I enjoyed this short book and gained many deep insights. As I advance through my middling years, I realize the importance of purification, self control, how to direct my energies, drive thoughts, actions, and desire- TO BUILD THE TEMPLE, THE GREAT WORK.
“Even though he never clasps the goddess of his dreams, he refuses to believe that she is a phantom. To him she is the only reality. He reaches upward and will not be content until the sword of Orion is in his hands, and glorious Arcturus gleams from his breast.”
THE MASONS ARE TOOLS. 👁️ ⚙️ 📐
“The Mason realizes, moreover, that his vows, taken of his own free will and accord, give him the divine opportunity of being a living tool in the hands of a Master Workman”
Notes: THE MASONS ARE TOOLS
Literally and figuratively the MASONS are TOOLS of their grand masters. Manly P. Hall says so repeatedly in this book.
“The Masonic brother pledges himself to assist all other temple-builders in whatever extremity of life”
Terrible Penatly for breaking the “vow”.
“Every Mason knows that a broken vow brings with it a terrible penalty”
Even so, the wisdom within the text is undeniable.
“These three may be called thought, desire, and action. When purified and transmuted they are three glorious avenues through which may manifest the great life power”
Transmute to: Spiritual thought, constructive emotion, and useful daily labor.
The Mason’s GREAT WORK is crumbling. The American experiment is failed. Their currency is fading, the symbols are tired and played-out. A once great idea is now infested with ROT.
“In Freemasonry is concealed the mystery of creation, the answer to the problem of existence, and the path the student must tread in order to join those who are really the living powers behind the thrones of modern national and international affairs”
The EYE of HORUS is weeping. 𓂀 🥺 💧
A curious labor:
“His work is to do, to act, to express himself in some way—constructively if possible, but destructively rather than not at all.”
The book reveals the following about MASONS:
- They are chameleons of doctrine. Adopting the “light” from all religions.
- They strictly adhere to hierarchy and are bound by their “vows”.
- Hirram Abiff is their main homey.
Who is Hiram Abiff the Martyr?
- King Solomon’s Temple builder
- Given secret of the TEMPLE
- He is killed by his brothers for not revealing the secret.
- The Martydom – He is the MAIN MASON.
The book is full of religious dogma and rhetoric. The Masons will tell you it’s not a religion, it’s a way of life. Blah blah blah.
Universal Chameleons
“his religion must be universal: Christ, Buddha or Mohammed, the name means little, for he recognizes only the light and not the bearer. He worships at every shrine, bows before every altar, whether in temple, mosque or cathedral, realizing with his truer understanding the one-ness of all spiritual truth.”
You built this country with your freemason dollar; George Washington and friends in guilded aprons and capes. And now you are a society of face mask wearing injectable fags. GREAT WORK.
The LOST Keys Of Freemasonry by Manly P. Hall Book Review
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The Lost Keys of Freemasonry by Manly P. Hall
Book last read: 2026-05-07 13:00:49
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Chapter 3: PUBLISHER’S FOREWORD
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Highlight: for within its pages lies an interpretation of Masonic symbolism which supplements the monitorial instruction usually given in the lodges.
Notes: Monitor the lodges for symbolic obedience. Let’s get started.
Chapter 5: FOREWORD
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Highlight: Even though he never clasps the goddess of his dreams, he refuses to believe that she is a phantom. To him she is the only reality. He reaches upward and will not be content until the sword of Orion is in his hands, and glorious Arcturus gleams from his breast.
Notes: Arcturus is the fourth brightest star in the sky.
Chapter 5: FOREWORD
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Highlight: and when we would describe a saint he sees a demon; and when we would present a wise man he beholds a fool
Notes: Agreed.
Chapter 5: FOREWORD
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Highlight: What is a Mason? He is a man who in his heart has been duly and truly prepared, has been found worthy and well qualified, has been admitted to the fraternity of builders, been invested with certain passwords and signs by which he may be enabled to work and receive wages as a Master Mason, and travel in foreign lands in search of that which was lost—The Word.
Notes: Cops, journeymen, doctor, judges and lawyers.
Chapter 7: INTRODUCTION
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Highlight: Science and theology are two ends of a single truth
Notes: Follow the science to hell.
Chapter 7: INTRODUCTION
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Highlight: Is not the quest for Reality in a world of illusions the task for which each comes into the world?
Notes: Agreed.
