isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter viii (masonic orders)

“Truly, the grand omnific Royal Arch word, “long lost but now found”, has fulfilled its prophetic promise. The password of that degree is no more “I AM THAT I AM”. It is now simply, “I was but am no more!”

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That we may not be accused of vain boasting, we shall give the keys to several of the secret ciphers of the most exclusive and important of the so-called higher Masonic degrees. If we mistake not, these have never before been revealed to the outside world (except that of the Royal Arch Masons, in 1830), but have been most jealously guarded within the various Orders. We are under neither promise, obligation, nor oath; and therefore, violate no confidence. Our purpose is not to gratify an idle curiosity; we wish merely to show Masons and the affiliates of all other Western societies – the Company of Jesus included – that it is impossible for them to be secure in the possession of any secrets that it is worth an Eastern Brotherhood’s while to discover. Inferentially, it may also show them that if the latter can lift the masks of European societies, they are nevertheless successful in wearing their own visors; for, if any one thing is universally acknowledged, it is that the real secrets of not a single surviving ancient brotherhood are in possession of the profane.

Some of these ciphers were used by the Jesuits in their secret correspondence at the time of the Jacobin conspiracy, and when Masonry (the alleged successor to the Temple) was employed by the Church for political purposes.

Findel says (see his History of Freemasonry, page 253), that in the eighteenth century, “besides the modern Knights Templar, we see the Jesuits…disfiguring the fair face of Freemasonry. Many Masonic authors, who were fully cognizant of the period, and knew exactly all the incidents occurring, positively assert that then and still later the Jesuits exercised a pernicious influence, or at least endeavored to do so, upon the fraternity.”

Of the Rosicrucian Order he remarks, upon the authority of Professor Woog, that its “aim at first…was nothing less than the support and advancement of Catholicism. When this religion manifested a determination entirely to repress liberty of thought…the Rosicrucians enlarged their designs likewise to check, if possible, the progress of this widely spreading enlightenment.”

In the Sincerus Renatus (the truly converted), of S. Richter, of Berlin (1714), we note that laws were communicated for the government of the “Golden Rosicrucians”, which bear unmistakable evidences, of Jesuitical intervention.

We will begin with the cryptographs of the “Sovereign Princes Rose Croix”, also styled Knights of St. Andrew, Knights of the Eagle and Pelican, Heredom, Rosae Crucis, Rosy Cross, Triple Cross, Perfect Brother, Prince Mason, and so on. The “Heredom Rosy Cross” also claims a Templar origin, in 1314.

cipher pic

The Knights Kadosh have another cipher – or rather hieroglyph – which, in this case, is taken from the Hebrew, possibly to be the more in keeping with the Bible Kadeshim of the Temple.

hieroglyphs of KAD

As for the Royal Arch cipher, it has been exposed before now, but we may as well present it slightly amplified. This cipher consists of certain combinations of right angles, with or without points or dots. Following is the basis of its Formation.

Formation

Now, the alphabet consists of twenty-six letters, and these two signs being dissected, form thirteen distinct characters, thus:

Picture 5 (a)

A point placed within each gives thirteen more, thus:

Picture 5 (b)

making a total of twenty six, equal to the number of letters in the English alphabet.

There are two ways, at least, of combining and using these characters for the purposes of secret correspondence. One method is to call the first sign, Picture 5 (c)a; the same with a point  Picture 5 (d)b, etc.  Another is to apply them, in their regular course, to the first half of the alphabet, Picture 5 (c) a,    Picture 5 (e)b, and so on to m; after which, repeat them with a dot, beginning with  n,  o, etc., to z.

The alphabet according to the first method, stands thus:

Picture 5 (h)

According to the second method, thus:

Picture 5 (i)

Besides these signs, the French Masons, evidently under the tuition of their accomplished masters – the Jesuits – have perfected this cipher in all its details. So they have signs even for commas, diphthongs, accents, dots, etc., and these are:

Picture 5 (2)

Let this suffice. We might, if we chose, give the cipher alphabets with their keys, of another method of the Royal Arch Masons, strongly resembling a certain Hindu character; of the G isis pic 1 EL isis pic 1 of the Mystic City; of a well-known form of the Devanagari script of the (French) Sages of the Pyramids; and of the Sublime Master of the Great Work, and others. But we refrain; only, be it understood, for the reason that some of these alone of all the side branches of the original Blue Lodge Freemasonry, contain the promise of a useful future. As for the rest, they may, and will go to the ash-heap of time. High Masons will understand what we mean.”

H. P. Blavatsky

Isis Unveiled, Vol II

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