Trail of the Serpent, Part 1
Posted By Director on June 10, 2016
The following quotes are from The Trail of the Serpent by Inquire Within (For some years a Ruling Chief of the Mother Temple of the Stella Matutina and R .R. et A.C.), London: Boswell, 1936. We assume this book is out of copyright and we may quote extensively.
From the Foreword:
“We have endeavoured to prove that the aim, in the higher grades of these varied mysteries and cults, is to awaken this serpent, the sex-force or “God within” man, raising it by processes and yogic methods, uniting it with the Universal Creative Principle without developing the latent senses or, so to say, deifying the adept, but only that he may be enslaved by some astute, outside, and stronger mind or group of minds, who, it would seem, seek to rule the nations through hypnotically controlled adepts. For one and all of these modern mysteries are dominated and ruled by some unknown hierarchy, just as in the Ancient Mysteries the Egyptian high-priests were the masters of the old world through their knowledge and power to manipulate these invisible serpent forces, the magnetic forces of all nature, by means of which they bound and dominated the mystes and even the epoptes and through them the masses.”
In other words, the author’s intention was to locate and describe the actions of the “Hidden Masters Who Rule the World” and the cults that promote psychic takeover of initiates and one-world government.
“We have finally sought to materialise these invisible masters and, allowing the Cabalists to speak for themselves, we arrive at the revolutionary and cabalistic Jew, the most cosmopolitan of peoples, who look for the Coming of their Messianic Era. To some of these the Messiah is their race and their race is their God, the Tetragrammaton, the Creative Principle, this Serpent Power, binding and unifying, leading to the hope of merging all races, all faiths under the Law of this their Unity of Race, thus creating the “Greater Judaism” spoken of by the Jewish World, 9 and 16 February, 1883.”
“In Les Sectes et Societes Secretes political and religious Le Couteulx de Canteleu, 1863, remarks that the aim of secret societies ‘as a whole was, is and will always be the struggle against the Church and the Christian religion, and the struggle of those who have not against those who have. . .They all have almost analogous initiations, from the Egyptian to the Illuminati, and most of them form a chain and give rise to others.'”
Hallucination was one of the great methods of Egyptian theurgy; burnt opium, datura, henbane, hasheesh, cinnamon, and laurel formed these vapours, which caused the frenzy of the pythoness or initiate.
In Illuminism the adept’s personality must be killed out and a new being formed—the controlled tool by fixation of the astral light, the etheric link! (more…)
