WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry cover

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Chapter 54: K
Open in WeRead

About This Book

The volume assembles extended lectures intended to accompany the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, offering interpretive expositions of ritual symbols, moral precepts, and philosophical traditions. Each degree receives an essay that traces symbolic meanings in tools, rites, and titles while drawing on classical mythology, comparative religion, biblical and esoteric sources to elaborate duties of character, intellect, and civic responsibility. The text emphasizes regulation of force by reason, the twin motors of truth and love, and the pursuit of justice, harmony, and self-improvement through study of ancient wisdom. It is presented as a handbook for instruction and reflection rather than fixed dogma.

Jachin and Boaz explain the mysteries of political and religious
  antagonisms, 772-u.
Jachin and Boaz, parallel lines, point in circle, represent Solstices,
  506-u.
Jachin and Boaz symbols of the bi-sexuality of the Ineffable Name, 849-m.
Jachin has set on it the celestial globe symbol of the spiritual part
  of man, 860-m.
Jachin is Binary; Boaz is Unity, 772-u.
Jachin, name of the column on the right of the entrance; meaning of, 9-l.
Jachin, one of the columns of the Temple of Wisdom, represents
  the Active Principle, 860-m.
Jachin referred to symbolically, 202-l.
Jachin represents Victory, one of the Sephiroth, 267-l.
Jachin, the seventh Sephiroth, is unlimited Power, 736-l.
Jacob saw the souls descending a seven-stepped ladder, 851-l.
Jacob's dream, the ladder in, 234-u.
Jainas, a sect in India, say the ancient religion consisted in a belief
  in—, 608-u.
James the Second, silly song helped to unseat, 43-u.
Jargon of a rude chemistry utilized by the Alchemists to conceal
  their philosophy, 772-l.
Jargon of alchemy created to deceive the vulgar herd, 731-u.
Japanese believe in a Supreme Invisible Being not to be represented
  by images or—, 616-u.
Japanese had seven ancient gods and five added, 460-m.
Japanese Mysteries; twenty years probation for highest degree, 429-m.
Japanese Supreme Being styled Amida or Omith, 616-u.
Jay and Marshall revered for their justice as judges, 836-l.
Jealousy of Deity instanced, 688-u.
Jefferies, as Judge, to be opposed by Masonry, 20-l.
Jefferies, reference to trials before, 49-l.
Jehovah, anthropomorphism of, 207-u.
Jehovah at the outset in the character of the Sun, 510-m.
Jehovah conquers the Dragons, 499-m.
Jehovah had a distinct astrological character, 509-l.
Jehovah leads forth the Hosts of Heaven, naming them, 509-l.
Jehovah more powerful than the Gods of other nations, 206-l.
"Jehovah" of the Hebrews expresses abstract existence, 651-l.
Jehovah the Author of all things, prosperity and evil, 687-u.
Jehovah, the direct author of evil, commissions evil spirits, 687-l.
Jehovah, the Divine Tetragram, formed by adding the ternary name
  of Eve to Yod, 771-m.
Jehovah, the name by which all things are redeemed, 561-l.
Jehovah the national God of the Hebrews, 206-l.
Jehovah transfixes the Crooked Serpent, 498-u.
Jehovah's jealousy against the infringement of autocratic laws, 688-u.
Jemsheed, one of the Persian Sun Heroes, cut off by Zohak, 589-m.
Jemsheed sawn asunder by a fish bone, 589-l.
Jericho, Rose of, grows in Arabian desert; propagation of, 96-m.
Jerusalem often prostituted to the gods of Syria and Babylon, 840-u.
Jerusalem, prophesy by Isaiah concerning, 13-m.
Jerusalem, the 16th Degree; emblems of the Prince of, 241-m.
Jesus caused to be born of a Virgin by Ialdaboth, 563-l.
Jesus Christ, the living Spirit, assists Adam Kadmon against the
  Evil Principle, 566-m.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour, inscribed on Christian
  Mark, 547-l.
Jesus, born of a virgin, united to Christos, with Sophia redeemed
  the world, 560-m.
Jesus, in person, having disappeared, a cross of Light appeared in
  His place, 567-m.
Jesus received from Wisdom the perfect knowledge, Gnosis, 563-l.
Jesus restored to life and given an etherial body by Christos and
  Wisdom, 563-l.
Jesus, son of Joseph and Mary, to whom the Wisdom of God had
  united itself, 564-l.
Jesus takes from Ialdaboth the Souls of Light, 564-u.
Jewel of the Kabalistic pantacle commands the spirits of the elements,
  787-u.
Jewels of the Order, six in number, movable and immovable, 16-u.
Jewish intimate relations with the Oriental doctrines, 255-m.
Jewish Scriptures allegories concealing profound meanings, 250-l.
Jewish Teachers of Alexandria; writings of, 253-u.
Jews borrowed the idea of God in the form of fire from the Persians,
  424-m.
Jews confounded Satan with Ahriman and the Dragon, 258-u.
Jews considered the True Name of God lost and its pronunciation
  a mystery, 621-m.
Jews enunciated the policy of exclusion, but yielded to the Greeks,
  247-l.
Jews familiar with the doctrine of Zoroaster, 256-l.
Jews fixed the New Year in the month Nisan, Vernon Equinox, 466-m.
Jews, great many remained in Babylon, established school, 256-u.
Jews influenced by long residence in Assyria and Persia, 255-m.
Jews lost the Holy Word, the veil of the Temple rent asunder, 840-u.
Jews of Egypt, difference between the Jews of Palestine and the, 260-m.
Jews of Egypt jealous of those of Palestine, 253-u.
Jews of Egypt made doctrines harmonize with the traditions of Greece,
  260-m.
