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

102 Mystic Masonry.
was in truth a secret, in which, however, was involved
the far more profound secret of its meaning."
. . .
"Thus the Ineffable Name not only embodies the
great Philosophical Idea, that the Deity is the Ens,
the To On, the absolute Existence, that of which the
Essence is To Exist, the only Substance of Spinoza,
the Being, that never could not have existed, as contra-distinguished
from that which only becomes ;
not
Nature or the Soul of Nature, but that which created
Nature; but also the idea of the Male and Female
Principles, in its highest and most profound sense:
to wit, that God originally comprehended in Himself
all that is ; that matter was not co-existent with
Him or independent of Him; that He did not
merely fashion and shape a pre-existing chaos into a
universe; but that His Thought manifested itself
outwardly in that universe, which so became, and
before was not, except as comprehended in Him;
that the Generative Power, or Spirit, and the Productive
Matter, ever among the ancients deemed the
Female, originally were in God, and that He Was
and Is all that Was, that Is, and that Shall be; in
whom all else lives, moves, and has its being."
"This was the great Mystery of the Ineffable Name,
. . . and of course its true pronunciation and its