CHAPTER XXVI.

CIRCUMCISION— UPON WHAT THE ANCIENT CRAFTSMEN WERE OBLIGATED-THE LOST WORD.
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HE " Book of the Law" engaged our attention in the closing part of the preceding chapter, but I desire further to state that the Canon of the Old Testament was not and could not have been in existence dur- ing the reign of either David King of Israel, or his son Solomon, and that there were only a few scattered and promiscuous writings which were no doubt held as sacred by a great man}^ people at that time. These writings composed a histor}^ and a variety of legal codes that were con- sidered to have been written by Moses, and were known as the Pentateuch or the " Law of Moses," but which I have clearly proven were written by different people and at different times.
Now my dear Brothers and Friends, if there was no Bible in exist- ence when David bought the land upon which to erect a temple to the most High God of Israel, or when our three Grand Masters laid its foun- dation, and only a few scattered and promiscuous writings were in exist- ence, to which I have referred, — upon what were our ancient Brethren obligated at the building of the " House of the Lord ?" Aye and long centuries before Moses received the " Decalogue " from God on Mount Sinai, or the Jews were a people !
This is a question that has often been asked me and ojie that I think will interest the " Royal Craft " wherever dispersed. Now my dear Fraters, we will endeavor to iind the answer to that question. We know positively that those Craftsmen who wrought at the building of the Tem- ple could not have been obligated upon the Bible, or the " Book of the Law," because they did not exist at that time. Therefore in order to find the answer to the question, we must look into the writings of those people which give us an account of the building of Solomon's Temple, its dimensions, etc. From the same source we will endeavor to find some-
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fhiug pertaining to the Oaths and Obligations which were used at, or about the time this Temple Avas built on Mount Moriah. There is one thing certain and that is those people who lived at that time must have assumed obligations, and were sworn upon something which they considered to be the most sacred symbol known, upon which they took their solemn and binding obligations. In order to find what that symbol or emblem was, we will search the writings of the ancient Hebrews. One of the most sacred symbols or emblems that was known to the ancient Hebrew was the organs of generation or man's trinity. This fact is demonstrated through all the scriptures and ancient \\ritings of the Jewish people.
We find that there is a great deal of importance placed by God upon the virile organs of man, so much so that we find in Genesis 17:2 that God informs Abraham that He would make a covenant with him and his chosen people, and the sign of the covenant was the circumcision of every male child among the Jewish people. Now God was very particular that this covenant should be kept by each and every one who belonged to the " chosen few," for we find in Exodus 4 : 24 that God would have slain the son of Moses, if his mother Zipporah had not mutiliated her child with a sharp rock. Thus we find that God, himself, looked upon the virile organs, of every man among the Hebrews, to see that the covenant was kept to the very letter, thus compelling the " Children of Israel " to keep their covenant with him. But the case of Moses' son was not an isolated one, for when the Israelites fled from out the Land of Egypt and out of the House of Bondage, there were a great many who had been born in the wilderness, during their long wanderings, and who had not been subjected to the knife when they had reached the required eight da3^s. The Lord knew it, and he commanded Joshua to "make slu'rp knives and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time," together with those who had never felt the knife. .S^^ Joshua, Chapter 5, Verses 2 to 5.
One of the strongest proofs to me of the sacredness of the genera- tive organs of man, is in the beginning of the twenty-third chapter of Deuteronomy where we are told that he who is wounded in those parts, or by some unfortunate accident loses his organs of generation could not -enter into the congregation of the Lord. In fact no one of the house of
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Aaron wa;^ allowed to minister at the altar of the Lord if his generative organs were not perfect. See Leviticus 21 : 20.
From the above we find that the trinity of man (virile organs) was looked upon as something different from the other parts of the body, and hence was held as the most sacred symbol or emblem known to the ancient Hebrews. Such things being the case, we search and find that in the days of Abraham and Jacob, the people swore by, or upon, those organs of generation, or creative powers, for the simple reason that they con- sidered the trinity of man to be emblematic of God the Creator. Through all the writings of these people we find this fact demonstrated, for instance, in Genesis, Chapter 24, Verse 2, we find the patriarch Abraham telling the chief of all his servants to " put I pray thee thy hand under my thigh,'' and swear by the Lord God of heaven to do his (Abraham's) bidding. Again we find in Genesis 47 : 29 that Jacob asks the same thing of Joseph, " put I pray thee thy hand under my thigh," when he made him swear to take him out of the " Land of Egypt " and bury him with his father, and Joseph obligated himself upon the generative organs of his father Jacob. Under the thigh, or loins signified upon the trinity of man, or the organs of generation.
Inman in his " Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism," tells us that " ' under my thigh,' is a euphemism for the words ' upon the symbol of the Creator.' I may point to two or three other passages in which the thigh (translated in the authorized version — loins) is used peri- phrastically : Genesis 46 : 26 and Exodus i : 5. See Ginsburg in Kitto'.s Biblical Cyclopcsdia^ Vol. IH, page 348, .i\ v. Oath.
" I have on two occasions read, although I failed to make a note of it, that an Arab during the Franco-Egyptian war, when accused by General Kleber of treachery, not only vehemently denied it, but when he saw himself still distrusted, he uncovered himself before the whole military staff, and swore upon his trinity that he was guiltless."
Throughout the whole of the Eastern countries, in the dim dawn of prehistoric ages, as well as at the present day, the virile organs of man, were and are held in the greatest of veneration by the different peoples of those countries. And I do most firmly believe that long before their sacred writings were in existence, the craftsmen of those ancient days were most assuredly obligated upon either his own trinity, or the phallus, or 39
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linga stone, a symbol of the procreative forces of Nature. If the candi- date was not sworn upon either of the above, he would most certainly have to be obligated upon their emblem, such as the — Sun, a flame, a burning torch, an erect serpent, or a tree, or stone that represented the phallus or creative powers of Man.
Throughout the whole of India the phallic worship is still practiced, as in the days of Guatama Buddha. This peculiar worship is still going on in nearly all the temples of India, and can be witnessed bj^ anj- one in a great man}^ of the temples, but not in all of them.
I remember sitting one day at the end of the temple of Elephanta in India, trying to decipher some ancient ' inscriptions, when a party of young women came into the sanctuary of the god Siva, who in this instance was represented under the symbol of the Linga stone, or the generative organ. They approached it and making their obeisance, scattered flowers before it, and pouring water (from out a chattie or small brass vessel that they carried with them) upon the stone one of them adjusted her dress, mounted the stone, muttered a few prayers or mantras and retired, when another took her place and repeated the performance. Before the last of them had finished her devotions I came orit from the shadow and watched them. The}^ did not seem to heed my presence at all, but kept on chatting" with one another until all had paid their devo- tions to the God Siva.
But I do not wish to enter into a long discussion upon the phallic worship, but simply inform 3'ou of the great veneration that is given to the creative organs in India and all those eastern countries. They cer- tainl}' believed it to be the most sacred emblem in existence and for that reason, as well as those above stated, I believe that the ancient craftsmen were obligated upon either their own trinit}^, or its symbol, long before and after their sacred writings were known.
No matter upon what the candidate was to be obligated the right hand should alwa3-s be brought in contact with the sacred symbol of the Deit}-. In case that symbol was the sun, moon, star, or flowing river or something that could not be touched, the right hand would be held toward the object, with the palm forward and fingers unclosed. This mode of obligation refers to the most ancient days when the Vedas of India, the Zend-Avesta of the Parsees, and the Rituals of the Ancient
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Egyptians were not known or written. But when the Vedas, Zend- Avesta, Rituals, Pentateuch, Koran, etc., were known and recognized as communications from the Deity, they eventually took the place of those more ancient methods, although they were often used conjointly.
Fort, in his " Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry," tells us at page 193, ct scq: "An oath of secrecy was administered to all initiates, and their secret conclaves were held at certain times and places. After the candidate had been properly instructed in the elements of the craft, the old manuscripts inform us, then one of the Seniors or Wardens held the book or holy-dome, and the initiate placing his hand upon it, took upon himself a solemn obligation to conceal all that he had pre- viously been instructed in, and that he would endeavor to preserve the
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adopted for this purpose was presumed to be endowed with a high degree of holiness, and to such extreme was this conception carried, that a slave or bondman was debarred from the oath in its prescribed form.
" It was an almost invariable practice among the Norse nations to take the most sacred oaths with the face turned toward the rising Sun, and with the hand and fingers upraised. In the Seamund Edda, an oath was taken wdth the face to the southern sun. As previously stated, these obligations were assumed with the hand resting upon, or touching some material object. In nearly all cases this substance was adapted to the particular custom of a province, or was any animate or inanimate thing readily procured. Pagans swore with the hand grasping a blood smeared ring ; Christians obligated themselves \>y the cross, relics of saints, by the book (missal) and bell; the latter was in consecrated use during ecclesiastic services. Ancient Scandinavians swore upon their swords, frequently by grass and trees, as appears from the following citation :
' Glasgerioii swore a full grete othe, By oake; and ashe and thorne.'
" Oaths were also attested by water, fountains and streams, by rocks, cliffs and stones — the latter sometimes white, but the most sacred and binding obligation was made upon a blue stone altar. Ancient Northmen swore upon Thor's hammer. It w-as no unusual thing for persons solemnly to attest an oath by the beard, hair and eyes, or with the hand
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upon vestments. A judicial obligation was administered by touching the judge's staff of office. And for the same reason that warriors swore by the sword, also other people, in the less exciting spheres of domestic life, used house furniture. For example, travelers grasped the wagon-wheel, and horsemen their stirrups ; sailors rested the hand upon the ship's railing. Operative masons or stonecutters, of the Middle Ages, perpet- uated the Scandinavian custom of swearing upon common utensils, and used their tools in the solemn formality of an obligation — a usage still adhered to by the modern craft.
" The right hand was considered indispensable in mediaeval oaths, to seize or touch the consecrated object. Frequentl}' the hand was upraised in order to bring it in contact with the material object sworn by, and at the same time kneeling, divested of hat and weapon, was an essen- tial element in the ceremony of assuming an oath. Ancient Jews called upon the holy name in attestation of the solemnity of their obligation, with the hand placed indifferentl}^ above or beneath the thigh. But the most impressive oath taken b}^ the Israelites, was that in and by the sacred name of Jehova."
