XXVIII.
KNIGHT OF THE SUN, OR PRINCE ADEPT.
GOD is the author of everything that existeth; the Eternal, the Supreme, the Living, and Awful Being; from Whom nothing in the Universe is hidden. Make of Him no idols and visible images; but rather worship Him in the deep solitudes of sequestered forests; for He is invisible, and fills the Universe as its soul, and liveth not in any Temple!
Light and Darkness are the World's Eternal ways. God is the principle of everything that exists, and the Father of all Beings. He is eternal, immovable, and Self-Existent. There are no bounds to His power. At one glance He sees the Past, the Present, and the Future; and the procession of the builders of the Pyramids, with us and our remotest Descendants, is now passing before Him. He reads our thoughts before they are known to ourselves. He rules the movements of the Universe, and all events and revolutions are the creatures of His will. For He is the Infinite Mind and Supreme Intelligence.
In the beginning Man had the WORD, and that WORD was from God: and out of the living power which, in and by that WORD, was communicated to man, came the LIGHT of his existence. Let no man speak the WORD, for by it THE FATHER made light and darkness, the world and living creatures!
In these paragraphs we find Pike boldly stating what the concept of God is. We find in many religious texts God described in these same ways as all knowing and all powerful, creating everything. Pike borrows from the book of the Apostle John in the new testament in final paragraph posted above where John wrote “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God…"
Pike goes on to say that the “Word” was given to man, and man should not repeat this “Word” given the “Word’s” power to create all.
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The Chaldean upon his plains worshipped me, and the sea-loving Phœnician. They builded me temples and towers, and burned sacrifices to me upon a thousand altars. Light was divine to them, and they thought me a God. But I am nothing--nothing; and LIGHT is the creature of the unseen GOD that taught the true religion to the Ancient Patriarchs: AWFUL, MYSTERIOUS, THE ABSOLUTE.
Man was created pure; and God gave him TRUTH, as He gave him LIGHT. He has lost the truth and found error. He has wandered far into darkness; and round him Sin and Shame hover evermore. The Soul that is impure, and sinful, and defiled with earthly stains, cannot again unite with God, until, by long trials and many purifications, it is finally delivered from the old calamity; and Light overcomes Darkness and dethrones it, in the Soul.
God is the First; indestructible, eternal, UNCREATED, INDIVISIBLE. Wisdom, Justice, Truth, and Mercy, with Harmony and Love, are of His essence, and Eternity and Infinitude of Extension. He is silent, and consents with MIND, and is known to Souls through MIND alone. In Him were all things originally contained, and from Him all things were evolved. For out of His Divine SILENCE and REST, after an infinitude of time, was unfolded the WORD, or the Divine POWER; and then in turn the Mighty, ever-acting, measureless INTELLECT; and from the WORD were evolved the myriads of suns and systems that make the Universe; and fire, and light, and the electric HARMONY, which is the harmony of spheres and numbers: and from the INTELLECT all Souls and intellects of men.
In the first paragraph copied above, Pike is writing from the aspect of worshipped “light”, where we have learned that the source of light visible to mankind from the SUN was worshipped by many early cultures. In the first paragraph “light” is revealing to the reader that “light” is a creation from the high God.
Pike writes that Man was made pure and was given truth from God himself, and also enlightenment. But mankind was also given liberty to explore his own way, and then lost the truth that God has given.
This is a human trait inherent in all of us even today. It will not take long for the reader to recall either giving advice from the standpoint of what you KNOW to be a correct way to do a thing, and you KNOW if this thing is tried any other way that you know of that this thing being tried will result in a failure and many negative consequences will follow.
But, not matter how hard you try to get another person to follow your advice, how many times has the person actually heeded your words? And how many times have you watched the negative consequences begin to pile up as a result?
And how many times have YOU not heeded advice and had to deal with the negative results?
Many? Yes, me too!!
We cannot ever convince another of anything at all, we can only SUGGEST, and HOPE others will heed what we have to say. Not even God is immune from the mind of man ignoring what he says, so it is important to never let our egos be offended when another does a thing their own way, and we must remember that consequences linger in every act.
Pike also writes of the power of thought and words in the last paragraph, this is a part of our nature as well. If we THINK it, we can CREATE it. If we SAY it, so it IS because someone will BELIEVE it. So we must be vigilant of the words we say.
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In the Beginning, the Universe was but ONE SOUL. HE was THE ALL, alone with TIME and SPACE, and Infinite as they.
------ HE HAD THIS THOUGHT: "I Create Worlds:" and lo! the Universe, and the laws of harmony and motion that rule it. the expression of a thought of God; and bird and beast, and every living thing but Man: and light and air, and the mysterious cur-rents, and the dominion of mysterious numbers!
------ HE HAD THIS THOUGHT: "I Create Man, whose Soul shall be my image, and he shall rule." And lo! Man, with senses, instinct, and a reasoning mind!
------ And yet not MAN! but an animal that breathed, and saw, and thought: until an immaterial spark from God's own
[paragraph continues]Infinite Being penetrated the brain, and became the Soul: and lo, MAN THE IMMORTAL! Thus, threefold, fruit of God's thought, is Man; that sees and hears and feels; that thinks and reasons; that loves and is in harmony with the Universe.
Expanding on what I just described. We must THINK it before it exists. Just as an example, when I awoke this morning, I THOUGHT I would continue on with this study of Morals and Dogma, and then I set out to do so. One day in 1870 or maybe earlier, Albert Pike has a THOUGHT to write Morals and Dogma and he set out and created his work published in 1871.
We also THINK and then CREATE from what our THOUGHTS have wrought. So, we must be vigiliant as to what our thoughts are asking us to create. We must go forth and create what generations can use for the good of all society, and we must create what makes us all better in our own time so that we leave a good legacy behind us to guide future generations.
This is where we will end for this time. Whenever the concepts of “God” are part of any discussion I do realize there will be an inner resistance where the reader may be reading reading concepts contrary to those of their upbringing and contrary to their own concepts learned through life experience where we find aspects of god that comfort us.
As we read on through this chapter, please remember to keep an open mind and remember that even if some views are different than your own, these views still have a place in our societies. Use the differing views to expand your own views and to try to understand from where others may be on their life path at this moment.
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