Alice Ann Bailey "Esoteric Astrology" Page 446 Editions Lucis Trust

Masonry - inadequate and corrupt as it has been and guilty of over-emphasizing certain forms of symbols - is nevertheless a germ or seed of future hierarchical effort when that effort is - at some later date - externalized on Earth. Masonry is governed by the 7° ray, and when certain important changes have been made and the spirit of Masonry is grasped instead of the letter, then we shall see a new form of hierarchical endeavor appear to aid in the restoration of the ancient and sacred Mysteries among men.

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Only the man who holds his brother's hand can see the Door in truth..


The Master: And dost thou see the Door, O Chela in the light?

The neophyte: I see the door and hear a calling voice. What should I do, O Master of my life?

The Master: Go through that Door and waste not time in backward glances at the road just trodden. Go forward into light.

The neophyte: The door is far too narrow, O Master of my life. I fear I cannot pass. [345]

The Master: Go closer to the Door and take the hand in thine of another pilgrim on the way of life. Go closer to the Door; seek not to enter it alone.

The neophyte: I cannot see the door, now that I grasp the hand of the brother on the right and the brother on the left. I seem surrounded by the pilgrims on the way. Alike they seem, their note is one; they seem like unto me, and press around on every side. I cannot see the door.

The Master: Move forward on the Path, O pilgrim in the light, and stand together, hand in hand, before the Door of Light. What seest thou?

The neophyte: The door again appears, and wide it seems, not narrow as before. What was that I saw before? It was not like the door which now confronts this band of brothers as we stand together on the Path.

The Master: The door you saw before was a figment of your mind; a thought-form of your separative creation, something that cuts you off from truth - too narrow for your passing yet full of wrong allure. Only the man who holds his brother's hand can see the Door in truth; only the man, surrounded by the many who are one, can enter by that Door which shuts itself upon the man who seeks to enter it alone."

Alice Bailey "The Rays and the Initiations" Page 533

The Masonic Work is an ancient and laudable attempt to preserve in some germinal form the spiritual truth anent initiation.



In spite of distortion, some loss of the Ancient Landmarks and a deplorable crystallization, the truth is there and at a later date -- in the early part of the next century -- a group of enlightened FreeMasons will rearrange the rituals and adapt the present forms and formulas in such a manner that the spiritual possibilities, symbolically indicated, will emerge with greater clarity and a deepened spiritual potency;

the coming form of Masonry in the New Age will necessarily rest upon the foundation of a newly interpreted and enlightened Christianity, having no relation to theology and being universal in nature.