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early Christians, and embodied in or implied by the
parables, allegories, and glyphs of Freemasonry.
Initiation therefore must be seen to be both evolutionary
and regenerative; and not a mere empty
farce or a dead ceremony.
Taking now this evolutionary process as a fact,
we may profitably consider further the change that
occurs in the structure of man's complex organism
as evolution proceeds.
We have shown Mind to be the active theater in
which the real battle is fought for the supremacy of
the Higher or Spiritual-Soul, as distinguished from
the lower Animal-Soul.
"Thou shalt not let thy senses make a play-ground
of the mind." No doubt many who have read this
sentence have regarded it as a moral precept only
ignorant, perhaps, of the fact that there is not only
a philosophical concept but scientific facts and
Laws back of all
moral truths.
The mind is the realm of thought, and the sum of
all experience on both the physical (senses and feelings)
and metaphysical (reason, imagination, Will,
intuition, etc.) sides of Consciousness. Experience
may be called the moving panorama of events in the
conscious life of man. Thought is, therefore, the
changes in our states of consciousness. Thought is