The Secret Tradition In Freemasonry, Volume 1 by Arthur Edward Waite

Author:Arthur Edward Waite [Waite, Arthur Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Esoterik
ISBN: 9783849605018
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2013-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

We have not, however, completed our explanation of the Noachite motive, at once so curious and inconsequential. It will recur once and for all as a kind of unintended sequel to the Grade of Mark Master Mason, which will shortly intervene for our attention. It represents, however, a long distance ahead in symbolical time, and this space is not entirely devoid of Masonic legend and symbolism. The great epoch of Abraham, as the father of all Israel, and the captivity in Egypt are passed over in silence; so also is the Exodus, and so as I have said is the opportunity offered by the sacred mystery of Sinai. There are, however, two Grades which commemorate the institution of the priestly order in Israel, but they must be considered at a later stage because of the intellectual confusion which has imported them into the period of the First Temple. We are left therefore with the ORDER OF THE SECRET MONITOR, called also that of Brotherly love, which is concerned with the friendship subsisting between David and Jonathan and has practically no emblematic aspect. It is probably of American origin as here known among us, but towards the end of the eighteenth century an Order of David and Jonathan existed in Holland. It is devoid of Masonic elements, as it now stands, except in so far as it is held to strengthen the bonds of fraternal affection which should exist among all Masons: it is, however, quite negligible in this as in other respects, and recalls the ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR in pseudo-adoptive Masonry, which is also American and also worthless, even after its own kind.

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