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Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
R. Swinburne Clymer · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordAbdemon is the learned seeker whose journey gives the Degrees a narrative path from the secret council to Egyptian initiation.
- In Ancient Mystic Oriental MasonryHe brings a mysterious manuscript, gains admission to the council, and travels under guidance.
- In this editionAb-demon is retained where printed.
- A place to readD.7: “Abdemon, being a Master Mason, and being recognized as a very learned and crafty man by” …
Meaning
Abdemon is the learned seeker whose journey gives the Degrees a narrative path from the secret council to Egyptian initiation.
Use in the book
He brings a mysterious manuscript, gains admission to the council, and travels under guidance. Rest, cave instruction, and the teaching of Ameni prepare his approach to the Pyramid. The account then shifts from a story of travel to an explanation of souls, embodiment, and spiritual longing. Abdemon’s journey therefore serves as a framework for metaphysical instruction as well as a claimed episode in the sacred past.
Places to read
- Degrees of the Mystic Oriental Rite · Block 7“Abdemon, being a Master Mason, and being recognized as a very learned and crafty man by King Hiram, was at length admitted to the Secret Council after giving into the hands” …
- Degrees of the Mystic Oriental Rite · Block 10… “for three days at the well of Beersheba, Ameni, the Singer, the Horoscopus and Ab-demon, under the escort of the King's Pioneer, journeyed by easy stages to Mount Serbal, where the” …
- Degrees of the Mystic Oriental Rite · Block 11“During the course of the journey Ameni disclosed many hidden Mysteries to Abdemon concerning initiation and why it was impossible to make these disclosures to the multitude in general.”
- Degrees of the Mystic Oriental Rite · Block 15“" That the Soul is an emanation of Deity, and in its original essence is all purity, truth, and wisdom, is an axiom which the disembodied learn, when the powers of” …
In this edition
Ab-demon is retained where printed. The spelling is not used to infer a connection with a demon or to supply an etymology absent from the text.
Reading the argument
The existence of an older name parallel does not authenticate this entire journey. A careful reading distinguishes the Tyrian riddle tradition associated with Abdemon from Clymer’s much fuller initiatory narrative.
Related texts
Josephus, Against Apion I.17–18, preserves a Tyrian riddle tradition involving Abdemon. It does not supply the Egyptian initiation journey or secret council narrated here.11
Abdemon
“Abdemon” — 9 occurrences in 5 text blocks: D.6–7, 10–12.
Ab-demon
“Ab-demon” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: D.10.
Ameni
“Ameni” — 3 occurrences in 3 text blocks: D.10–12.
Horoscopus
“Horoscopus” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: D.10.
Source note
Josephus: primary literary parallel. Flavius Josephus. Against Apion I.17–18, William Whiston translation, Project Gutenberg ebook 2849. Consulted for the Tyrian riddle tradition associated with Abdemon. This identifies a name and a literary context, not a Masonic initiation in Egypt. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2849/2849-h/2849-h.htm