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

214 Mystic Masonry.
Ideals. It teaches that souls are sexless; and that
the sex of the body is an incident of gestation. No
civilization known to man has ever risen to any
great heights, or long maintained its supremacy,
that debased woman. Indeed, the Secret Doctrine
demonstrates with unmistakable clearness that sexual
debasement in any form is the highway to degeneracy
and destruction of both man and woman;
and of Nations quite as certainly as of individuals.
The most debased and horrible chapters in human
history are recorded in scientific works by medical
experts. Atavism is here exemplified as nowhere
else. Here, more than anywhere else within the
possible experience of man, lies the "Sin against
the Holy Ghost;" for through this open door,
through which rush the most unholy passions and
the hellish fires of lust, it is possible for man to lose
his human soul and descend to the animals. If any
one doubts this, let him read— if he can—some of the
scientific medical works on Sex-perverts, and then
consult the attendant physicians of the insane and
the symptoms and records of Lunacy.
"The first lesson we are taught in Masonry is to
be good men and true." And the frst declaration
made by the neophite in Masonry is that he comes
to the Lodge to "learn to subdue his passions, and