We also find on page 171, of this same work, that " The charges recited were binding upon each and every member of the Masonic fraternity, and were sworn to be observed to the utmost, under the sanction of God, the holy-dome, and upon the Book." In a note below we find a reference to the holy-dome which reads as follows : " Evidently derived from a very old form of administering an oath, upon the shrine in which the sacred relics of some martyred saint were enclosed. The chest or box in which these bones were contained was usually con- structed in imitation of a small house. Hence Jwly, with direct reference to the sanctity of the relics, and doruiis (Latin for house) by gradual elision into holidomus, later holy-dome."
One of the most interesting subjects to me in Masonry has been the Tradition of the Lost Word, which we are told was lost, and that a sub- stitute word is given that is to be used until future generations shall recover the original. Now, I claim that the " Word " was never lost, and that this " Word " has always been in use, not onl}- in the first three degrees, but in the Ro3'al Arch as well, where we shall find it distinctly pronounced. Therefore, in order that you may be enabled to come to a
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thorougli understanding of the " Lost Word," I will write upon this matter for your especial edification.
There is an ancient Masonic legend that informs us that " Enoch, under the inspirations of the Most High, built a secret temple under- ground, consisting of nine vaults or arches, situated perpendicularly under each other. A triangular plate of gold, each side of which was a cubit long, and enriched with precious stones, was fixed to a stone oi agate of the same form. On this plate of gold was engraved the ' word ' or true name of God ; and this was placed on a cubical stone, and deposited in the ninth, or iozuest, arch. In consequence of the deluge, all knowledge of this secret temple was lost, together with the sacred and ineffable or unutterable name, for ages. The long-lost word was subsequently found in this long-forgotten subterranean temple by David, when digging the foundation for the temple afterward built by Solomon his son." Tradition informs us that once a year the High Priest of the temple would perform the most solemn ceremonies and purify himself for the express purpose of pronouncing the True Name, the grand Omnific Word, by which the sins of the children of Israel would be atoned for.
This mysterious Word was always spoken amid the clashing of cymbals, or a great noise made by the people, in order to drown the intonations of the Grand Word, when uttered by the one man of the Jewish peoples who was allowed to do so, and this man was the Grand High-Priest himself. Long before the day of the Atonement approached the High-Priest would purify himself by fasting and other most solemn ceremonies that had to be performed in solitude and prayer. Everything depended upon him being pure himself, for upon this rested his power of performing the ceremonies and receiving the forgiveness of the sins of the children of Israel. If the prescribed rites and ceremonies were not con- formed to, the result would bring upon the High-Priest instantaneous death, consequently he would be very particular, and when all things were ready and the time had arrived, he would pass into the temple, and in solemn silence proceed into the middle chamber, the Sanctum Sancto- rum, or Holy of Holies, where he would retire behind the veil, and stand in the Divine Light, the resplendent presence of the Deit}' himself. Then and there, in and by the light of the Shekinah, he would pronounce the sacred name that had been placed there b}- Divine command {see ist
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Kings, 9 : 3), and by that name alone lie would ask for tte forgiveness of the sins of the children of Israel.
" The Jews consider the True Name of God to be irrecoverably lost by disuse, and regard its pronunciation as one of the mysteries that will be revealed at the coming of their Messiah. And they attribute its loss to the illegalit}' of applying the Masoretic points to so sacred a name by which a knowledge of the proper vowels is forgotten."
In reading this account, one would imagine that the sacred word belonged solely and exclusively to the Hebrew peoples, but in our re- searches we find that it also belongs to the Indian, Mazdean and Ancient Egyptian Mysteries, and that it originated in the " Land of the Vedas."
The Word was also found in the Phoenician Creed, as in all those of Asia, a Word of God, written in starry characters, by the planetary Divinities and communicated by the Demi-Gods, as a profound mystery, to the higher classes of the human race, to be communicated b}^ them to mankind and created the world. The faith of the Phoenicians was an emanation from that ancient worship of the Stars, which is the creed of Zoroaster alone, and is connected with a faith in one God. Light and Fire are the most important agents in the Phoenician faith. There is a race of children of the Light. They adored the Heaven with its Lights, deeming it the Supreme God.
The Mysteries among the Chinese and Japanese came from India, and were founded on the same principle, and with similar rites. The word given to the new Initiate was O-nii-to Fo, in which we recognize the A. u. M. of the ancient Hindu which represented their trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. The code of Mann, Book II, 265 — states that: "The Primitive Holy Syllable, composed of three letters, in which the Vedic Triad is comprised, is to be kept secret as another Triple Veda ; He \yho knows the mystic value of this Syllable, knows the Veda."
Albert Pike in "Morals and Dogmas," pp. 584, says that: " Athom or Athom-Re, was the Chief and Oldest Supreme God of Upper Eg3^pt, worshipped at Thebes ; the same as the o. m. or A. u. m. of the Hindii, whose name was iinpronouncable, and who, like the Brehm of the latter people, was ' The Being that was, and is, and is to come ; the Great God, the Great Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent One, the Greatest in the Universe, the Lord ; ' whose emblem was a perfect sphere, showing
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that He was first, last, midst, and without end ; superior to all Nature- Gods, and all personifications of Powers, Element, and Luminaries ; sym- bolized by Light, the Principle of Life."
A. u. M. is the profound salutation of the Aryan Adept, son of the Fifth Race, who always begins and ends his devotional concentrations, or appeals to non-human Presences with this triliteral word which repre- sents, the for ever concealed primeval triune difi"erentiation, not from, but /;^, the One Absolute, and is therefore symbolized by the Tetractys (or the 4, thus : 1 + 2+3+4=10), which was the symbol of the Kosmos, as con- taining within itself, the point, the line, the superficies, the solid; in other words, the essentials of all forms. Its mystical representation is the point within the triangle. The Decad, or perfect number, is contained in the Four as above stated.
" Om-Mani " murmurs the Turanian Adept, the descendant of the Fourth Race, and after pausing he adds " Padme-Hum." This famous invocation is very erroneousl}' translated, by the Orientalists, as meaniug, " O the Jewel in the Lotus.'''' For although literally, Om is a syllable sacred to the Deity, Padme means " in the Lotus," and " Manx " is any precious stone ; still, neither the words themselves, nor their sj-mbolical meaning are thus really correctly rendered.
In this, the most sacred of Eastern formulas, not only has every syllable a secret potency, producing a definite result, but the whole invo- cation has seven different meanings, and can produce seven distinct results, each of which may differ from the other. The seven meanings, and the seven results depend upon the intonation which is given to the whole formula, and to each of its syllables; and even the numerical value of the letters is added to or diminished, according as such or another rythm, is made use of Let the student remember that ^number underlies form, and number guides sound and that Number lies at the root of the manifested Universe.
The mystic sentence, " Om Mani Padme Hum^^^ when rightly under- stood, instead of being composed of the almost meaningless words, " O, the Jewel in the Lotus," contains a reference to the indissoluble union between Man and the Universe, rendered in seven different ways and having the capabilitj' of seven different applications, to as many planes of thought and action.
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From whatever aspect we examine it, it means : " I am that I am ; " " I am in thee, and thou art in me," or esoterically, " O, my God within me." For there is, most certainly, a God in each human being, for man was and will re-become God. The sentence points to the indissoluble union between Man and the Universe. For the Lotus is the universal symbol of Kosmos as the absolute totality, and the Jewel is Spiritual Man or God. To the student who would delve into the J't-das and study the Esoteric Sciences with double object: {a) of proving Man to be identi- cal in spiritual, and physical essence with both the Absolute Principle, and with God in Nature ; and (d) of demonstrating the presence iu him of the same potential powers as exist in the creative forces in Nature — to such an one a perfect knowledge of the correspondences between Colors, Sounds, and Numbers is the iirst requisite. As already said, the sacred formula of the Far East, " Om Mani Padvie Hutn^'''' is the one best cal- culated to make these correspondeutial qualities and functions clear to the learned.
The Veda seems nonsensical to us, only so far as we do not under- stand and read it aright. It is the oldest monument of human thought, the most venerable record in the world ; and if it contains, as I think it does, those philosophical ideas that are reproduced and developed in our philosophy and religion, then it is the most interesting monument of human thought.
"We owe to // and the Zend-Avesta, and not to the Hebrew Books all our philosophical ideas about God, the immortality of the Soul, and the Trinity, and the doctrines taught by St. John and St. Paul." And Masonr}' owes to them her Symbols and the doctrines of which these are the symbols, as I have explained before. The Sacred Monosyllable is unquestionably concealed in certain symbolic Words in Free Masonry ; and Aryan Migrations and Victories, no doubt, made it known to the sages all over the Orient.
It is for this reason that I have gone into the subject, so that you, my dear Brothers and Friends, may gain " More Light " on the so-called " Lost Word."
There is no question in my mind, but the real Word belonged to the Aryan race, long centuries before it was separated into the Iran, and Indu-Aryan branches, who originally formed the one great Aryan people
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and the Irano-Aryan brancli carried away with them the esoteric knowl- edge that was common to both. Thus we find it in the Agni^ Ushas, Mithra of the Fire worshippers, as their God and his manifestations of which we shall speak later on.
