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

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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.

Ultimate nature of things probably never will be known, 712-u.
Unbelief of the many, 296.
Understanding, the Capacity to be impregnated by the Active Energy, 305-m.
Unchanging nature of Deity compared with his perfect Freedom, 689-u.
Uniformity of plan among endless varieties of operation and form, 673-l.
Union of Deity with his creatures expressed by the Hebrew letter "He",
  698-l.
Union of the Universe with itself termed "the Great Secrets of Nature",
  659-u.
Union of True, Beautiful, Good in the Being from whom they emanate, 702-l.
Union with Deity the aspiration of the religious sentiment in man, 652-m.
Unit in number ten signifies God creating matter, the 0, 627-u.
Unit, in the fecundity of the Ternary, forms the Quaternary, the
  Key of all numbers, 771-m.
Unit is the symbol of identity, existence, harmony, point within the
  circle, 629-l.
Unit means a spirit embodied in the virgin earth—nature, 627-m.
Unit means a Word incarnate in the bosom of a virgin, or religion, 627-u.
Unit, or monad, a figure of the cube, 5-l.
Unity a necessary sequence from the conception of the Absolute, 702-l.
Unity and duality termed the first principles of all existence, 630-l.
Unity in which the many are and out of which all flow is Ihuh, 764-u.
Unity itself and the Idea of Unity are two; Unity manifested by
  the Binary, 771-u.
Unity measured by the Binary, 771-l.
Unity of Aristotle's First Mover follows from His immateriality, 679-l.
Unity of Force underneath the lives, wishes, wills of the people of
  the earth, 829-l.
Unity of God taught in the Orphic hymn quoted by Aristobulus, 415-u.
Unity of God taught in the Kabalah, 625-l.
Unity of Nature blended with a dim perception of Spiritual Essence, 687-m.
Unity of the Universe represented by the symbolic egg, 415-u.
Unity: the links that bind all created things together are the links
  of a single, 765-m.
Unity, the pivot, source, center, the august Idea of Pythagoras, 626-u.
Universal agent adored in the rites of the Sabbat or the Temple, 734-m.
Universal agent adored under figure of Baphomet or goat of Mendes, 734-m.
Universal agent is a force which if controlled would be infinite in
  power, 734-m.
Universal agent is the Life, principle, 734-l.
Universal Cause that was termed God; ancient ideas in reference to, 666-u.
Universal forces called the Seven great Archangels, 727-u.
Universal forces which govern the world create equilibrium by their
  contrasts, 727-u.
Universal: His ways are divided and judgment is on our side in
  the second, 794-u.
Universal idea felt rather than understood, 674-m.
Universal is an Idea abstracted from all considerations of individuals,
  764-u.
Universal Laws of God: we strive to enact our notions into the, 830-u.
Universal medicine required for the Soul, Mind, Body, by the Hermetic
  practice, 773-m.
Universal Mover identified with the fluctuations of the Universe, 588-l.
Universal Nature worship a kin to that of the Universal Soul, 593-u.
Universal Principle is Wisdom, the Father of Fathers, 791-m.
Universal Reason believed in by Socrates and Heraclitus, 693-u.
Universal Seed represented under the figure of the Caduceus of Hermes,
  775-u.
Universal Soul a Pythagorean doctrine from the Egyptians, 666-m.
Universal Soul comprised in Dionusos; all soul is a part of the, 586-m.
Universal Soul disseminated throughput the world in active operation,
  474-m.
Universal Soul embraces all, is all, and to it all will return, 604-l.
Universal Soul idea sprung from doctrine of the Active and Passive,
  661-m.
Universal Soul moves the immortal bodies that form the harmonious
  system of the heavens, 668-u.
Universal Soul organizes the Zodiac which gathers the varied.
  emanations, 669-u.
Universal Soul, the first of the Masonic Trinity, 575-l.
Universal Soul the source of all living things, 666-m.
Universal: the first person, Ani, I, is used by the second, 793-l.
Universal: the third person, Hua, He, is used by the first, 793-l.
Universals: all things are equally one in each of the two, 794-u.
Universals have each a wisdom, one above, one below, 794-m.
Universals, or four, Worlds, are Aziluth, Briah, Yetzirah, Asiah, 759-u.
Universals, or four Worlds, defined, 759-u.
Universals, the Unities out of which manifoldness flows, 755-u.
Universe: a combination of contraries the cause of the harmony of the,
  660-l.
Universe a harmony, not a discord, the eighth Truth of Masonry, 536-l.
Universe a point half way upon the infinite line of eternity, 849-u.
Universe always existed in the Divine Mind, 849-m.
Universe an emanation from God to the Fellow-Craft, 640-u.
Universe an immense Being with an inherent activity, 665-u.
Universe and all the succession of events present to the infinite
  before Creation, 769-u.
Universe and God were one, according to the Kabalistic view, 765-m.
Universe and Soul separate, yet omnipresent, in the Universe, 672-u.
Universe and World synonymous terms to the ancients, 302-m.
Universe assigned a double sex by the Egyptians, 655-l.
Universe became so by the manifestation of the Thought of Deity
  outwardly, 700-m.
Universe: Benignity poured into the Autocracy of Deity ensures
  the succession of the, 769-m.
Universe came from the Orphic egg issued from the mouth of Kneph, 585-u.
Universe can not be viewed today from the ancient standpoint, 595-l.
Universe communicated its eternal life to animated beings, 665-l.
