Pythagoras called it the good principle in nature; and the Cabalists taught that eternal light filled all space before the creation, and that after creation it retired to a central spot, and became the instrument of the Divine Mind in creating matter.
It is the symbol of the autopsy, or the full perfection and fruition of initiation.
It is therefore a fundamental symbol in Freemasonry, and contains within itself the very essence of the speculative science.
LINGAM. The phallus was so called by the Indian nations of the East. See Phallus.
LODGE. The place where Freemasons meet, and also the congregation of masons so met. The word is derived from the lodges occupied by the travelling Freemasons of the middle ages.
It is a symbol of the world, or universe.
Its form, an oblong square, is symbolic of the supposed oblong form of the world as known to the ancients.
LOST WORD. There is a masonic myth that there was a certain word which was lost and afterwards recovered.
It is not material what the word was, nor how lost, nor when recovered: the symbolism refers only to the abstract idea of a loss and a recovery.
It is a symbol of divine truth.