology on the tradition they received from Egypt. In the Schools of Hebrew mysticism, the Mystery drama of the death and res

urrection of Osiris became that of the slaying and raising of the Master Builder, and the Temple of Solomon took the place of the Egyptian " House of Light." With the Rabbinical mystics the erection and subsequent vicissitudes of Solomon'sTemple provided a great glyph or mythos of the upbuilding of the human soul, and

this secret lore also found partial, although cryptic, expression in the Hebrewpublic Scriptures in terms of building.

The next important influence affecting the ancient tradition was that of the Christian Mysteries, those rites of which Clement and Origen spoke so highly; and as the course of Hebrew history advanced and the stream of mystical doctrine wide


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ned into its Christian development, the same symbolic terminology continued to be used. We find, therefore, that the Gospels, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse teem with Masonic imagery and allusions to spiritual building. Indeed, it is in these that the human soul is expressly declared to be the real Temple which was prefigured by the earlier historic or quasi historic structure, while a spiritual

Chief Cornerstone, rejected of certain builders, is mentioned. St. Ignatius, one of the known pupils of St. John, is to be found expounding the teaching of the

Mysteries in the following purely Masonic terms :

"Forasmuch as ye are stones of a Temple, which were prepared beforehand for a building of God, the Father, being hoisted up to the heights by the working tool of Jesus Christ, which is the Cross, and using for a rope the Holy Spirit ; yourfaith being a windlass, and love the way leading up to God. So then ye are all Companions in the way, spiritual temples, carrying your Divine principle within you, your shrine, your Christ and your holy things, being arrayed from head to foot with the commandments of Christ." (Ignatius: "Epistle to the Ephesians")

The pronounced Masonic imagery used by St. lgnatius (who was martyred at Rome inA.D. 107) tends to corroborate the tradition that the Square, the Level and thePlumb rule, now allocated to the Master and Wardens of a Lodge, were formerly a

ssociated with the Bishop, Priest and Deacon, when serving at the secret altarsof the persecuted Christians. Put together, the three tools form obviously a Cross, which, on the worshippers being disturbed by the secular authorities, couldbe quickly knocked apart and appear as builder's implements.

The Mysteries came to an end as public institutions in the sixth century, when from political considerations they and the teaching of the Secret Doctrine and philosophy became prohibited by the Roman Government, at the instigation of Justinian, who aimed at inaugurating an official uniform State religion throughout the

Empire. Since the suppression of the Mysteries, however, their tradition and teaching have been continued under various concealments, and to that continuationour modern Masonic system is due. To the early Middle Ages the inner Christian tradition appeared again in the Knight Templars and the Mysteries of the Holy Grail, and it is significant that these henceforth become associated with Speculative Freemasonry. But, the most profound influence which went to make Freemasonrywhat it is today was that of the mysterious Order of the Rosy Cross. The memoryof this Rosicrucian influence is preserved, not only in the Eighteenth Degree of

the Ancient and Accepted Rite, but also (and perhaps as much) in the Craft Degrees, especially in the Third Degree.

The exoteric history of the Rosicrucian Society commences with the year 1614. Inthat year there was published at Cassel in Germany a pamphlet entitled: "The Di

scovery of the Fraternity of the Meritorious Order of the Rosy Cross, addressedto the Learned in General and the Governors of Europe." After a discussion of the momentous questions of the general reformation of the world, which was to be accomplished through the medium of a secret confederacy of the wisest and most philanthropic men, the pamphlet proceeds to inform its readers that such an association is already in existence, having been founded over one hundred years earlier by the famous C.R.C., grand initiate in the mysteries of Alchemy, whose history (which is clearly of a fabulous or symbolical nature) is given. The following

year a further pamphlet: "The Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, addressed to the Learned in Europe" appeared, and in 1616, "The Chymical Nuptials of Christian Rosencreutz." This latter book is a remarkable allegorical romance, describing how an old man, a lifelong student of the Alchemistic Art, was present atthe accomplishment of the "Magnum Opus" (Great Work) in the year 1459. From theMasonic point of view, it was obviously not without adequate reason that Michael

Maier, one of the greatest of the reputed Rosicrucians (born 1568), exhibited on the title page of his book " Septimana Philosophica (et Arabias Regina Saba nec non Hyramo Tyri Principe)," King Solomon imparting his riddles to the Queen of

Sheba on his right hand, and Hiram on his left. And as early as 1638 we find Ad


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amson declaring in his " Muses' Threnodie":

"For we are Brethren of the Rosie Cross,We have the Mason Word and second sight."

showing how intimately the two Orders were identified. We also have the later testimony of Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom, who claims to have been initiated into the Society of the Rosicrucians on the Isle of Maritius on 12th September, 1794, by the mysterious Comte de Chazal, and who has left extensive manuscripts setting forth his findings and opinions on matters of importance to Masonic students. The learned Doctor describes the transition through which the Ancient Brotherhood passed in the process of externalising certain parts of itself in the system we know as Speculative Freemasonry. His conclusions agree with the available evidence,

all of which points to the fact that one definite group was behind the movementwhich projected the Craft system. To trace the genesis of this movement, which

came into activity some two hundred and fifty years ago (our rituals and ceremonies having been compiled round about the year 1700), is beyond the scope of ourpresent subject. It should, however, be stated here that the movement itself incorporated the slender ritual and the elementary symbolism which, for centuries previously, had been employed in connection with the mediaeval Building Guilds, but it gave to them a far fuller meaning and a far wider range. We may regard itas certain that the Craft received from this source much that the old OperativeLodges had never possessed, such as the Third Degree (with its highly mystical Opening and Closing); the Craft Legend or Traditional History; the central part o

f the Installation Rite (now observed in the Conclave or Board of Installed Masters); and many other allusions to occult science, mysticism, and even magic.

We must emphasize at this stage that our present Masonic system is not one coming from remote antiquity. There is no direct continuity between us and the Egyptians, or those ancient Hebrews, of whom we have already spoken. What is extremely

ancient in Freemasonry is the spiritual doctrine which is concealed within thearchitectural phraseology of the Ritual; for this is an elementary form of the doctrine taught in all ages, I no Matter in what garb it has been expressed. To put it another way: Freemasonry offers, in dramatic ceremonial, a philosophy of the spiritual life of man and a diagram of the process known as regeneration. This philosophy is not only consistent with the doctrine of every religious systemtaught outside the ranks of our Order, but it explains, elucidates and more shar

ply defines, the fundamental doctrines common to all religions of the world, whether past or present. Allied with no external religion itself, Freemasonry is yet a synthesis, a concordat, for men of every race, of every creed, of every sect, and its foundation principles being common to them all, admit of no variation.

