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

134 Mystic Masonry.
it, of course, the idea of creation, as something already
completed in time; when the fact is that creation
is a process without beginning or end. The
world— all worlds—are being "created" today as
much as at any period in the past. Even the apparent
destruction of worlds is a creative, or evolutionary
process. Emanating from the bosom of
the All, and running their cyclic course; day alternating
with night, on the outer physical plane, they
are again indrawn to the invisible plane, only to reemerge
after a longer night and start again on a
higher cycle of evolution. Theologians have tried
in vain to attach the idea of immanence to that of
personality, and ended in a jargon of words and
utter confusion of ideas. A personal Absolute is
not, except in potency. God does not think, but is
the cause of Thought. God does not love, he is
Love, in the perfect or absolute sense ; and
so with
all the Divine Attributes. God is thus the concealed
Logos, the "Causeless Cause," the "Rootless Root."
God never manifests Himself (to be seen of men).
Creation is His manifestation: and as creation is
not complete, and never will be, and as it never had
a beginning, there is a concealed or unrevealed potency
back of and beyond all creation, which is still
God. Now, Space is the most perfect symbol of