Universe composed of the Active, or Divine, and the Passive, or
  changing, 654-m.
Universe conceived by God's Thought and its creation willed, 575-u.
Universe controlled by the Word, God's Thought, 575-m.
Universe created by Deity through the agency of an infinite will, 684-l.
Universe created by God's Thought uttered in His Word, 576-l.
Universe emanating from Deity symbolized by the triangle, 827-m.
Universe: every particle is related to each other particle in the, 828-l.
Universe evolved from the Word, 582-m.
Universe existed in the first divine idea, yet unexpanded, 608-m.
Universe-God adored by the Ancients as Supreme Cause, God of Gods, 666-u.
Universe governed by fixed laws or special Providences, 684-l.
Universe has no more a beginning than Deity himself, 849-u.
Universe has no voids or empty space, 845-m.
Universe having perpetuity of movement and life, the Supreme Cause,
  667-l.
Universe in action is God's mode of operation, 710-u.
Universe in idea and actuality contained in Deity to be developed, 849-u.
Universe in its totality and its parts was filled with intelligences,
  669-l.
Universe in potence followed the Idea of Creation in Deity, 767-u.
Universe in the beginning but one Soul, the All, alone with Time
  and space, 582-m.
Universe intelligent and wise because man, a part of it, is so, 670-m.
Universe is dissolved and renewed in endless succession, 607-l.
Universe is God, atheistic at bottom is the statement that the, 707-l.
Universe is One, developing itself into the manifold, 765-m.
Universe is one Harmony, 737-m.
Universe: Laws and forces of the, 526-m.
Universe made by Ahura Mazda in 365 days, 613-l.
Universe made of fire, water, earth and all-nourishing ether, 611-l.
Universe moves, changes, exists by the Eternal Law of Harmony, 826-m.
Universe must have been coexistent with Deity because—, 684-u.
Universe never began to exist; created by the Word, 575-u.
Universe not an immense machine forced into movement, 664-l.
Universe not only animated, but intelligent, 669-m.
Universe of necessities, sequences of cause and effect, of life evolved
  from death, 831-u.
Universe of the Egyptians a living, animated being, like man, 665-l.
Universe of things is the stream that flows from Deity; His energy
  without cessation, 763-l.
Universe, or God, likened to the Ocean by the Egyptians, 665-m
Universe, or productive Earth, symbolized by the Square, 851-m.
Universe outformed in the form of Male and Female, 763-m.
Universe plunged into chaos by a single effect without a cause, 735-l.
Universe preserved by Eternal Laws, the expression of God's Thought,
  577-u.
Universe proceeded forth from Deity; not created by Him out of nothing,
  764-m.
Universe put in movement by the power of the name of Adonai, 787-l.
Universe: questions concerning the creation or self-existence of the,
  648.
Universe regarded as an intelligent being by some philosophers, 670-u.
Universe supplied the first model of the Temple, 408-l.
Universe sustained by the Divine Mercies, 800-u.
Universe, symbolism indicating the Power, Wisdom, Harmony of the, 209-l.
Universe, symbolized by a cave, displayed in the Mysteries, 417-u.
Universe symbolized by an egg, 254-m.
Universe symbolized by the Temple of Solomon, 208-l.
Universe symbolized by Zoroaster by a serpent, 496-l.
Universe the aggregate of the ideas of all things that exist, 670-m.
Universe the great Bible of God, 715-m.
Universe, the Infinite utterance of one of an infinite number of
  Infinite Thoughts, 100-m.
Universe the result of the creative Thought of God, 582-l.
Universe, the Thought of God pronounced, always was, 303-u.
Universe the utterance of the Divine Thought, 849-u.
Universe, the uttered Word of God, is infinite in extent, 303-u.
Universe to the ancients was a living thing, 596-m.
Universe to us a machine, a great clockwork, 595-l.
Universe vivified by a great Soul diffused everywhere, 414-l.
Universe void of God is an impossible abstraction, 707-l.
Universe was comprehended in Deity before it became, 700-m.
Universe was planned by Deity and was of Himself, though not
  His Very Self, 764-m.
Universe, whether governed by reason or chance, of little account
  if misunderstood, 694-m.
Universe will not conform to any absolute principle or arbitrary
  theory, 831-u.
Universe with Soul inherent, an ancient idea, 672-u.
Universe would be a failure without the reconciliation of Good
  and Evil, 767-m.
Upanischads asserts and develops the doctrine of the Mantras, 672-l.
Uriel, the face of an Eagle, on the East and forward, with Vau
  and Air, 798-m.
Urn, symbolism of the, 519-m.
Uschas and Mitra are Medie as well as Zend Deities, 602-u.
Uschas, the Dawn, leads forth the Gods in the morning, 602-m.
Utopia not possible with men having bodily wants and human passions,
  835-m.
Utterance of the name of the Great God unlawful, 619-l.

