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"WHAT IF I TOLD YOU… (You) ARE THE KEYSTONE…"
~[M]Orpheus
Thus Orpheus was declared to be the son of Apollo, the divine and perfect truth,
and Calliope, the Muse of harmony and rhythm. In other words, Orpheus is the secret
doctrine (Apollo) revealed through music (Calliope). Eurydice is humanity dead from the
sting of the serpent of false knowledge and imprisoned in the underworld of ignorance.
In this allegory Orpheus signifies theology, which wins her from the king of the dead but
fails to accomplish her resurrection because it falsely estimates and mistrusts the innate
understanding within the human soul. The Ciconian women who tore Orpheus limb from
limb symbolize the various contending theological factions which destroy the body of
Truth. They cannot accomplish this, however, until their discordant cries drown out the
harmony drawn by Orpheus from his magic lyre. The head of Orpheus signifies the esoteric
doctrines of his cult. These doctrines continue to live and speak even after his body (the
cult) has been destroyed. The lyre is the secret teaching of Orpheus; the seven strings are
the seven divine truths which are the keys to universal knowledge.
This mystery has been perpetuated in Christianity in the crucifixion
and death of the God-man-Jesus the Christ. The secret import of this world tragedy and
the Universal Martyr must be rediscovered if Christianity is to reach the heights attained
by the pagans in the days of their philosophic supremacy. The myth of the dying god is
the key to both universal and individual redemption and regeneration, and those who do
not comprehend the true nature of this supreme allegory are not privileged to consider
themselves either wise or truly religious.
Few realize the influence exerted by Qabbalism over mediæval thought, both Christian
and Jewish. ==It taught that there existed within the sacred writings a hidden doctrine
which was the key to those writings. This is symbolized by the crossed keys upon the
papal crest.== Scores of learned minds began to search for those arcane truths by which the
race should be redeemed; and