Chapter 7: INTRODUCTION
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Highlight: While superstition hates all things, wisdom, with its deeper understanding, loves all things; for it has seen the beauty, the tenderness, and the sweetness which underlie Life’s mystery
Notes: Interesting.
Chapter 7: INTRODUCTION
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Highlight: Masonry is the common denominator as well as the common devisor of human aspiration.
Notes: fraternal divisor.
Chapter 7: INTRODUCTION
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Highlight: The Masonic brother pledges himself to assist all other temple-builders in whatever extremity of life
Notes: Secret handshake for acquittal and advancement.
Chapter 9: CHAPTER I – THE ETERNAL QUEST
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Highlight: powers unseen and unrecognized mold the destiny of those who consciously and of their own free will take upon themselves the obligations of the Fraternity.
Notes: Fraternity of f@gs.
Chapter 9: CHAPTER I – THE ETERNAL QUEST
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Chapter progress: 31.58%
Highlight: to consider Freemasonry as it really is to those who know, a great cosmic organism whose true brothers and children are tied together not by spoken oaths but by lives so lived that they are capable of seeing through the blank wall and opening the window which is now concealed by the rubbish of materiality. When this is done and the mysteries of the universe unfold before the aspiring candidate, then in truth he discovers what Freemasonry really is
Notes: Gag me with masonic trestleboard.
Chapter 9: CHAPTER I – THE ETERNAL QUEST
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Chapter progress: 52.63%
Highlight: has not depended upon itself as an exoteric body of partly evolved individuals but upon a concealed brotherhood, the esoteric side of Freemasonry
Notes: Concealed brotherhood of f@gs.
Chapter 9: CHAPTER I – THE ETERNAL QUEST
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Chapter progress: 63.16%
Highlight: In Freemasonry is concealed the mystery of creation, the answer to the problem of existence, and the path the student must tread in order to join those who are really the living powers behind the thrones of modern national and international affairs
Notes: The powers behind international affairs.
Chapter 10: CHAPTER II – THE CANDIDATE
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Highlight: These three may be called thought, desire, and action. When purified and transmuted they are three glorious avenues through which may manifest the great life power
Notes: Also extremely deadly. Thought, desire, and action.
Chapter 11: CHAPTER III – THE ENTERED APPRENTICE
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Chapter progress: 57.14%
Highlight: His work is to do, to act, to express himself in some way—constructively if possible, but destructively rather than not at all.
Notes: Curious.
Chapter 11: CHAPTER III – THE ENTERED APPRENTICE
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Chapter progress: 85.71%
Highlight: Those who eat immoderately, dress improperly, and use only about one-third of their lung capacity can never have the physical efficiency necessary for the fullest expression of the higher Life.
Notes: Face mask for your safety and mine.
Chapter 11: CHAPTER III – THE ENTERED APPRENTICE
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Chapter progress: 95.24%
Highlight: Watch fobs, lapel badges, and other insignia do not make Masons; neither does the ritual ordain them
Notes: Compass square G stickers on your chevy truck.
Chapter 11: CHAPTER III – THE ENTERED APPRENTICE
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Highlight: he is in position to hope that the powers that be, moving in their mysterious manner, may find him worthy to undertake the second great step in spiritual liberation
Notes: Powers that locked down your lodge. Social distancing face mask humiliation ritual.
Chapter 12: CHAPTER IV – THE FELLOW CRAFT
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Chapter progress: 13.33%
Highlight: This great principle of emotion we know as the second murderer of Hiram
Notes: Hiram Abiff in the original temple mason slain by his sons before completing his master work.
Chapter 12: CHAPTER IV – THE FELLOW CRAFT
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Highlight: The lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion, which places the energy of the universe at their disposal.
Notes: Know and tame thyself.
Chapter 12: CHAPTER IV – THE FELLOW CRAFT
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Highlight: The hand that slays must lift the fallen, while the lips given to cursing must be taught to pray
Notes: It’s cute and mostly true.
Chapter 12: CHAPTER IV – THE FELLOW CRAFT
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Highlight: The keywords of the Fellow Craft may be briefly defined as compassion, poise, and transmutation.
Notes: Transmuting emotional energies.
Chapter 13: CHAPTER V – THE MASTER MASON
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Highlight: At the seat of mercy he kneels, a faithful servant of the Highest within himself and worthy to be given control over the lives of others by having first controlled himself
Notes: Master mason.
