MASONIC INITIATION
W.L. Wilmshurst
"TO ALL BUILDERS IN THE SPIRIT"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Masonry and Religion
CHAPTER I
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT
Initiation, Real and Ceremonial
The Purpose of the Mysteries
The Ideal Lodge
CHAPTER II
LIGHT ON THE WAY
"The Knowledge of Yourself"
The "G"
The Ladder
The Superstructure
The Cable-Tow
The Apron
The Wind
Seeking a Master
Wages
The Law of the Mount
"From Labour to Refreshment"
The Grand Lodge Above
CHAPTER III
FULLNESS OF LIGHT
Observations and Examples
Apocalypsis
CHAPTER IV
PAST AND FUTURE OF THE MASONIC ORDER
The Past
The Future
POSTSCRIPT
WISDOM alone is the right coin with which
to deal, and with it everything of real worth
is bought and sold. And for it, Temperance and
Justice, Fortitude and Prudence, are a kind of
preliminary purification.
And those who instituted the Mysteries for us appear
to have been by no means contemptible persons, and
to have intimated in a veiled manner that whoever
descends into Hades uninitiated, and without being
a partaker in the Mysteries, shall lie in the mire ;
but that whoever arrived there purified and initiated,
shall dwell with the Gods. Yet, as said those who
preside over the Mysteries :
'Many are the candidates seeking Initiation,
But few are the perfected Initiates.'
But these few are, in my judgment, true wisdom-lovers;and that I may be of their number I shall
leave nothing unattempted, but shall exert myself.
in all possible ways."
SOCRATES in PLATO'S Phcedo.
