Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel
Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel
Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel
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212 KNIGHTS OF THE SUN.<br />
INITIATION.<br />
213<br />
Auriel—Brother Truth, whom do you conduct?<br />
Brother Truth-”--A Commander of the Temple, who<br />
desires to go out of darkness and to see the true light,<br />
and to know the true light in all its purity, and to ask<br />
tidings of the ‘times that are promised to man;<br />
Auriel—What do I see? This Commander you conduct<br />
dares to present himself as a fellow laborer and<br />
stands clothed in the tattered and impure garb of indolence<br />
and vice. Divest him of that garb. (Brother<br />
Truth takes off the robe.)<br />
Brother Truth—Glorious Auriel, the aspirant has cast<br />
off the disgraceful garb of idleness.<br />
Auriel—’Tis well! His body being relieved from ignominy,<br />
his mind may now discover and fulfill the moral<br />
meaning Aof the cone or pyramid; that form of matter<br />
from which all other figures may be derived,<br />
and which is an emblem of productive<br />
truth, varied order and economic<br />
utility. It represents the true mason who<br />
raises himself by degrees till he reaches<br />
heaven, to adore the sacred and unutterable<br />
name of the Great Architect of the<br />
von~o~ytusId. Universe. ~ If any will not work, neither<br />
should they eat. (~Brother Truth again conducts him<br />
once around the room.)<br />
Zarachiel—Man was created pure, and God gave him<br />
truth as he gave him light. He has lost the truth and<br />
found error. He has wandered far into darkness and<br />
round him sin and shame hover evermore. <strong>The</strong> soul<br />
that is impure and sinful and defiled with earthly stains<br />
cannot again unite with God, until by long trials and<br />
many purifications it is finally delivered from the old<br />
calamity, and light overcomes darkness and dethrones<br />
it in the SOul. (Halts in front of Zarachiel.)<br />
-Zarad&iel—Brother Truth, whom do you conduct?<br />
Brother Truth—A Commander of the Temple who<br />
desires to go out of dark’ness and to see the true light,<br />
and to know the true light in all its purity, and to ask<br />
tidings of the times that are promised to man.<br />
Zarachiel—-’I cannot permit him to pass, for he wears<br />
the mask of hypocrisy. (Brother Truth removes the<br />
mask.)<br />
Brother Truth—Shining Zarachiel, his mask has fallen<br />
and he stands before you, in honesty and innocence.<br />
Zaraehiel—’Tis well! He doth stand approved, and<br />
may drink of the pure contents of this transparent goblet.<br />
Let the perfect purity of its contents be a token of<br />
the resolution of this hour, blessed are the pure in heart.<br />
(Candidate drinks, when Brother Truth again conducts<br />
him once around the room.)<br />
Hamaliel—Before the world grew old, the primitive<br />
truth faded out from men’s souls. <strong>The</strong>n man asked him.<br />
self, what am I and how and whence am I and whither<br />
do I go? and the soul looking inward upon itself strove<br />
to learn whether that “I” were mere matter; its thought<br />
and reason, its passions and affections mere results of<br />
material combination or, a material being enveloping an<br />
immaterial spirit. (Halts in front of Hamaliel.)<br />
Hamaliel—B rother Truth, whom do you conduct?<br />
Brother Truth—A Commander of the Temple who desires<br />
to go out of darkness and to see the true light~ and<br />
to know the true light in all its purity, and to ask tidings<br />
o~ the times that are promised to man.<br />
Hamaliel—None but the free can enter into the gate.<br />
of the Eden, for it is the land of liberty. (Brother<br />
Truth takes off the chains of the candidate.)<br />
Brother Trutl&—Hanualiel, he is free.
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