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and with selected “higher degrees” in Western Freemasonry. The initiation ceremony symbolized the journey in the soul from the underworld and paradise into the holy metropolis of the gods, called the Town of Willows. Interwoven with this particular was an allegory of the encounters of the applicant during the quest for union with the Supreme St