Brother J. D. Buck, 32°, states in his " M3'stic Masonry," page 244, et seq.: " In the Tetragrammaton, or four lettered name of the Deity, the Greek followers of Pythagoras found a glj'phic by which they both expressed and concealed their philosophy, and it is the Hebrew tetrad IHVH or — ' Yod, he, van, he,' that is introduced into Masonry with the Pj-thagorean art speech. The devout Hebrew, in reading the sacred Text, when he came to the sacred tetrad IHVH, substituted the word Adonai (Lord), and if the word was written with the points of Alhim, he called it Elohoni. This custom is preserved in Masonry by giving the candidate a substitute for the Master's Word. The Hebrew tetrad ' Yod, he, vau, he,' is produced by repeating the ' he.' The root word is a triad, and the quaternary is undoubtedly a blind. The Sacred Word is found in the mysteries as a binar}^, a trinary, and a quaternary ; as with the Hindoos we have the Om and the Azini, indicating different methods of pronouncing the sacred name. The Pythagorean Tetrakt3-s is represented by numbers, i, 2, 3, 4= 10, and by points or 'Yods' in the form of a triangle ; this is called the ' lesser tetraktys ' while a triangle composed of eight rows in the same form and containing thirty-six ' Yods,' or points, is called the ' greater Tetraktys.' This corresponds to the three lesser lights, and the three greater lights of the Blue Lodge, though the monitorial explanations in the lodge are, to say the least, incomplete. In the Pythagorean philosophy both the lesser and the greater tetraktys are represented by equilateral triangles, and the points, in either case, form the angles of a series of lesser triangles. In the lesser tetraktys these triangles are altogether nine, or three times three. In the greater they count fortj^-nine, or seven times seven ; and in each case the series runs from the apex to the base, i, 3, 5, for the lesser, and I, 3, 15, 7, 9, II, 13 for the greater tetraktys, or by a series of odd num- bers : while the points before the triangles are formed, run consecutively, I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. These symbols were thus used as ' odd ' and ' even' to carr}' a philosophical meaning and to illustrate the doctrine of Emanation.
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A great many Masons are under the impression that the sacred Tetragrammaton, the four lettered name of the Hebrew God, generally pronounced Jehova/i, to be the true word, but in that they are greatly mistaken, for the Grand Omnific Word existed long before the Hebrews were a people.
Now if the long lost Word was really and trul}"- a word, it could be just as well concealed in the name of the Hebrew Deity, as in any other. But the word we are searching for belongs to the ancient daj^s, when the Aryan race separated into the Indo and Irano Aryans, and the JVord belonged to both, and we find that it was carried awaj^ by the great ancestors of the Persian Magi. At the same time it was retained by the Ancient Brahmans in India, and althoiigh we may not know the true pronunciation of the Word, we do most certainly believe that its symbol is A. U. M.
Brother Buck says that, " the Hebrews seem to have derived their Tetraktys from the Chaldo-Egyptian Mysteries, and these may be traced to the Zoroastrian Fire Philosophy, till finally the Word is A.'. U.'. M.'. In both Persian or Zend and in Sanscrit, these three letters are found in many names that designate fire, flame, spirit, essence, etc. This again is glyphic form of expression. Every emanation is a trinity ; and Fire, Flame, and Light are the most perfect synthesis of this tri-unity. Con- sider the expressions, ' The Lord is a consuming fire ; ' ' Since God is Light, and never but in unapproached Light dwelt from eternit}',' etc.
" The symbol is found in all Scriptures, but onl}' in the Mysteries was the meaning thus S3-mbolized made known. Here, then, is the origin of all the trinities found in Masonr^^, the plainest of which are the trinities of Light, and the most siiperficial explanations are found con- nected with the three lesser Lights of the Lodge."
Brother Albert Pike, quoting from the sacred writings of the far East says : " He who knows the M^'Stic value of the Syllable knows the Names of which it is the sign and hieroglj-ph and the doctrine which these names express and teach, knows the Vedas. For the}- are the expression of those thoughts, and are comprised in the Trinity of which the Word is the sign and representation. The Word is the three Names. It, A. U. M., is the Trinity, as Ahura is the Deity. And this Trinity is the essence of the three Vedas, that which has expressed itself in them
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and whose out-flowings as thouglits they are. It was THE Vedas, before they were uttered, and when they existed in it as thoughts unuttered. And that it is the essence of all Speech and Words, means that it is the divine Intellect, of which all human intellects are rays, and all Speech and Words the utterance of these intellects."
' Triliteral words are supposed to have originated with the birth of the Aryan race, and to that end I have delved into the ancient writing of many peoples, in order to verify that statement. I soon began to realize that the word A. U. IM. is the oldest and most sacred word known to man, and I firmly believe that it came down to us from a language that antedates all others known to us to-day. I further believe the source from which it emanated to have been the lost continent of Atlantis.
Donnell}' tells us in his " Atlantis " that " INIodern civilization is Atlantean. Without the thousands of years of development which were had in Atlantis, modern civilization could not have existed. The inven- tive facult}- of the present age is taking up the great delegated work of creation where Atlantis left it thousands of years ago."
Our very learned Brother, Albert Pike, also states : " That the Word A. U. M. is the oldest Sacred and Ineffable Word, only to be lettered, of which we have an}' hint in histor}' or etymology ; that it belonged to a language older than any now known to us by any monumental records, and of which the Sanscrit, Zend, Persian, Arabic, Phoenician, Egyptian, Assj'rian, and Hebrew were but dialects ; that it was a Sacred Word in the Paropamisus [a ridge of mountains at the North of India, called the Stony Girdle^ or Indian Caucasus — The Author], or Tartarj' be3'ond the Himalayas, before the emigrations into Southern Hindustan, Persia, Eg3'pt or Chaldea, by which the Aryan Race flowed forth from their northern homes ; and that, by these and other successive emigrations, it was conveyed everywhere with the mysteries.
" In the Punjab, the oldest Vedic Hymns were composed, and being compiled with some later ones, thousands of 3'ears afterwards, became the Rig- Veda, in ten Parts or Books called Mandalas. After most of these had been composed, the Indo-Aryans occupied the Ganges countr}-, con- quering the dark-skinned native tribes as the}' advanced, until they reached the Indian Ocean ; and, in the meantime, the Brahmanic religion grew up among them, and the Veda, wholly misunderstood, became the
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source or cause of a thousand monstrously absurd legends and grave superstitions.
" Even now, the Brahmanic Commentators only for the most part mistranslate and misinterpret the Veda; and not one among them, nor a single European Commentator knows what many of the texts mean, nor what any of the Vedic Deities (except three or four unmistakable ones) really were. Hundreds of texts are a perfect enigma yet, to all of them. Hundreds more they all misunderstand.
" As to the word OM, there is not a Brahman in the world, nor a scholar or Commentator in Europe or America, that knows its real origin or what it meant and means."
The word a. u. m. is the original of Amen. Now amen is not a Hebrew term, but, like the word Hallelnjah, was borrowed by the Jews, and Greeks from the Chaldeans. The latter word is often found repeated in certain magical inscriptions upon cups and urns among the Babylonian and Ninivean relics. Amen does not mean ^^ so be ii ^'' or " ?'(?r//j^," but signified in the hoary antiquity of prehistoric ages almost the same as A. V. M. The Jewish Tanaini (Initiate) used it for the same reason as the Aryan Adepts use A. u. m., and with a like success. The numerical value of A M e N in Hebrew letters being ninetj'-one, the same as the full value of Y H V H, twenty-six, and A D o N a Y, sixty-five, or taken together, ninety-one. Both words mean the affirmation of the being, or existence, of the sexless " Lord " within us. The Yod he van he, y h v h, or male- female on the terrestrial plane, as invented b}^ the Jews, and now made out to iwe&n Jehovah, but which signifies in reality and literally "giving being " and " receiving life."
The " Secret Doctrine " tells us that " Esoteric Science teaches that every sound in the visible world awakens its corresponding sound in the invisible realms, and arouses to action some force or other on the occult side of nature. Moreover, every sound corresponds to a color, and a number (a potency spiritual, psychic or physical) and to a sensation on some plane. All these find an echo in every one of the so far developed elements, and even on the terrestrial plane, in the Lives that swarm in the terrene atmosphere, thus prompting them to action."
Brother Albert Pike informs us that " this m3^stic word was per- petuated among the Hebrews, for those who understood, by the word Amn
EGYPT, THE CRADLE OF ANCIENT MASONRY. 621
or Ainen^ for ages meaningless to all men, and all explanations of which hitherto have been absurdities, at first intentionally so ; though it is identically the name of the Egyptian Mediator-God, the Lamb of God, or ram-headed Deity, AMun. In Buddha or Krishna the mysterious child, new Incarnation of the Divine Creative Wisdom, the First-begotten, the First Emanation, the Logos or Word, were the three persons of the Trimurti or Indian Deity, and each was the sacred mysterious never-to-be-spoken OM, symbolized by the Palm-tree and the Phoenix.
" The same word is also found in the Greek Ompha and Omphalos, and in the Hebrew word Omn-u-Al which we absurdly read Immanuel or Emanuel. Bacchus, too, was called Omadion. In the sign of the Planet Mercur}^, Representative of Hermes Trismegistos and of Khiimm, the Mediator of the Trinity of Schlomoth, or Wisdom, the Divine Intellect, Khumm the Monarch, or the Divine Power, and himself, we find the three persons of the Oriental Trinit}', in the Circle, the Crescent, and the Cross ( 2 ), the Circle representing the Divine Generative Energy, the Crescent the Productive Capacity and the Cross the uttered Universe. A. u. m. or o. M. is emphatically called, by the Brahmins, the monosyllable ' i. A. M.' saj^s Krishna, in the Gliita^ ' of things transient, the Beginning, the Mid- dle and the End ; l. A. M. the monosyllable among words.' A Brahmin, says Manu, ' beginning and ending a lecture on the Veda, must always pronounce to himself the sj'llable O M.'
" This word was only permitted to be pronounced by the letters, for its pronunciation as one word was said to make earth tremble, and even the angels of Heaven to quake for fear. It was not the word that contained the secret meaning, but the separate letters of the word, as in the case with the Hebrew word A. G. L. A., which is the initials of four words that compose a phrase ; and with ^'DN, co^nposed of the initials of the names of the four ' Worlds,' Atsiluth, Briah, Yetsirah and Asiah."
The A and the O were the good and the evil Principle of the Median Magi of Zoroaster, and Manes, the Light, and the Shadow or Darkness. Also the}^ represented the IVIale Energ}" and Female Productive Capacity ; whence, in the Kabalah, the Sephira Benignity is represented as Male, and the Sephira Severity as Female. Hence, also, we find them, and the whole vSacred word, in the Latin verb amo, I love ;
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as in the name of the Great Egyptian God Athom, and in the Median and Persian Ormuzd, Ahriman and Mithras.
