The Meaning Of Masonry by W.L. Wilmshurst
The Meaning Of Masonry By W.L. Wilmshurst
Publishing: 1925 by London Rider & Co, Fourth Edition
A comprehensive dissection of true Masonry, its symbolism, history, and spiritual reference, and relation to the Ancient Mysteries. SUPER RARE
Condition: Very Good- / front cover seems to have some type of light staining (refer to pictures) / pages are unmarked / book is warping ever so slightly
“The tragedy of Hiram Abiff, then, is not the record of any vulgar, brutal murder of an individual man. It is a parable of cosmic and universal loss; an allegory of the breakdown of a divine scheme. We are dealing with no calamity that occurred during the erection of a building in an eastern city, but with a moral disaster to universal humanity. Hiram is slain; in other words, the faculty of enlightened wisdom has been cut off from us. Owing to that disaster mankind is here to-day in this world of imperfect knowledge, of limited faculties, of chequered happiness, of perpetual toil, of death and frequent bitterness and pain; our life here is (to use a poet’s words):--
“An ever-moaning battle in the mist,
Death in all life and lying in love;
The meanest having power upon the highest,
And the high purpose broken by the worm”
The temple of Human nature is unfinished and we know not how to complete it.” - W.L. Wilmshurst; The Meaning Of Masonry
The Meaning Of Masonry By W.L. Wilmshurst
Publishing: 1925 by London Rider & Co, Fourth Edition
A comprehensive dissection of true Masonry, its symbolism, history, and spiritual reference, and relation to the Ancient Mysteries. SUPER RARE
Condition: Very Good- / front cover seems to have some type of light staining (refer to pictures) / pages are unmarked / book is warping ever so slightly
“The tragedy of Hiram Abiff, then, is not the record of any vulgar, brutal murder of an individual man. It is a parable of cosmic and universal loss; an allegory of the breakdown of a divine scheme. We are dealing with no calamity that occurred during the erection of a building in an eastern city, but with a moral disaster to universal humanity. Hiram is slain; in other words, the faculty of enlightened wisdom has been cut off from us. Owing to that disaster mankind is here to-day in this world of imperfect knowledge, of limited faculties, of chequered happiness, of perpetual toil, of death and frequent bitterness and pain; our life here is (to use a poet’s words):--
“An ever-moaning battle in the mist,
Death in all life and lying in love;
The meanest having power upon the highest,
And the high purpose broken by the worm”
The temple of Human nature is unfinished and we know not how to complete it.” - W.L. Wilmshurst; The Meaning Of Masonry
The Meaning Of Masonry By W.L. Wilmshurst
Publishing: 1925 by London Rider & Co, Fourth Edition
A comprehensive dissection of true Masonry, its symbolism, history, and spiritual reference, and relation to the Ancient Mysteries. SUPER RARE
Condition: Very Good- / front cover seems to have some type of light staining (refer to pictures) / pages are unmarked / book is warping ever so slightly
“The tragedy of Hiram Abiff, then, is not the record of any vulgar, brutal murder of an individual man. It is a parable of cosmic and universal loss; an allegory of the breakdown of a divine scheme. We are dealing with no calamity that occurred during the erection of a building in an eastern city, but with a moral disaster to universal humanity. Hiram is slain; in other words, the faculty of enlightened wisdom has been cut off from us. Owing to that disaster mankind is here to-day in this world of imperfect knowledge, of limited faculties, of chequered happiness, of perpetual toil, of death and frequent bitterness and pain; our life here is (to use a poet’s words):--
“An ever-moaning battle in the mist,
Death in all life and lying in love;
The meanest having power upon the highest,
And the high purpose broken by the worm”
The temple of Human nature is unfinished and we know not how to complete it.” - W.L. Wilmshurst; The Meaning Of Masonry