The Lost Key: An Explanation of Masonic Symbols

64The Lost Keyservice and help would be their own reward. No, He saidsomething to the effect that He was sick and in prison and astranger and poor and that in helping those who were in thiscondition we would be helping Him. So we come back to ourpencil-seller. How are we going to cultivate a love for him?191. By realizing that, however repellant the personality may be,there is the immortal spirit within, that spark of the Divine Flamewhich may, indeed, be blinded by this hideous mask of its personalitybut yet is, in its essence, kin to God Himself and brother toyou and me. It is this spirit that we are commanded to love—notthe personality. We are to help the personality and to try to relieveits suffering and its pain because of our kinship to the spirit within,but sympathy and help is all that we need show to the personalityfor, if we think of the spirit and its relationship to us, there willgrow up for that spirit a love, a love of spirit for spirit, of spiritcalling to spirit across the wilds of the material, and this love isbased upon the feeling of IDENTITY. In other words, since love isbased upon a realization of identity or un on a desire for identity, ifwe can establish the feeling of identity we have established the necessary.basis and preliminary which will, of itself, bring the feelingof love. Do you see now the foundation for this wonderful lovewhich would change and revolutionize the world if only we couldcome to understand that it is really the LAW OF THE UNIVERSE?192. So, building our Aprons upward along both the lines of theintellect and of the heart, we reach the line of unselfishness and, intime, by service to our brother man and by the strong desire to beof help, we shall build that bottom line of the triangle, the Line ofLove upon which all spiritual growth is based and without whichthere can be no such thing as real advancement.193. When the triangle is folded up it is to signify that the spirit hasnot yet descended into the material to wage there its battle withthe lower natures and those qualities of the lower natures which