Notes on the Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity: The Gnosis and Secret Schools of the Middle Ages; Modern Rosicrucianism; and the Various Rites and Degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry |
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Page 151 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 23 - And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of .Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
Page 69 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Page 8 - What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.
Page 137 - The members assumed the titles of "Sovereign Prince Masons." "Substitutes General of the Royal Art," Grand Superintendents and Officers of the Grand and Sovereign Lodge of St. John of Jerusalem.
Page 20 - Areus king of the Lacedemonians to Onias the high priest, greeting : It is found in writing, that the Lacedemonians and Jews are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham...
Page 57 - I admonish thee, whosoever thou art, that desirest to dive into the inmost parts of Nature, if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee.
Page 22 - Before the sun and the signs were created, before the stars of heaven were formed, his name was invoked in the presence of the Lord of spirits. A support shall...
Page 30 - My knights and my servants and my true children, which be come out of deadly life into spiritual life, I will now no longer hide me from you, but ye shall see now a part of my secrets and of my hid things : now hold and receive the high meat which ye have so much desired.
Page 77 - What is contained in the Fama and Confessio is true. It is a very childish objection that the brotherhood have promised so much and performed so little. With them, as elsewhere, many are called, but few chosen. The masters of the order hold out the rose as a remote prize, but they impose the cross on those who are entering."* — " Like the Pythagoreans and Egyptians, the Rosicrucians exact vows of silence and secrecy.