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    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or the Secret of Hiram Abiff
    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or the Secret of Hiram Abiff
    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or the Secret of Hiram Abiff
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    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or the Secret of Hiram Abiff

    By Manly P. Hall

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    • Freemasonry

    • Symbolism

    • Spirituality

    • Initiation

    • Brotherhood

    • Secret Society

    • Spiritual Journey

    • Power of Friendship

    • Hero's Journey

    • Chosen One

    • Quest

    • Wise Old Man

    • Spiritual Awakening

    • Ancient Conspiracy

    • Initiation Ritual

    • Esoteric Knowledge

    • Spiritual Growth

    • Self-Improvement

    • Personal Growth

    • Ancient Mysteries

    About this ebook

    A high-ranking Mason offers a fascinating glimpse into the Western world's most secretive society. Hall traces the path followed by initiates to the ancient craft. He also recounts the ethical training required of a Freemason, and profiles the character traits a Mason must "build" within himself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBurtyrki Books
    Release dateMar 5, 2020
    ISBN9781839743108
    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or the Secret of Hiram Abiff
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    Manly P. Hall

    Manly P. Hall (1901-1990) founded the Philosophical Research Society, an organization dedicated to the dissemination of practical knowledge in a variety of philosophical fields. He is best known for his 1928 classic, The Secret Teachings of All Ages.

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      The Lost Keys of Freemasonry or the Secret of Hiram Abiff - Manly P. Hall

      © Burtyrki Books 2020, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      THE LOST KEYS OF FREEMASONRY

      or

      The Secret of Hiram Abiff

      By

      MANLY P. HALL

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD 5

      FOREWORD 6

      INTRODUCTION 8

      PROLOGUE 12

      IN THE FIELDS OF CHAOS 12

      TEMPLE BUILDERS 15

      CHAPTER I — THE ETERNAL QUEST 16

      THOUGHTLESSNESS 19

      CHAPTER II — THE CANDIDATE 20

      CHAPTER III — THE ENTERED APPRENTICE 24

      CHAPTER IV — THE FELLOW CRAFT 28

      CHAPTER V — THE MASTER MASON 31

      TRANSMUTATION 33

      THE PRESENCE OF THE MASTER 34

      CHAPTER VI — THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON 35

      MASONS, AWAKE! 38

      EPILOGUE THE PRIEST OF RA 38

      ADDENDA — THE ROBE OF BLUE AND GOLD 43

      FRIENDSHIP 45

      THE EMERALD TABLET OF HERMES (TABULA SMARAGDINA) 45

      FINISH OF THE TABULA SMARAGDINA 46

      MOTIVE 47

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 48

      PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD

      The steady demand and increasing popularity of this volume, of which eighteen thousand copies have been printed since it first appeared a few years ago, have brought the present revised and rearranged edition into being. The text can be read with profit by both new and old Mason, for within its pages lies an interpretation of Masonic symbolism which supplements the monitorial instruction usually given in the lodges.

      The leading Masonic scholars of all times have agreed that the symbols of the Fraternity are susceptible of the most profound interpretation and thus reveal to the truly initiated certain secrets concerning the spiritual realities of life. Freemasonry is therefore more than a mere social organization a few centuries old, and can be regarded as a perpetuation of the philosophical mysteries and initiations of the ancients. This is in keeping with the inner tradition of the Craft, a heritage from pre-Revival days.

      The present volume will appeal to the thoughtful Mason as an inspiring work, for it satisfies the yearning for further light and leads the initiate to that Sanctum Sanctorum where the mysteries are revealed. The book is a contribution to Masonic idealism, revealing the profounder aspects of our ancient and gentle Fraternity—those unique and distinctive features which have proved a constant inspiration through the centuries.

      FOREWORD

      By REYNOLD E. BLIGHT, 33 degree, K. T.

      Reality forever eludes us. Infinity mocks our puny efforts to imprison it in definition and dogma. Our most splendid realizations are only adumbrations of the Light. In his endeavors, man is but a mollusk seeking to encompass the ocean.

      Yet man may not cease his struggle to find God. There is a yearning in his soul that will not let him rest, an urge that compels him to attempt the impossible, to attain the unattainable. He lifts feeble hands to grasp the stars and despite a million years of failure and millenniums of disappointment, the soul of man springs heavenward with even greater avidity than when the race was young.

      He pursues, even though the flying ideal eternally slips from his embrace. Even though he never clasps the goddess of his dreams, he refuses to believe that she is a phantom. To him she is the only reality. He reaches upward and will not be content until the sword of Orion is in his hands, and glorious Arcturus gleams from his breast.

      Man is Parsifal searching for the Sacred Cup; Sir Launfal adventuring for the Holy Grail. Life is a divine adventure, a splendid quest

      Language falls. Words are mere cyphers, and who can read the riddle? These words we use, what are they but vain shadows of form and sense? We strive to clothe our highest thought with verbal trappings that our brother may see and understand; and when we would describe a saint he sees a demon; and when we would present a wise man he beholds a fool. Fie upon you, he cries; thou, too, art a fool.

      So wisdom drapes her truth with symbolism, and covers her insight with allegory. Creeds, rituals, poems are parables and symbols. The ignorant take them literally and build for themselves prison houses of words and with bitter speech and bitterer taunt denounce those who will not join them in the dungeon. Before the rapt vision of the seer, dogma and ceremony, legend and trope dissolve and fade, and he sees behind the fact the truth, behind the symbol the Reality.

      Through the shadow shines ever the Perfect Light.

      What is a Mason? He is a man who in his heart has been duly and truly prepared, has been found worthy and well qualified, has been admitted to the fraternity of builders, been invested with certain passwords and signs by which he may be enabled to work and receive wages as a Master Mason, and travel in foreign lands in search of that which was lost—The Word.

      Down through the misty vistas of the ages rings a clarion declaration and although the very heavens echo to the reverberations, but few hear and fewer understand: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

      Here then is the eternal paradox. The Word is lost yet it is ever with us. The light that illumines the distant horizon shines in our hearts. Thou wouldst not seek me hadst thou not found me. We travel afar only to find that which we hunger for at home.

      And as Victor Hugo says: The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

      That which we seek lives in our souls.

      This, the unspeakable truth, the unutterable perfection, the author has set before us in these pages. Not a Mason himself, he has read the deeper meaning of the ritual. Not having assumed the formal obligations, he calls upon all mankind to enter into the holy of holies. Not initiated into the physical craft, he declares the secret doctrine that all may hear.

      With vivid allegory and profound philosophical disquisition he expounds the sublime teachings of Freemasonry, older than all religions, as universal as human aspiration.

      It is well. Blessed are the eyes that see, and the ears that hear, and the heart that understands.

      INTRODUCTION

      Freemasonry, though not a religion, is essentially religious. Most of its legends and allegories are of a sacred nature; much of it

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