The function of every phase of Masonic routine, the avowed intention of its principal rituals, and the implication of its teaching, is to assist the genuine candidate by his aspiration to find that unity of being which is variously described as the Centre, the Kingdom of Heaven, the pure essence of Mind, the Buddha nature, the Inner Self, and the Christ within.

In the light of the foregoing, it will be seen that Freemasonry depends for itslife and strength on the Ancient Wisdom teaching which is enshrined in it; a Teaching designed to answer those eternal questions as to the why, the whence, and

the whither of all human existence. These, indeed, are the deepest problems of life, and ultimately we are concerned only with their solution, for sooner or later we are forced to enquire why live at all, why exert ourselves in any personal

or social endeavour, if we know not whither it all leads? The problems of the why and whither of human life are those which have ever occupied thinking men ; they are at the bottom of every philosophic system, and the systems themselves are but an attempt to answer them. And yet no words can ever fully answer these problems, for no language can express the Reality of Life; this can only be experienced by the living soul of Man. As Emerson truly says: "The soul answers neverby words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after." It is in the experien


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ce of Life that the answers are found, and only the man who has lived deeply isreally wise. The wisdom of the sage is the sum total of his human experience, but even he cannot impart his knowledge to others; they, in their turn, must first

experience the realities of Life, for only by such means do they attain to a wider consciousness. How, then, is it possible that anything so profound and intimate as what Freemasonry calls "the Centre " in Man, can be held fast as a permanent force acting in the world of phenomena? It is possible, in virtue of the special power represented by tradition. A spiritual tradition is never objective knowledge, nor practice which has become mechanical, but a living continuance of the living impulse which created it.

Every great Initiation system, so long as its progress is guided by enlightenedminds, distinguishes clearly between its Ritual and oral tradition. It is on the

oral tradition that the main stress is laid; tradition alone can teach how thetext of the Ritual ought to be understood, which in the end is the only thing that matters. Whosoever claims that he can extract the original meaning from the text of the Ritual without the help of tradition, is really only reading his ownmeaning in to it ; and it is only if the two minds are specially congenial, or the one has a special gift for entering into the mind of another, that the new meaning in any measure coincides with the old. What is true of comprehension is even more generally true of being, for comprehension too is handed on as a state of being. Here the universally valid law is manifest, that everywhere like worksupon like ; hence the eternal validity of the relation of Master and disciple, and the traditional reference in our Masonic Lectures "To seek for a Master and f

rom him to gain instruction" (First Section, First Lecture).The widening of consciousness gained by direct experience is so great that, as shown in the traditional Ceremony of admission into the Craft, it is called an Initiation " a new beginning." A new life does indeed begin for him who has been "regularly initiated" into the Mysteries; an actual change has taken place in him, and needless to add no words could ever accomplish as much. The candidate forInitiation in the Schools of the Ancient Mysteries, therefore, did not attain merely by hearing and repeating words, but always by undergoing the process conferred upon him by already initiated Masters or experts, an experience which resulted in an expansion of his consciousness. St. Clement of Alexandria testifies tothis when he writes:

"But the Mysteries are delivered mystically, that which is spoken may be in themouth of the speaker; not in his voice, but rather in his understanding. The writing of these memoranda of mine, I well know, is weak when compared with that spirit, full of grace, which I was privileged to hear. But it will be an image torecall the archetype to him who was struck by the Thyrsus."

(Stromateis: Bk. 1. ch. 28.)

Such an experience was of necessity always reserved for the few, but notwithstanding some shadow of it was also within reach of those who, although not fully qualified to become Initiates, were none the less genuine seekers for knowledge. For them there were the Lesser Mysteries, in which the actual change in consciousness did not take place, but something of its meaning was conveyed to the candid

ate by his participation in a series of rites in which the chief events of the Greater Mysteries were presented to him in dramatised form.

We can now proceed to judge of what supreme importance the influence of the RosyCross was to Speculative Freemasonry. The mysteries of the Rosy Cross were the

Greater Mysteries, as we know from the testimony of those who were admitted to them, and the contact of the Rosicrucians with Freemasonry undoubtedly resulted in the gradual importation into Masonic Lodges of teaching derived from more hidden and exalted sources. Many students of the Craft system are unaware of the great value of literary works attributed to Rosicrucian authorship. These works cal


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l for our serious study because their contents are directly related to that bodyof science and doctrine concerning human nature and its perfectibility, which t

he concealed Founders of the Craft system, subtly and under deep veils of phrasing, planted in the soil of Masonic ritual. The Hermetic Lore, as the body of the

Rosicrucian teaching is often called, comprehends both a spiritual and a physical science ; a Science of the Spirit, and a Science of Nature. Both of these elements of the Rosicrucian wisdom are also to be understood by the use of the term

" Great Work "; and while it is true that the goal of the Hermetic philosopherincluded such knowledge as would enable him to transmute base metals, there wasthe higher or spiritual aspect in which the laboratory was Man himself, the base

metals his own lower nature, and the transmutation, that change by which through mystic death ("putrefactio"), a Rebirth ("regeneratio") took place. Modern scholarship, of course, still leaves unsolved the question of the correct classification of Rosicrucian alchemical treatises as mystical, magical, or simply primitively chemical. The most reasonable view, however, is surely that which is prepounded in the treatises themselves, namely that the physical problem of the transmutation of base metals into gold is, in essence, the same as that of Man's physical regeneration. Michael Sendivogius alludes to this conception of the work in

his treatise appropriately entitied " New Chemical Light," as follows:

"The Sages have been taught of God that this natural world is only an image andmaterial copy of a heavenly and spiritual pattern; that the very existence of this world is based upon the reality of its celestial archetype; and that God hascreated it in imitation of the spiritual and invisible Universe, in order that m

en might be better enabled to comprehend His heavenly teaching, and the wonder of His absolute and ineffable power and wisdom. Thus the Sage sees heaven reflected in Nature as in a mirror; and he pursues this Art, not for the sake of gold or silver, but for the love of the Knowledge which it reveals; he jealously conceals it from the sinner and the scornful, lest the mysteries of heaven should belaid bare to the vulgar gaze."

("New Chemical Light," Part 11, Concerning Sulphur.)

The work for which the Craft was designed is described in the language of Alchemy as the "ERGON" primary work; the work of natural science and the making of physical gold is but the "PARERGON" secondary work. In the sense of the primary work Gold is the attribute of divinity and is closely connected with Fire as a spir

itual emblem:"But he knoweth the way that I take; when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."

(Job 23, verse 10).

"Every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, becauseit shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is."

(1 Corinthians 3, verse 13).

