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4 Tlzozzglzts bin 'E'ee3naso5bfy.,
The manner in which the mysteries of the Craft are revealed to us:
‘none but Masons can -ever know. The cerenionies 115.C.d; 011 111059‘ 09.93‘
sions, are calculated to impress upon the mind of the candidate, religious
‘ ,awe,, and a high venveiation forrthe causdejof Jrirtuc. 2 Notiiithstandlng
,tIig'jdepmvity of yvandgthe ;.many yicious characters who liavfb
qgfortumtely, been 1.-enceivediinto the Soeiety; yet;.the,;mystcri% ofgthc
; e Order have never bt3’eI,1.(1i!=fC,1,05:,‘”:‘,1,t‘? “.13? “'91.'1‘.i-’ ‘. ' < ' A
[ I; The origin of Masonry may be dated”from‘the creation of the world,
f The gymmetyylvagd harmony displayed, by the divine Architect, in the 4
id‘; 7i'91i%%3ti99,'9.f; t,h1=Ip.1e.r,1.<%ta.W .-"?3'5t‘3.m2T8's1V‘= rise to many of our m3’s.t<=I““3-- =
‘ ' 9. . . -
E ‘ -as y 4"‘ i Let there be light! pi-orelaimld th‘ Almighty Lord, '
'::x;:l‘ V . . "As,tohish'd‘C'lmos'heardthe p'ot‘ent‘word:--- ’ " '3" ‘
‘ 5-, hr. ii ' ‘ ‘Th:-o"a1l hisI realms the kindling Ether runs," '
it C) (:5 I J . (incl the mass starts;into,:1 million suns
. Hm , ‘ ‘ Earths, round eacl1'sun,witl1 quick explosions, burst,
And second planets issue from the ‘first : . I
8”. " V , Iiend,'as they journey with projectile force, I I t‘
In bright ellipses their reluctant course ' V ' ' W I
Orbs wheel in orbs; round centres, centres roll, ' ‘ “ ' ‘ii i
And form, self-I:aIanc’d, one rcyolving whole; -’ "‘ - '7 ‘
--Onward they move amid theirbright abode, V g 7 W ’ -
. e. ‘V Spaceyvyithout bounds, the bosom 9]’ their God!"
In the earliest age of man, when the human mind was untainted
the: vices andwprejudices of later times,‘ unshackled by ‘the tcrrorskmd
anathema; ofcontending sectaties, and the machinations of .big0tf1?'5:dy
'P.riest.s,Lthe"God of Nature received the homage of the wo'1jld,ai1'd:thF
xybrship of adorable name fconstiitrutedthei principal’ emp'loyment’9‘f
bi‘: to whom the mysteries of Nature were firstreyealed.‘ Afterthe'de1ug6)
V the worship of the Most Higlr was obscured tbymclouds of 'imagery,,j?‘T!F1
; ddiled by idolatry. Manlgind xvere conscious of some and ‘i.I1‘C01P;‘
Tprehensible cause of thediniforxriityuand wonderful progressidtmi Of ihf’
;; ‘idrks 0KNature; and bewildered, in conjecture, they representedillf
1' ‘ "great unknown’, cause by such ‘objects as“ appeared foipibducethe If195t
d hpowerfuleffects on the of the world, from whence the Suh
Moon became the symbols of the Deity. the manners‘; of it1,18‘,P‘?9PIc‘
lg: V iicbamc more deprayed,‘Ltl1eir linonletlge of truth was.‘ lost in thtf-il‘ 3P93v'
.xe
' and their igiiorancefand siificrstition iricyrezgedvrixiith theirddfibawif
Inicnt: they, at‘le'ngth",A forgot the emblcmaticalallusion, and adorexdythci
‘-5’wn'boIsinste.w;d‘ol3‘,t1i‘e,Divinity‘,l? ’ ‘ ' ‘ ' ‘ ‘ ' l ‘
. . ‘ I am afraid the same charge irnay be made again'stftl1’e
.s:. P7059111 day; and thatmany are satisfied ivith "the outirariiitrappifigtbf
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