Jews of Palestine imbibed the Oriental doctrines, 260-m.
Jews, reason of Lodges for the exclusion of, 11-m.
Jezirah and Sohar, our knowledge of the Kabalistic doctrines in the
  books of, 266-l.
Jizchak Lorja says all things consist in Binah, 753-l.
Joab strikes Abner under the fifth rib; application, 36-u.
Jod, or Yod, as an initial of Yod, He, is placed in center of a
  triangle, 632-u.
Johannism of the Adepts, the Kabalah of the earlier Gnostics, 818-u.
Johannite Christians claimed to be the only true initiates, 816-l.
Johannite Pontiffs assumed the title Christos, Anointed, Consecrated,
  817-u.
Johannites claimed uninterrupted succession of pontifical powers, 816-u.
John declares concerning the Gnostic doctrines, 559-m.
John gives the key to the allegories of the Evangel, 816-l.
John, Solstices appropriated to the Two Saints, 595-m.
John the Baptist, 261.
John the Baptist adopted by Masonry to avoid the suspicions of Rome,
  818-u.
John the Baptist; parents of; teachings of, 260-l.
John the Baptist preached in the desert near where the Essenes lived,
  201-u.
John the Baptist, religious systems approximating each other in the
  time of, 247-m.
John the Baptist, religious thought at the time of, 259-m.
John the Baptist taught some creed older than Christianity, 261-l.
John's declaration concerning Christ, the Word, 559-m.
Joseph and Mary, parents of Jesus, to whom Wisdom had united itself,
  564-l.
Joseph initiated into the Egyptian Mysteries, 368-m.
Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream of the seven ears of corn, 729-u.
Josephus describes the vestments of the High Priest, etc, 409-u.
Journalism, slander and calumny of modern, 334-m.
Journalistic spying is dishonorable, 336-l.
Judah has Leo for a device whose grip after others failed raised Khurum,
  461-u.
Judas Iscariot, "Brother," playing the part of, 36-u.
Judge, a member of the 31st Degree alluded to as a, 825-l.
Judge cautiously and charitably, 132-u.
Judge's duties are to hear patiently, weigh deliberately, decide
  impartially, 825-m.
Judgment hereafter as you judge here below, 825-m.
Judgment of God infallible, because all things and motives are known,
  825-l.
Judgment of God seen in the Indian plague, 812-m.
Judgment of the world by Vishnu, Osiris, Sosiosch, 623.
Judgment on the acts, faults or crimes of others, 130-135.
Judgment proceeded from the Mother towards whom the Father did
  not turn, 793-u.
Judgments too rigorous prevent the process of creation from being
  carried on, 798-u.
Julian an Illuminatus and initiate of the first order, 731-l.
Julian believed in one God and the Trinity; was no Pagan, but a Gnostic,
  731-l.
Julian, Emperor, discovery during the rebuilding of the Temple by, 280-m.
Julian gives reasons why the Mysteries were celebrated in the Autumn,
  491-u.
Julian; why Mysteries were celebrated at the Equinox, opinion of, 404-l.
Junior Warden's column represents Tephareth, Beauty, 800-u.
Juno holds in her right hand the head of a serpent, 499-l.
Jupiter Ammon represents the Sun in Aries, 452-l.
Jupiter, meaning and emblem of, 202-m.
Jupiter represents Justice, 727-l.
Jupiter, the name of the third gate of the ladder, material, brass, 414-u.
Jurors, attitude and duty of, 126-m.
Juror, position to be taken by a Masonic, 155-u.
Just things are beautiful; everything beautiful ought to be just, 845-u.
Just thoughts have on their side Power, Wisdom and Justice of God, 838-m.
Justice a universal human debt, a universal human claim, 833-m.
Justice and equity characteristics of a Prince of Jerusalem, 241-l.
Justice and Love in equilibrium in Deity, 769-l.
Justice and Mercy in equilibrium give Infinite Equity or Harmony, 859-u.
Justice as between man and man is that which it is right to do, 831-m.
Justice as the law paramount; all affairs must be subject to, 830-u.
Justice divorced from sympathy is selfish indifference, 70-71-l.
Justice has a law as universal as that of attraction, 829-u.
Justice, ideal and absolute, may be affected for the greater good
  of the greatest number, 836-l.
Justice indispensable to nations, 72-l.
Justice instinctively understood better than it can be depicted, 835-l.
Justice is the Angel of God flying from East to West, 838-u.
Justice is the constitution or fundamental law of the moral Universe,
  829-l.
Justice is the object of the conscience, 833-u.
Justice keeps just relations between men, 833-u.
Justice, Masonry seeks to enforce the laws of, 127-m.
Justice may require self sacrifice, 833-l.
Justice not a consequence; there is no principle above it, 723-u.
Justice not departed from though an ideal rule of justice may be, 836-m.
Justice of a thing decides whether or not God wills it, 847-u.
Justice of God alone reigning the creation of man would have been
  impossible, 846-u.
Justice of God and the law of merit and demerit the foundations
  of human faith, 706-u.
Justice of God, in human affairs, must work by human hands, 838-m.
Justice of God not to be impeached because we do not understand, 829-m.
Justice of God not to be measured by our standard of justice, 829-m.
Justice, Power and Wisdom of God are on the side of every just thought,
  838-m.
Justice, the opposite of envy, represented by Jupiter, 727-l.
Justice the rule of right, a rule of conduct for man in his moral
  relations, 830-u.
Justice, the well informed Mason is a votary of, 156-u.
Justice; to human nature, and a part of it, belongs a sense of, 833-u.
Justice to oneself is fidelity to our faculties and trust in their
  convictions, 837-l.
