The Lost Key: An Explanation of Masonic Symbols

60The Lost Keyrealize that the various component parts of this material state ofexistence are made up of something belong.ing to a higher or fineror different world, a world which is distinctly NOT material. If thisconclusion be true, then we begin to catch a glimpse of a vista oftremendous possibilities which may include the ultimate compositionof matter and the resolution of the difficulty raised by theproposition of an Infinite Deity and the obvious existence of aworld of matter.180. If this statement that matter is an emanation from and isinformed by the Deity and controlled by Him because actually apart of Him, is not true, then we will be forced to admit, if we arelogical and reasonable, that God is not infinite nor omnipotent forthere can be nothing outside of an Infinite, there cannot be anInfinite and a lot of finites, nor can there be an Omnipotent Powerand any other powers, however small, which do not belong to thatOmnipotence. This view of the Universe as an emanation of andas contained within the Being of the Absolute is strictly Scripturalwhereas the idea of the material world as a thing apart from theDeity is distinctly unscriptural although it is the usual conceptionof ignorance and fanaticism.181. To carry this discussion out logically would be very interestingbut would require too much space and a volume on MasonicSymbolism is hardly the place for it. But we have mentioned it toshow that when we speak of God or the Deity or the Absolute orwhatever name you choose to apply to the Power behind all existence,as Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent and Infinite,we mean just that and nothing less. He is present throughout allHis Universe and it is His Power which holds that Universetogether for there is no other power of any kind whatsoever exceptHis Power. There is no force, visible or invisible, which is not Hisforce. He is present in the convolutions of the brain as well as inthe great Fixed Stars and the huge nebulae of space. He knows