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

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Mystic Masonry.
exist with regard to the Tetragramaton of the Kabalah—^"He
who maketh the earth to quake and angels
and men to tremble"—even Jehovah, For the
ignorant and superstitious, this has one meaning.
For the intelHgent student of Kabalah, it has many
and very diiTerent meanings.
The physical plane, that of the body of man, is
such by virtue of the co-ordinate vibrations of all
the principles that enter into its construction. The
physical exists by virtue of the maintenance of the
Key or dominant chord of that plane. As long as
this key can be maintained in perfect concord,
health exists. Whenever the harmony is disturbed,
disease results ; and when the key can no longer
exist, dissolution of the organism occurs, and death
is the result.
The problem of genuine initiation, or training in
occultism, consists in placing all the operations of
the body under the dominion of the v/ill ; in freeing
the Ego from the dominion of the appetites, passions,
and the whole lower nature. The idea is not
to despise the body, but to purify it; not to destroy
the appetites, but to elevate and control them absolutely.
This mastery of the lower nature does not
change the Key of the physical nature as such ; but
subordinates it to that of a higher plane. Without