Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1916 REGENERATION IN MASONRY 133
Freemasonry as the Father of modern societies remains
without a peer. Why? Simply because the particular
signs, symbols, ceremonies and allegories used in Masonry
are ALIVE! Ah! then, there are meanings to all these
signs, symbols, etc., that are not taught in the lodge,
that are undreamed of by the average member and that
become known only to the deeper student of Masonry?
Yes, it is the inherent life and vitality, the esoteric significance
in these mute emblems that have kept the fraternity
alive thruout the ages, kept it alive thru internal
stresses, and outward religious and political antagonizing
influences, and will so keep it till future generations
receive the key to that which has remained hidden so
long. Nowhere else have these evidence of vital truths
been preserved, so openly and yet so effectually hidden,
as in Freemasonry-so closely hidden that not one in a
thousand of its members has even suspected anything beyond
what the monitorial work exemplified in the routine
of lodge work.
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(It should be here noted that any teaching on these
symbols other than that of the lodge, is strictly personal
with the author who advances the following ideas as entirely
separate from accepted teachings on the moral
plane, and simply his interpretation of certain symbols on
the plane of regeneration.)
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To speak of Freemasonry at once brings to mind the
most obvious emblems of the order, the Square and Compasses
with the letter "G" in their midst. I will apply
these to the physical body for regenerative purposes.
Starting with the G, I take it that it stands for Goat.
Men facetiously remark about "riding the goat" when
they join a lodge, and in this jest is a truth that they wist
not of. Alchemists say start the regenerative process
with Capricorn, which is the goat. As this is an ancient
symbol, we find upon inquiry that the ancients considered