The Lost Key: An Explanation of Masonic Symbols

Chapter V. 57intelligently and carefully then, in time, the top line is reached andthe Mason develops the wonderful quality of unselfishness, the topline of the Apron, the line which lies next to the triangle of theSpirit.170. The top line of the square expresses the very opposite andantithesis, as might be expected, of the bottom line. The Masonwho progresses by means of service to humanity prompted by thegreat feeling of sympathy and balanced and kept from emotionalexcesses and fanatically religious cul-de-sacs or what might becalled “blind alleys” up which bigotry and credulity will attempt tolead him by the accompanying development of his intellect andreason, that man is progressing in true Masonic manner, buildingup the square of his Apron in a scientific way, the only way whichis in accord with the great Laws of the Universe.THE TRIANGLE OF THE APRON171. This brings us to the triangle of the Apron, the spiritualnature, the lower line of which we take as symbolic of the greatquality, the spiritual quality, of LOVE. For the love which issymbolized by the bottom line of the triangle is not the carnal,passion-filled love of which we have so many evidences around us.It is the pure, spiritual love, the love of spirit for spirit which Christemphasized in His answer to the lawyer related in Matthew 22:37to the end of the chapter. Get out your New Testament and readthis passage carefully and you will find that Christ has told us thatLove is the fulfilling of the Law, that upon the Law of Love hangall the other Laws and the Prophets.172. In other words, he who understands the Law of Love andobeys it need not bother about the rest of the commandments forhe will automatically obey them all, rising above them, since alldesire to break them will have left him. If this is so, and it is statednot only in the above passage but in so many other places, not only