Reappearance of the Christ & Restoration of the Mysteries
...the Christ and the Masters are occupied with the task of preparing for the restoration of the
Mysteries. This restoration will fall into three phases and will cover and include in its symbolism
all phases of human unfoldment. The story of mankind will be pictorialised. These three phases
correspond broadly and in a general sense to the three degrees of the Blue Lodge in Masonry. The
analogy is not entirely accurate, owing to the unavoidable degeneracy of Masonry, but with the
restoration of the Mysteries, Masonry also will come into its own. These phases are:
1. The stage of a general recognition of light in all departments of human living. This is inferred in
the first stanza of the new Invocation. If the ritual of the E.A. is studied in the light of this
information the significance will emerge. The poor and destitute candidate emerges into the light.
2. The stage of complete economic reorientation; in this, humanity is relieved of all economic
anxiety and is free to [Page 575] receive its due wages and the right reward of all service rendered
in the building of the Temple of the Lord; this building proceeds with rapidity.
3. The stage wherein the reward of light is received and the reward of service rendered; spiritual
status is recognised through the medium of what is regarded as a major initiation, for which the
first two initiatory degrees are only preparatory. This first great initiation will be objectively
staged and the general public will recognise it as the major rite and ritual of the new religious
institution of the period. This is the stage where the forces of resurrection are active, when the
Lord is with His people and Christ has returned to earth. Religion is then recognised as an attitude
governing all phases of human experience. EH 574-75
The Masters will walk openly among men; the Christ will reappear in physical Presence. Another
thing that will happen will be that the ancient Mysteries will be restored, the ancient landmarks
will again be recognised--those landmarks which Masonry has so earnestly preserved and which
have been hitherto securely embalmed in the Masonic rituals, waiting the day of restoration and of
resurrection. ROC 121
[Page 122] These ancient Mysteries were originally given to humanity by the Hierarchy and
contain the entire clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words and in
symbology; these veil the secret of man's origin and destiny, picturing to him, in rite and ritual, the
long, long path which he must tread, back into the light. They provide also (when rightly
interpreted and correctly represented) the teaching which humanity needs in order to pass from
darkness to Light, from the unreal to the Real and from death to Immortality. Any true
Mason who understands, even if only to a slight degree, the significance of the three degrees of
the Blue Lodge, and the implications of that in which he participates, will recognise the above
three phrases for what they are, and will recognise the significance of the three degrees. I
mention it here with Masonic purpose because it is closely related to the restoration of the
Mysteries and has held the clue (down the ages) to that long awaited restoration, to the platform
upon which the required teaching can be based and the structure which can express (when freed
of its Jewish names and nomenclature, which are long out of date, though right three thousand
years ago) the history of man's moving forward upon the Path of Return.
It is these Mysteries which Christ will restore upon His reappearance, thus reviving the churches
in a new form, and restoring the hidden Mystery which they long have lost through their
materialism. Masonry has also lost the true livingness it once possessed but, in its forms and
rituals, the truth is preserved and can be recovered. This Christ will do. He will also revive these
Mysteries in other ways; not all will seek the church or Masonry for the revitalising of their
spiritual life. The true Mysteries will also reveal themselves through science and [Page 123]
the incentive to search for them there will be given by the Christ. The Mysteries contain, within
their formulas and teachings, the key to the science which will unlock the mystery of
electricity--the greatest spiritual science and area of divine knowledge in the world, the fringes
of which have only just been touched. Only when the Hierarchy is present visibly on Earth and the
Mysteries of which the disciples of the Christ are the Custodians are given openly to the world,
will the true secret and nature of electrical phenomena be revealed.
The Mysteries are, in the last analysis, the true source of revelation; it can only be when the
mind and the will-to-good are closely fused and blended and are thus conditioning human
behaviour that the extent of the coming revelation can be safely grasped. There are planetary
energies and forces which men as yet cannot and do not control; they know nothing of them and
yet upon them the life of the planet is dependent; they are also closely related to the despised
psychic powers (today so stupidly approached and ignorantly used), yet these powers (when
correctly assessed and used) will prove of enormous usefulness in the sciences which the
Mysteries will reveal.
The Mystery of the Ages is, through the reappearance of the Christ, on the verge of revelation.
Through the revelation of the soul that Mystery (which soul knowledge veils) will stand revealed.
The Scriptures of the world have ever prophesied that, at the end of the age, we shall see the
revelation of that which is secret and the emergence of that which has hitherto been concealed,
into the light of day. As we know, our present cycle marks the end of the Piscean age; the next
two hundred years will see the abolition of death or rather of our misconceptions as to death and
the firm establishing of the fact of the soul's existence; the soul will then be [Page 124] known to
be an entity and the motivating impulse and the spiritual force behind all manifested forms. The
work of the Christ (two thousand years ago) was to proclaim certain great possibilities and the
existence of great powers. His work when He reappears will be to prove the fact of these
possibilities and to reveal the true nature and potency of man. The proclamation He made that we
were all sons of God and own one universal Father will, in the near future, no longer be regarded
as a beautiful, mystical and symbolic statement, but will be regarded as a proved scientific
pronouncement. Our universal brotherhood and our essential immortality will be proven to be
facts in nature.
The ground is being prepared at this time for the great restoration which the Christ will engineer.
The world religions (including Christianity) and Masonry are today before the judgment seat of
humanity's critical mind; the word has gone forth almost unanimously that both of them have
failed in their divinely assigned tasks. It is realised everywhere that new life must be poured in, but
this will take a new vision and a new approach to living conditions and this only the appearance of
the Christ can teach and help us bring about. ROC 122-25
The question anent initiation is one that is coming more and more before the public. Before
many centuries pass the old mysteries will be restored, and an inner body will exist in the
Church--the Church of the period, of which the nucleus is already forming--wherein the first
initiation will become exoteric, in this sense only, that the taking of the first initiation will, before
so very long, be the most sacred ceremony of the Church, performed exoterically as one of the
mysteries given at stated periods, attended by those concerned. It will also hold a similar place in
the ritual of the Masons. At this ceremony those ready for the first initiation will be publicly
admitted to the Lodge by one of its members, authorised to do so by the great Hierophant
Himself. IHS 10
Blindness is a prelude to initiation of no matter what degree. It is only at the last and highest initiation that the "tendency to blindness" comes to a complete end... This truth is recognised, though not truly interpreted, by the Masonic Fraternity. In one of the most important and highest initiations, the candidate enters with unblinded eyes and no hoodwink is applied. Then, halfway through the ceremony, he is blinded, and in that condition passes through the terrific tests, symbolic of a certain high stage upon the Path. TSR-V 197
