Lanterna Rally

Author: Jirah Dewey Buck

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781230346939

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE GENIUS OF FREEMASONRY. The traditions, glyphics and ritual of Freemasonry cluster around the building of the temple; the legend of the widow's son, Hiram-abiff, who lost his life in the defense of his integrity, and the search for the Lost Word of the Master. As the candidate progresses, degree after degree, he is furnished with the working-tools suited to his degree of knowledge and proficiency, given instruction as to their use; the lesser and greater lights are revealed and explained; and through all, each outer form, or material thing, is shown to be a symbol of a deeper mystery, a concealed potency. This is, in brief, the language and the philosophy of symbolism, or the exoteric, and the esoteric garb of Truth. The method itself, outside of all details or applications, has a deeper scientific significance than most persons are aware of. This method of instruction is not fanciful or arbitrary, but conforms to the process of Eternal Nature in building an atom or a world; a daisy or a man. Cosmos has evolved from Chaos, and yet Chaos remains the Eternal Potency; what Plato called the " World of Divine Ideas." This will be more fully explained in a subsequent chapter. For the present, it may suffice to say, that from primitive space, primordial ether, or what modern science might call, the Matrix or origin of the "nebulous mass," the earth and all that it contains has evolved. The essential form, or idea of all things; the potency or force; and the matter as we now discern it, must have existed in primordial space. Therefore, these two always exist, viz., the inner potency, and the outer act; the concealed Idea, and the outer form; the inner meaning, and the outer event. Each is in its turn a symbol of the other. Hence...