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

264 Mystic Masonry.
man. Of all the achievements of Classic Greece
nothing is so well remembered today as the school
of Pythagoras, and the Philosophy of Plato, and
these but embody and were founded upon the Royal
Secret of every Prince Adept Mason. To restore
the Royal Secret would be a work, which, when
completed, would be to our present humanity what
the supporting Columns are to the Lodge : Wisdom,
Strength and Beauty. (Knowledge, Power and
Harmony.) It would introduce new methods, and
motives, and new ideals into modern education,
and give us in a few generations other Platos. If
we create the conditions the results are sure to
follow. Here hes the reward for all the trials and
persecutions to which Masons have been subjected
in the past. Here we may build the monument of
all its Heroes and Martyrs. We may so build that
seeing it they would rejoice that they suffered to the
end. Bacon dreamed of a great "Instauration," a
recovery of knowledge, and possession of wisdom
from Inductive Philosophy alone; but on such lines
it must be forever a dream. The old Philosophy is
both inductive and deductive, through the perfect
equilibrium of Reason and Intuition, or Experience
and Aspiration, and is scientific to the last degree.
It will give us as a result Knowledge and Power