The doctrine of Freemasonry in relation to the Rosicrucian mystery teachings canbest be appreciated after a preliminary statement of some of the basic principles on which, it is affirmed, rests all progress in the Royal Art. There is, however, independent evidence of the Rosicrucian influence on the genesis of the Craft system. Historical research indicates that the originators of Speculative Freemasonry, the members of the so called " Invisible Society," simultaneously with

launching the Craft, arranged for the formation of the Royal Society, which became chartered in 1662 for the advancement of scientific knowledge. Strictly in accordance with the Hermetic wisdom, therefore, the "Invisibles" projected two systems; one (the Craft) intended to be devoted to mystical studies and personal s


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piritual development; the other (the Royal Society) aiming at the promotion of natural science upon occult principles and under the guidance of qualified experts.

Science, in the popular mind, represents nothing more than the body of those beliefs, conclusions, or generalizations, which individual scientists at various times put forth in a tentative way as landmarks, so to speak, in their endless search for increasingly valid formulations of Reality. It is to these conclusions,often called "facts," that we allude when we state that "science teaches" this or that. But strictly speaking science does not "teach" anything at all. It is amethod rather than a body of conclusions, and it is scientific method in Speculative Freemasonry with which we are here concerned. Let us illustrate by a few specific examples. We live in a world which the ordinary man accepts as a reality,

existing quite independently of himself. To him it is supremely real, and to doubt this fact would seem to be sheer madness. Yet he cannot fathom his own relation to this world, and he cannot adequately explain how he actually perceives it. Is it by means of the senses? If so, how does the sense impression affect consciousness? When we "see" an object, all we can be sure of is that something outside us has affected our eyes by means of vibrations of a definite rate; that our

optic nerves convey the impression to the brain cells; that a chemical change takes place there, and then we "see" the object; we are aware of a certain shape,

various colours and textures. What mystery has taken place by means of which the chemical change in the grey matter of the brain has created in our consciousness the image of the object? And, having "seen," as we say; what do we, after all

, really know about the object? Similarly, in the attempt to formulate a philosophical exposition of the world and life experience, almost any first statement we may make can be seized upon and criticized as one sided, and therefore untrue.

The world is a unity; the world is pluralistic. Time is continuous; time is composed of irreducible atomic elements. The world comes to the individual from without; the world of the individual is a world of inner experience. Each of thesepremises is admitted to be true in one respect or another. But how are they true? In what sense are they true? In what general point of view can be set up in accordance with which the apparent conflicts are resolved? Is this world a dream world daily existence, friends, work is it all a fantastic illusion. Yes and no.This is a paradox the world in which we live is Real and yet Unreal; the mystery

of its relation to us and its measure of reality can only be disclosed in the depths of our own consciousness. Plato compares ordinary men to prisoners bound i

n a cave, of which they can see only the back wall. On this wall fall shadows cast by those who pass the mouth of the cave. The play of shadows is the prisoner's world; it is reality to them; but whenever one of them succeeds in freeing himself, and sees the entrance, sees the Light and the real beings moving in it, then he realizes that he has lived in a world of illusion, that he has been "in astate of darkness," and that his eyes have been "hoodwinked." We must know ourselves in order to know the world. The man, therefore, who becomes proficient in "that most interesting of all human studies, the knowledge of himself," renounces

the popular world; and he gradually attains consciousness in a world describedas "not to be touched by hand or to be seen by eye," but otherwise supremely real. Withdrawal from this world of illusion, however, involves a transition from the ordinary natural state and standard of living towards what is @n as the regenerate state, with its correspondingly higher standard. A word now upon the facul

ty to be employed in the apprehension of interior truth.

It is often remarked @that a natural timidity affects those to whom is suggesteda transition from old and familiar roads of study, comfortably charted and lit

with the bright lamps of convention, to a new and unknown path of research striking away into the darkness of obscurity beyond the official boundaries of orthodox systems of knowledge. The earnest seeker after Truth, however, fortified by the imperative will to know, soon learns that the outer darkness on investigation

reveals rare lights of its own, and is in fact but "darkness visible," althoughlight of a quality hitherto undiscerned. In this difficult study, knowing depen


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ds entirely upon doing; comprehension is conditional upon and the corollary of action " He that will do the will shall know of the doctrine " for the doing automatically liberates an inward faculty capable of directly cognizing self evident

truth. We know not how to describe a faculty which when awakened, exists and functions in complete independence of the physical organism. In our Masonic symbolism, as in other treatises of arcane psychology, it is described, in analogy with the natural luminary, as "the Sun, to rule the day," whilst the logical understanding is "the Moon, to govern the night" and direct the merely temporal affairs of life. This latter, embracing as it does the reasoning faculty and tie lower

or objective mind, is appointed to serve as a light in the natural world, but,the gift notwithstanding, it forms a cloud of darkness as regards light from the

spiritual element that is both within and without us, and indeed, may obscure all spiritual vision. Not until a man has learned to relegate this "lesser light"

to its appropriate use in the natural world, can he, walking in darkness, hopeto see the great luminary, which, invisible to the physical sense, but present in the central depths of his nature, lightens every man coming into the world, and which, to those who having clean hands and pure hearts, are fitted to evoke it, manifests in mental illumination and expanded consciousness.

We turn now from the psychologic to the metaphysical aspect of the Great Work. The entire object of the Royal Art of the Rosicrucians and spiritual Alchemists is said to be the uncovering of the inner faculty of insight and wisdom, alludedto above, and the removal of the veils intervening between the mind and dividing

it from its hidden divine root. Not only does this science envisage an individu

al in whom the several constituents of consciousness are united, but it aspirestowards the development of an integrated and free man who is likewise building up in the present life what is known in the technical language of mysticism as the "resurrection" or "arch natural" body. This is also the profound idea which governs our symbolic craft of Masonry; the "raising of a superstructure, perfect in all its parts and honourable to the builder." As to the metaphysical materialof which these structures are to be reared, the Hermetic and Alchemical schoolsadopted the mystical terms of Scripture and called it a "stone," the "philosopher's stone." It is, indeed, the "white stone" which is given "to him that overcometh" the lower nature, as that Apostle did who thereupon received the name thatimplies "a stone"; for it is only then that the individual aspirant becomes a "foundation," a "rock" upon which may be erected a "temple," a personal sanctuaryof the Spirit whose abode is the souls of men rather than temples made with hand

s. The teaching of the Alchemists demonstrates how this "stone" must be "confected," worked up in the individual by a "manual art" (like our Masonic "art" not to be understood in the literal sense) from chaos to perfection. They describe the work as undergoing three stages: the black, the white, and the red, which arethe Alchemical equivalents of the three Degrees of Speculative Freemasonry. Thus

as, psychologically, regeneration involves the three traditional stages of purgation, illumination, and union, so, metaphysically, there are three corresponding stages of corporeal development. To each of these may be added a fourth, although unlikely of achievement in this life; the attainment of divine union in permanence, which during physical life can only be temporary and partial; and the corresponding perfecting and consolidation of the arch natural vesture perfect holiness belongs only to the Lord."

