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

194 Mystic Masonry.
garding the nature of consciousness itself, but rather
in using both facts and experiences in the natural
order of their relations. In the case of the Master
or Adept, the same potencies and processes are involved
as in ordinary evolution; and none others.
The different results arise from the fact that in the
case of the Adept, these ordinary processes are no
longer trammeled or delayed.
"The Wise Ones tarry not in pleasure-grounds of
the senses,"
"The Wise Ones heed not the sweet-tongued
voices of illusions."
"Thou shalt not let thy senses make a play-ground
of thy mind."*
It may thus be seen that neither causes nor results
are involved in an untried "working hypothesis."
This philosophy not only explains the nature and
origin of all the Christs of history, as the result of
evolution under natural law, but these all stand as
"Landmarks," pointing out "the Way, the Life and
the Truth," in the journey of the soul, and the immortal
destiny of man. Furthermore, every point
herein made is but a crude fragment derived from
the Ancient Mysteries, held by the Gnostics and
^Voice of the Silence.