The American Minervan

Tag: Freemasonry

  • Albert Pike on the Duty of the Mason and the Republican Ideal

    Albert Pike on the Duty of the Mason and the Republican Ideal

    MASONIC DUTIES “Whatsoever of morality and intelligence; what of patience, perseverance, faithfulness, of method, insight, ingenuity, energy; in a word, whatsoever of STRENGTH a man has in him, will lie written in the WORK he does. To work is to try himself against Nature and her unerring, everlasting laws: and they will return true verdict…

  • Did Helena Blavatsky Study with the Druze of Lebanon?

    Did Helena Blavatsky Study with the Druze of Lebanon?

    “The religion of the Druses is said to be a compound of Judaism, Mahomedanism and Christianity, strongly tinged with Gnosticism and the Magian system of Persia. Were people to call things by their right names, sacrificing all self-conceit to truth, they might confess things otherwise. They could say, for instance, that Mahomedanism being a compound…