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

152 Mystic Masonry.
and Fohat, as the Universal Energy, with Intelligence
guiding them, Consciousness back of them,
and the Roots of all in the Concealed Ain-Soph, the
Unknowable. Professor Crooks has taken a long
stride in this direction in his metaphysical excursion
in search of the "Origin of the Elements," and
in his postulation of Protyle. He has further
touched the septenary key in the order of the emanation
of the so-called elements known to modern
science. It would be impossible in a work such as
this, and equally out of place, to undertake to trace
the process running through millions of years by
which a planet is evolved; how the turgescence gives
rise to denser substance, "set on fire" by friction
(Fohat), and how the "Fire-Mist" cools and
hardens into Matter on our plane. Though apparent
Chaos, here is Cosmos, order and formation, as
much as now may be discerned in this present
state of our Earth. The real Chaos is Space, which
is but latent, potential Cosmos, or Creation asleep.
Tracing this process of world-building from the
"beginning," the One (negative), abstract Space
and absolute Abstract Motion (the Ineffable Name,
or Deity, lying still back of these, "Nameless" and
never manifesting), now become active, and here
lies the first "Manifestation," a duality: "Father-