V

Vacant space for Worlds formed by the recession of the Primal Light, 747-750. Vacant space formed by the contraction of Deity within Himself at Creation, 766-u. Vacant space, the Primal Space, called in the Kabalah Auira Kadmah, was square, 750-m. Valentinians distinguished three orders of existence; described, 560-l. Valentinians venerated the generative organs, symbols of fruitfulness, 656-m. Valentinus defined God as exalted above all possibility of designation, 555-u. Valentinus published the Materia Prima containing an Hermetic symbol, 850-m. Valentinus, reared a Christian at Alexandria, held God was an Abyss, 559-l. Value of little things and humble efforts, 230. Van Helmont asserts spiritual beings possess limited divine power, 684-l. Varouna, the "All Encompasser," almost as extensive as Indra, 602-m. Vase of water in Mysteries to symbolize purification by water, 412-m. Vau and He comprehend all things; all are one system, 800-m. Vau, in the triliteral word, denotes the six members of the Microprosopos, 793-l. Vau is Beauty and Harmony, 798-m. Vau is denoted Microprosopos and is composed of the six parts that follow Hakemah and Binah, 794-l. Vau is Tepharth considered as Unity, in which are the six members; itself is one, 799-l. Vau is Yod moved lengthwise, as communication is from above to below, 792-l. Vau moved sideways produces superfices, which is Daleth, 792-l. Vaults, subterranean, represent—, 208-l. Vav gave light to Yod by which great energy was conferred on Hakemah, 756-u. Vav, in the middle of the three Yods, denotes Hakemah, 763-m Vav is both male and female, 763-m. Vav is Tephareth, 758-u. Vav of the Tetragrammaton in Adam Kadmon as Ruach, 757-u. Vav with Yod and He completes the Triliteral Name, 323-m. Veda apostrophized as living beings the physical objects of worship, 602-m Veda contains the most ancient religious effusions, 602-m. Vedanta and Myaya philosophy regarding God and the Soul, 607-u. Vedanta philosophy maintained the divine unity, 673-u Vedas detail the creation of the world, 609-l. Vedas the voice of the universal organism called Pooroosha, 673-u. Vedic book, Antareya A'ran'ya, gives an account of the creation, 609-u Vedic Gods, their origin and signification, 602-612. Vedic spirit a pantheist monotheism, 672-l. Vegetable Kingdom symbolized by Schib; studied by the Fellow-Craft, 632-u. Veil; noises, lightning, thunder preceded the lowering of the, 433-u. Veil removed revealed the image of the Goddess of the Mysteries, 433-u. Veils of four colors represented the four elements, 409-m. Venus inspires the soul with desires while passing through, 439-m. Venus represents Charity, 727-l. Venus, the name of the second gate of the ladder; material, tin, 414-u. Verity: there is a method of knowing the incontestable, 842-m. Vernal Equinox brought soft winds and warmth, 444-m. Vernal Equinox most fully develops the creative or demiurge energy, 473-u. Vernal Equinox; Principle of Good overcomes that of Evil at the, 664-m. Vernal Equinox; Sun 4,500 years ago in Gemini at the, 401-l. Vernal Equinox: the demiourgic action and energy most active at the, 664-m. Vernal Equinox: the Israelites marched out of Egyptian bondage at the, 466-m. Very Deity is all that may possibly be besides all that is, was, shall be, 819-m. Vessels comparable to the Kings produced by Binah, 797-u. Vessels contain within themselves the light of the sphere, 755-m. Vessels of the Sephiroth below Binah broken that evil might be created, 791-l. Vessels somewhat opaque and not so splendid as the light, 755-m. Vessels were partitions between the greater and lesser Splendor, 755-m. Vestige of His Light remains in the vacant space formed by Deity's contraction, 766-u. Vestige of the Sublime Brilliance exists in a spherical shape, termed splendor, 751-u. Vestiges of the Light, 747-750. Vestiges of the seven Numerations formed by the light flowing down from Binah, 797-u. Vestments of the High Priest and furniture described, 409-u. Vice, condemnation for an undeserved reputation for, 131-l. Vice generally rewarded with contempt and infamy, 705-l. Vice only degrades men who are ennobled by virtue, 622-l. Vice punished in this life, 101-u. Victory: God's Will is not defeated nor thwarted, and that is the Divine, 848-l. Victory is one of the last four of the Sephiroth of the Kabalah, 848-l. Victory, one of the Sephiroth, the column Jachin, 267-l. Victory over the human in man by the Divine the true Holy Empire, 855-u. Vingolf or Gimli the Heaven of the Icelanders, 619-m. Virgil enunciated the doctrine of the preexistence of souls in eternal fire, 399-l. Virgil, in the Georgics, states that life returns to the Universal life, 666-l. Virgil's verse borrowed from the ceremonies of initiation, 381-m. Virgin mother idea among ancients, 104-u. Virgin of the Zodiac bitten in the heel by the Serpent, 497-l. Virgin: Spica Virginis and Arcturus heralded the coming of the Sun, 507-u. Virgin: the march of time, seasons and epochs of the year connected with the, 507-u. Virgo and Bootes at the Autumnal Equinox introduce the serpent, 455-l. Virgo at the Winter Solstice rose with the Sun in her bosom, 455-l. Virgo becomes Isis with Horus in her arms, 455-m. Virgo in the domicile of Mercury, the device of Napthali, 462-u. Virgo: Mercury was the companion and counsellor of Isis or the, 507-m. Virgo named because of the Gleaning Virgin at Harvest, 446-m. Virgo represented by Isis and Ceres at the Vernal Equinox, 506-m. Virgo takes the name of Isis, or the Moon, and appears in all the fables, 507-m. Virtue and Wisdom, only, defend and perfect man, 803-l. Virtue as necessary to happiness a fundamental principle of the Hindu religion, 604-m. Virtue assailed gains strength from