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

136 Mystic Masonry.
Hence the parable, given to the ignorant or viie
profane, of God's working and then resting.
If the
reader will but reflect a moment on his own process
of breathing, he will find that the inbreathing
(inhalation) and the outbreathing (exhalation) are
equal, and equally active processes, although so different,
each being the opposite of the other: each,
in its turn, the cause of the other. Stop one, and
the other ceases also.
The more one reflects on this
symbol of the Great Breath which creation is, the
more will he understand of both Eternal Nature and
his own being.
But it may be asked : is man to be deprived of all
idea of Personality except his own? By no means.
God is the Author of Being, is the Author of Personality.
He personifies Himself, i. e., expresses
that potency of Himself which personality is,
through Man. The Hand of Providence is always
a human hand. Humanity is both the vehicle and
the agent of what man has called the Providence of
God.
Humanity in toto, then, is the only Personal God;
and Christos is the realization, or perfection of this
Divine Persona, in Individual conscious experience.
When this perfection is realized, the state is called
Christos, with the Greeks, and Buddha, with the