The first stage in Alchemy "the stone at the black in Freemasonry a poor candidate in a state of darkness"; is intended to typify the benighted mind and unclarified state of the soul's vesture at the outset of the Great Work. At this stagethe physical nature must be accounted an integral factor in the "work," and is to be dedicated and employed accordingly. It is the vessel or crucible in which the alchemic change is to be wrought, but the regimen enjoined is "the renewing of your mind," not the maceration of the body; for, in a deeper than the familiar

sense, "corpus sanum" will ensue surely enough upon "mens sana." The second stage ; in Alchemy " the stone at the white"; in Freemasonry "clothed in White Apron and gloves as emblems of innocence"; signifies that the clouded mind and the s


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oul's black vesture of "earth" have been cleansed by the baptism of "a fall of water" the Alchemical remedy of "the Elixir of Life." The third stage in Alchemy"the stone at the red"; in Freemasonry the sublime Degree"; symbolises entranceinto the sanctuary and denotes the aspirant whose purified soul enters the experience of the divine union. Following the Alchemical precedent Freemasonry recognizes that the third stage involves two "operations," known in Alchemy as the refining of silver and gold, and accordingly the three Degrees of Freemasonry also"include the Holy Royal Arch of Jerusalem" as their climax. The clothing, therefore, worn in the Master Mason Degree is distinguished by silver, the first of the "noble" or "precious" metals; whereas in the Royal Arch Degree, "the completion of the Master Mason Degree," it is adorned with gold. The transmutation has now been effected ; in the Holy Royal Arch the soul is "all glorious within" and the clothing is of wrought gold ; " wrought," since gold indicates that holy ultimate substance, which, although always latent in each one of us, like gold dustin common soil, needs mining, refining, and working up by skilful craftsmanshipbefore becoming a "jewel" for the King's Treasury. Lastly, the "gold must be tried in fire"; the growing celestial body must be perfected and fixated until capable of eternal endurance in the burning heat of the Divine "penetralia." This perfecting is scarcely to be looked for in the present life, but its achievement,as the state attained by those who become "king and priests unto God," is symbolically attested in Speculative Freemasonry by the robes worn by those who are called to corresponding rank in the outer Chapter; the prince prelates of the Grand Sanhedrin, represented " in the persons of the three Principals."

Our thought in this Paper has reached high ground, but we have laboured to be lucid in speaking of things exacting unwonted claims upon the normal understandingand that, although the subject of an abundant literature, have ever been expres

sed in terms of great restraint and concealment. The understanding of these things will be assisted by realising physical things to be in faithful correspondence with metaphysical, and that, as we advance from the one to the other, we employ in turn the self blinded eye of sense, the closed eye of faith, and the opened

eye of the soul. At the beginning of the Quest the aspirant is conscious only of things of the physical order. Let him, however, commit himself, with bandagedeyes, to his instinct in the possibility of a great self transfiguration, believing that "My covenant is with your flesh," and at the end of it, as with John, the spiritual seer, the hoodwink is removed and faith passes into sight. His eyes

"see" the salvation prepared before the face of all people, but hidden from the

m by a passing blindness, and he can testify that in very deed "the tabernacle of God is with men," and not elsewhere. We will conclude with a quotation from Plotinus which may serve to illustrate the position of this Study Circle in relation to our Brethren of the Craft:

"If we speak and write, it is but as guides to those who long to see: we send them to the place itself, bidding them from words to the Vision: the teaching is of the Path and the Plan, seeing is the work of each Soul for itself."

(Plotinus Ennead VI, 9.4. tr. Stephen McKenna.)

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(Diagram From `Be Wise As Serpents` Fritz Springmeier.) Revelation 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiter's of the earth and of the sea, for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Introduction. As an amateur researcher and writer, with perhaps too much time on

his hands, I am fortunate to be able to devote many hours a day reading books and online articles relating to what I will call in this essay the Luciferian Con


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spiracy. I make no pretensions that what follows is in any way original or eveninnovative. Most of it excepting my own personal observations can be found in much greater detail elsewhere, and for that purpose, I have included a full bibliography and reference section at article's end. What I have tried to do here is collect information gleaned from reading the work of such exceptional researchers

as William J. Sutton, Fritz Springmeier, William F. Jasper, Henry Makow, DavidLivingstone and Texe Marrs, and create a condensed summary of evidence which will show that as it says in the Bible verse above, Lucifer is amongst us, and themayhem and chaos we are now experiencing on an international scale in this the first decade of the 21st century, is due to the culmination of many millenia of plotting and planning by the eternal adversary as mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. If only four years ago, someone had made a similar assertion to me as that above, I would have raised an eyebrow or two, and politely or not, dismissed the idea. But all of my research these past few years has led me to believe just that; That Lucifer is real, and is here on earth, in this dimension, and through thosewho descend directly from his line, and their puppets, he is causing havoc and chaos in an attempt to seat himself, or his proxy on the throne of a World State,

and to inaugurate a New Religion with himself it's sole deity. During my investigations into the Illuminati Brotherhood and their diabolical machinations to cull and enslave mankind, I had until quite recently been oblivious to an aspect of the Global Conspiracy which in it's breadth, depth and scope i

s like no other. I am speaking about the New Age Movement and it's plan to introduce a World Religion. I have tried to be as brief and to the point as possible,and hope the reader will have the patience to stick with me. My ultimate intent

ion here is to lead people to the work of those dedicated men listed above, which in turn will help others to truly come to terms with the realisation, that for

all it's mystical hype and apparent diversity, what many now refer to as `The Rainbow Conspiracy` is in reality the Luciferian Conspiracy`. Below, I have tried to connect as many of those `dots` as an article of this type allows, in order to draw a red line through each of the many interconnecting aspects of what the New Age terms `The Plan` and what Freemasonry calls `The Great Work Of Ages`. Call it what you will, by `essay's end` , it should become obvious that what we are dealing with is Lucifer's rebellion against God.

