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

124 Mystic Masonry.
Past, beyond the 'Deluge' and the 'Garden of Eden/
began to be forcibly and relentlessly closed by every
fa^ir and unfair means against the indiscreet gaze
of posterity. Every issue was blocked up, every
record that hands could be laid upon, destroyed."*
This same Constantine who, with his soldiers environed
the Bishops at the first Council of Nice,
A. D. 325, and dictated terms to their deliberations,
applied for initiation into the Mysteries, and was
told by the officiating priest that no purgation could
free him from the crime of putting his wife to death,
or from his many perjuries and murders. Every
careful and unbiased student of history knows why
the Secret Doctrine has been heard of so little since
the days of Constantine. An exoteric religion and
belief in a personal God blotted it out for self-protection;
and yet, oh, irony of history ! the very Pentateuch
conceals it, and for many a student of
Kabalah of the coming century the seals will be
broken.
In trying to apprehend an outline, at least, of the
Secret Doctrine, two ideas should be kept constantly
in mind, viz., Space and Consciousness ; the
former, in relation to all that is either thought or
•Secret Doctrine.