Buck

Use in the book

Clymer names Buck for the identity of initiation and regeneration, knowledge as growth, the Christos ideal, and the discussion of women. Original source notes repeatedly cite Mystic Masonry. Buck’s formulations establish much of the vocabulary through which the later symbols are read. Clymer also openly qualifies him, especially over the admission of women to Rosicrucian degrees.

Places to read

1. Original Introduction · Block 8… “work of that Master Mason, Dr. J. D. Buck, in which he says:”
2. Original Introduction · Block 9“"Initiation and Regeneration are synonymous terms."”
3. Original Introduction · Block 13“Says Dr. Buck again: "We do not know a thing because we are told so. Let the gods shout the Truth of all ages into the ears of a fool forever,” …
4. Original Introduction · Block 17“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” …
5. Original Introduction · Block 27“Says Dr. Buck: "While every true Mason is the most loyal of men to every office of woman, as Mother, Sister, Daughter and Wife; as Companion, Friend, and Inspirer of man,” …
6. Original Notes · 1907 p. 37“*Dr. Buck, "Mystic Masonry. " **See both "The Philosophy of Fire" and "The Rosicrucians."”

In this edition

The short name Buck is used because it is the common attested form. The bibliography identifies the work without claiming a full independent collation.

Reading the argument

Attribution matters because the book is a composition of voices. A passage quoted as Buck is evidence for Clymer’s use of Buck. Unless separately collated, it should not be presented as a newly verified verbatim transcription of a particular Buck edition.

Related texts

The bibliographical record identifies Buck’s Mystic Masonry, published in Cincinnati by the Robert Clarke Company in 1897. This lexicon reads the quotations as Clymer prints them; the complete Buck volume has not been independently collated against them.¹⁸

Buck

“Buck” — 17 occurrences in 17 text blocks: I.8, 13, 17, 27, 29; N.37, 41–43, 46–47, 54, 56, 60–61, 63, 88.

Mystic Masonry

“Mystic Masonry” — 40 occurrences in 38 text blocks: I.1–2, 5, 12, 15, 20–22, 30; M.1, 24, 31, 36, 42, 46, 61; F.17, 31; S.20, 26; R.3–4, 6, 15, 23–24; N.37, 41–43, 46–47, 54, 56, 60–61, 63, 88.