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

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or to the Kabalistic 113:355, would at once recall
the original symbol and the whole series. If, in addition,
our Mathematician knew the different ratios
of vibration incident to the three planes of evolution
represented by OO©, he would have 'the key
to occult physics, and could forecast results, measure
effects, and induce changes beyond the ordinary
plane of crude matter.
The simple series to which I have referred will
illustrate the whole science of symbolism.
Added to this science of Symbolism there is an
Archaic Art-Speech, by the use of which a double
meaning is given to language, so that the most ordinary
form of speech may be used to convey a deep
scientific or philosophical meaning. This gives rise
to the allegory and parable, the outer form of which
may convey to the ignorant a lesson in ethics, and
to the learned a principle in science. The most
complicated form of this symbolism and Art-Speech
known to modern times is, perhaps, the Jewish
Kabalah, from which most of the glyphs of Freemasonry
are derived. The object of the present
work is not to explain all these symbols, for that
would require a volume of symbolism, and have
but little value when written except to the curious.
Perhaps the most familiar symbol of a Mason is