Sir Monier Williams informs us in his " Brahmanism and Hindu- ism " that " this most sacred of all Hindu utterances, made up of the three letters A. u. m., and symbolical of the triple manifestation of the Supreme Being in the Tri-murti or Triad of gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, is constantly repeated. It is as sacred as the name Jehovah with the Jews, but not too sacred for utterance.
" Manu describes it as a monosyllable, imperishable and eternal as the Supreme Being himself After Om comes the utterance of the names of the three worlds, Earth (Bhur), Atmosphere (Bhuvah), Heaven (Svar), to which are often added the four higher heavens, Mahah, Janab, Tapah and Satya. The utterances of these seven names — called the seven Vyahritis — preceded in each case by the syllable Om, is an act of homage to all the beings inhabiting the seven worlds. It is supposed to induce purity of thought, and to prepare the worshipper for offering up his first prayer."
The Bactrian King Zarathustra (Golden Splendor) was called b}' the Greeks Zoroaster. He revived the ancient relio-ion of Ahura Mazda and
o
developed an extinct civilization that had existed thousands of years before Zarathustra was born. This hoary civilization existed on the Plateau of Iran, that extends from the valley of the Indus to the valley of the Euphrates on its western boundary and the whole surrounded by vast mountain ranges. It derived its name Iran from the original name of the Race " Eron,^^ who first settled upon that high table land, that is located between the Hindoo Kush and river Oxus. This location may be said to be the cradle of the religion of both the Medes and Persians, and also the birth place of Zarathustra himself The date of this extinct civilization is lost in the hoary ages of antiquit}-, and like the birth of this celebrated Adept, king and reformer, it is very difficult to find the exact date.
Our revered Brother, Albert Pike, in his Filiation of Ideas, tells us that, " Aristoteles and Eudoxus, according to Plinius, place Zarathus- tra six thousand years before the death of Plato ; Hermippus five thou- sand years before the Trojan War. Plato died 348 B.C., so that the two dates substantially agree, making the date of Zarathustra six thousand
EGYPT. THE CRADLE OF ANCIENT MASONRY. 623
three hundred, or six thousand three hundred and fifty years before our era. Baron Bunsen, whose faith as a Christian is unimpeachable, assigns a date several thousand years earlier than that, to the first Aryan Emigration; while he assigns to the legendary Egyptian King Menes only the date of 3,645 B.C. It is certain that Zarathustra lived in Bactria, and that manj^ ages passed before the Iranian race had so increased as to have emigrated to and conquered in succession Margiana, Parthia, Media and Persia, and to have become the great and wealthy and luxurious people over whom Kurush (Cyrus) and Darayvuch (Darius) reigned."
Ahura Mazda was, to Zarathustra, precisely what God is to us, a Spirit (in the vagueness of that word); a Power, Force and Person, yet not cognizable by the intellect, and of whom no definition could be attempted. He was The Father, in the sense in which the equivalent of that word was then used. Fire being his " Son," He was Father of the Fire, i.e., its Source and Producer; the Substance from which it flowed forth, the Source of His Emanations. Aditi, Space, was Mother of the Planets, because in it their being began. Daksh, Strength, was Father of the Fire, because it caused the friction that produced the Fire from the wood ; as Rudra, the potency of Fire which causes rarefaction, and ascension, and movements in the air, was " Father " of the Winds.
Zarathustra's Avesta (" the Law") or the Zend-Avesta ("Comment on the Law ") embodies a great deal that had been written in the early language of the ancient Persians, consequently it is of the greatest im- portance to all those philologists who are desirous of comparing the various early Aryan tongues. The ethics and religious teachings of these ancient people are also of the greatest importance, especially to those who are interested in the religion of the oldest inhabitants of Iran or ancient Persia.
The language in which the Zend-Avesta was originally written, from all we can learn, was with the arrow head, or wedge shaped cuneiform letters like those that are still to be found carved upon the rocks in Persia, where they are to be seen to-da}', perfectly legible, although they have been forgotten for more than two thousand years. They have re- mained there perfectly unintelligible, until our Scholars and Students have discovered their real meaning, consequently we are enabled to inter-
624 EGYPT, THE CRADLE OF ANCIENT MASONRY.
pret and understand the dead language of these people, just as we are enabled to decipher and comprehend the meaning of the hieroglyphics that belonged to the ancient Egyptians. Thus we are enabled to compare Zarathustra's system of Theology.
Ahura-Mazda or Ormuzd was worshipped as the Wise and Good principle that dominated the Kosraos, and he is always represented by fire, light, or the sun, which was called by these ancient people the Son of Ahura-Mazda, who was himself the Supreme Diety of the followers of Zarathustra.
Albert Pike says that " Ahura-Mazda, the Light-Radiance, was the Supreme God, the God of Gods, Source, Origin, Creator, Father of All ; the Light, his Manifestations, and Out-shining, the Celestial Luminaries His Creatures through and by which produced from Him, He revealed Himself, His Self as Light Essence.
" Cpenta Mainyu, was His Intellect-Self, God as Intelligence or Mind, the Divine Intellect, considered as a Person but imminent in the Deity. And Vohu-Mano Mind-being Intellect with outward being, the Divine Intellect, Cpenta Main^'U, revealed, and acting in the Universe was the Utterence, Effluence, Emanation, Out-flowing of the Divine Wisdom ; the Logos or W^ord of Plato, St. John and the Gnostics.
" Vohu-Mano reveals Himself in every Aryan Intellect. All good Thought, all true Intelligence is Vohu-Mano inspiring Humanity and revealing Himself in it. The Mantras, or Prayers, Hymns and all good, and righteous Words, the Vedas, and Gathas, are His ' deeds,' his utter- ances, his Words and Speech."
Let me quote you a few lines from the Avesta so that you may better understand the teachings : " I celebrate the glorious Ormuzd, the great- est and best; all-perfect, all-powerful, all-wise, all-beautiful, all-pure, sole source of true knowledge, and real happiness ; him who hath created us, him who hath formed us, him who sustains us, the wisest of all intelli- gences.
" Zoroaster asked, what was the Word existing before the heaven, the water, the earth, before fire the Son of Ormuzd (the sun), before the whole existing world, before every good thing created by Ormuzd ? Then answered Ormuzd : — It was the All of the Word Creator, most holy Zoro- aster, and he in the existing world who remembers the All of the Word
EGYPT, THE CRADLE OF ANCIENT MASONRY. 625
Creator, or utters it ivhen remembered^ or cJiants it when uttered^ or cele- brates it wlicn chanted^ his soul will I thrice lead across the bridge to a better world, a better existence, better truth, better days."
Thus we find that a sacred trilateral Word or monosyllable existed among all the ancient people of the earth, and in the Indian, Mazdean, Egyptian, Hebrew and others we have most assuredly shown it to you. For in the Indian we find it hidden in the names of the triune Deity, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. In the Mazdean we find the sacred Word con- cealed in Ahura-Mazda, Cpenta-Mainyu, and Vohu Mano, and also in Agni Fire, Ushas the Dawn, and Mitra, the Morning Star.
In the names of the ancient Egyptian Deities we find it hidden in Athom, Amon, or Khem-Amun. And in the Hebrew we are enabled to recognize it in Adom, Khurom, as well as in the Greek, Ompha, and Omphalos.
In the teachings of our Fraternity we find the sacred Word or mono- syllable hidden in the so-called Hebrew names of the three wicked ones Jubelfl, Jubelfii, Jubeluwz, but as these names were most assuredly not Hebrew they were invented for the express purpose of concealing the sacred Word, and what makes it doubly sure, is that it is also given in the sub- stitute Word itself, and as we climb the ascending ladder, we find it again, but this time vibrating under the living Arch.
Albert Pike informs us that, — The Mason, in his Lodge, surrounded b}' the Venerable Symbols of the Orient, sits, symbolicall}^, in the centre of the Universe, and in the immediate presence of the Deity who made and rules it. He has been robbed, it is true, of that great Symbol, the Master — Mason's Word, while those whose predecessors took it, dispute among themselves what it is ; and he has received in lieu of it onlj' a Subsitute, which he may have been told means, " Marrow in the bones," or, " What is this the Builder ? " and which having no symbolic meaning to him, and no sanctity, is valueless.
But the Great triads remain, and he may, with their aid, recover the lost Word. Each of these is a symbol of the Deit}', and before each he should bow in silent adoration ; for they have come to him from a Past that had ended before History began. The Master is Hermes, the Divine Word, Utterance, and Revelation of the Divine Wisdom ; the
Senior Warden represents the Divine Omnipotence ;_ and the Junior 40
626 EGYPT, THE CRADLE OF ANCIENT MASONRY.,
Wardeu the Harmony and Beaut}' that are the result of the equilibrium of Infinite Wisdom and Infinite Power.
I have often told you in the early pages of this work, in speaking of the esoteric teachings of Masonry, that every zvord and symbol contains a most profound meaning, and every Tradition and Allegory embodies far more than is dreamed of by those who have not seen the Light. There- fore, in order to thoroughly comprehend what the Words, Symbols, Tra- ditions, etc. signif}^ we must give them our most profound attention, ever remembering that the Symbol must not be taken for the things sjmibolized.
We are told in the "Sohar'' III, page 152 ef srt/, that: " We must believe that every word of the Doctrine contains in it a loftier sense, and a higher mj^ster}'. 77/r narratives of the Doctriiir arc its cloak. Woe unto him who takes the covering for the Doctrine itself! The simple look 0)ily at the garmoit, that is, iipon the legends of the Doctrine. They know no more. The Adepts, on the contrar}-, see not the cloak alone, but that ivhicJi t/ie cloak covers Ever}' Word Iiidcs in itself a pro- found meaning. Every leorinl contains more t/ian the evoit zchich it seems to recite. This H0I3' and Profound Doctrine is the true Doctrine." And right here, my dear Brothers, let me tell 3'ou that : He who thoroughly nnderstands the Holy Doctrine, Knows the Roy.al Secret.
