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Brief Observations On Masonry,
BRIEF OBSERVATIONS ON MASONRY ,
AS DIVIDED INTO OPERATIVE AND SPECULATIVE .
£ From PRESTON ' S " ILLUSTRATIONS OF MASONRY . " ]]
BY Operative Masonry , we allude to the useful rules of architecture , whence a structure derives figure , strength , and beauty , aud whence result a due proportion , and a just correspondence in all its parts . By Speculative Masonry , we learn to subdue the passions , act upon the square , keep a tongue of good report , maintain secrecy , and practise charity .
Speculative Masonry is so much interwoven with religion , as to lay us under the strongest obligations to pay to tlie Deity that rational homage which at once constitutes our duty and our happiness . It leads the contemplative to view with reverence and admiration the glorious works of the creation , and inspires them with the most exalted ideas of the perfections of the divine Creator .
Operative Masonry furnishes us with dwellings and convenient shelters from the vicissitudes and the inclemencies of seasons ; and , while it displays the influence of human wisdom , not only in the choice , but in the arrangement of the sundry materials of which an edifice is composed , it demonstrates that a fund of science and industry is implanted in man for the wisest , most salutary , and bene-¦
ficent purposes . . . - The lapse of time , the ruthless hand of ignorance , and the devastations of war , have laid waste and destroyed many valuable monuments of antiquity , on which the utmost exertions of human genius have been employed . Even the temple of Solomon , so spacious and magnificentand constructed by so many celebrated artists
, , did not escape the unsparing ravages of barbarous force . Freemasonry , notwithstanding , has still survived . The attentive ear receives the sound from the instructive tongue , and the sacred mysteries are safely lodged in the repository of faithful breasts . The tools and implements of architecture , symbols the most expressive ! imprint on the memory wise and serious truthsand transmit
unim-, paired , through the succession of ages , the excellent tenets of the institution . ©
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Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Brief Observations On Masonry,
BRIEF OBSERVATIONS ON MASONRY ,
AS DIVIDED INTO OPERATIVE AND SPECULATIVE .
£ From PRESTON ' S " ILLUSTRATIONS OF MASONRY . " ]]
BY Operative Masonry , we allude to the useful rules of architecture , whence a structure derives figure , strength , and beauty , aud whence result a due proportion , and a just correspondence in all its parts . By Speculative Masonry , we learn to subdue the passions , act upon the square , keep a tongue of good report , maintain secrecy , and practise charity .
Speculative Masonry is so much interwoven with religion , as to lay us under the strongest obligations to pay to tlie Deity that rational homage which at once constitutes our duty and our happiness . It leads the contemplative to view with reverence and admiration the glorious works of the creation , and inspires them with the most exalted ideas of the perfections of the divine Creator .
Operative Masonry furnishes us with dwellings and convenient shelters from the vicissitudes and the inclemencies of seasons ; and , while it displays the influence of human wisdom , not only in the choice , but in the arrangement of the sundry materials of which an edifice is composed , it demonstrates that a fund of science and industry is implanted in man for the wisest , most salutary , and bene-¦
ficent purposes . . . - The lapse of time , the ruthless hand of ignorance , and the devastations of war , have laid waste and destroyed many valuable monuments of antiquity , on which the utmost exertions of human genius have been employed . Even the temple of Solomon , so spacious and magnificentand constructed by so many celebrated artists
, , did not escape the unsparing ravages of barbarous force . Freemasonry , notwithstanding , has still survived . The attentive ear receives the sound from the instructive tongue , and the sacred mysteries are safely lodged in the repository of faithful breasts . The tools and implements of architecture , symbols the most expressive ! imprint on the memory wise and serious truthsand transmit
unim-, paired , through the succession of ages , the excellent tenets of the institution . ©
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