The Lost Key: An Explanation of Masonic Symbols

Chapter IV. 45inspiration while his higher mental powers or activities, on theactive or outgoing side, shall be based upon or shall flow intoaction through, the Great Lights of square conduct in both thematerial and the spiritual phases.132. In order that you may get a very clear idea of this, stop andconsider the candidate as a dynamo generating a current of electricity.This dynamo is actuated by some force just as a realdynamo is driven by water power or by a steam engine. The dynamohas two poles, negatiye or receptive and positive or outgoing. Sothe candidate has two polarities to his being, negative and positive.He promises that the negative or receptive aspect of his being shallbe guided by the Divine Law, shall, in a way, receive nothingexcept through (that is, what is not contrary to) the Divine Law.133. Similarly he promises that his outgoing mental current, histhoughts and ideas and intentions, all shall flow into actionthrough the Square and the Compasses and the Divine Law.Picture the candidate, as he kneels at the Altar, as a sort of electricmachine with positive and negative poles, incoming and outgoing.Those poles are his higher mental powers, but we must rememberthat the thought always precedes the action and that the thoughtsof the higher mind should rule the thoughts of the worldly orpractical mind.134. Now imagine a current, a thought current, flowing into thecandidate through his left hand and out from him through his righthand. Do you see what those thought currents would have to passthrough? This ought to give you a slight idea of the meaning of theposition of the candidate at the Altar and also it shows you howthe meanings already given for the various parts of the body allwork out here in perfect harmony with the lessons in moralitygiven by the great Masonic School.