Albert Pike, in his readings, tells us that " There are, perhaps, few thinking Masons to whom it has not seemed strange that the True Word, promised to ever}' IMaster Mason, is not given to every one, but only a substitute that is not an approximation to the lost Word, but a mere trivial, ordinary Pass- Word not even alluding to the Deity. The Royal x\rcli American degree, is a modern invention, it perpetuates the Triangle, derived from the degree as known in England, and places on the sides of it the word, Jah, Bel, and On, in some regions modified into or replaced by Jehabuluim, or J.a.buluj:. The thi^e words first mentioned are, in the Hebrew, H', ^i'2, and JX or px ; two of which only, at the most, are tri-literal ; and the whole do not make three times three. I doubt if they are not a modern substitution by mere guess, for Jabulum or Jehabulum, a word said to be inscribed on one of the nine arches, and the name of an ofl&cer of the Lodge of Perfection.
EGYPT, THE CRADLE OF ANCIENT MASONRY. 627
" It is true, what is generally understood to be the Word of a Master- Mason, was at one time given in the Master's degree; but not as found amid or under the ruins, at the rebuilding of the Temple. Everything that relates to that rebuilding has a concealed reference to the destruction and hoped-for revival of the Order of the temple."
What is most worth knowing in Masonry is never very openl}' taught. The symbols are displayed; but they are mute. It is by hints only, and those the least noticeable and apparently insigniiicant, that the Initiate is put upon the track of the hidden secret. K word seemingly used at random, and as it were by chance, long escapes notice, and at last attracts the attention of some enquiring mind, and gives the clue that leads to new discoveries. " Many of these, by the manipulations of improvers of the work, and audacious mediocrity, like that of Preston and Webb, have disappeared forever and meaningless trivialities have taken their places. Some remain, proofs of the great antiquity of Masonry, much more convincing than all the babble of those whose business is to invent, and pervert, and not discover."
Masonry tortured out of shape by these interpreters, no longer Secret, and the Holy Doctrine is no longer the Sanctum Regnuni or Holy Empire, and its ceremonies become trivial and puerile. No greater insults have ever been offered to the human understanding than most commentaries upon the Blue degrees. Every Brother will have to find the proper definition of the Master's Word for himself, just as he will have to discover the true meaning of Solomon's Temple, the Holy Doc- trine, or the Royal Secret. All those who have passed through our portals and received the Light, will no doubt speculate upon the " Lost Word," but unless either he or they, are students of our symbology they will never believe that it lies concealed in the Third degree, consequently they will never recognize the key to it, or the tri-literal word that com- poses it. But if by deep thought and earnest study they discover this long lost Syllable, it will have no very great signification to them, in fact, they would hardly believe that it was the " Long Lost Word " of which they have the substitute. Yet if they examine thai, very studi- ously, they will find that it has been carefully hidden in the substitute word itself. After either he or they have discovered the Word it will have no peculiar meaning to them, because they do not know that every
628 EGYPT, THE CRADLE OF ANCIENT MASONRY.
letter in the alphabet, whether divided into three, four, or seven septuaries, or forty-nine letters, has its own color or shade of color. But let me assure you, that he who has learned the colors of the letters of the alpha- bet, and the corresponding numbers of the seven and the forty-nine colors and shades, on the scale of planes, and forces, and knows their respective order in the seven planes, will easily master the art of bringing them into affinity or interplay.
No matter where we search for the " Long lost Word " it takes us back to the language used by the great ancestors of our race the Indo- Aryan and although its true meaning has been lost to the Fraternity in general ; yet I firmly believe that it is known and understood and that it is still pronounced by some of the descendants of the ancient Hindus and Brahmins whose lives, have, like their ancestors been devoted to the upbuilding of the human race. No matter where we force our investiga- tions, we shall most assuredly go back to the A. u. M. of the " Land of the Vedas."
Brother Buck informs us in " Mystic Masonry '' : " The legend of the Lost Word and the Potency of the Ineffable Name are inseparable. They are the glyphics of Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained ; or of the Fall and the Redemption of man. So also is the legend of re-building the temple, a glyphic of Initiation, which is the same as Regeneration and Evolution.
" This ancient Wisdom belongs in a special sense to Masonry, for it has done most of any organization of modern times to preserve the ancient landmarks, and has honored and protected the sacred symbols. If Masonry has made only a superficial use of these hoary secrets, and their deeper meaning is still unknown to the craft, it is equally unknown to all others, except as the result of genuine initiation. One may know that a thing exists, where it is to be found, and that it is above all price, without knowing, to the last analysis, what it is. Such is the secret to the Lost Word, or the Ineffable Name. Its secret lies in exact vibrations under mathematical and synchronous relations ; and its Law is Equi- librium, or Eternal Harmony.
Beginning with our Blue Lodge degrees we shall find this triliteral word, as I have before said, in the names of the three wicked ones Jubel*?, Jubeh^ and Jubeluw/, which forms the sacred monosyllable, and upon close
EGYPT, THE CRADLE OF ANCIENT MASONRY, 62^'
investigation of these names we will most assuredly discover, that they are mere inventions, wherein to conceal the Sacred Word from all those who were not ready to receive it, and yet to preserve it for future ages, when it could be given back again to be used instead of its substitute, although (as I have previously stated) a careful search in that word itself will reveal to us its presence. In fact when a companion Mason is preparing for work, among the ancient symbols of the hoary ages of a prehistoric civilization, and amid the ruins of the temple, to search for the " Long lost Word," he will hear it as agreed, in unity, under the living arch, when if he be a student he will stand bewildered and perplexed, unable to hardly understand what he hears, and yet he will know that there is a far more sacred meaning to it than is generally understood by the great majority and he will intuitionally know that the Lo?ig Lost is not a Word, but a SOUND
TT / \M
Dear Brethren of the Mj^stic Tie,
The night is waning fast, Our work is done, our feast is o'er,
This song must be our last ; Good night, good night, the farewell cry,
Repeat the parting strain,
Happy to meet, Sorry to part,
Happy to meet again.
— Final Toast.
INDEX,
PAOIi
A BRAHAM 49
'^ Abu Girga and vicinity 423-424
Absolute, attributes assigned to . ... iSt
the unmanifested 194
definition of, by Paracelsus .... 194
Abydos, ruins of 477
description of 478
Necropolis of 480
Acropolis 3
Adonis 75
^schylus 328
Age of steel 51
Agricultural land divided into 149
Albert Nyanza 77
Alcestos crucified 33
Ale.xandria when founded 3
when captured 3
description of 3
donkey boys of 4
Grand Square 5
Libraries 7
harbors of 10
my first visit to 4
population of 12
temperature of 20
Masonic Lodges in 21
Catacombs in 11
average rainfall 16
Allahabad 494
incident on my way to 495
Altruism 493-494-498
Amasis, partial to Greeks 32
story of 33
was a wise king 34
issued his famous edict 43
Amazon river 76
Amen Ra 45
Amenti or Hades 63
Lord of b4
PAGB
Osiris Judge in - . 65
Soul passing through loS
Ammon or Amun 76-82-390-391
Amru 3-9-'5
A. and A. Scottish Rite 21-54
any one interested in 37
descendant of the Mysteries .... 56-87
teaches the same grand Truths ... 70 has now become a teacher of great
truths 99
is a preacher of Liberty 100
exists for the purpose of . . • . . . in
Metaphorical description of ... . 224
Truths taught in the 227
Symbols of our 256-335
teachings of the • • 395
unfolds to her postulants 491
interesting scenes to the 563
grand Truths embodied in the . . . 587
Ancient Egyptian writings 86-87
Mysteries are to be found in every
religion 65
like the inhabitants of to-day ... 128 were the first to disclose the path to
the Gods 233
belief in a future life 306
belief in transmigration 307
understood the immortality of the
soul 309
on the human soul 310
worshipped the Sun and Moon . . . 395
named every star that shines in space 402
Ancient Masonry 17
proof of 35
Anubis 38-53 -73-74
Apis or Hapi 264
Apollonius of Tyana 331
Apron — See white leather apron ....
Apries 3
631
632
INDEX.
PAGE
Ark of the Covenant 141
of the Royal Arch 596
used by the Greeks and Egyptians . 596
contents of the Jewish 597
comparison of the Egyptian and
Hebrew 597
use of, in the Ancient Mysteries . . 599
Arab Mason was taught 141
could not have been obligated . . . 141
Archimedes was born 49
said to have invented 49
Armenia 76
Arnold, Sir Edwin 66
Arundel Marbles 35
Art of weaving 52
Aswan, or Syene 83
location of 569
shadowless well at 569
description of the town 569
articles to be purchased there . . . 570
difference between the people at . . 570
description of the quarries 571
camel ride to Mahatta, fron' .... 572
Asyut 33
arrival at 470
description of 470
manufactories at 470
location of town 470
Astral body 351
account of 353
Atman, or Atma 361
description of 361
Athens 50
Athor or Hathor 73
Atbara 78-79
BABYLON 19
Babylonian Kings 76
Baedeker 62-84
Bali of Orissa Crucified 331
Baliana, town of 477
description of . 477
Bahr-el-Gebel 77
el-Ghazel 77
el Azrak 77
el Nil 77
PAGH
Baptism does not belong exclusively to
any sect 333
its use by the Christians 333
Barbarian, derivation of the word ... 571
Egyptian opinion of 571
Battle of the Nile 154
Behbit-el-Hagar 56-57-59
Beni Suef 413
our Dahabiyeh at 414
Beni Hassan arrived at 432
rendezvous for thieves . . ■ ... 432
trip to the tombs and grottos of. . . 433
pro-doric columns found here . . . 433
description of tombs 434
Black Sheep 442
Blue Lodge ceremonies 18
degrees demonstrate 136
Bolbitine 78-154
took its name from . .,j.,, 154
Bombay, India 112
a trip to Elephanta, from 112
Book of the Law 600
a search for the 601-602-603-604
Books how collected 7
classification of 8
numbers in the Soter 8
numbers in the Serapeum 8
Botany of Egypt 16
Boston Museum of Fine Arts 45
Brain, the 196
does it require a brain to direct . . 238
is not the organ of the mind . . . 239
does not secrete thought 239
intelligence functions without the . 240
is not the producer of thought . . . 241
British Museum 30-51
plants 16
Bubastis or Tel Basta 42
location of 42
description of its ruins \ 43
temple sacred to 43
if a cat or dog died at > 46
what is found in the ruins 45
Buddhi the Sixth principle 360
definition of 360
Buto identified as Latona ^9-73
guards Bubastis 69
INDEX.
