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Free Masonry; Its Pretensions Exposed in Faithful Extracts of Its Standard Authors; With a Review of Town's Speculative Masonry: Its Liability - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... and every other thing must be hid, must be the secret. When he had named that audible voice, why did he not add the fact which follows it in initiation? one just as like to the bursting of the first flood of light upon the astonished world, as the removal of a blinder after a dull game of blind man's buff on a winter's evening. And what weakness, to liken the removal of a bandage from the eyes, to the creation of light and of the world! When "Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar "Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; "Till at his second bidding darkness fled, "Light shone, and order from disorder sprung." Par. Lost,b. iii. 710. Such is the laughable vanity of Speculative Masonry, (p. 68.) "The next great event in the natural world," says Mr. T., " was the general deluge. This was a very awful exhibition of the divine displeasure. The whole human race, with the exception of one family, in astonishment and dismay, saw the prelude to their inevitable destruction. Deserted by a former protecting providence, they gave themselves up to hopeless despair. This melancholy event is, in some circumstantial points, faintly called up to the mind in the third masonic degree." It is well our painter put the name to his drawing; " this is an ox;" for no likeness can be discovered, even when the name is given. As I read, I feared the explanation must lie one degree beyond any I have taken; but lo! it is in the sublime degree of a Master Mason; and that sublimity, which never before appeared, begins to shine out. Who would have thought it; that the feeble assassination of an innocent man resembles the drowning of a guilty world? "Down rushed the rain "Impetuous, and continued...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0217214460
- ISBN 13 9780217214469
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages124
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