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

The Genius of Freemasonry.
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he may rise untrammeled by the rubbish of the temple,
and, meeting Alohim face to face, learn also to
say / atn that I am! Does this read like a rhapsody,
and are the Landmarks, traditions, and glyphs
of Freemasonry nothing more ?
The real temple referred to from first to last in
Masonry, as in all ancient initiations, is the Tabernacle
of the Human Soul.
It is built, indeed, without the sound of hammer
or any tool of iron. It is like (made in the likeness
of) that other, spiritual temple, not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens ; for the old philosophy
(Kabalah) teaches that the Immortal Spirit of man
is the artificer of the body and its source of Ufe;
that it does not so much enter in, as overshadow
man, while the Soul, the immediate vehicle of the
Spirit, inhabits the body, and is dissipated at death.
The Spirit is Immortal, pure, and forever undefiled.
It is Christos, or Hiram, the Mediator between the
Soul, or physical man, and the Universal Spirit—
the Father in Heaven. The "poor, blind candidate,"
that is, the man of sense, immersed in matter, would
learn the Ineffable Name, and obtain the Lost Word,
and, seeking a short cut, "climbs up some other
way." He would have wisdom without selfconquest,
power without sacrifice. He will not lis-