On Geometrical And Other Symbols.

was not only the grand agent recognised hy the Gentiles in general , and by Christian and other mystics as well , to this very end ; but that this centre of every soul was , indeed , " the Head of every man , " Avhich Head is " Christ in us , the Hope of Glory ; " as " the Head of Christ is God , " the Lord , the Holy Spirit ( for " the Lord is that Spirit" ) whose Temple the Body is , and Christ its Keystone , or its " Headstone of the corner . "

Fenelon , Coleridge , and others , in maintaining that Christ is the unitive power in the human soul , were almost precisely of this same opiniou ; although they could not see clearly whither such a doctrine tended , or ought to lead them ; or what was the great and transcendental function , or office , in the Soul , of that

Unitive or Identitiye power with which they doctrinally dealt . The Buddhists , in describing " Om " as the bent bow of the soul which plunges it , like an arrow , into the divine abyss of Nirvana or ecstatic and divine entrancementhold the same doctrinewhich

, very ; , however , they probably do not now understand . So did the ancient Egyptians , Greeks , & c , in the form of the Messenger-God , and Soul-translater , Mercury , with his entrancing rod , whereby he translated souls to the Gods , and returned them thence .

Pray the Bridegroom in your Soul in virility to rise;—Of Bliss the fix'd Desire agonistic;—The heavenly Bride within you to embrace as the prize Of the veil lifting , sleep-piercing , mystic . Physiologists tell us that the very forces—concentrative forces in fact—which , by adding composite particle to composite particlebuild the bodor

, up y , concrete , construct , or rear it to maturity , —next go on to consolidate the frame ; and finally constrict , and ossify , and wither it away . The inevitable progress of life from infancy to old age , under the uncounteraeted , or the only partially counteracted , influence of the concentrative forces of the soul , then ,

can only be perfectly or fully counteracted , so as ever to replace it in statu quo , by equivalent radiative or dissolA'ing forces , such as those of the Eadiative or Spirit life , now dormant , when it shall be fully manifested or called forth , resurrected , awakened , or exalted , from its state of dormancy , humiliation , or death , in the depths of the Spirit—the false Spirit—of Slumber ; and it is easy to see that as the inevitable

progression of the Concentrative , or Soul , through its coneretive , consolidative , and constructive operations on the body , is a progression from infancy onwards to old age ; so the inevitable , but not one whit more wonderful retrogression of the Eadiative , or Spirit , must actually be fr , om old age back towards

infancy ; and thus in truth , of such as little children is _ the kingdom of Heaven within us . Sleep , in one view , is merely and simply the imperfect nor not yet fully developed Eadiative life ; and hence it does nightly retrogade us , but only as it were half a step backward , for every full step taken forward , towards old in the

age , waking Concentrative life , or state of ordinary waking ; but the awakened Spirit-life is the only full , complete , and perfect Eestorer , Eedeemer , Deliverer , or Eansoin from the bondage of otherwise inevitable death , corruption , and the graA r e ; and the Living "Water of the only true fountain of perpetual youth and rejuvenescence ; so that a just balance between Soul and Spirit—between this life and the next , or the life to come , with judgment laid to the

line and righteousness to the plummet , —but without being righteous overmuch , even in the Lord who is our righteousness , —is all that is necessary to the adoption , to Avit the redemption of the body , or its deliverance from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God ; and that is

the salvation of the body by the Saviour af the body and of the Soul in the body by the ray-crowning Saviour of the Soul ; so long as this great law of our creation and redemption , as holy temples of the Lord for the body , is upheld ; and our Soul is bound in the bundle of life together with the Lord our God , and guarded against death and corruption , the grave and all evil , by the Guardian Angel of the Lord the Irradiator Avithin us .

I fear , Mr . Editor , that I have already more than exhausted not only your space but your patience ; and now , although there was much more that I wished to have said , and especially in further allusion to the connection of symbolism with the principles just indicated , I cannot intrude much further on your

limited space ; but , having handed over to the more reflective portion of your readers this j ^ chological key to many symbolical and other religious mysteries , must leave such readers to judge for themselves as to its merits , curt and imperfect as it here after all is ; requesting themhoweverin the first laceif

possi-, , p , ble ; to re-peruse what I have already said , on such subjects ; now guided , as they would themselves be , by the sciential and demystieizing light of the explanative principles here presented . And finally , should any one suppose that in these letters I have given a deeper or more extraordinary

meaning to the mysteries or secrets and symbols of Freemasonry than Freemasons themselves give , or are at all aware of ; I must remind him that the more highly initiated Freemasons do themselves identify the most profound mysteries of ancient religion and philosopy , with their own , —mysteries which I am confident that the psychological key , applied , from time to time , to the locks and wards of these

and other ancient repositories , have enabled me satisfactorily to open up and demysticize . Moreover , that some Freemasons , at all events , do regard their secrets with deep veneration , as involving the elements of a strange revelation of profound mysteries , revolutionaiily affecting human life and its farther

development , natural and spiritual , towards a state of perfection , cannot for a moment be doubted . Thus , for instance , a writer in Fraser ' s Magazine for November , 1831 , who is evidently himself a highly initiated Freemason , expresses his belief , —in a curious paper on " The Arcana of Freemasonry , " —that by

Freemasonry man is yet to be " regenerated into healthfulness , and the grief-worn earth reparadised ;" there being " a magnificent economy of Providence for the gradual perfeetionizing of all lapsed intelligences ; " for "the building up of the lapsed soul for immortality . " There are , he continues , " glimmerings

of a brighter dawning emanent over all the horizon ; and the hearts of young enthusiasts pant fervently and fast for the vision of the God of Day : but they forget that these glimmerings are the auroras of the awfullest metamorphosis in nature : and that the expected God of Day is the God of Consuming Fire , who cometh to judge the earth : "—so that the purposes of Freemasonry are here identified with the great Day of Judgment , or with the second coming of the