Mystic masonry, or, The symbols of freemasonry and the greater ...

The Genius of Freemasonry.
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All human progress runs in cycles. Modern materialistic
science has had its brief day, and Philosophy
has already undermined its foundations. The
new age will show a genuine revival of Philosophy.
The immortal principles enunciated by Plato,
clothed in modern garb of thought, less involved
and dialectical, will again command the attention
of the thinking world. Every one is aware that the
source of Plato's knowledge was the Mysteries; he
was an Initiate, and on almost every page reveals
the obligation he is under not to betray to the common
people the secrets taught only to initiates under
the pledge of secrecy.
The foregoing digression seemed necessary in
order to show the real basis for the traditions of the
Lost Word, and to put beyond cavil, at least with
the more rational, the idea that the Master's Word
is
a real thing, the genuineness and power of which
is not overdrawn in the parables and glyphs of
Freemasonry.
"The True Word of a Mason is to be found in
the concealed and profound meaning of the Ineffable
Name of Deity communicated by God to Moses"
(rather by the Priests of Egypt.— B.), "and which
meaning was long lost by the very precautions taken
to conceal it. The true pronunciation of that name