The Far Pavillions. During the 1960s and '70s, large numbers of disillusioned intellectuals, alienated students and others from the West, travelled to India and

other points east seeking "truth, wisdom, enlightenment, and good karma" from aready made supply of gurus, swamis, yogis, and other self styled "Illuminated m

asters." Few understood that they were merely following in the footsteps of a woman who a hundred or so years earlier had trodden a similar path and set out the

foundations for the present occult revival being experienced globally, and whose work is pivotal to the spiritual character of the United Nations today and the

cause of a World Religion. That woman was Helena P. Blavatsky (1831 1891), widely regarded as the high priestess of the modern New Age Movement. Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society

in New York in 1875, and during her lifetime, established close relations withFreemasonry, receiving the Certificate of the `Rite Of Adoption` from Mason JohnYarker in 1877. Blavatsky's Theosophy taught arcane "knowledge" (Gnosis), the u

niversal brotherhood of mankind, and unity among all religions, except the monotheistic religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism , which she insisted could not be reconciled with what she termed "individual enlightenment." Blavatsky damned Yahweh as a "capricious and unjust." God. In her view, he was the God of the Israelites and nothing more. She insisted that the Holy Scriptures

were wrong, it was really Lucifer who was the `Good and Just God`, victimised b


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y the harsh and unjust Yahweh. Blavatsky maintained that the the name Satan, belonged by right to the first and cruelest "Adversary" of all other Gods, and notto the serpent which spoke only words of sympathy and wisdom. She somehow reasoned that Satan/Lucifer is GOD the Creator, the Savior, the Father; and that Jesus

is "the first born brother of Satan." She wrote, "Satan, the Serpent of Genesis, is the real creator and benefactor, the Father of Spiritual mankind. For it is

he ... who opened the eyes of the automaton (Adam) created by Yahweh, as alleged.... An adversary to him ... he still remains in Esoteric Truth the ever loving

messenger ... who conferred on us spiritual instead of physical immortality." She claimed to have had experience with astral projection and the ability to communicate with the spirit world. Her books, `Isis Unveiled` and her three volume,

`The Secret Doctrine` were supposedly channelled through her by the "Masters ofWisdom," Tibetan `holy men`, which any Christian, Jew or Muslim should recognis

e as being synonymous with demons. In her book, `The Secret Doctrine` Blavatsky wrote, "Lucifer represents life, thought, progress, civilisation, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, theSerpent, the Saviour" and "It is Lucifer who is the God of our planet and the only God", and she continues, "The celestial Virgin which thus becomes the Motherof Gods and Devils at one and the same time, for she is the ever loving beneficent deity, but in antiquity and reality, Lucifer or Luciferius is the name. Lucifer is the divine and terrestrial light, the Holy Ghost and Satan at one and thesame time".

When Blavatsky died in 1891, Annie Besant, a militant feminist, co mason, and amember of the Fabian Socialist Society of England took over the reigns of leadership. As a close friend of George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, and other leading Fabians, she was in an excellent position to disseminate theosophical ideas in some very influential circles. She took part in revolutionary street riots and wrote numerous occultic works to complement those of Blavatsky. After Besant, came Alice Bailey and her husband, Foster Bailey, a 32nd Degree Freemason. Having assumed the leadership of the Theosophical Society together, they formulated and built the foundations of what we now refer to as the New Age Movement. They made no effort to conceal their demonic sympathies, and created the

`Lucifer Publishing Company`, along with the theosophical periodical Lucifer`.

Acknowledging that the Christian world at that time, had not been sufficiently undermined for their open preference for the Satanic religion, they renamed theirproject the `Lucis Publishing Company`. In 1922, they set up `Lucis Trust`, whi

ch continues to serve as the umbrella organization for a multitude of One WorldGovernment/New Age/Occult sects,cults, organizations and programs that are the main players in the emerging new world religion. These include the Arcane School,

World Goodwill, Triangles, Lucis Publishing, Lucis Productions, Lucis Trust Libraries, and the New Group of World Servers.The `Plan` as revealed by her `Ascended Master` Djwhal Khul, is documented in her twenty four books, which she says were channelled through her by Khul whilst she was in a trance state. This `Plan`, was to usher in the "Harmonic Convergence," also known as the Omega

, Mind Convergence, Fusion or Turning Point, which can occur only when nations put aside their differences in a "New World Order" of global unity. When world government and religion are finally realized, the New Age, or the Age of Aquarius,

will have dawned. Only then will the Avatar appear, and the implementation of the New World Order fully begin. This "Christ" is also known as Lord Maitraya (see below), said to be awaited also by Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, and Hindus, though he is known by these believers respectively as the Messiah, Imam Mahdi, the fifth Buddha, or Krishna. Bailey makes it very clear that there is to also be a world religion: "The spiri


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t has gone out of the old faiths and the true spiritual light is transferring itself into a new form which will manifest on earth eventually as the new world religion. ...Judaism is old, obsolete and separative and has no true message for the spiritually minded which cannot be better given by the new faiths...the Christian faith also has served its purpose; its Founder seeks to bring a new Gospeland a new message that will enlighten all men everywhere". In his book `Terrorism & The Illuminati`, Canadian author, David Livingstone's own investigations revealed that the Lucis Trust is run through an internationalboard of trustees, whose membership is said to have included: John D. Rockefeller, Norman Cousins, Robert S. McNamara, Thomas Watson, Jr. of IBM, and former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Henry Clauson, a Grand Commander of the Supreme Council,

33rd Degree, Southern District Scottish Rite, and Henry Kissinger, thus tying Bailey's organization into the various Round Table groups, including the CFR, the

Bilderberger group, and the Trilateral Commission. When one examines and researches the claims of the New Age Movement, it is all too easy to be sceptical and dismissive, but those leading the way forward in this modern day version of what is in truth `Mystery Babylon` renewed, are workinghand in glove with the great and the powerful. Some of the most wealthy and influential men and women on our planet are openly identifying themselves with the New Age. From Bankers, Industrialists, Politicians, Celebrities, it seems everyone is going `New Age` and they are bringing huge swathes of the population alongwith them. This `spiritual awakening` may be only one aspect of the Illuminati's

goal towards One World Government, but it is a major one and may in time proveto be the core element in their plan. It would be foolhardy indeed to ignore the growing influence of the New Age, Occult, Satanist, Wicca, and Hedonist phenomena manifesting themselves all around us, without acknowledging that if these trends persist, the day will not be too far off when these forces will be able to make good on their aims. As G. K. Chesterton once observed, "If man will not believe in God, the danger is not that he will believe in nothing, but that he will believe in anything." `The Christ Is Now Here`! On April 25, 1982, millions of people across the world

read the above headline in their daily newspapers, and that, "Throughout histor

y, humanity's evolution has been guided by a group of enlightened men, the Masters of Wisdom, a Spiritual Hierarchy at the center of which stands the World Teacher, Lord Maitreya, known by Christians as the Christ." We were told "The Christ" was at that that very time living in the world and would within two months reveal his identity to all mankind. At the same time, the British Theosophist Benjamin Creme commenced a worldwide speaking tour and announced himself spokesman for "the Christ." In numerous interviews and speeches, heexplained that it was not Jesus Christ he was acting on behalf of, but the "Master of Wisdom," of whom Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and others are disciples. Creme's

messianic campaign was coordinated by his New Age religious organization, the Tara Center, from its offices in Los Angeles, New York, and London. As Creme's "Lord Maitreya` failed to appear, one would have expected that he and his `Christ,

along with all his euphoric Aquarian propaganda would have become completely discredited and irrelevant. But we do not live in an age of reason. Mr Creme is still revered as a leading light of the vast New Age network, and his arcane gospel can be found around the world at UN conferences and programs where the Illuminati Elite of the Club of Rome, Aspen Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, World Federalists, World Bank, etc. consort with New Agers of every imaginable kind. The United Nations And The New World Religion. "The underlying philosophy upon which the Robert Muller School is based will be found in the teaching set forth i


