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With a History of Freemasonry and Its Relation to the Theosophic [Part 2][Part 3][Part 4][Part 5][Part 6][Part 7][Articles][Home] Part 1 of 7 (Preface & Chapters I-II) THE ARCANE SCHOOLS A Review of their Origin and Antiquity; with a History of Freemasonry and its Relation to the Theosophic, Scientific, and Philosophic Mysteries BY John Yarker "P.M., P.Z., P.M.Mk., P.P., etc., Past Senior Grand Warden of Greece;" "Hon. Grand Master of the G. L. of Cuba; Past Gd. Constable or" "Mareschal of the Tempi in England; in the A. & A. Rite" "Hon. 33{Degree} in many countries; Grand Master General of" "the A. & P. Rite of Masonry, G.H. of the Confederate" "Nations 97{Degree}; Grand Master Swedenborgian Rite;" "Hon. IX {Degree} of the Rosicrucian Society; Etc., Etc." WILLIAM TAIT, 3 WELLINGTON PARK AVENUE, BELFAST. ----- 1909. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. R. CARSWSLL AND SON, LIMITED. PRINTERS,, QUEEN STREET. BELFAST. "BY THE SAME AUTHOR." --- CONSTITUTION, STATUTES, CEREMONIALS, & HISTORY OF THE A. & P. RITE. Re-arranged. 12mo., Cloth. 1875. MASONIC CHARGES AND LECTURES, translated from the French. 8vo., Cloth. Manchester, 1881 (100 printed). LECTURES OF A CHAPTER, SENATE, AND COUNCIL. 12mo., Cloth. London, 1882. GENEALOGY OF THE SURNAME YARKER, with the Leyburn and allied Families, 4to. Manchester, 1882. RECAPITULATION OF ALL MASONRY, translated from the French. 8vo., Boards, with symbolic plates. Dublin, 1883 (100 printed). TWO LECTURES ON HIGH-GRADE MASONRY. 8vo., Wrappers. Liverpool, 1886. THE CODE OF APEX AND OF THE SAT BHAI. Revised. 16mo. 1886. CONTINUATION OF THE COMTE DE GABALIS. (Amsterdam, 175). Bath, 1897. THE ASSISTANT GENIES & IRRECONCILABLE GNOMES (1718). Bath, 1897. CAHAGNET'S MAGNETIC MAGIC. Abridged translation. Bath, 1898. REPRINTS OF PAPERS contributed to Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; THE OLD SWALWELL LODGE AND THE HARODIM. 1902. THE HAUGHFOOT LODGE. 1903. ROYAL TEMPLAR CERTIFICATE OF 1779, AND PATENT OF A RUSSIAN G.L. OF 1815. 1903. THE VERY ANCIENT CLERMONT CHAPTER. 1904. AN OLD YORK TEMPLAR CHARTER, 1786, facsimile. 1905. CAROLUS OF OUR ANCIENT MSS. AND RITUAL OF THE VEHME. 1906. ARAB MASONRY-PREHISTORIC. 1906. ON MASONIC HISTORY - LET US SEEK TRUTH. 1907. TWO TALMUDIC LEGENDS OF THE 1st TEMPLE. 1908. For other Literary labours, Books now out of print, and Works still in MS., see List at end of this volume. A few copies of the above works are still in print, particulars and prices of which can be had from WILLIAM TAIT, 3 WELLINGTON PARK AVENUE, BELFAST, IRELAND. December 12/5-9/93 e.v. Scanned, corrected and first proofreading by Bill Heidrick, T.G. of O.T.O. http://members.aol.com/bheidrick ASCII converted 1/5/94 e.v. This Format and notes Copyright © O.T.O. Ordo Templi Orientis P.O.Box 167 Artois, CA 95913 Pages in the original are marked thus at the bottom: {page number} Comments and descriptions are also set off by curly brackets {} Comments and notes not in the original are identified with the initials of the source: e.g. WEH note = Bill Heidrick note, etc. Descriptions of illustrations and symbols are not so identified, but are simply in curly brackets. Text Footnotes have been expanded at or near the point of citation within double angle brackets, e.g. <<footnote>>. For poems, most longer footnotes are cited in the text to expanded form below the stanzas. LIMITED LICENSE Except for notations added to the history of modification, the text on this diskette down to the next row of asterisks must accompany all copies made of this file. In particular, this paragraph and the copyright notice are not to be deleted or changed on any copies or print-outs of this file. With these provisos, anyone may copy this file for personal use or research. Copies may be made for other individuals at reasonable cost of copying and mailing only, no additional charges may be added. Not for "share-ware" distribution or inclusion in any commercial enterprise. -oOo- Introductory notes to the electronic edition: This book provides a background necessary to understand elements of the Golden Dawn and O.T.O. 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. The Western Occult Revival is documented in it's origins. 