If you have explored many spiritual paths and are purely motivated and open-minded in your quest, you will eventually penetrate behind the veil of any conventional religious tradition to the inner, esoteric core at its heart. There you will discover the deeper teachings of the Ageless Wisdom.
The Ageless Wisdom is called the “Golden Thread” that connects the inner, hidden teachings at the heart of the world’s religions, East and West. It’s often referred to as the “Perennial Philosophy” because it’s been present on earth in some form since the beginning of recorded history.
In ancient Greece, for example, behind the popular religion of gods and goddesses with human foibles, there were the deeper mysteries of Eleusis. In Buddhism, there are the Vajrayana and Kalachakra teachings; in Judaism, the Kabbalah; in Christianity, the Gnostic Gospels and the Essenes; in Hinduism, Advaita; in Islam, Sufism, etc. As you penetrate to the core of any of these, you'll find remarkable similarities- all emphasize the inner light within each human being and teach the qualities of compassion, justice and service. This core is the Ageless Wisdom, and it has profound insights about the inner Self and the true nature of the universe. Over entrance to the temple of Delphi in ancient Greece were the words: "Man, know thyself and thou will know the universe and the Gods."
Rather than demanding belief in dogma, the Ageless Wisdom takes a more scientific approach. It presents hypotheses to apply in your daily life and test for their truth, as only those truths tested and applied in your own experience have meaning and bear fruit.
In this Wisdom tradition, you study the science of energies--the hidden, inner life and the soul within all things, behind the outer physical forms. Everything is energy, moving at different rates of vibration. God or Spirit is the highest frequency of energy and includes everything. There is One Life, and everything is interconnected. When you examine the microcosm (your own human nature), you can begin to understand the macrocosm (the cosmos), and vice versa. “As above, so below; as below, so above,” as Hermes said thousands of years ago in ancient Greece. The interplay of human and Divine thought creates the world we experience. Our purpose as humanity is to learn to create and express the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
If you have explored many spiritual paths and are purely motivated and open-minded in your quest, you will eventually penetrate behind the veil of any conventional religious tradition to the inner, esoteric core at its heart. There you will discover the deeper teachings of the Ageless Wisdom.
Freemasonry:
If you have explored many spiritual paths (as represented by the Sojourners in R.Arch) and are purely motivated and open-minded in your quest (humbly soliciting to be admitted), you will eventually penetrate behind the veil (or Veils) of any conventional religious tradition to the inner, esoteric core at its heart (the point from which we cannot err). There you will discover the deeper teachings of the Ageless Wisdom(descendings mentioned in various degrees.)
This core is the Ageless Wisdom, and it has profound insights about the inner Self and the true nature of the universe. Over entrance to the temple of Delphi in ancient Greece were the words: "Man, know thyself and thou will know the universe and the Gods."
Freemasonry:
This core is the Ageless Wisdom (Solomon), and it has profound insights about the inner Self (Seven Officers)and the true nature of the universe (the Terrestial and Celestial globes atop the Pillars) Over entrance to the temple of Delphi in ancient Greece were the words: "Man, know thyself and thou will know the universe and the Gods."
Rather than demanding belief in dogma, the Ageless Wisdom takes a more scientific approach. It presents hypotheses to apply in your daily life and test for their truth, as only those truths tested and applied in your own experience have meaning and bear fruit.
Freeasonry:
Rather than demanding belief in dogma (there is no dogma in Freemasonry), the Ageless Wisdom (Solomon) takes a more scientific approach(preciseness of ritual work-Law). It presents hypotheses to apply in your daily life and test for their truth, as only those truths tested and applied in your own experience (Mark) have meaning and bear fruit (Lilies and pomegranates which adorn temple pillars.)
In this Wisdom tradition, you study the science of energies--the hidden, inner life and the soul within all things, behind the outer physical forms. Everything is energy, moving at different rates of vibration. God or Spirit is the highest frequency of energy and includes everything. There is One Life, and everything is interconnected. When you examine the microcosm (your own human nature), you can begin to understand the macrocosm (the cosmos), and vice versa. “As above, so below; as below, so above,” as Hermes said thousands of years ago in ancient Greece. The interplay of human and Divine thought creates the world we experience. Our purpose as humanity is to learn to create and express the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
Freemasonry:
In this Wisdom tradition, you study the science of energies--the hidden, inner life and the soul within all things, behind the outer physical forms (which we leave outside the door). Everything is energy, moving at different rates of vibration. God or Spirit is the highest frequency of energy and includes everything (ascending degrees, raise the lodge?). There is One Life, and everything is interconnected (FPoF). When you examine the microcosm (your own human nature), you can begin to understand the macrocosm (the cosmos), and vice versa. “As above, so below; as below, so above,” (beautifully exemplified in R.Arch)as Hermes said thousands of years ago in ancient Greece. The interplay of human and Divine thought creates the world we experience (Six pointed star). Our purpose as humanity is to learn to create and express the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