resisted temptations, 194-l. Virtue, credit given for an undeserved reputation for, 131-l. Virtue ennobles men and vice only degrades them, 622-l. Virtue exists in the perception and thought of a mind, 201-l. Virtue in man shown in respect and love of others—justice, charity, 703-u. Virtue in this world the condition of happiness in another life, 716-l. Virtue is equilibrium in the Affections, 845-u. Virtue is the truest liberty; the best example, 181-l. Virtue means manliness chiefly, and includes patient endurance, 803-l. Virtue not always rewarded, nor vice punished, in this life, 705-l. Virtue rewarded in this life, 101-u. Virtue: Sir Launcelot thought no chivalry equal to that of, 803-l. Virtue the highest good and aim and purpose of man's life, 226-l. Virtue the prize of the hard-fought battle or race, 181-m. Virtue the surest road to happiness, 705-l. Virtue, the work of genius less noble than that of, 349-l. Virtue, Truth, Honor, and fidelity to vows prove the true Knight, 808-u. Virtue, Truth is the foundation of, 184-l. Virtue, unfortunate, hopes to be rewarded in another life, 717-u. Virtue without happiness is a contradiction and a disorder, 724-m. Virtues, by labor will man continually learn the, 342-m. Virtues of man are God's attributes, 704-u. Virtues of Masonry, four cardinal, 21-m. Virtues turned into offenses against a forced, impractical law, 831-m. Vishnu, the Preserver, manifested by his avatars or impersonations, 603. Vishnu, the Preserving Power of the Hindu Trinity, 550-m. Vishnu to judge the world at the last day: new Universe created, 623-m. Vishnu, with Bramah and Seeva, manifestations of the One Deity, 205-u. "Visible is for us the proportional measure of the invisible", 769-l. Visible the measure of the invisible, 222-u. Vital force of some persons absorbed by others, 735-u. Vitellius, 3-u. Vitellius, horrors of despotism under, 27-u. Void does not exist in the Universe, nor does empty space, 845-m. Void into which the Sun and Stars went on setting, 595-m. Volatile applied to everything that more readily obeys the law of movement, 778-l. Voltaire, throughout the ages will ring the words of, 43-u. Vote of the People expresses the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, 860-u. Vows and obligations to be well considered and kept, 111-l. Vows of obedience, chastity, poverty, taken by the Hospitallers and Templars, 802-u.

W

War, for great principle, noble; for commercial supremacy, despicable, 70-m. War, prevalence and effects of, 297-298. War, results of, 124-l. Washington adored because of his constant effort to be practically just, 836-l. Water, a test representing the purifying of the soul in the march of years, 397-u. Water and the vessel that produced it the primitive principle of things, 495-m. Water formed by the action of a force of God on two invisible gases, 845-l. Water gives the elements and principles of compounds nutriment, 784-m. Water, the source of all things, one of the symbols of regeneration in the Mysteries, 357-l. Waters and great rivers symbolized by a Dragon, 498-l. Waters first created by a thought of the Sole, Self Existing Power, 608-l. Waters of forgetfulness, Rivers Ameles and Lethe, 439-u. Wealth, degeneration of the families of, 347-l. Wealth, evils of thirst for, 68-m. Wealth, laudable methods of employing, 348-u. Webb, explanations and improvements of, 105-m. Wellington, saved by Blucher, defeats Napoleon, 42-m. Well being, that wealth is to be acquired in a short time is against human, 345-m. West, faith of the people of the East connected with that of the, 247-l. "What is above is like what is below and what is below is like what is above," Hermetic Dogma, 790-m. White and black in juxtaposition a symbol of the two Principles, 818-m. White stone promised the faithful in the Apocalypse, 775-l. White was of the nature of the Good Principle, or light, 662-m. Wicked, according to the Edda, shall go to Hel and then to Nifthel, 619-m. Wicked ultimately pardoned and admitted to endless bliss, 624-u. Will action independent or outside the body not understood, 733-l. Will and Capacity which unite to produce the Act of Intellection is always in conjunction, 766-l. Will concentration necessary to success, 733-m. Will is a Force, 91-u. Will is the faculty that directs the forces of the Intellect, 738-u. Will, like Thought, seems spontaneous; both Powers, 574-u. Will, Man distinguished from the brute by the mastery of his, 192-l. Will of Deity as Wisdom and the Capacity are Father and Mother of all that is, 766-l. Will of Deity caused the Power in Him to exist, the intellectual faculty to exercise, 766-m. Will of Deity determined Him to frame the idea of the Universe, 766-m. Will of Deity flows forth as the Generative Power to beget intellectual action, 766-m. Will of Deity is Kether, Crown, in which are included all other Emanations, 766-u. Will of God and his perfect Freedom difficult of comprehension, 689-u. Will of God is the Soul of all things that are, 755-u. Will of God not defeated nor thwarted and that is the Divine Victory, 848-l. Will of God only works in the material world, no secondary finite will, 828-m. Will power and influence little understood, 733-m. Will, strong and determined, can attain complete independence, 790-l. Will to create was Creation; to plan was to will and create, 766-l. Wills of others subject ours or are subjected by ours, 735. Wind the breath of the universal organism called Pooroosha, 673-u. Winter became emblematic of sin, evil and suffering, 447-l. Winter: fallen angels ruled by a chief controlled the hemisphere of, 449-u. Winter Solstice brought frost and long nights, 445-u. Winter Solstice, Sun was said to die and be born again at the, 464-l. Winter's