To: Frederick Smart who wrote (19945 ) 5/12/2005 2:31:39 PM From: Emile Vidrine Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 28931 Was Swedenborg influenced by the Talmud and Kabalah? (Taken from Albert Pike's masonic bible, MORALS AND DOGMA.) THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE BIBLE "The teachers, even of Christianity, are, in general the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as incomprehensible as the Sohar." (page 105) THE INCOMPLETE BIBLE "All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it. Everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of the Illuminati, Jacob Boehme, Swedenborg , Saint-Martin, and others, is borrowed from the Kabalah; all the Masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols. "The Kabalah alone consecrates the Alliance of the Universal Reason and the Divine Word... "The Bible, with all the allegories it contains, expresses, in an incomplete and veiled manner only, the religious science of the Hebrews. The doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient Egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils. "The Hebrew books were written only to recall to memory the traditions; and they were written in symbols unintelligible to the profane...thus was a second Bible born, unknown to, or rather uncomprehended by, the Christians; a collection, they say, of monstrous absurdities. "One is filled with admiration, on penetrating into the Sanctuary of the Kabalah, at seeing a doctrine so logical, so simple and at the same time so absolute." (pages 744-745) The "Kabalah" is a book of ancient Jewish mysticism and magic. DEITIES OF MASONRY THE ENERGIES OF LUCIFER "When the Mason learns that the Key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the Mystery of his Craft. The seething energies of LUCIFER are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply [this] energy." (Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Manly P. Hall, page 48)