Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00653)

Carlos,

I see that you believe that the ceremonies are the most important 
part of Freemasonry. They are there as an important part, but far 
from the most important. Freemasonry is the last part of the Lesser 
Mysteries of the ancient Mystery Schools of the West. Read what 
Grace Knoche wrote in Chapter 7 of "The Mystery Schools".

"Comparison of the ritual of the Lesser Mysteries, as practiced in 
the ancient world with slight variations of detail, reveals the 
universal story of the descent into the underworld in the symbol of 
the wheat or corn deity. The seed or grain represents the candidate. 
As the seed enters into the dark regions of the moist earth, many 
are the difficulties of soil and environment to contend with; 
it "dies" in giving birth to root and stalk. Finally, as the period 
of germination expires, tender shoots of the grain sprout above the 
surface of the earth, and in time the seed-that-was bursts forth in 
flower with the aid of sun and rain. In like manner the 
candidate "dies" in the regions of the underworld, the lower 
spheres, where he meets and conquers the difficulties of 
environment; shedding his impermanent self, he dies in giving birth 
to budding masterhood. At the appropriate hour, the disciple-that-
was rises to the spheres of light and life; taken into the presence 
of other plants of divinity, he finds friendship with the gods and 
blooms into the full flower of adepthood.

Thus is dramatized in esoteric imagery the spiritual travail of 
those "giving birth to themselves" (Secret Doctrine 2:559) -- as an 
ancient manuscript describes the birth of the adept within the 
neophyte, the supreme initiation."

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mysterys/mystsch2.htm

The master meant that ceremonies are bubbles of ceremonies are 
considered too have a value of its own, not that ceremonies al thru 
are bubble. It's clear that you missed the point.

As you said; "Nobody told you that?"


Carl 

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "carlosaveline" 
<carlosaveline@...> wrote:
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> Carl, 
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> Facts are facts, and ceremonies, even those to which an Adept may 
be physically present, are bubbles; bubbles
> for babies, see the ML.  I just quoted it.
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> Got the right bibliographical evidence? 
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> Believing in ceremonies is one of the ten fetters, or obtacles,  
along the way, according to Occultism.   
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> Nobody told you that?
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> Carlos.
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