continuance betokened by Prometheus chained in his cavern, 592-m. Wisdom: a serpent extended at length was a symbol of Divine, 496-m. Wisdom an attainable idea, 693-u. Wisdom and Intellectual Generative Energy is male, 305-m. Wisdom and Love, in Infinity, orders and does all that is, 859-u. Wisdom and Power in equilibrium gives the principles of Truth, Justice, Right, 859-u. Wisdom and Power of Deity are in equilibrium, 7-l. Wisdom and Understanding are in Equilibrium in the Sohar, 305-m. Wisdom and Understanding in the Kabalah are male and female, 305-m. Wisdom and Will of Deity act simultaneously, 766-u. Wisdom called Nous and Logos, Intellect or the Word, 267-l. Wisdom communicated to Jesus the perfect Knowledge, Gnosis, 563-l. Wisdom conjoined with Intelligence generates and are expanded in the Truth, 800-u. Wisdom, Force, Harmony, the Great Attributes of the Essence of Deity, 531-m. Wisdom in aiming at the best and being content with the best possible, 835-u. Wisdom in each Universal, one above, one below, 791-m. Wisdom in Hebrew writings is the Word of God, 323-l. Wisdom in Kabalistic books is the creative agent of God, 323-l. Wisdom, Infinite, rules in the Divine nature and in its Emanations, 768-m. Wisdom is equilibrium in the Thoughts, 845-u. Wisdom is the All, and contains the All, and the summary is the Holy Name, 793-u. Wisdom is the Logos that creates, 323-m. Wisdom is the principle of all things; in it beginning and end are found, 762-m. Wisdom is the Principle of the Universe and from it thirty ways diverge, 794-m. Wisdom issuing and shining from the Ancient shines as male and female, 800-u. Wisdom, made fruitful by the Divine Light, produced Christos and Sophia-Achamoth, 563-u. Wisdom must be possessed in the Absolute before Hermetic work can be thought of, 776-u. Wisdom, Occult, conformed into male and female, Rigor and Love, 796-u. Wisdom of God is His Will; His Will includes His Wisdom, 323-m. Wisdom of God the mother of Creation, 251-l. Wisdom of man a reflection of that of God, 251-l. Wisdom of the daughter, or inferior, distinguished from the Superior Wisdom, 565-u. Wisdom of the Divine limits the Divine Will; the result Beauty or Harmon, 846-l. Wisdom of the Stoic and Epicurean contrasted, 694-m. Wisdom, or the Infinite Divine Intelligence, a side of the Masonic triangle, 826-m. Wisdom, pregnant with all that is, shone under the form of male and female, 763-m. Wisdom represented by the Master of a Lodge, 7-l. Wisdom, Strength, Harmony represented by the Triple Tau, 503-l. Wisdom, Supernal, is Yod and all things are included in Yod, 793-u. Wisdom synonymous with the Word, Son, Einsoph, the Nous, Sophia, 565-u. Wisdom taught by consequences of erring, 181-u. Wisdom the first produced and the Mother of all that exists. 553-u. Wisdom the Mother of Creation, 552-l. Wisdom, when expanded by flowing forth, is called the "Father of Fathers", 762-m. Wisdom which thought the plan, 531-m. Wolf chased by Sagittarius the emblem of Benjamin, the hunter, 461-l. Woman in the constellation at the end of Autumn seems to crush the head of the Serpent, 376-m. Woman is man's creation, 772-u. Woman's perversity devised to account for moral evil, 690-m. Word, a symbol is the pronunciation of the, 205-m. Word, an allegory is made out of the loss of the True, 205-l. Word and Secret; an understanding of the Hermetic necessary to an understanding of the, 777-l. Word and the Sacred Name synonymous, 204-l. Word, as Brahma, communicated to man the revelations to himself, 604-u. Word became flesh, dwelt with us, and in Him were Pleroma, Truth, Grace, 559-l. "Word becomes flesh and dwells among men;" communicates itself to men, 575-m. Word, Christ proclaims a new God's, 309-u. Word communicated living Power to man, 598-m. Word created by God to give existence to men; the Ensoph of the Kabalah, 565-u. Word created the Universe which, like Him, never began to exist, 575-u. Word evolved the Universe, 582-m. Word, examples of the personification of the, 268-l. Word, found in the Phoenician creed, 268-m. Word from the Father, by its power, brought the Light of Existence, 581-l. Word given to initiate of Chinese and Japanese Mysteries, 429-u. Word given to the initiate of the Indian mysteries, 428-m. Word, God reveals Himself to us by His uttered, 324-u. Word, Hebrews not permitted to pronounce now the, 204-m. Word, in verity, of a Master Mason, 861-l. Word Incarnate adored by three Magi, guided by a star, bearing gifts, 730-l. Word is Light and the Life of Humanity, 849-l. Word is lost when it ceases to be understood, 731-m. Word is the First and Only begotten of the Father, 849-l. Word is the First Begotten, not the first created Son of God, 772-m. Word is Two: Principle is One, 772-u. Word, Jehovah not the Ineffable, 205-m. Word, Light and Life are emanations from the Primal Deity, 568-l. Word, Logos, dwells in God in whom all his powers and attributes develop, 552-l. Word, Logos, through which God acts on the Universe, 552-l. Word, meaning of superstitious notions concerning the, 205-u. Word not only Creator, but occupies the place of the Supreme Being, 251-l. Word of a Mason found in the meaning of the ineffable Name, 697-m. Word of a Master Mason, the true knowledge of God, 209-u. Word of a Master supposed to be lost symbolizes the Christian faith after—, 641-l. Word of God the universal invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, 742-u. "Word" of Masonry a symbol of Ormuzd, 256-l. Word of Plato and the Gnostics: the unuttered word within the Deity, 552-m. Word or Thought expressed the third in the Masonic Trinity, 575-l. Word, out of original truths misunderstood grew fables of the, 205-u. Word, representing the Absolute, the reason