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Mystic Masonry.
Man is called the Microcosm, or little world. The
One is in him, as in Nature, the cause of his Being;
and as in the Macrocosm, or great world, the One
manifests as the many by an orderly descent or differentiation,
so in man, from the one principle we
have first a triad, and then a quaternary. The three
evolve four, making seven. Then from the first
seven, "seven times seven," making the "49 fires"*
of the older Hindu philosophy. Before the reader
declares this conception to be altogether fanciful,
let him turn to the investigations of modern physical
science regarding Color and Sound. Helmholtz estimated
that between the highest rate of vibrations
giving rise to sound waves apprehensible to the human
ear, and the lowest vibration of Light, giving
rise to the red of the Solar Spectrum, there would
intervene about thirty-four octaves of consonant or
dissonant vibrations ; and unless there are great gaps
in nature, these thirty-four octaves are concerned in
producing the phenomena of Nature. It has, furthermore,
been demonstrated that there is an exact
equation between color and sound vibrations; and
that colors have their complementary tones, and
*See Plates I and II.