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THE MURDER OF HIRAM
(See Chapter VIII, THE HIRAMIC LEGEND)
From the original painting by A. J. Knapp, never heretofore pub-
lished, Courtesy Philosophical Re~eurclz Society * Library, Los An-
geles.
THE LOST W-ORD
ITS HIDDEN MEANING
A CORRELATION OF
THE ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM OF THE BIBLE
WITH THAT OF FREEMASONRY AND AN EXPOSI-
TION OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE
GEORGE H. STEINMETZ
WITH k FOREWORD BY
ILLUSTRATIONS.
(not otherwise credited)
By JOSEPH KRIEGER’
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PREFACE . . . . . . . . l x111 . l .
I . INTRODUCTION . . . . l . l I . . .
III . DEVOLUTION . . . . . . . . 22 . . .
IV NOMENCLATURE . . . .
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VI THE PATRIARCHS . . .
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77 l . .
X . COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS . .
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I74 . . .
Introduction
Devolutz’on
THE ZODIAC
Showing the ancient illustrations of the signs and their desig-
nating symbols. (Krieger)
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subtle Isis wormed his secret name from Ra, the great
Egyptian god of the sun.” 23
Frazer is writing factually and can be referring
only to the masses of the Egyptians, for it is a well
established fact that such superstitions were not be-
lieved by the learned priests and initiates of the Egyp-
tian Mysteries. Briefly, the story to which he alludes
is as follows:
Isis longs for the power which will be hers if she
can discover the secret name of Ra. She takes some
of the god’s spittle and mixes it with earth, molding
the resultant mud into a serpent, which she places1 in
the path along which Ra will walk. The serpent
stings him and, being poisoned, Ra calls all the gods
and goddesses to him and says: “I am a prince, the
son of a prince, the divine seed of a god. My, father
devised my name; my father and my mother gave me
my name, and it has remained hidden in my body
since my birth 24 that no magician might have power
over me.”
This conversation between the gods continues for
a time during which Ra’s poisoned condition deteri-
orates. Isis entreats Ra to tell her his true name, say-
ing: “Tell me thy name, divine father, for the man.
23The Golden Bough. Page 260.
24May this not mean that the characteristics which suggested the
name were “hidden in the body” from birth, and a part of him?
NOMENCLATURE 61
THE PATRIARCHS 79
World Saviors
KRISHNA
OSIRIS
JESUS
So familiar should all readers be with the life of
Jesus that it would be a waste of time and space to
recount it here, were it not for the fact that it is de-
sired to emphasize certain claims regarding him as
well as certain events which the New Testament re-
lates.
Mary the mother of Jesus is “with child by the
Holy Ghost.” Joseph “was minded to put her away
privily” but he is informed by the angel of the Lord
who “appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph,
thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary
thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the
Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and
thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his
people from their sins.”
It is the well remembered Christmas story of how
the wise men came from the East asking “where is
he that is born King of the Jews?” How “Herod the
king had heard these things * * * * was exceeding
wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that
were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from
two years old and under.” How Jesus escaped be-
cause the “angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in
a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and
his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there
WORLD SAVIORS 111
until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young
child to destroy him.” I1
When Jesus was twelve years old his parents, as
was the custom, went to Jerusalem for the feast of
the Passover. On the return journey, missing the
boy, they searched for him for three days and finally
“found him in the Temple, sitting in the midst of the
doctors, both hearing them, and asking them ques-
tions. And all that heard him were astonished at his
understanding and answers.” I2
Jesus is sometimes mystically referred to as “the
Widow’s Son.” This is susceptible of two interpreta-
tions. As Joseph is not mentioned in the gospels at
any time after the narrative of Jesus’s ministry is
begun, it is presumed he is dead, which would- in fact
’ make Mary the mother of Jesus a “widow.” Like-
wise Mary is a “widow” if the theory of the immacu-
late conception is accepted, for her “husband” is not
a living human being.
Jesus was baptised by John and “was led by the
Spirit in to the wilderness” where he was subjected to
three temptations. He began his ministry, going
about the country teaching his philosophy of love,
healing the sick, restoring sight to the blind, doing
good to all.
I1 Biblical quotations from Matthew I, and II. King James Vel’sion.
I2 Luke II: 46, 47.
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never since left it, but which has been kept alive by
its own inherent vitality and by the teaching of all
true seers, prophets and poets that this accursed thing
which has bitten man’s heel (laming him, hindering
his progress and especially making this halting and
painful) should eventually be crushed and subjugated
by man himself-by the rising up within him of a
Savior-the Christ. * * * For weary eons this con-
dition has lasted-the sense of sin still haunts his
pathway--by the sweat of his brow he still eats
bread--h is still ashamed. Where is the deliverer,
the Savior? Who or what?” ’
Yes, WIIERE IS the deliverer, who or what? With
the cognizance of the spiritual comes the longing for
its fulfillment, the intense desire to go “from” the
material, the illusory, “to” the spiritual, the REAL,
the TRUTII! When Cosmic Consciousness is dis-
cussed in a later chapter, we- may arrive at a better
understanding of this. For the present our interest
is to investigate the origin and effect on humanity of
the Messiah Concept.
There have been numerous prototypes of the per-
fect m&, forerunners of the perfected race which is
to come;- In some way, for some unexplainable rea-
son, .these prototypes came to be ldoked upon as “Sav-
iors” rather than EXAMPLES. It is of course true
’ Cosmic thasciousness, pages 6-7.
THE MESSIAH CONCEPT 125
WlTTOiBA
Statues of the god Wittoba referred to by Blavatsky. Taken
from Moor’s Hindu Pantheolz, courtesy Philosophical Research
Society Library.
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p/GI/AE I. FIfGiXW 2.
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SYMBOIi OF THE
PERFECT SPIRITUALMAN
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SPIRITUAL
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SPIRITUAL
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Cosmic: Consciousness
as rational to accept
M his “now” as pertaining to self
consciousness, his “then”’ to cosmic consciousness?
If all of St. Paul’s statements on the subject are taken
in conjunction instead of being separated from their
context, it is obvious he is striving to inform of a
spiritual realization attainable BEFORE, and with-
out the need of experiencing, physical death.
Thus diverse authorities give ample evidence of the
reality of the state of consciousness we are investigat-
ing. They leave no question of the actuality; of the
fact that man has and can experience an exaltation
or spiritual illumination far above the self-conscious
experience of the average individual. The questions
yet unanswered are : Is the acquisition of this con-
sciousness a happenstance of evolution, or can it be
voluntarily and knowingly acquired by any individ-
ual desiring it? And if the latter is affirmatively an-
swered, what connection has such a consciousness
with the Secret Doctrine of Freemasonry?
CHAPTER XI
body and the mental body, these being the two Fel-
low-crafts. Quite obviously, the Lodge of Master
Masons, consisting of but THREE (the three spir-
itual bodies finally separated from all the material
bodies) can only be symbolical of the SPIRITUAL
MAN!
CHAPTER XIII
PLATE ‘YI.
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