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

84 Mystic Masonry.
the Cubical City—which unfolded becomes a cross,
and hence the "measure of a man"—all these refer
to the work of regeneration, or initiation.* The rebuilding
of the temple after the plan drawn upon the
Trestle-board, by which it shall be like that spiritual
temple, not made with hands, plainly refers to initiation
from which results perfect proportion and
perfect harmony. In a later section of this work
this mathematical and geometrical basis of virtue
and wisdom, or knowledge and power, will be further
explained. It is unknown to the Craft of Masonry
except in its bare outline and cruder symbolism:
it is nowhere hinted that there is an inherent
relation and full equivalent between absolute mathematics
and spiritual power.
"A very limited knowledge of the history of
primitive worship and mysteries is necessary to enable
any person to recognize in the master mason,
Hiram, the Osiris of the Egyptians, the Mithras of
the Persians, the Bacchus of the Greeks, the Atys
of the Phrygians, of which these people celebrated
the passion, death and resurrection, as Christians
celebrate today that of Jesus Christ. Otherwise,
this is the eternal and unvarying type of all the
*See Plate XIII.