Chapter 13: CHAPTER V – THE MASTER MASON
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Chapter progress: 94.12%
Highlight: The All-Seeing Eye is upon him. Day and night this great Orb measures his depths, seeing into his innermost soul of souls, judging his life, reading his thoughts, measuring his aspirations, and rewarding his sincerity
Notes: GD masons on the GD money.
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Highlight: He realizes that the Temple of Solomon is really the Temple of the Solar Man—Sol-Om-On—the King of the Universe
Notes: Sun god. 93 million jesuit miles away.
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Highlight: He realizes that his vow of brotherhood and fraternity is universal
Notes: Universal fraternal bros forever.
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Highlight: He has dedicated his life upon the altar of his God and is willing and glad to serve the lesser through the powers he has gained from the greater
Notes: Serve the lesser through power gained from superior bros. Masons
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Chapter progress: 15.79%
Highlight: Masonry is an abstract science of spiritual unfoldment
Notes: Spiritual unfoldment
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Highlight: makes him a conscious member of the Cosmic Lodge
Notes: Cosmic lodge
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Highlight: The true Mason has learned to be divinely impersonal in thought, action, and desire
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Highlight: Mason his religion must be universal: Christ, Buddha or Mohammed, the name means little, for he recognizes only the light and not the bearer. He worships at every shrine, bows before every altar, whether in temple, mosque or cathedral, realizing with his truer understanding the one-ness of all spiritual truth. All true Masons know that they only are heathen who, having great ideals, do not live up to them. They know that all religions are but one story told in divers ways for peoples whose ideals differ but whose great purpose is in harmony with Masonic ideals. North, east, south and west stretch the diversities of human thought, and while the ideals of man apparently differ, when all is said and the crystallization of form with its false concepts is swept away, one basic truth remains: all existing things are Temple Builders
Notes: Chameleons of all doctrine and dogma. Universal
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Highlight: The Mason realizes, moreover, that his vows, taken of his own free will and accord, give him the divine opportunity of being a living tool in the hands of a Master Workman
Notes: THE MASONS ARE TOOLS
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Highlight: He has a duty and that duty is to fit into the plans of another
Notes: Tools of another.
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Chapter progress: 42.11%
Highlight: Every Mason knows that a broken vow brings with it a terrible penalty
Notes: The threat for breaking the vow
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Chapter progress: 47.37%
Highlight: He must realize that a misdirected life is a broken vow and that daily service, purification, and the constructive application of energy is a living invocation which builds within and draws to him the power of the Creator
Notes: Good advice
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Chapter progress: 47.37%
Highlight: All true Masons know that their work is not secret, but they realize that it must remain unknown to all who do not live the true Masonic life.
Notes: Lol
Chapter 14: CHAPTER VI – THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A TRUE MASON
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Chapter progress: 63.16%
Highlight: a Master Mason, does not spend his time in criticizing but in helping them to improve their tools
Notes: Masons are tools
Chapter 15: EPILOGUE – THE PRIEST OF RA
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Highlight: A checkerboard floor of black and white blocks
Notes: Checkmate. Checker board floor temple of Amman Ra
Chapter 15: EPILOGUE – THE PRIEST OF RA
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Highlight: Fiat Lux!” (Let there be light.)
Chapter 15: EPILOGUE – THE PRIEST OF RA
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Highlight: the Crux Ansata gleamed with a wondrous golden light,
Notes: Crux Ansata
Chapter 15: EPILOGUE – THE PRIEST OF RA
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Highlight: he knew that it was the Eye of Horus, the All-Seeing Eye of the gods
Notes: All seeing eye of horus on the money!
Chapter 15: EPILOGUE – THE PRIEST OF RA
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Chapter progress: 94.12%
Highlight: He stood on the top of a mighty pyramid, before him a blazing altar
Notes: Rich ual
Chapter 16: ADDENDA
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Highlight: The triple thread of thought, action, and desire binds him when he enters the sacred place
Notes: Thought, action, and desire.
Chapter 16: ADDENDA
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Highlight: Who is more desolate than the friendless one?
Notes: Good question.
Chapter 16: ADDENDA
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Highlight: THE Emerald Tablet of Hermes
Notes: Hiram Abiff legend
Chapter 18: A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF INTEREST
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Highlight: ORCHIDS AS HOUSE PLANTS, Rebecca Tyson
Chapter 18: A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF INTEREST
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