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Brother of the Third Degree

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To read this book is similar to undergoing an initiation experience oneself. The book is very well-written, and it is hard to lay it down before reading it all the way through. Personally this book has had a profound influence on my life; I can only recommend it to the highest degree. If you are ready to get a push forward on the initiatory path, this book can do it for you!

This book is an occult masterpiece, with deep esoteric meaning. It describes in detail how the mystery priesthoods did and still do function. Of course, a few things are "beefed up" magickally, much as Hollywood uses blue lightning effects when a wizard casts a spell. However, this book is a guide and a reminder to all practitioners of the occult sciences of where we came from, and where we're going, especially in our modern age where blindfolding an initiate is considered "terror". Recommended for advanced occult practitioners, only insomuch as that the information can be fully digested and understood by the more well-versed reader. For younger students, read it by all means, but don't forget to pick it up again twenty years from now, because it will unlock an entire new vista to the more experienced mind, which might better recognize the symbology found within.

Anyone on any path whatsoever needs to read this book. It's a tale of dedication and love, written with a fervor and passionseldom accomplished. Mystical, enlightening, challenging, thrilling, and overall a non stopbarn burner about love and service of the highest degree.I feel blessed to have been given it by a total stranger, and was so glad to find Amazon had it, (I couldn't find it anywhere) have since given copies to others, whose words I also echo.

To read this book is similar to undergoing an initiation experience oneself. The book is very well-written, and it is hard to lay it down before reading it all the way through. Personally this book has had a profound influence on my life; I can only recommend it to the highest degree. If you are ready to get a push forward on the initiatory path, this book can do it for you! Another recommendable book in the same genre is : The Red Lion & The Elixir of Eternal Life, which describes from a first-person perspective the cycles and laws of karma and rebirth.

This book has long been one of my favorite novels, and its great to see it in hardcover. My paperback has been lent out so many times that its rather ragged, so I'm glad to have a more durable edition. This is a story of a man's journey through a school of initiation. It is not an expose of Freemasonry, nor does it seem to give the particulars of any certain rite. But it does capture the the trials of the soul so common to those who are students of the Western Mysteries. Fans of this work will also like the novel, Nine Faces of Christ.

Awesome book. While it has little to do with actual freemasonry, it is a awesome work of fiction. I really would recommend this book to anyone who seeks more light into themself

I read this book when I was about 20 years old while being held captive in the air force,having been brought up under mormon docturne which made me rebel and have little concern over spiritual aspects in life. This book hit me in the face like a ton of bricks the reason I am writing this at this time is I am searching for a copy in this stage of my life i recommend this book highly and want to read it again at this juncture of my life.

I was directed to read this book by a psychology professor who I approached. I was trying to find answers to some personal questions with which I was struggeling. The book did not have answers for me, but rather illuminated an alternative reality. This eased my mind for it was a relief to see some of the similarities between my personal experiences and those of a young man one hundred years prior.

Not a novel, but revelations of one man's quest for the Truth of Life. A thriller, true, for such is the path of one on the Path. Look and learn, he who is smug in his self-righteousness. This volume should be read by every person who wants to attain more than the human.

This book left me speechless, so drawn into its spell I had become. A typhoon of deception and revelation, it careens through the convoluted world of one man's discovery and initiation into an 18th-19th century secret philosophical/religious society. Rumored to allude to the Masons or the highest cult levels of Catholicism, this book was banned from distribution in the U.S. until the late 1960's. It ached to put this book down. While not a Romance it is passionate, while not Science Fiction it is completely surreal and imbued with powers both latent and manifest, while not a dissertation it is replete with wisdom unparalleled in modern writing, while not an Action/Horror the reader is held rapt, captive to the sheer thrill of the plot's unwinding. If you have ever wondered about the extremes of initiation and the committment of those who have experienced it, if you are intrigued by a mystery in which you can not guess the ending, if you enjoy colorful imagery and intellectual stimulation, read it. I am extremely hard to impress... and I was blown away.