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n the books of Alice Bailey as channeled through her by the Demon Tibetan teacher, Djwhal Khul". Robert Muller (Former UN Assistant Secretary General) Many critics of the United Nations have described it as a modern day `Tower of Babel`. Most were referring to man's act of spiritual arrogance that the book ofGenesis tells us earned God's displeasure. To support such an unflattering characterisation today, one might draw attention to the confusing and combustible assortment of tongues, cultures, ideologies, and politics for which the "house of peace" has become justly infamous. The UN, along with its programs and policies,is ever more worthy of comparison to the Tower of Babel, as rampant idolatry and

militant paganism thoroughly permeate the organization. The UN is gradually becoming the center of a New World Religion, a strange and evil convergence of New Age mysticism, pantheism, aboriginal animism, atheism, communism, socialism, Luciferian occultism, apostate Christianity, Islam, Taoism,Buddhism, and Hinduism. The followers and disciples of this new faith include Crystal Worshipers, Astrologers, Radical Feminists, Environmentalists, Cabalists,Humanists, Eastern Mystics, Pop Psychologists, and "liberal" clergymen whom onewould normally tend to associate with the counterculture of the 1960s. But today's `worshipers` in this `New Age Movement` are just as likely to be scientists,diplomats, corporate presidents, heads of state, international bankers, and leaders of mainstream Christian churches. The Rio Earth Summit. "Thus, the environmental movement, while helping to advanc

e the cause of the oil industry, is an extension of the Aquarian conspiracy, incepted by Alice Bailey, designed ultimately to foster the acceptance a one worldreligion, based on the occult, or the New Age, as it is called". David Livingstone. In his book `Global Tyranny Step By Step`, William F Jasper writes " At the June

1992 UN Earth Summit in Brazil, the official UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) together with the Global Forum "Peoples Summit" showcased a blending of pagan aboriginal rites with an ecumenical collective of `mystical` and spiritual tenets from East and West to bring into being an unintelligible form

of what was called a `Universal Faith`. Across the globe, the world media referred to the Rio Declaration and the 800 pa

ge blueprint for government action titled Agenda 21 as "sacred" texts. Al Gore,the leader of the U.S. Senate delegation, called for a new spiritual relationship between man and earth. Actress Shirley MacLaine was in attendance in order toadd her own strange brand of psychic spirituality to the proceedings. Those Ministers from the World Council of Churches present, were there because of their affinity to the ecumenical "spirit" that uses the Hegelian Dialectic to combine aform of Christianity as thesis, with a pagan spiritualism as antithesis, resulting in a synthesis very akin to the Babylonian Mystery Religions. Another group at the summit, The Union for Natural Environment Protection, an environmental association based in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, surprisingly declared the following about the true purpose of the W.C. of C's involvement: "The environmental movement is being used as a cover to promote a return to the

creed of the Ancient Mysteries, in the form of the worship of mother nature, a pagan notion that equates the goddess with earth, known among the ancient Greeksas Gaia. Originally, she is the Babylonian Ishtar, known to the Bible as Astarte, or the Egyptian Isis. This pantheistic idea has its origins in ancient paganism, and is central to the Kabbalah and all Western occult tradition, including Freemasonry and the Illuminati. Plato wrote: "We shall affirm that the cosmos, more than anything else, resembles most closely that living Creature of which all other living creatures, severally or genetically, are portion; a living creaturewhich is fairest of all and in ways most perfect." Known as Anima Mundi, the "Soul of the World", it is related to the concept of the Neoplatonists, the Logos,


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or the Word, also known as the "Son of God", or the ancient dying God" It should be apparent to the reader that a `nexus` has been formed, connecting the major players in the push towards the One World Dictatorship, with the United

Nations, The New Age Movement, and the `Greens` all interlocking at the top, with the `hidden hand` of the Illuminati pulling the strings in the background asthe driving force moving us all inexorably towards the New World Order. The Illuminaries. Canadian Multi Millionaire Industrialist Maurice Strong , a former trustee of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and a member of the advisory council of Planetary Citizens, is a major force within the Environmental

and New Age Movements. He sits on the board of directors and serves as directorof finance of the Lindisfarne Center, which is located in the Episcopal Cathedr

al of St. John the Divine in New York, and its operation all facilitated by grants from the Lilly Endowment, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the RockefellerFoundation.The Institute numbers among its faculty members the `Eco Radical` Amory Lovins and Luciferian Adept and New Age author David Spangler. We can gain some appreciation as to what is being taught at this Rockerfeller funded institute by reading

Mr. Spangler's books, such as `Reflections on the Christ`, wherein he writes: "Lucifer, like Christ, stands at the door of man's consciousness and knocks. Ifman says, go away because I do not like what you represent, I am afraid of you,Lucifer will play tricks on that fellow. If man says, "Come in, and I will give

to you the treat of my love and understanding and I will uplift you in the lightand presence of the Christ, my outflow," then Lucifer becomes something else again. He becomes the being who carries that great treat, the ultimate treat, thelight of wisdom. The reason man has come to fear Lucifer is not so much that herepresents evil as because he represents experience which causes us to grow andto move beyond the levels where we have been.... Lucifer is literally the angelof experience." Spangler, Muller, Strong, and a host of other `names`, such as Queen Juliana ofthe Netherlands, Sir Edmund Hillary, Peter Ustinov, Kurt Vonnegut, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Asimov, and Pete Seeger, are all listed as being original endorsersof the world government promoting Planetary Citizens. Founded by New Age luminary and former UN consultant Donald Keys, and presided over for many years by the

lateNorman Cousins (CFR), the Planetary Citizens Organization has brought together and made very good use of the prestige of many leading world figures to support expansion of UN power and it's institutions.Keys, a self confessed disciple of Alice Bailey, refers to the United Nations as "the nexus of emerging planetary

values" and expresses the hope that it will establish a "planetary management system.".(New Age Speak for World Government). Another original endorser of Planetary Citizens was Aurelio Peccei, the founderof the Club of Rome, which although initially recognised for its role in launching "no growth" environmentalism in the 1970s, has `waxed` increasingly "spiritual" in more recent years. Their quest for spiritual `wisdom` includes slavish adherence to the Blavatsky mandate dictating that Christianity, Islam, and Judaismare either excluded or denigrated.