633
PAGE
CABLE Tow 589
binds us all in bonds of love . . . 590
of the Hindu 591
Cairo 20-81
capital of Egypt 201
location of 201
founded by 201
original name of 201
donkey boys of 211
description of 211
temperature at 219
Canopic Jars dedicated to 298
earliest records of 298
what Porphyry and Plutarch said
about 29S
my opinion of 298
Cambyses 76
was an initiate 28
officiated in the temple 29
Camel and camel riding 573
description of 573
Catacombs 11-15
Cataracts, to live below the 76
Cause and effect 66
the first 176
time is the first great 187
thoughts on 286
no confession or repentance can
change the law of 4S8
Csesareum 6
founded by 15
description of 15
Champollin, his Grammaire Egyp-
tienne 86
Children of Light 36
Chrisna of India 317
Christian emblem and description of its
origin 282
Christ Jesus 50-112
down from the cross in
crucified on Calvary 282
not the only Saviour 282
Circumcision 60S
Cleopatra's Needles were brought from 6
Colossi at Thebes 511
a description of 511
measurements of the 512
Colossus, picture of the transportation of a Consciousness, everything is dowered
with
all nature pulses with life and . . .
being inconceivable without change
thoughts on
Copts are the descendants of
language of
Craftsmen and their handiwork .... Cross represents a profound symbol . .
with the man upon it
with an oval it is purely an Egyp- tian emblem
Cyril, Archbishop
pvAHABIYEH, pleasures of a . . . ' — ' description of the crew of our . .
first day on board
Damascus, swords of
Dams or reservoirs
constructed by Mohammed Ali . . Dark Ages
what brought on
Dashoor, pyramids of
discoveries made there
Dead, disposal of the
by the Hebrews and Romans . . .
by the Parsees
by the Ancient Egyptians
Death, there is no
what we call
cannot destroy what man has sown Delta of the Nile, formation of
description of
Demotic, was used principally by . . . Denderah, temples of . .'
description of interior
Der el-Bahari
where the royal mummies were
found
Divine Essence
principle manifests itself
thoughts on
Druses, founding of the
doctrines of the
laws of the
PAGE
465
117 118 196
255 86
87 228 281 282
289 12
376 414
415 51 83
152 10
13
373 374 293 294 296 297 224
439 488
153 156 87 481 4S3 515
515
81
185
196
131 134 144
634
INDEX,
PAGE
Duty of one Mason to another 3
we owe our fellow man , . 498
EDFU, arrival at 563
description of the temple .... 565
Furlong's comparison 565
Ecclesiastes, thoughts on 44S
Egypt 16
her former grandeur 40
memories of 40
her first inhabitants brought ... 227
all philosophers and sages visited . 232
Egyptian civilization 38
ffy 41
architecture 74
splendor 82
temples were used for initiation . . 538
Ekmin, town of 476
description of 476
Elephanta 18-112
description of 113
an incident in tlie cave temple
of . . . .• 610
El-Kab and its rock tombs 562
a very interesting place to visit . . 562
description in the tombs of Paheri 563
Embalming the dead in Egypt .... 297
when the body was given over for . 297
after the incision 298
description of 298
after the viscera had been removed 299
three methods prevailed in ... . 300
after they were 300
reached perfection during the . . . 301
Esbekiyeh, public garden of Cairo . . 215
description of 215
Eshne, arrival at 560
a visit to the temple of 561
Evolution 1 13-1 14-310
Extradition of the Ancient Egyptians . 578
FAYUM, the 38
delightful place to visit 38
description of 381
site of Lake Moeris 381
PAGS
length of the valley 382
many interesting ruins here .... 383
Labyrinth located here 384
Feather of Truth 64
Feshn arrived at and passed 421
Final Toast 629
Flora of Egypt 16
Flowering season 16
Force or Energy 236
Freedom of Thought 488-492
Free Mason and origin of the words . . 85-S6
the word verified our rituals .... S5-86
why we are called 86
the name proves its antiquity ... 86
Free Masonry, the real secrets of . . . 400
Free secular schools 500
plotting against 500
GALILEO, where and when bom . . 49
said to have invented 49
Garden of Eden 18
Garter, Order of the 345
account of its origin 345
the vesture of the 346
Gawazee, or dancing girls 560
are of the lower class 560
were driven away from Cairo . . . 560
effects produced by this act .... 561
description of their dances .... 561
Gebel-et-Ter (Bird mountain) 426
account of 428
Gebel Shekh Embarak 422
Gizeh . • . . . . 30-49
Museum of . . 31
Glass, Malleable 50
blowers of Thebes understood the
metallic o.xides 51
God, a Mason's belief in 173
there is One Supreme Infinite '. . . 174
therefore is a mystery 176
does not think 181
according to Pythagoras 181
poem on 182
worshipped under the form of fire . 187
and Truth are inseparable 190
is One 195
INDEX.
635
PAGE
Golden Fleece, account of the 341
Order of the 342
founded by 342
two orders of the 343
decorations of the Order of the. . . 343
Goodsell, Bishop of Tennessee 14
Greek School of Philosophy 12
destruction of the 12
TJ AGAR SILSILIS, rock tombs at . 565
A •'■ width of river at 565
description of quarries at 566
ramblings at 566
Hagar-esSalam (stone of welfare) . . . 422
Harvesting in Egypt 150
Harbors of Alexandria 10
description of 10
of Port Said 127
He wlio injures another 66
Hebrews were expert engravers .... 51
manners and customs of the .... 584
method of killing beeves 584
high positions held by the 584
Christ was a 585
a description of the exalted positions
attained by 586
the symbols of Masonry have been
preserved by 5S6
Heliopolis, location of 215
a visit to the ruins of 216
description of a trip to 216
Hebrews called this place Beth-
Shemesh 218
the Phcenix came to this city of . . 218
was called the fountain of the Sun . 223
the Grand East of Egypt was in . . 223
Heliodorus 81-S5
Hesus of the Celtic Druids 326
Hieratic 86
derived from 85
Hiram Abift' 140
King of Tyre 16
Hieroglyphs 86-87
Hieroglyphic inscriptions 86
Holy Doctrine 20-28
subUme truths of the ... . . 491
PAGE
Homer's Iliad written on a skin .... 50
Horus 39-41
represents the sun in full power . . 57
battled against Typhoon 63
represents resurrection 63
guarded by Buto 69
Human Will 67
Hypatia murdered 12
TAOOFNEPAUL 326
^ Indra of Thibet 329
Immortality of the soul 114
proof of the 225
thoughts on the 311
there is no distinct or separate . . . 313 InefTable degrees conferred in the
Scottish Rite 437
pre-requisite to obtain the 437
India 112
Initiation, principal objects of 109
effect of 116
the object and aim of 116
the periods of 540
description of 541
the ceremonies of 541
generally performed 542
taught tlie Immortality of the Soul . 544
the object of the ancient 545
description of 594
similarity of 595
I- N. R. 1 457
Inscriptions, hieroglyphic 86
Inundation of the Nile 84
Isabella of Spain 15
Iseum in the Sebennyte Nome .... 56
Isis personified the earth 39
represented the dawn 57
search for Osiris 62
made an emblem 69
tear drop from eye of 80
Island of Elephantine 568
account of 568
of Mansuriyeh 567
of Phila; 573
description of surrounding scenery at 573
examining temples on the .... 574
description from our filucca of the 574
636
INDEX.
