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Volume V
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Study Course Edition
Adapted from:
Standard Edition
Copyright © 1928
J.E. Richardson
Published 2004
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Addressed to
Chapter Page
Preface .........................
The Great Message .......... I 9
The Lineal Key ............... II 11
The Great School ............. III 23
The Great Masters ............ IV 33
The Greater Mysteries ....... V 47
The Greater Movements ..... VI 67
The Ancient Builders ......... VII 87
Freemasonry ................... VIII 93
The Ancient Principles ....... IX 117
The Chair in the North ....... X 145
The Ancient Word ............ XI 159
The Birth of Christianity ..... XII 179
The Symbolist ................. XIII 195
The Plagiarist .................. XIV 213
The Misinterpreter ............. XV 227
A Difficult Problem ........... XVI 235
Age-Old Queries ............ '" XVII 259
Age-Old Philosophy ........... XVIII 283
The Modern Movement ....... XIX 307
Atlantis .......................... XX 331
Contents
Chapter Page
11
PREFACE
111
THE GREAT MESSAGE
iv
PREFACE
v
THE GREAT MESSAGE
VI
PREFACE
Vll
THE GREAT MESSAGE
CHAPTER I
22
CHAPTER III
32
CHAPTER IV
46
CHAPTER V
66
CHAPTER VI
86
CHAPTER VII
89
THE GREAT MESSAGE
90
THE ANCIENT BUILDERS
92
CHAPTER VIII
FREEMASONRY
116
CHAPTER IX
144
CHAPTER X
Speculative Masonry.
Does ,not this rather forcibly suggest that
it was during the period of Masonic History
that the Masonic Word was still in posses-
sion of this particular· Lodge of Operative
Masonry and in active service as the basic
inspiration of all its activities and endeavors?
To what did the distinguished Brother re-
fer by ."Second Sight"? He was writing of
his Lodge and its possessions.
The "Second Sight" to which he referred,
was unmistakably the ((Prophetic Vt·sion."
This fact is made clear and explicit by the
expression that follows:
"Things for to come we can foretell .
aright."
In other words, the Lodge still had the
power, through its proper officials, toproph-
esy correctly; that is, with spiritual vision
149
THE GREAT MESSAGE
158
CHAPTER XI
178
CHAPTER XII
BIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY
194
CHAPTER XIII
THE SYMBOLIST
212
CHAPTER XIV
THE PLAGIARIST
THE MISINTERPRETER
234
CHAPTER XVI
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM
258
CHAPTER XVII
AGE-OLD QUERIES
282
CHAPTER XVIII
AGE-OLD PHILOSOPHY
327
THE GREAT MESSAGE
330
CHAPTER XX
ATLANTIS
352
CHAPTER XXI
LEMURIA
366
CHAPTER XXII
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