for strange rites of initiation, 840-m. Word, Sacred, written by Isis, but effaced by Typhon as soon as written, 376-l. Word said to be a personified object of prayer, revealed and manifested, 613-l. Word; "symbolism of the Alexandrian" unspeakable, 728-u. Word, symbolism of the ignorance of the True, 223-m. Word symbolizes the Saviour himself, 642-u. Word, synonymous with Son, Wisdom; the Ormuzd of Zoroaster, 565-u. Word that is the utterance and expression of being and life is that of the Absolute, 841-l. Word, The, appears in ancient sects, 271-l. "Word," the ever living emanation of the Deity, by virtue of which the world exists, 613-u. Word, the highest conception of Deity we can form is the True, 223-m. Word, the Image of the Supreme Being, Logos, 251-u. Word, The, in the Phoenician Cosmogony, 278-m. "Word," the instrumentality through which the warfare against death is carried on, 613-u. Word, The, is Ormuzd, Ainsoph, Nous, Sophia, or Demiourgos, 271-l. Word, The, is the reason of belief; the source of Logic: Jesus is the Word incarnate, 323-l. Word, the manifestation and expression of God's Thought, 575-l. Word, the manifestation and mode of communication of God's Thought, 575-u. Word, the powers and attributes of God act through the, 251-l. Word the protector of men and their Shepherd, 251-l. Word, The, spoken of by Philo as being the same with God, 269-u. Word, the statement of Arius concerning the, 279-l. Word, the synonym for Wisdom, Intellect, 267-l. Word, the True, is ineffable because—, 223-m. Word, the utterance of the thought of God, 552-m. Word, The, various assertions concerning, 280-281. Word, triple, of Pythagoras, 97-m. Word united itself with Jesus, son of Joseph and Mary, 564-l. Word was in common use and written, 204-m. Word was in the beginning with God and was God, 849-m. Word, when lost, 205-l. Word which was lost found after Christ's ascent from the tomb, 642-u. Word with man at the beginning and that Word from God, 598-m. Word worn on the person as an amulet, 204-m. Words formed by the reversion of letters of former words; examples, 699-m. Words inadequate to express conception of Deity, hence personification, 672-l. Words nothing but letters and their combinations, 749-m. Words refer to things and are images of what is material, 569-u. Work done worthy of Masonry and acceptable to God, 351-u. Work, from first to last Masonry is, 340-u. Work is noble; ease for neither God nor man, 340-l. Work is prayer; is life, 342-u. Work, not wholly in vain is any good, 230-m. Work of lowly and uninfluential important; instances—, 41-42. Work, there is a nobleness and sacredness in, 341-l. Workman of the Deity is Yod, according to the Kabalah, 792-l. Workingman, condition of the, 179. Workingman, the hero of Masonry is a, 340-u. Works, Doubt, Sorrow, Remorse, Indignation shrink away when man, 342-u. World a great plain to the ancients, 593-l. World and all its parts in God, the Supreme Cause, 667-m. World and its modes will ever exist by the eternal qualities of the Active and Passive, 654-l World and its spherical envelope represented by the mystic egg, 400-u. World and Man made in the image of Ialdaboth in order to—, 563-m. World cognizable by the Intellect has the Hermetic Theology and the Kabalah, 785-m. World compared to man, 667-l. World consumed by the comet, Gurzsher, 623-l. World created by Fear did not subsist until Compassion was adjoined, 796-l. World created by Ormurzd in six periods of 500 years each, 258-u. World created by the Logos (Word), 252-l. World declined into idolatry and barbarism, 599-l. World, different views of by different men, 193. World first created by Judgment, but it could not subsist, 800-u. World formed by the creative principle out of matter, the Triad, 631-m. World good enough if men will do the best they know how, 696-m. World is a whole which has its harmony, for God could make none other, 707-l. World judged by Vishnu; consumed by fire; new Universe created, 623-m. World not merely a material and mechanical machine, 414-l. World of action produces clashing of passion and conflict of interests, 696-u. World of Ideas created by God; material world by His Logos, 251-l. World of Inanity, the first World, could not continue because it had no human conformation, 795-u. World of matter a revelation of fear to the Northern savages, 713-l. World of restitution formed throughout in the human form, 794-l. World of restitution instituted after evil was made possible, 794-l. World of restitution instituted after the fashion of the Balance, 794-l. World of the Balance refers to the other World, 762-l. World of the covering, or garment, is the inmost, nearest his substance, 749-m. World of the garment has a name which includes all things: Ihuh, 750-u. World peopled by Christs would be relieved of the ills of society, 718-l. World perfect and good because God made it, 705-m. World-producing egg figures in all cosmogonies, 771-l. World represented by a blue circle, flames and a serpent with a hawk's head, 495-m. World represented by the number five: earth, water, air, fire, ether, 634-U. World, the germ of creation communicated to Wisdom brought forth the, 251-l. World, the great and appointed school of industry is the, 344-m. World, the necessary logical condition of God; His necessitated consequence, 708-l. World; the Sephiroth were points, one below the other in the first, 795-u. World, the visible World the image of the invisible, 252-l. World, unimportance of the Universe and importance of our, 302-m. World what we make it by character and adaption, 193. World will end when the Redeemer has attracted to Himself the Light or Soul of Matter, 566-l. World-wonder all around us, 244-m. World worth living