Justice toward men is a life in obedience to our faculties and their
  convictions, 837-l.
Justice, uncertainty of human, 131-m.
Justice, which is God, 847-l.
Justice will not fail, though wickedness seems strong, 838-u.
Justin Martyr quotes Pythagoras as declaring "God is One", 667-u
Juvenal held no office, 47-l.
Juvenal under the Caesars, 48-u.

K

Kabala consecrates the alliance of the Universal Reason and Divine Word,
  744-l.
Kabala contains a doctrine logical, simple, absolute, 745-u.
Kabala contains a source of many doctrines, 741-u.
Kabala establishes by the counterpoises of opposite forces the balance
  of being, 744-l.
Kabala furnished the material for the Roman de la Rose, 733-u.
Kabala gives to Masonry secrets and symbols, 744-n.
Kabala struggles hard to understand and explain process of creation,
  758-n.
Kabalah, an entire, perfect, unique Theology in the Secret Traditions
  of the, 843-l.
Kabalah; Creation effected by the omnific letter of the, 14-u.
Kabalah designates Leniency as Light and Whiteness, 769-u.
Kabalah, doctrines of Persians, Gnostics, and in the Zend Avesta,
  similar to the, 266-l.
Kabalah, doctrines of the, 267-269.
Kabalah ignored by the scholastic theology of Aristotle and Lombard,
  847-u.
Kabalah in active realization, the Magic of Works, is Hermeticism, 840-l.
Kabalah is the primitive tradition and rests on a dogma of Magism, 759-l.
Kabalah minus the principle of the Hierarch forms Swedenborgianism,
  823-m.
Kabalah, origin and development of the Holy (See also Cabala), 97-m.
Kabalah, representation of the mysterious pantacles of the, 104-m.
Kabalah states, in reference to the Justice and Mercy or Benignity
  of God—, 846-u.
Kabalah, study of, aided by the Tetractys, 88-m.
Kabalah, symbolism of lights according to the, 202-l.
Kabalah taught the unity of God and embodied a pure philosophy, 625-l.
Kalabah teaches the emanation of all from Infinite Light, 266-l.
Kabalah, the Ancient of Days existed before everything in the, 266-l.
Kabalah, the Hebrew traditional philosophy, 552-u.
Kabalah the heritage of Israel and the secret of its priests, 839-l.
Kabalah the key of the occult sciences and gave birth to the Gnostics,
  626-u.
Kabalah, the primary tradition of the single revelation, 841-l.
Kabalah, the Supreme Being is the "Unknown Father" in the, 266-l.
Kabalah, visions of Ezekiel veiled by enigmatic dogmas of the, 321-l.
Kabalist doctrines known to the Templars, 815-m.
Kabalist is a man who has learned the Sacredotal and Royal Art, 627-u.
Kabalist pantacle, the Cross of the East, made by the plates of the.
  Templar trowel, 816-m.
Kabalistic alphabet in the Tarot indicates the order to be followed,
  777-l
Kabalistic and Hermetic Rose Croix, 785-l.
Kabalistic book of the Apocalypse closed by seven seals, 727-l.
Kabalistic books furnished the doctrines of the Hermetic Philosophers,
  772-l.
Kabalistic Commentaries contain the meaning of the Rose Symbol, 821-l.
Kabalistic doctrine based on Deity without limitation or conformation,
  765-l.
Kabalistic doctrine concealed under its emblems in the Apocalypse, 727-l.
Kabalistic Doctrine contained in the Sepher Yetsairah, Sohar, Talmud,
  841-l.
Kabalistic doctrine, like Masonry, tends toward spiritual perfection,
  625-l
Kabalistic doctrine lost by the Pharisees at the advent of Christ, 727-l.
Kabalistic Doctrine, the dogma of the Magi and Hermes, 841-l.
Kabalistic doctrine the religion of the Sage and Savant, 625-l.
Kabalistic doctrines of emanations, the origin of the Christian Trinity,
  552-u.
Kabalistic doctrines; sources of our knowledge of the, 266-l.
Kabalistic four Worlds alluded to in the four elements of the Ritual,
  784-m.
Kabalistic Gnosticism: in the chiefs of the Templars was vested
  the Apostolate of, 817-m.
Kabalistic idea of the Infinite Deity and His emanations, 552-u.
Kabalistic ideas concerning the Sephiroth, 765-u.
Kabalistic interpretation of the Seven Sephiroth is Atik Yomin, 727-m.
Kabalistic number four furnished the mysteries of the Tetragram
  of the Hebrews, 732-u.
Kabalistic process of creation, 766-769
Kabalistic secrets contained in the ternarys of the Evangelic Symbols,
  730-l.
Kabalistic significance of Yod, type of the human Tetragram, 771-m.
Kabalistic statement in regard to the Infinite Light, 742-u.
Kabalistic "Taro" corresponds to the Hebrew Tetragram, 732-m.
Kabalistic theory of the four worlds, Emanation, Creation, Formation,
  Fabrication, 768-l.
Kabalistic triangle. Necessity, Liberty, Reason, 738-u.
Kabalists consider God as the Intelligent, Animating, Living, Infinite,
  97-l.
Kabalists have chiefly studied the questions of the Nature of Deity
  and the beginning of the Universe, 738-l.
Kabalists' opinion concerning Souls is Platonism and came from the
  Chaldeans, 440-l.
Kabalists regarded Deity as the Primordial Ether-Ocean from which
  light flows, 739-l.
Kabalists wrote the "unspeakable word, Ihuh," translated by Ararita,
  728-u.
Karobim on the Propitiatory was misunderstood, 818-l.
