The emblematic meaning now attached to the Masonic ladder, which refers it to
the one “Jacob saw in his vision,” is neither lost nor sacrificed. We admit that the
origin of the emblem is of the ancient Mysteries, and its symbolism is thus made
more impressive, so that we gain rather than lose by referring to it.
The initiation into all the ancient mysteries was a drama founded upon the
astronomical and astrological allegory of the death and resurrection of the sun, and
was intended to, and did, impress upon the mind of the initiate in the strongest
manner possible the two great doctrines of the unity of God and the immortality of
man. what are archangels? angels and demons

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