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1、 The Book of The Words Albert Pike THE BOOK OF THE WORDS. THE Ts rtTE aALfirS. L-.The DivineWISDOMM ii.-.The DivineWISDOMManifested;TEEWornm iii-.The DivineMIGET. is.The DivineSovEEEIGI,. I must profess I know enough to hold my tongue, but not enough to speak;and the no less real than miraculous fru
2、its I have found in my diligent inquiry into these arcana, lead me on to such degrees of admiration, they command silence, and force me to hold my tongue. FrTA-R AsExoLE:Proleg. Theat r. Chem. Britannic. 6. In the book calledArfephiiL3er Secretes,which appears to have been written in the 12th centur
3、y, this is said “Is not this an art full of secrets?:and believest thou, 0 fool! that we plainly teach this Secret of Secrets, taking our words according to their literal interpretation? .It EXTRACTS FROMTHEPREFACE OFA BOORENTTTLED“Lose-LITEP-%“ PCBLLSEED ATLo-,-Do-,;n; 1722. The body of the work co
4、ntains notone wordinregard to Free Jfasonry, or that canbeW iemd toallude to it, for which reason the preface is themore curious. To the Grand Master, Masters, Wardens and Brethren of the Most Ancient and Most Honourable Fraternity of the Free Masons of Great Britain and Ireland, Brother Eugenius Ph
5、ilalethes Sendeth Greeting. Men, Brethren, I address myself to you after this Manner, because it is the true Language of the Brotherhood, and which the primitive Christian Brethren,as well asthose who were from the Begin- ning,madeuse of, as we learn from holy Scriptures, and an uninterrupted Tradit
6、ion. I present you with the following Sheets, as belonging more properly to you than any else.By what I here say, those of you who are not far illuminated, who stand in the outward Place, and are not worthy to look behind the Vei, may find no 13 14 THEBOOS OF THE WORDS disagreeableorunprofitable Ent
7、ertainment :and those who are so happy as to have greater Light, will discover under these Shadows somewhat truly great and noble, and worthy the serious Attention of a Genius the most elevated and sub- lime: The Spiritual Celestial Cube, the only true, solid and immoveable Basis and Foundation ofal
8、lKnowledge, Peace and Happiness. I therefore, my dearest Brethren, greet you most heartily, and am glad of this Opportunity to rejoice with you, inasmuch as it hath pleased the Almighty, One, Eternal, Unalterable God, to send out his Light, and his _Truth, and his vivifying Spirit, whereby the Broth
9、erhood begins to revive again in this our Isle, and Princes seek to be of this sacred Society, which has been from the Beginning, and always shall be;the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against it, but it shall continue while the Sun and Moon endureth, and till the general Con- summation of all Th
10、ings;for since God, my dearest Brethren, is of us, who can be against us? This being so, I shall speak to you a few Words on this im- portant Subject; and perhaps I am the first that ever spoke to you after this Manner. I shall, as briefly as I can, present you with a true and faithful Mirror, a Mir
11、ror which will not, which cannot flatter (Flattery be eternally banishd the Brotherhood), wherein yon maysee, or rather be remembered, what you are and then you need not be told very much bow you ought to act. And in this I shall use that Liberty and Freedom, which is our essential Difference, richl
12、y distinguishes us from all others, and is indeed the very Soul and Spirit of the Brother- hood. The Style I shall make use of is most catholick, primitive THEBoosOF THE WORDS. 15 and Christian;it is what is extracted from the sacred Scrip- tures. Remember that you are the Salt of the Earth, the Lig
13、ht of the World, and the Fire of the IIniyerse.Yeare living Stones, built up a spiritual House, who believe and rely on the chiefLapisAngularis,which the. refractory and disobe- dient Builders disallowed, ye are called from Darkness to Light, you are a chosen Generation, a royal Priesthood. This mak
14、es you, mr dear Brethren, fit Companions for the greatest Kings;and no wonder, since the King of Kings bath condescended to make you so to himself, compared to whom the mightiest and most haughty Princes of the Earth are but as Worms, and that not so much as we are all Sons of the same one Eternal F
15、ather, by whom all Things were made;but inas- much as we do the Will of his and our Father which is in Heaven. You see now your high Dignity;you see what you are ;act accordingly, and show yourselves (what. you are) Mme, and walk worthy the high Profession to which Tou are called .But while I say th
16、is, do not imagine I set up fora Rabbi,Master, or Instructor, who am one of the least of you, a mere Novice, a Catechumen, and know nothing. However, do not despise my Mite, which I throw into your Treasury, since tis all I have others may do more in Quantity, but not in Proportion. Remember then what the great End we all aimat is:Isit not to be happyhereand hereafter?For they both depend on each other.The Seeds of that eternal Peace and Tranquility and everlasting Repose must be sown i