in, 140-m. World would be a Paradise if all men were true Masons, 530-l. Worlds could not be framed in the Primal Ether because of—, 750-l. World's disorder seems to impugn the justice and goodness of God, 705-m. Worlds, four, represented by Yod, He, Vau; He, 798-m. Worlds in actuality produced from the Sepiroth Malakoth, 754-u. World's mystery remains but sufficiently cleared to inspire confidence, 696-m. Worlds of the Kabalah are four: Emanation; Creation; Formation; Fabrication, 768-m. Worlds produced by the potentialities of the Sephiroth becoming actualities, 755-l. Worship, a teaching, should be magnificent, not mean, 102-u. Worship of an abstraction not possible, must have some form, 514-l. Worship of nature seems to have emanated from Iranian races, 601-l. Worship of the Active and Passive divisions of the Great First Cause widespread, 653-l. Worship of the Heavenly Bodies by different peoples, 457. Worship of the things symbolized superseded that of God, 601-m. Worship of Zoroastrians principally hymns and prayers, 617-l. Worship, only those initiated were admitted to the private, 352-u. Worship, the Mysteries constituted the private, 352-u. Worships, among ancient nations were public and private, 352-u. Wreaths of laurel as a reward for—, 157-m. Writing in hieroglyphs revived to hide the true meaning of the doctrine, 732-l. Written human speech gives power and permanency to human thought, 54-m. Wrong conflicts with justice and falls, 830-u. Wrong done to another an injury to our own Nature, 127-m. Wrong, evil, suffering but temporary and discords, 577-u. Wrong in human nature yields to the divine in us, 133-l. Wrong is surely unsuccessful; the Knave deceives himself, 837-l. Wrongdoer often does more injury to himself, 134-u. Wrongdoer who exults in his acts, no benedictions for the, 134-u. Wrongdoers, without revenge or anger should come the punishment of, 75-m. Wrongful acts, no remittance of the natural effects of, 127-l.

X

Xenophanes acknowledged the unsatisfactory results of Philosophy, 093-l.
Xenophanes advocated Monotheism, 678-m.
Xenophanes called the universal being spherical, 676-u.
Xenophanes used material imagery to illustrate an indefinite meaning,
  676-u.

Y

Y, alludes to the Triune God and is the ineffable name in Chinese, 429-m. Yahveh, see Iahaveh, 104-m. Yazata a personified object of prayer, 613-l. Year of the Romans commenced at the Winter Solstice, 464-l. Year's commencement fixed by different nations at one of four periods, 464-l. Yesod characterized as the Generative member of the symbolic human figure, 767-m. Yesod is stability and permanence from which flows Malakoth, Empire, Rule, 767-m. Yesod, one of the Sephiroth; Foundation or Basis; by which all worlds are upheld, 753-m. Yesod, the male organ of Adam Kadmon, 758-u. Yesod, the result of Victory and Glory, Netsach and Hod, in the Kabalah, 767-u. Yesirah, the World of Formation of the Sephiroth Theology, 99-m. Yod, a smaller receptacle than Crown, but filled from that source, 753-u. Yod, added to the ternary name of Eve, gives the Kabalistic word Jehova, 771-m. Yod and He represent the Male and Female principles in equilibrium, 323-m. Yod comprehends the principle called Father (the Male or Generative Principle), 763-l. Yod created the becoming world; for Yod includes two letters, 763-l. Yod descended into the vacant space to lessen the Light, 754-l. Yod of the Tetragrammaton as Neschamah Leneschamah in Adam Kadmon, 757-u. Yod, He, denotes Hakemah and Binah, 789-m. Yod, He, of the anterior or male, and Vav He, of the posterior or female, 750-u. Yod, He, or Jah, is bi-sexual, 849-m. Yod, He Vau, denotes Gedulah, Geburah, Tephareth, 798-m. Yod, He, Vau, He, is the name of Deity manifested in the act of Creation, 849-u. Yod impregnated the letter He, and begets a son, 763-l. Yod in the triangle is the initial of the last word of the Trinity, 782-l. Yod, in the Kabalah, is the opifex, workman of the Deity, 792-l. Yod, in the Kabalah, the Creative energy of God, 16-l. Yod is Hakemah, 758-u. Yod is male; in it are three Yods, the upper and lower apex and the middle, 763-m. Yod is primal, like one, first among numbers; like a point, first before all bodies, 792-l. Yod is the beginning and end of all things that are; the Father of all, 763-l. Yod is the beginning and end of all things which are contained in Yod, 793-u. Yod is the symbol of Wisdom and of the Father, the Principle, 792-l. Yod lost its brilliancy when it descended from the Shekinah, 751-m. Yod moved lengthwise produces a line, which is Vau, 792-l. Yod not as brilliant as the Primal Ether, 751-u. Yod, on his ascension left behind him the productive light of the letter He, 751-l. Yod placed in a pit of shadow made by the Creator, 772-u. Yod produced by Emanation by the Creator, 772-u. Yod, symbol of Unity; symbolism of—, 15-m. Yod, the Father, approaches He, the Mother, according to the Siphra de Zeniutha, 793-u. Yod, "The Fountain gushing with Wisdom", 753-u. Yod, the image of the Kabalistic Phallus, represents the human Tetragram, 771-m. Yod uttered by Wisdom creates worlds, first as an Idea, 323-m. Yod's light increased when the letter He communicated to him her light, 751-m. Yod's middle is Hakemah; Hakemah is Father, 763-m. Yod's number is ten; Vau is six, Daleth is four, equal to that of Yod, 792-l. Yod's plenitude, the name of the letter spelled, is—, 792-l. Yods sometimes compose the Tetractys of Pythagoras, 60-l. Yod's upper apex denotes the Supreme Kether; the lower apex Binah, 763-m. York Rite explanation of Lodge and ladder, 9-l. York Rite explanation of symbolic meaning of Ashlars, 5-u. York Rite explanation of symbols, 16-m. Yn and Yang signify repose and motion amongst Chinese, 630-l.

