Freemasonry and Catholicism; an exposition of the cosmic facts underlying these two great institutions as determined by occult investigation - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Rose and the "Cross to teach them to work faithfully to make the Molten Sea, the Philosopher's Stone, and to find the New Word which shall admit them to the kingdomr for they believe more in works than in faith. The accompanying chart shows graphically the three Ages mentioned in this article: (1) The First Age, when each human being was a complete creative unit, male-female, double sexed, and ruled by one Hierarch, Melchisedec, who filled a dual office as King and Priest. (2) The Second Age, when the division of the race EVOLUTION LEMURIAN EPOCh HUMANITY WAS DOUBLE-SEXLD MALEFEMAL EACH BEING A COMPLE CREATIVE UNI MELCmSEDECJ KING 6 JUSTE RECEIVED DIVINE RULER OVER HUMAN BROTHERHC TYPIFIED BY ABRAHAM MELCHISEDEC IS CALLED KING OF SALEM( AND PEACE PREVfl SATURN PERIOD, POLARIAN EPOCH SUN PERIOD HYPERBOREAN EPO MOON PERI LEMURIAN EARTH END OF into men and women, and the division of the ruler-ship into State and Church caused war and strife. The State espouses the cause of Fatherhood and Man and upholds the male ideal of Arts, Crafts and 1 Industry, embodied in Hiram Abiff. The Church espouses the cause of Motherhood and Woman and holds aloft the female ideal of love, and hearth and home embodied in the Madonna and her child. It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace. (3) The Third Age, when a divine Christ, who, like Melchisedec, shall fill the dual office of King and priest, and shall rule over a purged and glorified humanity, which has risen from sex-love to soul-love. PART VI Spiritual Alchemy WHEN we expose a piece of iron to the...