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gend is imported into Masonry is the Jewish Kabalah,
derived doubtless from the Chaldean and
Zoroasterian form of the Secret Doctrine ;
the principles
and methods of which were unfolded by the
late lamented Bro. J. Ralston Skinner, A. & A. S,
R. 32°. Bro. Skinner's greater works, however,
aside from his Source of Measures, and a large
number of pamphlets, exist only in Manuscript, and
are of so abstruse a character as to be of little use
except to profound scholars. Running all through
the Talmud are found references to the Secret Wisdom,
while the Sohar, the Kahalah Demidata, and
other Kabalistic works are all written with a veil
designed to conceal the secret from the uninitiated,
and to be meaningless without the key. Bro. Skinner's
discoveries were the reward of genius, made
as the result of stumbling on one of the keys that
"unlock the Golden Gates of the Palace of the
King." His discoveries lay the foundation for a
systematic and scientific study of the Kabalistic
form of the Secret Doctrine which lies concealed
beneath the Hebrew text of the Pentateuch, and
which no commentary has ever revealed or intended
to reveal. Perhaps another generation of biblical
Hebrew Scholars may discard their preconceptions,
prejudices and superstitions of the mere verbiage of