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Article ON SYMBOLS AND SYMBOLISM. ← Page 19 of 19
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On Symbols And Symbolism.
Sire par ceite cltaintitre Est entendit que vo car nette , Vo rains vo eors entierment Devez tenir tout fermement , Ainsi com en virginite , Vos cors tenir en nettete , Luxure desperer et blasmer
Car chevaliers doit mont amer Son eors a nettement tenir Car Diex tut mout itel ordure Le Eoi respont : bien est droiture . " This may be considered as an ancient charge on the mysteries and virtues of the girdle , holding it out as the symbol , not only of purity of mind but cleanliness of person : because the
Deity looks upon uncleanliness ( ordure ) as very displeasing ( mout itel ) , where the old French itel , no doubt ansAvers to our English idle , or better to the idem sonans German eitel , in the meaning of empty , vain , and consequently disagreeable . Another proof of the estimation of the girdle Ave find in the solemnity with which an unworthy knight was deprived
of it , as the priest was of his vestments , or to-day the disgraced soldier of his epaulets . Abbot Suger , in his "Life of Louis VI ., " gives us such an instance , practised upon the the outlawed Thomas de Maria . " Cono Praenestinus episcopus , —anathemate scilicet generali detruncans , cingulum militarem ei , licet absenti , decingit , ab omni honore tanquam sceleratum et infamatvm , Christiani nominis inimicum , omnium judicio , deponet . "
When , therefore , the - sword is girded on the thigh of the now Sir knight , in the Chapters , after having passed under the Grand Arch , the initiated Brother receives a symbol , venerable from all antiquity , and redolent of purity of life and the purest aspirations of the future ; the innocence which a previous age and less correct vieAvs restricted to chastitywill be transferred
, easily and truly , Avith our present enlarged vieAvs , to probity of action , sincerity of purpose , to rectitude and uprightness in our conduct towards our fellow men , and charity to all the world . WILLIAM BELL , Phil . Dr .
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On Symbols And Symbolism.
Sire par ceite cltaintitre Est entendit que vo car nette , Vo rains vo eors entierment Devez tenir tout fermement , Ainsi com en virginite , Vos cors tenir en nettete , Luxure desperer et blasmer
Car chevaliers doit mont amer Son eors a nettement tenir Car Diex tut mout itel ordure Le Eoi respont : bien est droiture . " This may be considered as an ancient charge on the mysteries and virtues of the girdle , holding it out as the symbol , not only of purity of mind but cleanliness of person : because the
Deity looks upon uncleanliness ( ordure ) as very displeasing ( mout itel ) , where the old French itel , no doubt ansAvers to our English idle , or better to the idem sonans German eitel , in the meaning of empty , vain , and consequently disagreeable . Another proof of the estimation of the girdle Ave find in the solemnity with which an unworthy knight was deprived
of it , as the priest was of his vestments , or to-day the disgraced soldier of his epaulets . Abbot Suger , in his "Life of Louis VI ., " gives us such an instance , practised upon the the outlawed Thomas de Maria . " Cono Praenestinus episcopus , —anathemate scilicet generali detruncans , cingulum militarem ei , licet absenti , decingit , ab omni honore tanquam sceleratum et infamatvm , Christiani nominis inimicum , omnium judicio , deponet . "
When , therefore , the - sword is girded on the thigh of the now Sir knight , in the Chapters , after having passed under the Grand Arch , the initiated Brother receives a symbol , venerable from all antiquity , and redolent of purity of life and the purest aspirations of the future ; the innocence which a previous age and less correct vieAvs restricted to chastitywill be transferred
, easily and truly , Avith our present enlarged vieAvs , to probity of action , sincerity of purpose , to rectitude and uprightness in our conduct towards our fellow men , and charity to all the world . WILLIAM BELL , Phil . Dr .