Free Masonry: Its Pretensions Exposed in Faithful Extracts of Its Standard Authors; with a Review of Town's Speculative Masonry: Its Liability to Prevert the Doctrines of Revealed Religion, Discovered in the Spirit of it Doctrines, and in the Application of Its Emblems: Its Dangerous Tendency Exhibited in Extracts from the Abbé Barruel and Professor Robison, and Further Illustrated in Its Base Service to the Illuminati1828 - Freemasonry - 399 pages |
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... Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons , and concealed daggers of infidelity to the hearts of the brethren . It becomes my bounden duty , as a faithful brother , to make an effort , in the words of the Master's charge , " to correct the ...
... Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons , and concealed daggers of infidelity to the hearts of the brethren . It becomes my bounden duty , as a faithful brother , to make an effort , in the words of the Master's charge , " to correct the ...
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... fraternity , not one of them is considered apocryphal ; and but in a single instance do I recollect of one evil spoken_of by another . Lawrie and Dalcho both give a gibe at Ahiman Re- zon ; and why ? Because he maintains the mechanic ...
... fraternity , not one of them is considered apocryphal ; and but in a single instance do I recollect of one evil spoken_of by another . Lawrie and Dalcho both give a gibe at Ahiman Re- zon ; and why ? Because he maintains the mechanic ...
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... fraternity , teaching them its own highly va- lued lessons , and enabling them to act without the respon- sibilities attached to the independent yeomanry of our country . It also has a great revenue . If every lodge make three Masons ...
... fraternity , teaching them its own highly va- lued lessons , and enabling them to act without the respon- sibilities attached to the independent yeomanry of our country . It also has a great revenue . If every lodge make three Masons ...
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... fraternity , introduced changes so numerous and important into the rules , and habits of work , in the Lodges of America , that he may with propriety be regarded as the great modern Reformer of Masonry . He was deceived ; but his object ...
... fraternity , introduced changes so numerous and important into the rules , and habits of work , in the Lodges of America , that he may with propriety be regarded as the great modern Reformer of Masonry . He was deceived ; but his object ...
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... fraternity . This is a fair course for Free Masonry ; and it is the only safe course for the writer . The conclusions to which it leads must be satisfactory to all . I wish to say nothing harshly of the following , or of any other of ...
... fraternity . This is a fair course for Free Masonry ; and it is the only safe course for the writer . The conclusions to which it leads must be satisfactory to all . I wish to say nothing harshly of the following , or of any other of ...
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Page 379 - To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace ; 3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life ; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Page ii - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States. entitled, " an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act, entitled, " an act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 378 - And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine : and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God...
Page 89 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 89 - But man dieth and wasteth away ; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth down and riseth not ; till the heavens be no more they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 258 - Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Page 331 - So spake the enemy of mankind enclosed In serpent, inmate bad ! and toward Eve Addressed his way, not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since, but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds that towered Fold above fold, a surging maze...
Page 89 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground ; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And bring forth boughs like a plant But man dieth, and wasteth away : Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Page 9 - ... and that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone...
Page 194 - In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra.