The Masonic Initiation
W. L. Wilmshurst
Frontispiece
INTRODUCTION - Masonry and Religion
CHAPTER I - From Darkness to Light
CHAPTER II - Light on the Way
CHAPTER III - Fullness of Light
CHAPTER IV - The Past and Future of The Masonic Order
Postscript
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THE MASONIC INITIATION
By W. L. WILMSHURST
P.M. 275; PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND
REGISTRAR (WEST YORKS.)
1924
LONDON
WILLIAM RIDER & SON, 8,
PATERNOSTER ROW &
PERCY LUND, HUMPHRIES & CO., 3,
AMEN CORNER, BRADFORD.
Dedication: TO ALL BUILDERS OF THE SPIRIT
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION - Masonry and Religion
CHAPTER I. From Darkness to Light.
CHAPTER II. Light On The Way.
CHAPTER III. Fullness of Light.
CHAPTER IV. The Past and Future Of The Masonic Order.
POSTSCRIPT.
“Wisdom alone is the right coin with which to deal, and with it everything of real worth is bought and sold. And for
it, Temperance and justice, Fortitude and Prudence, are a kind of preliminary purification.
And those who instituted the Mysteries for us appear to have been by no means contemptible persons, and to have
intimated in a veiled manner that whoever descends into Hades uninitiated, and without being a partaker in the
Mysteries, shall lie in the mire; but that whoever arrived there purified and initiated, shall dwell with the Gods.
Yet, as said those who preside over the Mysteries :-
'Many are the candidates seeking Initiation, but few are the perfected Initiates.'
But these few are, in my judgment, true wisdom lovers; and that I may be of their number I shall leave nothing
unattempted but shall exert myself in all possible ways."
SOCRATES in PLATO'S Phaedo
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