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On Freemasonry.
Now this is legitimate Sun worship , as it was undoubtedly practised in the spurious Freemasonry ; and the emblems were always present in the sacellum of the Lodge , or cavern of initiation ; and nothing can show the purity of our own system of Freemasonry in a clearer and more amiable light
than its unequivocal condemnation of such practices . Instead of indulging the pollutions of the solar worship , Freemasonry , as we practice it , recommends and enforces an adoration of that Great Being whose laws the Sun , the moon , and stars obey . Ifc is true , we use many of the same emblems as the spurious systembut they are regarded
, merely as references to human virtues , and not to a personation of the divinity . " When the Free and accepted Mason , " say our lectures , " exalts his view to the more noble and elevated parts of nature , and surveys the celestial orbs , how great is his astonishment . If , on the principles of true philosophy , he contemplates the Sun , the moon , the stars , and
the whole concave of heaven , his pride is humbled , and he is lost in awful admiration . The immense magnitude of those bodies , the regularity and rapidity of their motions , and the vast extent of space through which they move , are equally inconceivable ; and , as far as they exceed human comprehension , baffle his most daring ambition , till , lost in
the immensity of the theme , he sinks into his primitive insignificance . By geometry we trace nature through her various windings , to her most concealed recesses . By it we discover the power , the wisdom , and the goodness of the Great Architect of the universe , and view with delight the proportions which connect this vast machine . B y it we
discover how the planets move in their different orbits , and demonstrate their various revolutions . B y it we account for the return of seasons , and the variety of scenes ivhich each season displays to the discerning eye . Numberless worlds are around u . < =, all framed by the same Divine Artist , which roll through the vast expanse , and are all conducted by the same unerring law . "
But while Freemasonry thus makes use of its symbols to inculcate great moral truths , it never falls into the extravagancies which disfigured its spurious imitator . For it is remarkable , that while we are considering the solar deit y of the mysteries as a male person , and the resolution of all the hero gods into that one luminary , we are struck with a very extraordinary anomaly when we refer to the female deities
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
Now this is legitimate Sun worship , as it was undoubtedly practised in the spurious Freemasonry ; and the emblems were always present in the sacellum of the Lodge , or cavern of initiation ; and nothing can show the purity of our own system of Freemasonry in a clearer and more amiable light
than its unequivocal condemnation of such practices . Instead of indulging the pollutions of the solar worship , Freemasonry , as we practice it , recommends and enforces an adoration of that Great Being whose laws the Sun , the moon , and stars obey . Ifc is true , we use many of the same emblems as the spurious systembut they are regarded
, merely as references to human virtues , and not to a personation of the divinity . " When the Free and accepted Mason , " say our lectures , " exalts his view to the more noble and elevated parts of nature , and surveys the celestial orbs , how great is his astonishment . If , on the principles of true philosophy , he contemplates the Sun , the moon , the stars , and
the whole concave of heaven , his pride is humbled , and he is lost in awful admiration . The immense magnitude of those bodies , the regularity and rapidity of their motions , and the vast extent of space through which they move , are equally inconceivable ; and , as far as they exceed human comprehension , baffle his most daring ambition , till , lost in
the immensity of the theme , he sinks into his primitive insignificance . By geometry we trace nature through her various windings , to her most concealed recesses . By it we discover the power , the wisdom , and the goodness of the Great Architect of the universe , and view with delight the proportions which connect this vast machine . B y it we
discover how the planets move in their different orbits , and demonstrate their various revolutions . B y it we account for the return of seasons , and the variety of scenes ivhich each season displays to the discerning eye . Numberless worlds are around u . < =, all framed by the same Divine Artist , which roll through the vast expanse , and are all conducted by the same unerring law . "
But while Freemasonry thus makes use of its symbols to inculcate great moral truths , it never falls into the extravagancies which disfigured its spurious imitator . For it is remarkable , that while we are considering the solar deit y of the mysteries as a male person , and the resolution of all the hero gods into that one luminary , we are struck with a very extraordinary anomaly when we refer to the female deities