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Freemasonry is one of the world's oldest, most widespread voluntary organizations. With a strong sense of liberation, moral enlightenment, cosmopolitan openness, and forward-looking philanthropy, freemasonry has attracted some of the sharpest minds in history and created a strong platform for nascent civil societies worldwide. With the secrecy of internally communicated knowledge, its clandestine character, the enactment of rituals, and elaborate...
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Conspiracy theorists call it a sinister cabal. Others have called it a harmless social club, a charitable organization, or a brotherhood of learning and enlightenment. So what, exactly, is Freemasonry? This episode of In Search of History investigates as it takes a probing look at arguably the world's most famous secret organization.
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Do certain symbols and Latin words found in the Great Seal of the United States indicate a nefarious connection between the Founding Fathers and Freemasonry? And was Benjamin Franklin a member of England's notorious Hellfire Club? This A&E Special considers these and related questions as it looks for connections between secret societies and the creation of the United States.
5) Notes on the Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity: The Gnosis and Secret Schools of the M
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Enjoy 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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First published in 1909, this book consists of a series of lectures, first given in Pullman Memorial Church, Albion, New York. The purpose of these lectures is to consider the origin and nature of the Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry and to show the relation which they bear one to the other. Chapters include The Egyptian, Hindu and Persian Mysteries, The Christian Mysteries, The Meaning Of True Initiation, Masonic History, and The Origin and History...
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Probably you have read of the great successes of certain men who have made such wonderful and astounding names in the history of the world. Such men, whether they consciously or unconsciously knew the secret of their powers and successes, made themselves famous by unfolding their super-conscious minds.
Now the super-conscious mind contains all the secrets of occult and magnetic power. Napoleon, who was a master of the super-conscious state, used to...
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The Book of Lambspring is one of the few real-life cases of a centuries-old book on alchemy. Nicolas Barnaud was a French Protestant writer, physician and alchemist, from Crest, in Dauphiné, from which he took the name Delphinas. He was a member of the Monarchomaques. He is associated with a number of mysteries.
His 1597 collection Commentariolum in Aenigmaticum quoddam Epitaphium, on the Aelia Laelia Crispis puzzle inscription, included the alchemical...
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Manly P. Hall, masonic and esoteric scholar, traces the path followed by initiates to the ancient craft. Hall also recounts the ethical training required of a Freemason, and he profiles the character traits a Mason must "build" within himself.
More than a mere social organization a few centuries old, Freemasonry can be regarded as a perpetuation of the philosophical mysteries and initiations of the ancients. This book reveals the unique and distinctive...
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Scope and content: A document, apparently copied from the minutes of Tannehill Lodge No. 52 of Dallas, Tex., containing biographical information about Wilkins Tannehill, namesake of the lodge. The document describes three items from Tannehill donated to the lodge by his three daughters : Anne M. Bayless, Samuela D. Abernathy and Miss Helen Tannehill of Aspen Hill (Giles Co.) Tenn. who are noted as his "surviving children." The three relics include:...