Professional Documents
Culture Documents
of Freemasonry
Mystic Masonry
and the
GREATER MYSTERIES
of
ANTIQUITY
By
J. D. BUCK, M.D., F.T.S., S.R. 32*
THIRD EDITION
(vii)
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Vlll PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
SYMBOLISM.
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INTROIXJCTI~N *.-.*...--...--.-----..--**.*----.-.......-..........-......................~. xv-xxv111
CHAPTER I.
Principles of Education and Ethics ---..--...*..........................*...... l-15
CHAPTER II.
The Genius of Freemasonry .‘L.---------.+.----*-.............*..”.........~-“...~.16-25
CHAPTER III.
The Genius of Freemasonry (continued) ... .......*I.........-.......--* 26-48
CHAPTER IV.
The Secret Doctrine ~~~...*.r.--..r-..r......-...~............~..~....~.....~~............
49-67
CHAPTER V.
The Secret Doctrine (continued) -.....-.‘*-*---.‘.I..--~......................~. 68-81
CHAPTER VI. .
The Secret Doctrine (continued) .-Cf..-.------1.~..-*-_.........~~-....*~.....-.
82-106
The Seven-fold Nature of Man.
CHAPTER VII.
The Sign of the Master --.~--‘.‘.~~~...~.~.~...........~...*...--~.~...~~~~~.~..~~.....
107-113
CHAPTER VIII.
The Great Lodge ~~~~..~...~.~.....~...~**~.*~.~.~~~~.~.~~-~.~*-~~~.~~..~~.~~......~
114-127
CHAPTER IX.
An Outline of Symbolism ... ..___._...______
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128-138
CHAPTER X.
Page xii is blank.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
XXV111 INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I.
tion and its meaning became lost to all except the select
few to whom it was confided ; it being concealed from the
common people, because the Deity, thus metaphysically
named, was not that personal and capricious, and as it
were, tangible God in whom they believed, and who alone
was within reach of their rude capacities. . . . This
was the profound truth hidden in the ancient allegory
and covered from the general view with a double veil.
This was the exoteric meaning of the generation and pro-
duction of the Indian, Chaldean, and Phoenician Cosmog-
onies; of the Active and Passive Powers; of the Male
and Female Principles ; of Heaven and its Luminaries
generating, and the Earth producing; all hidden from
vulgar view, as above its comprehension; the doctrine
that matter is not eternal, but that God was the only
original Existence, the Absolute, from Whom every thing
has proceeded, and to Whom all returns. . . . And
this True Word is with entire accuracy said to have been
lost, because its meaning was lost even among the He-
brews, although we still find the name (its real meaning
unsuspected) in the Hu of the Druids and Fo-Hi of the
Chinese.” *
* Morals and Dogma, p. 700 et seq.
THE GENIUS OF FREEMASONRY 41
suits, it is not, by any means, the only one, nor the most
fruitful for all purposes.
The Planes in Nature and in Man, to which I have re-
ferred, and the septenary principle in their divisions and
relations, offer another method of investigation.
CHAPTER VI.
THE SECRET DOCTRINE (CONTINUED).
“This is peace,
To conquer love of self and lust of life,
To tear deep-rooted passion from the breast,
To still the inward strife.”
AN OUTLINE OF SYMBOLISM.
PROPOSITION.
CONCLUSION.
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