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Symbolic Masonry.
SYMBOLIC MASONRY .
¦ ft-ITH PLATE THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS . | T is an extremely difficult matter to write properly on a subject - *¦ which is professedly mysterious like that of Freemasonry . Plence it is that the unenlig htened condemn the enigmatical mode of treating it as mystical and fanatical , and ridicule the didactic as trite and
uninteresting . Most writers on the subject have pursued the latter , track , and very few indeed have engaged in the arduous , but delicate task of elucidation . To give instructions to the fraternity easy to be understood by them on the one hand , and to avoid informing the uninitiated on the other , requires no small degree of judgment and experience . The engraving which ornaments our present Number will , we doubt not , prove highly acceptable to all ranks of our brethren . It is the first of a series , in which the more sublime points of the institution
will be elegantly depicted . That . now under consideration represents F REEMASONS AX WOIIK . Masonry is an active science . It is opposed to indolence . Its exercises , moreover , are virtue and benevolence , calculated for general good . They are the works of light , and therefore the spirit of darkness , and error , and iniquity , hath no part in them . They are , moreoveragreeable to the standard of unnerring truthas exhibited in the
, , creation of the elements , of the world , and of man . At the beginning , the TRIUNE GOD , the everlasting JEHOVAH caused the XIGHT to shine , and the universe to be formed by the word of his power . Btft he ordained , that all things should pursue an active course , and that there should be no indolence throughout the creation . Let Masons humbly consider this great exampleand be zealous and persevering
, in their calling , by endeavouring to improve their minds , to benefit their fellow creatures , and to glorify their Almighty Master . The daemon of envy and malevolence will , indeed , strive to blast them and their work with calumny and persecution ; but in the issue ,, the li ght which directs them will overpower him and his emissaries with confusion .
Moreover , as an encouragement to assiduous application , and to vigorous exertion , we are assured that industry shall not go without its reward . This is beautifully represented -in the appropriate ceremonies of symbolical Masonry . After much painful labour , the indefatigable sojourners discover the great object of their search . Thus truth is attained by unwearied seeking . It mocks only the idle and careless . The particular explication of the accompanying
plate-illustrates this position . Freemasonry is represented by three Genii traversing the sky , in that part called the Empyreum , around the seven planets , with the square , level , and plumb , by which they discovered the seven V . iitues and seven Sciences , consecrated in the worship of that sacred object , formed in the ninth arch .
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Symbolic Masonry.
SYMBOLIC MASONRY .
¦ ft-ITH PLATE THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS . | T is an extremely difficult matter to write properly on a subject - *¦ which is professedly mysterious like that of Freemasonry . Plence it is that the unenlig htened condemn the enigmatical mode of treating it as mystical and fanatical , and ridicule the didactic as trite and
uninteresting . Most writers on the subject have pursued the latter , track , and very few indeed have engaged in the arduous , but delicate task of elucidation . To give instructions to the fraternity easy to be understood by them on the one hand , and to avoid informing the uninitiated on the other , requires no small degree of judgment and experience . The engraving which ornaments our present Number will , we doubt not , prove highly acceptable to all ranks of our brethren . It is the first of a series , in which the more sublime points of the institution
will be elegantly depicted . That . now under consideration represents F REEMASONS AX WOIIK . Masonry is an active science . It is opposed to indolence . Its exercises , moreover , are virtue and benevolence , calculated for general good . They are the works of light , and therefore the spirit of darkness , and error , and iniquity , hath no part in them . They are , moreoveragreeable to the standard of unnerring truthas exhibited in the
, , creation of the elements , of the world , and of man . At the beginning , the TRIUNE GOD , the everlasting JEHOVAH caused the XIGHT to shine , and the universe to be formed by the word of his power . Btft he ordained , that all things should pursue an active course , and that there should be no indolence throughout the creation . Let Masons humbly consider this great exampleand be zealous and persevering
, in their calling , by endeavouring to improve their minds , to benefit their fellow creatures , and to glorify their Almighty Master . The daemon of envy and malevolence will , indeed , strive to blast them and their work with calumny and persecution ; but in the issue ,, the li ght which directs them will overpower him and his emissaries with confusion .
Moreover , as an encouragement to assiduous application , and to vigorous exertion , we are assured that industry shall not go without its reward . This is beautifully represented -in the appropriate ceremonies of symbolical Masonry . After much painful labour , the indefatigable sojourners discover the great object of their search . Thus truth is attained by unwearied seeking . It mocks only the idle and careless . The particular explication of the accompanying
plate-illustrates this position . Freemasonry is represented by three Genii traversing the sky , in that part called the Empyreum , around the seven planets , with the square , level , and plumb , by which they discovered the seven V . iitues and seven Sciences , consecrated in the worship of that sacred object , formed in the ninth arch .