MANUSCRIPT LECTU sont NUMBER FORTY-ONE Notes of Lectures at Scottish Rite Au The Occult Christ BY MANLY P. HALL + ane PRICE FIFTY CENTSa ke their onth upon tl ry oe and ne. place , epny om garment nd ne pects tay ie heady the en Mindows, From cach of these emilee down a swoet=! HEHE en ors oe ftecit mura ta chil ne Seve ad's ninus or prectus stars’ ©" Far Mt Cmte eh 8a Today we have a great faith, thet : oll ont foith, tet much 1ike tho Muiths of other pooplos ts A tremors oporesive thing. The ooehedrais nt Gothic spans of the churches are Sark i eloony. tm tho nse’ ths Sueve ant crypts lie the fend i thake merle sarcophag!, A solemn ehant scene vor in the sir. i feeling of amo and distance one’ tra"she ost eiman sh ontrs ite the sat of uehs unetnnye Hs God ont very grant, aloost terrible.” fis Divine fatir smne voy for sony ery Seererent tron the ule nonsense who opure rire in sto, flagrtome wien Bi bended . to peer Be eee) domuty of the Master's life, the humility and tntursiness of Ma covtriney it svnne that thio gront ith 4I1y represents he. maa In hie hunility, the faith i grene with conplicuctonsy with weys ond byeage, ab the a vos grost In stapttiys the fash se slorious, bye ie belsctog tte Foun nto wea Ernascondnt in Bis/tcpersonsivey Wo conse help bu fash the te ein hen fry he vo rset coups oe tee Towns talking 2 fow anys ago with one who has spent hie Life ass minister of the Cheietinn Gospol, iio euidt "I sordor whnt the ister Josue would vhink end say if Ke suddenly oane into the world todny ond env the faith that represented Him” He would look at his picture and sk: "Is this I?” He would listen to Hie words and, turning aghast, would incuire: "Did I say the?" Ho would look into the 1ife of Christiane ana’ wonder if they bore witness to the naseage Ho had brought tro thousand years 1g0. accounts of the life of Jesus, Many learned volunes have Ks mesenge and nation, as infeed God nade flesh. & great hunnni tart sructure of Chris! We have * grest man een written discuseiny His miscion. Sone look upon Hin Others look upon Hia as a grost id Son of God an! others raised upon the divintt: he great structure of tomorror's faith “ill be raised upon the hunanity of Jesus christ, Concerning this man and His 1ife we have very Little infornation, for oven His own dey leaves no record of Him. The fone paregragh about Hin in the writings of Josephis is now aénitted to be an anter polation. iiuch of the story told in the four Gospels is untoubtedly false, S¥sry Baton gradually defies its heroes snd the simple wanterer preaching the gospel of) Kindliness anong the hills and valleys of Hazarcth ts now lost anidst a confusion) of myths ani supernatural allogories, I love to think of the man, the sinple dreamer, struggling to give a dream to His world, a vision which they could not conprehend and which the world today, haa: hover actually understood, I like to drop beck through tho ages to. the tine ai Shich He lived and rebuild the stories of Hin which are still told asong the [oscendante of the ancient schools which existed in the Holy Land @uring his/4feq ‘time. in the days of Jesus thoy €18 not have charches as we understand thes, Ut Stetont bills of host and wore rete Se tehigiously=eiede®. people, -Anong the sucient hi Tere ErOUDE ob Falgetine thare were tro thousand yeare ago a AUMEE of Gooort crass of Pefraced,themtalwee Deck to, the School of Samuel the guntentiont, 20cr Sypeian origin, Sore hed cone ont of the old JewishTsaiah and "2! 8 eospel. = He was not a nenbor of any of the accopted sit who lived for many yours in the desert end while there ng he received a Divine revelation ana went forth preaching the ‘of Israol. Besides thes> two croups there wore a number of others ¥ sa Oriental culture in the Holy Lani, This Oriental culture had cope By pts which at that tine ic cupsosed to have had intercourse with India, OP “Groups the Essones were the mort inoortent, They used many of the early Seypt Frere Sti wore like the Eastern mendicants of today, who gain their spirituality ' fasting and prayer. they were kindly ond virtuous in their node of Diving and wens able in aspect, thoy dwelt apart from hunanity in a ranbling moriastery on the side of Mount Tabor and along the shores of the Dead Sea, The historian Josepiue toT1s Us that the Essenes were very holy, sinple, virtuous ant Inw-abiding people, cone fron them, for their ancient sym arule, The latter instrunents they used im ther thoy were true, upright and Many of tho principles of modern ols were a lambskin apron, a sq Mensuring the character of individuals 1s to square. These holy men dia rot encare in the mercantile pursuits of their day. They would neither buy, sell nor onter in stores or a.csume the congested 1ife of cities. They raised sheep for the wool, tilled the ground, gathered herbs and sinples, and taught tho children of the wealthy ané fashionsble Jewish end Roman people. Both men and wonen wore included at ono tine in the Order, although most of these) secret Gi Schools wore for mon only, They were a very peowlinr bat wery Tearned people, They understood the mysteries of healing “ho sick, the study of the stars and the inters Protation of Scriptures, They coul? road and write, vhich mo a great distinction, At that time, While the ‘majority of thouchtleea people despised and ri@iculed these hermits, they wore foree? to = r oduentod talent was necessary. We find many stories in which the ardians ond legal advisers. Ans or 4 + meditation and prayer. Here soriah, Who was to redeem His people from vihered around + venerable and ancient cr then tho esoteric mysteries of the Hosaie th the invicible worlds which thaso They gathered in the they waited for the coning of the pr the bondage of spiritual ignorance, priest or patriarch who intorprete’ Taw, He was supposed to bo in comunieatio people had learned of fron the Egyptians and Chaldeans, Certain of these Orders had made a vow that they would neither cut their haim nor beards until the world Savior Should cone, Hence their boards fel? upon their breasts and their unkempt hair was upon their shoulders, Their garment was of one piece, woven without a seam in the form of a tube, Sonstines they wors an overgarnent of rough canol's hair. They ware) called the Brethern, Jasus and lator sore of His disciples referred to the houses of the Brethorn in difforent cities where they could go and fin? hospitelity. fe have the Apostle who cont rorth his message to the Brethern of the Seven Churehs These houses were the rest housos of the holy men. They were usually on the Gueead Gf s comunity, where a monber of the Order dwelt, This wise man was the | Inecromancer and the physician of the holy-mind Drought their inportant problems to the doctor, the scribe, and all things in one, af the other Brethern who, stoves in hand, walked te hoof simple kin@liness and trying to tex ‘woalthy and powerful peop) cunt Uh a