The Key to Solomon's Key: Secrets of Magic and Masonry by Lon Milo DuQuette

Author:Lon Milo DuQuette [DuQuette, Lon Milo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CCC Publishing
Published: 2006-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

someday be brought to light, their discovery would only serve to slightly readjust our view of mundane history as it relates to religion and politics.

The real secret is not a document or a book or an artifact. It is something that can neither be taught nor learned. It is an incommunicable fact of life that concerns the most profound wonder in the universe, the mystery of consciousness itself, and our ability to achieve progressively higher levels of consciousness.

In order to do that we must become a new kind of person, and we have to start that process the same way the legendary Knights Templar did – by first liberating ourselves from the great delusion that keeps most of us in a state of spiritual bondage – the delusion that we do not create our own reality – the delusion that we are helpless victims of someone or something else’s reality. This seems like such a little step, but it is in reality a quantum leap of consciousness, a fundamental shift of self-identity. As innocuous as the traditions and ceremonies of Freemasonry may appear, they do, by their very order and structure, elegantly communicate to anyone with eyes to see the essence of the formula of initiation.

First of all, we must want to change. In keeping with the most ancient customs of the Mystery tradition, Masonry invites no one into her ranks. Each potential candidate must voluntarily apply and swear he is unbiased by friends and uninfluenced by mercenary motives.

Secondly, the initiation ritual itself reveals the threefold formula of evolution: resistance, struggle, and mutation. The candidate submits to this process again and again as he is repeatedly barred from advancement within the lodge room; then confronted with an ordeal or otherwise purified or instructed. Finally he is eventually allowed to pass and take his place in the Temple.

The candidate physically experiences this process on the night of his initiation, but he is also required to embed the experience in the deepest recesses of his mind. He does this by painstakingly committing large portions of the ceremony to memory and then reciting it letter perfect before the Master and his lodge brothers. Until this is done he is not considered qualified to take the next degree. This is more difficult for some than others, but the ordeal of memorization is vitally important, for once the formula of initiation becomes imprinted upon the subconscious mind it becomes difficult if not impossible to remove from the psyche. This simple formula, experienced by every Mason in his travels through the degrees, is precisely that outlined in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and parallels the journey of the deceased as he or she passes to higher and higher levels of post mortem consciousness.

The third and most important factor in the formula of initiation is the act of consciously inserting ourselves into the divine circuitry of the cosmos. One can rightly argue that we are all, at all times, whether we recognize it or not, an inextricable part of the universal and supreme stream of consciousness/existence.

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