Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry

Ninety-nine Masons out of every hundred would laugh at the Occult Science, and yet, were it not for:the Occult Fraternities, Masonry could never have existed. The Secret Doctrine was the universally diffused religion of the Ancient and prehistoric world. Proof of its diffusion, authentic records of its history, a complete chain of documents, showing its character and presence in every land, together with the teaching ^[10] of all its great Adepts, exist to this day in the secret crypts of libraries belonging to the Occult Fraternities. The Rosicrucian Fraternity, more than any other, is to be thanked for keeping the Secret and Sacred writings intact. Although the Individual members of this Fraternity have been persecuted in many lands and during all centuries, the Order or Fraternity, as such, has never been persecuted, nor has there been any interruption. This Fraternity, therefore, has been able to continue, without interruption, the teachings of the Secret Doctrine and Ancient Mysteries. No matter what the Order, whether Masonry or Mystic Masonry, no matter the name, it has always been found that Rosicrucians had the work in hand. History proves this, it cannot be successfully denied, and none but those who are ignorant try to deny it.

Every Soul must "work out its own Salvation." Salvation by faith and the vicarious atonement were not taught, as now interpreted, by Jesus, nor are these doctrines taught in the exoteric Scriptures. They are later and ignorant perversions of the original doctrines. In the Early Church, as in the Secret Doctrine, there was not one Christ for the whole world, but a potential Christ in every man. Theologians first made a fetish of the Impersonal, Omnipresent Divinity; and then tore the Christos from the hearts of all humanity in order to deify Jesus; that they might have a God made peculiarly their own. Masonry does not teach Salvation by Faith nor the Vicarious atonement. Go through its degrees, study the History as ^[11] taught by its greatest Masters, and you cannot find that it teaches this Doctrine. Boldly do I claim that this doctrine does not make Christians, but it does make criminals. The reason for this is plain. All the Ancient Mysteries had the true Doctrine, and so had the early Christians. Masonry, he fore it was contaminated by the disciples of Loyala — the Jesuits — had it also. It is for Masons to bring out the good and the true from the rubbish.

Says Bro. Buck again: "Humanity in toto is the only Personal God; the Christos is the realization, or perfection of this Divine Persona, in Individual conscious experience. When this perfection is realized, the state is called Christos, with the Greeks, and Buddha with the Hindoos. 'Be ye perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is Perfect.'

Then, my brother, if Christ and Buddha are one and the same, why condemn you those that follow the Buddha? Know you not that they who Follow the Buddha follow the same Christ as you under but another name?

"We have brought the same selfishness into our religion that we indulge in regard to our other possessions, such as wife and children, and houses and land, and country; and the same partisan spirit as in our politics, and this more than anything else appears to justify selfishness in general, militates against the Brotherhood of man, and prevents the founding of the 'Great Republic, composed of many Nations and all people. ' This idea of Universal Brotherhood, which was a cardinal doctrine in the Ancient Mysteries — as ^[12] it is involved in the first postulate of the Secret Doctrine, and openly declared in the third; and which is equally given the very first rank in (true) Masonry-is the logical deduction from our idea of Divinity, and of the essential nature and meaning of Christ os."