JENSEN said to have invented ... 50
Jesuits opposed to ourschool system 500
John the Grammarian 9
his request for books . 9
Joseph sold into Egypt 31
sold corn to his brothers 31
Josephus 12-16
Judah 45
Judgment of the dead 64
pictorial representation of ... . 64
Judge not 440
our own thoughts are our own . . 440
KABALAH, cardinal doctrines of . 1S9
ground work for students .... 193 all dogmatic religions came from
the 585
dreams of St. Martin borrowed
from the 5S5
the sanctuary of the 586
Kadi 83
Kama or Desire body 356
contains all-our emotions, etc. . . . 356
Kanopic jars 78-79-154-159
mouth of the Nile 160
Kanopus 30
Karma, Thoth the Lord of 65
is the Law of Cause and Effect . . 66
Good and Bad 67
thoughts on 286
Karnak, when I first visited ...... 527
trip from Luxor to 529
avenue of sphinxes leading to . . . 529
description of the temple of . . . . 530
French Government restoring ... 531
Kenah and the Gawazee 4S4
Kenrick and Osirian Myth 74-76-84
Khartum 77
Khufu 45
Knowledge, how to gain 20
of the old philosophers 230
of square root . .• 230
definition of 234
could easily be lost 336
comment on 337
we obtain 438
PAGE
Kolosana and vicinity . 425-426
Kom Ombos, arrived at 567
description of 567
LABYRINTH 42
built by Amen-em-hat III ... . 384
description of tlie 384
object of building the 385
Flinders Petrie exploration of the . 385
there were ten halls in the 559
Ladder ascending the 19-20
Lake Moeris 42
Manzala 125-155-160
Mareotis 16-155-158
Abukir - . 158
Brulus 160
Edku 160
La Pierre de San 30
established the correctness of Egyp- tian inscriptions 30
Law of Love 492
thoughts on the 493
of retribution 67
Layard's discoveries in Nineveh .... 50
Legend of Solomon's temple 276
of the ancestry of Hiram Abiff . . 276 of Hiram, Solomon and the Queen
of Sheba 277
murder of Hiram 279
of Freemasonry 281
of Osiris 397
of Gebel et-Ter 428
of the Lost Word 628
Lemuria, continent of 337
Leo Africanus 84
Lesser Mysteries • ' 37
Lever practically applied 49
Libraries classified 7
destruction of 9-10
Libyan mountains • . 49
Life, is real in the spiritual 311
principle 354
Lost Word, power of 335
was never lost 612
Lotus, The, is found carved 163
has been exalted 164
INDEX,
637
Egyptian not the sacred
description of the
Luxor, an account of the temple of - - description of temple and obelisk at
PAGE
164 165
527 528
MAGI, held images in utter abhor- rence 187
Mahamudiyeh canal 12-15-15S
Malateya 42
Mamelukes, account of the massacre of
the 204
Man, is Master of his own destiny ... 66
is not a terrestrial plant 115
will recognize God in Nature . . . 17S
makes God in his own image . . . 1S5
views in regard to God 1S6
must mourn, sorrow and suffer . . 225 Egyptians regarded Man as com- posed of different entities .... 305
prenatal e.xistence of 309
physical body of 349
according to the Christian idea . . 351
becomes what he Wills himself to be 48S
Manas, the Thinker 357
derivation of the word 357
description or meaning of 358
Manetho 43-55-56
was an Egyptian priest 54
Mariette Bey 31
discovered the statue of Kapiru . . 211
Granite temple discovered by . . . 249
Temple of Serapis discovered by . 262
discovered two statues 378
Massen, its signification 87
Mason, duty of a 36-4S7
badge of a 89
need not cease to be a Christian. Jew,
or Hindu 173
in becoming a 173
a speculative 225
labors for the benefit o those who
come after him 227
is never satisfied with mere cere- monies 269
do not generally care to study . . . 270
Alasonic emblems 7
PACK
literature . . 269
interest 269
Lodges in Alexandria 21
symbols appeal to the eye 37
precepts 19
thoughts 19
teachings 36
esoteric teachings 93
knowledge is the most sacred ... no student searches for " More Light " 293 traditions cannot hope to escape ex- amination 397
apron 341-348-349
Master's Wages 136
must be guided by the ancient Law 137
Mason's grip 193
Mathematics, comprehended by practi- cal Masons 49
Matter 115
there is no dead or blind 117
Medinet Habu, location of 512
description of the interior of . . . 513
Medum, Pyramids and Mastabas at . . 376
description of the ; . 377
Maspero examined the 377
account of the 379
Memnonium of Strabo 477
Memphis, founded by Menes 35S
transformation of the name .... 358 required an immense amount of la- bor to build the city of 259
the Necropolis of ancient Egypt . . 260
was destroyed to build Cairo . . . 262
the Noph of the Scriptures . . . 262
Abd-el Latef's description of . . . 262
Mendesian branch of the Nile 154-178
Meneptha ^ 81
Mesopotamia 76
Minia 429
account of 430
price of provisions at 431
disposing of the dead at 432
Missionaries 495
thoughts about 49*5
H. P. Blavatsky on 497
we are certainly in need of ... . 497
Mithra of Persia crucified 331
638
INDEX,
PAGE
Masonry a system of Morality 34-106
ritualism is not Masonry 34-539
originated in India 35
is a lineal descendant of the Mys- teries 3S-S6-490
real objects of 88
what the world owes to go-226
is not a religion 91-442-453
is not adverse to Christianity ... 93
has its decalogue 21
Symbols of 37
as practiced by the Druses 136
of the Druses 137
Arab 139
descended to us through the Phceni-
cians 141
disbelieves no Truth 175
reverences all the great reformers . 175 inculcates its old doctrine in relation
to God 195
pre-liistoric existence of 202
successor of the Mysteries 223
it, is very difficult to solve the
symbols o£ 271
like all the religions 271
real secrets of 272
in the ritual of 273
if we view it from a rational stand- point 397
proof of the antiquity of . . . 397-398-399
in entering the fold of 442
demands of her applicants a belief
in one God 444
does not teach the existence of an
Anthropomorphic God 455
tolerates all religions 488
has ever labored to give humanity
freedom 493
the dogma of 499
antagonizes no creed 499
has ever been the Champion of
Liberty 499
never conspired against the Govern- ment 499
has a vindictive foe in Jesuitry . . . 500 is mightier than the Church of
Rome 503
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is strong enough to defend herself . 505
neither fears nor hates any sect . . 508 has stepped across the threshold of
another century 535
has ramified from the Great Lodge
of the Perfect Masters 535
deals largely with the Ethics and Symbolism of the Ancient Mys- teries 549
owes its secrets in a great measure
to the Kabalah 586
is useful to all men 590
Moeris Lake 382
waters are brackish 382
depth of the 382
location of the 382
Mohammed Ah 6-152
place of 21
Mokattum hills 49-209
Moses 18-21-29-36-75
Mosque of Akbar, and description of . . 212 of El-Azhar, when founded .... 212 description of the teaching in El- Azhar 212
of Sultan Hassan 213
description of 214
of Mohammed Ali 203
view from this mosque ...... 208
Mummilication, the process of 297
one of the lost arts 301
began to decline 305
preserved the body and kept the
soul with it 307
Mummied dead, their reception-room . 261 receives visits from their living
friends 261
were often pledged 301
Mummy, the oldest known 301
address to a 302
of the eleventh century . . . . \ . 304
of Memphis are black 304
two found by M. de Morgan .... 373
of Seker-em-sa-f 36S
found at Hawara 386
Mysteries 20-37
the principle of these 97
esoteric teachings of the 98
INDEX.
639
distinction between the Lesser and
Greater
after initiation into the
ascending from the Lesser to the
Greater
none were admitted into the ....
teachings of the
Masonry is identical with the . . . magnificence of the ceremonies in
the
when Plutarch tried to enter the . . it was difficult to attain admission
into the
Life presented itself as a study in the
of the Universe
Moses initiated into the
were a series of symbols
Indian
in India embraced three great
doctrines
reception into the Indian
initiation into the ancient
reception into the Greek
The Mithraic
Zoroastrian, caves of the
similarity of the rites and ceremonies
in the various
The officers' places in the
loo
lOI
1 02 102
103 104
106 108
109 no 176
223 4S9 540
543 591 592 593 593 594
595
595
TV TATURE, grand objects of ... . 191
A ' is full of religious lessons .... 191
Ancient Greeks defied 192
Naucratis sole port for entry 32
Nazir el-Kism 83
Necropolis ii
of ancient Memphis 260
description of Memphis 260
Nectanebo I 54
XI 56
Neith, inscription on the temple .... 27
Negro Masonry 88
Nelson, Admiral Lord 154
Nephthys 61-73-74
Nile, River 6
Valley of the 16-86
overflowing of the 39
rise at Elephantine . . = . - . . 73
a source of mystery 75
its source 76
The White 77
The Blue 77-79
enters Egypt 78
width at Silsilis 78
width at Minia 78
ancients worshipped the 81-85
liigh 81-83
hymn to the 81
crier 82
color of the water of the 82
its waters used by Persian Kings . 83
dams of the 83
stimulating power of the water of the 8-1
personified .... 84
worshipped in many cities .... 85
flows to all parts of Lower Egypt . 149
created the soil of Egypt 152
water contains 169
Niloa 82-85
Kilometer 18-84
Nomes, Egypt was divided into . . . '. 41
presided over by Monarchs ... 42
Nubia 18
OASIS, description of 43
Oaths of ancient Hebrew .... 609
Oaths, Arab taking 609
an account of 610
description of various 611
right hand was used in taking . . . 612
of the King of England 501
of the Jesuits 502
comparison of . .' 503
Obelisk 6
at Heliopolis 217
of Usertesen described 218
Obligated, upon what were the ancient
craft 607
Obligation of Arab Masons 141
Operative Masons, their knowledge . . 49
Oracle of Amon 76
Ormuzd produced Light 194
Oman the Jebusite 17
640
INDEX,
PAGE
Osiris personified the river Nile 39
was a form of the Sun God Ra . . 57
how represented 60
Lord of the Underworld 60
Mythical legend of 73-74-75
PAAMYLES 60
Pa-Hebt 56-58
Palace of Nimrod 50
Panegyries description of 44"56
Pantheism S7
Papyrus 86
does not grow in Lower Egypt . . 161
for writing 161
Paracelsus description of the Absolute . 194
Parsees or Sun Worshippers 187
Parthenon 35
Pausanias 27
Pelusiac branch of Nile . . . .31-42-78-79-154
Perfect Mason is taught 88
Phallaphoria 60-74
Pharos 4-58
founded by 11
completed by 11
destroyed 15
Phatnitic branch of Nile 73-7S-153
Philo 15
Phonograph 237
Phree, signification of 87
Plato 193
Point within a circle 445
Pole Star 445
Pompey's Pillar, description of ... . 5
Pope, the temporal power of the ... 15
Port Said 125
owes its origin to 122
Practical operative Mason 7
comprehended the mechanical arts 35
Priest, of Egypt 86
of Heliopolis were famous .... 218
of the temples of Egypt 51
of the Nile . . .
Pyramids, at Gizeh 52-S5-247-365
a trip to the Great 247
description of the group 24S
storjf connected with Men-KauRa . 249
description of the Great . . - entrance to the Great . . . . , electric experiment on the . . a trip to the Sakkarah . . . .
account of our trip
of Pepi II
of Pepi I
step Pyramid
Blunted ,
ofLisht
of Hawara
of El-Lahun
was used for initiation . . . ,
Pythagoras taught
where and when born .... travelled in foreign countries description of his Life's work account of what he taught .
250
250 253 365 366
367 368 371 371 374 3S5 413 538 loi 230 231 231 273
QUARTERNARY Man 89
the building of 349
is composed of 353
Que.xalcote of Mexico 327
Quirinus of Rome • 328
RA 82
The Sun God . 87
Rameses II, discovery of 518
died thirteen centuries b. c 521
description of tomb prepared by . 522
account of the mummy of 523
unwrapping the mummy of ... . 525
poem on 526
Rameses IV 52
Ramesseum 514
the mortuary temple of Rameses II 514
description of the 514
Ramleh 16
Ras-et-tyn .' . . 4-11-15
Regio Brucheum 7
Rhine 76
Reincarnation, Transformation .... 236
Religion, union of all 454
a clergyman's thoughts on ... . 455
all liad a common origin 458
of the Egyptians 233
INDEX.
