Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-10
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! TBY ALBERT PIKE, S8D., SOW. GR.'. coMsAN'
DER.
The Free Masonry Of the Ancient and
Accepted Rite is THE ROYAL AM
| SACERDoTAL ART THE Holy EMPIRE.
1t teaches 'THE Holy DOCTRINE OF
Py thagoras and Plutach. 1t conceals
the profoundest mysteries in its words
and symbols, as the Alchemists and
Hermetic philosophers did in their seem
ing jargon. It is Is :, earring her mask
impenetTable eXeenS to the adopts.
Those whose Master is clad IN Olttc
and gold' ought to know why ii is
termed Scottish Masonry, and under
stand the meaning of the word KadOsh,
and know the way that leads TO the
mountain Of HerOd0Hl, HeTedOm or
HcTodea in Scotland. They should
know the significance of CHoCHMAH as
4 Password, and the real meaning OF
the mystic ladder, and why the Seven
teenth Degree embodies the most mystic
rinus portions Of the Apocalypse; and the
SOLUTION of the enigma of Father ADAM
and Brother TRUTH, and of the Minister
ing Archangels and Aralim. The true
Adept knows the occult Specification OF
the Triads and sacred numbers of the
Blue Degrees, and of the two Columns at
the entrance to the Temple and the
Sun, the Moon and the Master of Life,
the three lights of his Lodge, reveal to
him the ancient dogma of the Eastern
Sages.
DowefulIy appreciate what tits 10 be the
Hierophants Of the Greater Mysteries
Those who of old deserve that title,
ruling by the Divine right of intellect
and will, did not divulge the inmOSt Sc
crets Of the Sanctuary to all who asked
to receive them nor did they undertake
to teach what they did not themselves
understand. They did not sell Truth IN
open market.
When Free Masonry appeared in Eu-
rope in the Middle Age, it had mission
that exposed it to persecution, and that
accounts for the sOlemnity of the obliga-
tions of its Lesser Mysteries.
Scottish Masonry and the Ancient and
Accepted Rite have not changed, nor
denaturalized or perverted tho meaning
of their symbols. Now, as In the days
of Dante, its mission is, "tO aid Ht-
Blanity IN setting It's foot upon DespOtisnl,
and treddiRg under foot Spiritual Tyr
dnnU and IptOlerQHce.n The Cap Of
Liberty is the symbol to us of the Sow
ereignty OF the People and the Law, and
of Constitutional Government, and the
Crook, of the only spiritual power that
God has committed to man; Since the
GOOD Shepherd giUeth his life for his
sheen, and the Minister Of Religion can
Of right teach and persuade alone"
Not hostile to any form of free govern
ment, it is also not hostile to any creed
or Church. 1t receives in its Sanctuaries
the Catholic as readily as the Protestant,
the Moslem as the Hebrew. 1t denies
nothing in the Catholic creed but only
teaches that no man or church has the
right to dictate what another shall be-
lieVe The late allOcution of the Pope,
virtually reviving the Bull of a Benedict
and Clement, harms it as little as the
Indian arrows do the Sun, and only
proves that the contest in which it en-
gagged so many years ago against Intol-
erance and Persecution still requires the
exertion Of all its energies. II adheres
against all the world, to its Ancient
Motto, " "LInERTY, with Lao and Order
EQUALITY, with Obedience and Loyalty:
FRATERNITY, with SubOrdinGtiOH." 1t
will not abandon the cause Of Human
Liberty, because Masonry does not
NEEDLE with politics." nor seek to be-
come popular by being inert, and impos-
ing no burthens upon its initiatea.
Assuredly We have no apologies to
make for devoting ourselves to so holy
cause. Truth is many-sided and polit-
ical Truth also is LIGHT and the GOLD
of Alchemy.