Z

Z, the initial of Zeus because of its resemblance to the figure seven,
  635-l.
Zagreus dismembered; protected by the dance of the Curetes, 585-l.
Zagreus the same as Dionusos; entrusted with the thunderbolt, 585-l.
Zayo, is the third Sephirah, the intellectual producing capacity, 741-u.
Zebulon dwelt on the sea shore, his device is Capricorn, the tail of
  a fish, 461-l.
Zechariah, visions of; symbolism of numbers, 58-u.
Zend-Avesta, borrowed from and added to the Jewish doctrine, 256-u.
Zend-Avesta, Doctrines and teachings of the, 256-258.
Zend-Avesta, God's nature in the, 256-m.
Zend-Avesta, Kabalists and Gnostics adopted doctrines of the, 282-l.
Zend-Avesta, many doctrines of Revelations found in the, 273-m.
Zend-Avesta, Persian faith and doctrines as taught in the, 282.
Zend-Avesta, the Creator called the Ancient of Days in the, 266-l.
Zend-Avesta, the Word created the World, 282.
Zeruane-Akherene, Unlimited Time, above all of the Persian Gods, 598-u.
Zetesis or search of Osiris or Adonis, that is of Bootes, 484-u.
Zeus, King of the Gods, 13-u.
Zeus of Homer an array of antitheses, 689-l.
Zeus put an end to the Golden Age for beneficent reasons, 691-u.
Zeus, the God of Gods, the Son of Time; the Beginning, the Middle,
  the All, 619-l.
Zodiac and signs on coins, medals, seals, 462-l.
Zodiac assigned to six male and six female Great Gods by Astrologers,
  658-u.
Zodiac crossed by the Sun at two opposite points which change, 437-l.
Zodiac is an existence, organized by the universal soul, 669-u.
Zodiac; Plato in his Republic adopted the divisions of the planets
  and, 462-u.
Zodiac, six signs were male and six female in the, 402-m.
Zodiac the cause of all sublunary effects, 663-m.
Zodiac, the path along which the Sun traveled, 446-l.
Zodiac, veils of the Royal Arch have reference to the signs and stars
  of the, 409.
Zodiacal signs are unchanged, 437-l.
Zodiacal signs; characteristics of Jacob's sons compared with those
  of the, 461.
Zodiacal signs, commencing with Aries, are those of Light, 663-u.
Zodiacal signs, commencing with Libra, are those of Darkness, 663-u.
Zodiacal signs divided in three Decans of ten degrees each, 470-m.
Zodiacal signs represented by the twelve Deities of the Persians, 663-u.
Zohak, conquered by Pheridoun, lamented by the Persians, 594-l.
Zohar, is Nestar, Concealed, the intellectual potency of Deity, 741-u.
Zoroaster; Magism was the science of, 839-l.
Zoroaster asks Ormuzd what to do to combat Evil and make men holy, 613-m.
Zoroaster claimed to have conversed, man to man, with Deity, 424-l.
Zoroaster discourses on the old Fire and Light Idea, 611-m.
Zoroaster drew his doctrines from the Mysteries, 373-m.
Zoroaster, from Bactria came the doctrines of, 258-l.
Zoroaster, Hindu and Buddists elements in the doctrines of, 258-l.
Zoroaster, Masonry reiterates the maxims of, 221-m.
Zoroaster, Pharisees and Jews borrowed the doctrines of, 238-l.
Zoroaster possessed a true knowledge of Deity, 207-l.
Zoroaster received the Primitive Truth from the Indians, 017-m.
Zoroaster speaks of the Sun and Stars, 611-l.
Zoroaster taught the Primitive Truth to Pythagoras, 617-m.
Zoroaster, the Aions, Ideas, Angels, correspond to the Ferouers of, 256-u.
Zoroaster's sayings to the Persians, 170-u.
Zoroaster's disciples used the symbolism of the Mystic Egg, 403-u.
Zoroaster's doctrine more ancient than Kuros, 256-u.
Zoroaster's doctrines carried by Jews into Syria and Palestine, 256-u.
Zoroaster's doctrines taught, 167-l.
Zoroaster's doctrines the best the Persians were fitted to receive, 38-u.
Zoroastrian doctrines suggested the worship of the Supreme God, 617-l.
Zoroastrian oracles give a Triad of Fire, Light and Ether, 549-u.
Zoroastrian Two Principles symbolized by white and black in
  juxta-position, 818-m.
Zoroastrians rejected Temples, Altars, Statues, 617-l.
Zoroastrians religiously exterminate serpents, etc, 497-m.
Zoroastrianism an innovation on an older religion, 602-u.
Zorobabel's Warrior-Masons the model of the Templars, 816-m.