"the substance of the Kabalah is the basis upon which Masonry is bulit, since modern Masonry is undeniably the dim and hazy reflection of primeval Occult Masonry of the teaching of those Divine Masons who established the Mysteries of prehistoric and prediluvian Temples of Initiation, raised by truly superhuman Builders.” – The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy By H. P. Blavatsky, Annie Besant pg. 165
"Masonry, in its purity, derived as it is from the old Kabalah as a part of the Great Universal Wisdom Religion of the remotest Antiquity, stands squarely for the Unqualified and Universal Brotherhood of Man, in all times and in every age." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 12
"Freemasonry is not only a universal science, but a world wide religion, and owes allegiance to no one creed, and can adopt no sectarian dogma as such, without ceasing thereby to be Masonic. Drawn from the Kabbalah, and taking the Jewish or Christian verbiage or symbols, it but discerns in them universal truths, which it recognizes in all other religions. ” -The origin of Freemasonry and Knights templar by Bennett, John Richardson, (1907) pg. 109
"The true name of Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. The Devil is the personification of Atheism or Idolatry.
For the Initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good, but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will. They represent this Force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythologic and horned form of the God PAN; thence came the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the Light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the legend. Gold, to the eyes of the Initiates, is Light condensed.”- Albert Pike Morals and Dogma, p.102
"This tradition of the Ineffable Name is brought into Masonry from the Hebrew Kabalah,"- Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 48
"The mystical philosophy or theosophy of the Jews is called the Kabbalah. The word is derived from the Hebrew kaba, signifying to receive, because it is the doctrine received from the elders.
Practically speaking, the doctrine of Kabbalah refers to the system handed down by oral transmission, and is nearly allied to tradition. It has sometimes been used in an enlarged sense, as comprehending all the explanations, maxims and ceremonies which have been traditionally handed down to the Jews:
but in that more limited acceptation in which it is intimately connection with the symbolic science of Freemasonry, the Kahbalah may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical speculations concerning the Deity, man, and spiritual beings.
In these interpretations and speculations, according to the Jewish doctors, were enveloped the most profound truths of religion, which, to be comprehended by finite beings, are obliged to be revealed through the medium of symbols and allegories." – The origin of Freemasonry and Knights templar by Bennett, John Richardson, (1907) pg. 184-185
