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

The Great Lodge. 223
So far as mere teaching is concerned, or the apprehension
of what is to be done, and how, philosophy
is the teacher, and is better fitted to the present intellectual
age than any other form of instruction.
When a genuine School for the Revival of the Lost
Mysteries of Antiquity is established, worthy and
well-qualified neophites will doubtless receive not
only instruction, but practical training.
Hitherto in this work hints, outlines, suggestions,
and running comments or relations only have been
given; and every intelligent reader must have observed
the difficulty of describing that which was
never intended to be revealed.
We may now undertake to give a diagram or a
picture of an idea running through all history like a
theme in a musical composition. The idea crops
out here and there in history, but it is not history
for reasons already made clear. The full-page
diagram (see Frontispiece) is a Symbol of the Secret
Doctrine, and some of its principal ramifications
and seats. Like all symbols, it is not the thing
symbolized ; and, as already declared, it is not a history
of the Great Lodge and the Secret Doctrine.
If it should by and by be shown that the Great
Lodge, historically, had its first seat in Egypt, or in
Ethiopia, which is possible, instead of in Old India,