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

248 Mystic Masonry.
tical with the Father.*
In deifying Jesus the whole
of humanity is bereft of Christos as an eternal
potency within every human soul, a latent Christ
in every man.
In thus deifying one man, they have
orphaned the whole of humanity ! On
the other
hand. Masonry, in making every candidate personify
Hiram, has preserved the original teaching, which
is a universal glyph. Few candidates may be aware
that Hiram whom they have represented and personified
is ideally and precisely the same as Christ.
Yet such is undoubtedly the case. This old philosophy
shows what Christ as a glyph means, and
how the Christ-state results from real Initiation, or
from the evolution of the human into the Divine.
Regeneration is thus given a meaning that is both
apprehensible and attainable; both philosophical
and scientific; and at once ideal and practical. In
the Tetragrammaton, or four-lettered name of Deity,
the Greek followers of Pythagoras found a glyph
by which they both expressed and concealed their
philosophy, and it is the Hebrew tetrad ihvh, or
"Yod, he, vau, he," that is introduced into Masonry
*Here lies the true meaning of Abiff, "of, or from
my Father." Ii.iram.=Christos, and ABiFF=:"at one
with the Father," i. e., "of," or "from."