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To: alt.magick From: Sar Draconis <#page7@popd.ix.netcom.com> Subject: Occult Masonry Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 20:49:32 -0800 Robert Word wrote: > > Sar Draconis wrote: > > > > On Jan. 15 of 1933, Paul Case addressed Israel Regardie. I quote the > > letter on that occasion in full: > > > > 2380 Monterey Road > > San Marino, Cal. > > January 15, 1933 > > > > Care Frater: > > > > The Scottish Rite Library in Washington has some interesting early > > Rosicruciana written by Kenneth Mackenzie. Some years ago, in searching > > through the material, I got on the track of the hints that led me to > > believe that our Order rituals must be in some sense an adaptation or > > expansion of rituals used by some society in the days of Lytton,Levi, > > Hockley and Spedalieri. More recently, in the library of the > > Massachusetts Grand Lodge, I came upon a French ritual of the 33 degree, > > which contains not a little material closely resembling some of the > > magical work studied by Z.A.M. members. > > > > Yours fraternally, > > Perseverantia ::: > > Paul Foster Case is here alluding to the freemasonic origin of the > Golden Dawn. After the Morgan affair occurred in the U.S., the Craft > took great care to conceal the occult aspects. This facet was supported > by the english brethren. This explains why Westcott was willing to go > to any lengths whatsoever to conceal the true origin of the GD. The > Secret Chiefs of the Third Order were, in fact, High Grade Hermetic > Freemasons. > > The name "Sprengel" in "Anna Sprengel" in fact means "Masonic > Jurisdiction" in German. We shall perhaps never know who or which High > Grade Masonic Chief was concealed by this appelation. > > The Golden Dawn emanated in part from the "Gold und Rosenkreutzer", a > high grade German Hermetic and Masonic Order which utilized Grades of > the same titles as the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn also emanated from > "Memphis-Mizraim" and other High Grade Masonic bodies. Certain Druid > Orders, actually connected with Masonry, were also involved. In the early 1800's, the eminent Masonic Scholar and Initiate Jean-Marie Ragon de Bettignies, a member of the Lodge "Trinosophes", published his significant book "Occult Masonry". Chapter 17 of that book is entitled "Alchemy or Hermetic Philosophy", and he begins with a definition of the Sacerdotal and Occult Science, which I quote: " The study of Nature, her mysterious revolutions, her generative power, and the resultant repeated observations, have produced a most attractive Science, which, in the Middle Ages, was called ALCHEMY (or transcendent Chemistry)), or HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY, named after that greatest of all the Sages HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, founder of Egyptian Religion and first of all the Pholosophers who within the interior of the Pyramids, taught the OCCULT SCIENCES, which is to say, knowledge of Man, of Nature, and of God. All these sciences were the secret foundation of the Wisdom of the Oriental Sanctuaries. The Egyptian Priests placed at the door of the Sanctuary the Sphynx and the Griffin, symbols of Silence and Inpenetrability, for which the Mysteries gave the development. According to the Qabalists, Syria and Chaldea were the cradles of that Science; from that common center, it was propagated all over the Globe.
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