Introduction
...the great White Lodge on Sirius is the spiritual prototype of the great White Lodge on Earth,
of which modern Masonry is the distorted reflection, just as the personality is a distorted
reflection of the soul. TSR-III 349-50
Church members and members of the Masonic Fraternities must familiarise themselves with the
inner significance of the various rites, ceremonies, colours and rituals, and with the work
performed upon the floor of the temple. They must know why such and such things are done in
due order and the reason for the various precedences, the words, gestures and acts. EH 517
Masonry, as originally instituted far back in the very night of time and long ante-dating the Jewish
dispensation, was organised under direct Sirian influence and modelled as far as possible on
certain Sirian institutions and bearing a slight resemblance also to our hierarchical life--as seen in
the light of the Eternal Now. Its "Blue Lodge" with its three degrees is related to the three major
groups of Lives on Sirius, for there are there no kingdoms of nature, such as we possess; these
groups receive all Those Who choose the fourth Path, and train Them in the mode of existence
and the type of livingness which is found on Sirius. This will make it plain to you that the least
developed of the Sirian Lives are--from our standpoint--all of Them initiates of very high
degree. Masonry is, therefore, connected in a peculiar way with the fourth Path. Down the ages,
the Masonic tradition has been preserved, changing its nomenclature from time to time,
reinterpreting its Words of Power, and consequently getting further and further removed from its
original beauty and intent.
The time has now come, under cyclic law and in preparation for the New Age, for certain changes to be worked by Masons with spiritual understanding. The present Jewish colouring of Masonry is completely out of date and has been preserved far too long, for it is today either Jewish or Christian and should be neither. The Blue Lodge degrees are entirely Jewish in phrasing and wording, and this should be altered. The Higher Degrees are predominantly Christian, though permeated with Jewish names and words. This too should end. This Jewish colouring is today one of the main hindrances to the full expression of Masonic intention and should be changed, whilst preserving the facts and detail and structure of the Masonic symbolism intact. Whatever [Page 419] form the new nomenclature will take (and this change will inevitably come), that too will pass away after due service rendered. Thus the cyclic transformation will proceed until such time as the bulk of humanity, standing upon the fourth Path, will pass through the initiatory process on Sirius, of which our E.A. degree is a faint reflection. TSR-V
Sirius is the emanating source of Manas. TCF 1243
