Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00618)

Dear Friends,  
 
The founder of the modern theosophical movement says that the Jesuits have destroyed the occult dimension in Masonry. 
 
After quoting Ragon and showing with his words that the masonic allegory of Hiram and its corresponding rite are based on a solar myth, H.P.Blavatsky  writes: 
 
“And here again, our friends the Jesuits have to be mentioned, for the above rite is of their making.  To give one instance of  their success in throwing dust into the eyes of ordinary individuals to prevent their seeing  the truths of Occultism, we will point out what they did in what is now called Freemasonry.” 
 
And the Old Lady goes on: 
 
“This Brotherhood does possess a considerable portion of the symbolism, formulae, and ritual of Occultism, handed down from time immemorial from the primeval Initiations. To render this Brotherhood a merely harmless negation, the Jesuits sent some of their most able emissaries into the Order, who first made the simple  brethren believe that the true secret was lost with Hiram Abiff; and then induced them to put this belief into their formularies.  They then invented specious but spurious higher degrees, pretending to give further light upon this lost secret, to lead the candidate  on and amuse him with forms borrowed from the real thing but containing no substance,  and all artfully contrived to lead  the aspiring Neophyte to nowhere. And yet men of good sense and abilities, in other respects, will meet at intervals, and with solemn face, zeal and earnestness,  go through the mockery of revealing ‘substituted secrets’ instead of the real things.” (1) 
 
A mockery  indeed.
 
The  so-called “higher degrees” in Modern Masonry  have been kindly  invented by the Vatican agents infiltrated inside Masonry, while Hiram’s myth, the keystone of the basic degrees, has been distorted and turned useless and is now something which leads people nowhere.  
 
Why should the authentic theosophical movement have anything to do, then,  with masonry or ritualism?  It would not make sense,   unless it was also  infiltrated and had ceased to be authentic.  
 
Once the theosophical movement is distorted,  though, its pseudo-leaders can always “amuse people with forms borrowed from the real thing but containing no substance” –  to use HPB’s precise words above. 
 
Best regards,   Carlos Cardoso Aveline, from Brazil.   
 
 
NOTE:
 
(1) “The Collected Writings of H.P. Blavatsky”, TPH, Adyar/Wheaton/London, volume XIV, 1985, 734 pp., see pp. 264-265. 
 
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