What a Master Mason Ought to Know - Softcover

Papus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997310197 ISBN 13: 9780997310191

Verlag: Triad Press, 2022

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First published in 1910 by the celebrated French occultist Dr. Papus (Gérard Encausse), What a Master Mason Ought to Know is a compact, plainly stated guide to the Masonic Science underlying the three symbolic degrees - offered here in its first English edition. Papus wrote it not as a treatise on high-grade esoteric Masonry but as an accessible companion for the ordinary Blue Lodge Mason: a resource for the "sincere seeker" who senses that there is more behind the Craft's words, colors, and ceremonies than the average lodge explains, and who wants to pursue that Light without being turned into a mere actor in rituals he does not understand. Compiled largely from essays and addresses composed around 1908 - the year Papus and his secretary Victor Blanchard convened a landmark Masonic and Spiritualist Congress in Paris, drawing figures such as Charles Détré, René Guénon, and Theodor Reuss - the book moves from the origins and elements of Masonic Science through the history and meaning of the three symbolic degrees (Apprentice, Companion, and Master), the Templar contribution to the high grades, the Rite of Perfection and the Scottish Rite, the Masonic Rose-Croix, and the interpretation of Masonic symbols. It closes with Papus's own discourses for the first, second, and third degrees, a study of Masonic symbolism proper, and a pointed examination of the question of Masonic "regularity." Sâr Phosphoros, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Christian Knights of Saint-Martin, provides a translator's introduction situating the work within Papus's career and the wider occult Masonic ferment of his day, and noting how little the concerns Papus raised over a century ago have changed. Brief, direct, and free of the sectarian point-scoring that mars some works of its kind, this volume speaks to Masons of every obedience - "regular" or otherwise - who want to move from mere participation in the ritual to genuine understanding of it, and it will likewise interest scholars and students of French occultism and Martinism tracing Papus's place in that broader tradition.

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ABSOLUTE KEY TOOCCULT SCIENCE THE TAROT OF THE BOHEMIANS BY PAPUS PREFACE THE Tarot pack of cards, transmitted by the Gypsies from generation. to generation, is the primitive book of ancient initiation. This has been clearly demonstrated by Guillaume Postel, Court de Gébelin, Etteila, Eliphas Levi, and J. A. Vaillant. The key to its construction and application has not yet been revealed, so far as I know. I therefore wished to fill up this deficiency by supplying Initiates, i. e. those who are acquainted with the elements of occult science, with an accurate guide, which would assist them in the pursuit of their studies. The uninitiated reader will find in it the explanation of the lofty philosophy and science of ancient Egypt whilst ladies are enabled to practise the use of the divining Tarot, by methods which we have rendered easy in Chapter XX. The book has been so arranged that each part forms a complete whole, which can, if necessary, be studied separately. I have used every effort to be as clear as possible the public that has warmly welcomed my other books will, I hope, forgive the imperfections inherent to a work of this kind.Papus"Therefore you must open the book and carefully weigh the statements made in it. Then you will know that the drug within is of very different value from the promise of the box, that is to say, that the subjects treated in it are not so frivolous as the title may imply."--RABBLAIS. WE are on the eve of a complete transformation of our scientific methods. Materialism has given us all that we can expect from it, and inquirers, disappointed as a rule, hope for great things from the future, whilst they are unwilling to spend more time in pursuing the path adopted in modern times. Analysis has been carried, in every branch of knowledge, as far as possible, and has only deepened the moats which divide the sciences. Synthesis becomes necessary but how can we realize it? If we would condescend to waive for one moment our belief in the indefinite progress and fatal superiority of later generations over the ancients, we should at once perceive that the colossal civilizations of antiquity possessed Science, Universities, and Schools. India and Egypt are still strewn with valuable remains, which reveal to archæologists the existence of this ancient science. We are now in a position to affirm that the dominant character of this teaching was synthesis, which condenses in a few very simple laws the whole of the acquired knowledge.

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• Verlag: Triad Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0997310197
• ISBN 13: 9780997310191
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 68
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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