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

246 Mystic Masonry.
gle represents, or is symbolized by, heat, light and
flame.
The Entered Apprentice starts on his career with
the triangle surmounting the square (spirit has not
yet descended into matter). As he progresses the
descent takes place, and we have the triangle in the
square, as heretofore illustrated; and finally as a
Master the ascent of the square into the triangle
begins, which every Master Mason will understand.
Masonry being a "progressive science," the progress
of the neophite is thus made to conform to the
process of evolution and the descent of spirit into
matter, and this is illustrated by the manner in
which he is taught to wear his apron in each degree
in the Blue Lodge. The Entered Apprentice is not
only a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water," but
he is a novice, taking his first instruction, and this is
symbolized by his apron.
The tradition of the Master's Word, of the power
which its possession gives to the Master; the story
of its loss and the search for its recovery; the tradition
of the Ineffable Name in connection with the
Lost Word, showing that it could not or should not
be pronounced, except with bated breath ;
or, as the
Hindoo tradition declares, "with the hand covering
the mouth." The symbolism of the three greater