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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote 2023-04-03 06:51 pm (UTC)

Re: Masonry's "Israel Regardie!"

1) Good heavens, yes. The rituals of Freemasonry have been published so many times you could fill a small library with the resulting volumes. The oldest one I know of saw print even before the first Grand Lodge of England was founded in 1717! You can find the results in any large online archive.

2) Okay, we need to cover some basics here. Masonry doesn't include magic. It's a set of traditional initiation rituals with a complex history, including some very rich esoteric symbolism and some material dating back to the Knights Templar, but from 1717 on those rituals have been the property of a men's club that by and large has no idea what they mean or what to do with them. A lot of occultists down through the years became Masons because they wanted to get access to those rituals and symbols -- that's a good part of the reason I became a Mason, for example -- but you don't learn magic in a Masonic lodge. That's why so many of those same occultists ended up founding organizations outside of Masonry -- the Golden Dawn is a good example of this -- so they could actually practice magic in a lodge.

3) Not in anything like the same sense. If you'd like to find out for yourself, Yarker's rituals were published a long time ago:

https://archive.org/details/Secret_High_Degree_Rituals_Masonic_Rite_Memphis_-_J_Yarker/mode/2up

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