The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-12-06
THE MASTER AND THE MAGICIAN

J. D. BUCK, N. o., F. T. S., S. r. 320
THERE is grand Science known as Magic, and
W every real Master is Magician. Feared by the
ignorant and ridicued by the Learned" )" the Divine
Science and its Masters have, nevertheless, existed
in all ages and exist to-day. Masonry in its deeper
meaning and recondite mysteries, constitutes and
possesses this Science and all genuine Initiation
sists in an orderly unfolding of the natural powers
of the neOphite, that he shall become the very
thing he desires to possess. In seeking Magic, he
finally becomes the Majus All genuine Initiation
Is, like evolution and regeneration from within. De-
void of this inner meaning and pow r. all rituals
but foolish jargon and all ceremonies an empty
farce Even such, the rituals of Masonry have be-
come to many. That the Christ-liie and the power
that made Jesus to be called Chrstos Master where
by he healed the sick, cast out devils and foretod
future events is the Life revealed and attained
by initiation in the Greater Mysteries of Antiquity
is perfectly plain. The dsrepute into which the Di
vine Science has fallen has arisen from It's abuse and
degradation.
Inthe middle ages and, in fact, in every age,
there have been dabbers in magic and ne
cronmncers who possessing some of the secrets and
imbued with none Of its benfcence have used their
knowledge and power for purely personal and selfish
ends. Hypnotism and Phenomenal Spiritualism are
sucient illustrations of the power to which REFER
and the abuse to which it may be put. Magic, per se
IL always Science, and up to certain point it may
be cultivated without regard to its use, the we'll
beingpfa man; although any abuse Of 1t Is fatal to
the magician ~ IL
The popular dea is that education consists largely
in the cultivation of the intellectual powers An
average standard of morals Is always recommended
by educators and Its outer form is Illustrated by re-
ligiOus, ceremonies. But intellectual cultivation
alone; no matter to what extent it may be carried
and the further II goes in this one-sided way the
worse for all concerned--is in an evolution
rfectintellectual development, without spiritual
discernment and moral obligation, is the sign-manu-
al of SATAN Intelligence, without goodness, lies
athwart the Divine Plan in the evolution of Cosmos
Intellect and Altrusm by no means necessarily 20
hand In hand. One may have very clear intel
lect have quick perceptions and be good reasoner
and vet be very wicked On the other hand, one
may be very dull intellectually and yet be kind
and sympathetic to the last degree
world made up of the former would be bad place
to live in IL of the latter, thousand times to be
preferred. Magic contemplates that all-around de-
veopment which, liberating the intellect from the
dominion of the senses and illuminating the spirit
ua perceptions, places the individual the lines of
least Resistance with the inhexible laws of nature
and he becomes natures co-wOrker or hand-maid. |
To all such, Nature makes obesance and delegates
her powers, and they become Masters. The real
master conceals his power and it only for the
rood of Others. He Works "withOut the hope of fee
or reward.-[MysTIC MASONRY.