One of the primary avenues through which this lean toward oriental spiritualismhas been spread is the Temple of Understanding, located at the same Cathedral of

St. John the Divine that houses the Lindisfarne Luciferians. Begun in the early1960s as the "spiritual counterpart of the United Nations," its founding sponso

rs included the following odd assortment of Establishment Insiders, socialists,humanists, communist fronts, religious figures, and entertainment celebrities: John D. Rockefeller IVthen Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara


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Planned Parenthood founder Margaret SangerIBM president Thomas J. WatsonSocialist Party leader Norman ThomasEleanor RooseveltTime Life president James A. Linenhomosexual author Christopher Isherwoodcolumnist Max Lernerentertainer Jack BennyWith people such as the these in the vanguard, the U N's pagan spiritualism will

grow ever more overt and assertive. The UN report entitled `The New International Economic Order A Spiritual Imperative` proclaims; "Today a new understandingof spirituality is emerging which recognizes that all efforts to uplift humanity

are spiritual in nature. Alice Bailey said, "That is spiritual which lies beyond the point of present achievement...." ... Given this new understanding of spirituality, the work of the United Nations can be ... seen within the entire evolutionary unfoldment of humanity. The work of the U.N. is indeed spiritual and holds profound import for the future of civilization." The Pantheistic Smokescreen. "When you worship the sun, moon, stars, a statue, or even yourself, Lucifer is leading you astray. You are not to worship things that were created; instead you are to worship the creator. To worship anything other than the creator is giving heed to Lucifer". Fritz Springmeier `Be Wise As Serpents`.

Since "God" in the pantheistic metaphysical system is not the almighty God of the Bible, but an impersonal, immanent force that occupies all things, then all things; the universe itself, every rock, every tree, everything, every man, everywoman are "God." In this pagan world view, man is not a special creation of theone, true God, to whom, ultimately, he is answerable to. Nor is he endowed by his Creator with intrinsic, inalienable rights and duties. Thus pantheism "functions as an effective device in the undermining of a God centered religion by transforming religion into a man centered belief system, and thereby giving a religious sanction to the doctrines and programs of political collectivism. Pantheism can be also be utilised as a step towards bringing humanity from theism to atheistic materialism. In religion, pantheism is most often expressed as Naturalism; the doctrine that religious truth is derived from nature, not revelation.

The June 1941 issue of the occult journal `Rosicrucian Digest` predicted that "The multiplicity of social states, countries, or nations will cease to be." Thatnations would be superseded by "The One United World State." The Rosicrucian's were correct in concluding that the `mystical pantheism` they advocated would, if

generally accepted, lead to a collectivist world state. And there are far too few people in the world today who understand the direct cause and effect relationship between the two. Father Clarence Kelly, a noted authority on occult deception writes; "Pantheism is a favorite doctrine of collectivists, because it offers

a concept of man which, on religious grounds, subordinates the individual to the collective." Hitler And The Vril. It was Neo Paganism that helped create the conditions which

paved the way for the totalitarian collectivism of the Third Reich. The Nazi hi

gh priesthood Hitler, Himmler, Rahn, Rosenberg, Hess, Feder, Sebot, et al. were all ardent theosophists, and their esoteric societies (the Thule, Vril, Seekers of the Grail) were steeped in the same occultism and pantheism so prevalent in

today's New Age and environmental movements. There is a wealth of evidence that Hitler considered himself `chosen` and he ison record as having said; "I have seen the `New Man` and he is indeed terrible".

It is evident that Hitler was deeply involved in the occult and that he believed that his murderous reign of terror was a `divine` mission on behalf of what he

termed the `Ancient Aryan Masters`. Dietrich Eckart, a master Adept of the Thul


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e Society and Hitlers' occult mentor, wrote, "Hitler will dance, but it is I whowill call the tune! I have initiated him into the Secret Doctrine, opened his c

enters of vision and given him means to communicate with the powers". In the final chapter of his book, `The Twisted Cross`, Joseph Carr draws frightening parallels between Nazism and the New Age Movement; "One cannot argue against the claim that the Nazi world view and major elements of the New Age Movementare identical. They should be, after all for they both grew out of the same occult root: Theosophy. Their respective cosmogony, cosmology and philosophies are identical". The New Age and the One World Government conspiracy are intrinsic and inseparable.. Although all the various sects and cults which make up `Pantheism` may appear diverse and separate, all the basic elements are the same for the various gnostic hierarchical religions, they just have a different focus. They operate off the same principles and cooperate and function together. What are ostensibly separate and independent religious groups are actually at the very top working together and run by the same cabal in the service of the same master. In his epic work on the One World Religion, `Be Wise As Serpents` Fritz Springmeier answers the question most of us have asked; "Do the leaders of the cults know what is going on? In authoritative fashion, Mr Springmeier answers, "Yes, they

have been orally, emphasis on that word orally told exactly what is happening.The leaders of the New Age, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Latter Day Saints c

hurch know what they are up to, and what their roles are in creating a one worldgovernment". The Solar Logos. Throughout the Ancient World, the Sun was worshipped in many guises as God. In Babylon it was Nimrod, in Egypt Osiris, the Canaanites worshipped Baal and in Greece, it was Apollo. The New Age Sun God is called the `Solar Logos` or `The Word` thereby blasphemously counterfeiting the Biblical Jesus Christ. In her book, `Rays and Initiations`, Alice Bailey reveals this Solar Logos as Lucifer himself. Today, as in millenia past, the Sun God is being worshipped by the New Age as divine. David Spangler, refers to the Sun God in these terms: "The light that reveals to

us the path to the New Age `Christ` comes from Lucifer. He is the light giver.

It is his light that heralds for man the dawn of a greater consciousness. The true light of this great being can only be recognised when one's own eyes see withthe light of the inner sun. It is an invitation into the New Age "

The ancient doctrine of the Sun God or Solar Logos melds itself easily with Pantheism, which as we have seen is at the moment a core dogma of the New Age. By denying the existence of a personal God, whilst insisting that the universe itself

is God, New Agers declare that as man is part of the universe, man is also God.The Luciferian master plan cannot succeed unless people accept that there is noGod who loves and cares for them. Therefore, accepting that the Moon, the Stars

, the Galaxies are all Gods in themselves, the New Age Sun God or Solar Logos ashumanity's master becomes a required tenet of belief and we can establish that

throughout man's history, all `Sun God's have been nothing more than guises forthe great deceiver, Lucifer.

