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35-4 BOOK OF THE A. AND A. RITE.
can conquer ;
and a discretion that nothing can cor-
rupt or intoxicate. To Know, to Dare, to Will, to be
Silent—these are the four words of the Magus, writ-
ten in the four symbolic forms of the sphynx.
All the phenomena of nature depend on one single
immutable law, represented by that symbolic form,
the cube ; and this furnished the Hebrews with all
the mysteries of the divine tetragrara.
Take care that thou dost not mistake the shadow
for the reality. In everything, the vulgar habitually
do so. They turn from the light, and w r onder at the
obscurity which they themselves project.
Listen and learn. Interpret our symbols for your-
self. In every rough ashlar of marble is hidden the
perfect cube. One is the symbol, the other its mean-
ing. The sun and moon in our lodges are the truth,
and the reflection of the truth in doctrine. Allegory,
the mother of all dogmas, is the substitution of the
impression for the seal, of the shadow for the reality.
It is the falsehood of the truth, and the truth of the
falsehood.
A dogma is not invented ; a truth is veiled and a
shadow produced, to suit weak eyes. The initiator
is not an impostor, but a revealer—that is, in the
original meaning of the word, one who veils anew.
He is the creator of a new shadow.
The work of God is the book of God. For the
letters to appear, there must needs be two colors on