So, then, Masonry is mystical as music is mystical--like poetry, and love, and faith, and prayer, and all else that makes it worth our time to live; but its mysticism is sweet, sane, and natural, far from fantastic, and in nowise eerie, unreal, or unbalanced. Of course these words fail to describe it, as all words must, and it is therefore that Masonry uses parables, pictures, and symbols. [124] _Seventeenth Century Descriptions of Solomon's Temple_, by Prof. S.P. Johnston (_A. Q. C._, xii, 135). [125] _Transactions Jewish Historical Society of England_, vol. ii. [126] Smith's _Dictionary of the Bible_, article "Temple." [127] _Jewish Encyclopedia_, art. "Freemasonry." Also _Builder's Rites_, G.W. Speth. [128] In the _Book of Constitutions_, 1723, Dr. Anderson dilates at length on the building of the Temple--including a note on the meaning of the name Abif, which, it will be remembered, was not found in the Authorized Version of the Bible; and then he suddenly breaks off with the words: "_But leaving what must not, indeed cannot, be communicated in Writing_." It is incredible that he thus introduced among Masons a name and legend unknown to them. Had he done so, would it have met with such instant and universal acceptance by old Masons who stood for the ancient usages of the order? [129] Letter to Gould "Touching Masonic Symbolism." [130] _Hermes and Plato_, Edouard Schure. [131] _History of the Lodge of Edinburgh._ [132] Steinbrenner, following Findel, speaks of the Third Degree as if it were a pure invention, quoting a passage from _Ahiman Rezon_, by Lawrence Dermott, to prove it. He further states that Anderson and Desaguliers were "publicly accused of manufacturing the degree, _which they never denied_" (_History of Masonry_, chap. vii). But inasmuch as they were not accused of it until they had been many years in their graves, their silence is hardly to be wondered at. Dr. Mackey styles Desaguliers "the Father of Modern Speculative Masonry," and attributes to him, more than to any other one man, the present existence of the order as a living institution (_Encyclopedia of Freemasonry_). Surely that is going too far, much as Desaguliers deserves to be honored by the order. Dr. J.T. Desaguliers was a French Protestant clergyman, whose family came to England following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He was graduated from Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1710, succeeding Keill as lecturer in Experimental Philosophy. He was especially learned in natural philosophy, mathematics, geometry, and optics, having lectured before the King on various occasions. He was very popular in the Grand Lodge, and his power as an orator made his manner of conferring a degree impressive--which may explain his having been accused of inventing the degrees. He was a loyal and able Mason, a student of the history and ritual of the order, and was elected as the third Grand Master of Masons in England. Like Anderson, his later life