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Ernest And Falk.
ERNEST AND FALK .
CONA'ERSATIONS FOR , FREEMASONS . By GOTTHOLD EPHKAIM LESSING . Note Translated for the first time , by EENNETH R . H . MACKENZIE , F . S . A . PART THE FIRST—1778 .
DEDICATION . To His Serene Highness the Duke Ferdinand . Most Serene Highness , —I , also , was at the fountain of truth , and drew water . How deep my bucket Avent must be decided bv him from whom I have to expect the permission to sink it yet
deeper . The people has desired Avater since a long time , and is parched Avith thirst . —Your Serene Highness's humble Servant ,
PREFACE . ( Written by a third person not engaged in the conversations . ) If the following pages do not contain the true essence of Freemasonry , I should much desire to be informed in Avhich of the innumerable treatises resulting from it a more exact definition can be found .
But if Freemasons , of whatever degree , will truly acknOAvledge that the point of view AA hence , on this occasion , the subject has been regarded be the only one from which not a phantom displays itself to a terrified beholder , but to a healthy vision a veritable form , the one other question arises—how it comes that such a truth has not long since been spoken ?
Much may be said in ansAver to such a question . Yet it will be difficult to discover any other possessing so much analogy to it as this one : Why systematic handbooks of the Christian faith originated at so late a period of time ? Why there haA r e been so many and excellent Christians Avho neither could nor dared express their belief in a comprehensible manner ?
Even this last Avould have occurred far too soon in Christendom , the faith Avinning but little thereby , if Christians had not fallen upon the Avium of explaining it in a way altogether contrary . The application of this is left to the reader . VOL . II . n
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Ernest And Falk.
ERNEST AND FALK .
CONA'ERSATIONS FOR , FREEMASONS . By GOTTHOLD EPHKAIM LESSING . Note Translated for the first time , by EENNETH R . H . MACKENZIE , F . S . A . PART THE FIRST—1778 .
DEDICATION . To His Serene Highness the Duke Ferdinand . Most Serene Highness , —I , also , was at the fountain of truth , and drew water . How deep my bucket Avent must be decided bv him from whom I have to expect the permission to sink it yet
deeper . The people has desired Avater since a long time , and is parched Avith thirst . —Your Serene Highness's humble Servant ,
PREFACE . ( Written by a third person not engaged in the conversations . ) If the following pages do not contain the true essence of Freemasonry , I should much desire to be informed in Avhich of the innumerable treatises resulting from it a more exact definition can be found .
But if Freemasons , of whatever degree , will truly acknOAvledge that the point of view AA hence , on this occasion , the subject has been regarded be the only one from which not a phantom displays itself to a terrified beholder , but to a healthy vision a veritable form , the one other question arises—how it comes that such a truth has not long since been spoken ?
Much may be said in ansAver to such a question . Yet it will be difficult to discover any other possessing so much analogy to it as this one : Why systematic handbooks of the Christian faith originated at so late a period of time ? Why there haA r e been so many and excellent Christians Avho neither could nor dared express their belief in a comprehensible manner ?
Even this last Avould have occurred far too soon in Christendom , the faith Avinning but little thereby , if Christians had not fallen upon the Avium of explaining it in a way altogether contrary . The application of this is left to the reader . VOL . II . n