With the modern discovery of several Cayce millions of years for human tenure alone, a more diverse genesis of history is appropriate. For so short a Mysteries of Egypt span, a universal and simplistic view of history is a Explore Ancient Civilizations Books and Video By Edgar natural concept. These racist theories of world history stem, in part, from the earlier religious belief in the age of the world as roughly 5,000 years. European scholars of the If you are a FreeMason or just want more information, we time were themselves a development of history, as such have it remain today. Caution should be exercised by the reader to distinguish the later excesses of Arianism from the Welcome Freemasons altitude of Yarker's book. This theory culminated in anti-Semitism Information and ultimate atrocity in the second quarter of the 20th century. At the period in which this Learn about Freemasonry work was written, a racist theory of world civilization Freemasonry for Men and Women Membership and was current. The Arian and Cabiric races taken for granted in this book are fictional, though based on far more limited actual ancient cultures. "York" masonry is upheld as being more traditional. In the last chapters of the book, Yarker defends variant Masonry on the grounds of the United Grand Lodge of England being ignorant of many traditions and indifferent to older charters. There is occasional and excessive dependence on philology for evidence, also common in the period of authorship. Since universal "Masonry" is the subject of this work, "Aryan" is better understood in most instances as "possessed of the secrets of illumination" or some such concept. At the time of writing, race and culture were muddled concepts.
"Learned" racist stereotypes of the period are perpetuated, but with considerable more restraint than in other contemporaries. "Aryan" is used for an imaginary race, common in the period but not as later. Theosophical legends are used with more restraint than was common in the period. Yarker did not know that Polynesians traveled thousands of miles by ship, that mid oceanic sea floors spread, etc. Theories of lost continents are briefly propounded with open mind, some dated by limits of scholarship of the period: e.g. Many Christian traditions are presented in great detail and multiple example to be ignorant glosses of the ancient mysteries. The author is more skeptical than most, and there is a distinct flavor of Frazier in the style of presentation. Yarker's thesis is to demonstrate universal and indigenous initiation in symbol and legend throughout the history and places of the world and, by relating the meanings and practices of ancient and modern Masonry (through the 19th century), to disclose the universal content of the rites and mysteries. The Western Occult Revival is documented in it's origins. initiations, particularly in matters like the inclusion of the Samothraian deities in the former and the details of the lower and middle degrees for the latter. Introductory notes to the electronic edition: This book provides a background necessary to understand elements of the Golden Dawn and O.T.O. Not for "share-ware" distribution or inclusion in any commercial enterprise. Copies may be made for other individuals at reasonable cost of copying and mailing only, no additional charges may be added. With these provisos, anyone may copy this file for personal use or research.
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