The VFU* Suggested Reading and Recent Recognitions Conferred the Honorific Order of Pi*:
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Key to Social Regeneration (MP3) by Manly Palmer Hall 
"...The initiated brother realizes that his so called symbols and rituals are merely blinds fabricated by the wise to perpetuate ideas incomprehensible to the average individual. He also realizes that few ... today know or appreciate the mystic meaning concealed within these rituals. With religious faith we perpetuate the form, worshiping it instead of the life ...those who have not recognized the truth in the crystallized ritual, those who have not liberated the spiritual germ from the shell of empty words...regardless of their physical degrees and outward honors... Only those who see in it a cosmic study, a life work, a divine inspiration to better thinking, better feeling, and better living, with the spiritual attainment of enlightenment as the end, and with the daily life of the true Mason as the means, have gained even the slightest insight into the true mysteries ..."
from: The Secret Teachings of All Ages - An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
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