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The Origin and Evolution of Freemasonary Connected with the Origin and Evoloution of the Human Race.
The Origin and Evolution of Freemasonary Connected with the Origin and Evoloution of the Human Race
Albert Churchward
First published in 1920 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
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THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF FREEMASONRY CONNECTED WITH THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN RACE
By ALBERT CHURCHWARD
M.D., M.R.C.P., F.G.S., P.M., P.Z., 30
LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.
RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, YV.C. 1
First published . October 1920
Reprinted... October 1921
(All rights resented)
TO ALL
MY BROTHER FREEMASONS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
WHO ARE SEEKING FOR
THE TRUTH
AT the present time many countries are suffering from Socialism and Anarchy, with the attendant evils that always have been associated with every nation wherever the ignorant classes have been allowed to predominate in the councils and the government of the country, with the result that civilization has not been retarded only, but set back again for hundreds of years, at least in the progress of evolution in these countries. This evil is now threatening the whole of humanity and can be arrested permanently only by the Unity of the Brotherhood of Freemasonry; and it is to point out these facts and the remedy that it has been willed I should write this book for the knowledge of the Brotherhood. The Unity of all the Brotherhood of Freemasonry throughout the world is the only means for a permanent Universal Peace. And what reasons are there against a Universal Brotherhood being formed to establish permanent Peace throughout the world under the principles and tenets of the Craft? Herein have I set forth details of the same.
It is at the request of many Brothers I publish this book. I do so more readily because it supplies a link missing in my former publications, giving to the Brotherhood a further proof of that knowledge which they seek, and which very few, if any, members of the Craft have ever devoted such time and study in scientific research as is necessary to speak with authority on the subject matter.
In order to gam a true conception of the origin and evolution of Freemasonry, its Signs, Symbols, and all its Rituals and Ceremonies, one must have also a knowledge of the origin and evolution of the Human Race, with all the Totemic Mysteries performed in Sign Language by Primitive Man. They are linked together pari passu , and the answer as to the origin of all our Brotherhood can be found only by unravelling the mystery and causes as to why we find different Types of the Human Race, their different beliefs being in many cases analogous, and all using the same Signs and Symbolsalthough under different terminology, and scattered over the face of earth and water throughout this world.
There are two important subjects we must study and master before we can arrive at the critical truth.
The first is the Periodic Laws of the Corpuscles, which govern the evolution and devolution of the Universe and by which T.G.A.O.T.U. created all things, and is for ever creating, and balances devolution by evolution.
The second is the learning and comprehending " Sign Language" in all its phases, that being the mode of registering the prehistoric past before verbal language came into being, by a continual repetition in the Totemic and other Mysteries or Ceremonies of Primitive Man.
I therefore will try to teach you some knowledge of the Periodic Laws of the Corpusclesin other words, " The Divine Laws of the Universe"; otherwise you will fail to understand how and why progressive evolution is constantly and for ever taking place, its objective being to a " higher type of Homo "; devolution being but one phase of this progressive evolution.
All the facts I have herein set forth can be verified as the truth by any Brother who will devote sufficient study and scientific research to the subject matter.
These can be found written on stones, papyri, in the Ritual of the Resurrection of Ancient Egypt (written in Sign Language), and amongst the inner African and other native tribes in various parts of the world, and follow the Laws of Evolution and the migrations of the Human Race.
I am greatly indebted to the Rev. J. M. Douglas Thomas, F.R.G.S., and Mrs. K. Watkins for correcting the MS. and for the drawings contained in this work.
A. C.
ROYAL SOCIETIES CLUB, 63 ST. JAMES' STREET, LONDON,
IN publishing the second edition of the Origin and Evolution of Freemasonry connected with the Origin and Evolution of the Human Race I have not altered, or added to, the text, but would wish to draw the attention of all the Brotherhood to the Origin and Evolution of the Human Race which has now been published, and in which the evolution of the Human Race has been fully exemplified, and will prove to the Brotherhood the critical contents of my works.
A. C.
September 1921.
CONTENTS
Guide
ILLUSTRATIONS
Chapter I
Periodic Laws of the Corpuscles and Socialists
The Origin and Evolution of Freemasonry
RECENTLY Ethics has been preached and written by men who have not the slightest idea of the harm they are doing to their fellow-creatures and their country. They cannot have any real knowledge of the past history and evolution of the human race, or the causes of the rise and fall of all great nations of the past, or from whence originated the doctrines they believe in, or profess to believe in; also many fallacies are still written and preached by some of our professors and great divines as truths, whereas the truth is entirely different. I therefore hope that this may awaken and teach them before it is too late, and that the human race may not be sent back to the dark and degenerate age from which we have just emerged.
One only has to think and understand that the pursuit and acquisition of truth is of infinite concernment to mankind in the study of the evolution of the human race, and the origin and beliefs and meaning of all the doctrines found throughout the world. By the cultivation of our reason we are better enabled to distinguish good from evil, as well as truth from falsehood; both these are matters of the highest importance, whether we regard this life or the life to come.