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The Freemasons' Repository.
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY .
AN IMPARTIAL EXAMINATION OF PROFESSOR ROBISON ' s BOOK AGAINST FREEMASONRY , - & c . BY DR .. WAT KINS . £ cO > : TINUI . I _ FROM VOL . IX . F _ . GI . 3 2 ( S . J
SECTION IV . rf ^ UR learned antagonist asserts with sufficient confidence , but tbe ^^ evidence , or proof , is judiciously withheld , that the English fraternity carried the mysteries of their order with them in their exile , to which they were in a manner doomed , through their attachment to the unfortunate family of Stuart . Then , and not before , was
Freemasonry received in France . This is singular enough , when we consider what he had before advanced of its springing up in the time of the great rebellion under the auspices of the Jesuits . That subtle body surely would not have confined so excellent a contrivance to que particular spot , but wherever their members obtained a footing , this device would undoubtedly have been known . Now , says our keen inquisitor , ' changes were made in some of the masonic symbols , particularly in the tracing of the lodge , which bear evident
marks of Jesuitical interference . ' Here again we have confident assertion without the shadow of proof . He must have very shrewd penetration , indeed , who can discern Jesuitical art in the delineation of the lodge . What political , or even religious purpose , such a de-. scription is intended to convey , I am at a loss to conceive . I have sometimes been led to admire the simplicity of the contrivance , and from thencein parthas the conviction been established in my mind
, , of the hi gh antiquity of the institution . Mr . Robison gives-us a historical account of the origin of the Scots degrees , which , as . an English Mason , I feel little inclination to examine or refute . On the contrary , I have long been of opinion , in common with numbers of the most respectable of my brethren , that these degrees are improper innovations at the very best . That they are criminalIhoweverfor
, , , one , will deny . Men of warm , and rather enthusiastic imaginations , have been at all times disposed to amplify parts of the institution which struck them most , and then having , as they conceived , made improvements , ( heir vanity has led them to elevate their discoveries into new degrees . Proud of being thought better learned than the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Repository.
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY .
AN IMPARTIAL EXAMINATION OF PROFESSOR ROBISON ' s BOOK AGAINST FREEMASONRY , - & c . BY DR .. WAT KINS . £ cO > : TINUI . I _ FROM VOL . IX . F _ . GI . 3 2 ( S . J
SECTION IV . rf ^ UR learned antagonist asserts with sufficient confidence , but tbe ^^ evidence , or proof , is judiciously withheld , that the English fraternity carried the mysteries of their order with them in their exile , to which they were in a manner doomed , through their attachment to the unfortunate family of Stuart . Then , and not before , was
Freemasonry received in France . This is singular enough , when we consider what he had before advanced of its springing up in the time of the great rebellion under the auspices of the Jesuits . That subtle body surely would not have confined so excellent a contrivance to que particular spot , but wherever their members obtained a footing , this device would undoubtedly have been known . Now , says our keen inquisitor , ' changes were made in some of the masonic symbols , particularly in the tracing of the lodge , which bear evident
marks of Jesuitical interference . ' Here again we have confident assertion without the shadow of proof . He must have very shrewd penetration , indeed , who can discern Jesuitical art in the delineation of the lodge . What political , or even religious purpose , such a de-. scription is intended to convey , I am at a loss to conceive . I have sometimes been led to admire the simplicity of the contrivance , and from thencein parthas the conviction been established in my mind
, , of the hi gh antiquity of the institution . Mr . Robison gives-us a historical account of the origin of the Scots degrees , which , as . an English Mason , I feel little inclination to examine or refute . On the contrary , I have long been of opinion , in common with numbers of the most respectable of my brethren , that these degrees are improper innovations at the very best . That they are criminalIhoweverfor
, , , one , will deny . Men of warm , and rather enthusiastic imaginations , have been at all times disposed to amplify parts of the institution which struck them most , and then having , as they conceived , made improvements , ( heir vanity has led them to elevate their discoveries into new degrees . Proud of being thought better learned than the