Kether Ailah synonymous with the Supreme Crown; Cause of Causes, 751-l.
Kether, Corona, existent in the Corona of the World of Emanation, 758-u.
Kether, Crown, has no configuration nor can there be any cognizance
  of it, 753-u.
Kether denoted by Yod, according to the Pneumatica Kabalistica, 798-m.
Kether is the Will of Deity, or Deity as Will, 758-m.
Kether, Kabalistic meaning of, 202-l.
Kether, the cranium of Adam Kadmon, 757-l.
Kether, the Crown, is treated of as a person composed of the ten
  numerations, 799-m.
Kether, the Crown, the Divine Will or Potency, the first Sephiroth, 552-u.
Kether, the will, remains in Macroprosopos, the first Universal, 793-l.
Kether was the aggregate of the ten Sephiroth, 755-u.
Kether's sphere opened and thereout proceeded Hakemah, 756-m.
Key of the Holy Books is the Sohar which opens all the depths and
  lights, 843-l.
Key to the pantacles of the Apocalypse are three, four, seven, twelve,
  728-u.
Khairum, or Khur-um, misrendered into Hiram, 816-m.
Khaled, "The sword of God," at the battle of Damascus, exhorts
  soldiers, 53-m.
Khur, correspondence to Egyptian Har, 78-m.
Khur from the Zend word, Huare, the Sun, 602-u.
Khur-om Abi, meaning of, 81-m.
Khur-om, personification of Light and the Sun, Saviour, 79-l.
Khur-om, Phoenician artificer, meaning of the name of, 81-u.
Khur-om, similarity in the Mysteries to the death of the Master, 405-m.
Khurum assailed at the three gates by Capricornus, Aquarius, Pices, 448-u.
Khurum assaulted at the East, West and South Gates, 488-u.
Khurum, improperly called Hiram, is Khur-om, 79-l.
Khur-um, King of Tsur, first performed annual ceremony, 25th Dec, 78-l.
Khurum laid several days in the grave and was raised by the powerful
  attraction of Leo, 488-m.
Khurum legend connected with more ancient ones; variants of them, 435-m.
Khurum, name of Evil God, Bal, found in name of each murderer of, 80-u.
Khurum obtained true ideas of Deity in the Mysteries, 208-m.
Khurum, or Khairum, derivation and meaning of, 78-u.
Khurum raised by the Lion's grip after that of Aquarius and Cancer
  had failed, 461-u.
Khurum represents the Sun killed by the three Winter Signs, 448-u.
Khurum, The Master, received no wages not his due, 114-u.
Khurum, the Master, the symbol of human freedom, 211-u.
Khurum, the Tyrian artist of the columns Jachin and Boaz, 9-m.
Khurum's assassins, origin of names, relation to Stars, 488-u.
Khurum's body searched for by the other nine signs of the Zodiac, 448-u.
Kingdom of Christ, which, though not of this world, would govern
  all its grandeurs, 815-m.
Kings: not successively, but altogether, Binah produced the seven, 796-l.
Kings; shattered into fragments were the first six, 796-l.
Kings of the World are those knowing the incontestable verity, 842-m.
Kings, when they died, had no root in Adam Kadmon, nor was
  Wisdom their root, 798-u.
Kneph or Agathodaemon, the Good Spirit, represented by Osiris, 587-l.
Kneph, the Serpent God of the Egyptians, 495-u.
Knight Commander of the Temple, first Chivalric Degree, 578-u.
Knight Commander of the Temple, the 27th Degree, 578-u.
Knight Kadosh Degree, the 30th, 814.
Knight must be ardent in the practice of the virtues he has professed,
  807-l.
Knight of the Brazen Serpent, the 25th Degree, 435.
Knight of the Brazen Serpent, the 25th Degree, explains symbols, 435-m.
Knight of the East and West, 17th Degree, philosophical, 246-l.
Knight of the East or of the Sword, 15th Degree, lessons of, 237-u.
Knight of the Royal Axe, Prince of Libanus, the 22nd Degree, 340-u.
Knight of the Sun, or Prince Adept, the 28th Degree, 581.
Knight Templarism originated in the East in 1118, 815-l.
Knight worthy of being called so if true to vows and possessing
  Virtue, Truth, Honor, 808-u.
Knighthood's crosses are symbols of the nine qualities of a Knight
  of St. Andrew, 801-l.
Knightly attributes and qualities found in men in those days, 805-u.
Knightly character requires mercy, clemency, a forgiving temper, 813-l.
Knightly plumage, dress, gaudy habiliments incompatible with Order,
  807-m.
Knightly professions and duties, 808-m.
Knightly qualities of Generosity, Clemency, Charity, are more essential,
  803-u.
Knightly qualities of Humility, Patience, Self-denial, essential
  qualities, 801-l.
Knightly qualities of Virtue, Truth, Honor, are most essential
  qualities, 803-m.
Knightly spirit revived by the 27th Degree, 579-m.
Knights Crusaders, nine in number, consecrated themselves Templars,
  815-l.
Knights incited to imitate the old Knights and Bayard, Sydney,
  S. Louis, 804-l.
Knights incited to look to the ancient days for examples of Virtue,
  Truth, Honor, 804-l.
Knights of St. Andrew vowed to defend the innocent and bring
  the oppressors to justice, 802-l.
Knights of the East and of the East and West successors of Templars,
  816-m.
Knights of the East and West so called because—, 275-m.
Knights of the 15th and 16th Degrees, duties of the, 332-u.
Knight's boast to be consistent with our profession as Masons;
  retain our dignity and—, 804-m.
Knowledge alone not sufficient to fit men to be free, 26-m.
Knowledge convertible into power, 25-l.
Knowledge convertible into power and axioms into rules of utility
  and duty, 711-l.
Knowledge imparted to initiates of Mithraic Mysteries, 425-m.
Knowledge: in the Ancient Symbolism may be rediscovered the
  Mysteries of, 842-l.
Knowledge is Light, the development of the soul, 107-l.
Knowledge is profitable, moral, and will be religious, 713-u.
Knowledge of Deity and Soul because we feel their existence, 674-u.
Knowledge of God's existence through the Power communicated to
  man by the Word, 598.
Knowledge of good and evil commenced, 630-m.
Knowledge of Life limited to its developments, 572-m.
Knowledge, Masonic, little use unless it adds to our Wisdom and Charity,
  26-u.
Knowledge of natural things through our senses, 738-l.
Knowledge of the Absolute itself possible only through his
  manifestations, 738-l.
Knowledge of the effects of things, the attributes, possible, 570-571-572.
Knowledge of the essence of things impossible, 570-571-572.
Knowledge of Truth and of the Nature of the Gods the most precious gift,
  521-l.
Knowledge of the value of many things comes when we lose them, 190-u.
Knowledge, the forerunner of liberty and toleration, 171-m.
Kosmos, a word signifying Beauty and Order; Universe, 87-l.
Krishna, called Heri, Shepherd and Saviour, 81-l.
Krishna, Hindu Sun God, 78-u.
Kronos and Ouranos were above Zeus, 597-l.

L

L, P, D on Cagliostro's seal were the initials of "Tread under foot the Lilies", 823-m. Labor a blessing, not a curse, 691-u. Labor has produced all that is glorious in the world, 346-m. Labor is a more beneficent ministration than man admits, 344-m. Labor is Heaven's great ordinance for human improvement, 343-l. Labor is man's great function, distinction, privilege, 344-l. Labor is noble and ennobling, not a disgrace nor a misfortune, 242-m. Labor necessary to develop the energies, 243-u. Labor not a curse or a doom, but a blessing, 342-l. Labor, the lessons of the 22d Degree inculcate respect for, 340-u. Labor, three kinds of, manual, in arms, intellectual, 331-u. Labor, wide as Earth, has its summit in Heaven, 342-l. Labor yet to be the King of Earth is the noblest emblem of God, 341-m. Laborers alone survive in the solitudes of Time, 343-u. Laboring man, condition of the, 179. Labors of Hercules depict the varying fortunes of the Solar Power, 591-l. Labors of Hercules, Peter the Great, Cromwell, Napoleon, 341-l. Labyrinth built in honor of the Sun, its twelve palaces consecrated to—, 459-l. Lactantius believed soul existed before the body, 440-m. Lactantius ridiculed the earth's revolution around the Sun, 843-u. Ladder, Faith, Hope, Charity, the three principal rounds of the, 10-u. Ladder in Jacob's dream; translation of the word, 234-u. Ladder, nine rounds, 10-u. Ladder of seven steps a symbol of the passage of souls through Stars, 414-u. Ladder of the Mithraic Initiations, with its seven steps, a symbol, 851-l. Ladder reached from Heaven to Earth, each step had a gate, 414-u. Ladder, seven rounds; symbolism, 10-u. Ladder, symbolism of Mithraic, 233-l. Ladder, theological, which Jacob saw, 10-u. Lamaism teaches final judgment before Eslik Khan and punishment, 624-u. Lamb, and two Knights on one horse taught humility and self-denial, 802-l. Lamb eaten by Israelites at Vernal Equinox, 466-m. Lamb or Ram adored when he opened the Equinox, 448-m. Lamb of Vernal Equinox marks defeat of Serpent, 407-m. Lamb sacrificed by initiates of Heliopolis and its flesh eaten, 431-l. Lamb used instead of Ram by Persians, 465-m. Landseer's theory concerning the legend of Osiris, 483-487. Language fell into confusion after man's connection with the Creator ceased, 600-u. Language inadequate to express idea of Deity, hence personification, 672-l. Language inadequate to express the origination of matter from spirit, 673-m. Language not adequate to express our ideas, 569-u. Latitude and Longitude of Egyptian cities, 442-u. Laurel wreaths for the Greek and Romans who fought for the love of Liberty, 157-m. Law as applied to the Universe means—, 695-m. Law displacing Chance and Necessity permits man to be morally free, 695-m. Law Eternal by which all the operations of Nature proceed without clash, 826-m. Law, fundamental, the keystone of the Temple of Liberty, 211-u. Law, obedience to, 110—. Law of attraction and radiation, the principle of Creation and cause of Life, 843-u. Law of Attraction has no exceptions; attraction is the common bond, 828-m. Law of God a part of the law of Harmony dictated by Infinite Wisdom, 240-u. Law of God relating to our conduct, 240-u. Law of justice claimed to be our notions of right adopted by God, 830-u. Law of matter, law of mind, law of morals, the mode in which those forces act, 827-l. Law of matter, learned only by experience, is imperative, 828-u. Law of natural phenomena expressed in the Kabala by the number four, 732-u. Law of natural phenomena furnished the Hebrews with the mysteries of the Tetragram, 732-u. Law or principle of chemical attraction; destruction would follow the repeal of the, 846-m. Law of Retribution, 216-217. Law of sympathy and harmony inflexible as the law of gravitation, 244-u. Law of the Divine an analogical inference of human law, 694-m. Law perceived, but not understood, becomes Necessity, 694-m. Law superior over capricious interference, 696-m. Law, that mind gives character to all is one impartial, 192-m. Law unacknowledged goes under the name of Chance, 694-m. Law unknown is not obligatory, 695-m. Laws and Constitution in a free government above incapables, 49-l. Laws and principles as a spiritual being, 197-m. Laws governing the Universe by necessity, 831-l. Laws governing the Universe changed by prayer questionable, 684-l. Laws of God obligatory on us because they express His infinite Wisdom, 8-u. Laws of God produce wrong and injustice according to our standards, 830-l. Laws of movement and life known to the priests of Egypt, 842-l. Laws of nature not known to ancients to be immutable, 447-m. Law of natural phenomena represented by a cube, 732-u. Laws of our own nature unchangeable, 239-l. Laws of Solon, the best his countrymen were capable of receiving, 37-u. Laws, the Mason should not attempt to change God's inflexible, 338-l. Laws, the Universe preserved by eternal, 577-u. Laws which seem harsh may be beneficial if looked on from a broader view, 695-l. Le Verrier, painstaking methods of, 174-m. Leaders of men, not the acutest thinkers, 55-l. Legislators should be thinkers, not gabblers, 55-m. Legend of Hiram Abif but a variant of an universal one, 435-m. Legend of the Master, Khurom, differently interpreted, 267-m. Legend of the Mysteries practically the same in all countries, 377-u. Legends of the Degrees considered as allegories, not taught as truths, 329-m. Legislators whose laws we obey now long dead, 313-u. Leniency designated as Light and Whiteness, the Substance of Deity symbolized, 769-u. Leniency of the Kabalah coincides with Paul's ideas as to Law and Grace, 769-u. Leniency the essence of the Stability of Creation and part of the nature of Deity, 769-u. Leo named because the Lion came to the Nile athirst, 446-m. Leo the device of Judah by whose grip Khurum was raised, 461-u. Leo the first sign into which the Sun passed below the Summer Solstice, 455-m. Leo the Third, Kabalistic pantacle contained in the Enchiridion of, 104-m. Leslie, John, Bishop of Ross, tells of those who saw St. Andrew's Cross, 801-l. Lesser Mysteries a preparation for the Greater, 432-u. Lessons learned in the school of life, 182-l. Letter He, resolved into Daleth and Vau, 794-l. Letters and names constitute the worlds, 749-m. Letters fashioned from points by the Infinite at Creation, 749-m. Letters (the Sephiroth) changed from the spherical form into the form of a person, 757-m. Letters Yod, He, Vav-He, dwelt in the Shekinah, 750-u. Level inverted marked on the breast of the Indian initiate, 428-m. Levy and Simeon had for device the two fishes of Pisces, 462-u. Liberality teaches that possibly a contrary opinion may be true, 160-m. Liberties of the people guaranteed by—, 211-m. Liberty a curse to the ignorant and brutal, 26-m. Liberty and Necessity apparently antagonistic, 848-m. Liberty and Necessity, the columns of the Universe, symbolized by the Temple, 848-m. Liberty and Necessity, the essence of Deity, counterbalanced, produce equilibrium, 778-l. Liberty, Angels commissioned to aid man to exercise his, 252-m. Liberty can not exist without perfect equilibrium, 736-l. Liberty, chief foes of human, 148-m. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, foundations of Free Government, 860-u. Liberty, imagined, may be the worst of slavery, when—, 177-m. Liberty of the people must not be entrusted to any one man, 211-u. Liberty of Thought proclaimed by Christ, 309-u. Liberty, or the free will of God's creatures, 848-m. Liberty, the basis of our existence, we assign to God as His nature, 704-u.. Liberty, the keystone of the Arch of the Temple of, is—, 211-u. Liberty; the sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called, 43-l. Liberty, the wise Mason is a votary of, 156-u. Liberty with obedience to Law an immutable foundation of Free Government, 860-u. Libra named because of the balance of the length of day and night, 446-u. Life, a social state ordained by God, 197-l. Life, an imploring call for revelation from visible, 191-l. Life analogous to fire and heat, 664-l. Life and Light abiding in the First Born or Creative Agency, 267-m. Life and Light considered by the Persians as one, 572-m. Life and Light in the Creator or Demiourgos, 575-u. Life and movement result from a continual conflict of Forces or Impulses, 846-u. Life, as air and fire, was associated with the material machinery, 675-m. Life belongs to nature as much as matter does, 664-l. Life comes from Death; reconstruction out of dissolution, 768-u. Life given for moral and spiritual training, 182-u. Life, Heat, Light, centers of gravitation, 843-u. Life in its relationships is like—, 198-m. Life is a battle, to fight which well is the purpose of man's existence, 853-l. Life is a blessing, 142-l. Life is a school; comparison to a school, 182-u. Life is real and full of duties to be performed, 231-m. Life is the beginning of immortality, 231-m. Life, Light, Soul, from the inherent Light of the Emanative principle, 755-l. Life made worthy and glorious by—, 143-l. Life, more than life are the duties of, 151-l. Life of a community depends on—, 197-l. Life of Humanity is the Word, the Light, 849-l. Life of the embryo maintained by the activity of the mother's life, 668-l. Life of the Universe and Soul alike the result of Harmony and movement, 859-l. Life of things from the vital fire that blazes in the Sun, 664-l.. Life perpetually caused by the double law of fixedness and movement, 843-u. Life principle familiar to the ancients and Alchemists, 734-l. Life principle is the universal agent, 734-l. Life-principle of the world a universal agent, two natures, a double current, 734-l. Life principle penetrates everything; a ray detached from the Sun, 734-l. Life Principle that moves the world, compared to that which moves Man, 667-l. Life proceeding from the hidden Deity, 555-m. Life represented by a simple Tau; eternal life when circle was added, 505-u. Life rises out of the grave; the soul can not be held by the fettering flesh, 714-m. Life rising out of death an important doctrine of the Mysteries, 395-m. Life, teachings of the dread realities of, 199-l. Life, the blessings of life proceed often from the trials of, 307-l. Life, the creation of God, 143-l. Life well regulated results from the equilibrium between our appetites and Moral Sense, 860-l. Life what we make it by character and adaptation, 193. Life's length measured by what we have done for others,158-l. Light, a name applied to Ainsoph, because unable to express it by any other, 740-m. Light a pure emblem of and first emanation from the Etenal God, 617-l. Light a symbol of Hope to the candidate, 639-m. Light, Ahriman second born of the Primitive, 257-m. Light, all things caused by an emanation of a ray of, 286-u. Light an example of the emanation doctrine of the Gnostics, 248-l. Light, ancient symbols of, meaning, 77-m. Light and Darkness a marked feature of the Eleusinian Mysteries, 403-m. Light and Darkness, a prominent feature in the Mysteries, 402-l. Light and Darkness are the world's eternal ways, 581-m. Light and Darkness contesting for possession of the lunar disk, 468-l. Light and Darkness proceed from the idea of the Active and Passive, 659-l. Light and Darkness, the basis of Ancient Theology according to Plutarch, 402-l. Light and Fire; references to, 285-l. Light and Life emanations from Deity, the archetype of light, 572-m. Light and Whiteness a designation of Leniency, 769-u. Light as applied to Deity is the Substance from which Light flows, 740-m. Light became the first Divinity of the ancients, 443-l. Light coexistent with God; questions concerning, 739-l. Light comes from the etherial substances that compose the active cause, 659-l. Light defined in the book, Omschim, or Introduction to the Kabala, 740-u. Light, Fire, Flame, the Aor of the Deity, manifested in flame, out of the fire, 740-l. Light, Pire, Flame, the sons of the Phoenician Kronos, 740-l. Light, Pire, Flame, the Trinity of the Chaldean oracles, 740-l. Light, Fire not a pure, 251-u. Light for which all Masonic journeys are a search, 252-l. Light forthshone from Deity not severed or diverse from Him, 748-m. Light from above constituted three brains for Microprosopos when the letter He was born, 794-l. Light from the shattered vessels reascended to Binah then flowed down, 797-u. Light has no characteristics of matter, 744-u. Light, Human but a reflection of a ray of the Divine Light, 246-l. Light in excess, being veiled, may be received by those below, 795-l. Light inclosed in the seeds of species has its home in Universal Spirit, 783-m. Light initiates in Bacchian Mysteries cry Hail new-born, 522-u. Light is the creative power of Deity, 267-l. Light is the equilibrium of Shadow and Lucidity, 845-u. Light is the Father and Mother of all, 267-u. Light, modern and ancient conception of, 76-l. Light not Spirit, but the instrument of the Spirit, 98-l. Light not the body of the Protoplastes, but first physical manifestation, 98-l. Light of Ainsoph inheres in the Vessel as their Life, Light, Soul, 755-l. Light of Fire the symbol of the Divine Essence, 742-l. Light of the Countenance of God, the inmost Covering, Aur Penial, 749-m. Light of the Lodge a symbol of—, 240-l. Light of the Substance and that of the Garment in the Primal Ether, 750-m. Light of the Substance of the Infinite a Kabalistic expression, 743-l. Light of the Sun at midnight revealed to the Initiate, 389-m. Light of the Vessels is the Soul of the vessel and is active in them, 755-m. Light of the vestige of garment different from that of the Substance, 750-m. Light of the vestige of the Garment termed a point, Yod, a point in the center of Light, 750-m. Light (or knowledge) of God's existence came from the Power communicated to man by the Word, 598-u. Light, Ormuzd existed in the beginning in the primitive, 256-l. Light, perception of, is the Dawn of the Eternal Life, in Being, 100-l. Light, period of termination of the struggle between Darkness and, 257-l. Light Principle did its work, but the Evil Principle caused Him to be crucified, 567-m. Light-principle one of the ancient conceptions of Deity, 739-m. Light Principle put on the appearance of a human body, 567-m. Light Principle suffered in appearance only, 567-m. Light Principle took the name of Christ in the Messiah, 567-m. Light referred to in the Kabalah, 286-u. Light represented Ormuzd or Ahura Mazda, 612-u. Light seems an emanation from the Creator unfolding all things, 660-u. Light Substance in the Deity, 741-l. Light, symbol of truth and knowledge, 76-m. Light, symbolism of being brought to, 252-l. Light synonymous with Good, 660-m. Light that is the visible manifestation of God active throughout the Universe, 845-m. Light, the cause and principle of all that exists is a Divine Ray of, 267-u. Light the creature of the Unseen God who taught the True religion, 582-u. Light, the final revelation in the Eleusinean Mysteries was, 394-l. Light, the first divinity worshipped because it made known the Universe, 660-u. Light, the head of the universal organism, called Pooroosha, 673-u. Light the Life of the Universe, 575-u. Light, the object of Masonic search, brings us to the Kabala, 741-u. Light the principle of the real existence of primitive men, 443-m. Light the reason of being of the Shadow, 307-l. Light the symbol of most of the Indian and Persian Deities, 601-l. Light, to the Ancients, was the cause of life; flowed from God, 13-u. Light towards which all Masons travel, 256-l. Light, visible, is attended by a shadow proportional to that light, 847-l. Light wanted by the candidate wandering in darkness, 361-u. Light was divine to the Chaldeans and Phoenicians, 582-u. Light was the life of men, said St. John, 743-l. Light was the Life of the Universe, the substance of God and the Soul, 443-l. Light will return into the Plenitude when redemption is accomplished, 564-u. Light worshipped by Sabaeans, 13-u. Lighting and lights of Temples, meaning and reference, 411-u. Lights, Great, 11-m. Lights, Lesser, 12-u. Lights not seen in the North of a Lodge room because—, 592-u. Lights represent Sun, Moon and Mercury, 411-u. Lights, symbols in 12th Degree of the three great, 202-l. Lights: the initiate became an Epopt when admitted to the see the Divine, 521-l. Lights, the three great, represent in the lodge—, 210-u. Lily, a Masonic medal had upon it a sword cutting off the stalk of a, 823-m. Limitation modified by grace, which relaxes it, 764-l. Line being but the extension of a point, an emblem of Unity, 487-u. Line, duality or evil represented by the broken or divided, 487-u. Line, the first principle of Geometry is the straight line, 487-u. Lingham revered in Indian Temples; an emblem of the sexes, 656-u. Lingham, the union of Active and Passive principles, 401-l. Lion holding key in his mouth represents—, 210-m. Lion of the House of Judah furnishes the strong grip, 641-u. Lion, the symbol of Athom-Re, God of Upper Egypt, 254-l. Lions of different colors a symbol of metals in ebullition, 774-m. Lips of a King impressed by a Tau cross at initiation, 505-u. Literal reading of Oriental writings leads into gross errors, 818-m. Live, not all of life to, 191-l. Lodge, a symbolic Temple modeled from the Universe, 7-u. Lodge ceiling, border, brazen sea, symbolism of, 209-m. Lodge, Christian, must have Christian bible, 11-m. Lodge, definition of a, 7-m. Lodge, dimensions of a, 9-l. Lodge, East of American and English, 15-m. Lodge, Hebrew letter Yod in triangle in the East of a; symbolism, 15-m. Lodge, Hebrew, must have Pentateuch, 11-m. Lodge inaugurated by Rousseau became the revolutionary center, 823-l. Lodge, Mohammedan, must have Koran, 11-m. Lodge represents the Universe, 209-l. Lodge supported by three great columns, 7-l. Lodge supported by Wisdom, Strength and Beauty, 7-l. Lodge, symbolism of lights of the, 209-l. Lodge, symbolism of the triangle in the, 209-l. Lodges extend to Heaven from practice of having Temples without roofs, 366-l. Logic of Cicero proving the divinity of the Stars, 670-l. Logos, a name for the Wisdom of the Kabalah, 267-l. Logos dwells in God; is the vehicle by which God acts, 251-u. Logos may be compared to the speech of man, 251-u. Logos personified by Simon Magus and Gnostics, 323-m. Logos produced by the words of the Supreme Deity, 560-m. Logos, the material world created by the, 251-l. Logos; the powers and attributes of God act through the, 251-l. Logos, the word; Mysteries taught incarnation, death, etc., of, 415-u. Logos, the Word through which God acts upon the Universe, 552-l. Logos, the World of ideas; Chief of Intelligence; Adam Kadmon, 251-m. Long Parliament, in periods of convulsion, 30-l. Lord, Rev. W.W., writes concerning present-day materialism, 808-813. Lorja, Jitz-chak, author of the Treatise De Revolutionibus Animarum, 772-l. Lorris, Guillaume de, did not complete the Roman de Rose, 822-l. Lost meaning of the name of Deity the True Word of a Mason, 697-m. Loss of the meaning of the True Word considered loss of the Word itself, 701-l. Louis the Fifteenth, condition of society under, 27-m. Louis the Fifteenth forbade Masonic Lodges in 1737, 50-m. Love, a mythologic image of the grand secret and the grand agent, 732-m. Love a power between the human and the divine, 692-m. Love and Mercy impregnating Rigor and Severity by Benignity, 796-u. Love and Rigor must temper each other to produce creation, 798-l. Love at the bottom of Christianity, 730-l. Love became the universal parent when—, 684-u. Love carries to the gods the prayers of men and brings down the gifts, 692-m. Love, Christ the expounder of the new Law of, 309-m. Love emerging from the Bacchic egg, with Night, organizes Chaos, 663-l. Love, interest in the virtue of those we, 198-m. Love is the attribute of Compassion or Mercy, 796-l. Love of God according to Plato and Christianity, 704-l. Love one another the whole law enunciated by Christianity, 705-u. Love, perfect, denoted by the Father, male, 795-l. Love received scanty homage before the birth of philosophy, 691-l. Love scarcely recognized in the old days of ignorance, 692-u. Love the best pilot, supporter, saviour of all things, 692-u. Love, the highest and most beneficent of the Gods, according to Plato, 682-l. Love, the physician of the Universe, the first born of Nature, 683-u. Love the solution of the problems of the contradictions of existence, 683-l. Loving better than hating, even by Deity Himself, 859-u. Loving Kindness is greater than Hope or Faith; the only thing God requires, 808-m. Loving kindness of the Father enfolds and blesses everything, 715-l. Lowly and uninfluential, importance of the work of the; instances, 41-m. Loyola referred to, 31-u. Lucanus, Ocellus, after Pythagoras, opened a school in Italy, 653-l. Lucanus recognized the eternity of the Universe and the Active and Passive, 653-l. Lucifer, the Evil Force or Devil represented by the false, 102-l. Lucifer, the Lightbearer, Son of the Morning, Spirit of Darkness, 321-u. Lukewarmness to be anathematized, 138-m. Lulle defines mercury, meaning either electricity or astral light, 775-m. Lulle, Raymond, says to make gold must first have gold, 777-l. Lulle, Raymond, treats on Hermetic Science, 774-l. Luther referred to, 31-u. Luther with his sermons worked great results, 43-u. Luxury, extravagance, ostentation, the peril of nations and men, 348-m.

M