Mystic masonry, or, The symbols of freemasonry and the greater ...

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174 Mystic Masonry.
Man's knowledge and power are no longer confined
to, or circumscribed by, the lower plane, or the
physical body ; but, transcending these by Regeneration
(self-conquest), and becoming perfect in Humanity,
man attains Divinity. In other words, he
becomes Christos. This is the meaning, aim, and
consummation of Human Evolution; and this Philosophy
defines the one-only process by which it
may be attained. The Perfect Man is Christ: and
Christ is God. This is the birthright and destiny
of every human soul. It was taught in all the
Greater Mysteries of Antiquity, but the Exoteric
creeds of Christendom, derived from the parables
and allegories in which this doctrine was concealed
from the ignorant and the profane, have accorded
this Supreme Consummation to Jesus alone, and
made it obscure or impossible for all the rest of humanity.
In place of this, the grandest doctrine ever
revealed to man, theologians have set up Salvation
by Faith in a man-made Creed, and the Authority
of the Church to "bind or lose on Earth or in
Heaven." Law is annulled ;
Justice, dethroned
Merit, ignored; Efifort, discouraged; and Sectarianism,
Atheism, and Materialism are the results.
All real Initiation is an internal, not an external,
process. The outer ceremony is dead and useless