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Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry
R. Swinburne Clymer · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordKabalah is the book's vocabulary for a concealed interpretation of sacred letters, names, and scriptures.
- In Ancient Mystic Oriental MasonryThe Pentateuch is read as carrying an inward meaning beneath its outer narrative.
- In this editionKabalah, Cabala, and the adjectival spellings are retained.
- A place to readM.51: … “Name is brought into Masonry from the Hebrew Kabalah, and how it became lost is part” …
Meaning
Kabalah is the book's vocabulary for a concealed interpretation of sacred letters, names, and scriptures. Clymer joins it to a wider synthesis of ancient wisdom.
Use in the book
The Pentateuch is read as carrying an inward meaning beneath its outer narrative. The ineffable Name and the relation of divine being to the world are central applications. Historical sections also place Kabalists in the proposed formation of later fraternities.
Places to read
- Mystic Masonry · Block 51… “Name is brought into Masonry from the Hebrew Kabalah, and how it became lost is part historical, at least. The ancient Hebrew Priests evidently undertook to fit to the names of” …
- Mystic Masonry · Block 52“52. " The Kabalah, on the contrary, embodying considerable of the true and ancient Secret Doctrine, held a different idea of Divinity. While carrying the tradition, therefore, of the lost word” …
- Mystic Masonry · Block 59“58. "As already stated, the Kabalah of the Ancient Hebrews, which Moses derived by initiation into the Mysteries of Egypt and Persia, and which Albert Pike and many others declare was” …
- Mystic Masonry · Block 60… “regarding the relation of the Pentateuch to the Kabalah, is true of the exoteric scriptures of every nation of antiquity."*”
- Foundations of Mystic Masonry · Block 132… “of the Christians in equal division, they (the Kabalists) began to draw a parallel between the books of Moses and the records of the Magi, and formed from all this material” …
In this edition
Kabalah, Cabala, and the adjectival spellings are retained. The index also supplies Kabbalah as an explanatory access term.
Reading the argument
The exposition should be attributed to the author and his quoted sources. It is not a complete account of Jewish interpretive traditions, and the claim that Moses derived this entire system through initiation is a separate historical proposition.
Kabalah
“Kabalah” — 10 occurrences in 8 text blocks: I.21; M.51–52, 59–60, 68–69; F.89.
Cabala
“Cabala” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: F.45.
Kabalistic
“Kabalistic” — 4 occurrences in 4 text blocks: M.52, 58; F.85, 144.
Cabalistic
“Cabalistic” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: F.110.
Kabalists
“Kabalists” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: F.132.