641
Reservoirs 3
Retribution, the Law of 67
Reveal, is not properly understood . . 271
definition of the word 271
Reverend Dr. C. W. Drees 14
Rites of the ancient Mysteries 20
Rivers of Life • . . . . 75
Roda and its bazars 4^4
Roman Catholic Church 12
her persecutions of other sects . . 13
Pike on the Roman Catholic Church 503
Roman Eagle 87-341
more ancient than 343
origin of the Roman Eagle .... 344
Rosetta Stone 30
branch of Nile 153
town of 154
Rose Croix, symbol of 492
explanation of 492
Rotation of the Earth and Galileo . . 229
the idea of Lactantius in relation to it 229
Royal Secret 20
SACRED writings 86
Sais 27-28
Sais, tutelar deity of 27
magnificence of ancient 29
wonderful chapel at 29
the modern name of ...... . 29
utter ruin remains of 29
Sailors of our Dahabiyeh 414
description of their pastime .... 418
two of their songs 419
account of our crew 420
Sakia Hindu Saviour 322
Sakiyeh 149
description of a 168
, Sakkarah, Necropolis of 365
investigations at 367
exploring pyramids and tombs at . 370
description of Step pyramid at . . 371
Salt-marshes for pasturage 166
Salt works 15
Salvation Army, noble work of the . . 498
San, miracles performed there .... 29-40
modern name 29
PAGK
Statue found at - ■ . 29
La pierre de 3°
when founded 30
where located 30
capital of Egypt 32
Scarabajus, an account of 369
emblematic of the Sun 369
Schopenhauer 66
Screw known to the ancients 49
Sebynnitic 154
Secret Doctrine 91
Sages looked to the 92
definition of thoughts from the . . 195
is the source of all Wisdom .... 459
tells us Truth can never be killed . 550
Thoughts on the 580
Sedan, Battle of 14
Self-less-ness, practice of 226
Semmenud, the site of 54
birth-place of Manetho 54
a typical Egyptian town 56
Serapeum 5
discovery of the 262
what led to its discovery ...... 263
not in existence to-day 263
what was found there 263
for what purpose erected 264
Seraphis — Auser — Hapi 264
worsliipped at Memphis 264
Serpent 18
Sesonchis united Upper and Lower Egypt 42
was contemporary with Solomon . 44
Scriptural name of 44
Sesostris 74
Set an Asiatic divinity 41
Shaduf 149
description of . ., 167
Sharaki land 149
requires artificial irrigation . . . 149
Sharona 423
Shekh-Abada, description of 464
Shekh-Fadl and ruined temples .... 425
Shellal 79
Shekhel-Beled 83
Shinar 49
Shoes, removal of 595
account of the custom of removing 595
642
INDEX,
PAGE
Signs of the Zodiac 402
named from some event 402
explanation of the 408
Silsilis 78
Sixteen Saviours, account of 317
comments upon 334
Solomon King of Israel 44
Solomon's temple 272-275
not a vestige of it to be found to- day 272
Somerset river 77
Solon 28
Sostratus the Cnidian 12
Sothis 38
Soudan 79-80
Soul passing through Amenti 108
Immortality of the 114
to recover its lost estate the . . . 115
evolution of the 117
of man is immortal 174
once launched on the stream of
evolution 309
is immortal 321
Sowing in the Land of Egypt .... 149
Sphinx, looked to the East Si
distant from great pyramids .... 253
age of the 253
description of the 255
Kenrick's account of the ..... 255
Bacon's account of the fable of the 256
Arab writers idea of 536
Spiritual temple 274
description of by Bro. J. D. Buck . 274
Statue of Kapiru, description of . ... 211
of Ra Hotep 377
of Nofrit 377
Steel, pens of 52
piece found by Colonel Vyse ... 52
Stelae, definition of and their use ... 30
generally found in tombs or temples 31
discovered before the Sphinx . . . 254
Stone, La pierre de San 30
Strabo 11-41
Suez Canal 123
planning the work 124
when commenced 124
opened up for ve.ssels 128
page:
average width ; . . 128
passage through 128
account of ancient 129
Summer Season begins 150
what they plant at the 151
Sun worshippers of Persia and India . 187
Ancient Egyptians worshipped the 1S8
motions of the 189
God worshipped under the symbol
of 389
why they worshipped the 3S9
rises in the East 305
sets in the West 396
i-epresents officers of Blue Lodge . 396
adored by the Arabs 405
description of the setting 427
there is no new thing under the . . 57S
Supreme Architect 36-173
Swastica, antiquity of the 28&
its form 287
an account of the 287
is found in every country 2S9
Syene or Aswan 5-569
shadowless well at . 569
scenes at 569
souvenirs to be obtained at ... . 570
our departure from 576
Symbolic degrees 587
said to contain the whole of
Masonry .... 588
Gil Barnard upon the 588
Thoughts on the • . . . 589
Symbols, antiquity of i8^3r
are used to conceal not to reveal . 18
are found throughout the world . . 35
appeal to the eye 35,
definition of Masonic 36
secrets of Masonry lie concealed in 272
many Masons take the 272
can be plainly traced \ . 281
come out of the shadowy dead past 282
were the universal language of . . 282
of the Rose Croix 492
are not fully explained 538
of the chequered pavement .... 596 the most sacred known to the He- brew 609.
INDEX.
643
PAGE
TANIS 29
Tanitic 31-61-73-78-154
Taxation 83
rate of 84
Tel-el-Amarna, ruins of 468
Temple of Caesar 6
of Seraphis 8-262
of Neith 28
of Ptah 51
Hephaistos at Memphis 259
account of chamber in it .... 260
of Seti 477
of Raraeses II 480
of Medinet Habu 512
Ramesseuni 514
of Rameses III 529
of Luxor 527
of Karnak 529
of Eshne 561
of Edfu 564
building of the 16
of Lower Egypt differ from those
of Upper 41-58
Ten commandments 21
Tenha, location of 429
description of 429
Thammuz of Syria 325
Thebes 17-42-81
arrival at /\/\/\
"hundred gated" 511
Thebiad, a description of the 559
Theodosius 9
Thoth, in the halls of Amenti 64
the Divine nature 65
Thothmes III 6-51
discovery of the mummy of . . . 518
condition of the sarcophagus of . . 520
unwrapping the mummy of ... . 520
comments on the mummy of . . . 521
Thought lives and is eternal 177
God is primarily and essentially . . 196
and how it functions 234
Pike on 235
existed before man was born . . . 242
proof of the power of 242
like chickens come home 243492
are perfect entities 243-492
PAGE
has no language , . . 492
freedom of 447
poem on 492
on the glorious Truths of Masonry 535
on the Sphinx 537
on Egyptian processional cere- monies 537
on Symbols and Symbology . . . 539
from the Secret Doctrine 552
on Egypt 577
on ancient Religions 579
on God 177
on the great universe of God ... 176
Thulis of Egypt 329
Tiberius 6
malleable glass made in his reign . 50
Tigris 76
Tombs of the Caliphs and description . 214
Campbells, discovered by 249
of Tih, description of 265
Beni Hassan 433
Stabl Antar 471
soldiers, description of 472
of Thebes 515
at Der-el-Bahari 515
El-Kab 562
Paheri, description of 563
Edfu 564
Gebel, or Hagar Silsilis 565
Toparchies 41
Tradition of the Phoenix • 218
signification of the 583
without the aid of 583
proof of the truth of 583
Transformation 1 1 1
thoughts on 112-308-309
Transforming pagap temples to Chris- tian churches 332-333
Transmigration, my thoughts on . . . 307-308
Trilingual stone 30
Trimurti in the cave of Elephanta . . . 113
definition of the ii4
Trinity, the doctrine of, found in all
religions • . . 194
of the Greeks 195
Doctrine of the 197
Typhon 61-62-69-73
644
INDEX.
PAGE
UR^S 43 a symbol of royalty and immor- tality 44
VALENTINIAN 15
Valens 15
Vatican • 84
Veiled symbols 35
Vibrations 491
the Law of 491
demonstration of the Law .... 491
Vicissitudes of Life 288
Victoria Nyanza 75-77
Voyage up the Nile and why I made it 414
thoughts on a 415-416
descriptions of the .... 420-424-434-463- 469-474-477-560-562-563-567
\1 T^ALKER, E. D
' ' we sow what we reap ....
the hand that gmites us is our own .
Wasp dance
Watchwords of Masonry
Water fowl
Wedge practically applied by
Weighed in the balance
Wekil
Well, Joseph's
discovered by Saladin
Whatsoever a man soweth .......
White Leather Apron
poem on the
should be free from
what it sliould be made of
what it teaches
White Lodge of Adepts
were Great Teachers
Wicked are punished
Winter Season commences
66
66 66 562 19 41 49 64
83 207 207 69 89 347 34S 34S 349 229 229
65 149
PAGE
Wisdom, keynote to is Meditation . . . 487
becomes manifest to the Sage . . . 4S9
Wise, how to become 20
Wittoba of the Telingonese 326
Wool, when woven into cloth 166
Wonderful preservation of Masonry . . 18
Word — His
Analysis of The 196
that was lost 612
said to be found by David 613
pronounced with great noise . . . . 613
where pronounced 613
was written in many languages . . . 614
More Light on the 616
it belonged to the Aryan Race. . . 616
Brother Buck on the 617-628
Brother Pike on the 618
Mr. Williams on A. U. M 622
is hidden in the Symbolic degrees . 625
is heard in the Royal Arch .... 629
Phree Massen. . ' 87
derived from 87
every idle 68
Work of Craftsmen 35
Arab Lodge 138
Writing Materials 161
ZARATHUSTRA, or Zoroaster ... 187
proclaimed himself tlie messenger
of Ahura Mazda 543
Zend-Avesta — sacred book of the Par- sees or ancient Persians 187
Zoan 29
field of 30-40-41-57
importance of 32
antiquity of its temple 32
magnificence of its temple 32
Zodiac 38-400
description of the ^ . 400
thoroughly understood by the an- cient Egyptians 408
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