Witches believe that Lucifer is the God of the Sun, and the Sun God is also known as the `Horned God` (Lucifer is also known as the "Angel of Light). Many of the Witch's holy days revolve around the Sun such as the Yule. A large part of their belief system is the concept of the Sun weakening and the world dying, then on the Winter Solstice the Sun God Lucifer is reborn and warms the Earth. To theAncient Latin people's, Lucifer was the Sun God, father of Aradia and the brother and lover of Diana. To appreciate how this adversary of God has been able to clandestinely insinuate


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himself into our lives, we only have to look all around at the plethora of pagan sun symbolism which now proliferate throughout society. One example of this can be found in the world of female bodybuilding, where each year, a trophy shaped

in a design used to symbolize the worship of Lucifer is awarded at a major I.F.B.B. women's bodybuilding event. The meaning of this trophy is hidden from mosteveryone but a select few who are initiated. The trophy is in the form of an obelisk, which to those unfamiliar is a tapering, four sided shaft that has a pyramidal top. The obelisk is a symbol that definitely has connections to Freemasonry. The obelisk is important to Masons and has roots in ancient Egypt. It is the symbol of a god worshipped by believers involved in the ancient mysteriesThe obelisk represents the Sun God Lucifer. The sun is also a major Masonic symbol. Albert Pike, who we deal with below wrote: "The sun is the ancient symbol of

the life giving and generative power of theDeity." Ralph Epperson, a historian and lecturer on the subject writes: "The sun was a symbol of something that only the believers in the religion...understood. These believers, ...knew that the people would not accept their mystery religion, so they had to conceal it from them. So the task became one of creating a religion around a belief that they knew the people would accept. Their basic purpose was to

create a popular religion as a cover for their secret worship. They would haveto keep their beliefs from the people, and conceal their secret worship in hidden symbols." Epperson continues: "The obelisk stands for the very presence of the

sun god! And the sun god is Lucifer!"

The World Religion Exposed. "The Gnostic religions are often called pagan. Thispagan worship is often the exoteric cover that the first levels are initiated into. The highest level is often the real esoteric worship, and often involves direct Luciferian or Satanic worship. In other words, the Sun worship of the Masons

and other groups is a fig leaf for the worship by the highest levels of the Divine Serpent Satan". Fritz Springmeier `Be Wise As Serpents `. "According to Alice Bailey, the Masonic movement will be the religion of the New

System. Benjamin Creme, also believes Freemasonry will be the religion of the New Age. Lola Davis, another New Age leader, also sees Freemasonry as the New Age

Religion" (Texe Marrs: Dark Secrets of the New Age). Alice Bailey wrote in 1957, "The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law

; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. It is a far more occult organization than can be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lie hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of

the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man." "When the new universal religion has sway and the nature of esotericism is understood will be the utilisation of the banded esoteric organisms, the Masonic organism and the Church organism as initiating centres. These three groups convergeas their inner sanctuaries are approached. There is no dissociation between theOne Universal Church, the sacred inner Lodge of all true Masons, and the inner most circles of esoteric societies." (Taken from `Be Wise As Serpents by Fritz Sp

ringmeier). Has Freemasonry been underestimated as a world religion? At least one Masonic author writing to Masons felt that Masonic religious power had been underestimated. He writes,"In the past Masonry has been condemned as a shallow substitute forreligion. This the Masonic body has always denied but in fact the new age revitalised Masonry will be a paralleling evolutionary way of man's approach to God, and Masonry and religion will gladly cooperate." The Spirit of Masonry, p. 129 Albert Pike (December 29, 1809-April 2, 1891). Albert Pike was a Luciferian who co


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nfessed Lucifer as his own God see (below quote). He was the former Sovereign General of The Supreme Council Of Grand Sovereign Inspectors, General of the 33rdDegree of The Scottish Rite. There is also compelling evidence that he founded the Ku Klux Klan.. Pike can be justifiably regarded as the most influential Freemason who ever lived. During the American Civil War, he was a confederate general

who is said to have committed the most heinous atrocities of the war, yet his tomb is located just thirteen blocks from the Capitol Building in Washington DC.He was a high ranking member of the Illuminati who is still revered by the New World Order Cabal. In his book `Morals and Dogma`, Pike confirmed for posterity that the God of the

Illuminati and the New World Order is Lucifer. He wrote; "The Masonic religionshould be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purityof the Luciferian doctrine. . . Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay (Jesus) is also God. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade,no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two Gods: darkness being necessary to light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. " Pike asserted boldly and unequivocally in his book that Freemasonry is identical

to the ancient mysteries, which clearly means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the Ancient, Pagan, Satanic Mysteries! Pike

continues in Morals and Dogma " The true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay (Jesus); but Lucifer, God of Light and God

of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of darkness and evil." Is Freemasonry The Worship Of Lucifer? There has been extensive debate as to whom the true god of Freemasonry really is. Below, I have listed some quotes from Masonic Authorities which will help clarify this piece of the puzzle. It should be understood that most Blue Degree Masons are not in thrall to Lucifer, but higher level `initiates` must participate in rituals which involve drinking from skulls whilst kneeling prostrate at a black alter adorned with serpents. We should furthermore take pains to know who Lucifer really is. The King James Bible records his fall from heaven following his rebellion against God thus: "How

art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are thou cut dow

n to the ground which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high, yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit". Isaiah 14:12 15. The Scriptures name Lucifer as "That old serpent called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world". Revelation 12:9.Deception in Freemasonry is witnessed time and again as one goes ever deeper into it's darkness. Albert Pike in his `Morals and Dogma writes," Masonry like allthe religions, all the mysteries, conceals it's secret from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of

it's symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be mislead. The Blue Degrees

are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally mislead by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended he shall imagine he understands them". Quotes affirming Lucifer as the God of Fremasonry:"First conjuration address to Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of rebellious spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode in what ever quarter of the world itmay be situated and come hither to communicate with me. I command and I conjurethee in thy name oh mighty living god, to appear without noise". The Book Of Bla


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ck Magic by Arthur Edward Waite 33rd Degree Mason. "I hereby promise the Great Spirit Lucifuge, Prince Of Demons, that each year, I

will bring unto him a human soul to do with as it may please him, and in return, Lucifuge promises to bestow upon me the treasures of the earth and fulfill myevery desire for the length of my natural life. If I fail to bring him each year

the offering specified above, then my own soul shall be forfeit to him". Signedin blood, Manly Palmer Hall 33rd Degree Freemason from his book `The Secret Tea

ching Of All Ages`. "When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the Mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply this energy". Manly Palmer Hall 33rd Degree `The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry`. " That which we must say to a crowd is; We worship a God, but it is the God that

one adores without superstition. To you Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, wesay this, that you may repeat it to the brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees. The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the High degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine". Albert Pike 33 rd Degree. " Lucifer, the son of the morning! Is it he who bears the light, and with it's s

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