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 author is more skeptical than most, and there is a distinct flavor of Frazier in the style of presentation. Many Christian traditions are presented in great detail and multiple example to be ignorant glosses of the ancient mysteries. Theories of lost continents are briefly propounded with open mind, some dated by limits of scholarship of the period: e.g. Yarker did not know that Polynesians traveled thousands of miles by ship, that mid oceanic sea floors spread, etc. Theosophical legends are used with more restraint than was common in the period. "Aryan" is used for an imaginary race, common in the period but not as later. "Learned" racist stereotypes of the period are perpetuated, but with considerable more restraint than in other contemporaries. At the time of writing, race and culture were muddled concepts. 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. There is occasional and excessive dependence on philology for evidence, also common in the period of authorship. 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. "York" masonry is upheld as being more traditional. The Arian and Cabiric races taken for granted in this book are fictional, though based on far more limited actual ancient cultures. At the period in which this work was written, a racist theory of world civilization was current. This theory culminated in anti-Semitism and ultimate atrocity in the second quarter of the 20th century. Caution should be exercised by the reader to distinguish the later excesses of Arianism from the altitude of Yarker's book. European scholars of the time were themselves a development of history, as such remain today. 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. For so short a span, a universal and simplistic view of history is a natural concept. With the modern discovery of several millions of years for human tenure alone, a more diverse genesis of history is appropriate. For "Arian", take empire-building conquerors and invaders. For "Cabiric", take indigenous pagans or settled people of the soil. The latter is sometimes associated with "natural religion" by Yarker. The various theories and dates must be further adjusted in light of modern archaeology and ethnology. Scholars and students of European literature will find unusual value in the work. How else may we understand stray references like: "We should look like the two sons of Aymon, who had lost their brother." -- from Chapter XXVIII of "The Three Musketeers" of Alexandre Dumas? (Spelling varies in the original text for some names and common words. Punctuation also varies from contemporary norms, perhaps representing the oratorical style of breaking long passages more than error in usage. Original typos are also common. An alphabetical list of variant spellings is available for this text.) --- Bill Heidrick ALEISTER CROWLEY'S REVIEW IN THE EQUINOX The reader of this treatise is at first overwhelmed by the immensity of Brother Yarker's erudition. He seems to have examined and quoted every document that ever existed. It is true that he occasionally refers to People like Hargrave Jennings, A. E. Waite, and H. P. Blavatsky as if they were authorities; but whoso fishes with a net of so wide a sweep as Brother Yarker's must expect to pull in some worthless fish. This accounts for Waite's contempt of him; imagine Walford Bodie reviewing a medical book which referred to him as an authority on paralysis! The size of the book, too, is calculated to effray; reading it has cost me many pounds in gondolas! And it is the essential impossibility of all works of this kind that artistic treatment is not to be attained. But Brother Yarker has nobly suppressed a Spencerian tendency to ramble; he has written with insight, avoided pedantry, and made the dreary fields of archeology blossom with flowers of interest. Accordingly, we must give him the highest praise, for he has made the best possible out of that was nearly the worst possible. He has abundantly proved his main point, the true antiquity of some Masonic system. It is a parallel to Frazer's tracing of the history of the Slain God. But why is there no life in any of our Slain God rituals! It is for us to restore them by the Word and the Grip. For us, who have the inner knowledge, inherited or won, it remains to restore the true rites of Attis, Adonis, Osiris, of Set, Serapis, Mithras, and Abel. ALEISTER CROWLEY. P R E F A C E. IN the following pages I have sought to satisfy a request, often made to me, to give a short but comprehensive view of the whole fabric of the Arcane mysteries, and affinity with the Masonic System; and I here take the opportunity of recording my protest against the sceptical tendencies of the present generation of the Moderns who are Masons, and against the efforts that are made, in season and out of season, to underrate the indubitable antiquity of the Masonic ceremonies.
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